Wahey!! We are proud to announce that our website is now officially launched. We are having a introduction sale at 10% OFF for any purchase. Get one now at www.gopako.com as the quantity is pretty limited. That is because we want to make you special.
Happy Shopping and practicing.
Namaste, Melle
We got this beautiful batik from Bali, Indonesia and is carefully cut and sewn. We are only be able to make 2 pieces, size S and M. There are 2 more beautiful batik prints to come which will be available in size L. Do stay tuned for the new arrivals.
Have a lovely day.
Namaste, Melle.
A backdated photo of me in Bali. I am not good at this Pigeon Pose and I know that I will never, never, never give up practicing. 🙂
Wishing you all the happiness in the world!
Peace and love, melle.
Drafting, cutting and sewing.
The idea of hand-making the yoga shorts came from my very first yoga instructor, Shammee. She introduced me the shorts she bought from India and asked to duplicate this shorts for a performance about 3 years back and one for her.
It was kinda weird wearing the yoga shorts for the first few times. And not long after, I felt in love with it especially when I start Iyengar yoga. The elastic cuff keeps the shorts close to the skin especially during inverted poses. The Diamond shaped gusset allows me to move freely during the practice. Loose fitting increases mobility and comfort.
Now, here I am working passionately with Gopako. More ideas and new things to come. I sincerely hope that Gopako will have all of your continuous support.
~ Namaste.
Melle
Gulp. So lost. Have spent more than 10 hours on the website and it’s not even 20% done. Unexpectedly tough but interesting. I am slowly catching up and all these are what worth doing! Hope that GOPAKO website can be launched officially by April. Fingers crossed. 🙂
Logging off for “savasana”. Wishing everyone a great day ahead.
Namaste.
Savasana – means corpse. In this asana the object is to imitate a corpse. Once life has departed, the body remains still and no movements are possible. By remaining motionless for some time and keeping the minds still while you are fully conscious, you learn to relax. This conscious relaxation invigorates and refreshes both body and mind. But it is much harder to keep the mind than the body still. Therefore, this apparently easy posture is one of the most difficult to master.
Benefits:
• Relaxes the entire body
• Calms the brain and helps relieve stress
• Reduces headache, fatigue and insomnia
• Develops BodyMind awarenss
Steps:
• Lie flat on the back with arms resting comfortably along the sides of the body, palms upward. Legs are extended and slightly turned outward; this translates down to the ankles and feet.
• Find your place of complete physical comfort by making slight adjustments. Could your hips feel “more free” if you separated your ankles and feet a tiny bit more? What is going on along your spine? Is support of a blanket needed anywhere? Are your head and spine in a straight line? Be secure in your foundation before proceeding.
• Close your eyes. Gently guide them to the place between your eyebrows, the Ajna or Sun Center. Relax the entire brow. Relax the jaw and let your chin drop down. Become aware of your natural breath and its rhythm.
• Focus upon your Sun Center and call forth a feeling of tranquility. Let this sense of stillness and calm stream down into your whole body. Feel how Earth supports the weight of your body in its entirety. Let Go.
• Remain here for 2 to 15 minutes
Emails sent. Requirements made. Nope… not the tailoring mannequin I wanted.
My supporters of all time, my parents went check out some shops with me. Excitedly found one with the price of RM360. For the safe side, we decided to check out more shops for price comparison. Hey, we found one with the same design, same model for RM260 !! It’s cheaper by RM100. That is a lot !! A lot, a lot, a lot. And guess what, no more stocks. Happy – happy not.
Desperado me, I bought a plastic half body mannequin for product photos. Not too bad though. Me liking it. 🙂
Hope the tailoring mannequin will be arriving soon. Looking forward to it.
My, oh my… never do I like being ‘the’ model but my choice is, let’s do it for GOPAKO.
In the photo above, I was deciding which shoes to go with. Red one? White or my all black Fipper.
We were so excited for the photoshooting session today and tomorrow or maybe till the day after tomorrow. Hope that we could get this done soon and we can get our website started. Feeling thrilled.
Erm… can I not look at the camera, please?
And in the end, I’m all so cropped out in most of the photos. Big grins.
~Namaste.
We are so happy to see some improvement in GOPAKO.
Say, the labels for example.
We started off with this… not too bad right?
And we did silk screening after that… fun !!
And now !! Tada…
We have finally got what we wanted for quite some times. Now we have proper labels for our customers and it’s a super proud thing when we got them sewn on every single piece of shorts/pants. We will not stop silk screening. We will be doing it when the time comes. Namaste ~
Namaste everyone~
GOPAKO started in March, 2013 which was a week before I left for Kerala, India.
And what it is about?
Here is the story about me and Gopako…
When I was a kid, I spent most of the time alone because of the age gap between my elder sisters and me. I had always leaned towards the creative side ever since I was 4, playing in a big laundry basket while my mum does her seamstress stuff. Many a times the drone of the sewing machine lulls me to sleep. 😀
Being attracted to the simplicity of crafting and the hours of amusement it brings me, made me look at paper, cloth, wood and other medium in a different light. I made cute little bookmarks for friends in school. When my mum got me a Barbie doll, it had only 1 miserable outfit. So I scavenged for cloth scraps and did the needle and thread magic. That was my first taste of being a fashion designer. The closest I have been 😀
As I got older, I dabbled with my mum’s industrial standard/sewing machine. My first creation was a batik skirt with waist band. That got me started to modifying my own clothes, which was a process of trial and errors and with most of the errors stuffing up my dustbin or, banished forever in my dark closet.
I have always had something that I would love to do. Or at least try. There’s painting, dressmaking, handcrafting, yoga, baking and etc which somehow fogs up my vision and path. I have tried but always lost interest in it after a while. One fine day, out of a sudden I confided my 5-year old dream to my hubby half expecting him to tease me as always.
In it, I was the popular and endeared yet shy fashion designer. Throngs of people waits as I step out on to the red carpet from my private limo. As my right heel graces the carpet, blinding white lights flashes left and right accompanied by deafening cheers and shrieks of GOPAKO. What a rush it was.
I felt the rush even when I woke up from it. The name stuck and I did a quick search. It meant a cowherd in Pali language as the one who guards or takes care of. A field-watcher. An elephant’s keeper. The groom of the royal charger. There was a river by that name too in Philippines. GOPAKO also meant ‘five hundred dollar’ if loosely translated in Hokkien dialect.
The dream of GOPAKO is no longer a dream after hibernating for 5 years. I know it took me years for my dream to come true… but I believe that, just because something is not happening right now, doesn’t mean that it will never happen.
Crafted with love,
Melle
