Cookie weekend

Spend my weekend baking at Cheryl’s place. I tell you, I finally understand why those Christmas decorated cookie outside cost a bomb ($7-10 for 1). It’s becos it is hard work to make them so pretty. I finally had a taste of how difficult and tiring just so to decorate even 1 cookie. Haha… Cheryl was saying, the people she gave these to, had better be the people she love most. Haha.

The demo class I took at shermay cooking school 2 weeks ago. These are some of the designs she taught us.

Our hard work …. Still have to spend another weekend just to decorate them…

That is Bess! My cutie!!! And she’s so smart, she can actually response when you call her name. She will give u a “mieww”. I am serious, so far the only cat that does tat loh!

Lin's wedding

.... the beautiful bride... Lin.
.... the jie mei-s

Cupcakes

I was on a cupcake craze suddenly and so I spend my last weekend baking.

Lime cupcakes with lime pastry cream top with Meringue Frosting

Moonlight Resonance

Over the past 3 weeks.... I have been madly chasing Moonlight Resonance! I simply love HK dramas.  

Run Tricia run!

I finally made an effort to jog yesterday ….. after 15 years. Haha…. No kidding.

Was persuaded by my colleague who runs marathon and does triathlon. So he was my instructor to pace me for the run, teaching me how to breathe in and out and how fast to breathe. Hehe… so I jog like for 20 mins non-stop, and in a damn slow pace I think…. Cos it was probably 3km plus. But the scenery was good.. . but I guess at that state for me, I cant really appreciate much. Haha….

It’s a milestone to me…. Hope I have the effort to do more of it… :)

Day 1 of 18

Ed will be away for reservist for the coming 3 weeks…. And the worst part of it all is that he is in Thailand. Gosh why do they need to send him so far? Ok today is day ONE and EIGHTEEN more days to go… …

My first cheongsam

Attended my mentor’s wedding today and dressed in my very first Cheongsam! I made one abt 2 months back actually specially for Lin’s wedding next month. (She had a theme call Shanghai Bling), so there I went with a very good valid excuse for myself to make a cheongsam. :) Gals, we are good at justifying our spending.


My big boss brought me to this shop in Tanjong Pagar. Apparently they specialist in making cheongsam and they have many one off the ranks pieces. I looked around and spotted a Off-white piece which I felt instantly in love with the material. (I like the rose in-print, all off-white) So I selected that piece and made a major overhaul. I wanted a model cheongsam, so I had the tailor modified to cut a hole behind making it bareback! Haha.






So to make my spending more worth I wore it to my mentor’s wedding yesterday.


Ok back to the wedding, which I was supposed to talk about. …

It was fun. A pity that we didn’t take a company shot together. 2 of my other colleagues gave the couple a surprised performance. KG played the guitar and YC sang and made the couple dance on stage… It was so sweet and touching.

The highlight of the wedding was we all went up to the couple’s room for some “games”… it was one of the most happening one I attended so far. The games they plotted, were like first hand R-rated in a all dress-up way! Haha… it almost closed to simulated sex play.

Juicing

I am doing the juicing thing again, this time with my mentor. But will only be for 2 days max since we have brown bag lunch on Fri follow by dinner with colleagues at Brown Sugar. Not sure how I can tahan till then. As usual I am hallucinating about food… not yet but soon I guessed.

Bus 531 Time 6:20PM

Yesterday was my first bus trip with ed in Singapore! It was one of those rare occasion where I left work at 6pm! So I told ed that I will be catching the express bus home and he was so sweet to meet me at Suntec convention to try the bus out with me. :)

More fireworks...

Ed bought me to Marina South on Saturday to catch the fireworks. The view from there surprisingly seems good. Kind of wasted that I din bring along my camera but only managed to snap few lousy shots with my hp….

Btw i m not the type that will go see fireworks, I’m not the very romantic sort. He’s more of such than me.

While waiting for the fireworks…

Princess Pinkie has found love…..

Princess Pinkie has found love…..
Should be seeing more of her prince charming soon………………..

Up in the Flyer...again

This is my 3rd trip up the Singapore Flyer. My very first was Valentine this year with ed, 2nd was a company event, and 3rd... was today! ed had 2 complimentary champagne trip, so we planned this months ahead just so it is NDP Preview... jus to catch the fireworks... :)

My day

Ed bought me to Au Petit Salut. He had wanted to go back to Au Jardin, just like last year but we tot we wanted to try something different.

He choose the alfresco dinning which occupied the first floor of the three-storey building at Harding Road. Red brick wall at the back of the interior dining area, adorned its mascots from Holland Village; portraits of two French maidens. The dark wood finish and white walls combination of the interior exudes a sophisticated yet homely, warm ambience.

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Amuse Bouche
1st Entrée
Cold lobster cannelloni with baby salad leaves, White balsamic dressing

2nd Entrée
Foie gras de canard poêlé au vinaigre de Xeres

Pan-seared duck foie gras served with baby spinachred onions and Xeres vinegaror Selle d'agneau aux parfums de Provence

Main
Filet de boeuf à l’echallotesPan-seared beef tenderloin served with shallots confit and mashed potatoor

and me... 

Filet de daurade royale de l’Atlantique au four Oven baked Atlantic Royal seabream served with “ratatouille” and tomato coulis

Desserts

Poire tiède rôtie et Fourme d’Ambert affinée

Warm roasted pears and melted Fourme d’Ambert cheese yellow frisée salad, raisin, figs and walnuts

Overall the celebration was good. Food is good except for the main course which was a little disappointing (I took the seabream). Ed was also very disappointed with the service. He had given specific instructions when making reservations, for them to bring me a piece of cake during dessert. But it was forgotten. :) haha…. :P

Anyway I had my birthday cake when I’m back home… my dear bro bought it for me… so sweet.

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May all my dreams come

Happy Birthday…. to me :)









Today I felt so love…. By many friends…. So happy and thanks everyone for their wishes…









My kaki drew this for me, so touched!! :)

Dinner @ Sage

So I finally went to Sage, and thanks to my princess pinkie. She celebrated my birthday for me and the dinner was simply goooooddd…. Like I say, picture paints a thousand words…

We had the 6 course degustation.

As usual my fav was the Foie Gras.

Pan-seared duck foie gras on pear and walnut chutney,Muscat poached fig with spiced port wine glaze

... and finally I get to have a taste of "black pig"... simply melt in your mouth!

packed away

Was digging thru my stuff just now, trying to help a colleague to find a cd for her wedding.... came upon some old stuff that i packed away for a long time.  some things tat i packed away wanting to just forget it all... these are the things i never want to see but each time i happened to see them, i cant helped but relook at it.  just like the dvd, i will so tempted to play and have a look at it again.  haha... woman, some men will say, are jus so contradicting.

Not that i missed those days or i haven't gotten over it.  I think i did pretty well to be wat i am today.  I think it is just that it was a part of me that i can never just pull away.  i can packed or throw away those pics or disc but it was already a part of me... that explains mayb somehow i never bear to discard.  Bad memories they may be, but maybe i am just the sort to hold on to all the beautiful ones as well. 

I am happy now, happy that i have done well and have managed to still find trust and be happy again.

Chef Ed

Ed's friend bought foie gras and so we were invited over to dr ang's hse for pot luck...

besides my fav foie gras, we had roast duck, home made baked buns, 6 types of cheese, champagne grapes, japanese udon and ofcos their fav white, red and dessert wine ...

there... the chef Ed at work... hehehe... oh the foie gras is yummy!!!

View from my desk

I see this every other day, but somehow the view always looks better on a weekend.  haha. non work day perhaps?  ... back at work on a Sat morning 9am!  I tot the clouds looks beautiful.

My ambition

Lately I suddenly have an ambition. I want to be a receptionist!

Ofcos besides being the most qualified (in paper and in experience) receptionist ard, I would also be the best “screener” . I’m sure I will successfully screened away all calls from headhunters! Besides being the most POWER recep, I would also be a free lance trainer for other companies.

Topic:
The importance of a receptionist in your organization (Part 1)
Knowing who is calling (Part 2)
Screening the caller (Part 3)

Best of all, I can happily log-out at 5pm sharp and transfer all calls to the voice box!

Email of the day

I was totally shocked to receive the email today after lunch.... it says...

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Dear all
Pls note the following award holders for Q2 08:

Top AC Award - Ivan Tan

Top PC Award - Tricia Chang

The Top 10 consultants ranking for Q2 08 is displayed on the notice board at the pantry
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I was shocked beyond words… ofcos happy that the efforts I had put in the past month have paid off…. Definitely a good encouragement. :)