Mandom Cozycot workshop on Hair and Makeup

Finally the much awaited workshop held on 5th Dec 09 is over with a success with good reviews for me and Mandom!

Me and partner:


Goofy me is actually kinda nervous.....

Check out review:

http://forums.cozycot.com/cozycot-offers/47095-thank-you-for-attending-the-lucido-l-hair-and-eye-makeup-event.html#post2188076

I was honoured to be the speaker for this workshop, to guide 20 ladies (specially selected) in the working industry to look groomed and chic for their everyday routine!

And the Mandom personnel, Kelly and Yun Wen were so fun loving. IT was great fun when we were discussing the layout of the workshop!!

Days before the workshop, I diligently prepared power point slides to further help in my explanations. Was actually feeling a bit 'kan cheong' because being the slightly anal perfectionist that I am, I was worried I'll screw things up. (Not that I don't know my stuff, just that shit happens you know?????)

On this important day I chose a black and white combi outfit and oxford heels. To look sleek and professional! (As in pic above)
Ahhh...... but looks are indeed very important to me. (No Im not shallow, just mindful) :D.

Too bad I didn't take any full length pics to show off my heels. Because on this day, a boy (cause he is younger than me) came to chat me up while I was waiting for Joey, my partner for the day.

His 1st pickline was, " Hi! I love YOUR HEELS and the way you look and I'll hit myself on the head if I don't come approach and get to know you." ......

HMMMmmmmmmmmm weird but interesting..... So that means I'm still 宝刀未老 la!! Can still manage to 'sort' some young punk...

It was a rainy day but luckily I think all the ladies turned up. It's great they are all so enthusiastic!

Mandom is sooo good to include full sized products in a goodie bag for us! Thank you Mandom!

In case some of you have no clue, Mandom- is a Japanese company, distributor for your ever famous :

Gatsby- wax; moving rubber

Lucidol L-Hair styling product range

Makeup products-shimmer shadows and lip plumping gloss!!!

Starting of the workshop... Stiff and upright posture.. Better not play a fool first.

Some Pics of me doing demo:

Ember







Yan fang

My helpful volunteers: Ember & Yan fang. I hope I get their spelling right.

After about ten minutes of intro and warmup, I started to loosen up and get a bit 'funnier'. At least I managed to make the ladies giggle a bit.

The 2 hours flew by pretty quickly and I was relieved that there were no glitches. With our help, most of the ladies managed to get the hair and makeup technique right somewhat.. :D

At least I made sure the basics were covered.

For the more complicated works! Just ring me! Hahahhahah

Gerra

Trip to Taiwan!

OOooohh!! Finally Im blogging!! it's been ages since I did so and even my holiday entry is so delayed!

Latest: TRIP TO TAIWAN!

Purpose: To attend best friend's wedding dinner and shopping!

(*Salute to my friend! ---->Who has the longest relationship ever!! since SECONDARY SCHOOL days and half of it's long distance!! )

I am so loving Changi Airport, cause whenever I'm in it, it means im flying off to somewhere!

AHEM!
This taiwan trip's biggest purpose is to shop for quality heels!! Not so much on clothings this time.
I want THOSE heels that you can run in and walk all day long! Am soooo gonna get rid of so many of my old bitey shoes!

I only brought $480 worth of sing dollars to spend in Taiwan. Enough or not???
Me thought I probably won't be spending toooo much, considering I have tons of girlie what nots in my room already......
(Did I mention I got rid of my old writing table and changed it to a giant wardrobe instead? So, now I got 2 wardrobes in my cramped room)

HAHA!

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Me and friends took EVA airlines. The only off thing about this airline is that it has mad crazy departure time from Taiwan in the wee hours of the morning back to SIN. Totally sickening waste of one perfectly good day and some good sleep..... -.-

Our flight was in the noon. Flight journey was about 5 hrs +/-


feeling kinda bored, we took a few pics! Me and Meiwen, My trip buddy!


After cam whoring, I opted to watch movies on the plane instead of nap!
Oh boy did I thoroughly enjoy myself! The plane food wasn't that good though....

"The Ugly Truth" was just crazy hilarious, I was laughing out loud most of the time.

"The Orphan" was an extremely gripping and disturbing movie. It has a twist at the end and it's a MUST watch!

Ok, back to the story of my trip.



Finally we landed in Taipei Taoyuan airport at about 6 plus pm. The sky was already dark unlike Singapore where it only turns dark after 730!

I'm a daylight person! So, we hopped into our transport and the journey took about 1 hour to our lodging in Ximending (XMD) district.


After reaching Royal Castle hotel, Meiwen and me dumped our belongings and quickly went to the hubbub to scout for our dinner. Can't waste any time!!

We found this! Taiwan authentic Mee sua!! It's very good I tell you! It's 大肠面线.


After mee sua, we shopped around basically just roughly scanning out the area of XMD


How it looks like in XMD.


Looking for more food, we found this:

I wonder what's that square thingy that looks like 年糕. If it looks dubious, we probably don't want to try.. haha



We opted for the 鸡胸 (chicken breast meat) safest bet of all.



It looks like this. Actually its cold and the meat is SUPER TOUGH!! Very hard to bite off and meat keeps getting stuck in our teeth!! But the seasoning they did is very good!


And then I got smelly beancurd

Meiwen found it gross and smelly so she only took 1 bite and I gotta finish the 4 of them!
Luckily I got the beancurd dessert, so it makes the smelly beancurd easier to consume...
It tastes a bit too much after a while on its own. At least they got some side dishes like salted vege to go with it.



I found this Hello Kitty wonderful bike helmet selling freakingly cheap! So, I bought it even though I don't ride (just the occasional time when my bf rides)

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The next day, we planned to go the wholesale place at Wu Fen Pu to shop.

going crazy soon..... :D Shopaholic me is very excited....


Our mode of transport was the train! IT's really easy to get around and cheap too!

Similar to spore style



We got off at the wrong station thanks to the wrong info given by my friend! And we gotta walk one train stop away! @#$%%$^


My impatient 'backview'
Can't wait to shop shop shop!!!


Dang! We got there too early and so decided to settle for a bowl of dessert... Cause my friend is hungry again!!! Walao! Its like less than a couple of hours only after breakfast and she is hungry??!!

mini tang yuan in red bean soup



the menu of desserts


After that we went crazy shopping and buying like nobody's business! I bought expensive stuff! There goes my hundred odd so bucks in one shop!!


LUNCH:

lunch was this yummy handmade noodles.. My favourite!


In only a few hours, I had accumulated a huge bag of goods, like I was purchasing as a wholesaler!

The weight of my barang was horrific , almost like that of a toddler but bulkier... Very hard to carry!

My arms were madly aching and I was super tempted to hire a porter OTS!!!
It just sucks and it got to a point where we couldn't shop anymore. (didn't want to waste $$ on cabbing so it was never an option....) haha Stingy dingbats we were.

So we took train back to hotel and then decided to go to Shilin night market after dumping our stuff!


Super crowded when we reached there. Supposed to be the biggest night maket and the most popular one in Taipei.


check out crowd behind me....


Dinner was at a place selling mini hot pot "小锅"

Insanely cheap! prices you see divide by 22.6.
They have all kinds of meat at cheapo prices!



I ordered 'Ma La toufu' pot. With freeflow drinks complete with tissue...

$2 only!! Nett!

WHAT THE HELL?!!


Bestest meal we ever had.... Look at my blissfully satisfied face.

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The day comes for our friend's wedding...

My outfit for the day:

Black white combi, nice right!?


Worst thing to happen:
RAIN!
When we reached the station of our destination to our friend's hotel, it was raining! What's bad is that, none of us got an umbrella! My friend only got with her umbrella cap but no umbrella!! Choked for words..... hahhahahahhaha

Wear nice nice get caught in the rain!
Cannot be late some cause we do not want to risk arriving later than the groom...
So, we gotta brave the rain in the cold weather and try to walk as fast we can in heels! :(

At least it was not pouring.... Thank you very much!



finally we got to the beautiful bride!


After the groom arrives; we got him to sing a song and read love contract.

The Sabo session is too easy for the groom! Only a mere 15min! I guess its not in the taiwanese custom to play that long.... SIGH!



best friends since sec school days. :)


The wedding dinner menu
crazy 13 course dinner!!


The food is good but too much and too rich.. bleh!! A lot of unfinished portions. I think I overheard the waitresses saying they packet the leftovers... GOOD! So there won't be wastage!

At the end of the dinner, we remembered we haven got our angbao! So we comtemplated if we should just outright ask for it.

If not now, then when?? We can't be asking the bride for it, and we won't be seeing the groom after that same day!

Luckily, we got very thick skin!
So, Claris was the one who went up bravely to the bride and asked for our ang bao and then she ran to hide behind us!! It was hilarious!

Who needs enemies when you have friends like these??

We were super desperate cause we need more NT dollars for our shopping trip! MUahhahah!!!

BUT of cause, it's more for the good luck mah! heeheeeeeeeee


Anyway, we are all happy for our friends.(we know the groom too but hang out more with the bride)
Another one who is married!!! Never mind, I still got a lot of single friends! I won't be lonely yet! muhahahhahah

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Next day at Shida 'night' market. It opens during the day because of the University nearby that caters to students.


OOooooo I love toys...



My dream come true........ Noooo I did not buy any pillows back.. Though I would love to!


Lunch:

Lunch was beef tendon noodle ! (I super regret giving you that huge piece of tendon girl!!)
Very good! very very good!

After Shida, we went back to wu fen pu again because we were not satisfied with our shopping and the area is ~3 times bigger than bugis street!


Dinner:

My dinner was a mini bowl of lu rou fan. Don't have enough money to try the famous roast meats at Hu Xu Zhang (supposedly famous for their roasted stuff) Pathetic.....

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Last free day of trip:
Gong guan 公管


Fan of the Kitty cat


street of shopping district 'gong guan'







Melancholy me....

no lah! i just want to pose only!






I tell you, this wanton mee is delicious! I love this kind of noodles, handmade kind. There is garlic mixed in with the minced meat so its super 香!



This is a self taken shot... Pro right? :D.


After expending what ever cash we have at this shopping district, It's back to XMD and further deplete all our cash on last minute stuff.

We came across the cutest donut poster ever seen:

This little lamb has a donut crumb on the side of her cheek!! hahhaha! Her 'mane' of wool is donut ! What a clever way of advertising.....

My dinner for the day was instant noodles and bamboo shoots as side dish....

Where got people go holiday until like that one??!!!
*Whine!*
I don't even have enough money to buy the cutest bedroom slippers ever!!!!


Arghhhh.....................

Never mind, people always say the instant noodle is damn good in TW so this is a chance to test out the taste. It is yummy alright but the portion is too big and I couldn't finish it. What a waste....
Our friend, Meiwen got carrot cake and some taiwan sausages. The carrot cake is good but the sausages taste like what we have here. So nothing special....

After dinner, off to bed we go. We got an early flight to catch the next day! Sian..............

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At the airport.



Interesting looking fish eggs that look like kidneys.... How come the fish eggs in Spore look nowhere like those here??

Dah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And this marks the end of my wonderful holidays.

I'll be back TW!!

My Halloween Affair

This year's Halloween, me and gang spent it at Zouk. Despite my numerous pleas not to because of unforgettable nightmare donkey years ago....

Why not Zouk? You ask.

1) Said donkey years ago, I went to Zouk with a couple of friends where an event was taking place (can't remember what though). It was jammed packed and I had to grip onto my friends' hand tightly so I would not lose him/her (him in front of me pulling me trying to cut Q, me trying to pull her in so we wouldn't get lost) The crowd was wild and mad, they slice through wherever and whenever they can. We got pretty squashed up!

Unfortunately, my guy friend got separated from us and he got in! We were horribly stuck outside and he can't come out to get us! Not after his successful attempt of getting in! It wasn't even free entry and the fee was mad expensive. Considering the music wasn't any fantastic.

2) Entrance fee freaking expensive for lousy music.

3) Pay 1 get into 3 places? (shouldn't be that bad right?) NAH! Velvet sucks; even worse music. Phuture? (come on! my living room is bigger than that!) forget it!

4) On top of freaking expensive entrance, there is a price increase now for Zouk. WTF.


Anyways, we still trooped off to Zouk cos the guys supposedly had reserved tables inside... Oh well, Im outnumbered so I followed.
Upon arrival, there was definitely a crowd. but it wasn't as nightmarish as I thought.

Thank God!

There was a very long Queue for the costume line as people hope to get in free when they are dressed in full costume at club's discretion.

We didn't want to get stranded forever so we opted to pay. $%^%&^&!!! $30n for girls and $38 for guys through velvet..

Paying is fine but not for lousy ungrovable music!!! ROAR!!!


OH! Hell.... Anyways, this year I decided to be a cupid. (An evil one)
Many have mistaken me for an angel.... Well I had halo and wings minus bow and arrow.... I substituted my bow and arrow for a pitchfork!! Should have gotten a bow huhs?!

Sinister makeup
Like this:



That's me on the right and Evan on the left! Mine does not look as scary as compared to Evan's! (because I wanted to still look good despite being a scary cupid)
I helped her do her makeup with reference from a pic!

Prior to that, the group of us took a super long time to get ourselves ready at Jo's place. But hey, it IS the dressing up process that makes it FUN!




Evan cam whoring after makeup.
Scary cool!!




Some of my company at zouk.
My oldest friends !! Im so looking forward to next year already!




I told you I was evil... ahhhahahhahahhaha




So called 'twin' of mine who was gyrating grostequely out of beat on the podium. She has become an eyesore after 5 mins and Jo suggested we should go up and drag her down.
OR maybe............... Poke her down with my pitchfork, considering Im her evil twin!

I was laughing so hard, tears came out.....
You can see from pic I truly am turned off and trying to bust her out with my fork!
Oh no. it is not in PEACe..... My friends say she looks too old for her dressing....... OH meanie meanie!!!!!!!!!



Hell yeah! We conquered the podium.
On to other more interesting stuff, like CAMWHORING!!!




So jealous of good quality feathers unlike my cardboard ones. *SULK*




And I stole someone else's beard and became Luciferine! (female version of Lucifer)
I love it cos it looked so WHacky and androgynous!




How about an additional moustache??

In the end, our supposedly reserved tables, which are actually 2 round tables with no seats (well? what do you expect from Zouk?) got taken over by a group of others!!! #$#%$%%$^ So much for reserved tables. No choice, apparently their liquors were bigger than ours lo!!!

*SULK*




Jealous people trying to yank my beard off!!! Buzz off !

After that it got sooo packed we were unable to move. Music was still lousy and after at about 2am, we all decided to go eat Bak Kut Teh!!

It was fun because of wonderful company!

Lets go to bigger places next time!! :D