Happy Mid-Autumn Festival Everyone!

Only stone-hearts can resist them...

There I said it. Now you can't say you can. =P

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Meaningful Phrases

Written By Regina Brett (90 years old) of The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)

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"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:-

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years, will this matter?".
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

The Day I Died (by Just Jack)

This song speaks the simplest and most common stuffs in life that you probably won't notice, but when all the lucky little things comes together in one day, it just makes your day.

But the thing is.... normally, all the good stuffs won't come to you altogether, right?

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Just Jack - The Day I Died on MUZU.

Drag myself from my bed
Around 20 past 6
Get my kids up make breakfast
1 egg 2 toast 3 weetabix

and as i sit down i look up
and your standing in the doorway sun at your back
in my old brown dressing gown
Well no one can love you more than i love you now, but i

Gotta go running for the bus
Coat flying and i try not to miss it this time
but the drivers waiting and thats strange
kids on the top deck quiet for a change
and theres no rain and no roadworks
in the bus lane and all my hurts run away
and im smiling as im punching in

the day i died was the best day of my life
the day i died was the best day of my life
tell my friends and my kids and my wife
everything will be alright
the day i died was the best day of my life

now the secretaries they got a smile for me
and the intray on my desks almost empty
I get a memo from executive Joe
saying Rob the gob is getting kicked out
for embezzling funds from the company account
and id be lying if i said i wasn't chuffed
cos i always hated rob
and now they'll probably offer me robs old job

and in the park at lunch
theres no whinos on my favorite bench
none of that drunk chatter none of that pissy stench
and the scrawny little pigeons with the gammy legs
decide to dive bomb from someone elses sandwich instead
and theres something about the city today
like all the colors conspire to overwhelm the grey
and this close to the fire i can feel no cold
but a rainbow halo around my soul

the day i died was the best day of my life
the day i died was the best day of my life
tell my friends and my kids and my wife
everything will be alright
the day i died was the best day of my life

so i leave work get to the high street and i miss my bus
should i wait for another no i cant be arsed
i begin to walk
and rush hour crowd seem to part like the red sea
and im stopping at the offy
20 cigarettes and a 6 pack to relax me
and as i cross back over the street
i guess i never saw that taxi
i guess i never saw that taxi

the day i died was the best day of my life
the day i died was the best day of my life
tell my friends and my kids and my wife
everything will be alright
the day i died was the best day of my life

now i got 99 red balloons floating in the summer sky
i got 99 red balloons drifting past my dreamy eyes
i got 99 red balloons floating in the summer sky
i got 99 red balloons drifting past my dying eyes

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I'll definitely be lost when I'm on the verge of...

We all know it'll come one day, but thinking of it now just makes me feel lost and insecure... I hate that feeling.

Did I ever mention I was so damn happy with my new shoes??

Omg. I'm so goddamned happy.

I'm sooo gonna post the rest of my shoes in this series. xD

Happy One Year Anniversary! xD

I really wan to say this early in the morning...

HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! xD

I love you so much sweetie. =))

You will always remember this as...

Today, one of the kids in my Spanish class got caught texting. As our teacher was about to take his phone, he got up, and sprinted to the door before he stopped in the doorway and shouted

"You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow"

before he ran out of the room and down the hallway. He never came back to class. It absolutly made my day. MLIA

from MLIA

Art of Lying and Deciphering

I was talking to Weilin on Msn.

She told me she is gd at lying and wants me to hired her as a liar in my house so that she could make up stories for my mother. Minutes later, I sorta tricked her instead of the other way round. She told me sometimes tricking people into believing they tricked someone is also skill.

Now we're discussing about art of lying and deciphering, and trying to convince her to tell me wat's up her sleeves.

So this is the new Hollywood Secrets...

Was initally pretty thrilled to know Hollywood Secrets is re-open (or, sorta) and immediately book an appointment when found the website.

Gotta know they will be moving away from Paragon when one fine day I decided to trim my bushy brows smwhere in Feb this year, only to find that they were in the mids of renovating and will only be re-open in Mandarin Gallery in July.

I waited for time to pass, Mandarin Gallery still not open. Whatever, I googled online found their site n no, called them up, gotta know they went located temporary at the hotel beside Mandarin Gallery. Made an appointment, made a trip down just now.

And guess what?

They were providing services in a hotel room.

I was told to ask any of the hotel staff, and none know. Called again, told me take the lift up to 5th storey, change to another set of elevator, to the 8th storey (stating at it's the fitness centre level).

Apparently instructions wasn't clear! I was loitering up and down till a cleaner auntie told me to go to a room.

Blah. Damnit, she didn't told me it's a room! I was half expecting to be a temporary outlet.

Knocked, nobody came. Went in on my own, asked a guy, "is that Hollywood Secrets?" He said yes, but no further instructions from there.

I stepped in, asked a lady doing manicure. She just asked me to sit and wait while a bunch of bitchy girls (who acted totally like models though they were all fugly) finished up their makeups and hairdos. Oh yah, and the lady who was doing the brows, she was damn irritatingly slow.

Seriously! She was chatting (in quite foul language) and she stopped her hands while she gossiped with her fellow colleagues, which sounded like they were paid tooo little for the jobs they are doing? like hello, dun u know you have customers in the room as well?? And oh yah, the rest of the conversation goes like, I wan to walk down Orchard in bikini. You never read the papers meh? Got girls do that okay! I'm so assuming the next to walk into the police station in bikini is her as well. -.-

Nvm about tt. When it was suppose to be my turn, she just merely get me to sit beside her, took out her mobile, n took a great deal of time to type and send her sms without even the slightest courtesy to acknowledge my presence! I sat like an idiot beside her.

She didn't ask, I hafta open my mouth to tell her I wan au-natural. Imagine she pluck out all my brows! *roll eyes*

Here comes the exciting part. After it was done, I took out my $50 note everyone ignored me like they dun wan the payment. Hello... Then after she finished running her fingers through her hair and arching her back, she finally put out her precious hand to collect my money. (Like I was begging her.) She stared at the note, then told me she want a smaller note.

I told her I don't have any, I even had the courtesy to propose giving her another $2 and all I need was another 4pcs of $10. She shot her bloody eyes at me, No, $12.

Bloody fuck! Do you think I deliberately hide all the $10 from you?? I showed her another 2pcs $50, then she shut the fuck up. Still, she gave me the itsyourbloodyfault look. She asked if anyone had any to spare, and I heard the classic, I have, but I dun wan give you leh.

Does that women know she is in the working society or wat??

Finally after some cajoling, she decided to lend out her money, and plus another $20 from another customer, I gotten my $40 change.

So you think I'm gonna go back though gd brow trimming? I'm so gonna go Hairloom @Raffles Place next time round, or at least when the real outlet is open.

Coco before Chanel

Just watched Coco before Chanel on Sat.

Not as fantastic as I thot- maybe I was tooo overwhelmed by the fact tt Chanel will be coming out a movie and was expecting a lil tooo much. It's just a fashion history afterall, right?

Very quiet, yet very captivating. Was totally engrossed throughout the show. A lil on the arts film side, but I still love it. I can hear ppl commenting tt it's tooo quiet that they nearly fell aslp. But if you can't appreciate a arts film, you won't appreciate and love this.

But... the Chanel in this poster made her seems like a guy, and it reminds me more Shane in The L Word. =ppp

Starhub gave me tt voucher *wink*

Eventually they still called me after tt email/feedback. I hid me exhileration well while she present me with the $100 voucher I've been wanting. ;) Seriously, they could had just given it to me in the 1st place the save the trouble of going thru everything.

Anyway, IT'S SAT!! so damn happy. had already jogged and mooo is still slping behind me.

Bad stuffs-
1. My com is still not working (able to start up and use with only Safe Mode. Normal Mode: It just start up but no image recognised from the monitor. Sigh.
2. Starhub bill came and it's almost $100. I suspect they charged me 3 months of Surflite for the 1st bill.
3. With my Starhub bill and my hp voucher in, I might not be able to get my cam afterall. Sigh.

Whatever, it's Sat still. *Cheerios*