Christmas in the tropics

Christmas jingles often promote the fantasy of a white Christmas. On the contrary, due to my aversion to the cold, I'm rather glad to be spending my Christmas back in the tropics, humid weather & all!

Honestly, the novelty of Christmas wears off with every year I grow older.. Whereas I used to be the first person to wake up on Christmas morning, I now prefer to have a lie in instead.

Rather than the day I can finally rip open my wrapped presents, Christmas now holds more of a sacred meaning to me. 

During this festive season, don't forget to share your blessings with the less fortunate as well.

Wishing everyone a truly blessed Christmas filled with love, laughter & joy!

Counting my blessings.

#tistheseasonforgiving

 

 

Crop top: Topshop // Plaid-patterned skorts: Topshop // Bag: Celine Nano // Heels: Saint Laurent Tributes

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Out to lunch x OOTD

I always tend to stuff myself with food whenever I come back to SG for my breaks. Tried controlling my diet this time around but clearly, that didn't go according to plan. Definitely a struggle living in a food haven like SG.. LOL

MEE POK.

Try being away from SG for over 3 months if you think I'm being too overexcited over a bowl of mee pok.

Da bao'ed (takeaway) for lunch the other day since I prefer to eat in the comfort of my own home.

Can't decide whether living in an area highly populated with good food is a blessing or not. hahah

Nam Nam Noodle Bar for lunch after a visit to the dermatologist the other day.

Beef Pho & their salad = PHO-tastic (sorry I just had to).

Nam Nam Noodle Bar

Wheelock Place

501 Orchard Road

#B2-02, Wheelock Place,

Singapore 238880

Tel: 67351488

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Had a quick lunch in town this afternoon with my mom & her friend today. I've been craving for Paradise Dynasty's noodles for too long so that's where we went! 

FINALLY.

Ordered 2 trays of their famous XLB's as well. They're well known for their different flavored XLB's.

No pics though because the usual excuse - was too hungry to bother to whip out my phone.

If you like foie gras, you should definitely try their foie gras flavored XLB's.

担担面 / Dan Dan Mian!

If you're thinking of going down, just note that they don't accept bookings/reservations, only walk-ins.

Paradise Dynasty

2 Orchard Turn

#04-12A ION Orchard

Business Hours:

11a.m-10p.m (Mon-Fri)

10a.m-10p.m (Sat, Sun & PH)

Of course, no matter how full one is, there is always still room for dessert. I actually have a separate compartment in my stomach for dessert alone ;)

I've been wanting to pay a visit to Paris Baguette Cafe, which is a famous cafe/bakery oringinally from Korea. Although my mom was in heels & hardly walks anywhere (case in point: she drives from ion to get to takashimaya), she relented & we walked to their Wisma Atria branch from ION to grab coffee & dessert!

Was rather impressed with the plush furnishing although the cafe is in the middle of the mall & is not enclosed.

Random pic while waiting for the food....

Ordered the strawberry cake (reminded me of the one at Antoinette) + Haha Family chocolate cake.

If I'm not mistaken, I think the HaHa Family cake is inspired by HaHa from Running Man? I don't know the correlation between HaHa and chocolate cake though so I could be totally wrong.. LOL.

& of course, a visit to Paris Baguette Cafe would not have been complete without buying what they're famous for - their Royal Pudding. Bought some to bring home & try!

Paris Baguette Cafe

#02-48/53, Wisma Atria Shopping Centre

435 Orchard Road

Tel: 68362010

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TODAY'S OOTD

Today was definitely a dress-down kinda day.

First time wearing these Topshop shoes which I scored for just slightly over 15GBP (around $30) if I remember correctly? Even my mom told me not to lie after I told her they were from Topshop - she thought I had secretly bought this from Alexander Wang........ HAHA.

Just goes to show that high street items can sometimes rival their designer counterparts :)

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Top: HommeFemme

Shorts: Abercrombie & Fitch

Bag: Chanel

Shoes: Topshop

Thanks to my brother for being my trusty photographer btw!

Actually surprised that he agreed.. hahah THANKS DIDI.

I've trained you well ;)

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Can't believe I've been back in SG for nearly 2 weeks already.

Time needs to slow down.

Not ready to go back to the UK / back to reality yet :(

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New Year, New Do!

Happy New Year!!

Can't believe its 2014 already! HOW??

Back with my first post of the new year, along with the debut of my new do!

Permed my hair yesterday after wanting to do so for awhile. The new year often brings changes so this was my first major change in 2014! This being my first experience with perming, I didn't quite know what to expect. At the back of my mind, a lingering fear was that my hair would turn out resembling a full head of fried instant noodles. Thank goodness it turned out like the more positive outcome I had envisioned!

Pretty sure the only reason why I look half decent in this pic is down to the hair, as I went au naturale, sans makeup.

The only problem was that this head of hair took quite some time to achieve. Definitely love the hair way more than the process of actually achieving it. I can sit in bed for hours on end. Though, when it comes to a chair, its a whole different story. After sitting in the chair for close to 3.5 hours, I felt like running around the whole salon when I could eventually get up!

Back view

(note: my mom's photography skills. She's still learning. Had to do some editing to make it slightly more viewable..)

Anyone umm-ing & ahh-ing as to whether they should perm their hair, should just get round to it! Its a new year after all!

If you've any questions about perming, I'm open to answering them via email / my ask.fm! (links are below) 

I don't really want to bore you with too detailed a post in case you aren't interested, but if any of you are, I might do one about my experience.

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