Ice Skating Queen - Katy Perry adidas Collection

Finally it has been a month since I started the ice skating challenge, to celebrate my final lesson, I went to Pavilion and bought myself a set of adidas performance apparels. ^^





yes I even had the receipts to prove it for this set, only this set. :p


There was so many to choose from, I spent more than two hours in the changing alone conducting a fashion show of my own before settling for a set.

BEHOLD! MY BRAND NEW ADIDAS SPORTS APPARELS!
(This is by far my best buy yet!)










The sports bra can be worn on its own too.







Never seen myself that sporty in a long time.

I also got a white jacket,to go with the outfit, which can be worn with just the sports bra and tights alone.




*heart* max the white jacket design.


That's not all.

I finally got my hands on the famous pair of trainers from Katy Perry collection, the exact one she wore in her ad for adidas!


I wanted to the rest of the outfit she wore but they didn't have stock for it. However the sports bra was also from the Katy Perry collection, so happens.


Super nice right?!!








ceh~ like posing for ad :p








I bought it as a set actually, but I wore them in two different ways.
















Here are some photos from the lesson day itself.


woohoo~ I can skate straight~!



coach: ok now you can learn to spin like this
me: are you effing with me :S (just barely managed to skate straight)



no no... you spin with your feet like this *push in*



like this?


Here's the concluding video of my progress so far.

Started as a noobie with no balance at all, I'd say I've done pretty well.

Hey, I can finally skate!




What do you think? Not bad? Still need a little bit of improvement though.

But verdict~

"Nicolekiss is all in" challenge COMPLETED!




Will I continue to skate after this?

Hell yea, till I perfect my moves (definitely), and conquer the spin (maybe).

Have you given yourself a challenge lately?


Read here for Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 of my ice skating challenge.

Why So Serious?

Infamous Joker make-up


Hope your Halloween was a great one.

Mine was "meh~".


But had fun doing up this look.

Surprisingly it's pretty easy to do, and surprisingly there aren't a lot of spooks out there celebrating in KL this year. I see more nurses than I see ghosts and zombies.

Will definitely bring my Halloween spirit to Singapore next year, far away from Bangsar, the further the better (don't ask).


ps// Have you seen Heidi Klum's Halloween make-up this year? it's crazeeeee~

Moon Ring

There's a moon ring outside tonight.

For those who can't see it, here's a photo of it I took earlier.

It's not as clear as the one in wiki page, since I took it with my humble digital compact.

The actual moon ring is way bigger than it shows here in the photo, what with wide angle lens shrinking everything into a photo frame. But you get the idea.




Can you roughly see the very faint ring light around the very exposed moon?

Here's an exposed edited photo just to aid your visual (and imagination).




Have a lovely evening everyone.

Progress on my Ice Skating Challenge (with video!)

Wondering how my progress went with my Nicolekiss is all in adidas challenge?

Well I've recorded a video!! (read on)

Before that, here's a recap of the outfit I've picked out for my second day of ice skating lessons.


Or click on the link above to go to the post with all my camwhore photos of the outfit


And I know it's pointless (since I'm ice skating) but I just have to show off my brand new adidas pink and black sports shoe; I have another exact pair but silver in base color.




You would be able to see it if you follow my Twitter account. I used it to climb Mount Cook!!


Back to learning to ice skate.




Can you spot me in the photo?! I'm so colorful it's impossible not to. I love colorful clothing. ^^


This is my coach, Carmen.




She's really nice and am really patient with me even though when I'm obviously the worst 20s something student she ever had. I have like the worst balance for any form of sports. T_T




Btw do you realize she's wearing an adidas jacket?

Do you know that all ice skating coaches wear adidas jackets by default, because it's sponsored. OMG JELES! What a coincidence too! I swear I did not know this when I was signing up for the lessons.




There I go sidetracking again. @_@

Anyway I learnt a lot of moves and tricks to ice skating, not that one needs if one is already good at ice skating. It's just really useful for late learners like me to pick up the sport.



the kid was mocking me with her lightning speed. T_T


One thing after all these, I never knew ice skating could be so tiring. @_@




And the thing is, the moment my feet gets tired, I can't, even with all my might, skate properly. I will be tipping over at every glide/turn/slide, because it's using muscles I don't normally use when I walk, sleep and eat.


"Do I really need to skate more? I'm so so so so so so exhausted." Pleading at carmen the coach.


Here's a video on my progress, I also edited out the tricks and tips so that it becomes a tutorial for those who wish to pick up ice skating, take up an adidas challenge like I do.




I know I know. I'm still pretty shit. Will I really be able to finish my challenge? It's almost a month now and my aim was to achieve "passable" within a month! o.O

Am I setting myself too high a challenge? OMG kill me.

Still got one more week left. Will be TRYING MY BEST!

Tea Pairing Dinner

I was invited to Twinings tea pairing dinner by a friend of mine.

How could I say no? I love teas, and I love Twinings. I love most things English. Some people like Japanese culture, some people follow Korean Pop culture... Well, I'm a tea-drinking English girl at heart.




There was a workshop talking about making the perfect cup of tea, which was REALLY enlightening. Maybe I'll talk about it in the next post - on how to make a perfect cuppa.




Stephen Twinings was there too, yes you guessed it, he's related to the founder of Twinings - Thomas Twinings, back in the 1706 when the first Twinings tea room was first open in London.


Stephen Twinings is the 10th Generation of the Twinings empire.


It's amazing to meet someone from such a land standing legacy.

He talked a lot about tea, drank a lot of tea too.

One of the most strikening news was that Earl Grey tea is only legit for Twinings, since Early Grey tea was commissioned to Twinings by an EARL, named Charles Grey, and the tea was so welcomed it was named after the Earl. *surprised!*







I never knew tea pairs well with certain food, like wine, but it didn't surprise me that it could. Afterall, certain tea does taste better with certain variety of food.




Like black teas are good with scones, tiramisu and quiche of the sort.



My guess is that they're better with savory or slight savory desserts: some also say it's good with veal, chocolate macaroons and cheese.


Or like the green tea is best served with light food, like finger sandwich, seafood and salad, etc.




Now you know your tea, enjoy a cuppa.










Yum.

Find a cozy/scenic place, your tea will taste even better.


haha I actually got dragged out here to pose for cameras. wtf so random.


Anyway, thanks to the event, now I have enough tea to last me for the rest of the year.

Unless of course I drink it everyday then it would only last me for four months.




Dinner was held at Saujana hotel - Senja restaurant where we had tea, and wine ^^, during our evening meals. YUM.





my favourite dessert of all time!!! for now.





My favourite drink that night was the Strawberry and Mango Infusion, it's by Twinings and not exactly a tea. But really yummy when prepared with sugar.

I had like five glasses that night.

OD-ed T_T