Hair Style
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
I've always had a weakness for hair accessories but Gossip Girl has only cemented it! hahaa
Isn't she SO GORGEOUS? She has such perfect rose bud lips. :)
No wait, this one is better.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
GOSH! WHY DO SOME CELEBS LOOK SO HOT???
I LOVE this dress! I want this for my birthday!!!!!
Sigh. I WANT!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Isn't this THE MOST gorgeous dress EVER???
25 Revelations before turning 25
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The facebook trend saw me caving in to doing this quiz. :P Thought I would paste here since it is rather revealing about me in general. hahaa
1. I haven't eaten prawns since I was 14, when I discovered that their brain and their shit are the same entity and it confounded me as to why people would want to eat such an animal. It’s been a decade and counting.
2. My mother will think TWENTY times before buying a pen for more than $0.50 but will not flinch at buying a $100 wok.
3. I love to bake and do a lot of it in the secrecy of my home, without many tasting or knowing so. The aromatic smells of well baked pastry and the distant ache of tiring stirring of batter are most therapeutic to me.
4. In all honestly, I really love my job. I don't know if I am good at it but I do love it. On hindsight, I wonder why I spent 2 years mulling and worrying if I made the right choice to leave law. Talk about lost years.
5. I am actually very shy around guys. I never know what to say to them. That’s why I don’t have many friends of the opposite sex.
6. I LOVE to travel. I have permanent wanderlust and am always on the lookout for travel buddies! :)
7. Spending hours reading journal articles and concocting a hypothesis before proceeding to write an academic dissertation on it really gets me all hot and bothered. I am a secret geek at heart. Which is why I would like to study some more, or at least read and write more!
8. I think the greatest sin in life is to abandon/neglect children (especially if they have ailments/deformities). If you have had the TWIN pleasures of having sex and giving birth, you could at least show some gratitude by caring for this great blessing God has chosen to give you. Some people will never be as lucky as to experience either one or both of these pleasures.
9. I have a unholy weakness for shoes and hair accessories.
10. Everyone I meet on the street thinks I am Claudia’s mum. For the umpteenth time, she is my youngest sister who is 18yrs my junior! (ok fine, it sounds dodgy but it's TRUE!)
11. I always wonder if my parents are proud of me and if I grew up the way they envisioned.
12. My weekends can often be as busy as my weekdays with church and family commitments. My youth are the most talented, energetic and beautiful group of young people I have ever met! :)
13. I can sleep a lot. I have slept for 18hours straight before. I call it the banking sleep routine. :P
14. I can drive and wear makeup simultaneously. I think it should be considered an Olympic sport! I do it every morning!
15. Contrary to popular belief, I actually do want to get married and have children. I just don’t know if I am what men would consider to be a good wife and/or mother.
16. I can never understand how female Bollywood movie stars can be so beautiful!:( And my very lucky sister, Sharmaine, is very beautiful too!
17. When I was 8, I fell off my bicycle and fell down the stairs. Ever since then, I have never been on a bicycle again and I don’t even know if I remember how to. :(
18. I am relatively proficient in 5 languages. I actually understand and speak Chinese to a very alarmingly proficient level. I actually topped my entire class of Chinese kids in kindergarten and got a prize from the current PM Lee at a ceremony. I can read and write French fairly well. I learnt it for 7 years since I was 8. I can actually speak Tamil. It’s the only way I speak to my grandma and grandaunts. And I took Malay as second language. And even Higher Malay. Ugh!
19. I do NOT speak with an accent. I am also NOT high maintenance. How and why people think so, I have NO IDEA! :(
20. I am very easy to please but difficult to impress. I don’t anger easily but when I do, I keep very quiet and won’t talk to you for a few days. Kinda weird for someone who talks alot.
21. I am an elephant. I can remember a lot of things. Everything good, bad or uneventful. It’s terrible. :( But I don’t hold grudges. Just memories. That being said, I often forget to eat. What an oxymoron!
22. I am very intrigued by sarees but I look terrible in one. I am so impressed (and a little jealous) by everyone else who looks so good in them! :(
23. I really love my girl friends. No one knows me like the JC girls, Euns, Jac, Grace, NIE gals, the Sangees and Kal! You girls are really SO amazing!
24. I have a well-concealed adventurous streak. I really want to skydive! :P
25. I nearly died last year and I pray that I have dodged that bullet for good. :( I'm really thankful for all the family and friends who stood by me during this trying time! :)
ok so I ain't that exciting. Oh well! haha :) your turn! go do it!:P
Love Story
Monday, February 2, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
It's a cute song, no? So sweet and idealistic. Haha Bet Shirlyn loves it!
I got tired of waiting,
Wondering if you were ever comin' around.
My faith in you was fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town.
And I said,
"Romeo save me - I've been feeling so alone.
I keep waiting for you but you never come.
Is this in my head? I don't know what to think-"
May Euns, Jac and I never fight in this way!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Two words. Perfectly hilarious.
I don't think I will ever forget the last words in the movie.
It was quite a wedding and as I stood there watching I realized something I'd forgotten a long time ago. Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you will find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding. But there's also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself is the same person who's been standing beside you all along.
This is now my all time favourite movie of 2009!
Subjectivity At Its Best
Monday, January 26, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Watching the DOHA debates last night made me realise, how silly some statements can be.
Sarah Joseph, Editor of the Muslim lifestyle magazine Emel and a consultant on Muslim affairs to the British Home Office, said political Islam was about the rights of Muslims to “self-determine” what the political systems in their countries should be.
Denying that Iran’s desire to become a nuclear power posed any threat to the West she insisted that that there was no such thing as a separation between politics and religion.
“If you don’t understand that religion and politics are connected you don’t understand religion,” she said.
This woman is really strange. How could such a loaded statement go unnoticed??
Read The Sunday Times
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
I've never really cared much for Sumiko Tan's articles. She always struck me as a much older, more mature woman who used her writing as a way to sort out her thoughts. I never really knew why she had a weekly column. She was not very humorous or witty and she often wrote about non-exciting technicalities. That changed today.
What she wrote today in the Sunday Times cut deep. It was as if I wrote those exact same words. They were precisely the dynamics of what goes on inside my head every night.
The only difference being that I have no answers yet.
Funny thing is, I didn't feel comforted knowing that there were others who felt the same way I do. Instead, I felt sadness-because so many of us will live with this disappointment and wishfulness for a long,long time.
Sigh.
Realistic Choices Or The Lack Thereof
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
What happens when nobody wants to do the things you used to do together, with you anymore, because they are too busy with their own lives and loved ones?
What happens when you realise that you've been left behind in this journey of life that everyone else has excelled in and you have fallen behind/failed?
Do you:
a) sigh and drown yourself in work.
b) cry and wallow.
c) do those things alone and if the activities need partners, then just learn to live without it.
d) realise that you are actually and will always henceforth be all alone and fight the urge to turn into the typical jaded and embittered woman who has been left on the shelf.
What's the better choice?
I suppose I'll pick Option A for now.
New Year!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
First official post of 2009! haha
So half of the first month of the new year is up, but hey, I was away all through New Year's and have only just began to settled back again at work. But I figured this is as good a time as any to cite what I have resolved to have as a New Year Resolution: NOT to have one.
And I don't mean this in some cliche manner of being above the popular notions of coining new annual resolves, but I mean this in a way that I am going to stop being and/or fighting to be everything that I am not/trying to be. I mean that for 2009, I am not going to attempt great heights or prove myself or convince myself that if I do/get smth I will be happy.
Instead, I am going to do away with all this artifice of modernity and learn to look and live through every moment in life to its fullest: no matter how small the moment is.
Because people have stopped being happy and learning to lead life joyfully. They have failed to enjoy the little things in life, and then one day, upon looking back, realized that they were big things.
I don't want that life. That ain't life. It's an existence. And lav doesn't merely exist.
So nothing and no one is going to stop her from living!
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