P.O.C. ¬ Project Ocean Cupcakes

It does not come as a surprise to us that our dear Gaia is slowly meeting its doom let alone the rapture business where nothing interesting really happened at work except when a client came in broadcasting Alison Jackson's photobook of Kate & William's wedding. One word, okay two-extremely DARING. Poor Kate. 

Anyhow, Lola is probably aiming to be the holy cupcake chain of charities for she has done it again and brought out mini cupcakes for 'Project Ocean'. What is this you may ask, well Selfridges has had a whole set of aquatic themed window display for the past 2 weeks now, all basically shouting out, SAVE OUR FISHES. Apparently, its a 'retail activism' campaign joint with the Zoological Society of London, NGOs and artists to actively raise awareness to the public (obviously mainly shoppers ahem housewives) that the stock of fishes in the ocean is rapidly declining and if we keep it up, the legendary fish and chips will be left as a legend. How sad is that :( 

Weirdly enough, things only seem to get through to people via food and it oddly works so fair enough, Lola cupcakes has done it again. Well done. Heres what they look like:

The amount of glitter they put on their cupcakes really scares me but the icing tastes OH-SO GOOD that you really don't care how much artificial crap they spray the nimbles with. 

   

Love With A Small L

Why is it when you when to find love, its nowhere to be found.

 Or when you're in love, it simply slips away. 

Isn't it peculiar that every year there is a period of time when all couples find themselves breaking up or at least moving in that direction. Call me cynical but this relationship pattern appears rather solid and so so real. 

When a mother says, "I don't get it, why is there not a long line of suitors for you guys (K's mum was referring to both K and I) here? You guys are so nice and wonderful so why?" 

You start to think, for this day and age, have guys changed since our parent's generation? Or simply, is it just me? No one likes to think of themselves in a bad light but maybe sometimes we got to face up to the facts that we got to change something or ahem maybe stop being so picky. However, back to the guys changing in our day and age..what about this; is it just me or have guys just not interested in the whole 'wooing' concept anymore. Or were they ever? Obviously it benefits us girls for not only do we find it fun but when the initiative is taken from the guy's side, it just feels better does it not? Its not uncommon to find girls chasing guys nowadays and I'm sure there are still traditional guys out there but the issue arises when both parties don't take action and I'm telling you, its going to get to that point. And they are going to question themselves why they did not make a move with that gal/guy earlier on. Pride? Or do they believe in destiny? Why is a girl-boy relationship so damn hard?! Everyone just wants to find their fated other half and obviously they are not going to fall down from the sky (even though some do-lucky bums) but how many guys do we have to go through before we find 'the one'? Also, whats up with the new accepted concept of loving more than one person? WAHHHHHHWOOOOSH. We want a relationship yet we can't be arsed to put effort into finding one and usually when we want to 'find' one, the desperation label just flips out in neon lights. When they say, something only comes when you least expect it, its T-R-U-E. 

However that shouldn't stop us from going to Paris¬the city of poetic love and open affairs-for FOOD. 

Macaroons will pop into the cracks of the heart with the utmost satisfaction and surprisingly long lasting too. 

Eat Pray Love is the way to go but once we find Love, how long will it be till we go back to find that key to unlock the lock before thrusting it out forever? Then its silly because sooner or later we'll find ourselves back at the same bridge locking up again. 

Zara splashes some colour into Summer

The sun is here, the birds are chirping, even the hobos are smiling. Its a strong sign that Summer is here and hopefully it'll stay. None of the unpredictable London nonsense please! 

Sadly, the two months of May & June are known for cornering students nationwide into cram studying at home or making camp at their university library. Either way, we're B-U-S-Y to the max but we all still gotta eat right and of course 'de-stress' with some therapeutic shopping XD 

High street Zara has released an explosion of colour for their Summer 2011 collection. No kidding here. So if monochrome has been your thing since Winter, Zara probably could be the solution. Found this adorable and chic today and even though its for a friend's birthday present, I'm set on getting one for myself soon before they run out. There isn't a better way to start the Summer with a splash of colour, bohemian style :)  

Wake Up Early For The Breakfast Club

The Royal Wedding on Friday was a world spectacle with all us ladies just wanting to see what Kate Middleton's wedding would be. Personally it was rather plain but yet I'll give it the thumbs up. Reminded me of Sound of Music's wedding dress scene which was weird and random at the same time. 

Friday was the day I woke up unwillingly at 8am and not to catch the Royal Wedding on the telly. A good friend of mine was in the country and we had arranged a morning catch up session. I was thinking where in the world would be open on the Royal Wedding day at 9am in the morning. Remember this is England, nothing here opens early and nothing here closes late. 

A little birdie thought came back to me and whispered, 'what about the breakfast club at soho?' 

So I arrived at the Breakfast Club at Soho at 8.45am with 15 minutes to spare and of course my good friend, 'P' did not arrive until 9.30am. The fact that he was a foreigner in this country was the only reason why I forgave him. Waiting for him wasn't so bad actually because I found The Breakfast Club rather homey and relaxing. Customers would come in and not hang around too long, perhaps because they were off to catch a snip at the Wedding. While waiting for P, a group of 5 men sat on the table next to me and had the most adorable conversation ever about going to Thorpe Park instead of staying in central with all the Royal commotion. I took it that they were all gay since they all seemed to have that kind of 'air' and ever so sweet gestures. One of them had an awesome stained out union jack blazer which I will put on my must buy list. The group of them just seemed to blend so well into the place which crazily just put on a smile on my face while I sipped my morning smoothie. 

The Breakfast Club is situated in a quiet street of Soho and is very very small. They have roughly 10 small tables including the 2 outside ones. Decor has been themed with 'we're going to be retro, hippies, whatever we want so eat up your f**cking breakfast'. The crew they have reflects that theme literally which is pretty cool. The menu is not extensive overall but for a breakfast menu, its pretty darn good. You have  a long selection of how you might want your eggs done, the normal big chunky breakfast plates, healthy crap like muesli and porridge and even a variation of pancakes. EVERYTHING that came out or came up from the kitchen looked freaking delicious. Once P finally arrived, we immediately ordered and of course I was a pig and ordered the Big Breakfast which I did not end up finishing. Greedy me. Guilt ridden. 

Appears pretty run down but once you sit down, strangely some sort of nostalgic feeling begins to overwhelm you. Maybe its the moose.  

Little tidbits of decor with a 80s feel. The flags for the Royal Wedding day of course. 

Forgot to take a photo of it but the last little sign towards the back of the room before the fire exit door says 'Theres no exit, we're hippes!' 

Its yellow mellow cute 

Thought this was sweet 

Loved this part, its an art installation in itself. 

My smoothie and green tea. No complaints about either. Maybe the pricing of the green tea. Come on its just water and a tea bag. 

P ordered the salmon egg benedict which was d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s 

My greedy self munching down the Traditional big breakfast. I finally realized why its been called BIG breakfast now. If you're up for a challenge in the morning then this is definitely for you. 

Overall the experience was pleasant, making plans with K about going back next week already. It fills up quick so get there early and apparently as the day progresses their menu changes to hot meals and by the end of the day you'll finally get to order beer. Its basically a place to spend an entire day. DANGEROUS!