My Birthday Weekend!

First of all, lemme thank my dear for being with me over this past few days and enjoying my birthday together! It may not have seemed much, but it was more than enough for me! Hee.. okie now time to go into the details of what we did over the past few days!

The first event was on thursday evening, where dear's mum treated us to a good meal at a restaurant in vivocity called "Wood". It was quite a posh place, where they use real and different kinds of firewood to cook the food, thus giving the dishes a rather special and unique taste that is different from what one can find in other places. We ordered a couple of starters consisting of smoked salmon and scallops, which were very tender and succulent! After which our main course arrived - lamb chops, beef brisket and some duck meat which were all cooked in various styles and each had their own distinct flavours. Given a choice i felt that the beef brisket was the best among the lot though, as the beef and the accompanying potato really went well together and gave the melts-in-your-mouth feel! The table beside us ordered some sri lankan crab that looked delicious too, but in the end we ordered a pizza after we were done with our food as we felt not full enough. Last of all was a small piece of cake that was supposed to be my "bday cake", and that was pretty good as well! hmmm... overall i would say that the food was more unique than anything else, and if one is looking fer great tasting fare such as steak then i would say its better to go to a real steakhouse! But, thanks Auntie Irene for the dinner treat!

The next day, me and dear planned to head down to the flyer for our free teacher's day rides! Before that, we went to sunset way where dear treated me to a Rocky's pizza. I have to say that it serves the best pizza i ever tasted in singapore, and for quite a reasonable price too! the only drawback is that is located in clementi area, so its pretty far for both of us, though we were lucky to have the car free on that day! Sadly enough, by the time we were done with our meal and arrived back in Toa payoh, it was already pretty late, so we decided to postpone out flyer trip to saturday. Instead we went down to my place, where another surprise was going to be sprung on me, though i have to say that i suspected something of that sort would happen... anyway my 2 "brothers" came down to my place at 1am in the morning with a bday cake and tried to surprise me. unfortunately, it was on one of those days where i was sharped and more observant as usual, so the surprise was quite ruined as i noticed the various smses that dear kept receiving and did not wnt to show me! Anyway, i want to thus thank my 2 good pals for making their way down just to eat cake and have a chat with me on my bday at such a late hour!

Oh before i talk about saturday, i also want to thank my dear again for the simple but sweet bday present that you gave me! Though it may seem simple, i feel that the meaning is more important than anything else, and i'm sure we'll fill up the bottle as the years go by, and decorate it too!:)

now on to saturday, after a long night's rest, we headed down to the flyer to get out free rides. Saw quite a few fellow teachers/nie trainees there too.. i guess all of us were taking advantage out of the free rides.. those who know cindy can ask her how many times she went for it!hur hur... the ride lasted 30 mins or so, and hmmm well.... it was not the most impressive thing ever, but it was something different, and the views that it offered were not too shabby! the next time we will be going back there will be when the IR is all done up, so that we can see the changes that have taken place by then.. after getting off the large wheel, we walked to fort canning where my parents wanted to treat me to a dinner "Legends Garden", since there was a promo for cheap peking duck there. It was quite a long walk, and by the time we got there we both had aching feet and poor dear had to contend with a few blisters as well.. *sayang*.. The food was typical chinese fare, with cold dish, shark's fin, the aforementioned duck and others, but all the dishes were very well prepared and fresh as well.. so the dinner was pretty good.. So here i wnt to thank my parents for this meal! We even had time to play mj after the dinner by asking cy to come down to my place, though that meant that i was pretty tired for my tuition this morning!

Overall, it may not have been the most happening of bdays, nor the most glamourous, but the fact that i got to spend the 3 days with the people closest to me - my dear, my family and my buddies was more than enough for me! so once again, a big thank you from me to all those i hold dear in my life!


PS: thanks to MOE for FINALLY giving me my stipend on my bday too