food indulgence

another food post...
which is what i have been pretty much doing lately..
meeting frens to check out new interesting places.. fabulous cakes n cookies (which seriously is not one of my craze..), endless brunch sessions, high tea, dinners...

不肥是假的！！！

brunch with my fav gers on a saturday morn... 

went to wild honey for this.. had it once and i tink its quite fab.. but the serving was HUGE... too full for words.. 

but we went to Carpenter and Cook after that still -_- dun ask me how.. but we managed to continue eating thereafter.. 

it was quite a difficult session for mi to wake up.. therefore no pics of me because i did not have the energy for make up.. 

i slept at 530AM BECOS OF MJ.. and had to wake up at 700 (but snooze till 8 den i woke up with a start.. that explains y no make up..) to meet my gers at 9am.. 

an impromptu ketupat cum hokkein mee session at my hse downstairs..
who can imagine 6 ketupats for supper?!?! none of us can actually.. but the very cute bf of xuan ordered 4 more ketupat on top of the 2 we had juz ate..
i am NEVER a ketupat fan.. n i ate the most ketupat record of my own for that night.. although i cant grumble much because the remaining is stomached by the very cute bf of xuan.. HAHAHAHAHA

yes, on top of 6 ketupat, he ordered ONE full chicken, chicken cutlet (by me) and of cos satay and TWO BIG plates of hokkein mee..

the very cute story is the poor bf tot that sian n her hubby were not leaving THAT soon.. he got a shock when he came back from ordering and sian was preparing to leave..
nonetheless, everything became his supper of the supper for that night..

I have to mention this! because jus one try from sian's courtesy and i fell in love with pine garden's brownies..
i am never a sweet tooth person.. but when it comes to these brownies, i cannot resist..
its so soft and chocolaty inside that you MUST definitely try if you have not..

Another cake that makes mi succumb is the chocolate pound cake from Freshly Baked at Killiney Road.. no pic because all were devoured before any pic cld be taken.. or rather i forgot about taking pic la..
thats another paradise food..

now that i have all the time in the world, i went exploring some places with xuan.. she brought me to this coffee place at some old school old school place.. quite vintage and i like it... though im not much a coffee person..
artsy feel.. i like being in artsy feel places.. n wish i had my camera with me.. hahaa

and finally the brunch from the artsy coffeeplace...

i feel like i can really lead a countryside life.. everyday just spend my day away enjoying life as it is... but too bad SG is a place where you will wake up to reality very soon..

festive season celebrations

yes, kind of first post of 2012.. not counting those sale posts...

one year has once again gone by in a flash... i realize the older you get, e faster time passes by...

once again, im here to do a long post because i seem to get into a habit of not blogging for the longest time..

for a while, i find myself wif nth interesting to blog.. crappy life n lost for words..

for no reason today, i suddenly felt inspired to upload some photos that i have taken over the festive season in 2011.. to show off of cos the two cutest babies from my two darling frens..

i <3 these two babies to my utmost heart...
somehow by seeing them, all the troubles for the day flew away.. playing wif them keeps mi happy.. when i c e happiness in their face, it cheers me up tremendously..

had dinner at this place called jpot in vivo city.. recommended by jer.. so there it is for her bday treat... haaa.. e funny part is all of us tot it was a steamboat buffet.. i was preparing myself in the morning not to eat so much for breakfast and lunch... halfway through the day, in e chat, jer den told us that it was ala carte order.. pengsan.. i nearly fainted..
but okie la, otherwise i wldnt noe how many luncheon meat i hav to eat to recoup if it was a steamboat buffet.. basically e whole grp felt that bringing mi to steamboat is a waste of money becos i ate e cheapest food there..
(and what's worse.. i've been craving for luncheon meat ever since tat steamboat.. when BF suggested to have a twosome steamboat at hm, i was so happy that i cld buy an entire can of luncheon meat n have it all by myself.. what happened was when the luncheon meat was bought, we cld not find any can opener at hm.... -_- can u imagine the thousand storey fall of disappointment...)

then i found my love for moscato... i had my first taste of moscato back at a fren's hse.. after hearing SO MANY raves about how nice moscato is.. when i tried for the first time, seriously i was darn disappointed.. how can it even be nice?! so for the longest time, i was wondering izzit because moscato was drank from a normal cup which spoil the taste to the max..
after dinner, we took like forever to reach wine company becos of the many distractions along the way.. this is one of the distractions which took up so much of our time.. hahahaha

all the beautiful lightings along the broadway (is that what its called?)

it actually feels great.. to be taking photos once again.. i haven been taking photos for the longest time.. i dunno y either.. it juz nv happened as frequently as last time anymore..

anyway, back to my moscato... e gers decided to order one moscato since it sld b e mildest among all..

i tried and I LOVE IT!! one of e sweetest wine i have ever tasted and i din resist the sweetness.. (although i felt reali sinful aft drinking...)

actually until now i cldnt figure it out if e first time is reali due to e cup issue... hmmmmm...

its has been a wonderful ending to my 2011, spent wif my dearest gers n their fam... i always like e chill out sessions with them.. and very thankful for my bunch of gers be it JC or sec sch for always being there for me through all the down down periods...

<3 <3 <3 you gers to the max!

to dearest yun - part 2

all in the months of preparations had came to a close in a flash in one day...

a lot of feelings involved especially on the exact day, seeing my best buddy changing her status officially to mrs tan..

i tot i can grow to be stronger after being involved in other close buddies wedding..

i tot its as simple as trying to control the emotions from flooding, just try my might..

i tot aa, i have improved a lot by not dropping any tears when i watched e video montage...

but it broke me when i hear ur speech on stage... the uncontrollable urge to flood caved in n e floodgate opened... even until today when i replayed ur speech in my head, when the memories of our grp friendship flash back, the tears have a way of their own to fill my eyes..
i was even at the table, half praying to myself "pls pls, dun say so much touching stuff, else my tears cannot stop.."

then my dear BF said its abnormal if i dun cry -_-

but in e end im glad u did.. becos its indeed a very good speech...



i am truthfully and awfully touched by ur words last nite... especially Friends Forever... it takes a day to make a lot of frens but a lifetime to find true frens that will stick to u... and u and my many other sisters r worth a lifetime to keep in my life...

juz like u hav been to be there for me through gd and bad, i will also be there for u through all the good and bad (but of cos many many good for u in the future...)

honestly i even had that momentary moment of the urge to cry when i saw u hugging ur mum in the morning.. so i escaped into the room before i embarassed myself further..

and lastly i wanna thank you for giving me the chance to be your jie mei for ur BIG day.. hence i was able to participate in the many discussions and preparations for your wedding..

the preparations towards your wedding has been one of the most enjoyable process throughout this period of time to keep me going through the horrible work..

thanks for the photo shoot back in NUS.. it brought back many good memories...

thanks for the many many things you have brought to my life ever since u came into it..

it is, in very truthful words, that i have attended one of the best weddings in my life.. and very happy to know (even though its juz momentarily) JM's decent bunch of bros on ur wedding day..

lastly, thanks to the bunch of jiemeis that stay in my life throughout :D

to dearest yun

its time to get excited once again for a lifetime close buddy once-in-a-lifetime event...

all the planning and preparation has gotten me quite excited amidst the busy till siao work...

what is e most impt is to see tis close buddy to be blissfully married n stay blissfully happy in her marriage life thereafter.. i tink tats one of e most a woman can ask for in their life - to find a good partner to 扶持 till the end... although i know she has her own reservations, dear yun - it will b FINE.. just be urself..

its v funny how our friendship started.. for the last two years of sec sch life, we had never been close.. though we were just seated three seats away from each other.. fact is we barely exchanged much words.. because mi being the more outspoken and daring one during those days and she being the meek and quiet ger in class (LAST TIME, hahaha), we had very minimal interaction.. to the fact also that she was seldom able to join us during outings which contributed to the lack of interaction..

but our fate started (i reali forgot exactly how..) when we went to the same JC together after first three months.. for dunno wat reason, somehow we seem like those long lost frens managed to find each other once again in the sea of lost souls (okie, v drama...), we clicked........ MADLY........ we started our incessant chatting over the phone after sch... worked the same part time jobs during our sch holidays... and because i find tat its v comfortable to be just with her.. i can tell her anything under the sun, the moon or the stars... she's a simple ger with the patience as BIG as the ocean to listen to my complains and woes... in fact, i tink she's one of those gers where there are hardly anyone who will find it very difficult to get along with.. she has never thrown her temper at mi before even when i was in my obnoxious mood at times...

she contributed to the many best parts in my jc life thereafter.. until today... it gratifies me alot that we stay together through so many years even though work and relationship have indeed driven us apart (err, slightly??)... changed our thinking... changed our lifestyles.. but the effort is unspeakable...

u noe, i still misses those days a lot where the two of us will impromptu-ly meet up for our favourite movie date.. and scare ourselves to death wif those horrible thai, korean, japanese horror movie.. at first there's still rong who joined us.. subsequently it became juz me n yun to those horror movies.. the movies we have watched together are uncountable and our taste for movies are so alike so much so that we spent nearly every wk watching movie together... those times in Dark Waters, A Tale of Two Sisters, Saw (dunno saw no wat liao becos there r simply too many SAWs), Hills Have Eyes, Resident Evil (which subsequently we din watch 3 & 4 together anymore) The Eye, Many Thais horror movies and the recent Drag Me To Hell.. many many more la.. cannot rem le.. already say memory no gd.. those r reali gd memories where i would hide my eyes n ask her "how? how? how le?" den both of us wld scream hysterically in e cinema and felt shiok abt it becos we dun care who were irritated wif us... when i started to tink back, its worth the nostalgia...

the phone conversations we had in those days that always warrant either her parents or my parents to nag at us to stop our conversations.. now becos of various reasons, we hardly do... the fact tat i always cry to her at the lowest pt in my life, she's always there to listen...
i still treasure the sometimes impromptu chilling sessions when both of us can make it due to her erratic work hours previously.. work reali has a way in changing many ppl's life...

to my dearest fren in this lifetime - i hope i can still get to be frens with you the next lifetime, the next next and the next next next and forever and ever... thanks to fate for bringing us together else i will never have the chance to get to know you even better...
i hope we can stay this way... no matter marriage, family or work or whatever is in the way, it will never obstruct our road of friendship.. here i wish you to an eternally happy marriage and i will stand out for u together when your hubby bully u wif his eloquent talking (HAHAHA)


work has in many ways make us more n more tired to spend the time together as well as the time being divided to spend with our partners...
nevertheless thanks for making me part of your circle and staying in mine :) i do love u always.. ha ha ha..