My Virtual Makeover… What do you think?
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On April 2, 2009
I was seriously planning to cut my hair really short last week. I wanted to get my friends’ opinions so I posted in my plurk about my question (Plurk Thread).
I think about 90% of them disagree with me cutting my hair short so I decided not to continue with my plan.
There were also some suggestions like try to go online and do a virtual makeover. I actually wasn’t aware that there is such a thing! And thanks to those who shared.
I tried Taaz (www.taaz.com), it’s so cool, promise! You just have to upload your picture and then you can do your makeover.
There are 4 sections there:
- Face
- Eyes
- Lips
- Hair
Various selections on each part, and it’s somewhat a lil realistic. For example, on the eyes part, they created a simulation of the contact lens (take note, there’s even an existing brand that they patterned it to). I think it’s also their way to help market their products.
So the first step is to upload your picture, next is to choose which section you want to do the makeover with and choose and preview… you can also save it once you’re done.
Here is me if I put on a very black hair & gothic makeup hehehe 
After you finish your virtual makeover, you can compare it with your original picture. On the left is the original picture and on the right is the one we created via Taaz. In this picture, I just changed the hair that’s all.
If I want to see myself in short hair, I will need to upload a picture wherein I’m wearing a ponytail. I’ll do that soon.
I am Legend Movie Review
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On April 2, 2009
I was watching HBO last weekend and this was the movie that was showing that time. I’ve watched this already before, I’m not sure though if I watched it in a movie house or also on HBO or DVD but I decided to watch it again. There’s nothing else to watch anyway on the television. And besides, it’s Will Smith!!
It was a movie about a cure that was made for cancer (altered measles virus). Unfortunately this cure mutated into a lethal airborne strain. It infected 90% of humanity. The remaining uninfected people are either being hunted/killed or committed suicide.
Will’s character (Neville) is left as the last healthy person in New York City. His family was killed in an evacuation mission when the helicopter exploded. 
Neville spents his days with his dog (Sam) & experiments on the cure of this disease as well as finding survivors. One day, he sets out a trap to capture an infected woman to test the cure that he has made. The leader of the infected group saw this and try to attack him but since infected people are intolerant of sunlight & uv rays, Neville was able to escape.
One time, Neville was victimized by a trap created by the infected group, they set out infected dogs to attack Neville and Sam. After Sam and Neville was able to kill the dogs and get back to the laboratory, and try to cure Sam unfortunately, he was infected with the disease and try to attack Neville, poor Neville, all he can do is strangle his dog and bury him… now he’s totally alone… with this.. Neville try to seek revenge by attacking the infected group, I guess also his way of giving up as he’s all alone now..
Fortunately, he was saved by a woman and a boy who was on their way to a rescue camp. They all went back to Neville’s laboratory. The infected group found a way to Neville’s laboratory and starts to attack them. Then, Neville noticed that the cure he made was working! With this, he took a sample and gave it to the woman and asked her that this is the purpose why they met and let them escape.
Neville sacrificed his own life and put up a bomb killing him and the infected group. The woman & boy was able to escape and arrive at the rescue camp and gave the cure that Neville made. With this, he became a legend.
Nice, meaningful.. I notice that Will Smith movies are really worth watching. This is one of them 
My rating for I am Legend: 4 out of 5 stars.
Recipes by Cafe Metro
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On March 31, 2009
Recipes by Cafe Metro
2/F Trinoma Mall, North Avenue corner EDSA, Quezon City, Metro Manila (02) 901-3686
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Debbie celebrated her birthday with us here. She treated us for dinner then we walked around Trinoma mall & chatted the night away.
We arrived a lil early so we took some pictures first. We ordered right away so the food was just in the table. We were all a bit hungry and decided to eat after 30minutes. The food is not that hot anymore but still very good!
Here are what we ordered:
- Gising Gising (Php160)
This is my favorite of them all. I don’t quite understand what vegetable they used in this, but according to a friend, it is baguio beans. So delicious, it’s spicy, very tasty. I love it!
- Lechon Kawali with Kangkong (Php205)
This dish is a bit on the okay side. It’s good but not spectacular. I used to eat even the fatty part of the lechon kawali but for this dish, I opted not to eat it as it’s not well done. I also noticed that lechon kawali and kangkong is a good combination!
- Spicy Squid (Php168)
I think this is squid with the usual chinese spicy sauce. they took out the head and sliced it in a way that it’s easay to eat. A good appetizer and can also be eaten with rice.
- Crispy Tilapia (Php205)
My friend commented that this dish is far better than the one they serve at Abe (see my post in Abe here). I do think that they are different in their own way. This version by Recipe has more fish meat though and I guess a bit more affordable. Nice dish, delicious.
- Generals Chicken (Php205)
I used to only appreciate KFC chicken but this chicken is catching up… It’s uberly tasty & delicious! It’s a lil sweet and the chicken is cooked just right… I don’t know how to explain this but I’m loving this dish. Don’t forget to order this when you try out Recipes.
- Plain Rice (Php38)
- Garlic Rice (Php48)
I didn’t like their garlic rice. they cooked rice with soy sauce & garlic. I think it’s best if they don’t put soy sauce, the taste is just weird.
- Beef Stew (Php258)
I like this one too. But the serving is just too small… I think I only ate 1/3 of one piece of this beef stew.. how pathetic it’s delicious pa naman… I guess 7 people can’t really share this… Recipes dishes are just good for 2 pax.
Overall, I think the food has a pretty small serving considering that the price is a bit on the expensive side. But still, I love the taste, yummy!
Around 8:30PM, we noticed that the mall went dark and the restaurant’s lights are also dimmed. Hey they are celebrating Earth Hour too.
More pictures here.
My Poor Dear Car….
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On March 31, 2009
Last week, when I got home, we found out my car has that ff. damages:
- one tire is flat
- big scratch on the left side of the car
When my carpoolmate and I was driving home, we already heard the very weird sound on my car. It’s like the sound of a helicopter. I just thought that I’ll just go to banawe on the weekend as my car is quite old already and might have a problem with the engine or something.
It is a good thing that there’s no damage. Apparently, the helicopter sound is because I’m already running flat. Thank God that we got home safe.
In the morning, we inspected my car and found out that someone deliberately put a big nail on my tire!!! Before doing that, I suppose he/she used the same nail to put a scratch on my car. I’m quite sure it happened on the parking lot of Petron Megaplaza Building because it is where I last parked.
I happen to park at the basement 5 of Petron Megaplaza in Makati. I don’t like the place at all and I’m really pissed off on how Petron has chosen to give our company this space considering that Basement 5 is SMELLY, dirty, DARK, incovenient to go to (since we have to use the stairs) & a lil dangerous especially for girls if we go home late. And because of what happened to my car, I’m really convinced that it is NOT a good place to park.
I went to a vulcanizing shop in Mandaluyong to have my tire fixed. The person who helped me said that the damage is pretty big. There were 2 holes found and it even went as far as having my tire punctured.
While waiting, I decided to make a blog entry about this experience so I took pictures and observed how the guy in shop will repair this.
Here are the steps that the guy did to fix the damage:
- Remove the tire from the mugs
- inspect the tire
- the guy said he needs to create a “tapal” on the tire to cover up the hole. So he prepared it by using this machine.
- Then he applied it to the tire by using this.
With that, the tire’s repaired They put it in my trunk and I’m ready to go.
It costs me Php150 to repair the tire.
Unborn Movie Review
Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On March 29, 2009
I watched this movie with friends, Jo (call out to Jo) has chosen this over other movies like watchmen, taken, race to witch mountain & you changed my life. I really was hoping we watch watchmen but they already watched it. My 2nd choice was also Unborn so I was kinda happy that Jo has chosen it.
I’m fond of horror movies but I get really scared when I watch them. Weird but true… I can’t explain it.
Unfortunately, I didn’t like this movie. Must be the story…
Unborn’s story revolves around a young lady (Casey) being haunted by a dybbuk. A dybbuk is a spirit that doesn’t want to leave in the human world and ended up inhabiting the body of a person.
Apparently, it started with her grandmother (Sofi) wherein her twin brother was killed in Nazi experiments when they were still kids. A dybbuk used Sofi’s twin brother’s body and he was brought into life. Due to this, Sofi killed her twin and the dybbuk is now haunting her whole family (including Casey, her granddaughter).
Sofi referred Casey to Rabbi who can perform exorcism to remove the dybbuk from the human world. While they were performing the exorcism though, the dybbuk tried to stop Rabbi and ended up killing lots of people. The movie ended with Casey being pregnant with twins!
I honestly don’t get it, is the dybbuk back? or is it just ironic that Casey is having twins..
My rating for Unborn: 1 out of 5 stars.