Come one come all, come and check out the Cirque du Audrey. Lolol.
In case not clear enough, I am Ringmaster Ooi.
Ma chere mademoiselles and monsieurs, it is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that I introduce to you today….
A McDonald’s X Hello Kitty collabo again! Hold on to your tables everybody I can hear the stampede coming already. Lolol.
The theme this time is Circus Hello Kitty, i.e. your (and my) favorite Kitty in circus outfits. Cute dieeeee.
Wanna get your hands on Circus of Life Hello Kitty? Go visit McD today! You can get it for RM10.95 each with any purchase, or you can just buy the Kitties ala carte at RM15.95 each.
Two days ago, Magician and Clown (not in photo) are out already! But from today onwards its Trapeze and Chimp!
To further entice you, lemme introduce the Circus of Life crew.
Chimp!
Animal Tamer! To train Chimp I suppose? But here she’s taming a… white cat. OMG #hellokittyception
Daredevil. In case it’s not obvious, she’s standing on a high ledge. What will Daredevil do next?! *suspenseful music
Watch out! Here comes Trapeze. Hahahah. Daredevil looks worried Trapeze will hit her but because she is Daredevil she’s trying not to show it lol.
More love to Trapeze because she’s in pink! Also got a cute 80s vibe going on with the headband and leotard haha.
Abracadabra Magician!
HAHAHA Clown you so funneh!
Everybodeh in the houzzzz
You can also check out the cutest game to come to town.
Like McDonald’s Malaysia FB page to play the game! You can access it over your computer or phone. Here’s a direct link to access it.
Super simple. All you need to do is find the food that Jumbo wants!
And the prizes! 10 winners each contest period win passes to Hello Kitty Town, the complete set of Hello Kitty Circus of Life plushies, and one exclusive Hello Kitty Jumbo Plushie.
*I* am giving away FIVE complete sets of Circus Hello Kitties too!!! *circus trumpets blare*
Just tell me which Kitty you love best and why in the comments. Please leave your email address in the comment itself, not in the email box. This is so it’s easier to contact you. I will only consider entries with the email visible.
Good luck!!
I didn’t actually take many photos on Day 2! Shocking.
A few reasons for this:
1) Rainy weather. Already carrying umbrella too hard to whip out my camera and take pictures some more.
2) Fatty had all his meetings set up so I was alone for like half the day.
3) This. Too busy doing this. Lolol. No la! Seriously more than half are still Fatty’s shopping. My guilt lessens.
Anyway first thing in the morning Fatty had a meeting already so he went for it first! I stayed in to pump milk and get ready then left to meet him at Ebisu.
I was carrying loads of souvenirs; we bought a lot of foodstuff from Malaysia for our Japanese friends including bottles of 100 plus WTF and canned food so by the time I walked out of the hotel I wanted to die wtf.
Ended up taking a cab. Felt quite guilty since it was only me one person (if more than one person it’s more worth it can split the cab fare wtf) but the good thing about cabbing is…
Pass by roads and places we don’t normally get to see taking a subway. ^^
Ebisu station!
Waiting for Fatty and his EO friend Koki. Bought a ichigo pastry for breakfast while waiting for them to arrive.
Seriously damn weird ever since Fighter was in my uterus, I suddenly can tolerate desserts! Don’t mind eating them at times too.
Here’s Fatty and Koki! Lunch was at a traditional-esque restaurant where they only had three sets available for lunch.
I had yakizakana. The fish was yummy and HUGE. I couldn’t finish it which is rare wtf. Miso soup was rich with seaweed and tofu and delicious too.
After lunch, Fatty and Koki went off for their second meeting while I hopped on the train…
and went home again. Lolol. The previous day I only had one hour to shop there!
Today I had all the leisure in the world to do it!
As it turned out, I only had 1-2 hours there again wtf. Because Fatty’s meeting ended earlier than expected, he came to meet me… and we went to shop for guy’s stuff again. :X
But my shopping as short as it was, was productive.
This bag looks like a Furby wtf. A couple of years ago I’d have totally gotten this. Now I think I’m just old.
Fashion, I will always love you.
#audfit. Very casual again la cos it was rainy and chilly and I didn’t feel like dressing up. Cropped hoodie from Fig & Viper, mom jeans from Topshop.
One of the prettiest stores! It’s Kokokim from popular blogger Kimura U. The style is fairy kei blended with punk. A lot of cutesy pastel colors and details but with a punk edge. Isetan KLCC actually carried Kokokim for a few weeks last month!
Unfortunately I don’t think the response was very good sigh how to bring in more Japanese brands like this. 🙁
Anyway after Fatty came we met up with Shintaro and Kato san and Nao chan who wanted to bring me to this wholesale place to buy makeup and all things beauty!
Took a train until damn far forgot which station liao. But still in Tokyo la wtf.
On our way we saw an taiyaki shop, apparently very well known!
So we also kiasu-ly bought some! And by god they were yummy. I don’t even like red bean!
Got to the wholesale building! Sorry I dunno the name and cannot simply go in anyway. They only allow business owners who are planning to buy in bulk. We only got in cos Kato san knows somebody.
Cutest packaging ever! Badly wanted to buy some but no good reason to cos I have more than enough makeup. 🙁
Sorry this is the cutest packaging!!! Again no reason to buy.
Then went back to Harajuku for more guy shopping….
And then I followed Tim to another meeting…
… and stopped by a supermarket. and then to dinner with Koki and some other people.
Koki, his COO (forgot name whoops), Fujiko-san and Jud at Fujiko san’s gorgeous home. Koki and Fujiko are like a big deal in the social media/digital industry in Japan. Koki said apparently Fujiko san met Jerry Yang and convinced him to come to Japan and start Yahoo Japan.
And he did wtf.
Jud owns a company called GNIP and when we met him, he just sold his company off to Twitter. O.O
To be honest I was kinda not looking forward to dinner with them because I really wanted to go eat ourselves and explore Tokyo more. But they turned out to be excellent company! They were all so funny and nice and incredibly smart. And since they’re all in the digital/social world it was nice to talk about industry stuff.
Fujiko san served an excellent meal but I only remembered to take a photo of dessert cos the mango there very weird! I think it’s Japanese mango (apparently the same as mango in America?) and it pales in comparison to our tropical mango lo! The taste was quite muted and not sweet one I guess Malaysia beats Japan when it comes to mango wtf.
OH YA giveaway time! Usually I work with brands to do giveaways but when I was in the wholesale beauty place I came across these…
Eyeliner stickers HAHAHAHA. I thought it was hilarious! Sure look damn funny one so I bought some to give away to my readers! I will be giving away the pack on the left (the one that’s double combo works as eyelid tape AND eyeliner lol).
I’ll keep the one on the right for review hehehe quite excited to try wtf.
Ok! Since you all say I’m funny (although I don’t think I am anymore fml) Imma give it away to whoever can tell me the funniest story. Must be a personal story okay from you, friends or your family cannot simply google jokes and post wtf.
Leave your email addresses in the comment box (not the Imotiv email box). Since it’s only 1 pack of tape, giveaway ends 11pm 6 May yo!
Everyone has an Achilles heel. Like Fatty’s is desserts wtf. Fighter’s is his pacifier.
Mine is shopping. :X
Although technically my Achilles heel can also be my strength. Cos I can be good at sniffing out bargains!
I came across MYSALE, a private shopping club for members only that offers major discounts up to 80% across women’s, men’s and children’s fashion, accessories, beauty, homeware, gifts and toys. There are new sales everyday.
And on May 4 is their (and Malaysia’s) biggest online shopping event of the year.
Flash Frenzy is exclusive to MYSALE members only with new sales launched every half hour and discounts of up to 80%. It’s one of Australasia’s biggest online shopping events and there are eight shopping categories as mentioned.
For three days from May 4 (4-6 May), MYSALE members will be able to shop from 60 household local and international brands, including Coach, Bonds, Revlon, Zara, Quiksilver, Havaianas, Pandora, Dermalogica, Rayban, Redken, Australian Leather Uggs, Luxor Linen, Fitflop, Desigual, Thomas Sabo, Charlie and Me and many more.
It’s a few days more till Flash Frenzy starts but I thought I’d have a look around the site first to chup what I want hahaha.
Beauty sets!!!
7 piece Estee Lauder set including…. Advanced night repair .24oz, Take it away cleanser 1oz, Resilience lift .5o,z Mascara, Lipstick, Eye shadow, and a Quad Lily Pulitzer bag. Original price RM242, now RM100.
Clinique Bloomindales Set. 9 pieces. Includes Moisture Surge Intense Skin Fortifying Hydrator, 0.5 oz; Liquid Facial Soap Mild, 1 oz; Large Square Color Compact containing Eyeshadow Duo & Soft-Pressed Powder Blusher; A Different Nail Enamel For Sensitive Skins; Different Lipstick; High Impact Mascara in Black, 0.12 oz; Nail Kit with clippers, file and mini bag Printed cosmetics bag. For RM100, original price RM242
And this!!!! They have all sorts of Hello Kitty household items omg my weakness within a weakness is Hello Kitty household items! Got baking utensils too I think Imma start baking.
If you change your mind about any purchase, you can return it within 14 days in exchange for credit vouchers. However if you’ve received the wrong item you will be refunded via credit card. So no issues there.
Happy shopping on May 4 on MYSALE!
Hello!
This is the first of my spring ’14 Tokyo posts!
This is the second time Fatty and I have been to Tokyo together (first was with his whole extended family) and we did all sorts of touristy things before (Disney Sea, Tokyo Tower, Hakone, etc) so this time all we did was meet up with friends, eat and shop. My kind of vacation!
Before we start, lemme present to you a short film I made when we were in Tokyo!
*gets beaten up
Okok I say short film but in actuality it’s just a video I cobbled together with random clips I took of us round and about Tokyo. I have no video editing skills to speak of but I managed to do this with just my Sony Xperia Z1 and a handy video editing app I downloaded!
So not bad la 0% effort but still managed to produce this hahaha.
The places featured in it were basically Torigin in Ginza (Fatty’s favorite restaurant), Shibuya (outside the station), Harajuku, Ginza, and Shinjuku Lumine Est. Just wanted to show the atmosphere there!
On trips I normally bring along a semi DSLR or at least a point and shoot to take nicer pictures but this time I relied mostly on my Xperia! The photo quality is comparable to an actual camera and it was so convenient! I usually hold my phone in my hand anyway so any time I wanted to take a picture I just had to hold my phone up, instead of digging around in my bag for a camera. So most of the photos here are taken with Xperia yo.
So the first day was Fatty’s only free day. So it was…
Priority given to his shopping. #wifepoints
Starting the day! Our hotel was in Roppongi and we took a cab to Ginza where Torigin is cos Fatty didn’t wanna hunt around for it.
Turns out when we got there, Torigin is just located next to a subway exit. ಠ_ಠ
Tried out the panaromic function on the camera to show the interior of the restaurant. A bit crooked cos your hands need to be really steady.
It’s quite traditional looking and if you see in the video, all the other diners are old people hahaha. No idea if it’s an old people food wtf but I think it could just be cos it’s an old restaurant hahahaha.
Us!
Eager diner wtf.
Food’s here! Torigin is a kamameshi restaurant. Kamameshi means kettle rice and it’s a rice dish cooked in an iron pot. I think it’s considered poor people’s food a bit hahaha it’s definitely not fine dining or sashimi standard or anything.
But we love simple food like this! And it’s scrumptious!
You can choose different toppings. Chicken, pork, squid whatever. We both went for salmon!
Mash up the salmon and mix well with the rice. The salmon has been marinated with salt already so it’s super flavorful and it needs to be mixed with rice or else too overpowering. The rice was also cooked with something (dunno what la wtf not oily but very fragrant).
Also ordered yakitori which are the tastiest juiciest skewers I’ve had.
After lunch we took the subway to Harajuku cos that’s Fatty’s shopping ground wtf. This photo composition got like pro or not! Lol.
First I dragged him to La Foret. La Foret is a mall in Harajuku and I already saw it the last time I was in Tokyo for Foruchizu but didn’t get to go in.
But it’s quite designer (although a bit quirky not the usual high end brands) and expensive and not really my style. :X
They had some Disney Princess theme going on for their anniversary! So the music was all Disney I already feel like I’m in Disney Sea wtf. ^^
Then we took a walk through Omotesando towards Takeshita St.
- Taken with my Sony Xperia Z1
Saw the smallest car showroom ever! I thought it was ingenious. This picture also got pro feel ornot wtf.
Got to Takeshita Dori!
Ooh #audfit – Striped turtle neck sweater from Younghungryfree, army jacket and high waisted pants from Topshop, shoes from Emoda, bag from Chanel.
#audfit today damn simple actually cos I brought very few clothes here. I thought I’d shop for new stuff to wear nyehehe and save bag space and I was right!
Checked on how my store is doing wtf. Every time I come here I sure take a picture hahaha.
My favorite store in Harajuku!!! It’s been around since I was studying in Kyoto and me and Angela used to go crazy here wtf.
It’s huuuge and it’s just filled with rows and rows of shoes.
Unfortunately I think my taste has really changed since then. T_T The shoes there all seemed a bit too girly and cute for me already! Couldn’t find anything to buy.
Couldn’t find anything to buy in the WHOLE Harajuku. I normally don’t buy much there la cos really not my style but Fatty on the other hand was in shopping heaven wtf.
He doesn’t shop often but when he does he buys in bulk. :X
Oh who am I kidding I love it cos it makes me feel less guilty HAHAHHAA.
Waiting for him in one of the Harajuku men’s stores. There are only a few men’s stores and some of the designs are very wtf (spangly pants and a lot of goth styles) but if you browse properly got a lot of nice and cheap stuff (shirts less than RM100 etc)
Trying on a bazillion shirts~~
It was raining. T_T Every time I go overseas, the first few days CONFIRM RAIN ONE. I dunno why! Is it my voice not nice wtf. As a result I had to carry my umbrella and missed out a lot of photos. (if no rain you’d see my own selfies a lot more wtf)
Look at this shopaholic.
More or less done with Harajuku so I casually said to Fatty, “since we’re done here and it’s raining why don’t we go to Shibuya….”
He went, Okay. And then gave me a suspicious look. Hahahaha. He’s terrified of Shibuya and for good reason wtf.
Because once I go here, he has a lot to fear. Wtf.
But when we got there we headed to 109 Men’s where I waited for Fats to shop more. Just give me a Noble prize already HAHAHA GEDDIT.
(yes there is a men’s 109. And yes some of it can be mad ah beng. As one of the sales assistants there put it when he gave Fats some clothes to try: “this is Shibuya style!” and put thumbs up wtf. But still got good stuff there. Worth a try for guys to go!)
Fatty decided on the spot he wanted to change his dressing style from his usual boring tshirt and jeans to be snazzier. So we had fun trying on things he normally wouldn’t
Drew the line at pink pants.
His clothes shopping done for the day, we went to the foodhall of a department store nearby. Can’t remember which one already we went to so many. Here’s Fatty going back to his true passion, sweet foods wtf and buying up sweets in bulk.
All merchandise in Japan is aesthetically perfect. Have you seen such red and uniformly shaped strawbies ever!? Bought a box and they were spectacular! Sweet and juicy yums.
Then after that the eating monster which is Fatty reincarnated so we found a tiny standing sushi bar nearby.
99% of restaurants in Japan are awesome. The 1% is in the airport, sorry Narita.
So good and fresssshhhhhhh.
Did you know that for temakis or hand rolls, the filling should go all the way to the bottom of the cone? We just realized it cos in Malaysia most of the time the filling is plonked on top of the cone only and the bottom is just plain rice. >:(
After eating it was my turn!!! I’m home! Tadaima!
I only had an hour to shop before we met Shintaro and Kato san and Nao chan for dinner.
I dunno if successful or not though…They took us to a Kyushu cuisine restaurant. I forgot which area of Kyushu already. Super authentic and I suspect expensive. Also full of dishes we’d never find in Malaysia. Japanese are usually great hosts so I think they wanted to treat us to a new dining experience which we really appreciated!
Because they gave us horse meat. :X
Raw horse meat with raw egg…..
Fatty flat out refused to try so to make up for it I had to. Actually quite yummy! The meat is soft like sashimi and no strong smell or anything. Quite good!
More horse meat in the salad which was also very good!
The only thing Fatty ate a lot of was the fried chicken. Go to Kentucky la next time wtf.
With Tiger (@emitiger on IG) who is super adorable and a fashion blogger. Love her hair, makeup, dressing everything.
Also met Yuri chan another fashion blogger whose face and personality both also damn cute. She told us she just got together with her boyfriend last night and double high fived everyone hahahaha. I don’t see how this can be a big deal cos she’s so cute if I were a boy I sure like her la hahaha.
Naturally Fatty was still hungry after dinner (having not eaten most of it) so we went for second round at Shintaro’s favorite ramen shop. Sorry I dunno where or what it’s called I just blindly walk follow them.
Not the typical miso/shoyu/shio type of ramen though! The pork based broth was a bit thick and the noodles were also thick and springy. Very yum. I was full already but still ate half a huge bowl.
With everyone! Except Tiger and Yuri who’d left for events.
Then we called it a day! Went back to the hotel and pumped the living daylights out of my boobs.
My shopping that day. Not up to form. I only had an hour!
As opposed to Fatty. My foot is there to show you the size of these bags! Each one had like seventy shirts inside.
Hello!
I’m back from Tokyo! I’ve been since Thursday but I decided to take a break from all most screens and spend time with Fighter. ^^
Will blog about my trip soon! It was sooooo good to be able to get away to my favorite place in the world and just relax without having to worry about Fighter and eat and shop to our hearts’ content. Of course we missed him like crazy and luckily our trip was pretty short. Went home after four days to see him (who thankfully still remembers us wtf).
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that my milk supply dropped like crazy. T__________T
A lot of mommies have been asking me on Dayre about what I did when I was away so I thought I’d answer here. Maybe you guys can learn from my mistakes wtf.
(this post is more for the mommas among us, sorry single ladies!)
The premise
At home I normally pump 2-3 times a day only. Once in the morning about 10 am, maybe another time at about 6-7 pm and the last one at midnight. In between if I’m at home I nurse Fighter every other feed and bottle feed the rest. Usually my pumping is enough to yield about 2 full bottles to refrigerate for the day’s demand, and 1.5-2 bottles to freeze for a rainy dry day.
The plane
Truth be told, the plane ride was pretty hellish. I normally don’t mind a seven hour flight – in fact I think seven hours is the perfect length for a plane ride. Anything more is a chore and anything less means you cannot watch movies AND sleep on the plane you must only choose one thing wtf.
But I’m digressing. This plane ride was terrible cos I thought I could take it and packed my pump into my check in luggage. T_________T Of course I couldn’t because instead of my usual 10 am pump, I had pumped at 7 am, giving me three additional hours to last through. Plus I had no Fighter with me so I wasn’t nursing either, obviously.
The minute we got our baggage, I ran for the nearest restroom and pumped. I yielded 10 oz within the first seven minutes WTF.
(in true FML fashion, my bottles were so full by 10 minutes that I spilled it over my cardigan and pants wtf. Only brought one cardigan and one pair of pants so…. totally legit excuse to shop. Not so FML after all la wtf.)
The pain
Obviously super engorged and painful la. I worried about blocked ducts but luckily didn’t get any. So the lesson I learned and you guys can benefit by is, pack your pump. Even if you don’t think you need it, pack it anyway and bring it on board with you. Bring a nursing cover and bottles as well. Which brings me to….
The prep
Before you go, decide what you plan to do with your expressed breast milk if you’re not planning on weaning yet. You can either pump and dump, or pump and pack to bring home. I’ll die before letting my EBM go to waste so I brought along with me besides my pump and bottles, a supply of milk storage bags, an ice box…
…and a bottle brush and washing liquid.
When I went to Singapore, I ended up having to call housekeeping twice a day to come and collect my dirty bottles to wash for me which I felt very pai seh doing. Also I didn’t like that I had to wait for them to come back with the clean stuff before I could pack them and go out. I’d rather do it myself faster and easier. So quite a lot of time was spent in the bathroom washing equipment wtf.
If you’re thinking about sterilization, I didn’t sterilize. It’s not necessary to sterilize every day anyway, I sterilize my equipment once a week so I waited till I went home to do it.
Oh ya I forgot to bring ice packs which are necessary to make sure the milk stays fresh. Bring your own in case the hotel doesn’t have! The Singapore hotel provided reusable big ice packs which were perfect. The Tokyo one only had mini dry ice packs so I took like sixteen.
The packing
Storage would be a better word but I wanted to make everything start with P wtf. The minibar fridges in hotel rooms are not cold enough to store EBM properly so after pumping, I’d seal the EBM in storage bags, label them with my name, room number and date and time, and send it down to the hotel for freezing.
Then right before we left for the airport I put all the milk into the ice box with the ice packs. I secured it with tape and checked it in. Cannot hand carry.
The panic
Milk storing and transporting methods aside, my supply dropped horrifyingly. I’ve stated how much I used to express/nurse and the yield but overseas and out and about, I found it hard to pump more than twice a day – once in the morning, once at night.
The first day on the plane, my boobs hurt like sai. On the second day, they ached but was bearable. The third day, I found I was going twelve hours with no discomfort.
On the first night, I yielded about 10 oz of milk, and this was 5 hours after I pumped at about 7 pm (7 pm one also yielded 10 oz). Means 20 oz at night in total. By the fourth and last day, I was getting slightly less than 10 oz.
The speed at which it drops is horrifying!!! I wasn’t aware this could happen so fast – in fact I thought that just 4 days wouldn’t really hurt. But it doesssssss.
I’m pumping and direct latching as often as I can now to try to bring my supply back up again. But I spoke to two mommy friends who also took trips away from their babies and both confirmed that their supply reduced dramatically.
Both their supplies never recovered wtf. This is despite taking fenugreek and other tried and tested foods, midnight pumping, etc.
So if you’re a mommy and are planning to go away for a bit, thought you should know wtf. This shouldn’t deter you from going honestly cos you need that little bit of rest and sanity. But if you want to prevent this, you could be more diligent than I was in expressing la. Although that sounds super difficult when you’re on holiday, I understand.
As for me, I guess Imma start scouting for formula soon if my supply doesn’t go back up. It’s a little depressing cos I’ve gotten used to the pumping routine and I like breastfeeding Fighter (cos he always smiles at me when he’s feeding! Also it shuts him up and calms him down wtf). And I will miss the license it gives me to eat everything without fear of gaining weight wtf.
But I gotta do what I gotta do. So what’s a good formula brand?
P/S: Breastfeeding advocates, don’t even go there wtf.
Decided to do a Day in My Life blog post again, partly because Fatty’s always asking what I do every day, and I myself don’t even know how I spend my time and I never feel productive. *sad So! This is a step by step account of my day. As usual, Fighter woke me up in the morning asking for milk. As usual, I fed him with one eye open, one eye closed. No pictures of breastfeeding wtf.
Then it was bath time for somebody! He loves bathtime now and sits there like a little tyrant wtf.
Cover up that fatty nekkidness please! Fighter hates putting on clothes so we have to distract him with his rattle. -_-
And then I finally had time to brush my teeth and do morning toilette…
…do my morning pump.
…and grab some breakfast! Today’s breakfast was spicy tuna (yum) on bread and my usual cup of lowfat milk.
After breakfast it was time to get to work. Quickly checked my emails and revised some documents to send off. Where’s Fighter all this time, you may be wondering.
Taking his late morning nap, that’s where! Took a quick peek on him and there he was snoring gently away, legs akimbo. Then Fatty came home to pick me up for lunch. And away we went!
We drove all the way to Desa Petaling and found a coffee shop for lunch. I love hawker food lunches!!! I ordered what I always have – siew yuk fan.
The reason why we were in Desa Petaling was so I could so I could be there to receive and pay for the Tesco groceries delivery to a welfare organization called Ti Ratana.
Fatty decided to give some money too since Ti Ratana runs on public funding only.
We also brought some OLDTOWN White Coffee 3 in 1. Ti Ratana runs old folks homes so we wanted to bring the senior citizens a little something. Not sure how many of them would be interested in candy and snacks and I figured coffee, an almost universally loved beverage, and a 3 in 1 version for easy preparation, would be perfect. Also brought along (for those who may like it cold) some cans of the same OLDTOWN White Coffee but no picture.
Good deed of the day done, Fatty and I get into the car to make our way home. In the car we got a call that our friends Cheng Leong and Angeline just had a baby!
So we did a detour to Bangsar to pick up a gift for them and go see them at the hospital. Also picked up a new baby high chair for Fighter since he hates his booster seat. -_-
Welcome to the world, baby!
Home! Time for Fighter’s sole solid meal of the day and today is avocado day! Cut up a ripe avocado, mashed it and mixed in two teaspoons of milk.
He likes it!!! Yay Fighter! Rice cereal okay, avocado also okay. He’s getting really good at eating solids now. Tongue thrust reflex is gone, and he’s gnashing purees like a pro, although he still doesn’t take much each meal la. I think one avocado looks like can last him 4-5 days. Towards the end he started griping for a nap, so I bundled him off to bed again.
One of Fatty’s best friends dropped by in the afternoon cos he had a meeting near our place. Like a good hostess, I served him coffee and nga ku (arrowroot chips) left over from Chinese Near Year WTF. Still fresh ok hahahaha.
OLDTOWN White Coffee is like the quintessential afternoon tea drink hehe. We bought a few packs for ourselves too since it’s Fatty’s favorite coffee and 3in1 is so easy to prepare. It’s the true white coffee anyway! The original one from Old Town in Ipoh. #coffeesnob
The first time I heard about OLDTOWN White Coffee was when I went shopping at Low Yat Plaza with Fatty years ago. He fell in love with the white coffee after the first cup and since then OLDTOWN White Coffee has been in our groceries list wtf.
Then did the usual routine of pumping, checking emails again, and went for dinner with Fatty’s parents who are in town.
Played with Fighter for a little while before his bedtime.
And tucked him in when he got sleepy. Here he is clutching his beloved Winnie the Pooh to sleep hehehe. Then Fatty and I settled down and did our nightly tradition of some TV time before bed. This time it’s HIMYM! The series is over already now only we starting to watch the last season. NO SPOILERS AH!!! And that was my day. As it turns out it was quite packed with activities hahaha I’m not sure if that’s reflective of every day of mine.
I received this adorable little paper bag from Estee Lauder the other day. And inside was lipsticks!
So today Imma do a lipstick review. Notable because this is my first ever lipstick review!
*waits for applause
*gets none
Anyway. *clears throat. A little background on my history of lipstick.
I (along with most of my generation) never wore lipstick until recent years! It just wasn’t cool. Lipstick (usually red or brown) was for our mothers, and we might wear a dab of lip gloss here, a dash of colored lip balm there and that was it.
The only lipstick I used to wear was nude lip because I was super into gyaru style.
IT WAS 2007 DON’T JUDGE.
But in recent times lipsticks have come back with a vengeance and I’m glad. My makeup style used to be all about the eyes only but lip colors are a great way to…
1) add some life to your face
2) finish a look with pizzazz
3) create different looks for different outfits
Anyway these are the Estee Lauder lipsticks I got. The Estee Lauder Pure Color Envy Shine lipstick range.
Is the packaging gorgeous or is the packaging gorgeous? Each tube is done up in Estee Lauder’s signature colors – navy and gold – and it all looks so glam and classic!
A cool feature is the magnetic feature in the lipstick that clicks it close without you having to cap it.
This range of lipstick comes in 16 colors all formulated for Asian skin tones. Mine are……
This is Surreal Sun. Quite surreal and quite sunny la I must say. Hahaha.
When I first applied it it came out a sheer orange and I was slightly disappointed cos I love bright lips. But I layered it on and it got brighter! The end result is a very playful bright (but not traffic cone bright) orange lip which reminds me of Style Nanda models a bit.
To match the playful Surreal Sun, I created a playful audfit to go with it!
Jacket from F21, top from Nasty Gal, spiked shorts from Topshop, shoes from Jeffrey Campbell. Beanie was a free gift from magazine woohoo.
Next is Mischievous Rose. A rose by any other name would smell look as sweet. Check me being intellectual!
Before I put it on I thought it would be a boring old fashioned shade but I was wrong! It’s a creamy pink brown color that results in a very sweet, understated yet finished look. I wouldn’t call it mischievous; rather you look pretty and subtle yet like you took the time to do your makeup well.
I thought it would be perfect for wearing to work! To important meetings. To your kids’ school for report card day wtf. To visit your boyfriend’s parents for the first time? Best lip color for that.
To match this pink-brown shade I came up with a more demure professional look. Hair up with chunky stud earrings some more. Sheer plaid top from Younghungryfree, skirt from Topshop, heels from Japan.
The last shade is called Pink Dragon. I’d recommend this color for someone who wants to look younger hahaha or a girl who’s just started experimenting with makeup!
It’s a very youthful shade – a fresh sort of pink that strikes the right balance between not too jarring a color, yet bright enough to draw the eye and not waste your effort. Lolol.
Another look at Pink Dragon under sunlight. I normally stay away from pink lips cos most pinks look weird with my skin; I either look washed out or too dark. But this pink just worked on me! Maybe because all 16 shades of Envy Shine are formulated specially for Asian skin. 🙂
I think if you neglected to do eye makeup and just slicked on some of this lippie and run outside, it would work equally well! Because it’s so fresh and somehow innocent looking, you don’t have to do much to pull it off.
Which is why I chose a more cutesy girlish outfit for this. Simple white tee and a butter yellow skirt with white polka dots, both from Twenty3, finished off with pastel accessories.
Verdict:
The Estee Lauder Pure Color Envy Shine Sculpting Lipstick is very impressive! My favorite thing about it is how it’s so moisturizing, and yet the colors are so vibrant and pretty. In my experience bright lip colors tend to be a bit drying which is a major problem for me cos I suffer from dry flaky lips. But it’s super moisturizing on my lips; the technology in Envy Shine works so each time you press your lips together it reactivates the moisture droplets so lips stay soft, smooth and fuller looking throughout the day. I definitely didn’t feel the need to lick them or mash my lips together.
I also like that the lipsticks also come with some gloss – I prefer a bit of shine on my lips cos I think it looks healthier. If you get to try this lipstick, note how it really does sculpt your lips, my lips somehow look more well shaped…like more 3D wtf but not in a Dolly Parton way. In a sexy Angeline Jolie way! Hahaha.
Aaaaand there are two contests coming your way!
(1) Instagram #LipstickEnvyShineMY contest
Take a photo with your favourite Envy Shine lipstick, post it on Instagram, hashtag #LipstickEnvyShineMY and stand a chance to win a free Pure Color Envy Shine Lipstick worth RM98. Like this.
Contest period: April 4 – May 16. 3 winners will be announced Friday of each week on Facebook starting from April 11. Photos with most likes will have higher chances of winning.
(2) Estee Lauder ‘Be Envied’ Contest
Estee Lauder is having 4 mall events from April 28 onwards. At these mall events, customers who purchase RM280 or more (inclusive of 1 lipstick) can join the Estee Lauder ‘Be Envied’ Contest and stand a chance to win a fashion spread in EH, Nuyou & Female in August, along with one year’s supply (!!!!) of products worth up to RM5000. Upon entering, you can get complimentary makeup done by an Estee Lauder makeup artist, hairstyling, wardrobe styling, and a professional A4 portrait photo with EH/Nuyou/Female masthead.
Behind the scenes pic of my homemade fashion spread lolol.
(3) Giveaway on Fourfeetnine.com
Hehehe. Estee Lauder is always so wonderfully generous to my readers! This time I am giving away TEN (10) Envy Shine lipsticks to ten readers! To win, comment on this blog post which Envy Shine lipstick shade you want, and why. Remember to leave your email so we can contact you.
The Estee Lauder lipstick range is available at all Estee Lauder counters nationwide from April 2014 onwards, for RM98 each.
Time for another AudEveryday post which just means a random collection of pictures from everywhere that have been taken recently. I have so much to blog about actually! I wanna write about Fighter’s sleeping and solids eating but Imma leave those for another day cos they deserve blog posts to themselves.
So where was I? *rubs hands
Oh ya pictures from recently! Lemme try to categorize them into events.
1. Fighter says hi.
“Ohai.”
HAHAHAHHAA SO DAMN CUTE I CANNOT DEAL. Backstory: Fatty came home from work one day and I decided to greet him by waiting on top of the stairs holding Fighter in a standing pose, like Fighter was waiting for his daddy to come home.
It was so cute when Fatty’s sister Fayth came home, I asked Fatty to do the same thing to her. These pictures were taken when Aunty Fayth came home hahahaha.
2. Fighter gets a haircut
No barbershops for Fighter. It’s go big or go home wtf. We did a mommy-baby photoshoot for ViVi magazine (coming out in May issue!) so I asked 76style to help me trim Fighter’s sideburns which were getting out of hand (and in Fighter’s case, out of face wtf). Apparently Hikky and Sato san were fighting over who gets to give Fighter his first haircut hahahahaha. Hikky said she always does my hair right from the beginning but Sato…apparently Sato is Fighter’s biggest fan wtf.
How we did it was I held him like this and Hikky would hold him steady and hold a towel around him. Then Sato would deftly grab the hair on the side of his head and snip.
Fighter would feel something so he’d whip his head around. And Sato would quickly grab the hair on the other side of the head and snip again. And Fighter would turn his head again. And the cycle continues. HAHAHAHA. His hair is super neat now which I love cos he’s even more handsome now! Totally unbiased mother here wtf.
Sato san sitting and playing with Fighter while I got my makeup done. Told you he’s a fan.
I said, “Sato san, teach Fighter some Japanese!”
Sato: “Japanese? Okay.”
Then can hear him mumbling at the back to Fighter, “おはようございます。こんにちは。僕の名前はファイターです。”
HAHAHAHA HE ALSO DAMN CUTE.
3. Pictures that don’t fit in a category
Just Fighter chilling in his high chair. I got him a proper chair cos he hates his booster seat. He seems to like this a lot better luckily. Cos this chair is quite expensive wtf. *clutches money. It’s Stokke’s Tripp Trapp and Wendy and my sister in law both swear by it so okay I follow!
Not sure why his face like this. Maybe just got a scolding hahaha.
He’s learning to understand when he’s in trouble already! The other day he went completely berserk I dunno why. He was just screaming and yelling and flailing his limbs. No amount of coaxing and soothing and carrying would appease him. I knew he was just throwing a tantrum cos there was no tears and he was just being angry.
He yanked my hair hard until I had tears in my eyes wtf and I’m not the one crying ok. So I got fed up and put him into his cot and told him sternly to stop crying because I know he’s just throwing a tantrum.
He immediately quietened down and looked at me wide eyed. Like very wary like that cos he’s never seen me not smile at him. I refused to smile and continued to talk to him sternly.
After a while I also softened and stroked his hair and spoke gently. He see me like that he also smile and wriggled his body in happiness hahahaha. Tantrum totally forgotten.
Last weekend while we were having dinner he again throw tantrum and couldn’t be pacified. So Fatty spoke to him sternly and he understood again!
He sat quietly in Fatty’s lap and looked down meekly and played with his fingers, his cheeks jutting out cos he had his head down hahahahaha. My heart was melting at this point but Fatty and I promised ourselves we would always be united in front of our kids so I didn’t say anything.
Sorta like this.
Just me and Fatty. We take so many pictures of Fighter we forget to take ourselves already.
Roly poly is obsessed with eating his toes recently. I like his sheer faith and optimism here. So confident he can reach his toes that he already opened his mouth in anticipation hahahaha.
What did I tell you wtf.
He and his new Ram Friend. It’s round and fluffy and therefore very attractive to him.
4. Bought new bras wtf
Went for a much needed bra fitting the other day at Triumph! Since you know my bra size has been catapulting around ever since pregnancy wtf. Anyway I have tons of lingerie but I always end up buying lacy colorful stuff which cannot be worn with 95% of my clothes. -_- I always end up wearing the same one black and one nude bra only wtf. So I desperately needed new ones and promised myself I’d be sensible.
Found the perfect lingerie for my needs from Triumph Body Makeup line! Comes in all pastel colors (also got nude and black la) and its key points are its invisibility under clothing and 360 degree smooth fit.
I’m always suffering from obvious bras and visible underwear line wtf so I got like 5 sets!
5. Random outings with Bobo
Taken with Bobo’s awesome Sony camera. I love her camera and she loves mine wtf grass is always greener.
She’s like my event buddy TM.
6. I did fillers at DRx!
On my way there.
My left eye has always had an eyebag issue but lately it’s going from bad to worse.
WTF is this shit!? This was taken with my magic camera ok. Also known as the camera who will not let any flaw or blemish through. And even the magic camera cannot handle the monstrosity that is my eyebag. Worse still I am not even smiling here wtf. Imagine if I smiled!
Eyebags occur when the fat under your eyes sags downwards creating a hollow there and making dark circles even more obvious. I hate that I look older and haggard cos of this so I went to DRx for help.
Most permanent way to erase eyebags is surgery but I didn’t want anything so drastic plus I’m still quite young la ok (you. College student. Not talking to you wtf) if I do surgery now, in 20 years what am I gonna do!? A safer less drastic option is fillers which I chose.
This filler brand was just released in Malaysia and I think DRx is like the earliest clinic to have it. Apparently super good and the filler is of course hyaluronic acid (which occurs naturally in our bodies and thus isn’t harmful at all. Moisturizing in fact)
Prepping.
My left eye (which is the eye on the right) is done! The eyebag there has always been worse but now you see when I smile the eye pouch there is already higher than the other eye’s!
All done! Picture no filter/makeup mode/editing. It’s very subtle cos I don’t want those tear bags to be gone but I love it! My eyebags aren’t visible anymore and it still looks natural! I don’t think you can tell I did something if I didn’t say.
If you’re looking for a consultation on skin or face, check out DRx. Their doctor DR J
Okay dying of narcolepsy. Setakat ini sahaja kali ini.
Last week was pretty eventful! For starters, it was Teach for Malaysia Week. If you don’t know what Teach for Malaysia is, you suck and should read this.
TFM Week is basically a week where selected figures take on a class each in a high need school. They work with Teach for Malaysia fellows who are already teaching in those schools and come in during a class, talk to the students and ‘teach’ that class with the fellow.
These people are usually high flyers or icons in their respective industries – they’ve had politicians, movie stars, CEOs and all kinds of different people. They’re almost always inspirational. And that’s the whole point of TFM Week – to inspire kids and to give them a peek into the world beyond what they know in their lives. Also probably to make class more interesting wtf.
Suet (who was a TFM Fellow for two years) asked Fatty to be a guest! Initially Fatty was very reluctant because he didn’t think he would be able to connect with the kids – his first language is English and these kids would probably be speaking Malay or Chinese, and his job may not be interesting to someone outside the industry or someone who doesn’t know blogs.
But I thought it would be an amazing experience. Education is something very important to me, especially with Fighter now and I wanted to help in some way. Plus I thought it would be good for us to see a different part of society than what we usually encounter.
Also I am generally quite kepoh wtf.
So I exercised my wifely influence wtf and Fatty agreed to do it. Off we went to a public high school in Klang.
Here’s us inside the Bilik Gerakan before class. Note Fatty’s faceception shirt hahaha.
It was mind blowing. When we parked our car under a school building, kids from above called out to us. Quite normal cos I remember in high school cheeky boys would do that to visitors too.
But then we passed by a group of girls who stared unabashedly at us wtf. One girl even put her hands together in like a prayer pose and said reverently. “you’re so beautiful!”
I don’t remember being like this at fourteen! I’m sure I was either awkwardly shy, or busy trying to act cool and definitely wouldn’t have said anything like that. I dunno if it’s because these kids are not as ‘worldly’ as we were coming from a big urban city?
Imma be honest. When we were in the Bilik Gerakan, the school and teachers put on a sort of welcome/launch to the TFM Week. They had speeches upon speeches and I thought it was a nice thought….until it went on to 5 minutes after class was supposed to start.
Then I remembered this was how it used to be when I was at school too. A lot of pomp and circumstance, as is the norm for all Malaysian government-related matters. It’s the Malaysian way. I was a bit annoyed because I heard that while we were in the airconditioned room listening to speeches and opening poems, the kids were all lined up outside their classroom waiting for their teacher before they could go in. I really think a lot of that energy and effort could have been put too far better use – shouldn’t the priority be the kids after all? – but that’s just my opinion.
Here’s Fatty prepping for his lesson with the TFM Fellow, Elizabeth, and Suet who now works for TFM.
Anyway we finally got into the classroom. All the memories came rushing back to me! The oversized pinafores, the crazy heavy backpacks, the limp ponytails and sweat from playing outside at breaktime.
One thing struck me though. In my school we had a more or less equal split of ethnicities and while we weren’t all like best friends, there was a lot of camarederie and unity as a class. But this class only had max eight Chinese students or something (the rest were Malay) and the Chinese all clumped together, especially the girls who seemed to stay in their own dream world. :X
Here’s the view from where I was standing, next to the teacher’s desk.
I awkwardly stood there with a bag of snacks (to bribe the kids WTF) cos I’m super bad with kids. The only reason why I’m now okay with babies is cos of Fighter wtf.
I was also a bit worried for Fatty to be honest. If you know him in real life, you’d know he speaks SUPER fast. And the words he uses sometimes very chim I worried the kids wouldn’t understand and he’d lose their attention.
Me with my bag of snacks annoying Fatty wtf.
It turned out pretty good! Fatty and Elizabeth were very valiant in engaging the class and the class responded, despite them all being very poor in English.
I also got in on the action. We were using computers to complete an English assignment and Elizabeth told us that these kids probably don’t have a computer at home also. 🙁
So my greatest achievement of the day is teaching them how to CTRL+V to paste something lolol. They all went ohhh and looked at me in awe as though I invented Facebook hahahaha.
Elizabeth had shown the class our meme proposal beforehand, so the assignment was based on memes. Elizabeth said her kids had all sorts of ambitions but maybe due to a lack of exposure or naivete, had no idea how to reach those ambitions or what really went on in such and such job. So she assigned them to pick a job and create a What People Think I do meme.
For those who don’t know, this is a sample of the meme. Source. I randomly chose this because funny hahaha.
The humor to it was a bit too sophisticated but some kids got it!
With the class!
Here’s some things I realized which I never did when I was at school. And they’re all about the teacher. I guess because today we WERE the teacher. As a kid I never really thought of what a dedicated teacher goes through every day.
1. It’s exhausting!!!
Elizabeth is the teacher and Fatty was the guest. I didn’t do anything besides go around and check on their work and maybe guide them a bit and *I* was exhausted, what more Elizabeth! Sure you can be a shit teacher and ask students to copy stuff off the blackboard or read monotonously from the textbook but a good teacher would work the entire lesson to engage the students and to keep the energy level up. It’s easy to keep the energy up if you feed off other people’s excitement. But more often than not, students won’t respond so it’s up to the teacher to dig deep within herself and keep being excited/energetic about the lesson.
It’s like the teacher is the sun giving off unlimited energy and the students are the plants just absorbing wtf. It’s exhausting being the sun wtf.
2. Having to balance between the slow and fast
Every kid has a different learning pace. A teacher has to balance the slow and the fast learners, make sure the slower kids can keep up, and the faster kids are challenged and don’t get bored. And they have to do this every class, every day.
3. A teacher may feel demotivated but they can’t show it
It’s exhausting. It’s frustrating. The heat in Malaysian classrooms is just terrible wtf. There’s so many ways a teacher could feel demotivated but if she is, she cannot show it. She has to keep on giving it her 101% because it’s not about her, it’s about the students. I can’t think of a more demanding job, except maybe the POTUS wtf.
Which is why…hats/caps/beanies off to the TFM Fellows who are taking two years out of their lives to make a difference to our (bad) education.
Also teachers should be paid more!!! I speak for Malaysia only cos I dunno how goes it in other countries. There should be more rigorous standards to meet to become a teacher and they should be paid more, a salary deserving of the high standards they should be bringing to the table. Teaching should definitely be conferred a higher status in Malaysian society too, and thought of as a proper career or profession*, not something for people who don’t have any better prospects or people who want long school holidays wtf.
*like how it is in Japan! I read somewhere that teachers in Japan are mostly male cos it’s a highly respected profession and the teachers receive higher pay than most civil servants, as well as have to go through a super stringent selection process.
That’s the first step for Malaysia I think.
Fatty and I can’t decide what kind of school to send Fighter to. We both went to government school but now we hear awful things about the standards of it now. So TFM is really an awesome step in the right direction in terms of our education system.
Okay sorry for the long ass post!
With great power comes great responsibility.
And with great responsibility comes shitty skin.
When I say great responsibility, I mean motherhood. Lolol.
Although I may look like I’m super unaffected by motherhood and still look glowing and slim and whatever, I assure you…it’s only my Casio TR15 magic camera doing its job well. Hahaha.
The truth is, my skin has gone downhill after having Fighter. I didn’t realize before this but besides some occasional breakouts during my pregnancy, my skin was awesome. Glowy and supple and definitely not dry.
Not anymore! When the pregnancy hormones leached out of me, so did whatever made my skin awesome then. Haih. These past few months I struggled with dry and flaky skin, especially around my mouth, sallow looking skin, and worst, fine lines ALL OVER MY FACE. Not just in the usual spots like eye area, but on my cheeks also got WTF. I was damn worried cos I suspected my skin’s age was now older than my actual age. FML.
I guess it’s also made worse because sometimes when I’m rushing in the morning (always my busiest time of the day) I skip steps in my skincare routine wtf. Skip here a bit, there a bit, I think eventually it built up and turned into a monster wtf.
Anyway I’ve been trying to take better care of my skin now! So a few weeks ago I went to DRx and talked to Dr Jason (the resident doctor) about my skin dryness. He said I had a few options – blood facial (Kim Kardashian did it and I googled it and nearly fainted wtf) among others, and cryorejuvenation, a much less extreme option.
Cryorejuvenation is the use of a special cryo-iontophoresis machine to push active ingredients (in layman’s terms, serum and other good stuff) into the skin via electrical currents.
It results in a brighter and more hydrated complexion which is exactly what I needed.
Here’s how it went.
As like all other facials, first the beautician cleanses my face.
(wah without makeup why my mouth look so big)
Then! This part is really interesting. Taking this thing which is like a metal stamp with many tiny sharp needles, the beautician gently presses it all over my face!
Like this. It doesn’t hurt at all because she does it really gently, and besides the needles are too small to penetrate the skin’s pain receptors. It even feels a little ticklish.
The reason she does this is so the needles will open up microscopic holes in my face – channels for the ingredients/serum to penetrate into the skin.
Then with one hand she slowly applied the serum onto my skin while her other hand, holding the cryo-iontophoresis handpiece to spread and massage the serum so it’ll be absorbed into my skin.
Feeling very shiok! The handheld probe is actually super cold! (temperature on its surface is -10 to 0 C!!!) It felt like she was using ice to massage my face, but without the wetness.
It’s somehow very soothing though. The coldness is to allows a more powerful electrical current to deliver the active ingredients into my skin while preventing burning or any discomfort.
So it was just this cold thing gently going over my face. When the serum absorbed in, the beautician would apply more and use the device to go over again. She did this for like 20 minutes and it was so soothing I nearly fell asleep.
Right after she finished!
The active ingredients in the serum are hyaluronic acid (for hydration and brightening), peptides for collagen synthesis, vitanin C and anti-oxidants.
Love love love my skin after it was done! No more tightness when I smiled, and my skin felt soft and supple to the touch. Really rejuvenated!
This is really one of my favorite facials because of how soothing and painless it was, yet with drastically obvious results. Can’t wait to go back and get it done again. 😀
You can do cryorejuvenation as often as you want but DRx recommends it about once a month. Anyone can do it but probably not if you have oily skin. In fact they recommend it for patients with dry skin or who are in their 30s or 40s (FML). Cryorejuvenation however will not treat skin problems such as wrinkles, fine lines and blocked pores. It simply brightens and rehydrates skin, albeit with a huge difference. ^^
My readers can take advantage of a promotion for Cryorejuvenation under DRx. Normal price is RM500 but you can try it for RM188 first time first trial. Readers also get to redeem RM50 voucher (to purchase products only) which can be used instantly.
Quote “Audrey Cryo RM188” for the promo! Call DRx at (603) – 6201 3088 for an appointment.
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