Something that keeps me alive and breathing before I head back to reality, back to hustling in this fast paced environment – An escape to Bangkok!!!!

Oh my god, no idea why am I doing this entry when I’m already so exhausted from this working life. HA! But… I realize that life is so fragile, today someone can be eating with you, work with you, having fun with you, but next moment, heaven’s taking someone away. And that’s life.. Always full of unexpected. Just wanna keep my little space a memory space to look into in case one day I become deceased (?) haha! At least there’s something for people to look into, see how I enjoyed my days before I depart myself from this world LOL. (Google search will lead you here I suppose).

Little snippets of what  I do every morning in Bangkok! Totally werking it every morning as early as 630am(The very first morning). The victims I dragged there gave up on the second day and third day so I went alone instead. Wooha! Sucha shopperholic I am to be waking up at 6am to do this shit.  But who cares, that’s me! Squeezing with morning business owners/some random few tourists(keeping in mind not everyone has this ability to wake up this early….) who heads to this Pratunam market to get their wholesale goods, braving thru the intense heat generated from all these human beings, I feel the aunty vibes is hitting me at my early stage of adulthood, not sure if it’s something bad but choose to believe I’m cool in my own way 😛

One thing bad about this Pratunam morning market wholesale is that you need to buy at least 3 of the same design to get their wholesale price of as low as 55baht (and of course 55onwards depending on what you’re buying, quality can be compromised sometimes) BUT!! The great thing about it is whaaaaaaat… 55 baht?!?!? Seriously? Even in today’s time? But was referring to the FILA “inspired” shorts! Probably the best buy was the Fila shorts! Having said that, not sure if wearing an over-sized tee to go along with the shorts, wearing a Fila shoes, and maybe throw a hat onto my head, with my black geek spects would work for my face. LOL. Not the very boyish looking girl out there, but tryna to build that influencer look HAHAHAHA *laughs

 HOUSE OF EDEN

Okay, true enough that I’m a sucker for anything pink for my pictures, the Instagram shit is really killin’ it HAHA. But holy! This cafe has really delicious food at affordable prices(keeping in mind this is a cafe, but cheaper cafe prices compared to SG I believe) Nothing’s overrated in this cafe, be it the ambience, the environment, everything is so sooooo good, a reaaaally quiet( I went there about 12pmish?) and cozy cafe that could have elevated the sleeping neurons anytime, and you just sit there chilling, enjoy the bright arrays of sunlight shone on your food (perfect for Instagram shots for curated food photography!).

Food I had in the cafe:

1. Carbonara – Something you shouldn’t miss! With that cheese, crispy bacon thrown into your white sauce linguine, guess there’s nothing left to describe but delicious! It’s also not greasy for those who are conscious of greasy food.
2. Mango Milkshake w Whipped Cream – Imagine gobbling down that whirl of cream together with the blended Mango chunks ice blend… every mouthful is worth the sin for! Yeahhhhh, that’s how good it is especially when the weather is horrid in BKK!
3. Dessert – Sorry, I couldn’t remember the taste and the name of the dessert but I recalled it tasted probably 7/10 HAHA!

What’s more, even the plates are of pink marble design! So much love for those marble plates, I can start drawing that image on what I want to see in my future house! Gosh, so much inspirations from this cafe HAHA. Can I just turn my house a cafe theme?

There’s 2 outlets for House of Eden:

 1) Groove Central World

Groove ชั้น 2, G218 Rama I Rd, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

2) Siam Discovery 

สยามดิสคัฟเวอรี่, อาคาร, 301, Rama I Rd, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Anyways…

P/S: My top was only 100baht? SGD$4.30? I’m so in love with it! So glued to saying every piece was like #thebestbuyinbkk #sorrynotsorry #auntyatitsbest

Okay… Basically my bangkok trip is a very rushed yet fulfilling one to summarize.. It’s mainly SHOPPING, more SHOPPING, snapping photos here and there…. AND EAT!!!!!!!

Here’s a quick overview of my food. Not a very street style one, this time round I came with family, and they’re a believer of good restaurant food that’s of much cheaper than SG ones… teehee, blessing in disguise for not able to recommend you the good street food although I very much wanted to.. I had so much MAC I feel the amount of MAC I eat…. is equivalent to a year’s effort in the stadium. LOL guess I really need to work hard from now on to BURN it. You stupid stubborn fats!

Different food at different food spots!

*Disclaimer: Not to step onto the scale for at least 3 months.

Nuff of food, let’s go into some #lookbook featuring clothes I bought from BKK!

Lookbook #1

BABY BLUE TUBE TOP – THB60 (Pratunam Market)

Korean Inspired no-degree Geeks – THB100 (Chatuchak Market)

Chic Blue Transparent Bag – RM25 (Times Square KL) 

Lookbook #2

Floral Slit Cut Maxi Dress – THB130 (Pratunam Market)

Lookbook #3

Paddle Pop Shimmery Cropped – THB100 (Baiyoke Sky Morning Market- opens from 6am-9am only)

Denim High Waist Shorts – THB130 (Baiyoke Sky Morning Market- opens from 6am-9am only)

Lookbook #4

Candy Pink Offshoulder – THB100 (Baiyoke Sky Morning Market- opens from 6am-9am only)

Lookbook #5

Champagne Satin Ribbon Top – THB110 (Pratunam Market)

Lookbook #6

Rose Cropped Top – THB100 (Baiyoke Sky Morning Market- opens from 6am-9am only)

Inner Tube Top with straps – THB50 

Heeee! There goes that few favorite go-to(s) outfit I’ve gotten! Aren’t they really reasonably priced and instagrammable wherever you go? 😛

Which is your favorite among all? Leave a comment below!

Can’t wait to share more favorites with all of you down the road!

Stay tuned for more updates!! 🙂

In all honesty, my life hasn’t been much of a smooth sailing journey. Or rather, the past 2 years was quite bad and I guess I gotta save that little faith for 2019 that it could, and hopefully…. ideallyyyyyyyy… turn out to be better. Let’s keep fingers crossed.

Waking up to a bank balance of less than 10 bucks ain’t motivating my year and to make it worst, it wasn’t my action that made this happen. Oh well, oh well. Makes me wonder, how could someone else out there complain about their lives when I’m working so hard yet to only realize it’s all about fixing mistakes not done by myself and I couldn’t do with turning my back against the shit created. That rings a bell on how love was crafted, and what family is all about. But would love the idea if people could learn to appreciate the fact that things don’t come easy and do not take for granted that people will ALWAYS be there for you.

Not wanting to complain, tho it really would sound like it. Dealing with three  responsibilities from different organisations isn’t a sound idea for my health, 9am-6pm Mondays to Fridays during the day, Tuesdays, thursdays 8pm-12am… Saturday 12-4pm and 10pm-4am.. Wednesdays, Fridays 10pm-3am…. Someone called me a bull already. I’m really surprised or very much impressed with myself with how much I can push myself on. Not forgetting that I always have to deal with questions “WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS SO BUSY..”

But y’know, to put across that gist in life. Thing about life is that no matter how harsh reality hits you, life still goes on. You know the world doesn’t stop evolving just because you have been hit by a great challenge in life today. Yeah, and so just wanna motivate every single soul who’s feeling very demoralized by a misfortune today that you’re not alone, who knows someone gone thru the worst of the worst, and still hustling thru the dismay.

Chins up, get busy, get shit fixed and keep on moving. It might not work now, but later it would and slowly it would. Keep on believing in yourself ♡♡♡

P/S: To the almighty lord out there, please grant me 100 hours a day because I feel 24 hours a day isn’t enough to handle so much things at one go. *Cold laughs* But if you wouldn’t, granting me some luck and faith that bad things will come to an end and good things would come any sooner, that’d work 😉

Have you ever been in a situation so tricky you watch each step going downhill and yet you’ve no idea of how to get a grip of yourself and you finally lose your balance.. finally start to break down internally (mentally) and everything has to be swept under the rug because what’s kept in you, you know you’re the only one left in this world who’s worthy of knowing every damn thing.

You can’t possibly turn to anyone, because no one can ever give the very right answer to you. That you decided that you’re the only one responsible of everything. That really suck.

When did I ever land myself into this state? Damn, I suddenly feel I’m so unworthy of breathing. Much less talking about having brought to this world. Wished I have better control of myself.

It’s 2019. New year. New beginning.  And I’m so not gonna be “oh-so-typical” to be stating new year resolutions or whatsoever. But there was something I happened to read on Quora that inspires me about parenting. Probably the best thing you could ever hear from a growing kid.

And I’d love to share with you guys. Not something original to myself, but it’s really a food for thought for all.

Apologies for the lack of updates.

I think ultimately Instagram really live up to its name “INSTA-GRAM”. I insta so much grams I think I’m literally overly-attached to leaving all my updates over there since it’s convenient and instantaneous!

However… that being said, I’d still wanna come back to this space cuz this space is a space where I can share about the insights of my life more in depth and about my thoughts cuz I’d still think not as much “traffic” is projected here so there’s slightly more “privacy” here than being too “socially exposed” in my Instagram itself lol. Sounds abit ironic huh? Well nuff said.

Here I’d just like to share about what I’m currently doing. Recently, I’ve read an article about Investment which I myself also wanna share about how legit Stashaway can be too. You may also like to refer to this link and check out what are the platforms available that you might now know of. I know everyone’s skeptical about making investments especially being very green in the early days of your 20s but after reading up quite a fair bit, let me determine some conclusions I made for myself and just a disclaimer here on whatever content here has no intention of influencing you into any decision making, neither am I promoting the platforms with any sort of benefits from the organisations I may seem “committed” to. Not a financial planner/consultant here in case you’re wondering too (laughs).

After entering into adulthood i.e. working life, we might come to realize the real value of money and the importance of savings which it will then ultimately lead you into thinking of how and what you can do to make your savings grow. Having said that, there’s no hard rule on how much you should allocate your salary into savings vs investments but it’s always good to practice prudent financial planning by allocating more percentage to savings than to investments since investments are subjected to risk and has no certainty. As such, I would like to share how I manage my risk and how i allocate my salary in terms of percentage. Say for eg (just a random figure). I earn 2k a month. After deducting living expense of say 1k, I’d then left with 1k. I will allocate $700 to savings and $300 to my investment portfolio on monthly basis as I’m holding a very conservative mindset and never put too much into investing if you’re not financially stable because you never want your investment to fail on you and that could mean you’d find yourself landing into liquidity issues. I personally feel that Stashaway is a good platform for me because unlike traditional advisors who charge high fees and offer one-size-fits-all investment packages, StashAway offers low-cost, intelligent, and personalised investment advice specific to your goals and financial situation. They use advanced technology that maximises intelligence through complex algorithms that consider your personal goals, economic cycles, and market performance. Designed by expert investors to manage portfolios, StashAway is a more efficient alternative to a traditional advisor. Additionally, StashAway has no minimum deposit, no lock-up period and no withdrawal fees, and offers a very intuitive digital platform to keep track of your investments.

And if you’d like, here’s the link to connect you in creating an account with Stashaway. What’s even more enticing, for each friend you refer, you can get up to $10,000 SGD managed for free for 6 months. So start early or else you miss out the chances of earning that extra pocket money for yourself!

Be back to share more when there’s more results! Stay tuned!

Happy investing! But do remember to practice prudence in investing 🙂

Hello you. Hello world. Hello every little battler who has battled their toughest time in life. I wish everyone is coping well with their life even when you’re facing the toughest time in your life today.

You know sometimes I really find how amazing a human can be to go thru all the hurdles and obstacles we’re born into and come off stronger as a person, like, in all honesty, I believe no one’s life is smooth sailing throughout their entire life right? Right, to everyone out there, please always remember that you never will be alone in this bottomless pit. There’s always someone who met worse things than you that you never know and I hope at this thought, your mind automatically register yourself as “you’re at somewhere else better than the others”.

I’ve been reading up quite a couple of articles, done many research about how to be positive when something negative happens and how do you constantly perk yourself up during the darkest storms and found all similarities in clarifying that the best way to stay happy or remind yourself to be happy is to always be reminded that there will always be that someone out there who’s trying to make you happy or people who used to do things that touched your heart. If it doesn’t happen currently, then think of the flashbacks of all good things that happened in your life, think of how it could be reciprocated to someone else out there who needs this source of energy to move on with their existing hurdle they meet in life. Think of how you can help someone out there and they’d be extremely thankful for what you did for them that makes you equally happy too. Talk to someone whom you really trust you could pour out everything in that pathetic overwhelming emotion bottle out to. It helps. At least I experimented it with that eagerness to recover from any bad event that happened to me.

I’ve no idea who’s reading this space and who’s following this little space of mine, but if you do, and if you happen to be that little kind soul who constantly try to be that someone who could make my life better or happier, embracing my life with that little tinge of sunlight beaming at all the dark clouds forcing their way into my life… I am honestly genuinely thankful to that precious few that did so because I wouldn’t have a reason to feel better or feel comforted during times when I needed it the most. Often, people think I met plenty of people in my life, but it also occur to me that all these people come and go with the wind. Not everyone that comes into your life stays in your life. Sometimes we need to give that extra mile for people who’s willing to take a leap for you and your heart should always send constant reminder to your mind that you should always treat that someone deserving your attention more time since the most precious thing in my life now is time. It really is so precious that when given I can never restore it. And I really hope that all times spent with everyone around my life makes them feel comforted that I really am around when time permits.

Now, time for me to think of what I wanna do in my life with. Need to settle my thoughts and figure things out,  need to get my life sorted and down to achieve goals before I turn 30. See, that’s the problem of growing up. You hate to grow up when you’re growing up, and hope your age accelerates when you’re at your 14-15s where you want all the freedom you could to do whatever you want. But when you’re at your mid 20s, you wished someone like a teacher teaches you what’s the right path to take and how you gonna take the path but no one’s telling you and you need to figure things out yourself cuz only you are capable of doing what you want to see your life set out to be in the future.

Peace out! Hope the next time I’d be back to share about something more exciting. Have a great weekend guys!

I’ve came across so many similar questions along this line where people I first met or any acquaintance would stop by this topic and ask what is it in a guy that attracts me, or makes an ideal boyfriend? More often than not, people will jump into conclusion thinking that I go for tall? Handsome? Rich guys?

Truth be told, to me all these are not mandatory, it can be a bonus for a lady to have but definitely, not in any time this has been in my checklist to be checked off when I look for a lifetime partner. I personally feel that all these are just like owning a branded handbag that is “socially accepted” in the eyes of others but who knows? All these branded things are ultimately mostly made in China. Not saying that products made in China are bad nor am I trying to place a biased comment about China products, I do love china stuffs and I do own perhaps 90% of my items all made in china *laughs* But what’s all these “overrated” prices on all these “luxury” items? Many times we often neglect the fact that there can be many things that are worth the “valuation” so much more. Like a bag can cost you $20 but last you longer than any branded bags would?

I often look for long term goals and look at things far-sighted. Not trying to mean that I’m acting like I’m an experienced bitch here, but honestly, what’s the baseline to a long lasting relationship? It’s actually lots of compromising, understanding and a forgiving heart that’s ever ready to forgive every mistake you made. Everyone does mistakes, who doesn’t?

What could the element compromising do? Compromising means not liking something that your partner is doing but understand that he/she has her reason for doing this and try to look for positive ways of looking at it and give respect to him/her, accepting things even if it’s at the expense that he/she may not even like.

What could the element Understanding do? Although “Understanding” looks pretty much of a singular word here but it can mean many tons of things that needs this word to be involved. Take for instance, when a quarrel occurs(which I believe all couples do have slight friction sometimes), understanding comes to play a part understanding why the person is behaving this way/instead of putting blame on someone/faulting the opposite party for doing so, if there’s understanding, one could think of possible reasons of why this person is doing this, try to reason out that things could be worked out or even work out a better approach to treat a particular matter. So being understanding is a very important factor I look out for and also something I NEED and not just want it. Everyone needs space, everyone needs the freedom to do things they want as long as it does not hurt.

A forgiving heart goes a long way. If someone doesn’t forgive easily, something negative that someone did will stay permanent in your partner’s mind, and if that happens, bygones cannot be let bygones, that’s when “digging old accounts” comes about. When that happens, you’d never walk out from the past chain of events that happened even after ages and will always live in the past instead of the present or even the future. So I personally think that a forgiving heart is a very important foundation to build in a relationship. Because humans are all not perfect, everyone makes mistakes.

Apart from that, one more factor that I’d love to see in a guy is a guy with a filial heart. Reason is simple. If a guy is filial to his mum, it goes to show that he knows who to prioritize and knows how to take care of his mum like how he definitely would when he has a family together with you.

Having say that, who doesn’t like to be doted on? Let’s take things with one pinch of salt, treat others the way you want to be treated. There should not be gender inequality and there shouldn’t be a wrong mindset that ladies should take a ride on a guy’s success. A true couple goes through everything together, works hard together, contributes to the household together simply because a couple comes off as a pair, there shouldn’t be any time where all  financial weight should be placed on one’s shoulder. A couple backs each other up, and push each other to improve together as a pair 🙂

With this, I hope it gives everyone a good thought on what they should look out for in a partner and also weigh what’s important and what’s not. Hopefully, everyone finds their Mr Right and Mrs Right and loves each other wholeheartedly and I’d like to wish every couple who happen to chance upon this post to treasure each other and stay by each other side be it how tough it can be. True love doesn’t come by easily. Have a good weekend ahead, TGIF! 😉

Backspaced the whole big fat paragraph of words I just typed. Anyone went thru the same ordeal where you actually penned down everything but unfortunately you feel it’s inappropriate to share too much of yourself you just backspaced everything? 😛

Short one. People hates words.

Just wanna be thankful for all that I have today and also a even bigger thank you to having sucha cool and awesome boss. Nothing feels even greater than receiving a compliment that I did well and I’m honestly delighted to know that people actually appreciates your contribution even though it may not be a big one. Actually, this made me think about how people should learn how to compliment people around you because you never know how a simple compliment could make someone’s day if it happens to be a gloomy day for that someone out there!

Yup, I hope you’d start complimenting people around you if you happen to chance upon this post and happen to read it. I’d come back with more! Cheers ;)!