Growing up, I had one particular artist I've always admired.
Alicia Keys.
I was in Form 5, preparing for SPM, I think. That was the period when I went on a full crazy discman and walkman mode - while studying, my ears would be blasted off with various artists' albums to accompany me, and Alicia Keys was one of the few. At that time, I was open to all kinds of genres - I had Linkin Park, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Blue, T.A.T.U (I KNOW!) and all other-worldly artists' CDs and cassettes.
Think boarding school would do that to you. Discman and walkman, they're our life essentials at the hostel, OK?
So. Finished SPM, upgraded to MP3 player (a gift by my sister - it's actually a hand-me-down -_-) and got into AAJ, UM to further my studies. Entered a language school, and the MP3 player era started. One can never survive a kanji test without a full on 5-hours kanji memorizing session the night before, I learned. And the MP3 player was there to accompany me.
Among the (limited) songs in my playlist, was Alicia Keys' If I Ain't Got You and Fallin'.
Alicia Keys.
I was in Form 5, preparing for SPM, I think. That was the period when I went on a full crazy discman and walkman mode - while studying, my ears would be blasted off with various artists' albums to accompany me, and Alicia Keys was one of the few. At that time, I was open to all kinds of genres - I had Linkin Park, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Blue, T.A.T.U (I KNOW!) and all other-worldly artists' CDs and cassettes.
Think boarding school would do that to you. Discman and walkman, they're our life essentials at the hostel, OK?
So. Finished SPM, upgraded to MP3 player (a gift by my sister - it's actually a hand-me-down -_-) and got into AAJ, UM to further my studies. Entered a language school, and the MP3 player era started. One can never survive a kanji test without a full on 5-hours kanji memorizing session the night before, I learned. And the MP3 player was there to accompany me.
Among the (limited) songs in my playlist, was Alicia Keys' If I Ain't Got You and Fallin'.
Truth is, I've been holding off buying makeup for a while now. I was comfortable with my Clinique foundation and MAC lipsticks, and my skin has been behaving better than before (and by that I mean no rare big acne spots appearing on my face T.T) that I've been saving up for other things.
(Realized I could save a lot of money if I stayed away from Sephora haha.)
Until one day. I was walking around inside Sephora on a lunch hour on Friday (it's right there in the mall, would be rude not to visit), and noticed that there was a Benefit salesgirl who was free - usually she had her hands busy with a loadful of customers wanting to try the products, but somehow that day she wasn't. Benefit just came out with this shine-free face powder, and being a faithful user of their Porefessional primer for years, I wanted to try it on.
For years, I've never really been a fan of face powder. Given my super oily combination skin, I found no face powder could hide that fact, much less help me conceal the shiny-ness.
And this shine-vanishing pro powder claims to help do just that. Of course I was intrigued!
I was in a cheese French toast phase last few weekends. Don't know why I kept craving for it; but it's just so hard to find at restaurants and I was too lazy to ask around.
So one Saturday morning, I just thought I'd make it my way. Recalled how I've seen in some recipe videos the chef put the cheese slice in the middle of the bread (he cut the bread'd thickness in half, so this is where the cheese slices go in) so I tried to make it accordingly.
And..it works! XD It's too simple I can't even haha.
Finally fulfilled my cheese French toast that day. Made my husband and Rayyan ate them too. (hubs says he's not into cheese French toast shortly after T.T)
But I swear it's good. Published the recipe on Zalora - read below.
So one Saturday morning, I just thought I'd make it my way. Recalled how I've seen in some recipe videos the chef put the cheese slice in the middle of the bread (he cut the bread'd thickness in half, so this is where the cheese slices go in) so I tried to make it accordingly.
And..it works! XD It's too simple I can't even haha.
Finally fulfilled my cheese French toast that day. Made my husband and Rayyan ate them too. (hubs says he's not into cheese French toast shortly after T.T)
But I swear it's good. Published the recipe on Zalora - read below.
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