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My blog has turned 11 years old! When some people get to know that, they stare me up and down wondering how old i really am. Asian genes yo, Asian genes. The colourful hair and small stature also helps contribute.

Everything just turned out perfectly that the 11th Anniversary party was thrown on the 11th, and that the new blog design (KBF V3.0 baby!) managed to get up on the same day. Thanks to everyone for working on everything!

Do you like my new blog? Do you do you?! I doooo! It’s purquoise! (Lexie’s term for purple + turquoise = purquoise!) I have SO many purquoise possessions that i just felt like having my blog that colour too. There’s still a lot of tweaking to be done but i’m happy with the new layout, where categories are much clearer, and everything’s just a lot more organised. Graphic design by Kuman; Programming by Phillip.

As for the party last night, the KBF team organised an invite-only party for 300 pax at The Bee. We had colourful paper decorations hung from the ceiling, a rainbow of paper fans on the wall, KBF posters and signs up everywhere, lots of toys and props for people to play with, a gigantic metallic garland photo wall, and most happily – i saw my balloon forest idea come to fruition. Now i know how to make it even better the next time round… once i find another excuse to make one.

No pictures for now cos they’re all still with the photographers so i’ll just wait patiently.

I think all the balloons were the happiest things, amongst lots of other happy things. Someone said it looked like ‘Joyce exploded in there’.

I announced that whomever left around 11pm onwards could take a balloon home, and people started holding on to their favourite one wayyy before they went home. I saw StephTheVolcano running for the rainbow one and couldn’t help laughing. SueThePixie couldn’t stop talking about how she wanted to burst the one with confetti in it and get a picture. I didn’t know there was only one… and had to put two and two together when Kimberley lamented about her giant confetti balloon that got snatched… and murdered. Oh, naughty pixie!!

Picture credit: Idan
Location: The Bee @ Publika
Make up: Shu Uemura
Hair: Centro Hair Salon
Dress: Duchess & Co.
Glass in hand: filled with Grant’s Whisky
Metallic garlands background: soon-to-be-had on KinkyBlueFairy.com

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I’d got SweetEe to blow up a single helium balloon for Saira’s birthday dinner and after doing so, she was having trouble getting the metal valve off the helium tank. So i went over to see if my strength was any better, grabbed the thin spanner in both hands, concentrated all my energy going through my hands, and turned it with all my might. Nothing budged.

“Are you sure this is the right way?” i asked SweetEe.
“Yes… i think sooo….”
“Hmm… are you sure?”

We turned the tank around and i tried turning the bolt the other way around. Again, focused, pulled as hard as i could (but it took so much more cos i already tightened it the other way round 1 minute prior!) and i felt a bang on my forehead. I didn’t even know what happened cos i got such a shock. Next thing i knew, i heard Sweet saying, “Oh it’s off!” and i abruptly walked away to sit down. I slowly felt my forehead and wondered WHY it was wet and sticky. So i looked down at my fingers and saw bright red liquid and thought, “Oh man.”

Baby saw me and went “Huuuuuuuu!!!!” like a gasp and her eyes were so big in her little face. First thing i did was put my face forward so that i wouldn’t get (god forbid) any blood on my clothes. They ran around looking for a plaster while i held tissue paper to my forehead, then went to wash it and put a plaster on.

Baby: What happened!?
I told her the story and she was like, “Luckily it didn’t get your eye!!”
Me: Yeah man…
B: I was thinking, ‘what am i going to tell Uncle Wong?!’ (my dad)
Me: I’d be thinking ‘what am i gonna tell all those people who rsvped to the party?’

I felt like i looked silly when i went to the birthday dinner with a plaster stuck on my forehead. Like a 5-year old kid! Or a cartoon.

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We had our first office yee sang dinner with all the people we work most closely with! Did it at Mei by FS cos they served really healthy yee sang i wanted to try, its contemporary Japanese-inspired menu was easily likeable, and they have beer.

On the way there, i asked Baby and Adrian whether they could take the camera from the office so we could take pictures. But they were already there (cos i was late by being on the phone with our alcohol sponsors) and i thought oh well, we can just take pictures with our phones. Buttt it was so nice that Jane happened to have come from a shoot so she had her camera and took pictures of us!

Phillip, Joe, Jane, Kuman, Rengee, me, Adrian, Baby

Phillip, Joe, Adrian. Joe looks damn happy man.

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Chelle making sure my ridiculous demands are met.
Kidding la. She’s just taking my order.

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A LOT happened this week… but i’m just gonna talk about my weekend mostly cos i had a really good one.

After a week of barely sleeping and mostly working, i left the office at 10pm on Friday night and had a glorious night in by myself. I haven’t even had time to sit down with my own thoughts (even time on the bathroom throne is spent working -_-) so it felt SO AMAZING to just LIE down on my sofa and THINK about NOTHING in particular. I just needed to rest my brain and body.

When i woke up on Sat, i packed a few outfits for a video shoot for an upcoming fashion platform (which i’ll share with you when it’s out), headed to shoot, had a quick meet with Phillip on website changes, tapau-ed food from A’perfetto for Clem’s birthday party, headed home to dump shoot stuff, and went to Clem’s place for his 34th birthday.

I was so happy… cos i didn’t have to work or think about work for the rest of the day! I could just relax and enjoy everyone’s company! Raf was so sweet to get a 3-layer birthday cake with “Clemmy” on it, which most of us girls whacked immediately. I ate so much. Really let loose at the party cos i’ve barely been eating proper! (if i had a personal chef to cook me healthy meals all the time, that would be ideal :p)

After Clem’s, Jess and i left for the MPO, where a bunch of us took in the glory of Danny Elfman’s scores for all the Tim Burton films in conjunction with Jess, Tianna and Justin’s birthdays. My faves that night were from the movies Batman, Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie… We headed to Changkat around 10+ cos Saira was having her birthday do and i promised i’d go after.

Went to Pisco, had my clutch stolen from the chair i was sitting on. I was standing up for awhile and this guy walked behind me, grabbed it and walked out. Saw it on the cctv footage. I was careless but anyway. It’s gone. I wasn’t really stressed or angry at the time either… just hopeful it was still somewhere around and wandered around the whole place looking like a silly goose.

Oh well, it happens. Lost my phone, house keys, bank cards, credit card, Aigner purse, new vaporiser (i just bought it before CNY! ugh), beloved tin box, favourite lipstick from Shu U, and most of all… i miss my clutch. It was the first time i carried it out and it’s so sparkly and magical-looking and i bought it from London!

I know, it’s just attachment to inanimate objects. Releasing. Releasing.
Despite losing all the stuff… i was in a good mood today. I thought about how i’m safe and i have all my limbs and am… well, fine. All the stuff i lost can be replaced.

It was such a catch-22 situation cos when i wanted to buy a new phone, i didn’t have any cc to buy it with; or when i wanted to get a new SIM card, cos i didn’t have any ID to prove i was me. Am currently resorting to taking my passport around with me eek.

Tai Yong was such a sweetie to let me crash at his before calling a locksmith to open my apartment doors today. He also took me out for lunch and fed me pork noodles, took me to two telco centres (which both didn’t have the phone in stock), and lent me cash. I went to the 3rd Maxis centre in Gardens before a play on Sunday night, and wasn’t surprised when the staff told me they were out of stock there too. I was like “Sighhh” and quite calm cos i thought, “What will be will be. I cannot force the Universe to give me a phone.”

The girl at the counter asked what happened to my phone and i briefly told her my drama about calling the locksmith and not having ID. She asked me, “Do you want a certain colour of the phone?” I said i didn’t care, i just needed the phone.
She surprised me by saying, “Hold on, i’ll go check for you.”
I stood at the counter, lay my forehead on my notebook that was on top of it, and prayed.
Please let her find a phone so i can continue with life and work tomorrow!

As she walked back towards me, her expression bore no clue whilst i smiled hopefully at her.
She said they had one phone left. The very one i wanted.
I must have found the last freaking unit in the whole of KL on a Sunday night.

Oh and then i had to pay, and i had nothing on me. So Lang (whom i was gonna watch the play with) came by and let me swipe his cc first. Then we went to watch a star-studded play which was highly entertaining – i laughed so much, felt sad too at certain parts, and heard the word “vagina” thrown around more in 2 hours than i think i’ve heard my entire life.

Soooo despite my losing all these THINGS on Sat night… i felt really happy the whole weekend cos:
1) I was surrounded by so much love
2) I had a mini break from all my gadgets and things
3) i realise how lucky i am to have such amazing friends that help me out to the best of their abilities

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