Watch Your Step Along The Arch Of Glass

My friends always complain that I’m too easily distracted and that I have the attention span of a gnat. I never realized how serious they were until recently.

I was in the car with Cheng Choo sometime last week and we were talking about relationships.

Cheng Choo Kim

Long distance relationships are so hard. Most of the time, I feel that they don’t work out.

Yeah, but the thing is, if they DO work out, you know that the relationship is meant to be.

Yeah, like you know they can get through anything.

But of course the circumstances must be right also lah. I mean, if you’re not going to see each other for like 5 years *a truck filled with watermelons passes us* OMG, WATERMELONS! I LOVE WATERMELONS!

*Cheng Choo looks at me in shock and like I’m crazy*

Yeaaaah, I like watermelons too.

I’ve Got Full Stock Of Thoughts And Dreams That Scatter

Awhile ago, Zam had a barbeque at his place.

He actually has barbeques at his place pretty often, mostly when he feels like we all need to catch up or when someone is back from overseas and it’s usually very chill. We just eat, drink, talk, laugh, play stupid drinking games and generally, have a blast with each other.

A barbeque at Zam’s ALWAYS has lamb, sausages (the ones with cheese in them is mine and Ling’s favourite!) and of course, booze.

For this barbeque, Zam upped the booze factor.

 

He brought out the beer bong.

That’s not Zam btw, that’s Vivek. Lol.

For those of you who don’t know how a beer bong works (I didn’t until that day!), you pour a can (or two) of beer into the funnel at the top,

the guy who will be drinking the beer stands at the other end of the beer bong like so,

then he puts his mouth around the bottom of the beer bong and opens the “tap”, which is the red thing Sanjiv is holding on to, and the beer flows into your mouth at top speed and you have to gulp all the beer down coz if you don’t, it’s just going to flow out all over your face and shirt!

It’s seriously crazy! Imagine drinking a can of beer in like, 20 seconds! And it was so amusing watching all the guys take a shot at the beer bong!

And of course, Zam being Zam, made ALL the guys do the beer bong at least once!

I’m absolutely sure that Ajim had AT LEAST 10 cans of beer that night on top of whiskey and sangria!

 

Ajim on his way to being the most drunk person at Zam’s barbeque that night.

Nazim only had one, maybe two cans of beer, because he was “going to play futsal”.

Zam was mean and made Sanjiv drink more than he wanted to!

Didn’t get pictures of the other guys but seriously, it’s super fun to watch them do it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lol @ Ajim’s and Zam’s faces!

I think they were quite tipsy at this point!

 

But look at the amount of liquor on the table! It’s no wonder everyone was tipsy that night!

Zam! Hahahahahaha!

AJIM! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

<3

*aherm* Get a room??! :D

We’ve had heaps of good barbeques at Zam’s place, but this one was particularly awesome, I had so much fun and I’m going to miss this SO MUCH when I’m in Perth.

And btw, Zam makes THE BEST sangria.

We Thought We Lost You, Welcome Back

Awhile ago, Chien Teng asked me to swatch the nail polishes from the Skin Food Pedicure Vita line for her. I’m almost done swatching those polishes, I have one more to go and that post will be up as soon as I’m done with it. :)

In the meantime, I have some other random nail polish swatches for you guys!

 

Skin Food Nail Vita in BR613.

Sorry, I know this picture is a little dark, but I promise you, the colour swatch is probably 95% accurate.

This is a warm, shimmery, true gold colour with an ALMOST chrome effect. Not quite a chrome, but almost. You can see that it’s trying. Lol.

Application for this polish was a bit strange. It wasn’t difficult to apply per se, but it was a bit streaky and difficult to get even brush strokes. It also seemed to show every imperfection on my nail! I realize that this is the norm with many chrome polishes, but this one isn’t (really) a chrome polish!

The wear of the polish was pretty decent. I can’t remember how many coats of this polish I did but definitely nothing less than two because it’s pretty sheer. If I’m not mistaken, I did three. This also took longer than usual to dry. Skin Food polishes usually dry pretty quick.

Personally, I don’t really like this polish because the colour is a bit too warm for my skin tone but I really wish it looked good on me because it really is quite a pretty colour and it’s difficult to find such a true gold colour polish.

OPI Mad As A Hatter from the Alice In Wonderland Collection.

This is a multi-coloured fine glitter polish with mostly silver glitter as a base.

I had high hopes for this polish but sadly, I was disappointed. While I definitely don’t hate it, I don’t love it as much as I thought I would either.

The polish looks really dense in the bottle but I had to do four coats of this polish to get it to be like in the picture above, but because it is a glitter polish, you don’t see any mistakes so I had no application issues other than that I needed to do SO MANY coats. Dry time is pretty quick but really, four coats of polish is way too time consuming!

However, the glitter was very fine and not chunky at all. But you will definitely still need a topcoat just to seal it and give it a glossy finish because it looks a bit dull without a topcoat.

The wear of this polish isn’t very good but it’s to be expected because I had to do so many coats, so the polish was pretty thick and it peeled easily. Note, I said PEELED, NOT CHIPPED.

Biggest complain about this polish? Removing it was HORRIBLE! I mean, HORRIBLE! Most difficult polish to remove EVER. I sat in front of the television scrubbing at my nails for 40 minutes trying to get this polish off my nails, it was terrible. Please tell me, am I the only one who has experienced this or am I just doing something wrong?

China Glaze For Audrey.

This is a pretty “Tiffany blue” colour which is about 98% accurate to the original Tiffany blue! In some lights though, it looks a little more like a warm, mint green.

Application was okay. It can be a little streaky, but it evens out with your second coat. I did two coats of this polish but if you’re careful with your application, you can definitely get away with one coat because it’s pretty opaque.

The wear of this polish was average. No longer or any less than a regular polish.

I was expecting to really love this colour, and I wasn’t disappointed at all, I love it! I can’t wait to wear this colour again!

OPI Sand In My Suit from the South Beach Collection.

This is a pearl gold-toned nude colour that is one shade lighter than my skin tone.

For a nude colour, this is surprisingly opaque and very true to bottle colour. I was pleasantly surprised because I was prepared for there to be a visible nail line even with three coats of polish! I always associate nude colours with sheer polishes for some reason!

I can’t be absolutely sure, but I’m pretty sure I did three coats of this polish to get it to the colour that you see in the picture above.

Formula for this polish was a little streaky. You have to be careful with your brush strokes. The dry time was good though, so I had no issues with doing three coats.

I’m kind of on the fence with this polish. I definitely don’t hate it, but I don’t really love it either. I like it. Lol.

Btw, do nail polish swatch blog posts make you feel like buying nail polish? Coz it always makes me feel like buying nail polish! :D

As They Tried To Teach Me How To Dance

Lately, I feel like my style has gotten really bohemian.

Lots of long dresses and skirts, dangly earrings, big rings and hippie bands.

I’m willing to bet that this is just a phase though and in the next two weeks, it’s going to be something different again!

 

 

Dress: Bali                                                                                                                                                Earrings: Diva                                                                                                                                             Bag: http://www.phatculture.com/                                                                                                  Belt: Supre                                                                                                                                                 Sandals: Vincci

I had actually planned for this post to be for nail polish swatches. I had finished writing the post and everything but before I got to click “Publish”, my laptop froze and the post disappeared into the black hole that is my laptop and I just couldn’t bring myself to write that post all over again tonight. *sigh* :(

It will be up soon though. By this week. :)

This Is The First Sound Of A Newborn Child Before He Starts To Crawl

As you all know by now, my brother fractured his ankle and he’s hobbling around on crutches.

Today, we went to eat fish head noodles and we had to cross a pretty busy road.

Kim Bryan

Ohmygod, I don’t know how to cross the road, there are so many cars, I’m so scared one of them will hit you!

Don’t worry jie, I’ve got this.

No, no, no, I worry, wait first.

Don’t worry! Malaysians know how to brake!

No! They don’t!

Before I know it, Mr. Malaysians-Know-How-To-Brake is crossing hobbling slowly across the road while a car is heading towards us. I didn’t know whether to pull him back or stand in front of him and was on the verge of screaming at him. Thankfully, the car, seeing a crippled child crossing the road, took pity on him and braked.

See jie! Told you he would brake! Malaysia is like India, you just close your eyes and cross the road, the cars will avoid you.

I really worry about him sometimes.

This Free Fall

I know it’s disgusting the amount of time I have taken off from blogging, so lets start this post off with a huge apology and a promise to make up for my disappearing act.

So for this post, I’m just going to be doing a mishmash of (almost) everything that I’ve been doing and I’ll slowly go into detail about each thing post by post. :)

I have been keeping up (somewhat) with my dailydress pictures.

But okay, I’ll admit it. I’ve gotten pretty lazy about both dressing up and taking pictures and I don’t have as many dailydress pictures as I should have!

But I still have a couple! So they’ll be up really soon. :)

  

Top: Zara                                                                                                                                                        Jeans: Topshop                                                                                                                                            Bag: Marc Jacobs                                                                                                                        Accessories: Diva                                                                                                                                     Shoes: Vincci

Sorry the first picture is a little blurry but you guys get the gist of it!

On my nails in the last picture is OPI’s Suede Russian Navy with a topcoat. I got this done at Amante Nail Spa which is my favourite place to go to for a manicure/pedicure session. I go to the one in Aman Suria and I will be writing a post really soon where I “take” you guys on my manicure/pedicure session along with me! :D

My thoughts on the OPI Suede Russian Navy?

It is a beautiful colour, especially with a topcoat (I’m not really into the whole matte polish and the topcoat makes the Suede polishes really glittery and shiny) but damn, it is terribly difficult to remove this polish! I thought that maybe I just had a bad experience, but Ling had a difficult time removing this polish too. So you know what, the colour is gorgeous, but it’s not pretty enough for me to spend 30 minutes removing it.

Have any of you tried the OPI Suede/Matte series? What are your thoughts on it?

And also, I’ve had some requests to do a review on my Marc Jacobs Stam bag, so I might do that soon too. What say you guys? Video or blog post? Hmmmmm.

I’ve also been doing lots of nail polish swatches.

I’d say that I’ve been more disciplined about doing nail polish swatches than I have been about taking dailydress pictures actually.

This nail polish is from Etude House and it’s called Dear Darling Nails and it’s in #18 Spangle Red.

First off, let me just say that this is NOT a red. It’s more of a hot pink as you can see from the picture. This swatch is very true to colour.

Besides that, I have to say that this is one of the most beautiful nail polishes I have ever used.

Because it is a glitter with an almost-jelly base, I did have to do three (maybe four, I can’t remember) coats of this polish. However, the polish dried really quick so it didn’t matter that I had to do so many coats.

The problem with so many glitter polishes is that they aren’t dense enough and you end up seeing a nail line no matter how many coats you put on. Not with this polish. It is extremely buildable and as you can see from the picture, it looks like I have glitter ON TOP of a regular nail polish. So gorgeous!

The glitter is a little bit chunky but it doesn’t bother me at all and besides, it’s so shiny! I’m totally willing to put up with a bit of chunky glitter if it becomes so sparkly and shiny!

The wear of this nail polish was so-so and it was a bit difficult to remove as is the usual case with most glitter polishes but really, this polish is so beautiful, I really don’t care how long it takes me to remove it.

If you’re a fan of glitter polishes, this is a must have!

We had a barbeque at Zam’s place where all of got really drunk/tipsy because Zam makes THE BEST Sangria ever out of RM20 wine.

This was before anyone was REALLY drunk/tipsy and could still have normal conversations that didn’t involve someone bursting into a fit of laughter at random moments.

Bryan fell and fractured his ankle playing football just before Chinese New Year and missed his first Bridgestone tyre test of the season.

Say hello to Bryan’s six screws and metal plate!

He’s really SCREWED now! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Bad pun, sorry. :p

Ling turned 21, celebrated her birthday at La Bodega/Zouk and looked BEYOND beautiful on her birthday! <3

 

Mel turned 19, celebrated her birthday at Elixir in Changkat, was still (barely) standing at the end of the night and also looked beautiful! <3

Picture stolen off Manda because I forgot to bring my camera that night. :(

I’m keeping my New Year’s resolution and started cooking!

Here I am serving dinner to FOURTEEN people!

And yes, I have unashamedly stolen this picture off Manda’s blog. I didn’t manage to take any pictures that night coz I was so busy running around and making sure that everyone was fed.

Also in line with keeping my New Year’s resolution, I cleaned my room and found baby pictures!

 

Two pictures because these are my favourite of the bunch!

The first one was taken the day I brought home my first doggies! Herbie a Cocker Spaniel and Debbie a Labrador. Both of them have since passed away but those two dogs made me a very happy little girl. :) Herbie is the one I’m hugging (strangling) and Debbie is obviously the other one.

The second picture was taken on my 8th or 9th fairy-themed birthday. It was one of the best and most memorable birthday’s of my life! We ate “fairy” food, played “fairy” games, made wands with lots of glitter on them, made wishes on gold paper stars which we then put into pretty little organza bags and I got to take home a heap of stuff with glitter on it which drove my mum and my maids crazy coz I kept getting glitter all over the house. Till today, thinking of this birthday makes me smile. Hands down, BEST BIRTHDAY EVER! :)

I don’t have ANY pictures from Sri KDU’s Sports Day or Chinese New Year. :( Don’t ask me why, I have no idea myself and I’m still kicking myself for it.

For those of you who are wondering how my New Year’s resolutions are going (since I mentioned them before), I’d say that they’re going pretty good!

I’m not going to copy the whole post here because this post is already SO long so just click here if you haven’t seen my New Year’s Resolutions post and want to read it.

1. I’ve been to church every Sunday except for two Sunday’s which were during Chinese New Year.

2. I have not done any charity work. :( Boo! *shy*

3. I have not started Italian OR Mandarin classes.

4. I have been working out pretty often and I think I’ve lost some weight! But even if I haven’t, I feel good, so it’s a win-win for me!

5. I haven’t been going for gymnastics classes so no back handspring. :(

6. I DEFINITELY have spent less money on shopping!

7. As you can see from the picture above, I HAVE learnt how to cook and I actually enjoy cooking! :D

8. I have worked, somewhat, but I should be working more regularly! Shame on me!

9. I CLEANED MY ROOM!

10. I have not travelled anywhere on my own, yet.

So I’m more or less halfway through my resolutions! Not too bad right? :D

And I have saved the most exciting piece of news for last!

This is probably going to come as a surprise and a bit of a shock, but I’ll be going off to university in about, 4 weeks.

I’ll be going to the University of Western Australia in Perth and believe me, I’m terrified and excited and nervous and happy and I’ve just got all these different emotions going on at once!

I promise I’ll elaborate a little more and fill you guys in on everything really soon because this really deserves a blog post of its own and besides, this post has gotten WAY too long!

Till tomorrow! :)