My newfound dessert obsession

I've always been pretty obsessed with desserts. I love everything, like actually EVERYTHING. Even licorice (at times).

Recently though, this year, I've started making desserts!

I think it's because I don't have as much time to do my nails anymore, and I swear the UV is making my hands extra wrinkly / ageing, so I have to put all that creative energy into something else? The wait time (48hours) for my craft glue to dry on my crafts is also a downer :(

So in January of February, I started making wasabi icecream, chocolates ~ (see some on my post here), and today I have officially stepped foot into desserts that require heat!

Yes - all of the desserts I have made so far require no heat. Even just melting the chocolate I managed to burn it the first time ==

No jokes, I am a serious fire hazard in the kitchen.

Today after dinner I decided that sitting at home for the evening is just too fattening. I definitely gained some weight recently, largely due to my lack of self-control. Last night I ate 2 waffles. With icecream, blueberries, and plum jam. :(

Hopefully I will get over this craving soon, cause I had 4 chocolates today too. It's not looking too good right now...

Anyway, the pan was on sale so I had to get it! Half price down from $40, and it's scratch-resist ceramic coated on the top! I am so excited to try it~

from my instagram (@snowrii)

The entire time I was in the supermarket with my mom to look for the cupcake mix, my mom was trying to convince me to buy some cheese instead of choc chips for the cupcakes == (too lazy to make the batter myself for now. Perhaps if I really get into it...)

It got really irritating, and in the end I snapped and said I will not make savory cupcakes and if she wants them she can do it herself.

Even thinking about it now makes me irritated. I want my sweet cupcakes dammit. ==;

Anywho, now I need to find cute mini cupcake cups, and also a piping/syringe thing to decorate cupcakes with. Oh yeah and buttercream/icing, and food colouring .-.

Gosh the list just keeps growing...

This year though, I will definitely have a tea party with Tenshi and wifey!! GOAL FOR THE YEAR! And I WILL make something that was baked and is edible and pretty and yummy!!!

Ok it's 1.25am. Goodnight!

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DresSale Wishlist! [Confetti]

Hiya everyone~

It's now the second week of uni for us at UoA, and the workload has increased so much from undergrad to postgrad courses! Honestly, I am really surprised and stressed out over uni for the second time in my life (the first time was semester 1 of my first year, I was such a tryhard lol).

When I'm stressed over uni, I usually either:
1. paint my nails, or
2. go online shopping

Today I have decided to post up my wishlist from DresSale because I've been looking through their store the entire day (so many items!!) and there's actually a lot of good bargains on there! (just had to hunt around a little cause I'm too stingy)

please help me receive my wishlist by clicking one of the 'DresSale' links in the wishlist post on Confetti!

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Princess Apparel Launch Giveaway!

Super stoked that Rox has opened her webstore website officially!

I love the detail that goes into each item~

click on the above image to go to Princess Apparel's website!

This is my blogpost entry to her launch giveaway~

all 4 chokers are so cute!

If I win, I think I will pick the black one though. The baby blue pacifier is so cute but it won't go with my wardrobe at all ;w;

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Side story from JL's B'day

So this is something that happened on my friend JL's birthday (main post here), but wifey said this story is so epic that it deserves its own post. So yup, hope you enjoy this story of me and my wife's silly times :')

When we went to Movenpick in the evening for dessert, my wifey and I decided it would be very romantic if we shared desserts.

Thus, being the dessert crazed people we are, we cheerfully barged into the store arm in arm whilst totally disregarding the queue waiting to be served. We pasted our faces pretty much literally in front of the cakes cabinet - where three of the desserts called out to our hearts. We painfully narrowed our selection to the Chocolate Espresso Cake and the Mocha Tart.

Then we directed our attention to the ice cream cabinet and simultaneously agreed to get 3 scoops of ice cream as well.

However, as dinner was really filling (curry does that aye ;w;) we could only pick one cake.. 

Wifey had been in love with Mocha tarts since the start of our uni days, but the Chocolate espresso cake looked too good to pass up too, and so we decided to paper scissors rock for it. The conversation that occurred next went something like:

Wifey: "Lets paper scissors rock for it"

"PAPER SCISSORS -

Wifey: "- wait! Are you espresso cake or mocha tart?"

Me: "I'll be espresso cake and you be mocha?"

W: "Sounds good, so..."

"PAPER SCI-

W: "-waaaaait! Best out of three? Or first to three?"

M: "First to three, and winner gets their cake"

Then the epic PSR battle occured with scores as follows:

Wifey:me 

- 1:0

- 1:1

- 2:1

- 2:2

- 3:2

So wifey won, and I was fully prepared to get the Mocha tart since I like both anyway, but then:

W: "...but I kinda actually want the espresso cake..."

==; WHY DID WE PSR THEN!?!?!?!? ./fliptable

And, of course, after that statement, we couldn't help giggling like crazy as we relayed this entire conversation to our friends who were waiting in the queue like all the other normal people. >>;

At this point, I should probably reiterate that this whole thing occurred in full view of not only the store staff, but also every single other customer inside.

This day, wifey maintains that the PSR was so she could know which cake she truly wanted (just like the whole "you'll know what you truly want when you flip a coin and it's in the air" philosophy).

Thinking back, if we hadn't been so indecisive about our choice in desserts, would the guy serving us have given us such massive portions of icecream? hmmmm..... #awks

didn't take a photo of our icecream though. It was in a really basic Movenpick cup :/

Thank god we unanimously agreed on the icecream flavours without having to battle at the counter....


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Farmers A/W Fashion Collection Launch! [Confetti]

Hiya!

Uni just started up again for the new year. The past week has been surprisingly hectic – perhaps I just need a bit of time getting used the uni routine again?

Shortly before uni resumed, Confetti was invited to take a sneak peek at Farmers Department Store's core A/W fashion collection! Cora couldn't attend (that busy busy girl!), so Little and I went by ourselves ((´д｀))

It was a suuuper hot day, and we got so lost on the way there that we ended up going to the police depot to ask for directions.

Not like we're foreigners or anything （；￣д￣）


At the launch event, we were taken around and given a brief introduction to the inspiration for each of the key trends this season – Punk, Sloane Ranger,English Rose, and English Glamour.

If you haven't figured it out yet, this season is drawn from several iconic British styles through time.
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JL's Birthday (last Sunday) and upcoming posts

I've come to realise that several of my friends' first name begin with J so it's going to become terribly confusing down the line.
I'm too lazy to go back and fix my earlier posts, so fingers crossed I never forget anyone's name (heh hehe), and from now on I will reference by first and last name, except for wifey and Tenshi because those aren't their actual names anyway .-.

So first of all, I should say that I'm really not supposed to be blogging right now, but it feels like I haven't posted anything in a loooong time. Is it really only week 2 of uni!? Somehow time flies too fast, and the mountain of work is being continuously pushed off to the side and replaced with mindless scrolling through facebook and watching all of eatyourkimchi's FAPFAP videos. ;-;

Upcoming posts

• Metamorphose fukubukuro 2014 reveal / Presents from wifey and Tenshi from Japan
• D.I.A belt review
• Nivea deodorant review

So many reviews wtf. Goes to show I haven't been out much ==

Anyway, the Nivea deodorant is from KnotJustAScarf who received several of them from BeautyReview - if you're reading this Arietta, thanks!

JL's B'day

JL is a friend I made in like, second year of uni through infosys, which he majors in and I take many courses in. His birthday was actually yesterday, but we celebrated it on Sunday. Unfortunately it happened to be iceskating in the afternoon, and I have pretty bad memories associated with iceskating and zero good ones, so I had to skip that ><

Later, I met up with them for a bit of pool, and dinner~

wifey took this photo...I look so noob wtf ;-;

I didn't expect many photos that day, so I went ahead with my half-assed uni-level-effort makeup... Actually jokes, I can't even be bothered with blush or eyeshadow anymore. So yeah, be prepared for nubface & mean eyes :<

We had dinner at a Thai restaurant in Albany. This was probably the first time I've had Thai in the last 5 or 10 years...

It was very strange having such runny and sweet curry, as I've recently been frequenting to an Indian restaurant in Browns Bay with my mom. Their $10 mains for dinner are just such a bargain, it's hard to say no after a long day.

Nevertheless, dinner was really enjoyable, and I met/caught up with some people I rarely see these days~

Photo for wifey's instagram

Duck curry! really nice *w*

Our flaming chicken which stopped flaming as soon as it got to our table :'(

group photo!

The last photo was taken after some people left, but that's ok since it's pretty much everyone from this group that I hang out with anyway ~

We also went to Movenpick for dessert, where wifey and I binged on 3 massive scoops of icecream (the guy working at the counter was so nice!!!) and this chocolate espresso cake.

I think I've already posted it on instagram, but I really need to reinforce that this was taken with hardcore lighting. 2 lights from different phones. lol.

/can'tgetoverit

so beautiful, delicious, and fattening.

I definitely ate too much that day. My stomach hurt all night ==;

Wifey and I also gave JL a tie, and a moustache car magnet.

Which he (amazingly) managed to put on his car upside down wtf.

I hope it's correctable, since I don't know if it's actually just magnetic or if there's glue involved...

What it looks like. Photo taken off google images

While looking for the above image, I stumbled across this.
This would have been pretty epic for JL's car too. heheheheheeee

Anyway, that was last week's little adventure. I now have the larger part of my 50 page infosys paper on Tweets during Social Crises to read and summarize, fun timez!

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Finally on my last year of uni...

Today is the fourth day of semester 1, 2014.

I am so glad that I will be graduating at the end of the year. I am actually so through with the life of a student - long as holidays between semesters, yet every day of the semester it feels like there is no time for anything.

This year I have 3 papers' weight on a project, for which I just had my first meeting with my supervisor and the owner of the project. I'm super glad that they are really nice and thoughtful people, and were happy to adjust the project scope a little to accommodate for my chosen career path.

At the same time, I am yet again awash with anger and frustration at my degree coordinator. I am so so so angry that he sent out notifications so late, didn't keep any of us students up to date, or provide any resources or even tell us where we could perhaps find resources. If my project wasn't within university, I would probably be very stuck right now doing something I can't even do, so that's a plus at least?

I really hope that I can do a good job with this project. It's going to be challenging, but it also offers an opportunity to cover several jobs - like working on a commercial project all by myself!

The downside is that the lab I will be working in *perhaps much of my time* is in the basement with no windows. At least it's not too small in there so claustrophobia hasn't kicked in yet. It's very cosy and clean down there actually!

These few days has been so busy and hectic it's crazy. Perhaps I am putting in more effort into this year, as it's weighted quite heavily in my degree. It's a good thing. I want to do well :)


I will still blog often though! Need to make good use of any spare time to produce blog content and live a life outside of this project! ^-^

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Japan Day in Auckland 2014 (Annual Festival) [Confetti]

So Japan Day in Auckland this year was on the 23rd of Feb, so this post is just over a week late (awks sorry!) ;w;

Japan Day festival this year happened to fall on Japan’s Cat Day! At least it seemed to, since most people I follow on instagram are so many hours behind me that their nyan nyan day (22/2) posts appeared on the 23rd for me.

The festival this year was held at ASB showgrounds. I haven’t been in the past few years, so in my eyes the festival has gained a lot of recognition and has grown heaps!

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Taobao Haul from Nov/Dec 2013 [Confetti]

Hiya!

Today I’m showing my buys from Taobao from late last year – if you like any of the items, feel free to ask me for the link (I have them all saved in my order at my shipping proxy’s site) ^^
I took the photos in the dim corridor because I was too excited to move it somewhere brighter, so the photo quality is pretty bad as I cbb editing them (all) sorry! ><

A bag and some eyelid tapes were sent to T’s house in China, but she left for NZ just like, 5 hrs before it arrived T_T hopefully the bag will be ok on its shipment here…
Apart from those two items, everything else in my last taobao haul is here! Description/mini review of each item is in image description...

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coord with some of the items I bought ^^