teehehee~

Taken this morning on my way to work after training.. i neeeeeeeed more time to sleeep :(

2nd day of my perm, hehe

I realised cold perm definitely needs more maintenance than my previous ceramic perms.
This was after half an hour of twisting, scrunching and blow-drying at 7am in the morning.

faints*

but 爱美是需要付出代价的

Yesterday was pay day and i decided to pamper myself with a nice haircut, hehe..
My flat hair and long fringe were irritating me alot the past month, i couldn't wait to step into the salon again.

Made an appointment with my trusted hairstylist after work for some damage control. I reached at 7.45 pm and you won't believe what time i left the salon, haha
Close to 12 midnight!

cos i opted for a retouching of my roots with the same colour on the lower part of my hair, trimming as well as a perm.
Yes, i decided on a perm, BUT i didn't want the conventional type of perming. I told Dylan specifically that i wanted waves, not curls. Just abit of volume would be nice, but toilet-roll looking curls a big no-no.

I also asked if i could take photos of the process.. he's fine with it.... actually, he didn't really care la, haha

Dyeing

This is how i will look if i'm botak :(
He retouched the roots with copper brown. Cos my ash brown faded to copper liao :(

He cut the hair on the top of my head shorter so that the crown would be more airy and fluffy. Divided my hair into 5 sections to be curled.
Applying curling lotion..

He said my hair is too fine to undergo Ceramic/Digital perming, so he chose this instead. I don't know what it's called. Cold perm or something?
Just add solution only.. he claims that this will be less damaging to my hair. Plus i didn't want tight curls.


haha...

just this alone takes 1.5 hours! Just sitting there and waiting for nothing, haha
i didn't have dinner and there wasn't anything to buy when NEX closed around 10pm, so Dylan gave me some biscuits and a hot milo.
He also very poor thing, have to OT until 12am. Usually he knocks off at 8.30 or 9 plus, haha

Finally around 11+, the curlers were removed! I cant wait to see how it turned out to be!

There is even a technique in blow-drying to achieve the curls / waves i want. I didn't think i mastered it :(


sorry, i know i take super lots of photos, wahahaa~

with flash...

OK, look like totally no curls at all, haha!

After completely dry..

I'm loving how my hair looks!
Though i reckon the waves will be loosened in no time and my hair will be straight back again.

Hopefully i'm able to maintain it for a longer time!!
i really need to know how to blow dry my hair properly so that the waves would last longer!

Yeah, i neeeeed to sleeep now, haha.. Have a happy week-end (soon) ahead!
:))

Photobucket is down again for the past 2 days, sigh...

and i'm back to the awkward layout of photos using Blogger upload :(


I'm beginning to treasure my sundays alot now :)
Went to Kallang Leisure Park with jayen yesterday after my tuition,
and we tried out my new camera's self-timer shots :)

It takes 3 shots consecutively. Nice, hehe

This was taken right outside Stadium MRT station. It is one of our favourite hangouts, other than Farrer Park's City Square Mall.. cos they are not crowded at all during the weekends :) we like!

After that, we went into the shopping mall for shopping. There are not many nice shops in there to walk around... but usually, we really just walk around :)
I have been wanting to change my protective cover of my Blackberry cos it was too worn out. Was contemplating between a cover with bling bling and a MyMelody one.
My mind tells me to choose the former cos it looks more professional, but my heart wanted the latter.
Decided to listen to my mind, so i bought the one that looks professional.... but i changed my mind thereafter. I went back to change it to the MyMelody, haha


And i was super happy after that!
cos it was really pretty!!!

:D
Moral of the Story:
Always listen to your heart. It will not lie to you.























Now i love my Blackberry sooooo much!!
cos it's so sweet! :D








i kept camwhoring with the phone, hahaa...

After dinner, we became bored with Kallang Leisure Park and took the train to Orchard for a movie. We've watched almost all the shows already, left Kungfu Rabbit.. So we booked tickets for it at Shaw Lido.
Jayen says it's an imitation of Kungfu Panda by the Tiong-koks.

And it really was! omg! hahaaa... it's really lame, but i enjoyed it.. cos i was more entertained by the reaction of the kids in the movie theatre. A family of four was seated beside us, and the little girl was super restless throughout the whole show! She was fidgeting non-stop and heaving very deep sighs, hahaa.. I guess she really didn't want to watch the movie but was 'forced' to.

And there was this little boy sitting behind us who kept commenting very loudly, "So BORINGGG!!!!!"""
LOL! me and jayen were totally amused by those kids, haha

After that, we went over to Takashimaya and bought this!

Jayen was raving about this the whole night! And i really wanted to see how amazing this was.

He said he used this when he was 18yr old, recommended by his skin doctor. It was AHA and it's supposedly damn good at smoothing scars and curing acne.

Now he has stopped using cos he is damn lazy to keep up with the skin regime.
Guys.... -_-

But i really wanted to do something about my pitted scars. I have 2 on my cheeks and i really cannot stand them!
My acne scars used to heal very quickly, but now, the skin is slowly aging and there are pitted scars that doesn't seem to go away!! *boo hoo.....*
I'm scared they would become permanent then die liaoo lor..

Jayen tells me AHA is the only way to smooth out pitted scars (other than laser and plastic surgery) and i'm believing him.

I still have 3 AHA facial sessions with HAACH but i do not have time to visit the salon :( So i'm resorting to home care for the time being. Prays very hard that my scars will go off sooon :(

i'm going to cut my hair tomorrow.
Now should i giving Perming a second chance?

we're on stomp, wahahaha...

photobucket ki-siao again, heh.



It has been a good week :)
But i'm beaten! I need a good night's rest today.

Take care peeps and enjoy ur weekend! :)

It was such a bad day at work on Saturday and i was super demoralised.
Nothing seemed to be working fine these few days and i was feeling horrible.
Everytime i wanted to open my mouth to speak, i couldn't.. without having to fight off my tears at the same time.

I guess i was too much of a perfectionist.
Jayen always gives me pep-talks to instill the right mentality in me. He hopes I won't be so hard on myself. But somehow, i think i wasn't able to deal with the disappointment.
My manager tells me there are bound to be ups and downs in a sales job, and he has great faith in me. sigh.
I hate to disappoint the people around me.
End day, i hid in the toilet to cry. Because it was so hard. Maybe i was too stressed out.
Maybe i needed a break.

That night, kiyomi and friends arranged for all of us to go clubbing.. at ButterFactory :) Initially, i didn't want to join them because i just wanted to go home and emo. But eventually i went ahead, because it had been such a long, long time since i met them. Maybe it's time for a de-stressing session :)
Photos taken at ButterFactory are in Kiyomi's camera, haha.. cos i had forgotten to bring mine out.

My make-up that night...
actually no difference, only put a pair of longer falsies, hehe


Clubbing was not as fun as when i was younger. We just played 5-10 and drank. Didn't really dance cos old liao, haha.. so more of people-watching and we went home rather early too.

Today after tuition, i met jayen for our usual lazy sunday dates, haha.. we went Parkway Parade, shopped at Giant's and ate at the hawker centre.
:)
One of my colleagues recommended these... i bought it from Giant.

He says this is damn good at controlling oil that usually makes hair flat at the end of the day.
I'm so going to try it tomorrow, hopefully it works! :D
It comes in a pair and have to alternate between the 2 bottles of shampoo for better results. I know it's all marketing gimmicks, but no harm trying :)
I hate my thin hair.

After shopping at Parkway Parade, we headed to our all-time fave East Coast Park.

Took some really nice photos :)





♥
teehehee~
Have a good week ahead, peeps! It's a brand new week and a brand new start!

yes, i think it did bring me good luck, haha

when i curled my hair on Wednesday, i closed 2 deals.
But these 2 days when i didn't do anything to my hair, i ate 2 big eggs lor :( haha
But aiyah, i hope it's just a coincidence. I refuse to be obsessed with finding things to attribute my success to... except God, heh...

but i'm praying very hard that tomorrow will be good. Or else i'll be damn stressed liao. If 3 days also eat egg, then die

This evening, i was feeling rather low so i bought something that i knew would surely cheer myself up, haha

Guess what it is...

teehehee~
Still got Doraemon and Domokun versions, hahaa

yay, Photobucket no longer having PMS. It is finally back working properly :)
and i can upload my photos with ease :)

Yesterday, i had the 闲情 to curl my hair. (Just a digression, i went Google Chinese to translate 闲情 and they literally translated it to FREE LOVE ...... -_____-" *faints)
Yupp, i was saying i tried doing something different to my hair yesterday. To 转运, haha... My colleagues were obsessed with all these things, hahaa.. They will wear different coloured underwear everyday and see if any particular colour will help them get lucky that day.
They paste coins on their calculators, wear different coloured ties, comb their hair differently etc...

I don't believe in such things, but sometimes i tend to get a little superstitious too, haha
Anyway, curling my hair was just vain la, not trying to 转 any 运... (Another digression, Google Chinese translated 转运 into TRANSPORT lor, wahaha.... cmi)


Nice hor the curls, wahaha... But once i reached workplace, all no more liao :(

My fringe is getting irritating. Too long and flat :(
And i paiseh to go back to Dylan to ask him trim my fringe again.. 5 dollar niah. I know i should do a proper haircut soon. But i'm waiting for my next paycheck, haha
sigh.

There are so many things i wanna do. Colour my hair, cut it, do pedicure (to slough the dead skin off), buy some proper working clothes, go for a beach getaway etc etc etc.....
All need money. SIAN, hahaa

the only way is to work and earn. Pls pls pls let me earn the money!!

i'm trying, with frustration, to upload photos up Photobucket but to no avail.
sigh...

or maybe the site would be down every day at this time. I've been trying for the past few nights.
So i'm using Blogger now to upload the photos. Hopefully it works :)
But the thing is, Blogger automatically resizes my photos to a smaller size :(

Yesterday, we celebrated Grandma's 84th birthday, hehe..
This beautiful cake was painstakingly decorated by aunt. She's a genius! Cos if you've personally tried your hands at decorating a cake at The Icing Room, you would know how difficult it is to 'design' a really nice one.

I tried before, and it looked like sai.

So, KUDOS to aunt for being able to come up with such an awesome design!


Lovely grandma! :)
Love love love her!!! :)

I think she still looks good at a ripe old age of 84! :)











When there are special occasions like this, my cousins would come over and then it will be the usual bitching, hahaha....
we read blogs together and stalk people on facebook, wahahhaa....

My guy cousin doesnt really bother. He will just quietly sit at one corner, listening to me and kaya bitch, hahaa


My room is in a mess!!

Very throw face to let everyone see how cluttered my room is.






















After that, brother came over and drove us all to Jumbo Seafood at East Coast Park for dinner.

Me and kaya at the back seat.

She kept complaining about her hair... what no style la, what flat la....
But i think her hairstyle is cool :)

hehe.. but i would never possess courage like hers to chop off my hair, heh...














At Jumbo....
Kaya and grandma :)
















Aunt's family :)

kaya not in pic cos she was sitting beside me, haha













Brother, sister-in-law and my parents listening and laughing at the tasteless NPD's 'Fun Pack Song'.


Heng it was decided that the song would not be used for this year's NDP!






























Yeah, lastly happy birthday to grandma! 生日快樂!!!!

Hopefully photobucket would be back to its normal self soon. It feels weird having my photos in this kinda layout. hmmmmm....
Good night peeps!~ misss ya all :p

Every night i resolve to sleep early.
But every night i stayed up till late before going to bed. Think i miss the internet too much, haha..
and i don't know why my blackberry is heating up these few days so i try not using it to surf the net on the go :( jayen says it's the battery and if i don't change a new one, it's going to heat up so badly it fries my phone.

i took out the battery this afternoon at the last resort and before i went home, i put it back in again. but darn, after that i left home without it.
My poor phone must be warming up terribly now :( I hope it doesn't explode in the office.

my left eyelid had been twitching non-stop today, sigh.
Today abit emo... feeling super lethargic... guess it's the monday blues. Have been very distracted these days, sigh.. unable to focus.
I hope there is something to motivate me soon........

This photo was taken sometime back. But think it suits my emo-mood in this entry today, haha.. so i'm putting it here

feel like doing something to my flat hair.. i want voluminous messy big waves, but i wonder if it's even achievable with perming at the salon.
I've permed my hair twice. And twice, i ended up straightening it back within a month :(
Think i will ask Dylan if he could do some miracle to my limp hair. I think he will say (as usual), "If you don't start doing treatment, nothing is possible for ur fried ends."

sigh.
Come August, hopefully by then, i have more money to pamper myself a little more.
:)

Tomorrow will be good

New coin pouch :)


i have a soft spot for such stuff. Totally not something i need but i just kept on buying them :(
It makes me happy just holding it, haha...

Last week, i was working half way when i received a call from my manager. He told me to check my email immediately because the big boss wasn't very happy that i was not selling enough investments (unit trusts). So i have to read my mail and see what action plans he have for me...

and so i did.

and saw...

teehehe...
turned out my manager was just pulling my leg.

i took a photo of the email screenshot cos it was a milestone in my new career. I know it is not everyday i get this lucky.... so of cos i have to remember it!
i thank God for his blessing in my first month of sales, my loved ones for being extremely supportive.
I was officially confirmed today and i'm very thankful. I do not know what the future will bring, but i will do my best and hopefully won't disappoint those who believed in me.

The next 3 months would be fighting for my promotion. My bosses have very high expectations of me. I hope i can keep up the momentum. Wish me luck! :)

it's the weekend again.
i miss my weekends. Our weekends...

sleepy head...

can't believe it's Friday already!! Tomorrow is a new month. Time to chiong again...

Last evening, i met up with my little student for dinner. She was from my Health Education class when i was in my first year of teaching at BHPS. I didn't manage to count how many years it was back then, but she reminded me it was seven years ago.
Oh my. Time really flies..... she's 19 years old now and i lao kok kok now.

she came to Thomson plaza to look for me after my work, so i treated her to dinner at Swensons'. There weren't many nice restaurants in the mall itself, and i thought Swensons was decent enough. i cannot treat my student to kopitiam right?

yeah, basically that was what we had. Chicken baked rice, sambal fish and a brownie with ice-cream. Yums!
She was feeling abit surreal i think, haha.. so was acting alil weird, heh.. think cos she very long time never see me liao, somemore eating with a teacher sounds very strange? i dunno. I can never imagine eating with my teacher and feeling comfortable at the same time.
But i didn't treat her like my student la. Cos after that, we started taking alot of photos using her iphone. hahaa
iphone applications damn good lor! I think she really love taking photos, cos she got i think 7 different photo-taking apps in her phone!

This app snaps multiple shots in 0.2 seconds for each.

can see the first 5 photos were of the same pose. Can't blame me. I'm too slow to react.

After dinner, she sorta warmed up and then we started cam-whoring like crazy, haha

heh


really leh. mix with youngsters really can make me feel energetic all over again! haha

Tried different mode and settings in her iphone apps...


we really very bo-liao lor.. spent almost 1.5 hours taking photos of ourselves, wahahha~
But honestly, it was very fun meeting up after so many years :)

i feel younger already! haha