| RHYTHM OF LOVE |
[Monday, 23/05/2011|10:43 PM] |
I decided to get over and done with this entry before the pictures start piling up!
Rui and I saw this Hello-Kitty-fied car at carpark at a friend's place and I had to take a photo of it. How does the person even drive?! I'd be so distracted by all those Hello Kitties! It's rather cute though :)
 
22 April 2011 - Lunch at La Villa with Val & Cheng
 
29 April 2011 - Lunch at Food For Thought with Rui
 
The food was not bad and the cheesecake was super yummy! Didn't get a photo of that though.
7-9 May 2011 - Flew to Sabah for my grandpa's 91st (I think?) birthday
 
 
Lunch at Table66
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The food was good! Rui kept raving about the duck confit and almost everything else. I didn't feel too well that day but I still thought the food was pretty good :) Would definitely go back.
And Rui brought me to buy two fighting fishes :) Meet CUPPY (the reddish one) and CAKE (the bluish one)
 
 
12 May 2011 - Dinner at Nagomi with Rui
It wasn't easy to find the restaurant because there's no sign that says "NAGOMI" or anything! And everything's in Japanese. Anyway, it's at Cuppage - where all the good Japanese restaurants are. Nagomi's whole menu is in Japanese so we didn't get to see the menu at all. It's an omakase/kaiseki kind of restaurant so we just went in, sat down and got served all the food :)
 
 
 
 
 
 
It cost about $100++ per person. The beef was good meat but I'm not a fan of fatty meat so I didn't quite like it.. it made me feel nauseas. And I'm also not a fan of sashimi so I didn't quite enjoy that.. although the raw scallops were amazing! Didn't quite like the clam soup either but other than that, I loved everything else! The grilled fish was so so good. I guess it's not very worth it for me because I didn't like/eat the expensive stuff like the sashimi and the beef.. so I'm not sure if I'd go back but I know the food was good though hahah. I'll probably want to try the other restaurants at Cuppage first.
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After dinner, we walked around the area and chanced upon this bakery selling all these really pretty cupcakes and cakes! And they had an angry birds set which was too cute to resist so I bought it for Sean. He said the top part was too sweet though so he only ended up eating one or two birds :( It cost $21 for 4.
 
 
19 May 2011 - Teatime at Sabio & Flor Patisserie @ Duxton Hill
Sabio's a Spanish tapas place and it's quite pricey but I think it's standard tapas pricing in Singapore? I'm not too sure. I haven't really had many tapas meals in Singapore. But actually I think it's more expensive than in Australia! It cost around $12-15 per dish. In Melbourne I think it was around $7-10? But that's AUD so I guess it works out to be about the same.
 
 
 
 
The food was not bad but nothing great I guess? Rui loved (like really really loved) the Jamón ibérico (spanish ham) though.
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Then we went next door to Flor Patisserie for desserts.
 
 
The desserts are good but I don't know.. I think I ate a little too much that day so I got really sick of the chestnut cream and now every time I hear "chestnut cream" or think of it, I lose my appetite. Don't let me deter you from going though, it's definitely worth a try! Very cute little Japanese bakery :)
The June holidays start end of this week! But I won't have holidays till a week after. Can't wait for my Maldives trip with Rui :) But for now, he's in Tanzania for three weeks with a two other friends. They're climbing Mt Kilimanjaro - something I'd never do. I can't believe he's only been gone for two days.. It feels like forever. Thank God for work to keep me occupied!
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| FOOOOODSCAPADE |
[Monday, 11/04/2011|05:34 PM] |
I always start off with the usual "sorry for the hiatus" or "sorry for not updating in so long" kind of thing so I shan't do that this time round but you get the idea. I have a few excuses for the lack of updates this time.
1) Busy with work.
2) Hardly any new pictures.
3) No motivation to blog.
I took over form teachership for about a week and a half because the form teacher was on MC and it was a terribly busy but amazing experience. I loved every single second of it :) It's like having 40 of my own kids and it's really fun. Although I think if I really had 40 kids 24/7 I'd die.
And because Rui's busy studying for exams and I was so busy with work, I didn't have much time to go out and take new pictures. This also leads me to my next point - the lack of motivation to blog. Whenever I don't have new photos to post, I think people won't actually bother reading so I don't bother updating. And as much as I say that I blog for myself, it's kinda boring to blog if nobody reads.
18 March 2011 - Lunch at Private Affairs at Joo Chiat
 
 
 
 
 
Halfway through our appetizers, there was a blackout! (Which is also why the pictures after that are darker.) And it lasted throughout our entire meal. They gave us candles so it became a candlelight lunch and it was alright but really hot because the aircon was off too :( They were really nice about it though - they offered us a discount off our meal so it ended up being really cheap! But we felt bad because it wasn't their fault so we gave them a bigger tip.
Foodwise, I liked the appetizers! The main course and desserts were.. nothing great. Rui didn't like the food at all but I wouldn't mind going back if anyone is willing to go with me! Rui says he'll never go back again except maybe to try their Sunday brunch which sounds good!!
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25 March 2011 - (Restaurant Week) Dinner at BLU
 
 
 
Everything was super yummmmy! I'll definitely go back again.. some day. I really liked the Eggs Come First dessert. The presentation was so adorable and it tasted good too :) Oh and we had the candy floss tree as well. The soil thing wasn't very nice but the candy floss and chocolate stuff were nice!
Oh and we made it in time to see the sunset :)
 
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26 March 2011 - Lunch at Buko Nero
We were supposed to go to LPDV for lunch but we decided to try booking Buko Nero because Rui's never been and the last time I went was really long ago. We didn't think we'd get a seat though because their waiting list is rumoured to be one month long. But we decided to give it a try anyway so we just added ourselves to the waiting list.
About one-two days before the actual day, they called to say that they had a space! So we quickly took it and cancelled our LPDV reservation.
And........ we weren't disappointed one bit :)
From the food to the service, everything was excellent!
I think my only criticism would have to be that they didn't allow us to take photos. I don't get why restaurants do that - like Tippling Club (although I did sneak shots of it using my phone). I mean.. isn't that good publicity? I hate it when restaurants don't put photos or their menu or don't have a website - then you don't even know what to expect and it just.. deters me from thinking of going there.
I only managed to snap a shot of the bread (which was also very delicious) before I was told that they had a no-photo policy :(
Oh and here's a cute poem I chanced upon in a P1 class today.
I love my mummy
I came out from her tummy
Her food is very yummy
She is very scrummy
I love my mummy
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| ANOTHER OVERDUE POST |
[Wednesday, 09/03/2011|09:39 PM] |
I haven't updated in a very long time. I know. I just haven't felt like doing so in a while because I'd been so busy and then I started to become very lazy. But I've decided to get off my lazy ass so here's one picture post :) And now I have new pictures to upload again but that'll have to wait because I need to get these out of the way first.
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A while back, I complained to mummy that Sean uses my toilet when he has chinese tuition next door and then he throws his underwear all over the place. The next day, I saw this:
 
He threw his underwear onto my bed and then he wrote a note that said "For Lala" and then he wrote another note and left it on my toilet bowl: "I vomited" - GRR!!!
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I bought a plain bag from MUJI because I need one to carry around school between classes. I didn't want one with fanciful designs because the students would find something to say about it. Anyway, then when I was packing it to bring to school, I discovered that the sales lady hadn't removed the magnetic tag!! And I didn't want to have to go all the way back to ION to get it removed. So.. I started googling how to remove the tag. There were lots of ways but none worked. One said to get a really strong magnet - like that within your laptop. Thankfully I didn't follow that otherwise my laptop would have died. So, I used my jewelry pliers and started snipping off the plastic.
It was way harder than I imagined. The plastic was really thick and hard! It took me close to 30 minutes and my hands were red and sore thereafter.
 
My perseverance paid off :)
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Here are some photos of the Cocoquettes banner and some of the stuff we prepared for the Swap & Shop Flea at St James Powerstation.
 
 
 
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There was this one day where Rui and I decided to go pet shopping. Okay more like pet window shopping. We went to some bird shop along Balestier I think? And then we went to Serangoon which had lots and lots and lots of pet stores all in one area and it was really really amazing. They had all sorts of pets! I never knew such places existed. It was an exciting date :)
 
  
And at Serangoon, we saw this super cute hamster. It rolled over and played dead when Rui tickled it! And it allowed him to just continue to tickle its tummy! I fell in love with it at first sight. So I called my sister and asked her if she wanted a hamster and she said yes. But then Rui said to walk around first because there were many other stores. So we did. And we didn't find any that were even half as cute. Then I kept whining and asking him to hurry back to that store because I was afraid the hamster would get sold within those few minutes that we were away.
When we got back to the store, I peered into the cage and I didn't see anything! But Rui kept telling me that it was still there and it was just hiding. He said that it'd probably been there for months and nobody bought it so what are the chances that someone would buy it. So I was hopeful. Then, we got the salesperson to take the hamster for us. THEN……. SHE TOLD US SOMEONE JUST BOUGHT IT!!!!!!! :(((((((((( I was terribly upset and it spoilt my mood for the rest of that day.
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Two of my students gave this to me :)
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Made this for mummy's birthday
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Fire drill!
 
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My latest addition :D
 
 
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Little frogs that I cut out for my lesson on Prepositions - I spent a whole night cutting out 40+ frogs!
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Debre's desk - she made the flounder on her own for the kids. Super cute!
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Rui and I cooked Salmon & Ham spaghetti. It tasted as good as the one at Cafe Corretto on Lygon in Melbourne. My favourite Salmon Spaghetti :)
 
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Dinner at Bistro Soori - Valentine's day dinner. I quite liked the food!
 
 
 
 
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Dinner at Paradise Pavilion - Marina Bay Financial Centre
 
 
 
 
 
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Lunch at Tippling Club - the food was not too bad but I thought it was pretty overpriced. There was a strict no-photography-of-food policy but I sneaked these photos!
 
 
  
 
 
 
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Followed by extra desserts at House@Dempsey. The spanish churros were HORRIBLE though. Even Saint Churros in Melb serves better ones and I already dislike those. This was mushy and doughy on the inside and it wasn't even crunchy on the outside. Yucks.
 
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Went to the new hawker centre thing at the Singapore Flyer that houses all the apparently famous hawker stalls. The traffic to get into the carpark was a nightmare and by the time we got to the hawker centre, a number of stalls had run out of food! And the queues were pretty long as well. It was so hard to find a seat. The food wasn't even great :( Wouldn't go back.
 
 
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Yay! I'm done :) That didn't take too long. It wasn't that bad considering I'd prepared all the photos quite some time back and had them uploaded already. So all I had to do today was type! |
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| FIFTYTHREE @ ARMENIAN STREET |
[Saturday, 15/01/2011|05:03 PM] |
We went for lunch at FiftyThree yesterday. The food was very prettily decorated and the appetizers and mains were good! My Amedei Chuao, banana and malt dessert was quite okay but I didn't like Rui's Apple & Rosemary. Overall, I think the food was quite good and definitely worth a try but it's a little pricey. We paid about $80 for three courses. One good thing is that they keep changing their menu and they'll serve seasonal things so you can always expect fresh new things. The ideas are really good though and the chef makes the food look so exciting.
Let me talk you through it.
Crackers that were made from Tapioca I think? And there was a dip (I can't remember what it was) with hazelnut shavings on the top.
 
Okay and this is us.
 
The bread - it came in a cute sack with beans at the bottom. The black one is the charcoal bread, cute! They sort of look like muffins. The butter had these crunchy things on top, I don't know what they are but I prefer normal plain butter. Rui liked it though.
 
 
Appetizer: Rui had the mud cab salad and I had the raw scallop one. They were both good! Mine had Earl Grey ice shavings in the center.
 
Main: Rui had the Red Gurnard fish and I had the Wagyu beef cheeks. Excellent mains. His fish was perfectly cooke and the lentils were really tasty. My beef cheeks were extremely well braised. Apparently it's stewed at a low temperature for over 40 hours. They gave me a fork and spoon to eat it (instead of a fork and knife), which shows how good the texture was.
 
Dessert: Rui had the Apple & Rosemary and I had the Amedei Chuao chocolate flower garden. I didn't like the desserts as much as the rest of the courses.
 
Tea & Coffee: Rui had a decaffe cappuccino and I had an Earl Grey & Lavender tea. I didn't take photos of it though cos it wasn't that special.
And to end off, they gave us these Apple (I think it was apple?) Gums. You put them on your tongue and they'll slowly melt away. The texture was really good.
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| A NEW BEGINNING |
[Sunday, 09/01/2011|05:29 PM] |
Happy New Year! - 2011
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01/01/11
A family friend's son's wedding. Or maybe he's distantly related, I'm not sure. Anyway, Clarence's wedding was held at Conrad :) And little Sean was so handsome that day. Okay he's not very little anymore.
And my sister's boyfriend was in town that weekend so he came along!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And Aunty Eileen was really pretty that night!
  
 
 
 
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02/01/11
Random photos with Rui in my room.
 
 
 
Tea-time at Haagen Dazs (Holland Village) with the MG girls. We were supposed to go to Daily Scoop at Chip Bee Gardens but it was too crowded and noisy so we decided to go over to Holland V instead and ended up at Haagen Dazs. Had a great time catching up before Val left for London.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pink london cab!
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03/01/11
Had chicken rice for lunch at Far East Plaza with Ting and Cindy. Then we went to ION so that I could stock up on my To-Do Lists at Kikki.k then we went to TWG for tea. The tea and scones were really good! And the service was awesome! The scones come in sets of 2 so we ordered one set cos initially only Ting and I wanted it. Then when it was served, the waiter gave us 3 scones. He said one was complimentary because there were three of us :)
And while we were ordering the tea, I was saying how I didn't want hot tea and I wasn't sure if they had iced teas. Then that waiter came around and told us that he can make them into iced teas for us :) And he recommended three teas for us and they were all really nice!
Would definitely definitely go back again. And the next time I shall try their proper food. I was really impressed by the service.
  
 
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07/01/11
Dinner at Porta Porta with Rui. We had the "surprise" dinner so you just pay a certain amount and the chef will just serve whatever he feels like cooking :) It was not bad and pretty value for money! It's tucked quite far out in the East though so if Rui didn't go with me I wouldn't have known how to get there. It's worth a try but I'm not sure if I'll return. I really liked the calamari though.
 
It's a very homely/cosy place and it can only fit a small number of people so reservations on weekends are a must.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Okay now back to planning for my lesson! |
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| THE END OF 2010 |
[Sunday, 09/01/2011|04:54 PM] |
The first week of school's over and I thought it'd be a pretty slack week since it's sort of orientation or something but it's been extremely hectic. I've had meetings almost every single day of the past week and my sleep cycle's been pretty horrid so I totally crashed on Saturday. But no complaints because teaching has been really fun and I love my job :)
Picture time! I'm going to split them up into two separate entries - end of 2010 and beginning of 2011.
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05/12/10
Dinner at the Swissotel ballroom courtesy of Uncle Ngoi. It was the Chaine Des Rotisseurs dinner - go google it. It was a buffet and the spread was amazing. Yummy oysters from all over the world (Japan, France, Australia…etc), foie gras, sashimi, tempura and much much more. I didn't get many photos of the food within the ballroom though because the lighting wasn't conducive for photo-taking and I'd be holding up the queue for food if I were to stand there to try and get a non-blur shot.
But the dessert spread was outside the ballroom with sufficient lighting so I managed to take quite a few shots out there. The desserts were all so pretty! I'll let the pictures do the talking.
 
 
 
 
 
  
The super super adorable toddler!!
 
The oyster spread was laid out on this ice carving. There were at least 10 different kinds of oysters including the Fin De Claire which were really yummy too.
 
 
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24/12/10
Christmas Eve dinner at home. I had more photos with the Christmas tree and with everyone else… etc but the lighting wasn't great and most were blurry so I shan't put them up.
 
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27/12/10
Tea and scones at Royal Copenhagen with Rui.
 
 
 
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31/12/10
NYE party at home with relatives and family friends. And a birthday celebration for a number of family friends/relatives whose birthdays fall within the first week of January. Pictures courtesy of my uncle who takes really nice shots!
 
 
 
 
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And that marked the end of 2010! |
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| THIS MAKES ME HAPPY |
[Thursday, 23/12/2010|02:24 AM] |
Okay on my next pay day, I shall make a trip down to Made With Love and start on my goal to be a ribbon collector. I can't wait :) |
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| SUPER ACCOMPLISHED |
[Wednesday, 22/12/2010|10:01 PM] |
Hello! Sorry for the rather long hiatus. I had been really busy preparing for the flea but now it's over so I've got a little more time on my hands. I don't have many photos to upload actually.. I haven't exactly been taking photos of anything of late. Didn't even get to take photos of the flea! But Shisi took some photos so I'll steal them soon.
Went for lunch at ION with Cindy and Ting today. I'm so glad Cindy's back for good! Ting's just back for a while only though but it was so fun hanging out again. I've really missed that :( Anyway, we had lunch at Watami and I managed to eat my Salmon Hot Stone Rice thingy that I've been craving for! I ate till I couldn't stuff anymore down but now that I think about it, I'm starting to crave for it again.
Then went around doing our last minute Christmas shopping! I feel so accomplished. I managed to get quite a few presents today. So much for saving money! And because I was shopping for others, I ended up buying lots of useless cute/pretty things for myself as well. Went into Kikki.k and got this super adorable candy-cane-coloured twine, gift tags and a To Do List! I currently have a rather big box that's starting to fill up because I've been buying all these cute Korean stationery - like to do lists, memo pads and post its! I'm obsessed with stationery. And we made a trip to Daiso as well and I ended up buying so many things I don't really need :( Thankfully it's only $2 per item. But still.. $2 x ..... adds up haha.
Okay anyway I just had to say that I feel amazingly accomplished today :) It was a great day and I'm exhausted. Lunch with Cheng and Val tomorrow. I shall try to bring my dSLR out tomorrow and take some photos. Goodnight! |
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| FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS. |
[Tuesday, 07/12/2010|11:41 PM] |
Okay this is what I owe from quite some time ago. I need to get back into my regular updating mode! I have a few more photos from the recent week on my phone that I need to upload but I'll do it another day.
A couple of weeks ago, Rui and I went for the Black Saturday Lunch at Les Amis. The food was not bad but I wouldn't really pay $88++ for four courses and $128++ for four courses with wine pairing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Then we went to stay at St Regis. We got the Lady Astor Suite and it was really pretty! The curtains were pink which made it perfect :) We had a living room, a foyer, a bedroom, a walk-in closet and a huge bathroom. The breakfast was AMAZING with Eggs Benedict cooked perfectly (finally, I found a place that does it well in Singapore!) and it was cooked on the spot, hot and fresh :) And it was on buffet so everything was free. Then we had a 24h butler service as well - so there was hot chocolate, tea, coffee, dvds, at any time of the day. I had such a good sleep too because we ordered our own pillows from the pillow menu and it was super comfortable :) I'll let the pictures do the talking.
 
 
  
 
Watching TV in the bathtub!
  
The pillow menu, our pillows (as requested) and hot chocolate :)
 
 
 
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We went for the Affordable Art Fair at the F1 pit too! But nothing was very "affordable" with the cheapest art starting at around $1000+. So we didn't get anything but it was fun looking at the art anyway :) Although the entrance fee was quite a waste of money.
 
 
 
 
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For dinner, we went to Suntec for dinner at Swiss Culture because we were both craving some cheese fondue. And it wasn't a let down :)
 
 
And this was a failed attempt at trying to take a photo of a girl who looked really funny. She was quite out of focus though.
AND THIS IS THE BEST DESSERT IN THE WORLD, HANDS DOWN!!!!! Kanafe at Turkish Cuisine, Suntec City. It's really really AWESOME you have to try it. We tried looking for it all over Greece but nothing compares. This place does it superbly and you can't find this recipe online because they tweaked it.
 
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This is some random morning breakfast at Chin Mee Chin. They have really good custard puffs, luncheon meat buns and the regular kaya bun and half boiled eggs.
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And this is from another night when Rui and I decided to cook. We went to Sheng Siong and bought some seafood..etc and then we made clam soup and a seafood angel hair pasta :)
 
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Dinner at Chinois by Susur Lee, Resorts World. The food is really good. Every dish was superb.
 
The hot and sour soup is one of the best I've ever had. It was so good that I forgot to take a picture of it until I was almost done with it!
 
 
 
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Lunch at Etna Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria at East Cost? Siglap? Somewhere around there. It was quite good but we were the only people in the restaurant!
 
This swordfish carpaccio was really really good.
 
 
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I've been so busy with Cocoquettes things! Launching the manufactured dress, picking new designs to manufacture, making jewellery for the flea, making photo charms, planning CCQ's 4th birthday (I really hope I can rush out the things in time otherwise it'll be a sad birthday), making swing tags for the flea... etc. And I realised that my charms turned blue! So I did various experiments and concluded that it was probably the ink from the colour printing so I had to go down to Coronation Plaza to get them printed at $1 per sheet. So expensive but the quality is good :) I'm crossing my fingers they don't turn blue. |
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