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Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri 2014

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Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!

It’s a long weekend, a good break for most people. However, time sure flies, the holiday is almost over, aiksss… I haven’t really enjoy it yet.

Finally went for the long awaited massage on Saturday and karaoke on Sunday. Today, gonna do hair treatment. At least I have things planned out for the 3 days. Tuesday would be the time to pack up the holiday mood because work start again on Wednesday. Time to get busy again!

Anyway, it’s not always you see me wear something like this. Had to come up with something last minute for a function. Lucky to have French Connection silk blouse and the sarung from the kebaya I bought in Melaka. Since the blouse is too black, I add on with a necklace to spice up the outfit.

Normally I will wear heels but because that time I hurt my toe, I couldn’t wear anything except slippers or flip flops. The flip flops I was wearing is iPANEMA Gisele Bundchen Admiral Gold Ladies Flip Flops JS which I bought back in Australia almost 2 years back.

Will come out with my Langkawi trip post again soon. Goodness! It’s almost August and I’m still not halfway through the travel post for May.

Last but not least, enjoy the holiday while you can. Have fun!

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No more short

Posted on By sweet surrender 2 Comments on No more short

OK! An update is due! it’s been 5 days since the last post! I’m slowing down again sigh… One more day to go and that’s it! I’ll be working full-time like anybody else. My updates will likely be even slower as I won’t be able to update too much due to the nature of the job which might cause a breach of interest.

If you notice, I no longer blog about food. Well… One thing is that there isn’t any place that worth a mention and I don’t provide such free publicity anymore unless your food or services are really up to my expectations or exceptional. Or unless I’m invited or asked to do it with some sort of exchange in return. Therefore, most likely that my future posts will likely be about beauty products and some random/interesting events in Kuching. Traveling posts will not likely be seen in near future. Not longer can go off anytime and I had just recently declined a weekend sponsored getaway somewhere at the beach due to that! Sigh… I do have a few food posts from last year’s trips which I didn’t blog because of laziness ;p

Anyway, I cut my hair short last year in May and now it’s growing longer, it’s time to get it cut. It was a bitch maintaining that short hair for months. Now that it’s long enough, it’s out of shape already, it’s time to get a new haircut.

I went to get it layered and maintained the length. There you go…

Left: After haircut. Just blow dried.

Right: After the first hair wash. Just air dried and no styling product. The blessings of having natural curls. I don’t dare to simply go to any salon to cut my hair because most won’t be able to cut my hair properly due to my natural curls, they are not familiar with my hair at all. It would end up giving me a hard time to maintain. Hence, I always go back to the one I normally go, been going there for almost 10 years. Just a cut and there you go… The curls are back! If it’s wrongly cut, not only it’s hard to maintain but also the curls are all gone or not curling the right way.

How’s your CNY so far? We’re more than halfway towards the end of the celebrations. Next week, Valentine’s and Chap Goh Meh on the same day. So how? Family or lover first? *LOL* I’m likely to be working throughout the night by then, it will be just another working day. No difference for me, just another day.

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Be Right Back

Posted on By sweet surrender 2 Comments on Be Right Back

Almost a week not updating this blog. I’m still alive! Don’t worry. As if anyone would care ;p

It’s a crazy week! Suddenly I got a part-time job offer without going tru’ interview, what’s more I have got no experience in it too. Thought it was a case of mistaken identity but good to know that it’s not. It’s better than what I asked for. Thank you for this opportunity and might be given the opportunity to travel to major towns in Sarawak for it. Due to this, I’ve been busy sourcing materials and also revising the whole thing to refresh my memory of what I had learned 10 years ago just for this weekend! As if going to sit for major exam. Not saying what’s the job nature is (don’t wanna jinxed it yet.) but let’s just say that it’s something I’ve been looking forward to do since I came back last year but after tonnes of resume submissions, no one contacted me even for an interview. I almost lost faith in it.

Then, yesterday, I got a call asking me to go for an interview. Supposed to be today but I told the person that I’m too occupied this week, can only do it next week. Will be going for the interview on Monday. Again, it’s a totally different industry. Don’t know what kind of job as I just submitted my resume to my friend and she passed it to her superior. There’s quite a number of positions available, we’ll see which one they will ask me to do. I’m pretty much open to anything as long that I am confident that I can handle it. There’s one problem though… It’s a full-time job. I will have to let go of many things (attend events and potential sponsored trips) and even the just accepted part-time job, I’m so afraid of working full-time for people. I’ve been self-employed for almost 10 years! It’s going to be hard. Sigh… Dilemma… If I want to learn something new, see more, get stable income, and to meet the potential other half(according to my ex-colleague *LOL*), I will have to take this step. I wonder will I be able to even hold a full-time job for 3 months. We’ll see how it goes next week.

In fact I had the urge to attend Emirates cabin crew open day which happened yesterday as I found out that I have an arm reach of more than 212cm even though I’m quite short. I have long arm ;p I submitted my application online and wasn’t shortlisted for the interview. However, I actually thought of going there to submit my application on the spot, who knows it might yield a different result but at the end I didn’t go hehehe… First, I chickened out. Second, my time was quite tight with this weekend job preparations. I would still go there to have a look if I got nothing to do as I’m quite curious with how the whole process is.

That’s all for now. I’ll be back next week πŸ˜‰

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Like My FB Page

Posted on By sweet surrender 6 Comments on Like My FB Page

If most of you had noticed, I had changed my blog header. I’m still using the cartoon drawn by Eggyolks after so many years, it’s just too cute! Thanks for the cartoon!

I’m supposed to change the whole template but couldn’t find one that can fulfill my needs. Hence, just a change of the header. Some of you might also have noticed that I had changed my blog title too after using it for so many years until I lost count, about 4-5 years.


In order to gain back some momentum in blogging, I had started an FB page for this blog too. I know… I’m late… Should have done it years ago but that time I didn’t see the need of it and felt that it’s a bit too much for small time blogger like me to have one even though many of my blogging friends all had set up theirs back then. However, it’s high time now to have one for publicity and marketing purpose if I want to jump back into this industry. Really cannot underestimate the power of social media.

Come and Like my FB page (http://www.facebook.com/irenelaw.sweetsurrender) hehehe… Need the support, the more the merrier! Who knows if there is enough people, I might conduct some giveaways or contests from time to time. This will only be possible if I have enough supporters to convince the sponsors.

For those who had already liked my page, thank you very much! This little gesture is big enough for me. Thanks again!

Do follow me on Twitter too if you will ;p http://twitter.com/irenelaw

I wanted to go on Instagram too but my phone does not have one. Too bad… Maybe should change my phone, it’s been years too hahaha but again… Not now, I’m practically jobless now, where got such money to spend when I had just replaced my laptop 2 months back!

Happy Malaysia Day! Hope you guys are enjoying the long weekend. Time to go back to work and school tomorrow.

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My New Laptop is Here!

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My new laptop is here! Ok... Windows 8, it will take me a bit... on TwitpicFinally got my new laptop to replace the dead XPS.

I never want an Acer but I now ended with one after avoiding it for more than 10 years! Well… Well… Well… First choice was ASUS but it’s way over my budget. Only Acer has the specifications I want in my budget. Used to own laptops cost at least RM4K and above. Now, I’m downgrading to below RM2K.

This new one comes with Windows 8, oh dear… I feel very dumb now. Don’t know how to use *LOL* Will need to take a bit of time getting used to it.

That’s all for now. Normal updates should resume once I’m fully on the new laptop.

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