Sui Lar…!

The boutique’s new flooring is UP!

And more mirrors in the fitting room too!

And X’mas decoration(Not quite done yet)!

In the weeks to come, there will be more improvements done to the boutique! Though the flooring cost us quite a bit of moolahs, but i think its money well spent. The flooring is damn chio. I forgot to take a pic of the flooring.

If everything goes as planned, we will have a X’mas Collection Launch on 13th Dec at Haji Lane. Lotsa promos and new apparels. I drafted out the promotions already, its really good, trust me. It wont be a wasted trip for everyone!

Till then!

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One of the many search terms that was directed to my personal blog:

“how to be models of mdscollections”

This is interesting. While im all stressed up cramming for my exam on Friday, this incident sure added some vibe into my life today. I was totally lifeless until i chanced upon this. If you are interested, feel free to send your photos in and we will deliberate and see if you are suitable. So, Let me explain. There are 2 channels to become our model.

1. We invite you personally because we feel that you are suitable. This is usually through friends’ contacts, networking, recommendation/referral or some random individual who appears in front of me. Thats how Petrina, Mandy and Crystal got to work with us.

2. You send in your particulars like portfolio and details. We vat through and contact you if u are suitable. Thats how we found Angelyn and Winnie Heng. I emphasized again, u dont have to be an events or part-time model to be our model. Our dear Angelyn works full time at a shipping company and yet she’s modeling for us because she looks great in our apparels.

Modeling is a high-profile and interesting thingy and since we are always looking at expanding our models team, so i dont mind explaining here and letting people know how to become our models.

But with regards to how we run our business, i dont think i need to explain in black and white here. If there is any unsatisfactory with our service or products, direct it to us and not other Tom, Dick or Harry who dont even know whats going on. You will get a satisfactory reply from the person-in-charge and dont worry, we are accountable and responsible for everything we do backend and frontline. Its a business, not a sideline. I dunno how many times must i emphasized on this. Must i copy and paste our trademark logo and business license plate here to convince people…that we are running a proper business here?…..

Anyways, interested applicants for modeling, please send in your portfolio and details! Thanks in advance.

I fly.

3 MORE DAYS TO FREEDOM.

Im gonna say byebye to exams forever. The thought of it makes me so delighted and carefree.

On top of that, the fact that i am able to go full fledge in MDS makes me so god-damn motivated and determined to make this business model WORK.

Ahead lies many obstacles, this i know. But im definitely gonna work my way through until i reach end destination. I cant imagine the excitement that lies ahead once i embark on my full-time career in this business. Imagine how much i can produce and contribute to the company by working from Mon to Fri and Sat half day, i simply cannot wait!!!

There wouldnt be just 1 boutique.

There wouldnt be a stagnant website…we will build one that only belongs to us and one that will greatly enhance our backend operations.

The team will keep on expanding.

There will be more marketing efforts(proper and legal and ethical ones)

The major switch from imported items to 100% self-produced apparels. (My major goal for 2009)

AND MANY MORE….I love being a workaholic because im doing what i like. Despite the fact that Dad told JM we should draft out a proper working schedule and take a step sometimes. Aiyah, i will take a step back when everything is more stable. Not now.

wa lao eh. I can definitely see how busy i am after exams. I told JM already, my full-time career starts from Jan 2009. December is my holiday. Im flying to Taiwan with him for our anniversary trip and going cruise with my family! Yay~~~

Always stay tune to MDS’s series of transformations and changes.

I love this collection ;)

Goddess of Glamour’s collection is simply alluring! Love it to bits. Its one of MDS’s best collection, in my opinion lar. I dunno what our customers think. But i love so many dresses from this collection! Most of them are my personal favorites and top picks!

And both models’ photos looked absolutely stunning too! Hee* Go check out this pretty collection before they are OOS again!

http://www.mdscollections.com/cat_mds_all_new.cfm

She can pose with anything, seriously. Even my hello panda biscuits.

Recruitment Notice

I need a sales assistant who can work on weekdays for my Haji Lane boutique.

Required to work at least 3-4 weekdays and available for a longer period of time(not just Nov and Dec).

Interested, please leave a comment here or email business@mdscollections.com.

SBS-Spoilt Brat Syndrome

My UG pals told me that i have SBS yesterday.

According to them, this is how i handle my relationship with him.

Yes, honestly speaking, i couldnt agree more. I gotta give credits to Ting for enlightening me on this point.

I told JM that i have SBS last night.

But his reaction was, “Alot of people around you really dont understand you.”

Haha. He’s too in love with me or he’s trying to say something nice (despite agreeing with my friends) since its our 2nd anniversary?

Too much indulgence and pampering. But i feel he was just being sweet to me because we couldnt celebrate our anniversary due to my 3 papers. Or i chose to believe so.

Following that, he told me, “I told your bro that alot of people around you always feel that u are such a bimbo and superficial girl who only knows how to indulge yourself in shopping and dressing up to look good all the time, but they dont know your true inner self.”

(Geo: Feeling over the moon though sleepy)

“But its alright, i understand you the most. I know all your beliefs, thoughts and values that you treasure in your life and how you chose to stand by me to go through all the hurdles in my life and in this business. At first, i couldnt understand why you spend so much money dolling up everyday. Was it to impress people. But soon i realized that you dress up purely for yourself and nobody else. You like to feel confident and pretty everyday in the midst of overcoming all the endless problems that crop up and to feel good about yourself.”

(Geo: So blissed. And teary. And touched.)

Whether its true anot, i really gotta thank him for telling me this. Its more like a reassurance to me that he truly understands me as his gf. And to end the lovely night, he told me, “I think you changed alot these few months. I prefer your temper now, its slowly going back to the initial stage when i just fell in love with you.”

Haha. I dunno what happened. But i feel im slowly accepting him as my rightful boyfriend and someone i treasure. And though it made Min’s goosebumps all stood up last night, i wanna say again, i see him as a man i would like to marry in future.

She made it alive!

I gotta give credits to this pretty young girl who made our descriptions for every design @ MDS so interesting and full of vibe!

She really revamp the entire meaning of boring, long and tedious descriptions of online apparels. Besides the fundamentals like measurements and product codes, she made every other detail exactly like how a woman would love to be praised or how a girl feels like when she’s dressed in lovely apparels.

Its difficult to find someone who truly understands the vanity side of women. And at the same time, able to insert her own personality and thoughts into what she wants to write about every design.

Here’s a few amazing descriptions from her over the past few months she worked with us:

Description #1:

Go feminine in this ultra sweet and lovely frock, it has vibrant attention seeking flower patterns and soothing white base

Features ruche under bust, matching sash at the back to tie, flare skirt, elastic back

I think I need one of these lovelies when I am going to my next holiday to maybe fish some treasure! Bound to get the other sex heads over heels over you and girlfriends all wanting a piece of it!

Match this baby with a flower hair pin or chic head bands like Gossip Girl’s Blaire and chic loose flats

Think Gossip Girl girls!

Made of Polyester

Description #2:

I have always wanted to see how it looks like when I pair my usual spaghetti tops with a checkered printed high waist skirt!

And now I know how it will look like, one word, beautiful! Great for wild parties with me looking unique and classy, perfect for casual romantic dinner dates with my love ones

Features halter neck top with a very classy striped ribbon that is in soothing pearly green and navy blue, high waist skirt combination in red brown checks and side pockets and row of decorative buttons in front

I know you girls will love this piece as much as I do!

Description #3:

So yes, a little bird told me that prints especially clean usual zebra prints are the sex now! I guess every girl can’t resist beautiful animal prints, and neither can I

Great for casual romantic dinner dates at Mount Faber, or wild parties. You will look fabulous!

Features drawstring design in the front waist section to adjust, tight elastic band across breast, vibrant zebra prints, loose trousers for an effortlessly chic fit

Match this love with vintage accessories and pin up hair for a clean look!

I remembered she did a batch of apparels with all the descriptions associated with Magic babe Ning that i went to google about this lady in the end! Made me so curious about this magic babe Ning. All the above descriptions belong to our newly arrived apparels which are yet to be launched! But honestly, dont you feel like buying them even before you see the actual design?! I mean, i dunno about whether girls do read those long descriptions before you made up your mind to purchase an apparel, but for me, an interesting description which i can relate to my own life would definitely make me so wanna own that piece of apparel!

Next time you shop at MDS, take some time to read the lovely descriptions she pen down for every design! Its god damn fascinating and out of the ordinary!!!

Even JM agrees with me though he dont understand a shit.

Hah.

Aloof idiots

Some people are REALLY PLAIN ANNOYING. My blood pressure soared sky-high while listening to this so-called “professor” from the top 3 universities in Singapore(excluding smu & nus..arhm) rattled nonsense.

Im a born procrastinator, and im dying to narrate what happened last evening at Loyang Point.

I put aside my books and notes that i have to cram for exams and accompanied my bf to see the doctor for his skin allergy. Coincidentally, my mum was there to see the doctor too so she helped us get our queue number. When we reached, there was a super long queue of bangalas waiting to see the doctor too(dont ask me why they were there). So we waited until my mum saw his long-lost secondary school classmate who used to be one of those guys who chased after her(according to my mum). He’s an ordinary-looking late forties man to me. I didnt really take notice of him. But anyways. He started chatting happily with my mum about the good old times. I didnt dislike him at first until he suddenly, out of nowhere…kept asking my mum about MY academic path. Quoting him(Btw, his chinese standard is VERY GOOD but too bad, he’s an idiot)…

Professor: Which university is your daughter studying now? Did she manage to get in?

Mummy: She’s in SMU. Last year.

Professor: Oh SMU. Very hard to get in. Den how about secondary school?

Mummy: She studied in Tanjong Katong.

Professor: Orh..TK GIRLS’ school huh?

Mummy: No la, mixed school.

Professor: Oh. Thought its girls school(with that smirk on his face because girls school is supposed to be better than mixed). Then how about JC? Did she go JC? Or no?

Mummy: She went to Poly, though she qualified for JC admission. But she prefers poly so i let her be.

Professor: Huh? She never go JC? (AGAIN, WITH THAT IDIOT LOOK DOWN ON PPL LOOK)

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After a few random chats, he started talking to my mum about my dad’s business. Here he goes again:

Professor: So you still doing the gim zhua business with your husband ah?

Mummy: Yeah, still helping my husband. But we dont do retail anymore, doing manufacturing and wholesale to the shops in singapore.

Professor: Orh…nowadays still got people burn incense paper and joss sticks meh? Very few already lah. You all still have business to do meh? (Fucker)

Mummy: Business not as good as last time, but still able to sustain.

Look at this person. I told my dad about what he said. Please lor. Go and visit www.yangyongann.com, thats my dad’s company website. Even though it may not be as good as those top-notch websites, but i feel that his business is a proper and prospering business that he and my uncle built up since 20 years ago. Who are you to look down on our family business just because you are working in a government sector as a professor from NTU who teaches humanities?!!! My dad is the most capable man in the world and someone whom i respect the most despite all his nagging. He taught me so much in these 2 years of doing MDS and im so grateful to him. And suddenly, this idiot came and said, “now where got people burn incense paper?” Go and die lah. Seriously. He’s acting like one of those egoistic man who only believes in vertical progression and thinks that he knows so much just because he’s a professor?! Be humble, thats the key. Im so sick of meeting all these people who are always so full of themselves. At the end of the day, arent you just working for someone? And drawing a fixed pay every month. Why are you so proud?

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Another random chat:

Professor: You will see my face appearing on the chinese newspaper over the next 2 days(my dear blog readers, please go and see his face in the papers) because im doing this blah blah…with what…blah blah.

Mummy: Oh. Is it?

Professor: Have you been to France, Italy or London? I always fly there for seminars and spend my holiday there with my family.

Mummy: No le, i never go before.

Professor: Huh u haven go there? U should go..so nice, i go there every year.

@#$%^&*(

I got very pissed with this half-bald man already. So i kept looking around and see if my bf’s back from buying flood lights for our boutique. My mum asked me why i kept looking around so i told her. Then the professor starting asking my mum again:

Professor: Your daughter doing a business?

Mummy(feeling very proud of me): Yes, she just opened a boutique @ haji lane with her bf who is also her business partner.

Professor: OH. She sells what?

Mummy: Women’s clothing

Professor: Oh, wah…parents so rich, so she must have taken a huge sum of capital to set up her boutique lah?

Mummy: NO LAH. She depends on her capability. She earns her own money and opens her own shop.

Professor: Is it?(with that damn bloody unbelievable expression on his face)

Isnt he an idiot? Need i say more.

Professor LEH. This kinda idiot trying to instill in us the right knowledge and skills in life. Over my dead body.

Oh. He gambles too. Dont ask me how i know. I just know. Haha.

Anyways. This journey of doing business with my bf is really tough. I met so many seniors who are much older than us and because of this disparity in age, it equates to inexperience and inability to perform and have the right judgment. Yes, i do agree that being young means inexperience but there are some people out there who are much older, have more experience and knowledge and they feel that what we are doing is wrong and its hard to succeed. Age is a barrier for me in this business.

But its alright. I will prove them wrong. Especially people like the above mentioned.

20.11.08

Anyway.

That date is my 2 years anniversary with pig pig. Pardon this idiotic and anyhow act cute name that i saved as his contact on my mobile. Every time he calls, it says, “Jm. Pig Pig”

But the most irritating thing is…its 1 day before my final exams. Great.

Argh, this is why i hate SMU so much.

Yesterday i was supposed to visit LV and see which random small handbag i want for my anniversary present BUT…i forgotten about the Flag Party @ Haji Lane!!!! All boutiques opened till 12am last night, that means ours too. Haha. We were informed too last-minute thats why my poor staff Rachel gotta work till 11pm last night and me & JM…trying to balance accounts after 12am midnight. No joke lor. Damn tired. By the time we went Simpang Bedok for supper, we were half-dead and completely stone mode. Thats how i burnt my lovely Saturday which was meant for pure shopping and hunting anniversary gift.

Anyway. Whats with the urge to get married nowadays?! I seriously dont understand wadahell im thinking. I envy his young pretty cousin who decided to marry her man at 21! Is it age catching up thats why i wanna get married or is it because im just too comfortable with him? And the worst thing is when it comes to wanting to get hitch as soon as possible, you cant tell your man too many times cos they will get stress up with your nonsense and run away.

MDS Grand Opening*-Part 2

Photos as promised! Sorry if you spotted yourself in any of these photos…haha. Its taken randomly by my friend, Congming.

Anyways, enjoy the photos!
MDS Grand Opening Day:
Wore a simple black satin dress, sold out on the website but restocks will be in real soon! Keep your eyes fixed on the computer if you are one of those customers who asked me about this piece!!! Me & JM in couple color-formal black.

Crowd starting streaming in…until the whole shop was packed with shopping queens.

Long queue at the fitting room…ultimate chaos!

At this point in time, i saw Rachel & Veron’s mouths literally dropped opened. HAHA. Actually mine too, i was totally blur at the counter, so many ppl asking me so many different questions.

Chaos at the fitting room too.

Boyfriends waiting reluctantly, inside and outside the shop. Damn poor thing lah seriously.

Computer stand in the shop for people to shop online while shopping in the boutique:

My flower gifts from loved ones!!

Bought more than 200 bucks of Old chang kee snacks and almost 50% still left in the box after the shop closed!! What a waste of money. I think my dad probably ate 20% of them. Haha.

Some business associates who came!

My dearest family who came and stayed for a few hours. I sensed that my parents were really happy with me on that day. How glad.

The adults discussing whether i should install a cash register or cctv..and how else i should improve the boutique setting. Haha.

His family:

And not forgetting my dearest UG who came! Look at what they have done to my guestbook….haha, so artistic!!!

Me forever not ready to take photo…

Still not ready…

FINALLY.

My bro’s car & our car(I think my car’s sideview mirror got scratched by another car on that very same day. idiot.) Can tell that all of us just passed. heh.

Me & ShiHui:

LASTLY, my dearest models!
I looked damn fat standing next to Angelyn. Argh.

And Petrina.

And Crystal:

Aiyah, i forgot to take photos with my staff, Vernice, Sydney, Rachel and Veron!!! And forgot to take pics with my friends too. Sian.
But other than that, i love the boutique! Its not near perfection yet, but i will keep on improving it until im satisfied with my results!! Stay tune!