Island Chic’s Babble

I know I have done a terrible job updating my blog. However, I am proud to announce that I now have a new hobby!

Photography has always been something that has interested me. The sheer lack of talent & having a point-and-shoot cybershot for the last so many years have kept me from pursuing it even [...]

I know it’s a bit late but I guess it’s better late than never!
It has snowed in Beijing for 2 days this week and the city looks beautiful! Inspite of -20 degree weather I can’t help but feel festive!

Here’s wishing everyone a beautiful new year 2010 full of blessings, love and happiness.

It’s been quite some time since I’ve blogged last. The reason – let’s just say some times uncontrollable forces can be held responsible for our controllable actions.
Since blogspot has been blocked in China, I’ve been unable to access my blog http://island-chic.blogspot.com and like what happens with all things rough and tough, I lost the [...]

I’ve always been a perfume freak and I consider it one of my weaknesses. It’s my favorite section in a department store and I never know which one to buy simply because I’d buy a dozen at a time if I have my way.

Inspired by some friends’ enquiries on recommendations for perfumes to [...]

In some ways, 2008 was by far the worst year of my entire life for reasons that some people may or may not know. Ironically it was also the best in many other ways. I’d like to leave aside the bad and concentrate on the good. I’m counting my blessings in 2008.

Here are ten [...]

Newsweek’s article “The Story of Power” lists the following 50 as the world’s most powerful people/families/groups/entities.
It is definitely a fascinating list. Starting from the enigmatic president elect who will now take over the helm of the largest economy in the world to affect the course of the world to the brains behind many revolutionary historical [...]

Wish all my friends and family, a very happy and successful new year 2009. May this year be better than the last, in every possible way…

If you knew that you had only a day to live, what would you have done? If you knew you had longer, would you have done the same thing or would you have lived differently?

Life is short, unpredictable and capricious. To live happy and to fulfill your dreams, you have to know what you [...]

Yoohoo! Today is a day for celebration. My blog reaches its 100th post!  
Though I did my first post on the blog in June 2008, I officially started writing regularly in August. Since then I’ve been posting regularly, almost on a daily basis, on anything that interests me.
I don’t have a particular theme for [...]

Maldives is mourning the demise of the country’s second president, Mr. Ibrahim Nasir who had passed away at the age of 82 on Saturday. He died while undergoing treatment in Singapore, where he had been residing since he left the Maldives in December 1978.
Ibrahim Nasir was born in 1926 and had served the Maldivian Government [...]