Sara Shantelle Lim's Birthday Celebration 2016 at Restaurant Botanica @ Hunter Valley Wine Region, Australia!

Sara Shantelle Lim's June Birthday 2016 Celebration

Botanica Restaurant @ Hunter Valley Wine Region

https://spicersretreats.com/spicers-vineyards-estate/dining/

June 2016 - Restaurant Botanica - Hunter Valley Wine Region Australia - This year, I celebrated 

my birthday with my darling sister Lora at award-winning restaurant Botanica situated in the famous Hunter Valley Wine Region. Restaurant Botanica features modern Australia cuisine which was distinct in style and highlights the freshness of their own seasonal produce. We had a wonderful time dining at the restaurant together with girlfriend Katrina Lim and enjoyed beautiful views through the glass windows that looked out into the vastness of the vineyards. We also found some cute little pigs at the back of the restaurant near where we parked our cars and they were making loud snort noises at us demanding food I guess! The food and ambience were excellent especially the dessert tasted simply divine!

My dearest sister, Lora Christelle Lim, brought me to this beautiful restaurant in the heart of Hunter Valley. This place looks very English from both the inside and outside. It is slightly woody and very airy. It looks very spacious as they used a lot of glass to allow natural sunlight to seep into the place. 

Botanica Restaurant Hunter Valley Australia

https://spicersretreats.com/spicers-vineyards-estate/dining/

Modern Australian yet regionally distinctive in style, the menu at Restaurant Botanica is focused on seasonality and freshness, perfectly complemented by an award-winning wine list and stunning views looking out across our private vineyard to the Brokenback Mountain Range. The restaurant’s very own kitchen garden is the source of many of the herbs and vegetables that add a wholesome and healthy dimension to the dishes.

Restaurant Botanica is thrilled to have been awarded Best for Romance in the 2015 Dimmi Awards and Two Wine Glasses in the 2014 Gourmet Traveller Wine List of the Year Awards.

This place was an excellent place to celebrate my birthday. 

I loved how my birthday dessert, the dark chocolate cake and caramel ice cream melted into my mouth. For our appetizers, we had delicious mushroom soup and soft warm bread from the chef.

I had the scallops for my starters and beef cheeks for my main. I love beef cheeks, its my favourite! 

Lora ordered the Ocean Trout for her main course. 

After our meals, we took a stroll around the scenic vineyards just outside this restaurant. 

We also went to check out the Hunter Valley Chocolate Factory situated nearby!

Thank you for this beautiful and memorable celebration Lora. Love ya~ 

Add me on Instagram: @SaraShantelleLim

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Read about my awesome $40,000 Birthday Bash 

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Blogger Sara Shantelle Lim's S$40,000 Birthday Bash
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Featured on 2 June 2014
CANDYLICIOUS NEON PARTY 

Original Video Link: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/video/singapore-blogger-sara-shantelle-lims-080807098.html

Thank you!! YAHOO! NEWS SINGAPORE, for covering my Birthday Party!
This video looks damn awesome!! Cheers!!

Sneak Preview of Part 2 of Sara Shantelle's SGD$40,000 Birthday Bash

Who's that Purple Hair Dude!?

How does my 5kgs Birthday Cake look like?

Who won the 3 Diamond Rings?

OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY VIDEO 

Sara Shantelle Lim's SGD$40,000 Birthday Bash

Club Altimate at 1-Altitude

VZUALL STUDIO PRODUCTIONS

This video is made by Billy Yuen by Vzuall Studio Productions

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Thank you to my talented Friend - Billy Yuen for creating and sponsoring this cool and amazing video taken on the night of my Birthday Party held at Club Altimate. It is definitely an excellent video to capture the wonderful memories I had with all my family, relatives, friends and sponsors. If any of you need videos for events,corporate,campaigns,viral videos or wedding, I would highly recommend that you contact Billy Yuen :)

This is his page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Billy-Yuen/126152144185127

Thank you to all my friends and sponsors for being so supportive!

It was an enjoyable and memorable night!

Cheers to an epic and memorable birthday party!

Read More about Sara Shantelle's SGD$40,000 Birthday Party (OFFICIAL FULL STORY): CLICK HERE.

Sara Shantelle's Interviewed by YAHOO! News Singapore on her Birthday: CLICK HERE.

Read Sara Shantelle's SGD$40,000 Birthday Bash (PART 1): CLICK HERE.

Read Sara Shantelle's SGD$40,000 Birthday Bash (PART 2): CLICK HERE.

Read Sara Shantelle's SGD$40,000 Birthday Bash (PART 3): CLICK HERE.

Read Sara Shantelle's SGD$40,000 Birthday Bash (PART 4): CLICK HERE.

Watch YAHOO! NEWS SINGAPORE Full Birthday EVENT VIDEO: CLICK HERE. (MUST WATCH!!)

Sara Shantelle Lim
@SaraShantelleLim
www.SaraShantelle.com

New Instagram Accounts @lorachristellelim and @sarashantellelim hashtag #sgsisters #followme #selfie

Instagram - With the incredible tagline "Capture and Share the World's Moments", I am totally convinced to start an account after much hesitation as I am quite a pro Facebook user and I seriously wonder how others find time to juggle using so many different social networking platforms. After all, there must be really good reasons why Facebook would spend US$1 billion to buy over Instagram.

The Creation of Instagram - Founded in October 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger had never expected such overwhelming response from the World on this photo-sharing application. The amazing thing about Instagram is that this photo-sharing app only took 8 weeks to build and launch but was the end result of more than 1 year's work. Till date, Instagram has more than 30 million users worldwide with majority being female users. I guess it's women's nature to take beautiful photos especially of themselves in the latest SELFIE craze. Hashtag #selfie and you would see tonnes of photos posted by different people at their very best angles. With regards to taking selfies, I really wish phone companies would recognize how important it is to create a "Timer" function on mobile phones so everyone need not struggle to press the photo button at awkward positions. If normal cameras can have the "timer function", why on earth did they leave out such an important function in mobile phones???

NEW! Instagram Video - Newly Incorporated in June 2013, users can record and upload videos up to 15 seconds but honestly, I feel that 15 seconds is simply too short to convey any message effectively.

Different Types of Filters - I use "Normal" most of the time!

Instagram offers a number of photographic filters that users can apply to their images:

• Normal: No filter applied
• Amaro: Adds light to an image, with the focus on the centre.
• Mayfair: Applies a warm pink tone, subtle vignetting to brighten the photograph center and a thin black border
• Rise: Adds a 'glow' to the image, with softer lighting of the subject.
• Hudson: Creates an 'icy' illusion with heightened shadows, cool tint and dodged center.
• Valencia: Fades the image by increasing exposure and warming the colors, to give it an antique feel
• X-Pro II: Increases color vibrance with a golden tint, high contrast and slight vignette added to the edges.
• Sierra: Gives a faded, softer look.
• Willow: A monochromatic filter with subtle purple tones and a translucent white border.
• Lo-fi: Enriches color and adds strong shadows through the use of saturation and 'warming' the temperature.
• Earlybird: Gives photographs an older look with a sepia tint and warm temperature.
• Sutro: Burns photo edges, increases highlights and shadows dramatically with a focus on purple and brown colors.
• Toaster: Ages the image by 'burning' the centre and adds a dramatic vignette.
• Brannan: Increases contrast and exposure and adds a metallic tint.
• Inkwell: Direct shift to black and white - no extra editing.
• Walden: Increases exposure and adds a yellow tint.
• Hefe: Hight contrast and saturation, with a similar effect to Lo-Fi but not quite as dramatic.
• Nashville: Warms the temperature, lowers contrast and increases exposure to give a light 'pink' tint - making it feel 'nostalgic'.
• 1977: The increased exposure with a red tint gives the photograph a rosy, brighter, faded look.
• Kelvin: Increases saturation and temperature to give it a radiant 'glow'

My new instagram account has been finally set up so do follow me @lorachristellelim :) I am still figuring out how to use hashtags correctly as instagram is really new to me.

Do follow my sister Sara Shantelle Lim as well  @sarashantellelim  and even though she also just started her instagram account, she has quite a number of followers already!

@lorachristelleim @sarashantellelim #sgsisters

♥ Lora Christelle Lim ♥

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