a medditerrean affair

Celebrated the only June baby's bday (in our clique that is, i have like at least 6 frens celebrating bday in the month of June). So according to bday gal's wish, she demanded a dinner of med food, which was kind of exotic bcos i nv had the chance to.

Went to Club Med, located @ basement of Orchard Central. Funny how i walk right past it every twice a week but nv did try to walk into it.

The restaurant has quite a nice ambience, dim orange lights, candlelights on the tables and stuff. Concept of the place is like Marche, Ramen Champion tat sort. Given card, buzzers and a whole array of booths selling idiff areas of diff cuisines. Rather spoilt for choice and eventually settled for something really safe bcos wen tried it before- Duck Leg Confit, which was safely yummy!

buzzers of diff nations. tw's rang e moment he put it down. HA

what a spread. even looking at it makes me salivate!

duck leg confit above. Rosti below

So all of us bought a different dish from a different stall and then we ate them all together. Which i think is a brilliant idea cos we get to try a much wider range of dish! The Hawaiian Pizza was visually appealing with its thin crust and e spread of ingredients on it with yummy colours. But well.. not exactly the best dish. Slightly bland and not unforgetable. Lamb and beef kebah was yums though i dun really like these two kind of meat. But if gf deb was constantly picking pieces of meat from the dish, it prolly meant that it was good. Grilled Sea brass ordered by Ced was not that bad too, although he kept insisted that sea beam might turn out even better if not for the fact that the person who took e order head wrongly. Tsk! But it was still good. Tender and juicy with a crispy texture from the fish skin.Last but not least we had the Rosti with sour cream. Slighlt bland after all the savory food so slight disappointing.

So after dinner after some chit-chat, we decided to have an internal poll of the most memorable and must-come-back dish. Majority voted duck leg confit!

And then we had the best part of after dinner- desert! Look at all the yummy colours. Beyond words. But  of all things, ced chose a banana cake which i absolutely hate. (BANANA! How gross is tat :S)

Had a mini song singing, cake cutting after that. But bcos there wasnt any candles, we decided to make do with the candle on the table.

And ced being ced, made us do stupid things with the "in-use" stone. HA!

Followed by lots of talking, walking, cam-whoring. All photo taken by my pretty Leica but koped from ced's blog cos all edited alr. Hee

Supposed to be movie session but i heard there werent seats left n they decided to trek to bugis and take long bus ride home. IDK why. But it must be crazy tw's idea. Lol.

So on the other side of the island, went off to meet bf and his friends. It's funny how we're all classmates/ schoolmates at one point or other but that's just it. Frankly speaking, if we ever broke up, would i ever see them ever in my life? 99.9% Nope! It's not me being pessimistic, emotional or anything like that. It's just a plain truth that we need to realise. And the vice versa applies. Just a sudden qn that popped into my head and i ans-ed it myself. See, think abt it urself.

Didnt do much actually, hang ard, went to forbidden city (haven step foot into Clarke Quay for dino yrs) and  then slack at starbucks.

Slightly peeved by some stuff and den head home at 3-ish in the wee hrs. Think im getting old ba. Happening night life isnt exactly my kind of lifestyle anymore.

aloha~

Attended Jaz's 21st bday party today. And i think it's pretty amazing we're still in contact bcos we knew one another since primary school, and the 2 of them since kindergarden. It's like we're a family now more than just frens. Instead of lingering ard e bday day, we actually find ourselves catching up with her siblings and parents more than anything else. It's kind of nice. 

We dun often, we might not chat much, but we share such a funny and weird rship we just glue back into shape right when we see each other. 

:)) 

old is gold

Met up with cherie love to make jaz's bday card. Though we're both really not artistic at all, i think we did quite a decent job.

Love how dun meet often but instantly connect like the good old times.

Really enjoy the catching up and so so so happy for her! :))

songbird

Special day-out with bf today, specially booked like a week ago. :)

Made our way esplanade to join in this event called "songbird", which was uber cool! The storyline goes like this...

A young talented local singer is supposed to have a debut here in spore, however a series of events happened and cause her to be uncertain abt appearing at e event. So the point is, we are gg to backtrack what happened on that fateful day, following her footsteps.

And guess what, we borrowed an ipad each! The company is totally generous, high budget and trusting. So we just had to access to this ipod app called songbird and then embark on our adventure.

First stop was Fullerton Hotel and they did really good partnership with them cos we cld get in and really walk ard. And then we were walking all ard the area, listening to the earphones and it will just keep telling stories or showing footages of wat happened. Totally amazing! We even got to sit inside this limo! and had free ice cream! Super fun day! And then there were all the nice pretty things all ard for the arts festival. Feel so arty farty all of a sudden! The flea was good too but rushing to watch MIB3 so not much time to rummage thrgh.

=D
 
 

riding, wind, sun

Despite the insane weather, we decided to carry on with the plan.

Cycling for the 2nd time after i learnt. The tamp eco green garden is  no joke. I thght i could feel my legs falling apart.

uss

not exactly the best bday i ever had, but just grateful for all e things in my life that i can be grateful for.

thanks :))

pre bday celebration day 2

Got woken up by loud popping sound, for a moment i thght there was renovating near by house. Then it struck me that i was still at the chalet. How retarded. Ha.

So apparently daddy was bursting all the balloons from last night. Got up, helped to clear and move all e things to the car before leaving. Well, didnt exactly have a gd night slp though we were so very exhausted. Mummy told us to leave a light on throughout the night. But guess what, a single light on was light trying to sleep with the sun right above your head. No kidding. And it's funny how we so persistently tried to heed my mum's word. Till bout almost 5am we thght this cnt go on and finally off the lights and KO-ed almost instantaneously. Seriously.

Had breakfast @changi area before heading home. Funny how even though we're really really tired we couldnt nap any more. Hence, bf decided that we should go cycling. Fyi, i just learnt cycling late last yr. Cycling experience- twice including the one when i managed to learn. Bf wanted to go on a cycling trip to cycle on ROADS which was strongly refused by me bcos im not exactly 21 yet n i dont really want to kill myself before that. So rented a bike at sun plaza park and went all the way to tamp eco green garden which wasnt a good move. Cycling on grass is insane for a beginner like me. For every 3 trees distance i had to take a break bcos my legs r killing me!

Managed to survive it and cycled to pasir ris park. What a feat for a newbie like me! :)

Both got home, took a nice long shower before meeting again during evening. Wanted to catch a movie but no slots. :( Long story cut short, ended up dinner @85 with his parents. You must be wondering how our date got there. Ha!

N then it was more nua-ing at his place, watching silly shows.

My last day being 20.

pre-bday celebration day 1

It's funny how everybody keeps telling you "happy birthday" when it's not your birthday at all. And for quite a big moment, i almost believed it was my birthday too. Ha. The day started out in a M.A.D rush. Plan was to go for tuition, get back, change and doll up and then off to the chalet. But what's life if things go just the way you wanted them too. Obviously plan to go tuition folded, and all the subsequent steps behind them fall like a domino. Instead, went to pasir ris hopping to get my nails done despite not making any appt (made appt for ytd but well, it folded too =/) Obviously things didnt go as planned. Shortage of manpower, nobody wants to do my nails. Another mad rush to the simei, saw like 5 very free prc women chit chatting at e counter n saw a glimpse of hope. Guess what, they said they were busy. What nonsense! Decided to give up doing nails although, on the way to the bus stop, saw another nail parlour. And wohoo! they r willing to do express mani and pedi for me. Didnt have the luxury of time to do classic anyway.

 Nice lady but the lightning in the shop is SO MISLEADING. The orange light totally made my perception of colours fuzzy bcos e colour was not what i wanted when i saw in normal white light. But for the very least i had well maintained nails, so not complaining.

 Another mad rush to the chalet. Thank god for joel for drove us there, as my parents being super duper kan chiong spiders, have decided to leave in my aunt's car. This leaves the only driver at home my bro-in-law, who is still not ready cos my big sis is such a slowpoke. So hitch a ride from joel who was super duper nice to fetch all my nice helpers/buddies deb, wen, ced, tw n sw to the bed. And you're right, 7 of us in a five-seater. It's such a miracle that we made it to the chalet in one piece!

 Chalet was in a CHAOS bcos my parents being really kanchiong spiders got my relatives to come as well. Mind you, offical time for party is 730pm. =/ You know how many cook spoils a broth. That's right. This got my perfectionist sis who has a artist temper(if u know wat i meant) really angst n crazy. But still, we made it through with some hiccups here and there. But all's well! Thanks to my helpers who really put in their hard and sweat with the stubborn balloons that i cldnt blow, and all the diy decorations. :)

Lots of groups came in gradually and they all just brought back so much vivid memories i ever had growing up. It was SUPER NICE to see everybody, all these ppl who meant so much to me. And then it was another round of mad rush, jumping from grps to grps hoping to catch up as much as possible. Somebody remind me why i dont host parties. The only good thing is i didnt get a single mozzie bite. Plus i was so caught up in the action, i wasnt even hungry from not having dinner at all. Fyi, i only had one curry puff for lunch.

Finally sent off the last group of ppl, n totally collapsed at the dining table. Ate a little, cleared the place n den went to wash up for bed. Looked through my made-with-lots-of-love scrapebook from my boy n was really really touched. Read through all the things that each of you wrote and all the decorating you took time to do really got me teary. So thankful and utterly blessed for knowing each n everyone of you. And those who stayed on the other side of the rainbow, those who got really really lost, those who walked like crazy and all of you who turned up. Thanks a million.

Filled with lots and lots and lots of love :))

disheartened

sometimes i wish u cld learn to trust a little more, trust the decisions i make, trust my rationale behind them.

bracefreeeeee

IM BRACEFREE! This is totally bizarre.. Kind of miss my braces, excluding the pain, ulcers and all the hassle of having food stuck and stuck. It's just so WEIRD. Still in the midst of getting used to my new look. Teeth is extreme clean and sparking after the cleaning. Gonna abstain from coffee for at least a month, just to keep it nice and white. Hahaha My braces are one day short to becoming 22 mths old. Same as army. 1yr 10mths. =D

Had a truly fulfilling week!

Friday night was spent meeting long lost friend, yz, whom i have yet to meet/contact since 2 months ago. Finally had my first taste of Nando's. And we caught a super lame b-grade jap horror movie. Super epic day! Feels like old time :))

Sat was spent with secondary schools frens/east side gang. Supposed to catch the Titanic exhibition but in the end e plan sank. Hahaha.Long story but we still had a great dinner/supper.

Sun was spent finishing up my assignment. Uber efficient! :))

random

had a surpise visitor last night. heard e door opened and thought it was my sis who jus got back. But got a shock of my lif when i saw bf walking in. It was like 10min past midnight. So insane. Apparently watching the last few epi of pillow talk knocked some sense into him. Ha. Like how his dad was holding his mum's shoulder while we were at the airport e other day. So cute.

I think i've become braver without bf ard.

1. i've survived being stranded with his parents when he checked in for tw.
2. i took the first ever blood test in my life
3. i watched the second horror film in my life (in theatres that is) (even though it's rather b grade)
4. i just think im brave

And now, im gg to go survive a car ride and at least an hour of waiting with his parents before he lands.
=/

i-light

Haven been here for like a million years but it's too pretty not to talk abt it...

It's like 8pm at night but but we're driving into city. So much convenience a car brings. Went to check out the art installations laid all over at the marina platform. Truly awesome! So prettyyyyyy. Not exactly a true appreciator of art but i think im visually sound and qualified to look at pretty things.

GOOD night :)

i cried a little, u died a little

Escaping is an easy way out

But there's no closure, no answers

Nothing.

when u can no longer see what the futures hold ahead for you

when life's a riddle u cant solve

st valentines

vday on a wkday is when u haf a simple dinner with e one u hold so dear to
when u thght he'll be so caught up with work u wldnt see him.
no need for flowers, no gifts(cos alr exchanged days ago. haha), no gimmicks
just to see each other :))

some fatty n ah yi(me!) bonding time :))

Prawning session @Punggol

Going on a holiday means letting time pass u, enjoying the new environment, getting away from everything

Saying hi from genting~

coundown

Had an awesome countdown this yr bcos jostling with crowds were minimal and no need to take public transport! WOHOO! Best thing in the world!

Started the last-day-of-the-yr day at bf's hse doing my assignment. So ridiculous right. Oh well.

Then, Had dinner together with e guys at katong area cos cy suggested to try this famous indian cuisine near katong. Found the place but we had some trouble ordering cos we cldnt figure out wat's wat. Haha! N when e food came we were in shock! Portion was pathetic but i guess it's worth paying for e atas experience. Dinner round 2 at fat boys further down e road. Food was yummy! Portion real huge. Good thing i shared the chilli cheese fries with reb or i'll become fat gal.

Drove off, n bravely into city despite the risk of traffic jams. Haha. Not tat bad. But navigating ard the place was hard with all the road blocks and closures. N we did a ultra scary jaywalking across the road under the marina squ bridge. I swear i cldnt open my eyes while i was pulled along. Didnt have time to get a high spot by midnight so we stood stranded abt 200m in front of mandrian hotel. N guess what. we had the best spot in the world! fireworks were working their ways right before our eyes. Even the not very tall person like me had a good view and it was spacious albeit a little humid.

The fireworks were INCREDIBLE! Even better than those on ndp's!

N then it was otw to clark quay. The crowd was overwhelming! Scary max. N i left my ic on the car, so no clubbing. hahahaha. Which is a gd thing! So went to chill at cafe iguana cos everywhere else was TOO PACKED. The music there sucks! They think it's funny to cut off e music so ppl can sing along to it every few sec. But it really sounded as though they had a bad stero =.=

Love love love fireworks. Im sure 2012 would be a blast jus like the fireworks! :)

last photo of e yr.

cd's yummy lava cake with wild strawberry ice cream

that me n reb kept koping. damn gd!

PRETTY!

2012

Cant believe 2011 is over already. Still in disbelief actually and i bet i'll still be writing the date as 2011. Guess it'll take some getting use to. Haha

You know how ppl like to reflect what they've done for the past yr, what they want to improve, n what they wanna accomplish the next yr, but for me...my memory is SO BAD, that is out of the qn! All i could rmb was that i haven touched books for like almost the entire year! But all e different work experiences, and interaction with different ppl from all walks of life has made my 2011 a much worthwhile and enriching one. Picking myself up from e previous yr of unhappiness and losing the composure and confidence i once had. Not forgetting all the big and small fights when it comes to matters of the heart. But im glad i made it through.

Felt e same way gk did, that 2011 haven been the best yr for us. But a new yr brings new hopes, new aspirations, n new beginnings. Im sure 2012 would be an awesome one. I'll promise to be a better daughter, better sister, better friend, better student (no more ponning classes :p), better tuition tcher, better ah yi, better gf n everything else than ever. I know it's gg to work out bcos i dun get mad at bf the way i use to anymore. Getting more tolerance and compromising than ever. For better or for worse we shall find out in the yr to come.

Happy new yr! Happy bday mummy! =*