Day dreams

Project: Random stuff I wear

2012-01-31T05:53:00.003+08:00

Daily wardrobe.

I've always wanted to post up pictures of what I wear on a somewhat daily basis, just to keep track of how my dressing has evolved over the years - but sadly it has never surfaced because I'm such a procrastinator.

#oops.

I've figured that I should start somewhere, and what better way to start off my little project, than with my new clothes right?

Ooh lalala...

Here's like a warning that there's gonna be alot of Daphne, daphne and more daphne...

so hold your breakfast.lunch.dinner.teabreak.supper.whatever - dont puke.

In no particular order or days, here we have one of my favourite buys, the asymmetric off white jersey vest that I'm currently loving alot.

Looks less sloppy with my white ripped denim shorts, no?

It's like mega comfy without looking very sloppy.

At least I think so!

There's also something about white that I cant seem to figure out.

I'm in love with white, and I can wear them everyday without getting bored.

Confirm. double confirm. triple confirm.

Wearing:
White basic tank top
Off white asymmetrical top
faded ripped + laced rimmed denim shorts
Pearl white gothic necklace (no i'm not a christian)
Satin chained bracelet chunks

Sloppy Chic

Wearing:

White basic tank top

Vintage long white skirt that is as old as I am - inherited from mommy's stash

Beige brown looped scarf
White floral hairclip
Satin chained bracelet chunks

Modern Bohemian

Funny how single or double looping the scarf can create such different effect.

Single loop (extreme right) dramatized the outfit, and elongated my torso...making me look - well -longer, leaner without a diet. lol.

While the double loop (extreme left) is just the way scarfs are worn normally.

Ok whatever, nobody cares but me.

Hahaha.

Wearing:

Peach Pink chiffon Layered long dress

Jersey white sash

Braided white hairband
Satin chained bracelet chunks

Floaty Romantic /Vivi Magazine / Liz Lisa inspired

I could not resist swishing the dress about.

I look kinda fat and puffy - but i reckon it's good for buffets.

If only i'm like 170cm tall, i think i'll look awesome in the dress.

Weeh.

Other random snap shots ~

Went clubbing the other night

Wearing:

Poofy Zipper rimmed frock

Grey jersey sash

faded ripped + laced rimmed denim shorts

Grey knee high socks
Bling bracelet cuff

Space age cutesy

Wearing:

Dual strapped Lilac top
Crochet skorts
Cropped white Cardigan
Satin chained bracelet chunk

Not sure what to name this look...
Let's just name this

Daily pastels

Wearing:

Black racer maxi dress

Black gold Moschino cheap or chic Belt

Black gold Juicy Couture chain charm watch

Heart shaped shades

Local Ah Lian

I love the fact that most dresses that tapers and ends off after the knee never fails to provide this "tighten up" illusion.
Think pencil skirts, a good structured shift dress etc.
Makes the torso taunt.firms up, look shapely and lengthens, making one looks taller than she really is!
I'll explain the illusion concept in a seperate post if time permits in the next few days.

Belt turned out to be too loose, had to bring to Shukey to get holes punched, and cut off some excess leather for it to be worn as a waist belt.

That's about all the stuff I found in my phone.

Til the next time ya!

Humming in my head:

I'm not a girl, not yet a woman - Britney Spears

Off with the dog!

2012-01-30T04:41:00.004+08:00

I've had just about enough with the dog at the moment, so I'm just angsting alittle, because I just want to.

Seriously got to send her for some obedience training - other wise, she might just receive similar fate with the cat. (ie animosity with the mom)
Urgh.

Like stupid girl decides to sneak into mommy's room and poo in her toilet, right smack at the entrance
The mother stepped on the "black gold", and naturally, isn't thrilled by Trixie's toilet adventures.

Just walked past the furry blob, and I saw that between her sleep tray and pee tray ~ the bugger had to shit between the line. Seriously, is it that hard, to just shit/pee properly in the allocated location?
I'll deal with it when I wake up tomorrow.
#SwearsUnderTheBreath

Yup, no one ever said that training a puppy is going to be easy business, but this one that I've got here is not dumb. She's uber intelligent but is just DAMN FREAKING STUBBORN.
Come on, how many puppies/dogs have you met, that is capable of breaking out of her cage/compound?

We're actually talking about 3 different cages/fence in total, and she did it all.
Ta da!
I bet she had lessons with Houdini.
Lol.

I'm not frustrated or upset with the dog, I'm just showing off.

Little fleabag looking "angelic" on her "floor bonding time"

I've got brown eyes. I really do...
If you'll just stare at them alittle longer - or I can get my owner to PS my eyes til they are naturally brown

Mobile floor rug in my room - Matchy with my studded bag.

Uhuh!

* I'm still hunting for the perfect collar for my little furry fleabag.

Her default red-blue collar will suffice for now, not that I've got a choice.

Self amusing doggles having fun with my room's mirror, featuring her signature "dead cockroach" pose.

It's like one of her default sleeping position somemore.

So cute, how not to love right?

She's only cute when she's dry and furry.
I swear she looks like an ugly rat when she's wet!
So ugly, only a mother will love....
Look.

She insist on propping herself up whenever I shower her in the bath tub, and my bathroom floor will be wet after. T.T (I hate it when the bathroom floor is wet and flooded.)
Rwar!!

Ok, maybe she's scared that she'll drown or something.

Here's a last picture of the furry Madame with half sized skinny legs to boot.
Aiyoh..

Told you she looks ugly, when she's wet like a rat.

*An ugly looking scopionish looking bug just flew in and landed on my cushion.

I'm refusing to sleep tonight, until I smack that ugly BUGger to death, or at least get it to leave my room.

Trixie and dots

2012-01-27T04:20:00.002+08:00

It's official!
The family's adopting Trixie the miniature schnauzer.
When I first brought her home, my biggest worry was whether she could win the hearts of the fam - and she did it like a pro.

EVERYONE including mommy (who's like really afraid of dogs since like forever) and Daddy ( who really is a cat person), Da and Jan is okay with her.
Probably only the Bunny isn't exactly overjoyed by her presence, but he's okay with her now.

My first week with Trixie proved to be kinda tricky.
She is quite the poop and pee machine.
Everytime I avert my eyes for a split second, a puddle or a pile of poop would surface.

It was exasperating.
I felt like I was Cinderella with the never ending chore of cleaning up after the dog.
The kitchen napkins, rag and mop was like my best friend.
For someone who rarely holds the mop, I lost count of the number of times I held the mop in just one day - record breaking.
Urgh.

May I present to you...
*drum rolls*
Trixie Lee!

My introductory picture of Trixie the schnauzer to my world.
Long and messy beard + eyebrows on her first day at home.

I couldnt live with the messy long beard and eyebrows, and I took matters in my own hands!
( it was rather unfortunate that the grooming places weren't available - as it was the Lunar new year peak period.)

I trimmed her brows and beard myself!
Tralalalla...

So much neater, but she looks like a boy.
Meh...

A close up of her in the day, while she was lounging in my room.

She had her "whatcha staring at?" face.

Love this picture of her to bits!

It was kinda candid.

She was sort of tired from the endless camera snapping, and so happened that one of her ear was flopped backwards + we could see her brown eyes for the first time, as most pictures with normal lighting kinda just hid her pretty eyes away along with her black and silver fur.

My master piece isn't so bad for a first timer grooming huh?

It's been about 2 weeks since I've brought her home, and Trixie seems to be progressing a little with the potty training, adjusting fantastically to her new family and home, and seems to have picked up a trick or 2 for future show and tell.

She's quite a smart little doggle, with very short attention span.
Terribly stubborn and extremely needy - she whines every time I leave home (with or without the rest of the family) and sits by the door until I return home.
Awwww....

My niam niam (sticky) little sweetie - that's what I call her.
Mommy refers to her as my precious.

This Lunar New year is very much sweetened with her presence.
Gives the family an extra topic to gather about - and a good source of entertainment just watching her going about with her silly antics.

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Ask and you shall be given.

It was funny how everything fell into place, as if everything was pre planned.
I asked for a dog, and in a twist of fate, I met 2 dogs.

Just back in October, I was 90% convinced about getting a toy poodle, and extremely bent on naming her Bambi.
Only that time wasn't right for me to bring "Bambi" home.

Yet just a couple of months down, there was Haatei's short stay with us (you can also read up why he's stay with us turned our to be short here), and now we have Trixie that found her way effortlessly into our hearts with so much love and affections to share with us.

Without Haatei's short existence, Trixie's entrance into our home would not have been easy.
Haatei proved to mommy that not all dogs are ill behaved.
He showed her the full potential of an obedient, well trained dog.
That with proper guidance and training, there was nothing to fear - despite his physique in size.

She even allowed him to sleep next to her bed while she was napping.
That was how calming a presence he was to mommy - who's been scared of dogs her entire life.

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My point in jotting this side note, is to remind us that life isn't all that we set out to be.
Everything happens for a reason; that is surely to help shape us for our intended future.
Without the past, we wouldn't appreciate our future.

For every situation that presents itself to me, I'm learning to take them at my own stride - one step at a time.

Fighting the control freak in me, who is adamant about grasping details and making choices my way.
I'm slowly learning to understand that there IS a bigger plan out there, waiting for me to fit into the role, and contribute my worth to the world + NOTHING is within my control

As how I always love quoting Steve Jobs pertaining to this matter, as he has done a fantastic job in summarizing words that I am unable to put forth:

You cannot connect the dots looking forward.
You can only connect them looking backwards.
So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Trusting in something, ~ your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever ~ because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart,
even if it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.

I guess, this pretty much summarizes life as zen-ly as I can.

Songs in my head

2012-01-26T06:00:00.001+08:00

Im not sure if this is actually normal, but I usually wake up with a song in my head...
It's probably a leftover from my sleep world or perhaps a little message from my inner self telling me something?

Whatever it is, the current song stuck in my head from my nap time is Mari Hamada's hold on dream on.
The chorus just keeps repeating in my head.
Non stop!!

It kinda inspired me to YouTube her, and I found her concert version.
Truth be told, this is probably the only song I know, and she's not particularly pretty.
Her high waist jeans and midriff that she wore, made me laugh.

I had this joke about how our waist line level keeps dropping as the years goes by.
It'll totally be normal to be walking around with panties, by the time i turn 80 years old or something.
Lol.

Seriously, quite abit of old chinese songs has been making their way back into my head ever since the recent KTV we had during Claudia's birthday.
Some of the songs are really quite emo somemore.

Okay, let me change my statement -Chinese songs are always emo, #IMHO.
Lol.

The KTV session has since spurred a bout of Chinese song hunting to add to the playlist.
Rwar!

6 am in the morning some more!

Things I do when bored...

2012-01-17T05:20:00.001+08:00

I know that I've just posted an entry not too long ago.
I napped too much in the day, and now I'm sleepless and tucked in bed with too many thoughts swimming pass my head randomly...
So I figured that I should just type in random stuff that I do on a daily basis
Like....

1. Playing tiny tower ( used to be bejewel to help pass time - minute after minute, it gets really addictive)
2. Online shop/ browse - I can do that endlessly.
3. Pre plan outfits for days when I feel like shit, with absolutely no motivation to dress up at all.. ( these pre planned outfits would come in handy when I actually have to force myself to leave home for meetings etc)
Pre planned outfits are also very good motivators to leave home ( because I can't wait to wear the combination out)
4. Bitch on whatsapp with the buddies
5. Rummage for food and snacks to kill boredom and hunger.
6. Walk over to holland village for bubble tea + toiletries shopping at Watsons, Sasa and Guardian, as well as to stalk animals on sale at pet lovers too! Lol
7. Read up twitter and Facebook status
8. Daydream in bed
9. Be Philosopical and ponder about things beyond my control like..
My life journey, my destiny, my purpose on this earth and how the choice I make would affect many outcomes and how I can improve the life of people that I care about + wonder when will Karma strike those who have been playing dirty etc.
For that, I hope they'll never be able to get a good night's worth of sleep. Yay!
10. Attempt to pack up my room and construct ideas to make storage more exciting
11. Fall asleep
12. Disturb my little abnn zoo at home.
The animals at home are all expected to do selective tricks to earn their treats.
I spend time with them daily, and train them to do achievable tricks.
Yay!

Finally I'm sleepy now.
Goodnight people!

CNY 2012 and spring cleaning Loot.

2012-01-17T03:25:00.000+08:00

Just completed half the spring clean in preparation for the coming Chinese New Year.

As the mother is plotting to chuck away our Mega old display cupboard at home, my biggest find for the night would be my nugget buddies from Macdonalds.

I had them when I was a weeny kid, and they look like this!

Unfortunately, mommy did not raise me to my full potential of being a fast food kid.

Therefore, I was unable to get the full collection of my Nuggets village.

Weh...

Looking at them, I smiled and packed them into the allocated plastic boxes to be stored away for.... future reminiscing purpose.

Super love the nuggets ♥"

Spring cleaning is a long way from completion.

The room is still looking very war-zoned like.

It seems like I'll never be neat in this life. Ever.

I dreamt of a very nice and pretty room while I was napping earlier.

Nao...why can't that very awesome room become reality for this coming CNY huh...

sad.

New Hair... Sunshine Girl or SPG?

2012-01-09T05:45:00.001+08:00

Been sick for the looooongest time, and I got bored of staying at home.
Too much rest and bed time is counter productive to my mood.
Decided to text the hair dresser and see if she's free to entertain me.
Indeed!

Jumped out of bed, washed up and dropped by Next Salon to change the hair.
This picture was taken while I was trotting over to Holland Village.
(I seriously think I poop, eat, sleep, and do pretty much everything there, if given a choice)

Seated at the salon - Kate flipped through my hair, stared at my hair job and asked me who colored my hair.

I looked at her with o.O eyes, and owned up that I colored them myself.
She praised me and said my technique is pretty good huh...
Until she flipped to the back part.
It was darker than the rest of my hair
LOL.

Oops!
Botched job, and in my own defense - I said the back of my head has no eyes!
Whatever la, like I really care!
A good laugh and a few more hair flips later.
She told me her vision for my hair... and I said deal (as usual)

After all the usual trim and paint hoo haa later...
She admired her artwork and said to me...
I hope you're a sunshine girl....

and I returned her comment with my best are you kidding look.

*ahem*
She decided on a new statement.
Are you an SPG then?

I gave her my next best incredulous look.
*sigh*
and we both burst out laughing.
Crazy girl.

Seriously, between the both of us.. it's been more than 10 years since our hair relationship started... back when I was her hair model back in the defunct Blitz salon.

she knows how I hate looking "neat" with prim and proper hair.

and stuff like that.

Soo... yup.

i'm gonna be a psuedo Sunshine girl and SPG for the new year.

Pictures were taken at night in the room.

I know I look damn fair here right?

It's a lie!

This is my newest craze!

The neo print looking stamps apps!

Mad Love!

No photo filter! Promise!
Just pure white lights from the bedroom.

I've got a thing for good lighting in the room.
Annoys the shit if I can't see things properly at night.
Might as well use candles if that's the case.

I know right! Looks damn blonde. but it's probably closer to the picture below, even though the color seems to be getting "brighter" with each hair wash.

Im gonna look "ang moh" by this coming Chinese New year!

On the bright side, I'm glad and enjoy the fact that I can do ANYTHING with my hair, and still get away with it (Maybe not shave my head botak or perm until I look like a poodle..)

#JobPerks FTW!
Okay bye!

Sick + shopping loots

2012-01-04T16:29:00.002+08:00

It's been damn long!

I fell sick before christmas, and continued to be sick over the new year.

Having a terribly hacking cough to deal with, it's a sad affair to develop coughing abs.

Spent the entire night frustrated, and I need to rave about it.

I was hungry.

But the only quick accessible food at my beck and call would be the

party packet of Kit Kats,

the Jappy prawn crackers that is damn awesome!

I bought them from Takashimaya basement market...takes like 5 prawns to make one cracker, and its MSG free. *yums*

and the remaining 5 boxes of Lychee pocky staring at me....

and the usual Jumbo box of Kokocrunch waving to me to kill hunger pangs..

I willed myself not to eat any of them, because I want that stupid cough to go away.

Ate an entire box of Rambutan and I need to say this aloud...

FIBRE DOES NOT FILL UP THE EMPTY TUMMY!

Ended up hungry after I was done with rambutans and tons of water.

#sadplight

I now officially know why people lose weight when sick.

So many things cannot eat!

I ate lunch at Astons at 5pm - still thinking of the already digested yummy chicken chop

Ate dinner at home 10pm - hor fan styled seafood beehoon.

and fully digested by 1am - the honey lemon jelly drink I bought at the petrol station did nothing to help with the hunger pangs.

They attracted ants, and I nearly drank them all. Rwar!
Luckily I looked!

I almost ate an ant once, and those stupid tiny things give off a putrid taste in the mouth that reminds me of insecticide. one ant was enough to trigger my gag reflex

Stupid bugger even bit my tongue while he was at it. *!@$%

My fault that the ant trepassed my drink?!
Pfft.

I spent the entire night reading one of my favourite books to distract myself from the crazy hunger.

The little white horse by Elizabeth Goudge.

I'm such a sucker for nice imaginary stories that involves stars, moons, unicorns.

Finished the book in a night, and feeling a little lost and out of sorts after finishing the book.

It's one of those - what do I usually do to kill time, before I started on the book - kind of feeling.

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On a brighter note, I met V for lunch, and the sweetie gave me a jar of moisturizer from Lancome.

She knew I had been whining about moisturizers for the longest time, as

Biotherm stopped producing the range that I like, and I've been shopping for a new "love" ever since.

I was living off testers for close to 2 months... #TrueStory

Because I could not decide on a new brand, nor do I want to buy and shelf the product aside, because my room has limited space.
I live in a matchbox remember?

She recommended the Hydra Zen, and so she passed them for me to try out!

#stressed what if I dont like it?!
She also passed me a couple of other skin stuff, like Kiehl's facial cleanser and this new tester for Lancome's eye cream. Hurhurhur.

Haha. I'm sure I would.

I'll keep reviews for another day.

I feel super loved by my friends and family, even though i'm sick and feeling shitty.

Digressing, the mother went a little nuts on the honey stock piling, just because I told her that I finished up the jar of honey and we needed more.

Honey is damn good for sick people like me, and awesome for people who perpetually have sugar cravings.

Madam mommy bought 3 jars of manuka honey and apparently each jar had different use.

*sigh*

I'm a simple girl, I only want the normal drinking type.

Now still got to remember which jar is for drinking, which is coating the throat / lining the tummy and which to smear on the face (kidding)

Lol.

Digression aside, I went into a slight panic attack mode after lunch with V.

The thought that I would not have any new clothes to wear this coming Chinese New Year, sent me into a frantic mode.

I always have issues getting new clothes during the later half of the year, because Autumn colors do not look awesome on me.... and dreary colors for the winter are quite depressing. The fluffy and thick fabrics aren't exactly a hit with me too...

*cues and laments why isn't there any snow or winter in Singapore?*

The new clothes that I have recently bought and received have since been worn *panics*

Nao, why didn't I think of saving them for the CNY, instead of wearing them immediately!!!!

Since I was in the area, I braved the crowd at Bugis Village and emerged with a few everyday essential loots - not exactly CNY worthy, but I'll at least have new stuff stockpiled for the festive season!

A romantic looking chiffony tube dress (vivi inspired!) - in my head, I already knew what belt, hair, and accessories I'll fix up with the new dress to get that look in my head.

An off white Asymmetric casual jersey vest for my everyday chillax wardrobe.

It goes pretty nicely with my denim shorts without looking sloppy.

Korean inspired jersey blouse in white,

It's long sleeves, I tell you!

But it's got major holes at the shoulders, to offset the fabric spam.

and I super love the skater silhouette.

And i can pair it with shorts!

I know how i'm constantly contradicting myself.

Hate to look sloppy, but love to wear shorts - it's an art I tell you!

#JustSaying

My favouritest of the lot, would be the hello kitty frame that I bought!

Leopard/tortoise shell spectacle frames.

I wonder if my optician will entertain me, if I were to bring my frames in and ask for real prescription lens?

Not bad, for a 2 hour shopping stint at Bugis, and none of them were cheap as $10 though :(

Pictures later, when I'm feeling better and interested in dressing up.

Lounging in my pajammies is damn awesome.

Flop back into bed anytime I fancy, with bed head and geeky specs.

woooo~

Also just bought a nice asymmetrical white top from Tracyeinny as we speak.

I think I am really quite safe now.... no need for panick attacks anymore.

Hello New Year..

2012-01-02T02:45:00.003+08:00

Hello 2012, we finally meet.
I'm not sure what the year would hold and bring, but I truly wish that the new year would bring good health, lots of wealth, love peace and joy to all, including the evil people around - just so that they'll learn to stop being so evil to everyone around, and find peace within.

Okay I also wish that this Red Diary will be filled to the brim.
Only C will know what I mean by this, as she has a matching one as well.
Only that mine has a red Crabtree & Evelyn Bow attached - itchy fingers, everything needs to look girly + the bow was too cute to be ignored. :)

2011 was a relatively good year for me, with selective monsters to make me sad.
But life is full of ups and downs, so I'd stand by the fact that 2011 has been good to me.
It ended well.
Thank you very much.

With...
a bulk of payments coming through...
Proper time spent with loved ones
Was having a good meal when the clock striked 12.
Closing it with awesome mango pudding from Crystal jade at Holland Village.
Hahah.
31st 2011 got me beaming from ear to ear. (almost)

Simple joys for the simple creature I am.
Hahahha.

Finally gotten around to compiling some of my Christmas presents.
First of all, the biggest present to myself would be a happy Daphne.
So there we go, Bunny ear hairtwist and my new crochet top on Christmas day itself.
Looking at this picture, I think I need a haircut.

Second Present would be the iphone to myself.
With all that Apps available, editing pictures is sooooo convenient.
Except for the snapping a picture of my phone part.
Had to whip out the camera to do the deed.

And I bought myself this very cute Hello Kity Casing from Sanrio.

Red bow + Clicky ears at the "unlock" button

My only gripe was that the white of the kitty casing was NOT the same as the iphone white.

Weehhhh..

ok, and that the casing was a little bulky.

Need to show off the awesome wallpaper I found!

I edited the colors alittle to make it look less jarring to the eye.

I dont like overly girlie stuff - so this one suits me right.

Punk/graffiti inspired + the red bow-ed kitty.

Yay!

My christmas present to myself came too early, so I forgot, and happily bought myself another present!

I present to you my new vinyl Ted Baker wallet with Heart shaped intial clasp!
The flash showed off my handprints more than the wallet. Lol.
Love Ted Bakers eye for details TTM!
Love!

This is what my wallet interior says:

The more you give, the more you get.
I have shaky hands, and an old camera so I shall spare you the agony of reading the interiors of my wallet, and type it out instead.

Red LV epi is officially retired again, until I decide that matchy everything is more important than my cute TB wallet.

Bestie knows me best!

White chocolate for a cold rainy day, because normal chocolates always give me a sore throat.

My dear Miss Laura Ashley, please come back for good....so that we can go shopping together EVERY WEEK, instead of twice a year!

Went shopping a couple of days back, and I accidentally inspired her with the idea to get hair extentions. Crazy woman really did them and is returning back to London with Jungle girl/ Hagrid inspired hair!

I hope hers will stay put longer than mine did. Lost patience with them and took them all out.

Also brought her to Ma Maison for dinner the other night after shopping, and she liked it so much that she dragged me there for dinner again 2 days later. This is how crazy girls live.

Hahaha. I think i'm crazier - coz I ate the same thing twice.

At least she changed to the one I ordered, because she was salivating over my portion the other night.

Rwar..

Some things just dont change, no matter how far apart we are - or how unoften we see each other.

Picture collage of some my gifts up close. :)

A nice dress from my other good friend, who surprised me with this dress that I didnt manage to get for myself, and the nice sleep wear bottoms from the sister ...

This crazy girl bought both the shorts and long pants version in the same Love print.

Funny, but nice!

Kitty phone cover in red flown in from Japan - because the kitty cover I got for myself is too bulky, and is not in red, says X.. Lol

Told X that I saw the same ones in Bugis, and he got a little upset. Lol - ok the quality of the silicon feels different. So upset not, okay?

I have to 'fess up that the wallpaper was downloaded to match this cover, not the white one.

Lol.

I ate up a couple of other stuff that I've received :x

To think of it, this is more like a post of what I bought, instead of what I received.

and I shall end this entry with the last purchase of the year

My red jelly Barbie Stripper worthy heels!

The Melissa kind!

Why I call them Barbie inspired - because they reminded me of Barbie's heels.

I couldn't find the exact one that I used to have, red with ribbon bow on top minus the ankle straps. (They're lost!)

Had to make do with the second closest pair...

Awww... Dug out my Barbie closet for this photoshoot, and played with them alittle.

*beams*

I miss being a kid.

Maybe now that the school hols is over, Toys "R" Us is safe to venture into again.

Need to load up on new wardrobe for Barbie.

The ones at home are all vintage. :(

For now, here's to the new year with a red big bang!

And the growing thought of getting a new semi pro camera.

haha.

Christmas

2011-12-27T22:11:00.001+08:00

With Christmas over, I'm still feeling oozy from all the slacking.
Not looking forward to moving about at all.
It's so cold that I wear socks and cardigans when i'm home..
alittle nuts, but it's quite snuggly feeling to be wearing the burnt leopard fleece socks around the house and to sleep!

Spent most of my time playing Tiny Tower.
Im hooked to the game. It sounds damn loserish, but i spent most of my waking moment fiddling with the Tiny tower affairs.
I love the bitebook status update.
Funny stuff the bitizens update in there, especially one that said
"why do I have this feeling that i'm constantly being watched"
Lol.

I like how everything is being controlled by me.
Muaahahahha - cant escape from that dictatorial streak in me.
Need to manage and control.

I'm saving money for a faster elevator. Current upgraded lift is toooo slow!

Back to christmas...
I like mine quiet and snuggly, and quiet and snuggly I get!
Ok, enough babbling...Here we go, pictures!

Christmas bunny.
He looks so pretty with the red felt bow.
I came home on the eve and decided that Bunny needed some festive cheer - and I made do with Felt scraps and red ribbons, and gave him a Red Bow in 2 mins flat.
Awww...

Pretty boy bunny in red ribbon made the mother very happy.
Took Bunny about 15 minutes before he discovered the joy of gnawing at the ribbons..
Had to remove, lest he choked on ribbon.

Also prepared a few Christmas kits for existing clients as entertainment/gifts/seasons greetings. (whatever you call them la~)

It was a Grow your own christmas tree kit!
I was very excited when I discovered this little treasure.
:D

The packaging the tree kits came in, looked totally horrendous when I collected them.

I did what I do best, that is; to repackaged it to make it look chio - with the artistic help of Claudia and of course our friendly Daiso!
Spent a looooooong time in Daiso shopping for the appropriate items needed for the festive visual directions.

Red and white + white aurora fillings! Turns out that it looked damn chio!
(Not a secret that it's my favourite color combination as well. Woo hoo)
Since we did a good job out of the kits, must not resist the chance to show off.

The aurora ribbons we chose are damn difficult to tie!
Luckily the pro-ribbon master is around to assist with the important boxes.
Her teeth would drop from too much laughing, if she's seen the ones I've tied myself.
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Tree pictures finally!
This is how the tree looked when assembled.

Tree after I had a go at its branches..

Tried the star and bauble decorations on (I added the aurora strips for a special touch!)

Decided to grow the tree without the decorations first (coz I got wind that the tree deco would be hidden away which turns out to be a bad idea....)
Here, we can see the "magic water" seeping up the paper branch, slowly but surely.

Awhile later (dont ask me how long - for I busied myself with tiny towers and the usual online trivials) and we have this!

Cute little crystal forming on the branches!

A little longer later...... More crystals!

End product!

The crystals are really fragile, every time I touched it alittle, little clumps would drop. :(

No baubles for my christmas trees but for the Star.

Wehhhh...

The Tree kit also came with magic sprinkles (glitter), but I decided to give it a miss...

seeing that my tree isn't chio anymore.

I believed everything was completed within 6 hours?
Mommy says my tree looked like Broccoli and I told her the magic sprinkles looked like a sachet of seasoning to be added into instant noodles.
Lol.

Shall leave the presents for another post. :)
Ho hoho!

Daphne over the years..

2011-12-20T04:12:00.003+08:00

Been busy organising my hard drive, and the picture folders in it.
I found countless pictures of myself in the past decade, and I'm so pleased to report that every year came a different look.

It's like you can't even point a finger and say that I look boring.
Hahah.

But because I change my mind so often, I guess it annoys people that they can't seem to grasp my style either - Being adverse to changes, it gives people an uncertainty - as routine and habits seems to provide humans with a false sense of security (of what?! that's beyond me)

You know, we are all creatures of habit.
Change one ingredient, and you'll have a whole nation revolting in disgust or something like that.

One of my ex boss was like that.
It's as if I'll induce a heart attack when I walk into his office in a pair of bright red wedges.

Dear Mr H, I nearly went into depression trying to dress professionally in black, navy and black... We need a compromise somewhere.... because before I joined you, life in CRC allowed me to wear practically anything.

Sure Mr D would gawk and ask me if i'm in the right mind when I push the dress code to its limits..but as of my memory served me, it didnt come up to anywhere near 5 incredulous faces.

Lol.

I had twinkly hair just like my little pony, wore high waist shorts, purple and red dress ensembles with matching red necklace and heels to boot, and I survived.
*pats self on the back*

I do not think I would ever live to look the same year after year.
My kids would probably look at my picture album - look at me in the eye and say "mommy, why do all your picture look the same year after year?"
"and if you look the same, why do you keep taking pictures? see one is same as seeing all ma.... only that you look older"
pffft!

I think i'll kill myself if that ever happens.
I can never understand how people can find contentment in looking the same year after year, day after day.
Wouldn't you be tired eating the same food every day?

That would be like telling me that I have to be vegetarian for life, or that I have to wear black everyday like Morticia Adams or perhaps the equivalent to others that the wealth they have accumulated in their lifetime, is no longer in use. Moving back to using rocks and stones and bartering as a means of trade.
Blasphemy I guess.
Lol.

So a blast back to the past as I marvel at the change in hairstyle and my makeup style...
in no specific time order...

Poof fringe.
Dark hair
I believe I was achieving the classy look without compromising my design student edge by mixing the fuchsia color into my outfit.
Oh and, no mascara, not going out era. Lol.

My hair after the hairshow for L'oreal's competition - my hairstylist made it to the Top 10

One of those days after a haircut at the defunct Blitz Salon and still in my ASOS feather earring craze

Growing out my L'oreal haircut (had to have the same cut twice - once for photoshoot and once was the real thing) and still pulling off the asymmetric look, and I like pining up one side of my hair still..
Gotta love those crazy set square worthy angles that I call eyebrows.
I guess over tweezing was the fashion then..just like korean bushy eyebrow was a couple of years back.

The classic bob which I still love - think I'll go back to this again, once I'm sick of my long hair, minus the grey lens.

This is when I learn that Stubby stud earrings is not flattering to round and fat faces.
Lol. Putting a circle on an already circular face is what we call... drawing attention to unnecessary chubs! (chubbiness) *sigh*
Genius right?

Tonged the bob hair for a dinner party.
Going for the sassy look here..

then came the one sided bob.

Took me a week to decide that I really like this asymmetric bob.

You can see that the hair on the left side was really short! It's like ear length!

My sun kissed look.

Minimal eyeshadow, and just tons of blusher.

At that point, I was using up my blusher every 3 months!

I still like this look alot!

Up close,
Really quite nice what!

Went for a hair perm - compliments from the defunct Blitz salon, and styling my hair EVERYDAY is quite a chore...

I also liked how I edited the picture to be semi actual color, and semi sepia-ish.

Nice right?

I then evolved to my "grunge princess" look, with the trucker caps, and dark rimmed eyes..

went on to get myself hair extentions to complete the grunge princess look.

How to look princess, if your hair is short right?!

Lol

Got sick of the hair extentions in like 2 months and chopped the remaining permed bits away.
I decided to be a boy.
That was before Agyness Deyn, the model became hot with her androgynous get up.
Rwar!

This was the picture post photoshopping -color accenting, inspired by Canon's new camera feature that I haven't gotten around to buying yet.
Haha.

Hair grew from my andro cut, and I was still very much in the Rock and edgy girl phase..

So black... so manly, but yet managed to soften the look by girlifying with my girly Miss Sixty chain dangle leather belt and used lace on the wrist, instead of leather cuffs.

Tough balance to achieve alright!

Uhhh I found this random picture of sister and I.
can't remember if the hair do was tonged of styled post perm...
I call it my Farah Fawcett inspired Flyaway hair!
According to the picture we did some Heineken event I think..
okay, I believe it was a casting we went for.

Uhhh this was when I was highly dependent on fake lashes - and latched onto them everywhere I go. No lash = no chio era.
Stupid huh..

At this point in time, I believe Im almost done with my grunge, rock princess and angsty look.
Reverted back to classic and decided that I wanted mermaid length long hair...

I like that classic Look - Audrey Hepburn inspired with pearl necklace to boot!

The next picture to follow, would be my take on the smoky eye look.
There's a million color combination to achieve smoky eyes, and a million ways to achieve the look.
I'm not saying that I'm right, but I personally BELIEVE that Smoky eye has to be well blended.

Harshly applied smoky eyes makes one look "fierce", cause overall appearance to look flat and unFLATtering (lol the unintended pun) , creates an unapproachable look (then what's the point in putting on make up uh?) and a big tell tale sign of inadequate make up skills - for all your mistakes are so obvious for people to spot.

Blended smoky eyes on the other hand gives the smothering sexy look, without looking as if you've tried too hard, and definitely more feminine, therefore attractive.

what Im lacking is some lip gloss before I took the picture.
Oh well.. Next time..
But love those eyelashes!

Went on to be Korean inspired with the thick eyebrows, minimal make up and dark hair color.

So plain, so boring.

and currently still in my armpit worthy long hair, and eventually moved on to a Gyaru / Ulzzang inspired styling - altering my eye make up and completing the look with cutesy hair accessories.

I know right, there are days when I look like I have issues with being my real age.

Okay I alternate between looking cute,

looking like a hippie, and a grown up when required.

Can't always pretend to be underage right.

There are days where actually HAVE to act my age, and so... no choice loh dress my age.

Lol

Scanning through the post.
I can only conclude that my baby fats on the cheeks is finally gone!
Hamburger face no more!
Hohoho!

It's really tough to catch which mood I'll be in, on a dressing up basis...
so leave me alone.
It's not for anyone (friends or foe) to tell me what is nice and what's not - That's for me to decide only.
I didn't ask for any critique, so no point asking me "what's with the bunny ears".

Just because you CHOOSE to blend in with your surroundings to look like everybody else,
or that you DO NOT have what it takes to look or dress good or even FEEL good about yourself - does not mean that I have to stoop down - just to make you feel "better" about yourself being atypical.
I'm just being true to myself, my whims, my fancy.
I'm not running an esteem charity here.

Besides, My friends love me for me, not for the way I look, or the weird stares they get being seen with me.
Because they understand me for me.

To be diplomatically right, I'll just share my conversations with mommy, it's like I know my mommy dislikes it whenever I wear my "rabbit eared" hairband totally dramatically.
She's fine if I wear it like a sweet little doe-ed eye girl, but no. I'm not a sweetie, mommy.

Telling me that it is too attention grabbing or that it's not nice, is not going to alter my decision.

No matter how many times you tell me otherwise, I'll still wear it in whichever color, until I finally get bored of it.

Well I'm stubborn like that, and there are also life lessons that I grew up with.
Compromising is something that I would not agree to most of the time - because it involves making EVERYONE happy, but yourself.
Lol - generation gap here, and a post worthy of an entry by itself.

I have never considered myself to be a pretty girl, but looking asthetically pleasing and knowing what "works" and what doesn't is a gift and talent (that I believe), that is bestowed to me. (well, gotta be fair and account for all the maths and accounts that I've failed in school right?!)

I like my bunny ears, and I'd never wear Tee Shirts in public.
I'll never look drabby or shabby, (you can wish your entire life time away that I would) and along with whatever stupid comments you can think of with regards to the way I am aesthetically.

Just leave me alone, and save unnecessary comments to yourself.
I'll ask, when I think I need it.
In the meantime, my eyes and multiple full length mirrors at home, serve me just fine.

Aiyo, I sound so bitchy, but kThxBye!

Progression

2011-12-16T01:25:00.000+08:00

Progression in life.

When you were a kid... $1 was like big deal, for it could get you icecream at the provision shop.

When you start Primary school, a dollar would be like a daily meal allowance.

Landing with a $10 bill is like hitting jackpot back then.

Progressing on to Secondary school, an allowance of $10 - one can barely make ends meet.

$100 seems more apt -but it's something to lust for (at least it was for me)

The allowance progression just kept increasing as I moved along to Polytechnic, then SIM, and subsequently, $100 meant 4 hours worth of work for me back when I was studying.

As we move on in life, we require larger amount of money to satisfy our needs and wants and to sustain lifestyles..

My point in jotting this down is ..

We as human have no choice but to move progressively.

Perhaps someone might tell me that nothing seems to be good enough for me - is that really so?

The way I see it, It is pointless to move sideways - for you end up doing different things for the same effort, which might be exciting and add variety to life for a moment or two.

But yet at the end of the day - you achieve a myraid of experience side ways but never quite fulfill your destiny of getting to the top as planned.

Which some might call it as a waste of time.

But at the end of the day, reality wins.

Call it greedy, call it demanding, for we all have no choice but to move on, climb on to seek greener pastures, for this is what life is all about.

Most call it the Survival of the fittest.

We can only stop and help as much as we can.

But when its between your life or mine, it will have to be mine.

I'm not mother teresa - i'm not ghandhi. Sacrificing my life for the good of mankind - doesn't quite cut it out for me.

I can only try to, but I have my limits.

Time and effort was spent trying - and still there wasn't any progression

So it's either my way, or nothing at all.

I'm sorry.

but it's time to abandon the ship.

especially when the ship doesn't want to save itself.

I'm ill

2011-12-15T05:15:00.001+08:00

Not sure if this is going to be full blown.
But i'm officially sick.

Sorethroat, clammy hands and feverish all at the same time (never confirmed the temperature bit)
Spent the whole day in bed, waking up to reply text, and ignoring a big chunk of it the entire day, while breathing out hot air out like a dragon the entire day.
It's evolved to raspy phlegmy throat with itchy throat that requires coughing to solve the itch.

I hate how everything has its ups and down.
One minute you'll be damn happy over a slice of banana chocolate cake, and next moment, you suffer from sore throat from the chocolate.

Same with eating up crackers.
Why cant ANYTHING remain up and remain there forever.
Like let me finish the entire cake without making me sick,
or eating too much sweets and ending up with a tummyache
Stay up late all night, without feeling like shit the next day.
Have awesome skin without zits FOREVER..

It's like sitting on the airplane. I like it up in the air (if it's with in flight entertainment)
I hate being grounded in the plane waiting and waiting.

Same for holidays.
You go away anticipating and happy, and come back home sad about having to resume the boring life.

One minute i'm rejoycing over the new phone, next thing i'm too sick to bother about the phone.

The list goes on rather extensively....

Shall end this post in more positive times!
My Heart shaped icecream in Raspberry cheesecake flavour which tasted alot like the Ripple flavour.
Yay! I haz pretty icecream to noms the other afternoon.

While i'm now sick, pimply and feeling yucky.

KThxBye

Abercrombie and Fitch in Singapore

2011-12-14T00:59:00.003+08:00

Abercrombie and Fitch decides to set up shop in Singapore.
No big deal huh (so I thought to myself - when the news came to me).

BUT seems to me that it IS BIG DEAL!
How often do you see like 30ish good looking dudes standing in a row, shirtless and smiling at you?!
Wahhhh

When I saw this picture...

I was instantly inspired to have like 5 shirtless butler / greeters at my front door when I'm uber rich in future.
They'll entertain me when I'm bored just by smiling
Yay!

I couldnt resist the hype, and went down for a look see, and subsequently decided to be brave enough to ask for a picture.
Was damn shy about it - coz I never fancied queuing up for anything mass market like.
Nope - not during the hello kitty
Nope - not the doughnut factory thingie either
Nope to the insane bubble tea
Nope to the iphones too
But the first time I do something vaguely Singaporean - it has to be with shirtless guys.
Wehhhh~
So loserish / kiasu/ no life.

This is where I end...
Kiap-ed between 2 shirtless greeters, happy like a bird.
They're damn tall! I was already in my ribbon platforms (one of my taller footwear), and they're still taller than me in just slippers.
How can?!

When I walked past, I hesitated about taking picture with blondies... - not my preference.. (not being racist, Im just stating my preference here!)
Then change my mind when I walked on and saw brunette/asian models.
Realistically speaking, I prefer dark colored hair guys.
There were tons of good looking dudes, but I chose what I was comfortable with/ without having to queue or snatch with the fanatic girls.

X suggested that I go around taking picture with all 30ish of them...

But seriously, i'm not THAT desperate leh...

Just doing this for the kicks of it only!

Yay!
Shirtless boys FTW

Hello iphone

2011-12-14T00:32:00.001+08:00

So the deed is done.
I've jumped over to the mass wagon - and succumbed to the little white iphone 4s.
Officially semi retiring the snowberry - which has served me decently well for the past...2 years (almost)

I truly miss how organized the Blackberry is when it comes to emails, text, and other messages.
Especially the joys of Blackberry messenger - which has never failed me since the start.

I miss the clickity clackity of texting with buttons VERY MUCH!
What I do not miss though, would be the Blackberry's sucky camera, as there is little joy in snapping shitty/blurry/hazy looking pictures - using the Blackberry.

Next would be the Applications available.
There is so little memory space available for me to explore apps, and most of the apps available are hardly exciting at all.
Aiyo...

The iphone on the other hand, has a really messy email sorting system.
has already caused me to download like a million apps, make me feel very consumer hoodwinked - very much like a groupie.
The efficient itune has already sent me my invoice/bills.

I spend most of my spare time playing bejewel both the normal one and the blitz one - and I guess that is one of the biggest reason why I'm like sickish at the moment.
NOT ENOUGH SLEEP!

With the Awesome camera - and countless photo apps I might just load up more pictures, now that it's waaaay handier to rely on the phone camera to snap moments..
That aside, typing and texting sucks!

It is terrible!

Disastrous!

The snowberry's keyboard was dying (due to age and some abuse) - so it created the impression that I'm text stuttering

- like hi, wouuld you lliike to mmeet me ttmr for dinner?

iphone on the other hand is just sends out embarrassing text!

Ok became Moo
Wat became Eat
Santarina became Sanitarian.
Babe became bane

It's as if i've lost my mind completely.
Ok, what time would you like to meet, miss Santarina babe (randomly constructed sentences just to prove a point here)

became Moo eat sanitarian bane.
WTF!

You get the idea...

So Constant checking of spelling before hitting the enter key. So tiring to be constantly fighting between typing accuracy and autobcorrect.
Aiyooh!

iphone's ringtone - and rigid thingie about ringtone is terrible.
I hate the preset ones given.
GImme me my spanky music set as ringtone... why do you make it so difficult for me?!

Adaptability wise is little issues for me.
The iphone technically functions on the same operating system as the Macbook - so locating everything essential on the phone is just child's play
- just needed to figure out the shortcut keys to seal the iphone experience . :)

This pretty sums up my little dilema of my 2 tech toys.
I guess if the 2 fruity phones would team up together and give me a berryple - it'd be a dream come true!

For now - I can only dream, and was just a breath away from getting dual SIM - just so that I could use the iphone and Blackberry with the same number.
Rwar!

But why would I want to carry 3 phones around right?
As if the bag is not heavy enough with my junk.

Ok..gonna download ringtone apps - before the preset one drive me nuts

Cheers!

mono-tone

2011-12-11T06:17:00.000+08:00

im sick of life at the moment.

#upset that everthing's mono colored at the moment.
Its depressing.
I need to colour up my life again.

sleeping beauty(fully)

2011-12-10T02:09:00.000+08:00

I crashed into bed post dinner.
Yes,
With full make up on the face,
lights on, and my outside clothes.

Mom walked in and attempted a conversation with me while I'm asleep
(gotta love how persistent my mommy is, even though she clearly knows that i'm sleeping right)
I struggled to mumble nod Mostly....
and our mother/sleep daughter conversations goes..

Mommy:Will you be having lunch tomorrow?
Me: Mumbly yes
Mommy: Why are you asleep with the room lights on?
Me: *ignores*
You've still got your make up on leh!
Me: *nods*
Mommy: so are you having lunch tomorrow or not?
Me: zzzz

What seems like a really long one-sided staring incident from the mom..
The mother gives up and it was silence...
*lights out*

a couple of hours later, I woke up from my short nap and answered all her questions.

Yes mommy, I can lunch in tomorrow if you want me to, or I can just sleep off without lunch as usual.
and I left my make up, so I could be Sleeping Beauty!
and the lights have to be on, so that you'd be able to admire my beauty.

There we go.

the woman gave me her -_- face and went to sleep as I post this.
Maybe its my turn to try some questions on her now.
Hohohoho.

Christmas nails

2011-12-07T00:27:00.002+08:00

Candy Cane Inspired nails with Ponsietta flower on the thumbs to boot.
100% hand painted with the brushes that comes with the polish and the help of a toothpick.
Yaaaa, artwork is not THAT fantastic, but it has to be simple enough to be excuted by the left hand, sooo i'm a happy girl.

I also dug out a few pictures of older designers I did at the start of the year...
Lace rimmed inspired ~ I was into the natural and nude look with Korean bushy eyebrows, boring dark hair to boot at that point...

Which later evolved to using alot of blings during the festive seasons...
CNY? Christmas? I'm not sure, really..
It was bling bling in 20,000 color combinations, and marching crystals.. Lol.
The dotted rimmed design just meant it was consecutively painted out during the same period of time (in my head).

Nail craze aside..
It's always been a dream to own a quaint little nail bar of my own, just to fix up my nails, over a cup of hot steamed milk or tea.
Bubble tea will do fine as well.
Lol
Business and cents wise, there are many business that I'll like to own.
it does not make sense to set up any of my own at the moment.

The closest in mind would be Forest and Trees located at The Cathay Cineplex.
Their dooe is so cute..

Next time then say..

Xoxo

Goodbye Haatei.

2011-12-05T05:00:00.001+08:00

Less than a week ago, I wrote an entry about Haatei the Shiba Inu that I picked up last Sunday.
Haatei has since been reunited with his owners, and his real name is Genji.
Now that we've found his owners, and have gotten real facts to all the assumptions that I've made... I realized that my guesses as been pretty spot on!

I told mom that his owner should be closer to mommy's age, as Haatei seems to be closer to mommy- like following her around seems to be his top priority.

We also guessed that Haatei lives in a landed property - because he's extremely garden trained when it comes to toilet time. That's quite a no brainer.
He never once pee-ed/poo-ed in the house.

The sis "lol-ed" and said that giving him a japanese name part has been spot on as well, since his real name is Japanese inspired.

I also declared to mommy and the brother that his owners cant possibly be english speaking people - for the bugger does not seem to understand English commands much.
I was being mean at that time, but I said his owners could be Indians or foreigners , and true enough his real owners are Taiwanese.
We never guessed about the chinese bit tho, see-ing that most Chinese in Singapore is able to communicate in English language equally fluently.

Rwar! I'm kinda good huh!
Need to sign up with the SPCA to be a dog reuniter detective or something!

Detective work aside,
I cried like mad when I knew I had to return him back to his owners.
:(
But that's just me being a soppy baby as usual.

I am like super sad about being dogless now.
He was such an obedient sweetie (aside for his crazy obstinate urge to mark a every tree and lamp post)

I miss how he'll rest his head on the crook of my elbow area whenever he sees me eating something, and he'll sniff hard - which is his attempt to tell me to share my food with him.
Nope he never gets any from me, but neither does he snatch or even try to lick/eat my food even if it's within his reach.

How many dogs have you met in your life time, that is able to exercise such good self restraint?
--
I was stoning with the dog in the afternoon (post walk and feeding time) as usual, when I received a call from the SPCA and subsequently from his owners.
Within like 30 minutes, his owners came to get him.
I was happy that the doggles was going to be reunited with his owners, but sad at the thought that he'll no longer be around.

Okay, I burst into tears and did what I could do inbetween, like packed up all the food and toys that I've bought for him in a span of 5 days.
Took abit of pictures of him (he was kinda non cooperative when it came to the picture taking part, and I looked like crap anyway)
Said my goodbyes to him and hugged him alot (which he hates).
Burst into tears alot more
and looked really crappy when I met his real owners.

So here we go, my last tear-ry picture of Haatei, wondering what the heck is wrong with me.

Goodbye my dear Haatei the itchy doggles.

I'll miss you for a real long time.

*also resisting the urge not to run over to his place to visit him (even tho his owners said I could)

xoxo

Ps: the fam misses him much as well.
The bro came home that afternoon, and after a substantial amount of time of hunting for the dog in his possible chillout spots, he came out to ask where Haatei was.
The mom too.
and the sister was sad that we no longer have a dog.
:'(

I'm flabby again.. :(

2011-12-02T05:36:00.000+08:00

Lying in bed, thinking about random stuff before I sleep ( yeah, I need to do that, if not I cant fall asleep) and I got reminded about something annoying trivial.
Seems like i've got alot to ramble about lately. oops.

Here goes:
If you're not gonna take my advise, then don't ask me about it.
And the best part about it, that makes me want to laugh...
It's been years! If it had worked over the years, you wouldnt need to debate about it with me now. #JustSaying.

I'm sorry but I kinda really know what I'm talking about.

Next.
I need to start on my static exercises again.
Took me a long whatsapp conversation to realize that I'm terribly unfit!
Panted like a dog when I swam the other day, and I've kinda forgot my "I shall swim/pilates once a week" discipline for almost the entire year! OMG!

I hate it when people rave about cardio workout.
Yes it burns..but I've kinda got nothing to burn...
so it's just toning to do.

There's a vast difference between losing just weight and looking like a rectangular block, and compared to losing weight + looking toned/defined.

Besides too much cardio will develop stocky muscles, coz people forget to tone and stretch, then develops a clump of muscles, and therefore look like rectangular block/ muscle mary.
#imho that is.

Hello! There's a reason why Eva longoria in desperate housewife is always seen doing yoga right? #justSayingAgain.

Perhaps I should just go back to dancing. That would fix the cardio and toning part, also be considered a good workout huh.

Ok goodnight.
Hopefully I'll find the inspiration to bring my purple gym mat out for a short airing, when I wake up later.

Haatei

2011-12-01T01:06:00.003+08:00

So word has it that there's a new dog on the block!
:D

Yup! It's semi true!

Was out having a late dinner last sunday, and I brought home a Shiba Inu.
To respect the dog's privacy, I shall not ramble too much about how I found him, coz we're still pending some unsettled stuff.

So having given some thoughts and with the help of X..... he came up with some names/words/inspiring idea for me that he thought I may like.

We finally settled the Japanese Word Ha-te-shi (translated to be fate), and after a bout of name and word play on my end....
Haatei was derived!

There's a double pun of word play Haatei sounds pretty close to the word "heart"
Heart-tey!

Anyway people, Meet Haatei!

He's red, and resembles the famous Hachiko alot.
He reminds me of a Fox whenever I steal glances at him!
Haatei has been quite a sweetie so far and is extremely obedient.

He seems to be house trained, and is a pleasure to take care of.

He was stoning in the dining area, when I snapped this picture of him.
Look at how he smiles and pose for the camera!
So happy and so handsome!
He knew I was taking picture, and smiled for this shot.

Now that the doggie's more or less settled into the house routine at my place,
he seems to be sleeping ALOT!

Apart from sleeping, he spends his remaining time trailing behind me/mom/bro (whoever who's home).
WHEN all of us are home, Haatei shuffles back and forth between the bro, mom and I to check on us/camp out with us in our respective rooms.

Writing this entry, I attempted to photobooth with Haatei, and HE yawned and IGNORED ME.
Trotted off to sleep at my door instead.
Sad!

Our only decent photo for tonight.

Our photoboothing attempts was interrupted - I had to answer a phonecall, and the sleepy mister trotted away..
No love from the doggles :(

That's all.

Ps: Was chatting with an old friend about Haatei, and somehow her passing comment about my family's love of sheltering animals etc that I got reminded about how darn lucky I am, to have a mommy who, despite her phobia of animals - has never stopped me from bringing home strays ever since I could remember.

Be it the injured bird that I found in the garden, or the stray kittylet, or even the 20 hamsters that I once housed at the same time because my schoolmate's hamsters were replicating and humping like hamsters literally (lol) - and her mom threatened to release them in the garden.

I couldnt bear with the thought that they'll be exposed to the food chain, and took them all home with me in shoe boxes.

There wasn't enough cages to go round, and mommy gave me her basins, planter pots, pails to house them - until I could relocate them. Lol.

Actually she insisted that I relocate them, so she could have her pails and basins back for the maid to resume housework.

There's also the old pair of rabbits, and the current bunny at home that the sister brought home, and now we have Haatei the doggle.

I'm thankful for my mom, the dog and the big guys upstairs for making everything happen, minus the itchy scratching from the dog.

I have this uber urge to shave the handsome doggle into botak doggle to try and solve his skin problems.

Just Rambling.

2011-12-01T00:27:00.000+08:00

Spent the entire night fixing up my tweed textured nails.

It's winter!

Brilliant idea took me about 2 hours to accomplish.

First the tweed lines was too thick, then it was too thin...

then the tweed weave was in a weird sequence

or that I used too much purple and my tweed texture ended up looking goth and dirty.

Finally when everything because acceptable, my artwork bled from the layer of Megashine applied.

Wehhh

Grossed out, but it look fine from afar.

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Spent the day tracking my juicy couture girls in town.

Seriously gave up tracking them... I'll just rely on the pictures given by client's pro photographer la.

#wastetime

Town on the other hand, is getting too crowded for my fancy.

With the christmas lights up and all, everyone's crowding up to take pictures dunno for what somemore.

Most people know how cranky I can be when I'm stuck in a place with too many people.

I detest crowded congested areas, not sure why it irks me so bad.

irdk.

Heading home from town is a love hate situation.

It is too ridiculous to cab home - coz of the jam, and home averages about 8 bus stops away from town.

However, bussing home on weekend = tons of maids congregating and invading my bus route home.

I've got nothing against them, but seriously they annoy me in possibly more than just one way.

It's like they have NO SENSE of personal space...

They like jabbing at my back repeatedly when stuck in a crowded area - it's like hello quit jabbing my back before I turn nasty.

You know why they jab me?

Because they are too busy talking to their counterparts to see where they're walking into.

So everytime I am forced to stop (crowded areas), they bang into my back.

On a bus when I'm seated and they're standing.

Their bags can be situated about 2cm away from my face, and I call that an invasion of privacy.

Your bag is THIS close to my face and you dont know how to shift it?

Why again? Because they are too busy talking to their counterparts to bother.

They also like obstructing the passage way in the bus - preventing passengers from boarding the bus and you gotta give it to them that NOTHING - I really mean nothing will daunt them from their conversations

They can talk loudly across the bus from both ends.

One end of the market to the other end.

Scream from 5 levels away...

Stair case to kitchen windows.

AMAZING Beings.

*I grew up with foreign helpers at home since young, and I treat the ones at home like family, for they're really nice people, dote on me (and I generally have nothing against them.)

You know, off day and comes home with treats, food, presents for me.

And mom reciprocates too. Like buy stuff, pass a ton of toys and clothes for them to send back home etc,

But when 2 or more of them come together...they can talk through earthquakes and floods and still be oblivious to the world.

TRUST ME.

That's the only part that I really dont like.

I guess no one's perfect, but I just really need to get it out of my system

Black Friday

2011-11-25T03:25:00.002+08:00

Keep seeing Black Friday stuff pop up in my timeline.
It's quite dumb, coz in Singapore, nobody really practice the tradition of Thanksgiving, and the idea of introducing BLACK FRIDAY in Singapore (it's really kinda lost) because the culture is only happening in the USA, and it's somewhat a backlash event, What has it gotta do with Singapore?!

Next - the sale items most online shops have, are merely attempting to do clearance.
All looks boring.
50% off also uninspired to buy.

In other news, I met Valda for dinner at Itacho...and had desserts at Shodoku..
On my way home, I was busy texting and I missed my stop!
Ended up walking 3 bus stops to get home.
I decided that my food was fully digested at bustop #2.

I reached home, took off my shoes and warmed up a can of Chicken Alphabets.
I even threw in an egg for good measure, but Alas! The egg yolk broke.
When hungry, one can't be picky.
I slurped it all up anyway!

Laid in bed to catch up on Tweets and FB and in less than an hour,
I'm now eating my kokocrunch immersed in a bowlful of milk.
Nope not the ricebowl size...it's the big soup bowl size okay.

I swear my stomach's like a blackhole.

The bestie's back from Indon tomorrow.
So glad that my appetite is in tip top condition for our nom-ing escapade tomorrow.

Sadly, *No one really stuff themselves silly with me anymore.
Everyone else seems to be on a diet of sorts for random reasons. :(
Even the bestie. I swear he starves himself in Indo, and gobbles up only when he's in Singapore.

*ok not exactly no one.
The family is still eating alot - but it hardly counts - as we hardly have time to eat together.
With Da #forever busy, and daddy #foreverinchina..
That's just mom, the brother and me.

Dislike.

The way life is..

2011-11-20T15:09:00.002+08:00

Way of life #1

Just crawled out of bed to make payments to the girls.
This is their favourite part of their job, and for me - the part that makes me smile most; for it gives me satisfaction to visualize their faces + the smile that lights up their pretty face(s) whenever they receive my text to them that their PAY IS IN.

lol
that's when I get the most love for the day - Yeah, wise men says money can't buy you love, but that's really besides the point.
Tsk.

Way of life #2
I cant run very far away from Adobe Photoshop.
There's self narcism to fulfill
Then there was the pursuit of aesthetic pleasing pictures
Next there was Bowtique
and now there's composite cards.

I love Photoshop lots! Even if the commercial aspect of it usually requires no brainer edits, and the lack of creativity outputs

Way of life #3
As I get older, I get lazier - and I eventually stop posting pictures of myself

Way of life #4
Everytime I tell myself that I will post up pictures of my daily outfits, I'd realize that I am the one who gets bored of my own ideas faster than anything else - then ditch the project.
Same goes for my nails diaries - The intention was to take pictures of my nail designs for the whole of this year - but I guess the idea became meh to me.

Whaa :(
Its seriously bad news when I get bored of myself this easily.

Way of life #5
Online shopping is ♥
But I get really annoyed at inefficient online shops.
Like the recent cardigan + furry bag + underwear that I bought from a local site
They oversell/over promise themselves, and under perform max.

Totally disgusting!
I've got stuff pending on their end, thou shall only badmouth - when I RECEIVE all my items.

Gotta run!
Gotta leave home in 10mins, and i'm still in my jammies + stinky morning breath.
LOL

Good morning!

2011-11-19T04:52:00.003+08:00

Just finished fixing my nails and thinking about food at 5am in the morning...
I figure I should just sleep that hunger off, coz rummaging for food = paint job gone down the drain, so just blog while the paint job dries...

Fixing my nails is probably another person's version of jogging, or pilates or yoga or whatever hobby you have in mind.
It helps me to take my mind off things, and so it's been a pet peeve since like I set foot into Poly. Every week new color and design + since I'm like 85% ambidextrous..
it's a gift that I should not put to waste.
Hahahaha.

Took me a loooong time to decide on color, and finally settled for the glittery olive.
Then spent the next 30mins persuading myself to keep the nail simple with just a single tone...but I couldn't bring my self to do so, and hence the tiniest, skinniest gold glitter french tip just to look like a margarita rimmed glass
(Deep down, no one really gives a shit about my nails but as long as keeps me happy, everyone's happy.)

Spent almost the entire day sleeping and kinda forget all about food until I left home for work.
Met Claudia for dinner, and as I start eating.....
in her exasperated tone: "you either dont eat the entire day, or end up eating all your meals in one sitting."
It sounded rather funny to me ~ the way the facts was presented, and my mom agrees!

Well, there IS some truth to that!

Dinner consist of:

Seafood Phad Thai and Green Curry with rice at Mart Boulevard (they serve pretty awesome Thai food at affordable price. Our Bill came up to $16-ish in total?) - as usual, she ate whatever she could, and I finished up the remaining portion like a starving african kid.

I guess i'm never quite done with the puberty eating. #Lol

Post dinner, we settled for NYDCs at Hor-land vee-lage, and again the lady ate half portion of her brownies, and I ate up double portions. :)

She had NYDC's brownie with icecream..
I had my favourite Goldmine cheese cake and an additional scoop of macadamia icecream. Yums!
I swear we're totally Yin yang when it comes to dessert.
I'll eat up everything fatty, creamy, sinful but non chocolately, and Claud totally digs the chocolate-ty stuff.

Super love the way she works the camera with her 20,000 expressions.
My personaly favourite - hungry face!
The waiter kept serving her my desserts - coz of her hungry expressions :D

Her "all mine!" shot

and lastly the "I haz dessert" shot (we secretly call it something else)

Makes me happy to see these pictures, so I should post it here to share, and read through when I'm bored. Bet it'll cheer me up.
And make me hungrier.

As for me, I'm quite pathetic.
Only capable of smile and dont smile - epic fail. :(

Helpless

2011-11-12T02:10:00.003+08:00

Heading home, I listened to her story.
I understood her distress, and as much as I wanted to comfort her, I was pretty much stuck in the same situation with nothing to offer, for I am none wiser.

Everything she said sounded like the exact words that I've said repeatedly/

I feel her angst.
I feel her sorrow.
I know her dejection and disappointment.
I understand her inner struggles within.

We sat on the short journey, I was mostly quiet and helpless.

Helpess because I do not know how to comfort her, and neither do I have any advise to offer.
For I too, am stuck in the same obstacles as she is facing.

Only longer.

I questioned why do we have to go through this again and again?
Dont we deserve better?

Deep down I am thankful that despite the pathetic day I endured on 11.11.11 - I know for sure that I am being taken care of.
All the cock ups combined today could have possibly been worst, if it was not for the help that UPSTRs gave me.

In fact, now that I've got time to space out and filter out today's event...
the 2 most precious words that I often mutter to people around me came back to me through the mouth of a customer.

He said to me:

:)

Faith is like a warm cup of milk on a chilly rainy day, and I made it through anyway.
Keep smiling.
At least I usually try to.

My one true love... person of leisure

2011-11-07T04:40:00.001+08:00

For the past few months, boring Sundays like today, are rare to come by!

I woke up without the alarm or beeping from whatsapp or text messages asking me about deployments, emergencies to attend to and so on... So happy!

Spent another 2 hours bumming around, taking my own slow slow sweet time dress up...and even had time to masque my eyes - Im totally loving those gel pads that X replenished for me while he was in Korea...

stoned around more, played SIMs Social

repack my undies drawer according to their color, before heading out.

Headed out to hunt for stuff, had Koi caramel milk tea (even tho my new obsession would be Ah Gan's Taro milk tea...), bought my sparkling crackly candy pops + those coke jellies we used to have from the Bugis gift store before heading off for some hot Ramen for dinner, shopped abit at somerset...

My happy loots taken in the car..

I bought more than just that.

Took them out for illustration purposes..

and I'm wearing my new lace rimmed whitewash denim shorts!

Woo hoo..

They look alot like diaper in this picture...but whatever la!

I'm happy with my new loots! (Yah... I know i'm such a kid still)

Came home early, got bored and junked on tibits mommy just bought. (she just came back from malaysia like hours ago..)

Junking on food like nonstop.

I bought new stuff online #guilty, played more SIMS Social... stoned again

Gossip on BBM and Whatsapp..

Blogged!

THAT WAS HOW I USED TO LIVE MY LIFE.

Oh I somewhat missed that bumming life, not that life now isn't good.

We're all entitled to reminisce, aren't we?

*on hindsight, I could have used all that spare time to do some work for bowtique right?

Poor Bowtique has been neglected for the longest time! Argghh.

I feel so bad now.

My special Aunty!

2011-11-07T01:26:00.002+08:00

Received pictures from the Sister's camera taken during Kenny's wedding.
Of all the pictures, I think im happiest to see pictures of Aunty and me!

She's probably the only person in the world who'll love me unconditionally even when I am not blood related to her!

This special lady took care of me when mom and dad could not afford a maid back when I was a baby, and were bunking at Grandpa's place. :) She practically semi-raised me up from infant til age 2 year old, and super duper dotes on me. (actually her entire family does).

According to mommy, I'll spent monday to friday over at Aunty's and mommy would pop by every night after dinner/work to play and spend time with me.
I'll only be brought home for the weekends.

My daily routine over at aunty's goes alot like this (so they tell me)
Breakfast, lunch and dinner - she cooks really yummy stuff!
Play time and nap.
Evening - mobile ice-cream man with the umbrella + motorbike will sound his bell, and I'll head down with Aunty's husband for my daily icecream session, and also take a walk round the estate and sit on as many kiddie rides as I fancy (omg, writing this, I sound like a dog on my daily walk..)

The kiddy ride machines look somewhat like this and other variety to boot...

Mom reckons that looking after me was a loss/lose type of business for her, coz they had to invest so much money in daily icecream and countless kiddy rides.

She also claims that the #spoiltbrat part started from Aunty's place, coz whenever she brings me home for the weekend (just right across the street), the lift home had a couple of kiddy rides guarding the lift entrance as if they were chinese lion statues guarding the left and right of entrances.

It is impossible to avoid the kiddy ride, and I'll like refuse to budge until mom pays the "toll fee" for my ride before we could set foot into the lift landing.
I guess it was a *rolls eyes* and mutters "Again?!" + fhl encounter every week.
*laughs*
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Legend has it that when Mommy and Daddy finally could afford to get a place of their own + the maid, Aunty cried alot while she was packing my stuff up. :(((

I guess it was because I was the first kiddo she took care of, and so we both are somewhat emotionally attached to each other...

Good thing was, Gramp's house is just a street away right?
I still get to visit her weekly whenever we head over to grandpa's place for dinner and stuff.
That's like how I know she cooks really yummy stuff.

I even had my own set of kids cutlery reserved and kept in the cupboard - mini chopsticks (I could chopstick my food at age 2plus/3 years old ok!), fork, spoon, my own kiddo plate, cups, toys and even stayed over a couple of time.

Every festive season = special home made food.
Like tins and tins of homemade loveletter crackers for Chinese new year to bring home.
and a whole bundle of rice dumplings made from scratch during dumpling festival, and it was truly Aunty's influence that I really liked to eat the plain rice dumplings (no one at home really fancies it), and I get a whole bunch of it for myself *beams*
I'll dunk it with brown sugar, or home-made kaya that she makes for me
and the meaty dumpling ones was to be shared with the entire family.

Aunty's prawn fritters and pophiahs are also to die for. :)

With age catching up, Aunty rarely cooks up a storm in the kitchen now.
All the yummy food requires too much work. : /
Oh well.

Without fail, I'll visit Auntie every chinese new year, and she attends every birthday party that my parents planned for me, and even my 21st birthday!

its funny how she's like a grandma to me... nags at me whenever she see me.
Tells me annually how I'm too skinny, Have to eat more, why are my hands feel so clammy - am I unwell, when I took pictures with her at Kenny's wedding.
Says it's ok to rot at home, when I left my job last year - good to take a break.
Nags about when am I going to get married, that my future husband to be has to be a good guy - and that I'll have to bring him to her place for a look see for approval and stuff like that.

I wanted her to attend my convocation when I graduated. But SIM gave me limited seatings, so I made do and gave her a picture of me in my graduation gown.

I love her to bits.
Today writing this post, I'm thankful that she loves me as if i'm her own.
I really am blessed to be loved and doted.
Thank you X love

It's 2am..

2011-10-28T02:32:00.000+08:00

and all I can think of, is food.
My pastamania creamy chicken + soup + drinks + garlic bread and haagen daz waffle icecream for dinner is gone.

Weh...

Im thinking of Ikea's swedish meatball.
and Squid ink Pasta with Oxtail stew from a Pinch of Salt..
Steak from Astons ( I think its almost a year, since I last set food into Astons)
and pepper Lunch!
Gimme my beef!

Seriously considering ordering macs now to fill up my tummy.

Doesn't help that mommy mentioned that she just "spree-ed" Wee Lee brothers Otah with the office aunties, and will be bringing home a whole pile of otahs in like a couple of hours time!

Fish roe Otah! Super super yummy!
*seriously, this is the first time I hear about food spree - coz Da and I usually spree clothes, accessories, shoes etc. But food? That's like a whole new level!
I guess I'll understand when I turn into Aunty! Lol.

To Macs or not to macs...
The breakfast set, or the normal meal..
Tough decisions.

We'll be alright

2011-10-27T01:30:00.002+08:00

Let's be brave.

It's one of those nights...

2011-10-26T02:22:00.000+08:00

Yeah, its just one of those nights where I'm feeling dreadfully restless, and yet nothing I do seems to "quench" that restless feeling away.

Tried sleeping early, because I was sleepy, but there's this frustrated feeling within that does not want to sleep away.

Tired sewing an unfinished dress, and gave up before I even turned on the machine.

Wanted to paint my face, and am inspirationless.

Saw a chanel inspired nail picture, but just fixed my nails yesterday night.

What the hell, Daphne.
WTH!

It's one of those double irony...
Want to do something, but when I try... I end up not wanting to do it.

If I could equate my inner frustration with shitting, I'd say that i'm constipating at the moment.
Argghh.

It's like I need to punch off the excess frustration within.
I do believe this is commonly known as PMS-ing.

Rwar!

I must have done something right..

2011-10-24T01:25:00.001+08:00

I'm in one of my pensive moods tonight.
As I attempt to catch up with paperwork, and as usual am feeling hungry - and as I munch up my nonya rice dumpling that mom bought for my "breakfast".. I thought to myself that I must have done something damn right in my last life, to have deserved such a great mom. :D

For everything that she has done for me for the past 28 years, oh make that 29 - coz she puked her guts out for 9 entire months until she delivered me..

You know, like cleaning up after I've pooped as a baby - or all the countless sleep she's lost from a wailing baby - and all the trips to hospitals and doctors, just because I'm a problematic kiddo with 20,000 ailments to boot. - screaming at me when I've been naughty - financially supporting me when I'm broke - all the toys I made her buy whenever I fancy one - my eternal mess that trails after me, that she has to put up with (she's a perfectionist/neat Nazi) - all the food she's fed me, where her food investments in me never quite tally with the weighing scales. - the better portion of food she gives up like more meat in my bowl and she keeps the boney bits to herself - the fancy holidays - even the smell of my pets - my almost autistic personality that she has to endure- never ending laundry and aiyah to sum it up, all my nonsense.

Sure we have our screaming matches about how many earrings I should have (1 ear each, in her opinion), or hair color - original if she had her way back when I was a rebellious teenie, or whether I'm allowed to stay out later than midnight, or the never ending debate about "staying out of my affairs coz I know what i'm doing" and she'll still be supportive no matter how she disagrees etc

I'm just glad that she did not dump me in some random ophanage, or throw me in a dustbin and leave me to rot to death, or disown me for being such a difficult kid
(I highly suspect I might just dump my future kids into the trash if they ever dare to rebel or be difficult. Lol)
For all the love she showered, all the tears and tantrums she's put up with, and the money she spent on tuitions, ballet/piano/computers/art classes , the time and patience she's given me, and food and blahblahblah

Like I said, I must have done something damn right in my last life, to have deserve my mom.
I still dont think she spoils me (even tho she insist that i'm spoilt), but I'm damn sure she loves me (and the siblings) la.

#emo night
#mother appreciation night
I love my mommy..

♥

When undecided...and celebrating the other Daphne's birthday

2011-10-23T03:20:00.000+08:00

Title says it all!

That would be me, looking undecided at both the mirrors, and my photobooth about the colors.

I was undecided about my hairband colors, and ended up wearing both out!

The top had cream and white - and so did my hairbands?!

Mom and Da couldnt help me out with the selection between the 3 options of

cream

pink

or both.

(so much for sisterly/motherly advise), and so I decided to wear both out.

When I yelled byebye to mommy, her reply to me was " what's the final colour ?"

I laughed and said "both!"

and promptly left home...

That was until I developed a headache from 2 different pressure points the hairbands gave me, and finally! Claudia chose one color for me!

I stuck to the pink hairband the entire night after :)

Went out to Meathaven to advance celebrate Daphne Leong's birthday.

I love the place. They serve yummeh meat!!!

My fingers are still smelling like the smoked ribs - and therefore i'm feeling hungry, each time my fingers come in contact with my nose. :(

For salivating purposes, here we go, stolen from Facebook..

Daphne ordered a variety for us to share....

For starters, we had nachos, wings, soups - the mushroom soup and pepper soup is very well done.

Soups were a personal favourite,

Totally made with love (as like how i'll usually describe well made soups brothed to perfection with lots of effort),

where the pepper soup is unique in taste, with tomato based, cheesy and addictive.

Mushroom soup is thick, creamy and mushroomy, no need to say more.

The pork ribs with the Haven BBQ sauce is pretty tender and juicy - and i'm not usually a fan of ribs, but this one holds a title on its own in my tummy now.

*slurps*

I super love love love the black pig pork belly!
The fatty parts practically melt in the mouth. They had garlic bits garnishing that tasted totally delish.
I kept picking on the last bits of it.
As for the potatoes... who cares about them. Lol

Next we had duck with pumpkin mash, which I felt was ok.
Not a duck fan, but it's also surprisingly tender and not dry - unlike our local duck fare.
Dry chewy and ducky tasting.

Seafood Couscous Nice tomato-ey flavour.

Me kinda likey! The prawns had flavour,and tasted pretty good.

Unfortunately, after the fatty kurobuta belly, everything pales in comparison for me.

I had a good time hanging out with the girls, as usual - everyone was crazy, and we laughed alot.

I forgot to charge my camera battery, so we only had limited pictures.

Shall only post up the nice ones, and keep the candid ones for future blackmailing (hohoho).

Pictures of myself, with the birthday girl.

Group pictures!
Gorgeous-ness in various states, so I had a hard time choosing between the 2 picture.

Birthday girl with the blasting candles.
All the lighted candles look damn pretty.
I'm looking forward to my 50th! birthday - just so that the entire cake would look damn pretty when all the candles are lighted up!

Yummy food.
Pretty cake.
Happy girls. :)

Here's to 28 years and plenty more good times to come.
Woo hoo!

Wham, Bang! Bleeding Eyebrows!

2011-10-17T04:18:00.001+08:00

I was rushing out of home last wednesday, and I ended up with a bleeding eyebrow.
:(

Everything happened too quickly, I doubt i am able to recall what exactly happened, except for the fact that the freaking heavy front door slammed on me, just as I was about to rush back in to get stuff.

Arrrggghh..

I burst into tears uncontrollably, and also realized - in the process of wiping my tears, that my eyebrow was not only bruised, but BLEEDING.
Both my palms were bloody!

Damn, had to rush back into the house to check how bad the damage was...

turns out to be QUITE BAD.
There's a hole in my eyebrow. Dented. Lobang. right, you get the idea. :(

The sad part about facial wounds, is that they bleed quite a fair bit, before it would decide to stop.

Being terribly late to meet one of my girls (I had to pass her uniform for work...)
there seriously wasn't much options available, I psyched myself up to flag a cab with a bloody tissue in hand, and cried like a friggin baby, while making my way to Zouk.
The cab uncle must have thought that I was psycho or something.

I'm usually braver when it comes to wounding myself...but blood is really not my forte.
I usually bawl alot and go weak at the sight of blood, soooo

Pretty proud of myself that I managed to make it to Zouk, puffy eyed nonetheless...but somewhat on time.

Here's the damage..
(yeah I cried til one eye was make-up-less)

Close up - you can see how juicy and raw it looked about 15mins later..
:(
The boys made me ice my wound with the ice from their jug of drinks -wrapped with tissue.
I guess that helped alot in reducing swell and bruising.

A couple of hours later, taken at home, my eyebrow dent somewhat scabbed.

I guess I must have panicked quite abit,
enough to palpitate and nearly keeled over while I was still in the club.

Left early with clammy hands and all.
Those crazy palpitations has since stopped for over a year, and my guess would be that the panic attacks sort of revived it.
Wehhh...

Luckily its a relatively short attack.

ps: The scab's itching alot, and I'm making conscious effect not to scratch - for the fear that my eyebrow hair wouldn't grow back.

*crossing all the fingers and toes that my eyebrows would still be in tact*

PPS: my eyebrow looks perpetually dirty. I hate it that I am unable to pencil my brows properly. #UngroomedMax

I'm in loveeeeee!

2011-10-11T01:28:00.003+08:00

I'm in love!!

Cheng, Claudia and myself headed down to Farmway after lunch at Sushi Tei on monday afternoon, to check out fluffy things, which started with the want of a dwarf hamster - which then evolved to Cheng salivating over the Netherlands Dwarfie bunnylet that claudia said resembled alot like these...rabbit mooncakes.

I'm serious!
See for yourself. Look alike. color too!
She was picture shy, so kept hiding away from the camera..

and one thing after another... I got reminded about my search for the perfect doggles.

I always wanted Schnauzer or a mini teacup poodle - coz they're like the rare few breeds that would not kill my nose.
They're apparently hypo allergen. :)

Why a Schnauzer or a Fox Terrier, would be because they look so wisely and cute. Something about their posture/stance that makes them look very smart and attentive.
And in recent years, my taste for a teacup poodle developed, because they look soooo adorable.

I met the sweetest poodle at the farm!
She's different from the rest of her troop - where her furry friends would bounce around barking for attention like crazy hyper active puppies... she merely pop-corned around alittle and responded to me with a waggy tail and attentive eyes.

Like I mentioned earlier, I like it that she's not yappy noisy, unlike the rest of her friends, and when I squat and beckoned for her to run to me, she responded.
It was quite a "pikachu, I choose you" moment between the 2 of us.

Like she could read my mind / tuned to my frequency, I barely prompted her to flip over for belly rubs, and she did it like a mega pro.
Wehhhhh...

My super sweetie.
The price for such a precious little lump of fur?
$2,300.

When I asked about the price, the funny uncle grabbed her, flipped her over, blew at the fur surround her private parts, and declared that she cost $2,300. -_-"
Her male sibling... went through the same treatment, when I asked for a cheaper dog.
Blew at his privates, and declared the kukubird version was going for $2,200.
-_-""

Cheng helped me film this video..
and I can't stop watching and raving about her.
Her temperament is amazing. She's amazingly docile, and "manja".
When you stroke and pet her right, she'll close her eyes and have that "ooh, i'm in heaven expression"

Docile - check
Not yappy - check
Not bouncy - check
Good natured - check
Attentive - check
Clever - half check - until she's mine, and she's able to do tricks and listen to command, but intuitive so far about the roll over for belly rub part.
Female - Yay!
Cute - check
pint size - check check!

She seems like all that I'll ask for in a doggle,
only that she's very pricey can?
$2300 for a dog.
I need to think very very hard man.

Meanwhile, sharing the video of her...
Try and focus on her and ignore my goofy expressions and stupid hair. I wasn't expecting to be seen/videoed, and I'm very in love can?
Lol.
oh and I tried to imitate the uncle's blow the private part area, and declare a price part too.
Haha.

Enjoy!

Moschino Belt

2011-10-06T04:40:00.001+08:00

I'm totally in love with the Moschino belt.
It's not rocket science design, and I know it was lauched many seasons ago...
yet, there's something very captivating about a belt full of alphabets!

It's definitely not a belt that I can wear everyday.
Buuuuut it's obnoxiously nice.
Lol

Belt itch.
Weeeehhhh :(

Flamingo Earrings..

2011-10-06T04:30:00.001+08:00

Finally brought the Flamingo feather earrings out for a walk tonight.
Rather pleased with how it looks on the overall. :)
wee!

The new hair color and the pink sort of complement each other in a pleasing way, and it's just too bad that photobooth is unable to capture the color of my hair.

Yes finally found the time to take a decent picture of myself.
It seems like forever, since I last updated my display picture. But I know it was just merely a month ago with the kitty shot - but you get what I mean.

Reckon the flamingo feathers suits me waaaay better than the parrot ones that I took sometime back..in my june entry here.

Ima little nuts when it comes to accessories, and feathers just made a comeback in my dress-up-list the past few months.
I've got the peacocks during my short hair era... im refusing to post up pictures of myself, coz my cheeks are uber puffy.

My parrot feathers in tropical colors as seen in my june entry..and the crazy neon disco ones.. where I have no pictures to substantiate with.

The princess Tigerlily inspired taken back early this year..

Ok this marks the end of my feather crazed post, and in my opinion, the feathers look waay better in real life than pictures.
Why?
coz feathers are supposed to flutter when i'm walking and moving.
lol.
KThxBye.

Hello kitty Sunglasses

2011-10-04T02:46:00.000+08:00

So I stared at the picture, and am inspired to get them.
I'm gonna get the Rayban pair in Black shades.
Red bow, with whiskers and all.
X says that I've already got a nice authentic pair of Raybans, so why am I even bothering about getting myself a weird Kitty one.
Well that's the beauty of it.
My red bow hello kitty with whiskers.

My internal kitty radar is screaming to wear it now!

Are you crazy?!

2011-10-04T01:59:00.000+08:00

Someone's passing remarks came ringing in my head just earlier.
He asked me " are you crazy"

And deep down my answer to this rhetorical question would be...

If i weren't crazy, would you even need to ask me this question at all?

When I'm crazy, i'm crazy. There's no denying it.
You just gotta accept me for who I am, isn't it?

It's official!

2011-09-30T00:22:00.002+08:00

I haven't updated this space for the longest time.
Been too busy to even get proper 12 hours sleep, much less to find the mood to post an entry.

As of the 28th, I am officially part owner of the agency.
Managing the girls for the past month was no easy feat.
It's amazing how my patience can be tested over and over again...
messing up my "zen-ness" within.

It's funny how everything fell into place, and how I got the blessings of everyone that mattered to me with this new project of mine.

With Somedays good...some days bad... and somedays terribly bad.
Seriously, it's the same for everyone isn't it?

So I finally became rather fed up with one of the girls, and decided to get a life..
They usually say "have a break, have a kitkat", but for me, having a break equates to altering my appearance...

So I dropped by Shunji at 313 yesterday, and decided to be brave.
I told my stylist to chop off 3-4 inch away, and she really took my words very seriously!
Whahhh , and now my mermaid hairdo is gone.
GONE!

I used to disgust people with the "lulu" China girl with unshaven armpit impersonation, and used my hair to create the "armpit hair" illusion
Hahha...

Can't do that anymore :(
Not for the next 2 months, for I look look like a normal city girl... with neat nice hair..
not some jungle lady living in a far far away cave with no hairstylist.
Oh well.

Opened up the box of Liese bubble hair dye lying off some corner of the room and touched up the ugly roots.
I finally got the chance to try the "Sweet pink" color, and the result's not even close to the Peach berry color I used to fancy (that is no longer available in any shops) #LifesucksMax.

I cant even describe how a peach berry color should look like to my hairstylist...
I guess I need to wave byebye to that color.

While waiting for time to pass... I attempted a few hairstyles...
Like Marge Simpsons... and made hair swiss rolls...

Proudest creation of the lot would be......

Met Lady Blahblah yet?
Lol.

For all that fun, my hair feels like shit now.
It's as if i'm playing with hay.
spammed lots of conditioner, and it still feels shitty.

September momentum

2011-09-06T02:05:00.002+08:00

It's been an exciting month so far for me.
Acquisition proved to be a lot tougher than I've expected.
Throwing contracts back and forth, reading words like crazy disecting reading.
Paper work... transferring of assets.... lots and lots of talking

While Transition and takeover is a lot more tedious than I've anticipated.
I've practically been walking around with @.@ eyes the entire weekend.

Zombied.
Living off a couple of hours of sleep everyday.
I am looking forward to being reacquainted with my bed for at least the most of tomorrow.
DESERVE IT MAX.

In fact my new favorite tag line lately goes alot like this:

I'm pooped!
I use up so much energy that my remaining time is spent mostly in pure silence.
The bestie came back for his nomming entitlements and most of our dinner was in silence.

I guess its always nice to know that it's really alright to just be in the company of friends, without the need to talk.
I call it the "silence is comfortable" theory.

Where it's usually in the presence of strangers that you'll have to put on your game face/poker face/ clown face and just be who you have to be, and fill up the random gaps of silence.

While usually in the presence of family and close friends - you have alot of freedom to be who you feel/want to be, and many a times it involves us just enjoying the company without having to talk ~ therefore the silence is comfortable theory.

Thinking back, I was in a total mess the same month last year - going through one of my shittest phase in my life.

A year later, I'm glad that I've picked up myself, with lots of help and support from my loved ones - and I'm looking forward to the work and challenges that I would have to face ahead.
It's not the end, and life wouldn't be all smooth sailing and blissful (I wish right!).

I'll strive hard, and perhaps one day the rewards will reap in every aspect that one could possibly wish for.

Yes it'll be tough, but let it all be good.
Rwar!

Bowtique will have to take a back seat for the next couple of months.
I'm sorry you've been neglected.

Hair food

2011-08-29T03:47:00.001+08:00

It has always been a personal habit of mine to "feed" my skin and hair the occasional fruits or drinks to give them a special oomph! that I feel my skin/hair deserves.
It's alot like going on a holiday - try out new places, eat new food, taking a break from routine.

I've tried applying tomato, cucumber years back...
and random one off experiments like washing my hair with copious amount of beer..
applying egg on my face
mayonnaise to soften the elbows
making a lemon sugar scrub to exfoliate my skin bi-weekly for 6 good mths..
honey oat with milk to replace to my lemon sugar scrubs.

Most people including the family would raise an eyebrow and/or drop random comments about my food adventures... you know, mixed reviews.

I do not understand why people have qualms about slathering food onto hair or even face,
When we barely bat an eyelid slathering tons of chemicals on ourselves?

From soap to moisturizer to even sunblock.
These are stuff that we can barely pronounce the names of the chemicals used, and they're supposed to be good for me?

Dimethicone.
Stearoypropyl
Oxymoronic
Amodimethicone

Just listing random chemicals names I took off my from my commercial products.

Peering at the label of my treatment hair masque - out of the 28 ingredients used to produce my commercial hair masque - I barely recognise half of the items placed in it.
I am not a chemical genius - and I have no idea how these chemicals are derived, how it looks like in its original form, or whether it's really good for me.
I do not think any normal consumers would either.

and yet people judge me for applying stuff that I eat onto myself?
I find that highly laughable.

Come on, if it's good enough to be ingested into your system, why isn't it good enough to be applied on?
why snub on natural forms of fix me up, and choose chemically enhanced potions.

Naturally enhanced potions/chemicial/liquids
ARE THEY REALLY BETTER FOR YOU?
Or is that a hoax created for commercial purpose?

Go figure.

All I'm saying is, sometimes its good to take a break from the routine, and try out something new, be it something as mundane as to apply banana puree on my hair just to see where that banana will get my hair to.

It can be rather mentally refreshing too, to break habits.
Gets your creative juices flowing.
Back in design school - I had this lecturer that challenged us to break our routines for a week as a form of mental exercise. I enjoyed that. (more of it later)

So I've decided to puree the banana, add a teaspoon of honey, trickles of tap water - and blended everything up.

My second attempt at banana for the hair in this lifetime.
Must say that the first attempt was terrible, coz I merely mashed the banana up with a fork, instead of puree-ing it, and I suffered terribly for it. Lol.

Had banana bits stuck on my hair, and I had a rough time combing through to remove morsels of banana tangled in my hair.

Attempt #2 is waaaaay better.
The longer you puree it, the easier to wash off.

I started by shampooing the hair.... then proceeded to towel dry the excess water.
Applied my banana puree starting from the hair tips (that's the part that needed the most attention IMHO), slowly working my way up to the roots - since I read that banana is also good for the scalp. Lol.

I wasted my time away sitting in the bathtub.
I contemplated playing Tetris on my phone and decided against, for I remembered my previously drowned blackberry that malfunctioned fro 2 days after I picked up my phone mid shampooing.

Finally settled for a full body scrub with the loofah to kill time + rearrange the bathroom toiletries.
My intention was for the bananas to stay on my head for a full 20 minutes, but my bathroom lacked entertainment.
I washed off in slightly under 15 minutes.

Washing off took a bit of effort, and for good measure, I combed my hair + condition my hair to remove tangles, just to make sure that no banana bits will escape the bathroom and attract ants. Lol.

After lots of staring in the mirror (when hair is dry), the noticeable differences are

1) hair has a slight shine sheen - making it look healthier by 10%
2) the hair tips - being the driest of the driest feels less "pricky" like by a good 10%
3) dragging my fingers through the hair - it met less tangle resistance as compared to how my hair is usually comb unfriendly.

Good enough results for a not so patient daphne.
At least it works for me!

fyi.
Oxymoronic is not a chemical
I added it in for kicks.

---
Back to the break-your-daily-routine challenge I mentioned earlier,
Back in design school- the Guest Lecturer suggested an exercise to encourage us to break away from the usual norms and practices.
Starting with the things you do on daily basis.

It could be something as simple as swapping the sequence of your routine that actually makes a difference in your lifestyle, and awaken your creativity cells.

It could be as ridiculous as to eat your breakfast before brushing your teeth, or
as simple as wearing your shoes.

Do you have a favorite foot when you put on your shoes?
Swap the habit and put on your shoes on the unfavored foot first.

Granted that I always fancy stupid projects like this.
My day gets less boring because I started the day differently.
Lol.

Oh my tummy

2011-08-28T18:33:00.003+08:00

I woke up with a horrible horrible queasy feeling in my stomach.
I'm not sure what, but It was one of those dreadful feeling of wanting to puke or LS, and even my system could not decide which would be a better thing to do.

Went back to sleep, wishing that the dreadful feeling would go away!

I ran a quick list of stuff I ate yesterday..and I seriously did not eat anything adventurous!
No fried crickets or Balut or other funky stuff!
What in the world triggered my system to malfunction?!

Looking at the entire list of stuff I remember eating..

-Home made fried carrot cake for lunch..
-Peach and Lavender gelato from Gusttimo
-Tuna tataki salad at TCC
-Milk Green tea with mini pearls from each-a-cup
-Home cooked dinner of rice and stewed wine chicken + pink edamame soup +mushroom
veg+ roasted pork.
-a bowlful of milo balls with milk

*stares angrily at list of food*
Which of you did it?! Better own up.

I'm rather prone to point fingers at my milo balls and milk, since that was practically the last thing I've consumed before heading to bed...unless you wanna factor water into the situation..

Well, and I do have sporadic intolerance to Lactose whenever I drink milk.
But that usually only affects me when I drink milk first thing in the morning + its never made me contemplate retching before!

Not when I consume milk for supper!
:(

NOOOOOOOooooo!

It's 6 in the evening, foodless and my system is still churning away.
Feeling good enough to erm do restless stuff, but the biting feeling's still going at my system.

*Mommy's suggesting that we eat Macs for dinner - because she's out galavanting with friends.
Wehhhh.....
Best mother in the world! (to be fair, she isnt aware..)

and to those who perpetually seem to think that I'm sooooo LUCKY to be blessed with being skinny + big appetite to boot - FU.

*signs off with a grumpy face and trots off to eat Macs. fml*

I don't give a flying fuck!

2011-08-27T06:31:00.000+08:00

Seriously, it's like this stupid catch phrase that is stuck in my head for the past 3 hours.
On Repeat mode I tell you, even if I'm an unwilling party,
I'll need to get it out of my system, so that I'll be able to move on with life.

Unfortunately, there's nothing for me to use this on at this hour of the day.
fml.

Hence forth my attempt in posting it here, just so I'll be able to sleep in peace.

I very much think that WTFPapaya...is a cooler #@*!.
Not sure why tt doesn't stick in my head - even tho my system agrees on it unanimously.
Whyyyyyy....

I know i'm PMS-ing when.....

2011-08-26T01:58:00.002+08:00

I have to work hard at curbing the absolute need to punch everyone I see for no apparent reason on one day, and...

waking up the next day thinking that no one loves me anymore, and dig deeper into the covers to sleep away the sad sad feeling.

Looking crappy, with the entire constellation of pimples mapped out across my face in weird places. :( Looking grey - i have no explanation for the grey color bit.

and the eating ALOT part.
Okay - granted that I usually eat quite abit, but PMS-ing eating is alot like stockpiling for Wartime sort of feasting.

I get less picky - like eating that chicken puff cold, and the konyaku with dubious looking fruits scavenged from the fridge..

Finished half a chocolate bar, and my thoughts keeps wandering to my newly bought party pack of Kinder bueno....
and
dinner

Claudia introduced me to the new yummy flavour while we were at Skinny Pizza.
Hahahhaha
The Squid Ink Pizza!
I've always been a fan of Squid Ink pasta, but the PIzza is definitely a first today.

People are usually disgusted by the blackish outlook of the squid ink - so I try not to eat it when I'm out with not so close people.

Im sure I'll look gorgeous when I smile during meal times! Black Teeth! Woo hoo!

#WinningSmile FTW

Picture will do no justice, since the Pizza crust and seafood toppings is squidded too.
Like how mommy would put it - everything black black looking - looks disgusting, not gonna eat. -_-"

Looking at it now, I wonder why didn't I order a second pizza at Skinny Pizza earlier and stupid stuff like that.

*slurps*

I left skinny pizza full to the brim, and feeling unskinny.
Oh! and the sweet potato nibbles Claudia recommended is pretty awesome.
It's alot like french fries - sweeter and it was carb satisfying for me.

Ink-spired, I should drop by a Pinch of Salt soon for their yummmmmy yummy squid ink pasta + stewed oxtail soon.

2011-08-23T03:53:00.004+08:00

Whenever I'm feeling shitty and drained off ideas, I'll always end up sorting out my room.

Somewhat, neatening up the war zone never fails to lift my spirits up.

Maybe it's the feng shui or something.... or perhaps its just more aesthetically pleasing to set foot into a room fit for human to live with!

In anycase, I sorted out my crazy collection of shades ( Yeah.. I do realize that I have an excessive amount of everything accessories, clothes, shoes, shades, caps, socks, undies - dont we all?!)

So I found......

this entertaining pair of shades that I bought off ebay or yahoo auction a decade ago!

It's my "sexy" shades!

I never quite mustered the courage to wear it out.

tsktsk!

It's seriously quite cute what!

Cost me 4 bucks.

Whatever la!

Finally gotten to collected my Hello Kitty watch from Zen.

Yay! It's damn tough to get that red bow/white face happy meal watch ok!

So have to take lots of picture with it!

I attempted to align my self sewn Red Bow in the same position and angle as Miss Hello Kitty, and here we go!

Reckon that the Red Bow placed in the front of my head is too cutesy for me to wear it out, not that I lack of courage to. :)

FYI, Kitty's bow was placed in it's right position...

It's only that Photobooth essentially mirrors stuff, soooo Hello Kitty + Daphne's Red Bow in the picture is off, while the sexy shades was taken with my Canon, therefore the literacy of words!

I tried flipping the picture - only to find myself looking weird.

Ah well.

#firstworldpain

Bi monthly nail fix - I did the reverse french manicure in my favourite combination!

the Red on Red.

I like it that it's catchy without looking trashy.

Its quite a messy paint job, but... I really made lots of effort to be neat already. :(

Hahaha!
That about sums up all the my new/old toys!

X!

psst! Have you send a bowl of love today to the animal shelters?

2011-08-21T16:15:00.002+08:00

If you stumbled into my blog by chance or by choice,
I'd hope that you'll read on and help a little animal today with just 3 clicks!

Purina - a pet food manufacturer is currently running a campaign called SEND A BOWL OF LOVE.
By liking their facebook page, and subsequently clicking on your choice of animal shelter that the bowl of food will go to, plus a cat or dog.

This is how the page would look like, after you've done the happy deed.

Essentially, it's just 3 clicks on facebook to do a very good deed!

It's a good time to accumulate some good karma for yourself, as well as to provide a nice meal for our furry friends living in animal shelters.

These furry friends of mine usually led quite a hard life, nothing like the fancy schmoozy that your pet dogs/ cats enjoy.

It'll be nice for them to receive "love" for once, instead of cruelty and hardships.

Thank you in advance, and I'll really appreciate it, if you can click this everyday, until the campaign ends?

Love!
(on behalf of my furry friends out there)

Linus the boxer

2011-08-20T16:13:00.000+08:00

In lieu of daddy's new Exotic Shorthair kitties, I was hunting around youtube for videos of other exotic short hair, when i chanced upon the videos of Linus the boxer!

He's such a sweet tempered dog!
Of course, his owner is probably a very good and patient dad/trainer.
I love how his daughter bonded with the dog, as he explains to her how she should "communicate with Linus"

Linus the boxer loves a party hat

Linus the Boxer Loves to Accessorize

It's so cute how Linus obviously dislikes accessorizing, but still gave in to her out of love and desperation. Hahah
Aww

In Linus the Boxer doesn't like his baby swimming
can totally see how protective the dog is of the baby's safety.
hates it when she's out of his "protective" boundaries.
Aiyo...

She obviously loves Linus equally dearly.
in Linus the Boxer loves a blanket fort

she calls out "come inside Buddy" a couple of times.

Watching the video, I wished I had a dog to grow up with when I was that age.
Weh...

Bunny says hi.

2011-08-20T14:57:00.003+08:00

Hello everybody!
My human's sick, so I've taken to posting instead, just so she can lay in bed, and ..... toss around sometimes, and goes back to being motionless.

The Human took me out to play in her room the other day.
I'm terribly fond of this special dusty spot in her room - my Favouritest (permitted) spot in the house
I really do!

When I'm home, I like standing on the top of my toilet, it gives me height for a better view!

The tiny wooden box in the human's room is the same, but better!
For one, it's easier on my paws and is waaaaaay taller!
Just like a good pair of Jee-mee-choos or the loo-boo-tan that the human really fancies!
So I reckon my addiction to high boxes = human's addiction to crazy high shoes.

More special, with better view - me thinks.

Human always likes to take many shots in different angle, and I'm a quick learner.

I'm terribly aware that the frontal shot is no my best angle, but it totally shows off my little white speck on the nose.

My left profile.. is prolly my best!
Shows off my huge dolly eyes, and cute ears!

But you have to pardon those awkward strands of fur sticking out.
I was changing my coat for summer, and I think fur brushes are for Sissies.

*ahem*
besides those straggly strands are totally cool.
I hate being called a pretty boy.

Looking scruffy is so cool!
I tried to mess around with my pre-shed winter coat to get a bed head look, but they keep coming out in fluffs, instead of staying put on my head - like that gatsby dude that I see on TV sometimes.

Gatsby advert - fail!

I got tired of looking bright or scruffy, and so I gave the #emo pose

It wasn't very hard to look emo.

I just need to think about pixie, my bestfriend who no longer hangs out with me, and I get good shots like this. :(

I miss you pix!e, and I also miss stealing your food.
Do you think you can visit me - now that its the hungry ghostie month and all?
I promise to share my treats with you if you do.

I need to head back to my cage for a nap.

It's tiring to blog.

Not sure how the humans do it, but I hope she gets well soon!

Shall, sign off with a video of myself doing my bestest trick!
But human's phone camera is terrible, We make do and try not to be too nauseous ok?

Pretty Rings from Amado Gudek's AG collection

2011-08-19T02:39:00.003+08:00

I saw some new products from Amado Gudek's AG collection.

The Glittery Resin ring named snowflake is sooo pretty!

I also saw some transformer / iceberg looking rings from the same collection.

especially the fuschia pink/purple called Lavender candy.

Reminds me of rock crystal formation. Yummeh!

But I dont think this version is wearble friendly to me.

Being so accident prone... I might end up with a scratched face from wearing it or jab myself in the eye or something sad and loserish like this.

Seriously thinking about the Atom ring in Snowflake,

but I've got like 25099 rings at home, mostly unworn.

Packing / storing them is a bitch!

Need to think more than thrice.

Maybe it'll look shitty on my fat fingers yah?

And I have this feeling they only look pretty close up.

How to hide your cake. LOL

2011-08-18T13:58:00.001+08:00

I saw this post from DamnLOL titled how to hide a cake from your FAT friends.
Wokay, it's funny.
Because I'm totally the selfish type who'll love to hog the entire cake to myself.
Not forgetting that my goodies always get looted away by hungry siblings.
*annoyed*
psst: It's rarely the brother, even though he's the hungriest of the lot.

Whatever it is, the main reason is because...
I LOVE CAKES!

But it's also not very funny now, coz it reminds me of cakes from Awfully chocolate.
and one of the rare chocolate cakes that I fancy.

*makes sad face*
Must buy the entire cake + fridge is spoiling + no space.
I hate to clearing fridge space to make way for huge items.

Then again, I swear the whole world will hate me if I finish the entire cake by myself... just to avoid the fridge problem..

:S
Need to hunt for alternative solution.
Like get a slice of something from somewhere in Holland Village.
:(

No same! Not spongey chocolatey cake.
Wehh...

Post edit: On hindsight, there's Secret Recipe's Banana Chocolate cake at Queensway.
I could drop by later... :)
At least these people are smart enough to sell in slices.

Boring week.

2011-08-14T02:11:00.005+08:00

I spent the entire week busy with...
... ... ...
It's funny how I cannot seem to recall what I did, but yet managed to feel so exhausted!
This terrible lifestyle is taking a toil on my skin.

I'm doing some restoration work to the face, as I post this entry - while waiting for the pearl mask to do its job.

Anyway, I dug around and found random pictures in my phone to help recall.

Sunday
Found pictures of this Shattered glass effect used on the partition at Waraku's casual dining place located at Marina Square.
I like it that the shattered glass glistens under the spotlight, creating a pretty but cozy ambience.
I took that picture, while waiting for the Sister to arrive, and because the mother was hogging the menu. *yawn*
I dont usually have the habit of capturing my food, hence...
there is none. Lol.

Thursday

I only remember meeting up with the boys and girls for dinner on thursday - coz I insisted on having dinner at Fika, on the recommendation of this Swedish guy I met some time back?

Meatballs were pretty good - sorry i was too hungry to take pictures, and the staff was friendly - very helpful with their recommendations.

In anycase, I chose the ramadan buffet, so the food layout was zero, with massive servings that I piled onto my plate.

I reckon I'll probably drop by again to try their Tea time stuff - desserts looked nice.

Saturday
Mom woke me up today to ask me if this tiny thingie belongs to me.
She claims that she picked it up in my toilet.
I peered, peeped and stared at the tiny gun with o_O eyes, because I've never seen it before!

*frowns*

It looks like I could use it to accessorize my Barbie's Lara croft / G.I Jane inspired outfit.

After 2 minutes of logical considerations, I reckon it's the brother's - from his Gundam collection or something, and somehow, somewhat, the weapon fell through his side of the door to our connecting toilet, and ended up in the toilet?

It is still weird, because I patter in and out of the toilet many times a day, and as of before bedtime... I DID NOT SEE IT.

Valda started the "it's the ghost month you know...." and I nearly flipped.

Somemore Saturday's supposedly the 15th - which is when the ghostly energy is at its strongest...

Interrogated the brother during dinner with a picture of the toy, and he said it is not his, but it might be from his room....
I gave him the exasperated look, how can he not know right?!
Mystery unsolved.
I hope the ghost had fun with the mini gun.

Earlier in the evening, the mother took FOREVER to leave home.
I had time to capture lots of pictures of myself, and still pause in between to cater to her random demands of "close the window", "I need water"...blah.

Attempted to give a rabbit face.
#Fail

One normal face to undo that retarded rabbit face picture.

The woman also imposed a no high heels allowed rule when we left house - so that she can wear her pumps out. #Brat

Walking around town in flipflops is quite a sad feeling.

Legs upwards - well done. Legs down, flip flops. Fail.

Good start, bad ending.

But I made her sprint for the bus, so I guess we're square. Lalala...

I never thought i'll ever need to do fridge shopping, but a girl's gotta do what she has to do right?

Set foot into the Best denki located at Takashimay, ( because I wanted to eat Sour Sally and ~~Ayam Penyat~~ Ikan lele penyat at Lucky.)

and the first fridge I saw was Samsung's starry night!

Okay, im not sure what its actual name is, but I decided to call it the Starry midnight fridge!

It's gorgeous!

With an equally brow raising price to boot!

$4999. Frigging 5k can?!

The starry crystals will light up, whenever you open the fridge door tho.

and rose gold handles + more crystals embedded within the handle, not forgetting a special compartment for champagne.

The mother scoffed at the pretty fridge;s price and went on with life.

Many fridges later, I realized that technology hasn't surpassed itself for the past decade.
:(
It's still water and ice dispenser at the moment.

None of the fridge has the ability to dispense frozen yoghurt, or Macdonald's icecream yet!
Wehhh....

Shortlisted a couple of normal looking fridge at a fraction of the Starry night fridge price, and perhaps I'll drop by at Nicky's tomorrow for good measure, just to see if he's got a better deal available at his side.

Last picture for tonight - one of myself with my eye patch for the terrible looking eyes.

It's been a good 3 weeks, and I'm still looking very tanned from Tibet.
I've been doing my utmost best in my sun avoidance, and I still look like a Somalian.
WHY LIKE THAT?

Ok need to wash face and hunt for food.

The difference between wearing fake lashes and no lashes.

2011-08-10T22:19:00.001+08:00

I worked on the etheral feel, with lots of gaussian blurring, and did this.
Read up on tutorial, grasp the basic idea, and fiddled about with layering to create this!
Quite pleased with it, but its still not there yet.
Hurhurhurhur.

Anyway,
Remember my previous post about wearing too much make up?
I reckon i'm on a posting streak at the moment!
Yay!
I'd thought that I shall do a little experiment, just to prove a point!
Here's a picture of me from this multi-purpose-in-one photo session that I did for the contact lens review in my previous entry.

Okay, so you're thinking aloud - what's so special about this picture again?!
If you look at it hard enough, one eye's got fake lash, and the other's Naked. Nekkid!
Lol.

Looks weird, yes.
I have fairly small eyes, asian styled + hidden eyelids, and I cannot help but notice that girls with similar sized eyes, have a tendency to pile on the fake lash - thinking that it would help to compensate for the lack of size.

Well hello!
Contrary to the usual beliefs, the eye without the lash actually look brighter and bigger (and I need to point out that there was no mascara involved in the nekkid eye.)

While the eye with the fake lash actually looked yes more defined, but the definition actually creates the illusion of smaller eyes, as it sort of created a "height limit", capping most of my eye away.

Need more proof?
See for yourself!
I placed the pictures side by one for comparison's sake!
Left is taken after i'm dressed up and ready to leave for Zouk, and left was me in mid preparation, still in my home flutter tee.
Same day, same hairstyle, same room okay?
:D

My review on the G&G A21 Brown Lens

2011-08-10T01:26:00.005+08:00

I spent the entire night thronging through the world wide web looking for reivews for....
colored contact lens, and I realized that there is very little reviews around!
It's something so .... "duh", so everyday and I reckon it is taken for granted.

Therefore, as bimbo as it sounds - I shall be a good samaritan and donate my share of review.
So exciting right?

For starters, they look like....... this!
Blowing up the lens, they seem to look like alien embryo of sorts.

Right, so this is the pair of G&G that i've been wearing for the past...... 6 months?

It's got a very unimpressive name - A21 Brown lens.

Lol.

ITEM DETAILS
Weight: 0 kg, 100 grams
Stock: Stock available
Diameter : 14.0mm
Water Content : 38%
Base Curve : 8.6mm
Life Span : 1 year disposal - I dont usually wear my lens more than 6-8mths.

Every frigging picture that I've posted up this year, would most likely be the G&G.

(though on random days, I'll put on the dailies Freshlooks illuminate just for kicks, or for my initial trips to wavehouse - terrified that my lens will be flushed away - or so I thought.)

Here's a close up taken with flash just so that the color would be obvious enough for a look see.

Haha.

Initially I did not like this pair, because when viewed up close, my eyes resembles the plastic eyes that toy dolls usually have, and I thought the honey brown was too obvious.

After a bit of getting used to over the next few hours,

I actually grew to fancy this pair, because

1) the brown color warms my overall skin tone, making me look alittle less pasty and less "ice

queen" (or so I think)

2) Comfort wise, I can last up to 12 hours with my lens on, without feeling any discomfort like

dry-ness, pinching of the eyeball. Comfort is very important!

Of course, the comfort level would be nothing like the monthly disposables from Acuvue

and friends, and my eyesballs falls on the slightly sensitive side, so what works for me is

just from my perspective.

Would need to stress that it's just my own preferences,

*I'll talk about the brands that made me bawled like a heart broken girl in abit...

3) the diameter of the lens is 14.0mm. Which in my humble opinion is just about the right size

for my mini asian eyes.

I personally do not have large eyes, and therefore - wearing those hugeass dolly lens with 15mm diameter and more, will cause my eye whites to be totally non existent, making me look just like Dobby, the house elf from Harry Potter.

I kid you not!

Look at the picture yourself!

Back to the lens, this pair looks decent from a "further" perspective, taken with flash.

Here's another, taken without flash in my room.

One more in natural daylight by the window.

Quite natural right?
Creates enough "warmth" in the eyes, coz some lens that I have previously worn, made my eyes look very dead.

I have my share of lens that felt very drying and had the eye pinching feeling.

Wearing them for anything more than 2 hours, and I'd totally be tearing madly, like a broken hearted girl.

Let me see if I could recall the ones that made me cry real badly / waste money.

(Are you kidding? Of course I could remember them la!

Lao niang have excellent memory for anything that hurt me bad. Hate to be bitten twice, you know? )

MAXI eyes - nearly died the minute I put them on.

5 minutes later, I cried.

1 hour of perserverance - and I felt like I was going blind.

Not sure if its Maxi eyes or Maxi BLIND!

So nope, no pictures of me in it AT ALL, chucked out and flushed into the loo.

That was the worst of the lot.

The rest felt drying, only after 4 hours.

Like the PM or Pro Mo Dolly lens.

I saved this pair for short outings during the weekend, for I could not survive with the PM pair in the office.

Aircon + prolonged staring at the computer was a tear worthy experience for my eyes.

I Bought the green ones, coz the model is damn chio!

It's equivalent to buying a dream!

Lol.

Totally #inselfdenial.

In reality, it looks different when I put it on leh!

Weh.. :(

Managed to dig around in my Mac, and found an exceedingly rare picture of the green lens ( since I rarely wear it out)

I am guessing that the model in the picture was massively photoshopped, and that i'm extremely tanned by nature. #DENIAL again

Green color does not complement "chow tar" girls.

*sigh*

Interesting enough, Blue on the other hand - looks surprisingly refreshing on me!

But being a teeny bobber no more, I outgrew obvious and crazy colours, and have since stuck to brown. (Been itching to try on pink or violet tho) :S

I actually have couple more to share, like the pair of Geo honey wings that prompted me to search for a replacement lens, and to post up this entry.
But I realized that this post is getting exceeding long.
Shall attempt to share another day.

Cheers!

Hello Kitty Watch!

2011-08-09T22:10:00.001+08:00

Seriously, i'm in the midst of writing another post actually.
But I saw this on FB.
Now I need to write this, and eat Happy Meal to get the hello kitty watch.

Weh...
I swear it's Mac's evil plot to make me eat Macs, over and over again,
even tho I said i'll swear off Macs for a good couple of months after the Coke Glass Can saga.
Roar!

Look at it!
It's Madam Meow with RED BOW!
So Chio!

It's ♥! Over and over again!

It has to be a red kitty bow.
I know you guys are all sick and tired of me preeeeeeching about how my meow has to have
RED bow, Not pink, not gold, not any color.
RED Good.
Decided to change the color of the "Like" to red just for kicks!

Ok, I shall revert back to my other original post that I'm working on.

Contact lens review!
Just because I can't find much review/ pictures of people posting with pictures of them wearing their contact lens on the www.
I shall do my part.

KThxBye

Procrastination

2011-08-08T22:28:00.006+08:00

I've been procrastinating.
I have tons of pictures waiting to be fixed and uploaded.

I'll open up photoshop, stare at the pictures, and then give up.
I told myself that I'd drop by Mosiac tonight for Social - didn't happen.
Something's wrong with me. Not sure what though.

But what I know for sure, is that it's too late to get bubble tea.
and that it's been friggin 10 bloody days, but the germ's still having a rave party in my throat.
Upset!

I need my sugar fix, but i'm too lazy to get them.

Predictably, I shall settle for Soft icecream from Macs once I get over inertia, since bubble tea's out.

Took a picture of my ice-creams last week.
one for the road, and the other one was kept for later in the night to randomly commemorate the end of july, and to cheer my throat up.

Yes I usually like my ice cream Topless and naked.
Woooo....~

Lol.

Strawberry taste like medicine sometimes,
hot fudge is sore throat inducing.

and I like to be special.
That's why.

X(

Terrible sleep.

2011-08-03T04:41:00.002+08:00

My sore throat isn't recovering.
Halp!

I know I've been tweeting non stop about my throat since Friday til now.
5 frigging days of sore throat.
You know how sad and ridiculous that is?

I keep complaining that my throat feels as if I've swallowed huge amount of glass shards.
It feels so raw and swollen that drinking/eating hurts.

I've "fasted" the entire day away, refusing to eat.
Weh..poor me.
Sick and still have to starve myself somemore.
Finally, I caved in and had icecream and bread to coat the sad throat and fill the very empty stomach up.

I barely slept the past few nights.
Sadly, for someone who always has the ability to fall asleep in a jiffy,
I am a terrible sleeper whenever I fall sick.

Perhaps the sleepy chemicals in my body would disappear the instance I fall ill?

No matter how I tried, I'll be jolted awake by the lack of oxygen (stuffy nose), or how subconsciously I'll hear gurgling noise produced from my phlegm or something from the sickly virus...that I'll jolt awake - feeling disgusted with myself.

Such a terrible plight to be sick.

It also did not help that a couple of hours before bedtime, I read an article that claims that sleeping too much will cause wrinkles.
Good grief.

You know, there are days when you will wake up with bed marks on your body and face - where the pressure caused by your body weight makes contact against the folds of your sheets for the entire night?

Yeah, apparently sleeping - with your face pressed on the cotton bedsheet helps your wrinkles to set in as you age.
The only way you can minimize or avoid it, would be to sleep with satin bedsheets, and/or by lying on your back when you sleep, so that your face avoids contact with the fold marks.

FML. I tried that and I was sleepless until 10am in the morning.
My standard sleep stance involves alot of cheek to pillow time, lying on my back gave me an air of despair - for I can't just stay stationary in one pose the entire night.

It's currently close to 5am, and I'm still sleepless.

My predicament makes me both sick and wrinkly.
Well done la.

Sigh

Wearing too much make up

2011-08-01T21:37:00.004+08:00

Surfing through pictures on Facebook,
I notice that half my world puts on too much make up.

I'm not sure if the relation between age and make up is exponential.
But from the way I see it, yeah.

Fake lash check
Heavy eyeliners check
Heaps of face power check
Heaps of blusher check.

that's daily make up for work and normal meet up events.
I wonder what's available for special dress up events which requires heavier make up?
Probably will end up looking like my entry picture above.
Are you guilty of wearing too much make up?

Less is definitely more in this instance.

I'm all for vanity, dont get me wrong.

and i'm definitely guilty of piling on heaps of make up.

Refusing to leave house unless I have the full set of war paint piled onto my face, but seriously...

the heavy make up phase was mainly attributed to work and a little on salsa performance.
Spending almost an entire year working full time in Events after graduating, Make up was the necessary evil.
A job requirement, and also partly from the crowd that I mix with.
It all adds up into making me think more is always better.

After my encounter with bad skin a couple of years back, I repented!
Renounced on my make-up slathering lifestyle and use only the basic necessary.

I went through extremes, took apart everything that was applied onto my face, and slowly figure out what was the culprit that caused the breakout - which meant minimal skincare products and at some point, leaving home entirely with a naked face.

Prove that I went through a horrible horrible phase that even my mom refuse to acknowledge that her daughter looks so ugly.
Enlarged the picture for your viewing pleasure.

Boils and scars galore.
I swear I wanna dunk my face in acid, just so that the zits would erode away.

With that it was No concealer, No powder, NOTHING.
Just moisturizer and not even sun screen.
Awesomely ugly, but my skin eventually recovered. :)

I found out the cause of my outbreak - over exposure to sun, and guilty of applying body sunblock onto the face when I was in Bali. (I ran out of my sunblock for the face!)
Major fucked up mistake.
--

Presently, I still have remnants of fake lashes. a drawer full of it, and they are usually reserved for occasions like night weddings or photoshoots.
Same goes for face powder, only when necessary.
I learnt that it is important to let my pores breathe.

So what does Miss "minimal make up" advocate, now use before heading out?

Basic Skincare
BB cream *which I usually skip unless I'm heading out for some major sun
Concealer for the under eye
Gel Eyeliner for the lids
Pencil eyeliner for the bottom / or eyeshadow
Eyeshadow *depending on mood
Eyebrow pencil
Blusher

No mascara, no smoky eye, no fake lash, no primer, no powder, no bronzer.
As natural as possible.
After all, make up is used to enhance our features, not create a mask where no one would recognize you without it.

My Typical daily make up

You will look beautiful, so long as you feel beautiful.
Even without make up. (Just because I know how much uglier I could be, if I dont take good care of my skin)

Lol
Yes colorless and pale face with beady eyes.
I KNOW ok - i'm not oblivious to my very asian features.
Blah.

Cheers!

Bangkok - June

2011-07-30T04:29:00.004+08:00

In a blink, July is ending.
There is so many things yet to be accomplished on my end.
Seems like there is so little time, and a very lazy Daphne.
Since I'm sick, sleepless, and restless - I'll just spam lots of pictures from Bangkok.
The nice view of the airplane wing and the blue blue skies.
So fluffy and nice - the clouds!

Mam, in posing mode.

Bored...so need to entertain myself.

I swear there's like a thousand shot of myself..but I shall spare everyone the agonies of my narcissism!

Just one of myself in my Raybans, Lady Gaga Heartbeats and an extra touch of overexposed look to complete this picture!

and looking at my olive glitter nails, i have this urge to change my barbie pink + silver glitter reverse french manicure nails back to the boring olive glitter nails.

I know, i'm such a magpie - always ♥ glittery bling bling stuff.

Too many travelator at the airport, so was attempting panning shots to multi task.

But alas! travelator too slow. No panning feel - Fail.
Weh! :(

Haggled like mad with the Cab driver, who also tried to cheat me off extra charges and finally reached the Baiyoke Boutique Hotel.
The place is decent and holds up fine.

Like!
The funky pop up feel to the interior, but I might try another hotel the next round - just for variety's sake!
I do love purple, but the purple in the room makes it alittle too dark for my liking.

The overall color scheme of the place reminds me of our local hotel Re! or something like that.

There is nothing much to scream about toilet wise, so... we move on to other entertaining stuff...like that very huge fish tank I spotted when I wandered past the food court at Siam Paragon.
Wha!

I reckon that it would be rather therapeutic to dine with the fishes.

you know how I've always wanted to be a pretty mermaid swimming away with my scallop seashell bikini and a flower on my head, with the rest of my hair trailing prettily as I swim away..
sorry, dont puke.

anyway, fish tank food court was not my dining destination, for I had a meeting with .....

Mr Cruise!

Could not keep him waiting, and I doubt he really wanted to eat in the food court with the fishes, or be part of my mermaid fantasies..

We ventured off and dined in this BBQ restaurant at MBK instead.
It's been a month, and the name of the place eludes me at this moment... it has a green dino on its signage, if it helps!

Picture of my new "Vivienne Westwood" inspired ring that I got for a hundred Baht by the street.
Taken while waiting for my food to be served.

Lalalalal!
My fingers look scarily scaly in the close up shot.
I think I need to remember to moisturize myself daily.
Nice ring anyway.
Stares at ring.

Om nom nom time!
Guess what's this?

Looks like Mekajiki sashimi from a far right?!
Ans: It's Lard, not sword fish sashimi. :(

Fats from Mr pork, used to grease the BBQ pot. Amazing huh?
I forgot to BBQ the left over lard to noms... just like how they usually deep fry these yummy things and garnish them along with my mee pok!

Condiment platter...
I had to mix them all into a bowl of sauce.

which ended up looking like this!

Of course I squished the lime into my sauce, not dump the entire wedge into it la!

The chopped up chilli is quite potent in a mild way...and did not do wonders to my toilet time, as claimed/forewarned :(

Guess our stomachs run on different OS!

I practically drank up the sauce - coz I dipped all my BBQ food into it.

* I swear I constipate whenever I travel. Whyyyyyyyyyy!

I hate running around overseas feeling clogged up and FAT,

Next we have the Garlic fried rice.
Looking at the garlic chunks now, is making me rather hungry.
Meh!

Miso Pork.
Not helping with the hunger pangs at the moment...

Close up.
Appetite suppresent - Not!

the Pre greased BBQ Pan, with some soup stock at the bottom.

Beef I think?
I was too engrossed with eating to bother about what's what.

So I shall introduce this platter as Sliced Meat with jappy fish cake, shrimp, squid and chicken.

The squid did not look very appetizing to me, so I skipped them entirely.

Scallops!

They look fine...but tasted urgh when I BBQ-ed them.

they taste nothing like the ones served in Sushi Tei. :(

No sweet, Succulent taste.

I finished them anyway.

I tweeted the other night that my stomach could possibly be hiding some parasite worm the size of Naigini the snake from Harry Potter. Hahahha.

Forever hungry!

Kidding.

No Naigini please, if not I'll have an uber sized tummy just to contain the snake.

Not nice, wont be able to fit into alot of my clothes.

The beef noodles at Platinum foodcourt is rather yummy.

Salty. But yummy.

Gawked at the lady before me who was dumping insane amount of condiments into her soup.

Seriously... Heaps of Sugar, Chilli flakes and Fish sauce!

Wonder how her Kidneys managed with such heavy workload all these while..

Also Ate Mac Ds while I was there, and got a Kung Fu panda, collectible Po cup!
He's cute and very helpful.

Attempted to charge my phone and the weight of my charger was too much for the plug to bear.

Found something useful for Po to do.
Used him to prop up my charger lo.
Hoik!

Po to my rescue ok!
He had to face the wall the entire night while my phone charged on.
Feel alittle bad for the hero.

Bunny ears that I've acquired from MBK!
Bought them in Pink, Peach, Red and purple!
I believe I was wearing the peach one out in this picture.
*beams*

Look at my baby Po cup.
I ate Mac Ds' Samurai Pork burger to get both cups.
Luckily it's yummy and unavailable in Singapore.
Since I'm hungry now....
Thinking about the Samurai pork burger makes me sad.

On my last night.
I went to this Bbq place to eat beef.
Everything was beef there.
It's yummier than the first BBQ place by comparison.

It was beef heaven! Beef parts, Beef chunks, Beef slices.
You know, various cuts of the cow and its innards.
Super duper yummy!
What you see in the picture, is just the tip of the iceberg.

I seriously do not remember which cuts I've had for dinner, for i relied solely on staff recommendation to send the meat over.

I dont speak Thai, neither do they spea-ker goooder ink-ker-lish (speak good english).

There was this chunk/cube of beef that was superb - coz the chunk cubes was meatier than slices, and I attempted to do a medium rare - medium well doneness on it.

Good stuff!

By then I was too oily and totally into my food to want to snap more pictures.

It's seriously all raw meat anyway.

I ate up like a hungry lion would devour its hearty meal.

I love beef

Biiiifff!

Ok, you get the picture.

Name of the restaurant?

You figure out yourself ya?

Hahahah.

That's about all the picture I have to share.
Next up, Tibet!
Not sure when though!

Ethereal Feel

2011-07-28T03:21:00.001+08:00

I'm rather into the ethereal finishing type of pictures lately.

With the lens flare, bokeh, blurry, fantasy type of feel.

Might be the fact that all I wanna do lately, is to escape from reality and live in a world of my own.

Been attempting to capture them with my point and shoot camera, and have since given up hop on capturing nice ones in Tibet, now that i'm back in Singapore.

Sigh.

But looking at them, they're really pretty.

The imaginary feel these pictures portray makes me feel dreamy, happy and unreal.
Hahaha.

As usual, I attempted with random pictures that I like... and here's my shot at it.
First picture with slight touch ups here and there... like adding alittle color on my cheeks to give a "glow" finish.

After my attempt in the "ethereal treatment" which consist of some flare, Bokeh, and mixtures of filters to achieve the feel.

Not quite there, i'm still working on it, and this is only my first attempt.
Hah!

The chain -on-the-shoulder dress is now available at bowtique in 3 colors. White, Black and the purple that i'm wearing!
Love how it fits when I wore it to Zouk a few nights ago.
Please support my bowtique by checking out my shop, as well as to get your friends to have a look see too!

Love lots!

Bear and their bile.

2011-07-27T21:43:00.002+08:00

I chanced upon this article shared by a friend on Facebook, and was horribly distraught upon reading it.
It spoke about the heartbreaking story about the Moon bear's long suffering over the attempt of their bile (for "medicinal" use).
I weeped about how painful it was for the bear, the conditions they were subjected to for YEARS, and how this bear mommy would rather kill her own cub, than to allow Humans to cause it prolonged suffering before killing herself.
I would too, if my child has to suffer that fate.
You can read the story/article here

Friends who know me, will know how much I love animals in general.
I cry at every Hamster's death, and get excited at every dog, Yak, chicken that I see, and every death and cruelty affects me alot.

The last time I weeped this badly over animal cruelty and blogging it was in 2008 over the PETA clip I saw. (I'm gonna save water, and do myself the biggest favour by not watching the video again) Those interested can click on my link.

Perhaps campaigns and outcries as such are a matter of #firstworldpains - where we stick our noses into other people's business and way of life, judging and telling them what's wrong, what's right, and some may argue that if i'm all for animal rights, I might as well go vegetarian just so that no animal would be harmed etc etc.

All I'm saying is, it's not right to take a life. But if we have to - do it quickly and painlessly, as like 90% of the general population would wish for, when facing death, and kill only when necessary.
Prolonging suffering, and consciously doing evil within your control is such a horrible thing!

Having just returned from Tibet, with a mind fresh on my conversation with Rinpoche Kunga on the topic of Karma - I truly hope that these cruel people would repent and just stop hurting living creatures for the good of themselves and the good of other living creatures.

A good part of stories usually stems from China, and I seriously begin to doubt the moral reasoning behind them Chinese.
I dont care if they want to establish fake Apple stores and sell counterfeit products for profit, but I draw the line at causing hurt to living things.

From hurting animals, inflicting poison to humans by selling fake eggs, melamine milk, poisonous pork laced with Clenbuterol just to name a few, there is something extremely wrong with their moral standpoint.

Yes I do understand that when people are desperate to make a living, they'll do anything just to keep their family alive, and being raised in a *developing/ developed country made me very ignorant to all the sufferings that poverty has to offer.
(*sorry, still can't decide if Singapore is developed or still developing coz sometimes Singaporeans are still so... backward)

However, at the cost of hurting other living beings just for survival - that's not right.
The karma one accumulates is just terrible.

I'm not going to impose my spiritual beliefs here, and rattle on about karma, but I draw the line at moral ethics and their governance, and I believe everyone has the power to make a difference in making the lives of every bear, dog, cow, goat and Yak better - and I pray and hope that China would wake up its idea soon.

My quick post-Tibet complains

2011-07-21T05:17:00.005+08:00

Its been slightly over 24 hours since touching Home ground.
Going to Tibet made me contemplate life from a total new perspective, especially for the TOILET -that would be my wish for the entire CHINA. Please improve your toilets.

The weather was pretty harsh for summer.
Imagine this... 4 degrees in the day with sunshine on the mountain top, and they call that Summer.
Pfffft!
You'll think that being closer to the sun would make you warmer... but nope.
I was freezing my ass off.

I'm now back in Singapore, I'm feeling extremely lethargic, with a braille like textured skin to boot.
It reads "BAD SKIN" :(

It is as if I've some constellation formation smacked right across the forehead and somewhere under the eyebrows/above the eyelid..
weird place for clogged pores to evolve into pimples.
They look absolutely Ugly, Bumpy and Angry from my itchy fingers.

Clearing my skin with my Shiseido Black Mask as I type out this post,
truly hoping that I could avoid the meteorite from erupting onto the surface of my skin.
The attempt to scrub the face to "clear off surface dirt" yesterday night did little to ease the braille formation, so I'm pinning my hopes on my Black Clay Mask.

Please let the black clay mask work, and the skin be alright.
*amen*

Lengthy Tibetan post would come later, when I overcome inertia and aesthetic/facial woes.

KThxBye

*Just peeled off my mask, and spent the last 10 mins staring at the debris peeled off along with the Shiseido mask. ( Yes, I've got this mad habit of staring at the pore debris collected each time I peel off my mask or pore pack. It's sick, but it makes me happy to know that my pores can breathe now!)

I'm amazed at how much junk was clogging my pore - because it hit a new high score
It's no wonder that I could harvest pimple in weird parts of the face.
I'm officially blaming it on the pollution and harsh dry weather in the mountain top.
It is insane.

Just slapped on my Laneige Water Sleeping Pack to rehydrate my skin, and I'm all set for bed.
Good night.

Cloud room, Rainbow cakes, and Prayer Wheels..

2011-07-10T15:15:00.001+08:00

A room full of Clouds.

How pretty right!

If I have a huge house in future, with a room to spare - I might just leave a room full of clouds just for meditation and stoning purpose.

So pretty and calming!

Back when I was a kid, the cartoons I watched always depicted clouds like marshmallows textures.

That was love at first sight with the clouds.

Wishing that I'll get to visit the clouds someday, just so that I'd be able to bounce around the cloud like a bouncy castle, because the white, fluffy texture looks extremely inviting!

First time I met a "cloud" was when Mommy and Pops brought me to Genting Highlands in Malaysia.

It was kinda sad to know that "Clouds" aren't fluffy and soft like marshmellow in reality, just misty and misty.

I spent half the morning chasing after the "clouds"... while the parents watched, becoming a soggy kid at the end of it.

Not bad for a 3 years old with cloudy ambitions..

Haha.

On other news,

I shall attempt to bake myself a Rainbow cake when i'm back from Tibet!

Look! The cake is soooooo pretty!

I want a slice of it now!
Rwar!!!

I hope to capture lots of pretty shots while I'm away, that is if the trusty camera will live up to its usual standards!
Also, i'm totally looking forward to spinning the prayer wheel while I'm there.
I'm gonna spin lots and lots and lots of them, itchy finger style!
heh heh heh.

Will be back on the 19th
See ya then!

Marching on.

2011-07-05T04:12:00.005+08:00

Alright I'm taking a break from work.
I swear my entire body's so exhausted from sitting still that i'm practically aching all over.

Oh and my poor eyes!
Trust me, I scrutinize every inch and pore of my pictures, before uploading.
I know I'm a sucker for details.
*nods*

I'm pushing myself so hard that I'm ready to wave the white flag pretty soon.
BUT I SHANT GIVE UP!
I went alittle nuts, and started digging quotes.
My favourites are...

You may lose faith on us but never on yourself ~ Optimus Prime.

Doing your best in this moment, puts you in the best place for the next moment ~ Oprah

I know!
My quote references arent' quite the most credible sources, but they make total sense alright!
Tsk!

I shalllllll.. show off some of my hardwork.
Yay! I love Show and Tell!
Hahahahha.

You should prepare yourself for an overload of Daphne.
It's time like this when I'm totally in love with myself!

I deserve all that self pimping after all the hardwork that I've put in!
Especially if you saw the originals before I turned them into this - You'll be insisting that I'm genius!

Lol.

My Harajuku Doll Dress.
Extremely in love with them and my "bunny ears" hairband.
Woots!

And if you scrutinize both pictures really really hard, I've got fuschia pink eyes!

Sister lent me her Coastal Scent color palette, and looking at it was sheer joy - I'd say it's like receiving a box of Colleen Color pencils in 120 colors when you were a kid or something like that - for my mom usually only equipped me with the 48 color basic pack for school, citing YOU DONT NEED SO MANY COLORS FOR SCHOOL > LOOK AT HOW HEAVY YOUR BAG IS! :( I'm such a deprived kid.

Joy and glee aside, it was kinda tough, as I kept forgetting which shade of Pink I was using - it was like playing "spot the difference"
Let me show you why!

Digression aside, back to my Harajuku dress.

I kept the Blu Grey version of the Harajuku dress, as I "vowed" *ahem* to stop buying white stuff to wear. Wardrobe's overflowing with white/cream/pearl - yeah, you get the peekture.

With my peach colored bunny ears!

Blu Grey is pretty pretty too right?

and there was my Safari Lioness dress!
Pink and White glows on me.... while the Sand and Olive was Meh! Made me look like I was sick and dying.

Night watch is another of my favourite!
I kept the Teal Blue for myself, and gave Da the black version - but she happily exchanged it for the Teal Blue too, just because she's sick of Black.
I guess her anti black, is probably the same as my anti white phase at the moment.

And here's my new favourite Shorts!
The Peplum.
Ta Dah!
I like the touch of Mermaid Candy star necklace.
Makes the Monotone outfit alittle more.... colored? :)

I've decided to keept the Peplum shorts in pink, because I don't have a pink shorts?
That, and so I can secretly wear white some times, because I like to match my pink shorts with white.

Lastly before I end off, my new favourite Tigress Tee!

I know I said that I dont wear Tee Shirts a few post ago...but you have to read the fine print ok... I said I dont wear UNISEX tee shirt.

This one has a Tigress wearing Heart shaped glasses!

So It's confirm a Girlie Tee shirt!

Practically living in this Tee everytime I head over to Wavehouse.

♥ it alot!

I added the Parrot Feather "earrings" for the photoshoot. :)

Lots of accessories not uploaded yet.

I shall work hard!

But it's really time to call it a day and go shower.

That's about all that I've done up so far for Bowtique's new stuff.

Decided that it totally doesnt make sense for Bowtique to be in idle mode, until my full collection is up. Shopping should not be determined by weekly or bi-monthly collection.
It is technically an everyday thing right!

Therefore I've taken to uploading something new every other day.
*beams*

Need to shower and hit the bed.
I think i have been so stressed that I've dreamt of chirpy-twitty little birds 2 nights in a row, and waking up at 10am automatically.

* I dont usually have dreams or remember my dreams.
Neither do I wake up much in the AM.
I must be Stressed.

In my head: There must be an angel - Eurythmics
lalalalalalalalalalalala...

Just because I'm bored...

2011-07-04T01:05:00.002+08:00

So the girls were talking about their chinese names and how the strokes would affect their overall personality and whatnots, just some weeks back, and the thing that struck me was - How the hell did they know the meaning of their chinese name?!

Fine, they had the heads up because they each consulted the chinese-dissect-your-name master (sorry, I dont know what are they called professionally), and I never saw the need to see one, and for that, I felt like I was cheated out of a conversation topic for a good 5 minutes.

I shall google up the most basic meaning of my name, just so I wont feel left out / feel like i've been cheated off an experience.
Hahah.

Well based on what i've gathered....

Great!
That essentially makes me a plum that supposedly has both brains and looks.

Why! With a name like this, by right I should be darn pretty and genius leh!

Hahahah
Who knows - without the name it could have been much worst right?

Shall stop complaining :x

ps: I've been hard at work photoshopping.
I seriously look like a panda now, and getting quite pro at repeating the same few steps.

Everything had better fly off the shelf like hotcakes!
Wait! Make it better! I want them "Hot" like the highly sought after Coke glass I've been collecting!

Speaking of collectible glass cans, I'm TOTALLY intending to lay off MACdonalds for the ENTIRE JULY!

However, I am a proud owner of MANY MANY Coke Can Glass.
Yay! to crazy weekly MAC binges and a possible future clogged artery.

Hangers... Demand vs supply.

2011-07-02T00:13:00.004+08:00

I randomly declared to mommy that the Clothes Hangers seems to be a precious commodity at home, and she burst out laughing.

I'm quite serious!
We never seem to have enough hangers around at home - despite the fact that she buys them ever so often.

Da and I have resorted to hiding our stash of hangers in our own "respective" hiding places", while the mother has resorted to hanger hunting. -_-"

I swear it's like some silly hide and seek game!
Not exactly fun, coz the party with the lesser hanger always get annoyed.

Like Da's forever saying : who took my hangers again!

While mommy's tagline goes something like "where has all the hangers in the house disappeared to?!"
For the Mother uses them to hang her freshly laundered laundry.

As for me - I've resorted to 1 hanger holding out 5 dresses or something like that.
Compress whatever wardrobe space I have to accomodate to the situation.
Too much clothes, too little space to hold up all the hangers I need- that, and the lack of hanger that plagues the house.

Seems like a great solution for me, but I have to admit that my compression strategy has since killed off a couple of ancient hangers.
The ancient ones could not succumb to the tugging pressure - and cracked into pieces.

In one of her hanger hunting moments, she'll walk into my room and spot fragments of another lost comrade.
The mother would then give me the evil eye and say to me "stop killing the hangers! "
"Already we never seem to have enough at home, and here you are killing them"

(I do have to confess that as much as mommy may be acquiring new hangers actively, I've been "retrenching" a couple of her oldies on the sideline.)

Haahaha.

Funny
(pardon my humour, I truly understand that i'm odd at times, and not everyone finds them funny - so the sister has informed me. LOL)

Bokeh, Transformer 3 and other whining.

2011-06-29T04:20:00.001+08:00

My newest addition to my Bokeh effects.
I hope i'm getting better - but i'm not fully satisfied with what's acheived here either.
Blah.
Loving my feathers tho - was fixing and fooling around with styles for the next photoshoot, when I took this. :)
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On other news,
I. Need. to. wake. up. early. for wavehouse tomorrow.

All that Popcorn binge-ing from watching Transformer 3 - dark of the moon earlier
is taking its toil on my throat. (That and mommy's attempt in feeding me lots of mango that she bought over the weekend + that packet of Super Ring that I could not resist)

Transformer 3 is good, glad that Megan Fox is out of the movie, but the "supposedly" new "hottie" isn't quite my definition of Hottie tho.
Yes she has a hot body and face, but it seems like she O.Ded on the Mouth Botox or perhaps the bee stung her lips? Aside from her pouty pouty lips, i'm actually okay with whatshername. ( too much effort to google her name, unlike my pretty mermaid in Pirates of the Carribean)

Looking forward to Hogwarts in end July.

Desperately rehydrating now, but I seem to be fighting a losing battle.

Gwen Stefani - Harajuku lovers Beats earphones.

2011-06-28T15:57:00.003+08:00

Aaayyy Waaaaaaaant!

So cute!

*stares at the pair of Red Lady Gaga earphones currently using*

I still love you, but the Harajuku one is also love!

The way I look at it, my set of Lady Gaga Heartbeat matches my new red bling phone cover, + Nano casing pretty well.

Let me illustrate to you what I mean.. :)

Lady Gaga with Phone...

Nano cover + Heartbeats + phone. Nice!

In my head, the Harajuku in the Chrome color looks awesome with everything as well.

The cute Harajuku ones just cant stop popping up in my head.

Rwar!

Fancy this as well... but it doesnt match with everything else!

why does it have to be in baby blue?

red bow with white/pink variant works as well what! :(

Need to digress..

Bought a new poofy pouch yesterday because it's soooooo cute.

Peeping into my bag now makes me happy.

Why?

Everything's matchy matchy and color coded.

White, Red, Silver and Bling!

Even the keys! But I refuse to run to the door to fetch the keys in for a photoshoot, so we'll just make do with the product pictures from Bowtique

Yay!

Nice right?

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And now I have this "fancier" idea...

to wear my Harajuku doll Dress and have matchy earphones...

Cutest dolls I've met for a while.

Haha!

Couldn't resist and I wore them in Bangkok the very next day! :p

Purple Chic

2011-06-23T22:33:00.001+08:00

Heart my Purple Dress, especially the the Chain details on the shoulder.
Available in Black, White and Purple in the next Bowtique collection launch.
Lazy to post picture of the entire dress.
But it's really just a simple tank top dress with the awesome chain details - easy to envision right?
:)

♥

Old pictures of past outfits...

2011-06-22T19:16:00.004+08:00

I have a terrible bad habit of taking a pictures and not remembering to post them up.

I found these picture in the camera from a million years ago, while hunting for other pictures.

Here's 2 black and white outfit that I'll like to share with different looks.

Can't even remember where I was heading out to...

But since I kinda like my simple but chic look for the night... I figured that I should share! :)

What I wore for the night:

My trusty black jacket from Far East since the start of the world.

Edgy Skater Dress from Bowtique

Pitcher Plant Necklace from Amado Gudek that the owner, Elaine gave to me early this year.

Elastic Belt from Far East

Mono art Floral Bracelet I bought from Stella's shop when Audrey and I dropped by Haji Lane last year.

It's times like these that reckons I like my accessories more than my clothes!

This picture shows my accessories better..

Yet another Mono colored outfit!

Looking it it, I did not realize it was a Black and white phase I was in.

kwakwakwa...

Stripes and Bow Top from Bowtique

Dotted Ribbon from my own wardrobe

Little Black Shorts from Bowtique

Ribbon Buckle Belt from Bangkok.

Now we play Spot the Difference!
What's the difference between the next 2 pictures?

Nothing much...
Just the change in Ribbons, and the +/- of accessories.
I settled for the clashing of dots and stripes and sauntered out of home for coffee.
Lalala..

Beer Festival, Wavehouse and a haircut.

2011-06-19T00:38:00.003+08:00

Spent the entire Saturday feeling abit Meh
Had to force myself to wake up for my hair appointment that I booked for myself and mommy, and she had to call me twice to make sure that I was awake and making my way out.
Madam was upset that I was almost an hour late.

I reckon it was Friday's activities that gave me a lethargic Saturday and achy arms - and i'll talk abt friday in abit.

So here's the hair post trimming.

Wow!

Hair looks exactly the same! :D

I took off about 2-3 inches off, re-layered the top and it just looked sleeker from the blowdry.

Remember my post about delaying a trip to the hairdressers..

I decided, I needed that hair trim bad, for I. stopped. using. the. comb.

It was prehistoric cave girl life for a week, and hobo chic hair was totally my bestfriend!

Hairpins could get lost in my hair jungle, and I would only realize its existence when I'm shampooing.

Whining aside, I was so exhausted that I flopped into bed after I was done with dinner (it's not an uncommon practise for me), and woke up 2 hours later, with the girls asking if I would join them at Zirca...

I obviously chose to stay home to recharge, for a better Sunday.
Contemplated sleeping through to Sunday, if it wasn't for the fact that I need to wash my make up goobs off the face, and that I was hungry again.

What transpired on Friday?

Headed over to Wave House and "rode" the waves for 2 hours straight and grew a tan.
That's some massive cardio workout for a sloth like me.
But I'm improving!

Had a late "lunch" at 4ish in the evening at Carls Junior Vivocity.
Portobello Mushroom burger - I love you!
Headed home and ate dinner - Fell asleep (again) post dinner,
woke up and headed out for some last minute Beer Festival at the Flyer.
Free Tickets!

Wore Bowtique's Blood Orange Jumpsuit - launching in the next collection with my myriad of accessories.
Yes, I'm quite the accessory gypsy and check out my red bling bling phone cover!!
Crappy picture the BB produces. Never fails to amaze me...
Sigh.

By the time I got there, the rest were already semi wasted.
We toured around the festival and I discovered the nicest tasting beer ever!
I fell in love with the North Taiwanese Beer. The beer came in Lychee and Honey Melon flavour - love the fruitiness and sweet after taste, and I've never been a fan of beer in my life!

The cute label packaging of the bottle gave it a +10 cuteness
Hehehe.
I was a happy NTW beer guzzler, until the alcohol kicks in.

That's when I asked for food, and we left for Macs.
I went home a happy + tired girl with my third purple coke glass!

Ending my post with the Tags I've collected for Friday. :)