I am writing this post in my facial mask at 0835hours. Why? Good question.

Ever since my acne outbreak in December (YES, acne outbreak. Not pimples. The word 'pimple' is too minimal to describe my skin now), I've been going on a routine. Having a rather strict diet to obey, do masks twice in a week - specifically Weds & Sats, trying hard to obey the strict diet, drink plenty of water...

Don't wave your hand and dismiss the fact my diet isn't strict. It IS strict. I show tell you now.

Food I shouldn't/can't eat:

• Milk - I <3 milk T_T I miss my cereals with cold full cream milk! Eating cereals w/o milk is like kolok mee w/o char siew. Dreadful. So I don't bother to eat my cereals anymore
• Dairy products i.e., cheese
• Sour food
• Sweet drinks
• Milo
• Chocolates
• Nuts
• Junk food
• Dark soya sauce
• Tofu - T___T I <3 tofu too, I miss you the goodness of soya bean curd
• Soya bean drinks - it's okay, I really hate soya bean drinks anyway
• Cold drinks - T______T

I don't think I left out anything. Now moving on to the food I'm supposed to eat/I should/I must eat:

• Lots & lots of papaya - I hated papaya. After many consumptions, I still don't like it. Bite me
• Plenty of vegetables & fruits

And that's actually it! Although now I've made drinking hot green tea every morning a new added routine. Because they're high in antioxidants, they eliminate free radicals. To be honest I don't know what the hell are antioxidants. Nor do I know a thing about free radicals. Just googled them. Today, I'm smarter by a bit. Read this & this. I bet you are as clueless as I was.

Right now, I'm munching on mini tomatoes plucked fresh from my aunt's garden.

They're adorable, they're no bigger than a ping pong ball and they taste bad. Only eating it for the sake of antioxidants.

So back to me in my facial mask. Today is Thursday. It is compulsory to do masks every Wed & Sat for me. Do you see the point here?

I can't believe I forgot about it yesterday! After cooking dinner last night, I was so hot and sweaty I just wanna bathe and jump onto my bed with my netbook. Serves me right. After many weeks of on and off depression about my appearance, I see a slight improvement in my skin. It's still blotchy red all over but the important thing is I NOTICED IMPROVEMENT wtf.

Maybe there are an army of Crystal haters out there drinking Martini and cheering over this. Have a time of your life while you can cause now I'm more optimistic than ever about the healing of my skin and the revivement  of my social life. You have no idea how many invitations I've turned down this 2 months. Anyway, it's just disgusting how some people seek joy in others' miseries. Shame on whoever you are. Even animals don't do that. They just eat each other lar right wtf.

I did slightly mention about my skin problems maybe a month ago but I thought I should just clear the air. Now you know.

Regarding one of my tweets today...

(Oh how I love my pikachu background)

I wasn't saying that just to amuse people. I really did something exciting! At least it was exciting for me. And exciting until it lasted.

Yes! Henna! Rummaged through the cabinet in my mum's bathroom and "borrowed" some of her henna. She won't be pleased. My parents are strongly against tattoos. Which is fine with me. :) Because tattooing is against my religious beliefs. (Thanks Ee Xin for enlighting me on this! And no you cannot rebel and have a tattoo wtf.)

But dad takes insane up to a whole new level when he lectured me for trying body painting 2 years ago at a local fair. Wait, lemme show you.

Body painting that is completely washable and I got lectured for it. :( Which is peculiar cause dad is a pretty open minded person.

I'm not gonna say this is an awesome piece of art because it's not. My hands aren't terribly shaky but I guess it's not good enough to draw good henna. As you can see I sketched using a pen first. :D I admit, this isn't my original idea. I got my inpiritation from this photo.

Thank you Google Image. What would I be without you?

What's worse is that I wasn't patient enough to wait for the henna to dry I brushed the wet dye against a mug in the kitchen. *plants an F on the forehead* (In this case you might wanna use two hands to make an F WTF.)

The worst part was I smudged the drawing 3 times HAHA. I might as well henna the word 'Failure' on my forehead.

I didn't mean to blog irregularly, I was just waiting for something to happen in my mundane life. Well...I was gonna do another DIY post about this pair of vintage lace pumps in milky white with pink sequins, something mum owned years ago but she never wore it.

Apologies for the bad quality photo

This baby was in a pretty bad condition with fungus all over it and broke soles. But I believe in silver lining WTF I was optimistic that I could save this pair of pumps. So before mum managed to throw it out I hid it - in the shoe rack. The next day it was gone. Mum must have found it and disposed it for good. Damn it, it wasn't such a good hiding place, was it now?

Oh gee mum I expect at least a feedback on my sarcastic joke. Couldn't you give me a 'haha' or an 'lol' even if you didn't mean it? Obviously my mum doesn't know the rules of texting. But she did pass on the text message language.

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if she understands what's an 'lol'.

And yes! My phone has threaded SMS feature it's just that I never bothered to add photos of my contacts.

Photos by Elena Kalis. She is truly inspiring.

Mad Hatter: Do you care for tea?
Alice: Why, yes. I'm very fond of tea.
March Hare: If you don't care for tea, you could at least make polite conversation!

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Queen of Hearts: Now, where do you come from?
Alice: Well, I'm trying to find my way home...
Queen of Hearts: Your way? All ways here are my ways!
Alice: Yes, I know, but I was just thinking...
Queen of Hearts: Curtsy while you're thinking. It saves time.
Alice: [curtsying] Yes, Your Majesty, but I just wanted to ask you...
Queen of Hearts: I'll ask the questions! Do you play croquet?
Alice: Why, yes, Your Majesty.
Queen of Hearts: Then let the game begin!

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Cheshire Cat: Oh, by the way, if you'd really like to know, he went that way.
Alice: Who did?
Cheshire Cat: The White Rabbit.
Alice: He did?
Cheshire Cat: He did what?
Alice: Went that way.
Cheshire Cat: Who did?
Alice: The White Rabbit.
Cheshire Cat: What rabbit?
Alice: But didn't you just say - I mean - Oh, dear.
Cheshire Cat: Can you stand on your head?
Alice: Oh!

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Alice: Oh, but that's nonsense. Flowers can't talk.
The Rose: But of course we can talk, my dear.
Orchid: If there's anyone around worth talking to.
Daisy: Or about.
[giggles]

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Queen of Hearts: Who's been painting my roses red? WHO'S BEEN PAINTING MY ROSES RED? /Who dares to taint / With vulgar paint / The royal flower bed? / For painting my roses red / Someone will lose his head.
Card Painter: Oh please, your majesty, please! It's all his fault!
Card Painter: Not me, your grace! The ace, the ace!
Queen of Hearts: You?
Card Painter: No, two!
Queen of Hearts: The two, you say?
Card Painter: Not me! The three!
Queen of Hearts: That's enough! Off with their heads!

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Queen of Hearts: Off with their heads.

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Queen of Hearts: Now then, are you ready for your sentence?
Alice: But there has to be a verdict first.
Queen of Hearts: Sentence first! Verdict afterwards.
Alice: But that just isn't the way.
Queen of Hearts: [shouting] All ways are...!
Alice: ...your ways, your Majesty.

Source of scripts from here. Who's excited for the premier of Alice In Wonderland in March? :D

This is gonna be a brief update about my weekends.

Saturday morning & afternoon:

Cleaned my room, got rid of useless things I'd never come around to dispose them over the years, read old hand writen letters (am I the only person who remembers that snail mails used to exist?!) and played mellow songs in the room.

Saturday night:

Finally learnt and understood wtf is aperture, and the wonders you can do when you learn to manipulate the manual mode settings on your camera. I attempted to do the typical heart shape.

First try;

Second try :)

Fooling around;

Pretending that I was a heroine with powers WTF;

Lastly, my attempt to make a star wtf.

Sunday evening:

I tried a new kind of snacks. Something so new it was probably created in this era only. I can't believe no one told me about this. This wonderful creation.

So adorable! Dried vege chips!

They even included shiitake mushrooms. But the more you eat them you'll start to get sick of them, real fast.

Okay I have a dinner to prepare. And it involves real, fresh veges.