Bday Big Day!

Well, let the photos do the talking first. =)

It was blasting day! Both my lunar birthday and solar birthday was just a day apart. So I had 2 birthday straight! The Sunday was beautiful, I met up with my bestest friends, starting with the beloved Miss Gwee and Miss Ng. Everytime I met up with them, I was always reminded of my most embarrassing birthday at hall 9. Ha ha. Although we only met for a short 2 hours, I am still very happy that they took time to meet me on my birthday!!! With a good red ang bao from them. Heh heh. Actually, a bit paiseh coz they asked me what to get for me, but I had no idea, so they got a ang bao instead. Anyway, I spent the angbao on Bebe Sheer perfume later. Hee...

Then I met Singapore Rapunzel, Kim. Her hair is so long now!!! Envy~~~ I can't grow such long hair, firstly I have no patience, secondly, long hair doesn't suit me. Anyway, there's always hair extension and wigs. =) We went to have dinner at Waraku, and I'm so loving their butter hotate. 6 pieces $6.80 only!!! Then we went shopping at Alt where we kinda got stucked at the cosmetics section. Hee~~~ 本性难移. I got this really interesting product from Hope Girl, a smudge eraser. Basically, it is a stick moisturizer, and we just kinda apply the product like roll-on on the smudges and it will be removed. It also moisturizes the eye area. I first saw this product by Wynter. She had a same product, by Etude House.

Okay, I sidetracked. To end this loving post, THANK YOU YOU 3 MARVELLOUS LADIES FOR SPENDING MY SPECIAL DAY WITH ME!!!

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Happy Birthday to Myself!!!

I am more childish as I get older! Ha ha ha.

I passed my driving!!!

It's so gonna make it to my 2011's favorite day!

At first, I thought it was a good day and really felt confident about passing. And felt even better when I had a temp instructor who was like super cute, too bad he taught me for 30mins only, then changed to another one. Young too, but lor soh like an auntie. Both the  instructors said that I was doing alright, just that I had to be less nervous, and give all sorts of encouragement. Taking the TP for the 6th time, each time was a rewound deja vu.

While waiting for my turn, I thought I would not make it again, as I was having the most terrible headache. It was hard for me to think, let alone concentrate. So when my tester called my name, I was already half expecting to fail.

My tester also seemed fiercer than the previous ones. When we were in the circuit, to do parallel parking. I stopped for a while, as I gauged that I would knock the motorcyclist in front if I continue reversing. So the tester ask me why I paused. I gave him the reason and he actually told me to continue to reverse, as there was really no need. I was shocked, because all my previous testers would step the brake if I really continue to move.

Then when we were leaving for the main road from the circuit, I was checking my right side to make sure there was no cars. I saw a blue lorry coming, so I waited, and again, tester asked me why I was not moving. After giving him the reason, he said, "Aiyah, that one going back to circuit lah!" At this point, I made the first big no-no: argue back. I replied, "Eh, to be on the safe side mah". Although I didn't sound rude, inside my heart I was already like "Oh no! Sure fail this time again!"

Then shortly after I turned left, I stopped behind a car which was in the middle of the stop line, so I was technically stopping behind the stop line. When the car moved off, I stopped again at the line, and he very pek chek asked me, "Why you stop?"

"Stop line mah!" I replied, with a bit of attitude, and then I went "Shit! 2nd time!" in my head.

And I didn't slow down when approaching green light, and when he was correcting me, I was correcting him. 3rd time, siao liao lah.

So when we went back to school, the moment I get off the car, I asked him, "Sir I fail again right?" He gave me an attitude face, and with an attitude tone, "Wait lah, I tell you you fail or pass when we in debrief room, this is outside."

I was confirmed plus chopped I was going to fail After waiting for about 5 mins, he came out and told me I passed! I was like, "What? I passed? Oh my god! Thank you sir! " and I proceeded to cut his sentences on every fifth word when he was explaining to me what I had to do next. He got really exasperated and said, "Aiyoh, you let me finish lah!"

I was super duper happy, so I obeyed!

The rest of the day I was elated lah! =)

New Hair Style!

Yeap! I changed my hairstyle again! And I really love it! It's been a long long time since I cut my hair so short that I couldn't tie it up. My head feel so light, really light.

I went to the J's salon at Goodwood Park Hotel. My stylist has the most boring hairstylist's hair ever. She's a lady, in her late 40's I guess. She look so common and normal that you wouldn't think she's a stylist. Anyway, when I told her I want neck length, I was actually refering to my shoulder-neck connection length, so there was a little miscomm, but it was a nice surprise! But I do have a little complaint and that is they are not initiated enough. I was trying to clear off those hair off my face and they did not offer me a tissue. Tsk Tsk Tsk. And, they openly display their seniority, like ordering those sidekicks here  a little harsh, When I saw it, I was like, woah, so worked up for wat?

Watever, I like my hair, and I love the colour! Nice right?

Today is just so not my day...

First, I lost my phone.
Then, I got stuck inside the toilet (not the toilet bowl ar...)
And to end the day, I scratched my middle finger during shower just now.

Hello Ladies!!!

Okie, those who know me know that I'm always yakking about beauty products and makeup and skincare. Like how I was inspired by Xiaxue to start a blog, I'm now inspired by MichellePhan and MakeUpGeek to start a YouTube channel!!!

I had this channel for the longest time, and all I uploaded was a dog show, funny goldfish parade and my project on telescope automation. I deleted them all and uploaded 2 vids of myself, in plain naked glory (I mean my face) on my routine. Even my sisters don't get to see this whole process!!!

I also started a new blog, in line with the beauty channel. It's the

Flabbulous N Fatastic!!!

Yeap, after snagging the web address for many months, this is the plan I hatched. =) Actually planned to do a interview journal, but I guessed I was too chicken to go round interview people. Skin not thick enough, or rather, it thinned after so many layers of creams. Anyway, the site needs to go through major face lift, I really dislike the default template Blogger offers. But this is gonna take some time.

Please support me, and do subscribe to my channel!!! Leave comments on how I can improve, I know there's a vast room for improvement!

Thank you!!!

Is he for real???

U know, the Ah Peng Kor guard who kinda complimented me by saying how ugly I was in primary school? He did more funny stunts and now my colleagues are teasing me about him being my SA lor... duhz...

But then again, he did all these funny stunts only when I'm around. Like yesterday, after filling in our details in the log book, he called out numbers to make sure we didn't give fake numbers. My colleague S was with me, so he called both our numbers. Initially, I thought it was a new procedure. But when I checked with my other colleagues who went up earlier than us, told me that the guard (yes, it was the same one) not only didn't call them, instead he said, "I trust you all!!!" What the hell???

Then just now, as I was changing out the passes for our I/Cs, dunno he real blur or tek gong, held on to our I/Cs and was so engrossed with the TV show. I had to called out to him before he responded. And when I went back to the car, my colleagues teased me again that he deliberately delayed the time, as I took longer than usual to change pass.

Now whenever I see this APK, I can't help but label a W on his head lor. Always do funny things to me because I'm the only lady changing pass.

Happy 2011!!!

Happy New Year! How was your countdown? Mine was pretty dramatic. I had a wonderful afternoon, which I had good lunch with my colleagues, a farewell for my PM. After that I went to watch Yogi & Boo Boo. Oh, you know the little clip they always had before the movie, it was the Road Runner and Coyote. Can see that they did a lot of antics for the 3D, but too bad I didn't watch in 3D, else it would have look very nice.

It went downhill after that. I had an argument with my dad, and in a fit, I stormed out of the house and wandered for about 3 hours. It was also so cool looking in TV, when the protagonist stormed out and wandered around. Mine was far from cool. I lost my contact lens due to excessive crying (I was so so so mad!!!), and Mother Nature chose to call me while I was still trying to sort out my feelings. I had to walk to the market, buy a pack of tissue and then made my way to the community centre washroom, all in utter blurriness. Then, I asked my 2 sisters out and joined me at the Khatib Countdown, which they got my specs for me too. If not, I'll be watching (I quote from PZ) fireclouds, and not fireworks. When we went home, then I realised I lost a key. So much drama right? At least dinner was good.

The thing about quarrels and arguments is that, it seemed so serious at that point that we slashed at each others' throats. And when you think back, it is really pointless and stupid. The argument won't be there if one of us gave in, right? And I was really a jerk, insisting to get Min home and not let her enjoy the final day of 2010.

New Year can't be New Year without taking a look at past resolutions and setting new ones. =) Let's grade my 2010 resolutions:

• Be nice to everyone, especially my family. [All was well till the last day...]
• Be more responsible in anything I do I say. [I think I still did not achieve it]
• Manage my finance, control them! [Ill say I fail this very badly too]
• Be diligent. [Hmm... not in my work tho, but I think my personal stuffs I maintain to upkeep]
• Lose weight! [Eh... Lost a bit, gain a lot, then lost a bit.]

And for my 2010 targets:

• Try a small business and be my own boss. [ Somewhere lost in the process. Think I'm gonna ask my partner again. We have yet to search for vendors. Site and misc so far so good tho.]
• Pick up a new skill. [I learnt more makeup techniques, and some face massage techniques, but not exactly the certified kind. Shall push myself more.]
• Upgrade my IT skills and knowledge. [I attended the HP-UX Network and Admin System I course. Realised I really prefered network over pure programming.]
• Do more charity. Be it donation or volunteer work. [I donated to Singapore Heart Foundation $38 mthly.]
• Run a marathon! 5 km is fine too. =) [I did more food marathon]

Out of 10, I think I just passed, i.e. 51%. Well, not too bad but obviously a lot of time wasted on some random things. Out of 365 days, that's all I've done? Tsk tsk tsk.

Ok, and now for Targets and Resolutions 2011:

R1) Exercise more. Currently having 2 KB lessons per week, probably can add some jogging in the slots. My upper body is getting heavier than my bottom, hence my legs get tired easily nowadays.
R2) Show more enthusaism for my job. I'm gonna stuck with it for maybe another 2 years, If I don't start loving it, I'm so gonna be doomed.
R3) Maintain my blogs regularly (Life, Health, Beauty and Splurge, which encompasses Fashion and Beauty). I don't really want to clump them in one, because the contents are very different.
R4) Be less annoying and be less easily annoyed by others. I have 4 people on my annoying list, shall reduce them to 2 (I doubt these 2 will ever get off my list). I have no idea how many people I've annoyed, because they don't tell me and I'm just gonna assume I annoy everyone.
R5) Show more love and less anger.
R6) Do not over splurge. In this case, the lesser posts I have in Splurge, the better. Basically, stop buying beauty products and pretty clothes!
R7) No more procrastination!!! Do immediately!!!
R8) Sleep early, by 12mn latest!!! (Today is an exception)
R9) Fasten my pace, as in like quicken my steps, take less time in everyday beauty regime, bath faster. Eating not included.
R10) Nap less. Heh.

T1) Hooky Crooky must start Businey! Find wholesellers, set up blog, start selling.
T2) Attain JLPT4, or a makeup artistry cert.
T3) Run at least two 5km run, or one 10km run. More specific and seemed more likely to achieve.
T4) Attend HP-UX Network and Admin System Course II and be certified. Looks better in my job profile, HR keeps a record of courses I attended.
T5) Get a boyfriend. Ha ha ha, that's a joke. Save 10k for next year's Europe's trip!

That's all folks.

Merry X'mas & Happy New Year!!!

Hellos! How's your X'mas week? I sure had a lot of fun and weird encounters.Supposed to jot them all them, but as usual me, I procrastinated and now I'm left with half of my stories.

My Wed was the most intriguing day of the week, seriously. It was a half day at work as we had company lunch in the afternoon, and since it was festive season, I decided to really dress nicer than usual for the party, and had contacts on too. Just a simple beige satin tank with my usual jeans and cardigan. Not only do I feel and look good, I got compliments and a lousy pick-up line too. Seriously, at work some more. I was changing for my pass entry alone (usually I'm with my colleagues) as I went to work later than usual (Need to do some clearance in the morning. When I handed in my IC, the guard on duty took a look and said, "Is this your primary school photo?"
Me, as I write my details into the log book: "Yah, I was the last batch to have my IC made in pri school."
Guard: "Wah, you looked so much better now leh!"
Me:"Aiyah, who looked good during pri sch de? all very chui one"
Guard: "Very weird hor, those who looked very ugly in pri sch grow up all become very pretty, like you lor!"
Me: "Thanks har, you just said I looked very ugly in primary school..." *cursing inside my head*
Guard: "No lah, I mean you are prettier now."
Me:"You made your point, no need to explain more, I can take it de" *more cureses*
Guard, trying to change topic now: "Eh, your top is torn and got hole leh. wah you very aggresive hor. Sure got a lot of guys woo you!"
Me, stunned for a moment trying to figure out what he meant, looked down on my top and realised the tiny weeny hole: "No lah! It was loose threading!" *Cursing him, where the hell is he looking at*

It's not even a hole!!!

At this point, I finished writing and as I turned away, I was scolding Nabeh Nabeh Nabeh idiot. And when I told the guys in my office, they laughed and said it was a lousy pickup line. Ha ha. poor guy so desperate that he could only pick me ah.

My company xmas celebration has nothing much to say except one, there's only one grand prize for the lucky draw. Period. As usual, budget limited company. The food wasn't very nice too, all finger food. The only saving grace was the cakes, tho not the log cake.

I had more fun during dinner where I met up with my batch colleagues and we had crab at No. 3 Crab delicacy at Outram road. Then the 3 of us girls secretly went to Tiong Bahru Plaza and got the 3 belated birthday boys their cake. We had told them we were going to toilet, which we went for nearly an hour. Poor them, they had to wait for us before they could order as they didn't want the food to turn cold when we come back. So sweet of them.

The Cold Cockles

Crab Bee Hoon. The lady helped us portioned out the bee hoon on request! Good service!

Butter Crab, my fav among all

Soft and bouncy mantous!!!

Curry Crab. The mantou goes well with the sauce!

Happily satisfied!

I had cold cockles for the first time and it was surprisingly good! I always had the boiled one so it was interesting to eat cold cockles, even tho it was very toxix to eat like that. Then we also had 3 different kind of crabs, Crab Bee Hoon, Curry Crab and Butter Crab, plus 30 pieces of mantou. Among all, I like the Butter Crab most. And comparing to Mellben, Mellben has better sauce but a bit more salty then No. 3. So if you are a bland eater, No. 3 will be a better choice.

I shall end with "Happy New Year Everyone!" Watch out, I'm doing something new! =)

Rapunzel: A Tangled Tale

I watched this movie today and it made me fell in love with Disney princesses all over again. What, I'm still a child at heart okay, matching with my never aging face. The last Disney princess movie I watched was... ... ... I can't remember, Cinderella the video tape?

Disney and Pixar had done well in movies, such as Up, Enchanted (Which I love love love, oh, this was the last Disney Princess Movie I watched!), Alice in Wonderland etc.... but there were also some which didn't quite get my nod like Pirates 2 & 3, Narnia 2 (Why must they include romance!?!?! The actors for Caspian and Susan had no sparks!!!).

I shed tears when it was very funny or very sad in the certain scenes of Rapunzel. When Rapunzel lost her hair, and cried when Eugene (the handsome bandit) died, it was easily foreseen that her tears had the same healing power like her hair. Disney pretty much laid the story foundation at the start so there wasn't much hard guess.

So, I recommend this movie if you looking for something lighthearted and doesn't need much brain power. Pascal is really cute, almost like Pip in Enchanted. Can't speak but has super cute body languages and facial expression! 最佳男配角！

Suay Day

I thought I was having another lucky day when the usually stern senior clerk offered me a ride down the slope, Mercedes leh!!! Alas... I was ultra suay after I got out of her car. I couldn't squeeze into the 171, the next 171 was super packed, I was in a urgent to go toilet. When I reached home, both toilets were occupied (ok, this one my own fault coz I was watching the K Drama until 8pm when my Dad asked Mum and sis whether they want to go visit the newborn and shoo they went bathing and therefore I was stranded in the living room when I wanted to use the bathroom).

I think I really don't like my job. Haiz...

I'm very lucky today!

A red packet was lying innocently near the dustbin. Out of curiosity, I picked up the ang bao to take a look as it seemed quite plump. Not too much, but I figured the person accidentally threw it away thinking it was empty when it wasn't.

Friend said, "finding $ nv give police is considered an offence (criminal misappropriation of property)", so being the good citizen I am, I did what I should.

Stippling Brush

I've been watching a lot of makeup youtubes recently, and one item that caught my attention was this stippling brush. It aims to provide a flawless finish and at the same time, uses less foundation than other brushes. Interesting huh, so I went to get a affordable one from Watson, which seem to be a newly launched brand.

Ain't it pretty?

So after testing it out, it really does use less foundation (I use cream), and the application was smoother, hence achieving that flawless skin, or more natural looking. The brush felt soft too, despite being a synthetic brush.  Anyway, being the clean freak I was, I washed the brush after about 2 uses, coz my daily makeup did not require using foundation or brushes, so I didn't want it to get bacteria growing while I stashed it away. But it was a terrible mistake.

Big blob of pink

Like all pigmented product, the color got rinsed off and as you can see, it was a very bad rinse. Not only that, the brush also gotten rougher and I was actually using a mild makeup cleanser. Double sianz lo, coz I got the brush less than a week.

So if you thinking of getting this brand of brushes becoz of it's pretty color, well, spend your hard earned money on better quality brush although it may be more expensive. The brush is exclusively to Watson.

Family Portrait

Finally, after a long 2 years... wah... It's been 2 years since I graduated?!? Gosh... Felt so not long ago. Anyway, after waiting all these time, we  finally had our family portrait taken!!! We took it in April, right after my HK trip, so I was very round as I packed 2 kg in 7 days (which also means I need 7 months to lose those weight, as as of today, I was at the weight before my HK trip, yeap, 7 months). Nevertheless, the pictures are gorgeous, and true to my family's big jolly nature, we had a big jolly photo.

The size looks like a photo frame on the table, but it is actually 40"!!!

My mama's favorite photo!!! As long as my papa is in the photo, it's her fav. Heh heh.

Jia & me, I hate how tall she is beside me. Hmpf!!!

When the guy brought out the photo, I was so stunned when I saw how huge the frame was. It couldn't even get into the car boot! So it stayed in the back seat with us.

We also had dinner at the 天外天鱼头炉 which we had, what else, 鱼头炉 lor. The soup is sweet, but the fish a tad stiff and it wasn't scrapped clean. We also had Hei Zou, Kailan and Fuyong Egg. Not sure if they saw us all big big, the portions they gave us also big big. We struggled to finish the food. My poor mum had to ate my rice coz I couldn't finish and she didn't want to waste the rice. Yeap, my stomach is programmed to take bread more than rice. Weird i know, but I can eat a lot of bread and is fine, but ate too much rice, I'll be stuffed. Had too much rice the other day at Ivin's, so I learnt my lesson, never ever overfill the stomach when it's full.

Now, we just need to wait for Jamie's convocation. =) Jamie, 加油！

Teint Miracle by Lancome

I was offered a free makeover by Lancome after a purchase at the Tangs Orchard. Free one, what's not to take right? Anyway, I think the Lancome MA seemed so sincere in giving me, maybe because I spent quite a moolah the other time. Heh heh. Her name is Linda Tock, very nice.

Anyway, back to the makeover, overall, I like the makeup, but I didn't really like my hairdo coz it didn't match my outfit. But then, I learnt the trick to doing a beehive head. (^_^)Y, can do it myself next time. One can of hairspray and a fine comb do the trick!

Here are the pictures, I looked so Tai Tai lor, that hair, hmm... I still prefer the Bobbi Brown one, where I still looked like myself.

Before Photoshop. Le Au NAtural. The Teint Miracle foundation is really good! My skin looks so dewy, ya?

After PS. Now the face looked like it was cut and paste, ignoring that, it is still good. I wished I wore better outfit.

Took this photo myself. Face and hair a bit oily & sweaty after 2 hrs, but still glowing good. BTW, no double chins!!!

Like this shot. Aren't my eyes seductive? Mu ha ha ha.

Paintball should be called PainBall

I had my first try at Paintball today, by Red Dynasty @ Sembawang. It was very very fun!!! At first, I was in such regret that why on earth did I agree to join the game when I couldn't shoot, couldn't aim, couldn't run. But, by the second round, I was hooked.

Sure, when hit by the paintball, there was a momentarily period which I would shout "Fuck" like a non-stop machine gun, or in this case, the non-stop paintball gun while rubbing the painful area. Then, I had to check whether I was colored with the green paint or not, coz if I was, I would have to run back to homebase and "reload" my life. Else, continue shooting.

I went with my colleagues, and we were all deft at hiding. Seriously, we didn't get very dirty, except for one guy, who was suay lah, coz he was the common target board. And I think I also shoot a lot at him while he was running back to home base to reload, which by right they were safe during these reloading period. As usual, I was kuku about the rules and regulations.

I shall do a rough explanation. It was like a real-life counter-strike. We were divided into terrorist (T) and counter-terrorists (CT) group. And for round one, our objectives were to aim at the opponents' cone, shoot it down, then grab our flag/ Styrofoam brick to the designated area, then we would be declared winners by the marshals, who were the Red Dynasty guys. It was like a warm-up round.

At the second round, there was a change of rule. Instead of just aiming the cones, the T's aim was to "bomb" the CT's helicopter, and the CT had to save one of the guy who was a hostage. This made it really interesting. We strategically assigned roles and the girls, which was me and Rachel, were to cover while the rest saved the hostage. Anyway, the T could only throw the "bomb" (Styrofoam brick) from the bridge, and when he did that, he was basically the target as there was nowhere to hide. So I really had fun, coz whenever the guy came up wanting to throw the Styrofoam, I just shoot. At such close range, I was shiok from the endless triggering!

Last round was Death Match, basically, we just aim and shoot till we ran out of the paintball. It was the most fun because there was no rules.

Enough words, pictures explain more.

Getting ready

This chubby guy here is me. The vest hid my chest lah!

Notice that all the guys wore the old uniform. In a way, we looked really like going for war!

Group photo #1, before the game started

This was taken before the second round, see how sweaty we were!

We already completed all, and the Red Dynasty guys kindly lent us the rifles to pose pictures.

"PainBall!" Actually we shouted Paintball lah.

Act Seh leh!

He kenna on the head

Souvenir of the day. Her OrhCheh "blossomed" a while later.

My Flower.

He's proud of his Crab.

Still showing off. Heh Heh.

I just looked like that, I wasn't unhappy!

See how happy they are. They obviously had good fun targeting someone.

FAILED! Group photo.

Recapping story again.

Playing with iPhone4

Final Group Photo, after a hearty meal

One last one. =)

My Flower finally blossomed! It's uber painful! But heng, I only got this one spot.

Definitely going back to play again!

Complacency

I was a little complacent when I couldn't fit into the dress for it was 3 inches too big. Proof that I indeed shed some weight post PMS.

And then I went on a chocolate binge on Mon and full rice meals on Tuesday.

Dang... 1 more month to go... Must control and maintain my stats now!

I gave up driving & blah blah blah

I came to a realization that I can and will never be able to learn how to drive, after wasting near 4k on lessons, renewal and practical tests. My reaction is always slower, I always forgot to do safety check, I can't gauge,  how to drive like that? The confidence I showed during practice never did shine during tests. Sometimes I think the instructors were just patronizing me. I mean, if I were that ok, how come I not ok during TP? I was already so calm in my last test, yet there were still so many mistakes the tester penalized me.

为何？？？

The older I am, the lousier I get, the stupider I became.

I should just die at 30 years old. I can't imagine what become of me at 40. Oh, old single maid is the best visualization I have.

A disgusting new flash: I think I just detox a 10cm worm out of my body. Damn, what have I been eating? And no wonder I've been feeling so easily hungry lately.

I have a verdict for my fat waist

It's PMS bloat.

I had just endured a 2 month's worth of PMS.

This explained my recent :

1. Tiredness. I was always tired in the office that my PL bought me Vit. B complex. Touched ~~~
2. Crankiness. Scold Jamie Nag Jamie Irritate Jamie
3. Neatness & Cleanliness OCD: Dust Wipe Organize

I felt like I'm finally back to myself, back to my old body. For the past 2 months, all my thoughts were I'm fat, I ate too much, I exercise too less, and I hardly did my bowels. Considering that I only been to my kickboxing twice (I missed 1 lesson), did jogging and stair-climbing 3 weeks ago, I seriously didn't think that aids my weight loss. Granted, I walked a bit more lately than usual, choosing to climb tat irritating half hill than to take a taxi (partially also due to the over spending lah), it still doesn't work out that 2 inches.

The tap is finally turned on today and I really felt like the bloat is gone. Furthermore for the past 1 week plus, I've been very flatulent and did no. 2 several times a day (solid somemore!) which are my cues to the time of the month.

Maybe, the bloat is a collaboration between the 2 mentioned actions above and they were on strike for 2 months.

女人难当啊！

Kickboxing is good

After a 3 months break, it's good to be back in kickboxing, I can really feel the oil inside me melting after an hour of non-stop kicks.

Ok, not exactly an hour non-stop, my 100% reduced to 80% after 20 mins, 60% after another 10 mins, and doing only 20% for the remaining. My instructor is like an energizer bunny kicking at gear 5, really powerhouse!!! We couldn't keep up with her speed and strength. Imagine throwing 3 moves in a second with the oil barrels attaching to my arms. Tiring!

But shiok! I felt less bloated already.

Looking forward to my next lesson!

My waistline is getting wider than my bustline - part 2

To no avail, the bottom is still wider than the top. Shit.

But the walk up the hill today seemed to ease my bloat.

I wonder is I could walk them everyday, just half the hill and I'm way past zen mode.

I guess endurance is the key.

Assaulted

My poor tummy was assaulted mercilessly by Miss Gwee.She had a fun time rubbing them, but I didn't enjoy. I think I will enjoy the rubbing on the tummy if I'm a puppy.

Miss Gwee, I'll get my revenge!!! You wait!!! ( ~ o ^ )Y

I'm removing the cbox. Too many spammers.

Elbow knocked sense into me

I was elbow-knocked this morning by a guy when the bus suddenly swerved. I was in pain. I that I was so pissed off by his non-apologetic manner that I just glared at him while rubbing my tortured back while his back faced me.

Very duhz, I know. Absolutely no use at all.

So I was complaining to my colleagues, and so one of them asked, "Why didn't you confront him?"

That slapped me up and I pondered, why did I lack the gut to ask him for a sorry? I'm the victim here, ya?

As I reenact the scene in my head, I realized I was actually worried of showing my anger in front of strangers. So strange, isn't it? We could lash all the emotions on our closest that we see everyday, yet we could hide our tempers on people who won't see a second time. Shouldn't it be the other way round?

Why care about what other strangers are thinking when we don't even spare a thought of what our family and friends are thinking of our actions?

Hmm, I guess that's what we called kinship and friendship, coz there's no barrier and we showed our truest selves, instead of pretending whom we are not in front of strangers.

Like how I shrieked and jumped away from the lizard that my colleague kindly informed me not to step on. Totally lost my cool again. But it showed how much I don't care what they think.

Heh.

I'm mad worried

I feel like my left ear is going deaf soon coz I've been hearing buzzing almost everyday.

My waistline is still huge despite not eating much, I cut down on my rice le!

I hardly feel hungry and when I am, I feel full after 2 bites.

I'm panting like an old cow.

It all feel so deja vu, seemed like it happened in 2007 when I could go on for a day with only breakfast. Gonna do detox for this week, crap.

My sis is a joker too.

Mum told me that the same Auntie C has been pestering her for an answer whether both Jia and me are attached. And Jia gave a really ultimate answer, "Aiyo, tell her to stop asking lah! There isn't even a 色狼！"

I do not have their levels.

My mum is a joker

Those who know my mum will know that she is someone with an incredible sense of humor. She could give really out-of-the-box answers.

When I was going uni and staying in hostel, Auntie D, a family friend was saying that it was a little dangerous for 2 girls to stay alone in school, even though it is a school. So my mum, told her: "Oh, then I'll ask her to stay with a guy lor, can protect her!" Totally disregarding the auntie's exact worry.

Recently, Auntie C had been calling my mum and she always exclaimed that my mum is a bundle of energy, coz she could go work, come home work some more and then watch Korea drama without a rest. And she she will always ask the same thing to my mum: "Do you always take chicken essence?"

Sick of her nonsense, my mum gave her nonsense. Without batting an eyelid, she replied in hokkien, "Bo lah, wo jiak peh hoon!" (No lah, I eat heroin!)

My waistline is getting wider than my bustline.

Really need to stop putting food into my mouth.

Over Clothes

Ever since I made the beautiful marriage of Forever21.com and Vpost, I had been shipping clothes every 3 months or so. Up till Sunday, I was browsing clothes as usual, and getting opinions from Jamie.

Jamie then told me something she heard from my parent's conversation: Why Qiqi (me) keep buying clothes?

Struck me like a bat on the head and woke me up. They were right, why do I buy so many clothes?

The clothes I bought, only a few I would start it. Those I don't wear, I kept thinking that I would wear it once I had the chance or save it for a special occasion, and usually they are dresses and skirts. So far, only 2 skirts were broken into. -_-|||

This could link to how my Ah-ma used to keep our new clothes for the "special occasions", you know. I inherited this habit. Not that it is a bad habit, but it is bad when I still have new clothes stacking from 2 years ago.

And ever since I started working, the urge to"must own this item" becomes bigger. From simple tops to elaborated dress, from backpack to shoulder bags, ballet flats to high heels, even the facial products, fill more than 1 drawer. I will even spend that certain amount to get the freebie. I'm really getting out of hand.

So, I told myself, I must not buy any more stuffs till end of the year. Coz I don't have any more space to stash them already.

I'm getting very very lazy...

Procrastinate too much...

Think far less...

I guess I'm just waiting for some huge to happen before I start writing like I used to be...

Had my wisdom tooth extraction on my left cheek in July, MC one week, shiok beyond words. Can't remember much funny details le. Except that I still went for a farewell dinner on Thursday despite my swollen gum. Oh, I had a total of 2 or 3 LA shots coz I was feeling the pain even before the dentist was sewing my gum back. Popped 2 painkillers when went home and slept like a pig. Face swollen like a pig too. Could bite and eat normally on the right side when I woke up, which is good coz mum cooked good food! =)

Got new eyebrows. =) Nice is nice, but a bit too expensive... should have for free ointment. I'm such a sucker.

Bought far too many things, shoes, clothes, bags... Forever21.com, I hate you! But I love you more!

Got 2 huge ass acne in 2 months... I guess something went wrong in my beauty regime... Oh! I didn't remove my makeup properly... Shit... Got a huge ass scar on my face now, not obvious, but irritating.

Work still nothing new... Bestie jokingly advised me to change job since nothing much (she meant guys) to see there (mean further prospects). Duhz... she's planning to get married in 2 years time! Gosh.

I can't lie and I don't know how. Seriously. All I wanted was to avoid appearing too chiong going out with Bestie after on mc yesterday), so I said to my colleagues whom I was on the same wayy that I just wanted to pay some service which I didn't manage to get to yesterday, which is true. When Bestie called, I silly answered, "You reached already ah?" So Colleagues A and B knew I was going out, I further made situation worse when Colleague-A asked why don't I meet her in Yishun since we both stayed there. I answered, Yishun was boring. This kinda overthrew my first reason that I wanted to clear payment and made me seemed like a liar and an MC queen. I meeting her in AMK was because I really wanted to make payment and there was a roadshow!!!

Lousy Liar Me!

Ok dok!

Monday Blues

So not in the mood for work...

Could I get any more embarassing?

Being the only girl in the team has its perks, but also has the shitty situation. Despite all my efforts to be as graceful as possible, I've already gave dirty jokes, snorted during nap, burped after meals and heck, dig my nose (with tissue) behind their backs (literally) so that they don't see.

Just when I thought my stunts are all out, bare nakedly shown them all the ungirly things a girl could do, I displayed the ultimate: showing the most girly stuff.

I was chatting with 2 of them while waiting to go for lunch, so I was preparing my pockets to stuff the tissue, phone and money pouch in. As I dig my left side pocket, I felt the slim silhouette of a used tissue and thought I could use it to wipe table later. As I was drawing it out, I decided to check how clean it was first, maybe it could go another round on my face, you know, don't use too many tissues mah.

When I took it out, somehow, it turned out to be a pantyliner, and staring straight at my colleagues' faces.

I think one took a chance at the pantyliner, and bought Toto.

It didn't work.

The black short didn't work its charm. Because I did too badly liao.

2 immediate fails.

Driving Lessons

There is this urban legend about driving test, that women tend to pass the test easily if they show a bit of cleavage, wear short skirts or dress sexily, coz the testers are lecherous.

Back in the poly days, I thought this was a myth created by a certain MCP who was upset that women were driving cars, which in the old past, only men could drive. Maybe he had lost a bet with a gal who proved him wrong, that gals couldn't drive. Hence, he made up this myth to be spiteful and that women were lousy drivers. Hmm, I was quite a mild feminist then.

However, I myself is a live testament to that myth today. No, I hadn't pass the test, but I had a better lesson for once. Showing some skin really helped a little.

I had been getting this really stern instructor for my driving lessons, probably because I didn't book one and he wasn't booked by others due to his infamous temper. As much as I'm quite tolerant, his nonchalant voice and hardly audible pronunciation pissed me off sometimes, and very often, I couldn't quite catch his instructions, so I needed him to repeat. And very often, he would raise his voice, and when correcting my mistakes, his tone wasn't very nice too.

Today, I was hoping that I wouldn't get him as my instructor, but as you all know, we all probably knew what we didn't want was going to happen and that's why we prayed. I had not had any practice since my last driving test 2 months ago, so I was mentally prepared to be grilled badly by him.

Surprisingly, while he still had that nonchalant and hardly audible voice, he wasn't stern today. Either he is in a bloody good mood, or my mistakes were less "fatal" or it's my black shorts.

Maybe, his bad temper was what I imaginatively conjured up when I drove really badly and today, I drove quite well, minus the lane change, speed control and parking.

Still, hope the black short works its charm on the tester tomorrow.

My mum

Well, she is always proud that whatever she wished came true. Like,

She had been thinking of having new bed for me, yeap, we got it free.

She was thinking some mushroom balls for dinner, and soon, her boss gave her a lot of packets.

She had been wishing for a sponge for washing big bottle, I bought it without knowing she wanted.

So that day, she was telling how she got things she wished for, I asked her, why don't you wish for son-in-laws?

She just retorted, "不可能的咯！"

...

Finally, a girl is joining my team!!!

Can't wait to start gossip club with her. LOL.

yeah!!!!! new "boyfriend"!!!!

Dear Lenovo

We had a happy and peaceful 5 years relationship, well, not exactly peaceful, but you've been through the ups and downs of my uni life, stand by me during my tough fyp and the sucky period of my first job. I'm really sorry that you getting older, hence couldn't meet up to my high level of energy drive. There were so many things I want to try, but because of your slowness, I wasn't inspired or motivated to do.

Toshiba really fare better in that department, as he's younger. We may have ended this, but I truly believe that you are my best friend, wh

Saving Gaia

Woah! Only after I searched for this vid, only then I realised how abstract this clip was. The three of them represent the tree, the water and the atmosphere, with the kid as the earth.



When we first saw the vid on TV, because it displayed a dark and deep sense, and there was this parellism which they started with "What if, 如果..." We were like so engrossed in watching. When it came to the end, my Dad growled,

"如果我是炒票， 你会怎么办？"

-_-|||

I must have discipline...

to start wearing my new clothes.

The stack of new clothes is getting higher and higher.

Did a rough inventory, I still have clothes bought a few years ago, not worn! So horrible...

And just minutes ago, I ordered my 3rd batch of clothes from Faith21 again...

And within the past 2 months, excluding my HK trip loot, I bought like 2 pair of new shoes, 3 tops, and 4 bottoms...

I am so jialat... Must wear them!

Lizardry!!!

Just when it couldn't get more funnier, Miss Ng had to remind me that, I quote her: "The lizard must be screaming: Let! Mee! Ouut!!!"

Since when does asking for home address equivalent to sending red bomb?

YQ sought my help to consolidate our home addresses so that she could send the baby's full month cakes to us. The first thought that came to XL's, Ivy's, and Teh Ni's mind when I asked them for their addresses was they thought I was getting married.

Excuse me, I don't have a boyfriend to intro to them, so how could I be getting married? Like what I told Ivy, i would screaming into their phones if I were to don the white gown anytime soon.

I foresee the next 10 years their ears would be spared.

I didn't know Goh Keng Swee...

Only to realize the amazing things he'd done for Singapore via the news lately... So ashamed of myself...

Well, RIP, Founding Father...

My inner spinster is screaming again...

Damn... My gal friends all are getting married.

It's just me and a few left to party...

I salute the Supernatural Scriptwriters!

They did such good twist! Now the story is right where both Sam and Dean are saying a big fat NO to Michael and Lucifer to being their vessels. So episode 19 was about other gods from other religions kidnapping them, hoping to use them as chips to restore world peace. But of course, they ain't Lucifer's match and Mercury (Hermes) contacted Lucifer to their location. Lucifer killed them with a flick of his finger, and so Gabriel came to save them. Knowing he wasn't a match to Lucifer, he left Sam and Dean a tape containing an alternative solution, and that is to kick Lucifer back to his cage, using the four horsemen rings.

Isn't this brilliant? I tot the show would end up God coming to help leh!

Just one little error, they mentioned that only an angel can kill an angel, but so far Dean killed Zachariah, and Kali was able to kill Gabriel too, although with a fake knife lah, but Gabriel end up "dead" leh. But yet again, there were justifications, as Dean said partial Yes to Michael and maybe for that brief period, he could kill Zachariah. And as for Kali, Gabriel was binded to Kali by a blood spell, so is that why she could kill him?

And those gods are involved in complicated love relationship some more... duhz...

Star Award 2010 is giving out pork again, and kelong somemore!

As much as I laughed my heart out watching SA Part 1 on Sunday, most of the time was at their stupidity and lack of eloquence.

I felt so disappointed that Auntie Lucy didn't win the Most Popular Female Character, all because Dennis Chew didn't have a fan club! Jeanette Aw's fans really went all the way out lor, same for Nat Ho's. A bit unfair, but anyway, Star Awards is purely entertainment, most importantly we know Auntie Lucy is more popular! Heck, Yao Jianhong is just a typical day Mulan, and Aw acted so unnaturally can? Especially the part where she was a hostess and seriously, even if you are morally upright, the tone and action do not have to be super slow-mo lor. All my goosebumps came out when I watched the part which she poured the liquor and talked to the inspector. Brr...

Still, thought the award was specially created for Auntie Lucy coz Dennis Chew acted so well and there was a lot of hype. Chey, in the end, they still leave the best pork part to their own people.

Fine, I just plainly doesn't like Aw, can? I also don't like many others also.

• Ann Kok's tits can't squeeze into the small dress, this is her another classic look that people will talk for years.

• Joanne Peh is politically correct, while DYT got mo shui, hence they bagged the Media's Favourite awards. Actually, Mediacorp got too much money to spare so they created this title to make more awards.
  

• Patricia Mok really got nothing to show, and she's so fair that I tot her chest has a nude fabric covering it, oh, that's her real chest. (I can't even use the word cleavage here!) Fann Wong won her by a little bit, both their cup size and fairness.
  

• I quite like those skits, coz they are so brainless and predictable that I laughed before even they even reached the hit point. Altho we don't know the inside jokes, it was still quite entertaining.
  

• How come didn't see Zoe Tay?
  

Quote from my colleague: "Jeanette is a very good actress, she's so good that she also act outside her roles."

More jokes this Sat...

I'm back!!!

E'nuff sa(i)d.

Hong Kong!!!

It's been 10 years (I dunno why I keep thinking it was 8 years) since I last sat on a plane. The last one was to HK too.

此行旧地重游， 格外兴奋！

Shall shower you all with lots of photos! =)

I'm such an idiot

I'd been such an idiot today.

First, I thought I was gonna be in bad luck today when a black kitten ran across my path.

Secondly, i really thought I was unlucky when I was being tasked to clear some stuff at main office, courtesy of last Fri's event. But main office is nearer to home, so no complaints.

Thirdly, I stupidly asked my kindhearted colleague whether the box containing the cookies were still in his car! He waited for me, kept for me, and all I did was asking whether the cookies were okay? Gosh, slapped me please.

Lastly, I annoyed the same kindhearted colleague by asking him to cover something for me. And when he said, there was no need to, I sort of pushed the "blame" stating that the other colleague asked me to check.

What the hell, I seriously have no brain to think about the whole situation! I stupidly followed some unofficial orders! Not that it was bad, one was actually beneficial to me, but because of this good one, that was why I was told to do some covering. As a matter of fact, if I had think through the whole situation, read the sms instruction carefully, there was no mentioning of covering.

I brought all these upon myself. Grr... Kindhearted colleague may not take it to heart, but the thought of myself, once again, doing a stupid stunt, makes me ponder, what the hell I studied so much if I can't even analyze a simple situation!

Oh man... I really need to focus!!!

I didn't even catch a simple joke until 3 seconds later. -_-|||

My job

More or less easing into the job, but sometimes I still hate it for being internet-less.

Been helping out with the recent upgrading's upgrading, can't help feeling "the more I know the suckier it is..."

Maybe Boss is just joking about the sucky part.

It's a small world part 3

My poly/uni/hall friend's girlfriend is my secondary school friend's sister and now she lives 4 blocks away from me.

Saw them while I got off at Yishun Stadium today, Friend called my name as my specs were fogged out, couldn't see him. And his gf is super tall lor, you mei you. Envy~~~

Perfect Match

I find Ryan Reynolds really cute after watching The Proposal. He has these love-sick puppy eyes that kinda melt girls' heart.

So I googled about him and found a heartbreaking fact: He's married to Scarlett Johansson!!!

Oh my... His wife is sexy goddess can?

Inadequate

Never felt myself so inadequately before.

When I was in primary school... I never knew what pressure is...

When I was in secondary school, I shouldered a lot of expectations which I couldn't achieve till Sec. 4

When I was in polytechnic, everything came so easily for me.

When I was in uni, I finally understand that hard work really pays off.

Now that I'm working... maybe it was a subconcious thought that I'm not meant for big things, I just couldn't wrap my head on the things I'm doing now. This is way beyond what I expect and I really doubt I could get my hands on it. This is so ironic, coz my previous job scope, I thought it was way below my level that I should have done.

Now that something bigger comes along, but I just couldn't stuff myself into it...

I need more focus...