Ramen Champion @ Great World City

[Sponsored Event]

Was invited over to the newly opened Ramen Champion at Great World City to try out the old and new ramen that they have over there.

Selfie before the food is being served!

First on the table was Okonomiyaki Gyoza with Bonito flakes. (5 pcs) $5.80
Not as salty as compared to the one at Bugis+. I personally prefer the gyozo without the bonito flakes though. Just my opinion though.

Mentaiko Gyoza (5 pcs) $5.80
Out of the 2 gyoza, I prefer this one!!! I love the mentaiko seasoning on top of the gyoza, it tastes different and slightly nicer than the okonomiyaki one.




Tori Karaage - $4.80
Chicken is my best friend, I can't live without chicken! Tori Karaage is one of my favorite at Ramen Champion! It is best served when hot, when you bite it, the juice just flows out of the chicken! Yumms! ♥

Sapporo Miso Special Ramen $14.80                        Special Tonkotsu Ramen $16.50

 

Pork and Vegetable Ramen $16                            Special Sukiyaki Ramen $16
 
Out of the 4 ramen that I've tasted, my favorite would definitely be Sapporo Miso Special Ramen from Bishamon Zero. Maybe because I like eggs that are soft boiled rather than hard boiled. So yea!

I love the Sapporo Miso Special Ramen's miso soup, its so tasty not forgetting they added chilli by the side, so if you want it a tad more spicy you can just mix with it. 

Spicy Chicken (3 pcs) $5
I LOVE THIS! I can't stop eating it! It tastes uber awesome when you squeeze the lemon onto it. It will have a sour and yet spicy taste, its definitely worth the price paying for. I can't wait to head back to Ramen Champion to have this again! ^.^




Location: 1 Kim Seng Promenade, Great World City #01-22, Singapore 237994
Contact: 6235 1295

(take bus 5 from far east plaza) that's what I did.

Here's a video of Ramen Champions grand opening at Great World City



For more details you can check out www.ramenchampion.com.sg or their facebook page at https://facebook.com/RamenChamoionSingapore

Hello There! I'll Be Back Soon!

Hello there! How's everyone?!!!

I'm sorry that I haven't been updating my blog. It's because these few weeks is my project submission and presentation and tests period! But I promise you guys I'll be back here again with lots of updates, prolly 2 - 3 updates a week? Hahah!!

Here are some of the upcoming blogpost that I'll be blogging about.

Some miscellaneous blog posts

Food Tasting @ Ramen Champion

Staycation @ W Hotel

So keep a lookout for this space yea!

Cloud & Cream @ Cathay Cineleisure Orchard

Somewhere in December last year, I went down to Could & Cream at Cineleisure to try out their ice cream. Not only that, it's not any other ice cream you see out there, their ice cream is made out of Liquid Nitrogen and its not harmful for the body because by the time you eat it, it's already melted! Hahaa!

Cloud & Cream is located at basement 1 right beside Best Fries Forever. You can easily spot it once you're coming down from the escalator at level 1.



Did I mention that Cloud & Cream serve their ice cream fresh? They will only start making your ice cream after you've ordered, not like any other ice cream shops where its already there when you haven't even decide on what to get.



Cloud & Cream offers 3 different flavors of ice cream, Chocolate Banana Cookie, Orange Vanilla, and Blueberry Cheesecake. Single scoop at $3.50, double scoop at $5.90

For me, I personally like the Orange Vanilla flavor, it tastes better for me as compared to the other 2 though.

Ending this post with a group photo! 

♥

I CAN HAZ NAMECARDS TOO!

Never did I thought I'll be doing any name cards, what's more it's for my blog! Hahaha!!!
I've also asked myself this many times. "WHY DO I NEED TO DO NAME CARDS?"

Well, I've been attending events and such, and when PR's gave me their name cards, I would "paiseh-ly" tell them that I currently do not have any name cards to give. So yeap!

After much considerations, I've finally did my very own name card courtesy to my blogskin designer! Hehh! ^.^

Actually, I did my name card more than 3 months ago, just that I didn't had the time to do a blog post about it. XP



I really liked it! As in the design of my name card! But I have friends telling me that the font clashes and its a tad small for a name card.

What do you guys think? :)

Scoot, Kpop Starhunt Season 3

So on 12th January 2014. It was the grand final of Scoot, Kpop Starhunt Season 3. I was rooting for Stephanie cuz I really find that she has the whole package, what's more, she's representing Singapore leh! How to not support her?!!!

Then I was still in the midst of whether should I head down all the way to Suntec City to watch the grand finale and to find out who will be crowned as Kpop Starhunt 3's winner. So, I scrolled through my twitter timeline and saw Zachary tweeting that he's going down to Suntec to see Jaejin from FT Island as he will be one of the judges there, so I ask if he mind me joining him, and VOILA! I ended up going to Suntec City with Zach.

I'm actually quite surprised at myself, cuz I'm not really a huge Kpop fan, and.... I rarely head down for some competition that doesn't really concern me. But yea, I did.





The top 4 had 2 missions on that day, they had to perform 2 solo performance and then the judges will then decide who will be crowned as KPSH3's grand winner. That explains the different outfits you see from the above 2 photos.

ALRIGHT! THIS COMES THE AWESOME PART!

So in-between they had stage games, and I heard that emcee mention something like there will be a pair of tickets to Seoul, Korea to be won. There were air stewardess tossing 10 scoot teddy bear to random audience and we have to catch it if we want to participate in the stage games.

At that point of time I was still hesitating, but when I saw the scoot teddy bear being thrown and coming towards me, I reach out my hand and GRABBED IT!

So I went on stage and I had to answer this simple questions in order to move on to the next round, so everyone did answered the questions and we were given the scoot blanket. We were told that inside 1 of the blanket there is 1 envelope, and if you have that envelope, it means you've got the tickets to Seoul, Korea.

It was given in random order. When I received mine, I tried touching it and I felt something was inside, on my mind I was thinking, COULD IT BE ME?!!!!

SO THE MOMENT OF TRUTH!
All of us opened our blanket and everyone had envelope's dropping out of their blanket, and when I opened mine (I opened slightly later than the rest cuz I wanted to wait and see), I saw an envelope dropped, front facing me saying "1 PAIR OF TICKETS TO SEOUL"!!!! My heartbeat increased x 1000000 I SWEAR! MY MIND WAS BLANK AND I'M IN A TOTAL SHOCK! I mean, how lucky can I be right?!!! 1 out of 10 people and I'm that 1!!!!! ^.^y

In just a split second, I'm going to Seoul, Korea!!!



I really have to thank Zach for accompanying me to this event. If not for him, I wouldn't even have the chance to play the stage games! And also, thank you FLYSCOOT for the tickets to Seoul, Korea! Hahaha!



My friends all could not believe that I really won this! Hahaha! Some say I was really lucky, my closer friends say that my past life is definitely quite sad, that's why in this current life I'm so lucky.

Whatever it is, I think I'm really lucky, and I could feel/sense that 2014 is gonna be a great year, and I look forward to more opportunities! With that, I've already achieved 1 of my new year resolution, which is to travel at least twice this year! Hahahaah! Bangkok and Seoul, IM COMING FOR YOU!!!

Let's Move Forward To 2014

I realized I haven't made any new year resolutions yet, so now I'm gonna write about it and hopefully I'll be able to stick to it and get it accomplished by the end of 2014.

In 2013, I've gained some, but I've lost some as well. I've lost some friends due to conflicts and such, but, no point bringing the hatred from last year, so why not let bygones be bygones and start anew?!

I didn't thought that I'll be blogging so consistently, updating this space of mine. So that's something that I really hope I will continue doing, updating my blog more frequently be it or without any invitation to events or reviews.

If you like, you can follow me on my Twitter and Instagram account @dOnnlicious

Twitter: http://twitter.com/dOnnlicious                             Instagram: http://instagram.com/dOnnlicious

So without further ado, here are some of my new year resolutions for 2014. ^.^y

1: To get good grades. 
As much as I want to, I know I'm a lazy MOFO when it comes to school work. But if I have to, I will definitely work hard to achieve what I want. But most of the time, I'll just leave it to fate.

2: Travel more. 
I've always wanted and aim to travel at least once a year, be it to Malaysia or anywhere else, and guess what?!! I'll be going to Bangkok with le *cousins this coming April! A total of 13 of us are going, can you imagine?!!! Hahaha! I'm so looking forward to it!

3: More exposure. More opportunities
Who doesn't like to be recognize for their efforts put into something? As much as I want my blog to be known in the blogosphere, I will still do it in the ethical way, by working hard, and also leaving it to fate. Hahaha! If it's meant to be it's meant to be.

4: Spend more time with my family.
As I grew older, I realized I'm spending lesser time with my family, especially with my parents. It's kinda sad knowing that one day I will have to live my life without them. It's tough la. That's why one of my resolution is to spend more time with them, and hopefully we'll be able to travel overseas together, as a family. ♥

5: Lose Weight.
I know I know, this sounds almost impossible la, but I hope to lose some weight by the end of 2014, like not those super fit muscle gym kind but just nice enough to look good la. Hahaha! But.... we'll see! LOLOLOL!

6: Blog more often.
I know I'm already considered blogging VERY frequently already, but I hope to do it often like more consistently, maybe 2 - 3 post every week? Which makes 8 - 12 posts every month, and its 96 - 144 posts a year!! But sometimes due to school work and stuff, I may not blog so often la, like I say, let's just leave it to fate. Hahaha!

7: Lastly, be more optimistic and stop being so pessimistic.
I'm quite a emotional and sentimental kind of person. I can cry when I'm arguing with another person one hor!!! Hahahaha! And I take the words from people who are close to me very seriously, like the things they do or say can affect me one! So yea, this year I hope I can brush away those negativity easily, and live as though you only live once! #YOLO

SO YEAP! THAT'S MY NEW YEAR RESOLUTION! HOW ABOUT YOU?!!!
I really hope I could achieve at least half of it! Hahaha! Alright, that's all for this post, till then!

Hercules The Legend Begins

[8th January 2014]



Went for the movie premiere for Hercules The Legend Begins at Cineleisure. At first, I didn't know what to expect from the movie because, I've never really heard about it before.

So for those who have no idea what the movie is about? Lets just watch the trailer first shall we?



If you still have no idea what the movie is about after watching the movie, no worries, cuz I don't either! Hahahaha! KIDDDING!!!

So anyways, let me sum up for you. King Amphitryon had been a selfish ruler of his own throne/kingdom where one day, Queen Alcmene could not tolerate anymore and decided to put this to an end by succumbing to the lust of Zeus to bear a son, promised to overthrow the tyrannical rule of King Amphitryon in order to restore peace to a land in hardship.

Queen Alcmene had 2 sons, 1 is Hercules and the other is Iphicles. Both of them are in love with Princess Hebe, princess of Crete, but the princess was only in love with Hercules and no one else.

After knowing Hercules isn't his own son, Amphitryon then killed Alcmene and go all out to get Hercules killed.

Yeap! That's all I can say, you guys have to watch the movie to know the whole story! Hahaha! For me, the plot was alright I guess, to some, its quite bad. Some of the scenes are pretty computerized. IMO.


I would recommend you to watch it during weekdays instead of weekends though. Worth the $7 - $9 ticket price, but definitely not worth the $10 - $11 and above. Just my 2cents la! Hahah! If you guys are huge Greek Mythology kind of thing, then this movie would prolly be the one you would want to watch.

Remember To Catch Hercules The Legend Begins In The Cinema Near You!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Some of the Japan goodies from Joey (iisjong)! Yay!
As I'm writing this, I've already finished all of it already! LOLOLOLOL!

Here's a #OOTD taken at a very poor lighting condition!

Lastly, to end this post off with the one and only poster left standing at Cineleisure!
DIE DIE ALSO HAVE TO TAKE PHOTOS WITH IT! Hahaha!

Untitled

This is prolly gonna be one of those wordy with no photo kind of blog post. I was randomly bloghopping and I came upon Joey's (iisjong) blog, and I saw that she did posts like [2014 Diary], nope I'm not gonna be so hardworking like her, cuz I'll never be and never will. Hahahah! So I'm just gonna write down in this 1 post.

I was randomly thinking why did I even start blogging in the first place? Was it because of fame? Free stuff? or money? Actually, its all of it. I did thought of making money out of blogging which I already am, just not like thousands and such, just a few maybe to a hundred. But I'm definitely not looking at it as a full time job, just some additional moolarhs that I can get every month to spend on miscellaneous stuff.

Now back to what I was saying, why did I even start a blog? Well, I started this blog when I was 16/17 ish years old back in 2007/2008, where life was just simply going to school and have fun. No, I'm not saying that I don't work hard to get good grades, I do, but I just don't put in as much effort as compared to the rest of my classmates where they will just mug 24/7 during the exam period. For me, its just 95% play time and 5% studying, by studying I mean flipping through the textbooks and just reading it through. Hahaha!

I created a blog just so I can pen down my daily happenings, I still remember I would take pictures with my Sony K850i Cybershot phone EVERY SINGLE DAY without fail, and upload it via blogger and post it. But now, taking out my camera from my bag is already a burden. I wonder where do I get the motivation from back then. LOLOL!

As years have passed, I just didn't blog as much as I first started, and I just let it rot on the net. But I would still update it on and off. Now when I'm reading through my archives, I would cringe so badly because of the "TWIT" vocab I've used in the past, god knows why would I even type/write that way!!! Hahahaa!

Now here comes the present. I started updating this blog of mine regularly ever since I won 2nd in Cineleisure's Next Online Sensation Version 2.0 last year. Winning that title sort of helped me gain exposure one way or another. I've also made tons of new friends via blogging.

Then, when opportunities starts coming in, so is greed. People are beginning to take blogging as a platform to get freebies. I guess it's also part of Singaporeans nature, we love freebies, who doesn't?! But in my opinion, if you have what it takes and the opportunities comes knocking on your door, then grab it, if it doesn't, then wait for it. Why be desperate and go around asking for it?! It's not like you have no money to get the stuff you want! Even if you want it so badly, WORK FOR IT! Nothing in this world is free (well technically), cuz you need high traffic, good blog content to attract advertisers to your blog, right?!!!

But I mean, blogs are meant to be written as a form of a diary to begin with right?! For people to pen down their thoughts and daily rants. Some people just blog because they get to go for events, and food tastings etc, and their blogs are filled with events, food tastings, advertorials etc. They've already lost their own unique style of blogging already. (If you get what I mean)

I'm sure most of the blogs you visit nowadays are 3/4 filled with events/reviews kind of posts, and it gets abit sian at times. Unless I'm really interested in that person la, that is.

Now I feel better after ranting it here. Hahaha! Maybe I should do more of such wordy posts. LOLOLOL!!!

So to make this post less wordy, I shall *Piak* 2 photos here to make it more interesting! Hehhh!

PINK X RED

Went to Vellus Hair Studio to get my hair done again! If you guys have not read my previous post, here it is: http://www.donnlicious.com/2013/12/vellus-hair-studio.html

It's located along the shop houses at Tanjong Pagar. Click on the link above, I did a little "How To Get There" map, just for your convenience! :D

LE HAPPY KID! 

Ready to get my hair treatment done!

Josie was asking what color would I want to do, to touch up the previous green/yellow hair or do a new set of colors! Of course, to have more new colors and designs to show to my readers, I go for the latter.

I told Josie I wanted pink, like those cotton candy pink, but she said that if I want to do that color I would have to bleach my hair again, which gave me a second thought about it. Then she suggest, why not do cotton candy pink + hot pink and fire red???! I INSTANTLY AGREED! Hahaha!


She applied the pink color treatment over 3/4 of my hair and the fiery red at the fringe area, sort of like a gradient kind of thing you know?!!!




I told Josie that I need to trim my hair a little bit as it grows out SUPER FAST! Plus, my Dad keeps nagging on how long my hair is and yada yada yada!




I'M LOVING IT ALREADY!
I've posted photos of it on my Instagram and many of my friends told me its nice! Teehee!



Really have to thank Josie for suggesting ideas and giving me this wonderful hair color! ♥



If you guys are looking for new hair colors that stands out (or normal hair color also can la) this Chinese New Year, you can book your appointment with Josie at Vellus Hair Studio.
Contact: 62246566

FOR ALL MY READERS AND FRIENDS! 

Quote "Don Koh" and enjoy 50% off all hair services on your first visit! 

You can check out Vellus Hair Studio's Facebook page here as well: https://www.facebook.com/VellusHairStudio

That's all folks! ^.^y

Annual *Cousins* Staycation

21st December 2013

Had our annual *cousins* Christmas staycation party at Capri By Fraser hotel! The awesome thing about this hotel is that there's a kitchenette, where we can cook our own food! :D

*KOPE-D* some of the photos from Le *Cousins* instagram cause I was too busy camwhoring OR I was just plain lazy to whip out my camera! Hahaha! So yea!

Photo credits to: Weijie, for being so "Xi Xin" to even take a photo of the hotel before entering! Hahaha!

Here's the entire room covered by our dear ANdyStorm.


Then, when Kaizhi and Joyce arrived, they started exploring the room, for me, well.... I do what I do best! Being vain! Hahahah!



Joyce just had to jump on the bed and ruin everything! Thank god I took a photo of it before she decided to ruin a picturesque photo of the bed.



Now here's a photo of the bed, before it was completely ruined by Joyce.
Featuring Andy and Jiaqi's Craftholic. ^.^

Mandatory Mirror Reflection Photo!

Then one by one started arriving, so while waiting for the food to be cooked by our dear Joyce and co. The rest of us just slacked and watched teevo and..... camwhore.


Chef of the staycation!  ^.^y
The rest also did help la! Just that Joyce does most of the cooking! Potential wife anyone??!!



AND YES! We manage to whip up lots of delicious food for dinner! We have, Nuggets, Chicken Drumstick, Seaweed Chicken, Spaghetti, Sausages, Curly Fries turned Rösti, Roast Turkey and Chicken, and many more. Definitely feels like a homely Christmas meal, ASIAN VERSION that is.

I was telling the rest that the only thing its missing is the fire place, where you'll sit around and keep yourself warm. Hahaha!

And while Joyce was still in the midst of cooking...

And here's Kaizhi, very focused in cutting the ham! 

The #ForeverAlone Limei

Hahahaha! NAH! I'm kidding. It just so happens that she's sitting alone.
Here's Dawn, RuoXuan and Limei! Teehee!



So while waiting, I whip out my camera to snap pictures again!!! Hahahahah!!!
Look how Andy is photobombing 3/4 of our photos! LOLOLOL!!!


Next up! We have more food! Spaghetti with Cream base and Tomato base sauce! Yums!!!
I'm missing it as I'm writing this post!




Then we start laying the food on the floor on top of the newspaper that was initially supposed to be used as Kaizhi's wrapping paper. But.... It was a long story, so yeap.

And this is the usual standard procedures before digging in! 

Taking photos and Instagraming it!

Mel was doing the honor of cutting the turkey/chicken for us! :D

Then we began the Christmas Gift Exchange. This year was a bit different compared to the past ones we did. Jiaqi used this internet programme??? (I assume) called Drawnames, where she will put all the names in and it will randomly generate a secret santa for each of us, and we can then put in the things we would like to have for our Christmas Gift Exchange.

So firstly, we all hid inside the bathroom/toilet, and 1 by 1 we'll go out and hide the gift that we bought for our receiver at any place of the room. Initially we thought its gonna be easy cuz the room is relatively small, BUT NO! We all tried searching it when its our turn to hide our gifts, but we couldn't find any.

There's also a twist to this game, while we're trying to find places to hide our gifts, if we happen to find the gifts that the previous people have hidden, we're allowed to change it to other places. How cunning!!! Hahaha! But to our disappointment we can't find more than 2 gifts. So yea, everyone is smart in hiding stuffs! LOLOLOLOL!

AND LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

Everyone was searching high and low for their hidden presents/gifts.

Some even almost went berserk!!! HAHAHAAHAHA!!!

After we're all done searching our gifts, we then open our gifts 1 by 1, also guessing who our secret santa is. Mine is Dawn Twinnie! Lololol! And she got for me a super chio Planner and a Pouch??! Hahaha! Which is something I need la cuz I have so many things going on that I'm forgetting every single one of it! So yea! Thanks Dawn twinnie for the planner! :D

Its really super chio! Gonna take photos of it and show you guys soon! Hahaha!

A group photo to end the gift exchange session!

LOLOL! AT CONAN!!!

NEXT!
We played blind mice, in the middle of 1.30am! CAN YOU LIKE BELIEVE IT?!!! OMG!!! HAHAHAHA! We were running around like crayyyyyzeeee!

I've counted, the people that was the blind mice the most number of times was: Mel, Andy, Josh. Hahaha! IDK why, they just keep getting caught! Hahahaah!


After playing blind mice, I guess most of us are worn out and tired already. We then showered and prepared for bed....at 3.40am!!!

LOL! NAH!

The lights along the kitchenette area just refuse to switch off. Mel, Kaizhi, Weijie, Andy, Jinglong, Limei and YoursTruly had so much difficulty sleeping.

Officially got out of bed at 7.40am to bath and then followed the rest to the swimming pool for their morning swim.


After they had their morning swim, we then head back to the room, and started preparing for breakfasts! Woots! Chef Joyce in action again! With Weijie helping her out as well!

Kaizhi with his ham again, and Andy "posing" for the camera! 

HAHAHAHA!

FINALLY! HERE'S OUR BREAKFAST FOR THE STAYCATION!

Scrambled Eggs + Sausage + Ham + Waffle + Honey + Baked Beans + Croissant + Roasted Chicken

SUPER YUMMY!!! ♥

Took a few more photos before leaving the place. 

Now ending this post with this photo!

It's amazing that how all of us manage to stay as friends for so long, and can you imagine, 3/4 of us used to be bloggers?!!! Hahaha! Hard to believe but yea.

Blogging have not only made me widen my social circle but also thought me a lot. I really hope we'll still be friends 10 years down the road. Now I'm looking forward to next year's Christmas Staycation! Hahaha!

When I left the place, I was having post staycation syndrome. I missed it so badly that I wished the staycation were extended! Hahahaha!

ANYWAYS!
Hope you've enjoyed reading this post! Till then~