NY Gift

The bacteria infection has knocked me out the whole week.

During the initial few days, I had varied symptoms every day... Day 1 - dry sticky throat.  Day 2 - throat congested with phlegm & a lil sore nasal path.  Day 3 - Kept sneezing for whole day with phlegm in throat.  Day 4 - Super runny nose & lots of phlegm in throat.  Day 5 - Nose completed congested.. couldn't breathe!  Day 6 - Runny nose & high fever.  Doses of medicine made me drowsy & disoriented.  Day 7, 8 & 9 - nose congested with thick mucus & lots of phlegm in chest.  For more than a week, hot water was my best friend & I went dessertless.  And I had soupy meals throughout.  It's pay back time.  I've had too much curry, deep fried food,desserts & chips.  There's a period, I wouldn't go to sleep without a bowl of our sea salt potato chips. Tsk tsk tsk.....
What a gift I got myself for the new year :(

I started to feel better today & had 2 treats of PS. Café desserts.  Greedy!  Seeing that I was sick & down for a week long, Cynthia wanted to cheer me up so treated me to the first at PS. Café A.S.H Park after lunch.

Indulged in my 2nd dessert of the day with beloved after dinner at Palais - ginger pudding + carrot cake :P 

 

I better be good as definitely don't wanna be sick during CNY.

And A Merry New Year!

She said she never liked festives when partnerless & I thought she sounded a lil melodramatic.  Told her that Christmas & CNY were mostly family affairs... so we should enjoy the time spent with family instead.

But I realized she's not totally wrong & I wasn't totally right.  It does matter... especially when you once had that someone special to celebrate those festivals with.

So yes, I thank God that I was able to spend Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve & New Year's Day with hubby.  The streets & malls were packed with merrymakers... couples/families... Indeed one would be swamped if she/he is lonely at heart. 
So I felt really blessed ....

We worked half day on NYE... then had a 3-hr session @ K Suites in the afternoon.  No fancy dinner (we had chicken rice as it's the least crowded place! hehe) ... Then desserts at 阿秋甜品 at Liang Seah Street.. it's usually long Q but that night it's almost empty.  And it's a cold rainy night... what a good time to have some hot 糖水.   After that, we returned home for some beer + TV.  Contented. :)

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Had a nice family outing to spend the last Sunday of 2012.  We visited Gardens by the Bay.  Hubby & I weren't very interested in visiting but didn't want to be spoilsport.  It turned out better than we expected as it's the company that mattered ;)  And we brought our Galaxy camera for her first assignment! :D

 

A nice family pic!

 

Hubby playfully intruded into Ivan's & Con's pic taking.. haha.

 



Hot Wings

This the best buffalo wings hubby & I've ever had so far...

From Cornerstone Restaurant @ Bishan Park 2.  Can choose spicy level from 1 to 8 or 9 (can't remember).

Yummy!

Crème brûlée is very nice too! (nicer than sis'... oopss :P)

Always A Snack Time

Last Mon hubby & I went for comprehensive health screening, that's from his company.  And I was just shocked to discover that I'd put 3kg in the past 1 year!!!! 

Actually I shouldn't be too surprised as there's always endless supply of bites in the office.  Besides those bought by the ladies, my team travels frequently & here're some of the snacks they brought back for the past 2 months..

Nice chocolate from Bulgaria. 

V brought this back from Melbourne & I love it!  So placed an order to K who went back to Sydney to work for 2 weeks.  Nice!

And he also bought Lamington.

Chongqing tidbits from Sha.

Even Jen who visited HK, brought some nice egg rolls back.

Goldilocks from Manila.

This the latest (last Thurs).  Boss bought this in Osaka & he asked his wife to specially deliver a box each to E & I as he made his next trip without stepping into the office.  It's something like mochi in original & green tea flavour but a lil too sweet.  I'm touched though :)

Tea Time

In the evening after a series of grooming appointments & dinner. And the schedule was so tight that we'd no time to catch lunch.

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I/C Treat

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Enjoyed double dose of my fav - Pistachio Almond :-)

Another Lazy Sat afternoon ...

@ PS Cafe at A.S.H Park.

Crushed mint lime soda, Lemon ginger beer, Truffle fries & M's carrot & ginger cake... :)

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Monday Treat!

The waffle is just as good as the banana walnut & macadamia nuts ice cream!

It managed to make up for the disappointing dinner we had :)

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De Thé et ...

Think recently I'm obsessed with tea.  To be exact.. I'm obsessed with having tea with my beloved & I like it in a nice, relaxing ambiance.  Our fav is Earl Grey but sometimes I'm in the mood to try different types of specialty teas.

This the latest that we went to over the weekend where we had a good 2-hour (though the place is a lil too cramped)...

ANTOINETTE, Parisian patisserie and salon de thé

I had Geisha Earl - bergamot + orange blossoms + lemon peels + sencha base.  Nice.

Hubby took Earl Grey d'antoinette.  Pretty unique but too flowery scented.

We enjoyed the all day breakfast - eggs with sautéed onion & mushroom... & the french toasts with salty caramel & crème Chantilly completed the great makan experience :)

Long awaited Reunion

With my Strawberry Cheesecake from Relish :D

Relish @ MyVillage

twelve cupcakes

A lil farewell gift for the tea lady in my office; yesterday was her last day of work.

She, from China, had been very nice.  During the few weeks when I was coughing very badly, she served me 2 pots of hot water (1 in morning, 1 in afternoon)... I'm very grateful because only Partners & Directors are served with beverages.

Some pretty cupcakes & God's words for her :)

D Addiction

I've always been a dessert lover.  Tong sui, cakes, ice cream .........

So when I was finally feeling better from the month-long cough (& after sans sweet stuff for slightly more than a month), I gave myself a generous treat of dessert!

Last Fri night (8 Jun), I had panna cotta @ Caffé B, MBS.

On the same night before heading home, minutes before midnight, I'd a nutty cheese cake at High Society. 

I think the panna cotta I had earlier was a lil too small to satiate me, hehe.

The next day, while waiting for hubby who's attending a movie event at Lido, I enjoyed a Strawberry Shortcake @ Canelé + 1 pot of Chamomile + 1 pot of Lemongrass decaf tea :)

We've bought a tub of durian ice cream before our KL trip.  But I've been sick since then.  We did manage to relish a bit during the week when I felt better.. just a few spoonful.

The whole tub is still waiting for us in the freezer ....

The worst dessert I've had for the past 2 weeks gotta be this from The Canopy.

With whipped cream, black glutinous rice & fruits.  Those marshmallow lookalike were some sugary biscuits didn't blend in with the dessert at all.

Guess I was too greedy too fastt... & I was surrounded by many virus carriers in office while I was still weak.. my cough had, yet another, relapse :(((

After another week of coughing, now I'm better.. with doses of western & TCM medicine & some herbal tea specially brewed by mum (she went all the way to Chinatown to buy the necessary herbs)... and I gotta be good, at least for a while more ;P