Coz love (and soup) is the cure for any sickness..

I'm currently attacked by a bad headache and so I won't write much today. Anyway, if your loved ones are also currently sick, do something for them! Words like "Take Care" or "Get Well Soon" don't really guarantee anything.

Why don't you make some soup? Yes, make. Not buy. Give in some effort. Make the soup with love, and well.. As the title say... Love (and creamy hot soup!) is the cure for any sickness.

Oh I know some of you can't cook. Haha. Nevertheless, here are two videos from VideoJug that can teach you how to make soup. They also have the list of ingredients needed.

Here's how to make cream of chicken soup..

How To Make Cream Of Chicken Soup

And here's how to make cream of mushroom soup..

How To Make Cream Of Mushroom Soup

VideoJug has loads more of useful videos! Don't forget to check them all!

This is not a sponsored post. It's mainly because I love VideoJug so much. It even helped me to learn how to wear blusher! :D

Trust me, try and make some soup. It's simple, yet thoughtful, and your loved ones will be impressed by your effort... ;)

*cough cough* signing off...

Toy Love - part 2

Remember the picture I posted together with a love quote yesterday?

Apparently the picture has an after story! And here it is!

An amazing photo from Capt Kodak ^^

Today's Love Song - The One

Ugh. Seems like I'm addicted to love songs with "the one" in the lyrics. LOL.
Today's love song is from one of my favourite singers, Shakira. Although I can't understand her first songs coz they're in Spanish... Hahaha..

Anyway, here's the video of the song.. The One!

Shakira - The One
Uploaded by maluciole

I like this song since the lyric is not too sappy. Well as you can tell I hate love songs with sappy lyrics. So cheap, IMO. I can make a verse of sappy love song without much effort. Haha. Anyways. This is the lyrics from the "The One".. You'll see what I mean by "not sappy". A reason to shave my legs? A reason to buy more thongs? Wacky! :D

So I find a reason to shave my legs
Each single morning
So I count on someone on Friday nights
To take me dancing again
To church on Sundays
To plant more trees
And someday think of kids
Or maybe just save a little money

[Chorus:]
You're the one I need
The way back home is always long
But if you're close to me I'm holding on
You're the one I need
My real life has just begun
Cause there's nothing like your smile made of sun

In the world full of strangers
You're the one I know

So I learned to cook and finally lose
My kitchen phobia
And so I got the arms to cuddle in
When there's a ghost or a news
That brings insomnia
To buy more thongs
To write more happy songs
It always takes a little help from someone

[Chorus 2X]

You're the one I need
You're the one I need

Youre my real life has just begun

You're the one I need
You're the one I need

Nothing like your smile made of sun

Nothing like your love
Nothing like your love
Nothing like your love

Lyrics copyright of the respective songwriter.

By the way, here's a verse of sappy love song that I just made..

Darling, I love you so
You mean the world to me
There's only one thing I want
To be together with you forever

No, there's no song that has lyrics like this.. Unless you want me to make one (haha in case you don't know I write songs! :D)

Did you like the song? Share your favourite love song!

Today's Love Quote!

I'm kinda in a hurry for preparing for some birthday dinner but I'll leave you all with a lovely love quote!

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
Ellen Goodman

Ciao people! :)

Photo by Capt Kodak

Love Song of the Day : You are the one..

As I love anything about love, it leads people to think that I'm that kind of sappy and overly romantic. In fact I'm not. Haha. Especially when I'm I kinda hate those sappy love songs actually..

Anyway.. Here's my love song of the day.

Shiny Toy Guns with You Are The One

Shiny Toy Guns - You Are The One
Uploaded by spikeyshrek

Sure, it's not overly romanticized with pretty guitar strums and sappy lyrics. What are sappy lyrics? You are the world for me.. Oh you're wonderful.. I love you so much.. You brighten up my life.. Oh well you've got what I mean. And seems like I've composed one full verse of a love song! Ehm, anyway. It's not overly romanticized but it's still a love song! A love song is a love song =)

Did you like the song? What's your favourite love song? Do share =)

New updates!

Hello all! Elleyoovee is particularly a new blog but I'm really glad that loads of you like it! I'm currently doing many hacks to further improve my blog.

Some of the hacks..

I changed my shoutbox to Shoutmix
I've been using Shoutmix for like forever. But I used Cbox previously in this blog just because so many people are using it and I wanted to test it. And that was it. The stupid Cbox gives my blog annoying pop-ups!! Obscene pop-ups! At first I didn't know what's wrong.. Everytime I load my blog, the stupid obscene pop-up appears. I tried removing my spottt (and it's still gone until now), entrecard, and what-nots. And then one lucky moment I finally realize! I looked at the pop-up to see its address. It's usually the ads service (like doubleclick, adserving something something.. You know what I'm saying) URL. But that one lucky moment the address still shows the redirection URL and I totally saw the referral URL being Cbox. I was totally pissed off!! I bet I gotta sign up for the premium or something if I want to remove the ads. But seriously? Can't they just disable some "premium feature" instead of giving websites obscene pop-ups! Grrr. Go to hell, Cbox. Hi, Shoutmix. And my I recommend to you my fellow blog friends.. Stop using Cbox dammit!!

I'm using Feedburner!

Yes, now my feed is "burned" by Feedburner. I'll be adding some chicklets soon so you can add my feed to your favourite reader and you can also subscribe via e-mail! Schweet <3

My feed : http://feeds.feedburner.com/elleyoovee

Actually that's about it. Will be blogging more soon! Please check back! I love you people <3

Heart Cupcakes! Photos Galore!

I know love is not about all things heart-shaped, but I can't resist to share this to all lovey-dovey people!

I found those very very cute cupcakes on Flickr!
(note : all images are licensed under Creative Commons license and has been linked back to the respective Flickr page)

I'm not responsible if you're getting hungry after seeing this post. Enjoy! (*stomach grumble heard from the distance*)

Swirly yummy! This one is from jek in the box

Chocolate!! It looks heavenly.. Baked with love by uplifting arts

Pink and white.. Super cute! These are wedding cupcakes.. Yes now wedding can use cupcakes too! This one is from America Candy Stand Cupcakes.

Cupcakes with candy hearts look cute too! Baked by freakgirl

Well hello, cutie :D "Heartsy" cupcakes from Nicci J.

Bluey hearts is nice too! Love how the white swirly accentuates the blue! A cute cupcake by dots treats

My favourite of the lot! Hearts overload!! So cute :D Lovingly baked by Rubyran.

Look at the little sprinkles... It's all heart-shaped! Too bad that big heart ring is not edible.. Hehe.. Photo by princess of llyr.

One little heart on yummy chocolate swirl. A cupcake by Farah Abedin.

Ok I'm getting very hungry.. So here's the last one! I will post more if I ever find more cute cupcakes! =D

Overloaded with cute hearts and sprinkles! Yum yum.. Pinky cupcake by logicalharmony.

Oh yes.. Cupcakes are great for gifts! It's the perfect thing to give on birthdays or anniversaries. Especially if you want to organize some surprise parties.. Cupcakes are so easy to carry! Cupcakes have been increasingly popular nowadays. Ordinary cakes are heavy and bulky, but cupcakes are small, nifty, and flexible! You can arrange it in any ways possible, and you can decorate loads and loads of them! (ordinary cakes only have 1 -maximum of 5- surface to decorate, right?) And you can easily share these cupcakes, and everyone will have one whole cupcake they can adore and indulge in.

I heart cupcakes!

Tell me which one is your favourite of the lot! :)

Today's Love Quote <3

Photo by Osvaldo_Zoom


Yes, if you need some sweet things to say to your dearest today... Elleyoovee comes for your rescue! :)

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin Jones

How true is it? I personally feel that love and love alone that makes me motivated to keep on cruising on my life journey. My life never stops. But there are times I feel that it's more worth living than other times. And what makes me think so? Because I've got love. I've got somebody that makes my life has a meaning. A meaning that can't be described, but a meaning indeed.

Haha ok I'm getting circular =P I shall stop. Now go and tell your honey this quote! Add the sentence "And I want to ride the world with you..".. Hahaha.

Psst.. You don't need to tell him/her you found the quote here. However, do come by often to find my selection of love quotes! I don't randomly copy-paste quotes I found online. I choose the one close to my heart and have really deep meaning. You can trust me on that. ;)

May Babies!

It's the month of May! Were your loved ones born in May? I sure know one person that was born in May, which is none other than yours truly. =P

Anyway, if you're looking for some gifts, a birthstone jewelry would be nice!

May's birthstone is Emerald. I guess there's a reason why I like green so much! Haha.

I've got some gift ideas for you luvly people.. For your loved ones of course!

Tiffany has some emerald jewelries for sale..

But of course, like many other Tiffany jewelries, this one is priced highly at USD 285.

And get ready for the prettier (and more expensive.. like duh)..

made with emerald and diamond, it's priced at USD 350,000. Now that's what I call luxury!

Well alright.. I know we're not Paris Hilton or something.. Here I found some cheaper alternatives.. The emerald jewelry collection from Bluenile.

(click on image)

Personally I think they're quite affordable. Their cheapest stuff is the love-shaped charm with a little bit of emerald stone there. It's made of Sterling Silver, so it should be shiny. They also have the pendant. Buy another piece of chain (you can buy at nearby jewelry store or well.. Just search on eBay), add the pendant, voila! A pretty (and cheap) gift for your loved ones. Use the money you saved to give her some memorable surprise birthday party. ;)

Also you can check out Amazon.com's collection of emerald jewelry. Well, they're a trusted brand in online shopping and I've browsed through the products and found quite pretty and affordable products. Not much products available though. My recommended stuff from this collection : this pretty bracelet. It's only USD 95, quite reasonable and affordable. They're currently having a promotion until May 2 11:59 PM PDT. You'll receive 20% off and free standard shipping within US. Quite a steal!

And if you want to try your luck.. Try bidz.com.

They have quite extensive emerald jewelry collection.

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It's an online live auction. If you're lucky and have a good strategy, you might win jewelries for as low as about USD 5! Personally I found this website quite exciting and entertaining. When it's only about 15 seconds left for the auction, when another person makes a bid the auction time is extended for another 15 seconds. And when another person makes another higher bid, the time is extended again. And so on.. Quite fun!

I haven't cashed out anything from bidz.com (yes i have won some auctions.. hehe). It's taking quite long to wait for 1 hour for the payment gateway to be ready. But anyway, bidz.com looks legit enough to me.

And so here's to May babies out there...

(some lame Myspace graphics. Please excuse me. LOL)

Today's Love Quote

Yes you might just need some love quotes to say to your loved ones.. =)

Here goes the quote of the day!

To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

In case you don't know it, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the writer of the famous The Little Prince.

I'll proceed to collect some of my favourite love quotes and post them here. Well.. Someday. Hopefully in near time. ;)

The Entrecard Disaster

So I was, like, you know, quite excited about this new blog.

And I misspelled my own blog address!!

Worse still, I misspelled it on my own Entrecard! Sigh..

My previous entrecard...

Oh goodness.. It's elleyoOvee, not elleyoUvee..

Maybe I made a mistake to register elleyoovee instead.. Sigh..

Now the new entrecard!

Now that's correct.

I was like dropping my cards like crazy to promote my site.. And then I wonder why the hell people are not returning my drops. My drops inbox was empty. I was on the verge of cursing the arrogant entrecarders.

And then I realize when I clicked on my own widget... It's linked to elleyouvee.blogspot.com instead of elleyoovee.blogspot.com. Goodness! So that's the reason... =(

In any case, I reserved the elleyouvee.blogspot.com and made a link to elleyoovee.blogspot.com

To entrecarder droppers.. I'm terribly sorry for my clumsy mistake! =(