Monday, March 31, 2008

:: JOKE me not ::

It's the last day of March! April Fool's day tomorrow! keke.. no joke but I do know ppl born on this day and yes at 1st i thought it was a joke!


But what I experienced last week was NO JOKE!!!


$11.50 just to mend the sole of my shoe.. It's those tiny heels kind and it cost what???


I had a huge shock when I heard it, but I had no choice >_<>
This is the evidence... & can you hear my wallet groan & my heart breaking from taking out the ridiculous amount of $$??? sigh...........


{the official receipt}

I am SO not going back there to Mister Mint at P.S.
Total rip off! The fashionable cobbler (well he is, since he mends shoes right??) was dressed in a very nice executive wear with tie albeit him looking rather funeral like in a black & white get up!
******

The BAD weather is getting to me.. :( I am sick again.

Went to see the chinese doc on sat and it's been declared! I've weak lungs - hence the constant heaty-ness & coughing AND also toxic blood - hence the bad skin on my forearms (ezcema). I was given 1 month of medication for both & also medication for my cough, blocked nose, horrible mucus & sore throat.. Yes again :( mom say it's my own health.. bad constitution? despite her constantly boiling herbal soup or a variety of herbal drinks, my general health takes a toil pretty easily.

Anyway, since I'm not well & should be a good gal to stay at home, recuperate & not spread germs to others, I stayed home and scrapped..

Using more of the MM noteoworthy range, which I'm pretty reluctant as it's so nice hey??


Tried to do some 3-D effect with the layout, by using foam dots, but it's not that great, at least the flowers seem alive?!?!


Also want to do a 5 pic layout thingy - with 1 big pic and 4 smaller ones, but it just looked cluttered... so the 4 smaller ones will be another layout! :D




{the close up of the 3-D attempt & embellishments}

{self-protrait pic taken on my actual birthday}


Another one of a kind gift that I made for a colleague (lady who's totally in black) who left the dept that I'm in. She's been here for 13 years, and finally decided to made the switch to start her own design company + help the husband with his business.


{layout with the photo, which is interchangable}


{Layout without the picture}


{Layout in the frame}


The present !!


countdown again! Another 16 more days to take off!! can't wait.. am already helping friends to collect stuff that they need from SG which i'll be bringing over for them! guess they're excited to see me too!! haha...

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

:: pain ::

I am feeling pain in the most literal sense :(

Pain # 1)
I have 4.. yepz you heard it right 4, FOUR, blisters on both feet. 3 giants one and 1 mid size that's enough to get me screaming in PAIN!!!! The worst part is when I bathe and running water stings the open blister!! arghhh

I so love/hate wearing shoes!!!

anyone has any idea how to cure/heal blisters fast???

Pain #2)
why? why? must kookai have their storewide discount so soon?? can't they wait till April when I'm there!! oh gosh...
I am so craving for their clothes now... clothes in SG are so 'standard'... and the odd ZARA top that is nice is just way too expenisve for my liking

pic taken from Kookai email newsletter
love the 'hambly' frame that's going on here!
isn't it just adorable!

Sunday, March 16, 2008

:: warming up ::

my scrapping mojo is slowly warming up. I think it must have been at least a month since I've not scrapped...

finally did up 2 last weekend. Yay!

since I started scrapping in end 06, I've been digging up old photos of me.
something that I started was a yearly pic of me and I'd scrap it so here it this year's!

{ very simple embellishing / detailing work here, my mojo just started! }



a pic of me taken by cousin J during CNY 08.
thought my expression here is kinda weird... what was I thinking/doing?
so I decided to use the 2 cans of coke near me as the focal point! smart eh?

{ mojo-meter rising !! }

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

:: thank you ::


for all the birthday wishes that I received yesterday via sms, facebook & personally

Yesterday was just a normal kinda working day for me - being out of the office for several apppointments & also for some own teaching after hours. So yes, it was a pretty long day for me.
However, I:
- cut 2 cakes
1 was from a dear friend who surprised me when we met up for lunch.
The other was at night at home when my family. As Mom & I was watching the telly, a Korean series, the leading actor & actress had a birthday scene. It was the actor's birthday and the actress started singing "happy birthday" & Mom started belting out her *to the best of her tone-deaf ability* version of happy birthday... Next thing, younger bro said "shit? now??" and I was like "huh? what??" & out came him from his room holding a cake with a nice little candle and they started singing "happy birthday" to me, again. While eating the cake, he said that he didn't know when to bring the cake out as he was waiting for the show to finish before bringing the cake out - so he just patiently waited so funny!
I wished I had a photo taken of the moment though - to scrap of course!!
& oh yes! younger bro also commented that itchybackside me just couldn't wait to buy the photo printer. He & elder bro had wanted to get it for me but they wanted to wait for the IT fair this weekend to check out the prices & there I went to buy it *quite on an impulse he felt* oh well, maybe i should ask for something else??? keke ...
- received a bouquet of lovely flowers "filled with love" from another dear friend of mine.
You know who you are and yes!! Thank you again :D

me @ 2 years old.. a long long time ago....
Cute, chubby & looking really alert! kekeke

Sunday, March 02, 2008

:: i love a good deal ::

Yes I really really do!

Who doesn't right??

{ good deal #1 }
Been wanting to get myself a photo printer.
Knowing my budget I have been eyeing the Canon Selphy 740.

End up I got myself a Sony photo printer as the deal was $179 + a box of colour print pack of 120 sheets & 3 ink cartridges. I was also given the deal of another box of colour print pack for $30. Good deal I thought, even though I've only been looking only at Canon. Anyway, given that I wanted the usual functions which this Sony has as well, and the per print is the same price. I decided to grab the offer. Not sure of the review on this product, but I've tried it out and it looks good :D so I'm happy. Nice birthday present for myself :P



{ good deal #2 }
Was at Esprit outlet and saw some pants - nice weekend casual pants on sale.
Original Price $119.90 It was discounted to...

*drumroll*

$5 can you believe it??

Naturally I thought, gosh where is the defect?? then I asked the guy and he said "No. There's no gimmack. The pants is PERFECTLY good!" and went on to suggest the size that I can wear.

I tried it on and it fit nicely! hehe...

& OF COURSE I had to get the 2 colours that it was available - green & blue - and all for the price of $10!!

Yippee Yeah Yeah!!

Jealous, right??

keke...

I'm one happy gal,
even though i gotta work long hours on my birthday!!

Oh well but still
I'm one happy gal!!