A and I visited this new place we have been wanting to visit for the longest time.
We are a big fan of pretty places and when we found out about this place called Antoinette from some TV show,
we were thrilled and cannot wait to go there right away!
This is not an advertisement but I really wanna share this place to anyone who wants a pretty place to have tea and nice sweets.
There are actually 3 different branches and you can find their address from their website.
The one we went to is at Penhas Road and it’s really nice to find such a place in a boring looking place like Penhas Road. :p
This place reminds of the Laduree in Paris!
I love the pretty blue theme of this cafe and the gorgeous European decor.
Here are some pictures of Antoinette.
This place is so pretty that all the pictures turned out very well no matter where and how I take them. Hahaha!
There are a lot of pretty cookies and stuff you can get off the shelves too.
A and I went there after our lunch at Dempsey so we weren’t too hungry.
And we really regretted it because everything there looks super yummy!
They do serve pasta and other mains too, I must try it out in future. :D
We ordered the Nougatine crepe, Vanilla Meringue, Maple Pudding, Royal Hot Chocolate and tea.
I LOVE the cups and teapots there! Pretty.
Really feels like I was back in Paris for a while! :p
The prices of the stuff there are quite okay considering the good ambience.
Our meal there was about $50.
Oh and I also bought a box of cookies too! Very value for money. :)
I hope everyone had a good Valentines’ Day celebration yesterday!
Though Valentines’ Day can be rather overrated sometimes, I think it’s good to have such a day as a reminder for us to love!
Love your lover, love your parents, your friends, your pets!
A and I went back to The Night Safari for our Valentines’ Day celebration.
It was a really important place for us because this is the place where we first went for our first official date.
Hahahaha.
But before that, here are some pictures of me snapping pictures of the furry children and myself. :p
I wanna specially thanks reader Lilian for the Night Safari tickets!
And I hope you like the Antoinette cookies I got for you too. :)
We were super excited about trip so we brought some dummy toy cameras to snap pictures too!
Feels like another school excursion! :p
Dinner was in The Night Safari itself and we just had simple Fish & Chips. Heh!
I like our frills-free date
I wish I could take more pictures but it is so dark in there.
So the only type pictures I can take is this type. SHADOWS! Haha!
I like this picture!
Here are some other pictures I took.
No flash makes me sad. :(
Even the toilets are pretty. Lol!
Then I saw this sign as we were walking and I told A “Oh my God! I wanna see the farking deer!”
HAHAHAHA!
After we walked nearer, we realized that the sign says “Barking Deer” instead.
LOL. I thought we could see the farking deer. Never see before eh! :p
Here is one more picture of A the tiger. :p
We ended the night with masks and loving for Maliboo.
Not sure why Boo always look so miserable and suspicious!
I guess it’s just her natural face. Haha!
Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines’ Day!
And remember to love everyday, not just on the annual Vday! :p
There are comments asking me to share more about my skincare regime.
Will be back with an entry about my current skincare regime and tips on how you can improve your skin soon!
I just came home from another meet up with the girlfriends.
What a great day!
I suddenly noticed that we are all big girls now.
As we casually talked about the hay days where we would meet up, chill all day and party all night,
I felt old and all grown up.
It was by chance how our paths in life crossed, but it was the effort we put in to maintain the friendship.
It really is easy to make new friends but hard to keep them all fresh and good.
Same thing for all kinds of relationships.
After our conversations, I realized that 2012 will be a fabulous year for us!
The two girls are getting hitched this year and the rest of us have big exciting plans coming up too.
I can’t wait.
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Anyways.
We had dinner at Meatworks in ION (because all the other restaurants were packed).
The food was, honestly, not impressive at all.
Thank goodness the company was good. Heh!
I wore my new top from ASOS.com & I’m totally loving it!
I cannot really decide what colour it is but I think it’s vermillion.
A insists that it’s red though.
It’s funny how there are so many shades of each colour for some of us.
Like red could be vermillion, scarlet, wine, mahogany, ruby, crimson, auburn.
But for some people, red is just red. Hahahaha. Ok whatever.
I really like the top and it’s really comfy!
Best thing is, it’s on sale.
The free international shipping thing is really making me spend a lot of money. *grumbles*
I think I look like Christmas today.
A is wearing her Dr Marts and I think she looks fab in them! :p
A gave me this thing she bought from Hong Kong some time ago.
It’s like a “housefly eye” lens thing that you can put in front of the camera lens to take pictures with special effects.
It’s super cute and I love it!
This couple days has been great for me!
A and I have been together for 9 months.
Time really flies. It felt like it has only been 3 months sometimes.
We have been together with each other almost every single moment, except for times when we had no choice.
And we are with each other almost every single night too.
I think I’m loving the stickiness. Haha.
Lately, A is determined to teach me how to swim.
Yes. I can’t swim.
I think I’m a horrible student because I’d whine all day long saying how I’m hydrophobic and stuff.
But truth is, I just hate being submerged in water and I really have the fear that I might have water in my nose.
I always try to talk her out of swimming trips, or just bug her to let me just suntan my afternoons away.
This are some snapshots when I managed to whisk her away to Tanjong Beach Club for just a lazy evening with beer.
I think she is going to drag me to the pool again tomorrow. *whines*
As some of you might already know, A has 2 dogs and 3 cats.
Of late, things haven’t been very good for the 3 cats because they are all ill now.
Bert, who is already 16 years of age now, had been diagnosed with diabetes last week.
He now needs insulin jabs every day and we also need to pay extra attention to what we feed him.
The poor old boy has lost so much weight and it aches our hearts to see him looking small and weaker.
Bacchus and Barnabas, who are a pair of strays A adopted couple years back are both down with cold.
One keeps sneezing and the other one cannot stop coughing and letting out voiceless meows.
:(
Hope they get well soon!
This was taken when we took Bert to The Animal Clinic next to TheGardenSlug last week.
Speaking of The Garden Slug, the food and people there are really nice.
For those (especially the westies) who haven’t visited that place before, do drop by when you’re free.
It’s a pets friendly restaurant and there are always a lot of cut furkids there.
That’s the sick boys and us.
The pictures are taken using iPhone app PuddingCam. :)
Fun and serious stuff aside, we also took time out to do proper work.
I met up with some clients regarding some blog advertorials and A went for her appointments.
We also had meetings and stuff.
I am totally excited about the new blog layout that is coming up really soon.
[Sorry that my blog is looking a little messy now]
I also received pretty clothes from Damsel In Disdress couple days ago.
I specially got this romper because the colour and design is SO cute!
After it appeared in Sunday Advertorials last week, I think all the pieces were sold out already!
The girls at DIDD are now doing a backorder now, so click here if you’re keen!
And I shall end off today’s post with some pretty silhouette pictures A and I took today.
Goodnight my friends & have a really good weekend ahead. P.S. Don’t forget to check back this Sunday for the new blog layout and exciting Sunday Advertorials! Heh.
I have been really busy with some work and have also been working closely with the designer
to come up with a brand new look for my SIXPEGS!
This is the first time I am actually hiring external help to design the website and I’m totally thrilled!
I hope I will be able to make my “new home” even prettier while still retaining it’s clean black & white theme.
Will be back with more posts but please bear with me while I try to make this space a prettier and more fun one!
Today, I am here to gossip about others.
Coincidentally, all three of them have names starting with A.
They are all very interesting people, but in very different ways.
One wrenched my heart, the other made me bewildered and the last one made my toes laughed out loud.
Ok, I cannot wait to share so I shall start now!!
For those who have watched enough local comedies and sitcoms, you would have seen Abigail Chay before.
In the past (actually even until recently), I have always been unable to determine her gender.
Do you know she is also the daughter of the famous McDonalds Granny who appeared in many McDonalds TVC in the 90s?
For those who don’t know how Abigail looks like, here is a few pictures to refresh your memory.
I chanced upon a video about her life not too long ago and it really touched my heart.
I never knew the woman whom everyone laughed at and teased actually had such a turbulent life,
and spending many years of her life in turmoil and confusion.
She was born Caesar Chay Tuck Kwong and had her formal education at an all-boys school.
But even at the tender age of five, she knew she wasn’t like other boys,
who’d kick a football about and catch spiders in her neighbourhood, while she played dolls with the girls.
Whenever her mother was out, she would play with her make-up.
Another time, a majie (housekeeper) in the family’s employ put her in a dress and took her to a nearby provision shop.
“The neighbours all remarked, ‘wah, you really look like a girl’.
I was so happy,” she says, flashing a toothy grin at the thought.
But school was hardly a drag, even though there was the annoying presence of
a bully who used to rain punches on the effeminate 12-year-old Chay.
When Chay’s backlane friends wanted to teach the bully a lesson, she put her pale,
frail body between him and the small mob – something which earned the respect of the bully,
who stopped his taunts and told Chay she had yi qi (Mandarin for loyalty).
“School was actually a place to take my mind away from being a girl trapped in a boy’s body,” she recounts,
absent-mindedly twirling her clumpy long tresses again.
“Whenever nice-looking guys came and talked to me and I felt attracted to them, I always felt sinful.”
That feeling of guilt – born partly out of being the only son and child of traditional Cantonese and Christian parents,
both of whom worked in clerical jobs – pushed Chay to date a girl from church at 15.
“She was wondering why we never held hands over the one year we were together.
She asked me what the status of our relationship was. I said, ‘I tried, but I don’t think I can’.”
Unable to love a girl and unable to let herself fall in love with boys,
the teenage Chay read psychology books and decided a sex change was the solution.
But, first, there was the business of National Service,
which she had to endure after her pre-university education at Our Lady of Lourdes.
“I was scared to death of going into the army. I thought I would surely be humiliated for being a soft boy.”
But, “wilfully optimistic”, she thought the experience might toughen her up.
As it turned out, not only did she not suffer at the hands of macho men,
everyone was protective of the skinny boy, with some fellow soldiers even offering to clean and carry her rifle.
After National Service, she worked as a window display artist
at a fashion store – “ironically, it was called Heshe”, she recalls.
Her mother also paid for her to attend a modelling course,
and it was there that she met a transsexual who told her about a rumour of a new government policy
that would see new transsexuals get “marked” on their identity cards by the end of the year.
Fearful of being branded for life and in a hurry to beat the supposed deadline,
Chay finally came clean with her parents and pleaded with them to pay for her sex change.
Here are four clips you can watch to find out more about Abigail’s life story.
I think she is really brave and lucky to have such supportive parents.
Next time when you wanna laugh about how out of place she looks, think again. :)
I recently also watched Jack Neo’s new movie “I Not Naughty” with A and my Mom.
I checked out the reviews on the Golden Village website and saw some comments about this certain Amos Yee in the movie.
All bad comments, just in case you’re wondering.
So after the movie, I decided to head home and find out for myself who on earth this Amos Yee is.
And to my surprise, this Amos Yee is actually this annoying potato boy in the movie.
I wondered how a 14-year-old kid can stir so much shit and cause so much unhappiness, so, I went to check it out.
And to my horror, the Zhonghua Secondary School student is not only a smart alec but also a spoilt and arrogant brat.
All his fame started when he won the FiRST Film Fest organized by The New Paper with his painful-to-watch video, Jan.
Seriously don’t know what is so funny.
Little Amos must be influenced by those NigaHiga and Kev Jumba videos. Meh.
Ok, the thing is, there’s nothing wrong with a 14-year-old trying to be creative and experimental.
And apparently, he REALLY speaks with that American accent.
All the trouble started when he posted a video mocking the origins of the Chinese zodiacs and
stating how he feels the Chinese New Year is “copying the American New Year”, leaving many netizens enraged and agitated.
He calls the Youtube video “a joke executed well”.
And of course, this joke has already been removed from Youtube.
UPDATE: Managed to find the video uploaded by another Youtube user. Here it is!
Jack Neo gave him one of the roles in his movie because the director was impressed by him during the film fest.
Instead of being thankful and appreciative for the chance and recognition,
he talked crap about the movie at its press conference.
The teenager further elaborated his views when he was asked on how would have improved on the script and shared,
“There shouldn’t be so much weird transitions.”
“Do you realised that the film has a lot of fade in and jumps from scenes over and over and over again,”
the Zhonghua Secondary School student said and added, “That is confusing.”
That’s not all. On the development of the characters in the movie, he said,
“You can do it at the beginning but it goes on for the entire film.”
“And that bothers me,” he revealed, “and my whole family agrees that it’s freaking messy.”
Despite his critical remark, the 14-year-old actor was earlier spotted singing praises of movie director Jack Neo during the conference.
“Oh, Jack Neo, you are awesome. You are like my uncle,” he proclaimed. He also mentioned that he likes his scenes in the movie.
Watch the interview here if you wanna be annoyed by the kid too.
Reeeaaaaallllyyyy arrogant, spoilt and 不会做人, that’s all I can say.
Ok, and for the third interesting person today, I shall introduce Mr Aaron Tan!
I came across this person from MrBrown’s website.
It happened quite long ago so I hope there will be a few people out there (like me!) who haven’t heard of him before.
Hehe!
Apparently this 18-year-old Ah Beng made a video to threaten a 14-year-old kid
who tried to “be funny” with his girlfriend on Facebook.
And get this. His girlfriend’s name on Facebook is Nina Wantyouonly
and the 14-year-old kid is called http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000745753183.
Freaking haps.
How come people wanna put such funny names on Facebook ah?
The Ryan boy got balls also. According to his Facebook info,
he is from the same secondary school as Aaron – Bulok Town Secondary.
Yeah the Aaron boy is 18 and still in Bulok Town.
I think this Aaron is quite interesting and I really had a look laugh. Priest lor. Is lily beh funny lorz!
2012 is coming and as I try to make space in my life to usher in the new year,
I decided to clear off some clothes that I hardly wear now so they can be brought to life again elsewhere.
These clothes are in pretty good condition and I hope they will find better owners!
This Little Black Dress is stretchable at the shoulder and bottom part so you can wear it this two ways.
It’s made of cotton material.
$22
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I love this black and white dress but my hips said NO.
It comes with two pockets and the design is really interesting.
I think it’ll look really cute if you pair it with nice colourful sneakers or cute sandals.
Brand new.
$26
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Soft denim material maxi dress.
This dress is very flattering for the berdangdangs. Heh.
$22
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Trenchcoat from ZARA.
Never wore it out of the house before. Boo.
Super good material and suitable for moderately clod climates.
$65
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Beige asymmetrical dress that will look super cute on a skinny girl but not me.
I love this dress but it doesn’t love me.
I hope it will find a better owner. Sobs.
Never been worn out of the house too.
$22
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Super hot stuff minidress/top from Topshop.
The material of this dress is great and the dress is really pretty.
It might be a little too short to be worn as a dress.
I suggest wearing it with leggings or tuck it into pants.
[Yes I know you can see my hot pink undies]
$35
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I think this dress is too cute to be left neglected in a wardrobe.
I used to wear this out to events whenever I wanna feel quirky and fun.
Hope it will make you feel quirky and whimsical too!
$25
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50 years ago, who would have thought Granny-looking vintage skirts would be in fashion again someday?
Only managed to wear this skirt once. Let me know if you like it.
The material is very good, don’t have to iron at all even after washes.
$20
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I have this in mustard and royal blue.
Decided to give up the blue one to another girl who loves blue. Heh!
$24
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Black chiffon material mini dress. Not translucent.
Adventurous girls can try wearing it as a dress. Or pair it up with stockings with interesting prints to look fun!
$24
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There are like 4 to 5 ways to wear this jacket, just need to play around with the buttons.
Brand new from Taiwan.
$40
Feel free to drop me an email [sixpegs@gmail.com] if you’re interested in any of the pieces.
Please add $1 for postage.
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After I took the pictures of the items I’d like to let go of,
I lazed around on my bed and realized I haven’t really shared how my room looks like after I did a little redecoration.
Thus, I shall just have a short virtual tour to bring you around my room today! :p
I think my room says a lot about me.
I have never been the pink, frills and laces kind of girl, but I think my room has a lot of character. Hahahaha. I know, shameless.
This is a picture wall at the side of my bed.
Similar to another 40% of Singaporeans, I buy my picture frames from IKEA. Cheap and good!
I visited them few days ago and realized they have these small black frames now.
When I bought mine, they only had them in birch and I had to paint my frames black. Tsk.
The pictures in the frames are from everywhere, but they are basically all things that I love.
I’ve got some portraits of myself and some nice pictures from Henri Cartier-Bresson, a famous French B&W photographer I adore.
There are also some pictures I took during a B&W photography class I took when I was in NTU,
and of course, pictures of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn.
And to make sure my room doesn’t look like a dark room, I had to put a little bit of colours in it.
I love pop art, posters, paintings, doodles and little knick knacks.
So here is a little corner where I can lay out all the little stuff I love.
The two glass bottles used to hold two fishes, but they died couple weeks back.
So I guess they will just hold flowers whenever I’m in the mood for fresh flowers in my room.
Here are some of my accessories.
I love chunky pieces and they are much easier to manage because they don’t get tangled together as much. Heh!
I just dump them into this glass jar like that.
Sadly, they collect dust easily, but I love how it looks!
I love the scented candle from Crabtree too!
My humble little perfume collection.
I never believed in just having/using one bottle of perfume before changing to the next one.
Because our noses will get immune to a certain scent over time (this may cause us to go a little too heavy on the perfume too)
and I think using different scents to accentuate different moods is important!
I love perfumes!
Books corner!
I hardly read, to be honest.
So the books that I own are mostly picture books or books with little words and many pictures,
or books with words in big fonts. Hahaha.
I love The Sartorialist and PostSecrets, especially the latter.
I never knew reading someone else’s secrets can be so therapeutic and comforting sometimes.
Do check out the PostSecret website if you’re free, they update every Sunday.
I call them the Sunday Secrets.
I love my journal (the one in blue) too.
At the front, it reads “Fuck you and your blog”.
I bought it to write things I can never write in my blog.
Haven’t had the chance to write much in it though.
Will get down to it soon.
This is a picture A drew for me.
Ok, she didn’t really draw per say. It is a doodle done by one of my favourite doodlist, Gemma Correll.
It’s really cute!
I love the pink frame I bought from Europe too. Got it at a bargain, only 5 euros!
This is my cameras corner where I dump all the camwhore equipments.
Polaroids, films and stuff.
I love my Stupid Little Coins coinbank too! A has a same one at home as well.
I also have Playdoh. Yes it’s mine. Hahaha!
I do take them out to knead and play when I’m feeling childish. I’m weird like that.
I bought these lights from IKEA last Christmas.
(They are selling them again now for Christmas!)
They are not only pretty lights but also awesome bangle holders!
This is the metal cabinet where I keep all my bags.
But what’s so special about it is how it is filled with perverted poems on it.
A and I bought this two tins of “magnetic words” where you can form poems and other stuff with.
The two boxes we bought were like love and naughty poems or something. Hahaha!
We had a lot of fun playing with them.
If you’re interested, I think you can get them at The Cathay Level 3.
One of those shops where they rent out shelves for people to put their stuff to sell.
This is a colorful wheel I took without permission from some eating place.
My room’s private stolen rainbow.
And last but not least, my beautiful Marilyn Monroe clock from Molecule.
This clock is absolutely gorgeous but it gives me the creeps on certain nights.
I don’t know if you can see this but when you look at her face,
you can sometimes see her eyebrows and eyes forming another pair of bigger eyes that has no iris and pupil.
Creeps me out at night sometimes.
Maybe I think too much.
Hahaha.
I’ll be helping Aiyo with photoshoot for her blogshop tomorrow!
I’m the photographer, not the model. YAY!
I’m sure it’ll be a lot of fun.
On a sidenote, A is ill and I hope she gets well soon.
Flu bug, give my girlfriend back to me!
