Tiffany Cafe @ Furama Hotel

Buffet lunch with family. This place is surprisingly big and spacious with an incredibly large assortment of foods for just $30 per person including taxes. I was surprised coz the hotel is kinda old but still actively upkept by the staff.

My favorite item is cucumber lemonade followed closely by gongong clams in a creamy lemon mayonnaise. My aunties unanimously voted for the durian pengat smothered on freshly baked waffles.

Chocolate fondue station, I was more interested in the cookies and other sweets with coffee rather than dunking it in chocolate.

Only complaint is the stations are self-service that is quite unusual for a hotel buffet, other than that, its ice-cream cones for the trip home.

Post New Year's @ Orchard Road

This year's Pantone colour is Ultra Violet. Oh, I think I've seen this incredible alien - science fiction shade of blue-purple almost everywhere.

Hair Coloring by Guy Tang, I've been following this hairdresser on youtube for years now as he specializes in rainbow hair colours. He can also do plain blonde to brown shades in balayage. Too bad he's based in America.

Here in Singapore, you can get your hair coloured in rainbow shades at QB House for a very reasonable price. Alternatively, check with your regular hairstylist if they carry multi-color hair dye, there's even glow-in-the-dark and neons.

To obtain the UV look in makeup, Urban Decay's latest Heavy Metal eyeshadows & eyeliners coupled with Vice lipsticks & topcoats. Every makeup artists dream! The eyeshadow palette is $88 and the eyeliners/lipsticks/topcoats are $30 each, prices in SGD. Buy from Sephora.

Makeup Pictures from makeup bloggers XSPARKAGE and TEMPTALIA, using the mentioned brand name products.

 I was at Paragon to get children gifts coz the top 2 floors here are all kid related shops, including Mothercare. I got these badge maker refills from Toys'r'us, original price $12.90 on clearance for $3.90 each.

I finally bought something from The Better Toy Store coz the items there are famously expensive. It's the usual wood carved toys ($79.90), wall stickers ($69.90), specialty plastic figurines ($12.90) and Steiff Teddy Bears. This is a pin the tail on the donkey party game/decor set, that folds out 4x the calendar sized package.

Crab Pasta, tomato soup and orange soda from Da Paolo.

Crickets are symbols of good luck to the Chinese. I came across this one in the most unlikely place possible, the shopping center carpark, can only mean this year is going to be a good one.

Christmas Gifts Received

I was on social media looking at stuff people received over Christmas and I couldn't believe how many advent calendars and candles there are.

I received a DHL delivery from Books.com.tw from my Taiwanese friends.

There are no books inside, just Taiwanese snacks of dried fruit and floral tea. All the packaging is resealable so I opened everything to try.

These brown packets of dried fruit come with one fruit tea bag each, meant for per occasion use, it's really handy. You can now treat your friend to afternoon tea without actually sitting down with them.

Sun Moon Lake Black Tea Cookies, just regular sugar cookies that are greyish in color with a slight dryness of black tea. Chi Shang Rice Crispies that are amazing! It's tastes like teriyaki with a seaweed on top. I really like that all snacks are individually wrapped so you don't have to finish everything once its opened.

New cup with a sleepy sheep design from Metro, people like to give me sleepy things. There's a suction pad on the bottom that prevents it from tipping over, really thoughtful coz I need it.

Sobranie Cocktail smokes...such an adult present, first time I've received cigarettes.

Laneige Essential Care Travel Set, 6 of their Water Bank products that will last me a couple of months on the road. The travel sizes are pretty substantial and not exactly trial sizes.

Mango Wristlet with floral embroidery. I like the black background with colorful flowers on top, kinda looks like the collection from H&M x Erdem 2017.

Trinket Tray in heart-shaped Tiffany blue. I don't have one at all so this is perfect.

Banana Leaf Restaurant

We ate here last Christmas. It's got good Indian food and a mix of Indian and Western style drinks and desserts. I hear its a really traditional Brit thing to have Indian or Indian-infused foods over the Christmas holiday period.

All the table settings have real banana leafs, hence the restaurant name. The pappadums, rice and vegetables of the day are also almost free.

You order the dishes through a waiter and the food is brought to your table. But you can take a peak into the kitchen to see all the dishes pre-cooked and lined up like a 菜饭 stall.

Since we had a large group, we ordered the curry fish-head. It's soupy and spicy with an assam base is a South Indian dish. Quite different from the other items we ordered like Paneer Butter Marsala North Indian, Black Squid Curry Sri Lankan, Tandoor Chicken North Indian Mughali, Garlic Naan North Indian Punjabi Dhaba, Fish Cutlets either Kerala or Sri Lankan.

You can come here for high tea if you are not really into Indian food. The spicy fish cutlets with a cup of warm Marsala tea was just the best part of my day.

My sis hosted a get-together over Christmas, mainly for the kids. By the time I got there the place was swimming with children, they're soo adorable. She made an Indian spiced 雪耳润肺汤 for dessert and home delivery of pizzas, salads, sausages and honey baked ham. It's not Christmas if you don't see honey baked ham everywhere.

Thank goodness I prepared some presents, I wasn't planning on giving out any presents this year. Hence, the retro gift wrapping instead of Christmasy ones.

I spent Christmas at the shopping center! Watching movies, eating fast food and window-shopping the shops that are still open. It's actually not that unusual, the place was filled with other people doing the same thing.