chanelesque ([info]chanelesque) wrote,
@ 2007-06-14 19:39:00
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030 a polka-dotted face
when i was young, my face was a blank canvas. i had a mouth, a nose, two ears and two eyes like all the rest, but there were no moles, and i was glad.

then i grew up (darn it all), and growing up proved to be trying, because moles started to erupt like ants all over the flawless emptiness of my forehead and cheeks, year by year, by the merciless rays of the accursed sunlight. more and more they came and multiplied, till i could joke, laughing but with a stab of bitterness and pain, that one could join the dots on my face to form a web of lines.


i sometimes wondered if by the age of forty, my face would have grown to be so immensely spotted as to bear a likeness to a regular almost pattern of polka dots. the horror! makeup would be a necessity. i would never be able to wear polka-dotted dresses again. instead of applying sunscreen (2nd below from left), or lugol's iodine (3rd from left), i did the foolish thing of attempting to cut them off with a pair of scissors (4th from left). the moles bled, discoloured, and raised themselves into horrid lumps.


i stopped after that. "your moles are cute," said sam one day, to which i grimaced in reply. though i have now learnt to live with them, i could never and would never appreciate the moles on my skin. blemish!

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[info]venialvox
2007-06-13 04:23 pm UTC (link)
If anything, it's a good identification tool! I have a mole on my right shoulder, near my clavicles. I scratched it off once and um it grew back.

I tell my sister that everything that doesn't seem normal (like she has really poofy hair) is a mark of character. Heh.

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-14 01:38 am UTC (link)
haha, it's not much of a comfort :D i remember watching this tv show a long time back, and this young mother gave birth to a son with a big nose. she was rather unhappy. the mother-in-law said, "it's a mark of character!" and the young mother became visibly more upset, even a bit annoyed i think.

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[info]kawaii_licious
2007-06-14 01:09 am UTC (link)
GEEZ did you really do that?! OWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
silly gal if you really dont like your moles why dont you go to gerogia lee to get it all lasered off!

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-14 01:31 am UTC (link)
i was rather young then (& silly), and laser was an expensive option.
actually now when i think about lasering off my moles, i feel a sort of unwillingness to let them go. perhaps i'll do one or two of the big lumpy ones that might be cancerous in future.

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[info]potcheeks
2007-06-14 03:39 am UTC (link)
YOU CUT YR MOLES.
my gosh, you are one crazy little kiddo!
anyway you looked damn cute!

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-14 03:52 am UTC (link)
that's my kindergarten photo :)
i was distraught at that time, haha. i reasoned that since they were just bumps on the skin, i could cut them off easily. how wrong i was!

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[info]asweetgal
2007-06-14 04:46 pm UTC (link)
your nutty crazy lovable girl! we all love you just the way you are. and im not just saying that coz im the most moley person around for 100000000 miles lol! shhhh, you didnt hear that from me :X

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-15 06:19 am UTC (link)
hahaha :D do you know when i was about 7 or 8 years old, my best friend and i tried to count the number of moles on our bodies and i won. there were 30 something plus back then. i'm quite sure the number has risen a lot since. we found it very amusing at that time, now when someone tries to count my moles i get all embarrassed :S

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[info]asweetgal
2007-06-16 05:14 am UTC (link)
so cute! i can imagine a little you and your bestie talking in baby girl voice hehe~ i def have over 50 i think lol. any more(but im sure i do have more) and im afraid to think about it lol! my derm says im a moley person ;P

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-16 11:58 am UTC (link)
we are polka-dotted people :( i've got a mole on my left earlobe.. my mum thought i went to get a second ear piercing -__-

is that your dog? why is she dressed in clothes :(

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[info]asweetgal
2007-06-25 08:03 am UTC (link)
aww i think moles can be cute, im fine with mine, just as long as they dont appear huge and protuded with a hair sticking out aiieeee! *guffaws*

yikes, dont tell me about clothes, hubs thinks animals look cute in clothes but i dont, i like them au natural(maybe booties max to prevent paws from insects and getting dirty) but he already paid a silly amount for it. that was her one and only outfit in her 8 year plus of existence. its kinda the only decent pic of my princess though(the rest are puppy pics), and that was my last photo of her, she passed away some time ago... :( she was my first love and will be always in my heart.

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-25 11:44 am UTC (link)
you are back commenting.. does that mean you are feeling better? :)

my dad has got a mole like that at the lower part of the back of his neck. my brother has got a mole (but without hair i think) at the same spot too. i don't have either, thank god!!

wait wait, i'm getting confused.. you have a new puppy now right, she didn't pass away after falling sick did she! :( old dog?

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(Anonymous)
2007-06-14 05:55 pm UTC (link)
ahh your blog is cool. i like the graphics. and kiro. DID YOU SEW HIM (or her?) YOURSELF! my internet is (amazingly) working today. (((: for the want of sleep, i cant think of anything else to say. heh chicken rice was good today albeit Too Much Black Sauce and Strange Man!
<3, angela

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-15 06:24 am UTC (link)
yay! :DD yes i sewed him myself. my sewing has improved.. a bit. the rabbits are all for keith, because he likes rabbits.

sheepy is out of the wardrobe for the entire afternoon today because my brother is away, happy :)

i can't even remember what the hwachong chicken rice and the last-time-stall-at-fep chicken rice taste like, so i don't know how to judge. aiyah, don't begrudge the simple pleasures of that man la. let's go there more often so he can pour soup from your bowl to my bowl.

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(Anonymous)
2007-06-15 11:29 am UTC (link)
no! strange fetishes should be checked and done away with. i think last-time-stall-at-fep chicken rice was better. and it came with vegetables and stuff. and the uncle was friendly and did not itch to pour soup from my bowl to your bowl. maybe they closed down cos they made Too Much Money. haha, im craving chicken rice again.

oh! sheepy can befriend my new toy - flow-ie, given randomly by mon. haha. he's a flower attached to a large paper clip. very happy but lonely guy. dont eat him!

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-15 12:41 pm UTC (link)
let's go back hwachong to eat chicken rice! do you think they will allow us in? this year when i went for dramafeste with keith and we were in home clothes, the security guard stopped us fiercely and barked at us until we told him we were here for dramafeste. but he probably won't back off if we say, "eh, we are here for chicken rice," right.

oh i know, we go collect certs then eat chicken rice. ahh, smart idea right? :D

but sheepy loves to eat flowers :( so you must tell sheepy your flower is really a tree in disguise. then she won't eat him. flow-ie because he's a flow-er eh. why is it a he. i like to think all flowers are she-s.

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[info]asweetgal
2007-06-16 05:16 am UTC (link)
i think all soft toys are girls lol, and flowers too *high five*

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-16 08:07 am UTC (link)
meh meh (sheepy) is an exception for me :) i say she is a girl because she has a pink nose, pink mouth and pink ribbon :) my other animals are all boys. stuff toys just seem to be boys to me for some reason. unless they are adorned with pink ribbons, lace and what not :D

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(Anonymous)
2007-06-18 05:00 pm UTC (link)
simply because most flowers are shes, thats why flow-ie is a he. (: haha. wah the security guard so fierce? they let me in readily when i was in my dad's car tho. rg security guard nicer!! he chats readily with u when u tell him u're an ex student. i think im collecting certs simultaneously on awards day, are you going? haha hc too far to go back too many times! and because im lazy to make a post in the relevant entry, i think ur necklaces are Beautiful ((((((((:

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-19 03:58 am UTC (link)
yay thank you :)
eeee what is awards day. for 4 As-ter only right. i not invited.
so flow-ie is the alpha male surrounded by females? :O no wonder he is lonely. poor guy. just let meh meh eat him and thus end his miserable life la. keith bought meh meh a pink tulip on sunday :D
i don't even remember the rg security guard. the one school security guard who has left the biggest impression on me is uncle chong/cheong. because he swaggers around like a gangster and likes to lock doors.

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(Anonymous)
2007-06-20 05:58 am UTC (link)
aiyah keith bought for sheepy or for you. haha why is sheepy's name meh meh as well, or is that another sheep. he's a happy but lonely flower! actually he should be happy to be surrounded by females, what are you saying! (: i dont name all my stuffed toys, they usually end up without much of a name. i was trying to decide whether to bring eggie or piglet or red man on my trip but to avoid jealousy (and a stuffed bag) i decided not to bring any.

hahaha the rg security guard had a funny belt - he told my senior it was 'Elvis Presley's Belt' very proudly. uncle chong is just weird. but i never really had direct encounters with him beyond the time he came to switch the light off when we were preparing for huang cheng late at night. :X

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-20 07:52 am UTC (link)
buy for sheepy of course! sheepy loves pink tulips. me, on the other hand, don't really like flowers.
eee your flower always thinks about mating. that's unhealthy. that's bad. we must needs eradicate him, meh meh. (meh meh is sheepy's nickname. i prefer calling her meh meh, cos it sounds cuter, hehe.)

you have a stuff toy egg? :O what is red man? oh i think i know what that is. the red devil thing right with a face like a bun?

why you talk so much to the security guard? i never care much for talking to avoidable strangers in general. xiaoqi is antisocial, but you know that already.

angelaaaaaa i want the far east shoe!!!!!!

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(Anonymous)
2007-06-20 04:06 pm UTC (link)
the beige one? haha i want nice heels but they always kill my feet, so i get them and dont wear them. i like the black and white one - u bought it right? classy. (:

haha flow-ie doesnt think about mating! u make him sound pervertish. he just enjoys the company of female flowers cos they remind him of his mother. unfortunately there's only one other flower (with a face) in my house.

yeah u are right! my sis passed me red man cos she's not bringing him to aust. face like a bun is quite a weird description tho, i think red man is cute!

yeah, its a stuffed toy egg HAHA - i think its an egg anyway, its oval, but has ears. and it is in suspenders with a spanner in his front pocket. i took him off a tissue box cover thing from my dad's previous car. eggie is my dad's friend. my dad thinks he's cute. haha!

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[info]chanelesque
2007-06-23 05:03 am UTC (link)
eggie is my real friend. HAHA! her real name is aik hui, but we all call her eggy (the way she spells it). does your egg friend have a face like my real egg friend? speaking of which, i do have two egg fake friends with faces. ok wait. they are not eggs. they are thumbs. but they look like eggs. you know the primary school chinese newspaper mascot, that's my 'egg' fake friends. egg real friend and egg fake friends :) are you confused yet?

yes i have the black and white one :) and YES I WANT THE BEIGE ONE!!!!!
your feet is not broad right? mine is ultimate broadness at the front, so shoes shouldn't hurt you as bad as they hurt me, i think.

oh maternal relationships. just dunk flow-ie out in the ixora bush, plenty of female friends, i mean, mothers for him.

oi angela did you see my sheep theatre! :( with miniatures of meh meh, frodo and keep the rabbit. go see leh!

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