My dog, My Family

Today I would like to post about my dog. My dog is just a normal stray dog named SiSi. This name was named after another dog at my dad's fish farm. The older dog was very obedient and very cute as well. My dad said older SiSi was a very good dog and really obedient. Then, another bitch (female dog) at the fish farm gave birth to 5 little puppies. Three of the puppies were having short fur while the other two were with longer fur. My family's SiSi is one of the long-fur puppies. She was the cutest among all the puppies when she was young. Back then, I remembered my dad and mum telling me that there was one little puppies extremely cute at the farm. So, out of curiosity, I visited dad's fish farm and when I saw the puppy, I was delighted and begged my mum to bring her home. She promised me and my siblings that we can bring her back every friday and keep till sunday for dad to bring back to farm. My mum said we cannot keep the puppy around during weekdays for fear that we pay too much attention playing with her till forget studies! =D

Haha..Just as expected, we were thrilled playing with new puppy and we spent so much time thinking where to allocate her in our house. On her first day here in our house, we have to go out for dinner. As we were afraid that she might be lonely outside, we tied her at the coffee table in the house and when we came back, she was turning around the table trying to free herself..=) She was super adorable back then. Can never forget that. Every week when she came to our house, we would bathe her and feed her. To be honest, she was the most obedient dog ever. Even when she was puppy, she would never cry at night for milk or for her mummy. I still remember back then that we used big cardboard to build a so-called house for SiSi, but the next day when we woke up, the house was 'down' already. She woke up and all the cupboard would just fell off..

Dad told us that every Sunday when dad sent her back to farm via motor, SiSi's mum would 'smell and sniff' SiSi because she smelt different after bathed. Hehe. So this routine continued until one day when she started to lose appetite and her poo had some sort of worms. So, she fell sick and even when we sent her back to farm, we were so worried until we turned back to pick her up (that time it was raining heavily). When she came back to our house, we brought her to vet and that time, it was the last time she went back to fish farm. From that day on wards, she stayed with us and we named her SiSi. 

There are just so many memories with my dog. She passed away on 10th August 2012 at 7.25pm. May she rest in peace. My dog was very healthy all these while without sick and she's very greedy with food. Any food can attract her except for vegetables and fruits. This doggie of our family really cute. She likes to lick her paw and elbow. Aside from that, she was also very very very scared of fireworks. Every time during festive seasons she would be hiding under my mum's working table because fireworks were all around the air. Haha. Not only that, she was also very naughty. Always 'lau kai' want to come into the house middle of the day. Since my family is running business during the day, she was not allowed to be free as we were afraid that she might bite customer. Yeah she did bit one small boy once around evening (7pm). So since then we do not set her free so early until business ended. Well, we do not follow these rules anymore lately. Every time she 'lau kai', we would just set her free and come into the house. She will be resting at her favorite spot in the house.
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Like I said before, she's very greedy with food. Unlike other dogs who would bark for food, SiSi would just scratch your leg and look at you with her mouth wide open.."I want!". Really naughty girl. Once awhile my mum would set her free to walk outside the house and let her pee. My doggie must walk freely when she was outside. Nothing can tie her. LOL..And the bad thing is, she would walk further and further when we called her back. 'Ah Pang ngai gau, yut ngai yut zhau'. Naughty girl and very 'yau min'. There was once she was lost when we were out for vacation. My uncle did not notice that she went outside the house and locked the gate. She did not came back after that. After searching for one day, my brother found her at the other side of the housing area with her whole body covered with mud and blackish stuff. Don't know where she went. But we were lucky to have her back. Since then, we be extra careful when we go out for vacation..

This is how SiSi looks like 

i really miss her... I regretted that I did not keep more pictures of her and it's because I did not expect her to go away so fast. I was pretty sad as I did not make it to see her for the last time. I was hoping to see her during the coming Raya holiday. But...it was too late. My whole family was sobbing with grief for her loss. In the end, they buried everything that belong's to her, along with her body at the fish farm. My brother said, 'She should go back to where she belongs and everything goes with her'. She gave our family the most memorable 7 years with her. Thank you SiSi for being there in me and my brother's childhood. In short, you are like our sister, growing up with us with many memories and happiness...

There is no other SiSi like you...

I love you always...You are always in my heart, and mind!

Love,

Jie Jie

Updates after working

It's been about 5 days since I started working. So far I have been enjoying my working life. People has been really nice and teach me a lot. I have one new colleague came in for work yesterday and to my surprise, we get along well and been together most of the time. I guess mainly because both of us are new?! 

So, here are the products or samples I got from Percetakan Tenaga (PT) Sdn. Bhd. For your information, I'm currently working at Planning Department. On the coming post I will explain further about what I actually do in this department. But I would say that the jobs done by me in this department is really a lot and this makes my life there really alive and busy..not boring at all..=) And because my name is the same like my senior colleague, I get myself an English name..Grace Leong Lai Peng. Is it ok?

Throughout my weekend, I did non-heat curls with my hair and this was how it looked like...

Just want to show how cute my hubby is when he is asleep..hugging my pillow

Today I got some samples of bookmarks by PT. My phone camera quality is not really good and some of the colorful and hologram effects cannot be clearly seen. But I'm really impressed with the simple and nice designs...

So, that's all..shall update again soon!

Love,

Grace

My little secret to keep skin healthy

Hello readers. I am back with another post about skin care. I’m currently back to Ipoh and I cannot go online due to zero internet connection. I went out with my besties last week and she hunted for cleanser for her blemish-prone skin. She asked me for suggestion, but some skin care products appeared to be a little expensive for her. But anyway, this post is for me to share out some of my experiences with acne and how to deal with it.. So long story begins now:

1. My skin type

My skin is blemish-prone, with oily T-zone and upper cheek but dry at the corners of my lips. I’m not sure is it considered as combination skin or totally oily skin. My skin can be really shinny after 3-4 hours.

2. History of developing acne

I started to get pimples and acne around my teenage years (about 13 years old) but it was well-controlled with products. My acne problem worsen when I was 17 years old. The pimples were spreading to my whole face and it was red, bumpy and painful. I remembered that there were no clear spot on my face back then. I was ashamed to look into the mirror for my reflection. When I look at people, I did not look at them in the eyes.

People around me keep suggesting me this and that for my skin. Until one day, my classmate suggested me to go to dermatologist for help. I went to a skin specialist and he gave me some product to be used, and also some antibiotics. I spent about RM1000 after 3 treatments. It did helped my skin to start clearing up, but after I stopped taking antibiotics, my acne came back. So I’d decided to stop the treatment as it was pretty costy for student like me.

Then, another classmate suggested me to go to beautician for beauty therapy. Well, the products really helped my skin and my skin turn out to be better since then. However, when I joined university, my skin started to become worse again. I started to develop pimples and acne. Although I tried various products but non of it helped.

Until recently around age of 23, my skin started to be better after using certain products.

3. My knowledge on skin care and how to deal with acne

A) Skin type

I must say that after battling acne for so many years, I’ve considered myself to be knowledgeable on skin care. To care for our skin, first, we need to identify our skin type: Oily/Dry/Combination/Sensitive/Combination of different skin types (eg. dry + sensitive/ oily + sensitive). Identifying your skin type is crucial as it is the basic step for you to determine the suitable products for your skin. For example, if you have oily skin, then you should be using products which can control sebum production while if you have dry skin, then hydrating products will be best to nourish your skin back. Choosing the wrong products for your skin type can be a disaster as it can worsen your skin problem. Take for example, if you have dry skin, but you are using a product that controls oil production. This can cause your skin to be drier. Therefore, before choosing any products, consider your skin type first and what is your main concern of your skin: dryness? ance? oily? sensitive?

B) Right skin care products for your skin

After identifying your skin type, then you can free to choose your skin care products. The most basic skin care for all skin type is cleanse, tone and moisturize. I stress again, it’s for ALL SKIN TYPE. Many people have misconception of skin care steps especially for oily skin type or acne-prone skin. You might think that your skin is oily enough and therefore you may skip toner and moisturizer, but just cleanse instead. With just cleansing, but not moisturizing your skin, your skin can be dry due to constant cleansing and this will lead to excess sebum production to compensate the dryness due to cleansing. Excess sebum can cause clogging of pores, leading to ance, pimples, cycts and black or white heads.

Thus, no matter what skin type you have, you must cleanse, tone and moisturize according to your skin type. For example, if you have oily skin, then use cleanser of gel consistency or with gentle exfoliator (microbeads) to remove excess oil and dead skin cells. Such cleanser can remove oil and impurities to prevent pore clogging. But if you use cleansers that of cream based or hydrating cleanser, this is more likely to make your skin even oilier. The same goes to sensitive skin. Choose cleanser with less chemical and fragrance. My choice of cleansers nowadays are Hada Labo AHA BHA cleanser (night) and Naruko Narcissus Total Defense AA Foaming Wash. They both work well on my skin to remove oil and dead skin cells at the same time keeping it moist.

As for toner, always use toner without alcohol or fragrance. I believe many people said that using astringant can shrink down the pores, and reduce sebum production. Well, the fact is that alcohol tends to dry out the skin (a no-no to dry skin) even though you use it on oily skin. When the skin is dry, you are more prone to excess sebum production to regulate the dryness, thus, leading to more breakout and pimples. Therefore, use a toner which is gentle on your skin. I personally like to use toner by SIMPLE because it does not have any alcohol or fragrance. It keeps my skin supple and soft.. =)

Then, you must moisturize your skin. For dry skin, you can opt for cream based or hydrating moisturizer. If you have sensitive skin, stay away from products which are harsh (eg. Clearasil, Oxy, Proactiv), and opt for products without fragrance and more gentle (hypoallegic). But, if you are having oily skin, try to use moisturizers which are lighter, oil-free and hypoallegic. Try not to choose cream-based moisturizer because these products can be too rich for your skin, making it oilier. I use moisturizer by Naruko Tea Tree Oil Out Balancing Moisturizer and Clinelle’s Moisture Glow Moisturizer. Both of these controls my sebum production and treats acne. After using these, my skin turns out to be really clear. =)

These are just the most basic steps to care for your skin. There are some additional steps your can do to further treat and care for your skin.

C) Treating your skin like a baby

Our skin cells will die and new cells will be produced to replace the dead ones. Dead skin cells will stay on our face if it is not removed, and sometimes, it can build up and clog our pores. With bacteria living on our skin, these culprits can cause inflammation and infection in our clogged pores. Then, acne or pimples formed. So, if you want to keep your skin clear, you have to remember to get rid of these dead skin cells as well. Exfoliating your skin weekly (2-3 times a week) is crucial to get rid of these dead skin cells. Exfoliator can come in many different forms (eg. with microbeads like Eucerin, larger beads like St. Ives, peeling gel from Laneige or Naruko and chemical exfoliant like alpha hydroxy acid (AHA)) and you can choose it based on your skin types. I am not very sure which is suitable for dry and oily skin but those larger beads are not so appropriate for sensitive skin as it can be too harsh on the skin. I personally use Laneige strawberry yogurt peeling gel or St. Ives apricot scrub weekly prior to mask. Just love to exfoliate because your skin can be really smooth and clean afterwards.

After exfoliating, you can always treat your skin with masks. There are many many types of masks available in the market (eg. sheet mask, sleeping mask, clay mask, hydrating mask and etc). Choosing a mask for your skin type is also very important because it helps to treat your skin according to your skin problem. For oily skin, you can opt for exfoliating mask or clay mask because it can help to remove dead skin cells and draw out excess oil and cleanse your pores. If you have dry skin, then hydrating masks (sheet mask or those masks with aloe vera and olive oil) are what your skin need. If you need extra treatment like whitening or anti-aging, you also can have mask once a week. Mask can be done 2-3 times a week after exfoliating because it can absorb into the skin much better and gives maximum effect to the skin.

Aside from the basic skin care steps: cleanse, tone, moisturize, you can add more steps in your skin care routine by using serum or essence, eye cream and sleeping mask or night gelly. Choose essence based on your skin type as well. Most serum in the markets can be very thick and rich and some of it are not suitable for oily skin at all. I know that Naruko Tea Tree line has their serum which is light in consistency and does not clog pores. Perhaps this is a better choice for oily skin. Eye cream or gel is necessary for all skin types because it can helps to reduce dark circles, puffiness and fine lines. Sleeping mask or night gelly is the final step for your night routine because it helps to seal in all the products that you have applied to your skin.

      

4. Lifestyle to beautiful skin

Well, enough of products. To achieve beautiful and clear skin, we do not just rely on skin care products. But beauty comes from the inside as well. Remember to eat more fruits and vegetables for antioxidants and various vitamins and minerals for skin health. Secondly, reduce intake of fat and sugar because these can cause excess sebum production. Also, drink lots of water because it can help to keep your body hydrated and cleanse away toxins from your body.

If possible, try to get enough rest and exercise because these can balance out our hormones and makes us feel good. When we feel good and happy, we will be less stress and eventually, our skin will be better.

I’ve learnt all these from many beauty guru’s in YouTube. And the video below has helped me a lot to understand my skin and what I can do to improve my skin problem.


 At the end of the day, all we need to do to keep our skin healthy is not simple and it’s not that hard at all. All we need to do is lead a healthy lifestyle and choose products based on our skin type and finally, be confident that ‘You ARE BEAUTIFUL’.

With love,

Lai Peng

Graduation trip and Ipoh Holiday

Hello fellow readers, I've just came back from my holiday with buddies Jeremy, William and Keh Len. We went to Genting for a two days one night trip. We did not go into the themepark to play but instead, we just loiter around Genting and enjoy our time together. We talked, we played bowling, we had card games and watch movies via laptop and TV in apartment, we walked around Chin Swee temple, we had fun camwhoring and taking pictures...I must say that this holiday is different from my previous visit there. Usually people will play and line up for the games, but this time, we spent time there by doing things we all enjoy together a buddies. 

It was fun and memorable trip for me. They are my university buddies.. And after this, we all will be going on with our own future plans and roads..Jeremy and William will be furthering their studies while Keh Len will proceed with her job searching. I will be working soon. They said that we can only meet during convocation, but I guess it's not that difficult to meet up as I will be working in KL soon. We still can meet up and hang up as usual...I do miss them a lot...

They really make me happy and helped me a lot in any way. Especially Jeremy and William as three of us are from Dietetics and meet frequently. Jeremy has been my group mate the whole last semester. =) Indeed he has been the best buddies in University life...

I wish all of them good luck for their future roads and plans...We shall meet again soon before we even knew it! =P

Will update more on the trip once the pictures are uploaded..!

Take care buddies...

p/s: BTW, I'm going back Ipoh today! Will not on9 as I do not have any connection in the mean time

Love,

Lai Peng

My first Job after Graduated

Emm.. Just want to post and share my news on getting my first job. It is a job unrelated to dietetic field. During my interview on tuesday, the interviewer (Miss May) asked me whether I am really willing to let go of my dietetic field and work in their company which is totally different thing. Actually I don't mind doing something different from diet field. 

Ok..let me share what the job is about. Alright, the job they are offering me is Management Trainee. The company offering this job is Pencetakan Tenaga (PT) Sdn. Bhd. located at Kepong KIP. As management trainee, they are offering me training at all department until I get all my skills for each department, they will locate me at a department that I love to work at. The duration for each training is not fixed as I will need to get all the skills before moving to the next department. I kinda like this job scope as I can learn a lot of new things and will not be bored as I won't be doing the same job all the time...What I love most is that I can learn totally new things....=)

They are offering me RM2100 as my salary and I also get additional benefits like EPF, Socso, annual leave, MC leave, company trip and company annual dinner. I think for fresh graduate without any knowledge and experience in printing services and given such offer it can be considered a good offer...=)

This is how the company look like...

The logo of the company...

Well, I will starting my work on 26th July..Em...feeling so excited and good! 

Wish me luck!

Love,

Lai Peng

Updates for the past few days

For the past few days, my BF's mother came to KL to visit us and we went out for Lunch and Dinner. Here I camwhored with my cute little chipmunk and smurf..

Can u see how cute is my chipmunk?

Hello! Am I cute?

Yesterday I had an interview at Pencetakan Tenaga (PT) Sdn. Bhd. company. The company is actually a big factory majoring in printing services for major companies like P&G, AmbiPur, Sony, Celcom..and et. cetera. They offer RM2100 for 5.5 days work. What I really like about their job scope is that they are offering training for all departments of the company.  By doing so, I will get more opportunity to learn jobscope of all different departments and learn totally new things. I'm really excited about this, but let's just hope that I will not be rejected by them...After interview, I went out Lunch with Jyn Ling at MidValley. We had lunch at Jusco and had Laksa and Nasi Lemak Rendang Ayam. After that we walked around MidValley and in the end, we munched on our delicious snacks from Tako Tao..

Yummy! This is the Takoyaki from Tako Tao...Yummy! 

Today I will be having another interview at Selayang Hospital for contract dietitian. I think the chances for me getting this position is not easy as I do not have good knowledge about dietetic practice.. My interview will be at 3.00pm and so, I took this opportunity to do my facial..=)

The black black mask is a peeling mask to peel out my black and white heads. While the other parts of my face is applied with an enzyme mask! 

Walao...now my skin is smooth smooth...=)

Okay, that's all for this time

Love,

Lai Peng

Birthday card to Miss Ngeaw

As you can see this is the final look of the birthday card! =)

Love,

Lai Peng

Playing saxophone and making card

Yesterday I was spending my time making card and playing with my brother's saxophone..Fun...=P

Well, this is how my dog looks like..the cutest member in our family..

And here you see I am playing with brother's saxophone..really difficult to play..and I am really proud of him for being able to play a song using this instrument!

Yipee..=)

My best friend Wai Leng's birthday is next month but however, I am going for nutrition conference on her big day. She requested nothing from me except for a handmade birthday card...So..I was thinking of 'hanging board' concept for this card of hers..

 This is the front side... 

And the back of the card

The 3rd piece of the card which is not attached to others yet

This love side is for me to put our gang pictures for her memories..! =)

Hope she likes it!

Love,

Lai Peng

Updated skin care routine

Hello everyone. I am back with another post about my skin care routine. Again, I must say that I am a person who loves investing on skin care products. So as you can see below, I've laid out all the skin care products that I use on day-2-day basis. These are what I used daily..

I follow the basic steps of skin care: 1) Cleanse --> 2) Tone --> 3) Moisturize --> 4) Eye cream

The products that I use:

1) Cleanser: Hada Labo AHA BHA cleanser

2) Toner: Simple Soothing toner (sorry bout the picture, this is my travel size toner in Clinelle's bottle)

3) Moisturizer: Naruko Oil Out Balancing Moisturizer

4) Eye cream/gel: Skinz UV white eye gel

5) Night gelly (for night routine): Naruko Oil Out Night Gelly..

The picture above shows the texture and consistency of the products that I used for my skin. Based on the color of the circle, you can differentiate the different texture and consistency of those products. So, the moisturizer is the most runny texture and my favorite of all. 

My take: The moisturizer is easily absorbed and leaving no sticky feeling at all. Very light and moisturizing. It somehow helps my skin to balance out the oil production. My face is less shinny now. Really love it! 

The night gelly is very good as well. It claims to be able to control sebum production over night. Well, I must say that is did no really control sebum production. My skin is still shinny the next day but it is not as oily as before. 

My take: The night gelly is easily absorbed as well. It smells so good (tea tree herbal scent). The texture is just like gel and it does not leave any stickiness after application..=) Perfect for oily skin..

Do check out these Naruko products online at these websites:

1. Naruko Malaysia

2. Naruko Singapore

Ok..so long for this time

Take care everyone

Love,

Lai Peng <3

Scratch and Win 14/5/12 (Part 2)

Ok, now comes to the part 2 or this stupid scam issue. As you all know, I was cheated RM4000, in return of a stupid jade mattress and NO PROOF at all of the 'sales'. Indeed I did not get anything as proof. NO IC, NO RECEIPT. People will be wondering why..and..WHY NO RECEIPT still get cheated? Funny and stupid right? But, I need to remind you all again that I WAS ALONE in the office with 2 GUYS there. Even if I realize it was a scam, DO YOU THINK I CAN ESCAPE UNHARMED? The door is secured with password, and I cannot guarantee that they will not harm me, or RAPE me if I try to escape..I don't dare to take risk so just go on with the show!

The picture above shows the location of the hideout..Take a look at this and remember this in your mind. If you get approached by people at KL central monorail and follow them to the office, this will be the office! No lie because my BF was brought to this office as well...

This is the name of the office! Well, don't know it's real or not. Whatever!

This is the letter/form they show you to attract you..look at the left side: THE PRIZES!

Ok..yesterday 16/5/2012 was our plan to get the evidence from these people. Going back to the monorail station prepared [No extra cash, NO MONEY in ATM], we try to lure them into our trap! I disguised myself differently, walked with my BF and help him to identify these suckers! And I SAW BOTH THE IDIOTS CHEATED me! God Bless Us! And then I was sent to KL central while my bf get on with the play. 

Just like what we expected, they approached him and brought to the same office and the same incident was played again in the office. He was brought to the office by the first guy who approached me, called Ah Hong.  My bf manage to take picture of his IC and he did the play well. After knowing that he does not have any money in the ATM, the guy asked him to get money from home...Really bloody sucker! 

My bf manage to escape safely and promised them to return with money! Ha, they wanted to follow him home, but he rejected! When we drove and passed by the monorail station, he saw one of the guy who planned to cheat him was already back to the street to continue finding his prey! WTH! My bf told me that when he was going up to the office, there were two girls coming down [suspecting they are going to withdraw money], and while he was leaving the office, he saw the Ah LIM bringing a Malay lady with daughter going up the office to be cheated. You may ask, WHY HE DIDN'T ALERT these people? Well, we can't afford to blow the cover. If they knew we planned these out, they would have escaped ASAP, and I cannot go bck there with tribunal award to claim back my money! Sounds very selfish, but that time, we also wished that the law enforcers would help us...

Given such plan, we quickly approached the nearest police station to do report and ask if they can help us to catch these people...Since, those scammers were told that my bf will be going back there with money, it might a good chance for the police to catch them at the office since we know the exact location, we know the guys. But they direct us to consumer department (hal ehwal pengguna) and ask whether they are willing to help us! Unfortunately, they told us no need to do anything, they will go check it out..Will they? Not sure! Instead, they advice us to inform our friends not be get cheated again...and also blamed me to be fallen into the trapped even though knew that it was a trap...bla bla bla....

What else I can do? Nothing, except to go to the bank to get the CCTV, get my bank slip of withdrawal and also to do the tribunal report with the IC no. taken..hope this can help me..

This blog post I want people to read and share it...I also want you all to know what I was going through and do not EVER REPEAT my silly MISTAKE!

God Bless You all!