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Your Say: Did you manage to keep your 2012 Resolutions?

December 30, 2012 Paris B 28 Comments

2012 resolutions

On Jan 1, 2012, I asked you to share with me your resolutions for 2012 and told you that we’d revisit it at the end of the year. I think its a good way to check if you truly want a change, or if you were just messing around 😉 Well, the moment of reckoning is here! How did you do in 2012?

I know many people don’t make resolutions. I never used to myself because you just KNOW you’re going to break them, so why bother right? Well, not true.

Over time, I’ve learnt that its a good way to keep a check and balance of yourself. It will prove to you just how strong your will power is, or how good your self discipline is, or just how much you really want something. So, I make a simple resolution every year. Something easy to keep up, and nothing too ambitious.

This year, I resolved to learn to cook better. Did I succeed?

Your Say: Are you comfortable eating alone?

December 11, 2012 Paris B 115 Comments

eating alone

Good food becomes great food when shared 🙂

But sometimes, you may be out and about on your own and want a bite, or just don’t have company for lunch or dinner and yet want to have a nice one. What do you do? Are you comfortable eating alone or do you prefer to just pack a takeaway and take it home to enjoy instead?

Some foods don’t translate well to a takeaway as they taste better made fresh for you. Like soupy noodles for instance. So, what do you do? 😀

Online Shopping Pitfalls : If something is too good to be true, it probably is

December 4, 2012 Paris B 90 Comments

ud naked fake palette deals

I don’t like sounding “naggy” but I do feel strongly about people who get unintentionally duped, especially when shopping online. The thing about shopping online is the need to be extra careful about what you purchase and where you purchase an item from.

It is easy to find deals online and those group deal websites are usually one of the first places to offer good deals on goods and services. I will however, tell you to please be very vigilant when buying goods, especially cosmetics from these group deal websites, because there is no guarantee they are genuine. Granted, we take that risk every time we shop online, but it is possible to read up reviews about an online store. Its different when its a group deal offering what seems to be an excellent discount off a popular product for a very limited time. You feel like you have to take advantage of the “offer” because its limited.

I no longer subscribe to any group deal website (my reasons for it are here) but I’d recently noticed a worrying trend of popular cosmetics being sold on these group buying websites. The most popular deal is for almost 50% or more off the popular Urban Decay Naked and Naked 2 palettes. Its still something like RM75 or more when the original retails at RM175, but here’s the deal. Its not the original product.

Have you come across this and were your spidey senses tingling? Were you duped?

Getting out of the rut, and getting a grip of yourself

November 1, 2012 Paris B 126 Comments

breaking out of a rut

Peekaboo! Hello friends 🙂

You know what? This one week of not blogging, and not even looking at the blog or anything related to it has been liberating. It has also made me miss it more than I realised. I wasn’t planning to be back this quickly, but I have because I missed it, I missed talking to you and I also had my epiphany moment after talking to a couple of friends.

But first, I want to thank all of you for your kind comments in the previous post and on email. It means a lot to me because its made me realise that I am reaching out to people who share the way I feel and who can relate to the way I think and do things. I think MWS has grown far beyond just me, the blogger; its now about all of you who chime in ever so often with your input, and I embrace and am humbled by the growth and support. Group hug anyone? 😀

While I was away, in a bit of a limbo and a rut, there were some things I did that helped me get out of that rut and I wanted to share them with you. We all face a rut sometimes, whether in our work, personal lives, passions and perhaps this can help you get out of it, the way it helped me 🙂

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