Brunch at Riders Cafe

Brilliant place to chill and catch up with an old friend. I am so in love with the cafes at Saddle club area.

And yes, they taste as breathtakingly good as they look. Slurp.

A Special Good Friday

Wedding anniversary gift came 3 weeks early. I have been thinking about getting myself a cross pendent. Yong decided it would be a perfect anniversary gift and what better day to receive it on. I am absolutely in love with it.

Finally finished watching the miniseries DVD on Jesus of Nazareth the night before. This certainly beats reading the four gospels (finished John and half way through Luke) to get the whole story. Funnily enough, I found myself linking how Jesus's radical ideas was rejected by the Pharisees and the ultimate betrayal of his own people to the current political scene in Singapore.

And behold the timely post from Yaelujunce Pilgrimage blog titled "Would Jesus vote for PAP?" And how my heart sang as I devoured every single word on the post. I can't agree more.

By the way, for those interested, Joel Joshua Goh rocked Singapore online community with his controversial post named "My vote counts: 10 reasons why I cannot vote for PAP in the next election" about a year plus ago. Did a standing ovation after reading it.

Mum's bday celebration at Khmer Delight

Brought my mum to Singapore only Cambodian restaurant, Khmer Delight, for her bday dinner yesterday. Brilliant choice since my mum is always keen for new food places.

Can't quite describe the style. Nope, it is not quite Vietnamese. Not quite Thai. Not quite Indonesian.

Top: Banana Flower Salad; Bottom: Fried Spring Roll

The Banana Flower Salad was the da-bomb dish for me. I love Thai mango salad to death and I finally found something even better than that. It has the same crunch as mango salad but is alot more delicate in taste. The mixture of lemony/limey, nutty, salty, sweet taste is just mindblowing. I never really liked crunchy fried stuff but these are some tasty spring rolls. Really crispy on the outside and soft but not mushy yam+minced meat paste thingy for the stuffing. Divine.

Clockwise from top left: Signature soup; Fish Amok; Lok Lak Beef; Fried kangkong

Main courses are hits and misses for me. More misses cos I like savory food more. The sweet pineapple-y signature soup and Lok Lak beef (stir fried beef with more sweet than sour sauce) just didn't work for me. But my mum and Yong on the other hand were digging heartily into these two dishes while I attacked the Fish Amok.

I was looking forward to this dish after reading all the Hungrygowhere raving reviews thus was kind of disappointed to see the size of it - small soup bowl. But oh.. what potent stuff it is. The top layer is made up of some soft otah-liked sauce that is bursting of coconut, lime leaves, etc flavours. Scoop deep into the bottom of the bowl to get through the layer of sauce to the soft tender fish at the bottom and hurl the wonderful mixture into the mouth. Squint slightly , purse lips and make some throaty appreciative sounds. Oh yeah, that is how I enjoy good food.

We ordered Durian sticky rice which is kind of so so only. But the Mont Blanc cake from Flor Patisserie was heavenly. Fluffy soft sponge cake with chestnut cream, stuffed generously with small pieces of Gao Lak (roasted chestnut), topped with fresh gorgeous fruits. It was a perfect ending to the wonderful night.

Absolutely love the smile on my mummy in this photo. ^o^

What's in my bag?

Been really lazy in blog posting since work has been incredibly busy and all i want to do end of each day is to stone in front of mindless frivolous tv shows. But here I am, springing back into action as I have been tagged by Miss Ene(Love her carrot key pouch and 黑钱小包包) and Z to do a post on "What's in my bag?".

I hesitated at first to do the post. Those are not pretty things in my bag. My pouches have been around for a Looooong time and they look so. But heck.. things never look that bad in photos.. so here goes..

I like carrying my life around so totes are my staples. My trusty super durable Coccinelle bag had and is still serving me well. I alternate this with the newish Alexa which goes with my oxfords for the girls dress liked guys looks I dig alot lately.

These are my essential four items; my Bally wallet (going on to its tenth year soon), Iphone, earpiece and my dirrrrrty key pouch (going on to its fifth year soon). Yeah, high time to do some upgrading. 

My grimey teddy bear print pouch holds all the small girly things which... I don't actually use much.  Except for Palmer Dark chocolate and peppermint lip butter (BEST lipbalm ever) and maybe the Clean & Clear blotter. I was pleasantly surprised to find the lipsticks, mirror and hand cream. Oh.. SO this is where I have been keeping them. ^o^

I have an unhealthy obsession with small notebooks. They are just too adorable and hold so much possibility of glorious things I can write in them. Which of cos does not happened often. Anyhow, a staple albeit a useless one. Hence my equally unhealthy obsession to ensure I have pens. At all times. I am so paranoid I will run out of them I had to have three.

My Zovirax cold sore cream. Citravescent and antibiotics stash for UTI. Must have in case of attacks. Time to buy another cute looking pouch to hold the not so cute looking medications.

Last but not least, my DBS IB secure device. You never know when you need to do urgent transfer for yet another impulse blogshop purchase.

Miss Ene wondered if it is a girl's thing to put everything into little pouches or if any girl actually throws things directly into the bag. Well, I am obviously the latter cos even though I own a couple of pouches I managed to scrape these from my bag .....

And that is probably why I can never find things in my bag.