Prive Cafe & SEA Aquarium

Just realised that the last time I blogged was more than a month ago?! Didn't know that time flew by so quickly. Been either out meeting friends who are back from overseas or bumming around at home lately after resigning from my part time job! Oh and of course settling all the visa application and all before I head to the uk in aug. Anyways, this post is probably back dated from the month of May...hahaha. Headed down to Prive Cafe at Keppel bay and also checked out the SEA aquarium at resorts world.

So my friend, celestine and I decided to try out the brunch at prive cafe which is located at keppel bay area. Took a cab in from harbour front mrt but realised that it wasn't very far to walk out to the bus stop which we did after brunch. I would say it is certainly a nice location for brunch, with a nice view of all the yachts and the fact that its pretty quiet makes it so peaceful. We went during the weekday so it was really quiet but I think it is quite crowded during the weekends though! Enough said, let the pictures do the talking..

 this is the view at the side

mandatory glass cup filled with water photo...hahahah

in front was the reflections at keppel bay buildings

eggs ben. not exactly a fan of eggs ben so I don't really know if it is fantastic or the best or anything like that but it tasted good.

pancakes with bananas, strawberries, honey comb, whip cream and maple syrup. The pancakes are like any other pancakes, but the honeycombs were really nice!

After brunch, took a cab down to resorts world to visit the SEA aquarium. Thankfully being a weekday it wasn't crowded!  

despite having card discounts, found out later that there were student tickets which were cheaper....

entrance

in addition to the aquarium which will always be there, there were some other cultural exhibits around

entrance to the sea aquarium!

definitely not a conducive place to take photos...

some sucker fish that was below us

pretty interesting..looks like a lizard though

starfish anybody?

seahorses 

stingray

a type of cuttlefish

can't remember what is this called but don't you think it looks like the worms from the game worms

like this photo because it probably one of the best photos in my entire photo collection of the sea aquarium. It is definitely not easy to capture pictures of all these creatures when they are moving so fast.

small jellyfish

extremely huge octopus! didn't manage to capture everything cos I only had a 50mm lens at that time...so restricted!

more jellyfishes

looks like something you will see in black and white science textbooks from years ago..haha

loving the bright yellow on this jellyfish

shark egg!

too bad this photo is blur but I found it a little creepy but hilarious at the same time.

Seriously, every creature on display looks like a type of seafood being served in restaurant. Sad but true. Personally, I wasn't that much fascinated by the sea aquarium. I would have preferred the underwater world to this. For this aquarium, it was just glass exhibits after glass exhibits and it was quite a long walk cos after reaching the extremely huge glass display, I thought it was the end but actually it was only halfway. So at the end of the entire walk we were almost half dead...haha. But then again it was a nice experience, at least I think I came out gaining more knowledge about the various species of sea creatures. haha.

That is all for now, about a month left before I head to the uk, so not prepared for this! A new life, a new chapter, a whole new country and place...

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! :)