Sweet Surrender (Lovebellbelle) - Based in Kuching, Sarawak

My Sis Cut My Hair

July 5, 2007July 6, 2007 sweet surrender 28 Comments

Hahaha… Believe it or not? You have to believe it! My sister cut my hair! 😛 She always cut her friends’ and her own hair in UK. I decided to ask her to cut my front hair for me since she has the scissors and the hairstylist that permed my hair didn’t want to cut my front hair :P. I always like to do some risky ‘stunts’ with my hair, I cut my own hair before, I gave myself a fringe before now I asked my sis to do it for me.

Left: The scissors she bought at a pharmacy at UK.
Right: Before and after photo 😛 Hehehe… It happened about few weeks ago. Wasn’t in the mood to camwhore few weeks ago. These photos were taken few days ago, so you can see it now… It’s not that bad afterall hahah… It’s maintenance free too. Hahaha…

I had to edit my dark circles -.-” in my photos, it’s really bad 🙁 Thanks to the late night sleep and the slightly swollen eye on the right that looked like I have eyebag at one side of my eye.

Girl Stuffs

Hotel Chocolat – Rice Ganache With Vanilla

July 4, 2007July 4, 2007 sweet surrender 15 Comments

Another chocolate from Hotel Chocolat. It’s called Rice Ganache With Vanilla. Very nice presentation right? Too bad they were squashed. What do you expect? They were in the luggage without much padding and protection for almost 24 hours.

It stated that it’s guest recipe. Hmm… My guess is that the recipe is provided by their guest. Interesting… This is not dark chocolate obviously. It’s white chocolate. How’s the taste? It’s just white chocolate *LOL*

The filling contains 4% of rice crispies. It’s suitable for vegetarian according to the prints on the packaging. It’s very smooth, rich and sweet, something different from previous chocolates that i showed you.

Are you wondering what is ganache? I am. Hahaha… So I searched the Internet and found out that:

It’s a mixture of chocolate and heavy cream. Ganache is used as an icing or filling for pastries, filled chocolates, chocolate truffles, and other desserts.
Ganache is normally made by boiling heavy cream, then pouring it over chopped (bitter) chocolate. The mixture is stirred or blended until smooth. Ganache can be enhanced with liqueurs or extracts.
Depending on the intended usage of the ganache, the proportions of chocolate to cream can vary. Typically, a ganache is equal parts chocolate and cream; this is used for filling cakes. For a chocolate truffle base, a ratio of 2:1 (chocolate to cream) is used. For making a glaze, the ratio is 3:1.
*sourced from wikipedia*

Got it now? More chocolates on the way…

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8 Random Facts – It’s A World Of Me

July 3, 2007July 3, 2007 sweet surrender 12 Comments

SUPER HOT! The haze is back! Will be quite busy these few days so will slow down in my update. Rest assure you can get at least a post a day 😛 Thank you for visiting hehehe…

Goodness gracious… What is the blogsphere going on lately? Why are there so many tags about facts? *LOL* I’ve done quite a number of them already with different numbers given. First, it’s 6 Weird Things. Second, it’s 10 Ways How I Make You Surrender. Then, it’s 7 Facts/Habits Of Me. Now, 8 Random Facts by Weng -.-” I just realised he’s from the Philippines! WOW! Welcome… Welcom to Kuching hehehe…

Do your math *LOL* How many facts are you getting from me already? 😛 Most are repeated hehehe…

1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Donâ€™t forget to leave them a comment telling them theyâ€™re tagged, and to read your blog.
No tagging… 😛 It stops here.

1. You cannot pop my cherry. Only my husband can. *Blek*

2. I hate people smoke. I don’t want my other half to smoke too, he’s going to make me sick. For the record I could sneeze non-stop for about 3-4 days after exposing to cigarette smoke until I could feel as if every single organ in my body dislocated. Every sneeze was really painful. It’s true! No fun sneezing non-stop for so many days ok?!?! Besides that, it’s yucky to kiss a smoker *wuek* don’t even say give him an oral, double YUCK!

3. I’m sure I’m not the only one, being a Postie for PayPerPost, especially those that look for opps everyday like me, if I didn’t manage to get any opp for one day, I can even dream that I got at least one opp in my dream when I’m sleeping -.-” I don’t bluff you, it’s real.

4. I’m an introvert. I’m not an extrovert like what you think.

5. I don’t like all those wedding customs, it doesn’t matter what kind, Chinese, Malay, Indian… I hate the tea ceremony, I hate the playing game part, I hate wedding banquet with more than 90% of people attend that I don’t know etc. I don’t mind them in other people’s, I can enjoy them but not my own coz it’s not my wedding hahaha… However, if I need to go tru’ these in my wedding, guess what? I let you do anything you want, I’m not going to challenge or interfere with anything as long that I’m not the one paying. Whoever wants it, he/she will be the one paying for it. This is how I’m dealing with other things in life too.

6. I’m almost a full-time blogger hahaha…Such bliss… 😛

7. I hate people that complains about people yet they themselves are doing the same shit.

8. I found successful men sexy *LOL*

Me, myself and I

Kim’s Kitchen

July 2, 2007July 2, 2007 sweet surrender 37 Comments

It’s been a while I didn’t eat out. Money running out hehehe… Or I’m stingy? It doesn’t matter, let me tell you where I went for lunch today. Korean Food it is! Quite new I think, I saw their ad in the newspapers yesterday and decided to try it out.

Strange, there are so many Japanese restaurants sprouting everywhere yet I never pay them a visit instead I visited every single Korean restaurant that has open their business in Kuching, Oppss… Except one, the one near Hilton.

Why only visit Korean restaurants? Well… It’s because they are operated by the Koreans themselves. I don’t think there is any Japanese operated restaurant in Kuching. Any idea? By the way, the Japanese restaurant next to Kim’s Kitchen has the same owner as Kim’s Kitchen. Will visit their Japanese restaurant next time, I heard that the food is not that expensive. Wait till I have money again hahaha… Oh, both situated at Wisma Phoenix where ex Up-Well is.

Left: The entrance.
Right: The interior.

Left: The trademark of every Korean restaurant.
Right: Lemon Juice(RM4) and Apple Juice(RM5). Well… It’s just lemon juice and apple juice hehe…

Left: Oh Jing Oh Dup Bab (RM8.90), only have kimchi and the “seaweed”(not sure what it’s called in English, seaweed? In Chinese is “hai dai”) soup. This dish is not spicy at all. Hehehe… Don’t be deceived by the look.
Right: Bulgogi Set (RM25), pretty expensive -.-” portion quite big for me, can share with another person. It came with 3 side dishes and a “seaweed” soup.

Not much choices on the food. The kimchi tasted different from the other two Korean restaurants(Da Om and Seoul Garden), this is sweeter. In fact the dishes here are more towards the sweeter note. The side dishes were quite limited compare to the other two, I mean when they serve them with your order. Just see the Bulgogi Set you will know.

Hmm… Quite pathetic, not many people when we went, it’s about 12pm++ that time. Will I return? Maybe… However, will return for their Japanese food.

Total spent, RM42.90 for two persons. =.=” Expensive lunch. No 5% GST.

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Hotel Chocolat – Dark Champagne Truffles

July 1, 2007July 1, 2007 sweet surrender 28 Comments

Chocolate post again!! 😛 This time I’m introducing Hotel Chocolat – Dark Champagne Truffles. I LOVE truffles!!! *drool*

This is really nice. I’m not an alcohol person, therefore the champagne is consider strong(I mean the bitter alcohol taste) to me but I’m so sure for those that are used to drink alcohol, it’s nothing at all. When I swallowed the filling, I could feel the hotness in my throat like when I drink alcohol(the most is only one sip, really can’t stand them, these apply to beer and wine) but then hehehe… It’s chocolate, I can tolerate it 😛

The outer layer is dark chocolate. The filling consists of marc de champagne 7%. I don’t like to have big portion of the filling in my mouth, like I said I’m not an alcohol person. However, I like to savour it bit by bit. It took me about 15 minutes or so to finish the one truffle 😛 So you can imagine how’s the chocolate melted all over my fingers and of course at the end I licked my fingers clean. I love the way it melts. Hehehe…