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My mom is better than yours

Before you get all offended by the title, it’s just a hashtag type of phrase Tumblr fangirls use e.g. [celebrity] is better than all of you. But yes my mother is very awesome and here’s why I love her to bits:

– Brought me to Bangkok (we went with my aunt)
– Let me have the window seat because it was my first time on the plane
– Bought me everything I wanted and barely anything for herself
– Paid for all my shopping (I only contributed $400 for the whole trip to  partially cover flights, hotel and insurance)
– Did all the planning, booking, packing, research and reading of online reviews (I did zilch)
– Led us around all the awesome places despite it being her first time there
– Put up with all my whining as usual 😀

Had such a marvelous time, mostly thanks to her! Gonna just briefly post a few photos from the trip, detailed post will be up when I have the time 🙂

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Haul from the first day (just till the late afternoon)
I counted 11 dresses and 1 pair of shoes I think.

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Haul from the first two days! 😀

None of the apparels exceeded 200 baht ($8) ok!! One pair of denim shorts there is only 60 baht ($2.40) like can you believe it. Most expensive item was a swimsuit at 450 baht ($18) followed by a pair of shoes for 390 baht ($15).

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Thing is their quality is as good as local blogshops where one item is $25 – $30. Feel so cheated now wtf. I got dresses for like 50 – 80 baht there ($2 – $3). I keep exclaiming ‘Scammer!’ every time I pass by stores in Singapore now lololol.

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Omg the ribbon shoes I can’t even. Remember this?! My first and favourite pair at $22 which I’ve worn out and thrown away. Same goes for another grey pair. They had the biggest and squishiest ribbons ever!! My mom was the one who pointed these new ones out to me and we bargained till one pair was about $13. I went absolutely fangirly and insane for the rest of the day.

So not obvious that I like bows, silver, pink and polka dots, right?
I have 5 (should have been 7!) pairs of those ribbon shoes in cream, black, red, silver, and pink now, ha!!!

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The $15 shoes. Love all my things ^^

# My mom is better than yours (this I say with utmost conviction)
# My guinea pig is cuter than yours (ditto)
# My things are nicer than yours

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50 baht ($2) slippers from the night market.
What even!!! More pl0x!!!!

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Favourite person in the world and with good reason ❤

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Day before I left Singapore (19 Aug) was a super good one too! Completed two Carousell deals, had lunch at Kiseki Japanese Buffet with Annabelle, then dinner at Pastamania and movie (Tales From The Dark 2) with You You 😀
Blogged about Kiseki before but I only posted collages of the food instead of close-ups so here you go!

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SO FREAKING GOOD

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Grilled fish, chicken and pork

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It’s like so pricey and yet I wanna go back again… yum yum nom nom

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Hahaha she looks so happy here!

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Decided to go with a simple outfit that day:

Navy blue top – $1 from Song & Song
Silver pants – $5 from Bugis Street
River Island bag – $0 (have you read about it?)
Silver shoes – $24 from Zalora (why I need to stop shopping online)

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I like food

Had two buffets in less than a week!!! Fat fat. Went to Tarafuku (lunch with Amos) on 7 September and Kiseki (dinner with Gerry, Qiya, Hariz, Mark) on 13 September. They’re so near each other too. Actually too preoccupied with food and hunger to take pics so it’s just a bit of what they have from both places.

TARAFUKU @ 313 SOMERSET
(Paid about $20/person)

Lunch on a Friday. Apparently they have a bigger spread at night. They have more cooked food than raw food! I love the “Yummy Egg” which is done in that special way that gives that unique texture… you know what I’m talking about. The one you can only find in some Japanese dining places.

They also has all the basic stuff like sashimi, tuna, sushi, soba, as well as sweet and sour pork, my beloved carbs, takos, etc etc. But the best thing about Tarafuku is inargubly the kickass, to-die-for desserts!! Their ice cream flavours all taste very different from the normal, commercial ones we usually get. Some very cute pastries as well.

My favourite is the pudding! As you can see from the last picture, I took all 3 types pf pudding. Milk, custard and strawberry, if I remember correctly. Then they have different syrups for you to pour if you want. Oh god all 3 puddings taste heavenly. I shall not describe the taste in case I do the puddings injustice but let’s just say they are the best I’ve ever eaten my whole life.

We took too much food and I felt quite bad at all the leftovers thrown away.
They don’t have fines for if you don’t finish the food.


KISEKI @ ORCHARD CENTRAL
(Paid about $37/person)

They have all the basic stuff as well. Although they didn’t have tako balls, they have many variants of spaghetti in small dishes which you order and they’ll cook and bring it over for you. The tomato sauce one (first pic) was really good.

Kiseki has more raw food and seafood in comparison. Sashimi, octupus, abalone, oysters, mussells! Hehe I shelled prawns for everyone! Although they have a bigger variety of desserts, they tasted only mediocre and I would pick Tarafuku’s puddings any day. Waffle was the soggy, chewy kind.

Also, it was quite late by the time we were having desserts so there wasn’t much left. There’s this small cup of something (don’t remember the name) that really stood out – Hariz took the last one and I had a mouthful.

Oh and they had a fine for unfinished food so we tried hiding a lot of stuff!



Person who helped us take the pic didn’t tell us Qiya was hidden!!



There were so many unglam shots of me eating hahaha

Us rushing to get a fisheye shot on the loooong escalator before it ended!





Went on a hunt for the toilet and then walked around Clarke Quay for more than an hour. I love the night 🙂

Loads of weird sights and people on the train

Everyone was spamming the group chat and changing the icon profusely so we took a picture on the spot and used it too hahaha 😀

While we were eating, we decided to have another sleepover the very next day before IPP started on the following Monday. Same gang but Dian and Darilene came this time too! It was nowhere as fun and exciting as the one we had before though which was quite a disappointment. Instead of horror, we watched The Avengers, The Dark Knight, and Taken, all of which I’d seen before.

Still glad to have spent time with these people!
Kinda miss Qiya and Hariz because I haven’t seen them since 🙁

Anyway, can’t really compare both places because one’s lunch and the other’s dinner. Hence I’m not sure if it’s accurate to say this but if you prefer cooked food, go for Tarafuku and if you prefer raw seafood, go for Kiseki. You can be assured of the quality and service at both places though I would recommend calling for a reservation beforehand. I like both! 😀