Dinner at Ippudo

A small cozy set-up, and always crowded during meal times. We finally managed to try it on Wednesday night when Dew went earlier (he said the Queue starts coming from 645pm, wow..!).

We had quite a good experience, though I thought their popular buns is rather average.

After trying so many ramen restaurants in Singapore (Ramen Santouka at Central, Marutama at Central, Yoshimaru ramen along EC, Tampopo, Menya Shinchan, etc), we thought this is one of the best! You get to choose how you want your noodles to be (soft, medium or hard) and they have quite a reasonable variety of ramen with different soup base. For both our orders, the soup base is rich, and yet not too salty. The normal cha siu that comes with my Kyushu seasonal ramen is slightly tough..but the more fatty version in Dew's ramen is nice- melts in your mouth)

I guess the only thing that put us off is the long queue. So, do go early, coz I don't think the ramen would taste as nice if you go tto queue 1 hr for it.

Mum's Birthday

Dad's Be-lated Birthday Dinner

A simple dinner near my parent's place was enough to make my Dad happy. Despite that, my Brother and I quietly promised ourselves that we will bring our parents to somewhere better next time...

My Dad & Mom

(and of course, my cheeky nephew who refuses to take a proper picture)

The Family Portrait

My (new) Dad's Birthday

Creating a little "surprise"

The cake was prepared,

candles lighted ...

When footsteps drew nearer,

the lights went-off....

... ... ...

HaPpy BiRthDaY DAD!!!

Dew's Family Shot~

Happy Birthday Dad!

A nice little surprise....over the weekend

Saturday...a little surprise party

On a usual saturday afternoon, I went back home after my grocery shopping with a slight headache from the afternoon heat. A little cake filled with candles greeted me as I stepped inside my house.

Wow...! ..... A birthday cake?!! But my dew dew was with me all these while, so who could it be?!

The house looks empty.

I started searching around... First, the kitchen and the common bathroom, next, the master bedroom and the attached bathroom... When I peeked inside the "to-be" study room, I saw some bags lying on the floor.

Before I could react, a few girls sprung on me and I literally "jumped"!

What a startling surprise!

The "gang" hidding in the make-shift storeroom as they waited patiently for our return...

And not forgetting to take some pics, while they "hide"...

The Girls... (Fang, Li and Boon)

The guys... (Rodin, Daryl and Leo)

The mischiveous faces, as they plotted how they should "surprise" me...

Still hysterical from the "surprises"

(Erm, stop counting those candles, the idea is to fill the whole cake with candles, and it doesn't mean anything.....)

Thanks Dew....

Thanks for planning this little surprise for me

and I know it ain't easy to plan for something like this while in India for the past week...

Oh! and thanks for the yumilicious Choc-a-Bloc chocolate cake ,

which I have been yearning to try!

(moist chocolate sponge cake coated generously with rich creamy chocolate. Yummy!)

And of course, thanks to all my dear friends for being part of the nice little "party".

(Thanks for capturing the beautiful moments Leo)

Sunday... Pot Luck

Guest: Miaoqun & Jason, Miaoyan, Xiao Yi and Ling & family (Richard and her 2 little darlings).

Menu for dinner: Roast duck, char shao, Braised tofu with brocolli, sambal veg, fried bee hoon, fried rice, seafood pizza, bbq chicken pizza, almond jelly cocktail (made by MY) AND chocolate cake.

So nice of MQ and MY to prepare the cake for me...

If this is just a beautiful dream...

i wish i'll wldn't wake up from it all ...