Selendang/ Dupatta ishtyle

  Early in the morning, when the brain hasn't started functioning, the hands fumble, the legs stumble and the lips crack when you try to smile at yourself in the mirror, it's impossible (for me lah) to tie anything more complicated than a tudong. But today, I couldn't find a matching tudong wanted to try a selendang or dupatta. And ended up winding it round my head and pinning it in random areas with multiple pins. Aii.

Enter Mrs Yasmin, the supertalented teacher who does super-ishtyle selendang tying! I called for F1 and she whisked me away to the ladies' loo and unpinned and re-pinned and even returned a spare pin when she was done :D I'm too malu to post up the before picture hehe, but here's the finished product:

Ta-da!

Ok lah I tipu...this was after 5 hrs of running around school and it's shifted a bit but still lawa.

 

How? My agak-agak instructions:

Step 1: Pin it as usual under the chin with one side short and one side long

 

More or less like this

Step 2: Flip the shorter side to the back

 

Why so serious?

Step 3: Pick up the corner of the longer end in front

 

Step 4: Bring it round to the back of your head, the same side as the shorter end.

Step 5: Pin it in place to your ponytail/bun/skullcap/whatever holds.

Easy or not? I blog fast-fast so that next time I wont forget how hehe

And now back to work. *sigh*

 

 

P/S: Bini kedua has christened the cat with the illustrious "Meow".

Gotta Love my neighbours!

Seriously! After years and years of Michael Learns to Rock (UGHH UGH UGHH UGHH) karaoke fans, the latest lot to move in sit in their balcony to smoke and have a few drinks. And they play a little music too....with a reallyyyyy good old-school playlist!

Right now I can hear Bon Jovi's Bed of Roses, before this there was Nirvana, Aerosmith, Green Day...yay!

And now it's Never say goodbye.

And I should get back to work :P

My hand really does look like a foot!

How I found Happiness

I was cleaning out my wallet and found this carefully cut out bit from last year:

From: Nabil and Fadzillah....To: Teacher Siti

My kids give me awesome gifts on pet society happiness =)

Awwwwww!

Random cat pics:

Cat also can C/W

Awwwwww again =)

 

P/S: Realised again that my green couch and purple cushions are also eggplantish :P~

Tudong ishtyleeeee!

I met my ex-student at the ICT taklimat, she's a teacher now too! And another exstudent Azrina but no pic lah.

me with tudong very biasa and durriya very stylo milo

Aaaaand she taught me the Sudanese way to wrap the tudong...more of a selendang actually. If successful, I'll post a step by step so that I don't forget how next time hehe :)

p/s: just realised that with my purple and her green, we make a nice eggplantish picture :P

Hide and Squeak

This is another true tail of a cat and mouse. When I got home from my month long trip, I found signs of mouse break-in. So I bought 2 rat glue traps and placed one in the kitchen and one in the loo. And some food in them. In the morning, food hilang and trap empty.

To add insult to injury, the mouse left a souvenir.

Mice are actually pretty intelligent, and contrary to popular manufacturer's opinion, they aren't blind! Yeah, the trap is cute with cartoon mice getting stuck. But its enough to give the mice a pretty good idea what will happen to them if they step on the trap!

So, I tried a different tactic. I kidnapped a cat.

 

Kidnapped cat.

A slightly scrawny stray but seriously NICE! Most house cats arent as well behaved! I fed her and let her wander around the house while I got back to playing Pet Society heheh. Suddenly, there was a blood curdling screech. I zoomed out only to find:

Remnants of mouse trap

And a distressed kidnapped cat.

Trying desperately to chew off the glue from the mouse trap.

I couldn't believe that the trap that couldn't catch a tiny mouse managed to snag a whole cat!

Before anyone calls the RSPCA, the cat is none the worse for her little misadventure. We managed to remove the mouse trap glue together with a little vegetable oil from the kitchen and a lot of patience, trust and saliva from the cat.

Results of mouse trap episode:

One Extra Clean paw.

 

One Kidnapped Tulan cat.

 

On the bright side, the kidnapped cat visits often enough to scare mice away.

Cute hor? Macam pakai eyeliner.

Even knows how to sleep with her head on the cushion.

Awwwww.

Idli with ishtyle!

There's the normal way to eat idlis, for the regular idli fan.

Idli with chutney

 

And then there's the other ishtyle of eating idlis for the chutney fan...

Chutney with idlis!

Yes there's an idli hidden there!

See! (Thanks to Dahlia for the chutneyfication of this idli hehe)

Oklah, I can't leave out my abang tersayang and his volcano ishtyle :P~

1/8 of an idli with the volcano of podi and oil.

Yum!

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Yayy it's holiday, holiday  niu year!

Out with the old tikus, in with the Niu!

This whole CNY pic was doodled on the bottom of a mineral water carton.

 

By Richard lah, not me! nice hor.

Happy Niu Year :-)

Testing saja

This is me just trying out Windows Live Writer...see if its any less painful to use than Blogger :-)

Bugsy

If it works, then yayyyy I will blog kao kao hehe (yeah rite :P~)

Kidnapped Cat

The pics here are just anyhow placed for testing lah :)

That's about it, buhbye :-)

I just had to!

It's Sunday, I'm down with a cold and superjobless. Plus it's a cold, blogless day...but then May of May's Vent-Out suddenly put up a post!

All in the spirit of Xiaxue's transformation from geeky schoolgirl to femme fatale.

When Xiaxue zhnged this

to this

and asked for reader entries, I sent in my amateur go...

somehow a bit desi, right?

Comparing the two:

Oklah very amateur compared to XX but still hope she picks mine anyway :)

And now I couldn't resist zhnging May's picture from this:

pretty already o

to this:

Macam Lindsay Lohan...esp with the hair!

Compare, compare:

Small chin                 No need la, a bit can already :P

Big eyes                    CHECK^100! And removed glasses too *Muakssss to the healing tool*

Small nose                A bit smaller only..plus a bit of "shadow" at the sides hehe!

Healthy glow / blush   CHECK!

Faux lashes              CHECK^10!

Whiten teeth and white of eyes    CHECK!

Reduce mouth size    Nooooo I'm a huge fan of Angelina!

And I left a comment-link since I couldnt find an email address to send the finished pic to :P

May, lemme know if you want the pic taken down okie?

So all we really need to be lawa is to drop 10 pounds, add on loads of eyeliner and fake lashes and coloured contacts. 

*runs to kedai to buy all of the above* :P~

Sex change and mini monkey

About a month ago (super-lagging post), I went from this:

Very vanilla School Photo

To this:

Sex change jadi Michael Jackson

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KIDDING!!!

Actually I snipped away 3/4 of my hair and came out of the saloon looking like this:

5 mins away from Essentuals

And then I went to cuci my hair and came out like this:

Curly Wurly *sigh*

Oh well, I prefer the wavy mop anyway :-)
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MJ's monkey was found posing in Seri Qlap Mall...

Hey Babeh..

And blowing kisses to his adoring fans...

Muah babeh! Muah! Muah!!

Itu saja.

Holiday Home Work Part 1

Ten days of holiday and I'm only going

a) to sleep

b) online

c) to camwhore

Camwhorin'

Meh. So, I figured I would lug up the 7 litres of pink paint that's been sitting in the trunk of my car since last year - and paint my room PINK and WHITE! Not supercute stripes macam Xiaxue's Princess room lah, a blue and purple striped living room is more than enough stripes for me.

But first, decluttering! I have a crazy number of handbags, clothes, accessories, etc. And in Brunei, it's not easy (but not impossible) to find "poor" people, let alone any who'd want another pink handbag :P So I turned to google and searched for "Brunei donate clothes to" and BINGO! Brunei's No. 1 Social News had blogged about the SMARTER Shop in Bandar, behind HSBC in the Wisma building, where they accept 2nd hand stuff and sell it at superlow prices and all proceeds go to SMARTER!

So I dug through my closet and unearthed a few tops.

I still have these?

And found my brown cowgirl top....and a fur trimmed one *sigh*

Ten kg ago...

Two relatively new blue tank tops I never really liked.

One shoulder top I rarely wore and the cute top from Miri *sniff*

My fave turtleneck (10kg ago) and a tank with a dragon guarding the wearer

One of those badminton shirts from memory lane

My first top from Stones..used to be above Supa Save

A black tee, a white tee and a black & white tank :D

Swimsuit I didnt wear much cos of the ruffles

Handmade for me by Wook Jung's mom...awww *sob*

Aiii...the clutterbusters did warn that it wouldnt be easy, but it's done with 30 tops, a swim suit and 2 pairs of shorts. *YAY* And then the bags. At first, superdifficult. Like this:

Buhbye to pink bag, Hello to pink bag with Hello Kitty :P

Then even worse:

Buhbye to furry bag...Hello to THREE furry bags.

Like this cannot leh. So 4 of them went in one shot. Too kanak2 to use anymore.

And with 3 more made a decent pile.

So I could finally start painting :D

Lungiman...no space for the .blogspot.com :P

Didnt take pics of the finished door, but here's a pic of Basit. Wide-eyed Basit

Which reminds me very very much of a picture of my little cousin Shifa:

Wide eyed Shifa

Same or not?