My Sweet Tooth

  Are you a sweet tooth? Well, cause I definitely am a sweet tooth! :) I love sweets and sweets do love me, that's what I think. They make you feel like the world that has fallen apart had been mended and healed. The sweetness that we taste made us put a smile on our face with the feeling of excitement and tingles in our body & heart. These feelings comforts us in a way when we feel down or heart broken as we take a bite of a chocolate fondue cake with a little rainbow sprinkles on top that catches our eyes with their surprising colours.

  Mum would always say, "Don't eat so much sweets or you'll get a toothache from it." And yes; it's true, sadly. We eat too much and we'll end up standing in front of the dental clinic to get our teeth treated. So, we do have to control our sweets adventures. We have to brush our teeth every morning and night before we get in & out of our bed. But we will not stop our sweet tooth, we'll just reduce a little. Heh. 

  What kind of sweets do you like? Desserts? Or healthy original sweet fruit? I like both as it gives a great combination of flavours and colours to it if you plate them together. I like how the sourness of the strawberries balances up the sweet chocolate fudge cake and how tropical fruits gives its colours to the vanilla cake covered with pure white whipped cream. Food platings are similar to pairing our clothes the night before we go to a wedding dinner. We mix and match the colours and at the same time putting on a little accessory to complete its look. Those colours brightens us up and act as a mood maker for us when we feel like slumps where sadness can be seen through our eyes easily by these sweets. That's why they lighten up mood and comfort us with their bright colours that symbolises inspiration, motivation & happiness of course. 


Like this waffle at 'Madame Waffle' located in 3rd floor, Midvalley, Malaysia. The sliced strawberries and blueberries gives its sourness that has been actually overweighed by the sweetness of the chocolate drizzle and the waffles. The sourness of the fruits are like the downs we faced while the sweetness symbolises our happiness in us. The happy memories can help us overcome every downs and challenges we face as sadness are always overweighed by the immeasurable happiness that we have in our lives. (The cost? Well, I'm not very sure about the other desserts but all I know that the dessert in the picture is kinda pricy for a mini waffle but it's really good so... But I heard you can buy a piece of an original waffle for RM6.00. The price of the flavoured ones increases by a few pennies worth.) 

  Other than making us happy and motivated, it helps us in mending our friendship too. People would say "coffee and friends", but I would say "desserts and friends". Oh! And not only friends, you can have sweets with your family too! It shortens even more of the distance between you and your family already have. It may look like a plate of chocolate drizzled waffles and a cup of hot chocolate or maybe a single scoop of ice cream are only meant for a person but it can be shared with friends over tea time or snack time whatever you call it. It's like when you want to lose weight but at the same time you want to indulge some sweetness in your life. Conclusion to that problem - share them! Sharing is a definite caring right? And caring ends up with a closer relationship with your family and friends too! :) 


  This single scooped ice cream my family and I had at 'Inside Scoop' located near Leisure Mall in Cheras, few blocks away from Poppo Kanteen (The address is 20 Jln Manis 4, Taman Segar, 56000 KL) was delicious! We tried many different flavours of ice cream as they offer free tasting and we ended up ordering three types of flavour. I've forgotten two of them but one of them is a berry flavour. These three flavour of ice cream brought my family and I closer to each other. We share our ice creams with each other and we had some laughs over jokes and riddles we shared together. It was lovely and the texture of the ice cream was so smooth and pleasurable! (How much? All I know is each scoop cost RM7.80 and it increases with each next scoop.) 


Okay, eventhough I don't really have a lot of thing for cocoas but I have to say I have a thing for waffles more and this waffle is at a café named 'Mad about Coco' located in Farenheit 88, Bukit Bintang. (A walking distance from Pavilion.) We had chocolate Belgium waffles and some churros and a cup of their signature hot chocolate. It was mouth-watering! I love how all its sweetness are different where the chocolate drizzles are drizzled with different types of chocolate like white, dark and brown. I also love how the waffles are like fluffy clouds hanging up in the sky while the chocolate drizzles covers the the fluffy waffles with their overloading sweetness. This waffles and hot chocolate brought my friends and I together on a beautiful sunny Saturday where we took some selfies together and had talks about what to do in our future as we've already finished high school and now in search for colleges/universities. It was a great gathering with them and I'll definitely cherish them in my heart forever. (P.S. The food is a little pricy depends on what you order in my opinion so be sure to look at them $$ if you have budget in your food.) 

  Sweets definitely has its benefits where it brings people together and cheer people up from their misery. The thing is, a little sweetness in life will never hurt us. Instead, it cheers us up and inspire us. Having a sweet tooth can have its cons but we're grown ups that knows how to control our sweet hunting journey right? ;) Having a sweet tooth is not all bad as it gives us more happiness than others who doesn't like sweets at all; but who doesn't love sweets right? Sweets are like medicines as it gives us happiness in life that covers the sadness and bitterness we have inside of us. They let us forget the pain we have and makes us remember the good parts only. Sweets are the definite pure sweetness in our lives and we can indulge in them whenever we feel like it so eat some sweets and don't avoid them because avoiding them makes you unhappier and having no happiness makes you depress. So live your life and let a little sweetness come into your life to comfort you okay? :) Once again, a little sweetness in life does not hurt. Instead, it makes you happier! 

You can try out some other sweets I recommend here too! 


Monster Ice Cream located in LG floor, Berjaya Time Square, Malaysia. I guess you can say it is a monstrous ice cream where a generous amount of fillings are served with whipped cream and sprinkles and a stick of Kit-Kat. We had the signature ones which is green tea flavour and it's extremely delightful! :9 Obviously, the signature ones are more cheaper than the customise ones so you decide? Heh. ;) 


Magnum Ice Cream located in 3rd floor, Midvalley, Malaysia. You can customise your own ice cream fillings if you want. They also have their signature ones that are nice too! The picture above is one of their signature ones and it's my all time favourite - Black Forest. (The same goes for this Magnum, customise ones are more pricy. 1 signature ice cream cost RM9.90 so.. Yeah)


Lastly, the ever internationally famous Starbucks that you can find anywhere too is a sweets land! They have lovely snacks and drinks but mostly coffee. Heh. But their hot chocolate is scrumptious so you can try them out! :) The coffee crunch is an addictive kind of food too and I love it! Heh. It's amazing. (And we all know Starbucks drinks in M'sia are kinda costly too so if you want to reward yourself once in a while, go ahead!)

• Sweets are what brings us together and fills us with boundless happiness and inspiration in our lives. Don't hate them because they give you toothaches since you're the one who decided to love them right? Hehe ;) •





  

All in 'Black & White'

  These days 'black & white' becomes the new trend instead of neon colours or just 'colours'. Photographers takes pictures in black & white too and you know what? I truly love it! 

  Black and white is not old anymore. We remember the days where our grandma and grandpa had their photographs in black & white and we said it has no colour and it's boring. But the perspective that we have right now changed rapidly and now it's a rad picture. 

  Things may get even more popular with black & white photographs these days since it's a trend anyway. But black & white photographs surely does show a lot of contrast into the picture. The black & white photographs that shows a 'behind-the-scene' story made their grandchildren from the 20th century to start feeling curious of their past that has never been told to them since they didn't ask about it. That's when memories of our grandparents came rushing into their minds as they share how nostalgic it was back in their old fun days. 

  Black and white pictures is like a mystery to me. They show a mellow feeling and at the same time they show a feeling that actually calms our eyes at the same time. The simplicity in that picture does not have a bright colour that outshines the other colours in a picture. They are indeed a fair play as I can say. They don't fight against each colour. They have their different shades of black and gradients of white in it. 

  Remember that I said that black and white have a feeling of a 'behind-the-scene' story? Well, I edited a few of my photos in black & white and I really love sharing my photos to all of you readers out there. So here are some black & white photographs that I took and have a true story behind it



This photo that I have taken is a unique thing that I have discovered when I was out shopping with my friends for sunglasses. They knew I had a thing in photography so they let me took a picture of my reflection when I asked them since it became an idea for me. The shades of black from a concentrated shade of black to a light one made me knew that black isn't all that boring. That's why I used black & white. 


This was taken in J.W. Marriott hotel in Malaysia. It fascinated me when the lights sparkled like the stars. It was beautifully installed in every angle at an exact distance between them on ceilings and on floors. I edited it in black & white to show its lights clearly. This picture symbolises the lights that shines like the stars. 


This photo was taken in Taipei, Taiwan. It may seem a little vague in this photo but it has a story in it. This is the structure of one of the MRT station in Taiwan. It has only 4 of them just to let you know (it has a story behind it but I'm not really clear of it ). In the outside it will look like this (in coloured) :


BUT if you walk to the back and go in, there's an escalator that goes to the underground mrt. People may not see it but I always look up to see if there is anything interesting about its building structure and there you have it! A complicated structure! It was complicating to me when I saw it on sight as my eyes became tired after taking a few shots because of the bright lights. So I went back to my hotel to edit it ( of course it's in black and white when it comes to this ), only then I know it wasn't that complicated but a good word to top it off, "detailed". I was in love with this picture. ;) 


Last of it is this picture! It was taken in Bangkok, Thailand. It was in a shopping mall in Thailand ( I can't remember the mall's name ). There were stickers sticking on wooden floors and this sticker hit me like a rock. The sentence was short but it showed a very strong meaning to all of us. I edited it in black & white because this picture made me realized a lot of things. It made me realized that my life created by God is a gift. It may look depressing to you but this picture in black and white shows that I must appreciate and cherish my life in black & white as I choose the right beginning before I start my journey in the future. 

  These are some black and white pictures that I have taken in the past as I edited it with pure and true meaning in my mind and heart. I really hope you enjoy it! Thanks for taking your time in reading it if you finish reading ALL of it! :)

  

  






  




My Taiwan Week

  People say 'A picture is worth a thousand words' right? That's why pictures that I've taken meant a lot to me. The stories behind the pictures can only be seen clearly to the ones who took it. That's why pictures that we share to our friends and family will bring memories to the present. It was the past, but it became present for just a few minutes by sharing. That is why I want to share my pictures to everybody who reads my blog and I hope you enjoy it!

  I went to Taiwan for a week and all I saw was beautiful and amazing landscapes and greenery. The skies that were painted with my favourite colour blue; the grass was evergreen; the mists surrounds the high mountains, it was in awe. 


This was taken in Cingjing farm. The little lambs were so adorable! It was cold and our hands were freezingly cold. Since it was cold, my fingers had a hard time to snap any pictures that I wanted. I snapped a few and it came out satisfactory! I took a few more pictures and I'd be happy if you really enjoy looking at the photos! 




Other than Cingjing that amazes me with their natures, I was in awe by the strong waves that hits the rocks as hard as they can and also the strong wind of course that almost blew our umbrella away in an instant haha! It was in Yeliu Geopark.




Other than those two places, there were other interesting places that I went like Jiufen and many many night markets that were always crowded at night even until 11pm! So I took a few shots that I thought it was pretty amusing and I'd love to share it all! 


THIS UP THERE! It's Taipei 101! It was raining again so I wasn't able to take the whole building all the way to the top but I guess this is alright? 


This is inside Taipei 101. The structure of it was amusing to me so I took a shot of it and it came out surprisingly okay so I was happy! 




This is Jiufen. It was crowded of course. There were many delicious food that I've tried. There's one that actually looks like a Popiah (A Penang food that everybody loves.) but it's not; it's like ice cream and peanuts wrapped in a shape of a Popiah.


This is also at Jiufen. It looks vintage so I took a photo of it! I like how when I passed by this small stall and all I could think about was to take a picture of it because I like how the side doors were painted with floral patterns and how the Chinese words completes the vintage look. 

Well I've shown places that I loved most and this time I'll post different pictures of places I went in Taiwan. It includes my hotel scenery and surroundings so I hope you'll enjoy and anticipate my pictures and I hope you can share this blog to anybody who wants to visit Taiwan! Have a great time! If you really want to see more of my photographs in Taiwan be sure to visit my Vscogrid! It's sincerelyshannon.vsco.co