4 days to the start of school :( but i am no longer the student.
doo and i went to sentosa on wed :D and had lunch @ subway & coastes (whee i like their cripsy thin authentically oven-baked pizza!)~~ i tried my hand at golf for the very first time and as usual we went on the luge. what's new was images of singapore (an attraction i always never liked the idea of because of wax figurines which scare me).
golf was surprisingly fun because i was kinda bad at it (thank God for beginner's luck!) haha. nevertheless, i'd definitely go back again.. but climbing up and down the stairs to get to the place and out of it made us fatsos tired X_X still, i must admit it is GOOD EXERCISE! one thing sad about the place was that it wasn't exactly what one'd call well-maintained. the waterfall wasn't working, and there were dried leaves on the ground. in fact, at first sight, doo and i thought the place was deserted and closed! i guess it may be as such because it's one of the less-moneymaking attractions or something like that =/ it is such a pity though, because upon looking at its "ruins", i imagined what the place was like when it first opened, when everything was new and in full function, and of course, splendour.
anyway, doo felt really hawt after golf so he desperately wanted airconditioning. he suggested the carlsberg rotating sky tower thing but i felt it was just a tourist thing cos i'd rather go on the hippo for 30mins than that air-con thing for 10. and i actually never realised he was that desperate for aircon until he suggested going into the images of singapore building, which honestly freaks me out. well, the tour started out fun. first we were led into this room where it looked like a british HQ for a sailing company or something of that sort :X i wanted to take a pic of me pretending to write into a vintage colonial record book kinda thing using a feathered pen but time ran out (yes there was a timer) and when the door opened, ooh there was a stage. that "theatre" was pretty cool cos it was designed like a warehouse (with gunny sacks at the top which i really think were stuffed with cotton!) and i suppose we were the coolies~ haha. just kidding - the aircon was nice and cold though, so there you have it - coolies enjoying the coolness~ well, after a 5min presentation about how the ancestors of today's s'poreans came about, we were led to their wax area. it was okay at the start but as soon as i realised the wax figures could move and blink, i started to get paranoid. before i walked past a soldier in a jungle i'd cover my eyes so i wouldn't have to see anything i didn't want to.. and before i even agreed to walk past him i asked doodoo if there'd be shooting sounds and movement from his arm and gun. :X i cannot imagine how people can hug wax figures X_X!!!
hmm. and i just wanna say i like sitting at coastes and looking at the beach (but that'd make it more difficult for me to admire the authentic oven they have!). maybe one day i'll try sitting at those cushioned beach chairs but i can't help but think about how dirty they could possibly be with the sweat and god knows what of others :X (direct skin contact from them mind you! since most of 'em are clad only in bikinis?). it was quite frustrating to wait for 1/2hour for our food though, to see an hawaiian pizza go into the oven and to see it being given away right in front of your own very eyes, because they served the angmohs first even though they ordered later than us. we didn't say anything about it but the guilty waitress apologised for the LONG wait (i never got the mayo i asked for so i take it as that she's being human and has simply plain forgotten about it, i should understand since i'm infamous for being absentminded). i was initially rather calm about everything, the 1/2hour wait seemed nothing to me because i was in the company of doodoo, but doodoo seemed to mind because i guess he saw the point that its not about how long we wait for the food, but its about principles and the unfairness of the entire situation (esp since i was famished). now that i finally see what he was mad about do i realise once again why i am like a chinese blonde. (s'porean chinese version of a blonde). some points just miss my head.
i think people should get some stuff into their head. some stuff like: "racism isn't just about putting down other races, but its also about favouring some others and thus putting down your own", not that i'm saying we should only favour our own but when things like this happen it just proves to me again that equality is bullcrap in this situation. instead of using favouring i could've used bootlicking but 'nuff about that - i just hope it its the first and last time this happens. speaking of happenings, a major one shocked doodoo :X i was seen eating lettuce for the first time in the 5.5 years that we've know each other. :X actually i am surprised that i actually like it. i must've learnt to eat caesar salad and perhaps the crispy thin pizza when i didn't have a choice but to do so when i made my first visit to coastes with my aunt and cousin :X see what having company does to a person (nothing bad in this case actually~ LOL)!
all in alll, i guess things with golf and images of s'pore weren't as bad as i imagined after all :X its kinda coolie-cool to check out 1-2 new attractions each time we visit the island, and we might as well do since we've signed up for the islander membership. and yay! i really like my hawaiian crispy thin pizza :X its like a biscuit that's coated on the surface with ketchup, fresh pineapples and ham! (i don't know why i remember disliking pizza hut's version though).
bee at 10:42 AM
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well, after we did what we had to do, we went to bugis to collect the earpiece which absent-minded me left behind at my previous visit to Polished Divas. then we walked around looking for this wire-twisted thing which can be made into a bracelet, necklace etc with your name on it as jiahui needed a present i think. well looks like it was gone with the wind and so we quickly moved on to far east plaza to do our nails. it was jiahui's first time with a pedicure.. and she asked me which colour i thought she should choose. i selected 2 which were almost the same, and told her i loved the shade and have always wanted to try it out. it is the dark hot-pink + red combi kinda shade which i thought i would've gotten at polished divas but alas! i got cheated by the dark ambience of the place into thinking that was what i was getting but noo.. i got a shock when i stepped out of the place into some light with that horribly unforgettable i-don't-wanna-look-at-my-toenails purplish-pink fuschia instead. eeks. i can't help but repeat this again. the colour bugs me everytime i look at my toes and i wouldn't if i could. anyway, jiahui decided to try out the colour which i always wanted and OMG it was gorgeous on her! muahahaha. how pleasing to the eye :)
and then, the 2 of us hungry girlies went for lunch at MOS burger. OMGOMGOMGOMG it was soooo packed and just when we were leaving for macs where we were hoping would be less crowded, an auntie who works at mos actually stopped us and said she'll find us a seat! she walked around the place full of determination but we knew there seriously wasn't any, so we turned around to walk out again.. and just when we took our first few steps, someone tapped us on the back and to our amazement, it was the auntie, who had secured 2 seats for us. ooh we were so grateful and somewhat speechless haha~
after lunch, we needed the ladies so i suggested Wheelock Place. while we were there, Jiahui was tempted to try her luck at a tikam tikam machine for a banana handphone dangle while I was tempted to visit substance, to which she obliged! YAY. there i spotted a pair of cream leather loafers which ARGH - was sold out in my size~ but the sales assistant said their branch at OUB plaza had it in a size larger (MY SIZE!) so i had to go down to try it out. jiahui liked it too but their smallest size was a 35 and was too big for her. before we headed over, we remembered that jiahui needs to have her belt changed and so we trotted back to far east like a horse (just kidding). she also had to go home asap to pack her room because her cousins were coming from m'sia for a stayover.. but after a while she decided she'd like to make a quick trip down to substance's other branch with mee (which i felt was worth it).
at substance @ raffles.. i was initially upset over the fact that i could fit into the shoes but they hurt as i walked (which meant they were a little too painfully small) but then the lady said they still have it in one size larger! HOW COOL WAS THAT? this is the first time in my entire period of patronizing substance that they actually have a size that's bigger than the largest size which they usually carry! HOORAY~ this means, i didn't have to struggle with those tiny shoes and be upset about not being able to buy them for that particular design i wanted! they fit well and were comfortably cushioned: <3<3<3! Jiahui decided to try on the 35's because extra insoles were provided and voila~ they fit better with those! =D I had to tell Jiahui what i felt about the shoes. I felt they were Perfect shoes for playing golf (but i don't) or looking like i play golf (though golf shoes aren't like that). I also felt they looked like casual yet rich shoes and she thought they looked sporty. well, they have the usual loafers front but the front's more shallow than the usual ones, and the back looks more like the plain ballet bumps kind so i'd say it looks girlier than the usual auntie-like loafers HAHA. :D ooh i'm so happy with the buy that i tried it on a couple of times at home! (remove from box, try on and keep it back in - repeat the cycle 100000 times).
we were also given a free express pedicure within the premises of substance (cool black interior with space for doing nails which followed the same colour scheme) which no matter how hard i tried to get jiahui to go for it, she wouldn't. so just after putting on My Private Jet yesterday, i already have another appointment for a change in colour, which i appreciate actually :D! and hmm i discovered that my private jet only looks good when worn on my fingernails.
soon enough, night fell upon the earth where the land is scarce (Singapore) and it was DINNERTIME! doo and i made our way to the sea sports club where our last visit was sth like hmm.. 1234567 years ago. the cab ride there reached a crazy $27.80 and the cab back was $24? what a MAD all time high in all of Singapore history! =/ well anyway doo's right - how often do we go there anyway? and besides, though i didn't say a word about the place, i felt happy that while seated in the shelter of a hut, we were close to palm trees, sea and sand (and the sound of planes flying by).
then came today~~ CHRISTMMAS DAY~~ mom had a lunch at our place for our relatives + the significant other halves of kor and mee. doodoo was "in charge" of slicing a hefty amount of the turkey and ham because he did it well, and so it is something i think he is proud of :P apart from being able to solve the rubik's cube. o.o he taught me a trick to make it look like i can solve it too. HAHA but the only prob being that i have to mess up the thing myself. -_-! stiill, it can look convincing to someone who doesn't know a thing about it yea? *grins*~
bee at 5:34 PM
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oh and by coincidence, i met a secondary school classmate yesterday. OMG i mistook her for someone my teacher's age like in her mid-twenties but realised i didn't know anyone that age~ anyway i soon recognised and recalled who she really was.. and surprisingly, she knew that she knows me too haha. well, she's still as pretty as before so i felt there wasn't a need for her to cake her face with make-up, but i guess that's something people naturally put on when they're 20. and she also asked me a question which i felt for a moment, rather awkward to answer in the presence of Ailay but i looked at Ailay and brushed my stupid awkwardness aside because we're close friends and so i turned back to my friend and decided to answer "yes" to her question of wanting to affirm that she was a lesbian when we were in secondary school. the next line that came up blatantly told me that she has a boyfriend now. i didn't know what to say, so i gave my infamous, as good as keeping silent "Oh Okay", because i totally got what she meant.
which makes me wonder. if it is alright to simply stay true to one's own conscience and it's fine as long as the individual knows her own, which in this case is about knowing that one has moved on, why is there a need for some peeps to announce it to the world that they are wayy over the past?
i suppose being in society is just like being in a court (i'm not saying we're like criminals though, though i bet we all like to seek some sort of validation). just that society obviously always has more than 1 judge which some feel there's a need to convince through whatever means.
bee at 8:55 AM
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the sun is bright, with no hint of dark grey clouds, and the cool breeze greets my poor, irritated, pimpled face and washes it for me :X
it really dawned upon me that the installation art i saw some time ago at the underpass which connects citylink to the esplanade was so, so true. not that i never believed what it was trying to prove (about people withering away like plants when kept within just 4 stupid walls), but this time, i experienced it myself. the morning's great because its early. i do get up early every other day to head to work, but more often than not i am clouded in my own worries which makes me so stressed about facing the day that i've forgotten what being with what the morning brings is like. sure, its not like i loved going to school at just before 7am, but at least it was nothing like looking back and appreciating the simple, refreshing moment of the cool 6am+ air for once, maybe because it was such a daily affair then that there wasn't really a need to see what i really had (at that point it was just "oh gawd, its mass run day today. please rain".
but today, i imagine the dew on the grass evaporating and as it goes up into the sky, the bee who is on the 11th storey gets its perfection.
as i thought about all of these while making my way back to my own room, i realised that act of breathing in the fresh morning air (which my parents like to do too i think) actually put me in a mood of donning my white miss selfridge summer getaway super duper ultra floaty dress just for the fun of swishing the skirt around. which reminds me, i have been buying loads of dresses i don't need and most of them happen to be white - white tube dresses, white spag dresses and a white base dress with boaty woaty prints and ribbon ties~~~ perhaps the blacks and the greys of the so-called winter have sickened me and i am seeking the blooming spring while trying to get rid of my useless and nasty winter purchases =/ (not cos i want to erase the fact that winter came, but it's more of cleaning out for the coming spring).
ugh, and did i mention i felt so horribly naked in the MRT train like 2-3 weeks ago when i was wearing a dress by itself because the whole world was dressed up in their full length leggings or covered-toe tights (which actually is pantyhose) and long-sleeved stuff inclusive of cardigans when it wasn't even cold? it seriously amazes me when people dress like that because the weather really is getting cold now, but that wasn't exactly the case 2-3 weeks ago, so does that mean we should be covered in fur for the xmas season? -_- actually, for all i know, they could just be fashion victims who are actually feeling all hot and heaty in their cover-all outfits and whose armpits are secretly but desperately sweating in protest, all away from our eyes. haha ok i'm just kiddin' :X~
anyway, back to where i initially was, maybe i really should open my windows every day until the last day before work begins (because work days are work days) and enjoy what i really can before the nightmare starts again.
i'm not even sure if i should say this, but oh bother.
bee at 7:56 AM
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OMG they got a handsome guy to play the role of Holly's husband (not my type.. but still!).. why did they have to pick a good-looking guy to die? (i suppose so we'll all go aww..). -_- anyway, knowing that the movie's coming out brings me back to the times when i'd control my tears on the bus while reading the book, and crying like crazy at home without being able to resume my reading until i'd stopped crying. and crap, i miss sher, jane and cheryl~ we haven't met up at all this hols and guess what? i have like 1 week +++ left for the school hols (ONLY!!!). boo. hoo. hoo.
i used to think i shopped wayy too much online.. until i came across someone else's blog and i realised wow she really buys loads of stuff. some of them can be found at far east :X but ah well, now i feel comforted by the fact that.. i'm not exactly a megashopper. or maybe i am - by my own standards. i think though, that sometimes its not about quantity, but about quality and taste. :X I came across this quote by Dame Edith Sitwell which i feel may sometimes be applied to certain situations: "Good taste is the worst vice ever invented", but it all depends on how you look at it. If you have good taste, envy may trail you.. but if good taste happens to come with a hefty price tag, then...
it's 5 days to christmas XD! and.. shame on me i've been buying presents for myself with my bonus and treating myself to a meal with Ailay at kuishin-bo tomorrow! HAHA :X trust me. its just the festive mood. furthermore all presents are already ready, except for ah doo's :X
bee at 8:53 AM
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we had din tai fung :X and while i was trying to eat, she told me about how her bf suddenly lifted her up into the air with what he called the Fireman's Lift. boy did she scream in shock and in pain. pain because, the way you would lift a person is by putting your arm around the groin area. pretty secure i guess haha :X and the poor dearie had 6 bruises on her upper arm as they were playing with each other and while her bf only used 10% of his strength during playtime, it probably was a full blow to her arm. i guess this is what happens when your bf becomes a firefighter while serving his national service. he becomes stronger, and the otherwise doesn't-seem-to-put-on-weight fella becomes a put-on-5kg-worth-of-muscles person who has no problems with lifting up waterhoses, mannequins (during practice) and of course, the girlfriend. as i laughed my heart out and my stomach in, it resulted in a tummyache :X i also had to ensure that i do not by accident or whatsoever squeeze the xiao long bao that i was holding with a pair of chopsticks LOL. she made me laugh and laugh when her xlb broke and all the soup came out. i wasn't laughing at that really, i was actually tickled by the way she managed the situation. she frantically tried to scoop the soup which spilled outta the xlb with her spoon and chopsticks without realising that by leaving the xlb on its own instead of putting it into her mouth, more soup from the xlb was slowly leaving its skin. i was laughing too hard to even tell her that :X
i also bought a pair of tights today.. the 40 denier ones that i wanted, with just the right amount of sheerness/opaqueness :P i am happy with them.. but pretty unsure about the rest of the stuff i bought. one of which was a long cotton black tee which had a ribbon which looked like it was made of rags. its too short to be worn as a dress so i wonder if it's a waste of $, and i bought it because i was desperate for work clothes. the fact that it's plain wasn't so much of an issue at that point, i liked the fit (it was perfectly made for mee) and the fact that it was long so i didn't have to worry about showing my butt crack with low-rise jeans. :X well its $23.90 but it looked like it only cost $15.00. crap ;( then there's the other purchase of a bracelet which i thought looked perfect as a hairtie and isn't too loose. i was to preoccupied with the loose issue that it never hit me that it was too heavy to be a hair tie until i got home and tried it on. the good thing is i could always use it as a layering sorta bracelet. =/ but still, i need to be on the lookout for a pretty, classy, black hair tie.
what i really wanted was THE pair of $39.90 - 10% heels in pink :( but they simply looked weird from the back though they were totally pretty and sweet and everything nice when viewed from the front and side. what a pity :( it was such a comfy pair which i was reluctant to let go of, but i knew that if i wasn't happy with just 1 thing that i know i cannot live with, i would never ever wear it - especially not if it'd make me feel insecure.
ailay and i met this old busker on the street who asked if we could spare him a dollar, which each of us did. then he proceeded to wish us good health and thank us several times. how nice of him, but at that time we certainly didn't expect any of those wishes so we simply nodded and continued our walk to taka.
i'm looking forward to meeting ailay next week for a good buffet =D what more can i say~ YAY!~!~!~
bee at 6:31 PM
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anyway, i shared with her about my spotting fake LV and how to spot fake LV adventures, which of course was shared with me by doodoo~ :X! as in.. doo and i exchanged a tip each on how to spot the fake LV haha.. which was passed on to reb by me.. haha! i think she enjoyed the info very much :X she said it was enlightening o_O! and her LV bag which was seated beside her was scrutinised for a brief moment to see if the info was indeed accurate/true or not. :X! as we went a lil deeper into carrying the fake and the real, she said that as long as one's conscience is clear (clear = its the auth, legitimate piece), it doesn't matter whether or not others thought or knew if it was real or fake. by legitimate i mean like the made in paris kind, not the made in a child-slavery house kind. we then talked about the usual stuff like work and school as well (both of which i wish i could take off my mind~~ but knowing that i am procrastinating doesn't help right?)~ and of course, i had to tell her more about the waraku jap pasta restaurant! yummy wafu sauce and spaghetti with the right amount of chewiness so you feel the oomph in every bite! i felt so bad & apologetic for yakking on and on (more than usual i think)~ it seemed as though it was a talkative Abby that day.
well then, on the other hand, amongst the other things we had in our conversations, reb shared with me about her irkful brush with a busker who was really, quite rude and almost shockingly rude~ (but listening to the experience was nonetheless entertaining) and then, later on in the afternoon reb brought me to THAT CD SHOP at pacific plaza and ooh~ she got for terrence a high society CD which comes in a sateeeeeeeen bag with the words high society embroidered in gold. someone else there was testing out the Chinese-Shanghai jazz CD from that collection and my oh my, it sounded lovely~ and for that, i have to thank her for that introductory trip of discovery!
we also went to MNG.. she had to walk in for the VIP sale because she didn't want to miss out! and lucky her.. she found a pair of super pretty pink shorts in the first branch of mango we went to (in about the same colour as my nails but i hate it when its on my nails). i didn't get it cos somehow or rather i don't look good in "longer" shorts. probably cos they make my legs look shorter.. so i'm afraid hot pants are the way to go HAHA :X~ well, what i got instead was a notebook of patent feel from the 2nd branch we visited. it looked like PVC with some cracked, textured matte foil underneath it. very pretty indeed - the kinda thing that looks fab to whip outta your bag, which both reb and i agreed, but i don't exactly see it as a need at this point in time~ so even though i bought it, i don't exactly know if i should keep it. anyway, reb thought it was funny that we went into that 2nd MNG to get a notebook after all that looking at a pair of shorts and a top which she tried on :X well i guess it is after all a clothing store~ and perhaps that's why even a notebook looks so wearable. it's a pity though, that most of their clothes really aren't (their umbrellas too. cute umbrella hook but ah ma design X_X. how disappointing). i guess when u're disappointed just by displays alone too often, soon enough, you wouldn't even bother stepping foot into the store (not that mango was ever close to a fave of mine, zara was always far better imo).
after we left each other, i walked into tangs to look for some lippie gloss (and bumped into funai while waiting for the bus home!). anyway, unfortunately no chanel or clinique could match up to what i was looking for~ i want the dior plastic lip gloss for plastic, vinyl-covered-like lips! and i finally found it online at a cosmetics site. a hefty price to pay considering 5-10% of the reviews i've read about it were pretty bad (like teeth staining, lips cracking?!) but i simply cannot resist the look of it. i need to try it on. besides, the other 90% of reviews were raves so i guess the whole issue of cosmetics and any kind of beauty product, treatment or whatsoever is seriously individualistic. the colour i got was impulsive rose, and it was a tie between that and capricious pink X_X! i spent last evening deciding on the shade. LOL.
i'm going off to see the skin specialist now, as well as meetup with Ailay ^^!~ everything's at orchard once again so i hope that we can move on to some other shopping area of Singapore. if only i knew the way to haji lane, then i could show her the quirky vintage-inspired stuff there haha~! but knowing myself, i'm absolutely terrible at directions - that's why i haven't taken my driving license (though there's actually the other reason which is poor spatial awareness, which i feel is crucial for parallel parking!).
bee at 9:44 AM
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smartie me decided to look at the nail colours under their bright orange table lamps, because every other time i did my nails there, the colours always turned out to be much brighter when i stepped out of the nail lounge (which is rather shocking).
well it turned out to be a nasty decision. cos after i stepped out, my nails seemed horridly darker than what they looked like under the light. the hot red-darkpink i expected turned out to be some fugly fuschia-purple (as cheapo-looking and yucky as china pink) and so now i don't want to look at my toes because they make me mad. ugh i already have half the heart to wipe the colour all off with the polish remover, but i cannot decide which one is worse: having some fugly colour on, or having plain fugly nails on.
my fingernails appeared a shade darker from what i had expected them to be, but the colour's still bearable. my only peeve is that they were cut and filed square (oh why oh why did i have them done that way again!?), which makes them look short and thus makes my fingers look short -.- all the growing over the past few weeks were thus for nothing. if i'm going to do them again the next time i do my toes, i'll make sure they're ROUND. but then again, i am seriously convinced about 1 thing: pedicures are my thing, but not manicures. they look fab of course, but i only like them to be on for a day and nothing more. i think they look polished (duh!) with paint on, but i think they look naturally great when they're long and without it too (especially when i have short, square fingernails now -.-).
to some extent we'll never be happy with what we have. but i am extremely happy with the way my fingernails were before i had them painted -.- and if they were roundedly shaped before painting :( i just can't help but wonder and try out to see why people liked short, square fingernails (other than for the fact that they look neat, but then what's the point of doing a manicure then? to have neat nails which you can have even if you don't get 'em painted?). i think squares'd look great if u're using acrylic fakies or if you grow them out REALLY LONG. and i would've been happy of course if the colour for my toes didn't horrifying turn out to be the sort of pink i hate. i think i want to coop myself up in a darker room. cos then the toenails'll look reddish, which is a colour that i am more than used to seeing on them.
i finally understand why i thought the pink looked great on the shelf (because that was a dark area) and why it looked great under intense light (cos it was so bright the dullness and cheaponess was taken away). i cannot trust nail polishes based on their looks in that nail parlour anymore. i'm afraid i'll have to know the colours i want by name from now on!
i want my private jet NOW!
bee at 2:09 AM
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she replied in perfect english, with all the capital letters at the start of the sentence as well as the fullstops at the end (the exact way in which we all type our assignments, and usually only for our assignments LOL). i on the other hand, simply wrote like the way i am doing so now. entirely in small letters, and with chat-like features such as "LOLs" and "~~~" and God knows what else. thankfully my english wasn't broken! ahha~ that was the only bit that saved my email.
well perhaps i ought to just take it as that i didn't want it to be too formal in the first place. :X!
bee at 3:31 AM
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anyway, just a few nasty things i needed to mention.
car bag alert: patent ones spotted locally in various sizes going for cheaps! the small ones are pretty cute :) *and the salesgirl at the shop kept staring at my silver one :( i seriously hope they're NAWT going to bring that colour in too. well, my only consolation on this matter is that i don't have to live with mina0168 on my car number plate.
and next, the bite mark which a child i taught for 20 weeks left me with has become a scar. (why did he have to bite me for the first time ever only on the last day of school?) i need skin lightening please.
there's work tomorrow (which also happens to be a Monday) so i'm feeling moody and blue (after rushing out some ed. plans as well). plus doo had duty in camp today since he's going on a full 2-weeks long leave in just a week's time :X another piece of good news tho is that i won't have to go back to work at all for the next 16 days after tomorrow :)
bee at 12:00 AM
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anyway, doo and i had dinner at billy's after that. it was the first time i went into the other section of their marina square branch.. and it was pretty nice i must say. i love their glittery vinyl chairs!! :) and for the first time i ordered their fish and chips and the portion was simply HUGEEEEEEE~! i just stared and it and wondered how i was ever going to finish it. plus we ordered onion rings as well~ thankfully doodoo was there to help heh ;) whee~ satisfying meal :)
then after that we headed to miss selfridge because i am addicted to their accessories. i saw a pair of black earrings which were the EXACT same ones i saw at f21 except that f21's version was in gold. anyway, i described the black earrings were so hair-like that if i wore 'em, people would probably think i had 6cm hair growing on my ears! and to my delight! i found the matching cuff bracelet of the absolutely gorgeous ring which i purchased from them a couple of weeks ago~! WHEE. i just had to get it.. and i didn't know until it was time to make the payment at the counter that they were having a 15% sale as it was the Saturday late night shopping day/night.. so SURPRISE! we saved $5.40 haha. it came to me wrapped up in a pretty gold organza bag with a satin ribbon drawstring so i said i didn't need a plastic bag :X why didn't the gorgeous rings and bracelet i purchased previously come with these pretty bags too!? still, yay!!!~ SATISFYING PURCHASE. haha :X
doo and i went to MPH and creative as well.. he bought a book and a pair of earphones. i just can't understand why people need mp3 players (doo's was given to him as a bday pressie so no complains, and he had to get the earphones cos he can't bring his camera-mp3 phone into the army camp). i find if we all have stuff like an mp3 player, a PSP/nintendo DS lite.. our handphone.. digital camera. etc. etc.. there's just so many gadgets in anyone's bags! in fact its going to be like an OVERLOAD of gadgets! maybe to some nothing can ever be considered as an overload, but to me.. it is - especially when you can get 2 in 1 stuff. like having a handphone which doubles up as an mp3 player (i really love this idea so i absolutely don't see a point in having a separate mp3 player), and a digital camera (if you have one that's good enough for some days, like the sony ericsson 5mp one!!!!). well of course if i have a great outing right in front of me, then a real digital camera would be the best choice.. but for any other day, i honestly wouldn't mind just using the camera from my phone. =) its more convenient that way :P
and do people really need their portable gaming stations when they know they're going to go out with friends? yes if they'll be travelling alone on the way home and cannot bear the loneliness (Which everyone's been experiencing since they started taking public transport home alone until technology caught up with our trains and buses anyway - though i know nobody wants to go back to those times). but for other times when friends are there, and TV mobile is around.. maybe we don't exactly need those all the time. i think busrides are pretty good for mindless thinking. i sometimes drift off to thinking about really important stuff, but the next thing i know it, its forgotten, which is almost about as pointless as gaming haha :X OMG i can't believe i'm saying this - i used to be a gaming addict. maybe i'll go back to those gaming days when RO2SEA comes out :X!
ooh i'm due for a pedi next week :) it feels great to be able to change colours once every 2 weeks (which means i get to change colours 3 times!). YAY.. indulge. indulge! all to make up for the pedicure-less 21 weeks before! :D:D:D! i actually bought a bottle of OPI My Private Jet for its magnificence! (which makes you indecisive when it comes to justifying what colour it is exactly, especially under different lights~). i bought it because not all nail places have that colour so whenever i feel like i want it on mee i'll just pass the bottle over to the manicurist :X
one more week till the start of doo's leave :X 3 more weeks to the start of school! X_X!!! and one of my dear, dear colleagues resigned! :( it is so saddening because i enjoyed chatting with her so much (at work) and we keep bumping into each other by coincidence when we're out shopping in town hAHA. argh :( and of all times, it has to be when i'm moving back to the branch where she's at.
bee at 7:43 AM
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anyway, i tried asian kitchen for the first time~ and whee~ banana in coconut milk :) me like!
we also went to topshop and stuff.. (f21 is so boring btw) and reb tried on this fabfabfabfabfabfabfab black dress which had such a tailored fit! it was SUCH A PITY it was so hard to zipup :( well anyway, i also spotted a pair of pumps with the chain detail at the front.. just like the ones i purchased at far east with Ailay. except that the topshop version has 3 skinny chains while mine has 2 fatter ones. =D
hmm. it seems i've been writing down almost every single detail of my outings with friends. guess i don't want to live and forget all the itty bitty details of having fun at 20 :X i can't help but wonder if growing older would make me less excited about getting a pair of shoes.. and so on.. so here's some documentation when i can still afford the time to write it down.
bee at 7:28 AM
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ahh anyway, i have way too mani shoes now that i scare doodoo with my collection. its a collection that's like the car bags one.. because it just keeps getting bigger :X
went shopping with Ailay yesterday, and wheehee! i bought nothing else but another pair of shoes again :X this time its a pair of black suedish pumps (SO SOFT) with 2 gold large chain-like hoops in front. i have so many shoes that i don't wear, so doo asked me why i keep buying them and when am i ever going to put them to good use. i said perhaps when we go on the cruise :X i'll have a pair of shoes for each of my outfits haha! he says i don't need to bring any clothes. my luggage'll just contain shoes and shoes and just shoes. ahh and Ailay and i went to substance :X (the shop where i have to get something everytime i go there, but its not because i have to, its just that i do. it comes so naturally). we saw a pair of sky high lace heels in pink, it looked so party but without the wild side of it. it was laced through with ribbons as well. OMG that was so nice. but guess what? the store was closed. maybe the sales assistant went for a break or something =/ and Ailay had to go already so we didn't manage to try on the shoes. i'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing :P anyway, Ailay bought a skirt.. and so we each got something HAHA.
then i went back home, and to my dismay, the stuff i ordered hasn't arrived :( it makes me worry when i opt for normal mail and things take longer than usual to arrive. but i believe its much faster than reg mail cos if nobody's home to receive the parcel, i'll have to make my way down to the not-so-nearest post office to claim it ONLY the next working day.
i'll be meeting Reb today at vivo. nothing much to shop for in my opinion. just the usual la senza, f21, topshop, and of course, just some place to sit down, have lunch, and chat half the time away! :)
and for some reason, i just got reminded about jiahui's gorgeous black patent lace-up ankle boots. to her horror, the heel broke and she's only worn it like.. ONCE? it cost $70 and now she has to change it for something else. which, imo, i would have loved to opt for a refund instead if the store would allow it because if i cannot find anything else that i like in the store and i'm forced to take stuff for the sake of doing so (well actually cost there's no choice), it wouldn't make me any happier than i already am. that's not exactly the main reason. the main reason is, i would not be able to stand the humiliation of a heel breaking. :X or at least i think so! *pessimism at work* now i finally know how much the truth hurts when Ailay's sandal strap snapped on her. i bet these things happen to loads of people, and nobody has really made a big fuss about it (i get my sandals or slippers getting thrown off my feet when i'm in the middle of crossing the road). so maybe its just something we live with. but still.. that moment of a heel breaking is NOT supposed to happen! what if she was caught by surprise and suddenly you find one side of your body feels shorter than the other?
aniwae, doo and i watched high sch musical 2 last weekend. its a show i can't imagine the 3year old i teach watching =/ so much of scheming etc. X_X!
and my face has broken out with more deep acne T_T! but i don't have a choice cos that's what the medication is expected to do for me during the 1st 2 months. Ailay and i were discussing the side effects of the medicine, and both of us agreed dryness of everywhere (lips, eyes, arms, legs chin etc..!) was the main issue/side effect. she said her doctor warned her about hurting the liver as one of the side effects, though it has never happened before. while on my side, the "guidebook" to the med states mood swings as the most serious kind of side effect. LOL. we ended up scaring ourselves while shopping yesterday!
ahh. so much joy and fun~ i can't wait to meet her again next week!
bee at 8:36 PM
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golf was surprisingly fun because i was kinda bad at it (thank God for beginner's luck!) haha. nevertheless, i'd definitely go back again.. but climbing up and down the stairs to get to the place and out of it made us fatsos tired X_X still, i must admit it is GOOD EXERCISE! one thing sad about the place was that it wasn't exactly what one'd call well-maintained. the waterfall wasn't working, and there were dried leaves on the ground. in fact, at first sight, doo and i thought the place was deserted and closed! i guess it may be as such because it's one of the less-moneymaking attractions or something like that =/ it is such a pity though, because upon looking at its "ruins", i imagined what the place was like when it first opened, when everything was new and in full function, and of course, splendour.
anyway, doo felt really hawt after golf so he desperately wanted airconditioning. he suggested the carlsberg rotating sky tower thing but i felt it was just a tourist thing cos i'd rather go on the hippo for 30mins than that air-con thing for 10. and i actually never realised he was that desperate for aircon until he suggested going into the images of singapore building, which honestly freaks me out. well, the tour started out fun. first we were led into this room where it looked like a british HQ for a sailing company or something of that sort :X i wanted to take a pic of me pretending to write into a vintage colonial record book kinda thing using a feathered pen but time ran out (yes there was a timer) and when the door opened, ooh there was a stage. that "theatre" was pretty cool cos it was designed like a warehouse (with gunny sacks at the top which i really think were stuffed with cotton!) and i suppose we were the coolies~ haha. just kidding - the aircon was nice and cold though, so there you have it - coolies enjoying the coolness~ well, after a 5min presentation about how the ancestors of today's s'poreans came about, we were led to their wax area. it was okay at the start but as soon as i realised the wax figures could move and blink, i started to get paranoid. before i walked past a soldier in a jungle i'd cover my eyes so i wouldn't have to see anything i didn't want to.. and before i even agreed to walk past him i asked doodoo if there'd be shooting sounds and movement from his arm and gun. :X i cannot imagine how people can hug wax figures X_X!!!
hmm. and i just wanna say i like sitting at coastes and looking at the beach (but that'd make it more difficult for me to admire the authentic oven they have!). maybe one day i'll try sitting at those cushioned beach chairs but i can't help but think about how dirty they could possibly be with the sweat and god knows what of others :X (direct skin contact from them mind you! since most of 'em are clad only in bikinis?). it was quite frustrating to wait for 1/2hour for our food though, to see an hawaiian pizza go into the oven and to see it being given away right in front of your own very eyes, because they served the angmohs first even though they ordered later than us. we didn't say anything about it but the guilty waitress apologised for the LONG wait (i never got the mayo i asked for so i take it as that she's being human and has simply plain forgotten about it, i should understand since i'm infamous for being absentminded). i was initially rather calm about everything, the 1/2hour wait seemed nothing to me because i was in the company of doodoo, but doodoo seemed to mind because i guess he saw the point that its not about how long we wait for the food, but its about principles and the unfairness of the entire situation (esp since i was famished). now that i finally see what he was mad about do i realise once again why i am like a chinese blonde. (s'porean chinese version of a blonde). some points just miss my head.
i think people should get some stuff into their head. some stuff like: "racism isn't just about putting down other races, but its also about favouring some others and thus putting down your own", not that i'm saying we should only favour our own but when things like this happen it just proves to me again that equality is bullcrap in this situation. instead of using favouring i could've used bootlicking but 'nuff about that - i just hope it its the first and last time this happens. speaking of happenings, a major one shocked doodoo :X i was seen eating lettuce for the first time in the 5.5 years that we've know each other. :X actually i am surprised that i actually like it. i must've learnt to eat caesar salad and perhaps the crispy thin pizza when i didn't have a choice but to do so when i made my first visit to coastes with my aunt and cousin :X see what having company does to a person (nothing bad in this case actually~ LOL)!
all in alll, i guess things with golf and images of s'pore weren't as bad as i imagined after all :X its kinda coolie-cool to check out 1-2 new attractions each time we visit the island, and we might as well do since we've signed up for the islander membership. and yay! i really like my hawaiian crispy thin pizza :X its like a biscuit that's coated on the surface with ketchup, fresh pineapples and ham! (i don't know why i remember disliking pizza hut's version though).
bee at 10:42 AM
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well, after we did what we had to do, we went to bugis to collect the earpiece which absent-minded me left behind at my previous visit to Polished Divas. then we walked around looking for this wire-twisted thing which can be made into a bracelet, necklace etc with your name on it as jiahui needed a present i think. well looks like it was gone with the wind and so we quickly moved on to far east plaza to do our nails. it was jiahui's first time with a pedicure.. and she asked me which colour i thought she should choose. i selected 2 which were almost the same, and told her i loved the shade and have always wanted to try it out. it is the dark hot-pink + red combi kinda shade which i thought i would've gotten at polished divas but alas! i got cheated by the dark ambience of the place into thinking that was what i was getting but noo.. i got a shock when i stepped out of the place into some light with that horribly unforgettable i-don't-wanna-look-at-my-toenails purplish-pink fuschia instead. eeks. i can't help but repeat this again. the colour bugs me everytime i look at my toes and i wouldn't if i could. anyway, jiahui decided to try out the colour which i always wanted and OMG it was gorgeous on her! muahahaha. how pleasing to the eye :)
and then, the 2 of us hungry girlies went for lunch at MOS burger. OMGOMGOMGOMG it was soooo packed and just when we were leaving for macs where we were hoping would be less crowded, an auntie who works at mos actually stopped us and said she'll find us a seat! she walked around the place full of determination but we knew there seriously wasn't any, so we turned around to walk out again.. and just when we took our first few steps, someone tapped us on the back and to our amazement, it was the auntie, who had secured 2 seats for us. ooh we were so grateful and somewhat speechless haha~
after lunch, we needed the ladies so i suggested Wheelock Place. while we were there, Jiahui was tempted to try her luck at a tikam tikam machine for a banana handphone dangle while I was tempted to visit substance, to which she obliged! YAY. there i spotted a pair of cream leather loafers which ARGH - was sold out in my size~ but the sales assistant said their branch at OUB plaza had it in a size larger (MY SIZE!) so i had to go down to try it out. jiahui liked it too but their smallest size was a 35 and was too big for her. before we headed over, we remembered that jiahui needs to have her belt changed and so we trotted back to far east like a horse (just kidding). she also had to go home asap to pack her room because her cousins were coming from m'sia for a stayover.. but after a while she decided she'd like to make a quick trip down to substance's other branch with mee (which i felt was worth it).
at substance @ raffles.. i was initially upset over the fact that i could fit into the shoes but they hurt as i walked (which meant they were a little too painfully small) but then the lady said they still have it in one size larger! HOW COOL WAS THAT? this is the first time in my entire period of patronizing substance that they actually have a size that's bigger than the largest size which they usually carry! HOORAY~ this means, i didn't have to struggle with those tiny shoes and be upset about not being able to buy them for that particular design i wanted! they fit well and were comfortably cushioned: <3<3<3! Jiahui decided to try on the 35's because extra insoles were provided and voila~ they fit better with those! =D I had to tell Jiahui what i felt about the shoes. I felt they were Perfect shoes for playing golf (but i don't) or looking like i play golf (though golf shoes aren't like that). I also felt they looked like casual yet rich shoes and she thought they looked sporty. well, they have the usual loafers front but the front's more shallow than the usual ones, and the back looks more like the plain ballet bumps kind so i'd say it looks girlier than the usual auntie-like loafers HAHA. :D ooh i'm so happy with the buy that i tried it on a couple of times at home! (remove from box, try on and keep it back in - repeat the cycle 100000 times).
we were also given a free express pedicure within the premises of substance (cool black interior with space for doing nails which followed the same colour scheme) which no matter how hard i tried to get jiahui to go for it, she wouldn't. so just after putting on My Private Jet yesterday, i already have another appointment for a change in colour, which i appreciate actually :D! and hmm i discovered that my private jet only looks good when worn on my fingernails.
soon enough, night fell upon the earth where the land is scarce (Singapore) and it was DINNERTIME! doo and i made our way to the sea sports club where our last visit was sth like hmm.. 1234567 years ago. the cab ride there reached a crazy $27.80 and the cab back was $24? what a MAD all time high in all of Singapore history! =/ well anyway doo's right - how often do we go there anyway? and besides, though i didn't say a word about the place, i felt happy that while seated in the shelter of a hut, we were close to palm trees, sea and sand (and the sound of planes flying by).
then came today~~ CHRISTMMAS DAY~~ mom had a lunch at our place for our relatives + the significant other halves of kor and mee. doodoo was "in charge" of slicing a hefty amount of the turkey and ham because he did it well, and so it is something i think he is proud of :P apart from being able to solve the rubik's cube. o.o he taught me a trick to make it look like i can solve it too. HAHA but the only prob being that i have to mess up the thing myself. -_-! stiill, it can look convincing to someone who doesn't know a thing about it yea? *grins*~
bee at 5:34 PM
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oh and by coincidence, i met a secondary school classmate yesterday. OMG i mistook her for someone my teacher's age like in her mid-twenties but realised i didn't know anyone that age~ anyway i soon recognised and recalled who she really was.. and surprisingly, she knew that she knows me too haha. well, she's still as pretty as before so i felt there wasn't a need for her to cake her face with make-up, but i guess that's something people naturally put on when they're 20. and she also asked me a question which i felt for a moment, rather awkward to answer in the presence of Ailay but i looked at Ailay and brushed my stupid awkwardness aside because we're close friends and so i turned back to my friend and decided to answer "yes" to her question of wanting to affirm that she was a lesbian when we were in secondary school. the next line that came up blatantly told me that she has a boyfriend now. i didn't know what to say, so i gave my infamous, as good as keeping silent "Oh Okay", because i totally got what she meant.
which makes me wonder. if it is alright to simply stay true to one's own conscience and it's fine as long as the individual knows her own, which in this case is about knowing that one has moved on, why is there a need for some peeps to announce it to the world that they are wayy over the past?
i suppose being in society is just like being in a court (i'm not saying we're like criminals though, though i bet we all like to seek some sort of validation). just that society obviously always has more than 1 judge which some feel there's a need to convince through whatever means.
bee at 8:55 AM
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the sun is bright, with no hint of dark grey clouds, and the cool breeze greets my poor, irritated, pimpled face and washes it for me :X
it really dawned upon me that the installation art i saw some time ago at the underpass which connects citylink to the esplanade was so, so true. not that i never believed what it was trying to prove (about people withering away like plants when kept within just 4 stupid walls), but this time, i experienced it myself. the morning's great because its early. i do get up early every other day to head to work, but more often than not i am clouded in my own worries which makes me so stressed about facing the day that i've forgotten what being with what the morning brings is like. sure, its not like i loved going to school at just before 7am, but at least it was nothing like looking back and appreciating the simple, refreshing moment of the cool 6am+ air for once, maybe because it was such a daily affair then that there wasn't really a need to see what i really had (at that point it was just "oh gawd, its mass run day today. please rain".
but today, i imagine the dew on the grass evaporating and as it goes up into the sky, the bee who is on the 11th storey gets its perfection.
as i thought about all of these while making my way back to my own room, i realised that act of breathing in the fresh morning air (which my parents like to do too i think) actually put me in a mood of donning my white miss selfridge summer getaway super duper ultra floaty dress just for the fun of swishing the skirt around. which reminds me, i have been buying loads of dresses i don't need and most of them happen to be white - white tube dresses, white spag dresses and a white base dress with boaty woaty prints and ribbon ties~~~ perhaps the blacks and the greys of the so-called winter have sickened me and i am seeking the blooming spring while trying to get rid of my useless and nasty winter purchases =/ (not cos i want to erase the fact that winter came, but it's more of cleaning out for the coming spring).
ugh, and did i mention i felt so horribly naked in the MRT train like 2-3 weeks ago when i was wearing a dress by itself because the whole world was dressed up in their full length leggings or covered-toe tights (which actually is pantyhose) and long-sleeved stuff inclusive of cardigans when it wasn't even cold? it seriously amazes me when people dress like that because the weather really is getting cold now, but that wasn't exactly the case 2-3 weeks ago, so does that mean we should be covered in fur for the xmas season? -_- actually, for all i know, they could just be fashion victims who are actually feeling all hot and heaty in their cover-all outfits and whose armpits are secretly but desperately sweating in protest, all away from our eyes. haha ok i'm just kiddin' :X~
anyway, back to where i initially was, maybe i really should open my windows every day until the last day before work begins (because work days are work days) and enjoy what i really can before the nightmare starts again.
i'm not even sure if i should say this, but oh bother.
bee at 7:56 AM
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OMG they got a handsome guy to play the role of Holly's husband (not my type.. but still!).. why did they have to pick a good-looking guy to die? (i suppose so we'll all go aww..). -_- anyway, knowing that the movie's coming out brings me back to the times when i'd control my tears on the bus while reading the book, and crying like crazy at home without being able to resume my reading until i'd stopped crying. and crap, i miss sher, jane and cheryl~ we haven't met up at all this hols and guess what? i have like 1 week +++ left for the school hols (ONLY!!!). boo. hoo. hoo.
i used to think i shopped wayy too much online.. until i came across someone else's blog and i realised wow she really buys loads of stuff. some of them can be found at far east :X but ah well, now i feel comforted by the fact that.. i'm not exactly a megashopper. or maybe i am - by my own standards. i think though, that sometimes its not about quantity, but about quality and taste. :X I came across this quote by Dame Edith Sitwell which i feel may sometimes be applied to certain situations: "Good taste is the worst vice ever invented", but it all depends on how you look at it. If you have good taste, envy may trail you.. but if good taste happens to come with a hefty price tag, then...
it's 5 days to christmas XD! and.. shame on me i've been buying presents for myself with my bonus and treating myself to a meal with Ailay at kuishin-bo tomorrow! HAHA :X trust me. its just the festive mood. furthermore all presents are already ready, except for ah doo's :X
bee at 8:53 AM
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we had din tai fung :X and while i was trying to eat, she told me about how her bf suddenly lifted her up into the air with what he called the Fireman's Lift. boy did she scream in shock and in pain. pain because, the way you would lift a person is by putting your arm around the groin area. pretty secure i guess haha :X and the poor dearie had 6 bruises on her upper arm as they were playing with each other and while her bf only used 10% of his strength during playtime, it probably was a full blow to her arm. i guess this is what happens when your bf becomes a firefighter while serving his national service. he becomes stronger, and the otherwise doesn't-seem-to-put-on-weight fella becomes a put-on-5kg-worth-of-muscles person who has no problems with lifting up waterhoses, mannequins (during practice) and of course, the girlfriend. as i laughed my heart out and my stomach in, it resulted in a tummyache :X i also had to ensure that i do not by accident or whatsoever squeeze the xiao long bao that i was holding with a pair of chopsticks LOL. she made me laugh and laugh when her xlb broke and all the soup came out. i wasn't laughing at that really, i was actually tickled by the way she managed the situation. she frantically tried to scoop the soup which spilled outta the xlb with her spoon and chopsticks without realising that by leaving the xlb on its own instead of putting it into her mouth, more soup from the xlb was slowly leaving its skin. i was laughing too hard to even tell her that :X
i also bought a pair of tights today.. the 40 denier ones that i wanted, with just the right amount of sheerness/opaqueness :P i am happy with them.. but pretty unsure about the rest of the stuff i bought. one of which was a long cotton black tee which had a ribbon which looked like it was made of rags. its too short to be worn as a dress so i wonder if it's a waste of $, and i bought it because i was desperate for work clothes. the fact that it's plain wasn't so much of an issue at that point, i liked the fit (it was perfectly made for mee) and the fact that it was long so i didn't have to worry about showing my butt crack with low-rise jeans. :X well its $23.90 but it looked like it only cost $15.00. crap ;( then there's the other purchase of a bracelet which i thought looked perfect as a hairtie and isn't too loose. i was to preoccupied with the loose issue that it never hit me that it was too heavy to be a hair tie until i got home and tried it on. the good thing is i could always use it as a layering sorta bracelet. =/ but still, i need to be on the lookout for a pretty, classy, black hair tie.
what i really wanted was THE pair of $39.90 - 10% heels in pink :( but they simply looked weird from the back though they were totally pretty and sweet and everything nice when viewed from the front and side. what a pity :( it was such a comfy pair which i was reluctant to let go of, but i knew that if i wasn't happy with just 1 thing that i know i cannot live with, i would never ever wear it - especially not if it'd make me feel insecure.
ailay and i met this old busker on the street who asked if we could spare him a dollar, which each of us did. then he proceeded to wish us good health and thank us several times. how nice of him, but at that time we certainly didn't expect any of those wishes so we simply nodded and continued our walk to taka.
i'm looking forward to meeting ailay next week for a good buffet =D what more can i say~ YAY!~!~!~
bee at 6:31 PM
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my love with the knotted dresses... met up with reb again on wed. this time i kept talking and talking and i didn't even finish my food -_- it doesn't help as well that i'm a slow eater :X! hmm and also, that's the day i got my knotted-back dress in silver :D now the gold one has a friend! weehee!~ woohoo!~ perhaps those should be their names :X!
anyway, i shared with her about my spotting fake LV and how to spot fake LV adventures, which of course was shared with me by doodoo~ :X! as in.. doo and i exchanged a tip each on how to spot the fake LV haha.. which was passed on to reb by me.. haha! i think she enjoyed the info very much :X she said it was enlightening o_O! and her LV bag which was seated beside her was scrutinised for a brief moment to see if the info was indeed accurate/true or not. :X! as we went a lil deeper into carrying the fake and the real, she said that as long as one's conscience is clear (clear = its the auth, legitimate piece), it doesn't matter whether or not others thought or knew if it was real or fake. by legitimate i mean like the made in paris kind, not the made in a child-slavery house kind. we then talked about the usual stuff like work and school as well (both of which i wish i could take off my mind~~ but knowing that i am procrastinating doesn't help right?)~ and of course, i had to tell her more about the waraku jap pasta restaurant! yummy wafu sauce and spaghetti with the right amount of chewiness so you feel the oomph in every bite! i felt so bad & apologetic for yakking on and on (more than usual i think)~ it seemed as though it was a talkative Abby that day.
well then, on the other hand, amongst the other things we had in our conversations, reb shared with me about her irkful brush with a busker who was really, quite rude and almost shockingly rude~ (but listening to the experience was nonetheless entertaining) and then, later on in the afternoon reb brought me to THAT CD SHOP at pacific plaza and ooh~ she got for terrence a high society CD which comes in a sateeeeeeeen bag with the words high society embroidered in gold. someone else there was testing out the Chinese-Shanghai jazz CD from that collection and my oh my, it sounded lovely~ and for that, i have to thank her for that introductory trip of discovery!
we also went to MNG.. she had to walk in for the VIP sale because she didn't want to miss out! and lucky her.. she found a pair of super pretty pink shorts in the first branch of mango we went to (in about the same colour as my nails but i hate it when its on my nails). i didn't get it cos somehow or rather i don't look good in "longer" shorts. probably cos they make my legs look shorter.. so i'm afraid hot pants are the way to go HAHA :X~ well, what i got instead was a notebook of patent feel from the 2nd branch we visited. it looked like PVC with some cracked, textured matte foil underneath it. very pretty indeed - the kinda thing that looks fab to whip outta your bag, which both reb and i agreed, but i don't exactly see it as a need at this point in time~ so even though i bought it, i don't exactly know if i should keep it. anyway, reb thought it was funny that we went into that 2nd MNG to get a notebook after all that looking at a pair of shorts and a top which she tried on :X well i guess it is after all a clothing store~ and perhaps that's why even a notebook looks so wearable. it's a pity though, that most of their clothes really aren't (their umbrellas too. cute umbrella hook but ah ma design X_X. how disappointing). i guess when u're disappointed just by displays alone too often, soon enough, you wouldn't even bother stepping foot into the store (not that mango was ever close to a fave of mine, zara was always far better imo).
after we left each other, i walked into tangs to look for some lippie gloss (and bumped into funai while waiting for the bus home!). anyway, unfortunately no chanel or clinique could match up to what i was looking for~ i want the dior plastic lip gloss for plastic, vinyl-covered-like lips! and i finally found it online at a cosmetics site. a hefty price to pay considering 5-10% of the reviews i've read about it were pretty bad (like teeth staining, lips cracking?!) but i simply cannot resist the look of it. i need to try it on. besides, the other 90% of reviews were raves so i guess the whole issue of cosmetics and any kind of beauty product, treatment or whatsoever is seriously individualistic. the colour i got was impulsive rose, and it was a tie between that and capricious pink X_X! i spent last evening deciding on the shade. LOL.
i'm going off to see the skin specialist now, as well as meetup with Ailay ^^!~ everything's at orchard once again so i hope that we can move on to some other shopping area of Singapore. if only i knew the way to haji lane, then i could show her the quirky vintage-inspired stuff there haha~! but knowing myself, i'm absolutely terrible at directions - that's why i haven't taken my driving license (though there's actually the other reason which is poor spatial awareness, which i feel is crucial for parallel parking!).
bee at 9:44 AM
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smartie me decided to look at the nail colours under their bright orange table lamps, because every other time i did my nails there, the colours always turned out to be much brighter when i stepped out of the nail lounge (which is rather shocking).
well it turned out to be a nasty decision. cos after i stepped out, my nails seemed horridly darker than what they looked like under the light. the hot red-darkpink i expected turned out to be some fugly fuschia-purple (as cheapo-looking and yucky as china pink) and so now i don't want to look at my toes because they make me mad. ugh i already have half the heart to wipe the colour all off with the polish remover, but i cannot decide which one is worse: having some fugly colour on, or having plain fugly nails on.
my fingernails appeared a shade darker from what i had expected them to be, but the colour's still bearable. my only peeve is that they were cut and filed square (oh why oh why did i have them done that way again!?), which makes them look short and thus makes my fingers look short -.- all the growing over the past few weeks were thus for nothing. if i'm going to do them again the next time i do my toes, i'll make sure they're ROUND. but then again, i am seriously convinced about 1 thing: pedicures are my thing, but not manicures. they look fab of course, but i only like them to be on for a day and nothing more. i think they look polished (duh!) with paint on, but i think they look naturally great when they're long and without it too (especially when i have short, square fingernails now -.-).
to some extent we'll never be happy with what we have. but i am extremely happy with the way my fingernails were before i had them painted -.- and if they were roundedly shaped before painting :( i just can't help but wonder and try out to see why people liked short, square fingernails (other than for the fact that they look neat, but then what's the point of doing a manicure then? to have neat nails which you can have even if you don't get 'em painted?). i think squares'd look great if u're using acrylic fakies or if you grow them out REALLY LONG. and i would've been happy of course if the colour for my toes didn't horrifying turn out to be the sort of pink i hate. i think i want to coop myself up in a darker room. cos then the toenails'll look reddish, which is a colour that i am more than used to seeing on them.
i finally understand why i thought the pink looked great on the shelf (because that was a dark area) and why it looked great under intense light (cos it was so bright the dullness and cheaponess was taken away). i cannot trust nail polishes based on their looks in that nail parlour anymore. i'm afraid i'll have to know the colours i want by name from now on!
i want my private jet NOW!
bee at 2:09 AM
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she replied in perfect english, with all the capital letters at the start of the sentence as well as the fullstops at the end (the exact way in which we all type our assignments, and usually only for our assignments LOL). i on the other hand, simply wrote like the way i am doing so now. entirely in small letters, and with chat-like features such as "LOLs" and "~~~" and God knows what else. thankfully my english wasn't broken! ahha~ that was the only bit that saved my email.
well perhaps i ought to just take it as that i didn't want it to be too formal in the first place. :X!
bee at 3:31 AM
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anyway, just a few nasty things i needed to mention.
car bag alert: patent ones spotted locally in various sizes going for cheaps! the small ones are pretty cute :) *and the salesgirl at the shop kept staring at my silver one :( i seriously hope they're NAWT going to bring that colour in too. well, my only consolation on this matter is that i don't have to live with mina0168 on my car number plate.
and next, the bite mark which a child i taught for 20 weeks left me with has become a scar. (why did he have to bite me for the first time ever only on the last day of school?) i need skin lightening please.
there's work tomorrow (which also happens to be a Monday) so i'm feeling moody and blue (after rushing out some ed. plans as well). plus doo had duty in camp today since he's going on a full 2-weeks long leave in just a week's time :X another piece of good news tho is that i won't have to go back to work at all for the next 16 days after tomorrow :)
bee at 12:00 AM
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anyway, doo and i had dinner at billy's after that. it was the first time i went into the other section of their marina square branch.. and it was pretty nice i must say. i love their glittery vinyl chairs!! :) and for the first time i ordered their fish and chips and the portion was simply HUGEEEEEEE~! i just stared and it and wondered how i was ever going to finish it. plus we ordered onion rings as well~ thankfully doodoo was there to help heh ;) whee~ satisfying meal :)
then after that we headed to miss selfridge because i am addicted to their accessories. i saw a pair of black earrings which were the EXACT same ones i saw at f21 except that f21's version was in gold. anyway, i described the black earrings were so hair-like that if i wore 'em, people would probably think i had 6cm hair growing on my ears! and to my delight! i found the matching cuff bracelet of the absolutely gorgeous ring which i purchased from them a couple of weeks ago~! WHEE. i just had to get it.. and i didn't know until it was time to make the payment at the counter that they were having a 15% sale as it was the Saturday late night shopping day/night.. so SURPRISE! we saved $5.40 haha. it came to me wrapped up in a pretty gold organza bag with a satin ribbon drawstring so i said i didn't need a plastic bag :X why didn't the gorgeous rings and bracelet i purchased previously come with these pretty bags too!? still, yay!!!~ SATISFYING PURCHASE. haha :X
doo and i went to MPH and creative as well.. he bought a book and a pair of earphones. i just can't understand why people need mp3 players (doo's was given to him as a bday pressie so no complains, and he had to get the earphones cos he can't bring his camera-mp3 phone into the army camp). i find if we all have stuff like an mp3 player, a PSP/nintendo DS lite.. our handphone.. digital camera. etc. etc.. there's just so many gadgets in anyone's bags! in fact its going to be like an OVERLOAD of gadgets! maybe to some nothing can ever be considered as an overload, but to me.. it is - especially when you can get 2 in 1 stuff. like having a handphone which doubles up as an mp3 player (i really love this idea so i absolutely don't see a point in having a separate mp3 player), and a digital camera (if you have one that's good enough for some days, like the sony ericsson 5mp one!!!!). well of course if i have a great outing right in front of me, then a real digital camera would be the best choice.. but for any other day, i honestly wouldn't mind just using the camera from my phone. =) its more convenient that way :P
and do people really need their portable gaming stations when they know they're going to go out with friends? yes if they'll be travelling alone on the way home and cannot bear the loneliness (Which everyone's been experiencing since they started taking public transport home alone until technology caught up with our trains and buses anyway - though i know nobody wants to go back to those times). but for other times when friends are there, and TV mobile is around.. maybe we don't exactly need those all the time. i think busrides are pretty good for mindless thinking. i sometimes drift off to thinking about really important stuff, but the next thing i know it, its forgotten, which is almost about as pointless as gaming haha :X OMG i can't believe i'm saying this - i used to be a gaming addict. maybe i'll go back to those gaming days when RO2SEA comes out :X!
ooh i'm due for a pedi next week :) it feels great to be able to change colours once every 2 weeks (which means i get to change colours 3 times!). YAY.. indulge. indulge! all to make up for the pedicure-less 21 weeks before! :D:D:D! i actually bought a bottle of OPI My Private Jet for its magnificence! (which makes you indecisive when it comes to justifying what colour it is exactly, especially under different lights~). i bought it because not all nail places have that colour so whenever i feel like i want it on mee i'll just pass the bottle over to the manicurist :X
one more week till the start of doo's leave :X 3 more weeks to the start of school! X_X!!! and one of my dear, dear colleagues resigned! :( it is so saddening because i enjoyed chatting with her so much (at work) and we keep bumping into each other by coincidence when we're out shopping in town hAHA. argh :( and of all times, it has to be when i'm moving back to the branch where she's at.
bee at 7:43 AM
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anyway, i tried asian kitchen for the first time~ and whee~ banana in coconut milk :) me like!
we also went to topshop and stuff.. (f21 is so boring btw) and reb tried on this fabfabfabfabfabfabfab black dress which had such a tailored fit! it was SUCH A PITY it was so hard to zipup :( well anyway, i also spotted a pair of pumps with the chain detail at the front.. just like the ones i purchased at far east with Ailay. except that the topshop version has 3 skinny chains while mine has 2 fatter ones. =D
hmm. it seems i've been writing down almost every single detail of my outings with friends. guess i don't want to live and forget all the itty bitty details of having fun at 20 :X i can't help but wonder if growing older would make me less excited about getting a pair of shoes.. and so on.. so here's some documentation when i can still afford the time to write it down.
bee at 7:28 AM
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ahh anyway, i have way too mani shoes now that i scare doodoo with my collection. its a collection that's like the car bags one.. because it just keeps getting bigger :X
went shopping with Ailay yesterday, and wheehee! i bought nothing else but another pair of shoes again :X this time its a pair of black suedish pumps (SO SOFT) with 2 gold large chain-like hoops in front. i have so many shoes that i don't wear, so doo asked me why i keep buying them and when am i ever going to put them to good use. i said perhaps when we go on the cruise :X i'll have a pair of shoes for each of my outfits haha! he says i don't need to bring any clothes. my luggage'll just contain shoes and shoes and just shoes. ahh and Ailay and i went to substance :X (the shop where i have to get something everytime i go there, but its not because i have to, its just that i do. it comes so naturally). we saw a pair of sky high lace heels in pink, it looked so party but without the wild side of it. it was laced through with ribbons as well. OMG that was so nice. but guess what? the store was closed. maybe the sales assistant went for a break or something =/ and Ailay had to go already so we didn't manage to try on the shoes. i'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing :P anyway, Ailay bought a skirt.. and so we each got something HAHA.
then i went back home, and to my dismay, the stuff i ordered hasn't arrived :( it makes me worry when i opt for normal mail and things take longer than usual to arrive. but i believe its much faster than reg mail cos if nobody's home to receive the parcel, i'll have to make my way down to the not-so-nearest post office to claim it ONLY the next working day.
i'll be meeting Reb today at vivo. nothing much to shop for in my opinion. just the usual la senza, f21, topshop, and of course, just some place to sit down, have lunch, and chat half the time away! :)
and for some reason, i just got reminded about jiahui's gorgeous black patent lace-up ankle boots. to her horror, the heel broke and she's only worn it like.. ONCE? it cost $70 and now she has to change it for something else. which, imo, i would have loved to opt for a refund instead if the store would allow it because if i cannot find anything else that i like in the store and i'm forced to take stuff for the sake of doing so (well actually cost there's no choice), it wouldn't make me any happier than i already am. that's not exactly the main reason. the main reason is, i would not be able to stand the humiliation of a heel breaking. :X or at least i think so! *pessimism at work* now i finally know how much the truth hurts when Ailay's sandal strap snapped on her. i bet these things happen to loads of people, and nobody has really made a big fuss about it (i get my sandals or slippers getting thrown off my feet when i'm in the middle of crossing the road). so maybe its just something we live with. but still.. that moment of a heel breaking is NOT supposed to happen! what if she was caught by surprise and suddenly you find one side of your body feels shorter than the other?
aniwae, doo and i watched high sch musical 2 last weekend. its a show i can't imagine the 3year old i teach watching =/ so much of scheming etc. X_X!
and my face has broken out with more deep acne T_T! but i don't have a choice cos that's what the medication is expected to do for me during the 1st 2 months. Ailay and i were discussing the side effects of the medicine, and both of us agreed dryness of everywhere (lips, eyes, arms, legs chin etc..!) was the main issue/side effect. she said her doctor warned her about hurting the liver as one of the side effects, though it has never happened before. while on my side, the "guidebook" to the med states mood swings as the most serious kind of side effect. LOL. we ended up scaring ourselves while shopping yesterday!
ahh. so much joy and fun~ i can't wait to meet her again next week!
bee at 8:36 PM
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