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Chinese New Year 2013

Sunday, 21 April 2013

Happy Chinese New Year! Okays kidding. It’s long over.

I know right, I took a million years to do up this post -.-

Anyways here’s what I did for CNY Eve, Day 1, Day 2, Day 7, Day 15!

Day 3 was just relatives visiting my house, so no photos =P

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CNY Eve

Like what other families do, CNY Eve is when we have our steamboat.

Grandma always prepare lots of yummy food. One of our favorite would definitely be the braised (and smoked, I think) pig stomach. Grandma always washes it thoroughly and it has no stinky smell at all!

And as usual, it is also my standard Do-My-CNY-Nails Day. Did red hearts nails.

You can take a look at the tutorial here ;)

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CNY Day 1

Same as the past few years, CNY Day 1 is always the day where we will go to Loyang Tua Pek Kong in the morning, and my paternal relatives will visit us from evening till night. This year’s slightly different though. Day 1 became slack day cause of of 4 families, only 1 came. The rest all overseas, so they arranged to come on Day 3 instead.

Outfit of the Day

Top: Abercrombie

Shorts: Abercrombie

Cardigan: H&M

Photos at the temple :)

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CNY Day 2

CNY Day 2 is always the day for us to go gather at our maternal family’s place. Actually we have gathering every Sunday. Just saying that CNY Day 2 is a maternal family gathering day as well.

Makeup in the morning.

The crazy amount of makeup I use each time hahahas.

You can checkout my facial highlights tutorial here :)

Lou Hei at maternal family's place.

Before and after hahahas!

For those who don’t know, my maternal family owns an eatery biz!

They even got featured on ieatishootipost before!

It's on hungrygowhere too :) So whoever go there and eat, please help review ;)

So everytime we go to our maternal family's place, we always get to eat lots of yummy food!!! :)

I love their sweet and sour (or thai sweet chili) abalone!

I am super lucky that both sides of my family cooks really well.

Then we had a full maternal family portrait :)

Outfit of the Day

Dress: Bugis Junction

Belt: Forever21

Clutch Bag: Dorothy Perkins

Wedges: Steve Madden

When we reached home at night, we took our own family portraits too.

Need to find a nice new corner to take photo! Every year same place leh!

Anyways, sis and I were camwhoring after that lols.

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CNY Day 7

It’s everyone’s birthday! And the tradition was to Lou Hei.

So we did as well ;) Same as last year, we bought our Lou Hei from Sakae Sushi.

May everyone’s wishes come true!

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CNY Day 15

The last day of CNY. This time we didn’t have steam boat though.

Instead we have a few yummy dishes.

This is the only thing that is different this year! Hahas!

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That’s all I did during CNY hahahas! I think I’m old already :(

Now no longer get hyped up before/during CNY lols.

It’s like when you are young, you look forward to CNY cause you get to buy new clothes.

But now, I don’t need to wait for CNY and I am always shopping haha =P
Plus CNY is getting mundane, always the same each year.
Can something exciting/fun happen for the next CNY? :)

It's Christmas 2012!

Tuesday, 25 December 2012

It's Christmas Day!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! ♥

As usual, this year's Christmas I'm stuck in Singapore AGAIN.

I'm still looking forward to a snowy/disney Christmas one day.

Let's see when it will come true ok? :) Hope it will come true soon though.

P.S the winner for the BRAND'S contest is already up on my facebook page :)

Here's a really cool Holiday Medley video for you all!

Hope all of you have a great Christmas 2012!

Mother's Day 2012! :)

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Okays I haven't been blogging :(

Lots of photos piled up on my desktop already!

Been really busy these few days!

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Now let's back track a lil to mother's day!

Flowers sisters and I bought for grandma and mummy!

And of course I have to camwhore with the bouquets right? hahas!

Mummy with her new bag (a present from us) and rose bouquet!

I LOVE MY MUMMY!

I know mummy loves all of us a lot (even though she don't say that).

I remembered when I first broke up with my ex, mummy came to check on me every night to make sure I was fine. And recently when I didn't feel well, she was very worried too and she herself end up falling sick and the doctors said it was due to stress :(

Grandma with her carnation bouquet!

I LOVE MY GRANDMA!

She's like a mother to me too! So every year sisters and I would surely get her a mother's day gift.

My paternal grandparents live with us. So ever since young, when daddy and mummy are working,

my paternal grandparents are the ones who looked after us.

I'm very much the pampered one by my grandma since young cause I'm her eldest grandchild.

When I stayed in hall, she insisted on accompanying us to hall to help clean up cause she's worried that we will not clean it properly and will leave dust around (and I have very sensitive skin).

And every week when I go home, she will make sure that she cook the food that I like!

And all the nutritional food as she's worried that I will not eat well when staying in hall.

(My family knows I'm the lazy type who would rather skip meals than to go buy food lols)

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Actually both were supposed to be carnation bouquets! One red and another hot pink!

But the shop had a mix up and sold my hot pink bouquet to someone else! :(

Then they gave me a rose bouquet instead. As I was in a rush that day, I just accepted that.

So that's all for mother's day :)

Happy Mother's Day!

Sunday, 13 May 2012

Happy Mother's Day

to all the mothers out there! :)

A lil preview of what I got for mummy and grandma :)

Will be blogging with more photos soon!

Got to go and sleep now! Got work tomorrow!

Valentine's Day 2012!

Saturday, 3 March 2012

The night before Vday...

PACKING VDAY GIFTS! hahas.

Started packing at around 12am?

Bought these with daddy and mummy at Giant before coming back to hall.

And the lollipops ended up giving me problems! :(

Couldn't close the box properly due to the lollipops :(

So I had to bent one corner so that the lollipop stick will have space :(

Packing everything into individual boxes.

Ribbons tying time!

It was almost 1.45am already!

Finally done! At almost 3am :(

I think I became a pro in tying ribbons after that lols!

Colourful!

Super sleepy already.

KO-ed right after that lols.

On Vday itself...

Started off Vday with Joy picking me up!

And we realised that all the carparks around school was full! :(

I guess many people drive to school cause they have a date after that?

So we had to wait to enter the carpark!

BUT we made full use of our time by taking pictures! ;)

We were in school for our lectures.

And after lectures it was...

PHOTO TIME!

Photos with teddies and roses :)

Even the teddies want to take peektures =P

Then we met our DIP mates and gave them vday gifts :)

And joy went on her date while i went on a "date" with 7 guys!

Hahas the #foreveralones have a vday dinner tgt.

Not really all foreveralone. Two were attached but not meeting their gfs that day.

Yupps yupps everyday can be a vday okay!

So not vday then 100% must meet one!

We went to JP earlier so we could find seats very quickly.

Settled for dinner at Ajisen.

After dinner, we left Ajisen and had a shock!

Scary long queues! So luckily we went there early :)

And that was how I spent my vday!

Outfit of the Day

Hearts Cardigan: Intoxiquette

Grey Top: 77th Street

Bottom: Cotton On

The day after Vday...

We had a post Vday? hahas.

It was Wednesday = DIP day = Good food day due to the 2hrs break!

So Joy and I decided to go to BenTen Cafe in Jurong Point!

They have this humongous icecream!

Tried it before with my hall girls.

6 of us couldn't finish it!

(but it was prolly cause we each had a main course)

Tried their set lunch promotion :) It was around $11.60 after adding GST

We decided on having Curry Rice cause the meal comes with soup!

Ordered two different ones to share.

And while waiting for the food, it was camwhore time! hahas.

Proper shot :)

Candids :)

Soup of the day - Pumpkin soup

Drink - Calamansi Drink

Bread! Not bad when taken together with the soup :)

More photos while waiting for the main courses to come ;)

Teriyaki Chicken Curry Rice and Hamburger Curry Rice!

Photo with our food!

Mixed our food :) Half of each!

And the serving was super large!

It ended up with both of us not finishing our rice =X

But I think the money was worth it :)

Food was not bad plus large servings.

The bill for that meal!

After paying the bill, we made our way back to school for DIP.

And guess what?

The guys bought us belated vday pressie! ;)

Macarons from Bakerzin!

So we decided to have a group shot! :)

And they say it's as if we've completed our project and are celebrating lols!

See all so happy!

First Shot!

This shot was super funny :)

Sam was actually blocked.

But he managed to do a jump shot with my camera timer!

I took the second shot and edited it :)

Love the font alot! ;)

As usual, my favourite rainbow colour!

But didn't purposely use rainbow colour cause I like it.

It was cause I didn't know what colour they like =P

And you realised there is tau huey on the table?

The guys bought it too :)

Two happy girls with macarons!

We wanted to share with the guys.

But they didn't want to take it :(

Colourful macarons! ♥

Light Brown, Orange - Dark Brown, Pink, Green, Purple, Dark Brown!

Selegie soya beancurd :)

Never tried it before.

But after trying it, I quite liked it :)

It's the type that I like cause it's not too sweet.

The beancurd was actually pure beancurd taste.

No sugar added to it I think.

And the syrup wasn't too concentrated too :)

Had that as my dinner. Plus macarons lols.

Cause I was still feeling full from lunch!

Guessing flavour time!

Have no idea what flavour each of the macarons were!

PINK - Rose

But felt it was too sweet :(

My fav colour though...

DARK BROWN - Chocolate

Love this! hahahas.

Those who know me will know that I love choco ;)

PURPLE - Blueberry

A lil sweet with a sour taste.

Not bad thanks to the sour taste.

It lessened the sweetness :)

DARK BROWN + ORANGE - Chocolate Orange

Nice! Wasn't too sweet. A lil orange taste in the chocolate.

And most importantly... it was choco! hahas.

GREEN - Pistachio

A lil unique nut taste.

Actually I love pistachio.

Always eat it during CNY.

The taste wasn't really strong here.

But guessed it through the colour :)

Usually green macarons are either green tea or pistachio =P

I FINISHED THE MACARONS OKAY!

Cannot say I didn't give face =P

Took two days to finish though.

Last two was eaten as breakfast the next day lols.

And there was another one.

LIGHT BROWN - Coffee

Joyce (my neighbour) took that.

Cause Chor Seng (my DIP mate) told her to get macarons from me.

They know each other through NTU ODAC and they are a scandalous pair! =P

So I had a happy happy vday with my friends :)

How did you all celebrate your vday?

Hope all of you had a great vday too! :)