Do you have these skin problems?

I have super dull skin (or so complains my beautician), darkened skin (since I am always out in the sun) and uneven skin (due to my previous spat of breakouts).

Confirm Trading passed me the Dr. Jart V7 VitaLaser Skin Perfecting Revitalizer 2 months back and I've been religiously using it.



I took so long to blog about this cos I wanted to give this a try before giving a review on this. I think the ad below best highlights what's so special about this whitening treatment. The seven kinds of vitamins present in this cream makes this a very saturated formula-like ointment that delivers vitamins and nutrients deep into the skin.

Product Characteristics

Vitamin ointment – solution for complex skin
Healing problematic skin through whitening, moisturizing & restoring

▶ Evens your skin tone for 7 days and gives whitening effect after 7-weeks of use.
Powerful whitening element AA2G inhibits melanin formation removing flaws including freckles and spots.

▶ Outstanding absorption and penetration into the skin
Unique ointment-like texture soaks into skin fast with 7 types of vitamins encapsulated by the nano-liposome technology.

▶ Returns the skin to the original state
Ease the repair of skin cell for regenerating new skin fast and making restoration layer.

▶ Restores uneven skin
Vitamin H and grapefruit skin extract prevents the recurrence of troubles and anti-oxidant function prevents the loss of skin elasticity while restoring the traces of trouble.

▶ Protect damaged and sensitive skin
Portulaca oleracea and grape fruit extract sooths damaged skin and protect the skin from harmful environment to make your sensitive skin stronger.

When squeezed out of the tube, it looks like this. A little translucent. I feel that it's a little thick and takes quite a fair bit of time to be absorbed into the skin. Having said that, after 2 months of continuous usage, I noticed a brighter complexion . The skin in my cheek area has also even'ed out some. Although I had an overall brighter complexion, I went diving a couple of weeks ago and... DAMN, got dark all over again. So, back to more Dr. Jart+ V7 VitaLaser then!

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Day 1: Depart Singapore to KL, transfer at KL for 3 hours before departing to Tawau via Air Asia and transfer to Semporna (45mins to 1hour taxi ride ~RM100) and stay with Dragon Inn @ Semporna for the night.

Day 2: Pick up at 7am and transfer to Mabul where we begin the PADI Open Water Course (OWC) and stay with Uncle Chang on Mabul Island.

Day 3 & 4: Open Water Dives X 4 (Part of OWC) and stay with Uncle Chang on Mabul Island.

Day 5: 3 dives at Siamil Island and stay with Uncle Chang on Mabul Island.

Day 6: 3 dives at Sipadan Island and stay with Uncle Chang on Mabul Island.

Day 7: 3 dives at Mataking Island. Dropped off at Semporna and then taxi back to Tawau's King Park Hotel for the night.

Day 8: Check out and prepare for flight back to KL-Singapore via Air Asia and Tiger Airways.

I'm at Mabul Island, West Malaysia now taking my PADI Open Water Dive Certification.

Arrived at 8am this morning to Uncle Chang's "resort" and was shuffled off for check in and breakfast. The room assigned to us costed RM90 per person for a twin-sharing room and all meals included.

Today's day one of my lifelong diving adventure. As I walked the little aisles of Uncle Chang's lodge on Mabul Island, I saw a huge turtle swimming by in very shallow waters! Omg! Loved the sight. It looks so free. The waters are clear and full of various marine life like crabs, starfishes and some other fishes that I can't identify.

The first dive was before lunch and we went out to a nearby shallow beach to learn our first dive lesson!

See the great thing about this is, there are no swimming pools (i.e.: no confined water dives!). You're right out there on the first dive! Awesome.

So we learnt in 1.7m deep water for our first practical lesson. We learnt skills like how to set up own our diving equipment, and I had my very first experience breathing under water. So amazing.

The seabed's full of these fancy star fishes! Was so worried I'll step on them and hurt them!

It was challenging to breathe using only my mouth underwater. Thought it would be pretty easy but it seems even when I use my mouth to breathe out, some air escapes from my nose too.

After dive one, I was quite apprehensive as to whether I'll really be mentally and physically ready for an 18M dive at SIPADAN Island in just 3 days!

Will I get used to breathing under water?

So then we had lunch and next up was the practical lesson number two!

This time around we dived in 3M deep waters and learnt more challenging skillsets like what to do if your regulator has no more air, how to do some hand signals, what to do if water gets into your mask, how to take off your entire mask under water, how to inflate yourself if your inflation mechanism in your buoyancy control device (BCD) jacket is not working...and so on. So cool.

I am also given this thick Open Water Diver Manual to study and get tested on by the next day. Back to school! :P

After lesson two, I felt wayyy more confident about diving and am starting to be relaxed.

Tomorrow 4 more dives. Tonight, will finish watching the rest of the 3 video clips before sleeping.

Who knows what day two of my diving adventure will bring. :)

[Blogged on 4th April 2011]

My dear granny saw how I murdered the previous store bought chilli plant and decided to help me out. I just thought that I should post about it, and reflect on it's little progress.

Day #1



Day #2:



A month later....



At 2 months old....



6 months later!!

WTF why no flowers?? No chilli too :( I've been nursing this thing for half a year!! Oh my, how time flies.



P.s.: Please pardon the shots which are of different lighting and quality. All taken over a span of 6 months ma!

I'm going swimming this weekend with the girls so what better reason for me to make a pie than today and then feed it to them!! So apple pie it is.

Well, I cheated this week. It was mad easy to make an apple pie when you cheat. First of all, the pie crust receipe is here. Just the same recipe as the Canned Peach Pie I made the last time. But this time around, I had a new mixing bowl and a new rolling pin - MADE all the difference I tell you. A good rolling pin will make your pie so much better! See here! How neat it looks right!



I also parbaked the bottom crust so that it won't be so soggy when it comes out of the oven.

As for the Apple Pie Filling, cold storage sells this canned apple pie filling and it was on offer so I bought it and used it. So simple and so convenient! The brand is called Wilderness.



I think next time, I shall attempt a savoury pie? :D Who knows!