Back from #napbas

Just got back from the trip to Malaysia for the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards 2011 together with other bloggers! Had loads of fun...



Will sort out the pictures and blog about it soon!

Oh ya, look at what went home with me! Thanks Alexa for the Churpie thumbdrive and plushy. Love it so much! So cuteeeeeeeeeee~ (In case you are wondering, Churpie is the mascot of ChurpChurp.com, a community for Social Media Influencers)

Trying styles that are not my style

Trying styles that are not my style

I like to try different looks. My favorite is the sweet girly look, but sometimes I like looking boho, rock or vintage too. One of the looks that I think is the most unsuitable for me is the mature style. I feel very uncomfortable in long knee length skirt and formal blouses.

However, on some occasions I will still try on something new.

#1 Fur cardigan with gold chain linings from Missqueenie. I paired it with Theblogshop tube lace dress and a weave brown belt


#2 This beige woven dress (theblogshop) looks very matured on me, so I paired with some girly accessories to make it less woody!


#3 Long black dress from theblogshop.


#4 "tattered & torn" top (theblogshop) with mustard shorts from Missqueenie, paired with my own accessories.


#5 Swallow cardigan (theblogshop).


And I realise that I have a number of old outfit pictures that I have not posted (or maybe I posted before but forgot)...

#6 I wore this lace tank over a dark blue maxi for a new look.


#7 Outfit and cluth from TheBlogShop. Would love this look alot if not for the gap above the skirt.


#8 Back to casuals!


#9 The outerpiece is from Missqueenie. Love those heels but they are kinda difficult to walk around with.


#10 I seldom wear this type of outfit but I reallylove how it looks on me! The top is from Mamatiam. (I somehow think that I have blogged about this outfit before... have I?)


#11.. And finally, this lovely mustard dress from Giselle's Closet. I love this look... it's quite me! Wore it out with Fidelis the other day and forgot to blog about it!


Did I blog about any of the outfit before ah? Let me know if you remember!

Battle Box

BATTLE BOX

I don't think I've ever been to Battle box. Recently I was given an assignment to write a travel feature of Battle Box, so I thought perhaps I should take extra pictures to blog too! I haven't written the travel piece yet.. It will be easier to blog first... so here we go~

Battle Box is located at Fort Canning Park and it is within walking distance from Dhoby Ghaut MRT. After walking halfway, me and my mum regretted not taking the cab from the mrt station. We sat down on a bench for a while, and then decided to walk up a huge flight of stairs and try to find the place again. There it was! Not very far actually.


Welcomed by soldier who instructed us to turn right!


At the briefing session, we were told to wear these headsets to listen to the guide. Besides the headset, there was also a real guide who led us through the different rooms and explained each room to us.


First, we were led to look at the telecommunications/ control room of the soldiers in old times, inside this dungeon.


Almost every room are just soldier statues pretending to do what they were supposed to do. Actually, it is abit boring unless you are really interested in history.


The soldier wax-figure in this corridor is not well maintained. Look at the face!




This room was replicated exactly according to a rare photograph. Amazing!




There is air-con in the underground tunnels now, but in the past during war times it was stuffy and hot inside. This is one of the 3 air ventilation equipment that was used at that time to filter the air inside.


One of the dead end. It was a secret escape for the soldiers via the ladder.


This was the meeting room where the British decided to surrender Singapore to the Japanese. The scene was re-enacted out in this room.


Several photos and articles about the war and the soldiers. Quite boring leh the whole tour, most of the things inside I read about it in history textbooks already. I guess I'm just not into military. I'd love to visit the ancient china palaces!~ Haha.




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3 Pork Porridges

I suddenly got sick on Saturday after sharing a bowl of anyhowly (water and egg and msg and salt and sesame oil and pepper lol) cooked soup with Dad, who at that time had sore throat and I didn't realize that I shouldn't be sharing food with him. The whole family was sick at that time except me....so perhaps I shouldn't blame it on sharing the soup. Or maybe because I ate a packet of Hot & Spicy potato chips (that wasn't 'Hot & Spicy' at all...)

So anyway, up till today I'm still sick T_T

I went to the polyclinic today and I really dread going to the polyclinic near my house because since years ago, the minimum waiting time is definitely going to surpass 2 hours. Today I wasted 3 hours there.... I sometimes rather sleep off the sickness for 3 hours than sitting on the hard chair in the polyclinic for 3 hours, inhaling all the germs from the people who don't cover their mouth when they cough. Private doctor is about $40 - $60 per visit, so of course the whole neighbourhood goes to the polyclinic, which is usually less than $20. Heard from SX that the polyclinic at Seng Kang has a much shorter waiting time... around 30 minutes only. Maybe some doctors should be transferred over to our branch?

I have said this before, I really do not know why the other patients before me always take at least 20 - 30 minutes each while my stay in the doctor's room only last 2 minutes max. What are they doing inside? How come I always kena such rooms? Why haven't I, for at least once, been allocated to a room where the 10 patients before me are all common flu and cough and come out within 2 minutes max?

So anyway, after that I went to visit the cobbler near my house to repair my heels for the blog awards this weekend. I have not touched the heels for 2 years already I think, and when I took it out of my shoe rack, the platform fell off -_________-

I really do not know how my neighbourhood cobbler earns his keep. He charge around $0.20- $5 per shoe he repairs and he sits by the corner of the market every day since I was a kid. Our neighbourhood is not that big and I don't think everyone have shoes that spoil everyday. I think max he earn each day is $10 - $30 only lor!! Is that enough?

So anyway, usually he is a very good cobbler but this time he anyhow do my heels, I think I can even do a better job with my cheapo superglue lor. Plus he never align the straps properly and all that. Sigh, guess I'd have to throw this one away and find another pair of shoes for the awards night. So excited! Hope my sickness can go away just in time.....

For lunch I ate pork porridge, and I told the uncle I want to add egg. He never add lor! Lucky I mixed the porridge and checked! When I went back to say, the auntie add the egg in just like that!! The porridge is not burning hot by then, can like that meh? Later the egg can't cook how? But I also did not say anything I just eat it up.... :/

So just now, SX came to my house and bought a packet of pork porridge for me together with some healing tea. Later dad is gonna cook pork porridge for dinner. Hahaha 3 bowls of pork porridge for me today and nothing else~



Speaking of porridge, we had teochew porridge buffet at Windsor Hotel and we were the only customers there lol. But they didn't even have salted egg!! Isn't that one of the staple? There was prawn, steam fish, steam pork, etc though... For dinner it is $12.80++ per person... I though that it was quite cheap because if we eat at those teochew porridge stall outside, it is also about the same price. But I feel that eating porridge buffet is damn bohua because after 2 rounds max, you feel too full to continue! Plus the spread is not that amazing, just normal stuff that you eat with porridge... Don't think we will go back again~

Bibigo

When I received the invite for this Korean restaurant Bibigo, my first thought was "Ok I had wanted to try their food since a long time back!" My company has liaised with Bibigo before for one of our concerts, and I remember at backstage I was like "wow~~" over Bibigo's super nice packaging and presentation. Bibigo is owned by CJ Food, which is part of the CJ Group, a very big company in Korea. The group branches out to other businesses such as entertainment as well.

Brought Fidelis along to Raffles City, where their restaurant is located at!


If you are hungry or haven't had your meals, I suggest you stop reading from here onwards before I'm just gonna make you hungrier!

I'm not sure what this rice is, but it is very yummy!


This is some nutty drink but my tastebuds didn't really agree with it. Looks pretty though Haha






That dish above is yummy... but me and Fidelis both think that the star dish for that day was this meat dish below! Jae Hoon from Bibigo kindly showed us how we were supposed to eat this. Take a leaf from the roll (which is very expensive type of leaf, according to him), take a piece of the marinated spicy veg, and place a piece of meat into the combination and bite together. It's HEAVENLY. The meat did not have the type of smell whenever pork is steamed/boiled... It's very yummy! Me and Fidelis, TWO girls, finished the plate. Lol.



Main course!


This is beef bowl, which I can't eat.


So I changed to chicken! We had to add our choice of sauces from the variety available, and we asked the staff which is the best sauce to use for this dish, and these 3 are!



Fidelis, Nadia and Jacelyn have been exercising a lot and it has been making me guilty about how I binge on food and not exercise at all! Every time I meet them they seem to be growing slimmer and slimmer while I've been growing fatter and fatter!! Guess I have to stop being so greedy and order so many food for meals... Sometimes I eat two main course for one meal; don't know why I so tam-jiak!


After the event, I head over to my grandparents house because it is my cousin's bday!


I didn't have any pictures of the birthday boy but I did have pictures of his cute baby sister hehe.

Blink 826!

Just finished resizing a few batches of photos to blog about but uploading got some problem so I guess I shall forgo my plan of blogging a long entry tonight!

I spent almost the whole day sorting the pictures because the computer is so slow! Sometimes I wonder if the problem is that we increased our expectations of speed over time or computers are really getting laggy. It's really frustrating when your brain wants to do something but the machine you are using is moving slower than you by a million minutes. I feel like 1/10 of my time in front of the computer is spent doing real work and 9/10 of the time is staring frustratedly at the screen waiting for the loading bar that is not moving at all.

Maybe doing some charity will help.

In line with the festive season, Cliqee is currently having a fundraising collaboration with Metta Welfare Association, whereby it will give consumers the opportunity to donate Gift Packs to the children benefiting from Metta.. The Gift Packs would then be delivered to the respective centres, and distributed to the children.

Priced at $9.90, every Gift Pack will consist of:
1x Christmas Hat with LED lights
1x Stationery Set

On top of that, Cliqee will be donating 50cents to Metta for every pack bought for donation.

Miss Singapore Universe, Valerie will be participating in the ground work of the project (packing of gifts, visiting of the student care centre)... Do your part too~! Check out the poster here:





Blink.sg generously sponsored me 3 more boxes of '826' after they knew I really like it! It fits perfectly and I think I've finally found a suitable eyelash for myself. Most of the time when I buy from outside stores, even if the lash is really good, I won't remember where to find back the exact same one because I buy from so many different stores! It's good to have Blink.sg, an online shop so that I can remember which one I bought!

If you can see from the picture above, my red hair fade already! A lot of people have been telling me that red dye fade easily..... I think it is also because immediately after my dye session, I was caught in the rain. Besides that, I also wash my hair every day. For the first few days, my towel turned from white to pink haha. Tomorrow I'm going to try and dye bright red again.... This time, I think I will heed the stylist's advice to not wash my hair for at least 24 hours.

Actually I really miss my previous light hair color.....

I've been looking at old pictures of myself... which is some time last year, when I had dark brown hair... I think I was thinner back then, or maybe it's the hair color, I looked so much better! But I don't think I should go back to dark brown now... or should I? It's so blah and boring!