Eye lashes like you've never seen them before!

For as long as the modern world can remember, eye lashes are associated with sex appeal and flirtation and a girl playing the dumb blonde part would have to agree coz they get away with murder just looking clueless ;) Women batt their eyelashes unconsciously and sometimes deliberately.


For me, I was waiting for my gorgeous fake ones to dry so patience was all I needed in the make up chair but my goooooodness, you should see these incredible creations I caught at the launch of shu uemura's Tokyo lash bar launch.


Each shu uemura make up artist painstakingly came up with their own look.


They ranged from the wacky to the weird, the bold and the beautiful...I found them all unbelievably artistic.



This had to be one of the furriest eyes I've ever seen on a catwalk! Love it! What an effect!


I can imagine how long they were in the make up chair to create this. What a lot of work...


She reminds me of space, bubbles and ice. Pretty cool effect *shiver*


If eyes are said to be windows to the soul, then long eye-lashes certainly draw attention to the eyes, opening them up or creating an air of mystery...


Interestingly, the "look" below focuses more on the bottom rather than top half of the lashes.


Somehow, this reddish orange colour combination suits her. She looks thoughtful, don't u think?

These rainbow colours make her seem far away n dreamy. More fantasy-like...


All the shu uemura accredited artists walked out with the model they had created which was a nice touch coz they're the real face behind the face so at least I got to see the artists :)



It's hard to choose which look was my favourite because they were all so different but I def found the huge feather eyed one extremely eye catching. You?


Must have been hard to have a sandwich backstage. Look at her hands lol ;)



I found Amber's eye colours very earthy. Green goes surprisingly well with gold. She looked like a cat that night, meow! ;)



Ok, her eyes are closed and I should really do the same. Gonna crash now. So tired, but hang on a moment, better take my fake lashes off first hehe, nightey zzz

Shout Awards Backstage

It was such a crazy day yesterday. I think I had my lunch standing up. I just had so much to do before hitting the road to Bukit Jalil stadium. Really didn't help that I was caught in a huge jam on the way to the Shout Awards.


I saw all these red shirts and then I understood WHY the roads were so jammed. Manchester United was playing next door!! But I got there, thank goodness. I rushed into the stadium with my slippers and once I was backstage, I could finally sit back, relax, phew...

Diana Rosdi and I were presenting the "Hottest Guy" award. I had never met her before but we put our heads together trying to work out who was gonna say what. We had a lot of fun with it.I remember Deborah Henry saying she had never met Tony Fernandes before that night but they also had to instantly work together too lol :)  

The nominees for the "hottest guy" award were:

Faizal Tahir
Jonathan Putra (JP)
Tony Eusoff
Zahiril Adzim
Zizan Nin


I couldn't tell you if this was the facial expression of Faizal Tahir when he won coz he wasn't there. Since I walked off stage with HIS trophy, I felt like the Hottest Guy! Haha :)

Serena C was looking very Marilyn Monroe-like with her new hair-do. 

In the corridor, I saw these three cultural "dolls" shuffling past me and just had to take a photo with them. Arigato!

It was good seeing Apek again. Last time we ran into each other was when I was in the night shift at MIX fm. He'd pop in to chat with me in between recordings.

Strange bunch eh? But I blended right in till they asked me to sing with them for fun. I said It was a terrible idea. The building had glass in it :) 

Joe Flizzow made a really grand entrance on stage with this car so I thought I'd show you how the car made it up there. 

On the way to the buffet line at the after party, I ran into Fazura who was nominated for the Hot Chick award.

Sean Kingston dedicated "Beautiful Girl" to all the ladies in the audience. When the hosts said he is all the way from Florida in the US of A, I thought of my sister right away. She lives there! 


Last time I saw Vanida Imran was when we were shooting Health Buzz in a beautiful Moroccan spa...Ah, just thinking about it makes me want to have a massage :) 


It was the BEST thing to get out of my heels after such a long day and see my pugs. What a radically different atmosphere. No more cameras, loud music or flashing lights. Though I had a grrrreat time at the Shout Awards, it was seriously so good to be back home. It was hard to tear myself off the sofa but it was time to shower and crash out zzz

You gotta see this if u haven't already!

I was looking out the window for this shot and my mind started to wonder aimlessly. You know how that may happen while driving or washing the dishes? Well, this was what made me almost crack up in mid shot. Just the other day, someone asked me what my all time favourite ad was so I was replaying it in my mind. It is soooo good. I've watched so many ads. I mean it, seriously. I used to live with a director, study advertising and was going out with a copywriter for years and my home was filled with stock tapes of the worlds best ads BUT this one, for various reasons just does it for me.

Click here to view my favourite ad!

I'm not going to say who it's for or what the product is coz it'll spoil the impact of it. Just watch it. The best ads usually are the simplest and it's not easy to get a story line across in such a short amount of time and I think this was done brilliantly not to mention the facial expressions and "acting" was spot on! Let me know what you think of it kay? I'd love to hear what reaction it got out of you! :)

QUARANTINE OVER!!!!!!!

I am finally at peace that I don't have the H1N1 virus. Yaaaaaay! The suspense was killing me so while I waited for the results, I came up with some pros and cons.

THE PROS:

- I would have developed an immunity to it. When you get it, you don't really get it again!

- 7 days mc without needing to feel guilty about it.

- No work meetings with no need to apologize coz no one wants to meet you either! ;)

- Quality time with my pugs with no worries coz it doesn't affect them, only humans


THE CONS:

- Being sick of course

- The H1N1 flu itself could affect your whole family (but mine are four legged so I was ok! :)

- Sadly, people may treat you like a disease even if you have recovered from it

Oh, you know what's interesting? The health authorities told me just TODAY that they will no longer be conducting swab tests unless a person is seriously affected or needs to be hospitalized. I heard it costs RM1 500 per swab test! Serious cash and Canada and other countries are also saying it is better to put that money into treatment rather than these tests.


I am sooo lucky coz this means I'm probably one of the last people in Malaysia to have gone through the swab test or I would've spent the week in my house never knowing if I had H1N1 or not.

However, I was given Tamiflu medication anyway which is super effective. Those affected by H1N1 can kill it off really quickly if they take Tamiflu. The worrying thing about the virus is that the UN and WHO have confirmed a growing number of people who already have it all over the world and the supply of Tamiflu is quite short so if you think you have it, don't worry about the flu so much as getting your hands on that treatment!

Since I've read so much about H1N1 these last few days, here's a few points I wanted to share to minimize the spread of this:

• Wash your hands with soap and water often, ESPECIALLY after you cough or sneeze. A hand sanitizer can also be used (I have one in my handbag)
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth as germs can spread easily that way
• If you have flu symptoms, seek medical advice
  
• If you think you have it, stay home for 7 days to keep others from getting infected
• Drink A LOT of water
• Take Vitamin C

Hope this helps and if any of you see me walking about in society, no need to wave from a distance ok? The only thing I've been told is contagious is my laugh ;) Failing of which, I could always infect you with a smile :)

H1N1?? Me??

As you all know, I just returned from Bangkok. The person I was sitting next to on the plane has just been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus. OMG!!! What's the chances? Damn. And I've JUST had my appendix removed 2 weeks ago!! Do I have some neon sign that says "Take me to a hospital right now?" WTF?? So here's what I've done. I voluntarily went to a hospital middle of the night last night to get myself tested for it but they couldn't test me because I was normal and displayed no symptoms of H1N1 BUT because I've been exposed to it, I've been QUARANTINED for a week at home *troubled sigh* and can only do the throat swob test if I display some symptoms. If I show no signs in 7 days, I'm perfectly ok.



In case you're wondering, these are the symptoms of H1N1 according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

- Fever
- Cough
- Runny or stuffy nose
- Sore throat
- Body aches, joint pains
- Headache, chills and fatigue
- in some cases, diarrhea and vomiting

The virus typically spreads from coughs and sneezes or by touching contaminated surfaces and then touching the nose or mouth so keep washing your hands regularly coz the virus can stay on an object or surface for 2 to 8 hours!



Well, here's the worrying thing! I woke up this morning and checked my temperature. It was 37 on the dot (that shd be ok) BUT I suddenly had an itchy throat and the smallest sniffle which I could've got because the air con was too cold (so I'm telling myself) but I had enough symptoms to warrant a throat swab so I went back to the hospital for it. Gee, this guy was dressed for outer space or what? ;)


H1N1 has a higher risk of severity (according to World Health Organisation and CDC) for children, the elderly (over 65 yrs old) and for those who are pregnant, have asthma or diabetes.


Well, I'm not a kid or over 65. I don't have diabetes or asthma so there's no reason why I would die from this. I've just taken the swob test and I won't know till tomorrow if I have the H1N1 virus. I REALLY hope I don't have it but it's seriously not looking good. Will let you know once I know, nightey *sigh*

Bangkok Trip!

I was just thinking as I walked past a devastated looking girl at Bangkok airport that she must've had to say goodbye to someone. Airports are full of emotions depending on who's coming, who's going. For the business traveller, he might be pumped with adrenalin for an important meeting or weary and looking forward to going home to his family. For lovers, they count down the days in excitement till they get to pick up their partners from the airport but also dread sending them off.


Airports are always so multi-cultural.Who likes to say goodbye? At that moment of parting, I always feel it the most.



My sister lives in Florida and it's the hardest thing for us at the airport not knowing when we'll see each other again. She waves till she becomes a dot in the distance. So depressing! *sob*
I thought it was interesting seeing a monk traveler. He probably had no emotion at all, just "zen" haha ;)



I love the tuk tuks. It makes me feel up close to all the street sounds and everything around me. It places you in the middle of all that hustle and bustle, the mad Bangkok traffic and they drive like the wind. It's almost scary coz everything rattles like a tin can hehe ;)


There's something funky about them. I mean, who's got multi-coloured disco looking brake lights anyway? ;)



Everyone works so hard. The street peddlars are always doing something! Whether it's cutting fruit, selling things, cooking by the roadside...makes me appreciate what I have.



It's so crazy how you could be window shopping in Thailand and all of a sudden a couple of elephants are standing right next to you on the footpath lol ;)


I almost jumped out of my skin coz his hair brushed past my wrist without me realising what IT was standing behind me. OMG, it was such a HUGE elephant and his trunk was like a hoover. Everything I fed him seemed to be dumped like a bottomless pit into its cute mouth!

On my last night in Thailand, I'm glad I got to catch up with my girlfriend Sonia. I hadn't seen her in ages but we picked up where we left off. We always do :)

Dinner with Sonia, her Corsican husband, a Polish model and a photographer from Paris made dinner conversation really challenging coz there was Thai, English and French going round the table. Where is the translator when you need one?? lol ;)

Krap khun ka Bangkok! I will miss you but I will surely be back for another round of retail therapy, crazy tuk tuks and fabulous Thai green curry! *heavenly sigh*

Street sign

I'm in a tuk tuk now and I just took a snap shot of this sign when I realised I read it wrong coz "brunch" is spelt the way it would be said haha. I LOVE Bangkok. Haven't been here in ages but used to model here. It cracks me up how cute the accent is. Every "R" becomes an "L".

I was in an aromatherapy shop and and the girl said, "Solly, we no hap lows. Finid oredi" and what she meant was "Sorry, we don't have rose. Finished already!" lol ;)

I'm on my way to meet my old friend Sonia. Till later, then (this is the neat thing abt having a blackberry. I can blog on the go. So convenient!)

Just landed!

At Bangkok airport customs now. Goodness, can you see in the background how the passport officer is wearing a mask? Even the guy sitting next to me on the plane had one on. Made communicating a lil awkward. I was like "sorry what did you say? Oh, you need a pen" lol ;) I felt like the plague. Well, fingers crossed, I don't catch anything and return home safely.

I'm excited to be here tho. What strikes me about travelling is everything just looks and feels so different. The sanskrit looking Thai words on the EXIT sign and someone bowing to me as I left the plane with a sweet "sawadee ka" made me realise in 2 short hours that I was no longer in boleh land ;)
Oh goodness, I was so busy typing I didn't realise I was standing in front of the baggage belt from Dubai! Hehe Well, better run along. I'll write more once I've settled in kay? Laters! :)
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