Red Danger / Femme Fatale

As winter looms,the desire for red lippies is getting stronger. Bright red lippies are worn everywhere this season after a headstart last year when it was spotted in numerous significant fashion shows. Lady Danger from M.A.C was my staple lippy from last winter and this winter, I've acquired Ruby Woo, also from M.A.C. Both are gorgeous hues of red. Depending on your mood, both are as flattering. Lady Danger is a very bright orange-y matte red and Ruby Woo is a little blue-ish red, also matte.

Red lips are the perfect accessories for winter for me as I wear only charcoal, black and grey throughout winter(in fact I wear only neutrals almost every season).

Ok,that's not exactly how I look but just an example how a bright red lipstick would look on a short haired Asian girl. The red is not as intimidating to wear as it may seem.



If you have not tried wearing a red lipstick or just contemplating, don't hold back. You will love it once you've found the right shade of red. Just keep everything else simple with just some mascara and / or eyeliner and use a lip liner to avoid smudgey lines. My next move would be Yves Saint Laurent Lip Temptation #16, a glossy coral red.

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The dream satchel

It was raining heavily on Sunday afternoon and I was too tired to go out after my morning run, so I decided to muck around the internet for a bit and saw a gorgeous brown satchel on Jak and Jil blog. It took my breath away. I have been looking for an old school cool satchel for a while now but have no idea where to get them from. And this one was perfect. From the blog, I found out they can be bought from The Cambridge Satchel Company in UK ! And they ship out of UK!! I found out that these gorgeous babies are not only beautiful, they are surprisingly reasonable too.

The bigger ones are known as batchels and they look adorable as a school bag for kids as they are stylish as a messenger bag for men. How versatile !

They come in a variety of sizes and colours and the best thing is they can be embossed to your liking!!! The excitement was surreal!!

After choosing and deciding, I ordered a 13 inch satchel in Chestnut Brown with blind embossing of my initials and all I have to do now is wait painfully for 3-4 weeks until they show up...Counting the days!

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La Cigale French Market, Parnell

One of my favourite haunt is the La Cigale French Market. I absolutely love eating a freshly baked baguette with the chosen cheese of the day and watch fashionable city folks milling around the market in their trendy garb and equally stylish pooches.

Yummy turkish bread galore

Macarons!! Anyone who know us well will know about our macaron craze! Ever since our trip to Paris last year, we are hooked! These babies are devine. The last time I got them from Philippe's Chocolat, I was disappointed that the cream was spread on. These ones are very similar to the ones we had in Paris and totally gobsmacked!! Love....

Stuffed peppadews with feta cheese

These are the first published batch of photos from my new Nikon D90!! *LOVE* I still adore capturing the unexpected shots from my iphone but the nice shots of the D90 is so worth lugging it with me wherever my eating adventures take me.

It was all great until it started pouring. Looking forward to next week's trip to Clevedon Market.

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Angie's Kitchen

Luckily / Unluckily for me, there's a decent Malaysian food joint a stone throw away from work.

Angie's Kitchen is a nice cosy place & very clean.

S ordered assam laksa. It's pretty good but lacks oomph, we'd still prefer the assam laksa from Sri Puteri's in Panmure.


My nasi lemak with curry chicken. The blue rice is very eye-catching although it tastes no different than normal coconut rice.

Bubur cha-cha!! What a luxury to find bubur cha-cha so readily available and actually tastes good. Not too sweet or heavy for my liking.

I like Angie's Kitchen but I am hesitant to come here for lunch without calling beforehand. It's packed and sometimes you'll end up waiting 30 mins for your food. The only warning is to not try their beef rendang. It's pretty disappointing. Prices are between $ 10.50 -12.00 for a rice / noodle dish. A little pricey but one has to factor in the location of Angie's being the most populated street in NZ! Would definitely come here again.


17 Mount Street, Auckland CBD
Close on Sundays

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Sunday morning run

Having mentioned that I have taken a healthy-ier approach to my overall eating lifestyle, I have started my new love for running and fitness. Still love my food to bits but even better now that I have a new passion.

Went for a short run this morning, for only 3.2 km run in Cornwall Park and was greeted by these cute sheep busy grazing. Feels good, my knees are not as hammered as on Friday. Next on, having a fairly naughty dinner at friends' & watching the finale of The Amazing Race!!

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A new beginning in 2010

This blog was started as my pet project to share my food adventures and love of amateur food photography. Somewhere in between, I've stopped blogging because my other new interests and work was taking its toll. But with a new(er) computer and renewed enthusiasm I am back!

Last week, I've committed myself to my very first half marathon run as a challenge and I would like to share my new interest of fitness, healthy eating, not so-healthy eating and training.

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Torchon French Creperie

It's been so long since I last posted anything here. Apologies. The last time I blogged was a difficult task as I was so tempted to eat everything within my sight after. After a recent trip to KL and meeting with a fellow blogger, I was encouraged to keep blogging and here I am!

One of the drafts that was sitting for a while is from my first visit to Torchon Creperie at The Stables , one of the city's favorite creperie.



It was only 11.30a.m, we ordered a Mediteranee gazette with ratatouille and egg and a nutella and almond crepe. The gazette was pleasing with a well flavored ratatouille wrapped inside topped with a semi cooked egg. I enjoyed the salty batter that it was made of, subtly flavorful and not too dry.



Next was the nutella& almond crepe. The size was good as I was not looking forward to a crepe that is a meal on its own. It's not too big to eat. The crepe was crispy on the edge, light and thin.
There was a generous amount of nutella oozing from inside and the nice almond flakes added the nice bite to the soft crepe. My only complain is not asking for an extra scoop of ice-cream, but that's not very typical french style i assume.



Our experience at Torchon is simply divine and this will be one of our favorite for a very long time to come

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Yum Cha @ Star Cafe, Howick

S&I have been eating at home a lot these days due to a new eating plan that my nutritionist has recommended us to follow. We're in good health, we are doing this just for fun because our friend went and came back with a lot of good eating advices. We are eating at 6 meals a day now; under the eating plan which is a little hard work given that we are so busy at work sometimes to accomplish that. The main goal is to get our eating habits checked by a professional and also because we spend so much time at the gym, we want to eat right to be fit. It's very difficult to have your cake and eat it too since I love cooking and eating so much. But at least the good news is that the nutritionist agreed that we have a healthy habit (albeit the weekly char kuey teows and nasi lemaks).

We survived our first week and already seeing results. So we are going to bite the bullet and hang in there until we achieve our goals. Therefore, I am going to take this opportunity to post about some food outings that wasn't posted before.


We went to Star Cafe in Howick for yum cha some time back. Food is mediocre, really. This came as a surprise because Star Cafe is very popular chain of Chinese restaurants.

The prawn dumplings were a little disappointing.

Pan-fried radish cake

Our yum cha didn't get any better when a bad dish was followed by another. The radish cake was oily and soggy...yuck!!

Egg tarts

Cold not crispy roasted pork

The roasted pork was stone cold!! This is so unacceptable when it's obvious that they are serving leftovers. This is by far the worst roasted pork I have eaten in a long time.

Sesame filled glutinous balls....at least this was ok although not great

Fried yam filled with bbq pork

Spicy salted fried tofu

This is the worst....really bad siu mai. It smells funny too.

We usually enjoy our dishes when we go to Star Cafe in Epsom but the one in Howick is really disappointing....we are not going back.

Although I complain that the food here is bad, looking at the pictures make my stomach growl. Well,any food is good when you're on a diet.

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