Welcome to The Swallows Nest

Welcome to The Swallows Nest

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Welcome to our blog. We live on the Tasman Peninsula in South-Eastern Tasmania. We grow Proteas and Australian Native flowers. We are passionate about our flowers and we want to share them with you. This blog is a way of documenting the different flowers we grow, and the different blooms available as the seasons change throughout the year. We hope you enjoy them, as much as we do!

January is warm in Tasmania, but we are blessed with the ability to produce flowers that many on the mainland are unable to grow at this time of year. At the moment, we have some beautiful late flowering Leucospermums in bloom. They are commonly known as pincushions or tiaras. They are a protea native to South Africa. The variety that is at its peak in January is called Fountain and is a beautiful pinkish orange with purplish dots on the ends of the unfurled fronds. The centre of the flower head is a beautiful glowing greenish white. They are lovely in a mixed bunch or en masse! These little beauties have only been in the ground for two years and this year is our first harvest. We look forward to having these as a regular part of our summer stock.

2012

2012

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So soothing, I think if I were to end a year with a song, with no doubt it would be May it be by Enya. It so calming and soothing , it feels very much like that moment after you sip on few tablespoon of ubat batuk. Anyhow I'm pretty sure once I finish writing this, it would be 2012 already. Gosh 2011, I'm going to miss you. I know to some people I could be pretty obnoxious and layak dikakikan but it just won't be the same if rizal yaakub acts like Jude Law would it?

Jude Law pun boleh.


Anyway I find myself dressing a little to shabby lately, macam orang gila. Tapi kalau pakai kemeja putih, with skinny jeans and earthy brown belt and gladiator sandals sambil menyelak longokkan buku would be a little gila, wouldn't it?  Well whatever people want to say, I'm just way to busy to think about people. I guess dressing up for people would beat the entire purpose of putting pieces onto your body for you own enjoyment. Kain pelekat and Doc Martens will do if you feel comfortable in it.

OK, I'll post something else later yeah.

Happy new year

Happy new year

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The goddamn twitter is not working, it says Twitter/ Over capacity. Anyhow Happy new year to everyone. May 2012 bring the best in us.

kisah pemuda cium mulut meroyan mati bini.

kisah pemuda cium mulut meroyan mati bini.

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Tuan-tuan dan puan-puan, peperiksaan akhir @ hari holocaust saya kini hanya dihujung dubur.

Walaupun dah belajar hampir 4 tahun dekat universiti, I have never been anymore lazier than this semester, walaupun di hujung peperiksaan ini tibanya sinar mentari berkilau-kilau bak  M Daud Kilau. Bila datang kuasa jin untuk buka buku, mulalah berkawad dekat depan televisyen, hmm kejap televisyen ke telivisyen? Bila belajar semua English, mengeja bahasa sendiri pun boleh bangang. 

Terima Kasih. (tekup muka dan meleleh air mata)

For now, sangat-sangat tak terinspired untuk membuat apa-apa yang menarik. Everything is normal, bilik bersawang, berbau khinzir. Baju tak terlipat, buku merata-rata alam. Sebab mama kita kata,

"membaca buku itu jambatan ilmu"

Wajiblah oleh itu selerakkan buku, sebab buku jambatan hidup. OK merapu. Yes! semalam sempat tengok satu filem Polish, YES, Polish ok, filem mat salleh. It's called Sala Samobójców or Suicide room. Fascinating movie,  a movie about a young boy who got bullied in school because he cium mulut with another boy, and as a result he became pemuda meroyan tak mati bini tapi mati akal.  Lepas dah meroyan susahkan mak ayah dia. Spesis tak sedar diri.



Lepas dah tengok mengucap panjang. Hai yoh!

simple note untuk tuhan

simple note untuk tuhan

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Since the name of my blog is "fesyen and whateverlah" I shall now take the liberty to post something out of fashion. I sometimes get jealous of the life of the people I know. Life is clear, life is simple. Like god have  given them a clear path, and tell them "this is how you should live you life". Don't get me wrong, I don't regret every minute of my life, I just wish it is easier than this.

This is not another example of those letters where it ends with suicide. I'm just not dumb enough to waste the life god had given to me.

Have you ever wished something so much, and when you finally got it, it turned out to the opposite. I just hate that feeling, it makes you feel helpless, somewhat clueless, like losing your identity, like someone pressing that 'DELETE' button. I must say for now, I am living the life of a zombie, without any feeling, I've given too much, I've expected to much, I just can't anymore, I just need to leave everything in the hands of god.

God, if you are reading this, please help me, how do I go about everything.  I'm helpless.

kelihatan casual dan sexy walaupun muka jijik tak se-gorgeous mana

kelihatan casual dan sexy walaupun muka jijik tak se-gorgeous mana

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Thinking back years that I have gone through, this has to be one of the busiest. Evidence? I am supposed to be at few places now but still I'm here blabbering about how busy I am. If people ask me to describe what I have gone through for this past weeks in one word, it will only be just to call it "metropolitan". I like how fast and demanding every day is, you could never expect anything, planning is a mere word.

If I am to describe this is in proper visual, it has got to be a balanced combination of menswear spring summer collection 2012 from Ermenegildo Zegna and t.lipop.

Ermenegildo Zegna

t.lipop

Very fast and very free.  I like all the oversized shirt and tailored pants.

I find its very funny when people ask me question about fashion, I certainly have never consider myself as a fashion guru nor any of the same level. I just someone who enjoy looking at trends and if suits would find similar pieces and inject it into my gawdy closet.

OK, when I say gowdy, seriously it is.  Bagi saya fesyen seharusnya effortless atau bahasa Melayunya sempoi atau bersahaja.  Do not try to make yourself  looking like an overstuffed sausage trying to follow new trends.  Some trends would only look good on certain body type. Contohnya, skinny jeans or legging would not look good on people with larger thigh, like yours truly. 

Body hugging shirts, or very fit shirt would not look good on tetek-gelebeh people, or tetek-melambak or perut in few circumstances or maybe both in special cases.

Tapi yang aku melalut ni kenapa? OK actually misi post ini just nak bagi tahu yang I am obsessed with natural earthy tone, tribal and soft pastel colors on men especially when it is in contrast with the industrial surrounding. Rasa elegant dan sophisticated walaupun memandu Viva hitam ke universiti.