Solo hair colouring session sponsored by Hoyu

For last month, I was overwhelmed with Chinese new year preparation.  I was being sponsored by Hoyu to have my solo hair dye session with the hair technical manager, Ben.

Ben, who has many years in doing hair coloring, explained to me the difference between European brands of hair dye like Wella and Loreal and Hoyu. The difference between European brands of hair dye with Hoyu is that the colour of  Hoyu's hair dye is based on the colour wheel which primarily consist red, blue and yellow. 

 For example, if I wanted to dye my hair a bit of purplish red Ben would have to mix the colour red and blue together in order to get purplish red. The proportion will be based on which colour I would want it to appear on my hair more.

Hoyu's hair dye system stems out from the colour therapy which can be found in the following pictures:

Before mixing the colours together 

After mixing the colours together 

The other range of colours

Here's the beginning of my hair dye session 

Pardon me for this natural curly look

During the session

The end result is really nice. Sorry people I lost the picture which is stored inside my handphone previously. Anyway, a big thanks to Hoyu for giving this opportunity to me to have a personalized hair dying session with technical manager, Ben.

One thing that Ben shared with me was that whichever salons that use Hoyu hair dyes are specially trained by him if the salon owners are keen to get their staff trained.  Most importantly, I feel that salon owners can take the opportunity to use the PIC grant to get their staff trained as well. Not only is training course subsidized, the staff is one step nearly to be a better skilled worker.

The aftermath of going to Mr Lee Kuan Yew's wake

Last Tuesday, I went to queue for 6 hours to go and pay respect at Mr Lee Kuan Yew's wake. Though today is a brand new day without Mr Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, I still believe that we the young Singaporeans are still able to unite ourselves to bring Singapore to a greater new heights.

Throughout the waiting period while waiting to go in to the parliament house to pay respect, one thing for sure is that it is really we Singaporeans and foreigners are helping one another to ensure that all things like the drinks, apple and bread were being passed around to ensure no one is being left out.
Hopefully , this kind of spirit will continue to be within all of us.

I just want to share this song if we could hold on together to all Singaporeans. We will continue to see the bright future for the future generations to come.

 

Death of MM Lee Kuan Yew

Though this is the mourning period for MM Lee , I thought of one thing which is to celebrate that he no longer has to suffer . It was a painful thought to know that he died . However, he did not live his life in vain.

For someone who put us the small red dot onto the world map , living his life for the fellow countrymen. I have nothing but extreme gratitude to him. There might be people saying that he is autocratic in the past. For sure , he is not one. Just that he had to be decisive in all matters. In comparison to Hitler, I guess MM Lee is much more well loved and well respected.

I just want to express my deepest gratitude for MM Lee for making Singapore so successful. Hoping that the young leaders whom he might have picked up for training to make Singapore more successful , are able to bring Singapore to greater heights.

There are also people showing the black ribbon with the design with MM Lee's face on facebook. I wonder if we could make it into a badge for all true Singaporeans to wear on the day of his funeral.

MM Lee please rest in peace

 

Invitation to insights into UK Commercial Parking by Park First Limited Singapore Branch’s Senior Business Development Manager.

Recently I got to know Issa, who shared with me about UK Commercial Parking in Glasgow International Airport offered by Park First Limited, part of Group First UK.

A little background on GroupFirst who has been around since 1998. GroupFirst is one of the leading property investment, design and development companies in the UK.

They worked closely with financial institutions and industry professionals to create a range of unique property investment companies that sit under the Group First umbrella. Their diverse network range of companies range from serviced apartment blocks to housing estates, business centres to industrial estates, self-storage facilities to international airport car parks.


Park First, which is founded in 2004, is a property investment company which provides investors with exclusive access to market leading products. I believe parking is big business. I have not personally experienced a time when parking rates has gone down! And everyone NEEDS parking. They provide exclusive access and affordability into the UK commercial parking market.
 

This is the first time which I learned that commercial parking could be purchased in a form of investment which will provide you with passive income and capital gains. This is something that is hardly been heard of in Singapore. Or Never heard of.


Investors are invited to meet the team at the company’s prestigious office, to help remove any uneasiness which can be felt when dealing with other companies.


For this preview, Park First would be marketing their last phase of their parking facility at Glasgow International Airport. So far they have sold 4 car parks in the last year amounting to over 3000 parking spaces and running out fast. For more information, please take a look at the flyer.

I will be updating an exclusive coverage on what insights I have garnered from this event to help you guys to learn more about investing in overseas property.

 Please do not hesitate to call Issa, Senior Business Development Manager @ 83338403 for more information to find out more if you had missed this preview. Do remember to quote ándrea' if he asks how did you find out about this project.

 

Grandma's Kaya Recipe

Recently, I have been going down to my grandma's place to stay with her during the weekends. This is not just only to spend time with her but also to learn the family recipes.

Her kaya is something that I often missed when I am doing the spreading of bread.

This recipe is done by using melted sugar instead of the usual pandan leaves where there is a green colour.

Ingredients

6 big eggs

Pandan leaves to be wash clean and tie as per the picture

1 rice bowl of sugar

 

Add ten dessert spoons of  sugar to the beaten eggs.

Continue to stir the mixture in the rice cooker. Please remember to add some water in the rice cooker.

Slowly add one rice bowl of coconut milk to stir . After stirring a while , put the pandan leaves in and

continue to stir. Continue to stir till it is semi harden. By this time, you can start to melt the balance

sugar in the rice bowl using a sauce pan . Then put the melted sugar into the mixture and continue to

stir until no bubbles is in the mixture.  Stir until the water in the rice cooker boils. Cover a linen cloth

over the mixture and steam it for another 5 to 10 mins.

Blog Meet SG Event

I attended this #Blog Meet SG event with the excitement being able to interact with fellow expat bloggers to learn from them on what do they really write on their blog. I spoke to one lady who said that she wrote mostly on health issues which interest me a lot that I proposed to her that we could do a guest post on each other's blog.

I actually met up with fellow bloggers, Mia and Oh ya hui zi to walk from far east plaza to the event's location which is at edit lifestyle. However, hui zi met us at the event's location cos she was busy at work.

Edit Lifestyle is located at 137-139 Tanglin Road

                                
Edit lifestyle is which I feel that it is a place that contains lots of happiness. It contains lots of trendy and fashionable pieces that one could be falling in love with.

 Left: hui zi                      Right: mia

                                             

We were greeted with this cute signage when we stepped in.

                             



The legally blonde section for Ms Pinkies



Reminds me of the book 红楼梦

Reminds me of the song 听海 and listening to myself

                                

Macroons from Heidard Singapore



Interesting stamps with words like what the F

Me trying on my personalized straw hat ... do I look kawaii?

Chocolates from Leela fine chocolates

Bill from Hat of Cain fixing my hat

This photo is taken after Bill from Hat of Cain has measured my head size of 57 cm before I tried putting on it.

Bill's pretty assistant reminds me of the song pretty woman 

The event was really fun filled and great networking opportunties where bloggers could also directly interact with the sponsors for the goodie bag.

The sponsors were apple tree, hat of cain , havaroma, hediard, jasperliving, just my type, katharos organics, naaka enterprises, ribbon & roses,simone irani , shiva bespoke designs and tamarind living.

 Looking forward towards the next meetup to get more new ideas on blogging with the fellow bloggers. Really thankful for the wonderful gifts in the goodie bag. Last but not least to thank the beautiful fellow blogger, Lucy Waring for organizing this beautiful meetup.