Tones of Pink: July 2005

Mum's birthday

Sunday, July 31, 2005

Mum didnt want anything.
She only want to eat the claypot rice and steam fish head in chinatown.
Her wish is our command.

the cheapest birthday dinner for my mum!
haha~

beautiful shoe

i saw a beautiful shoe in c.k tang last nite.
but why must it be sooooo expensive!????

$269.

and this is only one of those beautiful pairs.....

finally arranged to meet sean tonight after trying to meetup for like ...4wks??
we are the kind pple...haha...
so instead of heading town or anywhere else, we always settle for WTC,
bcos he would have NE line to take after our dismissal.
it's so comforting to noe that there are kind souls living on planet earth....isn't it? ~

Tonight's dinner is on sean.
who ask him to get promote for no reason.
wahahaha...
ooops,...not true la.
no quality how to promote?
well,...unless the boss is half blind.
ho ho ho....ooops.... =p

buddy insisted on japanese, so we proceeded to sakae.
they have changed their menu, and we see that they have more items now.
well done.

sean, with his trademark cocky stare.

miss teo - caught almost unaware..heh heh

me- most steady. haha

cos i was holding the camera, so no one caught me unaware. WAHAHA!

at macdonald, using the hot spot.

look how cute this pic is...

do a comparison! haha...so cute.

haha, sean had a perfect smile here...
rare smile rare smile.
haha!

The LINE - Shangri La

:::pictures from The Line:::

orange and white interior..

concept dining

fresh prawns lining up

lobsters

yum yum oysters

devouring the oysters!

bbq fish

roti prata - YUM YUM! crispy, can fight with jln kayu's!

abit of all! from the italian kitchen:
- carbonara
- bbq beef
- bbq fish
- pizza

from the seafood kitchen, tako in a cup...

crepe - my fav!!

my own creation.
chocolate crepe with mocha ice-cream and raspberry.

wat's in store from the chinese kitchen??

mango pudding

pudding galore

wat to choose? wat to choose?

chocolate fair

the 5-tier chocolate fountain

strawberry dip in the chocolate fountain

livingstone with his surprise birthday cake....the waitress sang a soft birthday song for him too...haha

it's july twenty seven two oh oh five

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

it's livingstone's birthday.

as usual....i had surprises for him...heh heh
im good at that.
always kept him in the dark until the last min.
HAHA!

i pretended i had no time to shop for his present since i was flying around for the past 3 wks.
but i actually got his present ready before i flew to taipei.
la la la la~

u see, he has a bloody old and poor condition yellow chair in his office that badly needed a repair.
Anyway, i got for him jus what he needed, becos he has simply no time and too lazy to buy.
A stylish office chair. haha...with my heart of cos. =)

By Designer: Olle Lundberg

At night, he was lead by me to "The Line" at Shangri-La Hotel.
It was a concept place with 6 kitchens, and awesom taste!
i must say they have a good wide spread of
1) Local,
2) Chinese
3) Indian
4) Italian
5) Japanese
6) Salad Bar
8) Seafood-such as lobster, oysters, scallop, mussles....etc
9) and the best is....they have many many desserts served in mini cups and a chocolate fountain!

Of cos it is a high price to pay.
We paid $180 for these choices.

i love the tortellini carbonara and roti prata! haha...i so cheapskate.
ok la, the oysters were good too.

I bombed twice after the dinner. wahahaha...
nick and i were so bloody full after the session...that we had to drop by west coast for a stroll to digest our intake.

The Line
Shangri-La hotel, Orange Grove Road,
Tel: 6213-4275
Price: $79.20 per pax

check out my pictures at the restaurant tml!

Share ur JOY!

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

i rx a msg yesterday:
"hey, i have given birth to a baby girl last nite...."

omigod! joyce skipped an important process!
she did not even tell us she was pregnant, and she has given birth!!!!
haha~
wow, 10mths....so fast.

CONGRATULATIONS my dear friend!
its another stage of ur life again after the rasa-sentosa celebration.
im sure u will enjoy the growing process, and the hassle and russle of this new member in ur family.

hmmm....
there are 2 things that will always bring joy and happiness to our closest.
Weddings + Babies

wat else huh?

i think....these are the 2 important processes in life that we wanna share with every living thing we noe on earth.
some did it in a quiet and low profile manner, while others wanna shout it loud and share the greatest news with us - friends, family.

i like the latter.
i like to share the joy of my friend, of my family. and i like to share them too.
it jus makes me feel important to them, that im invited to share their joy.

it's a joy!
share them!
pple get happi!
u see them happi, they see u happi!
that's jOY! isn't it?

i thank those pple that has invited me to share their news of joy....
sMiLe....
=)

taipei day 3...day 4...day 5......

Sunday, July 24, 2005

IM back in singapore.
haven been blogging, cos i have been bz working for the last few days before i flew back.

some snapshots from taipei though...

fallen trees caused by the typhoon...

after that, it is raining raining and raining....

yummy fried rice

the not so crowded shilin nite market. this is so because it was still the nite of typhoon....

kopi snowflake

mango snowflake

XL strawberries

XL sausages
(need to be so big or not???)

shilin nite market.
the actual crowd, when there is no warning for typhoon.

roti prata

shui jian bao
yummy..

大饼包小饼

im not going to mention anything abt work here. cos it was some terrible fire fighting job over there before i flew back. in short we lost sleep, lost appetite, lost time jus to deliver the project in time.

anyway. food and shopping was really great in taipei.
they have lots of yummy finger food in the nite market,
but the shopping is comparable to singapore in terms of pricing, however, they do have more variety. and more late nite shopping.
i remember shopping in shilin, until 1am, and im still in the fitting rm trying clothes. haha.
i simply love that bloody feeling.
1am!!! and those shops are still open for business! =)
singapore no fight for this!

Taipei - Day 2

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

18 July 2005, Monday

Taipei declare no work no school.

Because 海棠台风 (Haitang Typhoon) is here.

We stayed in the hotel until abt 11am, we went out for brunch.
Strolling on the street with raindrops keep falling on my head, domp domp domp...
haha~
we had 2 miserable small umbrellas for 3 persons use.
Anyway, one was damaged by the strong wind.
Gone.

There were not much eatery that were open for business.
So this was wat we had:

interesting, this was how we are suppose to order,

- per order we use ' 一' to indicate
- if there are 5 order for the item, we use " 正 " to indicate

i hope u get wat i mean... heh heh

sweet and sour soup

fried drumstick yum yum

braised pork rice SUPER YUMMY!!

brrrrp!!

the shop

we went back to the hotel after brunch, as the wind was getting stronger and the rain was getting heavier.

it was so boring staying in the hotel for the next 5hrs.
we decided to take a walk!

despite the warning of staying indoor,
we went to sun-yat-sen memorial and the 101 tower.

101 tower.

along the way. we saw soooo many fallen trees, shattered glasses, signboard dangling in the air, the streets were dirty and there were sandbags all over the entrance of the carpark and shops, residents and store owners started pasting paper tape onto their glass windows...

it was a terrible scene. 101 plaza was closed.
nothing for dinner, so we headed to ximending.