Photoshop-ed...

Thanks a million to the Japanese Make-up artist especially flown in for the event....

Happy Mother's Day cum 60th Birthday...

5 of us altogether - Mum, her bf, bro, guppy and me... We celebrated my mum's Birthday cum Mother's Day last night at Peach Garden @ 33 (OCBC Centre, #33-01, Singapore...)

Main dining hall was packed.. The other smaller private rooms were packed.. And thank goodness, as per my request, they reserved my table in a bigger private room, with about 6 - 7 tables and only 4 tables taken (including ours).. No noisy children, no crying babies, and we were pampered right from the start to the end..

View from the top...

The interior display in one of the private rooms which we were in...

Sou Dou

(Yummy!! the filling isn't too hot and its sweetness is just right...)

Fried Crispy Golden Prawn w Shredded Potato and Bacon rolled with Scallop in Wasabi Sauce

(Bacon and scallop is a winner in this combination.. the wasabi sauce is just right.. doesn't give you the "shoot to your nostrils kinda effect".. the bacon is crispy and the scallop wasn't overcooked.. The prawns, fresh and cripsy with a nice wrap around "towel" of shredded potato..)

Peking Duck

(The pancake skin is totally different from the ones available in other restaurants.. i can taste the flour - not too stuffed out with flour and a has a little sweetness to it.. The Peking Duck's skin, non-oily and crispy to the last bit.. A Thumbs Up!!)

Double boiled Superior Shark's Fin with Bamboo Pith in Traditional Chicken Broth

(Extremely generous pieces of shark's fin.. thick soup base.. not salty and sooo slurpy yummy good!! A hit with the elders..)

Pan Fried Maggie Venison Cubes with Fresh Mushrooms

(Very tender and not over-cooked Venison.. Marinated to the right level & pan fried to the right time.. Omph!)

Steam Fillet of Sea Perch in Teochew Style

(Another winner with the older folks.. Fresh fish and steamed to the right minute.. Perfect!!)

By this time, we were all 3/4 full. And we have some more dishes to go!! Oh my GOSH!!

Stir Fried French Beans with Fried Golden Mushrooms

(Very Yummy!! Simple, yet deliciously fragrant...)

Chang Sou Mien with Shredded Duck Meat and Fresh Mushrooms

(This is Yum Yum too! We all each had a small bite and had to tabao the rest home.. hahaa.. Too much food for the 5 of us..)

Finally, Chilled Water Chestnut...

(Not too sweet, cooling desert after all the heaty food consumed, and created epsecially for mother's day!!)

The food - GOOD!!!

Total cost - S$489.70 (including juices and chinese tea & tibits)

I'm glad my mum, her bf, bro and guppy like the food and the ambience.. And mum was saying, this is the first time I buy her expensive dinner.. Hmmm... That's SOOOooo utterly untrue.. Tsk! Tsk!

And yes, I'm quite their frequent diner... :)

Happy 60th Birthday, Mummy!!

Please proceed to your pick up point...

11:28am:

Missed call displyed on my mobile (96623_ _ _)

11:31am:

Ring Ring (caller id displayed: 64548745)

Me: Hello?

Machine: 3_ _ has arrived. Please proceed to your pick up location. Thank you.

I was blur for a while, but decided to ignore it.

3 seconds later,

11:31am:

Ring Ring (caller id displayed: 96623_ _ _)

Me: Hello?

Male: Hello? Sandra is it?

Me: Huh?

Male: Are you Sandra?

Me: No. You called the wrong number.

Male: Oh! Sorry.

11:32am:

Ring Ring (caller id displayed: 65525046)

Me: Hello?

Girl: Hello? Can I speak to Sandra?

Me: I'm sorry. You've got the wrong number.

Girl: Err, are you in Singapore Land Tower?

Me: My office is in Singapore Land Tower. But I did not call for a cab and I'm not Sandra.

(at that moment, I remembered I do have a colleague named Sandra.)

Me: I have a colleague named Sandra. Let me call her on the office phone and check with her.

Girl: Ok.

Ring Ring

Me: Sandra! Did you call for a Maxicab from Citycab?

Sandra: Yes.

Me: The driver is downstairs now.

Sandra: How you know?

Me: They are calling me on my handphone!

Sandra: They went down already.

Me: ok.

Back to my mobile.

Me: Hello? My colleague Sandra called for the cab. She said they are downstairs already.

Girl: Ok.

Me: Why are you all calling me on my handphone? Sandra called from the office phone. I'm not Sandra and Sandra and Priscilla are totally different names. Something is wrong with your system. Or the person who took her booking took the number down wrongly. Sandra don't even have my handphone number. You should be calling the office number and not my handphone number.

Girl: Ok.

I cut off her line....

I was already fuming and this girl on the line only knows how to say, OK???? What ever happened to, "I'm sorry."??? And what kind of mistake is that to make!!

I spoke to Sandra couple of minutes ago and she said that she called for the cab on her clients behalf. She even gave the operator who took her call her name and Direct Line number, when the operator asked if she's Priscilla.

So, was the operator SLEEPING??

Or is it just the Friday the 13th???

Ka-Ching!!

Had 2 plastic bags worth of $1 coins... Couldn't lug it with me wherever I go.. So, off to the bank I went this morning..

Oooo... the sounds of Ka-Ching are ringing!!!!

Finally...

It was a sunny Sunday. Together with Glen, we met up with Mammie Gracie and proceeded a short walk to our "future"...

We were to start on our 1st baking lesson. I have to thank Mammie Gracie for also having taken an interest in this and signing up together with me for this course.

There is a cafe next door and Guppy would be there logging on to their wireless and playing around with Macky, while waiting for us to finish our lesson and for SiFu Trac to arrive. Oh yes, and not forgetting that they both are to be our guinea pigs / food tasters...

Mammie Gracie & I had plenty of laughs and errrr, there were a couple of times when I was pissed off by the indian lady sharing our table.. (Urggghh.. Thank goodness, I didn't have to partner with her.. Else till No End!! Hahaha..) Hmm.. I'm pretty sure I'm currently in a DO NOT step on my little tiger's tail mood... Else, I'll ROAR... We both had our little hiccups here and there while we were preparing for the Walnut Cake..And it wasn't boring coz we have soo much laughter and fun FUN FUN..

And in the end, we indeed felt happy and accomplised by the end of it..

So, till this coming Sunday................... Happy Eating!!

The School @ Creative...

Creative's Cafe...

Cupcakes...

&

Finally:- Walnut and Marble Cakes...

Quit Quitting Quitted Quitter...

One of the HOT topics of recent weeks :- QUIT SMOKING CAMPAIGN 2007

A friend was telling me the other day about the smoking campaign in downstairs, at Caltex House.

She said that they were mean to use a patient lying on the bed with a doctor and nurses hovering around. I promptly told her that it wouldn't have been a real patient and they were probably just aspiring actors or models.

Well, I saw them just this afternoon. There was indeed a "patient", a "doctor" and several "nurses" hovering around the area at Caltex House. The "nurses" were handling out flyers.

Well I must say that it's a very good brainstorm. Direct advertising.

It would undoubtly scare off the little ones and put an idea of what would and could happen to current smokers. Ponder Ponder... I smoke. Though no longer as heavy as before, ultimately, I still smoke. And I'm sure there are many smokers out there who don't give a hoot about this current advertising. So, yes, I'm gonna be like brushing this off my shoulder. I would quit for myself and not when someone tells me to (directly or not). I have seen someone's (who used to be closed to me) brother die from cancer coz he smoked. How he suffered and how he lived his remaining days. But........... I still smoke.

So, will I stop smoking?? Well, I might. I dunno.... I stopped a couple of times for a year or two. But I picked it up again. It was a poof kind of thingy. I just decided one fine day that I would stop and I just stopped like that. I didn't need any help nor did I speak to anyone about it.

So, for those of you who say that I should stop smoking. Give me time to be ready again. Like how I did for the previous times. :P

My Baby...

Alrighty... This entry is about my little Lhasa Apso pooh, Baby..

Baby doesn't like to eat macaroni.

I was told by Guppy the other day that Baby doesn't like to eat macaroni. I didn't get to see that coz I was out having dinner. She fed her with that and some canned and dried food. And whilst washing up, guppy noticed baby doing a up and down, bowl to newspaper motion. She looked hard and realised that Baby was actually picking up the macaroni from her bowl and placing them all on the newspaper!! Hahaha..

A couple of days later, while I was home and preparing dinner for Baby, I brought out 7 pieces of macaroni and mixed them together with her food. I stood by, patiently awaiting for that motion to come. And come it did!! Hahah.. Baby was sooooo funny!!! She really didn't like macaroni at all and started picking them up one by one, and placing them on the newspaper whilst Carefully licking and eating the rest of her food..

This morning, it was raining heavily. Baby's scared of the rain and would always find somewhere to hide herself.. This morning, while I was still in bed, Guppy got up to get washed up. She woke me and told me that she wanna show me something cute but I can't get angry. Blurry-eyed, I followed Guppy to my bed-room door. She opened it slightly and we saw Baby lying in front of the Earth God together with my mum. And Guppy said Baby was nodding her head together with my mum when she was kowtow-ing. Hahaha......

Baby was praying together with my mum!!!

CUTEeeeeee!!!