Angel wearing Prada

Tuesday February 8th 2011 - 10:46 PM

A little insight on the sort of person I want to be putting as little details as possible. I am a career oriented person. If I want anything, it is to be successful (by meaning and worth!) and professional.

No doubt that everyone who will read this blog have seen the movie "The Devil Wears Prada", a film reportedly based on Vogue magazine editor Anna Wintour. I believe that most people who watch this movie, view the boss lady's character, Miranda, quite negatively,but apart from her cruelty and inability to set personal and work related issues aside (and the fact that she is moody), I want to be just like her!

I want that big space office with mirrors and my favorite flowers in a green vase. I want someone to pour my mineral water and fetch me Starbucks daily. I would like my newspaper to be ready on my desk when I walk in (No, I do not read the papers but thats what professional people do..)  oh wait, I take it back, I would like the company i pad to be sitting ready on my desk with it already open on current events (that's more like it!). 

Most importantly, I want all the bags in the world. I want all the brands. I want all the totes and leather briefcases, so expensive that it is a waste to put work material in it. I want an expensive laptop case. Always eat out because I can afford it, more because I know I will charge it to my corporate card as an entertainment expense. 

At the beginning, just like the movie, I wanted two assistants. However, I would not recruit someone who can't get an assistant's tasks done that needs yet another assistant. I would get the world's greatest assistant who will only operate on cellphones (no operator phones, it's the 21st century! ) to manage my schedule and meetings, travel arrangements, etc.......... but will never be the kind of person who asks her assistant to do my dry cleaning or book my facial appointments! Who does that? 

I have not decided yet if my assistant will be male or female, but women are always better organized as per my experience. Not being a feminist here, men are great, but hey if you have one at home, do you really need to bother understanding the male existence during work time and get a big headache because I don't understand how in the world they would reach such a dumb conclusion? Female, definitely. 

I like to be feared in the hallways though, not because I am mean or rude, but because work should be done right and there is no room for error. What are you getting paid for? To make errors? Go home. 

The impression I want to leave for my subordinates it this picture below:

But in general, I am a nice person. I do say "thank you" very often when a task I request is handed to me , or assistance is offered to me. I would take my assistant out for a good expensive meal (not an entertainment expense, all on me!) because she is a hard worker and send her to the spa for her loyalty. But remember, this is only for someone who gets the job done the way it is suppose to. I am not nice (even rude) when I have to repeat to something to someone twice or ask for something, and the bare minimum effort is put into the task. Just straight forward.

Disregarding the last part of when I am not being nice, I would see myself in a few years, playing the role of the upcoming movie, an Angel Wears Prada. Played by someone much younger and attractive (hence.. ME?). Who should I have play me? Any suggestions (No, not Lucy Liu!)

xx

Peculiar Ami

Tea Time

Sunday, February 6th 2011 - 9:00 PM

Been having trouble drinking 8 cups of water in winter, as water is an essence for a healthy life style and diet! So what I have been doing is making it up with warm decaffeinated tea.. Until the summer of 2010, was never really a big fan of tea. I have always been a coffee person, and like anyone else, Starbucks was almost an addiction.

Until coming across a lovely tea bar this summer where it has become a lovely simple hangout for my friends and I. In summer, however, we used to order ice cold tea drinks of various flavors, and most of them had mint leaves in them!! (^_^)

I have yet to try any of their warm drinks, sometime from now until before the end of winter season, this is one of the things I just have to try! If you live in Amman, you should definitely visit the place on Rainbow St.!

Meanwhile, in winter, as I am too lazy to go anywhere and loving the comfort of two things:

1. My bed
2. The couch

and coffee or any other source of caffeine is a definite "No No" for me at the evening time, I developed an interest in other kinds of caffeine free tea to keep me  warm in winter and a source of H2O Replacement! This is what I bought today:

Been drinking rose-hip peach for awhile now. Trying vanilla tea for the first time tonight! (^_^) 

Note: The Vanilla Tea : is a vanilla flavored black tea and has caffeine. Rose-Hip is the one that is caffeine free..

Love,

Peculiar Ami

Himalaya Skin Care

February 5th 2011 - 12:18 AM

Quality does not necessarily mean that you will spend a good amount of money on the product!

Since a teenager I was always looking for good skin care, trying one after the other, you name it! When living in Bucharest, Romania, there was one skin care that worked lovely, called Gerovital Plant. It is a local made skincare brand, all natural ingredients, but as the company became popular, a lot of other chemical ingredients were being added, and my skin didn't like the product anymore.

Now it has been one year, and I am using this particular product, that works even better for my skin. Surprisingly, you might expect to hear names like Neutrogena, Vichy,  Clinique or Clarins probably. Well I have tried them all, but my skin particularly feels lovely with this ( I am making sure to say MY skin, as I don't know how it will work on others, but a friend of mine tried the same, and gave me the same comments!). 

I use the Anti-Wrinkle Cream and the Revitalizing Night Cream from Himalaya Skin Care products:

The prices of each is around 6 Euros, and the texture of them is just lovely. The essence of moisturizing is purely natural ingredients, and your skin feels healthy. It might be not the ideal primer before makeup application or long lasting, as there is ZERO chemicals in these products. But for me, the more natural the better. I have noticed that even the best and most expensive creams, can make the skin become dependent on the products used in the cream, that without application, the skin would completely be damaged.

To me, the whole point of skin care, is not to feel good when wearing the cream only, but the cream should naturally help your skin feel healthier with or without it!

Also there are other products such as the eye contour cream or a toner which I am using at the moment.

On the back of the package the list of ingredients will show and you will be able to read that the only added substance would be parfum.

I am a major fan of natural products, so anything you would recommend to me would also be lovely!

Peculiar Ami,

xx

P.S. another "toner" I use on my face is Rose Water. Yes. Rose Water. usually used in food flavoring, and very good to drink when having an upset stomach. Also used in many cosmetic ingredients, but I find it by itself, the best toner. Rose Water toner, is one of the very few toners, that does not dry your skin, but on the contrary moisturizes your skin! Read more about it on wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_water

it's always the little things..

February 4th 2011 - 8:34 PM
Recently I went to Dubai for work, an HR summit for the region took place, and it has again come to my attention that it is always small tiny details that catch my attention. My taste and the things I like, or that make my day always are minor details in things...

I cannot give a proper feedback about Dubai, as I have seen so little and mostly at night time, as we were in the offices working during the day. However, I did have excpectations, and from what I seen (which isn't necessarily true), Dubai is way overrated!

I did see the tallest building in the world, and I did visit the malls and did my part of the shopping (will never miss that out), but I will share here some pictures I have taken of what I liked most!

The painting and the furniture pictures were taken at a cute cafe we had dinner at, and when I was back in Amman, this is what I had to show people. "Look at this cute furniture in Dubai!!" (like it was not possible to find it anywhere else!). 

I rarely take pictures, but I always need one when I find things I like. So here is a first! and hopefully will be a habit, unlike the failed attempt (SO FAR!) to be a blogger!

Start blogging?

Ok, here goes...

I've opened this blog awhile back (really no clue why!) I have a lot of accounts here and there - twitter n what not that I never use. Only social network I use is facebook, and I don't even check that so often. However, recently I've discovered a lot of beauty bloggers that got me into buying make up and taking some sort of advice. "What an influence!" I thought, so here goes my first post, just about my first blog for now. I intend to take this seriously, hopefully another account after facebook that I will continue to update and check. Hopefully a method to chit chat with alot of interesting ad equally as peculiar as me.

An introduction to me: I am a half Japanese half Jordanian girl, living in Amman, Jordan for now. Peculiar is a word many of my friends would agree to describe me in if it was in one word. I am still not sure what this blog would focus mainly on. It definitely wont be a beauty blog, although it is something I do read and find most interesting, but I am not that of a girly girl!

Currently it seems the only person I am following on the blog is Tanya Burr. I have just went out and bought a bunch of MAC products and I'm loving it. However, her posts are never ending, and everytime I buy some products, there's yet another update. Now I want that damne Dior lip glow!

Hope more people will follow me on here

Peculiar Ami