Contest submission

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Hope I'll win with this outfit :)

Italian in the Kitchen

It's been a while since I've actually had someone else cook for me without paying them.

An awesome friend of mine had just come back from her Europe back-packing trip and she very kindly invited me over for her homecooked italian lunch!

Had the usual lightly toasted bread & olive oil for starters 

We then proceeded to Sauvignon blanc & Abergine pasta (coz she knows how much I love the stuff) . The white wine was from Africa from her sister. Apparently the giraffes made it ahem.

My lil' chef! 

Then we had homemade Affagato for dessert. That's a mini Affagato-maker by the way, a pretty simplistic design but makes pretty good expresso.

In goes the vanilla ice-cream

I brought over some brownies I bought in Hong Kong called 'Market O' 

Was a tad bit too sweet for my liking but not bad for instant brownies I guess. They were surprisingly soft!

Tony Moly Petite Bunny Gloss Bar review

I love Hong Kong!! I just came back a few days ago and already I miss the food which is absolutely to die for. Not to mention the SaSa stores, its just jammed packed full with makeup goodies at lower prices compared to the ones back home :) 

My Rilakkuma haul. I know its not much but I spent the rest of my money on makeup and perfume T^T . Will blog more about my HK hauls in another post <3 nbsp="nbsp">

Going back to TonyMoly, I fell in love with the product when I saw it in SaSa. These bunny lipgloss sticks are just too adorable to pass, and comes in a range of 9 different colours (the yellow one though only has a very very slight pink tinge). 

These pretty bunnies are selling at HKD62 per stick (RM24.80)

TonyMoly Petite Bunny Gloss Bar is essentially a lipstick/lipgloss made in Korea. It claims to be very moisturizing on the lips containing herbal ingredients and at the same time, provides a strong vibrant colour.

I bought Juicy Apple (03) and Orange (08). 

(OMGOMG its like the cutest packaging ever) 

The thing I first liked about this product was how easy it was to use. It rolls up smoothly from the bottom, is light weight and easy to carry around. I would actually consider this more of a lipgloss as opposed to a lipstick because the colours aren't very strong, but depending on the flavours you pick, it gives off a really love scent and a nice taste to it (personally I'm addicted to the orange one). 

Swatches

I have shit make up today (just one of those disgusting days where no matter how hard you try your make up just goes awry) so I had to use an old picture from my phone which is rather grainy. Anyways, I have on juicy apple in this picture. You may need to layer on at least 2 to 3 times before you can get this  colour.

The colour comes off easily after eating, but if you don't use it throughout meals, it actually can stay on for a pretty long time (for me, it lasted 5 to 6 hours before I ate anything). 

I would definitely recommend TonyMoly lipglosses as a must buy! 

DHC Moisture Fruit Cream

DHC is a brand from Japan with 30 years of history in the skincare industry. Their products claim that they do not use any coloring agents or irritating fragrances. I've been reading good stuff about their skincare products online but I've never gotten around to trying them out till recently.

I bought DHC Moisture Fruit Cream a few months back; I was completely sold by the gorgeous packaging. It does not come cheap though, setting me back about RM40 (it was on sale at the time, I think its RM55 now) for a very very tiny tub 35grams of moisturizer!

When I first opened the product, it has a lovely light fruity smell, unlike some creams that do carry a rather heavy chemical scent about it. The gel cream quickly absorbs into my skin and my skin does feel lovely and very moisturized after that. I have combination skin but I did not have any problems with my combination zone even though the product was very moisturizing. I really couldn't have asked for more in terms of quality! I had a horrible dry patch on a small portion on my face which I couldn't get rid of for a week. After only using the gel cream for two days, my problem was solved.


Overall, this is a great buy, I just wish that it came in a larger portion with better pricing. I definitely would re-purchase this lil' darling again, but only if it goes on discount again.

Why Maybank should give me free tickets to Legoland

Imagination's the limit! - LegoStory

Who can forget receiving their first Lego Set as a wee kid, wondering with awe, amazement (and a lot of confusion) at the multitude of coloured bricks? 

And when you finally realize they are not edible, and your parents very kindly start re-directing your attention to the picture on the Lego box, ideas start unfolding in your head, and you then realize, my God!! I can actually create skyscrapers!! spaceships!! boats!! trains!! army tanks!! robots even!!

Lego has a soft spot in every person’s life. For me, it a remembrance of times spent with my brothers and parents, from building empires to pretending to being Godzilla ravaging a city (in other words dismantling our LegoEmpire). My dad occasionally would meddle in, and teach us how to create a house, a car, and all sorts of things from different sized bricks. Admittedly ten years later looking back, my brothers and I realized none of us would have made good architects, but it was the thrill of creation that still excited us.

My favourite thing about Lego is still the fact that ‘imagination’s the limit!’ Every year Lego never fails to bring out a gasp of amazement from our lips, but I believe it is truly impossible to limit their creative feats into a simple post. Lego especially is reknown for going all out at their theme parks giving an alternate reality of how the world would look like if it was made out of a zillion coloured bricks!! 

Legoland California

Star Wars Collection

Lego created as a memomento of Barack Obama's inauguration 

Legoland Billund

Legoland Windsor

Legoland Deutschland 

Legoland Florida

Legoland's tribute to 9/11. 

It really is amazing how much effort and creativity can be done with Lego which always seems to push at the impossible. It's so easy to lose track of the amount of hours and planning that actually went into each and every Lego design just by merely looking at it. 

Therefore, the reason why I would want the opportunity to visit our very own homegrown Legoland Malaysia would be to witness for myself what can Legoland do with our country's landmarks and events all converted into an intricate mini-sized Lego world of Malaysia. It would be such a fun thing to see how creative the designers can be, possibly a Lego Malaysian Prime Minister might even be a viable option someday? :D