fantastic early birthday present

Thanks to the great Grabaseat website, I was able to score a trip to Hong Kong next week for $72.10! To complete their month of 100 domestic flights for $1 each day in October, they had international deals for $1 + tax.

There were only 10 seats and with over 7,000 people online at the time trying to get them I was super lucky! Current price for the same flights is $2,070.60. Will be going for a week and fantastic timing since it's my birthday on Monday. So will be able to spend the following 7 days in Hong Kong and I'm actually really excited about having the time to look around properly as last time I really only had 1 day because of the weather!

And if that wasn't all, I was even LUCKIER to book a ticket for my brother to Los Angeles next week for $122! There were only 10 seats available too and with the normal price at $2,320.30 thats a bargain as well! His flight leaves an hour before mine and he gets back Tuesday week.

Grabaseat has been good to me in the past, where I've had cheap flights to Wellington ($1), Queenstown ($1), Melbourne ($208), Shanghai ($550), San Francisco ($898) and now I can add Hong Kong to the list!

todays mail

Got myself a copy of a japanese magazine that features 114 pages nearly entirely of the Louis Vuitton Mens collection from a number of seasons, including bags, SLGs, some RTW, and other things such as VIP gifts. There is also a great 2 page spread of all the canvas and materials they have used with pictures, including Monogram Groom, Cuir Suhali, Graffiti, Conte de Fees, Monogram Mesh and Eye Love Monogram.

I'm having a lot of fun going through the magazine and seeing things I own like the Soana Trotteur and Force Damier Graphite belt, and also seeing things I haven't really noticed before, like how in the Monogram Groom collection, the jaune and white stripe colour was the only colourway to have the colour first followed by white. All the other stripes had white/off-white and then vert, orange, bleu or rouge.

street art

I stood watching a street artist using spray cans to create artwork for over 2 hours before I finally asked him to do a special one for me. It took me that long to decide what I wanted painted, as every one he did was different and I liked different parts of each. With a large crowd around every time he did one and being sold basically straight away by people who saw what he was doing, I was lucky that I got one made exactly to how I wanted and it turned out perfect!

I asked him to do lots of planets which I thought looked amazing after seeing the techniques he used to make them, and I loved the way he did the shadows on the pyramids so wanted them on the bottom. He added in the UFO himself which I think is a very nice touch!

night lights with telecom

As with the light display at the Town Hall in May 2009, the Ferry Building in Downtown Auckland was lit up to celebrate the launch of Telecom's new logo and branding. It was done by Mike Mizrahi of Inside Out Productions, the man behind glamourous Louis Vuitton events.