all things pretty!

i found the perfect website to shop for iPhone accessories and cool stuff, thanks to my fwen Ling, who just started this new venture online! and the shop name is so memorable hahaha i can't help remembering it for life it's called AHBENGSHOP.SG! lol.

there's all kinds of awesome stuff, from bling bling earphone dust plugs, to super pretty iPhone casings and other functional stuff, like screen protectors and colorful USB cables!

some of the stuff i got from Ahbengshop.sg:

love this casing to bits, it's my current case! :)

matched together with a dust plug with a dangly ribbon charm.. sibei cute!!

i ordered two other cases as well, one is a Lace + Bling case, and the other is Tokidoki inspired! i love Tokidoki graphics! 

the Diamond Dust Protector can't really be captured properly except in real life, so i'll just use a picture from Ahbengshop.sg lol. my screen protector was damn chui, so i got a new one, and it's the sparkly diamond one too!! mad nice.

anyway, Ahbengshop.sg is having a 15% off almost everything for Christmas, so when you shop on Ahbengshop.sg, just enter the voucher code XMAS15! :)

lots of great stuff on Ahbengshop.sg and they're all very affordable some more with the Xmas promo code! can go and check it out and start shopping for little gifts for colleagues and friends! :D

a random OTD, closer look at the Criss Cross Romper! my new favorite to-go romper after the Cupcake Romper, haha. crazy good material and unique back details and i love the two colors it comes in, on TVD. it's a collaborative effort between TVD and LRH!

there's S and M and i wear size M, it's meant to be a comfortable fit and not worn tight fitted, but comes with a matching color obi sash! i like how it looks with a contrast belt. so cheery looking!

had a rather disaster fraught photoshoot earlier, when we were attempting to shoot this romper and some other items! aiyo, so tired. i had the smart idea of shifting one of the studio lights home cos i wanted to do an "outdoor" indoor shoot at home with our Christmas tree!!!! and smart ole me brought the bulky studio equipment, all the clothes, shoes, accessories and what not, and then realized that i left the damn flash trigger thingy (the one you put on the camera hotshot to activate the studio lights to go off) at the office!!! walao FML. had to beg my mummy to drive me back to office to get it cos i thought that no one was in at office already, but when we drove back and i ran up to the office, Zi was in office! made a wasted 2-way trip when i could have just asked YZ to drop by to get it for me instead (i thought he couldn't cos noone was in and only i had the key)

=_=

we had home cooked dinner by Mummy, then we started doing makeup and all that and the shoot only started at like.. 10PM. and one of the dresses we were shooting just had to have zipper problems and caused even more delays. in the end, we shot all the way til 1AM or something! poor Cher has work today, hope she survives the day on the meagre amount of sleep!! 

thankfully, i think some of the pictures turned out rather nice, so at least it wasn't a complete fiasco! so tiring to do shoots somethings. and i still need to lug everything (studio lights, clothes, shoes and all) back to the office!!

we had the most adorable 'guest models' during our shoot though. HAHAHA.

QQ trying to get food from us while we were having a super yummy home cooked meal by mummy!

Cher and Farah enjoying Assam Curry. bwahah. Cher looks super lang bei here! 

surprise guest model... Gina!!! and look at my two adorable doggies. so funny!

they are too freaking excited. haha

QQ being super cute! we put a ribbon on her head. but anyway she's so not a camwhore. she hardly looks into the camera unless you say "Gai Gai" or "Mum Mum"! =_=

fat Baby even worse, she just sat next to me and didn't want to go over to be inside the picture! tsk

last minute props from DAISO! heh

glad that we managed to at least shoot the stuff we wanted to, though we took forever, it was really hard to adjust the light and get the pictures to look good (for me) cos i'm a noob photographer! nevertheless, at least we can call it a success! :D

and look what my cute model got for me for Christmas!!!

a vanity kit... in the shape of a doll!

AWWWWH. dead useful and soooo adorable!! thank you love! muacks!

love the dress we shot! finally going to launch it, cos this is like my mostest favorite design of the year.

OKAY, am off to pack my luggage now cos i'm heading for the Nuffnang Blog Awards in KL today!!!! soooo exciting. i can't decide which dress to wear!!! #firstworldpains feeling totally shitty cos i only had a few hours of sleep and i'm sure i look horrible. but oh well. makeup to the rescue tonight! :P

be back soon!

happy birthday to the november babies!

as Farah and Cher's birthdays both fall in November, i thought it'd be fun to plan a surprise birthday dinner for both of them, teehee. in fact, Cherri's birthday was last last Sunday, and poor girl had to wake up special early just for TVD shoot! but cos Farah was away in KL, i decided to wait for them both to come back before celebrating together hohoho. 

and so last Sunday night, i sneakily tricked Cher by telling her that we had a night shoot, and asked her to meet us at Katong in the evening, then i told Farah that we were planning a surprise birthday dinner for Cher, and thus tricked Farah into coming down too LOL. don't know why both of them so stupid never suspect a single thing one HAHAHA. good thing for me, cos it was almost too easy to bluff them :X

this Cher, made me panick cos she was whatsapping me and then she said she was so hungry she ate McDonalds before coming for "shoot"! -__- and guess what, she had a McSpicy burger meal complete with upsized fries lor. WIN LIAO. i was like, oh shit. but never mind.. cos i know Cher's appetite can one. HAHAHA.

i got them to wait at Everything with Fries at Joo Chiat, and even told Farah to bring a dress for the birthday girl, lol. still cant believe they just blur like sotong went along with everything i said/instructed. and while they were waiting, i went over to Awfully Chocolate first (it's just across the road!) to get the birthday cake together with YZ, and then walked in on them with a birthday song!

yay! Awfully Chocolate dark chocolate cake!

and when we walked in with the birthday cake, the two of them were like :O :O :O

one candle for each birthday girl!

still made them wear stupid hair pieces cos they special, birthday girls ma!

Fish came down to celebrate with us too!! heee.

YZ came down for the food. LOL. just kidding.
oh yes, you noticed that i changed into a different top. hahahahaha. i figured since we were gonna be taking pictures, i might as well ask Farah to bring me a pretty new top from office to wear! :P

we ordered a lot a lot of food! nom nom nom. all the four different flavorings of fries, all shoe string! personally don't like the straight cut fries cos the flavor doesn't seem to go as well. i LOOVE the salt and vinegar flavor as well as curry!! my two favorite :D

skinny wings, favorite side dish at EwF! perfect portion for 4-5 people.

one egg soup. i love the deep fried egg white bits together with the tasty cream soup!

chargrilled charsiew. this is da bombz!! damn guuuud. soft and tender, not too fatty and comes in yummy garlic sauce!

tandoori chicken sandwich, love this one as well, it's always a must every time we dine at EwF!

Wild NZ King Salmon with breaded crust, it's one of the house specialties on the menu! not too dry and the salmon meat was moist and tender.

we even had space for two desserts, woohoo!!! can't miss the desserts at EwF

hot banana butterscotch pudding with ice cream NOM NOM NOM. first time trying it, i love the butterscotch sauceeee.

and.. Nutella Tart!! how to miss this. it's honestly the best chocolatey dessert ever. perfect with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!!!

cake cutting time! :D after all that food, still must stuff in the cake somewhere in the tummy.

Cherri + me!

and my dear Farah :D

we decided on just quartering out a slice of cake, and all five of us attacking it with a fork :P SO FULL I TELL YOU OMG.

and we did a REALLY COOL birthday song. bet you will never get such a awesome birthday song cos we are so awesome. HAHAHA. but awesome until i NG. oopsss.

#birthdaysongfail

and the best and last attempt!!! HOHOHO.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FARAH AND CHERRI! love love. 

shitty group picture with weird lighting ): but it's the only group picture we took!

oh, and Cher went home in her new birthday dress too! hee. DO YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. you better!!! ♥

hope you girls were pleasantly surprised, and enjoyed your night! love you two girls! ^___^ so glad and thankful to have you two as part of TVD, always sacrificing your weekends for shoot, and being so hardworking to wake up early for the morning shoots (though we always always always end up late LOL), baking under the relentlessly hot weather and feeding mozzies. TVD FTW!

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and some out-takes/behind the scenes from our shoots for the cheongsam mandarin collar dress.. it was our first night shoot, and it was hilarious, cos we were shooting on halloween night, and no one actually gave a hoot about us cos they probably thought we were just playing around for halloween or something... :O

we went to food republic beer garden right outside St James, where all the ghouls were partying :P

ngoh hiang that we felt obliged to buy cos we were posing with the stall/food! wah the food there is expensive :X but tasted quite good!

there was an old school stall selling stuff like lollipops, these bubble balloon thingies we used to play with as kids, and other nifty toys and sweets! so nostalgic.

probably a sight you don't want to see in the middle of the night.. long black haired girl in long white dress. hahahahaha.

look who's scaring who! so funnyyyyyy.

we couldn't shoot all five colors of the dress for the night shoot, cos the color wouldn't stand out at night, so we carried on the shoot the following week, on a humid morning, at Chinatown! attracted a lot of stares from the tourists and weird old uncles -.-

bwahahaha. at least it wasn't raining!

Farah wasn't around, so i was the sai hang warrior of the day ;D

Cherri in the nude pink color! i love this pose, so pwetty and elegant! Nude Pink has been selling really well at Kissjane!

take a look at some of the accessories Cher brought along for the shoot, they're real vintage earrings (clip ons some more!! last time ppl got no ear piercing one) and necklaces! she borrowed them from her mother's closet!

random candid shot of Cher looking cute. haha!

the 超极 chio lace brolly we used for the shoot!!! loooove it so much. and we're gonna give it away for the collection! think i will go and buy another one for myself. HAHA. it's so dainty and pretty!

barang barang box! easiest to bring around for a shoot, for suitcases, you have to keep on zipping and unzipping it open/close to get stuff!

Susu, our photographer! :)))

ended off the shoot with a DOUBLE McSpicy, Chicken McGrill, and McWings. fwah. FATTENING OR NOT.

anyway, the Mandarin Collar Dress comes in five colors! Wine, Navy, Daffodil Yellow, Nude Pink & Pure White and comes in three lengths, 30", 32" and 34" :D fits a UK6-10 comfortably! i 超爱 and it's been selling super well on the racks. guess everyone's started doing their CNY shopping already. haha! so don't miss it tonight, 9PM sharp!