Towards the End of year 2017

Just chanced on my own blog by cleaning up my Gmail. Read through some of my previous posts, rants etc... At 32 now, regret at some of the things that I did and at those that I didn't. Wish I can turn back time and tell that younger me on what to do and shouldn't do... But for now, life continues to go on regardless of you liking it or not... - End of rant-

Alice In Wonderland fever!

Tim Burton's upcoming movie, Alice In Wonderland, has created a makeup craze & suddenly there are many Alice In Wonderland inspired makeups.

Not a big fan of the movie but these packagings are pretty overload.

O.P.I

Urban Decay

Paul & Joe

Cute packagings eh?

Valentine's Date @ Flamenco Plaza Damansara

Since Valentine's Day fell on the same day as 1st day of Chinese New Year, we celebrated ours on the 17th Feb! Not to say really celebrate la, just going to some posh place having good food, but of course, the one who accompanies you is all that matters :)

That day we had the whole restaurant to ourselves & the owner herself serving us!

All her staff is on hols.

Really nice ambience & the food is goooood!

The 'I'm bored' look

My partner in crime aka the bf

Notice the wine cellar room on the left?

Wish I have one in my house, although I don't drink any wines... it looks posh-y & sophisticated :D

Wild mushroom soup with pine nuts

Naked escargots with baguette

Scallop linguine with home cured salmon

Mixed greens salad with avacado, orange, olive & home cured salmon

(I've eaten half of it b4 I can remember to take pix >.< )

Veneziano tiramisu

Chocolate brownie oozing with chocolate goodness in the center

Fruity sangria


Flamenco
No 22 & 22M, Medan Setia 2,
Plaza Damansara
Bukit Damansara
50490 Kuala Lumpur
603 - 2093032

Cupcakes for V-day!

Im usually not that cheesy, hardworking & I have never baked cupcakes before in my life!

But oh well, decided to do something special since it's our 1st Valentine together.

It's super easy, you can take short cuts like me, like getting a prepared cake mix & voila! guarantee edible hehe.

Prepare everything the box tells you to & do accordingly. Won't go wrong if you follow the instruction. (the cream chesse suppose to be for the frosting...opsss)

End result for the cake mix. Looks soooo chocolatey... me love!

Prepare the frosting. Ok the box doesn't teach you on how to do the frosting, so here's the recipe

1 block of cream cheese

1 1/2 cups icing sugar (I used 2 cups, turned out too sweet, make it lesser if you're health concious)

2/3 from a block of butter

2 tsp of vanilla extract

1 drop of red food coloring (for my pink coloured cupcakes)

1. Blend butter & cream cheese with mixer.

2. Slowly add in icing sugar.

3. Add in vanilla extract & food colouring if preffered.

End result should be like this. Smooth & creamy. You can just dip the top of your cupcake & twirl it. You can also pipe the frosting to create nice decor

Garnishing my cupcakes with strawberries, white choco chips & silver sugar balls

Final result!! Ta da!! Guess the message, haha!

The extras for the family & my neighbour. I told them it's me wishing them Happy Valentine with these but they knew these are the extras & I need people to finish it up, but hey! it tasted good ok ^.^

Go & try!

Daiso haul!

If you have been following me on Twitter, you should that I'm madly obsessed with Daiso.

I felt happy just being there, looking at stuff over & over.

The ordeal would lasted AT LEAST one hour.

Probably because its a Japanese store (me love!), everything RM5 & alot kawaii, useful stuff.

If I mention to my boyfriend that I wanted to go to Daiso (he's my driver ^.^), my boyfriend will always give me that 'what?? again?? what you wanna buy wor??' look.

Frankly, I usually doesn't have a thing in mind on what I wanna get in Daiso but I always end up with something :P

Here's my latest haul!

Cushions & lavender sachet (for my car), flower puncher (to do my artsy-fartsy stuff), black eyelash glue (beauty stuff - for my false lashes, although I rarely use them, but hey! it's only RM5! Use black ones so it doesn't show), pie baking pan (I'm infected with a baking bug), pet toy (Micki's)

I'm itching to go again already!

New Year's Resolutions 2010

Most people like to make a list of resolutions every year, but whether u manage to fulfill it or not, is another thing :P There's always the same ones repeating every year , the ridiculous ones, the impossibles & the simple ones but it's fun putting up a list anyway.
I know I am abit late but nonetheless, here it is!

1. Pick up a new skill
I wanna learn photography! When I'm 60ish I wanna be able to look at those old photographs & say 'those were those days' =) (but the bf bet RM200 that I will only last for 3 months for this... such bf!)

Digital Scrapbooking is another fun way to document those memories with photos, memorabilia & stories. Since scrapbooking needs alot of materials & craft ideas, I do it the modern way with digital scrapbooking using Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, my forte :D

2. Eating healthily, make my own lunch
This is hard, you have to do the planning, groceries shopping & preparing it. But when I think of the canteen food > full of fried stuff, spicy oily sauces, yucky veges, only white rice... I think I will balloon into one of the 'before body size' of The Biggest Loser contestant in 3 months time.

3. Lose Weight
I believe this is on most women's list no matter how small or big you are. Hope to drop 2 or 3 dress size at least... hmph

4. Walk more
Shopping walks count? Yes, but then you down on those fast food or desserts on your shopping trips equals to 0. Oh well, I guess I will only carry Micki & walk around the block but time is always the factor preventing me to do so (=___=;;)

5. Blog more
Neglected this blog quite abit. Used to have a few entries per month, but nowadays it seems like it's only 1 entry for a month (=___=;;) I have loads of topics to blog about > restaurants I've visited, places I've been to & loads of product reviews. Again, time is always the factor + Astro + FB + TVB dramas >.<

6. Finish reading the whole Bible

I admit, I never finish the whole Bible before. Every starting of the year I will be so gungho to finish it but later then, slack after only a few weeks. My determination span is very weak de (=___=;;)

7. Saving up

As the old saying goes 'save for the rainy days' which is very true.

Bai bai shopping on impulse, bai bai shopping therapy, bai bai window shopping (T_T) wait!! window shopping is ok mahh right??

8. Learn Mandarin

I can't even write my own name in chinese to save my ass swt (=___=;;) I did try. I bought that box box exercise book for maths so I could practise but I got lazy. Such determination (=___=;;)

I am a Chinese! I should know how to read or at least hold a proper conversation in mandarin. (Im fluent in Canto thank God).

My sis has loads of awesome chinese manga & I can't read it at all T_T Flipping through it depresses me. Oh, my fav ViVi mag is in chinese too *depressed*
I did asked my parents 'ARRgghh! Why didn't send me to chinese skool?? Now I can't read these awesome manga!!' Their reply 'No nearby chinese skool lah tat time'. :(

Some people wud PROUDLY say " oh I am a banana, I ONLY speak english ok" *high nose* but puhleez la, its NOT cool!! oh well.. I need a teacher!!

9. Living Healthier

Sleep early, more veges, less sugary & fatty stuff, exercise, not stressing myself out, take it easy etc. you know the drill :)

That's all I can think of now, add more later XD

Fav Dress from SAG Awards

Into dresses & gowns lately. Feast your eyes on these lovely gowns from the recent SAG award~ otherwise, the ladies at least hehe.

Kate Hudson

Backless, long sleeve Emillio Pucci gown
OMG! Totally *heart* this, damn hawt... my friend had her cheongsam for wedding modified with a bold back baring which is very unique & sexy yet traditional, really fell in love with it, not sure whether she let me post her pix here, let me ask 1st :) man I really have to gam fei :(( (which I've said like a million times)

Mariah Carey
Bold crimson one shoulder off gown
I would never dare to pull off a red gown, too loud for my taste... but MC totally rocks this one

Christina Applegate
Icy blue Roberto Cavalli gown
This one is so feminine & elegant but the color's abit dull eh?

Marion Contillard
Short one-shoulder Elie Saab dress
This dress is sexy! The beige color really matches her skintone & those sexy pins... wow!

That all for the SAG Awards fashion report ;)

Ranting - 1 of my fav pastime

1ST

I know I should be thankful that I am alive, having an awesome family, cute pooches, a job that pays my bills & a seriously wonderful bf.

But seizure has been plaguing me since last year & I cant help but being depressed bout it. As humans always does, you always want to blame, asking the whys & etc right? On Nov adding dosage to my current medication were even more depressing. But after adding the dosage, there's improvement & not a single seizure coming on & I thought I was making good progress. Coming off the medication doesn't seem so far a distant, until i had one yesterday, a petit mal seizure. Totally crushed my self entertained glimpsed of hope resulting on a sleepless night.

Anyhoo, (spelt like that on purpose coz it tones down my seriousness) thinking back of the Haiti tragedy, I can't imagine how it felt for the survivors out there, injured, dehydrated, lost & helpless . I should be thankful for every moment that I am alive & still enjoying life.

2ND
My job.is.plain.boring.
But then, I've been saying that for every job I've been into ( so far i've changed 4 full time & been into 1 part time)
I wonder if there is any other job that would ever make me happy & entertained.

Many people stuck in lousy jobs just to pay bills. (I am no different)

Stuck in that same notion everyday. Don't know what they live for.

There's a huge difference between living life and simply existing.

I seriously don't want to spend the rest of my life by simply existing.

I want to live a living life.

Confusing? I thought so.

Not trying to be all Oprah here...

I'm drafting this from office... heh

Ranting done.

Doubutsu Uranai

Something fun, to me at least :p

You are Black Monkey, who has a pretty and a cheerful smile. [I like to think so]
People depend on you for your kindness and the way you take care of them. [Is it?]
You don't possess feminine emotional attraction, but you can make decisions calmly and efficiently. [I don't possess feminine emotional attraction??wth.. I have to confirm this with the bf. As for the decision making, I'm very fickle minded]
You can go on living with patience. [I guess... as long as no one pisses me off]
You don't have strong identity, you are straightforward person, and lead consistent life. [Not sure...]
You will lead a happy and lively life if you put yourself as number two and work under someone. [I like to follow rather than lead & vivian means lively... will I lead a happy & lively life?]
You are not very good at reading other people's mind, but you can have a relationship without making others incurring displeasure. [True case...]
You tend to be rather nervous, and if you don't try to relax, you will get mentally tired. [True case...]
Although you are weak on instinct, you can carry out things rationally. [I guess?]
And in real life, you don't get interested in hobbies and culture, but you seek for materialistic things. [Not true]
Your objective in life is to lead a life for both personal interest and practical benefit. [Partially?]
You don't like to loose, and because you put in great effort, you will not give up halfway and can be full of sprit. [Not sure bout this but I have short attention span]
But you can lack foresight and are not good at deep speculation. [Maybe? ]
You may be taken advantage of yourself. [I love myself too much... heh]
Your cheerful and generous character is popular among men. [I am pretty popular among women too... ahem]

Now the bf one... coz' I'm naughty hehe....

You are Silver Fawn, who don't show emotions openly. [I think he wears it on his sleeve, which is very good haha]
People think you are easy to get on, because of your gentle and modest character. [True case, I always bully him... hehe]
However, you are really an extremely proud person, and will not compromise easily. [I think so]
You live truthfully to your beliefs. [True case]
You will not easily withdraw your opinion. [True case, backed up by proven facts bcoz he's an encyclopedia & smart like that :p ]
Sometimes you get pestered like young children. [Don't think so]
You dream of leading life as a maverick. [Not sure]
But in reality, you respect duty and obligation, and are kind person. [True case]
On the other hand, you tend to observe your circumstances with an observant eye. [True case]
You show great identity, and are very clear on what you like and dislike. [True case]
Once you dislike something, you will not come to like it again. [True case]
You are also indifferent to things. [Not sure... I'm such a lousy gf]
You do not care much about getting promotions, your relationship with someone you are going out with, and so on. [Not true... he cares, alot]
If you take interest in arts and literature, your talent may open up, and a turning point of your life will arrive. [Oh really?]
You are loyal to something that you consider a life-work. [Think so...]
You should be the head of your own business. [Already is]

Search up yours at http://world.doubutsu-uranai.com/

Random Fact 005

Yes, there's etiquette on how to eat sushi & what you can, must or never do while eating Japanese foodie.

The fine art of dining, Japs style.

ps: My bf does that 'dump wasabi into your soy sauce, turning it into soup' thingy everytime! Personally, I find that real unappetizing... sorry hun, truth hurts. Take it like a real man k. Bwahaha!

Random Fact 004

It's been so long since my last random fact!

Here's a nice one.

ps: Can't stand these people who print unnecessary on fresh papers!. You see, it's not that hard to take those one side printed only papers, dump it in the printer & print the unprinted side. Lazy assed peeps...

Rilakkuma~~

My latest obsession...

RILAKKUMA!! hanging out on my lappie...

Even Micki's all excited!

Lunch Bento #2

I am so lazy.

Here are my bentos for last few weeks.

Hope it makes you drools instead of losing appetite :P

brown & white rice topped with seasoning sprinkles :: fried eggs :: green chicken curry

All my bento tool! Yea, looks sad right now... it's all I have for now, add more in time

Updates! Added a few pieces of bento stuff..yay!

mixed vege salad :: chili sauce :: guava :: nuggets :: baked potato wedges

potato & eggs salad in citrus mayo :: brown & white rice with seasoning sprinkles :: nuggets :: broiled chicken & tohu

long beans with pork bits :: crispy chicken :: noodles with seaweed sprinkles

That's all!

Tohu with century eggs, bonito flakes & oyster sauce

Saw this in some foodie site, looks healthy & delicious enough.

This is a no brainer...

1. Steam tohu.

2. Remove tohu from steamer.

3. Chuck in 1 diced century egg, bonito flakes as much as you want & pour oyster sauce to your liking.

As easy as 1 2 3!

easy peasy~

Backkkk... with food porn :D

Decided to get back on after such long hiatus (*≧▽≦)

Gonna try snapping pictures of my lunches, into bentos lately (*≧▽≦)

Here's 2 lunches that I brought to work, didn't manage to snap the rest, most probably they are the same or Im rushing out.. haha

left box :: brown & white rice mixed with japs beef seasoning, chicken nuggets with chili sauce, long beans with oyster sauce, cherry tomatoes

right box (to make soup) :: japs tohu, wakame, enoki, miso paste

left box (to make soup) :: bonito flakes, japs tohu, wakame, enoki, miso paste, some big sliced mushroom

right box :: japs cucumber, cherry tomatoes, chili & tomato sauce, nuggets, garlic toast

no kawaii presentations yet, maybe later when I get my hands on the tools :D

My Bangkok loots!!

Man, a girl can really shop!

I love looking at people's loots...

So, here's mine from my Bangkok trip.

The skin stuff here. I am not crazy, my parents are. They are the one who want 10 tubes of Peppermint Field's gel. Lotions, masks, whitening cream, body butter, vanilla body mists (they are heavenly!), cleansing oil, eye serum,handcreams, my sis's fav thing in the world, peppermint inhaler, some thai magic oil (Siang Pure Oil), bought it purely because of influence haha

Miscellaneous stuff. Slipper (sucker for teddy bears), keychain souvenirs, hairbands, star hair clip (sucker for starry stuff), romance novel (I was bored at night), purple clutch, purple wallet, dog biscuit (they were cheap & good quality!), hair curlers from Daiso, MAC Fafi eyeshadow, blusher & gloss, large black belt, 80 denier black stocking, bling necklace, Micky's toothbrush, toothpaste & ear lotion (so many varieties & cheap!)

Clothes category, 2 dad's shirt, 1 big Elmo for me (weird infatuation for Elmo), vintage red T for sis, black & brownish grey short pants, longish black Tshirt, dresses & blouse for moi again, bikini (damn cheap!)

Food stuff. I love foodies! You can see that I love Pretz, anything that comes with stick form... yummmm (please don't think with your filthy mind), Pretz here costed only 12 baths = RM 1.20 in Bangkok, while back home in Malaysia it cost RM2.50!! omg!! Piglet cup noodles ( I love you Piglet!! it's a shame that you're banned from Malaysia, sob...), assorted thai snacks to please my relatives, Ritter Sport Dark Whole Hazelnuts (where would I be without you, oh chocolates~) - slightly cheaper, bought the orange manga girl instant noodle coz' it's kinda cute

My NaRaYa loots!! Thailand's famous bags & accessories shop.

All my bags loots!! Sis doesn't like her sling bag, damn...now I ended up with 3 bags..

My sexy LeSportSac backpack (frens said I look kiddish =_=;)

Eventually that brown bag belongs to mom, she's like 'omg!! so outdated!!'

so now it's officially belongs to my grandma =_=;

I wanna go back to Bangkok again!! Truly a shopping heaven!!

Plus, you can't beat that RM 13.90 head, shoulder & foot massage for 1 hour yo!!

I *heart* Bangkok!!

I've also bought Origins masks! Mask genius promo pack - Out of Trouble, Drink Up, Clear Improvement

All for RM 197 only!! I spent my last Baht in Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport. I went home Baht-less! haha

I *heart* Bangkok!!

Pathetic Lovelorn

I think I've read too much romance novels.

Like, they have a sweet beginnings, then things started to get miserable & ends with sad endings or if you are lucky, happy ones.

I think maybe subconsciously I desire to be unhappy, whenever I am in a relationship.

Finding fault in every angle to the one who are close to me.

They always complaint that I am being unreasonable, pathetic, demanding & needy even.

There's one point, when I am acting like that...

Severing the relationship, hurting the other person emotionally,

he yelled back at me 'Who the hell you think you are? Some princess?'

Wow, that really wakes me up...

I can't help being that way.

I don't know why.

It's only when I look back, I'll be like "OMG, is that me??"

Do I need help?

Being emo... again

Okay, I didn't fall out of the face of the earth.

Just nothing inspiring, been busy with work & stuff.

These 2 months + haven't been exactly good or memorable I guess.

This has been bothering me for a while. (It happened almost 5 months ago)

I don't know why, some people change in a matter of seconds.

I can't barely recognized him anymore.

One minute I thought like I've known him forever, the other minute he's like a stranger.

Complete stranger.

We planned our future so much, and just overnight, all forgotten.

Why people change? They moved on, and you are left behind.

Chasing their shadows.

There you are, longing them to come back, but deep inside you know they never will.

It hurts. Like hell. It still do.

Hard to go on with life as usual.

When everything you do reminds you of him.

So, why people change?

It's scary. 

Moving on, meet other people.

Of all the people, they could never be compared to him.

Thought he was the one. So naive.

Now I am kinda relationship phobic.

Come & join my pity party T-T

In the span time of these few months, the hardships my family are enduring is suffocating.

Fear, confusion & worried.

I know everything happened for a reason but why do they attacked all together at once.

I don't think they could hold on any longer.

This song is sooo our situation.

The Fray - You Found Me

I found God
On the corner of First and Amistad
Where the west
Was all but won
All alone
Smoking his last cigarette
I said, Where you been?
He said, Ask anything.

Where were you
When everything was falling apart?
All my days
Were spent by the telephone
That never rang
And all I needed was a call
It never came
To the corner of First and Amistad

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why’d you have to wait?
Where were you, where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, You found me

In the end
Everyone ends up alone
Losing her
The only one who’s ever known
Who I am
Who I’m not, and who I want to be
No way to know
How long she will be next to me

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why’d you have to wait?
Where were you, where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, You found me

Early morning
The city breaks
I’ve been calling
For years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
You never sent me no letters
You got some kind of nerve
Taking all I want

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Where were you, where were you?

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why’d you have to wait?
Where were you, where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, You found me

Why’d you have to wait
To find me, to find me?

Sometimes I am so tempted to run away.

Away from all these mess.

Peace & stillness. (okay I am not taking bout' death, choi!..More like New Zealand kind.)

Bliss.

Now, work.

I am so sick of it.

It's not what I wanted to do at the 1st place.

Now it's only the money, not the passion.

Same mundane situation everyday.

I want to do things on my own, at my own pace, me being in charge.

People in the office are so fake. Wearing masks everyday.

They could be acting all friendly but backstab you behind your back.

I really loathe this kind of environment.

You can't really trust anyone. Just you yourself.

When I first joined, they will be like "oh, welcome to the big family"

Big family my arse!

I really wanna do the working holiday thingy in UK T-T

5 years target. By 28, I shall be there!

Okay, ranting done.

Now I am back to my cheery self.

PS : I've bought some skincare & makeup stuff! Should I review all of them???

2009

Yeap peeps,after a long hiatus, I'm finally back into the blogging scene!

Didn't end 2008 with a bang,

sleeping in hospital bed instead.... looooong story.

Greeted 2009 with truckload of work, pathetic....

Anyways, I'm not being emo lah, life is a blast nevertheless.

In a good way!

Okay, here's the lowdown, which I don't know why you even bother to read instead of Youtube-ing.

I have a few seizures and the last one is on New Year's Eve.

Every aftermath it left me feeling tired and sick. No kidding.

So the last one was the worst. I don't know what's wrong & I never had seizures before, 

so after a few times it happened, instinct kicks in & I went to see a doctor.

He's like so bizarre, all I want is a MC but he lectured me (coz' I told him I wanna go back to sleep instead of going to the hospital) and a letter to admit to hospital.

He even try to scare me by saying..'how can you take this lightly??! It might be a brain infection or a tumour!!'...

I was like..wookay... My dad was like... omg!!omg!! really???omg!!!! 

So went to hospital and done all kind of tests.

Results: my left brain is the culprit! Scans detected that it's abnormal which made my system go haywire so now I'm on med. It's ok, but one of the side effects from the drug is gettin fatter...OMG!!

Apart from the long grandma's story I just typed, 

I am really touch by the people who visited me.

Your visits means so much to me! Sob...sob... Coz I am so bored to the core! haha

Seriously, really 'gan tong' lor, never expected a stadium worth of ppl to visit me (ok Im exaggerating) & my family.... they . are . simply. amazing! 

Tell your parents & siblings that you love them okay!

And peeps buy insurance!! Bloody hospital is so expensive!! My 3 days & 2 nights stint costed about RM2500+!! 

Thank God my mum forced me to buy insurance a few years back. 

If you happen to admit to the hospital, and you are insurance covered... 

go to Gleneagles Hospital!  (ok touch wood!!)

Damn syok lah! there's tv in front of yr bed, with Astro! and they serves you 5 meals a day!

Now move on,

WORK

is blah....

everyday it's the same mundane routine,

and I've only start working here for 2 months!

Is this normal??

I wish I can do something that I enjoy doing, 

Why people can't always get what they want??

Thought of being an online entrepreneur

Well, as the saying goes 'No pain, no gain...'

So starting by doing research 1st... 

Hopefully one day I can sleep till 12pm, shopping mall visits at 2pm

and only work when I'm feeling hardworking :D

Hope everyone's 2009 will be a great one!

TVXQ/DBSK latest album 'Mirotic'!

Must get my hands on this!

1st single from the album, 주문MIROTIC,

title track from the album is super hawt!!

especially my Yunho oppa!!*dreamy*

Dōshite Kimi o Suki ni Natte Shimattandarō?

(どうして君を好きになってしまったんだろう？

(Why Did I Fall In Love With You?)

is another sappy sad but oh-so-sweet love song by TVXQ/DBSK.

Nice MV too

Support the artist by purchasing only the originals.

(Support my Yunho oppa!!)