ali's birthday!

ali is finally 20 woots! HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY ALI (:

we had dinner at watami, which was so so satisfying and of course, wonderful desserts at tom's palette (: here are all the photos i took tonight! thank you for being part of my life hubbers, you are really a treasured group of friends <3

and thanks for expanding the group with your other halves heh heh heh!

the group + the other halves (: 

last one of the bday girl! <3

happy birthday suaku

it was suaku shawn's 22nd birthday! YAY! so... we decided to surprise him (ok maybe its not a very surprising surprise) with a simple birthday lunch! we met like 1 hour before our supposed meeting time to grab him a little present from Tampines 1, before heading to Bakerzin for lunch! 

Guess the most hilarious part came when we were whassaping him, pretending that we were all on our way there and complaining about him being late, when we were actually sitting inside Bakerzin already! Suaku shawn really believed that all of us were early! (i mean seriously, how could it be that jieling is earlier than he is! hahaha!)

tried different effects on this post as i thought i should just try to make things a little more interesting here (: too bad if it sucks!

and our food arrived (:

 and ter, we have never forgotten you (:

birthday girls!

Today was another day out with the Starhub gang (: we decided to try this new "xiaolongbao buffet" ($16.80++, comes up to about $19.80 per person). Ok, numerical value wise, it may not seem cheap, but considering that they offer food items like xiaolongbao and wasabi prawns in their buffet menu... it does seem quite a deal isn't it? Furthermore, its cheaper than the Crystal Jade XiaoLongBao buffet over at Holland V. So why not?? (:

Anyway, this restaurant is called Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant, which apparently is a culinary icon over at Shanghai (like how DingTaiFeng is legendary in Taiwan). So far, the only outlet that seem to offer this buffet is the one at City Square Mall, right above Farrer Park MRT (:

here's the buffet menu, you can check it out (:

think i need to grow my fringe, even jasper's is longer than mine now. >:(

this is their interior design. a pity i forgot to take more shots ):

it was FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD! check out some of the dishes we ate!

steamed egg with clams which was YUMMSSSS

a cold dish: poacked chicken something... hahaha.

cold dish as well: beancurd with century egg

homemade style beancurd which was quite tasty too! comes with thai sweet chilli and mayo!

shanghai fried rice and it was yums too! haha pity we didnt try the other rice and noodles ):

and now, here are the mains! XIAO LONG BAO!! teehee! compared to the Crystal Jade's Xiao Long Baos, this one's skin (only at the opening) is slightly thicker than normal. But nevertheless, there is A LOT of soup within each XLB (Y) and the meat is rather tasty! they have 3 types of XLB, and yes we tried all three- pork, pork and vegetable and mushroom! the mushroom XLB is probably the most interesting of the lot! the soup tastes like mushroom broth and i thought it was really quite yummy! you probably can only get it over here! haha

PORK XIAOLONGBAO!

MUSHROOM XIAOLONGBAO

wasabi prawns! and i am surprised at the quality. it was really nice i must say!

and these are barely a quarter of what we ate. 5 of us ate $400 worth of food (yes, crazy!) and we were sooo bloated. We ended up watching a movie to chill and let the food settle.

The sneaky boys planned to celebrate me and jieling's birthday and they secretly (and it was quite a failed attempt) got us a cake each! (: THANK YOU GUYS! i know that the whole mission is quite fail, but its the thought that counts!

jieling and her chocolate cake! YUMS!

me and my cheesecake! YUMS!

they asked me to pose for a wishing shot, AND SHAWN U ARE DAMN RETARDED.

Terence is gonna leave for USA in like 3 weeks time. AWWWW /: it will be like another year or so till we see him again. While we will continue having uber fun outings without him (oops!), he will truly be missed when he's gone. SO TER, COME BACK FOR ME AND JIELING'S 21ST BDAY!!

Girls' Day Out

after so long, me Jieling and Alicia (aka ali)  finally had a proper Girls' Day Out (yes, without the intrusion of the boys!) and the guys just HAD to nag at us going out without them, but seriously, i think they will be soooo bored hanging out with us on a GDO (:

we lunched at Shokudo since they had some lunch special at $8.90 for Students. then proceeded to Haji Lane (YAYY!!!) 

see my prettaye girls <3<3<3

and what's a trip to Haji Lane without some yummy ice cream from Pluck?? That's prolly the best place to chill out in Haji Lane. Ok, I haven't actually tried the other cafes along Haji Lane, the ice cream at Pluck is just too good to miss <3 Check out their website here !

My all-time favourite in Pluck is the Lychee Martini Ice cream with REAL LYCHEE BITS <3 YUMS! but this time round, we tried 4 different flavours- Dark Chocolate, Cuppa Break (coffee flavoured), Salted Caramel (mixed with yummy almond bits) and Earl Grey&Fig (which was like OMG HEAVENLY!). 

A Girl's Day Out never so satisfying <3 Lets go out soon behind the guys' backs again WHEEE!

Happy 22nd Jasper!

The birthday boy was such a spoil sport. Refusing to come out with us and playing hard to get... Tsk Tsk! But with Ter's help, we managed to get him out of the house to celebrate his birthday (: HAPPY 22ND J***E*. (:

Steamboat was on the menu today! (and it was our opportunity to give ter his $5 sharkfin) We met up at TM to do some shopping and headed right to Shawn's place to start preparing before the Birthday Boy came (:  And... I am so proud of myself for volunteering to handle the meat (: One step closer to becoming a domestic goddess!

Ter also introduced this SUPER UBER NICE JAP SNACK (: haha slightly spicy and salty.. BUT I LIKE!

 And just look at all the food we prepared, just for 5 people. it was just sooooooooooo difficult to finish it but we did anyway! Good job me, to helping to clear the food but it certainly burst my calorie budget ):

 And now, we are just waiting for the food to start boiling before we begin our feast! 

 And the Birthday Boy is just MEGA MEGA TIRED! haha must be all the school activities during the holidays! But oh well, this is a pretty chillax birthday celebration (:

 No pictures during meal time as i thought it would be rather disruptive. But anyway, we had some baileys and  Jasper just refused to drink after his freak drunk accident. I ended up drinking 2 cups for him. Zzzz. 

And then, its finally time to cut cake! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASPER ONCE AGAIN!