PAWAH!

yes... power.... power of 1....

Remember that hyped up event at the Bukit Jalil Stadium carpark? yea...this is a super late update about it.

We dropped by after lunch, conveniently missing the free parking and having to walk QUITE A DISTANCE.
What are the odds that, the moment we parked the car and got out... HUGE HUGE raindrops start hitting us. Yes. Hitting. Like PLAK PLAK PLAK into my eye. Sakits. A bit a bit wet. But made it to the nearest shelter...which was the merchandise tent.... that was air-conditioned. Frozen much?
btw, this greeted us at the entrance to the tent.

I know sex sells...but this...is a bit too much.

We lepaked in the tent, waiting out the heavy drizzle, and checked out the merchadises. Understandably pricey cuz it's branded. Any hoo, once the rain let up, we headed outside

Some of the blinged, zhng-ed out Proton cars.

We headed into the area where the nicer cars for the demos were to check out what's it like inside. More Pictures than words. It's just better that way.

Walking past the pretty cars...

To the prettiest ride of the day

with not so pretty me wanting to kepoh in the picture. I don't know why I posed to awkwardly. Maybe because paiseh...because...the angmohs were there. awkwardasianmoment.jpg

Outfit :

Blue semi-sheer chiffon sleevelss button down collared top from Pink Box

(bought for yailee's 21st but it wasn't good enough)

Long black tank from Forever 21 worn as a mini dress.

betch didn't know it's all fun, colourful buttons. think Dee dee... 

"WHAT DOES THIS BUTTON DO?~~~"

" NO DEEDEE NOOOO~~~!"

or you guys already knew and i'm super jakun.

*leavemealonetobejakunok*

Close up of the sponsors... ReXONA...not for your armpits this.

Caught a pic before they moved out to the track.

Them media man beg to differ..... nope. just doing their job

Vrooming around the track laik aye baus.

The crew actually RAN out to tend to the car right after the demo

Wheeling it back in

Now it's time to pit the handling of the new Proton against the older one

I was that close. No zooming. Pretty impressive honestly.

Guess who I bumped into there! FarenFaren, everyone's favourite Nurul!

zees is elekhthrik karh. 

I forgot what this is but ees preeetay. *bimbomodeon*

These next two are the modded cars...

Playing in my head the whole time i saw this 

"This one is for the boys with the boomin' system

Top down, AC with the coolin' system"

yeah. Anyway.there was also an sms contest which i obviously didn't win anything from. i'm not lucky like that at all. nope nope nope.

What are the odds that it gets cloudy again as we're about to leave. RUN RUN RUN RUN!

Globophobia.

This is a story that will cinch the deal on globophobia. It's a real and valid fear. Even though it's a fear many are suffering from, it is still considered an uncommon phobia. Why are people afraid of balloons? For the most part, it more of the fear of it popping. That would be lygirophobia, which is the fear of loud noises.

But today, my story takes a different turn.

My story starts,funnily enough, at the 4th Putrajaya Hot Air Balloon Fiesta on the 17th of March. It was a sunny Saturday morning. Caught a few balloons taking off. Yayness! After watching the big guns go off, it was bazaar time!!! I hunted down my usual hot air balloon fiesta vice : Bubbles

Pretty much this guy when it comes to bubbles.

Never knew bubble hunting could be so frustrating. Now bubble guns are all the trend. What happened to good old bubble blowing the old fashioned way? It's just a little science to it! The fun type of science at that  :(  After much hunting and over priced bubbles, finally found a normal, regular bottle of bubbles.

This stall didn't have it. That stick costs 3 bucks Nuh-uh

Found a lady selling really old stock and she let me have it for rm2. I can't find my picture of it. It was a purple Thomas the train shaped bottle. Creepy, but purple so yay! LET THE BUBBLE BLOWING BEGIN!

EDIT: found the picture of my loot from the fiesta. That's the notebook that fell from the 8tv truck and when i tried to give it back the crew just ignored the book in my outstretched hand. bleh YU! And the glorious Baked cookies. Reminds me of the cookies my mom used to bake. :( They were at FMFA too! And that purple thing in the corner is the bubble bottle! ( which Mikayla wheedled into giving to her a week later D: such a softie)

Moving on, there were 8tv crew, giving out balloons and freebies. Pink balloon makes me fly. Here are pictures of the pink balloon.

Bowties and owls. best combo of the day.

Oh cute pink truck driven by a cute old lady, why you so funny......

I spotted a nice empty, grassy area for an impromptu jump shot op! Glad my outfit of the day allowed me to do that. 

Teal layered top from F.O.S

Army green denim shorts from Brands Outlet 

Purple slim-fit sneakers from All Star (china brand one ar)

Such good times. Fun in the sun, all pink, perky and happy. And as always, I was prepared to say goodbye to it. All good balloon fun comes to an end at some point, usually, very short period of time, it being a balloon and all, mean to burst, deflate after it has served its purpose of momentary fun. Or so I thought.

Left the balloon in J's car since that day. Oddly, for the following weekends, I do see the balloon. and... it strangely never burst despite being left in the car under the sun for more than a week. Day in, day out, heat and rain. Then just this weekend, he dumped it in my car. ok, i guess? 

Picked up some friends later and, I can't quite remember what he said exactly, but I was telling him to be careful of the freaky balloon, and he said something that was to the effect of me getting this balloon recently. I then proceeded to explain when I got it. And there was a slight shock. Because.... this is how it looks like today, 9th of April 2012.

Close to a month after getting the balloon, it still looks the same. Not deflating, didn't burst. Just... like that la

He was saying, "yeah right, if it's that long it would have shrunk by now!"

As you can see, not much difference. It's just a balloon right? Maybe it's a real high quality balloon. Maybe. I hope so. So, for now, I'll let it brood in the back seat of my car, to live out its years accompanied by umbrellas and tissue boxes. Who's to say when its life should end? Who am I to burst it? It's stronger than I gave it credit for definitely.

It somehow scares me. Brings globophobia to a whole new level of pointless and odd.

That concludes the Putrajaya trip and the tale of the Odd Balloon. I do hope its not plotting my demise, sitting in the backseat of my car with all the time in the world.

i hope.

What's up , Buttercup?

So, this is a list of things to look out for ...up and coming on this blog :
Beware, much girliness to ensue.

1. How to Shop for the perfect (or close to it) Shoes : Tips, tricks and tests!
2. Outfit of the day/week
3. Backlogged Future Music Festival update (more of WOMBATS)

That's about it for now....but stay tooonnneeedddd.

Totally dude...totally Total Image....mengg...

Many companies have been around for years, usually businesses, food franchises and the like. But what do you think about cosmetics and beauty? Would you really think they are a scam? Scamming gullible women through the ages? Not all, really not all.

I recently attended Total Images 21st Anniversary/Birthday  in mYoga @the Gardens.  We registered and got these high quality stickers that we had to stick on ourselves in order to collect the goodie bags later. A bit shy la i feel, because everyone seems older, more established, or are models. Really. The long leggy kind. And beauty queens all prepped in their sashes.

Anyway to get the ball rolling, they had a magician to entertain us.

He was pretty ok....not the best I've seen but he did put up a good fight. It felt a litttllleeeee bit awkward at some points where the trick didn't go as planned, but some were pretty impressive. What else was impressive?

Miss Amber Chia gracing the event with her presence! She was there with her son and presumably her dad. She was a model mom! As dressed up and poised as she was, she took time to play with her son and talk to him, not leaving him 100% in the care of her father and the main.

Anyway, next up was very, mind boggling. But not really. It being a yoga centre and all, it only seemed apt to have a yoga demonstration. I'll let the pictures do the talking.

Some serious muscle business going on here. That dude had the grace and poise of a seasoned ballet troupe performer. Amazing control! 

These women are loyal Total Image Collagen consumers. I guess it really works?

They look pretty good for their age :)

They gave their testimonies on how the product helped them and it was pretty eye-opening for me.

badly taken picture of the cake cutting ceremony, YAY! CAKE! 

The fun part! lucky draw! oh i didn't say.... When we registered, we were asked to sign on a number of our choice and they would pick a number for the 3 prizes. Sadly, I was two numbers short of the 3rd place number. D: ngeh.

That kind of wrapped it up, so... it was mile around waiting time... So what I did was...

Amber Chia moment! :D She's really tall! and her outfit that day was pretty sweet :D 

Wish I had a better camera DD; the place had horrible lighting.

Outside mYoga. So loving the palazzo pants! Super comfy and goes with anything!

*sidetrack outfit talk*

Outfit:

Purple tank top : Voir

Black cropped jacket : Cotton On

Palazzo pants : Times Square

See that green bag? Wanna know what's inside?

Ta-Da!!! Top view of the goodie bag.

Whats in it?

Basically, that's about it. There were other paperwork stuff, forms, fliers, but i didn't take a picture for that. WHoops.

Seems pretty healthy, but I haven't tried any ... YET... but seeing how high the market price is... I should... soon....

Hmm, either way, MAYBE I'll update about it when do I take it....we'll see

RARA RAWWWRR

So as the previous post said, I promised to dedicate an entire post to my outfit. Actually, more of Rarablack and Corset Me! :P

So recap. I didn't really have anything in-theme to wear to the Johnnie Walker thing except black. like. everyone. else. So as I also mentioned, i wanted to wear my black bustier or my lace one with a simple skirt or jeans. 

Picto of said black bustier :

At Audrey and Justin's wedding dinner in Sime Darby on 2.1.2012

Somewhere last year, DJAN 2011

I miss jump shots. 100% no-photoshop ar!

And here, ancient prom pic.*cough2008cough* in black bustier and a different type of sarong batik.

It's one of my staple outfits, that I pace out very, very carefully. My trusty black busti(er) from Avon. Always paired with a batik sarong. I like it because I know no one else will be wearing the same thing where I'm going, so, WIN.

In all honesty, i really love bustiers and corsets. I know some people say it's slutty/ inappropriate etc, but I do think it can pull off elegant as well. But with these babies, there's so much to think about. Cost, practicality, maintenance, appropriate-ness. People tend to associate it with, erotic images, porn, yada-yada-yada and i don't have a budget for this. So yea.

look at all these babies. So THE PRETTY. TILL CANNOT TAHANS

Anyway, back on track, as I was saying, bossman got us to Rara Blacks hideaway, and I was just browsing, and was about to go try on some dresses that I didn't feel worthy of wearing, when Charmaine asked, "Do you wear corsets?"

DINGDINGDINGDINGDING~~!

She said the magic word and I'm like....YES! And she goes to get them. And starts taking them out to show me and and and and the one that catches my eye is this one :

The golden one right in the middle.

(this is taken from their site btw)

http://www.rarablack.com

It's under Corset Me

THAT ONE. I actually double checked to see if there were other colours or gold pieces that I missed out, but nope. that's the one. And I had to try it on. She gave me a black pencil skirt to try it with. and ta-da. Sold. I was sold on it. And I had to take the black pencil skirt. because believe it or not, I have been trying to hunt one down for the longest time. And sadly enough, with such curves they don't all fit well. So this one fit.So i wants. Did i mention i was also trying to hunt down a nice skinny belt? did i mention what came free with the skirt? So yes. all is wants.

She mentioned that the corset also came in blue and green, which i find super mermaidy,which i also love, but gold is what it is because :

1. I needed gold for the event which is what the outfit is for

2. Gold is a staple as it matches everything and anything? ( think Gryffindor)

3. Gold is classy and elegant, but paired right, it can be incredibly fun as well!

So gold it was! And did i mention how gold it was? It was a mix of textures, smooth metallic satin sheen on the sides, and darker more textured wire-wool like part down front. Up close:

Hopefully you can see what i meant :p 

There's hooks on the front, which.was.a.major.challenge.to.put.on.by.myself.

Also being the genius that i am, i didn't take pictures of the back. 

So, here is a professionally taken one from the webbie:

So let's pretend I look that hot from the back as well.

Yea, the back is a lace up, and pretttyyyyy harrdddd to tie up

Thank God Charmaine taught me how to lace/hook myself in. So with much ngnhhhhhs and uuurrrggghhhhs and eeeeeeiiiiiirhhhhhhs.... it was done and I was IN! So much work! Black and gold is easy peasy to match with accessories, but I took the safe route and went with a chunky black necklace and earrings. Hair, with all that leftover highlight, it's pretty much a star on its own, so I left it as it is, and just enough make up. Paired the ensemble with my usual black strapped heels and my cute cute bowtie bag, and I was set :D 

Entire ensemble. in poor lighting :(

In detail:

My hair and chunky necklace. With the other golden Rara Black girl ;)

Upclose shot of the bag, modeled by Matt Matt.

Close up of the shoe, accompanied by little foot.

I never go without my glasses. Ever.

As you know from the previous post, yes i had fun.

But in this post, yes....i LOVED my outfit.

The only downside was getting a piece of confetti stuck right down the middle and i couldnt get it out till i took it off. ITCH MUCH ? D: D: