Saturday Evening with Yves Rocher

Hello! How’s your weekend? This weekend I’ve chose to pamper myself. Other than sleep… I and my friend, Salmi, went for make over.

Kebetulan Yves Rocher Alamanda ada promotion untuk produk terbaru, Hydra Vegetal.

Cuaca sekarang kan sangat panas masa tengah hari. Walaupun dah minum air more than 1.5L sehari, kulit tetap rasa kering. Seharian keje dalam sejuk air-cond pun boleh mengeringkan kulit. So we do really need a product to hydrate our skin from the outside too.

We starts our session by analyzing our skin.

Miss Nina’s my assistant through out the day and every time I went there. She’s very friendly, and helpful. She helps me to check my skin’s hydration. The result’s not so good… 33%. It indicates I have a dry skin. Well, I already know that since I keep on feel thirsty all the time.

I’ve gone through the following steps;

I love the feeling. Very cool. Not as cool as mint but I feel like I‘m applying wet tissue on my face every single minute. Very refreshing!! I even feel like to apply it to all over my body!

When we have finished, here’s the result…

58%. Any result is good as long as it is above 50%.

Thanks nina!

Lets move to make over…

Impressive. SO many equipment!

Well, there are two makeup artists. Mine wasn’t really friendly boooooo

She feels unease when I keep on asking what product/item that she applied to my face. Of course I want to know every single thing that you’ve applied to my face… at least it can increase the potential for me to buy Yves Rocher’s makeup products. Don’t you get it miss?

What I can recall during the session’s;

She starts with eye’s area – eyelid’s sticker (makes your eyes bigger), foundation, eye based, light pink eyeshadow (based), brown eyeshadow (shading), eyeliner.

Then baru masuk bahagian seluruh muka.

Foundation – loose powder – pink blusher – eyebrow shadow (chocolate) – mascara – bulu mata palsu (optional).

Alahhhh, very basic lah. Bukan macam artis nak naik pentas.

And here’s the result.

Mari kita pergi ke sesi photoshoot…

One of the shoots. Pandai cik salmi kita berposing.

I meet these school kids… teenagers pun pakai this product. Well, it is botanical product.

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Actually October is my birthday month. So apa yang menariknya bila menjadi ahli Yves Rocher? Buy one FREE one item!!!

I have decided to get their perfume. FYI Yves Rocher adalah perfume number 1 di France. Spray sikit je dah cukup.

Untuk product Hydra Vegetal, I’ve got their Gel Crème (RM59.00), FREE toner, and LUCKY DRAW Gel Crème too! And the remaining two down there are coconut bath cube, and bath net… FREE GIFT!

Alright… I hope ramai yang akan jadi penggguna Yves Rocher sekarang ni. Worth it for money.

And this is the picture from the photoshoot.

Black and white polkadot – Classic

A few tips to share here are – for this kind of promotion;

• We have to control ourselves
• Know our nawaitu (intention) to go there
• Know the types of promotion – requires to buy with a minimum purchase or not
• What are the activities included in that package
• Try to avoid additional charges; Fake eyelashes (RM15), whole softcopy picture; 1cd (RM100), Laminate (RM10) --- these are ridiculous things that you should minimize your expenditure – you don’t even need it. Usually these are done by the ‘outsource’… not by the brand itself – Rational!

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2010

Weight: 70kg

Height: 160cm

BMI: 27.3 == Overweight

Self confidence: High but depressed when people are talking about weight, big size, small places

 

2009 – I have finished my bachelor studies and continue working in UNITEN. Happy Happy Happy senang hati. Nothing to be think about. Nothing to worries. I will get my pay cheque every month. I can buy and eat what ever I want. Just name it… Alamanda, Pizza Hut, JM Bariani, McD? Every time I have lunch I will drink 2 glasses of Teh O beng (ais). Air (water) is good. but NOT SUGARED drinks. I do drink some bottles of mineral water per day. I need water~~~! My body needs water more than anyone does (ok.. hyperbola sket). I know I am quite fat because I can’t fit into some of my baju. I was on diet jugak. I bought a treadmill, I swim, I took green tea. I have put so much efforts untuk reduce my weight. 2010 was a disaster body weight for me. Sometimes kene perli. Terasa jugak la kan although I was just smiling. And sometimes bila mood fragile tu, mengalir jugak la air mata. Effort dah banyak. Tapi berat tak turun2 jugak. Nak buat macam mana kan?

Nov-Dec 2010 – Winter in France. I have wrote a few posts pasal my living in France. This journey has opened the pintu kurus for me. No car for me. Either walking or catching the bus or tram. Naik tangga 2 tingkat every day di ecole and apartment. Walking and standing for at least 20 minutes per day in a cold weather. Makan? Lapik perut jangan bagi mati jela eh. That’s how it starts.

Jan 2011 – I arrived in Malaysia. My parents cakap I dah kurus. I know. Seluar memang kena pakai belt. During that time, my weight was 60kg. I keep on diet. I spent another 3 months in UNITEN. Berat maintain. Walaupun diet. Masa tu my diet was:

Breakfast: Milo ais, Kuih ketayap/karipap

Lunch: Ikan goreng dengan sambal tumis (no nasi), or tofu based

Dinner: Depends

It seems not really works.

Apr 2011 – I went back to Penang. I keep myself busy with business thing. So many things need to be learnt. I do take care about my diet. After a few months, berat reduced ke 58, 56, 55 kg. I do eat rice. I do eat ayam, ikan. But how did I managed to get this ideal weight? 55kg.

1. No fast food
2. No iced drink
3. No sugared drink – I took a tablespoon of honey every morning, and 100PLUS (500ml) during panas terik.
4. No tido lepas subuh
5. I drink a lot of plain water – about 4-5 bottles of 1.5L per day
6. 1 Portion untuk makanan. E.g.: 1 nasi, 1 lauk (seketul), or 1 jenis kuih
7. Masak sendiri – minyak bukan recycle and minyak yang berkualiti (bukan minyak peket) <—THIS IS IMPORTANT!
8. Minum Hot green tea without sugar every time makan
9. I do makan nasi – make sure beras yang berkualiti
10. Exercise – solat 5 waktu, solat-solat sunat waktu pagi dan malam.

Ok. Me myself xde la rigid sangat. Pandai-pandai la control diri sendiri. Kalu hari tu dah makan banyak sangat, esok tu control la. Bila dah cuba duduk and then nampak perut dah berlipat, bila senyum dagu dah berlapis walaupun sedikit, You know yourself yang u should do something to reduce your weight.

Susah hati is another thing yang menguruskan badan ni. Hari tu masa nak viva and interview, I did muntah a day before the day. Makan je keluar balik and then ulang alik toilet. last2 minum air kosong je kan. yg ni pun mengurangkan berat badan jugak… which.. sangat2 kurang. Now dah 54kg.

Some people ckp I dah kurus sangat, pp dah tak comel dah and etc. Thank you so much for your concern. But I do feel I am good dengan this weight and I feel comfortable and ringan nak wat keje apa pun. I feel pleased. This is a huge self satisfaction and cukup la kene perli and terguris hati dengan kata-kata sinis pasal my weight dulu. Itu dah jadi sejarah and Alhamdulillah kerana ia sebahagian daripada pengalaman kehidupan and a lesson for me supaya tak mengguris hati sesiapa yang mengalami nasib yang sama.

 

Actually banyak sangat cara-cara untuk kurus. Terpulang kepada keselesaan and poket masing-masing. But sepanjang tempoh tu, I did not take any kind of pil atau supplement untuk kurus. I am afraid kalau stop nanti jadi double triple bigger.

Thing that you should know before you adopt a cat

As-Salam all..

Cats.. sape suke kucing? angkat tangan! Me me me!

Sape ada bela kucing? angkat tangan! *silent*

Too bad my house's condition isn't suitable to adopt a cat. :(

Never mind, I would like to share some useful information from an article (http://www.catinfo.org). I will write it in Malay lah since majority of my visitors are from Malaysia.

Kucing! Anda selalu bagi kucing belaan anda makan makanan kering? (yang dalam peket macam pallet tu...) This is a bad news for you and condolence for your cat(s).

Article tersebut menyatakan bahawa ada 3 faktor menyebabkan dry food bukan sebagai pilihan yang terbaik:

1. Jenis protein yang tinggi yang terkandung di dalamnya adalah berasaskan tumbuh-tumbuhan berbanding protein daripada haiwan
2. Jumlah carbohidrat yang terlalu tinggi
3. Kandungan air yang sangat sedikit

Kucing adalah makhluk ciptaan Allah. Sama seperti kita. Diet yang betul adalah faktor yang terpenting untuk kesihatan haiwan tersebut. Makanan kering kucing menyebabkan kemungkinan yang tinggi untuk kucing anda berisiko menghidap pelbagai jenis penyakit yang merbahaya seperti:

1. Diabetes - disebabkan oleh gula yang terhasil daripada lebihan karbohidrat yang terkandung dalam makanan kering kucing 
2. Penyakit buah pinggang - berpunca daripada kekurangan air dalam badan
3. Obesity (berat badan berlebihan) - berpunca daripada diet yang tidak sihat. Akibat? Kucing tidak dapat membersihkan diri sendiri - jangkitan kuman
4. Masalah gigi - can u imagine anda dihidangkan makanan kering dan keras seperti kerepek sepanjang masa? sakit gigi tak? + dry foods berasaskan tumbuh-tumbuhan. Calcium?
5. Asma. Kucing pon boleh ada asma.

Penyakit yang selebihnya? Boleh refer kat sini Common medical problems associated with dry food

So nak buat macam mana?

1. Boleh bagi makan makanan kucing dalam tin
2. Buat sendiri makanan kucing

Nak tau macam mana nak buat makanan kucing sendiri? Korang boleh refer resipi kat sini. Yang pastinya ia berasaskan daging (kisar) atau ikan dan WAJIB mengandungi banyak air. Makanan tersebut haruslah dibasuh dan boleh dimasak (half cook) dengan memanaskan dalam oven untuk mematikan kuman-kuman yang ada pada daging mentah tersebut. Lebih better kalau kisar daging tu dengan tulang sekali. well... kucing pun perlukan calcium.

Ingat, kucing adalah hidupan karnivor. Mereka memerlukan DAGING. Tak kesah la daging lembu ke daging ayam ke daging ikan ke. Yang penting daging. Daging import pon bole kot eh?

Saya harap this article akan membantu sedikit sebanyak untuk berkongsi ilmu yang saya dapat untuk rujukan bersama.

Wassalam.