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. :)

2 more weeks to closing...

It's sat, and here i am back at work. Kept telling myself, it's only 2 weeks more to July... which also means I have 2 more weeks to complete my 2 assignment I have on hand. Can't imagine ... Well, just have to do it. I am so looking forward to July.

Winning story

It’s again the time of the year to hear wedding bells coming up soon in the next few months...

Got a msg from a fre today announcing his wedding date. I asked him what was his winning story... his replied...

“...just that i think she is someone who can more or less accommodate my many flaws without getting too upset too often. it's a formula i tot should work well for me.”

Pretty well said. I think it is very true.

No one is perfect, there will never be a perfect someone, more importantly it is how you love the person you found. Actually wat he said may sound very simple but there is depth to it. It’s not easy actually to have someone to be able to accommodate each other and in a way compliment each other.

breakups

Found a lost friend 2 weeks back thru facebook... (amazing how friends sudden pop back up from non where....), anywaz i lost contact with RT when he got married and went back to msia for a while.  A long while I remb.... The shocking news came when he told he that he is now separated.  I was totally speechless.... not that it really surprises me anymore nowadays, but it is always those very stable couples (at least in people's eyes) that split.  

Last week I heard 3 breakups. the other 2 were also quite surprised.  One resulting to annulment and the other thankfully not married, so less complication....

so sad....

My lucky day

11 may 2008.  my lucky day!! hehehehehehe....

..... Plus, my happy 9th mth with ed.

Work day

The past 1 week was a bliss. As in able to leave work on time, spend some having dinner with ed at the right timing.
Note: my dinner (if any at all at times) timing has been so erratic. Most nites i worked passed 9pm, so it’s supper more likely than dinner.

I tell ed that I am enjoying my pass one week and soon it will end when my new assignment start.

One year @ Artery

Wow it has been a year since I first met ed at Artery with lao shi. How time flies... hahah... that was the blog I remb writing after that outing, and that the “friend” lao shi brought along was ed.
http://happybunnylaughter.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-teacher.html

Who knows that outing turns out to be more drinks session and some dinners over the next few weeks and months.... and it kind of still amazes me as to how it suddenly turned out that we could end up together! Haha. Not that he is not my type, but it was more of I never thought he had a thing for me, and he seems to like his singlehood so much that I never could have guessed that he will ever be attached. Well, maybe this is fate?

But overall I have to say that ed is such a dear....

Dream

I dreamt of papa... he came to say good bye to me.  so real! 

The greatest man in my life

It had been a year since papa left to a more peaceful place.  4th april 2007.  I really hate that day till now and often i  felt that life is so unfair, having to take away something so precious in my life.  He taught and shown me what is real love...and that real love does exist, it is in the family.  he had also shown us that love is giving without asking anything in return.  The unconditional love that he showered to everyone and esp his wife and kids.  

one year, and yet it seems like it was just yesterday.  the pain of losing someone so dear is still so fresh.  that day sis was packing and she came across a slip of email that i had written to pa abt my thesis when i was in UK and how he had helped me redraft certain parts of it, she kept it and gave it to me and said, "tot u might want to have this."  I took one look at it and that instance, every bit of my feelings for pa just came rushing back, tears filled my eyes instantly and i cried and i knew i couldn't read on.  i kept that piece of email without finishing it.  i knew i wasn't ready to face it.  I wasn't ready too today when i went to his tomb.  i told pa, my greatest regret is not telling him, how great a father he had been to us, how much i love him.   it wasn't his last few weeks that i said i love him.  but it wasn't enough.  

Papa thank you for your guidance and love.  you're the greatest dad and i am so glad to be ur daughter.  

Drunk

Ed came home drunk today after entertaining some taiwanese guest.  Lao shi called and told me to take care of him, but i couldn't cos i was still working in the office, and tat time was already 1130pm.  i was so pissed, cos i am already swamped and this is not something that i want to deal with at the moment.  I was also feeling sad that i couldn't take care of him and felt so helpless.  

lucky that silly boy still managed to make it home and puke downstairs before making his way up.  (and i found out much later that he probably slept downstair for a while before making his way up).  thank god he was fine, otherwise i would have felt so guilty for not been there.  

sigh wat a day it was.  by the time i got home, it was already 1 am +.  slept for few hrs and went for my early morning presentation at client's place.  i dont know how i managed to survived thru.  so glad it was finally over.  sigh... and more to come maybe.  

ed is really the sweetest....  supporting me, ok... only the drunk part which i had "let off my stream" liao. haha....

swampeddddd........

I'm so swamped with work.  Left the office at 10pm.  For now I cant imagine how bad next week would be.  It's a critical 1.5week for me next.  my head might just rolled next week and i might just die a horrible death. sob.  I just have to keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best :P

Lost - day 1

sense of emptiness.  sense of missing something terribly.....   something just not rite.  Oh dear... i hope thursday come by quickly!