Wanderlust and all things nice

Haven't posted in a while because i was away on holiday and busy with some other stuff, but heyyy i'm back!

9 Dec
Had SDD/Prom and it was fun with Sam and Vanessa prepping and feeling girly/fab with the makeup hahahaha, but the entertainment for the night was prolly only exciting for those who won prizes /  the couple games part. The music mixes or whatever you call that was too loud for me, and i seriously do not understand the deal with the "eh wah eh wah". -_- But overall it was fun seeing everybody all dressed to the tee and looking awesome :)

did not take many pictures with my phone, but here's a few ~

Me and fatfat <3

Cheryl! So prettyyyyy

With Van who seem to look good no matter what :)

With teng wahahhahaa i'm taller :) (and we no longer look like twins)

12-17 Dec
Went to Bangkok with the craziest bunch of girls i know and it was a BLAST. In retrospect, it seemed too too short, but here's to the many more years of travelling tgt, bitches <3

Day 1 - fly there and eat and eat and sleep
touched down and proceeded to hotel.

At the airport!!!

Went to an Indian pure vegetarian restaurant to eat because we didn't know how to go to anywhere else and we saw it on the way. Food was gooooood, but spicy - super spicy!!! Then, proceeded to Terminal21's supermarket to shop for groceries since there is a mini kitchen in our hotel room. We then checked into our room and settled ourselves down revelling in the awesomeness of the room. One thing is the rooms are differently laid out, even the mattress is different! After showering and getting over the excitement, we went to this Foodland Supermart which "never closes", it was super cool and we were just goofing around, haha!

Cool glass door that allows people to see the bathroom from the bed. Kinky much HAHAHA ;)

WE ALL HAVE GLASSES

I look like i just woke up and have terribly swollen eyes LOL

FAB

MIANBAO

HUGE APPLE

Day 2 - Pratunammmm; shop till you drop
After a hasty breakfast we took off to Pratunam/ Platinum Mall, which is actually a place where wholesale shops are - meaning every shop you go to will prolly have a "buy more cheaper" thing goin on. We even brought a luggage to contain the wrath of 6 girls on a shopping frenzy, hahaha! I found that the skirts i bought from the shops here were of much better quality than those from Chatuchak (of course the price is higher too, but the material is rly good).
Dresses, skirts, shoes, shorts, accessories... So many things to see and we prolly did not even cover half of the entire mall! One thing i realised is that the lower the floor, the higher the prices get. So resist the temptations until you go upstairs!!!
There was a vegetarian stall in the food court, but the food was uber spicy pls!!! We all had a hard time taking down our food but lucky for me, i ordered the milder ones. The Tomyum soup there was divine though, the best i ever had! Can't say the same about the dishes though - limited choice but they gave a good amount.
And the day goes on with us feeling more and more satisfied with every buy, but starting to feel our pockets becoming lighter...

Day 3 - New clothes + girly braids day; going to "atas" place

our OOTDs :)

Supposedly having our 8-course meal today but the place wasn't as good (vegetarian-friendly) as Yuzhen's aunt said, so we ended up eating at MBK, some semi-vegetarian place, first Pad Thai experience!!! (But it didn't taste that good...) the mango sticky rice though... <3 Weeeeee~
Walked around in the atas malls (ion equivalent or higher) and stayed at this super nice shop to try on their clothes. HOLY THEY WERE SO PRETTY, BUT PRETTY DARN EXPENSIVE TOO.

LOVE THIS DRESS SO MUCH

THIS SKIRT TOO. and long Yuan is in a jumpsuit ;) 

WEEEEEEE

Then we went to Naraya where certain aunties stayed there for soooooooo long, while we chatted and ate @ Au bon pain (winkwink) :). After that we went to the night market right outside and yet another round of intense shopping!!!
Went to this place for dinner with a concept like Marche (you enter and they give you a card, then you pay whatever is logged onto the card when you leave) and had Pad Thai again! This time it was much better :) and got to try all the different curries - red, yellow, green. My favourite would be the yellow one, cause the other two are too heavily spiced.

how do i rotate this. ahem

Day 4 - CHATUCHAK AWYEAH
Have i more to say? Haha kidding, of course i have to say everything. We woke up late so we ended up reaching there around noon or later. Had street roti prata for lunch, HOLY IT WAS DAMN GOOD PLS. Buttery and sugary, downright sinful but oh so satisfying... ;) then we start our adventure!!! We went in pairs i think, me and yuan tgt (good cause we like the same kind of stuff but bad cause we're both weak at bargaining. WEAK) and off we go on our shopping spree! Happy with all the buys that day cause most were 100 baht (~S$4) and not exceeding 255 baht (~S$10) whoopeeee. The street food was good too! We tried coconut ice cream, thai iced tea ice cream, fruits, tornado potato (MY FAVE) and mango sticky rice. Overall it was an awesome experience, bought some stuff i rly love and they sell pets too - super kawaii!!! :3

You can see i'm holding my alr finished coconut ice cream :)

spastic face cause stupid soot spammed 

Wanted to call it a day cause everybody was tired and some feeling unwell but we ended up dining at Terminal21 and shopping hahaha, cause the shopkeepers were too nice.

Day 5 - the day night became day; amah pants day

this is my lack of sleep face. holy

Woke up at 3pm or so cause we only fell asleep at 5am++, bridge all night. I'm surprised i didn't concuss halfway cause i'm a really really bad "ton-ner". #achievementunlocked? HAHAHA so anyway we were supposed to give the night market another visit but apparently they don't open on Mondays sob :(. So we went to Big C (like Giant in SG) and bought tons of snacks/ food we wanted to bring home. Packed everything into the luggage that night, felt super efficient cause i was allegedly the messiest person in the entire trip with everything lying around hehe. Supposedly party that night but the snacks were to MSG-filled and there was limited supply of water. Bridge till late again, but not so cause we need to catch our flight the next day!

Day 6 - time to say goodbyeeeeee :(
Felt mildly depressed at the notion of the trip coming to an end but happy cause it was really enjoyable, the whole trip :) the air just turned colder that day it was so shiok!!! Guess Bangkok feels sad about us leaving too, haha! ;p
Went to the airport and rushed to the gate only to realise our flight has been delayed (to this day i do not know why LOL) but all is well cause we just sat there and talked. It's nice to have such friends to talk about nothing with. or everything. Love them to bits
Touched down in SG and was all chirpy until my bro lied that he was at the airport but wasn't (YOU BITCH YOU) and then my dad came and my mood just went crashing down... Didn't feel like talking for the rest of the night cause of the post-trip withdrawal symptoms i guess. Lonely bed, lonely room :(

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Anyway, after getting over all the sadness, i had to get my shit together and look for a damn job. Actually got rejected by the two most wanted jobs of the holidays - MOE teaching internship and the YFA internship. Felt rather dejected but i understand that i'm not a v worthy candidate anyways, and it all boils down to Fate right? Maybe God means for me to be doing something else in this life :)

After much hassle, i finally got my next best dream job (i have many interests, pardon me, so i may have a few "dream jobs") - working at Delcie's Desserts! :) It's like this eggless bakery catering to special dietary requirements like vegan, gluten-free, diabetic, soy-free, etc etc. It's super cool cause they have eggless macarons! YA, LIKE OMG RIGHT. I've never tried their desserts before but i rly look forward to tasting them one day (they're expensive because of the ingredients - organic and specially chosen/manufactured). I'm SO excited, starting work on 2nd Jan! Should have said an earlier date but nvm, good things are worth the wait, plus it would be a good start to the new year! :)

WEEEEEE.

I made almond cookies today as experimentation for the CNY cookies i wanna make (whether to sell or just for giving away). They turned out nice but not as good as those sold outside. I think i overbaked some of them (the oven at home tends to get too hot i think) so the charred taste covers the almond taste quite a bit. But overall it's still good! I just need to get a decent cookie cutter cause i was using this sauce container, LOL.

OOH, i also got a new lens - Canon EF 50mm f1.8 II. Have been wanting this cause it's prolly the cheapest lens around, and it is good for food photography! :)

just look at it. just look. holy

Okay that's it from me now, life is going to start to be more happening now, since next week is New Year Day already, and i'm starting work the day after. Gosh, so exciting!!! Can't wait to learn everything!!! :D

Update again soon.

Loveeeeee,
Bel :)

Busy busy busy, but happy

The title basically sums up the whole time i haven't been blogging, haha!

Let me start off with the detox experience. It wasn't a good one for me... The first day felt awesome. Did some workouts, cooked soup that could last me 5 days, went out for a run, had a good dinner. But the second and third day was HORRIBLE. Maybe i started at the wrong time - had to stay at home so i could study, but the food in front of me (i study on the kitchen table) are just torturing me!!! I did not cave in but i felt sooooo horrible i guess i was almost going into depression. I felt so bad about myself, and like kept feeling so deprived. Told my dad and he said maybe this 7-day detox thing is too much for me, and i should take baby steps instead.

So i shortened it to 3 days. I guess i'm still rather proud of myself for accomplishing the 3 days :) And i should've prepped my body for such a big change too. No sugar, no oats, no snacks etc when i'm dependent on those usually.

Okay so that's it for the detox experience. Feels like i wasted my money though, and i prolly wouldn't do it again - or any time soon, at least.

(typed halfway and realised how unorganised it is so i shall write it in timeline form)

27 Nov:
So, A levels officially ended for me, but everyone was busy celebrating so i ended up spending the rest of the day alone at home watching Thai movies. I'm so in love with their language!!! I remember taking a bus and was closely observing and listening to this group of Thai people speak and feeling so enchanted by the language, haha! But Thai movies are really good too, like their plot and stuff. Only bad thing is the translation sometimes makes little/no sense :(

28 Nov:
Finally get to meet my dearest diudiu after what seemed like a million years!!! Kinda accomplished nothing that day hahaha but it was good just talking about nothing/everything with her :) Shopped walked around, talked, sat down, blah. Sounds boring but it was still good haha. Then this girl made me take picture of her with EVERY CHRISTMAS TREE WE SEE. She's like some Christmas tree addict or something, seriously. Haha!

Had lunch @ TCC (atas place = expensive food) and this was my Cheeso Portobello Sandwich. I didn't know there was onions so i had to pick them out :(

Below is a gallery of the Christmas tree addict and her Christmas trees. LOL

The Ferrero Rocher golden tree! Remember seeing it last year too :)

The nicest/grandest tree on Orchard road!

Attempt to take selfie with the tree hahaha

Yes, i do acknowledge the fact that i look like i'm BALDING :'(

Another tree

After that i went to meet the fatty for dinner at Serangoon Gardens. The place is still as nice as before but it was quite dark, haha. 

He just dyed his hair to (imo) Ah Beng colour x))

Does not look particularly appetising but this is the Wild Mushrooms Soup and the breads @ Cedele :)

29 Nov - 1 Dec:
Attended the 3-day class in fotang from which i realised many things about life and basically everything. It feels good to know that God will always always be with us no matter what :') May share more in days to come, but that's it for now.

2 Dec:
Went out with Rena and Sam, like for the first time everrrr!!! Always just hang out in school cause we have our other friends and all, but glad we finally got to spend time tgt just having fun :) Shopped, talked, and watched Catching Fire - it was soooo good! Watch it watch it! Great day spent with awesome company though there were awkward gaps of silences which i guess is from not being used to talk about everything not related to studies (shows how much we usually talk about academics hahaha)

The quality of the pic is quite bad due to the lighting but here's us at the Charlie Brown Cafe :)

3 Dec:
Went out with the class to sing karaoke @ Bugis+ at this place called Suites or smth i think. Was so fun and got to see a different side of them haha! But i felt it was quite inevitable that some people felt left out cause there were only 2 working mics, and esp for those who have limited song vocab when it comes to the more popular songs (like me)
At night finally met up with the siaozhabors for 1-for-1 Starbucks. (Was really quite worried about drinking coffee at such a timing and i got a sore throat the next day sob. and now i feel flu-ish) Haven't talked to them properly for sooooo long but everything is still like what they used to be. Love such friends, whom you can just talk about anything with.

4 Dec:
Went to send Rena off back to Vietnam. Will really miss her and she may not even come back to collect results next year T-T

Cause the Xmas tree is pretty :) And so are we. HAHAHAHAHA

After everybody went separate ways i went to Parkway to walk around aimlessly (love doing that haha) to kill time before Thor starts. Explored possibly every corner of PP cause i can. But anyway an adventurous (somewhat) day alone calls for some self-love in the form of selfies! So here's an awkward one of me in the toilet with some weird fisheye thingy, haha and it happens to capture my OOTD! :)

Then i went to walk around the shops outside to hunt for a place to get a haircut (hair getting too long and irritating) so i went to this place with haircuts charging at $3.80. Never believed in those places and never thought i would get a haircut there, but i did. Here's to trying new stuff!

So this is my new (length of) hair. Always thought of changing hairstyle but NEVER dared to. Oh well~

After washing... On a side note this shirt was from like eons ago (when i was in primary school?!) but the material is still as good. *thumbs up*

Went to catch Thor (free ticket thanks to OVA) and was prolly the only person who went alone hahaha but i guess i'm alright with it. Watching movies alone is really not that bad!!! (i used to think only sad and lonely people do that) Thor was good, as usual. Btw i love Tom Hiddleston after watching the Smosh interview with him. He's just... awesome. Like Jennifer Lawrence as well. (who cares if it may all be just a show right)

Met up with the fatty for dinner @ Veganburg cause he has been working since Monday and we haven't seen each other for almost a week. 

No idea where i'm looking hahaha (hurray for shorter fringe)

This picture cause fatty wants one of us with our faces closer tgt, HAHAHA :3

5 Dec:
Nothing special except that i went for the YFA (Youths for Autism) interview @ Pathlight School. I guess it went well when it comes to conversation but the content... let's just say i think it wouldn't make me the best candidate for the place... Oh well, the staff asked me to "just be yourself" so that's exactly what i did. I do hope i get it though, it would definitely be more meaningful than a regular part-time job :)
Met this girl at the waiting room though, shall not name her since it's not that important. She speaks eloquently and confidently and carries herself well. I would say she's the total opposite of me. Like the way she think and handles things, her personality traits, etc. etc. Not that i know her that well but based on what she shared with me. She even remembers how many reasons she gave for one of the qns when i have trouble even remembering what was being asked! And she's super organised and aware of everything (including her thoughts) whereas i'm disorganised (i forgot to bring all my documents and even my IC -_-) and always so lost. I'm guessing she will definitely get in, no doubt haha. It was so interesting meeting her though :))

That's all for now. It's 3.35am right now and i'm typing because i fell asleep at 9++, woke up at 11 and cannot fall back asleep. Please let me be able to wake up tmr, LOL.

Love, Bel.