Wednesday, April 30, 2014

I'm still alive and kicking!

 

Hey all, I am still alive hahaha! Can you believe that it is almost May already?! 
Bloody hell what have I been doing for the past 4 months huh?! /emo/
Just coming here to catch-up and upload some pictures.
Sorry, my life has been fairly boring: work, go home, go for dance class then sleep.
That's all T.T Sad right?


I really want a puppy! Here is my friend's toy poodle, his second one to be exact hahaha. Oh gosh, it's so fluffehhhhhhh /turns on Agnes from Despicable Me mode/



I finally finished my first K-pop dance of the year - Infinite's "Be Mine" 박수!!~
Didn't really practice as hard as I did for "I Got A Boy" from last year but what the heck la. I am actually surprised at my ability to complete the entire dance naturally lol.
Learning another Infinite song now - "BTD" - and it is killing me!! The scorpion move D:



Moving on, I went for Electric Run a couple of weeks back. I dunno whose kuku idea was it to go but bloody hell the tickets were expensive! And it wasn't even fun /insert angry face/
Not to say the company wasn't good, it was, but the whole set-up was just blah without music playing the entire route and... no one was running lor :x
Granted I wasn't running as well but what the heck la. Just... waste of my $68 to be honest.



My friend went to Japan on a YOLO trip before he started a new job position and I made him buy tons of things for me! Was talking to my mum about making a trip to Tokyo and Osaka if possible next year during the sakura season. Hopefully it'll happen :D
But anyways, I asked him to buy for me some Ippudo ramen that is available in Japan only which the bf and I absolutely love.
I have already devoured 2 of them, leaving 3 for the boy when he returns from Taiwan this weekend.
And Tokyo Banana, oh man the prints are just so ASFDGDDSKLFSJKJEIO cute!
OH AND MOARRR WOODSTOCK :D :D :D :D /does a happy dance/



Met up with the Bahasa Indonesian friends one day after BTD class for dinner! Ok la, Hidaya and Guan Jun are my friends. The lady here is my lecturer whom we all absolutely adore.
My Level 3 classes wouldn't have been so enjoyable if not for Ibu Indri honestly!
We went to Lucky Plaza to makan makanan khas Indonesia - ayam penyet actually!
Then we headed to Swenson's at Plaza Singapura to ngomong-ngomong lagi karena kita kehilangan sekali dengan Ibu dan teman-teman.
Actually it was just a nice catch-up session for all of us because I hadn't seen Ibu and Guan Jun in ages.



Ibu treated us to ice cream + fries hahaha! Felt kinda bad but I was broke so yeah!
Horeeeeeeeeee :D


More Woodstock items from Japan that I ordered through a Taiwan agent.
Boo for the price inflation but cannot be helped since no one can help me buy in Tokyo also T.T
Placed another order already and hopefully when I head to Taiwan in June, I will be able to collect them then.



Went to Ippudo @ Mohamed Sultan to celebrate CK's birthday (owner of the 2 toy poodles).
Oh boy, don't get me started on the horrible experience we had there.
BAD CUSTOMER SERVICE!
Was served by a lady who clearly should be retrained in customer service.
She got our orders wrong, had the cheek to tell my friend thrice to "wait" because she was too busy carrying out bowls of ramen for our table's orders when my friend told her to check because there was this unknown bowl of ramen lying there and no one knew whose it was suppose to be.
And what did the rest of the staff do? HANG AROUND AND IDLE. Scratch what I mentioned above about retraining that lady. All of them should be schooled in providing good customer service.
Super sia suay can. Wtf, seriously. No one bothered to help the lady at all and she was carrying 12 bowls of ramen + appetisers out.
No one bothered to refill our glasses when they ran out of water, we had to request for it.
SMH really.
Nevertheless, shit experience. Will not return to that particular outlet.
You can jolly well take other people's business until you've shown a vast improvement in your customer service.


This duck rice is seriously da bomb! Everyone should really come here and try the duck rice + salted vegetable duck soup.
My colleagues and I are seriously in love with this stall hahah!
Here's the address:
Hup Seng Duck Rice
Blk 22 Sin Ming Road
Singapore 570022

Guess who was back the week after Easter from Australia? Adabelllllleeeeeee :D
Met up with her last Saturday for tea that cost us both more than a proper meal lol.


Venue of our gossip session was PS Cafe at Palais Renaissance.
Truffle friesssss HOMG HOMG HOMG HOMG



My black cherry tiramisu

Some banana chocolate caramel cake with ice cream?

We ordered a choice of dessert each along with a serving of truffle shoestring fries to share.


When you go to PS Cafe, you die die also have to try this! It's seriously one of the best truffle fries I've had. While this portion will set you back a good $15 excluding GST and service charge, I find the price comparable to its portion hence I was willing to shell out the money.
That and the fact that truffle fries is one of my favourite food!
Almost every table ordered one and the smells were so heavenly~ Gosh, I need to stop gushing about it liao. Wait tonight dream about it haha.
Anyhow, I enjoyed the meeting with Belle because she said she wouldn't be coming back any time soon so...... ya. Either I fly there or we'll have to wait awhile before we can meet.
We shall see :)


Met up with the girls one night after work for sushi at The Standing Sushi Bar.
Brought the bf along while Lirong brought hers as well.
Hidaya and Juyin ended up becoming each other's dates lol.
I wasn't as impressed about the aburis served there, I preferred the ones from The Sushi Bar.



Neither was I impressed with the rice sets served. Food was bland and expensive. Blahhhhhh.
Not my kinda thing. Probably will not go back, I rather go queue at The Sushi Bar to be honest.
After which we headed to Waffle Slayer around Outram Park area thanks to Lirong's recommendation.


Red Velvet

Matcha and azuki

Squid ink and eggs benedict and salmon??

Shared 3 different waffles among the 6 of us. Ok, 5 since my bf doesn't really like desserts that much.
For the respective names of each waffles, please go to Lirong's blog when she posts the review haha.
See, have food blogger around the rest of us suddenly drop 10 levels down the effort to post Instagram worthy pictures lol.
She even went to another table to achieve better lighting while the rest of us just sat there and waited for the food to come back HAHAHAH!
I liked the red velvet one the most actually, no surprise because I really like red velvet :P
Matcha isn't really my kinda thing while the savoury one just tasted funny to be honest. Combination was a lil too weird.


Alrightly, have fulfilled my obligations to update before May arrives so leaving you with a cute picture of my bf and his baby nephew.
Who promptly proceeded to vomit on the bf after taking this selfie with him.
Talk about a nice baby ;) who will be receiving more gifts for tormenting the bf on my behalf hahaha.
Ok, this is a super long post.
Will be going to make my own lightbox this weekend, hopefully I can produce some nice pictures for this space soon.
BYE :) oh, and Happy Labour Day!

Thursday, April 03, 2014

Female Singapore 40th Anniversary Issue Limited Edition Collector's Set

Hi everyone! I'm very excited to share with you the delectable NARS goodies from Female Singapore 40th Anniversary Issue Limited Edition Collector's Set.
Now I first knew about this piece of news from Instagram (@bagaholicboy to be exact) and I saw many beauty bloggers on my IG feed getting their hands on them.
I made the bf reserve a set for me at Kinokuniya Ngee Ann City outlet and he went to get it for me yesterday afternoon.


Told him to use 'lucky hands' to grab a set with nice NARS items because the items are actually given at random. Let's see what is inside this box of goodies!


I was anticipating the NARS mini(s) inside because I love NARS and its cosmetics - I just dislike the price selling here in Singapore :(
I have heard that people have gotten either 1 or 2 of these items: mini lipsticks, lip pencils, lip glosses, cleanser but guess what I got..?


Wahahaha thank you bf for your lucky hands because I has (intended bad grammar) 2 NARS minis in my box wohoo!!




MOAR MAKEUP FOR ME!! *\O/*

Anyway, here's what 1 inside the box:
1 x Female Magazine
2 x NARS pouch (red and black)
1 x NARS Soft Touch Shadow Pencil in Aigle Noir
1 x NARS Larger Than Life Lipglosses in Gold Digger


These new NARS pouches are coming with me on my next vacation! The inside is actually waterproof and they are big and roomy, long enough for putting in brushes (have I mentioned I made the jump and invested in some Hakuhodo brushes last weekend?!). Plus I like the colours (red is my favourite colour by the way and black is just a universally pleasant colour).



Here are first impressions and hand swatches of the items I received in my box. Aigle Noir was a Holiday 2009 release while Gold Digger was released in Summer 2012. Both are permanent items listed on the NARS website.


Aigle Noir is a black shadow infused with gold glitter, something that I would not typically use for the fear of looking like a panda. But I am glad to have gotten it to try this out as a base colour or maybe if my skills are quite good, eyeliner! LOL.


Gold Digger is part of the Larger Than Life Lipglosses which I love because of the smooth applicator. This is a clear gloss with gold shimmer flecks and maybe some bronze bits inside which I think would be gorgeous as a stand alone gloss or over an orange lip colour.


I dug out my normal sized Larger Than Life Lipgloss and a Satin Lip Pencil (sorry, don't own any Soft Touch Shadow Pencils) for comparison.
I was surprised at how generous these minis are! 

Larger Than Life Lipgloss 
Normal size: 0.2 oz 
Mini size: 0.11 oz

Soft Touch Shadow Pencil
Normal size: 0.09 oz 
Mini size: 0.07 oz

HUH!?!?!?!? Thank you NARS Singapore for being so generous!! :D

Sleeve of box with what I guess to be the types of minis you may receive

I'm really happy to get my hands on this limited edition box set with products of such a huge quantity for mini sizes.
And the best thing is...it's only SGD$18. I had a 10% discount because I was a Kinokuniya card member.
Thank you very much Female Singapore and NARS Singapore for being so generous!
Happy 40th birthday Female Singapore, I'll try and read your magazine at least once okay! HAHAHAH.


As mentioned, I bought my copy at Kinokuniya Ngee Ann City (it's at Level 3!) and I asked the bf if there were very few stock left.
He told me there's still alot of sets available so not to worry if you haven't got a copy!
Go and rush out and buy it, remember to pray to the makeup gods to gift you with more items inside the box before you pick a set.
I am extremely tempted to go and pick up another one because of the good price point for the amount of freebies inside plus you get a beautiful box to keep stuff in.
Alright, shared the good stuff already, see ya in another entry.
Hope to get my blogging groove back :D
BYE! :D
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