The Peplum Skirt Fever;

Fell in love all over again with floral x peplum x bandage skirts! After missing the LB Miranda Skirt (I love the Cobalt colour!), I am on the lookout for the skirt now.

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This is also a Love, Bonito piece, only that it’s from the Bonitochico time loving the floral prints x peplum desigm! And that’s the G2000 top that I bought yesterday (Ngee Ann City outlet) for S$23 only. It’s cowl neck design, and of stretchy nylon material. Not sure if there is any other colour though

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Eyeing these pieces… Opinions please?

Amber Avenue EZRA PEPLUM SKIRT IN BLACK

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HerVelvetVase FLORAL PEPLUM SKIRT

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HerVelvetVase TIJON LEATHER SKIRT in BLACK

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THANK YOU

XOXO, Noi

Dinner date at Itacho Sushi;

Impromptu dinner meet-up with my dear 38 besties two Fridays back, after the end of my exam week one. Remembered how my mother persuaded me to take the night off and mug later, heh! Via the whatsapp chatroom, Jass and I arranged to meet at Buona Vista and it was hilarious how we continued whatsapp-ing until we met at the platform door. Bings and Leo met up with us at Itacho Sushi (Bugis Junction), and surprisingly there wasn’t any crowd unlike the other outlets such as Ion and Plaza Singapura.

The service was rather mediocre – we were ushered to the table, and the waitress left a set of menus on our table and asked us to refer to the papers. There was a stack of different coloured papers which we had no clue on how to go about ordering the food ‘cos each paper had different items. It took us quite a while to understand the system -_____- what’s funnier was, in the end we just gave our orders verbally to the waitress and she took them down using only one sheet of paper.

Apart from the rant about Itacho Sushi‘s service, the food was simply delish. The dishes are slightly different from the usual Japanese restaurants (think Sushi Tei or Ichiban Boshi), and the price stated is for one serving only unlike the usual two services per sushi dish in other restaurants.

Tamago with Crabmeat
Comes in four servings; a consensus that this is a must-order! The egg is cooked just right, and it melts in your mouth almost instantly.

Grilled Squid Sushi
Jass ordered this, whilst the rest of us cringed at the sight of it. HAHA! She sang praises for it though.

Salmon Sashimi
Comes in six servings; we didn’t order the much raved Fatty Salmon Sashimi ’cos we had ordered something similar for the sushi. This sashimi beats any restaurant hands down (‘cept maybe on par with Chikuwa Tei)!

Grilled Mackerel in Miso Paste
An item off the Promotions menu; Jass ordered this and we all had tried to stop her ‘cos the dish sounded too salty, judging by its name. However, it turned out to be a nice dish, and we agreed that it tasted ‘homely’.

Lobster Salad with Salmon Sushi
Comes in four servings; this is another must-order! The ingredients are really fresh, and we loved that the lobster salad took away the fishy smell (if any) off the salmon sashimi!

Cold Cha Soba
Ah bings and I ordered this dish for our mains; nowadays, you rarely come across restaurants serving Cha Soba in this manner (with the white radish and spring onions) with the soba soup. So, we were really pleased with this dish, albeit the soba being a little soggy.

Grilled Pork Sushi
This sushi is so delish that we ordered second rounds for it! The pork is so tender, and the marinate goes very well to cover the pork ‘smell’.

Fatty Salmon Sushi and Duck Meat Sushi
Something different that we’d opted to try; the Fatty Salmon Sushi tastes awesome but only if you’re someone who likes to eat salmon skin. The Duck Meat Sushi is something unique, but I still very much prefer my usual duck meat rice. HAHA!

Crabmeat Chawamushi
Another dish for Jass’ mains; the chawamushi arrived piping hot and the steamed egg was near perfect! Definitely a must-order as well!

*all photos were taken with my iPhone4, with minimal edits*

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Despite the slow service and some bad attitude experienced from the waitresses (as ranted by other diners as well), the dining experience at Itacho Sushi (Bugis Junction) was pretty awesome with the great food served! The total bill came up to about S$20++ per pax, which we’d thought it was reasonable, given the amount and variety of food that we had ordered. Reservations are advised, albeit the (surprise) small crowd on a Friday night.

Address:
200 Victoria Street, #B1-05 Bugis Junction
Tel: +65 6337 8911
Facebook page: Link 

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As usual, we went shopping (or rather, window shopping) after the hearty dinner, and had a great night out that ended with lots of laughters and heart-to-heart conversations on the way home. This group of friends is a gem to me, and I hope our (yearly) meet-up can be more frequent!

XOXO, Noi

FAB FASHION FRIDAY!

FAB FASHION FRIDAY!

I have been blog-surfing lately, and came across some websites that I have bookmarked under my favourite Fashion reads. Here’re some of the new additions to the list:

• http://www.fabsugar.com/,
• http://www.purseblog.com/, and
• http://www.stylesays.com/.

One of the posts under FabSugar is about “Dresses Every Woman Should Own“, and I thought it’s a great post for shopaholics-alike! Check out the link here. Some of the 11 dresses mentioned include the LBD, LWD, and definitely the flirty flowery dress that is perfect for summer My favourite is the colourblock maxi!

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Not to mention, this link on Purseblog.com is heaven. Always on the look-out for statement bags, and recently…I fell in love with this! This Proenza Schouler bag is gorgeous, and matching it with the dress of this season… <3

Photo credits to Reebonz.

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Anyhoots, I shall stay faithful and save up for this YSL baby first
Photo credits to Blackannawintour

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Gonna be back in Singapore hopefully, we can prepare some items in time for MYnt-Shop before I go away again next week! TGIF dear peeps!

XOXO, Noi

Nine months;

Time flew by just like that, it’s been nine months since I stepped into a new environment.

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Met up with dear peeps after work today, and one of them mentioned a very familar scenario – ‘All pumped up upon entering this new foreign place, and energy boosted up to the maximum level and looking forward to a new day everyday. Then, all that fizzed out after time.’ It’s taking place now, all these zest were long gone and it sucks to see friends leaving one by one. No doubt the remaining ‘survivors’ are happy for them, but a tinge of sadness and paranoia is hovering over our minds now. Having said so much, I guess it all boils down to our own perserverance and beliefs. We may be stuck in a hopeless rut, but these experiences may lead us to stronger individuals and better persons. As we all know, so long that our conscience is clear and upright, bring them on nothing can defeat us. For now, I’m just gonna remain ‘zen’ (as what one of the peeps mentioned), and do my stuff. Come what may, I know I can count on the peeps. Other may doubt us or cast suspicions on us, but we’re just going to focus and channel our energy to healthier stuff. Not to mention, the support from family and friends to tide through for at least this period of time. Indeed, we’ve found love in a hopeless place.

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Our motto;

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So much for verbal diarrheoa, perhaps the heavy downpour triggered off thoughts. Nights peeps

xoxo, Noi

TGIF date with mommy and sister;

- Photos taken with iPhone 4 camera, and edited using Adobe Photoshop CSS Extended -

17th Feb 2012; impromptu date with mommy and sister to have our dinner together at Jurong Point! Ever since my sister quit her job at P, she has been looking so much happier and care-free. No doubt the income factor is an issue for concern, but I reckon this break will do her good Anyways, back to the dinner date, we had our meal at Kopitiam (btw, go try out the soup stall – it offers delish Double Boiled Soup at decent prices), and were deciding to have desserts at Swensen’s for some ice-cream lovin’ and yummy french fries. Sadly, the queue was a little too long and we gave up waiting. Sis suddenly recalled that her Starbucks card hasn’t been utitlised yet, so we settled on Starbucks for our dessert place!

All Mocha – two frappe and one hot drink x girly chats x some portrait-shots x laughters x mother-sister bonding time; so thankful that these two ladies are heading home this evening! Been missing them for the past few days ‘cos they had gone to Malaysia to visit my grandparents. The house was so quiet, and I was alone most of the time as my dad is on shift-work for this period. Good news that my grandma is recovering much better with the help of acupunture and TCM

See you ladies in an hour’s time! Toodles

p.s. @myntshop (http://mynt-shop.livejournal.com) will be launching this week!
p.p.s. finally went back to my running regime, feels good to get the injury out of the way for some jogging around the estate <3

xoxo,
Noi

A Celebratory Dinner;

So on Wednesday, the phone call came. Mommy hesitated to pick up the call and asked my dad to pick it up. She was right, the call was indeed from the gynae clinic. It’s good news! =) Thank you all for the prayers! Superbly elated when dad conveyed this piece of awesome news to us over the phone (my sis and I were at work, then)! So that night, we all went out to have a good meal together. Not necessarily in the form of luxurious food, but a simple meal at Clementi 448 Market & Food Centre would suffice.

Mommy still has to watch her diet, so she ordered porridge =) sister and I followed suit. It’s our first time trying this famous Soon Lee Porridge, and we finally can understand the reason behind its popularity. For S$2.50 (Pork/ Chicken) and S$2.80 (Fish) each bowl, it’s really worth the amount spent. Generous serving on the you tiao, ingredients, and garnish, I’d say the 20 – 30 minutes is totally worth the wait. Go go go try it!

Soon Lee Porridge
Blk 448 Clementi Ave 3, #01-50 Clementi 448 Market & Food Centre

Dad ordered his usuals – Pork Cutlet from Tanglin Halt Westen Food, and 15 sticks of satay (Pork) from Chai Ho Satay to share. The queue wasn’t too long this time, but they had ran out of ketupat rice when I ordered. And as always, their satay never fail to impress ;D

 Chai Ho Satay
Blk 448 Clementi Ave 3, #01-21 Clementi 448 Market & Food Centre

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The past few days (prior to receiving the results from the report) have been tough on the family, especially for our parents. Mommy, being the emotional one, had a hard time sleeping and we were so worried for her. So glad that it’s all clear now. This ordeal kind of tightened the bond within the family =’) something which I’m really thankful for. Bless everyone with good health please, it beats being wealthy. Trust me. ♥♥♥
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Shopping Review ♥ SMooch Paperbag Waisted Skirt in Grey (Size M)

 Joined the backorder for this piece, and received it on Monday! Imma happy kid please, ‘cos this skirt is gorgeous. I usually steer clear of paperbag bottom designs because I have wide hips. However, this fits my frame nicely and it ends just right above my knees. The colour is very sweet and feminine too =) material wise, the chiffon doesn’t seem filmsy but I think ironing is advisable to iron out the creases. This is gonna be a staple in my wardrobe now!  ♥ (Ref: UK Size 10/ 169cm)

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Read from Facebook of a schoolmate’s passing due to a horrific car crash yesterday… Her elder sister is of the same age as me. Sighs, the fragility of life.

xx, Noi.

11.11.11 11.11

Just for remembrance’s sake, this day would not be occurring until 100 years later.

Then again, any other day will never happen again. So, morale of the story? CHERISH every single day

On a random note;

the quiet place.

A week of happiness, sweetness, and a tinge of bitter dosage nonetheless. Weddings make me tear, tears of joy that is. Politics occur everywhere, anywhere. Reality hits harder when you least expect it. Assignments are eating me up slowly, please let the procastination bug burn in hell. I need more me-time please. Hoping to have more time to work on MYnt. I realised I need better time management.

Since I’m on a random mode, here’s an awesome site that I would like to share – http://amitaytweeto.com/thequietplace/.

I didn’t realise an escapade can be so contradicting at times, never mind.

x, out.

When life sucks, we just got to chin up!

I know the cliche statement of it being easier said than done; I’ve been pretty down with various ‘upsetting’ sources, be it friendship, school, or work. Everything just came like boomz! Anyways, mommy, sister and Stan gave really great advices… Instead of jumping head on into everything, try taking a step back and calm yourself down.

Perhaps things aren’t as bad as what they had seemed, perhaps it’s just a matter of perspective. That being said, I had a great retreat session on Wednesday the view from our seminar room facing the golf course was beautiful. The rain made it seemed a little more magical I think don’t you agree? The retreat session was a great bonding session with various department representatives, whom we would have minimal interaction unless you are in the outreach team. Being the ‘most junior’ position among all the directors and senior lecturers, I realised I certainly have so much more to learn from them.

Whenever I update this site on Fridays, it kinda scares me that time has past by us so so fast. It’s another week people! Inching into the month of October, it’s mommy’s birthday month. Right before that, it’s gonna be my birthday! A simple wish, nothing fancy… just dinners and gatherings with a few groups of people whom have planned. As we move on into various journeys of our lives, everyone has their own commitments and schedules. Hence, a simple dinner gathering is more than I could ask for =)

Four Seasons Durian Mooncakes

Last Sunday was one of the rare times that Stan came up to my place, haha. Prior to that, we met up at Jurong Point for some mooncake shopping. As expected, the Goodwood Park Hotel enjoyed the most crowd, but we skipped that after hearing rants (not raves) about their mooncakes this year. We walked round the various booths at least three times, before settling on Four Seasons durian mooncakes. I thought it was still pricey though. The Mao Shan Wang durian mini mooncakes cost S$88 per box of 8, but with any purchase of durian mooncakes, it will be discounted half price. So, we bought one box of four normal durian mooncakes and a box of mixed snowskin mooncakes. Our families enjoyed them very much, so I guess that’s all worth it!

All smiles!

Monday was the actual Mooncake/Lantern Festival; mommy, sister, and I had a great simple dinner spread at home. We had planned to head down for some mini candle/lantern fun ourselves, but dear Rain God didn’t help and it suddenly poured just when we reached our void deck. Meh, so in the end…we just played some candles outside our house. Lol, childhood memories of lighting up lots of candles forming heart shapes came floating back. Especially those times when secondary school peeps and I would meet up at the canal near Jurongville Secondary School , and we would just play till late and head for supper nearby. Those were the days…

Colourful Candles x2

Colourful Candles

Somewhat too lengthy a post yeah? School is starting today yo. Just wanna finish my assignment by tonight so that I can enjoy my weekend with loves! Dinners, a run on Sunday, and more dinners next week. Chin up people, it’s Friday! Ending this post with some photos and light-hearted words (from Tumblr, a lovely site) for a Friday. ;)

x, out.

Happiness Friday: Wedding Photos of Barbie & Ken

Somehow, I’m getting better at keeping spirits high every single day. Heeding friends’ advices and words from Stan, I really should thing twice about the emotions. Anyways, I wanna share a link that show beautiful pictures of a wedding photo-shoot of Barbie and Ken dolls! Yes, the dolls that most girls would have played when they were growing up. Totally in awe when I saw the photos, check it out here – http://www.glamour.com/weddings/blogs/save-the-date/2011/08/real-wedding-album-barbie-ken.html.

Hopefully I can share a happy link every Friday, making it Happiness Friday ;D Packed weekend ahead, a tad too pity I can’t join the girls for tea party this Sunday. Sorry ladies! xoxo

School break period, hallehlujah. It’s time for a break myself too – gathering with Secondary School peeps tonight!

x, out.