minnie

(Home)Made with Love

2012-02-03T13:59:00.000+08:00

Need to perfect my mushrooms!

Outfit: Red Stripes

2012-02-02T14:56:00.000+08:00

Can't believe CNY is going to end and there are no major holidays to look forward to now. :(

Little Pretty Things

2012-01-30T13:31:00.000+08:00

Sometimes, the smallest and simplest things/gestures, like a gf sending me a cat picture because I love cats.. or a new nail color even if DIY and imperfect.. makes me kinda happy and content.

Outfit: Floral + Cutout

2012-01-28T13:26:00.001+08:00

I must say, women are such "occasion-shoppers". I bought this Topshop dress just for my birthday brunch. I was looking for cutout dresses and the florals seemed fitting for a Sunday brunch so there, I gotta have it!

I loved David's outfit for the day too - especially the military-inspired jacket from H&M. I like it so much I wish I could wear it. Teehee.

Boobs & A**es

2012-01-26T17:20:00.002+08:00

Although I don't think a birthday cake on my birthday is particularly important (to me), during brunch (previous post) I wondered if we would have a cake just so he could sing me a birthday song out loud like what I did to him on his birthday. So when there was no cake, I didn't think too much about it. But little did I know.. he was saving the best surprise for last :)

Aren't my cupcakes the sexiest cupcakes ever?

Birthday!! Brunch with a View

2012-01-25T10:51:00.000+08:00

Between brunch and dinner, I chose brunch! I LOVE brunches. The idea of "brunch" is just so... nice, chillax and lazy right? AND, I didn't want a birthday dinner because it's like after the dinner, my birthday was already gonna end! With brunch, I still had the entire afternoon and night to be QUEEN. Yes, when it's my birthday, I'm the queen. Heehee.

David brought me to LeVeL33 and I loved it! The view, the ambience and the food was great, not to mention the food presentation was fantastic (imo) as well.

Thanks hon! ♥

Fufu says..

2012-01-24T10:43:00.002+08:00

GONG XI GONG XI!!!

Even he was dressed for the occasion.

Happy Lunar New Year lovelies!

xoxo

Birthday!! Brunch & Coffee

2012-01-21T11:07:00.002+08:00

Brunch at Rotiserrie and then coffee at Loysel's Toy. ♥

Thanks Eve and Ken!

Birthday!! Part I

2012-01-19T13:32:00.002+08:00

I was told to meet a client over lunch but ended up standing on a chair and have a horde of people doing some chants and singing me a birthday song.

Thank you girls! ;)

NYE 2011

2012-01-17T13:43:00.000+08:00

This is one of the best home-cooked steamboat I've ever had! The Tom Yam soup base was fantastic. I'm gonna make my mum let me make the same soup base for her Yong Tau Foo on the first day of Lunar New Year!

Good-bye Hong Kong!

2012-01-15T23:01:00.003+08:00

On our last day, we overslept and woke up really late. Was supposed to take a train to Causeway Bay for some famous dim sum but in the end, we were randomly exploring, walked into a dim sum restaurant and the food was good! Better than the other dim sum places that were recommended to us in the first 3 days.

Spent the last bit of time chilling at the hotel's cafe before taking a flight back to reality.

This holiday earned me 2 pages full of immigration chops. I'm not kidding!

Till the next vacay!

Macau

2012-01-13T13:39:00.000+08:00

Took a ferry to Macau on the third day, I have mixed feelings about that place. I don't like that it's very gloomy, it's not bustling and lively like Hong Kong, there were very few people walking on the streets. Perhaps the journey on the bus didn't show us the touristy and fun side of Macau, but the streets looked somewhat depressing. No exciting bright lights or shops. But we saw this beautiful church at the peak of a hill that looked amazing.

We tried casino-hopping by walking at first but there were just too many of them and the distance between each was getting further and further so we took a shuttle from Sands to the Venetian. Despite all that gloom, when we entered the Cotai Strip, it was entirely a different story. Bright lights, magnificent hotels, it was kinda like an Asian Las Vegas.

Definitely want to go back there again and stay at one of those hotels at the strip. The lights and ambience is indeed alluring.

To Shen Zhen and Back

2012-01-11T13:22:00.001+08:00

We had breakfast at a dim sum restaurant near our hotel before setting off to Shen Zhen!

And it all began..

materials huh?

We went to Dong Men by train after immigration and it's a shopping heaven. Unfortunately it's winter so I didn't have much to buy, but I can just imagine how many bags I'll lug back from there if it's spring/summer. The key to a great shopping experience there is to bargain. Like crazy.

After we got back to Hong Kong, our legs ached like mad and we wanted a massage so bad. We got what we want, but our legs hurt even more the next day after the reflexology. Haha!

Winter in Hong Kong!

2012-01-09T21:41:00.000+08:00

It was my third time to Hong Kong - first time was right before the 1997 handover, second time was spring last year with my sister where we went MAD shopping and visited almost all the H&Ms in Hong Kong. This trip was exceptional too, even though I didn't buy much. David (surprisingly) did more shopping than me! I really had a good holiday, we had so much fun together. :)

On the first day, we tried the supposedly famous cafe/restaurant Tsui Wah at Central but the food was only okay. Or we didn't order the famous and yummy ones? Actually come to think about it, the popular foods at these cafes are really simple, easy and cheap food like pouring condense milk over toast, instant noodles and luncheon meat etc.

We also tried another supposedly popular food, the steamed milkcurd that's good for your skin and complexion. But erm, we couldn't quite understand why it was popular though. Hmmmmmmm.

Shopping and eating pretty much summed up our first day.

Google Maps on the browser rocks because without it, I wouldn't be able to find the exact MTR exits from the different stations that would lead us to the places we wanted to go. I'm proud to say I did my research well! ;)

The Lighthouse

2012-01-09T13:08:00.000+08:00

Celebrated David's 18th (haha) birthday at The Lighthouse, The Fullerton. My friends were raving about this place and i decided to take him there.

LOVED the view!

On his actual birthday, a few of us tried the supposedly famous 1kg of beef for $149 at Le Bon Marché. Beef was okay but does this look like 1kg? Did the 1kg referred to the beef when it was raw and uncooked?

So my boyfriend's ~~boyfriend~~ best friend got him a cake.

I am not going to explain the story behind the name. And by the way, it was wrongly spelled by the staff.

Oh gosh, it's my turn next to be a year older!

It's My Birthday

2012-01-05T23:46:00.003+08:00

I'm turning 26 this Sunday. I don't have a wish list this year, I believe I have (almost) everything I need. What I want, they can wait.

This year the only thing I wish for, is that more people can help stray cats. As my friend, you should know I love cats more than Chanel. So if you thought of getting me a gift, I ask for your kind donation for the appeals on the Cat Welfare Society website via HERE. Even if you didn't, I sincerely hope you can do it because you are doing good by helping the strays. It's not for me, it's for them.

The appeals are for reimbursing caregivers who have brought stray cats with health issues to the vet for treatment. Sometimes, it's not health, who knows if they have been abused? Please help them, it is legit. Screenshots of receipts are also up on the page. Every bit counts. Even a couple of bucks will mean a lot.

If you do, please cc/bcc me in your email to CWS or forward the acknowledgement email to me at min.l@live.com. I will be very grateful to you, more than you know.

Even after my birthday, I wish you lovelies will continue to help these strays.

It would make my day. And their lives.

these are why i ♥ december part ii

2012-01-03T13:33:00.002+08:00

painting glitter on nails for myself and my friends

christmas-themed candies

christmas plants

happy children

having fufu on my bed, not just in december but anytime anyday

young at heart

2012-01-01T16:18:00.003+08:00

this post (and a few other posts to come) is super late, but december was so eventful i could only get down to blogging about them now.

before i continue, HAPPY NEW YEAR lovelies! here's to a better and bigger 2012 ahead of us!

2011 had been an incredible year for me and it ended with an awesome holiday to hong kong, shen zhen and macau, more about that later. i am suffering from some post-holiday bug as i type. can't imagine bringing this fat ass back to work but the only consolation is that work = money = more travelling so that is what's going to keep me motivated!

so back to earlier in december, my girlfriend, eve darling, celebrated her birthday in true kiddie's style - a macdonald's happy meal themed party! we all dressed up as kids or something nerdy and geeky like school children.

i think david looked so cute with his bowtie that day ;)

Back from Dim Sum Land!

2011-12-31T02:36:00.001+08:00

girl in girl with the dragon tattoo

2011-12-26T22:58:00.001+08:00

i am having a huggeee girl crush on rooney mara. she looks amazing.

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-24T22:05:00.001+08:00

Another two hours to go before Christmas but I'm itching to open my 4xpresents stuck together from my bf! The funny thing is I'm only excited to open 1 because I already know what the other 3 are. :p

Merry Christmas lovelies! Xoxo

terrorblade & friends

2011-12-21T20:31:00.000+08:00

some pictures of the tank i'd taken in the beginning when david first set up the tank. the tank look much different now with more grass/plants and a christmas-themed house. the house has doors and windows which never fail to amuse us whenever a fish wanders in and out through the holes.

christmas lights

2011-12-18T20:09:00.002+08:00

the only thing i love about orchard road in december is the christmas lights and decor. other than that, avoid orchard road AT ALL COSTS (crowd, crowd, more crowd, and rain).

david willingly obliged to my request of walking down orchard road to take pictures of the decorations, at midnight on a weekday of course when it's easy and breezy to walk. guess what? 30 minutes into it(we started at ngee ann city, ion, tangs and down..), paragon turned off the christmas tree's lights! and soon the blue lights along the road went off. so if you're wondering if they ever turn off the decoratin lights, yes they do cept' for some mall decorations.

ngee ann city

tiffany trees outside nac

along the road

ion

tangs

paragon (didn't manage to get a picture of the tree because they turned off the lights right before i got there)

knightsbridge

mandarin gallery

triple one

snape was here!!

(did ya get it?)

and lastly, here's me attempting to do a jump shot..

i am SO excited that the holidays are only 5 days away and there are so many things happening this week at work and outside of work! time is gonna pass soooo quickly. ;)

xoxo

these are why i ♥ december part i

2011-12-11T23:58:00.002+08:00

toffee nut latte on a rainy day

fun christmas app on the iphone!

dressing up for parties.. birthdays and christmas parties..

in good company

lots of brunches..

sparkly and glittery nails..

the fun has only just begun :)

Terrorblade & The Tank of Shame

2011-12-03T21:57:00.004+08:00

David has a couple of fishes in his tank that come in pairs. So one of swordtail pair is SO naughty it's a bully! It'd attack the other one so bad that the victim would hide in a corner and wouldn't come out. Other times victim just avoids bully like a plague.

I cannot stand bullies and to punish the bully, we bought a separation tank to prison bully!

When bully went into prison, victim came out more and swam in peace. Then, we realised that victim likes to swim past the prison and taunt the bully and of course bully went MAD. It miraculously jumped out of prison, on not one but TWO occasions, and went back into the tank to terrorize victim.

Bully is now back in prison and victim continues to taunt him by swimming past him, attempt to attack him by attacking the prison wall. But those times when bully escaped, victim hid like a coward. So we named victim "Humji" which means ~~suck balls~~ coward in Hokkien.

And as for bully, we named it Terrorblade because it terrorizes Humji and has a blade-like tail. AND of course if you play DOTA, Terrorblade is one of the heros! (we play DOTA alot)

Thank you for reading the story about David's fishes. I'll talk about Pinky and the Brain, Bumblebee and more, when we name them.

:)