Now, 14th February is approaching. I mean those who are in a relationship and do care about what to do on that ‘romantic’ day might be perplexing, biting the fingernails, pulling hair, or wait…do I hear the clicky keyboard sounds and do I see google as one of the main websites with the keywords - valentine’s gifts?

You see the single ladies and men might be snorting at the thought and trying really hard to emphatise with people who are desperately looking for something new this year to surprise the girlfriend or boyfriend, wife or husband. Frankly, this is also one of the best time of the year for the singles to hang out a group of single and hot friends while the couples can only watch the fun that you will be having. Ah! Sceptical.

Anyway, I should stop being bitchy about this topic. In fact, I am writing today to suggest some good stuff for men especially. Well these are some suggestions on what you can do on the 14th of Feb. Girlfriends, if you read this and love some of my ideas, you can pretend to leave this page on his laptop so he can have a good read Just ensure he doesn’t see this paragraph of my sly, cunning move

Well…Valentine O Valentine! Women are creatures who couldn’t make up their mind, not all but most of us especially when it is for pleasure. I mean why do we need to crack our brains for something that is meant to be pleasureable? We just want to be pampered, need the attention, want some good laugh - not old, lame jokes though. So, although this Valentine is not really in a good time with the impact of the economic crisis - it’s good to just make it simple yet astonishingly romantic.

However, for those who are not affected by the economic crisis and are still doing very well, in fact a lot better, you can do the following:

A first class holiday to any first class destination ….

Hot Air Balloon with a bottle of champagne Bollinger…

An.. all-you-can-shop-or-spend day with your cards or cash - whichever you prefer..

A day of spa and beauty treatments for her and her girlfriends Well if you would like to be pampered, you can have a couple session too…even better!

A star-gazing experience with your coolest gadget or in your convertible sports car…both are equally fine…

Or engage a small airplane to write these words to express your extravagant love for her….
Well well….for you who prefer a simpler version of Valentine’s and wouldn’t want to donate any unnecessary extra coins to the marketers, here’s what you can consider…

A good body massage….if you have coarse skin, slap on more moisturiser on your hands a couple of nights before the massage night…it works wonders

Or whip up a good meal…..time to check the recipe book…

Make your own cocktails ..the easiest is vodka+cranberry juice - slurpilicious…

No, no…I’m not suggesting you to engage Mr Buble for a night melodic performance but well you can interpret it as —- to get ready with such pose..who wouldn’t fall for such a hug? I know I definitely will…

Or you can turn on some good romantic or jazzy music to heighten the romance of the night…have a good slow dance and spend a lovely evening together…

Valentine’s Day is just another day and it is important to have romance and sparks every now and then, not just once a year otherwise, the relationship is just mundane, dreadful and boring until someone appears…a dinkum advice

Wishing everyone a lovely day every day…have a good Valentine’s too ….

signing off..

LOL - I mean Lots Of Love….

I chanced upon this article from the online news website of The Age. I thought this will be a good read for us. Enjoy reading

January 13, 2009 - 11:46AM

Angela Cuming and Kristie Lau report.

Lemon juice gets rid of freckles

Mums do know what they are on about, sometimes. Applying lemon juice to your freckles does act as a bleaching agent. However, dermatologist Dr JoAnn See says you have to keep going to maintain the faded affect. “Lemon juice offers an optical lightening, yes, but it won’t get rid of freckles altogether. It’s like putting lemon juice in your hair in summer - that works as a temporary method, too,” she says.

Verdict: Fair dinkum

Brush your hair 100 times a day

Well, if it was good enough for Marcia Brady it should be for us, right? Wrong, says hair stylist George Wilson. “You should try (to) brush your hair as little as possible, especially when it’s long, because brushing causes split ends,” he says. “And if you do have to brush dry hair, do it from underneath to avoid all those flyaways on the top of your head.”

Verdict: Give it the brush-off

Don’t go to bed with wet hair

This beauty no-no does not just leave you with a stiff neck and a bad case of the sniffles the next morning. “If the scalp is moist for a long period of time it can aggravate the small amounts of bacteria found on the skin’s surface, which will cause flakiness and irritation and itching,” Wilson says.

Verdict: Right on

Cucumber alleviates puffy eyes

While at face value it appears that mum just invented this to stop teenage daughters wasting their pocket money on expensive eye creams, there actually is some truth to it. Sydney make-up artist Anya Fransman says turning to the vegie crisper can work wonders.

“Cold cucumber slices placed over the eyes can help to alleviate puffiness simply because the coolness of them helps to constrict blood vessels, aiding in slowing down fluid retention,” she says.

Verdict: Yes

Using toothpaste on pimples makes them go away

If your spots are looking particularly red and nasty, you can dab on a smidgen of toothpaste - but don’t expect long-lasting results. JoAnn See says toothpaste should only be used as a temporary treatment. “It will dry your pimples out because toothpaste is an anti-inflammatory agent. It can reduce the redness if left on overnight and the results are usually evident within 24 hours,” she says. “But it’s not designed to stay on your face as a cream; it’s supposed to be washed off, even on your teeth.”

Verdict: Quick fix

Never wash your face with soap

Soap can not only strip away all the natural good oils and sebum that keeps your skin healthy, it can disrupt the skin’s pH balance. “Instead, choose a soap-free, gentle facial cleanser suitable for your skin type (dry, oily, normal, combination), making sure that you use it in the morning and in the evening and massage it into the skin for up to 30 seconds or until all the impurities have dissolved,” Fransman says.

Verdict: You heard right

The name of this blog site is named after the word fashion. Fashion is defined a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses. Or it can also mean the conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., especially of polite society, or conformity to it; the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion. The definitions are direct quotations from the online dictionary but when it comes to men as fashion, the definition will be this whole entry. Read it only if you are game for some controversial thoughts! No, if you are not open to having wild random thoughts, this is probably not a very good entry for you

Now, how do we look at the whole situation where men become items or some form of dresses that we can pick and use according to whichever function or events that we intend to attend. When it comes to men-fashion, there should not be any rule or dictation that constraint what we want to put on for the day and how we want to dress them. No one could say this is right or wrong, no one could rule out with the tapestry and announce how this piece of jewelery can be worn.

Isn’t it liberating to wake up every morning, and knowing you can open up the wardrobe and make the best selection for the day, sometimes more than a selection in a day; say a sundress for the afternoon and an evening gown for a ball or dance event. No matter how fine certain material is, sometimes we just prefer to put on baggy clothes and stay put at home. Not enough! When we get sick of thinking what to wear, we can always go for our birthday suit when we sleep or walk around in the house. This is truly a no-string-attached business. Again, who would care or to be more precise, who could actually care?

We bid them in e-bay, we buy them from boutiques, we exchanged with our girlfriends and sometimes, we get them for free. When we get tired of them, we donate them to The Salvation Army or we leave them outside our house and see who would pick them. If we are the sentimental ones, we then keep them in our wardrobe, far end or in a box that is sealed and kept in a store room, probably in the basement, a place where we don’t normally hang out.

Now, you must be frowning as you read this entry and probably are thinking what the **** fefe is doing with this entry. No respect at all towards men and values system. Now what I can say is this is just an entry of how men can become a form of fashion in our lives; just as how we allow our fantasy to hover around celebrities’ shoes or dresses. Some are within our reach, but some will always remain as a form of fashion fantasy with some minor realization that can be reflected with some adaptations or changes done to our dresses or wardrobe. This explains why some articles offer views for female readers to dress up like a celebrity under RM100 for example.

I gather men-fashion wardrobe is probably one of the million items that women would want to have in our life, but how many can actually afford such fashionable lifestyle?

As a guy or rather a girl walks by with tattoes on his or her body, people will turn their head and their eyes follow him or her to wherever they go to. People’s perception on those who have tattoes were bad, that they aren’t good people, there must be something bad within them, that they aren’t as simple as people think they are and bottom line, it’s everything very negative. People started become judgemental towards them. These days it’s considered a fashion item, or to some, it’s art or rather related to religious issues. However, the older generation still has the conservative mentality though.

I have thought about having a tattoo ages ago, somewhat like 8 freaking years ago. Yes no joke 8 freaking years! How people decide to have a tattoo? Well, as for me, I got inspired by my dance instructor then who really has tattoos all over his body and it was just darn cool on him. Ever since then, I dreamt of having one and I never did until this year.

Once I told people my dream of having a tattoo, majority says NO and that I will definitely regret during my old age. I say .. let’s think about now rather than later. If it turns ugly later in life, so be it. The pain was bearable, and it wasn’t pain throughout the whole process. It was cool all the way.

If people … decide to have a tattoo, make sure you don’t ink your partner’s name, or something to do with your partner and *touchwood* something happens between the both of you, the name stays on forever though the person don’t. Also a piece of advise, don’t ink something to do with fashion today. Tribal used to be an “in” thing but right now it’s fading away. SUggestions … please if you wanna do a tattoo, do something you really like and love and it’s best if it brings meaning to it and not just for the sake of tattoo-ing. There must be a certain level of trust between you and your tattoo-ist or else the end result won’t be good. You just have to trust your tattoo-ist. Ask around, survey around only decide because this will last a lifetime and one last word, do not regret.

Did you know that exposure to sunlight for a long period of time actually promote more wrinkles to your skin? Besides wrinkles, we have high risk of getting skin cancer if this goes on without proper use of sun protection or sunscreen in our daily beauty regime. I choose to present this important information in the format of a table, for an easier read.

Information gathered from:

Sun Protection and Sunscreen

Truths, Lies and Sunscreens

Bright colours and go strappy. The Gladiator sandals are a hit! The strappy boots are irresistable.

The last pair is mine My very own Grendha sandals for this season; Spring / Summer.

It’s always a guess or two when you needed good hand lotion yet no one could give you precise solution. Most people tell you, just buy and try. Or when you walk into a shop, you try out the product, you feel that’s the best ever but soon after you purchase that, you realise it isn’t really the one you are looking for.

The place where I used to work, I had to stay in the office most of the time. The dryness in an air-conditioned room can really wrinkle your skin. I was given a tube to try, it’s from Crabtree & Evelyn; The Gardeners Hand Therapy. The wonders that work after applying it. Well you don’t have to wear a lot, just slap some and the moisturising effect from the cream; voila! To all who are seeking smooth and silky hands, try this…I swear by it!

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FREE RM10 Discount Voucher with every storewide purchase of RM120 made in accumulated receipts at the same store (not applicable for Parkson Elite Card rebate).

FREE RM10 Promotional Voucher with every purchase of RM100 from the Cosmetics & Fragrance Department (excluding best buys and coffret sets) BonusLink Point structure for Parkson applies.

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contributed by paris88

What is classified under this term pornography? Well as I have understood from the e-dictionary, it basically means drawings, photographs or writings that suggest obscenity or having no artistic value.

For years, men and women are so obsessed with breasts, two extra lumps of fats that can drive us crazy, crazy to look beautiful with push up bras, crazy to cover them up with cloths and pads so the men don’t see them. Or to put it into a more extreme illustration here, some even strip to make money and that two amazing lumps of fats can actually make the men go wild, drooling or even self pleasuring.  So what are these two lumps actually?

I remembered visiting musuems and arts exhibitions where there were paintings, sculptures and statues with bare breasts, may it be male or female figure; all bare breasts. And don’t these arouse the men? Don’t these drive them go ga-ga? Are we misled or something?

Readers, what would be your vote? Is it or is it not? I am puzzled!

Pink is girlish, pink is gentle but pink is never outdated.

To align with the theme colour in both myb forum and blog, I have decided to search for some compact cameras which are pink in colour and finally I will select which of these is my favourite. Oops, as for the detailed specifications or comparisons with other cameras, you may have to visit their website for more details. Price is quoted from their website although not all are shown. These are the top four of my favourites.
Nikon Coolpix, Price unavailable
Sony Cybershot DSC T70 RM1,099.00

Fuji Finepix Z5fd, price unavailable
Canon Ixus 80IS, RM999.00

I am a sucker for chic and sleek design, so obviously out of these top 4, my vote naturally went out to Sony Cybershot. What about you?