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FENTY SKIN ⚡️ ถือเป็นการปิดปี 2020 ที่ perfect มาก เพราะ fenty skin จะ launch ที SEPHORA วันที่ 26 ธ.ค. นี้แล้วค่าทุกคนนน ❤️ เชื่อว่าหลายๆคนคงตื่นเต้นไม่แพ้เอิร์ก หลังจากที่ได้เข้าร่วม live stream เปิดตัว fenty skin ใน south east asia เมื่อวันที่ 9 ที่ผ่านมา เราได้ลองใช้ fenty skin มาตั้งแต่วันนั้น ผ่านมา 2 อาทิตย์แล้วเลยจะขอมาเล่าถึง first impression พร้อม concept และคุณสมบัติคร่าวๆของ skincare line นี้ ให้ทุกคนได้ฟังกัน เพื่อประกอบการตัดสินใจก่อนจะไปสอยน้องเค้าวันที่ 26 นี้กันค้าา อิอิ.
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FENTY SKIN is skincare uncomplicated 🍒 จะเรียกว่าเป็น universal skincare kit ก็ว่าได้ fenty skin ได้รับแรงบรรดาลใจมาจากการสร้าง product ที่เหมาะสมกับทุกคน ทุกสีผิว ไม่ต่างจากเครื่องสำอางค์ fenty beauty เลยค่ะ 😆 ทุก product ที่ออกมาถูก design มาให้ใช้งานง่าย ไม่สับสน ไม่ยุ่งยากซับซ้อน แถมยังต้องมีประโยชน์และจำเป็นต่อผิวจริงๆ.
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แม่ริเลือกที่จะ launch product ออกมาแค่ 4 ชิ้น ซึ่งตรง concept ของแบรนด์ในเรื่องของพื้นฐานในการดูแลผิว ที่ว่าต้อง #ล้างหน้าสะอาด #ผิวชุ่มชื้น และ #ป้องกันแสงแดด เป็น basic principles of healthy and glowing skin 💫
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⚡️ total cleans’r remove-it-all cleanser 145ml | $25.
⚡️ fat water pore-refining toner serum 150ml | $28.
⚡️ hydra vizor invisible moisturizer broad spectrum spf 30 sunscreen 50 ml | $35.
⚡️ instant reset overnight recovery gel-cream 50ml | $40.
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ราคาไทยต้องรอ @thaisephora ก่อนน้าทุกคนแต่คิดว่าไม่ต่างจากราคา usd ไม่มากค่ะ ☺️
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นอกจากนั้น fenty skin ยังเรียกตัวว่าเป็น clean beauty แม่ริเลือกใช้แต่ ingredient ที่ไม่รุนแรง และปลอดภัยต่อผิว no paraben, no mineral oil, no plastic microbeads, no sls/sles, and more นอกจากนั้นยังเป็น vegan ไม่ใช้ส่วนผสมที่ได้มาจากสัตว์และ cruelty-free.
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แต่ขอแจ้งไว้ก่อนนิดนึงนะคะว่า fenty skin ทุกตัวมีน้ำหอมน้าา เนื่องจากแม่ริเชื่อว่า skincare routine ควรเป็น experience ที่เราทุกคนควรรู้สึก enjoy ไม่ใช่อะไรที่ซีเรียสมากเกิน แต่ทั้งนี้ทั้งนั้นน้ำหอม synthetic ที่เค้าใส่มามีปริมาณไม่ถึง 1% นะคะ ซึ่งถือว่าก่อให้เกิดการระคายเคืองได้ต่ำค่ะ.
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⚡️ total cleans’r remove-it-all cleanser • all in one cleanser ที่ล้างได้ทั้ง make up และสิ่งตกค้างที่อยู่บนผิวโดยไม่ทำให้ผิวแห้งตึงหรือเสียสมดุล มีส่วมผสมที่ดีต่อผิวอย่าง 🍒 barbados cherry (acerola) ที่มี vitamin c สูงกว่าส้มถึง 80 เท่า 🍃 ginkgo biloba ที่ช่วยเรื่องการฟื้นฟูผิว และรักษาสมดุลน้ำมันบนผิว 🍵 green tea และ fig ที่เป็น antioxidant power house นอกจากนั้นเค้ายัง oil-free ด้วยนะคะ.
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👀✨ my thoughts • เป็น cleanser ที่ใช้แล้วชอบมากกกกก เป็น item ที่เราใช้แล้วชอบที่สุดใน line แม่ริทำดีมาก เราสามารถนวด cleanser ลงไปบนผิวที่แห้งได้เลย แล้วค่อยๆเติมน้ำระหว่างนวด เพื่อล้าง makeup อ่อนๆออกได้เลยโดยที่ไม่ต้อง double cleanse สำหรับเราคือถือว่าสะดวกเพราะทาแค่กันแดด คอนซิลเลอร์ และแป้งฝุ่น cleanser ตัวนี้ตัวเดียวคือจบได้ แต่ถ้าทารองพื้นแบบ water-proof หรือแต่งหน้าแน่นๆยังไงเอิร์กก็อยากแนะนำให้ double cleanse ด้วย cleansing water / oil ก่อนนะคะ เพื่อความชัวร์ ยังไงก็ตาม cleanser ตัวนี้ใช้แล้ว feel good กลิ่นน้ำหอมเค้าเบามากๆ ใส่มาใน level ที่ยังสบายใจอยู่ ใช้แล้วผิวไม่แห้งตึง แถมหน้านุ่มมากๆค่ะ แถม packaging ยังดีเริสส สามารถหมุนตรงหัวแล้วบีบออกมาได้เลยไม่ยุ่งยาก.
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⚡️ fat water pore-refining toner serum • ตกลงจะ toner หรือ serum นะ? หลายคนคงจะงง 555 แต่ไม่ต้องคิดมากค่ะ ใช้เป็นน้ำตบไปเลยค่ะทุกคน แม่ริเค้ารวมมาให้แล้ว คุณคนนี้เป็นทั้ง toner, essense และ serum ในตัวเดียว เทใส่ฝ่ามือแล้วกดลงบนผิวหลังล้างหน้า เป็นขั้นตอนแรกได้เลยโดยที่ไม่ต้องใช้สำลี toner serum ตัวนี้มีส่วนผสมที่ดีต่อผิวมากๆไม่ว่าจะเป็น ✨ niacinamide ที่ช่วยเรื่องปรับสมดุลผิว ไม่ให้มันเกินไป ทำให้รูขุมขนดูเล็กลงได้ แถมช่วยเรื่องกระจ่างใสได้ดี 🍒 barbados cherry (acerola) ที่อุดมไปด้วย vitamin c ช่วยเรื่อง antioxidant แล้วความกระจ่างใส 🍃 witch hazel ช่วยเรื่องการปลอบประโลมผิวและควบคุมความมัน 🌳 Japanese raisin tree ช่วยเรื่อง detox ผิว 🌵 cactus flower ช่วยเรื่องความชุ่มชื้น และ 🍵 green tea & fig ที่เสริมเรื่อง antioxidants ค่าา.
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👀✨ my thoughts • ถือเป็น basic item ที่น่าจะเหมาะกับคนที่กำลังเริ่มสร้าง skincare routine ของตัวเอง ใน toner serum ตัวนี้ถือว่าครบในเรื่องของการดูแลผิวให้สุขภาพดีแถมใช้ง่ายไม่ยุ่งยาก เนื้อ toner serum มีความเป็นเจลๆ ใสๆที่ซึมเร็วและไม่เหนียวเหนอะหน่ะ คิดว่าหลายๆคนคงจะชอบโดยเฉพาะคนผิวมันหรือคุณผู้ชายที่ไม่ชอบความเหนอะหน่ะ ส่วนผสมที่ใส่มาส่วนใหญ่เน้นไปในเรื่องของการรักษาสมดุลและเพิ่มสารอาหารให้ผิว คิดว่าน่าจะเหมาะกับน้องๆ หรือใครก็แล้วแต่ที่อยากเริ่มดูแลผิวแต่ไม่รู้จะเริ่มยังไงดี ตัวนี้ก็มีค่อนข้างครบและตอบโจทย์ในเรื่องของความอ่อนโอน ไม่มีส่วนผสมที่ harsh เกินไป ส่วนเรื่องผลลัพธ์น่าจะต้องดูไปในระยะยาว ไว้จะคอยมารายงานนะคะ ตอนนี้ so far so good ค่ะ 😘.
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⚡️ hydra vizor invisible moisturizer broad spectrum spf 30 sunscreen • ส่วนตัวตื่นเต้นกับ day cream ตัวนี้มากเพราะเค้าคือ moisturizer ที่ผสมกันแดดค่าาาา ❤️ คือทาตัวเดียวได้เลยไม่ต้องทากันแดดเพิ่ม สำหรับคนที่ใช้ชีวิตประจำวันอยู่ในตึกคล้ายๆเรา ที่จริงแล้ว spf 30 ก็เพียงพอต่อการปกป้องผิวจากแสงแดดนะ แล้วที่แม่ริเค้ารวมมาให้ใน moisturizer ตัวนี้ก็เพราะอยากให้กันแดดเป็นส่วนนึงในการใช้ชีวิตของทุกคนไปเลย เพราะที่จริงแล้วการป้องกันคือสำคัญที่สุดเลยค่ะ ซึ่ง uv filters ที่เค้าเลือกใช้จะเป็นแบบ chemical แม่ริเคลมว่าใช้แล้วหน้าไม่วอก แถมยังใช้แทนเป็น makeup base ได้เลย.
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และอีก 1 ความพิเศษคือเค้ามาใน packging ที่เติม re-fill ได้ค่ะทุกคน ซึ่งเราชอบมากกกก ปัญหาที่ใหญ่สำหรับเราในตอนนี้คือขยะเยอะอะ แล้วมันคงจะดีถ้าช่วยลดขยะได้สำหรับ item ที่เราซื้อใช้ซ้ำบ่อยๆ ซึ่งเราว่าเป็น excellent move สำหรับ fenty skin เลยที่จะช่วย motivate ให้แบรนด์อื่นๆเริ่มใส่ใจกับ waste probelm อย่างจริงจังค่ะ 🥰
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พูดถึงเรื่องส่วนผสม moisturizer ตัวนี้เน้นเรื่อง hydration และ protection เป็นหลักค่ะ มี 🍉 kalahari melon ที่มี vitamin และ antioxidant ต่างๆ รวมถึงช่วยเพิ่มความชุ่มชื้นให้ผิว ✨ niacinamide ที่มาช่วนปรับสมดุลผิว พร้อมปรับให้ผิวกระจ่างใสขึ้น 💦 hyaluronic acid & aloe ช่วยเติมน้ำให้ผิว ปลอบปลอบประโลมให้ผิวสงบ และ 🌵 baobab ที่เป็น super fruit จากฝั่ง Africa มี antioxidant power สูงงงมาก.
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👀✨ my thoughts • เราชอบมากๆๆๆที่เค้ารวมเอากันแดดและ moisturizer มาเป็นตัวเดียวกัน ทำให้ skincare routine เรียบง่ายขึ้นเยอะ เนื้อครีมมี tint สีชมพูอ่อนๆ ทาแล้วผิวดูสว่างขึ้นเล็กน้อย ทิ้งไว้สัก 10 วิ ครีมก็ซึมกลืนไปกับผิวค่ะ ส่วนตัวคิดว่าเค้าช่วยเรื่อง hydration แบบจริงจังมาก ทาแล้วผิวชุ่มชื้นเลย คนผิวผสม-แห้งจะ love มาก แต่ต้องพูดตรงๆว่าน้องคนนี้อาจไม่เหมาะกับคนผิวมัน เพราะทาไปแล้วมีความวาวและฉ่ำเล็กน้อย แล้วจะให้ลดปริมาณในการใช้ก็คงไม่ได้เพราะกันแดดเราต้องทา 2 ข้อนิ้วขึ้นไปเสมอ ส่วนตัวเอิร์กใช้ได้ค่ะไม่มีปัญหาเลยไม่เมือก ไม่อุดตัน เพราะไม่ได้ผิวมัน ใช้ในวันที่รีบๆ ทาครีมตัวเดียวก็จบได้ ผิวดูฉ่ำ glow และไม่กวน make up ใดๆ (เราชอบหน้า glow อยู่แล้ว) แต่ถ้าใครเป็นสาย matte สายฆ่าความมันเราว่าน่าจะต้องไปลองเนื้อที่เค้าเตอร์ก่อนตัดสินใจซื้อจะดีกว่าเนอะ.
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【對華政策的範式轉移】絕對是歷史性講話.
#成萬字 #萬言書 #頹譯都譯死人

----小弟頹譯------
蓬佩奧：謝謝。謝謝你們。州長，您的慷慨介紹。的確是這樣：當您在那個體育館裡散步時，說出“蓬佩奧”的名字，人們就會耳語。因為，我有一個兄弟，Mark，他是一個非常好，一位非常出色的籃球運動員。

請為藍鷹榮譽衛隊（Blue Eagles Honor Guard）及飛行員Kayla Highsmith下士對國歌的精彩演繹給多一次掌聲如何？ （掌聲）

也要感謝Laurie牧師那動人的祈禱，我還要感謝Hugh Hewitt和尼克遜基金會的邀請讓我在這個重要的美國機構發言。很高興能受空軍人員演唱，由海軍陸戰隊介紹，讓個一個陸軍傢伙站在海軍傢伙的房子前面。 （笑聲）（按蓬佩奧曾在美國陸軍服役 ）一切都很好。

很榮幸來到Yorba Linda，尼克遜的父親在那裡建立了他出生和成長的房屋。

在這困難時刻，使今天成為可能的尼克遜中心董事會和工作人員，感謝，感謝我和我的團隊使這一天成為可能。

我們很幸運能在觀眾中見到一些特別的嘉賓，包括我認識的Chris Nixon (尼克遜的孫，Christopher Nixon Cox)。我還要感謝Tricia Nixon和Julie Nixon Eisenhower　（尼克遜兩位女兒）對這次訪問的支持。

我還想提一提幾位勇敢的中國持不同政見者，他們長途跋涉並出席。其他尊貴的客人-（掌聲）-尊貴的客人，謝謝您的光臨。那些在帳篷下的人，您們必須支付額外的費用（笑）。

以及那些正在觀看直播的人，感謝您的收看。

最後，正如州長所說，我在Santa Ana出生，離這裡不遠。今天有我的姐姐和她的丈夫在聽眾中。謝謝大家的光臨。我敢打賭，您從沒想過我會站在這裡。

我今天的講話是我在一系列中國演講中的第四組講話，我請國家安全顧問Robert O’Brien，聯邦調查局局長Chris Wray和司法部長Barr陪同我發言。

我們有一個非常明確的目標，一個實在的任務。這是在解釋美國與中國關係的不同方面，數十年來這種關係中出現的巨大失衡以及中國共產黨所計劃的霸權。

我們的目標是明確指出，特朗普總統的中國政策正在解決的對美國人的威脅是明顯的，並且我們正確立保障自由的戰略。Robert O’Brien談到了意識形態。聯邦調查局局長Wray談到了間諜活動。司法部長Barr談到了經濟學。現在，我今天的目標是將這一切匯總給美國人民，並詳細說明中國的威脅對我們的經濟，我們的自由，乃至全球自由民主國家的未來的衝擊。

自基辛格（Kissinger）博士秘密訪問中國以來，到明年已經過去了半個世紀，而尼克松總統訪華50週年也就在2022年。

那時世界大不一樣了。

我們以為與中國交往（engagement）將創造一個帶有友好合作前景的美好未來。

但是今天—今天我們仍然戴著口罩，看著疫性的死亡人數仍在增加，因為中共對世界的承諾沒有兌現。我們每天早上都在讀到鎮壓香港和新疆的新聞消息。

我們看到的中國貿易濫用行為的驚人數字使美國失去了工作，並給整個美國經濟帶來了沉重打擊，包括南加州。而且我們正在看著一支越來越強大，甚至更具威脅性的中國軍隊。

從加利福尼亞州到我的家鄉堪薩斯州以及其他地區，我都有著與美國人心中的疑問：從與中國交往至今，美國人民這50年見到了什麼？

領袖們曾說過的中國邁向自由與民主發展的理論是否正確？

這是中國對 "雙贏" 局面的定義嗎？

實際上，從國務卿的角度來看，美國更安全嗎？我們是否有更大的可能為我們自己實現和平，並為我們之後的子孫後代享有和平？

看，我們必須承認一個硬道理。我們必須承認一個硬道理，它將指導我們在未來幾十年中發展，如果我們要擁有一個自由的21世紀，而不是習近平夢想的中國世紀，那麼與中國盲目交往的舊範式坦白說是沒有贏的機會。我們決不能在此繼續，也絕不能重返。

正如特朗普總統已明確指出的那樣，我們需要一項保護美國經濟乃至我們生活方式的戰略。自由世界必須戰勝這一新的暴政。 The free world must triumph over this new tyranny.

現在，在我似乎不太希望拆除尼克遜總統的遺產之前，我想明確地說，他做了當時他認為最適合美國人民的事情，而且他很可能是對的。

他是中國的傑出學生，冷酷的勇士和中國人民的偉大仰慕者，正如我們一樣。

他意識到中國太重要而不能忽視，即使國力由於自身的共產主義野蠻行為而被削弱。這值得尼克遜給予極大的讚譽。

1967年，尼克遜在一篇非常著名的外交事務文章中解釋了他的未來戰略。

他的話是這樣的：他說：“從長遠來看，我們根本無法永遠把中國留在國際大家庭之外……在中國改變之前，世界不會安全。因此，我們的目標是 —在可能的範圍內，我們必須作出影響，而我們的目標應該是促使改變。”

我認為這是整篇文章中的關鍵詞：“促使改變”。

因此，在歷史性的北京之行中，尼克遜總統開始了我們的交住戰略。他崇高地尋求一個更自由，更安全的世界，並希望中國共產黨能兌現這一承諾。

隨著時間的流逝，美國決策者越來越多地認為，隨著中國變得更加繁榮，它將會對外開放，它會在國內變得更加自由，而實際上在國外所面臨的威脅卻越來越小，它將變得更加友好。這一切似乎都是不可避免的。

但是那個必然的時代已經過去了。我們一直在進行的這種交往並沒有帶來尼克遜總統希望所引起的中國內部的變化。事實是，我們的政策以及其他自由國家的政策使中國經濟從衰落得以恢復，但北京反咬了養活它的國際力量。

我們曾向中國公民張開雙臂，只是看到中國共產黨利用我們的自由開放社會。中國派宣傳員參加了我們的新聞發布會，研究中心，高中，大學，甚至參加了家長教師會議。

我們將台灣的朋友邊緣化，後來台灣蓬勃發展為積極的民主國家。

我們給中國共產黨和政權本身以特殊的經濟待遇，只是看到中共堅持以對其人權侵犯保持沉默作為讓西方公司進入中國市場的代價。

前一天，Robert O’Brien大使舉了幾個例子：萬豪，美國航空，達美航空，聯合航空都從其公司網站上刪除了對台灣的提及，以免激怒北京。在荷里活，這裏的不遠處，距離美國創作自由的中心和自命為社會正義的仲裁者，他們的自我審查可說是對中國發展最不利的參考。

公司對CCP的默許也發生在世界各地。

這種企業忠誠度如何運作？奉承會得到獎勵嗎？讓我引述Barr總檢察長在講話。他在上週的一次演講中說：“中國統治者的最終野心不是與美國進行貿易。是要略奪美國。”

中國剝奪了我們寶貴的知識產權和商業機密，損失了在美國各地了數百萬個就業機會。它從美國吸走了供應鏈，然後添加了一個由奴隸制度製成的小工具。

它使世界上主要的水路對國際貿易而言變得不那麼安全。

尼克遜總統曾經說過，他擔心自己通過向中共開放世界而創造了一個“科學怪人”，這正是如此。

現在，有誠信的人可以辯論為什麼自由國家允許這些年來，這些不好的事情發生。也許我們對中國的惡毒的共產主義幼稚，或者在我們在冷戰勝利後變得自大，或者軟弱的資本主義者被北京所說的“和平崛起”所愚昧。

無論出於何種原因—無論出於何種原因，今天的中國在國內都越來越專制，並開始對其他地方的自由作出干預。

特朗普總統說：夠了。

我不認為兩派的人對我今天所說的事實提出異議。但是即使到現在，也有人堅持認為，為了對話而對話。

現在，要明確地說，我們將繼續討論。但是這些對話的意義是不同的。幾週前，我去了檀香山，與楊潔篪見面。

這是同樣的古老故事—說了很多話，但實際上沒有任何改變任何行為的提議。

楊的承諾，就像中共在他面前做出的許多承諾一樣，都是空洞的。我想，他的期望是我會屈服於他們的要求，因為坦率地說，這是許多前任政府所做的。我沒有，特朗普總統也不會。正如O’Brien很好地解釋的那樣，我們必須記住，中共政權是馬克思列寧主義政權。習近平堅信這已破產的極權主義思想。

正是這種意識形態，正是這種意識形態反映了他數十年來對全球共產主義中國霸權的渴望。美國再也不能忽視我們兩國之間的根本政治和意識形態差異，就像中共從來沒有忽視它們一樣。

以我在眾議院情報委員會，然後擔任中央情報局局長，以及擔任美國國務卿兩年多的經驗，使我對這種中央理解成為可能：

唯一的方式　—　真正改變共產主義中國的唯一方法，不是對中國領導人聽其言，而是觀其行。您會看到美國政策對此結論做出了回應。列根總統說，他是在“信任但要核實”的基礎上與蘇聯打交道的。關於中共，我說我們必須＂不信任和核查＂。 （掌聲）

我們，世界上熱愛自由的國家，必須像尼克遜總統所希望的那樣，促使中國發生變化。我們必須促使中國以更具創造性和果斷性的方式進行變革，因為北京的行動威脅著我們的人民和我們的繁榮。

我們必須首先改變我們的人民和我們的伙伴對中國共產黨的看法。我們必須說實話。我們不能像其他任何國家一樣，把這個假象視為正常國家。

我們知道，與中國進行貿易不像與一個正常的，遵守法律的國家進行貿易。北京威脅將國際協議視為—將協議視為建議，以作為主導全球的渠道。

但是，通過堅持公平條款，就像我們的貿易代表在獲得第一階段貿易協議時所做的那樣，我們可以迫使中國考慮其知識產權盜竊和損害美國工人的政策。

我們也知道，與擁有CCP支持的公司開展業務與與一家加拿大公司開展業務不同。他們不回答獨立委員會的問題，而且其中許多是由國家贊助的，因此無需追求利潤。

華為就是一個很好的例子。我們不再假裝華為是一家無辜的電信公司，它的出現是為了確保您可以和朋友聊天。我們稱其為真正的國家安全威脅，並為採取了相應的行動。

我們也知道，如果我們的公司在中國投資，他們可能會有意或無意地支持共產黨嚴重侵犯人權的行為。

因此，我們的美國財政部和商務部已批准並將那些危害和濫用世界人民最基本權利的中國領導人和實體列入黑名單。多個部門已就商業諮詢機構合作，以確保我們的CEO了解其供應鏈在中國境內的工作。

我們也知道，我們也知道並非所有的中國學生和僱員都只是來這裡賺錢和積累一些知識的普通學生和工人。他們太多人來這裡竊取我們的知識產權並將其帶回自己的國家。司法部和其他機構已對這些罪行進行了嚴厲的懲罰。

我們知道，解放軍也不是正規軍。其目的是維護中國共產黨精英的絕對統治，擴大中國帝國，而不是保護中國人民。

因此，美國國防部加大了工作力度，擴大了在東，南海以及台灣海峽以及整個海峽的航行操作自由。我們還建立了一支太空部隊，以幫助阻止中國對這一最後邊界的侵略。

同樣，坦率地說，我們在美國國務院制定了一套與中國打交道的新政策，推動特朗普總統實現公正與互惠的目標，以改寫幾十年來不斷加劇的失衡。

就在本週，我們宣布關閉在休斯敦的中國領事館，因為它是間諜和知識產權盜竊的樞紐。 （掌聲）

兩週前，我們在南中國海扭轉了過去八年忽略的國際法權益。

我們呼籲中國限制其核能力以適應當今時代的戰略現實。

國務院- 在世界各地，各個層面- 都與中國同行進行了交流，只是要求公平和互惠。

但是我們的方法不只是要變得強硬。那不可能達到我們想要的結果。我們還必須與中國人民互動並賦予他們權力，他們是一個充滿活力，熱愛自由的人民，他們與中國共產黨完全不同。首先是面對面的外交。 （掌聲）

無論我走到哪裡，我都遇到了有才華和勤奮的中國人。我遇過逃離新疆集中營的維吾爾族和哈薩克族。我曾與香港的民主領袖進行了交談，有陳日君樞機到黎智英。兩天前，我在倫敦會見了香港自由戰士羅冠聰。

上個月在我的辦公室裡，我聽到了天安門廣場倖存者的故事。其中之一今天在這裡。王丹是一名關鍵學生，他從未停止為中國人民爭取自由。王先生，請您站起來，以便我們見到您嗎？ （掌聲）

今天與我們同在的還有中國民主運動之父魏京生。他在中國的勞改營度過了幾十年的時間。魏先生，你能站起來嗎？ （掌聲）

我成長及服役於冷戰時期。如果我學到一件事，共產黨人幾乎總是撒謊。他們告訴我們的最大謊言是，他們認為自己能代表14億被監視，壓迫和害怕說出來的人。

恰恰相反。中共比任何敵人都更擔心中國人民的誠實觀點，失去對權力的控制。

試想一下，如果我們能夠從武漢的醫生那裡聽到他們的來信，並且允許他們對新疫病的爆發發出警報，那麼世界會變得更好—更不用說中國內部的人了。

幾十年來，我們的領袖一直無視，淡化勇敢的中國異見者的話，他們警告過我們所面對之政權。

我們不能再忽略它了。他們與任何人一樣知道我們永遠無法回到現狀。

但是改變中共的舉動並不單單是中國人民的使命。自由國家必須努力捍衛自由。這不是簡單的事情。

但是我有信心我們可以做到。我有信心，因為我們以前做過。我們知道這是怎麼回事。我有信心，因為中共正在重複蘇聯犯下的一些同樣的錯誤-疏遠潛在的盟友，破壞國內外的信任，拒絕財產權和法治。

我有信心。我之所以有信心，是因為我看到其他國家之間的覺醒，他們知道我們無法回到過去，美國亦如是。我從布魯塞爾，悉尼到河內都聽說過。

最重要的是，我相信我們可以捍衛自由，因為自由本身是漂亮的。

看看香港人因中共加強對這個驕傲城市的控制，要移居海外。他們揮舞著美國國旗。

是的，確實有差異。與蘇聯不同，中國已深入融入全球經濟。但是，北京對我們依賴，甚於我們依賴他們。 （掌聲）

瞧，我拒絕相信我們生活在一個不可避免中國的時代，某些陷阱（按：修昔底德陷阱）是預設的，中共至上是未來。我們的方法不是注定失敗的，因為美國正在衰落。正如我在今年早些時候在慕尼黑說的那樣，自由世界仍在勝利的一方。我們只需要相信它，就明白它並為此感到自豪。來自世界各地的人們仍然希望加入開放社會。他們來到這裡學習，來到這里工作，來到這里為家人謀生。他們並不想留在中國。

是時候了。今天很高興來到這裡。這是完美的時機。現在是自由國家採取行動的時候了。並非每個國家都將以同樣的方式對待中國，也不應該。每個國家都必須對如何保護自己的主權，如何保護自己的經濟繁榮以及如何保護自己的理想不受中國共產黨的觸碰而有所了解。

但是我呼籲每個國家的每一個領導人—如美國所先行的—簡單地堅持互惠，堅持中國共產黨的透明度和問責制。

這些簡單而強大的標準將取得很大的成就。太長時間了，我們讓中共制定交往條款，但不再這樣做。自由國家必須定下基調。

我們必須遵循相同的原則。我們必須在沙子上劃出共同的界線，而這不能被中共的討價還價或他們的野蠻沖走。確實，這就是美國最近所做的事情，因為我們一勞永逸地拒絕了中國在南中國海的非法主張，因為我們已敦促各國成為廉潔國家，以免其公民的私人信息落在手裡中國共產黨。我們通過制定標準來做到這一點。

現在，這確實很困難。對於一些小國家來說很難。他們害怕被人欺負。因此，其中一些人根本沒有能力，沒有勇氣暫時與我們站在一起。的確，我們與北約的盟友並未以其對香港的立場站起來，因為他們擔心北京會限制中國市場的准入。這種膽怯會導致歷史性的失敗，我們無法重複。

我們不能重複過去幾年的錯誤。中國面臨的挑戰要求民主國家發揮作用和精力，民主國家包括歐洲，非洲，南美，尤其是印度太平洋地區。

而且，如果我們現在不採取行動，那麼中共最終將侵蝕我們的自由，並顛覆我們的社會努力建立的基於法規的秩序。如果我們現在屈膝，我們孩子的孩子可能會受到中國共產黨的擺佈，中國共產黨的行動是當今自由世界中的主要挑戰。

習近平總書記註定不會永遠在中國內外施暴，除非我們允許

現在，這與圍堵無關。不要相信這策略。這是我們從未遇到過的複雜的新挑戰。蘇聯與自由世界隔絕了。共產主義中國已經在我們的邊界之內。

因此，我們不能獨自面對這一挑戰。聯合國，北約，七國集團國家，二十國集團，我們的經濟，外交和軍事力量合力，如果我們清楚明確地並勇往直前，無疑足以應付這一挑戰。

也許是時候讓志趣相投的國家組成一個新的團體，一個新的民主國家聯盟了。

我們有工具。我知道我們可以做到。現在我們需要意志。引用聖經經文，我問“要警醒禱告，免得陷入試探。你們心靈雖然願意，肉體卻是軟弱的。”

如果自由世界沒有改變 —沒有改變，共產主義中國一定會改變我們。無法因為舒適或便利而返回到過去的做法。

確保我們脫離中國共產黨的自由是我們這個時代的使命，而美國完全有能力領導它，

因為我們的建國原則為我們提供了這一機會。正如我上週在費城站立時所看到的那樣，注視著獨立廳，我們的國家建立在所有人類都擁有不可剝奪的某些權利的前提下。

確保這些權利是我們政府的工作。這是一個簡單而有力的真理。它使我們成為全世界人民的自由燈塔，包括中國境內的人。

確實，尼克遜在1967年寫道“除非中國改變，否則世界是不安全的”是正確的。現在我們該聽他的話了。

今天的危機已經明確了。

今天，覺醒正在發生。

今天，自由世界必須作出回應。

我們永遠無法回到過去。

願上帝保佑你們每個人。

願上帝保佑中國人民。＇

願上帝保佑美利堅合眾國人民。

謝謝你們。（掌聲）

Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you, Governor, for that very, very generous introduction. It is true: When you walk in that gym and you say the name “Pompeo,” there is a whisper. I had a brother, Mark, who was really good – a really good basketball player.
And how about another round of applause for the Blue Eagles Honor Guard and Senior Airman Kayla Highsmith, and her wonderful rendition of the national anthem? (Applause.)
Thank you, too, to Pastor Laurie for that moving prayer, and I want to thank Hugh Hewitt and the Nixon Foundation for your invitation to speak at this important American institution. It was great to be sung to by an Air Force person, introduced by a Marine, and they let the Army guy in in front of the Navy guy’s house. (Laughter.) It’s all good.
It’s an honor to be here in Yorba Linda, where Nixon’s father built the house in which he was born and raised.
To all the Nixon Center board and staff who made today possible – it’s difficult in these times – thanks for making this day possible for me and for my team.
We are blessed to have some incredibly special people in the audience, including Chris, who I’ve gotten to know – Chris Nixon. I also want to thank Tricia Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower for their support of this visit as well.
I want to recognize several courageous Chinese dissidents who have joined us here today and made a long trip.
And to all the other distinguished guests – (applause) – to all the other distinguished guests, thank you for being here. For those of you who got under the tent, you must have paid extra.
And those of you watching live, thank you for tuning in.
And finally, as the governor mentioned, I was born here in Santa Ana, not very far from here. I’ve got my sister and her husband in the audience today. Thank you all for coming out. I bet you never thought that I’d be standing up here.
My remarks today are the fourth set of remarks in a series of China speeches that I asked National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, FBI Director Chris Wray, and the Attorney General Barr to deliver alongside me.
We had a very clear purpose, a real mission. It was to explain the different facets of America’s relationship with China, the massive imbalances in that relationship that have built up over decades, and the Chinese Communist Party’s designs for hegemony.
Our goal was to make clear that the threats to Americans that President Trump’s China policy aims to address are clear and our strategy for securing those freedoms established.
Ambassador O’Brien spoke about ideology. FBI Director Wray talked about espionage. Attorney General Barr spoke about economics. And now my goal today is to put it all together for the American people and detail what the China threat means for our economy, for our liberty, and indeed for the future of free democracies around the world.
Next year marks half a century since Dr. Kissinger’s secret mission to China, and the 50th anniversary of President Nixon’s trip isn’t too far away in 2022.
The world was much different then.
We imagined engagement with China would produce a future with bright promise of comity and cooperation.
But today – today we’re all still wearing masks and watching the pandemic’s body count rise because the CCP failed in its promises to the world. We’re reading every morning new headlines of repression in Hong Kong and in Xinjiang.
We’re seeing staggering statistics of Chinese trade abuses that cost American jobs and strike enormous blows to the economies all across America, including here in southern California. And we’re watching a Chinese military that grows stronger and stronger, and indeed more menacing.
I’ll echo the questions ringing in the hearts and minds of Americans from here in California to my home state of Kansas and beyond:
What do the American people have to show now 50 years on from engagement with China?
Did the theories of our leaders that proposed a Chinese evolution towards freedom and democracy prove to be true?
Is this China’s definition of a win-win situation?
And indeed, centrally, from the Secretary of State’s perspective, is America safer? Do we have a greater likelihood of peace for ourselves and peace for the generations which will follow us?
Look, we have to admit a hard truth. We must admit a hard truth that should guide us in the years and decades to come, that if we want to have a free 21st century, and not the Chinese century of which Xi Jinping dreams, the old paradigm of blind engagement with China simply won’t get it done. We must not continue it and we must not return to it.
As President Trump has made very clear, we need a strategy that protects the American economy, and indeed our way of life. The free world must triumph over this new tyranny.
Now, before I seem too eager to tear down President Nixon’s legacy, I want to be clear that he did what he believed was best for the American people at the time, and he may well have been right.
He was a brilliant student of China, a fierce cold warrior, and a tremendous admirer of the Chinese people, just as I think we all are.
He deserves enormous credit for realizing that China was too important to be ignored, even when the nation was weakened because of its own self-inflicted communist brutality.
In 1967, in a very famous Foreign Affairs article, Nixon explained his future strategy. Here’s what he said:
He said, “Taking the long view, we simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside of the family of nations…The world cannot be safe until China changes. Thus, our aim – to the extent we can, we must influence events. Our goal should be to induce change.”
And I think that’s the key phrase from the entire article: “to induce change.”
So, with that historic trip to Beijing, President Nixon kicked off our engagement strategy. He nobly sought a freer and safer world, and he hoped that the Chinese Communist Party would return that commitment.
As time went on, American policymakers increasingly presumed that as China became more prosperous, it would open up, it would become freer at home, and indeed present less of a threat abroad, it’d be friendlier. It all seemed, I am sure, so inevitable.
But that age of inevitability is over. The kind of engagement we have been pursuing has not brought the kind of change inside of China that President Nixon had hoped to induce.
The truth is that our policies – and those of other free nations – resurrected China’s failing economy, only to see Beijing bite the international hands that were feeding it.
We opened our arms to Chinese citizens, only to see the Chinese Communist Party exploit our free and open society. China sent propagandists into our press conferences, our research centers, our high-schools, our colleges, and even into our PTA meetings.
We marginalized our friends in Taiwan, which later blossomed into a vigorous democracy.
We gave the Chinese Communist Party and the regime itself special economic treatment, only to see the CCP insist on silence over its human rights abuses as the price of admission for Western companies entering China.
Ambassador O’Brien ticked off a few examples just the other day: Marriott, American Airlines, Delta, United all removed references to Taiwan from their corporate websites, so as not to anger Beijing.
In Hollywood, not too far from here – the epicenter of American creative freedom, and self-appointed arbiters of social justice – self-censors even the most mildly unfavorable reference to China.
This corporate acquiescence to the CCP happens all over the world, too.
And how has this corporate fealty worked? Is its flattery rewarded? I’ll give you a quote from the speech that General Barr gave, Attorney General Barr. In a speech last week, he said that “The ultimate ambition of China’s rulers isn’t to trade with the United States. It is to raid the United States.”
China ripped off our prized intellectual property and trade secrets, causing millions of jobs[1] all across America.
It sucked supply chains away from America, and then added a widget made of slave labor.
It made the world’s key waterways less safe for international commerce.
President Nixon once said he feared he had created a “Frankenstein” by opening the world to the CCP, and here we are.
Now, people of good faith can debate why free nations allowed these bad things to happen for all these years. Perhaps we were naive about China’s virulent strain of communism, or triumphalist after our victory in the Cold War, or cravenly capitalist, or hoodwinked by Beijing’s talk of a “peaceful rise.”
Whatever the reason – whatever the reason, today China is increasingly authoritarian at home, and more aggressive in its hostility to freedom everywhere else.
And President Trump has said: enough.
I don’t think many people on either side of the aisle dispute the facts that I have laid out today. But even now, some are insisting that we preserve the model of dialogue for dialogue’s sake.
Now, to be clear, we’ll keep on talking. But the conversations are different these days. I traveled to Honolulu now just a few weeks back to meet with Yang Jiechi.
It was the same old story – plenty of words, but literally no offer to change any of the behaviors.
Yang’s promises, like so many the CCP made before him, were empty. His expectations, I surmise, were that I’d cave to their demands, because frankly this is what too many prior administrations have done. I didn’t, and President Trump will not either.
As Ambassador O’Brien explained so well, we have to keep in mind that the CCP regime is a Marxist-Leninist regime. General Secretary Xi Jinping is a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology.
It’s this ideology, it’s this ideology that informs his decades-long desire for global hegemony of Chinese communism. America can no longer ignore the fundamental political and ideological differences between our countries, just as the CCP has never ignored them.
My experience in the House Intelligence Committee, and then as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and my now two-plus years as America’s Secretary of State have led me to this central understanding:
That the only way – the only way to truly change communist China is to act not on the basis of what Chinese leaders say, but how they behave. And you can see American policy responding to this conclusion. President Reagan said that he dealt with the Soviet Union on the basis of “trust but verify.” When it comes to the CCP, I say we must distrust and verify. (Applause.)
We, the freedom-loving nations of the world, must induce China to change, just as President Nixon wanted. We must induce China to change in more creative and assertive ways, because Beijing’s actions threaten our people and our prosperity.
We must start by changing how our people and our partners perceive the Chinese Communist Party. We have to tell the truth. We can’t treat this incarnation of China as a normal country, just like any other.
We know that trading with China is not like trading with a normal, law-abiding nation. Beijing threatens international agreements as – treats international suggestions as – or agreements as suggestions, as conduits for global dominance.
But by insisting on fair terms, as our trade representative did when he secured our phase one trade deal, we can force China to reckon with its intellectual property theft and policies that harmed American workers.
We know too that doing business with a CCP-backed company is not the same as doing business with, say, a Canadian company. They don’t answer to independent boards, and many of them are state-sponsored and so have no need to pursue profits.
A good example is Huawei. We stopped pretending Huawei is an innocent telecommunications company that’s just showing up to make sure you can talk to your friends. We’ve called it what it is – a true national security threat – and we’ve taken action accordingly.
We know too that if our companies invest in China, they may wittingly or unwittingly support the Communist Party’s gross human rights violations.
Our Departments of Treasury and Commerce have thus sanctioned and blacklisted Chinese leaders and entities that are harming and abusing the most basic rights for people all across the world. Several agencies have worked together on a business advisory to make certain our CEOs are informed of how their supply chains are behaving inside of China.
We know too, we know too that not all Chinese students and employees are just normal students and workers that are coming here to make a little bit of money and to garner themselves some knowledge. Too many of them come here to steal our intellectual property and to take this back to their country.
The Department of Justice and other agencies have vigorously pursued punishment for these crimes.
We know that the People’s Liberation Army is not a normal army, too. Its purpose is to uphold the absolute rule of the Chinese Communist Party elites and expand a Chinese empire, not to protect the Chinese people.
And so our Department of Defense has ramped up its efforts, freedom of navigation operations out and throughout the East and South China Seas, and in the Taiwan Strait as well. And we’ve created a Space Force to help deter China from aggression on that final frontier.
And so too, frankly, we’ve built out a new set of policies at the State Department dealing with China, pushing President Trump’s goals for fairness and reciprocity, to rewrite the imbalances that have grown over decades.
Just this week, we announced the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston because it was a hub of spying and intellectual property theft. (Applause.)
We reversed, two weeks ago, eight years of cheek-turning with respect to international law in the South China Sea.
We’ve called on China to conform its nuclear capabilities to the strategic realities of our time.
And the State Department – at every level, all across the world – has engaged with our Chinese counterparts simply to demand fairness and reciprocity.
But our approach can’t just be about getting tough. That’s unlikely to achieve the outcome that we desire. We must also engage and empower the Chinese people – a dynamic, freedom-loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party.
That begins with in-person diplomacy. (Applause.) I’ve met Chinese men and women of great talent and diligence wherever I go.
I’ve met with Uyghurs and ethnic Kazakhs who escaped Xinjiang’s concentration camps. I’ve talked with Hong Kong’s democracy leaders, from Cardinal Zen to Jimmy Lai. Two days ago in London, I met with Hong Kong freedom fighter Nathan Law.
And last month in my office, I heard the stories of Tiananmen Square survivors. One of them is here today.
Wang Dan was a key student who has never stopped fighting for freedom for the Chinese people. Mr. Wang, will you please stand so that we may recognize you? (Applause.)
Also with us today is the father of the Chinese democracy movement, Wei Jingsheng. He spent decades in Chinese labor camps for his advocacy. Mr. Wei, will you please stand? (Applause.)
I grew up and served my time in the Army during the Cold War. And if there is one thing I learned, communists almost always lie. The biggest lie that they tell is to think that they speak for 1.4 billion people who are surveilled, oppressed, and scared to speak out.
Quite the contrary. The CCP fears the Chinese people’s honest opinions more than any foe, and save for losing their own grip on power, they have reason – no reason to.
Just think how much better off the world would be – not to mention the people inside of China – if we had been able to hear from the doctors in Wuhan and they’d been allowed to raise the alarm about the outbreak of a new and novel virus.
For too many decades, our leaders have ignored, downplayed the words of brave Chinese dissidents who warned us about the nature of the regime we’re facing.
And we can’t ignore it any longer. They know as well as anyone that we can never go back to the status quo.
But changing the CCP’s behavior cannot be the mission of the Chinese people alone. Free nations have to work to defend freedom. It’s the furthest thing from easy.
But I have faith we can do it. I have faith because we’ve done it before. We know how this goes.
I have faith because the CCP is repeating some of the same mistakes that the Soviet Union made – alienating potential allies, breaking trust at home and abroad, rejecting property rights and predictable rule of law.
I have faith. I have faith because of the awakening I see among other nations that know we can’t go back to the past in the same way that we do here in America. I’ve heard this from Brussels, to Sydney, to Hanoi.
And most of all, I have faith we can defend freedom because of the sweet appeal of freedom itself.
Look at the Hong Kongers clamoring to emigrate abroad as the CCP tightens its grip on that proud city. They wave American flags.
It’s true, there are differences. Unlike the Soviet Union, China is deeply integrated into the global economy. But Beijing is more dependent on us than we are on them. (Applause.)
Look, I reject the notion that we’re living in an age of inevitability, that some trap is pre-ordained, that CCP supremacy is the future. Our approach isn’t destined to fail because America is in decline. As I said in Munich earlier this year, the free world is still winning. We just need to believe it and know it and be proud of it. People from all over the world still want to come to open societies. They come here to study, they come here to work, they come here to build a life for their families. They’re not desperate to settle in China.
It’s time. It’s great to be here today. The timing is perfect. It’s time for free nations to act. Not every nation will approach China in the same way, nor should they. Every nation will have to come to its own understanding of how to protect its own sovereignty, how to protect its own economic prosperity, and how to protect its ideals from the tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party.
But I call on every leader of every nation to start by doing what America has done – to simply insist on reciprocity, to insist on transparency and accountability from the Chinese Communist Party. It’s a cadre of rulers that are far from homogeneous.
And these simple and powerful standards will achieve a great deal. For too long we let the CCP set the terms of engagement, but no longer. Free nations must set the tone. We must operate on the same principles.
We have to draw common lines in the sand that cannot be washed away by the CCP’s bargains or their blandishments. Indeed, this is what the United States did recently when we rejected China’s unlawful claims in the South China Sea once and for all, as we have urged countries to become Clean Countries so that their citizens’ private information doesn’t end up in the hand of the Chinese Communist Party. We did it by setting standards.
Now, it’s true, it’s difficult. It’s difficult for some small countries. They fear being picked off. Some of them for that reason simply don’t have the ability, the courage to stand with us for the moment.
Indeed, we have a NATO ally of ours that hasn’t stood up in the way that it needs to with respect to Hong Kong because they fear Beijing will restrict access to China’s market. This is the kind of timidity that will lead to historic failure, and we can’t repeat it.
We cannot repeat the mistakes of these past years. The challenge of China demands exertion, energy from democracies – those in Europe, those in Africa, those in South America, and especially those in the Indo-Pacific region.
And if we don’t act now, ultimately the CCP will erode our freedoms and subvert the rules-based order that our societies have worked so hard to build. If we bend the knee now, our children’s children may be at the mercy of the Chinese Communist Party, whose actions are the primary challenge today in the free world.
General Secretary Xi is not destined to tyrannize inside and outside of China forever, unless we allow it.
Now, this isn’t about containment. Don’t buy that. It’s about a complex new challenge that we’ve never faced before. The USSR was closed off from the free world. Communist China is already within our borders.
So we can’t face this challenge alone. The United Nations, NATO, the G7 countries, the G20, our combined economic, diplomatic, and military power is surely enough to meet this challenge if we direct it clearly and with great courage.
Maybe it’s time for a new grouping of like-minded nations, a new alliance of democracies.
We have the tools. I know we can do it. Now we need the will. To quote scripture, I ask is “our spirit willing but our flesh weak?”
If the free world doesn’t change – doesn’t change, communist China will surely change us. There can’t be a return to the past practices because they’re comfortable or because they’re convenient.
Securing our freedoms from the Chinese Communist Party is the mission of our time, and America is perfectly positioned to lead it because our founding principles give us that opportunity.
As I explained in Philadelphia last week, standing, staring at Independence Hall, our nation was founded on the premise that all human beings possess certain rights that are unalienable.
And it’s our government’s job to secure those rights. It is a simple and powerful truth. It’s made us a beacon of freedom for people all around the world, including people inside of China.
Indeed, Richard Nixon was right when he wrote in 1967 that “the world cannot be safe until China changes.” Now it’s up to us to heed his words.
Today the danger is clear.
And today the awakening is happening.
Today the free world must respond.
We can never go back to the past.
May God bless each of you.
May God bless the Chinese people.
And may God bless the people of the United States of America.
Thank you all.
(Applause.)

My sister, Michelle-Ann Iking's 3% chance of conceiving naturally was a success! Here's her story:

(My apologies as I've been overwhelmed with personal matters. I've only managed to get to my desk. So finally got around posting this).

This is the story behind my sister's pregnancy struggle and how she shared her journey over her Facebook page.

Because some may have not caught her LIVE session chat with me (https://www.facebook.com/daphneiking/videos/687743128744960/) , or read her lengthy post (as it's a private page);
she's allowed me to copy and paste it over my wall, in case you need to know more about her thought process on how AND why she focused on the 3% success probability. Read on.

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Posted 10th May 2020.
FB Credit: Michelle-Ann Iking

A week ago today I celebrated becoming a mother to our second, long awaited child.

Please forgive this mother's LONG (self-indulgent) post, journalling what this significant milestone has meant for her personally, for her own fallible memory's sake as well as maybe to share one day with her son.

If all you were wondering was whether I had delivered and if mum and bub are OK, please be assured the whole KkLM family are thriving tremendously, and continue scrolling right along your Newsfeed 😁.

OUR 3% MIRACLE

All babies are miracles... and none more so than our precious Kiaen Aaryan (pronounced KEY-n AR-yen), whose name derives from Sanskrit origins meaning:

Grace of God
Spiritual
Kind
Benevolent

...words espousing the gratitude Kishore and I feel for Kiaen's arrival as our "3% miracle".

He was conceived, naturally, after 3 years of Kishore and I hoping, praying and 'endeavoring'... and only couples for whom the objective switches from pure recreation to (elusive) procreation will understand how this is less fun than it sounds ...

3 years during which time we had consensus from 3 different doctors that we, particularly I (with my advancing age etc etc) had only a 3% chance of natural conception and that our best hope for a sibling for our firstborn, Lara Anoushka, was via IVF.

Lara herself was an 'intervention baby', being one of the 20% of babies successfully conceived through the less intrusive IUI process, after a year and a half of trying naturally and already being told then my age was a debilitating factor.

We had tried another round of IUI for her sibling in 2017 when Lara was a year old. And that time we fell into the ranks of the 80% of would-be parents for whom it would be an exercise in futility... who would go home, comfort each other as best they could, while individually masking their own personal disappointment... hoping for the best, 'the next time around'...

So the improbability ratio of 97% against natural conception of our second baby, as concurred by the combined opinion of 3 medical professionals, was a very real, very daunting figure for us to have to mentally deal with.

Deep, DEEP, down in my heart however, though I had many a day of doubt... I kept a core kernel of faith that somehow, I would again experience the privilege of pregnancy, and again, have a chance at childbirth.

And so, the optimist in me would tell myself, "Well, there have to be people who fall in the 3% bucket... why shouldn't WE be part of the 3%?"

Those who know me well, understand my belief in the Law of Attraction, the philosophy of focusing your mind only on what you want to attract, not on what you don't want, and so even as Kishore and I prepared to go into significant personal debt to attempt IVF in the 2nd half of 2019, I marshalled a last ditch effort to hone in on that 3% chance of natural conception... through research coming across fertility supplements that I ordered from the US and sent to a friend in Singapore to redirect to me because the supplier would not deliver to Malaysia.

I made us as a couple take the supplements in the 3 month 'priming period' in the lead up to the IVF procedure - preconditioning our bodies for optimum results, if you will.

At the same time, I had invested in a sophisticated fertility monitor, with probes and digital sensors for daily tracking of saliva and other unmentionable fluid samples, designed to pinpoint with chemical accuracy my state of fertility on any given day.

(UPDATE: For those interested - I obtained the supplements and Ovacue Fertility Monitor from https://www.fairhavenhealth.com/. Though I had my supplies delivered to a friend in Singapore, and redirected to me here since the US site does not deliver to Malaysia, there are local distributors for these products, you will just have to research the trustworthiness of the vendors yourself...)

I had set an intention - in the 3 months of pre-IVF priming, I would consume what seemed like a pharmacy's worth of supplements, and track fertility religiously... in hopes that somehow, within the 3 month priming period, we would conceive naturally and potentially save ourselves a down payment on a new property... and this was just a projection on financial costs of IVF, not even considering the physical, emotional and mental toll it involves, with no guarantee of a baby at the end of it all...

It was a continuation of an intention embedded even with my first pregnancy, where all the big ticket baby items were consciously purchased for use by a future sibling, in gender neutral colours, in hopes that sibling would be a brother "for a balanced pair", though of course any healthy child would be a welcome blessing.

It was a very conscious determination to always skew my thoughts in service of what the end objective was. For example, when 3+year old Lara would innocently express impatience at not yet having a sibling, at one point suggesting that since we were "taking too long to give her a baby brother/sister", perhaps we should just "go buy a baby from a shop", instead of getting defensive or berating the baby that she herself was, we enlisted Lara's help to pray for her sibling... so in any place of worship, or sacred ground of any kind that we passed thereon, Lara would stop, close her eyes, bow her small head and place her tiny hands together in prayer, reciting earnestly, "Please God, please give me a baby brother or baby sister."

After months and months of watching Lara do this, in the constancy of her childlike chant, Kishore started feeling the pressure of possibly disappointing Lara if her prayer was not answered. Whereas for me, Lara's recitation of her simple wish became like a strengthening mantra, our collective intention imbued with greater power with each repetition, and the goal of a sibling kept very much in the forefront of our minds (hence our calling Lara our 'project manager' in this endeavour).

And somehow in the 2nd month of that 3 month period, a positive + sign appeared on one of the home pregnancy tests I had grown accustomed to taking - my version of the lottery tickets others keep buying in hopes of hitting the jackpot, with all the cyclical anticipation and more often than not, disappointment, that entails...

This time however I was not disappointed.

With God's Grace, (hence 'Kiaen', a variation of 'Kiaan' which means 'Grace of God'), my focus on our joining the ranks of the 3% had materialised.

It seems poetic then, that Kiaen chose to make his appearance on the 3rd May, ironically the same date that his paternal great-grandfather departed this world for the next... such that in the combined words of Kishore and his father Kai Vello Suppiah,

"The 1st generation Suppiah left on 3rd May and the 4th generation Suppiah arrived on 3rd May after 41yrs...
One leaves, another comes, the legacy lives on..."

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KIAEN AARYAN SUPPIAH'S BIRTH STORY

On Sunday 3rd May, I was 40 weeks and 5 days pregnant.

The baby was, in my mind, very UN-fashionably late past his due date of 29th April, so as much as I had willed and 'manifested' the privilege of pregnancy, to say I was keen to be done with it all was an understatement.

In the weeks leading to up to my full term, I had experienced increasingly intense Braxton-Hicks 'practice contractions' - annoying for me for the discomfort involved, stressful for Kishore who was on tenterhooks with the false alarms, on constant alert for when we would actually need to leave home for the hospital.

Having become a Hypnobirthing student and advocate from my first pregnancy with Lara, and thus being equipped with
(1) a lack of fear about childbirth in general and
(2) a basic understanding of how all the sensations I would experience fit into the big picture of my body bringing our baby closer to us,
I was less stressed - content to wait for the baby to be "fully cooked" and come out whenever he was ready... though I wouldn't have minded at all if the cooking time ended sooner, rather than later.

With Lara, I had been somewhat 'forced' into an induced labour, even though she was not yet due, and that had resulted in a 5 DAY LABOUR, a Birth Story for another post, so I was not inclined to chemically induce labour, even though I was assured that for second time mothers, it would be 'much faster and easier'...

That morning, I had a hunch *maybe* that day was the day, because in contrast to previous weeks' sensations of tightening, pressure and even spasms that were concentrated in the front of my abdomen and occasionally shot through my sides and legs, I felt period - like cramping in my lower back which I had not felt before throughout the pregnancy.

It was about 8am in the morning then, and my 'surges' were still relatively mild ('surges' being Hypnobirthing - speak for 'contractions', designed to frame them with the more positive connotations needed to counteract common language in which childbirth is presented as something that is unequivocally painful and traumatic, instead of the miraculous, powerful and natural phenomenon it actually is).

I recall (masochistically?) entertaining the thought of opting NOT to have an epidural JUST TO SEE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE...

I figured this would be the last time I would be pregnant and so it would be my 'last chance' to experience 'drug free labour' which, apart from the health benefits for baby and mother, might be *interesting* in a way that people who are curious about what getting a tattoo and skydiving and bungee jumping are like, might find these *interesting*...even knowing there will be pain and risk involved...

Since I have tried tattoos and skydiving (unfortunately not being able to squeeze in bungee-jumping while my life was purely my own to risk at no dependents' possible detriment) a similar curiousity about a no-epidural labour was on my mind...

In the absence of other signs of the onset of labour (like 'bloody show' or my waters breaking), I wanted to wait until the surges were coming every few minutes before we actually left the house for the hospital, not wanting to be one of those couples who rushed in too early and had interminable waits for the next stage in unfamiliar, clinical surroundings and/or were made to go home in an anti-climatic manner.

I was even calm enough through my surges to have the presence of mind to wash and blowdry my hair, knowing if I did deliver soon I would not be allowed this luxury for a while.

Around 9am I asked Kishore to prep for Lara and himself to be dressed and breakfasted so we could head to hospital soon, while I sent messages to family members on both sides informing them 'today might be the day.'

My mother, who had briefly served as a midwife before going back into general nursing and then becoming a nursing tutor, prophetically stated that if what I was experiencing was true labour, "the baby would be out by noon".

The pace in which my surges grew closer together was surprisingly quicker than I expected; and while I asked Lara to "Hurry up with breakfast" with only a tad more urgency than we normally tell her to do, little Missy being prone to dilly-dallying at meals, I probably freaked Kishore out when about 930am onwards, I had to instinctively get on my hands and knees a couple of times, eyes closed, trying to practice the Hypnobirthing breathing techniques I had revised to help along the process of my body birthing our child into the world.

I recall him saying a bit frantically as I knelt at our front door, doubled over as he waited for Lara to complete something or other, "Lara hurry up! Can't you see Mama is in so much pain and you are taking your own sweet time??!!"

SIDETRACK: Just the night before, Lara and I had watched a TV show in which a woman gave birth with the usual histrionics accompanying pop culture depictions of labour.

Lara watched the scene, transfixed.

I told her, simply and matter-of-factly, "That's what Mama has to do to get baby brother out Lara, and that's what I had to do for you also."

In most of interactions with my daughter, I have sought to equip her to face life's situations with calmness, truthful common sense, and ideally a minimum of drama.

Those who know the dramatic diva that Lara can be will know that this is a work-in-progress, but her response to me that night showed me some of my 'teachings' were sinking in:

She looked at me unfazed, "But Mama," she said. "You won't cry and scream like that lady, right? You will be BRAVE and stay calm, right?"
#nopressure.

So as we prepped to leave for the hospital I did indeed attempt to be that role model of calm for her, asking her only for her help in keeping very quiet,
"Because Mama needs to focus on bringing baby brother out and she needs quiet to concentrate...".

As we left the house at 10.11am, I texted Kishore's sister Geetha to please prep to pick up Lara from the hospital, and was grateful Kishore had the foresight to ask our gynae to prepare a letter for Geetha to show any police roadblocks between my in-laws' home in Subang Jaya and the hospital in Bangsar, this all happening under the Movement Control Order (MCO).

To Lara's credit, in the journey over to the hospital, she - probably sensing the gravity of the situation, sat very quietly in her seat at the back, and the silence was punctuated only by my occasional deep intakes of breath and some variation of my Ohmmm-like moans when the sensations were at their height.

By the time we got to Pantai Hospital at around 10.30am, my surges were strong enough I requested a wheelchair to assist me in getting to the labour ward, as I did not trust my own legs to support me... and Kishore would have to wait until Geetha had arrived to take Lara back to my in-laws' house before he himself could go up.

I slumped in the wheelchair and was wheeled up to the labour room with my eyes closed the whole time, trying to handle my surges.

I didn't even look up to see the attendant who pushed me... but did make the effort to thank him sincerely when he handed me over, with what seemed like a palpable sense of relief on his part, to the labour ward nurses.

The nurse attending me at Pantai was calm, steady and efficient. I answered some questions and changed into my labour gown while waiting for Kishore to come up, all the while managing the increasingly intense surges with my rusty Hypnobirthing breathing techniques.

By the time Kishore joined me at around 11am (I know these timings based on the timestamps of the 'WhatsApp live feed' of messages Kishore sent to his family), I was asking the nurse on duty, "How soon can I get an epidural??" thinking what crazy woman thought she could do this without drugs???!!!

The nurse checked my cervix dilation, I saw her bloodied glove indicating my mucous plug had dislodged, and she told me, "Well you are already at 7cm (which, for the uninitiated, is 70% of the way to the 10cm dilation needed for birthing), you are really doing well, if you made it this far without any drugs, if can you try and manage without it... I suspect within 2 hours or less you will deliver your baby and since it will take about that time for the anaesthesiologist to be called, epidural to be administered and kick in... it might all be for nothing... but of course the decision is completely up to you... "

So there I was, super torn, should I risk the sensations becoming worse... or risk the epidural becoming a waste?? And of course I was trying to decide this as my labour surges were coming at me stronger and stronger...

I was in such a dilemma...because as a 'recovering approval junkie' there was also a silly element of approval-seeking involved, ("The nurse thinks I can do this without drugs... maybe I CAN do this without drugs... Yay me!") mixed with that element of curiosity I mentioned earlier ("What if I actually CAN do this without drugs... plenty of other women have done it all over the world since time immemorial.. no big deal, how bad can it be...??") so then I thought I would use the financial aspect to be the 'tiebreaker' in my decision making...

I asked the nurse how much an epidural would cost and when she replied "Around MYR1.5k", I still remember Kishore's incredulous face as I asked the question, i.e."Seriously babe, you are gonna think about money right now? If you need the epidural TAKE IT, don't worry about the money!!!"... and while we are not rich by any stretch of the imagination, thankfully RM1.5k is not a quantum that made me swing towards a decision to "better save the money"...

So in the end, I guess my curiosity won out, and I turned down the epidural "just to see what it would be like and if I had it in me" (in addition of course to avoiding the side effects of any drugs introduced into my and the baby's body).

My labour occuring in the time of coronavirus, it was protocol for me to have a COVID19 test done, so the medical staff could apply the necessary precautions. I had heard from a friend Sharon Ruba that the test procedure was uncomfortable, so when the nurse came with the test kit as I was starting another surge, I asked, "Please can I just finish this surge before I do the test?" as I really didn't think I could multitask tackling multiple uncomfortable sensations in one go.

The COVID19 test involved what felt like a looong, skinny cotton bud being inserted into one nostril... I definitely felt more than a tickle as it went in and up, being told to take deep breaths by the nurse. Then she asked me to "Try to swallow" and I felt it go into my nasal cavities where I didn't think anything could go any further, but was proven wrong when she asked me to swallow again and the swab was probed even deeper. Then she warned me there would be some slight discomfort as she prepared to collect a sample... but at that point all I could think about was:

(i) I really don't have much of a choice
(ii) please let this be over before my next surge kicks in
(iii) if all the people breaking the MCO rules knew what it feels like to do this test maybe they won't put themselves at risk of the need to perform one...

In full disclosure as I was transferred into the actual delivery room at some point after 11am, another nurse offered me 'laughing gas' to ostensibly take some of the edge off... I took the self-operated breathing nozzle passed to me but don't recall it making any difference to my sensations..so didn't use it much as it seemed pretty pointless.

I recall some measure of relief when I heard my gynae Dr. Paul entering the room, greeting Kishore and me, and telling us it was going well and it wouldn't be long now and he would see us again shortly.

From my previous labour with Lara I knew the midwives pretty much take you 90% of the way through the labour and when the Dr is called in you are really at the home stretch, so was very relieved to hear his voice though knowing he would leave and come back later meant it wasn't quite over yet.

I do remember realising when I had crossed the Thinning and Opening Phase of labour to the Birthing Phase, by the change in sensations... it is still amazing to me that as the Hypnobirthing book mentioned, having this knowledge I was instinctively able to switch breathing techniques for the next stage of labour .

Was my opting against epidural the right choice for me?

Overall? Yes.

Don't get me wrong.

I *almost* regretted the decision several times during active labour... especially when I felt my body being taken over by an overwhelming compulsion to push that did not seem conscious and was accompanied by involuntary gutteral moans where I literally just thought to myself, "I surrender, God do with me what you will..." (super dramatic I know but VERY real at the time...).

I think I experienced 3-4 such natural explusive reflexes (?), rhythmically pushing the baby down the birth path, one of which was accompanied by what felt like a swoosh of water coming out of a hose with a diameter the size of a golf ball... this was when I realised my water had finally broken...

The nurses kept instructing me to do different things, to keep breathing, to move to my side, then to move to the middle, to raise my feet... and when I didn't comply, Kishore (who was with me throughout both my labours) tried to help them by repeating the instructions prefaced with "Sayang..." but I basically ignored all the intructions because I felt I had no capacity to direct any part of my body to do anything and someone else would have to physically manoeuvre that body part themselves.

When I heard Dr. Paul's voice again and the flurry of commotion surrounding his presence, I knew the time was close... and when I heard the nurse say to Kishore, "Sir, these are your gloves, for when you cut the baby's cord", it was music to my ears...

I'm very, VERY grateful Kiaen slid out after maybe the 4th of those involuntary pushes... the wave of RELIEF when he came out so quickly... it still boggles my mind that my mother was essentially right and as his birth time was 12.02pm, it was *only* about 1.5 hours between our arrival at the hospital and his arrival into the world.

Kiaen was placed on my chest for skin to skin bonding and remained there for a considerable time.

For our short stay in the hospital he would be with us in my maternity ward number C327... another trivially serendipitous sign for me because he was born on the 3rd (May) and our wedding anniversary is 27th (July).

I was discharged the following day 4th May at about 5.30pm, after I got an all clear on COVID19 and a paediatric surgeon did a small procedure on Kiaen to address a tongue-tie that would affect his breastfeeding latch... making the entire duration of our stay about 31 hours.

I have taken the time and effort to record all this down so that whenever life's challenges threaten to get me down I can remind myself, "Ignore the 97% failure probability, focus on the 3% success probability".

Also that the human condition is miraculous and it is such a privilege to experience it.

To our son Kiaen Aaryan, thank you for coming into our lives and choosing us as your parents.

Even though Papa and I are both zombies trying to settle into a night time feeding routine with you, I look forward to spending not only all future Mother's Days, but every day, with you and your Akka...

And last but not least, to my husband Kishore...without whom none of this would be possible - we did it sayang, I love you ❤️

Photo credit: Stayhome session with Samantha Yong Photography (http://samanthayong.com/)

YOYOYOYO寶貝們影片很長在此附上時間軸大家請自便💜
只要點藍色的數字他就會跳到你要看的那段！好神奇🤩

0:00 Let's get the party started😆
6:33終於要開始聊月老了！SHARPAY先
8:45 Pinky跟姐夫的月老牽線故事
10:59紅線本身也有故事
12:35講條件很重要
15:03開始畫眼妝惹
19:39 SHARPAY求月老的勵志故事＆PINKY感受到的神蹟
22:44 Innisfree山茶花腮紅登場然後又開始聊偏題了
25:16要還願還有安利七王爺靈籤
28:11開始讚嘆國師POWER
33:28 SHARPAY推薦的打亮有夠美&我買了電光火石眼影盤
37:38意外合得來的好友
40:20聊彩妝＆求桃花會用掉好運嗎？
46:09再度偏題然後討論晚餐
47:18根根分明又捲翹不用打底就很威的睫毛膏
48:06 SHARPAY被搭訕的故事（有夠好聽！！！）
55:53 PINKY近期最愛打亮
59:48最後還是很失控的兩人

不好意思之前讓大家擔心了～我現在月經大神撤退又回到人間了耶耶耶💪私訊裡面時不時會收到大家敲碗一刀未剪的影片，我覺得跟@夏培培 一起化妝就是最適合這個主題了啊哈哈哈哈哈哈因為我們話很多，一定很難剪！但意外的我在審片時很想動刀啊哈哈哈哈哈哈哈因為真的too much information!!!總之能看完這部片的寶貝一定是真愛，因為這部片有夠長然後我們有夠吵😆謝謝Sharpay來我的頻道玩，我們在她的頻道也有合作呦，只不過我們沒有特別約時間上片所以記得訂閱她的頻道然後小鈴鐺開起來！

Sharpay的頻道 https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSharpaygaga

然後然後！有在關注韓系彩妝的寶貝們，我這次有購入ROMAND的十色眼影盤，明天（禮拜二）晚上九點我會跟Want Megazine的愛麗一起在IG直播開箱💜記得IG發摟起來🙏

愛麗的IG https://www.instagram.com/wantmagazine/
PINKY超REAL IG限動每天更新 https://www.instagram.com/pinkydontstop/

#訂閱分享按鈴鐺 #PINKYDONTSTOP #GRWUS

PINKY臉書的大家都是老司機 https://www.facebook.com/pinkydontstop
CLUBHOUSE加起來！ pinkydontstop

影片傳送門

爽爽一次看完最愛系列 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNXPuGHswA&list=PLiv8rCsjeP8MCYctwN4WS1opcM9G5lrps

美妝相關一網打盡
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYD0gbHlyos&list=PLiv8rCsjeP8MGw2TLlESGfz-Bb2APXZnw

好朋友來作客❤️合作系列 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWwcDwNQhRM&list=PLiv8rCsjeP8MOqxBT5IcpAuX_rLMhhUEM


Products Mentioned:

Sharpay使用

Dior
精萃再生光燦潤色bb霜

LUNA
Long Lasting Tip Concealer / 01 Light

CLIO
Kill Cover Liquid Concealer / 03

MAYBELLINE
超激細抗暈眼線液 / 深邃棕

PONY EFFECT
氣墊粉撲

PONY EFFECT
持久無瑕粉餅

CARA BEAUTY
宛若原生淡腮紅 / Can’t Relate

HUDA BEAUTY
Naughty Nude Eyeshadow Makeup Palette

EXCEL
裸色深邃眼影 / SR03

INTEGRATE
超順手抗暈染眼線膠筆仙履奇緣限定 / BR620

DIOR BACKSTAGE
Backstage Glow Face Palette / 001

ETUDE HOUSE
睫對出色極限萌翹搶眼睫毛膏 / 黑、咖啡

BENEFIT
眉玩眉瞭好上手眉筆 / 03

Za旋轉眉筆 / Br611

Charlotte Tilbury
Superstar Lips Lipstick / Walk of No Shame

Pinky使用
SKINFOOD
番茄白雪公主閃耀霜
https://tinyurl.com/y5tuhtsq

GUCCI
絕視佳人眉筆 / 3 Light Brown

J.Cat Beauty
Aquasurance Compact Foundation / Natural
https://tinyurl.com/y5oheaq4

Bling Glow
四色遮瑕盤

colorgram
Multi Cube Palette / 01 Basic Brown

KVD Vegan Beauty
Tattoo Liner / Mad Max Brown

Bling Glow
Bling Curling Fix Mascara / 01 Kohl black

INNISFREE
花樣浮雕胭脂 / #1山茶正紅

MAYBELLINE
SuperStay Matte Ink / 210
https://tinyurl.com/y246yvg8
我記錯了平常跟他搭配的是CARA BEAUTY的唇釉IDK

colorgram
Thunderbolt Tint Lacquer / 06 Pretty Tok
跟這隻唇釉我喜歡搭配的是Milani的超顯色經典絲滑唇膏
色號Teddy Bare

ROMAND
See-Through Veilighter / 01 Sun Kissed Veil
See-Through Veilighter / 02 Moon Kissed Veil

made by Mitchell
Mini Mitchell Vol. 1 Palette & Pouch

＊以上連結為分潤連結💜

About Me:
前電台DJ、日本人妻、愛台灣的地球人目前座標位置新加坡💕很做自已的美妝YouTuber 目標是終極(中年?)網美😊散播歡樂散播愛😚希望影片和能帶給你好心情讓我們從裡到外都美美的！喜歡美妝、吃東西、大笑和沒有動物測試的產品❤️活動洽詢外場主持及公關品寄送請email至pinkydontstop@gmail.com謝謝您🙏(業配請找我)


Music:
https://www.epidemicsound.com

Sharing with you guys the empties that I have collected over the past 3-4 months! ? I collected a HUGE bag of products this time... so keep on watching to find out how they fare, and whether I would personally repurchase them again!

Spare with me because this video is a bit long ☹️ But hopefully it'll be helpful for you guys if you’re thinking of purchasing these products, or trying them out for yourself!

If you have tried any of these items personally or if you have any other recommendations, leave your thoughts down in the comments box below! ❤️

Catch my previous videos here:
?? PRODUCT EMPTIES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4quQAdULMs

?? AUGUST FAVS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YqVZZqHbM8

PRODUCTS MENTIONED:

HAIRCARE
⭐️ Lux Luminique Herbs Cleanse Series Non-Silicone Shampoo (Oasis Calm)

⭐️ Percy and Reed Bountifully Bouncy Volumising Conditioner

⭐️ Percy And Reed Smoothed, Sealed and Sensational Volumising No Oil Oil for Fine Hair

⭐️ Je l’aime Amino Deep Repair Algae Hair Mask

⭐️ Aquis 01 Prime Water Defence Pre Wash

⭐️ Innisfree My Perfumed Body Cleanser (Green Tangerine)

⭐️ The Body Shop Shower Gel (Rich Plum)

SKINCARE
⭐️ La-Roche Posay Lipikar Fluide

⭐️ Allies of Skin Molecular Silk Amino Hydrating Cleanser

⭐️ Curel Intensive Moisture Care Foaming Wash

⭐️ Clé De Peau Beauté Softening Cleansing Foam

⭐️ Fancl Moist Refine Lotion 1

⭐️ Skin Inc My Daily Dose Custom Blended Serum

⭐️ Porcelain Intensive HA+ Hydrating Serum

⭐️ DrCure7
Hyaluron Intensive Serum

⭐️ Saturday Skin Freeze Frame Beauty Essence

⭐️ Drunk Elephant C-Firma Day Serum

⭐️ Guerlain Abeille Royale Serum Double R

⭐️ AHC Minimal 10 Watery Essence

⭐️ Astique Radiance Moisturising Cream

⭐️ Sigi Skin Morning Glow Physical Sunscreen

⭐️ Ést.Lab Sunshield SPF 50

⭐️ L’Occitane Immortelle Precious Eye Balm

⭐️ Mamonde Age Control Power Eye Cream

⭐️ Fresh Youth Lotus Preserve Eye Cream

⭐️ Fancl Moist Refine Emulsion 2

⭐️ Shiseido Future Solution LX eye

⭐️ Fresh Vitamin Nectar Vibrancy-Boosting Face Mask

⭐️ Kosé Cosmeport Clear Turn Bihada Syokunin Clearing Mask

MAKEUP
⭐️ Benefit Goof Proof Eyebrow Pencil

⭐️ Benefit Precisely My Brow Eyebrow Pencil

⭐️ Excel Powder & Pencil Eyebrow EX

⭐️Fenty Beauty Flyliner Longwear Liquid Eyeliner

⭐️ Heroine Make Long Stay Sharp Gel Liner

⭐️ Kate Tokyo Lash Maximizer

⭐️ PDC Pmel Essence Mascara Base

⭐️ Heroine Make Long and Curl Mascara

⭐️ Kate Tokyo Lash Former

⭐️ Clinique Lash Power Mascara Long-Wearing Formula

⭐️ Etude House Colour My Brows

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Hello! My name is Mong Chin and I'm from sunny Singapore. I am 1.63m and I am singaporean Chinese. I speak English, Mandarin and am currently learning Korean in my free time. I love all things beauty and fashion, and I also like to share my life here. I hope you guys enjoy watching my videos!

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RD350LC RZ250 4L3 RZ350 4U0 Pocket rocket　ヤマハ・RZ

In the successor model of RD, is the name of the 250cc motorcycle-only car for the domestic market have been sold from Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. in August 1980.

During the 1970s, has been enhanced to automobile exhaust gas regulations, particularly in North America, the use of two-stroke engine is strictly day become, was born from the idea of ​​making the last two-stroke sport model.

"R" of "RZ" is originally, "Z" There is a symbol which means Yamaha 350cc in-house means a water-cooled. Turned from the last character of the alphabet to the other, also put that the meaning of the last, and the ultimate.

Engine that is designed around driving performance basic original sport bike takes the layout of two parallel cylinder two-stroke water-cooled (54mm × 54mm) bore and stroke same as TZ is a racer commercial made by the company at the time, as the same class boasted the top time of 35ps. Other plastic parts are also used frequently to reduce weight, the rear suspension is mono shock, such as halogen headlights cast wheel of the cantilever type of road sports model adopted for the first (mono-cross suspension), the new design, a large, state-of-the-art at that time was equipped with the item. Or partly because of that it was (August 1980) Release of have to wait nearly a year since 1979 has been introduced for the first time in scoop of magazine motorcycle, followed by some time situation such as waiting three months to delivery from order became a blockbuster about. Surface was well received by the hands of styling and design (GK Dynamics Co., Ltd. now) GK Industrial Design Inc. Research Institute. In addition, the white model of early type also known as the Pearl paint color is a beautiful flag of the Rising Sun aka. (White is solid white and later)

There is special mention to the height of the driving performance, that performance was more than equal Watariaeru four-stroke 400cc class with higher amounts of exhaust, was also called "400 killer" and. 3.97kg/ps power-to-weight ratio and also be used as a target for the vehicle, such as driving performance, which was a four-stroke 400cc class on a par with at the time. Uncommon at the time employed in the commercial vehicles (with the expansion chamber) of the chamber type of muffler, along with the image of looks up the race, had also contributed to the performance up. Many individual single disc front brake is said, of Riadoramu is too poor for the height of the driving performance, have a double disc of 350 specification