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Last October, I got my hair dyed to an (supposedly) ash brown colour (read). The colour initially appeared to be greenish brown in doors and it looked splendid outdoors as the true ash brown colour did showed. Many complimented and asked for the exact hair colour. Soon, it became the other way around. It became quite ugly whenever I'm outdoors as it appeared to be more of a golden colour than brown. And when I'm indoors, it looks still fine, except for the roots that was hogging the top of my head. With that, you can imagine how bad and obvious it looks whenever I'm under natural sunlight.

From all of that, it turned to just complete ugly regardless I'm outdoors or indoors. To give you a picture of it, it looked like this INDOORS...


The only reason that I took this shot was because of the lose curls by the end of my work. But it is because of this picture, I only realized that even during indoors plus it was night time, my hair was already this bad and the roots difference in colour just made everything worse. 

Two days after my work ended which was just last Friday, I decided to give Number 76 a try as their Instagram photos are convincing enough that they will do a great job for me without anymore colour errors from what I really wanted. The reason I chose the Number 76 branch in Publika is because I knew a few bloggers that actually goes there to have their hair done, and also I think Publika would be more convenient in terms of parking compared to MidValley or even Bangsar. 

I had no idea the exact location of the shop and luckily, they provided specific directions around Publika to their shop.

"Walk towards Publika Shopping Mall’s main entrance, you will see Journal by Plan B on your left and Wondermilk on your right. Step out of the mall, and turn left. Chawan will be on your right. Continue with a short walk towards the junction and turn right when you see Meat, Wine & Co in front of you. Walk straight and you will arrive at Number76 near the end of the row." - number76.com

As I was not sure how they would charge touch up with the way that I wanted, I didn't book any appointment and went as a walk-in customer. After explaining to them that I wanted to touch up with a way darker colour, while keeping my old colour at the end, and creating an ombre effect in between, the stylist told me the price and was seated shortly.

Before applying the colour, they showed me the colour that they were going to use and make sure I was okay with it first. My previous hairstylist didn't showed me the exact colour before applying as I only showed him a picture and he straight did my hair for me, which turned out to be not what I really wanted in the end. 

The entire process was pretty quick as it took about an hour or so. In between, I was served with tea and the other hairstylist to passed by me gave me a smile and some even talked to me. When it was time to wash my hair, I was placed like a sleeping mask over my eye, only that it's made out of facial cotton material. I guess it's to prevent any water splashes to ruin my makeup? Haha. Or maybe it's to block direct lighting into my eyes? But it was definitely soothing that it made me felt so sleepy. 

After getting my hair dried, the hairstylist made sure that the colour is dark enough and the outcome of it was what I wanted. The stylist then used a curler to briefly make curly waves to my hair which I knew it wouldn't last more than 2 hours because my hair gets straight again very quickly if the curling  iron isn't placed around my hair long enough, or when there's no hair spray used.

As soon as I got home, I quickly turned on my camera and snap as much pictures as I can before the curler disappears completely! 


TADAA! This is a super candid photo because the timer was only 3 seconds! Haha. Randomly posed this and then it was snapped!


My current colour! Pretty satisfied with the colour this time! Not an obvious ombre compared to other people who dye their bottom hair with ash grey / ash-striking colour but at least my roots have been saved! 
Sadly that this is the only nice back hair photo AND the top of my head has to be chopped off from the frame. Great!

Fun Fact: I used to love taking photos with the top of my head slightly chopped off from the frame but these days, it's something so crucial in photo taking for me! Haha. 


Photo was taken when I was seated right in front of the balcony to get as much natural light as I could. Haha. That's why the brown still appears to be pretty obvious which got me thinking again what if the roots grow and the colour difference will still be as obvious? Well, hopefully it wouldn't be as bad!


This was taken further away from the natural light and the hair colour appears to be darker. 


Side view. Should have done a hair flipping shot! Haha.


How it looks when I tie it up.


Super duper in love with the colour!!

The hairstylist who attended to me was 'Fung'. You can search for his Instagram @76_Fung. Towards the end of my visit, I was advised to make an appointment first before going as everyone would be busy attending their own customers. Lucky for me that it was still quite empty that morning when I went.

I really hope that the colour would maintain as long as it can. I'm quite hesitated to go to the saloon to fix my hair so often. Not forgetting, the amount of money that I need to pay to get my hair done! For this time, it's a little treat for myself from the salary that I had earn working with Tag Heuer. Also, every time when I get my hair highlighted / coloured, it gets quite dry and it can be a real pain in the ass whenever I wash my hair. It took me almost 3 months to smoothen out my hair from my previous dye and it's another cycle. 

Thanks for reading! Signing off. xx
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ACCOMODATION: HAPPY MALACCA @ CASA LAGO, MALACCA

There are a few apartment units in Casa Lago that are for rent something like AirBnb. The one we chose is called Happy Malacca. We were all very satisfied with the place as well as the service. The lady who was in charge in checking us in and out was very friendly and she speaks pretty good English for a Thai.

The apartment comes with a living room, balcony, dining area, 1 kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 2 queen size beds, 3 single beds, 1 sofa bed & 3 bathrooms. Extra mattresses can be requested.


We requested for extra mattresses as initially we rented the apartment for 10 people but half of them couldn't make it.


I forgot to take pictures of the sea view but it can be seen from the balcony. Or, you can watch my VLOG later on. Will link the video below the post :)


Okay, found one but it's facing the other side. The sea view is more towards the left of the picture.


Kindly ignore the humans. Haha. This is the living room and the door to the right is the entrance into the apartment unit.


Dining Area. A few pairs of slippers were provided too.


Kitchen.



Master Bedroom. The sofa which the red and blue bag is on, is the sofa bed.


#1 Back Room which comes with 3 single beds


#2 Back Room which comes with another queen size bed

As for the bathrooms, two of it are attached with the master bedroom and the second back room. Whereas the 3rd bathroom is in between the master bedroom and the first back room.

I would strongly recommend this place to bunk in whenever you guys visit Malacca because of its location. It's quite central and near to place of attractions such as Jonker Street, Kota Merah, Melaka River Cruise, and it's only about 1-2km away from Mahkota Parade. There's also a 7-eleven convenience shop just opposite the apartment and also a Chicken Rice Ball shop (Ee Ji Ban) just down the road!

Booking link: http://www.booking.com/hotel/my/happy-malacca-casa-lago.en-gb.html?aid=356980;label=gog235jc-hotel-XX-my-happyNmalaccaNcasaNlago-unspec-my-com-L%3Aen-O%3Aunk-B%3Aunk-N%3AXX-S%3Abo-U%3AXX;sid=8ecec99d0b21ae4b4311e7aa5809c724;dcid=1;dist=0&sb_price_type=total&type=total&

VISIT: PORTUGUESE SETTLEMENT



A nice and relaxing place to walk along during sunset. To be honest, I didn't know there is such view in the Portuguese Settlement until we found a parking just opposite the sea. The initial plan was just to have dinner and have a stroll to see the Christmas lights and now we found another reason to come here besides eating.


EAT: MONCERIOS PORTUGUESE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT


We were first recommended to try the 'Stall 1' from this place (which is just opposite the seaside) that sells seafood (I think) but unfortunately, it was closed. We attempted to try other stalls but finding a table was already an issue. It seemed that the waiting time was 1-2 hours and there wasn't a single table in sight that was empty nor even people who are finishing their dinner. Even the waiters and waitresses that was in charge in serving drinks gave up in helping the customers to look for a table and requested us to have dinner elsewhere. After 30 minutes or so, we walked further back to the right of this row of stalls and found another restaurant to eat.


Probably it was because of Christmas night, that's why everywhere was packed! Even for this place, we waited more than an hour until our dishes were served. We didn't really had much choice but to wait because parking was already a headache and we were going to see the Christmas lights after dinner around the area. So it would be illogical to drive out and get stuck in jam and having trouble finding for parking all over again.



While waiting for food, mum, grandma, and I went for a little stroll around the area and we saw this little hall/gathering point which was decorated and light up in conjunction with Christmas! The Christmas tree looks permanent and somehow I remembered seeing it before from the trip prior to this one.



While waiting for the food to be served, there was this little girl walking around from table to table selling Mua Chi and I bought a box because it's been a long time since I had Mua Chi and also because I was getting hungry. Tasted okay, not as sweet as I thought it would be but edible.

We were recommended on some dishes when the waitress came to get our order:


Butter Garlic Prawn


I forgot the name of this, but it's cabbages with mushroom, small prawns and carrot.


Lala.


Baked Fish. 
It tasted like the 'Ikan Bakar' but just that they use the baking method rather than burning it? Haha.

VISIT: CHRISTMAS LIGHTS @ PORTUGUESE SETTLEMENT

 

I guess this attraction would only be available during Christmas season. Not sure if the area is as happening on other times, but so far all my trips here are around Christmas time. So, if the next time you're planning to come by during Christmas, be sure to pay this place a visit because the decorations are not something you see every day.











EAT: BABA CHARLIE


If you're using Waze to locate this place, be sure that the road name is as above. Waze took us to somewhere completely out of bound from Baba Charlie the first time, and then we tried again of a different selection and we finally found it.

Address: 72, Lorong Tengkera Pantai 2C, 75200 Melaka, Malaysia


The road into Baba Charlie is very narrow. Only one car at a time can go through. Since the place was already packed with people, we decided to park at the opposite side from this small lane and walked across.



Actually, you don't really eat here but you buy the 'kuih' (Google translate: Cakes) here. You will be directed into this small and packed room which is filled with trays and trays of kuih. A basket will be given and then you just pick whichever you want and just follow the queue all the way until the counter.





EAT: 486 BABA LOW

Address: 486 Baba Low, 486 Jalan Tengkera, 75200 Melaka


Earlier I mentioned that we parked at the opposite side from the small lane into Baba Charlie. As you walk further in that road, you'll be able to look for Baba Low. For a better illustration, refer below:





After buying the kuih (cakes) from Baba Charlie, we brought it over to 486 Baba Low to eat and also order some other food from Baba Low itself.


Nasi Lemak.
Love their Nasi Lemak as the rice itself tastes really good! And it's the first time that I see a Nasi Lemak is served with vegetables which I love it too as it's soft enough for someone who hates eating greens. Haha


Pai Tee


Nyonya Laksa

VISIT: KOTA MERAH


Not sure if it's because of the festive season or has Melaka turned into KL 2.0. Every single time when we drive out, it's always jam! Not like inching kind of jam, but standstills! Seeing the traffic moving towards town, we decided to park somewhere further out around 500m away from Kota Merah and walked towards the town instead.







EAT: EE JI BAN, CHICKEN RICE BALL

Address: 275 Jalan Melaka Raya, Taman Melaka Raya, Melaka 75000


This is my second time having Chicken Rice Ball and this is the shop which I explained that it is just down the road from the rented apartment. Not sure if there are other better ones, but personally, I am satisfied and contented by the ones served here.




VISIT: MELAKA RIVER CRUISE


See the river on the left? The Melaka River Cruise goes along all these so called canals with beautifully modified old shophouses.













VISIT: JONKER STREET 


Photo by backpackingmalaysia.com

I was so engrossed in taking footages for my VLOGs, and I totally forgot to take a picture of it! How silly of me. Anyway, we went during the night as it was just too hot during the day. And as shown in the picture, it was that packed and everyone was almost as if sticking to one another! Talk about human traffic!


Halfway walking, we stopped by a shop that sells Durian Puff which is situated along Jonker Street, next to Inside Scoop. The texture is a lot like Fried Ice Cream, but instead of Ice Cream, it's durian flavored ice-cream-like. 

VISIT: HANG LI PO'S WELL 


In the morning of our last day in Malacca, we visited the Hang Li Po's well. Pretty much a temple actually, it's just that the Hang Li Po's well is situated in the area.



I guess that's the end of my blog post of my recent trip to Malacca. Can't wait for my next travel!

VLOG:



Signing off. xx
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