News and Purchases!

So it's been awhile. Life hasn't been crazy persay but I just haven't had the desire to blog. I also kind of forgot I had a blog.

ANYWAY, I'm done with my Master of Mass Communication at NTU. The graduation ceremony is in two weeks. After which I'm supposed to be starting my job *fingers crossed if everything goes well* as a Research Associate in NTU. It's going to be a job doing research using Digital Technology to Combat Obesity. Can't really explain it. But its cool.

In the meantime I'm back in Malaysia for a couple of days recouping with the family, waiting for immigration paperwork type stuff and generally eating my face off.

I'm also moving into a new place in Singapore - a condo where I'll be renting a room from a lovely lady which should be great. I now have these new resolutions for me being 26. I'm SUPER excited about it, but thats totes another post.

So basically its a bit of limbo time for me - packing up stuff, throwing away stuff, immigration stuff, hanging out with the fam stuff and so on. I'm also turning 26... so... I BOUGHT NEW CLOTHES! Ahahahaha - which is really the actual point of this post.

So the other day with my friends Hattie I went to the Ngee Ann City Food Festival where we ate some Taiwanese fried chicken and ate famazing Udderz ice-cream. And then we SHOPPED.

I bought a Pull and Bear skirt for like SGD9.90 - I know its a bandage skirt and I have like 5 but I love it!

I then bought this SGD10 from Cotton On (I have one just like it in like Tiger print something which looks good) and a belt from Myphosis for another SGD10 for my birthday.

But then the next day when I went to Marina Square Mall to kill time I found this dress for a super cheap SGD47.90 at Desigual and I HAD TO HAVE IT.

I'm planning on wearing it with silver hoops and obviously just pretending I'm Latine :)

I'm sick and procrastinating

I have 3 final research papers due next week. A take-home exam due the Monday the week after and the last of my final research papers due that Wednesday. And I'm blogging. While transcribing in-depth interviews for another one of my final projects. Also I'm sick. Not I'm going to die sick but like low grade fever, painful throat, super duper tired kind of sick. Which I really can't afford seeing as I have basically the majority of everything due this next week.

I think that my blog doesn't have a focus, like its about me but not so much about anything else. Don't think I can be a cosmetics blogger - coz I've gone off that. Can't really do lifestyle because my life isn't exactly a baller lifestyle. Also I like clothes but I just don't think I'm one of those people who really understands how to wear clothes. Ok enough of that.

I don't have time to actually post so I'm just going to embed music I've been enjoying. Some of its quite shameful.

Ghetto Love - Karl Wolf - this guy is like MTL's answer to Shawn Desman. Not that an answer was needed or anything...


Wherever You Will Go - Charlene Soraia - so good


Bedardi Raja - Delhi Belly - this is good, kinda slow but nice


5 O'Clock - T-Pain feat Wiz Khalifa and Lily Allen - what a great remix of this song


Will blog later when time and mood permits!

I have not been blogging because...

I am drowning under a sea of reading
Bad decision-making (partying instead of studying)
and too many friends, when I'm used to... none.

Wish me luck!!

Makeup To Go!

I can't claim any originality for this, but I needed a good way to store my makeup when I go to NTU and also a good way to move it around, SO I totally copied Giselle and got a plastic faux tool kit to hold my makeup. Isn't it beauteous??

Here's the view from the outside:

Here's the top tray, it's got concealer, powder, eyeliner, mascara - basically the everyday use stuff.

Here's the second tray, its got the lipglosses/sticks, rest of the eyeshadows and primers.

Finally the deep tray, its got my foundation, blushers, tools and backup mascara, eyeliner and concealers.

Here's the whole lovely thing!

Awesome no?? If only I was having the same kind of luck finding someone to stay with in Singapore...

Packing for the end of TIME

In the days leading up to my move to Singapore I have been buying lots and lots of stuff. Face stuff, body stuff, eye stuff... and my room is starting to resemble a haphazard end of time type bomb shelter. I figured I would take some pictures and share the immense amount of stuff that I have accumulated for my Singapore adventure.

Here goes...

And this is just a fraction of everything I've bought and I'll be taking. I haven't included clothes, kitchen stuff, fly swat, medication, etc. etc... I swear going back to school is making me a very poor person.

NEWS!

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with my blog. Life kind of got in the way. I actually bought a ton of stuff which I'm supposed to put up, but haven't. But that can wait, because I have news - I got into Nanyang Technological University for their Master of Mass Communication program! Which is amazing and rad and totally scary.

It's amazing because I got in, woot woot! Means I'm all smart and amazing. It's rad because I'll be living in Singapore which I love as a city. It's scary because it means that after working full time for three years and living in Malaysia with my parents I have to move and live alone. And actually study. Something I didn't do too much of at McGill.

So far I've actually resigned from my work. My last week should be the last week of July. Classes start in August. I've applied for housing but its not guaranteed since demand is far greater than the supply and they give priority to grad students who are doing research. And I'm a coursework student. That majorly sucks because Singapore is incredibly expensive to stay in. I'm talking SD800 for a room in an apartment per month which would come up to something like RM2000 which you could use to rent an entire house in Malaysia.

In addition to that I'm having to think about buying all my toiletries here so that I don't waste money, and that probably means dipping into my savings since I don't feel like asking my Dad to cover me for that stuff. Anyway I hope I get a part time job in Singapore so that at least after a month I can cover food, entertainment and the rest of the toiletries for my remaining time there.

I also have to apply for my student pass and everything else but yeah I'm excited, freaked and also feeling the inevitable feeling of being super poor that's going to accompany this adventure :P