Friday morning treat

Had a massive chocolate craving this morning. And I have been very good this week so I don't think that this will ruin me. Or will it?




Dark choc and raspberry muffin from the Central Baking Depot. So moist and so lovingly decadent. I made a real mess at my desk with the melted chocolate, raspberry stains and crumbs.
But oh so worth it! Nom nom nom!

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Things that I love(d)

With S gone, I got up to no good and found myself indulging in habits from days gone past. Days when I still bought designer bags and frequented The Purse Forum.

It all began when I found these shorts I hadn't worn for a while whilst wardrobe-purging. I decided to skip the elegance for one day and go casual Sunday instead.




The Cassette tape is S's hand me down iPhone cover until my bling pack arrives



 This is it: taking self outfit portraits, wearing said shorts with my puffy jacket, this used to be my look when I was pretending I was Japanese. Not really just liked their style for a few years back then.

Oh hey, you can also see my new bangs that I got for 2012!

I miss wearing my Pochette Marelle this way. Nowadays I just use it as a clutch. These days, I am more about my jewels than my bags, having gotten so much bling from the wedding. P from work is so jealous, she asks if she may convert to be Chinese so that she can get jewelry at her wedding lol!

Well, if you're interested, I am wearing my silver leaf diamond pendant from second aunty and my rings. And a super blingy BCBGMaxaria watch that I rock nowadays. Just a few things I didn't use to have back then.

Was about to hit the shops for a spot of groceries shopping when S comes home from his bucks so we go together and he drives instead of me walking to the local shops like I planned to. Mighty glad I did though cause who knew that they sell sushi now at Woolies??? I sure didn't!

Carrying it home in the car - balancing it gingerly on my thighs

 
Gave me a good excuse to rock out my Japanese cutlery. Yes I cook Jap at home enough to warrant pretty crockery.

The review: the sushi looked so good at the bar that I simply couldn't make up my mind which one to get. Eating it though, and mind you we are Japanese snobs, (we only drink green tea made in Japan) S and I could taste that the sushi had been sitting there and the rice had gone cold. The flavours are there, just not fresh-made-sushi-warm enough for our liking.

Still, now I know where to source sashimi from for the Chinese New Year dish I am making next weekend. Stay tuned! I promise pictures!

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Wedding inspiration

I hadn't realised how many movies/ TV series potray wedding dresses until last year when I was actually planning my wedding. It's like some things are there but you just never notice it until you are in that Zone.

So whilst S was away last night I cracked into his movie stash which are movies that he had watched without me which he proclaims are crap or ones that you'd only watch once and therefore we shall never watch them together. Sigh... This is hard because amongst the list were movies that I just really wanted to watch such as the Time Traveller's Wife, Tron and The King's Speech.

Last night, I cracked open The Proposal and When in Rome. And I don't know... this inspiration came too late, but how beautiful was Kirsten Bell in her wedding dress from that movie?

And it wasn't just the dress...it was her soft, flowing ethereal veil that I adored. But I wasn't interested in veils before the wedding. I thought I was just going to have that as my something borrowed and so beggars couldn't be choosers. In fact, I was so 'constricted' by cost when planning the wedding that I now see many beautiful things that I wished we could have had incorporated into ours...but well, we missed that boat didn't we?

That's it. I don't regret my wedding, but it sure ain't one of those you'd see on SMP.

Whining aside...I watch that scene where she is running in her wedding dress... and I wonder, one of the things I struggled most with about finding a wedding dress was how heavy they each were and I didn't want the big flouncy dresses that I couldn't move in (eventhough people still told me afterwards they couldn't get near to me on the day because my train was everywhere) no matter how beautiful they do look in photos afterwards. We had picked my dress on Shimmer quality... but that didn't even come through in the pictures. I wonder how many people are like me and don't get the results I had in their head when the pictures come out?

Quiet weekend catching up

There is a bucks happening in Manly tonight & S has booked a room at the Novotel Sydney Manly Pacific and is staying over there. First night since coming back from the Honeymoon that we've spent apart from each other.

I don't mind much. I am coughing. Stopped S from sleeping well last night anyways. But spending an entire day by myself has been nice, catching up on blogs, ASOS dress shopping, cleaning up my wadrobe to make room for my new purchases...I even made Little Purple PolkaDots's Prawn fettucine for lunch before S left for his bucks (and I am sure he will be back for more of that one! Thanks E!).
Anyways, S and I were given vouchers to a Japanese degustation dinner in Surry Hills this week and we happily obliged as our dishwasher is kinda broken and we haven't had a date night since we got married. So voila, here's what we had:

This wasn't part of the degustation, it's my yellowfin tuna from Bistro Lily, the next day at lunch.

And this, is what I curled up with whilst Hubby was gone, a nice glass of cold bubbly...

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You, me and Siri

In bed last night, S and I had company. Gosh I know you didn't think this was That kind of blog did you? But well unfortunately, part of happyeverafters are well... Bedtime stories...so here we go.

S got an iPhone 4s last night. And the main new feature was of course Siri the voice-activated software assistant. We both had a lot of fun getting to know Siri last night. Whoever programmed her made her real flirtatious! It started off with S asking: "When is my wife's birthday?"
Siri replied," I don't know who your wife is. In fact, I don't know you are. Why don't you tell me a little bit more about yourself?"

And thus began a series of nervous giggles as S and I began to ask bolder questions of Siri. "Who are you Siri?" to which she answered," I don't like to talk about myself"

It is a little weird, she knows many things about us, who our parents are, where our friends lived, when their birthdays are and remembers them better than we do. I wonder if my wifey duties are being threatened here? S asked me, "What should I wear tomorrow?" and I said I don't know, maybe he should ask Siri, and she said," Tomorrow's weather would be nice." Gosh and I know that S would trust her a lot more than if those words came out of my mouth. Even if it was mere gossip, like how long was Kim Kardashian married for? S had to affirm it with Siri who said," Let me think about it, would you like me to do a web search on that? " and then the reply... 72 days.

Hhhrmpph! Ah well, as S rolls over to chat further with Siri his new companion, I lie there hardly disgruntled as I was planning my new blingy hard case cover that I must now purchase for my new-to-me iPhone 4. At least S now no longer have an excuse to forget my birthday, valentine's day or our anniversary.


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