Over the past few years, many eyebrow embroidery services approached for sponsorship but I turned all of them down because…

Just like hair, brows are part of fashion, and there should be no permanent alteration done to it that stays for life. Even semi-permanent embroidery stays for years. But fashion changes all the time, and you won’t want a hair perm that for 5 years, no matter how good it looks. And brows are the same! I remember the trends went from the HK female artist super defined arched brows to the Gyaru super bleached brows to the K-pop straight brows (which everyone is totally overdoing by the way, and which would have been such a fashion disaster 10 years ago). In between there were also the thick and soft brows, messy brows, dyed brows, etc. What’s next? Invisible brows, probably! (You’d never know!) read more

Our last trip to Hakone before baby Sakura was born!

As usual we rented a car and went on a road trip with our typical itinerary: Ebina rest area for breakfast, Hakone to thank the tree god, and Gotenba for shopping and sushi. Haha super predictable!

First time trying the famous Ebina Melon Pan!

Melon Pan is basically the Japanese Roti Boy lol. There’s no melon in it! It’s just that the crust makes it look vaguely like a melon hence the name.

It’s so popular it even has its own Gotochi Kitty! read more

I have been staying home a lot since it is almost impossible for me to go out and run errands, except for sending Junya to school and picking him up.

Thanks to internet shopping these days, there’s almost nothing you can’t buy from just a click away!

Adding yet another to my bookmark, Shoppu is the fastest-growing e-commerce platform in Malaysia, and of course you will all be delighted to know that it focuses on best savings with sizzling sales and hot voucher codes.

There are many categories under Shoppu, including Health & Beauty, Mobile & Tablets, Home & Living, Home Appliances, Fashion & Accessories, Muslimah Wear, Toys, Kids & Babies, Consumer Electronics, and Travel & Luggage. read more

Stealing some time to blog during the nap time of two babies!!

During our trip to Nagasaki earlier this March, we had one day free after our overnight stay in Huis Ten Bosch, so the danna asked if I wanted to visit Saga prefecture, which is about just half an hour drive away from Sasebo, where Huis Ten Bosch is located.

I was super excited and asked him, “what’s there to see in Saga???” and he was like, “Nothing.”

He only wanted to bring me there because he knew I wanted to check one more prefecture off my life mission (which is to visit ALL the prefectures in Japan). read more

Baby Sakura has been home with me for more than a week now.

It feels like nothing has changed, but everything has changed. There’s one more tiny human in our house!!!

Yes I promise. 🙂

Here are some of the things I felt after I gave birth:

1. I didn’t expect the second surgery to cause so much pain.

The first one I had really minimal pain, and was walking about as usual the moment I was discharged from the hospital! But this time around, I had to be wheelchaired to the car because it was simply impossible to walk T___T. They discharged me because everything looked good. Once I could go to the toilet and passed gas I was allowed home. I really never thought that things like pee and fart can be soooo important in my life until the day I had my stomach cut out. read more

The weather has been so crazy hot recently, or is it just me?

After giving birth, I have been staying home a lot to take care of one toddler and one baby, and even though the aircon is on, I feel like I am constantly trapped inside a sauna! I really cannot imagine other mommies who goes through “confinement” with no fan or aircon allowed. I am soooooo glad I don’t have to go through that.

I am sweating all the time and it feels really icky to have to hold my baby and nurse her when I’m all sticky but I simply don’t have the time to go for showers 5X a day T___T. read more