[Skincare] Escape from tanning

Biotherm SPF 50 sunblock

Ha!! I got it at half price!!
Told you, Galleria is a good place to do shopping!

After the first trip, we realised we both needing a sunblock badly. I assure you can´t spot  us out of a a group of indians by now, my mate was so upset with his skin tone, I´m.. not really ok with it, but I think I could live with this tanned skin if my mate is going to be such tan FOREVER.
The fact is, he wouldn´t be like this forever, to be on the safe side, I got this and applied it EVERYDAY. He did apply it, but the thing is we got to remove it like removing make up after day long, as a guy he might do it when I´m around, but he wouldn´t do it after all, as he did´t have a make-up remover! XDDDD

Picking Biotherm had 3 major reasons, where it was cheap (in Galleria), reliable (in accordance to my sisters, where I listen to their suggestion as I believe we all have the same skin type) and thirdly I used Biotherm before and it cause no skin problem to me.

The best part of this product was it didn´t have a bad smell like the one I used years ago nor fragrance, sometime frangrance added cosmetic wasn´t that good to  your health, so I´m aware of it (especially fragranced sanitary pad). Also, it fluidness make it easy to apply and bring no stickiness to our face. However, I don´t know if it works (slow down the tanning process), but I hope it can be a good barrier to UV light, slow down aging process and reduce white head (closed comedo).

[England] The last snippest of life

The place we stayed in Hatfield has a outlet mall (Galleria) within 10minutes walking distance.This outlet mall has a big range of branded stores, from Laura Ashley to FCUK, it was a pity that I´m not going to settle in UK, where I could get every single piece of furniture from Laura Ashley outlet store and transform my tedious room into a lovely vintage style.

Anyway, I´m moving back to my lovely home in Malaysia, I can´t ship Laura Ashley back. I leave it for my child(ren), they will do the job for me.

Back to the reality, I got something reasonable to save my crackled, sore feet. I have never done anything on top of this problem, until the day in Germany, it got so serious that my whole feet cracked even my toes cracked. Plus the non-stop walking tour, the soreness was inexplicable.

I was lucky enough to pack a sample size Mavala foot gel into my cosmetic purse, I rubbed it to my feet, it was amazingly refreshing, curing my soreness in a night, and it dry in second that I could walk on carpet without stickiness or adhering dirt to my feet.

However, my feet cracked so serious that using only foot gel has merely no effect on it.



As soon as we back from the first trip, we went to the outlet mall I bought a normal size of Mavala foot gel and a hard skin remover. After 2-3times hard skin removal, and various times of foot gel and lotion application, it resume a smooth texture. With a pair of smooth feet, I dare to use  it to smooth my partner hair, and play a silly phone game with him (shaking my foot right beside his ear and ask him to pick it up, XDDDDD)!!

I though I would post some culinary work on my last page of UK life, but shopping filled our time, and cooking was aimed to clear our stock, so it wasn´t that yummy.I´m looking forward to my new page of life in Malaysia now, so kicking the old UK life away with my foot gel post!

[England] The second last snippet of life in England

I'm not a sweet fans, seriously,

though I heart dessert especially cakes and chocolate,
but I hate dangerously sweet tasting food like those american dessert.
I'm totally aware of sweet food and drink,

 I don't drink sugary drink in my past 5years of life,
I got rid of chips and ice cream; I did exercise and I slept before 10pm.

Now I have to confess, whenever I be in UK,

I can't live without these terrible sweet,
I eat it when I feel cold, sad, happy, depress, excited, hungry or full, means
I must have it anytime in anywhere, and so leading a fatty life.

You don't feel guilty as Kinder Bueno was having a big sale 3 packs for 1pound,
250g Hagendaaz was selling at 1 pound, and Walkers (as in Lay's) was 2 for 2(pound),
you will regret if you don't put it into your basket.

I'll never ever make this kind of mistake,

so I was creating a bulk volume in my basket
as well as my and partner's tummy.

We're happy crunching and munching on them,
they make our UK life, and for god's sake we are helping UK's economy crisis.

No worry, no matter how heavy we are, our flight would never charge on your extra weight.
Once we get off the flight, the weather in Malaysia will naturally trim our fat,
there we are, the Malaysia us.

So why waste the big fat chance of stocking luxury dessert?!

[Denmark] Serene day in Copenhagen

A family picnic in Kongens Have (King's park), a park surrounding Rosenburg Castle.

Denmark is one of the city that I'd recommend my friend visit to,
it is a fairy tales city that exist in reality, which I truely really after.
And there, a great fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen was cultured;
plus the most wanted childhood toys -- LEGO has been produced!!

Of course I'm a big fans of both Fairytales and LEGO,
they make my childhood, and so I made a pilgrimage to Denmark.

We're both amazed at how pretty was the city, and how delicious was their Sausage!
My partner said he could replace his whole week meal with denmark sausage,
after a month of travelling he proved it, as well as I did.

I did not take too much of photo, due to the bad weather on the first day
and my lazziness on the second day.

Well, you see, no one would pick up camera instead of lolling on the green grass,
in such a good weather, so I chose the latter, and my partner did the job.

This was the last place we visit to in Copenhagen, and by the time we reached the castle,
it was closed, hence, my partner could only have some exterior look in his memory card.

It was depressing? NO!
The park surrounding the castle was brilliant though it lacked of maintenance,
but the atmosphere was great and I admire such a green place for public to relax and rest on.
If I weren't wearing a skirt and feeling too hot, I must had rolled on the grass!!

Chinese new year in Malaysia

I bought my flight ticket 6days ago, everything was happened out of sudden,
the infection/allergy thingy plus the tedious work I have in the past few weeks,
lurched my stomach and force myself to give myself a break.

Maybe I've had terrible homesick that I can't tell.

Anyway, those factors lead to a good ending, that I'm flying back to Malaysia.
Though I might lose my job, the most scarry consequances of losing  my job is
waving away my LV, GUCCI, BURBERRY and Egypt trip. At this stage,
I've overcome the money problem, mean I've accepted the fact of
being able to travel to 9 countries without buying any branded bag,
still it would be a marvallous trip whenever I have my beloved one
going with me.

Since the day I bought my ticket, I've been hallucinating all the events I would
participate, food I would eat and song I would listen in my mom's car.
I am over the moon with all the forthcoming events in Malaysia,
and the most exciting thing is my dearest one is going with me, HURRAY!!

I'd brought my D60 with me so I could capture something or food while
having holidays at home, I reaaly can't stop myself from wailing and laughing!

stop here, cause I really can't put my feeling into word anymore,
and I have to watch movie and wait for my flight.. heheheh!!

Snippest of life

Working in a restaurant mean you don't have day off on most of the BIG day.

I was working on both Christmas and new year eve. But I managed to
have an early celebration, travel down to London to catch a snapshot
of Christmas lighting in London city center and funfair in Leicester Square.
We spent half day sitting in a Chinese restaurant to read some gossip magazine
and savour the authentic chinese food, it was so relaxing and the life
that I used to have in Malaysia come into my mind.



I played tantrum whenever I was being aside when he having fun with his camera,
so making me obsess in photographing is brilliant. I did some shooting at that night,
cause he festooned photographing in such a charming way.


At that night my hand was being hold in his, we walked into the crowd,
we're promised to make our way back to London again for theatre.


The day after new year eve, we again stepped into London city,
we're expecting a great theatre and lunch. We move from booth to booth,
to check for the lowest price for Sister's act's ticket, and finally get it at
39.5pound, we weren't sure if it is the cheapest but anticipate that it couldn't be
any cheaper. We paid the tickets and we get into a cozy dinky japanese restaurant,
we had a great eel's rice, assorted of sushi and tempura ika.

Our tiny table was joined with another table, resulting a small movement room,
though the food was divine, I couldn't help myself to feel I was dining in a busy canteen.
After filled ourself with all those delicious meal, we bought some sushi from
Japan center then plonked ourself in the next door "IT'SU" restaurant,
again, it's a japanese light food restaurant, we found it warm, comfort
and suitable for a pre-pre-tea for Theatre. We had some tea and
special made juices there to go with our sushi and gossip magazine.
(I've never found that HK gossip magazine is such a mind-relaxing magazine)

You'd gasp in horror that our next activity after pre-theatre tea was dinner,
but indeed, we had our dinner after tea and before heading to theatre.

It was drizzling, when we stepped out of the restaurant. We strode toward
the theatre with a map on hand. After settled down on our seat, we started shooting
some picture in memory of our very first theatre experience in UK.
It was so amazing, we realised we'd far under-estimated their performances,
background and every single detail of them.

You can't imagine if you'd never been here. The automation of the backgrounds,
the specifically made backround for every scence and shopisticated prop that
utilised, they all amazed me. We're glad that we had the chance to experience
all this in our lifetime, and we're happy that we're together at every special moment.

We took a train home with smile hanging on face, the happiness deep inside us,
couldn't fade over in days.

Massive passion on working

Based on the title, I might have confused people that I've gotten
a great job in my own field, but it is a waitressing job in one of the
buffet restaurant own by BBI (British bornt Indian) brothers.

My mom was always hoping her daugther to study hard and more,
so they would be able to live independently in the future. "You have
to study hard to get a high pay yet flexible job office job otherwise,
you'll end up standing in the shopping mall for whole day long
resulting a bad looking calf (as a sale/promoter) and marry a bad
 husband." she advised me. I knew she tried to exagerate it to
aware me from being laziness, but it is just a way irony that
I'm now working as a waitress.

Working in an environment filled with world cuisine is much better
than in a old folk boutique (my ex-job), although it is tiring and busy,
still I enjoy more than in the boutique (which allow me to access to
facebook most of the time). I can slot into the time gap and make
a little conversation with people from different world, regarding
the life event (food, movie, living); where the conversation in a boutique
could only link to cloth, accesories, shoes..which was boring for me,
as I have a low vacabulary pool in my mind that can apply in my sentence.

Another thing that make myself passion in my work, is the tips given
after they finished, plus a soft goodbye kiss from some big eyes baby.
The remaining part of the life in restaurant coudn't be described
in much nicer way than terrible.

I've 2 main bosses and 2 minor boss and another manager,
I've to get myself prepared for the command given by any of them,
it would be lovely if they had discussed how should everything work
before gave command in unison, so I always do another duty
in the midst of serving customer/polish cutlery/handling food from kitchen.
Some time change the position of cutlery for more than 3 times a day
to fulfilled all my bosses. I'm working for 5 of them but receiving a pay.
It is fair enough as they're sharing one restaurant, though they
tripled or sometimes quadrupled my workload.
 
I believe in KARMA, all of the goodness that I get at the end will
enable me to travel around europe, getting a branded bag and
a new laptop (maybe?). I was getting so excited everytime listening
to the foreign folk song in the restaurant, which remind me the divine
time I had in Greece then realise I'm working for my dream,
again I melt into a big sweet smile to all the "God" in the restaurant,
who partially contritbute to my future trip.