Luncheon@NUSS

This place has been around for the longest time but this is our virgin visit to this restaurant which is secretly located on the 5th Floor of Suntec Tower 4.


Koko’s hubby is a member of NUSS and heard from him that it’s a club known in NUS and many students signed up to be members so that they can use the club facilities. In the Suntec branch, they are able to get discounted rate when they join the fitness club and use the swimming pool too.

Anyway, this restaurant served many different types of food. We each ordered a dish and I was shocked by the generous portion when it was served. My char kuay teow can be shared by at least 2 or 3 pax… I got to say this… it tasted very GOOD! Thumps up!

Unfortunately, Jerrel told us that this restaurant will be moving out soon as they were unable to get to terms on the renewal contract. Anyway, thank you for bringing us there.

In-house Training

Our old fashion office finally decided to upgrade our Microsoft Office 2003 to Office 2010 and our email system Loutus Notes to Outlook after so many decades! I am really surprised that this ‘branded’ company can be so super ‘SLOW’ upgrading their software!


The IT Dept. kindly organized a training session for all staff and I attended with my buddies today. The training commenced from nine in the morning and should end around five this evening. To be honest, I am somehow quite excited to find out how they have improved for Office 2010. As usual, I was seated with my 2 partner-in-crime and feeling fresh in the morning with 2 interesting topics – Word & Excel. I thought they have improved quite a bit though the page outlook is different.

After luncheon, we returned to the conference room for the 2nd half session. This time, they touched on Pivot Table which was so boring and it was something that I have never heard of! It was found somewhere in the excel and it helped you with graphs and others (sorry… I can’t remember already). I was trying to stay awake as it will be too embarrassing to doze off…

I was somehow awake after the short break and gotten excited over the topic on Powerpoint. This would be my favorite in Microsoft Office. I was really thrilled to see so many interesting stuff you can do using powerpoint. There are so many cool functions and including inserting video into the presentations. Super COOL!

Finally, the instructor touched a little on our upcoming Outlook email systems by just explaining to us some of the basic stuff. It had gotten too dry as we were unable to view it on our PC as we are still using Lotus Notes. It became so dull that I had a hard time keeping my eyes opened… yes, I almost gave up… I tried to keep myself awake by taking pix of my buddies so that we can keep each other awake.., hahaahah… and that worked! WE PULLED THROUGH!

We became super awake and fresh when he gave out our certificates… we graduated!!

Wonderful Sunday

I was happy to receive the bread mould which I ordered last week and I waited till today to use it. I prepared some bread for little Faith as snacks since she can be quite noisy and cranky during luncheon. I spread the bread with nutella chocolate.


When she saw the cute little bread, she was very happy and excited to eat them. She used to dislike bread as they were quite plain and she only eats butter roll. I was glad that she finished them within minutes and asking for more. She even gave a thumps up for them…hahahaha

While shopping at Tampines Mall, she noticed that there were some rides along on almost every level and wanted to ride on it. Well, we obviously will not deprive her on that as that’s what kids do. We gave her the freedom to choose the rides and she being a Sesame Street fan, she chose it without any hesitation.

On our way home, she was asking for some bread but her lunch box was empty. I was surprised that she requested muffins and having to satisfy her crave, I went to get some flour and chocolate chips for baking. It did not take me much time to bake those muffins and yes, she loved them.

I would say this is one well spent outing with our little angel. Thank God for the blessings.

Dinner Outing With The Girls

I always enjoy spending time with my buddies as we do not meet as often compared to our younger days… Okie… not that we are OLD but now that we have families to take care of, there are lesser chance for me to meet.


Thanks to Threz who organized a dinner gathering tonight at Din Tai Fung. This is one of the restaurants that we love to hang out for their good food. We met at the restaurant and we were lucky that they accepted our reservation.

We placed our orders immediately when we sat down and the dishes were served pretty quickly as it wasn’t crowded! To be honest, I wasn’t sure what my friends ordered as I only requested for 2 of my favourite dishes…

When the dishes started serving at our table, I was really shocked to realise how much food we have ordered. However, we managed to clear all the dishes on our table including a complimentary dessert.

The complimentary dessert was the chocolate red bean paste xiao long bao. Initially, I was feeling with disgust by the description… but when the small bun arrived at our table, it looked really cute and I decided to give it a try since it was FOC. The bun was freshly steamed upon order and the first bite was heavenly… from someone who dislikes chocolates & red bean!

With that dessert, we suddenly went mad! It turned back the clock to the Old School days where we loved to use the chocolate to act as our tooth decay… it was hilarious and in fact, GONE MAD!! I guessed the patrons in the restaurant might think we were drugged!

This is one of the reasons why I enjoyed every outing with my buddies coz’ the outing always left us with fond memories. Love you guys! Thanks Threz for the wonderful arrangements! Till then… better sober up… haaahahahha

Gathering At Angela’s House

We are honoured to be invited to join the warm housing cum moon cake festival gathering at Angela’s new nest.


It was a cloudy afternoon when we arrived at her beautiful house. The apartment is quite new and very expensively located near Siglap area. When we reached a unit, we were truly taken by the view from her hall and how beautiful her place was. I was totally blown away by the private pool which is right at outside her ‘balcony’.

 Her house was fantastically near the main pool and the gym was like a stone throw away! This is a total DREAM HOUSE man… I was so taken away by the surroundings that I forgotten that some of my friends were actually playing mahjoing in one of her rooms.

After greeting them, we brought Faith to the poolside to sit and hang out with Koko’s daughter. Faith seemed to be comfortable with Koko’s children. I was happy that she was able to mix around with jie jie & kor kor… while the kids went back to the house, Faith wanted to sit at the poolside to play water… and accidentally fell into the pool…Thank God it was only half the body was wet otherwise… we might have to leave asap…

After drying her, we thought it would be safer to stay in-door instead. We noticed that she was happily chilling out with the big sister & brother… sitting by their side checking what they were doing on their iphones.

We were happy that she was being friendly as she allowed the uncles & aunties to carry her at least for a couple of minutes. She enjoyed the gathering as much as we do.

Besides this beautiful apartment and it's surroundings, we also witnessed the largest dog...I would say that it was my very first time seeing such a HUGE dog!! Just a few steps away from their main door, their neighbour (ABC family) kept a HUGE dog... which I can't even recall the breed... it did not seem to be big when it was lying down on the floor but when we walked near to the house talking to the owner, it suddenly stood up and man... I thought it was a horse that they kept!!!

Thank you Angela for your warm invitation & hospitality!

Moon Cake Festival

Wanted to bring Faith down for a lantern walk about but after checking the situation at void deck and the playground, we decided stay at home.


Hubby saw many kids playing ‘fire works’ at the playground and it was kind of smoky due to the ‘fire works’. Most of them are kiddos around the ages of 7-13. Though there were some children around Faith’s age but hubby thought it was too dangerous…

So, in order not to deprive her of celebrating this festival, I decided to switch off all the lights in the house and lighted up her lantern. She was overjoyed and started her own ‘walk about’ around the house. She started from the hall and walked to the kitchen, the rooms and then finally she waved at her ‘friends’ (stuffed toys) on the side sofa.

Though she did not manage to hang out with the other kids but we were glad that she enjoyed the walk about in the house…

Our Little Aunty!

Whenever we go for grocery shopping, our little Faith would want to share our burden on our ‘damages’. Most of the time, we will tell her that the stuff we brought are too heavy for her but this time, she insisted that she wanted to help.


We sort of re-packed some of the stuff we bought and handled the lightest bag. She was overjoyed and she told it very seriously! She acted as if it was so heavy that she put the plastic bag over her shoulder and gave out a ‘sigh’ as she walked towards our home.

While I was following behind her, I asked her if she is doing well and she replied ‘I can mama, Tabi is hold-ding bag bag’ and gave out another ‘sigh’… I totally GIDDS!

When we arrived home, she put the bag on the kitchen floor and happily smiled at me. She wanted to continue helping us to unpack the stuff but we stopped her of course as there were eggs and other stuff in the bags…

That’s our little kind helper at home…*winks*