violentDESIRE ;;

From Hereforth, I Shall Be Mo </3

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:13:20 GMT

=_= Coworkers were giving out nicknames to each other... somehow I got the nickname "Mo".
Sally = Lally
Stephanie = Sleph <- whoever entered her information into the system typoed her name so we kept it HAHA.
Laurelle = Laurelly
Deseeray = RayRay
me = Mo ...... It has nothing to do with my name ... =_=.
I liked Des' but she said hers sound so ghetto hahaha. No it doesn't =_=.

And out of nowhere Steph was like OMFG!! I know an even better one for Laurelle!! "Smelly Laurelly"!! HAHA. Des actually called Laurelle that in front of a customer haha. Laurelle didn't seem too pleased about it.

Steph said my nickname sounded like a beer.... How? Simpson's. Homer goes drink beer at Moe's. I was like WTF...Moe is ugly!! =_=!!!

Anywho, Twitter kinda irks me sometimes. All these stupid, random spam accounts follow you and it shows up on your followers list. And I would have to go through list blocking them. Some loser had to @ me when I mentioned it in my tweet and gave me directions on how to block them. I said I don't like it.. I didn't say "How do I take them off?" I know how! I just wish there's a way to prevent them from following in the first place (aka.. don't let them sign up..) without having to turn my twitter private. It's just awkward when you have BRITNEYF***VIDS following you on twitter =_=!!

More than halfway done the book "Uglies". Quite an interesting book.
"Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can''t wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally''s world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.

But Tally''s new friend Shay isn''t sure she wants to be pretty. She''d rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn''t very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever."

As I was reading this I actually noticed that the author used some facts in the story too. I learned it in my PSYC 105 class. I thought the discussion idea of beauty was very interesting! Our idea of beauty is actually a very average face. All the facial features people look for are in fact average features, which the book mentions too. There was an experiment where they took pictures of many, many people and stuck all the different pictures together to get the average face. There were a couple of pictures and we would be able to pick who we thought looked the best out of all the male/females. To our surprise, the person we picked wasn't even a real person. In fact, all the pictures (all the pictures were in a line beside each other) as it progressed was just the same guy but with more and more pieces of other people's pictures added on.

If you're up for it you should watch this:

It's actually quite interesting.
I thought it was kinda weird how they said women put on red lipstick because it's supposed to look similar to when they're sexually aroused... I was like what? LOL.....
And the "Every wonder why top athletes tend to be good-looking?" ....o_o Do they? I mean a lot of the time I only think their bod does HAHA. And sometimes they're not even that good-looking. If they weren't a top athlete or known I don't think they would really be thought of as attractive as they really are.

- jiawen

She Touched My Nipple ._.

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:05:11 GMT

Sunday was a good work day haha. Time went by pretty quickly and since I worked from opening till close I had a break :) I love breaks. Co-workers cracked me up. Although it was pretty bad luck for Sally yesterday hahaha.

Deseeray, our new co-worker, was talking to a boy and his dad. We all have headsets on so you don't have to speak very loud for the rest of us to hear. But for some reason Sally spoke really loud at that moment haha. She was like "Oooo!! Deseerayy!! That's a cute boy there! Niceeee!!" and all of us were like O_O LOL! Deseeray turned around and gave a HUH? WTF? look and then she walked past us and was like "THAT'S MY BROTHER!!" LOL!!!!!!! -dies-. Sally was like WHAT?! We laughed pretty hard.

We were retelling all of us to Stephanie after. Steph hard the "cute boy" part but because she wasn't standing by us she didn't hear when Deseeray told Sally that it was her brother. While we were retelling this Deseeray was like "yeah he heard it too" .. LOL! No wonder why he kept looking at us. Gawd, hope he doesn't think it's me because he was giving me looks too. He didn't look cute to me >_>. Also, he's younger than Deseeray, which means he's younger than me since Des and I are the same age.

It totally wasn't Sally's day because later on I told them on the headset that I needed to go to the back for a drink. When I came out I saw Sally hidden around the corner (her head was kinda sticking out). And she popped out to scare me. Except, instead of scaring me, I laughed my butt off. She was wearing a knit top and when she was hiding, I guess her top got caught on the S-hook that we use to hang pants on behind her. When she popped out it pulled on her shirt. So you see a string that's like at least 30cm long behind her HAHA. While Steph was like unhooking her I was like beside her going like" KARRMAAAAA!! HAHAHAHA".

Yeah I'm not sure if they cut off that part or if they pushed it back into the inch high "tear" but there was still a little bulge on her back. She kept touching it and was like "Is it noticable?" Steph and I at the same time were like "yes/no". Steph took it upon herself to explain. When Sally stand with her back directly facing it, it's not really noticable. However, when she stands sideways it looks like a nipple sticking out her back HAHAHAHA. I was like "WTF? NIPPLE!? Nice descrip!?" So it was a running joke the whole night. Whenever Sally said anything we'd be like "Yeah okay, whatever nipple girl"

I got bored and I started to keep poking it HAHA. Sally was like "wtf! Stop touching my nipple!" I bet customers were like WTF? Sally was like "I'm soo gonna tell Jenn once she comes back. I'm gonna tell her about my nipple and how you touched it." LOL! Oh gawd.

Oh Lawddyy

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:35:39 GMT

Okayyy. So, found a bunch of photos on digicam. Edited them. Uploaded them. BAM!

This was quite a while ago. Alan went to anime convention in August. You have to look through the slideshow just to see the baby dressed up as Lynx. All worth it LOL! SO CUTE!! And the guy in a suit w/ "Minion Inc." site :P. Can I hire you?

Pics of when uncle and cousins came from Vancouver.

Went shopping yesterday and today. Just gonna post up the ones from yesterday b/c didn't get a chance to do the ones I got today.

Two pairs of jeans and a TNA hoodie. Had to b/c I heart the color :) bahaha.

- jiawen

3NE1 FTW? I think so :)

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:50:37 GMT

Gosh, every since school started up again my MSN is so dead haha. Everyone's online but nobody is replying to each other :P. Lonelyyy~.

Okay wait, before my entry.. wanted to post up the clip Eileen sent me. Family Outing karaoke-ing 2NE1's Fire HAHAHA killed me. Oh Hyori, love you so much HAHA.

Went to watch G.I. Joe today. Didn't plan on it haha. Asked Leen what she was doing after school and she said she was gonna watch a movie with her friends, Karolina and Terry. At first I thought she said Carrie. But then she was like "yeah, he came in to the room...." I was thinking it was a guy named Carrie HAHA. My bad. Good movie though haha. I had to go to the washroom in the middle of the movie so I missed the part where ..the doctor revealed his real identity haha. That didn't give anything away right? Eileen was telling me what happened and Karolina, not sure if she forgot I left or if she seriously didn't notice (I was sitting beside her T_T), but was like "... you didn't get that?" HAHA. Leen told her I wasn't there for my part and she was like "OHH!! Yeah, cuz I thought that part was pretty self-explanatory" =_= haha.

So yeah, people these days have been pretty asshole-ish

Had a woman who came up to pay for her/her daughter's stuff. We have a promo going on where if you purchase over $65 you can pick a free v-neck tee or a tank top. Some people are really quick. They just go, get their size, and come back to pay. Since they're quick I would just finish their transaction before helping the next customer. Others take longer because they're not sure what to pick or they want to try it on before taking it.

Well, that day the woman didn't pick all that quick. Usually I stand there and watch a couple secs to guess if they were gonna be quick or not (can tell haha). Two ladies came up to pay for their stuff. Since I saw that the woman was still busy I decided to put that transaction on hold (meaning it's still in the computer) and just quickly do the people that were at the counter. The two ladies decided to pay together because they had a coupon. It was a $10 off of a purchase of $50 or more. Together their total came to $49.80. This is when the woman came back. She took one look and instantly had a pissed off look.

Woman: ...Uhhh I was here first!!

Honestly, I think it's pretty common sense that after you leave the line you're not first anymore. Especially if you were gone for a while. And it wasn't like there were 5 people in line and I put her at the back of the line. The only people there were the people I was helping and the woman. For some reason the two ladies felt awkward/bad and were like "oh were you?" ...when they came to the counter there was no one there. The woman had already walked away looking for her free shirt/tank.

Woman: YES! I was!
Ladies: oh.. sorry... -backs up- did you want to go first then?
-woman steps up to counter-
Me: Sorry, but I cannot put two transactions on hold. I have to finish up this one before going back to your transaction.

The computer doesn't let us switch between transactions so there was no way for me to help that woman first. Anyway.. even if I could I wouldn't because she was being a bitch. When I told her I couldn't she gave a frustrated sigh and rolled her eyes. It was just my luck that the people I was helping were kind of complicated too =_=. Since they were short $0.20 they had to pick something to put it up to $50. The front of our counter has a bunch of candy. So they were like "ohh wonder what we should pick?" -looks around-. Of course, the woman had her arms crossed and was rolling her eyes again. After they picked I called Jenn to come because I wasn't sure how to use the coupon. Jenn comes and tells us the coupons we're giving out doesn't work until 14th. The two girls started talking to each other. One of them told me to separate the items. Her friend who was originally going to pay was like "no it's okay" and was shaking her head. I wasn't sure what they wanted me to do. So I was like "did you want me to separate this... orrrr..." They don't answer me.. they were talking to themselves in another language the whole time.

If I had to separate it that means I had to void the whole thing and rescan it all. And after I told the woman I can't take her I don't want to end up taking her first haha. You see, if I voided it that means I would be able to take the woman because I would have no other transaction active on the computer. Anyway, I left it as one thing because the stupid girls kept talking to each other in their own language and won't answer me. I thought "well, I'll just leave it. If they didn't want it as one transaction they'll tell me after they see the price" because the girl was paying by debit. Before you pay it shows the price. The girl paid for it without saying anything. Btw... the whole time the woman kept fucking complaining. BLAHBLAHBLAH I was first. And her constant eye rolling. Just seeing her from the corner of my eye I want to stab her in the face or something =_=. Like stfu lady. So if I had a line of 5 people should I wait for however long it'll take you until you find the shirt/tank you like? If there were 5 other people after her I would've helped the next person and when she came back I would've helped her 2nd, of course. I don't even know wtf her prob was.

When it was her turn she didn't hand me anything. I stared at her b/c she was giving such a bitch fit before and when it's her turn she doesn't give me anything. She stared back and gave me a dirty look b/c I didn't do anything. Anyway, I looked at the pile I had already scanned and I was like "..is that the tank you picked?" "YES >_>!" WTF lady.Don't give me dirty looks. You put it on the pile I had already scanned. How would I know? I don't watch your every move! You aren't the only costumer in the store, betch. And just because she kept sighing and eye rolling. I did every move slower on purpose. You want to go? I'll go. Did every move like I was dying.

Don't get why costumers always act like they're the only ones in the store and how we should serve to their every whim. Does it say in our job descriptions that we're your bitch? Don't be so effing unreasonable. If you were in my position and you see a costumer waiting to pay and see no one is in front of you, would you just stand there? Of course not! Obviously you serve them instead of making them wait just because someone else is off looking for something. I get a kick out of costumers that get pissed off at me when I go extra slow (eg. typing in numbers slowly.. bagging your clothes slowly..) when they do shiet like that. In our job, we have to try and please every customer, okay? We can't just please you, and only you. If it was you in line wouldn't you be pissed if you had to stand there and wait up to 10 minutes for a customer to go try on a shirt when you could've paid for w/e you had in that time?! =_=

My friend went to the bank to get a bank draft to pay for tuition. This guy with a bored look was the one who helped her. She forgot what it was called so she accidentally said overdraft instead of asking for a bank draft. The guy looked at her weird. She told him that she forgot the word for it but it was a kind of draft and it's used supposed to work like a cheque. She told him she wanted to use it to pay for tuition. He stared at her and said "Yeah, you don't know the technical terms. An overdraft is..." and proceeds to explain what an overdraft is. Okay then. And after he was like "Just swipe your card." Why? At this point he still doesn't understand that my friend wants a bank draft. If you're so effing good with your technical terms, you should know what she's talking about genius. My friend was wondering wtf cuz it's weird he's asking her to swipe her card. But she did that anyways because she's never done this before.

She swiped it. He asked her what account she wanted to take money out of. She was like "chequeing" and he looked over her account and told her she recently got paid..... I've never had someone at the bank look over my stuff and tell me that haha. So nosy... your job was to get her bank draft.. not look at her pay. Then he was like "I can increase your limit." My friend was ilke WTF. By now she remembers it's called a bank draft so she told him that's not what she wanted. She wanted a bank draft. He told her he was going to charge her haha. My friend went to BMO instead. They gave it to her for free. Without the condescending tone from the asshole the whole time.

Today my friend e-mailed a prof about a link to an assignment. His site always has glitches and things don't work sometimes. He had sent an e-mail announcement about how to login to his site. My friend had read it and had logged in successfully but when she clicked the link for the assignment nothing happens. The guy said if there's anything wrong people can feel free to e-mail him. Apparently, he lies. My friend e-mailed him saying she can't access the link. He emailed back saying:
Please read the announcement carefully.
-tells her how to log in-.
I just tried logging into your account and it works fine.
LOL! Okay then douchebag. I was like you should write back saying:
Please read my e-mail carefully.
I did read your announcement.
Your links aren't working.
That is all.
So my friend had to e-mail him back explaining everything... again. Because the person who told her to read things carefully, doesn't. If you don't practice what you can't preach, then don't preach it and then act all high and mighty about it, bitch.
He emailed back saying:
I''ll help you out this time. But it's responsibility. I can't help you with your home computer
...... Your links aren't working, genius. I'll tell you about your link problems this time but it's your responsibility you're a dumbass. Can't help you with that.

Cannot even tell you how much these kinds of people piss me off. My leg just itches with anxiousness at wanting to jump kick them up the head. Or like in this kungfu movies where I jump in the air and repeatedly kick up before finally landing on the ground. Ahh..

- 禤嘉雯

See Youu

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:57:32 GMT

Cousins are leaving at like 5AM to watch flight back to Vancouver. Gonna miss uncle and cousins. Had a nice time despite me not being able to get some 'me' time and having to wake up early everyday haha.

Btw, I mentioned that one time about putting up my friend's reviews on their skinfood stuff from the first batch.

Pineapple Repair Cream
I'll sum up everything or else it'll be long haha. My friend has really dry skin especially during the winter so it would be visible. She had tried to find something to moisturize her face enough for a long time and then she got her hands on this. After using this for just a couple of days she could already see an improvement. After using it more when she washed her face she noticed all the flakes fell off. Her face now doesn't have any visible dried spots. My other friends even said that her face seems to have a glow now. Not sure if that has to also do with her change in makeup, but yes haha.

Papaya Yogurt Mask
This is similar to the kiwi one, I think. She said it made her skin softer and recommends it for people to buy it to exfoliate 1-2 times per week. The yogurt ones actually make your face feel super soft :O

I never know what to blog about anymore haha. I'm sure no one really wants to read work/school posts all the time so I'm trying to limit myself. I already lessened my posts about school haha. Now it's work. I'm not sure what to blog about haha. So bare with me for now while I post all these 'purchases'.

OH! btw, I bought a neti pot!! I still have to get it right, because it kinda stings o_O However, it definitely helps! I still get the occasional itchy nose (from pollen?) but it's improved by a lot. I know that because I stopped for a couple days (while my relatives were here) and now I constantly have an itchy nose and it's getting a bit drippy x_x. Ew, haha.

To end off this entry, gonna share two youtube vids my friends sent me. Cracked me up.

This one... HAHAHA =_= ahh gotta watch them.

- j hien

Life, Haul, Reviews -> aka long entry

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:27:21 GMT

Haven't updated since forever haha. I have no real excuse.

Noticed I didn't ever blog about the fashion show party we had at work. I totally understand why the fashion show was for employees only. It was not even a party it was a product knowledge class. Horrible day. I was tired as hell that day because I had to work and the party was after work hours. All the coworkers I had worked with in the afternoon had a break but I never did because my shift wasn't as long. Seriously, cannot tell you how bored to death I was. They kept shoving the same information about clothes into our heads again and again.

"Buy our sweaters/hoodies! The new boyfriend fitted ones are all the rage right now! It's also very warm and soft inside which makes it great for fall/winter season! It comes in many colors! One of which is this lovely lilac color. This is one of the most popular one right now."

"Try out leggings! They go great with -so and so-. They're a must have for every wardrobe! We have full length or mid-calf length too!"

"Always teach costumers how to layer and accessorize!"

BLAHBLAHBLAH! YADDAYADDAYADDA!! Can you imagine listening to this shiet for 4 hours? If I didn't get paid for this I would've called in sick.

And we had to know the names for all the colors for ours jeans because "our company makes the most awesome names" for them. Blue Heaven, Fab Blue, Rinse, The Artist......-dies-.

I got quite pissed/uncomfortable at one point. We had to dress up for whatever we drew from the basket. I drew up "girl's night out" and I instantly tensed up. I guess I would be a conservative dresser compared to some people out there. Girl's night out usually includes either dresses or tops that are more revealing. For tops I don't like the revealing ones we have because, well there are various reasons, but one of them is because I'm quite flat and our halters/low v-neck/tube tops would like fall down and reveal my bra and stuff. Dress = I have to show my legs and... to be frank I didn't keep up shaving it all that much. So I got forced into wearing a tank and a high-waisted skirt by my group =_=. I was wearing a lacey bra so I think the pattern kinda showed through the tank. My legs weren't like hairy like a beast but it had been like 3 days or whatever and shaving never really keeps the hairs away that long =_=. Gawd, that was an uncomfortable night. We were all standing in a circle so when it was your groups turn you had to stand in the middle of the circle to be judged.

Stood there for forever! People had to say why your outfit is good for the topic and what pros there were and etc. Ughhh. When it finally ended a co-worker offered to give me a ride home (thank god!). Then it turned out her dad smokes.... in the car... The whole ride I was like X_X. I really, really hate the smell of smoke. It makes me sick.

Uncle is coming to visit on Wednesday. He's bringing along the two kids this time. He's so mean haha T_T. Every time he comes he always gives like a last minute warning. And I mean it when I mean last minute! Thank god this time he actually gave a week's notice. In the past he would be on the road driving from Vancouver and he'll call and be like "Hello!! Just to let you know we're leaving to come visit you guys! We're coming right now! Literally! I'm walking out the door!!" And a couple times he told us while we were out of the house. Too bad for him because one time we weren't at home till late so he had to wait HAHAHA. That's what you get for being so mean >_>!! I really wanted to go Vancouver to visit him though. I haven't been there to actually hang out for a longgg time. The last time we were in Vancouver it was just to stop for a bit before switching flights.

I kind of didn't want him to bring his kids. I'm mean like that XD. But they're older now so I'm hoping they're not as annoying hahaha. They're kind of like otakus >_>. My uncle actually bought them the naruto headbands hahaha =_=!! I think the oldest is just starting jr high this fall though (gr. 7). Wonder what he looks like. Uncle said he's chubby. I wonder if it's the Asian chubby or real chubby. I know Asians are really into being skinny. Sometimes I think people are really fussy about weight. A bit chubby and it's not good, a bit skinny and it's not good. Bah. I feel like as long as people don't have a ton of fat rolls coming out or look like those anorexic people then it's fine. I hate reading people's comments when it's like "ew fatass" or "gawd someone give her a hamburger". Off topic, I know haha.

Finished watching Seigi no Mikata not too long ago. I liked it quite a bit haha. It's one of those overacting comedies. Gotta say, never would've imagined Yamada Yu acting like that hahaha. If you want a comedy to just take your mind off stuff/don't have to think too much you should check it out. Read about the drama here. If I had a sister like the one in the drama I would die =_=. So mean haha.

Watched Jotei after that. I really like stories about the girl striving for the top to gain power/for revenge haha. Which is why I also love reading Skip Beat! the manga :B !! Good stuff. I liked this drama but I wish there was more emotion shown. I don't know if Kato Rosa was the best choice for this role. Just because she has to put so much on the line and whenever she gets pissed at someone that's blocking her way to achieve the goal it seems a bit half-hearted. I want to see that "I WILL KICK YOUR EFFING ASS TO THE MOON, BETCH!!" look haha. But it looks more like her body says that but her eyes are kind of dead o_O. Don't know haha. I would think the pissed off look would be one of the easier emotions to pull off. Not like those sad parts where the actress really needs to put in their all to make it believable.

I bought a bunch of stuff in between entries haha. Clothes, cosmetics, and skincare items. I'll have to blog about that next time though because I got excited and never took pics XD. Also I have no photoshop on this laptop yet and I like using that to scale my pics :B
But actually, I could just post online pics of it haha. Clothes I can't.
Went to shoppers drug mart and came out with a hole of almost $180 in my pocket hahaha.

Cover FX Cream Foundation, Radiant FX Mineral Powder, Setting FX Mineral Powder
I actually wasn't going to buy the bronzer or the setting powder haha. In fact, I was just going to buy the cover fx to use as a concealer because I saw it in a video, I think??? But gotta say, it would be quite expensive just as a concealer haha. It works quite good in that sense though. I haven't really had a chance to use it as a foundation because I'm currently trying out Innifree's Trouble Care BB Cream. Which, btw, kind of reminds me of a tinted moisturizer. It's very light coverage so it looks natural. But right now my skin isn't good enough to just wear that haha. I do like how it has a pump and it squirts out a nice amount each time. It has a scent to it so I don't know if everyone would be happy with it. I think it's a tea tree oil (?? don't have it beside me to look haha) scent. Think that's what it says on the box/tube??

Anyway, it was kind of a splurge. The makeup lady put bronzer on me and I kind of liked it so I bought it hahaha. I was looking for a nice powder to set my makeup so I thought why not and bought that too haha. =_=. Lady must be like :D ♥!!

Vichy Normaderm Gentle Cleansing Gel Cream, Vichy Normaderm Toner, Vichy Normaderm Lotion SPF 15
When the makeup artist was helping me find my color for the cover fx line (which btw has a WIDE range of colors so you should definitely find something that suits you) she noticed that I had problem skin and recommended me Vichy Normaderm. I got to say, I think I'm liking it. After a couple days I start to see my face clear up a bit. Think it has almost been two weeks now. My face was almost back to its original condition haha. My face seemed brighter and clearer. I wish I could show you guys the difference except my skin decided to be a bitch today. I've been very anxious/stressed these days and I can't sleep through the night so I broke out today =_=. Even products can't help that haha. But honestly though, if you want to try a new product that can help you get clearer skin definitely give this a try. It's for sensitive skin too. The cleanser is very gentle. It didn't dry my face up like other acne products I've tried. After I used it my face was a bit softer.

The line does have a certain smell to it though. In the cleanser it smelled good, but in the toner it was quite strong x_x. If you don't like scented stuff you might be bothered by the toner.

I didn't like the lotion. I'm not quite sure if it's because it has SPF properties or because it's a mattifying lotion. Maybe because it's both. Either way, it doesn't moisturize my face as much as I like. My skin is combo-oily. But because it's combo I do have dry spots and I feel like if I only put this on my face wouldn't be able to carry makeup. I put this on just for the SPF now (and because I wasted money on it.. hahaha) and put on my Skinfood Lettuce Cucumber Water Jelly Cream and it feels more hydrated.

Okay.. getting late haha. Not going to post the Skinfood stuff tonight.

- jiawen

You Don't Like My What?

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:21:32 GMT

Sally: So, what school you go to?
Me: School? University.
Sally: -incredulous look- NO WAY! SERIOUSLY?! -starts laughing-
Me: ...I know.. I look young =_=
Sally: I thought you were in grade 10!!
Me: ..............

Jenn: Doesn't my hair look like a mullet when I tie it like this
Us: Yeah -disgusted face-

....

Jenn: Sign this! Mrs. Carmennn
Me: Mrsss?
Jenn: Yes, Mrs.
Sally: You're married?! O_O
Me: ....You say it like you actually believed it..
Sally: ...
Me: Yes, I'm married to Jenn
Jenn: Ohh yeahhh. Giggity giggity. Fell in love with my mullet
Me: Shiet.. forgot about that.. I want a divorce : (

-everyone is trying on the new boots we just got in-
Jenn: What do you think, Ashley? They look good on me?
Ashley: I don't really like those boots
Jenn: ......What? ......You don't like my boobs?! ...-covers herself up-
Ashley: .....WHAT?! What about your boobs?!
Jenn: ... What's wrong with my boobs!?
Us: ... your boots.. She doesn't like those boots....

btw.. we were all yelling across the store to each other when this happened.. HAHA =_=

Never Want to See You Cry, Cry, Cry~

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:07:13 GMT

The last entry was a joke haha. My manager and me are on good terms XD. You guys should hear what I say to my manager.. HAHA. I got told "you're such an ass T_T" so many times HAHA. I would tell you what I said but I have short-term memory and cannot for the life of me remember the things I've said HAHA. I'm mean :B Funny-mean. If I'm "mean" to a person it means I'm comfortable with them.

Seriously though, my memories so bad. My friends would tell me something and when they mention it again the next day it's like all new information to me again HAHA =_=;; They must want to choke me sometimes.

Bought this when I went shopping with Con Con again. Was just going to buy the brush cleaner but then I saw this Smashbox Eyelash Primer.. and got tempted haha. I fell in love with it XD. I'm not sure if it actually works as a primer, really. I think it actually works more like those L'Oreal mascaras where one side is white and the other side is black. Makes my lashes look nice though. Well, as nice as short, Asian eyelashes are gonna look haha. I like it more than the L'Oreal ones though. I had one of those back then and I hated it. It was so hard to cover with the black mascara x_x. It also kinda clumped. This Smashbox one made my lashes look thicker and a bit longer. When I put on my Imju Fiberwig Mascara which lengthens my lashes it looks perfect :D.

Have I done a review on Imju Fiberwig Mascara before? I really like it haha. It doesn't come off until you rub it off with water and it doesn't go all over and make raccoon eyes. It comes off in little pieces which you can easily wash off. Looks good, stays on and easy to take off without causing a mess :D Think they sell that at Sephora now. I bought mine online from Asian site o_o haha.

Seriously, whenever I go shopping with Connie I make her spend so much HAHA. Shopping buddy? Well, at least she's willing to spend or else it wouldn't be much fun shopping with me x_x haha. We went perfume shopping. We smelled Theirry Mugler's Alien... swear to God it reminded me of the Chinese ointment Mopiko. HAHA Which btw works wonders on itchy bites from those pesky mosquitos >_>. Mopiko costs like, what? $5-$6? HAHA . Alien costs I think... around $90? Could buy 18 Mopikos if you wanna smell like it? HAHA. Dab a little bit and we'll all definitely smell it XD.

People kept suggesting perfumes for us to try/smell x_x haha. And none of them offered coffee beans for us to cleanse the palette. So I was like dying a little bit after. Connie had like 10 pieces of test paper HAHA. She was like =_=;; wth am I supposed to do with all of them ... -silence-... *shoves them all into bag* it'll make it smell nice in there. I really liked the Ed Hardy one that this one lady showed us though. The pink bottle. Mmm... like candy.

Another girl tried to steal today haha. And she had a lot with her. Sometimes it gets a little obvious when people try to steal. They act all shady. We have this 5/$20 promo going on for the undies and the girl didn't even look through it really. Usually girls take a look at everything and then do their picking. She just like took them randomly from one side of the table. She actually did that with everything. One look, grab, one look, grab. I've seen costumers that pick a lot of stuff off the racks but it's not done in the same way. It was almost as if she was trying to grab anything that looked good and wanted to bolt as soon as possible.

Nikki and I were like cornering her haha. She watched from one side while I watched from the other. Her friend or relative started acting shady too. She just took these jeans off the hanger... Usually people take it with the hanger o_O. They only leave the hanger there if they're trying on, say a hoodie. And she was holding it close to her. Then they were like stuffing items between other items. Costumers do that to hide the amount of items they have if they're trying to steal.. And then they did the most obvious thing. They stood behind this mirror. It's like the most ideal spot to jack stuff.. It's like in a corner. 'Cept Nicole and I were in plain view of them haha. They were like pretending to look at the sweats there. I think they kind of freaked out. 3 of us ended up being close by. I also think they got pissed cuz their plan didn't work out. This middle-aged man, don't know if he's their dad or whoever, but he paid for htem. I don't think he even knew they were trying to steal. He was very nice. Anyway, I think they got pissed because when they were at the counter they practically threw their stuff at me =_=. Beetch please. If anyone should be pissed, it should be us. Our ass would be on the line if they found out someone stole so many things during our shift. Their total came to like $133+. And most things in our store is lower than $30. Pretty sure they had over 10 items >_>.

Turns out the fashion show I mentioned on Twitter is for employees only. That confuzzles me. I thought it was for the public too. What's the point of us watching the fashion show? Doesn't make sense. When we buy it they make less money haha. The fashion show would've been a good promotion for the store. Not just to sell clothes worn by the models, but it'll draw in a crowd if they see a party. But whatever, their choice. Also, we were supposed to get a bubble machine for our display D: !! The machine didn't work T_T. It just foamed. Was hoping to like run through the display window HAHA. Woo bubbles.

- jiawen

Thanks?

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:15:01 GMT

Manager: "Did you clock off?"
Me: "........what? Did you just tell me to f--k off?!"
Manager: "...No.."
-awkward silence and then laughter-
Manager: "I wouldn't say that to you..........aloud"
Me: "....=_="

Good work day? I should say.. HAHA JKJK.

ISWAS & Makeup & Clothes :o

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:11:52 GMT

most of the images are under lj cut. and just to warn you, it's pretty img heavy : p

~~Canada Post~~ the mailman did it again. Instead of deliverying it they just stuck the piece of "failed delivery" paper into my mailbox. Not even on my doorknob. Yeah, thanks >_>. It wasn't even heavy. I had to walk all the way home with the box (and it takes like over 10 minutes...). If I can do that, you can drive that 3 second distance from the mailbox to my doorstep or a 20 second walk from the mailbox to my doorstep. Wtf? I hate whenever they do that. I check the tracking to see when it has arrived in my city. There's always someone home. No way it could've failed. Heck, how could it fail when you didn't even do the actual delivery. I guess it's a fail... on his part >_>. He's lucky that the box was light... would've been extra PO'ed.

Here's what Fei got o_o

Sorry haha took hers with cell because I couldn't find my digi. Her stuff are so cute. The post-its w/ pics and the ninja bunny pouch. Heart the pouch.
Connie's purchase:

The card case wallet in the bottom left corner is soo purdy. I really like it. I actually didn't even know our card cases were wallets too haha. I rHers come with a mini coin pouch : ( I wish mine comes with one too haha. She got those keyboard keys with cute faces on them too haha. They're cell chains. We got similar stuff.. cuz she saw what I picked and want them too >_> HAHA.
My purchase:

Card case wallet

Post-its. Aren't they so cute >:O Lovee Connie has one of the characters as cell chains XD

Ninja bunny to take care of ear phones. Heart it haha. I get so many looks because of this thing HAHA. I was waiting for the bus so I took it out because I wanted to listen to ipod. This middle-aged man behind me saw it and let out a muffled laugh =_=. And people on the bus are always like >_>.

Piggy sleeping mask! Fei was like "are you really gonna use this?" HAHA. Yes. I was actually gonna go buy one because I've been having a hard time sleeping sometimes because it's not dark enough. My body is like meh.

Used. HAHA. K I look like crap here because.. well actually I have no excuse HAHA : (

Deco Pack to decorate my planner. I didn't wanna open it just to take pic haha. I was dreading the fact that I have to fix the lighting and resize all the photos aleady : P

These monkey stickers are so darn cute haha. There's 4 pages all with different stickers.

It's actually really nice. There's decorations in the front that my camera didn't capture. And the inside of this planner is decorated nice. All these drawings and stuff on every page.

Cool stickers of a male cartoon making faces to deco my planner. There's red ones that are girls on the other sheet behind :o

And just for the hell of it because I like the simple yet cute design on the ear phones I got those haha. Woot, match my ninja bunny. I actually really like these. They're very comfortable. Usually I can never use the plug-in ones because it's too big and I can't make it fit into my ear. These ones have 3 different sizes so I put on the small ones. Do the ones here have that? haha. I don't know these things because I'm scared to buy the plug in ear ones just in case :o

Bought a little more candy from T&T to try:

Top is 'cola' (so it says) and the bottom is milk flavored. Both are okay. Don't think I'll repurchase though. They're both those gummy/chewy ones but it's a weird mix when it comes to the milk one. It's like a fizzy..chewy..milk candy... doesn't that sound weird? haha.

I heart these XD. It's like syrup candy on the outside and inside are those Chinese prune things (wa mui). Mmm...

By the way.. SO GOOD!! White Gourd Juice. MMMMM <3. If you like trying out Asian drinks, try this one. I love Asian drinks. They're always so pure and cool.

Didn't get to be part of the whole hangout on Saturday with my friends haha. They went shoping downtown without me : ( I had to work. But they were nice enough to go out early with me so we could have lunch together. But to be honest I died a little because I'm 100% not a morning person and I woke up at 10AM.. just for your information.. if I could sleep to whatever time I want I usually wake up at 1PM or 2PM hahaha. I ended up buying stuff anyway because I helped my friends buy something with my discount so I bought what I wanted too.

PJ shorts >:O I thought they were cute haha. I didn't know they were so darn short though. I never really noticed (even though I was the one who did the stock for these =_= haha). It wasn't until I put them on and I rolled the top part and realized my ass was hanging out. So I had to wear them as is XD.

That's how short it is without rolling it and if I wear it like...low-rise style. Imagine non-asian butts (aka.. people that have butts hahah xD) wearing these. Even if they wear it the same way as me I'm pretty sure their ass would be hanging hahaha. But whatever, I like 'em anyways. Comfy during summer. I'll probably purchase the long ones soon. (PS... I uploaded all my pics on flickr in a batch.. and RIGHT after it got a view before I could set it to private.. LOL.. pervs.. And I put these kinds of pics to private because it'll be seen in wrong context)

Bought both colors haha. Looks cute. Looks nicer on mannequin compared to this..sprawled across my bed haha.

And this shawl cardigan.
Got a black one for Connie and a pair of green sweat pants capris for Leeners.

Last time Fei and I dropped by Shoppers Drug Mart and I randomly splurged on the Benefit lipgloss and bought GOSH primer.

I rather like this. At first I didn't know it was actually blue XD. I thought it was just decorated like that. It wasn't until I squirted it out to try that I realized it was blue. Thankfully, it doesn't show up when you wear it :p It's minty so it feels nice on the lips. Apparently, Bath & Body Works sells something like this too. I never tried it but Leen has it so I know haha. I can't compare though because I've never used the other one. I don't even know if they sell it in the Canadian B&BW?? I don't remember seeing it. Might try that one after this one is done if it's available since this one wasn't cheap XD.

I'm glad Fei rec'd this to me. I went home to read the ratings on MUA after purchasing just to check and luckily, almost all of them were good. It actually is really nice. They make it a much smoother process when you apply foundation. My brush slides across my face much nicer. It doesn't have a greasy look even though when you put it on it feels like it would since it's supposed to make your skin feel like "velvet" haha. My makeup stays on longer because it also keeps my oil down. My face is much less oily now in the same amount of time. My makeup looks more natural with this on. I would probably give this a 4.5/5. 0.5 taken off because it didn't seem to really moisturize my face or anything. When I feel it it feels about the same, but it still makes the application smoother so only 0.5 off haha.

Went shopping with Connie today because I needed new jeans and sporty shoes. Ended up buying a TNA hoodie too because it was on sale >: O
At first I was actually gonna buy a Lacoste one. But I don't know.. I wasn't exactly in love with it and would put a hole in my pocket of about $155. So I had to be for sure.. but I ended up buying Adidas instead. Blinggg

I heart the details haha. The lining on the side.. and you should see the bottom of the shoes haha. And it was on sale!! Plus a 5% off with my student price card BAHAHHA. Niceee.

All the jeans nowadays are skinny.. Dammit haha. I can't pull it off =_=. Maybe I'm not used to it but it looks weird on me. Luckily I found straight and mini boot-leg ones -whew-. Cheap too! BAHAHA. And SPC also applies to this one :B

Meh heh heh. It's so warm.. good investment for winter. Gold here too! Actually all 3 items put together look real purdy. I guess it's not so different from what all the other girls wear nowadays but trust me.. dressing casual like this is a big deal for me HAHA. I don't have casual outfits like this. Having a closet full of clothes from Asia isn't always a good thing =_=.

And to end this entry off... here's a camwhore pic of the entry & a random flower I saw in my front yard. I didn't even know those things grow into flowers.. that or I forget each time Canadian winter comes to wipe them out HAHA.

- j hien

Mm... Creamy Chicken Alfredo

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:09:51 GMT

I liked the way this pic turned out.. so I had to post it :D hahaha. I haven't changed the pics on that bulletin board since forever. You can still see Junsu there in the corner XD.

I'm dead tired. Been forced into working 6 days in a row. Not just that.. I couldn't even get the day off that I wanted so that I could rest. I was already like rawr because I had to work 4 days in a row. This Monday was supposed to be my day off but no... without asking the other part-timers they just put me into this shift D:< !! I am not a happy camper. My big toe on one foot is hurting like a bitch too. My first guess was maybe it's because of my shoes.. but I've never had this problem before during work o_O.

Anyway.. I'm in a foul mood these days because bad things have been piling up. It seems weird but it really helps me relax when I just go surf the web for a couple hours before going to sleep. It just keeps my mind off things. Even if I'm not really doing anything particularly important or interesting on the net. And it doesn't help that my laptop is STILL dead and has not been fixed so I don't have the freedom of using my laptop whenever I please. Blahblahblah, go get it fixed then. Yeah, I know. Hate whenever I say things and people say "just do it then". I would if it were so simple. "I want to go shopping" "Then go...." ...-jumps kick them- Give me money and the time to go.

Did you guys get this too?

I LOL-ed when I saw it. I'm not sure why.. haha looks like such a loser. I know his arms are just in a circle but for some reason when I saw it I imagined it like how Korean people like to make a heart with their arms. Can you imagine someone that looked like him going up to you and is like "Th-arang Hae Yoooo" (yeah it's a lisp XD) - I Love You in Korean hahaha. Ew.

This is awhile ago but I never went around to blogging it. Felicia and I went to this place where a bunch of outlets are. Seriously, Canadian ones suck. My friend went to the US and she got.. I think it was True Religion jeans for like $70+? We would never have that in Canada haha. Anyway, all the stuff at the outlets were barely marked down. I think the belt Fei wanted which was like 50 went down like... $8? haha. We did find Guess wallets that we wanted but their credit/debit machine wasn't working >_>. The bus ride there took TWO hours. We live on northside and the outlet place was on the southside... way south.

At least we got to go eat at Joey's Tomato. I LOVEEE their Creamy Chicken Alfredo. It's worth every penny.

It's taken with cell so it doesn't look nice but I did have a pic of it posted like.. last year? I totally forgot that I had this haha. So when it came and I took I bite it was love all over again XD. They have a huge serving. Fei and I split it in half so that's my half in the pic. It was just enough. I remember back then I couldn't finish it all and had to take it home >_<. Their plates are huge so don't let the picture fool you. The site says the restaurant is only available in one state in the US o_O. I'm glad there's one in my city :o

I love how each Joey's is decorated differently but they all look great. I never took a pic of the one I went to with my family but it was fantastic. Maybe I can persuade them to go again so I can take pic haha. The bar at the one Felicia and I went to looked cool. I didn't want to run up to the place just to take a pic >_> haha.

But.. if you look closely.. you'll see all those alcohol bottles lined up and there's a light shining behind them meh heh heh. Fei says it looks prettier at night.. I believe her... since you can see the glare I had to deal with hahah XD

A new T&T opened near me so I checked it out for the first time. They have good sushi HAHA. So gonna buy more >_>. The other T&T never had this. Unless it's a new thing for all T&Ts in my area o_O

The mango/california roll thing and the spicy scallop roll.. OMFG SO GOOD! I've had Chop Chop before but I never really liked it. It just tasted like squishy stuff between rice. The spice in this one made me like it though haha -thumbs up. But.. my fav was the mango one. The mango was so sweet!! And when I bought it I never took a close look. The mango sold it for me HAHA. When I went home to try I realize there was a salmon piece under... TWO OF MY FAV THINGS?! Can't go wrong there.

I splurged a bit on candy. I wanted to try everything. Of course I couldn't so I'll have to go back again and again hahaha.

The green one is a green tea-milk one. It is SOOO good. If you have it at your local Asian store go buy it. My grandma bought some back from China a year ago and I fell in love with it. Then I found out T&T sold it... JACKPOT >_>! I realize they had other flavors so I bought those too. I swear I didn't even know I threw in the strawberry-milk one... and I regret it haha. Tastes weird. The milk one is also really good! If you don't like green tea stuff at least try out the milk one. I think a lot of people have already tried the cola candy. I like those haha. The last one is a chewy/gummy-ish candy. It's more rubbery than starburst. It says it's soda flavored. In the middle there are these things that fizz once you bite it. I thought it tasted like those pink bubblegum? haha. Nice to try but I won't be repurchasing that flavor again >_>.

Until next time :P

- J HIEN

Lessons in Shopping

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:16:00 GMT

posted on 13th

I wonder what my next job will be after I'm done with my retail one haha. It's kind of interesting to find out what kind of customers different jobs receive and how customers can act. I would think that after a person works they would know how crappy other people can treat them and in turn, maybe treat the employees that are helping them a little better. I know that after I worked at Yogen Fruz (it's like Pinkberry..'cept I don't think they have as many choices haha) when I order stuff I try to be more patient and when I go to Second Cup I sometimes tip haha. I also learned to ask for things nicely. You really don't want to piss off people when they're handling your food... O_O. No, we never spat in it or anything haha. Just that I know that my coworkers could've handled the food more cleanly >_> haha.

So what have I learned in retail that you can benefit from reading? - Prepare for the long read XD
1) Do us all a favor and lift up the pile when you want to get a shirt from the bottom/middle of the stack? I don't mind cleaning up the stack I just hate when people just pull one from the bottom/middle and the WHOLE pile gets flipped every which way. We have to size them all again, you know : ( Last time I spent pretty much all four hours of my shift going between TWO tables refolding shirts/tanks!
- side note: ..it's so gross when people throw the tank top they tried out back on the table and when I fold it I see deodorant marks all over... D: whoa! Would YOU want to buy that after seeing that?!

2) When we say hello I know some people just walk past us and pretend we aren't there at all. That's fine, but you know what? When you need help and want us to get you something don't think we'll be all rainbows and sunshine about it =\. Acknowledging us only when you need help isn't very nice : ( Even a simple nod in our direction would be nice? I guess it's not that big of a deal, but it just really puts you off when a whole bunch of people in a row just walks past you when you greet them =_=. People have been doing that a lot to us these days.

3) It's kind of rude to go to one of our co-workers to ask the same question not to mention it wastes our time. That is unless the person you asked couldn't answer your question in the first place. For example, this lady came up to me to ask about a shirt. She asked if there were anymore in the back. I told her no because I was just in the back and there was no new stock in the back room. She gave me a look and then when I walked past another co-worker if mine I overheard her asking the same question. My co-worker had to run to the back to check and tell her the same thing. And then later she asked ANOTHER co-worker. Yo, lady. We said no. My answer wasn't good enough?
This happened another time when a lady said her granddaughter lost 2 of our giftcards in our store. I was in fits all day. In fact, I helped her granddaughter into a fitting room. Every time a costumer leaves we have to check the rooms in case people stole something and ripped off the tags. When her granddaughter came and asked me if I saw any gift cards I said no. But, just to make sure I opened EVERY fitting room to check with her even though I knew she wasn't in any of the back ones. We also have headsets so whenever we find tags or cell phones we mention it in case anyone's looking for it. She leaves when we couldn't find it. Later her grandma goes ask my co-worker if we found any in the fitting rooms. My co-worker started opening all the rooms until I told her I just did so. =_=! Stop wasting our time!

4) This might seem to contradict the above haha. I hope I didn't scare people off from asking stuff ever again. If you have any questions or need help feel free to ask us!! I know occasionally there are some employees are lazy (happened to me when I went shopping >_>) and seem put off when you want to ask about something. Honestly though, we'll be happy to help. That's what we're there for. Most of the time (at least for us) we don't approach you every couple of minutes to ask you if you need help. It doesn't mean we don't want to help. We just don't want to be in your face like O_O!! Or else it'll seem like we're just trying so hard to make a sale. If you have a huge amount of stuff you want to try on, just ask us to help you start a fitting room. We'll gladly put it aside so when you're ready to try it on we'll have it ready! Also, if you have a bunch of stuff you want to pay for but you're still looking around you're welcomed to ask us to put it on the counter for you. If you want to get something that's too high up, ask us to help you get it. Trust me.. it's better than having a broken shelf because a customer decided to use it to stand on to reach for the shirt that's high up : ( I'm sure there's other stuff we can help with too o_O I can't think of everything right now though haha. I just remember this one time a customer had a broken arm and she was trying to carry everything :(. I felt so bad haha. So I asked her if she wanted me to bring it to the front for her :P

5) I'm gonna put this by itself. If you're unsure about the price... PLEASE ask. I swear, I would rather you ask than to bitch about it to me later when I'm on till and I'm scanning in your items while a line starts up behind you. And no, it's not stupid that something of the same style but different colour is priced differently. Imagine it was your own business. You have a basic t-shirt in 4 colours. Black, white, yellow, and pink. Black and white will hands down sell more than yellow and pink. Why? Because those are the colours everybody can wear and can match with everything else they own. Now, you can either price the black&white at regular price $10 while the pink&yellow are priced cheaper ($5) so it'll sell as much as the black&white t-shirts OR you can price them all at $5. As a business woman/man which would you pick? The first option right? So, when I tell you they're not price the same don't give me the effing BS remark "WELL THAT'S JUST RIDICULOUS?! THEY'RE THE EXACT SAME THING!!" No, it's not. I'm sure if you used your eyes properly, you will see that the colours are different. And which ones did you pick? The colour that everybody else wants. Another thing, don't act dumb please =\ or say it's store policy that 'customers are always right'. Is it your store? This ain't no Wal-Mart... When you see one item's tag different compared to all the tags of the same item don't tell me you should get it at the price you THINK it is. I've had customers bring up a bag that's supposed to be $15 and if you look at all the other ones it'll say $15. When we slap on red tags on the amount of items that we do we don't have time to make sure the tag goes on perfectly in the middle. It might be off to the side. Anyway, the 1 was off to the side and must've fallen off so they wanted us to sell it to them for $5 only.. Uhm.. no :) And if customers are "always right" as you said there would be no stores left because of your dumb excuse to be cheap.

6) We just work there. We don't get anything for ripping you off. It's not like we have a contest - for every 15 costumers you rip off you get a 5% bonus... yeah right. If we made a mistake on your receipt just tell us. We'll happily fix it for you since WE messed up. You don't have to rip our heads off. Do you not ever make mistakes? In fact, we get warned when we make mistakes often. We don't need YOU riding on our ass about it too. Crap, when we're like 4 cents under on our till they already keep an eye on us. Does it look like I want to risk ripping off like $2 for my job?

7) Mm... when costumers do returns/exchanges they have GOT to read the policy on it. When you mess up we can't do anything about it. So, if you have any questions please ask. For one, you have got to keep the receipt and the tag if you want your money back. Or else you'll end up with an exchange only. This lady got pissed cuz I wouldn't give her her money back. It was a clearance items. Clearance items don't get returns. Another got pissed because she didn't have the credit card she paid with. Who is going to take the blame if I put it into someone else's bank account? If you want cash back, you need to pay with cash. We can't give you cash when you paid with credit card. We're not an ATM : ). Actually while I'm at it why don't I type out what I'm sure most stores require.
- know the time limit which you can do returns/exchanges in. I don't really ever have to deal with this because ours is long - 30 days
- bring your original receipt. Without it you cannot prove your purchase. For us, we can only do exchanges in cases like these - which I think is nice of the company.
- PLEASE return it in original condition =_=. This includes tags too. We've had people bring it in when it was obviously torn by them - accident or not we can't take it. Not unless it was a manufacturer thing. If there's perfume or a washed smell we know you wore it =_=. We're not dumb. Someone even tried to do a return when there was a big black mark on it... and we know it's not our fault nor the manufacturers. It passes through at least 2 people in the store before we put it on the floor. First, the person who did stock. Second, the merchandiser that put it on the floor in the store as you see it.
- be prepared to use up a bit of time. It's not a joyride for us either. I had a customer that rolled her eyes and scoffed when I asked for her information =_=. What the hell.. if you would just concentrate for like 2 minutes it would be over and done with. Instead you dragged it with your bitchy attitude by giving me your information to me in a condescending way. And just for that I did it as slow as possible to waste YOUR time too :) You know why? I HAVE to be here until my shift is over. You don't! I hope you had fun repeating all your information 3 times. What? What's that? I can't hear you : ) Ooo I need it again!
- if you didn't pay by cash, you need to have whatever you paid with on you. Yes, the EXACT credit card or debit card. Cuz if we mess up and put it into the wrong card YOU won't be taking the blame. WE would. By the way.. this reminds me.. when I ask for your ID when you use your credit card, don't give me attitude >_>. It's just as much for you as it is for me. If your card gets stolen and someone uses it don't you cry!
- clearance items are final sale.. because they're just that: items we need to clear out. Does it look like we want it back after i red tag it like 3 times XD?

8) I know like 95% of the stores I go into lock their fitting rooms. Usually when it's not locked it's because when the custome's done trying on their clothes the person working the fits didn't go clean up the room and close the door yet. I don't get irritated but it's kind of weird haha. Costumers would sometimes see me fixing up clothes taken from fitting rooms to be put back on the floor. They would just walk past me (even after we make eye contact) and pursue to start trying to open every fitting room. So I would hear the clicking sound of locked doors as the person travels down the hallway haha. I would then have to rush out and be like "o_O.. did you need a fitting room? How many items do you have?" I don't know if they're embarrassed or that's just how they are but sometimes they give me this dirty look without a response. Is it because we lock our doors? Is it because you walked past me even though I was standing there with the keys??

I'm gonna end this because like always.. I'm typing stuff up at like 2-3AM haha. And this turned out longer than I thought. In fact, it's a bit of a rant hahaha.

-pokes you all-

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:27:46 GMT

You know how Chandler in Friends likes to do weird jokes when it comes to uncomfortable situations? I like to poke people =.= heh heh heh. Of course, I only do it with people I'm comfortable with only haha. I don't poke stangers o_o.. Now that I think about it, I don't think it only happens when it comes to uncomfortable situations. I'm not quite sure why I do it hahaha XD.

Been sooo bored at work lately. Working in retail can be boring as hell when there are no costumers =_=. It's been REALLY dead nowadays. It might be because everyone's gone for vacation. Not sure. I heard that in August it will be really busy though since it's time for back to school shopping. I sound picky but I like it between busy and dead haha. When it's busy and you're the cashier or the person in fits, it kinda sucks. Helping one person after another without stopping x_x. And in fits you have to hang/button/zip/etc. everything in the big heaps of clothing >_>. Today it was so dead that only Nicole and I worked haha =_=. Usually we have 3 people during the nights that aren't as busy and 4 on the busier nights. Nonetheless, two of us were more than enough haha.

People keep stealing our tester nail polishes.. why would you steal testers? Wouldn't you want a new one? And it's more noticable since the testers are set out. The new ones are all in a bowl x_x.

Some girl stole a shirt today haha. I love hearing about these things because of the ~~inventive~~ amusing ways people steal. This happened before my shift so I don't know exactly how it played out but it pretty much goes like this:
Nicole was working fits. Two girls came in to try out clothes. Nicole actually took the clothes out of their hands to count them before opening up a room for them and putting a number tag on their door. Nicole had to take care of something so Jenn substituted in for Nicole for a while. When the girls came out Jenn noticed that one of the shirts was missing so Jenn asked about it. Girl A, the one that took it in, said that she had put it back by herself. Usually -and honestly, we prefer you do this- people give us the clothes they tried on or leave it in their fitting room. So Jenn was like, "Oh really? Do you mind showing me where it is?".

And we knew Girl B wasn't even in the know about what was happening because in the middle these events she found the tag and asked Jenn if that was what she was looking for. What kind of friend does that? You steal something and throw the tag into your friends fitting room? Nice backstabbing there. Did I not say people come up with amusing ways when stealing =_=?

Anyway they went to the rack to search for the cami that was missing a tag. Of course, they couldn't find it. The funny thing was, the girl didn't simply just put on the shirt under her jacket. She hid it inside her sweater.. Like some extra fat roll or something HAHA. So when she bent down to help Jenn find the shirt she kept pulling on her sweater like how a girl would if they're scared their butt crack might show or whatever. She was scared it'll drop out of her sweater XD. So much work to keep it safe HAHA. Jenn even gave her a chance to come up with the item. She was like "I gotta go help someone in fits so can you continue to help me look?" The girl still didn't take the chance >_<. Jenn told Nicole on headset to "go call security and tell them to wait outside the store" HAHA.

When the girl left our store the security didn't go after them x_X LOL. I don't know why. Maybe they weren't paying attention or whatever but yes... Jenn was like ".....THAT'S THEM!!! GO AFTER THEM! D: !!" Security didn't even have to search for the item... The girl is very stupid =_=. She walked out of our store, which meant she had to have walked past the security. Not very far after, she took the shirt out from under her sweater.. LOL!!! =_=!! So yes.. security got the shirt back to us XD. You couldn't just have jet out of the mall... -thumbs up-

random note: .. I just noticed that I'm like much more closer with my managers than the other part-timers o_O haha good thing?

Burning Through Money

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:11:45 GMT

My work made me work on Canada Day (Connie's Bday) haha =_=. Bet it's because I'm new so I'm still under probation. They don't have to pay me more >_>. Bah! And on top of that they only gave me 3 days... wth. I need money haha.

I finally got to hang out with a couple of my friends at the same time on Friday. The day lasted shorter than I thought haha and we did and didn't do some stuff that I had expected. It was still a pretty okay day. Went to a mall downtown to meet up with Leen/Fei first. Bought some books haha. I was going to buy a watch for dad as a late father's day present.. but.. it was so expensive HAHA. It's cheaper online. Sorry dad =\ your present will come! Very late D: Went to eat at Mikado again. Actually wanted to go Moxie's but I was out voted haha. I went to Mikado too frequently and wanted a change in taste. At least this time we ordered a bunch of stuff and shared instead.

Tried their Chicken Yaki Udon.. SO GOOD! I have never tried their udon before. It was a bit too salty for Leen and Fei's taste, but still tasted good. I thought it was fine... maybe I'm too used to salty food haha. I wish I took a picture.. but I didn't think of it when I saw it haha. I was too hungry. I did take a pic of my dessert though!

Mango parfait! It was quite good except for a couple of things >_<. The mango pieces obviously weren't fresh because, well, they had ice on it haha. Also because it tasted the same as that one time I tried buying frozen mango.. tastes like crap. It's sooo sour. I'm glad they put whip cream on it because if I didn't have the whip cream I would die because it was so sour. Connie and Fei said their's weren't sour but had no taste. Under it was mango ice cream and I'm not sure if it was cheese or vanilla haha. I was rushing through it cuz it was good >_>. Under that was yogurt and peaches. The yogurt was gross O_O. I was eating through the parfait and quickly going through the layers on one side only so I didn't notice I already got to the yogurt. At first I wasn't sure if it's cuz I mixed it with the mango ice cream. That wasn't why though. Fei said it might be because it's just plain yogurt. It tastes like barf, wtf. I never knew plain yogurt tastes like that?!?! Especially since Leen is kind of sensitive to dairy products like yogurt haha.

Went to a mall on the north side after because I was going to help my friends get some stuff with my employee discount haha. Ended up shopping instead. I totally did not expect to shop o_o. These things look nicer on a mannequin or on hangers. I don't have a place to hang it up to show you though nor do I have a full-length mirror in my room to take a picture to show you haha (not to mention I'm lazy. I mention that in every entry :D). There's one in my parents bedroom but it's so dirty HAHA. It keeps making it look like I have white crap all over my shirt : (
(can click for bigger view)
Bought these at Urban Behavior :

Then went to Urban Planet. Didn't expect to get anything there haha. Think I got this at almost $10 only. It was 9.99 but I had a discount card :o

Lots of lacey stuff huh? I actually bought a lot of lacey stuff when I was in China.. like 3?4? years ago.. it is now here HAHA. Gosh we're so slow. While everyone was paying and taking a rest I ran into Jacob Connection to grab a few shirts XD. Connie and Leen was enticed by the ribbon shirts too haha. I actually really liked the one that Connie bought too. Don't want to buy the same one though XD. Got the simple one white instead.

Some other stuff happened and there's other stuff I want to blog about but I'm gonna blog about that tomorrow or something. It's 3AM D: ! Have to bus to work tomorrow~

- jiawen

Bad Luck & Books

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:09:20 GMT

It seems these days work has been filled with bad luck. Coworkers and the store in general has been suffering.

It all started on Thursday. Work seemed normal until everybody started wondering where Kaleigh was. She was supposed to be at work to take over Stephanie (new assistant manager)'s shift. Laurelle told Jenn to wait until 10-20 minutes has passed before freaking out. It causes us stress when people are late because we can't go on breaks or switch zones x_x.. So we waited and waited. Nothing. Jenn called Kaleigh multiple times and no one picked up the phone. She ended up calling everyone to see if they could take Kaleigh's shift. Sweeta said she had to wait till her dad was home to ask him for ride. We also asked the store downstairs (same company, different stores - different styles) to see if they could spare us someone. They said they could but the girl could only stay till 7:30 haha. We go home at 9:30 D: !

Jenn started freaking out because it was almost 6:30 (Kaleigh should've been there at 5) and she needs to leave at 6:30. She took the morning shift on purpose because she was going to drive out to Banff with her boyfriend and they were supposed to be there by tonight. I felt so bad for her haha. And it wasn't normal for a worker to be so late without even a phone call to explain why. 6:30 came by and the girl from downstairs still didn't show up. This made Jenn freak out even more haha. Also, Sweeta had called in saying she couldn't take the shift. Which meant that Laurelle and I were the only ones closing that night. We always have 3 people or else we can't get everything done by 9:30.

Out of nowhere Kaleigh's dad shows up and handed Jenn a piece of paper. Guess what it was? A "resignation letter". I cannot tell you how effing pissed off we were. Jenn told him that when people quit the company needs a 2 week notice. The dad said he didn't care, his daughter's quitting. So Jenn told him outright that no, it's not called quitting it's just called abandoning your job. I'm sure they did this to piss Jenn off. Because he had the "I don't care" smug attitude when he was talking to Jenn. All Jenn could do was pretend to not give a shit and was like "Alright :D !! Well, I have you have a GREAT weekend." In the letter it listed Tuesday as her last day at work haha. Not only was it not a two week notice.. it was given two days later HAHA.

Guess why she quit? She had wanted a weekend off for her birthday. She wanted to go camping. Jenn couldn't give it to her because these things go by first come, first serve and she had already given away all the positions for a day off for the weekend that Kaleigh wanted. Kaleigh cried over this -_-. She was just gonna go camping with her family.. I'm surprised her let dad her do this. We were talking about what kind of parents encourages their child to quit because of a dumb reason like that. If you know your birthday was that week you should've planned it earlier. Always remember that just because you want that day off doesn't mean you'll get it when it's based on a first come, first serve plan =_=. I can't believe her dad came in to give that to us. What kinda person are you if you can't even hand in your own letter? Scared so you ask someone else to do it for you? If it was me and my family they'd be like go to work. We can celebrate another time.

This isn't even the first time she has cried over something dumb at work, I heard =_=. She used to hate Jenn because Jenn used to yell at her.. I don't blame Jenn. Kaleigh did things like taking her cell on the floor.. when you do things like that you are taking a risk. Isn't it obvious you're not allowed to bring it with you? Anyway... if she had done the two week notice she would've gotten her weekend off anyway. By the time the two week was over it would've been the birthday weekend =_=. So it's just obvious she did this so Jenn would be stressed out and have to find people to cover the shifts.

And then for some reason our manager keys were missing. That pair was for the fitting rooms. We have two pairs. One, we put in the number tag closet and the manager keys we usually put them in the drawers under the cash register for whoever was MOD (manager on duty) that day. It was suspicious because Kaleigh always does fits and we wonder if she took them to piss us off =_=. Nobody wanted to tell Toni (district manager) or else we'd get in shit D: ...Today I found out Nicole told Toni it was missing LOL. All of us were trying to keep it under wraps so Jenn wouldn't get blamed for it.

When Laurelle and I were closing we couldn't find the key for the safe =_=. It's a time-locked one so it takes like 10 minutes before it opens... not good haha. We wasted time trying to find it. It was SOO weird. We ALWAYS, ALWAYS put the key in the same spot. Only on that day was it put in a different place. It was hidden under these gift cards. Talk about bad luck!

Then two of my coworkers found out stuff from their doctors. Laurelle had to go to a specialist for her eyes after her optometrist told her there was something showing up in the pictures that shouldn't be there. Turns out there's something wrong with the retina. I think that was it. Something about the fluid in the back leaking through and it's pushing the retina out of place. If anything happens to knock her in the head or something she'll lose her vision in that eye =_=. So.. she has to go for eye surgery sometime. Supposedly they were supposed to call her back by this week. They haven't. We need to know because she'll need like a whole week off to recover. I hope everything goes well for her eye surgery o_o.

And Jenn.. apparently her family has a history of cancer or something. She always has to go do checkups. She had lvl 1 cancer. Usually they just call to tell her when her next checkup is. Recently she received a phone call telling her to go see the doctor.. And it's nervewracking for her because they never tell her to go see the doctor they just tell her when her nextcheck up is. I also hope everything goes well for her....

Why are all these things turning up at once?! D: !!!

I've been twittering every little thing recently so my blogging has cut down haha. But, actually twitter also helps me remember everything that's been happening so I can explain everything in more detail on the blog :D !

I finished reading Vampire Kisses: The Beginning. I have got to say.. I've never been so disappointed in a book haha. I saw some raves on this book so I thought I should try it out. It has also been recommended by a lot by engines that match what you've read before to new books that you should try. It's a good thing this book was 3 books in one and it costed about the same price as buying a single book or else I would've been pissed off for wasting my money.

People diss Twilight but seriously.. Twilight, at least for me, hooked me from the first book. New Moon (the 2nd book in the Twilight series) bored me to death and it wasn't (spoiler??) until Edward showed up at the end that I was even interested again.

For this book I was waiting for the rise in events during the WHOLE book one. Uhh. IMO, I thought the writing was worse than Twilight. The way the narrator spoke sounded like a kid. Which she is, but it irritated me. It's sounded so casual and annoying. Like someone writing in their diary about their day. Or even like me writing my blog right now HAHA. I want to read a story not someone narrating their life like a stranger was doing it D: Do you guys get what I mean? Like if I was narrating my friend's life from what I can see with my own eyes (eg. she was sad.. she liked him) as opposed to my friend telling me how her problems are affecting her (eg. A ragged breath escaped me when I looked at the letter. It hurt to think that he was gone yet the thought kept entering my mind. I need to get out of here to distract my thoughts). The whole first half of the book pretty much spoke about how the girl is an outcast in her town because of her goth style and how her and the popular guy at school keeps trying to one up each other. Second half of the book is about her changing into a girl in love so it has all these cheesy descriptions like his long hair and his sexy dark eyes.. wtfff HAHA uh... I got so tired of reading repeated descriptions about his long black hair and his dark sexy eyes!! It wasn't even until I was half into book two in this volume that I was FINALLY feeling like there was some kind of rise in the events.

Still I thought the descriptions weren't good enough for me. I want to know more about their feelings. I want to be able to put myself into the story and see what's going on. When they're in danger I don't have that tense feeling. Usually in books when you know the character is going to end up in trouble you have that feeling in your heart. The one that's like "OH NO!! What's going to happen to them!?" This book had me pretty indifferent to what's happening to the characters =_=.

If you want to read a vampire series that might capture you into the story I recommend the House of Night series or the Blue Blood series. I don't quite like the narrator in the House of Night. I mean the character. However the story is good. I guess I don't like the main character because of her non-intentional slutty ways and the way she tries to avoid swearing HAHA. "Bull Poop" ughh. I don't remember them all now (there were ones that were worse) because I quickly finished off whatever has been released so far and now I have to wait till October for BOTH the HoN series and the BB series =_= AHHH!!

I'm now reading the Luxe series. So far I'm loving the book :D ! People have described it Gossip Girl -esque. That's kind of true haha. What with the high society lifestyle and all. I think that they're alike only in that sense though. The story is quite different. I like both the Luxe series and the Gossip Girl series for different reasons :P. I'm glad there's aleady 3 books in the series so I can read them all in a row >_<!

I have a lot of books that I bought that are apart of a series =_=. It kinda sucks when that happens haha! 1) You have to buy all the books in the series to find out how it ends. 2) You have to wait so long until the next book comes out if you're reading it as soon as the new book comes out.

K.. entry is hella long AHHA. I get lazy and put everything into one entry.. TA DAH!

Matcha Green Tea is Fail

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:05:22 GMT

I was having a conversation with my co-worker Laurelle about Second Cup (again, for the non-Canadians, Second Cup is like a Starbucks). I just came back from break and I had a drink from Second Cup and she told me that Second Cup got rid of Passion Fruit Green Tea Chiller. That's like green tea frappucino but it has passion fruit in it too. WTF? T_T!!!! WHY SECOND CUP?! WHY?! Do you WANT me to storm into your headquarter and stomp on you?! GAH! Whose bright idea was this!?
First they changed the recipe for my favorite green tea latte. I have always preferred theirs over Starbucks. It is one of the main reasons why I go to Second Cup sometimes instead of going to Starbucks. Now it tastes weird. And they also added on a Matcha Green Tea Latte - which btw, is exactly the same just that it is more heavy on the green tea.
Now, they did that to the chiller too?!!? Instead of Passion Fruit Green Tea it's Matcha Green Tea.... Thanks a lot >_>.
If they had replaced it with an even better tasting drink then I guess I can be soothed that way. But no.. in exchange I got some crappy matcha green tea shiet D: !!!
Why can't they just give it a different name and put it as another drink to sell =_=. It's not like no one orders those drinks. I see a lot of people order those ones T_T.... And yes.. I had to rant about this because I love buying drinks HAHA. It's like a cheer up for a crap day.

Ugh I hate that I'm not blogging much but I don't have anything interesting to say haha. Don't you just hate it when you want to blog but when you open the page to update you just stare at the screen and nothing is coming to you D:

Well I think I should give my review for the SkinFood products now haha. Seems as good a time as any.

Black Bean Nose Pack. Well I actually haven't really gotten around to using these. I tried one of them only. Yeah, it has a weird smell. It seemed decent. It probably works just as well as Biore's though haha. It might seem better because it's black so you can actually see all the whiteheads and dead skin it pulls off. But unless you can find a way to get this cheap, I don't think I would recommend it. If someone finds a way to get it cheap though tell me ;) haha.

Cucumber Soothing Mask (Wash Off). Like I've said in last review it has a cool soothing feeling on the face. I think it's good if you use a very drying cleanser like Proactive. It makes face feel a bit softer. I think I'm gonna try out the other masks next time though to see how they compare to this one.

Lettuce Cucumber Water Jelly Cream. I also said this in the last review for this. It's nice and cool so it's good if you're using harsh products. Or just because it's summer right now and this is really light. My skin does get softer after using this but only slightly. However I think it's great to use during summer when you don't want to put a really heavy cream on your face. When winter comes along though I would definitely have to change creams because this wouldn't be enough for my face. If you face is oily then I think it'll be good. But if your skin gets dry during winter too then it'll be good to switch.

Aloe Vera Foaming Cleanser. If your skin is dry I wouldn't recommend this. I think it would probably dry out your skin. When I wash it off I instantly feel that all the oil from my face is gone. It's fine for me though after I moisturize, but again, I wouldn't use this during the winter. I said in my last review that it makes my face feel tight. It actually doesn't, but it'll definitely feels dry after if I do not quickly moisturize my face. It seems pretty good though if you have oily skin.

Cocoa Lip Balm. I recommend this. If you're looking for a nice lip balm you should try this. It keeps my lips nice and soft for a long time. I have a lot of chapsticks and lip glosses but none of them have the same staying power as this one. It also smells nice so that's a plus :D

Pineapple Hand Cream. Mm I haven't tested this one out much either haha. Just because I have so many different lotions. I use whatever is closest to me whenever my hands feel dry. It does feel nice after putting it on though.

Parsley and Mandarin Emulsion. Nice stuff! I recommend this. After using it for just two days I could already see my skin improving. Although I'm not sure if it's because of the mix of products I used or if it's this emulsion that made the biggest influence. The site says this is for troubled skin so I'm giving this the credit haha. This actually helps moisturize the face a bit too. Of course it isn't enough to moisturize on its own, you will have to apply cream too, but I like it haha. My skin really improved a lot with this. After two nights I already saw areas affected by acne turn less red. My face bounced back from acne quicker than before. Usually it takes a while for it to clear up for this quickened it up. If you're looking for a product to improve your skin, try this out. It won't hurt to try since it doesn't dry up your skin like some acne treating products :D!

Sugar Cookie Blusher #2 Bebe Peach. Out of all the products this is a big let down haha. It was so exciting to see how the other products work out. This one didn't do anything D: Don't waste money on this haha. Nothing attaches itself to the brush and when applied it isn't visible o_O. Not like I want to have this ugly pink circle on my cheeks, but there really wasn't anything visible. Boo T_T.

My friends still haven't reviewed the products so I can't tell you what they thought haha. One of them still haven't gotten their stuff from me so yes haha. So hard to meet up with everyone nowadays =_=. Work sucks.

- jiawen

Skinfood's Here? What?

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:02:33 GMT

So.. in work-related news, haha, I'm getting less hours. Before I had a couple 7 hour shifts. Now I have none. This week I only had 3 days of work instead of the 4 I usually get. I think it's because they hired another girl, Brittany. I don't see why they did since a lot of people are asking for more hours and instead they hire a new person. There's also a new assistant manager. Which is fine I guess since we only have one and there's too many things for her to do.

I found out something shocking at work haha.
Well, when I first started working at my store they asked me if I could take a Sunday shift. I thought it was just for that Sunday. They just told me that someone dropped the shift suddenly and I was the only one that was free. So I took it. It turned it it was for every Sunday -_-. Anyway, now I know why they suddenly needed someone for that day. I found out that the girl who was supposed to be working that shift suddenly quit. Usually companies need a 2 week notice so they can find someone else to take your shift. She never told anyone she was going to quit and it came out of nowhere. The workers were telling me about that girl and about how everyone felt a little betrayed or disappointed because she left without notice. Then they mentioned how they were really scared for her and wondered why she just quit like that. It turns out her boyfriend beats her. Why would you let that keep happening D:? They said that sometimes she turns up for work with a bunch of big, dark bruises. WTF? And supposedly one time her boyfriend stabbed her with a fork... WTFF D: !!

In blog news.. my blog is now 3 years old :O. I actually had a livejournal back in '05 so technically it would be 4 hours in July... but I've been on violentdesire for 3 years. Mentioned it before probably.. but it's created on 666 HAHA. And 5:55:33. Weirddd.
My topics have been changing haha. This is the longest that I've kept blogging. I find it gets hard after a while haha. I kind of respect bloggers that have blogged so long more now haha. It takes a little something to be able to bring yourself to blog regularly and even more to be able to captivate readers with something you are interested in yourself. It's nice to be able to sometimes look back and see what you were up to back then. I know some people don't like to look back at old entries. I've been keeping diaries since grade 3. I do not want to look at those either HAHA. But that's because it's so boring... "I went to the library today. I picked out this Chinese book with a bear on it." niceeee.

And finally in shopping news bahahaha.
I splurged a bit haha. Needed to get a new bottle of Anna Sui Secret Wish. And because the lipstick looked so cute..I bought one too HAHA.

K yeah.. just to warn you.. the rest of my pictures are taken badly too haha. The second pic above.. Alan walked by the windows to black my light on purpose -_- -pushes him over-.
Mm I guess the picture doesn't really show it nicely haha. The top is a rose XD. The tester one actually had a coloured rose on top -_-. I thought mine would have one too. Ah well, still cute haha.
I loveeee Secret Wish!! It's too bad that the lasting power isn't that impressive though. Oh well. When it goes on my jacket I can still smell it for a long time but it's just not strong enough for others to notice after a while.

When I went home I checked the mailbox and I found my SkinFood package waiting for me!!

Fei's stuff

Connie's stuff

My stuff! Yeah I didn't spend time to put them all nicely to take pics HAHA I was too excited to look at all the items.

So lemme post up all my items individually and give my skinfood review:

Black Bean Nose Pack. Leen and I split the box. I didn't try them out yet but she told me they were very similar to Biore's nose sheets except it's black. It has a weird/nice smell. Yeah that's a weird combo haha. I'll have to try them out and see how it goes. If it's the same as Biore's than there's no point in getting it imported XD. I did find something interesting about those item though:

Horny substances?? Whattt? HAHA. The thing is that this wouldn't be that weird if SkinFood wrote Engrish, but they don't. Actually all the products I have have perfect English descriptions and instructions. I'm wondering what horny substances they're putting into our nose? HAHA

Premium Touch Pearl Brush. Ever since I started wearing makeup I wanted to try out brushes. When I saw this brush I wanted to try it out. I've never had any other brush so I can't compare it to anything haha. It feels really soft when I run my hands through it. After using it and washing it none of the hairs have fallen off so I'm taking that as a good sign. I've read reviews on makeup brushes and I know that really bad ones would have hair falling off it after first couple of washes. But damn do brushes same time on applying makeup XD. I've only used sponges or even by hand with the bb cream. But using brushes only take me like 2 minutes XD. Or less I don't know I didn't time myself HAHA.

Cucumber Soothing Mask (Wash Off). From this product on I can only give a small review. I've only used them for a night and a day so I can't really tell if there are results. After a week I'll blog about them again. Then I'll know what to buy next time and what to drop so I can try other new ones :B. Anyway, it seemed to moisturize the face a bit. I used this after the Aloe Vera cleanser. It's nice and cool on the face. Probably perfect for summer when it's hot as hell outside and you feel all stuffy. The smell is fresh because of the cucumber, but there's also this small weird small that I just can't place. You don't notice it when you have it on your face though.

Lettuce Cucumber Water Jelly Cream. NICEEE. One of my favs. The smell is awesome. It's probably a little more perfumed than just the natural lettuce/cucumber smell. But it's a very nice smell. After you put it on your face it'll leave a nice little scent. It is cooling on the skin. So if you're using harsh products that dry out your skin like Proactive, you will definitely like the cooling sensation this gives after. It looks goopy and when you put it on your face it turns into liquid form o_O. My friends liked the smell of this too. I think this might be something I may repurchase again.

Aloe Vera Foaming Cleanser. Like I said, I can't really say how well these work until I use it for a longer period of time. However, if this works out well for your skin I think it'll be worth the money. It's a pretty big tube. When I use it there is no need to squeeze out a lot. It's in cream form and when you rub it on face it turns into foam which is why there's no need for a huge amount. It definitely takes off all the oil on my face LOL! After I use it my face feels tight. So yes you probably definitely have to moisturize and use toner after washing your face with this. The scent for this is alright. Like a certain face cream. I'm not sure which one o_O. I can't smell it after I use the emulsion and cream on face anyway haha, not that it smells bad.

Cocoa Lip Balm. I forgot to take a pic of the inside haha. But if you go to the skinfood site and choose english as language you can search it up. It's just white inside haha. I like the scent of this haha. Smells quite nice. Most of the skinfood products have a nice scent. This works pretty well actually. Again, I think if I ran out I will repurchase this. Usually when I put on chapstick or lipgloss it's dried by the time I get to work but this kept me going all day! Lips were soft :B bahaha. Should try it if your lips are dry.

Pineapple Hand Cream. When you just smell it from the bottle you can't smell any hint of pineapple. After applying you smell a very light scent of pineapple. This is supposed to help dry hands and prevent wrinkles. I haven't used it much though. And products that has anything to do with wrinkles takes awhile to show results.. and I don't have hand wrinkles.. sooo yes haha. But if you're looking for a hand cream that is scented you should try this. It's very light so it shouldn't bother those that are sensitive to scented stuff. I'll blog again the results to see if it keeps hands soft :B.

Parsley and Mandarin Emulsion. The smell, I don't think, is very mandarin-y. Actually if I were to describe it I would say that it's more ginger + a hint of mandarin. There's a certain spiciness to the smell. But I like it haha. Leen said it smelled weird :P. It's really a preference thing. This is also in cream form and when put on face it turns into liquid. This paired with the lettuce/cucumber jelly cream makes my face smell so good :B. It also keeps my face pretty soft throughout the day. This emulsion is actually supposed to be for troubled skin so I'll blog about how it's doing in a week.

Sugar Cookie Blusher #2 Bebe Peach. Isn't the name so cute haha XD. The colour shown on the website + the name made me buy it -_-. The packaging is actually pretty cute but I didn't show that in photo haha. However I'm a bit disappointed in it. I'll have to ask my friends to see what they think for a second thought but.. for now it's a no for me. Nothing shows up on my face?? When I used my blush brush on it I didn't see any powder get picked up on the brush. I wonder if anything will come off if I used my finger and swiped it? hahaha.

Well that's all I have to share for now. It's 3AM.. HAHA -_-

- jiawen

First June Entry of the Year

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:38:15 GMT

Wow, June already. May passed by like WHOA. I remember how everyone kept saying "it's okay, summer just started. We still have plenty of time to hang out". Now a whole month has passed and I still cannot manage to get a day where EVERYONE agrees and shows up. Not even for a simple coffee run : ( Not even because everyone's busy ... they just don't want to/ feel like it at the time sometimes -_-.

I went out with Fei to go eat at this Korean restaurant. I've went there with Janet before - skipping a lecture in the process HAHA. It's the first time for Fei Fei though. I swear I was craving for those friggen spicy rice cake (dukbokki) like no other! The night before I had SUCH a craving for something spicy so I made some spicy noodles.. yeahhh it didn't turn out good HAHA. I got a little too excited and put too much hot chili paste in it :) Well, to be fair, when I tested the taste it seemed good. It just isn't as good once you start to actually eat and the spiciness accumulates. If there was another Korean restaurant that we can easily access with public transit I want to try. Just because the one we went to is close to our university so it's easily accessible but I'm not especially impressed with it.

I wish the dukbokki was spicier. It was a sweet spicy instead of the hot spicy that I was craving. I love spicy food x__x. And yeah.. I need to compare prices just because usually places near universities are more expensive. The service was good even though the girl's a queer HAHA. She's a sweet queer :) (and no.. I do not mean queer in the lesbian sense). Just that last time when I went with Janet she was like "oh I'm sorry :( " when we told her we couldn't finish the food. This time when we put money down for the bill she was like "YAY! -claps hands- money!" O_O..HAHA.

We went shopping after too. I'm actually kind of disappointed. I saw a lot of cute t-shirts but I was kind of hoping for that one special item to make me go like "WOW OMG!! I WANT THIS!!" -longs after it crazily-. Nothing special. There were some cute items but nothing that really grabbed by attention and some were like way over priced for me. I really wish my Asia trip plan worked out. Now I have to wait another year -_-. This is exactly why I never go malling haha. I don't even see things that I want to try =_=.

There's been drama at work haha:

My co-worker Nikki, who was working in fits that day, got really pissed haha. Everyone kept talking about it at work because she's usually very nice so everyone was surprised when some of them witnessed her so pissed. Turns out it was the other co-worker,Kaleigh, was supposed to take her shift. We usually change shifts around 2 or 5 and they were supposed to switch off at 5. Kaleigh was just standing up at the front by the tills haha. Actually, most of us sometimes do that when we come in, at least I do, because I need to do the "one minute meeting". This is where I look at the goal for the day and whatever promos or news there is. I've never had anyone wait for me to take their shift though haha.

So yeah.. Nikki was not happy. I wouldn't be either. She had a bus to catch and Kaleigh was just standing there in the front. Nikki told Jenn (manager) that she was leaving and she was going to leave the fits the way it is. We usually aren't allowed to leave a zone unattended unless it's not busy or someone can cover that zone. Kaleigh kind of exaggerated how Nikki was behaving to the other co-workers =\. She was telling everyone how Nikki was telling Jenn to "get the hell out of her way" even though Nikki was like "Please move. I need to catch my bus! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" ?? wth haha.

Later that night there was a bitchy costumer =\. Kaleigh was in fits but she had to go to the back to put stuff away in the backroom. Laurelle and I were in the front taking care of costumers. No one was in fits. Usually when whoever is in charge of fits is in the back we have the others take a look out for fits. So whoever notices costumers who needs helps in fits will tend to them. Sometimes people stand there and we don't notice them though and they will ask us instead or wait till we're free. Because of that we usually leave the keys in this little cupboard with all the number tags. Anyway, while I was up in the front tending to till and Laurelle was with costumers, this woman took the key and kept opening it for other people....

She must think she's doing so much good. Obviously, we were pissed. She may think it's fine to let in everyone while we're not there, but those people could've just mentioned it and we would've instantly went and go open it for them. The reason why there is a key in the first place is so that only the employees have access to the rooms. What's the point of having keys and number tags then? By doing that we know what's going in and out of the fitting rooms. We give them a limited amount to take in so it's easier to keep track and also to know which rooms are occupied. Honestly, her doing that is just as bad as knowing a friend puts a key under her the doormat. And when the friend is out of town she goes and opens her friend's house for strangers to go in -_-.

I know maybe it doesn't seem like such a big deal for customers because they don't have to wait or whatever but it seriously pisses us off. Suddenly you come back and you find like 5 rooms filled and have no idea what they took in? For all we know she could be helping her friend jack stuff. Especially how our mall is right beside a high school and it was during after school hours. All of us were glaring at the costumer and she had the nerve to say to her friend "Everyone's glaring at me. I mean honestly, I've worked in retail before and it's not that hard." Fook you lady >_>. NO our job isn't as hard as ones that need more physical labor, but wtf? YOU do our job when it gets busy and we don't have enough hands then~!! We'll just sit back and when you need to take care of something we'll go and make it disorganized for you -_-! Our job isn't super hard nor is it easy. Every job has its hard moments. I wanted to smack that lady up the head when she did something wrong and she still acted like she was the shit -_-. Where'd you work, lady? A dead place with no costumers? Because it seems like she thinks that all our time only consists of serving people like her. Of course, there's no such thing as doing stock, cleaning up after your ass, etc. We only have 3 workers.. 1 fits, 1 till, 1 manager on duty.

I had a customer almost jump at me today haha. Not literally. We have this policy where if you want a refund you need to have the same payment method with you. So if a costumer paid with a mastercard they need that same mastercard for us to give that refund back. Or else they'll get store credit. So yeah, this lady wanted to return a pair of plaid shorts and when I asked for her American Express card she said her husband had it. I had watched her husband leave so I was already kinda like "ah crap.. she's gonna bitch me out". She was nice before too!! Until I was like "Sorry, but in order to refund your money I need the American Express card that you used to pay for this item."... then she turned into a beast. "WELL THAT'S JUST RIDICULOUS!!...-BLAHBLAHBLAH-" I actually kind of tuned out HAHA. But I was like -shit shit shit.. what do I do >_>-. Thank God Nikki was beside me at that moment!! She noticed the change in tone and instantly jumped in and rescued me HAHA. Turned out it was okay since she was buying stuff too - not just a refund alone. After that she was like ^^. Whatever, lady. I saw your dark side D: !! In this case it was still workable, but seriously.... people got to stop jumping me! It's store policy! I can't change it even if you kill me! I would've asked my manager to check just in case anyway because I'm new -_-.

OH! That story above reminded me of another one when these teenage girls jump me -_-. They bought this shirt that was marked down multiple times. Now at its lowest price it was only $8. I rang it up and they were like "wth.. I thought it was $3" Pst... this isn't boxing day or whatever lady. So yeah.. I was like -goes on with ringing the rest up-. One of the girl's friends went to the back to search for the same shirt 'cept it was different size because there were only a couple left. She brought it to me and showed it to me. Indeed it looked like it said $3. At first I thought maybe it was a different style. We have these racer back tank tops that look VERY similar but the material and length is a bit different and so are different prices. MAN were they riding me about that. "WHY!? WHY IS THIS ONLY $3?! WHY IS THIS $8!? IT'S THE SAME!!" I was like "I think they might be different styles. The style number doesn't seem to be the same..." I was just guessing haha. The tag seemed different to our other ones. They somehow misheard me... or heard whatever they wanted to hear to chew me out. "WHAT?! THEY SHOULDN'T CHARGE MORE JUST BECAUSE IT'S A BIGGER SIZE!! THEY SHOULD BOTH BE THE SAME SIZE!!! THAT IS TOTALLY UNFAIR!! -BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH-" What the hell ladies. Calm the eff down. I was actually really shocked and it took me a second to come back. I didn't even say anything about size -_-. They were yelling too. Made me seem like a bitch to other customers -_-. Anyway, Laurelle came and looked at the tag and after a long, close inspection was like "oh... they're both $8.. I think it was just running out of ink when it printed the price for that one so it looks like a three...." -scans it- "yep... it also shows up as $8". =_=. I swear to God I dread the day when boxing day comes. For an $8 shirt they aleady jump me. So after Laurelle left it was like -awkward silence- ........"so.....did you still want this shirt? -_-" "yeah..." WTF? LOL.

I hope my stories help prevent these situations from happening again -_- haha. Now you know how the workers feel. We're not your slaves nor should you jump at our throats -_-. Out of work we also do the things you do... we know how you feel but CALM THE EFF DOWN >: O !! You know, unless the employee is a bitch haha. Oh.. and I get so irritated when people look for sizes, especially large (which is obviously at the back or at the bottom) and they don't just lift the pile up and get the size. Instead they choose to lift it up and shake it out, check the size, and then throw it somewhere if it's not the size. WTF? I know sometimes they don't know where the tag is so they need to check for the first shirt. But even though they know where it is after they choose to shake it out and throw it until they find their size. WTF? I just folded that effing table to perfection!!! I swear I folded the same table at least 10+ times today. I fold some, go help whoever is at the till, go back to table and find the table ALL messed up. They do that to each pile almost like on purpose or something. Hmm.. 10 colours = 10 piles... WEE 10 piles to throw around!! ... bitch.

- jiawen

A Cold & Allergies

Wed, 27 May 2009 08:19:30 GMT

typed 27th, published 28th

I got myself a cold... at least I'm pretty sure it's going to turn into one. It would've gone away if I took my meds like I should but I can't. I have both a cold and my allergies are acting up. Sooo not good when I have work >: O !! So I'm pretty much rotating between the meds .. and because of that neither of the sicknesses are on full blast so my eyes are itching because of the allergies and my throat hurts like a biyatch because of the oncoming cold D: !!!

Was looking around on the net and found these:

.... So.. Cute >: O!! I want them~~. But it's so expensive for a pair of flip flops D: Just because it's by Marc Jacobs T_T. $45+ USD. Yet I am stil so tempted haha.

And I have nothing else to say so I'll post my results from those online quiz stuff for blogs :D hahah

You Are a Comb

You are expressive and outgoing. You like to experiment with your personal style.

You are imaginative and very visual. You like to look good, and you're attracted to beauty.

You are creative and design oriented. You redecorate often, and you like to make yourself over.

You are inventive and extremely original. You do things differently just because it feels good.

What Bathroom Product Are You?

You Are A Car

You're the type of person who likes to do things your way. You're a little stubborn.

You're very expressive and a true individual. You don't like to compromise.

You are a very private person. You value your alone time.

While you may seem self centered to some, you are actually very cooperative when you need to be.

What Type of Transportation Are You?

You Are Yellow

You are bright, vibrant, and cheerful. Your energy can take over a room.

You look on the sunny side of life. You are able to avoid stress, anxiety, and burnout.

It's hard to get you down, and you've rarely been depressed in your life.

You tend to have a clear mind and an unburdened heart. You try to bring as much light as possible into your life.

What Primary Color Are You?

.. not true XD hahaha

You Are Observant in Life

You are serious and stable. You are a bit of a perfectionist, and you like structure.

You are happiest when you are inspired and creative. You like to live in the moment.

You are sensitive and considerate. You are always putting other people's needs before your own.

You have found what you want in life and are quite content. You know a lot about yourself.

The Stripping Down Test

You Were Born into the Metal Element

You are an energetic, active person who values ambition. You think success is important.

You are very unique and competent. You know how to live a good life, without following anyone else's rules.

You have to watch out for anxiety. Sometimes you find it hard to let go and relax.

You are stubborn and persistent. You won't give up out of principle, even if it's the right thing to do.

What Element Were You Born Into?

You Are A Show Off

You believe that you're too great to have anything to be modest about.

You've got the goods, and you might as well show them off.

You love glory and attention. You'll do just about anything to get noticed.

You believe that all eyes should be on you. And you'll fight anyone for the spotlight!

Are You a Showoff?

... that's not true either HAHA. i thought my answers answered no to all this.

You Are Bitter

You aren't bitter at the world, even though you have a strong personality.

Instead, you are sophisticated and cultured. You appreciate acquired tastes.

You are very powerful. You have the ability to change a room's energy.

While some may find you disagreeable, your points of view are intelligent and interesting.

What Taste Are You?

You Are Snow

You are peaceful and calm. You are able to enjoy each moment.

You have a pure, gentle spirit. People automatically trust you.

You have a playful, adventurous spirit. You still feel like a kid.

You are able to find the joy in any situation. You are blissful.

Are You Rain or Snow?

You Are a Fighter

You are stubborn to a fault, but you can't help it.

It's your way or the highway, and you're ready to fight.

While it may feel good to be the one who's always right, your friends don't see it that way!

Compromise a little. Show more love. It will get you further in the long run.

Are You a Lover or a Fighter?

You Need Friends to Be Happy

You are a friendly, social person. You seek out connections and relationships.

Being close to others is very important to you, and you don't like discord.

You feel great when you're cooperating and working with others. You enjoy belonging to a group.

Nothing makes you feel worse that feeling alone or alienated. You want to be liked by those around you.

What Do You Need to Be Happy?

You Are the Bedroom

You are an indulgent person. You enjoy rest, relaxation, and pampering.

You know how to find peace in a crazy life. You are good at unplugging.

You tend to be very private. You don't let just anyone in.

You are also a romantic. When you have someone, you tend to be very couple oriented.

What Room of the House Are You?

ohh yeahh XD

You Are a Pineapple Smoothie

You are adventurous and brave. You aren't afraid of much.

You are in love with new experiences. You are usually the first to try something.

You get bored rather easily, and you need to be challenged in life.

You are turbo charged. Most people find it impossible to keep up with you in any capacity.

What Flavor Smoothie Are You?

yeah right HAHA "impossible to keep up with [me]" more like the other way around.

You Believe that Love is Devotion

When you think of love, you think of committing to one person for the rest of your life.

In love, you see things how they could be. You are wrapped up in your own dreams.

If you are in love, you want the whole world to know it. You don't hold back with letting people know.

You are patient in love. You are willing to wait for the right person and the right time.

The Rose Test

... such a romantic :P

Your Birthday's Wisdom is Rebirth

You believe the beauty of life is that anyone can be reborn at anytime.

The world is full of fresh starts, and you take one whenever it comes your way.

You are constantly evolving and changing. And to you, that's a beautiful thing.

You aren't the person you used to be... you're so much better now!

What's Your Birthday's Wisdom?

"you're so much better now" i hope so HAHA

- jiawen

Runway

Fri, 22 May 2009 06:01:33 GMT

I helped close the store the other day and at the end of the night the manager has to go deposit the money into the bank on the main floor - our store is on the upper floor. So she made me come along with her. My mom was already there to pick me up so my manager, Jennifer, was like "Come with me. I'll drive you back up". I was like "..." HAHA. Yeah when we got to her car she was like "Sorry, it's messy". I just shrugged because usually people have things like jackets on the backseats or whatever. Then I opened the passenger door and end up saying "Oh..... it is. She had like reese's cup wrappers on the floor along with 2-3 bottles on the floor too -_- haha! When she drove us to the upper floor she was like "I bet your mom's like '...Where did you come from!?'". Almost true haha. My mom had a bewildered look XD while asking me why I was in someone's car :P.

So while I was closing up Kaleigh, one of my coworkers, was telling us something about her and her boyfriend. After she left to go back to fits Jenn was like "... did you hear anything she said?" Me: "No". Jenn: "She just turned 15.. so... stuff she talks about sometimes are kind of..boring. It goes through one ear and goes out the other" LOL! I can see why though... because everytime she talks to us it's always news about her relationship or something that happened at school. I don't mind, it's just that the stuff she talks about are kind of stupid -_-.
"I told my boyfriend, Jeff, to come."
"So I saw my boyfriend's ex and I was pushing the box and my pants were low. My ass was like hanging out in front of her face."
At one point it was kind of obvious she was kind of irritating Jenn. We were counting the money (we wanted to leave ASAP, especially because Jenn was sick) and she kept interrupting -_-. "Jenn... Jenn! Are you listening?! So yeah Jeff and I... JENN!" .... D:
She was talking about her 8 month anniversary XD. And what to get him. She said she would get him a picture of them together - his fav one of them. I'm sure he'll like it.. -cough- haha. Jenn gave me a look. I just started laughing.
However I was really shocked at the stuff that came out of her mouth. She just turned 15 and she was talking about sex all the time -_-.
She told us stories about how she and her friends made fun of this girl because she's a virgin -_-. When the girl responded by saying "How do you know what I do or do not do? (etcetc)" Kaleigh and her friends were like implying that they know she doesn't have sex and yadda yadda yadda.
She also made fun of a girl that believed in saving herself till marriage. =_=. wtf? haha
Why is it funny? Is that how people are nowadays? A fifteen year old has to worry about being a virgin? wth!? It was getting on my nerves listening to her. I feel bad for the girls that has to get laughed at by her and her friends just because of stuff like that. It's not like they're 50 year olds that has never been with anyone =\. It takes a lot for some people to save themselves for marriage. It's much harder than to listen to the peer pressure when it comes to this topic. I know because I have a close friend that had sex just because her boyfriend wanted it.
Bah, don't want to talk about this anymore >_< haha.

Came across this picture:
Marc by Marc Jacobs

And I really liked the outfit. Minus the scarf. The scarf is nice but I don't like it with the outfit. Or else another scarf. So that made me want to look at other runway pics haha.
Some are spring 2009 rtw. Some are pre-fall 2009. I wasn't really paying attention.
Chanel

I'm not so into the material used for the outfit.. but I'm a sucker for those frilly, Victorian stuff >: O. There's bows on the details of her arm. I'm too lazy to save and upload haha. And the makeup is cool :P. I'm also too lazy to upload those closeups... :D <3
Zac Posen

I like the simple prettiness in the draping. You should see the details in the earrings...
Elie Saab

The top part is cool >_<. Although I would prefer another colour for the dress :P. Red could make it very alluring. Peach would make it look very fresh.
Elie Saab

A very Dita Von Teese dress :O. I love the colour ^^.
DSQUARED ²

I'm also a sucker for the Grecian, Goddess white/gold lining dresses >_>. Oh to be tall~ I also love bangles with these dresses ^^.
Miu Miu

I like the print for this dress >:O. It's rather cute haha. I don't know why but when I first looked at this dress I thought it'd looked nice on girls with small chests and the belt or whatever giving the dress its shape should be more higher. Like empire dresses. This one might be like that too o_O... but I can't tell because of the print haha.

But yes, I love looking at the closeups of accessories and stuff when it comes to John Galliano's creations :P.

I love looking at their head pieces >:O haha. Search up "Chanel Couture head pieces" too!! Those things are effing crazy! I know John Galliano isn't Chanel's head designer but just wanted to mention because those looked cool too :P.
Annddd I got tired of flipping through so many runway pics so yes hahah.
- jiawen

Dressing Your Age

Wed, 20 May 2009 06:49:42 GMT

The damn laptop fixer!! -shoots him-. I KNEW it was weird how on the first day I used it it still occasionally made the clicking sound. Then on like the 2nd or 3rd day - I forgot now - it died on me again. When my mom yelled at him you know what his reason was? Supposedly it's because I downloaded another virus. What a coincidence. I downloaded the same virus that killed my laptop the first time. Hm. Really? Yeah right you effing asshole! Got so effing pissed off. Computer science hm? Too bad all you can do is blame it on an effing virus! It also doesn't explain why the laptop still made the clicking noise on first use after I got it back from him! Wish I could shoot him -_-... at least with a bb gun or a paintball one, GAH! The guy that used to fix our desktop nicely is in Toronto at the moment so I can't even get him to fix it right now T_T. Oh the sadness.

I ordered a bunch of SkinFood stuff with friends. Gonna try them out and see how it ends up. The shipping was kind of a beetch though. I don't know if it was way too high or what.. even when I go by Zipia's EMS shipping it doesn't cost as much... And on top of that I had to convert the total given to me back to Canadian dollars -sigh-. Let's see if the money spent on it was worth it though haha.

So I was suddenly looking at Japanese fashion magazines again today. Not sure what made me do it. I stopped for a long time because I got kind of bored haha. When you look at them every month it seems like it's the same style over and over again. So I just looked at a couple each season to know what's going on in the mags each season haha. The jmagazinescans community is definitely uploading more variation now haha. I use to contribute to it since there weren't many people who did now there are tons of uploads and everyone is trying to beat each other. Some people upload repeats -_-. I wish people would look to see if it has already been uploaded. Unless they have a higher quality one... No point in just uploading a repeat just for the sake of getting downloads.

Anyway, since they upload a variety now I can find ones that can serve for an older audience haha. My mom sometimes asks me what she should wear and I don't have a very good suggestion for her haha. I'm used to a younger taste in clothes. When my grandma went back to China last year she bought a load of clothes for my mom and I. Except in my opinion most of the clothes she bought didn't suit my mom's body at all. Actually most of the clothes she bought seemed more my style or too old. They didn't hug her curves and instead is oddly baggy o_O. I know for young people it's fine to wear a top that's more baggy or puffy while pairing it with things like skinny jeans. For older women it just makes them look fat o_O. And my grandma kept buying shirts that were puffy D:< !! Saying that it's in style in Asia.... it's never in style.. the sales person is lying to you grandma!! Anything too tight or too baggy on a women in like her 40s is bad >_>. Although, that goes for people in any age bracket too haha.

Oh and she kept buying my mom these ugly flowery print stuff. And no it's not those cute ones with big prints. She bought these old lady flowery print stuff -_-. What a waste of money haha. This time I'm gonna show grandma examples.. because it seems the women in China are giving her bad ideas XD.

credit to ann_mich for uploading the scans. MISS (June 2009).

Annndd I'm too lazy to link to bigger pic so if you really want.. right click and get the link and paste it HAHA. Or even better just download the scans. But yeah.. I think those outfits would look nice on mommy. Better than the weird flashy ones grandma buys for her D:

Works been kind of boring haha. Coworkers are nice though. Especially my manager. She tries to include me in the "group" all the time XD. I think some lady stole during my shift and on the same day I thought another person jacked from me XD. I was folding those wife beater tanks when this black lady came in so I said hi. We have a thing in our store where someone must greet the costumer within 10 secs they walk in so that they're welcome and also so that they're aware that we know they are there. So the lady took a white tank top. When I was done w/ those tanks I went to the spaghetti strapped tank table and started refilling those piles and folding whatevers messed up. Then on my headset my coworker was like "keep an eye on that black lady at the back". I then realize it was the same lady that I said hi to. I remembered she walked pass me a second time (she kept walking around and around) with two tanks after. One gray and one white. She went to the back and was shuffling around. I presumed she was looking through the racks of clothing. Guess not because then she went to pay and only had the white on in her hand. My coworker and I were looking through the racks to see if maybe she left one there. Nope.

So yeah.. I guess it was a "buy one, get one free" for the lady haha. The thing about our store is that we have a policy where even if we know that they stole we can't accuse them. We have to act stupid -_-. In case we're wrong and the company gets sued. We can't even call security. Not until they're not in our store. Such a stupid rule. By the time they leave our store I doubt they're gonna loiter around outside our store. I'm pretty sure they're gonna jet out off there.

And then a couple hours later when I was doing fits I found a tag on the ground. Actually, it happened to me twice that day HAHA. -sigh-. The first one I asked my coworkers with the headset if anybody left with a pair of shorts or seemed suspicious because I found a missing tag. We asked the costumers that were in line of anybody had plaid shorts and was missing a tag and there was. Whew XD. The second missing tag I found the skirt later on so it was all good haha. I was like NOO because I didn't want to have stuff stolen during my shift especially in the place that I was in charge of XD.

These days I've been kind of bleh at work. After working so many days sometimes I just don't have it in me to greet the costumers haha. I'm just like ....... : ) And these days costumers have been staying at the store too late. It's like 5 minutes to closing time and they come in and try stuff on. I don't mind if they're decisive and it's like bang bang bang done. But no. They either try like a million things and take forever because they're with their friends and they're discussing whatever they're trying on or they want to look for other styles/sizes. There was this girl that did that with her friend and when she was leaving our store there's like a shelf near the entrance with a mirror because it's an accessory shelf and she just stood there checking out herself.... Go home and do that lady!! There's no one at the mall to look at you anymore anyways since it's closed >: O!

- jiawen

Temptation

Wed, 13 May 2009 08:49:45 GMT

Supposedly, I can get my laptop back by tomorrow night. The guy said everything should be back to normal and my files should still be in there. Honestly, if he didn't do that I would've gave him a verbal ass whooping. He was so condescending and he acted like an asshole. He treated me like a little kid and said things that were inappropriate to a client.. He kept saying things like "Did you take computer science? I didn't think so." and "If you don't know anything about computers then stop talking." Okay there. All I did was voice my concerns and he had a bitch fit. No, I'm not a computer whiz but I know more about computers than the average person. Out of all the people I know in real life I know the most about computers. It was so offensive when he spoke to be like I'm a five year old that didn't know jack.

He had asked for the laptop's CD, which I do not remember ever having received one. I asked him if he had it would he erase all my files. The reason why I asked him was because we pretty much got ripped off before like that. The guy just used our desktop's CD and reformatted the computer and made us buy an electrical outlet box that helps prevent things like short circuiting from affecting the computer. A day later the computer went back to restarting after like 30 seconds of it being on. When we told him he asked us to pay him to come back again to fix it. WTF? Didn't fix it the first time and expect us to pay again? So I fixed it myself. It turned out I had a sasser worm virus. I did this in like... grade 8 or something.

Which is why when this guy asked for the supposed laptop CD I was concerned. I didn't know if the CD was just like my desktop's because I don't recall the laptop ever coming along with the CD. Which is when he started doing this stupid condescending speech. And then I asked him of my hard drive is damaged since I hear a weird clicking noise and THAT brought on ANOTHER rant from him. I would've bitched but I thought I shouldn't in case he really could fix it. He called THREE times to tell me he needs the CD. Two of them were 10 minutes away from each other >_>. I just told myself that if he couldn't fix it I would personally call him and be like "What? I thought you took computer science?"

He asked for $500 btw haha. Geek Squad charges like what? Around $200? More or less I'm not quite sure. My mom got pissed so she was like telling him we don't need him to fix it. We actually had a really good guy that fixed up my desktop a couple times and each time he demanded that we don't pay. We still give him money because we feel that it's mean not to haha. And no, he's not a stranger haha.

It got awkward when this current guy called and asked me what I wanted to keep in my hard drive. I was like "...everything would be nice.." And he's like well there's a "wedding planning" folder. Which got really awkward and then he continued on saying "I don't know if it's yours or what.." Well no shit it's mine. It's under my account. It's not for me, but it was for my uncle's wedding. They asked me to help them plan stuff so I had a folder to keep track of stuff. However, I don't see why it's any of his business. Unless it's a damaged folder that can harm my laptop.. I don't see why he has to put his nose in it. I just hope he doesn't go sneaking around in my picture folder. My friends and I took weird photos for fun. Like ones where Fei and I were pretending to touch Ashley's boobies or Eileen and I wrapping blankets on our heads... LOL. He could just drag and drop to new hard drive but no.. he has to check out what folders I have -_-.

Anyway, now that I have a new source of income (HAHA) I am back at looking at sites for goodies. I swear, last time I was addicted. I just kept checking everyday to see what new group orders were up and what was new in the online stores >_>. Then I had to try and cut cold turkey or else my bank account would die off :( . Now I'm tempted again.

You know.. I don't know why I like looking at beauty sites because I want to buy all the cool, pretty stuff but I never use them. I don't wear makeup except for foundation to even out my skin and sometimes do my eyes. I barely ever do eye makeup just because I have oily skin there and it just melts. On top of that I have a habit of rubbing my eyes and I always forget I have eye makeup on and end up rubbing it -_-. I'm too lazy and poor to try out the advice of using makeup base to make it not melt everywhere XD.

At the moment I would love to try out some masks. Mostly to improve skin and whiten it o_o. Yeah yeah my friends must be like "stfu about whitening skin" but that's how I am. Honestly, I have princess syndrome LOL. My parents always tell me that I act like I'm a princess. I agree. How does having paler skin = princess syndrome? I imagine it like olden day asian princesses where pale = do not have to go outside to work on farm. Of course, I'm not following in the idea that dark = go work on farms LOL. But just the idea of fragility and so on. Cuz I'm sure as hell a lazy person and like people doing things for me NYEH HEH HEH :D ! Cater to my whims beetches.. JKJK :) And I like dressing girly (oh gawd, not all pink or whatever though) and also showing less = good haha. See, princess syndrome :D.

Some items that tickle my fancy (not sure why I word it like that.. but it tickled my fancy.. HAHA. I like cheesy jokes -_-)

	Kiss Me Mascara Remover I've never seen a mascara remover look like another mascara wand before :O haha. It won cosmetic award in Japan. $14.33 USD
	DHC Lip Cream .. it just seemed cool HAHA. Also, my lips always dry out real fast and they crack sometimes -_-. This also won cosmetic award in Japan. The price is kinda ehhh though. $10.03 USD
	Ettusais Flat Design Liquid Been reading reviews on it and it's been kind of mixed. It's either a really good rave or a really bad one haha. Guess it just depends on one's skin. The brand is known for being friendly towards people with problematic skin. $35.11 USD

okay too lazy to post others : )

I'm also interested in some SkinFood products because someone is doing a survey on them and I really wanna try out the stuff haha. I have yet to find a line that I really like that helps my skin. The Mario Badescu stuff seemed good but I only had a small sample so I can't tell for sure. Will have to purchase full size some time.

	Lettuce Cucumber Water Jelly Cream I wanna try a new cream. My face gets dry spots sometimes and supposedly this is supposed to help keep hydration to skin during the summer. Nice and light. Estimated cost w/o shipping: $10.39 CAD
	Cucumber Mask The site recommended these cucumber products for my skin. Mario did too! I hope it means it's good :O. Estimated cost w/o shipping: $6.29 CAD
	Banana Yogurt Mask Also recommended for my skin. It looks good.. HAHA -eats mask- jkjk. Estimated cost w/o shipping: $4.60 CAD
	Parsley and Mandarin Emulsion Helps control skin problems and helps make skin more healthy and lustrous. Estimated cost w/o shipping: $7.23 CAD
	Parsley and Mandarin Mild Foam Helps control skin problems and gives soothing effect after. Estimated cost w/o shipping: $6.30 CAD

Might order, but I'm gonna see if my friends want to do so too. Then I can try with friends. If they order other items maybe we can try a bit of each :O.

- jiawen

What To Do?

Sat, 09 May 2009 08:21:44 GMT

entry started on may 9th. posted on 10th.

My laptop broke down out of no where. It is quite depressing haha. Especially how now I have more time to watch my stuff and whatever. My screen just suddenly froze so I left it for a bit and nothing changed. I tried pressing ctrl+alt+dlt because that usually gets it moving but that didn't work either. I left it for a bit again - nothing changed. I ended up shutting it down by pressing the power button. When I turned it back on there was a loud whirring sound (like when the laptop loads stuff but louder than usual - similar to my old 98 cpu o_o). Also, there was a weird clicking sound inside -_-. It sounded like something came apart. I opened up the laptop to look inside but there was no visible part that fell off. I tried searching online to see if there was a solution. Nothing.

The big part that I'm worried about is all the stuff I have saved on the laptop. Not that it'll result in a scandal or something like some celebrities -coughEdisonChencough- but the opposite. I don't want them be to deleted. I'm scared of the fact that they might just instantly put in the reformating disk and wipe out all my stuff. ALL my pictures were in there. ALL of them. I do burn stuff off occasionally but I never expected it to die on me so soon. It's been like what.. a year? a year and a half since I got the laptop? I also keep some of my pictures on flickr but all of those have my watermark on it and have been resized -_-. I never uploaded all of them to my flickr because that would take too long and I would only have them on private anyway. Music I'm not so worried about because those are replaceable. This is why I wish I had an external hard drive. I also saved up pictures I want as inspiration for future business >_>. Although that isn't really as important.

I just use desktop and uncle's laptop now whenever it's free. It's just not the same though -_-. There's time constraints and yadda yadda yadda. I might get a new laptop - we'll see. ...I still don't want to part with my old one yet T_T.. I want my pictures!! The whole thing was already customized to the way I liked it -_-.

I got a new job. Of course it is totally out of my comfort zone, but I really hope this job can help me improve myself a little haha. Since it is a retail job I have to learn to be more talkative and stuff. I'm totally confused about sales right now at job. Two people told me different things about how the sales are counted. I'm not even sure when it's really "my" sale. Is it mine if I helped them to the fitting room or is it counted as sale of the person in fitting room??? Bah D: ! My manager said that if it's our sale we just say in the headsets "the girl at cash right now is my sale". But so far I've never heard anyone say that.. so... that's awkward haha. Fitting room job is THE best. Honestly. Yes, it can get hectic but whatever. They basically get best sales because all sales that aren't claimed goes to them. It is because usually a costumer goes tries it on and whoever is in fitting room has to help them so the sale goes under them.

Seriously, on my first day in fitting, in the two hours that I took over fitting I got $400+ in sales... -_-. My manager printed off my sales to show me how we dissect everything. Turned out I was above average in everything from units per transaction to amount per transaction. I didn't do anything except help people get a fitting room. Woot HAHA.

But yeah.. I need to learn how to sell cuz so far.. all the costumers say "No, I'm fine". In our manual stuff it says to ask open ended questions like "Are you looking for anything (or any styles) in particular?" although I don't see how that's open ended... because they still say "No" to me and then it's like what else do I say? haha. And the people I've been helping.. they ask me to find something and they try all these things and they don't buy anything. Come onnnnn. I cannot sell like $113 x hours I work if you guys do this to me T_T.

I don't remember what I else I was gonna blog about so that shall be all :P

- jiawen

Cookies & Dinner & Girls Night

Fri, 01 May 2009 02:17:20 GMT

... Had an urge to play Gunbound last night so Leen and I downloaded it to play today. The game is kind of glitchy >_>. I sucked so bad at it at the start. More use to it now haha. Add me? user: jhien. I use to play this with my friends but then it got boring.. and I kept dying HAHA. Hopefully my skills now are way better.

Here were the pics from the cookie baking day:

Eileen did most of the mixing.. because we fail HAHA. At least compared to her.

They came out kind of burnt because we left them a little too long the first time. We took them out but left them on the pan for a while and I think they continued cooking.

I've actually never tried drugstore brand foundation before. Not because I think that cheap doesn't mean it's good. But I never know what to go for. For department store brands I just go to a brand and have them recommend me something good. Although.. when I bought the Shiseido stuff I don't think the lady really helped that much. I ended up disliking the Shiseido foundation I had because it brought out all my dry spots. And it was really light o_o. I tried out the ZAMIAN Magic Whitening BB Cream after that. It really helped to moisturize the dry spots. And it went on smoothly. I quite liked it. I'm not sure if it helped my skin, I think it might've. When I don't wear the BB cream for a while and wash my face like I normally do I start getting really big pimples and when I wear it daily (Mon-Fri for school) it seems to keep it down. I still get it, I didn't get perfect skin from the BB cream, just not as big or as much.

I bought Dr. Jart from Soompi after that. I didn't use it yet. I haven't finished any of my foundations haha. I don't think I will be finishing up Shiseido though. Unless I use it to lighten another foundation in case I bought one that was too dark. I tried a bit of Dr. Jart. I think it would go on more smoothly if I didn't have combo skin. It does kind of bring out my dry spots, but not as bad as Shiseido. The coverage is a bit higher than the ZAMIAN one though. Also bought the Majolica Compact. Coverage was pretty good. I never really wore it alone though so I don't really have much to say about it. I usually put bb cream and put a light layer on top o_O. Still looked pretty natural.

Recently I looked at Michelle Phan's on the go review and it really helped me find a good drugstore brand foundation. There's a couple I want to try out but I got really excited because it's so cheap XD. Shiseido was obviously the most expensive. The BB creams costed me around $30 or so..more or less. The one I just bought it.. only around $10. But I bought it at Shoppers Drug Mart who sells everything more expensive than everybody HAHA. Eileen bought it at Zellers for around $8 only >_> hahaha. It's supposed to be for any kind of skin type and high coverage. It's not that moisturizing, but the coverage is a bit more than the other foundations I have right now.

We decided to do a makeover, mostly for Eileen haha. Just because, I've never really seen her in makeup. And also do masks haha. I helped put on her foundation while Felicia did hair and eyes. I couldn't do it for her haha. It's not good when my hands keep shaking and Eileen's eyes keep twitching HAHA. Felicia learned her twitching pattern XD. I have the pics but I decided not to upload. Just because.. it doesn't seem that special to anyone else. Just us because we see her everyday w/o makeup XD.

Fei and I ended up buying the same exfoliating mask. I forgot what Leen's was but ours was a wash off while Leen's was a peel off. It was so gross HAHA. It looked like boogers or something when Leen squirted it out of the bag. I would've taken a pic/vid.. but my hands were covered with my mask XD. And Leen couldn't smile or else hers would crack haha. When she peeled it off it looked gross.

Can't see Leen's cuz I took it with my cell...dammit HAHA. It was all shiny and stuff. Felicia was being a ghost XD.

HAHA... ( : Yeah so smexxi. I would think it's embarrassing with the clips in my hair... but.. I also uploaded a pic of me with the chocolate mask stuff.. sooo yes HAHA. I pixallated our eyes... cuz we don't look as bad HAHA. Fei had the white mask stuff all over her lashes too ^^;;

Leen peeling off her mask XD.

Leen's face... HAHA

Went for interview yesterday. I think it went okay. Not great, but good enough. Hopefully I get the job. It seems that she's hiring a couple people so I hope both Fei and I can work together :D !! Went out to eat for Jenn's birthday yesterday too. Will post pics once they post it. But none of us took any this time. I was wayyy too crowded. They squished us all to a corner seat -_-. Only Jenn did and I don't think she took much either.

- Jiawen

Sunday Morning...Afternoon Entry

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:08:01 GMT

Hm, what has been happening..... went job hunting with Fei last week. Applied at a couple places. Still have to go to another mall to drop some off just in case. But.. I think I should be getting phone calls soon if they decide to hire me at the other places. Actually, Felicia and I both applied at the same place for one of the stores. Since we both said that we have open availability they decided to give us a test right after we handed in our resumes/applications. They were all scenario questions. Some of them were kinda like ehhh. Wasn't sure what to put. At least it was multiple choice so the right answer was already in there somewhere haha. And then this other store I applied at gave me a link to also answer questions. This one asked other questions too like how I would rate myself on certain traits. I wasn't sure if I should purposely rate myself high or not. Just because they would love to have people that had all of the following traits they listed.. but the truth is I'm not all those things haha. And I don't want them to interview me in person and find out the things I rated myself were false XD.

A lot of questions ask if I'm friendly or approach people easily or wait for them to approach me haha. It got me thinking that I've been changing a bit these past years. It's true that I'm shy and like to keep to myself. I've been trying to make myself more open for a long time. For some people it's something that comes easily, but for me it takes effort to go up to people and introduce myself. I'm still not like those that can instantly chat with the person next to them, but I'm giving my best effort to not be timid and speak to others. And I think I've been getting pretty positive results haha. People I've met in university are more attracted to my personality and like talking to me.. I hope ^^;;. So far no one's mentioned that I'm quiet or giving them death glares -_-^.

Seriously haha.. I don't know what about my face gives some people the idea that I'm giving them dirty looks or whatever D: . I swear I'm not. Like in junior high this girl kept insisting that I was giving her dirty looks : ( . I was giving you the "be friends with me, please?" look T_T HAHA. And then in high school one of my friends was like "...did you know.. I thought you hated me?" WTH HAHA T_T. I'm not a hater, I swear. Although after she told me that I liked to tease her haha. Tough love.
Like not long ago I asked her for her debut if I'm one of the candles or one of the regular guests. For candles they have to give a "wish/speech" to the birthday girl/boy. So I joked that I didn't want to lie in front of everyone at her birthday so I shouldn't be put as a candle HAHA >_<.
And then she told me that just for that she's gonna make me one of the dancers. So I said I wasn't going to attend then :P. It's all love : ) heh.

I've been really into anime these days. I think it might be because Bad Love was boring me so I need something else to entertain me haha. But I really do like anime plots sometimes. And I like how anime characters can show their emotions XD like when they're pissed or going like -_-^. I raced through Itazura na Kiss and right now I'm watching Special A. I never knew It Started With a Kiss is based on Itazura na Kiss o_O. I recommend both Itazura na Kiss and Special A though haha. I wanted to smack the guy in Itazura na Kiss and the girl in Special A XD. Don't be stupid D:< !

Went to Ashley's house on Friday to bake cookies. Ashey didn't do much because we're afraid her magic touch would cause them to turn into diarhhea cookies HAHA. Srsly. 'cept her ingrediants were weird.. HAHA. Her salt her MSG in it -_-^. Eileen was like eyeing it. Eileen's like our master pastry chef so she's iffy 'bout bad ingrediants and stuff. But yeah.. we tried to take out the MSG but.. there was too much mixed into it. So yeah.. we had MSG cookies :).And when we were mix we kept seeing like weird black dots... I was guessing that it was from the brown sugar. But Eileen's always baking so if she thinks it's weird then maybe it's not the brown sugar >_>. Ashley wanted to practice doing updos on us but we ran out of time XD. She only got to do Eileen's. It looked purdy. Haven't seen Eileen have such formal hairstyle before haha. Even for grad. Could only fit in my cut before we left haha. I wish I had thicker hair or something. My bangs turned out real fobby o_O. Well, at least it'll look nice when it grows out haha. I had my bangs cut the same before and I really liked it once it grew out a little. For some reason my bangs stick out when I have it short -_-^. Fail.

... I keep rambilng on XD.

- jiawen