Mimi on August 15th, 2008

This is Lancel’s Balconnet Croco Pattern Leather handbag. Its recommended retail price in France, including VAT, is €699. In Malaysia, it retails for RM4,980. But remember the Malaysian Mega Sale that I was telling you about in a previous post? Well, thanks to that sale, plus the fact that Lancel just opened a new shop […]

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Mimi on August 2nd, 2008

In a previous post, I wrote about how I wasn’t sure what camera to bring to a recent trip to Bintan Island. In the end, I decided to bring both. I used a borrowed D80 and 18-200mm VR lens for most of the pics, knowing how photos taken with the Pentax Optio WPi tend to […]

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Mimi on July 24th, 2008

At long last, we are now enjoying the fruits of our little rambutan tree. The first harvest is nothing to shout about — just a measly 20 pieces or so — but the numbers don’t matter for now. What’s important is that the tree has started bearing fruit and that the fruits are sweet and […]

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Mimi on July 23rd, 2008

I’m back from Bintan. But I’m so swamped with work that it will be a couple of days more before I can write my review of the hotel that we stayed in — the Angsana Bintan Resorts & Spa. The ’spa’ part sounds good, no? It was, it was! It was so wonderful that I […]

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Mimi on July 15th, 2008

The Louvre is well known as the home of the most famous piece in art history — Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, also known in French as La Joconde (the light-hearted woman).
If you’re in the Louvre and wish to see her, I suggest that you go and see her first before you get yourself lost […]

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