Festive Season I

Second batch of backorders arrived and mailed! Checked!

New batch of self-manufactured items arrived. This time the sizing a little bigger. Will be featured in the upcoming collection this Thursday!

Preview of the 2 self-manufactured items this Thursday here :)

Off-Shoulder Bandage Dress in 2 yummish colors!

Dainty Lace Dress in 2 colors too!

A Friend Lost

Today's feelings was a heavy one.

It was peer-review assessment for our MP4011 Design Project. Unlike the previous peer-review assessments which I have done before, this one was a more special case. Each group member was being called up into a room where the Professor will ask you to grade your team-mates according to the respective criterias.

Chloe went in first and told the Professor that she intends to give all F grades for all the criterias for this team-mate - M. The Professor then called up M and talked to her, and advised her to talk to us. M left the Professor's room feeling weird so she came and asked us what happened. I then took the lead to tell her our heartfelt feelings. Instead of understanding, she started to blabber about how we shouldn't do this to her and we should just tell her face to face first, and that we did not give her chance to do her work and so we condem her etc. Desrie and I spent half an hour in our design lab explaining to her but M just cant get it into her head and feels that she is not wrong. M then started to cry and her voice becomes louder, even though there are other class mates in the lab as well. I managed to speak to her still in a very calm manner but I guess I gave a very guai lan face. Desrie couldn't control her emotions well so at one point of time she was shouting too. The atmosphere was really awkward and bad and I hate being in this kind of situation and would avoid as much as possible. But still, when it comes to work, it has to be put aside with personal feelings and friendships. This I feel that M has not handled in a proper manner. If I am not wrong, she must be feeling that I had betrayed her and there will be no more friendship between us, although I would still very much want to continue our friendship. The story behind this incident is too long and hence I shall not further elaborate here.

Ask me if I regret what I had done, I must say - No. I believe that through this, M will be able to learn a lesson and if she still treats me as a friend, she must understand that what I am doing is not to harm her, but to help her learn.

Anyway through what happened today, I realised that actually Desrie is a very nice lady. I think I have misunderstood her all these while.. It takes me 3.5 years to finally realise that she can be a really good friend.

Grumbles of a Final Year Student

Please close this window if you do not want to hear my grumbles. Because what I am going to blog in this space here are all my grumbles.

I finally understand the reason for the increasing number of undergraduate suicides. Now that I am in the same situation as a final year student, I totally understand how it feels. I was having a heart to heart talk with Desrie (for the first time in my entire undergraduate life) and we both share the same thinking. We have come to a point that when we stare at the laptop screen in front of us, it just made us want to cry out. Especially when exam is just less than 2 weeks away and there are still tons of project and sch work lining up and we have not even started studying for our exams and a project mate who keeps delaying her work and we are facing a dilemma whether to report this matter to our Prof - which in the end we did because we feel that it is unfair that she take the same credit as all of us who really put in a lot of effort for the project. I am glad that I am able to put personal feelings aside when it comes to this. I am not sure if things will turn out awkward between us in future but I hope that she understands and take this as a lesson.

Business too facing some problems with manufacturer. Have to find another manufacturer right after my exams because the current one has too much work to handle which means she is short-handed and has since stopped manufacturing self-designs until Chinese New Year. :(

But luckily, my collections for December are already settled.

I desperately need a short break after my exams!!! I just need a short-getaway.. Even to JB for a few days also can. But easier said than done. :(

Stayover at My Place!

Fumin went to my place for a stayover on the eve of hari raya after her day of work. We went to shop and save to buy a bottle of red wine. My aim for that day is to make her drunk!

We had dinner at my place, then proceed to help me

out with the big batch of backorders that I just received from my manufacturer. We took like almost 3 hours to pack the backorders into plastic bags, pack them into envelopes and arrange them according to normal and registered mail. Two of us took 3 hours, can you imagine that? It was so shag for us. But really much thanks to fumin. Without her help, I would have to

spend like 5 to 6 hours doing the entire thing. :)

Meanwhile she took some of the clothes and tried it on.

Fell in love with this new batch of backorder for Ruched Bandage Dress. It is more stretchable and can fit meeeee! Oh my god. Even fumin says it look nice!! Gonna get one for myself. =P

So after we finished packing everything, it was already 1.35pm. Feeling hungry, I prepared my microwave salted popcorn and she had her cup noodles and we sat down and watch "gao xiao xing dong". LOL.

Then I prepared bacardi (40% alcohol content) for

min, and she downed the whole cup down in like only 4 to 5 gulps. After which, her face went red, then the whole body. And she started to feel dizzy and started talking some nonsense. But still, she is conscious.

Still conscious after drinking Bacardi..

Face starting to turn red

I went to prepare for her Malibu next. She downed 3/4 of the cup and finally told me that she is unable to drink anymore because she feels very dizzy already. She couldnt even walk in a straight line so imagine that!! Hence i threw away the rest. When I came back to my room... guess what. She was already lying face down and when I tried to ask her to go and wash her hands, all she did was "heeee heeee heeee". Sounds scary hahahaa. She was lying face down, with her specs and it seems that she doesnt unde

rstand what I am trying to say. Then 2 minutes later, she was already snoring... Called out her name a few times but there was no response...... UNCONSCIOUS.

Then finally... UNCONSCIOUS!!

Off to sleep I went.

Next morning, she had a bad hangover. And told me she's not going to drink in future.

Fumin, song bo?

HAHHAAA.

Mission Successful!

On a side note, I managed to get dear's little sister to help me with the packing and mailing of parcels for my next collection.. as it will be exams for me soon and I am unable to afford the time. Will be offering her a small token which I personally feel is too little, but I will increase it for her :)

The most silent date ever

I chose not to defend myself for what you said.

I had grown to be stronger when it comes to this.

You shouted at me in public for the first time. I did not react to it, neither did I feel angry.

I am disappointed - that this is how you let me know your feelings..

One week 7 days - Weekdays: 2 hours (dinner + passing me of stuffs) Weekends: 2 minutes.

Looking forward to weekends every week, yet...

I have to tell myself it's okay.

I just finished talking on the phone with my manufacturer. We had a whole 1 hour discussion on my manufactured pieces. I feel that I can communicate and work with her really well because she seems like a sister to me. Really nice feeling. And she feels like a partner working with me, because I will consult her on whether the designs I want are nice, can sell etc, and she will give me very sound and good advices. If she doesn't like the designs, she will say it out straight away, and I always take her opinions very seriously. A very young lady who's so successful! I wish I can be like her, and that's my next aim! :)

I finally understand why people always say you cannot work alone in a business, and must have a partner. Really I feel the stress. It doesn't help when I have school projects and exams coming. And the most damn project I hate - Fyp. Ntu doesnt give any help, and to make it worse, the organization which offered me this project did little to help too. And I seriously think that the organization must send their employees for some "courtesy emailing" course. Basic courtesy such as Dear (name) or Hi (name) or even just the (name) was left out in the email. Oh so now, that's how an employee at the management level should behave huh?

I have a very bad temper. Really bad. Everyone who knows me knows that. I guess if I did not receive a good education, you could have seen me involved in some murders. Because sometimes, my temper is that bad until I feel like killing people.

Muffin wears a shirt!

We had Muffin to wear a shirt. He is a boy but because my bro and felicia could not find a blue one, Muffin had to be stuck in his ne w pink shirt that has the word "Sweet" and a little red ribbon on it. He's sooooo cute!!!!

Muffin at his favorite position

Attempting to hop around again

Quite a few customers emailed me regarding the backorder after it closes, but I had to reject them although I feel sooooo reluctant to! Thinking of whether I should just open another batch of backorders, but most probably not at the moment now.

Had already booked my model, studio and photographer for the next studio shoot. Booked and paid for my next 2 advertisements for my next 2 launches at Zoe's site. Expenses!!

Got myself a new spectacles for just $99 (inclusive of lenses and frame!). Damn cheap! Somemore it's at The Cathay! Real good deal, although I still love my contact lenses that can make my eyes bigger. Hahaa.

Met up with Fumin on the eve of Deevapali for a dinner at Xian De Lai. My craving for months has finally been satisfied! Xian De Lai still as good as ever!

Very happy girl

Trying to take a photo of myself to see if my face is really that red.

Excited me too!

Fumin showing that Xian De Lai is bagus!! (Until her lips has this vegetable bit and she is unaware of it. LOL)

This crazy girl keeps pestering me for beer and so we headed opposite to satisfy her craving for beer!!! Imagine after a full stomach, BEER!

Henekein

She said this photo of her very SEH. LOL.

After getting a little tipsy and high... this is what our MS Zhang did.

Walked our way to the MRT (me) and bus-stop (fumin). I almost missed my last train but was lucky to catch the last train to Kranji. Fumin was not so fortunate. She missed her last bus back home! HAhahaa in the end she had to take a cab back! Imagine midnight + public holiday charges!

Fumin, see I told you.. should have just come over to my house ma. Can drink till you become merlion leh. Haha!!

Trying my hands on drawings!

Tried drawing some designs.. realised I am not cut out to be one who can come up with pretty designs. Trying very hard to think what to manufacture for Christmas and New Year!

Please don't laugh. It's my best effort. Haha.

I like this design the best out of all the others.

The second design which I also like.

This looks awkward.. I was looking at some bridal gowns and wanted to modify it into a casual dress..

This might turn out pretty.

Just for fun.

Birthday Dinner + Halloween @ Sentosa!

First up, Halloween Spooktacular at Sentosa!! Four trails and it's totally exciting! Enjoyed myself alot over there, and as usual, screamed like hell, until some guy behind said he got scared not because of the ghost, but because of me. LOL.

Took quite a lot of photos with "ghosts" but did not want to put them up here because I looked pretty ugly!! :( Below are some of the more decent ones.

While queuing up for one of the trails. And me nagging at him about eating KFC. And him giving me an annoyed look. Heeee. Look at his "fashionable" choker, which is actually light sticks. He insisted on putting them on as a choker instead of as a bracelet, which is what it is supposed to be.

This guy must have wanted to bash us up because we kept taking photos with flash. My idotic face hahahaa.

At Sky Tower for another trail ride!!

Inside Sky Tower, which is a little bo liao.

Getting into the mood of Halloween!!

Forever that face.

Next up, my Birthday dinner with dear! Met him up at his workplace after his work and then headed for dinner. Had dinner at this restaurant at Dhoby Ghaut, a fusion of French and Japanese cuisine in a Chinese setting. According to dear, there was no bad reviews on the service there! And their service is really really good!

We ordered a 7-Course meal for each of us. And it's real good. And i mean it. REAL GOOD. I give it a rating of 10/10, nothing to pick on!!

Finally a more decent photo - only on my Birthday.

Yes that's more like it.

Taking photos and entertaining myself while dear (as usual) calculates his money bla bla bla.

Yea and that's him calculating his money......

Our desert!

My main course!! Damn NICE!

At his age, look at what he is doing. Then after that beg me not to put up on Facebook. Haha!

His soup - Pumpkin soup! DAMN NICE AGAIN. I regret not ordering this!!

The Japanese fruit tea, which is again - Very fragrant!! Can't bear to finish it!

Dear on his BB phone, after a conversation with some girls. LOL.

The Birthday Girl. Happy. :)

Can't wait to swallow the mushroom whole.

HAHAHAH.

This one again is really DELICIOUS.

Thanks dear for your card and present. Your present was really meaningful. :)

Oh my after looking at all these photos, I feel like going there again!

Dear, hear it?! :)

Customers asking me when our next launch will be and they are looking forward to it. Happy!