Organic Honey- Alce Nero

I've been addicted to Organic products, especially Honey. I found a good cheap  affordable Organic shop in Landmark Village, just a few steps away from Bugis MRT. The shop assistant (which I believe she is the shop owner as well) is very friendly and well- informative about the products too. Thumbs up to her, coz she is one kind like me, health / beauty- conscious, hehehe :-D

I am a kind of person who strongly believe that "I've got to do something in order to achieve something.", , "no pain no game", "opportunity cost", "there isn't such thing as ugly women, only lazy women who is lazy to take care of themselves" kind of thing. So women, if you want to be prettier and sexier, you have to kick out your laziness and start to invest time, effort, and money for a beauty, for a cripe's sake!

Okay, so for good digestion, she recommends me to this organic drink. Drink it warm early in the morning, empty stomach. Again, good for digestion.

Alce Nero Organic Honey

Lemon $ 0.50- $ 1 each 

A normal non- organic lemon will do. 

How to make organic lemon honey.

1. Pour warm water into a cup

2. Put 1 spoon of honey, mix it well

3. Put a slice of lemon, squeeze out the juice first.  (It's optional, if you like sour, you can put 2-3 slices. I have a very bad gastric, so I just put 1 slice) 

4. Stir well

5. Drink 

How easy is that! Its literally take about 5 mins to make and 1 minute to drink up finish! Its good for digestion. The detoxification (thanks to lemon!), and good skin (thanks to honey!). 

Not only that, honey is good for throat, too! 

-Deb- 

Sept- Update

I've been down with cough for about a week. Seems like the whole entire office infected with cough viruses and we are competing who can cough the loudest, longest, and bestest. Silly colleagues of mine. Well I can say, I am quite fortunate that I only having a night-cough. But still its pretty annoying, coz I always wake up in the middle of the night, coughing 2-3 times, took cough syrup and water, apply medicated oil, then continue to sleep again. Not a big matters coz I still can continue my sweet dream, but I feel like I'll be the most productive person if I could just sleep throughout the night.

So why do I took so long to recover from coughing? Okay, I can avoid chocolate, cold water, potato chips, popcorns, all the junk food thingy, which can worsen the cough...but I really extremely pretty cannot unable to tahan to avoid myself from eating chilies. Seriously. I have to had like a full spoon of chilies to eat my rice, to eat my noodle, to eat everything. So now I've repented myself and hope in the next few days I won't eat chilies anymore....at least until my cough subside. Please chilies...stay away from me right now....

Okay, enough for the coughing.




Another update is.....I HAVE PASSED MY JLPT N4!!!!

Meaning my goals for this year is achieved. Good job, Deb! :-D Here is the pics must show-off a bit nor, hahaha...well, vocab i got B, Grammar A, Reading B....quite disappointment but I still feel contented as long as I can pass this exam. Meaning, next year goal is N3 :-(

FYI, Last year 2011, My JLPT N5 results, are all A....

Okay, the last update is....in order to celebrate this....I've bought myself a MACBOOK PRO!!!

No lah joking. There is a story behind it. It was happened on July, when my faithful Toshiba laptop angry with me, decided to give up on me... She has been serving me for a good 5 years so it's kind of expected that she bored of me. LOL

When I was about to blog in one fine evening, it just didn't want to turn on, keep on restarting by itself and the screen was totally blank. Panic. Next day, I brought it to Sim Lim square and get it repaired for few hundred bucks (which now I regretted coz I strongly believed that the shop cheated me. But it's okay in my heart if this is the way they do their business, it won't last for long for sure. There will be a retribution which I may not be witnessing by myself, but I believe God will do his job. Seriously)  So after got it repaired. I happily brought back my Toshiba lappie and use it again. 

On August, it happened again. it didn't want to turn on. But this time round I won't bring it to the repaired shop and decided to buy new laptop. I had a few brands to consider such as Mac, Toshiba (again) , and HP. 

I believe it is by God's grace (not by coincidence) that my company is bringing Apple product and offering the staff purchase which only open for a week. Meaning all the Macbook, iPad, iPod, and etc will be offered to the staff at discounted price. In fact, I save few hundred bucks and for the first time I feel blessed working in this company. Yeah, after my three suffering years here.

So I ordered a Macbook Pro 13 inch, which specs: 2,9 GHz Dual Core Intel Core i7, 750 GB ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm, 2X4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM. Please refer to its website for any reference. But you know what, what a joke, this old Toshiba lappie decided to reconcile with me again. Itchy heart I tried to ON the lappie ( on the day after I made a staff purchase order) . And it worked perfectly fine. I just don't understand. It's kind of fate that in the end of the day, I had to purchase Macbook. I even told to Mel, should I cancel my purchase or buy it and resell it again? But end up, I will donate my old Toshiba to my sis in Jakarta and using Macbook from now, hehehe.....Na, if you're reading this, this old Toshiba for your x'mas present :-D 

Last week, I collected my Macbook Pro at Funan. This week been busy installing the screen protector, or whatever protector/ casing which can protect my lovely Macbook. I am still learning how to use Mac O/S right now. In fact, it took me an hour to write this post on my new Macbook :-D

So now in the day I'm using WIN 7 at my office. At night, I'm using MAC. Hope we can get along well.

Ps: I'm still considering to purchase Office 2011 for MAC or waiting WIN 8 launch in Oct? Confuse confuse.....

Okay, that's all. Thanks for reading.

-Deb-

Simpliclear Braces

Yeah! Finally I got courage to write this post.

Jeng Jeng Jeng....like most of you already know...I'm on freaking braces right now! *clap clap*

This post is going to be long so...you may skip this post if you aren't interested about my life.



1. WHY?

After my 25 good years, WHY NOW I WANNA PUT BRACES?
First, It's been my dream to have a straight teeth and neat and beautiful teeth (esp when smiling) but I always back off due to the price and time and pain. To be honest, my mum always wanted me to put on braces since I was secondary school. But back at that time, braces was like very ugly and not pleasant to the eye. Especially after watched Betty La Fea film which story about the braces+ nerd girl who stay single forever coz of her looks (and her metal mouth braces, too) so I changed my mind and have negative thots about braces. :-D


2. WHEN?

So like struck by lightning. It was happened 2 months ago when my gum was terribly sore and after a quick visit to dental clinic, the dentist told me that I am having an impacted wisdom tooth (again!?) so have to be extracted as soon as possible. Okay after the extraction, the dentist examined my tooth X-ray and found out there is something wrong with the gum under my molar teeth and suggesting me to meet an endodontist at once...Of course when you meet endodontist, what they can suggest you is to go for a root canal treatment and crowning. Cut story short, after discussing here and there, calculated the estimated cost 3 molars root canal treatment + crowning will cost me about $6K. Just 3 teeth hor = $ 6K. I screamed unbelievably like a banshee. So expensive!

Then I went to another dental clinic for second opinion, which is not endodontics/ prosthodontics, but just a normal dentist. Okay to give a little bit of background, Endodontist is a professional dentist for root canal treatment. Prosthodontist is a professional dentist for cosmetic dentistry such as crown, bridge, and dental implants. Orthodontist for braces one. Periodontist for gum-specialist one. Oh ya the one that extracted my second wisdom tooth is a Periodontist that is why she could clearly examine something wrong with gum under my molar teeth. Shit! no wonder I've spent $250 plus just to get my teeth extracted!
Okay back to the topic, this dentist is asking me if I have a plan for straightening my teeth in the near future and I said yes! Then he was suggesting me, rather than do root canal + crowning $6k for 3 molar teeth which is very risky (the tooth might break during root canal process and decay and stuff like that). I could use same amount of $ to just take away my stupid molar teeth and doing braces instead. Long story short, after he explained to me about braces pros and cons, etc...I've decided to put on braces... Thanks to my vanity, I chose this simpliclear braces coz it's white and pleasant to the eye. No more metal mouth hey! I'm a plastic simpliclear mouth. :-D


3. TYPE OF BRACES
So lazy to explain...basically got 4 types la.

1. Full metal braces (traditional metal wired braces)
please refer to Betty La Fea picture for more details.

2. Clear braces
The brackets are clear transparent or white to the teeth colour. But wired are from metal.

3. Lingual braces
Metal braces, but very torturing one. coz bonded to the back of the teeth. Can't imagine it though.

4. Simpliclear.
White bracket with transparent wired. Please look out for me I'll show you mine, hehehe....



4. PROCESS.
I can't explain so much about the process. Basically after I agreed to use Simpliclear, signed contract, and did an impression model of my teeth. I've got to wait for few weeks to get the treatment plan and materials from Biomers ( the Simpliclear's company) and start to do bonding. I mean, bonding the bracket to each of my teeth and put on wire on it. The bonding just took about an hour and what I did is just open my mouth, use their tools (not sure what't the name of it) to make my mouth keeps wide-open, and let the dentist do the bonding job.
Right after treatment, was like hell I tell ya. My mouth was sore and tender and sensitive and as far as I remember, I took almost 1 hour just to chew my dinner. No appetite for the next few days. As a result, I lost few pounds. Yeah! Bless in disguise, though.


5. PRESENT.
Now I am still adapting to my braces and one of the most inconvenient is to clean after food. I need at least 5 times brushing my teeth throughout the day. And flossing every single night without fail. Always have to remember to bring toothbrush kit in my bag.
I rather starve myself to die rather than having snack then have to brush my teeth again. No more chocolate. No more soft drink. No more hot coffee ( unless I use straw to drink coffee, which is very odd) No more curry. No more potato chips/ peanuts.
Ohh sometime I still slipped few words when I'm talking. Then quickly correct myself to avoid embarrassment. Must SMILE BIG in order not to have my lips stuck on the bracket. And put MORE ENERGY to TALK properly otherwise few words may have just slipped / pronounced wrongly.
Other than that, I am happy with my braces.



6. FUTURE
Next appointment is to have my molar teeth extracted. Anyway these are bad problematic molar teeth which supposed to be root canal+crown but I decided just to get extracted in order to create space for my braces treatment. I really wanted to show how my braces looks like but dammit my teeth still crooked and ugly. Gimme more time till a bit straight and presentable. Meantime, I'll gather some courage to show y'all yeah.  Still 2 years to go. Sometime I feel stupid and I was like questioning to myself, Why am I doing this!? Waste my money and my time! But every time my negative thinking surfaces, I quickly swapped it with positive thinking which is like, yeah it's a temporary investment in order to have a perfect nice straight teeth. Orthodontics is great solution to straighten teeth as well as improve bites and prolong the life of the teeth, etc.  please be patience, Deb!
Wish me luck. And will update soon after my next visit.

-Deb-

Fancl Moisturizing

Hi Guys,

I've been participating in FANCL product trial for 2 weeks. 

FANCL is planning to bring their Japan product range to Singapore. So, one of their preparation is to gather some members (like me, so if you are FANCL members too, they might contact you soon) to try on their Japanese product and brings some feedback/review by filling up questionnaire. And guess what, the products are imported directly from FANCL Japan. And guess what again. it's FREE!  :-D

Because I'm having a combination-oily skin, with some *occasional acne*. After quick consultation (I think it's more to explaining the product rather than examine my skin), they gave me these:

A set of FANCL Moisturizing I product

I is for normal young skin (more oily skin type)

II is for dry old skin ( less oily skin type)

So now you know that even if you have oily skin, you still have to moisturize it, yeah!

A set of FANCL Moisturizing I product

This is how the bottles look like.

So, I will show you how to use it. Before that, for more details on products, click here

Step 0: Good clean skin is a MUST before doing my skin care routine. So I clean my make up ( night time) with FANCL cleansing oil ( the review, click here) and double cleansing it with facial wash. The best is actually using FANCL facial powder wash la but for the sake of saving $, I'm using my own facial wash. 

Step 1: FANCL Moisturizing Lotion.

Lotion is actually a toner- like for Japanese. 

How to use it, just pour a little bit to your palm, spread it all over the face, and pat gently which promotes best absorbency into your skin. So if you are using Japanese lotion (aka toner), don't need to use cotton balls/pads. 

Step 2: FANCL Moisturizing Essence

It is basically just a moisturizer so apply it as per normal moisturizer. 

Squeeze like a 10 cents coin, spread all over face, and pat gently again. 

The key is light hand to apply this moisturizer. Your face is delicate skin that is why need gentle treatment. 

Step 3: FANCL Moisturizing Emulsion

Not too sure what is this, I never trying emulsion before. 

Maybe it's something like serum but I like this more than the essence one. 

Why? 

First, because it's gel. 

Second, it's less sticky and quick absorbent to the skin

Step 4:  FANCL Moisturizing Mask.

Consist of 6 sachets. use only twice a week.

How to use it, As per normal sheet-mask. Put on mask for 15 mins. Take it off. Massage gently the remaining serum on your face. Done! 

It's optional but for me, I like to chill it in the fridge before using it, in order to give a cooling/ soothing and relaxing sensation.  A little bit sticky so I recommend using it in the night just before you sleep. 

So now, I've been religiously using these products. I can see big improvement on my skin. My skin is moisturized and hydrated pretty well, less oily, and having a *toing toing* feeling just right after apply the product. And notice some minor breakout, but not to worry I got tea-tree oil to treat this focusly. 

 Just another 1 week to go before I submit the questionnaire to the nearby FANCL outlet and get $50 voucher soon, hehe...

Now I dilemma, if the product finish then how I get it in Singapore? Should I buy it online? or should I just wait until it launch here? 

hmmm...maybe I should try the whitening-range one?

*Mumbling*

-Deb-

Clinique- Loose Powder

Honestly speaking, I really in love with MAC loose powder. The post can be read, here.

Love MAC very much. It's sheer- coverage but yet still can cover my impurities perfectly.

It's perfectly fine, till I realized after few weeks wearing that and I went to facial (on monthly basis), While doing my facial, I had a little talk with my beautician  Here is the conversation.

G: "Deb, do you just changed skin care routine?". 

D: (I was like, " what!? how come she knew? ) "Yes I changed my loose powder to MAC recently and love the coverage, etc etc...."

G: (She replied, short and steady) " Yes, I agree with you, Deb. Coverage is good but one thing that we (girls) want to achieve is a good skin so that we don't need so much coverage. " She continued, " I saw major changes on your skin, especially at temple and forehead area whereby now there's a lot of bumpy oil trap there....you have to *tahan* during extraction time, okie" 

D: .....

Yeah, She was politely saying that maybe MAC is just not for me. And SHE IS RIGHT. When I think back, even when I double/ tripled cleansing end of the day, I still have these oily trap on my face and tell you what, It's freaking painful when extraction!  So with this little simply talk, I decided to swap back to my boring  routine Clinique. 

I'm on shade 03 transparency. 

-Deb-