Suva Market

If you are in Fiji and love the color, aroma and taste of the fruits, vegetables and seafood, then I highly recommend that you visit the Suva market on a Saturday morning. Usually the place is always busy with different variety of local produces being showcased. On one section you have the fishermen’s corner, with…

Tapa/ Masi Dresses Continues

Well hello lovelies 🙂 I have been receiving a lot of feedbacks  about my previous post on masi/tapa wedding gowns. Everyone is so interested in having a traditional wedding gown,  I guess those lucky tailors & designers will be receiving so many orders now 🙂  Towards my last year in uni I took up marine studies as…

Best Venues for your Events

Fiji is a beautiful place; people come from all over the world to visit this spectacular country. But what I’ve noticed is that when it comes to having a unique place to exchange vows, it is the overseas couples are the ones that usually gets the best spots, maybe it’s because  they usually get help…

Traditional Fijian Decorations -Modernized

Unlike most cultures, Fijian culture does not really  put emphasis on colorful or shiny decorations, nor do we centralize our events on decorations alone .  We settle for masi/tapa and somehow make use of most natural resources which are readily available to us but like most other things, our culture has been through drastic changes…

Dakei Fiji

Speaking of the West, check out this upcoming artist from the sugar city whose making it big. I have the pleasure of chatting up with him on facebook and after exchanging a few of his songs I found myself cruising through the weekend with the soothing sound of his album 🙂 The kind of songs…

The Western Scent!

The fact that I spent part of my childhood in the western side of Fiji, Lautoka (Sugar City) is probably the only explanation  to why I have such a strange fascination towards the second largest city in Fiji. Apart from the fact that most of my competitors reside and operate in these areas, the west…

Happy 2012!!!

2 weeks on and it occurred to me that i haven’t properly welcomed 2012 🙂 After a volatile 2011 with all it’s accomplishments and disappointments, I am super eager to start off 2012 with a bang 🙂  Oh and a new year calls for a new over ambitious list of resolutions which shall never be…

Stage Decorating: The Fijian Way

From a simple memorial service decor to a massive, complicated venue like the Vodafone Arena which is probably the biggest indoor multipurpose gym in Fiji (unofficial). How did I get hold of the deal?? Well it was the All Nation Christian Fellowship (ANCF) National Youth Conference and usually their decoration is usually handled by their…

Celebrating the life of Mr.Tanoa Naulumatua

I know it has been long since I have blogged in my recent activities, so I’m just going to go through it pretty fast 🙂 On the month of December, 2011, A close friend of my sister asked for my decorating services. The occasion, his father’s memorial service, you see his father was buried in…

Modern Masi/Tapa Wedding dresses

Some cultures have silk, Indians have saris but for Pacific Islanders we have Masi(Fijian) or the more renown name Tapa…..Made from the beaten Mulberry bark, this fabric not only clothed our ancestors it carry some of our rare designs and it distinct each pacific Island countries. But nowadays masi are only use during a very…