Bubbles, bubbles toil and trouble

When we want something badly, the only thing going through that head of ours is, "I want!I want! I want!" At that point of madness, we tend to forget that we probably already have something similar at home; don't need it; not worth the money, etc. etc.

Well, that's exactly what happen when I headed over to UPR for the Little Penang Bazaar. I'm pretty sure I got the name wrong but anyways, the bazaar is held every last Sunday of the month and there's quite a number of things to see. After a colleague of mine told me about buying organic, handmade soaps from the market, I knew I wanted one too. I kept thinking that there wasn't anymore soaps at home and how badly I needed them. I couldn't wait to get my hands on them and told JH about it. Together after work (I work half days on Sundays) we went.

We first stopped by Midlands One-Stop (an old Mall) to watch the pre-release Magic: The Gathering Worldwake tournament(?). I'm excited, two new angels for the white deck and for my collection, "Come to mama, my pretties~" I've decided that hell, if I can't beat them, join them and thus I too am now a Magic player. A really lousy one anyway. GameForge is having the launching on Friday night. Whee!!!

*Slaps self* Nay nay nay, this post is suppose to be on soaps, not Magic cards. *Ahem* back to the topic, we brave the elements; 35 - 36 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) of heat and humidity. Panted, melted but we got there! And bought my soap and had a walk around since it was both our first time there.

My first thought when I see these are: I should have bought more.. *sniff* Too late now
Lookit, pwetty colours!

Of course when I reached home, I dug out my old soaps which I bought during my trip to Australia a gazillion years ago just to ... take a look. Ah the pretty colours. I was suppose to just buy one but of course the one soap might feel lonely so I bought the soap some company :D

Ahahahaa! These are bathroom salts from Stuf, I stuffed them into empty Ettusais boxes so they are easier to pack and store, I have another 3 in a different box. Don't they look yummy?

Dug it up and noted that there was some boxes of Mark & Spenser soaps in there as well which trigger my memory that I recently found out that I still have a bar or two of Rose soap from M&S and that triggered my memory that I had some La Source soap + shower gel from Crabtree and Evelyn which trigger my memory that I had two more boxes of Lavender soaps also from C&E. And then there's the new bar of soap that I just got...

Uh oh..

Uhhh... must not let JH know.

Quickly moving on, I snapped my nail in half. I.R.Smart (D'oh) seeing the nail cracked halfway across and blood gushing out, my room swirl around and darkness embraced my fragile self *slaps self* Kidding, I held on to the wound so the blood would stop. I can still feel it going "Beep bop, beep bop, beep bop" under all the plaster. *sniff*

SMUDGED! It smudges at the very last possible second *shakes fist*
The crack is at the other hand, all wrapped up in a plaster

It pays to read newspapers. While flipping through it, I came across some advertisement on some skincare from Japan which stated that it's sold every 4 seconds in Japan. Hmmm... Something that can rival the sales of Barbie? I must see!

All good things comes in two? :D

It's apparently out in the market in M'sia for sometime now probably since November 2009 and here I am just discovering it! Talk about outdated. Then again, November was one of my busiest months last year with the start of a new job and all. With the amount of crap I had to go through, my face was the least of my worries then but now...Aha!

Hada Labo Super Hyaluronic Acid Moisturising is a new range of skincare developed by The Mentholatum Co. USA and Rohto Pharmaceutical Co. JAPAN.

You can read more from here VenusBuzz

Good luck reading it tho, I nearly blinded myself trying to read it. Sorry!

So far, been trying it for just 2 days and I'm really liking it. No breakouts yet and the face wash doesn't make my skin feel tight and uncomfortable or have the 'fake' smoothness Etude House Happy Tea Time face wash seems to give. The face gets coated with some 'oil/wax' that gives us the impression that our face is 'smoother' after washing. It might just be me though.

The moisturizer is a hassle to use having to pat our face for atleast a good 10 - 15 minutes. It starts off as plain watery then becomes sticky and later on when the skin has absorbed it becomes like any other moisturiser on the face. Despite that all, I'll happily use it every night, I wake up with my face looking moisturised even the peeling and roughness I previously had has disappeared. I also give credit to Clinque Moisture Surge for the help of course.

Oh la la, oh mi oh my, I'm melting..

Is El Nino back or is the weather considered 'normal' for the Chinese New Year season cause I'm melting - fast! The air has been dry and more people are falling sick faster than you can say 'A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down'. Err.. okay that was pretty long but anyway, my skin around my forehead and nose is still peeling. It's so strange to wash my face and feel my nose all rough and patchy.

So what's there to do but apply plenty of moisturizing face mask right? My masks is finishing and I haven't had the time nor money to replenish. I'm still saving up for a phone. Mine has started to lose it's mind. If it had one. The dictionary no longer works and sms-ing people takes me a good 10 minutes per sms and it's making me lose my mind.

A long while ago, I bought the Nu Skin creamy hydrating masque. Stated on the back;

Drench your dehydrated complexion with Nu Skin Creamy Hydrating Masque. This nourishing face and neck masque features Saccharide Isomarate, a moisture magnet that binds moisture to the skin to reduce dryness and brings out a natural dewy glow. While hydrating, Creamy Hydrating Masque infuses soothing nutrients from cactus and pine cone extracts to help keep skin looking healthy, beautiful, and radiant. Beyond ordinary moisturization, Nu Skin Creamy Hydrating Masque Nourishing Treatment is an oasis for dry skin.

With a description like that, who could resist? Not me that for certain since I bought it. After using it for so long on and off, I can safely say one thing. It doesn't work for me. This is just my own 2 cents of course, if it works for you, good for you but I spent RM80+ for this and it really didn't do anything. My skin didn't feel moisturised or anything. My skin was still peeling and after washing the masque off, my skin feels no different. I really am puzzled.

Bah.

I ended up using my should-have-been-long-expired Clinique Moisture Surge found in the back of my fridge and it actually works. How pathetic is this?

Anyway, Etude House is having a sale again and this time, I went to pick up some nail polish for a friend who's leaving for Australia. She seems to have a thing for funky nail colours so I decided to get her some.

I spotted the pink and couldn't resist. I love it! It's so happily girl-ish pink. I'm hoping to go back and stock up on this colour. Hee! Ah, forgive the horrible nails, it's been a while since I painted them and with no top coat, its starting to peel. Eew.

Su Mei of Life Holics Online brought some what do you call them, *scratch head* DIY fluffy paper mache like clay to model and experiment and I happily asked for some to play with. It's so fluffy and delicious looking! Left on the table I would have sneakily eaten some (if I didn't know they weren't edible)

Since I'm really not the most creative person around and can't really make anything from these two hands of mine, I made the most simplest fancy shape I could think of - hearts.

Plain hearts are no fun, spotted some of JH's GW acrylic paints which he uses to paint his Warhammer 40k models and painted the hearts with them. Nyahahahaha. In the end, I ended up with 4 hearts, one cookie and one Hello Kitty inspired round I-have-no-idea-what-its-suppose-to-be. My Hello Kitty has a fat nose.. my first try and probably my last. The ribbon is actually a nail sticker :D

As the year of the Ox is coming to an end and on Feb 4th/14th, enters the Tiger. I haven't even bought any new clothes yet. *sigh* Lots of people seems to be in a rush to marry before the year of the Tiger starts since it doesn't look like it's going to be a good year.

Girly was to attend her close friend's wedding and requested that I do her make up for the dinner. I happily agreed. She's probably the only one I really feel comfortable doing make up for since I have no cert and I'm no pro.

Atleast I don't charge. She's so easy to make up for, flawless skin and nice features. Decided to post up some of her pictures of the make up. It was my 2nd time doing it for her and we both agreed that the 1st was alot nicer. She wore turquoise then and baby blue this time.

Thank you for the ang pow!! :D

Purple-smerple EOTD

Ever realized nothing seems to rhyme with purple?

It's been a while since I did any EOTDs and since my quest is to use the colours I won't usually use, I decided the EOTD for the night would be in Purple.

I had bad encounters with Purple since the make up artist seems to have the magical touch of making my skin look sallow and my eyes bruised. It took me a while to realize that it was because they used the wrong type of purple for my skin tone. They happily slapped on pinkish-purplish colour which just didn't suit me and that made me avoid purple like a plague.

NYX Circe + Narcissus + Bloop Lipgloss in #11

Have not been getting enough sleep lately since last week. Either I'm studying for a test or preparing for a conference or something or another. Another round of breakout and then thanks to the super hot weather which happens every single year as we come closer to the Chinese New Year. It's so hot you can feel the heat seeping into your skin and frying you. Not to mention, the skin on my forehead and mouth area has started to peel. The moisturizers are not working despite it all.

The weather has gone koo-koo and it's driving me koo-koo. No wonder there's so many mad people on the loose. Their brains got fried! I'm still fine thankfully :P

See my tired eyes? Just came back from a conference held at the newly build Eastin Hotel
Thank God the food was gooooooooood

Prep, prime and draw and smooth out some white shimmer stick all over eyelids, then apply some Etude House Shine Up Stick in Blue Beam, including under your eyes. This is to work as a base.

I only have ONE pathetic purple colour eyeshadow which was bought a gazillion years ago. One of the three cosmetic items I ever bought from Skin Food. Not that I hold anything against them but the eyeshadow can be a little chalky. Yay for the 88 palatte, without it, I'm gonna start sweating cause I really don't remember what I used the last time I did a purple look for Naomi's contest.

Apply some darker shade at the very corner, I used MAC Typographic since it's not black black but more dark gray to black gray. Line everything with a black eyeliner. At this point I really wished that the eye colours were less matte and more shimmery. Perhaps it's also because of my dry skin that it ended up looking a little chalky. Bah!

Apply falsies

Just for laughs. A comparison between the two eyes. Still no double eyelids. Not that I mind but putting on make up would have been so much simpler with it. Well, make do with whatever I have is one of my mottos in life so..

JH thinks the eyelashes are just TOO much. I agree, I only wear them for pictures and EOTD cause they look good on camera :P

MAC Mineral blush in Petticoat and TBS shimmer wave in Peach, as usual

Items and colours used

Now, what other hideous colours can I try next? *rubs hands gleefully while crackling*

Yellow/ Orange?

Oh btw, I scored 100% and passed my BLS! No, BLS doesn't stand for "Bull Lumpy Shit" ( I would have aced that test without studying) but Basic Life Support. Yay me! I can now somewhat-and-might-not-and-will-most-probably-run-around-like-headless-chicken-in-a-real-scenario, save people!

I admit that there are a few people I wouldn't mind leaving to choke on their own vomit before helping :P

If anyone's interested, they can learn it from hospitals and if not mistaken, the course cost about RM400 and will present you with a certificate. Preferably linked to the American Heart Association as they are recognized worldwide.

JH & I

L'amour de la mia vita II

Received a damned funny comment for my blog yesterday, it was something along the line of, "Omg... what a nerdo bf you got there.... go get a better 1 out there... since you're so hot..:P" With a comment like that how can anyone NOT laugh. I'll gave 'anonymous' a benefit of a doubt that the person is probably:

a) drunk
b) has an IQ of 60
c) is jealous
d) is probably 12 years old judging by the thinking
e) a BIG fan of Pacman, judging by all the "........."

First off, I'm a self professed nerd, but if you think I'm hot, thanks! Second, I do think of JH as attractive. His eyes as well as his personality was the first thing that caught my attention the moment he walked into GameForge. I may be blur as hell but the moment I saw him, I remember thinking, "Hmm..cute"

He's one of the smartest people I've met, and brains is one thing that can really impress me. If style without substance is your taste, whatever floats your boat. I'll take the brains any day though. I have enough of stupid people.

In the extremely short period of time, I think I might have just found my better half. We're still in the phase of learning new things about each other, and discovering little bits of him, makes me love him more. But in terms of personality, we're both on the opposite side, he's the logical and realistic ISTJ , while I'm the dreamy and sensitive INFJ. For him, everything is more on facts, while I rely heavily on feelings and intuition. Yet, together we blend in perfectly, just like coffee and milk. We end up complementing each other and making up for what the other lacks.

Even we found it strange how utterly comfortable we are with one another, perhaps some might dismiss it as the 'everything is still sweet' stage but unlike other 'normal' couples, we had to go through some extremely tough times to enjoy what we're enjoying now. JH gave me nothing less of a 100% and support me during the crisis; I was made to promise never to bring up the subject again by the lawyer hence I will not elaborate on it.

I met his parents the 2nd day we officially went out together, I remember worrying whether his mom would give me a quick scan and deem me unsuitable for their son; Too fat, too ugly, too dumb, too poor, if my family backgrounds was considered okay and such. But to my immense surprised, it was non of that. She greeted me with a grin and that was that. It makes things so much easier when JH knows that I really like his parents and him mine.

We have our ups and down but both of us never denied that we make each other complete. For someone to open their mouth and spew out funky comments like that not only make themselves look shallow and superficial but I'm worried for their IQ as well. How can I be mad at someone like that?

So after saying so much, I guess I'll leave all the "hot" guys to you and keep to my "nerdo" :P

Plastic enough? NOT! Eh, I'm a magic card?!

My workload at work has increased by many many folds. I am now literally and almost drowning. Who could have thought answering emails in mass amount could be so stressful. I mean, it's just emails. Then again, I should have noted the 'mass' in mass amount. Gah! I'll happily forward and answer all the mails regarding cosmetic surgery though. Never imagine Botox cost about RM1.8K and Rhinoplasty cost about RM6-7k. Ouch!

Hmm, talking about cosmetic surgery, after JH went home, I carefully lock the doors, close the windows, brought out my make up kit and started on a look for a contest hosted by Bombshell, for one, I love the unique idea. But I'm a little clueless on the props and hair (I don't own any fancy wigs other than my usual two and they are unfortunately not blond) She did mention that it didn't have to be blond but still, think Barbie, you think blond.

Aim of the game: To be the most plastic contestant (think fake, superficial, Stepford wife, Barbie & Ken) - Bombshell

For one, I'm far from perfect but I loved the idea so I decided "Ah what the heck" but the look didn't turned out right so I'm guessing either I'll try again some other day or just drop out of it. I didn't look plastic enough. Damn, never though trying to look fake or plastic would be so hard. And the other contestant make it look so easy. Not trying to be offend anyone, it's just that they did a fantastic job on it and here I am struggling like an idiot. :P

So anyway, I happily put on my '2 inch' thick make up and set to work with the eyes and lips. I had quite a bit to cover since the pimples is out on full force lately too. Not as bad as my Singapore trip time but it's pretty bad; all because I tried Dr.Jart+ again to re-confirmed that it was the one thing that was giving me pimples. It was. It so was. I'm still sore about it since I liked it; the coverage was excellent and it hurt my wallet quite a bit.

Lipstick used: No brand lip palate + MJ Honey Pump; NYX Narcissus + Guerlain's lipgloss



Initial first few test shots

Decided to just use plenty of black and brown for the eyes and top them off with glasses cleaners eye lashes. The one I bought from the night market. Surprisingly, they didn't look all too butt ugly on camera. I would have earned myself endless teasing if the CH guys saw me in it but since I was in the safety of my room, I was - safe.

Used MAC Petticoat on my cheeks and toned the pinkish-ness with TBS Shimmer wave in Peach.

The pictures might not be perfect but at least give me credit for posting them up without any of them being photoshopped.

Hey if you see my pimples and pores and whatever not, remember that I'm only human and this is me. Sure I can get Kern to photoshop the hell outta my photos and tweak just about everything; make me eyes bigger, clean up the fall outs, erase scars, pores, moles and just about everything and make me look all perfect and ethereal but I decided I'm not going to do all that.

I've never hidden the facts that I have scars and so forth so if you have some nasty comments, go ahead but you'll end up looking like a total idiot since this is no secret. And I'll be more than happy to say, "Way to go Captain Obvious!'

I'm not looking for nice comments or anything and I'm not obsessed with myself, I just enjoy posting all the failed experiments and hey, this is in some way my online diary where I can look back, slap my forehead and wonder what the hell was I thinking when I did that.

Ah, finally forked out my hard earned pay to buy this - Origins, Out of Trouble.

I've previously bought the smaller bottle one to try out and discovered that I really liked it. But the price was a little too pricy so I looked around in The Body Shop. They had the Aloe Vera mask (RM66) but the sales girl was not too friendly so I went over to Origins and bought this instead. Oh well.

I tend to just put on a thin layer and go sleep in it. It's nice cause it calms down inflamed skin as well. During the times when my skin is all red and agitated, I'll slap some of these on and go sleep. It doesn't dry up like clay mask does and so it doesn't crack and make you scratch your face like a monkey scratches its ass.

Ouch, ouch, ouch my wallet. My thinning wallet.

Other than that, been stocking up on masks from Guardian and some bought online. The Strawberry Souffle smells pretty good but after a while, you'll be gasping for air. Overpowering scent in weird strawberry. How good is it? Err.. the Blemish mask works way better but it smells exactly like toilet cleaners. The scents from the mask is overpowering for my sensitive nose and after the "Hmmm, smells great.." you'll be crawling on the floor, begging for oxygen. Okay, slight exaggeration on my side but still even Elisa agrees with me. On the toilet clearer part anyway. UGH!

JH was with me when I bought the mask and his small eyes grew bigger when he saw the picture on the packets, he commented it looks like something from scary movies / nightmares.

The masks; The picture that will scare little kids

I agree. What I did not agree to was this...

Woke up from my very nice nap, logged online and what's this weird comments I see on my email. Checkout my FB and ta daa, JH has made another 'motivational poster' of me. I admit, it's been a while since I laughed this hard but just as well, I'm sharpening my claws for when I see him tomorrow.

Prepare yourself for punishment, JH!

I'm easy to please though, all you have to do is appease me with your Baneslayer card *rubs hands*

Happy New Year 2010

First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Hope everyone had fun during your New Year, mine was a little quiet but loved it anyway. Spent 31st with JH and my sis in E&O for Shen and Loretta's wedding. Congrats to the happy couple.

As the clock strike midnight and everyone busy congratulating and hugging one another, I spent mine in the arms of my knight at home. Okay his home but both our wish for our fledging relationship was strangely (Yes, strangely) to go with the flow. Not my idea but this is it.

Wasn't the usual, lets' work hard or hope for the best kinda thing, for the extremely realistic JH, it had to be go with the flow.

Not a bad resolution, I don't mind despite finding it darn weird.

Reminds me of the Osho Zen Tarot card that I have

I must admit that I wasn't looking my best. Oh well, it was a working day and despite the half day leave, was tired and all. Too many late nights. Serves me right!

Pinky Doodle Doo, me and JH

Pinky Doodle Doo lives up to her Pinky name

Headed over to the CH a few minutes later since they were having a BBQ. A steak and beer later, we finally went home before 3am. Thinking back, it wasn't so bad :D

Then again, stepped on the scale and it when from 0 to 55 in 3 seconds... Uhh.. I take my words back.

2009 Resolution

Adopt a dog
Uhhh, had a humongous argument with my dad over getting the dog. So scratch that one right out.

Donations (SPCA, Salvation Army)
A pathetic sums that I rather not reveal. Decided that I will only donate for animals and hungry people.

Go for a holiday in either Bali, Holland, Taiwan or Japan
I wish. Furthest I went was to Singapore with JH

Learn how to speak in Mandarin
*&^%$#@!

Spend less on candies
Did very well. Yay!!

Spend less on cosmetics (skincare not included)
Towards of the year I made it up for all the impulse buying at the beginning. Yay yay!

Stop cursing when driving
I no longer curse except at people who deserve to get cursed at. *puffs out chest*

Write 10 chapters of Deja Vu
I was lucky to finish 2 chapters. Sheesh. 10 chapters? What was I thinking when I wrote that?

New year, new resolutions. Lets see what I even accomplished in last year's.
Out of the eight, I managed a grand total of three. Pathetic. I had 365 days and still. Oh well, at least I tried. A little by little then. Rome wasn't built in a day nor was Gurney Plaza. I've always envisioned myself living till I'm mid 70's so I keep reminding myself, I still got a long way to go and not sweat over the little stuffs.

Saw Shop N' Chomp's new year resolutions and it made me a little ashamed to even start mine. Her New Year Resolution was simple - Be happy. So I'm going to continue on with my list but add this to my list as well and if I manage to do just that, my list is in a way complete :D

2010 Resolution

Donate money to SPCA and to the hungry

Pick up a new language!

Spend less on candies

Spend less on cosmetics

Go for a holiday far from home

Do more writings

Keep in touch with people I love

Restart my Dream Home Project

Be happy