Reports on Beauty, Travel and Life

《我报》记者*郑诗慧的游荡空间。 时而亢奋,时而慵懒;时而快乐,时而忧郁。 时而乐观,时而悲观;时而喜欢,时而讨厌。 除了时而自恋之外,也时而热爱美术,又时而喜欢去party,有时而一个人旅行。不和朋友见面时,喜欢和MSN安静共处。喜欢紫色,喜欢拥抱,喜欢蓝天白云,喜欢运动出汗的快感,喜欢的还有很多很多。活着让人陶醉。

Thursday, December 06, 2007

beauty:秋冬走复古Glam路线

*Trend Watch:秋冬走复古Glam路线
  秋冬的彩妆颜色,让你要戒也戒不了。
  今季的流行走向复古Glam风格,复古的部分指颜色回到灰色、紫色和土色系;Glam的部分指注重金粉、闪光和亮度的质感。
  明星化妆师Andy Lee在介绍Clé de Peau新彩妆饰说,流行的颜色有三种:柔和的紫色、表现出高贵华丽的银灰色,和自然界的土色(earth tones)。
  眼妆方面的主导化妆法还是熏眼妆(soft smoky eyes),透露着神秘情调。但Andy表示,并不是人人适合,不适合就不应跟潮流走。
  “现在流行的妆容和服饰走向多样化和个性化,并没有一个主导的化妆方式,女生可以多尝试,找出适合自己的一款风格,然后加以发挥。”
  唇彩方面,分使用无光泽(matt)或鲜亮的唇彩(gloss),着重更加艳丽、但不会显得强烈的色调。
  “例如猪肝红色,它够鲜艳,却不会把彩妆的风头都抢走。”粉红色和深红色仍是受到女性青睐的色泽。
  而整个脸部彩妆而言,他说,并没有一个部分是特别被注重的。
  “这季讲究整体感,并不会突出任何一个部分,如眼妆或唇彩。”
  他最后劝告:“如果化了一个很glam、很metallic的妆容,不妨带一款银色或金色包包出门,营造全体的未来感(futuristic look)。”

个人首选:Clé de Peau Beauté回到过去
  Clé de Peau今次带领我们回首20年代欧陆风光的年代,key look捕捉了高贵和闪耀的妆容特质。
  建议采用灰色Eye Colour Quad 14,拥有三种色调的灰和一款银白色,适合用来营造薰眼look;而且它的质地非常细滑,不会擦了一天下来,在眼盖留下难看的皱褶。
  把双颊的颜色保持在nude的状态,然后以鲜艳的唇色Lip Colour Compact 102来打造性感红唇。这款合红唇彩与透明亮唇膏为一体的唇盒携带方便,色泽则是妩媚带有天真的味道。
  售价:四色眼影盒售$112,唇膏+唇彩盒售$109,可在Takashimaya专柜买到。

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*My Tip:怎么化薰眼妆?
  Andy Lee推荐的画法:用灰黑色勾勒眼线线条,然后擦深灰眼影在眼盖(靠近眼角)的前半部分,再用银色涂在眼盖(靠近眼内)的后半部分。
  同时你也能在画了眼线后,涂混它(smudge it)。
  眉骨方面,记得用银白色来hi-light,做最后打亮双眸的动作。
  
(文章刊登于5/12,星期三《我报》)

Friday, November 09, 2007

I have Shifted to OMY.SG new portal

Hi all,

I have updated some stuff on: http://blog.omy.sg/miss-reporter. I will try to mane both sides, if I can spare the time... and share my life.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Need VS Wants

I need some money, prob $300 a month to survive, but I want more money in a job to have savings and a more secured future.

I need friends to fill up my day, but I want a boyfriend to hug and kiss me when I am feeling tired.

I need a holiday to Taiwan over and over again to recharge my soul and feel "cleansed", but I want to trobe the globe and see many countries and cultures this short life and with limited means.

I need a job that I can handle and excel in,prob use some brains and nuah for the rest of my 30 yrs working life (26+30=56 yrs old), but I want a challenging job that proves my ability, and gives me satisfaction and recognization.

as inspired by Mitch Albom's bestseller "Tuesdays with Morrie".
Quote: "You only learn how to live after you learn how to die."

Sunday, October 07, 2007

仍爱Taipei




天未冷就回来.
"回家",是自然的过程,浑然天成。是幸运,也是保佑。

经过8个月的阔别,我又即将再一次(第5次)踏上台湾的疆土。是葡萄牙、是日本、是美国打造了这片文明的地段。

去之前心情不好,也不好,有一点懒惰。去了之后,神清气爽,只有台北能给我这种感觉,又进一步认识了台北。我对你已经熟悉。

这次回家,我还是爱你的。
从infatuation到这次的相遇,到现在我确定我是喜欢和能接受这座城市的好与坏、善与恶的。
它还是饶有趣味的一座城市。散步在夏末/秋初的街道上、电车中购物和闹市区,虽然空气像极了新加坡,但我还是很开心。是因为我是旅人吗?或许。

又一次一个人探索,享受着呢……do i like travelling alone cuz there is satisfaction and can seek solace, or I just like the place? the answer is BOTH. Taipei, is my last and only paradise.

这几天的奔波,带着自己的脚步旅行着,很是快乐。
想了一些,抛开了临走前的阴霾与忧郁,决定了把握眼前的工作,尽管这只是人生的驿站,甚至只是我30年工作生涯的起点。以后的事,交给主。
临走前,开心看到5位认识的朋友登上《女友》10月号。11月号可有我哦!

Thursday, September 20, 2007

如果世界上有另一个自己


世界上有另一个自己,


被电脑病毒侵害,而变得残废。看实践幌过,却无能为力。

没有电脑写稿、更新blog和MSN的日子,我的mid-20s生活无疑被科技主导了。我借由它发泄我的喜怒哀乐,寻找我的七情六欲,荒废我的些许光阴。


have patience。aim。be less restless。

无助。

^^^^^^^^^^^


i never had such sore legs for a long time...my new Schu heels are quite comfy but it cant take my weight for 9 hours of standing around too well. It almost broke :( my legs I mean.


12 noon: Swissotel Merchant Court's famed Ellenborough Cafe food tasting for thai food promo, it is not bad, chef from Bangkok to start off with. But dun have my fave green curry today, tho' it'd be served when the buffet kicks off tmr. The all-time fave+signature Durian Pengant is a must-try! Dun care if cholestrol rise up.......durians, defines a Singaporean :D


2pm: meet up w Jansen & Shanmin to discuss about possible news coverage for Singapore Jewelfest 2007.



4pm: left clarke quay area to go to Canon Digital Lab building at HarbourFront, went to ... One (deg) 15 Club for 22 new CANON products launch. The area where we went is nicee.... diff from where Singapore Fashion Week Press Conf took us the other time I went.

I still so not think Sentosa Cove is pretty, looks like quite shabby...the houses can be built w a more...white-coloured Miami style I feel, not ur typical house-house...got what I mean?


Back to Canon, I already have my eyes fixed on IXUS 860IS, with hands stability function. Up to 8 megapixels (but i usu.. record on 3 MG Jpeg form), the RRP is S$599, worth for my consideration... cuz my Nikon got Lens Error, I kinda tortured it by putting it in my bag and exerts pressure on it :( *my fault*


Not only my camera CMI, my browser kena VIRUS-ed via MSN downloads. :( went for Symantec report yesterday, I am one of the victims for the rise in Trojans, Spyware and BOT, cuz I think my systems is embedded with all of them now! so the key is: Prevention is better than Cure. and also, invest in ur anti-virus software, dun end up being compromised like me :( can cry, takes 20 mins to open a browser.



7pm: went w Veronica from marketing team to the launch with OMY @ a very special location--Clarke Quay's water fountain, aka Central Atrium. for once tonight, the fountain was put to rest and we stood on it to launch the online sister portal: http://www.omy.sg/. do support us!

看着由我报分支出去的主任掌管的OMY的trade launch,有一个新小孩诞生了。大家穿着bright粉红色出席,很有朝气。令sentimental的我想起去年4月中在red dot building的<我报>诞生会。姐姐还在嗷嗷待哺,妹妹隔年就出生了。做妈妈的会不会很累?周围的亲戚消化得来吗?希望大家带着兴奋和乐观的心情抚育这位妹妹茁壮成长。


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*再说"Sicko" 电影《病态》, documentary-film directed and written by (my idol) Michael Moore.

well, by now, those who likes sociological films would have seen it by now. from Bowling in Columbine to Farenheit 911, he had demonstrated his prowess in telling a slice of the reality on important issues facing US thru interviews and data collecting. *impressive*


anyways, I just want to say: hope Singapore would not end up like US's capitalistic medical systems where patients' life/health are dependent on private insurance companies, and who simply cares more about profitting and declining claims, than to pay out and help. I do support welfare-system in the medical field, like in Canada, UK and France he cited, the socialistic medical systems not only work well, but brought about positive impact on pple's lives. Since Spore is moving towards an aging society, it is high time to review the approach we adpot. Is capitalism the best way or the only way to go and govts simply make her subjects pay pay pay?


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some pix from the past events I have attended...or just my daily pix. My fave past time is to admire myself and daydream........


with Andy Lee, makeup artist @ Cle De Peau cosmetics launch.



welcome to taiwan MRT! me & Jolin in cabin :D



Ikea's Swedish designer Anna Efeverland in town, I love the kids' clothes hangers she designed.







NV YOU shoot. happie to meet XiaoHan the lyricist :D and Lee Zhuan, Nv You writer, just like me..we write for a living :)


155cm VS 176 cm Andrea Fonseka@ latest addition to Marie France Bodyline ambassador,she is nice. 我是自取其辱。



n a last note, I fulfilled my childhood dream of being a covergirl. i.e. to appear on glossy papers. i still remember as a photogenic (and am still is) and innocent young girl, I send in my photos/neo-prints to the then-GO! Magazine, and yes, it was published twice..in the last page among like many other phots/neo-prints!


Do buy a copy of Nov's <女友> to see my shoot and short interview. I am oh-so-excited.



I also Facebook-ed it, within a week, got 57 friends, cuz they sent invites thru Gmail, which is a powerful platform, but quite a lame website. It may have more gimmicks, but Friendster is just more... sustainable. and perhaps, there are more work contact than old frens on FaceBook since I use Gmail to send mails a lot. US is quite off this site, and yet Asia is starting to pick up. must be some marketing forces driving it?

Sunday, September 09, 2007

《881》VS “Sicko”

over the weekend, watched two flicks--"881"written and directed by Royston Tan; and "Sicko" written and directed by my sociologist/anthropologist/political scientist-idol Michael Moore. It is easy to distinguish that Sicko is a far better winner in terms of content and depth. Cinematography-wise, "881" wins hands down against the documentary-style film.

881可以再进步
虽然我访问过Royston,也很想好好地鼓励本地制片人,但“不打不成材”,还是想说出我的观后感。觉得故事结结构可以再好一点,因为看到最后,我根本不晓得故事的意义在哪里?要传达的message仅是欢歌笑语吗?那不如买7月歌台VCD回家看?*扁嘴*

这部连续登上三周《联合晚报》和《新明日报》头条的片子,是Royston的第三部片子。之前的4.30我没有看过,所以只依稀记得他15的“阿明”风格和赤裸又震撼性的青少年问题内容。

影片的开头叫我失望。为什么学历不错的大木瓜(王雁雁饰演)这么想唱歌台?喜欢唱歌的年轻人不是都会上Superstar选秀比赛或歌唱训练班,梦想成为下一个孙燕姿吗?:/

故事的剧情起因交待得单薄,重点放在陈金浪《歌台天王》的逝世,和木瓜姐妹与May & Choy榴莲姐妹的歌舞决斗。

看这部片,身边的同事说,剧情和《Borat》抱公鸡的情节雷同。而利用歌舞片交待剧情,印象中,这是蔡明亮的强项,至今脑海里还烙印《天边一朵云》的缤纷歌舞,牵引着我丰富的想象力。

画面精彩,服装更是让人目不暇给。欣赏代唱的明珠姐妹的歌声、王欣和雁雁的丰富肢体表情,和歌舞实景的建构。

但,荧幕毕上的那一刻,对于我并没有太大的感动的沉淀,也说不出故事的underlying message是什么。真实的新加坡问题在哪里?故事演说者并没有点破。它只想说一个可怜人的故事。可怜人的故事何止在舞台上发生?

强化电影概念,可以让国产片走得更远。记得,不要像梁导的那部“发财”题材电影。我耐心花了2小时看完,才发现陈莉萍只是做了一场梦,以带出嗜赌的恶习。不要啊~~小学老师教过,作文写梦境,直接0分。

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太累了,明天再宣导Sicko棒在哪里……

Thursday, August 30, 2007

这几天过的不一样 simply happie @ home





my new hair



这几天,天气阴阴的,不必出席应酬、不必打中文稿、不必接公关的电话追踪,不必出门,拿假在家里念书,感觉只有“爽”能形容。


再次当回学生,放慢生活步伐。早晨睡醒看《我报》后念书、下午吃简单的午餐,7pm看电视吃打包的晚餐,晚上2am入睡,颇有规律。隔天睡到不“醒”人事,在没有工作压力下的生活写意,能睡个饱。


想想上个星期四的今天,我还是忙碌的。1130am要到IKEA Tampines,我必须10am就打扮好出门;430pm赴Sony Ericsson T650i在Dempsey Road的推介会邀约;6pm抵达Clarke Quay的Fashion Bar;8pm到PS见朋友、再冒雨到Prinsep Street试菜。回家后,过意不去工作量不多,写了一段稿(我已经好一段时间没有work from home了)。一天下来,我跑遍了新加坡的东(Tampines)、北(office)、南(市区)、西(我家)。非常不可思议,精力充沛!


算算,我从星期一就hibernate到今天,昨前天连下楼买饭也没有。足不出户,却很开心。难得改变生活方式,回到大学备考的日子。好好,也很珍惜不用上班、没有责任的日子。


从报章上也知道Kit Chan和Diana Ser分别加入Hill & Knowlton及IMSG从事公关行业。素来有和这两家公司接触,搞不好有一天她们会向我pitch故事,hohoho。。。其实很意外Kit会做上班族,而不是去教音乐或做幕后。歌手的储蓄不能用一辈子,非企业家的你我只是凡人,只能当打工仔。就算曾是歌手,也会不安全感,怕和社会脱节,希望做“正常人”。


昨晚就看了Pat Mok、Penny戴佩妮、Jolin和Rainie女星的blog,翻一翻,我们的喜好about the same。艺人除了提供娱乐、得到的待遇可能好一些、赚钱比较快以外,也没有什么别的。


话毕,回到我的“不一样作息”咯:)