January Favourites | 2020

I find myself struggling to publish a new blog post this year and I don't even know why. I don't want to blame anything or anyone for a mere laziness that I assume it was. Anyway, my January was amazing. I did so many things with my family and I love every moment of it. I wish I could do it again & again. And hopefully this month (Feb) will be just as amazing as January. Although January was great but I can't forget all the tragedies happened as well. So, here's my January Favourites.

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PENANG TRIP (3D2N)

She did it again, my sister. I was so surprised when I got her text that we'll be going to Penang to celebrate my dad's birthday. His birthday is on the 3rd of January but we reckon it's going to be crowded so she pushed the date to 2 days after school day started. And it was the best decision ever. There was no queue whatsoever and it was great. We went to all the places that my dad loved and he had a great time, that's what important. I made a vlog about it and I will post it up along with a short blog post like I did for my Genting Trip.
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IKEA CAFÉ'S POIS BLEU CHOCO CHIP SMOOTHIE

I've always wanted to try having a drink at IKEA Cafe after I watch JCC: IKEA Shopping (with Jaehyun). Of course they had coffee and since I can't drink coffee at that time, I opted for something different. And by different, I meant really different in colour. The blue drink as I called it. It was really good! It tasted like white chocolate and I loveeeee white chocolate. I think all the food and beverage at IKEA Cafe is affordable so maybe I'll try something else when I got the time to come back.
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STARBUCKS CARAMEL CHOCOLATE

Not really a fan of Starbucks non-caffeine drinks but during our last day in Penang, it was scorching hot so I had no choice to order something since we're not stopping anywhere else except the R&R Tapah, which is an hour away. So I tried something new, something I've never tried before and my, it was so good. Let me tell you, it tasted EXACTLY like M&Ms Minis ⏤ If any of you have tried that before, then you know what I'm saying. It was really good and sweet!

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MARK & SPENCER COOKIES

I'm a huge fan of M&S snacks but after I went to M&S Bakery & Cafe in Mid Valley to get their coffee, I fell in love with their cookies that looks almost the same as Subway's. Taste wise, almost the same too. It's a bit overpriced than Subway's but I think it's not that bad. My favourite is the white chocolate macadamia cookies.

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ISAACT TOAST

When I was in Seoul, I couldn't try anything from Isaac Toast because they uses ham and bacon as one of their main ingredients so I am glad to hear that they have a few stores in KL so I decided to try the most basic sandwich that was on the menu. And boy, I fell in love with it immediately. It was so good! Now I want to try other sandwiches from Isaac Toast.

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FINAL CUT PRO VIDEO EDITOR

I heard a lot about this FCP and when I found out that my favourite youtuber also uses the mentioned application, I just have to have it because once I tried the trial version, I fell in love on how easy everything was, especially how to put your own captions / subtitles. You can't do that on iMovie. I also love the various transitions, sound effects, animation, titles/texts etc but my favourite is the layering. I love how I can layer so many medias as much as I want which, again, something that I can't do on iMovie. Now I know why it's super expensive, because you can do so much with it.

I know many of you would say why would I spent so much money on something that I rarely use to contribute or create, my answer is because of the satisfaction. If I like how my videos turns out, I'll share it on the internet. And right now, using FCP I already finished 3 travel vlogs and currently editing daily life vlog, which I hope will come out okay.

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JANUARY PLAYLIST

I use Apple Music but on my laptop, I have a playlist on Spotify for all the songs that I currently enjoy. Bukanlah nak berlagak but I seldom listen to Malay songs however last month, after I listen to ATM's new song, I was hooked. I'm a huge fan of upbeat alternative like that. Even until now, I am still a big fan of Rampas, so you can assume that Yang Satu will stay quite a while in my playlist.

Some of the songs are old ones like Bermuda Triangle and You Should See Me In A Crown but haven't listen to those in a while so when I listen to it last month, I love it all over again.

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NCT LIFE: CHUNCHEON & HONGCHEON

One of the reason I fell in love with NCT is because of NCT Life series. My first NCT Life was when they went to Bangkok. I am seriously hoping for more NCT Life in the future. Doyoung said something about reaching a certain amount of views and if they achieved it, they will go to Switzerland for a new NCT Life. Well, I hope that's true because that would be amazing to watch.

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STARBUCKS SNACK SET

My sister came home one night with bags of stuff from Starbucks and I thought she went insane but she was like, "all of these is only RM19 per bag and you get free drinks of your choice with it. Isn't that great?? I got yours too."  So she got me the rosemary chip set (because she knows I love rosemary chips, with my favourite coffee Asian Dolce Latte. And as for the nuts and fruits, it's a great movie snacks because it has a lot of nuts and dried fruits in it. Ever since that, every time I went to Starbucks, I'll take the snack bag with the free drink!

So, if you buy the snack bag, you'll get those in the photo with your any Starbucks drinks (under RM20) that you like. Ain't that cool?

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So that was my January. It was lots and lots of sugar and carbs as you can see. It is as if my sister won't ever let my diet succeed. She always buys sweets and carbs for me. But I did not blame her. Well, as long as I am happy, I'm good. And eating good food makes me happy. Looking forward for February. Thanks for reading. Much love, T.




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