Rediscovered:

Z100, this radio station I used to listen to when I lived in Old Greenwich as a child. I remember staying up and listening to their Top 10 at 10, especially during the time of Titanic when "My Heart Will Go On" was No. 1 for like freakin' weeks. Anyway I'm listening to it live while I'm at work - so good.

Wuz goin on?!!

I haven't been updating properly about my life because A. I've been busy and B. I'm actually finding it a bit difficult to actually put interesting and potentially incriminating bits of my life up on the internet for the public's viewing pleasure. but then again what are the chances that anyone actually cares?

Anyway, it's Chinese New Year right now so basically the office is... dead. No one is here. Oh right before I forget Happy Chinese New Year!!


This past weekend, I spent Saturday catching up on doing nothing, Sunday meeting a boy for coffee in the morning and having Chinese New Year dinner with the family, on Monday meeting another boy for tea in the evening and on Tuesday watching Valentine's Day with my mom and going for a Chinese New Year party at night. So I'm guessing the whole - had beverages with a boy sentences - didn't escape you. Don't worry I didn't suddenly acquire a life by being really outgoing and asking out people/having people ask me out. Let's just say that there's an arrangement for me to meet different boys and I guess we have to see if we get along and then I suppose we are eventually supposed to get married, have kids and then grow to resent each other. In any case, if you want more details please just message me personally. Not on Facebook and not on my wall please. Because some of these boys might just be on my Facebook. So please, discretion is key.

So far it's been alright, stressful though. I guess that's expected since I'm not exactly the most laidback person on the planet.

On the first weekend of February I judged SEA Forensics at ISKL again. Duet and Solo again since they are basically the only things I feel fit to judge. It was fun. Really nice to see some acting onstage again. Of course it was inevitable that I had the whole, "You know... I really think that I was better than these kids during my time... not that I'm jealous or anything!", feeling. Which I suppose is probably explained by the fact that I am bloody jealous that I'm no longer the one acting up there and also because I'm bloody BETTER! Dammit.

Caught up with Laetitia and Ching Wen for lunch that day and I also bumped into Alycia an old, old friend from my SFS days. She's now a reporter at The Star so I guess I can add another person to my meager Malaysian friend roster.

That's about it I suppose. Ooh and I lost 1 kg!

I'm alone at work and I created this playlist...

One Less Lonely Girl - Justin Bieber



Fight for this Love - Cheryl Cole



I Get It In - Omarion feat Gucci Mane



Today Was a Fairytale - Taylor Swift



Telephone - Lady Gaga feat Beyonce



Crawl - Chris Brown



Back to the Crib - Juelz Santana feat Chris Brown



Take Your Shirt Off - T-Pain



Baby Doll - Girlicious



Okay that last one is not on my playlist because its TERRIBLE but I came across it when I was looking for songs and man, it's been AWHILE since I've heard from Girlicious... nice to know that they're keeping up to their usual high standards.

How good is this song?

Come here rude boy, boy, Can you get it up?
Come here rude boy, boy, Is you big enough?
Take it, take it, Baby, baby,Take it, take it,Love me, love me

Is it just me or is my InStyle looking a little too skinny?

I have read InStyle since I discovered some old issues selling for really cheap at a charity sale at SFS. I was about 14 years old and basically had to wrestle Michelle, my friend - who was a serious jock, to get it. Anyway I won, or maybe she just wasn't trying so hard, and I bought the magazines. Ever since then I have been completely hooked to InStyle.

I'm not entirely sure what it is about the magazine that strikes a chord in me. The clothes and the style is very sort of old fashioned and kind of middle-aged, WASP-y, proper and put-together and Hamptons-esque. Which ironically is exactly what I aspire to eventually look like. Even though I'm 23 and not white and live in Malaysia. But you know, I want to be the kind of person who throws on a pair of casual but super overpriced trousers, a casual white button down and loops a lovely cashmere sweater on their shoulders while wearing the requisite Cartier tank watch and bling - but understated Tiffany ear studs. So yeah I guess the fashion does it for me, and the fact that there is no real gossip-gossip in the magazine. As in there's no mention of how crazy people are, how someone's sleeping with someone or that someone looks terrible. Also there's no tacky article about how to find your G-Spot or how to please your man. Sure there are celebrities but you're looking at them having a good time at a party or you're being invited to their home, learning about a cause that is close to their heart or reading about the latest project they're working on. It's like they're your friends and you're getting to know them a bit better. Which is pretty much why I love it.

Which brings me to why I'm so bothered by how thin the magazine is getting. I'm pretty sure it used to be around 300+ pages and now it's a measly 100+ something. And though I don't know much about the magazine industry I know that's bad. I know that's bad because firstly, in Ugly Betty, when MODE couldn't get enough ads they had to cut feature articles. If you cut content that's really bad. And since they've been cutting the Man of Style article every other issue, that must be bad. Secondly in this article about Ron Galotti he said that, “When I took over Vogue, Elle and Vogue were equal,” he says. “When I finished, Vogue had 500 more pages.” It basically means, the thicker the magazine, the better its doing. InStyle, is so freakin' thin its looking like a supermarket tabloid, which really scares me.

What's the problem? The economy? I'm sure that's a part of it simply because everyone has been pulling out money for ads. Or is it that under the direction of Ariel Foxman, InStyle has lost some readers and as a result advertizing sales have dropped? I don't really like the direction Foxman is taking the magazine - younger, hipper and basically aimed more toward generic women's magazines but I was willing to stick around to see if it would change. But seriously I just miss Charla Lawhon, the last editor who took InStyle to new heights and basically made it all that it could be. And I think that InStyle - a magazine that has a mostly female demographic, and not a young one at that, needs a woman at the helm and not someone out to make waves and shake things up. Because InStyle is about being classic and timeless.

I just wanted to throw this out there because there seem to be no other articles or even mention of this on the internet. Maybe the slimmer InStyle is just a temporary thing, maybe it's not.