i came across this article while reading Cleo this morning. The Great Escape (3 great reasons to skip town ) - pg 239 1. You'll sleep better A study in Psychosomatic Medicine has reported that people who take regular trips away from home enjoy better quality sleep. You dun have go far to reap the benefits. Even a wkend trip to a short resort in Bintan can deliever the beauty rest your body needs. My take: Yes. it really helps in delivering beauty sleep. surprisingly, you will energetic even though sleeping late & waking up early morning (with the fact you hv done of loads of shopping the day before) 2. You'll live longer Women who holiday twice a year are 8 times less likely to develop heart disease than those who spend their off days @ home, according to a study conducted by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, US. My take: Personally, i target to holiday twice a year. this gave me another reason (excuse) to support it. whether, i live long
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dinner with HJP - Part 2 Venue: Imperial Treasure Teochew Kitchen @ Suntec drop by for dinner on HJP birthday. usually, i went there to satisfy my chinese ramen cravings. but for a change in tastebuds, we decided to order the ala cartes. a wise choice indeed. tsk tsk. drunken chicken. HJP fave har cheong kai (i ate only 1 piece) a combination of my faves! Tofu with stuffed spinach & seafood gravy. a dish which i dun feel sinful eating even after finishing the whole plate my all time fave noodle - fried ee fu mee. this was only so so. other than ramen, the Tofu with stuffed spinach makes me wanting to come back for more. price is reasonable with decent food. i'll be back!
dinner with HJP - Part 1 HJP mentioned 1 day that he missed the posts on meals which we had together. cos usually i'll blog abt it after each meal. this signifies 1 thing. it has been the long time since he gave me a good treat =P anyway, dropped by city sq eco mall during one of the sundays. it's the 2nd time in my life walking along the streets of little india. . hahahaha.. really alot of ah nehs (废话. little india 没有 ah nehs, 还有谁) dinner at Uncle Sam's claypot. ordered spare ribs claypot rice/ watercress soup (my fave!)/ otah/ breaded prawns. we also tried 贡茶 located at B1 (if i rem correctly). very nice! it allows you to choose the degree of sweetness. i had lemon roasted melon tea. melon tea with a zest of lemon. REFRESHING!
オレオチーズケーキfor hjp & momo in view of the 2 special occasions for mom & hjp, i decided to make oreo cheesecake. result turn out to be not too bad. i like the colour for momo's 1 cos it looks more appealing than HJP. mixture of oreo & julie's biscuits for the base momo's cheesecake hjp's cheesecake (with lots of biscuits) hjp posing for his cake. end note: instead of using a springform pan, i used a round aluminmum mould with aluminmum foil lining inside (with extra 5cm out of the mould). this is to assist in removing the cake from the mould after it sets into the shape. the best part is, you can re-use the mould till its out of shape ;) a cheap & easy method.
yep! i had finished my notes for tml "coffee with steve" meeting. finally my turn came.. which i dread the most.. cos i hate this kind of meeting. btw, i had conquered both ブザー・ ビート & コード・ブルー ytd. Yamashita Tomohisa is damn suave in ブザー・ ビート. awwww!!! can't resist his charm (just as i can't resist Takeshi) peehee next drama in line will be either Tokyo Dogs or Liar Game 2.
dinner with both carriers was a great experience. both of them are really kind enough to bring us gifts. esp the taiwanese which they have left their office earlier to get 蛋黄饼 & individual gifts for us. for a person who do not really like mooncake with egg yolk, i would say the 蛋黄饼 was really nice as the sweetness & saltness compliments very well. L`occitane from EMC the koreans also comes with their corporate gift which is a scarf. can use it to accessorise some of my bags (o.o)v they had also brought us their newly built vessel model [din took a pic of it] very beautiful!