A sudden addiction to online shopping!

There's something to be said about being cooped up at home every day and not being allowed out to satisfy my window shopping cravings...

IT DRIVES ME INSANE!!!

I am sitting here, brooding, forever building a longer and massively longer shopping list full of useless crap I don't need and don't even really want! I only fantasize about them because I CAN'T HAVE 'EM RIGHT NOW. Ugh.

So what is a shopaholic to do when estranged from the nearest mall? Turn to ONLINE SHOPS of course!!!

I have, although, learnt to buy only because of necessity and not on impulse because I think the item is pretty/cute/eye-catching/dead-cheap-must-bai.

I've tried to be as reasonable as possible and so far have found six things that I absolutely cannot live without!

1.) Signature Minerals' Concealers! In Soft Mint and Soft Sunshine. From Simply Naturale.

     

I blame Tuach for this. Bad influence! Only RM10 per sample 5g jar though!!! And works like MAGIC and LIGHT as a feather. PLUS, free Pos Ekspres shipping within Malaysia!!! Excessive exclamation marks = extreme enthusiasm :D

2.) Signature Minerals' Rose blusher! From Simply Naturale.

Because I am sick and tired of my stupid unobliging Maybelline Apricot blush. Stupid thing forces me to SCRUB it onto my face!! And it's also a shimmer blush, totally unsuitable for prom flash photography. Also RM10 per sample jar with free postage!

3.) The Sticker Monster's pink bow Decoden!

Been looking high and low in local shops for something like this to put on my phone and voila! This one's only RM2/piece (promo price) with yes, you guessed it, free postage within Malaysia!!!

Better than that stupid cheat money Minimaos which charges RM6 for postage (somemore put ugly and uninformative product images on the site), you can eat my turds thanks.


4.) The Sticker Monster's epoxy glue!

This is just cause the price looks appealing and I'm sien to go out and find epoxy glue in stationery stores hahaha. Only RM4/bottle (the bottle is mad tiny though, I hope it'll be enough!) and also free postage, duh!!!


5.) The Sticker Monster's protective blinging film!

RM15 for an A4 sheet which I'm actually quite simtiah to buy, but at least it'll guarantee there won't be any WORSE simtiah-ness if I accidentally bling my phone/any other gadget wrongly! Now I can bling freely with no worries *phew*

My experience so far with The Sticker Monster has been GREAT! The girl who runs it (Jolene @ www.jayelleenelial.com) is an absolute darling and so friendly and accomodating. Plus she replies emails super fast!! I would definitely buy from her again and highly recommend The Sticker Monster as well!!!

6.) Beauty Splash's gel eyeliner!

For a long time, I've gone with bare minimum eye makeup - only mascara. But nowadays I'm realizing the wonders that eyeliner can do for your eyes!!! Makes them look like 10 times bigger just like that! *snaps fingers* And for some reason the only eyeliner I own is a dark brown pencil so it's time I made a sound investment! And cause I'm kiamsiap, my "investment" costs only SGD9.90 :D

7.) Last but not least, Beauty Splash's false eyelashes!

Don't you just love the shape of these false lashes??? Nice falsies are SO hard to find... most are either too short, too long, too sparse, too kuazhang, etc etc etc. And best of all, these are only SGD9.90 for 8 pairs! With, what else could it be but, free postage within Singapore!!! But again, I'm gonna pay an extra SGD2 for registered mail cause I have no idea what the Singapore postal system is like!

My experience with Beauty Splash so far has been... less than encouraging though. FOUR days after emailing them and I STILL haven't received any reply -_- But I shall persevere if only because I really like their stuff and it's so cheap!


I'm fast learning that online shopping can look fun and easy but get SERIOUSLY stressful if you have to deal with unprofessional sellers, which is why the two things I love the most are FREE/CHEAP POSTAGE and EXCELLENT + FAST CUSTOMER SERVICE ♥♥♥

Good customer service is sooo underrated these days, which is a real pity.

So yeah, anybody feeling the tickling urge to SHOP but is stuck at home, I encourage you to check out these sites!!! TOTAL gratification guaranteed cause it's so cheap and you won't regret it!

Unless your stuff get lost in the mail which you can either prevent by praying really REALLY hard (not recommended :P) or shelling out just a little bit more for safer postage methods. Like me!

I go through the trouble to buy buy buy, if it doesn't sampai, I WILL DAI T____T (crap that is the most awesome rhyming sentence ever)

After Mock Exams somebody (preferably with an Amicion discount card *exaggerated wink*) needs to pei me to go to the mall to blow off my B$20 Face Shop voucher and buy 3 new Konad plates!!! I'm thinking of getting m59, m62 and m71 to continue the building of a horifically large collection :)

Oh oh!! And talking about shopping, today I bought THE MOST GORGEOUS shade of vintagey frosted dusty rose pink (I know right, so long the name I invented for it wtf) satin from Galleria YMRM!!! For my prom dress bow and it's only B$4.90/metre cause of sales! I didn't know it was possible to be THIS in love with a fabric ♥ *sighs happily*

Okay that's it for today, I'll see you again tomorrow! I hope you had as much fun taking a peek into my shopping cart as I had... well, shopping! Have I suceeded in tempting you yet?? :D

My calculator is a bedazzled princess.

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This was before I cleaned off all the excess glue. I had to use Uhu All Purpose Adhesive, lol!! But this photo doesn't do justice to the sparkliness of it at all :( Let's see me try and lose my calculator now!!! xD

Braids and blings.

Hectic, hectic, HECTIC schedule this past two weeks!! Been running from Science practicals to Inter-school Drama Festival play rehearsals (which are coming along well, btw!) to tuitions to Sports Day tryouts!

And trying to fit in meals, homework, blogging and whatever else, whenever else I can. The next thing that's coming up is the Inter-house Malay Debate Competition, otherwise known as Bahas.

And to add even more celebration to the party, Mid-Year Exams are coming up fast! Time and tide waits for no man, but I really wish it would wait for just this one girl here :(

When people say Form 5 is no ride in the park, they are not kidding! It is busy as hell. But I realized something just now, in the car on the way home from Add Maths tuition. I'm actually truly and completely happy. Everything I need is here right now :)

Things are finally going right in my (busy) life and I'm content. I'm not wishing for anything... unless you count more free time on my hands.

And maybe a new pair of shoes wouldn't hurt? :D

I shall try my best not to mess this up! Better knock on wood. Anyway, enough digressing!

I love hair braids (on your head, not anywhere else! Cause I think I've heard about braiding hair down there before -_-"), but they take practice to perfect and I'm just a lazy girl.

A few days ago after school while waiting for Biology practicals, JiaJia our resident cheesy cougar puffs, did this to my hair!

It's a hairband... literally!

I've wanted to try out a braided headband for so long but I couldn't do it with my curly hair, and my hair (although rebonded continuously since 2007) has never been frizz-free enough to do it.

It finally is, though! Thanks to a new Pantene hair product I'm using called the Pantene Hair Mask which performs miracles on my hair! I used to always despise cheap Pantene products but this one is a huge surprise.

It makes my hair unbelievably soft, smooth and straight with lots of weight and volume to boot. Before, I was using a Wella Professionals leave-in cream that cost like... 5 times more? It was like B$20 a tube!

But sadly, it wasn't working very well for me anymore and my hair was doubling in size and becoming tangled, rough and unmanageable. It even stuck out at my shoulders -_-" Looked like crap, basically.

But no more! I heart my natural-looking straight hair now!! From past experiences (wahseh, sound like expert!), I have an inkling feeling that the Pantene Hair Mask contains silicone, which does absolute wonders for hair! <3

I also finally did something I've been putting off for a few weeks. I blinged the whole back of my phone! :D

Woohoo, my phone is officially pimped out!

Left lubangs for the camera and flash.

It's such a glitter princess now! That sure took care of the fact that my phone had been starting to look plain and lack-luster. My phone's almost 1 and a half years old! But still works like a charm and I love it to death.

I haven't blinged the front yet though. I used the sticker-type blings that are easily removeable. I just cannot commit to applying crystals permanently with epoxy glue! I am non-commital. Fuck.

That would explain a lot about some of the decisions I've subconsciously made in my life :( My brain tells me yes, I want this! But my heart tells me no, I'd better not. (Or is it the other way around?) Grrr!

No no, happy place, go back to my happy place!! I am supposed to be extremely blissful, remember? Yes :)

P/S: Phew, now that this blogging thing's done, I can continue catching up with new episodes of Grey's Anatomy! PPStream is love. And that's a fact.

Hello sister, goodbye life.

Can I just take a moment to say how smitten I am with my new blog design?! Somehow when you work really hard on something, you love and appreciate it so much more. It took me such a long time to get everything just the way I want. But it was all worth it!

I actually had problems with the custom font last night because the website I used to upload the font files was temporarily down, but it's all fixed and okay now! Yay, I have my chio fonts back!

My fatty (less fat now, can you believe it?!) sister arrived back home on Monday, bearing with her goodies from a foreign land! Haha no la. But she did bring back a ton of loose bling crystals in pink and clear. My share of 2000 crystals, actually.

Now to think long and hard about what and how to bling. Still got indecision and commitment issues here! And I'm scared to use them all up. But I guess if I finish the crystals, I can just buy more from eBay any time. No biggie. Let the zhng-ing begin!

She also brought back Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol hard cover which she bought in India for the equivalent of only RM47! My dad's reading it now, so I'll read it in a few days' time. Apparently it's un-putdown-able, so wish me luck! We meet again, Robert Langdon!

Spent the past two afternoons doing major experiments with Konad on my nails, trying to pick a Konadicure for Jia Yee's party for myself, and also one for her (I'll be playing manicurist for the day!). And I've finally made my decision. Mine will be pink, silver and black to match my outfit, and hers will be gold and purple to match her dress!

Nail polishes that don't belong to me :)

My nails! I've chosen the one on my index finger for myself. There's some green design on the red nail, but it's too light so you can't see it :(

And just for kicks, my sister's disgustingly chio pink and silver Konad and bling nails.

I'll show you Jia Yee's one tomorrow, after I confirm it with her. See what a considerate personal manicurist I am? xD A word of caution, I will hunt down and kill whoever tries to copy the Konad nail designs that I came up with! Be nice la, have the decency to think up your own designs and don't plagiarize.

And guess what? I saw my very first BAA car number plate yesterday in Kiulap! It was so cool. Apparently right now in KL, they're having the WTF number plate!! Fecking awesome. I so badly want a cool number plate in the future!

My sister once saw one in Malaysia that was JEN 8886. Her name is Jen and her birthday is 8th August, 1986. Damn chun or not!!

And while I was in Kiulap yesterday, I went to Hua Ho and saw possibly the chio-est chocolates EVER! The brand is Farrel and I've never heard of it before in my life la, but check out the packaging!

Leopard print, zebra print, deep red and baby pink. With bows!! I'm in love.

I'm sad to say that I'm finally throwing away my Bausch & Lomb clear contact lenses after one long, illustrious and wonderful month of service. Now to start using a new fresh pair! The thing that amazed me most about the B&L lenses were they felt just as awesome on the last day as they did on the first. Beat that.

Tonight I'm watching Smallville on PPStream! I realized yesterday that I've spent 9 whole years (that's more than half of my life!) watching Smallville! Now that's dedication.


P/S: This is officially my first time ever using the Blogger image uploader. Which is why the photos are bigger this time. It's super convenient loh, compared to using Photobucket! And they're also clear!! :D (I'm using the updated post editor, by the way. It rocks.) AND it's cut down my blogging time by so much man! HOORAY!!

Zhng!

As promised, here I am, blogging again! And I'll keep on blogging too, even if for nothing else but my readers' sake. Because ya'lls make me feel loved :D So you better keep coming back for updates! I kiasu eager to reach 4000 hits bah. Lol.

I just got back from maths tuition with Maria and Jia Yee, to find all the SAS councillors camping out in the school field. Then someone shouted my name and I was like, whaaat?! o.O Turns out it was Jesnie and Mun! And Fadli and Lennard joined them. They wanted me to take pics of them camwhoring from my balcony. Me and Jes also did the YMCA dance for a while xD

I'm so efficient, posting them now! But sorry la, the photos are quite blur :( My camera not that canggih at full zoom. Now I just wanna spend the rest of the night reading Marian Keyes' Sushi For Beginners and watch some Bones (I love it too much not to).

I'm 6 chapters into Sushi For Beginners and it's nice so far. I have another Marian Keyes book to read after this. I found both of them packed away in a storage box when my mom was looking for things to give away to a jumble sale. I thought they were lost forever!

I also went blogskin browsing yesterday! Which I love doing. I found a bunch of really nice ones. I have *counts*... a total of 62 blogskins saved on my laptop, yet I barely ever use any. So from now on, I'm changing my blogskin every month! Actually, I feel like changing this current one already. What you think? Decisions, decisions...

Since I changed my blogskin, I also updated my wishlist. I gotta say, for a broke girl on a budget, I am wanting a lot of stuff right now. And I realize that's really not good. I can't even extort anek Joe anymore :(

I can't wait to zhng (bling) all my stuff with the crystals that my sister bought. It's gonna be back-breaking work but so cool. Although I'm a bit trepidatious about zhng-ing my phone, 'cause I've gotten used to it the way it is. And who would want to use/buy my phone after it's been zhnged?! And should I even zhng my iPod since I'm planning to get a Sony Walkman?

For my phone.

Stars like these for my laptop together with a curly S.

For my iPod Nano.

For my digital camera if my dad doesn't try to kill me in the process object.

For my iPod earphones, except I want all pink!

And would a zhnged laptop hamper the ability of the computer shop people to change my laptop's RAM?? By hook or by crook, I want more RAM! So I can finally play The Sims 3 on it. Even though I don't have a 2 GHz processor (only a 1.73), I don't care, I'm gonna risk it 'cause I can't take this torture anymore!

I temporarily zhnged my phone to stave me over till I can get my hands on the crystals in December. One of the clear crystals on the front fell victim to my vigorous hand movements at DQ during the Majlis of Nerds rehearsal and I still haven't gotten around to replacing it. Talk about procrastination!

You can see my super chio phone theme! <3

Because I'm random and still wanna kill time before finishing my French manicure, here are photos of food...

My mom bought the black bread from Lof and made me eat it!

Some weird macaroni and fruit salad.

Tom yum flavoured crispy seaweed.