It was a weekend with the girls to Singapore and we had the privilege to stay in a Club Room in Oasia Hotel Singapore.

Location wise it was one of the most strategic placed mid-range hotel available in Singapore. Connected to a MRT station underground, the hotel is only but a few stops away from Orchard road (central location).

At SGD200+ per night, it offered rather comfortable beds and shower and had a nice spread of breakfast, if you were to choose to stay at their Club Room, you get to dine in their club lounge located on a high floor during the buffet breakfast, away from the massive crowd on the ground floor. On top of which you get light refreshments during the evening hour between 6-8pm that offered unlimited cocktails, beer and good choice of house pours (red and white). Which, alone, I thought was worth to upgrade to a Club Room. Along with other benefits of Club Room which were late check-outs and free bus tour around Singapore, etc.


The Room:









The Club Lounge (Breakfat):
















The Pool:


The Refreshments:









Oasia Hotel Singapore by Fast Easy Hospitality
8, Sinaran Dr, Singapore 307470
Contact: +65 6664 0333
Website: http://www.oasia.com.sg/

I was passing through Hong Kong for a day from Macau to catch up with a few friends before heading into China on a quick work trip. One of the friends was an old friend from uni days whom I have not met for 10 years, I felt bad for not able to make it to his wedding in Hong Kong few years ago as I was travelling that I felt compelled to catch up with him.

He arranged an afternoon tea at this cafe called Angelina, and boy, was I in for a treat!



The 110 year-old French legacy is a franchise french dessert cafe from Paris and widely popular in Hong Kong as well as New Year City.

It has been years since I had a good Mont Blanc (a round dessert topped with thick drizzle layers of fresh pureed chestnut cream, inside you'll find fresh loaded cream and sometimes a thin base of cake, I swear to you it's the best dessert, ever!). Malaysia doesn't really have ANY good mont blanc dessert, most use heavy alcohol to preserve the cream or they use cheap substitutes for the chestnut cream.

And Angelina's Mont Blanc was De Li Cious. Which was, of course, what they were famous for. Not just that, they served a MEAN cup of hot cocoa. In fact, almost every dessert in the shop looked and tasted like cloud and mushy unicorm love. There are no words to properly describe it.

It's located at IFC mall in Hong Kong, and like a true classy French establishment, it comes with a fabulous view of the Hong Kong harborfront view.












African Chocolate - another of their classic dessert, very very rich chocolate








I, my friend, and his wife. Thanks for the treat! And it was nice to finally catch up!


There's a cafe in Singapore which is closer than Hong Kong. Time for a visit on my next trip to do a comparison.


Angelina
Lane Crawford, Podium 3, IFC Mall,
8 finance street, 999077 Hong Kong
Contact: +852 3188 0842
Operation Hours: 10am - 10pm

I visited the SK-II #ChangeDestiny Museum today at concourse area in 1 Utama where SK-II ambassadors Godfrey Gao and Lee Sinje was making an appearance to unveil the launch of the museum, which will be open to public until this Sunday, 11th January 2015.

Those of my readers, you still have the chance to get your golden ticket (mention code "Nicolekiss") to visit the museum AND to get an awesome deal where you buy a bottle 150ml (RM425) of Facial Treatment Essence and be rewarded with RM1000 worth of SK-II gifts: Travel Carrier, Jewelry Box, Beauty Pouch and Tea Sets. Check out the RM1000 gifts in the photos below:











All these + a beauty pouch (don't have the photo for this, sorry) worth RM1000 when you buy a bottle of 150ml Facial Treatment Essence. Damn worth it right?!

Just mention my code "Nicolekiss" at the counter of the Museum between 10am-10pm this weekend to receive a golden ticket.

Have fun shopping! You might catch me buying the promo deal this weekend. Hehe.

Here's a chance to accumulate karma points for the new year.
Giving a shout out to a CSR project launched by British India called White Elephant.





It's a charity driven shop in Publika where all the clothes were donated by mostly British India and 100% of the proceeds go to charity. They're also constantly looking for volunteers to look after the shop. Like most salvation shops, you can find some pretty good finds if you look hard enough, and nothing in the shop exceeds RM50, and at the time of writing, each piece of clothing is brand new and unwashed. So sometimes a typical old piece can spot yellow stains from long term storage.






I bought this oversized men's jacket for less than RM40. It's my go-to comfort smart-casual wear. Just fold out the sleeves and pair it with t-shirt and jeans/shorts. It's since worn it 3 times.


I love their handmade scented candles at RM10 each.

Here's to another year of new year resolutions and leaving the baggages behind in 2014.