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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.

Merry Messy Christmas

Dayna — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:33:54 +0000

Merry Christmas to everyone! Did you take part in any countdown events last night?

On a side note, I actually drew the above illustration for my own Christmas cards but couldn’t find a inexpensive place to print it. There’s usually a minimum quantity of 100 to 200 and I don’t need that much. I only got to know of a shop at Bras Plaza that does printing for $1 per card with minimum spending of $30 from Ivy when we meet up for lunch last week. Hence, I will just leave the handmade cards for this year since it’s a bit too late to do that now.

I spent Christmas eve at home with my friends and family. We didn’t want to hang out at the parties due to the crowd. So Dad cooked steak and we had Christmas dinner at home. Michelle joined us for dinner and mahjong session as well. No turkeys on the table though.

We had a small gift exchange session and here’s Francis, Michelle and my sister with their presents. The panda Michelle’s hugging is from Chewy. He bought it in Hong Kong and she’s utterly soft and adorable. Definitely the cutest panda on earth.

My sister showing off her new iphone. She’s been waving it in front of me these past few days! I’m super envy because I’m dying to get my hands on an iphone. I’ll wait and get it next year.

It’s our custom to get a Christmas cake every year. Ta-da! This is our ~~log~~ mango mousse cake from The Icing Room. We couldn’t find a small log cake for 6 so we decided to get this instead. I was surprised when the cashier asked me if I want any candles. Does anyone put candles on Christmas cakes?

Joke of the day:
Mum: Is there cheese in the cake?
Dad: Yes, there is cheese in basement 1 of the cake.
Me: LOL! Our cake has basement 1, 3, 5 – mango mousse and basement 2, 4, 6 – chocolate sponge.

The cake is delicious though. Everyone gave the thumbs up for it.

I received this card from Huaian today. I was really touched. It has a photo of us taken 6 years back and he still has it sent all way from Australia. I love it Huaian! Thanks so much for the awesome card. I hope to see you back in Singapore in Feburary.

This is from my sister and her boyfriend, Francis. My sister gave me a beautiful necklace from Gold Heart which matches all the tank tops in my wardrobe.

That’s it for today. Hope you have fun on Christmas eve as well and have a great Christmas!

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!

Christmas is coming to town

Dayna — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:09:41 +0000

My Samsung Corby

I finally bought some pop-up stickers from Urban Write to “brand” my Samsung Corby. I didn’t want to make it too fanciful thus I just added 2 little star stickers to brand it as my personal phone. I have to say this isn’t an original idea from me. This idea was from my current favourite show, You’re Beautiful. In the show, the female protagonist has a few pop-up stickers on her Corby as well. I love this idea because I find it really cute.

Mi Nam's Pig-Rabbit

I’m a Christmas girl and I love buying gifts for myself during the Christmas season. I admit I’m a huge fan of You’re Beautiful. Hence, I ordered the pig-rabbit toy from Korea for SGD 39! Mama never fails to get me a Christmas gift every year and this is her gift for me. =D It’s an extremely unique toy since it’s a rabbit with a pig nose. It’s definitely not the kind of toys you see everyday.

Pig-Rabbit

Isn’t it the most adorable bunny? It’s a huge toy standing at 55cm and I’m so excited to receive it. It will arrived in Singapore at the beginning of December. I’ll be posting photographs of my new toy then. I am thinking of naming it “Minami” after the female protagonist in the show. Sounds cute, no?

Click here to view the embedded video.

I shall end this post with my Christmas wishlist of 2009.

Christmas Wishlist

Bod Clarifying Clay Mask – I got this as a gift for myself today!
The BodyShop Winter Makeup – Eye & Cheek Palette
The BodyShop Winter Makeup – Shimmer Gloss
The BodyShop Divine Calm Essential Oil
Eco Tools Retractable Kabuki Brush
You’re Beautiful Pig-Rabbit Stuff Toy – Just ordered this from Korea
Long Bi-Fold Clutch Wallet / Hello Birdie in Almond from Cottonpurr

My first Christmas gift of 2009

Dayna — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:55:36 +0000

Samsung Corby

I received my first Christmas gift of 2009 – A Samsung Corby from Chewy. It was an early gift as we wouldn’t be celebrating Christmas together this year. He’s going back home to Kuala Lumpur so I’ll be alone during Christmas. Chewy seems to like the touchscreen of Corby. I can’t remember how many times I’ve said this but I am not a fan of touchscreen phones. I think I’ll need some time to get use to using such phones again because I spend 10 minutes trying to send an SMS this morning. I know I fail.

My friends from school highly preferred the Corby over my INQ mini. They are like “oh my gosh Dayna, your new phone looks great. Glad you decided to get a new one.” when they see me with my new phone in class. By the way, my INQ mini is still alive and I gave up my LG Viewty for adoption today. I’m going to miss it. So, back to the Corby… there are 3 colours – white, yellow and pink. There are also green and orange in Korea but somehow they didn’t bring those into Singapore. I like the orange and yellow one but Chewy is a fan of white and black phones so I got the white one. Even though I’m a huge fan of pink, I decided a universal colour will be better. It’s easier to sell it off in the future since not everyone is a fan of pink like me. On a totally random note, according to the korean drama, You’re Beautiful (which I’m so in love with), white stands for purity. It’s not a bad choice eh?

Close up of Samsung Corby

Each set comes with 3 covers – plain white, white with prints and a plain black. I like the plain white one because I was going to get some pop-up stickers to decorate the phone but Chewy prefers the one with prints. I’m still going to get the stickers though. It needs something to be branded as “Dayna’s mobile”. =D

Back cover - White with green and grey prints

Side buttons - I always press the wrong one when I'm unlocking it

Default wallpaper of the cartoon theme

Animated main menu

I was quite wowed by the google maps. The location shown wasn’t exact but it was within a 1 kilometre radius of where I was so I guess it can be considered pretty accurate. For someone who has a poor sense of direction, this will certainly comes in handy when I get lost.

Google Maps

Wallpaper from my own illustrations

After playing around with it for a day, I think it’s not too bad. The set doesn’t comes with a data cable which may be quite troublesome for some. However, I use bluetooth more often so it doesn’t bothers me much. Similar to the INQ, the camera of the Corby is 2MP and takes quite decent shots. The quality is slightly better than the INQ mini. It isn’t a 3G phone and does not have Wi-Fi. Internet speed is a bit slower but it’s not a big deal to me. I don’t surf the net often with my phone. Most of the time, I use it only for twittering and twitpic-ing.

The Corby also has the smart unlock feature which is really cool in my opinion. You can set the phone to unlock by writing any one of the alphabets on the screen. I tested quite a few letters and I think V is the easiest to unlock. This feature is more convenient since the “press side button and hold” option is slower. There are also 3 types of fonts for users to choose from. I’m using the cartoonish font (type 1) and it’s really cute.

How do I like this phone? Quite a lot, considering the fact that it was a gift from Chewy. Hopefully, it will be my trusty phone for the next 1 to 2 years.

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

Little trinkets from Bangkok

Dayna — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:31:35 +0000

Little trinkets from Bangkok

No, I didn’t visit Bangkok but my Sissy did. And these are what she bought back as gifts for me. Really adorable right? The pink dotted bunny is called Whimmy. She’s not a cry baby but I think it’s a nice name for her. A female? Yup, just because she’s pink! Maybe I’ll make her the big star in my next layout. Anyway, I hung it on my bag and it looks like it’s bouncing when I’m carrying my backpack around. Oh yes, Dayna brings a backpack to school, it’s huge and spacious. The next one is a clothes hanger with my favourite animal, the panda. It’s more like a miniature one for hanging papers and lastly the keyring with my name imprinted on it.

Marked

I saw a new novel series House of Night¹ at Popular bookstore about Vampires. It was displayed under the International best sellers so I grabbed one and read through the synopsis. It looks like the kind of book I would enjoy reading hence I got the first book of the series, Marked (added it to my library as well). Does the cover reminds you of Twilight? No matter how I look at it, it screams “Twilight”. Chewy thought it was Twilight when he had a quick glance at the cover as well. Does all vampires novels look like this?

I am still waiting eagerly for the results of the WordPress Design Contest, I hope I manage to squeeze into the top 10 position though. For now, please help vote for AmourChaleur here and here if you happen to like my site. No pressure, don’t worry! And thanks if you did vote.

I spend some time “updating” my theme files today. I was using the header tags incorrectly for some time and even though I knew it, I’m too lazy to change it. But I have finally updated the codes and am glad to say that I’m not abusing my header tags anymore. The JavaScript for the comments reply function is working already. It’s failing silently in the past due to the the wrong code on my reply_comment_link. It took me really long to figure out the mistake. I was using

array('add_below' => $add_below

from a tutorial I read previously. The correct one should be

array('add_below' => 'div-comment'

Then, there’s another problem where the form isn’t positioned correctly. And guess what? It’s because I’m using the class “comment” twice in my stylesheet. That’s pure stupidity on my part. I would like to drop some thanks to Teddy for offering e-mail support and Ivy for testing out the forms when it’s fixed.

The series revolves around the development and adventures of Zoey Redbird, a 16-year-old gifted fledgling vampyre who attends the House of Night school where she will eventually change into a Vampyre or die in the process.

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Secret Santa Gift

Dayna — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:38:39 +0000

Missy just got back from my 5 days Malaysia trip and will update with a lot of photos tomorrow. I headed home to find out that I have received my secret santa gift from FairyBloom wrapped in my favourite pooh bear wrapping paper. :heart: It took me quite some time to completely unwrapped the present because my santa knows that I love unwrapping gifts. Thus, she wrapped it up with newspaper, majong paper and wrapping paper. Here’s a peek at my lovely present from my sweet santa.

Secret Santa Gift

Christmas card from my secret santa

Tada! BodyShop White Musk Gift Set