Bodyshop Warehouse Sale

I can't believe I braved the crowds again for this. Every time I go, I take one look at the human jam and tell myself to buy more since I already made the trip. So I buy a year's worth of stuff plus presents.

Sakura Nails

Pork Rib Tea 肉骨茶

Another Straits Chinese dish that's popular in Singapore, more commonly known as bak kut teh. Pork Ribs stewed in a clear stock with spices. The soup is robust and the meat soo tender it falls off the bone. The cafe near my office sells a not so conventional version with herbs.

Nespresso Magimix

My dad's nespresso machine arrived today...it's a magimix with aeroccino!

Stuffed with coffee capsules, 250 to be exact and a coffee menu in a black binder. Very important as the capsules are colour coded so we need to refer to the menu.

I think my cousin just bought a tube each of all the available flavours. A supply that will last my family about 6 months? Then we can refill with the seasonal flavours.

Dim Sum Lunch

Dim sim is the kind of meal you sit with friends over and slowly savour. I can't believe I am having it on a work day.

These are my favourite dimsum dishes that I always order and you really can't go wrong from there: pork dumplings 烧卖, shrimp dumplings 虾饺, black bean spare ribs 豆椒蒸排骨.

Lush Sample Soap

I got a whole bunch of soap samples from Lush recently and really, you can't do much with soap ends. So I combined all into 1 super sample bar. Not all ready made soap can be melted down like mp soap. Instead, I melted some mp soap to combine the little bits together in a tofu container (eco-friendly tip).

The result was a colourful 250gm bar that had individual look and fragrances intact so you can sample each of Lush's soaps when you use this.

I also made army themed soap bars with wintergreen translucent mp soap and chopped up bits of chlorophyll soap (soo strange right?). I think the bars are really adorable as it took on the little recyclable symbols and ridged sides from the tofu container. It will take you 2 or 3 months to use up these bars.

Leftover mp soap went into the tofu container as well. Next weekend, I am going to show how to make a loofah soap.

Coffee Art

I usually get a heart on the top of my latte. But, today it's a leaf...soo fancy. It really makes my day when the barista takes the effort to create some artwork in my coffee. Below is a pic I found of a latte rabbit, perfect for this year of the rabbit. Now to find a coffee place that does this.