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warning: this post has unglamourous photos of me!
i love having such masks on my face as i simply feel pampered and refreshed! i dont do it often so i try to use them as regularly as i can remember. my skin needs help and i want to look beautiful even without makeup! ahem
recently, i bought these masks from watsons and i like their ability to stretch over your face with its unique ear hooks !
forgive my skills.. i could have smoothen out the ridges and they would fit really well. best of all, these masks are really economical. one box of 5 sheets costs only $9.95 and they are having promotion @ buy 2 boxes and get 1 box free. this makes 1 mask only $1.33!
seriously, this really fits better than most other brands of mask sheets!
go get it at watsons!
august 2009’s issue of pc mag recommends 202 windows utilities that are supposed makes our it life more effective and efficient. i found 3 free webbies which are particulary useful to me.
fotosizer- you can resize a couple of photos at one go conveniently!
dropbox- you can sync all house pc’s and your personal laptop’s and your office laptop’s your files/ folders through this dropbox. now you wont have files and folders here and not there, there and not here anymore!
photoshop speedup- convert your documents into pdf formats online plus a few other adobe software!
i tried the fotosizer which is really easy to use. here are the photos i resized all at one go:
dinner with raine tonight. we ate at this thai cafe in kovan, near hougang ave 1. the cafe was very crowded and i thought they must serve really nice authentic food. it was raine’s second visit to the cafe and my first. the decor and setting was very thai and i like the way it is. the price was alright too. out main dish is abt $6 each, the veggie is $4 and the thai tea $3. raine ordered fried noodle and i ordered olive rice. i didnt finished my food as i thought the dishes were too salty. raine finished her portion though. the thai tea was a bit bland on the other hand- personal preference i guess. not a place i will visit again. golden mile’s thai food is surely much better. 
a glimpse of a corner of my working desk- hand lotion, hair lotion, body spray, mirror, potted plants, and photos of happy friends, newspaper cutting of a hunk and other stuff.
my very disorganised shoe rack. i just bought a new 4-tier rack which i have yet to assemble. i am sure my doorstep will look neater after tonight!
let’s remember that none of us are perfect.. our family, friends, cg members, colleagues, etc etc
here’s a heart warming story to remind us to love those God has placed in our lives:
when i was a little girl, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. and i remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work.
on that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage, and extremely burned toast in front of my dad. i remember waiting to see if anyone noticed! yet all my dad did was reach for his toast, smile at my mom, and ask me how my day was at school.
i don’t remember what i told him that night, but i do remember watching him smear butter and jelly on that toast and eat every bite! when i got up from the table that evening, i remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for burning the toast. and i’ll never forget what he said: “baby, i love burned toast.”
later that night, i went to kiss daddy good night and i asked him if he really liked his toast burned. he wrapped me in his arms and said, “debbie, your momma put in a hard day at work today and she’s real tired. and besides—a little burnt toast never hurt anyone!”
in bed that night, i thought about that scene at dinner…and the kindness my daddy showed my mom. to this day, it’s a cherished memory from my childhood that i’ll never forget. and it’s one that came to mind just recently when jack and i sat down to eat dinner.
i had arrived home late…as usual…and decided we would have breakfast food for dinner. some things never change, i suppose!
to my amazement, i found the ingredients i needed, and quickly began to cook eggs, turkey sausage, and buttered toast. thinking i had things under control, i glanced through the mail for the day. it was only a few minutes later that i remembered that i had forgotten to take the toast out of the oven!
now, had it been any other day — and had we had more than two pieces of bread in the entire house — i would have started all over. but it had been one of those days and i had just used up the last two pieces of bread. so burnt toast it was!
as i set the plate down in front of jack, i waited for a comment about the toast. but all i got was a “thank you!”
i watched as he ate bite by bite, all the time waiting for some comment about the toast. but instead, all jack said was, “babe, this is great. thanks for cooking tonight. i know you had a hard day.”
as i took a bite of my charred toast that night, i thought about my mom and dad…how burnt toast hadn’t been a deal-breaker for them. and i quietly thanked God for giving me a marriage (friendship) where burnt toast wasn’t a deal-breaker either!
you know, life is full of imperfect things…and imperfect people. i’m not the best housekeeper or cook. and you might be surprised to find out that jack isn’t the perfect husband! he likes to play his music too loud, he will always find a way to avoid yard work, and he watches far too many sports. believe it or not, watching “golf academy” is not my idea of a great night at home!
but somehow, in the past 37 years, jack and i have learned to accept the imperfections in each other. over time, we have stopped trying to make each other in our own mold and have learned to celebrate our differences. you might say that we’ve learned to love each other for who we really are!
for example, i like to take my time, i’m a perfectionist, and i’m even-tempered. i tend to work too much and sleep too little. jack, on the other hand, is disciplined, studious, an early riser, and is a marketer’s dream consumer. i count pennies, and jack could care less! where he is strong, i am weak, and vice versa.
and while you might say that jack and i are opposites, we’re also very much alike. i can look at him and tell you what he’s thinking. i can predict his actions before he finalizes his plans. on the other hand, he knows whether i’m troubled or not the moment i enter a room.
we share the same goals. we love the same things. and we are still best friends. we‘ve traveled through many valleys and enjoyed many mountaintops. and yet, at the same time, jack and i must work every minute of every day to make this thing called “marriage” (friendship) work!
what i’ve learned over the years is that learning to accept each other’s faults – and choosing to celebrate each other’s differences – is the one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting marriage (friendship) relationship.
and that’s my prayer for you today. that you will learn to take the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of your married life (friendship) and lay them at the feet of Jesus. because in the end, He’s the only One who will be able to give you a marriage (friendship) where burnt toast isn’t a deal-breaker!
the lizard is still in my room cos mom saw!
i placed 5 lizard traps in my room and i want that creature out of my room!
mom also said she saw lizard in my brother’s room and there lizard’s dropping in the kitchen.. sick! my house is infested with lizards!
argh!
Jesus is always praying for people because He loves.
during worship last night in cgm, i felt that to have a heart after God, one of the ways we can show is to pray for those we love, just like Jesus always did and still does.
so i got the cg to pray for those they love and everyone prayed so fervently.
i am sure those whom we lifted up to God have been covered by our prayers and God’s intercession =)
my love, i prayed for you last night..
amen.
and Your yoke is easy, burden is light.
went jb again! this is my 3rd trip to jb this year if my memory didnt fail me. the usual agenda during the first 2 trip was to lunch there, shop, massage, buy dvds, dinner and chill.
this time, our purpose there was to accompany doreen for her gown fitting. oh well, actually to be k-pos!
the guys had their own agenda. so bennie, carrie, bee and i were at the bridal shop with doreen, jasper and karen.
anyway, after the gown fitting, bennie and i had a good foot massage! we fell asleep there and now i am hooked to foot massage!
i bought some dvds for my mom and some of us made our way back to singapore. i am glad we came out early as bee and group was stuck in a very bad jam!
i am yearning for another holiday now. i have 15.5 days of annual leave left plus 2 more days from my roadshow next month. that’s a whopping 17.5 days to year end! i want another getaway trip! whee!
i love my life!
i woke up early this morning to seek the Lord. it was good until i saw a lizard crawling into my room from the living room..
it hid behind a furniture when i tried to shoo it away =(
it’s said that pandan leaves can ward off roaches.
can somebody tell me a proven method that can ward off lizards?!
*freaking out now still*
