Katelyn Tan | A Singapore Beauty, Travel and Lifestyle Blogger

[Review] Vanity Trove Self-Picked #2

Friday, 30 August 2013

Here is my second self-picked vanity trove!

1. Physiogel Cleanser
Chose this so my grandma can give it a try cause her skin quite sensitive.
Hope it is useful for her :)

2. Neutrogena Hydro Boost
I chose the jar one but ended up getting the tube one cause they ran out of the jar ones.
Love how smooth this product is! Reviewed in my June Trove before.

3. Sebamed Anti-hairloss Shampoo
I think I'm gonna have hair loss soon. Parents say I am paranoid.
But I don't care. Gonna go DRx for a hair scan soon! Must find time :(

4. Blumarine Bellissima EDP
It has a unique floral smell? I didn't really like it.
Left it on the table and my mum is using it randomly.

5. Sasatinnie Sugary Heart Lipgloss Palette
A pretty lip palette!
Initially I didn't choose this.
What I wanted was OOS so I changed it to this :)

6. Dr.Ci:Labo Aqua Collagen Enrich-lift-EX
I like how Dr.Ci:Labo products are always smooth and non-greasy.
Chose this so I can give it to my mummy :)

7. Essential Rich Premier Shampoo
I didn't choose this. No idea why it pop up in my box.
Realized it's the 7th item when we can only choose 6? So it is a bonus! :)
I had this before! Brought it to the states when I went there a year ago.
It smells not bad. And it's always good to have such travel sized products for traveling! :)
And I don't recall choosing this too! Hahahas! Memory loss much.

That's all for my second self-picked trove!
Looking forward to my next trove :)

Vote for your favourite Mentholatum Acnes Ultimate Ulzzang to stand a chance to win a pair GV tickets!

Tuesday, 27 August 2013


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My Week in Photos: Week Two of Year 4!

Sunday, 25 August 2013

Well... I got addicted to doing these "My Week in Photos" posts.
Afterall, my blog started off as a diary :)
I won't be writing this every week I guess.
Can foresee that some weeks will be rather dull.
But... so far so good :)

Since the previous post ended with last Friday, let's start with last Saturday :)

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Last Saturday I made maki sushi with my grandma! :)
Cucumber + Mayo + Furikake
Simple cucumber maki cause grandma insist that I just had my laser done
and cannot eat eggs or crab stick.
Doctor also didn't say cannot. But since she don't allow, oh wells.

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One of the days I received more products from Make Up For Ever (MUFE)!
Love MUFE products to bits. You can check out my first MUFE on the Blue Sepia palette here :)
My face has almost fully recovered from the laser. Can't wait to try these products!

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My dear MacBook Air arrived on monday :) Sponsored by my daddy hahas.
Got psycho-ed by my friends to get this and upgrade to the max.
My Macbook white has been my "desktop" for quite some time cause my battery died.
It reached it's 1000 battery cycle and died on me! Lesson learnt: don't let it reach 1000 battery cycles!
For mac users, whenever you can use the power supply, just use it.
Bought this MacBook Air cause I needed a lappy that I can use without power supply.
And love this MacBook Air cause it's so light! :) Thank you daddy!
Actually my panasonic GF6 also sponsored by him hahas.

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Study date with my east side study buddy, Xin Ci! :)
Okays we didn't study as much this time cause some things cropped up.
And also I underestimated the amount of lectures that I am lagging.
So some tutorials that I brought there, I can't do hahas.
But at least got study abit ;) Oh and I got baby mantou there to eat :)

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Received a Limited Edition Bellabox!
Specially for the celebration of Singapore’s birth month,
Bellabox worked with a designer to get this beautiful peranakan design!

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Saturday meet up with my JC clique.
Had lunch at Lerk Thai followed by Gong Cha.
No full attendance though.
In the photos (clockwise) - Me, Li Hui, Shiyun, Kai Ru
Missing - Alicia, Vicky, Fang Ru
Won't be able to have full attendance for a year,
cause Li Hui is flying off to scotland next week!
She's gonna tour USA too. I'm super jealous bout that!
Told her to pack me in her luggage hahas =P

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After meeting the girls, I met up with Felicia!
And... we forgot to take photos together!
Anyways we had Gong cha and HK sheng Kee dessert together :)
The photo above is the liu sha bao we had.
I always forget to take photos together one...
Next time whoever meetup with me remind me can? Hahas.
We had a long htht session. Miss talking to this girl!
We have forever non-ending topics to talk one.
Everytime in hall we say we will sleep soon but end up chatting till late in the night!
Now abit hard for us to meetup cause our timetable's don't match at all.
But... we will meet up again soon ;)
Next meetup planned already hahas! #secret

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So... that's all for my week!
Today shall be mugging day.
And the vicious school cycle starts tomorrow.
I really really really need to catch up on all my lectures!
Finally completed clearing week one lectures and tutorials only.
Will blog again soon!

Bangkok Day 3

Thursday, 22 August 2013


We wanted to visit the floating market.
Headed to Taling Chan Floating Market cause it was the nearest.
Reached there then we realized that floating market aren't open on weekdays!
There are still tours available though. But just for some sightseeing.

Cabbing to our next destination.
Yes. Cabbing as usual. Actually we were quite lucky.
No matter what time we travelled at, we didn't really face any jams.

I think this is a BTM?
It looks like our MRT station.
But they have a lot lesser stations.
So they can't really bring you everywhere.
Walked pass this while going to Terminal21 :)

Terminal21! Pretty umbrella decos :)

Jump jump!
All 3 of us girls too one shot each =P
Photo thanks to alicia's DSLR. Photo stolen from FB so abit low quality.
And abit zao geng (exposed) when I had this shot hahas.
But well... I got safety shorts underneath.
Reason why I always wear safety shorts when I have dresses/skirts on.
Well I photoshopped till you can no longer tell that i got zao geng hahas.
Photoshop rules! =P

When you are at terminal 21, you have to visit every single level's toilets hahahas!
Cause they have super pretty themed toilets for each level =P
We started from the top level.

Hollywood! That's the cinema level.
Only the last photo was taken in the toilet =P
Anyways we were there about 11am and the mall was empty hahas.

Hello San Francisco! I miss you much! :(
Middle photo is the toilet photo.

Level 4. I think it's also San Francisco?
And they have a bakery themed toilet there.

Visited till Istanbul and we got hungry hahahas.
So we went back up to San Francisco level!

Terminal 21, Pier 21 Food Court
Time for some food! 

Pad Thai and Thai Ice Tea! My two fav! :)
Food at Terminal 21 Food court is super cheap.
Pad Thai only 50bhat ($2) and it taste like Aloy Thai Pad Thai =P

Thailand is famous for their mango sticky rice. But... I don't like it at all :(
Don't like the coconut or whatever syrup that they pour over the rice.
The mango was super fresh and sweet though :)
Hmmm and I didn't like their green curry too.
It's not thick at all and super oily.
Those who know me well should know I don't like oily stuffs.
The rest didn't like those two dishes too.
So... we have the same taste when it comes to food! ;)

Done with food, continue with photo spamming =P
Next location: London!

When you see brick walls, take OOTD photos =P

Outfit of the Day
Cardigan: H&M
Dress: Cotton On
Slippers: Havaianas
Bag: Random online shop

I want to go to the real London too! :(

Next up: Tokyo

Ohhhh btw, clothing at each level suites the theme too! ;)

Next, to Paris!
No Eifel Tower though.

When we reach Paris it was kinda crowded already.
And the toilet stinks. So no pic =P
From here onwards, we stop visiting toilet already. Hahahas.

Rome :)

Caribbean :)

Then we went back to Tokyo and bought some ice cream along the way.
That's all for Terminal 21. The things there are expensive.
We went there to see the themed building only.
Didn't really buy much there.

Went back to Platinum Mall to shop!
Had wanted to search for bags so we went to the accessories level (5th floor),
thinking that bags should be considered accessories.
But their accessories are purely accessories like hair ties, hair bands.
AND WE FOUND PRETTY HAIR GARLANDS!
Something that I've been wanting to buy but they are so expensive online.
Not something that I really need or I will wear out, just buying cause it's pretty.
The small floral ones which I bought are only 130bhat each :)

Street food time!
The fish was super super fresh! It's a must have!
The rest were just normal.

Then we went back to our hotel - Baiyoke Sky Hotel for their Sky Observatory.

On the way up to the revolving roof deck.
Guess what we found? Pressed penny machine!
My favorite hahahas. Got a whole collection of it in USA =P
So naturally, I made two here as well ;)

Up on the revolving deck. It's super bright up there.
The LED lightings were supposed to be showing words.
But you are so near it till you can't tell what it says =P

At their bar :) Pretty chairs!!! So... spam pics again!

Thing I bought from Day 1 to Day 3.
This is saddening. I'm no longer a shopaholic.
I only buy like that in BKK lehh!
Oh and the photo of the right is the mess I made while taking the left pic.
Roomie says I should take a photo of the mess too hahahas!

Accounting time!
Did this till past 12mn! We started at like 10+pm! Had issues tallying. LOL!
All our cabs and sometimes food were shared costs but one person pay first.
So we had to tally this at the end of afew days so we can return the money.
We didn't have the common fund/pool of money thing cause no one wanted to keep hahas.

That was all for Day3!
Anyways we returned back to the hotel rather early everyday.
Always about 9+ we are back in hotel already.
Except for day 1 cause we went out for late dinner.
Will be blogging about Day 4 soon! :)