Before I start bombard you with photos of my hauls, let me raved about this new Chinese restaurant Mum and I went for lunch yesterday. We were contemplating whether to head to Crystal Jade or Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant. We ended up eating at the latter mainly because of the Set Lunch Weekdays Promotion at S$27.90 for 2 pax, it’s something like a 5 course lunch with selections of cold dish, appetizer, meat, rice, noodles etc and there were 6 dishes in total. The bill totalled up to about S$34 after including the towels, tea & GST.

I thought it was a bargain considering the food was pretty good! Much much better than the branch at Bugis which I’ve visited quite some time ago and was not impressed at all. However, this new branch at Plaza Singapura is certainly worth a try!

Set Lunch for 2

My first loot of the day – a stuffed toy much to the dismay of my Dad. He’s no fan of my huge collection of toys. Anyway, Pinky² was on sale at 50% off yesterday and it wasn’t the first time he caught my eye. I got to have him after looking at the price tags! He’s the most adorable stuffed cat ever. He’s a cat in case anyone is wondering and he has different patterns of fabric on both sides.

My new toy - Pinky

The other side of Pinky

And some other stuff I purchased this week:

• 2 pairs of new jeans
• Black leather wedges from Nine West
• Black glasses (geeky ones!)

Crystals on the back pocket of the jeans

Black leather wedges from Nine West

Geeky Glasses

What are your recent buys?

1. Great Singapore Sale
2. I named him right after we got home!

• Getting into the holiday shopping mood
• Happy New Year 2009
• A brand new year with lots of new memories

Shall let the photos do the talking as I’m extremely tired and sleepy now.

Lunch at New York New York

Takashimaya Beary Christmas Trees 2010

This is Takashimaya’s “Beary Christmas Tree 2010″. I prefer the 2009 version though. It’s prettier with the golden bells (see photo below taken last December).

Takashimaya Beary Christmas Trees 2009

I was showing the Photography Apps on my iPhone to Brenda and she discovered this “Actioncam” App (which I downloaded but haven’t really played with it yet). Here’s the results of our testing:

Dayna in ACTION!

Brenda in ACTION!

On a side note, Bump is a good app for sharing files, photos etc between iPhone users. Bump your friends! Though Brenda and I were bumping our iPhones together not our hands. =p

Check out Brenda’s gorgeous blogger’s namecard!! I haven’t had time to work on mine yet. I “promise” the next layout I’m putting up, it will come with a matching namecard!

Brenda's Bloggers Namecard

Loots of the day if anyone is wondering: 2 pairs of shoes (including a pair of little red shoes!), 2 tops, 1 pair of pants, 1 pair of earrings and 1 hat. I haven’t been on a shopping spree for a loooonnnnnnggggg time!

• Cycling, shopping & some random-ness
• What happens when 4 girls are put together?
• “How do you know Christmas is coming?” meme

Delicious looking soup

Grilled Chicken

Cherlynn is totally (not) camera-shy!

After a hearty lunch, Brenda suggested going to the flea market near by. As I’ve never been to a flea market, I gladly agreed, so did the rest of the girls. The last time I tried to go to a flea market, I spend 2 hours trying to find my way, got lost and never made it there in the end.

Come to think of it, I’ve done a couple of things I’ve never done before that day. I have never withdraw cash from an ATM machine nor have I ever been to a flea market before Saturday. I can explain myself. Let me see, the probability of Dayna losing her wallet is 10% and the probability that she will drop some cash when she opens her wallet is 30% which is about 40% in total and this is considered high risk. To mitigate the financial risk, it’s safer for her to bring lesser cash when she leaves the house. Sounds cool? Since it was my first time, I thought it was normal that I inserted the card in the wrong direction! Ivy helped me on that and Brenda even conducted an interview with me. I feel grown up to have finally used the ATM machine (lol).

We conquered the flea market! - Photo by Brenda & edited by me

Flowery vintage top

The flea market was packed and we had a hard time trying to escape. We went across the road to the other flea market (I’m not sure if it’s suppose to be the same one) beside Cineleisure. It’s quieter and we had a better time shopping if you ignored the hot weather. Everyone bought something and I’m no exception being a hardcore shopaholic myself.

I got myself a brand new vintage flowery top for SGD 18. It was priced at SGD 20 and Brenda manage to bargain to 18 for me. Lesson learn: always try to bargain if the tops are above SGD 15. According to the girls, the top is so me! They practically know my style 101% in an hour. I thought the photo of us above is so “blogger-style”.

We were melting by the time we “conquered” the flea market. Some air-con shopping and Sakura flowers sounds like a good plan? We headed to Takashimaya excitingly to view the exhibition of live Sakura flowers and here’s what we saw…

This fantastic video is taken and edited by Brenda. You should definitely check out her post and Cherlynn’s about our outing. It has an extremely unflattering but cute (according to her) photo of me and I’m definitely not going to post that photo of myself here. :P

Sakura flowers & a really cool pose - Photo by Brenda

Cherlynn and I look kind of dumb beside Brenda’s awesome pose. It’s kind of funny how all of us did the peace sign in a lot of photographs to piss Brenda off. =D The awesome pose ended with a bang as well as Brenda fell after a few seconds. I think a few others saw it but we were too busy wondering if Brenda’s okay to bother about the attention. At least her effort was not in vain as Ivy managed to capture this great shot of us. We should all do the star jump pose the next time we meet!

The day ended with more shopping and jokes, of course. I will proudly present the joke of the day award to Cherlynn (I’ve got a feeling she’s going to kill me for this). So what happen exactly? We were trying out some clothes at Fox. Cherlynn tried out this grey superman tank and denim shorts. We thought she look great in it and urge her to grab the top. She thought the denim shorts was a bit too short. It all happened within a few seconds when she asked the big question: Do I look like a hooker in it? And the next moment, this was what we heard over the speaker: And you ain’t nothin’ but a hooker. According to Brenda, this song is titled ‘Hooker’ by Pink. It was so much of a coincident that all of us burst out laughing uncontrollably. I feel bad for exposing her in this entry, how about a little cartoon as compensation?

Cartoon illustration of the awesome photo above

• Getting into the holiday shopping mood
• Blogger’s Camera. Action. Cut! Episode 1
• SingTel INQ mobile event

My pretties from Soap n Sorbet

For the n^th time, I succumbed to temptation and ordered the famous Steam Creams and Tokyo Milk Rosewater Lip Balm. I have read really good reviews about the multi-purpose steam creams which can be use on the face, hands and body. Besides that, it comes in the most adorable packaging. I ordered one of the limited edition Steam Cream Cute as a Bunny Gift Set which contains the Porky Rabbit and Grace tin designs. I kept the rabbit tin and gave the other one to my sister for her birthday. Thumbs up to Soap ‘n Sorbet for their wonderful packaging and efficient delivery! My orders arrived via registered postage nicely sealed and packed in a sturdy box 2 days after I had placed my orders. Everything was bubble-wrapped carefully and they also included 2 samples of their perfumes and hand creams.

Steam Cream Cute as a Bunny Gift Set

My first reaction when I opened the tin was “Woo, that looks like whipped cream!”. The texture is pretty runny and white, exactly like whipped cream. I am not sure if I would want to bring this out. Even though it’s in a screw lid tin, the cream might spilled if I opened it right after removing it from my bag since the texture is very runny. However, I am quite sure it would not spill if the lid is screwed tightly.

According to the small leaflet that comes with the order, the fragrance is from a combination of essential oils. There are subtle scent of lavender oil. It’s not that I dislike lavender but the combination of other essential oil makes the smell a bit too funky after application. The fragrance of the steam cream is light and refreshing when it is in the tin though. I am not sure why the scent would change after application. I wouldn’t say I’m too bothered by the scent because it certainly won’t be interfering with my perfume.

The steam cream

This cream is non greasy in nature which is a plus point¹. It gets absorb in less than a minute. I often have problems with greasy creams because they take ages to be absorb and when I apply them on my hand, it makes my keyboard oily. I think I wouldn’t have any problem with this one. Moisturising factor is good as my hands no longer feel tight and wrinkly just after one application. I applied it on both my hands and legs after a bathe and it gives a soft “satin-like” finish. I understand where all the raves are coming from now. This is good! I think it’s not going to be long before I finish up the entire tin.

Applying the steam cream on my hand

Tokyo Milk Rosewater Lip Balm

Rosewater lip balm

I decided to get the Tokyo Milk Rosewater Lip Balm after I trashed my A’Kin lip balm after it expired last month. There are many flavours for the lip balm and I choose rosewater mainly because I love the smell of roses. I have to rave about how beautiful the packaging of this lip balm is. Absolute gorgeous! I intended to keep the box and display it on my desk. =D The lip balm smells like a combination of rose and milk which isn’t overpowering.

It’s a clear balm which leaves a slight sheen² after application and there was no sticky feeling at all. A few hours later, I noticed softer lips and the lines on my lips aren’t as obvious as before in spite of the fact that they are still visible. It’s not a bad lip balm, a rather good one in fact. I would love to try a minty one in the future.

Tokyo Milk Rosewater Lip Balm

1. I absolutely cannot stand creams which are so thick and heavy like those from The BodyShop
2. It doesn’t make your lips look glossy

• Shopping loots from Hong Kong & Macau
• My love for Nuxe
• Reviews of my recent beauty buys

Photographs from Forever21.com

I’ve to say this new year started off in the least expected way. I guess some Snarkers like Cherlynn or Chien would know, it is not something I wish to repeat again. My mood has mostly been on the gloomy side the entire week. I managed to cheer myself up by doing some retail therapy and this was what I ordered from Forever21.

Tank tops are my favourites and did I mention the fact that I’m a jacket/sweater collector now? Forever21 has the most gorgeous outerwear! It makes me wish we have winter in Singapore. I haven’t been shopping much other than that and nothing exciting in my life either. School has been busy. I’ve lots of revisions and assignments to catch up before my final mocks in March and I’m trying to squeeze out some time to do my revision. Speaking of which, I think I’ve a low level of tolerance towards school related issues lately.

There’s this particular lecturer that I absolutely cannot stand at all. I just wish he will stop bragging about how good he is. He’s not approachable (and I think that’s an extremely serious problem if you are a teacher), unfriendly and shows a bad attitude to his students. I would describe him as one of the most “insufferable” lecturers I’ve ever came across. When will he ever know that giving the wrong answer doesn’t mean that one is not listening in class? I gave up asking questions in class because he does not answer my question at all. He goes on and on about his own way of solving the question and did not give me a satisfactory reply. I find it a waste of time to post questions in class since I wouldn’t get a reply that answers my question anyway. He’s too persistent on the fact that his way of solving the question is always right.

The fact that he brags about how good his answer and his notes are in every single lesson makes me want to puke. I have to say his notes aren’t one of the greatest. I’ve seen way better notes produce by others but then again, it’s subjective since others may find his notes good. All I wish for is for him to stop showing this “know-it-all-best-lecturer-in-the-world” attitude in class. It’s frustrating for me to see the way he condemns a student because he or she can’t answer one of his questions.

He dislike students talking in his class which is understandable but here’s the problem, he once said “If you are talking about the question, you can ask me. If you are talking about anything else, please get out of the class.”. I understand the latter but why aren’t we allowed to ask the one sitting beside us about the question we are working on if you don’t understand his explanation? I don’t see the point in asking him the question again since like I said, he won’t give us an answer/explanation to our question.

Dear Mr. Lecturer, just in case you don’t know, we are not in the army. We do not have to reply “Yes, sir” loud and clear every time you asked a question. We are not your soldiers and you don’t command me to do anything. You asked a question, we reply (that’s if we wish to) but stop insisting us to reply like we are in the army! Have you ever read the feedback forms we left for you? Maybe you should since I think it will do you good. Having years of experience in the teaching industry doesn’t make you a good lecturer and showing that “I-am-king” attitude in class doesn’t make us respect you either.

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Masks, peels and hair care from Etude and Schwarzkopf

Romantic Beauty Stand from Etude House

Cosmetics haul

Sunglasses!

Lavender oil diffuser from Lovely Lace

Styling iron from VS for bad hair days

I got my favourite dwaeji tokki in the world at Times Square from a shop called My Star Collection for RM 60. I’m super happy because this was the last one! I’m glad I’m lucky enough to get this little pig because it’s nearly the most adorable thing. It’s named Wii-Fi after Wi-Fi. The name is an inside joke of Chewy. Don’t mind him.

My favourite pig rabbit in the world - Wii-Fi

I shall do a separate post on the trip when I’m done resizing and consolidating the photos from the trip. In the mean time, I should just hop into bed. It’s so good to be home.

1. Pig-rabbit in Korean

• Shopping loots from Hong Kong & Macau
• 4 days getaway to Kuala Lumpur
• Getting into the holiday shopping mood

Loots of the day!

I love my new Sea baby

• Bubble hair dyes are fun!
• My love for Nuxe
• My pretties from Soap ‘n Sorbet

I love receiving packages in the mail!

Kimoko has included some very generous samples for me to try such as ELF Shimmering Facial Whip, milk masks, some samples from Benefit etc on top of Hylexin Serious Dark Circle Treatment from the giveaway itself. Thanks so much Kimoko!

Look at all the goodies Kimoko has included for me

Stuff I ordered from Gingerdip. She gave me 2 additional samples.

Wei Liang came by to drop me a belated birthday gift as well. I’m so touched! He actually remembered my birthday. I love the Sheaffer pen. It’s beautiful. I’ll definitely be dropping by the store to have it engraved. =D

Belated birthday present from Wei Liang

Beautiful gift box

Gorgeous pen in rose pink from Sheaffer

Do you know that there’s a new magazine in Singapore? I happened to know it from Kimoko’s blog. My TLB (My The Luxury Booklet) is a new magazine whichi s similar to CLEO and they are having a roadshow at Bugis this week. I purposely drop by to get a copy. =p One thing I really like about TLB is that it doesn’t just show the product advertisements there but tell us why the products are good.

My The Luxury Booklet

It comes with a bunch of goodies. There’s a packet of green tea as well but Chewy drank it on the spot before I even have the chance to take a photograph of it. There’s the new BodyShop lip stick, Complete contact lens solution, Lioele mask, Hankook product’s samples etc. It’s quite worth it for SGD 6.

Goodies that comes with the magazine

• Reviews of my recent beauty buys
• Kuala Lumpur’s shopping haul
• Shopping loots from Hong Kong & Macau

So here’s the results for my UOL academic year 2008/2009:

I’m really glad I pass my Banking and Finance, but wasn’t pleased with MA and CF. I could have worked just a little harder to get another 2 more marks and that would make so much difference. The Microeconomics paper was the easiest one I’ve sat for but I did not manage to do well for it. I shall work even harder this year. I’m aiming for at least 60 marks in all 4 papers I’m sitting for this year. I wish to graduate with at least an Upper Second Class Honours.

On a side note, there’s a John Little Sales for card members from 1st to 3rd September. Thus, mum and I decided to pop by to check out the sales.

Here are my hauls:

Neutrogena Wave Power Cleanser and SANA Maikohan Blusher

SANA Maiko-han Loose Powder (Pink)

NUDE Facial Cotton Pads

Elianto Baked Blusher

I’ll be writing reviews on the above in the next few days, stay tune!

To end this post, here’s a delicious lunch I had at Bakerzin this afternoon.

Teriyaki chicken with potatoes

Oreo Cheese Cake

• A happy sigh of relief
• Getting into the holiday shopping mood
• Reviews of my recent beauty buys

Skincare and Haircare products

Facial Masks

Gifts for Chewy

Body soap, lip balm and massage bar from Lush

Do-It-Yourself Kits and toy figurines

Cosmetics products

Blushers from H&M, Lavshuca and The BodyShop

I'm a collector of lip glosses/sticks

Makeup brushes from Sasa and Missha and eye shadow from Lavshuca

Adorable pouches at HKD 10 each

Bracelets, earrings and key rings from Temple Street

Bracelets at HKD 15 each

Owl earrings at HKD 20

Mickey and Minnie Key rings

• Hong Kong & Macau Trip – Part II
• Hong Kong & Macau Trip – Part I
• Kuala Lumpur’s shopping haul