Its been a long long time....

Its been a long long time being away from the blogging world which I had been so obsessed previously. Occasionally, I had wantted to blog, but so often I felt so exhausted after work which I could not push myself to do something which I had pre-loved, and that was -> to blog.

Perhaps it was due to the broken relationship that I stopped blogging, perhaps it was the hectic lifestyle which I had been ongoing, perhaps it was due to my job etc. etc. etc. When I visited Nuffnang awhile ago, I was shocked by the changes they had undergone. It was no longer that familiar layout which I was once so familiar with... I had also visited the bloggers which I had idolised, one of them was XX, and I am really proud of her. She had continued to blog till today - a whipping 10 years blog! Never once had she stopped her blogging, and it was really amazing.

I felt ashamed should I be comparing my blog to hers, all ended down to one four-letter word - I am too LAZY. Hmm... I would try to continue blogging like this, but seriously, I hope I can sustain. Else, it would be another post after months and months...

I just could not understand why I am unable to commit to myself and have more determination in doing stuff. Spending weekends doing nothing but dozing off naps after naps although keeping late nights into wee hours of the morning.

Hmm... guess that I should turn in for now.

The Wrath of The Titans

I had not been watching movies for quite a long time, especially now that there is no special someone to watch movies along with me anymore. Having watched The Clash of The Titans previously, somehow, there is a strong urge to watch The Wrath of The Titans after I watched the movie trailer advertisement.

Managed to convince JX to watch it with me and hence the movie at Lot1 theaters.

An epilogue to The Clash of The Titans, The Wrath of The Titans moved towards the life of Perseus after he defeated the Kracken in the previous movie and went off to lead a humane life, got married and had a son. His father - God Zeus came to look for him one fine day and elaborated the end of mankind and the upcoming disasters they would be facing in the very near future, and the plot slowly revolves after that.....

But honestly, I would say - this time round, I will only give a 3-star rating to this movie epilogue, although I should have admit that 3D graphics are awesome for such a show. Nevertheless, the impact is not overwhelming, and the storyline is basically ridiculously simple and short.

The action and impact and suspense brought throughout the movie - of the journey Perseus took in search of Hell (where Zeus is caught in captive), to the point where he tried to defeat "Kronos" is insufficient to compensate for the brief ending "fight with Kronos" and the deliberately short story and simplified plot.

Undeniably, I should have admitted that I have enjoyed the scenes though.

Hong Kong People Are Dogs? - Judge It Yourself...

If you are a Chinese, you would be interested in the title and how well-proclaimed the Chinese Nationals are since they declared themselves that all Chinese should be united.
 With such a remark of calling Hong Kong people dogs
by infamous China Professor Kong Qingdong,
I seriously wonder how "true" the meaning of Unity for China.
and trust me, I am mocking at you alright!

Because
as a Chinese myself,
I seriously felt disgraced by you,
 needless to say  -
disgraced to be a Chinese.

My frustration was spiked after watching this particular China News Telecast of "Professor" Kong criticizing the Hong Kong people on the youtube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nUkiaDS3g4

 The criticism was sparked when a Mainland visitor was reprimanded by the Hong Kong people for eating in the Hong Kong train.
As one would have imagined, how serious was that?

 "Are you dumb, Mr Professor?"

Even a 3-year old kid
would have known that it is wrong to eat on the train.

But seriously, with his crude remarks,
I am deeply disturbed by his remarks,
seriously traumatized
despite that I had nothing to do with this.

Some very disturbing critics and accusations Farktard Kong have made (*claps*)
"I really wonder how did you manage to make it to being a Professor when you have straw brain?"

Critic 1

 - "Everybody should have a duty to speak Mandarin," Farktard Kong added he is a descendent of Confucious..

Critic 2

 - "What type of people are those who deliberately don't speak Mandarin? Bastards!"

Critic 3

 - "What type of people are those who deliberately don't speak Mandarin? Bastards!"

Critic 4

 - "As far as I know, many Hong Kong people don't regard themselves as Chinese. Those kinds of people are used to being the dogs of British colonialists - they are dogs, not humans."

Critic 5

-"the British dealt with "Hong Kong dogs by spanking them" before they handed the territory back to China in 1997."

Critic 6

-"Hong Kong people are so arrogant despite living in bird cages."

Critic 7

-"Hong Kong people only look down on mainlanders, did you ever see them reprimanding visitors of other nationals - Japan / Asia / Europe?"

Critic 8

-"(newscaster:" There are fines implemented for offenders") Farktard Kong: "NO - enforcement is only necessary for dogs because they do not have morals. An example of fine is Singapore - they implement heavy fines for offenders..." (this triggered my anger, and I as an outsider, suddenly felt my blood boiling.)

  

Critic 9

-"If Hong Kong people are so damned determined to look down on the mainlanders, we do not want them, we do not need the merger!"

Although I have no feud with China, 

neither am I from Hong Kong, 

and I'm definitely not a political person,

But Dear Mr. Farktard, please look at yourself in the mirror before you criticize anybody, and I believe everyone will be relieved if you had put your brain to good use.

Point (1)

Another clip from youtube had shown the little mainlander boy asking his mother to admit her mistake (I believed it was the adult whom had been caught eating on the train, and the adult - apparently the little boy's mother signalling a "quiet" sign to him asking her son to shut up.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEComrx76uY 

Excuse me, even a young kid know how to differentiate right from wrong,

How old are you "Professor"? 

or are you are too dumb to understand that 

"Eating in train is forbidden?" 

If such, Do you usually do that when you visit other countries?

Besides, 

I seriously think it is fucking god damn bloody childish to criticize such an act 

and make a hell out of it.

Point (2)

"Everybody should have a duty to speak Mandarin," 

Professor, may we know which dialect group you are from? Speaking of such, it will be good if you constantly travel around in China itself, since there are so many parts of it whereby the Chinese are still speaking in their own native dialect / language (whatever you call it), and I think a "professor" will come in handy to educate all of them,

 to speak Mandarin!

I think you will sound more logical 

once every single Chinese National in your China (especially rural areas) manage to speak mandarin.

Point 3

"What type of people are those who deliberately don't speak Mandarin? Bastards!"

- which is the reason why I will acknowledge you as a Farktard instead of Professor. 

I doubt Obama speaks Mandarin? Koizumi speaks Mandarin? You are declaring to all - whom doesn't speak Mandarin is a Bastard.

 - A true Bastard is one who calls the others Bastards. -

Point 4   

"As far as I know, many Hong Kong people don't regard themselves as Chinese. Those kinds of people are used to being the dogs of British colonialists - they are dogs, not humans."

-  you are ridiculing yourself. - Comparing a human to a beast? 

Who can be worse than your fellow China-mates who'd rather kill thousands of infants by not reporting the news of the poisonous milk powder so as not to create any panic during the China Olympic Games?

Who can be worse that your fellow China-mates who rear dogs for their fur and skinning them alive while dumping them altogether in a bin?

Who can be so inhuman than your fellow China mates who eat everything which is alive and can be eaten and spreading around all sort of epidemics outbreak around the world?

Are you saying that only those who acknowledges you and respects you despite knowing such right and wrong are then considered humans? Or humans should be the honor to those who are too coward to make a stand?

Point 5

  "Hong Kong people are so arrogant despite living in bird cages."

I believe you are referring to those living in small squatters, and those HDB-like buildings / blocks which are very small and narrow. 

And please may I ask you perhaps - How many homeless are there now in China due to the floods / typhoons / earthquakes or any other natural disaster?

I think anyone who cannot afford the better is contented to their cosy little house, and I believe if you are really knowledgeable, I suppose you can see that in many rural places, they do NOT even have a house. 

 and Therefore, is that the way you differentiate between the rich and the poor?

This only reflects on how narrow-minded you are, 

and definitely one who despise on the less fortunate. 

Point 6

"Hong Kong people only look down on mainlanders, did you ever see them reprimanding visitors of other nationals - Japan / Asia / Europe?"   

I might be wrong, but I guessed the answer is due to the visitors of other nationality respects the Country more than you mainlanders do, and they know the meaning of "Do" and Do Not", they read and obey, not making a ruckus out of it.

 

Point 7

-"NO law enforcement is only necessary for dogs because they do not have morals. An example of fine is Singapore - they implement heavy fines for offenders..."

Mr. Farktard, I believe that you seldom travel, which is why your foresight is so narrow, please let me know if you have the chance to visit Singapore, and let me show you the difference of cleanliness and hygiene as per compared to your Homeland. 

And if time permits, perhaps you would like to have a look at how unlawful your fellow China mates are in Singapore? 

 - throwing rubbish everywhere, spitting, china woman con old man's $, china prostitutes appearing in areas of Geylang and Joo Chiat, talking about swindling and cheating - nobody fairs better than your China fellow mates in Singapore. 

Are you aware of all this Farktard?

 and We Singaporeans really hate to admit to the fact that 

"do not litter" advertorials had to be filmed of you fellow China mates to educate all of you Chinese NOT TO LITTER IN OTHER PEOPLE'S COUNTRIES!

Don't your own country teach you that?

-you guys are just hiding in the dirty laundries-

Point 8

-"If Hong Kong people are so damned determined to look down on the mainlanders, we do not want them, we do not need the merger!"

 Fuck you, and get your facts right. During the 90s, who was the one who almost declared war because they wanted Hong Kong back? Who was the one who promised Hong Kong a better future, better evolution and all kinds of shit?

 I seriously do not see any "MUCH" changes since the return after the merge. How promising, nice bullshit.

Seriously Mr. Kong, I think it will be best if you travel around the world to look around. All this accusations are clearly projecting you as how you are - 

 - A FROG IN A WELL. -

Shop with an attitude...

I had a most unpleasant shopping experience at The Face Shop recently when I patronized the shop when I caught eye of their nail polish.

I used to awe The Face Shop at their awesome products and display concept which portrayed a clean image of skincare products featuring aspiring Korean Star Celebrities, however, this fucked-up shopping experience made me think otherwise...

In The Past:
- The Face Shop sold many cool skincare products range which proved to be efficient yet worth the value for money and their range of products were neither too sticky nor oily for the average skin.

- When you shopped over a certain value, they offered you cute little VIP cards which allowed future shopping discount of 10% (come to think about it, it is really miserable though.) and it came in the form of 2 VIP cards - which allowed any other family member to use the card in their future shopping trips as well....

BUT NOW,

What happened to the cool shop and their sales concept?

To summarize all in short,

The Face Shop is 

FUCKED-UP.

Honestly, I could not think of any other better term to summarize it.

Because this is what their present image portrayed!!

Why is it so? I can give a thousand reasons for it...

The Present Face Shop:

- The Face Shop doesn't evolve. Besides the All-Time Favourite products, their other products does not proved to be effective, and their cool innovation is to change their packaging... Yes, they do not launch new products, yet those un-awesome products are re-packaged with other forms of packaging.

- From the minute you stepped into The Face Shop when their staff greeted you, you do not get an awesome shopping experience, but only cold-hard sales tactics which their staff have equipped, trying to push you to buy anything - yes, anything which they promote to you! How fucked up is that? They can approach you one minute and promote anything which they "want" to promote to you and push you to buy, and that is nothing which you needed in the first place! The worst is, yes, you can never shop in peace when you browse their products, because the minute you have any product in hand, instead of explaining anything to you, they start to flaunt their "promotion" tactics...

- How cool is it to stick a scotch-tape on your skin and try out their lovely nail polish? I personally feel it is retarded to stick a tape on my skin to try out any colors which I have set my eyes on?! Yes, that is how retarded their sales assistant approaches you when you browse their nail polish. Is Face Shop so poor they couldn't offer some nail polish remover to you - to remove off any nail polish which you tried on? Well, I guessed that is another of their clever sales tactic to "keep yourself busy" when you choose the nail polish and try-it-yourself when they eye on another "big fish" which can fall for their lousy sales tactics.

 - The fucking long queue which you have to endure even when you are only purchasing one product and there are only 3 customers queuing up before you. Oh gosh (you might have exclaimed) because they cannot even serve 3 customers of their purchases despite there are only 3?!!! I cannot imagine what will happen if the staff of Takashimaya did the same when they have so many customers in the queue.... As much of you might have guessed, yup, it all comes down to be their sales assistants flaunting their sales tactics!! Yup, even till the end, when you came down to purchase only what  you need, they just cant stop promoting until you leave the store. Because when you are trying to make the purchase, they come to the next stage of "if you purchase this with blah blah blah you will get how many % off and they start to show you how many "cents" yup, just a few 2-3 dollars or cents more you can save when you buy "this" with "that"... Sigh, in short, they just want you to buy lah! - And when you kept rejecting, they just continued to push as if the queue wasn't there, and when you are firm enough to keep your stand, they just "lan lan" and accept your purchase while they tried the sweet approach of apologising to the customer behind in the queue before they start the same round of approach again...

Yes, that is really hideous because you cannot pay in peace as they need to do this "promoting" story-telling for one whole round before you can even try to pay and all you can do is "MUST LISTENING VERY ATTENTIVELY and wait (your precious time will be all gone) before you can get what you wanted.

- Another fucked-up theory is who cares about the so-called membership? Yes, although you get 10% discount when you shop, so what? I don't care for the 10% - if you know mathematics, you can only see big discount off the 10% when you purchase a $100 since 10% is only 10bucks! Meaning to say you need to endure all the crap before you can get the few-cents discount off your product! Yeap, another time-consuming in all. Furthermore, there are never any promotions for members only for The Face Shop. They do not send you brochures / newsletter etc. and I can see that they save quite alot in that. Secondly, they do not even bother to check your member card! That was what happened when I made my purchase and was digging my card holder to look for the fucked up miserably small card which was nowhere to be found. The sales assistant was going on and on while I was digging miserably and finally she noticed, and her reaction was (before I fished out my card) and she saw the small card, she said okay you got discount and she just continued; I just wondered was she dumb and all because she pitied on my rummage for card? - I guessed she was blind because I had so much stuff on hands... What is the point of being a member with zero exclusives and only saving a few cents despite their promoters psycho-ing you to spend more? Pathetic treats for the members and they just give any tom dick harry membership when they have the spending power of more than $150? That's cheapo!

NO member exclusives, poor product knowledge and poor PR skills with lots of bugging and intentional promotion of unwanted products, that is definitely negative no matter in which aspect I have viewed of the shop. 10 thumbs-down is never enough of how the shop and its sales culture reflected, I definitely wouldn't want to patronize again, and seriously, I wondered what is the shop owner thinking when the competition of skincare is so competitively high now in the market? They do not even give any samples but only testers which anybody and everybody tries on the same bottle... Honestly I wonder whether they did the same for the outlets in Korea and how anybody can actually tolerate such hardcore sales...

Apart from the poor shopping experience, I would rather give an average for their products range because you can get almost similarly same products qualities from any brand from Watsons and definitely, you can have the peace of mind to browse them as and when from brand to brand in peace. Besides, shopping at Watsons (with the watsons card) entitles points to be accumulated which can be cash back in future purchases + members special discount, how cool is that? Else, you can browse better skincare range in Takashimaya, Isetan etc whereby honestly, their sales assistants do not bug you as much like this idiots do...

In all, definitely, there wouldn't be another shopping patronage to The Face Shop anymore.

 

Johnny Martin Dresses

Bought two lovely dresses online from Johnny Martin...

 Had really loved this pink dress as 

I was scouting for nice yet simple dresses... 

It caught my eye simply because of two reasons

1) short cocktail dress

2) its of Pink and Black - two of my favorite colors!!!

The second dress which caught my eye was 

this cool grey metallic short bubble-hem dress...

Just a touch of feminine 

with its naughtiness..

These dresses have arrived earlier a couple of weeks ago 

despite that I had actually ordered them 

for cousin's wedding held in mid November..

Nevertheless, due to my tight schedule and could not decide 

which did not allow me to decide which dress 

I should wear to Dearie's friend's wedding,

I chose the pink one...

- partly it was feminine and not too formal... :)

Yet it did not failed me...

Had matched it with a short rabbit fur camisole...

(accessories: Tiffany & Co Lock Necklace / Marc by Marc Jacobs Bracelet)

Much to my surprise, 

the fabric is really soft and comfy, and 

it does not crumple up easily 

(despite I had just squeezed it and dumped it inside my bag) 

due to the rush...

I am glad that I have chosen this...

Last but not least, 

Happy Marriage to Terence and Fanny..

Million Blessings...