MBT shoes!!!

Bought a Pair of MBT shoes at discount at Velocity!

Cost $280 but the shoes are a size too small and i felt my toes quite tight inside the shoes and got a red mark trying them out. Its quite stuffy inside and it would be great if I was able to get a pair bigger. There weren't any of my size left and I was quite disappointed. However, the pair of shoes which usually cost $399 is selling at $280 now so getting them seems quite a bargain.

Since suffering from Plantar Fasciitis about 3 years ago, walking has been quite painful and tough.  I injured my heels and plantar tissue while running. It was because I did short sprints of 50m for about 13 min while working and everytime when I stopped, I jumped and hit my heels very hard onto the ground. When i injured myself, I didn't think too much, I just thought I had a muscle pull at the calf areas or maybe the sports shoes were ill-fitting that's why my heels hurt. Since then, I had severe pain every morning when I woke up and every night when I returned home.

After that, I had to visit doctors very often and take pain killers to stop the pain. I couldn't walk or jog, let alone run.

After some time, the pain got alleviated and it didn't hurt as much..
I thought my condition improved and I wanted to exercise to get rid of the extra 6 kg that I have gained.

Last year April, when I woke up one day after running in the park, I couldn't walk at all. I almost went paralysed. For 2 days, I had to use a walking stick to walk. It was with much difficulty and pain that I walked.
I visited specialists who charged extorbitant prices and prescribed painkillers. They advised me to wear cushioned footwear to remove the impact walking has on my heels. They also asked me to do stretching exercises every morning. I was also diagnosed as having carpel tunnel syndrome ( which I think is due to carrying heavy things and doing repetitive hand movements during work) and cervical spondylosis.

Life suddenly seemed so bleak and darkness prevailed. In August 2009, I had a minor surgery for another illness. In  Oct 2009,I fell very sick with stomach flu and the 24-hr clinic doc thought it was appendicitis but the doc at TTSH said I had polycystic ovaries in a CT scan. After that, I had 4 periods in a month. I thought I was pregnant but I was not. KKH said I was ok in Nov/Dec.The next period occurred this Feb. This June, I visited the gynae coz I only had one period this year but she couldn't find any problem.  I also had so much dental pain from my root canal infections and tooth decay. In fact I did about 6 root canals, 5 crowns and a titanium screw in place of my 6th crown so far.

I think I had to be the most miserable person plagued with a lot of illnesses. Didn't you remember, I just recovered from pneumonia.When I was young, I had a hole in the heart. I have since recovered. In P5, I was also hospitalised for a week. My fever went beyond 41 degrees and now i looked back, perhaps, I also had pneumonia then. In fact, I coughed up a lot of blood and yellow phelgm then. After the week, I had to return for 1-2 weeks to cough out the blood and phelgm. Heavens have already been kind to let me live. I am a regular customer to the hospital and I must be grateful to my parents who always send me to the hospital and pay the bills then.

I often question myself the meaning of life when one does not have the health to live. I spend a lot to keep myself happy because I don't know when life will end and I always have to spend a lot to improve my health. After i recovered from one illness, another will follow. I didn't understand why it had to come to this stage. I used to be a healthy person who did a lot of sports. Luckily, with encouragement from friends and family, I slowly walked out of the 'self-induced and inflicted' misery.

Over these 3 years, I gained more than 12 kg. I hated this very much. I have ballooned from a S-M size to a XL size because of the inability to exercise or jog any more. As a result of this leg injury, I have been seeking healthy shoes that can alleviate and/or improve my condition.

Soon, I will do a review and comparison of the health shoes that I have. 

Dr. Hauschka

Bought these Dr. Hauschka products 2-3 months ago and haven't got to use them yet.

This is when the metal box ( i think cost $34) is opened, together with the 2 mini boxes ($10 for cleansing cream) which i bought on impulse below it .. Should have bought another tin instead.. Haiz..

Stila Trendsetting in Tokyo and Road to Radiance across the U.S.A.

Bought  Stila Trendsetting in Tokyo recently and Road to Radiance across the U.S.A some months back...
Have not used them yet but you can read these reviews  Stila- Pretty in Paris  and Stila- Road to Radiance across USA by Iris of Rouge Deluxe.

Lippie!! Lots of Lip Balms! Smiths, Korres, Julie Hewett, Elizabeth Arden, Murad, Decleor, Burt's Bees

Just discovered that I bought a lot of lip balms this year and I haven't even used most of them yet. Only used the Murad, Korres Quince, Kurt's Bees Medicated and Julie Hewett...

Clarins and Mac Haul @ Tangs!!

Bought a lot of Clarins products yesterday morning...

Bought a lot of Clarins products and a Mac Brush set...

Got a lot of freebies as well...

The following are the free stuff I got, including a tote bag (must buy $500) supporting the awareness of breast cancer.

I also got a free ham from Island Cafe...

Spring Cleaning!

For 2 days, I washed, cleaned and dried my bedlinen, mattress protectors, pillow cases, pillow protectors, clothes, cushions, floor mats etc.  I wanted to get rid of all dust and dirt that can get trapped into my already weakened lungs. Each time, the washing machine took about 2 hours to soak,rinse, wash and do 15 mins of turbo dry. Very tiring to do housework. There didn't seemed to be enough sun and wind, sometimes, not even enough space in my already spacious house. I seemed to buy too many things that clutter up the house, lots of japanese magazines with their freebies, which I desire in truth, not the magazines at all.

My! I am so tired just doing washing,drying, hanging laundry and fixing the sheets/linen back in place. I ended up ironing some pieces of bedsheets and pillow cases because I am so scared my bacteria get into them and spread to my hubby. In order to prevent spreading to my darling, I had to sleep on the sofa in living room because I keep coughing, my chest hurts, I cannot sleep, I had diarrhoea numerous times, possibly from allergy to antibiotics. I like to sleep on sofa, if I go into the bedroom, and air-con not on, I find it so hard to sleep in the stuffy room. If air con on, my lungs will hurt so hurt and my whole body ached. Perhaps. I am not fated to enjoy life at all.

I also threw a lot of frozen food and packet food that is past their expiry dates. I always bought and bought but never get to eating them. Strange that I still grew fat no matter how little I ate/drank.

Due to me being a very socially-responsible person, I couldn't bring myself to spread pneumonia to any innocent person, especially an elderly or a pregnant woman, so I had to contend with staying at home and cooking my own food. Anytime I would prefer a take-away or a MACdonalds $4.50 lunch meal.

Anyway, I cooked lunch and desserts for 2 days. SO long since I last cooked. Yesterday's lunch is so yucky.
Things went wrong terribly. I tried opening my windows wider but i knocked over a bottle of oil. I had to mop the floor many times to get rid of the oil spillage.

The 2 slices of fish my hubby bought for me were so blackish although they were supposed to resemble parts from a red snapper. At first, I wanted to keep one slice in fridge so I can cook it tml for tml's lunch but the stench put me off.

They stunk so I rubbed lots of salt onto the surfaces. The stupid potato flour that I used didn't really help in frying my fish, I ended up pouring some water into my fish to make a little gravy. I am so pissed off. I got a gluey fish instead and threw a lot of the glue and ginger which stuck to it away. Rinsed my fish with some water and managed to salvage my fish. Poured too much light soya sauce! Ate half of a slice, remaining parts i cling-wrapped and put in fridge. Heated up and gave the salty yucky fish tail to my hubby. Poor thing. I mean my hubby. I am quite mean to him at times. Who else will help me finish my food? I always can't finish my own food, its no wonder coz the appearance already cannot make it. My Poor hubby! Always drives me to hospital and waits there patiently while I moaned in pain and agony.

Ate 2 bowls of red beans today and yesterday, threw away the remaining which turned sticky and gluey while inside fridge. Red bean soup which I cooked for more than 1 hr, still hard to chew.

Today I had fried rice and soup for lunch. I hate crabsticks and its terrible smell but my hubby bought these and fish balls for me to cook, possibly because he likes to eat. My hubby said my fried rice is very delicious and that I have cooked the fried egg extremely well. When he came back for dinner, he finished all my lunch-time fried rice. Felt honoured but I thought I could have done better.


Got so many sets of everything coz i am a big shopper and nvr get to use my stuff. Already threw away 3 pillows last week which i didnt use for a long time and it gathered so much dust.

Cleaned my grey 3-seater sofa thoroughly, washed all sofa casings and air-dried my sofa cushion.

Threw away my 2-seater NOVA leather sofa, called town council to remove them (few months back threw away my 3-seater NOVA). Town council is very efficient. Once I called them their workers came down in about 15 mins. I tried pushing my sofa to the door but after 10mins, I only pushed about 1 metre!!! I had to gasp for air. We sat on this sofa for not more than 5 times but its skin keep peeling off long time ago but we were too busy and ignored it. The 5 seater sofa is supposed to be able to allow us to recline automatically but I din use the mechanisms because our sofa is already very near to the TV and if we recline on the other side, I cannot see the TV at all.

Note: I won't buy from NOVA again, the furniture we bought from them spoil very fast, grow mould very easily and very fast. Was cheated by this salesman called Michael (if didnt remember wrongly) into buying so many furniture from them. [My coffee table's drawers collapsed within 1 month of usage. my living room TV console set. bedroom set and clothes cabinet all got moulds within 1 month of buying when when we did not use them at all., the leather peeled off and termites crawling from our dining table,chairs and sofa.] ALL our 'NEW' FURNITURE were bought from them when we moved into this first hand house. We only had a little bit of renovation, majority in kitchen.

Pneumonia!

Last Mon (4 Oct), I was already not feeling well. Slept whole afternoon and night.
Tues again discomfort. had severe body aches and chills.

Wed I again have fever. I tested my urine for pregnancy again so that I can make sure baby won't suffer if I ate medicine.
After eating panadol, temp still 38.5 degrees. Saw a doctor at 4 plus pm. Went to sleep without eating medicine. woke up feeling sick still. ate something and then medicine at about 9pm

When my temperature rose to 39.7 degrees C, my husband drove me to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital at night, reached there 11plus pm. I kept coughing non stop and my chest hurt so much.
Despite eating panadol, fever persisted and final soared to a high 40.1 degrees C. On 2 packets of drip till 2plus am. I kept telling the doc and nurse I have cough, chest v pain, but all my words fell on deaf ears.

Sent home by doctor who diagnosed me as having urinary tract infection. Given antibiotics and panadol. NO COUGH MEDICINE.
Fever went down to about 38.5 degrees C because of the drip. Couldn't sleep at all. having severe body aches and chills. Fever kept rising to 40 and dropping to 38.5 degrees C.

On Thursday, kept having chills, very severe heat in my brains, thought i was going to die. Prayed to Gods for release but pain persisted.

On Friday morning, my fever went back to 39.5 degrees C, my hubby can't bear to see me suffer again., drove me to Khoo Teck Puat at 5 am, asked me to be admitted into hospital.
I vomitted my food and had diarrhoea. I was very tired.

One Doc Said having fever is normal, is our body reacting against infection. (can't remember is first visit or 2nd visit he said that)

Ate panadol to bring down fever, and on 1.5 packets drip. Finally I was diagnosed as having pneumonia after doctor my X-ray.. BTW, i had to do my urine tests twice, bcoz I have no menstruation for 3 months! But who the heck will have sex and have a baby when she is so sick, within 1.5 days can be pregnant. Definitely not me. This year I only have 2 menstruation cycles. I don't know why Heaven is always disturbing me, giving me lots of illnesses and pain.

Same thing, I was left to wait in the room before any doc attended to me again.

The dumb doctor on the shift change (8am) sent me back! Said I am a healthy young woman. Hey Man! I don't feel healthy at all then. The fact that he was mumbling to himself all the while didn't help! I haven't feel better, the drip is not used up yet.

I got worse. Vomitted 5 times and had diarrhoea 3 times. My body rejected all food and medicine. I coughed until everything came out, my brains could, if it was possible. I couldn't breathe, my lungs were filled with liquid and it hurt me to breathe. I prayed but to no avail.
On Sat morning, about 8am, My husband drove me to hospital even though I asked for an ambulance. This time, we went to Tan Tock Seng. We could not trust Khoo Teck Puat anymore. I was admitted into hospital. The doctor had my same name but different surname. I lamented why the twist of fate, same name, different lives.

This is where my fever went down and eventually subsided. For that, I am grateful that the medical care in Singapore has not let me down.

Nikon camera L21 at SSC

Got a nikon camera and a 4G SDHC card FREE at SSC for the latest promotion for this month!

 I was so unlucky, being the 101 customer to redeem my stuff, and I lost out on $50 capital vouchers as people in front of me suddenly appeared with all their family members or friends in tow. Just my luck or the lack of it!

There is some unfairness in the system as more than 70 cameras were redeemed in the first day when each capital card holder can only get 4 stamps and there is nothing to ensure that combination of stamps from a family were not allowed. I also had to queue a very long time as members of some families queued up in front without any receipts or stickers and because of their Time management Strategy and thick-skinnedness, they managed to 'coup' many cameras, charging bays and vouchers. I fedback to the staff but she said it was all along like that.

We queued for 3-4 hours just to get one camera. It was our fault that we purposely walked around waiting for the redemption counter to start before we queued for redemption. The redemption counter took a long time to process the redemption while one staff was busy chit-chatting with an irritating guy in front of me whose family got 2 set of cameras and she didn't reply me politely.

Nonetheless, I was pretty happy with the free camera I got but I think the system could be improved better and that perhaps each address/ family/ each person who queue up can only get one number so that others can get a chance to get/win something.

If by the first 2-3 days, all items are redeemed, I don't think people would want to go shopping at SSC coz some customers without capital card or after the first 300 customers to redeem, will also feel demoralised and boycott the mall.. I think the camera is quite handy even though it is not the high end type, it comes with a 4Gb free memory card so I think I am still luckier than most people coz I have the capital card.

Sketchers shoes

Bought a pair to try out... quite tiring and unstable to stand in the mrt..

Won a SWW Vichy Set and a Lancome set with L'officiel!

Collected my prizes at two different locations

tangs beauty sale

yesterday I shopped till 11pm at Tangs! 12% rebate and a $25 voucher for every $250 spent and I managed to grab some items with gifts but I spent a bomb!!

like to hear this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eJP4kwQJVs&feature=related

Anyone interested in a drugstore or bath and body works spree?

I am going to order for my friend soon, Please let me know because I intend to use Vconcierge before end july. Thanks

My 2nd Overseas Spree Via Vpost has arrived!

My 2nd Overseas Spree Via Vpost has arrived!

Bought Drugstore items, old navy and bath and body works. I suspect that after the Vconcierge successfully helped me to make purchase, they actually went on to promote Bath and Body Works on their website. Btw, I received a coupon to claim a free signature collection body care of my choice but it is too late because I received the coupon yesterday and today is the last day to claim but I need the Vconcierge to help me buy coz i have no US credit card.

Bobbi brown brushes

Bought a set of bobbi brown brushes at $280. stupid me got the cover stuck on the eyeshadow brush when i tried to open it. The plastic cap was so hard to pull it out. had to cut it and it spoilt my brush. I wonder if the cover is not able to fit back into the brush tip, then don't include it into the package. Else it must be able to fit back into the brush from the back. I haven't even use it yet and the cover got stuck. SO unfortunate.

Crabtree and Evelyn Haul!

Bought some stuff  from Crabtree and Evelyn.


Including the La Source hand remedy, foot extreme foot therapy, bath soap, body lotion, shampoo, conditioner and a REVITALIZING Skin Conditioning Body Wash.


not bad. the hand and foot cream were not as oily as I thought and all the stuff i bought smelt so nice. will update pics later. busy.

busy

been quite busy. will update blog later when free.

stage cosmetics haul 4

Very pissed off.  Today I went to  Stage as I received a voucher for my birthday. I bought a palette box for eye shadows at Suntec branch and wanted a new one but both shop assistants said it is just fingerprints and assured me that they can be cleaned easily.

 It has a long scratch mark and looks like broken. I put in my eye shadows and cleaned the case with a moist cotton pad but the long scratch mark is still there! Hey, I have bought so many things from Stage SG thrice and once from Stage Malaysia in about 1.25 month and I considered myself as a loyal customer.

I hope Stage can offer me a suitable explanation. Moreover, I have put 6 of my unused eyeshadows there. What is this man!

I just reached home. I tried calling but Stage is closed for the day.

Generally, Stage is quite slow in getting to me. I didn't get any notification letter to collect my card and I went personally almost a month later to the Stage Ion which was going to close down. Didn't even get to use the free 50$ makeover coz it expired. And I had the impresssion that Stage is going to send me some vouchers (10% of what I spent??) by June?

her world 50th aniversary collectors' edition

image from herworld.com.
grab your copy now. Get Baker's inn - a slice of cake free plus freebies from Sephora outlets!

Kim Robinson

Went to Kim Robinson on 7 June and had my hair cut FOC! This is because the other time, when I bought the bazzar magazine, I received a FREE hair shampoo and on top of that, a FREE hair cut by SHA SHA.

I also had a free hair wash by hair technician, Desmond who also gave a short shoulder massage

Sha Sha, my pretty and trendy hairstylist, is from South Korea. With light and swift strokes, she cuts my hair. I am quite satisfied with the haircut.

Sha Sha gave me some vouchers after the haircut.