Good food, Good accompany

This holiday is really a feasting month for me. I ate lots of good food! I didn't shop much so all the money spend are on FOOD! I tried a lot of food which I wanted to try after seeing so many bloggers talked about. I feel accomplished after trying them out and I can finally strike it off my To-Eat-List. HAHA!

Anyway, since my last post I went to quite a few restaurants to eat. I went saizeriya with meirong, shunyu and yingjie for xmas lunch. I went there before and thought it was a nice place to dine in as the food is not bad and cheap too.

Chicken wings and sausages to share. I orderes squid ink pasta and shunyu ordered salmon gratin.

Escargot to share too

Meirong's Chicken gratin (I think)

Yingjie's steak 

For me, I had free flow of drinks too. There are many choices to choose from and I only paid $12.40! Cheap right? I was very full by then. *BURP*

The next restaurant I went was Victor's kitchen. Qinning recommends this place for custard bun. It was really good, in terms of the custard, Victor's is better than Swee Choon's. As for the skin, I prefer Swee Choon's.

Anyway, Victor's Kitchen is really an old place, just another coffee shop, a mini and squeezy one. The shop has this traditional look. They even use the traditional way to calculate the bill. In addition, they have a limited choice of dim sums. I only spent 5 mins looking at the whole menu, including drinks. Personally I feel that only their custard bun is good. If you want to eat dim sums, Swee Choon will be able to provide a wider choice of dim sums, the service they provide and the eating experience in terms of ambience you get will be so much better too. 

I shared all this with qinning and I paid $13.50 which is not very cheap for the variety of dim sums I had as compared to the dinner I had at Swee Choon.

After that brunch, we had frolick! It's been while since I had frozen yoghurt! Frolick is my favourite frozen yoghurt thus far! *YUMS*

Lastly, I went Yomenya Goemon with qinning, yes, AGAIN. She was my workout buddy, but ever since she hurt her leg, she can't exercise much. Therefore, now I officially announced that she has promoted/demoted to my eating buddy! Don't misunderstand me, I'm not complaining. I'm quite happy actually because not everyone wants to try out food like me :) :P :D 

Really missed eating pasta, especially aglio olio and vongole!
This vongole is not bad but still prefer the westernized one which contains white wine. 

Qinning's carbonara which is not very heavy. Good!

Mango pudding with ice cream. The pudding and ice cream are good,
they should really change the mango they use, taste weird!

I know that it's not good to keep eating outside food therefore whenever I'm at home I will eat something light for lunch and dinner. Here's what I'll eat:

Brunch: Cereal with berries yoghurt drink topped with seedless grapes!

Snack: Fresh mangoes with low fat plain yoghurt!

Dinner: Cereal with milk/soya milk/yoghurt drink!

I love such meals! I can NEVER get tired of them. I like that to play around with the combination and have different taste each time. The fact that cereal and yoghurt are plain, I can make them so tasty after adding special milk or drinks for cereal and different fruits for yoghurt. LOVE IT! Too bad school is going to start soon, I doubt I can have them for meals already as I need energy to study. Yes, the truth is, after eating them, you will only feel that you're half-full and have no much of energy in your body. At least for me, it's like that. Therefore, I will only have this when I'm at home for this holiday because I know once I'm out, I will 大吃大喝. In a sense, getting my energy back? Anyway, this holiday is very slack for me, I don't need much energy too.

I baked macarons this holiday! Another *achievement unlocked* moment~ This is because it's not easy to make these tasty-and-cute-looking-puffs. All the measurements taken must be VERY accurate, the beating of batter must be just right and the weather plays a part too. There's a lot of things to consider...that's why my first attempt FAILED, quite badly. Look at the shapes, so horrible. Those on top are the best of them all.

The only thing that is a success is the chocolate ganache! It's sweetness is just nice and the texture is really creamy too~~~^^

Look at those crinkled ones...XoX

Recently, I'm quite into lip care. I realized that when I put on nude lipsticks, it won't turn out well especially so when my lips are chapped. It's quite frustrating as I cannot make my lips to be moist immediately at the point when I'm putting on the nude lipsticks. Therefore, I went to seek help from.....Mr. Google. I researched a bit and found out that there's actually a scrub just for LIPS. I never thought of that. I only heard of facial scrub, body scrub etc but never a lip scrub. I thought maybe just use the facial scrub or body scrub for the lips too but those are too strong for the lips. They will hurt the cells over at our lips. Hence, only use lip scrub for our lips. I found of this brand call, LUSH which is US brand which sells handmade natural cosmetics. I never see it in singapore so I can't buy their products. According to many youtubers, their lip scrubs are quite popular and good although it's a little pricey. I can see the immediate result when they used it and show the whole process for their review on the lip scrub. 

They have quite a few flavours but the more popular ones among the youtubers are bubblegum and mint julips. These are sugar paste so they CAN BE EATEN. This is how you use it: take some out from the container, then put them on your lips and start scrubbing until the grains disappear. After that, you can either wash it away OR LICK IT AWAY WITH YOUR TOUGUE. Then apply, vaseline on lips to keep it moisturize.

Since I can't buy that in singapore, I have to find other ways to get it. I HAVE TO SAVE MY LIPS. While I'm looking through youtube, I saw quite a few videos on how to make you lip scrubs! *MY EYES BRIGHTEN UP LITERALLY* There's even a video on 女人我最大, showing us how to make and apply lip scrub. It's really simple: get some brown sugar and put them in a small container, put a few drops of extra virgin olive oil and mix until you get the consistency you want. Add more sugar if the paste is too watery or add more olive oil if the paste is too dry. AND, THAT'S IT! APPLY AND SCRUB AWAY~~

I was determined to save my lips thus went out to look for suitable small container for my lip scrub. I was looking around in wisma and TO MY SURPRISE, I saw a store selling handmade cosmetics and all labelled with LUSH!!!! So....there's a store in singapore selling LUSH products! *YAY*

I went into the store and only look at their lip scrubs. THEY COST A FREAKING $20 for 1 small one! It's expensive but I still bought it. I was thinking just try it out? See how good is it? Anyway, if I don't think it's good, I won't buy from them anymore then and I still got the container which I can use it to hold my lip scrub when I make them.

I was thinking which one should I get. All of them have their own smell. It's quite strong too. Actually, all the products in the store has their own strong smell. Therefore, when you pass by, you not only get to see the cool look they have but also smell the aroma which diffuses out from the shop. It's quite appealing actually. Yeah.....so I bought the MINT JULIPS lip scrubs because I don't like bubblegum in the first place and as for the other flavours, the smell is just not right for my lips. I don't want my lips to smell like chocolate after using SWEET LIPS, so I think MINT JULIPS is the best. The mint smell is more than the chocolatey smell. It smells good even when it's closed.

I've tried and proven, this lip scrub works for me. I can see and feel the difference after my first use. My lips look more pinkish and feel much smoother. As for the subsequent use, I no longer can see the difference in colour but still will have the smooth feeling which is soooooo gooood. My lips have never felt so smooth before. FYI, I use this everyday ever since I bought it. I use it at night after I brushed my teeth, then apply vaseline on my lips and go to bed. The next morning, my lips will still feel moisturize! *AMAZED* Then if I know I'm gonna apply lipstick, I will scrub  it when I bath so that I can have smooth lips before I apply lipsticks!

I'm so happy with this product. I'm wondering if I will make my own lip scrub after I finish this tub because for homemade lip scrubs we can't keep it for more than 2 weeks. I'll see how. If I save up enough by the time I finish this tub, I shall buy from them again ^^

Merry Christmas

It's christmas! This year, I really have this christmas feel because during this festive season, I not only send out xmas cards but also baked cookies and gave them out to friends as xmas gifts. I received xmas gifts from friends and relatives too. This year's christmas is really quite different for me, hope it will be the same or even better next year!

I decided to do some baking this holiday and since is christmas, cookies will be a good choice! I made them in heart, flower, snowflakes and round shapes. These shapes kinda fit the festive season right? Heart-shape represents the love for your loved ones and snowflakes-shaped represents the snow of course. Flower and round shapes.....hmm maybe they don't fit the theme but round shapes is a must since that's the standard shape for a cookie! Then flower....okay can't think of any reason already. 

Personally, I like the snowflakes-shaped cookies the best! Define outline of the shape as compared to the heart-shape ones. 

I made snickers brownies topped with chocolate buttons too! They are heavenly! I wanted to taste it ever since I saw the recipe. Snickers + sugar + dark chocolate, it wasn't as sweet as I expected but it was too sweet for my mum. Seriously, it sounds sweet but really, IT ISN'T! I dunno why too. This recipe will officially replace the original brownie recipe that I used to use for baking brownies all this while. The texture and taste is better too. I can just remove the snickers to make a plain brownie! Just love this to the max! 

I baked all these in the day and it took me around 4-5 hours or less than that? That night, I went to meet shunyu and yingjie for dinner at bugis. They were the first to get these freshly baked cookies! We had PORN's sexy.thai.food. Look at the table of food! 

We shared these:

Tom Yum Seafood Soup: sour-ness is there but REALLY salty!

Pandan Chicken: smells and taste good, strong pandan taste too

Prawn cakes

Yingjie and I, each had a plate of pad thai which is not bad. It's a little salty and sweet at the same time.

Shunyu had a bowl of clear fish soup noodle which taste really fishy for me.

After dinner we went to 糖水先 but it was full house! We didn't want to wait so head over to Ah Chew's Desserts instead. It was full house there too but we were lucky, they have a table for us when we reached the shop.

Shunyu's guilin gao that comes with a pot of syrup. It's really bitter without the syrup, ><

Yingjie's watermelon and honeydew sago

My hongkong style red bean ice and aloe vera with honey and lime. Yes, I had 2 portion of dessert because I was SO THIRSTY! I think I had too much salt at PORN's. 

I'm gonna make macaroons this friday with zenia! I hope it will be a successful first try for me! I heard that is quite difficult to make it as the room temperature plays a part, the accuracy of the amount of ingredients used for baking and the amount of whisking of the egg whites must be just right. If any one of it gone wrong, it will not be successful, the shells will turn out FLAT! Just hope it will be a successful one! 

OH....since it's christmas, it also means that the judgement day for me is here. My results will be out tomorrow. *sigh* Please don't give me a shock. Bell curve god, please be on my side. Please. :*1

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Small Update

I finally finish watching 爱情闯进门, 32 episodes! Phew. It will be better if it's not being dubbed. I don't like it when I know the actor/actress's real voice but yet in the show what I heard is not their real voice. Just feel so uncomfortable. Anyway, I like this song from this drama, it's also called: 爱情闯进门, same as the title of the drama. It's by BY2. Although I don't really admire BY2 but I must say they do know how to sing and sang this song nicely.



 And yes, still reading the book which I mentioned last post.

I have been watching 娱乐百分百 these few days. I just don't understand why channel u want to stop screening the show. It's a happy and funny show. It really gives me lots of entertainment. This is such a great show, channel u should get it back on their channel.

So far so good~

I've been enjoying my holiday ttm! I didn't go work although I sort of found a job, is just that the pay is low and the traveling time is long so not worth it. I guess I just rest for this month? I still giving tuition though, so I hope it will be enough :x

So what did I do so far? I watched SM town live in Tokyo in 3D with qinning last week before she flew to Thailand for her holiday. The movie ticket costs $18 and it was a 1.5 hour movie. A 4 hour concert reduce to a 1.5 hour movie....hais, really nothing much though. All the performances in the movie are their own songs and the movie didn't include special performances. So personally I think is not worth the money. Oh wells. 

Then last sunday I went east coast park with shinfen, shunyu and tzumi. And like what shinfen said, it was a replay of taiwan. We cycled for 2 hours and this time round, shinfen and tzumi took the double bike. The weather was good that day. I saw many families having picnic there and there were many tents along the beach. It was the most number of tents I've seen in my entire life. I mean tents for family gathering. Or maybe is just that it's been quite some since I've been to the beach? The only beaches I've gone recently will be those in Sentosa, not those along the island. It was great! I really love to go to the beach. Sometimes I wonder it will be good if I can work at the beach. I will be looking forward to work everyday then. But what kind of jobs can there be at a beach? Lifeguard? I have no certificate for that. Ermmm....I dunno..a good job will be working at a bar along the beach. Can see the beach, feel the breeze while I'm working at the bar. Damm cool. I can even serve drinks to the customers who are lying along the beach. Damm cool! *u*

My very first jump shot with this pose! SUCCESS! With just one try! :) 

Hhahaa, anyway, after our 'workout session' at east coast park, we head to Swee Choon. I've been wanting to dine in there for soooooooooo looooooooooooong. Finally did it this holiday! I think the price is reasonable and the food are good! *Slurps* I shared a bowl of 炸酱面 with shunyu and it cost $4/$4.50? It was quite a big bowl for one person. Most importantly, at first I thought it will taste just like a another ordinary bowl of 炸酱面, but I'M WRONG. My first mouth of that noodle makes me crave for more! It tastes super good! It is the best 炸酱面 I've tasted. Maybe because I'm hungry, but it just taste so good! The taste is really different from what I've tried outside and the noodle is different too. I suspect is handmade, but can't be sure though. IT JUST TASTE SUPER DIFFERENT. 

For the 4 of us, we ordered 8 types of dim sums, but a total of 10 plates as for 2 of the dim sums we ordered 2 plates. Then shinfen and tzumi shared a bowl of beef noodle, shunyu and I shared a bowl of 炸酱面. On top of that, 3 of us had tea while shunyu had 'micheal jackson'. For all of these, each of us only paid $12 (fyi it's the round up value). I think for the amount of food I had and the quality of the food, $12 is SUPER WORTH it! For the tea you can add hot water after the first round, so in a sense you get a refill. WORTH RIGHT? 

From top left to right: 炸酱面, beef noodle, xlb, fried prawn wrap, egg tart, char siew bao, lian rong bao,
liu sha bao, shao mai. I forgot to take the last dim sum! It's a wrap with egg and floss inside. 

LIU SHA BAO! It didn't taste as good as what I've expected. Maybe I still can't accept the fact that it's salted egg yolk which they are using. But it's definitely better than Kungfu Paradise's liu sha bao. See the plate of sushi like food at the back on the photo on the left? That's the wrap I'm taking about.

Egg tart! It's content is really juicy and smooth!
LOVE IT!

After dinner, we walked to bugis and visited michelle. We did some camwhore before moving on to dessert. there is a dessert shop at bugis near PORN's Thai goof restaurant. I heard that is not bad. Although all of us were still full, we decided to just head there and share a bowl of dessert. HOWEVER, it was full house there. The place is small and there is still a queue. *FAINT* It was quite late already and is a Sunday but there were still people queuing for dessert. So I guess the dessert is good? I shall go there again another time and try their dessert.

As for today, I went tuition then head to Jcube to have dinner with shunyu before we watch 'Ah Boys To Men' with shinfen. It is a funny movie. I wouldn't say very funny but is funny luh. I think this movie is really interesting and the scene at the start which depicts how Singapore will look like when she is being under-attacked is really scary. It looks so real. It's my first time seeing things related to army. The bunk, camp and all. The bunk was so much better than what I've expected. I wonder if girls need to serve the NS how will it be. Interesting isn't it? I think the best part will be able to slim down in just few weeks. HAHA. But looking at how the sergeant shouts and being so unreasonable, I think I will just breakdown. So really must give the NS men a round of applause as they went through such a tough training, both physically and mentally. I will definitely catch part 2 of this movie and I assume it will be as good as the first one :) 

Right now I'm reading this book: The Solitude of Prime Numbers. Don't be deceived by the title, it has nothing got to do with math. Here's the description about the book:

A PRIME NUMBER IS A LONELY THING.
It can only be divided by itself or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, both "primes", are misfits haunted by early tragedies. When the two meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit. Years later, a chance encounter reunites them and forces a lifetime of a concealed emotion to the surface. But can two prime numbers ever find a way to be together? The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a stunning mediation on loneliness, love, and what it means to be human.

I just started on this book so can't comment much. I hope it's a good one. I think using prime numbers to describe them is really the best way to express the loneliness.

Currently, I'm watching this drama: 爱情闯进门. It's by Victoria from f(x), Calvin from Fahrenheit, Zhou mi from Super Junior M and some other actors and actresses whom I never seen before. I guess maybe they are from China? This is because this drama is filmed in China, furthermore, it's being dubbed. I prefer to hear their real voice though. Anyway, this drama is also something like the book. The male and female lead met each other when they were young at the orphanage and they tried to look for each other when they grew up. Now that they found each other, things got worse due to their identity etc. I wouldn't say this drama is very nice cause I think is kinda draggy. Since I've started watching it, I have to finish it so that I know what's the ending, isn't it? It's a freaking 32 episodes! The longest 偶像剧 I've seen, now you know what I meant by draggy. I left 10 more episodes to go though! :D

That should be about it. Tomorrow I'm going to stay over at Lynn's house with qinning, IT WILL BE FUN! :D :D :D

Holidays~

Yes! My exams ended on the 1st of dec and here I am enjoying my holidays! I feel so relax now. But I think it won't last long as the results will be out soon and I guess it will not be very pleasant? I just have to pray to the bell curve god. Cannot have another C, if not my CAP will be gone.....:(

Hmmmm, what to blog about then? My life is so boring, nothing special. I don't know if I will be working this month. If I don't work, I will have no extra money other than my salary from tuition which is very little. HAIS....sian. 

Yesterday I finished watching 'To the beautiful you', the korean version of 花样少年少女. Not bad, not as exaggerating as the taiwan version but not as funny too. I think I might start to watch a few drama? But I doubt I can finish it. Maybe watch some movies that I've missed due to school. I really want to watch breaking dawn but no one wants to watch it with me. Is either they watched it already or they are not interested. Hmph. I guess I have to watch it online. 

Other than I'm having my holidays now, another reason that I'm so relax now is because I finally break free from an issue which have bothered me for quite some time. By that, I mean a few years. I hope that action will be a life changing one for me and from now on, my life will change for the better. To others, this issue may not be a something big and there is no reason is make a big fuss out of it. However, for me, maybe only me will make such a big fuss over it as it really matters a lot to me. Whatever it is, I've tried my best and made the first step, let's see how it goes then.  :*)

No life.

I seriously have no life now. I have an oral exams this coming wednesday and 2 tests on friday. Then I will go for reading week to study for the upcoming 3 exams. *sigh* can't concentrate nowadays, so have to stay back in school to study. This way, I can force myself to study since I have no distractions such as television, my bed, my computer etc......

Hang in there shihui! Just a few more weeks to go! You have to maintain your results, if not....things will be bad. Real bad. 

On a lighter note, tzumi and jiaying will be back this month! CAN'T WAIT TO MEET THEM! Tzumi will be back on the 20th while jiaying will be back on the 23rd!!! Double happiness! ^^ 

Let's just see if I have the time to meet tzumi....because I have a paper on the 23rd. If I can't, then I have to wait till the 27th. I hope that all of us can make it for a dinner on the 27th as jiaying will be flying off that midnight! >< She couldn't stay any longer as she is going poland for a volunteering programme for 1 month! Even after that, she will only come back for 3 days before flying back to aussie as she needs to accompany her sister back. *sigh* she couldn't even enjoy her stay back home. 

I just have to pray hard everyone can make it on the 27th! Miss both of them soooooooooooo much! They definitely have lots of things to share....especially tzumi. *smirk on MAH face* heeheeheeheeheehee.....alright, gotta head back to my notes.....

OH YA, I remember something that I want to share. During my last dental appointment, my dentist told me my teeth are looking good now and should be able to remove my braces in no time. She told me maybe just need 2-3 more braces adjustments before I can remove it. 2-3 more appointments to go! *YAY* I was really happy to hear this news! This means I can reveal my pretty teeth REAL soon. :D