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I received this delivery advice from Singpost yesterday:


The stupid postman didn't ring my doorbell while I was asleep at 2pm.

So I had to go down to the post office today to collect my parcel and there was a short queue:



When I reached the counter, I received an "extremely urgent" parcel:



And when I opened it:




It came with a card:


I love this pink ipod so so much! It is so much better than the new ipod nano video which is so tiny (I am sure I will crush it if I sit on it) and it doesn't come in pink (how is that possible???). Most importantly, it came with your recorded dedication and my favourite songs inside!

Thank you so much my dearest boyfriend. Happy one year anniversary in advance! :) -muah- I love you so so much!

menotti

with Tania!

lobster linguine//chicken fettuccine//us! :)

Ferrari 430 Scuderia

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Unveiled on 11 September 2007 by Michael Schumacher in Frankfurt, the 2008 Ferrari 430 Scuderia can go from 0 to 100km/h in 3.6 seconds (same timing as the Mercedes SLR McLaren 722). Check out the official website here.

Price tag: £172500 (more than half a million SGD)

But it is only available in Spring 2008!

Sexy!

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bimbo tv week

PAMELA TAN!!! You got me addicted to GOSSIP GIRL!!! hahahaha.. oh my gosh, Gossip Girl is such a wonderful show! Thanks babe for introducing me to it! :) Ooh I love Gossip Girl!!!

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Another new show which I have been watching this week is The Starter Wife. It's about a woman who has been indulging in the world of the rich and famous but when her husband decided to divorce her for this hot and sexy singer/model Shoshanna, she has to start her life all over again as a 'starter wife', because she no longer gets a seat at a posh restaurant, her club membership was terminated with immediate effect and no one wants to be her friend anymore.

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There is one thing I love about both Gossip Girl and The Starter Wife. ALL the ladies in the show carry the same bag. The bag every woman covets. The bag I hope I will be able to own in my lifetime. The Hermes Birkin. I finally own the Birkin in Croc Porosus Lisse on Facebook (which took me forever to accumulate ‘money’ to ‘buy’ it as it costs $108000. Grr… I sent one to all my friends who bought me bags on fab bag too! :)) I wonder how long will it take for me to get my real Birkin/Kelly. The currently waiting list is 4 years long since the Paris factory takes one week to produce 5 Birkins, unless you are Victoria Beckham (who owns more than a hundred Birkins in different colours) and the cheapest is S$10,000. I WANT, no matter what it takes. Hahahaha.. By the way, there is a really cool blog all about purses/bags. Check it out here!

© Hermes Birkin black croc

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And of course, there is always America's Next Top Model. ANTM truly reflects what happens when you put a bunch of girls together in the same house. Quarrels, catfights... Of course, some friendships will be forged, but I feel that those girls who make friends do that just to find support. For example, the two plus size models this season, Whitney and Diana had to support each other because the other girls didn't really bother about them as they are no competition at all. I mean, sure, we make friends because sometimes, all we want is to have people around us to share stuff with us, but in ANTM, there is really no reason why the girls have to make friends there. They are there to win America’s Next Top Model and not America’s Next Top Best Friend (I quote Jade Cole of cycle 6). When you see the girls cry at the end of the show where the weakest girl of the lot goes home, they are not crying because they will miss her, but because while they are glad that they are still in, they don't know if they would be the next one to go home. I guess I am being too cynical about the girls. That said, I LOVE ANTM. For Tyra Banks, Jay Manuel, Nigel Barker (*swoons*) and Twiggy! Hahaha.. My most favourite this season is Renee, and then Jaslene. But I won't say who won! Heehee..

Renee's close up:
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This is my most favourite picture of Jaslene. She posed as a school freak:

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It has been a wonderful bumming week. I handed in Carriage on Monday, which leaves me with 3 modules. I only went to school on Wednesday for IP. Every other day was spent watching bimbotic shows (the best thing on earth - no need to use my brain after one month of research papers) and going to the gym. Gosh I am getting fat(ter)!!! I haven't been to the gym for more than a month and when I finally went on Wednesday, I couldn't even complete one hour of combat. I gave up in 30min. Die la... I need to get my strength and stamina back!!! I want to be able to go for combat and pump classes in a row again!!!

Wendy. needs. to. start. going. to. the. gym. every. day. again.

jimmy choos

Jimmy Choo's Fall 07 Collection:

black pillow silk satin dorsay//black solar crepe de chine dorsay//black newton silk satin slingback//black dallas grainy leather.

black simi crepe de chine//black margo watersnake with cut out//black serene pearlised patent//black noon patent kitty.

black panama suede with patent trim//black ratio suede and watersnake//black sandie suede with patent trim//black secret leather with water snake trim.

bronze snow pearlised patent//grey saffron suede//red diva watersnake and leather slingback//ruby nice silk satin slingback.

black cole zip//navy calais glossy leather//red dee watersnake and leather//red porto grainy leather peeptoe.

navy rocky suede and watersnake with patent trim//silver nice silk satin slingback//copper rita leather//gold sweden metallic python.

navy wendy flat suede (ooh my name!!:))//gold walt flat coarse suede//red watson flat patent leather//off white nevada flat patent.

All photos courtesy of jimmychoo.com

Did you know that Jimmy Choo was born in Penang, Malaysia in 1961? He is of Hakka descent and his father was a shoemaker. Jimmy Choo worked as a cleaner in a shoe factory to fund his own education. He then went to London and in 2001, he sold 50% of his stake in the company for £10 million. He is well-known for his simple yet classy designs which will last a lifetime. Yet another rags to riches success stories. This is him!

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daughters of Eve

From the moment Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden, she was doomed to be subject to her man (Genesis 3:16). Women have been the weaker, fairer (or whatever else you want to call it) sex since time immemorial. However, with the quest for equal rights for women, have women put themselves in a fix by setting such high standards for themselves?

In ancient times, men practised polygamy. The woman must follow her man wherever he went. This is the so-called 嫁鸡随鸡，嫁狗随狗 (marry chicken, follow chicken; marry dog, follow dog). A woman's quality of life depended on the kind of man she married. Watch any Chinese period drama (e.g. the current Channel U 10pm HK drama) and you will see. Men can change when they become powerful and women are always sadly drawn into men's affairs. There are the poor women who slogged with their husbands when they were poor. When the men became rich and powerful kings, the women had to share him with younger and prettier concubines and the man would ignore his wife (who has since gone south). That's probably why women are inherently vain. They needed to prettify themselves to capture the attention of influential men so that they can have a good life. And maybe that's why these women became scheming and evil. They lost the trust they had in their men, and they will fight for their son to be the next king, because they know that the only man who would listen to them was their son (of course until he finds himself a wife whom he will listen to.. until he finds pretty concubines and stop listening to his wife.. and the cycle starts again.). So anyway, these women will end up becoming the Empress Dowagers. They may hold the reins of the throne, but deep down inside, they haven't achieved anything in their lives. Because they lost the love of the man who used to love them so deeply, and they are embroiled in the affairs of the government. Women don't want to lead such lonely lives. So although they may be decked in pearls, gold and silk, I feel so sad for them. And those concubines, what sad lives. Pretty and all, but the emperor has thousands of them to choose from and the concubines had to fight for his attention. No wonder women became so bitchy.

With the women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century, the trend towards monogamy and the enactment of the Women’s Charter, women around the world advocated the equal rights of women. The women have succeeded to a large extent. Women can now, inter alia, vote, have equal wages for the same amount of work done as men and choose who they wished to marry. However, I feel that women, especially those who advocate true equality between men and women, have gone too far and have put themselves in a huge fix. What women want is to have equal chances as men to do things, e.g. work in a certain field, have a choice as to what they want in life, but women do not want to be exactly the same as men. Yet many women attempt to assert their power in a way that is utterly irrational. “If men can do this, so can I.” So women say they can be CEOs and presidents. Fair enough. And women say they can climb mountains and lift weights that men can. Also fair enough. But what irks me is when such ambitious women also say, “well, I can be a CEO/president because if men can do it, so can I, but I still think men should open doors and pull out chairs for me.” There really shouldn’t be such double standards. Such women do not deserve my respect. If you think you are too weak to open doors, pull out chairs and need a man’s shoulder to cry on, then you really shouldn’t be equal to men.

Nevertheless, I am sure women of today are very happy with their status. In fact, I feel that women have more privileges than men these days! We have women-only gyms, events (Women’s Day Out, Shape Run – only for women so that we won’t feel uncomfortable sweating it out with smelly men around), huge shopping malls and make up counters largely for the female market. Although men are no longer ostracized as gays if they do shop, you have to admit, the retail industry IS geared towards women. And I am not complaining.

There are differing views as to the rights that women have today. I personally feel that women must have equal opportunity to make their own choices as men and receive equal treatment/judgment in the quality of their work. The point is not that women can become CEOs/presidents and climb mountains because they are as strong as men, but because they should have an equal chance to pursue their goals in life. However, there is really no need to push ourselves to such a high standard of wanting to be treated as equal to men. I still want my man to open doors and pull out my chair for me. Simply because I am a woman. :)

rebecca romijn for bebe

Alex Meade of Ugly Betty is the new face of Bebe!

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And the latest from bebe:















All pictures courtesy of bebe

I cannot wait to go to the bebe factory outlet in US!!!

"in-consideration"

I hate rude people. Especially when they are complete strangers who happily open the door and come into your meeting room while you are studying alone to return chairs (which they took for some tutorial), without uttering a word of apology for interrupting you. And when you say, "I don't think the chairs belong here because there are too many chairs in this room," they reply nonchalantly, "Does it matter?", shrug their shoulders and walk out of the room as if their grandfathers own Block B. To think they will be in the same profession as me in the future. So what if you are smart when you have absolutely no manners or basic courtesy to say, "Excuse me, do you mind if we return the chairs we took?"?

I have never seen you two in school before, but if I ever do, don't ever imagine I will smile at you.

daddy's bday

Brunch @ One-Ninety:

Daddy!!!

Mummy!!!

The HUGE dessert table

sweet strawberry souffle - they bake it on the spot for you!

my dessert plate - I love the creme brulee in the spoon!

free flow of martini. After mixing, the bartender makes you hold the martini glass at the bottom of an ice slide and pours the martini down the slide into your glass so you get instantly chilled martini! My Cosmo! :)

Happy Birthday Daddy! Thank you so much for being the ever so willing, faithful family chauffeur and for driving me anywhere I wish to go without complaints (although sometimes I suspect he secretly enjoys it because then he knows what I am up to :p)

I love you Daddy! :)

drowning

in a sea of shipping law books.. Someone save me.. :(

15 October: Hand in Admiralty Law 80% research paper
22 October: Hand in Carriage of Goods by Sea 80% research paper

And I have only just started on Admiralty!!! AHHHH!!!

Oh well, but I cannot complain so much because I have friends who have 4 papers due by the end of the month. jiayou taryn!!! :)

diamonds in my damn chain

I like you but I really like your damn chain! ;)

Check out da bling and da hot shorty with da bling eyelids from the 8th second yo! :p

man u players

FINALLY!!! We have broken the curse of the 1-0!!! And my dearest Ronaldo is now the top scorer in Man U!!! Yippee!!!! 4-0!!! Muahahahahahaha......

Since I am on the topic of Man U, I shall attempt to come up with my own list of my top 5 Man Utd players this season. I am not going to be as good as my dear friend, the melman (also a huge Man Utd fan), who has a blog all about football, but here you go! Guys please forgive me.. Hahaha..

Wendy's Top 5 Man Utd players this season:

#5: Chris Eagles
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I have only seen him play twice this season. But so far, he has been playing quite decently. Nothing much to complain about. Hopefully, Fergie gives him more chances to play so I can see him more. Ok I confess. He is here because he is cute and you really do wanna look out for him. I like his hair!

#4: Tomasz Kuszczak
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Man Utd's number 2 goalkeeper. He has been playing the past few games because Van der Sar is injured. He is quite good and has not conceded a single goal this season. However, he is not as confident as Van der Sar. Whenever he saves a ball, he will usually hit it away before trying to catch it, instead of being confident enough to catch the ball while it is flying towards him. Nevertheless, he is worth watching and with more training, I am sure he will gain more confidence.

#3: Nemanja Vidic
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Superbly defensive. Siao on. Everytime he sees the ball, he will fight to reach the ball and kick it as far away from his goal as he can. Often sustains head injuries while winning headers (especially since he really pushes everyone else away so he can get to the ball). He is the kind of defender every coach wants. Will die to get the ball kind.

#2: Ryan Giggs
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One of the longest serving Man U players still around. He is a mature leader, steady in his passes, and always looks out for his players whenever those little kids try to argue with the referee. Not to mention, dark and brooding, especially with the sexy sideburns and beard. Did you know that when he was 14, Fergie made a personal visit to his house to invite him to join Man Utd? Excellent foresight, Sir Alex Ferguson.

#1: Cristiano Ronaldo
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Needless to say, he is watchable every single season. Brilliant footwork, as if dancing around the defenders; agile as he is young (my age!!!); highly entertaining as he often dives in the penalty box; cute when he cries to the referee like a little boy; sexy as he is Portuguese. *swoons* Must watch, and must drool. :)


But of course, in every team, no matter how much you love the team, there are bound to be players you absolutely abhor. Those you think they don't deserve the money they earn, or those who are so fugly they should wear a mask wherever they go:

My hated Man U player #2: Wayne Rooney
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Enough said. Fugly grumpy bulldog with rashes. The only reason why I would want him to stay is for him to pass balls to Ronaldo so Ronaldo can score. Ok fine, he scored one goal today. So?? Big fat hairy deal.. Just like him.. Ugh..


My hated Man U player #1: Carlos Tevez
YUCKKKKKKKKK..... PUKEEEEEEE... I cannot stand him.. He cannot score!! Ok he scored today, but still... He doesn't know how to complement Ronaldo and Rooney. So what if he is supposedly a wonderful player from Argentina? He is totally not lethal at all.. Yuck, we should sell him. And he looks like a horse. See??

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Oh my gosh I just found a damn wrong photo of Rooney and Ronaldo. Disgusting.
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Nevertheless, I STILL LOVE MANCHESTER UNITED!!! Go Man Utd!! Win the title this season!! Hahaha.. :D

Anyway, thank you cx for the advice! It is quite troublesome, but if it can get me out of trouble, I don't mind! Thanks babe! :)

little. miss. grumpy.

Random rantings. Pardon me.

4 years in law sch, and I have never once complained about any group I have had for group presentations. But this time, IT SUCKS!!! I thought I would leave law sch happy, knowing that law students are such wonderful people to work with, but NO... Some idiots have to spoil it. RARRRRRRR!!! Thankfully they are not local students, or I will curse and swear at the fact that I may have to work with them in the future. These are people I know I will never ever have to work with, and I better not see them again. And I am not afraid to say it here because they really didn't do any substantial work at all. Utterly irresponsible creatures.

%$*?#*!@#$%^&*

I remember when I used to watch local dramas (note: used to), there would be this romantic scene:

At the airport
Guy: My love, I am leaving now and I will be gone for a very long time. Will you be able to take care of yourself?
Girl: (sniffles) I cannot live without you!!!
Guy: I know.. Me too.. (takes out an envelope from his jacket) Since you cannot live without me? Would you like to come along with me? (presents the girl an air ticket with her name)
Girl: Oh my love!! Yes I would love to!!! But.. what about my passport??
Guy: Don't worry! (reaches into his jacket again) I have my ways.. (wink)
They hug and happily leave together, the girl not carrying any luggage.

Now that was plausible, because he had her passport and he was still in Singapore and could pay for the ticket with his credit card. But there would also be another romantic scene often played in local dramas:

In the girl's house. The girl receives a letter from her beau overseas. Reads the letter
"My love, I miss you so much. How I wish you are right here with me. Would you like to come and be with me right now? I have attached your ticket in this letter." (girl sees the ticket, with her name imprinted on it) "Please come soon. I love you."
Girl is touched by the gesture of love and is overwhelmed with emotions (cries) Runs to the airport to catch her flight, and the lovers finally meet in the foreign land and hug each other to death.

THIS IS UTTER BULLSHIT. The guy couldn't have bought a ticket for her while he is overseas. He needs a local credit card. Even if he did possess a local credit card, the girl needs to present that credit card, together with the air ticket at the airport counter when she checks in. The guy certainly didn't attach his credit card in the letter. So much for drama serials which make it so easy for guys overseas to buy airtickets for their wives/girlfriends/mistresses to fly over to meet them. GRR... Don't airlines promote love??? Boyfriends want to show their love by buying air tickets for their girlfriends. Why is buying airtickets for other people so bloody troublesome? I sincerely apologise to the boyfriend for all the trouble I have created.

By the way, I have always been worried if posting pictures from other websites on my blog (e.g. dresses, movie posters) would lead to copyright suits by the biggie companies because I am not the author/creator of the work. And sadly, from now on, I will no longer do so because it is a copyright infringement. After yesterday's IP class, I found that out in Virtual Map v Suncool [2005] 2 SLR 157. I cannot do so because I:
(i) did not add any element of material alteration or embellishment which suffices to make the totality of the work an original work (per Lord Oliver of Aylmerton in Interlego AG v Tyco Industries Inc [1989] AC 217 at 262);
(ii) did not expended the kind of skill, labour and effort required in the work to be rewarded with that copyright (which the biggie fashion/movie companies have);
(iii) have taken an individual part of a collection of separate works of the companies, albeit not substantial, which constitutes a qualitative taking of the work;
(iv) have knowledge that the work doesn't belong to me.

In that case, the defendant reproduced a map image from the plaintiff's website (streetdirectory.com) on his own website, suncool.com.sg, to inform customers of the location of his office, without the consent of the plaintiffs. Justice Lai Kew Chai, based on the above reasons (and other reasons irrelevant to my posting of pictures on my blog) held that the defendant had infringed on the plaintiff's copyright.

:( But aren't I helping them promote their stuff? I cannot post pictures of pretty dresses on my blog anymore. *sob* Looks like I can only post photos that I have taken in my camera from now on. Hmm.. I wonder if I should delete all the previous pictures too..

And bloody Lawnet 2 SUCKS!!! As well as the new IVLE! I hate all these new things. Giving us more problems than the old trusty systems. When something is not broken, why try to fix it??? Stupid idiots. Those people who came up with Lawnet 2 and the new IVLE (I suppose you are tech-savvy people so you can find my blog), you better do something about it. We don't pay for Lawnet just to realise that there are too many people logged on or that it takes forever to find our cases. Stupid Lawnet.

Ok I am done with my ranting for today. Thanks for listening (reading)! :)

movies

Ok I caught 2 movies in the last week. Both movies have been running for at least a month. Yes I am slow...

1. Ratatouille
I love the rat!!! Oh he is so cute and he has a pink nose!!!


I think the lessons learnt can apply to life in general as well:
Anyone can cook! ~ Anyone can do anything they want as long as they set their hearts/minds to it.
Rats and humans will never be friends ~ But they did! Nothing is for certain, and your greatest enemy may be your best friend one day. And don't think too highly of yourself, or don't look down on others who appear to be lower than you in status.

I give Ratatouille 4/5♥ !!!

2. 881

It was pretty cheesy and lame, with all the magical powers and whatever-nots popping out, but I LOVE the Hokkien songs!!! So much that I bought the soundtrack right after I got out of the cinema. Pity the soundtrack didn't have most of the Hokkien songs they sang, only the theme song and a few others. I feel like watching it again. Not for the plot but for the songs and dances. And Qi Yuwu is so hot!!! Even though he was deaf and mute in the show. hahahaha.. I can see why it is a box office hit. I can imagine entire Hokkien families taking ah ma and ah gong along to the cinema and they will definitely be able to understand the entire show since 80% of it was in Hokkien, which really brought out the local flavour and the whole getai scene. The costumes are pretty elaborate too!

I give 881 3/5 ♥!!

Did you know we rented some of the 881 costumes for our very own Kopishop Rock? Incidentally, a local musical theatre critic gave positive reviews about Kopishop Rock in his blog!! :)