National Day, Before and After

My Goddess went for dinner with the Horny Devil and their friends at one of Chinatown's market. It's the one at Smith Street with the famous Claypot Chicken Rice and Fish Head Bee Hoon one.

Saw they sat at a table and ate the Claypot Rice and some Salted Bean Fish. After they finished their food, they started discussing on a very boliao topic based on this.

The hole in the table!

My Goddess said this is meant for the umbrellas so they won't slide off the table or take up one seat. The Horny Devil insisted that there were other uses...

To place the bowl so it won't shift around!

And to place drinks!!

If it's really meant for these uses, why is there only one hole and not one for every seat?

On the eve of National Day, my Goddess and the Horny Devil woke up really early in the morning and travelled down to Mount Faber at 9am.

A sign of victory

A sign of victory II

And guess why they were so excited?

Jewel in the Box was giving away free cable ride tickets (450 in total) in celebration of National Day and they managed to get there in time to get a pair!

And they realised this also means a free entry into Sentosa!

Beautiful scenery from above

It has been a long time since my Goddess rode on the Singapore's cable car.

Upon reaching Sentosa, they realised they were not prepared and there was nothing much to do (?!)

They decided to walk around to look for a place to eat breakfast. Along the way, they found a cute poster.

This is the skydive simulator which is still under construction. The doggie looks really stylo and happy doesn't he?

After walking around for an hour, they found that there was nothing much to eat at Sentosa. There were a lot of Coffee Bean outlets there, a Subway and Delifrance store, but not very breakfast-sy.

And so they took the cable car back, tired, hot and hungry.

And had breakfast at Harbour Front's Macs then. Duh~

After breakfast, they took the train down to the Expo to visit the Harvey Norman Sale as my Goddess has been wanting to get a better camera for Paper Polly for a while already so that the pics can look better, and hopefully this can boost sales.

It's not cool to pick your nose openly!

And a more pro camera they bought. Damn ex lo!! Paper Polly better show some results to make this worth it.

And this camera is very special. It can sing!! Do you know why?

Because there's (Sean) Kingston in it! Geddit? You are my beautiful girl...

And the week after, they played around with the camera, auto-mode first, cos they haven't mastered how to use the manual mode.

It's pretty clear and the quality not bad, isn't it?

A Million Reasons why I Want to See You Gone, NOW

1. You treat this as your own home and is super buay jidong.

2. You prop your legs at the living room table like you are the owner of the house.

3. You sleep on the living room couch like this' your home.

4. You walk around the garden barefooted and back into the house, and insist it's clean. Why don't you sleep at the garden then?

5. You leave the gate open and house door unlock.

6. You dig your nose in the living room and throw your shit around.

7. You don't flush after using the toilet.

8. You don't like to bathe and hardly change your clothes and stink up the whole house.

9. You think this is your own house, and so climbed upstairs and go into my room without knocking on the door!

10. You speak so loudly and even raised your voice at the owners of the house that I can hear your rubbish from the third floor.

11. You like to meddle with other people's things, picking up and touching them.

12. You flip the papers English and Chinese and makes a mess out of it even though you are illiterate!

13. You wait for your turn to shower topless so your dirty sweaty back is on the couch.

14. You pick up other people's handphone and answers it!!

15. You don't clean up after your meals, and would have even left them in the living room if you weren't nagged at.

And the list is non exhaustive. You are just an obnoxious shit.

Weekend Randomness

Before the weekend started, my Goddess' office laptop kena virus attack because she was surfing through some blogger's site (no, she's not eating cockroach 'jia zhua' but doing some bloggers review for your work). Anyway an internet window with the exact look and feel as a windows screen popup and warned her that she needs to scan through her comp as virus was found. In a hurry, she click, yes, proceed, only to realise it's actually a scam. And so the virus was downloaded onto her comp. And the worst thing is, the virus is damn irritating. It keeps popping up a window prompting my Goddess to download some antivirus software - so ironic.

And so she contacted the IT helpdesk and had her laptop sent for fixing. In the meanwhile, she was issued a lapbook. It was so small, light and sleek! Tempted my Goddess to get a lapbook for a while.

To show you how small it is - my Goddess's hand
is already very small!

Before the weekend, my Goddess also received a card from the company.

Hmm how does this work? My Goddess have never been into
St James before...

So anyone who wants to jio my Goddess to party
can do so now. Hah..

On Friday evening, my Goddess met her fellow CY to catch up on her trip to US. They had dunner at Waruky and my Goddess ordered a medium sized Udon.

If this is medium, what's large?

Anyway, both my Goddess and I are happy for her that she's found her 如意郎君.

And just yesterday, my Goddess decided to give Koi a try again, and ordered their signature drink - bubble milk tea. This time she ordered for 100% sweet in case it turns out not sweet like the last time. And indeed it was very sweet!

Her queue no. Just 4 number away
from the number she got the last time.

And here's my Goddess' review on the drink:

Oiishi!

Though a tad too sweet. But the bubbles tasted more Q than the last time, and the milk tea was fresh tasting!

She's going to frequent Koi so often now.

Time after Time

It was supposed to be today. The day that my Goddess and I were waiting was supposed to be today. But the day never came. We will have to wait another month. And I am doubting if that month will again turn into many more months. Just like what we were told a year ago that it will only be a month, just bear with it.

So we waited. One month turned into a few months. And we waited. A few months soon became a year. And we waited.

And the day hasn't come.

Boring Long Weekend

This weekend was supposed to be exciting for my Goddess. Her family wanted to go Bkk for a short getaway.

Unfortunately the flights were mostly booked and they had to postpone the idea.

So they tweaked their holiday getaway to a 3day Malaysia Cameron Highlands trip. But the car was used and they had to go rent a car instead.

Then comes an even worse news - three walkers at the cafe refused to work on Sunday. So my Goddess' parents had to go back to work on Sunday, which means no more stayover trip.

And the ultimatum - cars cannot be rented for 1 day only. And so the parents will take public transport over. Why must life be so 狼狈 for them? Live in big house, own 2 businesses and 3 vehicles but have to take bus and queue the super long holiday queue with everyone else?

No more holiday for my Goddess and the Horny Devil is mad at her. What a great start to the long weekend!!

Random Ramblings

The reason why I'm so free to write a post is because my Goddess is no longer hogging the computer do to her Paper Polly stuff now that he latest collection is out and she can take a mini-break from all the photoshopping!

Please do check it out, and show some support by purchasing some things there.

If you haven't already realised (that's cos you didn't visit the shop enough!), Paper Polly is on its way of getting revamped.

From the old layout of this, which is quite kiddish and girly..

Unfortunately she forgot to capture a screenshot before the revamp for keepsake

To this - something more stylish and user-friendly (i hope)

Even the cover pic of the collection has been changed, if you realised. No more kageishinobunjitsu.. or whatever you call that Naruto's trick to multiply himself. So what do you think of the new layout and design? Better or worse off than the first one?

Anyway, more revamp works (phase 2) is going to come. So do stay tune.

Back to the main topic "random ramblings".

My Goddess is an adventurer when it comes to food. She likes to try new food, and especially fast food. That's cos it's easier to keep track of the new menu, and doesn't cost her a bomb to try.

And so she had the spicy mcnuggets. 

Her take on this? 2 out of 5. It tasted like those otah fishball kind. Spicy, but not tasty. And as for the Honey Chipotle, it wasn't anything fanciful too. A disappointment in fact. To think that McDonald is so cunning to make you upsize so that you can try their shaker fries!?

Moving on to something more tasty and exciting. Bibimbak from Harbour Front Food Junction!

This is authentic Korean food! Look at the 'liao' - so generous and juicy! Every bite you take is the 'liao', cannot taste the rice at all. Even the rice is those sushi kind of rice! The reason why it's 4 out of 5 is cos my Goddess kena LS straight after this meal cos the egg was too raw for her stomache. Good stuff, cannot bluff~

Just a few days ago, my Goddess wanted to reward herself and bought herself Koi, the bubble tea that she long wanted to try but never had the chance to as the queue is like forever very long.

And so queue up she did, at TPY Central. Luckily, it wasn't as long as expected - about 10 minutes?

Look at the interesting queue no that she's gotten

Which can be totally read upside down too!

Koi is really making big business. 689 customers and counting at 8pm in just one outlet!

My Goddess bought the Green tea with pearls, 90% sugar. The pearls were small and chewy but my Goddess wished they were bigger so it's nicer to chew. Even though it's 90% sugar, she didn't find it sweet at all. So guess the 0% sugar will be totally bland? My Goddess couldn't see what the hype was about. Maybe she didn't get the signature milk tea with bubbles that's why.

Finally, have you heard of a pack of chips that costs $5.50? That's the cost of a meal!

Again, my Goddess wanted to reward herself for being so disciplined with food and gym (so ironic right) that she decided to get herself a bag of chips. She was deciding between this pack and the tube of Pringles (mozzarella cheese flavour) which costs $2 plus. Thinking that this costs only $1.75, she decided to get this. But when she was at the cashier and was asked for $5.50, she got a shock! But there was another man in front of her who haven't left yet. So feeling paiseh, she decided to pay for it. She could have changed it for some other chips if no one was around!

You must be thinking that this is good stuff right, since it costs so much. But alas no! It's one of the lousiest chips my Goddess has eaten. It's totally hard, and very salty! 

And what's up with the 'All Natural' text man? You mean we've been eating fake potatoes all along? Or this chip is naturally made with a woman peeling and frying each and every piece? Come on, chips are already not healthy snacks. Are you trying to make the consumer feel better by getting to consume 'natural' chips.

So much for marketing, packaging and hence the jack up in costs.

Time not enough

Time has been flying really quickly for my Goddess these few months. Before she knows it, the one work week is gone and weekend has finally arrived (yeah!). Then, within the wink of an eye, the weekend is gone, and it's the start of another work week (boo!).

And so my Goddess decided to investigate how did a day just pass so quickly, and so she did a breakdown of her time.

As you can see, she spends the most of her time at work - 9.5 hours (minimum) and sometimes even longer. It's 3 hours more than her sleep time. So disgusting right?

The next most disgusting fact that she has discovered is that she spends 2 hours travelling a day! That's time same amount of time she spends to bathe/prepare for work like putting on makeup etc.

This leaves her only less than 3 hours a day to spend on her business Paper Polly (how can she find time to improve her business since most of the time it's spent on answering to shoppers' emails/updating the new collection), and leaves her no time to prepare for her wedding and self-improvement.

Luckily for her, most of her wedding preparations is done. It's left with the minor details which unfortunately also needs time for research and coordination.

It's been a long time since my Goddess read a book. So in order to squeeze in some time for this, she's lugging a book with her in a bag these days, so that she can read while she's travelling. At least the 2 hours will not be wasted. However, that also doesn't mean that the whole of 2 hours is spent on reading. My Goddess gets car sick easily when she reads on the road. So the only time she can read is when she's travelling from work to the gym on the train.

Sigh, 24hours is not sufficient for my Goddess. She needs another 2 more hours for herself/Paper Polly, and especially for me!

My Goddess' Wedding Diary

Today my Goddess and the Horny Devil continued on their wedding preparations and did a few errands.

First, they went to the Regent-Labelle wedding show to take a look at Labelle's new collection. Most of the gowns this collection were not what she was looking for. She only like 1-2 pieces, but these were not her 'Wa, I must take this!!!' gowns. Didn't take any pictures of the gowns/ the event as no photography was allowed.

Then, they headed down to Love & Co. to collect their wedding bands.

They wanted to engrave texts onto their rings, but weren't prepared on what to engrave. So they ended up spending time surfing the net on their phones, in the search of the perfect words to engrave.

My Goddess quite like the quote "Amor Vincit Om" which means "Love conquers all", but the Horny Devil thinks that's quite cliche. He liked "Nonrefundable since 220511" but it was more than their maximum number of characters of 20. But in the end they settled for a sentence in a love poem, "De Corde totaliter" for him and "Et ex mente tota" for her*. It simply means "With all my heart and all my soul".

Then they headed to Dress Me Up, a bridesmaid dress shop to check out their dresses. The dresses were sweet and the prices still pretty affordable. But the range of clothes available for selection are so limited, and typical. There was no apple green, the colour that my Goddess was looking for.

So sadly, she has to either continue searching, or settle for another colour not within her theme colours.

*In the end, at about 9pm when my Goddess was having dinner with her twin, the Horny Devil called her up and said he decided to engrave "Nonrefundable-220511" as there were a few people who commented on his FB message that they like this text. So she had to make a call to Love & Co. to stop processing their previous engravement.

So what will be the words to be engraved in the end? Stay tune to find out.

Ama me fideliter, Fidem meam toto,
Decorde totaliter, Et ex mente tota,
Sum presentialiter, Absens in remota.

Love me faithfully, See how I am faithful,
With all my heart and all my soul,
I am with you, even though I am far away. 

A Tribute to All Parents in the World

Parents are the most selfless humans in the world. Their love and sacrifices that they make for their children is beyond any word can describe. In order to help their children succeed, they don't mind sleeping for 4 hours or even lesser each day; they don't mind depleting their bank account to get a car for their child or set up a business that their child wants to do; they don't mind taking public transport or climb up the big lorry so that their child can have the comfort of driving in the car; and the list goes on.

Since the day we are born, their lives revolve around us. Never is there a day where they can stop worrying about us and start living their own lives. They give all their lives to us, and ask for nothing in return.

When will we as children truly understand and appreciate our parents? Will there ever come a day when we will stop taking them for granted and start repaying them for all the things they have did for us?

To all the parents in the world, and my own included - I know a million thank you's will never be enough to thank you for all that you have done for us. Thank you.
 

Do Business within Your Own Means

I totally cannot fathom how some how some people can do business at the expense of others, especially your loved ones. If you want to start a business, you need to have your own plans and resources, and not take it for granted that you can own a family-owned property 24/7 just so that you can do your own business; or take loads of investment sums and manual labour off your loved ones, and not pay them duly, but expecting that since they are your family members, they are obliged to help you till the end.

To summarise, if you don't have your own resources and expect people to do the job for you, or using off people's possession, DON'T F-ing start.

On a lighter note, a new collection from Paper Polly has launched. Do check it out. 80% of the items are personally chosen by my Goddess.

A Night at the Museum(s)

Last Friday night, my Goddess and the Horny Devil met up for dinner. They had Jap food at Ramen Play at 313. This was the second Friday in a row that they had Jap food for dinner already. Seems like they never get sick of Jap food since their Jap trip.

After dinner, they headed down to Bras Basar for the Night Festival. This is the third year in a row that they have visited the Night Fest. Such ardent supporters right?

When they reached, it was just in time for the night performance outside the National Museum - Paraboles 2.0. The story is supposedly about 6 satellites picking up signals on the Earth. Well, my Goddess' interpretation is the story of courtship, love, sex and finally the giving birth to a child who turned crazy in the end.

Watch this video if you don't believe her. This shows the sperms on the left, having successfully entered the egg, while those on the right are like dying.

After the performances, they initially wanted to head home 'cos the Horny Devil wasn't feeling well. They saw some creative grafiti works along they way.

And then a boxing match.

And the World's slowest SMS. WTF right?

The Horny Devil did send in an sms, but don't know if it was shown in the end not, 'cos they didn't stay around to wait for it.

On their way to the MRT, they met Moey, my Goddess good friend, who told her that there were some interesting exhibitions called Abusement Park in SAM. So my Goddess and the Horney Devil decided to go in to explore and have fun.

They saw an interesting exhibition about olden days theatre and shows en route. If you realised, the movie poster is called "In Love for the Mood" and not "In the Mood for Love". That's cos the movie was a parody of the famous story, where they got two angmohs to act out the scene speaking Canto. My Goddess couldn't understand a single word they were saying.

This 'Life of Imitation' was even more funny. They had 3 characters swopping roles. Can you spot the difference?

And finally, they headed to Abusement Park.

It was quite an interesting concept I must say. The place is all about torture. If you want to visit the Dungeon, you need to buy some Abusement Dollars at the pawn booth.

There were human mean on sale.

Which in actual fact was just 'tau key' and 'hei piao'.

A fountain of youth that was filled with dismembered dolls

Death by hanging

Death by chopping off the head

And there were short snippets of performances every 20 minutes. The one my Goddess got to see was the chopping off a blown-up dolls head. Hilarious.

There were also other interesting booths like 'Teachers' Pat' where you have to pay Abusement Dollars to learn how to torture others, as well as a Slave booth. You can sell 10 minutes of your time as slaves to earn some 'Abusement' money.

So inconvenient indeed!

Overall, this was quite an interesting concept. Think they can further develop this into some Halloween fun in which the 'ghosts' and 'abusers' can go around scaring people, especially along the way to the Dungeon. As what I have heard is that the never-ending 2-hours queue to the 'Dungeon' was just to see an electric chair. Duh~

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

I'm simply love this version of the classic song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Can't believe a person of this size can sing so well!

When my Goddess last heard the beginning of the song at a Okto programme's trailer, she was pestering the Horny Devil to find out what song it is and download the song for their wedding. She said that it's "Somewhere over the Rainbow" but he insisted that it isn't.

A few days later during a working day, my Goddess complained that she's very tired and sian at work. The Horny Devil then called her up, and played this song. It made her smile immediately. Nowadays, every time she messaged him at work that she's sian/sleepy, he'll call her and play this song to her.

And the funny thing was, the Horny Devil just hummed the song one day at work without realising it. It was his colleague who said he's humming "Somewhere over the Rainbow" and sent the song from her desktop to him.

Now this song is totally meaningful to them both. You'd definitely hear this song if you are ever attending their wedding!

Freebies Giveaway!

Remember just 2 posts back I wrote that my Goddess went for a Her World makeover session? Well, she was given a big goodie bag and she's not going to use some of the items in it. So, instead of wasting it and throwing them away, she has decided to share it with Paper Polly fans on FB!

So to win these items, simple go to Paper Polly's fanpage (http://facebook.com/paperpolly), tag one of your friends to the item that you want to win, and write down who you want to tag. It's that simple! No minimum spending is required.

On sponsorships and entrepreneurship

A number of bloggers these days have been seeking for sponsors to sponsor them items/services through listing their wishes and wants on their blog. These services/items may range from wedding gowns and accessories to plastic surgery.

Is there really such a thing as free lunch in this world today? I mean I do consider it free since you pretty much don't have to do anything except blog about the sponsorship. That's quite a good deal isn't it? Blogging about these sponsorships is a part & parcel of your life, and it won't take up much of your time.

For me, I'm not seeking for sponsors for expensive things. I just need a good high-performance camera for my Goddess owner. So Nikon or Canon, if you are reading this, I hope you can do some kind donation.. I can help test your camera and publicise how good it is over at Paper Polly. Though it isn't some big establishment, we have 600+ fans and counting.. tsktsk..

Guess unless you are some celebrity blogger, small fries like me will never have our wishes fulfilled, unless the sponsor's initials is BF or ME.

So, getting past all the dreaming, I'm not photography junkie. I can appreciate the beauty of the pictures, but I ain't no creative or artistic person who can frame such good shots. The reason why I think I should get myself a high-performance cam is that I think the photos of Paper Polly are not looking professional enough that it may turn some people off. You think so?

Let me show you some egs which I think why my Goddess' current Olympus cannot make it:

Pics taken from Olympus is still not too bad. And with a photographer directing, at least the lighting is still there and the pictures clear.

And luckily for my Goddess, her photoshop skills are not too bad, so the pictures turn out clearer and better.

But when my Goddess do self-shots, really cmi. Stood at the wrong position with no lighting. And to minimise the hassle of always having to set the timer, she used her hp camera, thinking that it has the same number of pixels, and hence will generate the same quality of pictures, she was totally wrong.

The pictures turn out really pixelated. And in a lot of the shots, the colour setting was totally off and she looked green and sickly.

But oh well, she already spent 3 hours on the shoot, so she can only salvage the pictures as best as she can.

She's been thinking if she should get a better camera. Which brand is better eh? Nikon or Canon?? Any comments?

And also, we've noted that focusing on getting the product right is not enough. Though it's the most essential step to take, getting people to know about your product is more important. There are so many considerations to running a blogshop, especially in this competitive market with low barriers to entry.

Is the range of clothes ok? Are the prices too steep? Is the layout user-friendly enough. Does the website gives a pro & fashionable feel enough to be a blogshop? What are your thoughts on Paper Polly?

My Goddess really hopes that one day Paper Polly will make it big and be in the league with blogshops like Bonito Chico, Love & Bravery, Runway Diva etc. Wonder what was the special secret recipe to their success? Time (as in first-movers advantage)? Marketing? Product offerings? Wished she had taken up marketing/econs in the first place so this will come in handy.

But oh well, until she finds the right formula, she's still far from meeting her target.

Guess we just have to take things in its strides. But do come visit Paper Polly if you can and share it with your friends and family members.

Thanks so much for your support!