Happy 2010!

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Excited about my new adventure ahead.

Life has so much to offer. I'm only cheating myself if I don't take it and run with it.

Girl Crush.

I was doing some fashion work and the t.v. show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was on in the background. Most of the time... I wouldn't know the answers to some of the questions but one of the question that was asked and I knew the answer to was... "Penelope Cruz is considered Madonna of what city?" Being the big Penelope fan that I am, I already knew the answer to that. It's Madrid, Spain! If I could be any Hollywood actress... I wouldn't be an Angelina Jolie. I prefer Penelope over any Hollywood actress. She is as talented as she is beautiful. I <3 Penelope!

Loving Valentino's Shoe Spectacular from Spring 2010 RTW Collection...

Introducing Chanel Noir Obscurs Winter Collection 2009...

The makeup collection is meant to help women all over the world enhance and define their facial features, making them appear more seductive and powerful, characteristic of a sophisticated woman.

Me wearing Chanel Obscurs Dark Violet with Rouge Allure Maniac Lipstick.

Creative Director Peter Phillips for Chanel Makeup is a friggin' genius.

I drink green tea religiously and am an avid tea drinker. I seriously cannot live without tea. I love trying different tea flavor blend with herbal infusions and Teavana is perfect for that! I love Teavana!

Have you heard of the saying "likes are attracted to likes"? The people you surround yourself with is a mirroring image of yourself. That's why you can appreciate their company and friendship. You love being around their presence. For an example... successful people tend to flock together because of their status and achievements in life. People that are successful can carry their own and be able to relate to other successful people, that way there would be no feeling of inadequacy. I look around at my friends and it's so clear to me what kind of person I am. I absolutely love over-achievers, driven, ambitious, career oriented, independent, brilliant, confident, individualistic, strong women with their own style, flare, and class. I'm drawn to these type of women because I myself would like to fall under this category of women. In a few I'm about to meet up with a very good and dear friend of mine that I wholeheartedly love and respect. I admire her dedication to her career, her kindness, her generosity, her motivation, her ambition, her intelligence, her attitude on life and men, and the way she carries herself. The list would go on forever. We were chatting earlier and she made a comment that put a smile on my face. She said... "We were both born to be successful..." ditto... I couldn't have agreed more.

I just came back from watching "The September Issue" a documentary about Anna Wintour, the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine. There was a part in the film where Anna's daughter Bee spoke about how she felt about the whole fashion industry and if she would one day follow in her mother's footstep in being a fashion editor. Bee aspires to be a lawyer and she thinks the fashion industry is weird or the people in it is weird. She mentioned how there's more to life than just fashion and the people that's in the fashion industry get so obsessed that their life and world revolves around fashion. So it made me wonder... if I'm a little too obsessed with fashion? I know this is my passion. I eat, sleep, and breath this. Sometimes I don't even eat or sleep because I'm so caught up in my own fashion bubble that I neglect certain things around me. Besides fashion, I do appreciate art, traveling, seeing and trying new things, good food, reading, pop culture, philosophy, understanding life, the simple things in life, good humor, fascinating people, I like to observe, people watch, and listen. I tend to wonder sometimes if I should broaden my interests. Though I love fashion but I wonder if it's necessary for me watch more CNN or read more on politics to be more open-minded to people that may not be in the arts and fashion and be able to relate to them as well outside of fashion? Also, I wonder if it could be true when people say artists are crazy people. Yes, I think I can be crazy at times. As an artists, we are very temperamental. Sometimes I say things and do things in the heat of the moment and would wake up the next morning and not remember why I was mad or angry the day before. One thing I do know... we are true to who we are. I've read somewhere that it's statistically true that there is a higher rate of mental illnesses in people with an artistic lifestyle. I know I want to be able to express myself creatively in my career but I want to find the right balance. Someone told me that they see me being with another artist because I'm such a free-spirit. I strongly disagree. I want a man to balance me and help me tone down my craziness and add a bit of stability in my life but appreciates what I do for a living and art as much as I do.