Charm Necklace

Charm Necklaces have always been popping in and out of fashion and the good news is that it is still right in style now. I did a revamp of my blogshop again, giving it a more cutesy style. I am now thinking of ways to sort of unofficially announce it to friends and any ppl out there. I also created a facebook group but fathom that it may not be sufficient and effective. Will think of more ways to publicise it. Anw, I added new creations, so anyone who is interested, please visit http://fashionstatementspore.blogspot.com/

Please also leave some comments or suggestions!! Many thanks!

Luck is like the Weather?

It is raining cats dogs outside, with loud thunder and lightning. This reminds me of a line taken from a book which I had read lately.

"It crosses my mind that luck is a lot like the weather and sometimes for no apparent reason it turns really bad"

It is taken from The Big Shuffle by Laura Pedersen and now I find that this sentence really connects to me totally and I hate this feeling because my luck is just like the weather outside now. I know that the weather will probably turn out better in a an hour or two but definitely not my sucky luck. How I wish I can skip this moment and fast forward to a year or 2 from now.

Give me the top tea leaves!

I first saw this ad from a recruitment talk from Millward Brown. It left a deep impression on me, in fact,to anyone who watches it as it is simply too cute to forget. It is great that there is such a thing called youtube where I can load it over here to show u guys...

How to get A+ in SMU

I like this video totally! It is a perfect showcase of how 'some' fellow sch mates manage to get A+ in class... Ahem! of cos, I am not one of those, else i will have gotten a Summa Cum Laude.

Have a full stomach at the new "Manpuku" at Tampines 1!

I was lucky to be able to attend the private food tasting session at this Japanese Gourmet Town- Manpuku on Tuesday night at Tampines 1. I had dropped strong hints to my sister on the day before on whether I can tag along with her. I was so excited when she smsed me to say that she could bring me along.

Manpuku is located at level 3, Japanese Gourmet Town of Tampines 1. It is Ajisen's latest creation, which boasts of a new Japanese food store concept that provides Japanese cuisines in a Japanese gourmet street setting. It is the 2nd outlet, after the 3-in-1 Japanses Gourmet Town at Vivocity, but the 1st to have so many store concepts thus far. I was rather impressed to have it here at our doorstep- Tampinese!

The interior of the restaurant was set up to replicate those authentic and traditional food eateries in Japan and it will house 10 different counters of food stores which includes famous restaurant names such as AOBA (Hokkaido Ramen), HOKKYOKUSEI omu rice, BOTEJYU Okonomiyaki (pan fried batter cake) etc... as well as tempting desserts - Fruit Paradise (1st in Singapore) and the all time favourite, KYOTO SABO.

Just like the Marché concept, each patron is given a card where you charge all your purchases until the end of your dining experience. Pretty straightfwd, so I guess not much elaboration is required here, except that you shd never ever lose the card (S$100 penalty).

To order food, all you need to do is to inform the order counter at each mini store and pass the card to the staff. You may need to wait for a few minutes for the food to be ready so there is a receipt where u can come back later to collect the food. And before I forget to mention, the number that the staff calls out when the food is ready is based on the Table No. printed on the receipt, so do refer to the correct no.

To start off, my sis and I each ordered 2 different dishes from BOTEJYU and HOKKYOKUSEI. She ordered a Seafood Okos while I ordered the Fried Prawn Omu Rice.

I love this design of the Okos where they made patterns on the top of the batter with sauce and mayo. Reminds me of Coffee art. a little disappointing is that the okos was a little over done which makes it a bit dry.

The Fried Prawn Omu Rice is the other popular Japanese dish which we tried. The main lead of the dish- the rice inside the omelette, was pan-fried with ketchup. We find it to be just average but what more than compensate it was the ebi tempura (Prawn Tempura) which we find to be mouth-watering. The deep fried thin batter was crisp on the outside while the inside was firm and tasty.

Finally on the desserts. We tried the Pear and Honeydew Tarts. And boy!, not only are they great to look at, they also taste great. No wonder, they were all snapped up at the end of the night.

The honeydew tart was my fav. It was not overly sweet and even though there was cream all over, my sister and I still cant resist and ate up the whole thing.
Having posted these fotos, I cant help but feel hungry again even though I just had my brunch an hr ago. Need to tempt my kakis to come try it again soon. (Geri, if you are reading this, consider coming to this 'mini-orchard' k! The new Tampines 1 is now opened, got alot of shopping and food!!)

Manpuku Japanese Gourmet Town
Level 3, Tampines 1
10 Tampines Central 1
Singapore 529536
Located beside Tampines MRT station
Click here to Website

'Funeral'- Latest TVC by MCYS

"Funeral" is a new TV commerical launched by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) which looks at relationships in a different light, through a woman at her husbands funeral. Ultimately, the TVC celebrates the beautiful imperfections that make a relationship perfect. This is fresh off MCYS latest Viewers Choice 2008 win for last years Family TVC which promotes the importance and value of family bonding. (Description taken from Youtube)