Birthday No Bash

Yay birthday!! 

Older me reporting for duty! Older, but just as vain. 

I don't want people to know my birthday actually. I didn't show it on Facebook. 

I'm terrible at remembering birthdays, so I have this thinking that if people wished me on my birthday, I'd have to wish them back too. I'd rather keep my birthday a secret than trying to remember those of others, or to 'owe' them. =X 

There was a 3 day back-to-back celebration with different people.

Those that love me and I love back. 

The first day was spent with the No.1 on list of "people that I love (excluding family)".

It was just a simple day out at Pavilion and the 'Golden Triangle',

and we didn't take any pics together. 

We're camerashy low profile that way.

Here's a pic of my lunch instead.

Lunch at a Japanese restaurant and dinner at an Italian one, both in 6th floor of Pavilion.

Spent a shitload of money and that's how I'm always poor on birthday months.

Because there's birthday promotions EVERYWHERE!

Second day was celebrated with people that I hate and love at the same time a.k.a family.

Well more like my sisters. Parents were at Butterworth and being the good daughter, of course I didn't go home. 

I'm useless 'independent' that way.

Both my sisters are in Klang Valley now, so yay! Sisters + 1 bro-in-law hangout!

We went to Lala Chong for SEAFOOD!!

And of course, my favourite, CRAB!!

I actually had crab 4 times in 1.5months.

High cholesterol whuut.

The food was just meh, honestly.

There were other food, but since I'm not a fan of taking food pics (that I didn't cook), there's there.

My actual birthday day I celebrated with my babes/bitches.

The people that I can be crazy with. Yes, I can be crazy. Literally and figuratively. =X

Only a handful get to see that side of me (thankfully).

This pic was taken on a different day.

We went to Chili's in the mall next to Digital Mall in section 14, since it was a Monday and I finish work later than everyone else. 

The 2 people that I don't mind spending lots of time with. 

Thanks everyone who wished me!! I will try to remember your birthday and wish you back ok? Okay. 

#iDuncarewhatcureply

#grainypicsftw

There were no big celebrations, but it's the people that count, and these are dearly to me. 

All my loves, with the exception of 1, my extra love.

I love simplicity, and that is how I roll, even for my big 26th.

That's what J_Fish has to say! Au Revoir!

Phone version of THE wedding... that's not mine

My sister is married!!!

On the day itself I didn't take a lot of pictures, mainly because I was standing next to her 90% of the time, and I didn't want to be holding a phone, let along taking tons of pics, so here's the phone (short) version of the wedding.

Anyways,

here's what I have on my phone. 90% of the pics are selfies... Most of them are deleted now.
So here are the rest that's left.
1 or 2 pics from the phone of others too.


First, we start with an impromptu manicure session for younger sis and I.
We were shopping in E-Curve and just decided to get our nails done.

 No, Jo, you can't get green nails.


Brown + white flower and leaves

 Just a tad sad that brown is my "nude".

My sister's runway, before all the decoration is up.

We stayed over at Royale Chulan Damansara since Friday.
The whole rehearsal and preparation lasted till around 12am.

 Taken with Jo's wide angle phone lens.

Sister woke up at 6am to get ready.
Hair and make up done by the really friendly Corina (?)
Didn't learn how to spell her name.

I woke up around 7am.
Did my own make up. Panicked coz I'm not good with tying hair.
In the end my mom helped me tie my hair into a bun with the black spongy thing.

With the silly sister (who was half way curling her hair)

And with older silly sister

Ngawwwwwwww. So pretty!!!

The bride and her entourage

The Best Man. And dat smile.

One of the girls took this for me. I have no idea why the colour is like that. 

The Best Man is getting married 2 weeks later. 

The best kinda flowers. :3

 有钱花!!!
If you look closely, money!!

The wedding suit of Royale Chulan.

With 2 floors. WTF. Sorry I #jakundie

 So nice aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Vain time!

 Outfit of the night. I wore a shawl over my shoulders for the actual dinner event.

Awkward smiles FTW!!

Another OOTN with very big arm candy.

I didn't get to eat the full course dinner because... my dress was too tight. *sigh*
I had 1 mushroom, 2 prawns, 2 dessert spoonful of icecream... and that's probably it.

If you're wondering why I'm wearing a kebaya for the morning, my sister married a half-Malay-half-Chinese-full-Muslim. The KL ceremony was for the groom's side, which is why everything was so Malay style with a touch of western. There was the traditional akad nikah which involves prayers. A lot of guests think that my sister looks more like a Malay and the groom is the one who's Chinese. LOOOOOOOL.

I agree. 

Dinner was more towards western style so I get to wear a gown. So sad that I didn't get to take a picture of my sister in her dinner dress, because she had a really long veil (which I was in-charge of holding, like Pippa for Kate Middleton) and the dress was gorgeous.

Photo taken by Jian the arm candy 

You can estimate how long the veil actually was. I was blocked by the Best Man fml. Everyone was photobombed by the photographer. Kinda. 

My sister is my height and was wearing 4.5inch heels. She still looks like Bilbo standing next to Gandalf coz the husband is more than 190cm. Best Man looks the slightest bit like he was riverdancing. FHL.

"Here comes the bride and groom. Let's dance".

Not everything went as planned, but if you zoomed out, it was magical.

Asked around and apparently no one had a picture of the bride and her full gown. Everyone was too excited I guess lol. Will wait for the official photos to come out. I may or may not update when it does. My mom probably has a picture but it would take her forever to upload it. =X

Best Man gave a very nice speech with a pun win in the end. Well played man, well played.

After the dinner, I stood at the door and waved and shaked hands and smiled at the guests who were leaving like I was the bride wtf. Of course the bride and groom were there too. After all that smiling, I swear my face was numb for awhile.

Then people actually queued up to take pictures on the beautifully decorated stage with the bride and groom.

#likeCelebrities

It was tiring and I woke up feeling like I've ran a marathon. I did stand in 4 inch new heels for at least half the day. The entire process was nerve-wrecking, I kid you not. I was wearing a strapless long gown and had to walk up steps while holding my sister's veil. The entire time before that I was so scared that I would step on my own dress and give a free show, step on my sister's veil, step on her dress, accidentally kick the flowers decorating the runway and hit someone, forgetting to smile, forgetting any minor detail while I was up on stage with the couple. I did step on my dress, let the veil go, get on the runway properly, and chased after the veil to get it back lol. But now that I looked back, I was sweating the small stuff. All eyes are on the happy couple and whatever I did was actually not obvious. XD

It was definitely a whole new experience, and I loved it.

So, here's to a great start to a happy marriage to my dear sister who I have a love-hate relationship with, and the cheeky brother-in-law. May you, Syazwan take good care of her, or I will hunt you down. #Promise. =D

That's what J_Fish has to say~ Au Revoir~

Easy, A

It's a play of words with the movie title Easy A, you know, with Emma Stone in it. (LOVE IT, LOVE HER).

"A" here is a man whom I've known for a few years now, but rarely had the chance (or need) to talk to, until very recently. Ok, let's call him MISTER A, out of respect. (Or as the oh-so-me would put it, Mr A).

(Had to pause writing and finish my lives in Candy Crush because I'm easily distracted. FMAttentionSpan.)

So, back to Mr A. He is someone who has a lot of life knowledge that he is always ready to share, BUT he always could twist those lessons back towards himself in the end and make it work for him. I'm just going to share some of that here.

(Had to pause writing and tried to learn "The Way You Look Tonight" on the uku. FMAP 2. Hopefully there's no 3.)

1. People only have 30 thousand days on earth, no more, no less. (No idea how he explains those people who die young) No matter if you're happy or sad, 30k will be 30 k. (Live it well).
2. We use our first 10 thousand days to learn, the second 10k days to use what we learned, and the last 10k days to reap what we sowed.
3. That's why we have to learn as much as we can. Don't wait till working hours to learn (about work related stuff), even weekends should be fully used for learning (work related stuff).
4. We have to keep pushing ourselves, keep learning. Make full use of our lives.
5. When the 30k days are up, make sure that you can say that you have lived a good life. Make sure you won't regret because you did nothing your entire life.

Here's what he actually means: OT FYL. (Even though the work concerned is not urgent) Wait, what life, life is for people who are in their final 10k days.

Well, if you're thinking that I'm a lazy person, I do learn after working hours, just that I would like to learn something that's unrelated to work. It might or might not help me earn a lot of money, but I'm sure I would be happier than to spend my entire 20k days ONLY doing work related stuff. If the work is urgent and it's my responsibility to finish it, then I would OT. But I finish my work very fast so that never needed to happen. If it's not urgent, why would I need to OT? I plan my time well enough to avoid that.

Not everyone wants to be a millionair you know. Some of us are just content with having a simple life.

I'm not saying I don't want to learn about work, but if it's about filling myself with knowledge, it might as well get in line.

ALSO, I would like to be more focused if it's learning about work. I've been learning to be a translator and copywriter, and now I'm doing something entirely different. If it's about learning, I think I should more or less master something before moving on, if not I would feel that all my life I've never accomplished something and just gave up half way through. How else would I be able to answer myself when the 30k days is up?

We all have our own way of life, so I didn't answer back, out of respect, out of fear, because I don't want to step on toes. Some of his life lessons are worth pennies.

The lesson learned: Take the advice, decide which are the ones that you actually want to keep. Discard the rest, or write it down for the future you. Maybe you'll see things differently when you're his age. Maybe not. Discard then.

Did pause again to play games on my phone, chat on FB, and blanked out awhile so FMAP 3, 4 and 5. Not too bad.

That's what J_Fish has to say~ Au Revoir~

One post to cover them all- January

This is probably the first time that I coughed for a little more than 4 weeks and spent RM290 on one month for medical fees. Yay. Good start to a new year, and I'm not being sarcastic. If you start your year feeling utterly terrible with a uber manly voice, I guess the rest of the year would just keep getting better!!

So we start with counting down to the new year.

As I mentioned in this post about the final days of 2013,

long story short, I went counting down with my parents.

A nice meal at the cafe at Penang International Airport.

Gotten hair extensions and started painting my nails again.

I used to be have the most beautiful nails among my friend in uni. *cough*

Because not a lot of people do their nails there. lol.

Win without competing. =X

My "laced" nails

It took almost double the time I used to take,
and double redo because my hand is shakier now.

Went bike riding at Shah Alam Agricultural Park.
There are 2 types of bicycles.
The older ones cost RM5 for the first hour and RM1 for every subsequent hours.
The newer mountain bikes cost RM10 for the first hours and RM1 for every subsequent hours.

Th entrance fee is RM3 just to enter the park.
You can choose to jog, walk around, ride a bike, or go to Skytrex.
There are shuttle buses going around if you get tired of walking.

After all the sweating and butt ache, we went to celebrate the old man's birthday in advance.

Happy birthday Mr Yat!!

I had a mini camwhore session because I wanted to test out my look for the company dinner.
The theme was Shanghai Night.

The look for the actual night.

Added a pearl necklace and a furry shawl.

My hair from the back.

Plus one of the night.

I won the Best Dressed Award. =D
A big big thank you to everyone who voted for me!!
Too bad I had a very manly voice because of the cough and couldn't perform.

First ang pao of the year is from the company.

This is how I say "f*ck this sh*t" to eating healthy.

And I found this plaque which I can't agree more with.

*sighs*

And the last day of the month=
the first day of CNY!!

Posted a picture with my dad and a pic with my 2 sisters on Instagram
and it was clear who my friends prefer to see.
LOL

Too bad I didn't take pic with my mom yesterday. =(

It was a good month despite the downside.
I felt so much love from the gang of friends.
You know who you are.

That's what J_Fish has to say ~ Au Revoir~

Getting ready for Shanghai Night

Hi.

I've been sick for almost 2 weeks, and not continuously. 

I was sick for 1 full week, recovered for about 3 days, and fell sick for another 1 week. 

Been to the doctor twice and spent almost RM150, took 12 types of meds in total,

and I'm finally slowly recovering. 

For the second time.

There were nights when I coughed myself awake wtf.

I have no idea how it got so bad since I went to the doctor the next day I fell sick.

The upside of being sick: lost weight

The downside of being sick: (other than the obvious suffering): Boobs got smaller.

Sigh.

The downside of being sick when you don't stay with family: you drive yourself to the doctor, and cook your own non-instant food. 

So instead of a 3 day long weekend like everyone else, I had 4 days, because I was on MC on Thursday.

But trust me, it wasn't a good weekend. 

I had to avoid all oily food and cold drinks, which is basically 99% of outside food.

I avoided going out because the aircond in the car made my cough worse.

I still did went out though.

Out with my sister on Friday because she wanted to try out wedding dresses.

Yes, my sister dearest is getting married. 

Sisters are always godzillas. 

I argue with my sisters all the time, more with my older sister than with younger sister because of the age difference.

My sister is 3 years older and younger sister is 6 years younger.

So obviously I spent more time with the older sisterzilla growing up.

The thing is, we might argue like we're going to tear each other's faces off,

but after maybe 10 minutes, we'll be talking like normal.

I don't know if boys do that too.

I'm basically quite the "bff" with my younger sister because we don't have much time to hate each other lol.

I even wear her clothes and pretend to be same age as her. =X

Pretend young.

Anyways,

after being stuck at home for almost the whole weekend,

I've decided that I'm wasting too much time doing nothing.

I'm not sick enough to do nothing; not healthy enough to do anything life-changing/ useful,

so I decided to try out some make up and hair do for my coming company dinner.

The theme?

Shanghai Night.

I loathe the idea.

Who would like the idea of having dinner in a cheongsam?

And there's "Best Dressed" competition.

After all the food,

everyone is going to look like pregnant ladies squeezing into cheongsams that might hurt their babies.

Anyway, since the theme is set, I might as well go with the flow.

I already have a cheongsam.

So the deal was to get the props and look more 1920's Shanghai lady/ call girl, depending on my hair and make up.

I tried to go with the lady look of course. 

With a fan.

I bought the fan when I was in Bangkok.

It was terribly sunny that day, and we were walking a lot, so I bought it from a stall for 20baht. 

Made my nose straighter. I actually have a slight bump on the nose from this angle. 

I have brown eyeshadow to line the crease of my eyes, 

black gel liner from Kiss Me, 

false lashes from Sasa, 

lipstick in Red (10) from Bobby Brown. 

With blusher too, but it's not really visible. 

Contoured the nose with brown eyeshadow. 

Honestly, don't waste extra money to get bronzer/ contouring powder if you're just going to contour your nose. 

Find a shade of brown eyeshadow that doesn't look too fake for the nose "shadow".

I also edited my nose in all the pictures. My nose and face are not that small/ sharp/ straight in real life.

Lady enough?

 Played with the light. 

I like this pic.

I posted a black and white version of this on instagram

And this is the full size and coloured one.

I'm still trying very hard to make my extensions look "normal".

They are real hair, just not mine.

Since my own hair is very, very straight, the extensions look a little off because they're wavy.

The only way to make them "blend" is second day hair, and a curler.  

Stay tuned for the full version of the look, since dinner is this Friday.

Hopefully I can find those long pearl necklaces somewhere.

Should I tie my hair up into a bun? Or is this wavy look ok? Tell me!! Please? 

That's what J_Fish has to say~ Au Revoir~

p.s. All pictures edited. As usual.