I am, and I am sure you are too, THOROUGHLY SICK OF MY WEBSITE'S LOOK!
It was all perfect and gorgeous a few years ago, but now I'm really quite bored by it!
I no longer look like the banner. That pair of boots has long been thrown away and replaced by other camel suede boots. That This Fashion corset has yellowed and might still be around somewhere. Gotta remember to throw it away. Skirt still around though!
Anyway, the flash designer, Alan, has promised me to make me a new banner, but so far he has been busy and this has also gone nowhere!!
So. To summarize, I am welcoming:
1) A website designer (or and team) to help me come up with a new creative concept (i.e. classic/girly/edgy etc... I have an idea but it's very vague so I need help) for my blog's new outlook, and then of course help me design it.
2) A photographer to take photos to this concept. Or the photographer can help me come up with the concept instead of the website designer. Either way!
Alan said he will design the flash banner if there is going to be one, so that part is settled!!
Eh... I don't have money to pay of course, but of course you'll be linked from here and can add my website's design to your portfolio!!
If your portfolio is already full to the brim then maybe you'd do it coz... you like my blog? Ehehehe!!
Ok then, interested people please email me at xiaxue@gmail.com with some past works attached!!
11am: Maid came. Told her to clean the living room first coz I still want to sleep.
12pm: Vacuuming eventually woke me up. Announced to the living room at large that I am awake! Maid laughed at me and asked if I had a late night. I tried to tell her not particularly, but tongue stud hurt so I just mumbled a patronising reply.
1pm: Bravely, valiantly, I tried to eat some Maggie Mee. I survived it and didn't die.
2pm: Paid maid. She's like fucking awesome, she even cleaned the inside of the laundry basket!!
Decided to go tanning because of rare glorious cloudless sunny weather, and actually chose a bikini to put on. Noticed I have FIVE bikinis that are still brand-new. Surely I'm overcompensating for the spoilt Bintan one?
Wore bikini; noticed ingrown pube. Decided to ignore it for now. Rolled around the bed and realised the comforter is very, very comfy!! Maybe should sleep?
2.30pm: Still procrastinating about the tanning. Talked to Junne online instead.
3pm: Decided I would go tan, but sun is gone! Invasion of the clouds! Good, I thought. One less decision to make for me.
4pm: Pottering around the house and watched an ep of Dou Niu Yao Bu Yao. Called Mike and whined about him leaving me at home, and accused him of not loving me anymore.
4.05pm: Wash clothes.
5.15pm: Mike comes home.
6pm: I take off all hair extensions by myself. Goodbye platinum blonde hair with pink sparkles!!!
6.30pm: Yelled at Mike and demanded for him to bring me to somewhere where I can eat jumbo scallops.
Finding no solution for this that's 1) near to the east and 2) not that expensive, we settled for going to the new Downtown East shopping mall that's very near our place.
7pm: Had small argument about driving there. Mike's all for taking the bus (since it's so near, and parking fees there is outrageous), but we don't know which one to take, and I don't feel like murking around it.
Also, it's technically a date and people don't go to dates on buses!! Mike replied, "No, I bet lots of Singaporeans do." and I mumbled, "Yeah... secondary school students!" quite sarcastically and inaudibly due to swollen tongue.
7.30pm: Had yummy ribeye steak and caesar salad at New York New York. Total bill was $74!!!
Startling sudden revelation that the East is indeed nicer than the West in Singapore, because.... THERE ARE NO BANGALAS HERE!
Compare: Jurong Point is full of bangalas (very lecherous)/Malaysian factory boys (very lecherous)/China men (very lecherous). White Sands? None. Only happy chalet goers and little yuppie families.
I can't even remember the last time I saw a bangala even near Loyang!! In contrast Teban is filled to the brim with them. Eww!
I am an Eastie-convert. SELL-OUT!!
Saw a couple both wearing mud-coloured Crocs. I announced, "Only people in very stable relationships wear crocs."
Mike looks at me, impressed, and said something about how that's very true and someone should write a thesis on it.
8pm: Couldn't finish either the salad or the steak. Took both home.
8.15pm: Went to NTUC and bought foil, ziploc bags, more lizard traps, and some cherry tomatoes which I thought, when chilled, would be good for my long-suffering tongue.
Wanted to buy cling-wrap too. There is none left.
Mike insisted that there were some at home still. He is so sure, he wanted to bet $10 on this. I called him a chicken, and told him to up it to $50!
He said, "Nope... Don't feel right taking $50 from you." CHICKEN!
We go home, and I put groceries away.
THERE IS CLINGWRAP! How? I thought we finished it?
Hastily, I hide the excess clingwrap away and told Mike to come into the kitchen.
"GIMME MY MONEY!" I say. He checked the cupboard and saw no clingwrap, but insisted he never agreed to the bet since I said "Fifty or nothing!!!", and he didn't want to bet fifty so it was 'nothing' then.
Disgusting word-twisting liar!! Hahaha!! YOU OWE ME FIFTY BUCKS!
9pm - 11.43pm: I don't know what I did, but I managed to spend 3 hours online.
In between I constantly pestered Mike to "GIMME MY MONEY!" in a loud ringing voice, which he chose to ignore.
He also poured me a glass of iced water ("6 cubes of ice please!") and I swear I had a tonguegasm.
11.43pm: Writing this blog entry. Gonna put wet clothes into dryer, then play Mario Vs Sonic for a bit on my DS (so ridiculously hard, this stupid game!) and then sleep.
(Meant to post this a gazillion years ago but didn't finish writing it...)
Thanks to blog readers for informing me about yesterday's a long time ago's tiny news coverage about me!!
Basically, the Fash Hag, an anonymous, often sarcastic writer (is she? I'm guessing from the two or so times she wrote about me... maybe she ain't sarcastic to everyone) thinks I should "live and let live" regarding the Bintan blog entry, and not have so cruelly (to some undeserving conglomerate?) wrote about about the resort.
To the Fash Hag, I think you have completely missed the point of my blog entry.
It is not to spitefully cause less sales for Angsana Resort, but to warn innocent travellers not to go to that particular place!
That, my dear, is an honourable and kindly reason, so instead of being reprimanded for it, I ought to be given a Good Citizen Award!!
If, my dear Fash Hag, you don't believe the things I wrote, there is only 1 simple solution. Why don't YOU do some good in the world, and pay for your own holiday in Angsana? (No, of course you can't tell them you are a reporter!!)
Then, afterwards, if you thoroughly enjoyed yourself and think that the pleasure far exceeds the amount you paid, then YOU can go ahead and write about your pleasant experience and therefore neutralize the horrid blog post I wrote.
If you had shit of a time there, then don't say I didn't warn you!!
What the hell is a Fash Hag anyway? I'm guessing it's inspired by the term Fag Hag - in which a girl who often hangs out with a gay boy is termed a "hag" only because it rhymes with "fag".
But hag doesn't rhyme with Fash (rather, makes it sound quite awkward) so your name is quite pointless. Do you hang out with Fash a lot?
Anyway, enough of this!!
I just got my tongue pierced yesterday, and all of you who hate me, you'll be glad to know that I AM IN AGONYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
Food and I always had a long-standing, good relationship, in which I eat it, and it is happy to be eaten by me (latter self-assumed).
Now, due to the goddamn piercing, every single mouthful of swallowing is pure agony!!!
I can only eat 1 fusilli pasta at a time. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? CAN YOU?
It therefore takes me about 1 year to finish a bowl of pasta, and I AM STILL HUNGRY!!
Super annoying!!
KK kept ostentatiously showing me her piercing and urging me to do it, expounding loudly,
"CONFIRM WILL BECOME SKINNY ONE!!! CONFIRM! I lost 5 kg!! And it's not painful la!! Confirm less painful than belly!!"
So grinning like a fool, I did it.
And it hurt (way more than my belly piercing for sure), is still hurting (now Day 3), and to my horror, I actually gained 1 kg!!
WHY WHY WHY HOW HOW HOW WHY???!!
THE WORLD IS SO FUCKING UNFAIR TO ME!!!!!!!!!!
WHY IS IT FAT PEOPLE GET FATTER AND SKINNY PEOPLE GET SKINNIER????
Anyway, the whole tongue piercing episode will be on clicknetwork soon. It's gonna include explicit questions asked to the piercer! Haha!!
Meanwhile, new videos:
XIAXUE'S GUIDE TO LIFE
I learn from an *ahem* expert how to write erotic poetry!! Are you can see from my facial expression, I was immensely bored by him. He and I were totally on two different frequencies and I imagine that when I am old, I'll peruse this video again and tell my grandsons that this is one of the most awkward and PR-ish moments I had in life.
Why? I don't know. I guess he is not serious enough for you to laugh at him, yet whatever he is not serious at is not funny????? It's not funny to listen to some guy's sexual fantasies and urges! God I hope I don't meet him ever again.
CHICK VS DICK
Wank-worthy material!
I suggested to Gillian that two of the Chick VS Dick eps should be about Paul doing something KK is good at, and then KK doing something Paul is good at!!
So it was decided that the two things are respectively pole-dancing and singing!!
This is the pole-dancing one, so whether you wanna wank to KK's gyrating (personally I almost couldn't watch it coz I'm her friend and it's like watching your mom dance sexually AHAHAHA), or Paul's slightly gay dance moves - go ahead and watch it!
Ok bye for now!
It's DISGUSTING! I slept at 12am and woke up at 9am like a typical OL can! Please people, jio me for overnight MJ so I don't become like this!!!!
It might become permanent, then I'd start to shop at G2000 and wear Perlini's Silver!! OMG!!! And buy the LV Neverfull, book lunch tables with tissues, which I take out from my lunch pouch!! And I'll clik clak in my 2 inch Charles and Keith and get pregnant!! Omg... I totally want a baby...
Quote of the day:
Kay Kay, after my piercing: "OMG! You totally cannot cannot eat noodles! Especially those curly kind like Maggi Mee!! It will curl around the ball bearing and you will DIE." (looks at me seriously, as if to say, "and you don't want that to be the way you go...")
Sympathy and Empathy (for undeserving scumbags) are over-rated
Oh god!! Junne just told me about the Josef Fritzl case!! It's so super grotesque I keep having vomiting sensations while reading it!!!!
For those of you who don't know yet, this Austrian man, Fritzl, 73, built a dungeon and trapped his daughter Elisabeth inside it for 24 years!!
Why did he do that? TO RAPE HER OF COURSE!!
The poor chick (quite chio somemore), imprisoned since 1984, was lured into a dingy dungeon (with no windows or natural light at all) by her father when she was 18, and repeatedly raped!
No wait, you think that's horrible? There's worse:
SHE WAS IMPREGNANTED 6 TIMES AND GAVE BIRTH TO 7 IMBRED CHILDREN.
One of the babies, a twin, died shortly after birth.
3 of these children were deemed to be too "noisy" to be kept in the dungeon by Fritzl and was brought to his home, where he lied to his wife that Elisabeth had abandoned them at his doorstep.
He had told his wife that Elisabeth, at the age of 18, had ran away from home to join a cult.
And the wife allegedly believed his rubbish!! I call BULLSHIT on this. Elisabeth was raped since 11, and I think it's impossible the wife doesn't know!!
The other 3 children, now 19, 18, and 15, lived their whole lives in the dungeon and NEVER SAW THE LIGHT OF DAY BEFORE.
These 3 children often witnessed their grandfather/father rape their mother.
What's more, Elisabeth on two occasions attempted to run away during her teenage years, but was unsuccessful - then she was caught by her father and imprisoned.
TWENTY-FOUR FUCKING YEARS!!
Within these 24 years I've grown from a baby to what I am right now, started a blog, made it famous, and attended 13 years of school and made hundreds of friends; toured America etc etc.
SHE got constantly raped by her dad!! And gave birth naturally without painkillers!!
(Little fucker didn't even bother to use a condom!! The thought pisses me off so much!!)
Now 42, Elisabeth and the dungeon children are Vitamin D deficient and malnourished. She has snow white hair and looks way older than she is, and her eldest child is currently in a critical condition (said unlikely to survive) and has virtually no teeth left.
I cannot even begin to FATHOM how horrible it is to be her, or even worse, her kids, who don't even have memories of the outside world. (ok, at least they are not raped for so many years I guess...)
She used to be so pretty too
Can you imagine? They never had a gourmet meal, or saw a rainbow or a sunset, or had a chance to fall in love!
[Link: Included pictures of the imbred children too. They look surprisingly normal, although eerily alike to one another...]
Eldest granddaughter also suspected of being raped, but cannot be confirmed as she is too sickly to give testimony.
And why?
BECAUSE THEY HAVE A MONSTER OF A FATHER.
And what is this monster doing right at this minute? I'm telling you, he is relaxing in his solitary prison cell, comfortably watching TV!!
NABEHCCBCCBCCBCCB!!!!!!!!!
WTF IS THIS INJUSTICE?
Seriously man!! I had enough of this BULLSHIT.
They put him in a solitary cell because they are afraid that if put into prison, pedophilia (not to mention incestuous) criminals are often beaten up to a pulp by the other prisoners.
We must ask ourselves why these prisoners will beat pedophilic offenders up? BECAUSE THE OTHER PRISONERS STILL HAVE SOME OLD-FASHIONED SENSE OF JUSTICE LEFT IN THEM.
They might be robbers, burglers or gangsters, but fucking a child is CROSSING THE LINE and whoever did it deserves no less than death and a good old thrashing!!
WHY SHOULD WE TREAT SUCH SCUM WITH HUMANE ACTIONS? Why are we preventing other prisoners from beating him up?
(The little wuss is staying in his cell all day long and won't come out coz he's scared of being beaten up, just like he beats his daughter up. Oh God I AM SO ANGRY!!)
Does he deserve our sympathy and empathy? I say not a single ounce of it!!!!!!!
All around I've been reading forums and most people are shouting abuse at Fritzl, but here and there I see idiot comments like:
"Hurting him won't do him any good. It's best to lock him up for life, and let him reflect on his actions."
"You all are all going down to his level if you all want to kill him. Let's punish him in a civilised way."
"Please... He must have been mentally unstable. Don't be too harsh on him."
Is he really mentally unstable, such as his lawyer claims?
HOW MANY OF US WILL FALL FOR SUCH NAMBY PAMBY BULLSHIT AND LET A MAN LIKE HIM SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN A COMFORTABLE ASYLUM??
HE CAN TOUR THAILAND SOMEMORE LOR! LIKE THAT IS MENTALLY UNSTABLE MEH?
And EVEN IF HE IS, SO WHAT?! I never understood why mentally unstable people are let off. Do the victims of mentally unstable people suffer any less than those of criminals with sound minds?
I SAY NO, SO WHY SHOULD THEY BE LET OFF EASILY?
Anyone who rapes, murders, etc are probably of a less than normal mind anyway, because they obviously show more signs of being a sociopath than, say, someone who knows rape will hurt someone and therefore does not do it.
Are the people in high security prisons all normal? You telling me they are all normal?!
I therefore see NO REASON why people who plead insanity should have lighter sentences and escape from being put into prison like fellow offenders!!
What's with this stupid humanity shit anyway?!
He is bloody 73 years-old, had a 24-year-fill of young daughter vagina - WHAT IS THE POINT OF LOCKING HIM UP?
What for? For another 10 years maybe? Even killing him is not good enough for the irreversible harm he inflicted on all these people!
For maximum fairness, he ought to be locked in the very same dungeon for 24 years, then raped repeatedly by his own father in his ass!! (father also punished for shitty job of bringing up his shitty son)
And then, to simulate the pain of childbirth, he ought to have his dick dipped in concentrated acid for 7 times. For 63 months he has to walk around the place with a baby's extra weight.
However, there is no way that this can be done to him, as he is already 73 and probably can't live till 97, so this shall be, instead, done for 12 years with double the intensity of the rapes and the acid-dipping.
The only problem with this punishment is that he deserves it completely, so his suffering is probably less than that of Elisabeth's, who did nothing to deserve this.
So, I will instead suggest that he simply gets his penis chopped off.
The method for doing so shall be to tie a knot with a piece of string on his penis, and slowly tighten it until it eventually drops off.
*Having an awesome time imagining this*
But enough of this pleasurable imagery.
The topic of discussion here is the shitass law system we have. Did you know that Fritzl was twice arrested for rape and once for exposing himself in public?
He was let free after 18 freaking months!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF?!!
He was let free to rape his own daughter!
The muthafucking bloody judge who let him off his first convicted rape oughta be also punished for Fritzl's further crimes, don't you agree?
I SAY WE PUT THROW THE ERRANT JUDGE INTO JAIL TOO!
We trust our judicial systems to protect us normal civilians from harm, but yet, due to a "magnanimous" spirit and a stupid tendency to give rapists a second chance, this monster is let out again - and look what he has done!
Honestly man! If you wish to give sympathy and empathy to these horrible criminals, then please, feel free to do so but you BETTER MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT TAKING A RISK FOR OTHER PEOPLE, right or not?!
How can you be so self-centered as to bet other people's safety on your own warped perception of someone's propensity to completely change?
If these judges trust all these so-called reformed criminals so much, then I strongly suggest that they let their teenage daughters be locked into a room with these ex-rapists for a few hours, and see how they feel about that.
If they don't feel that that's right, then please, why are they inflicting this horror upon the society in general???
What's this crap about giving people second chances - murderers and rapists DO NOT DESERVE IT.
Some things don't deserve a second chance, and THAT'S THAT!
They deserve to be kept in a cell forevermore, where in the case of a VERY POSSIBLE future relapse of their urges, they won't be able to harm anyone innocent.
Say we do release them. What should be done to rapists to ensure they don't repeat their crimes then?
There can only be 1 option:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chop off their goddamn penis and balls.
Little twitchy things that keep wanting attention. I SEVERE YOU NEATLY!!!
After they are penis-less and balls-less, they are then free to roam the world wherever they want to, because without testosterone, they won't experience a raging horny urge to molest people anymore anyway!
(But just in case they do, they should still be imprisoned for life. And yes, their balls and penises still have to be cut off just in case they escape, like Ted Bundy did.)
There is no need to argue my case, it's iron-cast.
I hereby give you 3 famous examples why all rapists ought to be castrated and then imprisoned for life and never let out:
Famous serial killer - raped and killed 33 boys and young men.
Caught for Child Molestation, and let scot-free after 18 freaking months! (his sentence is for 10 years)
Went on to rape, torture, and butcher 33 innocent people afterwards, because SOMEONE SOMEWHERE thought it would be a good idea to let this man go. You know... Give him a second chance.
You were wrong, weren't you? YOU ARE AS GOOD AS A MURDERER.
Famous serial killer - rape, necrophilia (!) and cannibalism (!) on 17 men and boys.
Was arrested not once but twice for masturbation in public. He was supposed to go to jail for a year, but released after 10 months.
Shortly after, he was caught for sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy. Again, went to jail for 10 months when he was supposed to be in for 1 year. (only???! there is some miscarriage of justice here...)
Went on to rape, butcher, rape their dead bodies, and eat 17 innocent people afterwards, because SOMEONE SOMEWHERE thought it would be a good idea to let this man go. You know... Give him a second chance.
You were wrong, weren't you? YOU ARE AS GOOD AS A MURDERER.
Released from jail at the age of 50 after 23 years spent inside. He was charged for rape, as well as stabbing and trying to kidnap a woman.
Shortly after he was freed, he proceeded to rape, torture and kill 22 year-old Sjodin after she finished her work shift at Victoria's Secret. He left her half-naked body near his mother's house, in the snow.
Her bloodstained shoes and clothes were found in his car, yet he maintains he is not guilty. OH REALLY? DID SOMEONE PLANT THOSE IN YOUR CAR NOW, YOU POOR MAN??
Dru Sjodin was raped, tortured and killed because SOMEONE SOMEWHERE thought it would be a good idea to let this man go. You know... Give him a second chance.
You were wrong, weren't you? YOU ARE AS GOOD AS A MURDERER.
And therefore, I'm telling you, save your bloody namby pamby sympathy for people who deserve it, please.
Some people deserve NOTHING less than death, for their existence in the world only bring about extreme harm to others!
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In Singapore, drug traffickers are dealt with by the death sentence. Anyone who dares to argue that this is too harsh is immediately met with the rebuttal,
"If they know they will die if they get caught, why do they still do it? These drug traffickers simply asked for it. Take a risk, accept the consequences!"
Worldwide, the same can be used for rapists and sex offenders, except that instead of death, it's the chopping of the penis/clitoris.
No more orgasms for them.
UPDATE: Josef Fritzl now claims that the media painted an unfair picture of him, and he is not a monster.
He said people should give him credit as he kept Elisabeth and her children alive for so many years.
He said that he COULD have killed Elisabeth and her children, but he did not.
He said that it is because of him that the eldest of the dungeon children, Kerstin, is still alive, as he brought her to the hospital.
Amazing? Yes.
Hilter COULD also have personally raped Jews as well as massacre them, but he didn't. So you know what? That makes him a good, kindly person.
Wooo... So nice of you to bring her to hospital, you old fuck. Oh wait, DIDN'T YOU MAKE HER SO SICKLY IN THE FIRST PLACE?
FUCK YOU! I can't believe he is still justifying what he has done, can you believe it?!?!?
AND WHY DID YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR LIVING? Elisabeth could have been working for her own living and had a husband and family of her own, but YOU DIDN'T allow her to!
Completely self-centered and still showing no signs of remorse!! I can't think of a punishment severe enough for him. No, I honestly can't.
Aren't you all just happy that I'm blogging more often again?
Coz almost every night, while I am using the PC, my thought process goes like this:
"Should I blog or should I...
1) Go internet shopping? Maybe something new on spree sites and F21?
2) Jio people for MJ?
3) Watch DVDS?"
Invariably, most of these things come before blogging, because those are 100% stress-free! (Except for MJ la but I love MJ so it's ok)
But tonight, I've finished seeing all the shopping sites (nothing new, and on weekends F21 takes a rest on updating), nobody is free for MJ, and I don't feel like DVDs coz there is a resident humongous lizard outside, so here I am, blogging!!
Today Mike brought me, for the second time in 2 days, to Arab street where I spent *GASP* almost $150 on crystals!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But boh pian, my Nintendo DS Lite is a tad spoilt (bought a new one) and my new camera is pink, but barren of any Wendy characteristics, so I had to zhng them!!
BEHOLD!!!!!!!!!!!
MY CAMERA:
This is how it used to look like. Already pretty, but I cannot stand the thought of anyone else using the same camera so must zhng!!
Half-way done! The pattern is pink hearts on a light grey background. I haven't put the crystals onto the lens rim yet.
With flash
Rims completed. Outer rim is pink with a tinge of purple, and inner rim is Jet Black!!
I apologize for the shitty pictures, but there is no other way to take a photo of my camera except to use the stupid mirror!
I magnificently fail to capture the final product in it's full glory... It's crazy chio!
I seriously almost died when I came to the lens/flash area though. Can you imagine trying to calculate if the next diamante should be grey or pink, when so many parts are missing?
Nonetheless, I only made one mistake (cannot be seen one, it's at the top), and I am superbly proud of myself!!
When the camera is turned on, the lens would then pop up, and the outer rim will even rotate!! It looks damn nice la!!
(BTW... For those anal people... Just to the right of the flash bulb there is the viewing glass, and to the right of that, it seems like I put a black crystal there that is too big right? Just to clarify, I am not a noob and won't make such a mistake!! That black "crystal" is actually the red-eye beam thingy. And to the right of that, the pinhole is the microphone.)
MY DS LITE:
Matchy matchy strap too!
Couldn't let the stylus go without putting some diamantes on it too. KK's idea.
My nintendo DS Lite in Juicy-inspired stripey pale pink and green!!
It looks like dark green in the picture, but it's actually lighter in real life.
For some reason I don't really like it very much though. I guess it's coz the original DS colour is already patent baby pink, and I do like that a lot!!
I tried to find this baby pink opaque crystal called Rose alabaster, but to no avail, so I settled for light pink crystals on the DS, which is called Light Rose.
That, and I did my DS before I did my camera, and only after half of the DS was done did I have a sudden blast of inspiration to put hearts!!
Won't it be nice if the DS and the camera were matchy matchy???!!
If you like my DS very much maybe you can convince me to sell it to you at a high price!! Hahaha!! I bought the 2-day old DS for $225 and and spent almost $100 on the diamonds here, so I'd say... $500 and above? I have crazily superb workmanship (and that's at least 4 hours of painstaking sticking!!)
Altogether I spent at least 7 freaking hours doing this!!**
Anyway, updates on my Juicy Sidekick...
I AM SUPER PISSED OFF OK!!
The seller suddenly emailed me to say that she is sorry, coz she was on vacation and her bf handled her account for her!!
She also said her bf was extremely rude (which he was, more about that later), and that she will mail out my package ASAP - and asked me for my name to write on the package!
?????????????????
In an email 1 hour prior to this, she said that she "already mailed the package out".
QUIT FUCKING PROCRASTINATING AND SEND OUT THE BLOODY THING ALREADY! I don't fucking care if you put my name as Mickey Mouse or Britney Spears, just send it out!
And 1 week prior to THIS NONSENSE, the incoherent BF actually lied to me and said he will mail out the package on 27 April!! I won the bid on 18 April!! Now what date already the package is still in their house!!
I AM FUCKING MAD I TELL YOU!
I just emailed Paypal and filed a dispute against her. $500!! I don't want her bloody phone already!!
I am so pissed off (and mad with longing for the phone) that I am actually crying in anger right now as I am writing this!
Can you believe it was a birthday present?? And now, it's still MIA?!??!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!! SO SO SO SO SO PISSED OFF!!
The girl seems nice enough, why is she with a rude, incoherent douchebag? Seriously man, that guy can't string a sentence together!!
But whatever la! We'll see what happens.
UPDATE: She apologized and agreed to refund me. I'll let you all know if she really does.
** FAQs for zhnging:
Q) Woah! You spent 7 hours sticking damn bling? Please, don't you have a life?
A) Woah! You spend 7(++) hours a day working for someone else? Don't you have a life?
Q) Xiaxue please... My niece is dying/daughter's birthday/long suffering mother and it's mother's day soon... can you help me put crystals on XXX product? Please? Out of the kindness of your heart?
A) No. Pay me money or fuck off, you opportunistic scrooge. I'm 100% pro capitalism.
Q) Then how much do you charge? How about $20? Or maybe $25? We can negotiate.
A) I already earn way too much for you to afford my services. HAHAHAHA!! For $20 I will stick the crystals onto your forehead for you, forming the words IDIOT in big shiny letters. Colour of your choice.
Lizards are fast becoming an obsession in my life!!
I share a love-hate relationship with them.
Ihate them, and I love to kill them.
In fact, since yesterday I've tried to kill 3 lizards and successfully killed 2 of those 3!!! Mike killed another one with a F21 cargo box.
Bloody batch of lizards all have dark black spots on them. I KILLED YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY!! Roooarrr!
The escaped one was a baby which escaped my rapidly crushing tissue box... but soon... soon the little fucker will die in my hands.
The other two dead lizards are dead from a lizard trap that I bought!!
Here's my msn Convo with Eekean:
Pink is me red is her obviously
I've always had my doubts about lizard traps... Mike insisted on not buying them before, and his reason was that the bait, which supposedly gives out a scent lizards cannot resist, will actually ENTICE the lizards to come to our place.
But time has proven that enticing or not, the lizards come anyway!
Their favourite place appears to be the kitchen sink, where... believe it or not, lizards need to drink water too!
I suppose in their free time they also like to frolic about and playfully splash the water onto one another, then have disgusting lizard sex and give birth to ugly babies. FUCK YOU!!
They also like the living room coffee table, where, if they are lucky enough, we forget to sweep clear of little food crumbs.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE LITTLE FUCKERS??
I mean, they get a wide variety of little flying insects to choose from, and yet, they seem to prefer to eat human food!!
What's their problem? Insects too gross for you to eat is it?!?
Russell told me that his friend once found a lizard inside a box which contained a single doughnut.
Only a quarter of the doughnut and an extremely fat lizard remained in the box!! Lizard ate 3/4 of a doughnut!!! SHIOK HOR? CAN EAT DOUGHNUT SOMEMORE!!
Therefore, I thus make it my life mission to kills as many lizards as humanly possible.
Even when I am sleeping, I must make sure some of them die... Which is why I bought lizard traps.
These traps are ingenious!!
They are made of cardboard, and you peel off a sticker, revealing a thick layer of glue - and at the middle of it all, a little white ball of innocuous-looking bait.
You fold the cardboard, and there is even a little hole for you to see if lizards got trapped inside, and a handle so that you don't have to touch the dirty muthafucker!
I bought 2 traps and both caught a lizard each!!
Unfortunately, by the time I saw its success both the lizards were dead.
How come so fast die?? I wanted to poke it with a satay stick to watch it thrashing around for a bit first...!! (Sadistic, but serve him right for trying to eat my food when there are plenty of flying insects for him to eat and make himself useful in the food chain.)
Maybe the glue is poisonous? Anyway, both lizards didn't manage to even go close to the bait, so they must have died with a terrible curiousity!!
Orh bi good. I hope their friends come and have a closer look and then, out of pure lizard loyalty, try to extricate the corpse and hold a respectable funeral for the dead. Then, they all get caught too!!
In fact, the live lizards then scream (in their stupid tsk tsk noises) for help and more stupid lizards die in my trap!!
MUAHAHA!!
In fact, last night, after seeing the first trap work, I had a dream that the trap not only caught FOUR lizards, it also caught, for some reason, 2 pouches of roach eggs (ewwwwwwww!!!) and various other grosteque insects!!
I was so happy in that dream can!!
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On a sidenote, I've recently been very controversy-free, haven't I? I wrote a horrible poem about some girls and I free like posting it up, but it's quite mean and will offend many people. Should I? Shouldn't I?
Anyway, some blog reader told me to go read Dawn Yang's wikipedia page, and there I was, stated as the writer of the page!!
I assure you that I am most definitely not!
In fact, I tried to edit the page (of this libelous insinuation - please change it or I will sue you with your IP address), but didn't know how to!!
Wikipedia editing baffles me to no end. It's so confusing with all its minute works and HTML formatting. If I could I'd have certainly edited some of the things on my own page.. *grumbles*
(Apparently dating an Angmoh automatically makes me an SPG, never mind that all my other ex-boyfriends were Chinese... )
End this off with my SPG photo - clickable:
p/s: Thanks everyone who sent me lovely birthday smses!! I didn't reply coz I only saw the messages at 5am and I thought you all might be asleep already... And especially to Ghimz, XF, EK and PY for the "most practical birthday present you can ever get."
I stupidly asked if it's a pimple squeezer, but it turned out to be an angpow!!
Imma buy a Juicy Couture bag with it. What? What did I blurt out? I mean... Imma put it into my self-motivated CPF account for future rainy days.
UPDATE: To the many people who asked me what brand that lizard trap that is, I'm sorry but I really forgot! I threw away the packaging and was thoroughly skeptical about it until I saw it worked - but by then it was plain white cardboard.
Bought it in NTUC and it's one of those glue ones... I think it cost around $3 for 2 traps. Each trap seems to be able to only catch 1 lizard though (prove me wrong, anyone?), and lizards rot really smelly in death so you won't want to keep the trap around for too long after it died anyway.
(I was staring at the pink, bald corpse for a bit. It looks like a transparentish foetus/naked mole rat. REALLY GROSS!!!)
$1.50 for the death of a lizard seems to not be very worth it - so I guess it depends on how desperately you want to kill them! :D
And to those numerous people who told me to be kind/I will go to hell/lizards never harmed me why am I so mean etc etc irritating preachy people who try to tell others what to do: Fuck you.
Riiiiiight, I'm going to listen to you and become the patron saint of lizards suddenly!! Oh yes! I have been so cruel, and all it took was your grammatically incorrect web comment to wake me up and have a startling revelation!
You know what, preachers? If you want to tell others how to live their lives, go ahead and have a kid, so you can infuse it with all your amazing moral theories. Otherwise, nobody's interested.
White patch on my boob is, despite what you all think, not a mutated nipple, but my bikini tan-line.
I'm officially 24 today yet I shall still insist on writing birthday as bdae!!!
I remember starting to blog sometime around my 19th birthday, so I've been fucking blogging for 5 years man!!
I'm a lao blogger!
Kelvin and Qingqing chose to fly over to Europe yesterday, but not before treating me (and the lucky sods who happen to be around) to dinner first!!
Then Benny treated for drinks afterwards (and the same lucky sods who happen to be around).
Eekean came over all the way to Loyang, on the pretense of wishing me a happy birthday, but in fact stole a whole lot of my dvds and gave me a packet of dubious Indian snacks in exchange. It tastes like Little India on a Sunday.
Actually she wanted to treat me to a Japanese buffet for lunch but I couldn't wake up in time!!
Serious progress with Ek's mom though!! I always thought she didn't really like me coz I was a chao ah lian in school last time (during sec school days la, when Ek was my impressionable classmate), but she bought me mangoes and two packets of nasi lemak!!
She must have somehow known I was kind enough to buy her daughter a 70% of a Nintendo DS lite on her last birthday (the generousity was to make up for 11 years of knowing Ek and never giving her any presents)!!
Mike's mom remembered my bdae too!!
My Momo, whom I was feeling a tad jealous and resentful towards because she bought my cousin a birthday cake (and did not buy any for me for the last n years - her excuse is that I never want to spend my birthday with her), msn-ed me to say she also ordered a cake for me!! I hope this is true.
Mike is bringing me out for expensive dinner tomorrow!
I put "It's my bdae but nobody cares" on my msn nick at around 1am (a tad anxious, but it was for my mother's benefit), so a few people also grudgingly messaged me to tell me happy birthday.
Even my eBay seller, whom I bought the Juicy Couture sidekick from, finally responded to my email and said he is shipping out the phone today!!!
Yes yes yes FINALLY I'LL GET MY HANDS ON YOU!
This baby takes USD $70 to unlock, but hey, all a price to pay for a phone that definitely nobody in Singapore has...
Mike sponsored the $500 phone and additionally blurted out he bought me a rainbow maker!!
Everybody does love!!
Right now I'm going into the living room to watch GTO on dvd, and maybe cook some instant noodles. MAN! I CRAVE FOR MAGGI GORENG!!!
Yes! GTO!!
THAT FUCKING AWESOME JAP SCHOOL TEACHER SHOW FROM A MILLION YEARS AGO!! I randomly found it in some JB dvd shop!!
Awesomeness. This day is awesome.
Random note 1: Juicy Couture is opening in Singapore soonish. About time too! I'll source out the PR company, and try to get them to sponsor me stuff!! Honestly man, Juicy! You can't get a bigger fan than me!! If you search "Juicy Couture Singapore" on google, my link actually pops up 4th. How mad is that?
Random note 2: Combination of Cellnique (who also sponsored me a shitload of products recently!!), Kawaii Tokyo and Cherlyn's facial is making my skin GLOW!! I have freaking pink cheeks naturally can!!
Random note 3: USD keeps dropping and SGD keeps shooting up like an obscene penis!! I greedily and impatiently await the day when USD and SGD goes dollar to dollar, then I'll have a wild time at Forever21.com and victoriassecret.com. WHOOPIE!!
Women supposedly start to age at 25 (and some more kiasu people say, 24).
It's disgusting! Suddenly, all around me, people my age are beginning to use words like "skincare" and "anti-aging", not to mention start discussing brands as well as ways and means to keep on looking 24 for as long as possible!!
Before this year, all I ever did for my skin was to wash it with Biore Men's facial cleanser (something I've been using since my teens, which I started because a number of ex-boyfriends used it and I liked the smell) and maybe occasionally slap some Cellnique on.
However, as wrinkles start to appear and pimple scars don't go away that fast anymore, I realised that's not really enough. Isn't it scary?
Besides, all my girlfriends are starting to do all sort of assorted things to their skin before they sleep: Cleanse, exfoliate, tone, serum, moisturize... wake up moisturise as well as put sunscreen... Go for facials... Squeeze blackheads... ETC!!!
IT'S LIKE IF YOU DON'T DO IT YOU WILL LOSE OUT TO ALL THESE GIRLS LOR!!
BUT!!! The problem is, there are SO MANY BRANDS ALL AROUND! Some people swear by certain brands, but it is near impossible to try everything and find the right stuff for you, isn't it?
Luckily for me, I get sponsored stuff!! :D
Now, you're possibly angrily shouting now, "How is that relevant to me?! You stupid hao lian bitch...!"
It is relevant because I try stuff out for you and tell if you it's good what!! HMPF!
So anyway, the brand in the spotlight today is called Kawaii Tokyo, a line of facial products all the way from Tokyo, Japan!
Personally, I have more faith in products that are made in Asian countries as I feel that they are more suited for Asian skin types.
I was very happy when I saw the packaging for Kawaii's products because the theme they are using seems to be all Princessy!! Their mascot, a girl called Ms Moe Kawai, has flying hair, long eyelashes and wears a tiara! My type of girl :D
These are the products they sent to me:
I love the packaging they came in but I already threw away some of the boxes.
I heart Japanese products because some much efforts is always put into the aethestics and quality!
Even comes with a totally Kawaii mirror! :D
Exciting!
The whole Kawaii range seems to have a common theme, which is something they call "Brighten-up".
Brightening is also sometimes called whitening, although, from what I know, whitening is a misconception. Products which claim to whiten actually get rid of dead skin etc and bring out a glow in our skin, making it brighter, healthier, and less dull!
It's very important to have "bright" skin, otherwise you'll just walk around looking like a corpse.
Every other female in the world seem to want to have fairer skin though, except for me, coz I like to look tan! Not the dull sort of tan --- like glowy Victoria's Secret models sort of tan!
I wonder if the "whitening" elements of Kawaii worked on me though, coz I noticed that although I got equally tan on the face and body in Langkawi, my face is now like much fairer than my body. -_- Maybe you can give their products a try if you want to get fair.
Prior to writing this, I already saw some magazines (Female, I think) review Kawaii's products, and it seems like the star product is Kawaii's sunscreen.
However, as I don't really go out in the day often (except when I go tanning), I can't say I have really experienced the effectiveness of their sunscreen... More about the sunscreen later.
The product I really like is the Brighten-up Wash Champagne Holiday!!
I am going to cam-whore with my favourite facial wash for a bit. By a bit, I mean... A lot.
(Just cut my fringe coz I got bored of my hair)
Let me think: How many poses can one come up with with a tube of facial wash?
A lot apparently!
Ahem. As you can see I really like it. Hahaha!!!
Kawaii's facial wash comes in Champagne Holiday as well as Nature Break.
I like Champagne Holiday more coz it smells (to me la...) like roses (which I am very partial to) and it leaves a very nice lingering scent even after washing off! I have a xiang face!
Nature break is nice too! I'm having difficulty describing a smell but it just gives a very refreshing feeling while washing, and brings to mind... woods and cleanliness? Like you can almost feel birds chirruping around you as you wash your face. Hahaha!
The texture of the thick creamy wash has a pearly tint to it, and it's very rich and foamy so using just a small amount is enough!
After washing, my face doesn't feel overtly dry, and seems to become softer to the touch.
AND I WASH!!!
A dollop on fingers
Lather
Lather
Pose!
Have you ever seen someone so gleefully washing their face before?
I know la! I'm supposed to use make-up remover on my make-up first, but this is purely for photography purposes!
Their other products:
Brighten-up Wrinkle Solution - for the delicate eye area!
Yes, I know I'm supposed to put it on my eye area not my cheek.
Squirted a little out for you guys to see the texture.
Wrinkles around the eyes!!! So have to put eye cream before going to bed.
It also reduces puffy eyes as well as dark eye rings.
Kawaii's eye creams come in Daily Defense as well as Overnight Repair.
Daily Defence is specially for reducing photoaged wrinkles in the eye area, and Overnight Repair is for reducing puffy eyebags... like I get after overnight mahjong!
The eye creams are non-sticky, smooth, and contains whitening elements too. I like that it's non-sticky, which I generally find rare in eye creams. How the hell can you sleep with sticky stuff on your face?!
As any vain enough girl can tell you, harmful UV rays are the main culprit that causes aging to happen. As such, UV protection is very important!
Anti-aging: Star fruit, Bilberry, Shell Ginger extracts
Astringent: Prune extract
Anti-inflammation: Licorice extract
A little squirt on the face
Non-sticky and water resistant
Undetectable once blended in
Daytime Rescue is more for daily usage, but if you are going swimming or doing any outdoor sports that lets you face the strong sun for a long time, the Sun Survivor should be a better choice.
Last but not least, Kawaii gave me Brighten-up Gels!
All-in-One Step Skincare
Comes in two scents!
I like Citrus Paradise coz it smells (not too strongly) like mandarin oranges. :D
What is this? Believe it or not, it's like a magic gel that combines toner, moisturiser, firming essense, brightening essense, as well as make-up base!
Before you diss off products that are 5-in-1, I'd have to say that this actually works pretty well! It kept my face from being dry and my complexion dewy (I was given the products to try for 3 weeks) and I noticed that my face got less oily too!
This contains:
Vitamin C Deriatives + Vitamin E
Hyaluronic Acid (moisturizing component to invigorate collagen activity)
Marine Collagen (for dewiness and resilience)
Olive Squalane (channels oxygen to skin)
It is also alcohol and animal-based ingredient free!
I know! My hands are so wrinkly under the Macro glare of my camera!
After being spread out, the gel feels very pleasantly cold on my skin. It also sort of seeps into the skin pretty fast too, so that after a while, the effect is that the gel is not sticky and very smooth!
It's also not oily and feels watery.
I AM A KAWAII GIRL!!
Interested?? Wanna give it a try? Maybe you can get Kawaii products for free! Click here to go get Kawaii's special promotion for my readers, and you are one easy step away from a chance to win a Kawaii product!!
For more information, please check out Kawaii's website here. :)
p/s: Yes I have strawberry nails! Not watermelon! And I painted it myself!! :D
p/p/s: I do have very hairy arms! I don't think it's ugly and I cannot be bothered about those stupid hairs, so stop the multitude of similar comments about my arm hairs!
Not been very inspired to blog lately, and I feel exhausted coz I just finished another long advertorial... I hope the company will approve it soon so you guys can see it!
Anyway, new episodes on Clicknetwork are up!!
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XIAXUE'S GUIDE TO LIFE
The iPhone follow-up
Something to piss Mac fans off more. I do not endorse the message at the end! It was added in against my will. Hmpf!
The Sex Shop
Ever wondered how it's like inside a sex shop? Maybe you can take a practice visit with me first before going inside...
CHICK VS DICK
The Baby-sitting Challenge
Who will fare better when left alone with a baby? Find out and vote!
The Psychic Challenge
Paul and Kaykay guess embarrassing facts about strangers. See who gets more right!
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Did some of you see me on Channel U's news?
(interviewed in my "Princess Room")
Anyway, if you wanna watch the little snippet, the article's here - and see the obscure little red box sitting beside the title? You can click on that to watch the video.
Can anyone who can somehow save the video please send it to me?? Thanks a million!!!!!!
As you people know I've been complaining about my shitty Bintan trip. Honestly man! That place is a nightmare! So yes, to prevent other people from having similar shitty experiences, I'm going to blog about it, despite the risk of being sued!!
I'm sure there is some clause to protect me though coz I am speaking the truth!!
Here's the typical person's impression of it:
- Relaxing, tropical beach resort away from Singapore - Cheap and good massages available ala Thailand - Beautiful sea - Everything charged in Rupiah, which after money-changing will be like nothing at all! Hahaha!
Actually what it is:
- Beach resort chockful of Singaporeans and stupid Angmohs, so it's almost like being in Sentosa. - Massages cost more than it does in Singapore, and about 10 times Thailand's price. - Sea only mediocre - put it on par, if not worse, than Sentosa's. If Langkawi's beach that I went to is a 8/10, Bintan's is a 3/10. - Everything charged in... EITHER US DOLLARS OR SING DOLLARS. It's almost like being back in Singapore except the service staff can't speak English.
It's fucking farce!
THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO WILL LIKE THE PLACE ARE STUPID WHITE PEOPLE WITH TOO MUCH MONEY I TELL YOU!! * (more on that point later)
Initially, Mike wanted to bring me to Bali for our two-year anniversary, and after my insistence he told me that the trip, which requires a plane flight, will cost him at least $1k, which was a little too extravagant for a weekend getaway, I feel.
So I suggested to him that we go to Bintan, which was only a 40 min ferry ride away, and therefore can save on the plane tickets.
My decision was so wrong.
Nonetheless, ferry tickets and the hotel were booked for almost $800, and I joyously told everyone about it.
To my horror, Gillian and Eekean (Wong) both told me that Bintan's not a good destination at all, and that stupid Eekean even insisted that I change my destination to Batam instead where, I quote her, "There is a freaking shopping centre twice the size of Vivo City!!!".
I told the excitable Wong that I cannot change my destination as I am leaving tomorrow, but I don't think she heard me and continued her persuasion by saying how awesome Batam is compared to Bintan.
I had an ominous foreboding, but Gillian said it's good to have no expectations, so I won't be disappointed.
I had a thoroughly shitty time there**, and to add insult to injury, when I came back Mike saw on his credit card bill that an extra US$327.08 was charged, by the hotel, to his account!!
WTF???! This prompted me to write a complain letter to Angsana Resort, the place we stayed in:
Complain Email
from: Wendy Cheng to: pr@angsana.com, bintan@angsana.com, corporate@angsana.com, reservations@angsana.com,
date: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:19 AM
subject: Fraudulent charge of USD $327.08 and Complain Letter
Hi there,
My boyfriend and I recently went to Angsana Resorts to celebrate our 2 year anniversary. However, that appears to be a giant mistake as our stay there was terribly unpleasant.
Not only was everything extremely overpriced, we found that the main purpose of our holiday - the beach, was filled with NUMEROUS tar glops that not only stained and ruined my expensive swimwear and sandals, it was also filled with sand flies, and what I found biting me, leaving a pea-sized amount of blood on my skin: Jungle mosquitoes!
Tar balls like these found in abundance all over the beach.
[Digressing, sandfly bites are no joke!! The bite are larger than mosquito bites, and I've heard that the scars DON'T GO AWAY FOR MONTHS! It's totally not worth it to ruin your legs in the long run for a day at the beach!!
AND I TELL YOU, THE MOSQUITO THAT BIT ME WAS SCARY! I seriously thought it was a large fly, and in the semi-darkness I was afraid so I just swept it away. This left a streak of blood on both my sweeping hand and bitten arm, and I screamed for the waiter, who calmly informed me it's not a sandfly but a "jungle mosquito".
Another one bit Mike later and left, as I mentioned, a pea-sized amount of blood on his arm.]
Your massages are stated for either 90 mins and 60 mins. Yet, as your staff informed me after my delibration for the service I wanted, a 60 min massage is actually a 30 min massage, and the other 30 mins is filled with what you people called "Calming Down Time", which apparently involves me paying $25 to sit down and sip a cup of tea. NO THANK YOU.
If it's a 30 min massage, why write 60, unless you are trying to cheat people?
Your brochures are filled with romantic pictures of people dining on seemingly secluded rocks and within floaty chiffon white sheets on the beach.
Calls to your staff confirmed that a meal there would cost around USD$300 (+20% extra) for two people, meaning it will be S$255.60 for each person to dine there for the night.
Needless to say, that amount is ridiculously high as even in Singapore you can get fine-dining for $150.
When asked why it is so expensive, your staff was speechless. When I asked what the food menu involved, your staff supplied helpfully: "Asian Fusion". When asked what "Asian Fusion" exactly involves, they were unable to reply me.
Later, I found out that the rocks/chiffon sheets were MOST DEFINITELY not as secluded as the brochures made them out to be, but situated very near to the Pan Tai Grill, where there were many other people dining.
That, on your part is definitely FALSE ADVERTISING. I pity whichever sucker paid so much for a supposedly romantic dinner where it is not only NOT private, but doubtlessly, filled with biting Sand flies and gigantic mosquitoes.
We then chose to dine at the Pan Tai restaurant, where we spent almost 50 bucks per person eating a "satay buffet", where the most expensive thing served was a minced up chunk of beef on a stick. Sure... there were prawns you say? Yet these prawns were so tiny, they had to be called... baby scrimp. To top it off, the food was not nice at all, and one had to keep fending off mosquitoes and flies throughout the meal.
At the end of our very unhappy trip, we realised that Angsana tried to bill us an extra US$2 for some charity (Green imperative fund or some other rubbish) and we were almost tricked into signing for that but luckily for me, I checked the bill first.
WHAT IS THIS? I did not say I wanted to donate that $1, and not only were we charged once, we were charged TWICE!
I don't mind donating money, but ANGSANA HAS NO RIGHTS TO DECIDE FOR ME WHAT I WANT TO PAY.
When I asked the staff what this rubbish charge is, your staff looked at me and said it is not compulsory and I don't have to pay it. Then why is it in my bill?
When I confirmed that I do not want to donate, your staff gave me a clear look of disdain, as if I am scrooging on a mere $2 that's for charity.
I came to my holiday to enjoy myself, not to be judged by your staff. And it's not that I don't want to donate; it is that Angsana has shown itself to not be trustworthy, so I am not paying an extra cent more than I have to.
Perhaps you think me stingy --- to go on holiday is to indulge. But spending is one thing, and throwing money away on unworthy purchases is another. None of the things in Angsana are priced honestly (hidden charges etc) or reasonably.
A bigger horror awaited us when we reached back home.
Upon checking his credit card transactions, my boyfriend realised that ANGSANA FRAUDULENTLY CHARGED US AN UNKNOWN $327.08 USD for goodness knows what!! Another Angsana-initiated donation to the Green Imperative Fund perhaps?!!
Now, this is a serious issue. We have already paid Asiatravel.com for our room charges, and as seen in the attached jpeg file, the fees very clearly stated we paid $567 including our ferry fees.
We most certainly did NO SPA, NO MASSAGES and NO DINNER ON RANDOM ROCKS, and the most expensive thing we did with Angsana was the Pan Tai Grill - which was paid with cash on the spot.
WHERE DID THIS FEE POP UP FROM?
We already called Bank of America to not let this transaction clear. It is currently still pending.
On your end, please do whatever you should to undo this mistake that caused us much trouble (including several long, expensive phone calls to the US). My boyfriend's name is Michael XXXXX, and we went there last Friday and stayed till Sunday at Room 311 (which coincidentally had ants all over the basin as well as a partially ruined showerhead).
Angsana owes us an explanation and apology, a retracted wrongful billing, as well as compensation for the calls. It is unfortunate that I cannot demand a refund for my entire trip, but sadly to say, even if I could, even the money cannot buy back the horrid time I had there.
If Angsana does not cancel the deceitful charge of US$327.08, I will not let the matter rest and will bring this up to CASE as well as consult my lawyers for further action.
All in all, my experience with Angsana has given me the impression that Angsana goes all out to screw and cheat their customers, and not, like most good companies, strive to provide a service for their clients (and at the same time make us feel that the price we paid is totally justified).
p/s: Perhaps you didn't recognise from the email or the name, but I own xiaxue.blogspot.com, the most popularly read blog in Singapore. My readership is about 20,000 per day. I plan to blog about this entire experience, as well as Angsana's response to my email. I assure you that the blog post will float up every-single-time someone tries to google and see if Bintan/Angsana is a good place to go for a holiday. Which I will clearly communicate that it is a loud NO.
I await impatiently your response,
Wendy
ATTACHED:
The next day, I received this:
Dear Ms. Cheng,
Greeting from Bintan Island!
We refer to your email dated on 9 April 2008 regarding your unpleasant experience at Angsana Resort & Spa Bintan.
Kindly be informed that we are looking into your feedbacks and shall keep you informed of the outcome.
Thank you for your feedback and your kind understanding.
Grr! Patronising! I decided I was still infuriated and replied this:
Hi,
Further to my previous email sent yesterday, I've attached, as proof, photos taken of the ruined footwear and apparel that was caused by the tar pollution that's in abundance all over the beach that's beside Angsana.
There is no sign or warning of this anywhere to be seen to let customers know what they are getting themselves into before they take a frolic at the beach.
In fact, I quote this from your website:
Angsana Resort & Spa Bintan
On the shores of paradise
Nestled on the beautiful white sands of Tanjong Said Bay and overlooking the South China Sea, Angsana Bintan in Indonesia is a heavenly retreat just 45 minutes away from Singapore via high-speed catamaran.
Unfortunately, the sands of the Tanjong Said bay is neither beautiful nor white.
It is, in fact, a dirty grey and speckled with clearly visible globs of tar and little pieces of rubbish.
Here's the cost of the ruined apparel:
1) Aztec Rose Bikini: $99
2) Converse shorts: $40
3) White female slippers: $12.50
4) White male havaiana slippers: $26
I know supposedly tar can be removed using oil or kerosene, but I've tried and it does not work. Besides, why should I try to remove it? It is not my problem that beach you promised to be white and beautiful is not what it claims to be. If there is a warning that tar on the beach will ruin my clothes, then I won't go there at all.
I don't know why is taking you people so long to give me a less than patronising "acknowledgement" reply.
I want to know ASAP that that USD$327.08 will NOT be charged. If it does, I am definitely going to write to all my media contacts, including all those from major newspapers, and they might just do up an article that's titled, "Bintan Resorts - fun or farce?". Sounds catchy, yeah?
Wendy
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After this, I received a reply:
from Yohanna Natasaputra to xiaxue@gmail.com, date Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:13 PM subject Letter from Angsana Bintan
Dear Ms. Cheng,
Greeting from Bintan Island!
Please find letter from Mr. Ridwan Heriyadi, our Executive Assistant Manager, in regards to your feedback which you have shared with us as attached.
Is it just me or does the letter sound extremely condescending? Little snide remarks about my ignorance about common practice in hotel bookings... That little fucker! I don't expect him to be apologetic but don't give a load of stupid excuses!! Swipe people's cards don't need to inform them for what one meh?!
My reply:
Dear Mr Ridwan,
1) I did not see any letter or signage regarding the tar. I did, however, see the warning about sand flies, I give you that.
However, it doesn't matter. I feel cheated, because your website advertised highly photoshopped (or cleverly photographed with appropriate lighting) photos of the supposedly white and beautiful beach, which is why I went to Bintan in the first place. Compared to places like Bali, Langkawi, or Phuket, the beach pales - dramatically - in comparison.
False advertising is despicable.
2) My boyfriend's credit card from requested from him by your staff, and we thought she merely took it to verify our bookings.
She made ZERO mention about a security deposit or anything of that sort. How do you expect that not to startle us when we see the account on our bills?
At the end of our trip, nobody told us that this transaction has been canceled. Whenever this happens in other hotels that I've stayed in, they would assure us the transaction did not go through, or tear up the receipt in front of us.
This negligence on your hotel's part caused us much trouble.
3) I HAVE NO INTEREST IN WHAT YOUR GREEN FUND DOES. Whether it saves dying turtles or not is not my business. I'm not interested in participating in it, and I don't wish to see it included in my bill. My clueless boyfriend almost paid up, thinking it's compulsory, and you make your guest face unnecessarily embarrassment should they "opt-out", because they appear stingy.
Why should I have to face this embarrassment? If I wish to donate money, I'd donate on my own accord to my own charity of choice.
If YOUR hotel wishes to donate money, then please... do it without involving your guests, since, doubtlessly, you guys must be ranking in the billions.
4) Thank you for your offer, and I recognize it as an effort to make up for our tragic holiday, but my boyfriend and I have no wish to go back to Bintan, ever again.
I thank you for your time, and will include your reply in my blog entry about my holiday, unless you, too, wish to "opt out" of that.
Wendy
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Clever little line at the end hor!!! Hahaha!!
Anyway, there was no reply from Angsana after this.
But I haven't even finished complaining about my Bintan trip!
Something terribly horrific happened at the beach... :( I had my bag with me, a little clear tote with my camera, phone and wallet in it.
I was prancing in the shallow sea with it, and I put the bag on a high rock that was on the beach so I can freely go deeper into the sea.
2 moments later, a particularly strong wave crashed onto the rock - I know! I'm so stupid! - and the bag was completely filled with the nabeh sea water!!!
It took me a few moments to realise that electronics and water do not go together, and then I completely freaked out.
My phone kept spasming (vibrating, but seemingly, at that moment, it was drowning and struggling with it's last breath) and eventually died. My camera had no reaction - just won't turn one, its diamantes looking stupid on a piece of metal that won't work.
Tragic or what?! So yes, I lost both my phone and camera there, which explains why there aren't any photos! This is not Bintan's fault, but I guess it does add to my dislike for the place...
Another shitty thing about Bintan is the goddamn food prices!!
Eating anything in the hotel is bloody expensive (as explained above), and if you don't want to eat in the hotel, you have to take a cab out to other places, and cabs there are bloody dangerous!!! (Coz dishonest cabbies might rob and harm tourists)
Mike and I decided to eat at a place called the Kelong Restaurant, which was not as mad expensive as our resort's food. It's inside another resort (Nirwana Gardens) and it takes a 20 bus ride to reach there. Kelong Restaurant arranges free shuttle to fetch customers from any of the resorts in Bintan.
Angsana kindly agreed to arrange for the shuttle to bring us there, and told us to come down to the hotel lobby at 6.30pm. (Actually their service is not bad)
We reached at 6.25pm.
Mike and I waited until 6.45 - the hotel staff told us the bus is on its way from Kelong Restaurant, and will arrive soon.
At 7pm, I was mightily irritated, hungry, and have been tortured past my anger endurance!!!
I started to shout my frustration at the hotel staff, and they called Kelong Restaurant, only to be told by KR that the shuttle is not coming anymore!!!!!!
INFURIATING NOT YOU TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUCKING ANGRY LA!
These bloody people have no sense of responsibility at all!!!
I was goddamn hungry and I wanted to give these people my money but they don't even want to take it! And I was super pissed off coz I had no bloody alternative because if I don't eat at this Kelong restaurant, I have to eat at the resort which costs at least $30 a meal?!?!
How I craved Singapore, where things were all systematic and capitalism made it such that there will always, always, dependably, be other choices for you if wish (with the exception of TV boardcasting stations) and you can take safe taxis everywhere!
KR's people told the hotel staff (after the staff told them how angry I appeared) that they will send the shuttle and it will reach within 15 minutes.
We had no choice but to wait. I had a good mind to go back to the room and just skip dinner, but Mike was hungry.
In the end, the shuttle came at 7.30pm! Lao niang waited 1 whole hour for them! I won't even bloody wait for Zac Efron for so long ok!! Who they think they are!!! Very pissed off lor!!!
When I reached there I started scolding the supervisor but he can't speak English well and didn't seem to understand half of what I was saying. -_-
He just kept making excuses and saying something about the bus and miscommunication - REASONS WHICH DON'T CONCERN ME!!
When I asked, "How are you going to compensate for my waiting?!" he just kept saying sorry and didn't get the hint at all... double -_-
The meal wasn't bad but still, a seafood meal at JB is about 1/3 of the price we paid. It cost almost $60 for just two of us!!!
In summation, Bintan sucks as a holiday destination, and Langkawi, Bali, Phuket, etc etc... All are better choices!!
The nerve of them to charge so much for stuff still appalls me!!! (Angsana's massage prices. Keep in mind there is 30 mins of "calming down time" included) Can you imagine how bloody little the Indonesian workers must be earning and how much is taken by the hotel? It's disgusting.
I AM NEVER GOING BACK THERE AGAIN!!
* Yes, about stupid white people. They spoil everything for us (smarter people), I tell you! Coming over from countries where the weather is cold, grey, and has absolutely no beach nearby, their idea of paradise is a sunshine-filled beach resort, and they will pay with their arm, leg and newborn for it.
So what if a massage costs USD 90 for 1 hour of pressing by an Indonesian minion who is hired for close to nothing? It's inconsequential because in their country, masseuses are few and far between! I feel so sorry for them, because if they were to take a trip to Phuket/Langkawi instead, they would have had a much better time...
** I don't mean to sound unappreciative because Mike paid good money to make me happy. On the contrary, I feel very very loved because he put in a lot of effort into organising this! Whatever happened there was not his fault and in fact, I guess I only have myself to blame because I chose Bintan over Bali... Oh well. But still, thanks baby!!
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