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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Sweet Treats: Cheeky Chocolates's chocolates
Life gets so sweet when a friend, a very selfless, always bring good things for us. This dance friend of mine, Catherine, always brings us good treats. And these chocolates were bought to support her friend...and they were pretty good :D Of the six she gave me out of the many other flavours out there, 'The Happy Hazelnut" is definitely lovely..with a semi-hard or semi-melted outer layer, a creamy inside filled with rich Hazelnut.. And her so called 'nipple-like' chocolates (hahas)..definitely gave me a surprise. It looked plain simple on the outside yet the mix of taste was a tinge of mint, orange? And? hees, try it and u'll know. And that is called CHEEKY CHOCOLATE. hehs. It's full of surprise, just like cheeky. "Lust for Milk" was less of a surprise but still a rich milky choc~ "Dark and Sexy"..Oh yea..it was really a dark ball of chocolate sprinkled with chocolate powder. Not exactly as sexy though..hahas. wished for it to be alil more bitter and distinct.. Passionate Raspberry was really sweet, together with it's white-outer milk choc? But feels kinda juicy and novel. "Bored Lemon" didnt really come in the way I thought it will; No flowing lemon juice..hahas. Doesnt really wake you up as it promised. A very subtle lemony taste. One interesting thing is the meaning the chef/bosses give to each of the chocolate - Emotions, Type, Dosage... Try it out when you have the chance yupps! guess you're the only one. love to share good things w you :D 12:50 AM Labels: Friendship, happy food. Thursday, October 02, 2008
.Wonderful Times Again
First desserts at ben & jerry since Cheeky's return! And the night's talk bout RESPONSIBLE men... Shokudo - 30 Sep 08It's always good to have something you used to have and love so much. The usual late nights out, one activity after another. To be able to do things together without too much of a hesitation, all in the name of enjoyment and fulfilment. Just hafa admit that recurring mental burden is bad. Too bad I was alil tired after movie and became less conversational.. Swenson's White Choc Blondie - 30 Sep 08 We talked bout how likely one in love can easily Cognitive Dissonance. Not that I agree with him that I'm committing such a dissonace too. Consiciously, I know i'm not. In fact I think that Self-fulfilling Prophecies is more likely..If you look at the most basic way of how this mechanism works..it seems like everyone suffers from it. Expectations towards somebody -> you therefore behave in a certain way somewhat congruent to your expectations -> person in a specific way coz of way of treatment -> Confirm your expectations. Sometimes I wonder how detectable is this? OR can you actually detect it? It's so easy and normal that you treat ur loved ones better...and reciprocation, supposedly traits of a good character. Reciprocity in kindness at least. If it exists, in this case, I think self-fufilling prophecies are happening in a 2-way direction. OH. and who's trying too hard? The fact that one probably need to sustain their self-esteem through a series of reminders and goals. And I believe self-esteem is etched into one in the most sub-consicious manner. It's only when u think that you are more superior than others out there then will you feel good about yourself. Frankly speaking, I feel that self-esteem should be a relative cognitive element than an absolute one. Or for the least, you have to nativfy it. I dont wanna run away but I cant take it anymore, I dont understand 3:19 AM Labels: Dine, happy, happy food., my love :), Reflections Sunday, June 22, 2008
.Pho 24, Cheeky Chocolates.
21 JUNE 08, Saturday "You don't Mess with the Zohan" is a hilarious movie that transit most of its humour from sexual-related stuff. But all in all, i agree with goey that it's pretty dumb. I would say that the plot is so-so. Nevetheless, it's a good entertaining movie that keeps the giggles rolling on.. ::Pho 24:: Being so jaded in what town has to offer us and the fact that crowd is everywhere on a Saturday plus our ever endless exploratory mind...we decided to drop by Upper Thomson Road a few days ago.Contrary to the central, Upper Thomson Road is a quieter district and had its shops lining along the main road, with a slower pace of life. Still on the craze for soup, we went around looking at Vietnamese Food and HongKong Food as we cant find Auntie Kim which serves Korean Food.. With the very familiar Hongkong cafe menu, we forsaked familiarity and decided to try Vietnam food which both of us are not familiar with. Chefs through the glass It almost had the same open kitchen as the one in Bangkok just that this is seeing it through the glass. We had the Set meals which was as cheap as 8.90 bucks even though we wanted to have a light dinner... Quite a good deal with the Pho Chin, drinks and dessert of the day..except for the fact that the soup is a lil salty. I had Pho Chin Brisket while goey had Pho Chin Chicken...with different soup base. The plate of lime, veg and beansprouts they served were seriously raw. None of us like it. hahas. Drinking all the soup and drink is filling enough that I cant finish the Pho..Whereas for the dessert...it's something like agar agar with corn in it...it's like those you found in catering wrapped in the pandan leafs...A very light dessert, definitely doesnt feel sinful. ![]() My !!! And it's pretty obvious that the waiteresses and chefs and boss lady there are all Vietnamese. And somehow or rather, this place reminds us of Bangkok, Croy Tai in Platinum Mall which we went on the 3rd Day. With a very similar setting. She's so ROUND... The lady boss is very friendly,probably coz it's her own business. With her offer to take a pic for us...i wouldnt reject it.. ;p::Cheeky Chocolate:: I saw this place on Friday on my way back home and right away it reminds me of Cheeky... :( And the night of reading food reviews with Goey made Goey said "we MUST visit Cheeky Choc" hahas..and despite the fact that we were damn full after dinner, we decided to hop over to Cheeky Choc which is a few shops away from Pho 24.. And I knew Goey had her mind all set on the Mini Poached Pears the night before when she was reading the reviews. Quite an unique dish but the taste of the pear didnt quite appeal to me. Nonetheless the Filo Pastry is nicely done. Not the thicky kind of crust. Oh but it tasted pretty nice when the mini poached pears with cassis puree is eaten with the vanilla ice-cream and almond crumble. And it only cost 9.90 bucks. As for me,I tried the Cheeky CHocolate Warm Chocolate cake which is the other signature desserts. Believe me it was SCORCHING hot....it's not warm....coz it's sooo freshly baked. At first bite, the Valrhona 70% dark chocolate stands true. The bitter dark chocolate almost made me give the green lights that it was better than the TCC one.. (my normal benchmark, for putting morton's one as benchmark will ONLY bring disappointment) but after a while I still place it at the amber light. The dark chocolate was nice but the chocolate cake lacks the crispiness which I expect. It's too soft, really soft...and a lil sticky. But, to be only paying 7.90 bucks..I think it's worth what you paid for. So what's inside? I think I really did myself a disfavour when I asked the waiter what's inside and can we go in?...With his reply of...'er..it's the kitchen'... But well, I thought it could be something like Eski Bar with the cold room. Nvm, slap myself. hahas. And what made me asked that question was because when the door opens, I saw that it was REALLY crowded inside... After some time,our observations tell us that it's a family business with all the family members helping out inside. Occasionally you see a old dad in slippers and in non-waiter uniform coming out and clean the tables. Oh and for the ambience...it's a cosy little place with a very cute concept of hahas, CHEEKY. The patrons were mainly the rich peeps from the Thomson district private houses for most of the peeps there were kinda in home-clothes..I reckon so..unless u tell me that they have bad fashion sense. This Malay waiter was very funny. As Goey rejected his offer of taking pics for us once and I still asked him to take for us...he was like 'still say you dont want' And btw, ther's a cute waiter there. hahas. For gals who like to ogle at cute guys.....Ther's one there. ;p I just happened to see it, hmphs..not ogling Under the cues of goey..i was asked to 'next' meaning next pose...and all the shots she has taken.She's also as random. lol Under the sign missing YOU. And just before taking this pic...that Malay waiter was disturbing us at the door....making me having to shoo him away..hahahas. hahas, both of us are sooo bestowed with radiance! We are both blooming..see the reflection on our cheeks? Very nice..I like that.. yayys! We only spent less than 20 bucks each on everything..... >< Seriously speaking, I feel so doted with her/them...I shall elaborate on this some other time.. true friends leave footprints in your heart. 9:04 PM Labels: Dine, Friendship, happy food. Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Loves of Life: Dance, Soup Spoon, Ben & Jerry
Im so glad that I've made the decision to part with the few hundred bucks just months ago. It's really more than worth it! This is about the seventh month of lessons. Each lesson and practice never fail to bring me away from reality. It drops me inside this beautiful world of music and movements with each of the beautiful lady in the class. All in the mind are music, waves and beats. The body moves. The mind counts. Here we are at the Intermediate level of Reggae, the difficulty level jumps up again. At the Beginner(1) level, we learnt movements that emphasised on force, movements which do not requires multiple coordination of different body parts. At the Beginner(2) level, the dance moves slightly away from the hard body movements and towards the feminine and sexy moves. And just towards the end of that level, we learnt a relatively explosive wild dance. In the first lesson for Intermediate, we were taught movements that move freely (to seem as though there were no hard body movements, to look as if u were lazy, yet not so) and revealed to that things gonna change in the level. eg. Waves wouldnt be the normal body width from the upper body but from the abdominal. oh gosh, sounds amazing! Arghs. but i cant catch the FEEL during practice just now~ But had great fun with the gals just now.. dance is one of those times that nobody cares about image, nobody is shy. We just go all way out to dance and enjoy ourselves. :) And after practice, met Dear for dinner. Thanks sweetie for waiting, you could have went home and rest or sth. :) Over the months, meeting along Red Dot has become one sweet memory that I still haven quite bear to depart w. One of those coincidences in life. Who would have thought that my dance school is just around the same area as his office. Dinner was at The Soup Spoon over at Raffles City. Gave Shokudo a miss since we were both not v hungry. Yes. Desserts are sinful yet they constitutes to sweet memories. :) Ben & Jerry - one of the most frequent dessert that the couple had. :) Always 'Mix & Match ;P
Oh yea, glad that my mind is off the bouncing thoughts now!! Dun wan my words on my notes and readings to start bouncing at me too later. hahaas. very funny bouncing 'talk' and ideas. It's so strong and now I let myself be Sincere. 1:17 AM Labels: Dance, Dine, happy food., my love :) Sunday, March 30, 2008
WITNESSING WARMTH - weekend home
`28 March 08 I had my friday well-spent w Dear, taking a real slow dinner at Fish & Co's over Glasshouse. Recalling the last time when we were there, i agreed to the 'Fling Game' and were very much pressurised by the cleaning up staffs as we were the only patrons there. This time round we were much earlier, sitting right in front of the loud live band. Things of coz are different now while we talk bout things that sit closer to us in our life, much more ease w each other. And Fish and Co was playing songs from i think the Max 6 CD. - kinda funny i thought, as we went 'woa, damn retro' Without having to rush for last trains or movies, we headed for coffee at TCC. It was then i realised a very weird habit of my cheeky. :)
At one try, i drew this :) `29 March 08 And these days I realised myself being addicted to "Zack and Wiki", a logic/IQ console game. Somewhat love to rack my brains over things, things that I cant help but keep thinking of it until I've solved it. `30 March 08 Surprisingly I spent time alone in cheeky's house without feeling very weird. Not easy to come by such 'houses' LOL. Spent the dinner time with his family at Crystal Jade as a belated birthday celebration for his mum and began to feel the wonders of warmth in different or another family. Seeing how mums can also get excited and happy in celebrating their birthday and even buying a cake! This kinda of feeling ,from the view of a youngster or children, is like heart-warming even though i just plainly bring it across with the word "cute". But indeed cute too isnt it? When someone older seems to be back into child-like behavior. Just goes to show everyone has a child-like side. I believe so. Of coz you dont reveal that to just anyone out there.
12:39 AM Labels: Dine, happy food., Indelible memories, my love :), Reflections Monday, March 03, 2008
LEAP DAY-29th Feb 08 - SHOP, JOY, WARAKU
Midterm break is officially over now. I'm still working my way through out of time management in the mugging and all other things. Had quite a good term break this sem compared to last sem ;) Good holiday mood on last thurs-sun, dances and met up with 2 of my good friends, terrific ones. Leap day was spent waking up early in the morning to meet Jerica at the Gym. Since a long long time ive hit the gym due to expensive charges for adults. Sighs. Still love working out in the gym, systematic yet non-structured. Morning gymings are great! Needless to queue excessively long for the machines. And after gyming, we headed for a swim. Love the workout that day for it psychologically makes me feel better! Its not easy to find a friend who could club and work out together. *grins* Less than 3 hours slacking at home and i'm out again. This time round for a shopping trip with goey! Haven got an opportunity to meet up with you since our Bangkok trip! And i missed you sooo....i got so excited when i met her..uttering non-stop. Updated myself with news that probably i shouldnt have known. But thankfully im not kept in the dark. I'm jaded w all these news but at the same time i wanna tell myself..there are many many beautiful souls around me. All giving me the care and concern and support i need. Oh well, i hope nth is gonna happen again after i said that line. lolx. Btw, finally got my make-up accessory fr chanel after months of OUT-OF-STOCK. heard its internationally. *Phew. And yes...its good!! Highly recommended! To fill our growling stomachs..we headed to Waraku at Cuppage Road. Nice place but the ambience is ruin by the noise. think it would be better during off-peak hours! Goey loves white and black. Continously shooting me w those shots...well..my collage shall complement u. Labels: Dine, Friendship, happy, happy food., Retail Therapy Monday, February 04, 2008
BEING PAMPERED ;p - 2 Feb 08
BEING PAMPERED ;p - 2 Feb 08 With the Sweet Tooth of my dear kicking in again.. After weeks and weeks of missing desserts, we decided to head down to Siglap for some Choc Fondue. I had my first fondue at Haagen Daz and he told me that to start my Fondue treats at Haagen Dazs is like a no-no coz then I would think that other Fondues aint good. A small Haagen Dazs that sits at the corner of the shophouses. Looked thru the menu though our mind had already settled for the enticing Fondue. Served with fruits, Haagen Dazs ice-cream, cookies and cheesecakes (hmphs, bread)! And yes this sweetheart was right, the Strawberry ice-cream went really went with the melted choc. And look at how the warm choc layer hardens up as the ice-cream twined itself in it! Oh but this Fondue certainly make us look like dirty gluttons, cute lil kids. wahahas! Leaving traces of the dark choc on the corners of our lips. hees. Too bad, both failed to capture any of the unglam pics. hahas. The thing is, when couples laugh at each other..it's not irritating. It's sweet, fun and happy! hahas, still feel like laughing... Even Roll-ons As usual, this man outwin me in anything. hahas. Even a simple thing of rolling the nuts on .. =( LOLS Love weekends! hahas, always relaxing. Okaes, at least for now when im not frantic bout readings and/or mugging yet. hahas. Simple Sat, simple dates, simple look, simple company (in some sense). Feel so pampered. hahas! yayys! . .. Off to bed folks! Good nites! Because circles never end 12:27 AM Labels: ecstatic, Extravagance/Fine-Dining, happy food., Indelible memories, my love :), Sweet Monday, December 17, 2007
NYDC
ANOTHER SINFUL NIGHT~ 14th Dec 07 Sweet tooth at 1 in the midnight! And between TCC and NYDC, we went ahead to the NYDC for its mudpie. Look how sinful it is! hahas...on one hand, i'm trying to tell myself "koon, go on diet!" On the other, im being pampered with the Jedi Mudster! The diet plan will never be successful in this way. LOL. Anyway, the topic of the conversation for that night brought me to think bout yea..Familial Ties. I didnt say much when The Great shared his philosophies, etc with me. But thoughts crawled in my mind in these couple of days. I was just thinking, this is another ugly side of the gracious society, gracious in the most superficial form maybe. But layers and layers of its ugliness is peeling off slowly. And im a piece of this ugly society as well. When family is concerned, I love them very much but this family is just immediate family members. I haven really taken into account or really cherish those in the extended family line. My uncle told me before..sometimes its just the parents who didnt set a strong foundation for this extended family ties. Well, thats a factor partially but i wun say it constitutes all to the fragile familial ties. Yes, its fragile for one that hasnt been really v strong. For me and even the whole family as a whole. Can I say that familial ties requires some form of a reciprocation as well? Especially so for grandchildren, for nieces, nephews. We tend to love your *hmphs relatives more if we can feel the affection and attention from them and not when you get the feeling that they are smirking at you every now and then. Looking down on you and doesnt treat u like their nieces. Well, u can say that its all what we think only. But surely after more than 10 years of observance..it cant go v wrong. In this kind of situation..how to love them? nahs. Searching my conscience, yes..I dun feel that close either to my Grandma. My only grandparent who's still alive. On celebratory occassions, the 3 of us are always the earliest to leave. Oh yea..just to show face. And on certain occasions, we have our excuses to not to turn up. Its true that how many more years to go? Mum said that too. But we would just rather idle somewher else than to join in the errrr 'joy'. hahas. And i believe this scenario will get more and more typical in this whole society. hahas. Whatever it is, lets hope that we can just find that lil warmth in this extended family. Ending this post w a photo that i love! ;p addiction 11:00 PM Labels: happy food., Indelible memories, my love :), Sweet Thursday, December 13, 2007
ZOUK VIA VELVET The attempt to club was faced w a poor turn up rate again. Disappointing me initially that I've very much lost the mood to club. Its just so hard to coordinate clubbing especially with non-frequent clubbers. Not that I'm a frequent clubber..but...I've concluded that I should club w the frequent clubbers to prevent such unnecessary disappointment again. Thinking that the club was cancelled..Jer and I headed down to Marina Sq, having Secret Recipe for dinner. Introducing the yummie Irish Lamb stew, Spag Meatball, and Choc Banana cake!! Marvellous. LOve the thick layer of hmm 'spongey' choc on the top and the sides. And the Lamb Stew was tender with a sauce that doesnt let one get sick of it easily.. Oh and..I ate some meatball(beef)..must say that they are quite good,with the sauce. Hahas. Sorry but sauce is still important to me.LOL ![]() During dinner, we simply cant put our minds totally off from clubbing..While the great continued to coord..we ended our dinner...with 'yes lets go!' Zouk and Phuture were both full house by the time we got there. Or rather, Zouk got full house when we were like 10 clubbers in the queue away. That was damn shitty! Nonetheless,this didnt turn down our want to club. Went over to the velvet's queue instead! And yupps, I don really like the Trance playing Velvet. But still..hadnt got a chance to pop over to Phuture! Squeezy club I would say! Hahas, and with that limited limited space...we are still trying to display, Salsa, Reggae and Freestyles. Not to forget those jumping up and down!...After that totally shag out that I need somewher to lie on! hahas. And we had really good dancers around. The freestyle has always been good, the salsa moves are impressively done in tandem with the non-salsa music. ![]() koon (SUPER stinky) n Jer! And oops. Think I forgot and missed the chance of taking photos with the rest! But I had fun with the guys! Jer, Shaun,Edward. And the couple...though i wasnt v familiar w them still..Florence and bf. hahas. And the next day, I ended up at work SUPER tired with simply 2 hours of sleep. Quite amazed at my ability to do so. To grit through the 8.5 hours of work...with digits turning upside down on me and feeling floaty at times. Lets not be wishy-washy. 9:49 PM Labels: Club, Dine, happy food., my love :) Saturday, August 04, 2007
LIKE WHAT HAATO SAYS: FOLLOW YOUR HEART Lychee Martini MORE PHotOS FROM ZOUK THAT NITE DANCE FLOOR : koon ,Perry Out of ZOuk! : koon, Shallow KIng. ( I did smile yea) Had fun on both nights. =] Unexpected Labels: Chill, Club, Dine, Friendship, happy food., Indelible memories, my love :), Sweet Sunday, July 29, 2007
Coffee Club & First Date
LAST WEEKEND. considering this is my last weekend before sch starts unofficially, i was busy with meeting ups and meeting ups, with my deariE :] Met up with Goey on Fri for some tea-time breaks and shoppin! Chilled at cozy Coffee club at Millenia Walk. Thumbs up for the Wasabe-mayo Softshell crab and MUdpie =P. *photos to be uploaded soon!* Waitin for my dear goey to upload! (here are the photos - posted at 2.31pm.) ![]() We caught "knocked UP'' . hahas. Hilarious but gross at the part wher they actually shoot the head of the baby poppin out. aww. Sad thing was..we left CItyhall empty handed! Limited Funds for use. hahas. Thanks buddy for acompanyin me to Orchard for that mere 10 mins. =] Second meet up for Saturday. hahas. ->extravagant dinin! and movies again. Caught Simpsons without the front part. =( ;] and gosh, i had so much desserttts and sweet stuff today. forgt the photo of ice-cream.short post. im in no mmood to blog actually. ;] troubled. all by myself. Labels: Dine, ecstatic, happy food., Indelible memories, my love :), Sweet Thursday, June 28, 2007
SUMMARY Monday,25 June, 2007 Monday was my gathering with my jc friends. Specifically, its a farewell dinner for Shuwen who is now in Australia preparing for an independent way of life. It has been a long time since all of us had met up! Its counted in MONTHS!. As usual, we talked about things all under the sun, all sorta random stuff (including the topic sex, love and lust and bras etc) BUt we are still good gals, we didnt have any dirty talks yea! We settled at this Japanese resturant beside Ajisen in PS. Observe and you will realise that almost all the waiters and waitress are non-singaporeans. We got quite pissed with the kind of service they had provided. It was the first time that I gave Shuwen a hug, a tight one. Only to realise recently that one always miss the past. Always hope that we could go back, even though we used to dread the past (the present last time). No matter how dreadful, cherish them. I hope i could do this. :) PIcs of our drooling food! Especially that omelette (dunnoe the name of the dish again~) WE took turns to take photo with Shuwen that day, retaining as much of the memories as possible!________________________________________________________ Tuesday, 26 June, 2007 Tuesday was planned with the intention of playing some badminton games with Wayne at the sports complex. The court was booked at 10am! Since there were some bickering the night b4, I gave a miss at calling him, checking if he would be awake and embarkin on the journey here. Sad to say, when I reached there, there was nobody in sight even up to 10.30 am. I just cant help but cried. The feeling of being pang seh...ARGHs. The reasons for my tears were more. Bird shit fell on me and the name keychain that Jasmine made for me in Sec 1 loosen apart and fell all on the floor. (I got an 'O' missing now) It just made me felt soooo unlucky. Nothing goes in the way I want. I decided to walk home at 10.30, received a call from this lil boy. I acted that I'm alright. But this made him more guility and he rushed down to my hse. Everything went okae after some thrashin out. Becoz of the bicker again, we missed out kbox plan. We ended up at Hougang Mall, giving us some treats AGAIN before going to Popular for my RE-stock. ![]() The pasta with an egg was really special, with sauce that is unique,not too creamy. Ideal for peeps who get sick with creamy sauce. The chicken Lasagne was much better than the one at Delifrance. BUt I would say that the tomato sauce at the sides were a bit too much and the cheese could have been a bit more! And coz its Tuesday, we went indulging at the half-price waffles at GELARE! Its has been so long since I've been ther with him. :) WE had CHERRY EXPLOSION ice-cream on it. And then the day ended with a crabby dinner that my mum cooked and a game of LIFE, a board game we bought at Popular! ___________________________________________ Wednesday, 27 June, 2007 Got a haircut in the morning and went KBOX in the afternoon. At night, we played the game of LIFE again at my house, with POh HUP! **surprised* So paiseh when wayne asked me to msg him and see if He's ok to come. us. Labels: Bitter, Dine, Emo.., Friendship, happy food., Past Relationship |
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