Saturday, September 20, 2008

Singapore....

Is it just me or do you guys realize also that Singapore is suddenly coming out unto the international stage with a BANG!!!

Firstly they won the bid to host the 2010 first ever Youth Olympics




Secondly, They hosted the first ever Contender Muay Thai






Thirdly, The first ever F1 Night race!!!!!!!



Can't wait...will be quite interesting!

p.s. The contender so far is good...finals next week

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

1 month and 8 days later

ok so I am 2-0....yup as the tittle suggeest 1 month and 8 days into it. Sorry for the lateness with the birthday blog.

Well below I have mentioned a little on the festivities with friends, besides that my brother took the family out for birthday dinner at the Belgian Beer Garden/cafe on the day itself.

The restraunt/pub is known specially for its beer. It serves special white(blonde) strong belgian beer apart from a wide range of other Belgian beer. There is no such thing as light beer on the menu. But the place also has the usual bar with the more common drinks on one side and the place is extremely noisy buzzing with chatter as customers are allowed to talk however loud they want to, and the seperation between the dining area and the pub is pointless! So you can actually scream,yell and say anything at all and nobody cares. The place is called beer garden because its famous for its authentic Belgian beer and garden because off to the back of the place is a garden where people stand around talk and drink. Food wise, the place is sought after for its mussels! The menu is limited to a few speciality dishes only. Thus you can be sure each dish is prepared on a more personal basis and is bursting with flavour and quality.


The Place


Famous Belgian Blonde(white) Beer


We all know why this picture was taken

The beer. There are different kinds of beer, and each beer is named someting different and represented by a different gnome.

My drink, Mojioto


Appetizer 1: Baby squid crumbed in lemon pepper w caper mayonnaise
Appetizer 2: Baked snails(escargot) in their shells w garlic and herb butter

Appetizer 3: Beer battered fries and caper mayonnaise

The Mains

Gently pan fried Barramundi with side of mash potato and blue cheese cooked w spinach


Belgian handmade sausages with home made garlic mash and sauteed onions w herbs

Good ol' medium rare steak with baby potatoes and steamed asparagus in a light red wine sauce

My main: Scallops cooked in garlic on a bed of fresh lemon and herb rissoto

South Australian Boston Bay mussels in white wine, bay leave,persillade and cream in a traditional belgian pot

Dessert:Belgian waffle w Grand marnier and orange zest,confit orange caramel, topped with dark chocolate ice cream

Awesome meal and great company, altogether a very pleasent evening out.Lots of merry-making, laughing chatting and picture taking.One of those special occasions where indulging is strictly a must! Pitty not everyone I wished to be there could be there. Oh well reunion end of the year! yay!

The August Birthdays

aiyayai.... Its been ages since I blogged yet again! well lets see..... I have mid-sem's but I am blogging, why? because I need a break. Just recovered from a week long of flu and fever! yup 4 days in bed feeling horrible. Not a 100% cured but back on my feet which is awesome!
ok so I shall blog about a long gone event. The August Brithdays.....

First up was Navin's belated Birthday celebrated a day after mine,and the girls threw me a mini suprise. 2 weeks later Natali celebrated hers. Here are the pictures.
We had 4 cakes! well I had one, the cute little yummy white pavlova..the other 3 were the Brithday boys

Cutting my cake

Friends and presents
Food and us
Then the picture taking began......


Don't ask...

Then some random spur of the moment impulse got us all into two cars and off we went to Mt Coot-ha. It was 12.30 am and in the middle of winter! The first pic you can clearly see they were not happy to be there! Malsha unlike the rest was fine. Second pic we put a smile on our faces and made the trip up there more than just jump out of car freeze....jump back in!


Bumped into Batman and Snow White at Maccas when having coffee after the butt freezing

Next Brithday


Two of my friends and I decided to go wtih traditional wear

Errmmm blurry pic of us toturing the girl in white...what were we doing? we were popping balloons on her head! yup! on her head!
Group picture....

I had to leave early this time around because I had 8 am class the next day. But my friends continued on by reliving their childhood...also at a mad hour in the middle of winter

The host and hostess of both parties.