Quick update #9

What's up everybody!
I'm writing a quick update about what's happening so far.
Oh by the way, HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
It doesn't matter if you don't have a partner to celebrate with, because it is about celebrating with your LOVE ones! :D

So anyway, I'm 1 week away (2 days actually *gasp*) from my End Semester Tests, 2 weeks away from exams.
It's the same thing lah, the things to study is as much as exam. *rolls eyes*

I will be very busy & I foresee my vacations to be very pack. This month I have my tests & exams. Next month I have several events to attend & I want to look for a holiday job to earn some income babeh!
& if you're following me on Twitter & Instagram, I will be joining the upcoming MEGA FLEA MARKET as a vendor!! I will be selling manicure services at cheap rates!

How cool is that?? Here is the poster for the event:

So if you the time do come down to support me!! I am sharing the booth with my classmate & she's selling 1st & 2nd hand clothes. So you can buy clothes & get your nails done! (Sorry the target audience is females so for guys... maybe you can accompany your girlfriend? :D)

NOT ONLY THAT!!!!!

I will be holding a GIVEAWAY! Woooooots!
Details will be up in my nail art Instagram account soon! Most probably on March 1st. So follow my Instagram nail art account @themanicuredmissy or click FOLLOW
So I look forward to seeing you!

Mega Flea Market 10.... not so mega

Hey, hey, hey, HEY! (Sing it like 'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke) How are you doing?
I just ended my very 1st flea! :D I was so nervous & excited at the same time.
But more of nervous than excited.
Sure, I've done nails for people before, but they were ALL my friends. So it will be my 1st time doing nails for strangers.
I have to prepare a lot pre-event, like printing out my rates sheet & name cards.
Home-made name cards!

Is it nice?

I figure since I'm not a professional, I shouldn't spend money on making name cards, so I printed out my own!
I actually had fun doing stuff like this. Maybe because it is something that I love doing.
I get to design my own nail logo, design how my name car will be like, and more.

So.

SET-UP: 7 March 2014

I went there the night before to put my luggage and other related items. I want to thank my Jie for lending me the luggage! :D
Jillian was there before me. Actually, I reached way too early so Cong & I went to eat while waiting for Jill.
I was surprised to see Jovial & Jack there too, thought I'd meet Jill only.
Okay then we started to set up.
...Actually, we didn't set up at all. Just place the table cloth and that's all.
Jill bought another table because the table provided is really small. Heng we got 2 tables; enough for the 3 of us.
The 'Mega' Flea Market isn't very 'mega'. Barely filled up half of the 2 halls combined. The back of the halls were empty! I was disappointed.
But they gave us an additional chair (saying we purchased the additional item) which we totally did not, and I got that going for me, which is nice.

The stall is over there: left of the photo

 Then Jovial told me something I didn't notice: There was a booth that sells Express Gel manicure. Even got a big 'Special Offer!!!' somemore.
They set up a banner with the words pasted big on it, while I didn't do shit.
You know why? Because I imagined the organiser to provide us the name like a tent.

Something like this

If not why would they ask our company in the first place...
Oh well, competition is inevitable, just that I didn't expect there would be another similar booth.
They were offering gel mani while I'm offering normal mani.
Thanks Cong for coming with me. :)

DAY 2: 8 March 2014

It's the day!!!!! Shit so nervous.
Jack came for awhile with Jovial & Jill. He went to walk around the flea, sorta 'spy' for me (check the pricing of the competitor lah haha).
The stall that sells Gel Mani is selling for $25! Not sure whether it is cheap or expensive for gel mani.
He also spotted another booth offering manicure services at $30! Wah all sell so expensive.
Or is it that my prices are waaay too cheap? I don't know how to price when it comes to this kind of stuff (maybe because I am no pro that's why I don't dare to charge so high).
Anyway, I was really worried there will not be any customers..
Guess who was my 1st customer? Jovial. Hahaha, I'm glad she like her nails! :)

My booth! 1 table taken up by me, the other taken up by Jill and Jo.

Girls getting busy. (Goodness they have a massive pile of clothes!!)

Just how many clothes have they bought in their entire life... 

Blue nails for Jovial! She said blue is her favourite colour :)

Close up

Sales were really bad (I'm not joking neither am I exaggerating...), but my father told me to do it for the experience and skills learnt like customer service. Which is true!
I get to sharpen my skills too. 

Aishah came to visit me! :D Together with her cousin.
Omgosh you know how happy overjoyed I was when I saw her?!
I hugged her so tightly I thought our boobs were going to merge (just kidding).
I helped her cousin do her nails first, 3 colours ombre nails.

Truth be told... it was my 1st time doing gradient nails. :x
Because I didn't have the necessary tools for that pattern, so I never even did it on myself before.
I know how to do ombre nails, just that I didn't experiment it before. So that was my very 1st time!
I was shaking inside. What if I did bad? I told myself I must have confidence is what I love doing.
As I was focusing on my work, a passerby (a lady) told her friend 'eh her gradient nails do until quite nice ah.'
THAT. Was the nicest thing (is it a compliment?) I've heard all day! :D
Big ass smile in my heart. I am the kind of person who do not know how to react to these kind of remarks/comments, so I'm glad I heard it instead of her telling me in person. :)
I also did ombre nails for Aish, since she requested it. So she's the 2nd person I did ombre nails on.

She was beaming as she told me that she has been growing her nails (because I pleaded her to let her nails grow out). I am so proud of this girl. xP

I served 2 girls thereafter. Both of them did gradient too. Is ombre nails popular among girls? Or is it because it's nice?
These girls are a little hard to handle (because they have so many requests. Like both of them had custom nail designs).
But that's okay, because it is their nails & they're the customers, I have to make sure they're satisfied with the result. It trained my patience too, I realised. Which is good!

I became less impatient, I think I changed on that. I used to be impatient..
Even though they were satisfied with the end product, I, however, am not.. I think I can do better.
Oh well, as long as the customers are happy, I'm happy :)

DAY 2: 9 March 2014

I don't even know why I woke up so early to reach on time to set up because I know the traffic will only start to come in around the afternoon.
I could've slept more.. Darn it.
Again, sales were really bad... >< But that doesn't deter me from doing future fleas! I kinda enjoy it, just that the cost of rental for this flea is a tad too expensive.
No customers = nothing to do = bored.
Actually, I am so bored that this blog post was written during Day 2. 
Yeap, on my notebook.
Don't know whether to laugh or cry (I think I'll laugh). But my friends came down to support me, which was really sweet & thoughtful of them! Put a big smile on my face :)

My favourite Douches

The Pinoy pose

They're modeling on Jill's clothes..

My fair lady (literally, fair)

Jie brought Bao Er and Siyun to visit me! :D

So thankful for everyone who came done to support me! :')
It's your presence that made the flea better ;)

Oh right. This is suppose to be my wrist pillow (for the customers) but it was too high so it became my lucky charm

Amelia came to the flea too! I did her nails, this nail:

This isn't her nails; I forgot to take a picture of her nails

But in shades of blue. However, I made a mistake that sorta ruined the whole manicure!! D:
I was so mad & upset myself, but Amez was forgiving & understanding..
Seriously, it was the 1st time it happened! Why did it happened on someone else.. ><"

I also did another customer's nails, which is this:

This isn't the customer's nails either, I forgot to take picture AGAIN.

Yeah so it was pretty fun. I love doing what I love doing.

Well.

That's all for my very 1st flea!! It was a valuable experience.
There's gon' be an upcoming Mega Flea Market 11, also held at Suntec. Not sure whether I'm participating agan.
Goodbye!

Wave 2/4

27 JULY 2012

Hey guys! *Wipes off dust*
I know, I know, I have been missing-in-action for a very long time, because well, my exams and other busy work that keeps me occupied.
But here I have good news (for me lah)! I just ended my Prelim 1! SO DARN JOYFULL WOOOHH!!


So here, I'm so excited to strike off one of the list! :D

Yess! Just two more to go!
I'd say Prelims 1 was tough, every time we finished one paper, I would discussed with my classmates say, 'eh the paper damn easy sia I think I scored A1.' 
For those more hardworking and more competitive friends in my class right, they usually discuss even the paper had long over.
I discuss my answers with Eve and some other friends ah, but when my answers and their answers are like totally different, I shut my mouth already. I don't wanna know anymore, can't listen no more.
Even though not sure whose answer is correct or not lah. Haha
So since this major exam level: sweats, of course we need to relax and have fun!!
Ms Kok was saying in my class Facebook page that during this weekend go have fun, level up our games (she meant the boys and their Dota) and not study at all. Mr Teo said he would issue us pink forms if he caught us studying. xD
So of course, time to ENJOYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

My girls and I decided to catch a movie first and have our meal at Manhattan Fish Market, 'cause Jas & I were thinking of it since there's student price xD
And if you realised I haven't been going out since July started, (I think). Except for my birthday lah.
So the movie we caught is:

The Three Stooges!

The Three Stooges! 
We wanted to watch Ice Age 4, but the time slots doesn't compromise with Jas' timing, so we settled on this movie!
It's a comedy show, but the comedy I'd say its humour is off-and-on. Like sometimes it's funny, something's its not.
The director set the 'funny' in sound effects and the noise the main actors make. It can be very funny that I actually burst out laughing in the cinema. Oh gosh.
It looks painful watching that, and if you are watching, stay till the end of the movie. ;)
I'm actually quite surprised that this movie made me roar with laughter so I'm gonna rate this 3.5 / 5 brains.

Jas was leaving for her chalet, so we snapped some photos before she leave. xD

Dum!

I made the necklace by myself. xD Heck, anyone can do that too.
So Jas left at Sembawang first 'cause she needs to work before going to her chalet, while the 3 of us headed to Cine 'cause I want to look for Dr. Martens!
On the way to cine, there were chefs performing, treating the pans and pots as drums.

Cannot really see ah. Oops, the extra guy.

So when we reached there right, I suddenly remembered something: THERE'S GONG CHA!!!
Weewt! In addition, IN ADDITION, there's flea at *scape! Omgosh how combo is that for us? :D
But the flea is incomplete, like there's only a few stalls only.
Oh you know the shop, I think BeadsStreet? Can't remember the name, the shop beside Pastamania, the service there sucks.
I was browsing the barbells there and I asked how much is it, the girl was like macam cannot understand what I talking about. I repeat myself, rephrasing the sentence, she still don't understand. Give me the 'huh?' face, then she turned to her colleague, which then understand and told me the price.
I see the girl's face I immediately don't wanna buy the barbell already. No smiles, no 'thank you', bad service.
Even though their price is cheap, their service is unprofessional.
If not for the shop's cheap stuff, I wouldn't even stepped into the shop if I know their service like so bad.
I rather buy my studs in Power 9 where the lady is so friendly and nice. So what if it cost even more, at least I feel happy being their consumer. Psst.

So unhappy things aside, I didn't manage to find the boots I want, and the samples there, wah, see the prices eyes pop out sia.
Its so damn expensive!!!
So I think I'm just gonna buy a cheap one in Bugis or Far East.
Not sad luh, I'm not a person who go for branded stuff, (I have a very best friend whom she likes branded stuff. xP) for me the pattern nice can already doesn't matter last long or not. Cheap, nice can liao hahaha.
Because branded stuff usually last longer, but I doubt I'll be using that product for so long or many times. Besides, the trend in Singapore and in apparels shop are changing every season.
Now you see high-waist shorts, then it changed to tie-dye or cosmic prints.

I can't wait till O level ends!! That's when we really let our hair down and party for months long!!
Got so many things I wanna do! The first thing is to do my nails then hunt for part-time job :B
I hope Cotton On or Icing Room or clothes shop have vacancies for part-timers!
Okay, I think I side track too long. Moving back.

We looked around the flea, and I was looking for my dust plug.
My windmill dust plug fell off when I wan't looking Y.Y I think too bulky that's why easily come out, so I bought a cheap, flat cream rose dust plug! Okay lah it's not very flat but it's small and very stable! It doesn't come out easily! ^-^ It's only $1!
We scanned around to compare prices (this is a must to all shoppers if there are more than one shops selling the things you're looking for. I always compare my products in Watsons and Guardian), most of the stalls sell at $3 or more! Yah lah, their dust plug is way nicer and special, but all very big and pop out one, if lost after days of buying it'll be a waste. Hahahha!
Oh and yes, we bought our Gong Cha! ^-^
This time is 50% sugar level, one time I tried 0% I thought I'm drinking water.
50% is just nice, neither sweet or bland :)

Still we looked around, spotting 'fires', then head in Cine basement to chill.
Apparently we talked a lot of stuff! I like! :D
We talk from discussing tomorrow's plan to lame jokes to Serene's classmate who see Serene as a prick.
We keep off-topic because it went natural. Whenever we have gossip/chilling session with my gang we would jump from one topic to another topic, it's never solely on one subject.
It's amazing and we didn't realised that until Serene drag us back to the main topic.
We're chatting in the food court, there wasn't a lot of customers, so I thought, why not?

This crazy girl

Another crazy girl

Normal girl. HAHAHAHA

We shopped around H&M before leaving, and now I'd say the clothes there quite nice ah! Last time I went it's like all working adults or suit adults kind of clothes. Yesterday I see got some pretty clothes!
However, the price isn't eye-catching at all. :(
We left there and head to Woodlands.
And while waiting for the train, we spot seats. Yeap, seats for us to --

Serene said she doesn't wanna take with Eve

 

Met my blogshop owner and got my things! And so coincident the owner was an ex-student from my school! She's my 95' batch but graduated one year before us, and she called me her junior. :T
How... sad.
Eve got her sushi for dinner, and walked around pasar malam then we headed home :)
I kinda miss late night out with friends, especially with the gang. :(
Never mind, this shall be added to my list! :D

Yesterday I actually got the time to blog on the day, but my phone wasn't cooperating with me, it wouldn't open the folder. :(
Now my phone can't sync with my com liao.. Y.Y
But luckily God let me found a photo editing alternative in Google+, which is a relief ah, 'cause I need it to edit my photos prettily and upload into my blog :)
And my com doesn't wanna upload the photos once I've edited them, so I thought I'll just leave it to this morning and blog. :)
Today is another day out! Wondering what are we gonna do later with the girls. And maybe the guys too.
See ya! Will update soon! <3