Or maybe I'm just dreaming out loud

Last few weeks have been rough. Changes again. Seems like my life will never be stable. I guess that's not weird at all, it's just I hate changes. I can't deal with them quite well. And I know I've said this a million times, but maybe if I keep blogging regularly, at least something will keep me in my pace. People getting out of sight after a couple of years is never easy I suppose. Don't mind me, I wasn't able to sleep until 8 am and woke up few hours after. 

Let's get the vibe here less grey! Did I mention I study and live in Utrecht now? (I tend to say things double to the same person) I think I did. I did have some good experiences too. Last week, someone approached me and asked me if she could take a picture of me for in a fashion page in a newspaper! I was so flattered! Too bad I didn't look that pretty in the photo, otherwise I would have post it here ;P. I also attended couple of concerts! For the third time I saw OneRepublic! I just love, love, love the band. I guess I grew up a little with them. But I also saw Maroon 5 and Franz Ferdinand. And oh god, Franz Ferdinand was so amazingly epic. The energy, vibe, music; everything was incredible. Definitely the best concert I've attended. Here's an Instarecap! (too bad I wasn't allowed to take my SLR with me)

Maroon 5 

OneRepublic

Franz Ferdinand

Dreams do come true.

I just visited Disney World Orlando! And it was sooo awesome!  I saw Maleficent almost taking over Disney world, flew over London with Peter Pan, sailed to the Carribean, visited Tortuga and even went outerspace! I love Disneyworld, and now I can stripe all those things off my to do list!

I've been in the US for more than a week now and really like it here! At first I didn't know exactly where to shop etc. But I think I figured somewhat everything out by now. I even used busses. Which I will never try again, haha.

That's it for now. I will write a shop guide of all the places I've been for other people who are going to Florida or another state, so stay tuned!

Here is a photospam, enjoy!

Miami, the real day 3

Okay so my title said yesterday that it was the 3th day already, but I'm still having a jet lag and I can't count to ten. My mistake. This is day 3. It was a lazy beach day, but lazy beach days are lovely too!

And as I promised, some pictures from the last few days.

Stay tuned!

Loves, Uyen/Theresa/Yoghurtized. Call me what you want ;P

One month later...

Hi there! So it's already a month later now. At least i'm progressing, right? I didn't feel like telling more about my London trip, I guess. But that's okay for me, since I didn't do a lot. Oh I did forget to mention I went to 'We Will Rock You'! It was awesome! Almost all the seats were taken by Dutch student, all singing along!

Anyways, I'm totally obsessed with something new: Film Photography.

In just 3 days I bought like 5 new analog cameras haha! I didn't have time though to take pictures, weather here is kinda shitty again. What I like about film photography is the lovely effects you can get. And especially, the double exposure photos. I´m working on that now. Just need to shoot my film full so I can shoot other pictures through them. And than I just need to go to the store, let them process and hope to get some decent results! 

Polaroid Land sx70, Nikon EM , 2 Minolta's: Marktplaats

Well, I am not that patient. So I tried some ´double exposure´ photos just by photo shopping them. I think they are okay. Need to practice more though..

Resource stock flowers: deviantart.com


So that's it for now. I did want to make an outfit post, but it's kinda hard 'cause my lens broke. I do have another lens, but that's a telephoto lens, so I just have to wait 'till my dad wants to buy a new one for me...


I can't promiss how soon I'll post again. I do have my exams now, so wish me luck!

Goodnight! xo

shame on me

It has already been five months again. But I didn't really had something interesting to say. Now I do. I just went to London for the first time of my life! And just as I thought, it was a-ma-zing. I LOVE Oxford street. I love being in a crowd running from shop to shop. And I LOVE the shops there! All my favorite stores in ONE street, I even didn't have enough spare time (I went with school) to see all the shops! So I kinda planned the next trip to London already. I will tell you more soon, I hope. Here are some pics just for a sneak peek!




this old man in a small cafe in Rye saw me walking with a camera and posed for me a little! I don't know why but I really like this picture, or maybe I just like to see old people on pictures :)

Antwerp+Amsterdam

I know I said I would blog more often. I guess I'm just a worse promise-keeper like Natalie Tran. (I still love her however)

I'm back in school again, back in my hometown! It was really weird to be back again, but I'm so glad that I'm not in Belgium anymore. I just really missed everything here; not that I hate Belgium, I mean I can't, they put chocolate waffles in their vending machines. No country can beat that.

But they don't have the lovely friends I have here, (I did meet some really nice people there ofcourse!) but it was different.

Enough talking about that.

I just had my autumn break, so I went to Antwerp and Amsterdam! For doing that I had to work a whole week with extra hours, but it was totally worth it. I bought some really lovely clothes there! Shame I didn't have enough time to take pictures of my outfit.

Antwerp wasn't that special to go to, since I've lived near there. But Amsterdam was just for the third time, and I still love it. Especially because Frozz is there! I still have an addiction for frozen yoghurt, so I guess I will go to Amsterdam more often, haha.

Oh and I forgot to mention!

i own a nikonD5100!

I have it since before my trip to Vietnam, but I totally forgot it. I just need a new objective, the standard one is OK, but I would love to experiment more. So I think in about 2 weeks I will buy a new one :)

Here are some pics:

high waist pants: River Island

shirt: New Yorker

Train station Amsterdam

Royal palace of Amsterdam

Frozz

the Meir, Antwerp

xo

Yoghurt.

young folks - peter bjorn and john

Yes, I changed my blog again. Since I've been to Vietnam, I'm totally obsessed with yoghurt, especially frozen yoghurt! Too bad there are no yoghurtbars in the neighbourhood, just in Amsterdam. What is kinda weird, because yoghurt was introduced to England by Dutch people! Than it went to the US (who stupidly changed the name in yogurt without the 'h')
Luckilly I've learnt an yoghurt recipe from my aunt in Vietnam (who's son has a frozen yoghurtbar in the US!) for yoghurt drinks. You can find the recipe, as I promised, on the bottom of this post!

And also at promised, here is an outfit with the stuff I bought at the opening from Forever21!

hat: pieces
shirt: forever21
skirt: forever21
wedges: H&M

And just like every year, I went to the fancy fair here. Too bad this time it was way less fun/crowded this year. I suppose weather has a little bit to do with this. But it was the first time that I'd see the firework!


yay to candy cotton!

Strawberry-yoghurt recipe:

You have to prepare this sweetened yoghurt a day before!

Ingredients:

- 1 small cup of plain yoghurt

- condensed milk can

- hot water

- 0,5L milk

- strawberries

- strawberry syrup

-coolbox filled with lukewarm to hot water

How to:

Put the condensed milk a large bowl. Than fill the can with hot (100C). Stir a little and combine this with the condensed milk. Than add the milk and yoghurt to it. Mix well.

Put the mixture in an empty plastic flagon (close it!) and put this in the coolbox with the water in it. Let it rest for about 10 hours.

After 10 hours (or more if you like it less sweet), get it out the box.

You now just have to cut the strawberries and mix it with the yoghurt and strawberry syrup!

Dutch:

Ingrediënten:

- ongeveer 50gram gewone yoghurt

- 1 blik gecondenseerde melk

- 0,5 L melk

- kokend water

- aardbeien

- aardbeien siroop

- een koelbox gevuld met lauw tot heet water

Bereidingswijze:

Doe de gecondenseerde melk in een groot schaal oid. Vul daarna het lege blikje met kokend water. Doe het water bij de gecondenseerde melk. Voeg nu ook een half liter melk en de yoghurt toe en roer goed. Schenk dit mengsel over in een plastic fles (doe dit dicht!) en zet het in de koelbox met het warme water. Laat dit 10 uur staan.

Na 10 uur (of langer, als je het niet zo zoet wilt hebben) haal je het uit de koelbox.

Nu hoef je alleen nog maar de aardbeien in schijfjes te snijden en te mixen met de yoghurt uit de fles en aardbeien siroop!

Enjoy your drink!

Loves. x

Opening F21

So yesterday I went to the grand opening of Forever21 in Antwerp! Well, first we thought, the opening had already passed, because some people already went shopping there. But luckily we weren't wrong. :) I loved to shop there! It was huge and so pretty! I bought some stuff there, but I'm a bit lazy atm so I will show some other time. There was a stupid moment that occurred yesterday: As polite as we are, we were waiting in the queue for an hour. And well, we were definitely one of the 500 first customers. But because some stupid people were awfully rude and just thought that they didn't have to wait, we didn't get a goodiebag! I was kinda pissed back then, and now still a little bit. But next time (opening of the flagship store of Pull&bear @ Rotterdam) I'm going to do it totally different. And no, I'm not going to cheat ;)

Also I realized that it's almost my blog's birthday (9 September)! I think I have to do something special, but I just can't think up of something...

Oh well, here some pictures of Antwerp+one purchase of last week:

^Boots bought at Bazaar Beverwijk

Loves. x

Do you hear me? I love you! +a yummy lime-honeydrink recipe

Tuesday was the midseason finale of Pretty Little Liars, it was an amazing finale! I love Pretty Little Liars, and I've watched it from the beginning. It's such a shame that the seasons are short. Season 3 just has to come out soon! Here a still from my favorite scene. It was sooo lovely when Toby yelled: 'I don't care about what you can't tell me, I care about you! I love you, Spencer! Do you here me? I love you!' or something like that.

Oh and btw, school started again. The day before yesterday, I was packing (???) books, and well, I just can't do that without a lovely drink right ? ;)

So I made a refreshing lime-honeydrink (it's kinda healthy too!). Too bad summer is almost over, but it would be perfect for a warm, sunny day!

Here's my recipe:

English:

Ingredients:

- 2 whole limes

- 500 mL water

- 150 mL boiled water

- 3 or 4 teaspoons honey

optional:

- sugar

Directions:

Cut both limes in two halves and squash 1,5 lime in a can and add 500 mL water.

In a seperate bowl, mix the hot water with 3 or 4 teaspoons of honey untill the honey is completely disappeared. Add the honey water with the lime and mix well. The rest of the lime: cut it in slices, then cut a little piece in the slice and decorate the glass with it.

optional:

I decorated the glass with sugar on the edge (like a cocktail). It's really simple to do it:

make the edge of the glass wet, and dip it in sugar. Done.

NOTE: if you don't like honey, you can use sugar. It's also yummy, but not that healthy (:

+ you can change to your own wish, this is just how I like it.

Dutch:

Benodigdheden:

- 2 hele limoenen

- 500 mL water

- 150 mL kokend water

- 3 of 4 theelepels honing

Optioneel:

- suiker

Bereidingswijze:

Snijd allebei de limoenen in helften. Pers anderhalf limoen in een kan en doe daar 500 mL water bij. In een apart glas oid, mix het warme water met de honing totdat de honing helemaal niet meer te zien is. Voeg dit dan in de kan bij de rest. De rest van de limoen kan je in schijven snijden en er een snede in maken om het glas te decoreren

Optioneel:

Ik heb het glas met een suikerrandje versierd (net als een cocktail) Het is enorm simpel om dit te doen, de meeste weten dit ook wel maar toch:

Maak de rand van het glas vochtig en dip het glas in suiker. Klaar! ;)

NOTE: Als je niet van honing houdt, kan je ook gewoon suiker gebruiken. Dit is alleen minder gezond voor je ;P

+je kan het recept veranderen naar je smaak, dit is gewoon hoe ik het lekker vind.

Enjoy!

(probably next recipe:strawberry-yoghurtdrink)

Vietnam 07'11

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Long, long, long time no see. And there has changed quite a lot. I've moved back to the Netherlands (personnal issues), went on a trip to Vietnam and worked like every day. But I'm now all back and will start blogging (almost regularly) again!

^this one is unedited!