Mooncake celebration I

Just an update before I head off to the sunny island of Cebu - The Philippines without my camera charger! My spare batt has around 2 bars of life left. Still bugged by the camera charger but I'm sure someone will be bringing an awesome camera (crosses fingers).

Saturday brunch at Jones the Grocer with the Melbourne gang!

D finally came back from the UK and after a whole year, this is our very first gathering and marking many more to come!

Crowded especially with the h&m hype just across the road.

 Jones sandwich.

 Breakfast set.

Didn't take many pictures cos they didn't turn out as expected, too many unglam candid shots.

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Prep-ed for some mooncake lantern fun! 

 HAHA, oolong tea for subs but it was nicely chilled on a hot night like this.

 Raffles hotel champagne truffle and gauche was da bomb! Definitely not sparing on the calories included.

Tried to profess my love for N but I forgot it's mirror inverted! :(

iCreate whirlwinds. 

 The intention was to do a heart. #fail

The amount of smoke produced from the sparklers was choking us. Haha, next time, buy those sparklers that produce less smoke. (Do not buy TNT sparklers.)

 Random pattern created by sparklers.

More mooncakes! Tried the peony jade durian snowskin too. Don't think I'll be spending 51 bucks on it next year though.

Holiday Inn Atrium's Xin Cuisine. 

I'll probably buy a box of 7 blue snowskin durian ones next year. It's blue and how cool is that?!

The rest just had an overwhelming taste of alcohol that sends a burning sensation down your throat after taking a bite from the centre. But the filling's not bad.

xx.

In preparation for Cebu this coming weekend with the unit! :)

Feeling quite uneasy about my camera charger. What a bad bad time to misplace such an important thing especially when I'll be going to the wonderful chio island of Cebu with its pristine private beaches. I feel slightly depressed already.

Hopefully someone else brings along a good camera.

xx.

old habits die!

Had more pics of my dinner at Crystal Jade but it wasn't saved on my iPhone despite the upload on instagram, how unreliable! :(

Minced meat spicy la mian that was really awesome, our fav la mian at CJ. 

Scallion with pork floss, it was basically prata + pork floss really. But N likes it.

Spent today at Jones the Grocer at Mandarin Gallery for brunch with the Melbourne friends then was freaked out by the queue at HMS so N and myself decided to head home to take care of Beamer.

We had a mini mooncake festival celebration and my camera batt had to die while capturing the moments. And I can't find my camera charger at the moment. I really hope to find it before this Wed cos I'll be meeting old hall friends to celebrate mooncake festival and before I leave for the unit trip on Thurs midnight! It's times like these I really learn to treasure my helper at home and not take them for granted especially when I'm looking for my misplaced items. Sigh.

Time to slp and wake up to a brand new day.

Yay to 8.30 - 5.30pm work days.

Plenty of time to do market research for a month. :)

And it's official, A and myself are manufacturing this for Jaynelles in the original shade of white+indigo, cream+deep emerald green, cream+mink and white+coralicious (sounds yummy). Read A's raves about it here plus more previews on our upcoming items.

Awesome for tall girls who like longer lengths and girls with not so perfect legs who needs knee length dresses (aka me)!

be yourself.

My 2nd batch of ASOS stuff have arrived. :)

Love 'em bright colours and drapes!

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I abso-freaking-lutely love weekends cos it gives me alot of time to relax, chill and spend time on my future plans with Jaynelles. It's alot of fun just observing trends and doing some homework.

Saturday started off with breakie at 4.30pm.

Do not eat the breakfast set at Cafe Cartel. The food is kinda cold and it's money not well spent.

On our way home, we saw a gianormous dog.

Looks like this from the front:

A St. Bernard! Retail price tag: $12,000 

An illustrative on how it looks like - and mom said Beamer was big.

Concluded the weekend with Cars 2 for a feel good show. Other than the few bits of humour, it was pretty average since I didn't expect the story to be about (mostly) Mater rather than focusing on Lightning McQueen.

I took some interesting candid pics with N and his skills with the camera has been getting better!

Bold and bright colourblocks vs neutral tone colourblocks.

Gotta decide!

Which do you prefer?

xx.

Reviews!

Not exactly looking my best in the pics (removed all my makeup after work), therefore I just modeled the clothes. This is a post specifically done in A's request. lol.

Idk why my 3rd pic can't be read on the computer while it looks fine on my camera. Too lazy to post another one up cos I'll have to change into the outfit and strike a pose again - at least you know that it's seagreen?

 Totally meant to be worn for work, great length though I can't wear this with flats.

Not ironed but I think it's a bit loose on me, there's quite a bit of excess material but maybe I'm just over-sensitive.

What's wrong with my computer??? Ugh, will replace this with a proper one soon.
EDITED: Fixed! :))

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Good things are coming to an end.

Hair cut at Chapter 2, Bugis!

The hair stylist really put in alot of effort into blowing my hair, kudos to him! :)

 Love the curl effect but I know I'll never be able to blow my hair to achieve this effect. :(

Had a hearty meal at NYDC with Peiwen after cutting our hair and we can't wait to go for our unit trip in Cebu as room mates!

 3 amigos thin crust pizza with meatballs, pepperoni and italian ham.

Seriously not doing the dessert any justice with this picture, the cheesecake + ice cream was so good! 

I've finally received my loots after 21 days of waiting for the ASOS parcel to arrive. I'm only satisfied with 1 buy out of the 3 dresses cos the rest were either too short or the cut was oversized.

Got some feedback that this is pretty nice so may decide to do this for the year end! :)

xx.

Family.

Our family had our graduation photoshoot (finally) taken on Saturday! We took a family portrait and I did an individual shot for myself for keepsake, probably up on the wall of my future house. :)

We weren't allowed to take pictures in the studio so this was the only one I could take in time before the staff came over to warn me about photo taking.

Gotta wait another 10 days to see the results of the pics taken.

Lunch with the family plus some household furniture shopping. :)

Since we hardly doll up this much, mom and myself thought that we should take photos with Beamer - the new addition in our family! Hahaha.

Cute pic of mom and Beamer looking at each other.

Beamz fur looks much lighter when exposed to sunlight.

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Had an awesome day today (was given a day of leave by my manager) and just had some jap food followed by a movie, Horrible Bosses with N.

Silly boy took my cardigan to pull over himself.

So I did the same!

I overestimated my appetite and over ordered salmon dishes. Ordered a variety of salmon sashimi, 2 plates of salmon lobster sushi, salmon lobster california roll. Gonna lay off salmon for a long while.

Teriyaki chicken wings, not bad but a tad sweet for my liking.

My fav dishes!

N swiped the plate clean.

Mochi was so-so only.

Prep for work tomorrow, I need to cut my nails.

Anyway, should I cut my hair short to about shoulder length?? Getting tired of the same hairstyle.

xx.