tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301379052024-02-19T22:53:53.173+08:00WanderlustJASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.comBlogger661125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-8893923220107722052021-01-23T15:05:00.008+08:002021-01-23T15:10:24.375+08:00Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021 !<p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white;">Dear 2020,</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">You came and took everyone by surprise; no one expected you to turn out the way you did. Amidst all the chaos, I learnt to appreciate the smaller things in life. I often think of our lives before quarantine; the simple pleasures such as grabbing coffee, having a night out, visiting friends/family, having dinner out. All these were denied during our lock down and even so now that the rules have lifted slightly, these simple pleasures are practiced in a more cautious way. Things are no longer the same, and looking back these are the times I cherish the most. I learnt to appreciate people around me, including myself. We never know when the next person might succumb to the virus, it could be someone dear to us. During this year, I've had ample time (since we're all working from home) to work on the person I am and gain a little more appreciation for my own body and mind. I thank you for that. I pray that everyone around the world will find peace in their mind (and soul) and that we will overcome this difficult time together. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Goodbye 2020. Your time to come to an end. </b></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: courier;">Onwards to a new year, hopefully a much brighter one than the last! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Since the arrival of Covid-19, I have postponed my wedding TWICE! The final date that we're going to postpone it to is this year November. We can't send invitation updates to our guests as we're unsure the final number of guest pax that Gov will eventually allow during then. We might have to drop some guests from our list, which we really don't wish to <i>(that's why we postponed our wedding twice)</i>, but we have to comply with the regulations. We'll see when the time comes... Also, my bto that was due to be completed last year got delayed as well, but thankfully I still have a roof over my head (at my parent's), and not too severely affected by the delay. Well, on the bright side, I get more time to save up and continue looking at design inspirations 😎</p><p style="text-align: center;">Throughout the last year, I picked up baking (self-taught) and I've come to realize that I really love to bake. I don't particularly enjoy sweets, but I do love looking at pretty pastries and dream of creating them in my own kitchen. I think my family has been very forgiving in being my guinea pigs :> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;"><b>If you never try, you never know right? </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Till date, I've done 2 bake sales and both of them are Macarons related bake sale. I do like the pretty looking macarons but they are a pain-in-the-arse to make! They are indeed nifty bakes which require lots of TLC or they might just rebel against you. 😂 Thankfully, I managed to master (self-praise) the art of making macarons, hence the birth of my 2 bake sales. I am, <b><i>in no way</i>,</b> a professional chef btw, just a hobbyist.. Here's some photos of my <span style="color: #800180;">Sushi </span>macarons and<span style="color: #6aa84f;"> Christmas</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> themed </span>macarons for my 2 bake sales. hehe. I'm quite fortunate to receive lots of positive feedback on my bakes and overwhelming orders during my bake sale launched. Thank you everyone for your contributions! 💓</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZ3eQc7lbQ36Me681UIhEn_7Rt51mzBjOR38pOB1yyq0lbNSPSrg7c5LVG0M1G44iwLPusWUzuIK1HulOxji_gAJJxF88qa0Kwy2JWF6M-DPFLFxop8AxOTi36l6NOeyl2pU6/s1440/Sushi+macarons+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZ3eQc7lbQ36Me681UIhEn_7Rt51mzBjOR38pOB1yyq0lbNSPSrg7c5LVG0M1G44iwLPusWUzuIK1HulOxji_gAJJxF88qa0Kwy2JWF6M-DPFLFxop8AxOTi36l6NOeyl2pU6/w400-h400/Sushi+macarons+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvMnAi3QWUsjMRBAqlpSNIosENbQQoqmbFeLFp2ryhy_5KQIGDZ_qiPq0Ho6RMmfabhfeDp5F8uWuaI9SZU-oQYT09tUoZJWqYo_nv0KDq4Ig41b6wISmuFqAWiWA4qP1UfVEC/s2048/retouch_20201208195248.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvMnAi3QWUsjMRBAqlpSNIosENbQQoqmbFeLFp2ryhy_5KQIGDZ_qiPq0Ho6RMmfabhfeDp5F8uWuaI9SZU-oQYT09tUoZJWqYo_nv0KDq4Ig41b6wISmuFqAWiWA4qP1UfVEC/w480-h640/retouch_20201208195248.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Besides my crazy macaron baking days, I do try different desserts as and when I feel inspiration kicking in. hahaha. One of my very satisfied desserts is <b><span style="color: #e69138;">Durian Puffs</span></b>! To be honest, I tried making the choux pastry once before (a few weeks before making this durian puffs) and they looked realllll bad. haha, yes they were pointy, not so good-looking and had no airy centre. It was a failure. I started looking at different recipes and watching youtube videos, trying to find out where my mistake was. I learnt, and tweaked my recipe a little and decided to try again. Thank God it was a success!</div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZNny3RFxBiQ_3Abida87gAMpxAJiqP3xvTnP8jfCBuKKvEG5MbNExj3DG1x1Ey-QkOXpLTm_Ut1IPFj1HZ-cuTrROspPn_I0FElqTEVJcHDcqTxEaICIApUbiVO4RQjF_4C99/s2048/Durian+Puffs+%2528w+WM%2529.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2015" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZNny3RFxBiQ_3Abida87gAMpxAJiqP3xvTnP8jfCBuKKvEG5MbNExj3DG1x1Ey-QkOXpLTm_Ut1IPFj1HZ-cuTrROspPn_I0FElqTEVJcHDcqTxEaICIApUbiVO4RQjF_4C99/w504-h512/Durian+Puffs+%2528w+WM%2529.jpg" width="504" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">When I posted the photo of my durian puffs, quite a few of my friends asked me if it was difficult to make and they wanted to try. Honestly, it's not difficult at all! You just need to nail the choux pastry and you're good to go with the fillings. Fill them up with durian, or just regular custard/pastry cream. It's a very versatile pastry to make! Since it's the new year, I shall share my recipe here :) </p><p style="text-align: center;">To make the <u><span style="color: #674ea7;">choux pastry</span></u>, you'll need <span style="text-align: left;">118ml water, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp sugar, 55g unsalted butter, 2 eggs, 70g plain flour. For the <u><span style="color: #e69138;">durian fillings</span></u>, you'll need 500g durian flesh (unhusked), 100ml whipping cream.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Making the choux pastry</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;">1. Melt the butter, water, salt, sugar over medium fire. </div><div style="text-align: left;">2. Once melted, lower heat and add flour and start folding. </div><div style="text-align: left;">3. Fold for at least 2 min, until you see a thin film forming at the base of the pot</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. Transfer to bowl to cool to room temperature (approx 10min)</div><div style="text-align: left;">5. Add 1 egg at a time into paste, mix until it forms back together then add the next egg</div><div style="text-align: left;">6. Continue folding until you reach a "Pointy V" consistency in your paste. It's ready for piping!</div><div style="text-align: left;">7. Pipe onto baking sheet, press down, twirl and lift up to end</div><div style="text-align: left;">8. Wet finger to press flatten any tips. If desired, brush egg wash over puff tops (optional)</div><div style="text-align: left;">9. Bake at 180 degrees for 20-25 min. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Making the durian fillings</b></div></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;">1. Grab 500g durian flesh out, place them into blender/food processor and blend till fine puree</div><div style="text-align: left;">2. Whip 100ml of whipping cream to soft peaks and add in durian puree</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Assembling the puffs</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;">1. Remove puffs from oven once done, leave to cool.</div><div style="text-align: left;">2. Cut open the puffs (I did them in half as I wanted to have more durian fillings oozing out)</div><div style="text-align: left;">3. Transfer durian paste into piping bag and start piping</div><div style="text-align: left;">4. Cool them in the fridge for few hours before serving. Store durian puffs in freezer for extended shelf life (up to 1 week), thaw before serving. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #741b47; font-family: courier;">*If you'd like to see the full video tutorial, Click <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CERoUb3HpsK/" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a> to head to my IGTV for the video! </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf-z6Vn01BTU-TvnrkykdSKE5uSVdFcev6fVFgDKT-g2YiiOPBKVK4Tf-lEfXKRk5vXunvtj2dXFvfJK94RwxlskWCN7V9PH0ePNRhhago8YeKMliZF3bzvaZ3NseyoUACl7Hc/s2048/Hand+holding+puff+%2528WM%2529.png" style="display: block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1597" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf-z6Vn01BTU-TvnrkykdSKE5uSVdFcev6fVFgDKT-g2YiiOPBKVK4Tf-lEfXKRk5vXunvtj2dXFvfJK94RwxlskWCN7V9PH0ePNRhhago8YeKMliZF3bzvaZ3NseyoUACl7Hc/w499-h640/Hand+holding+puff+%2528WM%2529.png" width="499" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Enjoy the chilled puffs! It's finger lickin' good 😁😋</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>Xoxo,<br /></b></span><b style="color: #ff00fe;">Chye</b></p>JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-50332066476296191222020-09-24T12:21:00.000+08:002020-09-24T12:21:01.478+08:00Getting a new head of Korean Digital Perms [Sponsored]<p>It's been a good whole year since my last visit to Hairplus Korean Salon before my NZ road trip in August last year. During my last visit, I did the Cinderella treatment as part of Amos product filming for the salon. And now, 1 year later, I'm finally back with a hair change. This time I chose to do the Korean Digital Perm + Treatment (3-Step). Coincidentally, the salon had brought in a new perming machine which helps to achieve bouncy curls. Yay for me, I get to try out the new machine! </p><p>It's Covid times so please do remember to keep your face masks on during the whole hair session, and don't forget to practice safe distancing!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3tYALCOyK313YqS74-xcYdTUMd1Y2zMPncOTzie1Y0QyMXVir_ZUXwVn_qTGvZ9NtKjQkPO6Ifk4VprOqoIkrJomuvsuaoV9hhyBEgmB9PYskSKfaQ9mqYswDnptG_IdWN9TZ/s2000/Pink+and+Blue+Kids%2527+Fashion+Photo+Collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1179" data-original-width="2000" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3tYALCOyK313YqS74-xcYdTUMd1Y2zMPncOTzie1Y0QyMXVir_ZUXwVn_qTGvZ9NtKjQkPO6Ifk4VprOqoIkrJomuvsuaoV9hhyBEgmB9PYskSKfaQ9mqYswDnptG_IdWN9TZ/w640-h378/Pink+and+Blue+Kids%2527+Fashion+Photo+Collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>Since I wanted to perm my hair, I couldn't get it coloured as it would be too much for my hair to handle. So I'd have to come back to the salon another day to get my hair dyed. My hair grows really fast, and in just 1 year, it has grown to almost half the entire length! p.s. it is really obvious in the photos/video.</p><p>Before I got started with my perm, my stylist accessed the quality of my hair first to determine whether it's okay to perm. Most people are afraid of perming their hair for fear of damaging it or becoming frizzy over time. <span style="color: #0b5394;">All hairs have a cuticle that protects it from UV rays as well as other external pollutants. Perm lotions are usually an alkaline solution which opens the cuticle layer and breaks the bonds within the hair so that it can be restructured during the permanent straightening or curling process. The specialty perm lotion at Hair Plus Korean Salon was created to solve problems such as Incompatibility with other treatments e.g. keratin treatments, brittle or bleached hair not being able to be treated, Highly alkaline pH solution causing irreversible damage to hair fibres. The perm lotion also has a neutral pH (7) which maximizes the respect to hair integrity without making it look too stiff/ unnatural or artificial look.</span> </p><p>With the technique done by their senior hairstylists from Seoul, I am very confident that my hair structure can be modified without excessively opening the cuticle layer and causing irreversible damage. The final result will leave me with soft and frizz-free hair that is easy to maintain, which is what I'm looking for when getting a perm. Fuss-free and Frizz-free!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Watch the vlog of my actual visit to the hair salon on Youtube!</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s0nZ8h3lAlY" width="560"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: center;">My stylist first layered my hair since it's grown too much, then we got started with 1st of the 3-Step treatment followed by the chemical perm. The smell of the chemical perm wasn't too much to handle, so it was quite alright for me to watch my show in peace and not be disturbed by the smell. After some time, my hair stylist came to check if the curls could hold. Once it's okay, I went to wash it off followed by 2nd of the 3-Step treatment and back to my seat to blow dry my hair. Here comes the new and cool looking perming machine which will help achieve bouncy curls. *gleams*</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf_e5uEE7lQrgAPwB1vh7NfoCMVQilhlq-tk21IAB_nyb4Xm8OcjDzMljHPEnRLFC5ozIk-UIZC07TV5ABDMAufNf0wpT3abuPYVf-vJ4vZrgENGICmaNdhSkEeACeA_0rEL4L/s2017/IMG_20200811_131327-1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1806" data-original-width="2017" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf_e5uEE7lQrgAPwB1vh7NfoCMVQilhlq-tk21IAB_nyb4Xm8OcjDzMljHPEnRLFC5ozIk-UIZC07TV5ABDMAufNf0wpT3abuPYVf-vJ4vZrgENGICmaNdhSkEeACeA_0rEL4L/w400-h359/IMG_20200811_131327-1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">After setting for 20min, the ceramic curlers were switched to the plastic ones and off I go to the basin to have the neutralizer applied which helps to set the curls. Lastly after washing off the chemical perm, I got the 3rd of the 3-Step treatment applied then back to the chair to blow dry my hair completely. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: courier;"><b>And here's the results of my perm! </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mAxPmUye3GEWvrhiu1bzl4T_OvWoYd3uFii2xwZSvFufp4hyesVwBtM6iCVFzvoJQguNdL66mb4X33594oJ5EELC-GmtlQa56kaOGyCR9O8N98WHnH2nAwjcI97-6gaF6W13/w300-h400/IMG_20200811_140025-9.JPG" width="300" /> <img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1352" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6CDQt0hHGMYC6ihKbtij_1V4oMeQb24B40a9R715Ppd5KUwfTMJve-dephd68tfxJSDilHhsP9GDc4xlp-dkpsgHNo6uzLumeZUxzqHBfb22BQlALKnjHAmGfIwKiGU5hBEiq/w264-h400/IMG_20200811_140509-1.JPG" style="text-align: left;" width="264" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">I used to be afraid of perming my hair as I had a nasty experience many years ago. It left my hair very damaged, with tight curls and it just wasn't pleasant looking at all. I wished my hair would grow quicker so I could chop it off sooner. But ever since going to Hair Plus Korean Salon, I am always in awe of my hair when I step out of the salon. Whether it's a treatment, perm, c-curls or even just changing hairstyle, it's always a good experience. Not only do they use premium products which helps to maintain the hairstyle, it also prevents my hair from being damaged. I love the specialty premium perm lotion which creates natural bouncy curls that adds volume and is easy to maintain. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeSsalMgpmEy9ak85RtnXmsWxo9JaUqEfvqWVIETF4Osd1ujy6UnAyYAtObokD3qOLbDqfSBl2l3V-mWmH4tCBlupwgfXMe3zyuy5Vlo9SxbkBy-fepWQgvD9PquclFzbW8eUE/w240-h320/IMG_20200812_085621-5.JPG" style="text-align: left;" width="240" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Also, I got this bottle of curling essence from the salon which helps with the upkeep of my bouncy curls. Just squeeze a sizeable amount on your palms and rub it in to the hair before blow drying it (while twisting it away from the face). It smells soooo good and it works really well too! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: courier;"><b>This is an update of my curls approx 2 weeks later...</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj67BWSId-_5s6hHXE5OPBIgLsOxymqiJVOr4L-woxqR0I_b4LmpzlwlRRq2vRQ9arY4etxlrKluSATCexPminYt1cbkLryrcYED282tMLyuMQekpP0csGrwXyRGFkT9add53dY/w400-h300/MTXX_20200825174847-6.JPG" width="400" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>xoxo,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>Chye</b></span></div>JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-46692162886070008562020-08-10T12:15:00.008+08:002020-08-10T12:17:34.677+08:00Happy 55th National Day, Singapore! <p style="text-align: center;"></p><h4><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: red; color: white;">Singapore turns 55 years old!</span> </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-weight: normal;">We've come a long way, through ups and downs, and we're still going strong.<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: trebuchet;"><b><span style="color: red;">Happy Birthday!!</span></b></span></h4><p></p><p>This year is indeed a very different year of national day celebration. Not only do we have almost ALL Singaporeans present in the country on this day, we also experienced a different type of celebration. Normally during the national day period, I'm usually not in the country. Not that I don't love Singapore, but working adults have to try to fully maximize the use of their annual leaves, combined with public holidays. Hence, national day public holidays are always used in conjunction with my AL to go travelling. hahaha. This time last year, I was at New Zealand. The year before, I was diving at Malapascua... Oops. But this year, everyone is grounded because of Covid-19! </p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Welcome home<i> (and stay home)</i>, Singaporeans. </b></span></p><p>Since we can't travel, let's make full use of this holiday. Started the morning of 9th August with my usual sunday morning run. I usually take my run to the waterway park connector, running past my future house and checking out the construction progress, and rounding back to the mall. Total distance 5 KM. Easy run, just to keep my stamina going and heart pumping. Its a weekly affair and I do it with my parents, to encourage them to exercise together. </p><p>This year's national day parade will be taken to the streets, where the military will showcase their battleships/tanks/vehicles. It is usually done at the parade grounds itself (during the NDP show) but since this year there won't be any NDP show for the public to attend due to crowding restrictions, they brought the vehicles to the heartlands! We learnt that the mobile columns would be passing by our area at Punggol (right infront of waterway point), so after our morning run, we stayed at waterway point to have breakfast and waited until 1130 AM to catch the mobile column passing by us. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLPoLsLDHQy9aWsqVCRTE8i7xCBQO2ZtpzSpsA5KYU8cca1gtTxoqQLGkzVcProO0OHWFXysmvMJdu6vOZ2PoIQtg0YsEo-87U4EhcrriOQ9JNaM8uamCZ7uGqqHqF5jYMlCJh/s2000/NDP+2020+Parade+mobile+column.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLPoLsLDHQy9aWsqVCRTE8i7xCBQO2ZtpzSpsA5KYU8cca1gtTxoqQLGkzVcProO0OHWFXysmvMJdu6vOZ2PoIQtg0YsEo-87U4EhcrriOQ9JNaM8uamCZ7uGqqHqF5jYMlCJh/s640/NDP+2020+Parade+mobile+column.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was very crowded!!!! I wonder if it's only Punggol area that has such big crowds or it's the same for the other areas where the mobile column passes by... Military personnel were broadcasting safe distancing measures all around, but no one bothered moving. Everyone was elbow to elbow from one another. We stood by the grass along the road and caught the mobile column, waving our hands/flags/cheering them on. I reckon it must be super hot for them operating the tanks/vehicles under the sweltering weather. And it was almost noon! The weather was incredibly uncomfortable and hot yesterday. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">Did our seemingly patriotic part by cheering at the roadside, and headed home to wash up. Hooray! Since it was national day weekend, my bro & I decided to cook the dinner feast.<span style="color: #674ea7;"> <b>I prepared Molten Lava Cake (for dessert), made fresh pasta from scratch and baked lasagna!</b></span> Since the molten lava cake was supposed to be dessert, I made the batter ahead and refrigerated it. To have oozing molten lava, you need to bake it hot & quick and eat it while it's still hot so the lava will ooze out. Making the batter was easy, so I started early at 1 PM, got it done and out of the way. Next was to make the lasagna pasta sheet. I wanted to buy store bought sheets, bcos it's not costly and less time consuming. But for some weird reason, all the supermarkets in Punggol seemed to be sold out/OOS of the noodle sheets! I was so mad, i walked to 7 different supermarkets all over and I still couldn't find. Some friends suggested that I make my own lasagna noodle sheets, and so I did. It's actually super simple, you just need plain flour and eggs. But, the actual work comes with you need to knead the dough and flatten it out. I don't have a pasta maker machine, so i had to go old school and use a rolling pin. 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The weather was really unfavorable yesterday. But after seeing the end product, my pasta sheets drying nicely outside, it's quite satisfying! Once my sheets are cooked, I started to assemble my lasagna! Cooked my ground beef with onion & garlic, poured in tomato puree and paste, added my seasoning (salt, pepper, oregano, thyme) and simmered for 15min. Mixed my ricotta cheese with mozzarella, parsley and it's go time! Beef sauce > pasta > beef sauce > cheese mix > mozzarella > pasta > beef sauce > cheese mix > mozzarella (finish all), cover up with foil and bake for 45 min at 180 degrees. Remove foil the last 3-5 min and bake till golden brown crust. Rest for 20 - 30 min before serving. DONE! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Super yummy, and i tell you it's a dish that everyone will want second servings. Did i mention it's damn filling too? Bro made sushi and tamago for the dinner feast, and we had plenty leftovers. lol.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1031" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD_eMRmK6k_9-RHJaiPFY9N5tfyNMJjZ_8xUE-Zga5MTGuV5NeyCtPrpZcMFK1Bh7jGGQ07FRjPhd4nop_XUnkRJ4Jnw7qeztyNCIRKjjOnFiv5So2lGD-V0RS2zlxjO63ziTk/w323-h640/IMG_20200809_200506_913.jpg" width="323" /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiD9HG4F0w7-zjA8PGHs2yabT84yhfEIizgXpFWFhgcEqTpQ4u51hlVLNRDgNXaCyL_oWFBSrgK5x7QOLNaseOVq2KuW0qow5mSsNxAJWiUJ4pAkKxNVpdJLk_C7asIyJ5VUue/s2048/IMG_20200809_200517_415.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1031" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiD9HG4F0w7-zjA8PGHs2yabT84yhfEIizgXpFWFhgcEqTpQ4u51hlVLNRDgNXaCyL_oWFBSrgK5x7QOLNaseOVq2KuW0qow5mSsNxAJWiUJ4pAkKxNVpdJLk_C7asIyJ5VUue/w323-h640/IMG_20200809_200517_415.jpg" width="323" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Everyone was soooo full after dinner. Watched the national day performance on TV, fireworks, sang national day anthem & pledge, tried getting baby claire to follow too. She is growing up way too fast! When we were feeling less bloated, I placed my lava cake batter into muffin trays and baked them for 5 min at 230 degrees, and violaaaaa, oozing molten lava cake! Pair it with cookies & cream ice cream and it's YUMMMMM. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8dK03vV4lUTSeAGcBp09PogpLYjziddRZLdYXJLMwsCyIOIsgcmUm77bvxrdCd2_QACruoyw-r_CpJvza2ShOre7Z_o8yY8Nt3UGDq3eQipSQMENg-hHBHMPB9XkJZVVn8h7/s2048/IMG_20200809_212949-1.JPG" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1995" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8dK03vV4lUTSeAGcBp09PogpLYjziddRZLdYXJLMwsCyIOIsgcmUm77bvxrdCd2_QACruoyw-r_CpJvza2ShOre7Z_o8yY8Nt3UGDq3eQipSQMENg-hHBHMPB9XkJZVVn8h7/w398-h410/IMG_20200809_212949-1.JPG" width="398" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm loving this year's national day celebration. Totally loving it as I get to cook and bake yummy dishes. Till the next time guys. Happy Birthday once again, Singapore!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>xoxo,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>Chye</b></span></div>JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-67865919011612541062020-06-01T21:20:00.002+08:002020-06-01T21:20:44.866+08:00Things I do during Covid19 Lockdown/Circuit Breaker<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Coronavirus aka Covid-19</span><br />
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That aside, while being in lockdown/Circuit Breaker mode, the thing I find that I have in excessive is; Time. With more time on hand, what do I do with it? I've been exercising more actually, and cooking & baking almost weekly for my family. I don't really crave for food outside, only the occasional random bubble tea craving, which gets put down quickly by Zach as he claims it's "unhealthy and fattening" :(<br />
I've noticed most of my friends claim that they've gained a few kg during this period, but on the contrary I've lost a few kilos! Here's how my daily routine looks like since the lockdown began:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. Drink a glass of freshly squeezed juice after (the juice menu varies daily, depending on the fruits I'm able to get from NTUC) <i><b><span style="color: purple;">Shout out to my fav grocery store, thanks for restocking many fruit varieties so I can have a good morning juicing routine!</span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. Get in front of my computer and do some work</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5. Bake/Cook for lunch or afternoon tea break (again, depending on the ingredients I have at home)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">6. Film/edit my videos/photos if I've taken any during my kitchen raids</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7. Stay glued to the computer until dinner time</span><br />
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I think I'm being more productive than usual! & I absolutely love taking some time to try out new recipes that I see online. Most of the time my baked/cooked goods turn out fairly well, with the occasional few times that it seemed rather gloomy and sad.... Thankfully I've got a wonderful, supportive family <i>(and Zach, during non-CB days)</i> who eats everything that I make (tasty or disgusting) and allows me to step into the kitchen time after time to experiment with more recipes!<br />
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I'm super happy with my latest baked goods, which is a "Not So Pretty Sponge Cake" in reality but I decided to give it a cool name "Double Chocolate Toblerone Sponge Cake". How does it look in the picture? I love how porous the cake turned out (despite the ugly crackled edges) and the addition of toblerone bits was the <span style="background-color: cyan;">BEST DECISION EVER</span>. I invented this btw. Well technically with the help of a basic sponge cake recipe, I tweaked the ingredients and added few things of my own. I'm a chocoholic (if there's such a word), I once polished an entire chocolate fondue (for 2 pax) at Max Brenner on my own and I swore never to eat chocolate again. That was a lie, I had chocolates the very next day. So you get the gist. Enough of the chitchat, for those who're salivating after seeing the awesome cake photo, i'm here to share my recipe! Scroll down and please spend 5 min of your precious time to appreciate the video I painstakingly took & edited while baking. No easy feat.<br />
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Recipe for this awesome-possum cake! Besides the standard egg, flour, sugar, butter ingredients, you will need these babies below! Yes, a toblerone cake does require toblerones, and I've used both Dark & milk toblerone for this recipe</div>
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- 165g unsalted butter</div>
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- 210g dark chocolate chips/chocolate block</div>
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- 30g cocoa powder</div>
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- 60g plain flour</div>
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- 6 eggs</div>
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2. Melt choc chips + butter over boiling water, stir until you achieve smooth creamy consistency</div>
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3. Whisk eggs + sugar until the mixture has risen to 3x volume (doesn't require for stiff peaks)</div>
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4. Sieve dry ingredients together (plain flour, cocoa, baking powder)</div>
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6. Fold in dry ingredients (in 3 parts), combine everything well</div>
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JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-29282631785524780292020-05-19T17:30:00.003+08:002020-05-19T17:35:48.893+08:00Covid19 disrupted my wedding plans! <b>It's been a crazy few months here. </b><br />
It first started off in <span style="color: #a64d79;"><b>January</b></span> when it was Chinese New Year, everyone was happy and excited for the festive season to be here. Z and I went alcohol shopping to buy our liquor stock for the wedding, upcoming in <b><span style="color: magenta;">March</span></b>. We got ALL the liquor that we had listed out, our office is so full from the bottles that we have 0 space left. With less than 2 months to go, we had almost everything ticked off our check list.<br />
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We've sent out the wedding invitation cards, went for food tasting at the hotel, booked our PG/VG/MUA, even went for makeup hair trial, bought all the liquor for the open bar, received our pws photo frames and albums, bought our wedding gowns/suits, decorations were all arriving. Everything was set to go....<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i><b>Unfortunately, Covid-19 had to pay a visit.</b></i></span></span><br />
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So yes, we postponed our wedding to October 2020 but we're looking at possibly postponing it even further to 2021. The laws had been set to restrict all social gatherings, not to mention wedding parties where attendees could amount to 200 or more. We had guests flying in from overseas, and with the travel ban in place, none of them could fly in either. So the postponement of our wedding began. And the big question still remains; <b><i>when will we be able to hold our wedding?</i></b> Will things go back to norm eventually? How soon will that be? What if things still remain gloomy until the end of this year?<br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>That is still a question mark for us, till today. </b></span><br />
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Fast forward 4 months down the road, it's May right now and we're in the midst of our 2nd month in "lock down" or what SG calls <span style="background-color: #f1c232;"><i>#CircuitBreaker.</i></span> Everyone's been cooped up at home, unable to head into office for work, unable to visit family members/friends. This circuit breaker has been inconvenient, but it has certainly curbed the numbers of cross-infection down in the country. There's lesser spread in the community, definitely looking better than before. I bet everyone is looking forward to 1 June when the circuit breaker ends and everyone can head out again.<br />
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<i>So the best year of my life just became the gloomiest year of my life.</i> hurhur. What a joke life can be!<br />
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Looking on the bright side, i'm staying home a lot more (well, it's the one and only thing i'm allowed to do right now), doing more home workout exercises and cooking/baking for the family. I think I've honed my skills to be a great housewife in the future. haha! And i've definitely shed a few kilos and lost a couple of inches here and there, which is AWESOME!! Can't wait for life to be back to normal soon!<br />
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JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-12020688878393618822020-03-16T12:39:00.000+08:002020-03-17T16:34:53.045+08:00All You Need To Know About Road-trippin New Zealand In A Motorhome! <div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">"Did you travel in a campervan?"</span></i></div>
This was the question I asked anyone who had been to New Zealand, and it was also the #1 question people asked me when they know that I've been to NZ.<br />
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I guess it's quite a common thing to travel around NZ in a motorhome, given the vast area to cover and being mobile means you're the first to reach and last to leave. We, and by that I mean 5 Adults and 1 Infant (2yrs old), decided to give it a try ourselves too! It took a little convincing for our elderly parents (60yrs old) to agree to the idea of being confined in a tiny space for 5 days, but we got there eventually. So here comes the massive planning! Get ready for a lengthy & detailed post ahead on motorhome rentals, dos and don'ts of motorhome and our experience in general :)<br />
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<b style="background-color: #ffe599;">Pre-trip Preparation</b></div>
We wanted to save costs (as much as possible, without living uncomfortably) so we planned our meals thoroughly. Eating out in NZ is quite costly (in my opinion), and it's definitely more expensive than Australia. I've lived in Aus for about 3 years during my university days, and although living costs were slightly on the high side, I never thought eating out in NZ would be more expensive than Aus! That really caught us by surprise. Thankfully, we had already planned to cook most of our meals while travelling the first half of our trip via motorhome. The main itinerary planner was myself, whereas my brother & sis-in-law would give their opinions/suggestions on the sideline. I scoured the internet for recipes that was easy to prepare, doesn't require lots of ingredients that were "one-time-use" kind, and palatable for everyone. I had to keep in mind that little claire was eating these meals that I prepared too, so it had to be child-friendly too.<br />
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Once the food menu was approved (yes we had a food menu for our daily meals on the motorhome), we then listed down all the ingredients that we needed for the recipes written. Tadahhh, our groceries shopping list was born! Although this may seem very tedious, but trust me, it saves ALOT of time when you're doing grocery shopping and also it limits food wastage. Bcos all the ingredients are properly accounted for (in its units), so you're certain there won't be much leftovers.<i><span style="color: purple;"> Fyi, we were flying down to Queenstown after returning our motorhome in Auckland, so we couldn't bring ANY food produce with us on the plane, or risk getting fined! </span></i>Hence, the ingredient proportions had to be very precise. Having a recipe printed out also means that your extra pair of kitchen hands can help you along the way.<br />
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One thing about motorhome is that there are some limitations when you're driving on the road; like no using of electricity on board, no cooking (the gas cylinder has to be shut off before you set off), basically everything has to be shut in and stowed away or it will come flying out when on a bumpy road. So it means you can't literally cook while on the go. Initially we thought that we could possibly buy frozen pizza from the supermarket and toast it in the oven while driving, so there's some little bites for everyone. But, nahhhhh, you can't work anything on the motorhome while it's driving. I mean it is a safety precaution as well, you wouldn't want the gas cylinder to leak gas and explode if the vehicle hits a bumpy road. You can't charge your laptop/phone, watch tv at the rear end of the vehicle too. So make sure you have your meals settled and everything charged up before hitting the road.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #ffe599;">Booking of our Motorhome </b></div>
Our travel dates were 5 - 16 August 2019, so that is winter season in New Zealand. It is a non-peak season for motorhome, which means we get some winter discounts but then again there's not many vehicles readily available for hire (many due to maintenance period). We checked with many popular car rental agencies but they didn't have any availabilities. Weird. I eventually went directly to the motorhome vendor <a href="https://www.pacificmotorhomes.co.nz/" target="_blank">Pacific Horizon</a> to ask if they had any vehicles for rent. We had to book the biggest model, which was the 6 Berth Standard SAM Motorhome since we were a family of 6 (yes, infant is also counted in the headcount). Our pickup point was Wellington, and the drop off point is in Auckland. There is a one way location fee of $300 since we didn't return it at the original pick up location. <span style="color: #b45f06;">The total cost for renting it 5 days plus winter discount plus one way location fee amounted to <b>$1310</b></span><span style="color: #e69138;">.</span> It was one of our biggest expenses throughout the trip. haha!<br />
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The 6 Berth Standard SAM is fully self contained and offers two large living areas with comfortable forward-facing seating and generous room for up to 6 people in each area. SAM transforms the front area into a king type double bed, which, with a king bed in the rear, effectively turns the motorhome into a 2 bedroom configuration at ground level. With a third double bed above the cab.Walk through cabin to living: With a raised roof above the driving cab and a clear walk through from front to rear, SAM is perfect for stretching out. For motoring, all seats face forward with seatbelts for all. Automatic transmission for an effortless drive. Age 2016. <i> -abstracted from <a href="https://www.newzealand-motorhomes.com/motorhomes/6-berth-motorhome/pacific-horizon-sam-6/955" target="_blank">New Zealand Motorhomes</a></i><br />
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<b style="background-color: #ffe599;">Collecting our Motorhome in NZ!</b></div>
Pacific Horizon has a depot in Porirua where the vehicles are kept, so they arranged for a complimentary airport transfer to bring all of us there. It was about an hour's drive there from the airport. Once we got to the depot, the manager was already waiting to receive us. We went inside the office first to settle the paperwork and learn some rules & traffic restrictions on operating the motorhome. Then, he gave us the grand tour of the vehicle. It was a very thorough explanation which took about 1hour. HAHA! We had to learn how to use the toilet cassette, grey/black water, refill fresh water, operate the lights within cabin and outside, TV satellite dish, driving, pumping, setting up the beddings etc etc. It was like a crash course and we tried our best to remember as much as possible. Of course there is a hand book provided but most people would just chuck it one side. lol. Once the orientation was completed, we then sorted out our luggage. There is a separate storage space outside of the living quarters to store your hard case luggage, there is absolutely no space for you to keep your luggage within the living quarters. All of us laid our luggage on the floor <i><span style="color: #666666;">(yes, we unpacked and packed in the open and under cold winter conditions)</span></i> and started picking out stuff that we need for the next 4 days and placing them in a soft duffel bag. Everything had to be organized since we were a big group living in a confined space for the next 4 days. It took us almost 2 hours to do that! Once everything was sorted, we then stowed them away in the overhead compartments. Luckily there were plenty of overhead compartments to store our stuff away!<br />
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We had Claire's car seat fixed at the left passenger seat, and we never removed it. Our sleeping configuration was the rear double bed, the upper double bed above the cab and the single bed on the right passenger seat. You need to fix your bedding every night and keep them away in the morning so it's properly stowed away and transforms back into normal seating area in the day. The upper double bed above the driver cab is smaller than the rear, with super low head space and no room to sit up straight. Whoever that's sleeping up there gotta be careful not to hit your head when waking up in the morning. Oh, and there's a net provided to roll down from the upper deck to prevent anyone from falling out of bed.<br />
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3 hours behind our schedule, we finally set off from the depot and moved to our first camp site of the day, which was another 1 hour drive away. hurhurhur. As you can imagine, we got there pretty late.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #ffe599;">Camp sites / Holiday Parks / Freedom Camping</b></div>
If you've booked a fully self-contained motorhome, you're allowed to freedom camp. What is freedom camp, can I park anywhere I want? No. Freedom camping means that you're allowed to park at <span style="color: #3d85c6;">designated</span> freedom camping spots. You will need to download an app that shows you all the freedom camping grounds/holiday parks/petrol kiosk etc. There are several apps available, but we used Motorhome Republic Travel. There is literally nothing available at freedom camping grounds, it's just a space for you to park overnight (for free). No toilets/kitchen/shower at these grounds, so you have to be fully self-contained. There are camp sites which may have basic facilities like toilet and cold shower but that's about it. Then, the more atas version is holiday parks. These are like "motel resorts", they have lots of facilities like hot shower, kids playground, kitchen, laundry etc. The accommodation type on the holiday parks range from motel units to stand alone cabins and camp sites for tents/motorhome. The cheapest option is campsite for motorhome, and you pay based on the no. of pax in your vehicle. It kinda runs on a trust system? If you purchased for 3 pax, and you actually have 4 in your motorhome, they wouldn't like ask you to get down from the vehicle so they can count. They don't even check when you enter the compound. All these are booked online, and you just show them at the reception. Holiday parks are individually owned like franchise, so every park is a little different from one another.<br />
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We stayed at <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">TOP 10 Holiday Parks</span></b> (its quite a popular brand) all around the North Island, their facilities were great even though it's communal. We were afraid that Claire couldn't get used to sleeping in the motorhome, so it would be easier for us to book a motel unit for her if that was the case. That's why we didn't freedom camp/stayed at public camp sites solely. Also, safety was an issue for us. Over at freedom camping grounds, there's no one to police the areas, so it can be quite dangerous in a sense. One thing i've heard about these holiday parks was their "time-sensitive" hot showers. I read somewhere that hot showers are timed and they will run out. I couldn't imagine showering in hot water and the next moment cold water comes down when it is still winter!!! When we got there, I found this to be true.<br />
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Apparently, you have to push the button once to activate the hot water. These buttons are located outside your stall. So you kinda have to open the door and stretch to reach the button then quickly go back in and take your 5 / 7min shower before the hot water goes out. Such a good way to discourage long showers. hahaha! The last TOP 10 holiday park which we stayed had a coin operated hot water shower. Instead of just a button like this, you had to drop a 20-cent coin and the hot water will start pumping out. Once 5 min is over, you have to put another 20-cent coin to re-activate the hot water. HAHAHA. This is my absolutely first experience ever with such a system!<br />
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After we returned our motorhome in Auckland and moved down to Queenstown, we stayed in a nice Airbnb. I was certain everyone took 30min - 1 hour of hot showers that day. rofl.<br />
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Before we returned the motorhome, we had to dump all of the black/waste and grey water. We cleared the toilet casette the night before and it was a hilarious disaster. There was poop splash back from the dump station on my dad's hand when he emptied the cassette. hahahaha. <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">*Do not want to revisit that memory.*</span></i> Other than the toilet casette incident, everything else was quite pleasant. We emptied the grey water easily, filled up fresh water easily too, although filling up fresh water took like 10-15min to fill.<br />
We drove up to the Auckland depot and called the guy in charge to come out and open the gate for us to park the vehicle in the compound. It took awhile, i think they were running late or something, but it definitely helps if you had emailed them previously to inform them of your arrival. We emptied the motorhome and hopped onto another vehicle which sent us to the airport terminal. One tip for you while you're returning your vehicle; have everything removed from the drawers/overhead compartments and leave them in plain eyesight. It will definitely facilitate your removal of items when you clear our the vehicle. It may be a bit rush when you're returning vehicle, and may possibly leave something behind if they're all still stowed away in the compartmetns. This happened to us... We accidentally left a cooler bag full of utensils, non-perishable items and most importantly Claire's milk formula!!! It was left behind in the bottom drawer which everyone thought was checked... T_T Poor claire didn't get her milk for a day or two... We only realized this after we arrived in Queenstown, while we were unpacking our luggage at night. Lesson learnt.<br />
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Overall it was quite an eye-opening experience for us, first timers going on a self drive motorhome/campervan adventure. It's not the most comfortable trip, but we made it work. I'm glad i did lots of research before hand, and reading other people's blog posts were beneficial! It was definitely memorable, and we had lots of fun on the trip. Will be blogging down my trip entry in the next couple of posts. It's was a 12 days trip across North & South Island, so i'll be splitting it up into several posts. Do check out my trip posts when it's up! Till then!<br />
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JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-31761161608842109422019-06-26T09:50:00.001+08:002019-06-26T09:55:43.823+08:00NEW Aminovital Hair Treatment x Hair Plus [Sponsored]A month ago, I had my Pre-wedding photoshoot done in Suzhou (check out their FB page<a href="https://www.facebook.com/yourstrulybridal/" target="_blank"> <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Yours Truly Bridal</span></b></a> and Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yourstruly.bridal/"><b><span style="color: #a64d79;">@yourstruly.bridal</span></b></a>) and it was amazing! We had so much fun, highly recommended. Anyway, prior to my trip, I visited my trusty hair salon (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/HairPlusKoreanSalon/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Hair Plus Korean Salon</span></a>) as I wanted to get a fresh coat of hair colour in so my roots don't show up in my photos and to lock in some goodness inside my hair follicles. I was very lucky to be one of the first few to try out their new series of hair treatment called Aminovital Hair Treatment, which only just launched in the month of June!<br />
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<b>Aminovital Hair Treatment 아미노바이탈 클리닉</b><br />
It prolongs the effects of the salon hair treatment by using pH control and amino acids to bond and heal raised swollen cuticles.<br />
- Gently cleanse to remove unwanted residue on hair<br />
- Protein primer sprayed to prepare for better absorption<br />
- Moisturizing supplements from natural essential oils<br />
- Amino acids supply nutrients lacking in damaged hair<br />
- pH control therapy to seal in and reinforce treatment<br />
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After hearing all the benefits for my super dry hair, i'm stoked to give it a go. Besides, this new hair treatment greatly shortens the time taken for it to be completed! So if you're contemplating to do hair treatments bcos of the lengthy hours required, you're in for a treat with this new Aminovital treatment! Also, there are different series of Aminovital treatment for different hair types/hair concerns <i>(e.g. coloured hair, perm/rebonded hair damage etc)</i>, so it does not mean that whatever works for me will work for you too. Speak to your hair stylist about your hair concerns and they will recommend what's best for you :)<br />
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After the wash, I returned back to the chair and began the treatment. First, the A1 Keratin Base was sprayed on and left for 5min, followed by the AF Vital Fixer, also sprayed on and left for 5min. Sharon and her assistant sprayed, rubbed, massaged and combed through my hair to ensure that all the essence is thoroughly absorbed by my hair strands. Then they used hair dryer and blow dry my hair using a mixture of cold air and warm air. Its a half-half combination. Next part of the treatment is the application of the Colour Sealer, and to comb it through. Then, my hair is being put through the bubble-head steamer <i>(lol, i like to call it that)</i> to steam for 10min. The cuticle opens during misting, which greatly helps in the absorption of nutrients. Lastly is to wash it off with water only, no shampoo, no chemicals, just plain water. To top it off, Sharon applied the Satin Pleasure Oil to give it a smooth (and nice smelling) finishing.<br />
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Once the treatment is completed, Sharon proceeded to give me a slight trim. She suggested not to layer it as it might look frizzy and might be difficult to style the layered ends during the photoshoot, so she only trimmed the split ends and gave it a little more shape. Lastly, she curled my hair with the flat iron and viola, i'm all done! My hair grows tremendously fast, so it gets out of shape very quickly. I can have nice freshly cut bangs this week, and 2 weeks later, it has grown so long that it touches my eye and I'd have to sweep it sideways already. How frustrating! :(<br />
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<b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">My verdict of the Aminovital Hair Treatment: </span></b><br />
My hair definitely feels refreshed after the treatment, it also feels surprisingly lightweight and bouncy. Note that I didn't have huge chunks of my locks chopped off, so the lightweight feel definitely ain't from the hair cutting. I didn't have to sit in the chair for too long to complete the treatment, that is definitely a huge plus point for me. I didn't realize the treatment was over actually! And my hair feels sooooo good afterwards.<br />
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After reading all about my treatment in details, if you're keen to try it out for yourself too, i'm happy to share that Hair Plus is offering a special <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>20% discount </b></span>as part of their opening launch for the Aminovital Treatment! Wooohooo! Do call them up to enquire the price as it varies for different hair lengths. <b>Far East Plaza: 6235 2234 / Suntec: 6235 5883</b><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Here's a leaving tip for you on home hair care as taught to me by Sharon to have smooth and manageable hair all day errr day! After showering/shampooing your hair, apply some hair mask on your hair. Cover/wrap it with a shower cap. Grab a medium sized towel and run it under hot water, squeeze it out and wrap the steaming hot towel over your shower cap. Make sure the hot towel is able to cover your whole shower cap! Leave it on for about 10 - 15min, watch some Netflix or Youtube in the meantime. Once the timer is up, wash it off and you'll have awesome smooth hair that will leave you feeling like a pro hair stylist. </span><br />
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<br />JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-24082893224547630472019-06-20T17:20:00.003+08:002020-06-20T14:15:12.501+08:00Diving at Malapascua | Cebu PhilippinesWelcome June! It's already been half a year?! Wow, time really passes by quickly these days... I've been busy planning my upcoming wedding (happening next year!), travelling to a couple of countries with Z for leisure and for our recent pre-wedding photoshoot! We had such a good time! Travelling is always a joy for me (and i believe for everyone else too, right) and I'm just one of those travelers who NEED to plan an itinerary for every day. If I didn't have any plans for the day, I'd feel it's been wasted away.... haha. i hope i'm not the only one like this.......<br />
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Anyway, I wanted to blog about my last diving trip to Cebu, Malapascua. Well, it ain't recent now that it's almost a year ago (oops..), but i'm still gonna pen it down! For fellow divers like me, I think we all like to go to Adex Diving Expo to check out special dive deals or equipment going on sale. Personally, I think we always get quite good deals at such fairs and being the dive organiser for our diving group, i'm always on a lookout for travel opportunities for our group. I chanced upon <b><span style="color: #e69138;">Deveocean Divers</span></b> at the fair and I managed to secure a pretty sweet deal at 4D3N + 6 dives at $299 pp. Yes, it includes our resort accommodation for 3 nights and 6 dives! There are different accommodation types, so if you opt for the Deluxe rooms, it'll be more costly. I think it's a steal! So always keep your eyes peeled for Adex specials. Equipment rental is additional at P1000 per day, torch (for night dive) at P300 per dive, dive computer at P700 per day. There's also a bunch of "surcharge" if you dive at certain sites.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Malapascua</b></span> </span>is known for <span style="font-size: large;"><u>Thresher Sharks</u>,</span> so it is a MUST DO to dive at the Monal Shoal which is essentially a Thresher shark cleaning station. The Monal Shoal has a Shark Protection Plan fee of P50 per diver per dive. It is a super early morning dive at 5am if im not mistaken. The other surcharges/fees are a compulsory Marine Sanctuary at P150, Night dive at P180, Gato Island day trip at P350, Kimud Shoal at P350, Dona Marilyn Wreck at P500, Kalangaman island at P500. All prices are per diver per day. The day trips and island dives are subjected to weather conditions, and sad to say we didn't get a chance to go on those due to unfavourable sea conditions during our stay. Nonetheless, we were happy with our dives each day.<br />
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Our trip started with us landing at Mactan-Cebu airport at 415am on 9 Aug <i><span style="color: #666666;">(yay, happy national day to SG</span></i>). Not the best timing to arrive, but given that we have a long journey ahead of us to get to the sea port, it's bearable. Met up with Patsy (my awesome mate from uni) and Steven and they got us hooked up with their aunt's transportation company, so we got ourselves a comfy Hi-Ace van with their driver<span style="color: purple;">. <i>p.s. anyone who's heading to malapascua from cebu, hit me up, i'll get you guys good rates from patsy's aunt.</i> </span>It's a 3.5 hrs drive from the airport to Maya-Malapascua ferry terminal, so be prepared for a longgggg ride. We stopped several times along the road to get coffee/sim card/snacks from 7-11 and lunch at Jollibee.<br />
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The local guys on the island grounds will try to help you carry your luggage and get tips from you afterwards. If you're feeling lazy or generous, feel free to get their help. btw, you will be landing on sandy beach, so if you're bring a trolley luggage, you're gonna have a hard time dragging it on the sand.<br />
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We took a short walk from the beach landing point to our dive resort, which is approximately 10min away. The island is pretty small, so the shops are close by one another, and you'll see the same faces quite often. Most of the dive resorts are operating on the beach front, so it's relatively easy to spot your dive shop. We managed to find our Devocean Divers pretty quickly, and met up with the manager in charge who introduced us to our Dive Master for the trip. As the resort staff set up our rooms and got it in order for check in, we had our dive briefing, filling up of forms, checking dive license etc. Be mindful that you have to be AOW certified in order to do the thresher shark dive as it is beyond 18m (which is the limit for OW divers)! There are 4 dives each day, rain or shine. It's up to you to plan your dives according to the package you have (or pay extra if you want to dive more). Day 1 will only be a check dive, no other dives involved. Since it was around noon when we arrived, we had our check dive at 2pm, so it was free & easy for a couple of hours for us.<br />
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Checked in to our individual cottages/rooms and set out to explore the island on foot. First thing we needed to get was <span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>DRINKING WATER</b></span>! There's a main mini-mart on the island, within walking distance to the beach (it's at the back) and it has almost everything you need. There are several smaller marts along the beach front but they have limited items (water, snacks, cup noodles, sunscreen mainly). Ohyes, bring along your own sunscreen, it is quite expensive there!<br />
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Back on land and started planning where to go for dinner. I had previously researched online that there's a dainty local restaurant that has very yummy home cooked food, so we decided to try that out. It's called <span style="color: blue;">"Ging-ging's Restaurant"</span> and here's the location of it <b><span style="color: #666666;">84H8+5F Daanbantayan, Cebu, Philippines</span><span style="color: orange;"> </span></b>We went early since we wanted to have some drinks after dinner, butttttt, the dinner took super long!!! I reckon we waited at least 45min or 1 hour for our food to arrive. It was cheap, no doubt, and yummy, but the waiting time was such a killer! My advice for anyone who wants to dine there; go early and expect a long waiting time. Had some drinks after dinner that night, and boy it hit us hard the next day when we went for our morning dive. <i>#deeplyregretful </i><br />
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As the Monal Shoal is a cleaning station, there is actually a rope that marks the boundary for divers. You'll have to kneel/sit/ float and observe from behind the rope so as not to alarm the sharks during their cleaning and frighten them away. yeah below is a bad example of Zach crossing the boundary, and you can see our DM in the background asking him to come back. haha.<br />
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I was feeling a little seasick after my first morning dive, so I opted out of the afternoon dives, and retreated back to my room to sleep while the rest went on with their dives. Woke up again at noon to eat my breakfast which Zach & Cindy has kindly ordered for me. Feeling better after my nap, we decided to explore the Lighthouse. Initially, the plan was to go cliff diving but heard that it was closed off due to bad weather conditions and sharp rocks beneath. We hired some locals on bikes to bring us up, and they were waiting at the foot to fetch us back... I can't quite remember the price but it wasn't expensive. Stumbled upon some beach and spent some time there too.<br />
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We were not due back for a dive until the evening for our night dive. I thought that we were all going for night dive, but turns out we were doing the Sunset dive instead. Luckily we all got back right before the dive crew departed, so we got our stuff together quickly. The reason why you would want to do a sunset dive is to actually catch a glimpse of this tiny fish doing "boom boom". The dive spot called <span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Light House Reef</span> is where you can catch <b>Mandarin Fish</b> mating around sunset. It is quite challenging to take a photo of these shy fish without disturbing them, they easily go back hiding in the reef. Too bad i didn't have a proper camera to capture macro photos.... But even still, it was super difficult to get a nice clean shot with sooooo many people gathering around/above you.<br />
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Yeap. Look at how many divers are crowding around that coral watching the Mandarin Fish mating. hahahaha. We stayed for about a good 20min here, as this was the highlight of the sunset dive. Some of us got bored after awhile and started roaming around nearby. One of our friends didn't wear his contact lens for this dive and he couldn't see the tiny fish at all and gave up crowding around the coral. hahaha! After the fish went back into hiding, we moved off to other areas as it got darker and spotted some cute critters along the way.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #ea9999; font-size: large;">Day 3</span><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;"> </span></b>- We did our morning dive at Monal Shoal again, because why not.... This time, we had sightings of larger threshers and more of them! Much better than the day before, which was an unexpected bonus!! I had no regrets waking up super early in the morning to do this dive and I reckon it's one of the most satisfying dives I've ever had. *Must do* Since I didn't do my afternoon dive the day before, I did it on this day.<br />
Finished off my 6th and last dive with a night dive and we are all done for the trip! It was our last night here, and so came the drinks.... Coincidentally, our dive resort had a live band going on, and we hung out on the beach till late at night sipping on the addictive (1 for 1) cocktails.<br /><br /><div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Highlights of our dive; Thresher sharks!!!!</div>
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February is drawing near! Which means, Chinese New Year is around the corner! My favourite time of the year (besides Christmas) because the feasting never ends. And its a legit excuse to buy new clothes. muahahaha. The best time for singles out there to get as many angbaos as possible, and for the wedded couples to be giving out angbaos till their legs crumble. hahaha! CNY is also the busiest time of the year for beauty salons/ nail parlour / hair salons. I, too, am no different from the rest out there. Fixed my hair appointment with my regular salon and came in to revive my hair.</div>
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Since I only had 3 hrs to spare during then, I couldn't do much. Sharon recommended revitalizing my hair which were to do root touch up, treatment and a small trim to ensure my locks look healthy while doing CNY visiting. hahaha. Here's how my flat and grown-out-roots hair looks before:</div>
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Proceeded with the touching up my roots first. Had the scalp protector applied first before anything else takes place. If you recall previously, some time back when it was still the previous hair stylist doing my hair for me, she had highlighted my hair, which made some parts brighter than the rest. Since I didn't shave my head/cut short my hair, I had to let it slowly grow out and trim accordingly. My root touch up isn't entirely focused on my root but it extends further down till about 1/3 of my hair length so it helps to blend in and soften the contrast between the different tones. The hair dye is added progressively with each session to darken and even the colour out. My stylist, Sharon, reckons that I should be able to change a full head colour by my next session. And hopefully it stays.......</div>
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Hairplus has 2 signature treatment types; Reminessance Scena Treatment and Milbon Treatment. Milbon Treatment is a 3-step treatment package, whereas Reminessance Scena Treatment is a 5-step treatment package. Both has different price to it and it's for different hair profile. Although Milbon is more popular and less costly, I opted for the Reminessance treatement as my hair suited the profile and it reacted well to it, staying soft for an extended period of time when I tried it the last time. This treatment is more suited for those with thin and softer hair. It's a 5-step process, helps to reduce water loss and improves hair shine. </div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Step 1:</b> </span>The first part of this treatment is a "treatment-in-wash". I went over to the wash basin and had the treatment shampoo washed all over my hair and it was left bubbling there for 5 min before being washed off. This is one of the best smelling treatment shampoo I've ever smelt in my life. It somewhat resembles the smell of those long striped sugar candy, super berry flavoured. hahaha</div>
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<b><span style="color: #e69138;">Step 2:</span></b> The treatment cream was applied to my hair then wrapped up in the hair steamer to steam for 5min. Proceeded to wash off (no shampoo involved) then back to my seat again for Step 3.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #e69138;">Step 4:</span> </b>Once 5min is up, step 4 cream is applied directly on the hair (without having to wash off) and steamed for another further 10min. </div>
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Althought it may seem like a hassle to shuttle continuously between the salon chair and the wash basin seat, the results are worth the walk. Plus, you get to enjoy the hair massage scrub! <i>#cheapthrills </i></div>
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Got my hair blow-dried and Sharon helped to trim my ends and shape slightly before calling it a day!</div>
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I initially wanted to cut fringe (trying to be daring again), but Sharon gave a big No-No. hahaha! Well, she knows that I'm going for my pre-wedding shoot in May and she's worried that my fringe may not grow out by then to do different hair styles for the shoot. Lol. okay then, I shall stick to this hairstyle for now.....</div>
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Here's my healthier and shinier hair looks after 2.5 hrs in the salon! <i><span style="color: #666666;">fyi, i didn't perm my hair, Sharon just curled my hair slightly with a flat iron before i left the salon. haha</span></i></div>
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For all my readers out there who have yet to get their hair done, or are looking for a salon to do treatment or cut or anything else, here's some discount you get to enjoy for the month of <span style="color: #cc0000;">February</span>!</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy 10% off all Perm Treatment Package (includes cut) !<br />Enjoy 20% off Milbon Treatment !</span></span><i>*Hairplus Korean Salon <b>does not</b> have CNY surcharge. Hurry down to get your hair done before CNY comes!</i></div>
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<br />JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-52553872440396190142018-12-21T17:29:00.000+08:002018-12-21T17:40:55.909+08:00Your complete guide to Royal Carriban Cruise | Voyager of the SeaHey folks, if you've been following my Insta & FB, you'll see that I recently brought my mum on a 4D3N Royal Carribean cruise to Penang about 2 months ago. I think it was one of the best decision ever, and the cruise experience was so amazing! It was my first cruise in my 27 years of life (haha, yeah i know), but it was my mum's 2nd cruise with RC. She went with my bro & his family about 5 years ago on <span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Mariner of the Sea</span>. This time, our cruise carrier was <span style="color: blue;">Voyager of the Sea</span>, with an addition of the Flowrider!<br />
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Ever since i came back from my cruise, i received lots of questions from friends & strangers asking me about the cruise and the details, so i thought I'd do a detailed blog post about the cruise to benefit those who may want to go on the cruise in the future.<br />
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Let's not compare the prices based on what I paid. I booked my cruise at a F&F rate, so it was cheaper than general. I made some friends on the cruise, and coincidentally two of them were my cabin neighbours <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(yes, B &A, i'm referring to you guys. haha)</span></i>! They said that they booked their cruise on a sale online, and paid about $300 (incl of gratitues & port tax) each for interior stateroom. I actually went online to check the price for the cruise which i had booked on just to see the market rate. It cost about $540 each for interior room. So there you go, if you want to bag a bargain, look out for sales online or even at travel expos, they have quite good discount! Do your homework first and know the market rate so you know you won't be overcharged.<br />
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After you've booked your cruise, you will receive a few emails from RC with documents that you need to print out and fill up to bring on your departure day. Most importantly, you will receive your Deck Number & Stateroom number. You have to remember your Deck number as it will determine many things on the cruise. In the email, you will find a Check-in schedule, which indicates your check in time according to your deck level. We were on Deck 7 and our check in time was 1.30pm. However, i heard from my friends that they were allowed to check in earlier before their assigned hour, so we tried our luck. We arrived at <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Marina Bay Cruise Centre</b>,</span> very conveniently located within 5-10min walking distance from Marina South Pier MRT Station, at 11am.<br />
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I don't think we waited very long before our colour was called to board. I reckon it was less than 20min after we checked-in. Once your group colour is called, everyone will be ushered to the corridor to walk the passageway to the cruise ship. It's typically like the walkway at the airport where you walk to your plane. You know that "tube-like" thing which i don't know the name of..... haha. But anyway, once you're at the end of that tube, there will be crew to collect your passport and it will be placed in their care according to your Deck level and room number. So technically, you are passport-free throughout your entire trip (even when you disembark to go down Penang). Once we handed over our passports, we got our Sea Pass card scanned and faces checked (to see if it's a match), we were officially on the cruise!<br />
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Yes, windjammer is open for lunch service from 1130am- 330pm so expect lots of people there. We got on-board at 12 noon, and managed to find a table for both of us easily. Since we didn't check in our luggage, we had to lug it along everywhere we went. We just left our luggage at our table and went to the buffet line to get our lunch.<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span></span><br />
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The cruise ship doesn't set off until the Muster Drill is conducted, which is at 430pm. As there are many passengers on-board the cruise, all of your Muster Assembly locations are on different parts of the cruise. You will see your Muster Assembly station printed on your Sea Pass card, mine was D24 <i>(refer to my Sea Pass photo above)</i>. At around 3.45pm, there will be an announcement and all the crew members will politely chase you out of the venues to gather at your Muster Assembly Stations for the Muster Drill. It's basically like a briefing on what to do during an emergency. They take it very seriously and even if you're sleeping in your stateroom, they will chase you out of it. We were honestly quite confused on where to go for the drill, everyone was scrambling everywhere, but the crew had big signs that indicated the Number. So you'll just have to find the right floor, and the right exit and the right number signboard for your assembly station. But don't worry there are plenty of crew around to help and point you in the right direction to head towards. Once you're at the right spot, they will tick your names off the list and you'll be allowed to stand with the rest. When the list is fully ticked at all the stations, the drill will commence. The crew actually walked around and told people off to not use their phones or eat/drink during the Muster Drill. So serious! hahaha. Anyway, the safety briefing didn't take very long but the waiting took quite awhile since there's sooooo many people on the cruise! Once the Muster Drill is conducted, the ship left the docks. My mum and i went up to Deck 12 to see the ship leaving before playing a game of table tennis together. hahaha<br />
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There are 4 types of accommodation in the cruise; Interior, Oceanview (window room), Balcony and Deluxe Suite. There are a total of 1643 staterooms, with the majority going to Interior and Balcony rooms. Basically, interior room is a room with no windows or views. If you are mildly claustrophobic, i wouldn't recommend you to take this. You could opt for the oceanview (with an actual real window) or a room with virtual window (the view outside is fake). If you'd like to read up more info on the cruise ship, here's the the link - <a href="https://www.royalcaribbeanpresscenter.com/fact-sheet/19/voyager-of-the-seas/" target="_blank">Royal Carribean Voyager of the Sea Factsheet</a><br />
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There are several places to dine (complimentary) at onboard. The breakfast and lunch restaurant will mainly be at <span style="color: #e69138;">Windjammer</span> which is located on Deck 11. Breakfast is open from 7am - 10.30am, lunch is from 11.30am - 3.30pm and dinner is from 7pm - 10.30pm. Another place that is open for casual dining is <span style="color: #76a5af;">Cafe Promenade</span> which is located on Deck 5. This place is open 24hrs (i think so, they're always open...), and they have sandwiches, muffins, pizza slices, cookies, coffee, tea, water. Basically simple finger food, not something that can substitute a full meal in my opinion. For dinner, most people choose to have it at <span style="color: blue;">Sapphire Dining Room</span>.<br />
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It's a formal dining area, 3 levels high, and you will have to book your dinner time beforehand. Its a choice between 530pm or 8pm. We were given 8pm initially during our cruise booking bcos i didn't choose, but i wanted to change it to 530pm since we wanted to catch shows at night. Once i board the cruise, i went to my assigned dining level (it will be indicated on your Sea Pass card) to change the dinner timing. This should be the first thing to do if you need to change your dining time as there are limited seats per seating. I absolutely love Sapphire room dining as it is ala-carte, you get to choose an appetizer, a main and a dessert. oh yes, if you're still not full after your first round, feel free to order a second helping. Yes, the food is all complimentary! Order as much as you want from the fine-dining menu, just don't be wasteful..<br />
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Every guest is assigned the same table and same waiter throughout your trip. So if you're travelling in a group of 8, you'll be given a long table and that will be the same table you will dine at for the rest of your dinners (except disembarkation night). My mum and i were given a corner table so we can enjoy a quiet dinner and our waiters (both from Philippines) were so pleasant!<br />
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If you want to have a special dinner on the cruise, there are 4 specialty restaurants to choose from (at an additional cost). You have <b>Chops Grille, Giovanni's Table, Izumi and Johnny Rockets</b> to choose from, and the restaurant staffs will actively sell you package to dine there..We didn't go for any of the specialty restaurants as we thought the Sapphire main dining was good enough for us.<br />
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We had coffees and cookies at Cafe Promenade only when we were waiting for a show or an activity to start. hahaha. Many people will sit there and watch people walk by... Oh and it was the only place to "refill" your water bottles. So the water on RC is not bottled water, they actually distill their own water from seawater. If you are cautious of the water you're drinking, you can either bring your own water (keep it in your luggage), or purchase a drinks package. There is only water, coffee and tea served at Cafe promenade and juices/cordials at Windjammer during meal times.<br />
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If you need your daily fix of soft drinks, you will need to purchase a drinks package. The drinks package can be bought beforehand/online (which is slightly discounted) or onboard. Regular drinks package include all drinks except alcohol, and it is free-flow. However, the down side is that you have to purchase the drinks package for the entire duration of your cruise. You cannot only purchase 1 day of your cruise and not for the rest of the days, you'll have to purchase the full duration. The non-alcohol drinks package cost about $125 for 4 days, and the alcohol package is about $250 for 4 days? Ballpark figure, i can't recall exactly... If you drink alot, it's worth it to get the alcohol package. Imagine free-flow alcohol from 14 bars onboard... Since it was only my mum and i, we didn't get any drinks package. haha.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Art Gallery / Casino (Deck 4), Duty Free Shops (Deck 5)</span></b><br />
On the first day of our cruise, we headed down to the Art Gallery as there was a raffle going on, it's kind of like a lucky draw for those who are present. hahaha, it was just for fun, since there wasn't much to do while the cruise is still docked... I guess if you're interested in Art, you could browse through their collection & listen to the art explanation class at the allocated timeslot.<br />
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Casino Royale! I was a little surprised to know that the casino was quite small on the cruise. I had imagined it to be bigger and more spacious. Since we don't gamble, we just walked around to peer at different tables and watched their game. Oh yes, when the cruise is docked (either in Singapore/Penang), the casino and duty free shops are closed for operation. I personally didn't find any items at the Duty free shops to be cheap or worth buying... There are watches, Coach retail outlet, jewellery, basic necessities, some other bag brands... Not too much to mention here anyway... haha<br />
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Jacuzzi & Main Swimming Pool (Deck 11)</span></b><br />
The only place where you can get your daily dose of Vitamin D! There are 2 small pools on the cruise, and by small i mean not olympic sized pools. It's mainly for kids and parents to swim/float inside, but it's not shallow like below 1m. It's 1.2m - 1.5m deep, so there are kids life jackets available at the side. There are 4 jacuzzi around the pool as well, so parents can soak there while keeping an eye on their child at all times.<br />
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For those who don't want to suntan or get in the way of kids/parents, you can choose to soak in the jacuzzi at the Solarium. It's an area further down from the Pool Towel Station, and it's not open to kids. So adults, you're the only ones there. There's a separate swimming pool there too (but it isn't sheltered, unlike the jacuzzi), but i find it super awkward to swim there since there will be 1 lifeguard staring at you while you swim back and forth. Plus, the water there is really salty (no idea why....)<br />
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Fitness Centre (Deck 11), Vitality Spa (Deck 12)</span></b><br />
I didn't go to the gym or the spa on my trip, since there was sooooo much to do outside already. But i saw photos of it, they looked nice! At certain times of the day, there are complimentary fitness classes (stretch class, abs class etc) held at the gym and also some complimentary spa trials and workshops that you can go for. But they're all in the morning, so if you decide to sleep in, you'll miss all the active stuff.<br />
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We came up to the running track every morning at 645am hoping to catch sunrise. Unfortunately for us, the weather wasn't on our side and we didn't manage to catch sunrise at all. But we did make it very early for breakfast since it opens at 7am. Honestly I was surprised to see quite a number of people actually running on the track in the early morning. It was super windy on the first morning and my hair was practically slapping my mum's face. hoho.<br />
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Nothing much to comment on the mini golf as i think it's quite useless. I did play it once w my mum, but for some reason the golf ball doesn't roll back even if you missed the hole. it kind of just rolled over to the next hole and i had to chase it back. so annoying. We shot a few balls at the basketball court just so we can say we did it... hahahha! Oh and we had a table tennis match among ourselves whenever we're free. There's only 3 tables and i noticed it's always occupied.<br />
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On the other end of the cruise (from the flowrider/basketball area), there is a small bar/club called High Notes. It's an adult only bar and there's a resident DJ who spins there from 1145pm onwards. You can actually get a nice view of the calm swimming pool area. The pool closes at 11pm, so when you're up at High Notes, you're just enjoying the calm view.<br />
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Star Lounge is also a chill jazz place where there's a band performance by the Golden Melodies Duo. They only start playing at 11pm onwards. Pretty chillax, not many people around, just you and the music. If you're into oldies, that's where you should head to. We bought a bottle of beer (Bud light) at Star Lounge to share and it cost USD 8.50! it was the one and only drink we ever bought on the cruise.... hahaha. During the day, Star Lounge hosts several game shows for the guests. I participated in one called "60 seconds or less", where a guy and girl will complete a series of tasks under 60 secs. Well, our tasks were to flip as many pencils as possible using the back of our hands and catching it in our palm. For some reason, i won the game (woohoo!) and i got a RC fridge magnet to bring home. hahahah! <i><span style="color: purple;">#cheapthrills </span></i> There was another game show called "Battle of the Sexes" and that was an interesting one. Suddenly everyone becomes very spontaneous to help their gender win the game even though we're all strangers.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Flow-Rider/ Boogie Board (Deck 13)</span></b><br />
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This has got to be the highlight of my trip!! The flowrider is not available on every vessel, but thankfully it was on this cruise (Voyager of the Sea). It is the most sought after sporting activity on the cruise, so naturally the queues are super long too! How this works on the cruise.... The flowrider is open at certain times of the day only, and the operating hours differ each day (almost).<br />
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For the timings that the flowriding is happening, boogie boarding is not (because they share the same system).<br />
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So for example, an itinerary for day can be Flowriding from 9am - 11am, Boogie board 11am - 3pm, Flowriding 3pm - 5pm. For those who don't know what Flowriding is, its also known as Stand up surfing <i>(photo on the right)</i>..<br />
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Boogie board is essentially the opposite of flowriding, you get to lie down on the board instead of standing up. As you tend to stay longer on the boogie board as compared to stand up surfing, waiting time is longer as well. On average, i would say there are about 20 people in front of you? But the good thing about boogie board sessions are that they divide the flowrider machine into 2 lanes, so there are 2 separate queues, but it also means the playing area is smaller as compared to flowriding.</div>
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The queues are ridiculously long for this activity as anyone who has "fallen off/washed up" has to re-queue for their turn again. So if you only spent less than 3 seconds trying to get your balance on the board only to be unmercifully swept away, it kinda sucks to go back in line again... Most people are trying flowriding for the first time so you can expect people to fall really quickly. But as the time slot for each activity is 2 hrs long, people tend to spend the full 2hrs queuing and trying out. Once you registered for any sports activity on the first day, you'll get a blue wristband which you have to keep on for the rest of the trip if you don't want to queue and sign waiver forms each day. </div>
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I practically planted my ass at the flowrider every day. Since it opens at 9am, I would always be the first one in line to kickstart the session. I find that there are lesser people in the morning as compared to the afternoon sessions, but it is still a super long wait... My poor mum is also dragged here to watch me play daily as she doesn't want to "potentially get injured" on the flowrider. But she enjoys watching people play (and fall), so i guess it was quite an enjoyment for her? </div>
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Usually the rock climbing sessions are open at the same time as the flowriding sessions. Since i preferred flowriding over rockclimbing, i only tried the rock wall once after my flowriding ended. It's a pretty short wall in my opinion, with a self-belay system so there will only be 1 sports staff on duty to just watch the climbers. There was a queue to register and get your climbing shoes & harness provided by the cruise, but it wasn't a super long wait like the flowrider. Once you fall off the rock, the system will bring you down to ground automatically (you can't continue on with your climb after if you missed a rock and fall off), and you'll have to rejoin the climbing queue to try again.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Ice Skating (Deck 3, Studio B)</span></b><br />
Ice skating sessions are only available on Day 2 when there isn't the Ice Odyssey Performance Show as both shows and the skating sessions use the same ice skating rink on the cruise. There are 2 sessions for the iceskate, morning and evening/night, but you have to be at the allocated time slot to register for your preferred ice skate session. Each session is only 30min and that will include your gearing up time as well. So after gearing up and successfully stepping onto the ice rink, you probably only have less than 15min to play. We didn't go for the iceskate as the registration time slot was during my flowriding session, plus my mum wasn't too keen to try out ice skating (she was afraid of falling)...<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">DreamWorks Move it Move It Parade (Deck 5)</span></b><br />
On the first day of your cruise, after it departs Singapore, make sure to camp at Deck 5, Royal Promenade, for a good spot to catch the DreamWorks Move it Move It Parade. It takes place at 5pm, and it only happens ONCE in the entire cruise. We made a mistake of not looking properly at our cruise compass and only stumbled upon it nearing the end of the show. So saddddd. I'm a big fan of DreamWorks characters and i'm so bummed that i actually missed the one and only showtime of this parade. :(<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"Ice Odyssey" Ice Spectacular Performance (Deck 3, Studio B)</span></b><br />
<b>MUST WATCH PERFORMANCE!!!!!!</b> I honestly think this is one of the best production performance on the cruise! The ice skating acts are so thrilling, entertaining and fun to watch. I shall not ruin the surprise for you, but definitely go catch it when it's showing. There are 2 shows on Day 1 and Day 3 (no shows on Day 2 since it's ice skating session), so you gotta time your dinner and catch the show. Also, there is no reservation of tickets for the performance, so it is based on first come first serve queue system. Studio B is relatively small as compared to the other theater on the cruise, so make sure you head down early to queue. We actually queued 45min prior to the show and there was already a long line infront of us.<br />
P.s. they will call a member of the audience up to "participate" in their show. I won't tell you how they choose this person (it's a surprise!), but i got chosen and i sat on the throne while they pushed me around on the ice. It was hilarious!<br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Royal Carribean's Production Show "Music in Pictures"</b> <b>(Deck 3 & 4, La Scala Theatre)</b></span><br />
On Day 2, there was music production with the RC singers & dancers at the theater. It was okay in my opinion, even though i didn't know most of the songs that they sang in the show. The theater is pretty big so there isn't a need to queue early for this show. Besides, there were quite a number of empty seats in the theater, maybe it isn't as popular...<br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Headliner Showtime featuring "The Aussie Boys"</b> <b>(Deck 3 & 4, La Scala Theatre)</b></span><br />
One of the special performances that we had on the cruise was <b><span style="color: #e06666;">The Aussie Boys</span></b>. I understand they are not a permanent show on this cruise, but I think they do hop from one cruise to another and in between their other performances elsewhere too. But if you do see this performance on your cruise compass, make sure to attend one of their shows! I had a front row seat and it was sooooo good! The 3 dashing Australian singers danced and sang to popular australian hit music and even MANDARIN songs! Yes, you didn't hear me wrongly. They sang not only 1 chinese song but quite a few! And it ranged from like oldies to jay chou songs. hahahaa, i was so caught by surprise when i heard mandarin words coming out... hop over to my instagram to see snippets of their performance <span style="color: blue;"><b>(<a href="https://www.instagram.com/chhyyee/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@chhyyee</span></a>)</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">70's Disco Inferno Street Party (Deck 5)</span></b><br />
<b>MUST WATCH!!</b> This was the final dance party to bring the cruise to an end. It was so high in action, with the Cruise Director, Ricky, making an appearance together with his activities team, dancing and singing the night away. We even got to take photos with the team members after the street party was over. It would be nice to be able to interact with the crew who has spent the last couple of days with us. :)<br />
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<b style="color: #6fa8dc;">Napkin Folding Class / Towel Folding Demo</b><br />
One of the activities that my mom wanted to try out was the napkin folding and towel folding class, so I made it a point to cut short one of my sporting activities to make time to head down to Schooner Bar (Deck 4) to attend the class together. It was pretty chill, with mainly only aunties (haha) and the staff will then pass around some thick square napkins. It was an actual folding class so you get to try it out and fold on the spot with the staff guiding you along. The towel folding demonstration wasn't an actual class, they just showcased the way that the housekeepers fold to form different types of animals which they place in your room on the last night of your voyage.<br />
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On the last night of dinner, the entire F&B crew at Sapphire Dining came together and put up a small performance where they sang and danced for the guests dining in the hall. It was quite a nice mini show to watch, knowing that they worked so hard day in and out to serve us and still have to put time aside to learn the dance moves and song lyrics to put up this performance. Kudos to you guys!<br />
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We initially didn't plan to leave the cruise and disembark at Penang as we wanted to go for the other programs that was happening during these hours. However, it rained and the pool programs were cancelled, and there wasn't much programs thereafter. So we decided to get out of the jacuzzi and change out to head to Penang. Our cruise docked (and cleared imigration) at about 330pm, and guests could disembark afterwards, but we have to be back by 10pm if not the cruise ship will leave without you. What surprised me most was that we didn't even have to collect our passport and we could just disembark and walk freely into Penang. I guess its hassle free to travel around without a passport? hahaha.<br />
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Anyway, it was raining quite heavily when we disembarked, so we brought our own brolly and walked to George Town. We didn't plan to walk all the way to george town, it kinda just happened and we stumbled upon it while trying to navigate with our google maps. There are heaps of taxi drivers waiting at the port to pick passengers up, but i heard their prices are quite exorbitant. If you really want a ride, it's much cheaper and safer to book on GRAB. As it was a Sunday afternoon when we arrived at Penang, most of the shops were closed for some reason, and we ended up at this local coffee shop to have our Penang laksa! It was just a short exploring for us as we intended to make itt back to the cruise at 6pm for our dinner at Sapphire Dining. Dining is still available on disembark day but the table seating is not fixed (as not everyone will be back for dinner), so it was a free seating style.<br />
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All in all, i think Royal Carribean did a fantastic job at curating activities and shows to keep the guests entertained at all times. There was always something to do no matter the time of the day. On the plus side, the service staffs/crew members were all so so so pleasant and polite to the guests. I found them to be even more courteous than regular hotel staff. The experience was made so much better from the great service from the crew members and their ability to go above and beyond to ensure your satisfaction and comfort at all times. Ohyes, and for those who are concerned on going for cruises bcos of motion sickness/sea-sick, don't worry a single thing, you won't even feel like you're travelling on water. Trust me, i have really really bad sea-sickness, i vomit everytime i take the boat. But on Royal Carribean, i didn't feel a thing at all! So super duper pleasant.</div>
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Great experience! I would definitely bring my family on a cruise again with Royal Carribean the next time, perhaps we'll try another port of destination? Or, the new Genting Dream? :></div>
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My new hair stylist who will be taking care of my hair needs is none other than Sharon! Sharon is the salon's newest senior hairstylist fresh from Seoul with 15 years of salon experience. *wow* She brings the latest styles and trends popular among her customers back home. Specializing in natural volume perms, she creates chic hairstyles that you can manage easily everyday, while looking refreshed and put together.<br />
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As mentioned, Sharon is fresh from Korea hence her English is not entirely fluent. But throughout my hours of sitting at the salon, we didn't have any dull moments at all. Language barrier ain't a problem. p<span style="font-size: x-small;">.s. they've got english speaking korean stylists too so don't worry.</span> It was Sharon's first time working on my hair, so she took some time to discuss on my needs/wants/restrictions/styles that I love. I think it was a little stressful for Sharon bcos she was afraid that i wouldn't like her style as i've been with Su for quite some time and changing a hair stylist suddenly can be worrying for some. Nonetheless, I'm very certain that i will be in good hands. Since I couldn't decide what I want (as usual), i leave it up to Sharon to design my hair. If you're just like me, clueless about hairstyles or colours, you can request for the hair stylist to design your hair for you. They will recommend the shape to cut, colours to match, and styles of hair that suits you and your daily lifestyle. To me, i feel that the important part about hairstyling is whether it suits your lifestyle. If I am a super sporty person, i wouldn't want a high maintenance hairstyle where I need to curl it/blow dry and style it all the time for it to look good. Likewise, if i'm someone who adopts a tai-tai lifestyle, I would want a hairstyle that matches my lifestyle for me to look good at all times.<br />
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Sharon decided not to perm my hair as I had highlighted the last time. Because of the highlighting, my hair texture may not be able to hold the shape of the perm, so it would be wasted if i went ahead with perms. Instead, she recommended me to touch up my roots and bring the highlights back to normal colour, and then go for an Ash Blue colour. No fancy styling this time, more of getting my hair back into shape. So it was just a trim to shape my hair, touching up colours, dying of Ash Blue colour and doing their new hair treatment called "Ethos Treatment".<br />
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Even though it didn't seem much, it was quite a big job as I had to colour touch up the roots and the mid portion of my hair to make it into the same colour before going over with the new intended colour. I think i spent 3-4 hrs in the salon doing that.. Also, my hair grows really fast, so my roots were very visible and i had so many different colours on my head. Oooopss. I should have visited the salon earlier.....<br />
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Alright, down to business! Here's Sharon giving my hair a slight trim. I wanted to cut my hair short but was advised against bcos it might curl outwards if it's at a shorter length than now. So i kept my current hair length, but got a trim on my fringe and layered the rest of my hair. After that, she started the first cycle of colouring - touching up of my roots. Then the application of scalp protector after the wash is done, before commencing on the second cycle of colouring - to tone the mid portion of my hair and the highlights to the original/darker hair colour. Afterwhich, the third cycle of colouring- turning my hair Ash Blue colour! Wooooo. I usually do the poofy hair steaming while dying my hair, but this time we skipped that, and wait it out for the colour to absorb naturally. It was about 30min of wait i reckon? The colour was really dark, but it will get lighter with every wash.<br />
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Once the hair dye is completed, I started on the Ethos hair treatment. Here's a little in-depth info on this Ethos hair treatment...</div>
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So yeap, my hair fits all the above recommendation, being damaged and nutrient deprived, and desperately in need of restoration. hahahaha. It is also great for post hair colouring, as the treatment cream helps to get rid of the colouring chemicals on your head.<br />
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Jamie (another new senior hairstylist) executed the treatment for me this time round. The smell is soooo amazing! It smells like berries. This treatment works a little like shampoo, once the liquid is applied on your hair, a brush is used to massage your scalp while combing through your hair. The more bubbles there are on your scalp, it means there's chemical presence there, which the treatment will attempt to eliminate or neutralize with its pH balance. The brush will massage your scalp and don't be afraid to see it bubbling or foaming up. It's good for your hair to get rid of all these chemicals. After combing through, the treatment solution is left on for about 10min before washing it off. Then the next treatment cream is applied while your hair is still damp (at the basin), quick massage and comb through before washing it away.<br />
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Ta-daaaa, that's how my new Ash Blue hair looks like. All rejuvenated and fresh looking as compared to when I first walked in to the salon... The hair colour is quite dark, looks kind of like black colour, but when the sunlight hits, you can see hints of blue and ash tones on it. I reckon it'll get more obvious after like 10 washes? hahaha, we shall see!<br />
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Welcome to Part 4 of my travelogue in UK. If you haven't read Part 1, 2 & 3, click on the below links to read up first!</div>
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<b><span style="color: purple;"><a href="https://thescarletwords.blogspot.com/2017/06/travelogue-london-x-scotland-x.html" target="_blank">10 Days United Kingdom Itinerary: London, Scotland, Manchester (Part 1)</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: purple;"><a href="https://thescarletwords.blogspot.com/2017/07/travelogue-london-x-scotland-x.html" target="_blank">10 Days United Kingdom Itinerary: London, Scotland, Manchester (Part 2)</a></span></b></div>
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We bid Manchester farewell today, board our Virgin Trains at 955am onwards to London Euston station. This time we booked the first class cabin to try it out. I think it cost us £55 (S$100) for each ticket, and it includes a complimentary meal. We had the option of big breakfast, salmon scrambled egg, porridge or bacon roll. My mom and i took the salmon scrambled egg option and my dad chose porridge. He's a real asian dude, so after many days of western food, he was craving for some porridge/grains/rice. To his dismay, porridge in UK means oats, and not our typical asian kind of congee. When his oats came, he was so disappointed, and he wasn't a big fan of oats either. But since it's been ordered and delivered, he had no choice but to eat it while smelling our freshly scrambled eggs. hahaha! Poor thing!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">2 hours later, we've reached London. Since we stayed in an airbnb earlier in London, we decided to try a local hotel for our last 3 days... We booked Judd Hotel which was located within walking distance from Euston train station. The hotel room is TINY!!!!! I've heard that London hotels are known to be small, but this is really the first time i've experienced it. I would recommend everyone to book airbnb instead if you like having a big space to walk around, pack your luggage, dine together etc. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">This day was spent exploring London sights as we didn't do that in the earlier part of our trip. We did purchase the London Pass, but it was for the last day and we only purchased the 1 Day pass. So on this day, we planned to visit all the iconic places of interest that is absolutely free and a museum which wasn't included in the London Pass. We left the places that requires an entry ticket but covered in London Pass for the last day to do.. btw, we realized that it's impossible to squeeze so many sights in a single day for London Pass, which is something we regret doing....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">We took the Tube everywhere we went in London with the Oyster card we got on our first day. London's metro system is incredibly convenient, so we took the tube everywhere. The fares are not as cheap as Singapore, but it's definitely cheaper than getting a taxi/uber. </span><br />
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First stop we visited was the British Museum. This museum is free entry and it's open from 10am - 530pm. We spent quite some time in this museum as it was slightly more interesting than the other museums that we had previously visited. </div>
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Next stop is the famous Buckingham Palace. We didn't plan to go inside the Palace as it costs £25 per entry and it's NOT included in the London Pass as well. Well, to us, a photo outside the Palace is good enough....<br />
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From Buckingham Palace, we walked over to Big Ben. It took us about 15min to walk briskly over. You're unable to enter Big Ben if you're not a UK resident, and you have to contact the MP or a member of House of Lords months in advance to secure a tour spot if you fit the criteria. I guess for most tourists, everyone just wants a picture with Big Ben and call it a day...<br />
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From Big Ben, it is a short 10min walk to London Eye, and you can easily spot it from far... London Eye is also NOT included in the London Pass, so a picture with it is good for us. Since it was almost evening after we're done with the sight hopping, we went back to Oxford street to do some shopping! Couldn't resist myself to buy unnecessary stuff from Primark.. hahaha, every girl's weakness. We stumbled upon a cool looking place called The Glassblower Restaurant at Piccadilly for dinner. Yummmm, the fish and chips is so good! Total damage for 7 pax is £79.40 (S$141). </span><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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This day has got to be my absolute absolute favourite day!!!! We're going shopping at Bicester Village. If you don't already know, London is famous for having this amazing outlet mall called Bicester Village. They've got literally every brand that i love over here. A tip is to go early, and be ready to be squashed by china tourists. We booked the Express Bus service from Bicester village, which cost us about £20 each? But they had specific pickup points (normally near big hotels), so we had to take a train in the morning to the nearest pickup point. The bus journey was quite long due to the traffic on the road.<br />
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Once i reached the village, i zoomed off to the various stores that i wanted to buy stuff from. If you're going Bicester, and want to fully maximize your time spent here, you need to make a mental route of where to go/which shop to go. Eliminate any stores that you're not interested in, and just go straight to the shops that you want to buy stuff from. Trust me, there won't be enough time even so. The Prada shop had a very long queue just to enter, so you should head there first. Btw, they have Miu Miu products inside the Prada store, so you don't have to search for an actual Miu Miu store as there isn't. The shops at bicester are all stand alone, and it's not really like a mall, it's kinda like a village with individual boutique shops. The place is neither big or small, i think it's sufficient. I went crazy here and bought shit loads of stuff that i've been wanting to buy... </div>
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Food wise, there isn't much options. There's a chinese noodle store in the middle of the village, very clever of them... There's a coffee place where you'll find majority guys inside, y'know waiting and guarding the ladies' shopping goods....<br />
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The latest bus departure for the Express service is 5pm, so we had about 5hrs to shop? There is tax refund counter there, but it is soooo packed with tourists and the bus was leaving soon. We did our tax refund at the airport anyway but the queue was long as well. However, as we had anticipated it already, we went early on our last day... </div>
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These are our shopping hauls from Bicester Village. i would go back again any time to continue shopping. :D</div>
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Since it was our last night, I had to meet my friend, Stephanie, before i left. I met Steph during my uni placement at Australia, we worked together on Fitzroy Island Resort and she is such a darling! Ever since she left Fitzroy to go back UK, i've been wanting to visit her. Just nice i'm visiting London and she's around too, so we met for dinner and drinks that evening. </div>
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That is us above (in the middle row), taken in January 2014 at the countdown party for NYE at Fitzroy island. And below is current (2017!).</div>
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It was our last day today, and we had to make the most out of it!! We had breakfast at the hotel in the morning, and set off for Borough market straightaway. Borough market is kinda like an organic, fresh local produce market. You'll find many specialty products here, some can be quite pricey, but you won't see them at your regular supermarket. it's good to have a look around... it was pretty quiet in the morning when we went, which is good for us!<br />
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Oh yes, my bro and i saw this specialty meat shop and we knew we had to try one of the meats. Since the today's specials is Crocodile burger, we went for that! The meat taste is quite gamey, but it doesn't taste too bad. None for xinni though, as she was pregnant at that time... baby claire was still kicking around inside her then. heh.</div>
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After borough market, we started on our 1 Day London Pass sightseeing trip. From borough market, we walked over to Tower Bridge and Tower of London. But, we couldn't miss the London Bridge! Actually London Bridge didn't look like what i had imagined. I thought it would be very grand and nice, but it was quite a run down bridge that cars pass by every day. The nice looking structure that is a bridge as well, is actually the Tower Bridge... not to be confused with the London Bridge...<br />
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Standing on London Bridge, taking a photo of Tower Bridge at the far background..... :B</div>
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Tower Bridge and Tower of London is within walking distance from one another from London bridge... But it was drizzling when we were walking over :(</div>
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Our flight back to Sg was at 830pm that day, so we had to reach the airport around 5pm since we still had to queue for the tax refund. Good thing we booked our airport transfer at 330pm, giving us ample time to get there early. But the bad thing was that we only had half a day to do our 1 Day tour on the London Pass. Our airport transfer was booked via <a href="http://www.taxireservations.co.uk/" target="_blank">London Toolkit</a> at £100 (S$182) for a 7 pax Alphard car. It was spacious and the driver was really friendly. We booked the same car on our arrival on the first day too!<br />
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Anyway, if you bought branded goods in London, it's best to pack them in a separate luggage, and you have to bring them to the tax refund counter. Some will open up your luggage to check the items that you bought, some won't. It depends on the item that you've purchased. So do remember to have everything with you before you queue at the Tax refund counter, or you'll be wasting precious time.<br />
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This is our itinerary below for 10 days. If you want the excel version, feel free to drop me a message with your email, I'll gladly send it over to you.<br />
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Part 3 of my travelogue in UK. If you haven't read Part 1 & 2, click on the below links to read up first!</div>
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Today, we went on another tour called "<a href="https://www.viator.com/tours/Edinburgh/Stirling-Castle-and-Whisky-Day-Tour-from-Edinburgh/d739-9085P2" target="_blank">Stirling Castle and Whisky Small Group Day Tour</a>" with Viator <span style="font-size: x-small;">(S$66/pax)</span> to see the castle and of course to have some whiskey at Glengoyne distillery. It was a scenic drive along the way but I think the tour we did the other day was better. It took us 1hour to get from Edinburgh to Stirling castle. The pickup location is quite centralized at a busstop down town, not difficult to find. </div>
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To note that that the entry ticket to Stirling Castle is paid separately, not included in the tour price. We paid £91.30 for 7 pax which works out to be S$13/pax. Once inside the castle, it was a free & easy tour around the place. Our guide/bus driver didn't follow us in, he dropped us outside and gave us the time to gather back again. We thought we were going to be lost sheep inside, but thankfully there was a tour guide from the Castle itself who gave us the tour.</div>
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We were given about 1-2 hours at the castle which was plenty. After which, our driver drove us to our lunch location at a small town nearby. We were given 1- 1.5hrs to have lunch and explore the little town. He even told us a little spot up the hill which we could walk up (about 15min) to see hairy coos. My dad was really excited to see hairy coos and without hesitation, our family was walking up the hill at once.<br />
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Lo and behold, we spotted hairy coos grazing at the grasslands on top of the hills....<br />
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After some photos with the coos, we had to climb down the hill to get back to town for lunch. Along the way, we stopped to skip some stones at this random misty lake. LOL. what a familyyyyy.<br />
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Had lunch at The Forth Inn, small humble cosy looking pub inn. We ordered cajun burger, risottos, haggis burger (my dad's fav food now), ribs, pork loin and 2 flights of beer for £82. Quite worth it considering it fed 7 pax very well! I'm actually loving haggis, it ain't that bad honestly!<o:p></o:p><br />
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I must say the food portion in UK is quite generous. For my mum and i, we could order 1 person share and still be super full even though we shared the meal. So so so satisfied with the food there. If you're a fan of chinese food, i must say your options are pretty limited there.... I didn't come across ANY chinese food at all, except within Chinatown at London....<br />
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Next stop:<b> <span style="color: magenta;">Glengoyne Distillery!</span></b><br />
Everyone was having food coma on the coach so we didn't really look out to see the scenery. hahaha! I bet the driver felt the same too, he was awfully quiet during the trip too. When we finally arrived, i was the first to get excited. We paid £60 entry ticket with a tour plus a drink (£10 x 2 pax for 2 drinks, £8 x 5 pax for 1 drink), except for my bro and i , we topped up extra to taste another whiskey. hehe.<br />
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I must say the guide was very knowledgeable on his whiskey. This distillery is the most popular choice among other whiskey distilleries as it was the easiest to access, not too far away. Hence there were more participants as compared to other distillery. After the tour and tasting ended, we shopped around the bottle shop and bought some bottles back as gifts/own consumption. The prices were super affordable! Plus, you can't even find some of these whiskey off the shelves in Singapore. Buy more! But do take note of the limit of alcohol that you can bring back in to Sg, meaning no more bottles for you at DFS.</div>
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I bought 2 bottles of 15 year , 1 bottle of 18 years, and a 9pcs whiskey stone set, cost me £62 in total. I didn't buy the full size bottle as they were too heavy, i got the slightly smaller bottle instead (as pictured above). So excited to drink my whiskey!</div>
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Anyway, once we were done with our purchase (we were the last to return back to the bus), we headed back to Edinburgh city. End of trip! Overall i would say it's a very relaxed trip, i think if you're renting a car by yourself, you could even drive on your own up to Stirling Castle and Glengoyne Distillery. </div>
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Journey from Glengoyne Distillery back to Edinburgh took 1.5hrs, of which im sure i slept throughout. Had our dinner at Greene King Restaurant Pub, costing us £52 for a Lamb shank Shepherd pie, bangers mash, gammon steak , fish n chips and 2 pale ales. I find that pub food are always super awesome in UK, so we constantly look out for nice cosy pubs to hide inside for dinner. </div>
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It was an early day for us as we were leaving Edinburgh today to head down to Manchester. We visited the Edinburgh Castle in the morning, ticket price cost us £115.50 for 7 adults <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(S$30/pax). </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Honestly, i can't remember much about castles or history, and almost every castle we've visited in London/Edinburgh looks kindaaaa similar to one another? Okay maybe there are distinctive differences but not too many either.... </span></div>
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After Edinburgh castle, we rushed over to<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="https://www.oinkhogroast.co.uk/" target="_blank">Oink</a></span> for our pulled pork burger. We actually went there the day before, but it was sold out!!!!! It is reviewed as the best place in Edinburgh with pulled pork burger, so we had to try it no matter what. It's located at 34 Victoria St, Edinburgh EH1 2JW, UK , so get there early before it's all gone!! </div>
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The journey was quite long, and we had to change trains 3 times. Edinburgh Station - Preston, Preston - Deansgate, Deansgate - Manchester Piccadilly. We left at 1250pm and only arrived at 420pm. Even though our train wasn't first class cabin, it was comfortable. We did take a first class train cabin on our journey back to London. LOL. So anyway, upon reaching Manchester, we quickly checked in to hotel apartment, Le Reserve Aparthotel. This hotel apartment was right beside the Manchester Piccadilly train station, and it was more convenient for us 7 people as we had to drag our luggage along. After settling in to our rooms, we called an Uber to bring us over to Old Trafford!!! </div>
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Upon passing through the security check, we headed straight to the merchandise store. The security's quite strict, forbidding the use of selfie sticks, or any long object, perhaps fearing agitated soccer fans hurling it and hurting others. I did bring my gopro, together with the gopro stick. But before going through the bag check, i unscrewed the gopro separate from the stick, and i hid the stick at the bottom of my bag. i guess if they don't see you using it, they are fine with it. </div>
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Old Trafford was filled with people, everyone cheering for different teams. Our match that day was Manchester United vs Hull City. Along the way (before entering Old Trafford), you will see many people peddling goods relating to that match of the evening. There were scarves, jersey, random merchandise. My bro got a scarf from them to keep as a token of memoir. It had the match date, and teams written on it, so i guess it's something unique that we will always remember? The official merchandise shop doesn't sell that. </div>
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My advice is to go straight and buy your merchandise from the official store before entering the stadium. I bought a MU t-shirt, which cost me £18 (S$32).. It wasn't even the jersey, just a normal MU t-shirt. Can't believe how expensive the jersey cost.... T__T Once the game ends, everyone will rush out and the shop will be even more crowded. We bought some stuff inside and headed into the stadium. So, in order to watch a match there, you have to be a "Manchester fan". By that, i mean you have to register for the fanclub membership. Only after being a member, then you're allowed to purchase tickets for any match. you'll receive a membership card like below, and the match ticket on paper. On match day itself, you have to present the membership card and the ticket to scan through the automated gantry. I can't remember how much it cost exactly, but it's somewhere between S$50 - S$100. We sat at the top, one of the cheaper tickets, but the view was not too bad. It didn't seem too far away, and i could still see the player's names on their jersey (i have bad eyesight, especially at night)...</div>
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I'm not a big soccer fan, never watched soccer in my life, and this is definitely my FIRST ever live soccer watching event. Even though i don't enjoy watching soccer, i find it quite interesting and entertaining while watching it in action. The reaction from the crowd is unbelieveable! They're constantly standing up, cheering at every goal/near goal/good pass, and everyone was singing some songs or cheers for the club. Even my bro chanted along too....</div>
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The game ended with a draw, and honestly i did enjoy watching the match. I don't think i'll ever enjoy it as much watching on tv. But the live atmosphere is completely different! For girls who don't like soccer but your other half loves it, try watching it live at the match itself, you'll feel different. :)</div>
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JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-23501482751866147952018-09-27T12:10:00.000+08:002018-09-28T11:23:13.558+08:00Taste of Australia x Vietnam x Sheraton Grand Da Nang Resort | TravelogueHi guys, it's been awhile since my last post. I've since revamped my blog (finally!) and i guess i'll try to blog more often now.<br />
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5 months ago <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(gosh, it was definitely awhile ago)</span></i>, I was invited by Raffael on behalf of my Australia University (Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School) to be a guest judge at the finals culinary competition for Taste of Australia, held at Da Nang Vietnam. It is such an honor to be part of this prestigious event, which encourages young aspiring chefs in Vietnam to pursue their culinary dream.<br />
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Taste of Australia is the annual celebration of Australian food, beverages, cuisine and culture throughout Vietnam, led by Taste of Australia Ambassador, Australian celebrity chef Luke Nguyen.<br />
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The Culinary Competition is a highlight of the annual Taste of Australia program, providing culinary students the chance to compete for a scholarship to study culinary arts in Australia. 19 teams of culinary students in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Da Nang, Da Lat and Nha Trang competed in simultaneous heats on 17 April. 8 young vietnamese chefs from Pegasus International College Hanoi, Hue Tourism College, Dalat Vocational School and Vung Tau Vocational College won their city's heats and flew in to Sheraton Grand Da Nang Resort for the Finals held on 20 April.<br />
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Stakes are really high in this competition as the grand prize was a full scholarship to study culinary arts at Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School!!!<br />
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I flew in to Da Nang on 19 April, together with Raffael, from Singapore. Arrived at Sheraton Grand, and boy did it live up to its name. It was named as the only hotel in Vietnam to boost a super long swimming pool, with an infinity edge. Having worked in hotels in Australia and Singapore, i've never come across a hotel with such expansive pool. Waited for awhile to check in, and we went to our rooms thereafter. Thanks to Rafael, i had the Suite room facing the pool, and it was really huge. Too big for just 1 person, but i guess i really enjoyed spreading my things around the entire suite. I am absolutely in love with the large King bed with fluffy pillows (enough to build myself a fortress) and a huge TV right in front of my bed. The entire room was gorgeous and the amenities made it even better. After we settled in to our rooms, the day went by really quick. Had a quick dip in the pool while sipping cocktails and dinner at a neighbouring hotel with Rafael.<br />
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And the first dish challenge is ........ Salmon Confit! </div>
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Luke Nguyen then gave a briefing to the chefs, allowed them to take notes and taste the dish before going to get ingredients to re-make this amazing dish. </div>
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After a short break, the competition resumed to it's second segment - the Mystery Box! The Mystery Box comprised of fresh produce from Australia, and the rule for this segment is that all of the ingredients must be incorporated into their dish that they are going to create. Quite a challenge....</div>
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The dishes were all very tasty and they really brought out the characteristics of each individual. Of course, in a competition, there has to be a final winner, which we had a tough debate over. Karen and I had our eyes set on one pair, whereas Luke and Hoa had their eyes on another pair; it was a difficult debate. But we eventually came to agreement on the final winner.... <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(p.s. we also gave a consolation award in the end which wasn't part of the plan...)</i></span></div>
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<b>Announcement of Results!</b></div>
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Aaaaannndddd the winning team goes to......<br />
<b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pegasus International College Hanoi !!!!! </span> </span></b><br />
The pair walked away with an all-expenses paid trip to Sydney and <u><b>two full scholarships</b></u> at Blue Mountains International Hotel Mangement School. Wow!<br />
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During our discussion, we felt that another team did really exceptionally well and we decided to reward them as well. The runner up from <b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Vung Tau Tourism Vocational College</span></b> won a one-week trip to Sydney, courtesy of William Blue College of Hospitality Management and the Australian Government.<br />
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With that, the culinary competition of Taste of Australia came to a joyous end. It was a fun experience joining a panel of experienced judges, especially in the food industry. </div>
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The rest of the day was pretty much rest and relax. I took a quick nap in my awesome suite, and woke up in the evening to prepare for the night's dinner. We had a special Australian Consulate Dinner at the hotel restaurant, just in time for my grumbling stomach. </div>
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Seeing salmon on the menu again was like ........... didn't I taste a number of salmon confit this morning already? hahaha. The dinner was really nice, and Karen brought her own bottle of gin which we finished that night, alongside with beers and wines.. Since it was my first time to Da nang, or vietnam in general, the boys brought me out to a night club/rooftop bar. By the time we finished dinner, took a grab over, it was quite late. I'm not sure about the party scene in Vietnam but it does seem like everything starts to close at 3am...<br />
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We went to this rooftop bar/club place called Sky36 and it was pumping with music and people when we went in. But, when it was about 2am, everyone started to disappear and the music slowly faded. That was when i noticed the DJ packing up his console and leaving. that was a puzzling moment for me. I'm pretty sure the clubs in singapore are packed at 2/3am... Nvm, i'll just treat it as a refreshing night view from above.<br />
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After shopping for almost half a day, i checked myself in for a coffee and massage! Vietnam's coffee is indeed different from other country's, so i chose a random coffee place (something similar to Starbucks) and enjoyed my local vietnamese coffee. Surprisingly the price isn't too expensive. I thought if it was like a nicer coffee place, the price would be significantly more expensive, but i was wrong. This cup of coffee cost me 39k vnd (S$2.30) only. Maybe to others it's expensive, but to me i thought it was worth it. I sat here on the upper floor of the coffee place, enjoying the greenery and watching cars and people walk by. Once I finished my coffee, i googled for massage places near me. There are plenty of massage parlous around, so i just went to the nearest one with the most affordable price. The prices for massage is generally the same at every place, so i went with a decent looking on at 180k vnd (S$10) for an hour.<br />
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After my massage ended, i took Grab back to my hotel to put all my stuff down and meet the rest of the guys to head over to Hoi An. The journey from the town center to my hotel is 20min drive (13km) and the Grab cost me 150k vnd (S$8.70). I would recommend taking Grab in vietnam over regular taxis. There are plenty of taxis around, but it looks a little dodgy to me. With Grab, you're able to monitor your journey and there's a record of you boarding/alighting the car, so in some sense, it's safer? </div>
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Anyway, i met the australian consulate group at the hotel and we set off to Hoi An! Hoi An, formerly known as Fai-Fo or Faifoo is a city with a population of approximately 120,000 in Vietnam's Quang Nam Province and noted since 1999 as a <b>UNESCO World Heritage Site</b>. Since it has such rich history, i was excited to see it for myself. The streets were filled with lanterns above the building and it looks so good at night. </div>
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I couldn't resist taking photos at every stop we make in Hoi An. The poor boys had to accommodate to my request for photos at every point. hahahahaa. Food in Hoi An is amazing too, don't forget to stop by this cao lao shop for an amazingly good bowl of cao lao! you probably have to wait around for an empty table as the shop is super busy. But the cao lao is sooooo good, highly recommended by chef hoa too! ;)<br />
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After cao lao, we grabbed some beers at a bar near the river. Then Chef Hoa brought us to this famous Banh mi shop for another round of food-venture! If you look close at my photo below, you will notice a familiar face in the picture. Yes,<b><span style="color: blue;"> Anthony Bourdain </span></b>had personally visited this place and he claims that this is the best banh mi. So we had to try it for ourselves too. It's quite cheap as well, i can't remember exactly how much it cost since Chef Hoa bought it, but i think its about S$1.30? </div>
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It was my last day in Da nang, and since my flight was in the evening (7pm), Karen invited me to join them for the closing event of Taste of Australia, which is a fun family bbq. This year's event is bigger and better as the two nations are celebrating the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations by enjoying delicious Australian foods, premium Aussie beer and wines. The event featured different hotels and vendors coming and setting up booths to showcase their food or produce. Our entry ticket included some vouchers which we could use to "purchase" food and drinks at the BBQ event. </div>
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This beef burger was absolutely DA BOMBBB!!!</div>
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There was also a live band from Australia, featuring Australian singer-songwriter; Nick Barker, which was highly enjoyed by everyone. So thankful for this shaded tentage to shield us from the scorching sun. hahaha!</div>
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Too bad i couldn't stay to finish watching the cooking competition as i had to leave early to get to the airport on time. So i used my last voucher to exchange for a glass of wine and walked back on the beach to my hotel. It was such a fun-filled day and i didn't want to leave.<br />
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Very thankful to BMIHMS and Raffael for inviting me to be part of this event. Big thank you to Australian Consul-General Karen Lanyon, Taste of Australia Ambassador Luke Nguyen, celebrity chef Ngo Thanh Hoa and Australian Consulate General team for your generous hospitality towards me for the past few days. I would have never enjoyed Vietnam so thoroughly without you guys.<br />
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<br />JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-13919361275345402772018-07-09T18:20:00.002+08:002018-09-05T16:06:55.886+08:00Bouncy short hair [Sponsored]Hello to my neglected space again. Sorry for the lack of updates. Been penning my thoughts down for my Greece trip (which is written halfway) and attempting to edit videos from my travel vlog and I overlooked writing this post up.<br />
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3 months ago <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(gosh, it was definitely awhile ago)</span></i>, I was invited by Raffael on behalf of my Australia University (Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School) to be a guest judge at Taste of Australia, held at Da Nang Vietnam. It is such an honor to be part of this prestigious event, which encourages young aspiring chefs in Vietnam to pursue their culinary dream. I had a very funfilled 4 days in Da Nang, which I will talk more about in my next blog post, so keep a lookout for that!<br />
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Before i left for Vietnam, i thought to pop by my trusted salon, Hair Plus Korean Salon, to trim my hair and maybe change my hair colour. Usually, Su my choose the hairstyle and hair colour for me, but this time round, i thought of everything on my own for a change. Initially, i wanted to cut my hair to above shoulder and i showed some photos to Su. She said that although the photos look good, they usually have prepped their hair before taking the photos. Hence, if you're someone who doesn't curl/blow dry your hair everyday before u go out, its better not to get shorter hair. If not, your hair will end up curling like octopus... if you get what i mean.... hahahaha<br />
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Su roughly snipped off a portion of my hair that is not required before commencing with the highlight first. Left it on heat for about 20min then applied scalp protector and steamed for about 10min. Then applied hair dye over , leave it on for 10min and wash off. Finally, with the shorter hair, Su began to trim and shape it. Since my hair went through hair dye and highlighting, she didn't do anything further to my hair for fear of damage. After the hair cut, she blow dry to c curls and i'm done! For the first time, i ended my hair session early hahaha.<br />
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The final look was soooooo nice and it made my hair look airy and bouncy! I can never blow dry them so nicely like how Su does.... Don't you guys agree? Hairstylists just have this flair of doing the blowdry so effortlessly nice.<br />
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<br />JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-43082206233802184982018-04-11T18:42:00.001+08:002018-04-11T18:42:11.327+08:00Greece Winter Travel 2018 | Athens, Elatochori, Delphi, Santorini (Part 1)<br />
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It has been about 2 months since I came back from my Greece trip and i've yet to upload most of my photos. Been so swarmed with work lately! But i thought i would pen my thoughts/journey down bit by bit to share more on my travel itinerary with you guys.<br />
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It's my first time visiting Greece, and prior to setting off, I did very extensive research on places to go/where to eat/where is a good place to stay etc. I found it very helpful to prep yourself before the trip as I was kind of an (over)planner for our trip. Here's a breakdown of where we went in Greece & costs included.. I hope my post will be beneficial for those who may plan to visit Greece in the future :)<br />
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Total number of days spent: 11 Days<br />
Accommodation:<span style="color: #e06666;"> S$250</span><br />
Flights: <span style="color: #e06666;">S$802 </span>(Scoot + Ryan Air)<br />
Food & Beverage: <span style="color: #e06666;">S$300</span><br />
Car Rental: <span style="color: #e06666;">S$35</span><br />
Tours/Attraction: <span style="color: #e06666;">S$125</span><br />
Transportation: <span style="color: #e06666;">S$36</span><br />
Petrol/Tolls: <span style="color: #e06666;">S$80</span><br />
Misc.: <span style="color: #e06666;">S$30</span><br />
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You may take the above expenses as an indication of how much you may need to set aside/change for your trip. We traveled as a group of 4 adults, stayed in a mixture of AirBnb & hotels (not 4/5 stars though), drove on our own throughout, and ate at regular cafes/eateries/restaurant/street food.<br />
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We flew via Scoot to Athens, paid about $700 (after adding baggage + booking fee) and it took 12 hours for the direct flight. I think there are other better flights/airline offering rates that were pretty close to what we paid for, but i guess you'll probably have to stalk the website to catch their promos/cheap fares. If i'm not wrong, emirates, Qatar, Turkish Airlines do fly direct at about the same rate. However, it depends on the month that you're visiting. Nov - March is a quiet season as it is winter in Greece. There are considerably lesser things to do there as compared to visiting in summer, but prices are at least 50% cheaper & less crowded. It does get cold in Greece, especially in winter so do prepare jackets if you're visiting during this period. Summer on the other hand is really beautiful and lively, but it is super crowded and prices are way higher.<br />
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We spent the first 3 days in Athens (which is the capital of Greece), and stayed in an Airbnb. I do find that there are abundance of airbnbs in athens, and they all look amazing and are affordable too. Our 2br Airbnb cost us S$200 for 3 nights in total.<br />
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We didn't drive in Athens as it's not encouraged. Traffic is crazy in town, parking can be a hassle too. You could park along the roadside for free, but not every place/street allows that. Since we were doing the famous Acropolis tour, we figured we could walk to all of the attractions and take our time to see everything. The acropolis tour is self-guided, you can choose to get just the acropolis tickets which allows you to enter the acropolis and see the parthenon, north/south slopes. There is a winter reduced price for entrance tickets, but it is only applicable for the acropolis entry. If you want to see more of the archaeological sites like, Ancient Agora, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Roman Agora, Hadrian's Library etc, you will have to get their package which is a flat rate of <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">€</span>30 throughout the year. The map below shows all the 7 sites which are included in the <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">€</span>30 package, all of which are within walking distance from one another.<br />
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I would recommend setting aside an entire day or even two (if u're visiting during winter) to cover all of the 7 sites. Winter hours are shorter, most attractions close at 3pm. We spent the morning half solely at Acropolis, covering the Parthenon & Slopes before leaving to find lunch <i>(superb meal, read to the end to find out!)</i>. You'll find HEAPS of people around, there isn't simply a time where you can take a photo with just you inside. Bear in mind this is winter month, and there's still a considerable amount of people around. :(<br />
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The other archaeological sites are really near each other, you would probably have walked past them whilst walking around monastiraki. We covered all of the sites on the next day (until 2pm) and towards the end everyone was getting a little bored of seeing "stones" and reading all about the history... I'd recommend going the full package only if u're a huge history fan, if not, just do the Acropolis & Slopes. </div>
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More photos on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chhyyee" target="_blank">Facebook</a>! </div>
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Dubbed as the first ever Olympic Stadium in Greece, it is on a must-see list for many. Same for us too, but when we were there, it kinda felt like a waste of money for us to pay 5 Euros just to stand on the track. You could see everything from the outside.... We took a photo and left, saving us 20 euros to spend on dinner! </div>
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Since we did the acropolis tour, we decided to go for the National Archaeological Museum as compared to Acropolis Museum. The national museum is gigantic, filled with lots of relics and history ruins; probably took us 2 hours or so to complete. Well, museums are museums, you'd know what to expect... </div>
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The best bird's eye view of Athens is no doubt here at Mount Lycabettus. To get up the mountain/hill, you could take a 30min hike up while enjoying the scenery, or take the Teleferik cable car up for a fuss free 3min ride. One is completely free, and the other cost you 7 Euros per pax. Yes, it is quite pricey but we couldn't possibly hike up with my parents trudging behind. </div>
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It's super windy at the top too, so be prepared to have your hair smacking everyone's faces. Nothing much at the top except for a restaurant (obviously with pricey food), and a small church. Bear in mind that the cable car goes every 30min, so you'll have to spend at least 30min at the top before heading down.</div>
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Forget about those standard cafe places (brand name type of cafes) and go explore local greek food! I find that food at Plaka is alrighhhht, quite touristy and slightly pricey, but it's the most accessible street in Athens and most people head there for food. </div>
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Here are some food places we stumbled upon by chance which are SUPERB!!! <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(superb i mean tasty and friendly on the wallet)</span></i></div>
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This quaint place just opposite Kerameikos Cemetery serves absolutely juicy and yummy meats! I dont know the name in English<i> (obviously everything is in greek)</i>, but I got the address and a photo of the restaurant from outside. It's located at <span style="color: #38761d;">Thessalonikis 7, Athina 118 51, Greece (8G95XPG8+QC)</span>. We had our lunch there on the 2nd day, and only ordered the meat platter which cost us 20 Euros and Greek salad at 7 Euros. We nearly couldn't finish the entire meat platter even though there were 4 of us (2 big guys and 2 ladies). It is super super worth your money!! </div>
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Oh and don't forget to eat lots of gyro and souvlaki when in greece! It's everywhere and they're generally nice to eat. I was really confused with the difference between gyro and a souvlaki. Nearing the end of my trip, i think i figured the difference out. Correct me if i'm wrong; Gyro is served in a pita bread with sliced/shaved meat from the big chunk whereas souvlaki is served same in a pita bread but with meat grilled on skewer sticks...</div>
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That was my conclusion at the end of my trip. haha! but it doesn't really make a difference to me since they all taste super good!!!! It is served wrapped with meat, french fries, vegs, sauce. Gyros/souvlaki are super affordable too! Check out the menu below which i took from various souvlaki joints around Athens..</div>
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Alright folks, this is the end of the main Athens stretch of my Greece trip. In my next post, i will be blogging about the other parts of my trip, consisting of Santorini, Elatochori and Delphi. Stay tuned to read on more! Meanwhile, if you want to see more photos of my trip, hop over to my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chhyyee" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chhyyee/?hl=en" target="_blank">Instagram</a>!<br />
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Hello there, beautiful February! Lots of things to look forward to this February! Of course, we have our long-awaited for Chinese New Year! For me, i will be heading to Greece with my family and Z for our annual CNY hols! My family don't quite like to spend our chinese new year in Sg, so we make it a point to try and head overseas for a short getaway. </div>
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Well, it seems like our cny hols isn't quite a short getaway. Last year, we went to London/Scotland. This year, we're heading to Greece/Santorini. I'm so excited for my upcoming trip bcos I planned the entire 11 days itinerary all by myself <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(proud moment)</i></span>. I will be blogging and vlogging my trip down, so keep an eye out for it yeah <span style="font-size: x-small;">(judging by the rate i'm posting things, you'll probably see it 6 months later).</span></div>
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In lieu of chinese new year, even though i'm not spending it in Sg except for the first day, I still want to look fab! And that means visiting my hair salon once again! I last did my shorter hair cut + perms about 4 months ago, and surprisingly my curls are still intact! I was quite surprised when Su said that she didn't need to perm my hair again since the curls are still around. haha, well that shaved off some time sitting in the salon.... </div>
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So for this time round, i did their Colour Clinic/Scalp Package, which includes scalp treatment + hair cut + hair dye (multiple subtle shades). Although the pictures don't quite seem that way, but my final hair colour has got several different shades! Alright, read on to find out more!</div>
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My hair grows ridiculously fast, and that's why i couldn't keep my bangs for long. They grew out within 3 weeks, and i had to sweep them aside afterwards. booo. Su recommended a similiar hairstyle to my previous one, which was a short shoulder length cut. She did it layered style this time round, mentioning layering is a hot trend now, coupled with wavy hair. </div>
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First, i got my head treated with the scalp treatment. I have oily scalp, and i've always thought that people with oily scalp shouldn't wash their hair daily as it would cause more oil to secret out from the glands. Answer is NO! Su recommends those with oily scalp to wash everyday so as to keep your scalp clean and free from oil which can clog pores and cause hair fall. </div>
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<i>Thankfully, my hair is still growing healthily!</i></div>
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I love how cute the hair cover is... felt like a steaming bucket head for a moment there.... The steaming took about 10min which helps to open pores up and to absorb the goodness in the treatment cream. <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">oooooooh. </span></i></div>
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Next, i got my hair coloured! Su chose a pink brown shade for the most inner bottom layer of my hair, followed by purple brown for the middle layer and golden brown at the top. These layer colours are done in such a way to achieve the layered density look. The pink and purple brown isn't very noticeable, but if i stand under the sun and lift my hair up, i can actually see some shades of pink! Talk about CNY spirits, oh yeah im ready to welcome the new year. </div>
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Finally, after washing and blow drying, i got my layered shoulder length hair cut. It was really quick but detailed. I only spent 1.5hrs in the salon this time? Super quick! I might try going for a much shorter haircut the next time... Should i? I was just telling Su that everytime i walk in the salon, i'd tell her i want to try a shorter hair, but then i'll end up backing out bcos im afraid! She would say okay we try the next time...................... <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>but till today, the next time ain't here yet....</i></span></div>
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This photo below will show you a hint of my pink/purple brown hair dye if you look closely enough. Pardon the messy bun hair-do. My mom was actually admiring my hair when she spotted the colours and quickly snapped a photo for me. </div>
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So 2017 went by, and 2018 is here. Wow, it's a brand new year once again! Hmm, what did I achieve in 2017? I think there's quite a fair bit which i did in 2017, made some major/drastic changes and decisions etc. I hope things will get better and smooth sailing in 2018, but life isn't always sweet, so i guess it's time to get ready for new challenges! </div>
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Let me recap the past 2 months to close the year... </div>
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My best friend/longest time ever friend got married to her crow, which we are all thankful for <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(she's bounded for life, ain't no one taking her away from you, YL)</span></i>. Being Glenda's maid-of-honour is basically just a cover for being a "high class maid" for her on her big day. hahaa jokes aside, it is my honour to be your maid-of-honour. To have seen you grow from an immature young kid to who you are today, i'm so happy to see you get married to a man whom i know will love you with all his heart. And to the groom (Yi Liang), thanks for being glenda's husband. good on you. LOL. Be nice to glenda (i know you always do), give in to her nonsensical qns and be a loving couple forever! </div>
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After Glenda's wedding was over in November, it was time to welcome the joyous season of feasting! This year, i had not one, but 7 Christmas celebrations with friends and family!! Imagine all that feast inside my tummy.....<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">First</span></b> Christmas celebration at Beer Xchange<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (all thy alcoholics),</span> and ending the night with 2 Belvedere and Lychee liquor bottles at Get Juiced! </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Second</b></span> Christmas celebration with the SUHC peeps at Ross's condo! Thanks for the invite guys, the meats were awesome as usual!!!!</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Third</span></b> Christmas celebration at Glenda + Yi Liang's crib with the wedding entourage, and an overdose of Absinthe......</div>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Fourth</span></b> Christmas celebration at Justin's crib.....</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Fifth </span></b>Christmas celebration with my family at le brother's place... featuring my cute niece!</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Seventh </span></b>Christmas/ End of Year celebration with my beloved UWR family! </div>
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A year went by just like this....... Too fast to be true, but time waits for no man. I've set some personal goals to achieve this 2018, let's see if i managed to get any of them achieved by the end of this year! </div>
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<br />JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-24570533539076600522017-12-01T13:13:00.003+08:002018-09-05T16:07:35.228+08:00How to achieve an Effortlessly Chic look (ADV)<br />
Hola readers! This post has been delayed by 2 months, but I have a good reason for it. If you're someone who is lazy to style your hair before heading out (just like me!), then you gotta read on this post to find out how to achieve a chic look without doing anything!<br />
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I last had my haircut on 20 Sep, which is about 2 months ago (sorry for the delay). If you are new to my blog, just to share with you that I have been a sponsored hair blogger with Hair Plus Korean Salon for the past ... 2 years? I'm not someone who changes their hairstyle/colour every month or so, I probably do it once every 3-4 months? If i'm busy, then my hair salon sees me probably twice a year. :/ Every time i head down to my salon, i don't really have any idea what to do with my hair, i just leave it up to my hair stylist, Su Kim, to decide what is in trend and recommended for my hair. So if you're like me, clueless about trending hairstyles and afraid that other stylist might ruin your locks, you know where to go now... :D<br />
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Let's begin my hair session! Absolutely love having my hair washed by the delicate hands of the stylists/hair assistants. sooooo comfy i could fall asleep. After my hair wash, I had treatment cream on for about 15min to protect my hair for what's about to come next. & you get to see your head balloon up with the steamer behind. hahaha, it's always so hilarious looking. </div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Next step: Snip snip snip!</span> Su gave me a shoulder length layered cut. Apparently this layered hair look is trending in Korea now.. I recall when i was in secondary school, i would have like super layered hair, idk why maybe i thought it was cool and "in" thing to do. But it made tying my hair such a hassle! I had to pin heaps of clips on my head just to ensure that my hair isn't sticking out weirdly. hahaha. I quite like my layered hair, and till today, i dont think it's any hassle to tie my hair up. It doesn't fall out randomly, instead it falls around my shoulder giving me this volume look, like i did something awesome to my hair <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(but i actually didn't do anything)</i></span>...<br />
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Once the cut is done, Su applied perming cream and let it sit to curl. Since i'm doing S curls today for a wavy hairstyle look, the rotors placed on my hair are the slightly bigger ones at 24mm (to achieve bigger curls). Smaller rotors like 12mm are more suitable for smaller and tighter curls. I always loved bigger curls as it makes my head look more voluminous. The nature of my hair is quite flat, hence making me look like a flat head which i hateeeeeeee. But i think for normal perms, it's better to get smaller curls since they will open up over time. If you get big curls, over time, once those curls open up, you'd be left with no curls anymore....<br />
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After the perming cream has been washed off, i had another round of treatment before calling it a day. The thing i like about Hair Plus Korean Salon is that they don't just perm your hair and go; they care about your hair. They would treat your hair first, get the texture softened, making it easier to take on the shape that they are going to perm later. And not forgetting to finish off with treatment again so hair is not so damaged. Also, if your hair quality is bad, they won't recommend you to perm even if u wanted it.<br />
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<b>Ta-daaaa, after x number of hours sitting at the salon, my new hair is ready to see the world!</b></div>
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The pros about this hairstyle, is that it makes it look so effortless without styling your hair. Whenever i'm out with my friends, they would ask if i had blown my hair or styled it before coming out, but in actual fact, i didn't even blow dry my hair. Just tousle and head out.<br />
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Some photos to share with you guys on the updates of my hair looking till today. I will leave the month/week since i've gotten this hairstyle on 20th Sept. To note that all these photos are taken <u><b>without</b></u> any hair styling done to my hair. It was just a plain day where i head out without doing anything to it. <i>*The only exception is the 30th September photo,where i curled my hair slightly with curling tongs. </i><br />
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JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-9958771418506639112017-09-14T12:18:00.002+08:002017-09-14T12:23:00.349+08:00Beauty Lies in the Eye of the Beholder; Miss Singapore Beauty Pageant 2017August came and left like a gust of wind. I haven't had time to recollect my thoughts yet!<br />
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The inaugural <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Miss Singapore Beauty Pageant 2017</span> </b>took place on 25th August this year, and once again I was fortunate to be on the committee board in guiding and mentoring the young ladies. We had a series of events which took place months before the Grand Finals, one of which drew many attention of the public. </div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>It was a photo of the ladies at OneKM mall, after their talent and swimwear showcase. Many criticized the photo citing that the girls looked ugly, not prepared, why are they even on this competition, are the organizers blind etc etc. Well, this is the brutal fact of being in the spotlight, caught by the media's attention. These ladies plucked up their courage to step out of their comfort zones, took a leap of faith and joined a pageant. It takes a great deal of courage to be able to stand that stage, receive all the harsh critics thrown at you and still smile and look fly. I applaud you, ladies of #MSBP2017 ! </i></span></div>
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Critics aside, I think the ladies went through quite a transformation! I am so happy to see them grow, learn from negativity and draw energy from their supporters, and never to feel ashamed of who they are. That is the spirit. Take it as a learning experience and embrace it... Trust me, it's 10x worse on an international platform. But, you get your fair share of fun times overseas too! #prosandconsbalanced</div>
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I shall move on with details of the Grand Finals! This year, the pageant was held at Concorde Hotel, something different from the usual Orchid Country Club where the pageant was held for 2 consecutive years. Concorde is indeed more accessible for us, but then again traffic kills! :( </div>
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Thankfully my trusty hair salon is just around the corner from Concorde. Yes, my hair styling for the evening was done by none other than Su Kim, of <span style="color: #a64d79;"><b><a href="http://www.hairplus.sg/" target="_blank">Hair Plus Korean Salon</a></b></span> at Far East Plaza! If this is your first time chancing upon my blog, I've been sponsored by Hair Plus Korean Salon for the past 2 years. Su Kim has always been my designated hair stylist, and she is superb! I've gotten my hair cut, dyed, treated, permed by them for the past 2 years, and not once have I regretted my decision. Speaking of which, I think my hair is growing a tad too long now, time for another visit soon. Anyway, this is my first time getting Su to style my hair for me as she has always enjoyed cutting my hair. hahaha! </div>
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Arrived at the salon at 2pm and Su quickly got to wash and touch up my roots. As you can see, my hair is not in the best condition (bottom left photo) when i waltzed in to the salon. Furthermore, I was a tight time constrain as I had to get my make up done after the hair styling, and reach Concorde by 6pm sharp. Thank you to my trusty hair stylist team at Hair Plus Korean Salon, it was an awesome job done! </div>
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Right - After 2.5 hours! No cutting involved, just touching up of my hair roots, lots of hair spray and pins. I didn't have super long hair to begin with, and my hair was super out of shape. Luckily with a small bunch of fake hair underneath, it helped my hair to look voluminous. </div>
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Arrived at Concorde Hotel at 6pm, caught up with some of my queen sisters and the cameras started snapping away! It's always a delight to catch up with the sisters and exchange travelling or life stories; a good break away from the daily hustle bustle :)<br />
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A shoutout to Ishardi, who has always been so supportive of the pageants that ERM hosts. Ishardi was always around to attend these pageants, and snap photos for us all the time. He's never shy to ask for photos and was always friendly too :) Some photos of the evening are captured by him. </div>
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The evening started with a bang with the contestants whipping out sexy dance moves on stage. I can't even dance with my two left feet! hahah</div>
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I was busy Insta-videoing the segments that I forgot to take photos/videos for my own keepsake. Guess i'll just have to depend on my own memory and photos from others to remember. After their opening dance, the girls gave their self introduction before leaving to prepare for swim wear and talent segment (for those who were shortlisted for talent round).</div>
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This year,<span style="color: blue;"> Inner Desire </span>was the official swim wear sponsor for MSBP2017. Coincidentally, inner desire was the sponsor for my year's swimwear round too! We had white bikinis with embellishments on top. I really think their swim wear this year is much more vibrant and eye catching than ours back in 2014. But, hey, we change with time and fashion trends right? So jealous of the girls in their swag bikinis! <i>(how i wish i had one too!)</i></div>
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And finally here comes the most exciting part of all! The announcement of Top 8 , followed by Q&A segment and the reveal of the title winners. I remember during my pageant, my name was the last to be called during the announcement of Top 8. I was sooooo nervous at that time as I looked around me and thought I had no chance since there were other girls whom I thought would definitely be one of them. To my surprise, my name was called and i was overjoyed!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your new Miss Singapore 2017 title winners are born!!!</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e06666;">Miss Grand Singapore 2017 - Crystal Lim</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e06666;">Miss Global Beauty Queen 2017 - Amanda Li</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e06666;">Miss Singapore Chinatown 2017 - Christina Cai</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e06666;">Miss Singapore Tourism Queen 2017 - Tricia Koh</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e06666;">1st Runner up - Queenie Sia</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e06666;">2nd Runner up - Katelyn Tey</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">They will all be representing their respective titles for their international pageants in 2017/2018. </span></i></div>
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Yet another successful ERM event comes to an end. Big kudos to the ERM team for working so diligently to bring this pageant to greater heights, and to fend off negative comments that came their way during this whole pageant. Cheers to more successful pageants in the future!<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">And of course, who can miss out the ever dashing Paul Foster, who was our host for the evening. I'd always see Pauly at the Miss Singapore's pageant, doing a fantastic job as usual and being so friendly to everyone. I vividly recall during my international pageant at Sri Lanka, you could imagine my surprise when i saw Paul walking into our hotel on the morning of our rehearsal and to find out he was going to host the finals too! All the way at Sri Lanka, i was so happy to see a fellow Singaporean! We'd always share good memories we had at Sri Lanka, hahaha it was so much fun! </span></div>
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Hola~ If you haven't read the first post on my London trip, do check it out here -<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">On this day, we did the most touristy tour - Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and Bath tour. It is by far the MOST sought after tour, one of the more expensive tours as well. We booked our tour via </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.viator.com/tours/London/Stonehenge-Windsor-Castle-and-Bath-Day-Trip-from-London/d737-3858EE021/important-info" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Viator Tours</span></a> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">which in my opinion is slightly more expensive... It cost us </span>£90 per pax <span style="font-size: x-small;">(approx </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">S$160)</span> for all 3 places of interest, inclusive of return transfer. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9XhP4GjaayrToxk6vOcpE03a1pvoL7Ccy6lCZWqwxStZtZocXUjbgcVAT-GdMxeBV1xBf4KP8Cs4CfFyqot8pRfDdO7okp87fhHPywxTc5ur-y0UC_WwuPJapS8lNi8Dl0DqM/s1600/20170128_083859.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9XhP4GjaayrToxk6vOcpE03a1pvoL7Ccy6lCZWqwxStZtZocXUjbgcVAT-GdMxeBV1xBf4KP8Cs4CfFyqot8pRfDdO7okp87fhHPywxTc5ur-y0UC_WwuPJapS8lNi8Dl0DqM/s320/20170128_083859.jpg" width="179" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">This is quite a lengthy tour so we had to begin our day early. Our pickup location was at Lancaster London Hotel, which was within walking distance from our accommodation. The mini bus then dropped us at the company's central "bus terminal". There are heaps of tourists there, queuing at their respective tour bus queues. Lots of tour guides trying to familiarize themselves with their guests and trying not to lose them in the crowd. It was quite chaotic to be honest! Anyway, got on board our bus and everyone was handed a pair of earphones. These are used to listen to the tour guide when he speaks through his microphone. You won't be able to hear him speak if you're not plugged into these earphones. It's pretty cool to have these on the bus, good for those who wants to nap on the bus and not be disturbed by the tour guide. *thumbs up for this invention* </span><br />
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I think the trick to getting a smooth day is to be ahead of everyone; be early! We arrived at Windsor quite early, well ahead of a few tour buses, and we managed to gain entry before a huge group of china tourists swarmed in. The queue thereafter was horrendously long! </div>
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The 2nd leg of the tour is to the all famous Stonehenge. We all know that they are just rocks, that you see from a distance. The scenery is beautiful anyway! Took us 1.5hrs to get to Stonehenge from Windsor. The tour bus dropped us off at the entrance and inside the compound, there's a separate little bus that brings guests from the main lobby to the actual structure. Even after dropping us off at the actual structure, you'll have to walk a short distance to reach the front. </div>
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Honestly, i wasn't paying much attention to the tour guide when he was introducing this attraction. But i recalled that he told us the story behind a Wake, which was quite interesting. </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">In ancient times, a Wake <span style="font-size: x-small;">(which today we know it as holding a funeral for the dead)</span>, is a time where people would wait for the "dead" <span style="font-size: x-small;">(assumed)</span> person to wake up before they cremate the body. There was a time before where people heard knocking sounds on the coffin and the dead rising up again. This was because the coroner had accidentally pronounce the person as dead, which resulted in the dead rising up again. So, this is the story behind a Wake. </span></div>
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Not sure how true this is but it's quite an interesting/freaky story. Imagine hearing banging sounds from inside the coffin, would you open it up? Hmm, i'm not sure about myself, i'd probably shit my pants..... Oh wells, creepy things aside, this place is nice, and filled with so much history! It really reminded me of Roman times and I could literally imagine them having a bath here. This attraction site has really preserved the essence of a Roman Bath! </div>
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It was more of a historic tour than photo taking session here, lots of things to read, pictures to see. By the time we were done with Bath, the sky was already dark and it was time to head back to city. But, before we board the bus, we had to try <a href="http://www.sallylunns.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sally Lunn's</span></a> buns! We read about it online that the kitchen is believed to originally have been the bakery of the younge Huguenot baker (today their namesake patron) who created the first Bath bun: a regional speciality now known the world over. There is no truly useful common English word to describe a Sally Lunn Bun as it is part bun, part bread, part cake. A large but very light bun; a little like brioche.<br />
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Since it was so widely spoken about in Bath, why not give it a try! Look at the size of a single Sally Lunn's bun! We bought 2 of those buns and brought it back on the bus with us to have it over dinner at home. Each bun cost us £2.40.<br />
<i><span style="color: #134f5c;">p.s. after tasting the bun, we concluded that it wasn't too much to our liking.. But not too bad still.</span></i><br />
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I conclude that ANY beer from London tastes awesssssommeeee! We tried many different kinds of beer, so long as it looked foreign, we'd take it to try. I think my bro and i are alcoholics by birth.<br />
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After dinner, everyone had to pack up our luggage and get ready to move out the next day as we're heading to Scotland!!!!!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Today, we're moving out to Scotland, Edinburgh! It was a good 3 nights stay at our Sussex gardens apartment, you've served us well... Woke up early with mum to satisfy her photo taking cravings outside our apartment. </span></div>
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When everyone was up and ready, we packed up and left. Here comes the slightly torturous part of our journey. Since this was a free & easy trip for the family, we had to plan everything on our own; transportation, accommodation, food, activities etc. The next leg of our trip is to head to Scotland, and we'll have to take a domestic flight for that. We had booked a airport transfer bus that would take us to Stanstead Airport, but the nearest pickup point was at Paddington Rail Station, which was about 11min walk away. Look at the amount of luggage we had, it was at least 1 large suitcase for everyone plus a smaller handcarry for some of us. We walked to the Rail station, dragging these luggage behind us and when we got there, we realized that the busstop which we were to catch the airport transfer from was up on the street level. And that means that we had to carry alllll these luggage up a long flight of stairs. HAHAHA! Within our group, there are 4 older folks (my parents, and xinni's parents), 1 pregnant lady (xinni) and 2 able-bodied siblings left (myself and brother).... Well, it was funny though. We had 1 person stationed at the top of the stairs keeping an eye on the luggage that had been carried up, 1 person at the bottom doing the same, and the rest trying to give a hand, and trying not to miss our bus.<br />
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Finally got everything up and spotted our bus approaching in the distance. We had pre-booked this bus via <a href="http://coach.nationalexpress.com/nxbooking/journey-list#" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">National Express Coach</a> <i>(cost us <span style="background-color: white;">£6 each for 1 way to Stanstead Airport)</span></i> so all we had to do was to show our confirmation letter and board. It's better to book it first so you know where exactly to wait for the bus and what time it's gonna arrive. Oh yes, and bear in mind that there are several domestic airports in London, so you should know where you're heading to...</div>
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Bus journey took about an hour to get there, and we were just in time for our flight at 12.20pm. We flew to Edinburgh via <a href="https://www.easyjet.com/en" target="_blank">EasyJet </a>which cost us about <span style="background-color: white;">£36 each (approx S$64/pax) for one-way ticket. We didn't get return flights as we intended to take a train down from Scotland, passing by Manchester to watch soccer match there.....</span></div>
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Happy faces all checked in and ready to board our plane. It only took 1hr flying time to reach Scotland, kind of like from Singapore - Kuala Lumpur on Air Asia flights. I even managed to get some shopping done at DFS! Got several bodyshop items for a steal at <span style="background-color: white;">£18 only! It usually cost me S$35 to get my Vitamin C serum, S$15 for Tea Three primer and i managed to get all of these and a shower gel for only </span><span style="background-color: white;">£18!!!! Super worth it! Bought some snacks on the plane too, cheap and cute looking popcorn for </span><span style="background-color: white;">£1.80 (Joe & Seph Popcorn) ; coincidentally my brother's name. hoho. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Got our tummy fixed, time to sort out a way to get ourselves to our apartment. The cheapest and most commonly used mode of transport to getting out of Airport and into city centre is by taking the Airport bus. It is called </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0000ee;">Airlink100 </span><span style="background-color: white;">and you can easily get a bus ticket at the ticket kiosk right outside the airport terminal.There is no need to book tickets before hand, just in case your flight gets delayed. We did some research on the bus timings beforehand, and just bought tickets at the kiosk. Alternatively, there are normal airport bus that cost only </span><span style="background-color: white;">£1.60 but I have no idea where to find the bus or even get those tickets from. We bought the express service airlink ticket and it cost </span><span style="background-color: white;">£4.50/pax.</span></div>
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If you're travelling from outside airport vicinity, it is best to buy your tickets first, even though you can purchase them on board the bus. Our bus was quite packed and the driver had to turn away passengers who were <span style="background-color: white;">waiting for bus at the designated busstops. When he had 2 seats left, he chose those who have already bought tickets. Luckily for us, we boarded at the terminal and we could still choose our seats.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The ride took about 30min, our apartment was 13km away from airport. This next Airbnb apartment that we stayed in is by far THE BEST Airbnb I have ever ever stayed in! The house is super big and gorgeous, and it's filled with so many gadgets and amenities. Our host was super generous in stocking up the kitchen with food and drinks, even alcohol!!! I have never encountered such generosity!</span></div>
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Words cannot describe how awesome the house was. There's even a guestbook beside the dining table where past guests wrote down their comments and left behind wonderful feedback for the hosts. It was amazing! We stayed a total of 3 nights in this apartment as well, and it cost us <span style="background-color: white;">£500 in total, which works out to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "josefin sans"; font-size: 16px;">£24/pax/night</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "josefin sans"; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "josefin sans"; font-size: xx-small;">(equivalent to S$40/pax/night).</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "josefin sans"; font-size: 16px;"> How affordable is that!!!! If ever travel to Edinburgh, do give check them out - the link is here </span><span style="color: #0000ee; text-align: center;">Edinburgh Luxury 4 Bedroom Townhouse (Airbnb) </span><span style="background-color: white;">I'm not kidding, it is really awesome!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">After getting mesmerized with our house, we headed out to explore the streets a little since we had the remaining of the day free. Took Uber <i>(cost me </i></span><i><span style="background-color: white;">£4.68</span><span style="background-color: white;">)</span></i><span style="background-color: white;"> to Victoria Street to try out this supposedly famous roast pork roll buttttttt by the time we got there (about 4pm), they were sold out!!!!! Damnit. We decided to come back on our last day and try our luck again. Went down the street to take a walk <i>(& photos as well. haha)</i></span><br />
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Scotland is famous for whiskey, so if you're a big whiskey fan, you're bound to get your whiskey needs fixed here. Every restaurant we came across offers Whiskey Flights, and needless to say, 1 out of 4 shops are whiskey specialists, selling all kinds of whiskeys around Scotland.<br />
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We settled at a homely looking restaurant/pub/brewery for dinner. Since we're in Scotland, we should try some of their local food. A local delicacy of Scotland is haggis. Chicken rice or laksa to us Singaporeans is like an identity. Haggis is the national dish of Scotland. </div>
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There you go! Haggis. It may not sound very appetizing, but trust me, if you should give it a try. It's not as bad as you think. Being the adventurous family, we of course ordered Haggis to try. (and we had haggis to eat at every other meal. hahaa!) </div>
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It really ain't that bad, it was quite tasty! Xinni gave it a miss since she was preggy, y'know no raw food for pregnant ladies..<i>. least to say inert.</i> hahahaa. We had other nice dishes too, like pot pies, chicken stew and a not so nice soup. I can't quite remember if it's pollack or monkfish soup, not the most tasty soup i've ever had. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Rise and shine, it is tour time! Today, we did the Loch Ness, Glencoe & Highland tour, and it cost us </span><span style="background-color: white;">£40/pax (approx S$70/pax). There are plenty of tour companies doing this tour and the Whiskey tour, most of them are about the same price, but I would say do your research well to get the best choice. We booked our tour with <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.scotlinetours.co.uk/bookings?tour_id=51af41644eb37e431c00007d#51af41644eb37e431c00007d-flip-div" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Scotline Tours</span></a> </span>and our tour guide was funny old Scottish chap. Although he was old, and we couldn't quite understand his Scottish accent, he made the trip very enjoyable for us. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">This tour has to begin very early since the Highlands are quite far away. We took an Uber<i> (</i></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i>£5 per car)</i> </span><span style="background-color: white;">from our place to Scotline Tour office for our pickup since it was super early in the morning. You'll spend a lot of time on the bus for this tour, but you'll pass by lots of scenic mountains, valleys, roads etc, so make sure you get a good seat with unrestricted window view! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">After driving fr god-knows-how-long, we stopped at Spean Bridge, which is also our lunch stop. Everyone got down to relief themselves, and had lunch here (at your own cost). As it was the only cafe there, naturally it was super crowded. We had some homemade soup set, hard rolls and sandwich set <i>(which totaled up to </i></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i>£25)</i>. I have to say, the scenery at the highlands (or anywhere in Edinburgh) is absolutely stunning. It's like everywhere is a picturesque stop!</span><br />
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After everyone was done with lunch and had their toilet breaks, we continued on the bus ride through the highlands. And more stunning scenery along the way.... <span style="color: #f1c232;">(NTS: don't fall asleep during the bus ride, you'll miss out on all these...)</span></div>
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God, it was really cold outside, with the strong wind and freezing temperatures. The sun didn't make it any better... We passed by Glen Coe, which means valley in Scottish. You don't get to stop for long along the way, your tour guide will briefly tell you about it as we pass by. </div>
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We finally reached our destination ; Loch Ness! Okay, so Loch ness <i>(or else fondly known as Nessie)</i> is a legendary creature that lives inside loch ness, which means River Valley (hence it's name). This Valley can be accessed via Urquhart Castle (pronounced as "ark-cade"). The tour doesn't cover entrance to inside the castle, nor loch ness boat rides, for those who wish to do so, you'll have to top up additional £19/pax for the castle and Loch Ness boat ride. Well, we knew it before hand, and we were prepared to pay extra for it. WHY NOT, since we were there already! <br />
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There's quite some exhibits to see inside the castle, mainly on how it was back in the days. And the lookout point overlooking Loch Ness river is really really beautiful!<br />
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Those who had opted for the Loch Ness boat ride had to queue up to board the boat. There are several timings that the boat departs, so you'll have to ensure that you hop on the right timing so you don't get left behind in the castle whilst your tour group moves on....<br />
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Loch Ness is actually 34km long, surrounded by mountains and scenery. Everyone was busy taking photos on the boat, enjoying the sunset and breeze on the boat. It had an upper deck, great to feel the cold salty breeze in your face. hahaa. After getting back on land, our bus headed back to its main office, and it was time for a short nap on the trip back.<br />
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Got back to town at about 8pm, it was pretty late so we decided to whip up some dinner for the family. Got some ready made pizza, salmon pieces, potato, greens from the supermart, and came home to cook. It was a hearty dinner filled with warmth, delicious food and we even opened a bottle of complimentary wine from our Airbnb host.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coincidentally, both mums chinese birthday falls on the same day, hence a celebratory birthday cake!</td></tr>
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Travelling keeps me sane, keeps me in check. I've been travelling quite a fair bit this year honestly;<br />
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Jan/Feb - London, Scotland, Manchester</div>
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March - Brisbane, Cairns</div>
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May/June - Krabi<br />
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Every trip refreshes me and it keeps me going in life to work hard and achieve these holidays as a reward to myself. This past Chinese New Year, my family and I went for a slightly longer holiday than we usually would. We always wanted to explore other countries and see how they celebrate festive occasions as compared to our own, so we tend to travel on Chinese new year/Christmas, but the latter always proves to be the more expensive option. Since we didn't plan to travel over Christmas, we indulged in a longer holiday to UK! It's my first visit to UK, so naturally I was quite thrilled and determined to record my travel journey in my blog <strike>(which is quite a late post now. haha)</strike> Do read on my blog and see if there's any information that is useful to you in planning your own UK trip. If you require, I can even send you my itinerary for reference :)</div>
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We actually booked our trip (for 7 pax) in August, flying with SQ which was having a promotion and our plane ticket costs $1300/pax return. Quite a good deal I reckon, plus we had A380 plane! We chose the 9am departure from Singapore bcos the night flights cost at least $200 more. Considering we have 7 pax, it wouldn't be ideal to fly out at night. </div>
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Along the way, we flew past a snowy mountain range nearing Nepal, and boy was it gorgeous! </div>
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<i>p.s. it is still my wallpaper till today!</i></div>
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The entire flight took 13.5 hrs, and in the midst losing 7 hrs (due to time difference), we arrived in London at 3.30pm local time. The entire journey was comfortable, and we had no lack of entertainment/food/drinks. I definitely recommend flying with a good airline if you're travelling long hours as you get to stretch comfortably, and won't have to fret over an empty stomach. Snacks & drinks are readily available at any time on your flight. Good for those who likes to snack while watching movies. </div>
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Since we are a big group, we decided to book Airbnb since there were tons of super pretty apartments in London. Hotel prices are generally okaaaaay, maybe slightly on the higher side. Airbnb is a good choice (since it's also getting very popular) if you like your own dainty little apartment. Fyi, we stayed in 2 airbnbs and 2 hotels during our entire trip, and everyone prefers Airbnb <i>(especially the Scotland one, ITS SUPERB).</i> Our apartment had 4 large bedrooms, 1 kitchen and an open plan living/dining room. </div>
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We stayed a total of 3 nights in this apartment, and it cost us <span style="background-color: white;">£723 in total, which works out to approx. </span><span style="background-color: white;">£34/pax/night <span style="font-size: x-small;">(equivalent to S$60/pax/night).</span> I would think it's pretty reasonable price for that kind of size of house you're getting. Plus our apartment location was very centralized, walking distance to 2 train stations, Paddington and Lancaster Gate. </span><span style="background-color: white;">If you're interested, you may refer to our apartment link here: </span><a href="https://www.airbnb.com.sg/rooms/12673504" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">London Airbnb - Sussex Square</span></a><br />
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After settling down in our apartment, we took an Uber <i>(£7.90 per car)</i> to Oxford Street to have dinner. What's absolutely famous in London which you MUST HAVE?! *drumrolllllllls* <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">BURGERS & LOBSTER! </span>Do make it a point to visit this amazing joint to have fresh and succulent lobster!!! We were very lucky to have a big table available for us since the group who reserved the table were arriving later at night. <i>(NTS: make a reservation before visiting Burgers & Lobster)</i>. We ordered a couple of combos to share among the 7 of us. </div>
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I would say Burgers & Lobster is not cheap at all (refer to menu above). But the servings are generous and food is really delicious! The restaurant isn't exactly fine-dining so don't bother going all suited up. We ordered a Lobster Croquette, 3 Bond St Combos and a Lobster Roll, amounting to <span style="background-color: white;">£132.19</span> <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(they also charge 12.5% service charge)</span></i></div>
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Yum yum! Tummy filled, hole in pocket, all ready to conquer Oxford Street before it closes. I recall most of the shops are open till quite late, but maybe not like 9pm late. Sun sets quite early during our time there, maybe bcos its winter season. Oh yes, we're perpetually decked in our winter clothes although there's sun/it doesn't look so cold, but temperatures hover around 5 - 12 degrees there. Bring along a raincoat or umbrella if you're visiting in January/February; its rainy season.<br />
Oxford Street is filled with tons of shopping boutiques! Topshop to Banana Republic, anything of any price range is available on the vibrant Oxford Street. Just like in Australia, there's K-mart and Target that sells cheap steals, London has their own brand too which is all too familiar; Primark! Primark has heaps of cheap goods, from food to clothing, bags etc etc. 3 stories worth of goodies! We spent a good amount of time here shopping for random stuff, and spent<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">£38 here. My mom got herself a pair of comfy 3/4 tights which she wears to Zumba till today, and constantly asks me to buy more if we go Primark again. (yeah mum, buy me a plane ticket there, i'll gladly buy you more tights). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">If you're an avid Harry Potter fan, you wouldn't want to miss this part of London. True enough, Harry Potter was filmed in the Warner Bros Studio in London, with some scenes of passageways or outside venues are located all around UK (even in Scotland). We booked the Harry Potter Studio tour for </span><span style="background-color: white;">£69/pax </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">(approx S$127)</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"> via <a href="https://www.goldentours.com/warner-bros-studio-tour-london-the-making-of-harry-potter-tickets-with-return-bus-transport" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Golden Tour</span>s</a></span><span style="background-color: white;">, which includes a return bus ride from a selection of pick up points to the Studio. The nearest bus pickup point for us was at Dorset Square, near to Baker Street Station, so we had to travel on the Tube from our place to Baker Street Station. </span><br />
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There are actually several entrance timings for the Harry Potter studio tour <span style="font-size: x-small;">(generally every hour starting from 8am- depending on season)</span> and your bus pickup will reflect accordingly. We chose the 10am entrance, so our bus pickup was scheduled at 8.10am at Baker Street. You can clearly spot the bus stop for Harry Potter Studio pickup! Plus lots of sleepy faced people waiting with confirmation papers in their hands too. hahaha!</div>
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Bright skies at 8am calls for more photos! The pick up is quite on time, everyone was punctual too. Don't be the asian that turns up late.... The bus ride to the studio took quite some time, almost an hour? But we were all kept entertained on the bus by watching series of Harry Potter movies that was screening on the TV. I only got to watch half of the Sorcerer's Stone and we arrived.<br />
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Before you enter, there's a security bag check. No food, drinks allowed - they have their own cafeteria inside. Below entry is quite heavy in photo content, but most of my photos are on my<span style="color: #e06666;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chhyyee/media_set?set=a.10154322714436090.635736089&type=3" target="_blank">Facebook</a></span> if you want to see more of the Studio! Only chose some to upload here, or it would flood my entire post.</div>
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In my opinion, this studio tour is quite dry and self explanatory - no need for guides or whatsoever. If you are a super Harry Potter fan, this will be eye-opening for you, but if you're just <i>meh</i>, then it'll be quite boring for you. Expect lots of kids running around, schoolies as well and lots of people in your photos. LOL. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">As mentioned earlier, there is a cafeteria inside the studio, and it is located at the halfway mark of the tour. Food is quite pricey yet simple. One hot seller item, a must try, is the <span style="color: #f1c232;">BUTTER </span><span style="color: #e69138;">BEER</span>!!! We spent </span><span style="background-color: white;">£46 on some sandwiches, 4 butter beers <i>(2 of them are in souvenir cups)</i>. A normal butter beer costs </span><span style="background-color: white;">£3.95, but if you want to bring home the souvenir butter beer cup, it costs</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">£6.95 (pictured below). So what is butter beer? It is definitely <b>NOT</b> beer, i don't quite actually know what exactly it is, but i reckon its some carbonated drink, with caramelized cream froth on top. Quite refreshing!</span></div>
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Lots of fantastic models to see along the way. You'll be amazed by how much work that goes in to make a single set of the film. Kudos to the art directors/producers/production crew etc!<br />
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We ended our tour at 2pm, took the return bus back to London city by 3pm. We alighted at Buckingham Palace Road, went to the London Pass Redemption Office to collect our London Pass. Took the tube from Victoria to Leicester Square for dinner. We read online that <a href="http://www.angussteakhouse.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Angus Steakhouse</span><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></a>was quite a popular choice for steak throughout the city so decided to give it a try.<br />
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<b>Verdict: Not worth it to visit!!!!</b><br />
It cost £22 for 12oz Ribeye, and it doesn't even come with any sides or sauce. We each had to pay extra £2.50 for sauce, which is served on the side. The beef was dry and tasteless, so much different from a regular steak place in Singapore. In fact, Angus Steakhouse felt like a fast-food diner. :/ I'd rather spend the money on another meal at Burgers & Lobster. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">After dinner, we went for a quick shop around Chinatown vicinity while waiting for our musical to begin at 7.30pm. Spotted a huge M&N store and spent most of our time there. </span><br />
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Since this day was coincidentally first day of Chinese New Year, we had to take a mandatory family photo at Chinatown! Very different chinese new year spent this year indeed. The festive season was alright, pretty much contained within Chinatown. You wouldn't see much of these celebration any where outside of this area. Lots of chinese steamboat restaurants around, which was heavily patronized by the chinese <span style="font-size: x-small;">(especially since it symbolizes <i>tuan yuan fan- reunion dinner</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">When in London, one should watch a musical, at least.... London is filled with rich history of plays, theaters etc, and their halls are pretty amazing. My bro researched for a nice comedy musical and we settled for <a href="http://www.thecomedyaboutabankrobbery.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Bank Robbery</span></a>. Prices vary for the seats that you purchase. We paid some </span><span style="background-color: white;">£16 for side view front row seats, some </span><span style="background-color: white;">£25 for middle view front row, so if you average it out, probably cost you </span><span style="background-color: white;">£21 </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(approx S$37)</span><span style="background-color: white;"> for the comedy musical. </span><br />
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Check out the insides of the theater. Although it isn't like a super fancy and popular musical theater, it still looked nice! This is the Criterion Theatre, located at Piccadilly Circus. I love how cosy it feels and the play was good!<br />
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Highly recommend everyone to catch a play/musical when you're here! It was hilarious, although we couldn't catch some parts due to their accents, but it was still very entertaining overall. Worth it!<br />
After the play, we all headed back home, bought some craft beer from the convenience store and ended the night wishing we had gotten more beers.<br />
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London has been great so far, stay tuned for more updates of my trip!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: start;">For now, yes here's another change too, my "shortest" change thus far. hahaha! I reckon the weather must have influenced my latest change, from long hair to mid length, to bangs and now to even shorter than before. There's a little devil inside my head that keeps telling me to "cut it shorter... shorter... even shorterrrrrr". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: start;">P.s. My favourite hairstylist adds on to that too... After getting this hair cut, she subtly hinted me to try going bob the next time... I think I should get drunk first then head to the saloon. (kidding).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My last visit to Hair Plus Korean Salon was in ...... January? Gosh that was some time ago, and that was when i had my bangs haircut (if you haven't read about it,<a href="http://thescarletwords.blogspot.sg/2017/01/how-to-look-5-years-younger-adv.html" target="_blank"> click here</a>). After that session, i've travelled to London/Scotland/Manchester in late January <i>(will be doing a travel blogpost on that soon!)</i> and Brisbane in mid March for an underwater rugby tournament<i> (may blog on that.... if i have enough time)</i>. Haha, the point is.... to show that my hair has gotten long and unruly and rough. So , don't judge...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Step 2:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Before the 2nd product is applied, Su and her assistant had to blow dry my hair partially first. Once it was done, the 2nd product - which is a 100% protein cream was applied on and I had to let it absorb into my roots naturally. No steaming, no bubble head, just sitting back and reading my magazine while bobbing my head back and forth freely. (Y) Once 25min was up, the hairstylists came back to blow dry my hair (with hot air) until my hair is completely dried. Then Su used a straightener to straighten/curl my hair. It doesn't matter whether your hair gets straightened/curled at this stage, what matters is that some form of heat element is applied directly to your hair to ensure that the product gets absorbed even deeper. </span><br />
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So, work at my new place has been great ! Coincidentally, it kinda matches my blog url! I started this blog in what, 2007 (?! has it been that long already?!!!) , and i named it thescarletwords.blogspot.com I don't know if it's fate or what, but i'm currently working at The Scarlet Singapore! Tell me how much it reminds me of my own blog every time i start my emails with Greetings from The Scarlet Singapore! At times, I do write the scarlet words unknowingly..... (hehe)<br />
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Time flies while you're busy with life. I haven't had the chance to swing by my trusted salon for ages ever since my last visit in preparation for my <span style="color: #674ea7;">Miss Tourism International Sri Lanka </span>pageant. It's been THAT long.... But, i'm glad that the owners of Hair Plus Korean Salon and my trusty hairstylist, Su Kim, still welcome me with open arms and take the chance to catch up for lost times.<br />
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Since I haven't visited them for quite some time, Su suggested for me to go for a totally different look. Plus my hair had grown quite a fair bit, and gotten rougher too (lol). I'm currently in my mid twenties (going to late twenties soon), so naturally i would want to look younger and fresher. The first thing that came to Su's mind was <i>"see-through bangs"</i> or may be known otherwise as <i>"airy bangs"</i> or <i>"wispy bangs"</i>. Apparently this hair style will literally knock 5 years off your age and instantly helps sculpt a more defined V-shaped face. I guess it's quite apparent that this hairstyle definitely works wonders if you were to notice several korean celebrities spotting similar hairstyles. Some familiar faces like.....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yoon Eun Hye<br />
<i>Credits: <a href="http://singaporefashionweek.com.sg/journal/live-like-a-k-star-with-loreal-professionnel/" target="_blank">Singapore Fashion Week</a></i></td></tr>
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<i>Credits: <a href="http://www.allkpop.com/article/2015/01/flawless-b-cuts-from-song-hye-kyos-recent-pictorial-with-jestina-released" target="_blank">Allkpop</a></i></td></tr>
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<i>Credits: Pinterest</i></td></tr>
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<i>Credits: <a href="https://www.soompi.com/2016/06/22/watch-lee-jong-suk-han-hyo-joo-laugh-joke-w-script-read/" target="_blank">Soompi</a> </i></td></tr>
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Yes, this is my hair when I first arrive at the salon; tangled, unruly and out of shape. Su went straight to cutting away my precious locks. Fun fact: the only time i ever had bangs was in Secondary 3 and I deeply regretted it. It took me awhile to come to terms with my hair going back to bangs, but I always give my 101% trust to Su. This time, i took a video of my hair cutting process just for you guys who share the same fear as me. </div>
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Right after hair cut, I had my hair dyed with brown base and purple hues, followed by faint red highlights. You can't really tell the purple or red colours, it's not like <b><i>in-your-face </i></b>kind of colours but more subtle kind if you look closely under the light. As a hotelier, I don't want to have too striking of a hair colour since i have to meet clients daily. These subtle hues are perfect for me (Y)</div>
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Here comes the hair treatment (blue/white bottle range)! I loveeeeee their korean hair treatment not just bcos it smells so damn good, but it also feels reallyyyy good! Oh, I tried the scalp care treatment as well. It comes with 3 steps; cleansing, moisturizing and lastly a mist to lock in all the nutrients. I tend to drop lots of hair during shower, sometimes even i feel that its too much to be normal. Many have said that it's normal to drop hair if you have long thick hair, but i kind of find it frightening to see that much hair on the floor each time after i shower. Hopefully this scalp care treatment will be able to help curb my abnormal hair fall problem before i turn bald. (fyi, my hair is still really thick & healthy, no signs of balding yet yeah). While the scalp treatment is on, it was steamed as well and it feel really cool and refreshing. After 10min + 10min + 10min, all the treatment steps was done and washed. My little bunch of fringe was permed for couple of minutes before getting it washed. </div>
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2 hours later .... emerged a younger looking Jasmine!</div>
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Look at how healthy my hair looks now! It always look so revived after my session at Hair Plus Korean Salon. </div>
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Do look for my trusty hairstylist, Su if you intend to visit the salon at FEP! P.s. she is only at fep, not at suntec. But fret not, there's other senior stylists at Suntec outlet too, who are equally capable of creating this look for you ;)</div>
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If you are wondering how do I look after a week or two or three .... here's some photos of me totally lovin' my new look!</div>
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<br />JASMINE CHYEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08641489571272620360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30137905.post-45451942661610341852016-08-05T12:51:00.000+08:002016-08-05T12:54:28.232+08:00Inside Scope to Miss Singapore Beauty Pageant 2016Time really flies when you are least expecting it to. It is the time of the year again where we choose our new batch of beauty queens under ERM Singapore. Yes you are right, it's time for another year of Miss Singapore Beauty Pageant.<br />
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Ever since my reign as <b><i>Miss Singapore Global Queen 2014</i></b>, I have been actively involved in pageantry; be it representing Singapore to compete internationally or local events. Till date, I have represented Singapore for 3 separate international pageants and I must say it is such an eye-opening experience. I have learnt and grown so much ever since, and with that, I would like to encourage and empower more ladies to experience what I have gone through. Therefore, I am very honored to be on board the committee board for this year's Miss Singapore Beauty Pageant 2016. Time to take a step back, and watch and help other ladies shine.<br />
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Every year we will have a different charity that we support and this year, our adopted charity is Down Syndrome Association (DSA). We were invited down to DSA office located at Junction 8 for a briefing on the association, what it does, who it helps etc. This will facilitate the contestants when they are faced with questions from the public.<br />
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The contestants had a fun-filled trip to the Canopi at Bintan, where they spent 4 days bonding with one another through game challenges, photoshoots etc. I recall during my year of competition, we were very fortunate to be the first batch of msbp contestants to have an overseas staycation and photoshoot. It was a 3d2n affair for us at Nongsa Resort & Turi Beach Resort at Batam then. Msbp gets better and better year on year, making us past queens super jealous. hahaha. Since I didn't make it for the trip, here's a video of their stay. Do follow<span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span><span style="color: #e69138;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9x-HZ28I-vm2MoeZ3vMxbg" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: yellow;">ERM Singapore</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span>youtube channel for more episodes of Miss Singapore Reveals, a reality show for the pageant.<br />
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Since the girls had their fair share of fun, it's time for serious business. A press conference was held on 27th July at Orchid Country Club for our media friends and sponsor partners to officially meet the girls and break some ice. It was my first time having some interaction with the contestants too. Attended the event with Rachel (Miss Tourism Queen International 2013), Apple (Msbp'15 Top 5), Vanessa (Msbp'15 Top 5) and other Mrs Queens! The list of sponsors for this year's pageant has greatly increased over the years, and yes making us jealous once again....<br />
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After the ladies were presented on stage, we had a small game planned for them. Since fitness and physique has been in the talks lately, we gave them a planking challenge. Looking good is not all about being skinny; it is about keeping fit and being healthy. Let's hope the ladies are equally fit & healthy! <i>*if not, its time to get fit.....</i><br />
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Few days later, it was their talent showcase day! I reckon this day is probably one of the more nerve wrecking moments (besides the grand finals of course) as you'll have to perform not only for the judges to judge you, but as well as the public. During my year, our talent showcase was a closed door event held at Lee Wei Song School Of Music. Even so during then, I was super nervous like hell. Imagine performing infront of the public at a mall. *applause to you ladies*<br />
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I must say some of the contestants have really interesting performance items and they most definitely have hidden talents! Gone were the days where everyone just merely sang or danced, things are getting heated up with saucy performances! Kudos to everyone who plucked up courage to perform in front of the public and us judges, who may have given harsh comments at times.<br />
*some snippets of the performance items... More on my facebook!<br />
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The most recent event we had was the preview show held at Luxi , St James. Just to highlight that this wasn't the finals, it was just a preview show for the ladies to garner support and to present 4 subtitles for the night. </div>
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It was a great event, many Mrs and Miss turned up and it was a full house! Filled with so much laughter and cheering, the atmosphere was so encouraging. All the past crowned queens got to catch up with one another, selfies/wefies away, cheering from the bottom of the stage. </div>
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The night was still young after the event ended. Several of us queens stayed back and continued on with the party, and members of the public were free to come in to the club afterwards. Had a great night with my fellow queens and the boys from Vintage Studio & Makeover Inc<br />
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It has been so long since I last went home so late from a party night. Long gone were the days where I could party till wee hours of the morning consecutively. But I guess it was because of good company that made me forget about time. hahaha! I guess the next time will probably be ...... after party of Msbp2016? hahahaha! We shall see about that. </div>
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Do continue to support the ladies as the competition hasn't ended yet. Hashtag #MSBP2016 and #MissSingaporeReveals on Instagram to see more posts shared by contestants and committee. There are still a few more events to go before the Grand Finals on 26th August. If you haven't gotten your tickets yet, do drop erm an email or call them, link here -> <a href="http://www.ermworld.org/contact-us/" target="_blank">ERM World</a></div>
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