Yay! Nikon Coolpix S520 Ish Mine~

Say HELLO to my new and long-awaited gadget.

By no means the most expensive, glossy, luxurious, high-end or -insert descriptive term- camera in the market, but what gives, as long as it captures colors accurately and decently for me to post in mai blog.

If I want shots like THESE,

I am NOT naked wtf. Taken with Akonana’s Industar 50mm lens from Russia. Terror kan? -.-

I’d get it from the Canon boy bf. I fully know the limitations of a point-and-shoot camera when compared side-by-side with a DSLR. 🙂

But, it doesn’t mean I don’t love my new Nikon.

The antique Canon boy ought not to be jealous.

And my webcam is still the best because it emphasizes my cuteness and decreases my skin’s flaws. XD

Seeeeeee so chio without pimples. XD

PS: Parents leaving tomorrow. Am a bit down but I know it’s for the best.

Gong Hei Fatt Ngau Choi!

Hello peeps! It’s been nearly a week since my last update, I’m so sorry. I can hardly spend quality time with my parents now that they are always traveling abroad to exciting places. So yeap, I’m lessening my blogging time as well as studying time even though I have an exam ahead of me. Damn you TARC for the lousy exam schedule.

So, lack of updates this time, definitely not procrastination.

Will be back.

Meanwhile, gong hei gong hei to everybody! Hope you guys have a great year ahead! Kiss 2008 goodbye and embrace the niu year. 🙂

Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Fuck You.

TENAGA NASIONAL BERHAD,

YOU SUCK.

I’ve received this, thank you very much.

I know my eyes are naked, but this is a RANT post, not a monolid makeup post k.

It’s not that I didn’t pay you intentionally, really. I’ve been doing my share of online banking religiously every month to settle our household expenses. In fact, maybe I’ve paid, but something in between happened with Maybank2U and you didn’t receive the payment. Nevermind, I have the accrued payment ready at hand to pay you. It’s not that I never want to seek your office and settle the problem. HONESTLY.

*Breathes*

It’s just that, I FUCKING CAN’T REACH YOUR GOD DAMN OFFICE VIA PHONE. We’re not the stone age anymore – I expect people to pick up my call OR do things via any form of communication via online, cable or whatever shit.

Tell me, how can an office run without a valid number? Even if the number is valid, why is there fucking no one to pick up? I know Chinese New Year is nearby, but i believe most of the staff are Malay, innit? So what? Giving yourself a freaking excuse to rest your lazy asses?

Just for background info, if anyone from TNB ever bother to check, I’ve called:

15454, which is Customer Service, and apparently, does not deal with Billing Issues. Fine.

1- 03 4295 9561
2- 03 4295 9562
3- 03 4296 9561
4- 03 4296 9562

I know they’re freaking variations, can? These are the freaking variations of numbers that your 15454 staff give me. I did not misheard the girl because I was pretty calm albeit on the verge of breathing fire.

Then there is also:

5- 03 4293 4345

NOT REACHABLE.

6- 03 4295 0691.

NOT. FREAKING. REACHABLE.

6 numbers here, dude. Is it my fault I can’t reach you now, huh? What is fucking wrong with you,

Tenaga Nasional Berhad?

Apparently I’ll have to use the Flinstone method to reach you, via driving to your fucking office. We’re on the verge of touching 2010 and I, a Malaysian, who has full access to Internet, telephones, etc, need to APPROACH your office just to get this settled?

Come on, we’re talking about doing payments and all sorts of things online already, for crying out loud. Let’s say Screamyx crashed in your office, I think you still have your telephone intact, no? But then again, I’d be highly amused if Screamyx crashed at your office. It’s so commonplace anyways, innit? Ask any patriotic Malaysian will tell you how WONDERFUL is our broadband provider.

And no, I still can’t fucking reach you.

So yeah, let me repeat the point of my post, again.

TENAGA NASIONAL BERHAD,

DAMN YOU.

If you guys cut off my electricity supply just because you all have a dysfunctional telephone line, for sure I’ll be bringing up this issue to the papers, you mark my words.

Again and again,

TENAGA NASIONAL BERHAD

YOU SUCK SUCK SUCK!

You guys are working so hard to impress the outside world yet all these fundamentals for your citizens are sadly crippled from within. Go ahead, go and suck up to those tourists’ ass, because that’s where the money is, innit? Just continue sucking the rakyat’s money and give us sub-par service.

This. Is. Bolehland!

Malaysia memang boleh. Begini pun boleh.

Disclaimer: You are NOT allowed to say that I’m not patriotric. I absolutely LOVE my COUNTRY MALAYSIA, didn’t you notice? 😉

Monolid Makeup Look: So Much I Wish to Write, But…

I don’t have a fucking camera and I hate showing sub par pictures for the world to see. All except for those LOL funny webcam pictures of course.

Here’s one plus an optional pus-filled pimple for you. That sucker spurted so much blood on my mirror and I ended up cleaning up again. Le sigh.

Monolid makeup info: Subtle cats eyes. Nice? 🙂 I really wish to come up with tutorials, but seeing my phone translate the colors so inaccurately is a big turn off. Imagine purple eyeshadow becoming grey after taking a picture. I. Simply. Can’t. Stand. This. Shit.

Santa apparently didn’t hear my Christmas wish, sigh sigh. 😦

Kthxbai. Hopefully I can get some decent pics from the bf’s camera soon, his computer broke down and I’m feeling so -_- from the lacking of seeing a good picture!!!!!!!!!!! Wtfness…

What’s your DAD’s opinion about BLOGGING?

My dad was discussing with me the prospects that I have after graduating from TARC. And as usual, ‘mass communication’ will translate to jobs like low paying journalists, sassy PR officers, DJ’s who talk brainlessly and etc in the minds of the typical Malaysian. Or indignant engineers or doctors or any highly professional personnel who need to learn 202940835 types of formulaes to do professional things eg. build a building.

Like my dad. The highly respected engineer. (Ma, when I gwo ap, I wan tu bee a engine-neer.) Sounds familiar? Come on, who doesn’t wish to hold a fat ass big respectful title like Doctor or IR or whatnot? XD

The dad from a well-respected industry and me from an industry that is unfortunately molded into something so fugly in today’s society. Hence, there are times where we fail to see eye-to-eye on certain things.

Just like this time, I feebly mentioned that mass communication is starting to expand with the emergence of new media, such as…

Blogging.

And he said,

Dun lah go and talk nonsense all over the Internet like those stupid blogger.

HAHA so he thinks bloggers are stupid. Luckily I don’t have the cheek to reveal to him that I have a blog else I think that’s the end of Chaborkia.com. XDXDXD

I can imagine dad saying:

Take down those stupid pictures of yours with that stupid plastic hand!
And what’s what all those makeup things? Nothing better to do is it? No wonder I never see you study.
Aiyeeeeeer your bf has a stud in his ear? What an indecent young man!
What the hell is a LOL?
The grammar error, oh God, after all the pain I went through to train you in Engrish! (ooops)

All this, from a father who absolutely loves his daughter, yet who means no harm.

Remember, dads do not fall into the Generation Y category. So you can never blame him.

I don’t. 🙂 Provided, he never ever sets foot in this place. *Shudders*

What do you LOVE about Chaborkia.com?

I have a sudden readership peak for the past few months yet I dunno what you guys come here for! Drop me a comment lah wei! T.T

I know there are people who have difficulty opening their mouths even on the Internet. Hence, the existence of Anon the anonymous otakun / 50 year old pretending to be a SYT / my lecturer (OMG!), my dad, my bro, my friend, the list could go on!.

In order to serve you better, kindly do the 2 question poll located to your right hand side. Thank you very much. Poll only, won’t bite okay? 🙂

OMG The Potato Has an Eye!!!!!!!

This potato didn’t behave and wanted to grow up before I could cook him.

Mom mentioned to me that the little plant thing is poisonous, so I tried Googling up a reason why. It was then only i realised they call the plant thing an eye.

So I was at Yahoo Answers looking for my answer when I stumbled on this thread:

Can you eat potatoes once they sprout eyes?

With absolutely delicious replies from the users there. The winners are:

NO..NOT if you are a true blue good upstanding vegan. Veggie heads never eat anything with eyes. Shame on you for yoru disgusting questions.

and

Yeah, you can eat potatoes once they sprout eyes….just make sure they don’t see it coming!

I hope you’re LOLing, because I really think this shit is funneh. LOL wtf the Internets is full of excessively creative people.

-_-

The Chaborkia Plays with Fire.

I need to get out before I do something stupid.

My First Coach OMG OMG OMG.

All the way from the US! Thank you my dear! You made my life complete with this wonderful piece of leather art. Not my Playboy (bought from Hong Kong) replacement though, I prefer handbags over crossbody bags.

*Heart heart heart*

Smelling the heavenly scent of pure luxurious leather~

OMG Purple Interior!

And look at the sheer symmetry of the design! Finely done craftwork.

The Chaborkia approves! 😀

Monolid Makeup Tip: A Different Usage for the Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick

Monolid girls might face some confusion when attempting to do nude eye makeup look. In fashion magazines or websites, it ALWAYS states that you should use a matte brown eyeshadow with no shimmers at all to shade some dimension into your eyes.

But I found out, based on my experience, that it’s a bad advice, but correct to a certain extent.

Why is it bad advice?
Monolid girls do not have a pair of deep set eyes with plenty of width for shading purposes. Our eyes are pretty flat, unlike double eyelid girls, you see. So if you cake on brown eyeshadow, it might look (1) you got beaten up or (2) your whole eyeshadow simply looks dirty.

But it’s somewhat correct, you need brown tones to shade monolids!
Aha! This is the fun part. It’s about choosing the right shade of brown, girls. And it’s not all about matte browns. We need to aim for something subtle yet gives dimension. For this purpose, I think I’ve found a holy grail.

The Bobbi Brown Bronze Shimmer Brick.

The hues are so so so subtle, with extremely minute shimmers that reflect light just beautifully. As background info, BB Bronze Shimmer Brick is used as an overall face illuminator, much like MAC’s Mineralized Skin Finish. So using it as an eyeshadow in pretty much a second (self-invented) option.

You see, there are 5 shades in the brick, and the colors are properly separated, much unlike MAC’s baked MSF. Which leaves you with 5 perfectly lovely eyeshadow shades to create a nude look! 😀

These subtle little shimmers give dimension to your eyes, much unlike the matte brown I have swatched on the right. Can tell? 😀

The dark brown falls flat IMHO. Bobbi Brown’s shimmers are just very very subtle yet make all the difference in the world.

Swatches of the shades – I tell you, these swatches don’t do the color justice. It’s lovely!

If you feel that it’s on the frosty side judging from the pictures, I can tell you they’re not at all. Trust me! Go to a Bobbi Brown counter and check out the shimmer brick yourself! 😀

I shall follow up this post with a FOTD soon when I have an outing and have a chance to makeup, because I think this picture doesn’t show much of the eye makeup. Don’t look at my pimples please! LOL.

PS: My friend say I look like a ?? with the fringe. -_- I know, I know, paired with eyeliner-less monolid eyes, I look like the typical China mui. -.-

I am so glad I didn’t buy MAC’s Mineralized Skin Finish. My sister-in-law has a Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick in her stash and I picked it up. Lesson: Dig through your female elder siblings / cousins / relatives makeup stash. Especially those who never love all these but like to buy impulsively! Kakakakaka…

Good night! 😀