Are you a Glee fan? Well i am :D I'm just gonna do a quick post before I went to bed (it is 12.48 AM now, a little bit over midnight). I saw a very interesting post in JaebumFanGirl blog, the title is "My Top Five Glee Songs". It's quite interesting to know what is everybody's top 5 glee songs from season 1. So here's my version :

1). Take A Bow (Lea Michelle)

This song is one of the reason why I fell in love with Glee. This is from one of their early episodes and I was so mesmerized with Lea's version of this song I decided to follow the Gleekdom ^o^


2). I dreamed a Dream (Lea Michelle & Idina Menzel)

This is my number one song from Glee! I have always loved this song from Les Miserables, it's one of my "shower song" hahaha but Lea & Idina's shortened version is more "pop" and sweet, I love it! I love it! I love it!


3). True Colors (Jenna Ushkowitz)

This is also one of my favorite classic song and Jenna sing it beautifully, I always get a little bit touchy with the lyrics, it has a very deep meaning and I think we should at least sing it once a week just to remind ourselves..


4). Defying Gravity (Lea Michelle & Chris Colfer)

I am in love with Kurt (Chris Colfer's character), I think he could steal the star of the show title ^o^ I like his unique and slightly weird voice. And when I read the real story about Chris Colfer's personal history on this song and then I hear his voice singing this song, it's just awesome. And not to mention that I already love this song from Wicked.


5). Poker Face (Lea Michelle & Idina Menzel)

Oh I love this version of Lady Gaga's hit! This is probably the best music arrangement from all of the Glee songs from season 1 :) I never really been a fan of Gaga's crazy songs but this version.. I like! ^__^ I want to change my ringing tone with this! ;)

So that's it! My top five Glee songs. Thank you so much for JaebumFanGirl for the inspiration. How bout you? What are your top five Glee songs? ^o^

Mr.Right & Mrs.(always)Right - Dakota's Gifts Review

I received these fantastic pair of pillow covers from Dakota's Personalized Gifts the other day, I showed it as a surprise gift to my husband for our anniversary. He was very surprised and his eyes lit when I showed him these...

It's a pair of personalized pillow covers. I personalized it with our names, hubby's nick name as Mr.Right and me being the Mrs (always) right, of course.. haha I thought it's such a funny yet thoughtful gift when I first saw it at the website. The sizing is generous, it's 20" x 32" and will fit your standard queen size pillow. It's made of a strong and durable 55/45 Cotton Poly Blend with 180 thread count so it's soft to your head.

It's machine washable, I did washed it in the machine and it turns out fine. The quality is good and for the price of $23.95 a pair it's a great option for an anniversary gift or a wedding gift.

Dakota's Gifts specialized in personalized items, they have many options to choose from. You can choose gifts by recipients, by occasions, by holiday and they also have a wedding section where you could get a lot of options for wedding purposes such as bridesmaids and grooms man's gifts, wedding keepsakes, anniversary gifts, gifts for the newlyweds, gifts for the parents, etc.

I always love personalized gifts, there's something special in it and most likely, it will be cherished forever. You might want to bookmark Dakota's Personalized Gifts for your Christmas gifts options ^o^ They have it all for the whole family. Here are some of my favorites:

for the whole family..



for the kids..

and something for the teacher..


and some other things..



http://www.dakotagifts.com

DISCLAIMER:

I did not receive any form of payment for this review and this is written based on my own honest opinion. The free product(s) were provided by Dakota's Gifts for review purposes only, and this compensation DOES NOT influence my opinion at all. So if I said it's good then it's actually good, if it needs improvement I will say so :)

Places We Go: Bogor

This is just a quick post..

Me, hubby and our cousins went to Bogor last weekend. We used to go to Bogor for a culinary trip, which means we only go there to eat - LOL. But i like Bogor, it's breezy and it's surrounded by lush greenery and big tall trees everywhere. It also has a big public garden right in the center of the city (Taman Raya Bogor -- Bogor Botanical Garden) where we usually visit in the afternoon to hang out at the only cafe there which faced a big open green space with thick forest-like trees far ahead, such a stunning view. Especially when it gets dark and they turn on the lights like this:

Me & hubby

Me with my cousin

Me with my niece

Me with my cousins

Cheers,
 

AUGUST's Purchases and Freebies

Haa....sorry again for this late "Monthly Freebies & Purchases", the long holiday and the broken laptop tragedy really made all my agenda falls apart, but hey, try not to blame it so much ;)
Anyway, here's my last month (August) freebies & purchases. My July purchases were not listed here because it was all clothing item so I put the post on my fashion blog instead, you can read here for my July purchases.

Okay, so off we go..

FREEBIES:

This is a bonus bag from In Style magazine. I got the magazine from Desy of Living Daisy when I met her at the Chocolatier blogger workshop. She got a spare mag so she brings it to me, thanks again Desy! :) I used this to store some of my fabrics that I plan to bring to the tailor to have them custom made.


I won this Twilight earrings from a giveaway at Heavenly Sayings blog. This earrings is from katrinshine.etsy.com. I love this earrings so much! It dangles oh so beautifully.


I got this mini perfume set from my MIL. She found it lurking in the deep pockets of her bedroom drawer. She also gave me another mini perfume vials from J'adore Dior and Dior Cherie.


my MIL also gave me this pink pashmina. I borrowed a pashmina when I was not feeling good while at her place and when I got better and wants to return it she said I can have it cos she never wears it anyway. I haven't own a pink pashmina so I was delighted. But too bad the pashmina bleeds very bad when I throw it in the washing machine, and a couple of our white clothes are a bit pink-ish now ;p


I got this pink top as a birthday present from my SIL. I love the color (it's pink!) and I also love the shape of it, love the fabric too :)


PURCHASES:


We bought this sun shield for our car at Ace Hardware. We needed one and we saw this black cat sun shield so we bought it immediately because it represents our black cat Blackey ;p Well actually we wanted to buy the Ed Hardy sun shield, they came in different gorgeous designs and we just wish we could afford it -lol It was expensive for a sun shield and payday was still too far away ;p Luckily we found this black cat, cos we love it too!




Failing to get the Ed Hardy sun shield we managed to bought an Ed Hardy car freshener instead haha. It's pink and the scent is patchouli. When we first open the plastic the scent was like a stronger version of a talcum powder but then it grew mildly soft and much better, we like it :)




I already blogged about all of the above stuff in my fashion blog.

And that's about it.. my purchases and freebies for August. Hooray for not spending too much money this month :D Click here if you want to read my previous months purchases.

Yuri's List of Top 10 World's Best Public Restroom

Again, I'm really sorry for my sponsors and readers who has been patiently waiting for my review/giveaway posts to be up and running on this blog, I'm gonna have to ask you to please bear with me for a little while because I have to start all over again with this "new" laptop. I have to re-take photos of products and then edit them a bit so it's representable for this blog, and then re-collect all the lost data to write the article. Yes, it took that much time and work to make a good review/giveaway article so I'm gonna need a wee bit more time to be able to post some.. Hope I can post one tomorrow..

Anyway, lucky for me, I have a ready-post that was actually a post that I planned to publish later, but let's just publish it now and make a new planned post later on, shall we? ;)
This is a second edition of my "Top 10 list.." that I started on this blog a while ago. If you haven't read it, I posted my "Top 10 World's Best Hotel Bathroom With A View" last month and now is my 2nd list, this time it's still about bathroom but it's totally different than last month's list, it's "Yuri's List of Top 10 World's Best Public Restroom" :

(Please note that this list is in random order so the first on the list doesn't mean it's my most favorite)

Bathroom at John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA.
The center commissioned six American artists to create washrooms that can be considered as their permanently installed art work. Everyone comes up with different style and arts so there are basically 6 gorgeous bathrooms at the Arts Centre. The artists selected for these commissions were emerging and mid career artists who had not previously had the opportunity to create major public works. These are probably the most gorgeous public bathroom ever! I can't even choose which one is my fave, I would have to pee in every bathrooms there! ;p




Bathroom at Daimaru department store in Tokyo, Japan.
Since this is in Japan so no wonder that this bathroom is high-tech. It comes equipped with a self-cleaning wand, a squirting temperature-controlled water, a remote-controlled heating contoured seat, and a “sound princess” feature which meant to subtly disguise in-stall activities with recordings of running brooks or ocean waves. I mean, isn't that genius?! And how bout that stunning city view? Guys would feel like they're taking a leek straight to the city below ^o^

Bathrooms at The Shoji Tabuchi Theatre in Branson, Missouri, USA.
If you see two bathrooms above that's because there are two bathrooms indeed. The above pic is the Women's bathroom while the below pic is the Men's bathroom. These bathrooms are inside The Shoji Theatre, and they actually won The Best Bathroom in USA back in 2009. The women’s room has a fountain, wainscoting, stained glass decor and an Empire tin ceiling. Adorned with flowers, chandeliers, granite and onyx. There's even a rocking chair in it!
The Mens room is also fabulous! It is equally gorgeous in decoration with black lion head sinks, burled walnut mirror (built in 1868!) ,black leather chairs and a marble fireplace. And there's also the ultimate men's play: a billiard table! a hand-carved billiard table!



"Don't Miss A Sec" bathroom at the pavement opposite the Tate Britain Gallery in London, England.
Artist Monica Bonvicini is the one who created this minimalist glass cube containing a usable loo inside. She called it "Don't Miss A Sec", it's made out of one-way glass which means you can see the outside from inside, but you can not see inside from the outside. Get it?
I think it's a very brilliant idea, but I also think that you might want to have a lot of guts and secured feeling when you want to use this bathroom, because as you can see from above pic, from the inside it feels like you're peeing in the center of a busy road ;p Would you trust the glass wall enough?




Bathroom in the Mumin Papa Café in Akashi, Japan.
This is my most favorite public bathroom in this list. It's unique and beautiful at the same time. Beautiful as in the surrounding view, that is.
This is like a bathroom inside an aquarium! The live three-wall aquarium surrounding the stall was designed to mimic the view in the ocean, complete with deep-sea creatures inside it! This underwater restroom is ladies-only, with a bunch of fish and a cute giant sea turtle swimming around it feels like you're taking care of your business in one of those SeaWorld aquarium tank ;)




The Women's Bathroom in Columbia Tower Club in Seattle, USA.
This bathroom is on my list because it has the most awesome view! Look at those skylines, it's from floor 76! Can you believe that every bathroom stall has its own, individual view of the Seattle skyline, just like that above? Yes, you got your own view, baby. That's enough reason to be in the bathroom much longer ;) Each stalls also has it's own sink and marble counters and floors.




Bathroom at D&G Gold Restaurant in Milan, Italy.
Aside from the all-gold interior: from floor-to-ceiling golden bamboo, mirrored trays, marble counters, and enormous gold mirrors, the bathroom also comes equipped with plasma screens TV playing Goldfinger in every stalls. Now, what women would say no to gold? ^o^




Bathroom at Ninja Restaurant in New York, USA.
This themed restaurant in New York has a 15th-century Japanese village slash ninja castle theme. When you go to the bathroom you'll feel like you're in a castle dungeon, it's dominant color is black and the interior is really fitted with the overall ninja theme. Not to mention that it has a control pad that operates seat warmers, a water spray, a built-in deodorizer and blow driers that meant for your bottom! Maybe that's how ninjas do it ;p




The bathroom at Mie N Yu Restaurant in Washington DC, USA.
I like this bathroom just by looking at the lavish interior, with rock-lined barrel sinks and stalls made of carved dark wood, this unisex lavatory (yes, unisex. I find it amusing too when I found out that unisex toilets still exists in big city like DC) is what you called a second mingling area where ladies and gents can continue their chit-chat here while washing hands after the meal ^o^





The restroom at Mount Faber's Jewel Box, a tourist destination in Singapore.
With a view of Sentosa island and it's surroundings, this public bathroom sure brings a comfortable feeling, you can see all those views while doing your own business in the lavatory and you could relax a bit just by washing your hands in front of those big glass windows!
And the comfy sofa lounge.. this bathroom must be for ladies-only :)
And look at that brilliant idea of putting a tank underneath the wooden cabinet (see last pic), that's what you called attention to detail ^o^

That's it, my version of the top 10 world's best public restroom :) If you want to read my previous Top 10 list, click here..
Enjoy..

Sources:
Oddee, Walletpop, Concierge, The bathroom Diaries, ten ways why, Travel and Leisure, Molemole.sg, Express Night Out