My work kindly allowed me to have half a day off work so that I could spend the day with Ron before he leaves for his trip to the US. We spent a relaxing afternoon together.

First we had a snack at Yoshinoya. I was very curious to try the green rice shishamo.

I’m not sure how the rice is green though but I do like to eat shishamo although I know it’s kind of bad because it’s mostly fish eggs.

We watched the movie “Jumper”. It wasn’t what I expected at all, I thought it’d be like that old TV show “Quantum Leap”, which I liked to watch when I was a kid. It was interesting but I’d recommend it as a rental.

We had dinner at a restaurant called Vis-a-Vis and had an excellent meal including French onion soup, escargot, foie gras, Chilean sea bass, lemon souffle, and dark chocolate souffle.

The chocolate souffle was DELICIOUS!!

The little copper pot it was made in was so cute.

Other food pictures:

Ron will leave for Los Angeles tomorrow morning at 6am.

A very popular food in Singapore is the fish noodles. You can either have fried fish, boiled/steamed fish then choose the noodles you want and then if you want milk in your soup. I personally like fried and bee hoon and milk. I’m not sure what kind of milk it is but I think evaporated milk since it’s from a can… it makes the soup more rich.

We have this new food court behind out condo on Dover Crescent. It just recently opened and it’s biggest claim to fame right now is that it has air conditioning. Not all the stalls are filled up yet though and the service still has kinks. We went to the fruit and drinks stall and it took them a very very long time to get a fresh fruit drink. But anyways, I had the fish bee hoon.

At least now we have more variety to eat closeby now.

I had quite a relaxing day today with shopping on Orchard Rd, got some nice dresses and shoes and gifts. I also got to enjoy a Whopper from Burger King and a latte from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf… both of which I haven’t had in quite a while.

Ron was busy finishing up some work for school but we met up for dinner with friends at Holland Village. We had dinner at Thai Express. The appetizers were the most interesting part of our meal.

We had a green mango salad served with coconut milk, called Chiang Mai style.

Plus the stuffed chicken wings… apparently stuffed with chicken and shrimp. It was interesting and a bit weird to be eating something that looked like a chicken wing but did not have the texture of a chicken wing, more like a fish cake.

I have updated our blog with a few things for the last two weeks. It’s been so busy that I just haven’t had time and been a bit tired.

7 Feb 2008 – River Hongbao at Esplanade Park

8 Feb 2008 – Lemongrass Thai Restaurant at the Heeren

9 Feb 2008 – Sahara at Boat Quay and Max Brenner Chocolate Bar

14 Feb 2008 – Long Beach Seafood at IMM

15 Feb 2008 – CNY party at my workplace

18 Feb 2008 – My first lecture at NUS

22 Feb 2008 – Partners’ Farewell Dinner at PS Cafe

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It’s almost the end of Period 3 of Ron’s school and this is the time when quite a few people will migrate to the Fontainbleu campus. So the girls decided it would be a good idea to have a farewell dinner. The wonderful dinner was planned by Sofia. She reserved a large table for all of us girls at PS Cafe near Dempsey Road. PS stands for “Project Shop”.

I ordered the Roast Leg of Lamb: Australian Lamb rolled with mushroom duxelle on roasted potato, pumpkin and parsnip with Syrian fig jam and gravy.

After that I still had dessert of ginger pudding with Earl Grey creme anglaise. Oh, this was yummy! I really loved the Earl Grey creme.

But next time I’m going to try their cakes:

I think we all had a good time and it gave us a chance to catch up a bit before we separate.

We’re having fun now 🙂

We headed over to Cafe Del Mar on Sentosa to celebrate Gladys’ birthday. It’s a pretty chill place and it was quite nice to have a glass of champagne and spend the evening among friends.