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Home Sweet Home 2

See this month has been such a busy month for me and before my adrenalin from my trip back home dies down, here is a snapshot of what had happened in the past 2 weeks!
Of coz, the first and foremost (well, after my family obviously), is feasting on local food so I was pretty pleased that I got to taste almost all on my list (umm list made up in my mind, that is)

And then it was reunion with The Girls. We hanged out quite a bit and for starters, we booked a suite (my first hotel suite stay!) in The Sentosa Resort & Spa hotel for one night and so we had a girly afternoon and a really nice chinese dinner at Tung Lok Signatures at VivoCity (yes Bel's suggestion - no western food for 2 weeks!) Nothing close to a Hen's Night at all but it was fun nonetheless. =)

Our family suite

Attending my own church too, was a really nice feeling. Hillsong is nice, but New Creation Church is even nicer! (hehe you should understand I am biased) And I appreciated the few minutes of time I stole in between services to say Hi to my pastor.

I had the chance to meet up with Min and Mimi, and again we had dinner at Sushi Tei, this time at Raffles City instead of Paragon. The salmon sashimi salad with the in house salad dressing is as nice as ever *two thumbs up* and of coz, the company was great as usual!

very thoughtful present - Japanese Sake to warm up during winter

Hanging out with my brother and cousins - my dear brother actually took time off to bring me around. Firstly to my long awaited fish soup at our fav Blanco Court Fish Soup in Bugis *slurrrp* and then drove me and my cousin to Marina Barrage (geez, I realise there is a wiki page on it?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Barrage) to ahem, fly kite! hahaha it was actually quite fun! And then we had the family dinner before the brother and cousins brought me to the new Timbre @ Old School. Yes up on Mt Sophia. I thought it would be secluded but omg the Q was pretty long. I prefer this to the one at Substation which incidentally we went to in Jan when I was home.

The Family Day
Meeting up with my dear PRA friends from church, Sze and Sally. Oh how our lives have changed since 1 year ago. Seriously. Well, I have relocated (I think this counts, no?). Sze is now a superwoman - banker cum supermom and Sally is now starting her own sandwich cafe in town!! So exciting. She literally rushed down for 1h to meet us before rushing back to prepare for her cafe opening. In her own words, she is now doing finance (budgetting, planning), HR, admin, training - all in one! So if you are reading this, please drop by Smoke Shack at Market Street Carpark at Raffles Place (facing Equity Plaza)!

Remember Ah boon who visited me last month? She and Jingyi kindly threw a welcome dinner for me cum a belated housewarming so I could meet up with some colleagues from home (and their partners too) at their place (no, should be called mansion).

looks like some family shot huh?!

their red-and-black themed entertainment room which I really liked

And the highlight of my trip back home is definitely Wen's wedding. It was a long day - fun and tiring all rolled into one. Gave me a good glimpse of how a wedding is like and it was seriously.... quite scary.

I love this shot despite it being a lil blurry


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