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2013: Happy New Year! Time for the “Can you keep your Resolutions?” Challenge!

January 1, 2013 Paris B 64 Comments

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Happy New Year 2013 everyone!

I hope you had a marvellous time ringing in the new year! I think I fell asleep but there you go. I get less excited year by year LOL! 😀 But however you welcomed the new year, I wish you lots of fun, joy, laughter and success in everything you do or plan to do in 2013 – its a new year, make the most of it!

I’m spending time today with some of my favourite people, but not before issuing you a challenge as I’ve done in the past couple of years. I know some of you take the challenge but perhaps did not find yourself actually rising up to it. Well, let’s be different this year!

This year, when you take my “Can you keep your Resolutions?” challenge, make it so! <- some Star Trek happening there hehe… 😉 So are you up for it? Here’s mine.

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

December 30, 2012 Paris B 28 Comments

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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

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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

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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?