Long weekend

I had an amazing, meaningful, fun-filled long weekends and how I wish all my weekends can be like this! 

I was invited to a colleague's Hari Raya open house and this is my 2nd time celebrating it with my Malay colleagues. I love love her house because there were twinkling lights and it was my FIRST time seeing it, so I HAD to do an #ootd with it! So here is my #ootd for that day, a brand new dress that my mum spoilt by ironing over the piece of delicate lace :( Major sigh. 

I had a great time catching up/bitching/gossiping (haha) with my colleagues. The boyf was very nice and he came to pick me up from my colleague's house after his tuition. I was in the mood for my cam-whore and I started to force him to take pictures with him! 

On Friday (09/08/2013), the boyf brought me for cycling at East Coast Park as I haven't cycled for a really long time. *weeeeeeeeeeeee

Not sure what happened to him, but he was extremely sweet to me! :) 

We rented a double seater bicycle for $15 and I had great fun cycling (mostly because he was doing the hard work, while I was taking pictures of myself and our little adventures)

After cycling, we planned to pop by The Cheesecake Factory at Frankle Ave to get some dessert fix but when we reached, we left disappointed as it wouldn't be opened until like 430pm? Damn the weird opening hours! 

I briefly recalled that there was a pancake place nearby and decided to google, and we found Strictly Pancakes. 

Strictly Pancakes

81 Upper East Coast Road

Tel: 6448 7332

I ordered crab cake patty pancake while he ordered Apple caramelized pancakes. 

I enjoyed mine because there were so much crab meat in it. The boyf enjoyed his, but I thought his look like you can get pretty sick of it ('gelat'). 

That same night, the boyf's mother wanted to give us a treat because she just got some money from the government (her GST money) and she decided on Vienna International Buffet at United Square. 

Vienna International Buffet

101 Thomson Road #B1-01 

United Square 

Tel: 6254 6686

If you are a seafood lover, you will love the food there! Better to make reservations before you go down because it can get really crowded during dinner time! Total bill for 4 us came up to be about $212, so not very cheap.

On Sunday (last day of the long weekend), the boyf again made me really happy by bringing me to Blisshouse, a restaurant that I had wanted to go after seeing pictures of how pretty it is! 

Both of us ordered the breakfast set which was so huge that we had difficulty finishing all, and taking the complimentary tea and orange juice. 

Food was so-so, because the poached eggs were too bland, my bacon was too fried and tasted more like keropok. I liked the sauteed mushrooms though, but the boyf didn't like it! 

We had some time to kill before our food came, so we explored the whole restuarant (as it was empty!) and took a couple of pictures. I love love the place. So blissful!

Blisshouse

6 Eu Tong Seng Street

The Central 

Tel: 6225 5532

Hahaha, I then forced the boyf to take some silly heart shots with me and I was glad that he was spontaneous enough to play along with me! :)

All in all, I had a really amazing fantabulous weekend, all thanks to the boyf who was really accommodating to bring me to all these places! I wouldn't exchange these wonderful memories that we have created for anything else in the world! xoxo

Racial Harmony Day

So on the 21st July, our company celebrated Racial Harmony Day. 

A brief history about Racial Harmony Day: 

The event is to commemorate the 1964 Race Riots, which took place on 21 July 1964.

Racial Harmony Day also represents a day for schools to reflect on, and celebrate Singapore's success as a racially harmonious nation and society built on a rich diversity of culture and heritage. In schools all across the nation on that day, students are encouraged to be dressed in their traditional costumes such as the Cheongsam, the Baju Kurung and Punjabi suit. [extracted from Wikipedia]

Staff were required to wear traditional costumes and I'm we were all spontaneous enough! 

And it was honestly pretty fun because I never had the chance to wear other races' costumes. 

Daily makeup

In an attempt to achieve good skin, I decided to stop using make-up since last year. 

Previously, I was using Chanel Matte Lumiere foundation and somehow, no matter how thorough I remove my makeup, I would end up getting little bumps on the sides of my cheeks. Hence with much deliberation & also courage to face the world with my bare naked face, I stopped using make up. It was a really tough decision since I've been using make up since I was 17years old, and also my job requires me to meet people regularly. However all in the name of good skin, I took the plunge! (but sad to say, the skin condition didn't change for the better even without applying makeup, damn!) 

Anyhows, I was once again inspired to put on make up after realizing that I look really haggard without make up on. And I really love to try on new make up products, so my heart itched for me to return back to this love. 

During my trip to Hong Kong this year ( the land of cheaper makeups), I chanced upon ettusais again. When I first started out using make up, my first foundation was from ettusais because it was suitable for acne-prone skin and it had really good coverage! I ended up using it for a couple of years until I became older (and richer, hehe) and changed my foundation to Chanel. 

Anyways back to my story, during the trip I chanced upon ettusais and was really tempted to get their bb cream. Have been wanting to try bb creams but because I am not a fan of liquid foundations, for the irrational fear that it will clog up every single pores I have, I had stayed away from bb cream ever since the rave about bb creams started. 

However, I decided to just go for it, because I recalled how good ettusais's products were for acne-prone skin & the other push factor was because it was cheaper than in SG! 

Since it was my birthday month, I decided to 'force' a good friend of mine to get it for me & to my surprise she kindly obliged! Many loves to her! 

So, cut the long story short, I bagged the ettusais's BB mineral white SPF 45, colour 30 and have not regretted since. I love it, love it, love it! The only grouch was why hadn't I tried it earlier! 

The bb cream feels so light on the skin, you can barely feel anything! It doesn't feel sticky nor oily! And you will just need a bit to apply to the whole face! It is only retailing for approx $30? And I guess I would be able to use this whole tube for a really really long time! 

Another reason why I like this bb cream is that the coverage is very good! I could also do without applying the mineral powder and my skin will look like its glowing! Totally nothing that I disliked about this bb cream! 

After the bb cream, I would then use Laura Mercier's Secret Concealer in Shade 02 on my dark circles and around the eye area. This concealer was introduced by a friend and I really liked it, because it does not crease after a day of work. 

Usually after applying the bb cream, for a matt look, I will apply a layer of mineral powder over to set the bb cream. The mineral powder that I'm using is coincidentally from ettusais as well! The mineral powder is BB mineral powder, color 30. I bought this when I was in Taiwan last year, and I can never finish using it! I hope it hasn't expired yet! *prays hard* but I guess not, otherwise my face would have rot by now.

What I love most about my bb cream + mineral powder is that even after a long day at work, even after the make up has oxidized, my skin still looks pretty fair and  doesn't look grey or black like other foundations. And the best part? I have not gotten any little tiny bumps since I started using these 2 products! So I can vouch that it's definitely non-comodogenic and its really affordable!! Doesn't have to burn a hole in your pocket in your quest for beauty!

After the base, I would apply some blusher on the cheeks of my face. And guess what, my blusher is also from ettusais as well. I'm definitely not advertising for ettusais but I really love their products and I've been returning to their counters to get different make up products, so that just goes to show how much I love and trust their products. 

I love this blusher because it is so adorable and so easy to bring it around. The sponge to dab the blusher on can also be changed, just get it from ettusais counter. I am using the color PK2. 

On the eye, I'm using Dollywink's liquid eyeliner and Heroine Make's Long & Curl mascara. Both that I bought from Hong Kong. Initially I had just wanted to try the Dollywink's eyeliner and now I'm addicted to it! It's so sharp and so easy to draw on the eyes. I heard from a friend that Singapore has stopped importing the Dollywink's eyeliner and I hope it's not true! 

Anyway, that's the end of my daily make-up & I'm readdddddy to go watch my Phantom of the Opera.