YES! I am officially an alumna of Republic Polytechnic after today's graduation ceremony!
Thought i'd pen down my thoughts before the this emotional feeling goes away.

My mom and sister was with me on the cab today. I think I would've panicked a little if they weren't accompanying me there.

The number of thoughts that went through my head wasn't helping in calming my nerves.
What happens when I get off  the cab?
What should I do when I get off the cab?
Where should I go when I get off the cab?
What if I dress weird?

Moment of truth when I stepped out of the cab. It was crowded with people in graduation gowns?
Am I late? Am I late? 
Only about 10 mins more before registration closes. I was so confused where to go and I wasn't in my gown yet and had no idea when I'm suppose to have it on. Everything was everywhere. 

I was looking very much like Harry Potter, ditching the gender difference and the fact that I wasn't wearing spectacles.

I had on a size L robe because apparently, all the smaller sizes were out of stock. I WAS LUCKY, AREN'T I?

To top it off, I think the person lied when he/she said the only difference between those sizes were only the length.
I LOOKED LARGER THAN OTHERS. I LOOKED FATTER THAN OTHERS. BY A LOT. OK????? LIAR.

Besides that, my surname seems to have a certain vibe around it. There are always people saying my surname "TAY" as "TAN". WTF.
On special occasions like today, how am I supposed to be forgiving about misreading my surname????!!!!
So that person did.
RAGEEEEE.
Honestly when it was coming near to my turn, I was not nervous about falling on stage but how he would misread my surname. & he didn't disappoint me!


Alright alright, sure you guys had enough of my interesting complaints and negative opinions.

About how I feel after the rage of how the person misread my surname, what I felt was of course happiness!

Happy about how I graduated from Republic Polytechnic. How I finally can escape the hands of programming. How I don't have to worry about FYP meetings anymore. How I don't have to worry about pre-readings.
Mostly escaping programming, really.

What's funny is that majority of the people share the same thoughts about programming with me. When the screen flashes programming codes, you should have seen how all of us reacted lol
Like "PHEW WE'RE SAYING BYE TO THIS" *maybe for now, maybe forever

I must say, I was really proud to see some of the friends I make getting merit awards and lots of other impressive awards on stage. I'm honoured to have the chance to work with them in a classroom before. I don't think I will have their determination to work as hard as they do and to hang on to so many things like
they did.

I really envy the kind of passion they have for being hardworking or maybe the passion for studying.

Really a sad thing that I didn't get the chance to take pictures with all of the people I know..

Contest

Starting off with a fact about myself. I have NEVER bought any skincare products for myself because I always have my mom very against me having skincare products on my skin seeing I was still young. & it kinda stuck, till now.

I have friends around me and people I know around my age using skincare products talking about this particular brand and that but I have NO clue and feel so out of place when it comes to this topic. Time when I realised I do need skincare product NOW, I have no idea what I should go for.

Thanks to Nuffnang and Laneige however, for providing this opportunity for me to maybe have my own skincare products for myself for the first time.

You probably haven't see pictures of my skin without makeup, filter, edit before. So here are 3:

*you can click to enlarge if you want a close-up look which i'm sure not
Skin not in any way edited. Didn't edit the lighting either.

1) Pimples on my forehead & on the sides of my face which i'm guessing are caused by letting my hair down touching my forehead and sides of my face. 

2) Dark eye circles probably caused by always staying up late. 

Judging from these 2 problems I have plus my daily routine of what I do to my face when I'm going out, choosing a favourite product of skincare and makeup out of all the Laneige products is easy peasy!



Problem #1 solution: Power Essential Skin Refiner Light(skincare)

Problem #2 Solution: Snow BB Soothing Cushion(makeup)
Use - Whitening + Suncreen + Sweatproof + Soothing + Makeup effects

I don't think it's hard to understand why I chose this after looking at how many uses it has. It's so amazing right!

I chose this not just because of how effective it would help in covering my dark eye circles. 

As you can tell from the pictures, I have a pretty dark coloured skin which makes me look super dull as a person; like how people look when they just woke up.
I usually would use either foundation/compact powder to make my skin brighter/whiter. But after a long day, it's just not of use anymore because of all the sweat.

But see how many problems this product help solve for me already?
WHITENING & SWEATPROOF & MAKEUP EFFECTS. 
ALL!

On top of that, I'm actually not a person to put on sunscreen when I go out. I know it's really bad for my skin especially when living in Singapore :s
I think I may call this product a superhero or something, having so many powers to help solve problems like now; being a suncreen to help solve another problem of mine! :D

After all those challenges I completed for Cineleisure's Next Online Sensation, you would have thought I must have tried the food at A.venue Bistro.
Especially after Challenge #1; since it's about food and most of the contestants actually blogged about A.venue Bistro.

But to be completely honest with you, I haven't tried it until a few days ago. Truth is, I have been wanting to try it after seeing so many people talk about it but just never had the chance to.

So here is my personal experience at A.venue Bistro with my family (:
Sadly, I didn't take any pictures of how the place looks like but i'm sure it'd be easy to find! Why? Because I think it has a really awesome ambiance with a hint of France & English mixed with the lamp posts as part of the decoration.

Look at the thoughts put into giving you more ambiance. They have this really lovable tin can as a container to put packets of brown sugar needed for coffee.

Ready for the first dish?

YES! If you guys have been following me on my Instagram, you'd know that I am on June 2013 issue of Teenage magazine! :o :o


With one cover being the G-Dragon and another being One Direction. (:

Never in my life would I have thought that there would be a day where I'd be on magazine. Seriously.
But thanks to CNOS2 for giving me opportunities like these to gain more exposure.


If you can spot me, I'd give you a cookie. Haha

Although I don't look all that glamorous in these pics with my big fat face and all, I'll not forget the fact that i'm on magazine -flips hair-

Suddenly inspired to blog about my childhood. Maybe I will find somebody who has a similar childhood as me and share the same feelings as me when I was a kid?



The least we must have in our in common in our childhood has to be CARTOONS! I think it's safe to say ALL kids watch cartoons. It's like.. a basic need of a kid's.

Question is what cartoon do YOU watch? I think that sort of defines what kind of a kid you are. I think they may not all be cartoons. You'd see.

1) 



Still remember how it starts.
"THE CITY OF TOWNSVILLE" haha

You might be surprised that I was pretty into drawing The PowerPuff Girls when I was little. Maybe cause they were quite easy to draw with all the circle eyes and rectangular bodies.

Haha I would actually take time to re-watch it if I ever saw it on tv again just to laugh at how lame it is. xD

However, I cannot deny that the song, is pretty darn addicting.



"Flintstones, meet the Flintstones!"

Did you guys manage to watch the one acted by real people? OMG x10 lamer. T.T

3) 

Looney Tunes is not a show, I know. It's just I watched too many shows from Looney Tunes. TOO GOOD.
Even now I look forward to seeing
"THAT'S ALL FOLKS!"

And this too!
OHMYGAWD. Cannot stand anymore of this music. It's so tempting! Makes me wanna watch
- Bugs Bunny
- The Road Runner
- Tweety bird & Sylvester

How Bugs Bunny always say "What's up, Doc?" though I never get why.
How The Road Runner is soooo smart and only does "bee-bee" sound. (I'm so good at imitating that, just saying)
How Sylvester never gets Tweety bird.

They are all so nostalgic, aren't they?

4) 

5)

Not like TOTALLY cartoon. But counted as part of my childhood. I don't remember liking this kind of CGI-animated cartoon as much as the usual cartoons. But I think I kinda liked the story line.

Sorry this blog post is going to be full of me being reminded of the theme songs of all these cartoons. Those are actually the most memorable part.



Listing out part of the song lyrics I know:

"Make way for Noddy, NODDY! ...............*bonk bonk bonk* Make way for Noddy, NODDY! ................*bonk bonk bonk* Make way for Noddy, NODDY! ........................... It's a happy day. ......................Make way for Noddy, NODDY! ........... Make way for Noddy, NODDY! ............ Make way for Noddy, NODDY! .....................It's a happy day! Noddy's here, make way!"

YUPPP. That's basically it.

6)  



Not at all cartoon, yeah. But you know what's unforgettable about this? Of course the SONG.
AND
this particular line they always say:
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking, B1? I think I am B2!"

If you don't remember, how could you?!!!

But it's ohkay, this'll trigger some of your memories



I kinda forgot all about the rat that was inside the show until I saw it when I was looking for videos about Bananas In Pyjamas. Sorry, Rat.

7) 
I don't think I need to further explain how many videos of songs I would post from this sentence onwards once you saw Hi-5.

Embarrassing fact about me when I was little: Every 5.50pm, my sister and I would be all excited and sing&dance with the hi-5 on TV.

We would be all excited guessing which song is on for that day. If it was a new one that we haven't heard of, we would groan but we would be determined to learn.

Not very excited about the change of people on Hi-5 at all :(
But the time when I watched, it was them:


Still remember their names like it was yesterday.
Left to Right: Tim, Charlie, Nathan, Kathleen, Kellie

I would choose Charlie to follow and my sister would choose Kathleen to follow when we were learning those dance moves.
We would even act like we're them and say like "I'm Charlie", "I'm Kathleen", "and we're hi-5" wtf.

I think you can probably guess why I chose Charlie after knowing why I chose Blossom from Powerpuff Girls. Haha.

They have too many songs. But if you have to ask me a few of my favourites, my first one would definitely be "Living in a Rainbow".

I think it's because of the bridge. It makes one have goosebumps.  We didn't seem to appreciate voice when we were little. Now that I listen to them again, I start to hear how good Nathan's voice is. 
Actually found out that he writes songs. Good job! 

-------------------------Actually got distracted for a while stalking their private lives----------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back.
"L.O.V.E"
Came across the version sung by the new members and officially set my mind that nobody can replace the old hi-5 and sing as well as they do :/
Don't know if i'm biased or something but they just sounded more powerful, y'know?
"Boom Boom Beat" 
This one is super memorable for some reason. Maybe it's because as kids, we had a hard time trying to get our hands and legs to coordinate the way we want them to. Soooo we kinda had a hard time learning these dance moves. Hahaha
SHIT. THIS SONG MAKES ME WANT TO DANCE TO IT. AGAIN.
"Dream On"

Now that i'm older, I find this song titled really bad. Why would they tell kids to dream on? Should just name it as "Dream" o.o
But anyway, extremely love this music. Old school yet really nice rhythm. Agree? *you'd better say you do or else
"Mirror Mirror"

Cannot deny this song is fun! So very obviously fun. Which explains why it's so likable. 
We probably didn't get those leg moves right when we were little because they still look confusing to me. -.- Will it be weird if  I said i'm going to get into practice? No? Ok. - - - Alright, I think i'm done here. Flooding this post with so many songs. But i'm sure a lot of you would've enjoyed this little journey with me back to the old times. 
These are the shows I can think of so far! 
Heading back to stalking those Hi-5 members now.  BYEEEEE xoxo

Hello! I finally managed to put together the vlog I told you about that I took when I went on that Genting trip!

I did mention I was singing inside didn't I? NOT LYING.


Sorry this video may seem boring to some of you and may seem funny to some of you...

I'm sorry I kept my vlogging indoors in the hotel room most of the time because bringing a camcorder out when i'm on rides would be.. WRONG. :/

I do have some awkward moments in the video which I don't mind you finding funny about though. HAHAHA

Please enjoy. And you have any criticisms about out singing, BRING IT ON. 

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING IT; WHETHER YOU FIND IT STUPID OR NOT. ^-^

I've always used Google Maps and never considered other apps into consideration when it comes to looking for destinations, how to get from here to there etc.

BUT recently I actually tried Singapore Maps by Street Directory and i'm very amazed by how their app works!