Christina Perri - A Thousand Years (Official Music Video)

I want to be her when I grow up

I am so darn inspired to wannabe like her. Can you guess her age, anyone?

I bet not la rite if you have not heard about her before but she is the rave of the moment, the talk of the town with her 5 hours daily of skincare regime and self-grooming, 

These are her answers to some of the questions on how she maintains her look..

Keeping the body fit to look younger

One should do regular workouts and should keep the body and mind active to stay young. One should have enough of sleep and stay away from smoking.

Eating healthy food to stay and look younger

One should eat fresh healthy food for a young skin and body. Eating right food makes whole lot of difference in one's appearance. One should have a balanced diet and 4-time meal in small portions.

Skin care
Eating right food, as fruits, milk, nuts and vegetables are the best way to feed the skin. But one should follow a definite skin care routine to keep the skin young and healthy as it is affected by outside factors as dust, dirt and pollution too.


Drink lots of water and fluids to wash off the toxins.

It keeps the skin away from most of the skin problems including black heads and white heads.

Putting right make up

One should apply the right make up for the age.
Too bright colors and shades don't suit as age grows so one should apply light make up and should wear light shades to look beautiful and forever young.

One should always apply vitamin E based cream or lotions all over the body to keep the skin soft and supple. One should never go out in the sun without applying a sunscreen protection on the uncovered skin parts. Sun damages the skin the most and makes it look older. One should follow the cleaning, toning and moisturizing regime every night before going to bed. Doing all these things will really help one to retain the natural beauty of the skin and stay young.

So still guessing how old the woman is as shown in the picture?

Her name is Masako Mizutani, a 43 year old housewife from Nagoya with two children, which her eldest is already about 20 years old. 

Yes, you heard me right. She is 43 looking 23 years old.


You can check her blog out here. 

Just goes to prove the quote from Helena Rubenstei so true: “there are no ugly women, only lazy ones.”

Turning Two Eight

Hubby has his way of surprising me and this year, he managed to surprise me to a new level.

Turning 28 was nothing really to shoutabout for me now. It only reminded me that I am two years closer to the Big Three O but oh wells, just having the day as MY DAY was enough to make me feel all special.

I got to spend a pre-birthday with my girls in Singapore, just normal things that we would usually do  when we meet up but it is a nice change to have friends. Had the Santouka Ramen that I was madly craving for and did a little shopping. 

Then, back home, Hubby had all his things planned out for me while I was away. 

He, had stalked into my personal folder to find out what I had liked and voila, when he came back from outside after saying he has to go collect some things, he had my little one carry it past me.

Aaawwwwww,,,

It was so darn cute that my little one played a tiny part in delivering my birthday present to me. 

In fact, I really did not expect this present. Afterall, I had already exceeded my quota for 2011, in fact, 2012 too but ssh.. I don't mind adding on for 2012. =p

It was a Gucci that I have been eyeing since late last year/early this year. Its the same model, only that the colours for the season has changed, and what the colour he got me, was even better than the one I had been eyeing.

*sigh* I am very very touched by what he has done for me, to step into these type of boutiques, which I can never really ever picture him doing so as he is not into all these materialistic stuff and how he did it just for me, I am just too touched beyond words.

My heart aches because hes got to buy it from the KL boutique. If I knew what he was planning, I would helped him plan to get it for me through Europe. I am one lady who would want to get these at the most lowest original price ever with tourist rebates. Yes, I am stingy like that but well, he has just made this my second most expensive bag in the wardrobe for me and the most most treasurable one. =) =)

We went out for dinner, something I have been craving for quite some time. 

To say he don't know me is crazy. ok, maybe not when he is accusing me of something that is really not me but most of the time, he strikes it bingo! Knowing what I want to eat, what I like and how I like it .. hmm...

Ice-cream cake and ice-creams... hmm, he sure knows how to work his way into my heart and little stomach. hehehe =p

I have been spending 6 birthdays with him and each birthday has been good. Keep it coming Mr !!!

It has been a good quiet little birthday, just the way I visioned it this year. 

Thank you Mr Yap! 

The Godson @ 16 Dec 2011

The SimonYap clan has been waiting for this day to arrive.


I am so darn sure the whole Teo clan too, is even more anxious than us for this wonderful day to arrive.


To hear the first cry of the little one that has just joined us in this world, known as Little Baby Teo for now, the firstborn, first grandson and also the first great-grandson for the Teos. 

Yes, I am talking about Simon's bestfriend, Iz who has just officially became a father to a beautiful, bouncy healthy baby boy. 

It was already such happy news to hear that they were getting married early this year, and then the news about Grace that got pregnant and now, this is better than any of those two previous news because I just love babies. They are like yummy little things. =p


and I have been prepping Jaden for quite some time now that he will soon become a big brother as Hubby has also been given another status in life. He has now been promoted to being Baby Teo's Kai-yeh, automatically giving my very own son a sibling!


Aaahh.. bliss! I love happy news! 


p/s: apparently Jaden didn't really approve of me carrying the baby.. is he jealous? 

Dreading it MAX :: Part 2

The experience somewhat was a little different from what Hubby and I had anticipated. In a good way.

Now, where do I begin?

We have our next appointment with the DAN doctor next weekend and boy, I was somehow pressured into really getting the blood test done and I just want to get it over and done with.

and since Jaden has to be in the pink of health when his blood is being drawn, and he had had fever about a month ago, I let him rest it off for about 2 weeks before I took him to the lab.

Remember when I said I had to make some calls and visit here and there first in my previous post? Well, I made a trip down to Pantai Premier Pathology Lab and showed them the list of tests needed to be done on Jaden and after the lab assistants went through files and files of what is available in their lab, I filled in the forms and said I would be back. That took place a day before the Deepavali holidays.

Of course, I also visited Jaden's pediatrician (not Pantai's) and asked if he could also draw the blood in his clinic and just ask the lab despatch to pick up the blood. He replied he can also do it but his option was to use syringe to draw the blood from Jaden and I was thinking the fat needle poke and because he needed about 20 ml of blood, that would mean two syringe full. I don't think I want Jaden to be poke twice with the needle.

Anyway, it got me thinking and I saw someone drawing her blood earlier at the lab and it was quite fast as it was the same style as the youtube video featured in the previous post. One poke with the lab technicians changing the tubes.

So I made up my mind to bring Jaden to the lab today afternoon and have him get it over and done.

I was the only parent, the only one to endure all the screaming and struggles because Hubby would most probably break down and cry to see someone poke a needle into his little baby's arm while the child struggles and cry. Well, it would already be quite a handful to handle my super strong 4 year old, I don't want to have to deal with another traumatised adult, so conclusion, it was only Jaden and I who made the trip to the hospital while Hubby was in charge in getting Jaden's favourite food ready at home.




Thankfully, a friend/mother who has gone through quite a few blood tests with her son, recommended me to use the numbing cream, EMLA. She said it would really help a great lot and without any second thoughts, I headed to the pharmacy before the lab and bought it. Definitely a pricey thing but worth the price to pay to not see your child in extreme pain.


Another backup was to bring his favourite fruit and toy to reward him after the whole ordeal.

The lab technicians helped me apply the EMLA cream on both Jaden's hand just in case, and then we waited for about half hour and onto the chair we sat.

The boy sitting in my lab, me holding on to him firmly, one technician in charge of drawing the blood, second technician helped hold his hand straight and also firmly so he won't struggle (which the fellow really did a good job) and the third one, getting the tubes ready to be change.

It wasn't exactly fast, maybe it took like a minute only but it does seem really long to me because it is my very own child's blood I am seeing coming out from his tiny little arm.


It was rather surprising because when they poke the butterfly syringe into his arm, he didn't really cry out and struggle like what we expected. Instead, sometimes he would just keep quiet but of course, from time to time, he would burst out crying and kicking his left leg as I had already interlock his right leg with mine down firmly but it was rather a non-traumatizing experience, so to say.


Now, all is left is for me to collect urine sample again.. a feat that will mentally challenge me, to be able to catch the pee in time. This, I have the luxury to come home and do and after I collect the pee, I have to send it back to the lab in a time frame of 2 hours after collection.

Hopefully we don't have to run any further test on Jaden anytime soon because first, its really a mental and physical challenge and second, these tests does not come cheap.


So did I break down?

hmm... lets just say instead of breaking down, I was really proud of Jaden for being such a brave good boy while going through the whole thing.

and as for the 4 tubes of blood they draw from Jaden, yea, those were the amount of tests they would be doing based on his 20ml of blood.

Dreading it MAX

I am dreading this day ... it has to come soon, maybe next week or so after I make some calls and visit here and there but it has to come. *sigh* I really dread this day because I forsee a situation non-easy as this video shows.. tears are going to flow and I am sure some of its gonna be mine...

Falthering ...

I, (name), take you (name), to be my (wife/husband), to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.

enough said...