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Plentyfull of Love

Posted on Sunday, July 23, 2017


I think E-main is the busiest girl between planning her wedding and getting her house ready but I super appreciate how she always finds time to meet me! Here's a weekend finally stopping by Plentyfull for some brunch (as always) - I love the dish I ordered, the Fried Organic Eggs & Kin Yan Mushrooms on Sourdough Toast ($16.00++) and even though it's a vegetarian dish and Justin will cry if I ever ordered anything without meat (luckily he wasn't around, haha) - but seriously, though it was really filling and satisfying.

What are Kin Yan Mushrooms, by the way?? I googled it and Kin Yan seems to be a farm in Singapore, and the mushrooms were like a mixture of oyster mushrooms to me / probably were oyster mushrooms. It's so funny to have them in a brunch dish - but it works! It's also nice that Plentyfull's dishes support local farmers. Eggs were great and so huge too, I wouldn't be surprised if they were locally sourced; they burst open in that gorgeous orange colour and were covered in pecorino cheese. Fact: the only time I ever go vegetarian is when either eggs, cheese, mushrooms or eggplants are involved, does anyone feel the same?

Anyway, before our date was over, we already made plans for our next one! Can't wait to see this girl again ♥

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Girls Night In with Clinique

Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2017

So at the start of June Jocelyn from Clinique hinted that we should keep the 30th free for a "secret event" which makes me crazy because I love secrets! This girl would not give up any information at all despite my casual attempts at asking at random times in hopes that she would accidentally let slip some info. We literally did not know a single thing up to the very day until a cab showed up outside our house to bring us to... a house party!


Hello Manda and (other) Monica!

So our brief before arriving was to a) come in all white and b) not wear any make up. Being the well-behaved girl I was, I did just that so excuse my no-make-up face! Haha, I kid. I know I have good skin so going out without make up doesn't freak me out that much. Sorry to disappoint :'D


Anyway those passionfruit cocktails above look super innocent but they were prettyyy potent. Would say that we may have been a wee bit tipsy before we even started the night proper, whoops!


Mama Jocelyn 'SPLAININ

Sort of managed to settle down amidst all the noise we were making to get introduced to Clinique's newly launched Pep Start Range! The packaging is ultra fun, and even the product itself is something I've never tried itself - the Double Bubble Purifying Mask squeezes out in a pink liquid, but rub it in with a little water, leave it alone for 1-2 mins and it becomes all bubbly like the picture above!


May have not used the Pep-Start Pout Perfecting Balm according to instructions :3


Afterwards we were surprised with these personalised silky bathrobes, in which our names were embroidered at the back. We all freaked out when we saw them - so, so cute! It's like something you never knew you needed in your life but now I have one... I love it!


Broke out into smaller groups, did a "no mirror" make up challenge, danced around awkwardly, and maybe should have eaten more of the food being cooked for us outside on the patio before getting ready to finish up our Girls Night In and exchange it for... a Girls Night Out!


But that's another story that I shan't overshare here (since I can't remember half of it anyway, hahaha). It involves a party bus, 4 bottles of Macallan and a constant stream of guys coming around to our table asking Why we were all in white? Was this a bachelorette's party? To which the answer was "Yes" it was Jocelyn's and she hired us off the internet because she has no friends and we forgot to bring her princess crown, or any sort of props that would have made us better bridesmaids. Long story short, they gave us these quizzical looks like we were crazy and left us be, haaa!


Thanks to the Clinique team for organising this unforgettable night! 

The Pep-Start range is already available for sale here in Singapore 
- give them a follow on Instagram @cliniquesg :D

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Pleat-ence

Posted on Thursday, July 13, 2017



At the risk of sounding overly ponderous, having been out from school and worked for 3 years - where do we go from here? Like where does life go and what meaning does it have? We work, get married, get a house, have kids, maybe squeeze some traveling in between, meet up with friends, host some cookouts, get old and then we die and that's it. I know this is a question everyone asks themselves at some point in their lives, but I guess when you were young you had actual "stages" in life - "oh, when I was in Secondary school, or when I was in JC". I guess as a fresh adult the idea is still strange to me how we'll probably now say "oh when I was working at company xxx" or "before I had kids" or "before I was married".

People have said to me that oh no Mon, your life is so exciting because you get to work on your own time / go to a lot of events and I promise you that there are days that are great and I'm so thankful that I get to do what I get to do, but then there are days you wake up and lie on your bed and just can't move from the knowledge that "this is it, this is life".

I've been meeting lots of fellow girls who have quit their jobs to work from home as well and I can say that on some days it is soul crushing from all the lack of social interaction (I can go one day without talking to anyone face to face), on other days you go to sleep thankful that you don't have rush to work in the morning and that you have absolute freedom to do whatever the F you want to do. All I can say is that I am grateful for our tiny blogging community because then there is the excuse to meet up with the same lovely souls again, if not I would literally not see anyone till the weekend.

Anyway, my current understanding is that life is long. There's just a lot of white static in the middle where we work to earn a living so that we can live it.