Loh Gong Zai and his Mrs cooks for me again!

Got invited by loh gong zai and minako to head to their place for a christmas meal cooked by them. Also got to befriend a new friend Kayo!



Minako is amazing in preparing the food.. they are nicely decorated like those from hotels!


































a lovely meal!































after dinner was movie time with Gorzilla! nice show - Women who flirt!

Nam Nam with Ah Mah Pig & Gorzilla!

a quick gathering with Gorzilla and Ah mah pig! We had nam nam! The wonderful thing about Gorzilla being vegetarian is, he will gladly finish the baguette and noodles and leave all the balls for me! I am so hooked onto nam nam's pork and beef balls!































It was a short meet up but always loads of laughter and fun! These are the kind of company i'd like to keep!

Loh gong zai's birthday celebration 2014 with his 2 wives @ Arossa!

I did something rather exciting this afternoon and if anything comes out of it, i will share it at a later time.

Today is loh gong zai's belated birthday celebration and we headed to Arossa at Scotts Square...



it was a nice cozy quiet restaurant. The door host who was probably a japanese wasn't particularly friendly but the rest of the staffs did make sure that we had a good time. There was this Malaysian guy whom i forgot to take down his name, his service was excellent. He was friendly and offered us good suggestions to our meal.



we were first served a basket of bread with some olive dippers. I like the dippers a lot!









for starters we shared a burrata cheese with parma ham. Which was decent (kind of hard to go wrong with this dish)...




for pastas, we ordered 3 different pastas and they were all pretty amazing.

Minako chose a crab meat linguine... cooked in tomato cream sauce ($22)




it is done kind of al dente stayle. the noodles were springy and the sauce was great.



i chose for loh gong zai a spinach blackened ravioli with lobster stuffings cooked in a lobster bisque sauce ($28). It was so amazing as well!






the skin was thin and the texture was just right. the lobster fillings were also a decent amount. The lobster bisque was just right. Not too blend neither was it too much. It was great!



I had the parppardelle with beef cheeks in red win sauce ($25)....






check out how thin the parppardelle is. It was so good i felt like i could cry. hahahaha.. as in i really felt like i can eat this every day! The texture was so bouncy and i felt so touched by the texture - i know it sounds really exageratting but i really like it alot!



we also ordered a T-Bone steak rack to share ($128). The T-bone steak unfortunately also made me cry - In a bad way. It was so lousy! Firstly, the steak did not have that typical beefy taste that racks generally come with. The addition of the balsamic vinegarette made it worse. For that price im sorely disappointed.....









it was so bad that even the fatty parts did not have that strong beefy taste. The fries were nice though.



managed to pull together a little surprise for loh gong zai, thanks to the staffs...















loh gong zai is a lucky chap! how many guys can have their 2 wives get together so cohesively?? hahahaha









Happy Birthday my loh gong zai! Thanks for being the great friend that you are! BFF FOREVER!

Catching up with Frances @ Luke's!

the long awaited lunch date with Frances. Frances is a wonderful person to chat with because she's always funny and very much a creative person.

Frances...



after work today, i headed to Fishy's place for my date with Pico and Nano!


Pico remains a cool baby...



but can be bribed with food!






and the mummy trying to do many fishes in my camera..






Nano on the other hand is very warm.. she was excitedly showing me around her house everywhere...




and i got to pleat her hair for her.. like Elsa! Kids are crazy over Frozen these days..

My happy pill

The most comforting thing after 3 extremely long hard days would be today. I got home and niki was there waiting for me to get home (typically she would be already getting all comfy in my parent's room and would only come out to greet me and head back to her comfy spot on my parent's bed).

And before I got to my room, she skipped to my room and automatically hopped onto my bed. Usually I would need to do a good amount of coaxing or commanding.

And my helper and my mum was telling me she seemed to have been waiting for me to get home all day, refusing to head to the rooms. And that was indeed a sweet, warm fuzzy feeling.  It's so nice to feel wanted.

So I decided against switching on my laptop but couldn't resist blogging about it.

It's not an easy period. Which means I have to work even harder.

Staying +ve

When everything seems to be not going smoothly despite how much effort is put in.

I wish it was just pms.

Trying hard to stay afloat and positive. 

Some blessings will be nice.