Thursday, July 17, 2008

Jerawat vs sales person

Saya memang punya masalah dengan jerawat. Mereka telah bersama wajah saya sejak saya mengerti arti kata 'ngeceng'. Sampai sekarang jerawat masih jadi masalah walaupun tidak separah dulu. Orang-orang disekitar saya ada yang bilang ini masalah hormonal. Nanti setelah menikah pun jerawatnya hilang sendiri. Nah, sekarang saya sudah menikah, tapi jerawat tetap setia dengan saya. Lalu mereka bilang lagi nanti akan hilang kalau sudah hamil dan punya anak. Yah, kalau yang ini belum bisa saya minta pertanggungjawabannya, lha wong saya belum hamil apalagi punya anak. Semoga saja. Masih ada harapan.

Sementara itu, waktu berjalan, sang jerawat pun tak kunjung berkurang. Berbagai cara sudah saya coba untuk mengobati muka.

Berbagai produk perawatan kecantikan kulit
Pasti! Mulai dari yang dijual bebas di supermarket, sampai yang dipasarkan secara MLM. Saya pernah mencoba banyak jenis perawatan kulit dari berbagai merek. Tidak ada yang bisa tuntas menyelesaikan masalah jerawat. Syukur-syukur kalau bisa membuat jerawat berkurang, seringnya sih malah jadi tambah banyak dan kulit muka jadi merah-merah.

Ke dokter kulit
Tentu saja cara ini pernah saya coba. Bahkan tidak hanya satu dokter, tapi beberapa dokter silih berganti. Tidak ada yang mempan. Kalaupun ada yang berhasil membuat muka saya mulus, tapi ada efek samping bersama pengobatan tersebut; saya harus ketergantungan dengan obat-obatan baik obat makan ataupun obat luar dari dokter tersebut. Harus dokter tersebut, tidak bisa dokter lain. Bete, kan?! Kalau saya harus pindah ke luar kota atau ke luar negeri, kan gak mungkin membawa serta si dokter pindahan. Lagipula, mending kalau harga obat-obatan itu murah. Rata-rata mahal, dan ketergantungan pada sesuatu yang mahal itu amat sangat menyayat kantong dan dompet.

Biasanya produk yang berhasil membuat muka saya kinclong adalah produk-produk yang bekerja dengan cara mengelupaskan kulit muka. Pertama-tama, kulit muka akan terasa kering dan perih. Kemudian mulai merah-merah, disertai dengan kulit yang mulai mengelupas disana-sini. Sakitnya bukan main. Senyum saja menderita. Tapi setelah siksaan itu terlalui, kulit muka memang benar-benar kinclong. Bersiiiih dan muluuuss deh. Tapi, begitu pemakaian produk tersebut kita tinggalkan, please welcome back your acne breakout!

I've had enough with this kind of product.

Sekarang saya lebih memilih produk-produk yang dijual bebas di supermarket. Satu atau dua ada juga yang cocok. Lumayan menekan laju pertumbuhan jerawat sekaligus merawat kulit muka saya supaya tidak kusam-kusam amat.

Paling sebal kalau sedang jalan-jalan melihat-lihat produk perawatan kulit, lalu tiba-tiba didatangi sales person. Kayaknya mereka tuh senang banget kalau lihat saya yang mukanya gak mulus; langsung saja saya jadi target prospek mereka. Awalnya saya masih suka mendengarkan mereka memasarkan produknya, dan kemudian saya tolak dengan halus. Lama-lama saya muak. Sekarang saya tidak membiarkan diri saya digiring ke counter mereka untuk diceramahi tentang perawatan kulit bagi muka saya yang berjerawat. No, thank you. Saya punya jurus-jurus pribadi untuk mengatasi sales person yang ingin memrospek saya.

Setting 1: Saya lagi liat-liat produk perawatan wajah

"Hi, may I help you?"
"No, thank you."

Setting 2: Saya juga lagi liat-liat produk perawatan wajah
"Hi, I see your face have acne problem. I can suggest you a good product for your face. Please, come with me."
"No, thank you. I have my doctor taking care of my skin problem."

Setting 3 : Saya sudah memegang satu produk perawatan wajah, tapi masih lihat-lihat yang lain sebelum membayar.
"Hi, that product is not good for your skin because your skin got pimples. Why don't you try this?" (sambil nunjukin produk dia)
"No, thank you. It's not for me, i'm buying this for my friend." This is my favorite answer.
"Oh, OK. But for your face, this product...-"
"No, thank you."

Kalau ada sales person yang keukeuh sureukeuh, saya juga tidak akan kalah keukeuh sureukeuh untuk bilang "No, thank you." Kalau perlu disertai mata yang semakin melotot dan alis yang makin naik. Dan ini berlaku tidak hanya untuk sales person produk kecantikan, tapi semua sales person untuk produk apapun. Kecuali kalau saya memang tertarik dengan produknya.

To all sales person out there, i'm sorry if i'm being rude. Tapi saya juga punya hak untuk menolak sesuatu yang membuat saya tidak nyaman. Setuju?

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Vivo View #2

vivoview 2

Location: Vivo City, Singapore
Canon EOS 400D, EF S55-250 f/4-5.6IS Lens, 1/30sec, F/7.1, ISO-1600.

See also Vivo View

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Lost with lost


Monday night is sleep late night.

Two of our favorite TV shows are on every Monday night.
Prison Break (season 3) and Lost (season 4).

About Lost.
I'm lost every time I watch it. So lost that I'm starting to believe that the scriptwriters are playing us with the series. I have this idea that maybe, they just write whatever they feel like to, without a certain plot, or even without any relevancy to the previous story. But nevertheless, I would not want to miss any episode of it. It's like I'm addicted to be lost with Lost.

So, every Monday night, we sleep late... and lost.

From Alexandra Arch through Henderson Waves




Henderson Waves is COOL!








Here's detail of the trip.
Alexandra Arch, distance 0.08 km, walking time 5 min
Forest Walk, distance 1.3 km, walking time 20 min
Hilltop Walk, distance 1.0 km, walking time 15 min
Henderson Waves, distance 0.3 km, walking time 8 min
Faber Walk, distance 1.0 km, walking time 15 min

Total: distance 3.68 km, walking time (supposed to be) 63 min. But since we walked very slow, were sightseeing this and that, taking picture here and there, our walking time became almost 2 hours :P

Enjoy the pictures here.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Me want burger

For the last one week i had this acute craving for junk food, especially fried chicken and burger. Every time, i mean really every time i saw KFC or BK commercial on TV as well as on printed media, i went like, "ooohh... i want that... i reeeaalllyy want that...(drooling)".

So, finally, yesterday, i told Ridha: "Honey, i haven't cook anything for dinner yet. And i will not cook. We're going to KFC tonight!"

That night, since we have decided to have KFC as our dinner, two options were on our minds. Harbourfront center or IMM building. We choose IMM building because i wanted to go to Daiso and shopping for our groceries at Giant. I know VivoCity also has Daiso and Giant, but the crowd on weekend time is just too tiring. Plus, we could just hop on the IMM shuttle bus service right in front of our block. Free of charge. On the way, we discussed about what to eat. Ridha would have two pieces chicken set meal and i would have the colonel burger set meal (that way i could get both fried chicken and the burger in one go).

When we got to IMM building,
Ridha (R): "Where's KFC?"
Me (M): "I remember it's over there, in front of Subway near Secret Recipe."

... we were there...

R: "It's not here".
M: "Let's look for the floor plan and see where it's located".
R: "And where's the floor plan?"
M: "That... i don't know". :P

... by this time we already back to the main lobby....
... and then we went half lap of the first floor. We've found McDonald and Burger King. But no sign of KFC....and the floor plan...

R: "Ooh.. i know where it is. It's on the other side. Follow me".

... by this time, i wanted to argue. I was soooo sure that he meant the exact same location as the first one. The one in front of Subway, near Secret Recipe. But, i just followed him. No point arguing since he would insist to check on 'his location' of KFC...

R: "Errr... it's not here also..."
M: "Honey, we were here the first time. You see, that's Subway, and that's Secret Recipe...but we were coming from the opposite direction".
R: "Huh?"
M: "OK, i think we've made mistake. There's no KFC here. Let's just have BK. It's almost 9 and i'm hungry."

There goes my fried chicken and colonel burger.

We had BK Chicken Burger and BK Whooper instead.

And we've learned our lesson: There's no KFC in IMM building!
...or, is there? Did we miss it?

And now... i want to eat pizza!

Saturday, June 28, 2008

1930s wife?



Thank God I'm not a 1930s wife.

Here's the scale.
0-24 - Very Poor (Failure)
25-41 - Poor
42-58 - Average
59-75 - Superior
76+ - Very Superior

Well, scoring 55 as average is good enough for me. I don't know whether that means good or bad. I didn't check most of the traits as they don't apply to me.

Go on, take the test, and see how are you doing if you were a 1930s wife, or even husband.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Green Leaf

Photobucket


Location: The Istana, Singapore.

Canon EOS 400D, EF S17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM Lens. 1/100sec, F/3.8, ISO-100.