Insurgent mania!

I watched Divergent and fell in love with the chemistry between Tris & Tobias. Then read the book and its 2 other installments in the trilogy. 

One thing that keeps ringing in my head - Theo James @ Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis is so gorgeous! A fine specimen of God's gift to women!!! *hubba hubba*  

Absolutely love, love, love Theo James here!

It's world premier was on 17.3.2015. I meant to watch it on 19th.. but decided to wait for friday the 20th instead...

Theo James, if you ever stumble upon my blog, I love you... you sexy thang!
*blush*

#RIPLKY

I woke up this morning like all mornings. It was a Monday. The start of the week. And the weekends had just ended.

As per usual, I pick-up my Samsung Note 4 and started looking through Facebook and Twitter.

Scrolling, I came across a tweet - It carried the news of the passing of Singapore's founding father : Mr. Lee Kuan Yew at 3.18am on 23.2.2015 at the age of 91, at Singapore's National University Hospital. Almost immediately, I tuned into Channel News Asia and true enough, it was showing memoriam videos and historical clips of Mr Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister of Singapore during his early political life right up to the time of his passing.

I learned of how great a visionary he was. How world leaders looked upon him as a mentor and teacher. How he made Singapore what it is today. Amazing.

Watching his old rally speeches, I admire how eloquent he was and continued to be until the very end. What he set out to do, he did.What a remarkable individual. A double starred, 1st class honours Law degree holder from Cambridge. Top of his class. Better than his Cambridge peers.  What a role model to look-up to.

#RIPLKY
 

It's ALIVE...

Yes, you read right! My blog is a-l-i-v-e again! Hear my confessions here

So I'm back and ready to blog!

I though i'd share with you peeps out there a little hobby i only recently cultivated - Baking!
Ever since moving into this new place of mine, I brought a long several survival tools. Amongst them is none other than your trusty microwave oven. I know my brother has been going on-and-on, and on about how microwaving your food might be a health hazard and all, I can't help but see it for all its convenience and efficiency in heating your food and cooking within minutes.

Hands-up all you microwave users out there!

And... recently, I found this YOUTUBE video showing you how to make cakes and quiches - in a mug in seconds! Sounds amazing right?
The best part of it all is that the portion size is for ONE. So i don't over eat and don't have to do a bunch of messy clean-up. I'm literally screaming awesome!

Here's a batch of muffins I baked in a Microwave.

Cake batter with fresh blueberries and chocolate bits in yellow polka-doted cupcake trays

Microwaved muffins ready to serve!

Sample of my homemade muffin. It's cooked through and through in just minutes. Soft and fluffy and fresh. Yumz!

For those of you who were wondering, I used emergency chocolate bars for the chocolate bits in my muffins. Delish!

For the sake of experimenting, I also baked a batch of muffins using a mini electric oven. These took 30 mins as oppose to 5 mins in the microwave.
The results? See for yourselves...

Oven baked muffins. 

The oven baked ones had a lovely golden brown crust over the top and bottoms. Tastes just as good.. and if I must say so myself, looks so much better than the microwaved ones.

Hiatus... The Fault with Picasa Web.

Notice how I tried to imitate John Green with the title of this blog post? "The Fault With Our Stars"? Ring a bell? lame i know... nevermind.

The whole point with this blog post is to explain my long long hiatus from blogging. I solely blame PICASA web for it. As you all know by now, i have been using picasa web for uploading my blog photos. It was a marvelously convenient way for me to blog & post my photos from my phone to my blog. Yeah... those were the days

Picasa web back in 2014 suddenly went  crazy on me. It decided to NOT function with my Internet Explorer browser. Big SIGH! I couldn't upload pictures and everytime I tried, picasa would hang on me. Talk about a trust worthy friend ditching on you... *Sobs*

Anyway, it wasn't until early March 2015 that I found out the problem. It was because Picasa would only function with Google Chrome... and not Internet Explorer... SIGH!! (Correct me if i'm wrong). So anyways, I got a new computer with Google Chrome installed. And my problems were OVER.. Yay!

So back to blogging I am!

Stay tuned for more updates :) 

New beginnings, New place!

Hello all of you!
It's been really long since I last posted - 6 months to be precise! Really sorry about that. A lot of things have been going on lately and I was very very busy in getting things together...


Big news peeps, I've moved to KL!!
These past few months have been super hectic with me moving to my new old apartment and starting work at a new place.


I'm beginning to get settled in my new place and my new working environment as well as my new routine! So, life here is pretty different from back home.


As for blogging, well, I'll be blogging about KL foods... and Penang foods whenever I go back home.


So, to start the ball rolling again, here's a post about my recent pre-birthday brunch and birthday celebration! Yay!

Had a lovely brunch in Bangsar at a bakery cum café called Tous Les Jours. I ordered an iced latte and a peach pastry. Delish! 

                                                    They also have breakfast set meals too!

 

A little something to take home... hehehe

 More on their website here: tlj.com.my/





AHMO @Irrawady Rd, Penang

 I've been wanting to visit this place since a long time ago... but never found the time to.. until recently.

AHMO is situated along Irrawady Road in Burmah Square. It's on a one-way street, so the best thing is to drive-in from Service road.

AHMO gets its name from the hokkien word 'angmo' for 'orang puteh' or westerners. The full description about how AHMO came about is written in the place card like in the picture above.

The ambiance of the place is classy. AHMO is set in an old residential house which was converted. The wooden beams remind me of the olden days, although they did a good job in updating the place with wall paper art. More of the décor in the pictures below...

On to the food. They serve a mixture of western and local delights and their menu offers a good variety. It took us some time to look though their menu. We finally decided and ordered one plate of fish & chips and one plate of chicken croissant .

Fish and chips

Chicken croissant

 They also offer sets... for an additional fee, you get a bowl of soup and drink...

Their prices are really affordable... and I liked the soup the best. We had mushroom soup that day :)

Check out their website http://www.ahmo.my/ahmo.php

Kaffa Expresso Bar @ Green Hall, Penang

 

Penang is a brimming with new and classy café houses. Here, there and everywhere you can see nice and sometimes quirky cafés offering good food and aromatic coffees. One such place is Kaffa Espresso Bar. It is the second outlet in Malaysia and the Penang one is situated at 22 Jalan Green Hall. 

 

Take a look as some of the cool décors...

And not to forget.. their awesome wall art pieces... like the one with four sleepy girls/boys needing coffee...

 

And this massive wall art of the Beatles...

Ringo...

John/Paul and George...

 Like I mentioned earlier, they offer drinks AND food... although the selection for food is limited. I went on a weekend... and there were already many tables taken...Had to wait for my food...

Caramel Macchiato

 I ordered a highly recommended drink (i think I read it on foursq) called the Caramel Macchiato which cost a bomb! It came in a enamel coated metal mug to give it that vintage look. Well, almost all their coffees are served in it. I personally didn't think much of the metal mugs... except that my mug had the enamel chipped off over the rim of the mug and that had me drinking rusty bits of the mug rim.. not a big fan of the mug...  :(

 

Like the name of the drink, this caramel macchiato was light in coffee taste (just the way I like) and sweet salty from the caramel... though on the pricey side..

As for food, I ordered the Spaghetti Aglio Olio with turkey ham. The portion was big (Thumbs up for that) and tasty :) However, I found mine too spicy... could taste a lot of the chilli & black pepper in it...

Loved the interior décor of the place. Environment was relaxing, except when the place gets crowded and noisy...

Check-out their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/keb.greenhall

Another worthy place to visit if you're not on a budget :)
 

New Year 2014 Indulgence

This year, as you all already know, I spent New Year's Eve and New Year's in Singapore. And what better things to do in Singapore than to shop. shop. and do more shopping!!

I took advantage of the tourist privileges and went to my favourite luxury brand COACH. From the amount of time and money invested in purchasing Coach items, I should think Coach should reward me for my unwavering loyalty and now, clearly, free publicity! haha. So, Coach peeps, if you ever get to read by blog, I'm a HUGE fan and would like to get paid for talking endlessly about your lovely bags!! haha :)

Anyway, I digress. (sorry) Here's what I splurged on, on New Year's DAY 2014! Not one, but TWO brand new Coach bags!

Loving the beautiful brown coach paper bag that contained by 2 newly bought bags..

 I was so proud to show-off my luxury shopping bag to the world on New year's day on Orchard Rd, Singapore

Coach card

Madison Top Handle Pouch In Black Leather



S$375

As soon as I got back to Penang, I checked-out the prices here and it was going for RM900 without discount. So I kinda got it for a really good deal in Singapore (this is with the 10% discount and 7% GST refund) - I'm soooooo happy!!! AND on top of it all, Penang didn't have it in Black... it was all sold out! I'm SUper LUCKY!

 Please allow me to gush on my other Coach purchase~! Introducing the Coach leather colourblock New Willlis in the colour purple! Well, to be accurate, this bag has a mixture of 3 different colours on it - purple, grey and dark blue. Super thrilled to have bought it!

AND because I got the bags, the Coach shop in Singapore gave me a chance to personalise the bag tags for free - Absolutely AWESOME-fied!!! You can imagine, I was on cloud 9!

Coach Leather Colorblock New Willis

Authenticity card

 TO remember this day, 1.1.2014, I specifically took a picture of my Coach shopper bag with my watch stating the time and date of my purchase... (sampat.. I know) hahah... but who cares, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world!!

New Year 2014 was a super awesome day for me! How was yours? Hope it was as thrilling as mine! Here's to wishing everybody a Happy and Wonderful New Year 2014 :)

 

Happy Awesome New Year 2014

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014!

Wishing you peeps a happy and healthy new year all the way from Singapore!

New year's eve countdown to the new year was celebrated at The Float @ Marina Bay, Singapore and in conjunction with MediaCorp's 50th Anniversary, they had invited celebrities like Wang LeeHom and The Wanted (british boy band) to perform!!

There were fireworks and great performances in stored for everyone

 

 

I thoroughly enjoyed by New Year's EVE in Singapore!! Super lucky to have experienced this once in a lifetime event... AWESOME!

I was in Singapore just after Christmas and flew back on New Year's day in the evening. Best Christmas cum New Year's holiday EVER!

Merry Christmas 2013

Christmas was especially awesome because of the super AWESOME presents I got this year!!

Thanks to my brother in Singapore! And, like me, he also got my parents gifts, all the way from Singapore.

Better yet, this year, I get to spend new year's in Singapore!!! So excited !!

Singapore spells SHOPPING more than anything :) I'm really pumped!

Here's this year's Christmas tree - one word : Beautiful

 

 Under the tree were all the pretty and colourfully wrapped xmas presents.

I especially was excited over this pink one! (because it's mine)

 

My Christmas present wrapped in pretty pink

This year, we opened all our presents on Christmas day itself, as tomorrow, we all will be flying to Singapore for a whole week!! Yahooo!!

The 'Yahoo' was for BOTH the fact that presents were opened on Christmas day AND the fact that holidaying in SINGAPORE was actually happening TOMORROW - boxing day :))

 

So what DID I get for Christmas this year?



 

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

 

*TADDAAAAaaaa*

 

 

The new IPad MINI 2!!!!

 

So damn happy!! Thanks to my brother!

 

And yes, he got my parents THE new IPad Air too!!!

 



 

So super psych-ed! Really thrilled that Christmas 2013 was such a blessing!

 

Hope everyone else is having an AWESOME Christmas 2013 too!

 

God Bless :)