[Product Review] Juicy Shower by LIESE

LIESE has come out with the all-new 2-in-1 Liese Juicy Shower Moisturizing Hair Mist, treatment and styling aid developed especially for permed and wavy hair!

Start Your Day On A Berry Good Note!
Do you usually experience bad, messy looking hair when you wake up in the morning? I do. So most of the time we had to wake up earlier to shower and then blow dry them (especially girls with long hair). However, there are days i feel really lazy and decided not to wash my hair, i bun it up so my hair won't get wet and that i don't have to blow dry them after a shower and i just head out with a ponytail, trying to hide those wavy, messy hair.=X

My undone hair under natural light

My undone hair under indoor room light

Liese Juicy Shower Moisturizing Hair Mist, an extension to the current Juicy Shower range, specially made for wavy hair contains wave defining ingredients, to bring out beautiful waves in permed or wavy hair. It infused with a raspberry extract that provides moisture to dry and damaged permed or wavy hair, transforming them into bouncy and shiny curls that also gives off nice berry scent that lasts all day!

Just A Few Spritzes In The Morning!
Yes! Just a few spritzes before heading out in the morning will help to revitalize and moisturize our hair. Dull and limp curls no more!

I took no longer than 2mins in two easy steps;

1) The product can be sprayed either on dry or damp hair, hold the bottle about 15cm away from hair and pressed the trigger effortlessly towards the wave lines.

2) Then, scrunch the wave lines with fingers.

And tada!!! My finish look!~

It takes a while for hair to dry after spraying Liese Juicy Shower Moisturizing Hair Mist. My wavy hair looks more even after use and is ready to head out without having the trouble to wet my hair and blow-dry it. What i love most was the effect of the treatment, leaving hair soft especially when i wash them at the end of the day! Before this, i have been using Liese Hair Treatment Water and this latest collection, Liese Juicy Shower Moisturizing Hair Mist has added a "bonus" with its styling performance that able to define wavy curls!

John Tham, Liese Hair Expert says, “Every lady wants the perfect hair that lasts all day but not all are willing to sacrifice their beauty sleep. The answer to these ladies who want it quick and perfect is the new Liese Juicy Shower Moisturizing Hair Mist for Wavy Hair. Undeniably fuss-free and light, this new hair mist helps ladies achieve shiny and elegant waves in just a few spritzes right after they get out of bed. The non-sticky, non-greasy formula doesn’t weigh hair down, leaving curls looking and feeling bouncy. Also, the raspberry scent brings on a great mood to start the day!”

LIESE Juicy Shower Moisturizing Hair Mist for Wavy Hair is retailing at S$14.90 for the trigger bottle (200ml), and S$16.90 for the refill bottle (400ml) at all leading pharmacies, personal care stores, and supermarkets. For more information, do check out Liese's webpage!

[Product Review] Ground Coffee x São Tomé Luxury Chocolate by CAFEDIRECT

Like many, i am a coffee lover be it having it served sweet, bitter, hot or cold! Not just because i need them to keep me focus at work.. I just love that interesting, satisfying taste it gives when sipping on a nice cup of coffee and even before it was watered and mixed, i will tend to sniff the aroma of coffee ground! As much as i like coffee, i don't restrict to just one brand.

I like how Cafédirect and its workers believes in working towards environmentally sustainable production, just take a look at the material they choose in packaging. Here's a chart i copied from their web, showing a summary of Cafédirect's sustainable packaging;

I hereby introduce to you the award-winning and most recommended UK hot beverage company,

CAFEDIRECT and their latest creations to suits our local taste-buds:

Ground Full Roast Coffee  &  

 São Tomé Luxury Hot Chocolate

The Ground Full Roast Coffee is one of their latest blended roast and ground coffee range. Being a strength 4 blend (On a scale of 1 to 5), it has been carefully roasted to create a full-bodied, rounded coffee with velvety caramel overtones, bursting with character.

The smooth Arabica beans (90%) from Latin America and Central America, grounded by the energetic Robusta from Africa (10%) are carefully blended for a full-bodied coffee that’s also silky on the palate. And, as with all of Cafédirect’s products, it is made the small way by expert smallholder growers whose pride and passion deliver the finest taste!

Cafédirect’s Ground Full Roast Coffee is retailing at $8.70 for a 227g pack and is available at Cold storage, FairPrice Finest, Giant, Jasons and Market Place.

I can already smell the aroma of the fine ground coffee just by sniffing near the packaging without opening it! Coffee drinkers who crave a coffee flavour between something fuller than medium roast yet lighter than rich roast will be delighted with this new addition to the Cafédirect range of blends!

 To have a smooth blend, a coffee plunger or a filter is required else your cup of coffee will look like this (still drinkable though);

3-in-1 São Tomé Instant Hot Chocolate – directly from Chocolate Island…

On the other hand, São Tomé, also known as Chocolate Island, is steeped in cocoa farming history and has an unparalleled reputation for growing some of the most prized cocoa beans on earth – the criollo bean. This is due to the islands location on the equator, rich soils, the perfect balance of temperature along with the perfect humidity and forest shade. São Tomé gives a rich yet smooth taste, with only four ingredients and no added nasties you’re guaranteed a truly natural flavour in every cup!  
 

This fine chocolate powder smell really tasty! It contains no artificial additives, flavouring or colouring, offering 100% natural alternative to instant beverages. And don't worry about having too much of it because each serving contains only 62 kcal! With its fine grade cocoa powder, combined with sugar, skimmed milk and whey powder to give a delicate, velvety beverage with an intense chocolatey aroma.
 

Cafédirect’s São Tomé Luxury Hot Chocolate is retailing at $8.85 for a 300g tin and is available at Cold storage, FairPrice Finest, Jasons and Market Place.

Hot Chocolate, as it was named, can also be served chilled! I think its great to have a cup of iced chocolate in the morning before heading out to work, giving a refreshing feel. Just add in cold water and some ice to a 2-3 tablespoons of Cafédirect’s São Tomé Luxury Hot Chocolate Powder and stir well! 

Other wonderful drinks that can be made are Cold Tiramisu Drink; chocolate milkshake; Coco Loco with ice-cream; and many more! This are great for friends or family gathering at home, with the right ingredients added and a blender, we too, can enjoy a luxury cup of chilled chocolate or mocha (mixing with ground roast coffee) from our most comfortable living space - Home!

For more information, check out Cafédirect’s webpage; http://www.cafedirect.co.uk/

[Product Review] Sparkling Wine - by JAILLANCE

Was recently introduced to award-winning Jaillance sparkling wine so here i am, sharing it here ~!

Sold in over 14 different countries with roughly 120,000 walk-in customers per year, Jaillance is France's leading brand of Sparkling wines - Appellation d'Origine Protégée sparkling wines, originates from the Drôme Valley, nestled between Vercors and Provence, and represents the Cave de Die, a cooperative founded in 1950 under the leadership of Henri Bonnet.



 Jaillance 's range of sparkling wines includes (from left to right in above image);  
  (1) Merlot
  (2) Semillon
  (3) Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Gamay
  (4) Chardonnay
  (5) Muscat, Clairette

Late last year, Jaillance launched part of their range here in Singapore, the Sémillon and the Muscat, Clairette retailing at $29.90 and $26.90 respectively at Bottles & Bottles, Cold Storage, Giant, Jasons and MarketPlace.

 Award-winning, elegant-looking bottles with 750ml in size

  The Muscat, Clairette

Fruity flavour with notes of Muscat grapes and Citrus fruit, with 7% alcohol by volume.. The Muscat, Clairette is fruity, full and elegant, sophisticated with hints of white flowers, rose and lychee. It is well-balanced and rounded on the attack with a good mousse. It was said to be an excellent dishes for pairing with barbecues prawn and mango skewers with lemon and sambal, grilled chicken skewers with caramel-based gravy, grilled beef rib with teriyaki sauce, grilled pork spare ribs with honey and soy sauce or pork chops with oyster sauce! Alternatively, as an appetizer, pairing with frozen desserts, fresh fruit flans and cakes!

Muscat, Clairette consists of a harmonious blends of 90% Muscat and 10% Clairette.

Tasted it with my mum and dad, and we like the citrus aroma that blends well with oyster sauce in one of mum's home-cooked dish. Personally prefers this than the Sémillon, maybe because the alcohol level is lower, and its distinctive fruity-rosy aroma is higher.. i guess most ladies will like it too!

The Sémillon

While the Sémillon, on the other hand, 12.5% alcohol by volume, elegantly offers notes of brioche with an aroma of gooseberry, pomelo and hawthorn. This won them the bronze medal at the 2012 Challenge to the Best French Wines and Spirits for Asia for its clarity, intensity, harmony and aftertaste when paired with Asian cuisine. Similar to the Muscat, Clairette, it is well-balanced and rounded on the attack with a good mousse. It was said to be an excellent dishes for pairing with barbecues favourites such as grilled salmon with tomato and sambal, chicken skewers with lemongrass and yoghurt, beef skewers with ginger and soy sauce or tuna skewers with coriander and ginger. Alternatively, as an appetizer, pairing with an aumoniere of prawns in saffron which is very popular in France. 

Sémillon consists of 100% pure Semillion which is most commonly found in high-end white Bordeaux still wines.

Had an enjoyable time at boyf's place for his mum's bdae celebration, and Jallance's Sémillon was served. Jallance's Sémillon sweeten our palate after a heavy steamboat gathering! One of them suggest pairing it with lychee, and it turns out great!

You may find Jaillance's sparkling wines rather acidic as well so a great way to savour them is to pair them with food that are rich in flavours!

With our all-time humid and warm weather, sipping on a glass of sparkling wine during/ after dining gives a cool and refreshing feel. The brut Sémillon and the sweety fruity Muscat, Clairette are both delectable options to bring down tropical temperatures. It would be great to have them at a poolside or a beachfront grill!

Ms Marine Lombardo, Marketing Manager for Jaillance, shares that "The effervescence, acidity and flavour profile of sparkling wines make them ideal matches for a range of cuisines. A cold glass of Jaillance is exceptionally pleasing with the caramelised, charred and smoky flavours at a barbecue."

For more information, check out Jaillance's webpage http://www.jaillance.com 

Would love to try their premium range, especially the limited edition - Clairette de Die Cuvée Icône.
 

Adventure Cove Water Theme Park at Sentosa

How's your weekend?

I spent mine having fun at Adventure Cove Water Theme Park located in Sentosa, Singapore.
Very excited and anticipating this day to come.. furthermore, what's summer without enjoying the water, sand and Sun, right? My sis was our guide that day. Really thankful to her for arranging all this!~

It was a Saturday and is expected to be crowded. The park starts operating at 10am (daily 10am - 6pm), and we can already see a lot of people start queuing for tickets and entering the parks. I really like the whole design and layout of the park.

The place was surprisingly huge housing a total of 6 water slides, a toddle water area, a wave pool, 3 sections of obstacle challenge (I still can't believe I actually did jump off from a high level into a deep 4m pool! ), one of the world's longest lazy river of 620-metre (2,030 ft) long, and a chance to snorkel over colourful rainbow reef with pretty tropical fishes! There was also a small artificial man-made beach with soft white sand.

The wave pool.. looking calm now but when you hear the siren, grab your life jacket because the tsunami that can go up to about 2.0m high is coming! I started off at the wave pool and god, we had so many laughs during the wave, doing silly faces in the water. Do be careful even when you can swim because the tidal wave is really strong and fast, once you lose track of the momentum of the wave.. it will be difficult to catch another breath.

The life jacket comes in different sizes, the baby blue for the little kids is super adorable!

The Cabanas are available for rent, so families or couples can relax in it and enjoy the atmosphere. 

The above pic is the kids' play-land, there were water sprays and buckets that could fill up to the brim with water from the top gigantic bucket for you to splash water on somebody without them realising it. 

And below is the lazy river, passing by the stingray aquarium. This is probably one of the best lazy river I've experienced so far... because you get to see marine life up close like rays, fishes, and even dolphins!

The dolphins' habitat wasn't open for public viewing yet so this is the best shot I can get from afar, high view. I guess our timing was right, they were having training when we watch them, so many of them I couldn't get an exact count.. like about 14 to 18 of them in the water!

We settled our lunch at the Bay Restaurant, here's the ordering counter. Their food was pretty much like the one at The Maritime Experiential Museum. Everything tasted quite okay except for their pasta which was rather hard to chew on.

[Movie Review] Welcome To The Punch

Ex-criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives his nemesis, detective Max Lewinsky, one last chance to catch the man he's always been after.

Written and directed by Eran Creevy, the film begins with detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy) making his chase after the masked robbers in the banking center of Canary Wharf, London. With his impulsive and strong willpower, the intense chase continues before getting himself shot in his knee by master-robber Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) in an underground tunnel.

Opening appearance - Max (James McAvoy) standing cool tracking the robbers whereabouts

Three years after the gun shot incident, with the pain still haunting Max every now and then, Sternwood's son is then mysteriously gunned down in London (Probably following his dad's footsteps). Sternwood who escaped, had to return to find the cause, giving Max a second chance to bring him to justice and rescue his own reputation, proving he's superior that he ain't a 'nobody'. Along with his partner, Sarah Hawks (Andrea Riseborough), both trying their best to find supporting evidence to charge Sternwood down.

Never had he realised there were much more behind all this.. Of police corruption and conspiracy, involving an upcoming election and the issue of gun control. Max realises that his only chance to solve the entire puzzle is to team up with his old nemesis, Sternwood, who also saved him during a gun firing scene in a closed club. Afterall, Sternwood seems like a good guy.

Ending with Max decided to hold that trigger, letting Sternwood free..

but what happens to Max then?!

Kudos to all the main cast who played really well in their role, loving their facial expressions in every part of the movie even during times where they have limited script. Loving the way Andrea plays her role of Sarah with her british accents and her lovely face but a pity she couldn't make it till the end while trying to find evidence.. Why didn't she carry a gun with her when she was out alone?

Well done on the slow motion shown during the guns firing battle and loud enough to catch the audience attention.. Would be even better if there add in more fighting scene other than flying bullets and breaking furnitures.

However, I find there is still a lot of little untold mysteries here and there.. as if there were missing cut-out scene.

The film stars James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class, Wanted, Atonement, The Last King Of Scotland), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), and Andrea Riseborough (W.E., Oblivion), along with Peter Mullan (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Tyrannosaur), David Morrissey (Nowhere Boy, The Other Boleyn Girl), Daniel Mays (Shifty) and Johnny Harris (The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus).

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime thriller
Language: English
Release Date: Thursday, 18 Jul 2013
Main Cast: James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough Duration: 99 mins
Personal rating: 3 out of  5

[Media Invite] SBA 2013 - Singapore Blog Awards 2013

Attended the sixth annual Singapore Blog Awards, organised by Omy.sg, Singapore Press Holdings' leading bilingual news and entertainment portal which was held on 6 July at Shanghai Dolly (the exact same location as year 2011) with the theme - 60's Fever !

My outfit - i picked a dress with large prints and bright-coloured heels to go along with the theme.

Tiffani, Shu Hui, Carine, and Nasri

With the beautiful Tiffani, really love her smile!

Many who attended were well-dressed in their 60's theme; such as the A-Go-Go style!

Entering the walkways, there were posters at the sides introducing each judges and nominees.

The show begun with speech by Guest-Of-Honour, Mr. Lawrence Wong (Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth & Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information)

 There is a total of ten main categories, two celebrity categories and seven special categories. A complete list of award categories can be found here. BiG Congrats to all who won the titles!

First award were presented to 3 ladies (namely Karen, Elaine & Elrica) winning Panasonic Best Beauty Blog! Pretty Karen also won the Glossi Best Modelling Blog!

 Panasonic Best Cooking Blog goes to Celes

  Panasonic Best Eco-Challenge Blog goes to Ivan Kwan

  JBL Best Pop/Music Blog goes to Mint

 Levi's Best 501 Interpretation Blog goes to Claire

 and Qoo10 Best Online Shopping Blog goes to Mitsueki

2 Most Popular Local/ Overseas Celebrities Blog goes to Jeanette Aw and Alien Huang respectively;

this is Jeanette Aw's sixth time winning the title!

This year, omy.sg introduces the “Best Microblog” award, a brand new addition to the ten main categories of Singapore Blog Awards, created to acknowledge the increasing popularity of short format blogging platforms like Twitter and Weibo. For this, Leonard Lim won the title, sharing through his twitter account on what's trending. That's pretty Cool!

Group photos of all winners;

Not forgetting best dress award! Out of the selected 10, police officer "Mata" (at the far right next to the host) had the most votes from the audience!

 Halfway through the show, we started to feel a little hungry, so we went to the back to grab some bites! Oh, i found my favourite - Tuna & Salmon Sushi!! How wonderful!~ =D They have lovely durian puffs, lemon soft cake and sweet cold green tea too!

Local diector, Jack neo walked pass us, so we grab the chance to take a picture with him.

It was such an honorable moment to have the chance to be there, to experience the whole awards ceremony. Considering myself as one of the lucky ones to be part of this grand event (even as an audience) as seats are relatively limited and i am not even a superb blogger to desearve one of those seats in the first place. Therefore, i am really happy to be there with the rest. Never did i knew there were so many well-recognised blogger out there, where some were very inspiring!

In the gift bag for all attendees;

Thank you Omy for all the delightful stuffs and for this special invitation.