Follow Me Will be Following Me to My Travels

Hi

Today I am going to perform an advertorial ritual.

I’m going to review Follow Me Oil Control whitening product series.




With that said, I brought the set into my toilet and laid them out on my dressing table.




Check out the travel pack! My favourite!


So without any make up on and risking the criticism of exposing my bare face to the world, here’s me on a bad hair day after not sleeping most of the night before.




Considering that I didn’t sleep much, I didn’t look half bad.
Though panda eyes were starting to show.
Tsk tsk.




Since I’d be washing my face, so it’s best that I tied my hair up.

Let’s start with the cleanser.




The thing I like about this series was that it has whitening feature, which is always a plus plus for me in buying any skin care product.

I hate being dark, though I am quite dark myself, and it doesn’t help that I travel so much. S.i.g.h.
(Why can’t the world be perfect).




Squeeze an inch or two out, rub it on your hand in circular motion and then apply on your face.




Looks like I have a white mask on. Haha.




Then after performing few circular motion on your cheeks, around your nose and forehead, wash it off with clean water.



Halfway washing





Ta-da! Clean face!
Damn it, dark circles still there.

Now move on to toner.



For girls, and guys, out there who don’t know how to apply toner, this is how you do it.

First you will need a cotton pad.

Hold it between your index and ring fingers in a way where the top of the cotton pad will be revealed on top of your middle finger.

Then soak it with toner.




Be generous with your toner. We want it really wet (oh yea~).

Then gently start tabbing on your face, covering the entire area.







Done?
Ok.

Final step.

Moisturiser.




Now this is the most important step for me.

You see, I have combination skin. And since this series is an oil control range, it would mean the normal non oily part of my face can be rather dry after washing with cleanser.

No worries. Just apply moisturiser and your face will be fine.







Slap a slightly thicker layer on the dryer part of your facial skin and less so on the oily part. That’s how you can control your overall facial skin balance. :)


DONE!




Now in case you have pimple, they also have the pimple gel that’s guarantee to make your pimple visibly less, well, visible in three days time.




The gel is greenish transparent like and consist of what I believe to be Sea Algae and Tea Tree Oil.


Could be lighting of my skin making the gel looked more yellowish than greenish, but it’s really is greenish.


Now I don’t really have any pimple on my face at the moment (thank god), but I did have a pimple mark left by a recent pimple on the corner of my forehead.




So yep, there it went.




Now I was finally done!
Ps// you should apply the pimple gel before the moisturiser, but I forgot and too lazy to repeat the process anyway.

Just when I thought I was done, I realized I forgot one more step! Before the cleanser!

Blackhead Remover!!!
So instead of starting all over again, I decided to pick a random make species to partake in this daily ritual.

Well, it is a unisex product. Yes?







“Wait! Before that! Your fringe is too long!” I shouted.

So I made him do the unspeakable.




Awe… how cute. And it’s pink!

Upon instruction, Casey rubbed the gel onto his T-zone in circular motion. And there I spotted little residue forming on his forehead as he’s doing this.




Then he proceeded to wash his face with the cleanser, applied toner and moisturizer.

And DONE! Again.


I use green leaves brush to match the color theme of Follow Me Oil Control. Hehe~


Shiny as new.

Here’s a contest that people like me, who takes a lot of photos of themselves, would be interested to join. :)


(link: http://tohtonku.com.my/index.html)

Buy RM20 and above of FOLLOW ME Oil Control products. Take a creative photo of yourself with the product. With proof (scan or photo) of your receipt, send your entry by MMS or email to oc@tontohku.com.my.

E.g.




You could just win a cover page opportunity with Campus Plus magazine cover and Follow Me press ad, a Samsung Delphi phone and ONE YEAR supply of the said products. Woo hoo!


It has now been 20 minutes since I applied my final step of the Follow Me Oil Control set.
And my face still felt really smooth, not too dry, not oily at all.

Almost like there’s a layer of smooth powder over my face. Nice~ I like this feeling
*touching my face*

Ermm… I think I would actually bring this set to my travels since they’re actually quite of convenient size in bottles even for the normal set. Affordable, easy to travel with. What’s not to like?


Here are a few photos of me shooting this advertorial with my 500D.







Not easy you know, camwhoring with a DSLR.

At the end of his ritual, I spotted Casey chucking his pink headband onto the floor.




But but, it looked so cute on you~? @_@ *watery eyes*

New Shoes and Fleeting Images

Bought my mom a pair of new sport shoes today for our Vietnam trip tomorrow.

This is the first time I'm travelling with one of my best friends (a guy) with my mom.

She's thinking of adopting him as a godson. LOL. Funny mom I have.




Pair of fresh Reebok.

Wanted to get a pair of Nike plus which was my mom's initial choice but then decided that this was more comfortable for her to walk in. Afterall, she didn't need Nike plus shoes anyway. I, on the other hand, should get a pair.

But now she said she's going to reserve the shoes for her Korea trip next month cause she don't want to use it yet and want to wear her old sport shoes tomorrow. -.-;;




I was contemplating if I should bring my Xpax plan Blackberry Curve 8250 along since there seems to be a lot of free wifi service all around Vietnam. More so than Malaysia. o.O

Even if I can't use my data plan, well, msn on the go won't be completely impossible.

Oh god. Should I? I can't live without Twitter. >_<


Anyway, if you ever stalked my facebook (like how people stalk other people's facebook profiles), you will find in my videos a video with my face stapled on it.

It's a short film my friend Edmund made + produced and conveniently insert my scene into the film to make it his experimental philosophical film - Fleeting Images.

Here's the trailer.




Turn out. Fleeting Images, with me as the main actress (kinda) and my "borrowed voice"
(no I do not sound like that, though I wish I do >_<), won the grand prix (grand prize in French, taught by Edmund) for the CON-CAN Movie Festival in Japan recently.
(click on link, register and sign in to watch the whole film)


Oh. My. God.


A film with me as lead character inside won a grand prize at a film festival!!
o.O o.O o.O


Edmund, do I get a sushi treat from your USD5000 prize? :D :D


ps// Last leg of New Zealand posts resume tomorrow.

Don't blame it on yourself

Report Police? Yea right~

Just so you know, we've already reported the case to the police, together with the culprit who drove away.

But you know what did the nice police men reply to us?

"Oh, it's like this one la~"

"There's nothing you can do about it. If you want write your details down and we'll see what we can do."


500 bucks say that they won't give a shit about "the case".

This only proved that rude Malay guy right. Sigh~ Really? Do our police force do anything at all?


After reading the comments posted in the previous post, I realized a lot of you have experienced similar things too. Is this a Malaysia culture?!

1Malaysia? My foot.


However, a reader commented as such.

You can go to JPJ wangsa Maju
Go to the Kaunter : Butir-Butir kenderaan
They will charge you RM20
you will get the details of the owner of the car
Just tell them that you just want to buy the car and need to validate the information to avoid fraud.

I think I might just do that.


You know how Murphy's law goes?

My tragic series of unfortunate events didn't end just there that night.

That night, my BB curve hang.

Well, kinda.
It didn't literally hang.

But because I "BB ON" my data plan but the network wasn't registering. I have to force shut the phone (took the battery out even) and when I switched it on again.

My Blackberry Messenger disppeared. And there was this icon asking me to upgrade my BBM. So yea, fine. Upgrade.

Guess what.

Upon upgrade.

I lost ALL my BBM contacts.

F**k.


Now I need to collect them one by one again.


Back to two lonely contacts. *sob*


But you guys who upgraded your bbm already don't have to worry a thing. Because the new upgraded BBM has the auto backup feature.

I wish I knew this earlier. T_T

WLV4273 Kelisa - Fat Bitch!

There’s only one thing more despicable than a hit-and-run, and that is a BAD BAD driver.

The type of bad driver that should not be allowed to have a permit to touch the wheel, least to say to drive.

But you know what’s more hateful than a bad driver?

A BAD DRIVER WHO HIT AND RUN!


WLV 4273

Silver Kelisa.


I'm watching you...


The lady (more like an ripen teenage looking aunty) who drove the car on the 7th Nov at 12am
in Jalan Alor (or more precisely, Jalan Changkat Tong Shin) was a fucking bitch who just hit and run on a BMW 3 series.

Yo anyone who knows this f*cking idiot FAT Chinese bitch who was flirting with a Malay dude in the middle of the night, probably looking for a few one night stands of her own, please tell her that she has the tendency to NOT KNOW how to reverse her LITTLE KELISA and scratched a BMW, drove out onto the street, even with the owner of the BMW standing next to her, upon instruction that she was to park at the side of the street and discuss this, actually drove on and AWAY!!!

She F*CKING RAN AWAY!!!


This was the whole scenario earlier midnight.





First we arrived at Jalan Tong Shin, where all the good food roams, with everywhere full parked.
So we managed to come in front of my boutique hotel where I was spending my few days in KL.

(I'm like on a hotel marathon every time I come up to KL, no point renting a place here since I'll be travelling again soon, so far I've stayed in Cititel, Sunway Resort, Pyramid Tower, Radius hotel, etc etc etc but that's another story)

Everywhere was full (of cars) and just right in front of my boutique hotel was this WLV 4273 Kelisa who despite its size, parked COMFORTABLY (to size in her lack of driving skill) in a space that's enough to fit in TWO cars!





We wanted to park, of course. Since there was no more parking space. So we got out of the car and asked nicely.







And seeing that there were no where else to park and the fat bitch REFUSED to move her LITTLE kelisa and continued to FLIRT and CHAT with the Malay guy.

We decided to improvise.




We wheezed our BMW into the space, careful not to scratch or come to close to her car, and managed to fit into the parking space nicely.


Then after negotiated her price for the night and decided she was too cheap and cannot pay up to the Malay gigolo finished talking to her "friend", which was like 3 minutes later (bitch!), she was reversing out.


ample space to reverse out, it was side ways afterall


instead of hitting on reverse gear and steering her wheel left, she reversed in STRAIGHT LINE!!!




It doesn’t prove that girls parking and driving skills are bad.

It is just the FAT BITCH who is the sad specimen of the womankind. Shows that ugly bitch (on the inside and out) can’t drive, don’t’ have the moral sense to face her faults, nor have the BRAIN and ethical sense (there lack of) to drive away!!

And this was after being instructed (kindly by the victim whose car got scratched) on how to reverse her car out onto the street.

SHE DROVE AWAY!!

No sorries. Nothing!


1st: she parked in two space (it's only a Kelisa, how much space do you want?! F**k woman! what's the point of driving a small car if you can't even park properly provided a decent space)

2nd: she refused to drive out and and parked slightly to the left while she chatted on with his street fling, who told us off and asked us to go away

3rd: she was there only for another few minutes, is it so hard to accomodate when we asked so nicely to move??? doesn't her mother teach her anything? uneducated fugly pig! oh, i guess not, she was too poorly educated to know what was common courtesy.

4th: she decided to drive straight out and hit the car! (instead of asking us to move, even if she couldn't find us, she could have honked her car like most people do here in KL to inform and ask us to move ours if she already KNEW that her driving skill was THAT BAD. Or maybe she actually thought she passed her driving test with flying colors despite the fact that it was her dad who bribed the driving instructor to let her pass)

5th: when we saw that our car got hit, we dashed out and spoke to the fat bitch, taught her how to properly reversed her car so that she could be on the road again, and also asked her to drive to the side of the road so we could discuss this incident further.

And she drove further in front, and decided, she was going to pull a hit and run.

So she DROVE AWAY!!!


When we confronted the Malay guy whom she was chatting to earlier, assumed by us to be her friend, the Malay guy told us off!!! Said if we want we can report to the police!! WTF?!

He dared to "pakat" with her and probably was the one who asked her to run away and don't care!


SO yes, if anyone's seen a FAT (ok I don't know if she's fat, she was in a pony tail so she looked kinda plump hiding in her car) SLUT (well, who knows, why else would she be driving all alone in Jalan Alor talking to some random crude and rude single Malay guy on the street?) who's driving a Silver Kelisa by the Number plate of WLV4273.

Please kindly direct her to me.


I have a bill for her to sign.

FAT BITCH~!

Year 2009

Love.

Happiness.

Heartache.

Move on.

New life.

Accusation.

Migrate.

Travel.

Friends.

Trips.

Work opportunities.

Argument.

Disappointment.

Tears.

Hope.

More accusations.

Giving up.

Scream.

Settle.

More disappointment.

Picking up.

Retort.

Anger.

Fear.

Bleakness.

Weak.

Decision.

Isolation.

Separation.

Strengthen.

Wonder.




What's 2010 gonna be like?

BB On!

Has been my ritual everytime I come to KL. Because the data signal in Melaka is weak, more often than not, I rather opt for my wireless internet at home.




So instead I decided the Blackberry Curve will be my constant supply of internet dose whenever I'm up in the big city.

Yep.

RM1 gone today again.

Calling for lens.. lens.. oh lens...

It's one week to Vietnam.

Anyone can sponsor or loan me a wide angle lens for my Canon 500D?


Hopefully a specific EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM???





Well, actually, any wide angle lens suitable for scenery shots would do.

Anyone?
I'll post up nice nice nice nice nice nice photos after that. :p

Nicolekiss Best 5 Marlborough Wineries

I've concluded a list of Nicolekiss Best 5 Marlborough Wineries and why.

This has totally nothing to do with public's judgment nor quality of wines but of personal experience in terms of the winery presentation, food and their selections of wines, especially sweet whites. :)




So here goes.

Number 5:

Wairau River Wines



I don't need to explain far.

Just note: Cheese souffle. Must eat.




Even if you don't like cheese.

Just for the sake of claiming that you've eaten a cheese souffle before.

Warning: very filling


Well, apart from that, it's a very cosy place.



:)


Number 4:

Framingham




Probably one of the rare wineries that has the largest production and selection of sweet whites ever! (aka Dessert Wines)




Just Noble Riesling alone, they produces 2,500 bottles every year.

On top of that, they have three types of Riesling Auslese (No. 1, 2 and 3) to add in my wish list.




Whoever produces three different types of dessert wines for the same (German) wine term is definitely my favourite winery of all time.

Just the reviews alone were enough to make me wanna wipe the entire winery clean of their sweet wines.




Their dessert wines even come in categorized boxes to make your purchasing decision much simpler, and a lot of more expensive.




If only I have a 1000 bucks with me then.


Number 3:

Allan Scott

Even with my mental judgment impaired by the mass amount of dessert wines in Framingham, I still have my moral judgment intact.

*whisper* Heh. As if. *cough*

My top 3 here has nothing of those fancy exterior nor commercialized packaging for their wines, and as I've always believe, a good winery doesn't have to be one that has the pretties layout or largest amount of wines produced.

This little humble winery has nothing of the former, but has everything a soulful winery should possess.







When you stepped into Allan Scott, or beneath, you'd find yourself in a cavern sort of room/space where you'd have your wine tasting done.

Tastefully decorated with lots of old and new retail items, machinery, and random artifacts; it's as if you're intruding someone else's wine cellar.




The lady who poured us the wine was stern in a harmless way, almost non-talkative but helpful when you inquired.

I came about a group of travel folks who visited the cellar for a bit of wine tasting, before I knew it, they started jolly singing in English, in their local tongues, and A Cappella a few even.

It's amazing how an environment and surrounding could evoke such emotion and actions from certain people.

This wasn't the only reason I rated this as Top 3 in my list.

For those of you who like, or dislike, sweet wine.

This would be my ultimate sweet white to date.




Go for Allan Scott Late Harvest Savignon. You'll never look at sweet white the same again.




Ever imagine what it's like to see Winnie the Pooh savor honey when you were young on TV? or how love-making was like when you read romance novel when they describe certain action to be sweet like honey?

The first time I tasted honey (when a kid), as in real honey, I was fairly disappointed how just plainly sweet and boring it was. To be compared in equivalence with the sweetest most exquisite act when used in describing an ultimate emotion/pleasure was really, well, exaggerating.

Not to mention my over-expectation to the food honey.

Since then I've always envisioned something out there that would be sweeter, richer, thicker than honey but non-sickening in taste.

Drinking Allan Scott Late Harvest Savignon gave me that sweet sensation I've been envisioning all my life.

It's like drinking honey, no, more exquisite than honey, like a burst of sweetness in your mouth which slowly spreads all over your tongue, before consecutively moving down your throat and sending your a thrill sensation that you've just tasted the forbidden apple.

It would prompt you to savor it slowly, but eagerly, simply because it's made so fine, so delicate and delicious, you would want to drink it again and again.

Sucky part is, they don't export to Malaysia. :(


Number 2:

Spy Valley

Spy Valley would easily have topped my first place in Best Wineries if the current Number 1 placing isn't so damn fabulous itself.

One cannot doubt the presentation of Spy Valley as the infrastructure of the winery itself is really impressive, modernly designed and looking very new.




But it wasn't the structure that brought me here.

I'll tell you a story.

A year ago I travelled to Australia and met up with my cousin who was then based in Canberra (still is), she brought me out to dinner in a fine restaurant one night, and being rather new to wines, the waiter recommended something light to me while my wine mature cousin went for the strong red.

It was then I first tasted Spy Valley's Gewurztraminer. (click on the link to see the photo of the wine I taken a year back)

You know the saying goes that if you're a good wine connoisseur, you'll be able to not only distinguish but also remember the taste and smell of the wine even after ten years?

Believe it or not. The taste stuck.

It was light, not too sweet, but sweet enough, slightly spicy but very adequately placed (as I normally dislike wine that has too strong of a spice flavour), and a tinge of lychee, it went superbly well with my fish that night.

And for as long as I was in Australia, and after my return there again the year after, I scouted for the same particular wine in every possible bottle shop I passed by. Alas, to no avail.

It was then I decided that if there's ever a way that I should locate this wine, it will be in Marlborough wine country, NEW ZEALAND itself.

No where else and none other than the producer of such fine wine - Spy Valley.




I got my wish~! ^^ After year long searching.
Damn I must be the most determined wine seeker ever.
(Next off, I need to go to Asti in Italy)

And no surprise when I found out that the fantastic Gewurztraminer here was a multiple awards winner all around.




The other wine I was tempted to buy here was the Noble Riesling. Simply deli-sh!




Alas it's not purchasable online. :((


Number 1:

Herzog

Finally, the top list of winery in Marlborough goes to, no surprise here, HERZOG!!!




You've probably seen a trend here, as I move higher up in the list, the longer the story goes. So I'll try to keep things short, simple and sweet here.

Afterall, it's won't be difficult to see why Herzog would be in my top list.

First off, Herzog offered one of the fine boutique restaurant dining experiences you can find here in Marlborough. No joke, their freaking appetizer cost me NZD 24.




Their dining tables stretched from the indoor to their private garden at the back.




Which set the perfect ambiance of dining couples who just want a quiet romantic time together.

And if you look at the map, they're located at the top left of the region, right next to the river in a very secluded end of the small road.




Other than offering 5 star food and services, their wines were pretty exclusive too.




How exclusive? Let's just say if you want to "taste" the wine, you gotta pay.

10 kiwi dollars for 3 pop.




And if you notice, their wines are of a higher pricing range compare to the rest of New Zealand retail wines, easily double the amount.

I had a glass of Botrytis during my meal there, it was rather exquisite. Generously priced and paid (by me T_T) at NZD12 per glass.


You know the fact goes that the best things in life are also the rarest to find?

Well, Herzog does not export their wines to anywhere else at all. Which means their wines are only purchasable at cellar door.

This is mainly because, according to them, their wines are so limited each year in production, they could manage sell off everything without the aid of exportation.

That's probably why you've never heard of it, case in fact that if you're a wine connoisseur.




So I brought home a bottle of my most expensive wine ever bought for personal consumption.

Hello my golden Botrytis Chardonnay

Bye bye NZD114.