My 25th Birthday :)

I thought I'd better do this before July is over HAHAHA! I cannot believe it'll be August so soon leh wah lau. How did time fly so quickly?!

So.... yeah a few weeks ago I finally turned 25 years old. Quarter of a century and.... OH EM GEEEEEE D:

I am still in denial even now lol.

My birthday celebrations started about 2 days before the actual day in the office.

We had durian cake as per our office norms because we all love the home made durian cake that my colleague bakes :D

Nom nom nom!

 

Please pardon my bare face lol. It was a horrible day cos we had meetings in the morning and by the time we finished up everything it was lunch time. Hungry die me then lol.

I brought home about another 3 slices and devoured them over the weekend, the start of cake weekend cos I was eating cakes non-stop the entire 3 days!! THE HORROR.

Next day was a Saturday so as usual, headed for dance class haha.

Yup, #motd #makeupmess here with the bare essentials really. Usually I try and apply less stuff on my face when I go for dance lessons because they all go away by the time class ends - makes me look even more cui wtfffff D:

 

At night went out with the bf's friends and gang to the airport for 4Fingers.

And erh, they ended up treating me to a matcha lava cake at a cafe in Bedok85 because it was almost midnight then so yeah, actual birthday haha.

I'm sad to say that not many knew it was my birthday the next day (sad truth of life to be honest...) but nevertheless, still happy to have been surrounded by close friends ya esp when the bf is not around.

It was still fun at the cafe, FaceTiming the chao bf who was at the club that night (insert eye daggers).

 

And this is the birthday cake that I bought for myself HAHAHAHAA

Yup, puking rainbows that whole week - my third rainbow cake in fact.

Doesn't it look so colourful and yummy!? I swear this store has the best rainbow cake in Singapore!

I first tried Lynda Ann's rainbow cake through Trevor who bought it near the guys' Sunday soccer area. Somehow, I tried it and fell in love. LOL! Kept thinking about it and decided to just eff it and order my own cake for my birthday.

I mean what century already right? Why can't I buy my own cake leh? LOL even though it is quite sad from another point of view but nvm... No bf to buy for me what to do :(

I actually went all the way to Bedok North Ave 3 to get it the day before my birthday and painstakingly took a bus home with it because there was no atm around and the chao cab driver that I flagged down didn't have a NETS machine in his taxi. 

Happy birthday to me! :)

Went to church that Sunday and after that had dim sum brunch with my family and grandmother.

Overordered too much food and couldn't finish everything lol. So my dad refused to cut the cake at the restaurant so I brought it back to my grandmother's place after that meal and chilled for awhile before 'cutting' it.

With the 2 beloved ladies in my life - grandmother and mother!

I always think that we should be grateful to our mothers on our birthdays because even though it is a happy occasion, she went through hell and contractions to give birth to us. So thank you Mummy for enduring all that shit 25 years ago that day! SARANGHAEYO :D

 

With le brother and my maid who brought me up as a baby

Group pic together with my cousin here too.

Yay! Noms rainbow cake wohoo

Typically, rainbow cakes just taste like food colourings or have this really synthetic feel in the mouth once consumed. I blogged about this previously how I hated that rainbow cake from Dean & Deluca.

But this, everyone, is just.... awesome. Lynda Ann's does their cakes with the right amount of cake to give the person the actual 'Hey, I'm eating a cake!' feeling than those who bake measly flour portions that when you into it, you're basically eating air only lol. I hope my descriptions are making sense ah! (Totally not a food blogger clearly...)

Yeah and the cream cheese that accompanies the cake is sugared to the right sweetness and not overwhelming at all.

Basically, just go and try it and you will never find another other rainbow cakes in Singapore that tastes better than theirs!

Ok, enough gushing about rainbow cakes.

Spent the afternoon with the bff, Jace and Stella who came over to use my nail polishes and makeup.

LOL I never envisioned girly bonding time to be as such because.... I basically did manicures for them -.-" and whose birthday was it actually? /raises an eyebrow/

All dolled up and ready to go sing us some karaoke!

Left the house about late afternoon and I drove us all to Cineleisure because we were having buffet dinner at Kbox hahaha.
Singing karaoke wohooo!!!~

My surprise cake with my fav Woodstock HAHAHA

The way they brought the cake in was epic funny! I was getting kinda bored because Jace & Stella disappeared for a really long time on the pretext of going to the toilet.

Turns out they walked to 313@Somerset's Charlie Brown Cafe despite a branch at Cine's level 4...

I got suspicious because they weren't coming back after a super duper long time. Then I got thirsty and wanted to go get myself a drink.

Super good timing because I walked out before Wanjun and Sinhui could stop me and found the other 2 outside the door bringing the cake in LOLOLOL.

But nevertheless, thank you my gzbs!! :D

 

I am so not crying because I was touched. Stella blinded me with her camera's flash and it was so darn painful!!!!!! T.T

Our pri school memories lol - shit we do when we run out of Korean songs to sing hahah

Ended the night at 10pm and we all went home because sad working adults like us had work the next morning boohoo.

They bought me a charm from Pandora :) The mouse on the far right.

My birthday month usually comes with alot of perks who try and make you spend even more during your birthday month - Juyin always says nevermind just spend because it's your birthday, super good excuse to use lol!

Went to Laniege a few days later to utilise my 20% discount during my birthday month. I got really lucky and was picked for their birthday treat actually. Will blog that in another entry!

And then my chao dongsaeng Xuanzhi treated me to Yoogane the following weekend for dinner lol.

I should really update that entry I wrote about Yoogane because I feel like the service standards have dropped since :(

Really sad because I find the F&B service standards in Singapore to be really below par compared to other Asian countries.

I love eating out in Taiwan because they really know how to treat their patrons/customers well.

But oh wells, that's life!

Anyway, if you read this then lucky you hahaha! Please note that Yoogane requires a min 2 portions for the food to be served in the pan yah.

No one told me that on my first visit -.-" Or maybe I didn't hear it la. But yeah, found this only at the menu that they placed near the entrance of the restaurant.

The staff when taking our orders did not offer this information till I asked about it so... tskkkkkk!

Ordered the usual chicken dakgalbi and a portion of fried rice + cheese. Yum!

Helloooooooooo dakkies! (Dak is chicken in Korean)

Took this to send to Carol via Instagram HAHAHAAH! Evil la us lol. I also made XZ drink a bottle of makkgeolli with me that night too even though he was still a little hungover from the night before.

Fried the rice and cheese when we were done with the chicken! YUMMMMMMMMMY!

Thank you XZ for the treat haha! Noona will be nicer to you in future wahahahaha~

Ending this post with my Disney nails, design by Janelle (/elleandish on Youtube). You can link the tutorial here. I spent the whole afternoon doing them painstakingly (clearly not enough gong fu lor haha) but it's okay, I'm quite pleased with the outcome of it.

Well, that marks the end of my birthday celebrations. Nothing really special now that we're entering August soon (boooooo gotta wait another 11 months till next year's birthday HAHAHA) but I hoped you enjoyed reading this.

BYE! ^^

Happy Lunar New Year!

(cr to owner)

Hello! Happy New Year everybody :) I'm back from China already so hopefully I will resume regular updates yeah?

So I've been up to tons of activities since my return....

By doing something the entire Singapore judges people who do it hahaha!

Yup, queued for bak kwa at Lim Chee Guan.

Don't judge okay, my mother wants the bak kwa so I didn't have a choice. I'm very filial one! :D

I met up with Yvonne my ex-colleague too and was very excited because she bought a tin of cookies from Jenny Bakery for me! 

 

Luckily we had a long weekend for CNY celebrations and I took half a day off to go shopping with Jacelyn on CNY Eve :P

 

With my Double Ls! HAHA ok la my Craftholic bears from BFF and Wanjun

Steamboat on CNY Eve

This year's CNY was a very quiet one, I only went to both grandparents' homes for visitation before going back to sleep the night away hahaha!

With my awesome cousins lol

Love of my life whom I have a love-hate relationship with :P

I hope CNY has been good for all of you, huat big big and collect alot of angbao money k!

Still have 7 more days to go.

Will be heading to KL and HK next week for work and then for a personal holiday.

Cannot wait because I am extremely burnt out plus I have to move into the new house too.

Excited for that as well hahaha!

Alright, talk again annyeong~

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

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

Babies... and food?

heh. ran out of blog title ideas.

just... accept whatever cuteness my nieces are gonna give you along with all the food shown :D

had 2 back to back family gatherings over 2 weekends and it was great to spend time with my loved ones.

especially the 2 new additions - Chloe and Eliza - my cousins' daughters.

here you'll see dear Eliza who is barely 6 months old.

the bf calls her a rocker because she has super stylo mylo hair please - like a rockstar! it's au natural by the way.

Auntie Chris, Eliza and me!

I didn't dare to carry her because she seemed so fragile so let all the aunties carry her instead since they're more 'seasoned' people - look at all of us all grown up already haha!

 

Cutie pie with all her adorable expressions! Did I mention she looks exactly like her father at birth but now that I see, her eyes resemble her mother my cousin LOL.

Oh and I finally caved in and bought Ladurée macarons!

Takashimaya Shopping Centre, #02-09 and Level 1

I bought the Singapore only box of 8 macarons for $38SGD.

MADNESSSSSSSSSSS. LOL! The price D;

I used to think Antionette's macarons were expensive but Ladurée's beats it hands down honestly.

And the taste-wise? mehhhhhhh. Not impressed.

I was quite amazed at how many people were buying the macarons in boxes of 30 and what not.

How can people spend so much on... flour? >_<

But then again, each to their own tastes I suppose.

Here's my lunch last week before the May day public holiday at Coffee Bean.

Salmon Brioche Egg Ben $11.90 with drink

Quite yummy! Their menu is quite extensive but I tried their risotto today and it was blah. Sticking to this in future!

met up with Laura, Maisie and Sinhui the day after Labour Day for dinner and to basically just catch up.

we had Poulet at Bugis+

201 Victoria Street
Level 4 Bugis+, Singapore
Opening hours: 11.30am – 9.30pm

 

Mushroom and French Onion soup which were heavenly! Altho the rest preferred the mushroom soup over the French Onion one. We ordered to share.

Iced Lemonade for all of us because Poulet doesn't serve iced water :( You have to pay. Boo.

Prawn Fritters.. which Maisie complained that it was just frozen tempura. Sad to say, a waste of our $7.80.

 

Signature dish.. Poulet Roti ($15.80 half/$28.80 whole)

For the 4 of us, we ordered 2 whole chickens to share and... disappointed D:

why weren't there any sides? :(

sad to say we didn't really enjoy the meal much and it really wasn't worth the 20 minute queue.

but oh wells, at least we know now! :D *think positive*

Our dessert at Swensen's afterwards. I shared this with Sinhui.

Lunch on Friday at the Indonesian restaurant at Changi City Point with my colleagues.

Strawberry Tart from Tiong Bahru Bakery

Apple Crumble from Tiong Bahru Bakery

so yums I tell you! If only this was served warm and with ice cream... :P

And last Saturday was Chloe's birthday party at a stable my cousin rented.

We got lost and only ended up there in time to take pictures with the cake before it was served LOL.

I didn't ride the horses even though we could because... animals and I just don't go well together.

When the bf sent the pic to his friends, someone comment "wah go see Sarah Jessica Parker bo jio"

SUPER MEAN PLS!! HAHAHAHAH BUT SO FUNNY!!

anw it took me quite some courage to take the picture cos.. for a moment I freaked out when the horse moved ;__;

 

And... the birthday girl! Chloe :)

see I told you this entry would be nothing but food and babies hahaha.

Happy birthday little niece!

May you have blessed days ahead :)

Please let Aunty Paula carry you in future without you throwing a fit tyvm HAHAHA.

leaving you guys with a pic of my yummy Ippudo ramen.

SEOUL IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!

OPPASSSSSSSSSS!