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How was your Chinese New Year?

2012-01-27T23:48:00.000+08:00

Chinese New Year is always a good reason to spree. It's a tradition to wear new clothings, which represents a new start for a new (lunar) year. Much as I hardly follow the traditions and find it a hassel to buy for a specific reason or occasion, it's sometimes inevitable to be affected by the surrounding.

So, here are the stashes! From City Plaza!

For CNY

NOT for CNY

Very sad case - I only got to know City Plaza's transformation on that day. The place was formerly well-known for it's skimpy clothings. You know, body hugging, revealing and all. You can even find feathered apparels there which lao aunties and lao uncles wear for their Lunar Ghost month performance. I secretly suspect Phua Chu Kang's yellow boots were from there. There, or Chinatown. Either one.

Little did I know it changed, over the years, to a place best for cheap yet nice fashion. Where most blogshops get their clothings from and mark up the price and sell it to idiots like me.

Note to everyone, City Plaza is a must go if you are a sucker for blogshop's apparel. Or maybe I'm one of the last few to know this. Too much cooping at home makes me suaku so much so I've lost my knowlege of where to get the latest apparels.

Anyway, CNY reads reunion dinner. The day where mums (and *ahem* fillial daughter) is the busiest. Mum cook, daughter eat. Mum rest, daughter clean. Yes, I'm complaining about the amount of cleanup I had to do after everyone left. Or rather, WE had to do. Mum was in-charge of the kitchen cleaning, and I, rest of the house. Hmpf. Well, like I said, it was worth it. :)

So while most of the peeps started going back to work, I was still on holiday. Because the boss announced that our company is going to open only on Friday. Weee~. To add, I'm on leave on Friday omfg 9 days of rest in total (plus the weekends) no one will feel like going back to work.

While most of my friends went back to work, Lobang queen and I met up for a tai-tai outing. Afternoon traditional english tea, gossips, shopping and all.

Did curls but it chui-ded at the end of
the day wah piang I can bang wall.

I hate my phone's camera. Lousy.

Me: Okaaaay. This doesn't look filling. LOL.
J: I think so too. 吃不饱. Die.
Me: Nvm nvm. Just eat first.
(15 minutes passed...)

Me: Ok, let's plan where to eat later. This shit ain't gonna fill us up.
J: Rofl I think so too omg I feel like eating chinese food now.
(another 10ish minutes passed)

Waiter: Would you like another serving of the sandwiches? *shows*
J and I: OK. *pretend to be calm*
J: Psst, woah lucky it's refillable.
Me: I KNOW RIGHT! Now 吃得饱 already... Lol.

LOL. Right. So now I know, fine dining and afternoon tea are SO NOT FINE AND SO NOT ME AND MY GFs CUP OF TEA. We fail as a tai tai. xDDD I mean, we are not huge eaters but we definitely do not own a pea sized stomach can!


The infamous macroon that drove girls mad (which I cannot comprehend why) that was way too sweet for my liking.

A bit of camwhoring after trying out my newly bought hot pink lippie
from Sephora! Lurve it. P.S. Fuck the loosened curls!!!

At granny's place where my paternal's side of relative gathers. And every year my singlehood becomes one of the topic.. -_-

Weather was lovely that day and I wager the sunlight pouring in would be purfffect for pictures so..

Had the urge to edit my face smaller for the above pic.. Nvm.

Oh, just so you know, the curls at the bottom are done by flat irons. Not the curlers. Talking about hair, I think it's time to touch up the growing roots. And if you are wondering about the cost of dying my hair, I'm telling you, it's 11 dollars. Yes, it's a DIY!

I bought 2 bottles of hair dye for $5.50 each (I need 2 bottles because my hair was waist length that time!) and slapped it on my hair. I think it was Loreal, Light blonde or something. (Light blonde sounds scary. It never fails to intimidate me since I've long grown out for lighter hair colours. But it'll usually turn out just nice on typical black, asian hair) On promotion thus the price. Colour fades after a few washes.

P.S. I tried smelly toufu during my trip to City Plaza. Verdict? If you like tasting shit in your mouth, well then you shouldn't give smelly toufu a miss.

P.P.S. Watched "Journey 2 the Mysterious Island". Verdict? Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is such a cutie albeit his mega-huge disgusting overdone muscles. If you asked me, I'd prefer the 1st episode, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" which was more magical.

Journey 2 was more of a thrill. Would be better if there were more thrilling scenes. Overall the content was good.

P.P.P.S Watched the local filmed "We not Naughty". Verdict? Typical of Jack Neo. "We not Naughty" brought to view the current parent-children-society issues.

In conjuncture to it's usual jokes and humour casted by the 2 "I not Naughty" proteges, the fresh faces did a good job portaying their roles I feel. Never failed to let audiences have some 2-cents worth after watching.

Ok signing off here. Have a great weekend people! xoxo.

2012-01-19T23:37:00.000+08:00

最後一次哭，是什麽時候？

忘了。

曾幾何時，就連哭也要看時間約地點？

忘了。

什麽時候長大的？

忘了。

我。。。

想大哭一場。

沒有顧慮的，

大哭一場。

像似世界末日的，

大哭一場。

不讓人發現的，

大哭一場。

Souvenir from lady boss

2012-01-17T14:34:00.001+08:00

Aaaaall da way from Las Vegas.

Wah seh.

Ok, I give you permission to call me materialistic.

Ok, I also give you permission to call me someone who is easily bought over aka cheap.

Nabeh lah! You call me that I give you one solid solid banana kick fly you to mucuranus - a planet full of mucus, founded by me.

People post this is because people appreciate it k! She could have made do with some bloody duty free chocolate from the airport or even not get anything because she is obliged to do so.

Yet she buy Coach wristlet. Very good already ok.

Ok I grouchy I admit. Not feeling well. Doc says I got low blood. Slight. *acts like a frail, vunerable, 30something kg girl*

I want to ramble about City Plaza too!!! Next time.

Bubbai!!

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♥♥♥

2012-01-14T22:18:00.001+08:00

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Friday the 13th calls for an unhappy post!

2012-01-13T17:58:00.000+08:00

Glad the gloomier days passed. Things with my colleague seems much chirpier now. :)

Not that I have alot of colleagues to start off with. Which is the worse part. Being buay gum (reads: disputes or conflict) with 1 or 2 colleagues is almost being buay guam with the entire company. Having minor conflict with another can easily lead to even more serious cases like backstabbing and stuffs. Which is totally not necessary in a small company I'm in - where we work as a (small) team and each player is equally important.

So much for a someone equipped with social capabilities. Someone like me. Yes, I do offend people too. (As much as people offends me)

Truth is, I was feeling the shittiest when I did my January 3rd entry. Yes. The feeling of being ostracised is not acceptable. Even more unacceptable for me. I. Cannot. Be. Ostracised. Definitely not for that very reason why I had dispute with my colleague. I was merely stating the facts. Kill me if you want me to apologise. No way me, Lady Jinxed, would apologise for something that wasn't even wrong. And mind you, you can confront, and by all means, behave like a hypocritical muthafkr in front of me (hey, that's how the games are played in office man!), but never, never ostracise me.

So it's the usual, I walk this way, the colleague walk that way. The colleague see this direction, I look elsewhere. You avoid me, I avoid you.

Juvenile. Yes, adults can be highly childish too.

I eventually decided to ease the tension abit couple of days later. No use. The colleague act blur and continue ignoring. Not everyone has equal EQ. Mine could be higher that the colleague's? Kekekekeke.

And so? I ignored too. Saying "ignored" is not true. The fact that I looked cool about it doesn't mean I don't feel a single shit about it. I did my fair share of soul searching and mourning.

No, colleagues are not friends so it's not that kinda "why you no friend me?" mourn. It's more of a pep talk to encourage myself that says "Brace yourself, move on. You are the cause of what has happened so you find the solution to it. Either you make it or your break it."

But alas, when I was still in the not-so-happy state of mind, things turned out fine as if nothing happened before. Shitty as it seems, but at times, this is the best solution to avoid even more conflicts I feel.

Much as I don't find myself at fault, but I did learnt a lesson too. I've learnt yet another communication approach, to someone else. Just when I thought I'm someone proficient in communication, life always proved me wrong. And subtly warning me to constantly stay humble, lay low, and never stop learning.

Meeting lovelies Kym and Ting later! Kisses!

Ok love love,

Age - from Surplus to Deficit!

2012-01-09T17:15:00.000+08:00

Just in case you are confuse or unaware what surplus and deficit means (it's accounting terms *pushes thick framed glasses like a boring accountant*), scroll all the way down.

In short, surplus is when there is extra. Deficit, on the other hand, means shortage. Not good in the eye of the finance people, but good in the eye of vanity-heals's blogger!

Yes that's me.

I remembered how I always look 2 years (otherwise, more) older than my usual age. I get into clubs when I was 14 (legally, 16), get into adult clubs when and watched rated R movies when I was 18 (legally, 21). I hardly get my IC checked when I buy alcohol or ciggies.

Or perhaps I was so calm it didn't disclose the fact I was a juvenile.

***Not a good example I've led. Minors should not attempt the above things I've done. Not fun anyway.***

Point is, I used to look much older till I was about.. 23? That was when I start getting age deficit, so to say, people are starting to claim I look younger. First they correctly guessed my age. But as I grow older, they start to get it wrong. Averagely, I get compliments that I look at least 2 years younger.

The importance of skincare - I cannot stress enough how important is that.

Well I guess there are a few things that could make you look youthful:

1) Skincare, skincare, skincare!!!

2) Your behaviour. Maintain a light heart and a jovial personality. Smile even when you don't feel like it, for it takes more muscle to frown. And worse, it leaves you wrinkle!

3) Dressing. Need I elaborate more? You dress old, you look old lah!

4) Makeup. The heavier is your makeup, the older you'll look.

5) Weight. This one damn sad. But yes, having excessive weight makes one look old. Of course, being severely underweight to the extend that makes one look like a dried prune - is even worse.

What I'm saying is, always find out your BMI and try to have your weight scaled towards the lighter side. (Gentle reminder, pls lose weight healthily ok!)

For me, I'm on the heavier side for sure. In fact I'm close to overweight already. So I'm trying to shed some pounds (FOREVER). Good enough, I've lost close to 4kgs since my new job.

People had been telling me I'm complacent because I'm still young. I beg to differ. It's exactly because I keep reminding myself that I'm not young, that pushes me to work towards status quo. The amount of time spent on taking care of my skin is twice as long as I take my bath. Everyday. Insane.

I'm 28 this year. 29 in the Chinese calculation and no, I'm not young. I'm not afraid of saying it. In fact, I'm proud to disclose my age because I'm aging gracefully.

Accept the fact. Face yourself. Aging can be a beautiful thing if it grows with your soul.

xoxo!

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Surplus [sur-pluhs, -pluhs] noun, adjective, verb, -plussed or -plused, -plus·sing or -plus·ing. noun

1. something that remains above what is used or needed.

2. an amount, quantity, etc., greater than needed.

3. agricultural produce or a quantity of food grown by a nation or area in excess of its needs, especially such a quantity of food purchased and stored by a governmental program of guaranteeing farmers a specific price for certain crops.

4.Accounting .

a.the excess of assets over liabilities accumulated throughout the existence of a business, excepting assets against which stock certificates have been issued; excess of net worth over capital-stock value. b. an amount of assets in excess of what is requisite to meet liabilities.

Deficit [def-uh-sit; Brit. also dih-fis-it] noun

1. the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.

2. the amount by which expenditures or liabilities exceed income or assets.

3. a lack or shortage; deficiency.

4. a disadvantage, impairment, or handicap: The team's major deficit is its poor pitching.

5. a loss, as in the operation of a business.

Cr: dictionary.com

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Jungmin will have a voiceover in upcoming drama "Fondant Garden"

2012-01-08T03:09:00.000+08:00

Not officially announced, but yes, like rest of the taiwan dramas where korean actor / actress is present, our Jungmin too, will not be spared from a voice dub.

Jungmin's character in Fondant Garden, as what we already knew, would be someone from korea and has a rich family background. Additional information I just found out was that Jungmin would be a Korean Chinese, not pure Korean. Which was probably why they eventually decided to dub Jungmin's voice I guess. Despite the poor boy put in lotsa effort into his chinese learning and we all agreed, it was considered spectacularly good for a korean whom studied the language for such short period, it however, did not seemed good enough to pass off as a Korean Chinese. Thus the decision.

Sad. I had a glimpse of the current aired "Skip Beat" played by Super Junior's Siwon and Donghae, heard their "new voices", and I couldn't bear another second. It just sounded so uncannily weird. I bet same goes to Jungmin. Still, I believe the decision was for the better.

And I'm praying very very hard the drama turns out well.

Nights all! (Geez, it's past 3am already. I don't feel sleepy. But well....)

Go orangey in 2012

2012-01-03T15:44:00.000+08:00

So I read on the papers, trend color for 2012 is gonna be Orange. Tangerine. Orange.

Then, the mum casually remarked Orange, Yellow and Beige - are gonna be the lucky colors.

Beige? Fine. Yellow? Not so much of my color but I own a yellow tank top and I lurve the contrast on me.

But Orange??!??!

Omgfmlp.

Not that I'm superstitious to stick with the so-called "lucky colors of the year", it's the trend I'm worried about. AND, not because of the trend that I'm gonna follow, I'm worried because...

EVERYMUTHAFU*KG piece of apparel with absolutely stunning design that caught my eye, would come in none other but orange color.

Life in 2012's gonna suck much.

Ok that's abit exaggerated. I kinda felt better knowing that the said color come in this tone:

Chanced upon this while shopping
for my new year clothes.

Very much like red, yet not entirely. Thought of grabbing some CNY clothes and eyed this. Occurs to me that the color's called "Burnt orange". (And it's on its way to my home!)

Digress: wtf why Beatrice Tan so chio ah?!?! Zellousssssss only.

Nice. Not forgetting peach is also in the orange color family. ^______________^

Concidentally, I changed my bedsheet over the w'kends and found out much later that, "hey, my bedsheet's orange.. -_-"

Nail color in.. nude red?

Perhaps some pictures on the makeup for above dress sometime later? Contemplating if I should do it in earth or nude tones. We'll see.

Abrupt end.

HAPPY 2012 PEEPS!

2012-01-01T12:09:00.001+08:00

I forgot to blog my last post for 2011. :(

So here's one on the 1st day of 2012. May all be well and blessed with abundant joys.

Love ya!

*off to springcleaning*

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Some pictures!

2011-12-30T10:58:00.003+08:00

Remember I was saying about the fine dining experience at Marina Bay Sands? Food sucks ttm ok. Underfed so much so we went back to our hood and had ourselves MacDonald's. Tasted waaaay better. Lol. Pathetic much huh?

Here's some photos to share! Not alot because majority flopped. *facepalm* 57th floor was a challenge to us. Considering we are both afraid of heights. The chilliness and strong wind not helping.

Not a pro photographer so make do with this type of standard. Considered very good already!

Love the colorful reflections.

Most of our pictures took were all either blur or
underexposed or overexposed . Thanks to the very dim
lighting , us, with our digital cammies can't seem
to capture any beautiful moment.

My hair color is fading. Turning golden-ish and I hated that. Plus, the blacks roots are growing. Bah!

Ok that's that. ^^

Bangs and no bangs

2011-12-28T12:15:00.002+08:00

Now, who says girls with bangs have no choice but to look cute 24/7? I don't.

You'd probably realised thinner hair bands were never spotted worn by me. Reason being, I tend to break them. Lol.

Thick hair bands are closer to my dress style for I like my fringe (or bangs, now) pulled back from time to time. I guess that's why I'm not really having issues with outbreak on the forehead despite having bangs.

So I had my hair pulled back into a pony tail with hairband. Love it when I'm free from the hair flying all over my face.

For the eye, very thick eyeliner you are looking at here. Might not be the case looking at the picture but when you draw it, it's actually quite some width we are talking about. Winged and extended. To give a stronger and elongated look. Aside from the eyeliner, no more eye makeups already.

Okok. The falsies too. Happy?

For the shortest time, I was whining over the hail of gyaru makeup, where the eyes are usually droopy, giving it an innocent puppy-eyed look. Why whine?

My eyes are droopy by nature. -_-

Some might be asking, "isn't that good? You need not makeup to have gyaru styled eye. No. It's different. Gyaru eyes are big, round and puppy like. Whereas my teardrop eyes look damn suay (reads: unlucky) only. If I were to do it droopy, it's EVEN more suay. Not like I never tried doing gyaru makeup before ok, I tried. It flopped. Doesn't suit me.

Here.

Or this. Posted in my previous entry.

*kicks stone irritably*

Fail leh. And I didn't even draw the eyeliner totally downwards. It was like.. um.. a flat line. Slightly winged. And it turned out STILL droopy ok! I looked sleepy as a result. Blah.

I decided "sweet and innocent" is not my cuppa of tea. *throws it outta my style book*

Ah... much better.

Long live GaIn! Long live CL!

Gentle reminder to all lovelies, I can't stress enough how important is it to know yourself well so as to find the correct style that suits you rather than you following the trend blindly.

YOU wear fashion. Fashion doesn't wear you.

So that's all! Make sure you don't land yourself in a fashion disaster.

P.S. I still do. Sometimes. xDD

Cheers baby!

메리 크리스마스!

2011-12-25T02:21:00.000+08:00

↖(^▽^)↗

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kimhyungjun.net 's hard work further recognised

2011-12-21T16:46:00.000+08:00

If you ask me, I'd say kimhyungjun.net is, perhaps, much better than other so-called official fan site(s)?

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As if we don't know that Jjun is aware of both Pretty Boy (from Korea) and our very own local Only Jun, he further showered the site his attention by attaching the self done diagram by crazynoona and tweeting it.

Sweet boy he is. And I hope he continues to remember the ones whom had been behind him all this while. Whether or not they are his fans.

Happy for her! ^o^

SS501 Kim Hyung Jun - Glowing She

2011-12-20T16:40:00.004+08:00

So that's the name of his new drama. Freaking google translated 자체발광 to "Her self-luminous" oh fml please.

Much as I wish to copy the entire damn thing from OnlyJun, it's more blogthical (blog + ethical) to not just copy word for word. So I'm writing abit of nonsense here. Heh.

Despite knowing the site owner and nice as she is, I probably won't be spared from her tongue lashing either if she knows I were to simply ctrl+c, ctrl+v her (or any other blogger's) work. xDDD

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Please repost with full credit.
Diagram editing NOT allow.

Credits: Only Jun

Information taken from KBS website, translation and diagram done by Only Jun (kimhyungjun.net).

P.S. (why am I so fond of P.S.-ing these days?) See if Wen post anything on PJM's event in Japan later. Will update this space if there are substantial updates from her side. Which I hope there aren't. Cuz the more she updates, less she focus on Jungmin. Let's all not be selfish. ^^v

Bye everybody bye~~~!

떡볶이 Ddeokbokki

2011-12-20T15:31:00.004+08:00

Ok NOW then I realised my spelling for ddeokbokki was, always wrong. xD Why make a food's name so complex!! So many "d" and "k".

Googled the ingredients and steps to make a decent one. Seems pretty easy. But I never quite like following cookbook so I hope it turns out well this Saturday.

Mad delicious looking ddeokbokki to DIE for.

That said, here are the ingredients I'm gonna prepare (or at least imagined myself throwing in):

- Rice cake (that's ddeokbukki itself, if you don't what it is, dimwit)

- Hot chilli paste (can be suicidal hot, I read. So this one must be careful)

- Carrots slices

- Cabbage (optional)

- Red chili

- Pork slices (optional)

- Chicken stock / Dried anchovies stock (depending on availability)

- Garlic (would love to throw a few cloves inside, but knowing it's not acceptable by majority mankind, I've gonna give this a miss)

Pretty hassel free huh? Not too sure if I'll get the taste correct or not. Update with pictures soon I hope!

P.S. Though I could escape from xmas gift exchange tradition but it seems like it's unavoidable. ROARS!! Hates gifts shopping. Hmpf. So little time!

P.P.S. Ku De Ta pics up soon! I hope (again). :p My time is not within my control these days.

Signing off!

[MV] Kim Hyun Joong - Marry You

2011-12-15T11:38:00.002+08:00

Seen this already? :)

Cool sand art huh? If you ask me, I find something's lacking here. A little bit of sincerity maybe? Not that he's not sincere, but perhaps this song was done in a haste (my speculation lah), so much so KHJ didn't had much time to address it. On the other hand, "Gomapta" was done beautifully. You know, one that can touch the hearts of many even thou KHJ's don't quite *cough cough* sing well. LOL. Still, "Gomapta" made fans understand his sincerity. But.. "Marry You"?

Ok fine fine, he's not sincerely out to marry us thus perhaps fans can't feel it. (You delusional crack. Stop lying to yourself!) But what I'm saying is, the message didn't go through. Or at least the song didn't reach me. I hope they could produce better songs that could accentuate Hyun Joong. Not just any other song released for the sake of releasing..

Afterall, SS501 is very well know for them being sincere, so much so I magnify their every action, hoping to sense sincerity in everything they do. And I refuse to let my standard drop. (Should it even drop in the first place?)

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Digress. KDT called to confirm my reservations. (1st time people go fine dining so let me rant about it k?) Cas was saying they will need a minimum spending of $100 PER pax to dine in the restaurant. I nearly died. Read on.

Not quite because of the money. Frankly, I usually set aside $100 odd budget for my gf's birthday so it's fine. But looking at the menu, each dish cost average of $25. Meaning to say, we have to clear 4 dish per person??!!??

Right. Maybe 3 dish + 1 drink. Still, it's too much for a girl, no? Especially when we are both 1) on diet and 2) realised we no longer eat as much as we were younger. (which was why we decided to not go for hotel buffet anymore and opt for the more.. dainty cuisines) Or, we have to order something higher priced which may not be what we feel like eating? Damn sian lor like that.

Well thankfully, the minimum spending wasn't true. Heh.

Here's a pic I googled, superb scenery.

At the same time, I read even more feedback on their exorbitant pricing, so-so cuisine, mostly 1 star out of 5. Sian. -_-" Don't care lah, I already ask that girl not to pin too much hope on the food, pay attention on the atas environment.

You know what's her reply?

"It's the company that is important!!"

Dawwwwwwh~

너모 피곤해!!

2011-12-14T11:08:00.008+08:00

Haven't been sleeping well lately, thus the shoutout. Was having moodswing yesterday. No, not the monthly-affair-moodswing. It's just-moodswing-moodswing, you roger? Mine usually last for half a day, yesterday's one lasted for some good 24 hours. Bah. Chi and Von suggested chocolate which unfortunately, I don't have any in office. Nearest store that sells tidbits? Too far.

아주 피곤해.
너모 피곤해!!

Thought the moodswing will cease today. Fine. Somehow, it did. But the weariness came. So much so I couldn't even bring myself to "wear" the mask I usually wore to smile at people. The face was as shitty than shit itself, if you saw me walking along the streets of Orchard 9:30 in the morning.

On a side note, I've cut my hair! If you've followed my blog for long enough, you'd have knew that I'm always a long hair. (Still is)

It became my goal to have my hair lengthed 100cm before I chop it off. Or, not any time earlier than Meanie's big day. That's like, March next year. But it's no surprise, I've been ranting about cutting my hair short (shorter?) since early this year. The last time I measured how long was my hair, was 3 months back? Tape showed +/- 70cm..

That length was like, easily around my hip.<

And I cut it till....

This short? It's sitting somewhere slightly below the shoulder now. Much as I would LURRRVE to chop it way shorter, I heard devils (or angels?) telling me "Don't! Don't do it!! Short hair doesn't suits you!!"

Damn you.

Ok I confess, those damn devils are the honest feedbacks I got from friends. And I jolly well know my effing round face doesn't compliment short hair. Or the other way round. Whatever.

1 year of ranting to cut my hair short, it didn't work. Instead, it took me no longer than 30 seconds to tell my stylist, "Ok, let's do it."

Me: Feel like cutting my hair. Should I?

Stylist: CUT IT!!!
Me: Don't say cut just because you stylist have the fetish for cutting long hair short! (They do!)
Stylist: No. I mean it.
Me: How short do you think I should go?
Stylist: This short *gestures* Then the bottom part you can *gesture* curve in.
Me: *smiles* That's exactly what I'm thinking. Ok let's do it."

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Theme fuschia x'mas makeup I tried the other day. Pity non of my cameras could do justice to the colour. Maybe it's just my skills. :(

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Gonna head to Ku De Ta at Marina Bay Sands coming Friday. I'm praying I get to get some nice shots on the beautiful scenary that Ku De Ta promises. Thou I'm mentally prepared the food there ain't gonna be fabulicious based on the feedback of food critics. Orignally wanted 1-Altitude but, sigh, fully booked. Tsk.

B's doing potluck for her x'mas partayyyy~! Oh gawd I hate potlucks. How how how?

I keep having the thought "What if everyone does Pizza or KFC?!!"

Lol.

P.S. Can't wait for Jungmin's calendar to arrive! Kekekeke. Kudos to Shewen. Lalalala~ (haven't find a time to pay Chi... :p)

P.P.S. I feel old with short hair actually. What say you guys?

Test test!

2011-12-05T16:24:00.001+08:00

Two thousand and one things to do I finally resort to mobile blogging!

So I can still update this space when I'm on-the-go. ^^

I hope everyone is well! Kinda happy lately because.. well.. there's news on JM. And pretty flooded with awsssssome pics. Kkkkkk.

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11.11.11

2011-11-11T13:18:00.002+08:00

Happy 11.11.11 lovelies!

This day happens once every 100 years, so aren't you glad you lived to witness it? I am!

Not only that, it's Pepero day too. ♡◕‿◕♡ A day where you have the reason to confess your love to someone or even better, get confessed at! Plus, it's a Friday (on my side), good day to go dating, catch some late movies and get some love blossoming eh? *winks*

Updates

2011-10-24T11:11:00.005+08:00

Good Monday morning y'all! So many things going on, pretty out of thoughts. Work had been hectic, as usual. Rough Monday morning I had. Or rather, rough Sun night I had thanks to work, so it kinda dragged to this morning.

Changed my phone to Samsung Galaxy S2! So far so good. No complaints aside the battery, which drains rather fast, imo. Had to charge every day. I later found out from tweeps that it's normal.

Yeah, touch screen. Graphic intensive. What am I expecting for, right? Lol. That's because I can charge my BB every 1 1/2 day. Sometimes, even charging it after 2 days. Which is very powerful compared to this one I'm holding onto now.

Adjusting to touch screen (I had a bad experience with HTC Touch back then so I swore not to use it until.. read on) phone because I've been using Blackberry. Good ol' Blackberry hasn't failed me (that much) but the fact that its lack of applications (which is quite a deal these days, else you get outdated) really got me worried so I had to source for something else. Considering I'm in the IT industry, it daunts me how far I've lacked behind in terms of technology. Everyone knows Technology advances F1 fast.

Still heart my blackberry.

Anyway anyway, I'm jetting off in, less than 20 hours' time. Going on hollies!

And where will I be?

No. Not Korea. Yet. Unfortunately. :( But soon. Soon. Sooooon.

And meanwhile,

I'll be taking a quite break here. ^^

Updates when I'm back, lovelies!

*P.S. Haven't pack my luggage!

Hello, blogders.

2011-10-06T14:43:00.003+08:00

Before we continue, let's have a 10 seconds silence for legendary Steve Jobs, whom left us this morning.

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Well hello there, blogders!

It used to be fellow Singaporeans that made up most of my blog's readership. Little did I know the recent readership came from the States and Philippines! So hello guys~

and selemat~

This entry is was meant to be a short one. Dropping by to say "HI~" to my readers. I hope you guys are having a fine week. Cuz I'm not. Heh.

Tarah~

Will the Yesterday be here today?

2011-10-04T17:19:00.003+08:00

These babies should be on their way here already. Is yours inside? ^^ It'll probably be if you placed your orders via Quainte!

Many thanks to Wen for helping us lug all the 75 copies of CDs + posters. Can't wait, can you? ^^

Brain needs upsize

2011-09-28T17:33:00.004+08:00

So many things happened and happening. So little time to think. 25th Sept, 9th Oct, 21 Oct, Kyu's comeback. Whatsapp kee siao. Change phone. Work. Meetups. Holiday. Blah! All lumped together in my pea brain. I need an upsize!

Schedule run down (I'm actually typing this out because I seriously can't keep track even thou I've marked it on my organiser and calendar. So the best is I memorise it.)

30th Sept - Freezed

8th Oct - Freezed

11th Oct - Freezed

13th Oct - Freezed

17th to 23rd Oct - CK Tangs Harajuku Event.

25th - Off to taiwan.

The rest, come back then worry.

*Yes. violettacal is back. As you can see. ➥

Learn to appreciate, even in the reel world

2011-09-22T12:26:00.006+08:00

Today's blog is gonna be a lengthy one.

Moral of today's entry: Learn to appreciate things in life.

Logical right? No. Not to some people apparently. Imma telling why.

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Rainy day today. I'm feeling sluggish because of the headache. And thanks to buddy's iPen plus Mac's piping hot coffee, I'm feeling cloud nine again. Yes I'm skiving, while waiting for some things to happen in office. Pending stuffs that's never gonna move if I were to procrastinate. But I'm too lazy to follow up so, yeah.

Anyway, today's topic is about people not being appreciative. Mostly the juveniles, if you ask me.

Now if you've read my blog long enough, you'd know by now, that fangirling constitutes to a substantial portion of my life. Yes, it all started with handsome looking boys, but at times, it's the company that moves you on.

Imagine, if you were to join an ECA you heart so much. So, so much. But the fellow mates sucks? On the contrary, you work for a company that is just so-so, but the colleagues are simply anglic, you feel like glueing yourself to the company and never leave? Yeah, that's what I mean.

What inspired me to blog today, was because someone snapped at me in YT yesterday. (Petty much huh? Lol) Frankly, it didn't matter lah. I couldn't be bothered, but it somehow struck me to use this as a splinter to start the topic, which I wanted to pen about but couldn't find enough contents that frustrates me. So now I finally have.

I'm not taking this whole fandom thingy seriously, trust me. But it occurs to me, if this is the way people are behaving, then there's no hope for mankind.

"Learning to appreciate things in life." Every one knows that. So, why aren't some people appreciating the efforts of others - in fandom?

Scenario 1) Bloggers

I salute fandom bloggers I tell you. It never fails to amaze me how can they do their entries so timely. And not only that, bloggers are also feeding information via their twitter these days so, more responsibilities.

So this is the equation:

Blogger wakes up in the morning, goes to school/work,

+ She tries to stay updated with the information with her smartphone,

+ She continues to focus in her lesson/work,

+ She makes mistakes in lessons/work, like anyone,

+ She tries to be accurate and timely in providing the latest news and information,

+ Blogger gets busy, she gets desperate and perhaps she ask someone to update her blog for her,

+ Blogger finish school/work, she rushes back home to continue updating the news.

People ranting at her not being timely.

People expect her to be all mighty and perfect in blogger's entries. Cannot make mistake.

People gets angry when the blogger herself moderate her blog to keep peace.

People threaten. (LMAO)

People cannot take it when blogger gets frustrated and rant abit in twitter.

People start anti the blogger for the above reasons.

Make sense or not? You tell me.

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Senario 2) Subbers

Wah this one also daebak. I knew subbing was no easy feat. But not until I tried it myself. I actually signed up with some subber group to do Chinese - English subbing. They gave me 2 clips (clips, not even 1 episode) to try subbing. That's like about 10minutes per clip. So a total of 20 minutes of contents to sub - I gave up. Insane. It took me close to an hour odd to sub a 15 minutes clip.. Then again, maybe it's my incompetence.

Again, equation:

Subber wakes up in the morning, goes to school/work,
+ She makes mistakes in lessons/work, like anyone,

+ She tries to be accurate and timely in her subbing,

+ Subber finish school/work, she rushes back home to continue subbing the video,

+ Subber finally finished 1 episode and faster faster upload.

People ranting at her not being timely.

People expect her to be all mighty and perfect in her video. Cannot make mistake.

People write private mails to subber and complain subber is very slow, why can't she be faster?

People cannot take it when subber gets frustrated.

People start anti the subber for the above reasons.

Fair or not? You tell me.

So, you telling me - today you feel like doing charity. You charitably give someone $5. The receiver slap you and say "Look, if you wanna give, give $1,000. Don't give $5. You might as well go and die if you wanna give me $5."

No that this is happening, but people are doing something similar to make the those that put in effort - feel this way.

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Senario 3) Complaints

Everyone can complain. If those on the receiving end can complain, then why can't those that are giving, complain?? It just doesn't make sense.

Very classic examples I'm gonna use here. Say, someone says the person you admire is UGLY, or FAT and actually tweets to his account. Well, he probably won't see it. Or he might. I really don't know. But my question is, if you are a so-called fan, would you tell your idol upfront that he is ugly or fat? And your sentence have no signs indicating you are joking?

On the contrary, this particular person, who had been putting in lotsa effort in supporting that same person, got vocal and stood up for her idol that had been criticise by a fellow fan.

Wrong meh? You tell me.

However, what I saw was people's rebuttal. Claiming the fan (who was apparently voicing out the criticism from others to her idol) insane, mad, crazy etc.

I know, everyone has the freedom of speech. No one is to pin point anyone for any remarks on any person.

But thing is, Fan A took action because Fan B is directly telling their idol "Hey, you look ugly."

Taking action under such circumstances wrong meh? You tell me.

Since when was standing up for the ones you like or admire, something wrong?

Since when did anyone owe you a blog update or nice pictures?

Since when did anyone owe you a translation from Korean to English video clip?

I don't know.

Perhaps that's the reason why more and more major account are going MIA. Because the (unecessary) response is just undeserving at times.

So my dear girls, think. As you grow, learning to appreciate is a great deal. You'd like people to appreciate you too. Learn to construct your thoughts before you voice something negative out. If you can't, then don't. Don't say anything at all.

If you wish to tell you friend that his or her new haircut doesn't suits her, you don't go "Hey, you look so ugly in your new style." - you do it subtly or you don't do it at all, no?

P.S. I'm not saying these because those people I've mentioned, are my friends. I reason out. I analyse. Sure, they might be nasty when they tell fans off. But I'm telling you, they are nastier in real. Fans are generally kinder towards their fellow fans, because they are in the same circle. It's normal for people to recipocrate, when you are nice to someone, he or she returns. Same applies when you are nasty to someone.

Xoxo!

"Look, I got a tudong!"

2011-09-15T17:40:00.001+08:00

P.S. Am in a pretty foul mood. Nevertheless, have a wonderous evening, lovelies. :)