Find it if you can

Was watching 3 wishes yesterday with Mr Love with us taking 1 corner of the sofa each.

There was this scene that the lead actor brought a 20k ring for the lead actress and hid it at a beach and brought her to find it as a surprise.

Immediately I moved over to Mr Love' side.

The clever Mr Love answered the question before I posted it out aloud.

Mr Love: "There's a 20k ring there, you can go try and find."

Me: "Really? You will buy 1 and hide it there for me to find?"

Mr Love: " No, but you can try find if there is 1 hiding there left behind by the tv show producers."

=_='

After so many years, he can somehow predict my move and now he usually can come up with tricks to counter attack.

No fun 1.

Addictive Activity

Shopping is an addictive activity. Especially doing it online at the convenience of your laptop or even mobile phones.

I have long known that Taobao is a shopping haven for shopaholics.

You can practically find anything and everything on it.

Previously, they had limited the transactions to those who holding China credit cards or something like that, making purchase difficult. You either get friends or agents to help to purchase from it. Since I have neither, I could not start buying from them.

Some time ago, 1 of my colleague told me that she is ordering from Taobao since they are now accepting overseas credit card. On top of it, she found some agents who charge cheaper shipping fees to Singapore as compared to the more popular Daigou or 4PX.

So, I decided to tag on to her purchase and started shopping.

Brought 3necklaces at 1 go and a key chain for mummy who had seen a similar 1 here but costs 30bucks. Including shipping fees, I only paid 22bucks for every thing.

Super cheap can?

A necklace here will set me back by at least 20bucks. Even those I brought in Taiwan is also 10bucks each. Turns out, they got their supply from Taobao also as I have seen identical ones at fraction of the price only.. Agggrrrr

Super happy that I found it after seeing on Channel 8 show

Later I read in papers that Singpost had tie up with Taobao to make delivery easier for buyers by having the items delivered to Pop stations and you can collect it at your own timing. In this way, we need not have to stress about not being at home to receive the parcel or to have to make a trip down to the post office for re-collection.

Love the Blue roses design

Pop stations are placed in nearly every community center and there is one right in front of our house.

Mr Love and I decided to try and went on to buy things from Taobao this time on our own.

I nearly lost control over the buying and had to cut down quite a few items. Shipping is charged at RMB43 for the 1st kg and RMB12 for every subsequent 500g. We managed to ordered 1.48kg worth of things and paid RMB 55 for shipping it to Singapore.

Chunky seashell necklace

Popular Ring necklace

As for shipping in Mainland itself, some of the sellers do provide it free while others charges around 10bucks for it. But we must wait for all the goods to arrive before consolidating it for a shipment to Singapore. It takes 4days to arrive and is consider pretty fast.

Love the butterfly

Love the fuss free collection when it arrives here too. Was sent a message and went down to collect the items the every night.

Gold ribbon earrings

Mismatch moon/star earrings

Free gift from 1 of the sellers

Very happy of my purchases which are mostly accessories. Am trying very hard to control myself not to buy more at the time being. Hahah I think I have too much accessories now.

My fav of the lot-New bag

After years of marriage..

Mr Love is going on leave tomorrow and while having dinner just now, I asked him whether there will some loving husband who will wake up early in the morning to drive the wife to work.

His reply came back fast and short : "No"

Without any hesitation at all.

 Nice.

This is the what you get after years of marriage, didn't even bother to be sweet to me anymore.

On a side note, he will be meeting me for lunch and picking me up after work. Still, I prefer if he can drives me to work too. Muhahah

Oh well, you don't get the best of ALL worlds do you?

Round & round

Have you ever find it pointless to talk to someone so bad that you don't even feel like talking to him/her?

Recently I did.

I totally dislike people who ask me who talks to me with an agenda. I do not like to entertain your agenda. It may be wanting to fish some information out of me, wanting me to get on his/her side, wanting to influence me on something or to cover up something.

It is tiring to talk to these people. Cause you will keep suspecting on every other sentence they say. Simply cannot trust anymore. I do not like this kind of conversation cause I do not know whether I can trust you what I am gonna tell you, so must as well don't say anything.

Recently, I realized that some people around me are telling me things that they want me to believe in order to cover up their mistake.

I mean I am not an idiot, I do know what is going on but just choose to keep quiet and avoid the topic since it does not concern me. But some people just like to do extra things and take it upon themselves and make stories up that sounds so unconvincing that I think they are not convinced by the make up stories themselves, let alone me.

Or some just like to ask me questions they have answers to, but just wanna hear it from me to either see what my thoughts are or to quote me. Sorry, I have no interest to be in your little games.

It is so wrong of your own doings already and on top of it, you treat everyone else like they are idiots and go around telling lies to everyone.

You know what? We knew and we gossiped behind your back. The only thing is we don't want to say in front of you as we are disgusted by your doings  and cannot be bothered to be dragged into this mess.

So do me a favour, quit talking rubbish to me as I am put off enough by you. Do not need to make it any worse. If it's just normal chatting about general affairs, I am happy to oblige for small talk but if it is for your own selfish reasons then please, buzz off.

I hope karma finds you and make you realized how wrong you are now and how detestable you are now to us.

Upsized

There was this once that Mummy went out of control while shopping at Changi duty free for SK II products resulting in a lot of freebies for us.

Not that I am complaining but it took quite a while for me to finish using.

Of the freebies that I used, I especially love Stempower and Cellumination Day Surge UV with the former for night and later for day use.

Stempower is really a good moisturizer which also serves as an anti aging cream. It is supposed to improve skin firmness and I diligently massage my face upwards with it. I love it that the cream is light and does not make my face feel oily after applying though I also did not apply a thick layer to start with.

Stempower

Mummy is also in love with Stempower as she notices that her face looks brighter after applying it every morning for weeks. I think the results are more prominent for her because of her age. For my age group, we are basically hoping to slow down the impact of aging or at least age more gracefully.

I chose to use Cellumination Day Surge UV is because of the SPF30++ UV protection that comes with it. Bestie was telling me the other day that the correct way is to apply a layer of sun screen before your makeup. But I find it too bothersome to do so and did not have enough time in the morning either.

Day Surge UV is a god sent to me since it both moisturizes and protects my face. Just what I need for a base before slapping on my make up. It is also a light and non oily cream. Though I find it more creamy as compared to Stempower. I just leave it longer to dry before putting on makeup.

Cellumination Day Surge UV

I did consider using Facial Treatment Repair C which I had tried the freebies too but found it too watery. The counter staff told me that this product is good for reducing wrinkles and should be used after toner and treatment essence.

Plus I find it troublesome to slap on so many layers of skin care in the morning when I am usually rushing for time. It is also expensive to use every single product recommended in the line and would not have much difference by sticking to what I am using currently.

Though the products are more costly as compared to their Korean counterparts but I do find SK II products do really give your face a radiant look after using for a period. I am able to use them for a year with normal usage and therefore it was not that expensive if you divide by the time frame.

After using the freebies, I went and brought the actual product. It shows quite a lot on the products since I usually finished using the freebies and will not buy the actual products. Guess these 2 are here to stay till I think I need to add more skin care to my face.

So SK II, might considering to give me more freebies? Hehe

Ga Ya Geum Korean Family Restaurant

Been craving for Korean cuisine for the longest time and was searching for recommended restaurant in Singapore. Came across quite a few recommendations for Ga Ya Geum Koream Family Restaurant located in Bukit Timah shopping center and was interested to try it out.

The joke is, I keep mistaking it for Bukit Timah Plaza where we frequently visit the supermart there and happily asked Mr Love to go there for a groceries shopping cum dinner trip. End up, we didn't to eat the 1st time we went in search for it.

Got smarter the 2nd time and managed to locate the restaurant in basement 1 of the shopping center. The restaurant was pretty small in size and was quite busy when we reached at 7.30pm.

Managed to get a seat 15mins later and we started to order. The owners/ are all Koreans based on their accent but they can all understand simple English.

The menu is in Korean with English translation below. From the reviews, the fried chicken, pancake and ginseng chicken soup are recommended and so we order these to share.

Side dishes

 We didn't order any drinks and was given a bottle of ice water instead just like what you see in the tv series. Side dishes were also served, was particularly in love with the kimchi which is a bit spicy. Would love it if it is refillable like some other Korean restaurant.

Seafood pancake (Small, SGD12) was served first and we dig in greedily.  Ingredients were generous and fresh. The chilli and spring onion added flavour to the pancake. Before the next dish was served, we already ate up most of it.

Seafood pancake

 Given how much I love soup, this is a must order (SGD 15). A bowl of rice was given along with it. I wanted to order 1 each but was afraid of over ordering. Chicken was well cooked but not over. Therefore the chicken meat was soft. But the ginseng taste wasn't that strong. The plus point of it is that you can taste how fresh the chicken is since it is not covered up by the ginseng taste.

Mr Love love this dish surprisingly and ate quite a bit too. The other thing I noticed is that glutinous rice inside was too little. The version we had while in Korea had quite a lot of the glutinous rice.

Nevertheless I love this dish all the same. Would order it if we are here again.

Ginseng chicken soup

Lastly is Korean fried chicken in soy sauce. Did not order the spicy version. This dish is also why Mr Love agreed to come here. Muhaha. It's a bit pricy though. Small portion cost SGD 16 for 3 full wings. But I think most of the Korean restaurant here priced the same.

The wings are really crispy though even when it cooled down. I would love to try the spicy version the next time though.

Most table here ordered 1 portion of the fried chicken wings. This goes to show much popular this dish is for this restaurant.

Korean fried chicken in Soy sauce

The bill came up to 50+bucks which is pretty acceptable for the standard of the food served here. Would visit here more often when I have craving and try out other dishes on offered.