Mission accomplished!

My eyes are so groggy... Like the monitor in front of me is swirly. It's already time for me to head down to work. *Yawn* After 5 hours of experimenting, here's the new design.. I know the tag board looks funny. Cause it's all squeesh at the bottom due to miscalculation. Guess I'll alter it when I some other time.

NOW, I'll be heading down to TORTURE CAMP in Shenton Way...

Working on a new blog skin

Finally, I have got my lazy ass of the sofa and start working on my new blog skin design. I have been wanting to change the design for ages now. So tonight, under the influence of the cold chilly rainy night (yeah I know, I should be snuggling in bed under my comforter), I'm going to try to come out with something new. But I haven't have anything in mind. I'll have to meet the Z-monster tomorrow night... Ok.. Maybe later at work, if coffee doesn't perform its miracles.. haha..

Checking out the next dressing room...

This is the time of the year that I dread the most. The darn one month period before Lunar New Year. Beside the all-so-familiar awful Ching-chong LNY tunes blasting at every possible heartland shopping malls, shoppers are seeing RED everywhere, literally. Wearing red is such a cliche during LNY. Well, at least it is a good chance for retail stores to be bringing out their outdated stocks of whatever in red, maroon, pink, simply anything in the shade of red.

I seriously don't sense the joy of shopping pre-LNY. First of all, I don't like red or orange or maroon, ok, maybe pink and purple is alright. Secondly, I don't like the idea of forcing yourself to buy something. It's like a waste of my money spending on some clothes I won't be wearing very often (eg. the red cheong sam I bought last year). Thirdly, I am disgusted by the very nature of the female gender to out dress each other. You can see the cattiness in each of the ladies' eyes in the fitting room. They will peer over your mirror to check you out. If they think you look good, they will either pick the similar piece to try on or find another item that will outshine yours. Suddenly, the narrow aisle of the fitting area has transformed into a mini-runway. The ladies will be strutting up and down, in and out of the changing rooms, posing in front of the full length mirror, confronted by dilemmas, envy and confusion. And at the end of the day, they will still end up buying more or less the same design, in the few perceived "auspicious" colours. For example, I was queuing up to try on a pair of jeans at Mango. In front of me, I saw 3 ladies trying on identical knitted tops of different sizes. It looks as if they were buying uniforms or something.

Another part of the tradition leading to LNY, which I absolutely loathed, is: SPRING CLEANING! Friends who actually knows me are undeniably convinced that I am a mess. I lived in a "sty" with 3 rodent-like friends (my hamsters). And I actually like my room a little messy, which is in an intolerably unacceptable state to usher in the LNY. So I have to get my ass off the sofa, roll my sleeve up and wipe the dust off the shelves. And the worst part is to bear is... my parents' constant annoying nags...

So all in all, I must sum up that I am going to stay grumpy... Hmmm... At least until the Ang Bao money starts rolling in... haha... *_*

Memoirs of a geisha

Memoirs of a geisha
Originally uploaded by candice_dymphna_ng.

Never in film history has Asian chicks rock Hollywood on such a massive scale. Haha... Nah.. I'm just exaggerating.. But I think this flick is gonna make us Asian girls ooze extra sex appeal.

There's still exactly 2 more weeks till the film opens. And the anticipation is killing me. I hope the film will be as good as the paperback. It is one of my favourite stories. Though Zhang Zi Yi is the lead actress, somehow I find Gong Li is the one who actually captured my attention. Check out her look in this picture man. It just spells one word, "SEDUCTION".

So girls, to learn the art of seduction, the geisha way, go book a ticket.

Memoirs of a geisha open on 19 January 2006.

Cruella De Vil will enjoy seeing this...

Cruella De Vil will enjoy seeing this...
Originally uploaded by candice_dymphna_ng.

Whoever ever ever thinks that fur is beautiful? The cavemen donned it. But if given the knowledge to produce cotton, will they still wear fur? With Cruella De Vil as an exception, I bet the average Joe/ Jill like you and me won't find it appealing... Not after watching THIS!!!

*Not for obsessive animal lovers or the faint in the heart. Get the puke bags ready if you can't take gore and blood