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LOUD Festival 闹哄哄演唱会 (7th October 2011)

caramelcheesecake — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:18:18 +0000

WOOHOO! JAY CHOU!!

Actually until now, i still don’t know if this was an impulse purchase, since jay chou only appear for like 30-45 minutes and sang only 6-7 songs?

Okay, but i still gotta admit i was really happy to see him, and feel the concert atmosphere! I really really really hope to go to his concert at Taipei one day… arrr.. was almost SO CLOSE to want to go for his concert in kaoshiung this December… but i guess, the high air tix price really puts me off.. so well, i shall wait for his next concert in TAIPEI. ++++ I really can’t wait for his album release in Nov!

Honestly, at least 90% of the crowd go for this concert for Jay Chou.. so obvious!

My bf helped me took quite a bit of videos of the concert but i’m too lazy to upload.

So yup.. i’m just going to attach some of the videos from youtube here :p

Enjoy!

Happy Birthdays to Sept + Oct babies!

caramelcheesecake — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:57:45 +0000

Sorry for the long hiatus, yet again.

Shall update a little bit in my space here..

Quite a bit of birthday lunches and dinner here and there.. But i’m only updating selective photos. hehe, sorry am lazy!

Our sweet XMM’s birthday – Serene! Had her birthday lunch at Bakerzinn @ Tamp One!

The happy corridor colleagues!I think we are really noisy most of the time.Happy Birdday Hee-lyn!

Birthday lunch @ Doonji Korean Restaurant

Happy Birthday Yannie!!! My 13-years girlfren!

Happy Birthday Yishi!

Thanks for giving me tips on what to buy for ur birthday.. i have to say i’m really bad at getting presents! hope u like the polaroid pouch!

♥♥ Happy 18th Monthsary! ♥♥

caramelcheesecake — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:15:04 +0000

Happy 18th monthsary!

hmm.. i hope he slims down soon!

we went swensens cos’ we bought the 50% voucher and its expiring in sept!

Luckily there wasn’t any crowd at 5+ on weekdays.We took leave that day btw…

I really couldn’t decide what to eat and ended up with once-my-favourite-caesar salad!

the bowl was SO HUGE!

i finally wore this pair of wedges out and i swear it hurts badly

sticky chewy chocolate!

i only had like 3 bites and stopped.. no more sweet tooth as i grew older.

we walked to MBS after dinner to catch Lion King Musical! My first musical play!

love the walk at the helix bridge cos’ its soo pretty!

Super mountain tortoise.. this is the first time i’m here!

Such huge shopping mall!

love the scenary!

Reminds me a bit of hong kong

Lion King is really quite nice though i have to admit that some parts were draggy and i can’t seem to appreciate musical play more than concerts. i love concerts!

Speaking of which, I’m attending the LOUD festival concert on 7th Oct!

Can’t wait to see Jay Chou once again!

♥♥ Hong Kong Trip for the Birthday Boy (Day 5 – Yee Shun Milk, Lin Heung Tea House, Loots!!!) ♥♥

caramelcheesecake — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:19:09 +0000

Last day at hongkong!

Realize that i din take photo with the hotel front on the first day..Cityview hotel!

my favourite hotel in hongkong!

i love this scallop dress from ohvola.. thou i don’t quite like the colour.
Cityview hotel is just next to Yau Ma Tei MTR, and walkable distance from mongkok!

Laoban’s tau huay’s idea was from the famous milk pudding dessert in hongkong.

looking at this pic, makes me feel like tabaoing from Jurong Point’s Ji De Chi

Anyway, here’s our last dim sum lunch at hongkong

Lin Heung Tea Housean award winning place featured in openrice

160-164 Wellington Street, Central
中環威靈頓街160-164號

Link: http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=1868
It was like a war zone here.so pack, so noisy.We have to share a table of 4 with another 2 strangers.i don’t exactly know what they are famous for…guess we ordered the wrong stuffs?
the carrot cake is so thick, i really don’t quite like it.

the boyfriend is an unhappy man here.but this place is really highly raved! for i duno-what-reason.

byebye hongkong!

while waiting for bus A21 back to airport!

the bus stop is just opposite our hotel.

@ hongkong airport
Damn huge!

Our luggage weight.

Mine increased from 8kg to 15.8kg = 7.8kg

My boy’s increased from 9.5kg to 17.1kg = 7.6kg

Anyway, starbucks in hongkong is cheaper than sg by like $1i really like the scallop hem at the bottom of my dress!

Dinner on the plane!
They served haagen dazs ice-cream! actually they served it on our trip there.. just that i was too tired to eat

i love this shot!

byebye hongkong, i’m sure i’ll be back soon!

did some calculation to see how much i’ve spent (all has been converted to SGD)

Air tickets = $352 per pax

Hotel = $483 for 5D4N for 2 pax (3 nights in Deluxe room + 1 night in Premier room but they FOC upgrade us to Excutive room for 4 nights)

Transport = $28 per pax

Food = $115 per pax

Shopping = $276 (Out of which, close to $100 i spent on masks!!!)

Souveniers / Gifts for others = $50

Total spending for this trip (including air tix + accomodation) = $1,062.50!

Total spending for this trip (exclude air tix + accomodation) = $469

I think i’m really quite standard… all my trips so far i spent about $100 per day! but i’m really not a good gauge cos’ i dun really shop..So yup, here’s my loots!! don’t be excited cos’ nothing much… haha

Birks = $70

Cle De Peau Makeup Base = $87

Kate spade iphone case = $4.80

Belts = $2.40 each

Safety shorts = $3 each

And here’s all the masks that i’ve bought! Bought from colourmix and bonjour
My beauty mask – black pearl (favourite) + Q10 (raved online) + Mixed Berries + Strawberry Yoghurt

My scheming mask – Bird’s Nest Collagen Mask

Dainty Design – All-in-one Collagen Mask

Love More Mask – Australia Mask(i’ve got really hard time finding Love More masks in hongkong.. and when i see them, i just grabbed the leftover 2 boxes rightaway! Found at bonjour)

Now, my boy’s turn:

Prada bag = $610

Timberland shoe = $220

H&M jeans = about $45 each x 2

Polo Ralph polotee = $60 each x 2

Clinique & longchamp = for his sis

Random, i bought this hello kitty soft toy bag for my baby niece.So cute!

So here’s her carrying it. hehe

♥♥ Hong Kong Trip for the Birthday Boy (Day 4 – Tim Ho Wan, Tai Cheong Bakery, Birks, Sweet Dynasty) ♥♥

caramelcheesecake — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:36:34 +0000

The shadow behind me looks damn scary
:s

Went to the famous “Tim Ho Wan” for dimsum!

this place seems highly raved in blogs and forums.. a must-go in hong kong!

Shop 8, Taui Yuen Mansion Phase 2, 2-20 Kwong Wa Street, Mong Kok
旺角廣華街2-20號翠園大樓2期地下8號舖

Link: http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=30806

the queueing part might totally ruin ur plan of dining there

U will have to take a queue number first and then expected to go loiter around for like 2 hours before coming back.

We went there on monday morning… and needs to wait like 2 hours.So u can imagine going there on weekends.They will issue u their menu with ur queue number on the menu

the “Michelin” award!

This place is really cheap and good!

minus the loooongggg wait! But u can walk around mongkok area while waiting…Open from 10am – 9.30pmThey have 2 branches actually.. i duno where’s the other one.
very small space

This is their famous char siew bun (pork bun)!MUST-TRY!! MUST-ORDER!!

U will see every table ordering this.DAMN YUMMY CAN DIE!

The rests of the dim sums were pretty good too!Can’t escape har gao, siew mai cos’ they are my boy’s favourites!

No proper photos.. too busy eating

Most importantly, price is super reasonable

About SG$15 for 2 pax?

After we took the queue number at “Tim Ho Wan”, we went to my favourite egg tart place – Tai Cheong Bakery @ Grand Century Place!

not hot leh, but still nice!shopping!!! i’m really not a shopping person…

was contemplating whether to buy birks at hong kong cos’ my feet really hurts with the covered shoes + hong kong is really cheap for its birks!!!

My colleague just told me its the same price as the manufacturing country (sorry forgot which country).

After u done some conversion, the price is actually abt the same at footshopping or slightly cheaper @ hong kong.

The reason why i contemplated for some time whether to buy birks was because i’ve already owned 4 birks at home!

i bought them like during my uni days… cos’ they were really comfy and can last u for a long long time!

So anyway, i also couldn’t decide if i want the black polka dots, or the red polka dots.:S

Both are nice actually…. argh

But i’m still kinda glad i finally decided on the red polka dots.

It was actually OOS and they have to transfer the birks from another outlet…Its about SG$70 nett anyway

I LOVE MY NEW RED POLKA DOTS BIRKS!!

have been wearing it pretty regularly even after i’m back in SG !

Think i probably should bring one of my birks and put in my office too… cos’ my colleagues commented that my mphosis slippers got no more sole. its like as if u are stepping ur foot bare on the ground.

Sorry to bore u, but the below photos are all about FOOD!

I took damn little photos for this trip i realize.. too tired i guess. + i’m old already

OH YAH, my birks are bought at Tsim Sha Tsui, harbour city

So okay, when u are at TST, u probably have to land ur break time here: The Sweet Dynasty (:

100 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
尖沙咀廣東道100號

Link: http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=3717

Thanks rina baby for her data sim card…i’m constantly connected in hong kong :p

the boy eating his FAVOURITE DURIAN

damn yummy!

Mango Pomelo Sago for me!

can’t even see a thing.
very nice!! must-try!!Looks expensive but its actually quite okay…About SG$5… comparing to xu liu shan, its actually quite cheap eh!
I kinda like you tiao in chee cheong fun.
Finally ate it in hongkong!

Their carrot cake is a must must try!chilli is damn nice as well!

our little “teabreak” is actually more expensive than our dim sum lunch :p

We went back to mongkok for some random night street shopping and went ba fang yun jiao for our dinner.Lorraine loves this and always hyped about the kimchi guo tie!the kimchi one really taste better than the original

Shall blog about my loots for this trip on my next entry

- one word, pathetic!

♥♥ Hong Kong Trip for the Birthday Boy (Day 3 – Mido Cafe, Harbour City, Good Hope Noodle) ♥♥

caramelcheesecake — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:02:48 +0000

Its the boy’s actual birthday! but i’m quite a bad girlfriend cos’ i didn’t prepare anything special on this day.

Prior to this trip, i did try researching for some nice dinner place for his birthday.. but came to concluded that the romantic dinner place that people recommend are italian restaurant. so i was thinking coming to hk for italian a bit sala.. so decided to drop the idea. Afterall, this 5D4N trip is his birthday ‘present’ already.. :p

actually i bought him a birthday present 2-3 months back… the head porter camera bag which i asked my colleague to help me get from japan. very nice camera bag which i like personally!! its the bag that he carried for this trip

the head porter camera bag as his bday pressie!

We went Mido Cafe for breakfast!

G/F, 63 Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei
油麻地廟街63號地下

Link: http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=2310

The French Toast is damn yummmyyy! my second visit here and still think the french toast is the best!

Their signature Baked Pork Chop Rice

Red bean ice drink was also awesome!

Went Tsim Sa Tsui – Harbour City Shopping Mall and saw this mobile softee on the way there

It was a sunday, and that probably explains the crowd.

So hazey..

Dinner was back @ Mong Kok.

Simple cheap food at this recommended wanton mee/congee place call “Good Hope”

146 Sai Yeung Choi Street, Mong Kok
旺角西洋菜街146號

Link: http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=1921

Eat and eat…

雞蛋仔

Another of the snacks shop recommended in openrice.

肥姐小食店

Shop 4A, 55 Dundas Street, Mong Kok
旺角登打士街55號4A舖

Link: http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=18013

i can never imagine myself eating all these intestines.

but my boy loves it.

zzz

♥♥ Hong Kong Trip for the Birthday Boy (Day 2 – Maxim Palace, SPACE, 澳門翠苑茶餐廳) ♥♥

caramelcheesecake — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:25:40 +0000

Our first dim sum @ Maxim’s Palace

3/F, City Hall, 5-7 Edinburgh Place, Central
中環愛丁堡廣場5-7號大會堂低座3樓(Located near Central MTR)

We reached there at about 10.55am, super long queue!

FYR, they start their dim sum at 11am.. there’s a super long queue after 11.30am like there’s about 20 people in the queue.

A rather posh place~

i still looked super stone.

our most expensive meal! but frankly speaking, we over-ordered!

IFC Mall is located at Central MTR

Came here for the huge agnes b shop!

Went to my bf’s must-go place: SPACE Warehouse!

its about 30min – 45mins bus trip from Central interchange.

not mine, my boyfriend’s.

cheap! less than SGD$700

Think i was too tired taking photos.. only shot 1 pic @ causeway bay.

Cle de peau is about 15-20% cheaper than sing! They are famous for their super ex makeup pdts.

I bought their make-up base as its highly raved online! about SG$87.. SG is selling at $105

Dinner was settled at this place call “澳門翠苑茶餐廳” recommended on openrice.

Oh, do remember to download this app call “openrice”… it can give u recommendation on food at ur nearby.

Shop 8, 2/F, Cooked Food Market, Mong Kok Complex, 557 Shanghai Street, Mong Kok (located opposite langham place)
旺角上海街557號旺角熟食中心2樓8號舖

Link: http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=15438

yummy curry rice! the portion is too huge so i shared with the boyfriend. About SG$8, comes with soup + drink.

the locals there seems to have quite huge appetite, the ladies can finish one portion by themselves!

this curry fishball is located next to our hotel.. we had this like everyday!

♥♥ Hong Kong Trip for the Birthday Boy (Day 1 – Cityview Hotel, Citygate, Elements, Mongkok) ♥♥

caramelcheesecake — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:44:28 +0000

A surprise 5D4N (26th Aug – 30th Aug) birthday trip that i’ve planned for the birthday boy.

It was really tough keeping a secret for 2 months and having to remind my close frens ard me not to bicha lobang the surprise for the boy.

the toughest has got to be my DADDY..! lol

Only told the boy that i’m bringing him overseas 1 week before the trip, but not revealing the destination! so that he can start to pack the luggage. I kept telling him we are traveling via coach, but he will need to bring those big luggage cos’ i need to carry some things back from that mystery place… what a lousy reason but i really can’t think of any!

The surprise destination was to be kept till we reached the airport, and during check-in… TA-DAH!

but my surprise bicha lobang about 10 mins before we reached the airport because Cathay sent him a notification SMS about the flight.

*diao*

Anyway, really thanks to all my frens who co-operated!! and my laoban who suggested such brilliant surprise trip idea to me!

All set and ready to move off!

Our initial luggage weight.

Mine – 8kg

Boy – 9.5kg

We took the midnight flight @ 1.15am cos’ got special price promo!!

My tix price was $342 nett per pax!

Crowded…. thanks to the good deal tickets!

I took fish & rice, and the boy took cheesy chicken and potato.

Obviously from the photo, the cheesy chicken + potato taste much better!

Check out the time we reached HK airport!!!

Actually we reached at about 5.05am… zzzzzz

Waiting for the sales of train tickets to start operating its business!

they opened at about 5.50am?

On A21 bus…

Reached our hotel in about 45 mins time – CityView hotel @ Yau Ma Tei!

Have to wait at the lobby for about an hour for a room.. yawns…

we got the room @ highest storey!

We got upgraded to the executive room FOC!

The first thing we did is to wash up and SLEEP!!

We had 3-4 hours of powernap before we moved on for some shopping!

First stop – City Gate @ Tung Chung MTR

(Outlets shopping mall)

Polo ralph was having some sales and was really cheap.

$60 for a guy’s polo tee!

Next stop – Elements Shopping Mall @ Kowloon

A pretty new shopping mall with all the high-end / mid-end brands like H&M, Longchamp, etc. etc.

Didn’t really shop here except to get a longchamp bag for my colleague.

Late lunch was settled @ Triple-O’s!

as much as possible we shd NOT be eating fast food in HK… but heard raves about the burger…

Fish burger!

Super expensive for fastfood.. about $20 sing!!

but the portion was huge!

end of the day was settled at mongkok area~

How can we missed out “Xu Liu Shan” Mango dessert?!

I just realize i only ate once there… didn’t have mango cravings much when we were there.

but we drank Gong Cha everyday and even twice a day!

too cheap to resist!! imagine its just $2.xx for the LARGE drink?! so cheap!

Eyleen love, this is for u.

hehe

Back from HongKong

caramelcheesecake — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:27:46 +0000

A birthday trip that i planned for the boy 2 months back but only to reveal to him 1 week before the trip.

BUT, destination was unknown until he reached the airport :p

I’m hoping to revive my blog with the hongkong trip entries, stay tune!

For some random photos update of the trip, can refer to my tumblr for the photos that i’ve uploaded onto instagram! am kinda addicted to instagram now, love expressing words with photos!

polkadots-love.tumblr.com

i’ll be right back!

♥♥ Happy 17th Monthsary @ COVA Pasticceria ♥♥

caramelcheesecake — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:33:49 +0000

The poor boyfriend has got so many commitments lately and he barely has time for me.

Probably like only 4 hours on weekend?

N i’m so glad that he passed his RT on his first attempt just last friday – 19th August!

At least one commitment down, and he will have more time for his work and school!

Recently i just set-up a tumblr account – my mini blog and i could update it more often than here.

http://polkadots-love.tumblr.com/

So anyhow, here’s another monthsary dinner with the boy ♥

Bought the groupon voucher – $20 for $40 worth of vouchers!

Happy 17th monthsary my dearest, and counting for more!

Desserts!!! cos’ we couldn’t finish the $80 voucher zz

Vanilla Cheesecake

I think only the desserts are worth wasting the stomach’s space