Life is all about experiences... (Part 2)

Yeah... back again... Ya, just wanna continue from where I left off the other time... :)

INVASION OF KERORO!!!

Ehehe... so cute... look at what Hubby bought home a few nights ago... Guess the appeal of that silly frog Keroro is still pretty strong to us... haha. Anyway, it's a box of Keroro parts to be self-assembled...it's quite cute, and Hubby managed to complete it within a short time. Now it's standing atop our Bose player in front of our CD rack. I think it makes playing music more fun...hahaha.

From top left, the box of assorted parts, then what the figurine looks like once assembled! So cute...wearing that Elvis lookalike wig and costume. Then the next 2 pics show singing Keroro placed on top of our player...so fun to see. :)

MOTHER'S DAY TREAT...

Last Sunday, Hubby and I went back to Bukit Timah to join Mummy, Papa and Beebee. Mummy had mentioned that she would like to have her Mother's Day dinner at this tofu restaurant at Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, so we all agreed on it. Before we left for the place, I passed Mummy her gift. Hubby and I came across it the same day we visited the Japanese store at Bugis. We saw this nice hand-woven bag that she could use as a shopping bag. It's got a nice pic of an elegant Japanese lady and some beautiful scenery. The store owner was also nice enough to gift wrap it for us for free. :p

Anyway, about the tofu place... it's actually a small cosy restaurant named 'Think Tofu Pte Ltd' btw...and although they specialise in tofu (they've many ways of cooking tofu...hehe, it's like a haven to us tofu lovers), they also offer other non-tofu dishes. The place isn't vegetarian, so there're meat dishes, even steak. Each dish costs $5.50 for a small but reasonable portion. The only dish we ordered that costs $10 was sweet and sour prawn balls. In fact, all their prawn dishes cost $10. We ordered 9 dishes, including a small pot of soup to share. And added to our order of steamed rice for each of the 5 of us and drinks as well, the total bill came up to only about $65. So each person's share was worth $13, and we all got to try so many dishes. Pretty cheap for a filling 9-course meal...heh. They also have family set courses but we thought we'd rather just choose our own dishes.

There's the cosy restaurant. If it's full, they also have additional tables placed in the open space outside the restaurant. It's located at #B2-18 Bukit Timah Shopping Centre (just beside Beauty World). We ordered fried fish fillet, braised tofu and mushrooms, si chuan tofu, fried cereal tofu, steamed tofu with prawn roe and broccoli, braised pork and preserved vegetables (nice! not too salty, and the meat is sliced thinly so doesn't look too fatty and oily), gyoza (meat dumplings), sweet and sour prawn balls and tofu soup with assorted mushrooms.

Actually I hadn't visited that shopping centre since goodness knows when, but was pleasantly surprised when I saw the basement level all renovated and there were even a few other restaurants around, like some Western place and even a nice Japanese restaurant that looked quite classy from the outside. Hehe, next time sure wanna go there try other stuff... yum! :P

Nice evening out with friends/colleagues...

Speaking of eating, last Friday I was out having a yummy Indonesian buffet dinner at Rice Table @ Orchard International Building #02-09/10. Tried the one located at Suntec City with Hubby before and remembered it as a yummy place, so when Theresa said she'd planned a thank-you dinner to all of us main i/cs for Chorus Line musical there, I was quite looking forward to it. Initially thought of spending the evening with Hubby since it was our 26th month wedding 'anniversary' and we rarely are able to spend time together on such special occasions, but he had accidentally made other plans so I ended up able to make it for Theresa's dinner invitation.

Met Sophia earlier and we went about window shopping (also in the hope of actually being able to get something), but all we got were many face masks for me and many pairs of eyelashes for her! Haha... but at least we managed to look around in boutiques and see interesting stuff, most of which were of course too expensive for us to buy in a hurry. :p Anyway, we continued shopping after dinner and luckily we got more rewards... I got a book at Borders for Hubby as a little anniv gift and she got herself a Calvin Klein bag that was on 20% discount at Isetan. It was so amazing watching her purchase that bag. She saw it and decided on buying it within like a single minute, though it cost a 3-digit figure! Haha...but it was fun going around shopping and looking at things with her cos we like looking at almost the same kinda stuff.. Heh.

Anyway, something funny happened at the dinner. Dunno why but one of the waiters was so quick to clear our table after our second round that he didn't even bother checking if we were totally done or what. Just barged in and took our plates and dishes away. Poor Sharon was even in the midst of digging into some dish and holding her cutlery when that guy just took them away from her. My goodness. We really were quite annoyed, so Sophia complained to the supervisor there and earned us 5 $10-vouchers. Haha... it was a surprise cos we didn't expect to earn those vouchers on the spot. Gave them to other nice senior colleagues sitting near us. Heh. It does pay to complain sometimes. Haha.

Shortly after I got home, Hubby came back with HZ... treated him to some of the most recent peanut butter and honeydew ice cream that Hubby bought from Jurong East. Nice seeing him after so long... he's quite free at home cos Jess is away doing volunteer work in Shanghai -- so admirable of her! :) I'm sure she'll have great experiences to share when she returns... ^_^

BACK TO THE PRESENT...

Ok, gtg cook dinner for Hubby and myself soon. Yesterday we went Kino and I bought a couple of recipe books there... Already went grocery shopping earlier and bought ingredients. Hoping to try out some of the recipes today and tomorrow. Ms Leong also lent me some recipe books but I left them in school. Never mind, will pore over them next week and learn some stuff. Hee. Can't wait. Also saw some salmon at the supermarket just now. Thinking of looking for some recipes that'd teach me how to deal with salmon, then try cooking that for Hubby, so he can't keep complaining that all he's eating are 'fake' meat and fish! :p

PS. Hope Beebee's having a great time at Taiwan! ;) More importantly, hope she's safe and sound... :)