The above statement is not uttered by me of course. I got it from quotesdonkey.com. Coming from a donkey, you can't expect anything intellectual. I feel almost bimbotic typing a title like this. But then again, this post is about frivolous stuff like hair.
I've been meaning to write about my birthday celebration and meet ups with the various groups of friends but I'm not in the right state of consciousness to edit photos or write about anything less bimbotic.
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I spotted a few different hairstyles this week that I'm quite amazed with myself.
1. Straight hair, no bangs, pouffy ("curry pok" in local slang) fringe and side ponytail for an event. I can never do my own pouffy fringe. I read tutorials from beauty bloggers and watched videos on YouTube but I just can't do it on my own hair. Seeing the stylist at work with loads of mousse and 2 different hair spray, it was no wonder why I had to shampoo and condition twice. Though many people who saw me that day complimented my new look and urged me to try styling my hair this way at times. With my amateurish skills, I told them that I would most probably have to sacrifice 1 hour of sleep to style it like this. The hassle certainly doesn't make it to my list of daily no-fuss styling.
2. My bangs with usual temporary curls (that you sometimes spot on my blog) was the look I opted for when I met my Bimbo Sisters on Saturday evening.
3. My very 1st attempt at pouffy (currypok) fringe for just now. This time I tied up my 2nd day curls to the side to complete my look. For someone who is a noob at hairstyling and not having enough volume for bangs, I'm pretty satisfied with the final result. Do you prefer me with or without bangs?
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Over the weekend, I was on the topic of ponytails. With whom you might ask? With myself. Yes, totally bimbotic.
Straight or curls? Let down or tied up?
I don't know if it is the same for countries in the West but in Asian countries, a vast majority of guys seem to adore girls who wear their hair in a mid to high ponytail. Does this hold true for all guys? Is there some mystery behind guys and ponytails that I don't know of as exemplified by the ponytail scene from the Taiwan movie "You Are the Apple of My Eye" (那些年，我們一起追的女孩).
Over the years, I've gathered enough feedback from my guy friends and gal friends that the former prefer me with straight hair and the latter, with curls. This doesn't only apply to me, it also applies to their partners and people they know.
I know for sure that my hub's favourite look of me would be wearing my long straight ponytail high up. He doesn't quite like me with curls and discourages me from perming maintains he likes my straight hair whenever I have the urge to perm.
I would like to hear from all of you, ladies and gentlemen, gals and guyz. What are your views on curls, waves, straight, tied up, let down, bangs and no bangs?
PS: Thank you all for your comments on the past 2 posts. I really love getting feedback from my readers and I would get down to replying your comments soon.
Nah... It's not some giveaway post where you would win this when you guess it correct. I just wanted to know people's hazard guesses and how many people could actually guess it correctly.
I call it my little pink "DS Lite" though it is nothing close to a DS Lite. For a rough measurement of size. The length of my mini "DS Lite" is approximately the breadth of the real DS Lite
It's 3am here, my nose is stuck silly and fenfedrin isn't working too well with my nose today. I can't get to sleep but I have to try.
“wow... this is a surprise. someone who was so adamant to not have an account in social websites such as friendster and facebook, has finally decided to open an account on facebook.”
Yes, Facebook was finally detected on my radar screen. For someone who hates social networking sites like Friendster, MySpace, yada yada, I was surprised at myself when I jumped on the bandwagon about 10 days ago.
I was greeted with loads of “finally you are here”, “what a surprise”, “welcome aboard”, “what took you so long” and what nots by my friends (who must have secretly thought that I belong to the walkman era).
After all the auto adding of friends on my hotmail contacts, I was so excited that I sms-ed a bunch of good pals to add me.
I was quite surprised that there were still quite a number of my friends who are stuck on another planet with no Facebook. Some of them were like me before I signed up—refusing to have any social network account.
Feeling so suaku whenever friends knew so much about other frenz coz of Facebook… Feeling so backdated about friends’ lives while the whole world get their updates through Facebook… Missing gatherings because they were arranged on Facebook… I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT THE WHOLE WORLD WAS ON IT!
I was sad when I heard that one of my good pals cyn was not on it coz she is one friend whom I’ll always miss and it’s just soooooooo difficult for the both of us to meet up. She claimed she was too “auntie” to join.
Then, the next day, I saw her friend request and her message:
“Yes Jo! You have NO IDEA but YOU were the REASON why i joined! Thought to myself that OMG if Jo is already there, what am i still doing outside! :p”
Boy was I touched.
My 2nd sis was one of the Project FB instigators. Due to the fact that she works at “some ulu place at the 'top' of the hill”, she is able to view the profiles of many local celebrities and their friends. Every night, she would be showing me interesting and funny stuff about these people. She would also constantly egg me on to join Facebook as she thought it was really boh liao fun.
The morning after I’ve created an account, she smirked at me and said, “I see you have finally decided to join but you so poor thing only got 14 friends.”
“Hmm… I registered just this morning at 3am so have 14 friends already considered very good mah.”
Exactly 24 hours after I’ve joined, I’ve “closed sales” at 50 friends.
The above sentences weren’t meant to brag. I’m merely poking fun at my sister who has yet to wipe the smirk off her face coz I’m still 2 friends behind her. If poking doesn’t work, I’ll have to throw a sheep at her. What’s up with all the poking and sheep throwing anyway? Real people don’t go round poking and throwing sheep.
Right now after a period of ten days, I have a humble pool of 89 friends. This is really incomparable to some people with a few hundreds friends or even a few thousands. I really wonder about these people. Their list of contacts ranges from the socialites in America to the man who looks like my grouchy neighbour residing on the third floor.
There are lots of people who make use of such social networking sites to boost their egos. I believe that they would add as their friends anyone who'd so much as boogied on the same dance floor with them at Zouk or are their colleague’s brother’s cousin’s neighour’s dog’s owner’s niece’s best friend, so that they could then brag about how they had forty thousand friends and were more popular than the Pope. After having added these "friends" and upping their friends count to fifty thousand, they would then ignore them completely, since they were just after the ego-padding.
There are pros and cons to such extensive social networking sites.
There is no privacy.
Oh purleeze… you want privacy then don’t sign up la.
What I am referring to would be all the mini feed and news feed.
Who in the right mind would wanna know that Jolene learned a new action on My Heroes Ability at 4.31pm, Jolene sent an Emo to their friends at 1.32pm, Jolene accepted a fun gift and so on?
A stalker would not even bother with such minute details.
Then comes the news feed which summarises all of your friends' recent activity -- Tom feels for Jerry’s loss, Dick joined the group Viagara No More, Harry posted a photo of his hairy balls, Bareman and Robbin are in a relationship and so on. Does anyone really give a hoot about all these?
My sister encountered one of this “invasion of privacy” incident when she amended her relationship status. When she signed up, she put her relationship status as “Single” because she was single… duh! Thereafter, she realised that her profile would be accessible in the “Single” network and hence removed that status. What appeared on every of her friends homepage at the news feed column was “Jxxxxx Lxx is no longer single”. She received floods of messages asking her if she had just gotten attached.
We really laughed our heads off at this.
There is an application which I particularly detest -- Friends for Sale. Basically, one could buy his or her friends as pets and to earn some virtual money when their pets are being bought by others. I was mad at the friend who started me on this by buying me. And then later I let loose a little and my friends went round buying each other. I also bought a couple of pets to keep. All my pets are friends who are close to me or those funny siao onz friends. I was also fine with decent owners since they are people I know. After 2 days of not logging in, I was shocked to find that my owner wasn’t my friend anymore but a complete stranger with a collection of 30 female pets.
Before I continue, I must clarify that my profile photo isn’t the least bit suggestive or revealing at all. I don’t think I look like a slutty bitch too.
Ok then after viewing the application’s history feed, I found out that I had exchanged hands many times as all the “owners” kept “buying” me from one another.
I got too expensive that the friend who kept buying me back apologised to me that she could not afford to buy me anymore as my price had gotten too high after too many exchanges. I felt so bad that she had to apologise when it wasn’t even her fault.
Those strangers who bought me are those with many female pets. I dunno if I’m a prude or whether I’m making a big fuss but I felt that they are merely buying female pets as trophies to show off. Some of the photos of these females were very suggestive and I felt so degraded to be placed alongside with them. I was really offended. Since when has this friend buying thing become a stranger buying thing?
I’m still trying to think of a witty reply to his message. It’s been 2 days and I’ve lost my wits.
Another thing I do not particularly fancy is random (male) strangers poking. I mean what the hell does poking mean? Isn't it weird to have male strangers poking you? Male poke female odd. Male poke male even more bizarre. Could they have wanted to poke so much in real life but could not such that they have to unleash all in the virtual world? If that is the case, I wonder if each poke is orgasmic for them.
I also dislike people requesting to add me as friends just coz they liked my photo or I’m their friend’s friend’s friend or they came across my profile page or I belong to this group or just because they want to have me as a Facebook friend. It’s so superficial. Most of the time, I just decline politely and they were also cordial about it.
Superficial aside, I’ve found a few lost friends— People whom you always hang out with at some point of time or people whom you get along very well but have touch with them etc. It was heart warming to read the wall messages as well as inbox messages from friends whom I never thought I would see them again. It was great to catch up with friends whom I have not talked to for months coz of my lack of msn.
Nonetheless, amidst all the friend-finding, I’ve grown to accept the fact that sometimes it is no use seeking lost friendships. Some people may have been my really close friends at some points in my life but the friendship now and the friendship in the past are poles apart. We might have stood up a lot for one another in the past. We might have shared many hugs and cries. We might have gone through difficult phases in our lives together. However try as I might, the friendship would never be the same again. Time do drifts people apart. What we should do is to treasure the beautiful memories.
I’m still trying to find the time for it. Facebooking is absolutely time consuming with all the pet petting and feeding, using of heroes power, returning gifts, adding applications, replying to messages, writing on walls, requesting to be friends, accepting friends and all the countless boh liao things one could do.
With as many as 70 emails a day, opening my email during the first few days of joining warranted a series of heart attacks that I had to leave my laptop on while doing my marking just to refresh the page every now and then.
Love this parody of Facebook. Check out the poke poke poke segment… Hahaha…
To any friends reading this, do add me if you have Facebook k?
Now, you have to pronounce chit4 chit4 in staccato, 32 beat-count if possible and make it sound as if you are a lizard calling.
There you go... chit4 chit4. Sounds cute doesn’t it?
One of our animal lover colleagues (let’s call him A) caught it from the road lest it got knocked down and decided to keep it as a pet.
However the majority of us felt that A kidnapped it when it was simply minding its own business trying to cross the road…
… which made us ponder:
“Why did the iguana cross the road?”
To get to the other side?
To find its daddy and mummy?
To chase its girlfriend?
This was the first time I touched a WARM lizard. It was basking in the sun before this.
Its skin is a brilliant shade of green which looks like fabric and feels like fabric.
When I commented on the texture, colleague A said,
“Ya… your Prada bag is made of this what.”
Hahaha… If only I have a Prada bag.
Later, more and more colleagues streamed in to check out the latest "exhibit".
When more females commented about how it felt, he went, “Ok… so how? Coin purse? Pencil case?”
Poor lizard tried to sleep but we kept disturbing it…
It looks scary here but it is actually quite cute and harmless. Even joyce the lizard-hater thinks it's cuter than house lizards. So there, that attests to the fact that it is cute.
We learnt from colleague A that iguanas are herbivores and won’t bite.
See no sharp teeth.
It has very sharp claws though. They are for climbing and clinging onto trees. When it scratched the plastic tank, it made those fingernail-on-blackboard screech. Puts a shudder through your spine eh?
Taking a photo of it on one's shoulder was virtually impossible with its long and sharp claws.
We googled and learnt more facts about iguanas. We also you-tubed illegally during office hours and watched some iguana videos.
We’ve found out that iguanas can grow up to 1.7m in length and that it loves bananas and strawberries other than the usual plants.
However, when it was feeding time, it refused to eat.
I accidentally captured it licking the banana.
Now, don’t your dirty minds go wandering.
*sniggers and wags finger*
As much as we wanted chit4 chit4 to be our office pet, we knew it was quite impossible. A said that he would bring it back to show us how it has grown after 2 months.
When I related the whole iguana incident to kh, the ending snippets of our conversation went like this...
kh: Maybe two months later you all cannot see the iguana…
jo: Because it died?
kh: Because it takes another form -- a briefcase.
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All photos taken using the lousy Nokia 7390.
BTW, my hp is spoilt again. Callers won't be able to hear me. It's a recurring problem which would fix by itself as and when it pleases and I totally hate it. I've already sent it for servicing once. I don't wanna lose all my contacts again.
Pretty on the eyes. Not too bad on the taste buds.
I haven’t joined the long queue yet but I personally feel that these donuts are not too bad. Kh’s family and friends love them. But sobz… My 2 boxes of donuts for my family went to waste. I was the only one wolfing them down. My family doesn’t really have a knack for sweet things and donuts.
After the 2nd day, still got more than a box left. Luckily they hadn’t gone bad. I had to whine before my dad promised to eat them.
I will never ever buy donuts home again! This incident made / makes me stop my craving for donuts for a week.
My 2nd sis is still not talking to me (more than a week liao) but she slipped the pet’s section of the Sunday Classifieds under my door. It was on coping with a pet’s death.
The cat on the cover looks like Simba.
Seems like whatever was written inside was all the negative feelings she had when Simba died. But that doesn’t give her the right to vent her anger on everyone.
I’ve decided that I won’t talk to her if she doesn’t wanna talk to me 1st.
She very funny… not talking to me still can borrow my things without asking wan leh.
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Clothes Exchange GIVING Day Thursday, 8th November 2007
We I helped April to clear her wardrobe.
Her clothes…
Rummage… forage… Scavenge
WhewWheet!
4 dissimilar dogs
The husky belongs to her.
It’s soooooo difficult to take a photo with Rowdy Powdy.
Tired of forcing Powdy to take a photo with me
This is the best shot lor.
Must resort to this
And this
And this
SUCCESS.. Yeah!
Powdy only listens to me
Oh yes Powdy is a 色色 se se dog. Keep on smelling people’s crotch and butt. Notti Powdy!
We had dinner at this vegetarian coffee shop in Hougang.
The food was not too bad.
I think I was being such a pig that day.
1 bowl of Zha Jiang la mian, 3 pieces of Roti John, 1 prata, bits of fries and water chestnut drink. I didn’t feel full till I got home and regretted being a pig.
Inspired by viv’s lameness: Baa Baa Black Sheep have you any wool? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Three bags full.
Hey, only 2 were mine ok? =P
I was so eager to clear some space for these clothes that I went to pack my wardrobe that night and clear out 3 bagfuls of clothes. YAY!!!!
Next round of clothes exchange, hh babes???
Oh yah my 2nd sis damn cheapskate lor. She was lying on the sofa and watching Ellen on Starworld. I decided that I would just sit on the sofa too. I didn't think she would yell at me since she wasn’t talking to me.
Then, she asked me to on the fan and we started talking liao. Such a cheapskate right? Haha… But it’s good la. No good to have cold war.
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Don’t mess around with 黑玫瑰 Friday, 9th November 2007
I got myself a tattoo!!!!!
A black rose on my inner left ankle.
Chio or not?
I love it lotz!
Please tell me it’s pretty.
Now I must cover it up when I go to work. Scarly the kids and parents freak out.
<3 @}>----,----
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<3 @}>----,----
Now, you didn’t actually fall for it, did you?
WAHAHAHAHAHA…
It’s drawn on la.
I drew that on with my obsolete liquid eyeliner.
My mum was used to me drawing my face that she didn’t bat an eyelid when she spotted it and even commented that it was nice.
Then as if to reconfirm, she asked very nonchalantly, “It’s not real right?”
She also wondered why it was on my inner ankle and not outer.
“Unique mah,” I quipped.
“Ya lor. Unique because only 笨蛋 (ben dan) tattoo inner side.”
Why 笨蛋? I think inner more cool leh. Plus it’s coz I’m a righty and that’s the best angle for me to draw.
My 2 sisters initially believed it was real and was so excited. Then, I had to spend a few minutes to convince them that it was drawn.
I managed to trick a few people too. Haha… I know I’m very boh liao. But that’s how I entertain myself.
Damn… I really feel like getting one. I’m drawing some butterfly motifs on my notebook now. That’ll be the design I want for my pelvis or hip or lower back.
Too bad kh doesn’t like tattoos.
I see it as art; he sees it as vandalism-- the blatant marring of the already not so perfect body.
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The 2 Cs and 2 Js unite Sunday, 11th November 2007
For the whole week, I was only looking forward to today.
The last time I saw cyn and the kids was last December.
Had great fun spending time with cyn and my godchildren just now! Yup… GODCHILDREN. Not just Jase as my godson, char also calls me godma now.
SHIP AHOY!
I kept re-watching this video over and over again coz I think jase and char are soooooo CUTE! Love them! Love cyn too! *Muaxxxxx*
Their lovely smiles and cheeky faces simply melt me.
Jase can’t help being a manja boy even when dancing.
More photos…
Jase was so manja manja…
Til now, he is still giving wet kiss on cheeks. And when I asked him to kiss me again, he kissed my mouth! Cheeky cheeky boy!
Still can tou kan the camera. How cheeky is that?
So cute to see them sharing the scooter.
Cute cute char
Godma take my tummy… take my tummy.
So sweet!
Cola also wanna join in the fun.
The kids were sticking to us every minute and fighting for attention that cyn and I could hardly chat and catch up. By the time the kids fell asleep, we only chatted a bit before my dad arrived to pick me up. I really can’t wait to chat with her again.
Cyn, do you still drop by here?
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~*Taggies*~
2 Nov 07, 13:46 Canny: Hi babe! Thou some of the entries R outdated, I still love to read them. And really nice of u that even though U r always busy, U nv fail to update ur blogs for all ur readers! =) Have a great wkend!~ Hey… I always feel so bad for making you wait so long for my reply so this time, I’ve been waiting for you to leave a tag then reply but wait till giraffe neck long long still don’t have. Haha… Anyway, let me know if you’ve gotten my postcard ya? Let’s see how efficient Singpost and US post are.
4 Nov 07, 22:27 roux: Lots of great photos you have! What camera are you using? Oh, were you with your friends at cineleisure on Friday night? I’m using FujiFlim Z5. Can’t be me… Every Friday I work till late at night.
5 Nov 07, 20:29 yinky: hi it's mummy... MUMMY!!! Wah… guest appearance from you! Hope you’ve been doing well since the last time we met.
7 Nov 07, 18:16 jus: if ur drawing is amateurish...@@...then mine is babyish!! lolx Hi baby jus! *LOL* But seriously la, look at the strokes and you can tell they’re amateurish.
7 Nov 07, 22:42 silver: ur drawings r gd lo! very girly! =) i like!!! Thanx hot mama. Great to see your tag, silver. Guest appearance! Oh I saw what you wrote about us being neighbours aka same nhood. Hope to bump into you and your cutie enzo soon!
8 Nov 07, 19:21 Qt: Hey Sweets do check in www.onlinepasarmalam.blogspot.com Thanks! Ok noted.
8 Nov 07, 22:30 reg: ee ryden's paintings are really freaky! they're so haunting..! haha i much prefer your drawings!!:P Yes!!! I also think they’re haunting but I dunno why I’m so drawn to them. Haha.. thanx!
9 Nov 07, 01:44 namie: Hey you know your blog reminds me of this other gal's blog. She also draws quite well and what both of you drawn were almost the same --> Eyes, butterflys, flowers. BTW I like shen ming guo ke too. Really? Do paste her blog link here if possible. It would be great to know someone with similar traits and interests online.
11 Nov 07, 15:00 FG: Hi may I know how to find the mp3 of the old theme songs? Thanks. Sorry, I don’t know how to do so. I got those links by copying the Chinese characters and pasting onto Google.
