BLOGMAS Day 18: Zalora Christmas Dresses Haul

Drop Waist T-Shirt Dress
Halter Neck Piece Swing Dress

So they gave me a VIP 20% off coupon code. On top of that, it was Thursday (Mastercard Thursdays 10% off!). I didn't go all crazy, just bought two dresses and I think they are also wearable for non-Christmas occasions. Sometimes I want to get super glittery dresses with sequins and all that jazz, but I can only wear those dresses once or twice? Might as well get dresses that I can wear on more occasions right? 

I think halter neck tops are very flattering for girls with wide shoulders. I have really wide shoulders and thick arms, hence I look much fatter than I really am in baggy tops. Halter neck tops give that illusion of narrower shoulder and if you have nice shoulders, they really accentuate those areas. Ah can't wait to pick them up at the Pop Station nearest to my house. 

Oh! Have I mentioned how freaking awesome and convenient Pop Stations are? You just opt for pick-up at a Pop Station nearest to your house and everything's done within 4 days. If you don't like what you buy, just return the product in its original condition with the given documents and tag, and place it in one Pop Station box. All will also processed within a week! Super convenient lor!

Zalora is really making online shopping much more fuss-free. That's how online shopping should be! Let's hope more local sites offer such services soon! 

BLOGMAS 2014 Day 3: Zalora Haul (December 2014)

Welcome to BLOGMAS day 3! Time is passing way too fast right? We're almost halfway through the first week of December.

I had a scary experience a couple nights ago and it really made me think hard about my health. So yes, I was sleeping with the lights off (very unusual for me because I always need a little bit of light to sleep, but I was damn tired so I didn't care) and I woke up at 3+am with a really weird feeling in my mouth. When I closed my mouth, my saliva glands would overwork and I would have a mouth full of saliva within like 3 seconds. It's freaking scary! I thought it was nothing, so I just swallowed the saliva, but it happened like 4-5 times. So okay, I sat up and wanted to calm myself down, but I felt this sudden wave of nausea. I went to the toilet and was prepared to vomit it all out when everything felt normal again. WHAT IS THIS?! I woke up the next morning (a Sunday - super wasted) with a migraine that lasted almost the entire day. :( This happened again last night and I really was quite shaken. What if I didn't wake up and choked to death? That would be a really stupid way to die. 

When I told my mom, she suggested that I see a specialist because "this kind of thing cannot play one you know?" - which I truly agree. So yes, to the specialst we go! 

Also, I cannot wait for my facial session tomorrow.  I have been really stressed at work and my skin is protesting. So many facial demons on my face!!!! BAH! 

Whenever I'm stressed at work, I always browse shopping sites and I almost always end up buying something. Like the below purchases, they were all added into my shopping cart in office. Zalora always have the best deals and the below purchases were made on 3 occasions. 2 on a Thursday (to make use of the Mastercard Thursdays promotion) and 1 on Black Friday. I think all my Zalora orders have been made with some form of promo/discount codes stacked. Super cheapo but got cheap thrill, quite awesome. 

Two dresses for myself! I hope it's cold tomorrow morning so that I can wear a sweater over the blue shirt dress, and then complete the ensemble with a pair of boots/glittery oxfords. :D

Slit Maxi Dress
Shirt Dress

Three pairs of shoes and a bag for myself (I just sold 10+ pairs of shoes on Carousell, so it's only right that I get new ones hehe) and the other two are christmas presents.

Rubi Santa Fe Sandals
Rubi Pompeii Sandals
Pointed Toe D'Orsay
Derby Shoes
Canvas Backpack With Checkered Flap
Canvas Backpack With Stripe Panel Flap

22 more days to Christmas! :D

BLOGMAS 2014 Day 1: Less than a month to Christmas!!

"It was still only mid-afternoon, yet there were already almost imperceptible signs of the approaching evening. The hottest part of the day had just passed." 

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

It's very bizarre - I woke up from my afternoon nap (yah 12-4pm of napping, TMD) with this sentence ringing in my head. I think I woke up once at 2pm to wipe away the sweat on my forehead, and then I went back to my dreamland, and then I woke up in an especially dark and cooling room because well, it's going to pour. Nevertheless, yes, sometimes I when I read a book and I think too much into the story before sleeping, I wake up feeling like I'm a character in the book with the same settings. I know lah, this is in no way related to what I was going to write about today, but hey, random musing of the day! 

Christmas is barely a month away! What happened to time?! What happened to 2014?! I have so many gifts to buy for my lovely friends and family, and I also am concerned of the outfits that I'm going to wear to meet these lovely friends and family. I wanted to wear dresses because pretty, shiny, holiday dresses are always appropriate, but then I won't have the chance to wear them often. So okay, time to find amazing separates online! I scoured tops and skirts collection online and hehe, I'm ready for the festive season! 

I have also taken the necessary holiday leaves and now I have 2 weeks of pure bliss. :') 

Random photo of my current favourite pair of earrings. I just cut my hair shorter (very much shorter actually, can't wait for it to grow a little longer) and now you can actually SEE the earrings that I have on, so I'm going all out in the earrings department.  I actually wore this pair every single day last week. Can you see the holographic multichrome this pair has under the correct lighting? LOVE. 

My very much shorter hair. The only issue I'm having with my hair now is that it's kind of flat. I need VOLUME. The shorter my hair gets, the longer it takes for me to get ready in the mornings because I have to apply hair products and then blowdry my hair in a certain way. Aiyoh. 

Anyway, since it's December 2014 already, and so many youtubers are doing Vlogmas (daily vlogs in December 2014), I have decided to do a BLOGMAS - I will try to blog daily! A very difficult feat to to achieve but I'm gonna try it out. I have around 15 posts drafted already, so I think I can do this!!

Have a great week ahead guys! :) Press on and before you know it, "deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la la la, la la la la. Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la, la la la la~~"

Tarte Bon Voyage Collector’s Set & Travel Bag

Just one visit to Sephora is enough to make me go into a frenzy. I was handed a basket from the enthusiastic salesperson and my struggle commenced. I had SO many gift sets in my basket - the Urban Decay BLACK MAGIC 24/7 Glide-On Double-Ended Eye Pencil Set, the Urban Decay VICE3 Eyeshadow Palette, many cute Burt's Bees gift sets and finally the Tarte Bon Voyage Collector’s Set & Travel Bag. In the end, after close to 30 minutes of talking to myself, I got the Tarte Bon Voyage Collector’s Set & Travel Bag because it was TOO GOOD A DEAL. 

You get 20 Amazonian clay eye shadows, a deluxe-sized lights, camera, lashes 4-in-1 mascara, a limited-edition deluxe cheek stain in Muse, a LipSurgence lip gloss in Visionary, a LipSurgence lip tint in Romantic, a deluxe-sized maracuja oil, a deluxe-sized smooth operator Amazonian clay finishing powder and a DAMN CHIO limited-edition collector’s travel bag for only S$79. HALO?? Of course buy! 

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How royally gorgeous is this travel bag??!?! I definitely will not be putting this in my luggage when I'm travelling, this will be in my carry-on luggage. Imagine the boost my ego will get every single time I take out this beautiful bag out of my carry-on luggage on the plane. "Yes, my travel bag is chioer than yours, oh yeah" - yes, good buy right? I will try to squeeze my book, wallet, phone, charger, earphone, handcream, toothbrush, toothpaste, aiyah this shall be my only carry-on luggage lah!

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There are so many reviews of this Tarte set online, so I won't be doing an in-depth review for each of the products. Temptalia has an amazing review on this (just like all her other reviews), do click to read her review!

Look at these 20 eyeshadows!! I like how Tarte mixes things up with lots of mattes and satins, instead of just focusing on shimmers. Always good to have shimmers and glitters for the Christmas season, but I want to use this palette after Christmas too! Also, that dark navy colour is FABULOUS.

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Terrific value right!?

Struggling to avoid Sephora now. I actually want to go again today. *cue monkey see no evil emoji*

Christmas 2013 and New Year 2014

I feel like I'm too late for this post. It's already the fifth day of 2014 and I'm blogging about Christmas 2013 and New Year 2014? I guess it's never too late to thank the angels who landed in my sombre world and made things a little bit more colourful ... and bearable. 

My Christmas was spent in Taiwan with Kengyang and his family. Coincidentally, we also spent Christmas lighting up a lantern at Pingxi. A lantern which was filled with all our hopes and wishes for 2014 and the far future. I found it quite endearing (perhaps on the verge of beguiling? Lighting up a lantern to make our wishes come true seems like a huge marketing ploy for the village) that every one of us made sure the lantern was lit properly and as it floated away, no one spoke - our eyes just followed the floating lantern, and when it was nowhere in sight, all of us automatically continued our chit-chats and bickering. 

My New Year was ... a joke. Actually, more of a I'm-gonna-laugh-at-it-in-the-future kind of a joke and not I'm-so-depressed-I-hate-life kind of a joke. Kengyang and I wanted to countdown to 2014 at Marina, but we figured it's going to be a nightmare due to the crowd. We decided on town but realised the traffic home would be another nightmare. So okay, let's go to a heartland mall! But we made the wrong decision to shake leg at Kengyang's house first because we ended up counting down in his house while watching the countdown celebration programme on the telly. All I can say about that programme is - WLH, why you lipsync your upbeat songs?? 

However, I'm not complaining about my "lacklustre" New Year countdown. At least I got to spend it with the love of my life and his family, and I didn't have to struggle and squeeze while trying to go home. Oh, and I munched on McDonalds while watching the telly. BLISS~

Christmas presents! 

Thank you Kengyang for the electronic toothbrush. I randomly said I needed on and he bought it for me. :') 

Thank you Kenny for the cookies, potpourri and inspirational pencil! Kenny was my secret santa this year! 

Thank you Serene for the accessories, the L'occitane goodies and the loofah!

Thank you Chay for the instant (but from Laos, so very exotic haha) coffee! 

Kenny, I don't think I will ever use this pencil! I'll just tape it on my office table and stare at it whenever I feel drab. 

We had our annual Christmas+New Year party yesterday. A bit late, but it didn't matter since all of us could make it and it was a great gathering! 

Our boxer chef, Wang (#wangcancook) cooked up a storm and wow each dish was DELICIOUS. 

Our Italian-Mediterranean menu

Greek Salad

Pesto Chicken Nuggets

Shakshuka

Ricotta Pasta

Caramelised Apples with Vanilla Ice Cream (not in photo)

Cheers to a great 2014! :)