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FUNctional stuff in Mall of Asia!

It was an impromptu Tuesday date for me & Jon... I was actually kind of rushing since we had to go to Toby's and then eat dinner... On our way to Toby's, I suddenly came across this newly-opened stall with a catchy name: FUNctional

I hurriedly pulled Jon and told him that I won't take long, just around 5 minutes, because I was curious about this store.

But when I stepped inside, all sense of time disappeared.

The place was full of thingamajigs in pink, purple, orange, blue & black!!! It was heaven for me, who likes little things that tend to clutter my desk. The center table contains various items at cheap prices.

The walls were lined with notebooks, pens, pencils, erasers and other school/office supplies in cute, bright colors!

The other wall is full of knick-knacks to brighten up the dullest of tabletops. And they're cheap, too!

So.... what was supposed to be a 5-minute window shopping became a 20-minute shopping trip -- I ended up buying a notebook (which I don't really need) and 2 sets of markers for me & Jon's sister.

The stuff here are not just kikay, they're practical and useful too!

Everything is indeed, FUNctional!

Hair Before, Hair After

I had 2 haircuts in 2 weeks. For the first time in my life.

The first one was done in a salon with a name that I prefer not to name (pun intended). However, the style was uber simple -- something I could have gotten with a haircut that is 6 times cheaper than theirs. So with the help of my straightening iron (which I turned into a curling iron), it came out like this:



...which wasn't really so bad, except that I'm the type who can't stand the same hairdo for more than a year. With the supposedly "new" hairdo just a wee bit different from my old one, I decided to have another haircut plus a cellophane treatment in a nearby salon (the one who charges 6 times lower than those upscale ones)...

I just told them I wanted the korean/anime look with lots of layers but with the same length of my hair. After a little over an hour (with the cellophane treatement too), viola!






I look like I just stepped out of an anime cartoon.
...So, can you see the difference? (The similarity in the angles is actually just a coincidence -- I didn't mean to give an exact before-and-after picture.)

So there, it only goes to show that one does not need an upscale salon just to look good...

Of course, after I took a bath, I couldn't get to keep my hair this manageable anymore. This can only be achieved if I have another re-bond (which I don't intend to do) or use a straightening iron (which I don't have time for each morning). So in the end, my hair had body, with parts sticking out from it.

Hey, who says you can have everything? =D