Etsu Collagen LA 120's

Celebrate the year of Tiger with a beauty flare of your looks!

Etsu Collagen + LA has combined a marine source of collagen together with alpha-lipoic acid (a strong anti-oxidant), to help make wrinkles and pigmentation of your face less visible and firms up your skin elasticity.

As our age increases, our skin elasticity loses due to the constant loss of collagen fibres. As such, fine lines and wrinkles are more rampant at the face area, due to the fact that facial skin is quite thin in retro comparison to other parts.

Furthermore, due to our current busy and stress lifestyle, together with the common exposure to different pollutants and chemicals, the elasticity of our skin decreases more. As such, you start to experience more skin related problems like, sensitivity, allergy, eczema, pigmentation (due to increase UV damage), wrinkles and ultimately a loss of a natural glow.

Personally I have started taking Etsu Collagen a couple of months ago. The good thing about Etsu collagen is that, it has added alpha-lipoic acid (as mentioned earlier) which is a strong anti-oxidant. In layman terms, anti-oxidants are good in binding to the free radicals in our body. And free radicals are one of the culprits in reducing our immunology, increasing our risk to certain diseases like atherosclerosis, allergies etc.

So if you were to ask me, I rather prefer taking a collagen product, along side with other health benefits. And besides, I do suffer from pigmentation problems so having a dose of alpha-lipoic acid with my collagen will serve me even better :)

Of course, it'll be a little over stated if I say all my freckles have disappeared, because medically, you can't cure freckles forever (unless you go for those photo-laser therapy or something). Hence, besides my daily basic cleansing of my face and moisturizing, I will put on a minimum SPF 30 sunscreen for UVA and UVB protection.

Now, I can feel a vast difference to my face. Its not so dry as before, and certainly it's firmer and smoother. No amount of topical moisturizer can have the effect like Etsu Collagen + LA.

If you need to find out more about this product, simple go here.

And if you are interested in trying this product, at current Etsu is having a Chinese New Year promotion. For a standard bottle of Etsu Collagen + LA 120's retailed price at RM 149, customers are entitled for a RM 8 rebate on the spot, along side with the standard discount a retail shop will give.

And if you ARE interested in buying this product, you can email me.

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Don't let beauty sit on the side line for too long!

Why I like it longer

*JD's Long winded entry*

So that I do not need to climb so high to reach for the new LG Chocolate BL40 handphone!

So that I can throw my mini bolster away and start hugging the new LG Chocolate BL40 phone with a 4-inch WVGA 345 x 800 pixels touchscreen !

So that my legs can reach out of the car seat and use my toes to touch the new LG Chocolate BL40 HD LCD Glass touchscreen without worrying of scratching it!

So that I can extend one hand to scratch my head, and the other hand to play with the new LG Chocolate BL40 phone simultaneously with LG's new DUAL UI which can allow two viewing screens without me to switch between windows!

So that I can drool at all the cinematic viewing pleasure from web pages browsing, games playing, emails replying and blogging with LG Chocolate BL40 21:9 HD panoramic display effect

So that I can dig my nose and get caught on LG Chocolate BL40 5-mega pixel camera!

So that I can slim down and not look like a pot of plants, but, like LG Chocolate BL40 new phone slim and sleek!

Now. You tell me why I should not like it longer?

The new LG Chocolate phone (BL40) has all the answers to your needs and wants! It is retailed at RM 2,199 but hooray, there is a chance of winning this phone for FREE!

How?

Okay, all you need to do, is write up a uber creative blog entry about LG Chocolate 'Why I Like It Longer' and send the link to whyilikeitlonger@nuffnang.com latest by 14th February 2010. Simple, isn't it?

But wait, only the top THREE (3) most creative entries will win! So jazzles up your entry, don't be like me okay, I relied on my Mummy to do up this entry for me *JD Shy*.

Now wait. Are you a nuffnang member yet?

Go join, quick!

Mummy, is this edible? Chocolate mar.... *slurps*

JD, is there any cockroaches?

JD with his over zealous abundance of energy stored in his body as baby fats, has a problem when it comes to heat. He sweats a lot.

Many times his shirts are drenched in sweat and his body so sticky, that I joke we can throw him onto a glass of wall and there is a high chance that JD can adhere onto it, unless gravitational pull outweighs his weight.

Anyway, so many nights, even though JD has had his evening shower, but before his bedtime, I would normally give him a quick rinse (because he would be so smelly with sweat after all the running around the house). Seeing that most of the time we spend our time at my parents' place, and the biggest toilet in the entire house has got to be the master bedroom's toilet. So now, that toilet is officially used by JD.

It has a long bath, so makes showering JD easier. And JD can have more fun splashing all the water (on me). It's big too. So makes changing JD so much faster too, and the floor is clean and dry so makes it safer for JD to walk around in the toilet.

The only problem with this toilet is, sometimes there are other inhabitants - cockroaches!

My worst enemies / fear, cockroaches!!!! Not just ONE tiny little nymph, but sometimes, the ENTIRE family of them. Ewww.

So there was one incident, where I was holding JD's hands and upon the lights turned on, I screamed as there are 2 huge cockroaches and 1 medium ugly nymph by the basin. I'm not sure if my scream / the sight of cockroaches scared JD, coz he stood firmly at the entrance to the toilet, staring at those cockroaches.

Then I asked JD, "There are cockroaches in there, JD, Mommy's scared. Can we shower in another bathroom?"

And JD nodded.

After that, JD said, "Mama... pa-pa (scared in mandarin)" to which I replied, yes!

Subsequently, every time (especially night time) where we need to enter the master bedroom's toilet, I will ask JD, "JD, can you help mommy check to see if there are cockroaches?"

Then I will on the lights, and JD will pop his head into the toilet, searching for any sight of cockroaches, and then he'll retort, "boh! (No in hokkien)"

And then he'll scream suddenly, "Mama !!!! Kaaa (cockroach / insect in JD's language)" with a point of finger to something on the floor.

I'll jump out of the toilet in fear, to only realise, it was just a speck of dirt on the toilet floor.

Hmmm. I wonder if JD really thought that dirt was a cockroach? Or was he pulling my leg?

Unexpected display of affection

The thing about JD is, he can be such a devil at one moment and then switch to an angel in the next second. I find the transition somewhat intriguing.

Like, what EXACTLY is going in his head as he decides to alternate between two persona? Sadly I doubt I can know the answer, and child experts can give me all the possible scenarios, but which exact  mindset will JD have at that moment, nobody knows.

Couple of minutes ago I just smacked JD's hands as he repeatedly yanked my mobile charger from the electric socket. A danger zone that I have constantly told and reminded and reprimanded to not go near (and as you can see, constantly he refuses to listen).

He gave me the sad purple eyes look and a loud cry, forcing out a tiny weeny drop of tear with all his might. And I gave him the -_- look. Literally. Normally I do not encourage his display of acting especially when I am trying to discipline him. And normally I do take a deep long breathe and reason things with him.

But today, after an entire exhaustive day of work and manual housework, I really wasn't in the right mindset to begin with. Certainly, I wasn't in a happy mind frame to start off the evening as a result from all the rushing too. So I smacked his hands. Nothing new to him. And I walked off to keep some of his messy toys.

Know what he did later on?

Just as I was sitting next our drawers, sorting out the clothes and stuff, he opened the top drawer (note, deliberately) and whacked my head. Goodness!

Is it a mere coincidence?

Or Revenge?!

*deep sigh!!!*

If I am not mistaken, I had a tough time trying to debate with myself if I should let the issue slide, or be a dictative mother and begin a whole round of scolding and smacking. In the end, I let the issue slide, because just as I yelped in pain, JD walked up to me and said, "Mamaaaa" in the utmost manja way, and then gave me a big sloppy kiss.

*deeep deeeeepppp sighhhh!!*

Rewarded him with a treat to our downstairs Astro, with Bee Movie showing, and my dear boy was so fascinated that he demanded his very own little couch to be brought out to the living room. I sat on the regular couch next to him, and together mother and son enjoyed Bee Movie quietly for 10mins.

Can't really remember what happened (sorry, mind's a murky land nowadays) but we somehow switched seats: me in JD's little couch and JD on the regular couch. Just as I was engrossed in the movie itself, I felt a hug from behind.

I really do not know what brought JD to hug me from behind. He clasped his little hands around my neck, with his little head snuggled into the nook of my neck, and started humming some music. Was so reluctant to take my camera and record it, as I was too afraid that any sudden movement will break the magic. Yet now I cursed myself for NOT recording it, because I can't replay it back to see how he looks like when he hugged me, and how blissful I look like too.

So all I can do now is, replay the whole feeling of being hugged by my own son, without him being instructed to do so, and all so randomly that I earnestly think the whack from the drawer is so insignificant.

*deep deeeeeeeep deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppp sighh*

I think my son has learned the ropes around in knowing how to melt his mommy's heart!

Something Trivial

A snippet of conversation between a friend and me.

Friend: "Don't you not have a digital camera?"
Me: "I do. Canon Ixus 500"
Friend: "Then why do you want another camera?"
Me: "Because there are newer models in the market, capable of taking better pictures!"
Friend: "But I thought your hubby has a DSLR already!"
Me: "Yes, it's great. But size wise it's too bulky to go on travelling escapedes together!"
Friend: "Then just get another point-and-shoot camera lah! Compact enough!"
Me: "No! Once you have tasted the goods of DSLR, compact point-and-shoot cameras feels like a bimbo!"
Friend: "BIMBO????"
Me: "Yeah. Nice to look. Great to hold. But inwardly has no substance at all!"
Friend   -_-||