Showing posts with label 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2013. Show all posts
I bookmarked quite a list of eating places that I'm intending to try out. Yes, Sg is just a tiny red dot, but there're many delightful surprises around the corners if we know exactly where to venture to. This time round, my siz & I went to Duxton Hill, Flor Patisserie, a cafe which is known for its Japanese pastries & frozen cheese-tarts. 

Flor Patisserie is a warm & snuggly cafe which also means it's very petite, only able to accommodate that few modest tables of customers. 
Their popular Napoleon was sold out by the time we went, which was around 2pm. Either we were really too late or its Napoleon is really that popular. 

These 2 cakes that we had are delicious, but they aren't as unique as we had expected them to be. Guess we were too immersed in our intense imagination of how unique desserts could be. Come to think of it, tasty desserts are satisfying enough, why on earth were we so greedy to be expecting more, right?
 Humans humans *shakes head*

Not a strawberry fan, but these are big & juicy. 

As the frozen cheese-tart can only stay unrefrigerated for an hour, my siz bought it for Heroine only after we've finished walking the streets of Chinatown. While roaming, we were surrounded by Thais and their soothing and gentle accents.


Just last Saturday, had my siz to be my companion for the Night Festival. 


The alley beside the Peranakan Museum.

Peranakan Museum, the place where we stayed the longest given the fact that it was our first time there and the Peranakan in us were captivated by all the exquisite details on every single object being displayed. 


Look at all these pouches & purses! How to contain all the gaspings & exclamations of "Oh my God!"? We couldn't and we didn't! 


GIVE US THESE KEBAYAS! NOW!


After leaving the Peranakan Museum in awe, we continued the trailing and found our way to Art Museum. Though it didn't captivate us like the Peranakan Museum did, we had our fair share of fun moments.


At the open field of Fort Canning where the skies appeared too gloomy. 

Everyone gathered around to witness the performance of our local illusionists. Apparently, that performance was averred to break the world's record. Think it was the height of 75 feet or something along that line. Just a tinge of breathlessness which lasted only for a brief moment, nonetheless, a live performance like this is memorable indeed.
 

When you find the clock ticking by too fast, you'll realize that's because of the company.
Is there a reason why time spares us no mercy? Especially in year 2012. It's like I just celebrated my 21st birthday in February and before it occurs to me, it's already January. One more month to my 22nd, to CNY.

End of one year is supposedly the reflection time. The only time I should ever look back in life is to flip through my memory book & count the blessings.

2 huge milestones in 2012. I'll never forget how this first phase has made me realized something of such paramount importance. Been clinging on to every possible strand of hope for more than a year that I could wipe off every obstacle to get into Manchester Uni LLB. I've secured a place. Elated I am, initially. But as the day of orientation drew near, the devastation in me has never eased. Money can't buy everything but for that instance of mine, it could buy what I've wished for; complete my studies in UK. I was literally being forced to come to terms with the fact that financial circumstance doesn't allow me to study in UK. Reality is harsh, cruel. Perhaps that's how I'll learn that sometimes I don't get to choose what I want to do, but that doesn't mean I've to give up my dreams, I just have to take a detour to achieve them.

This second milestone relates to my happiness, our happiness. In Nov, Redbull & I applied for the BTO flat. Our wish came true when we were notified of our queue number. One step closer to one of our many shared dreams.

||New year resolution: Be a better person||




Contributors

Live by this

Live by this