Prudential Carnival @ Marina Bay,

Hello!

Guess who's being the "late bloomer" again? It was finally my turn to visit Prudential Carnival @ Marina Bay yesterday!!

The rain had just ended not long before we exited Shoppes @ Marina Bay. Thankful for the good weather after that, even though the floor was wet with puddle of water at some areas! We were wowed by the first attraction at the corner of the entrance called Mach!

It's a ride that goes 360 degree and that's not just it! Yours seats do as well. I'm sure I'd throw up if I were to be up there! Omg, no! We decided that we had stayed there enough watching the ride and people screaming above, so we proceeded to other booths.

Oh yes, the queue wasn't as long as what I read on the net last December. It's also prolly because the carnival has already been there for 3 months and most of them have already experienced the long-waiting queue moment. But seriously, for this kind of temporary carnival, it's best to be a late-bloomer because you don't even need to wait for long. I'm sure the express pass isn't even required at all.

We didn't participate in any games nor rides at all because we love to watch rather than do. Lol. But one thing that didn't stop us was the food!

I decided on roasted duck rosti and unicorn tears while Mr. Z decided on sesame popcorn chicken combo set that comes with fries & drink.

Literally popcorn and chicken! 

Finished our dinner and we made a move as there were people waiting to be seated. Continued with our stroll and was contemplating or not to spend some pennies on a sure-win-confirm-win game but I didn't want to waste the pennies on an ugly soft toy. Pug was supposed to be cute but the soft toy is soooo opposite of what the real pug is!

Left the carnival with a very sad heart because... my bottle of unicorn tears was been thrown into the bin due to some miscommunication between Mr. Z and I! T_T Headed back to the stall in hope to get another bottle with LED light to which the staff said "LED bottles are unavailable for today, would you still want to buy?" No, thanks!

In memories of my bottle of LED light - Chicago! 

Ended our night early and headed home as we were tired and nowhere to go.

Thanks for accompanying me to the carnival though it's not really your kind of date. 

iLight 2017,

Hello,

Took a trip down to Bayfront on last Saturday for iLight 2017 with my group of friends. Compared to last year where I visited iLight 2016 with Mr. Z, my group of friends and I only explored half of the exhibition due to some reasons. Sigh. I'd definitely hope to go back again for the remaining half of it though. I even made Mr. Z in agreeing with me for every year's iLight! Hahah!

Anyway, we went for dinner at O Comptoir for Sylvia's birthday before making our way down to Bayfront for iLight 2017. O Comptoir is a restaurant that serves French cuisines. Their signature dishes, I supposed, are crepes. The restaurant is located at 79 Circular Road and its nearest station is Clarke Quay. The walking distance stated on Google Map was 4 minutes but trust me, it took us longer than that! I think any normal person would take about 7 mins to reach too!!

Being situated in the CBD area, it also means that their food are mostly priced at and average to expensive ranges. So, be prepared to either bring more cash or debit card with you. I love how the restaurant was designed! Their dangling bulbs and the ambience fit a dinner with your date! I'd bring Mr. Z to this restaurant one day after he's back for sure (for a dish)! Ah, not only is the ambience nice, their staffs are really friendly and warm too! The waiter who attended to us is really entertaining while the two waitresses are really accommodating to our requests.

 As their signature dishes, and recommendations from other sites, are mostly crepes, 3 of us decided to order crepes while the birthday girl ordered a burger meal. We also ordered side dishes of chicken wings and salad. Healthy much, eh?

Duck It! was one of the chef's recommendations. It contains duck confit, caramelised onions, potatoes and thyme. The thyme made Duck It! cuter as it's standing in the middle of the crepe. It looks so much like it's the only surviving tree in a desert!

And it's a no-wonder that Duck It! was one of the recommended crepes because it was really good! Anyone who loves duck confit would definitely love this crepe! I love duck confit because they aren't the roughest meat to eat! I detest breast meat but any other parts are considered good for me! The other 3 girls agreed about it too. Told Mr. Z about it and as mentioned above, this is the dish that I'll be recommending him to!

Duck It! SGD18

Next, it's my Scallop'in that I placed. It comes with 4 small scallops, leek, onion, spinach and cheese. Personally, I do not like onions at all. But because I took a long time in deciding what to eat, and that the girls alrdy chosen Duck It! as one of their choices, I was left with no choice but to order Scallop'in because there's spinach as well. Healthy choice, lol!

Tbh, their scallops aren't the tastiest that I've had. They were really small as shown below but the ingredients in the crepe made it up to it. I finished the crepe but not the stuff inside because there's too much cheese there. It makes me feel a bit sick of it after some time.

Scallop'in SGD24

The last crepe we had was I Did It My Way. Literally. It has goat cheese, walnut, pear and honey. We thought it might be an interesting crepe but we took our words back after trying it. People who don't eat goat cheese wouldn't like it because it tasted weird. Really weird. Perhaps we are just not used to eating goat cheese. I believe that there are people who love goat cheese a lot.

I Did It My Way SGD19

The birthday girl ordered burger set which was also a chef's recommendation. If my memory didn't fail me, the burger contains steak, egg and cheese with truffle fries as sides. It was good to the extent that Ms. Neo and Ms. Ng shared their food with each other. The truffle fries was good too. I would have ordered one plate of truffle fries if I wasn't full at that time!

Bacon ft Egg Burger with Truffle Fries SGD23

Lastly, the chicken wings which I gave it a miss because firstly, I was lazy to use my fingers and secondly, I was really full from my food. Thankfully for the first reason, Ms. C sliced the meat using her utensils for me. So much love! Not the best wings that I have eaten till date!

Chicken Wings SGD10

We took a cab down to Bayfront where we alighted at the place near the funfair. Yep, we started our journey there which tbh was a wrong decision. But no worries! Still enjoyed very much because it's a whole new experience!

Singapore never fails to amaze me with its beautiful skyline, especially this area! Dream location to work in? I shall continue dreaming.

Sea urchins

Gatro Beats

The girls were very excited upon seeing a stall that sells kane mochi. Bought a few flavours to share. Not a fan of mochi though so I shan't comment much about it. But be sure to eat it once you receive it because it melts easily in this hot climate. I was taking photos of the mochi and the girls were like faster, the mochi is melting. Oops!

Already looking forward to iLight 2018 and hoping that there'd be more exciting displays next year. Goodbye! 

How I Celebrated My CNY 2017 - Part 2,

Good day!

Time to continue with the second part of the post that I stopped halfway. First part can be found here!

2nd February 2017 - Chinese New Year Day 5

We were supposed to satisfy our cravings at Man Man by Teppei BUT IT WAS CLOSED THAT DAY! This taught us a small lesson: to check their website or Facebook during festive seasons if not it'd be a wasted trip!

Since the restaurant wasn't opened, we decided to take some photos before searching for a place to eat at nearby!

Top: The Closet Lover / TCL

Bottom: Hollyhoque / HH 

Settled our lunch at a tzi char place nearby (I have no idea what the place is called) bcos it was crowded with office workers and the menu looked good with 月光河粉 and also because Baby always has no issues where to eat. So when it comes to food, it's always me picking the place UNLESS he's being forced. Hahah!

We also ordered 小白菜 with mushroom. Now yknw my will-eat vegetables! And see, the moonlight horfun looks so good! So far, I had only tried moonlight horfun from two places. This & KEK Seafood. If asked, I'd definitely prefer this place. It's not that the one from KEK Seafood isn't nice. It's just that, personally, I prefer dried horfun that isn't too salty/black. Oh, the one from this tzi char place doesn't taste too oily too :)

Just let me add the one from KEK Seafood here to compare the appearance of the it! Or maybe it's just me who cannot accept another kind of dried horfun lah.

Very happy from my lunch!

Nowhere to go and we decided to head down to a place where we used to date often back when we were still two secondary school students - Vivo City!! Since we had time to kill before our dinner, and because our tummies were still full from the lunch earlier, and that we haven't watched a movie in theatre for almost one year, we decided to check out the movie list at GV. Bought tix for this...

Sorry but I would only rate it 2 out of 5 popcorn. No doubt it was a comedy. But it's too lame ah... At some point of time, I was like errrr... Totally didn't know that there's another CNY movie, which many commented that it's nice! Okay lah, timing wise didn't match ours too! Spent some time at the rooftop garden before we made our way down to the restaurant for our advanced anniversary, which I'll post on another day!

 After dinner, we took Uber down to the Floating Platform for Angbao River. We reached just in time for the fireworks at 9PM! Anyway, it's our first time there as a couple because we took no interest before but this year, we decided to try something new and boy it was quite interesting! Didn't try out the food though because, FULL FROM DINNER!

3rd February 2017 - Chinese New Year Day 6

The day you flew back to Beijing to complete your exchange. Woke up beside you (which is rlly the best thing ever), prepped and waited for my parents to come pick us up at your place before heading to their airport. But before that, we were trying to fix this paper VR set we got from one of the booths at The Floating Platform. Ah, it was a failed one lah! The cardboard itself was flawed so Baby couldn't get it done.

Fortunately, this time, I didn't feel any tinge of sadness about Baby's departure because I know that we'll be seeing each other again in less than two months. I'll be flying to Beijing in end of the March!! YAY!

Top: MDS

Bottom: Anticlockwise / ACW

We had a quick meal at a cafe nearby before sending Baby off. I can't wait to see you alrdy!

4th February 2017 - Chinese New Year Day 7

Met up with the girls and house visiting @ Cons'. Her aunt brought the kitten, Pebble, over and we were all quite glued to it. Or rather, me! It was just one month old!! Anyway, its mother, Tabby, was met with an accident when she was pregnant with Pebble and another kitten. I think it was a car accident or was it ran over by a bicycle? But either way, the person was just too cruel to leave the helpless cat there!

So her aunt was rlly kind and adopted Tabby. Brought her to the vet to remove/give birth to the kittens. But unfortunately, one of the kittens died. I can't rmb what was the cause but I'm sure Tabby felt rlly sad not being able to save her cub. Anyway, the aunt was told that the operations would cost about S$2000 (3 operations if I'm not wrong). She is currently doing some crowdfunding online. Can actually click here for more details.

ISN'T PEBBLE CUTE?! So precious!

One last look before I left Cons' place. Pebble is really too precious! Please don't grow up too fast because I'm somehow quite scared of adult cats of your breed, Peb! HAHAH!

Today is the day when Niantic launched Gen 2 of Pokemon Go and by 4PM, I've alrdy registered 20 new pokemons into my Pokedex. I started out at 10AM though. Hopefully I'll be able to finish catching all 80 before I stop playing again!

Goodbye!