Facehunting, ouais.

While I was staring emptily at the store today, a woman asked me if my hair is fake.

Apparently she repeated her question three times before I realised someone was talking to me and took my ipod earbuds off.

Thanks, ma'am. I'm flattered.

But my hair is real, just like my nose.

Besides, my hair was tied up, she'd have seen the weaves if I were wearing extensions.

I also have a bump on my nose, a trait from my dad, so it baffled me when someone asked me where I had rhinoplasty the other day. Nice.

Some questions sound more incredulous depending on how you phrase them. ha ha ha.

And if had rhinoplasty, why would I want to have a bump on my nose bridge? I'd like a nose like Erika Sawajiri's, please!

Speaking of faces, I've been looking at pretty pages of Yvan Rodic's FACEHUNTER book which I bought in Singapore a couple of weeks ago (S$ 37.45, @ Kinokuniya).


I prefer Facehunter's selections to The Sartorialist's. They are more varied, interesting and less showy. What about you?



The fact that Yvan Rodic (the man behind Facehunter) knows little about labels and fashion mumbo-jumbos makes me like him that much more too. Guys who can cite the names of different brands of someone's outfits are MTO- (Major Turn Off).

Here are my favorite looks from the book



1) The 'London' guy is there just because he looks a little like Lee Hong Ki from F.T Island and I LOVEEEEE Hong Ki's JEREMY character in the not-so-awesome drama You're Beautiful.

2) Julia Frakes FTW

3) Fashionistas start early in Paris. Credit goes to her mom, naturellement.

4) The most likely look I'd channel. Laid-back, simple lines and great color combi. Now, if I only I live close to a beautiful beach....

ok, good night, lovelies.
I'll upload pictures of me and friends soon. Gotta resize the pictures first.

Biscuits japonais

A friend returned from a short trip to Japan recently and she gave me this


creamy two layer biscuits in traditional-looking wrappers and packaging.



The text is in Japanese. No alphabets anywhere except the series of numbers at the bottom right hand corner of the cover and the letters 'KT' behind the individual wrapper.



stamp behind the bird shaped paper included in the box.



the KT letters. All other numbers are printed in characters (o__o  )

I've been munching two of these each night for the past couple of days.

nomnomnom

now a Dane invades!

My sister's cute Danish friend just added me on my Google Reader shared items. If you think this is a lucky thing, you're wrong!!!!

Last year when he planned to visit Santa Monica, my sister gave my email to him so I could help him find information on lodging et cetera and we were supposed to meet up but he ended up going to Vegas instead (pffft. boys. I should have figured that out.) so I never got to meet him even though I've seen his pictures and heard stories from my sis and her friends.

Late last night, I accepted his request to view my shared items.

It's not like I have a choice, right?
And I get to see what kinda stuff he reads on the net too (funny? sexy stuff?)...was what I thought.

Well, I did get to see them but they are all serious news like Copenhagen projects and the likes, whereas mine are more likely to be fluffs like posts by DISGRASIAN, Brianboy, a few interior design articles and the occasional politics/serious biz reads, very occasional.

FML.

I know I can continue to share whichever items I like per usual but if he unfollows my list thereafter, it would be like a roundhouse kick to my heart. Not to mention what he'd think of my older sister having such a tween-minded person for a sibling.

Party boy isn't as playful as people claim him to be, it seems. I knew I shouldn't have judged a book by its cover! After all, they all went to good school and got their masters while partying late every night.

I was told that he and his friends made a goal to drink up at every single nightclub in London and even though we don't know how it turned out, wouldn't you jump into the conclusion that they are party animals who don't care much for academics?

No, they are not. Stupid mars.

No stereotyping.

I better stop writing about this lest he discovers I have a blog! ahaha.

Then that would really be the end of my posts.

I have to think carefully before clicking the 'share' button from now on. *shudders*
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Mmmmmm, I want these kitschy key fobs, please!

now it's a case of the blues

A very close friend of mine who's working in Vietnam right now asked me on Skype yesterday if I want to go to Japan for a short holiday with him. He plans to go to language school there next year and if I go, we can practice our Japanese - it's just going to be me leeching off his lessons - and pig out at fab restaurants together. I think that's a swell idea and I can already picture us having tons of fun because I know I can always be myself in front of him and he never judge me even when I do selfish things. Also, he enjoys my stories a lot. But alas, I don't think that trip is possible this year.

By the start of the second half of the year, I'd be busy with a project that will take up all my time and dedication. I want to make it a success so overseas trips are out of the question. Besides, I've been traveling quite a bit for the past year and Japan trip will definitely cost an arm and leg as we know it's a shopping haven for young women like me. I know I won't have to worry about carrying my hauls because he always helps me carry my stuff and I'd get to act like a spoiled brat around such an understanding and giving friend. Before I have this confidante, I used to think that platonic love is ridiculous and completely impossible but now I know that it exists. Things would be so great and much simpler if only I'm in love with him. But I'm not. And he's not. Matters of the heart are just illogical and uncontrollable.

Actually, days prior to this conversation, my older sis also asked me if I wanted to go to Japan in March with her and her friend but I told her no for the same reason I told my friend. We recently bought a few jdrama series too, finally breaking the string of kdrama series to watch. All these talks and little popups of Japanese stuff around me make me feel like Japan is calling out to me gently...that I gotta go to Japan soon. JAPAN...JAPANNNNN..MARS, JAPANNNN.

Yeah, right. Sorry, babeh. No Japan this year. I'm gonna make do with Singapore for Lunar New Year and USA in May~June only. (and another trip to beloved HK hopefully)

Anything else will have to wait till next year.

Then he asked me for gossips.

(.__. )

him: okay, tell me what happened

me: we better not turn into gossipmongers. it's not gossip, but still..

him: well, according to how the trend goes...

I only gossip when I converse with you ...

me: so I'm the gossip gueen/provider, you mean?

fml.

him: you are an entertainer. lol

me: I should get paid for this.

my life in pieces. taken as entertainment

him: our friendship's priceless.

ok. you can entertain me now.

So I told him all about my high schoolmate who accused my sc (her bf's friends too) friends and I of mistreating her and her bf when we were in HK. She foolishly told this to a mutual friend Q who secretly dislikes her and doesn't really want her in her home come May. That high schoolmate, let's call her L for convenience sake, and another girl will be visiting Q and staying at Q's place for a weekend. I won't have to play host because I'd be in LA by then. Q initially only invited the other girl to visit but probably not wanting to be the lone guest, the girl invited L to come along as well without asking Q beforehand and Q couldn't bring herself to say no to it anyways. Now Q is worried that the same thing would happen as when these two girls came to visit last year. Not only did they stay at Q's place -free, use her driver to go everywhere (never tipped him too), ask to be brought to the clubs but they also expect her to pay for meals etc cetera because Q's family is well-off. Q's family may be wealthy but she's working independently on a standard, meagre local salary and she doesn't want to take money from her parents anymore so she can't afford to pay for others' expenses. They owed her quite a lot for drinks the last time they came because the girls claimed they did not bring any cash and they promised to pay her back but they haven't. They must have expected Q's guy friends to foot the bill. The thing about guys here is that they'd usually foot the bill only if the females at the table are their direct friends or if they like the girls.

Anyway, I've digressed a little too much. The introduction is just a slight peep into the personalities of the girls here especially L who accused me of mistreating her. She came to visit/do summer study in the US two summers ago and many things happened that led me to believe she's not a good person at all. One of them is asking me to pay her cash for meals so she could use the emergency credit card afforded to her by her salaryman uncle to pay for the meal and use her own cash to do other things like shopping [beyond her own budget]. So when her uncle received the bill, he would see that it was spent on food and not on unnecessary items the family couldn't afford. Her parents did not have spare fund for her but she took advantage of her uncle's generosity even though her uncle is not making a lot of money either. While she was in US, I introduced her to my college friends and she quickly got together with one who had a dark past (drugdealers to teens, anyone?). He has since changed and is actually pretty nice if he doesn't spew bullshit and big empty talk all the time. Fast forward two years later, we were all in HK one night. My friends (L's bf's friends too) didn't talk much with L. I've distanced myself from L but there in HK, I'm her only link to these people, especially with the other girls because they don't really give a shit for L's bf. However, I didn't make any effort to include her in conversations at all because I'm not obliged to do so and it's not my duty to make her feel at home. The girls are my sorority sisters so it's natural that a lot of inside jokes and talk about mutual friends took place which might have baffled others. One of them also told me before that she couldn't really understand L's Singlish.

I guess she feels bitter that my friends and I didn't talk to her very much at all but the reality is that we are not anyone's babysitter, especially not to someone who's just a friend of a friend. I'm guilty of ignoring her but I don't want to get involved with her in any way so I'm not sorry for it. My psis asked me why L is still dating that guy till now because she thinks the guy is full of bs too. It goes to show the actual sentiment they feel for him even though he mistakenly assumes them to be his very good friends. L also accused her bf's friends of making him pay for meals because he's the only guy around but that's a FALSE ACCUSATION. At least for the one night I met them. My HK friends were on their own turf and they're all financially above the average population and I was there as well so I knew everyone went dutch like they do in US. If there was anyone's share getting paid by someone else, it was L's because her bf paid for everything, probably even her ticket to HK.

At the end of that night, we agreed to meet up at one of the girls' homes the next day but my psis and I got there really late that night and L+bf already left even though they just came less than an hour to that house. I didn't understand why they had to leave so early until I saw the people who were in the house. Everyone came from the same high school and tend to speak either Cantonese or fluent English. None of that Cantonese-accented English there and there was a lot of inside talk. A few minutes in the circle confirmed my assumption that these were kids who don't let strangers easily between them. Good thing I understand a smattering of Cantonese and my social skills are good enough to ease myself in whatever situation, thanks to years of being 'thrown out there' by the parents.

Frankly speaking, I didn't want to blog about this at first because

1. I know it's going to be a long post

2. I don't need to remember ingrates and another ugly piece of the world.

but I decided to write about it so that I would be able to recall the kind words and advice my friend in Vietnam gave me. So that I remember what I've seen before and how it was dealt with and that I have wonderful people surrounding me despite all these backlashes. I can't please everyone but I can decide who the important people in my life are and focus my energy on them. I don't need to explain myself to the ones who don't deserve my attention and it's high time I sever ties with them. After all,

Don't worry about people from your past. There's a reason they don't make it to your future.

Right?

On another tangent, one of my psis (I have 12) in LA just received acceptance to a law school! I'm so happy for her!!!!! She majored in print journalism for her undergraduate degree and I'll be there for her walking ceremony this May.

And this is the first time I'm blogging through email. Convenient. Oh, what would I do without my Blackberry.

PS: I keep mistyping Vietnam as Vietname. Dang.

now Club Monaco new blouses

would make my current life perfect (as of this moment) but we know nothing is perfect in this world so this is not meant to be. I can only appreciate these beauties on the virtual world. sigh.

Besides, there isn't a brick-and-mortar Club Monaco store here.

If you are in the States, just know that students enjoy 10% discount (or is it 20%?) on all their items on top of any regular sale going on.

Now I miss U.S already.

in my favorite shades. (-A- )

Any one of these Ksubi sunglasses would be pretty rad too. I like the pair in purple. Purple the royal color.

now it's another layout change

I like my last layout a lot especially since it features Gemma Ward eating her heart out at NYC but that's gotta go because updating my widgets was a real bitch using such a template. I can't be editing HTML all the time, not when the brilliance that is widget exists in this mad world.

So here's the overused Blogger layout with a pretty header from Christopher Kane's latest show. I'm all for gingham *grins*

That said, good night everyone :)

Don't forget to apply eye cream every night.

おやすみなさい！

now what happens when you lose sleep

My sister flew to Singapore today and I was supposed to go along to the airport to send her off like the good sis I am but I couldn't.

My mind was still drifting in between dreams and real life when it was time for her to go out the house. So my dad told me to go back to my slumber.

When I woke up many hours later, no one was home. I think I slept a total of 12 hours.

Then I took this jar of Acacia Honey, scooped out a few spoonfuls into a little saucer and started licking that taste of sweet heaven. There were little ants trying to get to the top of the lid but I screwed it tight and flicked off the little buggers.

Five minutes into licking it, I realised it wasn't acacia honey but condensed milk.
TOOK ME FIVE MINUTES TO REALIZE IT WAS CONDENSED MILK.

what is wrong with my taste buds and brain and everything in between.

My brain is getting dull from watching too much infotainment day in and day out.

Do not stay up late for two nights and try to make it up by power-sleeping on the third night. BAD choice. Not only do you feel disoriented and lethargic, your brain becomes much slower too.

now comes moar food

My family recently had a simple lunch at a chinese restaurant called Hao Ting at Taman Anggrek Mall. I don't really like the mall because it's always so crowded with teenagers and old folks who are probably looking to score some of those teens. Eeek!!
Let's not imagine that.

That mall is undoubtedly one of the most patronized in the city be it weekday or weekend and it's all because there are so many restaurants and shops available there.
Everything is priced at mid-range and there isn't any branded goods store so it appears more welcoming to the general public, I assume.

Going to high-end malls can be intimidating sometimes because you have to dress up nicely lest you run into some snobs you know who'll give you the once over with their judging gaze and smirk like a know-it-all. I hate giving them even that false sense of satisfaction.

(I like to dress lazy, by the way..like a homeless hobo. ahaha)

chicken feet


fried tofu with steamed mushrooms

my favorite dish! I forgot what this is called but basically it's a bird, grounded and made into soup.

Then I started eating like a man who just got out of prison after serving a 15 year sentence. So no phototaking afterwards. Sorry, babes.

The random pictures below was from the lunch I had at Pasta de Waraku Changi Airport before I boarded my flight back to Jakarta.

Scallop with mushrooms.
Does this look good? It doesn't taste great though.
The scallops weren't rid of the innards (black stuff) so they smell
I almost threw up in my mouth when I ate the first one.
I cleaned the rest before putting them in my mouth.
One shall not waste any food.
2/5

Macha Parfait for dessert.
I think people get more finicky as they grow older.
I don't like too-sweet anything anymore
so I give this a 3/5
Too sweet!

Someone please tell me better places to eat/hang out in Singapore.

now back to reality

"If we hadn't gotten to know them in high school, we would not be friends with them. Or rather, we wouldn't still hang out with them. Don't you agree?"

A friend asked me this a couple of days ago, referring to a few of our high school friends back in Singapore.

I agree. It's undeniable.
My friend said that our lifestyles are too different from theirs.
I agree, but not because our lifestyles are completely different but because they just aren't good friends to keep. That is all.

My best friend is a Singaporean.
Her lifestyle is infinitely different from mine but she isn't like them at all, which is why I get along with her so perfectly. They don't like my best friend because she represents all that they could never be, I guess.

Just because my friend and I are better situated socially, doesn't mean we're obliged to help anyone get there. Especially not if they are ingrates. Putting expectations on our heads and getting upset when they don't get what they want get them nowhere but I can't help it if they don't see this. It's not my duty to be their babysitter.

I can't always be a buffer. I don't want to be their social agenda executor. I can't help them maintain a conversation. I can't help it if people don't understand them (time to learn to speak better English, loves!). I can't help it if people don't like them. It's not my duty to make people TALK to them. Especially not someone who secretly doesn't like them.

I can help them get acquainted with people who are beyond their reach under normal circumstances. and I did that before even though I didn't have to and shouldn't have, because experiences have taught me that it's a bad move. Then it proved right again and again. This time notwithstanding. Don't be too greedy. I've sustained a significant loss and I'm not willing to lose more.

They got a taste of a sweeter world and now they want more, thinking that it is possible if we were to lend a hand but in reality, things aren't like that. Friends from this side of the world ask why we introduce them to such losers. They are right. I should stop hanging out with losers. I'm severing those ties one at a time.

My friend has a longer way to go because they are clinging on to her more tightly than they do to me.

We don't owe them anything.

Nothing.

They owe us a lot and yet they still demand more.

I won't hang out with them because they are not good friends to keep.

now it's nippon-ya!

I bought this mini strawberry daifuku from Nippon-ya at ION Orchard during my recent trip to Singapore last week . It was actually a gift for my aunt but I bought four boxes so I thought it's okay to open one (sorry auntie). Yesterday I was reallllly hungry and there wasn't any other food at home. My sister is trying to lose weight so the house isn't stocked with any kind of snacks at all. Count it as some sort of encouragement for her.


nice packaging right? The SA kept telling me that this is popular and has strong strawberry flavor.





Sorry for the blurry macro pictures. I should get a better camera soon. My current Canon is dying on me but I still love that baby.

Nippon-ya, meaning Japan House, is this little store that sells Japanese specialty snacks and desserts. There doesn't seem to be any similar store like Nippon-ya nearby so it enjoys a monopoly of customers looking for Japanese delights ;) Lucky!

and this is the super huge ION Orchard...
I took the picture from across the road at Wheelock Place. Singapore has some great scenery and skyline but I never really thought of taking pictures because I feel like I've seen them all and been there too many times. What a fool. I'll take many pictures of every place I visit from now on!

now it's kinokuniya sauce

This is probably my favorite potato dish in the whole wide world. Homecooked meal really is the best and the taste of childhood is unforgettable. When I saw that my mom cooked this today, I jumped up in joy and asked her to teach me how to do this dish. My mom was excited to hear this because I very rarely ask to be taught anything to do with cooking. She looked cheery and told me the recipe right away...

mom: After that....you put in the..what's that called? Uhh..Kinokuniya sauce!
me: huh?!? Are you sure it's called kinokuniya? That's --
mom: Uhmm..kino..kino sauce..what's that? Oh, TERIYAKI sauce!

ROFL.

My mom's really cute sometimes.

The only Japanese words she knows are probably, "itai", "arigatou" and "kinokuniya"....because she goes to that bookstore a lot.

Anyways, I finished the whole plate the teriyaki potatoes for lunch P:



MMmmmmmmMM and Sauteéd baby bokchoy with chopped garlic.

Then it's back to reading this book



I like trivia!

Bought it for a bargain at Westside's Barnes & Nobles and I never regretted it.

More food posts coming your way..because I'm a pig like that.

now it's heart alert!

I've been having shortness of breath for the past week ever since my HK trip and it doesn't look like I'm going to get better anytime soon. I mean, I've diligently drank my meds and sleep earlier than usual but neither seems to solve this problem....yet.

This morning my father told me that he's worried I might have a hole in my heart like he did!

FML

FML

I have to get better.

now it's product-junkie

At work today, my aunt complimented me on my figure, guessing that I probably spend about three hours working out at the gym. This made me laugh a little, really but my sister looked at her incredulously and let the cat out of the bag: I only ever laze around the sofa with my laptop with me when I'm home. I AM LAZY.

As a general rule, I don't exercise at gyms. I hate gyms. I hate working out. and I usually dislike people who are obsessed with working out (ever read the magazine called Muscle? scary shit that is). I'd rather walk up and down the stairs or chase dogs instead. But thank goodness I have a pretty high metabolism so I don't end up looking like a whale after all the fried food I ingest regularly.

However, looks are a facade. My stamina is very bad and it's evident when an incident happened at the airport recently and I was left gasping for air after only running a very short distance. I only realised how bad my health has deteriorated after that little run.

So I promise myself that I'd be more active in exercising from now on and hopefully regain the fitness of my high school days (yeah, right.) One can dreammmmmmmm. Please don't burst my bubble.

Anyways, my other aunt also complimented me on the supposed perfume I use, asking if it was Praysius (Precious, I guess. but she says it as Praysius.) but I didn't use any perfume. What I used was my sister's leftover Narciso Rodriguez' s For Her body lotion.


smells really fragrant at first but I couldn't detect the scent ten minutes after lathering myself with it. I was surprised when my aunt asked. So people do notice after all. I gotta add this one to my list of 'Favorable Scents'.

I guess it's time I start spraying myself with perfume every day.

Coco Chanel said that a woman who doesn't use perfume has no future !!!!!! Do you think she only said that to help sales of the coveted no.5? I own several bottles of perfumes but only use them for parties as I never seem to be able to remember to use some on usual days.

Besides, perfumes are EXPENSHIPPU, n'est-ce pas? Ouais. -rhetorical.

My favorites are Cacharel's Anaïs, Chloé, Marc Jacobs' Daisy, Kenzo's Flower, Crabtree & Evelyn's Wisteria, Chanel's Une Fleur and uh, that No.5. I don't have a signature scent yet but it's never too late to start one now. I'm thinking Anaïs. Une Fleur would have been great but it's not produced annually so getting my hands on a steady supply would be tricky. Hmmms.

What perfume is Precious, by the way?

My mom is a product junkie and the house is full of half-used products so I'm on a mission to methodically use them up and get rid of the fifty or so bottles. If someone ever takes a look at my parents' bathroom, he would think that 20 different people live in the house. Yep, it's that bad. On one hand, it's great that I don't need to buy beauty products till I use up the ones at home, on the other hand, I don't really get a choice of what I really want to use. Can't have my cake and eat it.

now it's current eye candy!

which is the oh-so-goddamn-cute JEREMY!

the one with the blond hair.

played by FT Island's Lee Hong Ki in the popular drama You're Beautiful. His voice is beautiful too, by the way. He's a singer so that part is a must. As for his acting, let's just say he's still way behind Jang Geun Suk. (Please note that I don't consider Jang Geun Suk to be a good actor but he has a really pretty face :D).

Look at that smile and skin. So gorgeous, isn't he? I really like him as
Jeremy. I want a Jeremy as my pet! My friend T told me that I'm gaga
over Hong Ki, but that's not true. He's not my type of guy but definitely
my type of PET. I'm not into the cutesy kind except for pets ;)

THIS is my type of guy.


the strong, manly type that exudes a little bit of
bad boy aura. strong gaze and confidence.

not this.

but he's terribly cute. as a pet.

I'm being annoying so I'll end this fangirling here.

now it's MOVIES this week of January 2010

I shouldn't be experiencing jetlag or anything of that kind since HK/Singapore is only one hour difference away from this city but somehow, I'm still not used to coming back yet. It's almost as if my body misses HK a little too much despite the cold weather. I don't feel much for Singapore so this has to be a longing for Hong Kong. I had such a great time there with my friends and family.

Anywho, once back here, I tried curbing my lack of sleep and boredom by doing one of my favorite activities: watching films!

Last night I watched The Time Traveler's Wife, which received many good reviews online and off. I almost bought the book a couple of years ago but somehow or the other, it never really happened and so I've given up trying to read it. There's some mystical force out there that's been trying its best to stop me from reading/buying it or maybe it's the collective effort of my yet-to-read books to put more attention onto them first.

Either way, it's good that I didn't read the book before watching the movie because I'm pretty sure the book is many times more awesome that this visual romantic offering no matter how touching and great it is. Both Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams are golden in this story about everylasting love. Their performances are solid and everything was shot so beautifully even though the whole movie feels a little short, as if important parts have been cut off or the ending had come a tad too soon but overall, I like it.

It didn't move me to tears but some scenes almost did and the book no doubt would have left me sobbing like a baby, especially the later parts of the movie. Pretty heartbreaking to see how the story unfold.

However, I read in a magazine that 43 year-old Henry, the role acted by Eric Bana, visited Clare (Rachel McAdams) again after his death only when Clare was 82 years old! So they changed the ending after all because this after-visit-death happened when Clare only looked about 40 in the movie. All done in the name of aesthetics. I guess I wouldn't have it another way for the movie too.

Another movie that I really enjoyed recently is titled Le Petit Nicolas. It's a heartwarming french movie about a little boy and his friends who execute all kinds of plans so that Nicholas would not be abandoned when his mother get pregnant with another child. It's adapted from a popular children's book series of the same name and I have one of them. The actors are all so adobrable and the plot is simple but exciting. I definitely recommend this!

What are some of your current favorites? :D

now it's KANATA HONGO

who has gotten way TOO SKINNY. What happened to the cute, little prodigious boy?

Tobi.com !

lovely

Hong Kong

Two more days.

I can't wait!

My luggage hasn't been emptied of stuff from my previous trip yet and now I've got to pack very minimally because my mom plans to buy a lot of herbs (that are supposedly only more readily available in HK) to bring back here on the 16th.

On the upside, I finally charged my camera battery pack, which means pictures with decent quality will soon be uploaded. No more grainy BB Bold pictures!

READ READ READ

I love this post by Girl And City.

(click click click)

now it's the K-WAVE

Not too many years ago, people competed to get placing in Japanese classes but recently, all I hear is how so and so wants to learn Korean by 2010/etc etc. The J-WAVE has passed on, overshadowed by the ever-bigger K-WAVE now.

Just take a look at your local DVD vendors - most will recommend the hottest kdramas instead of jdramas. When I was still in Singapore, good kdramas were unheard of and most girls only pined for JE boys then. Now the JE stars all look like club hosts. No wonder the tweens turn to manlier-looking Korean stars. aiih.

But if I were given a choice between learning Japanese or Korean, I'd still choose Japanese in a heartbeat. It sounds better and I'm a much bigger fan of manga than manhwa.
Celeb-wise? Meh. Sure, there seems to be more better looking Korean youngins than Japanese ones but I care little for either except for a very select few, namely Takeshi Kaneshiro, Kim Bum and taemin (ha! I'm such a perv! taemin is a jailbait!)

K, k. No more asian entertainment talk. Let's just enjoy this gif image of Elmo and Neil Patrick Harris dancing as if no one is watching.

*HEARTS*

BOTTOM line

I had a short conversation with a really close friend, let's call her Star from now on, about another friend who is fast getting married to a really rich guy and had admitted very proudly that she is materialistic and will never marry a poor guy. Said material girl has a very attractive face and can be said to be a doppelganger of a popular Chinese actress.

Star: All pretty girls like rich guys and all rich guys like pretty girls. In a way, isn't that a match in heaven?

me: But not all rich guys marry pretty girls, remember that.

Star: hahaha. yeah. And vice versa.

I retold this conversation to my sister and her angle was,

"D'oh! ALL GUYS LIKE PRETTY GIRLS!!!!!"

eh, true.

now 2010 starts

I know, I know, Christmas is over but I just want to repost
this cute little greeting by D&G that I received in my email
inbox recently. Technically New Year is still the holiday
season anyways, right? Now I kinda wanna get a red bow tie
similar to the one above but before any of
that bollocks, I want to wish you

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010, lovelies!

2009 was terrible for me so good riddance to it.
Here's to a better tomorrow from now till fo'ever!
I celebrated the turn of the year at a house party
somewhere in the southern area of the city.
It's my dad's friend's residence so
I didn't know anyone at the house but twas okay.
The rare blue moon was so bright when
the clock struck 12 this side of the world
that I'm convinced big great things will
happen this year and all yesteryears' worries will
fade faster than any of us expect them to.

Here's me & my sis at the next day's family dinner.
Chinese food was had and we went home accordingly.
I really liked my outfit for this dinner so I suppose I'll be
dressing somewhat like it again in the near future -
white dress shirt with clean piping detail on the front,
metallic leggings, black suede boots and
metallic accessories (minimal bling). I'm into all metal accessories lately
and I hope I get to buy some good ones in HK later.

The nest day my cousin took my sibs and I to a resto nearby to celebrate
her birthday which completely took me by surprise. I've forgotten all
about it! Blame it on years of being overseas and minimal contact
with them. aha. Still, I kinda felt guilty as I feasted on the Indonesian
dishes laid on the table that night. She even treated everyone to watch
Sherlock Holmes and sent us all home because I'm shit at driving here.
which reminds me, I gotta buy a prezzie for her. :)


my messy, nerdy look that day. oopsie.


This is them playing some crazy brick game I've
never seen/played before at the arcade. You can't see any of their faces
but that's probably for the best as I don't have permission to show their
faces anywhere online. who knows if me cousins turn out
to be very private people on the net? hehehe.

I'll be going to HK in a few days. Can't wait!
*hearts