Bye bye Taipei

Checking our luggage in now. It's been a very blessed trip. Despite forecast of bad weather even post-typhoon, at most we saw only scattered showers that didn't last more than 5 minutes each time. 

We ate and we shopped. 

I learned this trip that my dad, the self-proclaimed thrift, is far from that and he actually bought the most among the 4 of us. Beating me and mum at shopping is a feat and he did it! We opened up two extra bags for this flight back. 

 

Even our Uber driver was surprised at the number of bags for merely a 3 day trip. 

WIll devour every single fatty food starting NOW

YAY! The end of a tiring day.


What was really funny was when Markus came to pick me, he said he was feeling really nervous. When he was driving,he said he had butterflies in his stomach. He didn't even feel this way on the day of our ROM.


For someone who's always awkward in photos and never smiled in photos until he met me, he actually did very well! I felt he took instructions a lot better than I did from the photographer.


Off to Taipei tomorrow morning!
Today's latest news - typhoon to hit Taiwan at noon tomorrow. SHIT.
It's suppose to be a trip that I reward myself with a lot of oily street food, but I ended up having to go to the 24 hour supermarket to buy cup noodles because the weather forecast seems realllllly bad. And you know what I'm most upset about? If I really have to eat cup noodles in Taiwan, as though Taiwan doesn't have better cup noodles.... Just that getting to a 7-11 will be a deadly challenge.

A 7-11 store in Taiwan damaged by the strong winds of Typhoon Meranti two weeks ago.

Crisis

If this isn't a crisis I don't know what is. Photoshoot is in a few hours time, I have to leave the house in an hour. I woke up earlier to iron my clothes required for the photoshoot but the damn iron damaged the skirt I need for the photoshoot!!!!

That temper

Too familiar.
Haven't I...... heard it before recently?

Justice is served

The killer of Canny Ong is finally executed.

It was an abduction and murder that gripped the nation. It was on the front page of newspapers, her pretty face accompanied the development of the drama.

If I remember right, it was her case that eventually started off a string of shopping mall carpark crimes.

Her family can finally put this behind them, and I hope her soul rests in peace.

PR genius

Leave begins

'Twas my last flight yesterday before a very exciting week begins!

Last night I also had to change away my San Francisco flight (my heart, arh!) in order to get my offdays to see BIGBANG.
It happens to be the last Seoul-San Francisco everrrr (there will no such flight after next month) yet I gave it away. Priorities T___T

Monday is Photoshoot Day, so Tuesday starts the week-long binging in Taipei and then Singapore.

Not like I've been dieting per se but it's been a while since Markus and I have allowed ourselves to have a buffet...

 Today though, not so exciting. I've been pretty exhausted due to lack of sleep so I woke up late and I'll be trying to cram lyrics for the next few hours.

Don't walk, RUN!

Two days ago, I started on my first episode of Running Man. Yup, 6 years late but better late than never!
This is the funniest shit I've seen in a loooooong time!

I'm at episode 3 - 314 episodes more to go (as of now).

Go watch it if you haven't done so.

Your Thursday morning read

DYK: There were white slaves

http://settingrecordstraight.blogspot.sg/2015/03/irish-forgotten-white-slaves.html?m=1

Wtf moments in one day

1. Am I the only one in the world who actually keeps chat logs??? I've been a chat log hoarder since MSN Messenger days. My Whatsapp chat history goes back to the day I first had Whatsapp. It's important to have these logs because you don't know when evidence is in there - yeah I might need to sue someone some day who knows?

2. Brangelina no more, shocker. Meanwhile, Jennifer Aniston is having a drink with a bitch whose name starts with K and ends with A. 

3. Another shocking realization today - the windows in Markus' room!!! WHO MAKES WINDOWS (answer: HDB) THAT GOES ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF A WALL? No matter what kinda super blackout curtains I'm gonna use, light will still creep in! Isn't it common sense the curtain rail or curtain rod should be slightly longer, even by a few centimeters, than a window? I stared at it in disbelief because indeed his curtain on the rod stops a few inches before the end of the window. Argh. Now I've to find out the price of fixing blinds for the room. 

This past weekend

1. Anlynn got her iPhone 7 Plus on US/AUS/SG/CHN launch day, in BP! I am certain she was the only one in BP to have it that day. Lucky her. It's not even launched in Malaysia yet, wtf.

2. Xavier can speak so much now, though it seems like he's always after some kind of drink or other.

3. Speaking of Xavier, his drool inked itself forever on the handle of my LV bag.

4. Finally found a bed. Bed-hunting has been tough (as though trying to work within budget and design and comfort wasn't tough enough, I had other aspects to abide to i.e. superstitions) but I AM SO RELIEVED THAT'S DONE.

5. Next is to settle the wardrobe, dresser and side tables, as the budget gets smaller.

6. Shops in BP open ridiculously late, at 12 p.m. What kinda business do they expect to run?

7. My gel nail kit is finally back from London T__T No more chipped nails, and most importantly, no more split nails.

8. Markus' hair salon uses only the new Dyson hairdryer. Apparently, Dyson decided to sponsor the hairdryers.

9. I had wanted to buy a bottle of peanut butter yesterday at AEON Big (formerly Carrefour). When I got there there was only one bottle of peanut butter left in the size I wanted - and it was opened and consumed. I can't imagine who would open a bottle of peanut butter in the supermarket and take a finger to swipe some peanut butter. I mean, that person must have been seriously hungry!!

10. I formatted by tablet because I keep having problems with my downloaded dramas. After formatting, I still have the same shitty problem - it happens only after I transfer them to my external SD card. Without a doubt now, it's the damn external SD card. I don't know how many precious hours I've spent downloading and redownloading the dramas - and I still can't watch them!

Round isn't always better

Concealers, nail polish, lipgloss, handcreams... 

These things most likely come in a cylindrical bottle/round caps. 

You don't know how annoying it is, and how wonderful angled caps are until you have your hands greasy with hand cream. 

Fashion Week kicks off in NYC

It's already towards the end of New York Fashion Week! 

Happy to see many flower elements (prints, embroidery, sewn-on flowers) for next spring. HUZZAH! 

The problem with buying too many Japanese clothes is that my wardrobe lacks flowers -.- 

Too much zen. 

Also extremely happy to see loose-fitting clothes, like really loose pants. There, all my loose pants will seem slightly more fashionable come spring. 

The real wait though, is to see what comes up at the Milan and Paris shows later this month. 

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Victoria Beckham x Estée Lauder is out!! 

EL ranks highly among my favourite makeup brands (can't do without the eye cream too - I get into panic mode when I run out of it) and I have too many of EL lipsticks. EL has really pretty lip colours. Estée Lauder's foundation is also THE BEST. And I truly genuinely mean, the best. (If you need coverage, that is.)

The mono shadow packaging for VBxEL looks great. Can't wait to check out the colours in person. 

Mummies

Last week, I visited the British Museum and was super intrigued and spooked by the mummies section. 

For a few, the linens were slightly torn, and there was one of an old lady whose body was so intact that it's hard to imagine that was mummified. I always thought the bodies would rot under all the wrapping and all that would be left are bones. But no, from what I learned, there's a layer of resin in the cloth that's used to wrap the corpse so eventually this resin preserves the body and that's how the body of the old woman in the British Museum looked so intact. Her face, still there. Oh my gosh... There was a cavity somewhere near her pelvic bone - that cavity was used to remove all the intestines and fluids. 

The BRAINS of mummies were removed through the nose by a tool, and this the scientists knew because in one of the mummies they found, the CT scan showed a metal rod in the skull where the brain would have been. It was probably a careless undertaker whose rod broke and was left behind.

Having the chills as I write this in my hotel room. 

*saying a little prayer.* 

I guess Calvin wasn't too wrong. 

It's the 12th.

September sure is flying by very quickly. 

I arrived from London on Saturday morning. Slept and woke up in the afternoon, went furniture shopping till the shops closed. On Sunday, Mum and Lynn were here, together with Auntie Eng, to buy stuff for the wedding. After they left, Markus and I went for dinner and I knocked out in the car on the way to meet our photographer. After a discussion with Mr Photographer, I went back to the in-law's place and crashed for another 3 hours. 

Today I've to fly off again to Milan. 

It's so tiring. On my off days the schedule is so packed. 

Wedding planning and my job don't quite go hand in hand. 

7th

So excited I can barely sleep. 

Looking at videos of BB's fanmeets in Macau last weekend (3 shows I think) and I feel so hyped about the KL one already!!

Also today spoke to my Taiwanese colleague about my tour guide for this month's holiday in Taipei... Poor chap always misunderstood. I feel he deserves a Bengawan Solo layer cake. 

This weekend - photographer discussion. Hopefully will have some time to see furniture. And then maybe on Sunday, check out my maid-of-honour's dress. 

Speaking of my MoH, it's so strange to be in London without her. 

I already foresee myself coming back to the hotel every day before 7 p.m. 

....

Looking at the new Aussie 5 dollar bill, Markus made a comment: "She (The Queen, how blatantly rude) looks like she's put on weight."

*speechless* 

Great Fire of London

A 120 meter-long wooden replica of London was built and then burned, just to retell the Great Fire.

Was there such a need to??? 

In this day and age when people are trying to be green and environmentally conscious, they used so much wood and resources to build the replica only to burn it, emitting all the greenhouse gases. 

Can this ever be justified? 

What's the point of retelling the Great Fire this way? Are people going to be more patriotic? Are they going to learn to be more conscious of wooden structures? I doubt at all. It's just pointless. 

Challenge accepted

One of the biggest PITA when it comes to choosing paint colours and furniture colours for a room: The door of the room is brown. 

Because I'm damn kiasu

and because it's too damn cute. 

There are two mosquito repellent bracelets in each pack. Markus will be wearing the other :P 

Random happenings of the day

- Sold an old tube of cleanser which was almost binned. Got $10 for it. Not too bad! That paid for my dinner. 

- No more mosquito repellants and patches in Changi airport. Not in the pharmacies, not in Watsons, not in the supermarket. Oh guess what? No more in Mustafa too. 

- Pre-ordered a BIGBANG lightstick (the ones fans waive in the concerts) online today. When I told Markus about it, he excitedly asked, "Do I have one too?????"

- Wore jeans the entire day today. So I'm not sure why I've a mosquito bite on my shin... And I'm worried. -.- sorry but I do live in the East! 

- Jay Chou was in Orchard Road the same time I was there. Didn't know he was there till I left. 

- Beds are so hard to buy. So are wardrobes 

- Will try to buy mosquito repellants in Shanghai tomorrow. That's the beauty of my job. 

Bridget Jones' Baby

Where have I been??

I didn't know Bridget Jones has a baby... 

Colin Firth and Patrick Dempsey will be starring in that movie! 

Is it even legal to have this much hotness in one movie? 

Written in stone

I'll be moving in with the in-laws after my wedding in the interim while Markus and I find our own nest. 

Nervous as shit. 

The original plan was just bulldozed, sigh, and I really haven't got a choice now. 

The only consolation is that I have been given consent to pick out the new furniture in the room, paint colours and of course curtains.  

To be honest I don't feel comfortable spending a lot of money on the room because one, it's not for long term and two, it's my in-laws' money. 

Looking at all the stuff in my room, I really wonder where the hell are they gonna fit in that house. 

Moving back home from Uni, I chartered a whole cab. 

Moving from Tampines during my 3rd year of flying to my current place, I had to rent a van. 

This time... 

? 

I can foresee all my off days for this month will be planning for this big move, for the upcoming photoshoot and the invitation cards. 

Thankfully, my Taipei itinerary has been planned! 

Day 1

It's the first day of the 8th lunar month today!! 

On the start of this awesome month, I will gift mooncakes to my in-laws. 

The bags of mooncakes have been in my room for days because Chinese customs says you can't give mooncakes during the 7th lunar month. 

"Chinese customs says"... I think you'll see a lot of this on my blog very often from now on. -.-

GONNA SEE BIGBANG!!!!

Yesterday (31st) was the launch of the tickets for their fanmeet in Malaysia. That only 4 members out of the original 5 will be in Malaysia is quite a disappointment but that didn't stop the hundreds of fans camping 2 nights for tickets in Tropicana City mall.
Tickets were to be launched there at 11 am - 3 pm. Online sales start at 3 pm.

Had to rope Markus in to get them tickets.

It was nerve-wrecking especially having seen the massive queue on Facebook. WHAT IF THE AREA I WANTED IS SOLD OUT?

Here's the conversation that went on between Markus and I.

 So at this time... I was on my way to work. I arrived at the airport at 2.59 p.m. Bearing in mind I am not allowed to walk and use the phone while in uniform, I had to quickly find a seat to buy the tickets as soon as it's launched.

 

Can you imagine, I got in at 3:00:01, BUT I COULD NOT BUY IT ON MY PHONE!!!

I was cursing and swearing, and guess what, so was Markus. 

He had taken out all his credit cards but all were rejected. 

He SOS-ed me for a Malaysian credit card so I had to activate Eric to borrow his card details. 

Bless his soul, he immediately messaged Markus the details because the tickets will wait for none.

A few minutes later, while I was already in the briefing room, Markus called to tell me it went through. T____________T

Felt my heart burst as though my child had just taken his first step.

When I arrived back in Singapore a few hours ago, I found out through Facebook that most tickets have been sold including the area I had bought. 

Bigbang is truly massive. And making shitloads of money!
Today is the launch of SG tickets (for their fanmeet a day after Malaysia's) for Citibank cardmembers. I'm guessing most sections will sell out today itself.

Mad excited now!!
THIS IS GONNA BE ONE AWESOME MONTH!!!!!!!! I know it already!