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OMG the improved salty caramel macarons are, not to toot my own horn, the best I've tasted IMO. I couldn't bear to give it to others so I didn't bring it to school, haha. Hopefully it'd be a winner at the BS.

On a different note, I went with TEL again haha. Free hugs + hearts + roses!





This is her belated birthday cake, the last of her present. :)









Still contemplating whether or not I should get it. It's about $215...























2 weeks back





Her adorable necklace

Array of hairstyles

I love Ellen Degeneres and her show! This clip cracks TEL and I up all the time. Watch the whole clip, but 5:17 is our favourite part!


In addition, although this sounds terribly bimbotic I love all the dresses that Paris Hilton wore on Paris Hilton's my new BFF show (TTYN, haha. TEL’s watching it too!), the clothes are so incredibly gorgeous and very me. I wouldn't want to be her BFF though.

I made Green Tea Mont Blanc! I really like it. :)

Honey Matcha Financier base and Matcha white chocolate truffle enrobed in chestnut cream.
Also, macarons! Finally. Chestnut and Nutella macarons. :) I'm pleased with it, considering it's my maiden attempt.

Yay I'm making good use of my holidays.

Am I the only one who doesn’t like watching Little Nyona? I finished watching the recorded episodes in less than half an hour because I kept fast forwarding. I find that show so incredibly slow-moving.

Desserts (for Christmas) I made!

Crushed dried rosebuds, rose-white chocolate whipped ganache, raspberry gelee, litchi gelee. Inspired by Pierre Hermé's Emotion Ispahan. :) So good I can still remember how it tastes like.

I saw a cookbook by Pierre Hermé in Virgin Megastore in Paris on all his macarons gosh they look so incredibly good, pity it was in French. Sigh I wish I knew how to make macarons.

White chocolate/passionfruit mousse with roasted pineapple.

Chocolate caramel truffles with Fleur de Sel.

Mendiants

Eeleng and I visited Astrid at her workplace some time ago. :) I never knew Raffles Place had shopping malls!

Thereafter Ee Leng and I walked to Clarke Quay.

TEL said she was in heaven after eating this cake haha.

My Fauchon bag carries presents. :)

TEL likes my face to be blurred out haha.

Ray Bans forever. :)

Me does not know how to get to Bukit Timah from Liang Court, TEL’s former “territory”.

We discovered the Map function on the iTouch.

TEL is taking very nice pictures! Will impart all that I know about photography to her when she comes back from Malaysia.

Dinner with the extended family thereafter at Dempseys. I passed a box of La Maison Du Chocolat chocolates to Susan via Aunty Kat, and she called me to say it was the best chocolate she had tasted in her life haha. I’m craving it so much, it’s truly one of the 10 best chocolatiers in Paris/the world. It’s so expensive though, one piece costs at least 3 SGD.

(photo from UE)

Kuishin-bo buffet with the extended family again… from I don’t know when.

I had a French manicure. :)

Yun Ching has come back from Brisbane!!! Met up with her and her sister Yun Fang some time ago. We watched Nick and Norah’s infinite Playlist, which I thought was okay. I’m no movie buff. Conversations about the family between her and her cousin are hilarious. Oh we went to Far East because her cousin was there and went into 2 shops selling tee-shirts that looked really alike with 2 guys who wore the same outfit working as salespersons who looking really alike too so we thought he followed us from one shop to the other but it turned out to be otherwise haha.

“So you’re not the same guy in that shop just now?”

“No.”

Hahahahah.

Went to her house after some time, her uncle used to be my Dad’s colleague!

Then my Dad picked me up and they talked and I got to stay for another half an hour. :)

Walking through HDBs at night is really creepy.

The spy shot Yun Ching tried to take of her cousin and his friend.

Mum and I made gyozas/potstickers a few days back. :) Yumm.

I am in love with this ruby ring my Mum gave me. Apparently my Dad gave it to my Mum when they were dating haha. Small but beautiful. On anoher note I have a fetish for cocktail rings now. :)

Met up with Ethel yesterday at Vivo City, which is not really that big. We are both late whenever we meet up haha. WE had the “shopped in Japan/Paris” syndrome so we didn’t get anything in the end because everything was so common. I think once you’ve been to Orchard you would have covered every shop to be found in Singapore. Sad.

We bring our sunnies everywhere in sunny Singapore.

From Ethel.

OK I think you got really sick of it, so the camwhoring has stopped.:)

This week and the next are going to be really fun! I thought Adrian and Nat were coming back on the 23rd but they popped up in church on the 21st instead what a nice surprise. We're going to Bukit Timah Market/Food centre! Yay I haven't been there in ages... I miss the carrot cake, I think that's one of the few chinese foods I like.

And thanks for your Christmas presents/well wishes everyone. :)

Paris Part II

I miss the people, the atmosphere, the food, the shopping, the supermarkets...

Everyone dresses well, guys dress à la Jude Law, with trousers at the perfect length, just above the shoe, fitted jackets, and women donning fur coats and well-fitting jeans with stilettos.

White chocolate drink. :)

Overexposed.

I really love Jeff Koons’ works, many of which were displayed at the Château de Versailles.

Tour Eiffel sparkles for 5 minutes every half an hour.

On top of it, the next morning

So sweet I want to have my wedding/honeymoon in Paris too.

Spot the real McCoys.

Forced picture.

Familiar much?

Oh gosh the best scallops I’ve tasted in my entire life. I feel like eating it again so bad. :(

Molleux

Tea

Favourite place #2: Everything in Fauchon looks terribly good and pink.

Dessert from Fauchon:

Favourite place #1: Pierre Hermé!!! Best macarons, hands down. A must try in Paris, especially the passionfuit and milk chocolate, salted caramel and hazelnut ones.

Ladurée, Melin and her parents like it too.

Metro

Favourite place #3: Rue Montorgueil

The markets were closing.:(

There were many more macarons but my family devoured them really fast. :)

Look at how generous they are with the filling.

I owe many people pictures. Heh sorry will upload them soon.

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Paris Part I

I’m so bored! But it beats being stressed out anytime. Anyway I’m back from France and Germany, which has made me hate living in Singapore even more. The trip was beyond awesome, re-visiting some places, shopping, Christmas markets, eating, a ton of cheeses, casual banter with strangers and tasting some of the best food I’ve ever had in my life. :) I want to migrate to Paris! Pity I can’t speak French. I only know how to get around, understand what I’m ordering and buying and speak basic phrases. :( Mummy says I can go there with my friends next time, and TEL says she can go with me in the future too! :)

The people and weather were nice, gosh I love the way everyone dresses! Tres chic. Unlike S’pore where everyone looks like everyone else, has a generic dress sense, shops/eats at the same place (Orchard is passé, Dempsey’s FTW!)… yuck. Yeah I think I’m talking about myself too sometimes.

Image overkill. :)

Breakfast, yumyum. Pastries, desserts and cakes took up 3/4 of the buffet spread.

Our hotel

Notre Dame de Paris reminded me of the cartoon Esmeralda or something like that.

Avenue des Champs- Élysées! One of my favourite places to go for shopping and eating (Ladurée!).

I kind of think Sephora is overrated.

Arc de Triomphe

On top

Love the pattern of the streets but they are a bitch to get around sometimes.

Cute. :) I don’t mind getting one of those even though my mum calls it a selfish car because it can only seat 2 people.

Some of them flew into me! Stupid birds who can’t see where they’re going I don’t want to get bird flu or something.

The best soupe a l’oignon au fromage (sp?)aka French onion soup!!!

Sexy

Hash browns are surprisingly good there I don’t know why.

Pain au chocolat

The best hot chocolate!

Speaking of which I’m going to try and make my own, maybe with marshmallows from Hediard too. :)

We toured on this bus for 2 consecutive days.

Novel ideas

Musée du Louvre

I like visitng tourist-y places and help others take pictures. :) They’re really nice, mostly French/American/British/Japanese.

The thing in the centre is a lift

Cute guy got in my way

Better.

Overrated. There was a whole throng of people surrounding it.

Musée du Louvre

Walls there has infinitely better flavours.

Rue montmartre, another one of my favourite places.

Escalope, and the tastiest green beans behind it.

Gelato

Strasbourg (Capital of Christmas), France

My dad likes to take candids.

Sorry TEL had I not been able to carry balloons on the plane I would have bought one immediately and flown it back for you.

Printemps! Yet another one of my favourite places.

Escargots with garlic and butter

I forgot what it was called… but it was something like ham in puff pastry with barbeque sauce, really tasty.

It irks me to use the French keyboard, the letters and symbols are all in completely different places compared to the qwerty keyboard.

Just look at the plenitude of chocolates!

Shrek cookies

Christmas spirit everywhere

Mummy’s favourite.

All waiters should dress like this one. (Another guy which my mum likes hahah)

Leaving for Stuttgart, Germany.

Sigh I can’t pan properly.

Love boules.

Shopping!

BEST SAUSAGES EVER

And the only hot dog my mum will ever let me eat

They willingly posed for me. :)

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Pictures! I’ll go into details when I get back from France/Germany.

St. James.

We entered the wrong party at first at Movida but it was so interesting, better than XOXO at Powerhouse, in terms of music and entertainment. It was such an eventful night! Saving Melin (HAHAH), lecherous men, gay guy + Astrid, Astrid’s urge to dance, people dressed casually, groping, cabaret, cool stamps (“Remember to show them the right hand!” [which Astrid failed to do haha] ) fights, hilarious robotic dancing, drunkards, rude people, guest list, cranberry drinks, “This is Singapore”!

I heard it became even more eventful after I left hehe. Thank you very much Astrid, Lianne, Melin (and thanks for the European playlist too!) as well as Esther for that night. :)

























Out with TEL today, who is finally back from Japan. Will miss you bestie! :(

TEL took some pictures too, which are really pretty. :)

We took a bus that was not air-conditioned! It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. :)















This was really good.












































Free Madelines!


TEL counting her money.










Pink walls and floors

Ahh will miss my Channel U 10 o' clock show and channel 8 9 o' clock show (yes very loser I know but I have nothing better to do). Thank goodness for DVD recorders.
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This week will be a very enjoyable week. :)

Today I went last-minute shopping with Mummy for winter clothes (hate doing last minute things BTW, shopping or not), because we realized some of them had lost their elasticity etc. and some leather gloves have mould on them (going to buy a new pair in Paris though, leather gloves here are very expensive :( ) Sucks I only get to wear winter clothing once a year. If Singapore had winter I would have a plethora of scarves (love them) and jackets.

Tomorrow I’m getting my new lenses and filter for my camera, then its shopping at Vivo for a while before meeting Astrid, Lianne, Melin and Esther for dinner. St. James thereafter. :)

Wednesday would be the bussing trip around Singapore and Twelve + One Pâtisserie. Head to the airport at night and then I’ll fly off to Paris the next morning. :) Yay can’t wait. Croissants, baguettes, escargots, French onion soup, Crazy Horse… Pierre Hermé! Ladurée! Sadaharu Aoki! Fauchon! La Maison Du Chocolat! G. Detou! Mora! Le Bon Marché! Pozzetto! Grom! Even the best desserts/pâtisseries in Singapore pale in comparison to those in Paris. Actually I hate eating bread, save for tuna buns, sausage buns, white bread and those served in French restaurants with butter on them. But bread in Paris is heavenly. :)

P.S. Spoiler for ANTM Cycle 11

I’m apathetic towards McKey winning but I still think Analeigh should have been in the final two (and won). :(

P.P.S. Aunt Irene offered me a job! It sounds intriguing, running around dressing models/celebrities/ “football stars” (In Singapore? Dream on). Plus, the pay is good! $80 a day for 8 hours of work. And Aunt Irene thought it wasn’t enough.

P.P.P.S. It's a devil to wear Prada...have you seen this?

P.P.P.P.S. I baked! For the first time in 2/3 months?

UPDATED.

IMMENSELY IMAGE HEAVY,

so much so that I suggest you few this post in parts.

Post-O level activities

13 Nov

Re-enactment of this scene from HSM after Bio MCQ.

Orchard with Esther and Ee!

My favourite

Drinks at Food Republic. Yum yum Monin syrup the best ever.

I want.

Pictures from Esther. :)

14 Nov

Sentosa’s Siloso Beach with some people from 4G :)

Shopping at Vivo with Zoe and Ee afterwards.

Overexposed shots. :(

15 Nov

Games Day! Very fun albeit tiring. Dinner with Daryl, Nathan, Jesse, Wen yin, Tiffany and Deanna thereafter at Sun and Moon. Send me pictures!!!

I finally had my fringe cut! It was so disgusting. My previous hairdresser left, the new one's weird even though he does a pretty good job. And he wears the grossest Gucci shoes (even though I like Gucci). I feel like changing my hairstylist.

16 Nov

Zouk flea market with Ethel! :) Waited for her for 45 minutes (I hate waiting BTW) but while waiting I was talking to this (young) woman sitting beside me on the bench about stuff, like “How’s the flea market I only come here for clubbing; my friend’s late yeah so is mine etc.” Sigh it reminds me of Europe/Australia where I can just talk to any stranger. Singapore should have more people like her.

Packed as usual. I saw some people I knew. No. I saw alot of people I knew. It's surprising (and funny) sometimes how you meet people at places you would never think of.