happy lunar new year….

Baking is therapeutic :)

Good for the soul, but bad for the back! My back is breaking now!

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secret fear

It is amazing how time just flies past us. We are into the second week of February, and i don’t know where January went to. This also means that the clock is ticking….and am another month closer to turning 30. I am actually afraid…. very afraid of spending the last few moments of the twenties, as I realise how much time I have wasted… and how much more I want to do.

Have been having thoughts of re-evaluating my options. A sudden desire to drop everything and focus on what  makes me happy. Easier said than done…. but ain’t life about choices?

courage for the new year

Yes, courage is what i ask for in 2010. 2009 flew right past me… and looking back now, I hardly had the time to stop and reflect on the year’s happenings.

In many ways, 2009 marked the start of many things in my life… like UrbanNook…..increased (& still growing) responsibility  @ work….. sudden realisation that I am turning 30 this year & yet have so much I have yet to experience…… most importantly, it’s a start of a long journey to get my first-born. And, this last bit is what i need the  most courage for.

Writing this in itself takes a bit of courage.

I found out months ago that I need help in getting pregnant. Although i always suspected i would have problems… i brushed it aside. I guess what i needed was just for someone professional to tell me so. But, truth always hurts yah? It does, and that’s why I kept it from everyone. In actual fact… i am dying to talk to people… dying to seek solace in people who understand the journey I am on… as the disappointment  kills me every month. Being on the pills is bad enough, giving side effects of pimples and all…. yet all these while, I don’t know how to explain or tell anyone about it when they ask.

It’s not going to be an easy route ahead, as the next step is to check if my tubes are blocked. I hate to know wha’s the outcome, as either way…. i know there will be almost daily visits to the gynae… and frequent injections that’s going to burn a hole in out pockets.

Hence, all I want for the new year is courage to oust the fear.

komart.sg

I have recently switched from being a huge fan of almost everything bodyshop to today… a true blue korean skincare addict. Love skinfood to bits, but always found their stuff a little overpriced… so i would only purchase their products “in moderation”.

This… is not until I found www.komart.sg.

Komart sells a range of korean beauty products of different brands. Skinfood, The Face Shop, innisfree, Missha etc…. at fraction of the price u find at the outlets. And…. when they have their regular promotions, prices are as low as 50% off the price  we know.

Used them once, and got my colleagues hooked! Service was prompt and staff were friendly. Website was user-friendly too… although i stumbled upon a mini bug… which was fixed quite quickly. Anyway… while they obviously don’t have the full range of products from each brand, like what you see @ the retailers… what they do have are the popular ones…. which we use so often. So… all in all…. this site is God-sent! :)

Well…. just in case some of you are wondering why I changed my skincare preference…. there is nothing wrong with Bodyshop! I still have my favourites like the African Salt Scrub, my tea tree bleamish stick, tea-tree body wash….and of coz… I always loved my facials @ GreenSanctury – BodyShop….still love, always will love . So…. nothing wrong at all… i just wanted a change….

my first run

Yup… took part in my first ever “mass” run this morning. Well, I signed up for the 5km… not the 10km one, but i thought it is a really good start.

Running in an event like this was not as easy as i thought especially when some people were really there just to have a fun morning out. Hence for those who really wanted to test their speed and endurance would find this course slightly hard to go by. I found myself having to slow down now and then to maneuver past those who were strolling. Perhaps there should have been a rule where those walking should keep to the left and leave the path ahead clear for those who wanted to run. Well.. other than this, I thoroughly enjoyed the jog. Did not stop to walk at any point. and it helps a great deal to have someone to pace you. So, thanks to my colleague SW. I think I managed to finish 5km in about 45min… not ideal, but to me… someone who’s really never managed to complete her 2.4 in school… this is an amazing achievement. :) 

The other thing that made my day was seeing a sea of SCGS girls in bright, running the route with us, and apparently they send in the most students for the GE year on year. The atmosphere the girls created brought back memories of younger days…. and also made me proud… once again to be an scgs girl…:

a recent favourite

Just finished 2 other twdrama series.

Started with “A Game about Love”… led by Joe Chen and Sam Wang Shao Wei, and got quite impressed with Sam Wang. For those who don’t know who this guy is…. he makes up part of the idol group 5566, and also 183 Club. While he has been in the industry for a long time now, never took a second look…. and never thought much of him since his other group members always seem to outshine him. But, since watching this series… felt that he is charming in his own ways….and talented in many other ways…. dance lah, act lah, sing lah…. and now is an entrepreneur.

Hence… I went on to watch “ The Prince who turned into a Frog” , and once again feel that Sam Wang may just be one of the not so fortunate ones to be the lead in everything he does…. and almost always play second fiddle to his group.

But still…. my favourite for now…although a bit late…. (move aside Jay Chou, Wang Lee Hom and JJ Lin!!!!!! hahaa!)--- I can see B2 rolling her eyes now!

I am going to watch every other dramas he has acted in! Whhheeeeeeeeeeeee………!! Turning into a couchie soon!

Something to share on Sam Wang and Joe Chen...

what’s your purpose in life?

Someone asked me this question sometime ago. While it seems like a really simple question, but when you spend some time thinking about it, the answer ain’t that straight forward after all.

When was the last time you asked someone or yourself that question?  I, in all honesty, cannot tell you offhand what’s my purpose in life. But what I do know is, I have things I want to do , things I want to achieve in my life. But those does not necessarily constitute to the purpose for my being here, right?

Well… i think when someone does not have a goal in life, it makes them hard for others to understand… Not that it matters at all to me…. but it just makes me wonder how anyone at all can live their life absolutely not knowing what they are living for? Ermm… I sound cryptic? Yeah I do…

Just a random thought while waiting for a meeting…. I hope I haven’t started anyone thinking now…. haha!

a new toy?

** tapping fingers on the table ** Been thinking of getting a brand new camera… the point & shoot kind… that gives us a manual option, with very close macros… yet not quite a DSLR. While DSLR is my ultimate dream… I don’t think I am quite there yet in terms of my photography skills. :) The new camera really is for urbannook… (haha… my excuse to get myself a new toy more like it!)

Some options…

Nikon Coolpix L100

Would love the P90… but i think it’s a bit too costly for my wimps and fancy…. hence thought the L100 fits the bill perfectly….

Sony Cyber-shot H20

A similar sony model to the nikon l100. Slightly more expensive, while i feel some specs are not as good as the l100.

Canon Powershot SX120

  LALALALA… Smaller and lighter… this one?

Hmmmm…… *taps fingers*

a new past time

During one of those saturday nights when Hubz had his frens over for mahjong, i decided to rummage through BIL’s taiwan drama collection. Here I mean the idol kind… with good looking lead male and female artiste. Not those long winded soap operas like 爱 that airs every weekend.

Anyway… i did that just to past time on a lonely sat night, while working on some pieces of jewellery for urbannook.

I started on “Why Why Love” (換換愛)… A romantic comedy about a girl, Tong Jia Di,  burdened with work to pay off her family’s debts… yet needs more to life than that. Hence, her best friend sneaks in a “Love” coupon into Jia Di's raffle box with the hope that a lucky guy will draw it become Jia Di’s prince. As it so happens, Huo Yan, the compassionate manager Jia Di has secret crush on, is the lucky guy who she affections calls 第10个男生. But, tho' the prince can exchange the coupon for Cinderella's love, it doesn't mean he will, especially when his devilish younger brother is determined to exchange his “Master/Angel” coupon for her servitude.

In the first part of the series, viewers are left to guess who will be the one who walks tru life with Jia Di. As with the saying goes…. “男人不坏女人不爱”, we should have expected that Jia Di would end up with Huo Yan’s brother, Huo Da. Before there can be a happy ending, the lovers have to go through a test which finds Huo Da at the brink of death.

I was hooked on this series, and now have gone to look for more series to follow. New past time means more to look forward after each hard working day! Bring on the chips and coke!

I wonder why I never got hooked onto K-dramas after numerous times of trying…. hmmm……