Happy Birthday to Me!

For my birthday, I decided that I wanted to head back to Fiesta Brasilia. I just love the place too much :)

Luckily, there were 1-for-1 coupons that came out the week b4 my bday and they expire on my bday itself. They had increased the price as it was the holiday season but an extra drink was included bcos of this increase.

Yummy meats and garlic bread!

We had a choice of beer, white wine, red wine or juice. Since Ash isn't a drinker and juice was not worth it, I got her drink! I had 2 beers that nite :)

When we first for there, there was another table that was also celebrating a bday. The staff and chef of the restaurant sang a bday song for the bday gal and when Ash saw it, she was like "Oh, we must get that for u too!"

Argh ... it was kinda embarrassing and I was trying to hide away. The crowd got bigger and for a moment I thought that they would be too busy to sing it to me. However, after we handed over our credit card to pay the bill, they managed to gather themselves and have a little sing-a-long session.



Ok, I have to admit that I was pretty impressed when they started to belt out Happy Birthday in chinese :)

After dinner, my sis and I headed down to Cathay where were were meeting Huiyi, Ben, Yvonne and KL for a movie. We went to watch Chipmunks 2! It was not bad .. one of those movies that is just fun to watch.

After the movie, we headed to PS's Starbucks to have a drink and that is when the gang pulled out a bday cake that was hidden in Yvonne's car. KL sneakily went to her to grab something.

My one and only birthday cake this year :)

I could only pretend to cut the cake as we had to wait to reuse the cake for Ben's bday after midnight.

The 2 bday kids ;)

I think the ppl sitting around us must have had wondered why we were just staring at the cake after we sang Happy Birthday the first time.

We didn't stay very late as some had to work the next day. Moreover, we were all meeting again the day after for another celebration as Ben and I weren't free for dinner on our actual bdays.

When I got home, I got to open my present!

Gift from Ash and Bro. A very cute lock ... not sure what to do with it ... I'll figure something out.

I have another gift from my sis and it Little Twin Stars so it will be showing up on my other blog soon ;)

I had a great bday this year. Thanks everyone for making it one to remember!

Xmas @ Christine and August's

We had our annual Christmas get together @ Christine and Aug's. I always look forward to our xmas gathering.

Yummy food ... I of cos made my spinach dip again :)

A party's not a party w/o some bubbly!

As usual, there was a gift exchange and this year was a year of cups/mug/bottles .... contraptions that hold liquids!

Well, can't really blame ppl as what can u really get with a budget of $10-$20?

Look at how giddily happy Aug was at his box of chocolate! Haha ... it soon ended up in MY hands!

I got the best present of that nite ... $40 voucher @ Taka! LOL ... wasn't the budget $10-$20? I ain't complaining ... no way :P

We played some games after the opening of presents, one of which was to help clear the leftovers :) Haha .. it is one of the games that is fun but also one I dread at the same time. I hate losing as that mean that I would have to eat ... argh!

We also took out Taboo to play and I have to say I suck at it ... I keep saying "Er, er, er ...." Our team lost pretty badly :P

Looking forward to the next Xmas and this time we have BANNED cup/mugs/"anything u drink out of". We were talking about it being a gift recycling year! Haha .... that is when u bring a gift that u were given that doesn't suit u or u don't like and regift it. The fun part is sometimes the gifts are really crappy and the goal of the game is to go home with the least crappy gift :D

Can't wait!

Beer, Buds, Brewerkz

Have not met up with my friend in a pretty long time, so we decided to meet for an afternoon beer at Brewerkz! Haha, its great to have found someone who loves LTS and beer ... it just seems an unlikely combination :P

We chose Brewerkz as it was a convenient location for all of us and beer is cheap from 12-3pm (I think) The prices slowly increases as the nite draws near ... so my advice is go early ;)

We had their yummy fries again and this time we ordered wings. Their wings are not bad.

On top of that, I got a present from Jacq! Hehe .. another mug to add to my collection.

We didn't stay long as we had my mom's NC's BBQ to go to. Can't wait to go back there again ... hmm, I have another beer bud that is going to be back in SGP after a vacation (I think) in Aust. Maybe then ;)

Thanks for my mug Jacq! ^^

Hope they next time we meet it wouldn't be after so long :)

Happy Birthday Ash!

We all went out on Sun to celebrate Ash's bday as she was going to spend it with her family on the actual day. Ash had some vouchers from Tian Jin so we decided to go there.

The food the previous time was not too bad, so I didn't mind going back.

See the fish? We actually had 2 of them because the first one was cook thoroughly, it was only a tad raw and we only noticed it after most of the fish was eaten. However, they still replaced one for us.

After dinner, we actually went to ice cream place I was at the nite b4 (pls see previous post). It was the first time my parents have gone to an atas ice cream place and try as we might to hide the prices from them, they saw it.

Let's just say, u can bet that my parents would never ever step into that place again :P

The rest of us kids, however, really enjoyed ourselves. I just feel that splurging a little once in a while is no big deal .... and as always, I will equate it to my mom's time spend feeding the "one-arm-bandit"

Dinner @ J8

Ben was the one that jio (ask) us out for dinner and at first we were planning to go to Din Tai Fung @ Paragon but while talking to Evon, she mentioned that she has to work late, didn't know what time she would be done, she said that after a long day's work, she wouldn't want to drive down to town. So we decided to change the location to J8 instead so that if she decided to join us, it would be alot closer to her work place.

My mom dropped me at J8 and I went to change some $$ for my mom first. By the time I was done, Ben, Huiyi and KL had already arrived. While walking to the restaurant, I bumped into my cousin, twice, cos I got a little lost :P

We order alot of food! I think we could have ordered a smaller bowl of soup, which was neither sour or spicy :P

What's a meal at Din Tai Fung w/o 小笼包? :) The glutinous rice dumpling wasn't nice :P

After dinner, we walking around J8 for awhile to get some ideas for our Xmas party gift exchange. Sigh .. I really dread buying gifts for it as I hate thinking of something that is unisex and useful. Maybe I should just do what Kelvin does every year .. haha.

We then headed to an ice cream place near my house. It had only just opened and my sis and I did notice it. Evon mentioned that they served really nice Durian ice cream there.

On the way to Ice Edge, we swung by to pick my sis up as she wanted to join us.

We have Mao San Wang (yummy), Rum and Raisin (Rummy ^^), Green Tea, Chocolate .... umm, forgot the others. All of the flavors can be tasted b4 buying and they they were all pretty good!

Evon didn't join us till later ... had to grab a shot b4 I forgot ;)

The place closed @ midnight so it was an early nite for us. Moreover, Ben had offered to sent KL home ... all the way to JURONG!

Think our next meetup would prob be Xmas? Can't wait, lots of food and lots more pics then, I hope :)

Fiesta Brasilla!

We have been wanting to visit this restaurant for some time but previously the would only allow 1 1-for-1 coupon per table. So that means if a group of us 4 wanted to go, we either had to sit separately or pay 3 and get one meal free.

Anyway, they finally changed their coupons and now it can be used for the whole table :) Which is why my Bro, Ash, my sis and I went there. Felt a little weird not asking our parents along but then it would become one of those family dinners. Its just different when its just us siblings.

The restaurant is located @ United Square.

Haha ... its neighbor caught my eye ... BEER!

There are guys walking around with skewers of meat and they would just slice it direct on yr plate. They do change yr plates but not often as yr plate is constantly full. It was not all meat, there was veggies and stuff at the self serve area.

There was chicken, beef, lamb, ham, garlic bread, chicken heart and liver, fish, pineapple, sausage, etc.

My sis and I.

We ate alot and was very stuffed. I really enjoyed the meal ... the meats were succulent and I love it when I got the burnt portion :) I would definitely go back again but a coupon is advisable as otherwise it would cost $38++ per person. That's a little steep, but u do get lots of meats.

A table beside us with more than 10 ppl did not have one as they didn't realize a coupon was needed for the 1-for-1 and they end up having to pay full price for everyone .... haha, dumbass, there goes more than $200 down the drain. That's alot of beer, hehe :P

Hoping a coupon would be available soon. I want to go back!