1st Piece of Creation I Sold

Gen asked me to make her a lanyard last month as she thinks her company issued one is too ugly. Her requirement was to have it white-based so that it's easier to match her outfits. I only completed it recently as I was busy with the ring pillow for sister. This piece of work is officially the 1st piece of creation I sold :) Mailed it out last week to her. Hope Gen likes it & finds it good enough to replace her company lanyard! Hee...

Sawadee Ka!

Just came back from Bangkok over the weekend. Luckily we did not encounter any protests or inconvenience from the demonstrations currently ongoing in Bangkok. Before I went, everyone kept telling me to be careful lah... if there's any riot, run in the other direction etc.. But, the atmostphere there at the major shopping areas were still normal, like before. There was no feeling of riot or street protest at where I was staying. However, there were noticably less Singaporean tourists around. Foreigners were still plentiful though.

On my 1st day at Bangkok, we arrived and reached our hotel in the late afternoon. We left out baggage and proceeded straight to Erawan Shrine to pray to the Four-faced Buddha. Hmm… I found that it's better to go to the Shrine in the late afternoon as it's less crowded. The last time I came around noon and it's was super crowded with both locals and tourists. Next it was dinner at Coca Steamboat! One of my favourite :) the Tom Yum Soup was nice… different from our Singapore version.

The next few days were spent at shopping complexes, MBK, Siam Square, Siam Paragon & CentralWorld. Bought pasmina shawls, local snacks, lingerie, toiletries, t-shirts and Naraya products! Also when to get made-to-measure shirts at MBK. Quite cheap and efficient. 800+ baht for an egyptian cotton shirt which the tailor says is like Raoul. That's about $30+ SGD which is not too bad and they were able to deliver the completed shirts to our Hotel the very next day :) He originally quoted us 1200 baht but my fren managed to slash it down to just over 800baht.. Hehe...

Also tried this Health Land Spa and Massage Centre (www.healthlandspa.com) which was recommended by many tourist guides and online comments. Tried their Traditional Thai Massage at 450baht for 2 hours (~SGD$21) and it's pretty good. But think they spend too much time massaging my legs… wish they could do more for my back and shoulders instead. But the head and neck massage was pretty comfy. I wasn't too confident in locating the place myself so we took a taxi from the hotel. It's supposedly easy to get there via BTS but I find the surrounding not very touristy… Better to make advance booking with the Centre too! I asked the hotel to help me call in the morning for an afternoon massage. They have many staff there so I think it shouldn't be a problem to make an appointment on the day itself.

After the massage, we went to search for a local seafood restaurant (Lek Seafood) under Chong Nonsi BTS station. Found this restaurant on the internet and the review was quite good. The place was really quite run-down and probably wouldn't appeal to me at all of not for the review on the internet. We only ate the BBQ Jumbo Prawns and Steamed lime sauce Catfish. Yum Yum… l love to eat seafood in Thailand.. hee.. 200baht for 4 jumbo prawns (1/2 kg). That's abt $8.40 SGD. I think that's cheap too! But can't remember the price for the fish though.. hee.

Overall, I think the trip was a good one. SQ flight, hotel stay and experience there were all good. I shall be back again :)

Labour of Love - Wedding Ring Pillow for my Sister

Phew! I finally managed to finish the wedding ring pillow that i promised to make for my sister for her wedding in October. Actually i started working on it since many many months ago but the process was very slow and tedious... Had to go all over the place to look for different items.

I chose to use rabbits as the "wedding couple" as both my sister and her hubby-to-be are born in the year of the rabbit. Small, cute rabbit soft toys aren't that easy to find. But I finally found this pair (which were actually key chains) in a shop at Century Square Tampines Mall. Finding nice lace fabric for the cushion cover was quite a chore too. This piece was found at Spotlight. I wanted to buy one with white flowers but when i finally waited for the Spotlight sale to come, it's only left with the beige flowers... The lace for the rabbit bride's veil was found at Chinatown. The rest of the beads and ribbons were bought at bead shops in Chinatown and Spotlight.

After making the "parts" and some trial and error with the placement... the final product is finally completed! Hee...

Lymphatic Drainage Massage

I tried my first lymphatic drainage massage yesterday at a Javanese massage place yesterday. Hmm... it feels similar to those normal Indonesian massages that I had at Bintan but concentrated more on the lymph nodes areas which are like the inner and back of thighs and inner part of the upper arms as well. Wow... constantly rubbing deep into these areas can be quite painful. But well, I'm a girl of high pain threshold (I think), so it's still relatively bearable for me. An ex-colleague once told me that after doing this massage, you will stink as the body is expelling the toxic... but I think I still smelled ok after doing the massage.. hee..

This massage is part of their slimming menu but as I have sensitive skin, they decided not to use the slimming gel on me and did a 90mins massage for me instead of the 60mins massage plus 30mins steambath. Hehe.. it's fine with me since I dun want the steambath anyway and prefer the longer massage time. But 90mins still seems to fly by so quickly and it's over before I know it. Sigh... Not sure if it'll really help in aiding faster and better detoxification of the body though, which is what I wanted... not so much on the slimming... Let's see if my skin have any adverse reaction within these few days. So far it's still ok. *keeping my fingers crossed* if my skin's still alright then I can still go back to them once in a while to do this massage again, for detoxification :) I love going for massages...

Happy Birthday Singapore!

"Shine Singapore" - Singapore's 43rd Birthday

Hehe... fren won a pair of NDP08 tickets from company in a lucky draw and I got to watch the national day parade at the floating platform! Hurray! There was a slight rain during the start of the parade. Poor performers have to endure the rain and proceed anyway. Luckily the rain stopped when the night came.

The Black Knights were very cool :) their stunts were really quite impressive. So proud of our RSAF team.

I love watching fireworks!! in real life and at close range that is... the blasting sound makes it slightly more exciting and the glittering lights always brings a smile to my face.

Not sure if i'd be able to catch the fireworks shows on 22 & 23 August also at Marina Bay. Love the fireworks... but hate the crowd :(

My Niece is 3 years old

We celebrated my niece's birthday about 2 weeks ago. I saw this really cute iPanema sandles at a shop at Heartland Mall and was bent on getting it for my 3 year old niece :) But alas! there was no bigger size available and the new stock is not coming in till October. And it's only 3 days to her birthday party! I must have searched all the shopping malls in the Orchard area and although most of them do carry the brand... but they too are out of sizes. Left with no choice, i bought a much bigger size slippers for her (also from iPanema) from Tangs. Hope her feet grows quickly enough to be able to wear it soon!




Also couldn't resist buying this set of OshKosh clothes! They look soooo cute! I was helping my bro buy a set of clothes and his budget was $40. I completely bursted his budget by another $30+! Ahem... they really are too cute to give them miss.

But since Sis couldn't get her present in time, we decided to all share the presents. Wow! Spent over $88 for a little 3 year old's birthday... shared by my siblings and bro's gf.





Look! this lovely cake is my niece's birthday cake! It's really quite a huge cake. Luckily my bro-in-law's nephews love to eat cake and they took quite a bit.. else i dun think we can finish it after a very fulfilling BBQ dinner. Hee...

Me? A Bridal Designer?

Woa! Cin recently asked me if i could help her decorate her wedding banquet hall if the hotel she chooses have yucky decorations. I was 1stly very flattered to be asked, but was 2ndly very skeptical if i could pull such a big project off!

Cin: Eh, if my banquet hall's design is very horrible.. u help me decorate ok?
Me: Huh?! But i'm not experienced! Have never done this before....
Cin: It's ok lah, i have confidence in you. Besides, i just want very simple decorations with fresh flowers...
Me: Err.... but i'm not confident leh... what if i didn't do a good job.. I'd have ruined your wedding experience and after your wedding dinner.. i won't be your fren anymore...
Cin: Haha! Won't lah! You just conceptualise the design and the rest of us will help with the decorations too :)
Me: Err.... we'll see how it goes. See which hotel u eventually choose 1st...
Cin: Hee :)

I think it will be fun... but it would be a very tiring thing to do and would probably takes up a lot of effort and time.. But well... Cin's a good fren... if she really wants me to do it... i probably will... but *shudder* - Can I do it well?