Ambridge Cottage

Visit Malacca a bit wayyyyyy too often lately, mostly because of work-purpose and once was for a short getaway. Two weeks ago, I went to Malacca (again!) and this time, this lovely shop called Ambridge Cottage leave a great impression in me and I would like to introduce this cute shop with lovely business owners to you. (No, I'm not getting paid for this so yeah.)

Vintage, flowers, cute and lovely style you can see!

Okay, so what does Ambridge Cottage do? There are FOUR services that Ambridge Cottage provide - Professional hair and make-up service, flowers and home decor, homemade cakes and natural handmade soap. For my past visit, my photographer hired one of the director of Ambridge Cottage - Agnes to do my make-up for the photoshoot. Since our photoshoot session divided into two, so for the morning session, we went to Ambridge Cottage early in the morning. That was my first time visit their shop and I love it when I first step into the shop.

Flowers everywhere!!!

They sell all sorts of flowers be it real flowers or artificial flowers, and there are a lot of cute home decorations place everywhere. The flowers they are selling can be custom made into bridal hand bouquet, bridal car decoration, decorations for variety of events, products, gifts and souvenirs. Basically it's a fairytale-like cottage and smells really, really good too due to the natural handmade soap they're selling in their shop as well. I never been to a shop that makes me feels so happy and girlish from the inside.

You can find all kind of natural handmade soap here.
They come in assorted colours, smells, ingredients, shapes and benefits to our skin too.

I guess this is my first time getting "upclose and personal" with natural handmade soap. I've heard of handmade soap of course, am not that suaku okay, but this is the first time I really get to know more about natural handmade soap, bout their benefits to our skin and of course, I'm in love with all the colourful and cute designs, hence I bought some for my friends as souvenir. They are made from variety of natural oils and butters, infused with herbs, spices and clays and absolutely chemical free!

After a short visit around the shop, Agnes started the makeup process and voila:

My first look for the photoshoot session.
Ignore all the doodle flowers please lol.

That's the first time me and Kevin met Agnes and we felt that we're clicked! She is so lovely and down-to-earth that we immediately feel that we become friends more than just model-makeup artist kinda relationship. My photographer Ivan knew her for 6 years, that's why he wanted her to do my makeup instead of finding other makeup artist. She really knows her thing as she's full of experiences and she's a professional make-up lecturer and teaches Personal/Professional makeup courses at Ambridge Cottage!

My second look of the day
Was a bit tired by then, pardon my shitty facial expression.
That's Agnes by the way!

Seriously, we love to hang around at Ambridge Cottage, the place is full of laughter and warm. We met Agnes' brother, Eric who is another director of Ambridge Cottage as well as their mother, the lady who bake all the delicious cakes that's selling at Ambridge Cottage. I saw their chocolate cupcake on that day and wanted to buy that, and Agnes was kind enough to give us three cupcakes for free!!! *touched*

Delicious chocolate cupcake!!
Approved by me and Kevin hahaha.

Agnes, Eric and their mum run the business at Ambridge Cottage, hence you can feel the place is full of love. Oh ya~ Forgot to introduce another family member of theirs:

Nana a.k.a Kaka a.k.a some other names I forgot that Agnes told me
Yeah, she have a lot of names and we're all wondering why. lol

Nana (I shall stick to this name because I like this name) is such a cute dog that roams around their shop. Little did you know, they do voluntary help out stray dogs who abandoned by their previous owners etc. We need more people like them aren't we? This world would be a much lovelier place than it is now if we can be more like this family who are spreading love to the people and things around them. Hence why the ambience at Ambridge Cottage is always so warm and lovely.

Can you believe that night we all went for a drink together?
It's only our first time meeting each other.
Some more there are some customers-became-friends chilling together!

Seriously, I can never stop bragging about how good Ambridge Cottage is, how good their services are and how kind Agnes and her family members are. You gotta see it for yourself, so don't forget to stop by Ambridge Cottage to buy some natural handmade soaps or homemade cakes or flowers whenever you visit Malacca. For Malaccans, you know where to find such good skill makeup artists now!

See you again next time, Ambridge Cottage!

Contact Information

Mobile Phones:
012-697 0835
012-636 0586

Other Phones:
06-281 2668

Address
670A (1st Floor), Jalan Melaka Raya 8, 

Taman Melaka Raya, 

75000 Melaka, Malaysia.

75000 Malacca City, Malaysia.

(Next to Standard Chartered Bank)

http://www.ambridgecottage.com

https://www.facebook.com/ambridge.cottage

Happy 5th Birthday Xuan Xuan

31st of August, Xuan Xuan's birthday, and this year marked his 5th year on earth. As usual, I will go to Ipoh and celebrate his birthday with all the relatives and Xuan's cousin sisters and brothers, the more the merrier, right?

And this year, the theme is Minions. Can't believe how updated Xuan Xuan is, he plays Minions Rush, Subway Surfer, watch Running Man, knows more bout stuff that's in trend than I do. Sometimes I do think I'm the one who lives inside a cave and knows nothing that's popular nowadays. So since he wants everything to be minions-themed, so I might as well dress him up as a minion too, even though he doesn't want it and I have to force him to get out from the room after I dressed him up hahahaha. Poor thing.

This is his unwilling face and unwilling to pose for me to take photos.
Minions balloon are bought by Xuan's aunt.

The cake's picture was preordered because have to custom-made the sugar icing photo of minions. I was walking round and round inside the cake shop wondering what flavour of the cake should I choose. Chocolate cake was out of my list because I tried it the day before and it wasn't good, so I was having a hard time deciding between Black Forest and some other flavours, but in the end I chose black forest because the mixture of chocolate and berries, should be nice and suits both adult and children taste isn't?

You know how Black Forest cake usually looked like right? Black, with chocolate flakes on top, and cherries as well as decoration. So I imagine that the cake I preorder will be something black with the minion picture in the middle, but when we open the cake box and the cake appears to be like this:

Shocked me!!!
So colourful and nice-looking birthday cake for a 5 years old!
Gotta thanks the cake shop for being so thoughtful! 

Xuan loves his cake!

With all Xuan's cousin sis and bro.

Birthday song time.

He can't wait to cut his cake. LOL
How time flies, he's so big boy now can cut his birthday cake all by himself already.

Loved by his cousin sis and bro, they all actually gave him presents individually!

Forgot to take photo with the birthday boy that day, but we had fun and the cake was delicious! I'm glad he enjoyed his birthday weekend and it was a fun-filled holiday. As I've said, how time flies and he's 5 years old now, there's nothing I wish for him than to be happy and stay healthy all the time.

Do we look-alike? :D

Hahaha he's a super 吃货 I tell ya, he ate all the delicious food only!

Can't wait to see him during Mid-Autumn Festival! Counting down the days of seeing him again.




As for those who love to know where to buy the cake, here's the details of the shop, although I think it's not located at Lapangan Siber but near to the main road outiside Aeon Station 18.



Family Confectionery Sdn. Bhd.
32 & 32A, Jalan Lapangan Siber 8, 

Bandar Cyber, 31350, Ipoh, Perak

Tel:05-313 8937
Fax: 05-312 1995
Mobile Phone:016-526 1013

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/FamilyConfectionery

Marquee Club Launch Party

It's good to let loose yourself once in a while, enjoy the drinks, food and company that brings the joy and relaxation to your hectic life. Thanks to Donovan, me and my friend were invited to Marquee, a club located at the heart of Kuala Lumpur for its launch few days ago. 

Refurbished, Marquee is now more comfy!

Was late to the party that night due to an appointment earlier and by the time we reached, everybody were half way drinking and dancing already. Saw a lot of blogger friends there and seriously, this is gonna be the first time I party with my blogger friends especially with Jean! Jean brought her friend KJ as well, the last time we met was at Swedish House Mafia tour, no wonder he reckon me as party animal. lol. I seldom party one okay~! LOL

Drinks of the night - Bollinger Champagne

I saw the video footage that introduces Bollinger champagne. From France, this champagne were featured in many, many of James Bond movies. Suddenly felt so "atas" as we're drinking what all the James Bond characters were drinking all these years! Sipping and tasting the life of rich and classy.

Finger foods were served around that night. Yums!

Several DJs rock the club that night.
Mixing the dance music from the 90s to what's hot nowadays.

Me, Jean and Cindy.
This is the first time we danced together in a club! Yay~ *bucket list crossed*

Thanks Donovan for the invitation.
Had fun and enjoyed ourselves that night!

Both me and Jean were pretty tired that night as she just came back from Bali and I didn't have enough sleep and was running around KL for events and works. I glad I still went to Marquee Club Launch (wanted to ffk already initially because gawd, so tired I cannot open my eyes) and she was so happy to see me. Yayy~! Had so much fun and drank few cups with her that night. Happy times with friends are time well spent.




Spacious, comfortable, nice ambience, good lighting, friendly and cute bartender, awesome DJs and crowd, Marquee is a good place to go party with your friends. Convenient location, located at BB Park and not to mention, cheap parking at Plaza Low Yat if you plan to head to Marquee, only RM5 per entry after 6p.m.! Isn't awesome!




Now you have a place to head to for Merdeka holiday party celebration!!!




Last but not least, here are some details for the club:

Marquee
GL-10, BB Park (opposite Plaza Low Yat), 

7 Jalan 1/77, Jalan Bukit Bintang, 

55100 Kuala Lumpur, 

Malaysia

Business Hours: 

Mon - Sun: 11:00 am - 3:00 am

Marquee's Official Facebook Page

contact number: 012-661 5245



(Photos are credit to Jaz Khai (Official photographer of Marquee Club Launch event), Jean and Marquee)

Pawn Stars Asia Tour 2013

Any Astro History Channel viewer here? Did you know that the hosts of Pawn Stars just stopped by Malaysia yesterday and thanks to the invitation from ChurpChurp, I get to see Rick and Corey Harrison in real person!

Pawn Stars is a big hit reality show in US and of course, they have a lot of supporters in Malaysia too, saw a hardcore fan with Rick's book "License to Pawn" in his hand and won himself a chance to take photos with the hosts of Pawn Stars. Lotsa supporters come in Malay traditional clothing too because it's still in Raya festive mood.

While the two event emcees testing Rick's evaluation skill of the value of items they brought, It's amazing that Rick able to describe the history of brands and collections as well as knowing the value of the items. Being a pawn shop owner really isn't easy as you have to know a lot of things and not to be fooled by those who come to your shop to pawn stuff.

Rick and Corey told us that they film 5 days 12 hours a week and the crowds in their pawn shop is just as same as the supporters at this event. From there we can see how successful the show is and how happy I was to be invited to the event. Bumped into HuaiBin from SixthSeal at the event and had a good chat with him. It's been eons since we last met, how time flies!

Once again I would like to thank you ChurpChurp for giving me this opportunity to meet the two hosts of Pawn Stars in person, such a wonderful experience! They rockkkk!!!

La Cremeria Launch

Did a show for Nestle's La Cremeria launch today, wearing MarryMerry's gown in nude colour. I fell in love with the dress design, cutting and chiffon material when I first saw it. There's something about me towards chiffon like cats to catnips. lol.

Everybody is so kind today I met one of the most gentle make-up artist and hairstylist. I love how my makeup artist draw my eyes makeup and it was done under zero pressure/stress. So is the hairstylist who minimize the usage of hairspray too. Thank you very much, definitely looking forward for future collaboration again!

La Cremeria ice cream tubs are now in 6 different flavours, hence you can see we're 6 models dressed up in different colour evening wear to represents each flavour. I'm the first model to walk the show and shocked me when I saw most of the medias are my blogger friends. Same goes to them, they're shocked when see me on stage. lol.

Although I didn't even manage to try one scoop of ice cream, but it was a fun work experience and a good time for a mini chit-chat session with all my friends, and bumped into Lumi as well! Haven't saw her since January! Envy her stylish hair colour, but everyone been telling me that they love my hair colour now, guess I can't make drastic change yet huh. lol.

Thanks to Amber Chia Academy, Makeup Artist, Hairstylist, all the models for making this show a successful one. We are the beautiful La Cremeria Bellas who looked very much like taking part in Nestle's La Cremeria Pageant 2013 lol. What a happy Tuesday!