~smile more.~

Singapore's National Day 2011!

2011-08-11T23:02:00.000+08:00

This year, National day was warm (family wise), busy and as usual- full of fun!

Working up to the date, Henrik and I brought my brother to this science talk sponsored by NUS and the Singapore science center "6 billion years". It was actually quite interesting....though I did see Ahmet taking a little nap in there (--,)

Afterwards we took Ian to dinner at Hippopotamus! A little French chain as a prelude to Paris! They had pretty yummy steaks there!! Plus a choice of two different sides. I definitely want to go there again ;)

NDP decorations on our walk after!

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We had a National Day BBQ with my family at Pandan Valley! I love bbqs and I think we should do it more often! Some of the family came over earlier to play basketball and swim. I prepared all the food including shrimp, stingray, meat patties, chicken wings, potatoes, sausages and more! phew! Aunty Helen made mini fruit tarts and cream puffs! YUM! It was really nice though, I think everyone had fun. At least I did!!

preparing!drinks table!sneaky shot on the boys lol

boys!
peek-a-boo nipple!master chef!
daddy and momma!
Double birthday month!!
Happy birthday Sabrina and Daddy!!!

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SDP's National Day Partay!!! I was the co-MC again! :D It was fun! We had a good buffet, a good auction and generally a good time! There were a couple of Presidential candidates that came to give speeches which were interesting. If you missed your chance to buy tickets for this event, make sure you buy early for the next one! ;) *loves*

registration
singing patriotic songs lol

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On the actual National Day, we bought Wendy's and headed to Grace's office in the CBD area to watch the fireworks from the 40th floor! Amazing!!

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Other randoms: There was a girls night out with Pingy and Nichelle! We had Astons again! lol I guess we really like that place! three times within a week! Phew! lol But it was delicious! Good times :)

grilled chicken! YUM

*~*Keep reading to see future updates from my trip to France, Denmark and Sweden!! *Love!* *~*

Awesome weekends (Part 2)

2011-08-06T21:24:00.002+08:00

Hello my loves!! I'm counting down the days before my European Vaca!!!
But in this week we've had very exciting activities!! The weather still staying beautiful, allowed me, Henrik, Grace, Ron, Taco and Ben to spend a day on Pulau Ubin! We took a ferry boat ride over the the island and rented bikes for our trip! Trust me, $10 bikes don't really have a difference to the $6 bikes, but I'll draw the line at the $4 bikes ok? lol

getting on the boat!on a bike!
rest after going up and down hills!
Yup, Still in Singapore!
Charming little cottage built by some rich man
touch screen museum!
my loves!

We cycled around reservoirs and nature and eventually reached the wetland area or whatever they like to call it. There, there was a walking tour through some designated paths through an old museum thing and through the dirt (clean hiking ;)). Things are fairly interesting with wild insects and fruits on trees, but not as exciting as the website said. I guess its like that for most national parks around the world though.

into the wetlands!

to the ocean!

pretty reservoir

After our very sweaty- but productive- day on the island, we had dinner at one of the restaurants there. I had ate there like 4/5 years back and was happy to see that they had renovated and things looked much more sanitary lol. The food was delicious and we got to sit right next to the beach. Loved it!! I recommend people who go there to eat there as well! Its the clean looking one next to the old Chinese theater ;)

dinner!

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Another fun event was my girls' day out with Nichelle! We had Coffee Bean's breakfast in the morning and headed out to Sentosa for the day!! Phew the sun was scorching, but we had a good time going though magazines and chit-chatting. Sentosa is such a happening place now! A real tourist trap I must say. The entire beach at Siloso is filled with bars competing in music and overpriced activities.

YUM!!
to the beach!!
love! lol look how tan I got in 3 hours!

Afterwards, we headed to Tanjong Pagar to get our nails done at Nail Palace where Nichelle's sis had some membership she wanted to get rid of. Good for us! lol I never tried the nail chain before because they seemed unfriendly, and boy am I glad I didn't have to pay for this pedicure! The small shop was true to most of its online-forum complaints. The staff was rather unfriendly and the place didn't look clean, nor were their chairs very comfortable. They did the strangest thing by wrapping the sink in a plastic bag for me to place my feet in to soak (for hygienic reasons I hear? -but other places I go to wash their sinks...just saying). Their only saving grace was that they didn't hard-sell towards us like all their other stores do. However, the lady who did my nails buffed my feet so hard my previously un-cracked heels became cracked the next day and she even split my middle toe! (This meaning that my skin under the joint of my toe had ripped open, which hadn't happened to me since I was a kid and played too rough) THAT had never happened to me at a nail parlor before! Though the paint job was nice, I don't think I'll ever go back. Oh and base and top coats are BYO- or they charge extra. WTF.

Anyway, that done, we had a delicious dinner at Astons! Mmmm steak! At Astons its pretty much always worth the money in portions and in deliciousness. Good times :D

Medium Rare. Love it!

Another girls' night out was with Pingy and Catherine!! We had dinner at Astons again. LOL I love that place! And then we saw The Beginning of the Planet of the Apes! It was actually a pretty good movie with a good storyline, graphics and cute actors ;) Pam's rating is 4.8/5

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Ikea day with the family!! One day I insisted on going to Ikea for lunch and item shopping, so daddy brought me! hehehe I love the chicken wings! Also, I discovered the princess cake! I love its fluffiness! YUM!

meh chicken hot dogs....
but we also discovered these new salmon rolls! Nice! And Healthy I think! ;)
Princess cake!!!! *loves*
Me at the checkout stand.
Pft, stupid Ikea, mislabeling their products

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Fun foods I've made: Dumplings!! YUM! I freaking love pot stickers and always will!

Awesome weekends (Part 1)

2011-07-31T17:52:00.005+08:00

July is the month full of fun weekends! Good weather and good fun! We went kite flying one day at the Marina Barage! It was gorgeous! I mad cupcakes and chicken crepes for the picnic among the cheeses and other things that grace and the others bought. The wind was good there for kite flying and we could even see the national day parade practices. Though it was all good fun, I feel like the area was over crowded with kites. Singapore seems to be getting more and more congested and doesn't have many open spaces for this kind of activity. Maybe they'll come up with virtual kite-flying soon. LOL

Mr. Panda ran away :(

Anyway, we had dinner with my fav couple Lun and Levyne at Din Tai Fung! The pastry was so happy because he got his favorite xiao long bao AND black vinegar! LOL so Asian. We also got to try their new Chili Crab Xiao Long Baos! They actually tasted really good and accurate! But the downside is that it's really expensive! but YUM! I could eat a whole basket! We ended the night at at Westcoast McDonalds! Good times! *loves*

*Humph* Lun no wanna take pics with me!

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We had one particular weekend that we spent with my favorite Turkish man Ahmet!! We brought him for his virgin trip to Ikea!! Ohh Myyy goddd the line at Queensway Ikea was ridiculous!! People were literally queueing out of the restaurant! I mean Ikea food is cheap but classless, come on now, a least have a reason to go there besides just dinner!! Anyway, Ahmet had a good time exploring the place. Apparently Ikea has a bad reputation in Turkey so he never went. I think we've changed his mind!! (--,) I found the drawer that I want and Simon also found some glasses! woo hoo!

My favorite boys all at one table!!!
Ahmet Likes Ikea!!
Boys playing house!

After that, we headed to get some kunefe!! Favorite crunchy Turkish dessert!! We went to Sofra where the owner apologized for our mistreatment on Father's day celebration. Apparently, Turkish people complain as much or even more than Singaporeans! *gasp!*But it was still delicious! My fav is still at Arab street though. Will go there next time!

Kunefe!!!!

We tried to go to Mt. Faber later that evening, but it started raining :( so we ended up at Westcoast's McDonalds! holler!!! Good time, good people! I will have to visit Turkey one day if all Turkish people are as sweet as baklava!!

butties
hehehe

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There was a girls night out event with Pingy and Catherine!! We met up after 2 years to have dinner and catch a movie!! We had dinner at old town white coffee. It was actually quite nice! I was surprised with the bold flavor of the prawn noodles that I got. However, I feel like its a little expensive for local food. (I still love the prawn noodles at Holland V foodcourt!) The movie we saw was Larry Crowne with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. It was pleasant and quite funny to watch, but I did expect more since the lead roles are such highly regarded celebrities. Pam's rating for Larry Crowne is 4/5.

My gurlsss!!

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Other Fun stuff: The best boyfriend in the world- which coincidentally is mine- bought me some flowers for being awesome!!!! They were gorgeous!! White roses surrounded with purple! YAY!!! *Loves*

July Fun!

2011-07-11T15:55:00.004+08:00

Ahhh July, hottest time of the year in most countries! These are the best times to go to the beach, which is exactly what I did with Grace and crew! First Saturday of the month, we headed to Cafe Del Mar to tan and kayak! I hadn't been to Sentosa in awhile and boy did that place change a lot. They have so many (expensive) activites now including indoor skydiving! Woo! maybe I'll try one day ;)

Helloooo Sentosa!
boobies!
chillaxing
lol at Ronald's overpriced tourist tank top!
beer!

Good thing the kayaking was still cheap though at $12 (for 2 person kayak) an hour. After settling down at Cafe Del Mar, Grace, Ben and I took a couple kayaks out to sea (ok, desginated padling area)! We had so much fun visiting each island and playing in the water of each! Though the smooth fake sand was kind of nasty as it was air packed and tons of warm bubbles came up everytime it was squished on. hmmmm (--,)

Awesomeness!
Me and grace! lol
island pit-stop!
Me and Ben!
we actually ended up out there for more than 2 hours but thankfully weren't charged LOL
island number 2!
my love!

All in all though, it was a pretty amazing day. There was some chillaxing i the Del Mar pool, tanning on the beds and beer drinking on the side. We ended the day with dinner at the Thai restuarant at Bugis and drinks at Mr.Beans. Good times! :D

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HAPPY BIRTHAY AUNY NANCY!!!

So as everyone should know, the 4th of July is a rather epic day as it is the US's independence day. Since moving to Singapore, I have missed it having celebrated it with bbqs and fireworks for most of my life. Coincidentally, my Aunty Nancy has her birthday on the same day! Therefore we still have someting to celebrate. Daddy made her a Mexican fiesta for dinner! There were nachos, fajitas (shrimp and beef) and salsa! YUM! For dessert, Henrik and I got her a mango cake! Yum Yum!

mi casa
Daddy teaching everyone the wonderful ways of Scoops tortillas
YAY!

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Speaking of delicious, diet-wrecking food items, my favorite Turkish man Ahmet brought back some Baklava from the motherland for me!! There were both pistachio and walnut baklava!! *loves* You wouldn't believe how yummy, sweet, crunchy pastries can light up your day! Thanks Ahmet, You're as sweet as Baklava and watch out for my diet-wrecking chocolate chocolate chip cookies!

gah!! opening the box like his hands were on fire!!
If god is turkish and heaven is made of baklava, then Ahmet must be jesus!! ♥

Other things middle eastern: I made my own hummus! I love love love hummus and always get it when I'm on arab street. But I can't say I love the pries so much for humus there, so one day I decided to make some myself! I found a wonderful recipe online and bought the ingredients, turning them into rather sucessful, rather scrumptious hummus!

Make your own basic hummus!
Blend together:
2 cans chickpeas
juice of 1 lemon
sesame paste -aka tahini (I roasted and blended sesame seeds but didn't quite like the texture though the flavor was nice)
pinch of salt
a teaspoon of paprika
couple teaspoons of minced garlic

drizzle olive oil over finished product

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The Happs at Beauty Paws!

In the past few months, I've been making visits to Nichelle's pet grooming store at Toa Payoh every once in awhile. Everything is going well! There were many many hamster babies that were born to different mothers. The cute little monsters are now going up for adoption! love it!

favorite!
so well fed!!so many babies!!
hehe little boost to reach the food!
friends!
cuddle!

Other than the usual grooming, I must say that Toa Payoh is a seriously fucked up location of Singapore. In the past 3.5 months of the store opening, there has already been a couple incident involving, drunks, molesters, dirty old men and the police! Theres probably something in the water making everyone there crazy. Well, there have been a couple nice people, but I think the mentally troubled ones are more overwhelming than the ammount of sane. Anyway, I still wish Nichelle all the luck in the world for her store becuse she does awesome grooming jobs in my opinion ;)

shower!!

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Henrik and his coleagues found a cheap place for bowling at the Clementi recreational center. Though I missed it due to shopping and lazy reasons, I met them afterwards with Pingy and Nichelle at Sunset way. It was a good night of drinks and people at some overpriced Japanese restaurant with super good service.

This night led to awesomeness and attempted planking by me and Pingy. LOL Planking: An activity, popular in various parts of the world (originating in Australia), consisting of lying face down in an unusual or incongruous location. For more information click HERE. lol Good times.

Father's Day and other June Days!

2011-06-30T16:37:00.002+08:00

Happy Belated Father's Day to all the wonderful fathers in the world! We celebrated Father's Day a week afterwards because everyone was pretty busy on the actual Sunday. I prefer celebrating it off anyway because reservations are easier to make, prices are normal and the crowd compelled to celebrate the event is not there!

So on Saturday, the family gathered at Sofra for dinner. I was incredibly impressed with their food and service last time when Ahmet brought us there and I expected the same this time. However, unfortunately weekends seem to be a bad time to visit. Service is slow and horrible, even the owner didn't get my order for 3x baklava (which sucked) right. Good thing the company was amicable and pleasant to be with though! And the main courses were still alright. :) The night was spent playing boardgames and "family bonding" LOL. I love you all!

Ian, Daddy and I!

Chef's platter!!
Momma and Sissy!
Baklava

The main reason for staying over that night was to make breakfast for daddy!! After a lot of pestering him about what kind of present he would like for Father's Day, he finally told me that the fondest memory of Father's Day is when I made breakfast for him! So that is what I did! This year, I stepped it up a notch by making Eggs Benedict! My ultimate favorite brunch food! So heavy but so Yummy! I even ran to Cold Storage to get fresh English muffins in the morning! mmm And the turned out so much better than the last time!...the key is in the butter whipping ;) well, and maybe the tarragon. hehehe Anyway, I daddy really liked it!

Brunch!

Favorite!!!
shrimp and dip!momma and daddy!
Daddy and me!

I topped off my feeding frenzy with High Tea in the afternoon. I made macaroons filled with a hazelnut chocolate sauce (also known as Nutella because I was lazy LOL) with the leftover egg whites from the Hollandaise sauce. YUM! Talk about guilt! And of course some finger sandwiches and fruit. British peoples' excuses to eat are genius.

fancy!
chocolate macaroon!

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Other exciting oven-baked treats I've accomplished were a huge batch of cinnamon rolls! I'm particularly proud of these because they turned out so well for my first time! They rose for 2 hours perfectly, were filled perfectly and were baked perfectly! Well, there were still a few things I could do better, but you wouldn't have noticed anyway!

tada!

My 2 batches of dough after 1.5 hours of rising!! *loves*

Oh and don't forget my ever easy white chocolate chip cookies *loves*

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Thanks to my awesome housemate Simon, we discovered a very exciting eating place at Gim Moh this June! We discovered some of the best burgers in Singapore! The place is at a random coffee shop and is called De Burg. Generous with the meat, has real awesome lettuce and cooked to perfection! Theres options of more meat, portabello, proper bacon, peanut butter and many other things you could get in a burger. Even the side of fries were amazing! *Happies* We will definitely go back often!

My Boys!
YUM!

Another fun place we visited was the restaurant at Seletar airbase for their infamous chicken wings that go up in spice levels all the way to 30!! We had 0, 1 an 3! and boy 3 was already getting there!! 1 was very delicious though, just the right amount of spice, sour and flavor. The rest of the food I could've given a miss though. Experience was A+ but for food, and hygiene, I think I will stick to hooters!

oohh spicy spicy!

I had a random day out with Pingy when she wanted to check out the new Clementi mall. The mall is actually not amazing, no nice food and I generally hate heartland malls, but good company always makes my trip awesome! :) We had Long John Silvers for dinner, at which I over ordered and made the mistake of getting their cheese fries. Gross. Also, the cashier was super tiko (aka borderline pervert or dirty old man- though he wasn't so old). Anyway, super good times! *love*!

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In other firsts, I gave blood for the first time! I figure, since no one in my immediate family can do it, I should pick up the slack and help save someones life right? lol The process is long to sign up a get in, but I guess better safe than sorry right? I was always really afraid of giving blood because I'm not a big fan of needles, but I guess I felt it was time to get over this fear and so something nice. I do after all, have quite a lot of it to spare ;)

Turns out, that it wasn't painful at all! There was a small ant-bite feeling in the beginning, but later I could see blood but not feel anything! Cool Beans. I did have 2 "poke scars" for the next 2 weeks though. But that's just me, I don't heal so fast lol. The nurse says I have nice big veins. Compliment? I guess so! I can donate again in 3 months! Anyone needing A+ blood just give me a call! hehehe

P.S. There weren't any cookies or juices being offered after the donation like you see on tv and hear other people had. Sadded! (ok, but I did take an apple juice from the volunteer table because my hand was cold and numb).

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Many thanks to my love Jayce for the tings from Korea! The lip balm is amazing and just what I needed!! I love you and know that you had an amazing time there! Jealous!!

Jens in the lion city! Days 5-7!

2011-06-23T16:48:00.002+08:00

Toning down the crazy week we had with Jens, Thursday was a day of rest! Too much beer and too much party make people crave for Mexican food! So we brought Jens to Holland Village where we ate at my favorite tex-mex restaurant Cha Cha Cha!! We had the bestest shredded beef nachos and I had a shredded beef enchilada!! mmm I could eat that everyday! Of course, the boys also had to have happy hour beer and a jug of Archipelago at Barossa's after that! Phew! *happies*

favoritest nachos in the world!!!ice cream dessert after dinner! favorite!

Australian beer!

The Big event of the trip occurred on Friday!!!***Drumroll*** BEERFEST ASIA 2011!! Woo hoo! Henrik and I got some sushi at my favorite Sushi Tei for dinner. I can seriously eat soft shelled crab hand rolls all day everyday! YUM and Salmon don my fav :D oh and chawanmushi =)~~~

favorite soft shelled crab hand roll!!!! *loves*

When we finally met Jens and got to Beerfest, it was Epic! So many beers so little time! I'm pretty sure they tried everything and then some (--,) Simon and his colleagues were there was were Taco, Ron and Calvin. LOL Those silly boys were sooo drunk!! The Pastries also taught the English a drinking game! I enjoyed every sip of my honeydew beer even if the boys don't believe its a real beer! Theres 4% alcohol in it just like normal beer! Except this one is way more awesome!! Good times!!!

Beerfest!!!
drinking game with doggy style beer :o
definitely cheap ;)
never been happier!
great live bands!drinking butties!
Simo's favorite beer!

Oh! And I got the Tank top that I didn't get last year!! "Real Girls drink beer" LOL. But then again I don't really..whoops! Make beer not war!!

Saturday! the Day of epic hangovers!! Nah, we weren't THAT horrible! We made it out by 12 to Marina Bay Sands!! Just to Chillax by the pool ;) We had a great time with fries, coffee and beer! yay! (and there may have also been a little nap lol)

CBD!
courtesy lion!! dressed as "others" LOL
best view in the city!fries and beer all chillaxing!come back in 5 years? lol

In the late afternoon, we headed home to roast a Flaeskesteg! Jens did all the cooking and I learned a new way of making the traditional Danish pork roast! Love it! He also made the most awesome sauce ever! I could drink it forever!!

We took the pork, gravy and apple strusel to Levyne's house for potluck! Everyone was there and all the food was so amazing! My favorite being the mussels, mashed potatoes, beehoon, fish and apple strusel. Hehehe, so many things, so little stomach! Thanks Levyne for always being the bestest hostess! Plus, my friends are the awesomest!

jello shots!!!
friends!

Sunday, Jens's last day had to come- even if we didn't want it to! In the early afternoon, we headed to orchard road to do some shopping! The boys actually bought a pair of shorts each lol. Bro shopping, i think my bf needs more of that :p

They're amazed!

We also had Wendy's for lunch!! YUM CHILI!! Burgers were definitely a good idea as they're like comfort food during a week long hangover!

double burgers!!

after lunch coffee at Starucks!!
hehehe my girly drink

As the last touristy thing we had to do, we went to Chinatown for a walk! I have no idea why Chinatown is crowded all the time, but it was good. Same old, same old!

pagoda shot to prove its chinatowness lol for good luck!

We walked all the way to Boat Quay to Jumbo for the final , compulsory chili crab!! Singapore's unofficial national dish! I also think that cereal prawns should be the second unofficial national dish because its so yummyyy!!

favorite!
For messy eaters lol

As time for the flight drew closer, we said our goodbyes at the airport. It was such an amazing week! See you in August Jens!!

A week with Jens in the Lion City!! Days 1-4

2011-06-22T17:34:00.006+08:00

Wow time flies super fast! In the past week we've had one of my favorite Pastries visit us in Singapore! Jens had risen to the upper parts of my list favorite people when he was always the first one to our parties in Copenhagen (looking for cakes and cookies hehehe) and the last one to leave! On top of that he's super easy going and super fun!!

Jens was in Singapore for a conference sent by his company, but also to meet us! I hadn't seen him in over a year!! Nothing much had changed though (which is a good thing ;))!

On Sunday we headed to the airport at around 4pm to pick him up! Daddy was sweet as usual and let us use the car for the day! We checked in to Fragrance Waterfront Hotel (aka 2 star whorehouse!) and I apologize for the lack of accommodation for the west side on behalf of the country. LOL! After having a bah chang (rice dumpling) snack at home, we headed out to do Singapore's favorite pastime....more food at Lau Pa Sat! We had stingray, satay and murturbak! I really wanted chicken wings but the people are so pushy and rude! pfft! tourist areas.

Afterwards we saw parts of the city as we headed to the famous Rochor soybean curd! Some things we had were received moderately, though egg tarts quickly became favorites!

We finished the night off at Mt. Faber checking out the history of Singapore and all that jazz. Fun stuff!

historic murals
highest peak in Singapore!

On Monday we met up for dinner after conference/work at MakanSutra at the Esplanade. Still one of the best places to go to ever where the food is cheap, good and the view is amazing! We met up with Simon and his visiting friend Daniel! Jens tried Char Kway Teow, Hokkien mee, rojak and oyster omelette! Yumm! We also did the mandatory visiting of the Merlion and walked all the way to boat quay to end the night with beer! Good times!

skyline!!Merlion!
Boat Quay!
beer!

Tuesday was an adventurous day as we met up in Little India for dinner! We found a cute little restaurant right next to the temple (that I actually had ate at before) and got to try quite a few items! Then we visited the Indian temple which I've been to, oh so many times!

We ended the night with Ahmet at Arab street for some shisha and beers! mmmm also hummus. I should really learn to make it myself!!

Wednesday was a complicated day in which Jens had a banquet to attend. So, I had dinner with Nichelle! Later we all met up at the bridge in Clark Quay (after the boys got smashed at Boat Quay) and it turned out to be a wonderful, yet creepy night! Cheers to free drinks and creepy men!!! Also, cheers to 8.4% vodka drinks!! woo hooo!!!

The night ended with me and my girls at McDonald's where all the fun things happen! For us to know and you to find out!

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For more pics of the week, click HERE

Keep reading for more updates on the rest of the week!

Oh yes it's ladies night! Oh what a night!

2011-05-31T20:12:00.003+08:00

I went to Traders Hotel's Cafe Biz for their international buffet dinner with Jayce, Pingy and Nichelle one night! We were both celebrating the 2 year anniversary of knowing Nichelle and taking advantage of the 1 for 1 Citibank offer! hehehe

The spread was amazing! Starting with the salad counter I loved the smoked salmon (favorite!), cheese options with darkbread, all seafood/chicken salads and the fact that you could DIY so many kinds that have options of feta cheese and pickles!! *loves*

mmm cheese!

Then there was the sushi spread with boring sushi, but salmon sashimi that we were pretty lucky to get as it was so popular! The roasts spread with nice roast duck and pork and satay. YUM! And the soups- Chinese lotus and french onion- the latter of which was bad though. And Chinese cupcakes, dumplings, pizza and bread with garlic butter! Mmmmm!!

mmm roasts

Also there was my favorite seafood bar!!! Fresh oysters and cocktail shrimp with the occasional small mussels! *Happies* I would eat oysters and shrimp everyday if I could!

LOL we had like 5 plates of these =x

Finally there was the cooked food area with alot of vegetables, rice and curries. Not really my thing- though I loved the stingray! Desserts were ok, the chocolate fountain is always enjoyable, but everything else was pretty bad. Tirimisu shot was nice, but wheatgrass shot?? gross! and durain and all the cakes were gross (except the chocolate ones hehe).
Good times, Great people! I love you girls! Looking forward to many many more years! *loves*

love it!

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Other food adventures happened with our favorite couple Levyne and Lun! We went to Paradise Dynasty one day to test out the ever famous rainbow Xiao Long Baos! They were delicious! I think all together the 4 of us had 4 baskets??? I really loved the foie gras and crab roe xiao long baos! Yum! Not so much the ginseng and green tea ones though. The pastry can't get over the black truffle ones which I think tastes like normal mushrooms. lol

Lun and Lev and the glorious XLBs
Crab roe and the 8 different flavors!

We also had the spicy poached marbled beef la-mian and some egg cake thing. The la mian was nice and a bit oily but very tasty! The egg thing was just...interesting. It looks very pretty with the 3 different colors and the way its sliced, but because it's so pretty I was expecting more flavor out of it! It tasted like diluted salted egg. But hey, still made me happy!

egg cake

They also had the long spout teapots here!! Not as fancy as the restaurant in the UOB building, but the pastry was amazed!! I guess it is rather fascinating that the tea pourer can aim so perfectly in the cup!

We finished the night with coffee at The House of Robert Timms across the street at Wheelock! Good quality time makes good friendships! (or gossip LOL)

At the entrance of Paradise Dynasty!

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I spent a day luggage shopping with Jayce at the Takashimaya luggage fair before her trip to Korea (again!)! That girl knows how to enjoy life! We scouted the area high and low and finally she opted for a medium sized blue one! Yay!

For dinner we went to Ambush Pasta Bar in the basement of Takashimaya. I wasn't expecting much from the store as it is 1. Fusion and 2. Western in Asia. However, I was surprised and awed when the food came and was wonderful! We had a fried chicken pasta set with seaweed on top and soup with garlic bread on the side, along with cheese sausages on the side and a rosti. Te garlic bread was amazing! Thick, soft and flavorful! The clam chowder was so so and the rosti was just normal. However the aglio olio pasta was amazing! The mix of garlic, chili and whatever else was fantabulous with the boneless fried chicken pieces in there turned it heavenly. Also, you could really taste the delicious cheese in the PORK sausages. Yea you read it right, PORK ;) That already makes it a 10 in my book! ;)

P.S. Jayce also got me the cutest scarf from Hong Kong! I love the colors and patterns! Good taste love! *happies*

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Guess what time of year it is?! GSS!!! Aka the Great Singapore Sale!!! Woo hoo! So Pingy and I decided to hit up the malls! Shoes, tops, scarves and accessories! It's like Christmas but better! because all the presents are for you!!! I must say, we are getting old though.

We did have to take a 20 minute snack break! mmm tako pachi ;)

And speaking of old, we saw a line dance competition between the Community Centers at Takashimaya! It was so cute! Each group had a theme and a song to go with! Pingy and I were there for at least half an hour awestruck! Our favorite were definitely the hip aunties (also visibly some of the oldest) who dressed up as cave women and danced to the retro song "I eat cannibals". LOL When I'm 80, I am totally going to line dance!!

LOL Favorite!

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P.S. My boyfriend got a haircut recently! I think he looks damn sexxxy like this! Don't you?

P.P.S. Shout out to aunty Nancy, the best Chef in the world! I love the bah zhang (rice dumplins for rice dumpling festival!) you made and everything else that has ever added a layer of fat around my waist :D

Goodbye Swedes!!

2011-05-20T17:47:00.003+08:00

So as you all probably already know, SDP did not win any seats in the parliament at all. Woo hoo for another 5 years of disadvantaged citizens and a money-minded dictatorship. I hope you're all happy the rest of the world gets to continue laughing at the stupidity of you all. Oh the scandal...

Loved the fans!!!! One of the speeches quoted a rather famous quote (--,) ...............
"With great power comes great responsibility"~Spiderman

Anyway, that led to a rather sad mother's day in my house after staying up all night for the election announcements. Speaking of sad, my lovely Swedes had to go home!! We were able to party with them for just 2 more days though! And of course it had to be at the bridge!! I shall miss you all, but see you again in August!! Woo hoo!!

Last night at Attica!
love!
Petra and Michael
Yeah Baby!their over-happiness makes me feel suspicious
I is soberrrrr
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the last shisha passing down the hose!
the last of Commonwealth!
Defeated after man-wrestling
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Super duper last bridging
Super Duper last donuts! (they gave us a plain one for free each! woohoo!!
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Exciting News!! Henrik and I have booked our flights to Europe for the summer! Sadly, Henrik could only take 3 weeks off. However, we have 1 week in Paris and 2 weeks in Denmark! Plus I get a little weekend in Stockholm, Sweden!

Plan: Aug 11 Leave Singapore, Singapore >> Paris, France
Paris to Copenhagen, Denmark Aug 17th
Copenhagen to Malmo, Sweden Aug 24th- 26th
Malmo to Stockholm, Sweden Aug 26th-28th
Stockholm to Copenhagen, Denmark 28th
Copenhagen to Paris, France Aug 30th
Paris to Singapore, Singapore Aug 31st

Phew!! Anyone in the area should definitely hit me up!!

Other interesting things: Henrik's ex-dorm mate from DTU came to visit! He was cycling- yes you read it right!!- CYCLING from DENMARK to AUSTRALIA!! Phewww!! And when he got to Singapore, we took him out to see the town! Local fare at Lau Pa Sat, a walk through the CBD, all the way to Boat Quay for beers. Good times, Great people!

Random: Check out my pet Hydra!!! He's caught in an air bubble under some water when I rinsed out my mint dish. Sadly, he committed suicide 3 days after his capture by attempting to swim to surface :(

More Random: The pastry snuck this in our grocery basket for "me". I freaking love kisses and hugs!! He was a little disappointed as he had expected more for his virgin kisses (like all virgin experiences ;)), but I forgive him for not growing up with the wonders of Hershey's!

The Last of April

2011-05-03T14:11:00.004+08:00

Hello my loves! In the last week of April and begining of May, so many incredible things have happened!! Seriously! There was an honored Pope, Prince William got married, Osama has been found and killed, the biggest contested election that has ever happened in Singapore, among the many natural disasters happening around the world!

On my side, the party continues with girls' days, sleepovers, goodbye parties and SDP support rallys. Its been crazy!!!

It all started with a Tuesday- a Girls day out! Nicole, Sofie and I headed out to Marina Bay Sands for a swim! early in the afternoon is the best time to tan because you get the job done the fastest! But PHEW!! 250meters closer to the sun will really get that burn going!! We still had an awesome time with the awesome view though!

amazing!

We walked to Lau Pa Sat for lunch, and later ended up at Orchard for shopping. There are some things that girls will never tire of and number one is Shopping!!

Sofie and I ended the night at Blu Jaz for shisha and dinner. Quick warning to the unsuspecting: Though I love Blu Jaz and will continue to support it, their salads are falsely advertized and probably not worth your money. There are no kalamata olives and their feta cheese is really cream cheese in olive oil. Cheap cheats!! For those who dont know, Kalamata olives are a type of olive that come from Greece, are usually bigger, oval, are visibly purplish and have a distinct taste. I'm sorry, but just because the olives are unpitted, doesn't make them Kalamata olives. That just makes them cheap, unpitted black olives!! Anyway Sofie got to change her salad and we had a wonderful night in the end! Love it!!!

There was also a ladies night to which Pingy came to!! It was a wonderful night t Sluttica besides the fact that it was a huge sausage party!! Seriously, major lack of girls there makes it a rather unsavory place to be in.

Seriously, a guy wearing a kilt = desperate?! Of course!! who wears a skirt to a club?! no wonder he didnt get any. Also, there was this guy who remembered talking to me and Levyne like 3 years ago! Seriously?? If I don't know who you are after 3 years- theres probably a good reason for it! and "awww but no girls wanna dance with me tonight", is NOT I repeat: NOT a good and/or enticing pickup line. And also, British guys are gross. Finally, whats with guys hitting on girls taller than them? Seriously, I'm only 5'1" if you're shorter than me and is a guy, Surgery is definitely in order! (No offense to midgets because I love you all) Anyway, it wasn't the Best night ever, but its up there on the list somewhere!!

Wednesday nights always lead to slower Thursdays. Thus, Sofie and I fell asleep by the pool at Pandan Valley. More Tanning!! Soon we'll look like the Jersy Shore folks! It was super nice in the morning and early afternoon..till about 2pm when all the kids came. Seriously, why does school even get out that early?? Also, there should be rules for cannonballs in the jacuzzi....that there be none!! Seriously.

Sofie and I had a wonderful day anyway! for the rest of the day we nursed hangovers with Sarpinos pizza, easter chocolate and chick flicks! *loves*

I ended the night at Holland Village having drinks with Henrik and his lab crew in celebration for hving his journal accepted by ACS Nano!!! Im so freaking proud of my first Author pastry!! CONGRATULATIONS BABY!! Read the article HERE!

Friday happened which I spent at Beauty Paws! We headed back to Nichelle's place to watch the Roayal Wedding! Seriously jealous!! Luckiest girl in the world who was also born pretty, now gets prince charming (literally) and all the perks and hats that go along with it. And may I add that the gown was fantabulous! Congratulations to Prince William, Kate and the United Kingdom on their new addition the the royal family =D Click HERE for Hats at the Royal Wedding!
Nichelle, Pingy and I had a super girls night where we made pasta for dinner, walked the dogs and played with makeup all night! Loved it! I definitely miss those days when I was 13 and had many sleepovers. ahhhh good times :D

We spent the last day of the month with dinned at Margarita's at Dempsy with about 20 other people saying goodbye to Nicole :'( The Mexican food there was freaking fantastic! I had a chicken taco salad that was so filling I had to give some to the pastry who himself had a mega portion of beef enchillada. I loved the theme and company as well.

Nicole

BAM!
Green Beer!
Score! New shoes!!

We said our goodbyes after drinks at the Red Dot cafe. The cafe had green beer! (that actually tastes quite strange) and was very pleasant to be at (minus the wierd tree droppings) with live music and a nicely lit ambience. Goodbyes are not always for forever if you don't want them to be ;)

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May 1st, worldwide labor day (except in the US), I found it quite appropriate to attend a political rally since they're the people standing up for the people (laborers). Also, if you didn't already know, my daddy is running for office in the Sengkang GRC! The Singapore Democratic Party is also contesting in the Holland-Bukit Timah GRC which is quite close to where I we live! Henrik and I headed to Clementi interchange for a quick dinner and gathered in the crowd of over 12,000 people in support of their policies. I got to meet Danny the bear and a little bear of my own! I thought the speeches were informative and inspiring. For more information, go to: http://yoursdp.org!

Spotted: An SDP poster at the Pandan Valley Bus Stop!

His first politically active labor day while not drinking beer! *gasp*barely 7pm and the field is filling up!

My danny bear! Which I got before It sold out!! muahahaha!!!

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Congratulations to the people and the Navy Seals who've worked so hard for the capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden! Justice is served and we are now one step closer to world peace *loves* More on CNN!

*~*More pics up soon! Hang on!*~*

Momma's Birthday and Easter!

2011-04-29T13:20:00.003+08:00

Happy Belated Birthday to My momma who turned a year older (only in body, not in spirit or mind, mind you ;)) on April 14th!!

Everyone has been so busy with the election campign this year that they leave super early in the morning and come home late at night. So this year I decided to cook a feast for mom's birthday instead. With a lot of Henrik's help going to the market and cutting vegetabes, I made: crab cake appetizers, cheesy biscuits, roast pork, salad with honey mustard dressing, mshed potaoes and gravy! I was particularly proud of myself with the crabcakes and biscuits! Those will permanently be on my favorite recipe list!

Crab Cakes!
Family!
Cheese biscuits!

Afterwards, we had the cake cutting and present opening ceremony! We had ordered a small light chocolate cake from the bakery acorss the street. Its pretty god for an average bakery, but I wish there were better bakeries around. Henrik and I got momma a new bag for her birthday. I kinda knew it was what she wanted and needed, so everyone was happy! We even threw in a surprise brooch for Aunty Joyce because we missed (or were not invited to) her birthday party last month. No hard feelings though because shes given us so much and its best to spread the love anyway! *happies*

hehe hand-made card by me!
Presents!

Anyway, I think everyone had a wonderful time! And just so everyone knows, I freaking rock at Scrabble! =D

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The second biggest event this month was Easter!! So Happy Belated Easter to all the Christians and Easter Bunny Believers! We were back at my parents in no time- yet again fixing food! I was super disappointed this year when I went to Cold Storage and they had run out of Easter buny chocolates and eggs and Peeps!!! WTF seriously? You gonna pull that shit a day before Easter?! Unfortunately, I had no one else to run to at the last minute and had to do without easter snacks :( However, Easter lunch turned out swell! I started making bacon spinach quiches the night before and hot crossed buns! With pretty much no sleep, I continued marketing in the morning roasting a lamb leg, making deviled eggs, peeling shrimp, fixing spring salad, asparagus, mashed potatoes, and made freaking amazing key lime pie!

Easter feast!!
My pastry!
First hot crossed buns ive ever baked by myself!! Turned out pretty nice!

We had the whole family over and I think they quite enjoyed it! Though they said the Key lime pie was too sour, I need to be reminded once in awhile not to spring surprises on Singaporeans. Stick to cheesecake, chiffon cakes and cocktail jelly. I had wonderful time anyway! We even dug out an old box of photo albums from the store room which was a big hit!! Everyone enjoyed reminiscing over the big hair, big glasses and retro pants! hahaha good memories are the best ways to make new good memories!

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Lady Gaga's 'Judas' World Premier on Ellen!!! EPIC!!!

April Showers Bring May Flowers!

2011-04-24T13:59:00.001+08:00

Happy April my loves! Its been a lot of fun and excitement this month. For those of you who don't know, my daddy is running in the election this year!! yay!! Go SDP! He will be contesting in Sengkang ;) Also this month, was momma's birthday, Bente's (Queen Pastry) birthday and Easter!! Finally, I need to remind myself to bring the camera out more often! I always tend to forget some of the super fun things I do! lol

The Swedes, Henrik and I went to one of Swisshotel's helipad parties. It was actually super cool because they open to helipad till 10 and you can see every angle of the entire city from the top of the building! Gorgeous!!

And speaking of the Swedes, we had Scando day!! They came over to make Swedish meatballs for dinner! Take that Ikea!! That plus yummy cheesecake and drinks after = amazing! Jag älskar dig!

Freaking mouthwatering!

April was also the start of Beauty Paws!! Nichelle's new pet grooming store! Pingy, Pastry and I went to the Grand opening in Toa Payoh one fine Sunday. The store is super cosy and purple :D I actually hang out at the store with Nichelle once or twice a week now, so if you have a pet to groom or supplies to buy, please drop by- even if its to say hi! ;) (That, or save us from the disgusting tikopek neighbor next door who stares at us like a starving gorilla through the glass door everyday.) For more information, visit: www.beautypaws.blogspot.com OR join the Facebook page!!

Nichelle and a big shaggy dog!
lol my fav babies
food shelf!
lol Nap time

There were a few occasions out with Ravin!! Shopping and movies were just an excuse for swell gossip! We saw Sanctum, Rio in 3D and Lincoln Lawyer!!

Sanctum (produced by James Cameron) was actually a pretty good movie for what they had. It was rather predictable with who was going to die and who was going to survive, but the suspense and energy keeping my heart rate pulsating was intense. I guess there is only so much you can do in a cave that other directors haven't done already. Pam's rating is 2.9/5

Rio in 3D was amazing! and I have to admit that my pleasurable experience was definitely enhanced by the fact that was saw it in 3D! there were colors, dancing and songs! Love it! Storyline wise is very typical of cartoons and animated movies made for kids, keeping it simple with a main character that has confidence issues but in the end overcome them for love. Finding Nemo is still the best animated film ever, but Rio is a movie not to be missed! Pam's rating for Rio is 4.6/5

Matthew McConaughey is so, extremely hott! And that makes the Lincoln Lawyer a wonderful movie already! Add his hottness plus the plot and literally plotting in this movie and it equals a pretty incredible movie. A client has him in a frustrating situation between breaking the law as a lawyer and doing whats right. The movie gets complicated, but the ending gives viewers a very triumphant feeling. Pam's rating is 4.8/5

One evening, we had a potluck dinner at Martin's place of living! We brought Danish meatballs and Rodkol! Both of which I think I am awesome at making by now! The company was nice, the food was nice! There was such a variety like Swiss-German noodles, Iranian chicken cake thing, German fried potatoes, summer salads, ngo hiang and Chinese dumplings (super salty ones at that) and Tirimisu for dessert! Potlucks are freaking awesome! We ended the night with Nicholas and Mai for beers at Holland V. Great people, great times! :D

More awesome people to have drinks with are Lev and Lun! Its always guranteed a laughing-till-your-stomach-cramps good time with them! *loves*

I dragged Henrik to Tantric one night to meet up with Ravin and his cousin Vaenita and her boyfriend TJ who are visiting from Australia whom I'd met last year. It was a good day, pretty crowded as usual and their drinks are sooooo strong!! One of those blue spins could take a cow out!! I don't know if that much alcohol in a drink should be legal! lol

But then again, theres been the many many wonderful nights that I've spent at Sluttica with my Swedes!! And just last week, we discovered that Lunar (the Cheena club so much so that they had chinese singing and none of their staff can speak a word of english) gives 5 free drinks for ladies on ladies night as well! I'd tell you more about my night, but I don't remember it!! LOL ok, except the fact that McDonalds shortchanged me by $10 and we went to Partyworld to sing Karaoke for an hour after that. Super freaking awesome times!! Will post pics when I get them ;)

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Pamela's life updates:

I'm super stoked my love Simon got a job in Singapore!! He'll be with me for at least another year!!
I'm also super happy that my 2nd favorite Dane, Jens is coming to Singapore for a week in June!! (Coincidentally the week of Beerfest (--,))

Other random thoughts:

Do sperm have physical feelings? I saw ants attacking some protein the other day (Don't ask, you don't want to know!) and wondered if the nano swimmers had feelings. Ant bites hurt me, I don't see why it wouldn't hurt them. Its like live sashimi!
Talking to defensive, brainwashed Christans is like talking to a brainwashed PAP supporter. They both talk about things and forces you can't see and blame everything/everyone but themselves.
I am so addicted to sour chewy candy such as Sour Scoox and those long things you get at the candy store right now!
4 more paddington bear stamps to go!!!
Can't wait to see Kate Middleton and Prince William's wedding of the century!! I'm jealous already!!

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Check back in Soon to check out how I spent Momma's Birthday and Easter in the East!!!

March Madness!!

2011-03-31T11:23:00.006+08:00

March was actually quite an entertaining month!

I went gay clubbing with Ravin and Pingy one Friday just to check things out (--,) It was in Tanjong Pagar and doesn't look like anything from the outside, but the inside was completely crowded! The vibe was fun and the people were very very sweet! There was everyone from models to the undercover gays. I mean, it was just like a normal club but the people making out were the same sex. I did really like their infatuation with lady gaga and all the best girl music! ;)

LOL one of the many....artsy pictures I liked LOL the crazy indian man in the back tried to kiss everyone and finally succeeded!
us with Aundy the model whom I think looks like someone from Twilight

Some surprising sister-bonding time occurred! Sissy stayed over for a night but not before we went shopping in the afternoon! I got a bunch of much needed hair accessories and a dress. hehehe. We even got friendship bracelets! *gasp*

In the evening we went to Vivo City's The White Dog to have dinner with Yongsoo and Henrik! They still have their beer promotion! and their food is actually pretty yummy, I had half a spring chicken :D

Hehe I saw a cockroach so henrik carried me home!

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The best day of my life occurred on Saturday March 12! I had a manicure and pedicure with the girls at Far East Plaza! Love it! Nothing like being pampered for several hours!

THEN after some shopping I met Henrik at Suntec for dinner! We tried the new Tawandang Thai-German restaurant and brewery. The tom-yum soup was pretty delicious with the coconut in it! Then I had mango sticky rice for dessert! Yummy!! The rice wasn't cooked perfectly, but I loved the mangoes an coconut milk!

Beer!
Mango sticky rice!

THEN we took a cab to Marina Bay Sands to he new theater to see the Lion King Musical!! Only like my dream come true!!! The new theater is quite pretty and quite modern. Smaller than I expected, but very well stationed so that no seat is a bad one. It was the most amazing musical I've ever seen with the animals and the singing! The lady who played Nala was freaking amazing! All the transitions were super smooth and I loved Loved the opening scene. The parade of animals went down the aisle with all the colors and all the singing! And they even included some singlish and singaporean terms in it. LOL loved it and was worth every penny!

New theater is all shinyyy!!

To end the best day of my life, we stopped by Stereolounge for a couple of drinks and started my Paddington Bear sticker collection from 7-11! The man even gave us extra! Best. Day. EVER!!

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Speaking of Paddington Bears, after collecting sticker after sticker by forcing Henrik to spend $5 at 7-11 every chance I could get, I finally got my bear! I couldn't choose the one I wanted (Tokyo- has a purple hat!) but I got the New York Bear that is almost equally as cute! *Happies!!* only 7 more stickers till Paddy number 2!!

Paddy goes for a ride!

Another big big event occurred when there was the IT fair! Henrik finally got a new laptop that he is in love with! More so than me if I dare say so!! LOL but its all good because I get free use of it AND it hooks up to the TV! Never leaving the couch again! hehe

Sunny March also brought us out to the beach with Levyne and Dom! It was a nice tanny day at Siloso with snacks and a beach volleyball tournament in front of us and all! *happies* Time to lose more weight!!

Levyne!
Dom and his serious sun tanning!

Lets not forget the Wednesdays which are ladies' nights! There was the bridge and some Stereolounge and mostly Attica! Very Epic nights! Its great to be girls most of the time!

Albert and Simon!
I don't even know! lol
Alex!The girls! *loves*
Sofie and Nicole

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Culinary accomplishment this month include teaching the pastry to prepare century eggs, salted eggs and porridge that I like! 1 step closer to being Asian!

Jayce also came over one day to teach me some Chinese food cooking! We made Hong Kong fried rice, stir-fried spinach, ham and bean mix, Chinese omelet and Xiao Long Baos!! All of it were super delicious! Its about time I start learning how to mess with the Chinese sauces!

squeezing the xiao long bao

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Last but not least, to end the fantabulous month of March, Henrik and I went to the Gold Class Golden Village theater with Levyne and Lun for the first time! At almost 5x the price of a regular movie ticket we were prepared for extraordinary! So we got there about 30 minutes before (we had been at Vivo to book the tickets 5 hours earlier lol) and sat in the very nice VIP lounge. The staff were very accommodating and it was very comfy! Then inside the seat were the coolest, and some of the comfiest seats I've ever sat on! (Only being beat by business class seats on airplanes that massage ;)) They were foot and back adjustable with a call button table. Our nachos came with salsa, guacamole, cheese and sour cream! But I think its some sort of movie theater rule to always give more chips than dip? lol I don't know, but it was nice that there were 2 kinds of chips! Loved it! I wish I could go gold class all the time!! lol

super delicious danish! Like I hadnt had enough already (--,)

lounging!
We saw The Way Back! It was a good movie all the way. Not a lot of action but entertaining! Plus! Collin Ferrell is in it ;) Pam's rating is 4/5!

We had a super nice evening after a super nice dinner at Pasir Panjang food center. The sneaky place n the middle of no where has pretty good food! Then there were the nice couple of hours a Kentridge park. They removed the tank! *gasp* Apparently it was still functional! And here I was always thinking that it was defunct and for museum display type thing! I once made out on top of it! LOL Anyway, good times, great people! *loves*

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Newy Britney Song! The Music Video comes out this Wendesday!

~Alcohol never solved any problems, for anyone... but then again, neither has milk.- Peter Griffin on Twitter
LOL he's so funny he makes my day everyday! ;)

Turkish day out and other randoms!

2011-03-08T17:50:00.004+08:00

Merry Marchness my loves! Its been so busy with things I almost forgot to blog! Lets catch up on some of the social events then!

I helped host the SDP anniversary event again! This year's theme was Kampung night and held at Fort Canning Park. I couldn't really relate, but it was fun with awesome people and delicious food! I really enjoy events when people are super sporting ;)

me an Jag
tables for 200!
table centerpieces designed by momma!

Youngsoo came from Korea to play in the Nanolab and Singaporeans being the lame asses they are, apparently don't keep any sort of polite customs to spend even one night out to make someone who flew over the seas feel welcomed. However, Henrik and Ahmet are definitely the boys to be because they've been bringing him out and about! We had a Turkish night out in the toen! Ahmet brought us to Sofra at Shaw Tower because he says its the best Turkish food in Singapore and I would have to agree!

hehe we can see the kitchen!appetizer!!!

We had a mixed platter of appetizers with eggplant, humus, tomato salad and uber delicious olive leaf wraps! With the warm, fluffy flat bread, I could've had a plate to myself for dinner! Of course my main course was even more spectacular because of the kebap! I love love kebap meats! and it even came with all the fun sides.

my super yummy main course!

Ahmet is friendly with the owner so he came around to greet us as well. To be polite we ordered some Turkish tea and coffee. The cups were so cute! The coffee was wayy too strong for me but the tea came with a sugar cube. Yumm! I hate having such good food because then I'd want to eat it again and again!! *happies*

tea with a sugar cube!
coffee!

Later in the night we were joined by one of Ahmet's friends at Arab street for some shisha and Turkish dessert! Apparently the store in the corner is the only one in singapore that serves this Turkish dessert. I have no idea why, because it was freaking amazing!!! Think Baclava flavored, but warm, with mozzarella cheese and milk around it. OMG heavennnn!!!

coolest turkish teapot!!
best dessert ever!
shisha!

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Pingy came over a couple of times! Once for a super delicious dinner we made, consisting of roast chicken, mushroom risotto, garlic bread and salad with ranch dressing!

Super delicious New Zealand white wine!

Other time for drinks at Holland V! We went to Sasboro the tapas bar because they have 1-for-1 beers all the time (--,) I had the most ginormous strawberry margarita!! It was delicious but way too warm to drink it at a leisurely pace! Afterwards we had long-missed mud pies and some potato skins at NYDC. Seriously, the nutty Grandma mudpie is probably the bestest mudpie in the world! It almost makes me want to give the place a second chance on their main courses...NOT. But wow! back to nutty awesomeness, awesomeeeee!!

Ginormo margarita!!
Mud pies!!! Nutty Grandma is the best!!

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Other home economic happenings was when Nichelle came over to bake a surprise birthday cake for Damien's birthday! We got our supplies from Carrefour and Daiso (--,) and headed to mine for baking! We should have bought more baking pans, but our 2 strawberry cakes with pink cream cheese frosting turned out amazing anyway!

Things you need:

3 cups sifted cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1¾ cups granulated sugar
4 large eggs
2 cups pureed fresh strawberries

1. Line baking trays (you can do 2-3 layers, I did 2) with baking paper and heat the oven at 175 degrees celcius.

2. Mix dry ingredients flour, baking powder and baking soda together.

3. Cream the butter and sugar till light and fluffy, then add eggs individually until thoroughly mixed.

4. mix the dry ingredients into the butter mixture in three intervals, alternating with the buttermilk. (Start with the flour and end with the flour)

5. When everything is completely mixed, fold in the fresh strawberries.

6. Bake for about 30 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. As always, wait until the cake is thoroughy cooled before frosting ;)

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Check out: Lady Gaga's new Video- Born This Way!! She is my hero and I do believe that people should accept each other for the way they are, no judgements and lots of love!

Happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai!!!

2011-02-18T09:53:00.003+08:00

Hey loves! Yesterday (17th Feb) was officially the last day of Chinese New Year 2011! Welcome to the year of the rabbit! This Chinese New Year was the same as most years. The only big significance was that Henrik was here to join in the festivites this year!

We had reunion dinner with my Grandmother on my mom's side because shes the only grandparent left. This year due to family scandal, only Uncle David showed up (--,). The steamboat was wonderful! I think daddy got everything (and more) that was on my list of things to get. At least my family gets Chinese New Year right without my help if no other holiday eh?

Huat Ah!!!
dinner!

There was lots of eating and wishing and grandma and Uncle David even gave Henrik birthday presents! Super sweet! And after the guests had left my family started playing Risk! I actually really don't like that game as its based mostly on luck and dice rolling. I prefer games such as pictionary or scrabble- the ones which I usually win at (--,). Anyway, Henrik needed his revenge since losing the last time and after a well plyed game, he emerged victorious!

diet exceptions for exceptional days and exceptional foods (--,)

Huat ahh!!

The first day of Chinese New Year (Feb 3rd) was also Henrik's birthday! Thus, I made a Danish layer cake (that his mom was nice enough to give me) with birthday breakfast! Nothing like bacon, eggs and birthday cake!

Birthday Breakfast and presents!
layer cake :D

Closer to the afternoon we went to grandma's house where the entire family had gathered. I seriously only see the cousins on this side of the family once a year. They seem to get bigger every year as well. LOL Grandma was super happy :D even the puppies from next door visited! I taught Henrik the ways of handing oranges and recieving red packets and he did everything with perfection! I'm proud!

Henrik bringing his two oranges :D
at grandma's!
special visitor (--,)
Daddy and momma
Pastry and the puppy!pimpin'
*loves*

By late afternoon we were at Aunty Nancy's house for lunch/dinner! Where the best teochew food is of course ;) There was braised pork knuckle and those eggs I like! (and intestines = o), ngo hiang, chicken curry, mutton curry, Buddha Jump Over the Wall, fresh springrolls, and meatballs! yummm! The night continued with gambling, card playing and we even taught Henrik how to play mahjong! *happies*

chef at work!
lunch!
mahjong!
*loves*
blackjack!
huat ar!
Having the birthday boy pick the lucky numbers!

Day 2 started at Aunty Eileen's house! Where the best Kueh Lapis is made of course ;) Lunch and semi-dinner was amazing as expected! More ngo hiang, japanese seaweed chicken (lol not traditional but yummy), chicken curry, otah, rice, mixed vegetable dish and the best braised beef ever! and I had about 6 slices of Kueh Lapis =x LOL More gambling till it was time to go!

the little one
lovely ladies
Game faces!
Huat Ah!

Dinner was ordered (*gasp*) at Uncle Edward's house. Mmm that efficient KFC! With drinking and more gambling, it made to be a perfect Chinese New Year!

YUM Huat ah!

The following day was spent at Aunty Nancy's house again. This time just for gambling and Steamboat for lunch! Since CNY is all about family, gambling and food, that's pretty much about all we did! We had a super nice dinner from the stores downstairs as most businesses opened again! I really like "KL noodles"- Udon fried in some dark sauce. Yummmm! Aunty Helen bought this super nice Taiwanese bubble tea too!

lunch!!super yummy bubble tea
dinner!!
Huat ah!!

Day 4 was a Sunday! We returned to the Westside and visited Yao's house for a steamboat dinner! It was one of the best ever! I really like the half grill, half soup concept. And I really liked the shrimp bites by CP! And Bacon with steamboat?? Yummm so good!!

yao and jayce!
honey and her steamboat cravings!

The night went on with Uno, Monopoly Deal and Kinect! Fun times!

Uno!
LOL ridiculousness
Kinect!

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The next weekend came and we went to Aunty Helen's house this time. Her "beehoon only" lunch came with absolutely no beehoon, but fried noodles, cheese tofu, century eggs, omelettes, ngo hiang and a whole roasted chicken! hehehe "Beehoon only" my butt in the Tan family!

Lunch!
Huat Ah!
Aunty Helen's new massage contraptions are amazing!! I super like the one I'm using the Upapa *brows*

Early persons gambled, and gambled and gambled, and I had really bad luck this year! :( Dinner was better though! There was popiah, kueh pie tee, mixed vegetables with sea asparagus, topshell and pacific clams and more sea cucumber >.<, kong bak pau, and abalone! Huat ar!!!!

Lo Hei!

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Other Chinese Activites:

The pastry brought me to Chinatown for dinner and to see the lights one day!! We had my favorite Szechuan food for dinner! The China waitress was impressed with my mandarin! woo hoo! improvement! The lights were cute with little rabbits, tho it seems to become less grand by the year. The streets were the usual with all the snacks and goodies and the pastry had the best time sampling them all (--,) We bought quite a bit of those new year jellies too! hehehe

year of the bunny!
Super Yummy foods!
hehe snack tasting (--,)

We also caught the river hong bao on its last day! It was really dismal this year! Last year was filled with so many colorful and creative exhibits and this year there was literally like 12 super boring ones. It was almost embarassing to bring Henrik there. The rides were te same ridiculous price as last year though. We hightailed it out of there rather quickly. I can't wait till the Dragon year though! It should be fawesome!!

same god of wealth as last year!
Should be a good year for the dragons!!

*~* I hope everyone had as wonderful a CNY as I did!*~*

Happy Valentine's Day Loves!!!

2011-02-15T16:23:00.004+08:00

Greetings loves! This month has been muchos busy with Chinese New year and all (look for my future posts for updates on that!)!! Then there was Valentine's Day yesterday!! As some of you know, I like making things instead of buying for V-day. This year I made etched wine glasses and bought a bottle of wine to to with :D I also made red velvet cupcakes for Henrik's office to spread the love!! Look for these recipes at the end of the post!

Valentine's Day this year was wonderful!!! Henrik had secretly (or attempted to) bought my favorite types of breakfasts! He woke up super early in the morning to make me sausages, bacon, eggs and toast! YUM!! The house still smells like honey smoked bacon!! lol There was even my favorite Swissmiss hot chocolate with the mini marshmellows! *happies*

For dinner, my love took me to Soprano at Portsdown Road! This year was super nice because I didn't have to plan anything for the day as Henrik had made reservations in secret. I only knew where we were going when he told the taxi driver where to go :D The place was very charming, Italian style, not too crowded with outdoor and indoor seating. We had a meat and cheese appetizer which was super amazingg!!! There were 4 different kinds of ham and 4 different types of cheeses. YUM! I liked them all!! even the blue cheese was surprisingly yummy as it wasn't too heavy!

Starter platter!! Yummmm!!!

The main course was amazingg!! I finally got my ravioli that I had been craving since foreverr!! I had it in a cheese sauce! I kinda wished I got a tomato based sauce because the cheese sauce was very heavy, but it was still super delicious! Henrik had pasta with truffle and mushroom cream sauce which was amazing as well! *happies* to top off dinner, we had the tiramisu dessert! only one of my favorite desserts in the world!! I still like the one from Pasta Fresca Da Salvatore better though.....mmmmm have to go there soon (--,) The cutest thing at Soprano was the serenader that came to each table to sing a song. We got "hold your hand" by the Beatles. *loves!*

My raviolis!!! *loves*
Baby and his pasta!! yumm!!
the crooner :D
Tiramisu dessert!!

We ended the night with drinks at Barosso (ex-Al Dente- they got renovations and a new concept ;)) because their Archipelago beers are of reasonable pricing! The staff there is very sweet! I wanna go on a Wednesday to try their new all you can eat beef buffet!! Australian tri-tips are on the menu!! Anyway, I had a really awesome night! Thanks Baby!! I love you the mostest!!

Oh and if anyone was wondering what else I got, my Pastry bought me tickets to the Lion King Musical!!! Its coming to Singapore at the Marina Bay Theater and its only one of my life's dreams to see it! hehehe!! I'm super happy and super excited!!! I Love Love Love you honey!!

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Wine Glass Etching

What you will need:

Etching cream (available at any art store)
Paint brush
sticker sheet and marker (unless you buy ready made sticker stencils)
Scissors
A water source

First I traced and cut out stencils from the sticker paper. Then it is stuck onto the glass.
Tip: make sure that your sticker is stuck on all the way at all the edges because we don't want any leakage. Reinforce with tape.

Next, paint a thick layer of etching liquid onto the empty stenciled space. Let your glass object sit face up and dry for about 20 minutes (the etching liquid's package says 60 seconds, but I find 20 minutes better and the results are more bold).

When ready, peel off the tape and stencils and wash off the remaining stencil cream. Dry.

Tada!! You can do whatever patterns or monograms you like. And all of it turn out amazing! Good for gifts, decorations and wedding favors ;)

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Red Velvet Cupcakes

What you need:

1 1/4c cake flour
60g butter
150g granulated sugar
1 egg
1/2tsp vanilla essence
1 tbs red dye
1 tbs cocoa powder
1/2c buttermilk (I used 1/2c milk and 1/2tbs vinegar to replace it)
1 tsp vinegar
1 tsp baking soda

1. Sift the flour and cocoa powder together in a bowl.
2. In another bowl, mix the butter and sugar together till fluffy, then mix the egg until incorporated. Then beat in the vanilla extract.
3. In a third bowl, mix the buttermilk and red dye.
4. Whisk together the flour and dye mixture into the butter mixture in three parts, starting with half the flour, all the dye and the rest of the flour. Make sure each part is fully mixed in before adding in the next part.
5. Combine the vinegar and baking soda until it bubbles and quickly mixing it into the batter. Then divide the batter into prepared baking cups.
6. Bake at 175 degrees for 20 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool before frosting ;)

Tada!! I used my favorite cream cheese frosting and sprinkles to spiff them up! (too bad I couldn't find heart shaped or pure red sprinkles :( but the boys loved them anyway!)

*~*Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.-- Alphonse Marie de la Martine*~*

Happy Birthday Mr. Andersen!!

2011-02-01T10:41:00.006+08:00

Happy Birthday to my Pastry!!! Henrik is turning 27! *Gasp!* Since his birthday is on Chinese New Year (Feb 3rd, Huat ar!!), we decided to have his parties the weekend before!

On Saturday, we went to Ooosters the Belgian Brasserie! They're famous for their beers and mussels! Henrik picked the place because they offer much more beer than Brotzeit! lol Most of us got there on time and we had such yummy foods! I had sausages and mashed potatoes with 500 grams of mussels. OMG everything was sooo delish!! My mussels were cooked in white wine and some vegetables. Yummm! I wish I could've had a raspberry beer, but I couldn't finish my massive glass of coke already lol. At least I had a taste and it was amazing! I definitely want to head back there!

Pre-drinks at the bar!
Hooray!!
Lun and Lev500grams of amazing mussles!!
Jerome and Honey!
amazing food!
my amazing dinner!

We had a nice cake and all for the 18 of us! mmmm Chocolate! The Pastry was also very happy with all the presents and people!! *loves*

cake!
Birthday Songs in Swedish, Chinese, English, Maori, and Danish!Super delicious cake!!

Unfortunately, it was raining cats and dogs when we attempted to leave and ended up at another bar/cafe just down the street. It was super wet and not my favorite ambiance, but ok. It sheltered us away from the rain.

buy one get one free!!!
lol me and my mini glass!

boys!

To end the night, Henrik, me, Simon and the Swedes went to StereoLab to partayyy! The music is still okok there as is the crowd, but the whole guest list thing? doesn't realllly make sense. Anyway, AMAZING time!! AMAZING people!!

fav Swedes!
Fredrik and Josh!
Birthday Boy and Katie!
Albert and Simo!
*loves*
weirdo
much love!not so much love?dancing queen!
gorgeous al the time!
*brows*
super smashed people dry-humping on the dance floor at various time of the night! LOL
Present opening at McDonalds!
most amazing snacks that has ever been invented!!

On Sunday, we had Birthday celebration with my family! For brunch we had delicious sand which spread from tuna to egg mayo and alot of cockles for me!!! YUM

During the day, we shopped at Carrefour for Chinese New Year. It was muchos crowded but muchos fun. I made sure we had most of the stuff on the list! I think the staff in Carrefour are super rude though. It was rather nice to shop here when I first moved here, but now it seems like any other trashy Asian grocery store. There's the wet fish area that smells, not a lot of western foods that use to be available there, and the whole fresh/smelly fruits with the shouting food sellers. Wth.

Anyway, I saw some drink promoters snap at a customer when they bumped into him while moving their sign. Then when the customer spoke back to them, the loudmouth chickened out and tried to cover his insult with "oh no sir, we're just trying to sell our drinks". Idiot. Then, when I was buying sushi, the two girls assumed I couldn't understand Chinese and started giggling about me, about god knows what (probs my lower cut tank top which is what most girls like to stare at anyway). Anyway, I just stared at them real hard and I think they realised I understood what they said. I for-definitely will complain to the store right after I'm done with this post. No one wants to shop at a rude, smelly grocery store. If only old Storage wasn't so expensive, I would shop there all the time!

Ah well, more to happier things. Daddy made an extremely wonderful dinner for Henrik! There were 3 kinds of his famous, delicious, juicy ribs!! corn, coleslaw, broccoli, mashed potatoes and the best clam chowder in the world!! It was sooo scrumptious I don't even know how to explain the amazing flavors that come from the seasonings and slow roasted meats!! *burps* The Pastry was extremely satisfied! :D

Ma famille!
most suculent ribs in the universe!
*happies*

Dessert was chocolate cake with presents! I really have to stop buying cake from the store across the street. They started off with really amazing cakes, especially their black forest cake, but now their standards dropped! But at least there was still chocolate and strawberries to appreciate! Plus the pastry loves anything sweet and cake-like.

birthday song!*loves*
he got all of them...which means...no girlfriend!! LOL (or at least no extra! ;))

Fun times, I love my family and I love my sweetheart! Happy Birthday Baby!! I love you and hope you have many more amazing years to come!!!

LOL one of the best birthday presents everr!! Thanks Lynx!

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P.S. I was super unhappy with extremely impolite friends. Since when was it difficult to let the host of a party know that you will be late or not able to come? I booked 25 seats at the restaurant and you had my other friends waiting for you for more than an hour and you couldn't be bothered to have the courtesy to pick up the phone and text? Yea, you know who you are if you're feeling guilty. Its so rude to not only me and Henrik, but the restaurant and the other guests as well. You should be ashamed of yourselves because apparently your parents didn't teach you better. Common courtesy guys, common courtesy.

January Fun!!

2011-01-29T09:47:00.004+08:00

Ahhhh January! the party never does stop does it?! Well we've been quite busy these days! Its just a few days away from Chinese New Year!! This month we had a lot of fun things to do, starting with a little party at Marina Bay Sands with Simon as his mother came to visit! The pool as usual was AMAZING, but this time it was freezing!! Partly in due to the "winter weather" in singapore, the pool hadn't been warmed in forever! Even the jacuzzis were a little more chilly than I'd have liked! lol But it was fun nonetheless. We had a wonderful time!

freeeeeeezinggg

We headed to the bridge afterwards which was exteremly happening. We met a grek guy who's girlfriend dumped him the day after his birthday. He was incredibly drunk with happy/sad mood swings and seemingly had a mn-crush on Henrik as he kept giving him free beer! LOL I don't know how to feel about his situation since he left his wife in Greece for this JetStar flight stewardess. Then there was the racist hat. This American guy who was clearly racist because of his hat, and the fact that he was "sure I had tasted the Vietnamese snacks" just because I'm Asian!! He too gave us free beers for his guilt. All in all it was a fantabulous night!!!

Fredrik and SimoAlex talking to the gross, drunk man who bit my ice cream and drank her beerracist hat!!
welcome home Katie!!
Alex showing some love (and knocking over) the broken hearted Greek man! lol

Pooh Bear had a day out! We took him to Plaza Singapura for some shopping and a movie, then to bugis for even more shopping. He really enjoyed it!! We caught The Tourist with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. It was average, a little disappointing if you will. The hype and the advertizements were over-exaggerated for this slow paced movie, with not a great storyline and a predictable ending. Pam's rating is 2.8/5!!

Pooh on the bus!
Pooh has bratwurst for lunch!
Pooh has some tea!
Pooh ready for the Tourist!!

There was me working for IBC one rainy afternoon. They seem to be really into the hospital talks recently. I got 2 free bottles of fish oil from the chain that owns Gleneagles which also happens to be where I was born! woohoo!! I also discovered my love for mini chicken vol-au-vents. OMG yummmmm!!

hehe
The pastry enjoyed it like candy!!!
Cute little fish shaped fish oil!

The pastry and I brought my little cousin and brother out to rollerblade at the place where we got free tickets on NYE. Unfortunately the stupid tickets were only for bikes. So we paid for the boys' blades and got a tandem bike! hehehe It was my first time ever riding one and it was super fun! I wouldn't reccomend it for like long riding periods, but its super fun for maybe an hour with a buttie! Oh, and you can totally tell when your partner is slacking (--,)

my lil bro!
Xavier!

We had a nice coffee and snacks at Bistro@Changi after as well. The day was sooo windy!! Which was a great thing because we didn't sweat so much, but not so good cuz it messed up my hair. lol We could people watch, ship watch and ocean watch! it was a great place to chill out. *Happies* and when the boys weren't ready to go home, we took them to some club in Changi to play pool! It was super fun!!

they had the nice chamomile tea but the wind was so wild it made my tea cold in no time!my hair at a 90 degree angle!Ice cream!chocolate cake!*loves*

As Chinese New Year is coming up, Henrik and I went to CHinatown one Sunday! The streets are all lit up and the crowd was as usual- massive! We bought some fun snacks and all! And had the best szechuan dinner at my fav szechuan place! The china-waitress was impressed with my chinese :D I was not so impressed with her english though =x

yay!! candies!!!

We also did our spring cleaning to prepare for Chinese new year. It was great! everything became so white and shiny!! :D It was almost worth the dust allergies that attacked and fucked up my nose for 3 days after.

huat ar!!! door deco!!
hehe the hardest part is always the laundry and the re-organizing of my closet!

There was the drinking night with Henrik's lab crew and more drinks with Ahmed after! Wala Wala's chicken wings now kindof suck- or maybe it was just Friday night (though there should be no excuses!), Kopitiam's is so much better! lol Oh and Ahmed is so sweet! He gave us a box of Baklava from Turkey!! YUMM!!! 3 different flavors, what more can I ask for :D

YUM!!! so flaky!! so sweet!!!

I had a craving for english muffins (not McDonalds) and Henrik was sweet enough to buy me a pack from Cold Storage. Totally not worth the money as it was small, hard and not fluffy enough, but sufficient for my cravings! *happies*

hells to the yeahhh!!!

I caught Burlesque with Ravin one day! Just back from the Himalayas! The movie was pretty amazing! I love musicals! But I think they kind of cheated because the songs didn't tell a story. It was more like a movie+singing in it. The storyline is pretty lame and predictable with the love story- choosing the boy-next-door instead of the incredibly rich man (also the love drama with the fiance and all blah blah), "super determination", main character saves the club from falling, etc. etc. But I guess no one really goes to musicals for the storyline. LOL I loved the dance numbers and costumes and all the bling!! Acting wise was average if not below, because as much of a goddess Cher is, her face can't really move appropriately- she keeps smiling at seemingly wrong times and Christina doesn't cry/act so well. Pam's rating is 4.5/5, Chicago the musical with Catherine Zeta Jones is still much more amazing.

Christian and Sara came to visit us!! They had just spent a half-year exchange in New York, and vacationed from Hawaii>New Zeland>Australia and decided to come say hi before heading back to Denmark! So sweet! We picked them up from the airport and brought them around to Lau Pa Sat for some local foods, and Clarke Quay for some fun drinks!!

beer, beer and more beer!!
*loves*

On our way home, Henrik was stopped at his first road block!!! And passed with flying colors of course! I always told him not to worry because 1-2 beers won't matter in his blood alcohol count, saying hes white and needs to drink like a truck in order to get drunk LOL And true enough, he had 2 and nothing happened =x the Traffic police we very stern at first (they were suspicious of us as we turned out of Clarke Quay) but when he passed, softened up and turned out to be quite friendly :D

taking the blowy thingy lol I took the pic from the car for memories!!

The next day we also took them to Chinatown, Esplanade, Boat Quay, and Zirca at Clarke Quay! I forgot to bring my camera, but we had an amazing night. You don't need so many days to see most of Singapore! lol Love it! Its always so nice to have wonderful people visit!

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Things sent by mail!

Amazing dress for Christmas from Peter and Joan! I love H&M! Like the Forever 21 of Scandanavia, its awesome looking and affordable! ;) Henrik got 3 books from them too *happies* :D

Threadless t-shirt orders!! I finally have my cookie one! Only waited like 3 years for the proper bck-order LOL. Just in time for Chinese New year ;) I think we had to wait almost a month for these to come! :o I'm pretty sure the post office has blacklisted me for yelling at them the last time they inconvenienced me and lied about delivery if you remember in my January 2010 post. Tsk tsk.

Finally there was the 1kg candy package from Henrik's parents!! YUM! We now have an official shelf dedicated to Chocolate in our refridgerator!! We keep eating but it keeps growing! lol

Chocolates!!

some chocolates from Christmas!

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Pamela Thinks:

~Interdating with your friends never has good results in your social group. Very inconsiderate to your friends and creates a lot of drama~

~I forsee the future of little girls: Instead of just makeup for eachother during sleepovers, I think they'll start using plastic surgery on eachother! How fun would that be!~

~I wanna go to Egypt to see the Pyramids before they close due to peeling heiroglyphics :( Ok, maybe not right this second, but sometime this year?~

Pingy's Malaysian Celebration!

2011-01-12T12:54:00.006+08:00

Soo, it was my love Pingy's birthday on the 23rd of December!! woohooo!! the big 21!! But as we were so busy, we held off celebrating till last weekend. It also happens that Pingy has gotten her first passport recently. *gasp!* (I know right, talk about mountain tortise =x lol) Adding the two together, we decided to celebrate her birthday in nearby Jorhor Bahru. For a different scene and to pop her passport's virginity!

We headed over in te early afternoon when it was muchos crowded. (ughhh, but what time on a Saturday in Singapore isn't?) And while on the bus I recieved the funniest call ever from Pingy:

"hello? Pam? We took a bus to the checkpoint and want to wait here but there are signs saying no loitering! how?! Then we went through the point and tried to go back but the security guard said cannot"
"LOL just go through and wait for me on the other side near the excalator"
"Ohh, can ar?"
"yeap, I'll see you there".

hahaha good times. Not to worry though, we met up just fine! We met Damien and Nichelle soon after and Damien drove us to some new mall to have lunch. Super hungry, we decided on a chinese herbal soup restaurant. The food was not bad, I liked the soup but not so much the chicken or the rice lol. And I liked the stewed pork because of the flavor and its small portion-not too porky. The tea was nice as well. Which reminds me, I need a fancy double-walled teapot as well (--,)

The girls!
the boys!

Instead of staying at the same old boring mall, we decided to explore JB a little. Because Damien and Nichelle prefered to stay in the mall, we headed off with Pingy and Wayne to see the Sultan's old palace*. The grounds were grand but the building-now a museum doesn't seem to be upkept like the rest of JB. We got there in time to buy tickets, but whoever was working there decided no one would notice if they slacked and left work early, thus we couldn't go in :( However, we could still roam about the gardens which were glorious!-sort of. LOL there was a Japanese Zen garden, a fountain and a turtle pond among other things.

the palace entrance
We can see singapore!
our different poses infront of the grand entrance to the palace
to the gardens!
we found a little japanese garden
he was so proud of his balancing skills LOL what could've been a super nice fountain and the cherub is missing a penis LOL
the pavillion where we decided the sultan held friday night cowboy dances!
abandoned turtle pond
Henrik's sultan pose

*Boy, did he ever upgrade his palace! the new one is like 5 mins away (not open to public) but much more grand and of course, up kept

We walked to City Square mall where we were to meet Damien and Nichelle for dinner. It was actually quite nice to walk. The weather was really cool and we saw some interesting things along the way. There was the post office, a walking street with a live band, the indian part of JB and the beginings of a night market. It seemed as if the city doesn't really come alive till the evening though. Must be more of that Malaysian effiency =x.

some random grand building
the walking street!we found a good chinese rockband. I think it was the new opening of the store or something.
Malaysia is like Singapore 30+ years ago, and every year singapore moves forward, malaysia moves back. LOL
beginings of a night market

While waiting at the mall, we did a little spree at Watsons lol. A lot of their products are cheaper than in SG (except for makeup). I also got the Treseme shampoo that I love which is unavailable in Singapore. Heehee! All preparing for Chinese new year, we got free hong baos for spending more than RM88 in the mall! gotta collect them all! lol

victory!collect them all! lol
exact replicas of the ang baos!

When we finally met Nichelle and Damien again, we decided to check out Danga Bay as I had read that it was a nice place to go. We went and it was rather disappointing. Like everything else in JB, it had potential, but never finished or upkept. There was even a huge picture of what it was supposed to look like. I think I'd better stick to Singapore if I want to keep it modern =x The marina was as ugly as East Coast park and there was a prehistoric amusement park that seemed to only be turned on if one requested to ride on it. Then they had to go to the main power box to jumpstart the thing. LOL The eating places were also over-exaggerated on trip advisor as there wasn't really anything but touters. Ahh Malaysia, truly Asia.

Danga Beach
Yatch docking
Saw Dom for the second time that day with his lomo friends lol (First time was at the King's palace. Stalker!! LOL)
the "amusement" park

In the end, Damien drove us to a place called The Zon where (literally) all the Singaporeans go to eat "cheap" seafood. Converted, it is about 1/2 the price of the seafood in SG. We had satay, vege, beehoon, cereal prawns, kung pow chicken and my favorite salted egg crab!! yay!! Though it wasn't the best like I had in Penang, it was way better than my own cooking attempts! lol *happies*

Satay starters
My fav salted egg crab!!! =)~~~~ though it was abit dry...YUMM!

Anyway Pingy, I hope you had a wonderful day and have a wonderful year ahead! We/You shall travel to many more places! I love you!

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Other happs:

My dream car spotted in Malaysia!

There are just some people I could never travel with -.-" There should be some sort of travel compatibility test before actually traveling with them!
Also, there should be global airport standards for things sold in airports ;)

Happy New Year!!!

2011-01-02T11:06:00.000+08:00

Happy New Year my loves! I hope you had as wonderful a time as I did, ringing in 2011! Let's make this one a happy, efficient and prosperous year!!

On new year's eve, Henrik and I headed down to Changi to celebrate with the rest. Levyne had booked a table for 10 at Bistro@Changi. I didn't really know what to expect, but what we got was something I least expected! There was a DJ/MC encouraging us to play different games for different prizes all night! Of course the Singaporeans at the other table were naturally boring, bu at least our table was awesome! We competed in all the games and all their dances all the way till midnight! hehehe we even got a lucky draw winner!

Team "Skol" that later turned into team "school" against team "Kus" which we later renamed to "Kussen" LOL
new team leaders!How many can you fit into a sarong??
We lost because the other team cheated with children and EddIE refused to cooperate :(
game where you had to get a key through eachother's clothes...the other team cheated with children again :(
BUT, we got some good pics! LOL
good thing ah Ben's pants were loose! LOL
LOL
Lun wins the lucky draw! Huat ar!!
Boy's game!
"3 feet, 1 hand!"
2 feet!
1 foot, 2 hands!
The hat game! (kind of like "hot potato" but with hats instead lol I think potatoes are more efficient
cha cha line!
hehe they walked too fast for my 4.5" heels
ending with the chicken dance!

Dinner was a pretty good deal. I had a poached chicken with half a lobster that came with potato wedges and a salad. The $40 meal also came with a slice of chocolate cake and wine. Fooswise was very very average. I did not like the poached chicken. It was literally just poached with no salt or gravy to go with. The lobster was average as well. The "clam chowder" was the usual starch you get in singapore, but the chocolate cake was delicious!

Gil, Lev and EddIE
Ben, Lun and Kennethmy dinner!

Dinner also came with "novelties" for the new year, poppers, masks and more noise makers that one can fit into their mouths! LOL Loved it!

the girls *loves*
Goodbye 2010

When the clock struck midnight, people went crazy! We had 4 bottles of bubbly (2 champagne, 2 cheap stuff from the restaurant) that we chugged with love! a few giant confetti poppers were popped, people had sparklers, fake snow, silly string and a lot of love going around! It was an AMAZING night! Its always best to start your new year with the people you love!

prepared!

hoorayyyy 2011!!!!
Snow and silly string!!
some noise making sparklers!!
some men in kilts dancing LOL
moreee!!
much love
Old loves.....
New loves!!!!
my fav champagne!
Lennart clearly enjoying the start to his new year!

We ended the night around 4am after supper at block 85 lol They had such good business there that night, all our first choices of food were either closed or sold out! Good thing 85 is popular for more then 1 type of food!

The pastry and I spent the night at my parent's since its a 10 minute walking distance from block 85 lol. January 1st was spent resting, watching tv, enjoying eachother's company and a big roast lamb for dinner! YUM! It was sooo delicious! I love you Cold Storage! Like I said, nothing is better than kicking off the new year with people you love.....and with good food of course! ;)

the all meat lamb!

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New Year's celebrations around the world!!: Click Here for the amazing pics!

Britney's new single!!!:

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Last Post of 2010!!

2010-12-31T23:19:00.001+08:00

Hey loves! This is my last post of the "old year"! Time is flying by so fast! I hope this year has been a wonderful year you you as it has been for me! I learned so many great things and experienced so many new things! I hope the New Year will bring all of you readers an awesome New Year filled with Fun, Love, Peace and Happiness!!

I had a very Merry Christmas this year! Santa was very nice to me! And yes, I did all the usual Christmas trimmings and then some! (Well if you want it right, you got to do it yourself!)

I made Christmas cookies one weekend at my parent's! Of course they were the usual sugar and ginerbread cookies! And of course they were delicious! This year though, I ran out of molasses and used brown sugar instead. The outcome were much "fairer" gingys!! I really tried to be multi-racial, I did!! This year I had a few moew elves to help me! Xavier was over, Henrik helped and momma elf did as well! We had a really fun time! A happy family always makes Christmas as warm as it should be!

momma elf!
Done!!

My sweetheart brought me on a date! well actually, a couple dates!! One was to Holland Village at Sabroso for Tapas! All because I was craving for paella and also because he was attracted to the happy hour sign! haha. The food there is amazing! My favorite was the scallops in their special sauce. OMG *drools* I could probably eat that for the rest of my life and never get sick of it! The paella was a tad disappointing, but the steak was like Woah! So perfectly cooked and so juicy! *happies* And afterwards to my surprise, the pastry brought me to Haagen Daz! woo hoo! Ice cream topping off the night makes one reaaalllyy happy girlfriend!!

Best scallops in the world!!
At Haagen Daz!
(They tried to be festive and somewhat failed with their scrawny tree but saved christmas with the fun Christmas music they played!)

Another date was an equally as fun one to Vivo city to hunt for a Christmas/New Years dress. We were only half sucessful in our/my quest, but the date was just as pleasant! I love love love the beautiful tree on the roof of Vivo city! Its gorgeous, bright and ginormous! It almost reminds me of the first few dates we had together! *loves* We spent the rest of our evening at Pacific Coffee because the Pastry claims it has better gourmet coffee, but I was slightly offended they didn't serve chai (which was what I was craving for at the time, but even if I wasn't, I'd be equally as scandalised!)!!

Ginormo tree!!!
the Heinous Pacific coffee

Christmas started a tad early this year on the 23rd. Or as Danes like to call it, "little Christmas". Daddy had me accompany him, momma and Aunty Joyce to the grocery stores to make sure everything I was going to cook for Christmas was bought. (Like I said, I have to do everything myself to make my holiday's perfect! No one else has the initatie in my family, they thing perfect holidays fall in to place by magic!!) We had a fun time at Carrefour (though I must say the place has fallen to the powers of the asian community- not having half the things they used to and those of which were replaced with chinese spices/ingredients/canned abnormalties) and I suffed my face with the fresh sushi they sell that I can never resist when I enter that store! We later went to OrchardCentrepoint's Cold Storage to pick up the other half of the things we needed ;)

Centrepoint!
shooting stars!!

After which, daddy brought us and Henrik to Toa Payoh hawker center which he claims is the best hawker center in Singapore. I pretty much have to agree! The noodles, rice and desserts were pretty amazing with generous portions and super cheap which is so hard to find in Singapore these days. AND their western food is amazing! yes, *gasp here*. You heard me, western food! Yum! From then, we spent the night at my parent's place where I spent the night prepping the food for the next day's feast!

Ohhh grocery shopping was NOT at all completed and with barely any sleep (mostly because I was watching TV since I've been deprived of good channels after moving out lol) we headed to the market for fresh meat and vegetables! Super busy cooking commenced and I hardly had time to blink my eyes. I think it should be a crime for any house smelling so damn good before 2pm! muahaha!!

cooking/peeling commences!
3kg of flasekesteg!!
The colorful makings of leverpostej!
(before we broke the blender when the bacon got entangled =x)

Around then, Henrik and I drove to Mount Faber to attend church service at the Danish Seamen's Church. I bet no one knew of its existance eh? LOL the idea only came to me a couple of days before when I remembered a card we had sent to Henrik's grandfather a couple months ago. Yes the church is in service and yes its pretty much exclusive for the Danish people. When we arrived to the charming colonial red bricked building, it was so full people were pretty much spewing out the back. A nice lady found us some seats and I sat through an hour of Danish carols and Sermons. Ahhh, the things we do for love. I at least hoped that Henrik will feel more at home. The lord knows (haha pun intended) it was much more enjoyable this year than last, because people dressed nice, everything was traditional (Danish style of course and minus the weather) and also because there was a large REAL christmas tree next to the altar. =D

We rushed back after service to continue toiling at the stove, all the way till 7:30 when we went to Jaslyn's house to consume the feast! Jaslyn's house is very nice in design and such. What amazed me most were her pet stingrays in her pond in her mini back yard! Woah! Love it!! I never knew anyone with pet stingrays before! Super cool! I want some in the future! Or at least some exotic pets like a koala bear!

some of the girlies!
Stingrays!!!
sissypoo being grumpy!
Though her mood doesn't change, her clothes did! Finally shes not embarassing to bring out!!
Now just to change her shoes and eyebrows and I'll be satisfied!

Dinner was amazing and 95% of exactly how I wanted it to be! We had danish tarteletter (which Henrik says is of better quality than he was used to! muahaha!), turkey and its gravy, ham and its marmalade dressing, stuffing, Danish purple sauerkraut to go with the Flaeskesteg (Danish crispy pork roast), potatoes, salad, leverpostej, cranberry sauce and bread. Anyone drooling yet? Cuz my keyboard sure is! To top everything off, we had cranberry cheesecake for dessert followed by the Danish dessert/game Ris a la mande (rice pudding with cherry sauce).**

daddy and Henrik Helping to cut the flaeskesteg
the ladies off from cooking! (not that my mom cooks often anyway =x)

YUM
Leverpostejhardworking daddy!
Cranberry cheesecake!
buffet!!!
Christmas Exchange!

After a fun game of gift exchange (*ahem* some people forgetting to bring some), Henrik and I headed off to Orchard to meet Tiia and her brother Max who was visiting with their parents!! Of course us young people were there to play with the fake snow and count down to Christmas! Orchard was hella crowded with people and their cans of snow. It was so much fun! We bought some cans and had wars with quite a few groups! Some even had silly string! There were parades of cars and busses all honking and cheering as we counted down to Christmas. I'm pretty sure santa could hear us wherever he was!

Helloooo Orchard!
unfair attack!! we were still drinking beer!!
SNOW WARS!!!!
this is how we do snow in Singapore! hehehe
we bought some of our own from these shady people with backpacks because its illegal to sell them on a designated area of street now lol
new highlights!

After the fun had died down, we went to at bar at Wisma Atria to have some drinks. I had proabably the best strawberry daquiri there :D We had such a pleasant time and the bartenders who were also celebrating gave us free cocktails! And they were so sweet to make mine extra sweet, taking note of my prior special requests! When we left the poor bartender was sick after having a few too many. I hope he still had a great Christmas! ;)

Ion's tree!
the inside of the tree!

Christmas day was awesome in itself! For the first time ever, my brother woke up in time to his alarm! 7am and I had only gotten in at 5am!! gahh! But all the excitement and presents could keep anyone awake! Highlight this Christmas: I finally got the Adidas "respect me" jacket that I wanted thanks to Sissy and Ian!! woo hoo!! and a pair of beautiful stillettoes from Bente and Soren that Henrik had picked out! Henrik gave me a beautiful red pair of Guess flipflops and a new charm for my Thomas Sabo bracelet!! ;D And I was like Woah, daddy and mommy finally followed the list and got me a new wallet with the same brand that I'd been using for the past 4 years and all! woo hoo! (Though I would've prefered the one with the bow, butttt no complaints still! *super happies*) I think everyone else pretty much got what they wanted as well! All of us must have been extremely good this year!!

with love!
daddy got the belt he wanted!
sissy got the watch she wanted!
big box, small present!!
who knew such a simple deck of cards could make one so happy?
aunty joyce only got red presents this year!!! LOL
momma got sunglasses from Ian!
personalised pens for all the men!
all set for school from me and Henrik....I offered crumpler but apparently thats not in anymore?? lol I didn't know...
Love from home!
FINALLYYYYYY!! =D
daddy hopes he can still fit into his pants after all the christmas dinners!!! lolfor the gambler in his genes!its not christmas without beer!
Christmas ninja?!?!

After some leftovers for breakfast and a little bit of Christmas napping, we headed off to Aunty Helen's house for dinner! She has this beautiful Christmas tree in the living room and all! I love the spirit! We spent some time cooking and watching tv, playing poker, chatting, the usual. Everyone arrived and there was a ginormous ammount of food! Aunty Helen had everything everyone had requested for (from KFC and Pizza hut to roast beef and clam pasta!)! Yummm The pastas were AMAZING! I've never seen any pasta with that ammount of sea scallops, shrimps and clams in it before! It was like heaven (Though if I were abit more thick-skinned I would've just pulled all the seafood out and ate it myself...hehehehe). There was still ham and another Flaeskasteg, salad and leverpostej. Even the most delisicous hazlenut log cake that I'd ever had! Loved it!

*love*
Sabrina and aunts!
food!!!
Xavier our mini photographer!
Sissy and Henrik
complicated internet discussion
after dinner snackers (--,)
so full! so they have to sit around and watch chinese dramas! lol
Poker faces

Then there was the first annual ice cream contest! Contestants had to finish and lick cups of ice cream as fast as they could and as many as they could in three minutes!! There was losts of frozen tongues and brain-freeze, but needless to say, I cam out a 2nd place champion! Woo hoo!! Xavier was awarded 3rd place, Nigel first. Henrik and Uncle Desmond couldn't eat fast enough and Ian was chicken to lose. LOL Good game guys! I'll be sure to practice for next year!! LOL

Ready!
go!!!!
Third place
Second most awesome ice cream eater everrr!!!
First place got his chocolate and some toilet paper for when he has to go after eating so much!! LOL
Yummiest Log cake everrrr

Present wise was not so good for me this year. Xavier got the most! *jealous* Apparently, SOME people are under the impression that people 21 and older don't need presents or money?? Reality check!! At this age we need the most! And its not like we squander it on candies and game cartridges, we buy things like groceries!! And plus, Christmas never has an age limit to it! I'm not like demanding for presents or anything, but if you're going to give a few nephews a present, then you should give some to all the kids under your generation right? Geez, old people like presents too.

daddy got a new tie!
ahhh, the infamous christmas mugs!
I got a new necklace!
Present champion!
new belt!

Anyway, boxing day was very pleasant. I caught up with some of the sleep and rest that I had missed the couple days before. Then Henrik and I just had a relaxing day with the boys, filled with delicious leftovers and poker games! We even made some Danish Christmas drink! I for one think 1 cup is enough as it is SUPER rich, but maybe I had a little more. hehehe

Christmas Poker!
Christmas drinks!!

*~*I hope everyone had as enjoyable and relazing a Christmas as mine and recieved everything you wished for! *~*

**I would just like everyone to know that Henrik Andersen is a horrible Dane. He has spent his life eating Christmas foods (and danish foods in general) made by his mother and grandmother, never learning how to cook any of it (which I figure is most likely because he never offered to help as he was eating chocolates and cakes during that time). I could possibly be more Danish than he if I could speak the language!! LOL

official Christmas takings =D

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Other happenings before the New Year:

Henrik and I went out for dinner one day and to collect our free movie tickets from Tangs from entering into their Christmas contest! We got 2 pairs! woo hoo! We discovered a little Japanese stall specializing in what seemed to be grilled fish- in the corner of basement two at Takashimaya. It had been awhile since I'd been there and apparently A LOT of new eating stalls had came up! We tried this Japanese stall because there were seats available and the prices weren't too bad. I frankly don't understand why there weren't more people because I thought the Saba fish sets we had were very worthwhile. There was soup, salad, rice and of course the fish which was perfectly cooked, boneless and very tasty. I'll definitely be back!

Later that night we used a pair of our tickets to see Gulliver's Travels. I thought the movie was pretty funny. Very Jack Black style with the rock music and exaggerated situations. It's not the version I grew up with, but had a nice twist to it. Pam's rating is 3/5.

Hooray free tickets!
Though the snack side has like 10 cents of discount. This is called giving, but not really giving.

There was Yang's birthday bbq chalet. That was fun with all the people and food. Yang's kept to his word and drank a couple sips of Martell and was completely drunk laterwards. LOL Good times!

bbq!
"may zhi" fried rice with 25 eggs!
Martell!!
"WTF did I just drink" look! LOL
gross
he was so drunk he started singing to himself! LOL
Our group!
Ken, Gil and Charlotte
(who saw Henrik's face and started to cry!! LOL Scary red-face ang moh with big nose and strange colored hair!!)
ginormo martell bottle
Dom's sekksy new haircut!
Ben got a huge slice of cake!! LOL
Watching Scott Pilgrim vs. the world!!

Another bbq occured, this time with Henrik and his lab buddies held by his Professor Barbaros. It was very nice to meet all the nerds that Henrik always talks to me about. They seem like a very friendly and sweet bunch :D After we were chased out by the condo security, we had drinks at Pasir Panjang. Wondeful night!

some of the gangweirdo China liquor

Nicola's super sweet Girlfriend
another part of the gang
Beers at Pasir Panjang!

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Random Photos:

Winter at Pandan Valley??
Or overly trimmed trees because they're overly nervous about falling, harmful tree branches and law suits? (--,)
*LOVES*
A Stitch I found at Bugis while sneakily shopping for Henrik's present!

December Daze!

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Ahhh December! Finally I can catch up with all the happenings right before Christmas! December is literally the fastest month of the year! I barely blinked and already it is half gone!! Sadly, due to the busy schedule this year, there are no pre-Christmas parties :( we'll see about New Years Eve though!!

Picture of Bente and Soren's back yard!! Ohhh I miss the snow!! and wearing winter clothes more! lol

Anyway, December is definitely my second favorite month of the year (after November of course ;)). Orchard has been decorated and lit since the first and the city is a bustlin'!

Henrik went back to Denmark for a week to be at his grandfather's funeral. Poor thing. But he did bring me back some fun stuff! Christmas calendars for the people we love, a giant marzipan and presents of course! Also alot of foods that you can't get here!

giant marzipan!!
Christmas calendar!Remoulade (But Henrik says the fresh ones I make taste nicer *blush*)
our super big box from Kirsten and Ole!
Christmas lottery calendar!! I'm going for a million kroners!

I had a wonderful night at Holland Vilage with Pingy. I took her Wendy's virginity!! hehe! Then we went to one of the bars where I had a super good cosmopolitan and we talked till 5am! LOL ahhh the days where our mother's were suspicious of us because we hung out so late, only with each other and a bag of chips ;)

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving while he was gone! Of course it wouldn't be a family occasion if someone doesn't have a heart attack and blow up! This year it was me because my dad and my sister decided to purposely sabotage my Thanksgiving after I had made everything so easy for them by making the list of things to buy and cooking! All sissy had to do was double check for things we already had and didn't have to buy, but couldn't be bothered to get off her lazy ass to do so. Daddy at least went to the grocery stores and markets though he still ignored my pleas to check for the spices I needed and told me we had everything already. I'm so worried they're going to mess up my chinese new year in 2011. My family has gotten so unspirited I don't know why and if I want stuff done perfectly, I have to do it myself! Anyway, I worked magic and everything turned out delicious and fine! *happies*

After Thanksgiving, we put up the tree! This year's theme is purple!! hooray! As usual, thank goodness I was there or there'd be no tree for Christmas!

I caught a nissen!tada!

We had dinner with the Finnish crew at Lau Pa Sat one day! I had chili crab!! yumm yumm!! It was very enjoyable and we met Karolina's boyfriend from London! awww!

*loves*
atrocious people who didn't want chili crab!
they went hiking and didn't change!!! lol

Then we joined Lev, Lun, Wendy and the rest at St. James to chill out. It was nice and cosy. Not a good place for converstations, though I loved looking down to the club from the viewing gallery. People are soo funny when they dance!! Oh, but the cosmopolitans at St. James suck =x

Wendy, her friend and a sneaky Lynx!
brrrrrrrrrrrrr
LOL at the people downstairs

Had dinner with Levyne and Lun at Seng Kee black Herbal chicken soup. Though later we found out that theres like 7 restaurants on the same road named the same thing. LOL! Yum it was really good though. I super loved the claypot chicken (though not black)! I seriously think they should change the name to "Seng Kee African Singaporean Herbal Chicken Soup" to be politically correct. tsk tsk, lets not be racist now.

We met Johanna's sister Maria for dinner at Blu Jaz. I had the super yummy grilled fish and super loved their shisha! We then headed to the bridge for a fun night, ending at mcdonalds!!

Blu Jaz!
shishaaaaaa
Love from Erica!!Johanna, Maria and Jonas *loves!*

One of the highlights of my month is eating at Kushinbo!!! I had heard so much about it, but never been there before. The spread was all Japanese and not bad. (Though I do like international buffets much much more) I ate my fill of snow crab legs! hehehe! They had everything from sashimi to udon! And their dessert spread was muchos impressive!! I think Henrik super liked it too! *happies*

Super in love!Lev
more love!
Lun and Vincent
crab legs!!!
Grace attempting to eat her money's worth! LOL

Henrik and I had another dinner at Cha Cha Cha with Johanna and her sister! Yum! I super love the food there! I literally won't mind eating there once a week or something! LOL and the staff have gotten more friendly as well! We then had ice cream at Cold Rock! My new ice cream obsession! Its kind of like Cold Stone in the U.S. where you pick your ice cream and they pound whatever candies you choose into your ice cream! Love it!

ChaChaCha!!cold rock!!mixing the ice cream!

oooOOoohhh! I also got a super belated birthday present in the middle of December from Bente and Soren! They sent me an apron and mitten that supported breast cancer. On it are Danish words saying "boobs", "titties", "big breasts" and all the slangs that mean breasts. LOL Love it!

I also had lunch with Simon, Maria and Johanna one day! We then headed to Sentosa for a day just to check out the place and also so they'd appreciate the beaches in Thailand that they were going to much more, since Sentosa is so crappy. LOL We also checked out the Resort World Sentosa and went to the Victoria's secret there. Its incredibly expensive AND they don't sell bras!! ridiculous!! But ahh well, its Singapore.

gettin' some sun!
Resort World Sentosa!
outside the Universal Studios
hooray Christmas tree!!
Candyyy empireee!!
Super awesome hallway leading to super awesome escalators with super awesome lights after the casino!
To the luxury shops!
panties online: 3 for $25....panties at this store: 1 for $19.90

There was a bridging weekend with Henrik's colleagues and friends. What can I say, it was...interesting.

more Pastries

I went shopping with Ian and Sophie for Christmas presents! It was fun! we got to see all the Christmas decorations and stuff! The sales aren't really good this year. I thought we were out of the economy crisis? LOL anyway, I hope we got everyone what they wanted! Henrik joined us for a scrumptious dinner at Wendy's and Starbucks at the end! *happies*

love the Tang's decoration! As usual, the best and most festive!
My fav pic this year!
teddy bear trees!
nativity at the Mandrin Gallery!
my "vegetarian" brother who later ate a cup of chili at Wendy's because he couldn't help himself LOL
rockin' out with baby Jesus!
3 wise men + 2 wise girls!
sissy poo and the disco treeFerrero Rocher tree!!
hellooooo orchard!
"Stop taking pictures I am hungry" look! lol
To Wendy's!
Ginormo tree at Plaza Sing *loves*
Starbucks later!
"lets share a drink"....then....*drinks all the drink*
me and sissy poo
exaggerator of tiredness. we only shopped from 2pm to 10pm...geez

I also had a day out with Simon when he got back from his travels! We discovered the new Hershey's store! They have everything from twizzlers to jolly ranchers there!! Of course, everything is still ridiculous expensive, but we couldn't help ourselves and each got a pack of Reese's pieces! tee hee! And because they gave us some coupons to the gelato next door, we had to try some of that as well! heheh those sneaky sneaky chocolatiers!

*loves*
this tree is actually quite nice!
Helloooo Hershey's!
Gelato!
New Year's wishes!

Finally, Simon and I made wishes on the white balls that they put out in the Singapore River and light up for New Years Eve! Maybe one day I'll get to see mine again! hehehe!!

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Random Pics: I burned myself while frying some Danish bacon.....:(

BUT
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I made them into happy burns!!

Days to Christmas: 5!!!

the candy Henrik got for me at the gas station! tee hee!

Want to get me a Christmas present? E-mail me at: pammytan@hotmail.com for my wishlist!

My Favorite Christmas song!:

*~*smile more.*~*

Singapore's National Day 2011!

Awesome weekends (Part 2)

Awesome weekends (Part 1)

July Fun!

Father's Day and other June Days!

Jens in the lion city! Days 5-7!

A week with Jens in the Lion City!! Days 1-4

Oh yes it's ladies night! Oh what a night!

Goodbye Swedes!!

The Last of April

Momma's Birthday and Easter!

April Showers Bring May Flowers!

March Madness!!

Turkish day out and other randoms!

Happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai!!!

Happy Valentine's Day Loves!!!

Happy Birthday Mr. Andersen!!

January Fun!!

Pingy's Malaysian Celebration!

Happy New Year!!!

Last Post of 2010!!

December Daze!

~smile more.~