The World Under The Deep Blue Sea

As I mentioned earlier, I had quite a long break a week ago... and oh boy, long breaks without any proper plans and  to remain  in town is EVIL. seriously.
I ended up shopping so much, I can probably just die. ( but ..but... I need all the things that I bought, and will need to get it sooner or later right? right??? yeh, am trying to convince myself.... ).

Anyway, during the break, I managed to finally visit the underwater world in the city. I have visited a few underwater world in a few places/countries but have yet to visit the one nearest to me! I have always wanted to go but just couldn't find the right time.
(well, you know, when things are right infront of your eyes, you will tend to take it for granted)

I love Underwater World. The minute you enter the area, you are like magically transported to another world.  Suddenly life seems to pause for a moment, you seem to be able to take a deep breath and look at things around you and appreciating it.

Very therapeutic isn't it?

Here are a few pics I have downloaded, for your viewing pleasure.
(long post filled with pics ahead. Pls be warned :)

Piranha Red Belly

Happy Birthday China !

I am currently watching the live telecast of China's 60th National Day Celebration performance and it reminded me on the awesome Olympic opening ceremony and closing ceremony they had last year.

China are blessed with so many people that even their performance are filled with a HUGE group of dancers and performers that it is so remarkable to watch.

Their perfomance are always so colourful , rich in tradtion.

Their perfomance are always sooooo syncronise even though it consist of thousands of people,

It makes me feel so patriotic watching them marching during the parade, taking commands, and am proud of their achivements and development. China has grown so much and it has been a very difficult, hardship road for them.

Sometimes I wonder, what will I be like if I had been raised in the motherland. Will I be a dancer? Will I be more culturally learned? Will I be a different person from what I am today? Will my thinking be different? Will I have the knowledge and exposure that I have now? Will I have the material things I am enjoying now?

But it's great to know that I still have family links back in the motherland, as it is one of my great wish to learn more about the country and culture. Though I have been back nearly every year during the recent years, but it's quite different when you are back there to different places for holidays only.

  
My best wishes to the leaders and people back in the homeland.
Happy 60th Birthday China!
"Zhong Guo Wan Sui".

Senstive question to ponder and deliberate. Which are you proud of more. Nationality or Race?

My first Etsy purchase

Ya I know, I am a dinosaur . *hide my face*

The reason why I am announcing this is I am pretty excited with this purchase of mine. I just purchased a lovely dress (my first overseas online purchase for handmade outfits) from etsy (my first purchase there as well).
Can't wait for the package to arrive !!! It is quite pricey for an outfit via online, and for a first timer, but but, the dress is so sweet and the seller seems very nice and sweet as well. Love her sense of taste and most of the clothes she made is something I would personally wear.
So,.... heck, I purchased it as an EARLY birthday pressie for myself. (yes, a lame excuse to make me feel better), but hey, I can wear it for my birthday gathering if it fits well .. and christmas is just round the corner... :p

Will blog more about the dress and the seller thereafter .........patience.

Maquillage , Maybelline & other makeup hauls.

This is going to be a lazy post filled with pics and less review :( sorry.

Yours truly is feeling very lazy lately as many are away for a whole week, some for holiday, some back to Japan for their silver week.and tho I had a break as well, but I have to come back earlier than the rest *emo*

Anyway, this is a late post on some stuff that I got lately when I suddenly felt I needed to buy a blusher (and I came back with more than that ). *ouch* I can hear my purse screaming already.

You will need to buy the case as it comes separately

Maquillage Face Creator 3D ~ 44 (Nuance Pink)

Their colours are pretty light and sheer, hence if you have darker skin tone, I am not sure whether the range will suit you

But the colours suits me fine, not too loud and the powder is very soft. However, I dont use the brown tone (to be used if you want to have slimmer face countours), hence I use it on top of my eyeshadow for extra glitter. As for the white tone, you can even use it to highlight your eye brow bone etc. Great for usage when you travel.

My only problem with it will be, the casing is a bit too big.

Maquillage eyeshadow

I like this bluish purple tone shadows. Comes with hint of blue cream base so that your colours stays longer and looks cleaner. Their eyeliner cream is surprisingly lasting as well ! Thumbs up.

Maybelline glittering eyeshadow squat

I have wanted to get this for quite some time now. My first Maybelline eyeshadow purchase.

Heard of some great reviews on it and yes, I am not surprised why .

Firstly, I am a sucker for greyish shadows, what more it comes with sheer glittering pink. I have wanted to get a pink/grey squad every since I saw the RMK series but I figured that it is way too expensive for their 2 tone squad.

Hence when I read bout this Maybelline eyeshadow combi, I leaped for joy. The glitters came out quite nicely from each colours (doesn't give you that cheap glitter look), the grey gives a good not too dark nor light blend to the sheer pink.. Lovely !  The brush is surpringly nice to be used. A bit bendable at the sponge area for easy blending. What more, it is total value for money !

Other random stuff I got :-

My Dior's lipgloss cause my old one is on zero level already. (dior's lipgloss are ze best!)

My Kiss Me Volume and Curl Mascara (as I am getting quite irritated with my MM's mascara already)

My old time favourite face wash gel HG, Avene Soapless Foaming Gel

(because I have been using this since like forever, you will know how top rated it is in my skin care list. But I am a bit lazy to review on it, hence if you want to know more about it, pls let me know)

Samples I got for the new Dior's Hydra Life range to replace their exisiting range

(yiiiks, I love their old range, why change?)

Last weekend I stepped into Kiehls and omg, I totally am amazed and happy with the product that I bought (as at to dated...lol).. Anyway, do stay tune and I will update on it soon.

Cheerio!

All good things will come to an end

Guess I will have to accept the fact that I have to say sayonara one day.

Though reluctant, I will have to take the step.

From hating the place, from feeling uncomfortable, from all the headaches and problems I have to go true innitially, from all the noises, from feeling sooo tired everyday.......

Now I am reluctant.

Reluctant to be no longer part of it.

Reluctant to not able to spend more time learning your culture.

Reluctant because I enjoyed the nearly daily sashimi dosage.

Reluctant because I have not been able to see much of other parts of the region yet.

Reluctant because the people aren't racist.

Reluctant because I will miss those I have just started to know.

Reluctant because I know I can do more.

Reluctant because I felt very "high" doing this despite the stress it is giving me. :(

I will miss the in and out flights, the experience, the culture, the weather, the atmosphere..

I will miss the....

1) The Lakes and Buldings

I finally found THE perfect eyeliners !

Finally, I have found the eyeliners that I could use without having or worrying about smudges, panda eyes, ugly dirty look at the end of the day.

What's that? hehehe......

It's none other than
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1) Kiss Me Smooth Liquid Eyeliner
AND
2) Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Perfect Eyeliner

I am not kidding you. This two works together like wonders!

I prefer to use the liquid eyeliner for the top eyelid and pencil eyeliner for the bottom (as using liquid liners for the bottom just doesnt give the right look!).

Anyway, I have tried so many brands for the past years that I nearly gave up. I ended up not using any liners most of the time. I have tried YSL, Shu Uemura, Dior, Elizabeth Arden, Estee etc and all smudge on me.
Seriously. I was beginning to wonder maybe my skin must be out of this world.
Not till I found Kiss Me.

The Kiss Me Smooth Liquid Eyeliner is one of the best brush eyeliners. In summary :-

1) SMUDGE PROOF !!!...( and it's resistant to water, tears, sebum and rubbing! )
2) The brush is only 0.1mm so it's easy to draw a smooth line
3) The brush are not too hard or soft, hence very easy to draw a steady line
4) Smooth ink flow
5) It dries up quite fast upon application

Thumbs up !!!!!!!!

Now, as mentioned in my previous post here , I recently bought the Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Perfect Smooth Eyeliner. What's the difference?
This is a pencil liner. Perfect for the bottom eyelids.

Still alive

Gosh, it has been 1 month since I last posted anything. Sorry for going MIA for such a long period.

The past few weeks have been a whirlwind and at times like this, sometimes I just feel like be in the background for a while. Away from all the questions others are trying to dig from you (yes, I know some are just being caring and I really appreciate your effort) but I guess I just needed to "hide" for a while cause I know, no matter what, nobody will be able to help except God and yourself.

I just needed a break ... from the world.

Things are not settled yet (:( :( Future still seems so dark and bleak but I am feeling much better now. (yay!).

K, nuf said , sorry for the pictureless post. Cross my fingers I will update soon on reviews on certain lovable products that I have purchased recently.

Finally managed to drag myself to go back to the saloon and colour my hair. I left it to them to choose the colour and the stylist gave me a kinda ashhy brown colour. Looks like something that I did few years back but this colour is darker but still bright enough under certain lightings, hence the healthier hair look.

Not sure whether you have heard of it, but my stylist used one of the latest Japanese colour technology called M3D. It has this thing called "pico" which is a high grade mineral. It penetrates into the hair cells to remove harmful chemical in coloring ingredients and activates oxygen.

My hair certainly feels so much softer and have lots of body movements. Loving it so far (but shall further wait till end of the week as at times, your hair feels super soft & shiny only towards the 1st week of colouring).

I did take some pics after that but the colour doesn't seem to show much in the camera. Probably of the lighting then. Shall try to take again next time ya.

I wonder, what are your current hair colour? Care to share?