I Hate Valentines

Hate it or love it.

When I saw the trailer for this show, I wasn’t sold. I mean, after watching countless of chick romance flicks… why will I want to spend money watching this movie? There ain’t any mega big stars or a blockbuster plot.

But since Valentine’s is fast approaching, and having watched majority of the shows currently being screened. I bought tickets to watch this show.

Boy, it got me laughing so badly I was tearing and had a very painful tummy.

The comments made by the character was darn straight in your face, and peppered with sharp wits. Light hearted romance was all in the air. True to what some critic say, the conversations sounded more like slap-stick comedy than what we will say in real life. But, it got me laughing anyway.

My favourite part has got to be date 2 when the lead characters went to an art gallery. They made fun at artistic expression and how some people can make “oohs & ahhs” out of blank paper. I started laughing uncontrollably at the yellow dot. I think the lady sitting next to me was quite close to asking me to shut up, because I was laughing every 10 seconds of the script for the first 1 hour of the show.

A lovely romance or non-romantic show to catch.

BS: The epitome of vanity

What happens when I have a pile of work to do and have little time to take care of my skin?

I indulge.

Enough said.

Declutter that mess!

Chinese New Year is creeping close. It is tradition that we take time to declutter the mess in our house to welcome the new year.

Since the 2010, I have resolved to stay clutter free and I’m glad I did.

These are some fabulous webby to help you with clearing the mess in a meaningful way:

Books: www.secondhandbooks.com.sg - a fantastic site to swap or sell your books.

Electronics: www.ragnbone.com.sg - get cash for your electronics, even if they don’t work.

Clothes and Others: www.ebay.com.sg - one of my favourite sites to sell my clothes. But don’t everybody know about this site already?

Some tips on keeping things minimal and brighten up the living space:

1. Keep photos in its digital format. If you need to display them, choose one or two to print. Ikea has a great picture flip frame that helps display 10 pictures.

2. Place mirrors in a strategic place in the room. It helps to brighten the room by reflecting more light (from the lamp or the sun).

3. Put items in acrylic boxes or folders to keep a clean line of vision. I place all my tiny items like jewellery and keys in acrylic boxes produced by Muji.

Have fun de-cluttering!

Marie Digby

Three years ago, I was totally in love with Colbie Caillat. I could listen to her debut album over and over again for months. I bought all her albums, but was awfully disappointed with the last - I have a distaste for overly edited music albums.

Even so, I know that I will buy her next album when it releases.

Come 2010, I’m falling head over heels with Marie Digby.

Half Japanese, half Irish-American. There is just something magical about her vocals. I bought her first album on a wimp after listening to it fast forwarded - exactly the same way I bought Colbie’s album without knowing who she was.

I have been listening to her album over and over for a couple of days now. Whilst doing my work, whilst driving. It’s therapeutic.

I’m just loving songs like “fool”, “stupid for you”, and “unfold”. Jiving to the tunes really makes my day. =)

Yoshi!

It’s a long tiring weekend of completing assignments. It has been 2 years since I last had school meetings on a Sunday. All the days of slogging hard in the study rooms, rushing to finish group projects after group projects.

I miss the days of chilling with friends thereafter, over dinner or just a cup of hot chocolate (I don’t drink coffee). These days people are just too busy and pre-occupied with their work and family matters to meet up with people.

A sign that everyone is growing older? Perhaps.

Well, after the meeting I’m looking forward to trying my luck at the prize station. This was what I got the last time round I spent 4 hours catching…

Yoshi! Ain’t that giant? =)

My sister is secretly wishing to bring home the huge Hello Kitty.

Everybody’s Fine

What an insane week it has been. Having been sick for two weeks in a row, I took a week-long break from school to rest at home. And sadly, the irritable-tummy syndrome struck again. So I’m up at 2.30 am, feeling bothered by my pained tummy and typing away to finish my never ending homework.

Did I mention that my external hard disk died on me, and my main lappy has been sent for repairs?

Besides all that, I have had a fantastic week.

It was Gwyneth’s birthday yesterday. She turns 2!

I’m awfully impressed by how much she has grown. She is running more than she is walking. She talks in almost full sentences now. And she understands everything that we adults are conversing about! She even laughs at tv shows at the funny moments.

On thursday, my sister and I brought her to watch her 3rd movie in the cinema. (Goodness, my first ever movie was Lion King and I was 10 years old! And Gwyneth has watched 3 movies before turning 2!)

We watched “Everybody’s Fine”. What a family story.

The story evolved around a family whose Dad is always left out of the loop because the kids always thought he needed them to grow up to be perfect adults who lead fantastic life. As the show comes to an end, the kids realise that their Dad doesn’t need them to be perfect adults and just wants them to be happy in things that they do - cliche. As the show comes to an end, it was revealed that the youngest son dies due to overdose whilst in a Mexican club. But the family becomes stronger in return.

I still stick by “Love Actually” as my favourite holiday movie. You know, it wasn’t till I watched the full version in Canada that I realise the reason why one couple gave their parents a stare when they asked them how they met. Singapore’s MDA sure censors heavily. If you don’t already know…

Enough of digressing.

I just wanna wish my lovely niece, a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Chanel Love Day 7

If you have noticed, I have alternated the bags - first day is my sister’s, the next is mine - for the Chanel Love Day blogs. For the next two posts, I will be showing you my sister’s Chanel.

The least familiar Chanel bag in this house to me is this jumbo black classic flap in caviar. My sister rarely takes it out for a stroll and its snoozing cozily in the attic - don’t get me wrong; my sister lives on the highest floor, aka the attic.

She is cavier black, extremely sturdy and tough.

The interlocking CC is similar to my East-West.  She comes in silver hardware with intertwined leather.

The inner compartments.

I think this is one of the first few Chanels that my sister bought, but she rarely uses it. Perhaps it is because she is bulkier than her sisters.

But we love her no less. =)

Post Birthday

Hey babes! I’m back.

I had a blissful birthday week. I felt so blessed with many strokes of good blessings and luck throughout the whole week. I started the quarter-life with a bang. Yes, I admit. I have passed that age. But you know, it has been great!

In view that I was to have my Lasik done on Tuesday, I struggled to finish most of my individual assignments last week. I had 5-6 hours of sleep per night. On Saturday, I was pretty happy that I completed 2.5 essays and a long Math assignment.

To celebrate, I did a little shopping with my sister at one of our favourite little boutique in Novena. I couldn’t help myself, but I decided to try my luck at this UFO catcher - since my sister and I couldn’t catch anything the last time round. Look what I caught! The next time round I’m planning to catch 8 of these to change for the giant one.

(Wearing tunic by Chloe, carrying Miss vintage CC, and no make up!)

This is probably one of the rare times that I’m putting a picture up of me in my spectacles. This is to commemorate kissing goodbye to spectacles for a long time to come.

And that was the first stroke of luck!

The next day, I hung out with my JC classmates. We pigged out at a Jap buffet, and we head over to one of their office. His office overlooks Clarke Quay, and it was where I took the picture of my wallet on chain! Cool ehz?

(Wearing Zara dress, CC wallet on chain)

They got me a birthday strudel. I was really happy.

On my actual birthday, I had school; so sadly I attended class. But one of my friends gave me two petite cheesecake! It was delicious.

(Wearing dress from Mphosis, ring Chanel and 2.55)

This is the 7 of us - with one missing. These girls make my course life really fun.

For lunch that day, I pigged out at NY NY. Got a pretty cup - which I haven’t taken picture of - from them as a birthday gift. At the arcade, I got a Melody toy! Talk about a blessed week.

At night, I had my dinner request granted and I ate at Sushi Tei - even my sushi-phobic parents had little say. Ha! Thereafter, it was celebration at home!

This was the best photo taken that night…

Gwyneth is celebrating her 2nd birthday soon. And look how big Vera as grown! She is barely 6 months old and is already only 2kg lighter than Gwyneth.

If you are wondering why is the cake scratched? That is Gwyneth’s doing.

On the day of my birthday, my sister was browsing through the online shops and asked if I wanted to buy something from the site. I actually secure this pair of Tory Burch for 30% off! It was the last pair and the size fits me perfectly!

(Wearing Tory Burch with Sequins and in Antracite)

So very blessed. These flats are probably the most expensive shoes I have ever purchased. They are awfully comfortable, and I just love the subtle sequins.

The only downside for this birthday week, was that shortly after I did my Lasik. I fell down with food poisoning, and had to stay home to rest for the entire week; and I couldn’t do any homework as a result.

But it was a good birthday week nonetheless.

=) Thanks to everyone who made this week an awesome week for me!

Happy Birthday!

Hello! It is my birthday today. =)

To celebrate this day, this is what I got myself…

A red chanel wallet on chain.

Pretty ain’t it? Shipped from US. My sister got one as well.

Heading for Lasik tomorrow, and will only put up the Chanel posts later.

For now, cheers to being one year older and wiser.

The cranky lappy.

Hey folks. If you’re wondering why I haven’t been blogging. That is because, my “supposedly” fixed computer kicked up a fuss, and refuse to cooperate with me. Hence, leaving me unable to put up new entries with my Chanel bags (all the photos were on that lappy)!

The agony of being left in the lurch with using my daddy’s netbook instead that is equally cranky; and I’m pondering if I should take new pictures of all the bags.

Well on the bright side, it is my birthday tomorrow, and I’m most likely taking out my new birthday present with me. =)

And on an even brighter side…. I won my first dream-catcher toy yesterday! With a little luck, and some tutoring from the staff, I got myself a cute little Yoshi (from Mario).

Photos upload soon. I hope. *fingers cross*