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Happy 24 years young, my dearest brother!

Dayna — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:29:30 +0000

I finally got the time and energy to work on this post. Was down with a bad flu since Monday and I’m still battling it. Singapore’s weather is absolutely horrible; one minute the sun is there, it’s pouring the next.

Anyway, was out “celebrating” the 24th birthday of my dearest brother, James! Please do not remind me mine’s coming up really soon. As usual, we walked miles and miles in inappropriate attires. It baffled me why we always walk so much every single time we are out.

Lunch was settled at Barracks Cafe and the commendable dishes are their mushroom risotto and warm Strawberry Shortcakes. Simply the best!

Their Tau Sar Bao¹ is dub to be the best in town at S$2.50 each. The normal coffee shop version is only about a dollar. Not bad but for the price, perhaps there would be some other better desserts around.

Here’s Sharon’s & James reaction after their first bite:

And that’s him with the tees we got. I’m especially proud because I was the one who chose the tees and I love them! You can never go wrong with green.

Hope you love the tees bro and wishing you forever 24 years young. As always, may the sun and happiness shine on you and be ever so bright!

Finally, a tad random, got this pair of geeky glasses with Bren last weekend at Eighty Two Tales. Love it? It’s my new in look!

Red Bean Paste Steamed Buns

Stepping closer to the 23rd mark

Dayna — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:28:16 +0000

Another week before I turned 23. Not much thoughts except I’m really starting to feel old. Although I got to admit there isn’t anyone who thinks I am older than my actual age yet. Thankfully. I spend my Sunday hanging out with the girls before we met Mr Pink¹ for dinner.

Nice scenery, quiet place, good music, juicy steaks, cakes, pasta, you name it, we have it!

We took lots and lots of pictures. Just because, I’ll never want to forget beautiful memories like this.

Not to forget, they got me something on my wish list!

I can’t help laughing at the “Terms & Conditions” written on the back of my DIY Happy Lemon Vouchers. They are creative, I don’t deny. In fact, I am starting to believe James has some hidden designing talents while looking at those vouchers. It’s still a mystery how they managed to get hold of my National identification number. I’ve no clue!

On a last note, I am super in love with the lace skirt from Lacepipe. I’m not usually a lace person but their stuff are really awesome!

I hope he does not read this. I might get assassinated tonight if he does.Then again, he rarely ever wear any other colours except black, white, brown and grey.

My 23rd Birthday Wish List

Dayna — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:04:45 +0000

1 month to go! Well, JUST IN CASE someone really does find this useful.

Flickr Subscription
Milk Tea with Pearl/Pudding Vouchers (this don’t really exist so…)
Kobo eGift Cards – Books books and more books. It’s the best app on my iPad ever!
Pandora Charms, Studs?
Movie treats? (please don’t ask me out if you’re a couple, I hate to be a light bulb but I really appreciate the thought)

I received these early birthday gifts from Sissy and Frans¹. I was literally bouncing around the room after unwrapping it, not to mention the bunch of kisses I smacked on her cheeks.

Coach Gift Boxes, very pretty!

Pink, rose and silver - The perfect gorgeous combination

Match-made in heaven for my Black Agnes B work bag

It’s really the thought that counts so I’ll be equally glad if you are thinking of me.

My dearest brother-in-law

Birthday surprise!

Dayna — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:45:40 +0000

We had a gathering co-organised by James and I to meet up with Huaian who came back to Singapore during his school vacation yesterday. I was extremely surprised when these adorable fruit tarts with smiley faces popped out in front of me as an early birthday celebration. Who doesn’t love these freshly home-baked low sugar fruit tarts with love from Jess? Honestly, I’m so touched they took the effort to “secretly” planned everything and Jess’s effort for waking up at 9 in the morning to bake the tarts. I feel loved! I didn’t suspect anything even when Jess kept walking around and sneaking behind James. I thought she was asking him to show her where’s the washroom. I thought that was odd though.

They taste as good as they looked which reminds me I should get the recipe from Jess and try this at home sometime. The custard tastes heavenly!

We dropped by Mind’s Cafe and found a new game which was really fun! True colours is a game where players attempt to best anticipate how others perceive them. Each round consists of several private ballot votes on who best fits a particular question. Once votes are entered players guess at the number of votes they received for that particular question. The better your estimate the more points you make and the winner being the player who best understands how others see the player. I ended up as the one with the lowest point. Hopefully James will get this for his board games rental site! It’s really fun and entertaining playing with people whom you know.

We went to Bottle Tree Village for dinner and got lost on our way there because the taxi drivers didn’t know how to go there. We chalked up to about SGD 30 of fares. That wasn’t the worst part because the walk back to the bus stop was so creepy. There wasn’t much street lights and no one was walking along the road. It was like a mini night adventure similar to the night walk during our secondary 4 adventure camp but I swear I’m not going there again without a car. It was horribly inconvenient!

On a last note, thanks guys for the gift, tarts and wishes! I really appreciated your thoughtfulness and everything.

Amour Chaleur turns one

Dayna — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:00:25 +0000

8th December marks the day Amour Chaleur turns one and today is the big day! This is actually the first time I’m “celebrating” the birthday of my website or even remember the date the site was started mainly because Amour Chaleur is my first domain. My previous websites, Confession and Liberta were hosted via subdomains. I seriously cannot remember why I wanted my own domain back in December 2008. Is it because I miss blogging? Well, maybe.

To cut it short, this day is extremely significant as Amour Chaleur is a totally new beginning for me. It brings me to where I am today. I started drawing illustration because of this site and it’s been a year since I’m blogging again. I hope I wouldn’t play the MIA game again in the future and let me present Bim Bim celebrating with his huge cake. I hope he grows taller so he doesn’t need the chair next year. =D

Thank you Chervalier for this gift

Thanks for all the birthday wishes on Twitter.

On a side note, I added a bit of green to the footer to spice things up a bit. It seems dull and boring without anything there. I’ll also be heading to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday for a short getaway trip and will be back only on Sunday. It’s nice to be away from Singapore once in a while and I hope I get to do some Christmas shopping there. Stay tune for the second giveaway when I’m back, I assured you it’ll be a blast! :spin:

Panda Santa’s Christmas Giveaway

Dayna — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:54:42 +0000

Time really flies and it’s been 5 years since I started blogging. Even though I’ve been around the past few years, Amour Chaleur was only launched last December. To commemorate Amour Chaleur’s upcoming first birthday on the 8th of December and in conjunction with Christmas, I am holding a Christmas giveaway. Panda Santa will be giving away a panda notebook from Artbox.

To participate in this giveaway, you must have a Twitter account. Tweet the following message once or come up with your own creative tweets (which must be relevant to the giveaway). All tweets must contain the hashtag #amourxmasbook and the link to this post http://bit.ly/8pYc6R .

The giveaway has ended. Congratulations to @jadoreivy for winning the giveaway! Thank you everyone for participating. Stay tune for the next giveaway in December.

The giveaway will start on Monday, 30th November at 12 PM (GMT+8) and ends on Wednesday, 2nd December at 12 PM (GMT+8). It will last for 48 hours. A random winner will be chosen when the giveaway ends. I may hold another giveaway again in December to spread some Christmas love. Good luck and have fun!

Sing towards your 21st

Dayna — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:34:28 +0000

The gang went out to celebrate Sharon’s belated 21st birthday yesterday. We went to sing at K-Box, followed by dinner at Waraku. The lamest joke of the day was when Sin Yin asked James if he could rap and Yee Loong replied “I can crap”. That was so hilarious!

Happy Birthday, Sharon

My favourite macro shot of the day

I really like this photo showing everyone's presence

Somehow they always laugh when I'm taking photographs of them

Getting really engrossed into the song

Peach Sundae - This ice cream is love!

Scallops and chicken baked rice

Delicious pasta

Group photo

We took a short walk from Orchard all the way to City Hall and I noticed they are putting up the Christmas decorations already. I have to say that the Santa isn’t adorable at all. A bigger head and a smaller body would definitely looks cuter than a smaller head and fatter body. On a random note, I couldn’t wait for Christmas to come. It’s the gift exchange season again and it’s time to love and share! Is there anyone in Singapore who would like to do a gift/card exchange?

Christmas decorations at Orchard Road

Yee Loong also gave me some tips on taking night shots and gave me a short lesson about shutter speed and aperture. I think Orchard is a good place to take night shots in Singapore. All the newly renovated buildings have fantastic lightings.

Orchard Central at night

Make a wish

Dayna — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:56:04 +0000

Yesterday was our scholar’s¹ 21st birthday! Happy birthday my friend. As your official photographer of the day, here’s a photo collage for you. =p I would have given you a tiara as a special gift to wear on your birthday had I found one. I should have borrowed Terry’s². That would be so exciting.

Happy Birthday, my friend

Jen Yi’s our top student so I named him “the scholar”.
Terry had a tiara on his 21st birthday as well.

Some presents and my new TLB magazine

Dayna — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:13:03 +0000

Mr Postman dropped by for a visit today and I received 2 packages. One was from lovely Kimoko and the other was from Gingerdip. I won Kimoko’s #9 Giveaway last week. She was really nice and gave me some additional skincare and cosmetics goodies as well. As some of you know, I’m such a skincare & make-up junkie so I’m overjoyed to have so many new products to try out.

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

21st Birthday Invite

Dayna — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:43:06 +0000

I just wish to share the invite I made for my 21st Birthday Celebration. This is actually “cut out” from the new layout I was planning to launch on Amour Chaleur. Take it as a small preview.

Invitation to my 21st Birthday Celebration