25 days to the ROM

Anyone has a good, quick way to lose some fats? Anyone?

25 days to signing on the dotted line. Time to do up the invites! 4R photos, supported by a fairly thick index card on the back. Feels like good, solid postcards after it's done.
Thanks to ample space on the photo, I could personalise and "sign" each photo. Just like a movie star! :D Maybe I should add XOXO, Best Wishes and the like. Heh.

The front and the back. The details are printed on shimmery champagne coloured paper. Nice.

Ah... love my invites :D

Relics From The Past

This is some serious old skool stuff! Kids these days don't realise how good they have it these days with 3G phones, walkman phones, the blackberry and whatnots. Back in JC (a good 7-8 years ago.... ARGH.... old) these were the tech du jour man. Now? It just looks like some relic from the past.

The Pager

Found: Standard black Singtel pager. In the recesses of the living room drawers.
According to mummy, it still works. Heh.

Pager close up.

Canon Camera!

No idea how old this thing is but I'm guessing at least 20 odd years? Too bad the lenses have stuff growing on it. The film needs to be "pushed" before you can take the next shot!

A closer look at the lens.

The things you find when you're throwing and repacking stuff.... :)

The Bands That Tie

After a long wait, the wedding bands are here.

An extra big ring box. Fit for 2.

His & Hers. Custom-made. White Gold.

And if you look closely enough, you can see.... our names.

One more for the road - the engagement ring. Aged 1 year, 1 month. Exactly.

Countdown: 29 days to ROM, 38 days to the dinner

RIP Dear Caramel

July 2004 ~ 29 November 2006

Hope you had a happy life.

Cupcake Experiment

Baking cupcakes for the ROM. But first...

A Ripley's... One egg, 3 yolks! Believe it.

And now, back to our programme.
Experiment #1:
Yellow cake with ready-made vanilla frosting

Cupcakes before frosting. Looking good!

Frosting's a pretty pink, so sweeeeet (literally and figuratively).
But the frosting's too liquid-y. No shape.

Don't the mini hearts look so pretty on the pink frosting? :D

Experiment #2 Lemon Cake with Lemon Icing

Fresh out of the oven! Lovely lemony smells...

With icing. Despite adding too much water, it still held its shape very well! Used butter-flavoured shortnening so the icing turned orange when I added red food colouring. Still looks pretty good. I think it looks better in reality heh.

Another shot

Verdict: Lemony cakes with Lemony Icing wins!

Wonder if I should try for a brandy-flavoured icing heh.

So Near Yet So Far

26 November 2006.

The Quintet's Open House.

TOP obtained. But where the heck are our KEYS?!?!?! *sulk*

The Jacuzzi area...

Not sure if we can enter this rocky area.

Jacuzzi pic 2

Jacuzzi pic 3!

Another view of the jacuzzi. Nicccceeeee.....

My unit! Can it be any more obvious?

The same pic as that in the newspapers. But in the day. Looks so peacful... kinda like Genting when the haze was around. Heh.

View From The Balcony

We managed to sneak up to our unit and lo and behold! Our door was OPEN! Apparently they lock the doors so it was quite heng we managed to get in. Here's the view from our balcony/planter area. (Left View)


Here's a closer-up shot of the view, from the master bedroom. Love the greenery :)

And the POOL view. Woo hoo!

The view from the back of the block, aka the front door.... confused yet? Heh. It was very windy... BUT the wind was coming from the back aka the front door (hah) and because we bought a 3-bedroom unit, we don't have a back window. So no wind for us. Boo. Hopefully the wind will also come from the side. ;p


Some of the units that get the afternoon sun. HOT!

Carpark Rooftop

The rooftop of the carpark. Foot reflexology and er... some landscaped thingy.


The tennis court. Wonder what would happen if we lob the ball out of the court and hit someone's window or car.... The basketball court's on the left.

The rooftop barbeque area. No idea who would book these pits cos it's such a hassle to bring food up here despite the availability of a lift. Anyway, there are two pits just below my block. And those come with a table and chairs. And a great view of the... canal. heh.


Parting shot. View from the roof of the carpark.

Oh. Didn't take any pics of the flat itself cos too dusty/dirty. The flush was working though.


Er... here's a (very ugly) drawing of the layout which is SO not to scale. Heh. Just to an idea of what it looks like. Think there's something wrong with my mouse. It gives me less than solid lines.

So everything looks fine and dandy.... where are our darn keys?!?!

Pulau Ubin

Took a short trip over to Ubin on Saturday last week. It was only for a while cos we went quite late and by the time we reach there it was around 4 plus. Went off the beaten trek (the only way to chek jawa) but ended up turning back halfway cos it was around 6 plus by then and it was getting dark. Didn't want to have to cycle back in the dark.

Along the way we cycled pass this cat that was in the middle of the road. It saw us coming but didn't care and continue sitting in the middle of the road. We didn't expect to see it on the way back but we did. We stopped and it decided to lie down and flip itself a few times. Quite funny and very cute.

The face machiam as big as an orange. Bone structure wide. Heh. Here's a video of its flip.



Pictures coming up when I have time.

Seeing Star (Wars)

Went to view The Art of Star Wars on 1 Apr (2 days before the exhibition ended). The Science Centre had tonnes of kids running around (even in the exhibition). One of the highlights I guess were the appearance of the various characters (pple dressed in costume) from 2pm to 3pm.

PHOTO OP! (Pics to come).

Darth Vadar supposed to be tall and menancing right? Then I think they want to make sure that Darth Vadar is tall enough, they got some shortie to be the storm trooper. Quite sad but also quite funny. I think the storm trooper not much taller than I am. Heh.

Queued for tix and this is what we got for $18:

Ticket



Brochure



Postcard



Complimentary Notepad



Complimentary Medallion

The back of the medallion actually quite DUH.

Front

Back


There are supposed to be pics but they are with John. So... here's a prelude to the exhibition courtesy of the brochure.

Happy Belated CNY

Too many photos to upload one by one here. So go here for the CNY pics.

On the fifth day of CNY, we went to...



The food was great. The shark's fin was quite special. The soup and the liao are separated. The soup is very good and clear, non-starchy. The liao was stir-fried. Eaten separately or together, it was great! The Lobster is yummy too. Check it out in the photostream.

And just for fun, pictures with... slimming effect for me and john.

Makan Session

Went to have dinner at Melt - The World Cafe at Oriental Hotel. Because of CNY, they raised the price to $50+++. Citibank Dividend Platinum (I think) had 15% discount so it's $50 nett per person. Pricy, but the service was very good. Food was great as well.





Newly renovated Oriental Hotel. Looks good rite? Laterns were at the entrance of the hotel. Pretty.

The Food



We have Italian (I think)...



Japanese...



Indian... Their Nann is very nice. I love their mango chutney but they didn't have it this time. I dunno why.



Seafood (Clams, Oysters, Baby Lobsters, Crayfish). Daddy and mummy liked the oysters because they were not too big.



Chinese... Their Chicken Bak Kut Teh Soup was delicious! They change soups from time to time. The last time I went, it was Shark's Fin Soup. Also very nice.



The bread counter...



Cheessssssseeeeee



Lots and lots and lots of ice-cream toppings. They have waffles for your ice cream too but too full to have them.



Cakes. Not many but nice. Their blackforest is very very rich. I love their cherry filling.



Chocolate Fountain... Dark and milk. I loved their orange chocolate fountain the last time I went but was disappointed that they don't have it this time. I asked the chef and he said they change the flavour each time they finish a block. Wasted sia.

They also have a large selection of fruits available. They will cut for you after you have chosen what you want. The fruit du jour is MANGO. This HK guy beside us had like two servings of three mangoes! It was very nice.



Mini Pasteries (this is 1 of 3 sections). They have this orange pudding thingy that's very nice.



Apple Crumble from the pastry section.



Steak from the BBQ section. Medium rare even without your asking. Yum.



Strawberry and Vanilla ice-cream topped with vanilla sauce, chocolate sprinkles and chopped almonds plus 2 wafers. :)

Lo-Hei!



They have free-flow Yu-Sheng! The first one was the four-serving portion (which is not a lot) and we added salmon and swordfish sashimi from the Jap counter. Yum. I asked for another two-serving portion later on. The presentation actually looked nicer. Heh.



Lo Hei-ing.

Uncle Eat-A-Lot



This uncle can eat a lot sia. He came later than us and left earlier than us. But he definitely ate more than one of us! The first time he went to take food, he brought back three plates (as witnessed by mummy). After that I think he went for at least six more servings! Non-stop one man, and he eat very fast! Later he went to talk to the waitress or something before continue eating. Then he disappeared for quite a while. We found him talking to another waitress while holding a bowl of ice-cream.

He moved on to the desserts. And just when you think he's done, he went back to the main course. I think he knew I was taking his pic cos of the stupid red AF beam. :p Anyway, this was the best shot I could get cos it was dark by that time.

There was probably a important person somewhere in the building cos got 4 traffic police and one army guy eating in the cafe. Someone told them to have the buffet then another waiter said that they already had food prepared for them. They got Nasi Padang. Sad but the nasi padang itself looked very good.

We started at 7pm (reached at 6.45pm tho), ended at 10pm. 3-hour marathon but we ate slowly.

Great stuff.

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