February 2013

February 10th

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Chúc mừng năm mới! 恭禧發財! I hope that everyone had an amazing 2012 and now it's time to move on to 2013, the Year of the Snake!

CNY OOTD:

Top: Cropped Cardigan from Zara

Dress: I really don't remember where i brought this dress from.

P.S: THE WALKING DEAD is back on tonight! Whooooo!

February 14th

I hope everyone enjoyed the “day-of-love” today and that your day is filled with fluttering hearts. Since Valentine’s Day falls on a Thursday this year like most of the population, i had to work.

At work, i decided to give my customers a little Valentine’s Day discount. (I run and manage a Vietnamese restaurant FYI.) Surprisingly many couples decided to have Vietnamese for their Valentine’s dinner, which is good business for us. I just wished i was more prepared for it, like having chocolate hearts to give out instead of the guava candy we normally give out. Maybe i’ll have something prepared for St. Patrick’s Day... since i’m the boss and all, i need to start coming up with these things eh.

Back to the day of hugs and kisses, So as i was sleeping, i got a knock on the door... guess what they were, flowers hand delivered by him! He wanted to stop by to give me a bouquet of my favorite flowers before he went to work. What a sweet surprise!

This year, we had decided to spend Valentine’s Day at home since it was on a weekday and we didn’t have that much time to get ready coming home straight from work, plus i’m sure that every restaurant is booked solid and it would probably be hard for us to get a table.

When we both got off work, we headed to Safeway to purchase the last few missing ingredients for our homemade Valentine’s Day dinner.

What was on the menu:

- Homemade Pizza with Truffle Oil Mushrooms, Tomato, Prosciutto, Mozzarella and Arugula

- Crab & Shrimp Salad with Candied Salmon

- Pulled Pork on Ginger-Infused Pasta Noodles

- Apple Juice with Real Strawberries Slices

It’s PRESENT TIME! What i got from him this Valentine’s Day: a skull pattern shirt from Underground, some yummy smelling candles from Bath & Body Works, a Hello Kitty stuffed puff ball, Essie nail polish in Set in Stones... oh and the flowers. :-)

Girls aren’t really supposed to get present for the guys on Valentine’s Day right? What do we get them? Chocolates and a stuffed bear? Well i made him a card... which i stole the idea from Pinterest/9Gag.

The dog also had her version of a Valentine’s dinner... her favorite Cesar entree... on a cute green flower plate too. Fancy eh.

February 15th

Today is Paul’s niece, Evonne’s 15th birthday dinner at Regency Palace in Chinatown. Since LOTS of strawberries left over from Valentine’s Day, I decided to make her some chocolate-covered strawberries with some round sprinkles. These round sprinkles were like tiny bouncing balls that bounced everywhere. So messy. Hahahaha. Well i hope she likes them.

February 22nd

Possible birthday dress?

So i've decided to celebrate my 26th birthday with dinner at my favorite sushi restaurant, Red Ember (609 14 Street NW) with my favorite people. Then we headed to Black Betty for night of music and dancing. Thank-you everyone for coming and the wonderful gifts. <3

Birthday OOTD with some sock bun curls. Lazy way to have some curls... idea from Pinterest of course

Shower Renovation

After years of no one using my shower downstairs, the shower wall panels were cracking and breaking. Apparently they were dried out from not being used and you were supposed to shower (make the area wet) bi-weekly to keep the moisture, the same with your toilet, to avoid this situation. So this shower had to be re-done and today it is completed. All i have to do is clean it and put my stuff in.

Weekend OOTD

My OOTD this past weekend.

(*Whoops. Should have been February instead of January dated on the photo. Hahahaha.)

Top: Forever 21

Bottom: I really don't remember where i brought this from.

Shoes: Aldo

Earrings: Forever 21

Ring(s): Forever 21

Necklace: Happy Wrist by Itchelita

Nails: Don't Be Jaded by Avon, Yellow Mellow by Sally Hansen 

   *Used the Apple iTouch app, Nail Salon (an app meant for kids i think) to display my nails.

I am loving the collar necklace trend! I'm seeing it everywhere... even in Asian dramas to girls on Instagram. It's so easy to dress up a sweater or even a blouse. Here are my two recently purchased collar necklaces.

Article: 10 Ways to Wear Collar Necklaces

December 2012 and January 2013

Wow! It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged something. I wanted to write something around the New Year but that didn’t happen. I kept procrastinating... til now. So are you ready to catch up on the world of mmmhustler403... CAUTION: this may be a looong post. :-p

Let's start of the holiday with THE WRAPPING OF THE PRESENTS! After a major clean-up of  my parent's house for my sister's engagement party, there was A LOT of Christmas wrapping paper from previous years that had piled up so some were a little bit outdated but they were still Christmas wrapping paper. So i didn't purchase anymore wrapping paper this year, just reused the ones that we still had.

A little while ago i posted a blog about the MAD HOUSE GINGERBREAD HOUSE that i had made for the Christmas season... my first gingerbread house that i had ever made. Not bad for a first-timer eh. Apparently his mom loved it and wanted to "showcase" it by the front door.

I went up to Edmonton for the weekend of December 22nd... to see TIESTO! One of my all-time favourite dj. He always put on a super amazing show and I had a blast (of course), minus the fact that I caught the 24-hour flu just as we left Calgary. The weather was freezing and snowing. Dan said that we left Calgary for an even colder city, we crazy!

This year, Christmas Eve & Day was pretty simple and laid back. I didn't go out as i normally did the previous years. No drunk-ness for me this year. I opted to stay in and celebrated it with Paul's family, because it was also the first year that they had spent the holiday without his step-dad (who passed early in June 2012). His brother, Dan, had prepared and cooked us a delicious turkey dinner, which the dog also had some.

The Christmas tree at Southcentre Mall. 100x better than Chinook Centre. Just saying.

It’s present time! :-)

Our Gingerbread Madhouse

We finally got around to make this season gingerbread house. I had found a pre-built gingerbread house at Safeway for only $9.99! PRE-BUILT and everything! You just had to decorate it! That’s the point of making a gingerbread house isn’t it, to decorate it. My sister thinks the fun is assembling it. o_O I don’t have the patience to sit around for the walls and roof to dry anymore so how lucky was I went I spotted the pre-built kit. Hahahahaha.

After seeing Jelly Modern Doughnuts' pink gingerbread house, I kinda wanted to do a pink gingerbread house too and not the generic white icing gingerbread house everyone does. So I brought extra icing and add some pink coloring into it, it wasn’t the pink I wanted so I decided to add a teal colored icing too. My gingerbread house defiantly looks like a madhouse when it was finished. Hahahaha.

So do people actually eat their gingerbread houses afterwards? I normally just throw it out. o_O Kinda of a waste eh.

Guess who decorated this side. Hint: it wasn't me. Hahahaha. <3

Also, guess what i had found out today after weeks of me hassling them. Hahahahaha. That's right, i got accepted! School life, here i come! Hahahahahaha. (I think i may be the only person this excited for school again. Hahahahahaha.)