time to dress up

this year it seems that everyone's annual dinner has some sort of theme which require them to dress up (in order to win Best Dressed haha). the theme could be retro, futuristic, swashbuckling Pirates, or figures the Roman Empire era. for my company, it was Movie Night. i think sil's annual dinner over at EY was following along the same theme too.

so. gah. what should i dress up as? it's not easy picking your outfit for the night. pffft. i've never even gone out of my way to rent an outfit just to blend in. anyway, here's a record on where you can actually rent a costume if the situation calls for it. a colleague sent us some links a few days before our annual dinner, but i didn't even look at the links (oops... =P maybe i'll add them here later just in case). i tried googling costume rentals online, but i got very few results. only three stores stood out from all the rest, mainly because i'm familiar with the area. i'd rather not get lost in the process of looking for a shop i've never been to, and besides, the dinner was held at the very same night i was looking, so... =P.

there was a store in Subang Jaya i heard, but when i tried calling the store from the number i got online, it was disconnected. furthermore i read in forums that they no longer rented but only supplied to-buy costumes, so didn't want to waste my time looking for the store despite being the nearest in case that was true (since i got these information from forums dated 2 years ago).

the second store was situated in KLCC. i heard this was quite famous? from what my sil told me. the store was called Costume Empire. from their website they seemed pretty established too. it was just too far out of my way to drive all the way down to rempuh jam just to rent a costume which i had to return a couple of days later @_@. i never go down to KL anymore ever since i stopped working in the heart of the bustling city. heck i didn't even know the Angkasaraya building was no more T__T.

the store details:

Costumes Empire (001771732-D),
Lot 2.36 & 2.37, 1st Floor Wisma Central,
Jalan Ampang,
50450 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 03 2164 3698 (Linda - for rental assistance)
Tel: 010 3612565 (Amy - children's costumes)
Tel: 019 3000711 (Rose - for custom-made assistance)

Opening Hours:
Mon-Fri: 1130-1930
Sat: 1130-1730

the other store was Costume World, situated in Pelangi Damansara. so ok i was sorta familiar with the area. i called them up and they said it was possible to rent a costume at such short notice so i decided to try my luck at this store. the store was situated right above 7 Eleven among the shoplots opposite Houz Depot (er, more or less. i recall this blue pedestrian bridge connecting the shoplots to the opposite side of the road).

when i got to the store, there were a bunch of people inside the store also looking for costumes T_T. i think i felt invisible for almost half an hour being in the store since there was nobody to attend to me. i seriously didn't know what costume to pick and if it were up to me i wouldn't even be there in the first place. i tried browsing through the racks for inspiration and still came back empty-handed. but i must say, their choices are pretty great, but this is my first time being in a store like this, after all. the costumes were arranged by category, and they even came in a range of sizes too.

i even tried asking for help from the store owner (whom i think she was) but she just dismissed me and asked me to go through their available catalogs categorized by theme, which i already did. i think i would've made my choice and leave the store faster if customers didn't keep hogging the catalogs because apparently i overlooked the one labelled 'movie characters and cartoon'. grrr. well, at least try and get someone to assist and suggest to a noob like me, would you?

at least the other store owner was nice. i was already in a bad mood by the time i got to the counter with the costume of my choice but at least he tried to make polite conversation. he even entertained a couple who arrived after store opening hours and got his staff to help them choose an outfit. me? grrr. does nobody like me?

i finally narrowed my choices after i got my hands on the correct catalog. i might have enjoyed myself if i had a friend along like how the other customers in the store did. and despite feeling like an idiot for the first half of my stay, i'd still like to go back there in case of future functions in need of a costume. it's not always you get to dress up to be someone else, eh?

lol.

oh i almost forgot the store details:

Costume World
B-3A-17 Pusat Perdagangan Pelangi Square
Persiaran Surian PJU 6
Pelangi Damansara
47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Tel: 03 7729 733

Opening Hours:
Mon-Fri: 1100-1900
Sat: 1100-1600

my company dinner was held yesterday at the Crowne Plaza, KL. seemed that there were an abundant number of pirates at the dinner, mainly because it was the easiest thing to dress up as. i think there were enough pirates to form Jack Sparrow's crew even, haha. some people dressed up in characters that were abit hard to distinguish (someone mistook Poison Ivy as Tinkerbell haha), others just came as themselves. one of my colleagues even came as Russell from Up, complete with the backpack and helium-filled balloons trailing behind him, lol. he kept giving away his balloons yet always seemed to have a bunch still left about him.

well that's to name a few. ugh i look soooo anorexic T_T. anyway, a few random photos below:

itinerary of the night

take 20

these two won Best Dressed for dressing up as the opposite sex hahaha

with the Blues Brothers. eiii i had my eyes closed >.<

meet Mr. Marilyn Monroe. haha

bamboletta fever

one of the things that frustrates me is, they tend to look prettier irl photos than in their upload photos. lol. not that i would ever score on bigcartel though. the moon would be pink if i ever were to score one at retail. lol.

anyway, here are some of the dolls that i love with their irl pics for comparison. i conclude that my first criteria would be the hair, followed by the eyes, and freckles is an added plus =P.

i am glad i scored a 15" DFH instead of a 12". the size is rubbing off me, great huggable size =D (and sometimes when people refuse international shipping, that turns out to be a blessing in disguise).

here's Bluebell, old-style Bamboletta. she was a giveaway doll, which means she doesn't have a birth certificate. wish she came with her original shoes though T_T.


this one is Natalie. she has freckles!!! and i seem to love this kind of hair. i think if i only saw her upload photo and not her irl photo, i think i wouldn't even dream of buying her, haha. her original clothes were not helping either =P.


meet Pamela, the one that got away, sigh. i was so close, but the i wasn't in front of the PC at the time. i had just raised enough funds for her without me knowing it, so i guess she wasn't meant for me... for now. another freckled lady! see the hair resemblance with the pic above, lol. at least this one came in a much nicer outfit than Natalie, lol. doesn't help that her birthdate is the same day (26th August) as Dinara.


this one here is miss simpleton. i actually like her sweater. i read that it's a Nonna sweater? i think. i see alot of Nonna sweaters being bought like hotcakes in the doll community. maybe i can get Aida of Aidafiqs to sew one for Kami, hehe. if only the States was just a row boat away =P.


ok just posting them here because i've been saving each pretty dolly pic i come across then i forget who and where i got it from. lol.

speaking of temperature, Dayana's temperature is like a rollercoaster, up and down. she only just fell asleep (funny how the meds didn't konk her out). she's much more agreeable in taking meds, preferring to sit up rather than her lying in my lap. we saw the Dr. this morning (yay i'm ING covered now!) and she refused to even open her mouth for the Dr. to look at. siap jeling lagi. eksi betul. lol. hope she gets well soon. not sure where she got it from.

marimekko fever

i just had to put this up. hahahahahha. taken off FinnStyle's FB page.

connected again

so i got my phone back after a week of being iPhone-less. it wasn't so bad really. it gave me a kind of break from being sucked into the digital world all day.

no Whatsapp, no 24/7 access to emails, no Smurfs, no snapping photos impromptu, no twitter, no blogging!!! ok for some people sure die one. my phone was actually ready for collection a day earlier than the day i went to go pick it up, but somehow their sms notification never reached me, and i didn't get their call. hmph. so lucky i went down to the centre to ask. picked up gongcha while i was at it.

btw, i totally respect people who have to contend to bitchy customers in their line of work and still put up a smiley face the whole time.

make sure you have a proper phone to fall back onto just in case your primary phone goes wonky. in my case, my trusty Sony E's charger sudah kong so i had no choice but to use the husband's HTC diamond. god i hate that phone. it heats up during calls and when it's plugged into its charger, and the battery life is really short even though you've already had it charged overnight. the menu lags too, it takes ages for it to start up (i keep imagining in case of emergencies, you might die first before the phone fully loads itself to call for help hahah). it doesn't have the most responsive touch screen so whether i like it or not i have to navigate the phone using a stylus because sometimes jabbing your finger at the screen ends up fruitless.

in the car i'm able to multitask with the iPhone but i fail at handling a stylus-operated phone with a screen so tiny you practically have to focus. for the life of me, i can't even remember why Significant Other ever bought that phone in the first place (i think it was about time he changed phones but the iPhone wasn't out yet. also fil comes to mind, hmmm...). so until today, i really dislike htc, no matter what you tell me.

well anyway, my last backup data was dated sometime in august, so i lost 3 months' worth of data, mainly sms and chat conversations. oh and i lost my progress in the Smurfs too, sigh. so now i'm back to square one. pfft. i did manage to manually retrieve my photos before i sent the phone to Maxis so i'm glad i still have that. although i wish i could put them back onto the Camera Roll, but i don't think that's possible. oh well. about time i delete unwanted photos and archive them anyway. and i got to reorganize my applications, trimming the ones i don't use.

ahhh... iPhone, it's good to have you back.

i watched a Malay movie at the cinema with sil on Tuesday, Ombak Rindu. who would've thunk?? =P. Significant Other doesn't layan Malay movies at the cinema, we both would rather watch on DVD instead. one fine evening sil WA'd me and said 'jom tengok wayang' so i'm like oookay. my WA friends were so into the movie (and Aaron Aziz - maybe i should name my kid Aaron too hahahah) i just had to get curious. the movie is based on a book, in case anyone doesn't know. i didn't either. after watching the movie my friend decided to go hunt for the book, so that's how i know =P.

we wanted to watch at MBO but unfortunately they didn't show the movie there, so we ended up at Pyramid. i was fasting that day so i made a pit stop at Wendy's (baked potato with chilli & cheese!) before heading over to sushi king with sil. thanks to tham tham, i am officially in love with their raw salmon dish.

we got in late to the movie since sil went to fix her phone first. i was so amazed that the cinema was full down to the front row @_@ so i guess we were lucky we managed to get good seats, i bought them over the counter because TGV's ticketing system is nuts. gah i had to go watch Breaking Dawn at GSC the other day because their system was wonky. probably since they're upgrading the cinemas so their movies are limited, perhaps?

i was such a noob about the movie that i accidentally asked for 'Ombak Cinta' instead, hahahah. i think the ticketing lady over the counter laughed at me. ooops.

my verdict? ok la, for a Malay movie. nobody died. haha. excuse me for not knowing who the actors were, save for 'abang aaron' lol. lisa surihani reminds me of my friend Amie, i dunno why. can i have hair like her? cantikkkkk. the movie was heart moving indeed, but still nyampah jugak for reasons only known to me hahahahhaha. maybe i simply dislike love movies because they tend to make you move. i dunno lah. malay movies sudah maju, kan?

i want to watch this. this reminds me of Love Actually and Valentine's Day.



i just realized today it's been 4 years being married. thank God i'm still sane. may my sanity does not turn into insanity. just kidding. here's to you, dear. happy anniversary. i can bet you he's too busy studying to even remember what day it is.

boss's big day

was going through tagged photos of me in FB when i came across this photo. just occured to me that i never blogged about this event. one of my most favorite people in the workforce, he always manage to make his staff smile and feel appreciated (not like some people who doesn't even notice the minions... ahem).

well, anyway, he held a reception in KL and invited me and Nadia to come... so it was also a kind of mini reunion of people whom i used to work with... that seemed aeons ago...

will file this entry accordingly once i figure out when this event was held... i think it was early this year or last year? forgot lah. it's 3am and i'm off to make myself maggi. if anyone have tips on how to put on weight the lazy way, please do tell me.

taaa~

damian mcginty!

ok so if i'm ever having a boy, i'm gonna name him Damian. LOL. new craze yup yup no thanks to me downloading The Glee Project. irishmen are so cute, despite me not understanding what they're trying to say most of the time.

i had to rotfl at his rendition of 'i wish i was Jessie's Girl'. hahaha.

Kurt and Finn are old news (well that's probably because the storylines have shifted... you never know). still head over heels with Blaine though, he's too nice to exist in real life, lol. i wish i had nice long legs like Santana's.

last night i had dinner with sil at sushi king, pyramid (i am officially addicted to raw salmon) when her phone keypad officially konked out again - the letter 'E' was not responding and she needed that letter to unlock her phone =P~~~. didn't help that 'blackberry' had an E in it too. she said it happened before - the letter 'T' wasn't functioning. cost her a whopping rm50 to fix though T___T. suggested to her to get the Samsung SII.

i casually told her eventually the next letters to follow suit were: 'Q', 'W', 'R' and 'Y' - to spell QWERTY. hahahahhahahahha.

smuggling, me-style

1. find an empty luggage bag.

2. when no one is looking, quickly put one leg into the luggage bag.


3. continue with getting your whole self into the luggage bag.


4. ensure you have plenty of tush room.


5. make sure you're not caught red-handed on camera like this little one has.


6. if you're lonely, bring along a companion. in this case, her sister was the only logical choice @_@


7. while you're at it, order refreshments for the journey. hth! =P~~~