A New Workout

Anyone who knows me would be familiar with my glutton, food-loving, dessert-devouring, couch potato ways. I used to be the athletic, tanned typical netballer/runner in school.... alas, the adult's lazy bug seems to have bitten me big time.

I recently decided to get off my fatty bombom and start exercising!

Not only for health reasons, but to keep my energy levels up. Besides, I feel it's a rewarding (and challenging) activity to spend time on when one is free.

Time to get fit!

Which gym did I hit up? The spanking new

Celebrity Fitness

located at the newly opened Rochester Mall.

State of the art gym equipment, modern design reminiscent of a modern club, spacious, flooded with natural sunlight.

Reflective glass panels show changing displays of timetables for different studios.

My hunky personal trainer Kevin

It's my first personal training session, first I'm thinking "Shikes, I haven't run in a longggg time" and next I'm grimacing at the thought of how badly Kevin is going to torture me.

"Grrr.... trying... to.....lift..... legs... gonna.... give.... way........."

You bet he made me work out hard, sets of 3 of various weight training exercises.

Including the "Viper", which I'll share about another time!

Learnt some tips, e.g. you ought to run for more than 20 mins at least, otherwise you won't really be burning any fat.

I'm aching all over today, in my back, arms and legs   But according to him, that's a good thing for beginners.

Okay I shan't complain then. Next battle commences this Sunday! Goal: tone up and get leaner, stronger, fitter.

 

**Do you want to win a pair of coveted tickets to the LADY GAGA CONCERT?**

Bring a friend to work out in March OR try their 7 day Free Trial and stand to WIN 2 Tickets to the (sold out) LADY GAGA Concert in Singapore!

Approach the main counter for more details or call them @ 6637 9608.

Celebrity Fitness

Rochester Mall
33 Rochester Drive
Singapore 138639

http://www.celebrityfitness.sg

I ♥ Instagram

An uber fun way to make photos look cool, then share them with the world.
The quaintness of the pictures is that each tells a little story.

Which are your favorite filters?

I like X Pro II, Earlybird, and Nashville most!

 

I got to thinking.....

The blog is like an aeroplane - heavy duty, time intensive, goes the furthest, requires planning. but the experience is most substantial.

The Facebook page is like a cruise - you're stuck with others in that shared contained universe, but while everyone is chilling together there is lots to see and do along the way.

The Twitter/Instagram is like a sports car - zippy, fast, spontaneous and on-the-go. immediate gratification.

 

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twitter: @dawnyang1

facebook: facebook.com/dawnyang1

 

What is your favorite mode of web transport?

 

Are You Ready To Step Inside the Black Circuit?

Johnnie Walker never fails to throw some of the best events in town.

That night in KL, 2010 goes down in memory as one of the most ludicrously fun times in (my) living history. A whole crew from Singapore went up for it as well!

I'm looking forward to round II tomorrow.

It's Formula One season this weekend in Malaysia again, and JOHNNIE WALKER_® is raising the bar once more in their continued commitment to deliver an unrivaled VIP race party experience for its loyal consumers and A-list guests.

In case you've been hiding under a rock and didn't know, the award-winning World’s No. 1 Scotch whisky is also the global corporate partner of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1™ team since 2005.

Pssst..... I heard they will be unveiling a few exciting new surprises for guests at the Black Circuit Lounge this time round.... can't wait to see what's in store

We'll of course be expecting an amazing line-up of hot DJs, state-of-the-art interactive party experiences and stylish JOHNNIE WALKER_® cocktails prepared by local and international mixologists.

The highlight of the evening will be the special appearance by Team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes™ Formula 1™ driver Jenson Button, fresh from his season-opening win in Melbourne, Australia last Sunday!

I've been so busy and worn out, I haven't had a long, good night's sleep in a while :'(
Just landed in KL today, I'm lying in the hotel room getting ready to get some beauty rest in the hotel before tomorrow's big *crazy* night.

 

View previous highlights from the year before  HERE

And, check out Johnnie Walker's page http://www.facebook.com/JohnnieWalkerMalaysia

See you tomorrow, black&gold my loves.

KS's Birthday at Graze

Graze at 38 Martin Road is the new sister to the original establishment at Rochester Park.

I've had brunch and dinner at this casual but chic all-day restaurant before; the fresh, airy interiors with a quirky chair wall, panoramic glass panels and timber finishes (designed by Melbourne-based award-winning Hecker Guthrie) had me excitedly drawn back for another lovely experience when friend KS had his birthday dinner party there.

KS is a serious food enthusiast, so any dining he has his eye on must be good!

My table friends:

Great food is made even better with a fun, lively bunch and spirited conversation!

With the super cool super nice birthday boy

Kien - Founder of SENATUS

KS and his DJ of the night, Marlon. Doesn't he look like Justin Bieber??!!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

p.s  Kind of scary how time flies, KS's birthday party last year is still fresh in my memory!
Blog post here - http://clapbangkiss.xanga.com/743596526/item/

Picture credits: Facebook

Kingdom Invasion 2012

Spent the last 3 days at the Singapore Expo for an amazing conference.

Day 1, a rainy morning: In my flavor-of-the-month cardigan in swallow prints + Mesh Lace Tier Bow Camisole from Lexi Lyla + bag from Prada

Dozens of my friends and I had signed up a few months back.

From morning to night, we had worship and heard life-changing, revelatory messages from Randy Clark, Tom Jones, and my favorite Bill Johnson.

Invading earth with heaven's realities!

It was the first time my friend saw people fall to ground and coming from a Presbyterian background, she freaked. I had to explain being slain by the Spirit happens when you feel the glory, power, presence, great love and healing touch of your Heavenly Father come upon you. It's not painful at all, rather it's a really amazing moving experience.

Pizza lunch break

Night sessions are free of charge and open to public.

If anyone needs a healing miracle of any sorts - cancers, deafness, blindness, bone problems etc. - come down to the Singapore Expo Hall 1 tonight 17 March at 7pm.

Nothing is too big or too small for God, saw Him heal and touch so many people!

Watch the healing testimonies:

It's the last and final night of Kingdom Invasion, don't miss it! Bring everyone you know!

 

An Evening with Canon + Ian Wright + Justin Quek

Rushing after a whole day's shoot, I took a cab down to Marina Bay Sands for a ballroom dinner organized by Canon.

Famished, I was looking forward to sampling renowned local celebrity chef Justin Quek's culinary creations. His restaurant Sky on 57 is right there in MBS too.

And of course I couldn't wait to meet one of TV's most charming and likeable personalities, travel host Ian Wright! I love his shows!

 

Ian is super friendly and funny in real life, just as on screen. No wonder he makes his job seem effortless.

Justin Quek, Ian Wright and host Vernetta Lopez banter on stage. And yes, we know Ian Wright utterly loves Canon cameras, they're the only ones he uses

 

Slow cooked Nordic Salmon, crabmeat and laksa emulsion

Duo of Dessert - chocolate mouse, gula java and coconut cream / baked brick of stoned fruits, apricot anglaise

Great food, superb. The salmon was done PERFECTLY and melts in your mouth. All the flavors of each dish had hints of surprising flavors but always really tasty.

Thanks to Mr. Justin Quek for preparing a wonderful feast

Big thank you also to Canon for inviting me to an enjoyable night with my favorite travel host! x

Join Ian on more of his wacky adventures around the world in the brand new season 2 :

TLC CHANNEL 427

Future Music Festival

Last week I was sent for a trip Down Under, Brisbane to be exact, for one of Australia's most exciting music festivals!

With big acts like those, you can't miss their posters on the streets.

I was bestowed by the organizers 3-in-1 titles of Guest, Media, and Part-Time Celebrity Stalker (haha, you'll see why later)

On our way to the Doomben race course where the event was held, it rained on our parade that Saturday morning.... what crappy weather to start off a whole day of festivities.

Thank heavens the heavy downpour eased up by the time we were ushered to our artist/media area

The place was not only done up gorgeously in bright, eclectic colors with comfortably lush sofas for us to rest our partied out soles (pun pun), they also included entertainment such as ping pong tables....

retro arcade games...

...and a scrumptious buffet  of food.

I ate 4 times and I think some of the group were a bit aghast at my gluttony :X Hey, I needed my energy for a full day's worth of crowd-pushing, dancing and cheering!

 

 

With Jin (Hitz.fm) and Chris (editor of Beat Mag, Bali)

With Malaysian mates: Kevin, Joyce (Kinky Blue Fairy), Jason (Milk PR), Adil (The Star paper + rock band Couple), and Alif (Juice)

 

The celebrity stalker tag proved itself fit because we met several of the performers, such as...

Her big, burly, grumpy body guard snapped "NO" before we could even ask for a photo with Jessie.

 

UK rapper Tinie Tempah

I should have asked him what his stage name means. Does it mean he has a "tiny temper", and if so does that mean he has a bad temper or good temper?  Hmm....

 

The kaleidscope of neon colors as far as your eyes could take you, under the gold and glistening, yet not scorching Brisbane sunlight, made for a wildly unforgettable candy pop experience.

 

 

The Aussies are an exuberant bunch, jumping around here and there, the atmosphere was really "high".

 

Everyone there loved to photobomb!  Or they would yell "take my picture!"
This guy here seems to be doing his best "Angie's Left Leg" impersonation. Mine's not bad too, except it's the wrong side, hah.

 

 There were 2 main stages - Flamingo was the first one we went to and the first act we saw was Gym Class Heroes!

I had so much fun bopping along to "Stereo Hearts".

 

Whatever you do, follow instructions from those big security guards. Do anything silly like catapult across the fence of your designated zone and you'll be in for a very painful time.

Security pounced on this guy and man-handled him like pro wrestlers to the ground. From the looks of it they were going to break his neck!

 

Happy shiny people. (except that sunglass dude, why so sad)

 

Holy Ghost:

Strafford Brothers:

 

The Wombats:

 

Tinie Tempah:

(artist photo credits: Matt Kahn)

 

 

What's an outdoor festival without a little foam to cool off?

 

 

 

I enjoyed seeing party-goers in all sorts of funky cool outfits and crazy get-ups!

 

 

 

 

And I'll never forget all the mud-slinging, LITERALLY. Thank goodness we had baby wipes to clean up a bit!

Night fell, and it was time for acts like Paul van Dyk, The Rapture, New Order and Swedish House Mafia.

I was pretty exhausted by then, and we took a respite in the VIP tent where they had tables and chairs (phew!) plus a big motley crew.

Towards the finale of the night it started to pour insanely again. Thankfully the organizers had given us nicely packed ponchos for us at the start.

Worn out & exhilarated. I would do it all over again. But first, can we go back to our nice clean hotel?

It was too bad we didn't have enough time to travel to the Gold Coast for some Sunshine-Coastin' love. Brisbane city was frankly, a little dull....  however I still saw some nice scenery.

And we also ended up in "The Valley" for dinner.

Chris is so famished after waiting an hour for his food he's gone a little cucko.

Thanks to everyone for the great time!

Boutique Updates

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Feature in Hong Kong Apple Daily Paper

In December last year I was requested by Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper to do a Singapore travel article with them.

My honor to!

So one breezy weekday night, I brought their friendly reporter around to three places I thought their readers would find interesting - Lantern at Fullerton Bay Hotel, Blu Jaz bar & cafe at Haji Lane, and Spize for supper.

 

Here is the article reproduced for your reading pleasure, time to brush up on your Mandarin

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論名氣論話題性， Dawn Yang（楊藹慧）明顯比其他新加坡 Blogger高幾班，唔好講佢 08年自爆陳冠希發出的性愛短訊及與另一女 Blogger XiaXue的互指整容隔空筆戰。早於 06年 Dawn就憑甜美外貌及驕人身材先後登上男士雜誌《 FHM》及《 Maxim》封面，其後為網站 STORM寫 Blog，更成功帶起當地寫 Blog熱潮，至今 Dawn已經成為各大品牌御用 Blogger，每日瀏覽人次更達 1.5萬人！網址：http://www.dawnyang.com

 

 

■ Dawn話望住濱海灣夜景嘆雞尾酒先至係享受！

70°海景嘆 Blackberry Mojito

一般 Mojito加入很多薄荷葉，但這杯再加黑加倫子汁，味道偏甜，合女生口味！約$168

難得有美相伴，身為 Gentleman的我當然唔可以遲到，所以我早就抵達位於濱海灣畔的 The Fullerton Bay Hotel天台酒吧 Lantern，一邊吹海風一邊靜候佳人。從 Lantern往外看可以飽覽整個濱海灣景色，除新地標濱海灣金沙酒店等新建築外，回頭又有萊佛士區的古建築，如參考巴特農神殿而建的 The Fullerton Hotel及音樂廳等， 270°景觀各有特色，酒吧特別安排客座及梳化用來賞景之用，最啱情侶依偎看夜景，伴以一杯特別調製的 Blackberry Mojito更醉人， Dawn說：「晚上這裏經常有 Live Band表演，唔少人都專程到來開 Party，所以訂位要早，否則隨時看不到海景。」雖然酒吧中有個 25米標準玻璃泳池，但只供酒店住客使用，且因與酒吧只是咫尺之隔，除非閣下享受 see and be seen的感覺，否則還是乖乖在旁邊飲杯 Blackberry Mojito吧！

Lantern

地址： Rooftop, The Fullerton Bay Hotel, 80 Collyer Quay電話：（ 65） 6597 5299網址：http://www.fullertonbayhotel.com

 

邊吹邊飲 Singapore Sling

「平時工作壓力太大，所以平均我每星期都有兩晚到 BluJaz聽歌。」 Dawn說與 Haji Lane一街之隔的 Bali Lane，是城內伊斯蘭教徒聚居地，除清真寺外，區內唔少建築都被畫上人物及風景塗鴉，充滿波希米亞風格，亦成為年輕一代放工後的蒲點。每晚 9點後 BluJaz會逼滿人，只因每星期平均有三晚都有駐場 DJ或樂隊表演，連陳奐仁都曾是表演嘉賓。雖然 BluJaz分為二樓 Lounge及餐廳，但我還是喜歡坐在外面聽爵士樂飲酒食水煙 Shisha，「鍾意食水煙的新加坡人沒有可能不來這個地方，這可算是個煙竇呢！」 Dwan指新加坡禁煙較香港還要嚴厲，唔少人惟有轉食水煙減壓， BluJaz有十多款不同口味的水煙，最受歡迎的可算是蘋果味，平均$100已足夠 3至 4人用，相當抵食。

Singapore Sling因加了菠蘿汁及檸檬汁，味道酸甜，連 Dawn都勁 Like！約$90

■每晚 Bali Lane都聚集不少歌迷等聽 Live Band演出。

■ David及 Samantha每星期都會到 BluJaz聽歌，已成為習慣。

BluJaz Cafe

地址： 11, Bali Lane電話：（ 65） 6292 3800網址：http://www.blujaz.net

 

消夜飲加料 Milo Gozilla

咪睇 Dawn細細粒就以為她吃得不多，實際上她常常四處去試食，一日隨時食四五遍，還以為她會帶我去酒店食夜宵，豈料的士卻直駛到 River Valley，「如果和朋友飲酒後，我們總會到 Spize食消夜，等如香港人蒲完蘭桂坊後食翠華一樣。」 Dawn說來過香港數次，發現地道消夜不多，反而新加坡就算幾夜都有小食醫肚。掛着大大個橙色招牌的 Spize River Valley雖隱藏在民居之中，但每到凌晨就門堪羅雀。餐廳主打改良馬拉菜，如辣味奄列飯、馬拉炒麪及咖喱雞等，碟碟都帶微辣，十分惹味。

Milo Gozilla即是我們常見的美綠，但加入忌廉，入口更香滑。約$25

■每星期 Dawn總有數晚到 Spize River Valley食消夜。

■奄列炒公仔 麪約$37

■ Ice The Gino煉奶味濃，約$18。

Spize River Valley

地址： 409 River Valley Road電話：（ 65） 6734 9194網址：http://www.spize.com.sg

 

 

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