new look for new year

I long planned to change my blog's look but was too lazy to get it done, so today I finally did.  The older version was sweet and demure looking, this time it was all vintage. Love it!

old template

I played around with Photoshop and manipulated some pictures, combine and arranged them to fit into a tiny space called banner. I do not own any of those pictures. 

first attempt (too crowded)

second attempt (too empty)

After third attempt, I came up with this:

I like the blue bird addition.

random pic: sims social FB

My hard work and dedication =P

the crybaby

Being in LDR kind of relationship truly tests your ability to stay loyal and honest. Everyone can declare that they possess these traits but to be able to keep and maintain them need perseverance and hard work.

Every now and then, we each take turn to be a crybaby. Take me for instance, when I was not in a relationship, I am dependent and able to handle anything on my own but once I’m in a relationship, I realized I’ve someone that I can depend who listen to my blabbering about life, my dissatisfaction on things and occasions that happen in my life. I’ve become a drama queen because I know there is someone who will listen and coax me, totally spoil me. Mostly, the crybaby role will be played by the girl and the guy will be calm and listens. During the crybaby state, the person will become whiny, defensive and severely emotional. I know this because I am one, plus I’ve observed some of my friends’ behavior. But not all guys can stand a crybaby. When there is too much drama going on, he will eventually become bored with it and get away from the drama scene.

I found that being in a long distance relationship, has turned me into a cry baby and a drama queen. Since my boyfriend is not around to coax me, I will end up being frustrated and angry. After some time, I’ve to coax myself and be self-motivated. It made me thinking, the point of us having a relationship is so that we have someone whom we can pour our heart to, share our happiness and sorrows, become spoilt all we want. But I realized, I’ve difficulties achieving those with him. The most annoying thing a guy/girl can do in a relationship is fail to be there for each other when needed. It is not advisable to be MIA because you’re encouraging your bf/gf to confide to other people. If you don’t feel comfortable with the idea of it, play your role as a bf/gf seriously. In my opinion, you will become closer, and you are able to get to know each other without him/her explaining what’s he/she like when you confide with each other, telling each other stories, share joys and woes rather than you spend time hanging out together everyday. When he/she confides with you, he/she is opening up to you, it is the matter of heart, something that people have troubled expressing.

Skin Care 101

Did you know skin is body’s biggest organ?

Skin plays an important role in protecting us against pathogens (things that causes disease) and excessive water loss. The skin covers and protects everything inside the body. It helps keep body at just the right temperature and allow us to have the sense of touch.

The skin keeps infections out of the body and keeps us from getting sick. Thus, it is crucial that we take extreme measures in taking care of our skin. By doing so, you are helping your skin do its job. Early care of your skin will help prevent future problems like wrinkles and even skin cancer. Most people dream to have skin that is healthy inside and radiant outside. They concentrate on skin care for their face because it is most noticeable and the most sensitive part of the skin.

Clean skin is happy skin. The easiest way to keep your skin happy is by keeping your hands clean. This is important because our hands can spread germs to the skin. Another way of keeping our skin healthy is by doing a daily skin care regimen. A daily skin care regimen should include:

my 2011 review

Alhamdulillah 2011 is almost over. I can’t believe I got through this year safely.LOL.

2011 left with bittersweet memories.

This is the year, which I lose someone whom I thought would be my best friend forever and turned out she’s a backstabber with multiple masks only to hide her true awful self. I really ought to kick myself for believing in her and almost ignore my mom’s advice about getting too attached to her. It started small then it turned out big. If only there’s a bigger sign in the beginning. She played me well and for that I can’t forgive her. She’s out of my life and for that ALHAMDULILLAH. I’m through, don’t want to think of her or talk about her or see her and I banned her forever. Yet, I feel obligated telling closest people that the she and I share relationship with. I feel sorry for those who haven’t been played by her. But then again, I think it’s not my place. I don’t want to be in the same level as her. She is low enough. Sometimes I feel that she chose to stab me in the back because I’m an easy target. She knew I love her and our friendship that she took the chance and left me feeling dumb. Early 2011 started awful but the awfulness gradually subsides

Enough about her already, this post is not about her…it’s my review of the year 2011.

Famous Story - a mother's sacrifice

This is a true story of Mother’ s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake. After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head. With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure. He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “ The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’ s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up. The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said ,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept.

(taken from a wall post in Facebook)

the wait

The wait is only worth it when you know what exactly you are waiting for. If you can’t see what is at the end of the journey, then there is no point in waiting.

Sophia-Bella: 12 Days of Hogwarts

I'm a total Youtube junkies.  Youtube videos have taught me a lot, learning on almost everything from putting on false eyelashes to beading.  Apart from that, I also get to watch videos of people from all over the world documenting their every day lives.  Youtube videos are more real than fake act on tv and eventhough they sometimes shows useless random videos, I still enjoy watching them just because they're fun to watch.  I subscribe to few channels such as michellephan on make-up tutorial, some girls doing tutorial on how to wear stylish hijab, also geofg channel, an American who video-taping his cute Japanese-American daughter, Nina and not forgetting Sophia and Bella of mugglesam channel.  Following previous post on Harry Potter jokes, I came across a video of sisters, Sophia and Bella from Canada singing the 12 days of Hogwarts.  I found these little girls charming and singing a made-up song about Hogwarts, I cannot resist posting the video on my blog.  Here is the video, (credit goes to mugglesam who wrote the song):

Harry Potter jokes

Okay, before I started this blog, my initial plan was to create a blog on anything Harry Potter because I'm a huge fan. I started obsessing with Harry Potter since I was 16 (still am), me and my buddy used to gather at the back of the class and exchange stories, make jokes and comments on anything about Harry Potter. I even started a RPG forum where I'm the headmistress teaching care of magical creatures. The forum even reached 100 members. We did the sorting houses, have openings where we interview those who wanted to be professors in Hogwarts...we had fun imagining we're in Hogwarts. I shut down the forum because I've no longer have time to play RPG since I left school to further studies. Plus, the internet is not as easily accessible at the dorm.

Check out some of my avatars in Harry Potter RPG forum:

I always got sorted into Ravenclaw, thus the blue scarf avatar.

My time is not as ample as before because now I'm being more preoccupied than usual. Thus, the plan of having a blog dedicated to all Harry Potter has long gone out the window. Now, I enjoy having a laugh at Harry Potter jokes on Tumblr and cruising for Harry Potter related news. Therefore, in this entry I'm going to post some hilarious jokes about Harry Potter that I collected by surfing the web. Enjoy =)

graduation pictures

Graduation pictures of me and my two angels...