Tuesday, October 02, 2007
yesterday, today and holiday
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
The previous weekend was a long weekend as it was the Queen's birthday yesterday. The Commonwealth countries celebrates the Queen's birthday as a public holiday. However, it's pretty odd to find that different countries celebrate it on different days. Well, anyway for your information, Queen Elizabeth II's birthday is on the 21st April. So over here in Perth, we have the Perth Royal Show where people go and spend obscene amount of money on overpriced stuffed toys, barbecued ribs, chips and gravy, meat pies, carnival rides... Also, we have movie marathons over the long weekends where people go to the cinema in their PJs with pillows and fat saturated potato crisps. I couldn't find anyone who wants to go to the royal show cause it's a rip off, so I went to the marathon with Amelia and Aiken. It was pretty fun, we brought our own tidbits. I had crudities with hommus, strawberries and apple and a large diet coke. I went in my Pjs and brought Goldie, my inanimated best friend along. Watched Rush Hour 3, Fracture and I pronounce you Chuck and Larry. Fracture was good, Ryan Gosling's cute. Rush Hour 3 was alright, Chuck and Larry was pretty funny. Anything with Adam Sandler would be entertaining. By the time we ended the marathon, it was about 5.30 in the morning. The sky was beginning to brighten and the sun was rising. I spent the day zombie-like, but it was a pleasant experience.
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I got home this evening and found a package. I purchased a white print on red Team Perez tee from perezhilton.com causeiloveperezandcelebritynewsandgossandbuyingthingsandlalalalala. It was pretty neat cause I am pretty skeptical about online purchases. The whole security, privacy and identity theft shit and how the products usually falls short of consumer's expectations due to consumers' perceptions with the picture displayed.
Well, considering that it's my first time buying stuff online, I was pretty psyched when I got my package. I was like "ooooh..." I know, real silly but there you go, my virgin attempt at online purchase. I was quite pleased as the shirt fit like a glove and it made my arms look skinny and I thought I looked pretty hot in red for once.
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I was reading Cosmo and found this really cool holiday destination. Yogamagic CanvasEcotel. I would love to go there for a retreat this holiday. A week of yoga, massage, shopping in Indian markets, Indian cooking, vegetarian meals and not leaving massive carbon footprint in a eco-friendly environment sounds amazing. At about 25,000 rupees, approximately 950 Sing dollars, it's not too bad I suppose.
Also, I want to go to Bangkok. I want to have authentic pad thai, tom yam goong, spend on ridiculously cheap products, have massages and have fun. Who wants to join me? Seriously.
I want to go to Bali as well. More massage, beach and exploring. I'm freaking deprived of holiday in other countries. For the past few years, I've only been shuttling to and fro between Singapore and Perth. Then when my mom wants to take me to Paris of Hong Kong, it always clashes with exams or I can't go cause I friggin have got assignments and deadlines to meet. I cannot wait to graduate so I can go traveling. I want to join Contiki and probably explore Europe or somewhere. If it's even possible, I'd want to go to New York to become a nanny. I'd live with a host family for at least a year taking care of the kids and get paid. How fun is that? There's also this UK live in job thing where you could work in a bar, wait tables and maybe work in the kitchen. That would be pretty nice as well. It would be nice to go and see the world before entering the workforce, getting married, having kids and settling into the mundane life. (Why am I thinking of The Sims?)
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So I was a sun-worshipping, sun-block-loathing chick who would bake under the sun for hours. After my O's, I went tanning few times a week and ended up darker than Charline, a shade lighter than Frederick. It was pretty nasty. On the news recently, there was this lady, Clare Oliver who passed away due to aggressive melanoma. She contracted the disease just after 10 visits to the solariums. She was 26. I thought that it was pretty scary. I used to go to the tanning booth when I was younger cause my mom has one in her salon. I thought it was pretty out of the world, imagine standing in a capsule naked for 10 minutes or so without doing anything. It was boring, but I got the tan. So I read more. So how does skin cancer comes about? When the UV rays hit the epidermis, it breaks down the dioxyribonuclic acid(I love saying this word) within the skin cell. So, in attempt to limit damage, the body cranks up on melanin production, thus your golden sexy tan. The body will thus destroy the damaged cells and replace with new healthy ones. However, if the body accumulate more damage due to sun exposure, the immune system lags and just one damaged skin cell can mutate and become cancerous within five years.
So, I solemnly swear not to go tanning ever again and will lather heaps and heaps of sunscreen/sunblock lotion when I go into the sun. I guess there isn't a 'safe tan' except for a fake tan. It's gonna be hard but, better vegemite hands than cancer.
