Photoshop Rules

Who hasn’t photoshopped their photos here? Anyone raise their hands please!

Ok, fine, I’ll start with myself.

Yes, I photoshopped my profile photos at Facebook, Friendster, instant messengers and many other internet personas that I own in the world wide web. And let me assure you, it’s addictive. I’ve even started photoshopping my beau’s photos before I post them online.

Got a huge zit with a yellow head right at the tip of your nose? Don’t worry – use the clone tool. Imperfect skin with enlarged pores? Whatever the blur tool is there for if it isn’t to make you look like you have flawless model-like complexion? (more…)

Dogs Never Lie About Love

Dogs Never Lie About Love is a book by Jeffrey Masson – a birthday package from Elyani that I received yesterday. The book was also accompanied with a thick novel of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather’s Revenge by Mark Winegardner (serious stuff, might read it when have spare time) as well as this cool multi-chargers for mobile phones which I didn’t even know existed. The whole thing came in a cute white rattan bag that’s totally perfect for the upcoming summer season.

I am always excited when people gift me with books – especially if it’s about dogs; as it is my first time of being a caretaker of the canine creature, I am ever curious about the way dogs think and behave. Dogs Never Lie About Love talks a lot about the psychological aspects of dogs, but if it sounds boring to you, you’ll be in for a treat. (more…)

Twenty Six

Getting old. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it. And the honor, this month, has fallen to me – Marian Keyes in Postcards From the Bed.

Yes, I’ve turned 26 – the numbers that belong to the late twenties category. It’s quite scary, come to think of it; that in four more years I’ll be hitting the big three-oh. 30! The age where girls have already on their way to having their second children or getting promoted or setting up their own online business selling unique handcrafts to European countries.

But getting married and having kids are not really in any of my top priorities. I’m here to enjoy life as much as I can and it’s too bad to waste time just to mourn how old we’re getting and that we haven’t achieved anything spectacular despite us being older and that other people younger than us – like Britney Spears who’s even had her nervous breakdown and slowly making a comeback – are doing better than us.

But how do we define the term “better”? Is it by having more money? more influence and success? or by inspiring the people around us to cherish the time that they have in this world? (more…)

If You Can Pick A Superhero As Your Boyfriend

Which one would it be?

Would it be Spiderman – the shy, naïve boy who is somewhat wishy-washy and yet very determined to save the world from those evil beings, even if includes risking the safety of his lovely Mary Jane? Of course, being a young boy in a big city like New York must have been hard – peer pressure and all, but you gotta admit his resiliency to do the right thing and the right thing only, except that I’m worried the poor dude is not going to survive if he is stuck in the desert as skyscrapers and the likes are more his thing.

Or would it be Superman; the double-personality guy who everyone seems to ignore whenever he’s got the whole geek attire going and yet adore to death when puts on the red cape and most of all start the whole breeches over his pants thing that no man in this world has managed to copy to get the same manly effect without making a fool of himself. Nevertheless, we must never forget that Superman is amicably weak whenever there is Kryptonite nearby, so chances are if you end up shagging him and have a child by him, your child will be allergic to the big green rock too.

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Command & Conquer!

For those of you who haven’t heard of Command & Conquer from Electronic Arts (or mostly known as EA games), it’s actually a computer game; an RTS (Real Time Strategy) game to be exact.

I know, I know. I don’t look like the computer-gamer type of girl, but I used to play that game when I was younger; it was my older brother who introduced it to me and to make it even worse I wasn’t even good at it. I just liked playing it for fun. I also used to play Warcraft but then never got around to finish it because it just kept getting harder and harder.

So yesterday I was at this software shop (don’t even ask whether it’s a legal or illegal kind) with my beau and I noticed Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars on display. All of a sudden memories were coming back to me and I was reminded how much fun it was playing this game just for the sake of it – I knew my brother would always save my ass when I was on the verge of getting ambushed by the enemies anyway. (more…)