Kim Gary @Citysquare, JB

Yeah..finally I go JB with my husband!

We ate at Kim Gary. The price is the same but in different currency. In singapore $12 for one meal, then in JB it's only RM12. Quite a big difference.

After that , we continued to Secret Recipe. I ate the banana choco cake. Yummy. :P

On the way home, we bought this pie just next to old town coffee.

Steakmania

Now I have one steakmania at home.

He bought a chunk of sirloin almost everyday since our failed x'mas eve dinner.



In fact, he's getting better and better. :D

Yen's House Warming

Today was Yen's house warming. We bought oven toaster for her. I use the same type also. It's very useful.

Her house is well renovated. I like her brown wall with butterflies print.

Every thing she bought from IKEA. I also like the walking wardrobe. I wish I could do one at my own house.

Do you remember Heineken's advertisement? When the ladies came in to a room which is walking wardrobe. I like something like that. It's possible to do in Jakarta but not in Singapore. Unless my clothes are few thousand dollar each pieces then it's worth it to sacrifice one common room as my walking wardrobe.

At Orchard with My High School Friends

Qonquering 2nd Museum : Peranakan Museum

We walked to this museum with umbrella. It was raining.

I found this one is interesting...may be because I am PERANAKAN.

You are PERANAKAN if you exchange tray before your wedding. There are 4 tray need to be exchanged. In Indonesia we call it : Sang jit.

From groom's family to bride's family :
1st tray : 1 set of jewelery and hong pao
2nd tray : pork leg
3rd tray : 1 pair of liquor, 1 pair of candles and few oranges
4rd tray : clothes for the brides

From bride's family to groom's family :
1st tray : not sure ...sorry
2nd tray : cut pork leg
3rd tray : 1 pair of syrup, give back lesser oranges, and give another type of fruits
4rd tray : clothes and slipper for groom

And I just realized that everything I have at my Jakarta's house from my grand parents are actually heritage of peranakan. Because almost everything in that museum are similar to ones I have at home.

My auntie gave me a box full of beads, very colorful. And the size is also different from now a day's beads. Older beads are smaller in size.


Seeing all the things there was really amazing.

Jtown @Orchard

My colleague recommended this place. She said the siomay was good.

Then I tried it just now with my husband. But we ordered bakmi with beef ball.
The noodle was too hard to chew. The beef ball was ok. Niko really likes martabak.

Then we gave it a try. He said the martabak, can not make it. It was too sweet until he could not taste anything. I think they don't use Wiseman Margarine. That's why it doesn't smell as nice as Jakarta one.

Qonquering 1st Museum : Singapore Arts Museum

This museum showcases art pieces, mostly paintings and sculptures.

The air-con was too cold.

If I compare this museum to others those I visited after, this one is boring. Lucky we went to this one first.

Fish Soup @ Lavender Food Court

We need to fill our stomachs before conquering 3 museums. I decided to have fish soup with rice, because the beef ball stall was queuing. The fish soup's style is without milk. I prefer to have it with milk.

Niko's Breakfast

It has been along time since he made me breakfast. Long long long time ago till I can not remember.

The hash brown look a like was bought from IKEA. The egg was too salty (again). Anyway, thanks for the breakfast.

Hippo wristband from Sherwin

Thanks Sherwin for the cute wristband. I love it so much!!!

Popiah @Qiji, Funan

Their nasi lemak set was good. I tried the popiah, was also good, even I ordered without meat. $1.90

Girl who is thinking about her future ...

X'mas Gift from Yen

I got a xmas gift from my colleague Yen Fang. She has a health shop.

She gave me a travel bottle of aromatheraphy and a facial masker.

Thank you Yen.

X'mas Deco @ Orchard 313

X'mas Deco @ Wisma Atria, Orchard

X'mas Deco @ Central, Clark Quay

Seaweed Frech Fries @ Mc.D

I really hate Mc.D because it's the most junk food of all the junk food.

Niko had been nagging along the way because he was hungry. It was 10.15pm. He had eaten his cereal with milk and yogurt before we left home.

Then the M letter appeared after UOB building at Boat Quay. His savior.



He ordered 1 seaweed french fries and 1 box chicken wing (4 pieces) with a up-sized ice lemon tea (it tasted like water with a gallon of sugar).

Thank You from Grace

Grace (one of the sales) thanked us by giving tidbits.
Even it's only small gift but it's meaningful for us.

Thanks Grace.

Gift for Our Team Leader

The team member had bought a gift for our leader to thank to her for her assistance and help during this year.

She collects watches. She wished for a watch box.

X'mas Gift fron Keker

I received this gift before he went off to airport.

he bought this from Tokyo Disney land.

Thank you.

X'mas Eve Dinner @ Home

I thought we would book a restaurant for this X'mas Eve dinner. But Niko had different plan since he had his own cast iron pan.

He bought a piece of strip-loin. I preferred to have grilled fish. I chose a big one.

The time, I was really expecting too much of his expertise.

I really forced my self to eat my fish. It was horribly salty. He had put too much salt on mine.

His meat was salty, but not as bad as mine, at least for beef you still can enjoy the beef taste.

The pasta was the other way of the fish. It had no taste. :D


After that, I could not enjoy my wine because my tongue was numb.

If you look at the picture I know it doesn't look as bad as what I've said. But trust me...I expected the same thing also until I tried, then I know it's not as good as the appearance.

In the middle of our dinner, his boss called. :( talked to him so long...

Then for the dessert we had Japanese cheese cake bought from Breadtalk $8.80
Initially I really wanted to but Log cake, seeing the price, it's above $30, so I decided to buy only cheese cake. T-T



Conclusion is this is the worst food that Niko has cooked. He used to be good.

Barbie Exhibition @ Raffless City

These remind me when I was 6-9 years old. I really loved Barbie. My father bought a Barbie House and Barbie's White Ferarri car for me. I also had few horses. I played alone with more than 40 barbies, 2 Kens (male version of Barbie), and 2 infants.

St.Bernadette Church @Zion Road

It's been a very long time since the latest time I came here.

They had renovated the church become very bright and fully air-con.

This church has take part in my relationship with my husband. This church is the church when I met him for the 2nd time. That day, I came to Tiongbahru to collect my notebook. So after that we went to this church together. :D

Boon Tong Kee Chicken Rice @River Valley Road

I remember that day my husband brought this home for me was not as good as today I ate there.

I think best it's to enjoy the food there.

We ordered chicken rice with $9 chicken. And spinach with 3 kind of eggs.

I didn't know that the peanut they served wasn't free. 1 plate of peanut $2.00 and additional for the tissues.


The spinach was great. They put century egg, salted egg and normal egg.

The rice it self was already tasty. They served it in pyramid shape (very little portion).

The Bodyguard and The Assassin Movie

I knew, the title of the movie I was going to watch, very last minute.

This movie is about protecting Mr.Sun (Shin Yat Sun). He will be coming to Hong Kong to discuss HK's political future.

Since few days before he come (beginning of the movie), it's already a lot of people being killed.

So the whole story is about killing people. The Cing dynasty is trying to kill the people who are protecting Mr.Sun. End up, it's only 2 person stay alive.

I don't like Donny Yen's character. He really like stupid person in this movie. I watched Ip Man few months back, he was respectable man.

Sherlock Holmes Movie

I just watched it at Illuma, Bugis.

It was not so good and I'm disappointed with this. I was thinking that the characters would be classic. Infact, the movie is too commercial. I also don't like Holmes' character in this movie.

Adler's character is not so alluring. In my opinion she supposed to be similar as James Bond's female enemy.

I may be misunderstand the character because I never read the book.

Mission 2010

This year is near to the end, I don't feel that I've done something better or great.

I think I'll put 2010 as year for learning.

Things that I want to do in 2010 are :
- learn more mandarin
- improve my design skill
- improve my English
- be nicer with people
- Read more books

Studio Lunch from Ruth, Sarah, and Vince

We were treated by Ruth, Sarah, and Vince on Tuesday.

The food was great. Really nice.

They ordered the food from AMICI. They've done it very well. The x'mas deco was also there.

They said it was $25.00/ person for :
1. Salad
2. Mushroom Soup -- nicer than soup spoon I think, because it's not too creamy.
3. Spaghetti with mushroom oglio olio
4. Turkey breast
5. Sliced beef stroganoff
6. Oven Baked pacific dory with lemon butter --- BEST! BEST! BEST!
7. Calamari Rings with Tar tar sauce ---- HUGE! HUGE! HUGE! too bad it was already soggy.
8. Cut fruit (strawberry, papaya, and honey dew)
9. Log cake with rum ---- yummy! the rum was very strong!

They served it with environmental friendly plate, made from corn and yam. We made jokes while queuing that after finish eating, we also can eat the plate.

Thanks Ruth, Vince, and Sarah for the very nice lunch.

Bueno Advertisement @ Orchard

I saw this ad while I was waiting for my bus. The idea is really good and the end product is also good.

X'mas Deco @ Tangs, Orchard

I really like Tangs x'mas deco. Theirs is always the best.

Mphosis X'mas Tree

I like their X'mas Tree. Looks very fashionable and sleek. It was made from white fur. At the bottom part, they put styrofoam balls.

Chocolate Log Cake from LamiTAK

One of our supplier gave our studio one log cake. We need to share 1 slice for 3 person.

The log cake tasted very nice and the chocolate was thick.

Thanks LamiTAK!

Cockroach @ Polar, Bugis Junction

I was thinking to buy some pieces of Polar swiss rolls at that day. It's not as usual. Some people queued to buy also.

When I was queuing I saw something small came out in between the swiss rolls. I was freezing quite few second and my eyeballs following the movement of that small thing.

I wanted to take picture, but it's too late. Small fellow went in to spongy cake.

Lucky I needed to queue. If not, I would have bought that rolls full of cockroach foot prints. Brrrrrrrrrrr....

Raffless City X'mas Deco 2009

Raffless City X'mas Deco for this year is a bit to simple, and not as glamor as usually.

The theme is glowing stars. So the tree is also formed by stars. All the hanging deco are glowing stars, made from rope lights.

Beef Noodle Stall @ Lavender Food Court

I always feel that beef noodle is really hard to find in Singapore. It's because some Buddhis can not eat beef.

Then we went to Lavender food court on Sunday lunch time. I ordered this beef noodle for $4.00 and the beef balls for $3.00

The beef balls were nice. They were not so hard like the one that my husband like.

Sure I'll come back another time. :D

X'mas Deco @ Illuma, Bugis

They only hang perforated stars with metallic red and gold color.

Avatar Movie 2009

I think, this is the science fiction movie in the last 5 years. I really want to watch it again for the 2nd time. It'll be much more nicer if you watch this in 3D.

Even the story is the same style as Pocahontas or Dance with the wolves and so on...But the way they present it is so amazing and wonderful.

This kind of idea, the way they illustrate the animals and how the creatures interact one another, is really beyond your imagination.

This is A MUST WATCH MOVIE.