The Twilight Look

Vamp it up…the easy way

The idea is to look sexy, not man-eater-y, so try smoky brown eyes like Ashley Greene, 22 (Alice, Edward’s future-seeing sister), has here. We asked her if the nonstop cast-hookup rumors were true; she won’t confirm or deny, but admits that there’s a lot of heat on set. “I’m glad I don’t have a boy-friend. It’d be hard to tell him, ‘I have a crush on Jackson Rathbone!’”

To get that smudge effect, blend with a spongy applicator. Try Dior 1-Colour Eyeshadow in Trendy Taupe ($28, sephora.com). Do black liner, light blush and lipstick.

Source: http://team-twilight.com/20090807/details-pics-twilight-girls-glamour-spread/#more-4013

For every input, there has to be output...

Yet another week has passed... but this Friday had been most 'healthy' even though I've been sitting on the couch typing away in my blog, twitter and facebook entries, in this ever sedentary lifestyle which I adore.

Dinner was at Ikea's in Queenstown area and although my favourite food there is the cheap, cheap $1 hotdog which I'd always drown in mustard and ketchup, Jac was a fan of their salmon. So we headed to the cafe. I hereby declare that though I love salmon, it must be eaten raw sashimi-style or smoked. I cannot take it once it has been 'touched by fire' and cooked in any form especially 98 deg cel and beyond.

I had the roast chicken, which was delicious, and came with side salad with carrots and lovely mash potatoes. We each ordered chicken wings and shared a plate of smoked salmon.

So much for input.

For output, I didn't do any but I made investment in this area (which is a start, right? I'm putting in effort, right? It's the thought that counts, right?). I bought two pairs of Nike running shoes - Lunartrainer and Zoom Structure.... Mary also called me last night as she's in HK for holiday and I asked if she could help find me iPod Nano and Nike+ sports kit. She came back with pricing and I say "yes, go".

So you see, I am moving along with my goal. Just by typing in this blog entry, I feel much healthier already.

How time flies... it's 1.10pm and that's lunch time. What shall I input now...

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Lunch with colleagues was at this Thai Place in Temasek Tower, opposite our office. We had mango salad and thai fish cake as starters.

For mains, by 'recommendation', I ordered the tom yam kar with thai rice noodle and the thai iced tea. Tom yam kar, as I was told, is tom yam with coconut milk.

Both came in orangey coloured shade - the tom yam kar looked suspiciously like laksa while the iced tea looked like some dark carrot juice (just like my celery carrot juice in fact).

Luckily, both tasted pretty alright for me. The tom yam kar was nice, and doesn't taste much like laksa and still retained its tom yam-ness which is spicy and sourish. The noodle was tad hard (maybe they didn't soak it long enough) but wasn't horribly bad.

The thai iced tea, as I was told, was not up to standard but my palates are very easy going. It reminded me of chendol, to the dismay of the original recommender who said it was suppose to taste much better - but I wasn't complaining (except mid way we got our drinks mixed up and might have drank off each other's cups. Lucky for me, I'm H1N1 immune:P)

Dessert was the usual mango sticky rice which I gave a miss but I suspect it should be pretty alright.

Guess where this place is?

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It's been a while since we last had Japanese... so we went to this place in IMM, Jurong as they had an ala carte buffet dinner. We ordered so many things that by the end of it, we were so bloated. We had sashimi, yakiniku, soft shell crab, miso soup, chawamushi, unagi, sukiyaki... . However, the best dish of the night was the ebi tempura and the green tea ice cream was also very good.

Guess where this is?

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We're back to where I had eaten my frog prince. This time, we ordered an additional toufu winter melon dish. Yummy!

Have you been to ION orchard lately?

Friday evening... weekend's around the corner. What do we do? We pop over to ION orchard. Mistake #1 was not driving there. We thought, since it is a new place, it's bound to be foreign to us and we'd probably have a hard time to find a parking lot. So hail a cab we did, but Ah Sui and Beekee felt car sick by our incompetent taxi uncle, who already declared when we got into his cab that he doesn't know the place.

It also didn't help that he was a 'jerky' driver... starting and stopping... and I lost count the number of 'could have been' accidents which we mildly avoided.

Anyway, when we got there, boy was ION big... and expensive. The part we got off was the high end fashion label branded stuff. It felt very much like the Times Square in Hong Kong. And I felt abit out of place... and crowd wasn't big either, which is surprising. There was suppose to be an official 'turn on the big screen plasma' at 7.30pm, but we had forgotten it after trying to figure out how to comb the mall.

Then by chance, we found this little alley... "ION station". Could it be a new MRT station? We decided to venture it and lo and behold, it was quite the paradise and it's where more of the 'normal' stuff like Mango, Charles & Keith etc were located. This area was much more crowded, and it is also where the ION food hall was located... and that's where Ah Sui and I hit paradise.

We loaded up the calories and fat with hakka abacus bead, yong tau hu but the fried kinds, fried carrot cakes.... we then proceeded to sin through the night with local desserts at the food court and then drinks at Xin Wang char chan tang. By the time we checked the time, it was about 10+pm. And we haven't finished exploring....

BTW, if you want to know, parking after 5pm at ION is $4.50 per entry. Yes, traffic is indeed 'bizarre' but if you're driving, it's not going to help either.

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Lunch today was very nice, 'healthy' and delicious. The ladies opted for something light, so we went to a salad bar a few minutes walk from our office. Although it was quite pricey (3 choice salad picks with soup and iced lemon tea was about S$13.60 or so. But Marilyn was so nice to pay for it... so the plan would be to bring her and Mary to try my favourite fish head steamboat in return.

I had something chicken salad, waldorf and pumpkin with spinach. Heavenly... I was also eyeing this other salad (can't remember what it was) but luckily Mary ordered it and I had a taste of it. Delicious too....

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