Pimping My Graphic Tees!

I have a long list of history of romantic affairs with graphic tees! It's my staple clothing, together with jeans and sneakers. I know it's not your conventional girl fashion but I pull it off really well so that's why I tend to stick to this style. I can't put a name on this sense of fashion, I would probably call it comfy casual for myself. Besides, I'm a girl with attitude and nothing can express myself better than these artsy graphic tees.

These are my finest collections thus far. I brought most of them from home even though my mum insisted that I wasn't going to wear them, and some are bought here from thrift stores. I love bargains because I don't believe in spending a lot on a single item. That's just silly and don't give me bullshit about quality. It's all the branding and marketing which droved up prices for many things which you can actually get at a lower price! I don't succumb to that, really.

I get most of my graphic tees below the price of RM30 in Malaysia and $10 in US; I would suggest the following places to get unique graphic tees: Catchup in Sunway, random shops in Sungai Wang Plaza, MNG (go during sales!), FOS, and for US - Forever21, Ragstock, thrift stores in your surrounding area and online boutique. It takes a great amount of patience to look through the pile of clothes they have but you'll eventually find something awesome!

Basically the kind of graphic tee I look for has to fit either one of this criteria:

• related to music, ie. bands, music instruments (especially guitars), rock out statements, portrait of rock chicks. My personal favorite is the one with a hi-fi strategically printed across the chest (first on the top left), I thought it's a brilliant design and since I'm a sucker for all things related to music, that explains the portable player graphic tee sitting next to it, and the one that says "Party Like A Rock Star" with an electric guitar diagonally placed on the tee. (You can't really see the entire design from the photo though).
• non-cheesy statements that shouts attitude, ie. personal favorite: "Only Yummy Girl Wears This T-shirt" (spot the red tee with white wordings on the fourth row.) It has a clever design as the words are arranged to look like the shape of a girl. OMG WTF is classic eye-catcher, everyone who walked past me will steal a look at what my shirt says every single time! Well, nothing can go wrong with that except for formal occasions - TOO MUCH ATTITUDE OBVIOUSLY. I also liked the bottom most right that says "Win Something For Someone"
• a tee that's trying to look like something else, ie. waitress suit or tuxedo. It's just too cute to miss! I also had a graphic tee with a tie printed on it, it is absolutely adorable but I'm too fat for that shirt that's why I never brought it over!
• faces, numbers, figures and recognizable icons. ie. Starbucks. It's a gift from Lils and we have an identical pair. 
• they mustn't be too fitting but must be tight enough to show waistline. LOL

There you have it, my glorious collection! I'm still on my way of expanding my collection because there's never enough graphic tees in the world! I wish to release my line of tees someday too since I'm into the whole designing scene. We shall see.

Chuck

Presenting to you the most disastrous spies alive - Chuck. Starring Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Baldwin, and Joshua Gomez. The 3rd season is still airing on NBC.

I stumbled upon this show by sheer coincidence. I was just browsing for random shows and found Chuck. I was hooked on it since then, and that was two years ago. It's so amazingly funny and honestly, amazing is simply an understatement. Chuck is written by the same person who brought the scandalous filled lives of young Manhattan jet-setters, Gossip Girl, alive - Josh Schwartz. It showcases great castings, solid storyline that's enticing to follow and in-your-face funny. Bottom line, the more I watch it, the more addicted I am.

The story is about Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi), a Stanford dropout tech savvy who has an underdog life working in an electrical store leading a bunch of accident prone nerd herds in debugging computers and solving everyday computer problems - but he's not exactly happy about his life, especially the fact that he still lives with his sister and brother-in-law. But one day he became an accidental spy/secret agent after an intersect (a neural supercomputer developed by the US Government, of which contains the government's innermost spy secrets) was being downloaded into his brain under the graces of his college buddy, Bryce Larkin, a secret agent himself. Together with the geek-turn-hero are CIA agent, Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski) and NSA representative John Casey (Adam Baldwin), both assigned by their respective departments to protect him as he is the last remaining person who knows about the intersect.

The story revolves around his whacky adventures and encounters with world class crooks and masterminds. And since Chuck doesn't know how to shoot nor punch without hurting himself more he has to do it his own way and it turns out to be hilarious because he tries so hard to be smooth but always end up goofing around and blowing up his own cover. However thanks to his handlers, Sarah and Casey, this comedy is not only funny, it is packed with loads of ass kicking and wild shooting, not to mention bombs and explosives - there are explosions in almost every episode hence far, but it has decreased over the season due to budget issues. Did I mention that Chuck is also sexy? Not Chuck Bartowski, I'm talking about Sarah Walker! She is too hot to be a spy and there's just something alluring about ass kicking chicks in latex suit.

Is she hot or what?

It is also sweet to watch the budding love chemistry between Chuck and Sarah which contributes to the romantic elements of the show. However, it kills me to think that they might not be able to establish a normal relationship forever because it might jeopardies either of their lives - argh! Sandwiched in between are bunch of quirky lines and stupidity displayed in Buy More, the electrical store where Chuck works while he's not on his crazy missions.

Now for something non-related to the show. Meet the beautiful people in Chuck.

Zachary is so adorable. He recently sang alongside Katharine Mcphee in her song "Terrified" from her new album "Unbroken", the same song that was composed by the awesome Kara DioGuardi, song producer and judge for American Idol.

Hailing all the way from Australia, Yvonne Strahovski of Polish descendent is like a goddess in flesh. She should be sued for looking so hot and great job on the accent! She sounded almost like an American in Chuck but natively Australian in her interviews - confused? She reminded me very much of Olivia Wilde, Lena Headey and hotter version of Julia Stiles.

OMG, look at that hot bod. I wonder when will I get those hard rock abs. Sigh. Chuck, you can stop staring now, you'll never get the girl! Some of her other works are The Canyon.

Matthew Bomer is not a regular on Chuck but when he makes a comeback he's sizzling hot as ever. He plays Bryce Larkin, the spy who sent Chuck the intersect and Sarah's ex boyfriend. Boo. I prefer the Chuck-Sarah combo more but he's still a hottie.

He looks like the Michaelangelo sculpture, David. There's just something about the blue glassy eyes. His latest appearance is in White Collar.

There you have it, my take on Chuck. I'm still watching every episode without fail and I'm even planning on re-watching it! I hope you like this review, more to come.