~ Happy Chinese New Year!! ~

I know that it's a lil too late but hey, it's still chinese new year, right? :p

Celebrating chinese new year in singapore was pretty bored as most of the shops were closed.. for a few days.. the whole of takashimaya was closed for a couple of days hence i didn't get to shop much :( BUT i got my valentine's pressie!! ;)

Speaking of valentine's day, how did you guys celebrate it?

Well obviously we were in singapore.. so on 13th feb, we went out for dinner @ billy bombers which is near to our hotel..

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

After dinner, we walked to the cathay and watched 'the wolfman'.. which is a LOUSY movie.. trailer was good but movie suck BIG time.. DO NOT watch it.. don't say i didn't warn ya ;)

On valentine's day itself, we went to Botak Jones (this will be the 2nd time i'm blogging about botak jones).. here are some mouth watering food pics :-

  

  

  

  

  

  

I had the cajun hotdog and my bb had the kobe (crossbred between Wagyu with Angus cattle) beef.. yummy.. as soft and tender as a tenderloin :D

We then walked across to cathay cineplex to watch 'valentine's day'.. my bb thinks the movie is too complicated as everyone is connected to everyone.. not in 1 way but a few ways.. which makes it confusing.. FOR HIM :p

Now, it's time to show you what i got this year :)

This is why i asked my bb NOT to buy me a BIG bunch of roses.. although he remembers what i said, he still bought me a stalk of rose.. awwww and it cost SGD10! =.="

AND it died!! :'(

Okay, on the happier side, i got something else other than the rose :D

  

  

  

At the mean time, this is my fav bag (brea pm in pomme d amour).. my bb thinks it suits me well.. i don't look old with it.. haha..

 

What else can i ask for more? 

My bb was with me (the most important person), we had yummy dinner, we watched movie, i got a rose and a pressie.. and oh yea, we had sex ;) *blushing*

agatha?

This is my second piece of item from agatha paris.. first was a bracelet which my bb bought for me a few years ago..






Yes, it's a hair clip.. isn't it cute? :) my bb helped me to choose the color and design.. with blings or without.. hehe.. he does have good taste ;)

Anyway, as we were window shopping at mandarin gallery @ maritius mandarin hotel, sg, we came across this outlet.. i was so excited and the cute lil clip doggies caught my eye..

For those who wants to know how much it is, well...

It's SGD46 - 10% discount + 7% GST = SGD41.40

surprise surprise!

I got myself a NEW blog template :D

Red is my new fav color now.. just like our home :) plus it's CNY now ;)

Oh oh, btw.. HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!! GONG XI GONG XI!

ps: what do you think about it? :p

any difference?

mac vs pc?

Can you spot how many laptops are there in the picture below?


Yes.. 5 laptops.. the most laptops that's ever been on the dining table.. haha

3 macs, 2 PCs and 1 wireless

=.="

nissan skyline GTR?

As we were driving along the damansara highway, we came across this :-



The skyline G35 has become a skyline GTR.. haha..

would they?

Would our kids submit something like this :-




For their test paper one day?

=.="

younger generation?

There's one thing which i don't understand about the younger generation is the way they talk.. why can't they talk proper english? or spell correctly?

Example :-

Hot = hawt
School = skull
What = wat
My = mai
Party = partay
Kills = keels
Screen = sween
Some = sum
Don't = dun
That = tat
Your = ur
Only = oni
Now = nao
Already = oredi
Through = thru
Have = haf

And nowadays the most over-rated word ever use on the internet is....

FML

What is FML? well, i just got to know recently.. it stands for Fuck My Life.. or maybe FHL = Fuck His/Her Life..

- got home late coz of the stupid taxi driver FML
- can't draw with my right hand FML
- friends scared me with a snake FML

As i was reading it, what went in my head was "yea yea, i know that you have a fucked up life.. doesn't have to use it for every sentences"

Well, i'm NOT saying that i have good command in english but at least it's proper/basic english.. i might use 'coz' here and there but it's not as bad, right?

I wonder if the english dictionary will still exist in 10 years down the road.. or will people start to invent their own word? which is happening right now..

ps: is it only malaysians having this spelling problem? or has this 'disease' been spread to the world?

donuts anyone?

Hello! hello!

If you guys are wondering where the heck am i, well.. i'm still alive.. boo-hoo..

Anyway, i just bought half a dozen of donuts yesterday


Can anyone guess where did i buy the donuts from?

a) J.Co
b) Krispy Kreme
c) Big Apple

The 1st person who guessed it correctly, will get a box of a dozen donuts from me! hahaha...

Let's get fat together.. bwahahahahaha...

latest online hauls?

Before the year turned 2010, i ordered some items online.. but only now i got to try them out..

I bought all of these from sephora.com as i couldn't get it anywhere else including singapore.. so i had no choice..


Clinique's redness solution
I've been having rosacea for the longest time.. my nose was always red, skin peeling off and break outs.. i went to skin doctor but it didn't work.. gave me cream and pills.. then i found this on sephora.. read some reviews about it and it seems pretty good.. now i've been using it twice daily for more than a week AND it gives results.. good results.. now my nose isn't as red as before, it's not peeling, smooth and hardly has breakouts.. now, i only use a dab of concealer unlike before.. hopefully when i finish this bottle, i don't have to use anymore concealer *fingers crossed*

Clinique's spf 45 sun protection
This is too, for my nose.. i haven't use it yet as most of the time now i go out in the evening or at night..

Fresh's brown sugar body polish
Well, for this i must admit that i just wanna try it out :p sometimes it's good to scrub off the dead skin cells from your body.. i haven't use it yet.. will do soon :)


Frederic fekkai's apple cider shampoo
I have oily scalp.. tried so many types/brands of shampoo.. from beads to johnson & johnson to head & shoulder to himalaya herbal to carrefour brand shampoo and etc.. i washes my hair alternate days but before i washes it again, my scalp will become oily.. does food play a role with my oily scalp? well, i've stopped eating deep fried food, mcD's, kfc and etc for as long as 2 months but still my scalp gets oily easily..

Last night was my 1st time using this apple cider shampoo.. it foams easily and it washes away the oil on my scalp.. it smells good too.. doesn't have to use much.. without the conditioner, my hair feels smooth..

Frederic fekkai's full blown volume conditioner
I've stopped using hair conditioner for a few years coz it weighs down my hair and makes my hair look oily.. hence my hair became coarse.. but this works! it does give my hair more volume.. unlike some conditioner, it weighs down the hair.. now my hair is silky smooth! yay!

Btw, you'd all wonder how i got all these items from sephora.com when they don't even mail it to malaysia.. well, besides using vpost , i also go through this blog owner.. i'll just email her the link and she'd quote me.. then if the price is right, i'd bank in the money to her bank.. simple ;)

Now i just hope and pray that i finally found the right shampoo..

~ happy new year! ~

From my balcony view




I could see a few places with fireworks from my balcony.. wish my bb is here..

WELCOME 2010!

Hope this year will be better than the previous year :)

where's the z?

I know that many people are curious to what happened to the z.. fret not, we didn't sell it..

Anyway, 2 (two) months ago we sent the z to a paint shop.. it was supposed to be ready after a week BUT the shop was on fire..



At first i thought it was a joke/prank until i saw the shop with my own eyes o.O

The z was lucky that it was in a another shop and it didn't get burnt BUT unlucky that the parts (eg: headlights, rear lights, door panel, rubbers, windows, rear bonnet, spare tyre, side skirts and etc) are all gone :(

The owner promised that he'd get me back all the parts for me.. brand new ones.. so we waited... and waited... and waited.. until now..

Seeing the almost 'naked' z in the shop makes me sad.. i can't wait to have her back again.. i wish the shop owner could get all the parts for me asap :'(

~ merry christmas ~

I know that christmas is approaching and i bet most of you already done your shopping.. if you haven't, good luck doing your last minute shopping :p

Anyway, as usual my bb won't be here to celebrate with me and his family.. so i'd be seeing him next year :( just hope he'd be back in time for valentine's day..

As for me, i don't decorate our house.. no christmas tree or lights or turkey or presents.. since i don't have any decorations for our house, i decided to decorate my cafe instead! ;) so now, it looks like this :-



I am so proud of my cafe world.. altho my ranking dropped, but i am still happy.. i still have doubts whether to change my tables and chairs or not.. yea yea, i'm quite stingy with my coins :p as i am earning it the hard way =.= not by purchasing it online

Three (3) more days to come.. i'd like to wish all of you..

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

name?

Honestly i've always dislike my chinese name.. heck, i don't even know how to write it in chinese! :p hence when i started college, i introduced myself as nicole.. and it stuck there for 10 years now! haha..

Anyway, since long long time ago i secretly wish that i'd married to a caucasian.. coz i want beautiful kids!

My grandma told me that she had caucasian men going after her when she was younger.. she was a tea lady in unilever.. first she was a factory worker.. wrapping up soaps.. then she was promoted to tea lady as she can speak a lil tiny bit of english.. ok ok.. at least she understands, hot, cold, sugar, milk, coffee and tea.. haha..

So since she was the tea lady, she met alot of caucasian men.. she was in her early 20s.. around 50 years ago.. she always get them waiting at her doorstep to send her to work in their car.. BUT she always turn them down! i asked her why.. she said most of them are married!

Now, i am married to a... (hmmmm... 30%?) caucasian guy.. haha.. which makes him eurasian.. i saw my bb's family tree.. dated back year 1700.. his ancestors are from dudley, UK.. no wonder he felt like home when we were in UK :p

Besides getting an 'unique' name after married, i am sure that our kids will be pretty and good looking :)) i hope they will get his long curl lashes, high bridge pointy nose and height and MY fair skin genes! lol... as for him, he wish they will get my small eyes, small nose and my fair skin =.="

Now, people knows that i'm married to a westwood (mrs westwood).. but how i wish i could officially change my name to Nicole Westwood.. sigh~

When the first time my bb applied a supplementary credit card for me (before we were married), i asked him 'can i put nicole westwood on the card?'.. he thought for awhile.. he said 'you can BUT what if when the cashier sees the name and then they will think it's a stolen card? as nicole westwood sounds caucasian while you're PURE chinese' i hate to say it but he's right.. DAMMIT!

So, now i can only put my name as nicole westwood on those social network sites.. sigh~~

MIA for 10 days?

Warning : long post ahead with lots of mouth-watering pics ^_^

Well i'm sure by now to all of you who reads my blog, when i do not have any updates it will only mean 2 things.. either i'm not in town (traveling) OR i'm too busy with my hubby! :p

It has been 10 days since russ came back home and today he went off again.. he was not supposed to come back home as the job in indonesia hasn't finish yet.. BUT coz of the engine failure on the vessel he was on, he was sent home early.. now he's on another vessel and he'd be sailing back to indonesia to finish the job.. he'd be back in a month or so.. hopefully in time for his b'day *fingers crossed*

Anyway, since we still haven't gotten our car back, he rented a waja from the airport to get us around :) we went out practically almost everyday.. coz he knows that i stayed at home for too long and i deserve to be out shopping, watching movies and having nice dinners.. WITH him! :)

We went to 1U, cathay cineleisure, ikano, pavilion and not to forget.. window shopping at sunway industrial area! to those car enthusiasts, you know where i'm talking about.. yeah, that's right.. N1 racing, links, podium, JFA, racing fit, ST wangan and etc..

On the 2nd day when my bb was back, we went to pavilion.. as usual i told him that i wanted to shop but at the end, didn't get to buy anything.. but we did had THE MOST fulfilling delicious mouth watering yummiest best-est (oh well, you get the idea) lunch.. it was our 2nd time eating at 'Italian On Sixth'..

It's on the upper most floor in pavilion.. to be honest, it's a fine dining restaurant and it's quite pricey..

Look at the pictures and you'd know why it's worth every cent!




The kitchen


Our soups (mushroom & seafood spicy tomato)



Prawn appetizer


Our main course


My seafood aglio olio


My bb's medium rare tenderloin + goose liver



I am NOT a steak person.. in fact, coz of my religion i can't eat beef.. but f*ck it.. this tenderloin is f*cking awesome!! it just melted in my mouth.. it's SO soft and tender.. you might ask, how much is it? well... it's about RM100.. yea i know, it's expensive BUT trust me.. this is THE steak that you would not regret paying for!

So, the total damage for lunch was... RM250+.. or was it lesser? hmmmm....

For those who is still skeptical of forking out that much money just for a steak, here are some reviews on this restaurant :) besides good tenderloin, good service, it'd be a good place for a romantic dinner for two.. bet they serve good quality wines too ;)

Next shopping mall which we went was 1Utama.. they already has the christmas decor up :-




My bb was too busy trying to get online with my phone


Okay, besides eating italian (which is my fav) we had jap (which is my bb's fav) too.. before watching new moon, we had our dinner at 'Sushi Zanmai'.. it was our 2nd time eating at sushi zanmai.. the 1st time was at sunway pyramid together with nezuka-san and remus (after nezuka did some tuning on the road with the beast)..

Anyways, japanese isn't my fav actually.. coz the first time i had sushi was years ago.. my aunt bought it from jusco.. i hate the vinegar in the rice.. BUT this time, it's super duper niceeeeee! i wouldn't mind going for jap again! :)

When i suggested jap, my bb was supeeeeeeeeeer happy.. as he hasn't eaten jap for a long time.. since.. since we came back from london (which is months ago).. we had jap in london and it was expensive.. due to the exchange rate =.="

We were lucky not to have to queue up for a table at sushi zanmai.. most of the time, the queue will be damn long.. maybe coz we were there early :p hehe..




When we opened the menu, we were like 'whoa! i want that.. and that.. and that and that'.. we ended up ordering at least 6 dishes from the menu.. NOT including the sushi that my bb had..

Baby octopus (my bb's fav)


Sushi with soft shell crab (ended up having 2 plates)


Look at the people queuing up at the background



Scallops in teriyaki sauce


Cod fish



Terriyaki skewed chicken


Lobster teppanyaki





Soft shell crab with egg




Besides having nice good expensive food, we had McD, KFC, wan tan mee, chicken rice, keoy teow soup, steam boat, old town and etc..

I asked my bb the other day when we were in pavilion.. if he took any of his ex-gfs/ girls he dated for fine dining.. he said no.. he told me that he didn't have much money last time and when he ate, it's just to fill his stomach.. he have never enjoy food before..

Due to his job and being on a vessel, there's not much choice when it comes to food.. he has to eat whatever it's cooked by the chef onboard.. and he doesn't have much time to sit down and eat his meal properly.. most of the time, he'd run to the galley and take away his food so that he can eat at his work station.. as he doesn't have anyone to relieve him when he eats.. even there is, he doesn't like to be away for too long.. as he's always worried about the divers..

So, when he's back we'd always go out to eat.. and we'd go grocery shopping so that i can cook and make half boil eggs for him everyday.. with coffee.. he's easy to please when it comes to food.. i don't have to be a very good chef.. he'd eat anything i cooked but as long as it's not vege.. i can fried a pot of rice and he'd eat it all day! :) he's not fussy at all.. don't have to cook 3 dishes and make soup.. i'm so lucky, huh? hahaha...