Joliefemme's Online Boutique - Clothes Sourced from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea

Firstly, I will like to sincerely apologise on my sudden disappearence in this blogsphere especially when I had stopped abruptly on my Hong Kong trip. I promised that I will continue my Hong Kong trip story but please give me some more time and I will blog on it real soon.

So, I do not know if anyone here knew about this but I have recently started an online boutique with my neighbour of 16 years. It was a tough decision deciding if we should start an apparel boutique at first since the competition in the cyberworld right now is so fierce. But due to my love for fashion and her 10 years of experience in the merchandising and fabrics line, we couldn't help but to decide on being part of the fashion market share.

We met many challenges such as trying to construct a .com website as we had little knowledge on that but we were glad that after much hipcups here and there,

WWW.JOLIEFEMME.COM.SG 

is born

We started sourcing our apparels from Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan for their best quality and style. We even tried contacting manufacturers to discuss on our future plans in manufacturing our Joliefemme's self manufacture pieces. YES! We are that SERIOUS this time!! Since Winnie (my neighbour) is very particular in the quantity, we made QC checks on the stocks that we are intending to bring in before procuring them to sell them to the public. Yes, alot of money are invested on these QC checks but as customers for almost 20 years, we are really anal about being uncomfortable on the pretty clothes we wear.

Readers, please do kindly support me on this little business venture of mine. You may help by

1. Visiting www.joliefemme.com.sg and purchase our awesome collection of clothes

2. Like our facebook page at www.facebook.com/joliefemme.com.sg

3. Share our facebook page to all your girlfriends out there

We are launching our second collection tomorrow at 12th July 2012 at 9pm. So do come and visit our collection made especially for summer!

We are giving away a pair of our flora short from our second collection too just by liking and sharing our facebook page!

A Fearful Experience

If you were to ask me to decide my future, I think I have got the exact path of life I wanna create. This 2 days had been a torture for me. After a 4 days MC and a festive break, I was back to the reality life of finishing a truckload of work. It wasn't a happy start of a Thursday as I was as usual tasked a couple of unbelievable tasks to complete. The stress level intruded my life and I was trying to calm my anxiety down with a cup of Tea with milk(my fav.). I was trying to start on with my work when I suddenly I felt a numb feeling at the back of my head. I was scared stiff and being the usual PARANOID woman, I felt nauseous and giddy. It got even worse when I couldn't concentrate on my work and even walking around. I just felt like collapsing down at any moment.


Thinking that drinking another huge cup of my favourite tea would perk me up a little more, I bought another glass of TEA with MILK. It didnt get any better of course. I was really scared at that very moment as the job task kept multiplying and my illness kept deteriorating. I headed home right after the clock strike 6 as I couldn't concentrate anymore longer.

Back home with the concern of my family members, I felt even worst as I got even fearful of the current state I was. I guess it was the caffeine from the tea that had gotten my anxiety level higher. I felt super gan cheong and nauseous. I didnt even know what I was doing and suddenly, my hands and feet got really cold. My dad carried me to my room and mummy made milo for me when she realize that I had only bread the whole day( thanks to my diet program). I tried sleeping to get the pain off my head but as I lay down on the pillow, my head just felt that it had a BALUKU on it. I didnt really dare to get into my lala-land as I thought I won't be able to wake up anymore(very silly I know... thanks to the TEA again!). My eyes was wide open the whole night and I just felt very scared yet anxious (over nothing). It was as though my bf had broken up with me.

One hour passed after another and soon, it hit 7am! I tried to appear fine and headed to work as I thought that it won't be nice to get another day off. Daddy told me to give him a call if anything happens and I left home with a tear dropped at the door step. Upon reaching the office, I felt extremely cold and sick. Some colleagues of mine made me hot milo when they saw me shivering. I tried to stay focus with that website maintainence but to no avail. I GAVE UP at 11am when I decided to see a doctor.

Darling came to pick me up and I was glad that the doctor told me that it was a normal illness. I told him that I was scared that something bad would happen and he laughed and say.. WHAT COULD HAPPENED? I felt silly of course and after the much assurance, I'm much better. It was actually a stress-related illnesses where you feel as though your brain/skull was squeezed by a spanner. It's not pain but you just feel as though you have a big baluku on your head. I was glad that it was a minor illness and I promised myself to take lots of care from today onwards. NO MORE LARD, FATS, EGG YOLKS, OIL, DIETING PROGRAM and UNHEALTHY FOOD! I will never stress myself so much again and would promise myself to exercise more and eat more fruits and vegetables. It was a super FEARFUL EXPERIENCE I swear which till now, I'll never forget this day again.

Work Matters

I'm heading to my 5 mths in Waraku soon. Being a Marketing Executive for an FnB is indeed a very challenging job. I have to take every single opportunity seriously to promote Waraku effectively.

Just recently, we were informed that Wonder Girls will be heading to ILUMA for a meet and greet session. Iluma seldom have such grand events held at the premises.. and I thought that doing a promotion then will definitely garner truckloads of positive responses.

Without any hesistation, I came out an idea together with my colleague to give away our waraku mineral waters to the public during the Wonder girl event. We ensured all logistics were done accurately as the time scheduled for us was quite tight. We made our way down to Iluma to paste all the water bottle labels up on every bottles - it was time consuming (WE KNOW) but we had to get more students to know about our amazing offer! We started giving out the bottles at 4.30pm after getting our passes ready and thank god that the response for the day was unexpectedly GOOD! (The boss was very happy)

The huge crowd at Iluma! Uncle holding on to our mineral water.

My friendly outlet staff got his friend from M1 to snap a photo for me. :)

Back view of one of the wonder girls!

The design that we (my colleague and I) came out with.

The poster that I had designed for Iluma's promotion!

And yes.. it wasn't a TYPO ERROR! Pasta de Waraku at Iluma and Heeren is giving 25% off to ALL STUDENTS, ALL DAY @ ALL HOURS! On top of that, Pasta de Waraku have recently launched a new menu so STUDENTS.... PLEASE GET UR IDs READY TO TASTE THE RED AND WHITE MISO DISHES!

After a long working week....

Darling's mum decided to give us a treat at BARCELOS on Saturday. It was reported on the magazine that it is comparable with Nandos(the one I tried at Bugis with Lisa)! The critics review for Barcelos was good and having it situated just 1 level above Square 2 Pasta de Waraku, I was excited to know how good Barcelos really is.

The restaurant was quite empty upon my arrival even though it was already 1 plus in the afternoon. Despite the fact that the restaurant was quite empty, the food took quite long to be served too! The price (as you can see) are relatively cheap. They have not much of selection of food compared to Nandos. BUT but but... I totally love how juicy my chicken was served with PERI PERI sauce! I'm overall satisfied with the lunch especially with FREE FLOW OF DRINKS. Nandos charges even for mineral water! -_-!!!

I didnt manage to snap all my food! Hopefully this soup will portrays how much I love my food at BARCELOS!

Alrighty.. gtg now to do my crunches! :) Bye!

Me-Time

It is a Monday today. I had no plans of meeting my bf up and thus I decided to have some Me-Time. I went to Ion to check out on the Stage 70% sale (going for $6 for most eyeshadow) and then walk around the whole mall to shop! That's when I saw a few people holding onto some hangers.. walking around the shopping mall.

Being a curious me, I actually kept my eyes open for any marketing program for the hangers. Then... I saw it!! I saw a a stack of hangers being hanged right beside the customer service counter of ION! As a marketing executive myself, I am always curious of how other marketing campaigns are held and what is the purpose of it plus understanding how customer would respond to such marketing programs. I find that this hanger give-away is a rather cool idea but I doubt anyone my age or with customers with no big bags would actually get a piece of hangers or let alone notice what the hangers are for.

But.. I'm really curious.. that I actually....................

yes... Took a hanger for myself!

And I am glad that.. I took it!

It states what ION has to offer. One of their promotion was... DRIVERS PAYS ONLY $2 from MONDAY TO FRIDAY at 5pm to 11 59pm! I bet you guys didnt know about such good offer right? Haha! Don't you think you peeps should thank me for being curious now?

Went down to J8 after that to do a little stationary shopping for my boss and also to get food for my mum! I was sucha good girl today that I queue 15 mins for mummy's fav. chicken rice!

Finally, after a long walk, I'm HOME for a good facial mask with 2 cucumber on my face! Love my monday!

Welcome to my humble blog!

Firstly, I am very sorry for the impromtu decision to have my blog address changed. The reason of having to do that was because I happened to think that lovingme2much is pretty *childish* for a 24 yr old WOMAN now. I wanted to leave the blog address as feliciatan or felicia but but but.... having such a COMMON thing doesnt really allow me to do that. Furthermore, I've used FIFIMISTICA almost everywhere in this cyber world and trust me, it is such a unique name that I can simply patent it with a copywrite. *geez*

Anyway, in my very first post of this new lovely blog, I'm going to share something about my job. Recently, I was being tasked to take-charge of a media launch. I was thinking hard on how I should gain the most exposure with the limited constraints I had. I was thinking very hard and that's was when Bloggers came to my mind. I contacted almost everyone I could think of in mind and was glad that most of them are very willing to attend it. It was great having such a great opportunity to mingle around with these bloggers(even though some couldn't make it!)as most of them are my cyber idols as well. Yes.. that resulted me to be named as one of their FANS!! haha!



Qiuting aka Bong Qiu Qiu.
She's a pretty and cheerful girl. She never fails to make me laugh at her jokes. Just like how she portrays herself in her blog. She even wanted to help us do our nails with a theme. Very love-able girl I would say.


Apo and her friend
I was very happy to be able to invite her as well given that she is very tight up with schedules. Anyone knows who she is? She's ELLEN who acted as Elvin Ng's gf in that channel 8 show. We used to play tgt during our childhood times. It had been so long since I had last seen her and I'm glad that this launch had given me the opportunity to do some catch up session as well.

Elaine Yuki
She's not only pretty, sweet and cute.. she's LOVELY too! This girl had big dreams and so is her boyfriend. A great girl I must say. Pardon me for my very pale looking face. I was a little caught up with work on that day. Thank goodness that Elaine had made my day much better.


Miyake and her bf + her bf sis
Miyake never fails to look good in every angle. She portrays herself well and her bf was very friendly too. She was very hardworking as I saw her copying down notes regarding about the launch. She was fully equipped with her DSLR and accessories. I was glad that I made the right choice to have her here with us.


Agri and her friends.
I would say that I'm very happy to be able to invite her over to this food tasting event. Very very happy and satisfied. She has no airs or anything. She even introduce me to pink parlour for a good bikini wax. *haha* What a pity that I had to leave early that very day due to other commitments.

Sigh! They all look so great in their blog and in person. Their make up skills was superb I must say. Time to brush up on my makeup skills AGAIN!

I had a great week meeting these bloggers. I'm happy that this event was made successful with the time I had. I greatly thank these bloggers once again to make this event successful. If not for them, I would probably end up bald with me scratching and pulling hair all day!!

Alrighty, I've got to go run! Have a nice day!!