Review: [Highest Hair & Beauty Salon]

After our steamboat session, we went to somerset and walked around and you know like how things are just the same and there were nothing new to walk in to. I don't even understand how teens can go scape/cineleisure every week??????

We walked to Far East Plaza and decide that we want to do hair treatment for our screwed up hair. We literally walked the entire plaza and there were so many salons!!! Really like almost half of the plaza are filled with salons.

Then I remember that the last time I came to Far East Plaza, I was with Janice and we both dyed our hair, but before we dyed out hair, Janice went to bleach her hair at this salon. I had a good impression of the salon because the boss, a lady, was very friendly and made conversations with us. She assured Janice like her products are good and like it's cheaper than any other places. So I suggested to Joanne and we decided to go over and ask about the treatments they provide.

So initially they told us that we should do the CPR treatment, which costs $120, as it'll help to tame our frizzy hair and make our hair healthier. So like after much thoughts, I mean like it's $120 yo, we decided to do it. And the moment we sat on the chair, the boss came up to me and told me that I should do the Sheseido treatment instead as it is more lasting, like lifetime, while the CPR one after a few washes it'll be back to my normal hair. And she told me it'll cost $220. And honestly I really hesitated damn long because it's fucking $220, it's not small sum of money for someone like me. After much thoughts, okay I decided to do the Sheseido treatment. And for Joanne, instead of doing the CPR treatment she did a scalp care treatment instead as her hair stylist told her that her problem was more on the scalp instead.

So I trusted my hair stylist, Rose, with my fucking hair, and my $220. 

I sat patiently where she attended to my hair. First she applied some cream on my head then left the cream for around 10 minutes before washing it away. After which she helped me to trim some of hair. After cutting my hair, she proceed on to straightening my hair and I did not think so much as I thought it was probably a routine for them to straighten their customer's hair after a cut. I mean I do get that service quite often when I cut my hair. Like the last time I went to dye my hair, the lady helped me to straighten my hair as well. In fact I thought it was reaching the end of the treatment. So I didn't think so much nor asked her any question.

After straightening my hair, she asked me in chinese, (fyi: she's a chinese citizen aka china foreign talent) if i wanted to do the CPR or Sheseido, and I remembered the boss recommending me to do the Sheseido at the start, so I replied her "Sheseido". Then she went on and applied another cream onto my hair and left it on for around 10 minutes like that, before washing off the cream. So while washing my hair, she was promoting to me a package of $628 for 5 treatments and 2 additional free, on top of that they will give today's treatment for free. But then because I'm still a full time student, earning my own pocket money from working part time, $628 is really like a bomb to me. She kept promoting and trying to persuade me to get it. Then when I went out, Jo told me she bought the package and can pay half of it first today, next session then pay another half. I was abit like thinking maybe I should get it cause it's like $628 for 8 sessions?! Like quite worth right??????

So Rose sprayed some thing on my head and put the steamer thing over my head, I was just discussing with Jo if I should get it. After that I decided to get it and I told Rose ah. Then when she brought me in to wash my hair again, I just wanted to double confirm with her that I can pay half which is $314 today. But she replied to me in chinese that on top of half of the package $314, I had to pay for the Sheishedo rebonding which is $220. So I asked her huh I thought you tell me if I sign the package today's treatment waived off? Then she told me yeah they will waive off the Sheishedo treatment which is $120, so I have to pay half the package $314 AND the Sheishedo Rebonding $220, which is $534, if pay total package at one go, it'll be $848, which is like close to $1000?!!!!

That moment my mind literally went blank. I was so shocked. I had no fucking idea that I did a fucking rebond. So I told her huh I thought I am only doing the Sheseido treatment? Your boss told me it was $220. Then she went to ask her boss and the boss merely said, "Oh must be miscommunication between you and her (Rose)."

First of all, the boss only told me it was a Sheseido treatment, not a Sheishedo Rebond. Like wtf I went there only with the thought of doing a treatment, not to do a fucking rebond.

Secondly, Rose did not even bother to reconfirm with me. She never told me like what she was doing with my hair at all. At least for Jo, her hair stylist will keep telling her what step she was doing and all.

Thirdly, neither Rose nor the boss apologised to me, or even offer any kind of help to me. All Rose did was still trying to persuade me to get the package, cause the moment i found out that I actually did a fucking rebond and a treatment which will cost me $340, I told her I did not want the package already. Really, all she did was like trying to tell me how my hair will be better if I did more treatments and that the package very worth and all. SHE STILL WANTED TO PERSUADE ME TO GET THE PACKAGE. But trust me, I was so angry none of her words actually went in. The boss also did NOTHING! After saying that it was miscommunication between me and Rose, she just went to the cashier and sat there. She just told, "Oh then never mind ah, you don't get the package then just pay for today's treatments ah."

I was so fucking angry that I literally black face all the way. Rose offered me a name card but I did not even want to take it because I was that mad.

The service was terrible and after that I read online that there were actually bad reviews about Rose and the boss as well. So for now, I can't tell you if the treatment really worked out, but it better do, and better last lifetime, otherwise I'll be really pissed and just argh, cursing at them.

I really would tell you to think twice about going to this salon. I think the prices are considered cheap, but just be careful and ALWAYS DOUBLE CONFIRM EVERYTHING, EVERY STEPS.

I don't want another victim like me. ;'(

If I knew I was going to spend $340 at a shop like that, I would rather go to a more known salon than this fucked up salon......



Highest Hair & Beauty Salon
14 Scotts Road Far East Plaza
#03-18 Singapore 228213


I'll be back with another post to review on my hair!

Review - [House of Steamboat]

Finally going for a proper date with my favourite Jo after so long???????

So I came across this article on FB quite some time back and always wanted to go try out the House of Steamboat (especially their mala soup)! I could not bring John there to try it out because he HATES mala, actually he just does not dare to try it. [emoji]

And I finally came here with Jo!

Well okay i would say that it was okay only???? We walked quite a bit before managing to find the place, but then again that whole street had many steamboat and bbq restaurants so we were like busy looking at the signboards to see if we missed it. But end up it was at another street instead LOL.

Okay so like when we reached the place, we were quite shocked????? Because like the shop was empty and only had a staff sitting at the window table and chopping chili, and we were both kind of shocked????? Jo literally gave me the "Are you sure this is the place?" face hahahahaha. So anyway, that staff came out and invited us in and honestly the moment you stepped into the shop, a weird smell hit us right in the face and we were abit like ermmm..... But then I thought maybe it's because there were no customers, no steamboats/bbq going on, thus there wasn't any nice yummy smell.

We were told to choose 2 soups from 6 different kind of soups,
- Chicken Herbal Soup
- Fish Bone Herbal Soup
- MaLa Spicy Soup
- Tom Yam Soup
- Hot & Spicy Soup
- Pork Belly Soup

And we decided on Chicken Herbal Soup and Tom Yam Soup. Initially we wanted to try out their Mala, but then because Jo had a sore throat and didn't dare to take the risk thus giving up on our Mala. After which, we were asked what kind of meats (Chicken, Pork, Beef, Mutton), seafoods (Crab, Prawn, Dory Fish, Sea Cucumber etc)  and those body parts like liver, intestines etc, we wanted. And we ordered chicken, pork, crab, prawn, dory fish, and sea cucumber. So basically these were the foods that they will take from the kitchen and serve it to us instead of us taking it on our own. Well we thought it was better if like we were able to take on our own like the meats, seafood all those instead of like them serving us.

There were also other food like hot dogs, luncheon meat, crab meat, seaweed, fish ball with meat inside (my loveeeee), variety of vegetables and noodles that we were allowed to actually take on our own.

They do have drinks as well! You can choose to buy canned drinks from them at a top up at $1.50, or if you just want to make full use of the buffet price, they sure do also provide free flow of drinks (Orange juice, Lemon Tea).

Overall, we both agreed that the meat, seafood all those weren't really good. But the fish was not bad, only if your soup has a strong taste like for us tomyam. (P.s: The chicken herbal soup wasn't really that good. You can't taste anything. But the tomyam was not bad!!) We had more of the other ingredients instead of the meat hahaha!

When we were done with our food and asked for our bill, we were quite surprised when they told us $30. Well that was because they have a lunch deal of $15 NETT, 1 - 4pm.

And it's amazing how they don't charge GST and Service Charge, and what's better is the price of an adult is $17.90 nett anytime from Monday to Sunday, 12pm-12am!!!!

It's pretty worth our $15 overall. ;)

House of Steamboat
7 Tan Quee Lan Street Singapore 188096

Review - [Kokomama]

So it has been the in thing these days, and just nice there was a promotion circulating on facebook quite abit these days, me and John decided to try out after my work on Sunday.

~~~~~ BINGSU

Patbingsu (팥빙수, also stylized as patbingsoo, literally red beans with ice) is a Korean shaved ice dessert with sweet toppings such as chopped fruit, condensed milk, fruit syrup, and Adzuki beans.^[1] The snack is highly popular in Korea.

This snack originally began as ice shavings with red bean paste (known as pat, 팥). It was traded among government officials. Many varieties of patbingsu exists in contemporary culture.

In case you all haven't seen the promotion, let me just share it here.


So basically for the price of $8.90, you get to choose any 1 of these flavours:

- Mango Madness
- Snappy Strawberry
- Milky Oreo
- Matcha Craze
- Red Ruby

And all you need to do is to present your Student Pass at the counter!

So me and John decided to share one since we were still going for dinner after that. And initially we were contemplating between the Mango Madness and the Milky Oreo. And in the end, we decided on Milky Oreo.

Frankly speaking, it was a bit of a disappointment because we thought that there was nothing really unique about it and that there were too many oreos in it and the shaved ice melt way too fast!!! The only unique taste is the shaved ice melting in your mouth. The only ingredients we had in our Milky Oreo Bingsu was the milky shaved ice, oreos, chocolate waffle sticks, a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a few pieces of muah chee like thingy.

We had pretty high expectations for it probably because of what we saw on our social media platforms, but then again we thought WE GET WHAT WE PAY.

Honestly I would still go back down to try the Mango Craze for the price of $8.90. I'm definitely not willing to pay more than $10 on something like ice kachang which I can get it at less than $2 anywhere??????

At Kokomama, I realised that it is quite a study friendly cafe because first of the all, they don't only have Bingsu, but they also sells juices, cakes and other food. Secondly, they have power sockets! (YAY to especially RP students because we CANNOT study without our laptop) However, I'm not very sure if they have free wifi, but when I attempted, they'll prompt you to ask the owner of Kokomama for the password, so I guess there's a 80% chance that there's free wifi! :)

So if you're wondering where it's located at, it's located at the School of The Arts (SOTA), the row along I'm Kim's BBQ.


P.s: The $8.90 promotion ends on 31 August! So be quick! ;)

To my drifted friends

To my drifted friends,

Even though we have drifted, and we cannot deny it, I would still like you to know that I still treat you as my friend. I'll still be there for you when you need me. I'm always ready for a conversation, always ready for a date, always ready to go back to how we used to be. I honestly do not want our friendship to come to an end, because I really appreciate and want you in my life. But if you feel that I'm no longer worthy to be in your life, I will also not force you to have me in your life.


I'm still the same old me, nothing have changed.

Before and After.

My life after getting into a relationship....

It seems that most people have thoughts like,
"Oh you must be happier right now.", "Your life is officially completed.", "You're so lucky to have everything in your life."

My thoughts on my friends that have a relationship (before I myself got into a relationship) was, "How lucky they must be. They have a family, they have their friends, now they have a boyfriend / girlfriend as well!"

But after getting into a relationship, after having to experience things myself, that's when I realised, getting into a relationship with someone is really isn't that simple. It isn't just about wanting to spend the rest of your life with that one person, it's isn't just about going on dates, it isn't just about enjoying each other's company and all. It was more than that.



Yes you have one addition onto your Important / Favourite list, but with that addition it also means that you have one more person to balance in your life. In my case, in the past I had to balance only my family, my friends, studies and work. But now, I had to balance my family, my friends, studies, work, and him. And to be honest, I was really confident of being able to balance all of it well. I had plans, I made plans even before getting into a relationship.

The first month went well. But slowly, things started to change. Probably because it was the start of our relationship, which was also the crucial part of a relationship, I spent more time with him. And because of this, I also got drifted away from some of my friends. To be honest, I would not say I've put in 100% effort in trying to save my friendship. However, I would dare to say I've tried. But human-to-human relationship can never go just one-way.

There were a few events when my friends jio-ed me out, but because I've made plans with him beforehand, I had to reject them. I don't know if it's pure coincidence, but the few times they asked me out, I've already had plans. So some of my friends would automatically leave me out for events because they would assume I would no doubt choose him over anything. At some point of time, whenever I had problems or when I was upset with him and I really wanted to rant it to someone, I suddenly had no idea who I can approach. I looked through my contact list and I just didn't know who to talk to.



I was lucky enough to still have friends who would ask me how's my life going on and all. They gave me advice and made me start making sense of my life.

One particular friend of mine, probably the last person I would even expect to be having such a conversation with, once told me,

"At some point in your life, you would realise no matter how much you try to explain, how much you try to save yourself, they will still be saying the same old things, in fact they would just say you are just being a hypocrite. If they are your true friends, they will be happy for you. They may not like your boyfriend, but because you love him, they will still be happy for you. You don't even have to explain to your true friends, because they know you well enough."

p.s: I realised those people who can understand are only those we've been through it.



I know some of my friends are not happy with me because I no longer spend as much time as I used to spend with them. And I know they also have to rant it out. But sometimes I wish they would tell me instead of being mad at me behind my back and ranting it to others.

The hardest part is probably having to smile and laugh and act like you do not know about it in front of them.



In this kind of situation, nobody is in the wrong, maybe it's my fault because I assumed that my friends would understand that I would have lesser time to spent with them. Maybe I just didn't do a good job in balancing everything.



And to be honest,


I really do.

Being someone who is extremely sensitive about feelings, I can tell about one's mood really quick. There are times when I really want to be like how we used to be, so I decided to be the one who will make the first move. But sometimes their response to you can be really disappointing. Eventually, from casual talks, it became formal talks and right now I guess the only time she'll ever talk to me is when she needs my help.

There's nothing I can do to change the situation because......
We no longer understand one another anymore.

I still do hope we can be as close as we used to be.

As much as I'm enjoying attached life, I still hate the fact that there are things that you've to sacrifice, and there are still so much more to learn and adapt to.


To John, to my family, and to my drifted / current friends,