TOP OF THE M!!! BC's bdae part 2! :)

Top of the M! Top of the M!! hehe!! I am freaking tired! But i am staying up to blog it cause I had such an enjoyable time at the Top of the M!!

BC mentioned this place to me few months back and that we ought to go there one day. It is the revolving restaurent on top of Meritus Mandarin!

I decided then that we should visit this place on his birthday!! We barely (in actual fact, i dun think I can rem any! haha!) had dinner at such posh places and his birthday will be an good excuse! keke!

I shant sae much about my dining experience here. Shall let the pictures do the explanation.

Was supposed to give him a special treat. But he paid for today's dinner instead.

At the end of it all, he told me "today feels more like we are celebrating your birthday instead of my birthday!!" Haha!!

N the worst thing is that I did not even have a present to give him! Oopz!! I cant help it! his present was OOS! Not my fault! :p!

Happy Birthday BC!!

Here are the pics! :)!

Our Table setting! :) The waitress pulled the chair out for me to be seated! Weee!

The view of the restaurent from my seat! The place was absolutely romantic! Dim lightings! quiet ambience! Each table was nicely lited with an oil lamp!

Oh! Each couple table has an extra at the side for the ladies to put their bags!

How thoughtful!! :)!

I decided to take a pic of the initial position of our table before we start our dinner! So we can compare how much the restaurent has revolved by the end of the meal! hehe!
Its quite fun to feel the restaurent move! Although it moved really slow, we could actually feel slight jerking movements! N if u stared too long outside, you can get quite giddy! haha!

Me and my artistic shot! keke! Oil Lamp and my orange juice! :)

Another artistic shot! BC's wine! his usual....

Bread & Butter! Plus complimentary starters! Some cheese. Forgot its nice! Quite light tasting and has veggies! Glad it was not those strong cheese as I was not exactly feeling well.

The stove! The chef/waiter (they dress the same) was getting ready to prepare our steak near our tableside! Kewl! those flaming things u see in those TCS dramas last time! haha!

Hmm! so sad my pic is blur! My Steak!! The sauce has mushrooms and pepper corn! Kinda spicy when u bite into the pepper corns! But the steak was absolutely tender and delicious! Both of us tried to eat really slow cause the steak look so small and we din want the yummy moment to end so fast! As small as the steak mite looks, it was pretty filling!

The waiter saw me snapping like mad woman and offered to help both of us take a pic!

A bit blur! cause I used ISO so got no flash! Wanted to maintain the lighting the same as it is in the restaurent. As yx used to sae, we all look better in blur pix! haha!!

Our view when we finished our steak! It is towards centrepoint direction! If u can make it out, you can see hotel phoenix on the bottom right of the pix!

Our dessert!! we ordered the 7 deadly sins!! Which is just 7 types of chocolate desserts! When the waiter place it on our table, i was excited! haha! because it was so pretty!!

Dun ask me about the names. Even if the waiter later explained to us, I cant rem watever he said. I ony noe the one in the egg is a chocolate brulee and the right most is a chocolate souffle! haha!! Ohh! n the one in the cup is chocolate mousse!!

Yummy as they are, we got pretty sick after the end of it! TOo much chocolate! Too sweet! It was good there were sour mangos and sour rashberries on the dish to offset the sweetness! Both of us are so gonna stay off chocolate for awhile!

N guess wat was after dinner?! Complimentary dessert! Chocolate mints! haha! we nearly puke! But we both finished it! No choice! bleahz! Kinda spoilt our steak moment! ahh! yummy steak! haha!

The last shot at the restuarent. Very blur! :(! We were facing somewhere after Singtel building!!

A shot of the nicely decorated xmas tree at the lift landing of Top of the M!

Finally I m done! So tired!

Happy Birthday BC!! - part 1!

Celebrated BC's birthday with his good fwens on saturday!
Had a craving for steamboat so BC sae I can go ahead and arrange a steamboat outing with his fwens!

So the whole load of us went to Marina South for some old time bbq steamboaT! It has been a while since I last went there.

But as BC said, maybe we are old le, the food dun seem as yummy as it did before. Then i said, its because we r so used to having to much good food now. Last time when we were young, it was an afforable choice!

Everyone with the birthday boy!! Getting started! I told everyone to take a pic first before they got all oily and smelly!

Guys having some fun at the arcade after dinner. You shld have seen the look of concerntration they had on their faces!

The birthday cake his fwens so nice got for him! A bit pathetic! Ended up cutting the cake on his van! Can anyone see the reflection of elaine's hands?!

Intense concerntration!! Cutting cake for everyone! Kinda like this pic! haha

Me leaving a big mess on his van from cutting the cake!! keke!!

Birthday Boy loving his present!

Dinner at JB.

Had an absolutely fun time with BC ydae. We were lazing ard in the late morning wondering what to do for the day. It seems really hard to find things to do in SG these days. Moreover, its really hard to get our fwens to go out with us since they are kinda busy with studies. BC then suggested that we shall go down to JB and do something different.

So ard 5 plus, after BC came back from work ( yes! work! poor guy!), we took a drive down to woodlands checkpoint to park our vehicle and then head to the customs to go to JB.

It has been a really long time since we last took bus or have a long walk together. Sweet! Haha! Anywa, I tell you the pple boarding the bus to cross the causeway is scary. I never see so much banging and rushing! I felt like I was boarding a bus in india (u noe like those u see in movies and drama)

We headed down to city square to do some shopping. After shopping, which was like nearly to 9, we then went to some back alley where they had stalls and stalls of food!! BC wanted to bring me to eat some yummy sting ray he had with his fwens previously. I really enjoyed the dinner! Never had such yummy stingray before! the chilli is good! THe char kuay teow was good too BUT really OILY!!!! Eating at the back alley is really hot but its worth it.

After dinner, it was time to squeeze in the customs and back to singapore. I think both of us are too used to the comfort of having a vehicle cause by the time we reached our van, our legs felt like they were breaking already!! We have never been so thankful to sit back into the van!

I guess there will be a possibility that we will go back there if we ran out of things to do again.




The back alley from where I sat. There are like 2 sections of the back alley: 1 stretch of malay stalls and 1 stretch of chinese stalls. From the looks of the customers of my pic, we were at the chinese stall stretch.


My super oily char kuay teow! It smelt really good when we walked past and so I jus gotta tried it! Yumz!


There.. You can see BC attacking his kway teow already! we were really hungry from all the shopping! The coconut juice aint chilled, we got to add out own ice in it. It was really warm and the coconut juice did not help at all.

TOok a really cute photo of BC but he refused to let me put it in my blog. Haha!


The sting ray~ Waited quite long for it but the wait was totally worth it! The fish was really fresh! and the chilli compliments it very well!

IndoMee!

My fwen give me some indo mee (all the way from indo) as rent when she stayed over at my hse before she got her own place .

I can still rem how a few of us always hanged out at her place after school and her mum cooked indo mee for us! It was so so yummy! Miss those times!


My dinner the day after BBQ! The indo mee and leftover porkchops from BBQ! Absolutely yum!


Wat i really ate that day. Dun worry. I din finish the pasta and sushi. By the time i finished the noodles, I am almst dead.

Jap Buffet at Miramar Hotel

Went out with colleagues for a dinner gathering at Miramar Hotel. We decided to call it the pre-christmas celebration, an excuse to pig out as usual. My colleagues raved about the fresh sashimi they had here previously and how much they enjoyed it. So this time they are back to relive the moment. Altogether there were 9 of us, 5 of us who reached first, started off first.

Took loads of photos of the food i had that night to upload into here.
Enjoy the pics!


The restaurent!


The cute interior inside. So jap style!!


the tables and chairs are rather small. Small table is quite bad as there is not enuff space to place our endless orders. Haha!


My nicely set table. waiting for my turn..


the japanese beans on the table.


our sashimi! ( we had a total of 3 plates of mixed sashimi among 5 of us!)


My Chawanmushi and cold soba! I love the fact they give out noodles and rice in small portions cause it simply means we can eat more!


California and Salmon skin temaki!!! 2 bad... there were only 2 type of varieties!! No spider Temaki!!! Waiiiz!!!!


Prawn and Shitake Tempura!!!! Weee!


Our fried stuffs. Breaded Fish. Breaded Prawns. Chicken Katsu. Bacon wrapped kani!!


SUSHI!!!! ( From the other table, just thot it looked really pretty and got to get a shot of it!)


Our complimentary soup. Its really cute to drink soup out of a small cup!!


Shisamo!! the only pity that it isnt crispy enuff! Else it will be really nice cause there were loads of eggs in them!!!


Complimentary PaperSteamboat! Yumz too!!


Yakitori!


Cold TouFU!


Agedashi TouFu! Somehow i prefer sushi tei's one.


Look at our much leftovers the other table have!


My table did a clean job! Weee!!!

Mischief on one Lazy Sat Afternoon

These are so cute I just got to post them!

Look at how my little model turn out under my creative hands....


Aint the angel wings clip simply the cutest?!



She is so gonna hate me for this when she grows up!

BBQ in the rain...

Geez.. its sat nite, its only 11 and I am at home blogging... sounds like quite sad case to me. Well.. sometimes its good to have some time to myself.. have a little "Me" time and it also gives me time to promptly update my blog! keke!

Had a really good but wet BBQ earlier. Had been planning this BBQ for 1 week. Felt like having a BBQ by the beach like we did before and so started smsing our fwens to organise to have it on today. It was pretty sad when quite a number of frns werent able to join us. In the end, including me, only 6 of us were available for the BBQ. I feel so disappointed. I love having loads of pple in feasting. Food just taste nicer when there's some1 to fight it with you. The next time we have another BBQ, I will try even harder to convince more pple to come. (which is pretty irony cause I have lousy convincing skills... HAHA!!)

This time, we did the preparation pretty early as BC got loads of OT to do. Poor guy.. neverending work. On thursday, we went to buy a portable pit and like he said buy other "non-perishable" stuffs like charcoal and starters, plastic bowls and cups and so on. On friday nite, he came home from work like nearly to 10 and we rushed down to Cold Storage to buy the food and then back to do his hse to do the marinating. This guy is amazing i tell you.

He marinated the chicken wings, pork belly, pork meat, chicken meat and beef. Each of which of different marination method. The pork belly and pork meat marination were the yummiest! The chicken wings were nice as usual, always have a nice crispy skin to it when he marinates it. I wonder why. N every time he cant remember how he marinate the last time. He never knows wat he use.. just by his guts feeling! kewl right? I always feel so intimated when I am with him in the kitchen. He is so incontrol. damnz! haha!!

Anyway, it rained since 1 pm this afternoon. I was hoping it stopped by 3. It rained heavily until after 4 plus. We decided to go ahead n look for a pavilion at East Coast.

I was pretty screwed up for the day. Forgot everything I got to do. Forgot to bring my Portabello mushrooms from the fridge, forgot to pack serviettes and scissors, and also nearly forgot the brush as well. Thank gdness BC went with me to NTUC to do some last min shopping. Its only after we reached the pavilion at East Coast and carried everything then we realised i forgot the tongs too! I think BC wanted to kill me by then! *sheepish* Heng Elaine and Jason were late and able help us get a few stuffs we forgot. hehe!!

I think I toked too much for this post. Picture time!!!


Hehe! Yes! Attempting Artistic Pics again. This is a pic of our surroundings of the empty pit we found. We drove all the way to nearly the end before we found an empty pit and accessible to the carpark! Love the view from our pavilion. Although I jus realise the dustbin area is quite a sighful.



From another angle... No more unsightly dustbins! So So? Is my composition nice for this pic?! I kinda liked it.





I not sure about the exact name of the place we are near too. I think the sailing club? But isnt the sailing club in changi? sorry! Anyone any idea?! Ohhh! N the best part of this pavilion is that is near the TOILET!!! HAHA!! means.. we dun have to worry about peeing and then we get loads of water to wash stuffs.




Our Pavilion! Doesnt it looks so comfy to be in?! Right in the middle is the mini portable pit we bought! It din look that small in the shop! haha! Dun ask me about the baby pram at the corner! I have no idea why was it there in the first place. I think perhaps some parents left it there when they realised its broken. Anyway, BC decided its a nice place to tie our plastic bags to throw rubbish.






From another angle. Dun you think our benches looks so gleaming clean?!! Yes! BC and I cleaned both of the benches ok? with water and loads of serviettes! We just had too! It was sandy and wet! N the bench on the other side was filled with some sticky stuffs and loads of flies! So both of us, were madly pouring water, cleaning and drying the benches. In the end, the place looks so comfy and decent! Heng it was still rainy so not much pple walked past else they must b looking at us wierdos! haha! I love BC's icebox, its is also a table and has 2 mini chairs when fully assembled. Else its jus a nice compact icebox. Kewl right?! We sure need to bring it along when we go BBQ. So handy!!






Our Food. Long List. Just see~ hehe!






Miscellaneous Stuffs...



Was suppose to help shine the light on the food (lights haven came on yet) but decided to take a pic on the way. Then realised all I took was smoke! Haha!





Attempting some shot of the lampposts. I realise it was really beautiful when i was staring blankly at them. However I am unable to capture them as how i see them! I need professional help!





Same angle when i used nite mode.

Geez. I am super long winded. SHall end here!



Almost forgot! Pretty slippers from Gary and THjie from HK! wore them today! So pretty! so must show off! haha!