Some of my threadless tees

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Sha

I have quite a few threadless tees. I was looking through the pics in my phone and realized that I am forever taking pics of the tees I wear. So, here are some of the tees that I have. If photos are not in the best resolution, it’s only because it’s taken with a phone camera.

A Birth Day threadless tee

This one is called A Birth Day. It is just meant to be a funny cute tshirt about what could happen if a cow and a chicken having a baby. But come to think of it, I am that spotted egg.

Hello, mixed parentage? I swear it just crossed my mind as I was typing out this post. Maybe that’s what my new nick can be: A Spotted Egg.

Rock Out with your Cock Out threadless tee

I love this one. This one is called Rock Out with your Cock Out. See the rooster at the bottom left? What cock were you thinking of? Tsk, tsk. I bought this after we got the PS3 and played several rounds of rockband. Makes you feel like a rockstar, haha.

Oh wait, I just realised that the rooster isnt visible in this photo.

rock out

There you go

self portait threadless tee

Another one of my favourites. This one is called Self potrait. It shows a monster drawing a picture of himself. Well my photo doesnt show the full picture but this is how it looks like in full:

self potrait tee full view

Cute isn’t it?

And the last tee that I have a photo of is Playin’ in the Sprinkles:

Playin' in the Sprinkler threadless tee

It’s not very clear but it simply shows an ice cream and a donut playing in rainbow sprinkles, probably explaining how ice creams and donuts get to have sprinkles on them.

Yes I make up cute stories all the time. And because it is unclear and not shown in full, this is how it actually looks like:

minizoom2

It’s been awhile since I shopped at threadless. Looking at these pics now, it’s making me want to.. shop.

Perhaps after my pay is in for the month.

Handwritten movie tickets

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Sha

manual movie tickets

These are actually valid movie tickets.

Went to watch the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie yesterday (nice show by the way) and we bought our tickets online, because lazy people do not queue for their movie tickets.

So when I went to collect the tickets, the printer decided to stop working (it had been working until it was my turn to collect the tickets). So the guy at the counter made me these handwritten tickets! He smiled at me sheepishly while saying, “These are manual tickets, you can still use them to get in. I’m sorry but our printer broke down.”

Well don’t be sorry. It’s really fantastic and unique. How many people have had handwritten movie tickets? Or shall we say manual movie tickets? There is such a nice, retro feeling to this.

Old school, even.

And by mere coincidence (or perhaps the cinema gods wanted to help me prove my point), the printer got up and running again after it was my turn and the people behind me got their regular and boringly printed movie tickets.

That, my friends, is what I call fate.

Or maybe it’s my way of contributing to Earth Hour because I’d be in the movie theater during the dark hour anyway. So forgoing the use of electronics to get my movie ticket is my way of paying tribute to the hour.

Hur hur hur. I just made that up.

Perhaps we should forgo emails and blogs for the entire month and replacing it with handwritten letters and good old diaries. And we can call it Earth Month. What say you? But if we did that then trees will die and we will all be told to use paperless methods, so as to save the trees.

It’s another chicken and egg problem, and there is no pleasing everybody. And that’s how the cookie always crumbles.

WordPress for Blackberry Bugs

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Sha

Imagine this.

I just got up from a nap (that was induced by drowsy medication) and after fiddling with my blackberry, I thought I’d try out blogging using WordPress for Blackberry. All from the convenience of the bed, while the TV was showing cartoons on Nickelodeon.

I’ve downloaded this app last week but upon seeing that I couldn’t properly preview photos that I wanted to insert in the post, I closed the app and forgot all about it. But today, because I was sick, I thought I’d just overcome that slight glitch and try this mobile blogging anyway.

So I happily typed and typed on my lovely phone, enjoying the process. I made sure I saved the draft as I went along (oh, this is a habit of mine, even when I blog normally) and even painstakingly opened photo by photo in my blackberry until I found the one i wanted to insert in the post.

And then I proceeded to publish my post, excitement building up.

Then I got this message:

Local Drafts Cannot be Sent

wordpress for blackberry error

Which was weird, because obviously it would still be a draft by default. But I let the issue go, and changed the status to “published” – which already pissed me off because these things are supposed to be automatic.

So I clicked “Submit” again.

wordpress for blackberry status

And the data got sent again, a process which took AGES.

wordpress for blackberry sending data

And when it FINALLY stopped, it showed me this:

wordpress for blackberry prompt

*speechless*

And this made me get out of the comfy, warm bed. My initial intention was to blog about me being sick from the comfort of my bed. But it turned out, the exact same application that was supposed to provide that convenience made me get out of bed, turn on my laptop and blog about the bugs I’ve found in the application.

Ironic, isn’t it?

I hope the developers will look into this issue and fix the crap out of it. Because I easily blogged from my iTouch using the WordPress App and I didn’t even encounter a single problem. Shame on you.

p/s: And no, I am still not switching to iPhone, because I still have my itouch with all my apps.

the evolution of my strawBerry

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Sha

Let me finally tell you about my blackberry bold 9000, which has been girly-fied beyond repair.

It has become a great conversation starter as well as gotten both dirty and envious looks. And tomorrow marks its 6th month of becoming my personal strawBerry.

I can’t believe I’ve had it for 6 months and only blogging about it now. Well better late than never.

blackberry bold 900 with box

So this was strawBerry, when I just bought it. Fresh out of the box and into my eager hands. Just that these eager hands had absolutely no idea how to work the phone! Smart phones seriously make you look stupid. But being a tech savvy girl (cough cough, i work for a website so that counts as tech savvy!), I quickly got the hang of it and have enjoyed every single moment of Blackberry-dom.

But of course, I couldn’t wait to turn my blackberry into a girl. On the same day itself, I bought a lovely pink housing (matches my laptop, external hard disc and Nintendo DS) off ebay. But of course that took AGES to arrive.

So in the meantime, I found a pink theme to appease myself.

blackberry bold 9000

And then one day.. jeng jeng jengggggg! Look who is peeking so shyly from inside the black leather casing?

blackberry bold with casing

Aww, hehehe. Full view below:

pink blackberry bold housing

pink blackberry bold backview

How pretty is my phone! But I eventually peeled off the sticker that is on the area where the camera is (I don’t know the proper name but it’s at the top of the phone – where the word Blackberry is) because it was slightly scratched off. Fine by me! It looks fine as a pink and black phone anyway.

blackberry bold cherry berry theme

This is strawBerry with a pink and green Cherry Berry theme (still it’s current theme).

And of course with time, the paint on the sides of the housing began to get scraped off. I haven’t had the time to shop for another set of blackberry housing so I made my blackberry put some clothes on.

It is now wearing a pink silicon cover.

pink blackberry bold with silicon casing

See, this accentuates my point on Who says Techy Can’t be Girly?

I will save you the agony on the things I do on my blackberry in another post, hehe.

A simple moment in time

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Sha

casual-read

I love this photo. It was taken during an impromptu photoshoot that was set up in the back seat of a car.

It was a long drive so while I found myself in a relaxed pose equipped with a book, FP decided to set up his equipment right at the backseat and he just kept snapping photos. I didn’t even pose for a single shot, I just minded my own business reading my book.

Perhaps that is precisely the reason why I love this photo. How natural and relaxing it looks. I was curled up in the corner of the backseat, reading trashy chick lit (seriously). I was at my natural relaxed state.

I was at my natural best

It is indeed a very serene photo, that speaks volume about personal time and space. And about just being relaxed and unguarded.

Or maybe, just like many other things, I’m just reading too much into the picture. But, a picture is worth a thousand words, no?

A day in KL

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Sha

funny road sign

Okay this is the final installment of the Malaysian trip trilogy. It was a day trip to KL from Batu Pahat. The drive was not very long, but long enough to make Short Attention Span me bored.

Bored enough for me to be wearing my monkey hoodie (with monkey ears) with my first Oakley Frogskin Shades, indoors.

monkey hoodie

I camwhored, i chewed gum, i read. And then I lost my limited edition Oakley Frogskin. So after my precious shades flew off, I kept a very low profile in the car and mourned for the lost.

FP was very comforting though <3!

But my losing the shades actually kinda ruined my mood which is why most of the pictures you'll see in this post have me looking like a punani. What is a punani? Go figure.

We finally arrived at Damansara where we had lunch at Paddington House of Pancake - a pancake restaurant.

paddington's menu

What I remembered from this restaurant was that it was very tiring to read the menu. I don’t know if it was because I was exhausted from just crying but it was really difficult to focus on the menu. Each and every food name was not a food name.

They are named after cities, like Vienna and Brussels. And then a very elaborate description of what it was. A completely different dining experience!

Ok here are some photos of the food that we had. I’m sorry I can’t remember any of the names and what they actually are. But they will do your eyes good.

Kawan E & Kawan C’s food

steak FP’s Steak

pasta and pancake My pasta

Not forgetting this photo. I wanted a Pineapple Freeze, which I expected to be a good mix of sweet-sour goodness. But it was incredibly sour that I thought it was lemon juice. We asked the waiter if they got the order wrong, but nooo.. it was pineapple freeze alright.

Fine.

sha's sour expression

So after lunch we shopped and shopped. I bought a lot of shoes and a lovely denim jacket. We tried on silly things, but no photos coz photography not allowed. What silly rules. I was amazed at the variety and quality of clothes and shoes at Charles & Kieth and Forever 21.

How come in KL the stuff are nicer in these shops than in Singapore. How unfair.

Some random photos in KL:

This was a really lovely restaurant / cafe which had a garden theme. Nice!

sha digging the horsey This photo just looks sick. I am digging the horsey’s butt.

Here’s a proper photo of me and the horsey.

lol

And finally it’s dinner, at this restaurant called Delicious. Seriously. But the food was indeed delicious, lucky for them. This was our spread!

sambal prawns with rice

This was my sambal prawns with rice. It was extremely yummy and has really too many things in a single dish. I was at a lost of what to eat first on my plate.

This was the full view of the contents:

prawns with rice full view

pasta

I can’t remember if this was FP’s dish or Kawan E’s but it was creamy pasta anyhows.

dinner

strawberry cheesecake

Yummy yummy strawberry cheesecake!

And after a day of tears, eating and shopping, we made our way back to Batu Pahat.

Okay that’s it for the Malaysian trip! Till the next trip we take!

an imperfect felt bear

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Sha

felt bear

With all the mini felt food projects I’ve been doing, I was itching to try something else.

So I attempted to make a bear. This may sound like just another project if I am a seasoned seamstress. But I’m not. Fact is, I have never sewn a bear in my life and it is precisely because of that, that I did it. I love figuring things out when I have absolutely no idea on how to do them.

I got the template from Martha Stewart’s website (I know, how domesticated is that? but her craft ideas are hard to resist). It was originally supposed to be a bear with a pocket for children to put their baby teeth (so that the tooth fairy can take the teeth and replace them with money).

image taken from marthastewart.com

And on the pocket was supposed to be a name and an outline of a tooth.

But of course I modified it. I don’t need a tooth bear.

So I started working on it after some crazy shopping for felt and other bits and pieces at Daiso.

felt-bear-cut-out

First I had to cut out the outline of the bear template. My first time cutting out my own felt pieces (previously it was all pre-cut for me, all in one package, remember?)

It felt and looked like some sick acupuncture session for the paper bear, but nevermind. So I then cut the second piece. I decided to make it’s back polka dotted mainly because I was in love with the polka dotted pink and white felt I found at Daiso.

felt-on-felt

(the polka dotted felt is white on its reverse side)

The most challenging part for this project, in my opinion is the fake “pocket”. Because I had entirely no idea on how to 1) make the bear’s nose and mouth and 2) to sew letters.

And the fact that I chose to make an embroidered heart with the letters LOVE on it was complicated enough, but somehow I managed to figure it out.

felt bear close up

The eyes were basically french knots (which I have by the way perfected, based on an unfinished food project involving strawberries) -> simple enough. The nose was done with satin stitches -> which I had to research through Google and Youtube on how to make it. Mouth was just an extension of the nose.

So. For the fake “pocket”, I decided to do a heart. So I drew a heart on the felt with a pencil, and sewed running stitches for the outline, and applied the newly learned satin stitch to fill up the heart outline. Heh heh, talk about being a fast learner. I guess the heart turned out decent enough.

For the words, it was a scribble and then I just stitched my way thru.

polka dotted felt bear

So then it was time to sew the two pieces of felt together. In the intructions, it says to use a whip stitch. I had no idea what that is and so did some research, again on Google and Youtube. Tried to follow but everything got tangled up. Gave up, took a shower and finally realised that it is something similar to overcast stitches.

Did a research on whether overcast stitches is the same as whip stitches. And voila! Whip stitches are actually overcast stitches but it it only called whip stitches when sewing 2 or more layers of cloth together.

Pissing off and time wasting. Not that I knew that it was practically overcast stitches, I was back on the ball and happily stitched up the border of the bear.

Confession: I stuffed my bear with white knitting yarn. Because Daiso ran out of cotton stuffing. So I improvised. Nobody can tell the difference anyway. And I love the rainbow bow that I added as a touch up. Nice touch! (If I may say so myself)

It may not be the tidiest piece of work ever, it may have imperfect stitches but to me, this bear is an accomplishment on its own. After I was done with it, I could hardly believe that I had actually made a stuffed bear from scratch. It was such a rewarding feeling.

Next thing to try out would be knitting! But that would be another story altogether.

bear with cacti

My bite of level 30 buffalo wings

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Sha

level 30 buffalo wings

This is a plate of half a dozen of level 30 buffalo wings.

Which may seem to be just another name of a dish to you, but let me tell you that it isn’t. This is super mad spicy chicken, that is almost lethal – I am not exaggerating.

You do know of course that I’ve tried buffalo wings levels 3 and 4 and those were by itself epic experiences already, even for a seasoned chili padi lover like me.

So if levels 3 and 4 were already so torturous (at that time), you can only imagine what level 30 would be like. 10 times the pain. 10 times the spiciness. Talk about torturous eating.

However this time round, when we went there, I only had the level 3 spicy wings (even though I wanted to try level 5 pretty badly). It was the boys who jumped straight to level 30, hohoho!

And how they suffered.

But, it was hard to resist temptation when it is right in front of you. I was curious to know what this coveted level 30 chicken tasted like. I just had to have it. But in an attempt not to kill myself (after seeing the pains the boys are experiencing), I only took one bite.

And this bite, my friends, is enough.

bite of level 30

Sorry for the quality of the photo, but it was pretty dark where we were seated and my hands were quite shaky from wanting to try the damn chicken.

So I finally placed this fairly regular sized bite of level 30 buffalo wings into my mouth and..

Holy shit. It was like having a mini bon fire inside your mouth. The spicy taste of the chicken creeps on to you slowly, and when it finally has you around its dried chili hell, it’s too late for anything. The heat and spiciness totally engulfs you.

Totally, totally. It left me speechless. And I was so close to tears, but I couldn’t cry because compared to what the two guys were going thru (3 whole chicken wings each), my little suffering was close to nothingness.

It is something that I will not try again (and I think everyone who went on this trip will agree with me on this), but I will continue trying the other levels from where I left off. But never level 30 again. One bite is sufficient, thank you very much.

FP got thru the entire ordeal pretty well, just an upset and unstable tummy the next day, but Kawan E’s brother had it real bad

But they are both rewarded with certificates of accomplishment! This is FP’s cert, hehehe. We haven’t gotten round to laminating it!

level 30 certificate

Yes we will come back again, but not ever for level 30. I am so looking forward to level 5 though!

.: asylum for the sane :.

where rainbows end.

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