Showing posts with label Time with Hubby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Time with Hubby. Show all posts

Friday, 12 August 2016

Happy Birthday Hubby

While it is hubby's birthday, he took half day leave just so I could take a break from the baby duties. I could go out to meet my colleagues and run some errands. Very thankful for what he did and I always look forward to my alone time, to do my own things, to meet my friends. Helps to keep my sanity and I will not show too much temper when caring for the fussy baby at times. I felt bad scolding the 2 months old but there were moments I really felt like letting it out. :(

Anyway, I treasures the time given and went to office to meet some colleagues. Had a good catch-up with Bo and he was very kind to buy me my Coke and Sandwiches! :) Great pal. Then I also went back to office to distribute the cake vouchers to those who have shown their love for Eden. Perhaps next time when I am more confident, I should bring the little baby to office to see them. 

I also went to shop for a birthday cake for hubby. Not quite satisfied seeing what they had at Bengawan, Four Leaves and Bread Talk. Luckily there is a Rive Gauche at Tampines One. Managed to get this Fruit Charlotte cake for him! I had this for my birthday at office, and it was delicious. So this time, I got it for hubby. The rest of the family enjoyed the cake too. It was refreshing with the generous fruits topping and not-too-sweet fluffy cake. 

Happy Birthday, hubby and thanks for doing this for me!!! First birthday with Baby Eden!




Good to see Evans being so cheeky and active,
recovering well from HFMD

Monday, 28 March 2016

Abalone Noodles


Thank you to hubby for helping me to cook the A1 Abalone noodles. Though it was an instant noodles, I appreciate him cooking for me while I just packed for work stuff. I felt "hungry" after watching the MasterChef Asia. Not sure if it was an excuse or I really felt hungry but I just felt like eating. Even thinking about ordering Mac delivery but we would need to order quite a lot for the delivery to take place. :(

Anyway, the noodles managed to satisfy my "hunger pangs" for now. I better go sleep soon so that I don't start searching for more food!

Friday, 26 April 2013

Buffet, Shopping & Movie with Hubby

Took leave yesterday. Have wanted to go for a long lunch and then movie with hubby.

Since the last visit to Kiseki with BL and Irene, I have been raving about the food and I think that tempted hubby a little. So yesterday, we went there for lunch. 

The restaurant was not very packed when we were there but the crowd built up in no time! And for the first stop, I "introduced" my hubby to my favourite segment of the buffet..... SASHIMI! Hubby and I enjoyed the lunch. He also found the sashimi fresh but thought the salmon was sliced too thick. Kind of got sick after a while.  We agreed that the food here was so much better than the 1st visit we had years back, at Heeren.
sashimi and more sashimi

tempura and chicken balls

Too busy eating... did not really take a lot of photos this time round. But I must say besides the sashimi, I liked its Yakitori sticks. Very tender chicken skewer! Another surprise was the waffle which I did not get to try the last time. It was thick yet springy. Tasted perfect on its own. But I had it with a scoop of ... ... CHOCOLATE ice cream! YAY! There was chocolate ice cream this time round. And there was another new flavour, BLACK SESAME. I did not try that but hubby did and he said it was nice. I did not really expect the waffle to be yummy, especially in buffet like this. But it was!
dessert time!

happy hubby

Not sure if it was because we ate too much or we did not have any coffees, we felt tired in the afternoon.

Just felt lazy while shopping around for my wallet. I have been trying to find the perfect wallet for myself since the last one was spoilt. And this one I am using is an old Adidas wallet which is slowly "disintegrating" as well. It sheds "dandruffs" into my bag so I think it's better to buy a new one soon.
But all the walk went futile. Did not really find anything I like very much. So gotta keep looking!

Had Ya Kun's Kopi O before heading to PS for Iron Man 3. We did not have dinner, just light snacks for the movie, i.e. Meatballs combo (with COKE). First time trying that, it was ok but as usual $7.50 for that, we rather sneaked in MacDonalds. :P
waiting for the train to PS for movie

We watched Iron Man 3. I enjoyed the movie despite bearing with the urge to pee towards half of the show. I very much wanted to run to the toilet but I did not want to miss the excitement, plus I was seated almost in the middle of the row which made it very challenging for me to run out. So I held on and tried to distract myself but focusing on the movie. And when the time came with the credits up, I dashed out and thankfully the exit was just next to the toilet with many cubicles!!! I spared no time and.. ... WHAT A RELIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But sigh, I MISSED THE LAST SCENE! Yes there was a last scene after the credits, which nowadays movies like to do that! It's like keeping the audience in suspense and having something unexpected coming up at the last scene so that audience will stay through till the end. But this tactics was getting kind of common. Sometimes, we waited till the end for nothing. LOL. Anyway hubby tried to share with me the last scene.

What do I think about this movie? It's of the Iron Man's standard. The effects were good and the story line was ok. I enjoyed the action but it is not a movie which I will think about in time to come. Just like any other super heroes movies, I guess, they do not leave much of an impression in me. But Robert Downey Jr was charming and Gwyneth Paltrow was gorgeous, that was for sure.

A bit of digression. Before I met hubby for lunch, I went to Mt Elizabeth to visit Tracy and her baby! She gave birth on 23 Apr evening. Little fellow weighs 2.7KG and 50cm long. Cutie! No name yet because he was out 2 weeks early. It was nice talking to Tracy and EK and also seeing little Ah Boy sleeping so nicely was a bliss.

CONGRATS TO TRACY AND EK!

Sunday, 21 April 2013

Causeway Bay HK Cafe (Centrepoint)

Last Friday after the badminton session, I met hubby for dinner at Centrepoint. He has bought a groupon for this restaurant  "Causeway Bay 铜锣湾“.

HK cafe

It was a simple HK cafe located next to TCC. There were many items in the menu, I was spoilt for choices. But I knew I did not want to have any rice so I ordered the beef gongzai mee. Looking at the picture, it looked appealing. When waitress asked if I wanted the "ma2 La4" version. I thought why not, and it was really very MA2 LA4!
very spicy gongzai mee

The mee's texture was just nice, I do not like overcooked mee which will turn out to be soggy and limp. But I was eating the mee with tears in my eyes. Just too spicy for me. I felt like my lips were swelling up. Hubby enjoyed its soup though. He, on the other hand ordered the pork ribs rice. Portion was small. Did not think he would be full. Luckily we had 2 side dishes.
happy hubby to go on a date with me, hehehe

ke le ji (cola wings)
Cola Wings to share
sweet sauce prawn rolls
tickled by the sms his colleague sent

The side dishes were sweet so they were not really that big a deal. I thought the cola wings would taste special but they were just sweet, no cola flavour. The prawn rolls, on the other hand, was sticky sweet with sesame. Good that we shared these, if not I would get too sick of them.

Nice little cafe with not much of a crowd, given it was a Friday. Do not mind to go there again for a simple, quiet dinner.

Friday, 15 March 2013

On Half Day Leave

It felt like a much needed break, spent with hubby. It has been quite a while since we spent an afternoon like this, karaoke, movie and dinner. It wasn't a good start at work but I am glad to have taken the half day off. It's not to escape from the "problems" but more to rest my mind.

We went to watch a movie by Steve Carrell, Jim Carey and Steve Buscemi, "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone". As always, Steve Carrell's show gives me the kind of humour I love. Some might be lame but they were hilarious. And I think my hubby was extremely entertained whenever Jim Carey appeared in the show. Hubby made a good movie choice cos' humour was definitely what I needed. But the karaoke cum lunch session at kbox was not too timely because my throat was itchy, thus I couldn't sing much. But, it wasn't wasteful because it was only $5 per pax for 2 hrs singing with lunch set.

Our K-Box Lunches

After the movie, we got to shop around Marina Square and we saw a group of people setting up a Balloon Landscape at the centre atrium. Colourful and cheery. Evans would have loved this!
The Balloons Galore at Marina Square Central Atrium
Spending couple time

Finally we settled our dinner at the food court. Had my Japanese Set - Teppanyaki Saba Fish set which Bo has earlier recommended. For $6 I thought it was quite worth it to have the whole fish.
Simple but satisfying dinner

Tomorrow will be back to reality at work. I hope I will be able to end the day off with positive energy and plans for the work ahead. We will be having our retreat at RC tomorrow afternoon. Let's see what our takeaways will be.