Age - from Surplus to Deficit!

Just in case you are confuse or unaware what surplus and deficit means (it's accounting terms *pushes thick framed glasses like a boring accountant*), scroll all the way down.

In short, surplus is when there is extra. Deficit, on the other hand, means shortage. Not good in the eye of the finance people, but good in the eye of vanity-heals's blogger! 

Yes that's me. 

I remembered how I always look 2 years (otherwise, more) older than my usual age. I get into clubs when I was 14 (legally, 16), get into adult clubs when and watched rated R movies when I was 18 (legally, 21). I hardly get my IC checked when I buy alcohol or ciggies. 

Or perhaps I was so calm it didn't disclose the fact I was a juvenile.

***Not a good example I've led. Minors should not attempt the above things I've done. Not fun anyway.***

Point is, I used to look much older till I was about.. 23? That was when I start getting age deficit, so to say, people are starting to claim I look younger. First they correctly guessed my age. But as I grow older, they start to get it wrong. Averagely, I get compliments that I look at least 2 years younger. 

The importance of skincare - I cannot stress enough how important is that.

Well I guess there are a few things that could make you look youthful:

1) Skincare, skincare, skincare!!!

2) Your behaviour. Maintain a light heart and a jovial personality. Smile even when you don't feel like it, for it takes more muscle to frown. And worse, it leaves you wrinkle!

3) Dressing. Need I elaborate more? You dress old, you look old lah! 

4) Makeup. The heavier is your makeup, the older you'll look.

5) Weight. This one damn sad. But yes, having excessive weight makes one look old. Of course, being severely underweight to the extend that makes one look like a dried prune - is even worse. 

What I'm saying is, always find out your BMI and try to have your weight scaled towards the lighter side. (Gentle reminder, pls lose weight healthily ok!) 

For me, I'm on the heavier side for sure. In fact I'm close to overweight already. So I'm trying to shed some pounds (FOREVER). Good enough, I've lost close to 4kgs since my new job.

People had been telling me I'm complacent because I'm still young. I beg to differ. It's exactly because I keep reminding myself that I'm not young, that pushes me to work towards status quo. The amount of time spent on taking care of my skin is twice as long as I take my bath. Everyday. Insane.

I'm 28 this year. 29 in the Chinese calculation and no, I'm not young. I'm not afraid of saying it. In fact, I'm proud to disclose my age because I'm aging gracefully. 

Accept the fact. Face yourself. Aging can be a beautiful thing if it grows with your soul. 

xoxo!

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Surplus [sur-pluhs, -pluhs] noun, adjective, verb, -plussed or -plused, -plus·sing or -plus·ing. noun 

1. something that remains above what is used or needed. 

2. an amount, quantity, etc., greater than needed. 

3. agricultural produce or a quantity of food grown by a nation or area in excess of its needs, especially such a quantity of food purchased and stored by a governmental program of guaranteeing farmers a specific price for certain crops. 

4.Accounting . 

a.the excess of assets over liabilities accumulated throughout the existence of a business, excepting assets against which stock certificates have been issued; excess of net worth over capital-stock value. b. an amount of assets in excess of what is requisite to meet liabilities. 

 Deficit [def-uh-sit; Brit. also dih-fis-it] noun 

1. the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount. 

2. the amount by which expenditures or liabilities exceed income or assets. 

3. a lack or shortage; deficiency. 

4. a disadvantage, impairment, or handicap: The team's major deficit is its poor pitching. 

5. a loss, as in the operation of a business.

Cr: dictionary.com

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Jungmin will have a voiceover in upcoming drama "Fondant Garden"

Not officially announced, but yes, like rest of the taiwan dramas where korean actor / actress is present, our Jungmin too, will not be spared from a voice dub.

Jungmin's character in Fondant Garden, as what we already knew, would be someone from korea and has a rich family background. Additional information I just found out was that Jungmin would be a Korean Chinese, not pure Korean. Which was probably why they eventually decided to dub Jungmin's voice I guess. Despite the poor boy put in lotsa effort into his chinese learning and we all agreed, it was considered spectacularly good for a korean whom studied the language for such short period, it however, did not seemed good enough to pass off as a Korean Chinese. Thus the decision.

Sad. I had a glimpse of the current aired "Skip Beat" played by Super Junior's Siwon and Donghae, heard their "new voices", and I couldn't bear another second. It just sounded so uncannily weird. I bet same goes to Jungmin. Still, I believe the decision was for the better.

And I'm praying very very hard the drama turns out well.

Nights all! (Geez, it's past 3am already. I don't feel sleepy. But well....)

Go orangey in 2012

So I read on the papers, trend color for 2012 is gonna be Orange. Tangerine. Orange. 

Then, the mum casually remarked Orange, Yellow and Beige - are gonna be the lucky colors.

Beige? Fine. Yellow? Not so much of my color but I own a yellow tank top and I lurve the contrast on me.

But Orange??!??! 

Omgfmlp.

Not that I'm superstitious to stick with the so-called "lucky colors of the year", it's the trend I'm worried about. AND, not because of the trend that I'm gonna follow, I'm worried because...

EVERYMUTHAFU*KG piece of apparel with absolutely stunning design that caught my eye, would come in none other but orange color.

Life in 2012's gonna suck much.

Ok that's abit exaggerated. I kinda felt better knowing that the said color come in this tone:

Chanced upon this while shopping
for my new year clothes.

Very much like red, yet not entirely. Thought of grabbing some CNY clothes and eyed this. Occurs to me that the color's called "Burnt orange". (And it's on its way to my home!)

Digress: wtf why Beatrice Tan so chio ah?!?! Zellousssssss only.

Nice. Not forgetting peach is also in the orange color family. ^______________^

Concidentally, I changed my bedsheet over the w'kends and found out much later that, "hey, my bedsheet's orange.. -_-"

Nail color in.. nude red? 

Perhaps some pictures on the makeup for above dress sometime later? Contemplating if I should do it in earth or nude tones. We'll see.

Abrupt end. 

HAPPY 2012 PEEPS!

I forgot to blog my last post for 2011. :(

So here's one on the 1st day of 2012. May all be well and blessed with abundant joys.

Love ya!

*off to springcleaning*

Sent from Samsung Mobile

kimhyungjun.net 's hard work further recognised

If you ask me, I'd say kimhyungjun.net is, perhaps, much better than other so-called official fan site(s)?

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As if  we don't know that Jjun is aware of both Pretty Boy (from Korea) and our very own local Only Jun, he further showered the site his attention by attaching the self done diagram by crazynoona and tweeting it. 

Sweet boy he is. And I hope he continues to remember the ones whom had been behind him all this while. Whether or not they are his fans.

Happy for her! ^o^

SS501 Kim Hyung Jun - Glowing She

So that's the name of his new drama. Freaking google translated 자체발광 to "Her self-luminous" oh fml please.

Much as I wish to copy the entire damn thing from OnlyJun, it's more blogthical (blog + ethical) to not just copy word for word. So I'm writing abit of nonsense here. Heh. 

Despite knowing the site owner and nice as she is, I probably won't be spared from her tongue lashing either if she knows I were to simply ctrl+c, ctrl+v her (or any other blogger's) work. xDDD

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Please repost with full credit.
Diagram editing NOT allow.

Credits: Only Jun

Information taken from KBS website, translation and diagram done by Only Jun (kimhyungjun.net).

P.S. (why am I so fond of P.S.-ing these days?) See if Wen post anything on PJM's event in Japan later. Will update this space if there are substantial updates from her side. Which I hope there aren't. Cuz the more she updates, less she focus on Jungmin. Let's all not be selfish. ^^v

Bye everybody bye~~~!

떡볶이 Ddeokbokki

Ok NOW then I realised my spelling for ddeokbokki was, always wrong. xD Why make a food's name so complex!! So many "d" and "k".

Googled the ingredients and steps to make a decent one. Seems pretty easy. But I never quite like following cookbook so I hope it turns out well this Saturday.

Mad delicious looking ddeokbokki to DIE for.

That said, here are the ingredients I'm gonna prepare (or at least imagined myself throwing in):

- Rice cake (that's ddeokbukki itself, if you don't what it is, dimwit)

- Hot chilli paste (can be suicidal hot, I read. So this one must be careful)

- Carrots slices

- Cabbage (optional)

- Red chili

- Pork slices (optional)

- Chicken stock / Dried anchovies stock (depending on availability)

- Garlic (would love to throw a few cloves inside, but knowing it's not acceptable by majority mankind, I've gonna give this a miss)

Pretty hassel free huh? Not too sure if I'll get the taste correct or not. Update with pictures soon I hope!

P.S. Though I could escape from xmas gift exchange tradition but it seems like it's unavoidable. ROARS!! Hates gifts shopping. Hmpf. So little time!

P.P.S. Ku De Ta pics up soon! I hope (again). :p My time is not within my control these days.

Signing off!

[MV] Kim Hyun Joong - Marry You

Seen this already? :)

Cool sand art huh? If you ask me, I find something's lacking here. A little bit of sincerity maybe? Not that he's not sincere, but perhaps this song was done in a haste (my speculation lah), so much so KHJ didn't had much time to address it. On the other hand, "Gomapta" was done beautifully. You know, one that can touch the hearts of many even thou KHJ's don't quite *cough cough* sing well. LOL. Still, "Gomapta" made fans understand his sincerity. But.. "Marry You"?

Ok fine fine, he's not sincerely out to marry us thus perhaps fans can't feel it. (You delusional crack. Stop lying to yourself!) But what I'm saying is, the message didn't go through. Or at least the song didn't reach me. I hope they could produce better songs that could accentuate Hyun Joong. Not just any other song released for the sake of releasing..

Afterall, SS501 is very well know for them being sincere, so much so I magnify their every action, hoping to sense sincerity in everything they do. And I refuse to let my standard drop. (Should it even drop in the first place?)

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Digress. KDT called to confirm my reservations. (1st time people go fine dining so let me rant about it k?) Cas was saying they will need a minimum spending of $100 PER pax to dine in the restaurant. I nearly died. Read on.

Not quite because of the money. Frankly, I usually set aside $100 odd budget for my gf's birthday so it's fine. But looking at the menu, each dish cost average of $25. Meaning to say, we have to clear 4 dish per person??!!??

Right. Maybe 3 dish + 1 drink. Still, it's too much for a girl, no? Especially when we are both 1) on diet and 2) realised we no longer eat as much as we were younger. (which was why we decided to not go for hotel buffet anymore and opt for the more.. dainty cuisines) Or, we have to order something higher priced which may not be what we feel like eating? Damn sian lor like that.

Well thankfully, the minimum spending wasn't true. Heh.

Here's a pic I googled, superb scenery.

At the same time, I read even more feedback on their exorbitant pricing, so-so cuisine, mostly 1 star out of 5. Sian. -_-" Don't care lah, I already ask that girl not to pin too much hope on the food, pay attention on the atas environment.

You know what's her reply?

"It's the company that is important!!"

Dawwwwwwh~

너모 피곤해!!

Haven't been sleeping well lately, thus the shoutout. Was having moodswing yesterday. No, not the monthly-affair-moodswing. It's just-moodswing-moodswing, you roger? Mine usually last for half a day, yesterday's one lasted for some good 24 hours. Bah. Chi and Von suggested chocolate which unfortunately, I don't have any in office. Nearest store that sells tidbits? Too far.

아주 피곤해.
너모 피곤해!!

Thought the moodswing will cease today. Fine. Somehow, it did. But the weariness came. So much so I couldn't even bring myself to "wear" the mask I usually wore to smile at people. The face was as shitty than shit itself, if you saw me walking along the streets of Orchard 9:30 in the morning.

On a side note, I've cut my hair! If you've followed my blog for long enough, you'd have knew that I'm always a long hair. (Still is)

It became my goal to have my hair lengthed 100cm before I chop it off. Or, not any time earlier than Meanie's big day. That's like, March next year. But it's no surprise, I've been ranting about cutting my hair short (shorter?) since early this year. The last time I measured how long was my hair, was 3 months back? Tape showed +/- 70cm..

That length was like, easily around my hip.<

And I cut it till....

This short? It's sitting somewhere slightly below the shoulder now. Much as I would LURRRVE to chop it way shorter, I heard devils (or angels?) telling me "Don't! Don't do it!! Short hair doesn't suits you!!"

Damn you.

Ok I confess, those damn devils are the honest feedbacks I got from friends. And I jolly well know my effing round face doesn't compliment short hair. Or the other way round. Whatever.

1 year of ranting to cut my hair short, it didn't work. Instead, it took me no longer than 30 seconds to tell my stylist, "Ok, let's do it."

Me: Feel like cutting my hair. Should I?

Stylist: CUT IT!!!
Me: Don't say cut just because you stylist have the fetish for cutting long hair short! (They do!)
Stylist: No. I mean it.
Me: How short do you think I should go?
Stylist: This short *gestures* Then the bottom part you can *gesture* curve in.
Me: *smiles* That's exactly what I'm thinking. Ok let's do it."

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Theme fuschia x'mas makeup I tried the other day. Pity non of my cameras could do justice to the colour. Maybe it's just my skills. :(

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Gonna head to Ku De Ta at Marina Bay Sands coming Friday. I'm praying I get to get some nice shots on the beautiful scenary that Ku De Ta promises. Thou I'm mentally prepared the food there ain't gonna be fabulicious based on the feedback of food critics. Orignally wanted 1-Altitude but, sigh, fully booked. Tsk.

B's doing potluck for her x'mas partayyyy~! Oh gawd I hate potlucks. How how how?

I keep having the thought "What if everyone does Pizza or KFC?!!"

Lol.

P.S. Can't wait for Jungmin's calendar to arrive! Kekekeke. Kudos to Shewen. Lalalala~ (haven't find a time to pay Chi... :p)

P.P.S. I feel old with short hair actually. What say you guys?

Test test!

Two thousand and one things to do I finally resort to mobile blogging!

So I can still update this space when I'm on-the-go. ^^

I hope everyone is well! Kinda happy lately because.. well.. there's news on JM. And pretty flooded with awsssssome pics. Kkkkkk.

Sent from Samsung Mobile

11.11.11

Happy 11.11.11 lovelies!

This day happens once every 100 years, so aren't you glad you lived to witness it? I am!

Not only that, it's Pepero day too. ♡◕‿◕♡ A day where you have the reason to confess your love to someone or even better, get confessed at! Plus, it's a Friday (on my side), good day to go dating, catch some late movies and get some love blossoming eh? *winks*

Updates

Good Monday morning y'all! So many things going on, pretty out of thoughts. Work had been hectic, as usual. Rough Monday morning I had. Or rather, rough Sun night I had thanks to work, so it kinda dragged to this morning.

Changed my phone to Samsung Galaxy S2! So far so good. No complaints aside the battery, which drains rather fast, imo. Had to charge every day. I later found out from tweeps that it's normal.

Yeah, touch screen. Graphic intensive. What am I expecting for, right? Lol. That's because I can charge my BB every 1 1/2 day. Sometimes, even charging it after 2 days. Which is very powerful compared to this one I'm holding onto now.

Adjusting to touch screen (I had a bad experience with HTC Touch back then so I swore not to use it until.. read on) phone because I've been using Blackberry. Good ol' Blackberry hasn't failed me (that much) but the fact that its lack of applications (which is quite a deal these days, else you get outdated) really got me worried so I had to source for something else. Considering I'm in the IT industry, it daunts me how far I've lacked behind in terms of technology. Everyone knows Technology advances F1 fast.

Still heart my blackberry.

Anyway anyway, I'm jetting off in, less than 20 hours' time. Going on hollies!

And where will I be?












No. Not Korea. Yet. Unfortunately. :( But soon. Soon. Sooooon.










And meanwhile,

I'll be taking a quite break here. ^^

Updates when I'm back, lovelies!

*P.S. Haven't pack my luggage!

Will the Yesterday be here today?

These babies should be on their way here already. Is yours inside? ^^ It'll probably be if you placed your orders via Quainte!

Many thanks to Wen for helping us lug all the 75 copies of CDs + posters. Can't wait, can you? ^^

Learn to appreciate, even in the reel world

Today's blog is gonna be a lengthy one.

Moral of today's entry: Learn to appreciate things in life.

Logical right? No. Not to some people apparently. Imma telling why.

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Rainy day today. I'm feeling sluggish because of the headache. And thanks to buddy's iPen plus Mac's piping hot coffee, I'm feeling cloud nine again. Yes I'm skiving, while waiting for some things to happen in office. Pending stuffs that's never gonna move if I were to procrastinate. But I'm too lazy to follow up so, yeah.

Anyway, today's topic is about people not being appreciative. Mostly the juveniles, if you ask me.

Now if you've read my blog long enough, you'd know by now, that fangirling constitutes to a substantial portion of my life. Yes, it all started with handsome looking boys, but at times, it's the company that moves you on.

Imagine, if you were to join an ECA you heart so much. So, so much. But the fellow mates sucks? On the contrary, you work for a company that is just so-so, but the colleagues are simply anglic, you feel like glueing yourself to the company and never leave? Yeah, that's what I mean.

What inspired me to blog today, was because someone snapped at me in YT yesterday. (Petty much huh? Lol) Frankly, it didn't matter lah. I couldn't be bothered, but it somehow struck me to use this as a splinter to start the topic, which I wanted to pen about but couldn't find enough contents that frustrates me. So now I finally have.

I'm not taking this whole fandom thingy seriously, trust me. But it occurs to me, if this is the way people are behaving, then there's no hope for mankind.

"Learning to appreciate things in life." Every one knows that. So, why aren't some people appreciating the efforts of others - in fandom?

Scenario 1) Bloggers

I salute fandom bloggers I tell you. It never fails to amaze me how can they do their entries so timely. And not only that, bloggers are also feeding information via their twitter these days so, more responsibilities.

So this is the equation:

Blogger wakes up in the morning, goes to school/work,

+ She tries to stay updated with the information with her smartphone,

+ She continues to focus in her lesson/work,

+ She makes mistakes in lessons/work, like anyone,

+ She tries to be accurate and timely in providing the latest news and information,

+ Blogger gets busy, she gets desperate and perhaps she ask someone to update her blog for her,

+ Blogger finish school/work, she rushes back home to continue updating the news.

=

People ranting at her not being timely.

People expect her to be all mighty and perfect in blogger's entries. Cannot make mistake.

People gets angry when the blogger herself moderate her blog to keep peace.

People threaten. (LMAO)

People cannot take it when blogger gets frustrated and rant abit in twitter.

People start anti the blogger for the above reasons.

Make sense or not? You tell me.

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Senario 2) Subbers

Wah this one also daebak. I knew subbing was no easy feat. But not until I tried it myself. I actually signed up with some subber group to do Chinese - English subbing. They gave me 2 clips (clips, not even 1 episode) to try subbing. That's like about 10minutes per clip. So a total of 20 minutes of contents to sub - I gave up. Insane. It took me close to an hour odd to sub a 15 minutes clip.. Then again, maybe it's my incompetence.

Again, equation:

Subber wakes up in the morning, goes to school/work,
+ She makes mistakes in lessons/work, like anyone,

+ She tries to be accurate and timely in her subbing,

+ Subber finish school/work, she rushes back home to continue subbing the video,

+ Subber finally finished 1 episode and faster faster upload.

=

People ranting at her not being timely.

People expect her to be all mighty and perfect in her video. Cannot make mistake.

People write private mails to subber and complain subber is very slow, why can't she be faster?

People cannot take it when subber gets frustrated.

People start anti the subber for the above reasons.

Fair or not? You tell me.

So, you telling me - today you feel like doing charity. You charitably give someone $5. The receiver slap you and say "Look, if you wanna give, give $1,000. Don't give $5. You might as well go and die if you wanna give me $5."

No that this is happening, but people are doing something similar to make the those that put in effort - feel this way.

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Senario 3) Complaints

Everyone can complain. If those on the receiving end can complain, then why can't those that are giving, complain?? It just doesn't make sense.

Very classic examples I'm gonna use here. Say, someone says the person you admire is UGLY, or FAT and actually tweets to his account. Well, he probably won't see it. Or he might. I really don't know. But my question is, if you are a so-called fan, would you tell your idol upfront that he is ugly or fat? And your sentence have no signs indicating you are joking?

On the contrary, this particular person, who had been putting in lotsa effort in supporting that same person, got vocal and stood up for her idol that had been criticise by a fellow fan.

Wrong meh? You tell me.

However, what I saw was people's rebuttal. Claiming the fan (who was apparently voicing out the criticism from others to her idol) insane, mad, crazy etc.

I know, everyone has the freedom of speech. No one is to pin point anyone for any remarks on any person.

But thing is, Fan A took action because Fan B is directly telling their idol "Hey, you look ugly."

Taking action under such circumstances wrong meh? You tell me.

Since when was standing up for the ones you like or admire, something wrong?

Since when did anyone owe you a blog update or nice pictures?

Since when did anyone owe you a translation from Korean to English video clip?

I don't know.

Perhaps that's the reason why more and more major account are going MIA. Because the (unecessary) response is just undeserving at times.

So my dear girls, think. As you grow, learning to appreciate is a great deal. You'd like people to appreciate you too. Learn to construct your thoughts before you voice something negative out. If you can't, then don't. Don't say anything at all.

If you wish to tell you friend that his or her new haircut doesn't suits her, you don't go "Hey, you look so ugly in your new style." - you do it subtly or you don't do it at all, no?

P.S. I'm not saying these because those people I've mentioned, are my friends. I reason out. I analyse. Sure, they might be nasty when they tell fans off. But I'm telling you, they are nastier in real. Fans are generally kinder towards their fellow fans, because they are in the same circle. It's normal for people to recipocrate, when you are nice to someone, he or she returns. Same applies when you are nasty to someone.

Xoxo!

Jungmin's screwed style

I know this boy is adventurous when it comes to trying out new styles. Other than the bowl cut hair back in Korea, he was almost perfect in choosing his styles and fashions.

Not until recently, when he was in Taiwan. Everything seemed.. so wrong. I've haven't seen anything decent in his fashion sense except the one he took during the filming. Thank gawd that looked least shocking. Nothing remarkable, but at least not shocking.

Image credits: Liezle's blog

Just check these out la, I think Taiwan's screwing his styles and I''m guessing he can't comment much since he's almost foreign to that country's entertainment industry.

Hair is fine......

... but not the outfit.

This is ok but again, not entrancing. My boy so handsome yet all you all can do is to either uglify him or make him plain like Jane.

And this, I feel should be printed on magazines back in the 1990s.

发型师，造型师，这小孩那里得罪你们啦？干嘛这样对他？？！！