Liking your own photo

Have you got a friend with more than one Facebook account who likes her own photos and posts with those extra accounts??

I don’t get it.

There is this ‘friend’ who has I think two other accounts, I don’t know for what reason, and when she posts a selfie, she will use her other accounts to like her post from her primary account.
WHY?
What does that do for her???
If gratification came from others liking your posts, then why do you have to like your own? Of gratification came from the number of likes, you know liking your own post just to increase the number by 2-3 is lying to yourself right?
I don’t understand these people. Kindly enlighten me. 

Here to save your lips!

Hello from South Africa!

I’ve been wanting to share this on my blog for weeks now but I just didn’t get around to doing it, mianhe. 

It is my favorite lip balm and I think you all ought to know about this goody since matte lipsticks are the rage and it is essential to have soft, moisturized lips to rock those matte colours.

I’m sure we’ve gone through numerous drugstore brands like Nivea and Vaseline, which is the supposed cheap multi-purpose wax.
None worked nicely for me.



THIS ONE, Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Lip Cream is something I can’t leave home without. Take it from yours truly, when I say this is probably the best to prevent dry cracked lips as I wear thick matte lipsticks for work for as long as 18 hours a day each time (and planes have a notorious reputation for low air humidity). I travel to cold countries, sleep in hotel rooms with air-conditioning/heating on 24/7. Worse, now that I live with Markus, back in Singapore I sleep with air-conditioning on all-night too (something I’d never done for almost 32 years of my life).

The Eight Hour Lip Cream does a perfect job at soothing dry or even cracked lips, and for maintenance it keeps your lips smooth and hydrated too. Best thing about this? It costs only approximately S$10 if you get it at duty free.

There are a few versions of the Eight Hour cream/balms.
I use the one in a tin.
I personally do not like the one in the squeeze tube because I find it too runny. There is another version of this which smells the same, in a lipstick version but it is pricey. Then there is the jar version, ie this:

Since it is a repair balm, it is expected to work especially well on really dry and chapped lips. To be honest, I haven’t had such lips since I started using the Eight Hour Lip Cream but I bought this Repair Balm anyway. 

I’ve used it at night sometimes but due to its harder texture, I find it hard to get appropriate amounts of it out of the jar. It melts once you spread it out on the lips though. As such I still turn to the tin version on most occasions. 

If you are planning to use a matte lipstick or lip cream for the day, I recommend that you prep your lips with the Eight Hour Lip Cream first while you do most of your makeup. When the lips are nicely prepped just gently wipe away the excess cream before putting on the lipstick/lip cream. 

Muscle aching everywhere

Yesterday was the longest I've gone without sleeping. A little over 48 hours. Fml.
I woke up at 7.30 am in London (MYT 2.30 pm) on Friday and then spent a whole day out. Incidentally that was the day there was an attack on the London Tube which thankfully NO ONE DIED.
That night I couldn't sleep at all. I went to work faced with full load on a day flight. Because of no rest the night before I tired very quickly. My feet had already started to ache by the end of the first meal service. When crew rest period came I still couldn't sleep a wink.
Arrived in Singapore at 7.15 am. When I got home I only had time for a short nap before my taxi to BP came.
In the cab the air-condition was almost non-existent. It was stuffy and my thighs were sweating against the leather seat. It was bloody uncomfortable. I finally slept when I arrived in BP, at 4 pm.

When I woke up from my sleep I felt my feet and leg muscles and my entire back sore.
They muscles still feel sore now. I need a good massage.

When people think I've no sleeping problems, that I can sleep on demand, they forget I also have bad sleeping days. No matter how tired, how drained, the mind just won't shut off. 

That time of the year

Every year there'll be a time when Singapore is flooded with even more Ang Mohs.
Plenty of parties are lined up for the week too.
It's party town until Sunday!

Proud of myself

I went for a massage yesterday and that marked the second time I was able to say NO to those pushy salespeople trying to sell me a package.
The first time was many months ago, it was hard saying no because the massage was really good and the masseuse was those who really just does her job and didn't talk much. Most times people talk too much just to create rapport so that you'll buy a package at the end of it.
Yesterday's massage was mediocre, though it was cheap. The package is $380 for 10 times. $38 a session, how cheap is that?! However I didn't like the place most of all - I could hear everyone's conversations. It was just not relaxing. There were two men whose voices were so clear and one of those men's phone rang in the middle of his massage and he carried on a conversation there. I just did not feel relaxed. Notwithstanding my masseuse who probed too much into my personal life - 70% of what I told her were lies.
I told her I didn't work, I'm a housewife. Just to prep her since I knew she would sell me a package. Woman, housewives ain't got no income.


Speaking of housewife...
I mopped the house 3 times over today. This place is so dusty it's unbelievable. I'm sure it is also because just a stone's throw away there is a lot of work going on for an MRT station that's due to open next month but the dust is just...!! I could mop the floor in the day and by night my feet would be black just walking around the house.
How did I mop 3 times today? Because after twice, my feet were still black. Hence the third time.
No there won't be a fourth round today.