Gay ???? Sissy ????

I think a lot of guys out there have a misconception of what a manicure and pedicure is. This is what I gather after hearing some of the guys comment on males having their manicure and pedicure done.

If you bother to find the meaning of the word manicure and pedicure in the online dictionary, it actually means this:

From Marriam webster dictionary online,

Manicure: from Latin manus hand + French -icure (as in pédicure pedicure)

2 : a treatment for the care of the hands and fingernails

Pedicure: from Latin ped-, pes foot + curare to take care, from cura care

a: care of the feet, toes, and nails

So normally, if a guy said he did his mani and pedi, you will most probably hear this:

"Eeee... He/ You very gay le !!!" or " He's such a sissy!"

As a matter of fact,

GAY = happy
SISSY = timid or coward

Being happy aka GAY is never an issue with anyone is it? On top of that, how can an attempt to keep your hands and feet clean and hygienic be a sign of timidity and cowardice?!

By the way, calling someone GAY and or SISSY is so rude !!!

If I were someone who likes my gender more than the opposite gender, I would very much be preferred if you call me a homosexual (gay = happy as I may be, it's not your business to begin with). To clear things up a little... I am no homosexual. I still prefer men despite the fact that I love myself to death!! hahahaha

Another note, who in the world is not 'sissy' for your fears ?!! Some people are afraid of heights, some insects, some death and so on. I'm sure everyone has fear or weakness due to their past experiences but they may not be sissies, right ?

So so so.... GUYS!!!! It is perfectly alright to have your manicure and pedicure done. It's like such a sweet thing to do together with your girlfriends, wives and gal buddies.

But I guess an advice will be to not have like colored nail lacquer on you fingers or toes. Colored as in reds, pinks, silver, gold, etc. Like the so-called 'girly' colors. I think colors like beige or brown depending on skin tone is alright if you want to have colored nails or even black for a gothic look!

Normally my guy friends just stick with the basic topcoat or nail strengthener or even just 'buff and shine'. Basically, have the nails look clean and well trimmed. (FYI....they love women and are quite M.C.P. Yes, they started to do manicure and pedicure.... due to my influence and they fact that I dared them and force them the first time round... hahahaha)

I guess I prefer guys who like to take care of how they look and give a good first impression. Imagine this:

2 Guy walks up to you and tries to befriend you and asks you on a date.

Guy A:

Hair: Messy, oily. Looks like just woke up kinda look.
Hands and feet: Long nails with black grim in them and super duper dry and chapped
Clothes: Total mismatch for color and style. Like beige (maybe too old), stained singlet with tattered bermudas, not those kind that were deliberately tattered kind, you know what I mean.
Face: Oily and super shiny, uneven stubble
Body: Flabby aka FAT

Guy B:

Hair: Well cut and carefully styled
Hands and feet: Clean, neat, short nails. Smooth shiny skin
Clothes: Well matched and for the occassion. Like nice cleaned T-shirt or shirt with jeans and stuff like that
Face: Clean and well shaven
Body: NOT flabby or fat

So who will you choose?

Verdict:

For me, I will choose GUY B. Yes yes I'm superficial but who is not?! Well, if you chose GUY A then all I can say is good luck to you and I wish you all the happiness you can possibly get.

Some people say you cannot judge a person by their looks but look at their heart and love them for who they are inside.


For goodness sake....!!!!

How do you even get to know a person or his heart even if he repulses you even before you know him ?!!!

Logical isn't it? If a guy does not even bother to look good for himself and love himself, do you even think he will give a damn about you? Humans are selfish, it's only natural instinct that they love themselves more than anyone else. So how can someone know how to love and care for you when they are not even apt to love and care for themselves?!

Maybe many people may rebuke me or say I'm superficial and materialistic but to be truthful, I do not lie to myself, I love myself to death and that's why I know how to love someone and pamper them, just like how I dote on myself.

So lastly to sum up after such a long long post,

Girls, those who like boys, men. Choose a guy who knows how to love themselves but still love you more than themselves.

Guys, do not complain about not having girlfriends. Make the girls swoon at your feet. Do something about how you look. First impression counts. Another personal piece of suggestion: Be well dressed and DO NOT come up with some cheesy, corny pickup lines, just walk straight ahead to the girl and talk to her.

That's all folks!!!

Threatening to explode

For the whole of the week, my lungs have been threatening to explode whenever I cough.

It sounds terrible huh?! It's more of due to my own making. I have been having this cough for like a week plus and I did not bother to see the doctor. Trying to act tough and hope the cough will be self-limiting till my poor poor throat and lungs gave way yesterday.

I went to my favourite GP and came out with a big handful of medication that were twice stronger compared to those they gave when I use to have cough.

Took my medicine and went to the shop to do some stuff. The medication did its job too freaking well. I had stopped coughing and was perpetually drowsy every second and I feel surprisingly hyper due to my stubbornness of not wanting to rest.

Best part is my hand were shivering so badly that it took me almost a whole day to draw a nail art that looks like stained church window when it does not even call for it. You'll get to see it on one of the panels that we put out for nail art designs.

OMG!!! now my eyes are shouting out desperately for me to rest.

Cheerios

Stupid weather

It is raining again for almost the whole freaking day, feels like it's the millionth time this month. It is so distressing and irritating. Even though I'm in the shop with stuff to do, I feel so blue and sleepy.

Some friends that were supposed to come visit us with their family, to try out our services did not make it even though they really love to because of the HUGE-ASS rain. Argh......

Anyways, a decision has been made and I will get the corporate deals for purchase of our gift certificates done by tomorrow. So much for a blue, dull, rainy Sunday.

Don't even know what to write, the rain is drowning my mood.

A sunny, busy saturday

Today was packed with people back to back. For fish spa and nail services. Half of them are walk-ins and the other half appointments. It was a sunny Saturday. Now you all should believe me when I say most people are like me, they like to laze around at home and snooze on a rainy day.

I have two friends , ok ok, friend's friends who came and had a good session of pampering with fish spa and nail services for both their hands and feet. At the end of the day they enjoyed themselves and I was really happy to see the smile on their faces when they left. It seems that we have left a not too bad impression on them. I hope they come back and visit us soon.

There was also this family with the mom, 3 kids and her nanny. The little girl was screaming and shouting all the way that she did not want to do the fish spa. Her will was so apparent in the first 5 minutes, which seemed like half an hour to her. Funnily, she began to enjoy the fish nibbling her feet after the itch disappeared, in any case, it happens to everyone when you got used to it. To my surprise she even did the hand fish spa. I'm glad she overcame her fears with the help of her mom and nanny and started to enjoy what seemed to be scary.

Lastly, there are two groups of people who came in after they saw the BIGASS banner we hung.

The only thing we had not expected was that one of the ladies whom had a surgery done on her knee caps, had a scab at the spot where the incision was done. She showed us the scab and LO and BEHOLD! parts of the scab had actually disappeared after she did the foot fish spa. It was quite obvious to be truthful, not a very big piece but apparent to your eyes unless of course you are super unobservant, in which case no one can help you. I myself had not experienced anything like that as in a part of scab removed by the fishes, mine was generally just flaking skin. She was saying that we should have taken a 'before and after' photo of it. Maybe the next time, she drops by again, I will and most probably give her a good deal for being my 'advertisement model'.

*ahaks*

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Met up with the distributor and he showed us some samples of the stuff we can retail for the festivities coming up like christmas and all. They are like so so cute and 'giveable'. When I get the stuff, I'll like put up photos in the website gallery so you all can buy. It's not expensive and they come in limited quantities so keep a watch out for these cutsy gifts on our webby.

It is bombastically HUGE!!

Yes, the banner is done and it has been hung up onto the right place we wanted it to be.

It's so big I bet even if you have super long or short-sightedness or even major astigmatism you can see it.

The banner is up. It is so freaking big and it's good. I LIKE IT!!! *evil laughter*
You will definitely notice it when you walk pass, drive pass, go pass it whilst you are in a bus, cab or car. Basically, no matter what, you can see it unless you have chosen not too. Which in any case, WHY DON"T YOU WANT TO !!!???

Even if you do look at it, you will not DIE or LOSE anything valuable by you. So come on, just look at it if you pass by, for you own sake. Another thing for sure, you know I will appreciate it if you do, even if we are strangers. Who knows after looking and reading it, you might decide to drop by and who knows we might become friends? Don't you love the idea of having more friends ?! Well, I do.

Deja Vu

Actually this afternoon I was supposed to be meeting a supplier in the shop but sadly, he did not come at the stipulated time that he has set. I guess he must have been busy and forgot about it. I should call him on monday again and see when he is available to meet up.

Today was a good day despite Xiaomei being on half day leave in the afternoon due to a happy occasion of her cousin's marriage.

This afternoon, accidentally an invitation to try out our services was extended to a comedian as he was walking down the corridor by one of the girls. He kinda looks familiar to me but I can't really recall where I have seen him before. No no, I don't mean on TV since I don't watch a lot of TV shows for a start. Age seemed to be catching up on my brain, terrible short term memory. *shrugs* All well.. it was a good surprise and happy thing for us.

According to sources, he seemed to hit off very well with 'The Giant' nicknamed by Xiaomei, the only guy that is 99.99% in the shop. They apparently talked for hours, just like how we, ahem most women loved to gossip. *Sigh* Men..... don't say we are the only ones that love to talk for hours.

Hehehehe....

Boring...sss.....

There has been nothing much to do recently, administrative stuff I meant.

Well, at least the design for the banner that we were supposed to hang on the outer wall of the walkway directly in front of the shop is underway. The banner definitely will be sent out before saturday arrives so at least we can get the banner next week.

Another piece of information on the fish spa,
Check out this news clipping:
http://justwoman.asiaone.com/Just+Woman/About+Me/Well+Being/Story/A1Story20071113-36131.html

I'm kinda happy that there is an article like that written out despite the fact that we were not on the list. It's more like saving some money for advertising and yet get almost the same outcome we have expected if we went all out on advertising on papers.

So now officially, we are riding on the shoulders of 'Giants' that will help make fish spa more well known and hence our business better. HAHAHAHA!!!

Does that mean we are not going to spend on marketing gimmicks like advertising? No, we still have to, just that it need not be that elaborate hence saving us some money.

*smiles*

So sleepy...

So boring.... It's raining cats and dogs again... These few weeks has been like that... Sheesh ! It really dampens the mood of everyone and makes people sleepy and grouchy too. Why?!

The reason is so obvious. It's raining like super heavy and normally you are wearing something to keep you warm, so you feeling warm and the environment outside or in the office is so cooooollllddddd.... perfect temperture and ambiance to fall asleep. But then again, since you are at work you can't sleep as if the office is your bedroom, so you try to keep awake, which is absolutely nerve-wrecking *tell me about it, I feel the same way too, roll eyes*

There you are..... Sleepy and Grouchy.

I can share 5 ways in which I keep myself awake. Maybe it works for you too...

1. Don't eat anything till your stomach growls super loud and everyone beside you starts to stare at you.

Reason: Normally you will feel sleepy after food. I guess it's sort of like being lazy and in fact a short nap after lunch is refreshing and supposedly good for you, making you more productive and efficient. My short nap is more like 10-15mins ya not 2 whole hours kind of nap or your boss will literally murder you.

2. Find some toothpicks and go to the toilet to poke your eyelids open so they don't close.

Reason: Your eyelids feel kind of heavy when you feel super sleepy. The only 'ouch' way that will keep you awake and your eyes open is cheap and good spiky toothpicks.

Optional: for those who have good eye liner and eye shadow at hand you can draw a pair of eyes on your lids and still doze off but keep those snores in where it belongs. Guys, you can borrow from your favourite female colleague.

3. Buy some super duper sour sweets or sour plums and chew at them vigorously.

Reason: Just telling you about these sour stuff makes my mouth fill up with saliva. Anyway, it supposedly help to awaken your senses since it's super sour. Works best with people who dislike sour foodstuffs. No, it doesn't really cure your 'drunkenness' when you are like super drunk. I tried that with a friend before and worst still, she puked on me.

4. Drink loads of coffee or super strong tea.

Reason: You can feel the 'buzz' of the caffeine inside these two types of drinks and it keeps you wide awake like 'Energizer bunny'. In addition, you keep going to the toilet because caffeine is a diuretic, meaning you keep wanting to go washroom to pee so you will have not much time to fall asleep.

5. Do something like interesting or physical, not like reading some boring article in your nice comfy seat. Maybe run an errand for your boss or chat with your colleague or anything that's not boring to you.

Reason: Your brain is constantly at work and does not have time to feel sleepy so you won't feel sleepy. The down side, you will be more tired than usual when you reach home today.

Filming crew

This afternoon we got a special guest that came here to try out the services we provide.

Let me hint you...
1. Famous blogger in SG
2. Female
3. Her name is related to winter

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Clever !!!!!

It's Xiaxue and her mom. There was also the filming crew from click.network.tv (pardon me if i got it wrong). The production people that put her videos on the net, I think you know which one I'm talking about.

I think they enjoyed themselves with the fish spa or least that's what I presume it to be. Her mom was a nice lady, we did express pedi for her and she brought us some snacks for tea. Not everyone is appreciative for the services we provide, in which we try to be at our best in pampering our customers and making sure the least strength is used in lifting even your 'pinkie' finger.

All of us her appreciate it a lot ! THANK YOU ! *hugs & flying kisses*

See if you can catch us on the video.. linked to her blog I think... *grins*

All in all, it was a great day !

Newbie

Today our new manicurist just started work. *YEA..jumps up & down*

At last Xiaomei got a partner to share her workload and of course be a good companion as well.

So the whole of this week is her orientation week to help her get used to working with us and most importantly to have good comaderie between all of us.

So Xiaomei will be guiding her on the everyday routine to upkeep the cleanliness and neatness of this place.

Wondering who she is ? hahaha.. come and find out for yourself... I shall not reveal her picture or name... till later...

So much for now...

Great Sunny Saturday

Today has been a wonderful saturday.

Friends cum colleagues and their friend whom i've met once before drop by for a session of beauty, fun and hanging out together this morning. They had willing let 'the fish' bite back... on their foot, on top of that both of them had painted their toenails to a pretty color they chose. They were very satisfied with the paint job and the foot fish spa experience.

Sounds like renovation hur? I guess it's sort of something like that. Since being and feeling pretty is our natural instinct and is very much part of our daily lives. Then there were a korean family. Nice, kind people whom I think are beautiful. Of course to be real, they are naturally beautiful physically.

Great day I would say, don't you think? I would say so myself. I hope everyone enjoyed our services to them and please feel free to drop us a comment or give us feedback. We would very much appreciate it. I mean really, all positive and negative ones because we absolutely LOVE feedbacks.

Mad Rush

Yesterday was a crazy rush for time.
Adrenalin shot up to an all time high for a short 5 min.

Why?!

Xiaomei aka Angel, our only manicurist for now was off yesterday. She needed a break to de-stress a little. It was this day that Murphy's law came back with a vengeance.

After lunch, there were calls for apoointments on Saturday and a customer who brought her family to try our services. This kind, sweet lady was nice and she called in advance like a 2 hrs ago to inform us, she could have just walked in with her family like that but she didn't, she bothered to make that call and asked if Xiaomei was there. We were so grateful that she gave us ample time to prep since Xiaomei was on leave.

Without further ado, I whipped out my LCD dead Nokia 6300 phone and started to try to call Xiaomei when I could not even see the number or name from my contacts. Imagine the adrenalin pumping frustration. After like 6 wrong calls, I thank God for his blessings, I manage to get her and told her to hail a cab and rush to the shop. Of course, we reimbursed her immediately for the cab fare. We do not ill treat our employees.

We were all happy after the kind lady left since she made another appointment with us again on sat. I presumed we have met her standards of service and the type of products she would like. I must make sure we keep improving ourselves and at least maintain at this level.

I guess the happiest person is Xiaomei. She felt appreciated and did not mind rushing down just to chat with her customer even for less than half an hour when she was doing her foot fish spa. I think we have to devise a better plan of human resources in case of this kind of adrenalin pumping situations happen again. It's bad for my poor heart and tired brain.

Feedbacks... I absolutely love them !

My good pal's sister dropped by for pedicure, foot fish spa and paraffin wax treatment yesterday evening despite the heavy rain.

She was quite pleased with the chocolate paraffin. In fact her feet were smoother due to moisture and extract of coco. OF COURSE, it smell chocolatey. In fact, all of us had such a urge to eat chocolate when the paraffin was melting in the prep room, surprisingly, the fragrance was so strong we could smell it amidst the burning aromatherapy and the distance. You have to try it, I'm not joking and it's set at the normal prices for paraffin wax treatment since we get it at a good price from the supplier.

I was quite happy as well since she gave us some tips on 'personal touches' to keep the customer coming back needless to ask from the point of a customer. These are the small details of why I would love my friends to come try our services, of course i'll give some discount since they came all the way just to 'give me some support' and feedback as well.

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The fishes are doing well after almost 3 days 2 nights of swollen eye bags and dark eye circle around my eyes. They are acclimatising well and doing pretty well. I'm glad. Now i must find something to 'erase' those dark eye circles away..

Settling down

At last they are settling down. The cute little fishes I mean.

All seems fine and they are not committing suicide in groups of 20s and 30s. All things seem to be going alright now. At least the mortality rate is low due to the after effect of "black" thursday.

Bought some tea concoction from the herbal shop nearby for the customers to drink. It's supposed to be good for skin and helps lighten the freckles or at least that's what the sales person say.

Quite happy about how things are proceeding slowly in the shop. There are advance bookings for our services from friends and friends' friends. I hope they will like our services. *crossing my fingers* Just found out yesterday that there is another place in Thomson area that is offering the fish spa too but the prices are expensive and it's located a little out of the way. In addition, the fishes they use are different from ours, how different I will not specify and bear the name of tarnishing their reputation. But then again, all that is said here is just my opinion. So there is no way that you can say I am being mean or stupid since it is all my perspective.

Terrible Thursday

This morning was the worst day of the opening.

Everything was bad. How bad? I can't describe the emotions surging through my brain now.

A difference in opinion, experience and judgement murdered half the tank of fishes. It was a sad and shocking moment to open the lid of the tank and see floating tiny bodies. It was a catastrophe, the kind of pain and empathy is like flash flood, drowning all your happy thoughts that was there a second ago. Since blaming everyone or wallowing in self pity is not an option to salvage this "epidemic", it was time to do some calls to our favourite fish GP to save the rest of the population.

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After almost half a day of monitoring them, the fishes seemed to survive alright. Better cross our fingers and toes to prevent this from happening again since we admit and have learnt from our mistakes.

Everything is starting to fall into place

Last night was a busy night.

We went shopping for some of the additions to the shop after suggestions from a very good friend. Right now, the deco and functionality of the items in the shop are almost complete with perhaps some small details that we might have missed. We'll have to go through the whole shop again making sure that we have everything that is needed to keep our customers happy and wanting to come back for our services again. On top of that, it was the fine tuning of the website and altering it to make it look less amateurish, ironically.

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Late into the night, another good friend of ours popped by and tried out the fish spa. He had throughly enjoyed the 15mins experience which is feeling ticklish in the 1st min and tingly after and lastly, not wanting to pull your almost wrinkling feet out of the water. We're happy that he was laughing and giggling all the way. It's seeing people around you, no matter what relationship they have with you, being happy that makes you happy. Of course, you will feel it even more when they are closer to you.Another brand new day starts, let's cross our fingers and toes that something wonderful and cheerie happens...

Welcome

Good morning,

Today is the third day of opening. There has been quite a nice response from all friends and family during the first two days. I sincerely thank all of them for their everlasting love and support. *flying hugs to all of them*

The only downside of this day is that it has been raining cats and dogs for the whole morning, murdering the moods of most people I think. *boring..yawn*

But guess what?! We've got 2 customers that drop by even before we open to let us cater to their curiosity, need for relaxation and pampering. *jumping up and down.... yea!!!!* I'm very hyped now and hope they will enjoy their experience with us.

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Latest I heard like about 5 minutes ago, they absolutely dig the fish spa and commented that our manicurist did a great job and was super efficient. hahahahaha... so happy and having a super good mood day despite the rain and tonnes to do.

Good job "xiao mei" !!! hugs...