Invoking Powerful Memories with Scent and Song

1 February 2014 | Tine

Invoking Powerful Memories with Scent and Song

During a random chat with LeGeeque a few days ago, she mentioned that she heard a song on the radio on her way to work that reminded her of a moment in her life many years ago. ‘Twas a personal, awkward memory that came flooding back to her just because of that one song.

It got me thinking of how interesting our brains work and how the merest scent and song can invoke the most powerful of memories and emotions.

For example, whenever I hear the song “Dying Inside To Hold You” by Timmy Thomas, it brings me back to when I was 12 years old. I had a bit of a crush on a boy at church and according to my friends, he was apparently crushing on me too. Of course, at that age (and coming from an all-girls’ school), when you hear that the guy you’re crushing on could possibly reciprocate your feelings, it was mind-blogging and stomach-churning (damn butterflies) at the same time. “Dying Inside To Hold You” was top of the radio charts at that time, and my friends would tease me mercilessly by singing that song and pretending to hold each other.

Ahh 12 year olds. Fun times.

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Happy Chinese New Year!

31 January 2014 | Tine

Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Friday, folks and welcome to the lunar new year!

I usually celebrate Chinese New Year with my family in Malaysia but this time, we’re taking a raincheck (also because we spent a bomb on our holiday last year) and spending the time in Melbourne instead. As Tim and I don’t have family in Melbourne, we spent it with our chosen family instead; a group of close friends enjoying a reunion dinner of good ol’ chicken rice and Bollinger champers. *slurp*

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January Hit & Miss List

30 January 2014 | Tine

January Hit & Miss List

I’ve decided to introduce a few more series of posts for 2014 since I quite enjoy doing them last year (BB Creamology, Rudiments of Rouge, List of Lusts, etc). While some may be put to pasture, I thought I’d kickstart the first month of the year with my monthly Hit and Miss List.

It’s not a new concept; it’s a popular monthly favourites series done by beauty bloggers and YouTubers where they tell you what their favourite products of the month are. It’s something I used to do way back when that fell off the bandwagon after a while. I thought I’d resurrect it this year and add my list of misses too. If there’s something good, often there’s something bad, right? 😉

Let’s get started with January’s Hit and Miss List!

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A New Frock for 2014!

29 January 2014 | Tine

Happy hump day, folks!

Noticed something different here, did ya?

It’s been at least three years since I’ve had the plain blog theme that you’ve been accustomed to seeing if you’ve recently joined us (hello!). That’s like wearing the same undies and not changing for … okay let’s not even go there. You get the drift. 😛

When I first started Beautyholics Anonymous, I had a variety of layouts and designs. I’ve done purple, I’ve done red and white and I’ve even dabbled in a whole lot of pink. Three years ago, I decided to give the blog and Beautyholics Anonymous a brand and that was when I came up with the black, red, white and grey logo you’re familiar with. As I’m an advocate of maximising the amount of white space, I gave my blog a very simple theme. It served me well for three years but it’s time to move on and refrock.

Old Beautyholics Anonymous Design