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Who doesn't love the weekends except those who also have to work around the clock even on the 2 precious weekends? 

Last Friday which was also our nation's 48th birthday, Redbull & I bought tickets for The Conjuring! When we first saw the trailer on the big screen, our reactions were complete opposites. 

Me: "AHH, I MUST WATCH THIS! It seems like there is finally a worthy horror movie for me to watch!"

Him: "I will never watch this."

Me: "Huh. Ok lo, I will find someone else, probably my siblings to watch it with me." 

Yea, watching it with either my siz/bro/both was my initial plan but my siz is going to watch it with her ex-co and my bro is a stay-at-home-bro (on those days where we finally managed to convince him to go out with us, I'd always have this urge to buy 4D/TOTO cause a miracle has just occurred right before my eyes) 

IN THE END, 

Redbull knowing I was dying to watch it, accompanied me. And no, I didn't hint/ask him, he was the one who suggested it out of the blue. Though he kept insisting he wanted to watch it too, I knew all he wanted was to accompany me. 

The Conjuring was such a let-down, NOT!

It tops my favorite horror movie! Not to mention the fact that it was based on actual events (though there are some parts which were exaggerated for the sake of scaring the shit outta audiences). 

Undeniably I've always believed in the presence of roaming souls of people who've ceased to live, but knowing that there are souls which are filled with so much hatred definitely brought our fears of the unknown to a whole new level. 

Redbull was craving for sashimi. 

Side note: Ever since I encouraged (aka psycho-ed) Redbull to try sashimi, he has fallen in love with it just like I do and he will have sudden cravings for it. Till now, he hasn't expressed his gratitude to me, the lady who gave him a taste of raw heaven. 

Searched and found just the place for fresh sashimi - 

Fish Mart Sakuraya

Advantages

Slurping on his chawanmushi

Price: $5.80

What we came here for! 

Price: $14

Freshness guaranteed as their seafood are flown in every Tuesday & Friday. 

Two other side dishes we ordered.

Soft-shell crab

Price: $6

Prawn cutlet

Price: $6

After having our appetizers at Fish Mart, we had our dinner at Jalan Kayu Prata Cafe which is also located in West Coast Plaza. 

A pre-birthday lunch celebration for Redbull at The King Louis. I first read about this restaurant on sixpegs and first thought was

"I'm definitely going to try out their famous large platters myself someday."

But Redbull & I didn't get to try their platters as the peeps who patronized The King Louis on Thursday said unless the both of us were really famished, otherwise DO NOT try it as their portions are humongous. So we didn't and I ordered this half back-ribs instead. Couldn't finish the generous portion of fries, let alone the ribs and it was then I truly believe how overly generous they are with their platters. 

Seafood. Scallops & mussels. Love the snow white creamy sauce. 

The night when I gave Redbull his early surprise birthday gift - Trevase watch. 

Who doesn't love surprises right? 

With his new watch wrapped around his wrist, we headed to Marche for dinner and had their pasta for the first time which could taste perfect if the pasta was cooked al dente. 

The stir fried mushroom couldn't taste any better because mushrooms can never go wrong. NEVER. 

Saturday

A small & bustling city, yeah, that's downright the city I'm living in. Along with the quicken pace of people around me everywhere I go, I find myself trying to catch up with this fast-paced life reluctantly. Guess that in the midst of all these conforming or competing, whatever reason it may be, the hope of being able to eat without worrying about the queue in line, walk without worrying about running late will always surface from beneath the thin lying earth which is dusted with everyone's hurried footsteps and the ever developing multi-storey man-made landscape. A justifiable reason for our wants of a getaway. 

Or in my case, a short journey to somewhere where I feel closer to my inner-self, a quieter place with no one's fast moving footsteps to disturb my thoughts. 

Horses, my favorite land creature. 

Some deep conversation going on here.

 A filling breakfast at Riders' Cafe. A letdown for mecas there's some slight changes to the menu from the previous time we came. They no longer have the egg benedict with soft-shell crab, it's just crab meat instead.

Roasted chicken which was a total rip-off. One whole chicken for $34? That's the price of a dozen fresh live oysters which we had too! But on the bright side, the tender meat goes well ith the 4 different sauces. 

Redbull had Paella and we agreed Marche's paella is better. 

Oysters that were still alive when served on plate. 

Desserts!!!! 

This huge nutella cake which is twice the size of a standard slice only costs $8! Rich yet not too sweet. I swear moving through the desserts stalls was a torture for me as I wanted to lay my mouth on every dessert that I saw.

Good O day spent

Both of us have never been a fan of burgers, especially me (at least Redbull eats Macspicy). So other than Mos Burger, we don't have any craving for any particular burger UNTIL we tried  

Omakase Burger!

Undeniably, ever since Redbull got his driving license, satisfying our food cravings (especially at those places that are inconvenient if going via public transport) has became a whole lot easier!

Omakase is located at Turf City which we had no difficulty finding our way there as we've been to Riders' Cafe which is located in Turf City too.   

Time spent on choosing the burgers we wanted was saved as there are only 6 burgers for us to choose from. Redbull had the Deluxe Cheeseburger while I had the Omakase Cheeseburger. I always have this 'smart' intuition that any food names with the cafe's/restaurant's name must be the BEST. I mean why else would they wanna tarnish their own reputation by naming an awful tasting dish after their name right? I'm just too smart to be true, or so I'd like to think.

Finger slurping good. The juicy beef patty is so juicy that the beef's red juice kept dripping onto my hand and on my pathetic iphone. And I love the bun as it's not those normal plain buns that Mac/Kfc uses, it's butter bun which is definitely more tasty! Oh, look at that generous piece of cheeseeeeeeeee~

Their truffle fries which I didn't take a picture of is the tastiest truffle fries I've ever had. I'll leave out my limited description of it and leave it up to your imagination OR own experience by trying it out yourself! 

After an emotional dinner where we've found our favorite burgers (DRAMA MAMA~), we had a race against time to catch a movie. Chose Oblivion and I was totally oblivious to the second half of what happened because my sleepy bug caught up with me. That is what happens whenever the movie spells nothing but b.o.r.e.d.o.m. And no, Tom Cruise starring in it didn't make any difference, it would if the male lead was Robert Downey/Dwayne Johnson/George Clooney.

Saturday night was supposedly a night out with Redbull but he got a call from his friend saying that they're meeting for a birthday dinner. After the dinner, we didn't join the rest for the bowling session, instead we went Jcube to catch Ghost Child. To those who raved about this movie, either you lied or you are easily shaken by scary movies. Way too draggy. I guess I should give up trying to anticipate for a good ghostly movie.

Sunday was packed with simple activities. We attended the morning mass before heading to Timah market for brunch. I had my favorite 叉烧云吞面 which even Redbull agreed to my sentiment of the succulent 叉烧 and juicy 云吞. Dropped by his grandparents' house for a little while to pamper her with her favorite 羊肉汤.

Then, off to Ikea at Alexandra Road. Our reason for heading down was to check out the sale prices for the furnitures so we can do comparisons with other furniture shops in the future. Well, found a few pieces of furnitures which will fit in the minimalist theme of our future living room.

Still, I think most probably we're going to get our furnishings shopping trip done at our neighbouring country, M'sia.