I Love Looking Good

Dressing up is what girls love to do most. And I must say that it is one of my favourite past times. Putting on outfits to wear and coordinating them can be a hassle some times. I usually decide the night before on the colour I want to wear and then throw them together the next day hoping that I had make the right choice.

Picking colours off from my wardrobe can be very challenging. I have a variety of coloured long sleeve tees, shirts and blouses. On top of that I have to match them with a different shade of jeans everytime or pants and even skirts. And if that isn’t tricky enough, imagine having to match them with my tudung.

Light pastel colours can be very outstanding to people with medium to dark skin. So, we need to be very careful when picking them out. I am lucky enough to have most colours suiting me well.

I had planned my outfit the night before for todays outing and what I wore wasn’t the items I had picked.

This slight pale orangey top is very difficult to match a tudung with. On top of that, the colour seemed very striking to me. However, matching it with a dark shade of skinny jeans worked very well.

I got my orange top from a Giordano warehouse sale at only S$8 and my skinny Levi’s jeans from US at only US$16.99 (Levi’s is a rip off here in Singapore!). My tudung I managed to dig it up from one of my sister’s collection and finally, I threw in a Nine West sling bag which I bought in US at only US$20, together with Charles & Keith’s slingback flats (S$21.90). Totalling below S$100, I think I managed to pull off a colour which suits the upcoming Spring season.

One more thing, since Spring is arriving and the USD is dropping tremendously fast (it is now 1.40) it is time for us girls to get fashionably good deals from these websites.

• www.gojane.com
• www.wetseal.com
• http://ministry-of-style.blogspot.com/ (this site offers you buying service)

Enjoy online shopping girls.

Nur @ ilovelookinggood

This is an interesting post. Honestly, every single person who is looking for someone please read these tips.  Happy hunting and hope you will find your true love as i have.

Source :

http://boomers.msn.com/articleDP.aspx?cp-documentid=447131

By Isadora Alman

Have you ever received a chain letter requesting that you send along a dollar, a recipe, a joke, or good wishes in general? An unusual version of these letters popped up in my email box recently: “Wrap up and send your mate to the woman whose name appears at the top of the list and add your name to the bottom. In less than two weeks, you will receive 1387 husbands. A few of them at least should be keepers.”

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Source : Agence France-Presse – 2/18/2008 7:54 PM

http://news.sg.msn.com/topstories/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1250755

The Moon will turn an eerie shade of red for people in the western hemisphere late Wednesday and early Thursday, recreating the eclipse that saved Christopher Columbus more than five centuries ago.

In a lunar eclipse, the Sun, Earth and Moon are directly aligned and the Moon swings into the cone of shadow cast by the Earth.

But the Moon does not become invisible, as there is still residual light that is deflected towards it by our atmosphere. Most of this refracted light is in the red part of the spectrum and as a result the Moon, seen from Earth, turns a coppery, orange or even brownish hue.

Lunar eclipses have long been associated with superstitions and signs of ill omen, especially in battle.

The defeat of the Persian king Darius III by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC was foretold by soothsayers when the Moon turned blood-red a few days earlier.

And an eclipse is credited with saving the life of Christopher Columbus and his crew in 1504.

Stranded on the coast of Jamaica, the explorers were running out of food and faced with increasingly hostile local inhabitants who were refusing to provide them with any more supplies.

Columbus, looking at an astronomical almanac compiled by a German mathematician, realised that a total eclipse of the Moon would occur on February 29, 1504.

He called the native leaders and warned them if they did not cooperate, he would make the Moon disappear from the sky the following night.

The warning, of course, came true, prompting the terrified people to beg Columbus to restore the Moon — which he did, in return for as much food as his men needed. He and the crew were rescued on June 29, 1504.

The Moon will be in total eclipse from 0301 GMT to 0351 GMT. This will be visible east of the Rocky Mountains in North America, as well as in all of Central and South America, West Africa and Western Europe. The zenith of totality is close to French Guiana.

It will be in partial eclipse from 0143 GMT to 0301 GMT, visible west of the Rockies and from the eastern Pacific, and from 0351 GMT to 0509 GMT, visible across the rest of Africa and Europe and much of South and West Asia.

Under a partial eclipse, Earth’s shadow, or umbra, appears to take a “bite” out of the Moon.

The last total lunar eclipse took place on August 28 2007. The next will take place on December 21 2010.

A solar eclipse happens when the Moon swings between the Earth and the Sun.

Fai @ ilovelookinggood

Valentines came and went. In a blink of an eye, there are no more roses, chocolates and candies selling at ridiculous marked-up prices. We celebrated our Valentines a day later as I could only manage to get leave on the 15th instead of the 14th.

Our “Valentines” date started out with an eventful dramatic morning with a HUGE fight over petty issues (oh oh! there goes the beautiful date!). However, we manage to met out our differences and still had a wonderful day ahead.

While still slightly sulking from our fight, we decided to catch P.S. I Love You as planned. The movie starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler (300) was based on the titular book written by Cecilia Ahern. Basically, the story is about a woman, Holly (Hilary Swank) learning how to move on with her life after the death of her husband, Gerry (Gerard Butler). The plot here may seem typical of such other romantic chic movie, however, Holly was being guided on how to move on with her life from her dead husband through his letters of encouragement which he prepared before his death.

Fai and I both really liked this movie as it pretty much depicts us. Both characters entirely dependent on each other. Since the character that died in the movie is the husband, it showed how his wife is coping without his presence in her life. And if the roles were reversed, it will be the wife guiding the husband through her letters.

Halfway through the movie, when Holly (Hilary Swank) said, “We do not have a clue to what we want exactly”, Fai went like, “OMG! That is so true.” LOL!

Watching the movie and reviewing our current relationship at the moment was like dejavu. It was like a movie about us except for the fact that we’re not married, Fai is not dead and our parents do not hate either of us.

Having not read the book first (it helps as I’ve no expectation of the movie), I must say I am very much impressed with both the author and the director for bringing to life such a wonderfully scripted book. The cast of the movie also played vital roles in displaying their emotions which managed to tug the strings of my heart. I was tearing through out the entire movie.

P.S. I Love You, reflected not only the essence of my relationship but also to many out there. And at the end of the day, I treasured the person next to me most for always being there for me.

To satisfy my next tear-jerker crave, I am definitely going to read the book written by the brilliant Cecilia Ahern (I’ve already read Where Rainbow Ends. WONDERFUL!)

Nur @ ilovelookinggood

 Source : Ministry of Manpower 31/1/2008

The recent employment statistics are out and indeed Singapore’s future is as bright as ever. Last Year 2007, Singapore was able to make 60,600 new jobs. This is indeed a significant increase and a great achievement for our growing nation. However, i cant help but notice that out of the 60,000 new jobs, only 1,200 jobs were of Singaporean or Permanent Residents. The other 59,400 jobs were given to foreigners.

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We wish all couples (married, seriously dating, in-a-relationship, dating etc, etc, etc)…

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

It’s Valentines. Spread the love people.