With self-drive vacations on the rise, it is rime to visit USA on wheels! Alamo Rent-A-Car lets you experience the heart of the USA!


Nowadays, self-drive holidays are increasingly becoming popular among Southeast Asian travelers with Millennials driving this trend. Along with the boom in mobile technology, young adults are opting for free, independent travels to discover new experiences, making their trips as adventurous and inspiring as possible. A self-drive holiday fits nicely into Millennials’ vacation plan, all thanks to the freedom and flexibility it offers, allowing them to do what they want and to try different things at their own pace and time!

Alamo Rent-A-Car: A hassle-free experience for your U.S. road trip


A brand owned by Enterprise Holdings Inc., North America’s largest car rental company, serves international travelers looking for an easy and hassle-free rental experience. Travelers are free to select a vehicle of their choice from a young fleet of over 1 million cars, depending on their travel needs and preferences; from the Toyota Prius and Hyundai Sonata Hybrid to the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Impala. And with 6,045 distribution points in the USA, travelers can select their preferred vehicle pick-up location point and return it to another. How convenient! Oh! One-way car rental services are also available. Pick-up your vehicle here, and drive it over to point 2 without having to worry about returning the vehicle to where you first picked it up!


To help travelers navigate their way around the USA, Travel Tab Adventurer, an enhanced GPS navigation device by Travel Tab, is offered to make the driving experience smoother. Travel Tab Adventurer is pre-loaded with messaging, video-streaming and self-help apps to ensure that holidaymakers can guide themselves around any part of the USA, encouraging free-and-easy exploration at their own leisure.

Where can you book:

Alamo Rent-A-Car is a new entrant in Singapore and Malaysia’s travel scene. The service is now available at over 30 travel retailers and OTAs, including Chan Brothers Travel, Diamond Tours and Travels, Eurotours & Travel, Farmosa Holiday Tour, Fascinating Holidays, Fortune Travel, Majestic Travel, Sky Centre Air-Travel, Stamford Travel, Travelatte, Giamso International Tours, Vacation Planners, Z.G. Nan Fang Holidays, Harpers Travel, Sedunia Travel, Zenxin Travel, Diners World Travel, ASA Holidays, EU Holidays, CTC Travel, SA Tours, Palm Travel, Asiatravel, Continent Five Travels, Euro-Asia Holidays, Citystate Travel, Holiday Tours & Travel, Ik Chin Travel Service, Kent Holidays, VC Travel, Quotient TravelPlanner and WTS Travel and Tours.

Inspired by the original town of Colmar in Alsace, France, with elements taken from ancient surrounding villages like Riquewihr, Turckheim and Kaysersberg, this French village is definitely a place of paradise. Enjoy spa, and fitness with your loved ones or soak yourself in the outdoor pool under beautiful lights of Colmar Tropicale.


Officially opened in 2000, the Colmar Tropicale Berjaya Hills Resort is a 4 star resort comprising a total of 248 French-themed hotel suites and rooms for its guests to choose from. Each of the rooms are air-conditioned and well-furnished with classic light wood furnishing.


With Genting Highlands in just 6km away, you can also book a quick drive over and enjoy yourself at the theme parks for the day! Alternatively, there is also a Japanese Village located just outside of Colmar Tropicale, 5 minutes away, for you to drown yourself in some soothing tatami spa. You can also rent a kimono and walk around the village for nice snaps after!


And you can book them easily with just a couple of clicks away!


Traveloka's easy navigation allows you to search and book your tickets in just 3 easy steps:


The page then generates a collective of flight prices for you from all available airlines for your easy comparison! There are plenty of flight options for you to chose from, just simply toggle the filter to see what best suit your needs.




Anyway! To book hotel online and to check their special promotions, do visit their website for more information.

Traveloka even provides 24hrs Customer Service Hotline @ +65-3157-1471. If you have any queries in the middle of the night, or faced any problems with your flight booking, they are easily reached with just a phone call away. How much I love 24hrs customer services hahahaha.

Traveloka even goes handy on App Store!

It's been a long ass week filled with submissions and increment of assignments. Not to forget all the shoots that are coming in and yadah-yadah.... I know I've mentioned that I'm pretty an outcast that nobody really bothers but there are still requirements to fulfil in order for me to graduate, and yep you guessed it right. Unpaid production and more unpaid production. Well, not all is dull in this week though. Dedicated a bouquet of pretty champagne roses with baby's breaths from Floral Garage Singapore to my kimchi earlier on Saturday before he went back to camp, and for once in a reeeeaaaallly long time, I see my Kimchi glow in happiness. Huehuehuehue!


Who says only girl deserves flowers? Your boyfee deserves them too okay!

Good thing about Floral Garage is that, they allow customization for their flowers! So if you are too spoilt for choice on their online catalogue, you can feel free to let the florist know who and for what occasion is it and they simply let their creativity run wild! How simple right?


Not forgetting the fact that they do same day delivery as well!
Like for example if it is currently 1:29 pm, you can still order for your item to be delivered for the 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm time slot. However, once you have missed the time slot, you would need to go for the next time slot. So if it's currently 1:30 pm, the 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm time slot is no longer available when you place order, the next available time slot would be 5:00pm to 10:00 pm, and you can arrange your flowers to be delivered from 5:00pm ~ 10:00pm! Convenient isn't it? But for myself, I've arranged a Saturday morning time slot to surprise the korean boy the moment he wakes up. It also acts as a wake up call since both of us tend to waste the entire Saturday away sleeping in, bleh.


Look how pretty it is!! I am so satisfied and I love it so much. Not sure if it's for me or for Kim to be honest, hahaha. But if the person giving is satisfied with its quality, I'm sure the person who receives will be double happy right?
Anyway! It's our 26th monthsary today, so I've arranged the flowers to arrive last Saturday. Trust me when I say guys actually love receiving flowers too. No it is not gay.

Kim immediately took the bouquet out and went for a photoshoot with his second girlfriend. Like the fuck, I was the one who gave him the bouquet but he take pictures with his second girlfriend, can meh?????


Floral Garage also provides many different types of flowers and services. They do corporate jobs, parties and even weddings, so if you are looking for flowers for your wedding, feel free to contact them! Their flowers are extremely fresh, and cheap. Which is pretty hard to find in industry, I mean since you get what you pay for you know. Floral Garage's blooms are no doubt of top quality because it makes my entire room smells like a rose field by simply hanging it at one corner hahahahaha


Honestly, you don't need an occasion to put a smile on someone's face. Dedicate a bouquet of flowers to your loved ones and put a smile on their face in this busy last quarter year season! Ps; I really cannot emphasize any further on how much I love my special arrangement for this bouquet. Baby Breaths with a touch of Champagne roses symbolizes everlasting love and tenderness. SUPER SWEET RIGHT?

Hehehe, now you know what flowers to give for your sweet sweet love.
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What is Althea Beauty Box?

Every month, the Althea team will release 2 types of beauty boxes.

Althea Boxes are based on specific themes, giving customers and fans a chance to get their hands on a mix of loved and new favorites. Release frequency: twice a month

Trend Boxes, on the other hand, will be packed with hot products (either a new brand or new products from an existing brand) based on some of Korea’s biggest beauty trends. Released frequency: once a month

Each box can hold anywhere from 6 - 12 full-size products depending on the theme and value. The best part? There's no commitment to subscribing for a monthly, quarterly or yearly payment to get these beauty boxes! Only downside is that these beauty boxes are so popular, they go out of stock really quickly! Sign up here to receive regular updates on Althea.kr!

My princess box came in pretty pink, all filled to the brim with retail sized products catered for sensitive and tired skin! Here's what they have inside my S.O.S box. I really like how they put these products together specially for people who have skin concerns they wish to tackle. The products are spilt into morning and night routine, so you don't to worry about cramping everything onto your skin at one go, hahahaha.



The S.O.S Box actually soothes out my dry skin problem in just 1 week of usage, which was very surprising because I usually had to wait a few weeks for my skin to get used to the moisturizer and before I get to see results. Most of the products in this box is really gentle to sensitive skin, so it didn't really cause any outbreaks on me when I first started the routine!

Okay, I gotta admit that I got lazy on some days especially in the morning.... So I tend to skip my morning skincare a lot simply because I am too tired for it hahahaha. So what I usually do when I get home after washing up is use Chok Chok No Wash Green Tea Cleansing Water first before setting on Skinfood Peppermint Clay Mask. I love it lah, really hahaha. That smooth, clean feeling you get after you wash off the peppermint mask is superrrrrr satisfying.

Lastly, lock in the moisture with Skinfood's Soothing Apple Gel. Huehuehue, and you'll wake up with baby soft skin!

All this goodness for only S$35.80. Which explains why it ran out so quickly!
Hop over to Althea's website and check out what's in for you before they run out again!

Tried it the moment I received it and I have to say, it's a life-saver. Being someone with minimal eyebrows, my eyebrows tend to just smudge away after a whole day out since half of it is makeup LOL. I'll have keep touching up and still have it smudged off due to the excess sebum that forms after long hours under the sun. Althea's Petal Velvet Powder is made with 100% pure silica, which has ultimate oil absorbing properties for long lasting excess sebum control. It helps to set the make-up, allowing make-up to stay on longer without producing excess sebum that would smudge your make-up. Now tell me how can I not love it when it saves my brows from running away? HAHAHAHA


It's translucent and perfecting qualities also creates a satin finish that mattifies without dehydrating the skin. Giving off a nice, smooth and matte look to your skin, like a real-life beauty mode tool!


Althea's Petal Velvet Powder is made with micro-fine particles that minimize the appearance of pores and fine lines to reveal flawless, petal-like complexion. Super lightweight, made with fine natural mineral powder that helps cover up pores and reflecting bright lights to create a velvety smooth finish. It is specially formulated to have the same elasticity as your skin so it an set your make-up perfectly without it caking up!


Not forgetting the Althea flower also has anti-aging, sun protection and hydration effect. Being the main ingredient of the Althea Petal Velvet Powder, it helps prevent the skin barrier from dehydrating by increasing moisture levels!

We were supposed to fish for our own lunch lah, but .... looking at how terrible I am at it, it was clear that we were gonna go back empty handed. Kimmy managed to get a bite, but the fishy swam away with his bait, hahahahaha. It started raining super heavily half way and so we left. Yes, left empty handed. LOL. Thank god the Chef had already prepare the fish for our lunch so it's okay.

Most of the activity will be held at this cafe/bar called TIIGO. The Chef will have an area set up for you to cook later on, so you can grab yourself a drink and chill here if you want to! The Chef's Experience package includes a foot massage as well! After our breakfast and "fishing trip", we headed for the foot massage located at the other end of the resort.

I personally am not a fan of lemon grass, but I've got to say the lemon grass massage oil they used felt really good hahahaha. The massage was so soothing I almost fell asleep. A terribly lagging game of ML managed to keep me awake though, xD

After that we went back to TIIGO and got prepared to be a master chef! Lulllll.


Down side is they close pretty early though. Would think they'd open till late midnight or something but they're only opened till 11PM on weekends. :(
Such a waste. I would chill here till late night and rot in my personal pool at the villa the next day for the entire day to be honest, hahahha. Oh well.

Next up was our turn to burn the kitchen! Hahahahaha kidding. The chef came out to guide us on how to make numerous different traditional Indonesia dish! From cutting the vegetables yourself, to cooking it and then plating it! Talk about satisfaction, x)


The chef is extremely patient and nice. He will guide you through from teaching you how to cut the vegetables, and the sequence of frying each ingredient to prep for the (inserts food name that I forgot). Update: OH IT'S CALLED GADO GADO.


Then we proceeded to marinating the fish with this super nice chili paste. But I swear, Batam is the land of lemongrass. The chef wanted to put lemongrass into almost every single dish. And I am allergic to lemongrass, :(


We also got to wrap out own Pepes Ikan. It's something like otah, but the meat are in chunks, wrapped with banana leaf and then you boil it. It tasted amazing, I swear. But again, lemongrass. I added lemongrass into 2 of the otahs, and left out the other two. The one without tasted nicer, HAHAHAHA. Ok, fine. I'm biased. Kimmy liked the one with lemongrass better hahaha.


While the Pepes Ikan is cooking, we plate our own Gado Gado! Hahahaha you'd be surprise how this actually can look like some fine dining dish.


While Kimmy is plating his Gado Gado, I was cooking this ..... Pepes Ikan in soup form. HAHAHAHA. IM SORRY I CANNOT REMEMBER THE NAME!! But it's pretty much the same ingredient, you boil it into a curry based kind of dish with fish inside instead. Super, duper amazing.

All that's left now is, wait! Hahaha wait for all the stuff to be cooked and we are alllll done.


HUALLAH. Lunch all done!

Quite a pity we didn't managed to catch our own fish cause it was raining, hahaha. And okay, because of our terribly lack of skills. Sigh. They also have many other activities available for you to sign up for within Montigo Resorts if you are too lazy to head out to the city area for some shopping or whatnot. I mean, the city area is about 20 minutes drive away so it can get pretty tiring la. They also have this Treasure Hunting activity there! Should probably try it the next time I visit, :P


After which, we simply went back to our room and rot the hell out for the rest of the day in our pool. Hahahaha, best form of stress relief. At least we didn't call room service for dinner this time! Went over to TADD'S for our dinner hehehe. They have amazing food there, I swear! If you are too lazy to head out to the city area, can come over to TADD'S and try their food! Most of their room service food are from there too, but of course, not the entire menu is available for room service hahaha.


Filled the tumz, time for a walk! We've never really walked around and explore the area before so we decided to go walk around for a bit and take some photos. The bridge is extremely nice at night!! The lights are amazing, hahaha.


Alrighty, that's it for me 3 days 2 night Batam trip! Hahaha, we didn't really do much la to be honest. Last day was pretty much just breakfast, and back to Singapore because we have things on the day after. Ah well. Time to go for yet another getaway soon after Kimmy finishes his Exercise Wallaby.

Can't wait! Email me at veeviisme@live.com if you have any questions! ^^