"What Girls Think" of Amara Sanctuary Resort

Catch me in my bimbo moments with SauceInk's series of "What Girls Think?" - as we tour Singapore to bring you the very best (and candid/unrehearsed) review.

For our debut, we visited the Amara Sanctuary Resort.

On a separate occassion, I had the good fortune of visiting their two-bedroom villa (image) below: Featuring an outdoor bathroom, and 2 rooms adjourned by a pool. Being a sucker for outdoor bathrooms and idyllic living, I thought the place was so beautiful, that I think I teared a little when I left for the day.


Nestled on the hillside of Sentosa's Palawan Beach offering its guests great seclusion, the Amara Sanctuary resort bears vestiges of Singapore's rich colonial past. Tastefully blending old-fashion romance with chic modernity, it's hard not to fall in love with the place.

Although it's not my maiden visit here, this was the first time that I was given a VIP tour of the place, and here're the highlights that makes the place oh-so-worth your buck.

Upon arrival, we were hosted at Shutters, a casual fusion restaurant with an open-concept kitchen. Amara Sanctuary doesn't only have 1, but 5 dining areas, including the ever-famous ThanYing Thai Restaurant, which (unfortunately) we didn't go to :(





The Infinity Pool
The sky Infinity Pool on the rooftop overlooks the South China Sea and it seems to stretch endlessly over the edge, and here's the best part. The inifinity pool area bans children from entering - That sounds like paradise to me


The courtyard suite
You would never believe it, but the 2-storey colonial-style Courtyard Suites were created from former British Sergeants’ quarters from the 1930s. It features an outdoor courtyard with a sunbed (that I am sitting on), a sumptuous four-poster bed with super high-thread count bedsheets (gasp!) , and a Jacuzzi in its own private garden.


The Jacuzzi in private garden was a winner for most of the girls.

Enough of my boring ramble...catch me on sauceINK's "What Girls Think".




*An early bird who caught the preview texted me the following,
U r so not you in the "What Girls Think" video! Ha...I can see you are struggling to keep the real you from surfacing! :-D

What can I say, except that even bimbos have their shy moments lah.

Bring my sexy back

After eons of not blogging, I'm back with a scary picture of my back.

My sedentary lifestyle of hunching over the computer, and alternative lifestyle of partying till the wee hours of the morning has taken a toll on my health, with frequent shoulder aches and insomnia. While the rest of my friends sought expensive spa treatments from Banyan Tree, I paid a visit to a Chinese sinseh at a TCM clinic in Rocher to get thrashed up.

For about S$80 and 2.5 hours, you get the following done to you:

• Ba Mai: Get a calibration of your body's nerves, channels and vital points to determine your type of "illness"
• Shua: Scrub Therapy
• Gua Sha: Scrapping Therapy to improve ciculation and to remove the toxic heat and "qi" in your body (This is VERY motherfucking painful)
• Zou Guan & Ba Guan: Cupping Therapy to release the stagnant "chi" in the body
• Pressed, Prodded, Slapped, Pinched and Kneaded

While I was glad to come out in one-piece with a general sense of relaxation, the Ba Guan and Gua Sha gave me HUGE FUGLY purple welts and splotches as seen from the picture. Guess I won't be going to the beach or be seen painitng the town red in skimpy outfits for a while till the marks go away.

Isabelle the weekend Rocker

When I am not out partying up a storm and guzzling peanut butter jello vodka shots at Butter Factory, this is really what I do during the weekend.



I am using their video because I'm too embarrassed to show my own video. But my title sure caught your attention didn't it.

The Best Press Release Ever

Anyone who has ever drafted a press release would know that it typically follows a standard format that addresses the 5Ws and 1H in the immediate paragraph after the title.

So imagine my shock when I received a call to draft an URGENT announcement, that if translated into a press release would potentially read like this:

Singapore. July XX, 2009 - XXX Company announces today that they are intending to buy some properties. They can't tell you where and what, but they can tell you that they are buying something. They can't tell you why they are doing this, but they can tell you that there are many implications. We don't really know when we can tell you the information, but we thought it's a good idea to do PR around this decision.

Their corp comms ought to be shot.

(Names and content of the conversation has been tweaked severly for P&C reasons)

Who wants to be a "Real Woman" blogger

A piece of document produced by A reads:
A: These bloggers are 'real' woman...

B saw it and yelled across the room:
B: What is "A real woman"? Are there fake women bloggers?

Everyone in the room burst out laughing and C replied:
C: Got! Isabelle lor....

Yea, so I am actually not a real woman blogger. I am a man, as much as Megan Fox is.

Hurhurhur. Not funny. K back to work.

Isabelle didn't win the Watsons You Award...BUT

As the title suggests, I didn't win the Watsons You Award Healthy Hair thinggie. It's just too bad because I can already hear groans because my kickass prizes that were contingent upon me winning are now being forfeited...

• No me in wet-T-shirt
• No dominatrix serving coffee
• No peeping at my assam-looking IC photo
  
• No free Sunsilk haircare products
• No smelling of random stranger's armpits
  

I was even prepared to jump into the Suntec City fountain, and sell my . But boo!

That said, it was fair that I didn't win. Although I had a whole digital campaign mapped out, I only managed to fulfill about 3-4 out of 15 milestone mostly due to laziness and addiction to guitar hero. All in all, it was a great mini-research relevant to whatever that I do at work (somewhat).

But to all you lovelies out there who have supported, tweeted, helped to spread the word in one way or another, here's a huge thank you to you! Special thanks to those who voted tirelessly for me everyday, or even those who bothered responding to my plea for votes.

Now that this is over, I will revert to blogging in profanities. :) And I'll be posting a very backdated entry soon...a secret skill that I have acquired from the hills of Vietnam. So stay tuned!

Lastly, allow me to extend my congratulations to winner of the Watsons You Award Hair Category, Samantha! :P

5 Good (and naughty) reasons to vote for me

Yes, I am canvasing for votes again. But before you start rolling your eyes and falling asleep, let me assure you that it pays to read on...

Because Watsons says...

If your favourite candidate(ie. me) wins, you will automatically be entered into a lucky draw. From which you will stand to win attractive product hampers worth up to $50 in value and a $100 Watsons Voucher! The more you vote, the more chances you have.


But hey, I'll give 5 better reasons to vote for me:

• I'll give away my prize of sunsilk haircare items to 2 lucky voters
• I'll get wet for a picture
• I'll smell someone's armpits
• I'll serve Vietnamese coffee in my dominatrix outfit or a pink wig, whichever that floats your boat
• I'll flash my IC photo and leave it on my blog for a week. (It's that sua teng ah huay photo that even some of my ex-boyfriends have never seen)

In fact, if something good comes to your mind, leave me a comment and I might consider expanding the list :p

So help me win the Watsons You Award "Healthy Hair" category by voting for me...and you get to see me do all the above and more!

Moreover, how can you resist it when Valerie practically whore me out on her blog:

"For the Healthy Hair Award, I’ve picked the girl with the blackest, shiniest hair that would make be want to run my fingers through it. My vote goes to Isabelle Neo [A2] because her locks looks like it just came out from a shampoo ad! You know the ad where you put a comb through the hair and it just falls out immediately, I think I could do that with her hair. It looks so soft!"