Sunday, June 01, 2008

hairy issues

i've met up with sher, jane, cheryl, jiahui and ailay.. and oh god i missed them so much! 4 of 'em r flying off to boston next week, while i start my writing classes on monday.

i'm waiting to see how 4 writing classes will manage to improve my english, or writing for that matter.

anyway, i did my eyelashes as well - extensions, for a 2nd time actually. they look great! supposedly termed as the 'dramatic' or drama version, they still look pretty alright, with no fan-effect (like a thick black opened fan). much better looking than the 'natural' ones i did the previous time, where there was no diff except for the extension of the length of my original lashes or something. haha! hmm one thing i always wonder when i'm sitting there for an hour or so and getting them done, how exactly do they do it? what is the process? because i'm not a first-timer, nobody ever tells me. and i don't remember anything from the first time. :X

well i did threading as well, and little did i know she was at trainee stage in threading. i know everyone has to be a student or trainee at least once in their entire lives, but in this case, it really hurt. it felt like PLUCKING. haha, which i cannot help but feel is a hundred times more painful than skilled threading. actually, i thought i was supposed to be in for tweezing, but ah well, i'm not complaining since the shape and everything else's fine - just the PAIN. T_T! the best thing was she said she knows it is painful for first-timers. but it isn't my first time threading!! :X

i went for an upper lip wax too, and surprisingly it didn't hurt =/ i didn't realise that it didn't hurt until the therapist asked me if it did. LOL. maybe i am getting used to it o_O! i hope! but one thing i hate about all this hair removal regimes is that they claim to pave the way for a smoother, shorter, finer regrowth, it's actually all bullcrap! i have a moustache now! (i mean when the hair grows back).

and since we're on such a hairy issue, i might as well speak about how upset i am abt the hairdresses i like - because they have all left the salons where i met them at and i don't know where to find another who's as good as the 2 that i knew. :( well so the other day i desperately needed a haircut as i had to take an instant passport sized photo (seriously those kinda pics NEVER ever turn out well unless they're edited or sth) and i didn't want to have one taken without a haircut. so there i went, to jantzen at great world as it was the closest to home and OH it turned out horrid. the next day i went to work and one of my colleagues noted the CHANGE. mind you the previous time i cut my fringe i got splendid comments and this time around, as she hesitated on what to say and gave a grown, i reacted first by giving a "crying" face and she returned that with a totally-understanding and sympathetic look and assured me the hair would grow out soon. now, 2 weeks down the road it looks much better but still not as good as what i got before from a previous hairdresser who LEFT T_T!

hairy issues aside, i think i've got something going on with Olivia Ong's music. i should've written about this a long time ago when i first started listening to her music on my handphone sooo frequently, especially when i'm going home from work (happy mah) haha. anyway, i'm still listening to her music (the non-jap ones) though just yesterday i have come to accept her singing in jap, which has all along been difficult because the english accent was so strong and i guess i wasn't exactly used to that. it sounded different from the usual, true jap songs, whatever that meant, and well, the more i listen to it, the better it is and that accent thing is fading away into the song itself ;) i'm talking about a song entitled Sweet Memories, which has an english verse in between all the jap ones, and all of a sudden that english verse now sounds weird to me haha. OMG, i am so confoosed but what i know now is hey! i actually like that song ^^. anyway, sad to say, i've missed all of her performances locally, because i never knew about them in the first place! she has an official website but nothing past 2006 is updated in there, and there isn't a single site that's dedicated to her performance dates and locations, which is kinda unfortunate, because then i can only watch it on youtube :( and the only way in which one can get to know of her performances is if one frequents that venue often, but thing is venues for performances change all the time so how would i ever know :( furthermore, she's an export to Japan, so she's based there. T_T ah well. i just hope she releases a new English record soon, because i happened to chance upon her singing "Apologise" live, and i liked it (plus i think the jap albums are just so not-her-style as compared to the Bossanova ones!)! so hopefully if that happens, that song'll be in it :D & apparently, a friend of mine says he got 'sentimental' after listening to her singing "sometimes when we touch". :X i've enjoyed her songs so much that i don't think any of her songs have made me tear.. so i find that kinda funny :X LOL.


on another note, here's some of the pics doo and i took with my phone's cam while we were up on the flyer, with and without zoom. the usual s'pore lights, except that they're all seen while we're high above the ground.

2 durians and a mandarin. how oriental ;)


the highwayssss


another view of the skyscrapers or office buildings, as i'd call 'em.


the little toy cars.


the fullerton hotel on the left.

bee at 3:02 AM