Thursday, July 31, 2008

battle box

due to copyright thingy i'm not allowed to post pics of de undergrd battle box on my blog. so yep. organised by Karen, Ice, Kenneth & Siraj.

haha Fion look funny! so is Eric and Dickson.
btw it's a "war toilet" NOT public XD!! had pizza aft dat wif Ice and Kenneth. a show to catch!!! gtg!!! tis sat going to sentosa~ catch me there =)))

goat farm

MEHHH!!!! i'll let de pics do de talkin. got a show to catch :X~

oh and de nx entry is another event to Fort canning. The battle box =)

On the road and guest blogging

I am on the road for work so this will be brief since I am to give a presentation in about an hour and a half.

As you may know I am headed out for a weeks vacation starting Aug 11th, and since all of my bloggy friends are some of the most creative, funny and good story tellers I know, I was wondering if any of you would be interested in guest blogging? Drop me a line and let me know if you are interested. I am looking for 5 bloggers for Mon-Fri. Or if you want the whole week or a few days that will work too!

Ok, back to work, keep your fingers crossed I don't fall on my face or screw up while giving my speech!!

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Misogyny defined

. . . one of the great rhetorical tricks of patriarchy, which is to define women’s value in terms of appearance, and simultaneously to define appearance as something so utterly trivial that only completely shallow and useless creatures — like, say, women! — would care about it.

writes Kate Harding,

A fashion resurrected

Looking for something to wear last night to go out to dinner on a hot night, I glanced once more at a very beautiful sea green long dress I have had since 1999 for godsake. Long has been out of style for fashion decades, even fashion centuries. I could still wear that dress, but where to? As Lisa Armstrong points out,

For years now we've all been wearing short cocktail dresses in the evening, on the assumption that only Swedish royalty and Oscar nominees still wear long.

But the return of the maxi dress may presage the return of long. Here's how to do it:

Where the maxi dress blazed a trail, the long dress now floats along in reflected glory. Far from looking stiff and formal, the long dresses that guests wore at the Wood-Macdonald wedding looked fresh and uncontrived. Suddenly, asking friends if they are going long or short for an event sounds like a sensible question rather than satire. After years of being force fed acres of over-bronzed, over-plucked, overexposed, punishingly high-maintenance flesh, covering up looks neither oppressive nor puritanical, but chic and - paradoxically - simple.
Inevitably, there are a few tricks to making it all look effortless. Pale colours are fine, but not sickly pastels. Dirty pinks, faded greens or a retro print are the ideal. The right kind of cover-up is another trigger to achieving the desired effect - nothing too bulky, or too coat-like. A vintagey lacy cardigan is a sweet option, but a velvet wrap or a pashmina works too. Outsize shoulder bags are hopeless - this is a look made for clutches, or something antique on a chain. Hair should be simple and uncontrived - a loose ponytail or chignon would work well, the better to show off those big dangly earrings. Shoes don't have to be clumpy or aggressive-looking, although a platform keeps the look from being too early-Nineties.

Wordless Wednesday - Let Birthday Week Begin!!!

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

How to get Kissed

The papers today are full of a new line of make-up for men. Predictably, they're not keen. Harry has not yet advanced beyond the soap and water stage of metrosexuality and was horrified at the price of a Boots sunscreen. £10!!!

Guyliner, a £6.50 kohl pencil, will be in stores this week, closely followed by Manscara, a clear gel for lashes and brows. If they sell well, a lip balm and cover-up will follow.
But are Britain's men ready to start the day by enhancing their eyes or concealing their bags? Not according to 17-year-old Damon Aston, a jeweller from Watford, who agreed to try Guyliner, but couldn't wait to get it off. "I would never wear it. It's not manly, it's just gimpy. I'm not that kind of boy. I don't think girls would like it. It depends on the girl, but not the ones who like proper boys," he insisted.
Barry, who runs a London market stall selling cosmetics, agreed. "I don't know anyone who would wear it. I heard Jean Paul Gaultier is selling lip balm, but it's not for me. I don't think I could sell it on my stall."
Bill Jones, who works as a French polisher, said that his partner might like him to wear it, but he refused to try it on. "It takes too much time to do when you are going out and when you get to my age the less you look in the mirror the better," he said. "She might like it and think it makes me look better, but I'd only try it in the bedroom."
However, financial assistant Iain Robertson disagreed. "It looks good. I think most men are a bit metrosexual these days. It's just makeup and women may traditionally buy it, but it's not set in stone. You could be in the office with a hangover and cover it up with concealer."
After struggling to apply it, drama students Andrew Bate and Tom Done were pleased with the way the Guyliner brought out their eyes. "I would wear it to some events," Tom said. "But I wouldn't wear it to work or to have a pint with my dad."
Tattooist Graham Carlton, 45, admitted he was no stranger to makeup: "I wore it many times when I was growing up in the 80s with the New Romantic scene. It was almost a uniform and the girls liked it. I don't think it would have the same effect now - I have gained 4st and 30 years so I'm guessing I would look like Danny La Rue."

Scipio Rodeo

On July 26, we made the trek down to Scipio, Utah for the Round Valley Rodeo. It's Adam's family tradition, and we went last year, so now it's tradtion for our family! After doing the only things you can do in Scipio (visit the antique shop, gas station, and drive up to the now-dry lake), we went to the rodeo. Eric and Britt came on their way to St. George and we had a lot of fun! Luckily it wasn't too hot :)

Such a perfect day . . .

It is lovely when you are longlisted for a major literary prize and people send you flowers. But Anya Hindmarch sent me this.

And a very nice email.

Tuesday Toot

So over the weekend my husband and I cleaned out the garage, I thought I had better pictures to show just how much we had done. These are OK but I don't think that truly depict the hard work. So there is my Tuesday Toot! Now go Toot your own horn!!!!

Here is my ham of a husband before we got started, He tought I was looning to take before and after pictures. Blog Baby, I told him. To whihc he rolled his eyes. Like the shirt?

These are before the cleaning began, it is important to tell you that we have a 3 car garage but only 2 were ever able to be in there at one time!

After !

I can now put 3 cars in the garage!

Things seems to be a bit more orderly then they were.

I was also able to clear out the Closet in the basement where are mud room is!!!!!

Booker Prize longlist

Man Booker 2008 longlist

The ‘Man Booker Dozen’ 2007

The longlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on Tuesday 29 July 2008.

A biography and synopsis for each title will follow on shortly

Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
Atlantic
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Gaynor Arnold
Girl in a Blue Dress
Tindal Street Press
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Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture
Faber & Faber
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John Berger
From A to X
Verso
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Michelle de Kretser
The Lost Dog
Chatto & Windus
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Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies
John Murray
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Linda Grant
The Clothes on Their Backs
Virago
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Mohammed Hanif
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Jonathan Cape
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Philip Hensher
The Northern Clemency
Fourth Estate
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Joseph O’Neill
Netherland
Fourth Estate
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Salman Rushdie
The Enchantress of Florence
Jonathan Cape
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Tom Rob Smith
Child 44
Simon & Schuster
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Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Hamish Hamilton
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goaty goaty day tmr!

my beloved class SM =D

(WHY ZOOM ON MY UGLY FACE ~_~ *angry*) special for Eric cuz he wans me to take his "gentle" face LOL.! andddd... SYAZZ! me wans new moon and eclipse!!! OMG. PLSSSS XDXDXD i so love de story. @_@!