Social butterfly

The past few days have been jam-packed with activities, starting with dinner last Thursday with my 2 favourite bosses ever – Adrienne and Jean. Jean was in town from NZ and we had dinner at Sakae Sushi at Wheelock.

It was lovely catching up with them, only wish we could do it more often. Food was surprisingly good, we ordered quite a bit and managed to finish almost everything. I deviated from my usual Tempura Udon and had a Teriyaki Chicken Ramen instead, which came in a big-ass bowl. It was huge!

After dinner, we walked around the newly opened ION for a bit. I didn’t quite like the layout but it needs further exploration. Must get some Dunkin Donuts soon!

Whilst having dinner with Jean, I mentioned Nick was going to NZ next week…since I was not going Perth anymore, I thought I could lobby Nick to let me tag along, but he’s such a party pooper!

On Friday, I checked out a private watch sale LVMH were having. The Tags were going for under S$2K, but there were some Zenith watches that made my eyes pop – they cost the same as a HDB flat!

Met Rena for lunch and we met again in the evening for the musical Sing Dollar. It was funny, but I wouldn’t say it was that great…prefer Dim Sum Dollies but there was one outstanding bit for me, when they spoofed white collar criminals to some Michael Jackson hits.

Before the show, me, Rena and Jane had a quick dinner at Chocz but we soooo regretted it. Worst pasta I’ve ever had, such a rip off. What was wrong?

1) Waitress spoke no English at all…I mean at all!

2) Food was cold, lukewarm at best.

3) Not only were portions small, I ordered a creamy mushroom pasta for $9.90 but got a tomato-based one instead. Didn’t bother changing because we were late. The extent of the mushrooms was 1 large button one cut into 5 slices and not cooked, it was raw!

4) Jane and Rena’s order was a mushroom and bacon pasta with red wine sauce. Similarly, they had raw mushrooms, pathetic slivers of bacon and the sauce had no hint of wine. Tasted just like mine exactly, which was clearly straight from a bottle. Pure bottled sauce. For $14.50 a plate!

5) We all ordered iced berry teas, but Rena’s drink colour was a lot lighter…clearly diluted and they saw no wrong with that but reluctantly changed it.

Don’t ever go there for the food!

On Saturday morning, Nat had a playdate with Cameron at the Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden. We parked at the wrong place and were drenched by the time we hooked up with Desmond, Chen Tze and Cam. Nat was shy at first but eventually warmed up over a kickaround. Cameron struck the cutest pose whenever he wanted to throw a ball…like he was diving, but actually he was trying to bowl!

During lunch, Nat refused to eat her porridge so I let her try my buah keluak and rice instead. She loved it and I ended mixing some buah keluak into her porridge…Nonya in the making!



In the evening we headed to Toh Yi for Ann’s 21st birthday. It was mainly her friends, we were one of the few family around, food was catered from Manna Pot and surprisingly good…will try them for a home party next time.

There was a Hawaiian dress code, me, Ma, Swana and Gigi wore assorted floral dresses from DD, while Nat wore a Gap dress.



This morning we had breakfast with Mildred at a coffeeshop near her house. Cheapo dim sum, I’m not a fan.

In the evening, met Jane, Albert, Germaine and her brother Kenny for the Liverpool match at the National Stadium. We beat Singapore 5-0. Notice I used ‘we’? Practically everyone there was supporting the away team!





Jane was so lucky, she actually met some of the team at Vivo the previous night, thanks to some inside information that they would be at the Adidas store at 11pm. She met Rafa and Carragher and Riera etc. Priceless!