You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry. You'd better watch out 'coz I'm telling you why...

I'm presenting my Annual X'mas Grassy Gift List (AXGGL... haha)!

It's afterall after Thanksgiving (how was yours BTW? My Thanksgiving post is on its way...) The holiday shopping season has begun.

Just to lessen your burden and help you help me become a happy girl, I've painsakenly put together a cool list of stuff that I would wish to receive.

Although, after experiencing a rather hasty out-of-state move, I think I should have less stuff. Yes, I sincerely do. Maybe if you want to, donate the money to SPCA instead and send me 1 of their stickers. Woof!

And of coz, you're always welcomed to steal these ideas and get them for some other loved one too.

Drum roll please. (not in order of preference)

1. Lumen Oil Lamp Magnolia $48
2. Lace Tape $10
3. Port2Port Press Card Society 3 month subscription $48
(I was a member so I can vouch for the quality + beauty...)
4. Melamine Ladybug Tray by Shinzi Katoh $28
5. Tord Boontje Book $50 (latest update: Ms TYY's gifting this to me! Shanks...)
6. Alexander Girard Designs for Herman Miller Book $33
7. The Small Object ABC Stamp Chart $17
8. Stump box $32
9. Valentino Rock 'N Rose $40 - $80

10. Adidas Day Of The Dead Tee $28
11. Mike & Chris Hugh Motorcycle black leather hoodie XS $893
12. Bellagio Spa Journey Package $370

• Enjoy a 25-minute Indian Head Massage session.
• Followed by our 70-minute Thai Yoga Massage.
• End with a moisturising parafin hand and foot treatment.
• While in the Meditation Room, you will receive a complimentary beverage and enjoy a Spa Light lunch.
• Duration: 150 minutes
  

13. DeMotivators' & Subtexts' Tee $15.95 (a real pessimist's fashion sense)
14. 415 Area Code Gold Bracelet $117 (Represent!)
15. iPod classic 160GB $349
16. Kor Water Flask $30

17. Roost Glass Museum Dome and Base $60-$100
18. Dean & Deluca Shortbread Collection $48
19. BlaBla Andiamo Dog Doll $41 (and you thought I'm over plushies toys already)

20. Macarune Cupcakes & Macarons (SF only, click here for more ordering info)

Some stuff to share, no cupcakes though!

I am sure no one in the World can resist or reject when offered an cupcake.

I am kinda addicted to one. I am kinda craving one now, actually, writing this. BUT it's 11+PM, I think I won't be able to fulfil this dream tonight.

So moving away from SF, away from my private baker, away from my fav. bakery Miette, I have yet to find happinesscupcakes. I need to correct myself. I meant GREAT cupcakes. AWESOME ORGASMIC cupcakes. Cupcakes that make me smile in my sleep.

I made an impromptu stop to Cupcake Lane Bakery one afternoon in the middle of work just because. My new colleagues told me about that place during lunch and made my salad taste like desert sand. Couldn't stop thinking about it for the next 30 mins, so I told my boss I am making a cupcake run (offering to get him one made it easier to for him to just smile and say OK).
I tried to wait til tea time but what to do? Gobble Gobble.

Guess what. It ain't that good afterall. So I was a teeny bit disappointed, but nevertheless a little bit more satisfied than no cupcake at all.

Why? It was a little too sweet. And that did it for me. I am just so picky. what to do. what to do.

On the upside, I heard there is one more better bakery call Cupcakery in Henderson(SE of Vegas). Think I heard that they're opening a store at my side of town....I'm waiting....

In other fun-er news, check out who was driving in front of me one sunny fine day.

Pardon the awkward reflection of my FIERCE dashboard. I took the photo with haste. And no! I didn't drive next to it and wink. The driver was an elder lady :( There goes another Hope for Prince Charming.

My pink hotness!

I know you likey!

I know I'm vain!

But I've got nothing better to do last Sunday!

I've rarely anything pink except for some pens, a capri shorts (really light dirty pink), a *The Killers* concert tee and the pair of cute smiley cheeks on my face (anything from the age of 0-10 doesn't count). But I had this longing forever — strawberry streaks on my hair. True, this is kinda a deep shade of pinkness but like all the most passionate passion, it will fade with time into the actual lighter strawberry shades and then blonde, which I totally will love too. So it's a win-win-win situation for me.

Let's party!

update: I went to salon lah~

Sew me sew you

Feed your child's (or fav friend's!) need to create with this adorable Singer Antique Sewing Machine! This Singer battery operated chain stitch sewing machine for children produces a neat chainstitch, has a working light, tension dial, foot pedal, and storage compartment! Includes a sewing basket filled with a tape measure, scissors, needle threader, pincushion and four filled bobbins. Battery requirements: 2 x 'C' OR LR14 batteries (not included). Age: 6+

6-3/4"H x 9"W x 3-1/2"

More info here.

This song/tv commercial can't escape my mind.

I swear I'm a fan of Dentyne Ice Artic Chill long BEFORE this commercial. The song is: Stuttering by Bens Brother.

le sigh... ...

Sneak Peek!

I'm still trying to get it together and make it a cozy nest. But the TV has been calling to me ever too often, so I think I've created a dent on my couch for sitting too long on the same spot. I swear I will need just maybe one, or two more weekends and it should be done.

Meanwhile... ...

Left: Overflowing spinal bookshelf topped with my 70s' polariod camera. Right: My Alameda-fair-found white bookcase, a vintage globe from Goodwill eons ago (Russia was still USSR), some Xs' from my collection, childhood pics + the box containing the Macarune bracelet from D.

& a new addition to the family - Peace Lily, let's call her Lily for short. Monsier Gnome finally have a new best friend/home. On the right is the cute kid's garden spade I got from Target for $1.99 (Lily usually sleeps in the Living room but she's having her weekend tanning sessions on the balcony. (yes, I have a balcony!))

p.s. People, you gotta continue blogging... ...no excuses! You know who you are! tsk tsk.

Atlas

This is ATLAS. A cool skater boy named Ryen with big big dreams opened its doors earlier this year at San Mateo, CA selling funky skateboards, limited-edition shoes and awesome tees. The skater boy happens to be my college-mate. I am so proud of him.

Click here.


I've bought one of my fav tees from him. Will post it when I take a pic.

Asus Bamboo EcoBook Laptop

Pictures *borrowed* from Gizmodo.com
This is real cool. Made of Bamboo, a very popular substainable choice of materials nowadays. For my future home, I'll probably lay stained Bamboo on my floors too.

MMMmmmmm does this mean that i am switching over to Windows anytime soon? Er... ...Hell no.

Free Photo Hosting sites

I am *officially* disappointed with the Internet.

More specifically, free photo-hosting sites. BECAUSE, Yahoo Photos used to allow unlimited storage/uploading but has ceased to exist since they deciding to drop some major dough on FLICKR and close the prior. I'm sure the folks at FLICKR are new owners of million dollar mansions and too-fast-too-furious cars now. Good for them but BOO for us common folks.

Under the pretense of receiving an unimaginably awesome Flickr account when they transfered all my years of photos from Yahoo, they gave us all only a trial of the Flickr's pro account. It seems at first very similiar to Yahoo photo's free unlimited blahblah blah, not to mention you get Flickr's cool uploading tools and other great User Interfaces. But remember, the trial is only for 3 miserable months. After that, they only allow you to display 200 photos, while the others are kept in deepfreeze untouchable storage unless you pay like 20 bucks a month. Duh. I rather give the money to my neighbor's kid.

Another friend experienced an ultimatum. Her photos ALL got DELETED from her Kodak online photo host because she hasn't ordered any prints for a year. Until she emailed the management and ordered a bunch of prints, they promised to *return* those pics back. That's nothing short of a blackmail, right?

I AM complaining about not being able to obtain some good old free shit anymore in exchange for some annoying flashing web banners (which I might even be invovled in the creation.)

So what to do? I am too lazy to sign up for all the other seemingly deceiving free-for-all photo sites and get my data sold to sleazy companies who will then blast me with promising SPAMs about my non-existent failing penis.

If YOU have been using something good, something acceptable and most importantly, something free, give me a holla. Or better, let me know how you've been secretly stashing all those photos and never got caught. Spread the love around a little. It's officially the holiday season.

Now, don't just sit there. Help save my planet.

Magic Toaster

I want to be a great Designer/Inventor when I grow up.

Just in case you can't see what's happening, that's a Memo Toaster. You write the message on the *board* and it burns/transfers to the toast. Voila! More fun ways to than Facebook. Ha!

Next time you order a cake... ...

... ...make sure you write better instructions and find a like-wise language bakery.

DESERT: Buffet-style

So, we had to take almost one of each. Glad that they came in smaller sizes to minimise waste.

So I went to Bellagio's Buffet, again! What to do when you have guests in town? Especially when they've seen pictures from my previous trip.

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Life have running a little ahead of me these days. I rarely have time to rest but my dreams have been becoming kinda more and more realistic scary.

There is a recurring theme though: EX-boyfriends. That's why it is scary.

Those dreams are brought into the future. Each of them are as follows—we meet several years later-->we hang out-->almost try to get back together-->I realise they've remained and/or changed into monsters, sadists, psychos of some sorts-->I wander off alone to some oddly familiar places like Mama shops in SG-->I wake up remembering most of it.

I wonder if it is the Melatonin that I take as a sleep aid that enhances my dream memories.

I figured, I don't even think/want of any men now, these dreams must be part of my cleansing ritual this year. Everything is coming to a full round circle in my emotional realm.

There are some things that I've chose (consciously and sub-consciously) not let go. Ex-boyfriends are different.

I am moving on.

Yay!

NO!

I took out my nose piercing because it was getting infected from the physical + emotional stress of the move.

I only wanted to clean and replace the star with my previous red/silver stud.

Then I couldn't put it back anymore.

I tried for like 5 mins.

If you know me, you'd know how hard it is for me to even look at the pierce itself. Plus the swelling didn't help.

So I gave up.

I almost cried.

I'll wait for it to heal.

Then pierce it again. Waahaahaaaaa... ...

THIS ONE THAT ONE WHICH ONE?

PLS VOTE AND LET ME KNOW WHICH ONE I SHOULD GET...

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Not the kinda shopping I fancy...

but!

I finally bought a car. A red car. Just this morning. I want to share my joy and relief.

As from today, I am officially an adult.
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Then the dealers warned me about buying a house.

Until then... ...

Ho Ho How?

Just when I kinda decided to go home for X'mas, I found no tickets for me to go home. Well, correction, I meant no CHEAP/NORMAL priced tickets to go home. Those airlines! Totally incredibly irritating case of Demand causing over-priced Supply.

Darn!

How?

That's why I always wanted my very own helicopter.

Does it look like the sky forgot to shave its pits this morning?

heehee It was an impromptu snap. Turned out really well I must say!

Found!

Apparently this book is for sale, I got these sample pages from an online publishing company. You need to sign up with them, like an email subscription. (I hope that it's okay to post these up on my personal blog) Because this is too funny ( not being disrespectful) not to acknowledge that this book exists.

Enjoy!

Boxes and boxes... ...and pleasant surprises.

I've so many stories and pictures to share you you guys about my move. Actually, it is not over yet. I AM still in the process. Still living within boxes and driving a rental car for like ALMOST 3 WEEKS!!!

damn!

well at least I didn't pay for it.

Speaking about boxes, I tried to clear them out. The keyword is TRIED. Everytime I empty one out, another 2 pop out from another corner. well. It doesnt help that I don't have any furniture to put my stuff in.

Correction: Delicious graffiti by Mr Denis AND MS SHAWNA(!!!) who was obviously bored from helping me pack ;p

So, despite my fight with boxes, I received one in the mail a few days ago. A special one coz it came with LOVE all the way from London, courtesy of a good friend A.

THANK YOU FOR MY HOUSEWARMING GIFT! I felt all warm and fuzzy inside alright.

guess what's inside? The best part is I didn't even know who sent it. Until I searched the bottom of the box.What does it look like?GRASS!!!GRASS!!! AND MORE GRASS!!!

I cannot say how much I love this. Also, believe it or not, I was actually thinking about getting them myself a few days b4 this arrived. SERIOUSLY. How creepy is that? Why would the two of us be thinking about faux grass at the same time? How creepy is that? Maybe that's why we are still friends ;)

Speaking of creepy thing, (you guys like how I lead into my topics?) I was driving the same road to work every morning. The ride is usually pretty smooth. ABout 10 mins if I am lucky to not get one red light at all. the least I got is 1, and altogether I passed about 7 lights.

ANYWAYS,

So I stopped at a red, turned my head to the right randomly. Guess what I saw?

Okay people, look CLOSER will ya?Uh huh!

You see it, ya? It's my initials! Oh yeah, that's right! Uh huh! You've got it! Well, I meant I've got it!

How creepy is that?

PROBABLY WRITTEN BY AN angry ad person?

Is is Christmas?

Answer

I wash probably the only person carrying this bag in Vegas on a Saturday night.

Don't blame me. I just bought it then. What do I do? Get a plastic shop carrier for this? Don't be stupid.


Make a world of difference every time you shop with this 100% ALL-NATURAL Scoop NYC tote bag! Inside, global green leader Shaklee (shaklee.com) has given you a 6-oz. bottle of Shaklee Get Clean Fresh Laundry HE Compatible Concentrate - the powerful, nontoxic, biodegradable way to clean your fabulous clothes without ever harming the Earth! Scoop NYC (scoopnyc.com) will donate 100% of the proceeds from the Green & Gorgeous bag to the Natural Resources Defense Council (nrdc.org) and Shaklee will plant a tree on your behalf!

• 100% all-natural fabric
• Hand wash with cold water
• Hang dry

I hope everyone will start doing their part to save the environment.

FIRST, by stopping your admirable PLASTIC BAG collection. It is so passé.

OKAY. This scared me a little.

Pls click here and let me know if it changes for you. Look very CAREFULLY because you do have the eye-power to change it.

I am scared! Because mine keep changing directions!

I HEART NYC

Finally James did something right (but/and wrong after that right.. ..makes sense? no? nevermind.) by forwarding me this link to a really nice new ad campaign for the Big Apple.

Some screenshots.

Click here to see the awesome video, make it full screen while you're at it.

Then let me know when the link for the poster sale is up. I'll forward it to James so that he can buy me ALL 4(FOUR) of them like he promised to.

heehee

Maybe I should have moved to NYC instead... ...

btw, do YOU know who did this campaign? Oh, it can be found here.


love.

Why???

Click here and then tell me.

Ah-hem

UPDATE: to be specific, this one #6
heehee

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I have blogged about this before.

And I am going to only say this one more time:

Because they are on sale NOW.

Because X'MAS is coming.

Because I want one really badly(1 bandit, in the front row, with the eye mask giftwrapped please...).

Check this out!

I have no time to reply emails or messages...but I want you guys to know...

heehee

ANYWAYS...

I just got back from loading stuff into my new crib. I totally forgot to take pics of it B4 the boxes overtook the space. But everytime I look at the bath tub, it seems to grow wider and wider. Quoting the 312pounds moving man (he told me his weight voluntarily!) when he saw the tub: DANG!

note: I am *heart-ing* blogging more than ever now as it is so easy for me to spread share my news to all the people who care I care.

p.s. I saw a really cute, adidas-wearing guy at Whole Foods, but he didn't even look at me. It's ok, he is still cute and I will see him again.

The agency that moved me

I did not take these shots, but they are so nice huh?

My past two days at work are futile. I didn't do much as it was mainly orientation and me on the phone changing my billing/mailing address on countless banks, phone, credit cards, store cards, mag subscriptions and many more nonsense.

the main 3-storey building with ample parking for 100+ employees

the central circular stairs and metal entrance doors.

the sparkling stars on 3rd floor main reception greets everyone.

A conference room

The Creative Dept. But yours truly sits downstairs in the Interactive Dept.

There's about 155+ employees in this 8 years old full service multi-million agency. Founded mainly by 2 very smart guys. A great change from my previous multi-national company, this is a local, one outlet place. So the bosses are walking in the same hallway as I do. Making decisions just got much easier and faster(I hope).

I haven't get my first assignment YET. I shouldn't jinx myself by saying I'm so free at work. Personally, I gots shit to do. Movers coming tomorrow, as well as my mattress delivery guys.

Oh yes, I forgot to say I got my apt. YAY!

It's a 1-bedroom walkup condo unit on the top (2nd) floor. The bath tub is as big as a full size bed... (*wink, wink* shawna!) with my own washer and dryer and a tiny balcony.

It feels good not to be homeless anymore. Funny that I felt liberated after I got those keys. Funny.

Can't wait to blog from my new crib.

stay tuned.