How’s your Chinese New Year everybody? This year’s my first year giving out “ang baos” (red packets), I don’t quite look forward to Chinese New Year anymore like I did before when I was at the receiving end, haha! Nonetheless, lots of fish and prawns, sharks’ fin soup and abalone; too much “good food” in a row. We MSN-ed with my sister in Washington after reunion lunch on Chinese New Year’s eve, went visiting on Chinese New Year’s day itself and slept away the next day. Saturday was spent playing mahjong through the night, it was lots of fun for me even though I lost, as usual. You don’t need to be winning to be happy isn’t it?

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Majolica Majorca (MM) can be found everywhere in Japan because it’s a drugstore brand and there are plenty of drugstores (e.g. Matsumoto KiYoshi) in Japan. How I wish Singapore’s drugstores (aka pharmacies or Watson’s) carries MM instead of Silkygirl. :p

MM loot for my dearest sister in Washington, photo as promised!

My sis bought me a whole lot of stuff when she went to Hokkaido last year and didn’t get any for herself. This time, it’s the other way round! Now we both own a nice set of MM cosmetics! Don’t you just looove the glamorous packaging? I don’t really like their liquid pen liners because they’re too runny, the rest of the stuff are pretty good. The only stuff I haven’t tried are their foundations.

I also got my sister a funky black beaded bracelet from the temple for luck, and a pink one for mum.

Mich: Look forward to them flying over soon!

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