my friday date

To me, meeting up with friends on a Friday night after a long week of work and school is one of the greatest blessings in life. Too tired of the city buzz and we decided to retreat to the most neigbourly place for dinner- Simpang Bedok. I've been there countless times but never by public transport. But thank goodness for really good instinct and some sort of intelligence from a road idiot like me, I made it without being too lost! Wohoo!

Ate at Spize since they have all sorts of cuisine and choices before a sweet treat of ice cream. Before today, I had NEVER knew they had an ice cream shop there. But on second thought, that's bcos every time I visit Simpang, it's always at odd hours when all other shops have closed =X

Ordered my fave mee goreng thai, but it's my fave no more. =S

Ice cream wasn't the best but good thing ice cream cant go any worst either.

But the waffle was quite good! (surprisingly!)

Good thing for good company though!

It's really my blessing to have such great friend. 

Looking forward to xmas! :)) 

simple fare; simple bliss

Having a bowl of hot ba chor mee can be one of the simplest bliss in the cold rainy night

Standard today kind of dipped but still a satisfactory dinner 

Yums!

friends for life

Finally meeting up with the girls! We go a long long way back and there are like one of the first few friends I've ever made in life! So the fact that we're still meeting up and keeping contact is so heartening. It's really nice how we seldom meet up and all but it feels as though we were still back in time whenever we see each other. From talking about frivolous things in primary to now talking about uni/post uni life and future plans, it's all so grown-up now. I really miss being that young all over again.

We had dinner at this crystal jade cafe since most of us have yet to try it. The milk tea is so cool with the dry ice floating and contained in a flask all potion-like. Find the tea abit too fragrant for my liking, as though I'm drinking perfume.

Food was not too bad. Visually appealing as well.

And how can we not complete the meal with some ice cream.

Lots and lots and lots of selfies. But for the fact that we seldom meet up, this is barely enough.

HAHAHA.

So happy to know how my friends are all so blissful in life, am really glad to share their happiness and joy

:)

sore eyed sunday

Sunday started out with major tiredness, bad sinus and really swollen eyes that required extra effort to keep my eye open. Had to drag myself to tuition and got my daddy to drive me instead. Not in the mood to be driving :((

Finally endured 2h tuition session where I was trying my best to avoid eye contact with everyone but my tutee is a cray cray and super kpo girl so she kept looking at me in the eye. If this eye problem is contagious hmmm... then she's in trouble.

In any case, the boy came to pick me up and we went to study today.

It's impossible to have frivolous shopping dates when he has lots of quiz and I have tons of readings unread.

And to satisfy my week-long sashimi craving, we went to get a fat slab of salmon to eat-

Just for me.! Bcos the boy doesn't know how to appreciate the freshness of raw fish.

No pictures available as I was busy gobbling them all down. Hee!

Wanted to hang out at the cafes but all these sec school kids are such hoggers, 

we couldn't get any seats at all.

So we had no choice but to head to the nearest place we could find.

Tata~

He is such a gobbler too!

Finished the entire chicken burger in like 4min.

Monster!

Ended the day with dinner at his place. 

Home-cooked food is XOXOXO

Plus we don't have to wrack our heads to decide what to have for dinner.

For now, I'm gg to rest my damn-poor-thing eyes :(

backview couple shot today bcos my eye looks SCARY and 

to not aggravate it I didn't have any makeup on lest it makes things worse

Pie tasting @Windowsill in the Woods

It's nice to have a date on Friday night

where you can be excited and have something to look forward to after work.

Met up with my pweety friend finally after several missed opportunities

in the west and some others.

Got bored of dating in the tamp particularly n decided to venture further.

Googled a little the night before and actually realised that there r a lot of nice places in the east!

We finally settled on something concrete which is good

even if minor changes take place which it did.

Haha. But in any case, I still proud of myself for being able to find the place

(im seriously bad at navigating, like seriously. ha!)

Here, our date at Windowsill in the Woods @Jalan Besar

within walking distance from lavender MRT station

A word of caution though;

when they are known for nice pies- stick to it!

I originally thought tacos were the safest thing to eat ever, but I was proved wrong.

Haha. Food presentation looks good

But I will go against ordering the taco the next time.

My shrimp taco had a sour taste that takes you aback on the first bite.

I must say that it is a rather acquired taste which takes a bit of getting used to.

Gk's chicken heart and octopus taco is even more exotic.

I first thought it would be all minced up.

However, the chicken heart came in WHOLE.

And it taste a little overpowering.

The small pieces below the cake n taco is the pieces of chicken heart

=O

The pies however, were another story altogether.

Ordered a lemon strawberry and grasshopper (mint & chocolate mousse) to share.

Loving both.

Grasshopper has a thick texture which is rather smooth and not too sweet.

Lemon strawberry was a refreshing contrast to the thick chocolate.

But gk finds it a little too sour and sweet at the same time.

But I have to complement how the staff took effort and pride in explaining each pie 

and the ingredients in it.

Very personal and friendly!

Even the toilet door/signs looks cute.

Big bear available for photo-taking. Haha.

It's a really cutesy place and I might be back for some pies next time.

But to make up for the less than satisfactory tacos, we just had to find something else.

And ended up at swee choon!

Can't believe it's the girl's FIRST TIME! 

Is that even possible! =O

Haha. But waiting time was quite short (20min) as compared to other wkends that I went.

For 2 girls, we ate ALOT! 

(spending more than $30 bucks for dimsum)(!!)

It was so YUMZZ though!

The dimsum made the day so satisfying!

And I got a lift from my very nice friend home.

Convenience of an automobile.

:))

waterplay waterday

Since it's holiday, and the weather was relatively sunny, 

I decided to stop nua-ing at home and bring the baby girl out for some water play.

From super cranky girl to super happy girl.

Life's so much easier if we didn't have expectations. I want to be a kid too!

all set to go out!

 I didn't exactly swim swim but holding her and waddling in the pool is so energy draining!

Ended the day with dinner at nihon-mura just outside because we were too lazy to go anywhere else.

And also, to satisfy my sashimi cravings!!

But food was so so. Ramen is definitely a can-miss- smells peppery but tastes absolutely bland. Any fried is not recommended as well. Probably because they use the same batter. Too flour-y for my taste.

In any case, I think today made holiday day 3 more fulfilling. Haha.
The baby girl took record time to fall aslp tonight too 

:)

mini road trip

Drove out for late dinner/early supper from his home > bedok 85 > tamp 201 for prata > pasir ris to pick his sis up > his home.

Despite almost knocking off the left mirror, being high beamed by an irritating uncle, mounting a curb bcos a taxi wldnt make way and taking a tad longer than usu to park into a lot beside a weirdly positioned curb,

ALL PASSENGERS SURVIVED!

Anw, practice makes perfect.

Give me a few more years. 

Hahahaha

wolverine

Choice 1: Go to class

Choice 2: Free movie with e rest of e dept

Was super torn between 2 equally lucrative choices and I eventually found a way to have the best of both worlds. WOHOO! Lecturer very kindly tried to finish up his revision lecture before I had to go. So super touched. And then I went to meet the rest of them at Vivocity. 

It was a corporate event organised by NSN. And more than just for the movie, I really wanted to find out how corporate events are like, just for the exposure. Imagine my amazement when I stepped into the theatres and realised that the whole cinema was filled with people in business attire. Quite the contrary from usual sight of couples and teenagers. Hahaha. We got 'C' seats which I happily thought was the last third row from the back. But well, this is GV so we are in fact sitting at the third row from the FRONT. Hmmm. Good thing for being small, my neck only had to tilt to a lesser extent. Hee! 

3D movies are not exactly my favourite because the ends of the glasses tend to poke out and when i lean back on my seat, the glasses springs run out. How annoying! The effects were alright. Wished the storyline was a little better. 

After that, we made our way to St James where the dinner was held. Buffet and free flow of alcohol. Lots of PR at work, awkwardness too. Hahaha. 

In any case, we left quite soon after the adults PR-ed with the guys who invited us bcos it got quite boring. The place was too small to feel comfortable. Ha. And then we went crystal jade for mini dept dinner. They are all so motherly in so many ways, I actually feel like a kid with them. Plus, I got a ride back home while the rest of them cabbed. 

Life's good :)

ohaiyo!

Dinner with my punk friend. 

She's abit crazy wanting to eat jap AGAIN

even though she alr had it the day before. 

But no loss to me. 

Sashimi was SO GOOD!

Spending time together too.

We were like 2 crazy girls laughing I think we totally scare off the person near us,

Best mid-week break ever

:)

4 yrs and counting

Tried to date my this very busy fren but she was booked once again.

But with a twist of events, we ended up meeting anyways.

Dinner at our fave hangout- airport!

Bcos it's so near both of our place.

Cant believe the last time we met was xmas '12 =O

Really enjoyed the company- no leng chang at all.

And we were saying how it's impossible for 2 person to hit a $50 bill

but we did it!

Impressed at the amount we eat!

Haha. 

We really need to hang out more :)

The portion is a little teeny weeny bit small

Photographs below credits to my punk friend:

chilledlemon.blogspot.sg

Love her camera, her pictures and dates with her :)

dinner date @charly's

So the bf decided to leave camp at night to have a dinner date with me since we wanted to utilise our last groupon deal that we didn't the previous time. 

Final Verdict: MISS
Compared to the previous time we went, service wasn't as good. We waited so long for the food because the waitress forgotten and she wasn't apologetic one bit.
Ordered half instead of quarter chicken so we had a drumstick and breast meat. Breast meat was significantly drier, it's so hard to swallow.
Mac n cheese was the same as the previous time- not to my taste
Tried a new side- potato salad which was really sour. The waitress had to warn us that it's sour in case we complain that it's spoilt. So, now you know how the salad tastes. We completely didn't touch that side at all

I probably wouldn't go again unless it's for the quarter chicken.

Carly's T
20 Handy Rd  Singapore 229236
6336 7789