Life may be sad but it's always beautiful

Hi folks, it's TGIF but not one for me because I'll have to work in the evening later...... Alright maybe it isn't that bad afterall (besides it's payment week and there's a higher tendency to be facing nasty parents etc).

From the iphone:

Swee choon for dinz last weekend because I was craving for some good dim sum badly! The chicken/pork floss fried tofu are definitely to-die-for!!

Swimming session with the bff two days ago and it probably wasn't our day because we didn't get to swim a lot due to the thunder alert and had to get out of the pool. 

Till then, more updates to come x.

Love is a choice

This is another piece which I really like.

"Love is a choice, and this applies far beyond just romantic love. Love is, as you all know, the fiber of our beings. But we’re confronted everyday with things that challenge the durability of that essence. Everyday, in every way, we are slated to either choose love or not.

As much as we can open our hearts to people, we can also close them, without even realizing. The typical love saga of the human variety is when a person sees someone who they are either physically attracted to or whom meets their qualifications for “love” and then they open their hearts to them, attach themselves, and carry on in this high that’s really nothing more than physical and biological bodily reactions. Then that “love” crashes, and it ends. And all the expectations that we had for love leaves us reeling. We’ve learned to identify our worth based on someone else, but the danger is what happens if and when they leave. The problem is that we don’t see love as the light intricacies of who we are, but just a high that someone else has to provide.

But of course, reducing love to those simple terms sounds terrible, but that’s because what I just described is not love. It’s infatuation. It’s attachment. It’s physical desire. It’s human nature. It’s not love. That high we feel is what happens when we couple physical and sexual desire with the opening of our hearts, and it seems as though we are being fed that love through our souls and bodies, and as we all know, when the two combine, it’s euphoric. But those feelings fade, because this is not love. Attraction will ebb and flow, but love does not.

To try to define love is a feat of the ages. Impossible, right? How can any such human words encapsulate all of the moving change love does for us? Well– here’s the thing. The love we are trying to define is so impossible to grapple because it’s a cornucopia of things that yield all kinds of experiences that have nothing to do with love.

Love is soul work. Love can be met and joined with attraction and infatuation and all of that, but love will not fade when those things do. You can choose to close your heart to love, and run away, and avoid it for as long as you can in every way you can think of but if it was really, truly, the other-worldly, almost supernatural kind of love that we can only hope to be graced with at least once in this life experience, it will not leave you. You can love many people, but at the end of the day, the love you need to choose is the love that, even if you close your heart to, still moves you. The love you still write about. The love you can’t face. The love you’re still not okay with losing, that you’re angry about; the love that uprooted your life and contorted your being. The love you ran away from because it showed you who you are without the guise of worth given from someone else. This is love because these are all signs that you are closing your heart and to be doing so, there has to be something going through you for you to be able to close off. Real love will be the love you realize that remains even after you close your heart to it, because it sustains itself. It drives you forward. It brings up all the unhealed parts of you that you have to reconcile.

You can choose to love someone for the rest of your life… and it can be nearly anyone, really. You can open your heart and let anybody in if you choose to. We just usually don’t recognize that we’re doing it. But the trick is, comfortable, uninspiring love will not give you the kind of life you’re seeking. It’s not that it won’t make you happy. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with it. But it won’t be extraordinary. It isn’t filled with possibility. The truth is, the real “fairy tale” kind of love is the love that you keep coming back to even when whole swaths of you want to run away. If love is what you’re made of, the love you need to keep choosing is the love that fuels you, and makes more.

It’s time to stop choosing the love that’s easy and painless, and it’s time to start choosing the love that grounds us in the nitty-gritty-tragically-beautiful-emotionally-stoking-heart-shattering-life-changing-I met you and I just knew in that instant kind of experience. We need to choose this not in spite of the fact that it’s difficult, but for that reason exactly. I hope you do choose that. I hope you choose it today. I hope you stop being afraid of what you know to be inevitably true."

Brianna Wiest

Ad // November snow drops (II)

Here's the second sponsored piece which I received a few days ago! 

I really love the black stripes imprinted on the white based dress!

Some selfies with the dress hee :>

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Quote 'michelledilys' for free normal postage!

Have a great weekend to all while I've to fight a tough battle with work and...... will let y'all know again (if you're interested) okay goodnight x.

Thought vs thought

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"Live fully in the present. Don't live to be happy. Be happy while living. Don't make happiness as the end product of your achievements/goals. Derive happiness form whatever you're doing at present. It's the journey that you must enjoy not the end result. Time is ticking and you will not get it back.

Live fully and embrace the present. You can walk your way through life thinking the future will be brighter but if you're not doing the things that matter or count today then you'll never arrive. You've got to love the journey."

Angeline's 21st

3/4 without daph, wish you're with us and not in aussie!

Rosette cake for the birthday girl 

Look at the beautiful mini-firework candle on her cake!!

Last but not least, happy 21st my dearest girl, definitely one of those whom I treasure a lot and always so supportive of me! Hope you love the cream puffs and the craftholic union jack bear <3

Rohi's 21st @ coasta sands

Some of the guys...

And all of the girls...

And the loving couple

Make a guess on what they are actually doing!

Happy belated 21st rohi, hope you had a blast :>

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On a side note, release of UOL results got delayed till friday and it's really annoying because firstly I can't plan what I'm gonna do for the next two years, secondly I can't give available schedules for work and lastly I've to worry for another three days. Wish me luck anyway! 

This

"Because I think the kind of love that we let in our lives tends to change us; it defines us. And thus we become defined not only by the love that we give, but also by the love that we are willing to receive."

Cafe melba // Windowsill in the woods

Our first stop, brunch at cafe melba!

Free range eggs benedict ($20) for myself. I personally feel it's rather run of the mill, riders and choupinette serve much better than this.

Full melba cooked breakfast ($25) for ruby!

90 Goodman Road

Goodman Arts Centre, Block N #01-56

Tel: +65 6440 6068

Opening hours

Weekdays: 10am to 10pm

Weekends & PHs: 8.30am to 10pm

Our next stop, windowsill in the woods!

Lemon strawberry meringue and smores (chocolate + marshmallow) pie ($7.5 each)

These two pies were pretty satisfying but it's quite a pity that they do not have a lot of choices for us who don't really like banana, mint and etc.

78 Horne Road

Tel: +65 9009 7827

Till then, xx.

Wimbly lu chocolate cafe

Love the classy vintage interior

What's for our tummies: Chocolate tofu cake, chocolate creme brulee, macchiato, cafe latte and the highly raved waffles with chocolate truffle ice-cream! Paid approximately $15 each for all these which was pretty worth it.

 Definitely a must to take some mandatory shots with the vintage beetle right outside the cafe!

<3

15-2 Jalan Riang

Singapore 358987

Tel: +65 6289 4289

Opening hours:

Tues to fri: 12pm to 10.30pm

Sat & sun: 9am to 11pm

Step

I'm insanely hooked to this song,(it's really fated) thanks min :>



The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out 
What you on about? 
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones 
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house 
Such a modest mouse
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone

On a rainy monday

To do list for this week:

1. Get my brows thread

2. Play the three exam pieces smoothly (I really dislike the third piece)

3. Make full use of the next five off days

4. Cafe-hopping

5. Bake(?)

That's all as of now, gotta head to work with a pout face because it's payment week (stress!!!) till then ciao!

All great things happen in tiny steps

"Every article you read and source of advice you seek all seem to be pointing toward one thing: change your life. I know I’ve preached this a dozen times over, but something really important that everyone is forgetting to mention is that change will not happen in one swift movement from a day to the next. Change happens in the smallest ways. Baby steps.

We want to be healthy, in happy relationships, pursuing dream careers, etc. But all the advice in the world won’t help if you still feel stuck. If you are depressed or miserable or seeking advice, the smallest change is what will do the trick. And you’ll probably be shocked at what follows. If you want to start working out, walking outside for 10 minutes this afternoon is where you start. When things are too daunting, you won’t do them. If you want to eat better, today make one little tiny barely significant change, like have water instead of soda at one meal. Just once. And then keep going. All the tiny little things will add up and you’ll get to where you want to be.

Change is taking a deep breath and not raising your voice at someone - just once. It’s every job application you fill out, however many hundred you go through, one of them, one little application, could be the start of your new life. It’s a smile, or a hello, to the person you care about. It’s releasing your negative self-talk for just one moment. It’s getting up and walking away from a situation that you shouldn’t be in - just once. That’s all it takes. It only takes 10 seconds of courage to change everything, or to start something that will change everything. Trying to uproot and overhaul and transform your life overnight will seldom work. But do you know what will? Identifying what it is you most want, and making the little, tiny changes until you get there."

Brianna Wiest

Ad // November snow drops

Hello folks, I was pretty excited when Novsnowdrops dropped me a fb message to ask if I'm interested to advertise for them while they will sponsor me a few pieces from one of the sprees in July.

Novsnowdrops is an online korea sprees webstore, operates selling pre-order clothings, shoes, bags and etc. It hold spree weekly and all spree items will arrive about 3-8 working days after the spree ends. What's appalling is that most of the dresses and blouses are range less than S$20.

Here's one of the pieces I've chosen, a black shift dress with simplistic white stripes!

SHOP AT: NOVSNOWDROPS
(They only have a facebook account currently, so do add them up and view their spree collections which will be updated every week!)

Simply quote "Mich5" to entitle 5% if you purchase anything for august spree 1 (: