chloesque

Chloe is on an indefinite hiatus (:

2010-03-25T23:50:00.006+08:00

2010-03-12T01:07:00.001+08:00

I'm currently the proud owner of an ASUS A42jr (:

BYEBYE SUCKY FPS.

Silkygirl Double Intense Waterproof Mascara

2010-02-25T22:13:00.002+08:00

Today, I decided to get over my fear of mascaras after I poked myself in the eye with the wand while I had my contacts in.

As Watsons was having a 20% discount and my mother wanted me to help her get something from there anyway, I decided to grab Silkygirl's new mascara - the Double Intense Waterproof Mascara.

What drew me initially was it's sleek and chic packaging - black with silver squares in a random pattern. Very very different from their Lash Prism Mascara's 'cheap'-looking packaging.

Will this be the start of a mascara addiction? I don't think so.

Not yet, anyway =P

26th Monthaversary

2010-02-08T22:54:00.001+08:00

Happy 26th Monthaversary!

2010-02-04T15:57:00.001+08:00

Internshit is ending soon!

But wtf am I going to do with my makeup now?

Someone give me a job please.

Magical Tannsu Cream Shadow Review

2010-01-28T15:23:00.008+08:00

I've been using the Precious Metal cream shadow (I call it my imitation paint pot) from Magical Tannsu for the past four days and it was been AWESOME.

Been wearing it for more than 12 hours each day, with this eyeshadow I got on sale from O2Skin and there's little/no fading and/or creasing on my oily lids (: I didn't do any touch ups either.

It's well-packaged, coming with a security/sanitary seal at the mouth of the jar. There's this smell when you sniff it but it's nothing overpowering honestly, you can barely smell it. I don't know if MAC Paint Pots have a similar smell cuz I don't own any, but it doesn't bother me.

As for the texture, it's rather smooth and glides on my lids. But of course, as prepared by Magical Tannsu, the colour payoff isn't exactly great but it's sufficient for me. One layer of the cream shadow and I can already see a subtle sheen of colour and shimmer. I think you should be able to build it up if you want.

Maybe it's just me, but I feel that Precious Metal is really close to my skin tone, such that when the light hits it, I can see some shimmer (spread evenly on my lids, of course), but not a lot of gold.

As for Beige Rose, I'd swatched it on my lids once and with one layer, I can already see this really pretty pinkish sheen on my lids. Haven't tried using it as a base yet, but I'll definitely get to it soon.

Also, if you have larger fingers, you might want to use a brush to ease application as the mouth of the jar is rather small, though it's fine for me cuz I've got tiny hands, haha. But don't belittle the small jar - I really love them a lot. And storage is a breeze cuz you can pretty much chuck them anywhere.

I'm also storing them upside down (as recommended to do so with MAC Paint Pots). Not sure if I'm supposed to be doing that but I'll take whatever precautions to make these jars last as long as they can. I actually wondered if the cream will fall out by doing so by it's actually packed together very well and I've left them upside down for very long (since last Sunday) and they have not budged at all (:

Since I have two of these darlings in Beige Rose and Precious Metal, plus two more eye shimmer things I bought from my sister and depotted (de'stick'-ed, actually - smushed and melted into 5g jars. I have them in bronze and gold.), I will be rotating them as bases - one colour for every week, which means I will get to use all four in a month!

I have this feeling that when I run out of these magic jars, I'll DEFINITELY be going back to it. Even more so if she brings in more colours! (I can sooo imagine my boyfriend glaring at me right now.)

All in all, I feel that this miraculous 3g jar of cream shadow is perfect for me, and would probably be for you too, if you're looking for something that can double as a base or as shadow on its own, and you're on a budget.

*Just went to the Magical Tannsu site and I saw that they've been taken off the shelf because they received complaints that it creases. It doesn't crease for me though! Hope it goes back on the site soon.

Proposal to Patrick Tan regarding Loan for New Laptop

2010-01-25T12:15:00.003+08:00

Dear Daddy,

My MacBook is going to hit the three-year mark and its AppleCare (i.e. warranty) will expire as well, which would mean that if and when my MacBook decides to buy itself a one-way ticket to Computer Heaven, I would not be able to repair it for free.

Thus, I would like to enlist your help in acquiring a spanking new laptop (with three years of warranty).

I am considering a Fujitsu laptop when then Ngee Ann Polytechnic Laptop Road Show rolls around in March. It should cost between $1,100 to $1,200 for relatively good specs and freebies.

The following are reasons why I am requesting your help in acquiring a new laptop:
I can only buy laptops from school while I am still a student of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, which will end 18 April 2010.
My pay (est. $1,500) will come only in July/August 2010.
Free upgrades
Free stuff (mouse, thumbdrive, etc.) Who doesn't like free stuff?
Free programmes too, I think.
I will definitely pay you back when my pay arrives and I assure you that in the happy event that you do purchase a new laptop for me in March, you will not need to 'climb hill' as I've wandered around campus for a good three years and I do know the way around ('climb stairs' can?)

Alternatively, I could renew my AppleCare for $300-600 but as my current MacBook is obsolete and EOL, in the event that it does decide to die, my money would be wasted as they would not be able to perform an exchange for me.

I urge you to consider this proposal and I hope to receive a favourable reply.

P.S: What's for dinner tonight?

It worked. I'm getting a new laptop in March (:

Love in a Little Jar of Magic

2010-01-23T13:24:00.005+08:00

I've been dying to try out MAC Paint Pots and when I received a newsletter on a certain new product, I was well over the moon.

So my two brand new purchases are the eyeshadow creams from Magical Tannsu that I tweeted about last night in Rose Beige and Precious Metals, at SGD$10.90 each (and I get a free small synthetic brush cuz I bought two).

Image taken from Magical Tannsu

My mum very nicely sponsored me one jar after I told her about why I wanted it because it can be used as an eyeshadow on its own, and can also be used as an eyeshadow base. (Ok la, I bugged her last night and this morning too.)

These eyeshadow creams are not the exact dupes of the MAC Paint Pots which cost well over SGD$30 for one (and waaaaaaay over my budget as well), but for it's purposes, I say it would be a rather good substitute. I even asked Magical Tannsu if it was similar to the MAC Paint Pots and she said that while the colour payoff isn't as good as the Paint Pots, it's easier to blend. Also, there isn't a lot of moisture in this little jar of magic and so it shouldn't crease. PERFECT RIGHT? Hmm, I wonder if the Rose Beige one be used as a base for blusher..

Of course, boyfriend isn't exactly estatic about my recent hauling. He originally wanted me to stop buying makeup until after CNY and I had brought down the semi-ban to buying one jar after my internship (for fear of it being OOS) and buying another one after CNY if I liked the one I got.

But since my mum is sponsoring me one jar and I get a free brush if I buy two, he relented (maybe cuz I don't have such things in my modest MU collection, unless you want to count the eye shimmer things I 'depotted' into lousy screw top jars) and I ordered my babies this morning (: Hopefully, I'll be able to get them tomorrow! Magical Tannsu has meetups at Kovan Station on Sundays which is awesooooooooome.

I shall now nom on my lontong.

AND I'M TOTALLY CRAVING PIZZA AND PASTA NAO. KTHXBAI.

2010-01-22T12:14:00.005+08:00

Unfortunately, the NYX spree has been cancelled as the spreer couldn't get enough orders, and NYX had changed the time in which they send out their orders from 2 weeks to 30 days, which is quite ridiculous.

Fortunately, the spreer, Cherub's Lips, does carry some NYX in her blogshop (and in the shades that I actually want!) so I've left my money with her instead of getting a refund, and will be topping up the excess.

So now I'll be getting the NYX Round Lipsticks in Circe and Thalia, for a total of $10.90. If they're good in terms of consistency and colour pay-off, I might just invest in some more of these lippies (after CNY, of course).

In other news, internship officially ends on 5 Feb for us, so we won't have to come back to school anymore (i.e. work from home), except on the 12th, where we're going to have a final meeting and the handover to the Year 2s.

Then I'll be able to enjoy my CNY in peace (:

I'm also really pleased cuz I finally don't have to keep running back and forth between my room and my toilet while doing my makeup (esp. in the early mornings) as the lighting in my room sucks balls. The positioning of my mirror where my makeup is near is not between the lights, so it's rather uneven with one side of my face showing up darker than the other. Also, one side of my room is in white light while the other is in warm light.

But anyway, I was at Ikea the other with my family for dinner and my dad picked up a flourescent light to attach to my other, full-length mirror (incidentally also from Ikea) so now I can do my makeup there. Running from one side of the room to the other beats running between the toilet and my room any day.

No need to buy a special mirror with lights any more (:

The total cost of it would be approximately.. SGD$36 for both the mirror ($9) and the light ($25).

It's good that the frame of the mirror is wooden so you can drill the light directly into the mirror if you don't want to damage your wall. Of course, the ends of the light sticks out a little (though it's already the shortest one), but all in all, it gives good lighting and definitely great for doing makeup with! And it's awesome that it's a full-length mirror as well.

kthxbai.

Of Wrath and Vanity

2010-01-20T09:30:00.003+08:00

I'm kinda bummed that after spending $69.90 on Wrath of the Lich King, I didn't receive the Razer/Asiasloth Goliathas mouse pad to WoW on. (Maybe I can get it for Cataclysm? Haha.)

Now I won't get to run my DeathAdder all over Arthas' face. Which, strangely, is something I've been dying to do (oh well, I can always use the boyfriend's at his place).

By the way, the original Goliathas mousepad costs over $20 bucks, but because the WoW one has Asiasloth's logo on it, the value has depreciated and costs only around $6 bucks.

JUST BECAUSE THE LOGO IS THERE.

But that aside, what I did get was the cool punch of WoW postcards and racial badges - of the Horde side! (Boyfriend was saying it wasn't fair that he got the Alliance badges when he bought my DeathAdder and some other thingy.)

So now I have a backup of the awesome Horde emblem sticker (I ninja-ed his that came with the badges; it was strangely the Horde sticker when his were Alliance badges). And I just might go all-out gamer and pin the Blood Elf badge on my bag. We'll see, we'll see. Maybe I'll keep it in its nice flimsy plastic thingy - just so it won't rust.

Oh, and my contact lens has finally arrived! After almost two weeks of walking around with glasses (bleh) and going really really close to my mirror just so I can put on my eyeliner, I FINALLY HAVE 'PERFECT' VISION AGAIN! I was estatic when my mum told me my lens had arrived (but not so much about the $175 that I have to shell out for it. I'm really hoping that mum will forget about it by the time my internship pay arrives.)

The downside, however, is that my office is airconditioned and that doesn't sit too well with my lenses - my eyes are actually stinging right now, because they're dry. Must remind myself to put in eyedrops, although I'm a little apprehensive because the said eyedrops was actually the cause of me losing the lens.

The little fucker dropped out of my eye and I couldn't feel it cuz my eyes were too watery and blurry and I really couldn't tell the difference.

I'm just glad that I can do my makeup normally again. And from the last two weeks of precariously applying eyeliner, I think I can do it pretty quickly now that I can see normally. I've sorely missed putting on full makeup, sans mascara (I'm paranoid la, ok? I poked my eye with the mascara wand before - with my contact lens in.)

Herein ends my post - I shall find some other things to do just so I can escape doing work, even for a little while.

Thank you for reading, whoever you are.

NYX Haul!

2010-01-18T22:03:00.003+08:00

I've already broken my makeup ban (like duh).

My haul isn't in my hands yet, and won't be until a good 5-6 weeks later.

Why?

Because I've cracked and hopped on the NYX spree, where NYX Cosmetics is holding a 1USD sale. Of course there will be the handling and shipping fee and all that jazz but still, good deals!

I've gotten for myself two lippies and a jumbo lip pencil. No eyeshadows! I've more than enough and I think I should really start looking into other MU products, namely lipsticks/glosses and blushers.

Lippes I've gotten are in the shades Peach Love and Sierra, and the jumbo lip pencil in Honey.

Really can't wait for my haul to arrive and finally use the lippes.

I hope to the gods that the colours will suit me. The bloody swatches on the site are nowhere near the actual product colour AT ALL. Gosh, I had to do soooooo much research just to settle on the two lippies. And I was really bummed that the shades that were highly raved about by MU bloggers/onsugarettes/youtubers weren't available for the sale. Especially Circe.

If the two lippies that I get are awesome, I might just shell out a little more money to get Circe. I know the spreer and Magical Tannsu both stock it!

BUT. I found that the jumbo lip pencil came in Honey! Better than nothing, yeah? I love nude shades. Now I hope I won't have corpse lips when I slick it on. But oh well, I could always use it as a base (:

I wanted to get some jumbo eye pencils as well, but none of the shades on sale interested me.

Then I had to tell myself to STOP looking at that bloody tempting (and confuzzling) site (DAMN YOU LOUSY SWATCHES) because I wasn't even supposed to be buying any MU until after CNY, but who can pass up such a steal??

Can't wait for my babies to arrive! <3

Ad Sexless

2010-01-16T22:39:00.001+08:00

Found this really interesting video while surfing the Net. *Content is a mite graphic, and headache-inducing (think Blair Witch Project).

33 Funny Exam Answers

2010-01-14T16:26:00.002+08:00

*Disclaimer: I didn't find them on my own, they were posted on Listverse.com. Copied and pasted them for your viewing pleasure. Whatever lies beyond this line is not my own.*

We have had a lot of very serious lists on the site lately so I am posting a totally silly list. I can not vouch for whether these are authentic answers to the English GCSE exam, but regardless, they are funny.
1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics.They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

2. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible,Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children,Cain, asked, “Am I my brother’s son?”

3. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

4. Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.

5. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

6. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

7. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

8. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.

9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.

10. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: “Tee hee, Brutus.”

11. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

12. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

13. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.

14. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son’s head.

15. Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted “hurrah.”

16. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.
17. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies,comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo’s last wish was to be laid by Juliet.

18. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

19. During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.

20. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim’s Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.

21. One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, “A horse divided against itself cannot stand.”. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

22. Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.

23. Abraham Lincoln became America’s greatest Precedent. Lincoln’s mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth’s career.

24. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy.

25. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.

26. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and half English. He was very large.

27. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

28. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn’t have any children.

29. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is In the East and the sun sets in the West.

30. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.

31. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of river to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men.

32. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.
33. The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.

2010-01-13T09:57:00.001+08:00

My baby passed his driving test!

Now he can drive me around, hahaha <3

25th Monthaversary

2010-01-08T22:16:00.003+08:00

ily more than a bunch of candy hearts

Happy 25th monthaversary (:

Kitty Surprised

2010-01-06T14:17:00.002+08:00

One of my all-time favourite kitty vids:

Mini Drugstore Haul

2010-01-04T18:10:00.013+08:00

I keep telling myself that I should be self-imposing a makeup ban, but alas, nothing works.

Except for boyfriend physically pulling me away from the cosmetic sections in drugstores, etc.

So today, while I was out without the boyfriend, I grabbed two makeup items, stuff that I usually don't get because I feel that I have more than enough eyeshadows in the same old shades over and over again (but I love my neutrals!), and I feel that I've been neglecting my cheeks, face and lips (and Watsons was having 20% off!)

And this is what I got (no pictures, sorry, I have a shit-ass lousy camera):

1. Silkygirl Blush Hour in 04 Honeywood

It's a really pretty shade which I think would give my face more of a glow. Plus, I don't have a single orange blusher so why not? There was really nothing holding me back from buying, apart from the risk of boyfriend-aggro. I have it on right now and I think it makes my face look healthier, haha.

2. Rimmel London Hide the Blemish Concealer in Sand
(my very first concealer!)

I got really excited when I saw this product as I was just talking to En Ping about using concealers/foundations with nude or clear glosses to substitute a nude shade on the lips (which I feel Singapore drugstore cosmetic counters are desperately in need of) when I saw this. Especially so since it looks like lipstick.
*Edit; okay, the testers obviously didn't look like lipstick but when I opened mine to check out whether or not it had melted like cosmetics have a tendency to do so under spotlight, I was thrilled when it looked like a lippy!

I swatched it on my lips as it was and it was actually quite pale which made me look like I was about to die or something. I then applied a Silkygirl lipgloss that I happened to have in my bag but it just wasn't working.

Really thought that it was a serious miss but when I got home, I decided to give it another chance with my YSL lippy and oh gosh, the colour is gorgeous! Shall wear it to the office tomorrow! But I think I'll slick on some lipbalm before I apply the concealer and lippy because it feels rather drying on my lips.

Anyway, I haven't really used this concealer for any real blemish hiding, so I'll talk about it when I actually get around doing it. It's apparently good for hiding all blemishes, including dark eye circles. So I guess there's no more need to be afraid of the horrendous patches under my eyes after staying up late to WoW?
*Edit; I was bored so I decided to use the concealer for my dark eye circles and after blending it out nicely and putting some foundation on it, it seems like it doesn't totally remove those disgusting blemishes, but it did make them slightly less obvious, according to my mother.

Not going to buy anymore makeup..

Until after CNY where I get my angpows, that is (:

*I just got boyfriend-aggroed about my haul.

2010-01-04T11:34:00.000+08:00

Fear my Aura of Lag!

2010-01-03T22:57:00.003+08:00

Shit.

Despite telling myself that I need to cut back on buying makeup, I'm totally lemming the MAC Paint Pot in Rubenesque.

Any kind souls out there willing to sponsor me one? Hahaha.

Someone murder me now.

2010-01-03T01:02:00.004+08:00

Two of the eye shimmer things have arrived - the bronze and the brown.

All I can say is they're definitely muuuuch more different (in a negative way) than what I expected in terms of smell and colour (one of them really smells like a crayon =.=).

I don't even know which colour is supposed to be which, but going by instinct, the brown has a very reddish hue, and the bronze is rather orangey.

I hope the other 3 that are on they're way will turn out to be much better.

Anyway, a new year brings a new blogskin and I won't be touching this one for a while until I can arse myself to do so again. (Burn your eyes with the pink!)

It's 1AM and I should've been asleep two hours ago, but I'm still wired from my venti toffee nut latte and the adrenaline of WoWing. I think I've died a total of 5 times today, and joined a guild too. But, I've finally hit level 60!

I'll be buying WotLK this coming Saturday ($69.90 =.=), after I pick up my mouse (hopefully) from Ban Leong.

About 5-6 months ago, my beloved Razer died. I finally arsed myself to go down to get it looked it, but as they couldn't find any fault with it immediately, it would have to be retained. And if they do find fault with it, they'll give me a new mouse (:

Definitely keeping my fingers crossed that my mouse didn't decide to heal itself over the last 5 months where it wasn't in usage.

Time to sleep now, good night!

2010-01-01T00:03:00.000+08:00

Happy New Year!

2009-12-31T18:44:00.003+08:00

So last night I watched Avatar, after being a persistant annoyance to my boyfriend for about a week. (Boyfriend even bought me a steak dinner before the movie!)

Best. Shit. Ever.

Pity it wasn't in 3D, though. (I even smuggled LJS fries in! <3)

I was checking the showtimes and the seatings at around 10 in the morning and ALL the 3D movies at around 6 plus were full. The only seats left were like, the first 3 rows? It would be crazy to bust so much money to suffer from a neckache after so I decided on the normal one.

But it was still EPIC. The best movie of 2009 for me.

Though the storyline was juuuuuuuust a little draggy, the awesome effects made up for it. I was totally gripped throughout the battle scenes.

Of course, there were some bits there were a liiiitle too weird for me...

*bluekitten/bluekitten*

*bluekitten/human*

Only thing that spoilt the movie experience for me (and probably for the people sitting around me as well) was that I had an asthma attack around halfway through it =/

But all in all, great movie! Will definitely want to catch it in 3D, just to see the effects!

And this is the last post of 2009. It's been a rather eventful year, I guess. I'm hoping 2010 will be better!

As for new year resolutions, I won't be making any because I won't keep them anyway.

But if anything, I'll *try* my best to stop buying makeup. I have too much, and I don't use all of them.

Herein ends my last post of 2009. I'll blog again when the new year rolls around. And before I leave, I shall say:

GOOD RIDDANCE, 2009.

Of Makeup, WoW and Christmas Haul

2009-12-27T00:26:00.008+08:00

I said I wouldn't buy anymore makeup but in the last few days...

I've bought one single eyeshadow from O2Skin (special price, $3.90, usual $15.90). I would've gotten more, but I wasn't sure about wearing the other colours apart from my usual neutrals so I just bought one.

And I've also bought about, ~~four~~ five eye shimmer stick thingies from my sister's blogshop in the following colours:
1. Gold
2. Silver
3. Bronze (added it in here cuz I thought it'd be more.. apt.)
4. Brown
5. Black
*Edit; It's now five eye shimmer thingies from said blogshop because she was short of one to reach her capping. So as I was debating between a brown and a bronze (duuuuuuh) previously, I decided to do her a favour and grab the bronze one. Well, the rest of the colours available weren't exactly my type - blue, pink, green and all that. Excitedly awaiting the arrival of the shimmer things!

$1.80 for the first 2, and $1.40 for the second two, because they were from different suppliers. I have yet to receive them though.

On a WoW note, I'm 18 levels away from spending $69.90 on Wrath of the Lich King T____T
*Edit; I'm 11 levels away!

Anyways, this is what I've gotten for Christmas!

1. Wizards from Yueshi. It's a compilation of wizard/mage/warlock stories from many writers.
2. Handphone strap thing from Sarah
3. Pouch thing from Sarah
4. Box of Kinder Bueno from Samantha
5. Pearl pink bag
6. Eyeshadow/Blush Palette (The Body Shop) from my aunts
7. A gigantic box of cotton buds from Mum
8. Angpow from Mum & Dad

And of course, my WoW Battlechest and monthcard from boyfriend, as a combined anniversary/Christmas gift ^^

It's time to sleep now; I have to get up earlier tomorrow because we have sold the car and therefore, will have to drag our own lazy asses to church.

Good night, world.

Merry Christmas!

Of Backpacks and Shoes

2009-12-17T18:28:00.004+08:00

Okay, I seem to have gotten the blogging bug back in me now after a rather long hiatus of irregular blogging.

So today, Yueshi and I left the office early for lunch at KAP's McDonalds, before heading to Queensway Shopping Centre to get quotations.

Everything was fine and dandy, laughing at people, laughing at each other, laughing at ourselves, until we got off 61, opposite our destination.

We alighted, opened up our umbrellas to shield ourselves against the rather heavy drizzle when not too long after we've walked a way from the bus stop, did the godforsaken rain come down in torrents.

Needless to say, my bottom half was drenched - my jeans and my sneakers. Ohgod, it was soooo uncomfortable walking around in squishy shoes and soggy toes after that. Oh, and my ugly backpack got wet too =/

So we went around countless (okay la, about 5-6) printing shops to get various quotations for stuff.

And then I saw this backpack. Already feeling a bit effy about my drenched one and it being ugly, I decided to purchase another backpack in the spur of the moment. Turns out, it's actually quite nice. It's black with the words 'cher' in grey printed all over it, with reddish-pink hearts between words. I don't know why 'cher' but hey, it looks pretty good. For $19.90.

But what got me was this:

In case you can't read it (sorry lah, I have a lousy camera on my phone. Blame Sony Ericsson for designing the phone that way. And I hope you didn't read it, because the text is awfully fuzzy and would murder your optic nerves), here it is:

"Welcome you choose Adab product
you be incompliance with right product
discontented please direction divide
mmelt business replaceat 7 soon.once
more thank your enough buy Adab product,
if will give you immortal fashion."

HAHAHAHAHAH.

I like makeup and WoW.

2009-12-16T21:27:00.003+08:00

Haven't WoWed properly for three days.

Day 1
Was having a killer headache. The screen was making my head spin. Not that I got much sleep that night; my family was being characteristically thoughtless, making a lot of noise and talking loudly, etc.

Day 2
WoW maintenance.

Day 3 (today)
Mc's not playing tonight so it would be rather pointless to, as I wouldn't have my 3x exp.
And the mobs that I have to kill for my quest, ohmygod.

Stupid raptor herd.

They stand so close together, it's quite hard to single-pull for a noob like me.

I logged in, mounted up, ran to the herd, dismounted, whacked the shit out of two raptors, then ran back. Poor Mezzrath.

And, O2Skin is having another sale. Feeling damn super tempted to put money down on makeup again but... I think I really should stop buying cosmetics.

My stash is.. rather large.. for my standards. I always thought that oh, I just need some foundation, eyeshadow, blusher and lipstick, maybe some eyeliner and then I'm set.

Except that once I started buying makeup, I couldn't.. stop..

This is what I have so far (whatever I can remember):

Base
- ZA Foundation (with free pink casing and free refill)
- Silkygirl foundation
- Silkygirl pressed powder

Eyes
- 28 neutral palette from Magical Tannsu
- Silkygirl quad
- Two Silkygirl duos
- Amuse palette (12 shades, super shimmery and pigmented)
- Amura palette (12 shades, 'nuff said)
- IN2It quad
- Some random Japanese brand with 5 colours
- Elizabeth Arden duo
- Elizabeth Arden quad
- Three Silkygirl eyeliners
- Silkygirl mascara

Cheeks
- Silkygirl blush
- Silkygirl duo-blush thing
- IN2IT cream blush

Lips
- YSL lipstick
- Dior lipstick
- Silkygirl lipgloss
- many many random glosses
- Lipice lipbalm
- MAC lipstick (which I got as a free gift, and I've never used it cuz well, it's called 'Strange and Exotic', i.e. dark purple and shimmery. And I can't exchange it cuz they put an X on the tag at the bottom =.=)

Mixed
- YSL palette (I use only the eyeshadows)
- Two Elizabeth Arden eyeshadow/lipstick/blusher palettes

So... I really should stop buying makeup =/ (Ya la, I very cheapo; most of the items are from Silkygirl, and most of the branded makeup was either inherited from my mum and my aunt, save for the YSL and Dior lipstick, which my mum bought for me.)

Need to save for Wrath of the Lich King.

Yes, I like makeup and WoW.

Cannot ah?

2009-12-15T16:37:00.000+08:00

New blogskin, yay.

2009-12-08T20:28:00.002+08:00

Happy 2nd Anniversary baby! <3

Last Day in Bangkok

2009-11-29T23:37:00.002+08:00

I know I'm taking forever to post this (not like anyone reads my blog). I'm lamenting on my return to work tomorrow.

Anyway, I landed on Friday around 12:45AM, and this is what I got on the last day:

1. Canvas bag. Super cute. It's white, with a giant bunny and heart on it. The material feels really good to the touch as well. I used it today and it was awesoooooome. Perfect size for my MacBook too.
2. Monkey Keyboard Wrist Rest thing. Except that I'm not really using it now (I threw it on my bed cuz it got in the way of my typing).
3. Some umbrella thing. Mum insisted that I got one for myself.
4. Two pairs of earrings (of which I'm not sure if I'll really wear.... Shush.)
5. Another hairband. Because they were going for 20baht (SGD0.80) each and the colour was pretty.

Er.. I think that's it. Ohoh, I also got my nails done =D

Did the whole she-bang from scrubbing to some Paraffin wax treatment (don't know why my mum and sis were complaining that it was burning/too hot blah blah. I thought the warmth was actually quite pleasant, though I looked like some invalid after they wrapped my hands and feet up in plastic and plonked hideous mitten things on them -.-).

Fingernails are done with:
1. Base coat from Essie
2. Two coats of Polar Bare from OPI
3. Top coat from Essie

Toenails are done with:
1. Base coat from Essie
2. Two coats of Polar Bare from OPI
3. One coat of Princesses Rule from OPI (super shimmery!)
4. Top coat from Essie

Of course, me being me, I've ruined a fingernail and a toenail already. The mani-pedi was definitely an interesting experience. Though I doubt that the promotion will still be on the next time we go there, because the only reason we got such a sweet deal was that it was a newly opened nail spa thing and it was some opening discount/promotion thing. But still, it was fun while it lasted (:

And here're some items I forgot I bought:
* Some t-shirt (which means I have... 5 now, lol.)
* A pouch thingy (because they were also going for 20 baht each)

I don't want to go back to work T_____T

Day 3 in Bangkok

2009-11-26T00:10:00.002+08:00

Sawadikaa~

I know it's past 12am, but I was playing Pet Society, so whatever.

Did a lot of walking today, from Wireless Road (it's super ironic, really, cables and wires were lining the streets because they won't have underground wiring/cabling) to MBK.

But anyway, here's my haul for today in whatever order of purchase that I can remember:

1. Perfume Body Balm (This little thing costs about SGD10. It smells really nice and is very long-lasting. I swabbed some on the inside of my wrist (it comes in a balm form) and after washing my hands many times and even showering, the smell of it is still there, albeit a little faint. AWESOME FIND. I'M TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH IT!)
2. Underwear (I can't remember what I got actually. Or how many. Hmm.)
3. Shopaholic Ties the Knot
4. Shopaholic & Baby (I've been hankering after these two books for the longest time and I finally got them! Slightly cheaper here. About SGD14, I think.)
5. Two wallets (One long and one short. Both cost SGD4 each.)

Then we went for a traditional Thai full-body massage today. Two hours for 350baht. Which is about SGD14 each. But it was awesome. I was kneaded, pounded, pulled and twisted. Felt really good; the relief after being pulled or twisted into weird positions was immense. I would defnitely go back again.

Tonight would be the last night I spend in Bangkok (for this trip).

Tomorrow, I shall have my mani-pedi session at the spa!

Good night (:

*I realise my haul gets shorter and shorter with each day...

Day 2 in Bangkok

2009-11-25T00:02:00.002+08:00

Sawadikaa~

The hotel room isn't as cold as last night. And I still hate opaque shower curtains. Blah.

Today we went to Platinum Fashion Mall. There were so many things to see that it was mind-blasting. Shirts here, dresses there, narrow aisles, men, women and lady boys hawking their wares in their languid, melodic voices (not so for some).

But anyway, here's my haul for today. In whatever order of purchase that I can remember:

1. T-shirt
2. 3 cotton long-sleeve shirts, 2 white, 1 grey. I think.
3. New home for my macbook. It's from 'Gusto'. Really pretty shop with really pretty products. And I totally <3 the design! Cost less than 10 bucks and it's a perfect fit for Popcorn (:
4. Backpack. This one is awesome. The material is really soft to the touch, quite like well-worn denim.
5. Hairband

Hmm. I don't seem to have gotten any bottoms. I shall look into it tomorrow. Last full day in Bangkok before I go back to the real world. Haha.

I don't want to go back to work.

Anyway, we had that awesome foot massage today, and I think we'll be going for the traditional full body massage tomorrow. It's cheaper for some reason.

I wonder why.

Before the massage, we were walking around this night bazaar thing, and we saw many little baby rabbits huddled in a cage.

Going for 150baht.

That rounds up to SGD6.26.

Like what. the. hell?? Where got rabbits so cheap one??

The cost of one bunny was even cheaper than a pair of shoes that were going for sale in the neighbouring booth. There were also hamsters thrown into a Toyogo-like box, but I didn't see the price.

Maybe they're all sickly and stuff, that's why they're so cheap. Or they breed their own bunnies at home.

Imagine the stink, haha.

Of course, dad refused to let us buy one. Well, we can't even bring it into the airport =/

So... yeah. I shall wait for my hair to dry before I go to sleep.

I think the masseuse pulled a tendon or something. My right arm is feeling weird now.

Bye (:

Day 1 in Bangkok

2009-11-23T23:31:00.003+08:00

Sawadikaa.

(It's Day 1 in Bangkok becauase my flight got majorly delayed, and we didn't get to the hotel until well past midnight. And we still got charged an extra night, because we had it booked from the 22nd =.=)

Here I am freezing in my hotel room, blogging my haul, from Changi Airport's DFS to today's shopping in MBK.

In order of purchase (somewhat):
1. Yves Saint Laurent Gloss Volumpte Lipstick in 04 Sweet Honey. I love the awesome packaging! (Fecking expensive man, but then again, YSL has already pulled out of Singapore's cosmetic counters. And it's not everyday I mosey into DFS.)
2. Eye makeup remover pads from Guardian
3. IN2It Cream Blusher in 05 Whoa (Damn cheap, only slightly over SGD4.)
4. ZA Foundation in 21 (the one with the awesome pink container with a free refill <3!!!

OH YES. AND I HAD THE MOST AWESOME FOOT MASSAGE TODAY. RAAAAAWR.

Pigged out on Japanese shabu/conveyor belt sushi for lunch today. And I've just came back from dinner (YES IT'S PAST 11).

Shall buy more stuff tomorrow, when we spend the day in yet another shopping mall.

I also have a mani-pedi 'presidential set' appointment on the 26th with the hotel spa. Damn excited man. 840baht for the whole she-bang, which only adds up to about SGD35. CHEAP NOT YOU TELL ME??

I shall shower now, in blessedly hot water, before snot icicles start hanging from my nose, my fingers get frost-bitten and I freeze to death.

Bye.
(Yes, I don't know the word for 'bye' in Thai. Sue me.)

Axis of Awesome

2009-11-18T20:34:00.001+08:00

Birdplane

I can’t stand to fly; I’m not that naive.
I’m just out to find, the better part of me.
I’m more than a bird; I’m more than a plane:
I’m a bird-plane
I’m a bird-plane
I’m a bird-plane

Part of me is a bird; the other part is a plane.
See my feathers; hear my engines.
My beak and my hydraulic suspensions.
A Bird-plane.
I’m a bird-plane!
I’m a bird-plane.
Check me out I’m a bird-plane

I wish I could cry, and fall upon my beak
Find a way to lie, and pretend I’m not a freak
It may sound insane; it might be absurd.
But I’m a plane, and I’m also a bird
You may be confused, now don’t be naive,
‘Cause I can eat petrol flavoured bird seed
‘Cause I’m a bird plane.
I’m a bird plane.
I’m a bird plane.
A mother fark
ing bird plane.

And it’s not easy to be a bird plane.

--

AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOME.

2009-11-14T12:06:00.001+08:00

Going to Bangkok next Sunday.

Like finally.

I'm so frickin' excited!! 5 whole days out of the office (because Friday is Hari Raya).

Aweeeeeeeesoooooooome.

2009-11-03T15:26:00.001+08:00

Found this awesome video while hopping through beauty blogs on onsugar.com. Love the art and the song. Just had to share.

Enjoy!

Baby making my day <3

2009-10-21T16:46:00.001+08:00

Superficial.

2009-10-13T17:20:00.002+08:00

Today, I realised just how superficial and shallow I am-

I subscribe to makeup gurus on YouTube or on blogs only if they're pretty (save for Enkore/Koren because he's awesome, haha.)

And only if they can speak/write English well. Even if they fake an accent (but only if they can sustain it, haha. I've watched this particular video where this girl couldn't decide if she wanted an American or a British accent so she was slipping in and out all over the place.)

RAWWR. THE TIME TO LEAVE THE OFFICE IS NEAR!

2009-10-13T12:32:00.004+08:00

I realise I don't have any Saturdays to sleep in for the rest of the month, because I have exciting stuff lined up for me!

First up on the list would be a 3D2N trip to a kelong in Batam with boyfriend <3 And family, of course. I'll be leaving this Friday. And this time round, I'll do my best to wake up early to catch the sunrise (: And make the most of my days there fishing. Of course, I won't be forgetting the spot of shopping on the last day before we head back home.

AND A&W.

OHMYGOD.

THERE'S A&W THERE.

CURLY FRIES FTW!

Next week isn't something really exciting, cuz I'll have to wake up early for my eye check. But after that, it's gonna be a delicious lunch at Hot Tomato. Shall have to remember to make reservations so we can strut in and sit down while green-eyed customers glare daggers at us while they're queuing up. It's always funny to watch their reactions going like "OMGWTF! I'VE BEEN STANDING HERE FOR SO LONG AND THEY JUST WALK IN AND GET A TABLE?"

Reservations, darling. Reservations.

And in the week after that, I'll be going to JB with boyfriend and his mum. Just a day trip for shopping and much yums. Ahh, getting excited already. I wanna go crazy buying makeup, but there's the whole makeup ban and all............. I'll try to sneak something in my shopping basket for sure.

Meanwhile, it's boredom and pain in the office with nothing to do and menstrual cramps annoying the heck out of me. I want to read manga, but the number of people in school is slowly increasing, and the Internet is getting progressively slower. Even loading YouTube vids is such a pain.

I think I'm getting a migraine, either that or *something* is squeezing my head because there's this weird pressure on the right side.

Now my shoulder's hurting.

Bah.

Oh, and one more thing-

WRONG DOOR, PEOPLE. WRONG DOOR.

Sheesh.

Ohoh, and one last thing:

HAPPY (very belated) 22ND MONTHAVERSARY BABY! <3

I'll be the little piggy and you'll be the giant fluffy bunny (:

Routine

2009-09-30T21:54:00.005+08:00

For the last week or so, the days have been slowly but surely, trudging by.

6:10AM (or so): I wake up to The Great Escape and relectantly switch off the alarm before it wakes the entire house up. I blearily inch to the kitchen to retrieve my towel, before shuffling back to the toilet for my morning ablutions.

6:25-30AM: I'm refreshed from my shower, awake momentarily from the relentless cold jets of water. I hang up my towel and if my mum's in the kitchen, I mumble a 'good morning' before I head back to my room.

6:30-7:00AM: I'm rifling through my (tiny) wardrobe, at a loss for what to wear, having to constantly remind myself that shorts aren't allowed (though I think I could probably get away with it, since the lecturers hardly visit us at the office anyway). I finally throw something on before I hurridly put on some makeup (cuz I'm vain that way, bitches). Every morning without fail, I curse the lighting of my room - the sun isn't fully up yet, casting odd shadows, there're yellow and white lights on the wrong sides of the room, plus my bookshelf blocking the light as well, making one side of my face darker than the other.

7:00-7:05AM: I leave the house and arrive at the bus stop to take 80 to Hougang Interchange. Interesting people here; there's usually this aunty who thinks she's oh-so-sexy with wayang makeup, tight tops hugging her many tires and blinged gladiators with her mop of tightly permed maggi-mee of hair dyed a berry red. Oh, and she looks like a frog too. Kinda what Dolores Umbridge would look like if she were older.

7:15-7:30AM: I idle at Hougang Interchange, waiting for 151. Sometimes I'm lucky, sometimes I'm not. But all the time, I get a seat =D

7:30-8:45AM: I sleep, I snooze, I laugh occasionally to myself as I listen to Dan and Young on 987FM as the bus jams all the way to school, amidst getting irritated by noisy people or people who snooze in the most compromising positions.

9:00-9:30AM: Breakfast.

9:30AM-12:00PM: I slack.

12:00-2:00PM: I eat.

2:00-5:30PM: I slack.

5:30-5:45PM: I pack up.

5:45PM: We return the office key to the Cage.

Then I'm on the bus usually by 6:10PM, and I jam all the way back home again.

Embarassing Ourselves.. Over the Internet!

2009-09-29T15:53:00.002+08:00

Cover of Soledad by Westlife:

Cover of Liang Shang Bo Yu Zhu Li Ye by Zhuo Wen Xuan and Cao Ge:

Let's see how many vids we can put up by the end of this semester, haha.

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL!

Peace.

Exam Results

2009-09-18T12:26:00.005+08:00

I didn't put my phone on silent most in the end, and I got woken up at around 8AM with my message tone. The first thing I mumbled to myself was 'Exam results!' I grabbed my phone and immediately read the message, almost shrieking-

Advanced Public Relations: B
Book Writing & Publishing: A
Conventions and Exhibitions: B+
Effective Negotiation: B
Mass Media in Singapore & Asia: C
Media Law: B
World Issues: A Singapore Perspective: C+

And the icing on the cake: GPA 3.0

HAHAHAHAH.

My grade for MASINA was totally unexpected. I would have been totally happy with a D but God gave me a C instead (: And I'm really happy with my grade for BOOKPUB as well.

Other than MASINA, my grades were rather expected. Except for my GPA. Hahaha. The highest it had ever hit was 2.6 I think. My cumulative GPA, however, is still piss-shit, a measly 2.6. But hopefully I'll do really well for my internship and get an A or something to pull my GPA and up and hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, I can try to weasel my way into a University.

If not, I'll try to convince my parents to let me go overseas for further studies XD

Will be heading to Tampines 1 in a bit for a spot of shopping and Carl's Jr. Shall treat it as a celebratory lunch of sorts for my good grades.

Ahh~

Raaaaawr.

2009-09-18T00:16:00.002+08:00

Ahh, excitement excitement.

No, not for the impending exam results (those can go to hell).

After a while of playing with my makeup and wondering why I wasn't getting my eyeshadow properly smoked out, I realised it's because I didn't have the proper brush. Trying to smoke out eyeshadow or even applying it properly to the crease with a flat shading brush is just total blah.

So, I went brush hunting and found a suitable blending brush at Sasa for a modest S$7.00 and was really tempted to buy it. But I decided not to. Because I really, really, really wanted to get the blending brush from Magical Tannsu cuz it's probably the closest MAC 224 dupe that I can get for under 10 bucks.

For S$9.90.

And after much deliberation (and worry that boyfriend would get angry for me buying a brush), I decided to go ahead and order one after Enping kept on going 'buy it, bao qi lai'.

My heart's being tweaked a little at the price cuz I bought a 7-piece brushset from her at only S$7.90, and the blending brush costs S$9.90. But whatever =P (and boyfriend isn't angry as well!)

I'll be collecting my brush this Saturday evening at 6PM, can't wait!

On another note, I can't wait for the exam results either because it would definitely put me out of my stomch-twisting, gut-wrenching and constipating misery I've had over the last few days. Blah.

Still debating on whether or not to put my phone on silent tonight.

Please, please, please let me (and all the monmons) pass MASINA.

To Daryl:

2009-09-09T02:14:00.001+08:00

Happy 21st Monthaversary!

2009-09-07T22:50:00.000+08:00

I was very tempted to buy the Silkygirl Blockbuster (eyeshadow) Palette in Green Forest the other day, because Silkygirl was having a 20% discount.

Boyfriend, of course, refused to let me buy it, because I had only just gotten that palette in Bare Classics barely two or three weeks ago. Then again, I don't think I'd do very well with green. I'd better stick to my neutrals (no, it's not cognitive dissonance).

I really loved the bronze shade from the Green Forest palette though =(

And after looking at my collection of makeup, I have decided to impose on myself a makeup ban until I see five empty pans of makeup.

So, from now until I see five empty pans of makeup (eyeliner and lipbalm included, heehee), I will not purchase any form of cosmetics (unless mummy buys it for me, which is highly unlikely).

And I'm going to get my hair bleached, dyed and highlighted this Saturday! I can't wait. Haven't had dye touch my hair for the past two years. Quite apprehensive about bleaching my hair though, but if I don't, I might as well not dye my hair at all.

Major blehs.

I have the MEDUSA Facebook and Twitter page to put up, two chapters to proof and a website to complete.

So much for holidays. Haha.

Make me Up, Make me Over

2009-09-01T00:49:00.019+08:00

In the short space of about a year or so, I think I've amassed a pretty large collection of Silkygirl products, because my very first makeup products (pushed onto me by mother dearest, no less) were from Silkygirl, and I'm too cheapskate to buy anything else.

And just because I'm shit bored, this is what I have currently and what I've gone through thus far (from the face up):

Face:
Foundation in 03 Medium

Pressed Powder in 02 Light and 03 Natural

Blusher in 02 Dune Rose

Shimmer Duo Blusher in 01 Cheeky Peach

Eyes:
Duo Eyeshadow in 01 Monet Lavender and 05 Smokey Park

Blockbuster Colour Palette in 01 Bare Classics

Long-Wearing Eyeliner in 01 Black Black

Lips:
Juicy Fruity Brush-On Lipgloss in 03 Peach Nectar

Others:
Ever Glossy Nail Colour in 28 Cocoa Fantasy

Hydra Clean Makeup Remover

Which brings the total up to... 15 Silkygirl products. Don't know how much I've spent on all of those, haha. Because I've bought 3 eyeliners and 2 lipglosses (the Shimmer Duo Blusher and Hydra Clean Makeup Remover was only bought yesterday, 31 Aug).

Apart from that, I also have:
28 Piece Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette from Magical Tannsu

Oh~ m'EYE Line No. 1 Black from Etude House

In addition to at least 4 bottles of nail polish from both O2skin and TheFaceShop.

Rawr.

WTF??

2009-08-29T01:22:00.007+08:00

I recently had an outbreak of cold sores on my lip, on the day of my MEDLAW exam.

Reading from a few medical sites, including Wikipedia, apparently, I have HSV-1.

What's that?

Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1.

Herpes?

Herpes??

HERPES???

"WTF?? HERPES??"

ISN'T THAT WHAT THEY CLASSIFIED AS AN STD IN MY SEC SCH TEXTBOOKS??

I'm not some sleazy slut who sleeps around la, wtf.

I've been having those cold sores ever since I was a kid which, my beloved grandma told me, were caused by a lizard crawling on my face and peeing on my lip while I was sleeping.

=.=

Of course, relying on more reliable methods of deduction (all hail the Internet!), I have diagnosed that my body is now riddled with HSV-1, an incurable virus, thanks to a childhood infection.

Maybe it was really spread through a goddamn lizard peeing on my face. Fuck.

And come to think of it, I've been actually having an outbreak of cold sores at least once a year (only, thank God - I read that some people have them as often as once a freaking month). And it usually occurs at the same place more often than not, which would be the right-hand corner of my upper lip.

And cold sores can be triggered by stress.

It's fucking painful la.

I blame MASINA.

So now, I have this gigantic ulcer-like thingy on my lip, because the little blisters scabbed over and the fucking scab keeps splitting, getting wet and falling out in a mushy mess. And it hurts like a right bitch (but it's cuz I'm covering it with some aloe vera gel, which I hope will speed up the healing process. AND IT'S STINGING LIKE HELL.)

It's so painful until I can't eat or drink properly. Maybe I can use this period of time to lose some weight, heheh.

I just don't want the fucking thing to get infected. That would be some crazy shit man, seriously.

I BLAME MASINA.

Sorry to all the people I've shared food with recently. Apparently, it can spread through saliva so you might get it!! IT'S FUCKING CONTAGIOUS. SORRY!!

2009-08-18T21:31:00.000+08:00

Bah. I was about to post pictures of myy finished bookpub assignment, but Blogger's being a right bitch again so they'll have to wait.

Grr.

Facebook IRL.

2009-08-13T02:13:00.000+08:00

This is some insanely funny (and annoying) shit!

And, blogger stop being a bitch please. Thanks.

2009-08-10T22:49:00.001+08:00

Shopping in JB next Saturday with boyfriend.

Can't waaaaaaaaaait~

2009-08-10T22:38:00.001+08:00

Blogger, please stop being a bitch;

kthxbai.

20th Monthaversary

2009-08-08T00:21:00.002+08:00

Happy 20th month darling (:

Quite a big number, isn't it?
Almost 2 years already.

Love you muchies.

2009-08-05T08:56:00.003+08:00

After having an awesome night, courtesy of Janice, with her free tix to the gala premiere of Jack Neo's new movie, Where Got Ghost? (It's funny as hell, please watch it!! AND I GOT TO SEE MARK LEE RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME IN THE THEATRE!!!!!!), I decided to skip BOOKPUB today.

But, I woke up early (must've been retribution for skipping class) because I was itching all over, probably due to the cinema's seats. I went to grab a shower to abate the itching.

Okay, so itching down (for now).

Then, I realised that I woke up too early, and hence there's no breakfast for me.

Fuuuuuuck, I'm hungry.

After that, I went to check my email. The outcome? NO CONVEX TODAY.

Thank god I didn't go for BOOKPUB today. And thank goodness baby made me fill in the CONVEX PE and individual contribution form for him to hand it in on my behalf, else I'd have to make a trip down to school today to hand it in.

Might be going out with a secondary school friend for coffee, maybe another movie later.

This day's turning out pretty good afterall, an it's only 9AM!

Low Attendance Notification

2009-08-05T01:01:00.004+08:00

Today, I opened my school email for the nth time to check if my lecturer has replied me. Apparently, I've had low attendance for a certain IS module called Effective Negotiation.

Dear TAN XIN YI CHLOE,

Your attendance record shows that you have been missing classes lately. We are concerned about your absence from classes and urge you to improve your attendance record.

Module: IS LS/ 1EN
Description: EFFECTIVE NEGOTIATION

The rules of the Polytechnic require students to attend all scheduled classes. If the attendance record for a module falls below 80% - and this could include lateness to class - the consequence could be a debarment from the final assessment or examination for that module. Debarment from a repeat module and/or 3 or more modules would result in dismissal from the course.

Please ignore this email if you have already applied to withdraw from the course. On the other hand, you may have compelling reasons for your absence, for example, medical leave or duties at official functions. If you have not already done so, please submit documentary evidence for your absence at the School General Office.

You are also encouraged to speak to your Advisor and lecturers to clarify any doubts you may have regarding your studies and your personal constraints in attending classes.

As regular attendance is an essential part of a student's lifestyle, your presence will make a difference to the class!

This email is a system generated email. Please do not reply. If you are in doubt of your attendance records, please check with your lecturer or General Office.

However-

1. I've only ever skipped one class for this module;
2. It was the last class;
3. The module was over as of last week.

OH NO. I'VE GOT LOW ATTENDANCE. I'VE GOT TO ATTEND IMAGINARY EN CLASS THIS FRIDAY!!

Someone remind me again why we need to take something as retarded as IS please.

Thank heavens this is the LAST semester in which I need to take those stupid, time-consuming modules when I could be using the time spent in those classes resting or doing other projects. As if year3s aren't busy enough as it is already.

CONVEX tomorrow, MASINA presentation on Thursday, then it's off to churn out my 5 or so play scripts for BOOKPUB, then it's time to mug my ass off for the exams.

Rawr.

2009-08-02T14:19:00.000+08:00

P(b)ITCH'09 is finally over!

Today, I woke up, and it was Tuesday. FML

2009-07-28T10:17:00.002+08:00

School's a bitch.

I've been so tired lately, I'm just going through the motions, not really absorbing anything at all. And to think that though I'm in year 3 already, I haven't listened to a single MASINA lecture (in which, I am blogging now). Our final proposal hasn't even been touched at all.

Sorry, 'cher.

P(b)ITCH'09 is almost over, thank heavens.

Preliminary round tomorrow, then the final competition after. But after that, it'll be the whole mountain of paperwork to slog through.

I need a break.

I think we all need a break.

To just laze around in bed on a rainy morning (without thunder, of course). I seriously need to sleep a day away to get myself fully charged again.

I'm feeling this ache in my mouth. Not in a tooth, not really, no, it feels embedded in my jaw.

Everyone around me has been falling sick recently. Maybe they've taken the worst hit of it, because I only have some phlegm, compared to their incessant coughing, on-off fevers and sore throats.

I can't wait for school to be over. Then I can get my measly two or three weeks of rest before attachment starts.

I need to get good and properly wasted.

2009-07-26T00:09:00.004+08:00

Something's wrong the Blogger navbar but not to worry, I hope it'll fix itself soon.

Meanwhile, knock yourselves out with Kumar, the iconic Singaporean drag queen.
(They're kinda long, so I suggest allowing all the parts to buffer at the same time)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

XD

2009-07-22T17:04:00.001+08:00

Maaaaaaaaan.

I still have yet to watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Even my sister, who hasn't read the books, has watched it already.

=.=

Supernatural Love

2009-07-14T21:10:00.005+08:00

Just a liiiiiiiiitle lower...

Whoo.

My latest eyecandy is none other than Jensen Ackles, acting as Dean Winchester in the series, Supernatural.

That show kicks ass man. Serious ass.

I've just finished watching season 1, and am going to embark upon season 2 now.

Nothing sexier than a half-naked buff guy, aye?
(Okay, I don't know if that pic is a manip, but it won't hurt to dream~)

Boyfriend is going to get jealous now.

(Someone Else's) FML

2009-07-11T13:11:00.002+08:00

Today, I was taking a shower and I saw a new body wash that said "radiance ribbons." That sounded a little effeminate, but it smelled manly enough and the only alternative was normal soap, so I used it. Just now, I stepped out into the sun and found out what "radiance ribbons" means. I sparkle. FML

Twilight/Robert Pattinson/Edward/Blahblah junkies, maybe you can get your boyfriends this particular soap so that they can sparkle too.

Hahahaha.

Epic. Fail.

2009-07-08T22:35:00.001+08:00

Happy 19 months baby (:

My Masterpiece

2009-07-02T18:14:00.002+08:00

I keep wanting to post the picture of my masterpiece but somehow, after uploading it to Blogger, it won't appear.

But, here's a link to it: CLICK to see it in its full-sized glory.

(:

2009-06-30T21:36:00.004+08:00

So I've cleared the first presentation to client.

Ah feck, that reminds me I have yet to send him the report.

Frankly speaking, I don't see why we need to send it to him, since he doesn't like our campaign.

What's wrong with a Singlish campaign, really? It's being spoken by (almost) everyone, everywhere, and all the time.

I still feel that because it's a uniquely Singaporean problem that we have, with people just looking for a quick MC, or being overly anxious, or thinking that their medical problem is the most important thing in the world, the A&E department is just chock full of such people.

Which is why we should have, no scratch that, it's why we need a Singaporean approach to this matter, and what better than a Singlish campaign?

All that talk about the hospital being an association, blah blah. It just boils down to you not wanting to explore other options, or being afraid of being associated with Singlish.

But isn't Singlish what makes us Singaporean? Isn't our funky blend of languages and dialect, and the plain laziness to form proper sentences that makes us us?

Not that I really want to be associated with Singaporeans because frankly, a lot of them gives the rest of the population of this tiny island a bad name, with the the lack of common sense, manners and well, brains.

But unfortunately, I was born and raised here and the food's good, so... yeah.

So we now have to start from scratch all over again, keeping only the mural and the pitching to parenting magazines.

Bah.

Faster Leh! Campaign

2009-06-24T19:59:00.001+08:00

One really quick question! Less than 10 seconds to do!

Click!

SURVEY!

2009-06-17T23:17:00.002+08:00

Hello beautiful people, here's another survey.

A rather.... interesting one, if I might say.

CLICK!

Whoo.

2009-06-11T17:43:00.000+08:00

The non-existent break has officially begun.

Jack's Place tonight, jong and Nihon Mura tomorrow!

2009-06-07T19:56:00.002+08:00

I broke down today.

But at least it's a 4-day week and there're some pretty nice yums lined up for me.

So after slogging from Monday through Thursday, I'll have a nice dinner at Jack's Place for Samantha's birthday, then on Friday, I'll be stuffing myself with sashimi and edamame from Nihon Mura.

Then hopefully, I get to JONG ON FRIDAY TOO.

Now I'm off to do the stinking CONVEX report.

**CONVEX NOTES ARE EVIL!!! I got two papercuts from the notes already.**

Manhattan Fish Market

2009-06-07T00:46:00.004+08:00

Whilst the original plan was Fish & Co., we ended up at Manhattan Fish Market because the smelly bf didn't feel like walking all the way to Park Mall after withdrawing cash at PS.

The verdict?

No regrets AT ALL.

Well, we may have blown the budget a teensy weeeeensy bit, but I think the money was well spent.

No pictures, sorry. My phone's camera is stupid.

Customer service was good. They let us have the menu while standing in the loooong queue so that we can decide what to eat while waiting then order when we're seated/at the front of the queue. Really speeds up the whole process.

But since it was just the two of us, we got seated pretty quickly, about less than five minutes after we chugged down our water chestnut and iced milo from Kopitiam (we were near the end of the queue in fact).

Actually, we got seated the moment we got the menu while standing in line.

Took about five minutes deliberating over what we wanted. Was debating between the platter for two or individual mains.

First, was our soup of the day and drinks.

Cream of Sotong and two fuckingly huge glasses of Iced Lemon Tea (too sweet for my liking).

The soup was okay, but wish I wish it was chowder.

We then had Garlic Butter Mussels drowning in the sauce for starters.

The sauce was just delicious. But a bit jelat, of course. Was seriously heaven. Thank goodness for the slices of baguettes that they served together with that dish. Don't regret spending the 10 bucks plus for that.

In fact, I would've regretted it if I didn't have it.

(I know the lack of pictures isn't doing this post any justice.)

Then came our mains.

I had a Grilled Norweigian King Salmon thing, and a Whole Fried Something or Other for the boyfriend.

And when I say whole, I mean whole.

Fucking head and all.

So while I was happily munching on my delicious salmon with awesome crispy skin, boyfriend was busy WTFing over his fish and trying to separate the meat from the bones using a fork and a fish knife.

He ended up eating most of the fish with his hands.

The fries served together with the fish weren't half bad either.

I still prefer LJS's fries!

BUT DON'T GO TO LJS @ HOUGANG MALL.

By the time we finished our food, we were so damned full and very, very satisfied.

Will definitely go there again, and I'll remember not to let the waitress clear away the rest of the garlic butter sauce!

2009-06-06T22:16:00.003+08:00

School has been annoying the heck out of me, seriously.

I'd really be down in the dumps if I didn't have my smelly bear of a boyfriend and my PPG darlings.

Work on the platter:
- Motherhood exhibition critique worth 20% due Wednesday, 10 June.
- Test worth 15% on Wednesday, 10 June.

And they're all from... dum duum duuuuuuuum..

CONVEX.

Muthafucker.

99 Balloons

2009-06-05T22:00:00.002+08:00

A real tear-jerker:

Thanks to Enping for sharing this video.

I'm a 2nd generation Christian who is unfortunately, at the wrong end of the extreme where I see going to church as chore, where I don't really believe in God.

But after watching that video..

Maybe.

Just maybe.

2009-06-05T20:30:00.001+08:00

Yay! It's Friday! Time to shut off from school!

Wait.

There's a CONVEX test next Wednesday with pretty heavy weightage.

FML.

2009-06-05T00:00:00.001+08:00

Going to celebrate our one and a half year mark a few days early at Fish & Co!

Can't wait~

Red to Rust

2009-06-03T14:42:00.002+08:00

Red balloon fly high free fall into a meadow
Tall branches crooked fingers tree leaves catches
Herd grazing grass sway dalmatians but one
Float down land silent beside rust cow
Flowers beheaded hungry stomach
Pop!

Chloe Tan

Powerpuff Girls and the Mayor

2009-06-02T16:18:00.002+08:00

Made it through the Medlaw test and the PR presentation!

I feel so proud of myself.

PPG theme song dedicated to my darlings En Ping, Yue Shi and Janice.

Thanks for helping us do our project!

Muacks!!

Spiders On Drugs

2009-06-01T21:33:00.001+08:00

Argh, fucking stressed with schoolwork now.

Tonight will be another sleepless one.

Sunday Blues

2009-05-31T08:34:00.002+08:00

I'm feeling too lazy to drag my fat, cellulite-ridden ass too church this week.

Every other week, for that matter.

I fall asleep anyway =/

2009-05-31T00:10:00.002+08:00

I fucked up my blogskin so here's a new one.

I upgraded it to the XML template thing, and it won't let me hide my post titles so I spent the last hour redoing the titles.

Found quite a number of poems on the site too.

If only I'd scoured my blog, or kept MSW documents of them, maybe I wouldn't have had to think so hard for my poem submission.

Going to church tomorrow to disseminate the rest of my surveys.

Stupid shit.

2009-05-29T09:55:00.002+08:00

Yesterday, my Media Law lecturer asked me if a particular group member (who, I think, is repeating this module) was pulling his weight in the group project.

My reply?

"Who's he?"

Magical Tannsu's 28 Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette

2009-05-23T11:21:00.005+08:00

Need.. to.. buy.. more.. palettes.. from... Magical Tannsu.

Really love my 28 neutrals eyeshadow palette. The colours are long-lasting compared to other eyeshadows that I've been using. Just a little bit and there's plenty of colour. It's also really easy to remove!

Just a few swipes of baby lotion on a square cotton pad and it's gone, compared to rubbing my eyelids out with other eyeshadows.

And the funky, 7-piece brush set I got was real cute too. A nice, gold pouch carrying 7 brushes with classy gold-coloured handles. The brushes are soft yet stiff at the same time, nice for contouring and blending.

Now if only I had to guts to try liquid eyeliner...

2009-05-22T12:31:00.003+08:00

Today, I was eating ice cream and I noticed some on my jeans so I wiped it off with my finger and licked it. It was bird shit. FML

(No, that didn't happen to me.)

Fmylife.com

Wii Epic Fail

2009-05-22T00:19:00.002+08:00

I don't know if I've posted this video before, but to relieve a little stress from Year 3, here it is:

Hahahahahahahahhahahahahaha.

2009-05-20T22:52:00.001+08:00

A rose is a rose is a rose.

Had a fecking cheem bookpub workshop today.

Whatever I fathomed bookpub to be, it was nothing like I had imagined.

Nothing at all.

LJS @ Hougang Mall

2009-05-16T22:07:00.004+08:00

Horrible experience in Long John Silver, Hougang Mall today.

I went in, waited my turn and ordered my fries to take away.

Whilst she was keying in my order, she suddenly squealed. Very loudly. Like a fat pig stuck with a red-hot poker.

Then she started waving at some person who walked past the store, her boyfriend, I assume.

While I was still standing at the counter.

She still had the guts to say to her colleague at the other counter, "Eh I was very loud hor?"

All the while I was waiting for my fries, she kept waving at the guy.

After my fries were packed and she was about to hand them to me, she stopped mid-action.

Why?

She was busy talking to a friend.

She didn't realise she had my fries still in her hand until I said "Excuse me." in the most polite and sarcastic way, with my anger barely concealed.

Goodness, never, ever, EVER, eat at Hougang's LJS. If you're desperate for them, take a train down to Compass Point. It's only three more stops away.

It's clear to anyone, regardless of whether or not you've worked in customer service, that this sort of behaviour is wrong.

Very, very wrong.

How the fuck, can you squeal and wave, while you're in the middle of serving customer?

You're lucky I didn't ask to see your manager and your lack of a proper name tag saved your ass.

2009-05-14T11:20:00.006+08:00

Finally going to get my new specs on Saturday evening, followed by a nice dinner with the boyfriend at Pastamania.

I've been craving for a tomato-based pasta.

Meanwhile, I'm going out of my mind doing work.

A 10-page brand critique on Giordano for adv. PR, a 5-page essay on stereotyping for WISP (this will be like, the third stereotyping essay in all the years spent in NP =.=), a PR campaign for a certain hospital, a research project, random law projects, and a major event to plan. Oh, and poems and shit.

Ohmygoodness.

I'll be so glad when this semester's over.

On the bright side, last night I ordered some awesome makeup palettes and brushes together with the darlings Enping and Janice from Magical Tannsu.

Click it, you know you want to.

Prices are mad cheap, and they're most probably going to get slashed again for a mega spree come the end of May.

Ordered a 28 piece neutrals palette for myself, a 78 piece makeup palette inclusive of blushers for Janice, and funky golden 7-piece brush sets for the three of us.

Grand total came up to $79.50.

Can't wait to collect them!

I'll get back to churning out more bullshit for my PR paper now. Thank goodness there's no school today. But then again, even if there was, I wouldn't go.

-poof-

P.S.: ~~DO THIS SURVEY!! PLEASE HELP~~ Survey closed. Thanks for all your help!

2009-05-12T15:14:00.004+08:00

I never thought I'd play WoW.

Being very against my boyfriend playing WoW for my own selfish reasons, I was resistant against him renewing his account.

I now have a Blood Elf Warlock on Rivendare server.

Omg.

2009-05-08T00:11:00.006+08:00

Happy 17 months babe <3

2009-05-05T15:01:00.003+08:00

A contact lens of mine juuuuuuuust had to drop out while I was on the overhead bridge.

Fucking suay.

Gonna have to walk around with my glasses on for the next two weeks or so like a nerd while a new lens flies over from Australia.

Meanwhile, school's over for the day and I'm attempting to churn out a cover letter and resumé while waiting for the boyfriend to finish his class.

Bah.

2009-05-02T11:19:00.003+08:00

Why should I fucking sacrifice myself for you, since you clearly don't appreciate it?

Why should I stay at home for you just because you're grounded for the exams?

You definitely didn't do that for me while I was having my exams.

You couldn't even go down to buy me lunch while I was reading up for my chemistry paper in the afternoon, just because you wanted to fucking watch TV.

Well, I want to go out and not look at your fucking, good-for-nothing face and listen to your incessant whines and complaints.

I'm telling you now, I fucking hate your guts.

I don't care if it's un-Christian of me but truth be told, I never felt like a Christian, and I hate how my church is getting obsessed with numbers.

I was never proud of you, I was never proud of having you as my sister. You're just a fucking pain in the ass.

So yeah.

Fuck you.

2009-04-29T10:10:00.001+08:00

Sick =(

2009-04-24T23:38:00.003+08:00

If week 1 is any indication of what the rest of the semester is going to be like, I'm going to have many sleepless nights.

Fuck.

School Blues

2009-04-19T23:38:00.002+08:00

Semester's starting again tomorrow, my third and (hopefully) final year in NP.

Thank goodness class starts at 2PM on Mondays.

2009-04-18T00:02:00.005+08:00

Geddit?

2009-04-17T10:08:00.000+08:00

Yessss.

Finally going home tonight!

490 days since we've been together

2009-04-11T19:34:00.004+08:00

I like my new widget, well the only widget that I have on my blog.

Got kinda frustrated figuring out where to put it but it's all good in the end.

Nice, aye? It's been 490 days since we've been together.

490 days of frustration, annoyance, giving in, having fun but most importantly, loving each other despite our weaknesses and our flaws.

Happy belated 16 months, babe.

I love you (:

In other news, I just got this whole bunch of new undies today.

Skittles ftw XD

2009-04-10T22:32:00.005+08:00

Daddy had the good fortune of parking next to this car after we got back from a Good Friday gathering at the place of one of his cell members.

And this is the car!

And what's that white piece of paper on the car?

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Fail, much?

2009-04-04T00:05:00.002+08:00

I was supposed to be fiddling with my blogskin today but I woke up feeling horrible, took a class I didn't really want for IS and I couldn't get back to sleep because I'd been up too long.

Watched a bit of K-drama until lunch beckoned.

I attempted little else today; I tried taking a nap because I was so knackered but lo and behold, just as I settled in, my dad started to vacuum the house. The noise ended and in that respite, I thought I could get some shut eye, only for said father's phone to ring and a loud conversation ensued regarding this, that and the other about kites. He finally put down the phone, only for a customer to arrive at our doorstep and yea, well, you guessed it.

Feck.

I hate periods.

jonggggg

2009-04-02T17:36:00.001+08:00

Whoo.

Gonna jong at bee's place again this Saturday.

HUAT AR.

Growing Mould

2009-03-31T13:29:00.005+08:00

By the end of the holidays, I will have become an expert at growing mould.

To commemerate what I've been up to so far (and to oblige En Ping's request for an update), here's a list of random stuff (I think my pet in Pet Society just moved her koala):

1. Mahjong is highly addictive; Xi Feng is the best wind for me. Hahahah. I won so many rounds during that wind.

2. Loot accumulated thus far:
- Brown bag with embossed floral motif
- White bag with embroidered florals
- Razer Pro Solutions mouse
- Pro Solutions aluminium mouse pad (came free with the mouse)
- Sony Earpump earpiece

3. Celebrated the boyfriend's birthday

4. Completed two cross-stitches, working on another one right now

5. Sent Popcorn, my MacBook, to the hospital for a faulty spacebar, cracked wrist rest area and a flickering screen. Two weeks later, the screen has begun to flicker AGAIN -.-

Dinner with Daryl and Mc tonight, Gelare for dessert! It's been almost a month since I've had Gelare. I shall also buy a new bottle of nail polish.

Time for me to perfect the art of growing mould.

nom

2009-03-26T23:38:00.001+08:00

=D

2009-03-23T12:39:00.003+08:00

Despite having less-than-stellar results for last semester and as they say, every cloud has a silver lining so....

I GOT ALL THE ELECTIVES THAT I WANTED!!

Book Writing and Publishing, Advanced Public Relations and Conventions & Exhibitions (:

And to top things off, En Ping's in the same MedLaw and MASINA class as I am.

Mwahahahahaha.

2009-03-21T22:11:00.002+08:00

I <3 my awesome Razer.

Yeah, some of you might think it's a waste of money since I'm not a gamer.

But still, it's probably the best mouse I'll ever own.

I'll think of it as an investment.

And my new Sony Ear Pumps.

Awesome beats, awesome bass.

Thank you, IT Fair.

2009-03-13T09:16:00.003+08:00

HIATUS.

Popcorn is going to the hospital.
(Make use of Apple Care maaaaah)