Colie's corner

She loves:

- Following people and being 八卦
- To be around people
- Talking to people
- Being scratched under her chin
- Rice (YUM)
- Shoes (sniffing them)
- Licking herself clean
- Looking outside the window
- Smelling flowers
- Rolling on the carpet
- To play with her twinkling ball
- All kinds of strings
- To act cute

She hates/ doesn't like:

- The smell of all kind of citrus fruits (her face looks SO FUNNY when she smells it, I should video and put it on youtube)
- The smell of cheese doodles (lol)
- Her collar
- Getting her claws/nails trimmed (but she's dealing with it now, trying to be a good girl!)

Her tricks:

- Stretches out her paw when I say "paw"
- Knows how to give high five
- Knows fetch (OBS! Only when she wants to)

That's pretty much it! I'm going to update it someday when I discover new characteristics of her :P

More fun/cute facts about her:

Ragdolls are actually supposed to be very calm and quiet cats. But "quiet" doesn't really suit Mei well, she loves to talk! Not in an annoying way though. She usually talks when you say something to her or when she wants some attention (gives out a sad cute meow). However, she doesn't disturb you while you're sleeping in your room (thank god!).

Usually when I am awake and gets up to make my bed (I sleep with my door closed btw), I often find Mei sitting quietly outside my door waiting for me to come out (so freaking cute). She yawns, stretches and gives me a good morning meow. She sometimes wait outside the bathroom when I'm inside LOL.

Oh yeah here's the collar that she hates lol she doesn't wear it anymore, it was only for photographing ^^
I know it looks like I'm strangling her in this picture, but I'm not!!

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Here are some things I have bought lately on sale!! :D


A cute La tour Eiffel neclace from Lindex ...

... and Mei loves to play with it

A cute pouch from Zara!
A knitted jacket/cardigan from Zara as well. I have been looking at this top before the sales started, it's so comfy! However, as you can see on the picture, the size is large (it was the last one) but it still fits me. I think it's supposed to fit more tightly, but I actually prefer it loose.



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Merry Christmas



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Her middle name is Dim sum ^^

It's difficult to take pictures of this little missy...


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I AM AN OFFICIAL GRADUATE STUDENT NOW!! WOHOOOO!!

The bed is super comfy! And I also bought some toys to her :)



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EDIT* I am actually MORE excited over my new pet than my graduation ceremony in the City Hall!

I love dogs! Someday, I wish to have a chow chow or a cute samoyed! However I have had an obsession with cute cats lately and youtubed funny cat clips. So actually, it would be perfect if I could get a cat AND a dog :D but that's so not going to happen... well maaaybe if I (get rich and) live in a big house and have lots of spare time!

So if this dream comes true, I wonder if it would be like this:



Aaw the doggie just wanna play :D


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edit: The cat kind of reminds me Garfield hahaaa only that he's black and not orange.

I went to the cinema last night with some friends and saw "The Social Network" a movie about the history of Facebook. The movie was really good, quite fascinating how (The) Facebook was established by some hardcore Harvard students in their room. Wah, I wish I was that smart and successful! I don't know Mark Zuckerberg personally, but the movie portraited him as a quite...eeer... special individual with some socializing issues. So high IQ AND high EQ would be the great combination XD

Anyways, moving forward to another topic, just right before the movie started we discussed about some famous youtubers. We mentioned kevjumba and his father, (I think it was) miss N that pointed out that Kevin seemed to be a little bit annoyed with his dad in a episode of the Amazing Race. I couldn't recall it when miss N said that but I just saw a new video of them, and there seemed to be reversed roles haha! His dad acting like a child fooling around and Kevin the serious dad saying "Focus dad!". Nevertheless, they seem to have a good father-son relationship ^^ oh by the way, they were acutally in SWEDEN! More exactly, Kiruna haha! I have acutally never been in Kiruna myself lol!



I found the bear part hilarious. Normally you would FREAK OUT when you see a bear in the wild! (seriously I would PANICK!). But his dad just casually remarked "Oh that's a bear haha!" like it was a zoo or something.



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I saw this video of Will Smith's little daughter (Willow Smith) a few days ago. The first thought that ran through my mind was "My god why so much make up on a 9 year old little girl??? And what's with the nails!".

During my 3 three years at one of Sweden's top universities, I have encountered many many different business people. They are very different yet similar, and one of the most common trait they share is self-confidence. (yes there are some necessary generalisations here)

Self- confidence is one important trait that many employers seem to seek among their future employees. It is said to be one important factor for success, yet ironically also a common source of failure.


I believe, self-confidence is important but humility is essential. You can never be best at anything because there will always be people out there that do better. However, you can always improve and become better with a humble mind.


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P.s. I am getting my Bachelor dimploma in November 12th!! Wohoooo!

Alright so I promised to show miss J my new coat that I bought from Topshops website. It is much cheaper to buy from their website than their actual shops, especially now when the british pound is so low!

(my face is sooo round and chubby nowadays T_T)

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Yesterday I had the sudden urge to make a yummy cake and I wanted to try a new recipe. So I googled around and found a recipe for Japanese Cotton Cheese Cake.

It took some time to make this cake and my mom complained how troublesome it was (even though I did everything by myself), that I was wasting my time and what if it doesn't turn out good and blablalblalaa...



Luckily, the cake was a success! The cake is SUPER SOFT! Not too sweet and very YUMMY! Both mom and dad loved it hahahaa! (Mom stopped complaining about how troublesome the recipe was :P)



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Yo!!

I was so disappointed with the maybelline colossal mascara, it smudged after like 4 hours! And I even bought the waterproof version. Well, I have heard many good things about this mascara but I think my eyes just don't go well with maybelline mascaras. I have never bought a maybelline mascara that doesn't smudge on me!



So I returned to my favourite mascara brand, Max factor! I randomly bought one at H&M because I had a 20% coupon and saw that there was a new Max Factor collection out that is called Xperience. This collection is very new so there are very few people that have reviewed the products but since I have always liked Max Factor's mascaras, I bought one anyway.

I couldn't find a picture of the mascara brush, but it looks like Max Factor's False Lash Effect only less big. So it's made of rubber-ish material as well. Now, choosing mascara is rather individual it really depends on what kind of effects you're looking for. As for me, the most important criterias are:

* Seperating - because my lashes tend to lump up easily and it looks really wierd

* NON-smudging - I think it's an asian thing, make up tends to smudge easily on me. Maxfactor mascaras don't smudge on me, love!

* Curls my lashes - And again, I have the typical asian lashes that are extremely stubborn and unwilling to have a nice romantic/fluttery curve. (Sigh)

And this mascara meets all my requirements (it kind of curls my lashes, not into the very glammy lashes though... but good enough for my asian lashes XD)


Pictures:

No-makeup (a tired eye)


After applying the mascara (only upper lashes)



* Obs I didn't curl my lashes with a lash curler so it's quite impressive how it manages to curve my stubborn asian lashes!

People that are looking for a mascara that makes their lashes look fuller and more dramatic, you should go for a mascara with regular brush (not rubber).

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Me and Miss N went to town to find her Zara coat but all the small sizes were out of stock =/ we also went to a crystal store to look at the Swarovski charms. As all the Stockholmers might know, there's a new tramcar in the city and we decided to take a ride with it :D

Miss N the tourist doing da asiaaan poooose!!



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I just came back home from a dental hygienist appointment where they cleansed my teeth because I had too much scale. It was really nasty.

Alright I don't think I can compare the pain with pulling out teeth (oh god, I'm dreading for it!), but the thing is... this unpleasant feeling lasted for like 20 min and with the blood taste in your mouth it was really really disgusting.

Most of the time, the pain was bearable but at some time it felt like she was cutting my gum. I think she (the dental hygienist) noticed my discomfort (I guess my facial expression was pretty obvious) and said "it's not painless because the scale is beneath your ginvia... but I'm almost done!"

Well with my sore teeth, my only consolation now is that my teeth are now shining clean!!!


And I will hereby be a good girl and floss my teeth regularly!!




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Creds to Miss S:



(no I don't know what we were doing...)

Tree (pole) huggers
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Alright, below are some "normal" pictures of us:




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I bought two dresses in Forever21 in Canada:


I really like them and they were cheap! *Sigh* I wish Sweden had Forever21, we need more international brands!

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Anyways, I had a 20% off coupon from H&M that expires soon so I used it today and bought two basic tank tops (one striped and one black... because there's a hole on my old black tank top T_T) and a pair of black leggings. The black leggings from H&M are really nice actually, thick and not transparent at all! I didn't bother to take picture of them because they are just ordinary basic clothings. I also bought a cute hair accessory!


Look! Isn't it cute? I have no idea when I'm going to wear it though haha! It's too fancy for everyday wearing.... especially here in Swedish where less is more! (The opposite of Asian fashion, more is actually MORE!)

On my way back home I went to Gina Tricot as well because I've seen a nice red checkered shirt on their website. I have been looking for a nice red checkered shirt for ages! However, the time was already 17.00 and the shops were closing (again, only in Sweden gaah!!) so I didn't even try it on before buying.


Sooo...I tried the shirt at home and I like it. The problem is.... the shirt wasn't on sale so it cost 199kr =_= well not extremely expensive but not cheap either. But on the other hand... this shirt seems to be quite popular because there were barely any left of them in Västermalmsgallerian, and they were out of stock both in Solna and Kista....


Should I return it and wait for a cheaper one?? Or keep?? gaaahhh!!




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Miss S told me about this new Cupcake café at st eriksplan and that they give away free mini cupcakes everyday (if you know their daily code that are given out on their twitter page). So we gathered miss L and miss N to go there and have yummy cupcakes :D :D

Well the place was really small, it was more like a take a way place than café and the guy behind the counter was not very friendly.... so we decided to go to my place and have some Swedish fika ^___^ we had a nice time with lots of giggles and some gossips as usual :P

Picture time!



Nicely wrapped take-away box with yummy cupcakes inside :D

Miss S was in charge of opening the box... with a happy Miss N beside her :D

Ta-da!! Miss L & Miss S chose cup cakes with coffee flavour (the two with white toppings), Miss N bought one with lemon and coconut flavour (yellow) and I chose the pink one with raspberry flavour ♥



We wanted to make it as pretty as possible :P

Close-up on my raspberry cake, it was really yummy but not really worth 27kr (acutally 29, but we got some discount because we bought 4).

Miss L eating cupcake!


The verdict:

Both Miss L and Miss S liked their coffee cupcakes but were not sure if they were really worth the 27 swedish crowns (and I agree with my raspberry cupcake) while Miss N seemed to be less content with her lemon & coconus cupcake lol.

So after some chit chat and nom nom Miss N had to leave for her Chinese class so we followed her to the buss station. On our way we encountered a little furry friend, a cute cat :D after we petted it, the cat walked in front of us and stopped with its bum faced against a house pipe.


Me: Ahahahaa eer what is he doing??? His tail is twitching wierdly??!!

Miss L: There's warm air coming out from the pipe

Me: ... what so is the cat warming his bum???!

The cat was sooo cute, it followed us until a big dog appeared and scared it away =/

I forgot to bring my phone and camera with me, so here's a drawn picture of the cat warming his bum XD



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Miss L and Miss S and I went to the beach yesterday, it was sooo far away! But it was healthy for me I guess (who never works out). It was quite nice actually, it was a fine autumn day.


And here's a ridiculous picture of moi! So what's with the wierd walking-pose, well I was fleeing from Miss S camera but I guess I couldn't escape from Miss L's camera :P

We went to Skärholmen after the beach and I bought a coat at Top shop, but I returned it today. Haha I know, I always return things! It's because I am always afraid that somebody else buys it when there are only two of my size left (it's Sweden we are talking about here! People are crazy alright!) but I want to at the same time think about my purchase thoroughly. Soo I returned it because I realised that it's cheaper to buy it from their website :P and they have got some other nice new models.


Last picture for today:

I feel sorry for this pink cat! But at the same time, it looks so adorable in pink XD




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kekekeee!!!


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p.s. I just noticed that his hands are really pretty! lol!

Ok here's pictures part 2!


I bought this at the DKNY outlet in Seattle. I actually don't need a trench coat (because I already have one from Zara) but I fell in love! I absolutely love the fabric inside, so soft and comfy! And the price was 900kr ish. Which is ridiculously cheap.

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This product is not from Canada but I wanted to show it anyways :) It's my latest purchase! I have always wanted a straightener but have never actually owned one! So I have done lots of lots of research about them because I want a straightener that does as little damage to my hair as possible. I have read about plates that are made of titanium, ceramic, tourmaline etc etc. and of course about the very well known GHD straighteners. However, one thing that is a big NO about the GHD straighteners is absence of temperature control. I don't want to burn my hair with 230 degrees heat! So I googled around about professional straighteners and found the FHI platform straightener that many people seem to recommend.

The features:

- It has a combined ceramic and tourmaline plates (which are the best materials for the plates)
- Temperature control from 60 - 230 celcius.
- Can be used on damp hair
- Floating plates
- Even temperature

I tried to curl my hair on 120 degrees and it became more wavy than curly. Because I have thick asian hair I think the straightener should be on 150 for nice glammy curls :) I haven't tried it out yet but I will post some pictures if I remembers to take pictures XD

So what's my verdict so far? Well, so far so good. I have only used the product once but my first impression is that the straightener doesn't seem to damage my hair that much (well we'll know for sure after one year of usage) because first of all, even though it was on 120 degrees it was not too hot for me to touch the plates with my own fingers.

(OBS!! Okay I didn't do it on purpose first, I just happened to touch them and realised that it wasn't too burning hot. HOWEVER don't do it, you don't want to risk your skin being burnt off :P)



Here's a picture of my sorta wavy hair. I didn't do it all over my hair because I had to go out and didn't have time (had to put make up on etc etc). Oh, and please ignore my nostrils -.-


You can't buy this product in Sweden, but you can order it from UK and price is around 1000kr but you can get it for 800kr at Amazon (be sure to order it from a seller that offers 1 year of guarantee).


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