M-O-T-H-E-R

“M” is for the million things she gave me,
“O” means only that she’s growing old,
“T” is for the tears she shed to save me,
“H” is for her heart of purest gold;
“E” is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
“R” means right, and right she’ll always be,
Put them all together, they spell “MOTHER,”
A word that means the world to me.

Happy Mother’s Day to my greatest mom, and all other loving mothers in the whole wide world!

*hugs and kisses*

p/s: I’m learning to be one taking care of my furbaby Bubbles now.

❤

Love always, Esty.

Hola! Happy 2012 dearest readers!

I am truly sorry I have been missing in action for more than a month now due to some personal reasons that I have been going through not long ago. But to my surprise, I found out that readers are still constantly reading my blog and the traffic has not been dropping at all. That melts my heart really, you have no idea how touched and thankful I am to know that you guys are still here! :’)

I’ll be back beetchus!

You all are my inspiration.

Thank YOU.

Love lots, Esty.

OH-MY-GOD!

It’s been really really difficult for me to go through those suffering days last week knowing that my blog was NOT there anymore, completely vanished with a full page of the Domain Registrar advertising and asking net surfers if they were interested to buy domain names or not since yourEsty.com was EXPIRED. Technically, I can just renew the damn thing within seconds, but since mine was sponsored, I didn’t have the account to log in and pay.  Worst of all, I couldn’t find Jay – the guy who manages the domain and resides in US. I was radically LOST and helpless that time you have NO idea, wishing every second that I can teleport myself to Iowa straight and look for the missing Jay (and…you know, maybe do some traveling and shopping there after that heh ).

Repeating the whole story over and over again to those who concerned and asked (besides having all the ridiculous bubble thoughts) wasn’t helping much either. In fact, I almost got to the point where I was thinking of giving up. But NO, I can’t live without my little e-diary here I grasped. This is where my heart belongs most of the time. ALL of the time if I must admit.

So the story continues when I tweeted the Domain Registrar (where my domain name was bought) and seek for help. To my surprise, their customer service was pretty good. They asked for my number and called me within half an hour, from The States! I spoke to Corey, the guy who handled my case and he was incredibly nice guiding me step by step on what I should do to transfer to a new account. Even waited for me on the line while I was filling up the e-form. Kind of an awkward moment, since both of us weren’t talking.

So anyway, as I was waiting for the form to be processed within 3 days, guess who finally contacted me? Yeap…JAY!!! Super thrilled! Like, I can FINALLY SEE THE LIGHT and it is a HAPPY ENDING after all thank God!

Eah well…yourEsty.com is back alive and kickin’! *claps claps* I have so many outfit posts, food reviews, events and beauty advertorials to share with you and I don’t even know where to start now, uh-oh. All these pending posts will be coming up real soon I promise, but just bear with me a little if I couldn’t find the time to post an entry each day aite?

I love you guys and Happy Holidays !

❤

Squeezy hugs and kisses, Esty.

Guess who came to have lunch with me for the first time!

Our plates of yummy German food at Brotzeit. Super juicy sausages and crunchy fries! It’s only around RM10 or less than RM15 per set lunch.

Poppin’ the tablets after lunch.

So pretty isn’t it? =)

Hannah tied me a Rope Braid in the office. MAX LOVE! I can live with it everyday.

Massive jam at the Equestrian roundabout near my place AGAIN! Took so long for me to reach home. Urgh >.<

It’s been slightly difficult for me to post up a nice, long blog entry nowadays ever since I started work. Well, very difficult actually. Be it an advertorial, or any of my travel, food, and event posts. I always tell myself that I will start blogging when I’m back home after work, but then again, I always tend to feel extremely dead on my feet the moment I step into the house, and all I want is to just lie down on my bed and not move a single vein. Bummer.

Hence I’m gonna try my best to post up a short entry everyday. The least of it to keep you guys entertained with my daily little updates if you happen to drop by. =)

Thank God it’s Friday!

❤

Love, Esty.

To Changkat Bukit Bintang!

Finally get to see my close friends after almost a month! We spent an amazing night together having lots of fun at Daikanyama, a Japanese bar restaurant located in the heart of the happening Changkat. Heard of this place before but never had the chance to try it until S decided to spend our Saturday night there. And did you know? “Daikanyama” means “Let’s all drink!” if you translate it in Cantonese. Didn’t realize it at first until the bestie told me that, and I was like “oh YEA!” Made it so much more easier for me to remember its name now.

Hope you had a great weekend too. Here comes Monday!

❤

Fun Love Share, Esty.

If you don’t know yet, I’m officially working now! As an Editor/Writer of this very fast-growing Korean company that runs their business online. Something very similar to what I love doing all this while – blogging. I never would have thought that yourEsty.com could attract the attention of any companies in the corporate world until the Head of Recruitment gave me a surprise call one day and asked if I was interested to join the family. And well here I am, my third day at work and it’s been fun so far. 

A new month, a new start, and a new job…

Hopefully a stepping stone to something greater in the future. Wish me luck!

❤

Love, Esty.

I always love being casual and comfortable with what I wear. Dressing up can be really troublesome at times especially when I know I’m not going anywhere special. I wish I can get used to wearing gorgeous high heels every single day but it’s always so uncomfortable. Maybe I haven’t really found the right one yet. I’m pretty obsessed with those latest “Flatforms” or in another word, “Flat-platforms” nowadays. It is basically a pair of flats but with high platforms below it so it will make you look much taller without going through all the pain while walking for hours. I will probably blog about it soon so you can get a clearer picture or you can Google it yourself, whichever you like. Besides those flatforms, I’m also crazily eyeing on those Jeffrey Campbell Lita shoes. So many different designs to choose from, I wish I can have all of them!

On the other hand, I’ve been pretty busy ever since I got back from Italy. With family, and with work. Advertorials are piling up and I still haven’t done any yet. There’s at least one food review per day especially when Bulan Ramadhan is just around the corner. I would really love to continue the “Summer in Italy” stories in my Travelbook but it might gonna take a while. Next week, hopefully? Well just stick around for me owhkay. Oh did I tell you that Part I has more than 10,000 views already? I’m so happy! Thank you so much you guys. Couldn’t have made it without all of you really. *much kisses*

❤

Lots of love, Esty.

Some remaining pictures from my previous outfit post HERE, also the same day where I had my first pizza in Italy HERE.

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And on a lighter note, I finally left the beautiful Italia and back to the motherland. In fact, I just landed in KL few hours ago and I must say again, Emirates Airline had been amazingly hospitable. Was pampered with delicious main courses, desserts and beverages throughout the flight, along with the entertaining new in-flight movies and comfortable blanket, I can’t possibly deny that I was the happiest flight potato during the 15hours long journey back. No wonder the coveted title as one of the World’s Best Airlines all along.

Anyway, enough of pizzas and pastas for two weeks already.

Wonder what is the first thing I should eat tomorrow. I miss the local food here, especially those hot soupy ones!

❤

Esty

I’ve got the winners chosen! Finally.

It wasn’t easy really. To determine who to win, and who not to win.

This is my first time having a giveaway contest here on www.youresty.com and I must say that it was really fun and the response was pretty overwhelming. Therefore, I have decided to do more giveaways from time to time! Maybe once a month or so. What say you?

For those who did not win this round, fret not! I will make sure that you guys will get more goodies such as bags, dresses, beauty products, tickets, dining vouchers etc. in the future! Just follow me on my Twitter or my Facebook Page if you wish to get more updates on it.

Congrats to the 3 lovely winners!

1. Rachel Kirsten

Blog: http://charmandkiss.blogspot.com/

2. Belle Ong

Blog: http://belleong.blogspot.com/

3. Zaty Gunawan

Blog: http://idg2fx.blogspot.com/

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I must say, Zaty has the best answer among all. Love it how she came up with five different looks for the festival, nicely attached with gorgeous sample photos for me to browse through. *A thumbs up on the little hard work and effort there*

And in order to make it all worth it, I’m going to show you guys all the pictures that she shared. Hope it helps to give you a little more idea on what to wear to Urbanscapes2011 this coming 16th of July!

Urbanscapes2011 What to Wear? by Zaty G.

#1 “Colourblocking theme; A bright coloured top to be paired with leggings since colourblocking is 2011 Summer’s trend– might be wearing my reversible tops in midnight blue/fuchsia with coloured leggings. But dont worry, it;ll be subtle. i dont wanna walk around looking like a clown .”

#2 “Bohemian theme; Since it’ll be hot, i’ll wear a tube dress or maxi dress and match it up with straw hat and strappy/gladiator flats. Maybe put beads in my hair for a lil bit of Bohemian touch  like this.“

#3 “All-American theme; pair up a cropped tee with short jeans, and Converse, my H&M fringe bag and cat-eyed shades. Feathers in my hair for extra touch.“

#4 “A simple white top paired with black shorts with Doc Marten boots.”

#5 “Sheer top with high waisted pants and maybe a headgear like a scarf or a turban like this.”

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Be Fab at Urbanscapes!

No matter what you wear girls, just remember to be comfortable and confident in it! Confidence – that is one of the most important key to standout from the crowd and looking fabulous in front of everyone!

Photo credits to the bestie

On the other hand, do have maximum fun on my behalf aite? It’s a shame that I could not attend the festival this year because I will be in Milan for about 2 weeks.

<3 Update soon k!

❤

Esty

P/s: Dear winners, please tweet me or email me your contact info to im@youresty.com for the ticket collection details.

P/p/s: Click HERE to see all the interesting comments during the contest.

On the way to the famous ChicPop bazaar. You can read my outfit post HERE. =)

G got me one of the most delicious chicken rice I’ve ever had.

Satisfyingly stuffed!

Reached Jaya One and met up with S, who was busy running around working at the bazaar.

Love this picture of us. ^^ 

The bazaar was a little too crowded when we first arrived, so we went to chill at Brussels instead. And taking turns to “Tap The Frog”.

I sketched it! 

Astronauts’ leader, Stanley Saw.

Wearing Stan’s vintage Rayban.

With the headband and blouse, retro much?

And then Carmen and Jody surprised me with an elephant necklace! A new Ellie in my accessories closet it seems. *hearts max*

With both my very gorgeous fashionistas, Hanie and Shantee.

Stuff we love: Feather hair clip, braided headband, vintage gold watch. ❤

The bffs were there too!

Junee and Aivee

Shopped for a while, but it was a little too humid we decided to sit aside for some wind.

And some chili cheese fries at The Bee!

And also everyone’s favourite Polka ice-cream! We ordered the Guinness and French Toast flavour.

 Malty Guinness, yum!

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We then headed to Sometime Boutique at Bangsar after the bazaar.

We girls love their bags and this leopard print holdall here is one of their new arrivals! Go grab ‘em now before it’s too late. Btw, this picture of Juju is just too adorable! =)

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Banana leaf rice at Sri Nirwana, Bangsar. Couldn’t even remember the last time I had all this mouth-watering delicious curry and rendang!

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X-men First Class with G after dinner.

Took a picture with my new Ellie while waiting for the movie to start!

So yea, that’s all. A long fun day with my friends last weekend.

 Enjoy your Saturday night!

❤

Fun Love Share, Esty.