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Twitpic of my busy week

Dayna — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:50:59 +0000

I have almost forgotten to post my twitpic photos from last week. I had an extremely busy week and wasn’t online most of the time. Anyway, here’s a short recount of what happened last week. I received lots of goodies in the mail and am absolutely in love with my new cosmetics products from koreabb.com.sg. I found a new online shop, Beauty Carousel in Singapore selling lots of Japanese cosmetics. It’s so tempted to try some of the highlighting and oil control powder but I’m trying to put myself on a shopping ban to save up for Christmas.

Twitpic of the week

I also went Haw Par Villa & Vivo City with mum. We went on board the MV Doulos. I found a Chinese craft book with lots of pandas artwork at PageOne and I took a few photos of them. I was so afraid the loud shutter sound of my mobile will alert the staff on duty. Anyway, the pandas were so adorable!

Some day later, Chewy and I went shopping at Orchard. I brought my panda and pooh bears to guard the car again. anda: Notice the claypot rice with abalone? We had dinner at Ah Yat Tian Xia Restaurant at Orchard Central. The abalone cost an additional SGD 7 and taste okay, for the price I can’t complain of course. Chewy had pork chop rice and he finds it delicious. I tried it and it’s also so-so in my opinion.

The rest of the week was spend on spring cleaning my room, playing bridge at home and having dim sum at Ah Yat Seafood Restaurant. I still think the dim sum from Imperial is better. So, that’s how I spend my entire week. How about yours?

Ultimate Blog Awards

By the way, Tiff’s holding her first contest, Ultimate Blog Awards at JynxedPanda. There are lots of attractive prizes, such as WordPress themes, illustrations, t-shirts and even cash to be won. There are also many mini contests for all her readers. She is also trying to raise donations for the victims of Typhoon Ondoy amd Pepeng via the contest. It’s an all rounded contest for everyone so please join in the fun and head over to her website for more details.

The voting for the Site Glamour Contest will close on 30 October instead of November because I hope the contest will be focused on the discussion of the articles instead of the voting next month. Please vote for the website which you think deserves the award and don’t forget to participate in the contest article discussion next month.

Little things like these make me smile

Dayna — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:24:09 +0000

Our dearest Benjamin was extremely nice to offer to tutor me when he heard that I couldn’t catch up in my MM class. Let me start with the history of Benjamin. He’s labelled as a Maths professional by many of us. He was the sole reason how I managed to pass my Additional Maths during my GCE Ordinary Level examinations. We were constantly on the phone discussing how to solve equations back then.

5 years down the road, history is still repeating itself. I still need him to teach me things like Integration and Differential Equations. Anyway, Ben’s very patient with me since I’ve nearly zero knowledge in those topics now. I can’t remember when is the last time I did such complicated Maths questions. He didn’t ask for anything in return although my mum did stuffed him with lots of mooncake. =D What are best friends for?

At the end of our little tuition session, this was what he gave me.

Panda Drawings by Xue Qi

It was drawn by Xue Qi whose actually Ben’s little sister. I hope I didn’t remember her name wrongly. She has got a nice name so I tend to remember it better. =p Some of my readers may find the above drawings familiar. It was actually from a rough sketch of the panda layout I planned to have (which evolved to Bim Bim) back in January this year. Isn’t her drawing fantastic? I think that it looks much better than the one I doodled. Maybe there will be a new artist in this world.

The rest of this post is nothing much but just showing a package I received recently. I love receiving mails as long as they aren’t outstanding bills!

I was so excited that I torn a hole in the package before taking a photo

My loots from Ling of koreabb.com.sg

Skin79 Diamond Sun Powder and Innisfree Mineral BB cream

Oh and have you check out the revamped footer? I’ll love to hear what you think.

Voting for the Site Glamour Contest is opened so feel free to head over to the voting page and cast your votes.

Support teddy-risation campaign

Dayna — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:44:30 +0000

Yes! Terry has made it to the finals of the Asia Pacific Blog Awards in the Best Hidden Gem category. I actually nominated a few but only Terry made it to the finals. Anyway, if you don’t know who he is, pop by his site to check out some of his fantastic photographs and web designs. Please support Terry and vote for him if you feels that he deserves it. I definitely thinks he does, even Bim Bim supports him! To cast your vote, you will have to choose a website in each category and you can vote once every 2 hours. Thanks to everyone who voted for Terry and check out his thank you speech.

Vote for Terry at the Asia Pacific Blog Awards!

Last 3 days and I need your votes

Dayna — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:52:18 +0000

It’s the last 3 days for voting (ends on 6th May) and there’s only a very small margin. So please help to vote for Amour Chaleur and spread the word around (twittering, blogging about it, anything!) if you haven’t already. Every single vote is extremely important and would help to make my goal of opening my own e-shop closer. Thank you.

I’ll love you eternally if you …

Dayna — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:28:41 +0000

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

Vote for me at Best WordPress Design Awards

Dayna — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:28:57 +0000

Vote for AmourChaleur

As mentioned previously, I have submitted AmourChaleur to the Best WordPress Design Awards a few weeks back and it has managed to squeeze into the top 10 for hand drawing style.

Please help vote for me here (and spread the love of Bim Bim around). I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! Feel free to grab the sweet on the right.