Couldnt help but to go in to order toast. I luv traditional toast! Plus i always wanted to try Ya Kun Kaya Toast. But main reason is still i luv toast, with half-boiled eggs. Yummmyyyy.....

Verdict: Its delicious! With a hefty price of $4.20 for the set i ordered, i still tink its worth the price. Reason coz the bread are well toasted & buttered, the eggs are perfectly half-boiled and the teh is at the right sweetness & thickness. Especially like the eggs. I've never seen ppl serve poached eggs with kaya toast. Usually its jus boiled eggs, which turns out either entirely not cooked or over-cooked. See how big Ya Kun's eggs turns out? It totally amazes me how they poach it to be so perfectly nice.

This is so goin to be my next fav hang-out... so near my hse. Yipeeeeeee!

Picked it becoz i like its outer design. Looks like a little clutch with the little folds. The prints looks like tat of Gucci, jus tat instead of GG, it was BB (which stands for Balenciaga). Its not a replica! I tink Balenciaga is a sub brand of Bonia (coz the wrapper they gave me was tat of Bonia). The only thing i dun like is tat its not a small wallet. But i cant find any small wallet tat i fancy either. Tink i can live with its size since i always carries a big bag. ^_^

When shoppin, i tink more than 2 pairs of eyes were staring at me. Weekday afternoon not much customers lor. And coz i wear reali casual maybe they scare i'm a theft. Haha.

Now reali broke.. invested nearly all my ang pao money on tis wallet.. hope its a worth-while investment.. So far tis is the most expensive wallet i ever have. Which made me realised, I'm the only one in the family who never owns a branded wallet. Why no one ever buys me a branded wallet?! Hmmm.... mmm... mm.... *ponders*...

Well the wallet is big but if it holds too much cards, it'll be too "fat". But it can hold a lot of notes! Now no money.. in future maybe? *Blah*...

Watched CJ7 on Fri. The movie started not bad. Heartwarming and funny. Than starting frm mid of the show to ending, its like fast forwarding the whole movie. In other words... lots of missing links. Though both Dunk & CJ7 have many missing links, personally i tink, Dunk's missing links are jus the beginning explanation of each character so even dun have i can still live with it, but CJ7 missing links are mainly the ending, so w/o them the show turns out weird.

How 七仔 returns after it was thrown into the rubbish truck? Why the teacher was crying at the doorstep but when Chow returns, nothin was mentioned wat happened to the teacher later. Why no scenes of how Chow revives frm death at the hospital? Before i could even think of wat is happening, the movie ended with the little ailen dead, than Chow & son continued to live as per norm. It reali got me thinkin, if this show is abt living with dignity even if u are poor, than wats the purpose of the little ailen tat can only perform 2 magic stunts before switching to 'sleep' mode? Moreover, the 2 stunts performed r kinda norm. If i'm the director, i'll jus omit the ailen and give the human characters more scenes & lines.

Personally, i tink CJ7 would be a good show if its more than 100mins long & not jus 88mins. The heartwarmin parts didnt reali touch me tat much coz its onli focusing on one pt: Live with dignity even if u are poor. But the thing is, the boy (or rather the little gal actress), didnt really misbehave becoz he is poor le, except change the exam score frm 0 to 100 or fighting with the bullies. Cant seems to link the misbehave parts to the "live with dignity" part.

I got bored ard mid to end of the movie. Kinda disappointed tat the movie doesnt have much story. Among all Chow's movie, tis one reali boreds me. Nevertheless, the little actress performs truly well. So funny whenever she acts silly.

So in my own pt of view, Dunk's director takes a switch frm filming artistic film to kung fu film and results not bad. CJ7 director takes a switch frm filming super comedy to heartwarmin film and results norm. I believe anyone who likes Jay or basketball, would totally luv Kung Fu Dunk. Anyone who like cute ailen film tat's heartwarming, will like CJ7. For me, its the prior ^_^

[The Bride & Bridesmaid Room... Spacious hotel room @ Mandarin Oriental!]

[The bride's Family & Bridesmaid dinner]

[First 3 dishes!!!!]

[More Food!!!!]

[The Dessert, Pina Colada]

The dinner... I've never eaten so many courses during a western dining lor.. max ard 3 to 4 courses? This bride's dinner have 7 courses! Well the food really look gorgeously prepared, except the taste... need some improvements. I duno if its meant to be, but most of the dishes tasted too salty, except the dessert, which aint better coz it was too sweet! (for me only la coz the rest seems to find the sweetness ok)

I tink i dun reali suit western posh dining. 1stly the problem with the confusing utensils. Than the serving portion is reali, ermmm, hard to eat. The bread was in such a big portion but its too hard to use a knife to cut in pieces so i had to use my hand to tear, which is not pretty action. The tomato & mushroom soup served in a little liqour glass, surposely to 'sip' with a little teaspoon, is a disaster to me. So after much annoyance by the slow 'sipping', i decided its best to dump tat spoon & jus 'drink' frm the glass. The beef, is so hard to cut coz the whole chuck of meat jus rolls ard coz its, well, kinda round.

Among all the dishes, only the bread & cod fish is of my liking. Tomato soup, too little to taste it. The mushrooms, ok normal. Lobster soup, its awful coz all i could taste is salt. Beef, kinda too raw though it tasted ok. I'll prefer a less bloodly meat. Would be good if the chef ask us how we want the beef done before cookin it. Finally, the dessert is all sugar & coconut. By the time i reach the dessert, i gave up on it. My taste bud needs a rest!

Its not a big restaurant (i tink JP mac is bigger than it?) but i duno y the waiters kept running ard & r super busy. And its super weird to c ppl dining in the private corners eating in the dark, literally. One tiny tealight candle is all a table has. Its so dark i cant even c the faces of the people. Duno how they eat somethin they cant c?! Food.. eh pretty but so so. Overall i still enjoyed the dinner coz of the good company i was with. We all had fun criticising the food & laughing at the jokes.

After a bath, its brain-storming our gate-crush evil plans! Actually we already pre-planned everythin but end up most of it we last min cant use coz many ingrediants nobody bought! So 2 babes were assigned to go 7-11 to buy watever we can use. I must say the 2 babes r smart. 1st they bought butter & created a butter-wasabi-coffee 'tiramisu'. Than they bought all kinds of soft drinks & mixed each with coffee to create a 'wake-up' drink. But ar, they spent the whole night 'cooking' & 'mixing' which in turn caused me to lost my sleep coz i was sleepin near the area they r 'working' at. So la tats y whole night i didnt sleep! -_-'''

DAY 2: The Customary Ceremony & Banquet
Early mornin the bride's makeup artist called at 4:30am. My patience ended at that pt. Was struggling to sleep but with all the noise & new environment, reali cant sleep. So upon hearing the call, i gave up the sleep struggle & decided to jus 'wake up'. Than the whole event jus kicks in... the bride's parents came with breakfast, the makeup artist came, the photographer came, everyone else woke up... its a mess coz every1 is rushin to prepare themselves!

[Morning breakfast brought by the bride's parents... so many kinds of pastries!!!!]

Lucky for me i got enuf time (i got up sooooo early) to eat breakfast, change & makeup. Actually i didnt c the whole gate crash happenings coz i was in the room with the bride. Havent got a chance to view the video taken too... but it must be funny coz i know they got the groom & best man to wear plastic bags over their head, drink the 'wake-up' drink, eat the look nice but taste terrible butter-wasabi-coffee tiramisu... and also the most yucky eat the raw onions & garlics. Too evil tat i dun tink i got the guts to get them to do it. So i rather stay with the bride be the good bridesmaid. Haha...

After the gate-crash, we all head to the groom's house. We arrived at 9am but after 2 to 3 hrs of long waiting, every1 of us cannot tahan liaoz. A surposely to start at 11am tea ceremony, couldnt start coz all the elder relatives havent come! *Diaoz*... but lucky the newly weds 'released' all the bestman & bridesmaid to go home 1st. I was the last batch to leave.. left at 1pm! One word... TIRED! Rushed home changed & unpack than took a good nice 2hrs nap. The nap reali saved me lor. Tink if i didnt sleep, i couldnt endure till the banquet at night liaoz.

The banquet was held at Dragon Gate @ Habourfront. My 2nd time dining there! And its such a coincidence tat the 1st time i dine there was durin my 1st time as a bridesmaid. So i havent eat at the banquet tis day, i already know the food is good. Haha..

[My bag... handle decorated with the bridesmaid hand flower, handmade by the groom!]

[The money box...so big. hahaha]

Basically i like all the food served! I'm a rowdy person so i'm fine with not eating at a high class hotel ballroom or the food is not arranged super classy. I tink i got tis bo chap character after attending tons of wedding banquets. Been 1 of the youngest 3rd generation in the family (i tink i rank 4th or 5th youngest, frm the last, with over 100 relatives -_-), attending at least 1 banquet a yr has become a family tradition. Haha... I've seen & eaten best, norm, lousy & worse so i've come to a verdict: So long it taste good, portion is big enuf for every1 in the table & i can eat happily, i'll enjoy any wedding banquet. A good wedding means all the guest are happy & full.

I tink i ate a lot. Haha.. At least more than 1 serving per dish? But i sort of missed the Prawn & Broccoli coz i went off to help the bride change her clothes. Oh well at least i get to eat 1 piece of prawn & broccoli coz JN helped me reserved. Hehe. Recalling wat i had.. hmm.. there's Cold dish, Sharks Fin, Prawn & Broccoli, Lemon Fried Chicken, Spinach & Mushroom, Steam Goupa, Ee-fu noodles and Mango Sago with Milk. Everythin is served in a big portion! All tasted good. Not too salty nor too sweet. I like! Hehe.

Well the onli disappointment is the dessert is not my fav, Yam paste. I've 2 more weddings tis year.. i tink 1 of them is serving yam paste as dessert. Woohoo! Than again, pocket gona burn a bigger hole lor.. aiya why every1 married on the same year! Tis is is the most number of weddings i'm attending.. -_-'''

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Planned to bake all the CNY cookies on monday but i was too darn exhausted by the fri & sat tat i decided to split my baking into 2 days. So 3 days be4 CNY i was still busy with all the preparation...

[My CNY cookies...Pineapple tarts & Almond tarts]

[My 'standard' CNY cookies.. Cornflake cookies!]

As usual, made pineapple tarts & cornflake cookies. The 2 new ones are Almond tarts & Coco-pops crisps. Mum wanted me to make walnut cookies but i am soooooooooo lazy & tired. I tink i finally get the hand of makin crispy cookies tat's not too hard. Quite happy with my new coco-pops crisps. It tasted sooo nice! So far the guests responds better to my pineapple tarts & Coco-pops crisps. Hehe. Well i like my cornflakes cookies coz its the least sweet among all i've made.

But i kinda hate it when peps wants me make for them. Its a tiring process tat i'll prefer not to go thru. Fact is i'm lazy de lor. Lucky mum always help me turn down the requests. Seriously i dun mind sharing the receipe but making for them is a no no. *grin*

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My fav jeans couldnt make it thru the new CNY. So sad.. The stupid washin machine 'bite' off a big chunk of material frm my jeans.. Really look like a dog bite lor...

[My ke lian pants.. torn...]

Cried literally lor... coz the jeans was a bday gift frm my buddies. Haiz.. mum promised she'll alter it to be a shorts. But still i'm sad. The only comfort i give myself is i can buy a new pair of jeans.. I hate tat washin machine lor.. older than me, so noisy & cant wash clothes. Hope mum keeps to her promise of gettin a new one after CNY.. sooner or later i'll trash tat washing machine...

Well the cake turn out to be the 1st & only bday cake i have tis yr. Family decided i've enuf of cakes so parents only treat me to a bday dinner. So end up, i still didnt get a mix fruit cake for my bday. Haiz was kinda looking forward to my fav prima deli cake... -_-'''

Aged again.. shucks i cant believe i'm reaching THE THREE soon...

27th Jan: Mr & Mrs Sng Wedding
Tis is the 2nd wedding i've attended on my own! Its also my 1st time dining at Novotel Hotel. The ambience there is reali romantic & high class. The ballroom is located at 6th floor, way at the corner. So onli those invited to attend the wedding will walk thru the area. Reali very nice! Its like having a private banquet w/o outside disturbance. Its also very cool tat the cocktail area is outside the ballroom, beside the reception area. Got tis high class feel...

[The wedding venue.. 1st time @ Novotel Hotel!]

[The reception area. Has a very romantic feel]

[The cocktail area... ambience is good!]

[Slide show! The newly wed's 'historical' photos & wedding photos]

[Ooo.. THE FOOD menu...]

[Wedding Cake.. Lovely! But its fake.. hahaha]

[Babes I attended the wed with]

[The Pretty Bride! 1st time i c her so pretty! Haha...]

[The newly wed, Mr & Mrs Sng! Congratulations!]