Beauty : My first lipstick

When I was a little girl, always dream that I can be an artist. When I saw a pen just grab it and start drawing on the plain paper. So, mum notice that I got this talent and send to art drawing class. Also went to few drawing competition. By the time come to secondary school, I told my mother and brother that I want to be an artist/draughtsman/painter. But, they always told me that artist can’t make big money… you will be famous only when you pass away..bla bla bla.. So after brainwashed by them, I canceled the plan.

Somehow I realize that never stop me to playing with my make-up cosmetics..Holding the lipsticks, cosmetics brush is like holding paint brush and color pencil… The only difference is you draw on skin or drawing paper. Well, I think my very first lipstick is Maybelline watershine in Ginger, it is coral peach and the color is very nice. Back to college time, cosmetics from Maybelline is the most pocket friendly and affordable for college student /teenagers. I remember that I also purchased a L’OReal long lasting lipstick..but wasn’t last and it ‘s too dry for my lips. Today, I still feel that I don’t like those kind of fragrance in L’oreal lipsticks. Ohya! Personally I felt that Rimmel is the worst one, in term of the smell.

I think I have few of lipsticks. In term of the scent, MAC consider not bad. While, scentless type I will go for Kanebo and Clinique also not bad. Not a lipstick type of person. I ‘m still very prefer lip gloss, so my lips won’t feel so dry. But nowadays with new technology, lipstick texture can achieve as moisture/glossy as lip gloss. I have one Clinique moisture surge lipstick in first love. The finishing texture is similar to gloss.

For Mac, they have wide range of finishes texture available in their store (e.g. Amplified Crème, Lustre, Frost, Amplified, Glaze, satin, Matte, Crème sheen). The pricing wise, consider quite reasonable, about 65MYR .Kanebo’s lipsticks, the quality is not bad. However price for a lipstick is cost a bomb. In Japan, T’estimo and Coffret D’or from Kanebo it’s just a high-end range of drugstore brand. Two finishes available : Glow or Color. Obviously, one is more glossy and transparent. Another color is more pigment. Normally it cost over 80MYR here. But sometimes if you’re lucky enough, they having promotion you can get 40% less or buy one get one free for old range of products. Well, be careful and you might need to take a look on the expired date/ mfg date.

As I mentioned, I’m not lipstick type of person. So above review just mention few brands that I used before. When comes along with the lip gloss topics, I got alot to share with you. Yup, maybe next time. ^-^

After the Tsunami...

After the big Tsunami hit the small little land....time to recover...

So, after the business closure for the company.It is end of the story for 'High Performance' life. People like us found a job at different companies.Yeah, right. Have to think positively.

Currently work with a company which is located far away from my hometown. It took about 1hr and 05 minutes flight over to this Island, the place where my boyfriend from. I start a brand new chapter in my life. Away from my parents and little sister. Sometimes I'm quite missing my family, but for work and experience different life style or enviroment is an advanture.

This is the fourth week over here. These few weeks I have made alot of thinking...good and bad, all come together. One thing I realized is that I did learn alot of technical stuff from the first company which I only worked for about 8-9months, especially those technical knowledge that I had gain. Whereas for the the second company 2yrs, I learnt people management and stay calm.

The week before last week, I went for business trip. This round, is China-Dongguan. Haha, can say it is full of "surprise"! My luggage bag has been open and the locked was broken twice. Once in the Hotel, where i stayed and another is happened in the Airport. I don't know, should I say lucky or unlucky?? My stuff in the luggage bag, nothing is missing; but the lock of the bag has been damanged twice. Perhaps I should go for the temple and pray before I go for next trip?

I'll update some pictures when I update my blog next time...

Beauty: April freebies from Clinique

Muahaha :D Forgot to tell you that yesterday I also went to Clinique counter to get the freegift neh!

Free Moisture Surge Extended Thirst Relief ,7ml

Yeah! So happy when I received the postcard and to collect the free gift.

At this economy crisis period... grab your freebies and save your pocket. LOL!

Oh ya, they also owed me the samples for mascara 1.7g and Turnaround concentrate 7ml free gift. So, I made a call and ask them and confirm with then only go there to get it. In the website stated something.. hehe so they suppose to give me these. *blek* :p

So all together I have these 3 item from Clinique (April'09):

Beauty: Shu Uemura workshop + Haul

I bought Shu Uemura products last month and they're having promotion set and the Pink Collection. If I'm not mistake, purchased with MYR250 (inclusive pink collection items), free three pieces skincare in travel size and one section make-up or skincare workshop.

Here's the item that I've purchased:

• Blusher, M30
  
• Shu empty pact
  
• Shu Beta-G recharging night cream
• Eyeshadow, M beige 820
• Precise length mascara
  
• Vinyl unlimited, CL 000
  
• Gloss unlimited, PK 315N
• Shu make-up case

Well, I didn't receive my freebies on the spot as the SA says that the gift is not yet arriave and the make-up workshop is 1-1 and need to make appointment for this. I have collected my free gift about 2 weeks ago as the SA called me to collect it. I'm rather disappointed when I receive the free gift, because it is very small! As you can see the mouse i holding is much more bigger then the pink cleansing oil.

• Deepsea moisture replenishing lotion (toner)
• High performance balancing cleansing oil fresh
• Deepsea moisture replenishing emulsion

As for the workshop, I have choose to have make-up workshop which I just attended yesterday. I also get myself a single color eyeshadow yesterday. This is the color the beauty stylist pick and wear on my eye as highlight during the workshop. It is white matte texture. Look very natural and I bought myself one of this.

Eyeshadow M white 900

This picture taken at home, after the 1-1 makeup workshop. Ohya, I dye my hair few days ago.Look darker right? Is very deep brown close to black color, look decent and healthy. Not so yellowish as the previous one.

Beauty: MAC 'IN MODE' beauty workshop

After all the stress and bad thing happened in office. Let's get back to my beauty topic..I attended a beauty workshop held by MAC, I would say it is pretty long time ago.

Workshop: MAC 'IN MODE'
Date: 25th JUNE 2008
Time: 11 am
Location: Persada Convention Centre

Ops.. eventually changed to Pan Pacific Hotel. I'm the early bird, first section of this workshop even at 11am. I would say it is good to be the 1st section, because the brushes and tools and even the make-up products we use is totally brand new. Ya, i think is more hygiene.

The beauty instructor who gave the talk, can't deny that she gave very good introduction on the products and and keep emphasize how good is this and that. She a Malay and from JB too, but work with MAC in KL. Haha sorry, can't remember her name.

In this work shop, they provided notes, paper, pencil and MAC handbook. Also, they give away door gift at the end of the event... The door gift is small samples are :
1) Fast response eye cream , 3ml
2) Strobe cream , 6ml

Okay, let me show you some pictures..

Here is the place where the beauty instructor give the talk and demonstration:

The beauty class for us, complete tools and beauty products:

After the event, all of us busying taking pictures..

Myself, with make-up..done by myself

The beauty instructor. I have no idea why my face look so pale. Maybe is the light reflection and the quality of the hand phone camera:

My notes, handbook, pencil and ticket for Mac In Mode:

Mac In Mode, Look # 1: Artsy

Mac In Mode, Look # 2: De-Vine

Mac In Mode, Look # 3: Glamodrama

Mac In Mode, Look # 4:Honed

Mac In Mode, Look # 5: Seventease

My door gift (Fast response eye & Strobe cream):

Work: Business Closure

Part1:
message from snr VP...

".....Today, we notified a number of xxx WW Ops employees that they would be impacted by a reduction in workforce plan. These notifications came after careful consideration of business performance and the go forward requirements to run our business. These actions are very difficult, but necessary, given the conditions in the market. ...."
=> In short, "Retrenchment". *Bang*! take the gun and kill all of us.

"...Throughout this reduction process, I’d like us all to treat those impacted with the respect they deserve, acknowledging the contributions they’ve made to our business. Please note, for some countries, the WFR announcements will be delayed until country laws allow completion. ..."
=> what the *duh*, please don't say something nice just to make yourself sleep better at night!

Well, seriously we don't like this guy from top top management and caused so many people jobless.Due to the business strategy, this week the top management come to our office and made official announcement on business closure for the office & operation over here.

I want to thanks them, because I received my FY09 birthday present from them. The effective date of the WFR is x-June-09.Should I say "Damn"? or "Thank"?

Part2:
>>we found something funny and a true story..perhaps this you tube video can describe the feelings of the victims. They modified the subtitle of the movie...click play and read the subtitles, and you will know what happened.

Beauty: Budget Beauty Buy

Hi everyone! As you know that economy is bad now and a lot of the people lost their job. Sigh, I have to think twice when shopping , as I'm not sure that I might be the one of them, jobless soon?? Well, it does not stop me to buying beauty items, haha my hobby!! Just I have to spend wisely, need to compare the prices (yup, I'm specialize in..... haha, once you know what kind of job I'm working), and I will wait for discount then only grab it, I mean buy it...

This weekend, I got myself a magazine - one of the source to update myself on the latest beauty and fashion trends!. Normally, I will purchase Japanese magazines or Chinese magazine - (Japanese translated into Chinese), because I love to read about latest Japanese beauty products.

Over here in M'sia, There's not much book store selling Japanese mag. My boyfriend will get me Jp mag in Kinokuniya when we're in S'pore. It is consider expensive when you convert SGD to MYR. Ohya, the magazine I just bought is 'Mina', Malaysia edition. Last time they used to have Taiwan and HongKong version only and they just launching M'sia ed this year. I'm so happy! coz can get the latest mag of the month and pay lesser (is about Rm9 for west M'sia). Okay, let me show you few pictures on the cover and beauty contents.

Here's the cover of 'Mina' - April 2009:

Beauty updates on the new liquid foundations:

New powder foundations:

Make-up base:

Loose powders/ powder pact:

Make-up Tutorial (for Eyebrow):

Okay, I'm gonna stop here, just highlight few pages on the beauty products and make-up tutorial. There's also have the fashion section that teach you how to mix and match your cloth/dress/shoes.

Finally, let me share with you what I bought on this weekend...ta-dah~!

1. Eyelash curler
==> This is to curler is smaller, designed the lower/inner lashes or maybe when you're wearing your false lashes?

2. Magic sticker for hair?
==> Haha I have no idea how to named it. Basically is to hold your hair and avoid to fall down when you're make-up. After you remove it, won't left a unwanted curve on your hair.

3. Rimmel eyeliner (Two-tine eye definer, color: #003)
==> This seem like very convenient, because 2in1 consist of black and white color. Black use as upper eyeliner while white color for lower inner eye.

4. Majolica Majorca Nail color (#PK104)
==> It is a pink-red nail color and contain a lot of glitters. make your nails blink blink ;)

5. Dual Fibre Cheek Brush (Glow)
==> Look similar to the MAC brush, but cheaper. The bristle is made by synthetic/Goat mix. This is my second pcs. I would says that this brush is multi-purpose, can use it for liquid foundation or blusher. I intend to use one for blusher/face powder and this new one use it for liquid foundation.

Okay, finished.! All these items are inexpensive. I get it from drugstores/market.

Food : Cakes...yummy!

My grandpa turn 80 yrs old this year and we just had a big celebrate with him two weeks ago.
Dad is the organizer for grandpa birthday celebration, we had a great dinner in a Chinese restaurant, good number 8 dishes for that night.

Of course, invited relatives and family friends for this event. Total eleven tables fully seated with all of them. Frankly speaking, there's a lot of people and I don't think that I know all of them..
Too bad, I'm busying eating and got no chance to take the pictures of the foods. Haha, but still manage to take the picture of my grandpa birthday cake :)

Left picture : The cake look very nice. I'm not sure is my aunt baked the cake or they ordered from bakery. But that night my aunt prepared a lot of "Pau"/ "Shou Tao 壽桃" pau and red eggs. (I'm sorry, only able use HanYuPingYing, as I haven't install the language tools to type Chinese words.Phew, lucky that I'm still manage to google the words and copy paste here)

Did you notice that the cake in a shape of chinese words "壽"? haha.. ya, you're right.





Today, my colleague- Ali he is so nice treat us a cake and this cake is baked by his wife. According to him, his wife got take order home made cake for birthday cakes and wedding cakes.

Haha, today he bring us the sample to try out and advertizing to us.

Right Picture: The cake indeed look very nice and girlish. Romantic-nia.. haha, pink roses on top. Looks like wedding cakes or for valentine's day.

* p/s: Please don't order from me, I'm not the person who selling the cakes :p

Work: Group Photo

Here is the group photo taken when WK last day. Just happen to got the chance take group photos before WK left. She is my junior in University, and seriously I never met her before in campus. Just got to know she is from same Uni when she just joined the company. Now, she left and work in new company at her hometown.

So taking this opportunity we take department pic and also take picture will colleagues from other pictures. It is not a big office, mainly because here is a small operation support S'pore operation & some mfg over here. The headcount is about 50-60 or less.

Left picture
1.) LW, BP, Esther, WH, Lau, Ayup, WK, Zairi, me, Ali, Anna

2.) ya, this square box is my work place.

3.) Neo, Wk, AC, Esther, Anna

4.) WK, BP, KS, Mandy

Work: messy change

As we know the economy is bad for now. A lot of the companies are collapsed and some of them are still struggling.

The worse thing is some of the companies are earning money and have revenues but they’re still having retrenchment, pay cut, cut employee benefits. Cut here and there…. Perhaps they just follow the trend of retrenchment.Trend??? and also they take this opportunities to earn more.

Well, I also not sure how are we going to survive.We knew that internal will going have a messy change in my department. It doesn't look good for us. Sometimes, I'm pretty worry and let's think very negetively and prepare for the worst. Everyone in the office already do not have the mood to work and start packing their stuff.. ya, no kidding man.. sigh..Let's wait and see how. Work and wait for the official annoucement.

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Hey,this lady decided to move from one town to another small town.



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Notice that the old blog is not that user-friendly and pretty laggy. So decided to make a move.

Perhaps will save my time and blog more frequently.