Friday, August 31, 2007

绕了一大圈，还是觉得你最好

in case some of you start getting some ideas while reading the title, I have to first state that it is not referring to someone but SOMETHING.



That's my thoughts after the dress fitting session.



Went to purchase a dress (or rather a gown) for the company DND yesterday.



我敢说，在衣着方面，我很清楚我适合穿什么款式或颜色的衣服。很多时候，单凭直觉，我所看中的衣服都很合身。

就像那天，看中了一件灰色裙子。试穿后感觉还不错。有slimming effect-腰围看起来较小。The cutting is what I know best for me – A-line skirt . 只不过，想起之前曾穿过浅灰色的裙子，dun wanna buy a similar dress again.

The lady boss recommended a few dresses, but after trying, they dun seems as fitting as the grey dress.

Let me record what I have tried:


Blue tube dress -- too loose at the top. Colour makes me look pale
Lilac tube dress -- look too plain
Silver spag dress – too straight looking
Black balloon-styled dress with gold sash—somehow I dun seems to be able to carry off the “pomp-pomp” effect. It seemed to me that I was wearing a garbage bag
Red halter dress – actuallt it was quite fitting and the colour look good on me. Just that as I dun have assets in some area, so better 避短扬长. :P


Like what the lady boss said, 绕了一大圈，若不介意又有一件灰色的裙子，那件灰色裙子is the best choice for me.

所以说，并不是我不愿意尝试“Something new”。当这些”something new”无法跟你自己拼凑出最美的效果时，还是选回 something which you are familiar and worked best for you” 吧！

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Zhong Guo Feng (中国“疯”） Part 2

(pai seh arh. took quite a few days to post this Part 2 entry as I need time to do some simple scrapbooking)


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(Click on the pics for a bigger view.)

Forgot to mention that not everyone who obey the dress code are those who wear chinese costumes. Sme of them get by by bring along cheena-style accessories

Ah Ka and Ah Du with their cheena bags

Regina came with her fan (i tot she supposed to come in a 丫鬟 costume?) and Nana had a chinese drum with her.

As usual, i had to go around taking group photos:

It's still the SPH Mag gang that have the best pose!

While looking through the pictures, I could not help noticing something:

U know ther's a saying that it's not good to take pic in groups of 3. In Twos seems so lonely, maybe that's why we were in groups of fours. F4!!!! (Female 4)

More pics:

To tie-in with the Oriental theme, I have a basket of Longevity Peaches or 寿桃, sponsored by the SPH Mag Gang. These are not the normal 寿桃 which you often see stacking on a red plate. These are from The Cathay Restaurant leh. Nana said that they got "class" one.

In addition, there's a chocolate birthday cake sponsored by TXYs.

But seems like the 寿桃 received more attention from the group.

As usual lah, sang birthday song , made a wish then cut the cake. Someone suggested I should try cutting the 寿桃. Guessed some might expect the lotus paste filling to ooze out. But nothing happened, cos the giant 寿桃 is just an empty husk.

I like this pic cos can see the eye glitter and false lashes. hmm someone commented that I seems to be praying rather than wishing.

After 3 hours of playing boardgames, it's time to pack up.

yet i saw this group attempting to do a "881" poster pose.

(in case you are wondering, Songyu is posing as the chicken which ah Du is holding)

I also joined in the fun, but was um-chio-ing.

With that , we vacate the place. Heard that some of the have post-gathering gathering which last till the next morning.



(to update: presents and the 17 music tracks)

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Zhong Guo Feng -- Part 1

17 Aug 2007

“Behind the Scene” actions started from 3.30pm. Went to my regular hairdresser to have my hair tied up in a bun. Turned out that I had only brought along one crystal hair pin instead of two. Haiz, this week’s sure not smooth. . So could only make do with what I have and to place the pin at the side instead.

As my hair is super layered and think, it required lots of hairspray and lots of orh-pins (bobby pins) to keep the bun in place. Lost track of how many pins she slotted it. Had keep in my mind to count them at night when I “dismantle” the bun. My fringe kept on falling off from the sides, hence the hairdresser slotted it another orh-pin to temporarily hold it in place. So by the evening when I remove it, the fringe should fall naturally to the right side.

Good customer service, I should say, for the hairdresser told me that she can tidy up my hairdo again if some loose ends fall off during my make up.

Changed into my cheongsam and covered it partially with a jacket before making the way I-nouvi. Am familiar with the make-up consultants there cos I often went there for eye-brown trimming. At least there is a level of trust in them that I wun turned out with a wayang actress face after the process.

“Miss L” as I shall put it, seems to be happy that she was given this “oriental theme “ to play with. As she puts it :

“很容易啊。你的脸不难画。”

Suddenly it's seems that my face is like a raw material.

Seeing my red and black cheongsam, she suggested going for an “antique china doll” look using apricot, plum eye shadow with thick dark fake lashes and a touch of glitter.

"让你去决定”, I said.

Xinyao arrived just minutes before “Miss L” put on my fake lashes. (she wore a bare back cheongsam.. Sexy sia) Xinyao is so excited by the “fake lashes implantation”. Due to company policies, the make-up consultants cannot be photographed. Hence Xinyao have to take the pics from special angles.

Later ‘Miss L” told me with a gleeful tint in her eyes that
“很少人会接受这种红色(eyeshadow)的。每次问她们，她们都不要。” . Ah, machiam I am a guinea pig. Shall I say it was a “successful experiment’. Xinyao, Miss L and me all pleased with the final results.

Went back to hairdresser to pin up the strands of hair that came loose during the makeup process. There Xinyao could not help but took quite a few of the “behind the scenes” pictures. Luckily all these were done as discreetly as possible.


Grabbed a small piece of cake (but no time to consume all) and a roll of red thread before we proceed to meet YF at the MRT Station. Gor, my helper had already arrived at Settlers and was chasing us. Yeah Yeah, We have only 30 min to decorate.

Initial plans to put up 2 rows of lanterns from the mid of the door had to be scrapped as the staff mentioned that the door had to be closed. The helpers did a good job in managing what ever I have and the end result is:


(seems like my guests having fun with the décor.)

Dress code for this year is 中国风. Guests were encouraged to put on their cheongsam, ma-guas, pigtail caps. Though I hinted some can get by with clothes with a hint of oriental element (dragons, big flowers) or oriental accessories.

YF and Jiak-Lor-Mee supposed to be the disciplinary mistress and master; but I guess this year forfeit is too simple that they dun bother much.. Due to me unable to get hold of flower hankies, the only forfeit for those who disobey the dress code is to pose with fans.



As for the pic of Ah Du doing a forfeit, that was for the game he played with the Monsters & Affiliates table.


As for those who took up the dress code challenge:


(minus flutterby actully, cos she did not wear cheongsam, but the pic will not look good if I etch her out)
The good thing abt have a gathering at Settlers is that guests can keep themselves entertained with the boardgames (actually also consists of card games lah) provided, hence I need not planned much on the entertainment.

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Monday, August 20, 2007

notice

for those who are waiting on my report and pics on Zhong Guo Feng. Pls bear with it for a few moe days. I have gotten the pictures from Xinyao & yanfen. Just that i need time to do some editing and uploading. Will be out late 2moro so hopefully by end of this week, the whole report will be up.
Still, i would like to thanks to those who came, helped and thanks for the pressies & birthday wishes

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Friday, August 17, 2007

祝我生日快乐

Received 2 birthday wishes sms with 10 mins after the clock striked 12.
Received 2 birthday presents from 2 colleagues yesterday. So sweet of them, barely knew them for 2 months only.

Managed to get the lanterns at the last minute. Phew!

Now compiling 17 cheena style pop songs as the soundtrack for background music for 中国“疯” event. Yes of cos i will include SHE ‘s 中国话。

On leave later, can sleep late and wake up late. :P

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

祸不单行

as the saying goes: 祸不单行

how sian it is that it seems the syings is true.

Have been quite suay since monday. A check with my leo friends also seems to show they are not in their lucky period yoo. Gor's cases of "suayness"ard 2 weeks ago seems to pre-empt me , but still, one really feel depress after a series of unfortunate events


1) Monday morning, while trying to put on my permanent contact lens for my left eye, It just dropped out and nowwhere to be found. Initially i dun think that the lens could dropped into one of the 5 small hld of the basic as the diameter of the lense is larher than a whole.

after after 30 mns of searching the washroom, it cant be found. $140 gone liao.


2) Cause of the search, i was late in reporting for work.

3) This evening, was in a rush to leave office after staying back for 40 mins. 宋哦哦。Yet after a few steps,, felt something was dripping from my bag.
Later realised hat my water bottle which was full of water had leaked.Everything in my ball was wet. Even the notes in the wallet.


4) after ironing clothes, relaised that the matching silver sash if my skirt had gone
missing

SIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Poisoned by Perfume

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Navigator & National Day Song

1) Nothing much to update for this week except for the fact that I have more freedom from 7-11 Aug as parents away to Hainan island again. Guess mother 'd rather keep an eye on father than on us.

One good thing-- i can cook without someone picking on the way I do things. I had made a serving of the longan pasta (recipe from Nicco) last night. Cooked 炸酱面 with CP Shrimp Wonton for dinner today. Brother like the wonton and wanna me to cook the rest tomorrow.

Gonna make potato salad tomorrow so that i can bring some along when ex and I gg to visit our friend who recuperating from her slip disc operation.

2) Speaking on " the ex" , now I remembered I supposed to ramble abt the new phone Nokia 6110 which he let me play with as he was sending me home.

( for more info can check out Nokia's website at http://www.nokia.com.sg/nokia/0,0,101740,00.html )

Being quite an IT idiot, i dunno much abt GPS technology when he mentioned that. So on the way home, he switched on his phone's GPS function even though he does not need a map to navigate around. Quite interesting , to see how accurate the feature is. Even small lanes also appeared on the screen as we passed by them. Can even choose to have the voice command in English, Chinese or Cantonese. Could not really understand Cantonese , though i manage to grasp what it mean when the command said "zhor-bin".

Two things I noted from this "trial":

a) GPS connect was cut off as we were passing through the underground tunnel. He mentioned that to stay connect in such areas, would need to change the setting to AGPS but that comes at cost. Meaning, need to pay for usage of AGPS.
b) just as I asked him if the map will still be shown on the screen when a calls come in, his phone start ringing and even though he din pick it up, the GPS navigation was disconnected and only connected again after the call ends. There was time lag when the system need to recalculate your position and the distance when it reconnects automatically.

I can't imagine what would happened if i am the driver and I never do my homework and solely rely on the GPS navigation and someone sms or call at the "crucial point" when i am wondering which way to turn when approaching a junction.

He mentioned that I can consider buying this model when my current contract expires. I was wondering why he would recommend me to bu a navigator phone when he knows that I don't drive (or rather, Can't drive). Later it dawned on me that I have seen the recent TV ad for this Nokia 6110 , and in the ad, there was this man dressing up in an astronaut costume, using the navigator function to provide him with the directions to walk to his friend's house party.

I know i dun have a sense of directions at times lah!!! Grhhh


3) It's National Day by the time I'm writing this. Happy Birthday Singapore!

I was listining to 933 last week and heard the DJs did a spoof on this year National Day song "there's no place I'd rather be", sung by Kit Chan. I nearly spit out my saliva when i heard the lyrics of their so call "chinese version" of the song.

Finally, manage to find the lyrics and their MV of this so-called chinese version of "There's no place I'd rather be", which is "我的家就在这里"

The lyrics:

我的家就在这里
改编词:周崇庆/萧嘉蕙
原词/曲: 叶良俊

你说要去PARIS 我听成PASIR RIS
长城有魅力 也很吃力
要爬上铁塔 非常EXPENSIVE
其实SENTOSA 会更便宜

这是美丽的天地 我的家就在这里
去到外地 我才发现
原来这里最干净
这里也有PULAU UBIN 要骑脚车也可以
你要很小心 别像周崇庆
不然少了四颗TEETH

这是美丽的天地 我的家就在这里
从JURONG EAST 到 PASIR RIS
TAXI BUS 和 MRT
这是美食的天地 有很多好吃东西
LAKSA CHAR KWAY TEOW 和那 LOR MEE
不满意有云吞MEE

还有SATAY 和福建MEE…

U have been forewarned....

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Sunday, August 05, 2007

philosophies

I thought my boss's cheeky concept ( see http://harmoniewong.blogspot.com/2007/06/mini-skirt-concept-la-kopi-sessions.html) is" bad" enough, until I saw gor's note on his msn:

"时间就像是乳沟，挤一挤总是会有的."

and he said he came up with his philosophy himself.

Then later, Mrs Wong came up with her "beelosophy" , also appearing as her msn personal message

If i'm not wrong, it is:

"Good Friends are like underwear ; they may not be visible at all times but they are essential."

I was remarking on the two--one talk abt the "top" , another talk abt the "bottom".


Dun expect me t come up with such philosophy as i think i am only good at creating 打油诗.

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