Vegetarian Nature Cafe at SMU

My friend and I enjoyed the vegetarian dishes at vegetarian cafe, Nature Cafe at Singapore Management University. I like to eat vegetarian food as I don't feel so guilty eating meat. I do think if everyone of us just reduce meat intake and have more vegetarian food, there be less suffering for animals. 

I don't eat beef and lamb. I mostly eat seafood and am trying to cut down on meat. It would be good if vegetarian food are at affordable prices to attract more people to eat vegetarian food. I think the promotion set is quite affordable.

Baked mushroom pasta

 

Majestic King Protea Flowers

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Early Tweets From Trump

Love him or hate him, you can't ignore him. While looking through the magazines amidst clearing my bookshelf, I saw this interesting page from 2017 Forbes Asia 100th anniversary issue. 

Books Sold Finally! Thank You!

I just want to say a Big Thank You to my friend who brought my books. To be honest I didn't expect my friend to buy all four books that I published. I thought it would be great if she just buy one book. I was wondering if I should continue as there was no sales for the past two weeks. I also want to say big thank you to someone who brought the weekly planner. 

Anyway, I plan to launch another sketch book but this time, it will be on premium colour as photographs are clearer and paper thicker. Ink pen can be used on the paper without impacting the other side of the page. For the current sketch book which is printed with standard colour, only pencils and colour pencils are suitable. 

The following are books I published with Amazon KDP. 

1) Where Flowers Bloom, Wonder Grows. (More than 138 stunning flower photographs) Click here to buy. 

2) Let's Sketch Flowers! Discover The Joy of Sketching! (108 Breathtaking Floral Photographs) Click here to buy. 

3) Weekly Planner and Journal With Floral Photography. Click here to buy. 

4) Blooming Flowers (Flower photographs) Click here to buy

For current sketch book, Let's Sketch Flowers! There are flower photographs at the top and empty space for you to sketch. You can use pencils and colour pencils to draw on it. Ink pen will affect the other side of the page. Just have fun sketching and be creative. I just sketched and played with various design elements like lines and shapes as shown above. I will release another sketch book that will use premium colour but this time there be no blank pages and all pages will be filled with photographs for reference and inspiration.

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Latest Song by Jay Chou : Forever Forever

Finally Jay Chou has composed and  released new song, titled Forever Forever. This song is a collaboration with Mayday Ashin and three members from the popular F4. Jay Chou is truly King of Mandopop who has composed and sang many memorable songs. My favourite songs include 七里香 Qi Li Xiang. 

Forever Forever

My Published Books Arrived!

I ordered books that I published last month via Amazon and they finally arrived! I wanted to see how it look like first and what are the differences in delivery packages for author copies and for customers.

I like the flower photography book, Where Flowers Bloom, Wonder Grows as images are of higher quality as the interior is premium colour with white paper. I use it as an inspiration when I sketch and also just looking at flowers make me happy. The other books such as Let's Sketch Flowers and Weekly planner interior use standard colour with white paper. 

These books are great gifts for flowers, nature lovers and artists! You can order from Amazon website now. From Amazon site, I see that there is free delivery for purchase above S$60.00.

You can buy the following books from Amazon website. Friends, if you ordered you can update me.

1) Where Flowers Bloom, Wonder Grows. Size of book: 8x10 inches. Click here to buy. Premium colour at $23.80 USD

2) Let's Sketch Flowers! Discover The Joy of Sketching! (108 Breathtaking Floral Photographs) Size of book: 8x10 inches. 

Click here to buy Standard colour interior at $19.80 USD. 

Click here to buy Premium colour interior at $24.80 USD

3) Weekly Planner and Journal With Floral Photography. Size: 7.5x9.f25 inches. Click here to buy. Standard colour at #18.90 USD

4) Blooming Flowers Beautiful flower photos for inspiration. Size: 6.14x9.21 inches. Click here to buy paperback at US$12.90.

Kindle ebook is available here at $5.80 USD.  

All Books arrived.

Where Flowers Bloom, Wonders Grows flower photography book is great gift for flower and nature lovers. Also great inspiration for artists and designers. Images are clear and vibrant. The interior is premium colour with white paper.

You can sketch and doodle. The interior here is standard colour with white paper.

Weekly planner interior is standard colour with white paper.

Spring Cleaning: Surprising Finds

Finally cleared the small bookshelf after three days of looking through the magazines and books. I felt so good after clearing the shelves as I just keep those magazines that are inspiring and interesting. I normally look through all magazines first and just tear away those advertisement pages or anything not relevant. I find Home & Decor and SquareRooms magazines great with interesting and informative content so I still keep some of the magazines. Home & Decor is no longer available monthly but now they have annual magazines on different parts of the home like living room and bedroom editions. In a way I think is good as I realise that most of the topics are quite similar like floor tiles comparison, types of kitchen layouts or different styles. I can also save money.

While flipping through the pages of magazines I saw some interesting information as shown below. I also rediscovered some great magazines that are no longer in print and cease publication like Simply Her and Vanilla.

I still keep Elle magazine as it has interesting idea whereby you can change the costumes of the model by turning the pages. 

I love hardcopy books and magazines as I find reading online unhealthy for eyes. It is better to have hardcopy magazine as information is kept intact. Sometimes information might be removed online or magazine might just cease publication.

The pages are divided to 3 parts so you can change the costumes of the model. Very interesting and good idea. I value this magazine as it involved more processes to produce and this is the only magazine I see so far with this interesting concept and implementation. 

This is from Home & Decor magazine 2007 on the HDB flats prices in various parts of Singapore. What is the price difference now?

Should I throw this book away? Papers have turned yellow. 

Very messy.

All these magazines are no longer in print except for Home & Decor.

These magazines are no longer available. I find the content quite inspiring and interesting so I still keep a few copies. Anyway they are no longer available so you can't buy these female magazines. 

MacDonald Blind Box

 I rarely eat McDonald food. Today is an exception as I want the pocket pouch of iconic MacDonald character. These MacDonald characters were quite popular during my childhood.

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Another Blog

This blog is about joy.  Another blog is about my opinions on serious topic. If you want read, you can read my latest post here. If not, you can ignore. Now I will separate happy topics and not so happy posts in two separate blogs. 

Longjing Restaurant at Suntec City

Longjing restaurant is finally opened at Suntec City. My cousin and I enjoyed these dishes like the Vermicelli wrapped shrimps and Fish slices in Potherb Mustard and Sour soup ($22.80). For dessert, I love the pretty lotus pudding with beancurd.

However we find the fried rice and fish slices soup quite salty. For me, I be back for the vermicelli wrapped shrimps and lotus pudding. We wanted to try matcha pastry dessert but it was out of stock by 1.20 pm. 

Longjing Restaurant at Suntec City level 1 near H&M

Nearest MRT station: Esplanade MRT station 

West Lake Lotus pudding with beancurd ($5.80). I like that this dessert is not too sweet. 

I like this light and refreshing longjing tea. 

Fried rice with dried radish strips ($7.80). We find the fried rice quite salty. 

Vermicelli wrapped shrimps.

Fish slices in Potherb Mustard and Sour soup ($22.80

Laifeng Pagoda. Really pretty pudding dessert.

Beautiful Bonsai at Bonsai Gardens

Bonsai also known as Penjing originates from China and is a living artistic miniature of the natural world. You can read more about Bonsai plants at Blooming Flowers and Arts blog here.

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Dreams Do Come True

My lifelong dream of publishing book has finally been achieved! My heartfelt thanks goes to Amazon KDP. I decided to start small by publishing simple flower photo book and flower sketch book. If I don't start now, when will I ever start? One must take action to make dreams come true. From this project, I learnt how to self-publish with this wonderful platform by Amazon KDP. 

For the past few weeks, I had been busy with preparing the book, selecting the best flower photos from thousands of photos I took in Singapore especially at Gardens by the Bay and Singapore Botanic Gardens.

Natural photos are the best as you can feel the positive vibrant energy from the nature.  Besides the two books, I also decided to design my own weekly planner journal with inspiring quotes and flower photos. 

It might not be best flower photography book for now, but one thing for sure, it's a labour of love. Despite working late into the night, I felt energised to fulfil my dream. 

Do provide review on Amazon if you purchase the book.

If you like my work, you can go to Amazon to purchase. You can buy the book in the upcoming Amazon sales.Thank you.

There are the books I just published. Do give constructive feedback. 

1) Where Flowers Bloom, Wonder Grows. Click here to buy. You can read sample here.

2) Let's Sketch Flowers! Discover The Joy of Sketching! (108 Breathtaking Floral Photographs) Click here to buy. 

3) Weekly Planner and Journal With Floral Photography. Click here to buy. 

4) Blooming Flowers Click here to buy

You can buy this photo book Where Flowers Bloom, Wonder Grows. Click here to buy. 

Sample page from Where Flowers Bloom, Wonder Grows

Let's Sketch Flowers! Discover The Joy of Sketching! (108 Breathtaking Floral Photographs) Click here to buy. 

Sample pages from Let's Sketch Flowers! Discover The Joy of Sketching! (108 Breathtaking Floral Photographs).

Weekly Planner and Journal With Floral Photography. Click here to buy. 

            Sample pages from Weekly Planner and Journal With Floral Photography

 Blooming Flowers Click here to buy

Delicious Home-cooked Fried Bee Hoon (Rice Vermicelli Noodles)

The best food in the world is definitely my mum's speciality fried bee hoon (rice vermicelli noodles). Yesterday my mum cooked my favourite fried bee hoon with carrots and cabbage and I had a big plate as usual. I think I have to learn how to cook this dish from my mum soon.