I'M IN L❤VE: Raffles Hotel

Finally I'm able to say happy new year to everyone! School had reopened, and everyone back to work stations. Doing the same old thing for another year! And it's another year for the adults to start saving money and preparing ang baos to be given away. :)

How did I spend my new year's eve? Seriously I couldn't remember. I did went out. But I cannot remember where I've been. So anyway, Chinese new year is arriving soon, and followed by Valentine's Day. More holidays and celebrations~

Precious Cookie says happy new year to everyone too!

Look at how Cookie's position when lying on his toilet. He stretched his body sooooo looooonngggg...

Cookie's feet! And his tail. Reminds me of bugsbunny leh.

And cookie these few days keep jumping onto my mum's working table. and climbed onto the window grills!!!! scare die me i tell you. One day if i'm unable to find him he should be downstairs at level 1. zzzz...

Okay and I have changed new hairstyle and colour for new year as well as my upcoming big day! Yeay! It was my first time dying and first time been to the place. It was a japanese hair stylist shop. Located at Raffles Hotel. To me the only expensive part is the cutting. The rest were okay. You can find the prices on their website here. My stylist for that day was WAKA. They usually have a translator, but sadly the person quit. NO MORE TRANSLATOR. If you are unable to speak at least some simple japanese like me, prepare to spend like half an hour communicating. HAHAHA. Just kidding. The hairdresser will show you drawings and pictures instead and slowly understand what we want.

Lets see what my hair is like before.

BEFORE

AFTER

Erm...
The picture taken was the exact day that I went to do my hair, the colour was not obvious in the photo, but it is in real life. Pretty obvious. And after a few days the colour got brighter and my highlights are getting even more obvious. Everyone says nice okay. Yeay! Oh and the person says if I refer someone over there, the person can get a 10% off. Hmmm... Not sure how it really works. Maybe if you want to go there, make an appt, and tell them you got referred by me(IVORY) and you can enjoy 10% total bill? I think so. Anyway, prices are BEFORE GST.

I should post more photos of my hair after a few days to show the difference ya. Will be going back to have a brighter dye. I didn't do it for the first time there cause I was first time in dyeing, and the hairdresser recommend a darker colour first. And no ash colours. :(

So any comment on my hair? Nice? No? No difference? Lol.

When I received a call from Amanda(from Nuffnang), I was in the school, during break(just nice) and she told me that I get to go to the workshop and able to meet XiaXue personally! I was like: Woa so lucky one meh? Nobody signed up meh?. Then my replied was.. Oh okay, thanks. HAHA! Chua sai ok! So I went back to lesson like nothing happen when I was super shocked and excited!

Able to create own jewelry and of course meeting famous people isn't what you can do everyday, maybe if you are working in mediacorp la(which I was thinking if I should try). So I gave myself a chance to go there and interact with other bloggers. I'm not those who start the conversation but will try to get it going if it ever starts. So ya, why not give it a try...

Why would I sign up for it? Because I love doing D.I.Y. things like jewelry and keychains. Many can be done with Swarovski Elements!

Sorry for the poor quality photos, but these are some accessories that I've done using swarovski beads! I love their beads!

This is a heart shaped key-chain. Previously I've made a red one.

And a ring I made using their beads as well. It turns out great! Tried and fit nicely to my fingers! If you're afraid that it can't fit, you can actually measure the ring to your finger before you actually tie a dead knot at the end so you could adjust (to add or minus any beads) accordingly. This was actually a gift for my colleague. It wasn't things that will give you a big WOW and such, but everything starts with something small isn't it?

Then this is the final product that was done at the workshop. Poor pictures, again I apologized. Pictures are raw and with poor lighting. Lol.

The crystals are all so shiny, bling and pretty! There were limited items to choose from but since it was free, use what you are given will do. There was a piece of tutorial on the table and some or maybe most(i don't know) just followed it. And the end product were all pretty similar. Some of them were really creative and created their style of jewelry in the given time. The necklace was started from scratch. Really, I mean, scratch. When you only have a very long piece of metal, pins such as headpins and I forgot. Then we have to twist and turn and open and close to make all those chains connect with each other. Sounds really fun and cool right? But for first timers I guess it was rather tricky, especially if you have clumsy and fat fingers(oops). You will however get the hang of it if you keep doing the same thing over and over. Practice makes perfect right...

The event was held at...

It really kills me to find this place! I was walking towards the direction of map on my android and it lead me to another place at first. Crap. And then I was even later than late. Gosh. So paiseh when I walked in with a retarded face.

The celebrity of the day came and gave a small talk about her first time doing the DIY necklace. Pretty in all angles, as usual.

Oh by the way, I heard from other girls that they picked us from a list of ... 100 other participants? Not very confirmed about the amount, but if it's true, I think I'm really fortunate/lucky. Yes I am.

Everybody attentively listening and taking pictures.

These were the given colours of butterflies.

Halfway through the tutorial. Their materials were given in an exact amount, so if you needed more, ask please. If not, stick to the tutorial. :)

Look at all those pretty beads. I swear the smiley was already formed on its own. Not on purpose.

And then I made new friends. :))

Tadah! It was pretty easy and I probably will keep making such DIY items. Love it so much!

Well,, It was a 4 hours session (11am to 3pm, and really really sorry that I was late.) and I thought they will be teaching us THROUGHOUT the 4 hours but NO, There was lunch provided! WOW seriously. Look how sumptuous the food was!

HAHAHA! It was repeated la the food, hence it seems like there's a lot of different choices. Nevertheless, the meal was really great and sure is filling. (cause they are rice)

My portion of food. It looks pretty little, but I almost couldn't finish it! They do provide drinks too, of course, and there was brownie-like cake after we were done with the big plate.

So after satisfying our hungry tummies, I went to walk around looking at the displays. The displays were gorgeous and absolutely stunning!

I personally love the rings! I'm not sure if you figure out which one is the ring, it is the one on the right of the picture above. Black colour metal net was the ring with flowers decorated on it. Pretty!!

These were suppose to be more bling la. But sadly the photo isn't so.

Congrats to the creative winners that won the prizes! They were great!

Finally getting the chance to take a quick photo with Xiaxue. She is REALLY FAIR! Complexion is good and she still looked slim even with her baby bump. It's true. I think I just destroyed the photo. As usual, I looked fat and ugly without any make up. That day is a bad start for me due to a PIMPLE(damn you pimple) that choose to hide under my eyelid, hence the swelled left eye. I have bad hair day everyday and I love and used to wear t-shirt to everywhere I go, yes everywhere, like even Orchard Road or Bugis. Ya I very lazy to put on anything nice and you can say I no money also la. My skin looks pretty good here though. HAHAHAH! wtf.

Before we exit the cafe, we were all given a goodie bag! YEAY! What best is that THIS was included.

I'm glad I went.

End of the day, we got to take another picture with XIAXUE!!! Again my bubbly face is up there, the others were quick with their actions and took one pair of glasses. Great girls. Her hello kitty baby bump is rather cute. Wonder if she will be more hyperactive if the event is held before she got pregnant. Still, an amazing workshop Nuffnang had held, and really thanks to the team for such an event, hopefully I'm lucky enough to attend another such events.

Back to normal human life...

After the event which ended promptly at 3pm, met up with boyfriend to walk around, but it started to drizzle oh damn. Luckily I've always brought an umbrella, especially with this kind of rainy season EVERY SINGLE DAY. Crap or not. Hot, humid, sometimes sunny, then it suddenly rains!

Ok. My boyfriend wanted to bring me to book my hair appointment, but he thought it was at Raffles City, but it was at Raffles hotel. Zzzz!! Then we decided to just walk over since it is near. IT WAS RAINING SO HEAVILY! We just stayed on and tour the shopping area, till at least the rain turns smaller.

We walk to a lot of shops, and when we reached the top, guess what we saw?

LEGOS! There was some show over there but it wasn't on at that time, we just looked around the legos. We love legos! I have a few at home already, but then I couldn't find the rest of it!! Guess they won't be selling what I wanted anymore. :((

And then we saw this...

It is 100% made up of LEGOS! I didn't think lego is THAT strong to even hold your body weight. I was wrong!

Here's the proof! I actually really sat on it and luckily it didn't break apart. Well, it didn't move one bit! I'm not that skinny to start with. If you think holding my weight is not enough, my boyfriend sat on it as well! I mean just him alone, but then hey, guys are heavy leh. Some more he's bigger than me in size leh.

We thought it was just one that we saw, hell no. There were three!!

I happily tried on all three too!

Power LEGOs.

After some fun, dinner time...

We walked around looking at places to dine in, most of the places are full of people queuing and reserved like Buffet Town. Then we came upon this restaurant that says it is healthy. Take a look at the menu, it even provide us with the calories of the individual soup! The pictures look tasty as well, so we just went in. It wasn't full and it looks like not very nice to eat in. It is healthy and pictures looks okay leh, why not try it. Ordered the couple set for only $21.90! Pretty cheap leh! It comes with two choices of soups(quite big of a bowl), two bowl of rice(small but very filling after you mixed with the side dishes and the soups), one vege one meat and a small bowl of dessert! The dessert taste rather good(like honey agar agar with longans).

The choices of soups are a lot, and we'd chosen black chicken soup and another one I forgot, but it contains carrot, potatoes, beef and etc... BOTH TASTES REALLY GOOD.

Side dishes were superb! The meat was slightly spicy, still able to take it. The vege is omg de nice! I am some one who doesn't like eating vegetables, but this time, I keep asking my boyfriend to pass me more vege. See how nice!

The small bowl of dessert. I ate a bite of it la. It is good.

Definitely recommend this restaurant. Not sure if everybody has the same taste, but this is more of a home-like dish compare to those pasta, pizza, high-class food that kind. This is cheap, tasty, and feel like you're eating home-cooked food! To make myself clear, I don't mean they cook like those anyhow cook at home one, what I mean is the feel la the feeeeeeelllll..... Heart warming kind. Get it? Good.

Done with dinner, off to Raffles Hotel to book hair appointment.

Their decorations were OMG so pretty! Of course right Raffles Hotel leh!!