Conrad Oscar's

Supposed to attend my uncle roger's home party at Toa Payoh for pre-xmas dinner gathering but my hubby wanted to have private dinner with me alone at Conrad entennial Singapore - Oscar's today. He seldom put me in a spot and I did not know what to say to my uncle roger so to show my sincere apologise by buying him a xmas pressie in end. And also we put our baby J under my mother's care for 5 hours.

Actually it was my first time dine-in at the most expensive buffet at this hotel and the food there was extremely superior, just more than an excellent rating. Somemore I realised that it was not cheap to have dinner at Oscar's but it was a worth to have nice dinner there on xmas eve.

Alot of chef people were busy either cooking or serving people on buffet counter and they put their huge smile at the guests. Really impressive of this service.

Er.. forget its name of drink but I waited for it to become less cold then I drank all. I just had ended my confinement period by 4 days ago so could not drink cold. Only I drank was warm plain water.

Fantastic huge honey roasted chicken and turkey and ham at a row buffet counter.

real fresh & raw salmon, tofu bean, raw fungus mushroom, salmon sushi and other raw desserts.



2nd round: fresh oyester (I had no chance to eat and could not eat cold raw seafood ones.)
My mother warned me not to, okie.
Other plate: all cooked food such as broocli, honey roasted turkey, spaghetti and curry prawns.

cute chocolate cartoon decorations but it can be eaten. did not manage to try it.

Only saw some people eating it happily, especially the kids haha....

Ice-cream buffet counter with alot of beautiful & creative decorations with different toppings and chocolate cakes and else.

Ice-cream buffet counter with few toppings to choose by yourselves.

Christmas cakes buffet counter near ice-cream one.

Could not stop myself from eating those as it was not the same taste you had at any cake shop.

Very temptation to eat everything.

Cooked different foods such as curry prawn, fried rice, spaghetti, chicken, curry fish and else many.

Japanese buffet counter

raw seafood counter and I could not eat them, so sad.

real lobester soup with loaf of bread and butter

Ice-cream with waffle that I miss dearly and finally to eat it.

Got waffle self-made at ice-cream counter.

Other desserts such as mango or raseberry or strawberry and many.

My hubby and I brought this tiny bear home as it was for dine-in guests.

It is even better to have super nice dinner on xmas eve or christmas day or pre-xmas because you have chance to eat roasted honey turkey there. But it is quite expensive to have dinner there. I fainted when I saw the receipt that did not know it costs SGD$108 +++ per person.

Overall rating dine-in at Oscar's was 100% excellent and you should try eat there and the waitress all are very super attentive and friendly.

My hubby loves it much and will go there for dinner in our next visit.

one mth old celebration

My hubby's boss Vincent wanted to hold a celebration for Baby J as he loves him (baby J) much. He is Baby J's god-father and invited his co-colleagues and friends over at his condo. not only him, Baby J has many god-fathers,mah. Even everybody loves Baby J much.

Unfortunately, I was unable to take much photos on today because baby J was making so much noise and cried at his condo home. Eventually I had to feed him milk or water and changed his diapers few times. Hardly had times to take photos and poor my hubby was exhausted carrying him all the time. But we had great fun and had a good dinner cooked by vincent and his loving wife.

Man Utd fans (B and Vincent) and little new man utd baby J were happy to see MU won 2-1 Everton.

amara element

Today we went to Amara Singapore Hotel to have dinner at element to celebrate our friend's birthday. Actually we supposed to have Japanese buffet at M hotel but never expected that it was closed and personally booked for private function party by other. What was unlucky day, sigh? So we walked to Amara instead.

Then we fear that element restaurant might be fully booked last minutes so my hubby took his last chance to ask the staff whether could have table available if we did not manage to book it. After fifteen minutes talk, finall we got table and had dinner there.

Took few pictures and let it do talking more easier for you to see. :))

This first head counter is cold food like salad, japanese sushi and others.

This food counter which was in front: variety of cooked foods such as turkey, spaghetti, veggy and else.

We sat near wine display corner. Baby J was extremely good boy and slept well when there was a christmas song surround him. At least he did not make noise by crying in restaurant.

Actually, I nearly had no confident in bringing him out and wanted to put him under my mother's care for few hours, let say about 5 - 6 hours. But in end, I changed my mind and tried my best to look after him,ya.

See the wine display with words of A to Z and it was not for sale or not for drink mah.

Element (name) of the restaurant & cafe at Amara.

Guess you must be very surprise that cod fish is really very huge and thickness in my eyes. I never seen it before in my whole life.

But it tastes very delicious and very expensive fish.

Finally got to eat raw salmon after 10 months pregnancy.

Love spaghetti much and the japanese fried prawn and turkey meat.

Third round eating to fill up my stomach. :))

BBQ seafood cooked by chef after chose items.

Cake dessert really made me drooling and ate almost every different cakes.


Overall rating at Amara Singapore - Element is really excellent and best recommendation for dine in at night only.

Buffet dine-in (night) = only SGD$ 38 +++

Not so expensive and nice ambience to have dinner with one you love. Should give it a try,ya.

baby J's full-month celebration

Finally was that baby J turned one month old and he had grown abit heavier and chubbier. He had given us so much happiness and joy that we never had this before. Was grateful to God for giving us a beautiful baby like him.

For traditional reason, my mother told me and my hubby to bring Baby J out for walk before heading to hair salon to cut hair and put it into red packet for good luck and else. I just followed her instruction fully. Baby J was well-behaved at salon and did not make so much noise or cry when the hairstylist cut and trim his tiny light hair. Proud of baby J. :))

He is the one next of Man United player, Cristiano Ronaldo whose hair simiar style to him. Baby J's hair is naturally soft and spikey like this after trimmed abit. He looks great in this hair style hehe...

Those nonya kueh cakes which we ordered from Bengawan Solo but for the buffet decoration was done by us. It was just a simple and relaxing hi-tea buffet that our friends love it much. So we did not want to have lunch buffet that bored them totally. Surprised ???

The kueh cakes arrived in the early morning about 1000am to 1030am so we got time to prepare them by placing them on different plates. It took us about one hour to finish everything prefectly.

Six different cakes : Ondeh-onded, corn kueh, lapis saga, chiffon pandan, salat and bugis.

Three different cakes: soon kueh, dadar and binka ubi.

Drink either hot or cold provided. Still the guests like it much as it was little raining today.

Baby J hugged red packet under his right arm while sleeping. He always like to cover his eyes with his hands. Dont know why he is like this, yet it was a cute sleeping expression.

Really love his little chubby cheek abit and abit.

Every guests were so busy carrying Baby J or taking every photos of him till Baby J was so tired and made so much noise to get my attention by sayang him to sleep.
He was really loved by everybody.

full-month pre-preparation

A day away to full-month old celebration for my baby J and times fly very quickly and even my eyes blinked constantly. Finally no more confinement period and I was happy that I finally can bathe after a month confinement torturous period.

And we prepare things a day earlier and the choz boxes arrived today noon and it all managed to squeeze into a tall & big fridge, to keep the cakes cold freshly hehe...

The box is nicely color decoration presented with the name of my baby J and us that printed on orange small label at right bottom corner of the box.

This CHOZ is highly recommendation by local artists and others and it found in every either baby or motherhood magazines that I happened to see it. That was why I chose this CHOZ for my Baby J's full-month celebration. Somemore, it is home-made quality and no preservation added.

Was preparing to make orchid arrangement decoration for to display on the table. After decorated four single cup orchid arrangement, I put them all in fridge to keep it till tomorrow. So that the orchid wont turn brown or wither fast.

donut factory

Recalled to remember that I had the last donut at Novean Square with my hubby just 3 weeks before I born my baby J. Now my hubby bought double chocolate and strawberry with white chocolate again for me to try abit. Permission already granted from my mother, hehe..... I shared 2 donuts with my mother. She began to like the double chocolate better.

You can view this website at http://www.donutfactory.com.sg/

fastest way to coax baby

Yesterday after visited gynae doctor and my incision has recovered smoothly but I was quite disappointed after seeing my weight check-up. Doctor said because of water store inside me and it takes sometime to shrink down the normal within 2 - 3 months, same for incision. I said arghh... not again...I not happy to hear this and set my target to work out on my weight to lose abit slowly.

After that we went to century square to buy sarong stand at kiddy palace outlet to coax my baby to sleep better especially at wee night that is after midnight. Either my hubby or me or my mother has turned out to be zombie to take turn to sayang baby to sleep at night. Because he made so much noise or cry at late night that disturbed our sleeping. I reckon it is normal for babies. But my baby did not like to sleep on crib. Only sarong stand works on him. He always uses his both hands to cover himself when I put him in sarong stand. Cute funny sleeping position.

I know it is not easy to look after baby like this but it gives me alot of patience to do this and that. To new mummies, if you find it hard to coax your babies to sleep at night or if babes do not like sleep on crib, you may try sarong stand only a way to coax your babies peacefully. It costs only $79.90 and good recommendation by my mother and my auntie. Even my nephew and niece also once slept in sarong stand when they were babies.

confinement meal

Confinement period means that pregnant women cannot eat anyhow outside after baby born into this world. During one month of my confinement period, mostly i drink hot mlio or red date and eat mostly are pork, chicken and fish, and of course veggy all cooked together with ginger to help get rid of air inside womb and clean up everything.

my mother made this black bean soup once a week only. The medicine is iron supplement that given by my gynae doctor.

Actually I do find confinement meal is more healthy and delicious than normal meal without ginger. And everyday when I have dinner meal, I eat alot of ginger with brown rice and other meat with veggy. I find myself a little werid but I really do want get back to my pre-pregnancy weight faster in no time.

red baby stroller

It is long overdue entry as we bought this stroller around late August 07 and from baby kingdom at Bedok area. There are 2 different baby shops there and got alot of baby strollers and car seats to choose. *real headache and price is not cheap as you think* not wholesale ones lah.

After walking around to see strollers display and we decided to choose red capella stroller at last. It was pretty expensive and costs nearly $300 but the stroller branded name capella is highly recommended. The 4 wheels are strong and firm enough to carry baby till up to 3 years old tot. We chose red instead blue color due to our personal reason.

The handler is either can be at front (that the baby can see you) or back as it is adjusted one.

Baby J slept so peacefully in this stroller.

taurus in black

Nothing compare yahoo auction with livejournal as I happened find the interesting trendy clothes that I never knew that the clothes are selling much cheaper than those ones in yahoo auction. I remembered that I bought one top that was very plain and 2 color combo together from KW auction and it costs quite expensive $36.00 excluded postage paid. *heartpain ya*

Look at Bonito Chico is far much better than this KW. BC has presented alot of pretty & interesting trendy clothes that comes with different designs such as embroidery, patterns, prints, laces and such alot to see. Somemore BC clothes are not too expensive compared to KW. And it was my first time to purchase clothes at livejournal website and local sellers are quite effective but fast respond within 48 hours. cool enough yah.. It is in singapore, not international. You dont have to worry as it has good feedbacks.

I bought taurus in black embroidery dress / top from BC and it costs only $28.00. Good & reasonable price. Worth buy for this top. I received it the next day after I made payment within 24 hours. So fast item delivery and 100% full satisfaction with product. Highly recommendation to you all girls & women.

girls there, have fun browsing & shopping at BC livejournal, ya.

birthday surprise

My birthday date clashed with my confinement period and how I really wished that I could go out to have nice dinner for my birthday,ya. Thought that I cannot have this birthday celebration but I was really made a fool by my hubby. No wonder he took a day off and stayed at home secretly and bought swensen ice-cream cake, then hide it in fridge without knowing me.

Till about 8+pm, my mother told me that he was calling me at the kitchen. And he surprised me with this strawberry ice-cream cake and really brighten my day. And took photo together with my baby J and mother finally. My mother loves this cake, so do i and my hubby :))

Actually the confinement days were really dull and boring to stay at home. I really wish to bring baby J out to get good fresh air but weather is not accurate as sometimes heavy rain or sunny. cannot predict the weather forecast ya.

confinement traditional

Yesterday my mother made this chicken plus dom wine soup for washing my womb and clean up my uterus inside. Her kinda of confinement traditional still exists till now. Amazingg....

But it was very bitter and strongly smell of dom wine taste when drank the soup after eating the 3 small pieces of chicken.

Even my mother knows that I desperately wanted to go back to my normal pre-pregnanacy weight 58-60kg and size of jean I wore last time.

After 12 days, I finally washed my hair with very hot water mixed with ginger and white rice vinegar wine together and also had hot bathe too. Before that, my hair was super oily and itchy but try not to complain this and that lah. Just want to follow my mother's sayings. I good girl okie.. :P At least got bathe with ginger and hot water everyday, not wash hair lah.

After given birth and during my confinement period, I quite got sweating too and have difficulty sleep at night.... Now trying my best to get more sleep and rest at same time - what doctor said. Quite tough on me but no choice....bear with it and 2 weeks will be over soon in no time....

standard chartered run 2007

Today was the offically Standard Chartered Marathon Run 2008 that my hubby and I had missed out due to my confinement period and he prefers to run 21km with me this year. SO sad....how much I missed the first sweet memory of my first time running at standard chartered last year.

And we got mail letter from standard chartered and given big discounts for 21km route - $36.00 (from 16th July to 31st July), so cheap. *sreaming* because we were 2006 runners of 10km.

I have to get fully recovery for my incision first then resume to slow running around in early March 2008 before get to abit serious running that is strenuous. Because of Great Eastern Women 10km run, Shape Run 10km 2008, SAFRA Army half marathon 2008 - 21km and Standard Chartered Marathon Run 2008 - 21km all I want to sign up together with my hubby,ya. I am very "itchy" to start running soon, heehee.... Running is my first passion since my day at secondary school till now.