Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts

Monday, April 26, 2010

NYC + Food Porn + Love Packages

A few weeks ago hubby and I went to New York City.....weekends gets too boring here in our current place and we are craving for some good food....
first stop:
Mitsuwa
595 River Rd.
Edgewater, NJ 07020

Everytime we go to NYC we have to stop by here...we had Ramen for lunch and went to get some groceries and stop by Sanseido bookstore to look for some magazines...here's my loot....

(The Face Shop Post-Acne Night Spot Eraser was bought at NYC's Face shop store)
CanCam May 2010

Creamyaki at Oishinbo
Battery Tunnel around 3:45pm on our way to brooklyn...

then park the car and took the subway to manhattan.....

I had to stop by The Face Shop to get the Post-Acne Night Spot Eraser which unfortunately didn't work on my skin.... then dinner at....

NY Kom Tang Soot Bul Kal Bi
32 W 32nd St, New York 10001
(Btwn Broadway & 5th Ave)

we had what else?korean bbq...I had the Deungshim Gul (grilled sirloin steak) and raymund had
Samkyupsal Gul (grilled slices of Pork), the food was ok....but the service was great, the waiter was so helpful and the funny thing is at first he was talking to us in korean, I was like what???? he even gave us this steamed egg dish on the house and the best thing about it...the price is so affordable....

after dinner I was so excited to go shopping but then hubby told me he's not feeling well (sucks!) so we went back home instead....major disappointment!!!

the next day we went to church with auntie & uncle....here's raymund playing around while waiting.....

then we had lunch in one of our fave....

Nyonya Malaysian Cuisine
5323 54th Street, 8th Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11220

this is the best malaysian restaurant in brooklyn in our opinion....we had Roti canai, Curry Beef Stew Casserole, Sarang Burong and Malaysian Style Spareribs and Malaysian Ice Tea...honestly everything were so good!!! They said service sucks here but really I didn't care at all I was so busy eating, hehe....

Homemade Roti Canai Indian Pancake
Sarang Burong
(shaped fried taro stuffed with shrimp, chicken corn, snow peas & black mushroom topped with cashew nuts, oh so good)

Spareribs Malaysian Style
that's it for our weekend....I think I gained another few pounds....

Love Package:
Thank you so much to May!!!for sending me these goodies....Canmake blushes has always been on my wishlist and May was so sweet to send me the cream blush in 01.....she even included some matcha milk tea...which I've been craving for a long time....more masks :D and an elf brush to try...thanks May for being my fairy godmother for a day...I love everything.....

and remember the last time I told you about Diane of Orange to LA's blogsale which in my opinion is one of the best...well, she added some new stuff again and luckily I got her VOV Castledew blush and lipstick first...hehe...when I saw it....I immediately emailed her...and check out the package there's two castledew lipstick in there....she gave me the second one for free....and even added some masks & a sample handcream...Thank you so much Diane....


and lastly I won birkie's early spring-birdy giveaway :D
and look at what I got......
I was so excited when I opened the package....
Thank you Birkie!!!so much new makeup to play with....
and does anyone know birkie's mailing address????

Me and raymund decided not to go to Outerbanks,NC with family this week because of his work so I'm a bit disappointed as I've been looking forward to it.....so the family sent us some pics to make us jealous.... here's my nephew currently enjoying the beach....
jealous much.....:(

oh well, that's it for now.....
have a great week everyone.....


XOXO,
Iris

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Hi!!!It's my first post of 2010, Happy New Year to everyone who I haven't greeted yet..so how did you spend your new year? mine was a bit different from what I'm used to instead of a party at home we just had a simple dinner with friends at the resto and went downtown for the strawberry drop & fireworks and the next day we did the usual thing we always do every new year, go to NYC but this year was more fun because we had mom & some friends with us....

we also spend the last day of the year in the sweetest place on earth, where else? Hershey, PA...
I never get tired of this place, I'm always fascinated with the Hershey kisses street lights & the street names like Cocoa avenue & Chocoloate avenue....
It was also the last day (for this season) of the Hershey Candylane at HersheyPark....

The Carousel
The Kissmas Tree
and here's our way of Welcoming New Year...

the countdown

and the strawberry drop

I didn't get the chance to take a pic of the fireworks
cuz' I have been taking video of the whole thing...

then the next day.....
check out one of our hotel room, did JFK really slept here??

Unto the Haul
Well, I've been good...I can't believe myself,
I just went to Sephora and got myself these $10 Goodies
Stila foundation wardrobe in warm, Nars Concealer(Custard/Ginger),
Fresh Magic Wands Mini Mascara Duo & Benefit to go beauty bestsellers
and these lip products

Sephora Lip Attitude-Glamour in 02 & 05, Dior Addict in Jersey Pink &
YSL ROUGE VOLUPTÉ in 13 Peach Passion

The Sephora Lip Attitude lipsticks are fairly good....the 02 Pink Lover is my current favorite...

I regretted getting the Dior Addict in Jersey Pink...it's just the wrong shade for me...it's not sticky but because of too much glitter on it...I look too pale like I've been wearing a blue lipgloss or I'm cyanotic...

The YSL ROUGE VOLUPTÉ isn't part of my NYC haul, I got it last december but I have to rave about it....It's the creamiest, most pigmented weird color lipstick I've ever had in my entire life..I was so shock that a bright peach coral shade would look good on me plus the packaging is so beautiful....the downside it would look flaky on my dry lips if I don't use lipbalm before applying it...but still I love it and I can't wait to get my hands on other shades...

Well, that's it for now....



XOXO,
Iris

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Happy Mother's Day

To Mom...
who never sends you
out into the cruel world
without first wrapping you up
in the warmth of her love.

Thank You...

My Sister and Mom

Happy Mother's Day to my Mama, my Mom-In-Law, my Big Sis and to all moms out there.....

Dad-In-Law,Mom-In-Law and Mom

Last week I kept telling my hubby that we're not going out this saturday as I want to save my money for our trip to Asheville, NC but because Tornado passed through our town last night, when we woke up we got no cable and internet, we got nothing to do,we got bored so we went out.......


and I ended up spending again....but I'm still happy with what I got...


I also got these...I'm not familiar with the brand but I like the packaging so I bought it....

Holiday in Balm Beach and Holiday in Balm Springs (The Balm)...Here's what it looks inside....


I haven't tried it yet...so I can't tell if it's a keeper or not....

and I also got these at target.....yay!!!I cheap stuff.....

Clearasil Stayclear (for my zits)
Sonia Kashuk Spoolie (my eyebrows is such a mess)
NYC bronzer in Sunny (just wanted to try it)
L'oreal Hip Cream Liner (black)
Hip Lip Jelly (succulent)
NYC nail polish (I have no idea why I got it..lol)

Yesterday, One of the stores in town...Wow!!They got Live mannequins .....lol

and lastly this is one of the reason why I never learn how to put on makeup......


XOXO,
Iris♥