Photo Journal 5

This is going to be a mix of random different days that I wanted to blog about but didn't.

First off... I had a quality fun catching-up date =]

This was my first meal of that day.

So unhealthy, but so tasty.

Funny story behind this photo:

We were sitting in the car camwhoring, trying to get a nice photo, but we didn't realize that there was some guy waiting for our spot haha. So for a really long time... he just stared at us, and watched us camwhored. He looked super annoyed. I feel bad for making him wait so long for our spot, but we really didn't notice him LOL

Saw these cute Aero chocolate bars.

Bought all three flavors there lol

This is what the chocolate bar looks like.

It looks different, but it taste exactly the same as the normal Aero. I don't know why they decided to market the chocolate this way.

Random night when my friends and I decided to try a newly opened restaurant, but we didn't make a reservation and the restaurant was fully booked, so we ended up eating at a pub hahaha

Here's my friend teaching me how to make a face that makes your cheekbones stand out more.

I'm obviously not very good at it. My mouth looks retarded but my face looks pointier lol!

Then when you give up, just use your hands to help haha!

That was also the night when we had really sad bellinis =(

I have never had such an ugly AND bad tasting bellini. Warning to those of you who eat at Wing's. Do not order their bellini D=

And completely opposite of the sad bellini, I had an extremely pleasant surprise one day after work.

No matter how crappy your day was at work, how can you not smile when someone gives you something this sweet? ^3^

Many more photo journals to come because it's easier to pack several days into one post like this haha

2-Week Late Bday Post

What the title says...
I wanted to do a post about my birthday but I forgot about it until now.

Let's start off the post with a camwhore shot of me trying to show off some of my presents XD

 Loving my new earrings and bracelet!

My mom was so sweet. She baked a cake for me =D

The decoration is a little weird-looking because the whipped cream melted hahaha

I got to celebrate my birthday together with my birthday buddy ❤

Our birthdays are only a day apart ;)

During dinner... me + Rice playing with her quad cam app =D

No group photos to post from that day because the lighting was quite horrible... the pics were all kinda... blehhhhh

Anyway...
I had dinner with my other group of friends at Wildebeest. It was such a hipster restaurant haha.
It was fun to share all the food with everyone and try a bit of everything, but the portions were really small and I felt like we were such beasts because the minute the food came, we'd devour it in seconds lol

A pic with K before she had to leave early.

So sweet of her to still celebrate with me even though she was so swamped with school assignments!

Yay. Polaroid pics!

I had to use photoshop to brighten up the pics because they turned out so dark D=

Does anyone know how to take Polaroid pics so they turn out brighter?...

Tired of my face yet? Haha.
The photos after this one won't have me in them. Don't worry.

I also had dinner at this really modern trendy-looking restaurant called Deluxe.

Doesn't this look cool?

(Lol we asked to be seated somewhere else after I took that photo because that table was facing the wall and it was so awkward, but it made a nice picture...)

Desserts! Tell me these are not adorable! ❤

They all tasted really good too =9

After dinner, it was movie time...

at the VIP theatres!

I have never been to the VIP theatres before and I was so amused lol.

This was the lounge/waiting area before you go into the movies.

You can get drinks, snacks, whatever there and chill until your movie starts.

I didn't take a picture of the washrooms, but I should have LOL
They were so nice too.

I had an awesome birthday this year and celebrating with my friends and family made me feel so loved ❤

2012 Christmas recap!

First of all:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I can't believe Christmas is already here. I'm kinda sad that it's already the 25th today because I didn't want the holiday spirit everywhere to be gone =(
Well, I'm going to recap my Christmas events this post... and because I'm jamming many days together, be WARNED that this post will be IMAGE-HEAVY! (I already left out tons of pics I took over the holidays haha)

Decorating Home //

Here is our not-so-tree-shaped Christmas tree. Hahaha. Its shape is more like a yam than a tree...

But anyway... my mom and I decorated this tree with ornaments and bows =D

My mom tied these lovely bows with gift-wrap ribbon ;)

And here's the vase of red and white poinsettia that she is really proud of lol

The poinsettia were so glittery and super pretty *u*

I had leftover construction paper from a project and recycling them seemed like a waste, so I cut them up and made a snowman Santa with presents XD

I also cut up some snowflakes and I taped my creation onto our door:

My hand was shaking after all the cutting and gluing... I feel like I haven't done so much crafty things since high school.

Christmas Decorations //

I have always loved seeing the malls and the streets decorated during Christmas.

One of the malls had this huge Christmas tree at the entrance. It was so pretty!

This picture doesn't really show how big the tree was... maybe I should have stood beside it.

On my way home from downtown, I saw one of the centres there with this beautiful display:

Horned owl

Snowy owl? Barn owl?

I don't know my owls lol

White peacock

Those decorations were so pretty... I wanted to grab them and take them home haha.

Outside Canada Place, there were Christmas events going on too, but I didn't stop by to see the events because it was raining =(

But I did take a photo of the line of pretty Christmas trees there:

More mall decorations!

I really liked this Christmas tree:

They even had these cute dolls with the display.

To be honest, I thought the dolls didn't look very Christmas-y, but hey, they were cute so who cares.

Activities //

The first thing that came to mind when I wanted to do something festive... was to paint my nails haha!

Here they are: Tri-color super glittery Christmas nails.

I wish you could see how glittery they really are through photos =(

My friends and I went to check out the German Christmas market.

They had lots of neat little things and foods to try... but everything was so freakin expensive.

$50 for a 2-inch little figure... what? Okay, fine. Maybe they were hand-crafted, hand-painted, one-of-a-kind kind of thing, so I guess maybe that is acceptable.

However, the food there was so crazily over-priced! We still purchased the food, though, because we were hungry and it was like a "once in a blue moon" kinda thing since we probably won't be coming back lol.

Cool apple dessert things:

I bought one to try. It was an apple stuffed with apricot and almonds with a creamy sauce.

(If you are wondering why the apple is glowing, it is because I put this pic through an app to make myself look nicer LOL, and it just so happens that it made the apple really bright.)

Here's what the apple looks like when it isn't glowing.

Looks tasty, no? =]

There was also German pasta.

It looks so interesting. We bought a bowl to try and let me say that it was not worth it. It cost around $9 and it was a tiny little bowl and sorry, but the taste was definitely not worth $9.

Don't know what has gotten into us... we kept buying and trying more foods despite the prices.

Beer - $7

Giant pretzel - $5

Were they worth that price? Nope.

Woohoo! Giant gingerbread people at the market!

The picture quality is bad because it started to rain and it got really dark. I had to use photoshop to brighten the picture.

And then a little quality girl-talk time while baking with K and X.

Look at the cookies... I think they look like a grade 4's art project lol

Something a little less art-project-like... red velvet cupcakes!

The first party I went to this holiday was actually a birthday party.

I must say that it is a really small world - bumping into people you already know XP

Hahaha... I came across this at a skytrain station.

A group of clowns singing... I don't know if they were singing Christmas carols though, because I couldn't understand what they were singing lol

Then... one day, I wake up to this:

It was snowing like crazy and everything was covered with snow just overnight.

I couldn't even get to work that day.

And of course, there was an awesome Christmas party with awesome people ^_^

Me and awesome lady!

Too bad she had to leave early =(

This was my absolute favorite photo of the night... maybe even my favorite photo of any Christmas party photos I have ever taken.

We don't look amazingly gorgeous, but I love how it shows our silly friendship!

And lastly,

I am going to end the post with a pic of this really cute gift bag I saw:

Chillin' with my snowmies. Haha.

Merry Christmas, everyone!