Overdue Photos

  

Photos by:

Kiran Gidda - http://www.kirangidda.com

Suzi Ovens - http://www.suziovens.com

Rosemarie Yang - www.challecreatives.com

Nicole Quek - https://instagram.com/nicolequek

S.E.A. Aquarium

I've always loved aquariums~ I went with a good friend of mine who was equally excited. There are 49 habitats including the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, South China Sea and the Great Lakes of East Africa.

There's a tunnel aquarium at the entrance, where we saw a couple of divers. The best part about a tunnel aquarium is getting to see manta rays (or sharks) floating over your head! Haha

Then we saw a seadragon (pic #7)...and everyone was trying to take a picture of it (I managed to squeeze through, hehe) The super mega HD aquarium (pic #17) was stunning..I could sit in front of it and watch it for hours~~ Everything was too beautiful, mostly we just stood there, gazing in awe. 

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We saw a couple of jellyfishes too, so glad my camera managed to capture the details. There's one species that has many 'strings', I can't remember its name but my friend and I decided to call it the 'water ginseng' xD

Last pic is the Ocean Dome! My favourite part ^__^

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A Little Update

I've recently graduated! (again :D) I've earned my Master's degree in Public Relations from University of Greenwich. I'm finally done with studying once and for all, and to be honest I've always thought that this is the point where 'real life' starts. Now that I'm in the middle of the real thing, I realised that when I first started out, I wasn't ready, not really. (then again no one is ever ready to do anything) I didn't know how to deal with the amount of expectation and disappointment that comes after, it was overwhelming. These are mostly job related, I was unemployed for 6 months, and everyone told me to enjoy this time, maybe go travelling, as I won't have as much time to relax once I start working. A part of me disagreed since deep down I'm scared of missing out on a lot of opportunities. I felt like I needed to do something, or at least try and find something, other than doing nothing and watching as time goes by.

In the past I've made this mistake way too many times-and I couldn't help it at the time, because I was struggling with my mental health. (this is actually the first time I ever mention it. Its scary to talk about it online, hence I always keep that bit to myself). I realised now that it was the stupidest thing ever- to let said condition get in the way, and the consequences were worse than I thought. Its difficult when it feels like you're constantly racing against time, but I'm sick and tired of letting time pass me by and missing out on life because of my insecurities. I'm not where I want to be yet, its still a long way to go, but I'm learning to go at my own pace and proceed in my own time. and I think...thats good enough. for now.

On a happier note, I've recently moved back to Singapore! ^_^ at first, it felt a bit odd, maybe a little nostalgic, I'm excited for my new adventure but also very scared at the same time. In the first few days I couldn't really sleep, I was still massively jet-lagged, still trying to reset my body clock. I could only sleep once the sun came up, I talked to my overseas friends all night long since they're the only ones still awake xD

I also decided I would take more classes, continue making YouTube videos, and I definitely need to drink more water and improve my cooking skills lol.

That's it for now! I'll write more soon :) x

My 23rd Birthday

Kicked off my birthday weekend with dinner and drinks at the O2! (followed by clubbing 3 nights in a row omf) had to wait 30 minutes for our table as the restaurant doesn't take reservations on weekends. So great to see my friends again (some I haven't seen in ages!). After we had finished dessert, we were ready to move to the bar upstairs, until the staff walked out with a surprise dessert singing happy birthday O.O ...I never know what to do when people are singing happy birthday to me lol like what do I do with my hands? do I sing along? Hahah

Birthday resolutions: work harder and learn to embrace failure ( `ε ´ )/

In a nutshell, I had a blast celebrating my birthday with these awesome people! So thankful and blessed to have them in my life ❤ (o´∀`o)

Mad Hatter's Afternoon Tea

Finally got a chance to try the Alice in Wonderland inspired afternoon tea! It was a cold rainy evening and snow had just started to fall. Sans and I were very excited for this tea and catching up sesh as we both love trying new places, especially quirky ones! ^__^

We got to choose our tea from a set of cards, I had the 'White Rabbit'-white tea with a hint of citrus, and Sans had the 'Queen of Hearts', a rose tea that smells incredible. 

The sandwiches came out first: crab eclair, croque-monsieur, cucumber and cream cheese sandwich and a mini scotch egg. Despite the cute presentation, the savoury foods weren't particularly good. . .3/5 :X

On the other hand, we were quite impressed by the cakes ~ at the very top there were mushrooms and blue caterpillars-these are marshmallows and chocolate bars (also there's some carrot meringues hiding in the fake grass xD).

Then comes macarons and bite-sized cakes! The coffee macarons were supposed to be the rabbit's pocket watch. . .there's also banana breads, the Queen of Hearts' Oreo cookie 'soldiers' and red velvet ladybirds. 

Of course, there's Alice's 'Drink Me' potion, a must have in any Alice in Wonderland theme~ ^_^

All in all its a fun Wonderland experience, I personally love themed afternoon tea!

Ft. the random couple sitting next to us (who were probably fed up with us for the amount of photos we took haha :X) 

Brunch, Museum Trip & Ice Skating

A friend of mine visited London a while back and we decided to catch up over brunch ^_^ we went to Tom's Kitchen. At first we couldn't decide what to have, sweet or savoury haha. We ended up choosing from the sweet options, I opted for the french toast, which comes with caramelised apples and cinnamon cream. *nomnom

Sorry, didn't take much picture here. . . I didn't get to see everything but still, I had a good time! Went to Assa for dinner afterwards, one of my favourite spots to eat ლ(´ڡ `ლ)

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Popped into my favourite bakery to get dessert! Hummingbird Bakery 's red velvet cake is seriously the best.

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So glad I got a chance to go ice skating at Somerset House! ^___^ its been a while since I've been on the ice, was a little wobbly haha ~ there weren't many people as we went on a weekday, it looks beautiful as always

Thanks for reading! x