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22nd Birthday Expectation vs Reality

22nd Birthday Expectation vs Reality

I’m too lazy to do introduction so…

Expectation

I honestly have zero expectations since I’m working now, and y’know, pandemic. Plus, my best friend is not here with me this year, I have more commitments now compared to last year: I have work, church commitments, and procrastinations mental healthcare to attend to.

What’s worse, my birthday is on a Monday, a working day. Not really a good…

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Garage 51 Food Review

Garage 51 Food Review

Garage 51, where Jeremiah and I had my birthday brunch. Birthday brunch at 2pm, why not, right?

Since it was a BIRTHDAY brunch, we can’t possibly start our day with a bad meal, right? So we checked out the google review, and guess what? OH NO IT IS NOT A 5 STAR CAFE. What’s worse, IT HAS BAD REVIEWS TOO. So I was like, NOPE. NOT ON MY BIRTHDAY.

Jeremiah dragged me there anyway since the…

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Expectation vs Reality: My 21st Birthday

Expectation vs Reality: My 21st Birthday

(DISCLAIMER: THERE MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT FOR KIDS)

By the time this gets posted up, it’s probably not my birthday anymore, but yeah, happy birthday, me!

So let’s talk about what does being 21 years old mean to me. First of all, Jeremiah no longer needs to go to jail for dating me since he will no longer be dating a minor and be seen as a pedophile. (I was told later that we can…

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JOKER (2019) (R-rated movie)

Halo guys, here's my unprofessional opinion on Joker (2019). WARNING: THERE MAY BE SPOILERS. I tried my best to not spoil though, so please read HAHAHAHAHAH

For those that haven’t watch the movie, here’s a SPOILER MAYBE ALERT. Please proceed at your own risk. So err, I was thinking of reviving my blog for some time now, but I had no idea what to write about until today, after watching Joker. I honestly don’t know if I like the movie or not, but I guess we’ll find out after this review.

Since I’m really not a cinematic expert or what not, I can’t…

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Business

Product Spotlight

This month’s bestseller is TimeWise Miracle Set, which comes with: cleanser, moisturizer, day solution sunscreen, and night solution. Basically, it’s an anti-aging skincare set suitable for adults without wrinkles YET, and wishes to prevent aging or prolong their “youth”. The cleanser combines anti-aging benefits that reveals younger looking skin, plus 3 essential skin care benefits in one product to cleanse, exfoliate, and refresh. The moisturizer is formulated with an exclusive dream humectant blend, plus powerful antioxidants that guard against free radicals to help the skin to look and feel smooth and radiant. The day solution sunscreen provides protection for the day, while the night solution provides boosted renewal and stimulates collagen to smooth and firm the skin.

Closing Inventory

This includes: 2 sunscreens, 1 Botanical Effects Formula 1 Mask, Cleanse, and Hydrate,  1 Skinvigorate brush heads, 1 Satin Body Cleanser,  1 Botanical Effects Formula 2 Freshen, 1 Firming eye cream, and 1 lip scrub.

Conclusions

Yay, earned a little bit more than last month! Thanks to all the friends and family that recommended the products to their friends and family, hehe 😉

Personal

Flexed budget

Actual expenses

Education

Eyyy, this is the ONLY expenses that’s over budgeted! So proud of myself! This is for the school fees by the way, unavoidable.

Necessities

Although it’s not over budget, but it’s 28.03% higher than last month. I think that’s the main reason for the negative savings. Spent those money on my new spectacles as my astigmatism has gotten so bad that I can’t really see clearly anymore. Other than that, most of the money has gone to the hair care products that I bought from Atomy, because I have hair loss and hair dryness problems. Quite cheap though, if you compare to other branded hair care products.

Play

IMPROVEMENT, YESHHH. I’m quite surprised that I didn’t overspend though, I thought all my money would be used up in my 3rd anniversary with Jeremiah. By the way, I wrote about how our anniversary went here, quite different from what I expected…

Give

Most of the money went to the anniversary present that I gave to Jeremiah, which is half of the price of the gundam. We got the 1/100 sized gundam so it’s slightly more expensive compare to the smaller one, but it’s okay, I like it big anyway.

Debt, Investment & Savings

Debt

Amount: RM2240

Deadline: ASAP

Progress: 51.76%

Investment

Target: RM1000

Deadline: ASAP

Progress: 95.99%

Penang Trip

Target: RM1500

Deadline: 30/11/2018

Progress: 63.05%

New phone

Target: RM2500

Deadline: 28/02/2019

Progress: 0%

New Laptop

Target: RM3500

Deadline: 31/12/2019

Progress: 0%

Conclusions

Can’t believe my savings is negative despite having only ONE category being over budgeted. Oh well, I’ll just have to save more in June WITHOUT starving myself.

YESH, IMPROVEMENT! (May Summary) Business Product Spotlight This month's bestseller is TimeWise Miracle Set, which comes with: cleanser, moisturizer, day solution sunscreen, and night solution.

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Happy 3rd anniversary to Jeremiah & me!!!

I know we just celebrated 1000th Days on February, so we really shouldn’t celebrate our anniversary because we’re both poor and have a tight budget.

But NOPE, me, being extra as usual, demanded for an anniversary celebration, and with some pretty romantic expectations in mind. I call them “expectations”, because really, I think it’s viable.

Expectations

On this special day, I’ll wake up to the smell of my favorite matcha and tiramisu cake. Urged by curiosity and hunger, I’ll follow the smell and found Jeremiah waiting for me at the dining table.

“Good morning. Happy Anniversary, babe.” He’d say, with a charming smile on his face.

“How did you get in my house?” I’d ask, feeling puzzled and surprised. Instead of answering me, he would invite me to take a seat and we’ll have breakfast together.

After that, we’ll go and visit the aquarium. I’ll be super excited and sort of wander around while Jeremiah follows behind me. Then, I’ll see something super fascinating and just run there and leave Jeremiah behind. When he finally catch up, he’ll see me staring at something. He’ll look towards the direction I’m looking, and then…

THIS.

Ah so SWEET!!!

Anyways, after our aquarium date, we’ll go to the supermarket together and buy ingredients for our homemade steamboat dinner at my house. After dinner, we’ll go up to the sky garden of my condo and just lie down, relax, look at the stars and have a heart-to-heart deep talk session. After that, I’ll walk him to the MRT station, kiss him goodbye and end the day.

See? It’s a viable and affordable plan, not difficult at all. However, what ACTUALLY happened was…

Reality

We found a gundam shop few days before our anniversary and checked it out since Jeremiah loves gundam. He was thinking of buying one to build, and I wanted to try building one too, so we decided to buy a gundam of my choice and build it together in memory of our anniversary. And so we spent our days building the gundam. We finished building the gundam just in time before our anniversary day. I suggested to name it the Love Warrior, since I wanted it to protect our love; But Jeremiah said that it’s too cheesy, naming it as the 3rd Anniversary Gundam is good enough. Hmm, and here I thought art students are supposed to be creative…

Therefore, I have now decided without his consent, that we shall call our gundam “3rd Anniversary Love Warrior”! Here’s how it looks like:

On our anniversary day, I woke up to the ringing of my phone. It’s the alarm. Jeremiah was still sleeping so I had to wake him up. We went to Sunway Pyramid to have brunch at a dessert shop because I wanted tiramisu cake. We ended up eating matcha tiramisu cake though. It’s not matcha flavored with tiramisu texture; It’s matcha AND coffee flavored with the tiramisu texture. I must say, matcha and coffee is NOT a good combination.

Anyways, after the brunch, we played a few rounds of a chinese MOBA game because Jeremiah is craving for games, as usual. Then, we bought my favorite matcha cheese. This time, we bought from Gong Cha and Tokyo Secret, since they are both on promotion. By the way, I wrote a review on these two oulets, You can read it here.

Moving on, we watched Deadpool 2. No aquarium date, because, well, Deadpool priorities? Damn it Deadpool, you just HAVE TO be released on our anniversary day.

The movie was good though, at least I really enjoyed it. The best thing is, it’s FULLY UNCENSORED.

For dinner, we had steamboat in one of the restaurants in the mall. We didn’t get to have the homemade steamboat that I expected because we don’t have enough time. All that time went to searching for shops that sell couple tees, but unfortunately, there’s literally only ONE shop that sells couple tees in the mall and we only liked ONE pair of couple tees (the others are too cheesy and they just make us cringe). So really, it’s kinda different from what I imagined. We didn’t even get to try out different kind of clothes, but at least we got to laugh at all the cheesy lines used on the other couple tees.

After the dinner, we part our ways and end the day.

Conclusion

I would say that this anniversary is more of a Jeremiah’s kind of anniversary since it’s mostly about gundam, games, and Superhero movies. Don’t get me wrong, I love superhero movies too, but I prefer superhero movies on a non-romantic day.

Nevertheless, I’m happy with how our anniversary went, although it’s more of a comedic day rather than a romantic one. One thing that made this anniversary really special and different from all our previous ones is probably the fact that we did something that HE loves, which is building a gundam. Gundam was never my thing to be honest, but seeing Jeremiah getting excited over gundam all the time makes me want to at least experience what he experienced for once instead of just shutting out his interest.

Lastly, I would like to say… Seems like one of my fantasies from my 1000th Days post has come true…

Expectations vs Reality of our 3rd Anniversary Happy 3rd anniversary to Jeremiah & me!!! I know we just celebrated 1000th Days on February, so we really shouldn't celebrate our anniversary because we're both poor and have a tight budget.

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Recently, I’ve been wondering, who brought matcha cheese into Malaysia? That person is such a genius because obviously it has become a trend nowadays and also, matcha+cheese? That’s like a great combo. It’s like a combo of rainbow+unicorn, just wonderful.

Except rainbow unicorn is kinda cringy…? And matcha cheese is not.

Anyways, I did a research and found out that, the first cheese tea is brought into Malaysia by Royaltea, based in Johor (update: I just realized there’s Royaltea in Sri Petaling, shall try some day). However, the inventor of cheese tea has come out of Royaltea and formed his own shop called HeyTea, which you can find in MesaMall of Negeri Sembilan. As a fan of Matcha Cheese, of course I would want to taste the so called “original Matcha Cheese”, but I ain’t no madman yo. I live in KL dude, I ain’t gonna travel so far just for a cup of tea.

So I researched further and found the first cheese tea shop in KL, Gong Cha. Luckily, Gong Cha and Tokyo Secret are both in the mall that Jeremiah and I usually hang out at, and I just so want to talk about my Top 2 Matcha Cheese — Tokyo Secret. Let our Matcha Cheese Battle begin!

As usual, I’ll be ranking the two outlets based on: Presentation, Cheese, Matcha, Price/Payment and Services.

Presentation

Gong Cha Signature Matcha Red Bean

Tokyo Secret Cheese Crema Japanese Matcha

This time, I’m not going to judge their presentation. As you can see, the two drinks are quite different. Although I ordered correctly for the signature matcha red bean (which is the milk foam tea, AKA cheese tea), the texture of the “cheese” is so different that we won’t need to drink it by tilting the cup to 45°. So yeah, incomparable.

Cheese

Well, I definitely think Tokyo Secret did better, since the cheese is thicker and creamier. Gong Cha’s “cheese” is just milk, at least that’s what I feel. It’s 100% liquid, not creamy AT ALL. I don’t know man, is it because of the overwhelming sales from anniversary promotion that caused their cheese to be like that? Or is this really the ancestor of cheese tea in KL?

Matcha

Tokyo Secret wins again. Just look at the photos taken. You can already tell that Tokyo Secret has better matcha just by looking at the color of the matcha. Tokyo Secret’s matcha is so rich that I have to say, it even surpasses Chizu’s matcha. Gong Cha on the other hand, has VERY diluted matcha. I know that I ordered Matcha Red Bean, but dude, I feel like I’m drinking a very odd-tasting red bean milkshake. BUT MATCHA AND RED BEAN ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A PERFECT MATCH! Just how did they mess up the ratio so bad that matcha and red bean would taste weird together?!

Service

Tokyo Secret‘s staffs are more friendly. They smile, they greet, they say “thank you”. Gong Cha on the other hand is more…in a rush? I can understand why though, so I don’t blame nor do I mind. It’s all because of the overwhelming crowd of customers that the staffs have to handle. They have to take orders, make the drinks, call out customers’ numbers so that they can come to the counter to take their drinks. Sometimes it can be very frustrating, especially when the customers are not cooperating. However, I hope that the staffs are actually nice and friendly on normal days though, or else this is really some terrible service.

Price/Payment

Actually, both Gong Cha and Tokyo Secret’s Matcha Cheese are of the same price, that is RM11. However, since both outlets are having a promotion this month (May 2018), I’d quote the promotion prices too.

The promotion for Gong Cha is, within the period of 1/5/2018-31/5/2018, all regular drinks will be charged at RM5 on every Friday. Large drinks will be charged at RM6. VERY cheap for a cup of tea.

Tokyo Secret on the other hand, is that the drinks of the day will be charged at RM1 upon a purchase of any drinks on the menu. For example, the drink of the day for Friday is Matcha Cheese. If I buy 2 matcha cheese, it would cost me RM12 (RM11+RM1). If I buy 1 other drink+the drink of the day, I’ll just have to pay for the other drink and add RM1 for the drink of the day. Basically, you can get as cheap as RM7.50 and as expensive as RM12 for 2 drinks, which translate to a range of RM3.75-RM6 per cup of Matcha Cheese.

Payment wise, you’ll be able to buy any Gong Cha Signature Drinks (AKA the milk foam/cheese drink) with 900 Grab points. I didn’t find Tokyo Secret in any of the food deals app, so I assume that they have not partnered up with any apps yet. If anyone knows otherwise, please do tell.

Conclusions

I think the answer is quite obvious, but let’s act like it’s not so it’s more exciting. The winner of this round’s Matcha Cheese Battle is… Drum roll please!

Tokyo Secret! I don’t know what’s wrong with Gong Cha. Honestly, I had very high expectations of Gong Cha since it IS the FIRST cheese tea shop in KL. I’ve seen the advertisements of Gong Cha’s Signature Drinks, they don’t look as bad as what I’ve ended up getting. I mean, at least the milk foams looks thick and creamy in the ads? So I actually got a shock when I see that my drink looks so different from what I imagined. That’s still fine, I can let that pass, but I really couldn’t take the taste. It really tasted very odd, so odd that both me and Jeremiah couldn’t take it and had to throw it away. I’m still gonna give the shop another try after the promotion ends though, I don’t want to believe that the ancestor of cheese tea of KL is THAT bad.

Anyways, I still want to try Royaltea or HeyTea, hope they open an outlet in KL too! For those of you that are in Negeri Sembilan or Johor, do share your experience in these outlets! I’m really curious how the ORIGINAL tastes like! Is it better or worse? Have the newbies surpassed the ancestors?

Location

Gong Cha vs Tokyo Secret Recently, I've been wondering, who brought matcha cheese into Malaysia? That person is such a genius because obviously it has become a trend nowadays and also, matcha+cheese?

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Business

Sales

Best seller of the month is the Botanical Effects Skincare Set (BE set), which includes: Cleanser, Freshen, Hydrate, and Mask. This set of product is particularly popular this month is mainly due to the promotion of getting a free Satin Lips Shea Sugar Scrub and a free Satin Lips Shea Butter Balm (Satin Lips set) upon every purchase of one BE set.

What’s so special about the products I’ve mentioned? First of all, the BE set is a simple regimen infused with the goodness of botanicals that are personalized to your skin type to bring out skin’s healthy radiance. The main ingredients, which are the botanical extracts derived from plants, flowers or fruits, are rich in elements like vitamins and minerals that are good for your skin.

The Satin Lips set on the other hand, is formulated with nourishing shea butter and the fresh flavor of white tea & citrus. Shea butter is extracted from the nut of the African Shea tree and has been used for centuries to protect, enrich, soften and hydrate skin. Shea butter is also known to contain omega-3s, recognized to help maintain skin’s natural moisture barrier. This is why the Satin Lips set is able to leave dry, chapped lips behind, and deliver moisturizing bliss in just two easy steps.

Closing Inventory

This includes: 2 sunscreens, 1 Botanical Effects Formula 1 Mask, Cleanse, and Hydrate,  1 Skinvigorate brush heads, 1 Satin Body Cleanser and Lotion,  1 Botanical Effects Formula 2 Freshen, 1 Firming eye cream, and 1 lip scrub.

Conclusion

First of all, LOL to that profit amount, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, but that’s alright as long as there’s STILL profit I guess? Plus, my beloved sister is getting better thanks to Mary Kay’s Satin Lips set (see here), so what more can I complain about, right?

Personal

Flexed budget

Actual expenses

Education

Remember I said I want to take up some classes in April? Well, I did! I took up the transformation class. It was really fun, and I learnt a lot of things like how to do my own hair and how to shape my eyebrows etc. I’d say it’s worth it, although it’s just a 2-day-class.

Necessities

Well, most of the overspent amount are attributable to my toiletries and skincare products that has just finished, so still acceptable I think.

Play

Again…But at least I improved by 10.65%?

Anyways, despite the overspending, I’ve joined lots of activities and events this month:

Powerpoint Workshop

This is a workshop organized by ACCA department of HELP College of Arts and Technology (HELP CAT in short). I had lots of fun because we had to make our own business proposal on powerpoint and present it to the class. Apparently, my friend and I got creative and made some pretty weird proposals like err, Oppai Merchandise and Single4Life.

Okay Mr. Hiddleston, we’ll get help, from HELP, get it? HAHAHAHAHA.

Free Health Assessment

Apparently, according to the assessment, I need to decrease fats and increase muscles to achieve my ideal weight of 46.4kg. Other than that, I need to drink more water since I have low blood pressure and a high uric acid level in my blood.

Bonding Session with students from University of London (UOL)

Since the ACCA department is thinking of organizing more events together with UOL, we had a bonding sessions with their students just so we could get familiar with one another. It was fun, and I got to know many new faces.

Hiking activity at Bukit Saga

This is organized by the ACCA department too. Despite the tiredness, it was great. We got to bond with our seniors and just have fun. However, I was quite disappointed that we didn’t get to hike all the way up to the top where there’s waterfall due to the limited time. 😦

Animal Shelter Visit

Visited Furry Friends Farm with the Leo Club. It’s a vegan farm by the way, and it’s my first time visiting a vegan animal shelter, so I was quite excited and nervous at the same time. Why was I nervous? Because I was scared that the way I treat animals are not “vegan” enough, which might lead to me being scolded by the farm owner for animal cruelty.

Surprisingly, I was instead being pointed out by the farm owner to be too gentle on the animals and things won’t get done if I treat them like that. Then she demonstrated how we should treat the animals and I’m like, “Okay maybe I had misconception on veganism…”

Nevertheless, it was a great experience as there are so many species of animals in the farm other that dogs and cats. I loved it, although the farm owner was quite different from what I expected.

Give

All contributed to church offerings. I wonder where does all the church offerings goes to though? Back in the ancient days, people will burn their offerings to the Lord, but I don’t think that’s still the case now. Some churches contribute the offerings to build more churches for the rural areas, I wonder if that’s the case for the church I’m going to right now? By the way, I’m going to FGA Cheras, if you’re wondering.

Debt, Investment & Savings

I’ve decided that I should just combine these three, since it’s all goals-related.

Debt

Amount: RM2240

Deadline: ASAP

Progress: 40.75%

Investment

Target: RM1000

Deadline: ASAP

Progress: 46.60%

Penang Trip

Target: RM1500

Deadline: 30/11/2018

Progress: 46.62%

New phone

Target: RM2500

Deadline: 28/02/2019

Progress: 0%

New Laptop

Target: RM3500

Deadline: 31/12/2019

Progress: 0%

Conclusions

It has been a lively month. I’m very happy with my April life, feels like I’m finally having some fun. However, my mock test results and also my budget report show that I obviously overdid the “fun” part, hehe.

Get too much fun, lose too much funds Business Sales Best seller of the month is the Botanical Effects Skincare Set (BE set), which includes: Cleanser, Freshen, Hydrate, and Mask.

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DeWine Cuisine Food Review

Last Friday, as my friend (let’s just call him Ken) and I planned to have western dinner near Cheras Leisure Mall. We heard that it was a really good western restaurant. However, we ended up finding the restaurant closed because it’s pasar malam Friday.

We decided to walk into a restaurant that seems like a western cuisine restaurant, thinking “oh well, this is the only restaurant that’s open…

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Business

Sales

The best seller of the month is Mary Kay Skinvigorate Replacement Brush Heads. That’s probably because most of my customers are using Skinvigorate. Actually, even I myself use Skinvigorate. What’s Skinvigorate, you ask? It’s a cleansing brush that cleanse WAY BETTER than your hand, just click here to watch a 1 minute video about this cleansing brush 😉

Closing Inventory

This includes: 1 eye gel, 1 lip scrub, 1 lip balm, 1 lipstick, 1 skinvigorate brush heads, 1 foundation primer, 1 Botanical Effects Formula 2 Freshen, and 1 sunscreen.

Conclusion

Since it’s exam month, I didn’t put much effort in Mary Kay. However, I did manage to let more people know that I’m a beauty consultant and they can always seek for beauty consultation from me, it’s free anyway. Although it’s not a guarantee to closing sales, actually it’s not even guaranteed that anyone of them would actually seek for beauty consultation from me, but at least there’s exposure, and I really don’t mind giving out free advice. In fact, I love giving out free advice if it helps that person.

Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life. —Todd Stocker

Personal

Flexed Budget

Actual Expenses

Education

There’s not much to pay for this month except for some stationery. I’m thinking of taking up a/some classes, but I’m still not sure yet. I’m not sure if I have the budget to take up classes, you know? However, life is so boring when your study life is all about taxes and laws and business strategies. It’s either theoretical or numerical, BORING. I need something more. Something fun, but meaningful. That’s why I thought of taking up classes. Here are some classes I have in mind:

Transformation Class (RM150)

This is a two-day-class held on one of the weekends in April. It’s a class where you can learn to use make up skills and hair styling skills to transform yourself into another person. It seems like fun, and I get to enhance my beauty skills, which is good for my business too. There’s even transportation provided.

Japanese Class (RM5000++)

Well, as an otaku, one of my dreams would be to watch anime without subtitles. And play all the Japanese games that I love without any English or Chinese translation. And be able to communicate with Japanese in Japanese.

Unfortunately, language classes usually takes up lots of time. And money. There’s this half-year Japanese course that I’ve found on Facebook that cost more than RM7000! It’s so expensive, yet attractive because the institute offer student exchange programs for Malaysians to go to Japan and experience the student life there.

Yoga Class (RM100++)

I always wanted to try out yoga. My aunt started doing yoga since 2 or 3 years ago and now have a very beautiful body shape.

I know that I can just sign up for a gym membership and join the yoga classes there, and even better, I can join many other classes too, like Zumba or Muay Thai, but I’m not so sure if it’s worth it to join a gym just for the classes. To be honest, the condo I’m living in right now already has gym facilities. I can just hit the gym whenever I want. The only problem is, no classes in the condo gym.

I’ve also came up with the idea of downloading a yoga app and just follow the instructions, but err, I need social life. Doing yoga alone with a virtual trainer in an app is not really interactive nor socializing. I’m really done with the anti-social life of being an accounting student, I NEED GROUP ACTIVITIES.

So far, these are the classes that I want to take up. If you have any suggestions or advice for me, please do leave a comment below or contact me.

Necessities

My expenditures have slightly increased by 3.67% compared to last month, but it’s still acceptable. In fact, it’s way below my budget. I should really spend more on my groceries, since I’m trying to gain weight. My mom has been nagging me every time she talks to me (in person AND on the phone) about how skinny I’ve become and how she thinks it’s unhealthy . So yeah, maybe I’ll gain some weight so my mom can stop the nag (I doubt she would though).

Play

Overspent. AGAIN. I don’t know, man, I just keep falling into Satan’s trap whenever I see good food deals. Damn Satan, stop tempting me, I’m on a budget here.

Debt

This month, I managed to pay off more compare to last month. Yay! Up till now, 29.65% of my total debt has been paid off, another 70% to go, gambateh!

Give

Last month I told myself that I should give more, seems like I overdid it, hehe. It’s still acceptable though, since all the money went to Jeremiah’s birthday meal and birthday present. Many may think that it’s crazy spending that much on your partner, but I don’t mind spending on him, to be honest. I mean, he’s got a whole lifetime to repay me, so why not? Worse comes to worst, if he leaves me, I’d just think of it as a charity.

Investment

No investment this month either. Still saving up money for the next investment. I’ve said that I want to invest in the PRS Youth last month, but now that I think about it, PRS is a retirement scheme. Just like EPF, you can only take the money out upon retirement, which is kind of a turn off for me. I think I’ll just save my RM1000 for other investments, like maybe mutual funds or stock market. For now, I’ve saved up to 25.85% of my target.

Savings

I’ve been thinking of travelling every year. That would need a lot of money, so I’m saving up. Not only for travelling, I’m also thinking of changing my laptop to a better one when I start working. Actually, there’s so many things I want to do or buy that requires lots of money, so I thought that I should list down my goals and work towards them from now on. Here are the things I’m saving up for:

Penang Trip

Target: RM1500

Deadline: 30/11/2018

Progress: 39.70%

New Laptop

Target: RM3500

Deadline: 30/11/2019

Progress: 0%

Conclusions

This is a month full of thoughts. Maybe I’m too stressed out from all the exams I was having. Maybe I’m just too lifeless, so I keep thinking of things that could’ve made my life better. I’ll take this as a warning from my soul, I NEED TO GET A LIFE.

March Full of Thoughts Business Sales The best seller of the month is Mary Kay Skinvigorate Replacement Brush Heads. That's probably because most of my customers are using Skinvigorate.

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I have always been a HUGE fan of matcha, and cheese, which result in me being addicted to matcha cheese drinks. Having tried every matcha cheese drink I can find in any shops, stalls or even from pasar malam, I have come to a conclusion that Chizu has got to be my Top 1 matcha cheese go-to-place. Their Matcha Red Bean Cheese drink (Super-flavor) is just SO GOOD that I’d have tast-gasm (it means tastebuds’ orgasm, FYI) on my every single sip.

Until ONE DAY, I came across Regiustea, which is famous for their cheese drink. And guess what, THERE’S MATCHA CHEESE DRINK ON THE MENU. After trying their Matcha Cheese, I feel like, there’s a slight change in ranking for Chizu in my heart? But I wasn’t so sure about it, hmm.

On the 1000th day of relationship with Jeremiah, I was very indecisive on where to go to for my favorite matcha cheese. I mean seriously, what is a celebration WITHOUT matcha cheese, right? Anyways we decided to buy from both shops and then rank them based on: Presentation, Cheese, Matcha, Price/Payment and Services.

Chizu Matcha Red Bean Cheese

Regiustea Uji Matcha Cheese with Oreo toppings

Presentation

I would say that Chizu did a better job in this aspect. As you can see from the pictures above, the cover that Chizu uses makes it easier and more convenient to drink the cheese drink. FYI, cheese drinks are supposed to be drunk in such a way where you have to drink it in 45° angle, so obviously a flat cover is more convenient as compared to a round one. Plus, since the cover Regiustea uses is a round cover, we need to remove the cover in order to be able to drink both cheese and matcha at the same time. And personally, I find that the straw Regiustea provided is kind of useless since you’re not even supposed to use a straw when you’re drinking cheese drinks.

Cheese

I don’t even need to think to say this, Regiustea wins. Why can I be so sure? Because THIS, my fellow friends, is what made me reconsider the ranking of Chizu. I’m really impressed by the cheese of their drinks. The sweetness is just right. You’ll even wish you can just have a cup of cheese, and I mean like just the cheese, without the drink. That’s how good their cheese is. Besides, if you don’t have a sweet tooth like me, you can customize your own cheese drink. You can customize on the amount of cheese, the sweetness of the cheese, with or without ice, and more. I didn’t customize mine much though, I just went with the standard but without ice, just so my favorite matcha won’t become diluted.

By the way, I’m not saying that Chizu’s cheese is bad, it’s just not as good as Regiustea. Well, actually, in Chizu, anything below Super Flavor is quite… tasteless? Whenever I drink the Regular cheese drinks in Chizu, I’m just like…

Matcha

As you all know, I love matcha more than anything else, probably more than cheese, and MAY…BE less than Jeremiah. So this is a very important aspect to me, or you could even say that it’s vital. When I tasted Chizu‘s matcha, I just can’t stop myself from having a tastgasm. Damn, now I remembered why I love that place so much. That’s some real good matcha right there. The matcha is rich, which is EXACTLY what I want from any matcha drinks and matcha desserts. I mean, what’s the point of ordering matcha cheese if the taste of matcha is so diluted that you’re not even sure if you’re drinking ocha or matcha? By the way, for those that think matcha and ocha are the same, they’re not. Matcha is creamier and thicker compare to ocha. It’s like comparing fresh milk and heavy cream/ whipping cream, it seems like they’re the same but they’re not, they don’t even taste the same.

Anyways, Regiustea’s matcha is too diluted even though the drink is without ice. It’s so diluted that I doubt if they’re actually using Uji Matcha. I doubt that it’s just matcha flavouring powder, which is impossible to be as good as the real deal. It’s just like drinking actual orange juice and drinking orange flavored juice, two very different experiences.

Service

Both shops have good service, to be honest. They are really patient, and they smile, which is something very important when you’re serving. However, if I really have to compare, I think Regiustea would be more newbie-friendly. When we ordered the matcha cheese, the staff recommended their signature drinks to us, and even highlighted their specialty, which is the customization of cheese, to us. He took the initiative to ask us if it’s our first time in Regiustea and if it’s our first time drinking cheese drinks. He even explained on how to drink cheese drinks just to make sure that we’ll have the best cheese drink experience.

Chizu on the other hand, doesn’t do all this, probably because they have too many customers to serve, they ain’t got time for this.

Price/Payment

Price-wise, Regiustea is more affordable compare to Chizu. The Uji Matcha Cheese from Regiustea is only RM14.90, while the Matcha Red Bean Cheese from Chizu costs RM16.00. However, since Chizu is one of the FavePay Partners, I get a cashback of up to 20% whenever I spend at Chizu. Unfortunately, Regiustea is not a partner of Fave, so you don’t get any Fave deals or cashbacks from Regiustea 😦

By the way, for those who don’t know what’s Fave, it’s a FREE app that offers lots of deals and discounts. Their deals are REALLY GOOD. I used to spend only RM130 for a western dinner that’s worth RM200 through Fave. Download it, YOU WILL NOT REGRET (Not sponsored though, unfortunately). Also, you can use this referral code to get RM5 off your first purchase: 22HL4 (again, not sponsored)

Conclusions

My Top 1 Matcha Cheese Go-To-Place is…Drum roll please!

STILL Chizu. Regiustea deserves to be on my Top 3 list though. Top 2 is probably Tokyo Secret, since I feel that it’s somewhere in between Chizu and Regiustea.

What Do You Think?

Where is your favorite beverage shop? Any place you’d like to recommend? Share in the comments below!

Chizu vs Regiustea I have always been a HUGE fan of matcha, and cheese, which result in me being addicted to matcha cheese drinks.

[shiroheaven]

Business

I’ve never said this before, but I’m actually a beauty consultant of Mary Kay. However, since I’m still studying, I didn’t focus much on my career, I focused more on my studies. So here’s a summary of my February performance.

Sales

I’ve only had 3 customers for February, we’ll call them May, Mars, and Mad.

May

For some reason, she LOVES lipsticks deals from Mary Kay. Most of my lipsticks sales are from her. She bought lip glosses from me in February. She even tipped me! Although it’s not much, I still appreciate it. Thanks, girl!

Mars

Mars has been using all kinds of cleansers in the past, causing her skin to be more fragile compare to normal skin. She’s in her 50s, and she wishes to fight her age. Although I want to recommend her the Timewise Repair series, her skin barrier is still too weak. Therefore I had to let her use the Botanical Effects Formula 1 first in order to recondition her skin. Also, I recommended the Timewise Gel Mask since that is a very mild mask that has anti-aging effects. I also recommended the use of foundation primer to cover some of her dark spots. CC cream or concealer would have a better effect, but she doesn’t want to remove make up every night, so I ended up recommending the foundation primer. Other than that, she bought a skinvigorate from me. Since her skin barrier is still weak, I advised her to only use it twice a week.

Mad

Mad is a regular of mine, I’ve been her beauty consultant since my first day of being a beauty consultant. She bought eye gel from me as hers has been used up.

Closing Inventory

This includes 1 eye gel, 1 lip scrub, 1 lip balm, 2 lipsticks, 4 skinvigorate brush heads, 1 foundation primer, 1 Botanical Effects Formula 2 Freshen, 1 shower gel, and 1 sunscreen.

Conclusions

Most of the closing inventories are customers’ pre-orders for March. However, most of the products are in Sabah and those products should be delivered to customers in KL. Hopefully, the products will be shipped to my condo ASAP. Also, I’ll have to follow up on Mars in March to get feedback from her, and also to make sure she’s using the products properly.

Personal

On the left is my flexed budget for February, while on the right is a comparison of my actual expenses of February to January’s.

Education

Paid for my ACCA exam fees for F4 to F6. Unavoidable. The exam fees are so expensive that I don’t even think I can afford to fail. Hopefully I can get the full scholarship next semester, but that requires me to be a prize winner.

Speaking of exams, it’s exam month for February and March, lots of tests coming up, so there might be less updates on my blog. Need to study so that I can achieve my goal of getting a full scholarship. As the saying goes, one important key to success is SELF-CONFIDENCE. An important key to self-confidence is PREPARATION. Wish me luck!

Necessities

Spent less than January, yay! That’s probably because I saved some groceries when I went back to Sabah for Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year was dramatic by the way, didn’t enjoy it that much. But the food was DAMN GOOD. I ate so much that my tummy couldn’t take it and I had a terrible diarrhea for 2 days. That was like a heaven and hell experience all in one CNY.

Play

Totally overspent on this one, mainly due to my 999th & 1000th days celebration, CNY shopping and Sunway Lagoon trip.

999th & 1000th Days Celebration

As you all know, Jeremiah and I celebrated our 999th & 1000th days of relationship during the month. We spent on LOTS AND LOTS OF FOOD. We spent our money like

Although we spent so much on these 2 days, I don’t regret it. I think that our relationship worth more than just cash, although the celebration didn’t go as expected. For those that didn’t know what’s my expectations and how it turned out to be on those days, you can read it here.

CNY Shopping

As a Chinese, CNY shopping is a must. It’s considered as unavoidable. Okay, maybe there are Chinese who don’t do CNY shopping because they think it’s a waste of money and it’s too luxurious, but not for me. I only shop twice a year (CNY and Christmas), so it’s necessary for me.

Since mom said that green is my lucky color this year, so I searched every corner of the mall for a green outfit and finally found one that cost me almost RM100. YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO FIND THE PERFECT GREEN.

Sunway Lagoon Trip

This was probably a mistake. I should’ve postponed it to this month so I won’t overspend THAT much on February. However, I enjoyed it a lot. It was worth the price. Plus, I get to have an amusement park date with Jeremiah, just like how couples date in anime (not really a date though since his friends are here too). We went to Sunway Lagoon on the selected Terrific Thursday, not the best deal of Sunway Lagoon, but I won’t be free anytime soon, and I was craving for it since July of last year, so yeah, blame it on the crave.

Debt

This so called debt is actually reimbursement of the condominium deposit (RM2240) to me. Last year when I moved in, I didn’t have enough living allowances to pay the deposit, so I had to use my personal savings. I pay back some amount to myself every month. Up until now, I have repaid myself RM443.26, that’s almost 20% of my total debt, yay!

Give

I always feel that I give too little, maybe I’m too cautious? I’m always afraid that if I give too much, I’ll end up not having enough money for myself, so I always ended up giving too little. Is this just me? Or does any of you have/used to have this issue too? Do share in the comments! Anyways, I hope I can give more in March. I’ll just have to learn to be more generous and trust that God will provide, I guess.

Investment (Financial Freedom Account)

No investment for this month because I’m saving up for my next investment. I’m thinking of investing in the PRS Youth when I have RM1000. Hopefully I’ll be able to save up this amount by end of June.

Savings (Long Term Savings)

In total I’ve saved RM718.89 on February, that’s 17.52% of my total income! However, I decided that I should only lock in 5% of it to my Long Term Savings Account, while the rest of it will be rollover to the next month, just in case of any emergencies.

Conclusions

This is a VERY LUXURIOUS month. I think what I did most in February was feasting. Feasted on my 999th & 1000th days, feasted on CNY, feasted during my Sunway Lagoon trip, and also feasted on the last day of February because my friend and I decided that we should celebrate March Eve, and also pre-celebrate that we will pass our tests.

Anyways, gotta cut down on those feasting and focus more on what is necessary.

Luxurious February 2018 Business I've never said this before, but I'm actually a beauty consultant of Mary Kay. However, since I'm still studying, I didn't focus much on my career, I focused more on my studies.

[shiroheaven]

[RAMADAN PROMO] Enjoy RM5,000 cash redemption with a new Perodua!

[shiroheaven]

Wow~~ 超好康优惠来咯！竟然真的有免费机票！手慢就没有啦，现在不抢等什么时候呢？