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ilyanaMwah.com

ilyana — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:39:51 +0000

I need help. I am keeping ilyanalanai.com but am expanding to also have a tumblog and need a new name for it. Here are the contenders. Thoughts or votes for a domain name can be left in the comments. And if you have any better idea’s PLEASE SHARE!!!

ilyanamwah.com
xoxoilyana.com
ilyanalives.com
itsmeilyana.com
missilyanalanai.com
EssentiallyIlyana.com
SimplyIlyana.com

HeythereCareBear!.com

Behind the scenes Jason Lam shoot pt 2

ilyana — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:54:02 +0000

Are you getting the shoes?

ilyana — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:28:27 +0000

Under Construction!!!!

ilyana — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:09:18 +0000

As you can see I haven’t posted anything since March. That’s a really long time. I didnt even realize that it had been that long. My desire to take a break from the ‘net coupled with the start of new projects seems to have distracted me. The site is being redesigned so please be patient and bare with me. Or is it bear with me. I never seem to get that one right. I have big things in the works and can’t wait to share them with you all.

P.S. I’m in the city for a few weeks and would love to reconnect with old friends. Email me if you want to catch up:)

xoxoxo

Update: I.AM.ALIVE.

ilyana — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:54:48 +0000

So I was told that I need to inform the world that I am alive. Which I am. Barely. Things went from really really good to really really bad to really really good again (my life story) so quickly that I literally could not even break down how the pendulum swung so far. I’ve tried to tear myself away from the internets because (and a NYTIMES article supposedly backs this up) it is a bit addictive. And I can easily get caught up in the madness….*how many hits did I get today, blah blah blah…* Not to mention reading about other peoples lives in a way that sometimes feels- dirty or intrusive. I think my life goes in waves. My emotions too. One minute I feel like I’ve figured out who I am, the next I feel completely lost, like I’m drowing in a tsunami. I feel guilty and inadequate because I haven’t found my way, I still feel so insecure….

A few things

ilyana — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:59:57 +0000

I’ve been lagging on the blogging lately. My one resolution for 2008 was to finally concentrate on myself, my own personal happiness and growth/evolution. I wanted to pamper myself as well as search for what would be truly fullfilling. And I have stayed true to my word (i think this is literally the only resolution I have ever followed through with). This blog had sort of a specific focus for a while but as I evolve so needs to the blog. I am hoping to have a new design soon, and with that more blogging from me. I don’t want to be just one thing. Because I’m not. I’m vain and superficial and spend hours reading Perez Hilton and Gawker and googling Botox and face creams and fad diets. But there is the other side to me, the humanitarian, the political junkie, the web nerd. This year is all about integrating my two selves. I can write a chick lit novel and also work for The Innocence Project. I can be silly, laugh at myself, wear makeup, throw on 4 inch peep toe pumps and spend two hours curling my hair, wonder why love seems like it’s so hard to find and even more difficult to keep. I still watch Sex and the City. And I’m not ashamed of it. I spend most of my days in Hello Kitty pajama’s wrapped in a Hello Kitty Blanket writing on Pink post it notes, listening to Feist thinking “Omg, I should so be at the gym right now.” But I can conversely be incredibly serious, thirsty for knowledge, compassionate and empathetic, determined to do something, anything with my time on this earth that will have mattered in a significant way. I don’t want to live in a box. Anyone’s box. Especially my own. Here’s to having great boobs, a love for skinny jeans and juicy gossip and also being an actual intelligent, hard working, noble human being:)

xoxoxo,
ilyana

OMG OMG OMG

ilyana — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:19:06 +0000

OhmygodIhavetheworstfuckingheadacheIthinkI’mgoingtodieIwouldliketoamputatepleaseOhmygod.

P.S. America seems to think that Miami is only good for Clubs and Crime. “It’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t live there.”

I remember when I used to say that same thing, I swear.

Double sinks and Roman tubs and Breakfast nooks, Oh my!!!

ilyana — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:18:41 +0000

View of the Miami Intercoastal from what I REALLY really hope is going to be my new home!

The bathroom has a double sink, deep roman tub, stand up shower AND linen closet inside. None of my Manhattan apartments had double sinks. Or roman tubs. Much less a linen closet inside. Mind you there are two more closets in the master bedroom!

And did I mention it has a breakfast nook?!

I remember living in studio apartments or building makeshift walls to create makeshift bedrooms just so I could split my absurd rent. I love New York. I do. But sometimes, for brief moments, I love Miami too. I love that it allows for the possibility to OWN a 1400 sq ft 2/2 immaculate condo 5 minutes from the beach and pay less than it once cost me to rent a 600 sq ft Upper West Side Studio apartment. Even though I loved that little studio apartment. Okay, this isn’t a time to get nostalgic Lani!!! Not when you are on the verge of having 11ft high ceilings with crown molding, 7 closets and your own washer and dryer. Oh, and Cheesecake factory is 2 minutes away. *Please let me get this place. Please let me get this place. Please let me get this place*

Babies are Bombs

ilyana — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:32:09 +0000

I love babies. They are all cute and cuddly and make you laugh just because they smile. But they are bombs. Like, nuclear bombs. They. explode.with. germs!!! In what can only be described as an answer to my prayers, my only Miami girlfriend lives on the SAME floor, THREE doors down from the condo I want to buy. What are the odds. So after a showing of said condo, I went to visit my girl, who has a two year old daughter I am in love with. And of course, she coughed and sneezed on me and three days later I’m SICK!!! I want to crawl into bed and never come out. I cant breathe, swallow, smell, eat….nothing!!!

Part Deux: Sugar Mama’s and Hot Boys!!!

ilyana — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:07:17 +0000

Some of my long time readers might remember that around this time last year I wrote about the “Pocketchange Natural Selection Speed Date event” for wealthy men and the ~~golddiggers~~ beautiful women looking to meet them. I’ve kind of softened my position on this event. At the end of the day, whether it’s explicitly stated or not, isn’t all dating sort of about this natural selection thing. Aren’t most men looking for a woman they really want to see naked, and most women looking for a man who will be a stong partner, providing them(and their children) with some measure of stability. Sure, we like to imagine ourselves more evolved and cerebral and above this sex/money paradigm, but the reality is more often then not, there is at least a scintilla of truth to this notion. Maybe more than a scintilla.

I was joking last year when I said that I was “waiting with bated breath for the Sugar Mama’s and Poor Boy’s” follow up event, but my breath need no longer be bated as the genius’s behind this event have launched the search for guests to this years “Pocket Change Natural Selection Speed Date II: Sugar Mama’s and Hot Boys!”I have one minor bone to pick with the organizers this year. Namely, that when it was wealthy men applying, their identities were kept private and confidential, while the womens pictures and stats were published for any and all to see. This year, with the tables turned, the wealthy Sugar Mama’s pictures and stats are being made public. On the other hand, none of these women have anything to be ashamed about, they are almost all beautiful. In fact, if I were a young stuggling guy, I would sign up for this thing tomorrow!

Advice anyone?

ilyana — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:41:36 +0000

Usually I am the one doling out the advice. Usually, I have an idea of what the best solution to a problem is, the best way to solve all things complicated. But for this one, I’m sort of out of answers. This February is my birthday, Valentines Day and our anniversary, which is sort of a big deal because since we got together on Leap day four years ago, it’s the first REAL anniversary we will have. Now this is my dilemma. How do we celebrate all three occasions, in the same month, without going broke, but still feeling like each day was special. And I understand that Valentines day is a “Hallmark, corporate driven day” but I’m sentimental and I like to celebrate. Any creative idea’s?

Cute!!!

ilyana — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:03:51 +0000

The best part of this is her drawing hearts in the air. I love it!!!