I’m terrible at updating this space! Really wanted to update before flying off on a trip with the bf two weeks back but couldn’t find time as I had to rush a couple of launches, pack all parcels, tie up all loose ends before I could go on the trip at ease! More on our trip soon! Didn’t take much photos but we had a handful of adventures of our own that I’d love to share! Anyway, some pics from the dimsum lunch with the girlfriends one weekend at Yan Ting, St Regis Hotel! After hearing lots of raves about this place, we thought we should check it out! Unfortunately, we were left disappointed! Only the baked BBQ pork puffs were good, the rest were pretty average. Royal China definitely beat Yan Ting hands down! While prices wise they may be about the same, the dimsum at Royal China are so much yummier with custard buns that are to die for! :)
OOTD: Dress: coming soon on The Label Junkie, sandals: F21, bag & necklace: BKK.
Brunch with the girls at Arbite a few weeks back! Looking at these pictures just made my mouth water! Haha, if you ever go there, the eggs benedict are a must! They’re so yummy! The breakfast set and caramel banana pancakes are okay, nothing extra special but still pretty decent! Plus the food and beverages there are pretty cheap as well! Surprisingly, it wasn’t packed on a Saturday afternoon! So we did what we did best, lazing the afternoon away, having a good chat over tea for a couple of hours. :)
OOTD: Lace peterpan pleated top & high waist shorts from The Label Junkie
Spent the favorite holiday season of the year at two cosy house parties! On the eve, together with the bf and his brothers we whipped up a pretty delicious meal! Albeit simple, but at least we didn’t rely on the microwave and it was surprisingly good! Rest of the day was spent playing Cluedo and SC2. What else to do at the geek house! And on the 25th, the girls had a small house party at Tiffany’s and whipped up a microwaved dinner! LOL our cooking skills are too fail. It was a simple and cosy affair with lots of laughter playing Wii, catching up over dinner, exchanging presents and watching christmas shows till the wee hours! And yes, we were in red and green on purpose! Oh how i love christmas!
Two saturdays back, it was a really hot afternoon when we left the house for some picnic shopping. I remember thinking that it was too hot for a picnic, totally gonna faint from the heat! Lo and behold, right as we stepped foot into the botanic gardens, we heard thunder!!! -_- Really?! Despite the warning from the skies, we hastened our footsteps, found a nice area and set up our mini picnic! We barely sat down for 10 mins, and only took about 20 photos before it started pouring!! We haven’t even eaten yet! LOL hurriedly, we packed everything up & had to walk all the way back to the entrance where we came from. We did, however, have a blast having a picnic under shelter from then on. What an adventure. :)
OOTD: Lace peterpan top & mustard crochet shorts both from The Label Junkie!
Had brunch with the girlfriends one weekend at Barracks Cafe and we all agreed the high tea buffet is so much more worth it! Nonetheless, the 7 layer pancakes was awesome, packed with nuts, cranberries, blueberries, blackberries and loads of maple syrup, it was yummy but extremely sinful! We also ordered the smoked turkey swiss skinny pizza as the smoked turkey canapes we had during the buffet was so good, but the pizza was full of vege and very little turkey ham! And as for the caramel banana cake, it was good but the portion was so small! Would definitely be back for the buffet instead! Oh and we met Jamie Yeo and her family who were dining next to us and she’s so pretty and friendly, her baby girl was so adorable!
OOTD: One of my favorite dresses from The Label Junkie
Few weekends ago, I had brunch with the girlfriends at Antoinette @ Mandarin Gallery! Was very much disappointed by the food. The Antoinette’s breakfast set was kinda worth it, comes with 3 pieces of bread & a drink on top of the main course for just $20, but it was average at best. The pancakes were absolutely terrible but the Scrambled Egg Gratin was surprisingly awesome! We also had a slice of Le Royale for dessert and it was fantastic! Will definitely come back for its cakes & macaroons the next time round! Yay to girlfriends time! :)
Last saturday, met the girls at Raffles Hotel to indulge in dimsum at Royal China. I was terribly late and couldn’t get a cab for like half an hour! It was soo bad, almost didn’t wanna turn up already because I was so pissed off. Didn’t think the highly raved dimsum was that great. Or perhaps, the bar has been set really high after visiting HK where I could easily find a dim sum eatery that would beat this hands down! The only plus point was its Tiffany blue walls and white furniture, very pretty!
Outfits from L-R: H&M, Agneselle, F21, The Label Junkie
I previously wrote about the outdoors of the high tea buffet at Demsey Barracks Cafe which was so pretty! See Part I here. So here’s the follow up indoors which had a totally different feel. While the outside was quaint, cosy and vibrant, indoors, the cafe was minimalistic and kept simple with its draping lights and white furniture and walls except for this huge ass table in the middle of the cafe (pictured above). The food was awesome! Included in the high tea buffet was also a drink of your choice. I had a pot of white rose tea which was refillable. Sadly, it’s only available on Thursdays & Fridays or I’d see myself frequenting this cafe!
Outfit of the day: On Ally: H&M dress, Chanel Bag. On Tiffany: Hollyhoque Maxi, F21 sandals.
Before my tumblr becomes an instagram (totally awesome!) feed, I thought I’d better get down to posting something for a change! So Tiffany and I took a break off work last Thursday to indulge in some high tea loving at Demsey House Barracks Cafe. Living the life of a tai tai for a day, we had a REALLY good high tea buffet in the middle of the day, and then splurged on shopping till all the shops closed. Ah, such is life.. Anyway, its really hard to only post 10 pics of such a pretty place, so here’s Part I - Barracks Cafe Outdoors. :)
Sunday brunch with the girlfriends at Spruce, Tanglin Road. It’s near town, but still extremely ulu & inaccessible! Nothing a cab ride can’t solve though. The food was average! I shared the eggs benedict on waffle & the banana pancakes while they had the english breakfast set. The food was ok, not too bad, but not that great either. But I thought the service was extremely atrocious! We wanted to change our seats after eating from the outdoors to the indoors to have some coffee and chat for a lil longer because it was freaking humid & they had lots of room indoors, but they refused and gave us a ridiculous excuse that the tables were for high tea ONLY. Great, so we brought our $$ elsewhere since it wasn’t appreciated there! We then headed to ION’s coffee bean for more coffee and chit chat, great day out :)
Cairns day 3, we woke up at an unearthly hour of 4am to catch the ride up to the Tablelands mountains where we chased after the first batch of hot air balloons. Then it was our turn to get into the basket and enjoy Queensland from a bird eyes’ view. It was remarkable! On board, we camwhored like crazy, not only because the view was magnificent, but because it was the 1st time we actually rode one! It was a great experience. Our “pilot” even whistled to wake those cute little wild kangaroos from their sleep to greet us :)
Cairns Day 2, we went snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef! The reef was magnificent and a little overwhelming! We rented an underwater camera and took like 200+ pics. Pity I could only post 10 here. Anw, we met the star of the trip, Wally, this super HUGE blue-green fish with a really ugly forehead. It was so big, it was kinda scary, but he was really friendly. :)
BKK was awesome, but really really tiring (which explains my hiatus yet again)! We spent our last baht way too early on the last day and had to go to the airport earlier because we were broke LOL. Thankfully we did, the SIA crew allowed us check in 60kg worth of luggage w/o any persuasion or fees needed! :) Ok, way off topic. So day 2 of Cairns saw us cruising for an hour to the outer great barrier reef for us to snorkel the whole day away. It was an awesome scenic ride! Snorkeling pics up next post!
I just realised that around this time last year, the bf & I were frantically getting ready for our 1 mth long Eurotrip! Oh how time flies, I haven’t even blogged about the trip nor upload finish the photos on fb, how shameful! Not to mention the Taiwan trip in June, and now that I’ll be leaving for BKK tomorrow, I thought I better get this Cairns trip going before I never get around to it! So this was our day one, as you can see from our horrid eye bags, we were absolutely exhausted after our flight and so we took things real slow. We had breakfast, checked out Rusty’s Market & bought some fruits, explored the city & the pier before going grocery shopping & preparing dinner! Then again, there was only this much we could fit in when all the shops close at 5pm :(
Went Cairns, Australia with the girlfriends last week in a bid to break the monotony of working life & it was awesome! :) We had so much fun taking the boat far out into the vast ocean where we snorkeled at the outer great barrier reef & saw this humongous fish called Wally amongst the really beautiful corals & other fish. We also went on board a hot air balloon marveled at the gorgeous landscape from a bird’s eye view! The adventurous us screamed our lungs out while white water rafting down Barron River where I fell into the water at one point, how shameful :( We spent a bomb on all these activities but they were worth it! More details on the next post (I hope).