Dance like no one's watching

My favourite game in Facebook now – My City.  Hehe… add citizens into your virtual city and watch it grow.

Two of my favourite so far…

I thought the McDonald’s was so cool!

Then for some reason it changed to Mobil… but that’s still ok given the surging oil prices.  Haha.

A city I created for Iceman!  Haha… cute eh?  😛

  Okie.. that’s all for now.  Goodnight!

I’m upset.  This week mega sucks.  I was so looking forward to trying out mineral makeup foundation so I left work at 6:30pm to check out Glominerals at True Colour at Ngee Ann City.  Booze Queen came along.  A non-English speaking woman served us.  While I was ok with it… it kind of annoys me now why should I, as the customer, accommodate a sales person’s incompetency when I should’ve insisted on an English speaking staff serving me. 

But I digress.  The first foundation the woman let me try was a little too whitish.  Made my face look a little ghostly.  She insisted that was the best shade because the colour will "oxidise" after a while.  So I waited a while.  It was still as white.  We left the shop after I found out that the foundation cost $82.80.  That’s twice as much as what I pay for at MAC and I wasn’t sure if it was worth forking out the money for.

We then went to MAC to check out the mineral makeup range.  Unfortunately, the "mineralised foundation" that MAC has only comes in liquid form.  I hate liquid foundation.  Too much trouble to apply. 

We eventually went back to True Colour and I asked the cheena woman to let me try a shade darker than the whitish foundation she recommended the first time round.  This time, the colour she recommended turned out to be a little pinkish.  Which was still rather contrasting to my neck colour. 

Booze Queen then found a honey tone, which looked a lot closer to my skin tone (which is quite yellowish).  We still felt it was a little light so the cheena woman got a darker shade for me to try.  When she applied the foundation on my chin, it blended well with my neck colour.  I also brushed on the foundation on my inner forearm and it blended with my skin.  I was quite pleased and went ahead with the purchase.

After I got home, I removed my makeup and excitedly tried on the new foundation.  GOOD GRIEF.  The colour was so dark!!  It’s sooo dark that my face turned brown.  I can pass off as a Malay.  It’s THAT dark.  I was totally shocked.  How can the colour look so different from the shop and at home?  Was it because of the brush the cheena woman used to apply the foundation?  Did the brush give a much lighter colour?  And at home, using the thin and fur-like sponge, the colour came out too dark? 

I cleaned off the foundation completely and re-applied, using a very light touch of my fingers.  The result was still as dark.  WHAT THE HELL happened?  It’s so dark I could probably give it to Bubbs or XLS to try! 

I’m extremely displeased about it.  Going to the shop to make noise tomorrow.  I wonder if it’s the lighting at the shop that distorted the colour?  I did complain at the shop that their lighting made it very difficult to see the makeup.  But I highly doubt they’ll let me change to a lighter shade.  After all, what will they do with the one I’ve opened?  Not sure if I want to get a lighter shade.  It’s too much money to spend on 1 bloody foundation.  Grrr.  This is a freaky sucky week. 

This pic was taken some time back… when I was headed to Cityhall area to meet Iceman.  I can’t remember for sure which ECP entrance was this… it’s either the entrance coming from Marine Parade or from Xilin Avenue. 

Anyway, there was this bad jam on the road and I was wondering why on earth was there a jam on a Sunday afternoon.. aha!  Saw from far that some driver very brilliantly drove into the ditch. 

Managed to get this shot when my car was inching around the bend.  No one was injured… saw the owners of the car standing and watching the tow truck yank their car out of the ditch.  Sigh.  Wonder how fast they must’ve been going to have flown off the road.  Really lucky for them that no one was hurt.

Talking about accidents.  NTU Buddy wasn’t so lucky.  Spoke to him briefly over MSN 2 nights ago.  His car is in the workshop ‘cos the back got smashed in quite badly by another car.  He said he suffered slight injuries too but didn’t elaborate (I’m guessing whiplash).  He said he’ll tell me the details when we next meet up but in a nutshell, some guy rammed into his car and almost immediately, another car with 2 guys inside appeared.  These 2 guys said they were friends of the first guy and that they happened to be mechanics.  I think they tried to make a deal with Buddy to fix his car but Buddy said it was damn obvious that the whole thing was a scam.

He’s going to claim on his car insurance policy.  I said he should’ve reported the incident to the police and let the police investigate to see if it was really a scam.  Reporting the accident to the insurer isn’t enough!  Will get more details from him when we meet.

Till then… it’s bedtime once again.  Heh.  Nitez…

Ah!  Another pic from the hp.  I used to like to go to this corner coffeeshop that’s opposite Katong Mall for its Western food stall.  The food is cheap & good but I stopped going in the past year ‘cos it’s really difficult getting cheap parking there.  Anyway, the good news is, the Western food stall has set up a branch at Tampines St 11!  Woohoo!  Check it out if you’re ever at Tampines St 11!

I had the spicy chicken spaghetti when I was there last week.  All pastas come with a Soup of the Day (which you’ll find out is always the Cream of Mushroom Soup) and a slice of garlic bread.  The meal costs $6.50.  Worth it right?

My parents had a steak each.  The steak comes with 2 side dishes (you can choose from a very delectable selection of hot/cold side dishes like potato salad, garden pasta, corn on the cob – reminds me a lot of Kenny Rogers).  Price of the meal?  Around $10 each.  Really yummy too!  (I love the potato salad!!  The dressing was fantastic!  *Slurp*).

I think Astons Express has a few more branches around Singapore so be sure to try it if you come across the stall!

Had lunch with my ex-shifu last week and tried this new drink at TCC.  It’s called the Perfect Match – a latte infused with rose syrup (Ok.. not the bandung type.  Something lighter).  It’s really pretty good.  Quite liked it.  🙂

It’s here!  Finally!  My Manhattan card has arrived.  Came in the mail today but with a few errors on the letter it arrived with.  The letter said there will be an annual card fee of $180 but the website said the card fee will be waived for 2 years. 

So I called SCB up and was informed by a guy named Chuan that the letter is wrong.  Quite a common complaint it seems because before I could complete my sentence about the annual fee in the letter, Chuan said they’ve had a few calls on this.  Anyway, he double checked and confirmed that the card fee is waived.

I also got Chuan to confirm that I’ll be getting the $20 cash rebate in my card next month.  Yeah!  The card looks nice man.  I’m happy.  Too bad the only pen I had to sign my signature with was this cheapo ballpoint with a really thin nib.  So my signature turned out to be this scrawly scratch.  Sigh.

Called the SCB credit card application hotline again today.  The automated system said my Manhattan Card was approved on 11th Jul and if I don’t get it by 14th Jul, to call them again.  Liars lor!  I called the automated system on Friday and my card wasn’t approved yet.  Hmph!  What’s this man!  Backdating the processing completion date to meet some fake TAT (Turn Around Time)?  Terrible.  Checked my mailbox in the evening just now.  No Manhattan Card was there.  It better come tomorrow…

And SCB never called me back nor replied my feedback about their crappy services.  Yucks.  If not for the 5% rebate that I’m aiming for, I wouldn’t bother with this crappy bank.  The bank better not cheat my $20 credit that’s supposed to come with all card applications before 30th June lor!  ‘Cos I definitely applied on either 25th or 26th June.  Grr…

Ok… gotta go put some sticky antibiotic medicine into my eye.  Yeah… hope it recovers completely by tomorrow.  Feel like using mascara leh.  Sigh.

Got this from Azure.  This email is such a Joker.

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"FCUK The Dark Knight" just sounds darn wrong… what were the marketing folks thinking!

Really must applaud Lorelei on her wonderful WordPress themes.  These are the 3 that I downloaded… still can’t settle on which one looks best.  Heh… so I might be switching them around for a while. What’s your opinion?

Japanese Fleur – This was the first to catch my eye.

Flora Scent – Then I downloaded this ‘cos I liked the colours.

Divalicious – This is damn cool too!  Heh.

Sigh.  It’s such a dreary Monday.  Didn’t go to work ‘cos I was sneezing my head off after I got up.  Went back to sleep and woke up with a red, swollen and watery right eye.  Went to the doc in the afternoon & got MC & medicine.  Felt pretty much back to normal in the late afternoon.. then the time of the month arrived and I was stuck with a horrible stomachache in the loo.  Argh.

Today sucks.

P.S. Decided to go with the Divalicious theme ‘cos I’m feeling grumpy & moody (read: diva-ish) ‘cos my tummy hurts.  Bleah!

Sigh.  I’ve joined Advertlets for close to a year now (including the 3-4 months when I removed the stupid Advertlets code from my blog ‘cos the company so spectacularly messed up their domain name renewal) and sad to say, my earnings are about RM 20+, which is way below the cash out limit of RM 100 set for Singapore blogs.

I was thinking about Nuffnang again with the latest overhaul of my blog and I decided to do an online search to see which is the better ad server.  I thought I would find posts on pros and cons of the 2 ad servers but no… all I found were users complaining that Advertlets doesn’t pay!  And when it does, it pays a discounted amount of the earnings recorded and the reason given is always "fraud" by the user.  If it was really "fraud", then why on earth did Advertlets allow the user to continue earning $$ on the account?  Or does it only become "fraud" when a user wants to cash out?

I am appalled.  That RM 20+ I have in my account so far (assuming it’s really there), was painstakingly earned.  I don’t advertise my blog so readership is limited to pretty much my friends and some kind strangers who follow the stuff I gripe about.  While I don’t usually trust easily what I read on the Internet, the fact that Advertlets can mess up their domain name renewal has greatly discredited their ability in my eyes.

So I’ve decided to revert to Nuffnang… which was the first ad server I signed up for last year, but abandoned because I wasn’t getting any ads served to my blog.  A pleasant surprise this time round because once I uploaded the Nuffnang code, I got a STB ad right away.  Yay!  So please help support this blog (it costs about SGD 18+ monthly) and click on the Nuffnang ad ok?

Thanks!

P.S. A (far from exhaustive) list of the complaints on Advertlets can be found here.