Hahaha, I’m back. I finally decided to buy e Flickr Pro-package cos I exceeded e monthly minimum upload quota so haf been spending most of my free time editing my photos wif Picnik although I haf yet to buy its Premium package, hehehe.
Recently I have been having terrible outbreaks on my face *sob sob* so nowadays really dun feel like going out except wif mc darling, hehehe. I tot it was bcos of my bad diet of all e ben n jerry ice creams n tibits but when i cut down on eating them, it didn't really got any better. These pimples r not e kind on e surface wan lor, they r e deep in the skin type, although not painful but irritating. I only get these type of pimple when my period is around e corner so sth is really wrong.
I finally decided tat e culprit should be my recent change in foundation to SkinFood Gingko Green BB Cream. I bought it cos i heard from frens that it was good, even e reviews i found online commented it was good. I bought it after i came back from Japan. I really liked it as it has good coverage n initially there was no major breakout but after using for abt a week or two, e breakouts started. At tat time, i was eating alot of junk food so tot it was bcos of tat n i continued to use it while i reduced my junk intake but it became worst after a few days of recovery. I even washed my face twice to clean off all e foundation but it wasn't helping n caused my face to b really dry.
Eventually last last Sat, I can't take it anymore so I went to buy a new foundation. I decided to get sth from e cosmetic counter in e departmental stores cos i wan to get sth i can trust to cure my face. After walking ard, i saw Clinique n i remembered a fren telling me tat their products are quite good on her plus it has e image of having solution for problematic skin, so decided to give it a try.
E sales girl was not too bad, introduced me to all e best sellers in e counter n i was happy tat i finally found e closest colour foundation for my skin. It felt light n most importantly, it is for long wearing. Ok, e things there r not cheap but there was a promotion, a gift set for every purchase of $130 of products. E gift set consists of their best seller moisturiser, eye cream, facial cleanser, make-up remover... This tempted me more to buy them so in e end i bought e foundation, a luminous loose powder n a pimple gel. After using them for 3 days, my breakout subsided, really 一分钱一分货. After using it for a week plus, e breakout is gone but i still get 1 or 2 big pimples n some small ones here n there, probably due to diet n lack of sleep. I hope my face will get better as I use them longer, hehehe.
Hai, dun know wat to do wif e BB cream cos I still left quite a lot, abt 3/4 of it. I’m willing to sell it at half price if anyone is interested so leave me a msg in my tagboard if u r, =)
My Japan Family Trip 2008 Day 3 (Nara Park & Osaka) 12/05/2008
It was time for us to explore more of Osaka but first we need to fill our stomach.
Ok, they didn't looked like breakfast but they were food tat i would like to eat for lunch, hahaha. Then when we saw this n it became our breakfast tat morning.
I was too hungry to take pictures of e actual breakfast served to us but e pic above looked close to wat we had, hehehe. Our 1st destination was to Nara Park to see deers roaming freely in e park. While walking to e train station, we saw this.
Ok, it's nothing special cos these red bean pancakes r selling in Singapore but they jus looked especially delicious over there, hahaha. After abt 20 mins of train ride, we reached Nara.
When we walked out of e train station, we saw a monk standing wif a bowl in his hand hoping passer-bys would give him some $$ for charity. Then we saw a police car stopped next to a white car n e police officer came down to stick a bright yellow ticket on e front window. After e police left, we went up to haf a look n although we didn't understand wat was written on e ticket, i bet it was a fine ticket for illegal parking. Their parking fine ticket is definitely brighter n bigger than ours, hahaha.
When we were finding our way to Nara Park, we saw a group of students coming towards us n i guessed they could haf came from Nara Park so we walked to where they were coming from n after 10 mins, we saw....
DEERS roaming ard freely next to e roads. I wonder y they won't run to e roads. This is my favourite pic of me wif e deer.
I didn't dare to touch it cos it was smelly when i went close to it n luckily it was cold so e smell was bearable. I bet they were real smelly during e summer, hahaha. We went inside e park n saw a temple wif a pagoda. Probably e monk tat we saw earlier was from this temple.
We saw quite a number of people feeding e deers wif biscuits tat were selling at e drinks push-carts nearby so we decided to join in e fun, hahaha.
E deers were really hungry, or should i say greedy. They would come real close to u to get e biscuits n my cousin was kanna bitten at his tummy by one of deers cos he didn't gave them e biscuits fast enough, hahaha. This was captured in e video so look carefully, it's funny, LOL. After we fed them, c wat they did.
They poo poo....eeeee....smelly!!! After seeing them poo poo, we decided it was time to leave n here are some memorable scenes from Nara Park.
It was time for lunch when we left e park n we decided to haf lunch at Nara b4 going to our next destination. We walked back to e train station n near it was a alley of shops n restaurants so we went in n found this chinese restaurant.
The food tasted like back home even better than some of e chinese restaurants in Singapore, i say comparable to Crystal Jade. I ordered my all-time favourite sweet n sour pork, hahaha.
After e sumptuous lunch, we proceeded to our next destination, Universal Studio.
When we were waiting for e train to arrive, we saw this
Of cos, we bought some to eat as dessert, hahaha. When e train arrives, we noticed.
I tink Singapore MRT may need this eventually to protect us women although i dun really take MRT, hehehe. At e moment we got in e train, my bro started to EAT again, hahaha.
After 45 mins of train ride, we reached e Universal City Station to e Universal Studio.
When we walked out of e station, we saw many colourful big signboards on e buildings.
After walking straight for 5 minutes, we saw our destination. I shall let e pictures do e talking now, hehehe.
This was a new performance there but we didn't catch it cos we preferred going for e rides, hehehe. We managed to conquer all e exciting rides like Jurassic Park, Back to e Future n Spiderman. E most exciting n enjoyable ride was Spiderman. Overall, it was quite ok but i enjoyed more at e Universal Studio in US probably it was bigger wif more rides, hahaha. B4 we left, we borrowed this cute Elmo hat to take pictures for remembrance cos e hat was too costly to buy back, hehehe. E route back to e station looked really nice wif all e lights on. We didn't have our dinner when we left so we decided to go to Shinsaibashi, one of e nightspot in Osaka, to haf dinner. It took us abt 1 hr train ride to get to Shinsaibashi. We walked through e streets n found nothing suitable for dinner so we went back to where we started from finally found this place to haf dinner. E restaurant deco was pretty unique n e food were not too bad. It was pretty late after dinner so nothing much to c liao but we still get to c sth happening b4 we return to our hotel. I saw a place where youngsters can perform n there was even a couple performing in public, although there were not alot of audiences around.
~ End of Day 3 ~
To be continued.....
Under e influence of mc darling, i started to get interested in cooking so I surfed for some cooking blog n found this.
I love e pics on this blog, made e food n dessert look so yummy, hahaha. It has great links to other cooking blogs. If you love cooking n baking, should check this out.
I read some of e comments n found tat e blogger uses Flickr to edit her photos. It got me excited to try Flickr out to c if I produce e same results, n i did. Indeed, e editing tool in Flickr, provided by Picnik, is easy n fun to use. But some more interesting functions r blocked out for premium users, hai. So I'm tempted to purchase it cos it's quite cheap, abt SIN$35/ year.
However, flickr free account has its limitations too. There is a restriction of 200 MB upload of pics per month n I will definitely cross this limit cos i got a lot of photos. So to upload my photos to Flickr without any restriction, I haf to pay another SIN$35/ year to subscribe to be Flickr's pro user. Hai, adding them up will be about $70/ year, now i dun know whether I should buy a not.
I'm actually more tempted to get e Picnik Premium package but Flickr is also quite good cos I can store all my photos on it which links to here, friendster n facebook so i dun haf to re-upload my photos to everywhere again. Anyway, I shall tink abt it harder later n now let me show off my edited photos using Picnik, hehehe.
My Japan Family Trip 2008 Day 2 (Kyoto) 11/05/2008 (Part 2)
The tea ceremony was e 1st segment of e performance.