weekends splendid.

i am back! for a mini update.

so the thing with working means heading to town to relax for the weekend.
well, staying at home seems the last thing on my mind, especially when work is alr so mentally stressed. heading out to relax and breathe in fresh air seems the next logical thing to do.

go around HM, go to F21, go to random shops for window shopping.

basically, as much as i loathe gg to town.
but there is really nth i can do leh?

except to go for window shopping, catch a movie, eat dinner at our favorite restaurant.
and the day is gone just like that.

oh, not to mention, a hole in the wallet cause we went out that weekend. LOL.

usually Saturdays are meant to be town roaming days.
Sundays are bean curd making at my house and running at the park with XX.

yup, my weekends are usually planned out and scheduled.

attended XX's relatives wedding.




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ice cream to remind me life is still sweet, so lets slow down our pace and breathe, eat and enjoy what we are having.

i really like the ice cream cone! i love the biscuit.




tea time!
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OTD.


i used at least one yr to remove most of the scars on my cheeks. its a long and painful process. i am glad and grateful for auntie's magical hands.

the nightmare finally ended. extraction is mega painful and i feel like dying.
lets hope pimples stay away from me.



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headed to town on friday.

oh boy, makeup less makes me look so pale. LOL.
totally no colour on the cheeks sia.

anyway, say hello to my holy grail blazer!

TCL colour blockbuster blazer in white, size S
ASOS lace dress in burgundy.






decided to eat ramen for dinner that night! ramen is my next favourite food.

soup that used hours after hours to brew into a bowl of yummylicious creamy, porky essence broth.
noodles that are springy.
eggs with the yellow yolk oozing out.

life is awesome.
grateful to eat. happy to eat food that i like, relieved to find and enjoy quality food.

Daikokuya ramen at Paragon.






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attended class on Saturday morning before i roam around in town. super shiok to attend class in the morning to kick start the day right! exercise to burn, then head off for awesome brunch, relax by catching a movie, destress by shopping.

(actually, shopping can be v stress de leh. you stress if you should buy this or that. i sinned at F21 for a leather jacket ytd. LOL)

sweat it all out! then you go for brunch with an empty stomach, enjoying all the food. HAHAHA.
since i am gg to town anyway, might as well use the time to enjoy my bikram first.

Ohvola Crochet Fresco top in white, Size M   
Love, Bonito Miranda Skirt in Cobalt, Size S 




love my outfit!
did i like say, i saw a girl who wore the exact same ohvola crochet top as me, wearing a blue bottom when i turned my head while using the escalator? we went to the same theatre for breaking dawn movie too! LOL.

what are the chances???
HAHAH.

nvm, both of us have got taste. the top looks very pretty on her!



thats our only photo with the Christmas tree this yr. HAHA. i shall go take more! ^^


say hello to my new flats i bought from Taiwan! i opened ceremony for my flats and crochet top.


decided to have Dean and Decula for bunch!
i always wanted to try their red velvet cake. it was sold out the last time i went there.
i finally got my chance ytd!

The cream chesse is a tad sweet. but there are hardly any red velvet cakes available in town!! anyone has any recommendations? maybe i should just head to PS cafe for my favourite carrot cake. LOL.

Red velvet cake
 

Sauteed Brioche French Toast with Caramelised Bananas.

this dish is really meant for sharing. nvm abt the potion, the Sauteed Brioche French Toast is really awesome on the first bite, its crisp, v slight crunchy.

but, the fact that its mixed with caramelised sauce makes the entire dish a little too overwhleming to finish it by its own.

therefore, i suggest you share the dish! my first toast taste really good. the second toast is making me full and the third toast just makes me sick. LOL. i am so relieved XX is there to help me finish the food. LOL.

but, i really like this though! its an awesome dish for the sweet tooth.
i shall admit that i have double standards for all things sweet. LOL.
 

The thick slices of Brioche consist of a layer crushed cornflakes to give the crunchy bite.
i like how the cold vanilla ice cream is served with the hot Brioche! hot meets cold is heavenly.

fresh berries added for your dose of antioxidants. did i say berries is my next favourite fruit? usually its 2 boxes per week.

maybe it would be better if they cut the amt of sugar used in the dish. LOL.


i am happy to see food. i am sooooooooooooooooo hungry!!!

Movie outfit to combat the cold!
its my favourite blazer to date. absolutely nth can threaten to rock its position in my heart. LOL. love the cut and material!



wrote my wishes on the balloon.


and XX was so lazy, he merely wrote, same same. O.O
my eyes were literally rolling.

how can he be that lazy????


and because life is sweet. and shall remain sweet.
 ice cream serves as a reminder to remind us that fact.

lets all stay happy k! there is no pt making your life so bitter.


meetup with friends for Christmas shopping!




and er, the 4 of us bought the exact same present. HAHAHA.
thats v epic indeed.

and dinner is,
predictable.

hello ramen! we met again!
pls tell me why veron cant stay away from you??

but i was so full from my toast and ice cream, i cant finish my ramen and gave everything to XX. HAHA. having a rubbish bin like bf is essential in life to ensure there is no food wastage.


i like black ramen for a dose of garlic.
XX like red ramen for a dose of chili.
what kind of ramen is your favourite?


how did you spend your Saturday!!

Keisuke Tokyo Ramen at Millenia Walk

as i pen down this entry, i realised i ate the ramen 2 weeks ago. OH GOD. dont ask me where on earth did my time fly to, cause i have no idea. i blame it solely to my work. as always, i am tired and sleepy after work.

nvm, i don really like the ramen anyway!! so, its not worth mentioning it off first hand. HAHAHA.
and pui, this awful ramen was meant to be a treat for XX's commencement of work the coming Monday. 

its Fridays again! and Fridays are meant to roam around in town searching for good food. it is said to be truly the king of Japanese ramen broth.

but, i dont get all the raves abt this shop!!!! 0.O

there are two Keisuke shops in Singapore – Keisuke Tokyo Ramen at Millenia Walk and Keisuke Tonkotsu King at Orchid Hotel. apparently, the standards of the Millenia Walk branch pales in comparison with the tanjong pajar branch. pls pls, go to the tanjong pajar branch. LOL.

i shall head to tanjong pajar to try the legendary ramen where everyone claimed to be authentically delicious one day. until i tried it myself, else it will remain as a claim. afterall, the branch failed me terribly.

i have tried so many different ramen in Singapore throughout the yrs alr. i trust my own taste buds to determine which suits me best. LOL.

with severely overcooked pork bones, i thought i saw a pig in front of me. not my XX of course. but a real pink pig. oh god. sense the pain. for the first time in my life, i actually detest ramen with such strong pork after taste. LOL. it was too rich, too overwhelming, i thought it was sickening and puke inducing.

Copied this detail from a review:
1.Soup base : original, spicy and peppery
2.Taste of the soup : light, normal and strong
3.Chicken oil : less, normal and more
4.Noodle texture : soft, normal and hard
5.Prices : $10.80 to 15.80 depends on ingredients
6.Diner can opt out some ingredients like spring onion, black fungus and char siew
7.Soup and noodle can be refilled with $2 each
8.Marinated bean sprouts and boiled egg are free flow. (free boiled egg only apply to tanjong pajar branch)

this is free flow. which i don think its very nice. LOL.




no, i am not exaggerating. i didnt even order the strong taste soup. i ordered the normal taste soup. and it turned out to be a disaster. apparently, Japanese must really really like strong porky bone essence taste.

full of collagen.

look at how OPAQUE  the soup is. its opaque. i cannot see through. full of pork. pls imagine a pig there. HAHAHAHA. to me, its too thick, too flavourful, too milky, too salty.

nvm, the fragrance egg didnt managed beat my tampopo standard. this is fail egg. LOL. its not soft and flowly enough.

While I may have preferred the noodles and special char siew over at Marutama, and the tamago at Tampopo, soup base at the paragon ramen (i forgot the name of the shop!)

i am sorry to say but this is the worst of the lot. LOL. it painful eating this. waste my $$. T.T


this is the unique, unusual, non conventional crab based broth.
its so fishy, i see a fish there. i literally, almost puked. OH GOD. this is my worst ramen experience.

even sliced fish soup is not as fishy.


no, i swear i am not exaggerating.

nvm, i shall try the tanjong pajar branch, where everyone is raving.
no one rave abt the millenia branch.
that must be the reason why the restaurant is kind of empty on friday night.
or is it due to F1? no, i choose to believe its due to the sucky broth. LOL.






p/s: oh god at my tummy. T.T


 as usual, my friday will always end with sth sweet for my tastebuds.
simply because fridays are sweet.

with my favourite must order yuzu ice cream and a new flavour at tom platte, Asian tea.
i don like milky ice cream. (:






as sweet way to end XX's last friday nigth of being unemployed.

i shall end here.
enjoy the start of the week!

i shall head out for my run soon! the rain is getting smaller.
WEE!

Girlfriend outings. (:

ok. this entry is supposed to be up long ago, but i have other entries to post, so it got pushed back.

in fact, girlfriends meetup like this should be made monthly, cause it chase my working blues and downs away. HAHAHA. i swear its medicinal tool for happiness and joy to tide you through work. its so damn effective, i am in all smiles at work. HAHAHA.

p/s: why my hair look like this!! LOL.


dinner at red pig.


and honestly, i don know what is so nice with red pig. i don think the marinated meat is very fantastic and its not cheap at all. i have no idea how all those raving food reviews come abt.


each plate cost at $20. and each person has to order a plate each.
they forced you to order, but you don have a choice anyway, cause the potion for each plate isnt very big.


side dishes!!

seriously, if my table got 4 person, how can there be only 3 slices of egg! LOL.
egg are non refillable!!

the tofu is fab though. (:

kimchi and vege for detox!


all in all, the bill sum up to be $167.
very ex for 7 ppl, when there are not a lot of meat present in the first place.

of course, if there are quality to the meat, price is justified. but apparently, it failed my taste buds terribly, and i will not head there again. LOL. i think i have far nicer food at a lower price. and this is just ridiculous with the price i paid. LOL.

 HAHAHA. i am really not trying to be mean, but the food just doesnt appeal to me. maybe you will like it. but i hate it. i have picky taste buds and the weirdest sense of taste.

head over to a cafe called shots at ann siang hill.
a very quiet chill out place for desserts or girly talks.


its a cafe that serves mostly coffee and cakes .
i ordered a cup of hot hazelnut latte! so nice pls.


and the best thing abt the cafe? they make some really awesome coffee art!!
check this out!





i cant bear to drink my coffee. HAHA.
seems a waste to destory the master pc. LOL.

don you think its a piece of art!! ^^
i left the cafe telling the lady, "hello!! YOU MAKE SOME REALLY AWESOME COFFEE ART!!!"

i hope i made her day. her efforts paid off.

love this shot i took for LH!! so young!!


and this shot reminds me of how we pass each other the online loots cause we camp for one another.
so the next natural thing we did; everyone started trying the items to see the fit before deciding if we should hunt the item down.

HAHAHA. damn epic pls.

the toilet is ma chiam ours. LOL.

ended with night with happy spirits.
say yeah to more girlfriend outings like these!!

so fun and its totally therapeutic to the mind. heh.

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next gf outing that taken place last week!

there is hardly a ramen restaurant that nails down to being my favourite. cause i am so picky with my food. HAHAHA.

no, ippudo is not my favourite ramen restaurant..

there are a few that makes the list, and Marutama Restaurant is one of them. Chef wee brought Yiting and i here 3 yrs ago and i like this ever since. its authentic ramen.




i have no idea what is the name of this restaurant i visited 3 yrs ago.
i called it the ramen restaurant with a basketball icon.

fel said, "its a basketball icon with a mole."
HAHAHA.

this is so funny.

there are only 3 kinds of ramen.
normal base, normal spicy base or the vegetable base?? not much variety.




ramen FTW!

ordered extra porky. OMG. the fatty meat that melts in your mouth. SO NICE. its divine.
give me this nowwww.

its the sinful, full of cholesterol, fatty, melt-in-your-mouth slices of braised pork belly known as chashu that makes me a really happy girl. heh. lets just close 2 eyes, forget abt health and indulge. life's awesome.

its so tender and moist. full of fat, so its full of collagen, good for woman. heh.


no, i am not exaggerating!! NO!!
-sense YT and Val mocking at me now-

OMG. so nice laaaaaaaaaaaa.

DO YOU FEEL LIKE EATING ALR!!!
HAHAH,

$6


extra chashu pork that is in your ramen. $4


pork dumplings!


i nv ordered this dish before, but i think this is very nice. but MH say the standard kind of dropped.

a thick and creamy broth; there is no short cut, only produced by simmering hours after hours of chicken bones and ribs to extract the essence.(its chicken based soup, so i reckoned its chicken bones?)

the broth got so flavourful and rich, which also make the broth ridiculously thirsty as well. probably due to the msg added in for the added flavour.

else the soup wont be so nice de la. lets face it, its the MSG era.

i like the ramen that is full of fragrance vegetables!! some may not like it though!

all of us added an extra egg. but fel didnt like egg yolk, so she offered me the extra egg yolk!

like a sun!!

i thought the egg is slightly overcooked, cause the yolk didnt gush out with you remove it from the egg white!!

but, once the membrane is pieced through, all the yolk high cholesterol awesome-ness is out.

done with dinner and we head off for desserts!!
there is always, ALWAYS room for desserts in my dictionary.
heh.

shoes present for the day!! and i am the only one in flats. BOO!!
shortie is me. XD


and we went to haato!! its my favourite ice cream shop for black sesame.


but we ordered sth different that day! green tea and cookie and cream.

a tub of awesome-ness. cost abt $12 per tub for 500ml, which is very worth it for 5 person. cause if  we were to order individually, it will probably cost $20 for 5 cups of ice cream. of course, that will mean, we only have 2 flavours for such a big tub. HAHAH.

still worth it to order a tub though!

ordered waffles as well. oh-so-nice!!

so thick and fluffy!! awesome. heh.

and then, we got high with the extra lightings trying to brighten/perfect the photo in the dark
HAHAHAHA.


photos from MH camera!




ending off with photos of us!




lets cheers to everlasting friendship!
still feeling awesome and amazed by the friendship made through online shopping.