Xmas 2012: carlton hotel/ orchard grand court hotel & oriole!

I don't really celebrate x'mas besides the usual 2d1 gang gathering that we have.

But this year I spent quite some days having fun and soaking up the festive season feel:D

I must say its a good 2012 ending I am having(:

Firstly: Carlton hotel for the 2d1 gathering.

22nd- 23rd december.

Awesome location. Just less than 5 mins walk from city hall mrt.

definitely the most accessible location as compared to studio m hotel and the club hotel that we previously went!

Yes, it's the third year of staycation!

&& to make it just a little more fun and memorable for ourselves, we set up a games committee.

consist of xiano, junqi, joycelyn and me.

we met up twice to discuss the games and had so much laughters during the discussions.

 

the planning committee met up at JP to get all the party and food stuffs.

and its the usual bickering about what to buy and rejecting each other's choices.

the peanuts and beer team verus the butter cookies and redondo team. (OLD VERUS YOUNG!)

should be easy to guess who is the two in old and the other two in young huh.

 

wayyyy too much stuff and we got a cab there.

checked in and we got upgraded to a premier room cux there was full house. yipeeee!

started the preparations~

 

all the tidbits bought!

and no, we dont eat seaweed like that.

we love to dip it in soft drink and it matches perfectly with soaked marshmallows.

the drink will taste awesome too.

one of the mandatory game & we named it last christmas supper.

yums. never fail to make me want to vomit.

 

another one game was guess who drank the potion?

and so thats junqi preparing the mega salty solution and joy laughing evilishly at the back.

and thats the lemon for the sour drink.

 

there was spicy/ alcohol and bitter drink too.

i got 'lucky' and drank the alcohol one where we all had to drink it in a gulp.

totally burning throat and still had to act all calm!

downed some water after it ended. gross.

& thats creative xiano preparing the scoreboard!

 

there was a drawing game which was similar to the running man version.

and thats joy with her very creative drawing of..... iron man.

it would take a genius to guess that right!

 

& xiano is drawing a unicorn.

(hmmm, adm student? HAHA!)

 

group photos with the props(:

 

 

HAHA. the new pandas. guess who we kicked out!

junqi is forever joking on this.

the never ending bickering of xiano and jq.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

as usual, din sleep a wink and got jing hui to got down for hotel buffet breakfast.

did some catch up and had a good 2 hours chat and breakfast.

 

later, after everyone was awake and prepared, we headed to breakfast at mac- raffles city shopping centre and travelled home after that together.

knocked out straight after!

awesome xmas staycation (:

its 2012 coming to an end, and i am thankful for this bunch of friends.

you all are really all that i can ask for.

 

 

so the next day i went for xmas eve dinner with isabelle and her family!(:

at orchard grand court hotel.

enjoyable dinner, chilling, relaxing and it was a long dinner.

ended at about 10 plus. love ending meals with desserts and coffee.

somehow feels complete.

 

picture with my best shopping companion, gossiper.

love her tons!

 

 

 

sashimi(: nothing much can go wrong with it.yums!

we spam alot of this.

 

and the next day was CHRISTMAS.

met up with the cousins without joseph and ivan.

had a xmas dinner at Oriole.

the food was so-so and kinda on the expensive side but i did enjoy myself.

no crowds, we din have to queue and there was no pressure to leave after we are done with the food.

yeays. anyway, my red beef cheek pasta had good beef that was tender.the pasta was passable only though.

 

some random pictures.

 

 

 

 

and i received the running shoes i have been waiting for from shirley.

love the hot pink!

thanks so much(:

 

quite an eventful xmas i have & i really enjoyed myself.

 

Sisters' day out- wild honey and hoshino checked!

Went on a sisters' day out finally!(:
Had brunch at wild honey cux sis has never tried it before and she is so interested in it.
So off we go! Got to love wild honey because of the locations which are so convenient.

Tried their stacked pancakes this time round. It's nice and thick! And goes so well with the butter and honey.

But then it gets sick after awhile so it's really better for sharing!
Sister's English breakfast was better!

And after that, hopped over to far east for sister's hair make over.
Decided on Francis and jeans instead of shunji cux its so much more cheaper @ 180 bucks for Rebonding!
The stylist did a fantastic job on her hair! It finally sees its better days!

I had to wait for her four hours so I went to do my nails.
The usual place where I have been frequenting for years! Nail status but then the standard dropped and my nails weren't painted nicely at all.
The day before, I went with Xiano and shihua to nail status thinking of doing our nails. They two did it and the standard was horrible so I din want to do it that day. Shihua had bumps on her nails and i had to help her clean off those that were painted on her sides of nails.
Okay, time to find a new place!

And then we headed off for some shopping at plaza sing cux had to use the gap voucher!
Dinner at hoshino, a new dining place at the new extension of plaza sing.

see the pretty fake food on display.
Glad we chose this place cux the souffle pancakes is really the thing!!!
So freaking awesome, it totally triumphs the ones I had at wild honey previously.
Must add the soft serve and the whipped cream is salted lightly to match the pancakes.
Return visit is a must!

Packed home clam chowder soup from the soup spoon and we had it for our breakfast & lunch the next two days.

 

 

 

 

 

bishan canopy off bucket list.

Backloggsss too much.haha!!
To think I should be very free but really, almost every other day is filled w events!
So on 12/12/12 I am writing about 22/11 happenings!
Twilight last part with the cousins! We made it a point to watch almost all of the parts together!

And after that, we went to Bishan canopy!

We took an hour to reach when it would only take 10 mins?
Walked from one end of the park to another!
Anyway, the food was quite normal that day. Nothing really fantastic?
So it wasn't worth the effort.

My Caesar salad which wasnt nice! And there wasn't any eggs? How is that possible!
and worse, dont have my bread crumbs! so it was just mixed veg with a piece of bacon and garlic bread.

However, the desserts saved the show!
The apple crumble was awesome and the chocolate profiteroles was nice too!

And on one of the nov weekends, had a sing k session with joy and ruifen.

It's been so long that I forgotten k lunch has lunch for us!
The food improved so much and Japanese cuisine is served now!

 

after that Ruifen left, joy and I went to have desserts at Ji de chi!
Haha, being mad, we decided to head to Jcube for canton paradise dim sum!

one of the must try at canton is this. roasted pork bun. crispy on the outside and juicy inside.
and of couse, liu sa bao. but i realise it seems like most places seems to be able to do this dish well.
or i really love them so much that i dont mind imperfections!
but paradise version usually leaves me satisfied.

After that, headed to her place to nua. Yes, fav past time of ours.
Clearing up her closet and took home some pieces for mum and sis!
She sent me home after that.

Xmas hotel celebration party committee meeting at Jp coffee bean on of the weekday nights! Joy & I met up first after her work for dinner at coffee bean!
Risotto major fail! It's baked rice leh, coffee bean gave it a wrong name lah.

While waiting for the other two, she did her work while I read my James Patterson!
And after that, Joy, junqi, Xiano and i came up with some games!
Had a really fun time deciding the games!
Hopefully they turn out fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Genting with the gang of six part 2

DAY 2 at genting! 

we started off the second day pretty late. taking our time to prepare for our breakfast. 

we reached the bakery- where we wanted to have our breakfast at. 

but then decided to switch over to the coffee terrace for buffet lunch since we were all super hungry. 

group picture!(: 

not all the dishes were fantastic but there were very good dishes around. 

the best would be the satays!(: 

really good, i had more than 10 i think! 

and that cute soup is from xiano. 

their steamed white chicken or roasted chicken is awesome too! 

and i made a dumb mistake- thought the mushrooms on ice was cooked and served as cold dish. 

in the end is not:/ so unfortunately i would be laughed at for very long.

xiano has her otah joke too.

and a whole array of desserts. 

including the famous ( but me not so secretly hating it) rainbow cake. pretty but its just colourings!

maracon shells, yes, just the shells. #weird

they also serve bread and butter pudding!(: 

and this self made ice kacang! taste pretty good. 

and i love their coffee. 

went for a 4 hours long singing session at the first world plaza.

shihua randomly looked up and saw it. 

super happy. 

its only 66rm for 2 hours, 5 of all. 

so its like 5 bucks each! 

& then the guys suggested that we go play bowling. 

haven touched bowling for yearssss. 

super cool bowling place, playing all sorts of k pop songs and then with led lightings.

it turned out to be very fun(: 

two guys against three girls and we still lose to them. 

ended our game and went for dinner at hainan restorant or something like that. 

we din have time to go else where cux we had a movie at 8.45pm and it was already 8pm.

shihua's hainanese chicken rice. the chilli was good and thats all. 

mine- chicken curry. 

pretty normal. 

the guys went back to the room to get bernard who was revising his work. 

went for our movie after dinner. 

premium seats with a drink, a popcorn and a random snack! 

and its only rm18. 

we watched the cold war in cantonese- awesomeeee. 

went to make wishes at the wishing well!

went for the casino and also had a late night supper with jq,sh and bernard at kfc. 

we retired at 4 am, playing card games in our rooms! wonder why time passes sooo fast. 

and we woke up early for dim sum at Hao You Ji. 

love their liu sa baos. love those yellow liquid oozing out. 

their char siew bao are good too. 

bought some local delicacies and packed starbucks' juice and sandwiches and chatime bubble tea up the bus ride. 

everyone was super tired & we had more sleep. 

grasslands coaches are sooo awesome. its v comfortable and much much leg space and leaning back. 

dad come to pick us up at boon lay place.

memorable 3d2n at genting. 

its really the company that matters and we had so much fun tgt! 

gotta return cux din manage to visit the strawberry and mushroom farm and my theme park.