My Custom Made Cheongsam

Just got my cheongsam on the evening of Chinese New Year Eve, which means it takes almost 2 months to get this done. The cloth was bought at Kamdar store when we visited Kuching last December. I can’t remember the exact price but it’s super cheap; 2 meter for RM10 or so only. It costs RM65 for sewing and the beautiful buttons.

It looks quite good though the sewing isn’t as neat as I expected. Some more it isn’t body hugging enough to show off the curve. Most probably the auntie is giving me some space to grow fatter. Better than getting a smaller size of cheongsam, I might need phentermine reviews to fit this stomach in.

Well, it’s my first cheongsam and I’m loving it. I still have about 1 meter cloth left in my wardrobe. Not sure what to do with it. Hmm..

Firecrackers Party is On!

It is my second time celebrating Chinese New Year in Sibu and also my first time witnessing the Chinese New Year Eve here. Thanks to that, I finally found one good reason to love this town which is the firecrackers party!

No need to squeeze in with the crowd and trapped in traffic jam (like in Cemara Asri Medan) just to see the beautiful firecracker on New Year Eve. Just drive to the housing area or stand in the house balcony and I can see various kind of beautiful firecrackers already. Free entertainment and natural treatment for depression at the same time!

Here’s our neighbour’s front yard on the next day.

Here’s our front yard.

Happy Chinese New Year~!

My Vintage Wannabe Picture

Here is my first attempt in creating vintage-mode-picture using Photoshop since I got the sudden urge to create one. Found the simple and short tutorial from here.

Picture was taken on yesterday evening – our movie night out. We were crossing this pedestrian bridge while chit-chatting about drug rehab issue and the action reaction of the authority (whoa, walk also can discuss such a heavy topic ), then I suddenly told my boy to stop and take picture together first cause long time never takes couple pic already.

He has a good skill in taking self-picture, no? But don’t see the surface, he actually hates taking self picture and rather choose to be the man behind the camera, if not because of me. *xing fu mode on* aww..

Cat with Mustache

I used to bring my digicam wherever I went (college, office, mall, cafe, you name it) and never failed to snap at least a picture or two for memory purpose. But ever since I moved to Sibu, I seldom bring it out already. Most of the time I only carry my mobile phone in the pocket, that’s all. Even if I bring my Canon out for a walk, I don’t always take picture.

Guess it’s a mind-playing thing. The image of Sibu as a boring small town has stuck in my mind. Therefore my subconscious tells me that there is nothing interesting to be captured from this town and that I have snapped whatever interesting from my previous trips to here. It’s like, when we first heard about diet supplements, we were so excited and slowly get bore of it.

Then this morning when I checked the pictures on my Canon and realized how little pictures I took during this 45 days, I got sick of the pics. I couldn’t tolerate it cause it is so not me. That’s how I decided to bring back my desire of carrying digicam with me.

Yes, this town might be small and the shopping complex can’t even beat Sun Plaza in Medan, no need to compare with Sunway Pyramid or 1U in KL, BUT small doesn’t mean boring. There must be something interesting out there – everyday. I just need to be more sensitive, really see, feel, appreciate things around me and eventually I’ll see the beauty. *brainwash myself*

Not long after making that promise to myself, I saw something interesting and worth to be kept as memory. Neh, this cute cat with mustache, that we came across when having dinner before went to the cinema. Ok la, it is not the real mustache but just black color in between the cat’s nose and mouth. But if see from faraway, it does look like mustache lo. Almost looks like Charlie Chaplin to me, but my boy said looks like Hitler. We don’t mean to laugh at the cat, but thumbs up that it has such a unique look.

I’m looking forward for snapping more interesting and memorable pictures!

My First Time Story

Tell me who don’t feel nervous when it comes to their first time? I do. So kancheong and excited, I can feel the butterflies in my stomach the moment I clicked the “order” button.

I’m talking about my very first experience in purchasing clothes online. Yes, I just broke my very own barrier. I used to avoid online shopping especially apparels cause I cannot touch the material and try it on to see if it suits me or not. Unless the thing is fix one (doesn’t have particular size) such as acne face wash or the waterproof camera case that I bought from Lowyat forum last year.

It is the expensive-and-ridiculous-price from boutiques in Sibu that drives me to purchase clothes online. Seriously, some dresses are sold at twice or even triple from the price online (including shipping fee). I’m not gonna let those boutiques ripped me off lo.

So I spent my night time researching for Malaysia online store. I found a few via Facebook ads too. The first stuff that I ordered is this yellow skirt, that can be a dress too, from Cocobobo.

I purchased and made the payment online during night time 11pm (Wednesday) like that. I was expecting 5 to 7 days as what Cocobobo’s website stated cause I thought they must be using Pos Laju or Pos Express service. But, Skynet the delivery service called me to get the goods from their office on Friday noon. Whoaa, so fast!

The skirt was delivered in a very good condition. The yellow gradient doesn’t differ much from the model picture. The material doesn’t disappoint me too. Bottom line, I’m a satisfied customer. Only one thing if I am allowed to suggest to the merchant: I will be more than happy if the goods is wrapped with a nice/beautiful paper gift or something nice but doesn’t cost much instead of plastic only. Presentation does matter.

Anyway, I had a memorable first time. The feeling of purchasing apparels online is not less exciting than purchasing it from the boutiques in mall. I’m so ready for the second time.

The not so happy puppy

This more-than-one-month-old-puppy’s name is “Happy”, which is the 9th dog in the house. But his life is quite the opposite side of his name.

It was on this morning, my boy and I were working in front of our laptops when we heard a kaing-kaing (read: yelling sound of a puppy) sound from the garden. He ran out quickly and found the puppy fell into a bowl of hot water plus rice, which was supposed to be the dogs’ meal!

No thanks to the maid who chose to leave the bowl on the floor and ran upstairs to save the laundry as it started to rain. Imagine if it was a baby instead of a puppy. Luckily we can control the emotion, otherwise there could be another maid-being-beaten-by-employer kind of case.

We seriously didn’t mind if the Michael Kors zip gloves and the rest of the laundry was wet because of the rain.

Sleep after the incident. So cute, just like a soft toy.

Back to the incident, my boy quickly took the puppy out of the hot bowl and bathed him with cold water. But “Happy” still continued to yell in pain so we brought him to the nearest veterinarian, where the doctor gave him medicine.

The puppy continued to yell for almost whole day. He must be in a great trauma. Hey, whole body from head to toe fell into a hot water. I can somewhat feel the pain (cause I have had this incident before). Hopefully he can pick himself up and be a strong boy.

Boobies can lie

Most of the time I always associate man with cars, auto accessories, and geeky stuffs. But the following video, that I got from my friend’s link on Facebook, opens up my eyes that sometimes man knows about woman’s stuff better than us.

Seriously this is a compliment to the skillful man in the video. From a flat chest to having “boobs” with cleavage, no surgery is involved, only NuBra and push up bra along with some understanding of body shape, that’s just wow-ing! He proves that nothing is impossible and he brings hope to you-know-who.

On another side, it shows that thing can be faked. So, men out there, don’t let those flash lights fool your eyes and mind!