*188 - byebye prelims (:

So this is a little belated, but, prelims are over at last (:

Bio MCQ yesterday was simple enough, but I got quite a handful wrong from carelessness and lack of studying the details, so that was quite a pity. Placing the 2 core Bio papers more than 1 week apart was a bit heartless ):

Math S was hahaha funny, as I went through the paper I circled the questions I didn't know how to do, and in the end almost everything was circled and I didn't have time to go back to try them again anyway. Whoopsies. Looked to my left in the exam venue and saw rows upon rows of brilliant F Math students who probably found the paper easy-peasy.

But never mind about prelims for now, I shall only worry again when school begins next week.

Popped by Justin's house after Math S to watch Chocolat, a beautifully quaint and somehow poetic and fairy-tale-like film. The storyline was rather different from the book, but really nice nonetheless. I love French (: Anyway, I was mildly surprised to see Johnny Depp acting in the film (as the river gypsy who seduced the main character haha).

Went for a cycle after that, which has long-lasting consequences until today (my butt bone aches!). Rather thrilling because of all the cars and because it was night time, and I'm definitely not a confident cyclist! I used to cycle around all the time as a kid, but evidently lost the skill over time, and I haven't got very good control over the bike right now, hehe.

Cycled to a hawker center dinner (: Good local food - Hokkien mee, prawn dumplings, and frog porridge!! I was actually imagining a nasty green creature nestled in the middle of a bowl of porridge, but nah, it didn't look like a frog at all.



Quite yummy (:

On the way back: Ribbid ribbid croak croak.



I have to say, I make a better frog than Justin.

And because the round concrete thing was so fun to play with, I decided to try an arabesque. Wibble wobble lack of technique eek.



I miss dancing, yeah.

Anyway, went to JB and back for a short shopping trip with the girls of the family today (ie Mummy and sister). Particularly exhausting because I was obviously falling ill but trying to pretend not to. Right now I'm nursing a bad cold and I can scarcely keep my eyes open anymore. I don't want to fall ill now, not when it's time to relax and have fun! But really have to thank God for keeping me healthy over the exam period (: Definitely better now than a week ago! (:

*187 - cut it out please

It's not so bad if you just poke fun at me or hurl anonymous insults at me. But don't insult all my friends' names, I don't want any of them to be upset even if it's all in the name of fun.

I don't even know if you're asd or dsa or maybe even one of my friends, but I'm deleting everything anyway.

*186 - biotech, chem s

I found Biotech pretty tough. The essays in particular, which seemed a little GP-ish, and some of the structured. And because of my policy of never leaving blanks, I dutifully filled up all the spaces with rubbishy answers, and I was rather tempted to seek Mr Tan out after that to beg him to please not laugh at the stuff I wrote, because under exam conditions one can't be too creative and so the answers I invented on the spot were more absurd than anything else.

Chem S later, Bio 1 tomorrow, Math S tomorrow. Then we shall be done. (:

I'm not sure what to do about Chem S, tried looking at some past year papers and saw, in the answer sheet, an unintelligible muddle of out-of-syllabus stuff like the Grignard reaction, the Sandmeyer reaction, the Diels Alder reaction, the Williamson synthesis ... Well, maybe some smarties out there actually know what all these mean, but the regularly-nearly-failing-normal-Chemistry-papers me hasn't a clue.

Me, of all people, taking Chem S. Hahahaha.

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What I have to say about Chem S now that it's over: Hahahaha.

I finished about 45 minutes before the time was up! Virtually wrote nothing for 2/3 of the paper. So I had lots of time to invent "creative" answers to fill in some of the blanks (:

Nearly there, nearly there. 2 more papers to go and then I can collapse into bed and sleep away my up-and-coming cold. -sniff-

*185 - chemistry

Even though there are still quite a few more papers, I think we're all beginning to slack off. Or at least, I am. Biotech is killing me, nooo. Aspergillus niger. Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. Lactobacillus Bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus! Pseudomonas Nitrosomonas Clostridium Methanococcus Saccharomyces!!!!

-breathes-

Terribly perturbed after Chemistry today because everyone seemed to think it was "okay" but I personally thought it was disastrous. (I always think Chemistry is disastrous.) (And it always does turn out disastrous, yes.)

Sent a panicky SMS to Mr Koh after the paper, who was really really nice and cute, and was pleasantly surprised with the extent he went to to console me. And he ended off with a cheerful "Chin up! :-)" so cute right? Yes, I was being a pest of a student yet again, I always regret sending the teachers panicky SMSes because it all sounds quite irritating and attention-seeking on hindsight. (So I really shouldn't be typing this out here haha.) But it tends to happen in fits of stress, like "HELP I AM GOING TO FAIL THE PAPER IT WAS SO TOUGH".

Ok, so. Maybe I should do it here instead of kachiao-ing people unnecessarily.

HELP I AM GOING TO FAIL BIOTECH TOMORROW.

*184 - asd

Justin's hamsters gave birth.


I circled them in pink, because they're hardly visible, haha! Tried to take a photo of myself holding a hamster, but they kept trying to scramble out of my hands and I nearly dropped them several times. The last straw was when it pooped on my hand, ew. So a photo with their cage will have to suffice.

Anyway. My mugging session was interrupted with my very own thoughts swimming around in my head. So I "blogged" on a piece of paper to let it all out. If you're remotely concerned with the whole asd issue you can try to plough through the pink mess, if not, just skip it (:

Warning: tragically untidy handwriting up ahead







I think that shall be the end of anything to do with asd that I write here. Yup.

On to happier things.

You know your boyfriend really loves you when he covers your head with his hands in the rain,
when he shelters you from the rain and wind while waiting for your bus,
when he gets unnecessarily cold and wet waiting with you as the vehicles zoom by and the water WHOOSHES and drenches both of you from thigh down,
when he has to run back across the road in the thunderstorm once you're gone to catch his own bus home ...
When he could have simply stayed nice and dry on the other side in the first place.

And you know your Mummy really loves you when she braves the torrential rain and saves you from the bus stop with a giant umbrella. (Even though after that she seemed to only be concerned whether my shoes were ruined haha!)

But yes, simple things like that make me feel :D :D :D

*183 - dangerous studying

Studying is unhealthy.



Sliced by my Bio file!

(That's my forearm by the way, I realise it looks like a random slab of meat.)

And thanks to the people who've stuck up for me, I'm still eagerly checking my mail but no sign of Mr/Ms ASD. I suppose somebody was feeling particular bitter that day, and I suppose my sarcasm didn't help things. When my feathers are ruffled I tend to transform into the Ice Queen of Sarcasm which makes everyone think I'm the absolute meanie. Even the tips of my fingers turn icy cold, haha! -shoots deadly ice daggers from fingertips-

(But I still think it's quite funny to have misspelled Singaporeans as Singapoeans twice in a row though. Sounds cute and teletubbyish :D )

*182 - math & physics

Math - I thought Paper 2 was shockingly difficult. Thank goodness there's a general consensus that it was a toughie, but I still wish I had prepared more for statistics, instead of reading through just the day before ):

Physics - Crazy MCQ, it seemed like the most difficult one out of all the other prelim papers I tried, and there was simply no time. Very cruel and tricksy. Paper 2 not as bad, but I had no idea what the entire resonance question was about.

Thank God for getting me through so far, before each paper I sit in my seat quaking in fear but once I say a little prayer and it's time to start, it's not so bad. (: Like Jon says, we're halfway through!! Wheee (: Hang in there guys, don't be demoralised by anything that has happened (eg. Tubby feeling nauseous after Physics haha) and just keep looking ahead. I've been praying hard for all of my friends (: We'll get through this!


Dear asd,

I actually typed a long reply here, but I realise it's not very nice of me to carry out a conversation in public. It would be nice if you could leave a contact but if you don't want to hear from me, suffice to say, if you've never laughed at anyone in your life, be it the crazy things your friends do or the Chinese in China (whose translated Chinese to English notices are unintentionally hilarious) or all the funny things people do, I think it must be terribly dry and wearisome to be you.

Contact me, and we can work things out in a nice polite fashion, unless you would prefer to remain anonymous.




Okay! The ground's a little wet here, so altogether now! One, two, three ... carefully ... slip!

*181 - eden

Ohmygoodness. Eden is SOLD OUT. Within slightly more than a day! We actually imported 4 hummingbird charms from US, and 4 people have ordered, so ... no more! Hehe. Lucky people who got them early (you're the third, Sheryl :D) - I think the hummingbirds are really special and different.

We have quite a few more little daisies though, so I suppose anyone else who orders will have to buy 2 similar daisy earrings instead of 1 hummingbird and 1 daisy.

It kinda scares me, though, thinking about the hours of wire-twisting I shall have to do once my Prelims are over! But then again, it's exceptionally fun to make, because there isn't a standard twirly pattern to follow, and I get to design it as I go along (:

*180 - tomorrow's papers ...

Guess which subjects are tested tomorrow?






Foxtrot <3

*179 - anonymous tagger!

Because I can't resist showing off my handiwork, in it's golden twisty glory:



The first of it's kind! (: It's hellish to make though, I must have ruined metres and metres of gold wire experimenting.

Temporarily sold out due to dearest Sha, our ever-faithful customer (: Will only be able to get another pair done when the Prelims are finally over. It makes me all warm and fuzzy inside to have it snapped up within hours of putting it on the site! Thanks Sha (:

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To the anonymous tagger: I know the Internet is a powerful shield, but if you have a bone to pick with me, tell it to me personally and I'll be glad to entertain.

And I helped you delete one of your (accidental, I assume?) double posts so there's only one copy of your message left on my tagboard. Just so you won't appear as ditzy (:

And yes, I do see the irony in the spelling error, you sure have a sense of humour! :D

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(And this comes right after Tubby mentions something about anonymous taggers on his blog. Startling coincidence!)

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I've always wanted to blog about the Singaporean culture. Don't we all openly mock Singlish, kiasu-ism, and everything else? GASP SHOCK HORROR I think it might be only me! [/end sarcasm]

And the thing is, we still continue to do everything that we jabbed at. I mean, I for one speak Singlish for sure, it's not just about broken/poor English or the "lah"s to me, but more of the Singlish tone. Even an English-bred Singaporean speaking grammatically perfect English is instantly distinguishable as a Singaporean. I'm Singaporean through and through, I shake my head at many of the things we do, but I'm proud of us in other ways.

-waves flag-

But! I still think the weather sucks. (Ok, so this is more about Singapore than Singaporeans.)

Anyway, time for school ): I think I'm late.

*178 - disastrous photoshoot

An image-heavy post up ahead, purely for entertainment value.

A lovely selection of absolutely unflattering photographs of myself (: All silly faces done in the spur of the moment, obviously, I wouldn't be as pathetic as to actually plan them out beforehand lah :P Taken by Elisa aka The Photographer, who has a tendency to click the shutter once every few seconds, in case a good shot is captured by chance, and to stress me out (I suspect).



Do you think it's odd that most pictures on people's blogs are the pretty, becoming sort, whereas I delight in putting up horrible photos of myself? Hehehe. Well, it all works out for our amusement, and one day when I grow up and become rich and famous and pretty (muahaha) you can use these photos to blackmail me. For example, "Evelyn used to be so ugly in her teens!! MUST BE PLASTIC SURGERY!!11!"



(Meant to end off with a 'normal' photo but I realise this is actually quite a bad one too. Oh well!)

New twisty earrings - I couldn't resist. Haven't done a spot of studying today, and it's 9 pm. Whoopsies.

EDEN

Also, vote for us! You'll have to register first. More info on our site (:

*177 - physics, and the thesaurus

Physics - Better than expected, because of the freedom of choice (6 questions choose 4, plus 3 fluids), so I happily omitted the topics I don't like to do. Really, really thank God because I know how disastrous my Physics can be (: I won't do brilliantly of course, but I'm just thankful that this Paper 3 doesn't spell disaster for me.

This means I have to study extremely hard for Paper 1 & 2 though, because looking at today's topics, yucky topics like Electric Field, Quantum Physics and (horror of horrors) Gravitation are going to be tested.

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I just did something rather silly. Mummy sent me and Justin out to wait by the gate (it's remote controlled) to open it for the computer van, because we just ordered 2 new computers. So we sat there by the road with our notes and fried our butts on the hot concrete, and waited, and waited, and waited. Opened the gate for some cars and vans.

20 minutes after the van was supposed to arrive I called home to complain to Mummy.

Imagine my shock when she told me that they had arrived, and left, about 10 minutes ago.

Bleugh! Turns out that the computer van was disguised as the furniture lorry, and I had actually helped to open the gate for them. Haha, so that was my airheaded moment of the day :D

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I want to blog about something funny but I don't know if I should because it's mean. Maybe I shall just copy from my sister's blog! (Push the blame to her! And because she let me :D ) And do up another post later tonight to push this one down, ehehe.

Ok my sister and I just spent several minutes laughing at jewellery descriptions, and I know it's rude and I risk fallout from the close-knit jewellery community but these are truly the funniest I've seen so far (and there are a plenty, yessiree).

"A silver butterfly evinces a salient effect of the green and crystal white spherical swarovskis, gesturing the classicism and conformity of this pair earrings."

Haha. Hahaha. More?

"A glass bead that shares the colours of blue and white with a tinge of silver creates a soothing oceanic and amicable touch to its broad view."

"This graceful yet extraordinaire pair of earrings was punctiliously put together."

"...red and crystal white swarovskis attached to it devises a simple yet dulcet overall."

If jewellery had feelings I think they'd be quaking with embarrassment ("Aiyoh don't say until like that lah, I very paiseh like that").

To the person(s) I quoted: You make pretty things, but really you'll have to put the thesaurus aside. Otherwise annoying and rude people like yours truly will start quoting you for entertainment value. So-so language is okay, baddish language is forgivable (we're all kind, aren't we) but this is really too terrible not to laugh at. Just write normally and nobody will bat an eyelid (as it is my eyelids have batted themselves to a pulp muahaha).

[I will probably delete this in a few days, so that everybody will continue thinking I'm nice and polite.]

I think it's hilarious! Darlings, please appreciate our cutesy item descriptions, because we don't type them out in Microsoft Word first and use the thesaurus on every single word.

Actually, let me try!

Original: "The squiggle isn't exactly a new concept, but then we think no one does it quite as beautifully as we do. ;) These earrings are surprisingly funky, thanks to the generous swirls. The ivory rice pearls add a lovely touch of class."

Thesaurus-ed: "The undulating line isn't precisely a novel philosophy, however we cogitate not a soul does it relatively as gorgeously as we do. ;) These earrings are without prior notice funky, credit to the munificent twirls. The ivory rice pearls affix a divine stroke of refinement."

Hoho! That was fun. I do suspect that's exactly what the writer did - using the thesaurus on every word that allows it, but in the process turning the sentence into an unrecognisable and ungrammatical mishmash of bombastic words.

To be honest, Elisa & I delight in looking at other (Singaporean, mostly) earring sites and laughing at their disastrous English. Not that our English is very high-class like that lah, but from everything we've seen so far, I do believe we're above average :P

Oh, Singaporeans.

*176 - biology

Bio - A mad sprint to finish the paper, but apart from the dreadful lack of time, I suppose it wasn't too bad, thank God (: The questions weren't as ambiguous or unexpected as previous common tests I believe, so if we don't do well, we can't blame it on the tough questions anymore :P

My right hand was severely paralysed after the paper, and I think I owe the teachers who are marking my illegible scripts a big apology. At times like these I wish wish wish I were ambidextrous. (I try once in a while, but practising is never a long-term affair because it's too tedious and messy.)

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The Long-Awaited Parcel from US arrived today! It was nice and rattly and delightful to peel open. Too bad I'm taking a hiatus from jewellery making until the prelims are over.



Parcels in the mail = :D :D :D

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Physics early tomorrow, I have a few hours left to study before I collapse into bed. I'm so exhausted; the brain is evidently not used to so much thinking.

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And, this is an emergency announcement - If anyone has found a ziplock bag containing a pair of dangly earrings and a little piece of paper with our URL printed on it, PLEASE return it to me!

Left it at the open lockers outside the RJC library. Someone must have picked it up between 12 to 4 pm. Contact us at elisa.and.evelyn@gmail.com. Thanks!

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Hahaha I just received 5 consecutive SMSes from Mr Lim, explaining to me a question I asked about Gravitation. He's quite a dear, really. (:

I tend to SMS teachers questions whenever I panic, and I always feel a tad guilty. Imagine how annoying it must be to be peacefully recovering from a horrible day at school filled with horrible students, and then your phone beeps, and then you have to waste your SMSes on a pest of a student, and your peace is shattered.

Poor teachers.

*175 - math & chem

Math - Okay la, a few blanks only, but it depends on how careless I was. (I usually lose more marks due to carelessness than anything else.)

Chem - HAHA. I was worrying about getting drowsy some time before the paper, because of the after-effects of lunch, but it turned out there was no need to worry. You can't even begin to feel sleepy when you're having a huge adrenaline rush from realising that you don't know how to answer anything and the three hours seem to pass by too quickly.

Not quite a promising start to the Prelims.

Covered a white board with little purple scribblings about Nervous Control, Pee Formation (um I mean Kidney), Photosynthesis and Respiration for an hour plus after the Chem paper. I don't feel adequately prepared, but Bio papers are actually kinda fun, because sometimes it's possible to be creative or use your common sense and make up answers on the spot, which might actually be correct. And Bio is the most interesting anyway, but not when it's in the form of an exam paper.

Perhaps I should move on to Physics for now, because Physics (like Chem) is my downfall.

I'm not sure if you can tell but here's how I feel right now:



"TEEHEEHEEXX I am going crazy" -evil glint in eyes with wide plastic smile-

*174 - pre-prelims

Today, I did my first Chem Paper 3 practice and I finished it 45 minutes before the time was up, because I kept skipping questions I didn't know how to do. I calculated my marks (generously, I should admit) and now I'm scared, scared, scared. How to aim for an A when I'm perpetually nearly-failing?

The Math practice papers have been teetering on the edge of just-about-decent and unsatisfactory. Very risky.

And today was the first time in 3 days I actually saw my dad, because I've been coming home pretty late nowadays. Studying in school is more productive than studying at home, because the instant I step into the house, I am unable to do any form of work whatsoever. And studying in school is never short of entertainment, at least, if you're studying with a bunch of ruggers. (That is both good and bad.)

I really really don't enjoy studying. I wish I could be up and about doing something I enjoy instead of struggling with disgustingly useless things like turning one complicated trigo equation into another complicated one (what's the point, pray tell me), or figuring out the pH of a buffer solution, or memorising formulae like F = 1/2 Cd pAv^2. Like, who cares, man.

I want to quit school get married and spend the rest of my days making pretty earrings galore.

Well, perhaps not.

Mugging hasn't been great, I mean, it's one thing to read through all the stuff, but it's another to be able to apply the information to the questions and put the formulae to use. That's always the problem, isn't it? Plus, my attention span is getting shorter and shorter, I don't know how I'm going to get to the end of all the 3-hour-long papers without getting getting bored first.

I shall go to bed early tonight, because I am aware of the disaster that ensued during the last Math paper from a fitful night's sleep. The phase of insomnia has passed (oh, it was terrible), so I'm hoping for the best (:

Strange gurgly frothy noises coming from downstairs. I believe my brother is making chocolate meringue. It is no wonder, looking at the amount of food I've been consuming, that I've been diarrhoea-ing daily (it's the really gross painful liquidy kind of diarrhoea too), because all the rubbish that has been going in has got to come out somewhere, doesn't it?

So, the papers start tomorrow, and I haven't even got a panic attack yet! (The grumpy tantrums don't count.) I've only cried once over my work recently, I think, and that's quite a feat, don't you agree. But even as I type this, I'm getting increasingly stressed out about the fact that I should be more stressed out because, like, HELLO, the PRELIMS are beginning TOMORROW and I am fantastically UNPREPARED and omg I just worked myself into a frenzy and my heart is pounding (atrial systole! ventricular systole!) and I think I shall be off to do some last minute cramming and God bless all of us.

*173 - high on crack

Elisa says, "Look fierce. Look cool. Look ... drugged."



So this is me, eyelids a-flutter, giving my best PEOPLES, I AM HIGH ON DRUGZ, YO face. (Doesn't that just crack you up? My (extremely witty!) puns, too.)

It's even funnier when I tweak with the colours and turn my lips a nasty shade of blue/grey.



Unfortunately, using that photo would have been detrimental to our sales, so we tried a few more times, and got a couple of "normal" shots like this one.



The choker sorta doubles up as a bracelet, which is cool. And did you know, twice around the thumb is once around the wrist, twice around the wrist is once around the neck, twice around the neck is once around the waist, twice around the waist is ... ok I can't imagine what twice around the waist could be.

Devil's Advocate

It's already very nearly Friday, which means the weekend's almost here, which means Monday is around the corner, and we all know what that means.

*172 - burnt

Inexplicably sleepy.

Unpleasantly hot-tempered. (Ask Justin.)

Tragically behind schedule.

...

(Trying to think of a positive one.)

(Um, I think I give up.)


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After a nice warm shower, I realised I should stop sounding so emo because there are really so many things to be thankful about. Blessed with an ever-loving and ever-tolerant boyfriend, whose fabulous parents take turns chauffeuring me to and from school, blessed with the company of fellow mug-in-school-ers, blessed with as perfect a family as I can imagine, blessed with the peace of God which is the ultimate cure to all my worries and stress.

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
- Matthew 6:33-34

Flipped through Hanyi's handy (& tattered!) Bible verse book briefly today, and saw this one (:

*171 - MORE BRAS! :D

Went back today with Mummy for more bras & undies (: Shall spare you the details, but I'm very pleased with the loot. Spent a mere fraction of what they would have ordinarily cost! -beams-



Bras galore and Aunties galore! But it wasn't half as crowded today as it was yesterday, and it already looks pretty packed in this photo, haha. I dearly hope noone in this photo comes across my blog, because I wouldn't fancy being caught on camera buying bras myself. (Or being labelled as an "Auntie" for that matter.)



Another Sunday spent with the Boyfriend (: We were late (thanks to my underwear-spree) and took a long time to finish up our very heavy lunch (as can be seen), so we had to go to the 2nd overflow room.

Pastor Mark was preaching, and he's the cutest pastor ever, i's impossible to feel bored listening to him! It doesn't matter how many good deeds or bad things we do, we are still children of God in His eyes - we don't have to be the "perfect" Christian to receive His blessings, but because Jesus died on the cross for us, all our sins are taken away, and we can now receive all of His blessings (: No more condemnation! We just have to believe. (:

For some reason, I've hardly touched any work for the past two days, which spells D-O-O-M, unless I get off the computer now and start mugging. So off I go!

Strangely tired tough, both of us fell asleep on the MRT and missed our stop. Goodness me. Perhaps I should turn in early for once, seeing how my plans to wake up late never work out since I'm innately an early riser. Yawn!

*170 - BRAS!! :D :D

Thank you Sheryl! (:

If not for her, I wouldn't be sitting here smiling at ten new bras, which would have ordinarily cost about three hundred dollars but now cost only fifty-seven dollars!!! Ohmygoodness that works out to less than $6 for each bra!!!

(Ok, end of excessive punctuation.)

It was an enormous Auntie-battle, the kind where the Aunties push and shove and fling bras wildly in the air, and poor polite me stands at the side trying not to be trod upon, waiting for an empty spot to dive into. In the end, I only managed to find three good bras in my size (the other seven being my sister's), and Mummy is appalled at my abysmal effort. So she's going back with me tomorrow and she shall be The Ultimate Aunty and stab all the other Aunties with her sharp elbows and grab all the good bras for me, whee (:

(I have a feeling all the boys reading this got the goosebumps after reading the title and left off there. Or perhaps not. :P)

(Anyway Syuan, about the photos, I attribute their professionalism to my sister who is a photographer, and her super cool digital SLR. And me being a Photoshop genius, of course. Hehehe -wink-)

*169 - revamped!

Clickety-click!

We've given our website a makeover! Easier navigation, hoorah :D

Ironically, the above pair of earrings aren't up on the site yet, because I haven't thought of a name for them. I'm not looking ideally glamorous in the photo either, having just arrived home from a mugging session, dressed in rubbishy clothes with greasy hair and tired eyes. And oops, the earrings aren't hanging properly! ):

Anyway, take our survey, give us your suggestions and feedback, so we can continue to improve (:

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She's called Shirley. And she's up on the site! (: