The popularity race
I declare that I have won the popularity race.. upon my announcement that I'm headed for surgery this coming Thursday. (LOL) Since then, I've had the opportunity to meet up with many who I haven't made the effort to keep in touch with etc - and i suppose likewise for them.
Lol, I also discovered today over coffee that I was terribly unpopular back in the earlier days of law school :'( with mean titles and comments of me being a "poser" from the same person who now calls me "fat arms"... who am i kidding, I should have expected it when she started calling me "fat arms".
Nonetheless, I'm glad to have gone through that bit and hopefully I've graduated/ moved on from my "poser" and whiney (self declared) days. Now I'm just the lazy girl who has failed her faithfu kaypoh friends by barely blogging.. or blogging with too many pictures and too few words - what happened to the once wordy days of wiredblind which in another person's words amounted to an online "drama serial" recap.
And then from another kaypoh friend *ahem bubbleteaexpert ahem* who no longer blogs herself (now more appropriately outdated bubbleteaexpert).. my recent post was disappointing because she was expecting an exciting birthday post detailing what I ate and how I celebrated...instead, I blogged about HIM and KH - what can I say, the most exciting thing in my life = looking out for serina wee every time i go for class at the sub courts and on my most unfortunate days, i bump into the uninteresting defendants instead of the hot stuff :'(.
I hope I've fulfilled the word quota expected from my kaypoh faithful readers and to annoy them... But I promise more to come because this is the long awaited birthday post!
For the unacquainted who for some obscure and strange reason find this post/ read this livejournal... I turned 23 several days back and it was one hell of a glorious and prolonged celebration given the eventful year I've had and the few upcoming events over the last part of this year which will mark.. well, a new face and my entry into the workforce (:O)
But before I start captioning my gazillion birthday photos, here's an update on the procedure on the 12th september (since i promised to keep this as a journal documenting my journey - re surgery first orthognathic surgery) :
had my last meet up with my orthodontist on thursday and the plan is to change my teeth/ jaw from the right to left.
Initially they hadn't thought about engaging in any upper incisor movement and instead settled on the centre model with plans to extract 2 teeth from the top and move everything in place (i.e. to model no. 3) via 1.5 years of braces. Upon closer look, they realized that they could cut down my braces time to 0.5 years if they added the procedure of upper incisor movement - i.e. the patched up bit on model 3 (extreme left) - which involves setting back my upper teeth from canine to canine. It takes the same recovery time and will mean more pain than the original plan but it'll also save me 1 year of braces pain since it brings it to the same position they initially hoped they would achieve with 1.5 years of super tight braces.
Of course it'll add to my operating theatre cost as the surgery will now be 4 instead of 3 hours (at its worst) but it'll also fully maximize my hospitalization costs, the recovery time I'm taking and of course all the basic costs of xray etc (truly an aunty)
Now that we have a clearer idea of what the surgery's all about.. here's to me turning the ripe old age of 23 years old and I'm extremely grateful for all the love and concern I've been showered with. hahaha too many people have been making sure that I get my fill of sweets, cakes and anything I'm likely to find difficult eating for the next 6 months.
Sunday, 1st Sept - lunch at home
I suspect we had such an early celebration so that my mum and mark could find a way to give me my lens early enough for me to use it through my birthday celebrations
Honey glazed prime pork ribs - because i love to gnaw on bones
my mother trying to be all arty farty with her pictures since she witnessed my sister doing so
Banoffee pie from Carpenter and cook sitting on top of a plate handpainted by the talented mother
Bannoffee pie, cheese cake, lemon cream tart and flowers + jackfruit
My mum was really going all out with everything I'm likely to find difficulty eating
For the uninitiated.. yes.. we have the same birthday
and as mentioned earlier - ta da! my mum and mark shared the cost of the nikon 35mm 1.8 lens! and I loved it the moment I picked it up.. because it takes glorious food photos and is so amazingly light.
Butty and his test shots.
My favourite takeaway from my 23rd birthday celebration(s)
I love this photo of my parents and I (and buds) - can you believe that they are both in their mid sixties/!?!? How crazy is that!
The person who stole my birthday from me :'(
So if you think i'm nuts for making myself a birthday cake and then boxing it up like a nutcase... nope this wasn't for me but for mark
It's a rich and moist chocolate cake filled with ganache and covered with peanut butter and jelly SMB
Made cupcakes for his family to sample some of them
On the 2nd of Sept, Mark and I treated each other to birthday meals since we have the unfortunate luck of being born on the same day. Mark treated me to lunch at Restaurant Ember (Keong Saik Road, 1929 Hotel).
Their set lunches are priced at 42++ but you've got to add additional $ if you choose to upgrade your appetizer or mains to more "premium" foods.. like foie gras
We upgraded one of our starters to a poached foie and roasted gras with shoyu and braised mushrooms and this dish stole the show for the rest of the meal.
The crust was caramelized, the inside was gooey and rich and it was basking in a blend of flavourful asian sauces you wouldn't ordinarily think would pair well with foie gras.
Mark had the highly raved bout slow cooked crisp skin pork with variations of sauces. He thoroughly enjoyed and I found it to be really good too! Although I'm inherently biased towards Au Jardin because I think the chef there is just brilliant so I still believe that the pork belly we had during restaurant week last year was better than Ember's pork dish which is so highly raved about online.
I had to top up $3 for my perfectly cooked pan fried sea bass that sat atop a creamy yuzu sauce and heaps of chopped bacon and mushrooms - flavoured with truffle salt.
I thought the fish, truffle salt and creamy sauce were brilliant but I have reservations about the deep fried heap of mushrooms and bacon only because it was all really really salty and I'm tragically not a bacon-loving individual. I thought the fish and the truffle salt alone were perfectly seasoned as they were and the sauce cut through it convincingly.
I had a warm fig puff pastry tart with mascarpone and grand manier ice cream.
I thought this was the second best dish of the night and i polished it off completely.. unfortunately, it was second to the brilliant foiegras
Mark had molten dark chocolate cake with vanilla bean ice cream - both of them were brilliant!
Naturally, it was my turn to treat him for dinner. Actually.. we weren't even meant to have lunch since we concluded that we should take turns every other year to treat each other - but he was afraid my plans would fall through so we wound up being 2 greedy pigs over the course of one day.
For dinner, we headed to Burnt Ends at Teck Lim Road simply because mark loves the burnt ends off grilled pieces of meat and this place has a range of liquor I'm certain mark would have (and did) enjoy
warmed oyster - this was highly recommended online and it was absolutely stunning.
Smoked quails eggs - these were delicious! Although i wish they were warm when they got too the table :(
But lets be honest.. how could they get to the table warm when the poor cook staff have to peel them after they're smoked - and they'd be too hot for anyone to be able to do so.. so i realized they probably had to run them through water to cool down before they slowly flaked off the delicate quail shell without injuring the tiny potent servings of cholesterol :P
We also ordered the monk fish cheek with beer batter and homemade tartar
The monk fish is slow grilled under 15 degrees C to perfect consistency and paired with a crispy deep fried beer batter and tangy homemade tar tar sauce. I would definitely have this again. tyvm.
If only the next few dishes weren't so deliciously delightful, the burnt ends pulled pork sanger would have raked in higher in my list of things I MUST EAT AGAIN. It's actually pulled pork at its best. It's moist, delicious while avoiding the deadly route of oily/lardy pulled pork abused into submission with sweet bbq sauce that could mask off any horrid taste.
This one didn't stray from celebrating the beauty of the pork and was perfectly moist without making me feel jelat or regretful for the litres of oil consumed from one pulled pork burger.
the winning dish of my birthday?
Burnt Ends' Wagyi Onglet with onion puree and garlic
KICK ASS.
it's ridiculously good and it stole the limelight from all the other fantastic dishes.
I've never had a serving of beef I've enjoyed more - whether down under or in the states or in the UK. This took the cake and was worth the wait or the annoying fact that Burnt Ends only takes reservations up til 6.30pm! Go any later.. and you're joining a wait list that only starts dwindling down as the first seating (6pm) group finish their meals at about 8pm.
Second to the onglet? Burnt Ends' roasted pineapple with vanilla bean ice cream, pistachios and rum caramel.
No kidding.. I would eat this all over again in a heart beat.
Our one photo together from the 2nd of september..
Well.. up til the surprise I organized for mark at my place.
I'm terribly broke and I for the longest time didn't know what mark wanted.. to be frank, i still don't. In light of my financial constraints, i made a gift of him (much thanks to kaser craft's great range of timbre wood pieces) and organized a surprise he did not expect coming at all together with pasta made by wati and the cake/cupcakes I had made before hand.
I invited his bunch of law school friends over and he was completely shocked when he saw them walk in. Now one may think that one law grad should be able to figure out how to light candles with a trdiitonal set of matchsticks.. nope.. it took all 6 of them.
My dog cannot stand the idea of not being the centre of attention.
We were so exhausted by the end of 2nd september mark and I ushered our birthday in lying on my bed looking exhausted while trying our best to entertain a rather grumpy buddy (he got scolded several times)
3rd September
As usual, I woke up to mee sua and red eggs no thanks to my lovely mother who has made it a tradition for me to eat all the ingredients traditional to chinese birthdays even though she can't really speak a word of chinese.
Hipster red eggs..
and for lunch, I got cupcakes from 12 cupcakes from the crazy bunch of girls I got to know from my p5/p6 class
Meet germs, gill and nicky...they've given me the most humorous gifts I've ever received and watched me grow up as I have for them. Although we don't talk or hang out as much now, I was really happy we could meet up for lunch that day because they're people I miss and well.. people I used to regularly celebrate my birthday with until germ and gill decided to abandon nicky and i for the UK.
Germ also happens to be my oldest friend whom i met at church and she writes the most brilliant cards and always has the best wishes for me. this years one:
'That one day (I) will end up in Norway wearing a pair of Italian shoes n folding the financial times into paper aeroplanes'
I do wish that very much and thanks for everything :*
That evening after class, another crazy bunch of girls celebrated my birthday outside the subcourts with the crunchiest cake they could find from Rive Gauche :') so thoughtful!
Lumpy's slit so high!??!
Thanks friends.. i actually don't know how I would have managed to survive law school without all of you
Unfortunately.. I had to rush off for my birthday dinner which was paid by my dad as my present (FYI this is the same man who forgot my 9th birthday and gave me a pack of small sized magnolia teddy bears he retrieved from his lorry... they were leftover free gifts his company - magnolia then- had been giving out to purchasers T_T.
Luckily for me.. my father has changed... well.. he still doesn't remember my birthday but I appreciated steamboat a lot more!!
Imperial treasure steamboat at Triple One.
I unfortunately.. was too engrossed in dinner and forgot about snapping away with my new lens - my weakness for steamboats really isn't anything new.
Carrot/fruit cake from Chalk Farm
It was crazy sweet but also very moist.. so i felt very conflicted as to how i feel about it (hahaha!). It was however bought and chosen by my lovely sister, sammii so I'll love it anyway!
My mother dressed the house up with balloons and lovely flowers the night before. such a sweet lady this one.
4th sept
It just so happened that everyone could only meet the day after my birthday for brazil chiaroscuro at 6 ave.. but samuel cheam in all his sweetness got me a dairy free cake from shangri la - more specifically, a lemongrass, coconut and pineapple cake.
Can you believe it.. it's been 9 years since RI U-14s when we first met each other/!?!?!
I got home to my brilliant sister's card that had just arrived from roma.
My sister, Oli, makes the best cards and she's crazy talented. She has made me nothing but the most amazing and creative cards that probably justify any argument that emails and online wishes cannot compare in any way to receiving a brilliant card that chokes you up.
I also threw away the old bed side table and fitted in my newly acquired doob plopsta which was half a present from mark.
I'm extremely pleased with it and well I've always loved the idea of supporting small businesses and my local men.. so we settled on doob for my bean bag.
5th sept
Met Cindy and Audrey at the Sushi bar at far east for chirashi don and the 2 sweet girls got me cupcakes from 10-11 cupcakes at far east. Once again... I have the most amazing friends and i was actually just contented sitting there with verbal wishes but my friends are just too sweet/ too intent on making me look like a blue whale.
FYI: chirashi don on the left was from lunch on the 5th and that on the right is from lunch today! woohoooo
first time trying uni.. and i don't know if its meant to be more amazing or I'm just missing it's flavour profile.
Had paris baguette with cow after and I seriously love ordering takeaways there despite that being extremely un-environmentally unfriendly, their cups and containers are so cute i jsut can't help myself!!!
Dinner was at Muchachos and I got an opportunity to meet the elusive and now retired (?) Missbubbleteaexpert. I also got the chance to watch her wolf down a burrito i suspect she thoroughly enjoyed.
This bubbleteaexpert is also a sweetiepie because she made detour just to get me a cupcake from cupcake engineer at botanical gardens. I'm saving it for brekfast so more on that cake another time.. but thanks for it nico and I'm really happy to have met up with you today!
Finally.. we rounded off the night with roasted almond latte from group therapy cafe along duxton road.
All in all, everyone made turning a year older a blast even though it really isn't fun to age. Nonetheless, I'm thankful for everything and I'm nervous while excited for Thursday to come so that I can get over and done with the surgery (which i've put off since i was 15).
LOl and since i'm determined to document my surgery on this blog so that i can one day refer to it/ be of help to anyone as lost as i am about the world of dentistry.. i can promise that you'll se a post from me by latest next thursday!
wish me luck and prayers are welcome!! thaaanks
Lol, I also discovered today over coffee that I was terribly unpopular back in the earlier days of law school :'( with mean titles and comments of me being a "poser" from the same person who now calls me "fat arms"... who am i kidding, I should have expected it when she started calling me "fat arms".
Nonetheless, I'm glad to have gone through that bit and hopefully I've graduated/ moved on from my "poser" and whiney (self declared) days. Now I'm just the lazy girl who has failed her faithfu kaypoh friends by barely blogging.. or blogging with too many pictures and too few words - what happened to the once wordy days of wiredblind which in another person's words amounted to an online "drama serial" recap.
And then from another kaypoh friend *ahem bubbleteaexpert ahem* who no longer blogs herself (now more appropriately outdated bubbleteaexpert).. my recent post was disappointing because she was expecting an exciting birthday post detailing what I ate and how I celebrated...instead, I blogged about HIM and KH - what can I say, the most exciting thing in my life = looking out for serina wee every time i go for class at the sub courts and on my most unfortunate days, i bump into the uninteresting defendants instead of the hot stuff :'(.
I hope I've fulfilled the word quota expected from my kaypoh faithful readers and to annoy them... But I promise more to come because this is the long awaited birthday post!
For the unacquainted who for some obscure and strange reason find this post/ read this livejournal... I turned 23 several days back and it was one hell of a glorious and prolonged celebration given the eventful year I've had and the few upcoming events over the last part of this year which will mark.. well, a new face and my entry into the workforce (:O)
But before I start captioning my gazillion birthday photos, here's an update on the procedure on the 12th september (since i promised to keep this as a journal documenting my journey - re surgery first orthognathic surgery) :
had my last meet up with my orthodontist on thursday and the plan is to change my teeth/ jaw from the right to left.
Initially they hadn't thought about engaging in any upper incisor movement and instead settled on the centre model with plans to extract 2 teeth from the top and move everything in place (i.e. to model no. 3) via 1.5 years of braces. Upon closer look, they realized that they could cut down my braces time to 0.5 years if they added the procedure of upper incisor movement - i.e. the patched up bit on model 3 (extreme left) - which involves setting back my upper teeth from canine to canine. It takes the same recovery time and will mean more pain than the original plan but it'll also save me 1 year of braces pain since it brings it to the same position they initially hoped they would achieve with 1.5 years of super tight braces.
Of course it'll add to my operating theatre cost as the surgery will now be 4 instead of 3 hours (at its worst) but it'll also fully maximize my hospitalization costs, the recovery time I'm taking and of course all the basic costs of xray etc (truly an aunty)
Now that we have a clearer idea of what the surgery's all about.. here's to me turning the ripe old age of 23 years old and I'm extremely grateful for all the love and concern I've been showered with. hahaha too many people have been making sure that I get my fill of sweets, cakes and anything I'm likely to find difficult eating for the next 6 months.
Sunday, 1st Sept - lunch at home
I suspect we had such an early celebration so that my mum and mark could find a way to give me my lens early enough for me to use it through my birthday celebrations
Honey glazed prime pork ribs - because i love to gnaw on bones
my mother trying to be all arty farty with her pictures since she witnessed my sister doing so
Banoffee pie from Carpenter and cook sitting on top of a plate handpainted by the talented mother
Bannoffee pie, cheese cake, lemon cream tart and flowers + jackfruit
My mum was really going all out with everything I'm likely to find difficulty eating
For the uninitiated.. yes.. we have the same birthday
and as mentioned earlier - ta da! my mum and mark shared the cost of the nikon 35mm 1.8 lens! and I loved it the moment I picked it up.. because it takes glorious food photos and is so amazingly light.
Butty and his test shots.
My favourite takeaway from my 23rd birthday celebration(s)
I love this photo of my parents and I (and buds) - can you believe that they are both in their mid sixties/!?!? How crazy is that!
The person who stole my birthday from me :'(
So if you think i'm nuts for making myself a birthday cake and then boxing it up like a nutcase... nope this wasn't for me but for mark
It's a rich and moist chocolate cake filled with ganache and covered with peanut butter and jelly SMB
Made cupcakes for his family to sample some of them
On the 2nd of Sept, Mark and I treated each other to birthday meals since we have the unfortunate luck of being born on the same day. Mark treated me to lunch at Restaurant Ember (Keong Saik Road, 1929 Hotel).
Their set lunches are priced at 42++ but you've got to add additional $ if you choose to upgrade your appetizer or mains to more "premium" foods.. like foie gras
We upgraded one of our starters to a poached foie and roasted gras with shoyu and braised mushrooms and this dish stole the show for the rest of the meal.
The crust was caramelized, the inside was gooey and rich and it was basking in a blend of flavourful asian sauces you wouldn't ordinarily think would pair well with foie gras.
Mark had the highly raved bout slow cooked crisp skin pork with variations of sauces. He thoroughly enjoyed and I found it to be really good too! Although I'm inherently biased towards Au Jardin because I think the chef there is just brilliant so I still believe that the pork belly we had during restaurant week last year was better than Ember's pork dish which is so highly raved about online.
I had to top up $3 for my perfectly cooked pan fried sea bass that sat atop a creamy yuzu sauce and heaps of chopped bacon and mushrooms - flavoured with truffle salt.
I thought the fish, truffle salt and creamy sauce were brilliant but I have reservations about the deep fried heap of mushrooms and bacon only because it was all really really salty and I'm tragically not a bacon-loving individual. I thought the fish and the truffle salt alone were perfectly seasoned as they were and the sauce cut through it convincingly.
I had a warm fig puff pastry tart with mascarpone and grand manier ice cream.
I thought this was the second best dish of the night and i polished it off completely.. unfortunately, it was second to the brilliant foiegras
Mark had molten dark chocolate cake with vanilla bean ice cream - both of them were brilliant!
Naturally, it was my turn to treat him for dinner. Actually.. we weren't even meant to have lunch since we concluded that we should take turns every other year to treat each other - but he was afraid my plans would fall through so we wound up being 2 greedy pigs over the course of one day.
For dinner, we headed to Burnt Ends at Teck Lim Road simply because mark loves the burnt ends off grilled pieces of meat and this place has a range of liquor I'm certain mark would have (and did) enjoy
warmed oyster - this was highly recommended online and it was absolutely stunning.
Smoked quails eggs - these were delicious! Although i wish they were warm when they got too the table :(
But lets be honest.. how could they get to the table warm when the poor cook staff have to peel them after they're smoked - and they'd be too hot for anyone to be able to do so.. so i realized they probably had to run them through water to cool down before they slowly flaked off the delicate quail shell without injuring the tiny potent servings of cholesterol :P
We also ordered the monk fish cheek with beer batter and homemade tartar
The monk fish is slow grilled under 15 degrees C to perfect consistency and paired with a crispy deep fried beer batter and tangy homemade tar tar sauce. I would definitely have this again. tyvm.
If only the next few dishes weren't so deliciously delightful, the burnt ends pulled pork sanger would have raked in higher in my list of things I MUST EAT AGAIN. It's actually pulled pork at its best. It's moist, delicious while avoiding the deadly route of oily/lardy pulled pork abused into submission with sweet bbq sauce that could mask off any horrid taste.
This one didn't stray from celebrating the beauty of the pork and was perfectly moist without making me feel jelat or regretful for the litres of oil consumed from one pulled pork burger.
the winning dish of my birthday?
Burnt Ends' Wagyi Onglet with onion puree and garlic
KICK ASS.
it's ridiculously good and it stole the limelight from all the other fantastic dishes.
I've never had a serving of beef I've enjoyed more - whether down under or in the states or in the UK. This took the cake and was worth the wait or the annoying fact that Burnt Ends only takes reservations up til 6.30pm! Go any later.. and you're joining a wait list that only starts dwindling down as the first seating (6pm) group finish their meals at about 8pm.
Second to the onglet? Burnt Ends' roasted pineapple with vanilla bean ice cream, pistachios and rum caramel.
No kidding.. I would eat this all over again in a heart beat.
Our one photo together from the 2nd of september..
Well.. up til the surprise I organized for mark at my place.
I'm terribly broke and I for the longest time didn't know what mark wanted.. to be frank, i still don't. In light of my financial constraints, i made a gift of him (much thanks to kaser craft's great range of timbre wood pieces) and organized a surprise he did not expect coming at all together with pasta made by wati and the cake/cupcakes I had made before hand.
I invited his bunch of law school friends over and he was completely shocked when he saw them walk in. Now one may think that one law grad should be able to figure out how to light candles with a trdiitonal set of matchsticks.. nope.. it took all 6 of them.
My dog cannot stand the idea of not being the centre of attention.
We were so exhausted by the end of 2nd september mark and I ushered our birthday in lying on my bed looking exhausted while trying our best to entertain a rather grumpy buddy (he got scolded several times)
3rd September
As usual, I woke up to mee sua and red eggs no thanks to my lovely mother who has made it a tradition for me to eat all the ingredients traditional to chinese birthdays even though she can't really speak a word of chinese.
Hipster red eggs..
and for lunch, I got cupcakes from 12 cupcakes from the crazy bunch of girls I got to know from my p5/p6 class
Meet germs, gill and nicky...they've given me the most humorous gifts I've ever received and watched me grow up as I have for them. Although we don't talk or hang out as much now, I was really happy we could meet up for lunch that day because they're people I miss and well.. people I used to regularly celebrate my birthday with until germ and gill decided to abandon nicky and i for the UK.
Germ also happens to be my oldest friend whom i met at church and she writes the most brilliant cards and always has the best wishes for me. this years one:
'That one day (I) will end up in Norway wearing a pair of Italian shoes n folding the financial times into paper aeroplanes'
I do wish that very much and thanks for everything :*
That evening after class, another crazy bunch of girls celebrated my birthday outside the subcourts with the crunchiest cake they could find from Rive Gauche :') so thoughtful!
Lumpy's slit so high!??!
Thanks friends.. i actually don't know how I would have managed to survive law school without all of you
Unfortunately.. I had to rush off for my birthday dinner which was paid by my dad as my present (FYI this is the same man who forgot my 9th birthday and gave me a pack of small sized magnolia teddy bears he retrieved from his lorry... they were leftover free gifts his company - magnolia then- had been giving out to purchasers T_T.
Luckily for me.. my father has changed... well.. he still doesn't remember my birthday but I appreciated steamboat a lot more!!
Imperial treasure steamboat at Triple One.
I unfortunately.. was too engrossed in dinner and forgot about snapping away with my new lens - my weakness for steamboats really isn't anything new.
Carrot/fruit cake from Chalk Farm
It was crazy sweet but also very moist.. so i felt very conflicted as to how i feel about it (hahaha!). It was however bought and chosen by my lovely sister, sammii so I'll love it anyway!
My mother dressed the house up with balloons and lovely flowers the night before. such a sweet lady this one.
4th sept
It just so happened that everyone could only meet the day after my birthday for brazil chiaroscuro at 6 ave.. but samuel cheam in all his sweetness got me a dairy free cake from shangri la - more specifically, a lemongrass, coconut and pineapple cake.
Can you believe it.. it's been 9 years since RI U-14s when we first met each other/!?!?!
I got home to my brilliant sister's card that had just arrived from roma.
My sister, Oli, makes the best cards and she's crazy talented. She has made me nothing but the most amazing and creative cards that probably justify any argument that emails and online wishes cannot compare in any way to receiving a brilliant card that chokes you up.
I also threw away the old bed side table and fitted in my newly acquired doob plopsta which was half a present from mark.
I'm extremely pleased with it and well I've always loved the idea of supporting small businesses and my local men.. so we settled on doob for my bean bag.
5th sept
Met Cindy and Audrey at the Sushi bar at far east for chirashi don and the 2 sweet girls got me cupcakes from 10-11 cupcakes at far east. Once again... I have the most amazing friends and i was actually just contented sitting there with verbal wishes but my friends are just too sweet/ too intent on making me look like a blue whale.
FYI: chirashi don on the left was from lunch on the 5th and that on the right is from lunch today! woohoooo
first time trying uni.. and i don't know if its meant to be more amazing or I'm just missing it's flavour profile.
Had paris baguette with cow after and I seriously love ordering takeaways there despite that being extremely un-environmentally unfriendly, their cups and containers are so cute i jsut can't help myself!!!
Dinner was at Muchachos and I got an opportunity to meet the elusive and now retired (?) Missbubbleteaexpert. I also got the chance to watch her wolf down a burrito i suspect she thoroughly enjoyed.
This bubbleteaexpert is also a sweetiepie because she made detour just to get me a cupcake from cupcake engineer at botanical gardens. I'm saving it for brekfast so more on that cake another time.. but thanks for it nico and I'm really happy to have met up with you today!
Finally.. we rounded off the night with roasted almond latte from group therapy cafe along duxton road.
All in all, everyone made turning a year older a blast even though it really isn't fun to age. Nonetheless, I'm thankful for everything and I'm nervous while excited for Thursday to come so that I can get over and done with the surgery (which i've put off since i was 15).
LOl and since i'm determined to document my surgery on this blog so that i can one day refer to it/ be of help to anyone as lost as i am about the world of dentistry.. i can promise that you'll se a post from me by latest next thursday!
wish me luck and prayers are welcome!! thaaanks