Quizzed by BJ

I was only all too happy to answer this list of questions by a dear blog-friend – Book Junkie from Singapore Actually.  BJ is really one of the sweetest bloggers I’ve known and am really honoured that our paths crossed through blogosphere.  I’m a huge fan of her work and if you really want a glimpse of how life is like in our tiny island or want to find out more about the places to go to, then head on over and peer into her blog.

Here are BJ’s 11 questions for me:

1. What is the best trip you have ever made that you would recommend to others? Which country did you visit?
One of the best trips that I’m most fond of would be the one I took with my cousins to London – Florida when I was 17.  The parents sent me and my second sis on a holiday with my youngest aunt and her family.  Turned out to be a wonderful trip as I was really close to my cousins then.  We had a ball!  From sharing rooms in London to roller-coaster rides in Orlando.  We visited Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida and had a BLAST!  Of course, there were some squabbles along the one but we quickly forgot about those.

2. If you could choose, where would you have liked to be born?
Hmm.. Japan perhaps.  I love the Japanese culture loads and often wonder what it would be like growing up in Tokyo / Japan.

3. What is your dream vocation?
I’m a dreamer and have dreamed of several vocations.  Right now, my dream vocation would be being in concierge services.  I love sussing out the good deals and recommending them to people.

4. What blog or website do you read daily without fail?
My instagram feed.  I love catching up on my fave bloggers pics via this app.

5. What book are you reading now?
The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chboksy.

6. Do you play an instrument?
Yeah! I used to play the organ and clarinet when I was in the school band for about a year.

7. What did you like best about your childhood?
Sleepovers with my cousins!

8. What is your biggest regret?
Job-hopping.  I wished I stayed in some of my careers a little longer than usual. Maybe that way, I don’t feel so stuck in my career now.

9. Name 5 of your favourite foods?
Potato Chips, Yong Tau Foo, Bak Chor Mee, Siew Mai and Ume Onigiri.

10. Name your favourite celebrity.
Victoria Beckham – she’s got a killer sense of style.

11. What is the most important value to you?
Trust.

I had fun doing this, so thanks once again to BJ for inviting me to be part of this. 

Getting to know you a little better…

Remember the Liebster Blog Awards?  I said I wasn’t going to pass it on to other bloggers?  Well, I changed my mind!  I thought it would be nice to get to know the other bloggers a little better and I’m hoping that these bloggers will feel the same way too.

So, yes!  You’ve been tagged!!  Oh and if you are not yet a recipient of the Liebster Blog Award then this comes as a bonus for you’ve been awarded the fore-mentioned award!  Read the fine-print here on how to accept the award.

Here are the 11 questions I’m hoping that you would answer:

1. If you are using an iPhone, what’s the one app you can’t live without.
2. Fave haunts in our little island?
3. Fave eats? [It can be anywhere in the world]
4. What is your favourite comfort food and why?
5. What do you miss most about your home country when you are away?
6. What’s the one place that you do not mind visiting over and over again.
7. Fave type of weather/ season?
8. Would Gangnam Style get you up on your feet?
9. If you could be a cartoon character, who would it be and why?
10. When the going gets tough, what would be a quote/saying that you look to for strength?
11. Share some of the little things that would make you happy.

Coming up with the 11 questions wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be, so hoping you won’t spend too much time to answer them.  Here are my pick of bloggers that I will be tagging for this post:

lavishley
Some like it haute
missus C’s reverie
the boke effect
It’s only carrots
This blessed life
little projects in style
bowlerena
Singapore Actually
pebz

If you wanna hop in the fun, don’t let the above list stop you!  Just fill on your answers and send a pingback. 

Capture the Everyday: Something you collect

Capture the Everyday is about getting you to capture those everyday moments in your life! Each Tuesday, Mel from Adventuroo will issue a simple challenge to capture something that’s a part of your daily life. It’s a quick, easy way to start capturing those little parts of life we sometimes take for granted.

This week’s assignment: Something you collect

I could think of loads of stuff that I like collecting – bags/ shoes/ toiletries and the list can go on.  I think I’m largely a hoarder for I like collecting and keeping them.  Well, ain’t the best trait to have… so from time to time, I enjoy decluttering the stuff out of my life.

But for now, here are some of the things I collect:

Accessories – I love how they jazz up a simple outfit and either dress it up or add a burst of fun to it.  These are my au-current fave accessories.

Quirky prints!  Here are some of the prints that I purchased from Etsy, I love how they transform my plain dressing table into a fun one.

Wanna share something that you collect?  Hop on over to Adventuroo to participate in this week’s challenge then.

Click here to view my other contributions to ‘Capture the everyday’.

A peek in Lady J’s life: Saturdays

Weekends are usually very precious for us.  Most of the time, we tend to take advantage of it by travelling to nearby countries.  But after an intensive month of traveling every weekend in September, we decided to take a little break.  So last weekend, we hosted some friends that we’ve met here in Geneva to a Singapore food feast.  This weekend, we are opening our place up again cooking up a storm for some friends.

Here’s what I did this Saturday:

• The Man went for a golf game with friend while I hung out with E and the little Style Princess over morning coffee.
• Loving those awesome boots that the little Style Princess had on.
• Did I tell you I’m a potato chip junkie?  Well, I am… ;o
• The Man lost the golf game and ended up buying lunch for the group.  Steak for lunch.. I had the half portion which was good enough for me.
• The Man prepping dinner.  Another Asian feast but smaller scale this time round: Nasi Lemak with Sayur Lodeh.
• Dessert was a freshly baked Pandan Chiffon Cake that I had baked earlier in the day with E.
• Dinner with friends was really nice.. 3 bottles of wine polished off by 4 people.  Thank goodness guests loved our food too!

This time next weekend, we’re going to be in Florence.. Woo hoo… I seriously can’t wait!!

A peek in Lady J’s life: TGIF

Wow..this photo project is a little harder than I thought it would be, but I will continue to persist with documenting my daily happenings with photos.  I’m back to a photo collage of just key highlights from the day:

• Miss my ‘Florals in the loft’ series so adding to my collection of pix, these gorgeous white roses that we purchased from France for only 1.90 Euro.
• Baked up a batch of pink macarons.  I know, they have big feet!  But at least they no longer have peaks!
• Met up with blogger Sam from Schwingen in Switzerland for a hot bowl of soba noodles.  Perfect for such a cold and windy day.
• Headed to do some thrifting with friends from Singers.  Pretty pleased with my buys, new plates for food styling
• The Man came back early, we lazed around and then headed out for dinner.  Meeting up with his friends from work.  That’s me decked in my Fall gear and the Man throwing out the trash.  Hehe.
• Met up with new friends and enjoyed a lovely meal of Italian pizza over at our fave pizza joint in Geneva.  Thereafter, continued with more drinks.
• Got home at about midnight and hit the sack after a hot shower.

 

A peek in Lady J’s life: Thirsty Thursday

The Man finally caught up with reading my blog and was wondering why I was on a ‘blog-roll’ updating my daily events.  That’s when I told him that I was participating in a week-long photo challenge over at Adventuroo.  I must say that it does take quite a lot of effort in documenting the entire day’s events with pictures.  So here is my attempt to get past 5 pictures for Thursday’s edition:

• Got up bright and early, decided to bake up some chouquettes for friends.  This had better work for it was my 4th attempt in baking these tiny nibbles.
• Prepped the working station, followed the recipe to a tee this time round and viola – chouquettes!!
• As the sun was out, decided to style the chouquettes for a little shoot.  That’s the usual set-up that I have for most of the bake goods that I whip up here in Geneva.
• Thereafter, cleaned up and decided to give the apartment a quick clean.
• Checked emails, surfed the net and waited for E to give me a call before deciding where to head for lunch.

• It was such a beautiful day in Geneva.  Blue skies and cool temperatures, so I walked up an appetite before meeting friends for an Indian buffet lunch.
• I love a good meal of Indian food.. yummy!!!  But I probably over-ate because I was too hungry… ;/
• Walked about in town for a bit before heading home in a flurry, cos I left the home in a mess and the Man was back from work a little earlier than usual.   Oops..
• Received a package from the little sis.  It’s a Varsity tee from her school which I jokingly said I had wanted.  So that was a belated birthday gift that she got for me.  Looks incredibly comfy to slouch around in.  Hehe
• Crossed over to France in under 20 minutes.  We were headed to Annemasse to do a little grocery shopping.  See, told you I go to the supermarket almost on a daily basis.
• Wanted to do an early dinner at about 630pm but none of the restaurants were opened that early for us, so we popped into another supermarket near our place, got some Ravioli and pasta sauce for a simple meal.
• Dinner is served at 715pm with a lovely bottle of Red wine.  Finally, alcohol in the system! That’s the reason why the post is called ‘Thirsty Thursday’!
• Finished dinner, the Man popped in some Mont D’or cheese into the oven to bake.  White truffle oil was drizzled over the baked cheese for an after-dinner treat.
• Sudden inspiration for a macaron filling so I made a batch of those and popped them in the refrigerator for the flavours to meld together.
• 10.50pm – feeling super sleepy but gotta wait for the dishes to be done before I can call it a night.  <Yawn!!>

A peek in Lady J’s life: Wednesdays

Mid-week!!!  Yippee!!!  I guess it doesn’t really make a difference for me since I’m not working but somehow there’s always a buzz when weekend approaches.

Here’s a run-down of my Wednesday with some of the best pictures taken with the iPhone.  I gotta say I’m doing quite a crappy job of documenting my entire day (I’ve seen what the others have done and it’s amazing the tons of pictures that they’ve taken).  Well, I guess the primary reason why I decided not to put in that many pictures because WordPress has a limit to the number of pictures that I can load on the blog, so I kinda got to be discerning with the space constraints.

• Day was foggy when I woke up.  Dragged myself out of bed and plonked in front of my lap-top to surf/blog.
• Had a date with E to head to the Asian supermarket to load up on food supplies.  As it was still pretty cold when I peeked my head out of the window, I decided to play safe and dress in slightly heavier knits. Loving the Aztec printed knit that I got and paired with UGG boots. It’s my first Fall that I’m experiencing and the weather drives me absolutely insane.  I can never quite guess whether it’s going to be warm or cold!  This time I over-dressed!  Arh!!!
• Headed back to E’s place for lunch.  Salad and ravioli – yumz!  Attempted to make grass jelly, we thought we had it right but after a couple of hours of making the grass jelly and letting it cool in the open, it’s still not hardening.
• Off to do a little retail therapy in town, walked past Comptoir Des Cotonniers boutique.  Couldn’t resist popping in for they were having a Mid Season Sale with up to 40% discounts.  Yay to savings!  E picked out a lovely trench coat for me and it was gorgeous!  Just in time for the trench coat that I had been about 5 years old already.  Time to bid that coat goodbye. 
• On the way back to E’s place, she pointed out Restaurant De La Madeleine – the only restaurant in Geneva that doesn’t serve alcohol!  That’s the first I’ve heard.
• Lugged 3 bags of stuff filled with goodies and groceries back home.
• Prepped dinner – Spicy tofu served with leftover duck stew.
• Was feeling too stuffed from dinner, so decided to get busy and try my hand at baking those chouquettes again.  Attempt number 3.  Failed again! Burnt chouquettes greeted me again.  I’m going to stick to the previous recipe that succeeded the next time round!  Hmph!
• Unwinding down with a hot cuppa verbena tea and my eyes glued to the iPad loaded with the latest episodes of my favourite shows.