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My first time.

2012-01-10T20:52:00.001+08:00

HELLO.

This is the first blog post for 2012. :)

My working desk. Taken during lunch break. :) very clean right? Hahahhaa

Alright, I am currently blogging using my itouch so that's it for now.

Bye bye :)

Mini Polaroid Wall Calendar

2011-12-30T22:30:00.000+08:00

Hello.

Two more days to New Year 2012. Are yo excited for it? Are you READY for a new year? I think I am...... HAHAHAH Anyways, let's get back to the main focus of this post.

Yup, as stated on the picture above.

Mini Project : Mini Polaroid Wall Calendar

Yesterday, I was browsing through Google for "ways to arrange and decorate polaroid pictures". A picture attracts me so I click it to see the enlarge image and this is what I found.

Interesting, isn't it?

So I read up more about it and the procedures to make it.

-reading-

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It's really easy to make it. Instax polaroid camera is not needed.

So I started searching for pictures of numbers from 1 to 31 and letters to represent the days. After gathering all the pictures, I did some editing like resize, combination, colours, etc. So I combined six individuals pictures into one 4R sized pictures.

Sample photo:

This is how the 4R photo looks like

The whole searching and editing process took me about 2.5hours to 3hours to finish. Very tiring. T_T

This afternoon, I brought the 4R edits to the shop to get it develop. After developing, cut the 4R photo into small mini polaroids.

A total of 42 pieces of mini polaroids

As what I have read from somewhere regarding the procedures, they used Fotoclips to clip the photo together but I can't find fotoclips here so I used blu-tack. Placed blu-tack behind the polaroids, then I arrange them on a whiteboard instead of my room.

- Sticking of blu-tack and arranging them onto the board took me about an hour to finish.

The outcome of my work:

What do you think? NICE? So-so?

I think it comes out to be what I expected so I think it's nice. LOVE it!!!

After making the wall calendar, I re-arrange the pictures that used to be decorate at the middle of the whiteboard to the other places nicely so that there is more room for other new pictures that will be coming soon in which I am still sorting out and editing them. Just stay tune for it then. HEHEH!!!

Alright, that's the end of my post.

Ciao-ciao.

Christmas Song - Chapter 3

2011-12-25T14:14:00.000+08:00

Hello.

The Christmas song that I missed on the Christmas Day. Here you go.
Sorry for the very very very very LATE upload. >_< SORRY!!!!

Christmas Song of the day:

Santa Claus is coming to town

This version is sang by Glee Cast

Enjoy!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Annyeong.

Christmas song - Chapter 2

2011-12-24T09:35:00.000+08:00

Hello.

It's Christmas Eve today. Going to have special dinner tonight?? Turkey? Hahahaha

A day to Christmas Day. Excited excited can't wait for Santa to slot present into my stocking tonight. =D

Here comes again, the song session.

Christmas Song of the day:

Santa U Are the One

A very cheerful and happy song sang by Super Junior which is being recorded in there SMTOWN Winter Album 2011. Enjoy~

Super Junior

Lyrics:

You've come around to every child in the world

Always in time you're never late every year

How does it feel to work

Everyone's off

No one help you

How do you reach your soul, it's for sure, no one does it better

Christmas is finally here

It's time to celebrate

'Coz you make a better world year after year

Soon you'll be on your way

Spreading joy everywhere

There's no one like you

Santa you are the one

You creep through the chimneys at night, that's right

And you always know who has been naughty or nice

How does it feel to work

Everyone's off

No one to help you

How do you reach your smile

It's for sure

No one does it better

Christmas is finally here

It's time to celebrate

'Coz you make a better world year after year

Soon you'll be on your way

spreading joy everywhere

There's no one like you

Santa you are the one

Thank you Santa, thank you

You are the one

Go Go Santa go go

You are the one

Thank you Santa, thank you

You are the one

Go go Santa go go

I hope you enjoy this song

It's a gift from everyone

Thank you for all that you have done

Christmas is finally here
It's time to celebrate
'Coz you make a better world year after year
Soon you'll be on your way
spreading joy everywhere
There's no one like you
Santa you are the one
You are the one

Santa you are the one
You are the one

You are the one

I said you are the one....

Annyeong.

Christmas song - Chapter 1

2011-12-23T09:28:00.003+08:00

Hello.

Christmas is coming. How many days left? How many?
YES YES... you are right, 2 more days left.

Oh well, I just wanted to share Christmas song this three days (today, tomorrow and on Christmas day itself). Hope you guys enjoy.

Have a Merry Merry Christmas!

Now, let's see what song I will introduce today. =D

Christmas Song of the day:

All I Want for Christmas Is You

A very popular song that will be played every year during Christmas season.

Justin Bieber duet with Mariah Carey

Lyrics:

I don't want a lot of present for Christmas

There is just one thing I need

and I don't care about the presents

Underneath the Christmas tree

I don't need to hang my stocking

there upon the fireplace

Santa Claus won't make me happy

with a toy on a Christmas Day

I just want you for my own

More than you ever know

Make my wish comes true

All I want for Christmas is you

Oh I won't ask much for this Christmas

I won't even wish for snow

And I'm just gonna keep on waiting

Underneath the mistletoe

I won't make a list and send it

To the North for Saint Nick

I won't even stay awake yo

Hear those magic reindeer click

Cause I just want you here tonight

Holding on to you so tight

What more can I do?

Cause baby all I want for Christmas is you

YOU

Oh the lights are shining

So brightly everywhere

And the sound of children's

Laughter fills the air

And everyone is singing

I hear those sleigh bells ringing

Santa won't you bring me the one I really need?

Won't you please bring my baby to me?

Oh I don't want a lot for Christmas

This is all I'm asking for

I just want to see my baby

Standing right outside my door

Oh I just want you for my own

More than you could ever know

Make my wish come true

Baby all I want for Christmas is

You baby

Annyeong.

메리 크리스마스

2011-12-23T00:12:00.000+08:00

Hello.

I am back. Finally there is something for me to blog and share.
**P/s: This will be a photo-post instead of wordy post... so will let the picture do the talking. Hopefully you can hear them =P

Had an advance Christmas dinner with my friends last night (21st December 2011) at Buccaneer Western Restaurant. The theme colour for this year's Christmas dinner was blue and white.

So that's my outfit for the night.

Blue tops (which looks more like indigo instead)

White high-waist skirt with pink belt

Blue handbag (no picture)

Baby blue coloured wedge (no picture)

Got myself all ready by 6.10pm and waited for Krys to pick me up at 6.30pm.

Our table for 21 person. Don't you think it looks like a meeting/ conference table!!! HAHAHAH

Right at the very end of our table a few steps away, there is a huge Christmas tree. Pretty ain't it? Nice view from the position where I took this picture =D

Check out the Christmas decoration in the restaurant.

Snowmen in the snow village

on the other end of our table(opposite direction to the Christmas tree)

Mini Santa Claus hanging upside down on the ceilings.e

The above pictures tell you what I did when I first arrived at the restaurant while waiting for the others to arrive. As usual, waiting always took up to about half an hour. When "almost" everyone arrived, we started ordering for food.

..... ordering.......

.... waited for our food..... some of us were getting very very GRUMPY!!! because we were very HUNGRY....

~~*banging the table and shouting : " WE WANT FOOD! WE WANT FOOD!"*~~

Hahaha actually..... we didn't do that.

..... waiting.....

Finally, the food came slowly, one by one, and here's my dinner....

Yummy right? It is.

After dinner, we had the "Secret Santa" session which is actually the gift exchange session. Exchanging gift by lucky draw method.

Here's the lucky draw box that I prepared....

.....which contains paper that had everyone's name written on it.

This is the group photo of the pressie that we prepared for the "Secret Santa" Session.

This was the present I prepared and it was first exposed in instagram last week.

The caption goes like this :

" I am ready for Xmas dinner next week. let's see who is the lucky one to receive my pressie"

and last night Eric T. was chosen from the lucky draw so he got my pressie. =D

After exchanging gifts, we all sat infront of our pressie, counted to three and we opened the pressie together.

Lastly, I took pictures with some of my friends.

with the girls, few girls missing, no photo taken with them T_T.

with the boys, missed out a few I forgot to take with them O_O

and the one with Weilun, his eyes got cut out by the polaroid framing, looks weird so I didn't post it up.

After that, we had a group photo together, am not going to post the group photo up here because some of them might not want it to shown here. =)

Alright lastly, gonna end with the last picture of the post.

Mini polaroid X the special christmas card that I prepared for everyone who attended last night.

Hope you guys like it and really sorry to some of them (you know who you are), I should give you something else instead of the one you had now. VERY VERY SORRY!!!

Very very last now,

Thanks for coming. Hope you guys enjoyed and

MERRY CHRISTMAS

HAPPY HOLIDAY

Annyeong.

Just a photo [1]

2011-12-16T10:45:00.001+08:00

Hello.

Didn't update my blog since the last post. Today, I have nothing to blog about as well just post a photo will do. :)

P.S trying to blog using my iPod apps wanna see how the outcome would be....

Adios. Have a great day!!

Hanamas Tour

2011-12-08T18:23:00.000+08:00

Hello

Wednesday (7th December 2011) night was an awesome night with amazing show performed by the Japanese duo, Hanamas.

Addition information, Hanamas comes from the combination of their last name.

Chie Hanawa and Natsumi Okimasu

From left to right: Natsumi Okimasu and Chie Hanawa

Sorry for the blurry pictures. >_<

-I zoomed in because I was sitting kinda far from the stage.

-My camera is old already cannot compare with those latest digital camera or DSLR. At least there are pictures than no picture HAHAHAH

The Hanamas duo, Natsumi Okimasu (left) and Chie Hanawa (right) interviewing the guitarist, Taiichiro Shirahama and the percussionist, Shigehito Kawamura

The leaflet and tickets.

Before the Hanamas performance, the show started with the speech by the Ambassador of Japan and the speech of Guest of Honour. After the speeches, the real performance began with the solo performance by Chie Hanawa, the Tsugaru Shamisen player. The sound produced by the Tsugaru Shamisen was awesome, it made me feels like I am sitting in some kind of Ancient Asian restaurant enjoying my cup of tea. HAHAHAH Most of the performance was the collaboration of the Tsugaru Shamisen, Violin, Guitar and Percussion. The collaboration was amazing.

That night, they performed a total of 14 songs (if I am not mistaken) - modern music and traditional Japanese music. The show lasted for about an hour plus. Awesome stuffs always ended very fast >_< but at least I enjoyed my night. =D Hopefully I get to watch Hanamas Show again in the future.

Gotta end here.

Adios.

Going Red

2011-12-06T20:11:00.001+08:00

Hello.

YES, I had gone red..... I mean MY HAIR gone red not me. HAHAHAHA!!! But then the red wasn't that bright as I expected. Not much colour came out hopefully after a few more times of washing, the colour will eventually come out and it's the one that I want la. =D

The first time I dyed my hair was last year around end of December, using LIESE and the colour I chose was Dark Chocolate. As for this time, I tried another brand and colour, which is REVLON Colorsilk Luminista 150 Red.

Will let the pictures tell you the outcome then.

Revlon Colorsilk Luminista 150 Red

The content of the box

- instructions

-gloves

- aftercolor conditioner

-the colour developer

-the colour liquid

My hair colour before dye. black with a bit of brown at the end of the hair.

That's the remaining Liese dark chocolate from last year =D

After dye:

The end of my hair are redder than the top part of my hair.

with flash. The red colour can be seen quite nice.

without flash. Natural lighting. A bit of colour but overall seems black.

Erm... comparing Liese and Revlon.

Liese are much easy to apply because Liese is known to be the bubble hair dye. You apply the dye to your hair just the way you apply shampoo when you shower. The colour is much evenly spread, the outcome was pretty nice but they have limited colours.

Revlon, normal hair semi-dye, time consuming and you hardly know if you have apply the dye to the whole head. They have lots of colours to choose from.

Alright will see how it goes after a few days or a few weeks. =D Hopefully I am satisfied with the colour.

Adios.

Bowling

2011-12-03T20:24:00.001+08:00

Hello.

This afternoon I drove SiewJuan to the ABC Centre to play bowling at the meantime to surprise Peilin. It's her birthday today so Era planned to bring her to bowling without letting her know that SiewJuan and I were going as well. So they left KB around 1 something while SJ and I went around 2pm, slightly later then them. Our mission COMPLETED because she was surprised when we were there. =D

Bowling centre was fully booked because there were tournament going on. Luckily Era and PL went earlier so they got a lane and we just continue one more game after the first round. It was my first time playing bowling in Brunei. I missed the disco-like.... glow-in-the-dark bowling centre in Toronto.

Anyway, after bowling, went DQ for ice cream then to Jolibee for double cheese. HAHAHA After Jolibee, we drove back to KB because it started to again.

Our score for the 2nd round. Only Era, me and SiewJuan played.

PL and Era's little bro didn't play for the second round.

Gonna end here now.

Adios.

Little Hangouts

2011-12-02T12:06:00.001+08:00

Hello.

I went out almost everyday for the past two days so I am going to combine the outing in one post as the "Little Hangout". Er not much picture was taken >_< but at least there is something, will take more pictures in the future (hopefully) HAHAHAH

30th November 2011

Went to the "arcade-bowling-cinema" Centre which I called it the ABC Centre in afternoon to catch a movie and spend some time hanging around at the arcade. We watched Puss in the Boots. The characters in the movie are cute, especially the cat that goes "ooohhhh" all the time. After movie, we went arcade, the games available there considered to be the latest ones compared to those in the other arcades. I didn't play much just one game at the basketball machine. One game consists of 2 rounds, I started to feel exhausted in the second round. No idea why I get tired so fast but I just it's because I tiptoed.. too short >_< HAHAHA

Liyana and I at ABC Centre.

After ABC Centre, we drove to Seria Town for Jolibee. I ordered double cheese and the S3 set meal that consists of a soft drinks and Pita sandwich. Then we left Seria around 5 something. Watching sunset, beautiful clouds pattern and nice colour mixture in the sky while on our way driving back to KB.

Ice Lemon Tea

Double Cheese

Pita Sandwich

At Jolibee while everyone was lining up and making their orders

Thanks for those who came that day, it was an awesome hangout. For those who didn't make it, it's okay, we will have more hangouts or events coming up next. See you guys next time the. =D Happy holidays!

As for that night, I went back to ABC Centre again with Yin, Peng, Steph, Karwen, and Jody. They went for bowling. After bowling, we came back to KB for tea but I didn't sit down and had tea with them because I rushed back home to settle something for my uncle.

Exhausted day but I enjoyed myself. Even it's exhausting but I stayed up till 2am just for Troublemaker. HAHAHA putting their songs in repeat mode and kept waiting for the full music video to release but it released at 1pm on the 1st of Dec. >_<

1st December 2011

Went Chua's crib at night for a last minute gathering. It's a potluck dinner plus movie. Not many people turned up at first for the dinner, but slowly a few people came while we were watching movie after the dinner.

Food for the night:

Meatballs brought by Krys

Baked Macaroni brought by Silvian

Butter Chocolate Cake brought by Siaw Wee

Fried Meehoon Special cooked by Chua's mummy

There are few more dishes I forgot to take pictures >_< :

Mango Pudding brought by me
Sweet and Sour Chicken brought by Benny
Pepperoni Pizza brought by Jona
Ice cream and softdrinks by Chinghow, Huiting and Peilin

After dinner, we watched Despicable Me. Although some of us watched it already but we still watched it. =D Around 10pm, I left Chua's crib with Ting and PeiLin.

That's all for the little hangouts on that two days, I guess more events are coming up next.

That's it. Adios.

Brand New...

2011-11-25T13:41:00.001+08:00

Hello.

I am back to blogging at the same blog link but with slight changes (template, banner, the archives). I did a small cleaning in the blog archives last week, deleted almost all the post I had published since I first started blogging but some interesting ones were saved as draft. I am not going to republish them because I want to start over my blog again with more up-to-date posts.

So...

ARE YOU READY FOR THE BRAND NEW BLOG?

Alright not just blog had changes, I did myself did some transformation too. Yesterday (24th November 2011), I had my last A-level exam paper int he morning. After exam, returned all my books for that two years of A-level to my respective subjects teacher.

After school, rushed back home to take my shower and pack my stuff. Then headed out to have lunch with my friends at Buccaneer Western Restaurant. I ordered Beef Carbonara (set lunch) which comes with a glass of soft drinks, seafood creamy soup as the starter and cheesecake as dessert. Right after lunch, I went to saloon to change a new hairstyle.The new hairstyle took about two hours to be done because I cut short and I did a bit of perming (a bit of wavy).

At night, went to Viv's house to celebrate her birthday.

Pictures below (pictures of my new haircut) were taken this morning. It wasn't as curly as yesterday, it's a bit straighter now.

That's it for now.