Naruko- Raw Job Tears Review

Naruko- Raw Job Tears Series - 

One of my beloved hobby is to research on these skincare products. And you know my favourite shopping venue then- Watsons!! I think I can be their VIP Fans.

Alright, back to the topic. Shall start with my first skincare product review: Naruko Raw Job Tears ;)
I have been using the products near to 4 mths now. The basic product series consists of the toner, lotion, serum and night jelly. The main ingredient is this Raw Job Tear which can help whitening and moisturizing skin. It is suitable for all skin types so is good for my complication skin-- oily combination and sensitive.

Some of my colleagues notice that my face turns brighter and whiter. Cant really say that it is due to this product series as I have also diligently putting mask and so on my face for the past few mths. But I felt good using it so probably it does help.

Another thing is this series of Naruko products is formulated by the famous Taiwan Skincare Guru- Niu Er Lao Shi.

One thing famous of Naruko is the night jelly. It creates a big chaos once in Taiwan that it sold off completely once on shelf. Im using the Raw Job Tears night jelly. It is light and immediately absorbs by my face once I put it on. Does not leave a greasy and thick texture. And the next day when I woke up, there was no greasy and sticky feeling on face. So far after I used this product series, there was no major breakouts hence I greatly recommend this for sensitive skin girls like me. ;) Further more, the price of this series is affordable. The basic set of toner, lotion, serum and night jelly , bought online from www.naruko.com.sg only costs Sgd 85.60. A really good quality products with the price.

Im now using the 2nd sets. Do give it a try if you are looking out for new skincare products on the market.

Italy - Rome (3)

The third day at Rome was infact the best day of the whole trip I guess. Vatican city- a secretive and mysterious country. It is the smallest country of the world but ironically it has the world largest cathedral and one of the best museum.

We started off our day by taking the metro to the station. You will know when you are approaching the country. As it is surrounded by a long high wall. At some time, we were talking about the ways to sneak in Vatican, and you were suggesting the spiderman way, the swinging man way and the sneaking man from CCTV ways. Well, let's see when there's someone who tried these and succeed.

We went to the St Peter's Basilica first. First impression, wow.. The piazza infront it is super large, the queue is super long and the cathedral is too magnificent. Although the queue is long, but it is on-moving. I guess ard half n hour, we are able to enter the church. Going through level and level of security, and the second impression when we entered the basiliica. 'Wow wow'... alright, indeed the largest cathedral of the world. It is so big you cant really tell the end.

St Peter's Basilica

Arguably one of the finest Cathedrals in the entire world, St. Peter's is the spiritual center of the Vatican and the product of many of Italy's great Renaissance's architects, among them Bramante, Raphael and Michelangelo.

Standing in front of St Peter Basilica while queuing 

Next stop is the star of the day. The Vatican Museum. To get to there from St Peter's Basilica, we need to walk out from the long street, walk another like 600m along the wall to the entrance of the Museum. Walking up a modern spiral staircase, we went to the pinacoteca where the most impressive painting I have seen before, Raphael: Transfiguration of God at.

I was really impressed by the talent of this artist and the fact that he died young but leaving great amount of painting behind make me even more saluting him. Anyway, after knowing the reason he died young, it kind of affects the impressive level, but only by just a bit. He was still one of the greatest artist in my heart. I do not know much about the history of Christianity, but with the description of the book and the painting itself, that's even to explain the great Renaissance ppl. Next, we went to the Raphael's room with more of his paintings and then to the Sistene Chapel room. Wow... the ceiling is really fantastic. It was so great you wont mind spend the day just dazed at the ceiling and the surrounding painting.

The beautiful ceiling before entering Sistine Chapel (was not allowed to take photo of Sistine chapel)

We came out of the museum, with satisfied feeling. It makes us to have the urge to find out more about the history and things happened during the Renaissance period. I wished we could have learnt more about this kind of history during school times. That will definitely be one of my most interested subject.

The third day ended with us shopping at the supermart, Conad again. That's another joy of the trip... and we bought a half melon for Aunty. Back to our small room with Aunty making this Korean , stone egg rice and seaweed soup. It is really nice but the portion of the food was quite big though for me... Anyway...
Tomorrow we are going to Venice, the city of Romance, Water and bla bla... yeah

Italy- Rome (2)

The next morning, 8/6 was a long day walking tour ard old Rome area. Starting with Piazza del Popolo. I'm actually quite lazy to type out the information , so just a short cut n paste information got on net ... hee

Piazza del Popolo

is a large oval square near the Borghese Park. It features an authentic obelisk from Heliopolis, Egypt.On the north side the square is dominated by the Porta del Popolo, which leads to the Via Flaminia. The Via Flaminia was built in 220 BC to connect Rome with the Adriatic coast and was one of the most important roads leading to Rome. Hence many travellers entered the city from the Via Flaminia along the Piazza del Popolo.

Piazza di Spagna
The piazza di Spagna is one of the most popular meeting places in Rome. It is also one of the most visually pleasing squares. The combination of a monumental staircase - the famous Spanish Steps, an obelisk and a beautiful church draws photographers to the square.

Spanish Steps
The Piazza di Spagna or Spanish Square is connected to a French church (Trinità dei Monti) on top of the hill via a long staircase, known as the Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti or Spanish Steps. The idea of connecting the church with the square below originates from the 17th century, when the French also planned a statue of King Louis XIV of France at the top of the staircase.
Papal opposition caused the plans to be shelved until 1723, when the monumental staircase was built without the statue. Pope Innocent XIII appointed the Italian architect Francisco de Sanctis. He presented a design that satisfied both the French and the papacy.The elegant staircase consists of 137 steps over twelve different flights.

Pantheon
Built more than 1800 years ago, the magnificent Pantheon building still stands as a reminder of the great Roman empire.
With its thick brick walls and large marble columns, the Pantheon makes an immediate impression on visitors. But for its time the most remarkable part of the building is the more than 43 meter high some. It was the largest dome in the world until 1436 when the Florence Cathedral was constructed.

Piazza Navona
Piazza Navone is one of the most famous and arguably the most beautiful of Rome's many squares. The large and lively square features no less than three magnificent fountains. Another eyecatcher is the baroque church of Sant'Agnese in Agone.
The Trevi fountain is at the ending part of the Aqua Virgo, an aqueduct constructed in 19 BC. It brings water all the way from the Salone Springs (approx 20km from Rome) and supplies the fountains in the historic center of Rome with water.

 Fontana di Trevi
Construction of the Fountain
In 1732, Pope Clement XII commissioned Nicola Salvi to create a large fountain at the Trevi Square. A previous undertaking to build the fountain after a design by Bernini was halted a century earlier after the death of Pope Urban VIII. Salvi based his theatrical masterpiece on this design. Construction of the monumental baroque fountain was finally completed in 1762.

We walked from almost 9 in the morning to 7... that is 10 hrs.. It was indeed tiring but with satisfaction. One of the more fulfilling thing, I was quite engrossed to finding supermarket in Italy, hee, that's the only place I can find cheap food and drink. Hee... Actually my plan was we will take some bite and drink at night in room. But I guess the 10 hrs walking make it difficult to sustain the tiredness and temptation to sleeping... Argh... that's how my plan gone... And I think I ve transmitted the sleeping virus to you deardear... hmpf...

Italy- Rome (一）

Italy- Rome (一）

行李是早上才整理，看来我是学到了你last minute 的习惯。
坐上Norwegian air, 我们来到了意大利，罗马。为什么第一次的欧洲之旅是意大利，其实我也不知道。
想把瑞士放在蜜月之旅，因为想要更有能力的奢侈花费在蜜月，加上看了食尚玩家，更对意大利别有独钟。

选了意大利，订了机票，才从他人游记知晓意大利是危险，小偷泛滥其中的都市。所以一到车站我们特别小心谨慎。
在车站就领教到意大利人的不友善，加上很多时候语言不通，对他的第一印象不是很好。
在飞机shuttle bus要到城市是看到一堵很长很长的旧城墙，
好像以前玩 age of emperor 是会建的那种，很震惊，好像欢迎你来到历史之都。
来到意大利第二个惊喜，Internet 写着最高27度，骗人的。
害我带全长袖，基本上在阳光直射下是34度。显到。'
原本住进馨家园的，有点气，因为没事先通知我们，就把我们sub给另一个家庭住宿。
但后来住了米兰的馨家园后，我们顿时庆幸他sub给我们给张阿姨，至少在罗马的住宿有家，安全的感觉。
阿姨还很好的不受晚餐费用，要我们能省就省。 

第一站在罗马我们来到了罗马竞技场。 来一点介绍。

Emperor Vespasian, founder of the Flavian Dynasty, started construction of the Colosseum in AD 72. It was completed in AD 80, the year after Vespasian's death.
The huge amphitheater was built on the site of an artificial lake, part of Nero's huge park in the center of Rome which also included the Golden House (Domus Aurea) and the nearby Colossus statue. This giant statue of Nero also gave the building its current name.

The Building
The elliptical building is immense, measuring 188m by 156m and reaching a height of more than 48 meter (159 ft). The Colosseum could accommodate some 55,000 spectators who could enter the building through no less than 80 entrances.Above the ground are four storeys, the upper storey contained seating for lower classes and women.  The lowest storey was preserved for prominent citizens. Below the ground were rooms with mechanical devices and cages containing wild animals. The cages could be hoisted, enabling the animals to appear in the middle of the arena.

不敢相信我们现在脚在2000多年的历史古迹上。
手摸着城门，一边震撼着古人的杰作，一边欣赏这个wonders of the world 之一。
你会很惊讶古人是如何建造着伟大的建筑。今时的足球场也是根据竞技场的原理建造。
感觉古人真的很不简单，相反之现代人好像少了这些特质。是不是因为科技的发达，反而让人少了些创意。

在竞技场旁，一条很长的走道上，有些古人的王宫，因为过了时间，不能进入。
第一天因为不认路，走了很多，但也看了很多，顿时对罗马的认识有了多一点点的加深。
欧洲的消费果然也够震撼，一个简单的晚餐可能就要10欧。贵到...

罗马的第一晚，完毕！checked! 

Europe June 2012 之旅- 前传

4 June 2012 -- 17 June 2012 

这是在飞机上写的游记，显得特别有意义。 这是很多的第一次。 第一次到欧洲，亚洲以外的国度。 第一次一个人坐长途转站飞机。第一次到瑞典探望你；）。 启程前一星期，排满了工作，前一天还得到ubin喂蚊子。 紧张的心情加上突而起来的感冒，很像精神分裂。 终于等到要上机会heh. 感谢可爱的姐妹们来送机。

12小时的飞机很不好过，Thai airways to Copenhagen 竟没有电视荧幕

。

不知道转了多少圈，喝了多少杯水，上了几次厕所。终于！到了 Copenhagen!

一出机场东张西望，看到 James 站在前方，两个月不见，感觉好久。 之后， 跟着James买票到Lund. 
对Lund 得第一印象，很冷，很干净，少人，很多黑狗狗。 
安顿好后，接着而来的jet lag 和感冒弄的我有点头昏脑胀。
休息一会， 决定到市区一圈。 这里出门， 感觉要全副武装的。
我来的这时候， 已经是很好的天气了，but... 还是冷。。
很特别的感觉， 当你一个人在陌生的国度的街道上走着，只有少数与你同皮肤的人插身而过。
这是一种特别体验。

晚 吃晚餐再走了街道一圈。天还很亮，晚上9 点好像傍晚五点那样。
回到房间，jetlag还是阴魂不散，躺在床上没多久就睡昏了。
我的欧洲之行第一天，到此。

♥ Taiwan (2)

太鲁阁国家公园 在台湾的第四天，我们来到太鲁阁国家公园。 在去那之前，先到合欢山走一趟。 这几天的台湾天气，因为冷气团， 会很冷下雨。在合欢山最高处，有近3 度的天气。可惜还不够冷，不然很有可能可以看到雪山。从合欢山到太鲁阁的路，真的很像九曲十八弯， 头文字D因该在这里取景。 不敢再吃任何晕车药，结果到合欢山下时，把早餐全都吐了出来。Hmm， 年纪大了，好像比较容易晕车。太鲁阁是我在台湾其中最喜欢的地方之一， 很壮观。但如果以景色来说，桂林下龙湾还是更胜一筹。太鲁阁以出产大理石出名， 一眼望下，一大片大理石在我眼前，哇。。 好想采些回家；）

马大哥说，太鲁阁是其中大陆客最喜欢到的地方。显然，台湾人不是真么喜欢中国人，从厅马大哥的语气就可以感觉得到。不过，当我们到太鲁阁时，就明白马大哥的意思了。大陆人从来不会让人。拍照如果没有防排队指示，我想我们等到天亮都不会排到。 花莲- 七星潭 太鲁阁过后，就到花莲走一走。看了山，当然也要看海啦 :）来到七星潭，风好大，每夸张，简直可以吹走人。有点寸步难移的感觉。在七星潭要做麽？当然是捡石头。冒着被风吹走的风险，拾了几粒， 看似普通但带有极大意义的石头！ 马大哥过后带我们到花莲的自强夜市逛一逛。自强夜市很小，主要是尝一尝那里的棺材板。其实棺材板就是面包加点料。 逛了夜市，回到旅店。哇哇， 房间很大很漂亮。这间是我们在台湾住过最好的。一楼还有免费的咖啡茶供应，和一间很有特色的咖啡厅。选择这间旅店的另一目的，是可以骑自行车。但是，这几天刮10几风，旅店人员说看明天的天气如何才能看能不能让我们骑。 第二天早，6点就起身看日出。可惜，乌云满天， 太阳公公不见了！ 天气看来不错，耶！能起脚车。回房间叫那只猪，Annzai，真么叫都不醒！ Grr， 最后只有我们三人骑。风还是蛮大，冷风过劲，但那种自由自在的感觉， 爽！回到旅店吃早餐，这间旅店真的很不错，早餐也有很多选择。好想在这里多住一晚。

♥ Taiwan (1)

Taiwan - 7 Dec 2011-- 13 Dec 2011 这是阿姨第一次搭飞机到马来西亚以外的国家。。 所以台湾之行对阿姨来说因该是特别的。。 大约晚上830到达桃园机场， 当飞机即将降落时，妈妈和阿姨目不转睛的看着窗外的夜景。。顿时觉得之前忙着安排台湾之旅是也出了近一半的旅费。。 hmm.. 是值得的。。 第一晚没什么， 因为已经夜了， 只到逢甲夜市逛了一圈。 九族- 日月潭 第二天，兴奋着。。 要和联络许久的马大哥回合。。 马大哥如名一样，高高瘦瘦。。 一番介绍后，我们就往九族文化村出发。。 其实九族就好像一个themepark.. 没什么特别。。 在那里遇到另外一队Johor的family, 他们有车导带着，一番聊天后，他们爽快地叫我们参与他们一起走。。 人在海外。 遇到同乡， 果然特别好聊。。。 在九族带了一个下午后，看了几个原住民的表演后。我们就往日月潭出发。。。

日月潭今天起大雾。。。 很可惜。。 =（除了蒙蒙一片，根本看不出什么景色。。 只好用想象力了。在日月潭去参观了几个庙。。 马大哥还请我们吃那里很出名的‘阿婆茶叶蛋’， 用日月潭出名的红茶和香菇焖的。。。 好香， 很好吃。。。 我想，这是我吃过最好吃的茶叶蛋了。。 好想再吃啊！！ 清镜农场- 小瑞士花园 今天要到清境看绵羊。。 马大哥说上山的路会较弯曲。所以出发前吃了颗晕车药。怎知，那可晕车药弄我一整天都在昏昏迷迷的状态，一直想睡觉。。 好辛苦。上次去香港也是吃了晕车药后很不舒服。。。 hmm， 终于知道原因了。。 到了清境农场。。。 哇哇， 一进入门， 就有几只绵羊在我们身边晃来晃去。。 眼前一片宽阔的大草原和连绵山脉。。 好美啊。。 我和Ann兴奋着和绵羊玩着， 原来绵羊的叫声真的是 “咩咩~~~”。。 以前只听过别人扮的声音， 原来真的绵羊叫也没差。。 绵羊的毛很厚，我们的手伸到一半都还没动到肉咧。。。 看了马继秀后。我们就到瑞士花园走一趟。。 可能是秋末，冬初，秋叶还没变色。。 有几颗秋叶还在。。 把瑞士花园点缀得很漂亮。。