Sunday, November 30, 2008
Instead of passively trying to save and simultaneously actively spending like there's no tomorrow, I've been researching online a couple of banks that offer monthly savings accounts that automatically transfer a specific amount of money each month from the account that the employer banks in the salary. It forces me to save plus it also helps me to keep track of my savings. It's easy to lose track of my expenditure although I have been religiously entering my daily expenditure. However, I've noticed that gradually I'm just entering my expenditures for the sake of doing so and there's still no control over the outflow of money. Psychologically it's easy for one to feel rich when looking at the lump sum in the account when withdrawing. Therefore, this method of saving would be the best. The interest rate is higher, given on a monthly basis and is based on how much money is deposited every month, i.e. there's flexibility. In addition, expenditure can also be curbed because I wouldn't touch the money in there. Only the remaining amount in the basic POSB account is allowed to be to be withdrawn.
It's different from a fixed account because I still have accessing to my own money in times of emergency and there's no tenure period (for a bank like DBS) although there is a 24 month tenure for OCBC so there'll be some kind of a penalty in the case of OCBC if there's early withdrawal @_@.
Serendipity believed today at 4:41 AM
Saturday, November 29, 2008
I found out yesterday how easily available picture books on Christmas are from the library. Browsing at a shelf could get me 1 or 2 books just like that. Phew... finally settled that for the low- budget Xmas Party for the kids. Hope they will enjoy it though since there were those in certain committees who put in a lot of effort in thinking up activities. Come to think of it, I've never been to a Christmas party when I was little. I remember that my bro's friend once had an extra ticket and the mum generously asked my bro to go. Instead his friend's younger bro didn't get to go! Wahaha.... I was so so envious then coz he could play games at the community centre and brought back goodies with him too. I had to try to persuade him to give me some, which he did, although unwillingly :D
I still feel that I was overprotected when I was a child. However, would I have done as well then if I wasn't so sheltered? During the previous primary school gathering, a friend remarked that I was so guai1 and would never hang out after school to play at the playground. That got me thinking and I guess she was right. Just surprised that she remembered. She lived at the block opposite mine and from what I could recall, she didn't hang around either *puzzled* She was one of the top in PSLE by the way.
However, I could remember vividly that I did a naughty thing once. An enrichment programme on Phonics was cancelled and instead of going home, I went with my friends to a playground behind the school. We played blind mice. Haha... I felt so guilty after that for hiding it from my parents who never found out about it too.
Primary school days were kind of fun and it was sort of an easy part of my education life. I took things for granted because I didn't have any real difficulties in my school work, just that I started to dislike Chinese as I moved on to upper primary and had to have tuition in Primary 6. The tutor being the eldest brother of one of my bro's friends. Found him quite cocky. He sounded apppalled when he found out I didn't know how to use the strokes of Chinese characters to search the dictionary (school didn't teach us either!). I felt so small then and kind of ashamed of myself. Come to think of it, I didn't have to feel that way right? Since my mum's msian (she can speak but cannot write Chinese words) and my dad is English educated. Didn't feel that he really helped me much. In fact, he would ask me to do assessment books while he was here and whenever he had to go to the toilet, I would sneak a peek at the answers at the back of the book and wrote them on my thigh or memorise the MCQ answers. I was smart enough not to quickly copy down all the answers rightaway or he would have found it strange why I could do everything so quickly! Wahahaha!!! Cunning right?
If I could copy answers when doing assessment books and still get an "A" for my PSLE, doesn't it prove that it wasn't him or the tuition that actually helped me? Buwahaha... Even for my "O" levels, my Maths tutor advised me not to retake after getting a B3. He pointed out that having merit for oral might be the reason for getting B3 and oral couldn't be taken again too. My determination made me decide to go for it again. This time sure that I could memorise all the Chinese words and their meanings better. I got A2 in the end and he had to swallow his words.
This personal Maths tutor is someone I will never forget. He never failed to encourage me and his words always made so much sense. Unfortunately, I have lost his contact number. It would be good to be able to meet up.
Serendipity believed today at 12:47 PM
It's so tragic to hear from the news at 10pm that the Singaporean hostage held in Mumbai had been killed. Only 28 years old, just older by merely 3 years and had to suffer immense fear even up to the moment of her death. Plus dying in a foreign land (which she's only supposed to be at for 1 night) all alone.
Terrorists are causing so much trouble all these years that I believe many people are sick and tired of the shit that they are stirring up in various parts of the world. Holy war? My foot. People killing people just to try to get their message across. Nothing can be more dumb than that. What are these people trying to prove anyway? Killing without logic at all. If their target was initially the westerners, how did this Sporean fit in? Even the Thais don't hurt tourists in their protests no matter how unhappy they are. That I guess deserves some form of respect. In a way. Tourists there are allowed in leave the country in whatever way they want to.
I think the world should end man. I think the chapter on Revelation in the Bible should come true like... now? This place is insane. People are so sinful that even if there's such a thing as a next life, their suffering then wouldn't be able to pay back these senseless killings. But if it's heaven and hell we are talking about, no prizes for guessing which route will be taken. Bon voyage~~
Holy war? Holy shit more like it.
Serendipity believed today at 2:25 AM
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Just returned from my trip to the doc. for laser treatment for my face again. It's kind of a blessing in the sense that I actually expected the charges to be a lot higher but then for a private clinic at Paragon, it's just $100 more ex. than the National Skin Centre which is gov.- controlled. Plus, I just have to make an appointment a few days in advance that's it. Unlike the skin centre, MONTHS in advance. More importantly, the numbing cream used was stronger so I felt no pain when he burnt my skin, just the usual gross charred smell of burnt skin/flesh. That's why it's such a pleasant surprise :) In the meantime, I can only wait and see if his skills are ok. If it is, I don't think I ever wanna go back to the National Skin Centre anymore. The doc I initially went to was the one at Mt. Eliza. but he told me he couldn't do laser and he referred me to this doc. at Paragon. Good thing the one at Mt. E. didn't charge for consultation :D
Just gave Fluffy a couple of pieces of chicken flavoured twistees which by right I shouldn't since dogs shldn't eat salted stuff. But just to reward him lah.. He's so easily contented. Cherishing each piece like it's something expensive. Bringing each piece to his own room to devour and then coming back to my room for more, looking at me with pitiful eyes, hoping to try his luck again. But I shan't be so mean. That's all for him for today. :D
Serendipity believed today at 6:58 PM
Sunday, November 23, 2008
It's 23 Nov already! I've been going out for this and that, running personal errands, blah blah. Yet hardly have the time to go out to exercise. I really ought to go on a diet before my Taiwan trip before I balloon to dunno how many kg come next year. Many meetups and potential meetups so I'm trying to combine them instead. Then I wouldn't have to go out almost everyday, not that I don't enjoy meeting up and catching up with friends lah haha.
City of Ember is a really nice show. It tells of a population of humans who live underground and that has been going on for 200 years. However, they did not explain right at the beginning why there was such an arrangement to have people living underground. Just the sentence, "For the good of mankind." That's it. I assume that they don't want that population to be corrupted in their thinking or something (or maybe it was an elaborate experiment). However, I'm not sure if anything happened to the actual human population on the surface. There's a special box which holds an important key in allowing the people below to come up to the surface through a complicated and hidden route. The box has been passed down from generation to generation for 200 years (a timer was set right at the beginning). People below have been living happily and contented all the while until one day the generator started to fail. Remember they cannot get sunlight right at the bottom (it's really deep deep deep down below). In fact, they don't even know what's sun or sky. Lights in Ember started to flicker and 2 young people started to investigate on their own. These protagonists were the ones who emerged to the top and they were in awe when they saw their first sunrise. Actually when they emerged to the top, it was night and so they mistakenly thought everywhere was the same since it's also dark at the top after all (yes, they were that naive, having live below all their lives). They probably thought the sunrise was some sort of light caused by a special generator too haha... Many people thought that beyond their city, there's nothing but darkness, which no knowledge whatsoever of the actual world above them.
Kind of a thought provoking show so I'll consider it as 3.5 to 4 stars material. :D
Serendipity believed today at 2:28 PM
Friday, November 21, 2008
I'm finally done with the pile of clothes that I have accumulated for the past month or more on my chair. In a bid to make my room appear (keyword: appear - so may not necessarily be really the case) less cluttered, I've managed to clear them within about 3 days. 3 days because I need to leave a couple of bamboos for mum to wash their clothes and because it hasn't been very sunny these days so clothes tend to take a longer time to dry and they don't smell as nice. It sucks when you look at the opposite block and you see sunshine but the sunlight doesn't shine so strongly in this direction "-_- Haha.. but it's fair~ Coz when sunlight shines directly at a block, that place is going to be hotter too and heat gets tranferred into the home. So there are pros and cons lah. Therefore when buying a flat, it's important to enquire about the orientation (the direction at which the sun is shining at different times of the day).
Yesterday was a long long day out. I didn't feel that tired when I went swimming on Tue, yoga on Wed, as compared to yesterday. After my last lesson for the term, I went to Concorde to collect my prize, I dropped by Great World City nearby (ok 2 bus stops away). There wasn't anything to see so I headed for Orchard although it's still early. Since there's no longer any shuttle bus service from Great World to Orchard (the buses still do pass by Orchard though just that not allowed to stop or something), I got to take a bus to Orchard whereby I window shopped a little and went to Starbucks at Centrepoint to sit again while waiting for my cousin to finish work at the school (I found out from her it cost her $9 something from Selegie to Orchard. I thought very near?!) to meet me for the Bodyshop private sale. She's borrowed the pass from her friend through me and after going to the sale, I had to go back to Jurong East to meet her friend to return the pass so that her friend can go to the sale today (told you it's been a busy day). Very good buys with discount of up to 75%. I've discovered a body lotion with an uplifting scent. Lemon & Lime scent! It's not yucky unlike those body lotions that smell sweet like the strawberry flavour (strawberry flavour has nice scent but because it smells so sweet, when slathering on the arms and legs, one will feel sticky psychologically haha). Lemon & Lime has a citrus smell which can perk me up.
I found out something about myself through the sale. I tend to go for citrus scent when it comes to lotions and scrubs. I bought a mandarin orange scented scrubs that contains essential oil. I also love the DKNY perfume that I won the last time because of the citrus smell too. Maybe subconsciously I love the smell of detergent that's why I can happily wash clothes but not sweep the floor.
Serendipity believed today at 2:21 PM
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Just last week, a few people of us who were discussing nothing in particular at Swensen's (we always seem to have meetings at such places). Along came the topic about exercising and slimming down (it was brought up coz someone in the group was getting married). Somehow it was agreed unanimously that swimming doesn't help in losing weight because it builds muscles instead and people don't sweat.
Actually I don't agree. Being in the water doesn't mean perspiration doesn't take place. Also, swimming doesn't mean having to build up muscles unless you are swimming to break Tao Li's record or something. Noticed that only National swimmers have muscles? Whenever I go to the pool, people who can swim well (even females) don't have the frightening incredible hulk muscles. So it's really a myth.
Today's the first yoga session. Hot yoga (room had heater creating an environment with human body temperature). I tell you, I've never sweat so much for such a long time. Just within 45min. Sweat was DRIPPING ok? Not just trickling but dripping. It's great! Refreshing too :D It would have been better if I had been able bend more like others but since there's a metal attached to my spine, I didn't wanna exert too much pressure. I was given a free 7-day pass by the customer representative, which was quite unexpected coz it's meant to be just a trial for me, the guest. However, it's unlikely that I will be able to make many trips down. Nevertheless, today's experience was quite an enjoyable one.
Serendipity believed today at 10:07 PM
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Everytime I will forget how relaxing it is to be in the swimming pool. Even remaining at a spot and feeling the water around is so relaxing.
Refreshed my memory just now. Haven't been swimming for a long long time. I've always been lazy to go there, get changed and after swimming, got to bathe and wash the chlorine thoroughly from my long hair (long so even more troublesome). However, the feeling was just great after the short swim just now :D
Serendipity believed today at 10:04 PM
I realized how fast prices of fast food is increasing. At LJS, in primary school (about pri 6), the supposedly cheapest choice (2 pc chicken) cost $2.90 but now it's $4.50, with the chicken pieces getting smaller too. Inflation sure is working hard. It may sound ok that within 14 years, it's increased by $1.60 but note that the rate at which the price is increasing is also increasing! Soon, it may not be that affordable to eat fast food anymore.
It's not just fast food that is getting more expensive. Even food at the foodcourt is costly too. If you're lucky, you can get noodles for $3. However, most will cost $3.50 and a canned drink maybe $1.40. So my lunch at Westmall foodcourt last week set me back by $4.90. So it's best to just bring plain water out hahaha....
If people are still being paid $5/hr for working temp. at an office (which was what I was getting after my "A" levels), a meal will cost you 1 hour of work. It's like working 1 hour just to pay for a meal. That is terribly sad.
The other day mum was telling me that banks used to pay really good bonuses and that's why people who work at banks in the past tend to be quite rich unlike now whereby bonuses can be quite pathetic. I can only conclude that we are born at the wrong time. Born at a time whereby the world faces crisis after crisis. Born at a time whereby people no longer care about anything anymore. That said, I guess we are still fortunate that we do not have to go through the horrors of the Japanese Occupation. Also, these days children are also more fortunate since their parents are more educated and hence more well-to-do. Luxuries like holidays, computers and enrichment lessons are showered upon them from a young age, as young as lower primary.
Perhaps ultimately, God is fair to all generations. People in the past were less educated so not many held high- paying jobs, much less could afford luxuries. However, these people did not have to worry about being retrenched too. They were content so long as they could afford to put food on the table. People these days are paid a lot more. Graduates earning more than what their parents could ever dream of earning. Yet, retrenchment and higher costs of living result in everything balancing up.
However, perhaps the world is getting more chaotic also because people are getting more evil. Why do we even need nuclear bombs? Tons of money is spent on weapons of mass destruction which may never be used (hopefully will never be used) at the expense of those living in poverty. I wonder how many more generations Earth can sustain.
We can probably count with our fingers.
Serendipity believed today at 1:26 PM
Monday, November 17, 2008
I haven't been to town so early as far I as I can remember. Furthermore, it's for a meeting. That's the first. However, I thought that it would also be good if we could start early and finish early and maybe go shop (individually) for what we should be getting for the party. It's a good thing a couple of the members weren't too late since I was starting to feel irritated. So we could discuss among ourselves first. Anyway, in the first place, the purpose of having it in town was to cater to a couple of those of live in the east so there's really no excuse for latecoming. Fortunately, we managed to finish in about an hour and a half and I had the rest of the day to look see around.
One new thing I have learnt was a pinata. Pronounced as Pi-nyah-ta. Perhaps I have come across that word before but haven't actually taken noticed of it. Anyway, even the sales assistant whom I approached at Toys R Us didn't know what it was even after I have described it to him. Don't blame him though haha coz I don't think Sporeans will buy such things. At least I think so lah... Anyway, he managed to ask his supervisor. While trying to choose a design (the pinatas at The Forum Toys R Us are located near the cashier, hanging high up), a little girl also looked on and told her mum that she wanted a pinata! Wah... maybe I was the suaku one (plus the sales assistant haha). A little girl (Chinese Sporean) knew what's a pinata!!! Well, her mum said no though haha...
Hey for something that's going to be smashed, it's not cheap ok? $29.95. The cheapest was also $24 and it was smaller. But it's going to be fun for the kids at the party. Or at least I hope it's going to have a xmas party mood since we're tight on budget. "-_- Very tight.
The starbucks at Centrepoint is cozy on a weekday (dunno about weekends). It's dim and the drinking/dining area is kind of enclosed, got to go up a short flight of stairs. Such a nice place! The people there were mainly working adults, caucasians and tai-tais? No noisy and childish teens unlike Far East whereby a group of teens was shouting vulgarities and laughing loudly at LJS. Even the girls in the group were openly scolding the words related to female... tsk tsk... Wonder why they don't feel ashamed using such words when they themselves are females. Very degrading @_@.
Any other nice and cozy places to share? Places that aren't too ex. to hang out at.
Serendipity believed today at 7:00 PM
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Have been watching the French movie Amelie. I realized something. Whenever I watch a VCD or DVD at home, I can nv sit through the whole movie. I need to play then after some time, pause or stop (remembering the timing) and then go do something like surf net and then resume (many a time I don't even resume on the same day). So a movie can take days for me to complete.
Amelie is a movie that I've watched before though. I can't really remember if I watched the the first time round on a rented vcd or something. However a couple of months back when I was at IMM walking past a VCD shop that is supposedly clearing their stock. I came across this movie at $6.90 and decided to buy the VCD. Love this movie because of the little details that are included. I heart Amelie's character because of her tendency to notice little stuff like when watching a movie and the characters are kissing, she would notice an insect in the background. Hahah.. Not having the opportunity to socialise (didn't get to go to school coz of her overprotective parents) made her indulge in her own fantasies by imagining stuff in her own world. Entertaining movie!Serendipity believed today at 12:40 PM
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I finally bought a jar of Manuka honey UMF 15+. It's an investment I guess considering that it's about 10 times more expensive than normal honey from the supermarket. Yes, 10 times. The thing about Manuka honey is that it has antibacterial properties, which explains its benefits like building up the immune system, etc:
http://www.manukahoney.co.nz/startsession.cfm?language=1
Have been hearing about it from different people. From celebrities to even my tutor who swears by it. However, the lady whom I bought from advised me against dissolving in water because the effect wouldn't be as good anymore. Instead, every morning when I wake up, I am to eat a teaspoon of it by itself before I consume anything else. Just need to get used to the slightly grainy texture of the honey which is unlike the super smooth one of the usual (a lot) cheaper type.
Serendipity believed today at 10:32 PM
Monday, November 10, 2008
Ok, the paper was bad.
Never thought it was going to be easy in the first place but to have such an affirmation wasn't something pleasant. Furthermore, it lasted for 3 hours. May seem long but the paper itself required a lot of time to be completed. Many of us had to hold our bladders throughout because it's so troublesome to have to have an invigilator accompany us to the toilet. Like quite shame shame. Haha.. Even in uni it wasn't so strict. They really take things super seriously here probably coz we are going to be future invigilators too so they expect the same level of discipline and integrity.
Anyway, I don't want to think about the paper anymore. It's such a such a relief to hand it up. There's a sudden reward that given to us - freedom. Freedom that I cherish so much that I feel there is a need to guard it jealously in case it slips away again. That, I know it will but just wanna enjoy it while it lasts. Of course lessons still go on on Thursdays but 2 more sessions and that's it!
Treated myself to a facial after the paper. It's been 2 months since I last went. The hour of facial was heaven especially with the zen- like music, the dim lights and the pleasant and non-empowering scent. I felt like I could doze off anytime. The fatigue is partly due to the monthly thingie of course.
Time to pack my room! Don't know where to start though haha...
Serendipity believed today at 6:39 PM
Grrrr... so irritated that she had to go and buy the same white cupboard I bought from ikea. Of all cupboards lor... I hate it when people buy something which to me was special (white mah.. I like white furniture) and then make it common. Especially when the person has to be her.
Worst thing was, buying a cupboard and a study table with shelves required her whole kampong to join in the fun. Parents, nephew and God knows who else (I didn't leave my room) came. To think I could actually build the cupboard all by myself the last time "-_- Noisy, noisy, noisy for hours when I was trying to alternately nap and study for tmr's exam. Oh and I finally know why she talks so loudly. Coz her whole family talk loudly. To be fair, her mum seemed nice enough when I saw her during their BIG day. However, I cannot get over the fact that a mother could let her daughter stay at (then) bf's house w/o contributing.
My room is in a terrible state. It's not really fit for a human being. One of the things I am going to do after the exams is to clear and throw out stuff which I don't and/or hardly use anymore.
Salvation Army here I come!
Serendipity believed today at 6:47 PM
The credibility of a grading system is important. However, more important is that of a teacher's marking.
There's no point pacifying us by saying something infront and yet, act out differently when dealing with the people in question. Is it fair to award a person higher marks when she deliberately did not want to turn up the next day (which is the already extended deadline you offered) by using MC as an excuse and yet u accept her folio a few days after that? All of us are very busy people and yet we have to find time to juggle all our assignments. No one should have unfair advantage in terms of time and yet get rewarded for it.
Is it fair to award the highest marks to someone who submit the 5 pieces but were works not done during lesson time? No.
Is it fair to award the highest marks to someone who submitted the folio on time and yet did not follow instructions and did everything on A3 instead of A4. Hence having more space to work on? No too.
All these point to unfairness and yet what can the rest of us do?
Utterly disappointed. These only show how unprofessional you are. Yes, you may think that you are trying to inculcate positive values in them and hoping that they will also give their future students chance. But that's not the way. You were right when you said that they wouldn't be able to survive in the working world whereby all work will come in at the same time and any postponement will result in work crashing in on them sooner or later. But from the way you practice the grading system, I don't think you are actually helping matters. Since they had the cheek to not turn up the next day to submit their folios (coincidentally both were sick), they already showed that they did not respect you at all.
You once asked me if there should be any restriction in art (somehow you are always asking for my humble opinions). I replied that so long as assessment is involved, there should be. To this day, I still stick to my answer. When there is assessment, there will surely be rules to abide by. What is the point of not assessing based on the rules stipulated? Defeats the purpose of having them in the first place right? Eg: if I were to ask the class to draw a challenging- looking object and a student were to give me a fantastic piece of collage instead. Would it be fair to the rest of the struggling students if I were to grade the student based on the collage instead of marking him/ her down for not producing the work which I wanted in the first place? Would it be fair to the rest of the students if I were to extend the deadline just for the student TWICE and in the end give him/ her a higher grade without penalising for late work?
Serendipity believed today at 1:13 AM
Saturday, November 8, 2008
The deadline for emailing to MOE regarding posting to a school for practicum (which will also be the future permanent school) is drawing nearer. In fact, I only have a few more days left to do so. I've still at a loss as to what to do. Should I email to MOE and cite a reason for not wanting to return to contract school? Or do I email a school and request to join them? Either way, it's not easy at all. Reasons have to be valid and still sound professional. To email MOE, the reason must be a good enough push factor for them to consider while for the 2nd option, it must be flattering and beneficial to the school in question.
I've browsed through the website of the school at my central (won't name it online here but let's call it "C") and it seemed like a place that promotes Art a lot. In fact, they even engage outside professionals to conduct lessons for students of all levels during curriculum time. Goes to show how much the school is willing to invest in Art. Of course I can cite Art as a reason for wanting to join. This is something I am considering at the moment. However, with such good Art foundation, would there be any place for me? I'm not a super ambitious person but when it comes to something I like to do, I don't like listening to others and doing others' way 100%. Anyway, that's not a pressing issue at this point in time. They may not be in need for another teacher who does art anyway.
The difficult thing about emailing MOE is, I don't want to blame the previous school for this and that. Neither do I want to reveal too much which in the end backfires on me and gets me blacklisted (you never know what exactly the headquarters do behind...) due to my un-professionalism.
Moreover, when I email MOE, I can't specify which school I would like to go to. They already mentioned during the talk that schools in Clementi are not in need of people. A fellow coursemate made a lot of sense when she said that they might post me somewhere even further or worst still, to a school which could turn out to be worst.
I would like to say that I want to leave it in the hands of fate. But would I regret not doing something if the outcome turns out to be undesirable? Just want to start at a fresh school and not be reminded of the unhappy event that happened on my last day and who knows what exactly the VP was thinking of. I don't even know whose side she was on and things could get awkward.
Serendipity believed today at 9:56 PM
Over-usage of my lappy was probably the reason why the hard disk finally crashed. "-_- I was so lucky that I managed to save the compiled version of my partner's and my art lesson plan just before it finally crashed. It was just a matter of minutes man... Or else I would have lost the photos that I took so long to compile too.
Ever since I started working and had to bear all my expenses alone. I finally understand why parents always say that it's easy to spend but difficult to save money. Transport, food, hp bill, textbooks... all the costs for these were handled by parents when we were still studying. May not seem like alot to us then even when we were not working. However, ironically, once we start work proper, necessary expenses like these tend to eat into our earnings. Oh, and there's insurance to pay for every month too, which amounts to a few hundred. Transport cost more since we're paying adult fare and there's always increase in public transport fares too. When it comes to food, there's increase in price even at the once humble food courts. A meal can easily cost $4 there w/o a drink. Also, since we're constantly out because of long hours in school or at the office, the need to spend on more food is there, which equates to more money.
The hard disk cost me $150 plus another $10 to get an external storage system to transfer all my previous files and folders into it. A recent change of contact lens also cost me $150 but a pair can last a year. So imagine, if one were to have kids, the amount of money saved each month can easily be considered as negligible, considering that one would have to provide pocket money as well. @_@
Back to my revision again.
Looking forward to the end of my exams on Mon.
Serendipity believed today at 4:28 PM
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Busy busy weekend again~ Had to hurry to Bras Brasah before noon so that I could reach home by early afternoon to rest before attending another wedding dinner at night in town. Hopefully the batik dye can last. Doesn't seem to have a lot in a bottle and yet I didn't wanna choose the bigger bottles at Sagacity. It's fortunate that after flipping through the batik book I borrowed yesterday, I realized that the steps are pretty comprehensive with photos. Phew.. Just got to start earlier since need time to dry in between colours and after the final colour (need 12 hrs wait time). So it's not possible to do it the day before.
Decided to go and trim my hair with more layers since I'm starting to feel the weight. Patronized a shop at Clementi central. Not bad at all for a $12 haircut plus $8 (optional) for the wash. Usually when I go for trims (not often in the first place), I wouldn't go for a wash coz no point paying extra. However, I decided to pamper myself and it's a nice feeling to have someone washing and massaging the scalp too. I've never had such a long wash before. "-_- I'm not talking about the rinsing part but just the shampooing part took at least 15minutes coz of the massaging og scalp, neck and shoulders. Very wu hua leh haha... I NEED more of such massages! Hope such service is consistent.
Serendipity believed today at 5:17 PM
