Erasing Ethnicity

[sabby]

Boo! I know maths exam is in a few days time but i can't seem to start practising yet. I keep getting distracted. heh~

Anyways i saw this article online on msn lifestlye and its abt plastic surgery and stuff. Interesting~

read on..

Special Beauty Report: Erasing Ethnicity
Around the world, the desire for pert features, pin-straight hair, and a willowy physique — those dubious emblems of American beauty and success — is driving a multibillion-dollar industry.

Extreme Makeover: Part 1: Double-eyelid surgery (aka Asian blepharoplasty)
WHY IT'S DONE: About 50 percent of Pacific Asians do not have an upper-eyelid crease. For those who do, the crease falls about 7 mm above the lashline, whereas for Caucasians, the crease falls about 11 mm above it.
HOW IT WORKS: During the most popular version of this outpatient procedure, a crescent-shaped incision is made along the new crease line, and a small amount of skin, tissue, and fat on the upper eyelid is cut away. When the two sides are sutured back together, the incision is hidden under the newly created crease.
PROCEDURE LENGTH: Approximately one hour
RECOVERY TIME: Sutures are removed after about a week. Bruising and swelling usually subside after a month.
COST: $2500 to $5000
ORIGIN: 19th-century Japan. The popularity of the procedure jumps whenever there was a significant Western presence in Asia — for example, during the Korean War.
HOW COMMON: Almost 300,000 Asians in the U.S. had the surgery in 2006.

Extreme Makeover: Part 2: Calf reduction
WHY IT'S DONE: In general, Asian women have shorter legs and thicker calves than Caucasian women. These features are thought to be unsightly in their culture (some refer to them as "radish legs").
HOW IT WORKS: Two small incisions are made at the top of the calf in the back of the leg, where an endoscope is inserted and the muscle is separated from the membrane. The protruding muscle is cut away, shrinking the circumference of the calf. Patients usually recover in six months.
POTENTIAL SHRINKAGE: 1 to 3 inches
COST: About $2800
MOST POPULAR IN: South Korea, but gaining popularity all over Asia; it has yet to make its way to the U.S.
RISKS: Excessive bleeding, shapeless legs.

Extreme Makeover: Part 3: Leg lengthening
WHY IT'S DONE: The Chinese are so height-conscious, jobs and even schools often post height requirements. To apply for the foreign ministry, women must be 5'3" (the national average), whereas flight attendants must be at least 5'5". As a result, being tall — or short — can have a direct impact on one's livelihood.
HOW IT WORKS: Calf and shin bones are broken and pierced with steel pins, which are fixed to an external frame with screws. Then stretching — by means of turning those screws and lengthening the bone at the point where it was broken — is carried out over the next several months. The steel pins are left in for another year as support for the newly regenerated bone
RANGE OF GROWTH: 1 to 5 inches
COST: $15,000 to $25,000
RISKS: Horror stories include misshapen legs, feet that splay outward, and bones that never heal properly and break easily. In November 2006, China restricted the procedure to select hospitals that offer postsurgery care and rehabilitation.

Asia is now the world's second-largest plastic-surgery hub.

Natural Hair Color and Texture — Why Don't We Want It?
BLONDE AMBITION
While only about 2 percent of the world population is born blonde, the rest are still going for gold: 34% of the hair dye sold in the U.S. last year was blonde.80% of Koreans in their 20s lighten their hair.
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE: THE LABOR, COST, AND STRESS OF RELAXING BLACK HAIRHOW IT'S DONE: A petroleum base is applied to the scalp, then a relaxer with sodium hydroxide (basically, lye) is put on the hair. It stays on for 25 to 30 minutes and is then washed two or three times with a neutralizing shampoo. Finally, a deep conditioner is applied and rinsed, and hair is styled.
TIME: 2 to 3 hours
COST: About $225 for virgin hair; $110 for touch-ups
MAINTENANCE: A touch-up is needed every 8 to 10 weeks. Because of damage caused by the chemicals, hair can only be washed once or twice a week.
RISKS: A too-strong relaxer causes excessive breakage and scalp burns.

Skin: The New Status Symbol
Has the West's fixation with tanning finally challenged the East's centuries-old belief that pale skin is synonymous with high social standing?In June 2007, the first-ever tanning salon opened in Beijing. Called DB Salon, it serves legions of women under 30 with a strangely specific goal: to have the caramel coloring of American pop princess Christina Aguilera.
In India, Bollywood stars are going for the burnt-sienna hue one sees in Malibu, achievable only via a bottle.
And in Japan, bronzing goods account for $140 million in sales.

I wished we had a tanning salon here!

Anyways I didn't copy everything cuz it was a few pages long.. hehehe.


I feel like getting a boob job next time! HAHAHAHA!! i shall do it wif Jennifer cuz i know she wants bigger boobs too!! Wendy can juz stand by~~ pfft~



Wish me luck for Maths paper 6 dis coming wed!

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Octorber 26th.

Sabby says:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOPHIA a.k.a FATASS! XD

HEHEHEHEHE!

Wishing u a blast on ur day! ;P dun play around too much. huhuhu~~

Happy birthday to WILSON too! XD

Go ahead and laugh!

[Sabby]

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XD

A truly very embarrasing video of Safwan, Peggie, Wendy and I taken during our PS time. :D

Enjoy laughing over how retarded we are. hehehe.

p.s. there is a mistake for abt 10s half way through. XD

reunion! sort of.

[sabby]

So yesterday, went out with Abby, Janice, Wendy, Boon kiat and Safwan, like old times! =) Tee joined us for dinner only. Saf came after 3.30 only and before he came Book kiat was sooooo lonely and he looked like he was gonna beat me up cuz he was the only guy so he was keeping his distance from us. We took quite a number of pics, walked around, had 70cents ice-cream and Janice said that the wheatgrass flavoured one was good so i gave it a try. It looked so horrible and it wasn't that great, well obviously cuz it was only 70cents. We all got movie tickets for Resident Evil 3 and we didn't get one for Saf because we didn't think he could make it in time as he was having an open house that day. Luckily when Saf came and we went up to get a ticket for him there was one empty seat on our row right before the movie started. We had a short snack at swensen before Saf arrived, took more pics and i painted Janice's fake-looking nails bright pink at swensen! XD pfft~~ so 'kampung'! Well she bought the nail polish for herself at faceshop. She had bright pink barbie nails for the whole day. =D Wendy was doing her economics h/w at swensens. Poor girl... she had 3 freakin essays to do that was dued the next day which is today.

The movie was not bad... blood and slashing and killing and stuff. Good stuff! Wendy can't help but scream every now and then. Saf was kinda talking to Boon abt the movie the whole way. Abby would say "ohmygosh" like 3 times when she sees blood or sumthing disgusting and screams in her high pitched voice just not as loud as Wendy's. It can be rather embarassing to sit next to Wendy in the movies sumtimes cuz she screams and does alot of hand movements. hehehe. There was one part where she screamed so loud, she kind shocked me and Janice. We got shocked by her scream instead of the movie. =_=V We were joking around and told her that she should just buy dvds and watch to save us from the embarrasment. XD hahahaha. A couple sitting on our row even had to move few seats in front man!! The others around us kept looking back at us because wendy kept screaming and she was the loudest in the pretty empty cinema.

Well the movie was pretty good to me i guess. It was sooo freakin cold in the cinema. So after the movie we went to look at DVDs and stuff then Saf went to get popcorn for his sister and he had to leave soon cuz his frens were coming over. On the way out of the mall we saw Rahimin and he talked to us abit before we went seperate ways. We went to harajuku and looked around and Abby and Janice were vaining around then we headed over to Excapade for dinner. Wendy was rushing through her food and continued her econs h/w while listening to the rest of us telling each other stories and updating each other wif gossips and stuff. Boon kiat's brother was also celebrating his bday at excapade so he left us to join his family. Tee came around 8-ish and he only had a special mini callifornia maki which only came like 15mins after he ordered. XD He said he was broke so he only ordered that. So we left Exapade around 9 and went back to the mall because Janice wanted to get some stuff before she leaves for miri. We followed her and walked around utama grand and then went to look at the new sony ericsson phone Tee was talking abt with the 5 mega-pixels camera? Boon Kiat came back because his parents were shopping at Utama Grand and he didn't wanna do shopping with them. So i left soon afterwards and i don't know wat happened after that.

Pics taken that day:

Abby and me. Yes i had to bend cuz abby's short. XD

Janice and i wif the wheatgrass ice-cream. =X Well it doesn't look pleasing.

Jan, Abz & Sabz.

Jan, Wendy and me

Jan, Abz and me..

Keeping his distance from us, Mr. Nice guy. Not exactly nice to me but i think he is to some~ ppl, ask him to do sumthing for u and he usually will. XD

Outside the cinema getting tickets..

At Swensens..

Wendy, Abby and me!

Boonies!

Wendy doing her econs essay.. =.=

Fake-looking PINK NAILS! HAHAHAHHHA RAWRR~~

Janice, Safwan, Abby and Wendy.

<3

Wendy has turtle neck! XD

woosh~

Big-eyed boy! SAFWAN!

Boon Kiat, Safwan and me.

Saf's ass! *spank*

Ring any bells? XD

Just part of the food we had..

Abby must have rice for dinner! *cheenah lian* HAHAHA!

Janice & Boon kiat! Watever restaurant we go to. Boon is always to the left of Janice. Like when we went to Swensen in the afternoon and the very last time they all came back! XD
SEE WAT I MEAN! XD

After dinner, Tee and Abby...

So anyways, today i kinda got picked on by my accounts teacher. =.=" I think its because Chen Hui is gone and he needs another student to pick on. I could get away with talking all the time when Chen Hui used to be in cls. pfft~ now she's gone and i bet its killing him inside. XD hahahaha. I think its cuz he had high hopes for her. So anyways, we were discussing the mock exam mcq paper 1 and he was asking who didn't had the question paper and he straight away assumed dat i didn't bring it, he also made me sit in front of him today and read out some stuff to the cls cuz he caught me talking to Denice at the back. This NEVER happens when i talk to Denice. NEVER until this day! =.="

Just now i was chatting to Boon Kiat and he was telling me abt his essay that he had to do which has something related to pornography.

- ♠ ÎĐệί ♠™ - кіat - (W) says:
does pornography improves sexual relationships between couples?

O_O

and then...

- ♠ ÎĐệί ♠™ - кіat - (W) says:
...damn sources...cant really find any ..
- ♠ ÎĐệί ♠™ - кіat - (W) says:
-.-''
[(F)] » ѕaвяıиа « says:
haha
[(F)] » ѕaвяıиа « says:
u're a source stupid!
- ♠ ÎĐệί ♠™ - кіat - (W) says:
no u idiot~
- ♠ ÎĐệί ♠™ - кіat - (W) says:
we have to get online sources
- ♠ ÎĐệί ♠™ - кіat - (W) says:
not ur personal opinions!
[(F)] » ѕaвяıиа « says:
HAHAHAH

I wonder what his opinions were... HAHAHAHA!

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i miss michael very much.

Raging... Fuming Mad... Histerical... Sad...

{chloe}

Ok... So think of the most comical "slip" you could. Slip as in, "Oh dear, I slipped on a banana skin" slip. I'll give you time to think it up...

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Couldn't think of any? Or couldn't finish? Let me help you out...

Pretend you just finished showering ok? And you don't have a bath tub. Just one of those standing showers with a sunken floor so that there will be no water backwash from the shower area to the brushing teeth/toilet area. Well, you get what I mean right? Ok. So, what if some soapy water really did backwash to the brushing teeth/toilet area and you didn't realise it. So you do what normal ignoramous would do right? You walk on it and not over or around it. So then suddenly you feel no traction under your right leg. You know you're going to slip so you try your best to look around for something to grapple on. But sadly, for the life of you, there was nothing that could lessen your chances of crashing on your butt. So what would some stupefied being do? Let the events play out. So here we go.

Person slips on his right leg and it swings, it fully up followed by his left leg because well, you don't really need rocket science to answer this right? Inertia *laugh* that and risking to perform a "split" without "proper warm up". Anyway, so he is (in bullet time/slow motion) falling and he knows it will be unglamly on his buttocks. He prepares himself for the shock but as the gate Theory of Pain was just beginning to formalise from his brain to his nervous system, he lets out a half scream that led to an insufficient, unjustified gasp... He had forgotten all about his pair of flailing legs and turns his attention to where the ungodly shock of pain came from. Tears start coming from his eyes as curses erupted from his mouth. He breathes hard from the pain, gritting his teeth in the process. His right foot's toes hit the sink hard. How hard? Let's just say enough to make two of the five toes bleed... Yep, lordy yes. BLEED. So when the idiot got distracted with his haemoraging toes, his butt landed right smack center on the stone hard floor giving off a distinc and solid thud. (If this were in some cartoon, or a comical movie, the audience would most likely be laughing their butt's off. Ironic isn't it...)

For minutes after the unglam slip, he sits on the floor. And after recovering from momentary paralysis from the shock absored fully by his spine, he starts rubbing his thighs to massage the pain and numbness away. Looking disdainfully at his bleeding toes. Crying all the while. Kicking himself in the head the whole time.

And how could I come up with such a detailed "comical" slip? It's because it frigging well happened to shitified me. Blood hell.

Sorry, not going to post up ANY photos of my foot (toes?) or bum because it even makes me cringe to look at it. No, no toe nails came off, no ruptured skin or the like. Just the place where the toenails meet the skin sorta lost its "connection" and so, viola, fountain of blood. Well more like trickles of bleeding. Damn terrible. And this happened yesterday after I took my bath. Had to go clinic to have it checked out if it got infected (it didn't) but got it cleaned up and disinfected anyway. Doctor bandaged it and when I told him how I got it, (not in exactly the same words or play-by-play narration as the above encounter) he right out, laughed out loud. I swear. I so wanted to smack him hard at the back of the head and call him an insensitive.......... But yea, so that means no Netball training for 2weeks. No wearing of shoes for 2weeks. No runnig ever night for 2 weeks. (I swear, if he had his way, he would have persuaded me to BUY a walking stick... >.< ) No socks either because... i forgot. But yea, my life now pretty much sucks. Of all the clumsy years I've been living my life and progressing to a handful of non clumsy acts subsequently after hiting puberty... WHY NOW?! *roar*

=) Random and Jobless Day~

*Wendy*

First of all, I wanna wish all muslim friends "SELAMAT HARI RAYA! and MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN!"

Sabby bug me to blog last few days. Well, TA DAA~ I am blogging right now. Nothing special happened today except it's Hari Raya and my AS Math exam is just like 4 days' time. I have not really revised for my Math. =S Well I just received a sms from Sabby asking me to buy her credit.

Hmmm.... I want to blog about food! He he he! Last few days, Sabby made sushi! I salute to Sabby for making sushi! I thought she is does who can't even fry an egg type of girls. Sorry, I looked down on you! But now you have changed my view. Your sushi looks yummy from picture!Then today, I have the urge to cook something! I made lagsana... Eeeeks... it's not very successful. Something went wrong somewhere. So I only took one picture of my lagsana. the pasta is HARD at the side, but the cheese sauce and meat fillings I made are yummy. I kinda left the lagsana in the oven too long. then it's burnt at the side! I know it's not a very nice looking lagsana, but praise me for the effort! XD The top is cheese!

Wendy's Lagsana!
Was suppose to go hiking with my mom and maid. However, plan changed.After that, I was very bored and decided to tour behind my house!


This is a "mini-well " It is prettier when the water lilies bloom! And my mom had rear gold fish and guppies in it. But they all died in the end. XS Sabby, give me some guppies from your bath tub , ok? =D


I have no idea what fruit is this. I know it's some cherry thing! you can eat it! And make wine with it! They're sweet~


Then I saw a plant, the leaves have thorns coming out. Took a picture of that plant! The orange-like is the plant's fruit!
A pumpkin plant.

My very own banana plantation. Looks a bit ........ at night.

Mom likes to eat Aloe Vera. But I don't.

To this very kns guy:

Sorry very random and jobless post!

boredom.

[sabby]

I'm sooooo bored!
I get 12hrs of sleep during hols and i'm awake the rest of the time. X__X
Maths paper 1 is in 5 days!!! 5 days man!! and i haven't started studying/practising. I suck at paper 1, suck so badly at it. I like paper 6. Still kinda lazy to start revising maybe because mocks just ended and my results are kinda crap. I got B, C, C and D. Oh boy~ Instead of revising my maths i made sushi today! nyehehehe. I prepared everything myself! except for the rice.. cuz i don't noe how to cook rice. hehehe. yea i'm dat useless. My maid cooked it for me, but i sliced the cucumbers and crabsticks myself ryte. I know some home-made sushi have carrot and jap pickles(the yellow one) in them but i'm not a fan of them. So after the jap rice cooled down I poured the japanese vinegar into the rice and mixed them thoroughly. Did u noe, the japanese rice grain is smaller than the normal rice, u noe before u cook it. XD hehe.

Anyways i had an urge to make sushi cuz i miss jap food! =( and also because when i was chatting to Wendy, she said she was eating sushi. humph! My parents didn't bring me along the other day when they went to have some. pfft~

I made 8 rolls. weeee~

After cutting them and arranging them on the plate;

VIOLA! my home-made sushi, only one plate of it though, my maid already wrapped the other plate with the transparent thingy before putting it in the fridge. hehehehe


The orange stuff on top of the sushi is the prawn roe. I think dats wat u call it. I could be wrong...






Yea it may not be the best looking sushi but its definitely edible okay. =P


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Friday afternoon~

[Sabby]

HEY!
Yesterday i went swimming with von at RBRC[?]... i think dats wat u call the place. Not so sure. Anyways Wendy was suppose to come along with us but she couldn't make it cuz her tummy ached. booohuuhuu. So i woke up dat day around 11+ and it was pretty cloudy. Von called me and sed the same so we were juz hoping for the day to become sunny. I like the sun u see and i was hoping to get abit tanned but it didn't quite happen. I did get dark but u can't really tell the diff. My back is tanned, my legs.. not really but yea. satisfied! atleast i got some colour XD I went to von's place around after 2.30 and we were waiting for her cousin to send us around 3ish. Slacked abit at her hse den we went to her cousin's hse den we were off to rbrc. I had to sneak in cuz if they catch me i have to pay $10 or sumthing. XD no outsiders allowed. weeeeee~~~ The weather became more sunny at that point. =D heh~ so there weren't so many ppl, juz us and a few other european girls. So we swam abit, splashed around, here and there... and took pics. =P



















EBAN!


mine's reef (black) =)


After swimming. Von belanja~~


Yeap, its all gonna go to our thighs and butt. XD




We stopped swimming around 5+ or 6 cuz there were alot of ppl in the pool so we went to shower, as fast as we cud cuz the toilet kinda smelled like poop! XP Left around 6+ to von's hse and dad picked me up there.

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hair style =)

[`Soph]

Long time no blog...who cares. Busy, next week is AS exam! Die die! Til end of nov...only I will blog agen. I shall wish everyone whos bday is cmin soon...a happy bday! Coz dun tink I can wish u all then...dun wanna go online...

Got a haircut on Sunday...long story la...dun ask why I did it. Got my own reasons too, will tell when Im fre...dun be shock yea...coz some ppl were o.o

normal ya....left side...


TADA!! Right side! Wahahaha!

SLow o net...lazy to blog d...see my friendster ba...added 1 more there.
http://www.friendster.com/photos/5250999/1/491222202

Tink first gal to do it in INTI..not sure though...got loads of stares...o.O ppl say so brave n daring ah me...some thought I tied it up...but no, I shaved it. Loads of comments la...tats bout it...all the best for those having exams soon!

=D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHERYL CHEONG WEN LI!
Have a good one and hope u had a blast!!! <3
Miss u woman. XD







p/s: hows the wakilala thingy? XD

PROM

[Abby]

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Curtin prom 2007 pictures at my blog