2018 Disney On Ice

18 March 2018


Just got back from family vacation to Hong Kong Disneyland and coincidently bought Disney On Ice tickets for this weekend so now it is still a Disney week (for me the least...)!


Had to bring all the barang barang bought from HK Disneyland for this show - makes it uniquely for him to blend into the show...  #现在流行玩dressedup #alldresseditmickeyattires


This year with lesser / standing around, lesser fussing to be seated... think he has grown to understand and enjoy shows.  #moretocome  #annualevent

17 Mar - Magical weekend with Disney on Ice! #week219 #disneyweek

17 Mar - When Papa is buying breakfast, we wefie! #week219 #disneyweek

17 Mar - Met up with the Lims after the show for lunch and playdate.  Le couple wear with Renee! #week219 #disneyweek

 

2016 Birthday Celebrations

29 June 2016


Gracing towards to late thirties already!  Boy.  What's the biggest achievement over the past 35 years?  #becomingmomofthecutestsonontheuniversal  LOL!


Over the weekend had first round of celebrations with the folks at home.  ah Thiang bought live prawns and crabs for dinner (the ones nearby sold out their live prawns so he has to travel back to Chin Swee outlet to get them...) and aunt Joyce ordered some expensive famous durian for deserts!  #yums


Both of us took leave for some we-time to celebrate my actual birth date... feasting oysters, foie gras, lobster and steak (ALL my favourite food), birthday 就是要吃好料的嘛 and went two rounds of massages before the boy knocks off from school!  Guessed now we can only do lunches, brunches or tea date when the son is at school... and back homie, MIL whipped out bowls of chicken mee sua top up with 2 BIG eggs for dinner and singing of birthday song by the boy to end the day.  #contented

Oysters feasting in progress - we ordered like 3 rounds???

My lunch date decked in my favourite prints!

 

Back home, this little boy #curlyfries singing birthday song and blowing out the candles for me...

#famfie - Our little family!

Jade & Tat Jin's Wedding Celebrations!

23 September 2013

It was a lovely Sunday afternoon celebrating Jade & Tat Jin's wedding!  An outdoor solemnization followed by lunch reception at Sheraton Towers ballroom (the AV in the ballroom was blasting loud, deafing me ears... :( ).  The newly wedd couple left the very night for their 3weeks honeymoon to Europe (cities of Italy, Paris and London... so jelly!).  Can't wait to catch up with them on the highlights of their trip!

The rest of the Sunday was having tea at The Marmalade Pantry with the girls then we headed to Marina Bay Sands, for the collection of ah Thiang's new iPhone 5s (surprisingly no Q!) - the golden rush.  :P

Mama-inlaw's Birthday!

30 August 2013

Last Sunday, the family celebrated Mama-inlaw's birthday in advance at Peach Garden located at OCBC Tower - it's a celebration with a view!  The restaurant captain even sent us a complimentary plate of 寿桃！ Nice.

祝愿婆婆 （家婆的婆），生日快乐！

SIN/VN/SIN - Day 6

06 July 2012

Quick post before I can finally shut down my computer and go home!  ah Thiang, Popa & Moma is coming to fetch me tomorrow.  YAY!

Managed to try another new deli, a little cosy yet 'French' feel cafe for lunch before heading down to the exhibition hall for tear down.  I must say, I love their deco.  So much warmth.  I like.  One of a better Vietnamese milk coffee I had (kinda taste like milo! must be the aftermath from the lousy coffee I had at MOF that made my tastebud no functioning properly!)!

A wrap-up dinner with the local team at the BBQ garden restaurant diagonally opposite my hotel.  It was a pouring cats and dogs night and I am so worried that my BBQ date with the guys will not happen.  Hey, I was wrong.  They have a huge tentage and everyone was happily BBQ-ing under the shelter on a rainy day!  I smelt like a mobile-BBQ pit when I got back to my room.  #sleepwithwethairagain

Paris Deli for lunch / Just can't get enough of those baguettes! / Wrap-up dinner at Barbecue Garden!

So glad that I came for this one-week 'assignment' in Saigon.  I get to try many many new eatries (some are must-try or strongly recommended by bloggers/websites etc which I have not done so for my past trips) and I am so going home with a happy tum tum!  #simplepleasures

Wooo... the guys are having TGIF fun time without the ladies!  >_<

Paris Deli
Saigon Centre
65 Le Loi, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

Barbecue Garden
diagonally opposite Norfolk Hotel
135A Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

SIN/VN/SIN - Day 4 & 5

05 July 2012

There is nothing much for me to explore city of Saigon after being here for like the fourth or fifth time... other than daily trips visiting my booth and back to hotel to catch up some work, I also googled on some nice food places to try.  Why I no find out the nice places to eat when ah Thiang and I first came to Ho Chi Minh City?  :(

Planned to go Zan Z Bar for one of my lunches but when I got there, the exterior did not attract me to go in and I continued to walk down the street and stumbled upon Al Fresco (which is also in my to-visit list) and tried their famous baby back ribs.  I must say they are as good as Tony Romas'!

As I was saying, I must eat ice-cream right... so I googled again and found Fanny Ice-Cream and MOF... since SG has MOF and I make my way down to Fanny.  This place is so so SO nice.  So much prettier than the normal ice-cream shops in SG.  I think I will come back the 2nd or 3rd time before I leave.  Know what, I have actually asked 3 person on the street on how-to-get-there!  And when I reached there, I was like "tiew... " I could have cut from this street to that street and so on...  Now I am much clever now...  I know exactly which street can led to which shop/restaurant from which junction.  #pattingmyhead

Saw that there was a Japanese BBQ located next to Saigon Square... and decided to have it for dinner.  Seating arrangement was similar in the usual Japanese restaurant, you get roller blinds as partition from the guest next seat and a personal BBQ stove.  Food was meh and only realized that I have not eaten rice since the day I got here!  Gah.  So much meaty mains like steak, ribs, roti and such...  Oh boy, go back home must turbo detox liao.

MOF in Ho Chi Minh City is slightly different from the one in SG.  They no serve Korean food like bimbimbak in their menu.  Had some udon tonkatsu set and garlic fried rice.  Don't judge me.  Who say I am a small eater?  I am just a hungry SG woman who is having a very late lunch based on SG timing.  LOL!  Btw, the Vietnamese milk coffee here sucks.  NOT. COMING. BACK.

I also visited Black Cat restaurant, which was featured on CNN.com as one of the top 10 must-eat in the world!  I love their wallpapers especially the one has many many giantic baguettes in the restaurant (I even get the staff to take a photo for me!).  LOL!  They are famous for their jumbo-sized burgers (do you realized that there is no McDees in HCMC...?  if you need a burger fix, then try here...  I am not a small eater but this is way too big for me to digest.  :P).  Their burger size is as BIG as Yeo's face (汉堡大过大男生!)... proofs of pictures are all over the restaurant's wall, no bluff!

Tomorrow will be my last night in Ho Chi Minh City... I hope I can find at least one more new food places to feast before heading to rainy Singapore (why you no rain when I'm back home?!?!)!  Boooo...  I missed my ah Thiang!

Al Fresco
27 Dong Du, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

Fanny Ice Cream
on side of Sun Wah Building, middle part of Pasteur and Nguyen Hue Street
29-31 Ton That Thiep Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

Uraetei BBQ Japan
next to Saigon Square
69-71 Nam Ki Khoi Nghia Street, Ben Thanh Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

MOF Japanese Sweets & Coffee
30 Le Loi Avenue (Pasteur Street), District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

Black Cat Restaurant
13 Phan Vat Dat, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

SIN/VN/SIN - Day 1

01 July 2012

Hello to second-half of 2012!  My one week stint in Saigon starts today!

Checked into Norfolk Hotel and did a quick lunch at the restaurant, located level in the hotel before heading to SECC for setup day 1...  Everything from the toast garlic bread, oxtail soup and the steak was GOOD!  Happy tum tum and I am off to work... a short setup day as part of the stuffs weren't delivered and have to wait for tomorrow... but we managed to setup the 'main' feature at the booth.  :)  Hopefully tomorrow will complete by lunch and I can get back to hotel and do my reporting...

Dinner was adventurous.  Jessie says go Saigon must eat French food.  So I googled where to have French food nearby or within District 1 to try the recommended restaurants.  Unfortunately the first choice wasn't open so I got the taxi uncle to drive me to the next destination (didn't I say I am adventurous?  never did I ever just take a taxi and drove to find food... it's all walking within distance from my hotel lor...).  Food was OK.  I didn't quite enjoy one of the starter, foie gras... too ger-liat for me and I am too full to even have the desserts served.  Tomorrow will try some local pho instead...  I forsee-ed meaty meaty meals ahead...  LOL!

Did not managed to find any massage parlour nearby... next to-do tasks on the list!  Must be CHEAP, clean and good!  :)

Norfolk Hotel / Corso Steakhouse & Bar / L'entete French Restaurant > set meal at VND900,000!

Corso Steakhouse & Bar

Norfolk Hotel
117 Le Thanh Ton Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

L'entete

139 Nguyen Thai Binh, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

Our Couple Date with Popa & Moma!

28 May 2012

We spent the whole Sunday with Popa & Moma.  Lunch, GSS shopping, visiting the Vintage CARvinal at Orchard Central (vintage cars showcased by Kombirocks) and dinner to end the weekend.  Looked as thou we are having a couple date!  Heeee....

It was lunch at Itacho Sushi at Ion.  Made Moma queue while we make our way from MRT station to Ion (mm... we weren't late, they were early... heee!).  Search for the best sushi is over!  Very nice sushi(s)... definetly will come back for more MORE MORE!  The table of 5 next to us, ordered like over 40pcs of salmon sushi(s).  YUMS!

We visited Vintage CARnival (some showcase of vintage cars at the mall with car boot sales by some celebrities... met Kombi Ang Bao and the folks even took picture with her!).  ++newlyweddfeelinisback++  Afterwhich, we stopby at Uniqlo and did little shopping (bought some tops and boxers cheap... S$16.90 for two and material is good too. good buy! can buy!) before we head down to Central for some tasty ramen to end the weekend.  ++lifesgood++  :)

How many of us still do shopping, window shopping and lunch + dinner with your folks?  I hope to have more of such dates in time to come when I get back from my upcoming work trips within the region.  More travelling for this quarter (starting tomorrow, first trip for the year...  Indonesia, here I come!) before I can start penning down plans and where to go for our honeymoon next!  ++busymonthsahead++  Starting to missing ah Thiang already.  Booooo!

Shopping and fooding around in JB!

16 April 2012

Last Saturday was shopping and fooding time with family in JB and I am already starting to collect stamps in my new biometric passport!  Invited Jessie along as Yeo was away for some leadership training in London and won't be back till this weekend.  He even watsapp-ed us lotsa beautiful photos (where is is staying...) whenever his BB was connected to WIFI!

Back to JB trip...  The usual human traffic jam at the bus queue to woodlands checkpoint and woodlands custom was horrendous.  SBS buses didn't come as frequent as we expected.  We should try out CW1 & CW2 bus services the next time.  I must say, their fleat of buses come and go in a blink of light!

We headed straight to Jusco Tebrau for lunch and we had shabu shabu at Arashi!  I love their Hokkaido Milk broth... it was YUMMICILIOUS!  I am going back for more!  ah Thiang manged to "chopp" a massage session at Tebrau (which he never did for the last few times!) while the girls do their shopping.  Supermarketing after tea-break at JCO Donut and we taxi back to City Square for second round of shopping before we ended the evening dinner-ing at Nandos.  It was really 1-1 pricing compared to SG branches.  No wonder Moma and Popa so wanna eat Nandos!

Shabu shabu time with the folks! / Pigging out in pots of soup! / Jessie eat and shop and eat until headache! / ah Thiang alone ate SEVEN donuts! / Me and my new Vincci shades! / Dinner at Nandos!

Another EXTENDED Weekend!

10 August 2011

Another extended weekend past... having major haul in my office and dust are flying all over the shop for the whole of last week!  My boss decided to enforce a day off on Monday (8/8/2011) so that the renovation works can speed up (including tearing down the wall at the current entrance and re-laying of new carpets etc) when we are all gone celebrating National Day Holidays.

Wasted Saturday slacking at home, rotting on my bed for a long lazy nap... went for a post-thank you lunch hosted by Chee Kiong and jio-ed Nigel & SF for a round of mahjong session on Sunday...  Took Mommie out for a lunch date on Monday afternoon while ah Thiang is stucked at work (who couldn't take a day off and go kilang with moi) and catch the hilarious comedy <Horrible Bosses> with Donald after dinner - and that was a good laugh!

Next post will blog about our trail at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve... took the blaaaaardy long walk under the crazy hot sun, fully equipped with my UV umbrella and now suffering from the post-trail heat rash... ++ITCH ITCH++

啊爸节快乐!

19 June 2011

We celebrated Father's Day at Rendezvous Nasi Padang Restaurant located at Central, Clarke Quay.  Joining us this celebration... we have Luther, LayCheng, ah Thiang's parents, moi parents, of course ah Thiang and myself.  Two families celebrated this joyous occassion together while brother was happily enjoying his mini-road trip to Cameron Highlands/KL!

+++Rendezvous Restaurant Hock Lock Kee, Central Clarke Quay+++

+++Umma, Appa and moi!+++

+++moi and moi Anata!+++

+++Debating on a over-priced lime juice in the menu+++

+++Sharing Rendezvous Restaurant's history and heritage+++

+++Curry Fish Head was GOOD!+++

+++Both Fathers enjoying their lunch+++

+++Yummmmmy Cendol for dessert!+++

+++Happy Appa!+++

+++Father's Day Present: Oakley Flak Jacket XLJ+++

+++One word: HANDSOME!+++

Lunch with 阿公 and 阿嬷!

31 May 2011

Moma called me asking where I am at 1225hrs, then I repeated thrice loudly "I'm still in office.... wait for me..." then all I can hear is "har... LRT already ar, OKay we wait for you to come ar..." and she hanged up my call.  ++Shesh... Tai Seng station to Serangoon station where got LRT?!?++

Moma sent Grandpa for medical review and I am meeting the old folks for lunch at NEX!  His next medical review will be in 4 months time from today... cannot defer to 6 months unless his results are constantly good.

When I reached NEX, Grandma has already started her shopping... standing at the sale corner, trying a pair of red checker-ed open toes shoe size 37 - feels tight on her and abit 'cute' for her then she managed to find size 38 in brown and decided on the second pair.  But just when I was about to pay for it, Moma dug out another pair of of black covered shoes with some sequins design and she liked it so we bought the black instead... material is softer, slightly expandable than the brown checker-ed open toes shoe and looked so much comfy - 10 bucks!  ++Cheap sale indeed++

Moma likes Thai food... brought them to try Siam Kitchen set lunch...  After the lunch, they kept saying "好吃, 好吃".  :)

+++阿公says art of drinking is to drink without a straw!+++

+++阿嬷遍嘴 -  looked so like my Moma when she made this face too!+++