A lil' eating and shopping

Sea Salt | Fish and Sushi Bar

If you're looking for awesome sushi or fish and chips for awesome price, Sea Salt is the place. I first discovered this place when Lenny, one of my classmates brought me there to get some sushi rolls. They're awesome because not only do they taste good, they're affordable. I especially love their inari (beancurd pockets), so huge! I ordered this Sea Salt Fish Burger the other day and omg it was massive. I swear there was like 3 pieces of fish bites in the burger along with vege, cheese and a fresh sesame seed bun. For healthier option, they even have grilled tuna or salmon burger, which are only a dollar more than their normal, battered fish burger. Those taste really good as well.

Ramen-Ya | Melbourne's Best Japanese Ramen Noodle Restaurant

I haven't tried enough of ramen in Melbourne to know if they are really the best, but their ramen is indeed good. Not cheap but still affordable. Apart from ramen they have bento boxes but I've only tried the Tonkatsu Charsu and Shoyu Gyoza Ramen. I'd say if you were to try, go for their specialty which is the Tonkatsu Charsu. I'm not a huge fan of ramen and these definitely didn't blew me off my mind but they're decent-tasting and the warm soup's great for a cold day.

Kenzan @ GPO

I can't seem to find the website for this restaurant but doesn't matter because I don't quite like the fact that their food does not justify the price at all. The dish in the picture for example, is their Sake Teriyaki which is basically grilled salmon with teriyaki sauce, served with vege, mashed potato and steamed rice. That cost $22! Ok for salmon, maybe that's alright but seriously, $22 for a single serve, don't you think it's too much? We ordered this entree of 4 shitake mushrooms with minced prawn filling, and it cost us S16! That's like $4 for 1 freaking mushroom! And their Agedashi Tofu is S10. Will I go back and give it a second chance? Hrm... not keen. I can see that there's a lot of attention to details put into the preparation of each dish, and ingredients are fresh but I can't help to think that they are a little overpriced for something that tasted 'good' and not 'omg I want more'.

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Online shopping is my bestfriend now. With Ebay and Asos and a friend to onlineshop with to save on shipping, who steps out of the house to shop anymore? Hahah.

 Colour contact lenses

I can't seem to find the info page to these contacts from the website I got it from, maybe they don't sell them anymore :/ but look how cute the packaging is! They even gave free gifts which were a pair of lenses (which was crap, naturally) and a cute animal lens case. The colour of the free lenses were slightly different when worn so I threw those away already. My animal lens case are pig faces! ^@^  <--- obligatory lala emoticon to go with the pig face lens case hahahah!

 Ardell false lashes

Can I just say putting on individual false lashes is a bitch? They are so tiny and flimsy and it's so difficult to put them in the right position. That being said, they look so much more natural than the strip (full) ones.

 Asos.com

Currently waiting impatiently for these few items to arrive at my doorstep! 2 dresses, a top and a slip.

MAC Morange & Ruby Woo Lipsticks

I didn't buy these online, never buy MAC online unless you know the seller sells genuine stuff. MAC counterfeits are everywhere and they look real. Anyhow, I would never get lip products online cos you never know how long they've been kept. Lip products are essentially liquid/cream so they generally don't have long shelf lives. 

I've always been afraid of loud, bright colours but recently got the urge to try so when I got to pick 2 lippies for B2M (Back 2 MAC), I decided to go crazy. I knew I wanted Ruby Woo (as the name suggests, it's a red) for the first, for the second one I decided on an orange. I went to 3 MAC counters to finally find Morange, and I'm so glad I tried searching for it instead of settling for something else. 

These pictures are obviously edited, it doesn't really show how bold the colour is. It is truly bright and I luff it =D

Chartreuse

I'm so touched T_T a few people actually have personally asked me to update my blog. Thank you  lovely readers so much for still wanting to keep up with this boring blog! :) I will try my best to update!

Check out my super cantikkk top I got (but didn't pay for tee hee) from ASOS.com!

Its a beautiful chartreuse kaaarer! Unfortunately because it's an online shopping site, I had to guess my size. I ended up buying one size bigger than what I should be getting :( But it's ok, can be layered.

The coolest part is...

 ... the back! I don't know how to describe the back. Can anyone? Haha.

Omg check this out!

WTF AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I was waiting for Cat one day and I was doing my makeup in the car using the rear view mirror. When we were ready to go, I adjusted the mirror and the head of the koala fell off WTF LMAO!

Aww poor thing... wtf. Lol we couldn't stopped laughing after that.

Skittle toe nails!!! I was decluttering and reorganizing my nail polishes when I saw this colour (2nd toe from big, left leg) which is my sis' and I've never actually worn it so I applied it just to see how it looks. And then another... and another... and that's how everything's painted lol.

My modest collection!! I know to some ppl it might seem like a lot but I say mine's modest cos as a self-proclaimed beauty junkie, my collection is not that great if compared to many I've seen. Not all but about 80% here are my favourites. Blues, purples, greens and yellows. I'm a fun, bright colours person! Don't like pinks and reds on my nails, surprise surprise. I know a lot of ppl think my favourite colour is pink, it's not true. I only like pink on certain things and nails are certainly not one of it.

Here're some conversation between me and Wk I find kind of amusing. If you follow my Twitter or are a friend in my Facebook, you've probably seen this already.

1. I've recently watched Eat, Pray, Love and got even more interested in Rome (I've been wanting to go ever since I read about Liz's adventure in Eat, Pray, Love the book) so I said this excitedly to Wk in Skype while he was busy doing his assignment:

"OMGGG I wanna go to Rome one day and stay there a month or two. It's beautifull!!!"

And he, replied me in an indifferent manner, with an indifferent face:

"Earn money first"

*punch sound effect plays

2. This one also during Skype.

Wk: You know the indomie got bad stuff in it. Some preservative too much. Omg I always eat!

Me: All instant noodles are the same one la. How you know?

Wk: Maggie post on Facebook.

Me: Maggie? Indomie and Maggie are different companies of cos Maggie will say bad stuffs to try to bring Indomie down lah.

Wk: Er... Maggie Tan Lay Khon.

*silence... followed by a sudden burst of hysterical laughter not forgetting the "WTF"s

Seriously, why didn't I wonder, Maggi has a Facebook account?? Wtf. I mean the food company. Notice it's Maggi without the 'e'.

Ok gotta take a shower and start decluttering and reorganizing my makeup stash. It's so messy to a point where I can't find my sharpener! My eyebrow pencil's starting to hurt my skin :(

Go For It

Totally hate this disgusting length of my fringe - neither long nor short.

Final-freaking-ly removed my ugly, horribly chipped yellow nail polish and repainted my nails this beautiful sky blue. When I say horrible, think of one patch of yellow at the centre of the nails of random fingers. I'm  THAT awesome-ly lazy.

Bought this Chanel tattoo set which I've been eyeing for some time but never had enough (non existent) balls to fork out the money until I saw it in this website, selling at a fraction of the retail price! Sweet. Not entirely sure if they're authentic but who cares! It's just a tattoo for goodness sake. Not that its going to sink into my skin and be permanent wtf.

Also got this double eyelid fibre thingie which Ringo aka Cheesie from Cheeserland talked about in this post. Bought everything from Minimaos.com :)

I told my brother about this double eyelid fibre thing, which naturally he asked, "Why do you need this when you already have double eyelids?" Ok normal.

I told Cat and she said, "You have TRIPLE eyelids, why do you need it???" 

LMFAO! Sometimes our exaggerative conversation just amuses me.

Bought these 3 Dior lipglosses off a sale, for the price of only ONE of it *peace sign :) But we all know how you pay for what you get... these were manufactured probably a year or two ago. I hope they don't kill my lips.

Today's goodbye kiss is from...

Purple lips! Purposely downsized it cos I know it looks a bit disturbing =P but I absolutely adore this lipstick!

Pinky

Yay! Meet my new lamp! :)

Absolutely loving it NOT only because it's pink (a lot of people think my favourite colour is pink when actually that is not true), but because the design is really sleek and cute.

Best part? This was kind of like a reason-less gift to me from Wk's mom. She helped me to get it cos she knows people who deal with Panasonic stuffs and she refused to take my money. So yeah.

Yay! Now I can take pictures without having to bitch about how untrue the colour turns out.

Yay, some new toys to play with :)

Wk has gone back to Melbourne, in case some of you haven't noticed. But we'll be meeting again this December for his graduation :)

This blog isn't mine if it isn't infested with vain pictures like this XD

Ok bedtime. I have a 2 big pails of laundry to do tomorrow morning. Running out of underwear is not fun at all.

GCB

Quick one before I go to Midvalley to pick up one more MAC item I reserved hihi!

Yippee new stuffs to play with :)

Have you guys tried the new GCB (what a ridiculous name, can't they just put the full name? GCB sounds like some Hokkien cursing) by McDonalds? I actually think it's very nice! If not, better than the Prosperity Beef Burger and the Spicy Chicken McDeluxe!

Sooooooooo

Sometimes he follows me to work. It's great having a boyfriend who's into architecture. Can help to organize the shop a little! All thanks to him, everything's much neater now.

Perfume for my lips lol. The thing is, I only bought (using the bf's money LOL) this cos of the scent. The Body Shop's lip balms and lip butters are pretty much rubbish on my lips. Doesn't help much with the dry patches and peeling at all but whenever I feel a little blah with my lips (when they're not dry), I like to pop a little of this and savour the pink guava smell mmm...

Self explanatory.

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Honeycomb TimTams? =)

❤❤❤

Mmm...

I tweeted/updated FB status this:

"eating gyutandon while watching youtube ♥"

And then Jun-Xue commented:

"wtf is that a type of dinasaur?"

 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA XD!

Currently...

Currently reading:

1. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

2. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

Currently on a ______ obsession:

1. Music Books. I'm looking for that Carl Flesh Scales book and Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3. I think I am now in love with Rachmaninof's Vocalise and all the Paganini's Etudes and Caprices for Violin. I know I can't play many of those yet, but it's good to keep books as references and for future use. For music books, I  never support photocopies. For myself I mean. I only photocopy and use them when I know I'll be using them a lot and I don't want to ruin the original book.

2. That buy 1 get 2nd 50% off promotion at Popular Bookstore. I just bought 2 books the other day from that promo (The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami), thinking of getting another 2... maybe that two books by Khaled Hosseini.

Currently feeling happy cos:

1. My Nars Sheer Glow Foundation just arrived from the US yesterday! I bought it (Wk paid for it HAHAHHA) more than 2 weeks ago and was beginning to be worried until yesterday.

2. I might take the Trinity ATCL Violin exam this year. Happiness didn't come from myself deciding to take it, but someone good in the violin telling me I can take it given that I work hard enough for it. Now it's just a matter of finding out when is the registration date closing.

Currently annoyed by:

That stupid book stockist. Everytime I asked them to help me get some books which were not available in the store, it never happened. What's annoying is not when they couldn't find it, but when they asked me to leave my contact number and promised they'll call and they never did. If they're not planning to look for it for me, then don't promise! At least I won't be waiting for their call like an idiot. Despite all that, I still buy from them. Just because I'm too lazy to go all the way to KL to find. Grrrr.

Currently planning to go:

1. Pangkor and Ipoh this end of May with Cat and Jian.

2. Singapore this middle of June to watch Joshua Bell's concert!

Ok gotta go. Thanks for reading all you lovely readers! :)

x

Eev

First week here in Melbourne

Ok time for some update.

Watched Cats the Musical. I'll talk more about it in another post.

What's Melbourne without eating my favourite Cheese and Potato Pancake at the Pancake Parlour, my favourite place to eat at?

 Lalala that's me.

Mapo Tofu (his favourite), vege and ABC soup (his new favourite haha).

At Koko Black. We had the Iced Chocolate Mocha, which was ok, and a new dessert in the menu for fall - which was the reason we were at Koko Black - the Chocolate Moelleux. It's almost similar to chocolate lava cake - both have runny hearts - except that lava cake is usually flourless and a chocolate moelleux is a rich chocolate brownie-like muffin with a runny heart. As for the runny 'interior', I'm not entirely sure if it's made of uncooked cake batter, or melted chocolate cos it tasted like the former. Either way, it was still good. The best part of the moelleux was the brownie-like muffin. So rich and so soft, it melts in the mouth. And that pinky orange thing, I dunno what it's called. I know it's made of raspberry and it's foamy.

Don Don Box at Don Don! For only AUD 8++ you get teriyaki chicken, sukiyaki (beef), salad and half a kiwi! It's super filling.

Tried making pineapple fried rice today. Didn't realize there's no curry powder in the apartment so I had to innovate a little. Turned out not too bad but not what I expected it to taste like. I think it could have been better.

He loved it though =D

Ok that's all. Time to sleep it's 4am now.

Project 365, A Package & Plans

There'll be a breast cancer charity concert on this Saturday in UM. Rehearsals are everyday till late and by the time I get home I'm usually quite exhausted so the next day I'll be sleeping through the morning before leaving to uni for rehearsals. That explains the absence. I should be sleeping now but I decided to update a little.

My Project 365 has finally ended! It feels so weird when I looked at the picture I took exactly a year ago. Food from Wong Kok, I still remember clearly I was with Cat, and it was our final semester and we were very frequently eating together in SS2. Aah, nostalgia. I can't believe I have actually graduated for half a year and I'm jobless lol. I still teach but I don't have any full time job in hand. Which is a good (lots of time to practice) and bad (no money) thing apparently. Ok anyway, pictures next time.

Today I received a package from a friend I made in Youtube. I initially only expected a few things from her (some stuffs I bought from her and some stuffs she decided to give to me cos she has extra) but when I opened the packages up I was in awe cos she sent me so many things! Seriously, I can't believe there still are people as kind as her out there... T___T *touched. For you nosy people who are wondering, she sent me makeup products lah.

Last update, a pretty exciting one! =D It's ALMOST confirmed that I'll be going to Melbourne this December with Wk's family. I say almost cos the date's decided, everyone said ok, what's left is of course purchasing flight tickets. We're planning to visit Sydney again (for Wk and I) since his parents haven't been there. As for mid-year, I'll most probably go too but a shorter trip since I'll be going again in December. 

Actually now that I think about it again, getting rejected isn't as bad as I had initially put it. At least, I still am blessed with people who can sponsor me to go there LOL! And I figure I'll use this 1 year to think properly about my future - whether choosing to study Masters is even a necessity at all, or should I just stay here and keep learning and improve my skills and techniques. I'll be able to go anyhow, it's just a matter of sooner or later.

Stuffsss

Yay!:

Today I went to one of the music centres I teach at for a last minute replacement, not my students la some teacher was sick. My boss gave me an angpow for 开工大吉 (hoi gong dai gat). Walao a lot! Hahahahahaha. My brother says probably because I'm the most loyal employer wtf I mean employee around lol.

Boo!:

Tomorrow got work need to wake up early =(

Random!:

I noticed that when I gamble and I wear this certain shirt, I will win money. But if I wear other shirts, I'll lose until I want to cry wtf. O_O

#352

Maggie's back! Went to Chilli's and took polaroids using Maggie's polaroid cam. Quite fun =D

 

 

Bottomless drinks, bottomless nachos, some chicken and the Triple Play starters. Ate until wanna vomit but sibeh nice.

Amd then we went shopping.

Bought some nailpolishes cos it was buy 3 get 1 free. The three of us ended up getting 2 same colours each! Which means 6 geddit? Me and Maggie got 3 same colours. Esther got 'special' taste hahhahaha.

 

Also bought 2 things from Zara which I absolutely ❤❤❤!

A... skirt. I don't know how else to describe it.

I have a soft spot for suede shoes especially if they're pumps, high and have nice, minimalist, and chic designs. This is 4 inches. Killer man. I think step on anyone's leg that fella sure scream hahaha. I love how it's so high but it's not wobbly and unstable when worn. It feels really steady and fits comfortably. But right now I have a problem with it. The more I look at it, the more it looks like a  pair of prostitute shoes cos it's like so high and it's purple. I dunno. Esther calls this the 'foreplay' shoe wtf.

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Esther came over and we did our nails together. Whose nicer? Mine right right right?

Ok ok last one.

 

Haven't put on eyeshadows in a while cos too lazy. Finally did one fine day. Excuse the hair everywhere. I always forget to push them back when I take pictures.