Have I blogged about this yet?

Ok, I like handbags as much as the next woman. And man, how is it the ones I like end up being the expensive ones as well? Why can't I like that Perlini (I think that's the brand name - they sell it in Metro) bag instead of the lovely red leather shopping tote from Prada? Why?

I did try once to buy a no brand name bag .. I carried it around like once then chucked it aside ..

My bestie says I am snooty about brands. I am most certainly not. I usually carry Coach bags which hardly qualifies as an upmarket brand .. Hahaha. The Hubby travels up to the States a few times a year so I get him to buy a bag or 2 for me while he's there. I provide PICTURES of course. I shudder to think what he'll buy me if he doesn't have pictorial examples. Lol.

And I can't ask him to buy some other brand. The man is against spending thousands on a handbag. Damn.

Here is the bag I am currently drooling over. And it's red leather. *sigh* - The Prada Vitello Daino Shopping Tote.

Happy Birthday to The Hubby

For a month or so in the year .. The Hubby and I are the same age .. He turned 38 yesterday and I'm 38 now. After Christmas, I'll be freaking 39 .. Until then, we are the same age. Lol.

I decided to bake a cake for him instead this year. Nigella Lawson's Devil's Food Cake. A really decadently chocolate cake. Turned out decently too. Claudia helped me and together we did a good job. Here are pics !!

And Happy Birthday to my darling husband .. U are the love of my life .. :)

Pretty?

She's my birthday present to myself. Haha. Ok, I love dolls .. I haven't really been collecting them for a number of years but yes, I love dolls. I used to collect Barbie dolls (not the ones kiddies play with) .. But I would kill to own a Blythe doll. This is the closest I come to .. A Pullip doll from Magma Heritage. One day I will buy a Blythe.

Why oh why ..

I just don't seem to have any luck with hairstylists. I swear.

I have a wonderful nail place I go to. Cheap and good. And they don't try to chat me up. And they speak in sing song Vietnamese. And their tv is switched onto channel 5. Yay. And it's a big ass tv .. Double yay!

But hair place? Oh just SHOOT me, will ya? I cannot seem to find a decent hairstylist that doesn't piss me off or do my hair right ..

What. The. Hell.

The latest fiasco is my hair color. He colored it a shade too dark I feel. I hate that. It looks weird. Too dark. Yes, I have tons of white hair but my natural hair colour isn't THAT dark so it kinda looks harsh against my skin colouring.

Damn. It. To. Hell.

I am this close to completely giving up on ever finding a decent hair stylist. One that doesn't cost the sun and the moon but still does a good job.

Frankly speaking, my hair now reminds me of that chick in The Ring, Sadako.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Just look at it.

First to die during wartime ...

The Hubby declared that to me. He was referring to me of course. not himself. Haha.

I will be the first to die in a war, or if stranded on a deserted island, or in zombie apocalypse. I swear.

Why? Because I NEED all the things that come with day to day living today. Running water, electricity, my car, the Internet .. My iPhone.

We had a situation in our condo last weekend. Some blocks including mine were without running water for 2 whole bloody days. It was a nightmare. No running water meant no hot showers. And no flushing toilets. My immediate response was to abandon our home and live out of a hotel suite till the problem was rectified. The problem being a burst underground pipe running under our block.

But of course, there was no way The Hubby was going to spring for 2 nights at Marina Bay Sands so I sped to the nearest hardware store and bought 4 ginormous pails for hauling water - the condo management had arranged for water points to be set up at various spots in the condo. And lucky for us, we had one right at our lift lobby.

Of course, big ass pails meant that once they were filled to the brim with water, no one could actually lift the pail for any distance at all .. But here's where our trusty Radio Flyer wagon came in damn handy. We have the one that's really hardy made of metal and has a maximum weight limit of 60 kg. It can and did easily hold 2 pails filled with water. Awesome .. No hauling at all except for lifting the pails out of the wagon. Yay! We were the envy of our neighbors. Hahaha.

And we manually filled up the toilet cisterns so we could flush. And we boiled hot water for showers. We managed ok. No cooking, no cleaning .. We let the clothes pile up for awhile and thankfully managed to do laundry after the 2 days.

Although we survived the crisis, I hafta to say .. It still sucked to have no running water. Lol. I was just thankful it wasn't electricity. Less baths I can handle .. No air con, I'd just die. Lol.