My beauty diary mask review

Hey guys! I just want to let you know that I am still alive and well, breathing and finally blogging on this planet. As more and more natural disasters struck Earth every other months, can't help it may be the time to start thinking about migrating to some other planet. Will I live to see that day? Anyway I have been spinning on this merry-go-round of serious life, work and responsibilities recently.

In the spare moments of my break I get to upkeep myself a bit. Here the weather is really dry. As the saying goes there is NO ugly women just Lazy women. How to use a mask? Simple:

1: Wash ur face 2. Pad ur face dry 3. Read instructions on the back of the pack 4. Open it and put it on. Most of the masks I ever used all are for 20-30mins on ur face.

This "My Beauty diary mask" range is really good. Nice smell, non-sticky texture, really works and moisturize your skin perfectly. What I like about it the most is the shape and proper holes at the eyes and mouth without the flaps. It is really seldom to find mask that fits my face perfectly since masks are made to accommodate different face shapes. I found mine. It has always been a wonder to me : I know it saves time to moisture your eyelids and lips at the same time when you moisture your face with a mask. But......You can't talk, you can't see for the next 30mins. In that case simple means one need to lie down perfectly still on the bed for 30mins. That will be really uncomfortable for me.

I have tried out the strawberry yogurt, honey, black pearl, red wine and Q10. I think hyaluronic acid moisturizing mask is the best. You can feel your face skin tightening.

Review: 5/5 Kisses. I will continue to buy this brand. I love it.

This is the mask set I got. Alice in Wonderland series. I really love the cute packaging. The company really know how to do marketing to catch the hearts of us girls.

Egg Nog

Hello people I know I have been off the blog for a long long time. I can't even remember when was the last entry. OH MY GOD. This is my FIrst blog post in year 2011!!! Oh wow. And it was more than 4 months since I last blogged! I never abandon my blog it is just somehow I never get to blog all this while.

Guess being in the clinical years with heavy workload, it is inevitable. From now on I will just do some random updates when I am free.

I have ONE MAjor thing to report: Right now I can really understand how lucky it is that you get to sleep at night. Soundly, comfortably in your own bed for up to 8 hours at one go. That's like a blessing. Oh...how sweet is sleep, how soothing is sleep, how wonderful is sleep... Let us just fall asleep~ ( sing along with any nice tune u have in mind.)

Why the Egg Nog ? I have no idea. While laughing insanely over " Big Bang Theory" and also realizing how much I have in common with those 4 comical geeks of which means I am a great geek/nerd too. While that <- goes on I came across this: Egg Nog. ( of which Penny was drinking with rum at that time.) Seriously I think I never had it before, though I heard numerous times about it on the TV. So what exactly is it?

Here from the Wiki:

Eggnog, or egg nog, is a sweetened dairy-based beverage traditionally made with milk and/or cream, sugar, beaten eggs (which gives it a frothy texture), and liquor. Brandy, rum, moonshine, or whisky is sometimes added; and the finished serving would be garnished with a sprinkling of ground cinnamon or nutmeg.

Eggnog is a popular drink throughout the United States and Canada, and is usually associated with winter celebrations such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year. Commercial non-alcoholic eggnog is typically available only in the winter season. Eggnog may be added as a flavouring to food or drinks such as coffee andtea. Eggnog as a custard can also be used as an ice cream base.

Mmm.........sounds not my taste at all and kind of weird. The milk is fine but adding raw egg in it and adding rum? That totally taste funny. Ok. To give it justice I need to taste it first. May need to wait for some time before I get my chance to try it. Or I can get the recipe and make my own

concoction. Yes. That's me. Always getting fascinated by tiny funny things around and looking them up online.

Currently am focusing very hard on how to maintain my own health at the most optimal level as to avoid disastrous consequences of possible infections around hospital. I caught a bad viral/bacterial infection a few weeks ago and end up having on and off high grade fever, flu, cough...the list can go on and on. It was nightmare! No wonder I can't go online and blog! Ha. GTG. Need to wake up at 7am. --> Night mare. FYI: I am a night walker. :P So you can imagine how sunlight affects me. " Ah.....hot! Glaring. Pain. I am feeling dizzy." = this sums what I think of waking up too early in the morning.

Night people~ Don't miss me. p/s: I am the narcissistic Aquarius and this is all the reason I can brat about how narcissist I am.

An Apple A Day Keeps the Doctor Away~

An apple a day, the lyrics

An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Apple in the morning - Doctor's warning
Roast apple at night - starves the doctor outright
Eat an apple going to bed - knock the doctor on the head
Three each day, seven days a week - ruddy apple, ruddy cheek

Origins and history of the nursery rhyme
The simple history or meaning behind the words of this nursery rhyme lyrics is one to encourage the child or even baby of the family to eat healthily!


Well, all is kind of funny and cute. I am sure lots of my friends will be laughing their head off at this nursery rhymes. Are you going to teach your kids this?

Maybe is the coffee I have had just now. I am now feeling palpitations and totally restlessness or simply I am just excited over the approaching end of 2010 and the coming of 2011. I wonder what everyone will be doing? Watching TV? Getting ready for the New Year Eve count down? Or planning for a great feast? Me? I am not too sure yet. Will update later.

Too bad for me after the holiday will be the EOP. End of Posting exam and the sudden pop up of Mock exam too. Sigh....Can't really fully enjoy the Hols.

While I am reading through the books I came across lots of words wisdom by our forefathers that I would like to share.

" The heart....moves of itself and does not stop unless for ever." Leonardo da Vinci.

How beautiful this phrase is. This is the beauty of our human body. Works so well that none of the robots human ever built can compete with it( so far...the day we built one maybe is the day we discover who created us? Or how we really come by.)


This is kind of funny and serious at the same time:

The Urine.

"The ghosts of dead patients that haunt us do not ask why we did not empty the latest fad of clinical investigation; they ask why did you not test my urine? " Sir Robert Hutchison

This valuable fluid must not be discarded in any patient in whom a renal, diabetic, gastroinestinal or other major system disease is suspected.

I like the old fashioned way of writing: this valuable fluid. Make it sounds like liquid gold. Some of our lecturers will scold us by making funny jokes so will make us remember. Hopefully longer than the gold-fish. Somehow I felt we are so scattered minded recently.

" For one mistake made for not knowing, ten mistakes are made for not looking." How true this is. Sometimes we do come across too-busy doctors missing out things that we, the med students who are dedicated to search through every single patient's case file and dig into their lives and drag out their history of illness. Sometimes it is a bit too much when med students all can feel it is an enlarged spleen but doctor diagnosed as enlarged liver. -_-..... speechless.

I clerked one old lady recently and felt deeply for her. I have a hard time trying to imagine to be in her shoes or being her family member. How does it feel to be like that? How should we look at life if I am her? She is 72 years old only much much younger than my granny but she looks like 82.

Her chief complaint is: Chest pain for 2 days. The pain is pressing in nature, comes on intermittently at rest and last around 2 mins each time. It is associated with minimal SOB, general discomfort, lethargy, nausea and vomiting.

Aside from her complaint, she told me a curious information: She has been taking Tramadol HCI ( a form of pain killer, opioid analgesic) for 6 tablets 6 months everyday. She was enjoying the great side effect of drowsiness which gave her a good night sleep. This old lady was smiling happily while telling me how sweet were her nights. I am really speechless.... Maybe she is having the adverse effect of this drug but ...she is totally full of others drugs due to her conditions. We seriously need to check her up properly. The inevitable DM + HT is forever there and she is complicated with ESRF ( end stage renal failure). She got AV fistula to do her dialysis for 13 years already. Now her right forearm AVF failed and they set up a temporary Internal jugular catheter for her while her upper arm AVF got ready to be use. Not only that on further questioning I found out her surgical history is quite impressive. Removed kidney stone, removed benign breast lump, abdomen operated, bilateral below knee amputation. That just leave her lungs and head haven't cut open yet. Can u imagine a small fragile old lady lying in bed with multiple surgical scars on her body, cannula, tubes stuck into her arms and no legs.

A sad picture? Maybe. But I am glad she is very lively and cheerful. Not only her kids constantly come visit her, she still can order the 24 hour maid to massage her back all day long. I am glad she has all hers needs attended to. Or else I will be very sad and uneasy. There is only so much we can do for the patients. Frankly speaking she is the most 'operated 'patient I ever clerked so far. Who knows I may see even more impressive conditions in the future.

This is life.

People are born, people die every single day. Life is full of sadness and happiness. In a hospital you can see so many so many things about the human nature. I have seen a few deaths and some bodies being wheeled out. I do feel chills running down my spines at times. However now when I watched some Movies about haunted hospitals....it made me laugh. Somehow the hospital is so crowded and we were all so busy. We never got a spare time to think about ghosts. Not only that that place is like a market place. How to feel eerie and scared in the middle of the night. A & E is lie fish market, people come in and out, even got little kids running around.

There are so many sickness and death recently, especially near the New year. Friends' relatives got strokes and some die in sudden accidents. My own grandma had cancer and undergo chemos and all........I don't know. Life is not like the sweet and spicy and everything nice.

I think I need more time to observe, learn and digest to come up with some idea about life.

Belated Merry Xmas and Happy New year!!

Hey guys~ Its been a while. I have been away on holiday~ I hope all of you are having/have had a wonderful holiday season too. Some how I am bubbling of excitement! I am so happy towards the coming new 2011 Bunny year!!

Had a great night of Xmas dinner with friends here. A tropical garden restaurant at the top of a hill. ( took the pic from web as my cam broke down on me that very night. sad.) The ambiance was great, however it appear much darker and u can't see properly. It is worth the long drive and expensive bills to dine there.

This is our table for 4. ^^~ Everyone around me I can see pretty sexy girls in nice Xmas get-ups. Too bad...my cam broke. They looked like Xmas angels.



Ordered this: Mixed loaf: totally delicious. I simply love it and now craving badly for that crispy fragrant loaf with mouth watering tomato sauce....Yum. I am hungry but my purse said No and tell me to pull my belt tighter.

We had a seafood platter similar to this. The prawns were great however I don't quite like the lobster and mussels dish. They diced the meat up and cook with some creamy sauce which totally destroy the natural sweetness of seafood.

I can't wait for New Year Eve~ But my weighing machine is telling I am on the breaking point soon. But thank God I never have to worry about anorexia like some girls do. My appetite is always too good. I can eat so much much more than I ever should. I always envy those people who can't eat and have bad absorption. Whatever I eat just grows on me and diarrhea is never known to me no matter what I eat. Isn't that great? I have healthy loops of intestines.

Lots of people around me are nearly at the line of anorexia and maybe already in it. I seriously hope those girls eat a bit more and look in the mirror and look really properly at their faces. They look years older than their age. Poor thing, fashion, trend, mis concept of beauty bewitched them. And nobody can save them. If I said anything they will think I am jealous of their skinny bones.

Just a kind of word of warning:

Before: this is almost at a fine line btw skinny and too thin.


Poor Isabelle Caro dead at the age of 28 this year. She held a campaign against anorexia by showing her own suffering.


Sometimes it is so hard to open the mouth and tell the truth to people. Girls slim down the healthy way. Don't diet away your fat and healthy.

For the over weights: Eat a bit less oily food and drink less beer.

Mouth Ulcer: Bonjela VS Watermelon Frost

Treatment for Mouth Ulcer.

Watermelon frost VS Bonjela

I have always been prescribed with Bonjela for my mouth all my life. Or using this horrible remedy from my mum: Rubbing salt on to your ulcer. Yes...........That's a torture and totally useless and pointless. And I observed that by doing that even made the wound become bigger.

Experience with Bonjela:

Quite painful upon application on to the ulcer. The area even become swollen and ....just pain like hell is all I can say. Can't even talk or eat properly.However that's the most common medication on the market. The mouth ulcer will resolve eventually after some time anyway. But it may take up to 2 weeks to resolve.

Wen told me there is this Watermelon frost, a type of Chinese medicine powder from Guilin China. I have always heard about it before. Friends have always been talking about the wonders of this powder.

Tried Watermelon frost today:

Amazing! Only after 2 application my ulcer is almost painless. This happened within the same day. I am very very much impressed by the medication powder. The position of my mouth is right under my tongue beside my wisdom tooth. A horrible position to be in. Hard to talk, hard to swallow, can barely chew. Everyday I got to endure a great amount of pain everyday for almost 1 week. I know I ate too much chocolate everyday. -_-.... This watermelon frost is a real Saviour. I never see any ulcer medication that is so effective before. No wonder so many people keep promoting it. I seriously donno what this powder contains, base on the history of medicine from China. It is either the most amazing Chinese Herb that can cure anything western med can't or just lots of steroids in it. Ha. But I seldom use this type of med and only use a tiny amount it so I guess it should be alright.

Watermelon Frost WIN!

I seriously wonder what it contains.

Photo Diary: Hello There~ Heat Wave

Hello there~ It is drizzling tonight and I am happy. For today I discovered a really nice place that I would love to stay. Hope something good will come out of that. Will continue on my mission of finding the perfect place to rent.

I long for the sun. I long for somewhere that's bright. I long for the warmth that won't kill me in the middle of the day when the Sun is high up in the sky. The heat wave today gave Wen a black out and me a knock out. Out of water. Felt so dehydrated that H2O is no help at all. Almost drop off and fainted right there in the hospital today. It was like being enveloped by this thick warm water that you felt like you can't breathe. The feeling was aggravated even more by that thick white coat. Half way through BST I secretly took off my white coat for a while.It was quite unbearable. Struggling to stand still, to focus and trying to listen to discussion. Hell. I am thankful nothing happened.

Having fun with my doggy :P It is almost a wonder when ever I look at pic. I am set to a auto-smile when ever taking a pic. Ha. Despite of my mood I will always smile sweetly into the camera. Maybe I should take some pic of myself looking sad.

Dr Wan gave us a recap on some funny/lame medical jokes.

Don't be like the Doctor who gave the patient a whole body scan for generalized pain all over the body. The patient told the Doctor:" I felt pain everywhere all over my body." Then patient use his index finger to point and press on his head, his chest, his arm, his abdomen, his thigh and continued:" Doctor, see. Pain here, pain here, pain everywhere. Everywhere on my body I press is painful." In the end, Doctor got a CT scan result of fracture bone of THAT index finger.

So... Laugh. For laughter is :

Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh. Humor lightens your burdens, inspires hopes, connects you to others, and keeps you grounded, focused, and alert.

With so much power to heal and renew, the ability to laugh easily and frequently is a tremendous resource for surmounting problems, enhancing your relationships, and supporting both physical and emotional health.

Laughter is good for your health

• Laughter relaxes the whole body. A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after.
• Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.
• Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.
• Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.

“Your sense of humor is one of the most powerful tools you have to make certain that your daily mood and emotional state support good health.”

~ Paul E. McGhee, Ph.D.

Doggy you are just like big furry doggy back at home. I miss Yuki. I miss your brown fur fur. I miss hugging you.

Smile for the camera ! Say :" Woof!"

Time sleep. Good night and sweet dreams, darlings.

The Night when Police came knocking on our door

That night something out of the usual happened. It was unexpected and unwelcome.

It happened in the early mornings of Saturday roughly around 3.30AM. My house mate was sound asleep in her La-La land. Me... I was having insomnia and enjoying my hot cup of Milo and trying to fall asleep over that heavy book of Jane Austen.

Out of a sudden I heard someone speaking really loudly outside our door. First thought came to mind: somebody must be having a fight over the phone outside. Ignore it. While half way through Pride and Prejudice....my train of thoughts was interrupted by a serious of knocking on our door followed by male voices saying:" Police, Police. Open door."

A chill ran down my spine as I sat there on my bed hugging my comforter. What is going on out there? Why is the Police knocking on our main door? Something serious happened? But I didn't hear any siren or police car outside. Weird.......... Other than the male voices directly outside my door speaking in BM I didn't hear any voices of my neighbours. The situation is getting a bit suspicious. As I was half asleep my brain is kind of fuzzy. It felt a bit like in a dream. I walk out and woke my housemate up from the next room. She came out of the room looking even more fuzzy and sleepy-head looking then me.

With a sense of uncertainty we opened the wooden door. At least have a look and see what's going on. This is what came into our view:

Here I am just relating what happened that night. And to protect the identity of the people involved their faces are all censored. Don't worry. They are real policemen and nothing serious happened.

First thing they said when we opened the door:" Open door, we want to come in and search for a Malay lady. " In a quite....you know not so nice way. Guess u all can imagine how does it feel like. Just us girls in the house and a bunch of male policemen crowding our door and demanding to come in and search for some unknown woman. -_-........... We were both kind of dumbfounded by that command. We just keep on repeating there is no such person and them keep trying to demand entry. We got quite suspicious after we no answer from them about who are they, which police station they come from and why they are here. So I got back into my room to get a camera.

Among them there was one guy not wearing the green police vest. Ok. I got bad eye sight. With sleepiness hanging over my head and cloudy eyes, I can barely see clearly their faces. But he was the one keep on urging the policeman and us to open door and let him in to search for some malay girl. I guess he must be the one who lodge a report and in search of his lover. He seems to be highly emotional and very agitated.

We got quite uneasy as:

1. They did not show any ID or tell us who they are. ONLY AFTER I took a pic of them. One policeman near the gate quickly flashed his ID to us.

2. No siren sounded. No police car.

3. No search warrant.

4. No explanations on the reason they appear in front of our door.

5. Did not answer our questions about their identity and where they come from.

Just the above 5 reasons already quite freaky. We wasted no time and closed the door and call the police station. By that time I guess that group of real/fake policemen got tired and went off. The man who answered our phone sounded quite unhelpful. He told us since those men are gone there should be no problem. If you dare to come out then come and lodge a police report. We were like OMG. The whole night I am getting more and more speechless about people's attitude towards such things. Police or no Police. My housemate got quite pissed off by such a remark. She is like:" Asking girls to go to police station at 4AM in the morning after what happened?" Who knows don't go out nothing happened, later go out got ambushed by them. Since now they know there are no males in our house.

We got quite scared as to why those people came to our house. We stayed in a Chinese area where all our neighbors are Chinese. There is only one Malay family at the other corner of the whole block. So.... did they came to the wrong door? There is totally NO reason for them to come at all. We are just simple university students renting a place here. -_-......

We spent a restless night thinking up of all sorts of reasons as to why such thing happened. We were really scared that maybe they are impostors who tried to scare us into opening the door and let them in and do some horrible things. Rob or even rape us. WHo knows. Everyday there are so many such news in the papers.

Anyway, after barely sleep a wink we went to the police station to lodge a report. We encountered a not so satisfactory result there. The inspector in-charge is not very keen in finding out what's wrong. He just have a look at the pic we showed him and said these are our police officers and supporting policemen. He kept on giving us a lot of excuses like these policemen are young and very new. Do forgive them for not doing things in the systematic way. And he keep rubbing in : " you know lah.........Policeman when raiding a place a bit rude and brutal one lah." We were like eh.............is our place a night club or to be suspected of some illegal activity? -_-...........Felt quite degraded by such remark. I am just noting down what I observed throughout the whole interview. My friend was the one talking to the investigator. Not only he defend the policemen who were involved in the incident without listening to the details and he also didn't write down accurate informations on what happened. My friend need to ask him to correct some details of the police report that he was typing as a record. We told him 5 men wore police uniform with the green vest. We even got photos to prove! And he got the nerve to type on the computer : 5 unknown men!!! The whole report sounds like some unknown males came to our door and demand entry. Anyway, luckily he did correct some informations but he was still very reluctant to write down informations that may appear to be bad for the police image. I do realize what we are dealing with right now. At first we thought was some fake police, now it appears to be real policemen who were new at this and didn't do things according to the protocol.

We felt a bit easier now since it is confirmed to be real policemen. Don't have to worry about some unknown people coming to do us harm. But on the other hand it also means we are exposing the police not doing things properly. With a promise on further investigation and updates we went home. We totally lost the mood for any Christmas celebration at the church.

Around 8pm or so we got a call from the investigator requesting us to return to identify people involved in the case. Friend and I just look at each other and sigh... took the car key and drive out. This time the outcome was much better. We were informed that some mentally unstable man lodge a false police report to search for some unknown female. So.....yeah..........that's it. Unlucky us got to be drag into such a situation. To be awaken from a good night sleep, wasted whole day in the police station, under the fear and stress of unknown danger.-_-... That man was caught and situation was managed. Finally we thought ok. Great. We can go home and rest and forget about the whole thing. Who could have guessed what happened next???

We waited like an hour and half before we got our turn to see the busy inspector. So by the time we finished it was roughly around 9.30pm -10pm. Didn't wear my watch that day. I walked across the car park to return the visitor pass and out of no where and from the dark. A man approached me and Talked to me a very very rude way. Nobody ever talked so fiercely to me before! I was very shocked and just keep walking and got on to our car. That young man in a polo-T and jeans was shouting away and look as if wanna punch me. " Why u lodge a false report on me? Why U try to bring trouble to me?" " You think only you educated? I am also a degree holder!" " Think only u can sue? You will See! I will see you in court! " And much more....It was a blur as this person tried to stop our car and prevent us from leaving the police station. In the middle of all this shouting and threatening, I shouted "HELP!" towards the police guard house. I am screaming inside: ...why can't u all faster come stop this man coming near me??? Why are u all policeman in uniform sitting there looking dumb and as if watching a show??

OK...Guess what. This rude young man who is trying to threaten me is a real policeman. I am being harassed by a policeman in a police station. -_-...................

Both of us was quite shaken by this. It was a while before I regain my thoughts and ask my friend to drive back and tell that guy. Fine! Let's go see ur boss and see what he has to say. Inside we almost broke down in tears as such sudden attack from unknown person. I can not tell you exactly how we felt. Just pure FEAR.

It was cold and dark and we don't really know and understand what's going on. We don't know what to do. There is nobody to help us, Nobody to rely on. Those policeman just sort of bully us in a way as we are girls and no parental guidance over us.

Then it was followed by some ugly details and that guy very reluctantly apologized to us. He was making a lot of noises while in front of the inspector and keep trying to put a lot of blame on me and my friend for framing him. -_- speechless.... We don't even recognize him.

The inspector gave him a proper lecture on how he should behaved and how his action and behaviour is giving the police a bad image and all. Deep down we in our hearts our fear of the policeman grows. As that young hot blooded policeman was staring at us revengefully. I can roughly guessed what happened. He must have been lectured or told off by his superiors over the mistakes they made the night before. He felt really pissed off and tried to put the blame on us as he can't swallow the bitter pill. No matter what this is not how things are done. I already toned down a lot of the drama and leave out some not so nice things about them. I don't want anything bad to happen to the rude policeman. Still it is not right for him to behave in such a way too.

In the end, I am thankful everything solved and turn out nicely. Thank you to the authorities and elders' guidance and protection. Hope we will continue to enjoy a peaceful life living in this small town. Hope we don't have to worry being tailed by people, being marked down as they know where we live and our car plate number and our daily routines. We could be such easy targets. Moving house is not much use too. This town is too small. Too easy to track down.

So hope by sharing this incident, everyone can be more aware and keep our community safe. If that night some of our neighbour come out and have a look we may not be in such great fear. Btw after this incident we do realize how people react to this type of situation too. Kind of funny that it turn out to be the best way to see who are true friends. How some people can play with u but not suffer with u.

Thank u for your support and concern my dear friends. I will always keep that in mind and how grateful I felt for what ever you all have said. It keeps my heart feeling warm warm.