my small bid in facebook

hello cute peeps! ( ^_______^ )

first of all, thanks for being in littleoddforest’s facebook group!
{{{ big group hugs }}}

littleoddforest is 1 of 27 designers/artists/crafters in the running for fredflare.com’s NEXT BIG THING 2008! This is our 2nd time winning (1st time was in 2006!), but our 1st to have the part whereby 1 ultimate winner gets $1000!

the competition is always tough, not only because there are so many other awesome stuff out there, but also because, as the fredflare peeps said it, “I guarantee the $1000 WINNER of this contest is the designer that did the most campaigning…”

woah! i’m not good at that AT ALL (ahem, i’m trying now though! ha!). But it would be totally lame to lose and then say you hadn’t tried to put in any effort to win at all… yeah.

So, the $1000 is not the main point, really. Although it would definitely come in handy in helping me pay a bit for the new embroidery machine I’ve been aiming for. Our main aim is international fame and ultimately, big fortune. Haha! Totally Kiddin’! The embroidery machine is for real though.

Enough shameless plugging. Thank YOU ALL so very much for all the support and encouragement you’ve given to littleoddforest and me! In every way you have and possibly could. For the past 3++ years!! Time flies!

Now, please go vote away!
Vote for littleoddforest if you love us and what we do!

http://www.fredflare.com/customer/nextbigthing_vote2.php

If you vote for us, I will give you a really Big Hug if I get to see you! Just ask if I forget to

p.s. Forestprints Design, which is my main registered business, will be turning 4 in August 8/ and our website will be 4 this October 28! We’ll be having some “specials” to celebrate the event, so look out for that too!

XOXOXOXO!

>slap me, please

>today is wednesday, 10 may. i knew that only at 9.40am this morning.

since monday, my internal dates have been screwed upside down

i thought monday was tuesday

thought tuesday was wednesday

thought today was thursday

very unfortunately for me, i had scheduled meetings and appointments for wednesday, thursday and friday

- wednesday 10 may appointment with buyer at 3pm – i remembered correctly since 2 weeks ago, 10 may 10 may 10 may, set my organiser for this, so i didn’t screw this one up

- thursday 11 may taff briefing for singapore fashion week 2006 at 9.30am – i had totally forgotten all about it over the weekend and remembered it only monday night, which was when my dates have already been screwed, and i somehow kept thinking it was on 10 may, 10 may, 10 may. even miraculously thought to myself “oh! how lucky that the later meeting won’t clash with this one in the morning” and so, very cleverly, i set my organiser to 10 may for this meeting. and i used the format where there’re no days displayed, only the stupid dates shown!!!!!!!!!?!?!?

SO the main point of this story is, i freaking turned up for a thursday meeting on wednesday morning!!!!!!!! wwwaaahhh!!!! at least i provided some laughter and amusement to the otherwise very sedate and quiet office at taff….. how nice. now i’m sure that they remember me. owner and design of littleoddforest, forestprints…. what a terrific method to make people in the industry remember you.

- thursday presentation to prospective buyer at 10am – scheduled on tuesday when my dates have already been screwed, so i errornously fixed it on thursday. now i can’t make it for the taff briefing !!!!!! wwwaaahhh!!!!

did all of that make any sense to you, sane people out there? i’m losing it. i’m so overwhelmed with a gazillion things, yet can still make time to do some booze, and not sleep. i should be making a million bucks with such a work schedule. but i’m not. i probably deserve it huh.

>am i being crazy?

>Hi xxxx,

it’s good to receive your newsletter, because i haven’t gotten any replies for any of the emails i’ve sent you the past 3 months regarding my 2 orders.

i’m hoping that this was all a big understanding. but just to let you know that i did not receive both of my orders, and am unable to check with my post office, because you had not given me any shipping information, nor was i able to get any refund because i had waited too long, beyond paypal’s stipulated time frame for refunds.

i really hope to hear back from you at the very least.

thanks,

lynda

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in response to newsletter from her announcing the re-opening of her shoppe….

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EDIT

i finally got a reply… finally… no good news at all… but a reply nonetheless….

>a quickie summer update

>Hello Summer Forest!

Hello all ya stylish folks! Just a very quick update on our new and upcoming items, designs and re-stocks!

NEW!
+ Ring-Clutches + Coasters (New Colors!) + Crowned Bird On Cloud (Larger Totes) + Summer Tanks + Unicorn Totes (New Colors!)

RE-STOCKS!
+ Brooch Pins (Assorted) + Huggables (Love-Senders + Treelings!) + Bird Flying In Forest Totes + Owl Ribbon Clutches (Navy + Brown Colors!)

UP-COMING!
+ Corduroy Birdy HandBags + Corduroy Leaf Pouches + Cushion Covers (New Designs!) + Pillowcases Re-stocks!

Yes! We’ve done our third (and final!) print run for our popular silkscreen pillowcase designs! Weee!! So keep a look out for them, they won’t be coming back anymore once they’re gone this time!

Just one of our brand new cushion cover design in smart navy blue color. No pictures of our other new products yet, but watch out for them in the coming weeks!

+ We have been rushing to mail our all new VIFF Membership Cards as all of you repeat customers keep rolling in! Thanks for all your awesome patience!

+ And if you’re wondering about our super-long-awaited Gift Cards, we apologize for the delay as we’ve been working extremely hard backscene to make it a fuss-free experience to shop with them, so that’ll be a couple more weeks… ack! Our very tired part-time web engineer has a demanding full-time job in the day, so kudos to him for working so hard for us!! You’ve all been super nice to ask about them and wait for so long.. Thanks a mil! We’re trying our very best to get it done asap!

That’s about all for now! There’ll be a much detailed update in a couple of weeks from now!

Till then,

Take care and happy shopping!

xoxo!

>not another one again

>yes, another one to go, another wedding to attend, how fun. not. don’t get me wrong, i’m always truly happy for these happy couples. i’m never gloomy nor a wet blanket when attending weddings either. it’s just that, i’ve a pretty bad habit of trying to analyse the entire situation inside my head, to question, to be doubtful, to be cynical, to bring up all the past case studies i did in my family psychology class… to be with one person only for your entire life? that’s a really huge thing to decide on isn’t it? and if you’re thinking that getting out of it with a divorce is just as simple, why get “married” in the legal sense, with all the paper documentation nonsense and shiat etc. to deal with in the first place?

i think maybe it’s the state of my family that makes the word “marriage” terribly terribly nauseating for me…..

some therapy work in store huh :p

>happy stuff?

>i know i’ve been bitching and preaching somewhat alittle too much here (thanks for bringing my attention to this tc & mao :pppp) well, it is just soooo much easier to type all such thoughts out at the spur of the moment, rather than verbally expressing it in real life, for me at least. i’ve been esp stressed recently due to lots of sudden screw-ups backscene, and i’m having to deal with the headache, the problem, and my real headache… tc thinks i’m giving people the wrong impression that i’m this gawd awful person who goes around persecuting everyone and everything i see. well. my response – whatever.. i can’t help it if anyone thinks so. people who know me personally will know better…

anyways!! some happy stuff. new buys from etsy! impossible to take pics of all of them, so just 2 of my dozens of favs.
they arrived promptly, safely wrapped, with thank you note! i like.

i had to have a lego-something, you know, so here’s my very own mondrian-lego necklace thingie… now i’m eyeing that big fat lego ring with a diamond, real diamond… hee.. and a bat-wing corsage, how cool right??? mao & b thinks otherwise though.. whatever you all… :p

and a nice may day spent at the botanical gardens, where the sso performed in the evening

it was a huge crowd, lots of expatriates and tourists, but people there were relatively nice, soft-spoken, and civilised, even the babies were quiet, except for some a.d.d. kids. we had a little sandwich and salad picnic, expensive ice-cream (10 bucks??), and wine. fed the swans, laid on the grass, and talked crap.

the weather couldn’t have been better, cool breeze as if it was going to rain, but it didn’t, until much later when we were at the carpark about to leave.

well, and how can i not have something to bitch about? hahaha! so here goes. i’ve learnt my lesson (again) and will steer clear of hiring anyone’s acquaintance/friend/family in future (trying) … i had to sort of fire a “friend-sewer”, who has been wasting my fabrics and materials for the past couple of months, because all the purses i let her do came out crooked or asymmetrical or something or the other… and useless me let it dragged on for 2 more projects before i had the guts to face it and had a talk with her… it was a painful affair, with the reasons and sad looks she was feeding me with… and i’m still feeling bad.. gawdddd…

>some ramblings

>so, i WAS seriously trying to give the opposition a chance, i was trying to be interested in what they had to offer, what they could do, what they could promise, what they had in plan. i wanted to know. all past tenses. the pap’s way too good, or the opposition is way to lousy for words. no substance, as mm lee says. “acts” of strong passion and beliefs, are simply, just “acts”. i can put on a pretty good show myself if i wanted to. not equal to actions. no proof, no evidence, no facts to back statements. just air and coconuts. i’m just disappointed to say any more. and this cracked me up so bad that i cried. tears of laughter.

anyhow, that sunday newspaper report on the straits times about the “bank of mum and dad” made me think. i had always thought that i was a pretty spoilt child. i was fed well, clothed well, given love, opportunities and material needs i had needed when young. and now, even though i give my parents a monthly allowance, pay utility bills and such, and don’t receive a single cent of parental support ever since i graduated from college, i still don’t think it’s enough. i felt bad that i sponsored my mum’s 2-week holiday trip to china and taiwan, and couldn’t sponsor my dad as well. i feel bad that i’m unable to give them anymore allowance than that little i’m giving now, that i’m unable to bring them out for good dinners all the time. and yet, there are some monsters our there who are of age, late twenties, receiving a pretty respectable monthly wage, yet still sponging off their aged parents… very very sad. what has the world come to today? no wonder the incorrigible spoilt brats we see on streets today… no wonder all that disrespect you get from the young today, that tone when speaking to our mm lee, no wonder that prevalent “taking-things-for-granted” and very indifferent attitude, breeding a very shallow generation… oopps, i sound soooo gawd damn old. ha!

i was talking to my mum, who has specially made a trip to come back sg just to do her duty to vote. we talked about her holiday trip. she liked it in general, but was disappointed that they didn’t visit more historical and scenic places (it was a tour group). and why? because, i’m sad to admit, singaporeans love to shop, and shop and eat, and shop, and enjoy spas and massages, exclusively. nothing else. they just love to shop. so when they visit any country, they love to visit their malls, and then compare everything they see with their own beloved country. if the tour itinerary includes any remotely arty places where cheap bargains and purchases of any kind are more likely to be inexistant, there will be complaints to the tour guide, and changes will most likely be made. because art bores them. they think historical buildings are signs of being un-modern. they think museums are meant for old fardy-darts, bores, and insomniacs. that’s why our very own chinatown looks like the tourist-trap it is today. that’s why everywhere you go in singapore, there’s a freaking mall. and the worst thing is, all the malls have the same brand shops, selling the same gawd damn thing. why on earth do we need so many giordanos???? seriously??? that’s why our museum standards are the pits… and i’m ashamed that i don’t know what to do to make things better…

b openly screwed some aunties and a bunch of kids the other day, when they crowded right outside the train door, thus preventing people from alighting first. i was so proud to be walking with him (not that i was never!). even though the cta in chicago stinks badly of pee, and really, the train is no way in comparison to ours, which is spacious, brightly lit, clean and nice. however, the ride in the dirty train is often filled with pleasant encounters (except for that few masturbating perverts, and ghetto hooligans), unlike ours, which can really be a field trip to study the ugly human behavior. there, people give way to others, guys say “ladies first”, no one literally fighting for seats, and even the homeless beggars help you to keep the train door open so that you can rush in and not be late for classes, and saying “god bless you young lady”. here, when someone sees you nearing the elevator, they hurriedly try their very best to have it shut before you can rush in. i remember fondly the times when people always hold the elevators for others and saying “hey, no problem, we’re all dying to get home anyways” with a warm friendly smile. i love my country, this invisible entity, but not the people. i guess that’s bad of me, i can’t help it…

ow ow ow…

firstly, check our fabulist – a blog of all things fabulous?

http://www.fabulist.org/archives/2006/04/fluffy_cloud_co.html

you people are so awesome, thanks!!

now, do you people ever get an elbow/wrist pain when you’re at the sewing machine or computer for tooooo long? ack… my right elbow and wrist hurts…. *cry baby* i tried using my left hand, but it only works when i’m using a pen to draw or write, not with my mouse… and of course, 99% of gadgets made on this right-ruled earth cannot be used left-sided.. so much for the scissors and sewing-machine…

minimum wage is something i’m interested in hearing from the wp in election. did you know that economically developed singapore has no minimum wage system??? yeah, people like ambulance drivers, garderners and such, get exploited all the time… did you know that an ambulance driver in singapore who works 16 hour days, get only an average s$500 salary per month??? considering the job scope, that is almost slave labor… a foreign construction worker doing overtime earns more than that!

so, here i got, my very own minimum wage worker, to help me out here, it’s officially a war zone in the forest workshop, so chaotic that waffles has to go on a short holiday at b’s place. i hope he doesn’t pick up bad cat habits from notorious mr.greedy there…

don’t you just love minimum wage’s description? hee.. “hired, fired, and never come back”.. lol

anyway, i’m sure you know who the ugly dolls are, one of the most succesful designer plush toys in the market. but this one is special. i bought the other 2 from the united states. this one here is almost half the price i use to pay before. that’s alot of difference. only because it says here that is it “handmade in china”. ugly dolls has succumbed to china. to be cheaper. for the masses. how cool.

rant rant rant…

so.. there’s been too much on my mind and on my hands recently, so pls forgive if i’ve been spacing out while you were talking to me or trying to tell me something.. (you know who you are people… sorry!!)

things are getting a little too tight for comfort… things have to roll, work has to roll, products have to roll, and most importantly, money has to freaking roll… if someone pays me late, then everything’s all fucked up… crash and burn like a 8-car-freak-highway-pile-up-collision… argh! no sweat… will just take it as it comes…

it’s election time in politically mundane singapore. we’ve to give some credit to our very own political loony who is on the loose, yet again.. it’s like our very own day-time soap drama… he’s very good at it… i wonder when anyone is going to have him sent for psychiatric treatment… buangkok green… very near my home… i still remember when i was in high school, me and my pals, who are all, i’m happy to claim, not “ignorant fools” (this with regards to many singapore youth these days who don’t even know who their own prime minister and mps are… gawd), witnessed that loony outside centrepoint, with a mic and speakers, distributing his party’s papers… one of my thoroughly insane friend threw him some sarcasm, verbal abuse, and spit. HAHA no kiddin’.

this politically charged pal is now working and living in a foreign country, trying his best to spread his own agenda of eliminating whatever nonsense the foreign media has been fed about singapore, our country. that we’ll whoop your arse if you’re caught with gum in your mouth (puuuhhllease spare me…), whoop your arse if you were caught jay-walking (i freaking jay walk everyday….), and whoop your arse if smoke indoors (you just get a fine, stupid, like in any other civilised country), that we’re in actual fact, a communist nation. (???) btw people, singapore is NOT in china or thailand. can you imagine i got this from a couple of people in my world politics class in college in chicago, they were going on and on about how singapore’s civil rights suck and how our democracy is a fraud, and then they ended off their fervent and heated debate by being geographically wrong. i burst out laughing so hard and had to be controlled..

in fact, where are our policemen??? i have to deal with a bunch of hooligans loitering near my home everyday, it’s getting abit annoying. when i was living in the united states, every corner i turn, there’s a cop, or police car, or the police car siren every now and then, 24 hours, every freaking day… and you call us a police-state? yeah, watever fools.

on the other hand, singapore youth should know our country’s own history, go read up! go rent some video archives and see how it was lee kuan yew and not really sir s.raffles or for that matter, sang nila utama, who “founded” singapore. gawd. don’t embarrass me, or us, when you go abroad, and actually agree with some baseless criticisms of your very own gawd damn country, made by some foreign fella who hasn’t even step foot here! know your roots, and know that to have such a country as your home, comes with a price. nothing is free, or perfect, in this world. look around the world today! you don’t even have to look that far for that matter…

quit complaining if you aren’t going to do anything else about what you just complained about either. quit complaining, especially if you are that person who don’t know the facts, don’t know the history, don’t know that you have to stand on the left side of the escalator so that whoever is in a hurry can whiz by your big backside, pretend to be asleep when a pregnant/old person is in sight, for that matter, don’t even realise that your country was built from kampong village to vibrant infastructurally developed country in less than 40 years. which other nation can claim that? if you’d rather exchange your safe trip back home alone from zouk at 4am, for having to be alert and preferably in a group if out at night in case you were mugged (which i was, twice in chicago, one of which whereby all 7 of us in a group were, by 2 men with what i believe were toy guns), then i guess you’ll have to leave for greener pastures elsewhere.

vote with a rational mind. not an emotional heart. this is not a soccer game, nor lunch time at some hawker place. we don’t support the underdogs just because they are the underdogs, we don’t support the minority just because it’s cool to go against the flow and be different, we don’t try someone out just to give them a chance to do some business. i don’t wish for my country to go down in flames when i’m old, just because some dopes like you ruined it.

>forest factory rejects

>i will be having a superrr bigggg sale! for forest factory quality control rejects, starting off first with some of our home decor items of pillow and cushion covers.

what are quality control rejects?

- that 0.25″ of silkscreen dye run amok, or
- that 0.1″ black dots from nowhere, or
- that 0.5″ faintly visible mark from somewhere, or
- that 1″ long of sewing line run amok, or
- that slight …

you get the drift! they are all not visible marks unless you have me super hawk eyes, and are a super perfectionist :p

only super limited pieces left! (less than 5 pieces per design per color)

cushion covers – US$5.80 (originally US$10.00, now on sale at US$8.00)
pillowcases – US$3.80 (originally US$8.00, now on sale at US$6.00)

forestprints.com regular shipping charges appliess

this is really good for those of you who had wanted that sold out design and who don’t mind that hardly visible mark, and now can have them at this ridiculously low price???! yeah!

i don’t know when b will be able to code this shiat into our website, so i decided to announce it here first, and anyone who wants any of these, just email me! -
info at forestprints dot com

only some designs and certain colors are available, because seriously, if every piece had a qc reject, i can just go kill myself now… haha, j/k! so please email me to find out about the item availability.

xoxo!