I'm still breathing

Ahhh.. I seemed to have disappeared from the surface of the cyber world.
I'm very much well and alive, and just extremely sleep deprived of late.

If my eyebags are of any monetary value, I'd be a rich lady by now.
Hahahha!
#kidding!

Too tired and busy to bother with taking proper pictures of myself, so we'll have to make do with my random shots of my Outfit of the day as a cheap form of updates! 

Looking Pocahontas

Rocking the look with:

my defunct #bowtique's lioness asymmetric tasseled tunic dress 

and newly bought mphosis sandals. 

I was camping in the toilet waiting for C to be done with her toilet routine.

Pin up Sailorette 

Bowtique Sweetheart halter in Black and White.

Black scalloped rimmed crochet shorts 

Jersey sash

Black heels (of course!)

Wore it to Zouk night some weeks ago.

Lol. 

Top's from my Defunct #Bowtique as well, as I'm on a wardrobe rewind.

I emptied out and repacked my wardrobe when mommy wanted to donate clothes away to the charity collection. 

Out of sight, out of mind.

That's how it usually works for me.

Back to the outfit, love the top, because it reminded me of the old school pin up girl.

The sweetheart neckline halter, the overall silhouette.

I'm just lacking the crazy hourglass figure and the fingerwaves on the hair to pull off the entire look.

:(

Just in case you have no idea what I meant by pin up girls...

they're just so quaint and gorgeous.

Rwar! I like!

Purple power
Watercolored floral shorts in Navy chiffon
Paired with vintage purple tube from Mango ( bought them in 2005/06)
and purple bronze heels.
not forgetting my swag of Arm candies in a myraid of purple

Waited at the dressing area, while the girls changed into their uniforms for the
golf event held at the Raffles Country Club.
I was looking forward to even-ning out my tanlines that day, but it started to drizzle instead.

this is probably my second newest addition to my shorts collection.

Watercolored floral summer shorts.

I'm in love with them!

But they're just too memorable to wear them out often!

Back when I was a kid, I went through this crazy phase of wearing the same frigging favourite outfit out whenever it came out from the wash.

A few weekends later, the mother decides that she's had enough with THAT outfit, that she dealt the ultimatum to me.

She said" 

"Either you change out of that damn thing, or we're not going out." 

whaaaa I was a heart broken kid.

I must have been scarred for life, for I never repeated my outfit in a week, and I actually remember what I wear when I last met every single person.

Actually to think about it, My outfits rarely repeats in the same month.

Wahahahha...

The mother now sings a different tune

"STOP BUYING! your wardrobe is bursting!"

Seriously,  the woman is such a tough nut to please.

zzz...

Going Bohemian, I guessed I got my tan on the last day of Beer Fest.

I love my long long long white bohemian dress to bits.

They're alittle too big for me though.

Bohemian casuals

White bohemian dress from Fox (2010 collection)

white hairband

Pink beige clutch

stacked Platform shoes

Raybans

and white gold arm candies

The day my bag died outfit
Donut hair.
Aviator shades in baby blue
mphosis asymmetrical top in white
Cotton on Navy shorts
Braided white belt
my beige dead bag.
#le sigh

Headed out to the pet farm with C, and that was the last time I saw/used my bag.

They died. 

Seriously, I bought them at the start of 2012, and its barely end of june, and it's RIP-ed

All I did was to carry some baby dinosaurs (like real!)  in them and the handles died.

Kapoosh

After the trip to the pet farm, I kiaped (grasp) my beloved bag under my armpits and sent it back

to the store.

I've been told that it was a design flaw that that caused the handles to fall off.

Now i'm told to select another bag from their store of the same retail value.

Whaaaaat?!

I just want my bag back please!

Im super loyal like that.

Even though the mother is super impressed with their customer service after she heard my rants.

Meeh. 

#unimpressed.

Impressive would be them making the effort to alter the design flaw for me.

Hmpf!

Dont get me wrong.

I'm not demanding, I just have high expectations.

---

Finally! we're done with me!me! me!

Moving on to my zoo,

I gave Trixie a heart shaped fur-ttoo with just a pair of scissors.

I do not own a shaver in the house, and scared to death about slicing the dog with the open blade.

Hence forth just pure scissor work.

MLP inspired!

same initials ok!

My Little Puppy vs My Little Pony!

I'm growing her fur long until further notice.
I seriously wonder how a long haired schnauzer look like.
Perhaps a black sheep.
How cute!

The brother is unimpressed with my latest fur cut for Trixie.

Guys just dont get it.

My little pony is my childhood cartoon and mythical creature, just because they are so pretty with the tinself hair and all!

I added tinsel strands onto my hair years back, and it was the same story.

Guys gave me the WTF! eyebrow expression, and girls goes omg! 

Rwar!

My pretty bunneee
He was grouchy as usual.
Perhaps he thinks its manly for bunnee to look grouchy?
#Emofurbag.

The dog's looking emo too.

Been neglecting her over work lately, and she'll trot over to me armed with this face, to earn  some real human attention.

Apparently distracted displays of affection (involves alot of computer staring and absent mindedly stroking her) does not pacify the attention liking doggie at all.

Hahaha

Priceless moment!

So happy to get a price tag on her nose.

Made her a pair of bunny ear cap, just because I want it, and the fastest way was to sew them myself, than to hunt them off ebay.

okay, bye!

Til the next breather!

Back after Beer fest

I'm alive!
The short hiatus was from the lack of energy and time to post.
Been busy with the Beerfest 2012!
I survived all 4 days and am extremely glad that my girls did well in the past 4 days.
*beams*
So so so thankful that the event went smoothly with the minor hiccups from one of my girl with an untimely toothache.
 :(

 I know I said 4 days right! But I lost my orange tag from Thursday.
#Icancountmytagsokay!

It seems like time's constantly travelling on the express lane, as it was like a blink when I went for the 2011 Beerfest..
Raving on and on about the lychee beer from North Taiwan.
Well I drank it for 4 whole days this year, and looking at the bottles of Lychee beer in my fridge, i'm feeling overdosed now.
Dont get me wrong, I'm never an alcoholic.
I just enjoy tasting beer, not consuming in large quantities.

Fooled around with my hair and accessories in preparation of the photoshoot.

Found this random picture, so Tadaaaa!

Zero relevance to the Fest event.

Met my "manja" Trixie lately?
She decided that the most comfortable position would usually involved laying her body parts on her human.
I found a tiny tee shirt from my stash of randomies picked up from my days working in GAP's sourcing office.
Doggie is currently the happy recipient of my mustard tee for Toddlers.
She looks like a monkey whenever she wears the Tee.
Mustard yellow is definitely not her color.

Went for E's birthday party, and I disliked all the wrappers I found at home and it was too late to head out and get nice ones, so I made do with everyday materials found at home, and here we go!

White printing paper + my lace stamp kit + stamp ink pad in metallic rose pink + origami paper in yellow + craft glue + quilling tool.

Did I ever mention that my real secret talent actually lies in paper creatives?
Just colored paper, craft glue and an inspiration - I'll be entertained for hours or even days!
Hahahha.
It's just too bad that no one really gives a hoot about what can be created with just mere paper and glue!

Ending the post with Trixie looking very cute.
She wanted to check out my eyelash curler out of curiousity, therefore the crossed eyes and curious face.
*sniff sniff sniff*

Of Dusty Sheets and Sensitive Skin

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like an itchy monkey, and therefore writing this post instead of sleeping at 7am in the morning is super loser.
Hahaha!

This is what I get when I attempt sleep in sheets that are 1 month 5 days old. :(
Anything past a monthish, it would feel as if I'm sleeping in a bed of feathery crawly worms.
It gets so bad, that I'd get jolted awake from the persistent itch that I get all over, and here I am!

Wehhhh :(

I'm not sure what is the exact cause of the itchy scratchy feeling, but I figured it might just be dust?!!
#The Awkward Moment when you realize that you are allergic to dust.
It's as if there is a dirt-meter embedded somewhere and once it hits a certain amount of grime, and I'll just become little miss itchy monkey!

I never fail to itch whenever I pack up neglected corners, or partake in spring cleaning and stuff.

I'm ruling out dirt, because I ALWAYS shower before I crawl into bed everynight.
The dog has no access to the bed + I've always had this problem even before Trixie arrived
So it's either dust, dustmites and other microscopic friends - the rainbow vacuum woman once showed me very very very disgusting stuff from her product demo that she did at my place.
Rwar!!!

For that, I'll always have to thank the demo lady for planting the mental image of "a dust mite population having a wild rave party, at the expense of my erm...dead skin flakes/skin cells/skin whatever.  
Like a full moon party.
ZzzzzzZzz..

It has nothing to do with my mental psych, as I'll be dead asleep for a few hours, and next thing I know I'd be up scratching up a storm!


On other news, this is my only consolation from the workout I had at the break of dawn.
New sheets! :D

On totally irrelevant news, meet my byproduct from Mac-binge-ing.

Just one more MacKitty to go!

Happy Birthday

As May is approaching an end rather soon, I reckon that I should not procrastinate on this post any longer.

Respective to the timeline, here we go:

29th
Happy 55th Birthday Daddy!
Thank you for loving the family and me + totally doting on Trixie.
Please lose some weight on the belly, and stay uber healthy forever and ever and eva!

It's good that the daddy made it back to Singapore for his 55th!
The fam had a few imprompt dinner the past few days, and his official birthday dinner is barely digested.

We wrapped up the fun with the entire family + Trixie going down to the playground to play some shoot-into-the-sky toy.
It's some bits of plastic with LED lights attached, and with the use of a Rubberband, you propel the LED light bit into the sky.
We sort of challenged each other and the highest we shot it was about 12 storeys high, with the brother being the most consistent of the lot.
It's pretty to watch it spiral downwards with the lights and colors.
Cheap fun!
3 for RMB10.
We kinda broke the toy after too many plays.
And I shot my fingers with the rubberband twice.
Poor finger. Feels bruised.

The doggie just went down for a run at the empty ground, before we decided to let her play with the playground after we were done with the shooting toy.
Like...carry the doggie down the slide and stuff.
Trixie - seems to have taken the adventurous part of the family.
Doesnt seem to be afraid of heights, slides, wobbly seats, see saw and exercise equipments.
I even spun her in the twisty thing and she was nonchalant!
Watching the parents play at the exercise equipment part of the playground was entertaining as usual. ;)

On other news, I broke in my newly collected passport with the fam.
We tread into JB on a sunday and it was a terrible day to do so.
Jammmmed like mad. From Singapore immigrations, to causeway to Malaysia immigrations. Took us a freaking 2 hours to set foot into Johor Bahru.
I kinda caught up on my lost sleep in the car, and got myself half a tan in the process.
I think my right arm and leg is darker than my left.

Ate like a glutton in Malaysia.
mmmmmm yummy.
As I'm usually not very impressed with the fashion and clothes in JB - my only consolation would be my food binge trips.
Yay!

27th
Elizabeth's 21.
Went down on the 26th to celebrate E's 21st birthday at Sentosa.
I feel ancient there.
It was a nice floral-y fun if you ask me.
We met a peacock, and I tried taking pictures with the cocky fella.
zzzZZzz..
Saturday is a mad day to set foot into Sentosa.
The crowd is scary. Tourist move by the platoon.
It looked like they were gathering to fight a war or move a giant from Liliputt
I nearly died when I saw the Tram queue.
Thank gawd I insisted on taking the buggy, we zipped around hassle free.
:D

26th
Happy 1st birthday my little Trixie-chan.
My puppykins is no longer a puppy.
Weehhhh :(

I gave her a grown up lady doggie look, and I guess I should start calling her Trixie-san
since she's considered an adult doggie now.

Is this how mothers feel when their little babies grow up?
Coz I still think that my dog's a puppy.
A hyper monkey that does a million shuttle run a day.
Not some docile doggie as depicted by the cartoon - Lady & the Tramp by Walt disney.
No way.
She still acts like a monkey, age factor is a lie!

The dad also spammed lots of treats to the dog every time he walks past the kitchen.
His rationale was - it's her birthday!
Therefore she gets special treatment
(between the blog and me, my dad just spams tons of dog treats because he thinks its fun and the dog loves him.
The doggles practically sits next to hims whenever he has food in his hands, and shoots him sad puppy eyes. Works everytime. Rwar! That's how he spoils her.)
Wahhhhhh

Luckily he's back home inconsistently.
Otherwise I'll need to hide her stash of treats away, just like how mommy hides the tibits stash from Daddy too.
Both will be fatties together, and maybe my dog will not have fur anymore.
#Bestfriends.
Tsk.

10th

Happy Birthday Audrey.

One of my favoritest person in the world.

I'm abit sad that I havent found time to meet up with her...YET!

I will. Soon!

#i'm a Badfriend

6th

Happy Birthday Ben!

for YEARS, I never failed to wish my Bestie Happy Birthday on the 5th, and he'll always reply me that I wished him one day too early.

So I told myself that I WOULD wish him correctly this year.

Blah!

6th skipped by so quickly, and I only remembered again on the 7th.

Idiotic or what?!

There is obviously a time lapse in my head.
6th may does not exist!

The only consoling part to Ben that I never fail to remind him was that...
At least I seriously remembered his birthday without the help of gadgets, facebook and other forms of calendar. Even though the date is wrong.
Coz seriously, if I repeated the same mistakes for like more than 10 years in a row, there is something seriously wrong with me.
Just that the data entry part of my memory was "keyed" in wrongly.
Hahahha.

Okay. I'm a bad friend.
#BadfriendAgain

3rd
Happy Birthday Quacks.
May you be happy forever and settle down quickly.

Here we go.
My birthday heroes for the month of May.
May all of you be happy, healthy, and wealthy and good looking.
That's about everything that humans can wish for. :D

xoxo

Good Girl Turn Bad

Aha!
My newest fascination would be this korean song by the girl group Miss A.
Was shopping when I heard the song.
As it is korean, there is zero % of a miracle that I'll be able to google the song out - so I "soundhound" it to get the Song title.

Rwar!
Super love their Music video.
Now I want a girl group of my own.
The style direction gave me some random inspiration of my own...and ok, retreating back to my own lala land with this..
*beams*

Idle brains not

I realized that there hasn't much worth updating for the past week, and that I've been kinda occupied with everything, which is kind of a good thing, if you ask me.
Tons of stuff to be done, and I haven't gotten to collect the freaking passport.
Please please let wednesday be a good day to get the passport.
No more stupid delays -.-"

I've been talking about sending the doggie for her fur trim, and its also something undone at the moment.
She is beginning to look like a stray mongrel of sorts already.
One of those unloved puppies you see in the abused animal adverts
Hahhaha.

I tied her ears loosely together, hoping that she will look neater.
Fail.
*no dogs was harmed or hurt, otherwise she wouldn't be posing sedately for me in the pictures

#ForeverMessyDoggie

She looks kinda happy to be a rabbit doggie, if you ask me, and her hairtie matches her tongue color.
Hahahha!

Oh my Macdonalds bingeing season just started again.
Meet my Hamburglar Kitty.
She looks quite morbid in her black ribbon, but quite chi-chi as well.

Rwar! 

If only they carry the Pork Samurai Burger just like Thailand.

I miss Bangkok!

Need cheap shopping badly.

Need to breathe foreign air even more badly.

:(

Been doing quite abit of rewind lately on my old styles to influence current time.
I've been reverting back to my old photoshop favourites, and I came up with this.
Same Daphne, different ribbons, Same photoshop skills.

Jumping back to my old PS style, I sometimes wonder what the heck was I thinking of, when I did them up.

I used to fancy the comic strip look in the past too, together with my caps and short hair in tow.
Maybe I should fix up a current one to beat this monkey face strip.
I also miss my old brushes stuck in the old lappy

Time to start hunting for butterfly brushes again

Hurhurhurhur.

Updating mid may..

Everyone say hi to Bunny!

we took this last week, before I headed out to Cindy's to fix my hair (gotta love how out of shape my hair looked and the amazing black roots!).

Bunny's piling on weight like a fatty, but he's still cute with a double fur chin and his big round eyes!

The bestie brought me to his newly discovered place for supper, to replace our non existent Himawari sessions.
He ordered the Oden ( I always thought it was a jappy dish? not sure why nationality changed...but yeah...  Korean Yong tow Foo served in sticks yo)

Seriously the food portion is insanely huge, and zealously salty after one too many sticks and soup.
The place seems authentically korean and really quiet, so we could chill and gossip all we wanted!
The Oden and a small serving of vegetable pancake and it amounted to 60 bucks.
Hmmmm I'd rather stick back to buffets next time.

Thinking about this, I'm having sashimi craving at 3am in the morning!

Went shopping and I snapped my outfit of the day #OOTD while I was in the fitting room.
Not sure what you'll call this ensemble style though. : /



Another shot.
Wearing my favourite Red Tee dress.
Jersey chain necklace
Teardrop stained glass necklace from my defunct Bowtique
Grey knee socks
and my velvet grey oxfords.

I shall avoid talking about my shopping harvest... because my wallet is still screaming from the exercise. 

I shall try to spend with caution until the wallet recovers.

and post up pictures of my loots another day!

Doesn't help that I got reminded about the red bottega bag again!

And here's one of myself before I headed down for an afternoon swim looking rather

pudgey.

I'm contemplating the purple version of this bikini set in the same cut. 

Rwar! 

Should I? Should I not? Should I? Should I not..Should I?

It's not like I swim everyday right?

But still!

I have no absolute idea why my hands look so weathered and veiny here.

Like some odd job labourer's hands.

Arghhh!

Granted that I look like I need to eat more...

and put on some weight to look healthy and crappy stuff like that

Here's one of myself in 2007 taken back in Bali.

There we go - in comparison to 2007, I'm looking rather pudgey in 2012. 

Haha!

I reckon It's time to take the pilates mat out for an airing, and maybe take up that Tango class that I've been rattling on, since forever!

Mom's logic

I saw this on Facebook, and its like so true!
Wow wee!

I wonder if it'll work for bubble tea.
Hahaha

The one that got away...

This is my new favourite song!
Boyce Avenue outdid themselves again.
Yay!

Summer fringe tank tops

It's summer, and I've been hunting for the perfect fringed top for the longest time, and its sort of a failed attempt.

The ones I've found so far, are kinda too cropped and short for my liking. 

Argh. I hate showing my white belly!

I decided that I shall take matters into my own hands again, and just go ahead to fringe my own tops.

Rwar!

While Im still at my fringed craze, I also bought myself fringed heels just for kicks as well.
I took pictures of them to show Lydia my new purchase...just some days ago. :)

and here's how they look like, when worn! 

Likey!

But I have to admit that they are a tad complicating looking, so it took me awhile to fight the jungle look away, to make my feet look more modern, instead of tribal jungle girl.

Will try to post up pictures of my newly operated tank tops.

Hopefully the surgery will turn out fine for the tops, or i'll be heart broken to lose a perfectly pretty top.

*crosses fingers really hard*

Rewinding fridays

Some time back, Claud was hunting for Shanghai Rouge theme related stuff for inspiration, and she found a video link.

She happily watched and texted me to inform me that she found a video similar to what she wanted, etc and told me to check out the link.
The happy girl watched the entire video, and only at the end of the entire video when she saw my picture, she realized that I was in cahoots with youtube, called me up to scream at me.

Hahahhaha.
Like seriously, it really wasn't my fault that the first link she clicked on had me in it, but still it was funny to hear her yell.



I also realized that I've never gotten round to posting the performance video in here.
Not sure why the resolution is sooooo bad in the video, but watching it again, I guess it brings back fond memories of the event.
( I'll prolly dig around in the hard drive for my own stash of the video...and see if its any better)

*I found them!
I also realized that my camera's version of the performance is terrible in terms of footage.

The sister was being really realistic that night, and she erm.. only video-ed the important bits.

Hahahahhaha

Sometimes I really love her so much..and sometimes I just want to wring her neck so bad.

But in this instance, I heart her for being so direct with the video.

Hahahahha

I've also been told that my flyaway skirt is very distracting, but Hello! I was wearing dancing shorts underneathe ok?!
Its not my panties that i'm flashing!

Traipsing alittle more in my past entries, and I also got reminded about how unhappy I was, being Bruised Lee.
Physically worned out was a small matter (after a good 4 years, I think its finally safe to spit out the truth right?)

How I hated the internal strive between incompetent seniors who think the world of themselves (not everyone in the team, just specific ones), bureaucratic management that the team practice and the sad fact that even in hobbies, internal politics exist too (gimme a break man!)
Competitiveness is overrated.

I hate it when people have agendas and points to prove.
Blah!


Anyway, Happy Friday!
The postman just came with my shopping!

Ripping my package apart, I realized that my items are all white.
They dont look very exciting, until I get to put them on.
:)

Photologue

I found an insane number of pictures in my phone, and decided to share all my random pictures here..
it's not exactly praise worthy pictures, but heck!
Here we go!

I took this when I collected my ribboned platforms in Fiery Red.
Hmmmmm I like!
Great for rainy weathers, because those shoes are water proof?

Bunny & I
I dressed him up for Christmas, remember?
I realized that this picture never made it to any post in particular.
I only remembered this picture, when I took out my asymmetrical crochet top out to wear for the second time.
Whoops!

It's funny how Bunny perpeptually looked surprised in pictures.
Awww.. he's still a cute little guy anyway!
He hardly throws tantrum at me anymore :)

This was the first batch of cupcakes that I was raving on and on about at Urban pooch.

the extreme top 2 that was unfeatured in pictures - baileys flavoured, the pretty purple one would be the lavender cupcakes.

Eating the Lavender ones, a wave of sleepiness would wash over me. 

How relaxing!

The square cupcake would be Trina's infamous Hokkaido custard cream cake.

That's the bomb! 

Second Batch of Cupcakes that Trina baked.

We met at Ben & Jerrys this time.

The cupcakes topped with a chocolate ball are passion fruit flavoured (at a glance, I'm not sure what's wrong with me, but I keep seeing 3 nipples staring back at me. Hohohoho), while the cacao dusted ones are earl grey flavoured, paired with brandy cream. Awesome!

I changed my mind, and now my favourite would be the Earl Grey ones!

Not forgetting the Hokkaido Custard cream cake that I brought home after I was done at Ben & Jerrys.

Yums!

Linna finally brought Miso out.

In our previous outing, Linna only brought Bebe (the mommy along) 

Miso is A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!

She is like one furry clump of cutie pie!

Wahhh! I wanted to dognap her home.

She is very well behaved for a puppy, unlike certain *ahem* dog that is constantly punished at home for sneaking into the kitchen, destroying some perfectly pretty shoes and other petty crimes.

Blah.

Speaking about the doggie at home, I captured this funny shot of her after her day out at the Urban pooch cafe.

She looked like she sort of fainted.

Just like that, motionless (which is very unusual of her)

If I walked by, she'll walk a few steps to accompany me, then collapse randomly nearby.

Like a road kill. Lololo.

Highly amusing, seeing how she's always extremely hyper ALL THE TIME.

My little furry monkey has finally put on SOME weight!

She's currently 5.6kg (200grams heavier)!

So proud of her!

She's also totally capable of sitting still on the weighing machine. 

Kiut of what?!

Hahahah!

My furtile attempts to girlify my doggie - of which, I've decided to add a flower to her collar whenever we head out.

People rarely ask me about the gender of my doggie now.

Yay! Successkid.jpg

That flower is 100% handmade by me. :)

Bought the materials and just sort of put them together to get a flower!

I'm one of those who cannot stop reading a book, once I start on them.
This one was taken, when I sat in the tub with the book in my hand for too long and decided to lie flat for a back stretch.

I whispered Trixie really softly (while hiding in the tub), and this was what she did!
She popped up just to check on me, to make sure I was alright..
Awww..

Trixie chilling out in my bedroom...when I woke up from my nap.

I'm not sure why she's always looking so messy and unkempt.
Sigh..
I do try to make her neat, but it has been rather unsuccessful to date.

Look at her crappy muzzle/beard.
Rwar!

We also chill out at home together sometimes.

Dog in her bedfur, and owner in her pajammies, lying on the floor. 

Not sure why the doggie looked so emo here...

Dog was supposed to be in this shot, but she left me to scratch herself, or something.
I reckon this is how I would look like, after a face lift.
Hahahha.
No filter for this crappy picture.
Plus, there is a difference in picture quality whenever a filter is added, so...
naked faced daphne looks like a kiddo without face paint (if I ever were to get a face lift!) .
meep!

I took this after a night out, too lazy to crawl into my room.

I just sat around the dining area and chilled out with the doggles.

-  The End  -