The beauty of living alone is that you can make the house look as girly as you want, and no want can say anything about it. I must admit it has been quiet without my brother around but there have been benefits as well. For a few days, I had a houseguest who reminded me of why despite the company, I would never want a housemate as I'm just way too pedantic. In any case, I've added this pretty display to my coffee table. The candle is Frangipani-scented and is just amazing. I've also bought a new Japanese Lamp for my living room but I couldn't be arsed taking a picture of it, so y'all will just have to imagine what a Japanese Lamp will look like...

Due to the perpetual expansion of my shoes collection, I've gone and bought myself another shoe rack so that my hallway doesn't look so cluttered. I've organized it such that I've got a shoe rack just for the shoes that I can wear to work. Hee hee.

I also had Asish, Tat and Sandeep to dinner on the 29th. Sort of like a pre-New Year dinner. We went swimming before and Tat's never been to my place before, so it was good. I have to say though that Asish is so lazy when it comes to learning how to swim...Unfortunately we forgot to take pictures of the food except for dessert. As you can see, Asish was almost through his by the time we took the pictures...

I made for Starters: Wasabi Mayonnaise coated Prawns with Fruit Salad; Morrocan Grilled Lamb Chops with Baba Ganoush; Pan-fried Haloumi with Onion Marmalade and Otah.

Then, I had Macadamia-Crusted Chicken Breast with a Kahlua Butter Sauce for the Main Course. This was followed by Linguine tossed in Chilli-Garlic-Coriander-Anchovies-Butter-Olive Oil.

For dessert, we had Strawberry Jubilee with Crepes and Vanillia Ice-cream. I was so proud of myself when I managed to flambe the strawberries!!!!

Tis The Season To Be Drinking...


The Makings of Lychee Martini...and other cocktails


My alcohol shelf...Oooohhhhh

Lovely bottles of Moscato & Absinth

More bottles of wine (opened)...

Tequila Jello Shots...

It's good being a drunk. *LOL*

Add A Little Sweetness to A Sad Life...

In the midst of toiling over some preparations, I decided to make some cookies. Being me, it's impossible for me to make cookies that are normal shaped. And since I like teddy bears, I decided to make my own tiny teddys - chocolate chip ones!!!!


Some dough and a cute cookie cutter


Pale little bears sitting in the oven getting a tan...

Baked till they look like Super Chocolate Bears...

The one lonely heart I shaped by hand with the left-over dough...kinda like my heart; a little burnt but hopefully still salvage-able.

A Girl's Right To BLING...

I'm totally loving late-night shopping at Chadstone. All the pretty stores under one roof and they all close at midnight because of Christmas! Don't you love abject consumerism? I do!

From Aldo to Wittner to Myer...all the lovely shoe shops that furnished me with my bling-bling shoes... Cynthia thinks I'm mad. I can only explain it with a shrug and the comment "What...I'm Asian. Of course, I love bling everything!!!"

And of course, the Ultimate BLING status symbol: A BLING-BLING RING. I'm loving my new cocktail ring. If only it was from Harry Winston's...I wish! But I still love how massively bling it is. It's so deliciously vulgar. Teehee...

A Girl's Right To The Bon Vivant Life...

Of course, a girl's right to bling includes her right to the dacadent life of luxury and indulgence... Therefore, I bought myself this amazing Frangipani candle from SugarBaby (Loving the name already!) which comes in this totally bling box. It'd be a good addition to my little table of candles... (as pictured below)

After my brother left, I took my coat rack out of my room and put it into his room which is now my walk-in wardrobe! In its place, I put in a little piece of glamour and R&R...behold, my candles table!!!! The drawers are crammed with my jewellery. Hee hee. It's a little treasure chest!

Speaking of spoiling one's self, nothing beats that except if SOMEONE ELSE is doing the spoiling. Tis the season to be giving and there's a lot to be said for generous friends. My darling friend, Starvi was very generous to buy me this Jo Malone perfume. It's NECTARINE BLOSSOM & HONEY. It smells absolutely divine!!!!!! I was dying to buy it for myself but was saving up cos' I had other stuff to buy. But Starvi, the darling boy, spoilt me not just with one bottle but a smaller version to carry around in my bag. Oh, the Sweetheart!!!!!

I'm a happy girl...Tra la la la.

posted at 1:43 AM

You'll never touch him again so get what you can
Leaving him empty just because he's a man
So good when it ends, they'll never be friends
One more night, that's all they can spend

One more night, the end should be a good one.

Who you think you can trust... will lie to you
Who you think you can rely on ... will leave you in the lurch
Who you think is a good person ... will rip your heart out
Who you think will stand by you ... will pick someone else over you

Who you thought you could love ... doesn't deserve your devotion
Who you thought would be good to you ... didn't give jacksh*t about you
Who you thought was your friend ... will turn out to be worse than a foe
Who you thought was worth it ... is worth as much as a broken promise

I gave all that I could because I thought you were worthed it.
I gave because some of you is better than none of you.
I gave to try and make the most out of a mistake.
I gave simply because I'm me.

In return... you've caused me to become beyond broken.