I’m currently at Sydney Airport but I will be making small updates on my blog whilst I’m travelling!

First stop will be Singapore where I will have a stop over for 3 hours before heading to Taipei!

It’s my first time flying with FlyScoot so I’m a little nervous!!!

I know there will be no inflight entertainment so I have prepared myself with Cleo and Cosmopolitan magazines!! Also headphones are a must!!

Sneak peek in my carry on bag!


Wish me luck on my flight!!! And see you all in Singapore and Taipei! ❤

Ohai!

Apologies for being gone for so long! Last week I had a work conference at Port Douglas. I stayed at the Sheraton Mirage Resort & Spa!!

 

I’ve never been to Cairns before so I didn’t actually expect much out of it, but it quickly became one of my favourite places in Australia!! It’s very warm which is different since Sydney has become half of a Melbourne.

 

 

 

Here are some photos from the resort! It was ah-mazingggg!!! #freeadvertising

 

Port Douglass is about a one-hour bus ride from Cairns Airport.

 

 

 

Yes, I swear I was there for work!

Here is proof of my conference folder. #nolashes in this picture. How different I look!! #nofilter #nophotoshop too!

 

At night, we had several dinner events. I took an outfit of the day #OOTD on one of the days with my new ASOS split maxi skirt (which I’m super obsessed with at the moment)

I think after HALLOWEEN, I’ve been quite obsessed with darker pink lips. I’m still trying to pull it off, but I’m kinda getting used to the “bxtchy” look now! Doesn’t look too bad after all and makes me look more “sexy” rather than “cute”. :)

 

 

 

Super random luvo pics I took before heading out to sunbake.

 

 

On the last day I was at Port Douglas, my company took us out to Snorkelling!! I’ve never been snorkelling but I’ve heard so many things about the Great Barrier Reef and scuba diving/snorkelling there so I was really excited.

We had to wear Lycra suits due to it being stinger season (extremely dangerous period to be swimming in the ocean).

 

 

 

 

I brought a waterproof camera to take underwater photos of the beautiful corals and fishes as well, but haven’t developed the film yet! (YES IT’S A FILM CAMERA #ZOMG)

 

I loved the experience of snorkelling. I’m usually not a person to “love water events” because I am so concerned about being able to wear makeup and looking nice when I go away, but honestly, being able to see the world in a whole new way… I was extremely blown away.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND you to snorkel if you are not a confident swimmer and scuba dive if you are more confident!

 

This trip is only the beginning of my many trips to come! I’m really excited.

 

Avoca Beach road trip in December, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand in January!!! If anyone has any places to recommend in those countries, please let me know as I haven’t organised much at this point yet!

 

Where are you travelling to in the next few months?

Ohai!!

I hope everyone enjoyed Fiorr’s fashion tips!! I’m back with my Travel Diaries!! To those who are unaware and haven’t been here for a while, Fiorr is now going to be guest posting on my blog with Fashion #outfits and #tips!! Fiorr is my blood-sister so you will see similarities between us!

Travel diary

28th December 2011

 

Finally is the day we finally see familiar faces in America!! We reach Las Vegas to meet Fiorr and Chris.

 

You seriously know when you reach Las Vegas.. it’s like…… look, I’ll show you. Hello Vegas? THIS IS IN THE AIRPORT.

We take an airport shuttle bus and visit all the other hotel entrances. Amazing! This is probably my favourite hotel, it looks like a castle!

After we meet Fiorr and Chris, we head downtown for some action!

99c Margartias?? Yes, please!!!!

Oh, and ofcourse, we find this restuarant!!! Apparently, they have the biggest and fattiest burgers in the world!!!! A whopping Quadruple Bypass Burger. Check out the real-life size burger!!!!

Funniest part is that they have all these warning signs outside the shop and also… an ambulance sitting outside (fake ambulance) for any emergencies.

Fremont Street. Downtown isn’t as bad as loads of people have told me.. It’s just a super cheap, older and dirtier version of the Strip.

Oh, and wtf. Found this huge pokies machine in one of the casinos downtown. It was only $1 to play!!!! The guy infront of us almost got all the golds in one line.. but it was slightly misaligned.

Okay, we had our fun. Back to The Strip.

We went to many places, but this is Planet Hollywood and the Miracle Mile shops. It was directly opposite our hotel and I found my Sam Edelman shoes here!!! The inside of this casino is amazing!! It has a fake sky!

After walking around, we were super hungry and went to eat Japanese buffet!

Then back to the casino at Planet Hollywood. Look, there are dancers on the tables!!!

And ofcourse, had a quick browse at Sephora!

After Planet Hollywood, we started to head over to Paris.

Right underneath it, they had Paris shaped jugs filled with alcohol as well!!!

Inside, they had the fake sky, and the legs of Paris coming down as well!!!

We had some fun, and headed over to the Mirage.

And.. back to our own hotel. This is at Bellagio!! They had cute polar bears everywhere for Winter Christmas!!!!

More adventures in Vegas soon! x.

Ohai. More travel diaries!!

 

Travel diary

27th December 2011

Today we are heading for Universal Studios. It’s going to be a warm day today so I don’t need to wear jacket over jacket!!

 

Outfit + Makeup

Universal Studios is very similar to Fox Studios in Sydney.. but… 100x bigger. Wait, 100x may be an understatement!! Universal Studios is so funnn!!!

Welcome to Universal Studios!! It’s the famous globe!!!!

Okay, we were starving so we first settled in for some crepe!!

This is a funny statue!! The one without the santa hat is a real guy!! Look.

He freaking gives me the peace sign!!!!

Our journey continues!!!

This is the horrible Horror House I spoke about (if you read my twitter). I f***king hate this place!!!!!!!!! I went in crying and walked out crying. Never again.

Some random shop Mr.CG wanted me to take a pic of because he is really barrister-obsessed.

It’s a spinning coke bottle with a straw that spits out water!!! LOL! It’s so awesome!!! I think they called it the “Coke shower” or something.

Let it out!! It’s EB!!!!

Then there’s Animal Actors. This Labrador is super cute.

Krustyland, anyone? Drop the kids here and run! haha!

In Australia, we need a license to sell alcohol. In America, they have it everywhere…. and tripe the size. WTF.

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JAWS!!!!! Beware.

Can someone mail me some churros from America? They are the best.

It’s the GRINCH!!!!! – whole stole Christmas!!!!! Quite ironic because he is in a santa costume and dancing to christmas songs! haha!

Universal Studios is so beautiful in the day.. but madly amazing in the night.

I can’t wait til we come back to LA… but next stop is Las Vegas.

Travel diary

26th December 2011

Dearest readers,

Mr.CG and I reached Hollywood today!! Many people think of Hollywood with lots of celebrities walking around but I didn’t see a single one!!! Boohoo! I actually really wanted to do some celebrity spotting!!

 

 

 

We also took a visit to the Chinese Threatre. We didn’t go in though to watch a movie though. The best movies are shown here first! Go the chinese! :D

 

 

Spotted Hooters which I’ve heard about loads of TV. Can’t wait to dine there!

 

See the Starbucks in the corner of the above pic? We just had to try out the Starbucks to see what the America’s rave about!

 

 

Outside the Chinese Threatre, there are cute characters walking around. We spotted Mickey and quickly took a photo with him, after the photo, he asked me to take a photo with Dora the Explorer…. (I’ve never watched a single one of her shows!!) so I did it, and he asked for tips for photo taking!!!!

Lesson 1: Never take photos with the characters randomly walking around the street.

 

Lesson 2: Only take pictures from afar and then run before they ask you for tips.

 

 

Then we went into the mall to find Hard Rock Cafe and shop at MAC and Sephora!!!!!!

 

 

The Hard Rock Cafe is better in America than it is in Sydney – but we had to wait over 30 mins for a table!!!! There were tables around, but not enough waiters to serve!

 

It’s KETCHUP!!!! (It’s called Tomato Sauce in Australia)

 

 

After brunch, we headed over to Madame Tussauds. I thought Kim Kardashian was going to be here so I was super excited to “meet her”. But it turned out she’s not in the LA one!!!!

 

 

 

 

*** meeting the celebrities ***

 

 

 

First time into Forever21, so glad I don’t need to pay minimum $35 for shipping!!! How outrageous are their shipping costs to Australia??

Scroll down to see my first purchases!

 

 

F21 Glitter white jumper – super nice for the winter when  you want to look glam, but it’s freezing!
F21 Glitter bronze and gold bodycon skirt

 

 

F21 gold bodycon skirt with horizontal stripes

 

 

Kookai copy cutout singlet
F21 tan bodycon skirt

 

More shopping and travel fun to share with you soon!

Ok, I’m going to be backlogging since I barely got any internet in a few cities I went to, and I didn’t have a computer (only an iPad) so I couldn’t actually upload any videos whilst I was on my trip.

 

 

Travel diary

24th December 2011

Dearest readers,

I’ve landed in America.

I feel like… it has always been my wildest dream to go to the other side of the world. Being in Australia, it’s known to be expensive to travel because we are so far below the rest of the world.. so to be there… in America, seemed like a dream come true. Wooohooo!

At the airport. First thought: “Shxt, my luggage is already 16kgs”. Not a good start to my holiday.

My first stop is Los Angeles. I don’t know too much about geography and prior to this trip, I didn’t even know where LA was situated on a map (apart from the fact that it’s in America). But I knew one thing, I had to check out one place. Beverly Hills.

Okay, now, we get off our flight and settle into our hotel.. checking if I brought everything.

toothbrush, toothpaste, tick.
shampoo, deep conditioner, body wash, facial wash, hair serum, tick. tick. tick.
foundation, eyeliner, powder, eyebrow pencil, naked palette, tick. tick. tick.
pajamas, ugg boots, coats, tick.
(and the list goes on…)

 

Gosh, a girls life is difficult. Mr.CG’s luggage was about 10kgs to start with.. in which I think the bag weighed about 2-3kg of it!

 

At LA airport

 

 

 

The first day is usually a “resting” day. After a 12+ hour flight, we were so exhausted. Helllooo bed.

 

5pm. We wake up. We get ready and we’re told we have a hotel limo chauffeur to drive us out to Beverly Hills!!

6pm. We are all set to go to Beverly Hills!!!

We mainly went to Rodeo Dr and Santa Monica Blvd, but the whole city of Beverly Hills was amazing!! I could just feel the existence of the rich and famous beside me!!

We spotted this extremely expensive and awesome sports car parked on the street outside Bijan – also with the number plate Bijan. Everyone stopped to take photos of this car. LOLOL.

Shopping in action!! At Juicy Couture.

Christmas tree outside on Rodeo Dr. It is soo beautiful.

8pm. Very hungry!! We went by the very touristy way to find a restaurant. We stole some hotel tourist brochures and began our eating adventure.

10pm. Home time.

The christmas tree at our hotel!

Goodnight xo.

 

 

 

25th December 2011

Dearest readers,

I’m on my way to Disneyland today!!!!!

 

My outfit for Disneyland. I bought that jacket from Beverly Hills – Juicy Couture!

 

On the coach to Disneyland

Awesome welcoming fountain!

Our citypass! I drew a mickey mouse face on my signature!

We thought this was only in Disneyland but it turns out it is everywhere!!! We got about 10 coins stamped!

The Disneyland map!

We found Jasmine and Aladdin!!!!

Pretzels!!!!!! Super yummy flavoured pretzels!!

We also found the Night before Christmas!!!

Then we lined up for over an hour to take a picture with Winnie the Pooh and friends!… LOL.

That’s when we spotted…. mini Santa Claus!

My favourite out of the three!!! Tigger!!!!!! *giggles*

Eeyore looked so sad!!!

And Pooh! <3

One of my favourite pictures of Mr.CG & I. Let’s frame this, shall we?

Then we had Churros!!! Damn, we ate alot of food that day at Disneyland but it was irresistible!!!!

Look!! They even had a grass cut statue of Dumbo!!!

Here is where I lined up after some kids to sit on this teapot… so.. that I can be apart of the cool kids.

We actually lined up about 2 hours to take pictures with these Princesses. I think Mr.CG was more excited than I was about these princesses….. the pictures of our photos are further down because we saw this.. and then came back after we toured around a little more.

There was a shop filled with costumes and other accessories for the princesses!!! I love Tinkerbell!

This is probably the best part of Disneyland. We got this huge… turkey leg.. that I don’t think I’ll ever forget! It reminds me so much of the Flintstones!

Okay, then we go back and take photos with the princesses. Even after we got back, the line was just as long.. as we decided to line up. Yes.. about 2 hours in total!

I feel a little embarrasssed… but I don’t think I quite know who the first princess is… then it’s Ariel (Little Mermaid).. then Jasmine (Aladdin). Those were obvious. Is the first one Cinderella?

Next, we went to line up to see Mickey!

I believe our journey pretty much ended there. We were so tired after this so we stopped to shop for souvenirs.

The Mickey Mouse hand gloves I showed you guys in my earlier blog post!!!!

The castle in Disneyland at night!!!

Duffy!!!!!! I madly wanted one of these but I don’t think Mr.CG wanted to carry this to Vegas, Boston, Washington, Rhode Island, Niagara Falls, NYC… and then back to Sydney. LOL.

And I love Marie!! She’s so pretty!

This is… supposed to be Tigger….

It started to snow at night!!! We actually went on Christmas Day (if you didn’t already realise) so the snow actually gave us the White Christmas dream we have always wanted. Ticking that off the “to-do” list now!

All in all, I loved Disneyland. It brought back so many childhood memories and allowed me to share and spend these memories with Mr.CG who I wasn’t fortunate enough to meet before my teens.

Looking forward to more fun, but exhausted now!

Goodnight! xo.

And the journey continues….

Hello everyone!!

I’ve finally got internet access in New York City. For the past few week, I have been changing several hotels due to joining different tours to visit different cities.

On the 1st January 2012, I arrived at New York City – I arrived for only one night before heading out to Philadephia, Washington DC and Niagara Falls! Niagara Falls is amazing – but because of the waterfall and rushing of the water, the city was deserted and honestly very very cold.

After the trip, I obviously spent some time shopping in Times Square!!! I love it here and desperately want to move here!!!! The city is awake until about 11pm – whereas Sydney would be deserted by 5pm – depending on where you go.

I’ve been shopping at Century 21 on Wall Street and Woodbury Commons… and let me just say… it’s madness over there!!!! I can’t even believe how much shopping we came home with!

Anyway, I can’t seem to upload any photos on this computer at Hilton at the moment so you guys will need to wait til I come back on the 13th January for photos and more crazy experiences!!!

 

Miss you guys alot!

 

Speak soon. x