Invalid for a day..

I'm not sure how I did it, but I woke up with a crappy lower back.
Wincing in pain as I roll around to stretch out the muscle kinks - perhaps I did some saltimbanco worthy stunts while asleep.

more than 12 hours has passed since...
tons of stretching, wincing and whining...
I believe its getting better.
From sharp pains caused by any movements, to minor dull throbbing pains...
I believe its a great progression.

Time to order a vampire worthy coffin to sleep in?

apparently this doll is called Draculaura.
They make vampire dolls now?!
What exactly is the world coming to now?
Tsk
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On other note, the internet at home was down since late Saturday.

I spent more than 24 hours without internet access, and it does horrible things to my mood.

Yeah, luckily the mobile phone is functioning..otherwise - I'd have turn very nasty.

We arranged for the service provider to send their dudes over...and they did not solve my problem at all!
(Faulty modem) and the dude told me that modem is working perfectly, and that the wires were loose, and i'm just a bimbo who know nuts about cables and all (so that was the feeling he gave me.)
WTF!

The minute he left, my modem crashed again.
Who's the smart alex now?!


That's it.
I turned into psycho Daphne, and took matters into my own hands.
I decided to swap modems.
(Technically the phone modem is healthy, while the internet modem was ailing...and I did a minute's worth of spot the difference - hey! they're the same thing right?! )

Called the ISP, demanded that they tweak the settings on their end, and viola!
Internet is up running on the phone's modem, and as for the phone.....who needs the house phone anyway?!

I dont.
*whistles*
i'm back to the virtual world, wondering why didnt the brains think about the modem swap like 24 hours earlier...
could have saved me alot of unnecessary blood pressure build up.



Well the dude's coming over with the new modem tmr morning.
He'd better get it right this time, for my patience is crepe thin at the moment.

Shopping alone.

Bestie's back for his food entitlement trip, and some way or another - I got reminded about something he said to me sometime back.

He said that my loner streak is extremely evident whenever it comes to shopping.
I can still remember the day he said that to me, and unknowingly - his words rang in my head just a minute ago.

I remembered the day where we had time to kill before a salsa performance, and everyone went about town doing their own things.
the boys mentioned about getting food, and I declared that I was heading out to shop - when the other girls stated their intention of hitting the shops too.
In response, I disappeared quicker than one can suggest "let's shop together".

Save for a few special people, I rarely shop socially.
I find it extremely annoying actually - for various reasons.
To think about it, perhaps the thought of spending prolonged time together scares me.
For it takes more effort to please another person than to please myself.

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First of all, I believe that retail therapy is to be done purely at my own for the fact that everyone moves at a different pace.
Some faster some slower.
For when I set out to conquer a building, I WILL.
In heels, at my own pace, many hours without any rest and breaks- I CAN.

I find it odd to have to hang around in an uninteresting store for prolonged browsing just because its rude not to, because someone else is not done browsing yet.
Zzzzz.

Dont get me wrong. Like I said - I do shop with a few special people, but thankfully none of them in my special list happen to be wishy washy ladies.
My patience and team play doesnt go very far in this aspect.
Hahahah.

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Not forgetting my very odd habit of combing the stores to every tooth and nail when I set my mind to getting a particular style/item that I set my heart on.
I can comb a building twice or triple it, if I think the item can be found within the premise of the building.

This insanity streak is something that a rare few can understand or withstand.
I hunt and source like a tyrant.
#truestory

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I hate being hampered by opinions aside from my own, which is why I shop alone in the first place right?
But I get opinions anyway, even if I dont ask :(
Dafuq!

I think the most annoying opinion award would probably goes to my mother.

That woman never gets it. Ever!
We can have the same conversation by installments with regards to what I wear out.
Take my hair for example- She has to pick on my hairpiece or the way my hair is being styled when we are already in the midst of traveling, telling me about how they are too exaggerated.

Months later, she'll pick on another of my hair piece again when we're travelling.
Bless her perseverance!
By now, she should have realized that I would NEVER budge for anything in the world once I've set foot out of the house.
Lucky for her, she gets away with a million annoying stuff just because she's mom.

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I also detest it when people ask me for my opinion, and still do the exact opposite.
For that, I never trap people by asking them for their opinion of whatever outfit I chose for the day.
Maybe it's because I'm not even interested in finding out at all?

Why ask?
Indeed one of the stupidest practise that the society does.
Social shopping? Bah!
Loads of humbug!

Black or yellow, she'll ask.
I say i'd go with the yellow, because it brightens one's skin.
And black she chose, because its easier to match.
zzZzzz..


Should I buy?
No, because it doesnt fit you well.
proceeds to buy anyway.
Seriously, I swear to god that you'll never wear it out, just because you'll never.
So why ask anyway when you've already made up your mind?

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Lastly, I never understood the rationale behind dragging a guy along when one needs to shop.
Nothing gets accomplished after a day's worth of walking about.
Their opinions are from a whole new mind boggling dimension like - Sweetie, don't you already have a dress that looks something like this in another color/fabric/what you're wearing now?

*Exasperating*
Personally I think its more magical for outfits to be assembled and worn for the next date, than for them to see, sweat and take part in the entire process of wardrobe compilation.


Shopping alone proves to be good, for I'll never need to lie, provide socially pleasing answers, or risk boring my shopping companions.

Peace!

Trixie hates the smell of the bitter lime spray

Trixie has a terrible habit of licking her front paws. They are discoloring as a result of overlicking, and they always look as if I've applied gel on her paws. It annoys me how terribly messy she constantly is. I couldn't take it, and I bought the Bitter lime spray as a tool to discourage her excessive paw licks.

This is Trixie after I caught her at her third attempt in licking her two front paws.
So I took out the spray and threatened to erm...spray her paws.
Her reaction to the nozzle of the bottle is commendable, as she holds her breath valiantly.
As mommy puts it, her eyes are always full of expression!
Hahahah.


 

Okay, I did spray the bitter lime on her paws at her fourth attempt to lick them after this video.

Aspirin Face scrub

I've read raving reviews about using Aspirin mask and the glowing wonders it does for the skin.

Fortunately for me, I decided on the Aspirin Scrub, instead of a mask or toner or Blah...other skin infusing methods.

Being the curious kitty I usually am, I couldn't resist trying it out.
I bought my freaking box of uncoated Aspirin from Guardian Pharmacy at 11.30pm at night.
I love Holland Village for that. Yay!
I bought a box of 24 tablets for roughly $6

Based on all the googling I did, Asprin contains a chemical known as Acetylsalicylic Acid. Of which, Salicylic is an important key ingredient present in many skin care products - known mainly for the use against Acne, dandruff, as it has anti inflammatory properties.
It also helps to exfoliate - therefore it unclogs the pores and rids the skin of excess sebums / blackheads.

However, Aspirin does has its known side effects, and therefore I WOULD NOT advise anyone to pick up the drug the way I did and due-ly use them without reading up on its possible side effects and allergies symptoms etc..
Just GOOGLE Aspirin Side Effects, and you could possibly entertain yourself on its adverse effects of internal bleeding, how it is not suitable for humans below 18 years old, for pregnant ladies and other health related issue for a moment's folly of vanity's sake.
I will not be held responsible for any side effects or deaths you get from trying this Aspirin adventure.

So anyway,
I did the gungho deed, despite reading (yeah, I'm one of those really optimistic people who believe in enjoying now and worry about the effects later... ) and added water and 2 tablets of Aspirin to be used as a scrub for the face.

The Aspirin dissolved into a white pulp when it contacted water.
I tried to exercise care in scrubbing gently, as the dissolved bits were rather rough.

Wow wee!
After a quick scrub, the pores looked cleaner, with special emphasis on the T Zone (sorry no pictorial evidence but the black heads were really visibly cleared off)

And already I was calculating how often I should attempt my little aspirin facial and my new found potion to awesome skin.
Happy like a bird.

Unfortunately, I did not react very well to mediation, and after about an hour, I felt rather light headed.
Oops.

Apparently, I also found out that medication can be absorbed into our bloodstream when applied on the skin. So I guess 2 dosage of Aspirin is too much for me, even if it was a "Touch and rinse" affair?

I wasn't in any major discomfort, merely light headed and rather thirsty.
I chugged down some water and gave up on the novel that I was rather absorbed in, and called it a night.
I woke up happy the next day, with unclogged pores to boot.

Apparently some girl said she puked after her Aspirin mask.
Oh well, thankfully my supper remained in my system.

I told a few people about my Aspirin adventures and so far.....
X somewhat chided me about being so silly to be fiddling with medications, after hearing my story, and C said that she's going to give it a try anyway (despite my warnings of possibly discomfort)
and A who was present when I bought the Aspirin was skeptical about it being an awesome skin food.
I doubt i'll get my mommy to try out this one, despite its awesome effects, since the Madam is vunerable to bouts of nausea for no apparent reasons.

As for me, I think I might reduce the dosage to a quarter pill, should I decide to give the aspirin scrub a second try.
I'm just awesomely thankful that I didnt attempt to apply the Aspirin on my face and let it seep for prolonged hours.

Hello dangerously awesome skin.

Oh and for goodness sake, after you're done with the scrub, slather on some moisturizer.
If the Aspirin's good enough to eradicate even the toughest blackhead from within the pore, your skin obviously needs as much hydration as you have to offer.
Dont be an idiot.

Trixie afer 1 year old

To beat the monday blues...
here's an old video of the Dog playing "dead"





Her newer trick would be to "tunnel" and hop over my legs, like an agility obstacle.
This is my darling looking cute doing her thing

Buying Trip

It's been a busy week packed with events, and I'm flying off in less than 24hours, and I haven't started on the packing yet!

I have a good mind to just fly off without anything, and buy up EVERYTHING there.

Hello China, we're meeting again with the new passport!
This time, Dad informed me in less than 3 days, bought my tickets and I'm flying off alone for the frigging first time in my life!

Okay, I'm not that brave yet.
My papa's gonna pick me up at the airport in China.
I can't wait to meet Ben and Sam in FURson!
Meow!

I told the brother and mom that I'm contemplating sleeping with the cats!
(Though I think i'll itch and sneeze to death if I really do take up that option)
Hahahah!


Looking forward to the buying trip.
Excited about the new brand, and the opportunity to dabble in brand and style building from the scratch.
Downside? Everything's gonna be in chinese and reading in Chinese annoys me.

ok, I'm still anticipating on behalf of the Brand.
Lol!
*wags tail Trixie stumpy tail style*

Going pink bananas

Spring transiting to summer, I went through an entire hoard of Pastel colors, especially coral and nude and a mixture of dark red and purple.....

Now that it's full fledge summer, I've since moved on to neon pink, and perhaps a dash of highlighter yellow.

Coming from me, touching yellow seems rather exciting already!

I strongly came from the camp that I would look like a walking cheese if I wore yellow.

Oh well, too late, I've already crossed into cheese camp.

Will update if time and boredom permits!

Some post ago, I mentioned about the fringing craze that I was in?

Yeah, this is my fringed up top.

I went alittle nuts, and The entire top looked a little too stringy for my liking after a good wash.

Reminds me of a mop.

Fringed up top was bought from F21 clearance and it cost me $10

The crazy hippie shorts I paired with?

Best buy ever! It cost me $2.50 (RM5)

I picked it up from a Bazaar at the mall, while I was in Malaysia with the fam in May. 

Best part of it all?? 

The mom paid for it. 

Hahahahah.

Minus the cardigan, bag and shoe, that's my $12.50 outfit for me.

Hahahaha

The fun I had fringing it?

Priceless.

Went to Holland Village for cakes, coffee and discussion and ended up shopping in town 

Felt like a hobo walking about town doing my own thing, while everyone was dressed up in smartly from their work day 

Whatever.. that makes me a town hobo for the day with fuzzy hair to boot.

Yay!

I love the colors actually.

The sister came back from her NY trip, and got me more feathers.

Between the two of us, i'm not sure who's crazier over the feathery craze.

Here's yours truly doing the Pocahontas thingie again.

I edited the picture to make the feather texture obvious.

Lalalla..

Oh, and now we proceed to my new viz pink/neon pink craze.

i'm just 5% close from ordering this neon pink bag that I saw online.

In fact, I think I shall do it, after I'm done with this post.

I shall head out for some Macs too, since my dinner has long digested.

and throwing in 2 preview shots from my recent photoshoot with Shawn.
My outfit color totally matches my craze right now can?

OKAY BYE!

Epic email from daddy and an introduction to his cat tree..

Was rotting online and I received the most epic email from daddy. EVER.
He was updating the fam about his new baby kittens bred in China, and I burst out laughing to myself reading what he wrote.
Lol

Pardon his written english.
They've since gone down the drain from spending too much time in China.

eh?
Baffling?
My dad's making comparison between his cats and his 3 kids.
Le sigh.

Nevermind.

Anyway...
This is baby Hachiko.
Daddy's first Garfield Cat in China.
He's a cross breed between the Persian and American Shorthair.
It's official name is called Exotic Shorthair - but my dad fondly refers to them as his garfields.
They are known to be similar to Persian Cats in temperment, only with shorter denser furcoats.

 Anyway, Hachiko grew up looking to be a Fat Yakuza looking daddy kitty. -_-"

Mommy Cat is called Fat girl ( Fat Meimei)
She's very much prettier, compared to Hachiko.

Anyway, Batch 1 Kittens look like this.

They are about slightly over a year old now.

 Left is our Miss Fatty (Kutu) and on the right is her brother Little yellow when they were a couple of months old, camping out at the old office.

Miss Fatty is apparently a really sleepy cat.

She's currently weighing 5kg, and that's about the same weight as Trixie the Dog!

She sleeps practically everywhere.
Dad can make her pose anyhow, and she sleeps on anyway.
Cute huh?
That's miss fatty estimated to be 2 months old camping out at a spare work desk area.
Looking at the way she sleeps, i'm feeling sleepy too.
Wooo...

Batch 2 Kitties. 

They are currently less than 2.5 Months old 

This is Ben the authentic Garfield in color, features and gender.

He's apparently more dumbwitted as compared to Sam.

This is Sam - we're not sure what went wrong, but he doesnt seem to have inherited his family's button nose.
I joked that this one's got his grandparent's 20% foreign blood, or might have plastic surgery to get himself a nice nose bridge.
Hahahhaa.

Weird facts.
Apparently "garfields" have a straight lined feature (refer to Ben and Hachiko's facial shot for reference).  
Their eyes and nose formed almost a straight line, while normal cats usually have a triangular feature that looks like this -.-

Most, in fact he says ALL female cats are tricolored
Male cats are always dual colored
?!!
I challenged my dad about this.
Coz our old cat, Murry is female and all my life she's always been my Black and White cat.
Where the bleep is the third color lurking around at?
He says she's got some slight grey fur that I probably never took note of, like the borders of her patches between the black and white areas..
Can't dispute that, since she's no longer alive.

Apparently google supports this theory.
Genetically, all tricolored cats will be female because of the chromosomes involved.

simply put, the genetic coding for orange or black fur is contained on the X chromosome. Since female animals have two X chromosomes (XX), they can display two colors (orange AND black) as well as a third color. Since males (XY) have just one X chromosome, they are either orange OR black but not both. The coding for white, by the way, is a separate, non-sex-related gene. 

Is it impossible then for male cats to be tri-colored? No, but it’s a rare genetic aberration. In these cases, the cat will have two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome (XXY)—similar to a human condition called Klinefelter’s syndrome, or XXY syndrome. These kitties are usually unable to breed.

Cool huh?
I'm gonna flip the next dual colored female cat that cross my path just to spot her 3rd color.
Hahahahahha

Summer Summer

My newly painted summer floral nails.

Coral based.

Red, pink, purple petal floral artwork topped with some crystals on my thumb to celebrate summer!

Paired with an odd peach pink glitter on both of my ring fingers, my nails are finally pretty again.

I'm kinda happy with this very odd mish mash of nail at like 5am in the morning.

ahhh... so good to be looking at them!

I was living with shitty nails for the past 2 weeks.

It was excruciatingly painful to stare at ugly nails.

It's one of those things that I cannot live with - ugly nails.

Hahaha!

At 19, I was the nutty kid who wrote a freaking communications thesis paper on the importance of nail and nail art back in design school.

It was an important module I had to erm go through, to graduate from Temasek poly.

Stupid but true.

Anyway, with a stroke of good luck, I handsewed all 6 pieces of uniform for the coming week's job, and will be fixing up the last bits with the sewing machine tomorrow.

Rwar!!

So my nails was at its ultimate ugliest for 2012.

While I was at it (sewing) the past 3 days, I promptly got reminded why I would never ever be a Haute Couture fashion designer in this life, no matter how much I love clothes.

The amount of hand sewing involved would totally have killed me.

Sewing for my own use is kinda fun. (plus nobody cares if the workmanship sucks, as long as I can get past myself....)

Sewing the same design repeatedly for commercial use is quite the chore, especially when the initial excitement and adrenaline of creating has ceased.

Sewing neatly is the ultimate test of patience x 6.

Woolalala... no thanks to that crappy supplier with bad bad bad logistic management skills.

I gave them a hard time, the Aladeen way.

Lolol.

and this marks a 70% end to Daphne's sweatshop week.

okay bye!