Hellooo Singapore!

Wow. This blog hasn't been updated for such a long long time....Anyway, school has started again, waking up at 5.30 every morning drive me crazy, man!! Also, on my first day, I was late and got a detention. -.-' That's a great way to start school, huh? Anyhow, I am very grateful to have such nice classmates and to have such competent teachers. I still miss the old ones though, and I still miss my holiday...

Bugis Junction

Well, the reason why I missed my first day at the first day of the start of school was because I was still in Singapore that day. It's been a fun four-days-vacation. And I wanna share my experience with you guys.

It was Thursday morning when we (mum, I, my grandma, my auntie, and my cousin) flew to Singapore. All went well, until it was time for us to go to our hotel. My mum bought vouchers for Hotel Ibis Bencoolen, meaning that this hotel is located in the area around Bencoolen street. When we arrived to Ibis, my mum handed out the printed vouchers to the receptionist. It took quite a long time to figure out that actually, my mum booked the wrong hotel. The hotel mum has actually paid was called Bencoolen Hotel. It confused my mum, she clicked the word Ibis Bencoolen when she bought the voucher. The word Bencoolen Hotel was written on the print out, but then, my mum thought that it was the Bencoolen from Ibis Bencoolen.

Rather disappointed, we walked to Bencoolen hotel, to find the hotel looked sort of ...old. However, the bedroom was okay, clean, and larger than the one in Ibis. On the downside though, this hotel was much farther to Bugis Junction compared to Ibis. Beware when you're reserving hotel on Internet, guys...

The next day, we visited Universal Studio, it was a nice theme park, much smaller than the one in Tokyo, I think. I was there for nine hours straight, from 10 am. to 7.30 pm. Anyway, it will save you a lot of money if you buy the tickets online, as what my mother did. She got 20 percent discount for mine and her tickets, and she got 50 + 20 percent discount for my grandma. What's more, if you use master credit card, you can get a free 10 dollar coupon to buy any thing in the gift shop.

Basically, the area inside Universal Studio was divided to five smaller areas. There are The Lost World, Ancient Egypt, King Harold's Far Far Away, Sci-Fi City, and Madagascar. The roller coasters in Sci-Fi city were awesome! There were two different coasters, one was called human and the other named cylon. Bear in mind that if you don't ride these coasters in Universal, you don't ride anything at all. The 'human' coaster was okay, but otherwise the 'cylon' was totally cool!! It spun and curved and dropped, you'll scream 'til you lose your voice. I felt sligthly dizzy after I had this ride.

The next coaster I ride was The Revenge of the Mummy's. And because the weather in Singapore was sooo hot, this indoor roller coaster was the perfect ride for you to cool yourself. It was a fun, pleasantly
entertaining ride, with sharp turns and sudden acceleration but not too scary to numb your feet. Mind you, I had this ride for three times. I went there alone at first, and (I didn't know what was inside my mind) I went there with my grandma (fortunately my grandma is one strong girl), and lastly with my mum. She was mad, man!

"How can you asked your grandma to ride such a coaster!?" Honestly guys, after I had that 'cylon' coaster, I didn't feel a thing with this mummy ride. Oh, well!

Another safe-family-entertainment was the Shrek 4D. Nah this one was exactly the same as the one in Japan, Only the conversation was in English, not Japanese.

There were still a lot of ride I had, but mate, this would be a reallyy longgg post if I include them all.

So that was it, one long day at Universal Studio. I want to remind you, that after one whole day of playing roller coaster, you have to make sure you pay a visit to the gift shops. There are soo many Oscars statuettes, every one can have an Oscar, huh?


The rest of my days in Singapore were spent in malls. Singapore has a lot of nice malls. And if you are a food aficionado, you'll find Singapore a cuisine paradise. Try any resto that comes your way and you usually will find the food very satisfying. The image on the top left shows stuffed squid in the Japanese cuisine exhibition in Raffles Mall. yum yum!


Oh! And guys? I found a crafts store there!!!! There was also Spotlight, though they don't have many collection of stamps and ink pads. Well, the card supplies store I was talking about was located in Plaza Singapura. They have many stamps there, including some famous brand like Hero Arts and Maya Road, I was ecstatic! But then, I saw the price, and  arrgghhh.... But I did buy  three sets of stamps though (can't help it, man!), and several ink pads and their refills. I have versamagic ink pads at home, and I think they dry rather quickly so I try the memento ones, and they seemed to work fine, I bought their refills too though, just in case. And there are no refills for versamagic, that's why I was rather reluctant to purchase them.

Okay, so that was my holiday in Singapore, how's yours?

What's in the Envelopes?

What's in the envelopes? Cards, of course.

Brown and red looks good together right? I counted how many envelopes are there in these cards. Guess what? There are actual 68 envelopes summed together. Sounds hard to make, huh? No! Well, actually, it's rather time-consuming but it's a lot of fun. You only have to doodle an envelope with a heart right in the center and color it using a red pen and a brown marker  ( I used the E44 Clay Copic Marker).

As a matter of fact, card # 1 ( you're invited!) was rather tricky to make. First, you have to draw a larger envelope and embellish it, then, to make the pocket for the 'you're invited' note, you have to carefully cut a slit on the fold, then you can cut a small piece of  paper, decorate it, and put it right in the envelope in no time.

That's it for today, enjoy!

Time's Flying with the Speed of Light

This. Is. My. Last. Week. Of. Holiday. Damn.

Can you actually believe how fast time flies? I can't. It seems to me that yesterday was May, and I've just started my holiday. That's the problem with holiday huh? You just can't get enough of it. Next Monday, no, next Tuesday actually, I'm gonna say bye-bye to my free time and hi to home works.

Strange though, I'm feeling slightly excited about my new school. I've got the uniform and they're actually not bad ( light blue shirt and dark grey skirt), and I've received the books and I think they're really interesting. What's more, there are only seven subjects, all included the essentials. ( I'm confused though, I'm not getting any geography lessons, isn't geography important? It is, for me) Mind you, in my old school, there are nineteen subjects.

Speaking of old school, I think I'm going to miss it, all the happy memories....my teachers, my friends, the dumb things me and my friends did, doodling on the wall, not to mention chasing a scared frog in the lab, making an entire class smelly from the vinegar lava exploded by our miniature volcano, the most enjoyable rehearsals we had for our musical performance...Three years, felt like an eternity while I was going through it, elapsed in a blink of an eye to me now.

Anyway, that's it for today, see you later guys!

Hard-Lenses

I surely have changed physically a lot this holiday. For one thing, I'm tanned because I had swimming lessons and I go swimming occasionally, I've said good-bye to my old braces ( and hi for my retainer),  I've gained more weight (yeah! simply no complain for that :), I'm taller, I have more pimples ( oh well, it's a part of growing up, isn't it?), and, I'm going to get rid of my glasses.

About a week or two weeks ago, my mum accompanied me to have an appointment with an ophthalmologist to discuss the possibility of me wearing lens instead of glasses. The doctor said I cannot wear soft lenses because I have dry eyes syndrome but otherwise hard-lenses were okay for me.

The doctor told me to try a pair of hard lenses and so I did. It turned out that hard lenses are smaller than the soft ones so they only cover your pupils. It was quite easy to put them on, but man, was it uncomfortable! It felt like something was stuck to your eyes and you cannot rub them off.  My eyes went watery and red, but fortunately after about five minutes or so, I felt a bit better.

Ten minutes later, the doctor checked how my eyes were coping with the hard lenses. She said that those lenses suit me and she explained to me that a pair of hard lenses can be used for about two or three years. And because this type of lenses were designed so that oxygen can flow through them, you can wear them 30 days straight without taking them off. Other benefit from wearing hard lenses is they slow down your near sightedness progression ( mind you, I'm fifteen, and I have minus 7 eyes). But you need to be careful not to rub your eyes when you're wearing them.

At last, here I am, waiting for the shipment of my lenses. I'll update my progress with you, see you later guys!

Circles Frolic

Hello people, how's your holiday? Mine's going super duper fun, and as a matter of fact, I've just arrived home from a trip with my family. :)

Anyway, today I wanna show you guys how handy a circle punch can possibly be. Punch a bunch of circles and you can almost make anything from them : trees, flowers, anything! What's more, it gives your cards a deeply textured and detailed look. It's easy! Just stack them on top of each other and voila! You'll make one nice handmade card! 
 

Hip-Hip Hooray!! (pop up-card)

 

Hi everyone, I've been meaning to post this archive for ages, but haven't got the mood to do so. I've made this card quite a while ago, and it was rather tricky to make, because it's a pop up card. I got the inspiration to make this from my pop-up craft book. Enjoy!

Wallpaper for Cards

This might sounds weird...wallpaper? For cards? Come on! Trust me, it works!! Just like ordinary pattern paper... Actually, this idea was originally my grandmother's.

So there is a shop in a market, nearby my old house which sells wallpapers, drapes, bed sheets, and buttons (that was the place where I purchase my buttons!). One day, my mum and I went there, and the shop keeper said to my mum that he had picked out the albums of wallpaper that he has no longer used, which were requested by my mum's mum (my grandma).

We were confused: What? What did my grandma use the wallpaper for? Mum asked the shopkeeper again to make sure that the person who asked for the wallpaper was my maternal grandma not my paternal one. The only person who'll need wallpaper at the time is my dad's sister, my auntie, who's going to move to her new house in August, and so we thought that it was my paternal grandma who asked for the wallpaper.

Finally, my mum phoned my (maternal) grandma, and it was her that requested the wallpaper, and she said that it was for me, for me to make cards......


Wow. What an idea! Never thought of that before! And what's more, it's free, and the wallpaper has texture which is great for cards! A bundle of free wallpaper is just the same as a bunch of pattern paper, which saves you lots of money. I know this sounds ridiculous, but go ahead and asked some stores for old bundles of wallpapers, they're really, really useful. Happy hunting!

Bakin' Time!

How time flies.....it's been almost a month since the first day of my holiday. Didn't I ask you all on the previous archive about what things to do on a two-months-holiday? Well, I did everything that I could think of : swimming, sleeping, reading, sleeping, watching tv, ice-skating and sleeping again...-.-'...

Then the idea of making profiterole (which I think is the easiest and the only pastry I can make) crept to mine, so why not?

In the end though I got the profiterole too hard because I put too little egg in the batter, and I put too much sugar in the vla ( custard cream ) so it was rather too sweet....:P Anyhow, it was still acceptable, and since I still have much vla left, I'll make another batch of profiterole! Yum yum...Wish me luck!

Grandmama's Vintage Old Buttons

source: parfumsraffy.com

Hello everyone, a week has passed since I posted my last archive. Haven't got the mood to write these days... Anyway, about a week ago, my grandma gave me this old bunch of buttons and I love them! You can make soooo many things with buttons... Actually, this card I made was inspired by Marc Jacobs' perfume bottle...luckily I got the perfect gold buttons to use :)