[Tea Appreciation] Geisha Blossom Tea

It is a day after Christmas and last week of the year. I decide to finally open the last pack of Geisha Blossom Tea that I love very much. Time to reward myself. :D

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Name: Geisha Blossom Tea

Brand: TWG

Feeling: From the naming of the tea, the word 'Geisha' is already very catchy to me and due to that I always feel that this tea is very sexy. Whenever I see the tea pack, there is an illustration of geisha with a rose on her head on top of the tea pack. When I take the tea bag and smell it, it is very aromatic like I am standing very near to a geisha and my nose picks up the perfume of her body. Emotional catching fragrant. With the last pack staying in my drawer, the tea gets even precious for this whole year. It is like keeping a mistress at home. :D Today I finally decide to consume her for good before she gets rotten though I know she won't. :) She is green and fragrant with a bit of bitterness, sufficiently to keep me awake for the rest of my day. :) Always will be one of my loves. :)

TWG describes this blended tea as following:

Elegant and highly refined, this TWG blend of green tea and refreshing, ripe southern fruits infuses into a fragrant cup that will calm and appease after a day's disruptions.

[Art] Riuh @ APW Bangsar

Rich is an art market. You can find many local art works being sold here, T-shirts, handbags, artistic utensils, etc. You can find some art workshops here too where you get to learn some hands on art works. You also can lie down on the prepared seating place to listen to live musics, bean bag, chairs, etc. Whenever there is an event, there is always food and drinks. Yes, there are food stalls and drink stalls in Riuh too. :)

This market was started on August 2017 and will be conducted monthly on one of the weekend of the month. To know which weekend of the month, you may visit their website to find out. Temporarily you can find them in APW Bangsar until at least May 2018.

You also can book a store to sell your stuff here. The booking can be done through their website also.  So if you are an artist or a part-time entrepreneur, here is your chance to try something out. :)


Event details:
Venue: APW Bangsar, subject to change after May 2018
Website: http://www.riuh.com.my/
Ticket: Free admission
Opening Hours: 10am - 9pm

Period:
- 2017: Sessions ended
- 2018: Jan 20 - 21, Feb 10 - 11, Mar 24 - 25, Apr 21 - 22, May 10 - 20.

Tea Tasting

Tea Tasting

Tea Tasting

Craft Workshop

Craft Workshop

  

Craft Workshop

Craft Workshop

[Art] Arts & Lights @ Icon City

The event took place at Icon City. If you are photoholic, this is the very nice event for you. They made the whole place light up with beautiful lighting design with many colors and lighting fitting like roses, sticks, dots, etc.

It is also a heaven for the kids as there are activities that sure catch kids' liking. The interactive coloring which can be done with parents, then scanned into system to where their coloring is shown in a big screen and upon clicking it the colored vehicles will be flying or responding. Cool! On the center of the event also a dancing water fountain that is a heaven to the kids, where they get to play with the water and rush into the rising water for an exciting breakthrough. I am 100% sure they like it, because when the water is out and that is when the sad faces come out. :D

Couple with the event also, audience is introduced with the new properties in sale from Mah Sing. There are D'sara Sentral in Sungai Buloh, Lakeville Residence in Jalan Kuching, Meridian @ Medini in Iskandar Puteri Johor and definitely Icon City in Petaling Jaya which is where the event is hosted. If you are looking for a property, you might want to consider coming to this event too. Enjoy the event while getting a deal on. ;)

Event Details:
Venue: Icon City
Period: 19Nov - 24Dec
Website: https://www.artsandlights.com.my/
Ticket: Free admission but need to get the ticket, it is available in website

【思考。Think】苦也不过如此。Bitterness is as normal

尝试过苦的味道，就会知道苦也只不过如此，没什么好可怕的。
After you have tasted the bitterness, you will know that bitterness is as normal and nothing to be afraid of.

【思考。Think】还没开始就别放弃。Don't give up before you even start

如果还没有开始，就因为有的没的而放弃，会不会很傻呢？如果能够在一堆负面批评里闯出来，终极感觉一定会好过躲躲避避的无奈。
If you choose to give up before you even get started, isn't it silly? If you are able to walk out out an environment full of negative critism, the ultimate feeling will definitely be better than the helplessness feeling from hiding.

[Tea Appreciation] Steaped tea boutique

I am a tea lover. I am especially love western tea, which typically has its tea mixed with dried fruits, dried flowers or dried herbs that provide additional aroma to the tea.

Encounter with Steaped, is like meeting the right one. Finally, I found the tea mixed with fresh plants (fruits, herbs, flowers). How excited!

Steaped has wide range of teas especially blended teas. There are also pure herbs drinks and pure tea drinks. Their tea leaves are mainly imported from foreign countries. They have a list of signature drinks which are mainly blended teas with fruits, herbs or flowers, just like this lemongrass grind.

I like that they are being sincere. They blend the tea with fresh ingredients in their signature drinks. Lemongrass tea, for example, does not taste as great when blended with dried lemongrass. Steaped blends it with fresh lemongrass, the freshness of the lemongrass in the lemongrass grind is so strong and aromatic that it feels healthy to drink it. It is tallied with their website information, where they are creating healthy drinks. Cool! :)

I would say Steaped's blended teas are very unique, at least I haven't discover any tea drinks blended with fresh ingredients in anywhere in Malaysia nor other countries that I went (Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Europe and South East Asia). If you do, please let me know. :)

If you like blended tea like me, go try their signature drinks today. :) They sell loose tea as well, do bring back some if you like their teas. :) You can locate them here, they are now in Pavilion Kuala Lumpur, Sunway Velocity Mall and One Utama Shopping Mall.

Steaped signature drinks

Various tea leaves

Various tea leaves

Steaped @ One Utama Shopping Mall