Hot in the City

Saturday, I had an extremely busy schedule, most of which was spent with desperate housewives. Ha! Literally!

I played tennis in the morning. Then I went home for a light lunch and a shower and off I went to PS Cafe at Paragon to meet 2 desperate housewives, Cooking Diva and Marathon Mom. LOL!


It was my first time at PS Cafe and it was surprisingly good. The decor and the people reminded me a lot of cafes in Manhattan, especially those in downtown. I had the Laksa Pesto pasta. It was delicious. It was sort of east meet west but very appetizing. It went well with my Chardonnay. Cooking Diva had a cesar salad and Marathon Mom had a beef sandwich, not sure whether it was pastrami. Anywho, we were really satisfied with the food and service. We have heard bad things about the service at the one on Dempsey Road.

We were walking towards the MRT station when 2 Temasek polytechnic girls stopped me. They were holding cameras and wanted to take pictures of how I reacted after one of them uttered a comment. So I waited and one of them said "I think you're very beautiful!" I wanted to show the 'Yeah-I-knew-that-already-face' but changed my mind instead and showed them a surprised yet happy face. How fake but I just took it as the truth and it made my day. LOL!


Then Marathon Mom and I rushed to Raffles city for the River Island fashion show. It was held in conjunction with the Singapore Fashion Festival, which I think came and went away without much mayhem. The models were flown in from the UK. The clothes were very brit. I would say British high street fashion is forever the same! Ha! The show lasted for about 20 mins, which was just nice because I was getting bored.



Next, I rushed to Costa Rhu for a Desperate Housewives' bbq. The food were yummy! Wings, shrimps, beef, portebello mushrooms, fish fingers. I'm hungry already! It was to celebrate Superstar's postbox project and also her birthday too. Hurray!

Cheers to all desperate housewives!

My cousin Iris came back to Singapore for a short visit from Sydney. We arranged to meet at Highlander for a whiskey drink, together with her twin sister Brenda. They are like sisters to me and I was so happy that we could get together. You see, Iris lives in Australia now. Brenda just had a baby so she's busy with her schedule too. It's kind of fortunate now that Brenda and I are in Singapore. It used to be when Brenda was in Singapore, Iris was in Australi and I still back in the US. So, that's why I took this picture. I also had 2 glasses of Laphraoig 10 year which was $30 per glass! Yikes!

It's been maybe a year since I last was at Pulau Ubin. I really enjoyed riding the bike there the last time. I have been having difficulty finding company to go there. So I was so happy when Muy Caliente agreed to go there with me!

PU is so rustic and the island is big enough that it is not crowded. It's only a five minute boat ride from Changi Village, which itself is nice too. I hope to check out the Cantina restaurant at the Changi Village Hotel (formerly known as Le Meridien).

We arrived on the island around 1pm. We rented our bikes and then started our bike journey round the island. Muy Caliente has spent a couple of years in West Africa planting trees so he was very familiar with the plants surrounding us. We took uncharted routes, which always led us to the sea. We also went into the prohibited state land and found a group of fishermen, quietly fishing in the pond. Finally, at 5pm, after too much biking, we had dinner at the restaurant by the jetty. It was a luxury to be sitting there having an ice cold beer and just looking out to the waters. Very soothing too as we watched the sky turned red as the sun set.

After dinner, we rode a little more before we returned out bikes. We took the bumboat back to the mainland. A tiring Saturday, no doubt but a fulfilling one.

I was at Sunset Grill on Sunday. I was kind of craving for a burger so I decided to take a road trip there with Muy Caliente. It was early evening and was crowded as usual. The funny thing was there was a big @ss plane just next to the restaurant. It was surreal!

Superstar have become a Singapore star! In the recent Design your postbox competition, organized by the Singapore Post, her design was one of the top 40. So she got to have her design painted on a postbox. Yesterday, we all went down to support her at Orchard Road.


Look at all the paint that was prepared for that day. There were altogether 14 (?) colours to be painted on the postbox.

Look! Even the couple newly in love came to support Superstar too. They could have spent their time by themselves but they chose to come join in the fun!


Notice the butt cracks in the pictures. Hey, they were hard at work so what cared about being exposed.


Little Ashley was an active participant in painting the postbox. She was such a helper!

We all had fun. I can't wait to see the final postbox!

Check out SuperStar's Site

Now that the Kacang Puteh NY chapter are safely back in NY, Miss Mo resumes her dating quest. According to fortune-teller, in the year of the Pig, Miss Mo would have lots of plum flower luck. Let's hope she would find some good plum flower.

This weekend, Miss Mo has a different date on Friday, Saturday and Sunday!

First, there is Muy Caliente. MC is a US hispanic guy that I met online. Friday was our first date. MC decided to meet at Vivo since it was near where I work. We had dinner at Brotzeit, a German restaurant. It was packed. The crowd wasn't hip, just people after work. The waiters were all skinny Malays. Strange! We decided to share the dishes after looking at the large portions that people were having. We had chicken sausages. The portion was small but the 4 tiny chicken sausages were scrumptious. We also ordered the veal goulash. The portion was again small but it was delicious! MC was taking lots of it! We had some chocolate dessert which was ok. Did I mention that the beer was yummy too! There after, we went over to St James Peppermint Park for drinks. Peppermint Park is this outdoors bar area which has nice looking sets of seats. We chose to sit on a bed-like seat. Out of courtesy, I bought him a drink. It was a good date but who knows whether there would be a second date.

Saturday, I had a second date with Ah Bui. Ah Bui is another match guy. Ah Bui works in SAF as a security clearance guy. Ah Bui loves to eat so he was delighted when I said that I love checking out various restaurants. Since I had tennis in the morning so by the time we met, it was late afternoon. The bad thing in Singapore is most restaurants close for lunch by 2pm but Ah Bui managed to find a restaurant in the Bt timah area that serves meals all day long.

We met at 6th avenue. There are quite a few coffee shops there, I'm amazed. We then took a cab to Ban Guan Park on Greenleaf Road. It's some road deep inside the 6th avenue area. Ahh, alas, we found Cantina.The restaurant looks really simple and laidback. We had carpaccio for appetizer. I had my usual linguine carbonara, which was cooked pretty well. Ah Bui had porcini risotto and we finished our meal sharing the tiramisu, which was not bad either. The house white was a pinot grigio. We even toured their wine cellar and saw the red wine Montalcino, which I visited in 2005!

Besides Cantina, there is another restaurant across called La Braceria, which I read, has good pizzas! mmmm....Funny enough, there's a 70s-looking hair salon in the vicinity. The aunties that came out of the all curtained salon had big beehive hairdos. Hmm...But a good date nonetheless. I think Ah Bui is enchanted by me. Kekekeke! Army guys...

Tomorrow, I'm going to the movies with Olsen. It'd be my 2nd date with Olsen. I met Olsen at some sdu event. Olsen is the typical engineer guy that we all know. He's quiet, more chinese-speaking, wears polo-shirts. I can deal with people like Olsen pretty well. I just have to speak their language. But one thing Olsen is unique is he's a triplet! Now do you geddit? Olsen! Twins! Triplets! It's a first for me dating a triplet! The funny thing is Olsen has twin sisters too! Who knows, maybe Olsen's brother may pretend to be my date tomorrow. Since I don't want to pay to watch Protege, so I ask Olsen to pay. Kekeke!