As part of the Lunar New Year celebrations, Oct 1983 will be taking part in a bazaar and we'll be offering LOADS OF DISCOUNTS!!!  Details as follows:

Date:    Sat, 12 Feb
Time:   9am - 3pm
Venue:  Poolside, The Anchorage (opp IKEA)
            370 Alexandra Road

How to get there?

Bus: 33, 195, 64 (alight at IKEA/ Anchorpoint)
        14 (alight at Queensway S.C. or Alexandra Village
        111, 186 (alight at Queenstown MRT)
        123, 198, 196, 855, 961, 61, 100, 51, 153, 147
        (alight at Queenstown Fire Station/ opp Fire Station)
MRT: Queenstown

Come join us in a day of good fun and great products! You'll never know what else you'll find there!

 These are some special crane hair chopsticks and a necklace that I made! Check out the Fork & Spoon earrings too! They look uber cool with the filters, don't they? :D

 

The latest Jill Stuart Emook is out and it comes with the most amazingly roomy make up pouch! I couldn't resist it and for SGD 31, it was a worthwhile buy because I managed to put in ALL my makeup...except for some brushes and my eyelash curler.  Otherwise, this is a lot MORE organised than my previous make up pouch which is more like a toiletry bag.  The catalogue that comes along with it just makes you drool over the uber cute blusher brush (I want!!).

Ok...so Jill Stuart cosmetics aren't available in Singapore.  I'm seriously considering taking orders for it.  Do let me know if you're interested in purchasing! :)

Btw, if you notice, the above photo looks a bit different from my usual photo shots.  That's because I'm currently obsessed with taking photos with Instagram (go d/l it for free on the App store).  This was how the original photo looked like -->


I've been playing with all the filters and I think I'm going to have a post that is just full of my random shots.  Alternatively, you can follow me on Instagram!









Going along with the pink theme for this post...check out my new pair of shoes!! Love them!! They're gorgeous and the best part is that I bought them for almost 50% off at Stradivarius!  The heels look super high but it has a platform in front so the actual height of the heels is about 3 inches.

Ok...next post shall be all the cool pics that I filtered via Instagram!!

I have been sick for the past week.  Seriously ill...I'm so sick of being sick.  It started last week when I felt body aches and I could just feel that something was creeping on.  However, I felt really good the whole of last Saturday and Sunday afternoon.  Till Sunday evening, my nose got stuffed up and I just brushed it off as an allergic reaction because my nose is pretty sensitive to dust.  However, that night, my throat got really sore and I got chills in the middle of the night.

Then came the coughing for the whole week...ugh.  Then I had the runs on Wed.  Turns out that I was having a bad reaction to the antibiotics that I was on. Ugh.  Changed meds and now, I feel 80% back to normal! I'm soooo happy!!! There's nothing more depressing than being sick and feeling uber weak.  The good thing was that I slept a lot. :D

Anyways, that's why I've been so quiet.  But....I'M BAACCCCKKKK!!!!!

Here's Oct 1983's Spring/Summer collection for 2011!!

The black earrings above are a personal favourite and it was soooo difficult to get a good shot because the black just absorbed all the light.  I had to bring the light really close to the flower, take a mirror to reflect more light on it AND use flash.  The things I do for my art. :P

The Key Series.....

As usual, all pieces are available at www.oct1983.com.sg and as a Chinese New Year special, I am offering 30% OFF customised jewellery!  

Happy Shopping!!!

I cooked dinner - poached Salmon with carrots and shitake mushrooms.  First off, yes I did bother to plate it nicely just because I was in the mood to do so.  I felt that the salmon came out very well although my parents were so blase.

Dad: Should have potatoes.
Mum: What did you put inside? It's sour.

Just to inform you all, the sauce isn't vinegar sour.  I put in red wine so it has that acidity from the wine but that's about it.  I felt that it went really well with the fish!  So...this meal was really easy to prepare.  It's simply poaching the salmon steaks in wine, water (or stock), pepper, garlic, butter and parsley.  I did add majoram, thyme, rosemary and some cream to give it a wee bit more kick.

I'm really quite surprised at my dad's comment.  There's rice!! Why would you want potatoes AND rice?  There's enough carbs on the plate!! Ah well...my family's hard to please.  Everyone's a food critic. Bleah. Sometimes I wonder why I bother cooking...

Welcome to my latest find and obsession...

Above is the Apple Green Tea granitas drink with yoghurt squirties from Dessert.cup. Once you've drunk this, you'll think, "Koi? Gong cha? Who cares?!" The yoghurt squirties are a MUST HAVE! They're small bubbles/ pearls filled with yoghurt and they squirt out once you bite on them. How cool is that?

I've tried their Lemonis crush (refreshing!) and their Orange Peach (delish!) as well. The drinks start from $3.50 (novice) to $5.50 (expert) and the yoghurt squirties are an additional $0.50. The thing I love about their drinks is that they are au naturel. I ordered the orange chocolate for a colleague and they used chocolate ice cream blended with half a frozen orange! As for the apple green tea, they used frozen apples! Now...that's tons 'healthier' than the creamer used in Koi and Gong Cha bubble teas. Although I must say that I still love the Alishan tea and Purple Plum drink with white pearls from Gong Cha.

Oh...did I mention that they have uber yummy looking cupcakes? The above is the Baileys espresso. I must say that the chocolate cupcake itself wasn't mindblowing but the cream was solid. The disappointing part was that I couldn't taste any Bailey's. I could taste the coffee though.

I tried their Tokyo Geisha (sorry, no pics) and I must say that this was TONS better. The green tea cupcake was chockful of matcha flavour and was nicely balanced with the azuki topping and cream. Two thumbs up for this. If you're adventurous, please try their popcorn, mushroom and sundried tomato flavoured cupcakes (they're savoury). Tell me what your verdict is. :)

Dessert.cup can be found at B1 of Raffles City Shopping Centre.

Chinese New Year is approaching and since its the year of the rabbit, I got a rabbit pedicure!! Cute???? :D Heee...now, what design should I get after CNY?