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SL-Week 25: Macro – Tea at Antoinette

December 23, 2015 by cocoaevenings

In response to Sylvain LANDRY, SL-Week 25: Macro. Beautiful food will bring a curious hungry person closer. Let the yolk flow! Perfectly poached eggs top with shimmering hollandaise sauce is mouth-watering anytime. Complete the meal with over-the-top Antoinette (earl grey tea) cake, macarons, and tea from a European style tea set. Sweet macarons make a sweet evening. A good pot of tea shall fill your senses with fragrance. The dim lights set a romantic ambience for your greatest enjoyment. Read […]

Categories: Sylvain LANDRY Photography • Tags: 1 min, food, lifestyle, photography, Singapore

Share Your World – 2015 week #32 – Brian’s Bakes and Blogging 101

August 16, 2015 by cocoaevenings

In response to Cee’s Photography Share Your World tag. Are you a collector of anything? Yes. Sunsets, skies, and makeup. Watch eighteen gorgeous sunsets that will relax your mood with me. They say, “life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.” Enjoy thirty-one amazing skies with me. As for makeup, I like lipsticks and blushes. Find the perfect red lip colour from my thirty-one shades of red lipsticks. I will […]

Categories: About, Share You World • Tags: 1 min, blogging101

Man in the white coat lured me in

August 15, 2015 by cocoaevenings

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Creepy.” I can feel Michelle Weber as I read about her stumble into the stacks of plastic babies. Indeed, creepy. I have had such encounters before – bumping into something eerie or disgusting in the middle of a happy day. In my case, I met with such a scene in broad daylight during my travel vacation in Boracay, The Phillippines. I first saw this scene from further down, as shown below. […]

Categories: The Daily Post • Tags: 1 min, black and white, Boracay, photography

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Mystery. Fantasy. Unpredictability. Beauty. Artistry. Subtlely.

August 14, 2015 by cocoaevenings

The six words that form the title describes what I found In Noir Velvet. The first picture I saw, that says “Sore eyes; have their unfair habits,” felt like a quaint door in a mysterious city of old. The title Six Words Stories screams skillful artistry, for how could one write a story in six words? La fille in the Noir Velvet coat has done it a hundred and sixty-one times and counting. Pictures after pictures ooze fantasy and beauty. […]

Categories: Musings • Tags: 1 min, blogging, blogging101

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MM 2-23: Monochrome Madness – If I could walk back in the corridor of time | cocoavenings

August 14, 2015 by cocoaevenings

I knew I had to snap this image the moment I saw the old man’s reflection in the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of Ninethirty by Awfully Chocolate. The modern decor of the corridor contrasted starkly with the age of the person to produce a surreal mix of fact and fantasy. I almost jumped into that the glass window right then for I saw a time machine. What with those bizarre lights and dim lighting falling upon the glass. How could the time […]

Categories: Memories, Monochrome Madness, Musings • Tags: 1 min, black and white, contrast, corridor, reflections, time

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Blogging 101 Day Eight: Be a Good Neighbour – It’s the little things that we share | cocoaevenings

August 13, 2015 by cocoaevenings

Dear Readers, Thank you for spending your evenings with me a day after day. Your comments have put many smiles on my tired face. It is the little things that we share in common here and there that has brought us together in the blogosphere. I hope this does not sound too mushy. I seldom articulate such heartfelt words because I have grown up in a rather restraint Asian environment. We, 101-ers, have been tasked to spread the love, so […]

Categories: Musings • Tags: 1 min, Bali, blogging, blogging101, call-for-action

Fallen autumn leaves undulating wonderfully

August 8, 2015 by cocoaevenings

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Beneath Your Feet.” I experienced autumn for the first time in my life in Nagoya, Japan. I live in a country that is almost on the equator of the Earth, so I do not go through four seasons a year where I live. On the day that I took this photo, I was completely immersed in the mystical feel of the park near Nagoya Castle. I felt like I was in […]

Categories: Memories, The Daily Post • Tags: 1 min, autumn, Japan, leaf, Nagoya, nature, photography, yellow

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MM 2-22: Monochrome Madness Bridges – The Helix, Singapore | cocoavenings

August 6, 2015 by cocoaevenings

I love bridges. I fondly remember holding my mother’s hand or her pocket as I slowly but surely climb those stone stairs of the overhead bridge. I remember how I was scared of crossing bridges for fear that they would fall because I saw cracks in between the stone slabs and big gaps in between two steps of the stairs. I had to cross an overhead bridge at least once every fortnight when I was little, as I had to […]

Categories: Monochrome Madness • Tags: 1 min, black and white, bridge, Marina Bay Sands, monochrome, photography, Singapore, Singapore River, The Helix

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Beauty 301: Daiso or Tweezerman to tweeze eyebrows? | Save or Splurge Product Review

August 2, 2015 by cocoaevenings

In reference to my previous post on the Top 11 Tips and Tricks for Tweezing Eyebrows. I need some tools for tweezing my brow hair, and the most important tool is the tweezer. I currently own two tweezers. One of them is from Daiso and the other is Tweezerman. I prefer to use the straight-cut, nondescript, silver tweezers sold in Daiso for two dollars rather than the slant-cut, fancy, pastel green Tweezerman sold in Sephora for about twenty dollars. The […]

Categories: Beauty, Product Reviews, Save or Splurge • Tags: 1 min, affordable, beauty, Daiso, eyebrows, grooming, Tweezerman

Half and Half: Beauty Edition – featuring Sephora Kiss Me Lip Balm in #01 Creme Brulee | Product Review

July 31, 2015 by cocoaevenings

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Half and Half.” Sephora Kiss Me Lip Balm in #01 Creme Brulee The Sephora Kiss Me Lip Balm (picture below) is similar to the EOS Lip Balm in concept, with the product popping out in the shape of a hemisphere from the lower half of the container. It comes in three shades, plain white, pink, and red. However, the top half of the Sephora container is clear transparent instead of opaque. As […]

Categories: Beauty, Makeup, Product Reviews, The Daily Post • Tags: 1 min, beauty, lip balms, Sephora