De-cluttering My Life

I officially live in a pigsty. My physical and emotional baggage is like... whoa! Overwhelming.

I seriously don't know how or where to start!

Months ago, I realised I am just shifting my junk from one place to another less conspicuous place. I can't bare to throw old stuff away for the fear that I might miss or need it one day. All those old clothes... "Oh, I'm gonna lose weight and fit in them again" thoughts... Gah! How do I even believe myself.

It's time I start de-cluttering. I'm a uber big procrastinator.. I'm talking big now, but gotta stop the ATNA. All Talk No Action.

Let's make a list:

♠ De-clutter my Laptop
My laptop is currently 85% full. I don't know what else I have in my lappy except for some TV shows, music, and pictures. I keep adding music and it's time I listen to some of the 238787 songs I've got in my lappy.

♠ De-clutter my Phone
Full of SMSes, random photos, call histories from last century, games not played... Phonelist with people I barely know... Sheesh.

♠ De-clutter my Bags
I have many bags. Each bag has its own clutter. Especially my work bag. Have ya seen the bag I bring to work? Zillions of colleagues have asked me what I always put in that bag and I will always reply with "Gold". Not funny anymore. I need to empty my big bag full of rubbish!

♠ De-clutter my Room
The biggest headache of all. I need to start selling alot of pre-loved clothes. They are all in paperbags on my shelves, I can't even see my shelf anymore. Magazines by my bedside, I don't even touch them. Notes on my table... scribbled with ideas that I never launched. Dressing table.. half used creams, expired makeup.. OMG!

♠ De-clutter my Wardrobe
Beside clothes, I have tons of other stuff in my wardrobe that I don't even know what it is. I know it's there, but I have no idea WHAT is there.

♠ De-clutter my Car
Yes, even my car has junk. Damn.

I started this list with only my room in mind, but looked what I thought up....

This is extremely depressing. Makes me feel like procrastinating more :(

I'm gonna start with something easy... to feel motivated..

Update later. I'm gonna start my decluttering my phone.

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I've been lazy. And busy.

Gotta apologise for not keeping my promises to blog about my HK trips and amongst other stuff....

Life taking another turn soon, as I'm posted out from my current workplace and joining some place else with (what I think is) not-so-nice people. But I may be wrong. Will find out on 1st June :)

The guys at work threw a farewell for some of us that are posting out or retiring, and I received this huge card with little post-it notes on them.

I wanna share one of the post-it notes, so to explain that, actually I had constipation some time back so as a habit now I bring 2 bananas everyday to work and all my colleagues can see me munching on a banana before work or during work.

You can imagine all the dirty jokes and snide remarks done in good humour.

So to share one of the notes, this post-it note cracked me up like crazy...


Obviously written by a guy who have no guts to leave his name LOL.

Ok gotta go, leaving for somewhere in a few hours with a someone I can't stand. Wish me luck!

Oh, and if you like Coach, LV, or A&F stuff, don't forget to check out my blogshop!

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I'm back from Hong Kong...

... but I'm too too busy to blog or post.

I'm secretly typing this at work right now, I'm not allowed to use the internet at work so this is gonna be a fast post. I can't even check my emails :(

I would like to sincerely apologise to everyone who has emailed me with queries and purchases for my blogshop and waited ages for a reply. Have been extremely, extremely busy these past few days since the moment I landed in Singapore. So much stuff to do, and too little time.

Promise I will post up new stuff soon for all ya ladies at thesnappydresser! Cross my heart!

I will also post up detailed posts with pictures about my Hong Kong + Macau trip, when I have spare time :)

To all those who have emailed me and I was late in replying, free normal postage will be given to ya should ya confirm your purchase for thesnappydresser.

Please do check back!

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I'm going to Hong Kong!

I'm going to Hong Kong in a few hours :) Flying an 11am SQ Flight...

Will bring back pretty stuff for all da ladies for my blogshop ;p

Seeya on the 9th!

xoxo,
Ying

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Should I Change Jobs?

Just came back from the F1 Shakedown, will blog about that later when I have more photos... A preview picture for now:

My Overalls

Really moody right now :(

I was offered a job today... and I was really really tempted to leave my current job.

But is the grass greener on the other side?

The only thing stopping me from leaving my current job now is frankly, the money. The small amount of lump sum I'm gonna get that comes with a bond.

Sometimes really hate it that my life is controlled by money. How I wish I have no debts or bills, and I can leave my current job with no worries about money. Continuing with my current job will mean I am slightly richer in my pockets, but poorer in my life experiences. There's nothing much more to learn in this current job. It's the same old thing day in and out. Nothing challenging. Don't get me wrong, I still like doing what I do at this current job, but the new job offered to me sounded even better.

If I do leave, can the new job offer the same salary with better bonuses?

I really doubt it.

...so depressing.

Moreover, I just checked my email and Fr3b.com has now 3 BB cream samples to try! Have been interested in BB creams for so darn long. Even that miserable few dollars I have second thoughts of forking out 'cause I am really broke and every little cent counts. So bloody stingy of me right? I was never like this. Sigh.

I wish I am back in a carefree world with no car, cards or bills, working part-time in some store with absolutely no worries.

Now worrying how to go Hong Kong next month with no money? Sob. Yeah guys, I haven't mentioned about this so far, but now ya know! I'm going Hong Kong on the 3rd of October! Hope to get lots of pretty stuff back to sell at thesnappydresser, but arghhhhhhhhh money problems. Shall see how that goes :(

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KPE Opens Tomorrow

Another expressway for them to charge us with ERP with.

16 freakin ERP gantries along a 12km long expressway. WTF. On average, that's more than 1 ERP gantry for every 1km. This is to allow LTA to "to manage congestion expeditiously". What bull. That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

I hate this whole cashless society crap. SIXTEEN gantries. I know lah, KPE cost $1.7 billion to build. Must make back the money also no need to put 16 ERP gantries right?

Grrrr.

Just this morning I was "arrowed" by work to go to Jurong area for this trial test thing. We were basically free test subjects. No payment was given to us, not even refreshments... Moreover they made me repeat the tiring test twice. Idiots.

We were guinea pigs.

As my workplace is near to home, I do not encounter ERP every morning when I go to work. So while driving along PIE towards Jurong this morning, I totally forgot about the ERP along PIE. And that stupid thing deducted a bloody $1.50 from my cashcard. Thank goodness there was still enough credit left in my cashcard. Now my cashcard's left with a pathetic 34 cents. 4 cents! They actually charged the amount of time parked by cents when ya park your car at carparks with cashcard gantries. To think that they actually phase out 1 cent coins 'cause it was under utilised. But cashcards, well, they are cashless! Charge everyone 1 cent! Every little bit counts.

Even HDB carparks are fitted with cashcard gantries now. I believe that soon all coupon parkings will be replaced by cashcard parkings. Argh!

Sigh, kenna "arrowed" as guinea pigs for a tiring trial test + kenna ERP + petrol money + cashcard left with 34 cents = poor me. Haha. Poor as in no money. Poor also as in unfortunate :(

Apologies for the rants :( It's been a long day. On to happier things!

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Kinda enjoying my past few off days including today, spent my night yesterday watching a lot of Youtube while painting my toenails, haha. Brace yourself for my ugly toenails:

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No, I did not paint that heart. It's a sticker, lol.

Enjoy your weekend, everyone!

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How Silence Can Sometimes Be Deafening...

... when ya just reached home and walked into your room at 2am in the morning; and the first thing ya do is to either reach for that radio to switch it on, or to turn your fan on.

Somehow the drone of your fan is a comfort to the deafening silence.

Does that make sense to ya? Haha.

I just came back from watching My Sassy Girl, and I just can't bear the silence in the night. It's like a loud humming sound to my ears. Really contradicting statement, I know. But have ya ever felt that way?

These few days I'm into the Muse mood again. Listening to all my Muse albums and watching all their live shows on Youtube. One of my favourite videos:

Muse - Plug In Baby

I have watched this video like 32847823 times and I'm still not sick of it. Luuurrrrvvve this video ALOT. Have I ever mentioned on my blog that I find guys who can sing in falsetto really sexy?

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Vintage Mobile Phones: Who's Still Using Them?

Noone except me, I think. Not even those Blangahdeshi/Indian construction workers.

Apologies for the lack of updates, I had a crazy and horrible week. On top of that, my LG phone broke down on me. First, my car tyre. Now, my phone. Sob!

Really sorry if I haven't been replying to emails or comments or queries, thousand apologies! I will try my best to reply them all today.

Anyways back to the topic of my phone, my LG Viewty's touchscreen conked out. Refused to work...


... so I finally sent the phone to the service centre yesterday, and they told me I have to leave it there for at least 3 working days. Luckily it was still on warranty.

Meanwhile, had to look for an alternative... 'cause I need to use a phone for work.

None of my friends or colleagues have a spare phone, thus I had to borrow my Mum's. It's a Samsung clamshell phone. Really savvy. I don't know the model though. Anyone care to help me with that?

Wait for it....

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Ta-dah! My Samsung "clamshell" phone for now. More pics...

I told ya it was a clamshell phone. Lol!

Bad reception? No worries...
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I brought the phone to work and became the butt of all jokes.

"How many pixels camera, Ying?"

"Bluetooth your ringtone to me!" (The ringtone by the way, is worse than a pager's)

"Erm... Ying, why ya bring a toy to work?"

"Wah lau eh... Drive car so big, then no money buy phone!"

"Can you SMS with that??" (Yes, I actually can.)

"If ya hold the phone sideways, people might think it's a new model..."

"Is that an antenna for GPS?"

"Is that a stylus?" (While pointing to the antenna.)

Jokes aside, old phones are damn sturdy lah. Drop them, dump them around, abuse them, sit on them, and they still survive til today. My LG Viewty? I only dropped it once but it's on a carpeted floor, I have never sat on it, I kept it in a phone pouch, gave it all my TLC, and it still conked out on me in less than a year.

But then again, SMS-ing with this phone is a HUGE pain in the ass. Now I have an excuse for not replying SMSes. Hehe.

After this incident I wanna change phone already!

To this:

Nokia N78

It has ugly buttons and that 'plasticky' look but I'm really wow-ed over by the functions :)

Shall get that this coming Xmas, or earlier, if I can afford it. Haha.

Updates to thesnappydresser by today! Stay tuned!

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45 Bucks Poorer

Had an eventful night. Just came back earlier in the morning from my night shift after changing my flat tyre to a second hand $45 tyre.

The hole is damn big lar. I forgot to take a picture, but I "borrowed" someone's picture of a flat tyre on Flickr to show where the hole is..


Why is the hole at the side???? I didn't strike or mount any kerbs I swear. Did somebody poke me?? Super sad the whole night while I was at work :( The hole is so big that when I placed my hand on the leak, the air coming out felt like a minature HAND DRYER. I'm not bluffing. Ya could even hear the sound going, "PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS...." like a few metres away. I swear!

Gah! I drove super duper slowly to the nearest car workshop after my night shift this morning(nope I have no spare tyre, long story) and got scolded by the shop owner uncle before getting my tyre changed.

It went something like this:

ME : Uncle can repair not?

UNCLE : Whoa at the side ah! Cannot. Must change already. Cannot repair one. Confirm this one you knock one. (Upon hearing this I was abit irritated 'cause I swear I didn't strike any damn kerb. And I quite ego also haha.)

SKEPTICAL ME: I never knock lah uncle... Huh? Really? Cannot repair? How come cannot repair? I thought can repair :( (sad $$ fly away)

ANGRY UNCLE : Whether you knock one that's not the point isn't it? (Grrr then don't say I knock one lah) Tell you cannot means cannot lah! Still ask me why for what? Tell you cannot already. You people nowadays, no respect for old people like me. I work 40 years in this job, then young people like you come into my shop and start questioning me.

He went on to nag me loudly non-stop for like 5 mins. Too bad I had a flat tyre, if not I would have drove off hahaha. Getting nagged by a middle-aged man after a long night shift on top of worrying for my car is really quite intolerable. Lol.

After sweet talking to him he somewhat calmed down. Sold me a second hand Maxxis MA-T1 tyre. Made in Taiwan. Well will do for now. I had no other choice :/ Uncle also went on to tell me later(when he was in a calmer mood) why he can't fix the leak at the side. The tyre will spilt at the area of the tear. Ohhhhh. Now I know.

45 bucks poorer. How to save for Hong Kong trip with incidents like this? Haha. I know what you must be thinking, wah lao, can drive car no money buy new tyre, sure or not?

I always think that car drivers are the poorest people around. Don't talk about Ferrari car owners or racecar owners who live in 3 storey bungalows. I'm talking about commonfolk car owners in general, like me. Haha.

My colleagues always go, "Wah, Ying so rich lor, can drive car." I am poor lor. Road tax, ERP, season parking, petrol, servicing, car accessories, flat tyres now... How the hell can I be rich after emptying my pockets for all that??

You know who I think are the richest people? SINGLE guys who:

1) Don't drink;
2) Don't smoke;
3) Don't gamble;
4) Don't really go out much;
5) Don't club;
6) Don't own a car
7) Don't travel overseas much...

THOSE are the rich guys.

They keep their pool of money til one day they meet someone they like and then marry and then bam! There goes the money, lol. Marriage, car, house, children.. Think about it. No girlfriends to suck their money. Yes, ladies. Those decent bachelors are RICH. Marry them! They spend their hard earned money on nothing much, maybe a few decent hobbies or harmless Toto or 4D gambling.

Me? I'm just a poor little girl who is in love with her car and am too spoilt now to take public transport. And I hate cabbies.

Okay after a long boring rant I shall aruptly end this post with a video. Heh.

Steelheart - She's Gone

I know, nice hair right. My colleague transferred this song via Bluetooth to my phone last night. I love this song. I love love love that the vocalist can hit all those high impossible notes.

Reminded me of those times I caught this Filipino band playing in this pub in town. Every single time they play they will do a cover of this song and the vocalist sounded EXACTLY the same as Michael Matijevic in Steelheart. Sigh. This is what I call a good live band. Really miss listening to them! It's just too bad they don't play there anymore :(

Well, have a good weekend!

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Best Day of My Week

Ever had a really really busy week working or studying, having meetings, rushing around on assignments, running errands, etc.. that ya hardly ever had time for yourself, and all ya wanted is a day all to yourself bumming at home, locked in your room, doing all the anti-social things that ya like?

Well, today is one of those anti-social days. And I lurve it. *Contented sigh*

Been having a busy week with night shifts and day shifts with only 1 off day. On top of really crappy stuff at work including shitty pre-audit preparations. And today (well, technically yesterday, it's almost 2am now) was spent just watching HIMYM season 2 (hilarious by the way, really love Barney but shall talk about that another day), eating lots of junk food, making myself a bowl of really sinful instant noodles, watching a little TV, reading a few random blogs... and checking out some HATS online!

I liked wearing hats since young.. owned 3 hats like this:


Fashion disaster? Lol. Stopped wearing them when I was in poly, I think.

Anyways, I'm really falling in love with them hats again!


I like the one Britney is wearing :)

Told myself to get one (or a few) when I go Hong Kong this October. Hopefully I will find something I like! And if time (and money) permits, I might bring back some nice stuff to share on thesnappydresser ;)

And speaking of thesnappydresser, I updated the site again with A Mini Shirt Dress Collection..


Click click!

Shall end my post now and maybe make some Campbell soup for supper. The very most I grow fat and die. Horror! Lol.

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13 Random Facts About Me That Nobody Wants to Know

I know this silly "423 Facts About Me" survey thingy is damn passe, but I'm going to do it anyway. Lol.

13 Random Facts About Me

1. I always tell new people that I meet that I'm only 18 years old.

2. Sometimes I wish I am only 18 years old.

3. I love bags and shoes. Don't all girls?

4. My fave number is 4. It is also my basketball jersey number in secondary school.

5. I like watching TV but I hate watching it at home. Especially with my parents.

6. I think guys who can dance or sing in falsetto are darn sexy.

7. I occasionally fantasise about working part time as a waitress in a pub and playing in a band. No full time job and with minimal amount of money. Stay in a rented apartment with friends, get trashed, sleep late. No bills, no worries! Alas, but it's only a fantasy.

8. I love singing out loud when I'm alone.

9. I think I am too rough to wear a skirt. I woke up one day thinking to myself that maybe I should start wearing skirts out more often.

10. 10 years ago, I wouldn't be caught dead outside wearing a skirt.

11. I don't like gambling.

12. I really hate the cashless society Singapore is becoming. I HATE credit cards, Cashcards, GIRO, EZlink card, ERP, carpark with Cashcard gantries... where the hell is my money.

13. Sadly, as much as I hate the cashless society, sometimes I am subconsciously enticed into the whole cashless living. A slave to all my cards. Wish I can live without them again.

Okay done.

Random note: I updated my blogshop with new stuff! Preview picture below.




Ciao! Gotta prepare to go work now.

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Hamburger

Nope, this is not a post about food. Lol. I will go further into details later.

I feel really sick and drowsy right now. Took MC earlier, was supposed to go for a course early today but decided I am not in the mood to travel to the other end of Singapore for a 4 hour course that I can learn from my colleagues anyway. Might as well stay at home and blog right? Haha!

But seriously, I already forced and dragged myself to Simei yesterday for my Thai lesson. For the whole 1.5 hours I was busy blowing my nose and barely concentrating on what my teacher was teaching. So logically speaking, will waking up at 7am, followed by dragging myself all the way to Jalan Bahar to sit through a boring 4 hour talk, feel any better than yesterday's 1.5 hour of lesson that I actually enjoy going for? I seriously doubt it. Might as well take MC. I have another long day shift tomorrow. I think. Or am I working night shift instead? Now I'm confused.

Anyways, back to why I named this post Hamburger. Met one of my friends after lesson yesterday for a late dinner. Decided to eat at Serangoon. And since it's so near Mustafa, might as well take a walk right? Lol. Yeah, I know I'm sick, but even then I cannot pass up the chance to shop there. It's Mustafa! They have EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING except maybe cable ties haha. A friend tried looking for those once and the staff told him they don't carry cable ties, I guess for obvious reasons hehe. Well, still, I love going there. So many things to see (and buy, unfortunately).

Okay okay coming back to why I named this post Hamburger. I was aiming this X-mini speaker for some time already, 'cause my laptop speakers were driving me crazy. Hated those in-built speakers that came with my laptop. While walking through the Audio section my friend and I came across this that looked the same like the X-mini:

Hamburger Mini Speaker

I already read good reviews about the X-mini, but I was still skeptical about the extremely small speaker size. After spending a long time contemplating, we decided to ask the salesperson to let us try out the Hamburger speaker.

Damn small right

It's damn good lar! The sound that came out of that small little thing was amazing. It owned my silly laptop speakers hands down. I promptly decided to buy it regardless whether it was a rip off from the X-mini or whether the X-mini was rip off from the Hamburger. I don't care. It sounded amazingly good for a small $29 speaker. Although I haven't heard how the X-mini would sound like, I seriously don't think there would be much difference. And no, I'm not doing an advetorial either. Heh.

I also bought a nice new red and black mouse :)

Tired of my fingers cramping everytime after playing COD 4. Was using the free laptop small mini mouse since I bought my laptop, finally got around buying a new nice big mouse to fit my fingers hehe. What I love about this mouse? No blinding laser beam! The lens is actually invisible. No irritating red light, I love it :) Another thing why I love it? The packaging says 500-1500 dpi. I guess that should be fairly adequate for me to play my online games ;p Saved some cash by buying this $18 mouse instead of a Razer mouse :))) Again, I am not doing an advertorial, just my honest opinion!

Okay I'm gonna lie down now, I feel really light-headed. Gonna spend my remaining off day sleeping, breaking in my new Hamburger speaker and testing my new mouse with COD 4. After nearing the end of this post I also realised I'm may be flamed by ALL X-mini and Razer mouse fans. Oops. No offence, people!

Back to my drug-induced sleep!

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Guitar Hero

Just came back from chalet yesterday evening. Immediately showered and rushed out for my night shift, came back this morning, and slept til now. Another night shift tonight. I'm sick :( Sore throat and runny nose. Too much BBQ food, probably.

The BBQ wings turned out ok in the end, but I think I should've been more generous with the BBQ sauce. Didn't find it flavourful enough.

BBQ Wings I Marinated

The best chow during the chalet in my opinion? Definitely these:



BBQ Sotong

They are simply orgasmic. Extremely delicious! I didn't eat much of the own wings that I marinated, but I ate these orgasmic sotongs the most. I have no other way to describe them except for being orgasmic. Why I say they are orgasmic:

It's Sotong in a Sotong!

Bite into one and the filling inside just oozes out. Just thinking about it makes me salivate now. I told my friend that I want his maid (she made them) to come live with us so that I can have this everyday. Lol. It's damn nice lar! Too bad my friend doesn't know the recipe for this :(

Well besides eating alot of BBQ sotongs for the chalet, I spent the rest of the time during the chalet:

1) Playing too much Guitar Hero (I still suck at it);
2) Eating too much homemade Oreo and strawberry cheesecake (the organiser baked them, they are extremely good too, sigh);
3) Drinking too much Coke Zero; and
4) Sleeping too little!

Okay I'm gonna get ready to go work now. Shall end my post with a picture of myself playing Guitar Hero or rather pretending to be a rock star. Lol.

Wannabe Rock Star

Ciao!

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New Updates for Blogshop!

Yupp... new updates! Patterned tops and dresses for sale, cheap, so do check my blogshop out :)

Been having a busy week preparing for a friend's BBQ on top of work audits and stuff. Just came back home from marinating chicken wings.. my hand and nails turned yellow due to the turmeric in my marination. I have hideous nails now. Ugh.

Hideous Nails

Hopefully hopefully the wings turns out nice tomorrow if not I'm gonna lock myself up in the toilet and cry. Lol!

Okay, seriously I won't do that, but I would be really disappointed. :(

Hope ya'll had a great weekend!

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