The way you treat yourself

I chanced upon this quote that says it all. 

The way you treat yourself, sets the standard for others to treat you. 

It's an empowerment message that makes so much sense and yet so simply put forth.

I'm thankful that I'm hardly the bottom of this respect food chain that I'm talking about.

A lot of credits goes to my parents for nurturing and instilling my siblings and I with so much love, that we're probably more arrogant than humble about ourselves. 

I stepped out into the society loving myself more than anything else in the world. 

#true story

I learnt to balance out all that self love in recent years, and share it with friends and family.

I'll like to call that equilibrium actually. 

Like a good set of balancing machine. 

Love self, love family+friends, and love animals. 

There's also nature, but I'm not very good at appreciating grass and soil or trees, even though it fundamentally feeds me indirectly.

Of course, a big part of self respect evolves around making effort to look good (i mean it as looking presentable, not splashed out in luxury goods. 

Decked head to toe in branded items does not equate to looking aesthetically pleasing please!) 

It prolly equates to self respect, and also respect to others who are going to stare at you for the next couple of hours in my own perspective.

*its been a long looney week for me. 

Most of the drama happens in my head, as I stress myself out like mad to complete my last of spring and summer collection for 2014. 

In my own words, i think I'm suffering from a slight burn out from too much "pushing myself" the past week. 

Too much to do, too little time to spare. 

*cries*

But! I'll rather that I go through these "hardships" that I'm subjecting myself to, 

than to spend away the opportunity cost of realising my own dreams and expectations. 

Self actualisation (maslow's) is a very important component in my world. 

2 semi boiled eggs drowned in sesame sauce is a good way to unwind before I head to bed. 

Posting this entry as I munch.

I have to say that i've absolutely no time to online shop or reply emails! 

Not even when I'm camping out at home this much!  

:(

tgiw

Nothing much in particular, just one of those nights where I went to zouk happy, and left beamingly happy. 

There was no tantrums involved. 

I'm going with the fact that I was being fetched, and the bling blongs that I received from the DJ console counter. 

I wanted, and I got them! 

*beams*

Even when I hated being squeezed, stomped and crowded, I stood there happy like a fan girl anyway. 

Conclusion is, cheap toys makes me happy too! 

While being carded by the noob bouncer sets off the upset + irritated alarms within. 

Don't get me wrong here... 

Sure, being carded can be quite a boost to the esteem for some who're dying to be carded...and acknowledged that they still look young ( I seriously know of friends who enjoy the process.)

BUT hello! carded when my Identity card is not with me is definitely unappreciated. 

But those lighted bracelets made up for the inconvenience. 

:)

Mr moustache

I've always wanted a curly suavely sort of mustache, just for the fun of it!

Because halloween is round the corner, the mustaches are up for grabs again! 

 Finally gotten round to getting some, and I can't decide which ones I liked better! 

 

In case you forget how I look like without the mustaches... 

Here's a normal picture of me looking erm.. Normal. 

Til the next time then! 

Xoxo

Miracles

I woke up today to good news. 

And I will make use of this renewed opportunity to work hard and reach my goals. 

Thank you for everything I've been given so far. 

I wunder..

Hello from China with some minutes to spare, and a random though struck me.

About the use of common resources for the public.

I remembered having a conversation where someone said..

In most asian country, such as Thailand, the culture is that non restaurant environment practices the habit of providing tissue paper/ cheap napkins for you to wipe your mouth and fingers while you consume your meals.

Singapore should really do something about it in our non restaurant eating places. Not that these cost alot. 

---

On what he said, I feel that It doesn't matter that much to me, because I've been programmed to bring tissues along with me whenever I'm out. 

Now that I'm in China strolling to the toilet with my wee paper in hand, I'll like to say something about this, albeit that the conversation is a few years late. 

China provides me with paper to wipe my mouth, and I have to provide my own wee wee paper when I need to visit the loo.

Singapore provides me with wee wee paper, and I provide my own tissues to wipe my mouth when I eat.

Just a matter of inlet or outlet. 

Resources still same. 

Oh well. Just a matter of thought process!

Whether you'll prefer your country to provide you with safety net when you eat, or a safety net when you shit. 

Funny how putting food to the table is important to countries like China, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia.

And having equipment to clean up our asses is vital to countries like Singapore, Japan, Korea. 

Hong Kong  is wedged in the middle due to cultural issues. 

This I sum up our first world cultural problems. 

Not too indept but this shall suffice for now.

Itchy bed sheet.

Ever heard of the Danish story of a princess and the pea?

The one where only a true princess will be sensitive enough to feel the pea through 20 mattresses. 

I used to think that it's a tall story. 

Pun intended.

The illustrative pictures had this princess climbed up a ladder to sleep on 20 mattresses, which reminded me alot of a stack of pancakes! 

And how is it even possible for her to be bruised blue and black just by a pea? 

Ridiculous! 

Anyway, I digress too much. 

Perhaps she's way too sensitive.

Here I am, lying in bed with freshly changed sheets, wondering just why oh why that I can't possibly last another few more days, ( hence postpone the changing of bed sheets until the week after)  since I'm about to travel off in a couple of days time. 

Logically it really doesn't make sense to change sheets just before a trip. 

Physically I'm itching all over, and I could feel bites creeping all over until I strip my bed off the old ones and replace them with new ones immediately!

Yep, even if its 5am in the morning, it's absolutely unavoidable, or I'd be sleepless with itchy rashed skin. 

Is it just me, because my skin is sensitive, or does this happen to everyone (only that no one in my social circle ever talks about it?) 

I'm actually quite sure that this isn't the first post of me whining about itchy sheets, and changing them at weird hours just because it gets really unbearable without much warning. 

Like clockwork. 

* this itchy bed syndrome started waaaay before I had the dog. Besides she's never allowed up my bed. 

In fact, I only ever started experiencing itch when the family decided to do away with the maid, and bed sheet hygiene was left entirely to our own discretion ( and mother's nagging).

Somehow, the brother and sister are able to keep up with their pig sty lifestyle much longer than I could.

 *i swear that I'm the only one inflicted with this problem to date.

:(

Alright.

Bedtime! 

Xoxo

Unitch the sleepy daphne or perhaps live in hotels forever! 

Clean sheets ftw!

Reverse Oreos

Brought Trixie out to Yishun today, and we had fun! It was rather impromptu, but enjoyable.

She's somewhat Extremely well behaved whenever she rides in a car. 

I'm also eternally Grateful that cabbies that I've met so far, have been willing to take us. I've been told of cases that cabs refused to pick up dogs just because of some reasons or another.

For this I feel blessed that I'm well taken care of in more than one way.

The cabbie that brought us commented that Trixie is very well behaved. 

I agree. 

She surprises me at times with her good behavior. 

Perhaps I've always viewed her as an innately naughty/mischievous doggie.

Therefore her good behavior is something that I do take for granted, while I focus on what I choose to see.

This is how the doggles spends most of her time on our way to Yishun. 

*plonks herself on the human cushion*

She got bored during the last 5 minutes of the cab ride, and sat up to look out of the window, just to see where I'm abucting her to. 

Haha.

Finally! After many moons later, the reverse Oreos trios reunited and Claud managed to capture a darn good shot of us,

Whilst I failed terribly! #Le sigh

Trixie's energy was well spent today.

And she's had lots of fun hanging out with Pups!

Doggles is lying flat out on the floor, as I post this. 

Lol

:)

Wogglesarus

I just gave Trixie a pair of cotton candy colored eyebrows. 

I know, they don't match too well. 

One side is pinker than the other. 

I'll try again next time! 

Used food dye for her eyebrows, don't start judging me on cruelty. If its ok for human ingestion, it's absolutely fine for dogs. 

Speaking of which, I gave myself pink streaks! 

Pretty right!

Did them all by myself in a night.  

Alittle sad that the lavender colour did not show up as vividly as I thought it would. 

My main pink color is called carnation pink, mixed about with random strands of lavender. 

Where did lavender streaks go? 

I have no idea! 

F1 2013

F1 has been pretty good to me

this year.

It was busy in a good way! 

Been too lazy to throw up post lately, i've been taking time off the computer whenever possible. Therefore, I'd figure that posting up pictures would justify for the absence of words. 

Day 1@ Singapore cricket club

I feel like a midget standing next to the girls! 

At the Padang area! 

Random view of the day

Almost got dragged into dancing. 

I would, if I wasn't lugging my bag around!

Group shot of the girls before ending work for the day.

Started work at Sentosa Tanjung beach club the next day, before heading down for F1. 

With the lovely Heineken girls,

Then F1 again! 

 I visited the Tiger beer girls at their respective Booths assigned.

So pretty!

Greeted at the gate by my very tall "twin". 

I prefer this gold outfit to the red ones that the girls wore on the first day!

Claud and I bumped into our sec friends and we hung out for awhile!

So happy to see them, because it makes me feel like a school kid again.

The last day! 

I'm looking more and more like a spectator than a working manager.

Oh the glorious sunset that was gone after I took this shot.

I can be an F1 racer too!

This floating ballon cluster, was holding up a lady in white dress. She was dancing in the air. 

How pretty!

Those lazy lounging chairs look extremely appealing. 

It's just too bad that I didn't have time to laze on it.

Last group shot of the girls before work officially ended.

Like I've said, it's a good F1 this year, and I'm thankful for everything that has been provided to me. 

:)

How sensitive are you to colors?

F1 is finally over!

I'm resting my body now and refused to leave the bed much.

The brain is in semi functional capacity though.

China has been rushing me to catch up with my paper work, and instead of fixing up my design and collections... I'm wasting so much time surfing.

This one that I found is amusing though.

I have to admit that I probably put in more effort in sorting out the color hues, than eating up my dinner tonight.

This is what I started with.

This is roughly what I did.

The final submission differs slightly from this after tweaking and changes.

I'm so disappointed that I only scored 11.

The scale works like this.

0 Perfect color acurity and 100 being low color accurity.

I'm at 11. 

Dislike!

All my life, I've always believed that i'm extremely sensitive to colors, and looking at my score,

I suddenly feel color blind. 

ok bye.

I'm going to stare at other things now that does not require color accuracy for now.

:(

*you've been warned about the potential heartbreak involved.

and in case you're still interested with the color hue test..

here is the link.

My bed is awesome

One of those nights when it feels super great to be in bed. 

Trixie Videos

The cousin showed me a video of a dog with brilliant self discipline, and she asked if Trixie's able to do so.
I told her, that I highly doubt it, given that she's a really hyper dog with like little discipline.
I know, I spoil her....


But shortly after, I decided to give it a try (as usual)
and here's a video of Trixie showing off her self discipline.
I'm impressed.
hahahah..




I can't seem to find Trixie's latest video of exaggerated play dead.
I guess i'll have to reload on youtube again, before sharing.
But meanwhile, we'll just have to make do with her discipline videos, and my terrible camera skills.
How is it possible for me to focus on her, and where i'm video-ing at the same time?!

blah!

JENI - WILDFIRE

Rushing out my final collection for the season, and somehow I got reminded of this glorious song.

JENI.
She's not the prettiest musician that I've seen, but there' something about her that uber cool.
Not forgetting how talented she is.
Puts a mundane human like me to shame.
Posting here to show my thumbs up for her!

Aloha at work!

Just received pictures of Sunday's event.

I rarely work (work) personally, so it's rather refreshing to receive pictures of myself working. 

I know, at my age, I'm still so easily amused. 

It was the official launch of Haus furnishing, and we were dressed according to the Hawaiian/ beach cabana theme of the opening. 

I'm not quite a floral person by nature, so this is definitely floral overload for me.

But I had a good time working (I always do, whenever the occasion strikes that requires my presence) 

It's a *%# huge bottle of champagne. I gave up after the 10th glass, as I kept spilling it onto everywhere but the glasses. 

The bottle was waay too heavy for me. 

We left the pouring to the guys. After all, muscles are meant to help out right? 

Hahah.

That's about all! 

Mondays are good

Unlike the office working class friends. I actually do love Mondays.

After all, Mondays are leisure days, with paper work to catch up, along with the stay home option. 

It's really quite appealing to be on lazy mode at work.

This is Trixie doing nanny patrol.

Whenever I'm sleeping, she has this terrible habit of checking on me when I stir in my sleep just to see if I'm gonna be  ok. 

It's also the reason why I'd never let her sleep in my room at night, for We'd both be unable to rest well truly.

I may be a heavy sleeper, but the pattering sound of her nails on the floor, and the feeling of being spied on when I'm sleeping.....

Well, I don't like it. 

But I still love the doggles for being so sweet and attentive to me.

Now that its been raining alot in Singapore the past few days, I reckon that it's autumn season now! 

So here's my must have for the coming Fall! 

My cropped trench little jacket!

Bought this during my spring in China, and wore it once before flying back home. 

Its been stashed away in the wardrobe since.  Finally! Dug it out the other day, and steamed the creases away!

Been wearing my little jacket out just about everywhere! 

This was my coordinates for Sunday.

I spent my Sunday working, and the event was rather enjoyable, albeit physically tiring from too much walking. 

Hanging out with great clients can hardly be considered a job. 

Hohoho.

Aiyah, you get the idea.

Dressed for saturday midnight movie night in my jacket again. 

It's a great autumn piece for Singapore's weather without looking like a lunatic. 

Watched Percy Jackson and the sea monsters. Second installment isn't as good as the lightning thief installment. 

Found the yummy icecream that I ate in Japan. 

This one's caramel( slight peanuty taste)  coating on the outside, with soft Mochi and vanilla icecream on the inside. 

The Mochi center is heavenly!

The jap mart located at star vista seems to be a little treasure cove. 

Since Star Vista is only 2 stone's throw away from home, I'm going to raid there a little more the next time round, and apparently the Korean mart is due to be opened rather soon. 

Looking forward.

I've been quite lucky with freebies lately. 

I received a few full sized products to try out, and being typically enthusiastic about new stuff, I have already started on the new products. 

The newest to join the lot will be this bottle of Albion gold oil. 

I tried it on my hair, and it works pretty well for my dry ends. (I happen to have insanely long hair, the ends and knots are the deadliest!)

Apparently it can also be used for the skin. 

I'm not usually a fan of oil on my face.

But Having applied the oil on my hair ends with my hands,

I noticed that the oil absorbs pretty well into my hands with no yucky residual oily after feel.

The albion gold oil is pretty light with a light floral scent. Which is great for people like me. afterall, heavy scent gives me a terrible headache after smelling too much. 

Perhaps I really should brace myself up, and try the oil on my face soon. 

Lastly, Here's one of me after a bath sans makeup with humongous eyerings! 

Haven't been sleeping properly lately juggling between Singapore and china's workload.

BUT I do believe that it's deadly important for the skin to be unstressed as much as possible, and I try to apply as little layers of make up whenever possible.

Therefore I cannot understand why so many girls (in my industry) pile on tons and tons of powder, in the name of beauty. 

In fact it's does quite the opposite to you, if you know what i mean. 

It's as if the layer of powder applied on the face is linked to their confidence level. 

Tsk