Post CNY & Valentine's Day

Hello people~!

I know it’s been a month since I last blogged (>.< ) Been in festive mood and then not in festive mood because my holidays got cut short because I had to get back to KL to work. After that I’ve been on lazy mode because it has been my work peak season while on weekends I have been doing my social catch ups with my buddies plus shopping (I’ve been shopping like crazy!)

Anyway, I know it’s a tad too late but I do hope everyone had an amazing Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day!

Myself, CNY was awesome (before it was cut short because P1 Internet was not working at home. Brilliant!) and my family had our first CNY 8-Course meal! No, it is not our family culture for CNY bu this year we were expecting special guests. Dad was like, since you children are paying, we (mom) eat for free and laughed cheekily. Us siblings went harharhar. Purse was bleeding wth ( ≧∇≦ )

So here are photos of our 8-course meals (Missing the dessert tho).

After tossing the yee sang~

After that we went around Penang Island to show out guests our favorite rendezvous.

Not a trip is complete without trying the Assam Laksa. A lot of shops were still close for CNY so we settled for the one in Balik Pulau.

Also ordered nutmeg juice, a specialty in Penang.

Freshly juiced, yo!

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On CNY eve, mom cooked a bunch of food like every other years. Ate all the yummy food before I got shipped back. It really was too bad I didn't get to stay long enough for steamboat (๑•́ ₃ •̀๑)

On CNY~

and ginger longan tea which I'm so hooked!

On another day we went to Gurney Drive for tea time. Had a bunch of stuff including pasembor, Muar Chee, rojak, ikan bakar and two bottles of lychee with soy milk curd.

then temple visiting at night~

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As of now, I’m also occupied planning my 2017 Cuti Cuti Asia trip (That’s what happened when you’re the planner among your friends)!

When it comes to travel, this year I'm expecting a lot of firsts!! First time visiting Kuching, Bali, Bangkok and Australia. And of course, first time flying to so many places in a year! I’m thinking about learning basic Indonesian language which won’t be much issue, I hope, since it’s quite similar to Bahasa Malaysia then attend local cooking classes in Kuching and Bali and learn how to surf (those are the plans as of now) ! I find myself needing to get out there and learn new skills now that I stopped going to Japanese classes *sad*

Unfortunately, because of all this Cuti Cuti Asia plan, I had to postphone Japan trip _ AGAIN _ for many reasons. One already planning to visit countries around Asia and another having made a promise to meet up with my long time friend in Australia this year. On the bright, fun-est and best-est parts are I get to travel to meet my dear longtime friend and with BFF in my other Asian countries adventure!

Life is AWESOME!!!

In case you’re thinking why the fuck I can afford to go to this many places, am I filthy rich? I wish but not just yet, this time I’m going on a super tight budget with this many places on my list. Thankfully, the places I’m going are rather affordable and I managed to find an awesome flight promo! Comment below if you want me to tell y’all my secret to be able to travel to all these places!

Early 2016 Christmas Get-Together at Ben's & Mai Sky Bar. Plus Chrishmas presents for myself!

Just a few weekends ago I had an early Christmas get together at Ben's in Pavilion with my usual group of friends just catching up and making jokes~ #superhappytimes

My OOTD that day~!

Ben's one of my favorite cafes cause they serve awesome food there though it had been a while (3 years!) since I last came here. Here was what we ordered the other day~~

Food is still pretty good so it's quite worth the price! Too bad we were seated inside. I prefer the outdoor view of the street like the last time I was here. The ambience inside was amazing nevertheless!

After dinner we head out because my smart friend parked her car at a five star hotel cuz she couldn't find a parking spot hahhaha. Though because of that we could pose in front of Pavilion's grand Christmas tree at the main entrance of the mall! The fountain in front of the mall is one of the place where you can see tourists pose by LOL

And more wefies in the hotel lounge cause Malaysians LOVES taking photos just anywhere with nice decors and props hahahhahaha

The snowman was made out completely of ice! So cool! Geddit geddit. My lame pun (>v<)

Later we headed to Mai Rooftop Bar and ordered our drinks and continued chatting. The lighting inside was dim and of light blue hues which made us looked like Avatars LOL! Don't believe me? Check avatar me ⏬⬇
 

So I had to resort to flash to snap pics and no thanks to the dim lighting, it made the flash much blinding. Had tons of fun torturing my friends with it Lol cause he bullied me so it's sorta like payback. What happened was while I was chatting happily with another friend, ignoring this dude,  I didn't notice my phone was ringing and he took it up WTF. And it was my mom checking on me #DoubleWTFSituation.

So I went outside to talk and took pic lol

And went back in to entertain aka poke fun at everyone.

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This Christmas I got myself several gifts_aside for a few dresses, I got myself 2016 Festive SK-II Pitera collection and an Instax mini camera!! Took me years of consideration to get these two cause they ain't cheap! Not a millionaire just yet okay.

So walah! Here is my SK-II babies~~

Like I promised in my first SK-II review,  I'll be writing another post on my observation after using SK-II's starter kit. It'll be in a Q&A format so if you have questions about this product, comment below and I'll be happy to answer that in my next post which will probably be next weekend!

Moving forward, here's my other new toy~~~ So happy looking at it even the colors so adorable hahaha. I got this entire Harajuku set on quite a deal_ RM300 for the camera together with all the accessories here including two sets of instax film from S&J!!

This is going to be an expensive hobby with my having to buy instax mini films every time I want to use them so I thought BUT thanks to 11th Street, I found I can get a box for RM21 for 10 sheets, wayyyy cheaper than market price!! So there you go Malaysian instax-grapher! Tips for you guys, you're welcome!!

Took some instax recently some you might have seen them on my Instagram~~

Aside from these, I also got a few from friends at work

Then there was a mini Christmas celebration with the company

And the team!

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Fast forward to today, even though Christmas has passed, the festive season is far from over here in Malaysia. In fact we are now transitioning to Chinese New Year and most malls have put up CNY decors!

This is the decor at Sunway Pyramid, was there just last weekend.

There was even a free CNY theme Purikura/photobooth too! I knew I have to take one LOLOL cause well, my Purikura obsession just crept back (Check out my last post on How to Play Purikura) and I vowed to snap more purikuras this year! In fact, I'm marking down the locations Puripix is offering different Purikura machines around Klang Valley and have dates with my friends to snap Purikuras in our next outings! I'm pretty confident with my power of persuasion LOL

And then, these are the decors at 1Utama~