DIY Home/Room Decor

Just got back from yet another seafood dinner, just had one exactly a week ago...OH NOOO. Didn't get to run the entire week due to an angioedema of my eyelids from an allergy plus the fact that I had 2 big dinners in 7 days, not a good thing. Need to get back to running this week! 

As mentioned earlier in the previous post, have lots of back dated photos to edit and upload and here it is, shall start with some DIY home-room decor. I know many people pastes/ sticks photos or polaroids on their walls, I am not an exception. However, instead of just merely sticking them on the wall, here is what I did :)

Yup, I used ribbons and christmas ball decorations plus wooden pegs to hang my photos!

Here are the items needed:

 Ribbons and wooden pegs. Initially I wanted to use nylon strings and even bought a row of them but as I was walking through popular, I chanced upon ribbons which made me change my mind. Yup, so the ribbons were from popular and the wooden pegs were bought from daiso. 

Used a variation of medium-sized wooden pegs and small ones, both from daiso. Used the medium-sized ones for the photos and the small ones for the polaroids.

More pegs..the heart shaped ones were a gift from a wedding so here is where it comes into utilisation!

what a pretty wedding gift

Christmas tree decor which I got from IKEA lots of years ago and didn't know what to do with them. Yes, I know they are meant for decorating the christmas tree but the tree I used to have was green and black is totally not a contrasting colour to green. Anyway, I didn't buy it for the tree, haha, I bought it cos they were pretty..hahaha. I used to have a box of silver ones before this but they have already been used up for various stuff. So back to these black ones, I used a few for wrapping christmas presents actually..hahah. So here is where 1/3 of them go to, for my photo hanging decor.

3M command clips never fails on me and have always came in handy! Plus, they are easy to remove and doesn't leave a mark. 

up close shot of the ribbons

Polaroids

and of course, photos. 

 The process:

Yup so basically this is what you do, measure the length of the ribbon you need and then tie it on the 3M clips

Layout the photos and clip them on the ribbon to see how it turns out. Initially I wanted to alternate between one photo and one polaroid as you can see above but it didn't turn out that nice, so decided to hang the polaroids at the 2 sides and the photos in the middle.

Next up, paste the photos using blu-tack on the wall, space them out evenly so that you will have a rough idea of how and where to hang the clips (in the middle of the photos). My clips are hung slightly away from the wall as I felt it looked nicer that way instead of it being leaned against the wall

After which, the christmas balls can be tied to it. The hearts above were just stringed in and not tied because the hole was really small so it fits nicely and doesn't slide through even without tying it.

Second last step: hang the photos!

And finally cut the ends of the ribbons and you are done! I actually stuck the christmas balls to the wall with blu-tack because my air con is facing the photos so in order to prevent the balls from moving and making noise, I had to do that. Yup, here you go! Simple idea but definitely not that easy a task to execute with all the measuring and all but definitely worth it. Makes the white wall alot more colourful and memorable :)

PC Show 2013

Just got back from the PC Show 2013 a few hours ago and currently configuring my new spanking new lappie! Yes, my other laptop decided to give up on me after almost 4 years and have been surviving on my humble ipad for the last 3-4 months, haha. Glad to be back to blogging with lots of back-dated photos to upload and edit. Lots of organization of files to do on my previous laptop as well as my external hard disks. Oh wells, shall take my time to do it :)

On a side note about the pc show...just don't understand why parents will bring their kids to pc show or even better, push prams at the place. I had an encounter with a lady earlier at the pc show today who was pushing a pram and I just accidentally knocked into it because the place was packed and she was like unhappy. Like, HELLOO, nobody asked you to bring your child here with a pram too. In the first place, it is so dangerous to bring your children to places like these, what happens if somebody accidentally drops an electrical gadget on your child. Seriously don't understand parents and their thinkings nowadays. Irresponsible? Can't be bothered? I have no ideas.

Oh wells, back to exploring my new baby! :)

CNY Day 15 Steamboat

The title says it all, this post is going to be about how my last day of CNY was spent. This post is super back dated considering it is almost 1 month past cny, hahaha. So the last day was spent at home having steamboat with the family :)

Starting to prepare the table for a good meal

Food included:

Live prawns and clams. The clams were still alive at this point, on the left hand side of the picture u can see some flesh sticking out of the shell...

fishballs a must for steamboats!

Straw mushrooms

Fish maws :)

home-made chili, cannot do without this for a steamboat

oyster mushrooms

chinese leaf

almost done with the prep and laying out the dishes on the table

the sister helping out

abalone for the yu sheng

sliced pork, there was also beef

yu sheng from sakae sushi, so far one of the nicer yusheng I have came across

hahahaha, this was what happened when my sis had to break pretty hard to prevent beating the red light at a junction with red light camera. The entire box of yusheng fell from the seat to the floor..opps.

Efforts to save it and rearrange...looks more presentable now..hahaha.

Ingredients all added with the help of a slide presentation on the web which tells you what ingredient to add and what to say while adding the ingredient.

Now for the main course

looking good :)

since it was the last day of cny, we bought frozen tang yuans to put in the red bean soup my mum cooked. 

At this time of the day after editing all these food photos and blogging about it is making me so hungry! Thinking about what is there to eat in the house and realised there is only junk food and more junk food. :( Oh wells, shall still hunt for some food in the house before heading to the gym later!

On a side note, bought the last installments of photo frames to hang along the walkway in the house, need to start arranging them and hunting for photos. Already tried hunting for some photos on my laptop and realised that I have alot of photos but photos of my friends and I but hardly any nice photos with my family :( This photo hunting job is gonna be tough....roarrrr.

JCube The Rink

On this rainy sunday evening, how I wish I could snug up in bed and sleep all day..haha. As I blog, I can smell a strong aroma coming from the kitchen which is making my stomach grumble. Dinner tonight is my favourite 'emperor's dish'. :)

Anyways, a couple of weeks ago, a girlfriend of mine (celestine) and I headed down to JCube The Rink to ice-skate. She had a free voucher so we decided to go together and pay for one ticket rather than wasting the voucher. It is our first time skating on the new rink which opened not too long ago. I remember skating in the old rink quite a few times during the secondary school days where the price was way cheaper and it was unlimited skating. Then, we would start at 11am and leave the rink only at 7pm, pretty hardcore I know. I miss those days where there were food in the rink itself and nissin cup noodles with egg was always the food I ate there..haha. Now, the entrance fee is pretty expensive. It is around $18 for the entrance ticket and rental of skates. Moreover they have different blocks of skating time with each block at 2 hours so you are only allowed to skate for 2 hours. My comments on the rink, hmmm, I don't know if it is the skates which are too blunt or the surface of the ice was way too smooth like wax because it felt like I was always losing control which have never happened before to me. So yeah. Thankfully, we went around 5-7pm on a weekday so there weren't many people probably around 10-20 people on the olympic sized skating rink..HAHAH! Alright then, enough of words, now for the pictures..

the ticketing counter as well as gantries to scan the bar codes on the tags provided

stripe-fettish, socks and gloves all in stripe patterns. I can't remember where I bought those socks from actually. On the other hand, the gloves are from my sister, she got it free in korea. Apparently the gloves are smart touch gloves meaning you can use your touch screen mobile phones with the gloves on which I only knew when I came back and I saw the tag..haha.

skates on, all ready to go

the girlfriend, celestine

as you can see, the rink was really empty. this shot was taken towards the end of our 2hrs because my camera was kept in the bag in the lockers. Yup, lockers are provided, can't remember whether it is $1 or $2 for a locker but anyways, if you don't have coins, fret not, there is a coin machine available to change for coins

a slightly blur shot :(

looks like I booked the entire rink..hahaha.

apparently one of the rules on the rink is not to use mobile phones...

ice hockey score board. I remember watching one of the ice hockey friendly matches here late at night, it was purely coincidental actually.

sadly the photo the crew helped us take was also blur..ish.

I always wondered how the back of my adidas jacket will look like, I thought the gold studs were quite shiny, seems like I am wrong. This is 1 of the 2 adidas jackets which I own, both of which are bought from overseas. This one is from hong kong, bought it for less then SGD100 I think, it was the only piece left and was lucky the size fit me :)

at this time my feet was actually already hurting from the blisters

my dusty pink dirty grey jeans, yes it is supposed to be a bit pinkish but I guess after all the washing, the pink has almost faded off :( One of my favourite pairs of jeans from f21

the lockers provided

2 hours of skating doesn't seem long but with only 2 of us, it was seemed pretty long and tiring, going in a group will be more fun definitely. There is a wide variety of dining places at JCube but we ended up at Pique nique. It is my first time dining at the restaurant for dinner, been there once for ice cream and waffles which were quite nice.

The ambiance is really very nice and because there weren't many people, we got to pick our seats. Settled down at a really nice spot with comfy chairs, just that the table was a little small. 

the menu is pretty much like any other western restaurant menu with burgers and pasta

this is what I ordered, sorry but I can't remember what burger this was..haha, memory is failing on me. The burger was quite good just that it was quite difficult to eat as you can see, it is really tall even after trying to flatten it..haha.

Yup, so that sums up my adventures at the rink. On a side note, finally received my offer letter! :) Going to be busy settling all the visa and stuff in a few months to come. Till then!