The bike on Her World

My Flying Pigeon bike gets a little feature in the February issue of Her World, one of the leading female magazines in Singapore.

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Tea Sub

Such a cute idea!

From swissmiss

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Good coffee and vanilla ice cream

Saturdays are great for meeting friends, and for sneaking in nice little dates.

We had a cuppa coffee (two actually, for each of us) before heading to meet our friends for Zach & Cyn’s engagement dinner; and after that, a spontaneous trip to Macs after midnight for some vanilla ice cream cone.

And I just have to say, Papa Palheta is a dream. We were recommended by Soo Ming, a coffee fanatic who really knows his beans, after lamenting how difficult it is to get good coffee here in Singapore. That is, apart from the Kopi-O and Kopi-C which I love too.

So, Papa Palheta is a retail shop selling coffee beans, but they’re also set up like a cafe for you to taste their coffee. It runs on a tipping basis – and I really admire their guts for doing that in kiasu Singapore, and the people there are really friendly. (btw, we gave $20 for 4 cups of coffee – think that’s decent).

(p.s. this is my virgin post from the WordPress app on the iPhone! Maybe it’ll inspire me to write more)

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Paparazzi

Just watched An Education and I really loved it. I love a romantic, period film with a female protagonist. I’ll say Carey Mulligan is my latest favourite female actress! Other than Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley. I love a classic woman. If I had a daughter, I’ll give her a classic name. It might be generic, but with the hybrid names these days, maybe classic names will eventually be unique again.

Carey Mulligan

Natalie Portman

Keira Knightley

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The New (Old) Ride

Jon and I possibly made our biggest purchase so far on our own. We gave ourselves a budget but didn’t wanna compromise on the car make, so we looked around for a decent second hand and got ourselves a Suzuki Swift 1.5 litre manual transmission.

Actually, I think the sports rims won Jon over. It seems when it comes to cars, most men have a little ah beng hidden in them. I am dating a closet beng.

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Growing older…

doesn’t mean you stop celebrating your birthday. Doesn’t mean you’ve gotta have a quiet, boring evening. My colleagues (I’d rather call them friends actually, but they happen to be my colleagues too) decided I should go partying and insisted they’ll make me drunk.

I worked very hard not to puke, not to get drunk, and aimed to reach a point where I was just happy. I think my wish came true, except I took a little too long (2 days) to recover from one night of partying. And I’m embarrassed to admit this – my knees hurt while dancing. Help me, Glucosamine!

Here are pics of the night. I love my girls. I really do.

The PR team – Rae and Cherie.

Most of the Marcom team.

To sum this year up, I…

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Shoes under the table

Yikes, it’s been a long time since my last post. It’s been a combination of a lack of inspiration and too many hours spent in the office.

So I looked under my table today and realised how many pairs of shoes I have in the office. Some of them are heels which I wear to work and not back home, after realising how slow and cumbersome they make me. And some are ‘emergency heels’ for situations when I’m in the wrong shoe for the wrong event.

I thought I had given up on heels until I tried on a pair from Maripe. The one I got was called ‘glove’ and it glides on really like one – I love soft, silky smooth leather! It’s a peep-toe booty with a slingback. Shall post pics soon.

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Socks and Balls

Its been too long since I updated. I’ve been playing with iMovie and I’m so so glad to figure out how to rotate videos! This is way overdue – an afternoon at Dairy Farm Quarry with a few socks and balls they call Poi. Karen’s teaching us and it sure ain’t as easy as it looks!

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Weekday routine

Does the routine keep you sane or make you go crazy/frustrated?

6.45am – Alarm rings. Snooze about 5 times
7.15am – Finally wake up. Make coffee, grab breakfast from the oven
7.30am – Read papers while eating breakfast
7.45am – Toilet
8.00am – Shower
8.15am – Change clothes, make-up, dry hair, check email
8.45am – Leave house
9.30am – Reach office

The hours in the office go in a flurry. Sometimes I leave at 7.30pm but most of the time I leave at 8-9pm. On some occasions, 10-11pm or later. And the cycle continues in the morning.

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Toy camera for the road

Ended work at VivoCty today, and decided to walk around for a bit. I walked away with a really cute Ikimono 110 film camera! And some postcards to put up on my wall. Hoping to get some good shots in Ubud this Friday.

Pic from Four Corner Store – they have the cutest 110 cameras, and vintage Russian cameras. Is it true that you can see things through Russian cameras?

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