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November Favorites

November 30, 2014

(From top left to bottom right) F21 Hair Bow// Moleskine Notebook // TakingitPersonal Copper Bar Necklace // The Body Shop BB Cream // Pinrose Petals // One Direction Nail Polish // Canmake Eyeshadow// Angelic Spark Initial Bracelet// The Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Goodbye to the busy month of November! Here are some of my picks from the month; I have been using and wearing a lot of these throughout November. I love the initial bracelet, it adds such a dainty and adorable element to all my outfit pairings! I also finished reading an amazing book this month – one which left a huge impression on me!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 27, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving from the Gong family!! This amazing family is one of the things that I am most thankful for in my life. I know that my personal growth over the years is all due to their patience and endless love. They are so supportive towards the things that I try to pursue and we always have a blast together. Bridgette, my sister, is one of my closest friends. <3 I am incredibly thankful to have her as my little sister! We talk and laugh and get hysterical, uncontrollable bouts of laughter at so many things. Some mornings I jump onto her bed and we play with Apple Gong for hours. She gives me the funniest advice and helps keep me on track when I go off on tangents or get silly ideas. Love you Bridgette!

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Show and Tell

November 26, 2014

Sweater H&M/ Dress F21/ Heels Guess

I met Ryan Chua last weekend and he is crazy cool! We had so much fun during our shoot, and stopped for different kinds of snacks in between. It was a great day and I love the outcome of the photos. He is definitely a photographer with an incredible amount of talent, the rave is real. I actually pulled “Show and Tell” from his Instagram caption of a post of this outfit …so the clever title credit goes to him in accordance to pic creds! He is so much fun to talk to, so fast and great at taking photos, and really follows his own passions. I am definitely visiting Ryan’s store, Betabrand, the next time I’m at Mission Street in San Francisco 🙂 What a guy!

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Girl in Translation

November 24, 2014

Skirt Abercrombie/ Shoes Steve Madden/ Necklace Urban Gem

Teban flew down to San Francisco for a weekend. During our shoot, we wandered to a small park in Chinatown looking for a location to capture some great shots. Coming to this a quieter part of Chinatown, (with less influence from tourism-motivated minds) had me feeling happy yet oddly nostalgic. Even after the shoot, I had a hard time shaking this feeling away. In light of the Chinese culture which both shapes my identity and feeds me with a lifelong fascination towards my roots, and in light of my hopes to share with my readers some of the literature that I love, I decided to do something different a little with this post…

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