Shinji

this week has been an absolute foodie heaven... first off, yazawa for dinner then off to shinji for lunch. i'm definitely going on a MAJOR austerity drive over the remaining of 2012

instead of heading to the original shinji at raffles hotel, i met berns, avon and claud at the quaint little one at OUE. it fits 8 just nicely and as berns was a regular there, they managed to fit us in on a short notice. the chef was really cute with amazing eye lashes and his wife wore a really pretty pink kimono and she kept changing our tea effortlessly. i've found my urasawa equivalent and very very happy. my list of LA equivalents are slowly getting ticked off... now only for a good mexican restaurant. it was a great lunch and the 3 of them are fantastic lunch buddies, i think we giggled a little too much for a small restaurant but it was amazing and i had loads of fun. cant wait for claud to come back and we can do this again.

warning: sushi images overload

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cute!

i think the Papier series of Balenciaga is really cute :) the word "papier" alone conjures an image of paper-thins and i least expected a boston bag from this series!

the Bolster 

& the Papier Wand

the name is just genius :)

why are they offering a complimentary papier insider purse? is this series not well received?

i think this range is chic , not as expensive and hmm.. looks more authentic than the others?

<3

S

project gimbap

perhaps you may ask what's the difference between a gimbap and a sushi roll?

it's not much really, after the rice is cooked, the rice for gimbap is mixed with salt,sesame oil , rice wine, sesame seeds , whereas a japanese maki probably has vinegar, some seasoning, sugar ,salt in it :)

then whatever goes into the centre is entirely up to the "chef"

they say food brings people together and below's facebook thread from my gimbap post shows how! :)

thanks for eating my gimbaps Pris & Gina. i believe it's the first time i've delivered food to you both.

lol!

shoe lust

waiting for an inspired version from the parallel universe :)

my mom has a silver version lying in the cupboard since eons ago, but i don't want silver, i want hot pink /yellow/mint green :)

& has anyone seen shoemint.com ?
Rachel Bilson has a line and i'm loving the Kathryns in Nude & Pastel Blue :)
love love  love but no international shipping..yet :)

<3
S

j's house cookouts

i'm not too sure where the recent inspiration to have cookouts at janice's started from but it's been great! a gathering of 6-10 friends while janice and i split the cooking... i'm so familiar with her house, i'd be there more often if it wasnt so damn far away. she's been good at keeping my over-cooking in check... and i believe we're to have a leftover party soon coz for once, food just got out of hand and we're gg to have to eat up the leftovers :) any excuse really to head over, eat good food, gossip and of course raid her father's awesome wine selection

menu for labour day's brunch was:
blueberry pancakes, spanish omelette with chorizo, sauteed mushrooms, corncakes, foccacia, citrus salad with feta cheese and copious amounts of champange

the past weekend's epic bbq had:
janice's famous salmon, gunther-inspired caviar angel hair pasta with truffle oil, potato salad, l.ance's awesome eggplant bruschetta (and i don't usually like eggplant but this was really yummy), grilled veg, spicy pork, beef, mussels, sausages (which we never got to, thus the upcoming leftover party), pavlova, poached pears, lots of soju and red wine

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Down Under part III

i know this is taking rather long to complete and there's the finale which hasn't been written yet but hopefully some time by the end of the year i'll be able to write it out :)

anyway enough of procrastinating. i would like to tell you about stand-up paddling. this little business aunty donalee does keeps her busy with her time while leting her maintain an awesome bod for a lady her age and lets her travel to all the beach destinations around the world! it's basically standing atop a board slightly larger than a long surf board if you're a beginner like myself or a surf board as a professional, stand up and paddle with an oar. while setting up, i was thinking that it would be torture for my arms when in fact it was more core work just balancing on a board in a body of water! what i'm even more impressed with was that aunty donalee would hold weekly yoga lessons on it! i mean seriously? this is the one class you had better not loose your balance or else everyone else would hear you splash in!

us setting up bright and early after a night out:

the lake we "conquered" since the ocean was too choppy that day... the houses on that lake were simply amazing... they reminded me of houses in san diego

it was really really fun and i wished i had spent more time in noosa to do another round but i'm sure i'll be back :)
you know come to think of it, it'll be a good sport to introduce to singapore in our waters just coz we barely get waves... hmmmm

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Club 38"

Last Thursday,
 G's 4 bridesmaids met for the first time to view our sketches and this is what Jade sketched for each of us according to personality and what we like :) think Gina wanted us to be excited and be more "involved" with the wedding prep and i'm real excited cos i actually get to own a TTMD dress too!

P's been sick with "contagious" tonsillitis so I insisted she wore a mask haha and she said I was discriminating against the weak!  Anyway, the sweetheart turned up sans mask  with a tray of freshly baked foccacia stuffed with pesto& truffle oil to shut me up hahaha. everyone got to enjoy her bread, which has improved from the previous time( at least it was soft), tasted so good but still not quite there yet to kuku's standard. ( who would have thought making bread is so hard?)

we sat down for 2 long hours, I was half expecting us to be done in an hour .. it was then did I see & experience how Jade was very patient & animated with all of us, listening very attentively to our whims and needs even though it was a Thursday evening after a long day.

My dress is the one right at the bottom with the off shoulder, it was actually a bustier dress, but I commented it was a little "prom" and she extended the lines across the shoulder and it turned into an off-shoulder piece hehehe quite easily done ! but what a difference those lines make :)

G decided on Grey and we're doing it in different shades of grey, dove grey, ash grey, whichever suited our skin tones best. it was actually really hard to decide on the colour! Do we match the bus? do we match the flowers? do we wear yellow?? do we match the groomsmen? Not sure how grey became the colour but i guess Lishan's dress ( the longest one) would look kinda tacky in bright hues and we really wanted her to look goddess-like in hers and not stand out too much and of course be able to re-wear the dress after the wedding.  The design  of my dress probably suited any colour cos it was so bridesmaidsy, Gina then commented " oh Sarah is always very easy" she was referring to the versatility of the dress but that came out so wrong! LOL :)


The funniest part was taking our measurements,  our heights ranged between 155cm - 171cm but all 4 of us had the same bum measurements! haha our HIPS  sure DON'T LIE!

12th March is D DAY! Gina gets to see 2 mock-ups of the dress and I can't wait to see them both!

<3, S

claud's 30th!

since claud was feeling the big 3-0... we had a small gathering at lantern... the chocolate cake was yummy and the weather, bloody warm. the wind and breeze decided to not to be coorperative and everyone especially i was sweating bucket load. wearing my 5 inch heels, i looked as if i was towering over the lovely birthday girl and all our photos with shiny sweaty faces :)

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