My Budget Makeup "Travel Kit" and Daiso mini Haul

Hello there! i went through a period of blogging procrastinating but I am back again! I DID try to blog, i really did. Several times, in fact :P I ran the photo editing software to edit my photos, instead i went and organize my photos, then i closed it and told myself "maybe not tonight...tonight, i'll watch big bang theory...woohoo~" and this went on for several weeks :D

Anyhoo, just got back from a short trip to KL during the Diwali long weekends last week. Would you believe our tickets for 2 from Penang-KL via Airasia is only RM38???

That's really dirt cheap for a 50 minutes flight thousands feet up in the air :D Love or hate airasia, i really don't know.

My First Pink Keyboard

Well since i am a self-declared "pink lover", i'm always on the quest to surround myself with pink stuffs :D pink phones, pink bags, pink shoes, pink anything and i want it. A pink keyboard has always been on my "want" list but i don't know why i've not come across many pink keyboards before. I saw one once, but it's those made in china "hello kitty" types. Although i'm quite a bimbo but i still want quality keyboard k :P

Which is when i came across this PINK Logitech Keyboard!

My Re-Purchased Products [Girly Reviews]

Over the span of the last 6 months to a year...there were a few products that i have re-purchased which is quite rare for me since i more often than not can't remain with the same product when i have finished it :P So i thought why not dedicate a post for these 3 repurchased products? Read on to find out what are they :)

StrawberryNET Gift Package

Ok recently i did something very "mr bean-ish". Why Mr Bean? Read on and you will find out..lols

(please excuse the foggy photo. apparently my digi cam after spending 8 hours in my air conditioned office became foggy after that =_=)

My Happy Shopping Day [Girly Posts]

I spent most of the Malaysia day holiday on 16th september at home because the bf was at work since they have already had their holiday before hari raya. Sighs..my social life really sucks in Penang :( But we went out to Queensbay mall in the evening for dinner. I went with a very hungry purse because its the middle of the month :P but i was itching for some retail therapy and it ended up as a happy shopping day for me even though when i m "dry" in the money department.

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My First Purchase from StrawberryNET! [Girly Review]

I have heard so much about StrawberryNET but i have never tried purchasing stuff from them until now...

Shu Uemura Eyelash Curler from eBay [Girly Review]

If you have noticed from my recent post on eBay shopping, i bidded on a Shu Uemura eyelash curler

Pinkcotton's Guide to eBay Shopping

I think i can be considered a very late adopter of eBay shopping. When so many people around me have been bidding like crazy on eBay since time eternal, i'm a little embarrassed to say that i've only started like around 1 month ++ ago. Since, i've had a few friends asking me how do i bid on eBay and such (seems like i'm not the only newbie after all :D), i decided to write a brief guide on bidding on eBay. 

Nyx purchase from cherryculture

Apart from the coastalscents haul,i recently purchased some items from cherryculture too! They were having a storewide summer sale of 20% off! So there goes my paypal money but i just feel so glad that i'm able to buy these cosmetics with money earned thru my blog! Somehow, money earned this way feels like "free money" lol

My New Toy

Would you believe i bought a new camera just for this blog??? Lol...yeah i knew you wouldnt believe me...but i just did! meet my new Nikon Coolpix S570 compact camera in PINK!!! Did you hear that??? i finally bought a pink gadget!

The Body Shop Sale

I think i might just ditch my shopping blog tho i do like the idea of some place for me to categorize all my fav purchases :P but then, this blog gets more hits and its just easier for me to maintain one blog.so to my guy readers here do bear with me when i post girly posts like these...muahahaha...

anyhoo, the body shop has been having a great big sale!!! i believe it ends tomorrow and i thought it was supposed to be a nationwide thing but there didnt seem to be any in Kuching...hmmm...

i saw a BIG crowd at the normally quiet shop at Queensbay mall yesterday so i went and check it out....and lo and behold! discounts up to 70%!!! you know i cant resist a sale =x but the q to the cashier was too long..hehehe...so i came back today...at 10am! just went the mall is opened ..muahaha..im hopeless! lets see what we have here...

(from left to right) Oceanus Shower Gel, White Hot Summer body mist and White Hot Summer eau de toilette.

The White Hot Summer body mist and the eau de toilette were bundled together...body mist at 70% off and eau de toilette at 50% off! fml! i just bought the body mist for someone's bday few weeks ago at the original price =_=" after discounts the body mist was only RM14.70 (rrp RM49) and the ead de toilette at RM32.50 (rrp RM65)

Which was all good because i have been lemming for the body mist since i bought it for her...hehehe...so now i can has it at 70% off! woots!

my intention was to buy the fragrance but then i thought i might just as well take advantage of the sale and buy myself the body shop shower gel..finally! I could never get myself to spend more than RM20 for such a small bottle of shower gel :( So i got this at 30% off!

After discount RM20.93 (RRP RM29.90)

me iz a happy girl!...what a great sale! :D

Iphone 3gs review

Finally got my Iphone 3GS 16gb after 40 days of waiting. Got my 3GS from Maxis with a 1 year contract at RM2099....and the process between my pre-booking and the day i got my phone is another story...we will leave that for another day and all i can tell u is that...it wasnt a pleasant experience =_="

Anyway...can u imagine my excitement to finally hold my baby in my hands after soooo many days of waiting???



This being my first Apple product...i must say i m quite intrigued with how they package their iphones....such a small cute box...the box is only slightly bigger than the phone itself



ahhhh...my sleek smooth surface baby :)



and the wallpaper you so often see on maxis iphone ads :D



let's see what we have in the package...a 3 pin plug, a USB cable and an earphone (all in white! lovin it! ok i know its not pink but white is the nxt best thing after pink for a gadget)



when the maxis staff explained to me the 3 pin plug...i was like how do i charge it??? cos there's no cable attached to it....

then she explained to me that i could actually plug in the usb cable to the 3 pin plug and we have a charger!



isnt it nifty??? :) And if you have your phone plugged in to your pc with the same usb cable, it would also charge the phone! now i don have to bring my charger AND my usb cable...it's 2-in-1!

also in the package...the usual phone manual you get with every phones...



the only difference being.....you only get a manual of less than 20 pages



it is either Apple is trying to conserve the environment by using less paper or they are so confident in their product being intuitive enough to not need a manual..lol

but i would somewhat agree with the latter...it IS intuitive! with only one physical button (not incl the volume control button,power button and the silent switch) on the phone...it is really quite a no-brainer using the iphone



it comes preloaded with all the normal stuffs...calendar, clock, calculator, compass, stock...

since this is the 3gs...with the 'S' for Speed...i must say browsing is fast and seamless and smooth!



type in the web address with the on-screen qwerty keys (this needs some getting used to type efficiently...i can now type with 2 fingers :P)

another thing i love about browsing with the iphone is the 'pinching' motion u use to zoom in and zoom out when you are browsing



cool and intuitive! as you can see i've mentioned intuitive that many times in this post :D

another new thing with the 3gs is the 3.2mp auto-focus camera. it also comes with a touch-to-focus feature



quality of photos are useable but not perfect...still not too bad...here's a photo taken with the 3gs



(photos in my previous 2 posts were taken with my 3gs too)

and the other thing new about 3gs is the video feature...i know this is nothing new with other much cheaper options out there but since this is a new feature apple put in, i think it deserves some mentioning dont u think so? lol

slide the little slider to use the video function...



with 30 frames per second, i must say the video quality is quite commendable and you get this useful feature where you can directly edit and trim your videos



the other thing i love about iphone is the App Store!



i honestly feel that this is the thing that really puts apple iphone on top of the game compared with all the other better phones out there

here, you get to download all sorts of apps from games, productivity tools, networking tools, and the list goes on and on....



but of course, not all apps are free unless of course *cough* you *cough* jailbreak your phone *cough* =)

i really enjoy lying in the comfort of my bed and downloading those free apps :)

among my favourite apps are this very useful facebook app for iphone



i could almost do anything i can do when i m fb-ing on my pc here...upload photos, send mails, chat, tag photos....

and my other fav app is the BlogPress from google blogger where i can directly write and post photos up to my blog!



the only downside of the phone is of course the battery life...on average, i need a charge every 1.5 days...but of course whenever you plug in the phoen to your pc to sync and copy photos it is already charging

i am intentionally delaying my review of the phone until after 2 weeks++ of usage so that i can give a honest, unbiased review that is not affected by my "new toy syndrome" lol

but so far ... i m really ♥-ing my iphone! =)

Capsule Toys!

I just go crazy over capsule toys machines...somehow the idea of not necessarily getting what you want when you put money into the machine really appeals to me....wahaha...

okie dokie...get 2 tokens for rm8 (expensive hoh?)

and ta dahhhh

just in case you r wondering what it is...its a mario sound maker! this will make the coin getting sound in mario game...

i want them all!!! wahahahaa

someone got crazy along with me...and we bought another 2 of those thingy 'x'

2 shown here only....cos my palm not big enough to carry 3 'x'

cute or not??? we managed to spend rm21 in less than 15mins on these 'x'

My Latest Novel Obsession

Wowee...it has been several weeks since my last update! :D
I am really drowning in all the stuff i have to do before my relocation...in the first few weeks, there were so many things to do that i didnt bother starting 'x' simply bcos i didnt know where to start...hehehe

But now, i guess things are around 90% complete...i have yet to decide what i wanto bring over and what i should leave behind *gulp* and there's the annoying BE 2008 form to fill!! arghhh...30th of April is looming!

All those stuff coupled with the erratic behaviour of my internet connection is deterring me from sitting down and write a post on my blog! Anyhow, i did manage to indulge in some free time reading...hehehe....

It all started by watching the Twilight movie...hard-core fans of the novels claim that the movie was no good but i rather like the movie...so i reckoned the book should be even better! and so i bought the first book in the vampire-love saga...Twilight :)

And after reading the first one, i just had to get the next...New Moon....
and after that.... Eclipse...the third installation in the saga...hehehe

I m still looking for the 4th book but it seems that major bookstores in town claim that it is out of stock :(

Within just 3 weeks, i bought all 3 books and spent RM110+++ on the books and that's excluding the 4th book which costs around rm49.90...eeps...there goes my shopping allowance for the month 'x'

Secret Rendezvous

Last Friday, my 2 sisters and I took the day off for a secret rendezvous :) This is not the first time we organize a secret rendezvous but it is always something to look forward to!

We usually start early in the morning with breakfast...

This is my first time here...situated somewhere around Padungan

Hehehe looks cute? :D

This is the char siew pau which doesnt really look like char siew to me

I really underestimated this little pau. For some reason or another, eating just one of this small pau is enough to sustain me till 2.30pm! And we had this at around 9am. As a result, we did not manage to eat the rest of the sio bee (siew mai) and egg tarts :P

And this is the lotus paste pau

In between breakfast and lunch, we went to do our hair!... no pics for that :D

For lunch, we decided to go for Sushi King! The waiter recommended the special promotion of the month....

which is actually deep fried salmon belly with rice and some shredded vege

and its only rm8.90!!! valid till 31st march only ;)

i really really love this and have been craving for it ever since! wahaha...

someone did not leave me his sushi king member card before he left Kuching..grrr...so i rummaged around my purse and found this!

this is even better than 10% off..no? :)

after some shopping, we stopped by Starbucks to chill out

2 more stamps before i get a free drink!

p/s shopping blog updated! :)

Guardian's Paddington Bear Promo

Been crazy collecting these stamps lately...

For every RM25 spent at Guardian, you get 1 paddington bear stamps...when u collect up to a certain number of stamps, you can redeem the bear for free!!!

I am so crazy about the stamps that i :-

1. no longer shop at Watson's
2. ended up with extra bottles of shower foam,contact lens solution,shampoo,conditioner just to get extra paddington stamps 'x'

Guardian really know how to CHEAT us ladies =)

The thing is i m not really a big fan of paddington bear...must be the excitement of redeeming a bear by collecting stamps painstakingly...

I still have 7 more stamps to go...need to collect at least 20 stamps to redeem the smallest bear :(

but even if i cannot manage to collect up to 20 stamps by the due date, i will buy it for RM19.90 with 10 stamps...what is wrong with me!!!

p/s anyone have spare stamps for me? 'x'!