Balithai @ Ion Orchard (28/Jul/09)

Went Ion Orchard with Nana on Tuesday for dinner and shopping.
Wanted to try the restaurants there, like Aoba Hokkaido Ramen, Watami, etc,
but Watami's opening is on 30/Jul and the rest of the restaurants were having super long queues.
Finally settled on Balithai as there was no queue and I was famishing and ready to faint from hunger.


ice lime tea cooler


tauhu telor



chicken tom yam soup



green chicken curry set



beef rendang set

Ajisen @ Bugis and Aston Prime @ Centrepoint (26/Jul/09)

Went Bugis for lunch after service with Bobo and Dawn.
We finally decided on Ajisen:

sushi


fried silver fish

Hokkaido butter corn ramen

After lunch, Bobo and Dawn went shopping at Bugis and later at Orchard.

I meet them at Orchard for dinner.

Ashton Prime has a new outlet at Centrepoint.

I always go to Ashton but never Ashton Prime, so decided to give this a try.
I didn't order their steak that day, frankly speaking, I was quite disappointed with their dishes.

butter mushroom (I never expect the mushroom to be like this!!! super disappointed")

onion rings

Dawn ordered the "Ieatsuperburger" after alot of raves from me

Bobo ordered the spaghetti

I ordered the chicken provencal which comes in 2 side dishes

fries (turns out to be soggy) and

mac n cheese (the shell pasta was undercooked and hard)

Total disappointed as I've always like Ashton.

Don't think I will go there again, but I will still go Ashton.

Macdonald's Happy Meal Toy

Collect all 36 of Hello Kitty History..
Don't know whether it comes free with each happy meal or you have to pay.
9 items will be launch every week.
Like that how to eat??!!!
9 items per week and I have only 7 days a week!!!!!
Arghh....sickening!!!

Bershka is coming to town

Bershka, the sister brand of Zara under Inditex Group in Spain is coming to Singapore!!
RSH is bringing this brand to Singapore. (They are also the ones who brought in Zara, etc)
They are opening their 1st Southeast Asia store at Ion, Orchard.

Actually, I have not been to any of their shops in Europe, cos I have not been to Europe :'(
but I have heard so much from Dawn and Dean about this brand,
so I'm kind of looking forward to their opening in Ion.
Hopefully, their pricing will be cheaper or at least on par with Zara and Pull & Bear.

Just for general information, Inditex Group owns Zara, Massimo Dutti, Bershka and Pull & Bear.

Sidetrack: no sight of H&M at Ion, Orchard. Rumours that they might not be coming after all,
Mixed feeling, one part of me wants H&M to come and the other part of me don't want H&M to come.
Feeling is the same when Uniqlo came to Singapore...

Journey to the West (25/Jul/09)

Spent 3/4 of my Sat at the west.
My sis and I decided to go to the Da Vinci Exhibition at Singapore Science Centre.
We went to Jurong Point 1st for lunch.

BentoBox:
cheap food, but not really fantastic, I find the food too salty for me.

2 dishes set (only $9.90)

my sis ordered the teriyaki and salmon set

3 dishes set (only $12.90)

pork cutlet, fried chicken

and grilled salmon

we also ordered gyoza as side dish


Then it's off to Science Centre!!

I have only been to Science Centre once when I was in primary school.

We went to the Omini Theatre 1st for the Van Gogh documentary.

We were lucky that they were showing this as Van Gogh is one of my sis's favourite artist.
And due to her influence, I have learn to appreciate his paintings.

The paintings that are being displayed outside the Omini Theatre:

my favourite Van Gogh painting : Starry Starry Night

I think the song "Starry Starry Night" was inspired by this painting.

also on display was part of the room of Van Gogh

The left side is the display and the right side is the painting that he did on his room

The mini documentary was about 40 mins and

I've learnt more about Van Gogh's life and his painting.

Next we head down to the Da Vinci Exhibition.

We spent almost 2 hours plus inside the exhibition until the closing time: 6pm.

The exhibition area is not really big, but there were lots of things to see.

Too bad we were unable to take any photographs inside the exhibition.


After the exhibition, my understanding of Da Vinci is not limited to

"Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper", "Virgin of the rock" and "The Vitruvian Man".

I have learnt why he is called "The greatest Genius of all times".

He is not only an artist,

he is also an engineer, scientist, mathematician,

inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect and more.

In the exhibition, I have also know more on the mysteries

of "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper".

And I have also learnt more of Da Vinci's works and inventor.

He is truly a genius.

After the exhibition, we decided to go Orchard to check out Ion.

But 1st, we had our break at "Mr Teh Tarik" at Tiong Bahru.

of course we had to order the Teh Tarik

my egg, onion prata

My Birthday Celebration @ Tracy's house (22/Jul/09)

Celebrated my birthday again with the gals!! I was on leave and went Tracy's house early.
The rest of the gals, Dawn, Junie, Nana and Bobo went there after work.
Tracy specially cooked for us that day!!!

handmade chocolates..Yummy!!! my favourite...

wasabi mayo prawns

curry fried chicken

our dinner: Hokkaido cream vegetables and fried curry chicken.

Simply delicious meal

猫山王durians...

Birthday gal don't like durians but her friends loved it.

And nope, I did not surcome to the "temptation"...

My birthday gifts from Dawn