April + May Snippets

I was clearing some photos from my phones and camera and thought share some of it here. Everything was taken end of April till recently. I feel really upset with myself because I umm misplaced my brand new memory card. This is the second time that this happened *facepalm* I lost it once before but found it. Then I seriously have no memory of where I placed it afterward.  

I looked everywhere for over a month but found nothing. :(

            

Danish turned two last month

I kinda sad that he's growing up too fast. I want him to stay cute like this forever #obsesswithtoddler He can say quite a few words lately and my favorite line are I lap you and Guuud night.

This beautiful sunset was taken at Mukah last month as well.

I went there for duty on weekend. It was my first time going to Mukah town and I totally underestimate it. I've heard stories from people about how boring the town is and it is just a small town. To my surprise, it was quite okay, I've been to smaller town and Mukah is doing well and fully equipped with the necessary facilities.

But the beach is really dirty.

Sipping on milk tea while watching the sunset

We tried Back to School Cafe few weeks ago and it was really disappointing, Half of the food on the menu was sold out because they didn't stock it. The bf's sweet and sour fish fillet rice tasted more like sweet and super salty fish fillet rice. My chicken chop was not bad but the mushroom soup was obviously from Campbell packet and too watery.

Definitely not coming back there anymore.

Just one of those good selfie shot out of 9874635 shots

Too lazy to edit the lighting in Pino photo

Two weeks ago, he injured his back leg while running. I think he torn a muscle or something and had been limping for quite some time. We got him checked and the vet said it will recover soon. Thank God Pino is recovering well now. From not being able to climb the stairs, now he race upstairs. But he's still limping a little bit. 

Danish caught in the act of playing with my phone.

That's all for now. Gotta get ready to go out now.

Oh yeah, I'm back to being blonde now. Not too blonde tho.

Sereni & Shentel

I bet this name is familiar to all of you, especially Gossip Girls fans. I have heard about this brand few years back when it started to blooming. Back then, I can only admire it through the screen of my laptop because well, I was just fresh out of university with only meagre earnings. I really couldn't justify the purchase to myself.

Few years after, I thought I'm over it. But man, how wrong was I! I don't know how I ended up on their site today, http://sereniandshentel.com/ . I swear my mouse clicked on it itself. I was just browsing through and read on how they started it. These women are really superwomen, they have their full time job, families and still can make time for their business.

I'm not exactly an accessories kind of girl. I barely put on any accessories on daily basis and realized how boring I am. I decided to stop that, I don't want to be boring. So now I put in some efforts in my accessories department, adding some earrings to pair with my outfit. Baby steps you know.

When I saw these gorgeous headband today, I knew I need to have it. Poppies in Sibu stock their headband and I'm itching to get my hands on these babies but it is raining outside. So I just let the mouse did its job, clicking here and there and soon the babies will be in my hands. Can 't wait!

See, even Blair Waldorf and her muses are donning it. 

 
Images are taken from Sereni & Shentel website

A weekend away

Accidentally locked my phone because I forgot my own passcode that I've just changed a minute ago. Seriously wtf! I feel like my finger and my brain are not connected at all because I have no idea what number I just keyed in a minute ago. Haih, serves me right for wanting to change my passcode. Now have to restore everything from Itunes and it states there I have 57 minutes remaining. Might as well update my dead blog.

So last 2 weekends ago, I went on trip with my family to Kuching. It was mainly for shopping because we all needed the retail therapy. Turned out I didn't even shopped much. 

Unrelated selfie that taken weeks ago

I don't know what gotten to us but when we're there, we mostly eat at chain restaurants that obviously available in Sibu. *facepalm* For lunch we stopped by Singapore Chicken Rice because it was fast and convenient. And dinner every night was at Topspot because my dad needed his seafood fix badly.

Then we had our tea break at Sushi King *facepalm again* Both me and my sis love the egg mayo sushi which is the cheapest one. RM2 only and we had about 9 plates together.

My half cup chawanmushi ='= Don't know why the quality keep dropping.

My sis curry which just mediocre 

A blurred photo of me 

I don't know why I only have the urge to take photo when I wore something plain. Other days when I was in my skirts and dress, I totally don't feel the need to snap any photos. 

Trying out the green tea frappuccino in Starbucks. Tasted good but left me feeling nauseous afterward or it was because I had empty stomach that time. 

Dim sum for breakfast the next day but sadly we couldn't finish it all.

Bright lips selfie

By the way, I managed to try pure yoga two weeks ago. And man, I was struggling hard to find balance and stay relaxed, exhale, inhale the whole time. I was probable the youngest in the class whereas the rest were middle aged. Watching them doing headstand was amazing. I'm not too sure if yoga is the thing for me but I would love to practice it once in a while. 

Who know, maybe someday I'll be able to do headstand too.

Sara 25th Birthday

Last Friday I went out with the girls to celebrate Sara's birthday. I remember I blogged about her birthday here last year. Wow, I really can't believe the year goes by so fast. I means we're all 25 years old now, feel so old yet so I still feel like nothing has changed ever since. 

My ootd for the night

Top: Topshop

Skirt: I only remember I got this at Melaka

The birthday girl

Mee sua was out so we settled for tang hoon 

Fisherman catch

Ceaser's Salad

Selfie with my smudged eyeliner

I haven't put on full make up for a really long time that I kinda lost the skill, not that I have any skills to begin with. Haih..

With le Miao 

The girls

The girls minus yu fen plus hoe

All of us

It was a really fun and filled with laughter night. We talked and talked for 4 hours straight and laughed so loud. Sometimes a company like this is all you need to makes things better. Happy birthday Sara! May all of your wishes come true, especially the first one. hahaha.

Letting go

I rarely write about personal stuff especially when I'm at the bottom pit of my emotion well. I don't feel like talking to anybody because I don't want them to pity me. Writing is probably the way for me to channel all of this emotion else where because I don't think I can hold everything together anymore.

Right now, I really feel like I'm in a rut. A life rut, more like it. The same old routine everyday really wear me out. I remember I had the busiest week at work last month and so stressed out to make sure I'm on top of my game. I did rant to someone but I guess everyone is busy with life to stop and cheer other people up. I tried to control my tears but still I shed but nobody noticed because I wiped them away as fast as I could and put the brightest smile I could manage to cover it.

I thought I was okay. Up till 2 days ago, all of the emotions inside of me burst hence the mess that I'm facing right now. There's only so much that I could take and now I lost it all. I'm tired, really really tired. Where's the pause button in life when I need it so badly. I'm drained out of energy to hold a strong face anymore. I'm not okay, deep down I'm a mess. Too bad I keep everything to myself till the day I burst.

Maybe I'm selfish but there's a reason behind everything. Something triggers me, I hold it back, it continues and I went all out. I've been told I'm fat, selfish and always want to compare. It could be true, I have no excuse for such behaviors. But would it hurt if people take their time out to be there when I need them. It's the support that I need. I have always been independent but it's nice to have a backbone sometimes, to know that someone have my back when I need them, to not feel totally unwanted.

Lots of time this feel like primary school all over again where I'm a total outsider. It's hard to make a point to someone who is on a different page as you because they don't know anything about why you think a certain way.  In their eyes, I could be wrong, the unreasonable girl throwing fit when things not going her way. Let me tell you, what's matter the most to me might means nothing to you. We value different things. I go for quality, you go for quantity. In the end, we blame each other and nobody want to take a step back. That's when I realized we stand on a different page, going different way. I've been told I'm not grateful, am I really asking too much? Yes, I always push myself far forward because I know I can do better. I'm not a settler, I a reacher. I don't want to settle for less if I know I can better. In their perception, I'm not grateful and that is their reality and in their eyes I would be as wrong as I think they are in my eyes. I know all of my words are jumbled up and make no sense but I'm exhausted.

I need a break. To pick myself up, to let go.

What's up

So what's I'm up to lately, you ask? Actually not much also, everything still very same old same old for me but in a good way tho. It's just that I had a tough week at work last week because we're short of manpower and the clients flow was at its peak. Perfect timing, wtf.

But the hell week is over and I'm all bright smile again

For the past two weeks I was on a mission to find a new vanity because I never had one before. I was using my study table for vanity since forever. My study table serves me well still but I really want a piece that makes me feel happy getting ready in the morning. Blame the late night Youtube-surfing, now I'm all into all white vanity with big mirror and lots of storage.

God heard my prayer and I found one that totally ticks all the criteria above and it is within my budget too.


Everyone, meet my new vanity table with a sweaty-just-got-off -cardio me. wtf.

I'm so happy because now I can arrange my makeup and skin care like all those beauty gurus on Youtube always did and also take endless #ootd shots. Now I'm looking for clear storage container to section my drawer and arrange my make up in it.

Something like this la

Then I'll be inspired to organize my stuff neatly and maybe I can do a makeup collection entry. Hahahah So if anyone know where I can get that clear containers (not the cheap one that you got when you tapaoed food last time, ok!), please please let me know. I know Amazon has but they didn't ship to Malaysia.

First ootd for dinner with the bf family

Dress was from Forever 21 and bag from Nose

Comfy outfit for outing

Geek top from unmasqued and short I forgot

The only downside to my mirror ootd is the lighting obviously. Maybe I should install a new fluorescent light or ring light over the vanity. Vain much eh?  

Popular was having another book fair last week and of course I have to stop by to stock up some books although I have more than 20 unread books currently.

So this is my haul

You probably scratching your head when you see "How To Be Popular", I know I'm not 15 anymore but it was by Meg Cabot. I fallen in love with Meg Cabot after I read Size 14 Is Not Fat Either from the Heather Wells series. I tried to find the rest of the series but I guess Popular does not stock that and I have no other book store here. So, I just randomly pick this novel by Cabot.

I went back to the book fair a few times and bought at least 2 novels each time.

Part of my book haul

Weekend also filled with spending time with this cutie

Throwback to sushi dinner.

I'm quite surprise that Sushi Tie managed to up level their menu and almost on par with Sushi King. I think now I prefer Sushi Tie because the ambiance and food. Basically, their sushi nicer.

My sushi partner and he saved my contact as Sushi in his phone ='=

Also I'm so into soup lately that I can have that as dinner or lunch only.

It was the easiest to prepare. I mean you just have to boil everything together and tadaaa lunch is ready. The downside is that I got hungry after 2 hours. 

I bought quite a lot of phone cases too lately (Ops, now you have seen me in my pj)

The obsession with phone case is kicking back for me I guess. I really love all the Cath Kidston cases but the bf said it look grandma-ish with all the floral things. Jeezzz guys, what do they know about what's hot what's not eh?

Mummy turned 46

So my mum turned 46 this month and as family tradition, we went out for dinner. It was just a simple dinner every time it comes to birthday, but that also means dressed up time. 

Wearing my dress from Twenty3 that I bought years ago, it was still a tad too big for me and this is the 3rd time I've wore it

We're having quite hard time to find restaurant for dinner because choices are pretty limited here. Most of the time we ended up recycling the same cafes or restaurants for dinner. So this time I brought my family to 美味餐厅. 

The anti social

The couple

The parents

I have not frequent this place much recent year but it surprised me how good the food was. I'm tempted to post the aftermath photo of our dinner but we're messy eaters, so no photo but we finished it all. Unlike last time when we went for my birthday at Golden Happiness, we barely touched the food and did takeaway. Still the food ended up in the trash after 3 days in the fridge because it was just horrible.

The usual broccoli with mushrooms 

Steamed fish

Pork ribs

Butter kailan

Something something chicken, i don't know the name of the dishes because I was late and they already ordered everything when I reached.

Make a wish wishes mummy!

The whole family and some friends

We also have this tradition where we take turn to feed the birthday girl/boy cake and we go from eldest to youngest. I don't know why we did this but I guess everyone want to take part in feeding the birthday woman.

Happy birthday mummy! I hope all of your wishes come true and be healthy and happy always.

Guess who woke up just when we finished dinner?

The little munchkin 

Yup, he was with us the whole dinner. When we're eating, he was sleeping on the chair and only woke up when we're done. Good boy <3 p="">