Hot in the City

This year's Mid-Autumn festival fell on Sep 25. The Singapore Adventurers' Club organized a night hike from Clementi to Kent Ridge Park then to Telok Blangah Hill Park.

We set off at around 6.30pm on a Saturday and walked through the NUS campus. To be honest, it was my first real visit in the NUS campus. Somehow, we then walked to Science Park I or II, I don't know, which connected us to Kent Ridge park. We lit our lanterns on the hilltop and had our mooncakes too. It was lovely and the rest was well-deserved.



After filling our stomaches and admiring the moon, we then proceeded towards our destination. We walked through some forest, past the Alexandra offices, then past Bali Villa, past some long road filled with nice houses, through this dark forest and emerged at Telok Blangah park. Don't ask me how we got there but it was nice to finally reach the destination.

We agreed that the hike was quite tiring even though it seemed fairly easy. We both enjoyed ourselves tremendously!

Yesterday, Big and I celebrated our 3 month's anniversary. Haha! I know it's short. Both of us have different dates of how we first met. He says we met on June 3 at an event whereas I say we met on the 24th when he first asked me out. So yesterday was my anniversary.

It was another excuse for me to have some good food. Of course, I recommended one of my favorite restarants, the Academy Bistro.

For starters, Big had smoked salmon with aloe vera and tomatoes. Excellent. I had tuna which was yummy too. For the main, Big had the lamb roast and I had the veal. Both were delicious and nicely-cooked. As for desserts, he had the apple pie with vanilla ice-cream and I had the tiramisu. Amazing! The food has never disappointed me. The good or the bad thing is it is only opened for dinner on Friday evenings and not many people know of this place. I shall try to keep this a secret.

Without each of our knowledge, we bought each other little gifts. How nice!

hi folks, sorry to have gone MIA for such a loooong while thanks to the loads of projects that needed my attention. Yes i have a bagful of stories to share, will be backdating them so just check them out below.

Meanwhile Miss Mo and I signed up for the Great Eastern 10K run to better our times last year, heh heh... guess what it's middle of September and i have not even run an inch. When we met last weekend with the 4 Faith girls (note i am not from their class but i got invited), this Miss D's physique sort of inspired me...she has 6 packs and rippling with muscle, i am not that ambitious, as long as i can hide my one pack i am happy. kekeke ~

It has been a while since we last met each other, so I organized a lunch with my Secondary school classmates yesterday. It was my excuse to have dimsum too at Lei Garden. I was so pleased because all turned up except one. It is rare nowadays to get everyone together.

It's been nearly 20 (!!!) years since we last went to school together. But it's amazing that none of our personalities have changed much.



Except for JW on the left in the first picture, can you spot each of the 3 girls from the first picture in the 2nd picture? Kekekeke!

Big wanted to try some French food so I suggested we check out the French Stall since I've heard so much about it.

The restaurant itself is like a French cafe. If you don't look out onto the road, you'd think you're in Paris. We had the onion soup, the chicken pate (delicious!). Big loved his pork chop and I had the braised duck (heavenly!). We both shared the profiterole. Oohh la la. I'd definitely go back there again!

Cooking Diva's birthday is approaching. Musa decided that we go wine-tasting for a change, instead of the usual fine dining. LOL! We chose to go to Wine Network at Dempsey Road.

I think it was probably my second time there. I go to Wine Company more often. The Wine Network was actually quite a cozy place. We ordered a bottle of white from South Africa and a red from NZ and a couple of platter dishes. It was divine, sitting on the verandah, sipping wine with cheese and gossiping. Kekeke!