Flight to Tokyo

Our flight to Tokyo seemed like a real long one.
As we were on a Cathay Pacific flight, we had a transit flight at Hong Kong then on to Tokyo.
But when our plane got to Hong kong, it was like a car in a full shopping centre car park, going round and round. I was even wondering if there was no available gates or what.:(
As a result, we reached our boarding gate to Tokyo just in time. Its was last call already, so= no time to go toilet 1st! :( boohoo...
So we got on the plane and were got seated. I was by the window seat as usual :)
but that also meant a hard time getting out. :S
The flight to Tokyo had lots of turbulence. So the seat belt sign was on most of the time, which meant we had to stay in our seats. And in the meantime, my bladder was filling up :( It was a 3 1/2 hour flight and for the last hour, it seemed like an eternity!! I tried getting up to go to the loo but was told to go back to my seat. :S boohoo*
But the thought of getting to Tokyo kept me excited and happy... hahhahha...
This is a bit blur coz I used my HP. I'll post a better one when I get back!:P

It was great when we finally reached! I was happy for both being in Tokyo and getting to a loo! :P
It was great having my sister as a guide too. Imagine... a singaporean tour guide, giving us directions while she's in Melbourne?!? Hahhahaa... pretty accurate directions even! And with that we managed to get to our hotel! (the good thing we picked the same hotel as her when she came here the last time..hehhe)
Okies, so its off to explore now, in cold, rainy Tokyo. I'll post more pictures when we get back. Hopefully we would have did some shopping, or at least bought 1 thing...hhaha!(coz the shops were closed by the tme we got here last night):P

Illustration Friday- Grow

How does your garden grow? :)

Inspired to cook

Hehhehe.. after enjoying my good lunch yesterday, I was inspired to cook dinner! :P
So i invented these 2 dishes on my way home.

Chai Poh and Egg Fettuccine


Seafood and Bacon Salad

I thought both turned out rather good, but I think I'll improve and try out on the Chai Poh and Egg Fettuccine recipe some more!(needs some tweaking)
See what a good lunch can do for you! Hehehhe

Lunch at Turquoise Room

We celebrated Karen's birthday with a yummy lunch at Turquoise Room.
A first visit for me, and probably not the last! :P
The food was good and not to mention the service that was just as good.
The nice rustic ambiance enhances the whole experience.
Good food, good service and good company!:)

Here's a look at the restaurant

The half mushroom eggplant pizza and half sundried tomato pizza

Yummy crab meat pasta! *slurp

Squid salad... a new creation of theirs. And a yummy one too!

Parma & porcini pizza... I'm stuffed! :P

Another view of Turquoise room.

Mr Tang, he sang!

Mr Tang sang for our wedding after his speech!
Hahaha... I think he must have got a kick out of it and enjoyed himself. :P
And no, he had not even started drinking yet!
But anyway, it was a sweet surprise from him. :)

After the big day

Here's some pictures from our AD i took with my HP. Pardon the quality... will upload some better ones I managed to get from others. :)
The day came and passed in a blur. I think we both had fun though it was a real tiring day. So glad we had great weather too! :)


Our super cute bridal car! :) hehhe


Here's a look at the sitting room area in the suite


Bed in our suite was done up. What a nice surprise :)


The suite comes with a jacuzzi which had another surprise for us. heheh


We got a very nice view of Clarke Quay from our room.


Welcome chocolates laid out for us which we did not get to eat, but everyone else that came did. HAhahha!


A portion of wedding cake that was sent up to our room after the wedding dinner.

The day before the big day~

Oooh....one day to go to the big day!
Here are some of the things that I've got done!:P


Ang Pao box... check!

Guest sign-in pens... check!

My shoes... check!

Bridal car... check! (no flowers yet though!:P)

Goodbye Squeaky

Squeaky Aug 2002-23rd Sept 2007

Squeaky left for the Rainbow Bridge yesterday... *sob sob*
At 5+ years old, its been a pretty long piggy life for him.
Squeaky was a birthday gift to me from my classmates in Sept 2002.
I remembered him climbing over the partition we set up and giving Mr putt-putt a bad scare.
We'll miss the loud squeaks during meal times.
Bye bye Squeaky. :_(

Illustration Friday- Wedding

Welcome the Black Jack!

On Saturday, we went by i21 and got an offer we found we couldn't refuse. Hehehe
Initially, we had planned to wait till end Oct for Mac's Jaguar to be launched before we got a replacement for Sugar Cube, my poor little ibook that kaput-ted on me a few months back. *sob*
But, the service we got from i21 was real good and somehow, we soon found ourselves heading to the counter to pay for my brand new black Mac book. I felt like a proud new owner! hehehhe....
So, here's introducing (drum roll*) Black Jack!(Nicely named by Mama!) :P

Mid Autumn Birthday

Chinatown's gearing up for the mid autumn festivities

Its my birthday today! Woke up feeling a bit older.. hmm.. was it my imagination or did my back feel a lil achy this morning?? hahahha..... :P
Every year, along with my birthday, comes the Mid Autumn Festival(MAF)aka moon cake feasting time. This is reinforced in my previous post too!
I enjoy the one (ok,or two slivers) of moon cake and trying out all the strange concoctions they invent these days. Some are yummy and interesting, some others I think should just be admired from afar, in their pretty boxes. Hehehe...

On my way to office this morning, was thinking about it being my 2nd year in chinatown during MAF and also the 2nd time I get to have the office birthday celebration here. (Sigh, I also think it will be my last one here, as we'd most probably be vacating our office in the year end :()
Hmm... think its time to get the cam out and get around for some nice pics and memories.

More on my birthday in my next post, after I get more presents tonight! Oh boy, yipee! :P I love presents!

My birthday mooncake

Haha~ this is my first birthday moon cake ever!
Show skin double yolk somemore! Hahahha.... :P
Thanks to Shonal & Juan for the nice surprise.. it was really funny singing happy birthday with a lighted moon cake!