Bugis Essensuals Flea

All the sponsored bloggers of Bugis were invited to set up a stall in the salon itself for a flea last Sunday!


I brought hangers so hang all the dresses!








Random drawings I did and stuck to the mirror, and a bored Alaric.

On the day of the flea I had church, followed by a friend's 21st birthday lunch and then the flea. Usually I don't wash my hair on Sunday mornings before church, but since I had all these lined up after I had to get up at 9.45am to bathe, makeup etc proper ):

Obviously I couldn't lug a suitcase of clothes to church and then lunch so I passed all my stuff to Alaric the previous day and he picked me up after lunch to come with me to the flea, which was lucky because I only knew one other blogger!


Nails painted by one of the sponsored bloggers, who decide she wanted to set up a little manicure stall instead of selling stuff!






McDonald's ice-cream cone!










Was trying to get a picture of the flower clip I was wearing, which was given to me by Qiuting. Got this picture which makes me hair look really nice!

(But yah ok I get it a lot of people don't like this hair colour; continuously feeling a need to tell me so on my Formspring. I already said quite a few times that I didn't expect it to turn out so light, and even after darkening it once it was still lighter than expected. I haven't had time to go to the salon yet and anyway I'm just experimenting with hair colours, so... chill)


Me,


and mine!


With Eric Lim!


They had all of us put up our names at the reception area of the salon. Nabbed myself a prime spot in the middle!


I've some Bugis Essensuals vouchers! They were supposed to pass it to us at the flea to give out to readers, but I think they forgot haha. Does anyone want therse? (You can only use one at a time) Just kind of wondering whether there's any point mailing these out though.

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Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day for Alaric and I actually coincides with our anniversary as well (: We didn't plan anything major though. We got round to making reservations for dinner pretty late so the place I wanted to try - White Rabbit (at Dempsey) was fully booked.

Looked at a few other restaurants online and their menus, but I found all to have typical menus (I mean I honestly don't care how good your Spagehtti Carbonara may be because it's still Carbonara and I can get that anywhere so it's dumb to pay $30++ for yours) or those that had slightly interesting ones had pretty exorbitant prices. I'm not a foodie and all I wanted was pasta that was a little different.

So anyway we decided to have our Valentine's dinner on Wednesday instead. On VDay itself we didn't do much because we had school, although NUS certainly looked pretty festive with all the heart cutouts! Caught King's Speech that night which was a pretty good movie.


The White Rabbit is a restaurant in an old chapel! I honestly find it quite strange that one can be allowed to buy over a religious place and turn it into something else. I mean... isn't it a little inappropriate still?

Like if we took a mosque or a Hindu temple and turned them into restaurants I think the followers would be pretty pissed. Okay I know Buddhist temples have vegetarian restaurants in them but that's kind of run by the temple itself right?








Some sides we ordered - Mac & Cheese and fries! (Alaric picked the fries - totally can get that anywhere)


My scallop linguine! I love scallops. This was pretty good!


Alaric's risotto with.. pan-fried foie gras and crab meat I think?










One of the old cable cars! I remember they were being sold as mementoes, with the proceeds going to charity. White Rabbit must have bought one! Haha the cars do kind of look rickety and scary to be in if you're dangling xxx metres above the ground.


















I bought this dress for... $8 from a thrift store in Waterloo Street (please stop asking for addresses because a whole list of locations + timings is available online). I always thought it was just a random old dress someone donated, but I happened to look at Love, Bonito's sale section the other day and realised it's from there!
Haha in fact it's still being sold for $20+. Anyway it's sold out already.
Guess I got a pretty good deal!

That sums up my Valentine's Day! I know people will ask about gifts, so basically on VDay I said I wanted to go to the NUS bookstore to see the Swatch watches they were selling because I had my eye on one (I wasn't trying to hint or anything, I really wanted to buy it myself!). Alaric decided he would get it for me, and even got to enjoy NUS student discount for buying it at the bookstore!


I know it looks kiddy but I think it's cute + casual for school! Looking at it more closely I realise how anti-Valentine's Day a gift it is, because the hearts are all broken or have a skull face in them :S

As for his present... I already told him I would buy this computer gaming mouse by Razer (do not underestimate how expensive these bloody things are - a mousepad can cost 30USD).

I had actually wanted to buy it for Christmas but it was so difficult because it's supposed to be a "surprise" but he always talks about needing to feel the mouse first and test the grip and blah blah blah. How to keep it a surprise then?!

Anyway the mouse in question is actually pretty cool. It's the Razer Tron Gaming Mouse so when you move it over the special Tron mousepad, it actually leaves behind lightrails exactly like in the movie!
(I have spent many hours being forced to watch video demonstrations of this).


Okay here's just a photo so everyone can see how it looks like because I haven't actually ordered it yet.

Hope everyone had a good Valentine's Day; whether it was alone, with your boyfriend/girlfriend, family, pets, friends or your right hand.

Mwuah! ♥

Tiger Lunar Extravaganza

Some of you mentioned on my Formspring how they had spotted Alaric and I on the newspaper haha.

I was asked if I would be interested in going for Tiger Beer's Chinese New Year celebration, complete with a dinner and entertainment, located along the water at Marina Bay.


The tent set up for the event is massive!


Free flow of Tiger Beer and Guinness!


Woohoo I was super excited about the Low Hei! I didn't like it much last time but now I do, especially the crunchy bits! :D
Alaric really liked the little salted fish in the bowl and kept asking for more!












Some photos taken with Cheryl (the girl in black)!
(And okay I think it's obvious which side I like to take photos on haha).




Fireworks! I think the Chingay Parade was happening at the same time, so we got a pretty good view.