Live, like there's not tomorrow

I've finally chosen the road I know I'd be happier.
Yes, there'd been sadness and a tinge of can't-bear-to..
But I know this will be a better choice for me, for the kids, and for the planners.

Like in Buddha's words - Nothing is Permanent.
When it's time for all of us to leave, we can't take anything with us, and we will just leave behind a legacy (infamous or not).

Materialistically, I'm trying to curb my impulsive buyings (so ironic when it's GSS now).
So rightfully, giving up this job will not make a HUGE difference to my spending power.
I have wayyyyyyy too many stuff in my cupboard, some of which have been forgotten.
I love all of my shoes and mascaras but I realised, I haven't been using them at all. =(

Kids are innocent, and pretty much angelic, no matter how naughty they are.
I love my kids, especially the Saturday class ones, and I know it's very irresponsible and unfair to them that I have to leave.
But I'd rather leave earlier than to develop a bond with them - that will definitely make everything worst.
I want them to be in the hands of someone better than me, teaching and imparting them skills I weren't able to give them.
To all 7 of them, I dunno how am I to break the news to them, and to their parents.
They may not remember who am I when time passes, but those 7 of them will always be the famous 7 in my heart.
They are after all, my first class =)
As for the other 2 classes, I feel bad too.
Firstly, not being able to teach them well after their previous teacher left.
I wanted so badly to train them up, or to push them to absorb more than the other teacher could give.
But it backfired and they are starting to miss their previous teacher.
I'm sorry to 6/7 of them, not because I couldn't teach them anymore, but because I failed to teach them what they didn't learn previously.

To that special mentor, thank you for your time and efforts for always keeping me in mind.
I've disappointed you much and I guess the only thing to do now is to show you that I can do it for my Grade 5 exam.
Thank you.

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Now that I'm done with this chapter in life, I really hope to put down everything and move on.
I've more stuff up in my mind, and I really hope that the collaboration with Ade will work out.
What's up on my palatte now:
- Collaboration with Ade (Beginning to love what I'll be doing for her)
- Collaboration with Di (I'm super duper excited!)
- More freelance stuff coming (and I'm really hoping for more)
- Brand new resume and cover letter
- DottedLoft (Need to update more stuff in there)
- Traveling (I'm super looking forward to Taiwan, Japan!, Korea)
- Exercising on every Tuesdays and Thursdays (Mondays will be my rest days)
- Meet ups with the different cliques of friends (Yes, to 3 wonderful cliques)
- Housing matters (I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed that HDB will approve our application and give us a house in Costa Ris)
- The BIG Wedding (Planning should be starting soon once the dates are here)

"Celebrations" had started as of last week, and other than sleeping more soundly than ever, I've been meeting up with friends.

Started with tennis with bestie = 2 loves with 1 outing.
First time playing tennis, and I thought it was fun and totally exhausting.
I still have burnt marks on my shoulders but it was worthy.

I spent my weekend with my lovely niece.
She likes "momo" and City Square had this Sesame Street performance over the weekends, so my family decided to bring her there.
Yes, "momo" is the red furry thing called Elmo.
She's soooooooo cute when she goes "momo" and she loves to shake like how cookie monster shake at the mention of the word - cookie.
Damn cute. =)

After that, I headed down to the city to meet up with my ex colleagues.
We had gorgeous pork knuckles frm Brotzeit and after which, we walked further down to Loof for a chillout session.
It's been extremely long...... since we met, and it was literally 2 years since we last met up with Keith.
Tsk, that busy guy has been flying in and out of Singapore and couldn't meet due to clashes of our free time.
It was the best we've ever had - Food, drinks, company.
And I was a happy girl by the end of the night.

Oh yes, this is my lunch today!
Braised Pork Rice (or lu rou fan) from this Taiwanese restaurant in Raffles City.
Very, very yummy!

Salted Chicken (or yan shu ji) which was equally yummy and made me quite happy.
But do not try their noodles cos it's quite bad and I had quite a bad time finishing them.

And finally, another photo which makes me smile everytime I see it.

It's Rikimaru, with the bear farm, on the bf's bed.

This is basically what I'm keeping myself busy with and I hope that all these will make me a happier person. =)

Beauty Review: Canmake Cream Cheek

This is the blusher I'm using currently, and I thought I should do some sharing of this great product here.
As introduced on the website, the Canmake Cream Cheek blusher creates a complexion that exudes health from deep within your skin, like a fountain of happiness.
It blends in with your skin as though melting into it, ensuring that your complexion stays looking dewy-fresh for hours on end.
It has a melting gel-type formulation that becomes dry after application, and it is extremely versatile.
Just a layer to create a natural look, and adding further layers to intensify your looks.

This is how you should layer it, according to the website:

Ball of your finger and dot the color onto your cheeks, as though pressing a stamp onto a piece of paper.

Gently stroke the color to blend it on your cheeks, as though joining up the dots.
Viola! A pair of very natural blended cheeks.

What I like about this blusher is that it is very natural and it has a variety of shades in giving you various options for different types of looks.
I'm quite impressed with the texture as well - very pigmented and it glides over your skin effortlessly.
The Cream Cheek range has about 10 colours, including 2 limited edition colours - Pinky Rose and Sweet Orange.
Some other colours includes:

Peach Dream - A delicate pink like a fairy. For an innocent look.

Cherry Pink - A cute pink that will make your cheeks look slightly flushed. For an angelic expression.

Sweet Apricot - An apricot orange that will give you the impression of a cute, free girl. Increase your impishness.

Coral Orange - A coral orange that will make others want to brush their cheeks against yours, make you want to touch it. You will share little happiness when you smile like a princess

All descriptions and swatches are from their website.

I've gotten the Pinky Rose, and it suits my skintone very naturally.
I'm soooooo tempted to head back to Watsons, John Little or BHG to get the other limited colour - Sweet Orange as well as Sweet Apricot, Coral Orange and Peach Dream.
All colours can still be found at the above mentioned places, while stocks last, so do not hesitate and pop by to swatch the colours now!

Lesson in Life

Didn't want to share my personal issues here but this whole situation has gotten me thinking about life.
What about it, or rather what is life?

I've had people telling me life is all about doing this and that.
Looking back, I can proudly say that I've never wasted a day in my life.
I maybe resting and taking the back seat on days, but I'm very sure those are the days which I've overworked and I just wanted ME time.
ME time is very important, it's like you can do and put others above your needs everyday but doing so will just make you feel like it's just not you.
ME time for me, is just doing simple things, or things I'd take forgranted, like:

Taking a walk along the beach, alone, or it will be great if I bring a dog along.

Watching television, catching up on shows I've been missing out on, under the covers or when I'm feeling good, in the arms of my boy.

Running, or jogging along the beach with just my music.

Reading the papers, or a good book by Haruki Murakami.
Something I haven't been doing for ages.

Baking, in particular, cookies and cheesecakes.

Those are some of my long lost past times which existed when there weren't iPhones or technology.

A friend once told me, "Money is never enough for everyone, and you should appreciate health cos that is, and always will be your richest asset".
That made me realise that I haven't been taking very good care of my health, both mentally and physically.
I wanted to chase dollar notes, in hope that they will be able to fill me up with materialistic wishes, which are also black holes developed mentally.
After shopping and buying so much from the past months, buying fatigue sets in, and I realised that I have so many things in excess which I just store away and not see them ever since.
They are left forgotten but I'd ask myself "what will happen if I didn't get these at first?"
Am I working much more than my body can handle, just to offset the money I spent on excessive buying?
And with this, I must set my thoughts right:

I'm not a slave to money but I will make money a slave to me. =)

When I'm done with this issue, I hope that I'll change for the better cos:

And hopefully, I'll continue my wanderlust adventures cos I know, I belong to the world.
Cheers =)

Lesson in Life

Didn't want to share my personal issues here but this whole situation has gotten me thinking about life.
What about it, or rather what is life?

I've had people telling me life is all about doing this and that.
Looking back, I can proudly say that I've never wasted a day in my life.
I maybe resting and taking the back seat on days, but I'm very sure those are the days which I've overworked and I just wanted ME time.
ME time is very important, it's like you can do and put others above your needs everyday but doing so will just make you feel like it's just not you.
ME time for me, is just doing simple things, or things I'd take forgranted, like:

Taking a walk along the beach, alone, or it will be great if I bring a dog along.

Watching television, catching up on shows I've been missing out on, under the covers or when I'm feeling good, in the arms of my boy.

Running, or jogging along the beach with just my music.

Reading the papers, or a good book by Haruki Murakami.
Something I haven't been doing for ages.

Baking, in particular, cookies and cheesecakes.

Those are some of my long lost past times which existed when there weren't iPhones or technology.

A friend once told me, "Money is never enough for everyone, and you should appreciate health cos that is, and always will be your richest asset".
That made me realise that I haven't been taking very good care of my health, both mentally and physically.
I wanted to chase dollar notes, in hope that they will be able to fill me up with materialistic wishes, which are also black holes developed mentally.
After shopping and buying so much from the past months, buying fatigue sets in, and I realised that I have so many things in excess which I just store away and not see them ever since.
They are left forgotten but I'd ask myself "what will happen if I didn't get these at first?"
Am I working much more than my body can handle, just to offset the money I spent on excessive buying?
And with this, I must set my thoughts right:

I'm not a slave to money but I will make money a slave to me. =)

When I'm done with this issue, I hope that I'll change for the better cos:

And hopefully, I'll continue my wanderlust adventures cos I know, I belong to the world.
Cheers =)

LOTD with Looklet - 4

Haven't been doing the look of the day for sometime.

Here's 1 I just did while starting my day - Bleak Monday:

Almost something I wore today, but I love the Tommy Hilfiger blazer.

Something which made me smile today =)

Just like the above mentioned title, here's something which made me smile:

It's something done up by the people from Google, in remembrance of the illustrator of Mr Men and Little Miss - Charles Roger Hargreaves.
More info of this illustrator here.
Images can be found here.
My guess is that it can be found on Google's main page for the rest of the day.

Here are bigger shots of 3 of my favourites:

Have a great Monday ahead =)

Beauty Review: ZA True White Foundation

Happened to walk by Watsons when I saw that they were having 20% off storewide, and thus I went in to have a look.
Popped by the cosmetics counters and I saw this awesome offer for the new ZA True White 2-Way Foundation.
I was complaining about the lack of coverage from my BB creams (it's always good to change your foundations every now and then so that it isn't used to it, haha!).
Having previously use the old True White Foundation, I decided to give this a try.

I've picked up the darkest shade available - 32, and happily brought it home to test.
It was slightly scented and the powder was extremely fine.
As I prefer to sweep the powder over using the dry method, it settled down very nicely on my face, covering every single pore and bump/redness.
In fact, it was very much better than the previous one.

Then came the next day when I was walking home, Watsons was having some clearance sale at the mall, and I picked up the concealer perfection!

It was quite timely as I had finished using the pale shade on my Sephora concealer palette, and it was quite a brilliant match for the newly acquired foundation.

So today I tried to be a ZA girl by having 75% of my face made up with ZA cosmetics.
After layering on the Clarins' Pore Minimiser, I had set a surface of sunblock/primer.
First up: Concealer Perfection

This little tube works very well in covering my heavy eyebags, but somehow, could not really touch up the redness.
But I didn't really want to go too heavy on it, cos I know the True White Foundation will work some miracles for me.
I've googled for some tips from the ZA Website on how to put on the Concealer Perfection perfectly.
And like what the tiny prints always say, never to slap on alot of concealer cos (in my opinion), will cake up and make everything very unnatural.
So just an appropriate amount of the concealer will do, and after that you are supposed to gradiate it.

Next, I'll use a dry sponge and pat some foundation on.

I have showed here the image of using wet sponge application.
Never tried it though.
I will normally try to stroke the puff upwards cos it do help in firming my face.
If you stroke/pat it downwards, your face may not look too radiant, or in fact, in long term, it may sag! *gasps*
Anyways, just try to do light strokes upwards, towards the ears area.
After doing an even layer, I'd take a little foundation and apply on my lips.
Yes, you've heard me right, lips.
This is a proven method to keep the lipstick/lipstain/lipgloss on.
I would also take it as a "dry-sunblocking" method for my lips when I do not have the intention of just applying spf-lipbalm.
After that, I will apply my all-time favourite product from ZA:

Yup, it's the Plumper Lips in Rose Vintage.
I was totally sold when I first saw the swatches at Watsons (yes, it's like my favourite drugstore).
Rose Vintage is an extremely nice colour.
Very nude-ish and suits my skin tone as well.
What I love best is that it is very moisturising and not sticky at all.
It has this "fill-up collagen" which replenishes the lips with rich moisture while "plump-up pearl", with its light-diffusing effect, makes the lips look incredibly moisturised, plump and smooth.
This description is from the website and I can find no better description than that.

I have also showed here, the image of how to plump up your lips every more (for party nights/dates).

With this, stay tuned for more posts on other beauty reviews, even other looks with me using drugstore brands =)