Cocoquettes turns 5!

It's been a pretty fulfilling day - spent lunch with Ari at Thai Noodle House (finally!!!), trimmed my tresses, took an afternoon nap, spent about an hour cleaning my table and throwing away loads of stuff, and then spent the evening with G. I've still got a never-ending list of things to do, but I thought I'd allow myself some time to blog since I'm trying to keep up with blogging regularly! In true posh pig fashion, I am munching on passionfruit meringue cake from The Pattisier while I pen this entry omnomnom.

Since we just announced this on our Facebook page, and the cat is sort of out of the bag, I thought I'd blog about Cocoquettes' 5th birthday this year! :D The day my exams ended, Lala and I had some super long Cocoquettes meeting cuz we were planning for the flea, upcoming shoot, and our 5th birthday. I can't believe it's already been 5 years since all this started, it's like our little love child hahaha. ;p

Well, anyway, this year I had the idea of giving away Starbucks gift cards to our customers (cuz I love them so much)! Originally, we planned to give away 2 or 3 gift cards, but I suddenly thought of having a little more variety so we decided to change some of the gift cards to Crabtree & Evelyn vouchers instead! :D So yes, this year we're giving away Crabtree AND Starbucks vouchers/gift cards! (Two of my favouritest things, teehee.) Of course, handmade jewellery will be given away too as with every birthday giveaway of ours. :) It'll be something like a lucky draw on Facebook so please participate okay!!!

We bought everything with our own money so I hope our customers who win the gifts will enjoy them! Unfortunately, we're not so dua pai so we don't have sponsors. >:( But it's okay, cuz we're happy to give back to the people who support us. :)

Okay so continuing with the long meeting we had.. I went to get the gift card and vouchers the very next day on 1 Dec, and omg I thought it'd be a quick trip to run errands in town, but noooooo it took way longer than I imagined! I went to Starbucks first and omg the queue was mother long because Starbucks decided to release some promo that day so there were loads of people flocking there! :( I considered going to a different branch, but I figured it wouldn't make a difference so I just patiently queued to get the gift card. :(

So after that, I made my way to Crabtree at NAC to get the vouchers, and just as I was paying for them, the salesgirl told me that they ran out of envelopes for the vouchers. :( But because I wanted our gifts to be in perfect condition, I asked her where their nearest branch was and if they had the envelopes... SO, I walked all the way to Crabtree at Paragon just to pick up a couple of envelopes. -___- So lame right, but that's only cuz I want the best for our giveaway winners okay!

Yeah, so that's my story wrt the giveaway haha. Anyway, Cocoquettes turns 5 on 12/12, so we'll probably release the details of the giveaway on that day. Keep your eyes peeled! x

Turning two-two

I've got a bunch of old photos that still haven't even made it to my blog, so to kick off the first pictorial post on this blog, I thought it'd be nice to start with photos from my birthday earlier on in October. :) So while my photos are stilllllll getting uploaded to Flickr, I'll just taptaptap away on my keyboard which means more text for you to read (oh no).

2011 marked my 22nd year as a human being on this earth (I'm really not getting any younger here and I'm certainly not liking it!), and it was a pretty simple affair, just the way I liked it. :) Had school (what a mood dampener), received a little SURPRISE (!!) from my dearest Uni friends, dinner with my family, supper with G.. The day after was spent procuring my birthday present/new phone, and then a nice dinner with G.

The surprise from my NUS peeps was hilarious to say the least, because it started off with Ruth almost causing an accident by making me nearly crash my car into her little black beetle affectionately named Ryan! After much uhm reversing and moving our cars back and forth (because our near-crash actually ended up holding up other cars behind), they presented me with a pint of Haagen-Dazs (yumyum), and told me...

"Sorry! They didn't have candles so we got you some twigs..."

Mind you, we were in the middle of the NUS carpark (which, if you don't know, is outdoors and lined with numerous trees), so I thought Ruth was just being lame and trying to be funny.

Turns out, they got me TWIX! You know, like,

THIS KIND OF TWIX. My friends are just damn cute/hilarious sometimes.

Ripped this pic off Facebook because I didn't expect my school day to be anything special so I didn't bring a camera! Anyway, yes, as you can see, there were REALLY twigs in the carpark.

All in all, it was very sweet and thoughtful! Especially because Estee came all the way down from NTU just for this random little surprise (so touched!), and I was really happy to see them because apart from Kevin whom I only see all the time cuz we take 2 out of 4 modules together, everyone else is busy with their respective majors/schools, so it's quite rare that I get to see them around. :(

So yes, that was the surprise. And now on with the dinner pictures!

We ended up at Akashi for dinner (original plan was to go to Antoinette, but ahh long story short, we didn't get to go in the end), and I didn't take many pictures but here're a couple of random ones! (Mostly of food haha.)

My sister got me my favourite flower! (And I was damn happy just now cuz while editing this pic I realised it's damn easy to do this colour select thing on Photoshop! I used to love Canon cameras cuz they had the function in-built, but it's so simple to do it on Photoshop as well!)

Melt in your mouth beefy goodness.

Da pao-ed some macarons from Antoinette even though we didn't dine there. They're average only though. :(

My favourite california maki at Akashi!

This was the next day. G and I were trying to camwhore and the pictures kept coming out blurry! Cleaned the lens, still came out blurry! Then we realised the camera was fogged up INSIDE (i.e. behind the lens)! -.-

Fixed it! (Y)

Dinner was at La Cantina in Venezie at Changi V Hotel. I've been wanting to go back since we came here for our 2nd anniversary over 2 years back, because the first time we went there, I was sick and could barely taste our food! :( But believe me when I say getting to Changi Village is really a JOURNEY TO THE EAST and it really takes quite a bit of willpower to want to drive so far just for dinner. :/

Can almost never put down our Blackberries. :/ And no, it's not a good thing.

You know what, I'm really lousy at taking food pictures. :( But anyway, that's what we had to share between the two of us. WHICH WAS A HELL LOT OF FOOD. You probably can't tell from the pictures, but each main (pasta/pizza) was good enough to fill one person to the brim. So having a soup to share, plus bread, plus a whole pizza, and a pasta EACH... Omg we totally over ordered. :/

I've also been really keen to try their crabmeat pasta, and you know how I like to save the best for the last... So I very gey kiang-ly ate quite a bit of pizza before I started on my pasta, and ended up only being able to finish about half my pasta. :( Which was SO SAD cuz I really liked it but I just. Simply. Couldn't. Eat. Anymore. The crabmeat pasta is really good though, much better than Marmalade Pantry's in my opinion! But I guess more so now because I think MP's standard of food has been dropping in recent months/years. :(

We took like a million shots outside the restaurant after, but most of them came out super blurry cuz the lighting was kinda bad. :(

Drove to. Uh. Somewhere else in the far East after that to chill and watch planes! Exactly the same thing we did on our 2nd anniversary, but still very enjoyable nonetheless. :)

There was a hell lot of lightning that night, so we decided to try and take photos of lightning! (It's really not easy to get the timing right cuz the lightning literally flashes for a split second then disappears.)

Successful on my second attempt! But I Photoshopped this picture to look nicer lah, so the colours look a bit more dramatic than the raw pic does. :D

Took pictures of my dress after because I was wearing the Cocoquettes Embellished Drape Dress in Blanc! But I am a super failzzzzz model, so the best shots are usually those where I'm not actually posing for the camera. -.-

Last picture of us to end this post!

Wow I rambled on so much this post I think I'm having a bout of verbal diarrhoea. Or maybe I'm just a lot more chirpy and energetic post-exams. :) Now it's 3 a.m. and it's about time I went to sleep. Good night darlings. x

Post-exam craziness cum exhaustion

So... My first post. On my new blog. (This feels strange and like it should be some kind of milestone.)

I've been planning this since before my exams ended (which was just a mere 38 hours ago, by the way), I got the username registered and started playing with the layout and decided that I'd start blogging here once my exams ended. Why? Because we all move on at some point in time. And after staying with theposhpig@lj for the past 4 years (I think?), I've decided that it's time for me to move again.

First, I need to explain the username - xtheposhpig. I originally wanted to stick with theposhpig.blogspot.com, but the username was already taken by someone else... (Cue frown and pout) I considered coming up with some new name for my blog altogether, but unfortunately, I lack creative juices, and I am rather fond of theposhpig anyway. So I made do with xtheposhpig.

So that's the essence of the story behind this new blog. It's been a pretty crazy 38 hours since my exams ended. I've had non-stop activities packed back to back, mostly settling stuff for the upcoming Cocoquettes flea that's taking place this Saturday, and hanging out with friends. Tomorrow, I'm packed for the day again - having to meet suppliers, meet a friend for cupcakes, and then dinner plans with the boyfriend and friend. Plus in between, I'll have to find little pockets of time to finish up all the last-minute prep work for the flea (like packing and steaming stuff). And I'm perpetually on the Berry texting people, co-ordinating a photoshoot for next week, trying to catch up with friends amidst the craziness, replying emails, the list goes on.

My point is, I'm so exhausted from all these post-exam activities, but it's definitely a welcome respite from the non-stop studying. Speaking of exhaustion, it's probably time for me to sleep. I don't even know if this post made much sense. So much for the first post on this blog. x