Apologies on the lateness of this post to the 10 of you that visit my blog (haha)! Been dealing with some issues for the past few weeks that perhaps I would share in another post. But for the month of July, this is what I have been up to.
Brunch
June Jammies - A friend from out of town, Birthday celebrations and more...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018
June heralds the end of the first half of the year. Out with the old, in with the new as they say! June was a month of gatherings and birthdays for me, and it was pretty tame for me. Transition period as they say!
May was a pretty tame month for me. Went to the ballet for the first time, and then HKG for a business trip. Also attended my first ever private movie screening!
March is my birthday month and also the end of Q1 2018. Had a blast as I decided to host a last minute party for my quarter century plus some birthday. Due to timing issues I had to hold it on the 2nd, which is 1 day before my actual birthday. Thank goodness I had some help and Marc decided to co-host the party with me! What ensued was a really nice evening of meeting friends new and old.
February brings with it all it's little surprises and festivities. CNY is always an integral part of the year with its familial gatherings and raucous celebrations.
With the blink of the eye, January has passed us by. The sub-25 degree temperature was a departure from the scorching heat of Singaporean summers, and us residents of the Little Red Dot were lulled into a peaceful, warm and cuddy first month of the year. So cozy up as we dive into the going ons of January!
Starting off with a notice - I'm trying to update my blog at a fixed time every month, which will be from the 1st to 3rd, so keep a look out for that!
End November to early December contained a wealth of surprises, among which was that my long lost cousin from Shanghai, Kimberley or Zhang Jin which she is known, came to Singapore for a three week long holiday, mostly as a sabbatical and also to work on her novel/writing.
November was amazing, what with our staycation at Orchid Country Club and a variety of activities. Pictured here is our annual and twice annual Fragile Hearts gathering at Sum Kee. The Ultraman chicken and dishes are always amazing, and we got to taste a new creation of Nic's mom, Iceberg Sweet and Sour Pork.
October was Halloween weekend and a whole bunch of other activities here in Sunny Singapore. There were Halloween parties to be at and food to be eaten. So here's a summary of my mega-October month! (Pictured here are Harlequin-Colette and Playboy Bunny-Chelsea, along with me, who's supposed to be a hippie!)
In August and September, I sort of mellowed down a lot. Didn't go out on the weekday nights or weekends like I used to at the start of the year! I guess these two months were that of relaxation and reflection, as we slowly progress towards the last quarter of the year.
Time seems to be passing so quickly, innit? In the blink of the eye it's already the end of July as I am writing this. Here are some of the memories from these 3 months: Mostly - K's dance by the Bay, Candlenut dinner with the ACSians, pub crawl with K, J, C, K...
January was as usual jam packed with activities, starting off 2017 with a bang. Kicking off the month of January were many foodscapades and a concert to boot! Plus who can forget Lunar New Year at the end of January and the feasting and merrymaking!
So this post is all about what I've been up to in July this year. At a whopping 75 photos it's going to be a really picture-laden post so bear with me! Blogspot has this really annoying problem, which is that when you embed photos in the post they turn out really small and display really stretched and pixellated in the actual post. So I'm going to have to manually click the Large setting on all 75 photos. Le sigh.
Meet up with the oranges from CAPT!
May to June Round Up
So I've been really busy lately and have not had much time to post. I'm down with the flu today and tomorrow so I thought it'll be nice to come on here once again to do a little update.
These are pictures from May and June! Can't really remember the exact dates and who I've gone out with though...
Brunch
Of Korean BBQs, Tomato Tequila shots, Crabs, Club Street, Flowers and selfies
Monday, May 09, 2016
Okay so I basically have a backlog of photos from my camera post-Japan, which happened around 3 weeks ago? I have a new phone (the s7 edge) so I have photos from there too but I'm not sure whether I should do a separate post for those. I expect I would as I go along editing this post haha.
Edit: Okay a slight heads up because this post is super long. It probably has like 50 pictures?
It's the end of another week, so more peektures for a round up of all the places I've been this week.
Monday
The Secret Mermaid. So we bought two drinks and some truffle fries and a corn dog. It was Singapore Cocktail week so they were doing some promo on the drinks. Little did we know how awful the drinks were. There was this milo and moonshine infusion that was absolutely putrid, 10/10 would not recommend. The food was so-so and the space was really tiny like it can sit only 15 people max?
Just a snippet of what's to come...
Friday
Really impromptu dinner at Nuvo + drinks. Had the most epic (?) night I must say in the most different kind of way? Almost thought I lost my life (to be dramatic about it) and ended on kinda a bad note but oh well. Dinner was good - kurobuta pork and codfish, then kyo after. Shitty handphone photos (should really think about changing to a better phone).
The Weekend Round Up
Had a ball of time with #chesnami as per usual talking about everything under the sun.
So have been meeting friends over the weekend and the Monday from this week. Busy busy! Was such a fun but tiring weekend. Still trying to figure out how much detail I should be revealing on here. 'A good story should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.'
Saturday
Scones and latte at The Daily Round Up.
Night time dinner at Jekyll & Hyde. Here's the tuna and preserved veg starter that we ordered.
Deliciously done wagyu beef cubes. Too bad they were kinda chewy though.
Back to UTown residences and met Joy Joy! Haus party like there was no tomorrow. I swear I got even more smashed than I already were from the red wine.
Hola!
Then we went to this party at Alibi, the Fullerton pavilion after. Guess it's like the new Avalon what with the submerged pavilion design and glass windows? Can't remember much except that it was super super crowded.
Sunday
Met a couple of friends for dinner at Pacamara at Upper Thompson. This is the seafood mac'n'cheese.
The leg of chicken which I had. Twas pretty succulent and juicy. Though the tomato puree was a tad salty.
Group shot of the food at Pacamara!
Hehe. :)
Went to Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park thereafter to check out the Chingay parade. The floats were super bright, almost like getai? There was this one performer though that looked like Balang from the Philippines and we were all super amused at that.
Monkeying around.
Monday
Went bar-hopping on Monday night and really really had a ball of a time. Checked out a couple of places that were so indie they didn't even have names. Like the first bar we went to was literally a door in the wall amongst a bunch of shop houses... and its name was 28 Hong Kong Street aka the literal name of the address. How cute is that? Don't really remember the cocktails that I was getting because there were so many and I felt like the next few bars (jigger and pony, bitter and love) looked the same to me. Idk maybe it's just me. Same feeling with the wine and liquor shelves and ladders. Just that they got progressively brighter. Didn't have much food either but had tons of banter to fill me up. :-)
In the midst of booking air tickets to go to Japan in April to see the sakura! I am so excited I can't even. Haha. And it's probably going to be the first time I'm staying in an Airbnb so there's that to look forward to.
Time to say byeeee. Heh.
xoxo
