I got this from
libbyskoreanspree.blogspot.com. Apparently, it's meant to help people suffering from enlarged pores, oily T-zone, or blemishes.
Description: Controls excess sebum with traditional Japanese rice sake and peach extracts, leaving skin clean and lustrous. Its hyaluronic acids provide prolonged moisture and beta-glucans for skin resilience.
I used it just last week, took a 15 min power nap with this mask on my face.
Firstly, I love SkinFood, because when I was in Korea, it was the only packaging that had English descriptions. =) Secondly, this face mask has a damn yummy smell (like all other SkinFood products).
I don't know if my pores are smaller but I do know that I love the smell and it left my skin feeling soft and fresh. Apparently it retails for $8 in Singapore. I so wanna go back to Korea!
weiwei blogged at 5:37 PM
THIS is hall life...
Scallops topped with Jieli's homemade cheesy sauce (which I heard contains top-grade cheese, garlic, beer, mushrooms and I don't know what else). They are good. Perfect pick-me-up after all those rainy days, media law readings and stupid sponsorship woes.
weiwei blogged at 2:51 PM
I Hearts "Golden Era of Daughters-in Law", which just finished its run on Channel U.
It basically tells the story of Mei Zhen, an employee of an apparel company, who marries her colleague Fu Xiu. Fu Xiu's family owns a 60-year-old eatery selling pigs trotters, while Mei Zhen is from an affluent family - her father owns an atas French restaurant. Fu Xiu's family is run by his grandmother, who is the matriach of the family - Xiang Xin. She is one scary and formidable woman who often "bullies" her daughter-in-law aka Fu Xiu's mother, Mei Shun. Becaue Fu Xiu's family is traditional, Mei Zhen is expected to live with her in-laws. After years of being ill-treated by her mother-in-law, Mei Shun looks forward to having a daughter-in-law to bully, but it turns out she is not exactly as formidable as her mother-in-law.
Mei Zhen has an elder brother, Ren Yu, who dropped out of business school to learn to be a film director. He ends up falling for Fu Xiu's younger sister, Fu Nan, a script-writer who does not care about appearances, often appearing in owl-like glasses. Talk about confusing family dynamics.
This show is damn hilarious can and so realistic. It can make me laugh as well as cry. I love it to bits. And it really shows the diversity of Korean women - how they can work, and yet cook and clean and how respectful they are to their elders. I think Korean wives are the new Jap wives. Haha. I didn't watch all the episodes, but sometimes I followed the drama on 8Days or through advertisements.
Everyone should watch this show. Go get the DVD, watch it online or something. It's really good. =) ***** out of 5 stars!
weiwei blogged at 2:02 PM
My verdict on Ministry of Steak is ** out of 5 stars.
Ministry of Steak is a new place at Serangoon Garden, which sells western food at cheap prices ala Ashton (think one main + two sides).
Went over there on a Saturday for lunch with the folks. As we don't eat beef (I suppose their beef must be quite good considering the name), we ordered grilled cajun chicken, grilled salmon and dory fish. The sides were butter rice, onion rings (X2), garden veggies, potato salad and pasta salad. And we had a soup of the day - Cream of Mushroom. They also served those vintage bottled root beer (i hearts bottled root beer). The waitresses were mostly young females, like Secondary or JC age ala Frolick.
My Cream of Mushroom came with a piece of garlic bread, 3/4 soaked in the brew. I would have preferred the garlic bread to come at the side so that the bread wasn't that soggy. My mum liked her cajun chicken, saying it was tender. Unfortunately, the fish orders took so long to arrive. My mum was halfway done with her chicken when my dad's grilled salmon arrive. It had a good lemony cream sauce. When my mum was done with her chicken, the waitress brought my sides saying that the chef had overdone my fish. =( I love my potato salad. The onion rings were a tad soggy.
When my fish finally arrived, it was rather dry. I didn't finish it. I also saw other diners who ordered fish not getting their orders. Guess the screw-up in the kitchen made everybody else's fish orders late.
Final verdict: While my opinion may be biased because I don't eat beef, I think I would stick with the Ashton at the nearby coffee shop although they don't have air con.
weiwei blogged at 11:22 PM
After much apprehension, I watched "My Sister's Keeper". It was surprisingly less tear-inducing than I expected. I did not shed a single tear. Maybe it's cuz I'm more cynical nowadays. Maybe it's cuz JW was there egging me to cry and I wasn't about to give him the benefit of watching me do so.
I like to think it's the former.
I didn't read the book by Jodi Piccoult (I hardly read nowadays. Sad, but true). But I spied the back page. And I was looking out for the ending throughout the movie. But it didn't came through/true (whichever.). I was disappointed that the studios didn't put the actual ending, but I guess it would be too much for the audience. They probably have to provide tissue and pails for all that tears.
weiwei blogged at 4:31 PM
On the day of the last lecture ever as a cohort, I didn't feel a thing. People might say that having more friends in school can bring one to places in future. But I guess I'll just go around that. I love the school, sure. I love the numerous wooden benches, I love the creativity and talent of the people here and I love being in a school where people bother to dress up. But I don't think I'm a very memorable part of it. I have my own group of friends and that's it. 50 years from now, nobody would even remember. School is but a stepping stone to my desired path and of course, of rediscovery - that I couldn't and didn't want to be a broadcast journalist anymore. Isn't it funny when four years ago, if I didn't have my driving test, I would be in SCI camp and then... maybe I won't go for hall camp (cuz the publicity material for SCI camp was really cool! A slipper.) cuz I think one camp is enough. Go figure.
And then on my way out of school, I realised that I left my umbrella back in the LT. And I had to get it back - just cuz it was bought from Korea. So Joyce Cheo (she left her umbrella too) and me went back to the LT. But it was locked already by the stupid security system. We called Campus Security and the fellow in there was dense or something. He told me all the officers were out for more serious and important things and told me to come back on a Saturday to try calling Campus Security again. -_-" And he didn't know when they would be done. The more important and serious thing had better not be dinner. Rahz! We should have told him we left our laptops in there.
I decided not to wait and bade a fond farewell to my lovely polka-dotted brolly. =( Went for dinner with HW & Jessie. =) Vivo City - White Dog Cafe. And then I don't know where we went (I think it's call Keppel Bay?), but it was really atas looking and you could only go there by car. It was a very very nice, lovely place where yachts were docked and couples walked about feeling the cool sea breeze. Popped into Prive Bakery, this lovely cafe for dessert and drinks (Alchoholic milkshakes! mmmz.).
Yummilicious looking desserts that were really yummilicious! =)
Talked and talked a lot about random stuff. Happy that we met up. Been awhile since I sat HW's car. Hahhahaha. You know your significance. =P
Went back home, dead tired. Unpacked.
And out popped my umbrella. Back from the dead. I guess I didn't leave it back in the LT after all. =P Lucky Campus Security was slow.
weiwei blogged at 10:30 AM
I watch movies that don't need a lot of brain power. I like watching such movies because I find myself being a sentimental cow who is easily affected by things I see, even if it's reel. That's why I've been taking the longest time ever to watch "My sister's keeper" or even "Jennifer's body" (cuz I'm a scaredy-cat). Two movies I watched last week were "Year One" and "Coraline".
"Year One" was lame. But I guess it's expected from the trailer.
"Coraline" was okay. I love the start. But I don't understand where the "other mother" got her powers from. And why is she a spider? And why did she suck up the lives of all those other kids? And if she gets her powers from these kids by drawing them into her lair, then why did she need them to love her? Is it cuz only after they love her can she sew buttons on their eyes and then the deal is sealed? And if the old lady owning the house knows that her sister was stolen from that house, then why did she still allow a family with a kid to move in? And the part where Coraline had to find the other eyes of the kids was like a game show and the eyes were not even in the least bit realistic.
I know I will be stuck with lacklustre movie reviews unless I challenge myself to watch movies with more substance, but I'm not adventurous.
Focus group sessions tomorrow. Hope everything doesn't falls apart.
I did my hair on Tuesday. But I don't like it. So, what else is new?
Love is but another word for companionship. Cuz we are all afraid to die alone, ain't it true?
weiwei blogged at 2:18 PM
