Putting on your Game Face.

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The countdown to Christmas and New Year is coming! I have started by getting in my regime of

being party ready.

14 days before: Get a facial at Bella Skincare so you won’t be red like Rudolph.

10 days before: Start shopping for new dresses to beat the stress.

3 days before: Get a body wax just in case there’s kissing under the mistletoe?

2 days before: Pamper your hair at Phyto so you can flick them tresses on the dance floor.

1 day before: Get a manicure and pedicure just the day before, so the nail colour can last longer!

Send a greeting card to friends from Bella Skincare FB page to get a $100 treatment voucher!

And start getting a party-ready face like me J

Creative Pictures.

Hey Kokerspaniel cam whores, stop tilting your head to the side for your pictures.

It's no longer original.

Try these instead.

I wish i had seen the photo below earlier so i could imitate and save the world from metorite!

Floating head! My favourite.

And that's me at Universal Studios.

Sunburnt Whales

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Whales, whose skin you’d think is a lot thicker than mere humans is actually facing severe sunburn that may be caused by the damaged ozone layer’s decreased ability to block UV rays.

This is very bad news!

Fortunately, it’s against the law to be a nudist in public and sunglasses are in vogue.

And unless you live in the era of Aladdin where you wear veils  

Or haunt the living as a horror bride, I’d suggest you slap on sun-screen. 24/7. Many people think you don’t need sunscreen if you stay indoors. That’s not true. There are harmful rays from the lights in the building, the computer, and the TV too.

In the market, there’re SPF values as high as 50. I have, however heard or read somewhere that the skin can only absorb 25 and anything more doesn’t go in.

However, the Percentage of Protection from damaging UV rays is:

SPF 15 = 92%
SPF 30 = 97%
SPF 40 = 97.5%

I suppose whether the above is true or not, best is to use a sunscreen with a minimum of 30. Afterall, the difference in UV ray protection in SPF numbers becomes minimal as the number increases past about 30 or 40. The difference of protection between SPF 15 and SPF 30 is great (5%), but the difference between SPF 30 and SPF 40 is minimal (0.5%).

I do not use Coppertone or Banana Boat unless I am out at the beach or swimming. They are too oily for daily use. And I used to use this particular skincare brand that is although made of natural ingredients; it just doesn’t work as effectively in blending into the skin (my face remains flaky white).

So Bella Skincare introduced me to the Pore Minimizer Sun Defense SPF35 PA++. It is most ideal for combination skin and skins with tendency to oiliness.

Combination of Salicylic Acid and Polysaccharides ensure a healthy skin renewal; reduce pores from clogging resulting in refined pores and reduction in pimple outbreak (and its true! Been using for 3 weeks now).


It is very light and its oil free texture offers an amazing long wearing comfort and freshness (after 8 hours out, my face is not oily at all!), leaving my skin matte and natural looking.

At 25, it’s time to practice age defying strokes. Here’s how you massage skincare into your skin.

For the V-shape face, push lightly and gently upwards.

Don’t look like a bull dog with downward folds around the mouth. Lift and push upwards and round your mouth.

Ease the forehead folds by using 2 fingers and doing light circles around, start from the middle outwards.

Remember ladies, lift-and-push against gravity.

The good news is, win vouchers from Bella Skin Care’s facebook page by


Answering my question posted there correctly and get a $50 voucher which you can use at their outlets.

Posting YOUR question about skincare or problem at and get a $50 voucher.
Posting your question + PHOTO of problematic skin and get a $100 voucher.
I will be choosing a winner for a Bella Skin Care’s package weekly. So long as you participate in any of the above ways, you’re in the draw. Trust me, you WILL want to win a Bella Skin Care’s package. I don’t want to calculate how much I’ve “invested” in my skin for the last 6 years.

Tales of a Cruise 1.1

That’s what I was afraid of whenever I think of a cruise. I’ve always wanted to try out the capsule hotel in Japan, never did get to it. Then again, I’m not sure if I will survive more than one night sleeping in a coffin. Speaking of sleeping in coffins, lying in a coffin and having death rites conducted over you is popular in Thailand. It symbolizes second chance and being reborn, getting rid of bad luck.

One would think that it’s eerie to be sleeping in a coffin, but there is actually a forum discussing how one should sleep in a coffin! There is a niche group of netizens (seem to be more Ang Mohs) who claims that it is actually very comfortable! I guess, the tight space makes you feel safe, like in your mother’s arms? I got to admit, when I was younger, me and my brother love getting under the covers and kick. Pretending we’re back in our mother’s womb.

Despite people saying size is not everything, I like things big wide.When I take a plane, I always ask for the front seats near the exit door so I can stretch my legs. I like going to Cathay’s cinemas because you don’t have to squeeze through and fumble getting to your seat. I have never taken Business Class with reclining sleepers.

Legend of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in Asia, deflowered my virgin cruise holiday. And I was pleasantly pampered with luxurious space!

A surprise animal awaits us everyday.



Two girls didn’t have to fight for sink space for toiletries and skincare.

 There’s a sofa to carelessly throw our shopping bags on.

No fighting over wardrobe space either!

We were so happy with the BIG room; we did some girl-on-girl shots! Ok, we were preparing to go to the swimming pool. SERIOUSLY!

My 2 favourite times of the day is dinner and sleeping.

You can eat THE WHOLE DAY. A buffet spread will always be in the WindJammers cafe, and there's the burger/sandwich/pizza bar by the pool.

But my favourite time is dinner because we'll always go to the Romeo & Juliet where we get excellent service and wine (chargeable) and dine. 3 course meals are served, but you do not need to stick to 3. I had to try everything, so it's usually 3 appetizers, 2 main courses and 4 deserts for me. Please do not waste food though.

 Snuggling under the duvet was heavenly. Temperature could be controlled within the room, and you could feel a slight humming under those lush sheets. No, I didn’t bring any girlie toy, but the engine of the ship. It was surprisingly comforting, a water bed!

Waking up to find we’ve docked at a new destination was exhilarating.



Rainbow spotted!



To be continued…

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The Warped Originals

THE TOP TEN GRUESOME FAIRY TALE ORIGINS

Contributor: JFrater

10 The Pied Piper

In the tale of the Pied Piper, we have a village overrun with rats. A man arrives dressed in clothes of pied (a patchwork of colors) and offers to rid the town of the vermin. The villagers agree to pay a vast sum of money if the piper can do it – and he does. He plays music on his pipe which draws all the rats out of the town. When he returns for payment – the villagers won’t cough up so the Pied Piper decides to rid the town of children too! In most modern variants, the piper draws the children to a cave out of the town and when the townsfolk finally agree to pay up, he sends them back. In the darker original, the piper leads the children to a river where they all drown (except a lame boy who couldn’t keep up). Some modern scholars say that there are connotations of pedophilia in this fairy tale.

9 Little Red Riding Hood

The version of this tale that most of us are familiar with ends with Riding Hood being saved by the woodsman who kills the wicked wolf. But in fact, the original French version (by Charles Perrault) of the tale was not quite so nice. In this version, the little girl is a well bred young lady who is given false instructions by the wolf when she asks the way to her grandmothers. Foolishly riding hood takes the advice of the wolf and ends up being eaten. And here the story ends. There is no woodsman – no grandmother – just a fat wolf and a dead Red Riding Hood. The moral to this story is to not take advice from strangers.

8 The Little Mermaid

The 1989 version of the Little Mermaid might be better known as “The big whopper!” In the Disney version, the film ends with Ariel the mermaid being changed into a human so she can marry Eric. They marry in a wonderful wedding attended by humans and merpeople. But, in the very first version by Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaid sees the Prince marry a princess and she despairs. She is offered a knife with which to stab the prince to death, but rather than do that she jumps into the sea and dies by turning to froth. Hans Christian Andersen modified the ending slightly to make it more pleasant. In his new ending, instead of dying when turned to froth, she becomes a “daughter of the air” waiting to go to heaven – so, frankly, she is still dead for all intents and purposes.

7 Snow White

In the tale of snow white that we are all familiar with, the Queen asks a huntsman to kill her and bring her heart back as proof. Instead, the huntsman can’t bring himself to do it and returns with the heart of a boar. Now, fortunately disney hasn’t done too much damage to this tale, but they did leave out one important original element: in the original tale, the Queen actually asks for Snow White’s liver and lungs – which are to be served for dinner that night! Also in the original, Snow White wakes up when she is jostled by the prince’s horse as he carries her back to his castle – not from a magical kiss. What the prince wanted to do with a dead girl’s body I will leave to your imagination. Oh – in the Grimm version, the tale ends with the Queen being forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes!

6 Sleeping Beauty

In the original sleeping beauty, the lovely princess is put to sleep when she pricks her finger on a spindle. She sleeps for one hundred years when a prince finally arrives, kisses her, and awakens her. They fall in love, marry, and (surprise surprise) live happily ever after. But alas, the original tale is not so sweet (in fact, you have to read this to believe it.) In the original, the young woman is put to sleep because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And it isn’t the kiss of a prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep, and rather fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children (while she is still asleep). One of the children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids.

5 Rumpelstiltskin

This fair tale is a little different from the others because rather than sanitizing the original, it was modified by the original author to make it more gruesome. In the original tale, Rumpelstiltskin spins straw into gold for a young girl who faces death unless she is able to perform the feat. In return, he asks for her first born child. She agrees – but when the day comes to hand over the kid, she can’t do it. Rumpelstiltskin tells her that he will let her off the bargain if she can guess his name. She overhears him singing his name by a fire and so she guesses it correctly. Rumpelstiltskin, furious, runs away, never to be seen again. But in the updated version, things are a little messier. Rumpelstiltskin is so angry that he drives his right foot deep into the ground. He then grabs his left leg and rips himself in half. Needless to say this kills him.

4 Goldilocks and the Three Bears

In this heart warming tale, we hear of pretty little goldilocks who finds the house of the three bears. She sneaks inside and eats their food, sits in their chairs, and finally falls asleep on the bed of the littlest bear. When the bears return home they find her asleep – she awakens and escapes out the window in terror. The original tale (which actually only dates to 1837) has two possible variations. In the first, the bears find Goldilocks and rip her apart and eat her. In the second, Goldilocks is actually an old hag who (like the sanitized version) jumps out of a window when the bears wake her up. The story ends by telling us that she either broke her neck in the fall, or was arrested for vagrancy and sent to the “House of Correction”.

3 Hansel and Gretel

In the widely known version of Hansel and Gretel, we hear of two little children who become lost in the forest, eventually finding their way to a gingerbread house which belongs to a wicked witch. The children end up enslaved for a time as the witch prepares them for eating. They figure their way out and throw the witch in a fire and escape. In an earlier French version of this tale (called The Lost Children), instead of a witch we have a devil. Now the wicked old devil is tricked by the children (in much the same way as Hansel and Gretel) but he works it out and puts together a sawhorse to put one of the children on to bleed (that isn’t an error – he really does). The children pretend not to know how to get on the sawhorse so the devil’s wife demonstrates. While she is lying down the kids slash her throat and escape.

2 The Girl Without Hands

Frankly, the revised version of this fairy tale is not a great deal better than the original, but there are sufficient differences to include it here. In the new version, a poor man is offered wealth by the devil if he gives him whatever is standing behind his mill. The poor man thinks it is an apple tree and agrees – but it is actually his daughter. The devil tries to take the daughter but can’t – because she is pure, so he threatens to take the father unless the daughter allows her father to chop off her hands. She agrees and the father does the deed. Now – that is not particularly nice, but it is slightly worse in some of the earlier variants in which the young girl chops off her own arms in order to make herself ugly to her brother who is trying to rape her. In another variant, the father chops off the daughter’s hands because she refuses to let him have sex with her.

1 Cinderella

In the modern Cinderella fairy tale we have the beautiful Cinderella swept off her feet by the prince and her wicked step sisters marrying two lords – with everyone living happily ever after. The fairy tale has its origins way back in the 1st century BC where Strabo’s heroine was actually called Rhodopis, not Cinderella. The story was very similar to the modern one with the exception of the glass slippers and pumpkin coach. But, lurking behind the pretty tale is a more sinister variation by the Grimm brothers: in this version, the nasty step-sisters cut off parts of their own feet in order to fit them into the glass slipper – hoping to fool the prince. The prince is alerted to the trickery by two pigeons who peck out the step sister’s eyes. They end up spending the rest of their lives as blind beggars while Cinderella gets to lounge about in luxury at the prince’s castle.

I have watched Rapunzel, and Disney's movies always gives you this warm fuzzy feeling inside. Its a good thing Disney repackages fairy tales, then again, there is Disney porn (not drawn by Disney obviously) and accusations that Disney also sells discreet sex (read my previous post). But my favourite must be Sleeping Beauty, where her baby must have mistaken her thumb for her breast while feeding and thus by chance, sucked out the poison. I love the gruesome versions, as much as i love SAW.