A Mind of My Own

Since it’s my birthday soon, I decided to giveaway a few mineral makeup that I no longer use. Idea was inspired from CozyCot forums. I do have new mineral makeup that I never used for discounted prices too. Therefore, I have lined up the items: blush, foundation and eyeshadows from 18th May 2009 to 20th May 2009.

The items will appear on those dates here. New mineral makeup are from Everyday Minerals while the used mineral makeup are from Pure Luxe Cosmetics. Mostly are rarely used as I found them difficult to apply when the occasions don’t call for it. The blushers clashed with my skin tone and were given away free by my friend.

Recently, I noticed that when I start perspiring after applying the makeup, I feel itchy which isn’t the case when I don’t put on any. I wonder if anyone else feels the same too. This is one symptom that I dislike since it means the ingredients are reacting with my perspiration.

I hope that the mineral makeup will be put into good use by others who may find them good as sampling purposes before making the decision to buy in larger quantities.

As a customer, I feel utterly disappointed that in order to enjoy any promotion by Starhub, I have to be a new customer. Excuse me? Did I get that right? *reads through the fine print for the nth time* Oh, I must be a new customer. So, being loyal doesn’t cut it any more.

How come it sounds so much like the time when it comes to retrenchment? I did my best to stay with M1 for my mobile plans as long as I could in hopes that for being a loyal customer for more than 10 years, I would be rewarded. No. I didn’t. Not even a thank you voucher for being loyal either.

I don’t feel any retention value being a customer of any mobile provider not ISP provider. Why? It’s not that I don’t want to stay but when the promotions come, I do want to enjoy being a customer too. So, why do existing customers get miserly points that have been painstakingly accumulated over thousands of dollars while new customers enjoy the perks only for that one time?

Why is it that most of the promotions are now targeted at new customers instead of trying to retain the current ones too? Do new ones matter more than the current ones now? In addition, I have to upgrade the current speed of the Internet to get a new netbook. WHAT?!

I know how much the range of netbooks is. I’m not an idiot, you know. I also know the range of desktops prices too. Don’t take me for a fool. Customers don’t really like to change their mobile numbers unless they have been harassed even if they do want to block certain numbers and I wish someone is able to create something to block numbers just like how emails are trying to keep spam out.

I don’t feel appreciated for paying the company’s profits since I don’t get anything besides a Hubber’s bonus and points to redeem those bills of mine.

I’ve had my share of searching for my web host until I settled on Dreamhost. With Bluehost, Host Gator, and many other choices out there, I was in a maze. With so many features and services provided by the hosts, I was totally lost. How to find the best web hosting company?

First, I had to check out the software that I wanted to use, Wordpress, what else? Next, the requirements for using it; MySQL, PHP and FTP. In addition, I like my site to be up 99.99% of the time. There’s always a down time for the servers to be maintained. Customer support is also an important factor. Finally, I needed to estimate my budget and the amount I was willing to pay.

After looking at feedback from forums and blogs, I chose what I felt was the best web hosting company. This sort of research took me some time as I wanted to be sure that the money spent was worth.

Been watching 樱野三加一 (Ying Ye 3+1), starring Ming Dao and Chen Qiao En. They used to star in 王子变青蛙 (Prince Turns into Frog). Below is my favourite song that’s being played throughout the series. 16 episodes. I rather loved the fighting scenes although through halfway, they didn’t show them fighting the bad guys anymore.

我到底是谁
在你心中占有怎样的地位
你不说清楚
你让我们的爱坠在七里雾

爱 很讨厌
总是忽近忽远的让人追
追半天 你连抱歉
一句抱歉也不给

我向前走 低着头 眼泪不停向后流
一直走 不回头
希望你会找到我
但是始终不如愿
希望都落空
我仍相信 其实你懂我（其实你爱我）

我发誓千遍
我这一走你就无法挽回
虽然心会痛
总比受尽委屈还要更好过

我 等了等
脑海始终浮现你对我的好
好半天 你连Babe
一句安慰也不给

一前一后
你跟在我的背后沉默
Yeh……Yeh……Yeh……
前前 后后
希望你握住我的手
Yeh……Yeh……Yeh……
Wo……Wo……Wo……

我向前走 抬起头 擦掉眼泪向前走
一直走 不回头
相信你会找到我
梦里寻他千百遍
希望都实现
我不想走 无法心不动

我向前走 抬起头 擦掉眼泪向前走
一直走 不回头
相信你会找到我
梦里寻他千百遍
希望都实现
我仍相信 其实你懂我

This little girl is unable to eat food. She needs a special formula concocted by the doctors in order to survive. The bill is expensive too but the health insurance refused to let the family claim the amount. It’s a food supplement issue according to them.

This makes me wonder, if my insurance refused to cover such issues and I have to fork out so much money, why on earth am I buying from this insurance company for? Have we ever bought the “wrong” insurance before? What if one day, you thought that your insurance is enough to cover for almost everything since you have paid high premiums, but the company says, no, sorry. You can’t claim because it’s <insert some insurance or medical or whatever term> and you won’t get a cent from us.

What is the purpose of buying insurance if we can’t claim it? What are the things we should be looking out for? Can we ever be able to cover absolutely everything in life?

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Came back from GV Max after watching The Bourne Ultimatum. There was a lucky draw to win an Acer Gem Aspire 7720G. Was hoping that DD would win, alas, it went to a young man. I was hoping to play with it 1st. Too bad.

The show started at 4.30pm with 30 minutes of advertisements. 30 long minutes wasted on advertisements. The other time I went to Cineleisure to watch Rush Hour 3, the show started immediately after all the talk ended. This was badly arranged. Why didn’t The New Paper instructed GV to start immediately instead of wasting 30 minutes of watching the advertisements?

The movie itself was ok. It wasn’t that packed with action. Most of the scenes with fighting and running left me clueless. I couldn’t even see which hand struck who and who was winning the fight. Can’t say I really enjoyed it even though it was free. Not to forget, the free gifts below. A notebook and a mobile strap.

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The notebook and the handphone strap.

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I left out the notepad but it contains the The New Paper logo anyway. Unfortunately, DD had to go back to work. Was hoping to spend the rest of the day otherwise un-lonely.

I feel cheated, this Dopod 838Pro has been in use for at least 3 months! How can tell me only for 1 month? It’s a major difference ok! Sure, it’s not registered but how do I know that it’s the truth? How did I find out even when I had just done a reset, you may ask, well, photos stored are not formatted when I do a soft reset. It’s a reinstall of the default software only.

I checked the photos that the previous owner had taken and they showed September 2006! GAH! Kena CHEATED! I haven’t got my full set yet! I want the charger, pouch and other things that are supposed to be with the whole set. If not, I will sue you!

Apparently, I’m in a dark mood today, even after I’ve changed my SIM card to 3G and video calls are now enabled. ARR! Now have to upgrade the ROM before I start to analyse how to personalise my ringtones and message tone, no shoot the message tone, it’ll do for now.

I w-a-n-t m-y w-h-o-l-e s-e-t i-n-t-a-c-t! You get it?!