Taiwan: Weekend getaway!

The week after I turned 24... I decided it was time to have a 'YOLO' moment.

No la, bluff one hahaha!

The bf had to go back and change his passport in Taiwan due to visa issues so we booked a one way flight on Scoot 2 days before we departed.

Yup, it was that YOLO that everyone was asking me why I ninja-ed to Taipei without them knowing, even better still, asking why I hadn't bought a return air ticket.

But it was fun I guess to be spontaneous :)

This is not gonna morph into one of my travelogue entries because nothing I did was even damn near touristy (we spent the entire time spending time with his family).

I have been to Taipei so many times I have lost count of the places I've visited and the amount of people asking me for advice on what to do in Taipei.

Perhaps the next time I do visit Taiwan again for leisure, a real vacation, I'll do a travelogue series.

But till then.... just make do with this heh xD

Took the midnight flight from Singapore to Taipei on Scoot.

First time aboard Scoot and it's really nice!

Ok, maybe it wasn't that fair to say the seats are spacious because the bf paid extra for their 'S-t-r-e-tc-h' option.

But at the front of the aircraft, the entire area was barely occupied and we kinda had the entire area all to ourselves.

Nice :D

Yellow Scoot seats! Comfy.

Rise and shine when we landed in Taipei at 5.30am

Sleepyhead (and I) were mad exhausted T.T

Dior Summer Mix 2013 Dior Vernis #658 Capeline & YSL Spring 2013 La Lacque Couture Tie & Dye Pop Coat #2

When I popped by the Dior counter on my birthday at Takashimaya, I fell in love with the new Dior Summer Mix 2013 nail polishes! /inserts emoticon of face with hearts as eyes/

As I progress on with my addiction to all beauty related things, I've found myself gearing toward the higher ended brands such as Chanel and Dior etc in terms of makeup items and nail lacquers.

You have no idea how happy I was to find them at DFS when I left for Taiwan!

The bf had to literally drag me out of DFS to catch our plane else I'd probably buy up the entire store lol.

So I did purchase 2 nail polishes from the Dior Summer 2013 collection and here's one of them.

Dior Vernis #658 Capeline is a really summery colour - pink & coral all mixed together!

It reminds me of watermelon actually which every review I've read said it as well lol.

See, very summery ain't it? I mean what's summer without watermelon?!

2 coats of Capeline and no top coat

A year older, a year wiser as well

Hi, I hope everyone is still here /cue cricket noises/

I've been swamped daily with... I dunno what.

Don't really have much to do at work because I did something drastic a couple of weeks back by tendering my resignation, which will come in another entry if I'm really bored shitless at work HAHA!

So... I finally turned 24 years old 2 weeks back. I FEEL OLD.

This is just a collective entry on what my friends and family did to celebrate my special day.

First up, stupid email from work.

I have a love-hate relationship with my job and the people here.

Used to mock these emails because they are quite useless (not like they're giving me a voucher to spend or something) but yeah... here's mine.

Came on the Friday before my actual birthday.

Met up with Yvonne for dinner that night to celebrate my birthday and my resignation (YES,FINALLY LEAVING WOHOOO!!!) at Superstar K BBQ Restaurant along Tanjong Pagar Rd.

Superstar K BBQ Restaurant

75 Tanjong Pagar Rd
Singapore 088496
6224 0504

Super Show 5 Singapore

I know the title says 'Super Show 5 Singapore' but I'm so darn addicted to 2NE1's latest single 'Falling in Love'!

My Park Bom unnie is darn pretty I don't even...

Go watch this if you haven't! Can't wait for their comeback stage this week :D

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Ambush with the girls :)

Hello! I'm back with a food review and it's Ambush at Junction 8!

Super random meet-ups with the girls this week first though.

Met Hidaya and Juyin at Northpoint for sushi after work...

Then somehow we planned to meet up (all 4 of us incl Lirong) on Thursday.

Wah rao my wallet dun like pls hahaha!

But it's okay, I can do it >_<

Chillax at Starbucks - 3 people sharing 1 venti sized drink cos we were too full from sushi!

With Kwangsoo Hidaya hehehehe xD

Decided to have dinner at Junction 8 because Hidaya ends work really late and it's very difficult for her to get to town areas asap (and we are quite hungry people) so decided to meet along the North-South line for her to reach earlier!

 

FOTD and the scene at Serangoon MRT gosh the amount of people D:

Lirong picked the place and made a reservation! 

Thank goodness she did. The queue outside was zzzzZzzzz

Ambush at Junction 8
#02-19/20/27, Junction 8 Shopping Centre, 9 Bishan Place
63533960
Sun - Wed: 11:00 - 21:30
Thu - Sat: 11:00 - 22:00

Food blogger at work

 

I like meet-ups like these girls! :D

 

While waiting for the food Hidaya gave us presents (she unfriended me wtf haha!) that she bought for us in HK while we gave her what we bought for her in Korea (Running Man tumbler!)

When the food arrives, we all have to wait for Lirong to take finish pictures lol

I find it hilarious to take her behind the scenes lol!

Appetizers to share! Sausages and homg the dips were awesome!

 

Escargots but without the shell. Why ah? But I like! I ate like... 3 of them oops :X

 

My Vongole which sucked and Lirong's salmon pasta

Juyin's paella which was nice!

Hidaya's marinara which is like Juyin's paella but with pasta instead lol

 

Didn't have a very satisfying dinner because my vongole was shit.

The base wasn't flavourful (I like Pastamania's version better!) and totally bland yucks.

But the rest liked their food so I probably won't be going back anytime soon lol.

Headed for ice cream at Haagen Dazs and went home. Mad exhausted!

Anyway we didn't take polaroids!! Gosh I think I was really so exhausted I couldn't remember to do shit.

All I wanted to do was go home and crawl under my blanket.

My weekends are bloody hectic too (Super Show 5 hello!) so I'm hoping to get a good rest.

Have a great weekend everyone! :D

Ramblings of the week

Myungsoo says 'Hi everybody!' :)

So do I lol.

It's Monday and I'm having a serious case of Monday blues right now even though I'm knocking off work in approximately 1 and a half hours more.

But still, it's Monday so let's just all be sad and emo haha!

I've been really lazy since my last makeup posts because I've been doing tons of organizing lately.

I don't live in a huge place so space is really constrained especially when my collection is getting out of hand recently (I blame my Korea trip and the internet for it! LOL!).

Reorganized my nail polishes with these 90 bottle nail polish racks from Amazon which escalated into quite an issue with my freight forwarding company.

Thankfully the shipping issues were ironed out and I got my hands on these babies!

Except... I ran out of space :3 #makeupaddictpains

Transferring all my nail polishes to the rack and arranging by brand and colour. Extremely OCD Paula haha!

Final outcome! And as you can see, 2 racks weren't enough so I went down to buy another one from DYON at *scape yesterday.

Shoved them into a little area between my cupboard and my bed