TURNING.... TWENTY 2

It must be true that with age, comes the lack of hype to celebrate birthdays aha! My actual birthday this year felt like a pretty normal day for me. I had dinner with my momma and that was about it. Instead, I had a belated birthday lunch with the boyfriend at Salt grill & Sky bar, which is located on the 55th level at Ion Orchard. We were the first! customers to arrive and I must say, for a brief moment, it was as if my boyfriend booked the entire restaurant for me ha ha ha until other patrons started appearing.

I'm the luckiest to be always getting pampered by this one.

For our entrée, we chose scallop (for me) and sashimi (for him). They were sooooo fresh and delicious. Also, we were served with some bread to dip with olive oil and nuts, as well as sweet potato chips which were definitely all 10/10.

For the main dish, we could choose between poultry, steak, pork, snapper and this other potato dish. Being the carnivores we are, we both went for steak cooked to medium well and... we were sold. I don't think I can ever find the right vocab to describe the immense sense of euphoria food brings to us.

And here's lunch with a view!

What do you do when you have a camera with you?
Take one million photos.

After lunch, we window shopped for a bit to allow our food to digest. Initially, R was like "eh baby, if we're still hungry later, we can go eat McDonald's for round 2" due to the relatively small portion of food served to us. Little did we know that entrée + main course + fries to share + dessert = a substantial amount of food going into our stomach, and we ended up being quite bloated. We left for my house after some walking as I had to give tuition (yes I started giving Chinese tuition to a primary 4 kid recently and it's so far so good) while the pig got his 2 hours nap. 

At night, we went to check out the i-light exhibition at Marina Bay and ummm I think it is crazily over-rated? I thought the night view, accompanied with sky scrapers was even more spectacular. The Uncle Ringo Carnival served as a good bonding time for my family though hehe.

The only picture from snapchat I took at the carnival with my mom because my family was too busy giving away money at the game booths. Don't get me started on the food *throws stacks of money into the air*

TAKE MY MONEY, TAOBAO

I just wanted to show off some of the ridiculously adorable things I will be purchasing through ezbuy's Prime account (yay to only $2.99 shipping fee). As the renovation for our new place is slowly coming together, it's about time  my mom and  I start sourcing for all the home necessities and what not. I still remember how I was telling my mom that the progress of the renovation was kinda slow but as soon as we gave our Interior Designer the go ahead after many rounds of yes and no's, things pretty much went bam bam bam. Popped by the house on one of the days and saw the contractors working hard. Thank you uncles. Now it's only a matter of weeks before we move into our cosy little abode.

The thing about buying a new EMPTY house is the trade off between being able to start off from a blank canvas and having too damn many things to buy i.e. from the tiniest household item like toothpicks to bulky furnitures. Nonetheless, after all the (way too many) trips to IKEA, hardware and lighting stores etc, we have more or less settled on the main things we need. As for the other daily essentials, I guess it'll take awhile before we fill the house up with them. Excited to turn our house into our home.

Long story short, check out my cute buys!!!!! Especially the set of toiletries omg *heart eyes emoji*

It was love at first sight and I could not resist these glorious white porcelains. Absolutely love it when I scroll through pages randomly and chance upon treasure.

Soap dispenser. Thinking of using this for the kitchen!

Tissue box also just buy only!

HOW CUTE IS THIS BOOK HOLDER AAAH
got the pull out drawer some more.
I am a sucker for all these nitty-gritty stuff, ugh.

Laundry baskets, white & black for light and dark coloured clothes respectively.

And a rice bucket for my mother ... who cooks at most once a week.



OK TAOBAO. YOU MAY HAVE ALL MY MONEY WHILE I TRY TO HOLD MYSELF BACK *ties arms with rope*