Balenciaga in Harrods / new season colour and bye-bye giant hardware / Hermes (spot the purple CDC) / celine Audreys
October 2, 2011
Really want to see the sea and countryside after squeezing with everyone in Oxford Circus to buy and collect stuff!
(I still didn’t manage to get everything I listed cos of the crowds… Blame the Indian summer weather we’re having now!)
Roadtrip today to Southend on sea! I’m ready for some seafood and salty breeze! 
September 25, 2011
Not a lust-list. Just things I am planning to get but never got round to actually purchasing yet. I guess my birthday is the perfect opportunity to buy them all!
1. Cranium WOW game - thanks to Jin and SY!
2. Either BAIES or ROSES - I didn’t know which to get or should I get both? Not forgetting a perfect cloche to add to the ambience. Of course from Space NK to get points
3. Chanel Allure (the only scent I’ve loved for years. Thank my mom for influencing a young 15 year old mind!)
4. YSL Rouge Pur Shine Sheer Lipstick SPF15 (as recommended by Victoria Beckham) – I know first hand how YSL’s lipstick textures are amazing with pigmented colours. But I need to figure out what my next shade is gonna be!
5. YSL Touche Eclat - strangely enough I’ve never tried this despite all the hype. In a way I feel like I have enough to do in the morning without an extra step but now that work is starting I think I need extra help in the mornings!
September 12, 2011
literally.
For those not in the know, Chanel has taken over Harrods London for the next three weeks! Of course I had to go, and can I just say awesome?
I went to the Chanel pop-up store with all the amazing RTW, bags and costume jewellery; walked all round Harrods just to see every window display and also visited the Une Promenade (nearly a museum dedicated to all things Chanel) on the third floor.
HIGHLIGHTS:
1. Seeing all the Chanel-themed windows outside Harrods.
2. Walking into a garden with a Chanel gardening can! I went a bit crazy over this. I would totally pick up gardening if I had the can!
3. Watching how a 2.55 is made with all the amazing detail and hearing the workshop sounds in the room. The logo at the back is exactly the logo on the bag – loveeeeee!
4. Coco and Karl nursery – the teddy bears were wearing Chanel outfits. Real Chanel too, with the chain-lined hem of the cardigan. I wanted to be a bear!
5. Seeing the quintessentially Harrods green shopping bag being mixed with Chanel signs. It isn’t cheap though, £1830! Almost the price of a flap. But of course, it’s essential for Chanel collectors, non?
No photos, but you can check out another lucky person’s coverage of it here.
September 6, 2011
Not much to say, but I feel like a chapter of my life has closed.
Day after day with the family, movies, meals, car rides, driving, meeting, cooking — it seems so far away now, maybe because it is.
Time to turn the page.
(Keep checking in for more London adventures!)
August 9, 2011
I guess it’s pretty obvious I’m back when there’s a complete lack of updates!
Truth is, I haven’t been too busy. I just have been doing little things, running errands, meeting friends and days just pass so quickly when you have a long to do list to complete!!
One of the first things I did: catch up with friends at Mad for Garlic, this Korean Italian restaurant in Suntec City. It’s my second time there and I like it mostly, especially the Garlic Snowing Pizza but I’m not a big fan of spicy good so the rest of the dishes weren’t must-tries for me. My friends loved it though!
Four fingers chicken at ion, for some reason I feel it wasn’t as good as the first time I had it. The soy garlic was a bit too salty for me.
Maybe it’s me though. I haven’t been very comfortable with all the flavourful food I can get everyday in SG! It’s like eating foie gras or truffle everyday.
Speaking of foie gras, I finally tried Paradise Dynasty (I think?) at Ion which serves the 8 coloured xiao long baos:
I thought it was all right only. There was a strange taste to the xlb. A whiff of something unfamiliar on the first bite. In all honesty, I prefer din tai fung’s for the familiarity but it was worth the novelty. I think YH will like the Szechuan one. The rest were: cheese, truffle, foie gras, normal, ginseng, garlic, and roe. Only $13.80 for 8! We also ordered 10 foie gras xlbs for my brothers but between the 3 of us we only had 6. It was too overwhelming.
Something sweet to end the post: waffle with mao shan wang durian ice cream from Udders. I don’t like the waffle, it’s way too floury for me. I like my waffles with a firm crispy texture. The msw ice cream is as flavourful as frozen durian as usual. Love it.
July 27, 2011
I have something for hazelnut x chocolate: Nutella, Magnum Ghana (special edition Magnum I’ve only seen in UK so far!), Hazelnut Hot Chocolate from Starbucks and of course Ferrero Rocher. Best companions when studying for the exams!
I tend to eat Asian food when eating out, not because I don’t like Western /European / American / Italian / British / exotic food, but because Asian food is done relatively well at (relatively) affordable prices. I’d rather splurge on Michelin-starred meals once in a while than eat the normal garb they serve in establishments that just don’t make the cut.
Headed to Po Cha (a few doors down from Assa at Tottenham Court Road) this time and they have a really good deal for lunch! Only £6 for spicy tofu stew (with clams and prawns) + rice.
Tottenham Court Road is a little bit of Korea in London. Besides New Malden of course.
July 25, 2011
… tends to be a bit boring.
But I managed to do quite a lot nevertheless.
Another stop that man!
Dimsum at Golden Dragon
Chanel Rouge Coco Rose Dentelle – apparently if you use your lipstick till it flattens (like I have), you talk a lot. Which I guess is true.
Aglio Olio (recipe to follow soon!)
July 23, 2011
Pearl Liang has always been on my must-try list because of the many recommendations from my friends.
I finally had it with SY recently. Sadly, I didn’t take many photos because I was too busy devouring the food!
We had the BBQ pork pastry, yam puff (woo kok?), xiao long bao; and pictured below: egg tarts, chrysanthemum custard buns and pork chee cheong fun.
SY thought Golden Dragon @ Chinatown was much better. I was just happy to have dimsum again after such a long time!
Another photo of the cute little chrysanthemum custard buns. I love custard buns so I really like the dough they used for the buns here. SY thought the flavours were a bit too ‘gao’ and cloying after a while. I can see why she said that, but as a lover of all kinds of custard buns, sweet and savoury, I finished two!
Verdict: I want to try their steamed dimsums next, instead of the pastry dimsums we had this time. Of everything we had, I would definitely recommend the BBQ pork pastry – perfectly flaky, just the way I like it!
