GYM: Got Your Makeup?

Some girls take 5 minutes to get ready. Others take 5 minutes and forever. It doesn’t matter if we’re going out to have coffee, getting the groceries or just plain walking the dog. We have to look good while doing it. Looking presentable is the least we can do simply because #nofilter rarely happens in real life.

Then there’s this grey area – do you put on make up when you’re going to the gym? And if you do, you've probably heard these questions before...

“What for? You’re going to sweat it out anyway.”

Do you not comb your hair before leaving the house too?

“Siao ah?”

Yeah, we do make madness look good.

“Who do you want to impress?”

No one. I just choose not to look deader than a zombie.

“Why.”

Because I can.

Boy, the men don’t get it.

For the girls who head to the gym bare faced, I hate you. Ok no I don’t. Not all of us are blessed with flawless skin. Your au-nautral milkshake brings the boys to the yard while my dark circles and blemishes … well, don’t do shit.

So how thick a slab do you wear on your face? Or do you apply just enough to cover your flaws? Natural looking make-up takes work too, I know. No hate and it's not a competition but oh, the things we girls do to look good naked!

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Shopping For Christmas

This is the season to be shopping…for Christmas gifts! But there are some (i.e. me) who need help in looking for gifts. Though I like the idea of gift packs (But really, who doesn't? Gift hampers are super!), I prefer to find something that's uncommon and interesting during this time of the year. 

With that in mind, I've just narrowed down my choices by default and cornered myself. HOW. DILEMMA.

So are you a bad gift shopper too? (You've no choice by to say yes, tee hee!) Is it because:

A.     You don’t know what your friends like, or

B.     You’re just bad at shopping.

I’m bad at shopping. It doesn’t help when I don’t know what my friends like as well. OH MY FAIL. Perhaps this lethal combination has me finding it difficult to shop for presents and that’s why I’ve to put in extra effort when shopping for friends, especially since I've ruled out gift packs too. Thankfully though, I’ve recently found a solution!

The key is to ponder, look around, get inspired and don't buy the first thing you see! It works for me, what about you? What's your secret to great Christmas shopping?

 

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Sing It To Me Baby

Music accompanies me everyday. It fills the void in my quiet home with fetching voices, layered notes and dreamy lullabies. The empty corner in my brain is now occupied with sounds and the voices can’t get to me anymore. 

YAY!

But when I’m trying to write, I switch to instrumentals (I just switched from Bastille to The Ventures) otherwise there’d be a collision of words and I’d be mentally hitting a texty, brick wall, repeatedly. And ever since Spotify came into my life, the world has been a better, happier place to live in! 

I love it so much I even draw what I hear.

FUUUUUUN!

I also enjoy covers a lot. It’s interesting to see how one song can be interpreted in so many ways by various amazing talents. So for Thursday’s tunes, I’m sharing some of my favourite covers with you guys!

Daniela Andrade sings Death Cab For Cutie’s I Will Follow You Into The Dark. She’s so adorable and her voice is super sweet! I get diabetic just by listening to her.

 Kina Grannis passionately covers Passenger’s Let Her Go. 

Arden Cho goes back to her roots with a melodic cover of Beautiful Night by BEAST.

I, somehow, derailed and came across this dude “covering” Ylvis’ The Fox. In Cantonese. Besides thinking CHEE SIN!, I’m not quite sure how to react though I might have enjoyed it slightly (oh the ironic annoyance!). What say you?

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