Shah and I were lucky to spend about two weeks in Saudi Arabia where we had the best time performing umrah in Mekah, doing more ibadah in Madinah and exploring other cities like Jeddah, Riyadh and Al-Khobar.

There have been moments when I'm like oh that colour is pink, and someone would say "No...? It's purple...?". When I bought this dress I thought I'd be buying a red-pink dress but now that I've edited these photos, this dress is clearly purple now.

This has to be the dress I've styled the most here on my blog! This may be the sixth time you're seeing it on me in The Good Weekender but seriously, peeps, this dress has seen the light of day more times than I can count.

In case my title is confusing: nope, not planning to quit blogging anytime soon.
If you've been visiting The Good Weekender for quite some time (thank you by the way! ❤❤❤) you might have noticed the posts have been embarrassingly sporadic lately. 

Many of my favourite bloggers hit "slumps" like this from time to time — several seemed to never come out of one and quit blogging altogether too, sadly — so I know this is normal for anyone who owns a blog. 

A quick post to share what I wore for my birthday dinner last week: a very sweet, totally demure floral embroidered cream dress that is unlike me but for some reason I fell for it when I spotted it online. But ahhh OK I just had to offset the delicateness of it by adding a black chain bag and chunky black shoes that are a mix of loafers + derby. 

This was taken months ago on a day when I didn't even plan to photograph my outfit, but as I passed by a reflective surface I took the opportunity to check my outfit out (you do this too, right? Righttt?) and decided "huh maybe this is worth shooting".

Considering all I ever wear when I go out lately is maxi dresses, I need to celebrate a day when I had actual JEANS on.

It's A-OK to reserve special dresses for special occasions, right?
That being said, I truly admire people whose motto is "live for the moment" and are able to wear whatever fancy garment they own to take a walk in the park or something, but ugh guys I just can't be one of these people, no matter how many blog posts I read about it. I want to be carefree and vivacious like those bloggers, but I just can't, unfortunately!

So me being me and unable to change that part about myself, I think it was fair enough that I saved this black dress with its sweet red floral embroidery for the longest time, for a special (cough *expensive* cough) dinner with Shah, I should think.