Claypot Rice @ Clementi

Yesterday, we managed to get 5/6 people out for dinner. It’s actually quite difficult to get everyone involved in any mini “gathering” as usually people can’t make it or they do not wish to go.

After work, we proceeded to Clementi to have the famous claypot rice. The food arrived faster than we expected. Though, it was a simple dinner, it was nice to hang around with colleagues after work. We spent about 15 mins after dinner goofing in front of the camera before heading back home.

. unmixed chicken claypot . watercress soup . vegetables .
. well mixed chicken claypot . empty . dark soy sauce .
. oil and dark soy sauce . our bags . clementi
(the food taste better than it looks on the pics)

On another note, I’ve started on Digi Scraping. Yeah!!! Just finished my 1st set using my childhood pictures. Got to start downloading all those nice free kits online…

"Magic Numbers"

My "magic numbers" are losing its power for this month :(
Dinner plans had to be postponed and only window shopping from now till 14th Apr...

Hang Hueng Wife Biscuit

I love the wife biscuit from Hang Hueng Hong Kong. Sis went to HK last week and came back with a box of 6. Just had another one for dinner and I think I ate a total of 3 already. Though it's not as fresh compared to last Friday, it's still nice.

They came to Singapore a few weeks before Chinese New Year in Jan and had a booth over at Great World City. I happened to go there for lunch and I bought 2 pieces for Daddy, but I think he did not eat it, also bought 4 pieces of their small walnut cookie to try. Haha, Sis bought me a big walnut cookie during this trip.

I heard that they'll back in June to set up the booth again. Yeah!! I'll make my trip down and grab a box of it then.

Counting down... Apr, May, June

Hang Hueng Wife Biscuit

Tea break of Milo and Good Vita sesame biscuit

Meeting, Shopping & Eating

Woke up at 7.30am today though it’s a Saturday as we’ve a company event at Trader’s Hotel. I was so afraid that I’ll be late as an email has been sent out informing us to be punctual and to be seated by 10.30am.

I took the train and reached Orchard at 9.15am which was too early. Therefore, I had my “morning walk” from the train station to Trader’s Hotel. It was quite a wrong choice as it was quite humid today...

The whole thing ended at 1.30pm. after which Janice and I went shopping!!! We proceeded to Thai Embassy 1st as they’ve a fair there and I bought 3 crochet flowers and a rubber hair band for a total of $5. (saw it selling for $8 each in a shop @ Heeren, with pins attached) The lady there was so funny, we were asking her why does some flowers do not come with the pin and she started to reply to us in Thai. We then repeated our question in English and slower so as to let us know that we’re actually repeating the question as we do not understand what she’s talking about. For the next 2 minutes, she continued in Thai. Luckily, the stall owner beside her helped us translate else we’ll get stuck there not knowing how she is going to charge me for the 4 items.

We then shopped along Orchard before taking a free shuttle bus down to Marina Square. There were so many trendy shops in Marina, however I cant really concentrate shopping as my feet hurts from the new shoe that I wore.

Dinner was at Carl’s Jr. Though we shared the meal, it was very filling as the servings were big. I’ve always wanted to try Carl’s Jr since the opened last year and finally I got the chance to eat it. Verdict - the burger tastes like Burger King’s but the cheesy beef fries were rather special.

notepad . darjeeling tea . doodle .
sauces . chessy beef fries . onion rings .
super star with cheese burger . carl's jr ice lemon tea . half of the burger .

Yummylicious Friday

Took these pics at Ghim Moh

After work, I met Mum and Sis at Paragon as Sis wanted to get the SE K750i too. Great choice!!

Anyway the queue @ M1 was so long yesterday, they told us that the minimum waiting time was 1.5 hours. And they were not joking at all. We were done at 8pm and after discussing for a long time on what to have for dinner, we settled for Imperial Treasure Nan Bei Restaurant @ Taka again as I wanted to try out their other food.

menu . local spinach with assorted eggs (chicken eggs, salted eggs and century eggs) .
goose, roast pork and char siew combo . claypot beancurd with slated fish and diced chicken .

The food was yummy!!! The goose’s skin was crispy and the oil taste was indescribable.
Sis and shared a bowl of rice which I ate majority of it as I can’t resist it especially with the gravy from the vegetables :p. We were too full to try the dessert (souffle egg white ball with red bean paste and banana)

Emotional Freak

I become an emotional freak once a month. I'm so affected during PMS that I get irritated with the slightest thing. Some listed below are what I faced this week:

- when people don't get straight to the point when asking me questions
- kids screaming @ the top of their voices
- girls who "sa jiao" with their other half (thank god for my Mp3)
- fishy smell (Dad had fish for dinner)
- etc... (cant think of any at the moment)

With my weird mood swings and to think far far ahead, I wonder if I'll develop postnatal depression or how I'll be like when I go through menopause...

On another note, this week has been hectic for everyone in the office. Tomorrow would be a "big" day for us as there would be a major change announced.

Korean Snack @ Work

I seem to be having problems with my gadgets this week. I've not installed Photoshop CS2 in my PC; some pictures in my handphone didn't appear. Luckily I've saved it in my PC already. But it’s weird that it went "missing", I hope it’s because I did not remove the cable in the proper way.

Anyway, we did some stuff in the office today which shows how inefficient the things are in our office. I've been here for about 8 months, and I've been hearing the management asking us the same old question in the past 3 meetings I've attended. It’s not that we did not provide solutions but what can we do when the management does not do anything? Heard that the problem has been there for many years...Oh well, what more can I say??

Anyway, one of my colleague just went back to Korea and brought us some snacks. It did not really taste like what’s is supposed to be as written on the packaging, but I quite like it as it's a cakey snack.

High Tea on a Saturday Afternoon

Treated Mum and Dad to Imperial Treasure Nan Bei Restaurant @ Taka for high tea.
I've been there a few times and always had their high tea set. I love their pineapple bun and borsche soup.

Decided to have dim sum this time round as I've heard many raves from Les Dames.

lean meat congee . pineapple bun . xiao long bao . chicken wings + fries
pan fried carrot cake . jasmine tea . glutinous rice chicken . egg tart
shrimp rice roll . gui ling gao . syrup . decor

Mum had the high tea set which consist of pineapple bun, chicken wings + fries and milk tea. Daddy had the lean meat porridge and his favourite dessert - gui ling gao. The rest of the food were shared amoung the 3 of us. Afraid that Dad would still be hungry, Mum wanted to order a plate of crispy noodles. But when Dad heard that it was $14, he said no... can get it from coffee shop for $4 only. Haha...

Anyway I'll like to visit this restaurant again and try out other food. Maybe this Sat with my colleagues?? Can't wait. keke

p/s: the egg tarts comes in 3, they took it before I could take a pic of it.

Headache

After "debating" against my own, I've decided to pop down a Panadol. The last thing I wish to happen is to develop a fever, though I've only got a headache since early morning.

Layout change

I'm in the midst of changing the blog layout. Wanted to have a personalize header at the top, but I just cant seem to get it right. Will see how it goes, else I'll stick to blogger's default template.

I'll soon be blogging more about food, restaurant etc that I've tried, with pictures attached. Seems like I've been blogging about unhappy stuffs which I face in work. I need to change that as I don't wish to keep unhappy memories...

Digi Scraping

I can't wait to get my hands on doing Digi Scraping.
But but but.... I do not have the wonderful software - Photoshop yet!
I'll install the trial version (30 days) over the weekend first and see how I fare in Digi Scraping. *excited*

Back Off

Please don't tell me to things when you truly know that it's impossible and you yourself don't even dare to do it.
This kindda nonsense is getting on my nerves!!!

Glitz & Glamour

Our company is going to have the annual D& D @ Swissotel in Apr and the theme is Glitz & Glamour (G&G). We've anticipated quite long for this and I'm glad that we have a theme this time. I've heard that previous years were just Dinner & Dance (without the dance). I would say that it was just a company dinner for them.

Having heard of the news, my 2 other colleagues and I got super excited. I was asking them what they will wear as I've already thought of what to wear. As they do not have suitable dresses, we decided to go shopping in 2 weeks time for the perfect dress.

However, the mood was spoiled when we realize that our other colleagues will not really dress up for this "event". To them, Glitz and Glamour = tube top + jeans + dangling earrings/wedding dinner kindda clothes. Actually, I'm fine if they decide not to really dress up for it as I do have a nice corset tube or dress (without having to look to wow!)

As we have the Mr Glamour and Ms Glitz award that night, I hope that people will really let down their hair and have fun. We're also thinking of having a post D&D on our own around C.H.I.J.M.E.S / Raffles Hotel

Bring on the music and let the party begin!!! (or so I hope)