A happy start to my weekend with Clinique & Spoon

It was a good start to one of my weekends. After a whole week of work and running around, it was nice to finish work an hour earlier on Friday for some makeover at Clinique while having some yummy smoothie from Spoon.

Arrived in my very dark outfit at a very cheery and bright Clinique booth at Mid Valley. Greeted by equally cheery crew manning the Clinique booth and the Spoon counter. Such contrast between them and I:P

Lost for choice of which Spoon smoothie to choose. Opted for something tangy as I am not much of a sweet tooth. Goodness Grapecious. Sounded interesting. Came out really pretty looking. Tasted awesome.

Happily sitting on my high chair with my Spoon smoothie, I tie up my hair to make it easier for Sarah my artist to give me a makeover. This is me sans makeup (my morning makeup just went dunno where after a day of meetings and sweating from KL's horrible heat).

Sarah went through with me my likes and dislikes. I am not much of a makeup person generally. But I do love trying out new makeup stuff for the one of those days that I feel like dressing up and dolling myself. So Sarah went a little more on my eyes. So we basically looked at me with eyeliner, eye shadow and my eyebrows drawn. 15 minutes down the lane, here's me and my artist Sarah. I loved the look. I enjoyed my Spoon smoothie. It was just perfect.

So folks check them out:

SPOON Frozen Yogurt and Smoothie

Mid Valley Lot G(E) 011-A External Ground Floor (between Delicious and Chili’s),

Business Hours: Mon – Wed: 10:00 am - 10:00 pm, Thurs – Sun: 10:00 am - 12:00 am

www.ilovespoon.com

www.facebook.com/Spoonfroyo

And I've discovered 2 new products from Clinique that I adore now that I am quite tanned looking:

Up-lighting Liquid Illuminator (because I have quite tanned of late)

Vitamin C Lip Smoothie Antioxidant Lip Colour (that goes a little beyond my usual lip balm)

Sunday Breakfast @ Carmel's Kitchen

Cucumber egg salad, french fries and pizza for breakfast. Yeah, this is breakfast for today. It was supposed to be lunch but I woke up seriously hungry at 7am after a late night lok-lok with Mike and the Super GT folks.

Cucumber Egg Salad:

Cucumber egg salad is about the easiest meal or snack one can make anytime of the day. Light and quite filling, its just perfect for the hot days that we're having now.

• 1 Japanese Cucumber

• 2 hard boiled eggs

• 1 tablespoon mayonnaise

• 2 tablespoon apple cider

• 1 tablespoon sunflower seeds (optional)

Slice the cucumber and mixed with cubed eggs. Mix it well with the mayonnaise and apple cider. Add cucumber, eggs, sunflower seeds into mayonnaise apple cider mixture. Chill before serving.

French Fries:

This urge came around after I read Suanie's post. Its such a comfort food with mayonnaise, tomato ketchup and mustard:D Check out Suanie's post for the fried version. I hate cleaning up, so here's the baked version.

• 1 Russet Potato

• Olive Oil

• Coarse sea salt

• Freshly ground Black Pepper

• Italian Herbs (your choice herbs)

Scrub potato skin well if you want to eat the skin too. I love the earthly taste of potato skin. Cut potato into 1 to 1.5cm width sticks. Drizzle olive oil and mix well with the salt, black pepper and herbs. Baked in a preheated oven at 180C for 20-30 minutes. Stir the fries every 10 minutes so that all sides are cooked and crisp.

## Some opt to boil the potatoes first for about 3 minutes with some salt to remove the starch. It also ensures that the potato is well cooked.

Pizza:

This is what I call lazy simple meal that I can make anytime with just any ingredients so long as I have a pizza base ready. You may buy ready made pizza base available at good supermarkets or opt to make your own. They keep quite well in the freezer.

• 1 pizza base

• 50g grated cheese (today I opted for cheddar)

• 100g bacon

• Tomato base (or pasta sauce)

• 9" pizza base

Spread a thin layer of garlic butter on the pizza base for more ooopmh. Then spread the tomato base evenly on the pizza base. Layer next with the bacon followed by the cheese. Pop into oven for 10 minutes at 180C or until cheese melts and pizza base browns. For a crispier pizza, bake it on a rack instead of a tray.

i'm an officially approved ABSOLUT connoisseur:D Skäl!

Skäl! I'm an officially approved ABSOLUT connoisseur.

Its been such a fun time at school that I wouldn't mind returning to school to learn up more on vodkas. What differentiates one vodka from another? Why Absolut Vodka over other vodkas? And the fave part of going to Absolut Akademi would have to be the fabulous cocktails that we learnt.

The history of Absolut would not have been possible without LO Smith. Yes the very face that we see on every bottle of Absolut. Innovative and different, he set the standards that makes Absolut above all vodkas. A single source production ensures that every bottle of Absolut that you open anywhere in the world taste the same. Continued distillation gives us the clear vodka. It also ensures us the smoothness associated only with Absolut.

Fun to be in school right? Some nose pinching. Some taste and nose buds test. Some taste test.

Some practical work.

Some tasting sessions after our masak-masak

And bravo, I'm a graduate.

And so are these pals!

Christopher

Gareth

Mike Yip

My Horng

Rebecca

Suanie

Sue Lynn

Vernon

Here's my fave cocktail that you can try out at home:

Absolut Espresso Martini

• 40ml Absolut Vanilia

• 10ml Kahlua

• 10ml Sugar Syrup

• 1 espresso

•• Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. garnish with 3 lucky beans.

Life in the Fastlane

Its JPM style to be the first in many things. Its JPM style to make things big.

With Touch ‘n Go on board as the Official Electronic Payment System provider for the SUPER GT 2011 Series Malaysia. For the first time in the history of motorsports in Malaysia, the Super GT event will be a cashless during the event itself. And to make it a truly cashless event, all Super GT tickets come with a FREE Super GT Special Edition Touch 'n Go card.

So what does RM100 give you?

• Super GT Special Edition Touch 'n Go card (this collectible card can also be used at all Touch ‘n Go usage points after the event)

• Access to the Grandstand and K Stand seats during the race days

• Biggest Super/Performance Car Gathering at the Sepang F1 Track on 19th of June 2011

• VELOCITA RAVE PARTY (Saturday 18 June, 6pm onwards, Sepang)

Tickets: RM38 Pre-sale & RM58 Door-sale

SUPER GT ticket holders enter free before 5.30pm

Ticket agent: www.redtix.airasia.com

Get your hearts racing with some of the best trance and progressive local and international DJs for the first SUPER GT VELOCITA outdoor rave party! Its gonna be a blast - the very first VELOCITA dance party on the Sepang F1 track.

• ROCK ‘N RACE CONCERT (Sunday 19 June, South Paddock)

Tickets: RM50 inclusive of race viewing from Hillstand B.

ALL Grandstand ticket holders enter concert area for free.

Ticket agent: www.redtix.airasia.com

Rock out like never before to leading local bands such as Hujan and Azlan & the Typewriter and Indonesian favourite Radja. And yes this is going to be on the Sepang race track. You will be watching the concert from the race track immediately after the SUPER GT race, while the track is still blazing hot, littered with bits of rubber from the car tyres.

And this is a glimpse of what I caught of the sneak preview of the actual Super GT this year during the Super GT Final Countdown held at Empire Shopping Gallery last Saturday.

And if you want the real thing with even more excitement, go grab your tickets NOW!

• Super GT Malaysia's official website

• 7-11 nationwide