Valentine's 2014

We met for lunch on valentine's day 2014! I was very excited to go on a lunch date with hubby.

We tried Lee's Taiwanese at Star Vista and it was delicious. Settled for $38 CNY fortune set for 2, which came with pork braised rice, mee sua, 2 small bowls of soup, cabbage, crispy salted chicken, beancurd, cold dish (braised egg, kelp and cucumber), and 2 glasses of lychee juice.

Definitely going back to try their beef noodles and milk tea!

Adventure Cove Waterpark

Time for a couple date! This time we visited Adventure Cove Waterpark, one of the latest attraction in Resorts World Sentosa (RWS). Bought the tickets at corporate rates (less 15%) before I left my previous organisation.

Had to drop off Colin at my mum's place before we headed out! We are very grateful for our parents for taking care of Colin so we can have some couple time. Well, that's a topic for another day.

We parked our car at Habourfront after concluding that parking would be cheapest there. Had lunch with cable car view at Food Junction located at level 3. I ate one of my comfort food - beef noodle. 

Beef Noodle (dry)

Proceeded to the park to have fun!IIthis was my second visit to the park, his first though. so I knew exactly which rides tipped towards the exciting scale. In view of the threatening weather, I suggested snorkelling at Rainbow Reef first. Wish I had a waterproof camera to snap pictures of the pretty fishes and reefs seen there. 

It poured shortly after we got said goodbye to the colourful fishes. We floated along Adventure River (cause the water was much warmer!)  and wow-ed at the different habitats we experienced. Love the sting rays coming up to us! 

S$35 Underwater picture taken by the park's photographer (love my seal-like husband here)

Next we went to Spiral Washout to start our adrenaline engines. Hubs isn't a fan of all things exciting. There wasn't any queue for this attraction hence he didn't have time to ask me about the ride. He commented that it was okay, probably cause he couldn't see a thing with his glasses away from him, at the storage rack. Heh.

Afraid that he might not try all attractions, I hurriedly walked to Riptide Rocket! The star attraction of the park; Southeast Asia’s first hydro-magnetic coaster! The queue was 1hour, more than enough time for questioning. 

"Why are there so many people queuing for this ride?"

"I heard people screaming! Is this some scary ride?"

I tried not to display any emotion on my face. The more I suppressed, the easier it was for hubs to tell I was trying to hide something. I had to tell him something, and that something was... "Just a rollercoaster type of ride. Long queue cause it's some sort of a first in water parks". 

Nearing our turn, we could see people coming out of the tunnels, complete with screams, all sorts of expression and capsizing floats. And so it was our turn............................

WOOOOOHOOOOO! Up and down, up and down, up and down! We made it out without capsizing! Hubs said it was quite fun, not scary. Phew. 

After that we just lazed around the wave pool, went up to the lookout area, which happened to oversea the soon-to-open dolphins area. I can spend hours and hours just looking at them jumping in and out of water. I wished they were out in the ocean though. Sigh. 

Anyway, if you remember Fantasy Island, I think Adventure Cove is almost as good. If comparing against Wild Wild Wet, I place my vote for Adventure Cove. 

Transformer @ RWS

We went through a chronological progression of the 27-year-old Transformers, beginning with the classic 'Generation 1' era. The exhibition was okay other than queueing 45mins to get into the merchandise area! =S

This Means War

We went on a date on 29 Feb! Caught 'This Means War' at AMK Hub. I thought it was just another fighting show; Turned out to be so wrong. It's war, yea, but love war! :D

Interesing to see how and what guys do to impress girls. There was a phrase that I was attracted to.

"Don't choose the better guy, choose the one that makes you a better person..."

How true?

Chinese New Year Day 1

Happy Chinese (Lunar) New Year dear friends! May the year of water dragon sail us through 12months smoothly!

My maternal granny passed away last Dec, so my uncles can't celebrate this year. As for paternal relatives, we stopped crossing the causeway for visitation a few years after grandpa passed away in 1994. Grandparents are the reason why uncles and aunties gather together during festive seasons, isn't it?

Hubby's paternal family celebrates new year on reunion dinner on the eve. And His maternal side celebrates on 2nd day. That leaves us with free and easy on first day! Weeee!

We spent our day catching up with rest, feeding our stomachs with Swensens dinner (I slept through lunch), then Singyee and Huiying came over in the evening for mahjong, which lasted till 12plus.

Didn't take much photos except for food!

Jurong Hill Top Restaurant

On a normal day after work, TK decided to bring me to somewhere secluded for Japanese dinner.

I requested him to take a picture of me before the sun went down.. And this was the result..

Messy hair! Grrrrrr.....and my feet got chopped off.

We had to decide on tepanyaki, japanese or indonesian. Missy wasn't in the mood for tepanyaki.. so I settled for my all time favorite katsu curry rice set for $14. It was delicious! Good food makes me really happy! TK said I'm greedy. Hmmm. Tk ordered beef teriyaki ramen cause I like beef. :))

Jurong Hill Top Japanese Restaurant
2 Jurong Hill, Singapore
Tel: 6266 3522

Oh, one last thing! This restaurant doesn't charge service charge.

After dinner, we got stuck at the carpark for awhile cause someone's cashcard was 'eaten' by the machine, which totally screwed the lifting of barrier. During the wait for technical help, mama chang called to inform TK their TV was spoilt (hinting him to get a new set) - and so we went shopping! :D

Suntec

Hubs: What do you want to eat darling?
Wifey: PIZZA!!! :) Cause we have a pizza voucher and I won't be able to eat it after my wisdom tooth surgery.
Hubs: Okay, let's go!
Wifey: ♥♥♥♥

Curry Chicken pan pizza was great, Prawn Aglio Olio was a total disappointment - the spaghetti was blend and the prawn was tough. Should have ordered chocolate cake instead. Oh well.

After lunch, we went Carrefour to search for plastic cabinet to be placed outside our door for feng shui purposes. I grabbed a laminator machine along with 3 packets of laminating sheets just before checking out!! HAHAHA. Talk about impulsive shopping. Total bill was $600! Can't wait for delivery on Tuesday~

Before leaving Suntec, we made a silent wish and walked round the Fountain of Wealth 3 times. I hope my wish will come true, really. :)

Love going out with you.

lovelove, wifey. 

Lorong Halus Wetland

We left our footprints @ Lorong Halus Wetland today!

"A new eco-friendly wetland and riverfront promenade was officially opened yesterday morning.

Located within the Punggol New Town, the Lorong Halus Wetland and Riverside Walk of the Punggol Promenade will offer residents a range of commercial, social and recreational facilities.

Found along the eastern bank of the Serangoon Reservoir, the Lorong Halus Wetland occupies a section of the old landfill site, and has been transformed into an educational site and a sanctuary for plants, birds and other wildlife." source

Japanese Cemetery Park (日本人墓地公園)

The Japanese Cemetery Park (Kanji: 日本人墓地公園; rōmaji: Nihonjin bochi kōen) is a cemetery and park in Hougang, Singapore. It is the largest Japanese cemetery in South East Asia at 29,359 square metres, consisting of 910 tombstones that contain the remains of members of the Japanese community in Singapore, including young Japanese prostitutes, civilians, soldiers and convicted war criminals executed at Changi Prison in Singapore. It was gazetted (announced or published in an official journal or in a newspaper) as a memorial park by the Singapore Government in 1987.
Source

We finally went (finally cause I've been wanting to go since 5 years ago), sun was bright, and warm. :) 

Took a morning stroll since the park is a 15 minute walk from our place. Situated along Chuan Hoe Road, off Yio Chu Kang Road. We were lucky to peek into the shrine cause it was opened for cleaning by a group of Japanese. 

Other things that mattered @ the park. =P

Valentine's Day

We agreed not to celebrate valentine's day this year but it so happened there was a movie mob season 2 finale on that day @ Merchant Loop, just beside Riverside Point, or Brewerkz, if you prefer. I was on course @ The Amara, so I walked over to Clarke Quay to meet him, passing by Chinatown for fabric viewing. haha.

Since we were already at somewhere so nice, we decided our stomachs should be treated to good food on a special day. Haha. Is this considered a celebration? :D

We got to movie mob screening area at around 7.15pm and parked at a good spot, waited patiently for our "500days of Summer" movie to commence. Little did we know that we became part of the 900 involved in some proposal which took place just before the movie. Later we found out that this movie mob was a request from a guy who intended to propose to her girlfriend of 5 years. The proposal was very sweet. All cars honked in celebration when the girl agreed! Catch the video here.

On this day 2 years ago, TK proposed. Ours tipped over to the funny side though. :P

CSI Exhibition

We put on our investigation hats and went Science Centre for CSI exhibition! There were a total of 3 crime scenes to solve, and an additional one to win an iPad! :) The event was more for kids, but we still enjoyed ourselves!

Pompeii Exhibition

Pompeii Exhibition was opened to public for last weekend and off we went! I heard about the exhibition some months ago and kept it at the back of my head. You can imagine how elated I was to hear news of entrances fee waiver. :P I told TK about it and the rest was history. Wished I had better camera cause the area was tad too dark.

The moment you enter the exhibition area, there were sculptures of human and animals in their dying poses, one with shackles on his ankle. Walked further in, many exhibits of furniture, household and luxury items used, and glimpse of how their houses looked like. There was a room screening a 3D video on the string of events leading to eruption that day.

I felt a little sad towards the end of the exhibition after knowing how the people and animals suffocated to death. :(

After the exhibition, we took pictures of ourselves!