Happy 26th Bdae to Leecher

1st March marks the day whereby I burnt a SUPER BIG hole in my pocket, cuz its Leecher's bdae.

Firstly, I decided to present him with a bouquet of flowers which I made myself, since he is always complaining that he never receive any flowers before. Being the practical me, of cuz I will not waste my money on a real bouquet of flowers on him - since I gathered that he will just throw the flowers away after they died - haha. So, as substitutes, I used Ferrero Rocher chocolates instead, heehee. (thanks Cheryl for the idea!)

Here's the ingredients for the "flowers"

Initially wanted to make 26 stalks of "flowers", but I think that it will be quite difficult to tie the wooden chopsticks together, so decided on 11 stalks instead - to represent 1 sheng 1 shi .... :)

The finished product - though there's still room for improvement, but it's a not bad result for my first attempt (trying to comfort myself here a bit ....)

Secondly, I decided to give Leecher his real bdae present (which seriously burnt a hole in my pocket, but what to do ...) by starting a car fund for him, cuz I know he is looking to buy a car ... Inside contains a cheque with $X amount of money to begin with ....

Bdae boy posting with his presents ...

Thirdly, I got him a bdae cake. Initally wanted to buy either a Doraemon cake or a sports car cake for him, but the cakes were full of cream (sucks). Decided to go healthy and bought the mango cake, haha....

Bdae boy looking happy with his bdae cake

We headed to Chang Korean BBQ restaurant for his bdae dinner. Silly Leecher actually thought that I was going to bring him to Shangri-La for dinner. He kept lamenting that his bdae dinner will be very cheap, since I will be using vouchers to pay for the meal. Plus, he didn't even go and find out how to get to Shangri-La hotel (see, evidence of him leeching on me again), thus, it didn't strike him that we're going to Dempsey Road until we alighted at the bus stop.

Leecher seriously studying the menu and thinking: should I order the most expensive item on the menu?

Cam-whoring while waiting for the food to come ~ it's a pretty nice place and it was my first visit there ....

Sipping tea ... the tea is pretty not bad, had a slight taste of barley...

Finally, our table full of food, the side dishes only and its refillable at zero cost! Yummy ~

Leecher's mouth is watering ... he can't wait to start ....

Steam-pork belly which we couldn't finish and need to pack back.

Plate of Wagyu (Beef) : before it was cooked

After it's cooked and ready to eat ~ ATTACK!

Putting the meat onto the vegetables ...

Close-up

Leecher demonstrating how to eat in one mouthful.....

That's the table full of food ... (some of the side dishes are not in the pic, due to space constraints)

Cam-whoring outside the restaurant. It's getting dark and the cars are arriving

After the meal, we decided to visit Ben&Jerry for some ice-cream ... Pretty nice place, but FULL of kids running around....gosh....

Ordered Rasberry + Strawberry Kiwi + New York Super Fudge Chunk topped with M&M chocolates

There's a little bus outside the shop where the kids are all gathered around, had a hard time taking the pics .... shouldn't have gone there on a wkend...

Since Leecher is still building his car fund, we had to take a bus to go back to the station ...

Back at his place for the cake-cutting ceremony :)

Leecher with his parents

Leecher with Dennis

And lastly, Leecher with his Darling (ME!)

Happy Birthday to you! Hope you like all your presents!

Picture of the night

Dai Lu Mao

I wonder if any of u manage to catch the Dai Lu Mao post earlier on b4 Blamer took it down. Actually right after she posted the V-day preparation post, I added this Dai Lu Mao post and she was so defensive abt it and took down the post b4 I could stop her. (For hint of the Dai Lu Mao, please pay attention to the last sentence of the post.)

However, last week, she officially put on the green hat for me.

Haiz... 人善被人欺...

Our First 1/2 day leave on the Year

29 Feb 2008, Friday. Its the day where it comes only once every 4 years and its also the day where Leecher and me took our first 1/2 day leave together to go and relax for the day ... As usual, I had to wait for about 1/2 hr before Leecher actually stepped out from his office. Leecher wanted to go Plaza Singapura to exchange his DVD ... Went past this QQ rice shop

Leecher decided to try what's so interesting about this rice, which costs $4.50

Feeling bored while waiting for the food to be prepared ...

Finally, the food is ready!

The rice acutally contains meat + pork floss + cumumber inside, not too bad, but a bit pricey (in my opinion)

Walked to Orchard road and passed by this Kopitiam, Leecher decided to try to noodles, since the stall have a lot of awards presented to them.

However, its not nice at all....the utensils are dirty and the chilli is too hot, masked the taste of the noodles and the ingredients...wonder how they managed to receive the awards?

Headed to Tangs to buy my stuff. It's my turn to leech on Leecher today, since he has vouchers, haha! Bought Benefit's products - Benetint and Thrrrob - (have been hearing rave reviews and wanted to give it a try)

Its time to head back to Leecher's place for dinner. We decided to order 933 Golden Pillow, since his parents never tried it before...waited close to 1.5 hrs for the food to come :(

Leecher felt that he was conned when he saw what the seafood roll looks like, haha.

The chicken is nice, chewy and tender...

Of cuz, the main course - golden pillow with curry fish

The fish curry is quite bad. I was expecting to see a fish inside but alas, there are only a few slices of fried fish. I still think the curry chicken is better.

Well, the only consolation is that we got the mini golden pillow as a gift.....that is a magnet for the fridge, hahaaha

Happy Leap Year Everyone!

Waraku Again

Blamer decided to pang sei me for her "snake rat one nest" friends on our usual once a week dinner together, hence I decided to eat something nice for lunch today to make up for it.

So here we are at Waraku again. Surprise suprise though, the other time when we were here, there was an amazingly long queue, but today, we manage to get a seat almost immediately.

The waitress serving was being overly polite in my opinion, kept asking us whether this is ok, tat is ok, and after taking our orders, she even wish us to have a nice lunching experience today. Think she must be hoping tat we will recommend her for some staff of the month award or something.

Some tea to warm up our stomach before the food.

By the way, when Blamer was ordering her pizza, the overly helpful waitress was asking us for our preferred serving size (mini or regular), Blamer asked her wat is the size of regular cos recently her appetite seems to have improved a lot and she is afraid tat she might be hungry again real soon. The waitress pointed to the side and told her, "It's abt the size of the plate," This is a sample of "the plate"


So end up Blamer ordered the mini de,

The pizza is salmon with mushroom and cheese toppings, really thin crust and the cheese is very nice. Salmon and mushroom very common taste. Think only the crust and cheese are nice.


This is my order, Scallop and mushroom soup with spaghetti,

The soup base is very nice leh, though a bit too oily. I really like the shape of the bowl though, maybe next time can get the same bowl for my house. Ha ha...

Really nice food leh, can consider making this a regular hangout place for good food.

Flowers from Leecher

Since this is the month of Feb (season of love, as its V-day month), I shall post the flowers that I received from Leecher in our 26 months of love ~

Bet Leecher cant remember close to 90% of the flowers, haha ^_^

1st bouquet: 3 stalks of lilies on 14 Nov 2005 (First date)

Posting with my flowers, looking happy (cuz that is the one and only time that Leecher walked me to my doorsteps when we went out for dates, haha)

2nd bouquet: 3 stalks of Blue roses for my pre-21st bdae celebration, 9 Dec 2005

A lot of pple say this looks like ROM picture, haha

3rd "bouquet": Single stalk of handmade tissue rose, 9 Dec 2005

We were chilling out @ Lash after my bdae celebration. He got to learn how to make this from the waitress and gave it to me. (must be finding chances to talk to the pretty waitress while I was chatting with my frens, haha)

4th "mini" bouquet: Single stalk of blue rose on our 1st month anniversary, 13 Jan 2006

PS: Sorry for the poor picture - last time no dent dent, only got my brother's phone camera.

5th bouquet: 9 stalks of Champagne roses on 1st V-day, 14 Feb 2006

Enjoying the breeze @ Esplanade

Leecher decided to take pic with the flowers too, while waiting for our food to come :)

After receiving 4/5 bouquets of flowers consistantly for the initial month, Leecher decided to take a break, haha. Plus, there were no occasions for him to give me flowers till its my bdae/1st yr anniversary.

6th bouquet: 6 stalks of lilies on my bdae/1st yr anniversary, 13 Dec 2006

Posting happily with the food @ One Rochester (which Leecher seems to have forgotten abt this when I asked him abt it a year later; see 2nd Anniversary post for details)

7th bouquet: 20 stalks of Champagne roses + 1 stalk of pink rose on 21st month anniversary, 13 Sept 2007

I was caught by surprise (for the first time ever) when the deliveryman walked into my office and gave me the bouquet of flowers. I totally didn't expected this and I still purposely didn't sms Leecher that morning, for I was angry that he has "forgotten" to send me our usual morning msg. Well, it seemed that he was just pretending and waiting for the flowers to be delivered to my office. Pleasant surprise, loving it!

I was beaming with happiness and decided to treat Leecher to No Signboard's chilli crabs. Unfortunately, the bill came up to more than the flowers....Arg!

8th bouquet: 24 stalks of blue roses on our 2nd year anniversary, 13 Dec 2007

Flowers + good food make a happy couple, haha

9th bouquet: 9 stalks of tulips on 3rd V-day, 14 Feb 2008

Leecher decided to give me flowers again on V-day, since he totally ignored our 2nd V-day, haha.

After so many bouquets, here's their present status:

4 bouquets are hanging by my computer table

Some are reduced to being kept in containers on my desk

The latest one still sitting on my desk, waiting to join the rest of the bouquets by my comp table

I was very sad when I had to throw away the lilies, for it attracted ants. But I managed to salvage some of the flowers and put them into containers. Their ribbons and wrappers are tucked nicely in my box of "treasures" from Leecher, haha. Yes, I am a very sentimental gal when it comes to gifts given by Leecher.

To Leecher, do you still rem all these flowers? hahahaa.....well, i guess that everyone will know what is the answer...:)

Stunning discovery

I decided to log onto my youtube account to check on something and I discovered an amazing thing.
Remember this lame video of a pen which i made from the Taiwan post? It actually has 116 views since I posted it on youtube 2 months ago??!!!

Wow!!