June 2007

a new regime

June 27, 2007

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Last week, in the middle of a horror film, I wanted to rushed out of the bedroom.
Timid, but avid horror(bloody, sick, gross)-film lover, begged me to stay or at least wait till the part where the film is less scary,
I said, Sorry Sweetie, I have to go (do mask) and save the remainder of my youth.
He promptly let go of my arm.

And I started a new beauty regime last night, in bid to maintain whatever youth I have left.

    a new beauty regime
    Not only their STAR Product, but a lot of stars swear by it.

Being a beauty pdt junkie,Collagen for the skin.
Good to drink before bed and its very YUMMY!!!

The harsh weather here in Yuncheng & China, damaging my ageing skin. I so used to humidity.
I don’t know, but whenever people compliment my great skin, Dp’s sis and cuz, both ladies, would jump in and said it was MUCH better the first time I visited Yuncheng.
When I visited my beautician, who first saw me in 2005, commented she has never seen skin that smooth.
When I was in primary school, my english teacher even used me as an example to explain how ‘fair’ can be used to describe the skin.

BUT WELL, that’s all H-I-S-T-O-R-Y !!!

For now, I am glad to even lose the yellow-ish tone, dullness and regain some radiance.

Its been awhile since I had the courage to go make-up-less…
Thank goodness for the rainy weather for the whole of last week, my skin seemed to improve a little.
OR the morning, I woke up from a 10-hour sleep…OR the new moisturizer!

Whatever it is… I must have done something RIGHT, last week. :p

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no exception

June 25, 2007

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I think most people who have pictures of themselves on their homepage are narcissist and I am no exception…
As you can tell from my last header and the pictures are all taken by myself…

If u have a chance to browse through my camera or my photo album on my notebook, you will see a lot of self-portraits.
And I am proud to say, I can aim and snap photos of myself, entire face in frame.

So imagine my delight when I have a picture taken by someone else…

    mono-tone me

Instead of face-less and blurry ones,

LIKE THIS the black vest AND THIS… black baby doll

It felt like a long while since I have pictures not taken by myself.

I am currently going through a dark-colored phase.
Been buying and wearing a lot of black / white.
Am wearing a all-black dress right now and intend to wear another all-black tomorrow and day after…
My theme for the week… but not sure why!!!

And here…

    Us. 23-6
    Picture taken over the weekend in Taiyuan.

Do you think we aged, compared to this picture…5 years back?

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year 5…

June 22, 2007

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    ngeeann
    5 years back, dp’s first trip to Singapore and to meet the parents

Its a (yet another) special anniversary today for Us!!!
Year 5 for Us!!!
I sometimes find it hard to believe, we have been together for 5, and know each other for 6.

This may sound stupid but it always felt like yesterday, or maybe the day before yesterday! :p
And we still feel happy around each other!!!

I wish I have time for something more MUSHY romantic…
But we are going away this afternoon, to Taiyuan.
Wasn’t expecting to go anywhere this weekend.
But we are going to attend a distant relative’s wedding, Go Shopping / Stock Up / Celebrate !!!

If you like, you can still check these older posts…
(which you may havealready read last year and the year before…)

About the Special Day
About the Post Card

Need to run. Packing is always a serious business for ME!

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I should<3 working…

June 20, 2007

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    My Cubicle
    My CUBE.

I sometimes hate working. Even when I am probably one of the few person, who has the easiest time in the entire corporate.
I don’t like work, because it sometimes make me feel incompetent.

I hate it when all I want to do is to stay home, stay in bed or even just to watch TV/DVD/Dramas.
But I can’t! (though I can, but the guilt makes it difficult for me to sit still. Unless I am out of Yuncheng.)

I also hate it when I sit at desk and think of all the other places I could have been. Other than at work or in Yuncheng.
I think I would very much rather be in Singapore, going out for lunch with Mom and then a little of shopping in the day.

Then again, I know that it isn’t possible for me to be away from Yuncheng…all the time.
Which deficits the purpose of me moving to China.

So here I am, trying to convince myself about the benefit of working while living in Yuncheng.
And I hate to admit, that sometimes it is the best place to be, in Yuncheng other than staying in.

When I wasn’t working, I used to stay in at home, to surf the net ALL DAY!
And now that I am at work, I too surf the net all day and I get paid.

Beside passing time, work gives me reasons/excuses to:
- Dress up. Semi-professional look. I was in so much casual wear for the last summer.
- Comb my hair and do make up. To complete the look or at least look more competent.
- Bring one of my many bags and wear one of my many shoes for work!!!
- Dressing up makes life interesting!!!

Even when I am just surfing the net at a place that is 5-min walk away from HOME!
And I don’t see the point in dressing up when I am going to be home, surfing the net all day.

They all boil down to just one Excuse, Shopping.

Which is pathetic, cause its seems that its the only FUN, I have these days.
I can’t imagine not having the need to shop… which keeps me sane in this laidback city.
( I was ‘crushed’, when Dp told me that he will need to wear uniform everyday, i.e no more shopping for summer.)

Other than the above not-so-clever reasons, I should not hate work because,
- I get to know more people and know more about the company.
- I feel good when I am seen leaving work later than most of my colleagues (as lunch/dinner isn’t ready yet.)
- I need not worry about being late for work.Which I am most of the time.
- I do not have much responsibilties, and it allows me to take-off + unlimited leaves.
- It made receiving salary in cold hard cash, feels like a tiny windfall.

Contrary to my many complaints, I do have work to do!
On a few rare occassions, I feel the excitement of having to complete my work in short period of time. It was challenging, though it’s was nothing too important or intelligent.

    A close up of my cube, and you see that that is ‘work’ on my desk.
    Judebabe at work
    I bring my own laptop to work for surfing the net.

And Oh! This is also the place, I do most of the postings on this site.

Note to myself: I should not hate work. I should <3 WORK!

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monday blues?

June 18, 2007

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Think again!

    Monday Blues

    Signboard found overhead of Dp’s office building, located in the very old factory!
    Note the broken window pane!

Signboard says:
IF YOU DON’T WORK HARD TODAY!
WORK HARD FINDING A JOB TOMORROW!

We are both feeling the Monday Blues! Especially after a rainy lazy Sunday!

Which is rare because we sometimes abuse our spoilt privilege, by not turning up for work (though with awful lot of guilt).

A day in very crumpled shirt, disheveled hair and uneven skin tone, which usually bother me a lot, a lot!!!
Made a quick dash at the supermarket and after an afternoon of DVDs and lying in bed, doing nothing,
We then sinked our teeth in a hearty meal of sinful, finger lickin’ good, KFC!!!

They tasted so good.
That makes looking at the dining table, difficult.
The smell still lingers and reminded me of the tasty KFC.

After few rounds of table tennis and mahjong, we returned home and fell asleep before 11pm.
I didn’t think that we can be that tired after a whole weekend of doing nothing!

And as for the rain, its been raining for a full day now. I haven’t seen this much rain in Yuncheng before.
Its nice. To cool the heat!
And for the first time, the rain washed the dirt off the car, instead of dirtying it.

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With all the moving around for the past 2 years, it did Hit me recently, on a sleepless night, that dp & I, We don’t really have a Home.
Though Dp has like 2 apartments in Beijing, we are currently collecting rent for one, and dust for the other.

And even when we spend most of our time in Yuncheng (as Base) its hardly our home, coz mostly we spend our time only in our room.
We have our own entertainment, Tv, cable and dvd, in our room. So ‘home’ is pretty limited in one bedroom.

So Dp and I pretty agreed that we have to make the Best out of the New Home!

Sometimes, the best part about returning to Beijing, is to visit and sleep in our Beijing apartment.
Nothing great about it but well, that’s the first home we put together or at least tried to, but didnt get to stay long enough.

So here, a quick tour of the apartment. The one that is collecting dust and we refused to let it out.
Had to take most of the pictures Immediately upon entering the apartment, before Dp and I start MESSING IT UP!!!

The house seemed pretty empty and do not lived-in feel, because its mostly empty!
Except when Dp’s relatives are in Beijing, they will stay at our house.

With the dark wooden floors that came with the apartment, we only have to go with the Oriental / Zen Theme.
And I am so loving the almost-white sofa!

Living RoomLiving Room by the day
The living room, by day and night.
We get a lot of sunshine on most of the days (except for this day), Dp loves to lie on the sofa and bask in the sun!

Living Roombed

The living room still… and half of the master bedroom!

Dining AreaKitchen

Kitchen and Dining Area!

Oriental LightingsStudy + PC Room

Lightings in living room and PC Room (with Sofa Bed)

Oriental Lightingsmasterbedroom

More oriental lights and cupboard in the master-bedroom with lots of little stuff on it.

That’s all for the house, except that I missed out the guest room and maybe half of the master bedroom.
Very simple huh?
We wanted to move in really quick then.

I think if we are going to stay in the house for long enough, its definitely going to be filled with a lot more stuff (rubbish).
To make it warm and cozy!

But For now, its good enough for the short stay!

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