Good Friday Long Weekend!
We have a long weekend as Friday is Good Friday!!
Bao and I joined my Mom, sis mayu, Yuki, and my mom's friend Adel on Friday early morning for a walk around Gardens by the Bay. The dogs enjoyed the walk tremendously. There weren't many people when we reached (like 8am in the morning), so we were able to let the dogs go off-leash and run around for a while.
The weather was really hot the last 2 days though, so by around 9:30am, both Bao and Yuki had their tongues out long and were panting in the heat despite us frequently giving them water, so we packed up and headed back home.
Staycation!
彼 and I will be heading out for a Staycation at Westin Hotel for this weekend. It was quite a last minute decision. We booked the staycation just only on Monday. We will drop off Bao at my parents' so he can have his own staycation with Yuki and my parents.
It's been a long time since we had done staycation in Singapore. It didn't feel that worth it booking a hotel to stay after we got our own place, which being a condo, comes with pools/gyms and other facilities that hotels can offer. But with us both really craving for some vacation but overseas travelling not being available yet, stayation seems like the next good option.
In addition, the Singapore government actually gave Singaporeans SGD100 worth of "Singapore Rediscover Vouchers", which can be used on hotels and attractions etc, in an attempt to encourage Singapore to explore Singapore and stimulate the local industry. So our hotel stay is alot cheaper with the SGD100 vouchers!
Will update about our staycation in the next post! I'm hoping the next staycation will be a pet friendly hotel so we can bring Bao along!
Girls night out
mayu invited me to join her and her girlfriends for a mediterranean dinner at Pano Kato Grill, Pizza & Deli last night. The food was quite good. I love the pitas bread with the 3 greek dips. Hoping to learn to make the dips myself at home. The grilled cauliflower was pretty impressive, we all felt like we were staring at a huge human brain served up. The lamb rack from the meat platter was wonderful too - not too tough. The cheese were all abit on the salty side, so cant say we enjoyed it very much...
Shows!
Gozilla vs Kong!
Click to view彼 and I went to watch Gozilla vs Kong in the cinema on Monday. Totally worth the big screen!
I like that the cinema is relatively empty, given the social distancing rules and headcount limits
Shaobao!
Shaobao hit an amazing 2.65kg. This is good because some time early in the year his weight dropped from 3.5kg to 3.2kg over his refusal to eat properly. He was being really really picky about his food and would go for days without meals. The eat-or-I-will-take-away-your-food hard parenting method didnt work out and only resulted in him losing 300 grams (which is alot when he only weighs 3.5kg and is suppose to be still growing). So we had to resort to toppers, which worked out really well. Since then he's been happpy to eat all his meals and gaining lots of weight.
Food
Simple lunch of cold soba, avocado tuna salad and boiled pork with yuzu vinegar. Great for super hot days like yesterday when I'm craving for cold food.
Simple dinner. Baked some instant frozen chicken, boiled the pre-cooked unagi to heat it up... and stirfried brocolli with mushroom and garli.
One of my favorite breakfast - 油条(Chinese fried doughnut), which goes so well with soy milk. I dont have soy milk at home.. so had it with milk coffee. The top round dough is Ham chim peng (a variant of 油条) with fillings in it. I bought those with yam filling!
Tom yam fish beehoon soup for lunch at office. One of my favourite meals~
Tried out this braised duck horfun and rice with 彼 at AMK Hub. It's Michelin Bib. Abit expensive, but tasted pretty good.