Sunday 12/2/23
I joined GF on a Sunday morning at Sentosa for a perfume making workshop at Scentopia.
Scentopia is situated at Siloso Beach (former WaveHouse). You can take Sentosa Express, alight at Beach Station and walk over to Siloso Beach.
The session started off with a personality test to find out the scents that suits your personality. The scents are grouped into five categories - Citrus, Fresh, Floral, Woody and Oriental. You can choose the perfume scents according to your test result or just choose the scents you like.
Although my personality scent was Woody, I chose the 10 scents according to the scents I tested and liked, floral and woody formed the majority (3 each out of the 10 scents).
There are over 6000+ scent wands of aroma oils that we can pick from. We were to choose 10 types of scents to customise our unique fragrant of perfume.
Testing out all the scents to pick my top 10 favourite for perfume making.
Perfume is an essential in my life as I rarely walk out of home without spraying perfume on (unless I am in a rush), the fragrance acts as a finishing ritual to my preparation.
Fruity scent is one of the scent that I am leaning towards, something I will opt for when going for casual occasion because I love sweet smelling scent. Hence, I picked one scent from the citrus corner.
We were given a paper cup when we pumped the aroma oils based on the selection we choose and blend the oil together to have a sense of how the final product of our perfume will smell like. After satisfied with the scent, I handed my selection form to the perfumer who will convert it into a 100ml (worth $125) bottle for us to take back home.
Other than perfume making perfume, Scentopia offers range of aroma products such as perfumes, reed diffusers, scented candles for sales. This corner is for the scents inspired by Singapore Memories such as orchid scent, suitable for tourists to buy back home.
Thanks GF for the photo and for bringing me along to the workshop.
Friday 24/2/23
I had my first Go-Kart racing experience at KF1 Expo. It was a once in a life time experience for me because I have never expected it to be so fun, experiencing what is it like to be a F1 racer.
The go kart circuit at Expo boosts a length of 750m and 16 corners with many sharp turns. We watched a video on the safety precaution on how to operate the go-kart.
I was assigned to the last kart, kart no. 6. It was quite hard to get into the kart, need to find the correct place to step inside. The kart was quite easy to operate, we just need the steering well to turn the direction, right foot is to accelerate and left root is to brake. Each round is 10 minutes.
The go kart racing was a surreal encounter, I love the adrenaline rush when I did all the sharp turns and it was thrilling as though we were flying around the track. The friendly competition with the other players have increased the fun of the race as we strike to do our best. I finished off in 3rd position during the practice round.
For the qualifying round, I performed better and I got the hang of controlling the kart. I finished off in 2nd position in a 9 players match. It was tough to put the fun and excitement I'm feeling in words. Now I'm utterly in love with playing go-kart and I can't wait for the next time I try it.