I’ll love you eternally if you could vote for me at WP Best Design Award and help spread the word around (twittering, blogging about it, anything!). Your votes would be greatly appreciated. If I really manage to win this, I will be using the funds to start up the e-shop which I’ve been talking about on my twitter for the past few weeks. It would be an “all-in-one” shop with illustrations, cartoons, layouts, themes for sale and I plan to have customised tees, mugs and accessories using my own illustrations as well. We shall not be limited and restricted by our creativity, right? I wish to use my own funds instead of borrowing from my family (specifically my mum and sissy) this time so it would be really nice of you to drop me a vote and help fulfil my dream of opening my very own Amour Chaleur e-shop!

Okay back to my normal blog post now. Chewy and I went to check out the new shopping mall, Tampines 1 a few days back. It was extremely packed and we had a hard time finding the carpark. I felt giddy just walking around as tons of people flew past me. Yes, they literally flew pass me ignoring any obstacles that were in front of them. So I tend to “ouch, that hurts” quite often as people kept bumping into me. :cry:

Chewy showing off his new sunglasses

Clear road all the way

I love the clear blue sky

We had dinner at Sushi Tei and it was all right. It was my first time eating there and apparently Chewy loves the food.

Pan fried bento chicken rice set

Beef

Garlic fried rice with soft shell crab

My favourite photo of the day, taken at the restaurant

Oh and we managed to squeeze into that Japan apparel store, Uniquo or something like that. I like their basic tops but otherwise, it’s okay as well. We didn’t buy anything from there. But I think the men’s tee are good, very soft, comfortable and most importantly they are affordable. I saw a Lycra v-neck men’s tee for only SGD 15.90. It was so packed that we even need to queue to get in, thankfully it was only a 10 minutes wait. There’s also a huge book store selling sketchbooks and other stationery. The sketchbooking items (such as the ink stamps, and DIY sketch books which are pre-designed) are very pretty and unique. I think I’m in love with that shop. If you are in to sketchbooking and DIY cards etc, that is definitely the place for you! But the location is a bit off for people living in the West (like me).

Remember the pretty lilac cup I was taking about? I was trying to take a macro close up shot of it. The first one failed miserably. The second shot wasn’t too bad but I couldn’t capture the actual colour due to the dark colour of the tea in it. But I swear the lilac is extremely pretty.

Failed macro shot!

Sucess shot of my lilac mug from Ikea

We got this mirror the other time as well but didn’t manage to hung it up until last week. It’s super huge and I love it! All girls should have a huge mirror in my opinion. I got it for SGD 45, isn’t it a bargain?

Huge 75x75cm mirror from Ikea

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I tweet about going Queensway Ikea with Chewy this afternoon. We kind of got lost while getting home from Marina (we went there after leaving Ikea). Before I let the photos do the talking, this is the cake I baked with Mum 2 days ago. It looks too red in the photo, it’s actually more towards a golden yellow.

Another one of my cakes

Chewy munching on my cake

Our kids - Small B (Pooh Bear) and Small T (Tigger)

We made mango pudding (with real mango) the other day as well. Got a few for Chewy as desserts. I dropped some on his pants while he was driving in the afternoon. I swear I didn’t do it on purpose.

My homemade mango pudding

Mr Chewy behind the wheels

Clear road in the afternoon

The baked rice from NYDC is delicious and heavenly as compared to the one I post about last week.

Our dinner at NYDC - Mushroom and ham baked rice

I took a few snapshots while on the car. Notice the number of cars on the road as compared to the previous photo which was taken in the afternoon. Driving is made difficult with the large number of cars. Luckily for me, I’m not the driver. I love being the passenger despite having a driving license. :P We unintentionally drove to China Town and then to Orchard before “finding” the correct expressway to go home. It took us nearly an hour (usually it’s 20 minutes by cab) to reach home safely. But it’s Chewy first time driving out of his comfort zone so I don’t blame him. His intuitive on the road is quite accurate actually just that he lacks the confidence.

China Town

Funan Mall - Look at all those cars

Here are all my loots for today. My new lamp is simply adorable. I felt in love with it when I saw it. I called it – The Robot. Doesn’t it looks like one? The metallic bendable stand looks like the body of a robot and the small bulb looks like its head? It also focuses the light on a certain area of the desk only. It’s one of the few lights in Ikea which uses white light. I’m not too fond of using those energy saving bulbs because the light looks orange. It makes me sleepy when I’m studying under orange lights. The Me-to-You grey bear at the side of the lamp is actually hugging the lamp switch. I didn’t want the switch to look too obvious.

My new lamp - The Robot

I really like how it focuses the light. It looks like a round circle of light on my desk.

I love how the light focuses on just a small area

I got a new DIY armchair as well. It’s actually not that hard to fix. For the price, I’m not complaining. The old one was made of plastic without any cushions and it hurts my bum after sitting on it for long hours. This one is much more comfortable with an armrest. It’s a gift from Dad. I love it! I have actually gotten some other stuff as well. A mirror with wooden frame, lilac mug and trashbin but didn’t took photos of it though. I think I’ll take a photo of the mug for the next post. It looks really pretty.

Black armchair

I finished reading Marked (from my previous post) within a day so I got the other 2 books of the series. They look juicy, I hope I’ll be able to finish them fast!

Book 2 and 3 of House of Night Series

I would also like to thank those who have voted for me. I’m not actually betting on winning those contests as I knew that contests based on popularity votes are usually losing games for me. But anyway, I still wish to try my best and know the feeling of winning at least once. I’ll just admit that I’ve never won contests which are based on public votes because it’s mostly popularity and the winner are usually the more popular ones. I wouldn’t say I’m popular on the Internet but I do have at least some good online friends who are helpful, supportive and know-that-Dayna-exists. No particular reason why I wanted to say this, but still thank you readers, visitors and friends (both online and offline) who have spend your precious time to read my entries, help, inspire, support and encourage me.

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