[Outing] Saint Marc Cafe- Chococro

Finally have time to go out with Mr C =)

What I wore:

Cat dress from MDS

Electric blue belt from Taiwan WuFenPu

Sling bag from Charles & Keith

Neon Pink sneakers from Converse

Went to the long-awaited St. Marc Cafe at Vivo for my チョコクロ (Chococro)! I tried it once and have been wanting to go back to have another one! and another one! and another one! =p

It is their signature product. I can't describe it any better than the the description found on their Facebook page, so here it goes- 'CHOCOCRO is freshly baked croissant with crispy golden brown layers,soft and tender inside with rich buttery flavor, and filled with premium bitter chocolate that will melt in your mouth'. 

 Other than chococro, the cafe also offers quite a wide range of breads and sandwiches.

And like most Japanese cafe, parfait, matcha, azuki (red bean) are the must-have. Look at how they name the ice-cream!! Geisha, golden nugget and madonna??? Very fancy right? =D

Ta-dah! Star of the day!

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I tried chococro with dark chocolate the other time and Mr C recommended daifuku chococro (seasonal item), so I decided to go for it. It's filled with chocolate, azuki beans and mochi (rice cake). It's less sweet compared to the normal chococro and more chewy as there's mochi inside. But I guess I still prefer the old good chococro. Maybe I have super sweet tooth? o.O

 We also ordered iced royal milk tea to go with the chococro. The fragrance of the milk makes the drinks tastes different from the usual milk tea =)

 Me, playing with the mirror =x

The very FIRST time Mr C has suggested to take a picture of me (alone)!

To repay his kindness, I took a picture of him posing similarly to my pose. Haha

AND!!!

I just found out that there's STRAWBERRY DAIFUKU CHOCOCRO in Japan!! Why we don't have it here!? Or I've missed the season? *sob sob.. Can anyone ask them to bring it in?? =((

[Random] SWEET camera

I think I'm too crazy over photo editing apps that produceプリクラ (purikura) a.k.a. neo print effects. I have 9 similar apps in my phone and the number is increasing. My phone has been giving out the warning that there's insufficient memory space left but how can I delete all these cutes apps? ='(

One of my favourite out of these apps would be Sweet Camera. I can spend all night decorating my pictures... Such a good app to kill time So much fun doing it!! Ok, you might not understand and think that I must be bored, let me show you how to turn normal pictures to pictures that are filled with cute and sweet elements within 10 minutes time =)

Choose a picture from your gallery or take a picture to start with.

You can start with 'whitening & skin' if the picture is too dark. I didn't use this as the picture I chose is bright enough and I don't want it to be too bright when I add other effects to the picture. I usually start with framing- it sets the theme for the picture, you can choose from various themes such as flower, classic, sweet, etc.

 After choosing the frame, use stamp to fill up the empty space. 

I really don't like seeing big empty space in my purikura photos, after all we're supposed to decorate the photos as much as possible right? =P You can also add text or use pen to decorate the photos but my theme is floral so decorative text might be too modern (I guess) for this picture...

After adding stamps, try out 'filter' to see which would suit the picture::

Vintage

 Lomo

Lastly, add in the effect you want::

 Circle

Rainbow

** love rainbow effect- your picture turns very kaleidoscopic after adding the effect <3 

AND, you're done! =)

Other pictures I edit using this app::

What I like the most about this app is it's easy to use and I can add blush to my face =x

What do you think of this app? Nice? Faster try out and tell me if it's fun for you! Or tell me which apps you're using to edit your photos! 

Nice things must share =DD

[Fashion] Magazine that kills

Just want to introduce you my favourite magazine a.k.a. my fashion bible  (if you haven't heard of it)- the original Japanese Vivi. Not Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore/Malaysia version, but the true blue Japanese Vivi. I'm not saying that other versions are not good but Japanese version is the thickest (think 400 pages), the most informational and the one who's leading the other versions.

Vivi May 2013 Issue

Like other Japanese magazines, it comes with おしゃれ (o-sha-re, means fashionable Japanese) free gift from time to time. For May issue, they are giving out a trendy monotone tote. Although it's not of high quality, it's trendy and let's be frank,the monotone trend will most likely fade off after a month or 2, so high quality is not needed here =x Sometimes, the magazine also has sub-issue like the one shown at bottom left-　ヘアアレンジ (hair arrangement) look book.

The reasons why I said it kills:

1. It kills both girls and boys.

All their models have angel's face +  devil's body, especially famous Lena Fujii and the up and coming Reina Triendl. 

2. It kills your eyes.

More than 500 clothes combinations (my estimate, may be more) in every issue. And you will have hard time trying to focus on just one combination at a time.

3. It kills your brain.

They help you summarise what's IN in the season and demonstrate the trends in ways that you can wear it in your daily life (unlike those fashion runway style). Basically, you don't need to understand Japanese at all, what you need to do is to look at the pretty models in pretty clothes in the pretty pictures.

4. It kills other magazines.

They cover various styles from sexy to cute to casual to mode, etc. You don't need to buy other fashion magazines when you have Vivi.

p/s:But if you're into mori or harajuku, you might want to skip this magazine. 

5. It kills your money.

Not because it's very expensive but it puts a spell on you to spend on the latest fashion and crave for Japanese fashion brands that do not exist in Singapore e.g. Lily Brown, titty&Co., Snidel, just to name a few...

6. It kills your time.
Other than clothes combinations, it also teaches you the latest makeup and the most trendy hairdo (the hair arrangement look book covers around 50 styles) so you can kill your time when you're bored.

Now, tell me how not to hate love this magazine???

[Skincare] Laneige - part of Korea shopping loots =x

Other than Too Cool for School that I mentioned in previous post, another big part of my $$ went to...
A full Laneige set + 2 water sleeping pack! =x
Had been wanting to get a new set of skincare since a beautician told me SKII might be too mature for my skin and my Kose trial set was going to an end soon. This moisturizing series is just so famous and their ambassador, Song Hye Kyo's angelic face is just so convincing...So I'd planned to get these way before my trip (not impulse buy k!) as the price is much friendlier in Korea. I got all these (7 items in total) at around sgd 200. And I believe all these can last for at least 9 months =)

1. Foam Cleanser - clean the face thoroughly to get rid of dirt and remaining makeup! I think this is the MOST important step; all essence apply afterwards would be a waste if your face is not clean (Imagine you pores are still full of your makeup.. ewww..)
2. Power Essential Skin Refiner - the first step after cleaning my face.
3. Balancing Emulsion - use after the skin refiner to enhance the effect.
4. Time Freeze Essence- I realised I have some fine wrinkles!!! I am so pissed off with myself for not taking good care of my skin so I've got this Time Freeze Essence. It better really freezes the time! Hope it will help me to look like a sweet 18 every year **cross fingers =P
5. Water Bank Moisture Cream - Song Hye Kyo's favourite product among all Laneige products! Like what she said, it really keeps our face moisturised (I can still feel the cream after a good night sleep).
6. The legendary water sleeping pack - apply before sleep. It works like a mask but it's more convenient 'coz you do not need to wash off after applying =)

It's advised to use either Time Freeze Essence or Water Sleeping pack as the last step of the regime so you won't over burden my face. 

That's all for my beauty regime. 

How about yours?

[Fashion] a BRIGHT spring

Warning: a very brief post to show off my new purchase =x

It's finally spring (in countries with 4 seasons)! That means no more thick, heavy clothes with long sleeves on shelves. It's time for the dull colors to be out of the racks for a while and let pastel and neon colors to SHINE! 

The first thing I've got for my 'spring' (ok, the truth is I shop from time to time **guilty...) is this neon pink converse. It comes in yellow, orange, green and blue as well but of course I've to get the pink one since pink is my LOVE~ 

They have sizes for both kids and adults so you can have couple sneakers, mother-daughter sneaker, father-son sneaker, etc. haha... **lame...

An ordinary sneakers with an extraordinary colors =P

A close-up. 

p/s: Do not get this if solid pink is what you're looking for. 

Like what I've said, they have sizes for kids and adults. With my small feet, I've got kids size.. size 2 =.=|| I think the sales person disbelieved when I asked for size 2 (the biggest size for kids is 3) and surprised by the fact that I actually managed to 'squeeze' in and bought it.. hehe.. My tiny feet helped me to save 20 bucks! But don't envy, I think one's shoe size is strongly related to his/her height; if you're tall, your feet are bigger, and vice versa. After all, you don't need much support from you feet when you're hmmm... short, right?

 Can't wait to wear this out!

Shall post my outfit soon~

[Outing] Ann Siang Hill- Kki cafe (ケーキ)

It's a rare day whereby Mr.C and I do not need to work (He works on weekdays and I work on weekends for now) so we tried to 'explore' Singapore a bit by randomly picked a place that we've never been before. As I remembered some nice photos posted by a friend on Facebook, we decided to go to Ann Siang Hill- a small hill (really small) near Chinatown which is now full of quirky shops and newly open 'hidden' cafes. So if you're looking for something unique such as handmade accessories, retro decorations, clothes that are different from your friends who wear mainstream labels or even drinks and pastries that are different from Starbucks, here's the place. 

I didn't take a lot of photos (almost all are in the cafe that we patronized) as it's an impromptu trip thus we didn't bring along the bulky camera. All photos are taken by phone.

What I wore today::

'Tutu' one-piece (Lowrys Farm)

Denim Jacket (New Look)

Floral Shorts (MDS)

Sling Bag (Charles & Keith)

Gold Glitter Flats (MyeongDong,Korea)

Necklace (Diva)

Ann Siang Hill

 

 The cafe that we patronized- Kki (pronounced as 'cake', literally means cake in Japanese) 

Love their logo designs- black & white with little colors used to make the designs look simple yet the combinations of fonts and shapes create a childlike feel yet it's not too kiddish.

Other than serving awesome-looking cakes (which I forgot to take photos =x) and beverages , they also sell quirky items from rare coffee table books (which I want to bring home so BADLY!!) to handmade accessories to one of a kind tableware.

Me and our order- Raspberry dark chocolate mousse with Iced Latte.

Only tried out one type of cake as Mr.C is a cake hater and there's no much of choice when comes to caffeinated drinks.

Note to myself: please do something to the hair and the puffy face...

 A close-up of my beloved mousse. 

I can't deny that I ordered out of its look in the first place **guilty..

 BUT it doesn't only look great, it tastes great as well! =D

Rich dark chocolate combined with slightly sour raspberry in the middle of the mousse to ensure you that you won't get sick of it after the first few bites =)

Iced latte- a so-so

Overall, the ambience and the cake are good for dating or for girls' outing but the lack of choice of drinks is such a pity.

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Last but not least, let me show off my Hello Kitty Tissue!! hehe =P

I believe that small little things one uses will affect his/her mood in daily life so I always use some cute stuff to keep myself happy all day. Just can't imagine how I will feel if my bag is full of ugly stuff.. How about you?

[Makeup] Too Cool for School

Didn't get to buy clothes during my Korea trip as they're all selling winter clothes that prepare you for negative Celsius =.= This makes me wanna travel there again during Summer..

Since I couldn't get any nice clothes, I splurged... no..no.. I mean I spent rationally on cosmetics and skincare products =P Among so many cosmetics brands in Korea, I spent most of my $$ on Too Cool for School (in terms of make-up stuff) because their designs are literally TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL. And another reason is that it's not available in Singapore and Malaysia! I like to be exclusive! Hehe.. Unlike other brands which focus on beauty masks (too many tourists deem beauty masks as their 'national treasures' and a must-buy), Too Cool for School focuses on make-up items and they do not use any celebrities for advertising. Guess this also helps them to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Good brand positioning, right?

Now, look at the packaging!! 

How to stop one from buying them!?

p/s: It's as easy as ABC to market anything to me- as long as the packaging is nice, I will buy.. 

**guilty face

Yes, what you saw is the packaging for eye liners! My sis thought it's a card when she first saw it. Cute to the max right?? 

Even the back of the packaging is cute! And the 'all mine' sticker to replace the boring 'paid' sticker that we usually see! Ouch... Look at the pictures make me wanna shop there again =x

And the actual product::

It can be use as eye liner or eye shadow. The outer looks like plastic and those 'twist' types of eye liners but it's actually a pencil type, which you need to sharpen it with sharpener.

And I bought 6 lip sticks/lip gross, 2 for each type 

(don't ask me how many mouths/lips I have.. we can always keep them first =x)

Love this color VERY much! It reminds me of Barbie <3 <3

Milk tint- I don't really know how to describe the texture other than using the word 'tint' =x I bought it because the color is sweet and the effect is really long lasting. The sales girl demonstrated the effect to me by trying to wipe it off after it dries up on the skin. And of course, she failed to wipe it off, that's why I bought 2 =x

This is called Bad Girl Good Girl! Cute name and beautiful color! 

Warning: It's super glossy...

I'm now using the Faceshop Whitening Dual BB Cream, the effect is actually quite nice (non-sticky and long lasting) but I've just got to get this! Black packaging for BB cream is so new to me =S 

Other than these, I also got Body Scrub and some eye masks =)

The items I bought are of the same prices listed on the official website. Of course, I got A LOT of free samples from the shop and tax refund =D 

I strongly recommend this brand! So don't miss out when you're there! <3

[Random] You know your partner hates you when...

I started my new year by travelling to Korea for 10 days, a very good way to start a new year =) And it snowed quite heavily on the very 1st day!! I was soooo excited to see snow, k? Not that I never see snow before, but snowING! Not like raining (so uncool =x) And it only snowed once throughout my 10-day trip, so count myself lucky! It's also very cold there, 0c was the highest temperature. Can you imagine?? The lowest was -16c... I think I nearly died there =x And without fail, I was sick due to the low temperature.. Winter virus certainly is my best friend... =( Luckily, I recovered within 2 days =)  

Initially I was very excited about the trip, partly because I can take nice pictures. In snow. Not that we can see snow everyday, right?? BUT it's soooooo cold that I didn't bother to take out my gloves to take out the camera from the bag to take photos.. lol. I felt my fingers freezing every time I removed my gloves. So we took very very little photos, like 300+ for 10days? And some are repeated.. You might be thinking what have all I said to do with the title of this post-- it's RELATED, and I am not out of the topic, yet =x So with the little photos, I surely hope most, if not all, are nice photos, right? Actually, I didn't expect any bad photos. How you define bad photos? My definition: wrong angle (e.g. doesn't include the whole main thing/building you want to take), I am not smiling happily, prettily, or simply, I look UGLY. And being in such a cold weather, I didn't bother to check every single photo after taking.. And it turned out to be a tragedy-- NONE OF THE PICTURES WITH ME ALONE INSIDE CAN BE USED!THEY ARE ALL BAD PHOTOS! Yes, all. ALL. What I can conclude from these photos is that my bf hates me, he doesn't want me to be pretty (not even in photos), he wants me to be ugly forever (since the ways I look in photos are permanent) or worse, he doesn't bother or even hates to help me taking photos or he simply hates to see me.. 

My words are too strong? See the evidence below...  (All photos shown are BEFORE editing)

He said we must take the words 'Seoul Station'. As a normal person, I took one with both English and Korean. And come on, we are in Korea, of course we include 'Seoul Station' in Korean right?? Why is mine cropped then?? ='(

Was snowing quite heavily in the evening. The scene is outside of our guest house. We were so happy that we were there at the right time and he found a good place (beside the street lamp post) for us to take very 'drama' photos.. So the foci were the light and the snow and the person. Guess that's my foci.. For him, they might be me and the broom beside me ='(( Here goes my very 'dramatic' photo..

We went to the largest fish market in Seoul and had to crossed this bridge. Came across a very tall building (dunno what building is =x) and decided to take pictures.. I look sooooo tiny in the picture.. And his excuse reason is that I am short!!! I AM SHORT!! YES, I am SHORT but you can make me look TALLER in photos you know... ='(((

Photos taken at gyeongbokgung palace. I still asked him nicely to adjust his coat so the hoodie wouldn't be out of the board k... And mister, why are my eyes closing in this picture?? Queen doesn't sleep while she is standing you know? 

Finally a decent photo taken at Nami Island. See, when you give me a decent photo, I will repay you with an excellent one- a jump shot! with you smiling happily and your eyes wide open! 

Any girls out there can feel me now? This is the reason why I never post any photos taken in Korea for the past month..'cause I simply don't have nice photos worth posting =(

I can imagine him shouting:" You don't need to be a great photographer, just bring along a great one with you!"

- End of the story of a miserable gf -