Asia Food Festival Miri

Finally went Asia Food Festival held at Coco Cabana Miri from 20 - 23 April 2017. There were food stalls from different country. Price are quiet expensive.

The queue are super long, but all very good queue up in a line wait for their turn.

They also have this ocean sport games. Very fun, saw people posted in facebook.

We also went inside for Mini Art Carnival.

Came out from the art carnival and decide which foods want to try.

We only bought this from Taiwan.

And this from Korea. Actually Miri also selling this lah, and cheaper.

We parked at the main roadside because it's traffic jam already, so we need to walk a least 10 minutes to reach the destination.

HiShop Review : URIAGE THERMAL WATER

Most of us, no matter women or men, use skin care everyday. We have different type of skins - dry, oily, sensitive or combine. We have to make sure we're using the right skincare that suit our skin. 

Introducing ♥ URIAGE THERMAL WATER

Since its creation in 1992, the Uriage brand has been meeting the needs of sensitive skin thanks to its internationally renowned dermatological expertise.

URIAGE THERMAL WATER passes through the depths of French Alps and is enriched with trace elements and minerals. Water is isotonic when it respects the size and integrity of the skin cells. 

Uriage Thermal Water is in complete affinity with the skin, making it water for the skin. The high mineral concentrations in Uriage Thermal Water soothes, hydrates and protects skin. The unique water also stimulates key elements of skin barrier; the cutaneous barrier is restored and ensures more effective protection against external aggressions while maintaining the skin’s hydration. 

Removing make-up and cleansing your skin are essential to any skincare routine. Pollution, make-up and sebum accumulate, making your skin dull and lacklustre. Micelles in make-up remover captures make-up and impurities effectively but can damage the cutaneous barrier resulting in transepidermal water loss and feeling of discomforts. To keep your skin looking radiant and comfortable, Uriage Dermatological Laboratories treat your skin to innovative URIAGE THERMAL MICELLAR WATER to remove make-up and cleanse face and eyes adapted to all skin types.

There are three different types of Thermal Micellar Water. Combination to Oily Skin, Skin Prone to redness and Normal to Dry Skin. All three types come with three different size - 100ml, 250ml, 500ml. 

Ingredient
- Uriage Thermal Water
- Glycerin
- Cranberry extract
- Gentle non-ionic surfactants
- Hypoallergenic
- Ophthalmologically tested

Direction for Use
Soak a cotton pad with Thermal Micellar Water and gently wipe over the face, eyes and neck to cleanse in a single step, without rinsing. Complete the eye make-up removal with the Waterproof Eye Make-up Remover. Spray Uriage Thermal Water all over the face and let it penetrate. Do not dry. Finish by applying your daily care product.

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Water Heater

After 1 and 1/2 year staying at our not so new home now, we finally bought the water heater for our home. I had been bathing using normal / cold water no matter early or late night, normal day or period day. For us, it's a want, not a need, our budget is quite tight earlier when we move in. So now our income is more stable compared to earlier, so decided to buy.

Driving around to check an affordable and safe water heater together with my parent. My dad got more experience on all this thing. And decided on this, Panasonic Water Heater (Non-Jet Pump) DH-3MT1. We bought @ RM445. My dad and husband installed themselves.

Now I no longer worried rainy day or period day. :)

U Mobile

It's been a year plus since me and my husband changed to U Mobile from Digi as there is no Digi coverage at our new home earlier. So far we're quite satisfy with their service even they don't have much service center in Miri. Maybe it's still new.

We're currently using the Postpaid P70 package as below:

What I get from this P70 package:

• unlimited free calls to any networks
• unlimited free music with music onz

• unlimited free using app (facebook, twitter and instagram) with app onz
• 15GB highspeed internet
• 7GB free streaming on video with video onz.

• #TERERTHURSDAY deal every thursday

Guess what we get for this week TERER Freebie? A Handcrafted Beverage from Starbucks !! 

Last week was free Magnum Ice Cream. I can feel that Umobile love their clients LOL. 

Many more rewards and promotions when you're a U mobile user. So check out their package, might suitable for you. 

Why Manis? ♥

What is Manis? Manis = sweet. 

Haha. Manis is actually a unique loyalty app that gives you more rewards than ever before. Discover & earn while you shop, eat, & play! All you need to do is collect all your receipts, no matter food ka, groceries ka, medical ka. All tax invoice can be snap and earn manis points ! 

Snapping receipts had been one of my important task everyday. Husband will roll eyes everytime he see me busy taking receipts haha. I will tell him this is for us, collect points to change into cash voucher to buy our groceries = save money. HEHEHE. 

What to do with the Manis points? 

Manis points can be change into cash voucher, reloads and many more. You can accumulate the points until the rewards you want appear at the rewards store in your apps. For me, i will prefer Giant voucher. As a wife, I will buy groceries every week. A small basket already costed me RM 50 and above. Just a few things. Because I'm from Miri Sarawak, we do not have Tesco, Aeon, so all i can do i wait for Giant voucher available at the rewards store. I very patient one when goes to free things. Who don't love free things ma. HAHA.

How to start ?
Go to your app store / google play store to search and download Manis apps.

The dashboard look like this. See my points, told you I'm very patient hehe. Click the red $ button in the middle and start snapping.

Then search for the store name of your receipts. If the store name is not listed, click the red button at the bottom showing "Can't find Stores? Enter manually".

After you select the store of your receipt, key in the receipt details as below, then click start snap once done.

After you snap, crop the receipts nicely. Click crop once done.

SAMPLE ONLY

Make sure the receipts details (receipt number, date, amount) are visible. If confirm okay, then click upload.

SAMPLE ONLY

That's it ! Then wait for approval.

FRIENDLY REMINDER : DO NOT SNAP PHOTOS FROM COMPUTER / PHONE / TABLET AS THIS IS INELIGIBLE TO EARN POINTS AND ARE CONSIDERED AS AN ATTEMPT TO CHEAT THE SYSTEM FOR POINTS.

Below terms and conditions for your easy reference. You can see more in their apps.

How to redeem vouchers?

At the apps, click reward, select the voucher you want, then click redeem. It will show your points at the bottom whether you have enough points to redeem or not.

Please give Manis at least a month time to prepare and ship out your vouchers.

Tala, this is my Giant voucher redeemed last year. And happily used at Giant !

This Manis apps made me super happy whenever my receipts approved haha. I will continue to use it and looking forward for more rewards ! ♥

Another great thing is, when I share this great app with my friends and invite them to download Manis app, they start snapping receipts and the receipt approved, keep the app for at least 3 days, I will earn 500 points !! 

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Wishes

All of us have our own wishes. Wishes that can easily fullfill, or wishes that we might can't fullfill forever. I will talk about my wish lists in this blog post. 

My husband is a phone addict. He used his phone almost most of the time. In toilet, before sleep, after meals etc. He is using an ASUS phone I bought from Lazada Malaysia. And the screen was cracked into spider web after fell down on the floor, without any screen protector. I wish I can buy him a new phone, but it's beyond my budget for most of the nice phone. Huawei Mate 9 is one of my wishlist. 

Both me and my husband are super coffee lover. A day a coffee (or more) is a must.

When this NESCAFE Gold Barista Machine launched, I wished to get it immediately. But still, it's beyond our budget. So I can only put it in my Lazada's wish list.

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My husband loves fried food. But due to unhealthy oily foods, I have to forced him for not taking fried foods. With a air fryer, we can cook fried foods without oil and eat healthy. I wish to have a air fryer, for a better life style, healthier body. 

I love to take photos. All the photos taken will only store in pc or phone. It's very hard to go town just to print few pcs of photos. I wish to have a Instax Share Printer, so that i can print quality photos into instax photo film. 

I wish to have a bicycle. I love cycling. Cycling can also as an exercise, or to a destination with lower cost compare to car. 


Above 5 items are my top wishlist that I had saved in my Lazada's account, hoping a day my wish will come true and own them.

Another way to make my wishes come true faster, is cashback ! I super loves cashback ! Whenever I shop at Lazada, I will activate my shopback cashback button at my chrome.

Introducing the cashback/rebate website I used - SHOPBACK



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Below is my cashback information since the day I joined cashback ! I have get cashback of RM 23.49 from my purchase online.

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Ash Wednesday

Today is Ash Wednesday. Woke up a bit early than usual to attend the 6:15am chinese mass with my parent. 

Ash Wednesday marks the start of a 40-day period which is an allusion to the separation of Jesus in the desert to fast and pray. Ash Wednesday is one of the most popular and important holy days in the liturgical calendar. Ash Wednesday opens Lent, a season of fasting and prayer. Ash Wednesday takes place 46 days before Easter Sunday, and is chiefly observed by Catholics, although many other Christians observe it too.

What Should We Do For Lent? Here's Pope Francis’ 10 Tips

Every year Catholics try to answer the age old question: What should I do for Lent? Well, who better to pick for as your Lenten spiritual director than Pope Francis? He has some great ideas for you!

Here we selected 10 of his best tips:

1. Get rid of the lazy addiction to evil

“[Lent] is a ‘powerful’ season, a turning point that can foster change and conversion in each of us. We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us and thus we leave behind old habits and the lazy addiction to the evil that deceives and ensnares us.” – General Audience, March 5, 2014

2. Do something that hurts

“Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.” – Lenten Message, 2014

3. Don’t remain indifferent

“Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience. God is not indifferent to our world; he so loves it that he gave his Son for our salvation.” –Lenten Message, 2015

4. Pray: Make our hearts like yours!

“During this Lent, then, brothers and sisters, let us all ask the Lord: ‘Fac cor nostrum secundum cor tuum’: Make our hearts like yours (Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus). In this way we will receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference.” – Lenten Message, 2015

5. Take part in the sacraments

“Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like him. This happens whenever we hear the word of God and receive the sacraments, especially the Eucharist. There we become what we receive: the Body of Christ.” – Lenten Message, 2015

6. Prayer

“In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could harden our hearts, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of God’s boundless love, to taste his tenderness. Lent is a time of prayer, of more intense prayer, more prolonged, more assiduous, more able to take on the needs of the brethren; intercessory prayer, to intercede before God for the many situations of poverty and suffering.” – Homily, March 5, 2014

7. Fasting

“We must be careful not to practice a formal fast, or one which in truth ‘satisfies’ us because it makes us feel good about ourselves. Fasting makes sense if it questions our security, and if it also leads to some benefit for others, if it helps us to cultivate the style of the Good Samaritan, who bends down to his brother in need and takes care of him.” – Homily, March 5, 2014

8. Almsgiving

“Today gratuitousness is often not part of daily life where everything is bought and sold. Everything is calculated and measured. Almsgiving helps us to experience giving freely, which leads to freedom from the obsession of possessing, from the fear of losing what we have, from the sadness of one who does not wish to share his wealth with others.” – Homily, March 5, 2014

9. Help the Poor

“In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ. Our efforts are also directed to ending violations of human dignity, discrimination and abuse in the world, for these are so often the cause of destitution. When power, luxury and money become idols, they take priority over the need for a fair distribution of wealth. Our consciences thus need to be converted to justice, equality, simplicity and sharing.” – Lenten Message, 2014

10. Evangelize

“The Lord asks us to be joyous heralds of this message of mercy and hope! It is thrilling to experience the joy of spreading this good news, sharing the treasure entrusted to us, consoling broken hearts and offering hope to our brothers and sisters experiencing darkness.” – Lenten Message, 2014

You probably won’t be able to take huge steps forward in all of these areas. Instead, pick a couple that stand out to you and try to find practical ways to grow in your love of God and your love of your neighbor.

Source: focusoncampus.org/