Hello Fluffies,
As I write this blog post now, my butt is hurting from my second gym session of the year, which happened on Friday. I'm so so happy and glad that I finally got to spend a whole day(pretty much) with my boyfriend, in peace, working out, have dinner at one of our favourite hunts, discovering new food and going window shopping at scape.
It was his first time at Energyone gym and I was so excited inside because this is the first time we're heading to a 'namebrand' gym together and my first time at Safra Jurong. Although the gym looks alot more weathered than the one at Toa Payoh, it was a quite a strange sight, for me at least, to see just a sprinkling of people working out. Needless to say, the gym was rly quiet and it was just absolutely peaceful to workout in this area because no one cares about what the hell you're doing and if you're hogging the machines XD
An impromptu trip to Chinatown for dinner because my baby wanted to get something there. I'm glad we did and this time, we ventured beyond our usual Ma La Xiang Guo and headed for more 'traditional' Sze Chuan chinese fare.
Look at how gleeful this big baby is :3
I ordered a pickled cabbage fish slice dish which costs $10 because I wanted to try something proteiny and still share it with my boyfriend. For a moment, my boyfriend probably thought I was mad for ordering something that would set me back $10 at a place like this.
Until it was served.
It was a huge bowl of fish, vegetables and fragrant soup! I was addicted and so in love with it.
But the utensils could be more sanitary lol.. would you please look at the state of the bowl??? But oh well... for the love of food...
Men should suit up from time to time. It's like how girls should dress up from time to time, or better yet, ALL THE TIME RIGHT? I think my boyfriend looks really good in a suit :)
How time flies.. Now that we're on the 11th day of January. I have had one of the best Christmases and it felt just like yesterday when I was baking cookies for people almost every night, fumbling around the wrappers, getting ready the gifts and clinking wine glasses with my Milk.Tin lovelies over dinner and presents at Cocotte on boxing day.
Just look at the amount of presents!
Picture with the birthday boy :)
Gifts from my lovelies and a glass of wine to represent our fine aging ship.
All I can say is, the food at Cocotte was great. The ambience? Even more so! I loved everything that I had that night. As the menu is most likely seasonal, I'd recommend you to order everything on the menu because that's pretty much what we did.
After dinner, we headed for the lights over at gardens by the bay. It was so magical and surreal, looking at all those lights with few people around. The lights kinda remind me of Hannukah somehow? It had a sort of beautiful exotic touch to it which only adds to its magic. I really wished my boyfriend was there because he would have loved the place for sure.
Avatar or what seriously??
2014, it wasn't the easiest year for me, transitioning back into school life, doing assignments, writing essays, taking up a new job and finally realising that my call was somewhere else. It was an unnerving year of realisation and changes. One thing remained consistent though, that would be my baby's consistent shower of love which never fails to calm me down at the end of the day.
I'm really glad it ended on a good note, spending the day with him, counting down at west coast, watching the ships fire flares and setting sky lanterns into the sky.
I wonder if you had planned new goals for the year. As with every year, I've thought about them but quickly forgot about them in 30mins. This year I wrote them down and put them by my window. Most of them are rather generic and making sure that I don't end up a loser haha. Also, a container, to contain all the awesome things that happened throughout the year( An idea I got from buzzfeed). The first awesome thing to happen was a much anticipated meet up with my former schoolmate whom I have not really sat down and had a conversation with in 7 years. 7 years it took for us to finally take time to meet and catch up on life and boy, have we aged! XD
I hope 2014 was kind to you.. If it hadn't been, here's to a better year ahead.
Happy 2015 and may this year bring you lots of love, peace, joy and laughter <3
