SHOES!

Whenever I pass this unit at Shamelin flats,

I see these huge collection of heels on the

front gate.

Yesterday all these heels were gone....

she had bought shoe racks and tidied up her shoes

 I could see a sky high pair of red heels

It was a pity, because I rather liked the heels  on 

display at the sliding door!

 While on the subject of shoes, I collected some nice pictures of coveted shoes

 calf boots with cuff details

 oxford paltform pumps and faux fur at the ankle called Clarise

 platform leather wedge named Dixon, and peep toe slingback pumps

 Paula Abdul's killer heels

 Kara's heels can challenge Paula's (below)

Aldo lace-up that I bought 

 Around town Mary Janes

 window shopping at Charles and Keith

From Charles and Keith, Vivo City, Singapore.

Datin Prof Dr Clara Chee

At the top of Chatime, is Clara Institute of Beauty

 I met Clara herself

 Clara Chee, principal of Clara Institute

 This is one of her outlets, she has many branches

Her husband took this photo for us

 Come on upstairs, I show you my institute, my girls are all well trained!

 This is her poster

The interior of her Petaling Street shop, she gave me a facial!

CLARA CHEE – A LEGEND IN THE MAKING

Clara Chee is almost a legendary icon in the local cosmetic industry much like Florence Nightingale in the nursing industry.
She is where she is today because of her willingness to work hard and her perseverance in continuously innovating new products for the past 27 years to make her clients happy.
“We are living in a tropical climate,” she said. “For this reason, our cosmetic products must suit our environment and the Asian skin type.”
Before starting her business, she had worked as a Beauty Consultant. From 1967 to 1975, she had worked as a Cosmetic Marketing Surveyor. In 1973, she joined MAX factor in Kuala Lumpur.”
With only a capital of RM40 000, Clara International was birthed in 1977. “With a CGC Bank Loan from Maybank, I started my first salon with the help of two other friends from the United Kingdom and two qualified aestheticians in a rented shoplot in SS2, Petaling Jaya,” she said.....

by: Stephen Ng

DATIN PROFESSOR DR. CLARA L. CHEE
Managing Principal
Clara International, Malaysia
PROFILES
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Prof. Dr. Clara L. Chee is a well known personality in the beauty industry which she entered as a beauty therapist with a Degree in Science (Chemistry). She started her own beauty business in Petaling Jaya, Selangor in 1977.
Her consummate interest in beauty led her to acquire further knowledge and enrolment in the University Of De Montfort, UK (formerly known as Leicester Polytechnic) to do research studies in Medicinal and Cosmetic Products Technology. Together with the accountant husband, Woo Ser Chai (also the CEO of Clara group of companies).
She has built up the company from that humble beginning to become the largest group of beauty companies in South-East-Asia. Her dedication and achievement in the Aesthetic profession is widely recognized. The Pacific Western University, USA conferred the Honorary Doctorate Ph.D) title in Cosmetic Science and Technology upon her in 1996. Apart from her positions in Clara International Beauty Group Sdn Bhd as Chairman, Head of research & development for Best Cosmetics Laboratories Sdn Bhd and Director of Clara Beauty Products (Co) Ltd in Shenyang, China,

Organizer : Malaysia Canada Business Council
Award : 5th Business Excellence Awards 2008
Category : Woman Entrepreneur Of The Year
Awarded to : Datin Dr Clara L Chee

Trip down memory lane at Petaling Street

Since I left my old school which is situated near

Petaling Street, I have not been there for about  a year.

So, when I had a meeting at the PPD at Jalan Hang Jebat,

I made a trip to Petaling Street to recapture old memories.

 KL Commercial (selling chinese books) Bookt Store is still there

 Jalan Hang Jebat or used to be High Street where all the gold smith shops were situated

 Many old shops are slowly disappearing, soon to make way for the MRT

 Actually, old and historic, heritage buildings are what the tourists come here for...

 As always, masssage parlours and reflexology centres seem to be springing up everywhere

I saw a vagrant choosing used clothes and mattress from a discarded heap!

 The homeless man taking his pick

 Nam Heong Restaurant since 1938 managed to last till now

 CNY!!!!

 Blindingly red Peonies!!!

 De rigeur for chinese new year

 Tourists waiting for their coach to take them to their next itinerary

 This sidewalk cafe reminds me of Paris's cafes!!! only this has a local flavour

 So nice right? So touristy looking too!!!

 Tourists chilling out

 Note the cars and taxis notoriously close to the sidewalk tables

 To add to the CNY mood.....

 A sidewalk calligraphist producing couplets

 Then I saw these school boys taking the short cut to their school,

I used to do that too!!!! I took this road to come to Petaling Street

for my breakfast when I had Saturday duties at the office.

 Red lanterns!!!

 The advantage of your school near this street is that you get to come here before or after school to get your school supplies, to eat or just to hang out.....

 More CNY five foot way offerings: lanterns and artificial flowers

 CNY cookies

 A modern addition: CHATIME!!!!

No queue yet at Chatime because it is not peak hour yet..

I do miss the old Petaling Street....

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in 2003

(8 years ago when I started teaching here)