Hellu! It’s been a while! The lovely people from HaoYiKang sent over a box Lao Xie Zhen’s Premium Ginseng Essence with Manuka Honey for me to try! As most of you know, I have a collective list of autoimmune and autoinflammatory conditions going on and they have since been in remission, and I am on my journey of recovery! Getting my body back in shape is very important, because if I am not careful, I may risk a flare up again. So here’s a box of King of Herbs, perfected with Manuka Honey!


With 90 years of history, Lao Xie Zhen brings along their newest addition, the Premium Ginseng Essence with Manuka Honey. Formulated with white ginseng, and American ginseng, the combination gives a perfect balance making it mild and suitable for daily consumption! Best part, it also consists of Manuka Honey UMF5+, which is known to help improve gut health, supply quick boost of energy, enhances healing properties and a healthier alternative to caffeinated products!


Comes in box of 7 or 14, the bottles are packed conveniently in the slots, so you don’t have to unpack them and leave some half opened box lying around. I am personally a fan of ginseng, having suckled on ginseng slices since a kid, so I was very excited to try. Especially since having started to work from home, the stagnation and lethargy is real. Not complaining, cause I really love sleeping until 1 minute before I start work, but that also means I flip open my desktop with ultra sleepy eyes. So if there’s a healthy booster, I’mma take it.


Each bottle contains White Ginseng & American Ginseng from Changbai Mountain, enhanced with Manuka Honey UMF5+ from New Zealand through 12 stages of advanced extraction method. They are rich in ginsenosides, methylglyoxal (MGO), amino acids, vitamins & minerals, and 100% natural with no additives, preservatives, xanthan gum.

Ginseng is known to combat fatigue, protect liver functions, boost concentration & focus, anti-inflammatory effects, and provides antioxidant protection, just a few to name. All of which I really need, because of long term medication and chronic conditions, I get really tired easily with my body overworking all the time tryna’ fight all the antibodies.

With the addition of Manuka Honey, it also supports gut health & digestion, aid in wound healing, and boost your energy level with each bottle everyday!


First mistake I made opening my very first bottle was forgetting to shake it. I kid you not, the ginseng taste was so overwhelming I choked on my first sip. /putsbackthelidandshake…….. The well mixed content tasted so much better, hahahahaha. Strong ginseng taste but this time with lingering sweetness from the Manuka Honey. I usually take 1 glass every morning after I brush my teeth, and then I go about with my day. I realized I don’t take afternoon naps anymore a few days after I started this new regime! It is recommended to take after breakfast though, so don’t be lazy like me hahaha.

Did you also know that ginseng actually helps improve mental health? With the rise of working from home, things can get a little bit stale and boring coping up at home. I’m sure a lot of you stay stuck on your chair if not bed for most part of the day! So if you a working adults, individuals with mental stress or looking for caffeine alternatives and require a boost of energy, check out Lao Xie Zhen’s Premium Ginseng Essence with Manuka Honey!

Check out their website: https://haoyikang.sg/. Don’t forget to drop them a follow on their Facebook and Instagram too!

Thank you so much, Hao Yi Kang for sending these over for me to try. I really love it!

Voted No.1 in All-Natural Products by Natural Health 2019, Nano Singapore had became the ultimate go-to for different kinds of supplements in Singapore! Don't judge, but me and my friends are at the age where we have to consider adding vitamins into our daily routine, hahahha. I remember reading somewhere that when you hit 25, your body starts to slow down and lose nutrients faster than before you were 25. So vitamins become really essential in helping your body absorb more nutrients or replace what you lose everyday! Especially now that I am ... 29.... and with autoimmune disease, vitamins are all the more important for me to avoid a flare up or bad joints.


The nice people at Nano Singapore sent over a bottle of Turmeric Gummies and Multivitamin for kids to let me and my nephew try out!


The health benefits of turmeric is a widely known fact that I've been wanting to try out for a really long time. Turmeric is high in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties that helps fight foreign invaders and fix damages in your body. Long term inflammation can cause the immune system to become confuse and attack your own body. That's why food and vitamin with anti-inflammation properties are really important! These are just a few of turmeric benefits to name, but the preparation of actual turmeric into my meals are sooooo tough! And eating turmeric on its own is just.... blegh. So here's a blended gummy formula with black pepper, making it taste less bad hahahaha. Even for the gummies tho, it's a little spicy and has a really strong taste, but you get used to it as you go. I eventually got to love the taste!

One bottle comes with 120 gummies, it is recommended to take 2 per day, so one bottle like this can last you for 2 months!


The Multivitamin for kids has the same texture as the Turmeric gummies but it tastes so so much better, hahaha. There's a really strong berry taste, and I quote my little nephew, it's sweet and berri-y! But maybe just a tat bit too sweet for the kids. So mommas that are looking for multi-vits for your kids, you can try this out! Because the taste is really nice, and that would help them to love their vitamins!


I personally am very bad with routines. That said, I even forget my meds occasionally until my bones start to ache, or my rashes start to appear hahaha. So I store them in the fridge, so everytime I grab a drink, I'd remember to take my vits! xD I'm planning to get myself some melatonin fix with their Melatonin Gummies, maybe I can finally sleep at night and not stay up until the unholy hours of the morning.


Check out Nano Singapore for more kinds of supplements! Don't forget to take your vitamins!

I'm really tired. Like really, really, really really, really tired. It feels realy tough to get off bed, to get up from my seat, or to even eat. Chewing feels like a chore, holding cutleries feel like a chore. Getting up into a standing or sitting position makes my body ache. I can't keep up for more than 3 hours, or stay focused for more than 5. This is me on daily basis. Time keeps ticking, life keeps going. So everyone's constantly talking.. "When are you gonna get a job?" "Can you please get a job?" "So you just want to waste your life away like that everyday?" "Can you be more useful?" "Actually you can do anything, you just don't want to."

But why isn't anyone realizing just how hard it is for me to wake up everyday. Why isn't anyone seeing the fact that I really want a job too. Why isn't anyone seeing all the helplessness I feel whenever I am at home, or the fear I feel towards life every single day? Where is it gonna hurt today? How long will be awake? Am I able to go through with the plans I had made for today? Is this okay? Am I okay?

So much expectations on me as if I don't already feel the despair of not being able to live up to my personal expectation. As if it is all about me being lazy, and unmotivated. As if I had chose this live, chose this disease, chose to be like this.

I used to feel so proud of all of my achievements, and wear them like a badge. I loved feeling useful to people, and being able to accomplish big things. I used to be able to run miles, and go on working for 36 hours without sleep.. I used to be so full of life, and so so so many used to- It's so hard to keep up right now with the whole AOSD suppressing me. I do doubt myself too. Am I really just lazy? Am I just unmotivated? Is this all because I feel unfair and acting like that in a form of revenge towards my life? It is not. That is not.

The thing about AOSD is that, it has no cause, no prevention, and no cure. I don't know when will I ever flare up again, neither do I know what can I do to prevent it from happening. The ache is real. The pain is real. The lethargy, is also real. Whether or not it's a side effect from AOSD, I can never be sure. My doctors denied me when I told them I get really tired everyday from the medication, from the condition, from anything even. They said I was just lazy. I try, I really try. I've never stopped trying.

Fallen chopsticks, trembling hands, shaking knees, dropping dead to the ground, fleeting thoughts, unfocused mind.... all these feel so normal. All these are what I go through everyday. So is it really laziness, or is it what the AOSD does to my body? I really don't know anymore.

It's so painful to keep trying and get defeated everyday.

Taking a break from all the fancy hair I've had for the last 5 years and going back to basic. Definitely feels weird not having my blonde ends and having brown hair but I figured it's about time I make a change and make myself look a bit more normal, hahahahaha.


My blonde ends make me look so tired and dull, and boring. And I've ran out of colors I'mma dye since 5eva. Pink, blue, purple, green, red, bah- You name it, I've gotted it. Hahahaha, everything except for basic. So here I am, back to basic, brown hair!


Elein actually also helped me do DYNA straightening treatment to fix my curly roots, along with Mucota ABC treatment because my hair ends were like grass. If you don't already know, I actually have really really curly hair, so curly that when I tie my hair up, I get a legit pig tail. It curls into a spring, and I really hated it. So I've been doing rebonding ever since I knew what it was.

But ever since I got attached to Artistry Hair Professional, Elein had been doing DYNA Straightening for me instead of rebonding. I hated curly hair, and I also hated how flat and unnatural rebonding looked, HAHAHA. I also didn't like soft rebonding. Soft rebonding only fixed the fizz but didn't really fix my curly roots. What a picky child.

So Elein been doing Mucota Dyna Straightening treatment for me for the last 5 years, and I've shook off my curly roots ever since, BUAHAHA.


Doesn't look like rebonding, isn't it? Mehehehe. And I'm loving this new color on me! It's been a while since I've gotten natural colors, hahahahahha.

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