~Stage Hair Boutique: A Brunette~

Finally a hair makeover for myself!

Bought this Milkadeal voucher since May and I have totally forgotten about it until August when I realized that I have to redeem it before it expires! It's quite a great deal which costs RM68 instead of RM341 for Hair Color + Treatment + Cut + Wash + Blow at Stage Hair Boutique, Kota Damansara. The price is awesome and now is to review the service!

As you can see, there are 492 people who bought this deal! So when I called during end of August, I expected that they will be definitely be available, but they are fully booked till 12 September! It was after the expiry date but they are kind enough to extend the redemption period so lucky me!

To be honest, I wasn't really looking forward for this as I really don't know what hair colour I should opt for and I am really scared that I might end up worse than before! Had bad hair colouring experience!
The place is quite easy to find (If a road idiot can find it, so can you!) but there are limited parking space. I had to circle back a couple of rounds before I can find a parking spot. However, according to the stylist, we can actually double parked right in front of their salon and they will be part-time jockey to help us move our cars if needed! Lol.

Quite a nice environment with the simple red and white design. The lightbulbs design totally vibes out the feeling of being a superstar at backstage!

Some reading materials which I guessed is quite a necessity in any of the hair salon.

                   

While waiting for the hair stylist, took a before photo! The first photo cant really see my uneven hair colour though. Check out the 2nd photo! See the 2 different layers of colour on my hair under the sun?

I talked to one of the hair stylist, Bryan and finally we decided on dark brown with a hint of copper as my hair colour. He's really a friendly guy and we are from the same hometown, Malacca. Found out that he was my primary school senior as well! What a small world!

So after washing and cutting my hair, it looks something like this. Jason is the one who cut it for me though, actually it's more like just a bit of trimming.

Then the real work begins! This is the part where Jason starts to apply the dye on my hair. It's quite tiring for him as my hair is quite thick according to him! By the way, Jason is also a really friendly hair stylist, funny as well! And girls, he's looking for the love of his life so intro some hot babes to him ya! Lol. (You can thank me next time, Jason!)

When every parts of my hair were covered in dye! 

After waiting for around 20-25 minutes, I finally went to wash off the dye. Wasn't quite sure how is the results yet though!

Treatment! Though I actually forgot that the package comes with treatment!

Oh yeah, while waiting for your hair to be done, you can opt for a manicure or pedicure which Stage offered in the salon itself as well! It's a pretty smart move for them as the customers won't get bored waiting! 

The treatment takes about 15 minutes or so. That's a steamer i guessed as I can feel hot steam out of my head! I looked weird in here>.<! 

Ta-da! Finally done! It took around 2 hours and 15 minutes for the whole process. After I am done, I took pictures with the 2 great hair stylist! 

Took this in the car where there's a little sunlight so that the colour is more obvious. Basically it will be dark brown but under the sun/light, it will have a copperish tone to it. 

Loving the hair colour! And after the treatment, my hair is so soft and fluffy! 

I am very satisfied with the end results, thanks to Stage Hair Boutique! I will totally recommend their services to all my friends! Anyone who's interested in getting their services, can get in touch with them through their Facebook page.


As a smart consumer, I usually check out the deals to get a better price! (Kelv, you shouldn't stop your girl from checking out more deals, she is just being a smart consumer rather than just pay the full price! :p)
Stay tune if you want to find out more!

Smurfingly Disappointed

Warning: There are parts in this post containing a high level usage of the word 'smurf'. Do not continue read this if you cant smurf it!


I was really looking forward to watch The Smurfs and had been bugging Daryl to accompany me to watch it on screen for weeks. I feel so sorry now for forcing him to watch it with me! We watched it at GSC Summit and we were late for the first few minutes of the show. But it doesn't take a smurf to figure out what's the story is all about anyway!

Official movie synopsis: The Smurfs make their first 3D trip to the big screen in Columbia Pictures'/Sony Pictures Animation's hybrid live-action and animated family comedy, The Smurfs. When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the Smurfs out of their village, they're forced through a portal, out of their world and into ours, landing in the middle of New York's Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down. -- (C) Sony Pictures

Genre: Action & Adventure, Animation,Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
Cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, Hank Azaria

Voice: Jonanthan Winters, Katy Perry, Fred Armisen, Alan Cumming, Anton Yelchin, George Lopez.

A poster of The Smurfs.

             

Apparently, The Smurfs had already been around for more than 20 years and it was supposedly to be quite a hit back at the 1980s. And now, the cute little blue icons have been brought back to the spotlight and even have a movie made out of it based on the comic books by Belgian creator, Peyo. Even though I was initially crazy about Smurfs but I never knew that they actually existed since 1980s!

Just to let you guys see how it looks like back in the old days.
              

I barely laughed throughout the whole movie as all the funny parts of the movie are already shown in the trailers. I somehow felt that the characters in the movie just can't connect with the real live actors and they are just not convincing enough! The Smurfs are cute by themselves but once they start to interacts with the real life cast, the whole scene will then be awkward and just bad. Even though there are touched moments whether it is between Neil Patrick Harris with the Papa Smurf or between the couples, I really wasn't even touched at all. This is bad considering that my tears usually will roll down uncontrollably during the touching moments of a movie even though it is just an animation!

I really despise the Gargamel character and I really do think that Hank Azaria are doing poor job out of it. It is all too overly done with poor attempts to be cartoonish and it makes the whole movie looks stupid. Perhaps that's the results they are looking for, but as for me, I just cant stand the appearance and the way of talking of Gargamel in the movie!

As expected, most of the nouns and verbs were being replaced by the word "smurf" in the movie which could be funny at times. It became tiring and expected after some times though I had to admit that this is the highlight of the movie. There's also this annoying yet addicting song ("la-la, la-la-la") of The Smurfs that is just stuck inside your head even after the movie! One of my friends actually start singing it while we are having our dinner!

Overall, I think this movie are probably only suitable for kids (really really young kids) and I don't even think that this can be considered as a great family movie as the adults are most probably will be suffering throughout the movie.

Here are some of the reviews about The Smurfs:
Review 1
Review 2
Review 3

So peeps, have you smurfed? Smurf here and let me know what do you think of The Smurf! Do you smurfingly love them or it just smurfed you in the face like what it smurfed to me?
Smurf Away!

PS: I know the last part is smurfingly annoying! LOL.

"Apollo 18" Movie Review

I had the chance to watch the premier screening of Apollo 18 with Daryl and the lovebirds as Kelv has been kind enough to give us 2 free tickets!

Official synopsis: Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon. -- (C) Official Site

Movie Genre: Science Fictions, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

Cast: Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen, Ryan Robbins

This is a poster of Apollo 18. You can also check out the trailer here.

             
Our passes for the premium screening courtesy of Fly Fm.

   

Honestly, I don't really have high expectations for the movie as I usually won't watch thrillers or horror movie. Anyone who watch thrillers/horror/ghost movies with me, will suffer a painful experience with my fingernails mark all over their arm! Lol.

Sadly, the show did not even satisfy my low expectations! It is shown as a video footage where it is sort of a collection of blurry and frenetic images and there are some missing frames here and there which makes me dizzy just by watching the show.

Even though I jumped at 2 of the scenes of the movie but it is nothing too overly scary. In fact, there is no building tension. I find the storyline kind of flat and it's nothing interesting. Even the "aliens" in the movie just looks like rock-spiders so i guessed one of the lessons learnt in the movie is not to go pick up the rocks on the moon as it might turn out to be alien spiders!

As I don't really know how to describe the movie in specifics, these are some of the movie experts' reviews which you can actually refer to.
Review 1
Review 2

Overall, I really don't recommend this show as it is such a bore. If you have watched this, let me know what do you think about it! 

A Night at Monte's

This year, we celebrated one of my besties(CL)' 23rd birthday with style and elegance! After much considerations, we headed towards Monte's: Restaurant and Wine Bar as it was highly recommended by JJ. Another reason we chose a classy restaurant is because we want the birthday girl to make-up and dressed up! Lol!  Upon arrival at Bangsar Shopping Center, we had a slight problem finding a car park and it's always a wonder to see so many cars parking in BSC but there are so few people walking around in the shopping complex!

Cant resist taking a group picture in the elevator! 

The environment is quite lovely and also somewhat romantic with the garden vines and the view from top.

They have bottles of wines to choose from and some of the certs showed that Monte's have been selected for Best Restaurant before!

The menu design is just simple and I love that quote!

Took some pictures while waiting~

The Love Birds: JJ and Kelv



Me and CL!

Our drinks!
From the top: Monte's Dream (a mixture of pineapple and orange..this was actually recommended by the waiter and I believe it's a good recommendation!)

JJ's Lychee Froze ( ice blended of lychee)

Kelv's Pepsi (normal pepsi with, erm a piece of lime?lol)

CL's Ice chocolate ( It looks so heavenly!)

Complimentary bread and butter by Monte's! The cute little round bread is served warm so its really nice! (No butter for me though!)

After chit-chatting awhile, finally it is time to devour some delicious food! Was starving at that time!

CL's Mushroom Chicken Chop Served with herb rice!
The sauce is thick and creamy and there's also small chunks of mushroom! The rice is a bit oily though.



Kelvin's Fettuccine Carbonara served with chicken and also a creamy sauce!


JJ's Cajun Chicken served with tomato salsa, potato salad and fresh veggie! 

Mine would be the Chicken Maryland which is actually served with french fries, banana fritters, sausage, corn and veggie. The portion is big and adding with all the side dishes made me so full!



Overall, the main courses are delicious and price is reasonable as well(price range from RM20- RM26). So I would say that it's definitely worth the price you are paying for! We didn't order any of the appetizers or starters as we don't want to be too full and partly due to budget constraint as well>.<!
However, JJ recommended the Carrot & Pumpkin soup so do go try that if you have a chance!

What's a birthday without a cake right?
The brownies with vanilla ice cream just look so seductive isn't it?
 However, it's not really the best brownies I had tasted as the texture is not firm enough and it keep falling apart when we had a scoop at it. I would say that the brownies at Cafe Kalamanzoo is by far the best brownies with vanilla ice cream ever!

Artistic shot of the birthday girl! 

The total bill came up to RM165.90 which I think is quite reasonable considering there's 4 of us! 

I would definitely recommend this place if you are looking for a nice environment, good food and also affordable dining!
You can find out more on their website where they have all the menu and pricing on their website which I find it useful. Seeing that there's a lot of stuff that I don't eat so I could always check whether there's anything suitable for me! I love those restaurant website which shows the price as well so that I could plan my budget(Not a rich girl here>.<)!

More reviews coming up! :)

Chatime: "Good Tea! Good Time!"

 As the slogan goes, it's having a good time while enjoying a good cup of tea! 

I still remembered passing by Chatime Sunway Pyramid and was amazed by the massive crowd that was queuing up for Chatime, it was simply madness!!! 

So when i was shopping around Dataran Pahlawan Melaka, I was surprised that there's a Chatime here! The crowd is a lot lesser so my friend and I decided to give it a try! (Even though we just had bubble tea before this!)

While ordering, saw this cute little Tip-Me Bear!

The service was quite fast considering the amount of people ordering. We only have to wait around 5 minutes before we can get our drinks. 

Just taking pictures of the sealing machine while waiting. It seemed to be Taiwan-made?

       

Luckily for us, a group of people went off and we got to sit down and enjoy our chatime! Finally, time to see what's the craze all about!

                        

I ordered Grass Jelly Roasted Milk Tea while my friend ordered the Red Bean Milk Tea. Both are the top sellers of Chatime!

                    

                  

Totally failed at poking the straw!
   

After the first sip, there was this strong taste of tea! I am not quite used to the strong tea flavor at first as I was expecting more like the usual bubble milk tea where they used coloured flavoring. But after awhile, I came to find that it's really quite nice with the big chunks of cincau as well! The only thing missing is the black pearls which I love so much! I didn't know that you have to add it urself while ordering. >.<

As for the Red Bean Milk Tea, I don't really fancy it as I am not a big fan of red bean though I have lots of friends recommended that! 

There are a lot of choices in Chatime which includes the Mellow Milk Tea, Fresh Tea, Oriental Pop Tea, Special Mix and etc! You can also check it out at www.ichatime.com! 

Oh ya! 1 cool thing about Chatime is that you can actually adjust the percentage of sugar and ice options for your milk tea! Healthy eh? 

         

Try it out for yourself! Let me know which is your favorite Chatime!