Lost In Beauty-

Thursday

Another tired day. BUT a great achievement yesterday, I ran 5km! Did some weights and managed to check out those machines too. It's been some time since I last stepped into the treadmill. No time, seriously. Cos it's actually quite a hassle to travel all the way to Hyatt and ended up spending much more time than you would have spent on just the workout alone -- It's just so wasted to skip the steambath and spa, hence, time flies. Heh. But of course, it's always nice to workout there. Thanks my Dear! You gotta Jia You for your training too!

Still, 2 heavy projects to go before the last sprint. I guess the Chinese modules are really not going to help in my cap score, again. I think my cap should be quite good if... Argh! No, no, no, here I go into all those counterfactual thinkings again. Better not think too much, or else self-fulfilling prophecy occurs. Ha. Whatever. Anyway, ps was such a sweety, vio n me received her msg today during our lecture. Hope we meet up soon!

It's Little Yuki's Birthday yesterday. Although he's so dear to mi, erm us and maybe all of u guys, but then, we are not that silly to held a party for him. Maybe next time bah. Ha. Let's take a look at him, erm, then.

HaPpY FirSt BirThDaY YuKi!!

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Sunday

Was reading Vio's blog and her tagboard's hot on the topic "Eat more". Haa. N I think it's true of D' to say that all or rather most gers yearn for a higher metabolic rate. No doubt about it, gers r more concern with their weight. It's so unfair! Guys always have this privilege to indulge in all kinds of sinful food without feeling the least guilty. Boo. N gers always have to go green with vege, little helping, so on and so forth. But on a brighter note, probably that's why we gers have a longer life span. *Bleh* Hooray for vege lovers, gers. I am one too. Hee.

Or maybe, once a month, there's these few days to a week when we gers can gorge up any food we want to eat and crave for more. Haa. So maybe we do have a "balance diet" afterall. LoLx. Whtever the case, I feel that eating healthy and exercising regularly is the best way to keep fit and stay healthy. Occasional indulgence in cravings should be fine too, just don't overdo it! Increasing metabolic rate by exercising regularly is the best and lasting dieting method that I've adopted so far.

It's been a long time since Dear meet up with his bunch of "brothers". Met up with all of 'em yesterday, with the underlying motive to see Jun Hao's new ger. Haa. 1 more bachelor down, I'm no longer the only ger joining them from now onwards. LoLx. Was chit-chatting with Joey and found out quite alot of stuff I really wanna pick up. Tennis, windsurfing etc, sounds fun. Ian's back from aussie too, and if he's gonns work in California, I might be able to get some privilege if I wanna join my Yoga class. Haa. That's if lah.

Saw WanQi last Fri in Central Lib and we chat about quite a number of stuffs, mostly revolving around study and work. That conversation left some minor yet a little disturbing thoughts in me, not because of WanQi of course; It's about my own choice and decision in study. So minor yet it can linger in my thoughts for quite some time, stirring up emotions in me. And toking to Ian yesterday brought out this disturbing thought too. I think I need to buy more time to clear this confusion in me. Anyway, ignore this if u dun understand. Heh.

Oh yah, my mum and I unknowingly become ok already. She's gg to Bangkok soon, even before me! I can't wait for Bangkok to come to me. Come, come, come!!

Ok lah, get back to work already.

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Monday

My endorphins felt the need to release itself just now and thus I went for a run around my neighbourhood, the usual route, but this time, I am proud to announce an astounding improvement in my stamina. Hee. Probably because I hadn't been running around my neighbourhood for quite some time, and the incline slope of Bukit Timah Hill had been a much tougher challenge than the flat ground.

Hooray!

However, due to the busy schedules of "all these-and-that(s)", my regular exercise routine had been interupted and came to a standstill for about a week or so. Anyway, I'm glad that at least all the works are clearing off slowly. But come to think of it, all the deadlines are crazy. They are all clustered together and what I can do now is to clear them one by one. Argh. And I hate that! Now all my projects are like half here half there! =( 2 of them were still undone, erm, or should I say untouched? And I think I focus too much in my psy modules this sem? Cos I had been doing all those intensive readings that I sort of neglected my Chinese modules in some ways lah. On a brighter note, my CH3245 killer newsppr reading proj was done! We finished discussing the outline on Sat and Violet did the report typing yesterday. Yeah!

Haa. And we were like quite talkative that day? Haven been talking like that for so so long. Ps too. Well, hope this busy period passes real soon!

I have been cooped up at home either studying or doing projects.
I miss my life. I miss shopping. I miss ktv-ing. I miss movies. I miss Yuki. I miss town.
*sulk*

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Wednesday

Finally today's my day off sch!

Was still thinking whether I shld go Central Library to type my Chi Project and do some serious studying, but the idea of being stucked there for the whole day alone, which means no one to look after my lappy if I gotta go toilet or wht, turns me off. To think I stayed in school on Mon after my proj meeting until 8pm! But at least it's proven that studying alone is so much more effective. Haa. Well, no matter where I am, I can still do the same, so I decided to stay at home then, although it is the last choice on my mind.

Anyway, the deadlines are nearing. The coming weeks are going to be hectic for me, for you and for everyone else. But at least all these busy-ness will keep my mind occupied. Projects, term papers, mid term tests and quiz, tutorial readings are all piling up high. Sigh.

The ironic thing is YY and mi still managed to make time for Orchard to hunt for backpacks yesterday after our 6pm lecture. Yeah, backpacks. Our shoulders were so sore from the extra-heavy-ordinary bags that we were carrying. It was so amazing that our bags could get so damn heavy from just a book or two. Ok, of course I admit that an umbrella and a waterbottle could be the culprits as well. And our big big pencil cases. Heh. Nothing really caught my attention, really. So, in the end, we went back empty-handed, with some bagpacks KIV for YY.

Oh yah, can't help to sidetrack too. We looked at some shoes from this new Japanese shoe shop at Far East which sells nice shoes at quite reasonbale prices. Maybe can consider. Hee.

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Sunday

Have you ever cried until you wanna throw up? I did. My face and head went all numb and they ached like no one's business.

It's going to be the start of maybe a long, dreadful Cold War. I just hope that my soft-heartedness will persevere this time round. I gasped for the need to be understood. So desperate that I didn't have any control over my own action. I am in a dilemma. I don't wanna absorb anymore, neither do I wish to get my message across this way. I'm left with no choice but I really want them to know how dead serious I am. I yearned for a good one so long, I tried my best everytime. I really did.

On a brighter note, I'm glad that my frens and dear were supportive and caring though. Thanks a million.

It's been a tough night for me. Overall, a terrible week for me.

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Saturday

Disaster!

I was EXTREMELY SAD and ANNOYED yesterday. Since I had no school and Vio wasn't free for Chinese project, I ended up pondering about doing ceramic perm. Torn between factors stopping me and the rare chance of doing my hair, I plucked up my courage and decided to go for it. Who knows, it ended up in a total mess. A horrifying experience for me. I was traumatized.

I don't care, I am going to disclose the shop name and location even though they may sue me or what. Be glad that I didn't complain this matter to CASE. It's Jantzen at Jurong Point. Having done my rebonding there twice before, I went back to Jantzen for my ceramic perm. To think I entrusted them with the most precious "possession" of mine, they screwed up my hair! They are my xin gan bao bei u know?!!

The guy who attended to me must have been SUPER inexperienced! He fiddled with my hair for a long long time before every application of lotion/chemicals (or whatever u called those things). After the application and wash, another hairstylist came over, took a look at my hair, jaw dropped, horrified, walked away, beakoned for the guy to go to her and I think she looked pissed and was like telling the guy off. Ever since then, the guy seemed so lost BUT NOONE came over to tell him what to do. He was helpless and he didn't what exactly he should do next after the wrong application (I deduced). They (the other hair stylists) were in their own conversation, seemed to me, a commotion. I was like Hello? That's my hair, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?? And if anything bad happened, WHY CAN'T the more senior hairstylists come over?? You all had NO customers, you ALL were sitting down there, KIAO KA-ing(cross legs = nothing to do!)!!! It seemed like they didn't want to help the guy since he created the trouble and apparently, this had nothing to do with them!! For heaven sake, I was dead worried, sitting down there!

In the end, the guy came over and continue the perming procedure and I thought that things had been solved. But from my observation, he was really clumsy and inexperienced. He rolled the rollers for umpteen times and they didn't stay. So, he kept doing the whole rolling procedure repeatedly and occasionally he would look around, hoping others to help him? I guess lah. And alot alot of happenings which made me doubtful about his skills.

The outcome? My hair damaged, the perm didn't work out. To my astonishment, all he did was to help himself to large portion of scalping lotion and gel and kept smearing those stuff on my hair, hoping that the little SUPER IRREGULAR curls will stay. Hey, come on lah, I'm not blind lah, u think by doing that I will assume the perm came out all ok? That's deception ok! U r just trying to bluff me by saying my curls are permanent. In fact, they r not! My hair's neither curly nor straight and the most horrendous thing is that my hair's all frizzy and SUPER DUPER dry!! My goodness!! In my whole life, I swear I never had this kinda hair before. Never! I probed him with questions but he dismissed them by telling me my hair's dry and coloured before, that's why it's like tt.. Blah blah blah. Did I say he cut off quite alot of my hair? My dry hair ends had all been cut by him lor, I reckoned there isn't any left after he'd cut my hair, so what's with all those lame excuses and attribution of the lousy result to my hair? My hair quality is not that bad yah?

Instead of admitting his mistake, he kept on trying to convince me that the horrible outcome is cos of my hair quality. Enough is enough! Single-powered, stunned and sad, I didn't know what to do but to pay and collect the receipt (cos I was thinking I can come back the next day to tell them off and redo my hair) but you know what, they didn't issue a receipt to me and when I asked for it, they just gave me a printout of the price. I mean, what is this? All along, I remembered they issue proper receipts with their detailed writing of the treaments. By then, I was traumatized and more upset with my hair than to argue with them. I left. And I only found out the dryness and brittleness of my hair after I left.

Luckily my dearie came to my rescue. Actually, I should be firm and stood up for myself but I dunno why at that moment in time, I just wanna get out of that damn place and cry my hair out. As furious as he could, i guessed he reprimand the staff, demanding for the manager. Petrified and realizing the seriousness of this whole issue, they began to treat me seriously. I'll save the details. In the end, they admitted their mistakes and they got me a senior hairstylist to look at my hair. I really think that's not ceramic perm at all, looked like Medusa's hair. Little, irrgular, dry, frizzy curls. Sucks. Disgusting.

I thank dear for being the bad guy and I'm sorry to drag him into this but I was overwhelmed by sadness to stand up for myself then. He was really good in his persuasiveness and skills in getting what he wanted, at the same time, very logical and reasonable in his talking, getting his message and anger through in a calm manner. A glib and sharp tongue I must say and sweet, but to me. Hee.

Anyway, he talked to someone with authority over the phone since their branch manager wasn't around. I was doing my free hair treatment then, they compensated me on the spot. But no discount, that person was extremely sorry and willing to let his senior hairstylist redo my hair but I gotta wait at least 3 days later cos my hair's weak after all the chemicals that day.

To think a professional hair salon would expect their customers to leave, knowing that they're unhappy with the results, to think that they came up with all kinda reasons to cover their mistakes, to think all the hair stylists ignored the guy due to their own office politics, how great do you think this salon is?

I shan't talk more. If I want, there's still alot more to say.

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