FINALLY! exams are over! and i just came back from malaysia on the 12th. attended nicholas's 2nd brother's wedding, one at KL, the other back at sitiawan. quite busy actually, did hair and makeup for his mom and sort of became the stylist also. lol. i can do hair! haha. too bad the pictures are with the oldest brother now. will get from him and maybe add to my portfolio?? i was supposed to do makup for the bride at the sitiawan banquet, but last minute they went to a bridal shop so i didn't need to do. it would have been a good experience for me but i've never done it and well, wedding's a once-in-a-lifetime thing so if i don't do it nicely it would've been a bad memory for the bride.. :( but it would be really nice to have a bridal picture for my portfolio hor? talking about makeup, i'm going to do another photoshoot for my portfolio with mu! better start putting all my ideas unto paper first and then we can confirm all the details. then again, i need to start looking for a job first. that's on the top of my to-do list.

anyway, bought quite a lot of foodstuff back from malaysia. the best is the xiang bing (fragrant biscuit) or what the cantonese will call heong peyng(?). it's damn good! and the saddest part is i only bought one pack.. argh. should've bought like at least 3! now i know what to buy home the next time i go. my mom loves it by the way. haha.

i've mostly been shopping ever since i came back from malaysia 'cause i didn't buy a single piece of clothing there! the only thing i bought was food. sad. the topshop over there is like even more expensive when u convert the RM into SGD. on monday i went to chinatown and vivocity with dith and mu to shop. mostly me shopping of course. >_< bought the high-waisted pencil skirt i wanted! also bought a top at the thai fair at vivo. last day so the stuff were going cheaper, but not much stock left. still not enough shopping for me. feel like getting a branded working bag, but budget is tight. :| went town today (tuesday is boyfriend day :)) but didn't see anything nice. should've gone to taka's bag department.

i watched kungfu panda today! damn funny! laughed through almost the entire movie.. i swear to get the dvd. it's definitely a keeper. for those who haven't watched it, please go watch! you don't know what you're missin'!

haven't posted in quite a while 'cos exams have begun and i don't have the mood to blog already.. will update once my papers are over :P 2 more to go! go go go!

happy birthday to me... :P


P.S. anybody know of an effective slimming gel for the body? need to slim those armssss...

hey peipei this is for you! haha. almost forgot about it..




this is us at wala wala's after the screening of dith's fyp, Sleep of the Guiltless at singapore art museum. the band is really good and the whisky dry is very smooth. frozen lime magarita is nice as well :P will definitely go there to chill again after exams. there's a plus of course, food just opposite! breko's tic tac toe fries are very yummy :) if not, walk down to nydc or crystal jade. can't remember if it's open 24 hours or until late though. O_o

heard from grace that she's using clarin's shaping face lift.. i want! desperately need to get rid of my double chin first before anything else. but, it's almost $94! :( it's on my wish list for now..



i bought the bioessence face lifting cream to try but it only tones like temporarily.. the face does slim by like 0.1 or 0.2cm after 10 minutes (if you massage properly) but for maybe less than half the day? definitely not permanent for me. or maybe i'm too impatient to see results? however, there's a redeeming quality: good moisturiser for the neck. the neck shows your real age if you don't apply anything so even if u've got a face wrinkle free but you neglect to care for your neck, beware... saggy and wrinkly neck... haha.

yay! i collected my marc jacobs stam quilted bag on sunday, and guess what! there're marc jacob labels on the bag! on the outside there was marc jacobs paper tag, inside the bag there's a metal label, the clasps are carved with marc jacob.. and i thought it would only be a marc jacobs inspired bag.






anyway, i spree-ed this bag for $48 nett. it's cheaper than getting from B.O.W at far east. lol. and i can't wait for my forever21 dress to arrive! spree-er is going to the post office today :) and i ordered a few clothes from zipia.. couldn't help it! i love the tuxedo-lapels jacket. found a very similar one at mango and guess how much it is? $199!!! a freakin' 200 bucks. zipia's jacket is only USD52. convert to SGD plus shipping, it's not even 100 bucks. wheeee. if you're tempted, check out their webbie: www.zipia.net (if you wanna see the closeups you need an account, or borrow someone's account, you can find it here at the spree-er's blog: vainypotty)

Tadaaaah! i got the LG Viewty and i'm in lurrrve with it! the 5MP camera is good and u can do a lot of things with this phone! i love the touch screen function and when i sms, i can choose between normal keypad, handwriting screen or the qwerty keyboard. love the keyboard to death. best of all, this phone is actually very user friendly. i think like many people, i used to think LG is not very good, but the touch screen phones really changes your impression of the brand. i bet they did a lot of R&D. and so, i should be obsessed with my phone for the next dunno how many days or weeks before i get used to this superb thing. lol.

found another phone! this is the LG Viewty. fully touch screen, with 5MP camera, 3.5G, internal memory is 100MB and supports up to 2GB, etc. and it's on promotion at only $198 at singtel shops with free 1GB micro sd! i'm getting the phone tomorrow so it'll be either the Samsung i780 or this..

i think i'll be dreaming of phones tonight..

i think i might be getting this phone, though i won't be able to fully utilise its functions. nice or not?

Sigh! it's been a while. trying to study for the past few weeks. sometimes i think, what the hell am i studying for.. a paper that secures a certain wage? society sucks. i'm like forced to do something i don't like but have to deal with. BAHHH. can't i just go into makeup? i don't like being cooped up in a cubicle for 8 hours. doing routine work. but what else is there to do man.. no money = can't survive. society is materialistic. money revolves around almost everything. and the more i study the more i get frustrated. am i getting sick in the head?

dith's fyp is screening next saturday at the singapore art museum, and i'm going, even though i'm supposed to be mugging. i'll just make sure i study harder in the day :( here's the poster:



cool huh.. it's a profile of jerry hoh btw, who plays M in the movie.
and this is the invite:


i hope the makeup looks ok on the big screen.. :x

Anyway, i'm damn happy that i'm collecting the makeup pay for the fyp tomorrow (strictly speaking, later today) :D yay! and we will hear everyone in singapore cheer madly on the 30th april cos that's when everybody gets the $150 of the dividend growth, generously donated by our singapore government! whee! whoohoo! and we'll cheer again on the 1st july when we get out gst offset package. haha. we are soooo fortunate and ain't i glad i know it.

arghhh. i feel tired and crappy. whenever i take a break from studying, i play sudoku. am i bonkers or what? i actually find it damn fun. haha. should've bought that $5 sudoku book from that Plaza Sing $5-a-book sale thingy.. darn.

nicholas spoiled the surprise.. he was gonna buy me a hp for my birthday but he spilled the beans. haha.. oh well, it's still very sweet of him :) the problem is, i don't know what hp to buy! i'd been dying to get that motorola lux edition but now that i think about it, i wanna get a good camera phone. an iphone sounds really good but too ex. sony erricson? no nice design. nokia? n series too bulky. the express music one so ugly. moto? i could get the one similar to what i have now, but the camera isn't very good. samsung? maybe. LG? errrrr.... never mind. hrrrmphhh.

the southern floral dress that i-wanted-to-get-but-was-oos is now back in stock! can't believe it. i wanna get it! but need to find an open forever21 spree with cheap exchange rates. :(

study study study! T_T

since it was our 4th year here there's nothing much to do except take goofy pictures. haha.. but this year is packed with people! and i didn't really like that. prefer the serene and quiet sentosa like last year.. but anyway, it's prolly the last year we're celebrating our anniversary here. getting kinda bored. XP







A chameleon in my track. it was bright green and orange when it jumped out of the flowers but i couldn't get the shot of it in time :(

yesterday this sweet little thing came to my door! it meowed like mad and looked damn hungry. my mom gave it some "lor bak" she cooked and it literally devoured it. it wanted to come inside but my parents didn't like the idea.. so sad. so it had to stay out. i thought it would just go away after a while but guess what? it fell asleep on our doormat!! so damn cute! see the way it sleeps like a human? it spent like more than 2 hours outside my house.. until i had to go downstairs and pick up the mannequin that rena's lending me. i feel bad 'cause i'm borrowing the mannequin but she brought it to me instead.. anyways, the cat was so manja! it woke up when i opened the door and it started to rub against my leg. lol. and it followed me downstairs! i think it was scared so it sat outside the lift. i thought it'd stay there but when i came back it was gone! i figured it went to find its mama.. so sad.. i miss it so much.. i wish i had kept it with me. sigh.. only pictures left to remind me of that sweet lil thing..

wahhhh!!! finally my internet connection's fixed! it has been down for the past whole week and my brother was dying of withdrawal symptoms.. -_-" it wasn't as bad for me, i just couldn't watch my latest episode of antm. haha.

btw, i've collected my forever21 spree stuff, and they're all nice. phew and yay!

the past two days has been most wonderfully sweet and romantic.. will post the photos soon. :)

i'm off to watch antm!

It's a good Easter this year. :)

i'm so stupid! take photos with birthday girl but never take photos of the good food! arghhhh. devil's curry, pasta, nasi lemak, super nice fried chicken drumsticks, etc. sam's mom's da best. and sam baked her birthday cake again this year. can taste more baileys in the cake this year, which i liiiiiiiike :P cake is very good! and we had lots of chocolate eclairs! all the food damn good and super sinful.. haha.

and i realised i only took pictures of trixie and not gayle.. -_-" gayle's the other jack russell but much older. gayle's 8 and trixie's 3. (can you imagine in human years trixie is only 2 years younger than me? lol.)

Trixie just kissed deb but i was too slow in capturing that sweet moment, but trixie looks so cute with her tongue sticking out.

auntie asked trixie to kiss her but she refused! ('cause trixie was naughty and kena scolded just now so didn't dare to kiss. lol)



trixie's so cute!

wow. it really never fails to rain on Good Friday. and always in the afternoon.

Went church visiting since it's Maundy Thursday. went to risen christ for mass then headed to our lady of lourdes, then st. joseph's, st. peter and paul, and last stop cathedral of the good shepherd. took bus only to lourdes and walked to all the rest of the churches 'cause it's all in the same area. i think it's the hottest and sweatiest church visiting year 'cause walking plus no air-con in the churches. lol. but had fun with sam fern, deb, her mom and her cousin lesley (or leslie?), greg and rene. was really glad rene came along 'cause it's been some time since i saw and talked to her and need to bring her to church. she almost didn't wanna go but i half persuaded and half nagged her into going. :) i'm a bad godma.. haven't been watching over her spiritual side, though i know that she's been missing mass. sigh. i never realised being a godma entails so much responsibility, maybe 'cause my own godma didn't set a good example? but i understand godma's got her own family problems so i'm not complaining. sometimes i do wonder if i did the right thing agreeing to be rene's godma for her confirmation. thinking back, i wasn't yet spiritually mature to teach her anything, even now. i even have to watch myself. how to take care of others when i can't even take care of myself? surprised that i even have time to self-reflect. nowadays i myself don't even know what i'm really busy with.

i think i'm just stuck to materiality such that i'm losing sight of God. but i think i grew a bit closer to Him today. during the transfer of the body of christ, when fr. john sim walked past with the body of christ, i felt a breeze which gave a tingling sensation and had this sudden urge to pour my tears out. the emotion just hit me and it was so strong. i managed to hold back the tears but the emotion rocked me. was it the Holy Spirit? i think it was. i think it was God telling me to put all my anger and frustration and sadness down, let it out, let it go. and the universal prayer also prayed for angry children and disappointed parents to reconcile and remember their good times and their love for each other. it was definitely God's message for me. i think i had an unexpressed reconciliation with my mom today, at that point in time. thank you Holy Spirit.

i prayed for my brother and i hope he really wakes up. he's like in a warped world of his own and of course he didn't go church at all today, or the previous few weeks. what he needs is a miracle, God's wake-up call. supposed to be old enoough but still can't take control of his own life. eternal slavery to gaming, that's what i call it. my mother's another problem, but let's not go into it. say some more and i'll go crazy.

had a nice green tea frapp at starbucks after visitation and talked until they closed and sort of chased us out by flickering the lights. lol. we weren't the last to leave though. first time i took night rider home. haha. so suah ku. a bit scared though 'cause it's so late and my place there got ah nehs and china workers. was damn aware of my surroundings the entire (brisk)walk home. blah. maybe i'm paranoid.

damn tired but still watched the latest episode of ANTM cycle 10 on youtube. i'm addicted man.

now! to sleep and Good Friday service tomorrow, or later in the day, to be precise.

The sequel rawks! plot is nothing out of the ordinary, but the dance moves are still wow. and funny at times. i think the sequel is such a hit 'cause they got the original production team to work together again, [including the cutting-edge hip-hop choreographer Jamal Sims, who is joined this time by choreographers Hi-Hat ("Hip-hop's High Diva of Dance") and Dave Scott ("Stomp the Yard").] this is definitely a 5 stars movie for me. :P

*[quote cathay's synopsis]




this is a love-maki ok! haha.. bf made this for me. i was really touched i felt like crying! it's been some time since he made food for me, with lotsa love of course. XP so of course i finished everything. how could i not? it tastes really good too. aiyah, anything he makes for me tastes good.. hahaha. *in bliss*

on a side note, the photos look really blur (i swear i didn't shake!). time to save up for a nicer handphone! >_< the camera's picture quality hasn't been good. it being 2 megapixels doesn't do it justice, no point having a big picture with lousy quality right? i'm like changing my mind about getting the motorola razr2 lux edition. -_-" maybe a sony ericsson or samsung? AND, the phone's been having funny problems nowadays.. cannot get calls, or call must call a few times to get through, suddenly switch off.. must be 'cause i dropped it too many times. eeks. hope i can trade in for a good price when i do change my handphone. sigh.

anyhows! i'm going to bugis with dith tomorrow to hunt for a sundress, preferably a pale yellow one (yes, like the one i couldn't get during the forever21 spree). everytime i'm reminded of that dress, all i feel is: heart pain. lol. part of the reason i'm getting the sundress is 'cause nic and i are going to sentosa to celebrate our 4th year anniversary. :) 31st march. not very far away! can't wait. wouldn't be doing much but maybe something romantic, like buying some wine and heading to the beach to cheers ourselves to death and whisper sweet nothings to each other and wishing each other happy anniversary over and over.. i myself am getting goosebumps thinking of it. hahaha. it's become our custom to celebrate every anniversary at sentosa, yes, 4th year already! i like the fact that it holds many beautiful memories for the both of us, and going there every year just makes it all the more special. so mushy. haha. come to think of it, i don't know what to get for him! 'cause i already got him lotsa different things for christmas. :( anyways, the other reason i'm getting the dress is, i'm just so buay kum wan that i couldn't get it online. haha. yes, i deserve a nag. but that's me for you. :P when i really want something, i'll get it. not just in terms of shopping, but in other aspects in life. when i have the passion for something, i'll want to do it no matter what. like my interest in makeup. even if i can't do it full-time, i can always freelance, and if i can't do a makeup course now, i can always get an office job and save up for it. doesn't matter if it takes me a few years.

passion never dies.

heh. that reminds me, i love to bake as well. does that mean i gotta go into baking? lol. i don't mind opening a small cake/dessert shop in the future. let's say i marry my bf, maybe he'll cook and i'll bake. haha. we'll make good complements. anyways, i'm not thinking soooo far yet. see how it goes. O_o