Flowering Tea

Staying in Qualia is indeed a luxury. True, it is heavy in the pocket but it sure is worth it with the kind of service they provide and the facilities available for all their guests.

One thing I like in what they do is that every night when we come home to our pavillion, we are greeted with a flowering tea and a box of Zokoko Chocolate.

The flowering tea was interesting so we created a video of how to unravel it.

You see it first as a ball and as you immerse it in a hot water, it then slowly opens up and becomes a flower - a blossoming flower - and then it's ready to be drunk.

So enjoy watching!

Unravelling the Flowering tea

Taiwan - Modern Toilet

Modern Toilet Restaurant, as the name suggests, is a novelty restaurant designed like a toilet. It definitely is an instagramable place with its seats as actual toilet bowls and tables, toilet sinks. Foods are either decorated as poop or served in toilet miniatures. It's definitely not for one with a crazy imagination and sensitive stomach. I actually loved the bread poop :)

Woot! Finally found the place in one of the busy alleys of Ximending

These are the welcoming views - bath tub, toilet sink and a toilet bowl with a big poop

Evolution of Toilet bowls

Menu in a toilet seat cover

Bread poop

Meatballs that look like poop

Beef Curry

Ice Cream and Drinks served in toilet structures

Bon Appetit!

Blowing Dandelions

Dandelion

Dandelions are everywhere in Australia so when I glanced upon one, an idea immediately came into mind - a perfect couple video for our friends who are getting married soon. I quickly grabbed Benjie, our creative, brilliant video maker friend and fed him the idea. Loved that Khai and Naj were also game.

I loved that in this video (#DandelionWish), the couple had the skills to blow it perfectly. With just one Dandelion available, a mistake could have been costly! 😊

However, not everyone can blow it right the first time.
 See videos below.

How many times do you think did she try?

Who blew it? Me or the wind? :D

My kind of Thursday

Thursdays are late night tradings in Sydney. This means that shops close till late whereas on other days, shops usually close around 5 pm.

This particular thursday, we decided to go to Broadway Shopping Centre where we'd use our pizza voucher at Bondi Pizza.  To make it more exciting, thursdays are "Ribs Night" so we excitedly ordered this along with our (free) 12" Classic Supreme Pizza. These were enough to fill three happy stomachs. We enjoyed the ambiance and were satisfied with the service. We would have stayed longer if we did not have any other voucher to use 😉

We then headed to Target and shopped till we dropped. Kidding! We only spent $50 that night as that was the amount of voucher we received from our Electricity provider.  Cool isn't it?! They gifted us this voucher for referring our friend to avail of their services. If you are looking for an electric and gas provider, you may send me a message so I can refer you. They will give you a voucher for joining and us to for referring 😋

As if we did not get enough free stuffs, we then proceeded to Coles to claim our free Coke No Sugar cans!

savING and earnING

I joined ING through my friend's referral. Accordingly, we will receive a $50 bonus if we opened our account with them using our friend's referral code. So, I read their terms and conditions and decided to give it a try. They had a "catch" which was not really an issue. There is always a solution for things that you want to achieve.

On referrals:
1. Referred person must use the referral code upon signing up. It is not automatically visible so one must ensure to look for it before proceeding. It usually appears after the "About you" information sheet.
2. Referred person must deposit $1,000 within a certain period to be able to get the bonus.
3. Referred person must use the debit card for at least 5 times within a certain period to be able to get the bonus.
3a. Use of debit card may be in the form of ATM withdrawal or eftpos payments.

On free ATM withdrawals:
1. User must deposit $1,000 every month.

Many find it a hassle to deposit the $1,000 monthly as their pay have already been registered to a certain bank account. The solution for this is to have your payroll account changed to ING or to have $1,000 deposited to ING and the rest to your preferred bank account. Approach your payroll officer for this set-up.

To date, we (as we opened a joint account) already received $250.00 for joining ($50.00) and for referring two friends ($100.00 for each successful referral).

Bonus received for joining

Bonus received for referring two friends

If you want to join, use the promo code EYB102. Let's start saving and earning together 😊

Free $20 dollar Fashion Voucher

Wouldn't it be nice to spend on food and get a retail fashion voucher in return?

It's like hitting two birds with one stone! 😃

Broadway Sydney has a wonderful promotion until 31st of August 2017 where you spend at least $20 on any of their food stores at Level 2 and you get  $20 retail fashion voucher that can be used in any of the stores in Broadway except Coles, Woolies, Target and K-mart!

Shoppers need to get a receipt from where they dined and present this to Customer Service on the same day otherwise, the receipt will not be acknowledged. The voucher, however, can be used until 30th of September 2017.

Broadway Sydney Promo

                      I reckon it's a brilliant idea and I can't wait to go back there to dine and shop! 

two $20 vouchers for having dinner and desserts at Broadway

FREE Coke NO SUGAR

                     Coke is giving away samples of their "No Sugar" selection. Get yours here.

        You do have to give out your email address where they will send a coupon for you to redeem.
These samples can be redeemed in any of the three establishments namely, Mcdonalds, 7-eleven and Coles. (I use a special email address for this kind of marketings)

It's best to claim at Coles on the mornings as the daily stocks easily gets "sold out" and while 7-eleven is one of the choices, not all stores provide these samples. We have tried 5 stores in Central area and none of them have the Coke "No Sugar" 250 ml. I have yet to try claiming at Maccas but I am sure there would be no issues.