Little Red Dress

2009-07-03T02:10:00.000-07:00

I found this on Facebook! Everything about it is so true, except for point 10 maybe cause we were allowed to eat in class already haha.

1. You go to Boston/Geneva/New York/Paris/London/Berlin once a week
2. You walk past Learning Lab and know it's not a clinic
3. You have a secret notebook
4. You collected all the stickers telling you which class to go to
5. You look forward to childrens day because you get ben and jerrys/ chocz / macs vouchers
6. You have lever arch files packed with thick sets of notes because they use paper like nobody's business
7. When you pay your tuition fees, you get your receipts printed on thick, embossed conqueror paper, presented to you in a sleek silver envelope.
8. Your classroom activities include building a lava lamp, keeping fighting fish, and going to pet the rabbits and guinea pigs during toilet breaks.
9. Your tuition classroom has nicer furniture than your house (i.e. glass panels for whiteboards, 10000 inch LCD "fireplaces", random mini LCD screens around the corridors, a Mr. Bean cartoon being beamed out of nowhere...)
10. You spend half your tuition time begging your teacher to let you go down to subway, 7eleven, macs, cold storage or starbucks.

If TLL (click) had tuition for GP I would so go for it. :)

Also, Yumiko, Kristel and I absolutely love Boys Over Flowers haha, I thought it was a just another drama initially but OMG I'v watched it the second time (with some parts forwarded of course) and I still love it. :) I like Ji Hoo's and Yi Jung's dressing(Gucci!)/designer garb in general. But the guys aren't good looking hah.

Oh and TEL and I were talking about how we want to migrate overseas and drive to the countryside in our sports cars with our boyfriends in a straight line, (see video at 2.30, here) HAHAHA damn cool. We hate living here please.

I've been shopping so much in June and July haha I think I've got more than 15 pieces of new clothing. :)

On a sidenote I made chocolate tarts filled with banana caramel, salted caramel ganache and chocolate mousse mmm so good I think I will post a picture soon. My mum said it was the best thing she ever tasted. I saw her sneaking mouthfuls of salted caramel ganache just now haha.

Terms ended on Thursday, yay 4.5 days of no school. :) OH speaking of Thurdays I love watching Heston Blumenthal's (click) 'In Search of Perfection' everyhting he makes looks so freaking good. I want to dine at his 3-Michelin-starred restaurant The Fat Duck (best restaurant in UK and voted Best restaurant in the world, click) one day, it's one of the things I must do before I die haha.

Anyway here are pictures! From part of my June holidays and after terms. More later!

I love this picture of you Wei Ling!

I made white chocolate raspberry cheesecake for D's birthday!

My first quenelle. :) With passionfruit pearls/caviar elBulli style.

On my birthday! Lunch at The White Rabbit. :)

Wei Ling and TEL about to surprise me haha.

Surprised

Out of bed hair

And this picture too!

HAHA unglam!

OG dinner at crystal jade

It wasn't really a surprise haha cause I saw the waitress storing the cake.

Hah I am going to write 'Happy Birthday Featherless Chicken' on your birthday cake Kristel.

Orchard with Ethel!

After Physics :)

Headed to this place which had clothes going for as low as $12. :)

Cheekopek at 5 o' clock.

It was here that I banged my head against the pole. -.-

BEST BUBBLE TEA EVER. CARAMEL BUBBLE TEA WITH PEARLS (I usually take jelly)! Slightly more expensive but so worth it!

Ok bye I'm gonna have my belated birthday dinner tomorrow and I'm meeting up with people the next few days so yay. :)

Churchies if you guys see this SEND ME THE PICTURES!!!

2009-06-06T00:48:00.000-07:00

*Overdue
*INTENSELY IMAGE HEAVY. I recommend you view the post in parts.

I visited my 1.5 week old nephew yesterday! Isn't he the cutest? :)

Mm last day of school for term 2! Life is great. :)

Cuter than AC guys!

Hahaha so cute!

Look at Adeline haha.

Rugby finals

Hah Astrid your skirt is as short as mine!

Poor dude.

Dinner at Fish & Co. with some of the 4G people.

The day I brought Koko Crunch to school

When the guys hijacked my camera

I still have more pictures to post! Haha.

2009-05-23T08:16:00.000-07:00

1 more week to the holidays! I can't wait. :) I really miss the times last year in December where I could do just about anything and everything... Now I have to wait for a little less then 1.5 years before I can really have a break, and hopefully go to Paris with the friends. :)

Mm anyway, I'm not uploading pictures on Facebook, sorry! My pictures look horrible there and I'm too lazy to tag people etc. haha.

OG outing! :) That was one epic outing I'll never forget. :)

For the birthday people. :) DC/Cheryl/Nic/M hope you liked it!

GP project :)

"Let's do the Vebi face"

Met Wei Ling and TEL thereafter!

CAMWHORING

Met Wei Ling again she patiently waited for us haha.

I have more pictures but I'll upload them some other day haha.

2009-04-26T05:09:00.000-07:00

Hi hi!

I'm going for the Audi Fashion Festival/Vivienne Westwood AW 09/10 show with TEL... so yay. :) And maybe the Zouk Flea Market too. That's one thing to look forward to. School sucks, as usual.

Oh can I just say how irritating it is to see many people carrying nice branded bags (ESPECIALLY LOUIS VUITTON THE MOST DISGUSTING THING ON EARTH) and think they look very chic when they have trashy dressing/a horrendous sense of style (think hot shorts with heels/platforms/Ah lian dressing)... One needs to remember that it's the clothes, shoes and accessories that maketh the man.

Mm check out Ashley Isham's SS 09 Collection... it's really pretty.

Moving on, pictures! From school and meet ups with friends, not in chronological order.

We had more pictures but Kristel said "OMG damn ugly" and deleted the rest haha.

Bakesale trial. :) Mmm baking is fun. :)

Guess who haha.
The library is a really nice place to sleep in. :)

ACJC Freeze

Creative campaigning!

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The day the cleaner went on strike.

1 hour 20 minute/2 hour 10 minute breaks are spent walking to the bubble tea store opposite ACSI for bubble tea. :) I try a different flavour each time. Will go to Dover Market next time.

Radioactive bubble tea

Physics class!

Continous shots FTW. :) But they come on so fast that people are bewildered and stunned so most of the time we just end up laughing.

School tomorrow... :(

2009-04-02T03:35:00.000-07:00

Ahaha hello :)

School's fine... Friends make it so much better. :) So much has happened in the past 1 or 2 months so much so that I can't list it down. The trip to Japan during the March holidays was a really nice and much needed break. :) I love the weather! So incredibly nice. I was so lucky to see the cherry blossoms. Shopping is quite Far East Plaza-ish though. :(

The sweetest strawberries, ever! They even better when dipped in condensed milk.

Our hotel

SPA! Haha there were coffee, green tea, wine, sake onsens and many more...

I miss my OG. :( Pictures from Joanna. :)

From a long time ago:

2009-02-22T07:15:00.000-08:00

edited.
(This should be a photoblog)

My Dad just told me we’re going to Tokyo/Nagoya during the March holidays… yay. :)
He says I can go fruit picking too. :) Ooh I want to pick strawberries. Hello Pierre Hermé, Ladurée and Sadaharu Aoki!!!

I feel my energy being sapped away nowadays, BS photoshoot, CCA training, meetings… My life is becoming a routine yet again. I guess I’m going to school so as to go back home again (does that make sense). Haha I love my home… Melin too.

The OG is fun, playing badminton, hitting the gym, spotting each others’ hot guys and spending time in the viewing room in the library playing Taboo and Scrabble, apart from the guys (and Joanna’s friends James and someone else whose name I forgot) cracking lame ‘sponge’ jokes over and over again.

I feel my energy being sapped away nowadays, BS photoshoot, CCA training, meetings… My life is becoming a routine yet again. I guess I’m going to school so as to go back home again (does that make sense). Haha I love my home… Melin too.

Photoshoot

Snickers cake without the nougat layer

Caramel Fleur De Sel

A week after Valentine's

Grace F's birthday surprise; TTM's ingenious idea of spreading Nutella over pandan chiffon cake.

Lunch at Ikea with Melin, TTM, TEL, Wei Ling and Peter before shooting. This picture cracks me up!

TEL saw Nathaniel Ho, he just swam and looked totally unglam haha.

I keep forgetting to say this, but I like them Prada shoes, I would get heels like those if not for the fact that I have no opportunity to wear them.

Anyhow there was this girl I met in photography, she asked me if my camera costs more then $1000 and I was like yeah, and she said that was 5 months of her Dad’s pay which was $200 a month… I was caught off guard for a moment. That was one point in my life where I felt awkward.

I am so blessed.

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[Girl, please stop being all flirtatious with the boys and being all bitchy and mean towards the girls… Such behavior is utterly revolting and nauseating. It is so obvious that many (i.e. girls and boys) can tell. It is no wonder you have little, if not any, true friends.]

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I just listened to White Lies' To Lose My Life on Melin's blog and I am so in love with it now... it has been on repeat on my iTunes.

Anyway this is from her blog, it's hilarious.

"Maybe the song isn't bad, but it's really cheesy and terrible and dumb which some people might consider bad.

It goes:
There's only one thing to do
Three words for you
(I love you)
I love you

It's 1234 by Plain White T's. How do you go from Hey there Delilah to this? That's why Delilah left
I think it's supposed to play out like that:

There's only 1 thing 2 do,
3 words 4 you,
I love you.

which is totally tacky because they're playing on the 1234 thing.
Darn. Well anyways I can do to more numbers!

1 thing, 2 do,
3 words, 4 you
I love you
Give me high 5.
want to have 6?
Let's go for lunch at 7-11
Unless you already 8
But if you come with me I'll be on cloud 9
and when we get married the song will be 10 10 10 10, 10 10 10 10."

IMO, I think Hey There Delilah is terribly overrated. Non-mainstream (is there another word for it?) music suits me better.

I'll do a proper post tomorrow.
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I am using alot of "IMOs" nowadays... hmm not good not good.

And on another note, everyone please stop using 'pon'/'ponning' and use the word 'skip'/'skipping' instead!!!

2009-02-02T06:36:00.000-08:00

First up,
new items added to BS. :)

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.

AC Life (IMAGE HEAVY)

Mmm i saw many familiar faces.

My camwhore OG. :)
Props to my 'photographers' Kelly and TEL too!

Valentine's

(I am craving for all these things)

HA HA HA

DOUBLE HA HA HA

With Kelly. :) It's amazing how much we have in common; food, ideals in life, boys, music (Muse!), traveling...

Janice, OGL. :)

Does anyone know where to buy an extra badge? I have such a hard time trying to find that little sucker every morning.

I am loving my Onitsuka tigers!

Don't know if I should join shooting/badminton + photography... I can shoot better than that (above), just that I submitted my last card to the coach. Speaking of which he was from China and TTM and I couldn't understand his Chinese, we went ??? all the time so this instructor had to translate it into English for us, how embarrassing. TTM called the coach 'Da Shu' (inspired from Hong Kong movies) hahaha hilarious. And Wei Ling kept pointing the pistol towards the coach.

Oh and I've dropped chinese... YES NO CHINESE FORVER!!! The HOD tried to convince me to take Chinese but hell no... I'm going overseas anyway so they don't give a damn.

Cocoa brownie salted caramel mousse cake for the friends. :)

When I'm drowsy I lie down on the bleachers and try to sleep + take pictures of people who come by.

Pictures from Joanna

I left early so I didn't bowl

PALAS

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

2009-01-29T05:10:00.000-08:00

This is my Mum's birthday cake (Strawberry + Bailey's) which I made. :) I can't stop taking pictures of it! I can't recall when I last made a cake a cake for someone. It must have been months/years back. Which reminds me... I still owe C and E their cakes!

Slices for everyone

CNY was spent watching movies with my favourite cousin, Susan. :) We watched Bridewars, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Yesman and Twilight. I dislike Twilight (the book)... but I thought the movie was actually okay. Oh and they played Supermassive Black Hole, my all-time favourite song (it is at the top of my Top 25 most played playlist, naturally) , during the baseball scene so plus points for that!

Ah and we also watched 10 minutes of High School Musical 3 and switched to another movie. What a dumb movie. It's actaully the first movie I stopped watching halfway and never intend to continue doing so.

Ok moving on, I only visited one house (my Dad's side). I didn't wear new clothes cause I couldn' find any. We didn't really have a huge reunion dinner. And we had French/Western food. Yeah it's weird, I know. I guess we're a... modern Chinese family? Speaking of which, the chef looks like Brad Pitt. Seriously, I kid you not.

I'll let the pictures do the talking. :)

My relatives' house is adorned with running lights. It makes me dizzy looking at it. My aunt calls it a disco house, haha.

Potent wheatgrass juice

Susan gave me her old (flim) SLR! Yay another camera to odd to my collection.

It takes some mean vintage pictures.

Nephew. :)

I did his nails hehe.

Not mine!

We made Matcha and passionfruit Konniyaku(sp?) Jelly, which was so delish. :)

Money from CNY goes towards my bank account! :)

2009-01-21T01:35:00.000-08:00

My Mum is making me bake things to give to people who gave me rewards as an appreciative gesture. Not that I'm complaining, it helps me kill time. :)

I hated making these. The first and last time I did it. Mum claimed she'd help me with it, alas I eventually ended up making them and she helped me clean up.

Salty caramel filling from Paris, I like. :)

(Inspired by MadBaker)

Test run

Bakesale's approaching! Yay thank goodness I'm not in charge this time round.
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Uh there was an outing with Melin, Grace, Jiani, Esther, TEL and Jacq... And TEL, Jacq and I ended up at Plaza Sing camwhoring.

Some of our favourites haha.

Hawhaw how unwilling I look.

Went out with Carmen. :) Haven't seen her in months! I had my Xiao Long Bao fix. :)

Nick, Oli, Valencia, Julian and Payton are back! Had dinner at The White Rabbit. Really good food and company. I never ever bring my camera out when I'm with them, because I'd always vividly recall that incident... >:)

(from The Sartorialist)
He has an uncanny resemblance to Julian!!!
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Jeanette Aw is now my neighbour...

My red iPod has arrived! Yay I love it so much.

2009-01-18T07:39:00.000-08:00

These days I have been going out, geared with money to spend on shopping, only to come home empty-handed. :( It's so hard to find something I like now. And Far East Plaza should stop copying things directly off the runway and mass produce it.

Looking for an especial shopping experience, TEL and I heeded Astrid's advice to visit her heartland mall, Jurong Point. Okay it's quite big... and new. But I didn't buy anything yet again. We walked over to her house thereafter.

I LOVE COOKING MAMA!!! Sorry if a sound a tad too enthusiastic, but I never knew you could do things like blow the soup for real. I live in the Gameboy era.

Astrid, our friendly host. She makes us feel at home! Hah if you came to my house I would just say "Do whatever you like."

TEL falling out of the picture...

WIN

The model at work

My model hahaha.

Had some SBC dinner. What a waste of my money. It was my first and last time going to Seoul Garden.

Results day!

I spy with my little eye, TEL...

Killing time

"Will we do well?"

What bullshit.

Following that, Bukit Timah Market with the prefects and Esther (why do i always find myself sayng that?).

Astrid's Kuay chap (sp?) a.k.a. pig's intestines.

I went for some Canon course which came free with the purchase of the DSLR. I am the only one who doesn't carry my camera in a proper camera bag and put on my lens cap without fail. Whatever I have been doing it for the longest time and my camera is still in excellent condition. The only mishap that happened was when I was in a toilet cubicle in Paris. I was trying to hang my camera on the door hook and it bumped against the door with a loud thud. Thankfully nothing happened to my camera.

I think I might still have overdue pictures to post... Will try and sift them out!

2009-01-12T04:56:00.000-08:00

Soo, results are finally out! I'm immensely happy with what I got. I was hoping for a perfect score of 6 but 7 is not too bad either. :)

The calls/smses keep on coming in, even my grandmother knows about it. I don't now how she found out, because I never breathed a word about it to her.

I'm laughing all the way to the bank, it is flowinggg in. :) HOHOHOHO. Gucci bag/Miu Miu clutch here I come!!!!! :)

2009-01-06T20:55:00.001-08:00

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.

Yesterday my Mum asked me if I wanted to go to Le Cordon Bleu in Paris after A Levels, probably cause she read about it in he papers that day. Hahah actually I don't mind going to Paris itself and not use the money to enroll in the patisserie course but to use to money to shop instead.

It feels great sleeping/eating/swimming/going out/spending money while others are at school. :)

Anyway, results are coming out next Monday (click here)! My heartbeat gets all irregular thinking about it...

Yesterday I went out with TEL!
Didn't do much shopping for CNY though, it is so hard to find something I have in mind, because all the shops sell similar clothing. :( Anyway instead of shopping at the usual haunts (i.e. Wisma, Heeren, etc.) we walked around Taka, DFS Galleria and Paragon... in search of TEL's Burberry wallet, which sadly, could not be found... Which reminds me of the stupid Burberry salesperson who tried to con us. Well all in all it was a pleasant and enjoyable shopping experience. :)

Met up with Esther, Jacq and Astrid for ice-cream at Ben & Jerry's @ Dempseys. Um I'm really not a fan of Ben & Jerry's, but the company was good. :) Before that I met Astrid to go shopping for a bit. We were trying to convince Astrid to buy something from Topshop. Mmm I do not have a single piece of clothing from Topshop, contrary to popular belief. I hate it, it's seriously overrated. So are geek glasses.

We were about to throw the Frangipanis in the air.

This is Astrid's set-up which she took several pictures of. Haha.

This is Astrid's Fall/Winter Campaign shot.

Pictures from Astrid:

Astrid's scarf which made us laugh haha.

Photos from Esther:

With TEL:

This is for TEL to show her cousin that Juicy Couture is opening. Please do not buy Juicy Couture (To add on to the list: Louis Vuitton, Carlo Rino, Bonia), it screams "Ah Lian"(in the case of Juicy Couture, the rest are plain gross).

I have decided against getting an iPhone because I struggle to use the iTouch with my long fingernails.

Wow. TEL and I want one next time. When we are overseas we can zip around to the countryside... how nice.

We headed over to Tanglin Mall.

On a random note, this is my second favourite cereal, after Post's Strawberry Crunch Cereal. Third in place is Reeses' Puffs. :)

Lucky Charms! As you can see I purposely moved all the marshmallow bits to one side.

Oh I just found out Rosalind Pho (sp?) is my neighbour. And I saw the nyona... Zhenzhu or something at Liang Court's Kino.

2008-12-28T06:43:00.001-08:00

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. :)

2008-12-15T01:44:00.001-08:00

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.

I lost my black leather jacket, so I had to wear the blue jacket for 12 days. :( Should have been the chamber maid. I don't think I've lost anything expensive before (Yes I am actually more responsible than you hah), so this should be a first.

Breakfast in Stuttgart, Germany.

White chocolate drink. :)

Train ride back to Paris

Cuteness

Travel essentials: Evian water, haribo gummy bears, iPod, Pez Orange Mints (way better than orange tic tacs)

Versailles -Château de Versailles

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

My mum likes this guy and his dressing (pointy leather shoes, I forgot the specific name for it). Haha well he was pretty affable and spoke good english.

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. :)