Sunday Lunch with family (love it!)

when i asked sis for direction to get to col bar, she got really excited. i knew she knows how to get there cos they went there for photoshoot. i needed to get there cos i needed to go checkout the cooking school i am gog to. I booked 6 lessons and i need to know how to get there on my own! she then suggest we go have lunch there on Sunday.

we arrived early so gx went to check out the cooking school with me. it was not a huge place but i like cosy kitchens. looking forward to start! the school founder even had a photo taken with Anthony Bourdain. head over to find seats and glad we did cos it was getting crowded and the flow of people never end.

very old school. dun think can find elsewhere. there were too many people if not i would have taken some of the interior where people Q to order their food. there was a weighing scale from my memory lane from the 80s! as we couldn't get seats outdoor which seems cooler under the hut, so we sat indoors and aunt s says it reminds her of eating in a school canteen. very old school prob in the 70s!

we ordered variety of main course. Dad, mum and gx all ordered steaks. different parts thou. aunt s ordered fish, dan ordered lamb, cam had pork chops, sis and i had merryland chicken. as for bro i wrote a wrong order for him... instead of lambchops he got a mixed grill set... that came with ox liver...

chicken merryland had the most things on the plate. a fried piece of chicken. very cripsy but for me, the chicken cutlet lacked seasoning.fries and baked beans. bacon and egg. tomato and unexpected goreng pisang. the banana was so soft within the cripsy batter. verdict : i like the porkchops and lambchops better but wonder if i could order the fried bananas for desserts! anyway i would be back there for 5 times cos gog to attend class there. there are a few others to try but they seem more ex cos its italian restaurant, a restaurant or pub named cicada and a chocolate bar.

the place is unique cos its so hard to find such authentic 60-80s kampong looking eatery. very similiar to the paper wrapped chicken place. i am so glad that we siblings and partners could wake up for lunch cos we watch red cliff the nite before from 12,30am to 3am and went on for drinks at amk macD till 4am to discuss about the show! the show is good! we all loved it and looking forward to watch part 2. above all, i am very happy that dad made it for lunch before gog to work. it meant alot to me that we had full attendance for this family lunch.

buy, buying, BOUGHT!

buy, buying and BOUGHT!

thursday right after i met dap on wed... forgot to take my M&S almond cookies and mini pretzels home.... had to meet her to take my goodies home. not many like the almond taste but i love it and they have the nicest almond cookies so far... chanced upon the MINI pretzels... so tiny and i got it cos they were the tiniest i have ever got. my love for pretzels started way back from the days in Venice. they served pretzels at the pub where we had italian brandy... it was smooth and nice.

went to C&E to clear off a voucher and ended up buying a tin of cookies. walked around to kill time before meeting Joyce at novena at 4pm... walked 3hours on my own and i bot something for myself... the chocolate truffle cake at cedeles is heavens. we parted ways and i head home. i love my new blue necklace and i love it with my bright orangy red top. yah my buy was from agnes b... i need more from agnes b so i wot review what i bot... yet

Friday : slept for sooooo long. i was exhausted and needed to recharge. SO glad mum called to ask me to bring her for dinner. we walked all the way to lor 5 and she was so looking forward to eat the Char Kuey Teow. She loves the stall here and she even wanted the pork satay, chicken wings and we ordered not very nice fried oyster. but she enjoyed herself. we realised that its been a year since she ate from here. thats when grandpa passed away... its almost a year.

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Saturday : met joyce at ted. she was there to choose her wedding and evening gown material and design. the piece she chose looks good. i had to walk back to the shops i missed when i was there with dap on wed. i knew i want it and i dun want to missed it. so i had to have it! its the cake plate and set of sugar and milk jar. tea party anybody?

got something for sis and i love it. so glad i got that for her. how i wished i had it for my own wedding!!! the pen is not something i would let it pass.... it is a pretty piece , mini too! i love the colour. it cheaper than the one i want from Tiffany... that's in red thou...

wednesdays with dap!

dap is gog to off most wednesdays in July and we are gog to be partners in exploring singapore! we started with our first wednesday exploration yesterday. we walked. and i really mean we walked alot. its was nice to walk with her. its not our first time walking from one destination to the next.

met at plaza sing, walked all the way to sunshine plaza and we had dimsum at victors. just 3 dishes and hk stocking tea. we then proceed walking to get beancurd tarts. rule was now we can only get 8 in a box... whatever... we got 8. sat down and we each gobbled 2! the beancurd was soft and cold. then time to burn it. we walked uphill towards peace centre and climb on to get to an interesting place call Old School. we came here cos she wanted to check out designer wear. i got myself a tee. she spent $600 on a pants and a very nice cutez white top. throughout the day we held on to our buys in this black bag.
comme des garcons... cool shop.

we then walked down to buy 4d... haha to try to win our buys. too bad for us, our winning luck is not with us yet. took a train to clake quey and we started walking towards robertson quey to find the art gallery to see Henri Matisse's work. when i spotted this wall... had to take pics... i love decorated walls.

the art display was small. i missed the last one they had on picasso. simple stokes and u can see what he was trying to show... love it. we took a rest at a outdoor bench. then we decided to head to chinatown. we check the bus list ... no bus goes to chinatown. so we walked. got to people's park hawker centre and we settle down for a cold sugarcane drink. then we went hunting for my blue necklace. close to what i want but not the exact but better than not having it.

from circling the shops at people's park, we continue to walk towards club street... to ann siang street. popped into a shop that sells books. got these 2 fairy tale postcards. love it. they have many different a-z postcards. but to buy the whole set will be really ex! dap bot rubber dino set from another interesting concept shop. then we spotted a HUGE roll of paper... had to shoot it!

dap took alot more fotos using her lomo fishlens camera. can't wait to see her works when its printed! after the long walk, we rest our feet at ted. then we head off to have our dinner at the newly renovated chinatown market. we waited for 40mins for our claypot rice! wrong choice for 2 hungry ones! but it taste soooo good! after that we head home and we are gog to meet and chill out again next wednesday!

candy making ii

Tuesday : gals came over to have lunch with me. I cooked the hokkaido ramen i bought from the jap fair at isetan. it was miso flavoured. it was not bad. love the jap seaweed i got from the fair!

They liked the noodles alot. added japanese fish cake, mushroom meatball and cheese tofu. both never tried cheese tofu and found it interesting and nice. after the noodles we tried our hands at making candies using the "rose" mould.

these rose white chocolate turned out better than our 1st batch of smiley candies. loved the colours and this time we put almonds in them. still a little sweet. we are gog to experiment with dark chocolate next. love these roses cos very pretty.

catzzzzz

think the only cat that i ever really love is ... GARFIELD! fat, lazy, loves eatting and smart! similaraties??? HAhahaha! happened to chance upon a site that has many cutez pics of him! when i was 8, i started collecting garfield postcards! think my collection, not many just a stack still at mum's place.

he's lovable... he's got his soft side.
he can be cheeky... and

.... ... i love that he attacks his FOOD and thinks about standing on one FOOT later.



action = results!!!




i am not really a cat lover in real life.... but i live with my hubby and his family who all loves cats! i love looking how cats do their walk but not a fan when they come near me cos i am afraid of their claws... but i am glad i did live with one interesting cat before! but there is one kind of cat i detest most.... and i wonder if i would be able to learn how to ignore and accept it... overall, i love dogs better... but garfield wins odie for sure!

teatime & desserts

Just finished reading a story. took me 3 days to finish. i considered that pretty fast cos i am a slow reader. the story has lots of up and downs and a sad ending. could make many connections with the book. after this book i am gog to start reading the books i got from borders 2 weeks ago!these are not stories but more like self-improvement books.

Tea time... I planned this tea time with gx about 2 weeks ago. i chanced upon the hokkaido food fair and of cos i was excited! i bought the ramen and cooked for dinner. gx loved it and i went back to get more. then i bot an expensive packet of seaweed but yet to try it. i tried many types of mochi! love the softness yet chewy texture. i didnt take pics of mochi thou... too excited to pop them into my mouth... i was at the fair 3 times to the fair! but it was the 2nd round that i bought the most. i got Hokkaido cheesecake. a block of it cost me $11+. I got the blueberry flavoured cos the blueberry looked so big! i wanted to have tea with gx on sunday!

Its time for tea finally! last sunday was back at mum's cos sis's in-laws came over for lunch gathering. this sunday was teatime with gx! i cut the cheesecake into 2 blocks and placed them on the gold plates i just bought. this month i spent money not on clothes or bags or shoes... i got lots of kitchenware. to go with the cake i made gx his cuppa hazelnut chocolate coffee and vanilla sencha for myself. but tea was pretty unromantic... he was catching the highlights from the eurocup... but i let him watch as he enjoyed the cake. cos he started working for uncle and thus had to sleep early and unable to join the boys then to catch the euro fever in the wee hours... i let him watch the program.

for $11+ i think it was worth it to try this cheesecake. it wasnt too small cos each of us had a fair share about coffeebean's raspberry cheesecake slice. jap cheesecake has this light texture. personally i like the thicker texture cheesecakes. but this blueberry flavoured was not to bad. there were enough berries and the berries were sweet. naturally sweet tasting with not too much sugar. was too full for dinner cos i had very late lunch at mums'. i went back to massage her legs. had too little time on sat to chat with her cos gx went to play tennis with the boys and uncles at polo club - thus he came back very late to fetch me over. he was sweet enough to suggest to bring me home to see mum on sunday. for dinner i had 2 small slices of lemon tart. the lemon was sour and tangy! woooo... esp when it was icy cold. while gx went out for dinner with his fren playing aunt agony role...

took this pic at serene's wedding. the hotel had many paintings up on the wall... love the spanish dancer series but i didnt take the pics of it... this dragonfly painting caught my eyes... i like the details on the wings but i felt that there were too many colours on the painting... ... i feel like painting again...

changes and i love that some things are kept old.

thou i did mention that i would blog less but i still want to share good places for a good meal.

many things happened during end of june. good things.

i was excited to be invited to Song's and Jaz's new home-warming party. But was puzzled what to buy and cos after some discussions with mr soh and mic, they do have everything they need. i suddenly think that i could buy the gifts for the kids! got nesa to help me out. brought aunt k and nesa to Big O to have late lunch. learnt a new dish here today.

Tomato soup! i love the combi they did. they added bacon and loads of croutons! (anyway I tried cooking the soup yesterday for lunch. I had a HUGE bowl and saved gx a bowl. he doesnt really like tomato but he tried the soup i made and loved it.

their new home is beautifully done up. lots of work has been done. guess they put in alot of effort cos the renovation cost very high! it was good to see some familiar faces but yes we do feel that some people still avoid gx bah... they body gesture very obvious just that they dun know esp they kept their conversation short. haha scared? dun know but i know i am getting used to it. only those who ask him got to know he has started a new adventure but we are not out of the distribution list cos my relatives and some of his frens are still using the products.

too bad we had to leave early to meet sis cos she insisted and needed my opionions. i think its the support she needed more than opionions. so we missed catching up with people who we knew better... dun know when we will meet again. sis's wedding gown, evening gown and cheongsam - beautiful! she looked great in it. very pretty like a princess very like my sis style. she looked very sweet. love her evening gown colour very striking! lucky she took my suggestion to try all colours and we found the right colour for her!

busy day continued with dinner with old friends. gx and i was looking forward to meet soh and helen. we were very happy for them as they are having their 1st child. we head to west to eat at this korean bbq restaurant. they recommended this place and its really crowded! as we didnt make a reservation so we had to wait. their appetiser dishes were countless! our table were filled! loved some of these korean appetisers, esp the sweet potato mash. the seasoned pork was yummy with the fresh veg leaves. the mushrooms are raw tasting cos no seasoning but yummy... we didnt stop there thou just 4 of us, we ordered a seafood hotpot. the squid in it is enormous! its really HUGE! the lady cut it up into many pieces and gosh we just kept chewing it!


Monday 23rd : cut my hair every in the morning. i decided its time to chop it off cos i felt very draggy in my mid length hair... moreover i wanted to make a change to signify the new change that i was awaiting. after the cut rushed to town to shop with sis for her accessories for photoshoot. after that rushed for class. for 3 days i was in class and i was glad i attended.
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Thursday 26th : i taught 2 frens how to do the tiramisu. i did one huge tray for Pats and the rest of the group. Friday, i got my nail done at snails to attend my frens' wedding. used up the voucher given to me by my students. nice place to get nails done. ex thou! i used my voucher on manicure and a foot spa with leg massage followed by pedicure. then got home to pick up my tiramisu and went to office with it but most of them were not there. so i called patsy and out of no where we arranged dinner at her place almost immediately. learnt to do a new recipe today : doupok but must serve with pats' special thai chili sauce! its so yummy i ate so many! the chicken liver with cucumber slices was yummy. its sauce is vinegar based. it so good! love the dishes pats cooks!
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Saturday 28th: morning managed to get an hour of massage at angies. got 2 decleor massage products. my primary school mate's wedding dinner! ser got married in Switzland the month before. would have love to attend her wedding in such a beautiful country but work doesnt permit... she had a very lovely chruch ceremony and her wedding was so beautiful!


Sunday 29th : went home early to help mum with chores cos she was suppose to cook up a storm for her 2nd set of future in-laws! glad that we had this lunch cos i made contact with dad. when i saw my wedding pics... then i was really slim! hee... managed to massage for mum using the products i got from angie. after the event ended, gx was kind enough to send me to holland v to shermay cooking school to pick up my cocoa powder for tiramisu and 65% equtorial chocolate and oso white ivory chocolate - gog to do more candy with nesa. this time we are gog to do roses candy. got a new bottle madadasgar vanilla paste. was so glad shermay was having sale on these items! went to isetan to pick up more hokkaido ramen!
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This week - its gog to be homely week. laundry week! got tons to handwash! changed bedsheets! gog to finish up angie's spa projects, rearrange room stuff, pack up and cooking! need to clear alot of things that i still owe others! burn photo cds for family... so many events!!! also i have been using the new products to massage for gx cos he works very hard and i want to learn how to massage so i have been reading instructions and testing it on him! wrote out a list of things to do and need to plan my steps. Booked new cooking classes in a new cooking school to learn more stuff. look forward to attend class! even thought of taking dancing class or yoga.... need to get moving. am still slow moving but am glad i am moving! one cannot stop learning. thats very important!