With the closure of 2014 - accident

Innalillah for the incident. 

Alhamdulillah for no one dies. 

Sunday morning after a long holiday, me and my brother went to The Loaf, Nu Sentral to have our breakfast. From this location, we plan to go to Digital Mall. On our way to Digital Mall, at the Parliament intersection heading Damansara/Jalan Duta there was a Dark Purple Myvi who was in the most left lane changing its lane into my current lane. Then all cars in front including this Bloody Myvi stopped out of suddent. I always create some gap with car in front. I managed to secure from hitting this Myvi but then, I heard 'Bang' from behind of my car. From the side mirror, I saw a motorcyclist was 'tergolek' and trying to get back on his motorcycle. I am so afraid he will be hit by another car or something. My brother asked what is happening. I said we've got hit. I stopped along the road side and let my brother talk to the rider. As far as I can recall, the last time I refer back/side mirror, there was no motorcycle (me on the right lane btw).

Shorten the story, we do not make any police report. We just pay him. I am glad that I am using 'kereta rakyat' Malaysia. The original tail lamp is affordable and the bumper is quite reliable. 

Tail lamp changed, bumper waxed. With the closure of 2014, my car got new eye, and shiny butt.

Customer Review: US vs France

US vs France. No.. I am not talking about war or any political issues. I am talking about some women’s passion – Lipstick.

Last week, I have rewarded myself a MAC lipstick.

The story begins…

When I was a student, I do really admire this one cosmetic product, MAC. The color, the prestige, the brand, the packaging, economic… everything seems perfect! (For a guy, MAC is something similar like Ferrari). During that time, I couldn’t afford to get one.

When I went to France, I have been introduced to this one brand, Yves Rocher. It is a botanical product. What attract me the most is their lipstick. Very moisturizing, beautiful color, very affordable. But still, MAC product was something that is always in my dream to own one day.

The day has come. For about a year I have been happily using 3 Yves Rocher lipsticks, I finally ‘betrayed’ it once. I have bought a lipstick from MAC. I’ve got myself the most lovely sweet pink color – the color that I was dreaming about since many years ago.

New MAC store is opened in Alamanda Putrajaya. I was a bit nervous when entering the store. It is my dream to step in there – like kids entering the candy shop. I was entertained by a lovely salesgirl. She assists me to try the lipstick, powder, and blusher. Variety of colors. For blusher, to be frank, I love blusher from The Body Shop more! In the end, I just got myself the lipstick that cost me RM68 – not bad huh.

A normal procedure when you’re the first timer in using this product – fill in a form that I cant recall the exact name but something related to warranty –  a bit technical word.

I was happy! Again, I love the color. When I applied this lipstick on my lips, I don’t need any lip gloss. It is “wet”-looking enough.

After about a week that I have been using this product, I feel a bit disappointed. The promising moisturizer is not that moist. I need to apply an additional lip balm before applying the lipstick.

If using Yves Rocher lipstick, I don’t need any other lip balm to moist my lips. Now I realized that why should I get another brand that couldn’t take care of my lips?

Sorry MAC, you have disappointed me. I was happy when I went into your shop. I was happy when I went out from that shop. But I think, Yves Rocher suits a dehydrated-person like me, more.

Marie Claire Free Table Calendar 2013

If other people are so excited when they plan to go to Big Bang Wolf to get some books, I love to go to myNews.com located at Skypark Terminal Subang to get some magazines. Health and Beauty magazine was in my mind. But I couldn’t find one. Then I saw one magazine that’s wrapped by a plastic, Marie Claire. Of course there is a free gift inside – from KOSE.

I saw it is a table calendar 2013. Without further reading, I get myself this magazine… actually I pow-ed my brother to get me this.

Dan hasil pow-ed

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(gambar ini telah di sensored)

aaaaaa.. ada kakak pakai baju renang… banyak page pulak tu.

Dan tiba-tiba hati ku berkata…

Hancur hati ku

mengenang dikau calendar

menjadi keping-keping

sebanyak keping baju renang

I just don’t get it. This is a magazine for perempuan. Why why WHY kene letak perempuan dengan pakaian renang yang sexy.

=.=”

Tinggallah diriku dengan hati yang lara. Tetapi! org kreatif tak stop di situ. I will tampal gambar2 tu dengan To-do list wall.

What if shin chan yang dapat this calendar???

Indulging

Bismillah.

Berbahagianya hari ni. Off day from work sebab menghabiskan sisa2 cuti yang takleh nak carry forward.

Bangun sesuka hati kul berapa.. lazing around sampai pening sebab perut kosong… lunch order delivery je walaupun lambat sampai sejam… owh tak kesah la.

Lepas Zohor, terus kluar rumah menuju ke alamanda bersama2 dengan To-Buy-List yang dicatat dalam notebook lawa yang dihadiahkan oleh kak Naomi.

Walaupun kat jalan pening kepala dengan moron-drivers, my mood still tak terusik. It is my day-off. Around 3pm, sampai di Alamanda. Owh VIPnya dpt park depan entrance sebab semua org dah masuk office blk.

Misi menjejaki barang2 yang on sale pun bermula. Parkson, Japanese Home Deco, Yves Rocher, Watsons… those are places that I went to.

Jalan-jalan cari barang… ada promo yang menarik perhatian from YR. Shower gel & cream perfume. 3 items for RM38.

This product range sangat wangi and menarik perhatian. Well, there is another item yang betul2 tengah sale… their Vanilla perfume set. less 60%. tinggal RM86 kot. Hampir-hampir la nak terbeli. I keep on borrowing mantra from Confession of A Shopaholic movie, “Do I need this?”. Hahaha sounds so drama… but it works! Lagi pun, I have just bought a perfume in Oct, so jangan membazir wahai shakiranova!

Jalan punya jalan, kering pulak tekak ni. Well, one of my plan g alamanda is to redeem my starbucks drink. Complementary grande from starbucks sebab dah cukup 10 kali beli guna their card. aaaaa saya suka saya suka (nada suara meimei upin ipin)! Thank you!

Balik je rumah, update stock shower foam.

I will spend more time masa mandi to decide nak pakai which shower foam.

Somehow, today I have figured out that shopping is my therapy. I had a couple of hectic weeks before, and today, I feel very happy… although it decreased some money, but yet, nothing is free kan.

Alhamdulillah.

The Body Shop - Week 7 Spend and Win Contest Winners

I am one of the 80 selected lucky customers!

I am totally lupa pasal contest ni. I have entered it suka suka lepas pegi ke website The Body Shop untuk observe harga barang2.

Pagi tadi tiba-tiba dapat email. Mula-mula macam bugged jugak ingatkan email spam. Actually memang betul… email tu adalah notification of me, adalah winner untuk pusingan Week 7 Spend and Win Contest.

Alhamdulillah.

Dia bagi 2 options untuk hadiah;

*2 tiket ke Aquaria KLCC

*Limited Edition Bakula Body Butter

Aquaria dah penah pegi, so I have decided untuk collect hadiah body butter.

Here is the announcement made by The Body Shop Malaysia.

AAAAA

Seronoknye sayer.

*dancing*

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Want to join it and be one of the winner?

Follow these three steps;

Step 1: Purchase any amount

Step 2: SMS to 33213

TBS<space>Name<space>MyCardNumber<space>EmailAddress<space>BillNumber

Example: TBS Alice Ali 540201010102 aliceali@gmail.com

Source and for more information:

http://www.thebodyshop.com.my/promotions

or

https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-body-shop-malaysia/spend-win-contest/10151715962214119

Tak rugi jadi loyal customer for this kind of world wide brand.

The contest period is between 24 August until 16 November 2012.

Good luck!

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!

Thermos Mug for Me and My Brother

I don’t know why I become a Starbucks-maniac recently. Their coffee does really works on me – hyperactive.

Back to the topic – thermos.

Last month I did get myself a thermos mug from Parkson. Alaaa tak nak la mahal2 yang sampai beratus2 and dalam kaca. Yang tu memang la panas. Hot drinks macam green tea and coffee are my favorites. Lepas 3 minggu pakai thermos tu… cap (penutup) plastik tu dah bengkok. – frustrated! 3 weeks! masak la nak beli for every month kan.

Masuk je gaji, I have decided to get a starbucks’ thermos for myself, and the other one for my brother – dia pernah cakap he wants thermos from Starbucks – tak nak from parkson. “demand!” – I replied.

Do you know that Starbucks ada card… macam touch n go card?

• Bila register – dpt one complementary drink.
• Bila beli thermos ni (melalui starbucks’ card – topup with minimum RM50) -  1 free drink for one thermos.
• Discount RM2.00 for a drink if you bring your own starbucks cup/mug/thermos.

A lot more offers when you’ve registered your starbucks’ card.

KawKaw Burger Bakar

Lokasi : Lokas Makana, Puchong

Waktu mula operasi: 6.45pm

Last week adalah minggu makan sedunia. Selalu asek tengok org lain posting pasal beger bakar. Psycho jugak la sebab wondering sedap sgt ke sampai sanggup org queue panjang utk order… baru order je k. Belum dapat lg beger tu.

Semalam… hari keramat utk cuba beger bakar ni. Sebelum nekad untuk beli, we (me and my brother) did observed the place, tukang masak, pekerja… bersih ke x. Jawapannya jeng3… Bersih!

Queuing time: half an hour

Waiting time for our meal to be done: half an hour

Tired enough.

We’ve got ourselves beef-triple-cheese beger; ada tiga keping patty yg besau besau. The price is RM19.50. Worth it!

okay.. sounds so tamak. we share this burger. I only took a patty without cheese (owh kononnnya tak la rasa bersalah sangat)

Rasanya… memang sedap.

Ok… sedap is general. I’ve tried to analyze the taste. I can taste beef (of coz), sweet from onion, black pepper, ginger, and herbs. The meat tastes really juicy sweet.

Quarter pounder is my benchmark. Quarter pounder is purely meat. but this burger has additional taste – as mentioned earlier.

Berbaloi ke nak tunggu queue lama2? Sangat berbaloi.

OK.

Time to naik treadmill.

cau cin cau

Flat Shoes from SANTA

This is an ‘alien’ thing for me. I don’t really like flat shoes… or even sandals. Most of them melecetkan kaki and not that comfortable bila berjalan.

I love high-heels so much (no doubt) until one point where I realized… dah tak ada nafsu nak beli high heels. So I was thinking about flats. Flat sandal is totally out since before this I used to get myself a flat sandal but baru pakai 2 weeks dah putus sebab; selalu kene air and bila berjalan selalu terkepak kat tengah2 tu <—or bila pakai flat memang kene jalan seret2??? :/ Another reason that i dislike flats sebab… kalau hujan, kaki akan basah. If pakai platform high heels, you can walk just like not raining.

Ok… done with my bad perception about high heels.

The perceptions are still remain the same until one day, I hang out with my brother. We went to Sunway Pyramid. On that very sunny day, I told him I want to find a flat shoes. No more high heels for this time. We go round and round. Then I have found this one shop.. near to the escalator, SANTA. I was just looking around. Then I saw this one flat shoes. The design is unique. The color is pretty (black, brown, peach). I asked for the largest size (usually not that large for me). The sales girl came with the size 40.

At the moment when I tried, I can feel the good chemistry between me n this flats. The platform (tapak depan – I dont know what to call it) is quite thick and soft. Which is good. Because I prevents me daripada rasa direct contact between tulang kaki and lantai. When I walk, I can feel the shoe’s walking together with me. This is incredible!

Then I starts looking into the quality – stitch, glue, and material. Everything was nicely done! The one that attracts me some more is the ‘girly’ details at the shoe soles (I have just google translated “tapak kasut) . I’ve never seen something like this.

 

Now, I have been using this shoe for about 3 months. The condition is still good, very well, and value for money. And it didnt kills my legs.

For the flat shoes lover, you should try to get one from this shop. For the flat haters, you can now reduce your hate by using this flat shoes.

Some how, there is one thing that flat shoes cannot beat high-heels… help us to increase our height.

Cara Pemakaian Selendang Style Hana Tajima

Tudung: Selendang Lagenda#1 by SHOL (Coming soon- Limited Edition)

Inner tudung: Anggun#2 by SHOL

Baju: Turtle neck t-shirt (TsStripes(Tn)-01-04) by SHOL-B

Makeup:

Avon Concealer Stick (Almond)

AG2000 Tinted Make up

Avon Simply Pretty Compact Powder (Soft Bisque)

Avon Simply Pretty Eyeliner (Shiny Black)

The Body Shop Cheek Color (02)

Yves Rocher Lipstick (Orange Muscade)

First of all, thanks to Hana Tajima kerana memperkenalkan style baru memakai hijab. Ini menarik minat gadis-gadis yang selama ini free hair untuk bertudung.

I have shared a few inspired-by-Hana-Tajima’s styles berhijab. Now after a few months observing and finding the right material, finally I have made it.

Step 1: Setelah memakai inner tudung Anggun#2, letak selendang Lagenda#1 di kepala. Pastikan sama panjang.

 

Step 2: Cucuk jarum pada bawah tepi sanggul pada bahagian kiri dan kanan.

Step 3: Tarik pada tengah panjang selendang yang berada dihadapan ke bahagian belakang leher (bawah sanggul)

Step 4: Pin kedua-dua bahagian yang ditarik dalam Step 3.

Dah siap.

Customer Review: Alamoda Silk House (Sg. Petani, Kedah)

Credit map to Google Maps

Alamoda Silk House adalah salah satu anak syarikat Jakel.

Sama la macam Ariani. There is no Alamoda or Jakel in Penang. One day, me and mak tengah mencari-cari kedai kain yang lain daripada selalu. And ada a few times jugak nampak banyak kedai-kedai kain area Sungai Petani ni and one of them is Alamoda. Randomly walk-in nak tengok dulu macam mana kain-kain yang ada di situ.

My Goal: Kain selendang yang berat untuk dijadikan Anggun #2

Sebelum ni kualiti memang dah okay. But I want kain yang lebih tebal. Sampai je di pintu masuk, kami dah disambut dengan friendly-nya oleh pekerja-pekerja dorg. They are wearing tudung exactly the same material like I am searching for. I stopped one of them and tanya what is the material tudung yang dorg tengah pakai. And they have directed me to the upstairs. Sepanjang perjalanan tu, I can say tak ada satu pun pekerja yang bermuka masam and they all looks very energetic. Semua senyum and greet us well.

Sampai-sampai in the targeted area, memang exactly the same kain yang selama ni aku cari. Lepas tu ada nampak kain yang baru sampai. Dorg tengah gulung. Polkadot! Ho Mai! Come to mama. Rembat la a few colors. Boleh tambah koleksi nak meniaga (SHOL). Pening kepala nak kira berapa meter nak beli.

Sementara tunggu kain-kain dipotong, aku and mak ushar la bahagian langsir. We have found this one English theme langsir. Cantiknya! and bidang besar. So no need to beli sampai 9 meter. 4 meter dah cukup. It save a lot! Then cari yang jarang pulak. Nampak ada 1 ready made langsir. We KIVed dulu sebab nak cari yang tak jahit lagi. Pusing punya pusing tak ada motif yang berkenan di hati. Finally we took the ready made one.

Owh did I told you that masa tu is the 1st day of SALE?

*gelak Misae (mak shin chan)*

most of the jenis kain yg aku beli aku abeskan. Muahahaha! me and mak went crazieh shopping spree! The discount given is crazy low price…

And ada cabutan bertuah…

 

Ceteka kotak yang mana we are qualified.

 

Owh ya, this is the lovely salesperson, Surayati yang setia dari awal sampai habis. Dengan dia senang. Cakap je nak buat tudung macam mana, langsir untuk tingkap macam mana, she knows berapa meter yang diperlukan.

 
Siap dorg tolong hantar sampai ke kereta lagi. Masa ni tak tau lagi rupa-rupanya beg-beg tu sangat berat.

T_T

Thank you thank you thank you!

 

Goodbye Alamoda.

No wonder Jakel boleh mencipta nama yang sangat besar and maintain. Their quality of the materials and services memang tip top!

Alamoda, Me and mak will definitely come again. We are so happy to shop with you!

Summary:

1. Location: Easy access - Good
2. Quality of the materials – Great!
3. Pekerja – Great!
4. Environment – Pleasant. Banyak pilihan but not too crowded. Just nice.

Rate: 5/5

New Digital Camera

Captured by: HTC HD2

Hadiah

.. but I don’t know hadiah untuk apa. Recently, there are too many hadiah given by my mak, ayah, and my brother. Believe it or not, this is our first digital camera!!! selama ni just pakai camera phone. Yes, we managed to survive dengan camera phone selama ni sebab tu we are so cerewet nak beli phone sebab nak ensure the camera is the good quality camera.

Why why why nak beli camera?

1st – Ada sale. And it is Sony… Cyber-shot + 4GB memory card. That day maybe lucky, dapat screen protector free lagi.

Captured by: HTC HD2

2nd – For business. Senang nak capture picture baju-baju untuk SHOL-B.

3rd – Senang untuk grad nanti. Boleh amik picture baaanyak2 lagi!!!

 

We are not randomly went to a shop yang ada tulis SALE! and then terus beli. Kebetulan, hari tu cari mesin jahit, nampak ada banner camera lain yang ada SALE, lepas tu nampak camera ni dengan harga yang sangat affordable together with 4GB memory card. We have decided untuk pegi tengok kedai yang lelain jugak. Kedai-kedai lain boleh bagi harga sama cuma beze pada memory card. Just 1GB. Giler kah digital camera pakai 1GB je memory card? Phone pun sekarang pakai 8GB memory card.

“Do I need this?”

I said to my brother, tak payah la beli lagi. I still can use the camera kat my phone ni. Fully utilize apa yang ada. We have decided to keep it down.

And then, one day… tergerak hati untuk pegi beli camera ni. Ada rezeki lebih sikit. So pegi lah sekali lagi ke kedai yang mula-mula pegi hari tu. Which I know camera yang kitorg tengok is the last stock. Kalau ada tu, rezeki la. Kalau tak ada tu, memang dah takdir camera itu bukan milik kami. Sampai-sampai kedai, Tadaaaa… masih ada! Alhamdulillah. Lepas dah test semua… negotiate bagai. Dapat lah harga dengan the best price and siap dpt screen protector free lagi. Alhamdulillah. My brother kind of terkejut bila aku hantar MMS sebab hari tu kata tak mau. But it is ours! Dengan camera ni la aku amik picture baju-baju di SHOL-B and also some of the pictures posted in this blog.

 

Captured by: HTC HD2

Let me share with you some of the features of this camera:

1. Size: 12.1 Mega pixels
2. 4x Zoom
3. Smiley Detector
4. Sangat ringan
5. Focus point – focus on one thing and blur the others
6. Sweep panorama – kalau nak amik picture ‘panorama’ a.k.a wide view, just swap je. It will automatically merge the captured images frame by frame.

The functions are berbaloi la dengan harga and kelas digital camera.

I love it!

Thank you so much family! As usual, I will fully utilize setiap gadget yang diberi.