Hi everyone! Hope you had a lovely Christmas! My Christmas Eve dinner was at my aunt’s house, and there was lots of yummy food, like the turkey my mommy roasted! She soaked it in some special sugar and salt brine so that it would be really tender, and it really was! Yummiest juiciest turkey I’ve ever had!

My Daddydoo, Chief Turkey Carver

This is my newest niece! Isn’t she sooo chubby and adorable? Love the ‘do!

After dinner we went to Eka’s new house! His aunt lives 6 floors up so we chilled there first, and got lectured about the art of opera singing by his weird British uncle. Then we went back down to Eka’s and sat around for the rest of the night. Btw I <3 myojo’s tom yam cup noodles! Anyway Eka’s new house is nice, I like it a lot.

Weirdohs

And my little brother is a Christmas Eve baby! So a few days ago my cousins and I took him out for a little surprise celebration. He’s 13 now! But he still looks like he’s 9 or 10! Even smaller than me! But not for long :(

Nicole and Nigel

And these are some pictures from our pre-Christmas mambo!

Jac and me!

Jac, me, Chris and Janine!

I’ll post up pictures of my Christmas loot soon! Stay tuned! (:

<3

Nicole! :D

I haven’t been able to upload these! Too caught up with Christmas shopping!

Last Saturday was Sean Poh XBY’s officer commissioning parade, so the whole gang went all the way to Jurong to watch!

Kenny, Sean, Jackson, Joe

Mike and Joe

Janine, Mike and me

All of us :)

Then Joe and I headed back to his place for a dinner party his parents were throwing. Jwong came too! My favourite part was roating marshmallows over a tea candle. And then, off to BUTTER! (:

We managed to get 2 tables in the VIP area even though we didn’t make reservations so we hid out there most of the night.

And in celebration of my Great Wakeboarding Success, Garrett decided to open a bottle of Dom Perignon! Assuming one bottle = 6 glasses, one glass would come to over $60! And I couldn’t even tell that much of a difference between this and normal Moet. He says we should have got Krug instead.

Garrett <3 his expensive bottle

Me with Zul and G

Our very excitable DJ Adrian Weeeeee! Hahaha he’s awesome.

Jackson fail. Sorry sean!

The boys!

Byebye!

xx

Nicole

Hope you have a wonderful time tonight and tomorrow!

Much love,
Nicole! :)

But thanks for all the comments guys! Well Marc still wins cause I got this baby…

(well technically Joe bought it for me :D)

Marc by Marc Jacobs

OR

Second from left, Burberry

I REALLY CAN’T CHOOSE. Everyone’s telling me to get the Marc by Marc Jacobs one cause it’s cute and suits my retarded personality and I really do like it but I like the Burberry one as well! And I don’t own anything Burberry yet but I already have a bunch of Marc stuff. They’re both casual watches and suitable for everyday wear.. the Burberry is just more mature and classy while the Marc one is kiddy and fun? ARGHHHH HELP!!!

Joe and I have a cool new sound :D

Anyway wakeboarding on Friday was unexpectedly really fun! At first I was sooo scared because of all the horrible things Sheila said about the last time they went, and I was the only one who hadn’t done it before so I was terrified that I was going to make a complete fool of myself and like, drown in the disgusting dirty Singapore sea. But it turned out to be a nice and chill afternoon on a boat, and our instructor Bobby was super cool and super nice!

And the best thing is, I CAN ACTUALLY WAKEBOARD. I, hater of anything sporty and sport-like and exercising, actually managed to stand up on the board on my very first try! Which Bobby said less than 1 out of 10 people manage to do! SUCCESS! And when I stood up I saw everyone’s jaw totally dropping for like 5 seconds then they started yelling in shock ahahaha. Joe kept saying how proud he was of me! (:(:

The rest were really good! Steffi, seasoned wakeboarder of SMU wakeboarding club (!!!) and Joe started doing little jumps on the water, and Garrett, wakeboarding semi-noob, was pretty good and managed to move around a lot as well.

An autistic kid we picked up

Garrett

Joe Boodooboob

Stefster getting some air!

“oh fuck I’m gonna die..”

MEEEE

Me again

Me again again

And again

TEAM VICTORIOUS

Wet & Salty…

LOL I LOVE YOU STEFFI

And then we went to eat the best ramen in Singapore and have beers. That’s the life man! :)

<33333 Nicole!

I had way too much to drink last night. And drinking makes me wake up the next day really early, feeling really refreshed! Not shitting you. Boogie Down Butter (the event at butter on Thursday nights) gave out 6 complimentary bottles of Nikka whisky to the first 6 VIPs who RSVPed, and Garrett, being extremely up to date with emails cause of his Blackberry, got a bottle for us! Japanese whisky tastes really.. Japanese. It was all clean and crisp! I also have vague memories of whisky dry’s, Russian Standard and cranberry, jagerbombs.. Hmm.

Joe’s so nice he sent me home, heated up chicken rice for me, watched me eat then tucked me in before he went home, when he had to wake up super early this morning for his golf game with his daddy. (: You’re the best, Joe! <3<3

Pictures pictures! My top is from Hollyhoque’s next next collection! :D

Nicole, Steffi and Aruna! We made our boyfriends take so many shots of us! :DD

No pictures of Joe cause he’s FAT. HAHAHA. That boy is sooo fat now. RIGHT SHEILA!! He put on 7 kg in 1 month! But luckily he loses weight quite fast when he wants to. I’m going wakeboarding later with Joe, Steffi, Garrett, and Pet! So exciting I’ve never gone before!

And here’s some viral marketing for you..

Check this video out, it’s two of my buddies from Stellastory, Silas and Narpal, doing an acoustic piano cover of Bad Romance!

You can catch them live this at St. James this sunday for the flea market party thing-thing. I’ll be there! Right in front screaming. HAHA.

Here are more of their videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAf6cmoI3o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIbTOf_q5QQ&feature=related

Seeya! (:

<3 nicoleeeee

Heyhey! Doesn’t this collection look lovely? Here are some pictures of my picks!

All 3 colours of this dress are sooo gorgeous! <333 And the brick red one is perfect for Christmas!

With Joe’s sister Siyi in Koh Samui!

Wore this one in Koh Samui too! I think it’s so versatile and flattering!

This one fits up to UK 10! Love the colour.

Haha I’m blogging from Sheila’s house now! The launch will probably be on Friday evening! :)

P.S. :P you Joe!

Hey guys! Boogie Down Butter is happening again this thursday (and every alternate thursday) at The Butter Factory and if you didn’t already know, it’s a glorious event when you can bring as many friends as you want, go to the door and say you’re under Nicole’s guestlist, and get free priority entry for the night! If you’re wondering why I have unlimited sign-in privileges, it’s because I’m an ambassador for thursday nights! So please do come down and use my guestlist and don’t be shy because it’s unlimited.

As usual, drinks are 1-for-1 all night long! And I’ll be there of course so I really hope to see you all! (:

<3 nicole

Hate taking pictures with giants! :(:( Cheryl Eunice and Steffi are all above 1.7 m :(:(:( IMMA GNOME.

Hellooo! Sorry for the 5-day hiatus. Didn’t get the chance to use internet in Samui! The holiday was really great. Hotel was wonderful, and we just lazed around by the pool the whole time and ordered room service. Haha! I love bummy holidays :) I’ll put up loads and loads of pictures shortly! Meanwhile, here are my long overdue anniversary photos from Basilico..

What a perfectly, perfectly grilled tenderloin. Beautiful colour. I absolutely cannot stand people who order their steaks medium or medium well. Yuck.

Seeya!

<3 nic

I’m going to Koh Samui tonight with Joe and his family! I’ll be back on the 14th :) hopefully the hotel has wireless so I can stay in touch with the outside world.. Haha. I’ll upload the pictures from Tuesday with the girls soon! :) byebye!

<3 Nicole

(ARGH this picture didn’t fit when I first published it and no one told meee!)

Sheila’s favourite dress! The yellow looks damn good on her tan skin.

If you wanna know which items in the preview I have, I have the first row 2nd one in grey (wore it in Sydney! and omg I look totally weird in that picture), the first row 3rd one in cream, and the second row first one in grey! I might keep the black version of Sheila’s favourite dress too, what do you think? (:

The past few years mineral makeup has been all the rage, because it’s made from natural ingredients. I do agree that mineral makeup is a nice fuss-free simple take on makeup. But there’s a lot that people don’t know about mineral makeup products, especially eyeshadows.

Firstly, mineral eyeshadow is made from mica, a shimmery colourless powder, and the colour comes from oxides that are mixed in, like iron oxides and tin oxides. A mix of these ingredients forms the loose eyeshadow pigments that we see from brands like MAC and such. Most legit brands get their pure pigments from pigment wholesale companies, and then mix them to customize new colours.

However, what people have found recently is that there are tons and tons and TONS of brands of mineral makeup who just purchase the pigments from the wholesalers, repackage them by stamping their brand name on, and sell them exactly the same for like, 6 times more!

Anyway, I wanted to let you know that we, the consumers, can actually purchase the pure pigments straight from the wholesale companies. These wholesale companies sell ingredients for mineral makeup, like pigments and fillers and oils, etc. These pigments (called coloured micas) are what mineral makeup companies sell as eyeshadows, so we might as well get them for a fraction of the price straight from the manufacturers!

TKB Trading is one such company, and they sell samples of their coloured micas (the pigments) for only US$1.50, and these samples come as a whole tablespoon full of powder, which is probably even more than you get with commercially bought eyeshadows. Another company that sells micas/pigments is Coastal Scents, you might have heard of them, but they have less selection.

I’ve been asked many questions about what eyeshadows I’ve been wearing lately, especially the ones I wear for Hollyhoque shoots, and this is the answer, they are simply mineral pigments from TKB Trading! I bought 3 samples online, and they really are great, especially for only $1.50 each for such a huge amount! What I really like about them is that they can be worn wet, for a darker, more intense colour payoff, or dry for a shimmer with less intense colour. The pigments can also be custom-mixed yourself if you’d like to create a new colour, or you can simply darken or lighten colours by adding black or white micas. For more advanced formulation you can also get samples of fillers and additives like magnesium myristate and just mix a little in to improve the texture of the pigments if you like, but this is not necessary in order to use the pigments as eyeshadows. They can also be used as blush, added to lip gloss or nail colour, they’re basically really useful!

I chose to talk about this now because there’s an ongoing spree here at spreesgalore, and it’s just a great opportunity for you guys to get high quality, pure pigments for really, really cheap. TKB trading sprees don’t happen very often, in fact it’s only the second time I’ve seen one, because so little people know about their products, so there isn’t much demand for the sprees so response is quite weak. So, if you’d like in on the awesome, take time to browse TKB Trading’s site and join the spree. Spread the word! Purchase pure pigments direct and cheap instead of getting ripped off by mineral makeup brands!

Thursday was such a looong day! I woke up early in the morning to go for my medical checkup after sleeping only for 3 hours because of mambo the night before! Took a train down to Paragon with mommy. She has this weird thing that when we go to town without my dad she refuses to drive because she doesn’t know how to park at any carpark except the one at Shaw Centre. And it was only the fifth time she’s taken a train in her life, so she’s all lost and confused in the stations but she insists on walking really really fast and disappears in the crowd and ends up at the wrong exit or something then I have to go get her. Sigh.

Then during the medical they take my height and weight, and the doctor calculates my BMI and tells me that I’m just shy of a “healthy” BMI of 16, I actually need to be 0.15 kg heavier otherwise they need to do blood tests and lots of nasty stuff on me, so I’m like, “BRB” and I ran down and stuffed my face as fast as I could. Ran up again, trying to figure out whether I managed to eat 150 grams worth of food. Then the nurse weighs me and I find out I’m a whole kg heavier! I managed to eat a whole kg of food in 10 minutes!

Oh yes I wanted to perm my hair the other day, but my stylist said my hair was not in good enough condition cause I’ve never done any treatments or anything before so if I permed it then it would get really dry, so what I had to do was buy products and make my hair all nice and soft first THEN I can get it permed. So mommy and I had an excursion down to Toa Payoh, got lost everywhere trying to find the Magical Shops of Hair Products that Von told me look for. We found it in the end and I managed to get my hair stuff!

And my cousin Trish is back from Melbourne, so everyone went for dinner at east coast, we had lots of seafood and chilli crab! So good.

Mantous + Chilli Crab = BEST THING EVER.

And then off to butter for Boogie Down Butter! I think the party was pretty good! But we left early and headed to Velvet to watch Phay spin. He’s really good. Jwong was so drunk by the time we got there and he kept falling down the whole night and injuring himself, as well as being a ninja and disappearing once our backs were turned.

I’ll update with pictures later this afternoon! Gotta go for photoshoot now :)

NAIS

…Come party with me!

Tomorrow, Thursday night, get priority VIP entry at The Butter Factory just by going to the door and saying you’re on my guestlist! (Nicole’s guestlist, that is, if you didn’t get my name..)

Yeah no kidding, bring as many friends as you want, guys or girls, ALL FREE ENTRY ON MY GUESTLIST! woohoo!!!

There’s 1 for 1 housepours all night, and 1 for 1 Absolut vodka bottles too! Awesome? Hellz YEAH!!!

See you tomorrow OKAY? Please come say hi to me as well!! :D

If you have any questions at all, just leave a comment :)

Yaaaay partaaAayeee!!!

And I’m sick! :( I don’t know what it is, my body just feels very queasy and weak. We’re going to Basilico for dinner tonight, hope I feel okay enough to eat all the yum food.

We went with Garrett and Philbert for dinner at White Rabbit at Dempsey last night. It was the first time I was there for dinner, and I was really impressed with the food! We had the Steak Tartare and Shallot Tatin for starters, they were really tasty and the quail eggs that came with the Steak Tartare were boiled to absolute perfection. Shallot Tatin was incredible as well. I had the Duck Leg Confit for my main, and WOW it was really tasty, and lightly seared such that it was just a tad crispy. I’d say it tasted even better to me than many of the confit de canard that I had in France.

And then we drove to Philby’s house for drinks! I love how his house is a winter wonderland!

After suitable inebriation, we headed to Butter to join the rest of the gang! And I just realised Elena wasn’t there. ELE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO MEET US AFTER DINNER!

Ladies, this is my handsomest friend Jackson Ong. He’s extremely handsome.

And today we had our usual lazy stay-in-bed-the-entire-day-and-order-macs Sunday just that it’s actually a Friday. Hmmm.

Bye! Hope your day was more productive than mine!

<3

Omg Sheila and JY came over for dinner last night and my mom cooked two HUGEASS MT EVEREST piles of lala. AND another dish of pacific clams because Sheila has an obsessive thing with all kinds of clams. There was also yakiniku, yummy steamed egg to mix into the rice and super yummy soup! I should have taken a picture! The piles of lala were really humongous. Think newton chicken hair auntie $15 lala x 3. Each. And we managed to finish everything! Omgggggggggg. We are clam-eating machines.

I’m going for facial now! For the first time in over a year. Steffi the last time I went was with you! While we were still in school all. I’m scared it’ll be painful :\ and later my face will be all red when I go for dinnerrrr! :( Damnsit.

If you have any facial places to recommend, please comment and let me know! :D

k byebye!

<3

P.S. Check out my bejeweled blitz high score! HAH.

Sheila just sent me the pictures for her favourite knit top, she loves it so much! (: So behold.. An exclusive preview of the next Hollyhoque hit!

So comfyyyy! <3

Joe and I got new iPhone 3GSs! I’d been deciding between getting a blackberry or a new iPhone then I discovered the bejeweled app for iPhone! So of course I had to get it. Hooray for brand loyalty. And we bought the app too! For only $2.99! So awesome. Bejeweled wherever I go! I’ve been at it non-stop hahaha. Even while walking around and crossing roads so Joe is threatening to delete it cause it’s too dangerous. Idiot. I’m blogging on my iPhone now! With the wordpress application I downloaded (: and the 3GS comes in 32GB which means I can finally fit all my music into my phone, as compared to the 8GB first gen and 16GB 3G that I used to use.

Anyway my buddy Eka is throwing an after As / ACS (I) IB post-prom party at Supper Club tomorrow and we’re all going!

Entry is 18 & above, tickets are going at $18 and check this.. Drinks are 1 for 1 all night long!!! Nice. If you guys want tickets just let me know! Leave a comment and I’ll get back to you with more details :D

Joe, Sheila, JY and I are at Garrett’s house now! We had a hollyhoque photoshoot then went for supper at newton but our favourite chicken hair auntie stall was closed! :(:(:( we ended up buying from some random stall and it was total shit. So upset. And we were so excited about lala the whole day :( arghhhhh.

Anyway Hollyhoque’s next collection is SUPER NICE! I kept so many of the dresses for myself! :) and the fitting will be especially good for thinner people! Like the tight fitting dresses. The cuttings are so nice! Heehee :)

Edit: here’s the teaser!

Nice? (:

If you haven’t heard, L4D 2 is out already but I haven’t had the chance to play it yet. Can’t wait! CHAINSAW! hellz YEAH!

<3

From Land of Breeze, Sloppy Dressing and Cheap Beer. I had such an awesome time!

Second and third taken while very drunk on sake.

WAIT. PAUSE. FREEZE.

BLAIR IS WEARING TIGHTS AS PANTS ON SEASON 3 EPISODE 10 OF GOSSIP GIRL!

WTF???????

Dear Blair Waldorf,

1. Your mother is a fashion designer.
2. You can clearly afford pants, and other appropriate lower-body clothing.
3. QUOTING YOUR SEASON 2 SELF…

TIGHTS ARE NOT PANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so upset right now. HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? YOU ARE FALLING APART! The Blair I know would never commit such a cardinal sin.

Glad to know i’m not the only one upset. Click the tuesday gossip girl reality index, second last line.

Anyway more pictures and stuff from my trip later!

xoxo and remember, ladies..

We just had a yum barbecue at Eric’s. The weather here’s quite lovely! Cool with a fair bit of sun. We’ve just been eating and eating and eating. Lots of Japanese food! And booze. I’ll update y’all with pictures soon! :D

I’ve been discovering more and more things that I’m gonna miss when I’m here next year! Like, they don’t have mac delivery here. IKR. And they don’t even have green tea!! And roti prata goes for A$3.50 a piece. And milo dinosaur like $10. It’s gonna be so hard cleaning up after myself and learning to cook and wash and everything. Scared :(

Anyway we’re coming back on friday evening! Back to the humidity. I’m gonna gobble as much hokkien mee and nasi padang and sambal nasi goreng and indo ayam goreng and newton lala and stingray as I can the next couple of months. :(:(:(

Here are pictures from mambo the night before we left :)

I’ve somewhat finished packing! Somewhat.

Anyway,

HOW AWESOME ARE THESE SHOES.

The answer, my friends, is TRULY AND TOTALLY. I wore the black version to mambo last night, and whoa they are SO comfortable. My feet didn’t hurt at all! LOVE. Watch out for them in Hollyhoque’s upcoming launch (probably tomorrow), as well as my birthday dress! The 3/4 sleeve dress!

And that’s me standing on my bed looking like a retard. Shut up. Have you ever been in a sea of balloons? It’s like playing in one of those colourful ball pits when you were young!

Watch out for this flutter-sleeve top too! I love the sleeves! So pretty!

And the purple thing-things on my face and um, decolletage were airbrushed on by this wonderful super sweet French lady who told me she was inspired by my “delicate features”! HA HA!

OKAY I better go shower and finish up packing otherwise Josie will nag me for being late. Ta!

<3 Nicole the Amazing Duck-billed Platypus

Joe is fast asleep next to me. Just 10 minutes ago he claimed he wasn’t sleepy at all and wanted to continue watching Entourage! What a doobs.

We met Jwong and G tonight for mussels and champagne at Brusselsprouts, they have damn good onion rings too! And free flow of fries :) And then blackshot and l4d!!! With Pet, Alex and Keith.

favourite shoes!

Nightnight! <3

Wow I’m up really early today! I’m quite excited about our Sydney trip on thursday. Super last minute, we just booked our tickets and got our visas done! Eric is bringing us to the legendary Japanese restaurant of sukiyaki and sake fame! :D:D

Last night Sheila, JY, Joe and I went to the Jap restaurant AGAIN. They should reward us with VVVIP status there man. And we brought little Nigel! Hahaha Joe and I are getting really sick of bbq food! Don’t think we’ll be going back there for a while! Nigel enjoyed himself a lot though. Then we dropped Nigel back home and Sheila made us watch My Girlfriend Is An Agent. It was SOOOO BAD. The boys fell asleep halfway. Lucky them.

Anyway, today is officially Joe’s ORD day!!! He’s gone to camp now to collect his pink i/c (which is why I’m awake). Civillian Joseph Chen!

ORD parade last week!

Jwong!

Commando boi-bois

K I’ve decided to go back to sleep.

Hi, kids! Here’s my very first post in this dandy blue blog.

It’s been a very sober weekend, spent on good dinners, ice cream, movies and friends, after the past weeks’ flash-bang-bang of happenings.

Pictorial update of the mayhem:

Halloweiners!

I should get to sleep.