Verves In Composition

Moving!

2007-01-09T19:23:00.000+08:00

www.vervesincomposition.com

Nuff said :)

Love ya Blogger, it was fun while it lasted ;)

A lotta Vaginas

2006-12-25T16:59:00.000+08:00

I have finally seen more vaginas in one day than any Obstetrics and Gynaecology specialist. 100 vaginas (thankfully none of which were gaping) ready for packaging and shipment as earrings for Saint Mary's University Drama society in Halifax, Canada. All for the promotion of their up and coming version of 'The Vagina Monologues'

A Lotta Vaginas eh?

There you go...100 beautiful pink vagina that look like tulips. Or as my groupie would say, 'you got that right...two-lips'

And here we have the brainchild behind the idea of creating so many god darned vaginas :P She models two pairs of them on one ear in the most professional of manners. :) My darling girlfriend who is off to take them to Halifax, Jhameia dearest :)

Watch out Halifax!

My WWF fantasy

2006-12-11T11:14:00.001+08:00

I'm ~~a bit~~ ~~particularly~~ .... Incredibly twisted. I know. Apart from being morbid and slightly of tangent, my mind tends to also get carried away with my own directed trailers of film shooting in my head.

This one I managed to record and pay attention to whilst watching WWF on late night TV. I don't want a bra and panties match but neither do I want to be stuck in garments that stick on to me like cling wrap. And let's make it fair... I'm no match to a man in the ring so I kept it as a woman. Someone I'm still abit ticked off with. (Luckily, this person doesn't read my blog! phew!)

The truth about my age in animated blogging

2006-12-06T22:30:00.000+08:00

So I have been told that I carry a very matured character with a physical impression a few years more than I am... but never have I ever been so insulted until recently early this week. BASED ON A TRUE INCIDENT (BLEH!)

A billboard worthy wedding

2006-11-14T17:12:00.000+08:00

I don't know how many people have notice that North Bound towards KL on the North South Highway, there is either an incredibly sweet or if some of you would think, a peculiar landmark that shows you're about to approach Kajang.

Of course, I didn't notice it myself until I was posted in Seremban for work purposes. But its not everyday or everywhere that you'll see a large picture perfect photo of a soon to be married couple/married couple plastered on the side of the high way with a large DOUBLE HAPPINESS SIGN, the couples name and a date.

I shared that drive-by moment with my colleague sitted next to me and told her.

'Well you know something...no company sponsorship etc...it must be by the couple themselves'

'Maybe he loves the wife alot that they put it up? Or his wife loves him. Or wedding present from one of the guests who works in advertising... ' she giggles.

Some people just said... 'WAH SCARED PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT AH?'

other people said ...' MAYBE HAD DINNER NEAR BY THERE AND WANTED TO SHOW THEY WERE ON THE RIGHT END OF THE NORTH SOUTH H/WAY'

Damn bad....Then again, it's not everyday and everywhere :P

Why me and Minishorts should have free 'Siao Loong Bao.'

2006-11-07T08:44:00.000+08:00

"THIS FOOD BETTER BE WORTH THE PARKING HELL WE'RE GOING THROUGH" says an exasperated minishorts as we cicle Bangsar for about the 3rd time. And I'm now blogging to tell you and remind her that its was all WORTH IT.

The destination, Shanghai 10 in Jalan Telawi 2. Upon first look of the menu, it was VERY INCREDIBLY similar to Chef Loong down at SS2; but hey I wouldn't be surprised if they are under the same management.

There she is everybody.... A lovely glass of Iced Lemon Jasmine tea!

Both me and Minishorts had a jar-cup of Lemon Jasmine tea. A honey like concotion of fragrant Jasmine tea that's light tasting with a twist of sugary sin. Refreshing!

For a base I picked a bowl of Rainbow treasures Porridge. Mixed with chunks of Yam, Sweet Potato and Pumpkin. Garnished with 'Yau Char Kwai' and chopped spring onion. I like the thick -not so grainy texture of the porridge :)

Dear Ms. Minishorts took a go at the prawn dumpling 'Lai Fun' which had delicious prawn dumpling imho. :)

Prawn and Squid dumpling wrapped in 'foo chook' and cheese filling, which already suggestively sounds real good. Minishorts would prefer less cheese but I wolfed down 3 pieces without waiting too much for her.

Yam 'Woo Kok' or fried Yam balls stuffed with Tuna. Sounded rather odd on the Menu but Minishorts was saying 'Eh, let's try lah'. Unlike most 'woo kok's this one had an ULTRA CREAMY texture to its shell and tuna didn't taste very much like tuna.

And then meet the best part of the whole deal. SIAO LOONG PAO! Which after close examination and a double blind test taste bud scrutiny, Minishorts and I agree that another commercial restaurant famous for their Siao Loong Pao can go 'TAH PAO' (get lost).

WOULD YOU JUST LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF SOUP IN ONE DUMPLING!

IT TASTES SO GOOD TOO! Chewy meet texture and dumpling skin that's not too thick or dry! See that amount of soup again!

It's already tried and tested for you so here is a pic of yours truly with a logo of the restaurants so all people who want to go eat there can go on a look out for it.

However, if you're still not convinced, this is what me and Minishorts thought about the whole dining experience!

Yum Yum Shanghai 10!

Nice boys that we women like.

2006-10-25T13:19:00.000+08:00

It is not everyday that I end up with food poisoning, almost bed ridden on a lemang-lemak-joyous occassion where I could be picking off the silver platters of my wonderful neighbours and share the happiness that they have.

But it is not also in every raya that I get ULTRA SWEET PLEASANT SURPRISES in my SMS inbox...

Not did I only know that I am an aunty today, but aparrently I also have a daughter named Farhan!!

Jokes aside. This kid who sent me the sms is made of pure gold. Boys, say what you like about him being a suck up. You know deep down inside most girlfriends or wives become mothers one day and most of us would want to have a boy with such respectable traits dating our little girl or should have sons that have such great respect for the older women and the one he's holding hands with.

And since it's Raya,Maaf Zahir Batin and all that, I sent the guy an sms to get the number right so he can send his proper wishes and greetings.

If you happen to be named Farhan, and if you mom with a 012 number and a bf with a 017-6## #### number, you are a LUCKY LUCKY girl :)

Selamat Hari Raya to my Muslim friends and family :)

Self pity is an addiction.

2006-10-14T01:37:00.000+08:00

Even if something that you wished didn't happen has passed on. It makes a lingering presence in the back of your mind.

We can try very hard to neglect the dormancy of unwanted thoughts. Put forward our best foot foward so they say..a step at a time in our own pace. I try, by getting out with others, walk on stretches of streets/beaches or stand watching the night skyline on altitude alone . I really want to stop thinking about some things. Then there are times where I'm asked to sink back in as my conscience as I meet friends who remind me of myself at such dreary states. There would be moments I wake from day dreams of self discovered bliss to realise that I've been avoiding the same repetitive questions I should answer.

I, like most humans in a position as such would round the possibilities. Spinning, never quite finding our way out of things. I get dizzy, confused and then fall into relapses where I feel incredibly helpless. People will be there but they can't really help until I want to move myself. Life is incredibly good to me, but I'm still trying to piece some pieces back together.

The whole thing has made me a human jigsaw. I can't be too long and too hard at it, or I'll get that nasty backache so I try to stand up and get around. But I have to get back at it soon...hopefully I'll get the whole picture soon.

Isn't it a peculiar thing... how people being people feed their afflictions of pain enjoying the addiction of self pity. You just can't help it cause it feels good having people pay attention to you for that while.

Egotistical empathy sown into a tangled mess of a person's identity. I don't want to be thrown in a state where I feel the lack of my own ability and relying on the sympathy of others to help me define myself.

And like every addiction, it only tastes good for fleeting moments...and then it passes, the whole cycle starts again before it's a becomes a little too hard after long.

The launch of Vanity Vault

2006-10-02T00:29:00.000+08:00

If you were one of those people who was always muttering...

"%^$%, this siao woman only knows how to make clay earrings that mimic mini foods, very boring leh. Creative sikit can or not?"

"Give up. sperm earring also got. smell also got. eyeballs also got. Give up"

"This woman like so damn free like dat..."

Firstly I would like to say..

"YOU REALLY THINK I SO FREE MEH?! LOL. STAY AT HOME BE A GOOD GIRL ONLY GOT TIME TO MAKE! :p"

Well besides the point, I've decided to launch a new line of jewellery. To show a more sophisticated side of me and a less, obscene, paed items obsessing , food glutton (that I actually am).

Thus I call this new line...

(yes, yes, so even the branding still does echo narcissm)

Not convinced it's different? Here are some Snippets

See...different :)

If you want to see more...go to click here. Don't expect me to keep cutting and pasting the tags for previews :P

Cream, sugar and sin

2006-10-01T06:01:00.000+08:00

Ladies and gentleman, one of the deadly sins of Hiestand....A victorian Pastry

Shing Ying invited me up for a round of evening coffee down in Summit USJ before her gym session. It was then deciding between overpriced Starbucks and overvisited Secret Recipe that we decided to give this quaint clean nomadic white looking bakery a shot. That is where we met this seductress of a dessert.

Jammie berries. Thick Butter cream. Icing Sugar and Semi spongy crusted bread....drizzled with fresh cream. 90 minutes of sugar high time. A Recommendation for individuals who love dairy fused with pastry

Crap...There goes my diet... :(

Tea at Las Carratas

2006-10-01T05:38:00.000+08:00

And there were those days that a friend will be there for a friend and vice versa... me and Cheryl would definitely agree on Las Carratas (USJ 10, Taipan).

Since we both are a little tight in the pockets and around the waste...we averted to a light dinner and coffee (which was a very biased decision owing to much lack of sleep in my case)

Iced Cappucinos... for the girl who just wants to fall asleep from a rough day at work.

If you are a fan of jacket potatoes /potato skins i do recommend that you give the ones offered there a go. They taste familliarly Mexican. I kinda like the addition of crunchy fresh capsicums to the sour cream. (Duh Mexican cuisine mah)

Don't they look POSITIVELY YUMMY?

2006-09-18T00:10:00.000+08:00

Nyum, nyum...nough said ;)

In the absence

2006-09-15T12:50:00.000+08:00

I have been a very naughty girl.... I haven't been blogging for a very long time. Again.

I never quite understood why the people older than me give me the longest lecture about having no time for me when I call them out to meet out.
*Ah-haks* I thought they just had something against me at that point in time *Ah-haks*

Oh so well anyway, the basic updates are that I'm keeping myself very busy. I've met tonnes of new people and building starts to fantastic relationships in the course of these few months.

I've also changed my job as well. Don't start though to ask me why I might go trigger happy on the keyboard to explain the long and tumultuous process. Lets just say the part of the job scope was out of my diction. I am still in the line I love most though. Healthcare and Medicals ^^ (I wonder if Dr.s are really as attractive as they say?) But most happy I am with the new company who has an automatic coffee dispenser (ohhh what joy for the caffeine addicts)

Let's not forget the self discoveries. Shopping trips with minishorts have concluded that I have too broad and rounded shoulders to wear a good office blouse. Drinks with cheryl to cure the nasty cough with Old ginger tea. Crabs every week. And the endless comparing of our first steps into the working world with all my old Monash University graduates during the convocation. (Oh yes, photos of that will be coming soon)

I've just purchased a whole new range of Body Shop makeup for incredible prices (loyal customer what :P) and have just shocked out some cash for a new Lumix FX-01, and a mighty drawer filled with new clothes.

I should put up pictures of my Mini Pinscher and Golden up soon too. See....it's been so bad I've not even mentioned the latest family additions to the house hold.

All coming soon. Plus a new earring designs. :)

Latest Imports from Venice

2006-08-18T00:46:00.000+08:00

OMG! My special shipment has arrived. I've waited bloody 3 months for the new stock to arrive and finally, oh gosh... I can't contain my excitement!

It's Here

It's HERE

IT'S HERE!

Venetian Glass Beads!

You have got to click this picture to get a closer look!

Vah-Nee-Shen What you say?

Well, Venetian glass beads were originally created in Venice, Italy where Colours of opaque and transparent glass are fused with copper foil or other coloured metals in the center and then dissolved in acid.

I've always wanted to purchase them but they come in really expensive when sold as accessory pieces :S

So now I've ordered them in specially for accessory loving people like me! (Oh and I'll some for my personal use of course :P ) Also at VERY AFFORDABLE PRICES!

In the mean time I'm going to stick to these few colours before releasing the rest of the available colous ^^ *grin*

Food Experimentation 2

2006-08-15T00:11:00.000+08:00

Dunkin Donuts' Choc Mint Ladies and Gentlemen :P

Food Experimentation 1

2006-08-14T00:25:00.000+08:00

When you have a insatiable craving for Secret Recipe's cakes....Make on to carry around with you too.

Cheeze Choc cake with miniatures XD

Additional new designs!

2006-08-13T23:54:00.000+08:00

Argh Busy busy. So many things to do, so little time to blog. It Annoys me -__-" . Sometimes I wonder if making so many earrings would cause me detrimental time management (for me! me! me! time) consequences. And I don't even reply my comments -____-" (gomen gomen)

Here are more new designs for the people who surf by regularly! I promise, this time less food stuff :P

Asia Cafe's Sweet and Sour Crab Fried Bread Crab

2006-08-06T23:22:00.000+08:00

'People that live around here don't usually know what's good to eat here one." quoted Cheryl as we were sitting down for supper before dropping off the handmade earrings for Yvonne.

Well. These aren't just Sweet and Sour crabs... they're DELICIOUS SWEET AND SOUR CRABS WITH FRIED BREAD!.

It makes me want to drive all the way to Subang just to eat them.

And what better way to spend and evening eating delicious food with someone who appreciates a yummy meal as much as you do....cheryl!

Why they're so different than the rest of the sweet and sour crabs out there? Because the sauce is just the right thickness, sweetness, and the right amount of spice. Thick enough to coat your tongue....... like bubblegum before blowing. Dip in the fried bread that's ordered separately and it explodes in your mouth. The perfect combination of spice, zest, crunch, salinity and gooeyness.

BEAUTIFUL.... *SEDATED SMIRK*

Servings come in small portions, about 1 - 1/2 crabs (RM13.00) and Regular portions; 2 crabs and a little more (RM18.00). Fried bread at RM2.50 a loaf. Facing the shops with Starbucks in the row.

Here's an additional tip tho....Bring baby wipes. its always good to wipe your fingers before reaching for a phone that likes to ring inbetween supper :P

Cheryl says..'' Claws up for this dish!"

Hearts for Heart4Hope

2006-07-24T23:05:00.000+08:00

Have a heart...or a pair ^^

It's about time I came up with a concept as such and put thoughts into action. Yvonne deserves it...if I were even to muster pepper sprinkles of her courage and aspiring behavior...I'd be the woman! (Then again I'm not :P)

Hey but this is a lil something I could do...design replicate the Heart4Hope symbol to help her along the way with attaining her goal. That'll be great won't it if you all could help too :)

Now you can wear the shirt and the earrings too!!!! Yay!

Updates to the catalogue

2006-07-19T20:57:00.000+08:00

Now I understand why ppl dread work. :P It's not that I don't enjoy my job....I LOVE MY JOB but heh...to wake up everyday ;p thats the hard part. Don't even have enough time to blog... ACK!

Anyway, for those of you who have been patient enough to wait, here are the latest updates to the catalogue!

Inspired by Secret Recipe's Mango Delight! Scrumptious Looking Mango Puree dripping off a layer of Sponge cake with cream and Mango Slices!

Cherry Jam and Lemon Custard Filling squashed in between fresh dough and Icing Sugar!

Those are real sugar grains btw...

Pineapples and Cherries ;) Glazed with brown sugar!

Peach Peach Peach! With Vanilla ice cream

Oui! Even your local boulangerie could never make it this good!

Vlad in his most comical manner..

These are soooo cute in the dark!

So are these :P

Rainbow Glitter coated wings of a butterfly!

Fat Round Sperm whales :D

Sharks anyone?

Rounded animal print beads for the party animal in us.

Fat Free, Zero Calorie Chocolates!

2006-06-27T01:04:00.000+08:00

I can guarantee that you won't put on a pinch of calories as a consumer of such chocolates. :P I think I will come up with some attractive packages for these new earrings :D

Wheee Yum!

In baking cups!

Then there are some things

2006-06-16T11:47:00.000+08:00

Somethings which I've never said, things that I've never done....

There are also those that I've said and done, but I shouldn't have....

I'm terribly stubborn. I refuse to budge from where I am. Because now, I really don't want to move on yet. Or else...I'm going to forget.
And I don't want to forget...because at that time it was ...symphony. And forgetting is running from it.

I'm a blender of sentiments. Mostly confusion and frustration. Things I want the other to know, but I somehow brushed away

There is so much now that is building up inside, layers of emotions, feelings and words stacking up. I fear it hits my peak. I don't know what I want either...

It's ironic, truly, how alike we are in someways and yet we're not exactly the same.

I'm aware, I still have a responsibility to look after those who care so very much about the state I'm in now. I'm really sorry I can't recover as quickly as I should. I need time.

People are wondering why I can't get a move on, some people ask, some others know;

I myself am still questioning myself...why?

April is opening a flea market stall!!! ^^

2006-06-09T11:15:00.000+08:00

My very first own flea market stall yay! This time I'll be able to reach the masses that have been interested in purchasing my staff.

So come on down this 10th, 11th, 17th and 18th June from 11am -5pm at Atria Damansara, Petaling Jaya.

For prebooked orders please contact me at my g-mail or my email :)

Click on the image for details ^^

Scent It~!

I want the men to answer this.

2006-06-04T23:17:00.000+08:00

I remember crisp and clear, driving past Tropicana that afternoon

My ex said to me…
“Can you spend one day going to play golf with me?”
So I say,
“Maybe one day. Not yet.”

He frowns… and starts going into a frenzy of why I can’t get out of bed early one day to spend sometime learning how to enjoy the sport.

“I want my future wife to go out with me and enjoy putting in the greens with me.”

“So does that mean I expect my future companion to enjoy making earrings with me? That’s not fair is it?”

________________________

Despite so much of a difference that he was more outdoors and I was more of an indoor person, we lasted quite a long time. Until it got to a point where things didn’t work out.

Does it really matter that the person you love had the same interests that are important to you?

If so, minishorts would have to be totally in to car mods, and Jolene’s bf would have to start an earring collection of his own?

And yet, I don’t remember ridiculing the ideas and fascinations of my ex. I strongly remember I was empathetic. I did encourage him to take me out to his tennis tournaments but he didn’t really want me to be there.

Our common path prolly crossed to as much as when it came to movies, that's was as close as it got. At least it was something.

I'm sure it's fun sharing that common bond. But do you believe your other half can actually be a stimulating person who would have a 100% understanding of what you hold important without having to say a word from the start? Is that even possible?

______________

So i asked this couple who just celebrated their 50th anniversary, the man holds on to his wife sitting bounded by Alzheimers...

"Por por, Kung Kung, to this day do you completely understand each other?"

"Oh no, she has her interests and I have mine, I just live knowing she is there for me but I have to make sure I still tell her and she still tells me what we both think and feel... even if she forgets, I'll remind her"

Some people are probably going to use this as a reason to counter me....

New Designs

2006-05-29T09:23:00.000+08:00

Ah blah not enough time to blog but at least enough time to post some pictures of some new designs :)

Nyehhh what's up doc?

Only 2 pairs of each colour available :)

Earring Loving Bookworm?

2006-05-25T23:10:00.000+08:00

nylus quoted that I should do some expansion of designs instead of me indulging in my calorie laden alter ego. heh.

Well, well, to be precise this is a cut and paste version of the comment...

"could you do books for the earring-loving bookworm? =P it would be even better if you could put famous classic literature titles, but that might be a bit tricky "

Thank you darling, wonderful idea :) Worked on it right away as soon as I got home. Don't expect embossed/ gloss covers with intricate patterns of the shopaholic series fine prints on them. (I'm not that skilled yet =P)

So for now, most of these "Books" are somewhat plain cloth bounded for now :P

Classic Tales for now...I actually wanted to put down a "Tale Of Two Cities"

Paperback crossword puzzles and Target books purchased for those long haul flights.

You know yourself better...Everyone is a lil' nasty inside.

Making this just makes me want to scream "6 YEAR OLD FAIRY PRINCESS WANNABE!!!"

Wind in The Willows (Mr Toad annoyed my childhood)... ahhhh the plain old olive green cloth bound books of the 1940s-1960s

Oooh within due time perhaps I could have my own "Idiot's Guide" and hv the Idiot's Guide to Earring Wearing. ><

If You're placing orders for this, PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME TO PUT DOWN 'THE DA VINCI CODE' as a title for ye :P It's overrated.

Comfort Food as Accessories Update

2006-05-21T00:46:00.000+08:00

Things have been getting alittle crazy in my life so I've been seeking solitude in comfort food. Great is the power of comfort food especially when you're designing, making, sniffing and trying your hardest to make them look more appealing.

I made these halved strawberries, a special request from Charmaine back in the office.

Sunny side up eggs on richly well toasted bread.

Clockwise from left: Chocolate Chip Muffin, Banana Muffin and Blueberry Muffin.

Classic Marbled Cheesecake, for that touch of class :P (Upon distributing this, I've successfully made Siew Fei crave for Cheesecake)

Start your day with a stack of Butter milk pancakes or flapjacks glazed down with strawberry sauce.

Chips Ahoy resemblance?

I need more ideas on what else I can make. I can't get my mind THAT FIXATED on food :P

To love too much tis a sin

2006-05-14T18:24:00.000+08:00

My greatest weakness is having to always love too much. I don't believe the point of holding back when I feel that 'yes, this guy loves me, and he is as equally deserving of my love; why shouuld I stop loving when I've already begun'

If you asked me how much I have learnt and if I have bothered to assimilate past experiences into my stubborn psyche the answer would be.

"Yes I learnt, but I just don't want to listen."

It's exceptionally bad for me, I'm too nice a person, I'm too giving. I don't like seeing someone stuck in a bad situation when I have enough investment of power to bring out good. I don't believe in keeping things to myself, cause that only makes me selfish.

So thus begins a process where I constantly feel that I'm not giving enough. Perhaps its because I always leave an impression with alot of people who don't know me better that I have alot to spare.

I accomodate and fuss over what others think of me, especially wanting to see the people I love get the best out of me. And then, some people think me as overbearing.

or,...

I give up too much, that I exhaust myself throughly. I would scratch up debris from those little cracks in the old floor just to get it all sparkly and sqeaky clean. Only to find out that it gets stepped on again and that no oe bothers to read the 'take of your shoes' sign.

I can't always find that happy spot in me and I place both responsibility and blame to ensure that I make others happy. As corny as it sounds, making people happy; makes me happy.

Perhaps it's a cover up for me feeling so dejected and I never feel that I am ever good enough to be accepted in the eye of every different human being.

Definitely now as things have come to be, I'm aware, I am looking for acceptance, that someone would actually help me seal those floor cracks so all I need to do is just mop up.

...

2006-05-14T00:00:00.000+08:00

It's when you thought you had everything, and that you could never ask for more from your life; the walls start to crumble.

I woke up everyday feeling that without a doubt, there was someone for me there. Someone who i could come home to and my day would be instantly better. I was so proud of him.

Today after 6 hours, he's no longer here with me.

I have never laughed so hard with anyone in my life

no more of his delicious scalloped potatoes

his depth with words and poetry

the way he'd surprised me with little bites tucked in plastic bags

how he made me feel so wanted all the time

how he appreciated what i did for him

snatching his bolster away

the teases from across the phone

I miss him so badly. I don't think I've ever felt so much loss before.

I'm dying to meet my ex.

2006-05-02T00:40:00.000+08:00

“People who’ve never been out of a relationship or have ever been in a relationship before would never understand…”

…or so quotes the writer for that specific column from the female magazine.

Oh boy, Do I EVER UNDERSTAND. Even if that means seeing them without speaking a word to them.

“Then why would you want to meet him if you’re both so eager and yet not too keen on the idea at the same time?”

If you fall into the category of …
i) You’ve never dated before
ii) You have never been in a relationship that went sour and off

…then you’d never get it

IMHO, I just have this itch of wanting to see them, maybe analyse how many wrinkles they’ve added to their features along the years, how they’re keeping up with paying hefty taxes, I just want to see how they’ve survived without me.

Don’t mind me; an upbringing in an era of women empowerment has stricken my fragile little mind with such nasty thoughts of the opposite sex.

There is an insatiable craving for me to meet my Exes. I must CLEARLY state that.. NO I DO NOT HAVE A SOFT SPOT FOR MY EXes;

In fact I very much wish that if I so happen to see on particular ex across the street I want HIM to go and walk over and say hi to me... of course if he wants to (or else I couldn’t really care) In the case of where by he is in that process of crossing the road to greet me, I would like him to get knocked down by a car, suffer from a concussion. I’ll just call an ambulance but won’t visit him in the hospital. That’s how much I care for especially that particular one. Oh well, I don’t think that one reads my blog anyway.

I should count my lucky stars that besides being constantly teased as having the last name of ‘FOOL’, in the scenarios where EXes come in place, my first name comes in great vengeance. They have a whole month to endure everyday remembering that I was the girl and I want them to well up in misery.

Oh…how twisted I can be.

But such degrees of, how should I put it… ~~emotional turmoil they’ve cause me~~ tough times each has given me, I have a VERY SPECIAL level of scenarios always bubbling in my head.

Anyway, if I could comically put it I would like to give my exes a bring-it-on face and threaten with a tough face in addition wrestler like manner...

"SATISFY MY CURIOSITY BEECH... ALTHOUGH I ALREADY KNOW, IT ADDS TO THE FUN TO SEE WITH MY OWN EYES AS FURTHER PROOF THAT I'M ALWAYS DOING BETTER THAN YOU ARE."

I’m not too proud of having EXs in my life, but I am thankful they were there to make me who I am today. So thanks to the people in concern for making me see that my life is much better after getting to know you all. It just didn’t work out for any of us at that time :P

Till the day I even have great grandchildren, it would be rather pleasing to the mind to bump into any of them undergoing treatment in the hospital while I’m having my elderly checkup sessions.

Anyone with the same sentiments please raise your hands.

Where do you fit that ring?

2006-04-25T00:17:00.000+08:00

Eversince Ron gave me a ring for my birthday, I've been fingering the darling inbetween my fingers. Twisting it and sliding it in and out between my wedding ring finger and middle finger. Everytime I look at it, a smile slips on to my face. Who wouldn't be smiling silly with such a thoughtful gift, I ask you this.

Normally of course, your best friends will always be interested to know the highlight events in you life and that of course includes the special treatments your other half has provided for you on your birthday. The missy in Liverpool had a recent conversation with me.

hp: Ok! Lets check out what you got!

*April tries to send webcam invitation...but fails*

hp: cannot lah...just tell me what you got.

April: A Tiffy and Co. teardrop ring.

hp: *gets excited* OOOOOOOOHHHHH take a picture and send it over!

April: Send adi...

hp: Which finger are you wearing it on?

April: It's now (at that point) on my middle finger, it's a tad too large so we're going to exchange it for a smaller one,...I'd like to wear it on my fourth finger.

hp: WAHLAU. Which hand?

April: Left hand.

hp: So do you believe that this is THE ONE.

April: Ring only lah wei...but he's for keeps lah :)

The next day at work. I noticed that I was observing something I've never really normally bothered to do.

I was looking around the office in the morning at all my colleagues hands...particularly their fingers.

I usually only observe such things if the person looks past their mid twenties finished with good looks to boot. (At times I want to know such things if the person has a nasty temper...see if got any person who can actually tolerate them).

Nabeh...some of my colleagues wear it on the left, some of them on the right. Some on the third finger, some on the fourth. Some of them which I know are happily married with kids, like my parents don't wear rings at all. My mom in particular locks her ring up and prefers to wear costume jewellery XD

My boss popped in to check on us, so did the person in charge of design, and in 3 seconds I'm silently having a word with myself to stop looking around at everyone's fingers. Mind you, I did it again while having my lunch at the kopitiam.

I actually made a rough calculation and average statistics of how many where wearing it on the left hand or the right hand or which finger.

My sister see's me twitching the ring and switching it between fingers at home, and she just says.

"No need to switch fingers and hands lah....He like HUSBAND ADI give you such ring!"

I wonder if she has a point? *ponders*

Some 22nd Birthdays are made of these

2006-04-23T16:08:00.000+08:00

I've finally managed to get hold of the photos from my birthday 2 weeks ago. There were two main celebrations, one with Lydia and Ronald and the other with the ABC gang :P

I had my delicious fajitas, the margarita presidente, with the staff from Chillis singing Happy Birthday for me, a free brownie sundae and the company of two wonderful people.

One for the album

Yum Yum!

Brownie Sundae!

Clebrating with choo ki meant putting up the video of me swallowing half a cake whole, a slice of chocolate indulgence cake and a bloody large drink.

Yes yes, You surely love me.

Scooping up from the huge ass drink, I wonder if WKCCT is interested in paying royalties for this photo for advertisment puposes???

Ron feeds me cake!

That's beside all the great presents I got for this birthday, It was nothing compared in quantity to what I got for the last birthday but everything I got this time, I really really liked. Gorgeous purple Somerset bay earrings from Lydia C. and shell earrings from cousin Lydia T. Auntie Honey gave me Elizabeth Arden Green Tea (E. Arden scents rock! <3),>

But this one has got to be the tops... Ron presented this to me in the car in the little blue bag packed in a little blue box.

A TEARDROP TIFFANY RING!!!!

That wasn't the only teardrop on me when he gave it to me <3

The most amazing birthday present I've had ever! He's such a sweetheart. <3>

Virginity's worth

2006-04-13T21:14:00.000+08:00

A phone call from thousands of miles away. I was driving and my passenger told her to call me back in another 10 minutes.

"Who's that? Oh. How did she sound??"

This one just had some rough issues to deal with very recent of that point so I quickly turned on my PC hoping to catch her online. It's so good to see her online. I'm really concerned about how she's taking things after settling with a rough patch.

She asked me.

"What is the worth of a woman's virginity?"
It is worth as much as she places the value of it. It is up to her to decide how much it is worth.

"What is the worth of a woman's virginity to a man?"
Some place a woman's virginity as some thing to be respected, given in her own time. Some treat it as a bloody chattel It's not worth anything if he's already bloody done it alot of times, he usually doesn't give two hoots about how much a girl's virginity is worth.

"What's virginity to a man?"
Same as the last question luv, he can be an absolute saint with ideals for keeping it for someone, he can be overcome by lust; and some just don't care about giving it away.

"You've had relationships before...What's holding you back?"
An idealistic notion that if i do it before my wedding night...all the magic of "first night" would be lost....... Nahhhh kidding. The word "first night" is just a label like valentine's day,..anyday can be valentines day.

The people that were with me,...just weren't right. Despite the fact of being a showoff and somewhat "action" with my virginity is that it's worth so much to me that I want to give it to someone really special. Someone who means so much to me and someone who really loves me.

"How would you know?"
Hon. You wouldn't really know until it really hit you in the head. No man who loved you would put a sulky face on just because you don't want to do it with him..

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It's become such a norm to know that each one of my mates are graduating out of virginity one by one. I don't want to appear that I'm really keeping virginity for the sake of the thing called 'asian values' but I just don't want to take that gamble.

I have such a weight of insecurities that I FEAR when I do it, I will have continuous nightmares questioning my mensus due dates and a bloating tummy. I'm so afraid that after my man has his fill he leaves my gas tank dirty.

People call me an angelic exhibitionist but here's the irony though... after each one does that I have no idea, but most of them seem so pleased about it and they even brag about it.

In public.

Both men and women and errr... girls and boys.

I don't want to start raving out in public how his b***s slap against my %&$&^ or how i tease him that I won't do him if he doesn't pick me up on time again. Call me neurotic for that, but if more than 20 ppl rave to you IN PUBLIC LOUDLY about how great sex is, RIGHT AFTER DOING IT... you start to wonder if everyone has done it is such a braggard about it :P

Don't get me wrong, these people are still great and nice people.

I hope that when I do finish off my big V, I would have given it to someone who was worth all the while and with all collective hope, i won't be brainwashed by having a dick in me to start bragging. Till a great man comes along, I'm keeping whats worth keeping to me.

I've turned 16 for the 7th time

2006-04-09T10:08:00.000+08:00

It's finally here. It just seemed like yesterday that I was exstatic about turning 21 and a 2 hrs before a year after that I'm already in denial about turning 22.

In fact ... it was two weeks ago that I was casually talking to my sister

"My birthday is coming ahhh, I want my Trinity Blood box set for a present"

"OK. I try"

"Can't believe I'm turning 21 already"

"Errr... che, you're 22"

Dammit, Dammit, Dammit! I'm sooo old.

And after 21 there are no more excuses to throw a big ass party till I'm 50. 50....so far away i have to wait longer than my whole current life.

And all these changes in my body.... I'm going to bed by 12am and waking up at 7:30am feeling surprisingly extremely energetic, without an alarm. Then there are these funny sharp pains or something heavy always hanging around the back of my abdominal area. And then there are mood swings and how I'm actually starting to tap and hum to the Light and Easy radio station!

After this post, I'm no longer going to reveal my age XD

Sex enhancers

2006-04-04T17:59:00.000+08:00

2 days in my new company and on the 1st day itself it has introduced me to selling supplements for sexual health. Now let me ask you...

HOW COOL IS THAT?

One of the is one of the extracts from a plant called horny goat ..my question is ehhh how horny can a goat get?

Your hum sup "Old Goat", Sexy underwear and fuzzy facial mole included.

Tsk tsk, I'm pretty glad to see that Malaysians are getting more adapted to the fact of not being ashamed about their weakness in sexual intercourse. Of course thanks very much to the very widely marketed Tongkat Ali as well. There is nothing friggin wrong if you can't get it up and running, it's just like a case of bad breath imho. XD

Whatever it is how many people get to focus on sexual ideas on their first project at work? This whole work thing is looking extremely interesting and prospective to me ^^

So if you want, dun shy shy to ask me yah?

Work shouldn't be all that bad right?

2006-04-02T19:21:00.000+08:00

"Can I get some positive feedback about work? Cause all I'm hearing that it's a misery to go through".

"So you want us to lie?"

"Err no I just wish there would be at least one person who'd tell me working life is not all that bad"

Just a few more hours before I begin real work. Every one is asking how excited I am. Can I not be excited?

Both yes and no, partly cause I have to deliver a ~~slice~~ chunk of the salary back home and put them to "responsible" use. No not really looking forward to that. It's crazy what I'm going to have to pay for. I have my insecurities, that I would never be able to make that future what everyone has seen for me.

I really wonder if I am who I can be. It's friggin scary being thrown into the deep end like that. But then living by a credo such as "DO OR DIE" ... Whatever I do, even if I don't like it, I'll still end up trying to do it to the point of the cream. I just...

I don't want to start whining like a baby at work like everyone does

I don't want to complain too much

Some one tell me, it's not going to be THAT BAD.

Avocado Buns

2006-03-31T16:44:00.000+08:00

Sweets for the sweet. And it's only available on Saturdays. Dammit.

These buns look better than the ones on your boyfriend and definitely for a fact taste better. Me and Ron were walking aimfully in search of desserts in SS2 on Saturday. While waiting for a table, there was a fresh scent of food nectar in the air.

Every table was ordering this incredible looking golden thing and either had it cooling on their tables or already half massacred.

"WHAT IS THAT ARH?"

*Both of us scroll menu*

"Avocado Buns...RM3.80, Saturdays only"

"What's the big deal? Saturdays only? Come we must order!"

At first bite, you'll know what all that fuss is about, It peels open like a soft char siew pau but it crumbles on the top. And the filling doesn't taste like avocado at all!

It's SOOOOOOOOOOOOO YUMMY! DEMMIT AND ON SATURDAYS ONLY!

Terrible man, salty, sweet and kaya like in the center.

BASKET RON! STEAL MY BUN!

and Ron had to steal the other one away from me :P

It's a must try man, You won't want any dessert buns again, even if your other half has fab buns. SS2, along the road of the Police station near the bus stop, Chef Loong.

Please go on Saturdays only or you'll be disappointed :P

My handphone has her own social circles too.

2006-03-31T15:40:00.000+08:00

Tired of digging up your phone in this seasons hip but oversized bags? Can't always feel its there when it feels the same as any other thing in your bag or pocket? Well, never lose your phone again! Just dangle 5 or more straps and with bells, feathers and lamp work surfaces you handphone will be available to you by just the tingle of bells or a touch of multi grained surfaces!

With a 25cm chain strap attached, it's sure to slap nosy parkers lurking behind you!

Designed to keep your handphone company and in style with times, some straps will offer you blinky lights!

KISS THE MALAYSIAN HANDPHONE STRAPS QUEEN JAPANESE GIRLS!!! BWAHAHAHAHAH

Smack me. I have officialy hit the peak of La-la ness.

Ooooh handphone orgies.

Why I probably need earring tower 5

2006-03-27T12:32:00.000+08:00

i) My other towers are terribly crammed with earrings (esp tower 1)
ii) It's not helping to that earrings are getting down to the price of 4 for RM10
iii) Or 5 for RM10...
iv) Or RM1 for one pair >-< (it's a ridiculous degradation of the earring market imho)
v) When I've been in a making frenzy but haven't quite actively promoting to sell any

I Wonder why of all things i've ended up collecting earrings. Maybe you can help.

1. Perhaps I am...
A) horribly dedicated to vanity
B) A big cheapskate, I succumb to the market of cheap earrings
C) I just like metal rods that go though little holes

2. And yet I make my own.., could it be that
A) I want to own other pairs that no one can
B) I'm a cheapskate, making my own means not paying others
C) I like obscene things dangling from my ears... (e.g, vagina earrings as below.)

Yes I could make these if you're interested.

3. What do you think of me hearing that I'm contemplating to buy earring tower 5?
A) You're a nut with nothing else better to do
B) You're a cheapskate who would import one from Thailand cause it's rm40 cheaper there
C) You just love going through holes don't cha?

4. What would I have probably done if I don't enjoy collecting earrings
A) Collecting erasers
B) Playing PS2 games cause they're an economical form of entertainment
C) Going through holes

More delicious looking wearable craft ^^

2006-03-27T11:49:00.000+08:00

Polymer clay work is too addictive. I have been so at it I've almost forgotten about blogging.

*Points fingers at new technique and says "ALL YOUR FAULT"*

ESPECHIALLY WITH MY NEW NEW GLOSS THAT I HAD TO ORDER FOR IT TO BE FLOWN OVER WHEE WHEE!

So thus, my new range of pastries have this beautiful glossy icing finish to them!

Chocolate eclairs, chocolate donuts and chocolate swirls!

I love the way this waffle looks with warm butter melting all over and diagonal swishes of maple syrup!

A raisin cinnamon roll

Cinnamon roll with real cinnamon sprinkles!

I've also injected in butter scents, bread spice, and cinnamon smells to make the whole thing smell nice and sweet. Tell me how not to get addicted lah...everything looks too delicious to not keep making more!

I have officially lost it: a baking adventure.

2006-03-11T13:17:00.000+08:00

There it was dripping and moist with self made icing... I had to use my tool to get it wide open... and I had to push quite deep to get the hole to open up bigger. Slowly,...gently...but surely it opened up

and now, I am going to show you my three holes.

My 3 holes in donut.. gotta love that icing

Wahey my glazed donuts! After 3 days of experimenting with colour, texture and techniques I have perfected the 'baked dough' effect for my collection of little yummy looking trinkets! I've got the below as a handphone strap on my E398 XD

Hot cross custard bun, croissant and braided bread :D

I've also perfected the art of sauce and icing dripping! Oh wow wow wow! I really really can't help but be a little proud of how a hobby of less than 5 months has evolved so well ^^

From left Maple Syrup + Chocolate + Butter round toast with whipped cream and cherry; Brown chocolate brownie with chocolate fudge sauce, served with a healthy dose of vanilla ice cream; Buttered down pancakes.

And here is something for all you people who have been asking me to make drinks, you're going to have to wait a while before i can make martinis, but at least here is something to quench your thirst...Orange juice !

If you look close enough you can see the ice and slices of orange floating through the 'glass'

I could'nt resist myself, I had to make a matching orange whipped cream filled crepe to go with the set! And look from the top! Can see the ice are a floating :P

Ooohhh orange set, making me hungwee..

Wahey! i'm so excited I'm going to make more more MORE!

Lydia's Birthday at Fondue House

2006-03-10T09:36:00.000+08:00

And It's because so many people tend to be lactose intolerant in Asia, is that we have so few of these outlets. But I would gladly support ANYONE who wants to open any cheese related shops in KL.

SPREAD THE LOVE OF CHEESE!

Ah anyways, It's been so long since I've wanted to try cheese fondue (after seeing it countless of times on Zen's msn nickname). So Lydia's birthday was the perfect opportunity. Find it opposite Soda bar which is next to the desa sri hartamas food court. Also visibly seen from warung uncle don.

I do advise however to park slightly further away and not mind walking there cause parking around that area is a slaughtering RM5.

See Lydia glow on her birthday... she found it funny when I said I wanted to take a random shot.

Choose your poison.

Fondue comes in a variety of sets if I'm not mistaken they come in a selection of beef, chicken, seafood, and a jumbo platter ranging from RM29.90 onwards. With a selection of 6 kinds of cheese you'll be left coming over and over again just to taste the different flavours. Feeling a little peckish for meat and salty cheese, we took the beef set with garlic cheese and two of the special fizzy juices they had with a side of wedges. What's cheese without a side of potatoes I'd always say.

The fizzy drinks are a must try! Their exactly the same as the Sprite-Ribena drinks served at C-Jade Express. Exactly what an OrangeMc Fizz lover would want to down.

The cheese altho supposedly garlic cheese, had only a very mild garlic flavour to it but thankfully it was salty to the taste. :D I think they kinda totally spoiled the beef cubes cause they were mildly sweet,...tasted like they were marinated in teriyaki sauce >-< (Must try chicken next time)

The servings are also RATHER BLOODY SMALL. without the wedges, Me and Lydia would have actually downed more at the dessert stalls in Ming Tien. Oh well but then the cheese would compensate fine for small eaters.

If anyone can let me know if they give refills for the pot of cheese please do XD

Ah but yes food is still food. And as they say in Jack Sprout, "we licked the platter clean"

Or umm sorta Licked it clean...

Thus, Lydia and moi conclude...Definitely worth a comeback (just don't come back too often cause cheese can get very sickening to the buds if eaten too much at a go) cause we also haven't tried their CHOCOLATE FONDUE

You'll never look at meatballs the same way again

2006-02-24T20:29:00.000+08:00

Remember that as you were brought up you were taught not to play with your food? This is the post of an opposite nature.

Twas a boring night and me and a mutual friend were off to Ikea to eat some tasty meatballs. Getting odd ideas of smiling potatoes from cheryl's blog, we decided to try some of our own food display skills.

And so the great works began...

Carving that potato with Foreign help.

I was feeling utterly malicious and violent that night and I couldn't help but express myself through work of art ^^ Hey hey there goes a potato head has just tumbled down on a few boulders and has died of shock bleeding from his mouth ;p. I almost forgot that there was impaling help from another foreign country too :P

X_X potato...

Of course we didn't want to spoil the mood of the dinner since it was a beautiful night and thus, we countered a sad potato with a happy one :P

What a happy Potato!

A little much later after 10 meatballs or so I started feeling additionally creative and thus experimented with the meatballs! With my knife and fork, surgical precision was utilised to make these wonderful meatball shapes!

Spreading the Love of meatballs in words and shapes from cranberry sauce!

CHECK IT OUT! meat BALLS! Hmm...I wonder which shape loves what...

Meatball Pornography.

Whattta fun day. How will you eat your balls next time? :P

And which relationship is without expectation?

2006-02-15T13:26:00.000+08:00

V-day is gone and it must have one bloody shitty day for some of the people I know. Some of us prolly got what we wanted and there are those who just didn't. If you prolly felt like crap, my dear friends during V-day gimme a ring and I'll go arrange a time and have chocolate cake with you ^^

Hearing all the stories with those i had chocolate cake with resurfaced a memory about me and my ex... when he didn't show up on a day just like any other, with the exception that I was feeling ill with my parents not around and with a papers to sit for in 3 days.

and I quote my exact words...
"I'm dissapointed in you, you're not even doing things as a friend. A friend would have at least come to pay me a visit cause I'm sick or offer to take me to a doctor."

and he said...
"I can't be friends with someone who expects something off me."

and yesterday I hear so many familliar scenes again. The phone converstaion with my ex that ended it all replays in my head.

Yet again, truly I ask you now, aside from the whole BGR thing, which association with another person you have doesn't give you every right to expect something out of it? Of course don't be so LEBIH (too much) lah expect too much. If you're dissapointed, God gave you a brain and mouth for goodness sakes, use it.

Employer employee relationship, those between friends, family members....for goodness sakes, my dogs and I also have this expectation understanding.

Even in my best of relationships, no matter how, there is a point where you start drawing the line, ticking the emotional abacus and see how much debit or credit you have accumulated. I aksk my friends and they agree with me. It's on an unwritten contract per se. Sure, I DON'T OWE IT TO YOU, and NEITHER DO YOU OWE IT TO ME, but can't you be a bit more sincere ah?

No one likes to lose out.

Delicious Looking meals minus the calories!

2006-02-09T20:08:00.000+08:00

Unfortunately this is not some post with regards to weight loss. Of course unless you so willingly eat these food on display that you'll naturally lose weight while trying to painfully recover.

Bologna Sandwich

See this Bologna sandwich...mmm... On wholemeal bread, is a think sloppy slice of bologna smacked in between a slice of cheese, fresh tomatoes and lettuce creamed down with mustard and mayonnaise.

Bologna Upclose

I love how the cheese looks like it's partially melted over the rest of the stuffing and how the mayo and mustard appears oozing out of the package ^^

Steak with a sunny side up and a side of fries

When I made this I thought to myself. Now who would bloody wear T-bone steak as earrings? Unless of course, you're in the meat business and darned proud of it, of if you wanted to use my earrings to place it in Barbie's cooking stove. It's done looking all the way I sometimes like it...raw :P Mom personally thinks that the pieces of steaks must have come from one fat cow.

Ah yes, there are other pieces of food which include some beef too.

There's the supreme beef pepperoni pizza with any thingamajigs that you usually put as toppings.....

and the burgers with a side of fries XD

But don't forget to include fibre in your daily diet and the vitamins from delicious fresh veggies! Mmmm...avacados, chilli's, tomatoes, carrots, capsicums, peppers, cauliflower, and aubergines.

EAT YOUR VEGGITIBLES!

And then perhaps if you're good I'll treat you to pixie cakes for tea, with my sister's miniature teas set

OOOHHHH TEA....

or if you know how to butter me up... I'll give you my specially super chocolate and mocha layered cake that's topped with marbled chocolate ^^

I personally dub this cake... DEATH BY CHOCOLATE.

Like I promised, absolutely zero calories food.

For my valentine. Go give her what I made :P

2006-02-07T08:08:00.000+08:00

Ah yes this valentine its all about me, me, me. Well, if I could earn some dough to treat meself :/

So yah I thank my wonderful cuzzy Joanne for providing me with an idea to earn some income. Not easy to make tho :( My prototypes all suffered dearly cause my techniques were not very well practiced but after much trial and error, they came out PERFECT.

And because they are so very darned well difficult to make I've prepared a batch of them and they only will be available as stocks last and of course...because they are so difficult they are a lil more expensive.

Be prepared for my best work yet! XD

the Limited Edition Valentines 2006 - Victorian Valentines.

3 differently coloured roses budding from their leafy stems set on a cream ribbon! Swarovski crystals included for that glamorous touch ;)

Available in 4 colour schemes,

Romance- Pink
Enchant- Yellow
Flirt - Purple
Ballad - Blue

Victorian Valentines in Romance

Victorian Valentines in Flirt

Victorian Valentines in Ballad

Victorian Valentines in Enchant

So yeap I'm taking in orders now, so go.. mail me...

A real webcam camwhore.

2006-02-04T00:27:00.000+08:00

I just came back from a Jap Buffet with daddy's Victoria Institution clan. Since the night was still young, and being a Friday night, I was drugged on Sugar from all the sushi digestion and the variety of desserts they offered. Ron took the opportunity to subject me to several camwhoring poses with the use of a webcam, the "Prt Sc" button and Paint editing functions. Note the actual titles for each pose was given by the photographer himself (so don't say I'm trying to feed my ego =P ).

Aint I cute April

Apa Lu Mao April

Artist April

Barf April

Blue + Red = BOOM! April

Buffet Mistress 1980 April

Fluffy Bunny April

Hmmm April

Konichiwa Minna-San!! April

Me and my Burger April

Nothing Better to do April

Nursery School April

Oh NO! April

One Eyed April

Piak! Fly! April

Quistis Hot Librarian Angle April

Shy Shy April

Sweet Smile April

Very Fake and Failed Attempt To Hang April

Want A piece of This?April

What do I do with This? April

I think this post will get quite a number of hits for crazy Poses...

My Kohana Set

2006-01-31T22:30:00.000+08:00

Kohana (def.) = Little flower.

What a great name for this set ^^. My first set at that too :) This marks my experimentation with gloss, some odds and ends of moulding and shaping techniques and playing around with other extensions.

As usual I would have my pair of earrings.

The Kohana earrings with white washed stone effect background and 3D effects of floral display. Adorned with Swarovski crystals in violet and silver tonings.

Heh, actually they were made to go with this particular pendant. I altered the design from something I picked out changing the size, shape, outer deco and patterns of the pendant.

The Kohana tear shaped pendant with white washed stone effect background and 3D effects of floral display. Adorned with Swarovski crystal in violet and silver tonings.

and then... hey why don't I make something else to go with it. So thus, I maketh the chopsticks for hair :D And I chose high quality durable wood chopsticks. I had very many nasty experiences with "plastic chopsticks"

Wahey! Nice or not! First attempt with hair ornaments.

Kohana styled bicone beads on an extension with silver butterflies, silver beads and Swarovski crystals in Turquoise and Violet.

So happy! yay!

A place for great Pan Mee

2006-01-27T08:46:00.000+08:00

Muchos gracias to Laine for introducing this place to a number of us. It was right in the backyard of Uni and I've never taken heed to it :P

What makes their serving of Pan Mee so special is that their noodles are CHEWY and smooth. Very, important for this particular noodle. As you slip and slide a spoonfull of pan mee into your mouth you can still feel it's chewy-ness which has captured the most of the soup's flavour in the back molars and the glaze of smoothness.

Delicious "Clear Soup" Pan Mee

And it's super cheap too (at RM3.00) for it's large portion. Don't be fooled by it's outer shell, it's packed with so much noodles I know most girls can't finish it off.

Kedai Kopi dan makanan Kum Chuan
Jalan SS13/1F

It's just opposite the 3K fitness center with the 24hr A&W ^-^

The Flirty Pizza Man

2006-01-22T04:25:00.000+08:00

It happened on the night when I picked Melissa to accompany me for some succulent beef bacon and salami Pizza. We were dressed like how girls our age would dress... fashionable but still in a presentable manner.

We were greeted by this foreign worker behind the counter where all the cooking was done. Picture this, a burnette of average height, hairy arms, furrowed temple and dusty side burns.

"Ladies..." he said invitingly. "Table for how many?"

April waves a peace sign left and right "Two please."

"Ah, sit right here." he sat us down right next to the counter and passed us the menus.

His colleague just happened to walk by in and said, "Eh, another customer said he wants to sit here!"

"Ah no, no these two ladies already took the table. Ask him to sit inside."

He unstrapped his apron took an note pad with a pen and walked over to the other side of the table to take our orders. Now how great is that? What service and first come first serve policy for a local restaurant :)

Melissa wanted a glass of water for her cough and he replied...

"Sorry it's not our company policy to serve water, but we can serve you mineral water."

"Ah...it's ok then. No need for water."

He then proceeds to making the pizza I ordered while me and Mel continued being girlish-ly chatty. It's interesting to catch the rolling of the dough, raining of cheese an pasting of tomato puree at the corner of your eye but it's also DISTURBING to catch the same man having his eyeballs fixed at you and your company.

He then disturbed our conversation a bit and asked the most corniest sex innuendo-ised question....

"Your pizza...do you want one egg or two eggs on it?" as he attempts to sound appealing. (Now come to think of it, thank goodness if he asked me if I wanted "one or two sausages on it"....that would be drastically nightmarish).

Smashing two eggs on top of the pizza as I ordered he proceeded to putting my Pizza into the oven and me and Mel went on with our chat....and then out of the blue...

"Do you still want water?"

"In a glass? Yes please."

He then proceeds to increase the value of the "generous" offer. "With lemon?"

"Yes. I have a bad cough."

" OK. And you?"

"Ermm. No thanks." I emphasized hand waving suggestively

He dashes of to get the water prepared and this was EVERY OPPORTUNITY to ask Mel in cantonese of course...

"Is the guy flirting with us ah?"

He delivered the water to the tables himself and made that attempt to smile titillatingly again. Ugh....yes trying to flirt.

He goes back to his counter, serves the pizza and then HANGS ABOUT LIKE CROW PERCHED AT THE COUNTER. GOD KNOWS WHERE HIS EYES ARE TRAVELLING FROM THAT PLATFORM and WHAT HE WANTS TO PICK OUT FROM OUR TALK.

"You girls are from where?"

"We're from here."

"You're Chinese? But you speak English!" (Ah-duiii)

"Ah yes. Where are you from?" as Melissa tried to be diplomatic

"Croatia."

"Ah..I see"

When the bill came,... Mel asked me to check the bill if they charged for her glass of lemon water. XD Hey, hey he wanted to get fresh with us so the water came free...

After our coffee we walked back to the car and there he was sitting outside having a drink and I supposed he meant well when he waved goodbye to us.

It just sent me and Melissa into a panic to get in the car,...lock up and drive off. Ish. I'm not going to dress like my age to the same pizza shop again..unless I knew flirting would get me a free pizza XD

Girl Friends Malacca Road Trip

2006-01-21T06:49:00.000+08:00

(Really backdated post)

We've always wanted to do the road trip thing when we all had the ability to drive, the necessary cash and of course the time for it :P

Lucky for us, Jason was around to take us and a it was a good thing a week before that Alex threatened to take care of any of his contacts who have forgotten him when he switched to his new mobile contact. So I got to meet both of them. YAY!

4 chatty girls with nothing better to do on a Saturday but to go Malacca to do nothing but eat and await Jonker Walking

One for the Album :) Mei Ai, Lydia, Me and Mel

An so after an early spicy Pan Mee brunch we arrived at Malacca in less than two hours later and we feasted again...

Chicken Rice Balls!

Oh durian Cendol... How I've dreamt of you.

With nothing better to do for two to three hours or so, Jason took us to Riveria beach resort. Sounds expensive but it's technically a public beach ^^. Over there we tested our IQ in the sand, made miniature traffic pile ups from an Armageddon collision with driftwood resembling a meteorite, tried out skipping stones on the water surface and tried very hard to locate some crabs.

Come out so I can cook you for dinner!

Just to cut things short, we then went to Tan Kim Hock to savour the local confectionery, processed and fermented foods before moving on to Dinner and then... Jonker Street. We must have walked along the road 4-5 times at least

THANKS TO LYDIA... me and Melissa were getting the fancies for a nice pair of clogs. Walking the whole road we found a wonderful lady who made sexy, dainty and eye-candy clogs that she gave us each.... a RM1 discount for the pairs we bought -_-''' (She was furiously calculating and tabbing numbers on a piece of paper... and that also it took a good 10-15 minutes of persuasion) But I likeeeee... So Sweet...see for yourself.

A very good buy ^^

Happy, were we all that day. Despite the fact that we all came back bloody bushed and throughout the whole trip there were constant calls from the parent patrol -_- (sked the girls get rammed by a car and hijacked/robbed etc...)

I'm just so happy with my clogs that I also want to thank Minishorts for a suggestion on making clogs. Thankiew darling :) I did.. of my favourite pair just today :D (Since other people making miniatures tend to use the penny or pence, I wanna show my proud support for the Malaysian sen! MALAYSIA BOLEH! *KOFF*)

My Lil' Mini clog... Now I have matching earrings to go with my footwear!

On a scale of 1:80 :P

New Spring Line ^^

2006-01-20T02:08:00.000+08:00

I'm so excited just to release them for sale ^^

*Cuts Big Yellow Ribbon*

Let me say a few words first...

*ahem* Thank you to my loyal customers and friends who have been giving me support and inspiration to continue with a passion of mine. I applaud you all for your time, and effort and I hope that you are happy with your product ^^

This spring, I have drawn inspiration and the natural crafts of mother nature to incorporate into my designs and brought the glitz of Swarovski™ crystals for that more sophisticated yet down to earth look.

I named this special edition spring-line as Noelani, Hawaiian for "beautiful girl from heaven" in conjuction with it's coral kissed colours and the glimmer from the Swarovski crystals as they catch the watch of heaven's eye.

With that ladies and gentlemen, I am more than proud to present to you..

Noelani.

Lantern Corals in Aquamarine and Laguna Blue Swarovski™ crystals

Lantern Corals in Green and Caleurpa Green Swarovski™ crystals

Lantern Corals in Pink and angel fish purple Swarovski™ crystals

Shell designs in Seaweed, Lagoon Blue, Coral and Sand.

Yes they're all available for order now ^^ . Please view my catalogue for more designs, or....For more details send me a mail :D

Elongated Buttocks

2006-01-11T11:34:00.000+08:00

Sure, it's nice to be a tall girl. Long stair like legs that allow you to wear a purple frilly boho skirt without looking like a fat plum, innocently snatching the center of the camera in a group photo, having both girls and guys oogle wishing that the top of their scalp just skimmed your eye line. Heels add to the whole thing transforming you into a sort of model material.

Although now I wish, I had the 2/3rds lower part of my body proportionally aligned with the remains of my upper body...

or erm, I wish I wasn't the one usually 'sticking out' from a crowd,

ehhh emmm... I'm way passed the age to be proud of getting to enjoy amusement park rides because of my stature..

Ehhh, errmmm, ummm.... ahhh Bother...

I CONFESS!!

I HAVE A BIG BUTT!

MY ARSE IS SO HUGE I HAD TO CUSTOM MAKE MY SHORTS AND PINAFORE WHEN I WAS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL!!!

AND I STILL HAVE TO WEAR A SIZE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.

*Puts screaming alter-ego away, shoves it and gathers her behaved-self*

There. So now you know it.

It brings me to tears to not only accept that my child-bearing assets have expanded horizontally from lack of exercise, over binging and genetic traits. Yet I have to swallow the fact that my bottom does not look just like pudding, but a tower of JellO barely squashed between a so-called torso and a pair of King Kong legs.

I have bunchy crab-shell like buns.. flat, long, big and turns bright red when immersed in hot water.

Gwiehhh,.. 'scuse the inconsistent rambling.

I'm jealous of the petite sized girls..
i) Because I suffocate in a US size 4
ii) The look grab-able in the average human size palm
iii) They don't leave openings when seated on the toilet bowl
iv) They can wear cute mini skirts without looking like their purposely doing it

Dear new miniskirt, does that mean I will have to lose weight before you may sit nicely on my hips?

It's getting quite agitating to pull down my skirt each time I stand up or stepping on to a high ledge. :(

And now, you know the plight of the unproportionate tall chics.

One final word, if you ever meet me, please do not do an analysis on my butt :P

Makan Makan with Melissa

2006-01-11T10:58:00.000+08:00

Ms Lee, is back for winter break from Buffalo. She's partly one of the reasons while I haven't been updating the blog recently :P (Busy doing BFF things )

And here in exhibit A we have quite an ol photo back in the days of college...

Mel paying me a visit in the middle of a fundraiser activity.

but that was then and this is now...

Lydia and Melissa.

Lissa and me....ahhh how we've grown :p

And since there is someone who is home for the holidays, we Malaysians like to use it as an excuse to take this opportunity to guzzle up as much as we can nonchalantly waving the idea of putting on the pounds at this time...

So we eat...

Fishball Noodles

and chew....

The best fish balls since the 1960s

and nibble....

Cheese Crab

and munch....

Fried Curry Leaf Crabs

and dip...

Golden String Buns

and indulge...

Wong Kok, Char Chan Teng's Peanut Butter Thick Toast

and let these melt in our mouth...

Mommy's Pineapple Tarts

and digest...

Mahboob's Nasi Briyani

and swallow up...

Mahboob's Kuey Teow Goreng

till we were all done :)

Wah Clean, clean.

And after putting up this post, I'm going to stare at my huge as Truck-like thighs and solve the mystery of where all those went to :P

Aunt Alice and Uncle Tony down for Xmas

2005-12-30T23:43:00.000+08:00

Auntie Alice and Uncle Tony were back not too long ago. Everytime they came back they would always give their nices and nephews sweet stuff like cute clothes, mickey mouse mechandise, collectible coins and read-along CDs. And as we grew older since they had no idea what to give the kids, the bring in Australian chocolates, delicious sweet mustard tuna and yummy special pancake mix in Space Jam containers!~

Since I'm all grown up already time they got me uber nice, young lady presents! ^^ Joy Joy!

New Zealand Paua Shell earrings! I 've already worn them thrice!

Mother of Pearl Earrings! WAhhh I'm really flattered that Auntie Alice gave them to me XD These are so expensive since I'm spoilt by the variety of of 3 for RM10 earrings. I so, So, SO like!

A dusty silver brocade Australian Table Ei8ht bag! Wah! XD

Uncle Tony brought me to the side and told me in typical Uncle Tony Fashion..

"Well, Congratulations girl, here is a lil something for you after graduating. In Australia, they're sold as doublets or triplets, but this one is what they call a solid Opal".

My eyes nearly popped out... and it wasn't the kind of dark dark opal, this was a kanasai nice white opal. (Altho, the black ones are the more expensive ones :P; but this was accompanied wth two biji of bling bling of if not diamond, crystal :)

I should graduate more often...

So I take Auntie Alice out to 1U ti spend some quality auntie niece time together since she only comes back once or twice a year. Took her to all my favourite stores and showed her what fantastic fabrics they have for offer. In the end, haih spend too much for my own good.

Naf Naf halter for RM40.

Super Nice Dorothy Perkins skirt at a special of RM59 (cut from RM193)!

XOXO top, rather, or erm very see thru, must wear tube top inside before going out. (Sale Price RM49.90, Original Price, RM129.90)

And when I send Auntie Alice back to Grandad's place, Auntie Mindy then has another surprise for me! Deng deng deng, beaded top.

Bohemian-ish! *clasps hands to cheeks* I likeeeee

Tis so nice and lucky of me to come from a big family with very nice relatives :D

A very Merry Christmas!

2005-12-28T00:30:00.000+08:00

Hey ho, not like it was the best thing on earth to be quarantine at home without spicy food and cold drinks owing to a god-forbidding cough (damn that mango ice shaved dessert) and cold. And it wasn't fun that I could not make close contact with the people I wanted to be close to like schweet Ryan here who has not too long ago, started etching breaths of words in the air.

Ryan. Awww..... :D

This Christmas tho, Santa has brought me back two good friends from the West on Christmas break and I've manage to attend a family party watching a wheezing dog and a turnip headed pumpkin in 'Howl's Moving Castle' with one of them and gone shopping and pigging out with the other

The Magic of Giving of course didn't quite start until the 2nd day of Christmas :).

Giving to myself that is :P

Mommy got me a new MNG bag before Christmas itself! Thankiews Mommy :)

Wheee new bag! :D

And since I've earned enough, saved enough from 2 weeks of not lepaking and with some help from debt collection I had quite alot of "ka ching" to spare :D

On the day I went out with Jhameia, I bought myself my Dior PLAY! Whoo, I don't need my special edition Christmas collection sets anymore :D. Lip gloss in a silver casing encrusted with diamanites. So happy I managed to get it after booking in 5 different counters -__-

Dior Play...In Bet On Pink

I also spotted an MNG dress shopping with Jha but I was one UK size too big for the two pieces left there *grrr*

Nyeh, so I dragged Melissa and Lydia along with me to Lot10's MNG found the dress, but the cut made me look like I had swimmer's chests.

Me: "And I wanted to wear that to Susan's Wedding.... *upset*"

"APRIL... YOU CANNOT UPSTAGE THE BRIDE!"

"If it has to be coloured, make it floral printed"

After trying several MNG outlets, I was never going to get the dress.... So I settled for losing my virginity instead.

Hhehehe, but when I went out shopping with mom and dad I saw that Times Square had a decently sized MNG boutique :D Better cut, holds well and at least flatters the landscape on top :P Wahhh and dad paid for my dress! Of course, now I'm just going to wear it for CNY.

Whee new dress!!! Thankiews Daddy! :)

I also got my PS2's direct chip modified :) Happy Happy Happy am I :)

My mom has found my blog

2005-12-23T07:40:00.000+08:00

In all the hub-bub and excitement of me creating and selling my earrings, Mom had to do a little searching for my so called 'catalogue' online. And in the midst of it all she finds out that it was not such a dedicated website, but more of personal.

On my way to take something out from her toilet I see her just casually scrolling down some very familiar pictures and an even more telling sidebar.

"Mom, why are you reading my blog?"

"Reading lah cannot ah?"

What can I say.... CANNOT DON'T READ MY BLOG, IT'S PERSONAL! WHY DON'T YOU RESPECT MY PRIVACY! AGH I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU AHHHHH! *SUICIDE*

if course not... So i just continued to mind my own business and slap some hair moisturiser in her toilet.

And then I hear her clicking, and Typing three significant keys on the keyboard. Gazing over her shoulder, I see her COPYING AND PASTING SOME OF MY ENTRIES AND PUTTING THEM INTO WORD DOCUMENTS!!!

at that point...I was already wanting to go... leave a virus on her comp.

instead...

"Mom what are you copying and pasting?"

"I want to send this to your auntie, and the post about your nanny" *Slaps the thing into Yahoo! Mail*

I HAD TO GET OUT OF THE ROOM.

AND SEE MY SISTER....

"How did she get onto my blog?"

"You know she was looking for it, I just told her to lay off abit"

"She's not laying of that's for sure and she's plagarising!"

And then she NEVER LETS ME FORGET AND HAS TO RUB SO MANY THINGS IN.

Like about my ex.

and she even asks me if she can have the last word on it.

And today at Winter Solstice dinner, the aint and cousins were asking about my earring business.

Mom goes and say "Go see at her blog"; digs out an old unwanted receipt from her bag and scribbles the URL.

"Wah why the address so long one ah?" complains the cousin.

Just drown me in tonight's serving of Tang Yuen, I just lost my right to be opiniated.

Camwhoring with FA, Minishorts, YP, KY and Edrei

2005-12-20T00:58:00.000+08:00

A big thank you to ,Minishorts, FA, YP, Edrei and KY for coming down to help me model and take photos of my earrings :D

Here's the portfolio XD

The Goodies that have not been camwhored by Jolene yet

FA and Minishorts begin by feeding each other Burgers :D

YP and FA share a pair of vanilla cones :)

And then FA just feeds YP an Ebi sushi...

...before getting to KY with a slice of neon watermelon :P

and then satisfies her hunger with a crab or two.

Finally, no one is eating the earrings anymore!

YP Pretty with a Strawberry cupcake ;D

A blur but definitely portfolio worthy picture of Minishorts showing how she can dangle 3 earrings in one ear hole.

FA gives Minishorts an idea.

FA's idea to Minishorts: "Why don't we put a bunch of them on my hand instead of just eating them and wearing them?"

So begins the task of placing them on FA's hand ....

Hold them still FA... PERFECT! :D

Because I didn't get my what Edrei calls 'a vintage' camera out during my Modelling session with Jolene we'll just have to wait a bit when she's got the time to do it :D.

Don't push her :P

And tadah!, I've got new designs. My chocolates look darn real and smell real as well :D

Mmm... Strawberry Bites

And check out these funky sperm earrings. If you're kinky enough to wear them ;)

These and more designs in my new online catalogue :D I also now make handphone straps, pendants and Keyrings :) Just drop me a line at my gmail :D

Eff-ed up

2005-12-15T00:41:00.000+08:00

Wahh everything seems to be going so wrongly for me :(

Although I managed to catch the much anticipated Chronicles of Narnia today, it also happened to be my MOST EXPENSIVE CINEMA film watched! Dropped my phone :( For all the reasons that are good to have LOOSE fitting jeans after a diet, dropping something that was inside it....was none of them.

It's my 3rd day of detox (on pure vege diet) and 5km of cycling a day. I've only loss 2kgs. And my legs are only 25% flattering.... Utter rats...or errr rabbits. I'm going to take my FAT HUGO out for a walk tomorrow.

Just you and me fat boy...we're going walkies tomorrow....

I'm also stuck in several squabbles between a dozen pairs of friends. Haih,... that I won't comment but I will still be there for ALL OF YOU. Don't make me take sides.

I go to parkson Ask for my DIOR play.

"Limited Edition Miss, Stocks come in at about a week"

"Ok. Can I reserve one in this shade?" (Die man, no money yet, asking to reserve adi)

Xmas present to myself :P

And I still haven't met Jhameia yet! And Melissa is coming back! And I haven't seen Lydia! And I have yet to LONG-KAI with Lin AND Kels! Or go shopping with Feng and Ying! Or satisfied all my customers orders!

AND ASHLEY STILL HAS NO FRIGGIN GUTS TO DRIVE!

AND THE UNI STILL HAS NO TRANSCRIPT READY FOR ME!

*Sound of released pressurized steam*

My Edible Looking USB drive

2005-12-13T18:15:00.000+08:00

"What the heck are you doing? "

"What does it look like mommy? Making food lahhh... "

Minishorts passed me this link today and suggested I go try making my own edible USB drive.

After doing some brainstorming I realised...Wah how to collect all lah? One going for *converts US$....faints* too much for the pocket to take....Aihssss.

And so April comes up with a plan. What if people can use the same USB drive without the fuss of changing the clothes of their drives? Less than an hours work and then there is.....

Drum roll please...

Thumb Drive rings! Wheee!

in my favourite sushi....EBI SUSHI!

...Oopsie..sorry I can hear heads banging on keyboards and chairs toppling over in the distance... Lol, these babies are better than having to change your drives just for the sake of collecting at a percentage to the decimal to a fraction of the price!

And of course, you want these cool looking doo dads to be noticable...imagine having to stick your great looking USB the other way topsy turvy.... With the ring, you can switch the sides with ease :P

Now I don't have to pay so much to collect them all ;)

"Mmm... you smell yummy"

2005-12-08T21:26:00.000+08:00

Constantly tickled with the thought of having a person of the opposite sex tasting my flesh or inhaling my skin deeply and then murmur to me

"You taste/smell yummy"

And thus I begin a decent obsession, a side quest of life to be a person who smells absolutely delicious. I love vanilla, you'd find my makeup chest stored with various editions of vanilla gloss and perfumes from french vanilla to basic vanillin. Then there is my obsession with dewberry where I must alwasy keep a constant stock of Boots Dewberry spray :)

That's why I love all my cocktail glosses, richly berried scrubs and minty foot freshners :) If you ever get a chance to come near my fabrics, they smell delectable as well

And till now I haven't quite got enough of smelling edible...

I felt a dire need to do the same to my accessories and thus began the splurging of scents on them.

So you can imagine; Oh wait no need to imagine too hard...

Peppermint (Merry mint) scented glittered candy canes :D

Bubble gum (Bubble-yummy) ice cream cones, Orange cake (Mandarin Tangerine) and Chirstmas Fruit Mince Pies (Noel Fruit Cake)

MMMmmmm... and here is the list for the scents! The king of fruits included too!

· Appetizing Apple
· Apple Mints
· Bubble-yummy
· Melts-like-butter
· Citrus Charm
· Sexy Coconut
· Chocolate-orange
· Distinctively Durian
· Pink Grapefruit
· Hold-Me-Honeydew
· Lush Lemon
· Mad For Mango
· Merry Mint
· Mandarin Tangerine
· Noel Fruit Cake
· Pineapple Punch
· Rose Rich
· Fraise Strawberry
· Strawberry Cream
· Tropical Medly
· Dreamy Vanilla
· Yummy Yam

Oh yeah, the cam whoring and sale session will be postponed to next weekend. Email me again for the details :)

Bangkok 2005: The shopping hoard.

2005-12-06T14:12:00.000+08:00

The idea of a shopping trip to Bangkok was targeted at two factors

1. Cheap

2. Unusual

As I actually told some of my relatives and acquaintances that since I'm there, I might as well get some good cheap work attire that I could use for the first two years or so. My last purchase (or rather with dad's permission) was something I could definitely wear everyday but it was neither cheap and all too common.

Britney Spears' Curious EDP. Gotta love that sweet nectarine smell and the bottle... OOOOHHH happy, Lucky it was the King's Birthday, if not no discount in Bangkok International Airport duty free.

Oh yes, because it was so very special that it was the King's Birthday, everything was SO CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!

I purchased alot of my favourite kind of tops, anything airy that lets the skin breathe from shoulders onwards preferably with an opening between the neck and chest. These were going starting from RM2 a piece to max RM7 a piece!

Beaded and emboidered tops :D

Goth inspired tops.

Tubes and Halters from Pratunam Night Market and Chatuchak Weekend market

A great floral print skirt! Should have bought somemore...RM5 oni -_-''

Ditto to these great cargo and beach shorts also. Sigh *Whacks head on keyboard*

Whee! I've finally got my sailor hat and almost the same hat as Britney's in the "Me Against the Music" video

Imitation Guess/Gucci Bags: The Whole Set costs less than RM100 with the art of bargaining

Ahhhh cute bags :D Can't resist them :D

12 bottles of nail polish for my nail art at rm15 and Since Thailand has my favourite pharmacy store in the world;... I got me BOOTs products inclusive of a mandarin-orange-lime body scrub and a jelly and cream strawberry body lotion!

The largest most insane purchase I made is dubbed Earring Tower 2... for obvious reasons.

This bugger was a pain to carry back, I had to stuff clothes in between to get it to fit in the trolley bag. Why did I buy it? Cause it's only at 30% of the local price...cheated in my own backyard -__-'''. Also paid an additional RM3.50 and RM8.00 to get a necklace stand as well as an stand for fastened earrings :D

And of course, new high rises must have new occupants...

Chandelier Shoulder Dusters

Assorted Silver earrings

Gemed, embossed glass and shell earrings :D

Glazed and painted coconut bangles from Suan Lum night market.

Ohh yes, there is actually still MORE but unfortunately it's in the dirty laundry. Haih haih. Will continue with more bangkok stories soon :D

A set of green shell earrings and necklace from Suan Lum and Pratunam market

back

2005-12-06T12:04:00.000+08:00

update soon :P

Calling all female bloggers with modelling aspirations.

2005-12-01T23:10:00.000+08:00

DAH-Lings,

I've been wanting to do this for some time now, some of you lovely females would have already known over some constant chat rambles for the past few weeks now.

So any of you ladies free to come cam-whore my latest creations for me during lunch on the 10th of December 2005 in Petaling Jaya for moi please, please come do so :D

Drop me a line dah-lings for the details at my mail (aprilyim@gmail.com). Oh and if any of you wanted to pick up your orders, please do so also.

Will be in scourging the fashion scene overseas till Tuesday then so mail me ya :D

Ciao! Muacks.

XOXOX

PS. Some earrings now offer delicious bubble gum, strawberry (such as the strawberry cake and cupcake above) and chocolate orange scents

Working it out.

2005-12-01T19:48:00.000+08:00

I loved my ex an incredible lot, I adapted myself to a change of lifestyle so that was foreign to me because making him happy meant I would be happy myself. Not to say I'm defending him as I was doing so alot in the relationship especially when I was queried, but I did learn a few things and made some changes that were good for me.

He on the other hand, loved me as well... although in his own healthy freakish way. At least he picked up a slight habit of indulging because of me.

Then again, some people have their own ways of expressing love, one way meant for consideration could mean another's avenue for insult. And it also becomes a question of quantifying the feeling you have for the other person, how deep it's all gone.

So the relationship is about give and take...I stuck to the relationship even though I know it was going to be one rough ride to go through while sentences of comments implying how half-witted i was echoed.

Because at such a point, I believed my feelings were worth the try, I'm was going to give it one more fight;

and another...

and another.

When I came to realise, he was willing to just drop me like a hot potato, it was time to let go. I wasn't worth his time.

A relationship is an investment...where the stakes are unfortunately priced at a vast differences. Here, I felt my efforts were easy to pay off...a smile and a phone call was all it took. But when it was being exploited, sigh.

And then, there are the stake holders, which put their noses in to bother about the value of their 20 year plus investment as well. They're only concerned, can't blame them nor fear them, but i fear their hidden agendas.

'April,...'

'Ya mom?'

'If it's not meant to be your match, don't make it yours.'

'Ok.'

April makes 18 flavours of ice cream!

2005-11-26T20:09:00.000+08:00

I love ice cream.

Who doesn't?

I also admit to being of a rather massive gargantuan of vain pot.

Put them together you get well a narcissist with nothing but food and appearances on her mind.

While working on my earring catalogue, fiddling with a soon to be vanilla scoop earring and chugging on my 1/2 gallon of Baskin Robbins tub, I noticed that my ice creams had very very boring shades. Bleh. Where to get inspiration now.

So dull & boring...

In my fortunately day dreaming mode I carelessly dropped a ball of white clay into my tub of ice cream. Aghhh...In white and out Neapolitan? Hmmm....

So I fiddled for an hour trying to get as many flavours as I could with the colours I had and the final 18 colours as shown below.

Click for a larger image :D

Great! Now people who order ice cream scooped earrings will get more choice :D

I'm a friggin sap.

2005-11-25T02:10:00.000+08:00

I think I'm too hard on myself sometimes. I want to take the blame for what ever fails me. I want to take responsibility for every parody that plays in my life.

Even though I knew things were getting sore, I wanted to push my patience a little more because I thought you would be worth the rewards. At least even if things don't work out, I would be able to tell myself that I've done all I could, and there isn't much I couldn't do anymore.

As of now, I wonder if I really gave it my all. I'm still doing it though, cause I can never leave a problem hanging when it's wrapped around my neck.

You know you're sore about the relationship when the wounds are still raw and pain to the slightest almost ino the significant touch. It doesn't take a direct stab to the heart or that painful choke by fist but by only which those actions that can't be seen hurt the most.

I found that out while trying to distract myself in a place where we spent almost every weekend together. Again, I was pushing myself, I wanted to face my devils, but they were there as memories to the deepest of details. And as I pass each square meter of the area,...

The number of the rail running clockwise from the escalator on the 2nd floor where you stood with me

The rest area where you disapproved of how I sat

The scratch on the bar of the belt rack where we chose your belt

The tile where i got my heel stuck and you stopped to help me out

How we snuck in ice cream to the theaters

the intensity of the light that glowed on your face by the flowing waters

the joke we shared about my driving while parking the car

how much I loved playfully dragging you to take a look at sweets while you objected

the place where you asked me why I answered questions with another question.

the pressure of your fingers intertwined with mine.

the route you took carrying my whiteboard all the way to the other side of the building

"What's wrong with you?"

"Oh nothing mom, just allergies, makes my eyes watery."

And now, I want to forget all these so badly. Forget them for now so they won't show up taunting my eagerness for moments past that I know for my own good, I can no longer have.

Now that I have them here, at least I would push myself to note the pain and hopefully in the future, gaze upon them as I smile as a reminder of the once precious past.

Sometimes, I don't get what I want.

2005-11-22T23:50:00.000+08:00

Mommy bought a magazine today and with it came a brochure. With it came a promotional booklet for the Holiday season from one of the departmental stores. I made little markings next to the Dior 2005 Christmas palette and the Paul and Joe Christmas Limited Edition cooler Palette. Both also MUST BUY. After all I just got my pay from being the last returning officer and still have plenty left after taking mom and dad out for a nice dinner.

And then I see the nicest pair of earrings to the back of the booklet. The more I look at it, the more it sirens out to me. But the price of RM69 next to it gives my head an equally large pounding. I'm not going to friggin pay RM69 for a friggin pair of earrings! But then....

*Looks in wallet*

*allocates money for Dior and Paul & Joe*

*panics*

*Opens cash savings*

*WAILS*

*MENTAL SLAP*Calm down April.... You always cannot get what you want. You are not an obsessive lil rich brat.

Just like you can't lose weight to have the symmetry of Kate Hudson's back

or like how you'll never find a man who has the 99,999 essential qualities you listed down

or how you'll design edible chocolate lingerie that breaks down at the teasing places. (Not that I quite want to anyway)

Never mind, I make earrings right... *refers to design* Should be easy enough to do.

*TWEAK TWEAK

*BLOW TORCH*

*SNAP, SNIP*

*THREAD*

*TWEAK TWEAK*

Ta-dah! Whee! RM69 earring design conquered!

Some Girls are Going to Be So Jealous 2

2005-11-21T23:57:00.000+08:00

Aih basically I have got new earrings. You may not even be jealous :P

After recieving feedback from the aunties that came round for dad's networking party, I have decided to come up with a couple of designs that would appeal to those who would prefer a more matured and formal look.

I'm quite the fan of Chinese Lantern Earrings and I'm surprised to come up with these new original designs despite having to battle a case of hormonal imbalance.

I wanted to add that bit of flair and a lil more class to the earrings so I threw in my old studs and gem bits from my nail art box.

The first few I made were roundish like...duh, lanterns.

Purple lantern earrings

And then I got a lil adventurous and decided to try tear drop shapes and lava lamp centers.

Left: Tear drop earrings in Night Sky Blue dusted with Milky way shine and stars. And on the right....Flower motif blue lamp earrings

and later moved on to flat shapes when I got slighltly lazier. :P

So what do you all think? Feedback would be most appreciated ;)

The one with the blogger at the polluted beach

2005-11-18T22:57:00.000+08:00

For lack of entertainment and for the love of research, Dr. Khoo invited a couple of us to join in to help with the collection of sea grapes (Caulerpa racemosa) at Port Dickson. Sea grapes,...because they look like grapes (in water) and are strongly believed to hold some properties for the future development of modern medicine.

Lucky for us girls Melvin took a day off to drive Kelly, Lin and me down :D Warbling songs from The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins

While me and lin took the opportunity to cam whore abit :D

We had lunch in one of the restaurants located along the coast on the way to the location :D

and let me tell you, being half Hakka, I loved the sweet and sour fish! wheeee :D

This was the location of the place. Looks nice doesn't it? It's located next to a mangrove forest smack in between a haunted slaughter house like changing room (didn't want to photograph it in case i get extra images in the picture), a state forest reserve, a lil park and someone's Minangkabau accentuated vacation home. In truth if I had only photographed the coast you would see remnants of oil spills, floating plastic bags tugged on by mangrove roots and rather murky water.

Since me, Lin and Kelly had to plans to even touch the water, we baby sat the dogs and had a good time with them. Hao Hao was being irritating by trying to push me off my seat all the time. Miki i think was a mole in his past life and Minnie, like the war torn lover waiting for her love to come back from beyond the sea. They made things incredibly interesting.

Feeding treats to Minnie, Eunice and Hao Hao.

Miki playing coy with Kelly

Pretending to do a Fumakilla add. Notice I have the sales woman pose while kelly looks like the housewife satisfied with the pesticide.

As the sky cleared up, the sun was shining and the breeze picked up, I needed a Super cam-whore pic. Kelly looks on in disapproval :P

As Eugenia and Mel went to rent out a kayak, me and Kelly tried kayaking for the first time. We didn't even reach shoulder deep area of the sea and we had to turn back. Our arms were aching like mad. When the boat washed up shore, the wave tipped me off the boat and I fell backside first into the sea. So much for now wanting to get in the water.

Getting up I saw a dirty old diaper in the water... Great that time I smelt like mangrove, sea water, wet dog and unchanged baby. As Lin, Dr. Khoo, Eugenia and Kelly took the doggies for a walk, I had a little chat with Khalil over my little find on the beach.

April: There's a dirty diaper in the water Khalil

Khalil: Oh I'm not surprised. This area is near a sewage dumping site. Do you know what's in the water?

April: Oil spill?

Khalil: No. Shit. Lots and lots of shit.

April: Oh gee thanks Khalil. You made me feel sooooo much better.

Lin's sunburnt shoulder.

At the end of the day, we all ended up sunburnt, tired, mosquito bitten, and with a proficiency in changing clothes with our naked asses faced towards the mangrove and our torsos facing two doors from two different cars parked side to side. Thanks guys and thanks Dr. Khoo :D

Where to get that hair treatment for only RM10

2005-11-16T22:21:00.000+08:00

*Terms and conditions apply*

Duh... with a price so low. Obviously there would be some catch to it right? Just bring your own bottle of hair serum/ treatment / oil / serum / gunk / whatever it is and flock over to my place to get your hair done in 20 minutes flat. Promise.

Which brings about the conversation I had with Wan Feng awhile ago

Apr: Auntie....you still want to go for your hair treatment together or not

WF: Want want want!

Apr: I know a place where can get for RM10 only

WF: Where? Where Wah So cheap!

Apr: Eh my house lah. You got hair treatment cream or not?

WF: I got..but where to get the steamer?

Apr: I got....

WF: You BOUGHT A @#$@$%#@#$%^ STEAMER? Shit...

Apr: Yea...just bought only.

WF: CAN! I COME!

Ah yes. In the event of Mommy's birthday, she decided to treat herself to her own birthday gift with a steamer. Unfortunately since I was bumming around with her at that moment I had to chip in a bit of money also cause it's her birthday lah :P

*Introductory trumpeting*

Mom included with the purchase a large canister of Wella treatment wax so we can steam and treat our hair every week for a period of minimum 8 months :D It's so easy to use just twist the dial and fip the buttons to make sure I won't burn steam all my hair off :D

With this additional gadget to the house, I am THIS close to opening my own beauty parlor and even closer of suffocating from claustrophobia with it tucked away in my study. Shh...daddy IS NOT supposed to know YET >_<

Post examination medication: Retail therapy

2005-11-13T17:22:00.000+08:00

I'm officially unemployed! However, I'm stricken with confusion for the last few days on whether I should be joyful or miserable. Day 4 and I'm already being chased out of the house to go do something useful with my life.

Asides the fact I've decided to update my earring collection with 13 new pairs. Of course the 3 for RM10 pair! I can't afford to pay too much. Cept for one which I paid RM15 for at CTRock.

Was also in Subang Parade the last few days to end up in dismay that Blook raised their once affordable prices. *sulk* However, lucky for me Hardy Amies was having an amazing sale :D
70% off and I only paid RM32.90 for two tops good enough for work :D HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!

Not to mention I topped up my food barrettes also :D These are real cookies, pasta, sweets, antibiotics and gummy bears in plastic coatings :D

Wahhh happy am I :D

Therapy for the broken hearted: Other people pampering you.

2005-11-06T14:36:00.000+08:00

Hearing what happened while they were a way in China, Dad, Mom and the Eldest Aunt of the family felt quite sorry for not being able to be there to comfort me. Alongside making sure I would complete all my papers with a sane frame of mind, they wanted to come back seeing a happy NOT sappy 21-year old.

They came back with OODLES of gifts.

I didn't expect bags, but I got beaded purses and a leather sequinned bag. Oooo. *Throws other bags one side and makes the brown bag her official carry bag.* I love this bag, its got two compartments and it's big and durable enough for everything from my makeup kit to my spare muesli bar.

Since I'm pretty much keeping my hair log now, Mom picked out so many hair chopsticks and barrettes, scrunchies and croc clips for me! A lil jade bracelet and 2 funky beaded belts :D

I have a current fascination with hats now actually. Especially berets... Mom came back with about 11 of them from studded ones to knitted ones and from cloth to wool. Heh, I hope I wouldn't look too wanna be Chinese vain pots with them on. And yet I already think I may look a bit too vain having the new tartan scarf dad got me over there.

*Looks at photo with tartan scarf....and shudders* Anyway, mom was crazy enough to get me an eyeshadow palette with 48 different colours. NUTCASE. But it makes me all the more happier anyway heee :D

I love this emboidered jacket :D. I just have to plan a time WHEN to wear it hehe.

I think the craziest gift of them all would have to be the old china Bras. The ones that only have a halter and two strings tied to the back as support. Concubine bras mommy calls them. Dad on the other hand thinks of them as "overt abominations"

Whee :D I'm kinda happy already :D

Conversations with myself : The last one

2005-11-01T19:53:00.000+08:00

You know you've gotta let go you know...

You know what irks me? I feel like slapping myself and at the same time, I want to give myself a big warm hug and cry endlessly to console my pitiful life.

You're such a sissy A.p.,

Don't you call me sissy. If I am going to face shit with taxes, customers, suppliers, bitches, road hogs, bosses, loans, my family and the neighbour slapping rotten eggs on my car all at the same time, I will show YOU how I'll take this one out.

And yet you're acting so miserable about all that has happened. You're still in the middle of exams and you can't afford to screw up. Last semester. Period.

I feel miserable for attracting attention. Oh yes I know it but why am I not stopping it? Because I ENJOY the attention. Unfair as it maybe to the people who care but I am at the standing in a room leaking with explosive gas and I am THIS CLOSE to lighting a match. Before I do so I want to scream out...

"I'M GONNA LIGHT IT UP!"

just so I get everyones attention that people can jump on me and blow off that match or, at least witness my glorified annihilation

You are seriously screwed up.

Hey! Don't make me come over there and switch your halo with your wings.

Nah you won't. Doing so would only cause you so much more accumulated misery.

Yes, yes. I'm screwed up.

Would you just look at that blinking taskbar honey. How many people wanna help you poor, sweet April.

GIAHHHH,... *Scratches head in confusion* They're telling me I'm a pretty girl, great girl, I can take my pick from the Pacific if I wanted to.

They're only trying to make you smile ya know.

YOU. Are making me confused.

Can't say I didn't try. And you were making so much fuss about trying. You're not trying. *POOF*

Urgh. I hate it when I contradict myself.

The greatest physical comfort is digestible

2005-11-01T14:29:00.000+08:00

During hard times when the physical support of family and friends are so distant, there is no greater way to seek comfort than to turn to food, especially those laden with artificial colouring, sugar, fats bisulfate oxides, carabene, monosodium glutamate, gelatinized triglycerin phosphate and SINS.

Hooray for sugar, 'cause we love it

Chocolate chips; we want more of it

Cakes and ice cream; watch us shove it

Down our throats real fast.

I spent time clearing up my room to dig out my emergency stash of sweets. To my horror, my barrel of chupa-chups is missing! A months supply of kinder bueno dwindled down to a measely 5 day supply and my preserved prunes all gone! *bawls*

Lucky for me there were still my emergency crisis stashes tucked neatly away in different parts and rooms of the house.

Japanese Sweets Stash 1....

Japanese Sweets Stash 2.

The chocolate stash

My last Wonka bar

Jelly Filled marshmallows

And since, it so lucky for me the unfortunate event seemed to fall on the eve of the 31st. 31% off all the handpacked ice creams! I bought half a gallon of ice cream to choke my self pity from surfacing. Cotton candy, Boysenberry cheesecake, Mint Chocolate Chip and Mad About Chocolate Oughtta do it.

Or so I thought.

Never mind, off to Alexis to buy cake.

That oughtta do it. I'm going to make my body rot.

Down with the misery.... Up with the sweets :D

4:42

2005-10-31T04:42:00.000+08:00

I wake up at 4:42 am to realize that I'm no longer attached to another person. Triggered by the emotional run and an unflattering throb in my head made me a nervous wreck. Admittedly, I was a Drama Queen, playing mind games with myself and the person I can't help but feel this was for the best with all the more towering reasons to let go of it all. It's funny that before a few hours before this I was romancing with hope just by reminiscing the birthday card you gave me...which has to be put away.

I start with the photos we took. Although we didn't have many, it's time to take them off my desktop. I didn't want to see them before zipping them up; that's just to cause more heart. I'm taking the card along with the present to my 21st birthday box. As for the bag you gave me, how can I forget? I have a purse with the same motif to remind me.

I'm surprised I'm taking this quite well actually. Perhaps it is because that I was already predicting such an outcome and the fact that you were just too bluntly suggestive of it. All your actions after our year together made see how unimportant I was. If it is selfish of me to think of myself and my feelings, I suggest a double take on yourself refusing to learn or listen to certain things that really doesn't concern you.

I also think its cause the relationship got so bad, that I was exhausting myself. You never really called from the first day, your have-a-good day sms-es that made the whole world right that day never beeped on my phone after a while, You always preferred to spend your hours after work rushing to play tennis rather than to come see a person who hasn't seen your face for a whole week. It was even difficult for you to go get a simple gift during your one week stay in a country which was a complete urban metropolis because you chose to spend time with your friends rather than just spend less than an hour to get me anything. The worst was when you told me to take the gift or you put down the phone

I had to let you know I was sick when I was.
I have to leave you a message for you to call me
In times when I was depressed, you just tell me to eat comfort food and list down the things that made me upset.
I had to ask for hugs and kisses.
You had to SEE if you could come for my last prom.
When your friends or my friends ask me how you are, I don't know how to respond, cause I don't know what's going on in your life.
When we have a disagreement you tell your friends what happen, but not the whole story of what happened which happens to have a reason
You were that busy for a whole month that you didn't even bother about popping by to see me.

My mistake, I gave in too much. I let you walk all over me, I never said a word until just very recently. I thought maybe if you had it your way all the time, it'll be easier for you to see things my way too. I feel terribly taken for granted. I'm getting tired of defending you. And when you couldn't stand up for yourself, you just end it with "I'm pressured, I can't take it".

When I pick up the phone to let go, everything I say, you just accept it like a black hole. And every little nudge I gave you made you retract back into your shell. I never asked for diamonds and pearls, all I wanted was for you to be there when I needed you most. I have been this patient to let it pass me but with the price of my sanity.

I really wonder where it all went to. And how you just let it slip away like that without a fight. To think all this while I was proud of the smallest things you did. I'm walking out of this realtionship because I've tried my best, and there is nothing that I can no longer do, and because of disappointment that you just gave up the same battles you have fought for and won before. This relationship has become same thing you do with anything you don't try to understand.

Death by frog, yeast, fly, worm, mouse and chick.

2005-10-25T11:03:00.000+08:00

I count the seconds to my doom. It's crazy I'm supposed to study the body parts and the genetic structure of these crazy animals. Thousands of pictures and millions of words. One or two of them maybe cute to look at in also, one or two slides.

Definitely not pleasant to turn pages of notes to find pictures like THIS

THIS

AND THIS

Giving you an ever so longing stare just so as you remember them for life. Whats that? THAT is the thing you put on your skewer for kebabs, the one served golden crispy brown or flavoured with hot sauce in fast food restaurants and the one that makes you sing:

"sieewww gai yik, ngo hhohhh chung yee sek!"

Well. Thats what you eat when they're a little more older. I hope this isn't suggestive as to turn yourself into a vegetarian by now.

At least what I'm learning makes you feel thankful for all that you have rather what than you don't have.

The term four eyes?

This, is an abnormal mutant fly with four eyes. his antenna were supposed to be there instead of those two compound eyes. But you can modify these flies in anyway you want! Don't want eyes? Try legs!

And thank goodness for sexual reproduction I'd say. If I was a little worm, I wud not certainly enjoy myself just getting lap dances from my partner (As below) and burst myself into itty bitty pieces just so that my children can live. No need to worry about size tho hey! Any male would be substantially smaller by size anytime! That is too say that if I wasn't a friggin hermaphrodite and had to please my own call of nature to eventually, burst up too.

The things that are being thought in private institutions nowadays. Tsk tsk

Lancome, My stress buster

2005-10-22T10:58:00.000+08:00

With the stress of exams building up, I needed to release.

I took it out on the credit card and on daddy's account. Ah no worries, I'll pay him back when I get my claims from the council. Went to the L'oreal warehouse sale in Parkroyal Hotel :D and got crazy :D

Color Focus Eyeshadow Quad with 4, lancome juice tubes in prune, flextencils mascara in Brown, and Hypnose mascara in Black, rouge lipstick in baby beige and bronzer in Or nacre.

Spent a good half hour there queing up and another half hour making the purchase :D
I finally got two bottles of sexy looking bronzers for only rm15 :D

And I love the casing of the Eyeshadow Quad compact.

Ooo.....pretty

Ok. Back to studying adi

Some girls are gonna be jealous.

2005-10-17T22:23:00.000+08:00

Over the last weekend, I have spent a disrespectable amount of time with the books but hung on to the company of my new clay set.

This oven of mine is a prehistoric creature itself, large, and difficult to understand. I submitted to the one door toaster sitting in company of the juicer. Ding ding :D with successful experimentation and control systems, the perfect easy bake clay oven!

From the last burnt in the ass prototype snowman, i have graduated to produce the cutest snowman earrings ever! BEHOLD!

Frosty the snowman is hanging from my ears!

If you're thinking; "Ah yes, so what snowman. So what?"
You wait ahh.. would you fall for this teddie?

Lil angel bear

I just made him a few minutes ago actually :D Its gonna be hanging from my neck :D

Maybe some emoticons?

Emoticon earrings

Not enough ah?

Well then, in my most humble opinion, mixing passion with love only makes the whole experience explosive. Allow me to share some saucy, juicy, yummy photos with you, guaranteed to make you crave for some.

Food + earring making :D ahhhh the joy!

Salmon california roll and tamago with wasabi on a platter, kani sushi, tamago sushi, and ebi sushi.

Don't you like sushi? Cause I love my sushi! Or maybe you're just accustomed to the local flavours. I have just the thing!

Kuih lapis, siew mai in a basket and pai tee (top hats)

Or do you have a sweet tooth? Cause we got plenty of the sweet stuff!

Mint choc pie, mocha choc cake, and strawberry cream cake

Ice cream in strawberry and mint chips in dark wafer cone, bubblegum sundae, mint ice cream topped with chocolate chips and straberry wafer sundae

Creme crepe with blackcurrant, caramel pudding, raspeberry pie.

Cupacake earrings in pink frosting, pink frosting with raisins, and in icing and rainbow sprinkles.

Others may prefer more SOLID food.

Burger, glazed chocolate apple and watermelon slices :D

Oh I almost forgot, corned candy as eaten in Halloween, Mun Yi's red rose and Quang Lin's black rose and a raspberry sherbet ice cream!

Wahaha. MAD OR NOT? 30 over new earrings over the week! WHAHAHA!

Crap lah,...getting hungry myself. I'm going off for a bite :P

Roasted Attempts

2005-10-12T22:01:00.000+08:00

"Bake on Oven Proof Glass surface at 130Celcius for 15 minutes per 6mm. DO NOT EXCEED TEMPERATURE OR RECOMMENDED BAKING TIME."

*Scratches head* Hmmm...

I'm no good at baking. Never was. Had the whole morning itching to try out polymer clay baking. I rushed down to Art friend to get my sculpey starter kit.

I spent the entire episode of the evening Buffy the vampire slayer episode shaping and moulding the clay into various shapes and sizes. I laid the trays with aluminium foil and the whole batch of my baking ended up having a burnt base.

Anyway, the first thing I wanted to make were Snowmen earrings! I tought they would look look adorable having little frosted men dangling off your ears.

And pictured below is he. Observe that the pearl shimmer pack of colours gave him a very frosty glow. His burnt arse and back parts of his thighs and calves however were the cause of *ahem* "household accidents" His older brother and twin was somehow not so lucky to escape with a full nose.

In the event of halloween and the lack of orange earrings on my rack, what a better way than to solve both matters with Jack-O-lantern earrings :D These came out quite nicely I must say. :D

Being halfway sleepy throughout the day, I was redminded of how sleep led to dreams, how dreams were casted by the Greek God Morpheus. How Morpheus was as jovial as Bacchus. How Bacchus had wine. How wine was made from Grapes. How grapes became my next Sculpey project.

The best of all these sets were the flowers. I dusted my body glitter on them to give them that extra dazzle :D

And for my next project, I wanna make pac mans and earrings of assorted dim sum :D Mmm...

I am a makeup monster!

2005-10-06T20:29:00.000+08:00

As a child, I was fascinated with colours. I took several forms of art classes and my father encouraged me by buying me large sets of coloured media. However, he wasn't too enthutiastic when I was painting and colouring more than anything else.

With a little more financial independence and a swirve of career direction at hand, I still cannot deny the calling of these colours that I've missed in my early teens.

And recently I saw a promotion in the papers that i cud'nt resist
An Estee Lauder set for a fraction, of a percentage of a decimal of the price.

So nice the set. Mirrors for the compacts are the size of a coaster! I actually bought it for the brushes heh.

My sis after seeing the set says;

Sis: "You only have one face but so much makeup, how to finish lah?"
Me: "Oh you mean I have that much?"
Sis: "You don't realise? MY GAWD"

So I took the time off and decided to spring clean my makeup. And by golly she's right. My GAWD.

My perfume liao. Sakai.

The main nail polish drawer : Essentials; the Sally Hansen nail prisms range, Sally Hansen's Mega Shine, Sally Hansen's maximum growth and Sally Hansen's Diamond Strength Base Coat; Revlon Limited Edition colours

The second nail polish drawer: This one has all the additional stuff

Lipstick drawer: Love my chocolate flavoured lipstick! Ahh I dun have many of them but, not a big fan of lipsticks

Lip glosses and lip balms: But I'm a big fan of GLOSS!

Eyeshadows, liners and mascara: I love my compacts esp the shiseido and pN ones :D

Nail art Stuf: Stickers, 3d art, files, buffers, orange sticks , brushes and studs!

All the base makeup for skin: I have ALOT TO COVER

Blotters and blockers and such: Oily skin saviours

Glitters: The 10TH Anniversary Ettusais glitter kit and my sheiseido 5S glitter powders. Can't live without my body shop shimmer also.

Nail and hand care: One day, I shall suffer from acetone poisoning. Hahaha

Eye care: I dun have that 20-20 eyesight. I'm quite blind at night without them vision aids

Hair care products.

Body Moisturisers: If you have touched me and think i have soft skin, its not the lotion, Its my fat

For the legs and feet : I'm a staunch believer of the fact that every girl should have feet so soft that you could rub your face upon it.

I have to stop buying adi. Gone half broke. If you're reading this and if i recommend a sale to u; please hold me down with nails and hammers if you have to.

Monash Ball 2005 Flame and Frost

2005-09-26T00:06:00.000+08:00

Minishorts: Your first ball issit?
Me: Eh no lah my 4th ball.
Minishorts: Hahaha Sounds like your first, You're so excited and all
Me: Aiyah my last one mah; Must go all out one!

Sigh...

my final formal dinner. As a student. No one else getting married this year so thats it. After that I'll be some older adult trying too look good and young at the same time.

And then for this ball, I did the something to my hair most people that know me well would be shocked with:

i) I dyed my hair Light Ash Brown (Finally Hsu Pheen and Lydia, after all that contemplating, there was no turning back after seeing RM19.88 only on the shelf of Guardian.
ii) I Permed it. Wahaha crazy or not? Temporary perm for RM35

Well, for those of you who have not seen me in a long time, here are some photos. Click on them for some closer looks.

From left to right - Chin Chin, Lee Ching, Wai Leng, Wei Kuan, Yat Yan, Mei Jean, Me, Wan Feng, Shing Ying

A pretty picture of Yee Kheng and Me.

Wei Wan. Tennis and Singing star.

Mr. Jeremy. Human Tripod.

Me, and two super environmentalists; Hooi Ming and Su Li

Elaine and me are working as the Assitant returning officers for the upcoming Monash Student Elections!

Shing Ying, Kerllie, Wan Feng and Me.

With Daniel Tan.

Lawrence, Pratiwi, Shing Ying and Me.

Mr. Monash, John Lee and Me.

Zeno and Fong Mun dressed as a Japanese couple!

Su looking absolutely stunning!

Christiana :D

Jin Chong as a near anime character.

My delicious crooning Deputy returning officer, Zen.

With classmate Jocelyn.

Classmate Super brilliant Pei Lin.

The girls doing 3rd year Biotech @ Monash!

My hair at the end of the day.

Had such a great time more over with the people I spend 60% of my time with :P

For more photos, just click on any of them and browse through my Flickr album :D

For the last weeks

2005-09-24T23:24:00.000+08:00

A lot of things have been happening to me.

Somethings of which were too moving too fast of me to sink grasp onto; others days just going too slowly to get the idea of the bigger picture.

So many things I would have loved to blog about. Things I wanted to say. Yet, I have to bottle it in for many reasons and due to the lack of time. A tsunami of self discovery experiences and a tornado of realism with regards to the people around me. I needed that much of time to see myself in a different light.

Now I'm back again. And it's time for me to do some much needed blogging.

My Uni's Website got Hacked!

2005-08-31T22:41:00.000+08:00

Reflects on our IT knowledge lerr...

WAHAHA got MUSIC SOMEMORE!

my gawd... I hope my personal infor din kena hack wei...

But damn farnee lah! :P Go see...

www.monash.edu.my

It becomes inevitable...

2005-08-26T22:01:00.000+08:00

Had dinner with Peims today and thought I needed some more opinion on my current position

Talking with him, I realised...

I've become afraid
I'm not sure what I should do
I'm not sure if I'm in the right frame of mind
I don't know if I want to go on like this
What's to become of me.

I'm so downright nervous I broke a promise to Peims and drove so fast that if there were a man hole on the freeway, I would have thrown the car up a curb.

I took a short detour to Little Genting. I needed to clear my head.

I' m back here....

Excuse me.

I go shoe shopping crazy

2005-08-21T23:11:00.000+08:00

I used to think very lowly of buying shoes. I couldn't help thinking that I'm buying something to step on money. That was the last part of fashion aparrels that I would consider buying. Clothes and accessories first. Shoes later. I used to think Melissa and Hsu Pheen were crazy to buy so many shoes.

It just took one sale. A more matured fashionista outlook. And all my semester's savings.

It started with these three wedged shoes. A buy one free one case. Mommy likes wedges so when she spotted them on sale in Times Square, I took the opportunity to chose the 'free' pair (pink).

I call these my French maid shoes. Lin thinks they're pretty. Hsu Pheen thinks it looks nice and sweet. Most of my friends think it's sexy. My sis says it looks whore-ish. I think its gothic. Like "Gothic Lolita". I got the black pair in the beginning of the sale and then decided on the white pair so i can have a yin-yang set of shoes. Good and bad. Nasty and nice. Angelic and demonic. Had to call Lot 10 to book the last pair for me in my size.

Was so upset when they didn't have the purple flower shoes on sale anymore! I went to 7 diffrent Vincci outlets to hunt that shoe down but after I heard that they had no more on sale, I settled for the blue flower pair instead. So I got this pair along with the blue one *see next shoe*

Unfortunate I couldn't find the purple pair. But taking a closer look, the blue one doesn't seem so bad. But these are KILLER STILS. Try wearing them for a whole day and you'll see why they give you killer looks and later killed feet.

I got caught up in Jessica Simpson's latest hit for Dukes of Hazard. I was also listening to my Old Spice Girls CD. This boot, I shalt not only use for walking, but for daily costume playing of some anime save the world chick when I feel like it.

I wish I had the Yao Ming pair of shoes but this will do, Dad bought these for Ashley for her birthday. But I launched it's services in the family a day later. Mwahaha.

These will be my Sketchers after Mom uses it for her trip to China.

A rather old-new pair of nikes. Value for money at around rm100 only! I'll use them for walks up Kiara Hill.

The green butterfly shoe. I saw it the week before sale in Sungei Wang but by week 1 of the sale. It was gone! Thank goodness I when I went to the most least visited Vincci in the whole of Klang Valley. They had a pair! Yes!! I really love this pair for the sweet looking butterfly on a lovely shade of green.

For now, I need to remind myself. Money doesn't grow on trees. I'm going to stop buying shoes for at least until end of the year. I've already given Hann Yong enough shock if he reads this.

*buying shoes is like stepping on money* (repeats in her mind)

Satay is not just the only tastiest thing in Kajang

2005-08-18T13:31:00.000+08:00

Excerpts of the Spicy Soup Pan Mee could have been automatically mentioned by my fingers prior to this. This time, I have great pictures to post up.

But first; a very ugly self drawn map of how to get there.

*CLICK ME FOR A BETTER VIEW!*

Cause Lydia requested for it, Mei Ai hasn't tried it, Hsu Pheen was going to leave for UK and I was dying to have some zest in my mouth; we all purposely woke up alittle earlier than usual.

It is important to note that if you do want to eat the pan mee, be there BEFORE 11:30AM! or else you're going to have to come back on another day to try it. So if you're coming from PJ, leave by 10:45 and if from KL, leave by around then too.

If you see this sign, you'll never go wrong.

It's just an ordinary wooden house on a hill shaded by durian trees (you'd wanna park away from them) and you dine in the company of a friendly cute white dog who thinks he's the boss of the place and all sorts of fishes swimming with a river terrapin. You'll know it's that shop when you see a number of cars parked on the cemented side of the hill.

See the back? thats where they do all them good cooking!

If you're new there, say for.

1. "LHAT-TONG-BAN-MEEN" and you'll be served...

The superstar dish of the restaurant and Chinese locals! Spicy soup pan mee is made of home made thick pan mee, served with pork strips, ginger slices, in spicy pepper-gingerish soup topped with bits of fried garlic.

2. If you mouth FAH TIEW KAI

Up comes claypot rice wine chicken in black sauce :) The sauce in this dish is heavenly. I usually take the pork strips from the noodle claypot and drown them in the sauce from this dish.

3. Say HOH PAO ROH to the boss and get ...

Spicy claypot pork strips cooked with salted fish! The equivalent of what is known as HAM YU FAH LAN PO this one is cooked with TONNES of Chilli padi that will leave your taste buds on fire. It's so spicy that you don't even have to go close to it to take a whiff to cough. The perfect word to describe this dish is "BREATHTAKING".

It's extremely worth the trip and the hassle :D Don't wait anymore, go make plans to go! ;)

Rating: 9/10

Price: 6/10

What an interesting car registration no.

2005-08-04T19:30:00.000+08:00

Hmm...

No offense to the car owner but...

I can't help it XD

One of the best cream puffs I've ever tasted!

2005-08-02T23:29:00.000+08:00

I'm a nut for all things sweet, dairy, and especially if they come packed in or placed on pastries.
Happened to just be in 1Utama today and with not many people hanging around the mall, Huei Ying, Ash, her friend and yours truly decided to give the cream puff cart just opposite the Jusco Supermarket counters a try.

"Choux cream" they call it. From the display puffs, you can see they are rather large in size, slightly larger or about the same size than a KFC O.R. fillet burger.
They go for RM1.80 a piece and when you purchase 4, one comes free. While you go make your pay at the food counters' cashier, the attendants pump in fresh cream in to the puffs and package them in cute boxes, all ready to go.

Don't expect the insides to be lined with satin lah (duh!) Each puff is wrapped in tissue, convenient for handling them and for cleaning up the sides of your mouth :D

Generously snowed with icing they are :D

The difference becomes obvious with the very first bite. The pastry is not like the typical kind of tough, molar-tearing puff..It's surprisingly CRUNCHY and the rest of it just melts in your mouth! Although it has a slight eggish flavour, the cream is super whippy, not very sweet at all and the explosion of textures in your mouth...mmm...

The verict of me and my fellow connoisseurs at that time? The perfect snack, comfort food, and visitng gifts :D

You have no idea what you're missing if you dun try it. SERIOUSLY

Things you can pretend to do with a huge ass paper puncher.

2005-07-26T22:28:00.000+08:00

Backdated post...

I was bored. Please bear with my imagination.

The subject: a normal industrial office puncher.

Pretend to play broadway or tap dance :D ....

Ride on it like a scooter/bike .....

Joystick! (As if can play games on that site :P)

measure the size of feet...

FORE!!!!

WAH...what a whopper!

and of course...

PUNCH paper lah!

See what means I resort to when work is all done and your supervisor isn't around to give you anymore work. :P

Tampin Episode

2005-07-26T21:12:00.000+08:00

Backdated Post.

We’ve planned this a couple of months ago. Lindsay, after waiting out her summer holidays for my semester break to finally arrive, we carried out our crazy plan.

A Saturday in Tampin to go make dresses.

"All the way from KL to go to a small town smack between Negeri Sembilan and Malacca to make Dresses? What the hell for?” you might ask.

Tailoring in KL is expensive dah-lings. I’d rather travel 200km down to save RM200 on tailoring a dress rather than make it here. All costs of food and travel fare included mind you.

We woke up bright and early to take the 8:30am train so that we reached Tampin by 10:30am. Time was easy to pass, especially with Lindsay around, she herself took the opportunity to paint her nails XD. Mostly talking of things past and things to come and also spending about 20minutes to freshen up a little.

Lindsay starts the ride off by painting her nails.

Each stop the train passed by carried it’s significantblue sign with white words to tell passengers which stop was where. But upon reaching Tampin, there was no sign at all.
All u see is a lot of limestone, a small wood and train sections.

Tampin: Where is everyone?

No need to wave for a taxi, they wave for you here.
"Ah moi, pretty girls where you want to go? Ayer Keroh?"

Lucky for us, Jason was the gracious gentleman he was to take us round his hometown. While driving us around, he was played tour guide, explaining the town history, where is what and how large Tampin really is.

"The town is only a stretch of road 2km long, half of it is in Negeri, the other half in Malacca. Oh we just passed the border :D"

Tampin: One end of the main road.

Barely a 5 minutes drive and we're already at the tailor's shop. The lady in charge, the mother of Lindsay's room mate took a look at our fancies and shook her head.
"No I can't do this. I only can make these *Holds up baju kurungs*"

ARGH AND OUR TRAIN IS AT 5PM! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO THEN?

"Don't worry, auntie has a friend who is just over at Tampin square who can do this."

Phew...

Tampin: Tampin Square. Just behind KFC. That's where we're getting our dresses done.

So off we walked (Yes no need to drive) to Tampin Square to see the recommended tailor. On the way there we realised why it was cheap to do tailoring here. Not only was it because it was a small town, but it was also because it is packed with cloth shops and tailors set up their shops everywhere!

This guy did wedding gowns. As in baju pengantin. He studied our prints and sketches, crunched his face up and confessed.

"All my life of tailoring, I've never tailored such "keng" dresses before."

But he was great, he offered to do them for a very low and reasonable price and he even helped us to select the cloth giving us about RM5 cuts or each meter.

Jason then took us back to his house so we could make use of a very clean toilet and see his brand new house. He showed us which side of the aquarium his fishes loved, his blue and purple sheets, the soft toys in his sisters room, his feature wall....the general works :D Those of you who read his entry on his house, the photos don't do much justice to the place.

Because, the signature dish of Tampin wasn't available until night fall, he took us to a place out of town to a restaurant where the owner had two wives.

So Jason tells us that usually the older wife cooks and she has mood. If she's not PMS-ing or anything her cooking will be damn nice.

When the food came out, Jason took a bite... "She's PMS-ing" XD

Me and Lindsay on the other hand thought that the food was fairly good actually :D See for yourselves,

Pork chops and Eggs with chips.

Fried Kuay Teow

Hokkien Mee

And it only costs RM18 with drinks. SOOOOOO CHEAPPPP! (after complying with KL prices for so long)

Oh, and before we left, there was the famous Kuih Udang too!

KuihUdang!

"All my life I've been staying in Tampin, I've never walked so much or spent so much time out in Tampin before" -Jason.

Pleasant shocker

2005-07-13T20:49:00.000+08:00

Mom tells me to go to the family altar to put in a few joss sticks to ask for good passage through the last semester. Aiyah it's already been done. No greater good is going to help me, the last big 'results-adjustment' meeting had already come and gone.

I have terrible nerves. Although I was quite sure that I was going to grab to the very least two distinctions, I psyched myself to think that I am sure to fail Molecular Biology. At least, if it does come through to touch the pit bottom of my expectations, I'm ready to accept it.
It was

This must have been one day of my life where I have made use of so many negative manglish and singlish words.
Die-lah die-lah! Gone case! kaput-liao! Sked me ah! Sure mati! Vomit blood!Chee-bye, so hai, I go bye bye! Cham lah!

Accompanied by a lot of eyes being hidden behind fanned palms, Palm tugging on the cheek giving that Bull dog look, and a lot of temple slapping.

I've never felt so screwed up over results before.

But wah hey, I did fairly well :D I'm amazed. Kinda shocked I did that well too. Considering the amount of shopping and lepaking I did the last 3 months or so. Whoopee :D

My parents on the other hand want to know how many candidates performed the way I did. I give up explaining to them cause in the first place I don't want to make a fuss about it. A good family dinner tonight will do. Then they want to know who got what, what got who and who got where.

"Aiyah I don't even know why the heck do you want me to tell you? Uni-level how can you judge who did better than who?"

Because of that I don't even get dinner.

Anyone wanna celebrate with me?

The Mexican

2005-07-12T12:36:00.000+08:00

Ivanov - Deepr, very Deeprhythms says: hola! hay algien ahi?

(His name starts to etch a series of incoherant procreative ideas in my head. I decide to label him according to his nick initials... Mr. International Direct Dial).

* A LONG MOMENT OF SILENCE CAUSE APRIL WAS HAVING LUNCH*

IDD: heeeeeeyyyyyyy!!!!!! no muy okupada hee!!!! (Not very something i suppose...)

Wickid Hecate: ?

IDD: una de 2 (one of which two???)

Wickid Hecate: sorry i only speak english

IDD: ooo...sorry i say....hi from? you

Wickid Hecate: malaysia

IDD: im mexico (yes, and i'd like to be Monaco)

Wickid Hecate: oh no wonder some of your words look spanish

IDD: waith sorry, I am not very good speaking Englishman. But if I understand you.. my name is *CENSORED* and i have 22 years old. (Of course, you're Mexican not English, even if you were you admit u won't make a very good one, and i wouldn't want to have 22 years old of anything as of current)

Wickid Hecate: I'm April 21 years old

IDD: is not true, you chating with the cyber boyfriend...jejeje (I have one? I didn't even know @_@)

Wickid Hecate: ?

IDD: Have you boyfriend? Have you girlfriend? dog? (Now he's confused about my sex, or thinking me as a talented animal with appendages flexible enough to use a keyboard)

Wickid Hecate: dog? I'm a girl

IDD: Have you boyfriend? or not?

Wickid Hecate: Yes. Do u have girlfriend?

IDD: not yet. is because Im ugly..jeje You can believe. But what they do not know is that the snubs we are better in the bed ... jejeje (the what?? thanks for telling me that you're pretty cool in bed but...no thanks)

Wickid Hecate: ok good for you then

IDD: I bet that your boyfriend is handsome. Ugly? (What has it got to do with you?)

Wickid Hecate: My boyfried is a nice guy.

IDD: im a designgraphic printer t-shits, clothes (my shits only come out looking either roundish or longish, never T-shaped :P and I only use myself, not so canggih to use printer)

Wickid Hecate: What time is it in Mexico?

IDD: 12:13AM. There? (Finally, not one, but two grammatically correct sentences!)

Wickid Hecate: 1 pm

IDD: *shocked* (He hasn't quite looked at the map to look for Malaysia) You have not said to me that you like music (Huh? since when did you ask me?) I like Bjork. (Sorry I lost you there. I don't think this conversation will last cause I don't like Bjork..unless...)

Wickid Hecate: I like Coldplay. Goo Goo Dolls. Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Dashboard Confessional.

IDD: Others? (Seriously now..)

Wickid Hecate: Not many others. Anyways I have to go. Adios. (Might as well end it here lah)

Girls day out

2005-07-06T18:15:00.000+08:00

Backdated post...

I know some people who believe they are quite self sufficient by living in PJ / Sunway / Subang / ShahAlam / Klang that they absolutely dread the idea of travelling 20-50km down town. This time, for this holidays, you people will have to travel down to MY TURF. It has been really nice of you all to show me where's what and who's where in those areas, but please, let me return the favour for once :)

I take 3 surburban ladies from as far as Kepong to Shah Alam out for a day like this with the ultimate aim of sourcing for necessary things for the vanity pot. The main constraints...Time and BUDGET

Shirley saved my life for getting her dad to drop her off at my place. First stop KLCC. To pick up Shing Ying. (Nuts ah? Budget and think I would go there to shop?).

Through Bukit Nanas we go and ending up parking the car at Mydin, Kota Raya. Huei Ying and Wan Feng gather up with us 5 mins later. And away we go!

Shing Ying needed some cloth for emboidery. I took her to the store where I got my cloth for tailoring my Prom dress with the skinny ol' man with timberland grey whiskers. I'm a sucker for anything orientally emboidered and these rolls are of a very very decent price.

*Gasp* Chinese cloth!

After buying my Final Fantasy soundtracks and sips of Petaling Street's best Tau Foo fah we got pretty much locked up at the Bonita warehouse along the road. Earrings were so cheap. RM1 each. The designs may look alittle teeny-bopper-ish. But when you get the right ones, it's a steal!

Bangles? No... my new Giant Hoops! Even my leg can go through the biggest one! One for every colour of the rainbow ^-^.

Clothes over there are still of a debatable price I'm surprised. 2 pieces party dresses and Sequined Butterfly tops that Eden's Crush wore in 'Get Over Youself' for decent prices :) Shirley demonstrates a sample of the funky garments below.

Shirley and her leopard prints... *shakes head*

I myself was not spared but the prices and the variety that I bought something too! Also cause I was really looking for something nice to wear for Hann Yong the next time he takes me somewhere fancy :D

I like this one. At least it makes me look slimmer :P

Huei Ying wasn't convinced for she still believed that Sungei Wang held the best deals for prom dresses as recommended by me for her last prom. We run through the scary parking of Mydin to drive over to Sungei Wang. There I saw every a shop every pink Loving Girl would absolutely die for. A super Pink shop Oi! Woot! Too bad my money has already stop flow at Petaling Street.

Super Pink Shop!: April...grow up already.

Hokay so Huei Ying found her dress after my champion missing cell phone episode. Wan Feng then reminded me.

I quote; "BLOODY HELL WOMAN. YOU BETTER TAKE ME TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU BOUGHT THAT CHEAP PINK TOP AND THAT EARRING TOWER OR I WILL KILL YOU."

Because she asked so nicely, I hurried the gang through the aisles and walkways of Sungei Wang to bring them to San Peng, the land where the retailers play. (Irene Q, take note ;) / See how much I love you Auntie Feng? :P ). And as promised before, Photos.

A whole shop dedicated to BAGS!

Clothes...

and more Clothes!

When it comes to modelling for me, Shirley is such a gem :D

I find this print absolutely hilarious! It's like saying, thank you for Botox, Clostridium botulinum!

Shopping for me doesn't stop there. Whee :) I got myself a pair of fantastic Gwen Stefani looking earrings from the all Austrian and Korean crystal shop and another pair of a cross cut orange looking earrings.

$$...who doesn't want it?

Ahhh... kawaii!

Only 4pm and these people are exhausted already. Tsk tsk :P I dropped them all off at the Pandan Jaya LRT station and headed for home myself as well :)

So you see. KL is a wonderful place to do some bargain hunting. If you're up to it :D I know I will always be ready for another day out. Just ask me ya? I'll be more than glad to take you around ;)

ARGH MY NAILS!

2005-07-01T19:32:00.000+08:00

To the people on my MSN list who msged me to say you're sorry about my nails. I'm sorry to the blog readers who happen to read this post due to the title as well. You see..

You

Were

All

Conned

Over

This...

I'm sorry I was over-exaggerating over a small-itty-bitty chip; but being a nail perfectionist, I just couldn't stand that my manicure has been reduced from this...

to the above.

"So what harh? Nail chip only marh! Not like nail broke the flesh turn black and got gangrene."

It's quite a terrible feeling, really. I have a great passion for perfectly 'coiffed' nails, so to speak and the sight of a small little chip is enough to bring me to the brink of psychological distress. I am terribly hooked to the grooming of my cartilage. That every bit of my nail keeping has to be in order with not even the sight of a smear of polish at the sides of my skin will be tolerated.

And since I don't believe in paying people to do the job for me; I later took sometime to immobilise myself on my desk filing, shaping, soaking, buffing, moisturising, scrubbing, mixing colours, base-coating, base-colour-polishing and top coating everything to produce something that will last me hopefully last me slightly more than a week.

An idea only hit me later after admiring my latest do...

Crap. I'm a nail perfectionist.

Contraceptives Couch Session

2005-06-29T21:27:00.000+08:00

While some people associate the knowledge of birth control with the promotion of promiscuity, my view of birth control is a varied version.

Although I don't have any sexual intentions as of current there really is no harm in the exploration of birth control should I want concentrate on my career after marriage. Anyway, that's a long time away from now; plus, the biological function of it intrigues me.

Anyhoo, when it comes to an inevitable moment where some people politely describe as 'doing it', it is best to take note of your options for Self Protection. It's something every person has the right to know.

Jha has the same ideas and feels the same way as I do. She took the trouble to bring back some phamplets for me and showed me the latest available birth control method in Canada.

These colourfully printed out phamplets are great guidelines for the available methods, how they work and the considerations.

Jha showed me the NuvaRing, The first thing I thought when she told me about it was IUD. This is not like the old barrier method as mentioned in your SPM text books. It is in fact a hormonal contraceptive method consisting of a simple a flexible ring two inches in diameter compressed and inserted into the vagina.

It comes in prescription boxes, each containing one Nuva Ring sealed in a hygenically safe resealeable foil package.

1 sachet contains 1 vaginal ring...

...In neat little foil packaging...

...With each of these little rings inside it...

Apparently, the ring when inserted would release estrogen and progestin preventing the ovaries from producing mature eggs. What makes it a marketable product would be the low hormone concentration during release (reducing the side effects of weight gain, headache etc).

It's inserted in for 21days and taken out for disposal leaving the body with a 7-day free period. This is to allow mensus to flow before the insertion of a new ring. Jha showed me a Nuva-Timer (from her free sample pack) where the end is filled with 21 digital balls. Each day, a ball falls and collects to the bottom to remind the user of how many days have passed. When its about time to insert a new ring, there would be an indicator arrow and a ring flowing towards the digital image of the woman (Where her finger is pointing)

It goes for about 13 Canadian dollars, equivalent to about RM30 here from most pharmacists in Canada. The problem is the storage for the ring is at 2-8 degrees celcius which means if you wanna store it, it's got to be in the fridge where alot of people can see it >-<

Nevertheless thanks Jha for sharing with me :D

Toilet Accessories II

2005-06-28T09:32:00.000+08:00

Didn't I mention that there would be more than there already is?
My dad has taken toilet technology to a serious level although obsolete.

This time credit shall be given to Ashley for her veni, vedi, vici experimentation.

She too, like me likes to enter the toilet half dazed, half stoned, the other half just wanting to take a dump. The shaky toilet seat has just been replaced with a brand new one and is just itching to be sat on.

She looks around the toilet for something to focus on. No newspapers or magazines or Archie comics are within decent reach. She thus proceeds to searching for interesting labels on the toiletries to examine.

'I saw an "On-off/Hi-Low" dial with level indicators between them. While holding on to the dial I did a Dee-Dee..."What does this button do?"'

Something cold shot up her behind.

Apparently she was so shocked, she opened up a gap from the to toilet seat and the toilet bowl spurted out water like an archer fish

The toilet bowl fights back!

Never simply press buttons yah?

Oh, and it doesn't really aim well for girls. A little tilting of the body and adjustment to seating is required for a squeaky clean finish.

Cheers to home improvement All thanks to daddy. *Shakes head* It just made my whole family a whole lot more lazier too wash up after toilet use.

PPS bash. Some of the Explicit bits and some of the none explicit.

2005-06-24T17:30:00.000+08:00

As like any other bash, the 2nd PPS birthday was a blast :D

Well if Minishorts didn't ask me I wouldn't have gone also :P So after being friends for sometime we showed each other how much we care for each other :D

I blame it on the coke.

Elaine, Eric, Minishorts and Nick in the pic

Peter Tan

and Kimberly ,

And Kenny Sia

It was great having everyone at the party last night! It was great to finally meet all of you!
No words can quite possibly describe my emotions about last night. I'll leave the better descriptions of the party in the hands of other bloggers :D

A big little girl raves about small big work

2005-06-22T17:23:00.000+08:00

So now, at least I have something better to do over the holidays rather than bum at home and grow fat while at it. I'll need something like this to finance my spendrift habits also :P

How I landed in this position? I opened my big fat mouth. I thought the job would just run over a couple of days and then I have the rest of the weeks to enjoy my holidays per se. Oops..I was wrong...It's going to last me till the very last Friday of my semester break. Still better than resorting to shopping on an schedule-less weekday and ending up spending even more money.

This job is for me to promote a practically large scientific conference for Agriculture and Medical Biotechnology. I'm needed to correlate a few stuff, get the relevant people in to the swing of things, and alot of paper work to be done too :P It'll be something good to put in my resume to the very least :)

The best part of the job? I have my own office! Whee!

A little part of life for the next 3 weeks. I know, shabby and it could use a little redecorating, I'm bringing my Bubblegummers mug, a pair of old man and old lady porcelain figurines, a gold plated clock with cherubs and stab a few post-its to give the room that 'busy' look :P

My desk faces this end of the room. Hiked up skirts, cute butts, beer guts and small packages, you name it I see it. No one can see me tho :D

Wahey! Door gifts! =P

But eh,..the room was more or less unoccupied for the last few months so I had to do some cleaning. Below is tissue no.1 for the table. I hate to find out what the last person on the chair i'm at was doing while working.

I can assure you tissue No. 1 for the keyboard was much worse.

So here I'll be for the next 3 weeks plus. Hoping that the cost of my daily coffee dose does not defeat the amount I earn. If you're around there gimme a call and let's do lunch :)

The charging Nut of San Peng

2005-06-22T00:59:00.000+08:00

Exams were over today! Yay! What a better way to kick off the holiday mood knowing that the last paper was the easiest of the lot. But first.. a narcissitic post exam pose :P

Already part of my precious precious hours today were taken up by waiting and sending my aunt back to the the bus station so she can mosey down to Singapore and then jump on a plane back to Perth. Moreover, since I'm going to be starting work tomorrow, I had to use the time I had left today to go do some retail therapy.

Upon request and enquiry from traders to look for the Big thing I was looking for, Mommy drove us both down to "Hoh Ching Yun". San Peng, for those of you like me who don't speak Chinese labelling :P It's an old part of KL smack somewhere between Pudu and Cheras, visibly located at from the Hang Tuah station of the Star LRT course.

The place if some of you didn't know is a completely wholesale area dedicated towards clothes, textiles, accessories and more clothes. Traders are particularly fussy about selling their pieces and stick up "WHOLESALERS ONLY". If you're brave enough, you could ask every store only to get more that alittle told off by them.

Others actually allow the sale of individual pieces but usually at higher prices. Yet, really nothing compared to the prices outside, the rates here are F***ing low. I was at the point of disappointment near most shops thouh cause they refused to sell the really HOT clothes. If I wasn't carrying the big thing I bought, I would have taken photos of the road too show u, but I'm still heading there next Monday anyways so you'll be able to see photos by then ^-^

To prove my point, I manage to squeeze this in my tab after convincing some traders as well.

You try making this and selling it for less than RM30

It's less than RM30 and so much more cheaper (as compared to RM60 in Sungei Wang)... of coz lah...wholesalers.

And then I went in to P&L an accessories shop selling korean/austrian crystal knick knacks.. Wahhh.. I came out with this sight for sore eyes.

Nice leh?

I actually would have come out more if I didn't have my hands filled with the main purpose of my visit there. First thing adi, when I saw the thing, it was big, long and huge. Perfectly symmetrical too.

Oh? Soli, soli, forgot to show you the big thing :P

Yay! I'm finally organised!

My very own earring tower! Whee!!!!! Aiyak... *Wipes off the sweat drop from her readers' heads and fans them for those who have fainted off their seats*

This can hold up to 300 ++ pairs of earrings...Unfotunate that I don't own so many pairs, but it should be filled up soon! Yes, yes, which DOMESTIC house has such things...hey If my family is capable of owning a multiple toilet roll dispenser,why not an earring tower?

If you wanna go there, ask me, I'll tell you how to get there (refer to above) or better still, I can take u there :P Photos will be posted up soon.

For now... HOLIDAY!