Stuffed

I bet, in the last 3 days, I put back on all the weight I lost in the past couple of months. Been eating non-stop, thanks to 2 weddings and a buffet!

Friday evening saw us attending the wedding dinner of Selene and Joseph at Marriott, they are such a cute couple. Selene used to work with Nick at Insight and I have been following her wedding blog, so it was nice to see all the details she blogged about in person. Like her gown (which was a gorgeous pouffy thing) and her mum's tailored cheongsam. She even changed her venue at the last minute to accommodate the growing guest list.






The food came fast and furious, pretty standard banquet items but after having 'orh nee' for the past few weddings, it was a pleasant change to have mango pudding...mmmm. By the end of the night, I was bursting from my little black Bebe dress!

On Saturday morning, I met JGR for an a la carte dim sum buffet at Fullerton's Jade restaurant. We had waited nearly two months for the reservation and it was well worth it! The food quality was very high, there was a large assortment of dim sum dishes, including a variety of doubleboiled soups, appetisers and rice/noodles. They were generous with their scallops and prawns in the dumplings...I wished I had a second stomach!






I brought Nat with me as Nick had something on, and thankfully she napped throughout most of the meal hence I could eat in peace, ha ha! Germaine filled us in on her latest escapades but we didn't get a chance to discuss Perth, next gathering lah. The girls were so impressed with the buffet that they all made reservations for their respective families...but get this - the waiting list is now 4 months!



In the evening, we brought the munchkin to Millenia and ended up having dinner at New York New York at Suntec. Again another overeating session, I had a soup, some of Nick's ribs, a vegetarian lasagne, a root beer float and an orange crepe!


And yesterday for lunch, we were back in the vicinity, this time Thai Express at Marina Square. Tried the chicken tang hoon ball soup for the first time, it was quite nice.

Last night I accompanied Joanne to her poly friend Iskandar's wedding at Holiday Inn Park View. She had dreaded going alone as Tarek could not join her and RSVPed for two, with me as her date. The people at our table must have thought we were a couple of cam-whores, for we kept snapping away with our respective Canons, from the centrepieces, stage, menus and each other so we could blog about the evening later!




There was a glamorous black and white theme to the wedding, from the invitation cards to the bride's evening gown, jazz band and table menus. Dinner turned out to be a 5-course Western affair but we were full after the mango sorbet served midway to freshen our palates!


The first course was a seafood trio of seared tuna, lobster ceviche and unagi roll, followed by a clear broth with winter melon and enoki mushrooms. Then came the sorbet and the main course of panfried chicken on a bed of lentils. Dessert was a hazelnut crunch cake and cranberry panna cotta. Everything was yums, except I'm not a fan of semi-cooked tuna and only ate the cooked, pepper-coated edges.


Iskandar was dashing in his slim-cut suit, he's Malay/Chinese mixed and his wife Wandy was Chinese but she has converted. Surprisingly, he went through the Chinese-style gatecrashing when he fetched his bride earlier in the morning, the video montage screened during dinner was hilarious and I laughed till I teared. At one point, he even got pulled onto stage to perform 'Ice Baby Baby' as requested by his bride and was mortified!



Sigh, I love weddings. 2 of Nick's cousins are getting hitched in the second half the year...another excuse to dress up!