Sunday, January 31, 2010

SPG

I just twittered that I hate dining at SPG-infested places and someone replied me on twitter, Why, aren't you one yourself?

Oh, so CLEVER! *rolls eyes*

I despise SPGs. And no, I don't think I'm one.

I'm not talking about SPGs in the olden sense (circa 90s), because SPG used to just mean Singaporean (or Asian) girls who just date white guys. Well you can read more here.

I don't find anything wrong with girls who prefer to fuck white guys. Everyone has a preference to what they find attractive. Only if it's a purely superficial thing. Like some people like lean guys, some people like chubby guys. Some like guys with small eyes, or with big biceps. Well people CAN have a preference for race too. That's fine.

No. It's the 'new age' SPGs that I really hate.

These SPGs won't even wear sarongs anymore, you know why? COZ THEY ARE NO LONGER EVEN LOCAL! I won't elaborate on which nationality - anyone with eyes can see.

Whenever Mike and I are at such places, such as pubs in Changi Village, I feel really uncomfortable because I know that on the surface, I look exactly like one of them.

But I sure as hell am NOT! I'm not gold-digging. I'm not fucking slutty. I don't solely date white men, and I never used to be Mike's maid, that's for sure.

How do I know these girls are? Well. I'd wager a hundred bucks most of them are.

SO AS SUCH, I'm hereby writing a Guide to qualifying someone as a SPG. Please tick when relevant.


1) Does not work/earn money by herself. Working as a waitress in a White people bar to get a chance to nab an angmoh does not count. Opening a bar using the guy's money after marrying him also does not count.

2) Comes from a poor third world country/poor family.

3) Solely dates white guys.

4) Has a history of fucking at least 3 white guys before.

5) Age gap of her and white boyfriend is at least 10 years.

6) White boyfriend is older than 40.

7) White boyfriend is ugly.

8) White boyfriend is rich.

9) Used to be his maid.

10) Snatched white boyfriend from his previous family with his ex white wife, most probably with kids.

11) Got to know white boyfriend in a white people pub.

12) Is fugly herself, none of the guys of her race and age would fuck her.

13) Dumb and lazy, but loud and opinionated.

14) Irrationally fond of tiger prints.




If you hit at least 10 of the criteria, congratulations, you are an SPG!!!

(Yeah yeah I know you think I'm number 13. Whatever. I don't care. *waves mensa cert*)


Why do these SPGs and their dumbshit white men irk me so much? It's not like I think I'm better than them.

NO WAIT. I do think I am better. Afterall I'm not using my vagina to get out of a poor chicken-feeding life and sucking some old ugly white dude's cock for his money.

Yeah. So I'm better, and yet I'm constantly labeled as one of them. And I absolutely HATE it when I hear that these white guys are fucking their maids!!!!!!!!!!

MAIDS!!!!! MAD HATE!

I mean wtf man! You come to Singapore to work doing an honest living or to seduce men?? And it's difficult for single men to get maids (I think), so worse, most of these men are MARRIED!!

AND THEY LEAVE THEIR WIVES FOR THESE SLUTS!!

Good lord it just makes me so pissed off.

I know I'm being very contradicting here because I despise these girls and I hate it that on the surface I look like one of them, and yet here I am judging how they are like by how they look like on the surface.

BUT WHATEVER LAH!

You see some slutty 20 year old Asian chick with a 50 year old angmoh, WHAT WILL YOU THINK? You think it's true love? Sorry but I believe she is a homewrecker! And sorry you look like your shitty stereotypes!

What the FUCK are these dumbshits doing in Singapore anyway??

The angmoh is not Singaporean, the slut is also not Singaporean, can't they bring their fornication to their fucking respective countries and stop tainting our land!! It is crowded enough as it is! URGH!

And why, the single SG girls and guys are not good enough for them is it?? MUST FIND WEIRD NATIONALITIES TO FUCK IN SINGAPORE?

Gross shit.

Can't stand it.

Don't give me that "you are racist" bullshit. I'm not anti any race, I'm anti home-wreckers. I'm also anti Cheena sluts (that's my race btw, Chinese) who fuck married SG men, but they are not SPGs and I'm not compared to them so I'd leave them for another entry. Actually, I've wrote about them loads before!! LOL

Mike always says he doesn't understand why I'm so riled up when I'm put in a social situation with these people. I told him,

"How would you feel if you were dating a 50 year old rich lady, but you are rich yourself, and you are not with her for her money (never used her money, dated her since she was poor) but for true love... And yet, this lady constantly brings you to social events where all her taitai friends are dating useless toyboys your age, and you look like one of them, and everyone says you are a just a toyboy too??"


Well, rant over. Gonna watch telly with my age/looks compatible fiance now.


p/s: Feel free to leave comments regarding stories of how you heard these SPGs (esp of the domestic helper variety) broke up people's families. I love getting all riled up.

p/p/s: Not sure if I wrote something like this before but recently my memory is damn bad. I feel like I'm complained about this before. Not the guide though, the guide is awesome!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Moms and Daughters Bond Over Hair


Photo from Essence.com

Moms and daughters often have a special bond. It is usually an unspoken thing that is cultivated and nurtured through times spent together talking, shopping, cooking, etc. One of the most universal activities moms and daughters engage in is the ritual of doing hair.

I can vividly remember back to my first house as a child, where my mom would sit me down on the floor between her legs before work to do my hair. She would wet it with water from a spray bottle and apply some kind of grease, brushing it up into ponytails that she would plait or twist. In every picture I have from my childhood, I notice my cutely coordinated outfits and tiny shoes. But most of all, I can't help but to notice how fresh and neat my hair always looked. My mom would spend a great deal of time and patience parting and braiding, adding barettes and bows to make my hair look cared for and loved.

The Washington Post beautifully captures the intimacy of the mom and daughter hair ritual in their piece by Lonnae O'Neal Parker entitled Balm: By styling her daughters' hair each morning, she was attending to something deeper than a beauty ritual. The piece is one mother's reflection on the experience of sharing time with her daughter during their daily grooming practice. She even reflects back on her experience as a child, getting her hair done by her mother before work.

One passage really struck a chord and brought to mind what it used to be like for my mom and me as we struggled through my massive bunch of kinky coily locks in the mornings before school and work.

My mother, a Chicago schoolteacher for 33 years, combed my hair and my sister's hair for 35 minutes every morning in her slip so as not to get hair grease on her work clothes. She reminds me of how much those mornings used to hurt. "You'd want to turn around and look at me with all this woe on your face so that maybe I would stop," Momma remembers. "But, you know, I couldn't stop, because you had to have your hair combed." And she had to get to work. And every two weeks, when she washed my hair, "it would be all over your head, like you had an afro the size of a small umbrella and that had to be pulled back down in something I could reasonably deal with."

The piece is accompanied by some lovely images that sweetly capture the essence of this bonding experience.

The article is touching and I am sure most of you will find some part of yourself in it. Read it and come back to let me know your memories of getting your hair done by mom (or whoever raised you).

Jill 's Pretty Fro

Check out Jill at the SRC Records Pre Grammy Celebration. She's glowing and the simple fro beautifully frames her face.

Images from life.com

Friday, January 29, 2010

FOTD: Vibrant Grape & Yellow

As promised, here's a post! lol I haven't done one of these in such a long time I completely forgot to take a picture of my eyes closed! I didn't like it at first because it reminded me of the Lakers! But it actually came out really nice! The pic is from one of my last days with my honey - he's deploying to Iraq & he left for training a week ago. =[ Normally I would cut him out but it's a good picture of me & I miss him LOL! I used Bright Future and Vibrant Grape from the MAC Style Warriors collection last June. It looks like I barely touched them so I thought I'd bust them out.




random eye pic

FACE
+ MAC Studio Fix Powder in NC42
+ MAC Sculpt & Shape Duo in Lightsweep/Shadester [highlight/contour]
+ MAC Blush in Flirt & Tease
+ MAC MSF in Petticoat
+ MAC Hello Kitty Mystery Powder in Dark Secret

EYES
+ MAC Soft Ochre Paint Pot [base]
+ MAC Bright Future E/S [all over lid]
+ MAC Vibrant Grape E/S [outer v/crease]
+ MAC Trax E/S [crease]
+ MAC Nylon E/S [inner 1/3 of lid]
+ MAC Brow Shader in Soft Charcoal/Maple [brows/highlight]
+ MAC Blacktrack Fluidline
+ MAC Macroviolet Fluidline [lower lash line]
+ MAC Graphblack Technakohl Liner [waterline]
+ MAC Plushlash Mascara in Plushblack

LIPS
+ Vaseline [for chapped lips!]
+ MAC Creme Cerise Lipstick
+ MAC Clear Lipglass

I'll do my collection/swatches post soon. Should I just post my collection in one long post or spread it out? lol I'm just too lazy to pull everything out and take pics but I really want to just for my reference too so I can remind myself how much I really don't need any more make up! (Even though the addiction will never stop!)

Speaking of addiction, the MAC Spring Colour Forecast comes out this week! I think I might be able to resist this one but judging by everyones swatches I know I want to get Victorian L/S for sure! Maybe the Blush Ombres too just because they look so cool! I think it would've been cooler if they had the different "forecasts" have colored packaging! Like pink, purple, coral, amber. That would've been so cute! But owell MAC good thing you didn't so I don't have to be suckered it!

And also speaking of cute packaging...Check out this promo pic I found from lushiousbeauty.nl!



It's supposedly a MAC collection coming out this Summer called "Back to the Beach." Wish I knew the details it looks so cooool! Not a big fan of the orange packaging (IDK why they keep using it!) but the little seahorse is so cute! I wish I could understand her website because it looks like she has so much good information on there!

And one last thing, I'm jealous nobodys asking me questions on formspring so ask me anything! lol

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Diagonal Dutch braid

YEAH!! A new hair style ;) This is is really easy.

1) Do a diagonal part, from one side of the head to the other, ending just behind the ear on the opposite side, like this;
2) Do a dutch braid on the front section of hair. I did a chunky dutch braid by taking bigger sections of hair, you can do whatever you want, it just depends on the look ya want and also how much time ya have, also you can braid all the way to the end of the hair if you want I didn't. So this is what it should look like so far;3) Then pull half of the remaining hair into a pony tail make sure to include the braid. You can leave it, or you can curl it like we did add a bow and your done. Front shot.
Don't forget to check out my Etsy Shop!!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Hello World


Welcome to Devon's Adventure Blog! I come to you from backstage where I am currently awaiting act ones' end. Romeo and Juliet is the play, the Chan Centre for Performing Arts, the stage. And I, the lowly hair stylist, sit in the dark maintaining actors as they come on and off stage.

Attending Blanche Macdonald was the choice that led me here and will lead me to many more adventures, hence our wee little blog, the eye that keeps track and the mouth that keeps the you privy.
I have been lucky enough to be granted the position of key hairstylist is this production, which means choosing and handling assistants, working with amazing actors and meeting the production designers hair expectations.
We are currently 3 days away from the productions end. Expect to hear from me again in a week.

bows are back in town






weirder things have happened in the hair accessory fashion time line, but i can't think of any right now. love this new life of the party, hey looky here x-large size the best. won't be having bad hair days this spring/summer '10. spring break or bust!!!