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Me then, me now

Dayna — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:11:57 +0000

Inspired by the “Me then, me down“challenge on GameMaki. That’s me 21 years apart!

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Happy 24 years young, my dearest brother!

Dayna — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:29:30 +0000

I finally got the time and energy to work on this post. Was down with a bad flu since Monday and I’m still battling it. Singapore’s weather is absolutely horrible; one minute the sun is there, it’s pouring the next.

Anyway, was out “celebrating” the 24th birthday of my dearest brother, James! Please do not remind me mine’s coming up really soon. As usual, we walked miles and miles in inappropriate attires. It baffled me why we always walk so much every single time we are out.

Lunch was settled at Barracks Cafe and the commendable dishes are their mushroom risotto and warm Strawberry Shortcakes. Simply the best!

Their Tau Sar Bao¹ is dub to be the best in town at S$2.50 each. The normal coffee shop version is only about a dollar. Not bad but for the price, perhaps there would be some other better desserts around.

Here’s Sharon’s & James reaction after their first bite:

And that’s him with the tees we got. I’m especially proud because I was the one who chose the tees and I love them! You can never go wrong with green.

Hope you love the tees bro and wishing you forever 24 years young. As always, may the sun and happiness shine on you and be ever so bright!

Finally, a tad random, got this pair of geeky glasses with Bren last weekend at Eighty Two Tales. Love it? It’s my new in look!

Red Bean Paste Steamed Buns

I went Macau-ing again

Dayna — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:42:26 +0000

Yours truly went Macau-ing again last week even though I am definitely no fan of the smoky casinos or uncles dressed in Hawaii-looking shirts. This opportunity was presented to me as an “on-the-house” birthday trip sponsored by dearest daddy. A break from work while I step into the 23rd year of my life doesn’t sounds too bad seriously!

A huge photo collage of the dishes I’ve tried at Macau.

All the dishes I have tried

Please be forewarn that the next half of this post will solely be on commenting on the interior designs of the hotels. There’s nothing much to blog about except their food and impressive architecture.

Street Shopping

We weren’t exactly shopping but more of taking a leisure walk around the town area. It’s only been a year since I last went there during my “Graduation Trip” and there wasn’t much of a change except the place was noisier and definitely more crowded. The weather wasn’t helping either as temperature soars to about 32 degrees; pretty much like Singapore except it was much less humid.

Lan Kwai Fong Macau

We took a quick look at Lan Kwai Fong as well; rather new and I adore the crystal lion “guarding” the main entrance. It’s munching on cash though; those are real notes in its mouth and not newspapers if you are wondering.

Grand Libosa

Not new and it’s also not my first time here. The grand hotel lobby totally blew me away. I can’t imagine any hotels in Singapore which can rival this. It makes me wow literally when you stepped into the hotel.

There’s also this awesome tea performance by the rather good looking waiter. He even asked if I had my camera ready to shoot him! He has ego, I’m sure of it!

City of Dreams

Modern, sophisticated and it gives off the “Singapore Marina Bay Sands” vibe. However, like the Grand Libosa, it’s interior design, lightings etc were miles better.

Galaxy

Across the road from The Venetian. Personally, I feel that it’s design is more traditional as compared to the City of Dreams. I am pretty sure the theme was “Peacock”. All the lightings in this hotel are set to change colours every few seconds. One minor complaint was that the Casino was too bright for my likings.

I can’t believe it took me more than a week to get this “wordless” posts up, I’m procrastinating and I can’t help it. Life’s busy.

Check out the entire album of photos taken on my Flickr.

Stepping closer to the 23rd mark

Dayna — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:28:16 +0000

Another week before I turned 23. Not much thoughts except I’m really starting to feel old. Although I got to admit there isn’t anyone who thinks I am older than my actual age yet. Thankfully. I spend my Sunday hanging out with the girls before we met Mr Pink¹ for dinner.

Nice scenery, quiet place, good music, juicy steaks, cakes, pasta, you name it, we have it!

We took lots and lots of pictures. Just because, I’ll never want to forget beautiful memories like this.

Not to forget, they got me something on my wish list!

I can’t help laughing at the “Terms & Conditions” written on the back of my DIY Happy Lemon Vouchers. They are creative, I don’t deny. In fact, I am starting to believe James has some hidden designing talents while looking at those vouchers. It’s still a mystery how they managed to get hold of my National identification number. I’ve no clue!

On a last note, I am super in love with the lace skirt from Lacepipe. I’m not usually a lace person but their stuff are really awesome!

I hope he does not read this. I might get assassinated tonight if he does.Then again, he rarely ever wear any other colours except black, white, brown and grey.

Life is short

Dayna — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:04:51 +0000

You left us today and headed to a place with no pain nor sufferings. You will always be remembered, my dearest grandpa. Don’t worry about us and sleep soundly. Good nights.

We will never forget your “signature” teaching – “There’s no free lunch/bargain in this world”.

What we were always taught by my grandpa

One of the rare photos we took together on 3 October 2007

Happy Dad’s Day

Dayna — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:33:17 +0000

Our whole family mistakenly thought Father’s Day was this week instead of the next and so we had an early celebration. It’s been some time since the last major family gathering¹.

I rushed home from work to be greeted by these wondering darlings and not to mention the food, food, foood. Dinner was good, supper was good. Is there anything that aren’t? Although I got to admit the day didn’t start off too well with me spilling tea all over my office desk. I hope ants wouldn’t be the first thing I see when I enter the office on Monday.

Look at these rainbow-coloured macaroons, who wouldn’t love them?

Have a wonderful day, dad! It’s my pleasure and honour to be your daughter.

I could not even remember when was the last. Chinese New Year perhaps?

Yours truly is not a beachy person

Dayna — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:08:23 +0000

You get the point. Except for swimming, I’m not a very outdoor person and being dubbed the “vampire” by some of my friends is no joke. I don’t hate the sun and it doesn’t kills me either but definitely not a fan. Rain 1 Sun 0.

But still, we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun. It’s been ages since I last saw some of those lovelies¹. It seems like jump shots are the highlights of the day with us competing who is the better photographer. I am not going to comment because I wouldn’t want Sharon’s fist to collide with my face. =p

Yee Loong, also known as “The Statue” was dragged into a random shot with us. He’s the one and only who brought a book to be beach². And if you are wondering why most of us are carrying fans, they are gifts from Yee Loong from Philippines! He always gives the most practical gifts at the right time. We needed wind desperately. I think because we were constantly fanning ourselves, the guys called us “The Tourists”. Please welcome us to Singapore!

The day ended with us having dinner at Vivo City. How about a short getaway trip the next time?

I reckon Huaian may send an assassin after me for calling him a lovely.
I think he brings a book everywhere he goes to.

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My first food hunt!

Dayna — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:50:17 +0000

I feel guilty for not blogging in a month and so here I am blogging about something that happened last weekend. Rather than making excuses like I don’t have the time to write a full post, I reckon I will just make do with small photos posts every week. Sounds good?

This will be a rather wordless post so enjoy the (poor quality) photos.

I went food hunting with the gang and seriously, it’s the best day ever!

Bumbu Restaurant

A Thai-Indonesian Restaurant at Kandahar Street. Food was pretty good, fresh fish as well! Though I’m still wondering why the interior deco of the place has some Chinese “flavours” in them. It was about SGD70+ for 6 dishes. Definitely a must try!

Bumbu Restaurant

Interior decorations in the restaurant

Old paintings on display

Group photo of the day

Check out their website at bumbu.com.sg for more details if you are interested!

Ah Chew Desserts

A very popular dessert shop at Liang Seah Street. It was very packed when we arrive and waited for seats for a while. Not bad but I still prefer the ones from Hong Kong and Macau (definitely right?).

Ah Chew Desserts

Sneak peek at the menu

Our desserts!

Tom’s Palette Homemade Ice Cream

We visited the branch at Shaw Tower and they have lots of unconventional flavours for their ice creams. Tried the Lavender, Oreo Cheesecakes, Lychee with rose etc. Good except that James nearly dropped my iPhone after taking the following shot.

Tons of ice cream sticks after trying the different flavours

Visit their website at tomspalette.com.sg for more information.

Rive Gauche

Take-away cakes at Suntec. Shared the Strawberry Shortcake with Jess. My only comment: The strawberries were really sour!

Delicious French Cakes

Say hi to the snowman

Nantsuttei

Discovered this when Chewy wanted to try it desperately since he’s a noodle lover. I have only tried the normal ramen and “Happy Couple” Gyoza. Funny name for dumplings! Not to mention the adorable pig at the bottom of the bowl. Some of the staff are Japanese and they are really friendly.

My favourite ramen

I promise I will take more photos during the next food hunt!

What’s up at Marina Barrage?

Dayna — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:13:05 +0000

Last week was the first time I have been to Marina Barrage since it’s opening in 2008. Before anyone wonders why Dayna is only blogging about what happen last week now, the past few weeks have been extremely busy as I have just started on my new job. It’s a refreshing change from the usual school work and I will leave that to my next post (hopefully real soon!). So, my impression with Marina Barrage – empty. It was filled with people but otherwise there wasn’t much there. Not that I’m surprise since it was suppose to be a dam. There was only a restaurant there and I wouldn’t say it’s the most accessible place in Singapore since there was only one public bus that goes there. But I guess it’s a good place to chill out with family and friends to get away from the hectic city life. At least from what I’ve seen, most people feels the same.

The main activities there would be kite-flying, toy speed boats and picnics! It would be a good place to watch the fireworks though. National day is coming, anyone’s up for fireworks at Marina Barrage?

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Birthday surprise!

Dayna — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:45:40 +0000

We had a gathering co-organised by James and I to meet up with Huaian who came back to Singapore during his school vacation yesterday. I was extremely surprised when these adorable fruit tarts with smiley faces popped out in front of me as an early birthday celebration. Who doesn’t love these freshly home-baked low sugar fruit tarts with love from Jess? Honestly, I’m so touched they took the effort to “secretly” planned everything and Jess’s effort for waking up at 9 in the morning to bake the tarts. I feel loved! I didn’t suspect anything even when Jess kept walking around and sneaking behind James. I thought she was asking him to show her where’s the washroom. I thought that was odd though.

They taste as good as they looked which reminds me I should get the recipe from Jess and try this at home sometime. The custard tastes heavenly!

We dropped by Mind’s Cafe and found a new game which was really fun! True colours is a game where players attempt to best anticipate how others perceive them. Each round consists of several private ballot votes on who best fits a particular question. Once votes are entered players guess at the number of votes they received for that particular question. The better your estimate the more points you make and the winner being the player who best understands how others see the player. I ended up as the one with the lowest point. Hopefully James will get this for his board games rental site! It’s really fun and entertaining playing with people whom you know.

We went to Bottle Tree Village for dinner and got lost on our way there because the taxi drivers didn’t know how to go there. We chalked up to about SGD 30 of fares. That wasn’t the worst part because the walk back to the bus stop was so creepy. There wasn’t much street lights and no one was walking along the road. It was like a mini night adventure similar to the night walk during our secondary 4 adventure camp but I swear I’m not going there again without a car. It was horribly inconvenient!

On a last note, thanks guys for the gift, tarts and wishes! I really appreciated your thoughtfulness and everything.