Man Makeover

Hi peeps,

Should men get dolled up?

Great boyfriends are not always perfect. Sometimes they eat with their mouth open and fart in the public. So if your guy is damn hot, intelligent and on your wavelength, don’t ditch him because he burns the toast and never declares “you compete me”. Instead, train your current guy to be the kind of man you want to be with even though it will take years. Believe me. I have experience on training my own darling. Nagging is definitely the big NO. Instead of hassling him or making empty threats, apply effective guy-changing strategies to his most unacceptable habits.

Imagine you have to wait for your special one on a special occasion for three hours straight doing nothing in a mall. What would you feel? Stress eyh? Well, there’s no need for that now. This is what you should do if he never arrives on time. When he arrives late, make him wait for an hour while you have a shower, fix your hair, redo your make-up and try on a mountain of different dresses. If he complains, give him the lamest excuse you’ve ever created in your life. Then, when you’re ready to go just tell him calmly that you’ve just given him a taste of his own medicine and hope he found it as infuriating as you do when he runs late. However, if he can’t be bothered showing up on time. Don’t waste your precious time. Ring a cab and go without him. Don’t call and tell him where you’re going and don’t leave him a note explaining – be as rude and insensitive as he is being. If he’s late for a date with just the two of you, call a girlfriend and stay at her place for the nights or just hangout with your best buddies without him knowing anything. Do anything you want. He’ll get the message that you won’t be taken for granted.

if he's late one more time, you could explode!

I’ve once encountered with car-addicted guy. When I first dated him, terms like twin cam, carburetor and fuel injection were off limits. Come on! You talked about parts of car on our first date? What do I know about parts of car? All I know is the car itself. What make you think us, the women would care for the part of the cars? We don’t bother because we know that we have you. The guys! However, car parts communication is the top of the chart for the most bored conversation ever created by human being especially on the first date. Nevertheless, it is as easy as 1,2,3 in order to make him stop from slipping into motorhead speak. Get a beginners book about cars and the next time he’s raving on, stop him until you look up that car part so you know what he’s talking about. Hopefully, you will irritate him so much he will shut up. When he talks about cars start babble about fashion. If he mentions gearshift, you mention Gaultier; if he raves about the suspension, talk about seeing some cute suspenders in a lingerie shop. That way he will notice that he’s is lame and pathetic and will stop talking about car and start talking about something else.

There is thousand of ways to change him. Tap his emotion. Point out how he’ll benefit from the change. Give positive reinforcement even when it is not yet deserved. Support him instead of neglected him. Ask him if there are any ways you could be more supportive for him before you gently suggest ways he could be more supportive for you. Just remember that men are actually childish but scared to admit it. All you have to do is guide and pampered them.

- nur dhiya abdullah-

I Don't Think That's Very Funny

Women aren’t funny – men are constantly telling me so.

I get everything: colds, cockroaches, toothache, prank calls, parking tickets, reduce fats leaflets, rare Mongolian influenzas.. The only things I don’t get are bloke’s jokes. I’m constantly whisking the smile off a room full of male faces with lines like, “Oh, and then what happened?” or “Is that it?” or “Could you explain that a bit about the hunchback Mexican’s homosexual Rottweiler once more?”.Needless to say, the reason I don’t get bloke’s jokes because I’m female. And women ain’t funny. I know because men are constantly telling me so. Of course, there’s been the old flukes – Mae West, Dorothy Parker, Whoopi Goldberg, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Saunders..but as Mother Nature is female – and as we all know, “whim” is the plural of women – there’s always the odd exception to the rule.

Oh, we do tell some jokes: Why are women so bad at maths? Because they’re always being told that three inches equal 10. How do you get rid of cockroaches? Tell them you want a long term relationship. Why “dumb blonde” jokes are are always one-liners? Why do we need female astronauts? So that when the crews get lost in the space, someone will ask for directions. Trouble is, even if we know jokes, we just can’t tell them very well.

I was at a party recently where the men, ignoring the carefully interwoven seating plan, craned around their female companions in a boisterous “Have you heard the one about….?” Elbowing her way into his scrum, one of the female guests finally got up to the nerve to share something that had given her a bad attack of the ha, ha’s – a promo sign hanging outside a health club. Fat and ugly? It read. Want to be just ugly? While the other women present impaled themselves on their swizzle sticks with mirth, their male partners swapped bewildered glances “See?” shrugged her hubby, puncturing our pleasure. “Women aren’t just funny.” A perfect instance for a women not telling a joke – because she’s married to one.

One of the greatest differences between the sexes (and there are many, believe me) is our sense of humour. The men I know don’t seem to tell jokes so much as detonate them; firing off rounds of wisecracks – black-belt masters in the art of tongue-fu. The highlights of a “Girl’s Night Out” is not the pelvic gyrations of some jocks-strapped hunks, but stripped off to our emotional undies; a psychological striptease that reveals all. Of course, one of the reasons men don’t want to admit that women might be funny is because they’re terrified of what we’re being funny about. Boys, to put you at ease, let me just say that on our all-girl gatherings, we don’t just discuss length…we also talk about width. But mostly we just sit around being Humourless Feminists. Speaking of which – how many feminists does it take to tell a joke? Two. One to make the joke and the other to say, “I don’t think that very funny.”

-nur dhiya Abdullah-

We Love You (Not Your Lip-Gloss!) Oh! Really..

Hi peeps,

Is it true that women can’t get enough fashion and beauty trend? And why men are never-repeat NEVER-going to understand what all the fuss is about.

It started when one of my guy best friends told me about his girlfriend. Basically he told me everything unnecessary thing that his girlfriend put herself through in the pursuit of beauty. Things that, quite frankly, I either don’t notice, find annoying or even unattractive. But, what he didn’t notice is that her girlfriend is doing it for the sake of him. So, should women wear make up? Or shouldn’t? It got me to thinking that I can save all loads of time and effort by revealing the fashion and beauty things you do that actually men find utterly useless.

The truth is, very few men actually like lipstick. It makes you look weird, you don’t taste nice to kiss, and it gets all over your faces and clothes. As for lip-gloss, forget about it-nasty, goey muck that makes everyone who wears it look vaguely porno (well, fine for your boyfriend, but they secretly don’t want other blokes seeing you!) Then there’s lip balm. I do by accident have a girlfriend who appears to have obsessive compulsive disorder when it comes to applying lip balm. Twenty times a day is way effin abnormal.

Later, when it comes to earrings, well ladies, what are you playing at? Massive drop earrings might be hottest trend of the mo’, but I assure you, walking around with a couple of chandeliers dangling from your ear lobes will only make blokes think you’re a nutter. My friend also tends to complained about her girlfriend hair. Well, now I know that men are really from MARS! He told me that his girlfriend has a lovely wavy hair that looks windswept and natural. Unfortunately, whenever she has a posh do’ to go to, she’ll spend an hour-not to mention a load of cash-at the hairdresser getting them to blow-dry it within an inch of its life, so it lies there limply, flatter than a field. I do found that most of young girls these days have straight hair. Hair straighteners and rebonding processes have changed the shape of Malaysian heads. To my surprise, even blokes use them. Why? Because, at some point about 5 years ago, some straight-haired women somewhere managed to spread the silly rumors telling that any hair that isn’t dead straight is somehow a bit…moron. All this super-sleek ‘power hair’ – you can almost see the advert: Straight hair is for winners! – is quite frankly getting a bit dull. Even shampoo advert used straight hair as one of their marketing tool. Lame. I mean, we women are all the same. Remember, blokes like curly hair, too and sometimes, prefer it. They like it messed up and shaggy. Anyway, messy is SEXY!

This is other things that I learn from my guy friend. The Bloke’s Book of Style. It gives u rules on fashion. The dos and don’ts in fashion. Rule number one states that Alice bands should only be worn by poncy, long-haired Italian footballers. Women however should avoid them like the plague. On women, Alice bands conjure up images of horsey, floral-wearing types, running the local jumble sale. Or, even worse, middle-aged ladies who still want to look like they’re 13. Creepy! I know Sienna Miller and even Blair Waldrof wears them, but let her, I say – that’s for someone else to complain about.

Well girls, this is only one guy opinion. If your boyfriend or fling or even your ought-to-be boyfriend like who you are now. Then, it is good for you. As for me, my darling always complained about one thing. FAT! It seems that I just can’t get rid of these chicken fillets. I am trying and will try again.

-nur dhiya abdullah-

Friendship For Dummies

Hi peeps,




I'm in the mood to tell you about the relationship which is very holy beside the relationship between parents and our loved ones. For me, friendship is vital and crucial in every single living creature in this whole wide polluted world. Friendships are the gift to the mankind. The relations which we get in this world are blood related. However the only relationship which does not related to blood is friendship. Friendship has many forms and shapes. It is like water. If we pour the water into a jug it takes the shape of jug. If you pour the same water into a bowl it takes the shape o bowl. Same way friendships will take a different shapes and sizes according to our heart. Friendship gives pleasure to human beings. Where there is friendship then there will not be any sorrow. When you see a child laughing you will forget your sorrows for a second, the same way when you are with a friend you forget your sorrows. Thus, I have decided to write a friendship guidance based on my friendship with my best buddies. Read it. You will know what friendship is all about.


Always be honest, would you want THEM to lie to you?
Be there when they need you, or you may wind up alone.
Cheer them on; we all need encouragement now and then.
Don't look for their faults, even if you have none.
Encourage their dreams, what would we be without them?
Forgive them, you just MAY do something wrong sometime.
Get together often, misery loves company, so does glee.
Have faith in them, the human animal is remarkable.
Include them; you may need to be included sometime.
Just be there when they need you.
Know when they need a hug, and couldn't you use one?
Love them unconditionally, that is the ONLY condition.
Make them feel special, because aren't we ALL special?
Never forget them, who wants to feel forgotten?
Offer to help, and know when "No thanks" is just politeness.
Praise them honestly and openly.
Quietly disagree, noisy NO's make enemies.
Really listen, a friendly ear is a soothing balm.
Say you're sorry, don't let them assume it.
Talk frequently, communication is important.
Use good judgment.
Verbalize your feelings!
Wish them luck, hopefully good!
Xamine your motives before you "help" out.
Your words count, use them wisely.
Zip your lips when told a secret.

However, if you think that best friend should do everything together, then you’re WRONG! If you want to make your friendship last, watch out for the no-go zone. Thus, to make sure you always stay on cordial terms with your best friend, there’s couple of thing you can do to make her feel appreciated by the relationship. You could email her, remember every crucial date like her job interview or her date with a cute guy, never flirt with the guy she likes and you might go to the gym or go for a jog together so you can see each other regularly. Though we like to think that our relationships are the most important things I our life, truth is most of people value money as more of a priority and can get very aggressive about what happens to their money.


-nur dhiya abdullah-