Red

Mint crop - Talula (Artizia), Red midi skirt - Zara, Bag - Nine West (gifted by my roomie), Platform wedges - Topshop, Necklace - Young Hungry Free

"Forgetting him is like trying to know somebody you never met. 

Loving him was red. "

Really into this Taylor Swift song, and... National Day always will be an appropriate time to wear red. Happy 49th birthday, Singapore! I love celebrating National day - just wearing red and hanging out wherever. It just makes me feel like I'm growing together with Singapore, and it feels lovely. 

This post is a little late, but still, I love you Singapore! Happy birthday once again! 

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Stolen Shoes

So, today I lost a pair of new Nikes. I just bought them in Taiwan and it was the first time I decided to wear them out... I wore them for less than 3 hours before they were stolen. Do you feel my pain??? My anguish...
So what happened was that I visited my boyfriend at his place, and left my shoes outside. We left within half an hour to celebrate National day... Within that half an hour of visitation, they were stolen. I'm very upset and angry. I wonder why anyone would do something like this? In broad daylight? It just pisses me off. I use my money to buy my shoes, why do you have to steal? I wasn't the only one who lost a pair of shoes. My boyfriend lost two pairs and his brother lost a pair. 4 pairs of shoes. Gone, just like that.

Where is your conscience, you thief?

I believe in karma, and man, you better run...

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Cand goes to Taiwan 2014: Part 1 - Taichung

I just got back from Taiwan about 5 days ago, and I miss it already!!! I only visited two major cities during the 7 days I was there. I enjoyed it thoroughly though! It was probably because of the company I had ;) 

Anyway, we were in Taichung for two nights, and it was pretty late when we arrived on the first day, so we could only visit the night market. 

Taiwan is all about the night markets. I mean, if you go to Taiwan without going to a night market, you might have failed at your trip planning. We visited Taichung's most well known night market - Fengjia Night Market. It was pretty huge and filled with a TON of people. And of course, all night markets' signature - street food. Can you say YUM???

I think I might like squid a little too much. I had way too much squid on this trip... It was basically heaven for me because it was cheap (70ntd = 2.94sgd) and it was everywhere. Loved it!!!

I spy with my little eye, my boyfriend creeping somewhere! hahahaha

Fried mini soft shell crabs. This is practically perfect for lazy people hence the name - lan ren xie (literally translated into lazy people crab). You just eat the whole damn thing, no peeling, no worries man. BUT it didn't taste as good. I felt like it was too much flour, and the flavours were not that strong. 

Never had smelly toufu (chou toufu), and boy it was quite interesting! Firstly, I did NOT find it smelly. Secondly, I'm not quite sure how to describe its taste. So I'm just gonna leave it at that. 

Traveling around Taichung via public transport was easy (and SUPER cheap). I think they have this courtesy program where they let people who travel within 8km take their transport for free. So basically, fengjia night market was pretty far for us, but we only paid like 8ntd (=0.34sgd). Like what is this sorcery??? Traveling Taipei was definitely more expensive without such a privilege. 

Next day, we got up to visit Cingjing farm. LOL but we failed terribly because we overslept. #greatjobguys 

So we just went around buying taiyang bing (Literal translation: sun biscuit), laopo bing (Literal translation: wife's biscuit), etc. And we decided to go to this science exhibition place where I don't even know what it's called. LOL. Honestly we were a little lost and it was a quite fail day because of the lack of planning. BUT, I still had a ton of fun!!! 

Outside some bug (??) museum.

I am one with the plants. 

Meet our pets. 

To the windowwwwww

To the wallllll! 

"How do you make this face??? Like this?"

Cute polar bear. Okay, inflated crying polar bear. Safe the earth guys!

Following that we went to big malls which I probably should not have visited because I spent way too much money on Taiwanese facial products that I do not see myself using too often. Oh well, the Taiwanese are really great sales people by the way. They were made for sales I swear. 

And here's Miyahara, a commercialised (well, duh) place which sells biscuits and ice cream. It was really pretty inside! 

Fake bookshelves and well packaged biscuits and tarts, yes please. 

Tried their ice cream the next day and it was freaking awesome!!! Pictures soon, stay tuned! ;)

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Glam bowling

Gold Sequin top - Topshop, Skirt - Cotton on, Bag - gifted from my roomie, shoes - Aldo 

So, I went bowling dressed like this. Crazy? I think so. In my defence, we did not make any plans for bowling that day. 

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Happy ever after

It seems like this summer is full of blessings and happiness. I attended my cousin's wedding last Saturday and I have another wedding to attend next month. Now that almost all my cousins are married and having children, I feel like my friends are going to start getting married soon. Time really flies, just yesterday we were kids and felt yucky about kisses and hugs. 

Here are my parents receiving tea from the happy couple and giving the happy couple their blessings. 

Prepping for the wedding dinner. Loved my shoes - sky high but at the same time very comfortable. Thanks, Aldo. Also, I was really paranoid about wearing a white dress to the wedding. Although the bride was cool with it, NEVER AGAIN. 

The wedding was held at the marvellous St. Regis. Service was spectacular right from the moment you step out of the taxi. I also really enjoyed all the expensive food I got to eat! Funny thing was that my aunt/uncle were so worried that the food would not be good. Erm, excuse me, best wedding food ever! And the set up was beautiful. I'll stop talking and let the pictures do their work!

Here is about half of my extended family. Most of them are from Hong Kong and Taiwan, so I rarely see them, but still much love for them. No pictures with the bride (the photographer has the pictures) and I look super chubby, so no pictures for me. 

Congratulations on your wedding An An Jie Jie! We don't meet often or talk much, but here's wishing you a lifetime of happiness! 

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