For the love of lego

Ascension

What will lift you up? Love? Faith? Success? And once you are raised up, where is it that you go?

So lego was pretty much one of the main childhood toys for me. And if anyone so much as suggests that lego is a toy for little boys my retort to him would be "I hope you step on a lego brick". Toys are gender-neutral imo. Why should our creativity be restricted just because of perceived gender norms? Bro and I shared our toys; he set up soft toy cafes and played barbie with me and I would pretend to be power rangers with him and compete at building the grander lego structure. So visiting a lego exhibition was a little nostalgic for me. Come to think of it, I should have worn the lego watch I bought in denmark to fit the theme... 

I'm still on my personal search for overall happiness.

For a while I couldn't figure out how to cast shadows, so I was standing really close to the wall and J was just taking pictures of me...but it seemed odd and after a few moments I realised I was supposed to stand further from the wall and closer to the light. Reminds me of how we used to adjust the OHP back in primary school. I guess that kinda reveals my age. I wonder if kids these days even know what an OHP is...

Me being silly

peaces; everlasting; step ladder; wall

Interactive exhibit: lego selcas!

 Coincidentally we were wearing matching red suede shoes that day.

prawn and honeydew, soon hock, salted egg yolk crab 

After the museum we headed to this zi char place at Toa Payoh that J recommended and proceeded to stuff our faces with good food. And I mean good, because we only ordered prawn and fish and crab (talk about 大鱼大肉), and because it was really yummy. But I was so stuffed after, that I think I didn't sleep till after 3am that night. First world problems.

Listen: russian red - fuerteventura (and another version) | russian red - everyday everynight

On a random note, I discovered a new indie singer and I'm in love with her sound. I shall now proceed to play them on loop until I get sick of them and never want to hear them again.

The week before school starts

I think there's only one word to sum up everything I've been doing in the one week before the start of the last semester - eating.

Tea with Kitty at Group Therapy on a lazy Sunday

Ssikkek Korean BBQ buffet with the girls

Got introduced to MU Parlour after purchasing makeup for Law IV

Food trail with Tang brought us from Lim Chee Guan in Chinatown, to Itacho sushi at Plaza Singapura, to Hoshino Coffee for dessert

Yummy-looking display at Hoshino

Cuteness in cups

Dinner with J at Mai Thai

Wild Honey with J

Tea at MU Parlour with the girls

Dinner at Everything with Fries

Even I can't believe the amount of food I've consumed. 

I am on instagram, finally.

Santouka (山頭火) @ Central

The pork cheek didn't exactly melt in the mouth, but it was still nice

Green eggs and ham @ Cafe Epicurious

The green in the eggs is basil I think. The eggs were good, but the bacon was a little hard to chew. Ling had eggs benedict, which were pretty good imo. We each had a slice of cake too; Ling had sticky date pudding and I had carrot cake. Nothing spectacular but we thought the lunch set - a very filling main plus a dessert - was quite worth the money.

Absolut water in the afternoon; outside the rail mall; brunch and tea kakis ♡

OOTD - black dress from Deicy, red clutch from ASOS, gold sandals from random shop on London Oxford Street

The sky pool at Ling's new place

Looks almost like the infinity pool at MBS. There's even an underwater gym for hydrotherapy. And there's a heated stone slab which you can lie on while the water pours down on you from a rain shower. Imma self-invite myself to her house again another day.

Bye bb (´∩｀。) Hello iphone（*´▽｀*）

Freedom day one.

Homestyle pancakes

Now that I think back on it, I realise they got my order wrong!! D: Suddenly recalled that what I ordered was the espresso pancake stack and not homestyle pancakes. But being me, I forgot what I ordered, so I ate what was served...hmm. The espresso pancake stack sounded yummy, sigh. Oh well.

Sticky date pudding with vanilla ice cream; walnuts; eggs benedict

Colourful x'mas deco at marina square; Keppel bay

This really friendly (or really bored) security guard auntie fiddled around with J's iphone and took 587231 photos of us, insisting that the lighting can be changed so that we didn't look shadowed against the backlight. ...in the end I liked the first photo best, 'cause I got tired of smiling in the later photos（＾＾；）

Then I met the girls to celebrate the end of another semester of law school. Time passes way too fast really. It's the end of the year again.

Tang posted a photo of janeegg with the 32 plates of sushi on fb and claimed she ate it all. AND EVERYONE BELIEVED IT. Now you know what your reputation is like, eggy.

Mandatory trio shot and ootds! 

OOTD - H&M camo tank, old black skinnies, montego bay club wedges, ralph lauren leather sling, black leather and studs wrist party - I was in the mood for punk yesterday

The lovely bbs (': I need to get an iphone soon; I'm inconveniencing everyone with my compulsive camwhoring

After we were done with all this camwhoring and were just sitting around getting started on our htht, this korean boy came up to us. At first we thought he wanted to borrow the 4th chair at our table, so we said go ahead, but it turned out he wanted to sit with us and he asked if we would mind joining him and his friends. Janeegg, who is always game for anything, said okay, and so that was how we ended up spending the night talking to three korean boys. I ended up having to play interpreter and icebreaker (-_-") the night ended on a slightly awkward note and that was that. 

On a random note, some cute stuff I saw while in town the other day:

Paper mache neko-chan and hello kitty sleep mask!

The paper mache neko-chan was a store deco in the JRunway shop; so cute I was almost tempted to steal it. But going to jail for stealing a cat made of newspaper sounds pretty dumb, no matter how you think about it. And the hello kitty sleep mask is from daiso! $2 only. But since I don't use sleep masks at home, and seeing as I won't be flying anywhere for the rest of the year, this frivolity would be unjustified. I control my impulses sometimes.

Instant strawberry milk tea with jelly; incoming mail; presents from the sister

The instant strawberry milk tea is fascinating. Sis brought it back from China. Basically you just empty the sachet of milk tea powder and the packet of jelly into the cup and add hot water a la cup noodles and voila! you get hot milk tea with nata de coco. It's like bubble tea, except warm. And it's yummy!

Also, my bustier dress from megagamie came in really quickly! ヾ(●⌒∇⌒●)ﾉ and it came with kaikai/jiajia postage stamps so cute ahaha. And souvenirs from the sister! Sentimental circus ヾ(´▽｀*;) shappo handphone accessory and bookmark. And a studded cuff and a kuroneko ring. And I am inordinately pleased with the presents because I do not get presents from my sis often /sadlifeofanoldersibling

locus amoenus

Word of the day

Learnt from flipping through the notes for my narrative mod. Not so useless after all.

Pork belly buns; aka the western version of 扣肉包

So I suggested dinner in the east side (so i could go pick up my taobao haul from the spreer's place heh (^-^;)) and J brought me to the garden slug. So happened that I was reading about the place on ladyironchef just the other day. So many food places and cafes I want to go! (((o(｡･д･｡)o)))

Smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and toast; and chicken and mash with salad

I liked the place! nestled in the middle of a quiet residential estate. No crowd, so you don't have to shout to be overheard, or feel stressed about eating slowly haha. Just a chill, quiet place. Still thinking about the desserts...I wonder if they are nice. But we were too full; the portions are generous.

GPOY - a chipmunk-looking me

Life in pictures

One rainy tuesday afternoon, like we had nothing to do

(also, notice my new bangs)

Fav x'mas drink from starbucks - peppermint mocha (NOT toffee nut latte)

Happy things

Spot the bird!

A collage of cat and trees

This pretty tree with white flowers stands by the roadside just in front of my apartment block. Once a year it blooms and looking down from my room window it always looks really pretty, standing out from the rest of the trees. Then flowers die, as they are wont to do and the tree just goes back to being a normal roadside tree for the rest of the year.

I put the pro in procrastination.

Happy Halloween~!

"Frightfest...may not be suitable for...the faint hearted, the timid, the scaredy cats, the weak" - exact description of me right there.

And all my creative juices are flowing at this highly inappropriate period of time. My head is full of crafty ideas of things I wanna do and make and all. WHEN I SHOULD TOTALLY BE MUGGING FURIOUSLY AND MEETING DEADLINES. Which is why those close to me have been the recipients of various handmade and homemade things. This is not good.

Cookies and cream cupcakes that I baked late one night

Baby beanie #2 - 'cause Tailin informed me that the first one was too small OTL

日本美媚 Tangtang with her 阳光笑容, wearing the cream-colored beanie I made her. I made one for Jane as well~

今日のミキ

Close-up - cute pink nose and sharp tooth

Favourite Starbucks x'mas drink and cheesecake deliveryｏ(〃＾▽＾〃)ｏ small joys in life.

In other news, I am currently in a shoe craze where I feel like buying up all the shoes I see and everything sets me off. I am a materialistic, superficial girl ( ; __ ; ) I will repent...after I've ordered those shoes.

Food for thought: the peter pan generation