Valentine's Day 14 Feb 2008

Today marks the 3rd Valentine's Day with Blamer.

Part 1

Purposely fake Blamer that I'm not giving her flowers for this year but ended up the florist let the cat out of the bag by calling Blamer and double checking with her the delivery address. (cuz Blamer helped her colleague to order too) DUH? There goes the surprise...

When the flowers arrived, they looked like this:

By the way, the red rose by the side came from Dennis, cos she was lamenting that I'm not giving her flowers today and generous Dennis decided to pity her... Wa ha ha ha.

Releasing the flowers from their wrappings they actually looked not too bad. This is the first time I'm giving tulips to Blamer, every time roses and roses also sian rite...

Since I was unable to secure a restaurant for dinner and the prices quoted for private rooms was too mind-blowing for me. We decided to eat something slightly better for lunch today. Went to a Korean restaurant near to our workplace (a pity I forgot to take the signboard, maybe next time), quite popular leh this place, lucky we went slightly earlier if not the restaurant would be full le.

This restaurant always serves free sides:

Blamer was too hungry to wait for the pic to be taken...

While she was gobbling down the sides, I was looking thru my Valentine's presents!!

Gasp! This looks exactly the same as my Xiao Ding Dang coin box at home where I kept all my New Year winnings (cum supposedly Blamer's shoe fund) Does it mean she is giving me money??!!!

Nah, fat chance. However it was something better, she actually put on the apron to dish up this box of Ai Xin desserts. Choco coated Strawberries, Rainbow candied and Oreo coated biscuits.

Actually I sensed that Blamer was making something for me last nite, when I heard her knocking something and her mum was in the background asking her this, asking her that. However she fakey me by saying she was hitting Xiao Ren and that she was putting leftover rice into the fridge whereas she was in fact, instructing her mum to put the coated strawberries into the fridge. I thought it was a card and why do u need to put a card into the fridge?? Hmm.. I was partially right though, this is my card...

Sorry I can't let u guys see the contents on the other side. P&C leh, ke ke...

Finally our food is here,


Me ordered Korean handmade nooodles in seafood soup. Okay okay only leh... but the soup base is nice.

Blamer tried the normal spicy chicken soup with rice with lots of healthy vege!!!

So this ends the first half of our V day celebration and back to work we went...

Back at the Office

Hey hey, the lion dance troupe came to visit the workplace. Being in the sales line, of cos I can't miss the chance of letting the heng heng lion come to visit my work station. But I think this lion is a bit ti-ko leh, tried to flirt with one of my colleagues, or is it just trying to find a partner for this Valentine??



Part 2
After work, Blamer and I met up again wondering where to go? Movies? Too late, she stopped me from making a booking yesterday, now is too late to do anything le. Haiz, so I suggested to go to Central and see what we can do there...

Nope nope restaurants were full to the brim so we decided to do something most couples wouldn't even dreamt of doing on V day... *we ate at foodcourt*

Tempura Curry Udon!

I forgotten what is this called but I think it tasted better than the udon. (Notice right hand bottom corner, yesh we really ate at foodcourt)

See Blamer looks so happy eating at foodcourt on V day. So it really doesn't matter where u eat sometimes, but the company u are with... (hint hint)

Here's our presents for each other ...

After dinner, we wanted to get some desserts, but since every where is still full of ppl trying to get into the restaurants, we ended up walking back to the TCC where we had our first Kai Nian Fan.

A light snack for starters, some mushroom thingy with cheese on top served with bread. Warning: do not attempt to eat the cranberry compote in the middle, taste yucky.

This creative new dessert cost a freaking $9.90 for four pieces of small cakes top with layers of white, milk and dark chocolate. Not take fantastic either. End up we had to play a guessing game with the loser having to eat more of the dessert. (can't waste food u know)


More cam whore with the flowers, maximise the flowers b4 they outlive their worth after today.

And finally a pic of two happy people enjoying each other's company on 14th FEB 2008. (can't get it wrong this time)

Preparation for V-Day

Tomorrow is V-day and it's also the 3rd V-day that i spent with Leecher. I decided to surprise Leecher by making a box full of ai-xin snacks for him (well, I suppose that since he is FAT, it won't hurt to add a little bit more to his ever-expanding waistline, haha)

Since I am not a good cook, I decided to make something simple, heehee. (@ least I take the effort to make it leh...)

Here's the ingredients for the snacks:

Mummy helped me with making the chocolate (to coat the strawberries). In the midst of making it, Leecher called me. (OH DEAR!) I had to come up with an excuse to get off the phone, for the chocolate was getting burnt. Luckily, I asked him if he had make reservations for dinner and he immediately got off the phone (which obviously means that he haven't done so, haha). Saved for round 1.

Was busy coating the strawberries with chocolate and ready to be placed in the fridge when Leecher called again ($%#$^^&). He heard me telling Mummy to put the stuff in the fridge and asked me what am I doing ... panicked for a split second and told him that I am putting the leftover rice in the fridge, don't waste food ma .... think he really believed me.....heehee... Saved for round 2.

Lots of strawberries with chocolates, yummy!

Next up, its time for the Oreo-coated biscuit sticks. Well, I had to smash the biscuits into "powdery" form, so that the crumbs can "stick" to the biscuit. In the midst of doing that, Leecher decided to call me again!! Arg, this time cannot escape, he will surely hear the loud smashing in the background.

Leecher: Dear, what are you doing?
Me: I am busy hitting xiao-ren.
Leecher (laughing in the background): what xiao-ren?
Me (trying my best to think of excuses): You lo, since I will not get any flowers tomorrow. Thus, I have to seek revenge.
Leecher: How come you need to hit for so long?
Me: Cuz this xiao-ren aka you is quite FAT, thus, I need time to cover every single inch.

LOL!!! That kept him from asking more questions - saved once again for round 3!

Presenting the Oreo-coated biscuits:

I decided to make the rainbow-candied coated biscuits for him too, since I am RAINBOW, heehee.

Here's the box of Ai-Xin snacks for Leecher:

Me, with the box of goodies for Leecher! (taken in my office, haha)

Hope Leecher will be touched and loves this Ai-Xin snacks!
To Leecher: if your waistline expands due to this, I am not at fault, ^_^

Edited: To KJ - many thanks for the innovative idea, still remembered it after so long, haha! but, i did improvised it with the rainbow-candied ones, =P

Chinese New Year 2008

Introducing my new fling:

Haha, no lah, this is my cousin - whom I only get to meet like twice a year. Initially thought that given Leecher's memory, he won't be able to recognise my cousin whom he only met once last yr. However, surprise surprise, he can remember! Well, goes to show that he can remember things too, so I will be expecting more from him, haha.

Went to Leecher's place to pai-nian - see how sloppily dressed Leecher is :

Slack Leecher

Me ( in this gg>5 dress that I bought specially for CNY)

Xiufong + Me

Since its CNY, we must have some poses that show people that its CNY period
*no surprise that this comment came from Leecher*

And what's CNY without gambling? We went to Ivy's place for a CNY gathering on 10 Feb 08. Played "in-between" and guess who ends up walking away with this pool of money?

It's Shou Jun (Jancy's son) who happens to be the youngest player in the group.

Posing with his winnings ...

Sweeping the money to his side and into his pockets. He is so cute!

Dennis decided that its time he whipped out some dishes to celebrate this CNY period. Here's the Japanese curry:

Sotong balls (prepared by auntie)

Yusheng

Chawanmushi (prepared by Valencia)

And the chefs behind all the spread:

While the chefs are busy in the kitchen, here we are enjoying ourselves with Mahjong+ cam-whoring, opps!

And this cat has been with Leecher for 3 consecutive games. Doesn't he knows that I don't like cats (since I am born in the year of the rat)?

Finally, its time to eat. We must lo hei first to usher in a HUAT year!

While waiting to clear the table, its time to cam-whore again...

The whole entourage of friends who turn up

Leecher + Auntie

Loving couple - Bernice + Marcus

Ai Li+ Betsy+ Valencia

Finally, me!

After the meal, its time for dessert - fruit punch (think so)

Lastly, I had to end the mahjong game by paying for everyone, cuz I throw out a tile which let Ai Li game "man-tai". Haiz, though this year is my year, but I seriously cannot gamble... Its okie, hope that everyone had a FUN CNY!

My New Baby

Today marks the arrival of my new baby ....

Presenting to you - LV Tivoli PM

Loving it totally! This would not be possible without Leecher :)

And finally, i finished my Elizabeth Arden 5th Avenue Perfume and decided on using Chanel No. 5.


Wonderful buys to kick off the start of CNY! Have a great CNY everyone. Leecher and I will be back with more pictures, provided we remember to bring dent dent out for CNY-visiting :P