Friday, November 11, 2011

New blogskin!!

Hello hello!!

The last time my blogskin was changed was on May 26, 2009!!

Normally I don't care for special dates but my blogskin was ready about 1 day ago and since today is 11.11.11 I thought it'd be awesome to launch it at 11.11pm too.

So many ones is very auspicious right? Hopefully I can remain number 1 forever LOL.

Anyway so yes, the new blogskin! How do you like it?

I wanted something more floral and jappy rather than the princessy pink look that was my old blogskin... It's getting a bit too juvenile for my age!

GOODBYE!!! I'd miss you!!

I guess the biggest change is the "latest video" part I added to the top!

There, Lionel from Ripplewerkz, the awesome human being that did my coding, embedded my playlist and did some coding wizardry to make the subscribe button look not as ugly as it normally looks. I'm sure most of you who can't be arsed about html won't know what I'm talking about so I'd skip this. So yes anyway you can view all my videos from there!

After all blogs are becoming more social so I need to keep with the times and tweet/tumblr/youtube etc.

The graphics I approached Nu (or Priscilla as I call her) from http://unnu.us to help me. I told her I wanted something Lis Liza inspired and she delivered! She is really good with all the girly graphics. :D

I got a bit of a chip on my shoulder because last time during the Nuffnang Awards people said I didn't deserve to win the Best Original Blog Design since I didn't design my blogskin myself.

This time round I'd like to stress that I actually did about half of the graphics myself too and had a lot of input in the coding ok!!

I mean look at this!

Haha that's how the header originally looked!! *unglam*

I thought about doing this ribbon look myself and stuck it on blu-tack then photoshopped it. I love how pretty it looks now! :D

The floral background I actually took from the Liz Lisa website and modified it so that it tiles.

As for the blog banner, special thanks to my BFF Shuyin, Momo and Qiu for making it happen!! And Moomoo Pets for the adorablllllllllle bunnies. :D

Shuyin and Momo accompanied me on the shoot and Qiu sourced the flowers and accompanied me to buy them!!

Clara from Moomoo is super nice and I actually made a trip down to see her bunnies before the shoot... One of her netherland dwarves had about 9 baby bunnies are they are all so stinking cute I almost died!!

And they are all kept in very good/clean conditions with a real garden to make burrows in!!

Since her home is a nice private house with a swing I thought I'd just have the shoot over there... That way the bunnies won't have to leave their home just for the shoot!

It was a rainy day. Thank god the rain stopped pretty fast.

Here's the swing!

And here's BFF transforming it with all the fake flowers than I bought. She really has a knack for this sort of thing and she is a perfectionist so I just let her get on with it. LOL

p/s: I'm not sharing where I bought the flowers.

Baby bunnies put in a tank for the duration of the shoot!!

Here's a chio picture of Shuyin. I also treated her to Mcdees after the shoot but basically this picture and Mcdees is all the rewards she got from waking up at 8am to be the photographer and stylist. LOL

Here I am with one of the bunnies!! :D

I took a lot of pictures with them but most of them looked like the bunnies were the center of attention so they didn't work for banner pics. :(

This is my favourite bunny of them all! White with grey ears... I wonder who he/she belongs to now!

The lop is Clara's personal pet Fluffy! He is so tame and is allowed to run all around the house!

Another pic I considered using for the banners. Btw just like the previous skin there are 5 banners rotating. You can refresh to see them all.

Awwww they are snoozing!

Dies from cute overload

Shuyin setting up another part of the garden...

She hung all the flowers up like a curtain!

Changed clothes + hair...

One of Clara's friend brought a chinchilla to the shoot!! :D It's so adorable but it keeps trying to jump away!

I mean look at this award-winning picture! LOL

Bunnies are better for shoots LOL. And none peed on me! (thank god)

"You looking at me?"

And that's it for the pictures from the shoot!

Me + Bff photographer extraordinaire

♥♥♥

Thank you Jasmine (grey, chinchilla owner), Clara (pink) and Yangchun (co-owner of Moomoo)

p/s: All the baby bunnies in the photos are sold by now but you can still contact them if you want to buy a little fluffy pet!

p/p/s: You can now tweet/facebook like blog entries too! :D Leave a comment to tell me what you think!

Monday, November 7, 2011

Chin fillers

Sorry for not blogging lately... This time round I have a totally legit reason which is that my arm has been freaking painful lately. I mentioned in the previous entry that I thought it's carpal tunnel because it started getting painful while I was using the mouse but apparently with carpal tunnel you don't get pain above the wrist and it's more numbness than pain, which I haven't experienced (numbness).

So this pain has been in my wrist, forearm, upper arm all the way up to the right side of my neck and it has been bugging me for like 2 weeks now.

I went to see a Chinese Medicine doctor and did acupuncture and a massage and all that happened is that the massage gave me a blue-black on my shoulder and the acupuncture made me bleed on the sheets (from the puncture point not my vagina I don't know why I'm specifying this).

Then I went to actually see an orthopaedic specialist which set me back $128 and he also doesn't know what's going on (he said it could be a pinched nerve on my neck) and said I would have to do a scan which costs $600+ to find out, which I declined to. I'm gonna see if it lasts for the next 2 weeks or something.

So now it still hurts and I presume it's just a very lasting muscle ache??! Are muscle aches supposed to last this long?! If I lose my arm I won't be able to photoshop anymore!!!!!!

Yeah so I've switched to being an awkward left handed mouse user and I didn't wanna use the computer too much especially not to photoshop so that the arm can heal...

But the newest Xiaxue's Guide to Life came out and I thought my chin looks super fantastic in it!

p/s: Clicknetwork is now back on Youtube!! Please subscribe to them!

And it's because I did chin fillers at Dr Georgia Lee's!!!

Fillers, in case you didn't know, are, erm... these... gels? Are they gels? Or some sort of liquidy thing that aesthetic doctors inject into your face. They are semi permanent and will go off after a while. How long depends on which filler you choose! They are used to fill wrinkles or fill up whatever part of you needs more volume (except hair LOL).

I've tried fillers on my lips, nose, laugh lines and this time round I thought I'd try them out on my chin!

Most people, when thinking about improving their appearance usually focus on eyes and nose but the chin is actually also super important!! It can change EVERYTHING!!

Anyway here are some before and after pics I took with the iphone. They are 100% not edited or photoshopped!

Awesome or what!

I never really thought of doing anything to my chin coz I thought my face was long enough as it is but it really made my face look sharper. :D

As usual, a disclaimer before you haters spill vitriol on me. Not encouraging anyone to do plastic surgery. If you are happy with your appearance, I am very happy for you that you choose to focus on the deep and raise above the superficial. But please don't give the rest of us crap for bothering about our looks - there are, afterall, whales to be saved. Focus the anger on whale killers. Or the rich. The new trend is to hate on the 1%.

I've also included two super cute gifs I found on tumblr to appease those who have been patiently waiting for me to blog.