Fashionista 101: Propped Collar, Handbag Pursies

Here are some mistakes that I see some Singaporean guys make and for each fashionista 101 post, I will include about 1-5 fashion mistakes and disasters that Singaporean guys make. Well, Singaporean guys are good at a lot of things like eating, partying, keeping to rules and regulations, becoming millionaires (almost 60% of the population are millionaires but not rich because housing and automobiles already take away 80% of their fortune) and etc. But, if there is one thing most Singaporean men are NOT good at it would be dressing up. Trust me. Even my dad faults some of them. It irks me and I think I've had enough. I hope some of you see this and try your very very best to changes your ways. Either that or I hope Santa Claus would do me a favor and drop a visit to everyone of you and place a spell to cleanse Singapore of men that faults fashion codes. I agree that dressing should be personal and sometimes you just want to kick back and relax and dress lightly without the care of the world, but, can you have some sense of decency and dress at least to the level that will not hurt people's eyes or their minds.

So here goes.

Fashionista Mistake:

Propped Collars on Polo Tees.

I don't have anything against polo tees but wearing it with the collars propped up is seriously not stunning, not elegant and simply, a way for all the girls and guys to shun you. If you are from the count Dracula era or would like to cosplay as the count, be my guest, but it won't be getting you any attention from the girls and guys looking like you come from the 1800s. By the way, I believe the propping of collars for the draculas are because they fear the sunlight. Similarly, the sunlight touching your delicate necks can cause some sort of a sunburn in the hot and sunny weather of Singapore. But, the way to go about it isn't to wear propped collars. Instead, please go to the nearest guardian or watson store to purchase a sunblock. Please! Shed the propped collars. They simply aren't cool and won't get you any attention save the weird looks. Just for the love of god and everyone, this is how the story goes: René Lacoste who was the inventor of the polo shirt used to pop up his collar during tennis matches when the heat of the sun was too strong and thus he wanted to protect his neck. Now I'm sure 99% of the men who pop up their polo shirt collars on the street don't do it to protect their necks , they do it because they think it's cool. It's not. It makes you look like you have no neck, no backbone and a total douche bag.

Fashionista Mistake

Purse and Handbag carrying

I am sure you have seen some men carrying the purses/handbags of their girlfriends or wives. The concern here is whether or not women really need their men to carry their purses and handbags around looking like what the noose calls them, "pursies". I'm glad I'm into men (or rather, cute boys like myself) such that I don't have to lower myself to carry the handbags of one's girlfriend. It irks me that if you want to bring a bag, then carry the effing bag yourself! It's no one's job to carry your bag. Women, please stop making your men look like pussies. They do no help to make you look overbearing. It actually makes them look like a total loser. Tie a noose around their neck on other stuff. But if you really love your men, you wouldn't berate him by asking him to carry your purse. Ask him to carry your shopping bags but don't ask him to carry your tiny purse. Carry it yourself!

That's all I have for today. Leave a comment if you have any fashion no-no's you want me to do or if you need help with any fashion problems.

Food Escapade: Blisshouse Reviews(Italian/French)

So, before I start blogging today, I want to just add that my eye is currently in a state which is half closed (without me actually trying to close it or open it) because the eyelid is swollen. Due to an infection which I am taking antibiotics and eye drops for. Anyways, since I am resting at home (my last day of medical leave), I thought it would be good to spend sometime to tell you about my food escapade at Blisshouse this weekend.

Below is a picture of how my eye looks even though this isn't my eye.

Eye infection that swells my eyelids till it blocks most of my vision in the right eye.

I booked blisshouse through a groupon voucher. Yes, I know... I am kind of a cheapo. Hey, but so what? This gives me an opportunity to try and comment and food taste the food that I would otherwise have no budget for. I've seen blisshouse on the television and even in short films (like in I.am.Jonathan written by my JC friend Kenneth Chia). We went there for lunch and boy oh boy. The ambiance is indeed fantastic! AstroTurf all  over the place, clean white walls and furniture and even plastered pillars looking like tree trunks and Venetian aged pillars. A white baby grand piano complete with an annoying bunch of photographers and wedding couple that ran here and there here and there all the time we were having lunch, talking and shouting instructions at each other. Well, thanks to them the ambiance wasn't as good as I thought it to be. I guess what the owner was trying to do was to bring the feeling of comfort in nature and having a nice meal together. The least Blisshouse could have done (in my opinion) was to have the photo shoot in the later afternoon after lunch time so that diners would not be greatly affected.

The front and logo of the cafe/restaurant.

Hey, can you see the first white table on the right (In the foreground)? That's where we sat.

So, I ordered a 3 course set lunch which included the clam linguine vongole, the cream of tomato and the tea to subtly end off the meal. My boyfriend, ordered the ham carparcio carbonara which tasted awesome (kind of like bacon actually), and the same old soup and the coffee. 

So, here's the cream of tomato which was slightly on the sour side and because the seeds wasn't taken out and they are extremely hard to blend, the soup wasn't smooth. It had bits and pieces of tomato seeds which was something different in terms of texture.

Unfortunately, the photos of both the pasta is with my boyfriend now and I can't upload them. But that can't stop me from sharing with you my opinion of them. The pasta was cooked right: al dente. My vongole was kind of not a vongole. It was more of a aglio olio without the olio. It had chilli padi to try to musk the terribly fishy (unfresh) clams. It stated on the menu, "fresh clam cooked in linguine in a clam stock in an aglio olio like way" or something like that. But the clams weren't even close to fresh and that plate set a person (without the voucher) back by SGD$ 22. That is just plain expensive for unfresh clams. Besides, they had the audacity to not take away the unopen clam that was in my pasta. Rule of seafood pasta: never add an unopen clam into a pasta after boiling them. The carbonara wasn't really a carbonara per se because it was more olive oil based than eggs and milk based. There was almost no eggs in that pasta. Not saying its not delicious. It was just cooked in an unconventional manner and probably not the carbonara we are all used to.

Here's my cup of tea. Nice smooth tea that they bothered to cool it down for me to drinkable temperature.

That is my boyfriend's coffee and his hands. He's a coffee lover unlike me. I prefer my tea.

This is just me being stupid. My boyfriend's glasses on a sink. Looks like a tap cow!!!

Verdict

Ambience - Excellent

Food - Good

Cost - $40 per pax

Overall - Good

Address

6 Eu Tong Sen Street, #03-21

The Central, Singapore 059817.

http://www.blisshouse.com.sg/

Opening Hours

12pm to 11pm

We later went to walk around. I actually booked a bar sitting for some drinks in the evening but my boyfriend wasn't supportive of the idea. Instead we walked around and made our way to liang court. At the place, it was a japanese haven. Japanese hairdressers, japanese sales people, japanese family, japanese food and even japanese theme cafe. We shopped around and walked around until my boyfriend became hungry. So we settle on japanese curry house which he order the tonkatsu curry set and me the bento. The tonkatsu was slightly on the tougher side but had bite and was battered in an amazingly crisp panko bread crumps. Yum. Pork loin was the chosen meat cut and thus it was a little slightly tough and less juicy. The uncle preparing the meat was so enthusiastic that he jumped into asking if we ordered two sets even before we paid for our meal. So much so that the cashier had to ask the uncle not to be so over enthusiastic! It's great you are so energetic and enthusiastic about your work. It was both funny and a little weird. But hey, if the man likes his job, who am I to judge?

Food Escapade: Baci Reviews (Italian)

My boyfriend and I both are foodies. We love to cook, eat and find the best of the best food. Of course, our current allowance wouldn't allow us from getting food that are really worth their price. Which is definitely out of our reach given our weak financial backing. Anyways, we decided on one thing though, that we will try our best to complete the world food travel (around Singapore) which means we have to eat at least a meal at all types of food around the world, Turkish, Thai, Malaysian, Italian, Spanish, German, English etc. This time, we tried our hand at Italian cuisine.

And if you would mind me saying it was delizioso! I'm a maniac on saving money when it comes to eating and buying stuffs. This time, I bought a groupon voucher for $60 worth of Italian food that was in a serious sense, too much food for both of us to finish. I ordered a pork chop, he ordered a roast chicken for the mains. We had a country mushroom soup which came is a slightly too big bowl for anyone to finish. Trust me. It's not a starter. It's a main. Are they trying to feed a starving man or what? Ridiculous portions but seriously delicious and rather cheap food.

By the time we went there to get our food, it was already almost filled to the brim with customers. Being a walk-in and self-service cafe/restaurant, we sat down and contemplated what to order for dinner. I know my boyfriend was starving at that time given he usually eats at 5 30 in camp and it was closing to 6 30. My tiramitsu that I wished so much to try was sold out and so was the red velvet which left me with only two other choices: the waffles and the creme brulee. In which I chose the waffles which later turned out to be a very very very bad idea. My boyfriend also ordered a 10 inch pizza. That was basically the spread and it came fairly quickly. The restaurant was swarmed with people and I believe that they didn't expect their groupon voucher to sell so hotly. When I reach home to check, there was already a 1000+ people who bought the voucher. I was so packed that people who came in at 7 30 were turned away because they had run out of food.

The restaruant/ cafe door. The interior was designed in a rather modern and cozy place. Great for catching up with friends and a cheap place for a non-romantic date.

Porkchops that was seriously good. The sauce was amazing and the meat was juicy.

The roast chicken with sweet and sour peppers. A rip off of my recipe man! See my pork chops with sweet and sour peppers. Luckily my boyfriend said my sauteed peppers and onions tasted much better!

My boyfriend and his obsession with pizza. This pizza was good though.

The table spread. Missing the soup which came later. Wait! didn't the menu state the soup as a starter or was it... a filler?

This is the crazy soup and the cute coffees they serve. Soup: not worth it. You might as well spend the money on the pizza or more coffee. Too much milk and too little flavour.\

When the waffles came, we were so stuffed we didn't finish this humongous waffle. It was however very delicious with the crisp outer layer and chewy inner layers coated with flowery maple syrup and over-ripened strawberries and whipped cream and drizzled with chocolate sauce.

Verdict

Ambience - Great

Food - Great

Cost - $30 per pax

Overall - Must Try!

Address

112 East Coast Road, #01-07

I12 Katong, Singapore 428802.

http://www.baci.com.sg/

Opening Hours

Not Stated

Shopping online

I am fast exceeding my monthly allowance. And this is all because of the advent of such a thing as online shopping. It's terribly exciting with all the possibilities, all the choices, all the friggin sales and promotions, all the unique items you can't buy offline. So here I am, two months continuously, I have been far exceeding my limits. It's not that bad till I am spending into my next month's "allowance" but still, I almost have nothing left to save. Then again. shopping makes me happy. :)

So, I ordered so many things online. From shoes to bags, to jeans, to vests, to wallets, to vouchers, to hotel deals and even air tickets. It's so convenient and so much cheaper even with the shipping and all. So here's a little package that arrive a month ago but I didn't tell any of you because I wanted to try the products out and see how good they are before commenting on them because that, would seem more like judging the book by its cover per se.

1. Nike Free Run 5.0 which was discussed in my previous post at this if you haven't yet read it yet.

2. ASOS stripe sleeveless tee which is so airy and comfortable. And, my boyfriend likes me in stripes so I got this.

3. NIKE backpack. I am a bag freak. I have so many bags I sometimes don't know which bag to carry out but I still buy more bags because they entice me so much. I do love my rive island carryall but it's too huge to carry it and my boyfriend will chide me every-time I carry that out because we have the same bag and that means (in his sense at least) that he cannot carry that bag out. By the way, this bag is a great buy for only SGD 21.59! What a steal!

4. My river island leather embossed wallet. I'm quite a fan of England because I feel that the design of the union jack is so attractive. Maybe it's the colors but it is seriously a good design almost anywhere.

The total price tag for all of those was a whooping SGD 120 which is quite a slice of my allowance. I am happy with them so I won't say anything about them.

Today, my extreme racer vest came and I came to realize what my boyfriend meant when he said these vest was revealing.

Blog haitus (a week) and My crazy boyfriend's mind

Me and my boyfriend has been on quite the food adventure lately. And with that, there has been a slight misunderstanding of my intents. I merely just want my food loving boyfriend to enjoy his food and have fun simply because seeing him smile makes me really happy. Clearly he thought of this as a sort of "prisoner's last meal before the officer shouts 'dead man walking'." Well, obviously I didn't intent for a great dinner to turn up scaring the shit out of my boyfriend thinking that I would soon break up with him. But, it definitely was quite funny when we had a talk later (over the phone) about what he felt, and had the cheek to say that he thought it was his "last meal". Of course, it was darn hilarious. I would think he didn't laugh because he felt more embarrassed by it. But heck, it really is funny and that's how cute he is.

Anyways, the adventure will be told in another post after this. I will then attempt to explain why I didn't have the chance to blog in the past one week or so. Sorry people. It was definitely tiring for me too with my diploma exams, the last minute studying and all the nights I can't sleep because I am not with my dearest boyfriend. I don't know when I developed this reliance of having him next to me before I sleep very very very well, but, I just don't feel refreshed and awake when I sleep and wake up without him next to me. I guess the fact he is there gives me the feeling of being protected and comfortable enough for me to relax. I do know that prior to our overseas trip, my boyfriend always had trouble sleeping with me (not in the dirty way you are thinking. Just sleep. Sheesh!) which he clearly kept to himself not wanting to hurt me. So yeah, now he tells me he can sleep beside me comfortably. That's a win for me then.

Anyways, truth be told. I've not been blogging because I am plain lazy. Ha! Yes. I am lazy. I just had my exams and I think I ought to have some time for myself. I've been using this time to catch up to my favorite animes: Naruto and One Piece. Disappointing that Naruto had so many fillers. Obviously I didn't use 5 days to watch the measly few episodes I missed in the last 2 months. I spent the rest of the time shopping online and yes, I broke my month's budget yet again! Darn those good offers! I'll show you what I got when it all comes. Btw, I also watched pewdiepie's channel on youtube. I don't really like to subscribe to channels so yeah, I'm not a bro. But that said, if he makes more crazy wheels videos I might join the bro army. Anyways, I would like to congratulate pewdiepie on being the most subscribed channel on youtube surpassing Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift! He's so hilarious if you haven't yet watch him, go view his vids! I'm sure even the person who doesn't laugh ever will laugh at at least one of his videos! Binkt is my favourite name he uses. Binkt the ball, binkt the squishy thingy he throws and binkt the journey eagle thingy. Let's bring the hate on the barrels!

Pewdiepie and his epic brofist ending (always does it in every single video)