Sunday, July 03, 2011

First of July

This first of July marked my third year in work force. It’s much more special from previous years because of one reason: Three years marked the completion of my tuition grant bond, too. A contract which was signed 7 years ago, now executed and completed. I’m a free person :D :D

But to be honest, I don’t know what to do with this freedom. Even if I’m now free to go anywhere, do I want, or worse, dare to? I’m living such a comfortable life right now. I didn’t think of doing anything that might shake the balance.

Well, few days ago, out of curiosity, I was actually searching on my eligibility to become a Singaporean. Turn out that you can actually apply after 2 years of PR. I feel the urge to apply… but I know I need to take some advices before that. This is a change in nationality I’m talking about, not change in jobs. Something almost irreversible. I think I still need to do my due diligence before rushing on this. There are so many Indonesian decided to stick with PR despite all the perks that its offer. There must be a reason why :)

The hot discussion I heard these few weeks has been all around housing: friend A gets a BTO, friend B gets a condo, friend C is getting resale HDB… so much news which finally also give me an impulse to start researching on best way to get a property in Singapore (and I guess this is one of the reason why I considered to apply for Singaporean. Lol)

I’m now one week away from Jurong Lake Run. And somehow I get so much lazier this week =.=’’ I run only once during weekday and once during weekend. I eat like crazy this week (with 101 excuses) and didn’t even do any swimming T_T

Friday night was a birthday dinner for Bhagee. We went to Barossa @ Holland Village for a dinner and chit chat… it has been quite a long time since the last I see Sapna. I really enjoyed the gathering :)


The Roast Chicken Meal – The mash potato was superb!

Back home, we indulged ourselves with an episode of Outsourced and then dozed off.

Saturday, I went for a run in the morning, then went to Crystal Jade for lunch with Bol2 and the rest. You can tell how big is my portion by the look of the bowl =.=’’ After lunch, we went to the temple then moved on to Orchard for some shopping.


My Favourite Hot and Sour Spicy Noodle in Gigantic Size

We were in Orchard the whole afternoon and managed to cover only a small portion of ION Orchard T_T After some shopping (I went mad and got myself the highest high heels shoes I ever bought), we went to Paradise Dynasty (ION Orchard, level 4) for dinner. The place it famous for its 8 signature xiaolongbao flavours: Original, Garlic, Ginseng, Foie Gras, Black Truffle, Cheese, Crab Roe, and Szechuan. We decided to get one basket and tried them all. My favourite is Original and Garlic. The cheese is good but the taste is too mild. And omg the Szechuan is basically the ma la taste… hoot!!


Happy me at Paradise Dynasty, with colorful Xiaolongbao @ SGD 13.80.

After the dinner, we went to Market Place to get some wines and went back home, accompanied with movie “Limitless” before finally sleep at around 1am.

The next morning, we went to badminton at Jurong East. After badminton, all of us went to Bukit Batok for Medy’s house warming @ Hillview Regency. The place is really good. 21st Floor, 3 bed room, with 4 swimming pools! Yet, the bigger highlight is definitely the food… omg.. it’s really really good!!! I had at least.. ahem.. 3 servings. I started with Misop, continued with lontong, and finished with bihun curry. It’s all so nyummy!! Here are some pictures for memories. Special thanks to Jess for the invitation and for bringing us around the condo :) And Congratz shifu for house and marriage… Wish you a happy wedded life. Hehehe.. :D :D

All Indonesian Favourite Buffet! You can feel the beam of happiness from their look

My Mouthwatering Misop... oh I missed the Chili now...

My awesome Lontong! I didn't remember I ever like lontong this much!


The perfect dessert in perfect shapes. Thanks Yullica!

I ate so much that I didn’t really think much of dinner, even as the time hits 8pm. I finally go for porridge at Dawson, and then bought back some fruits from Fair Price. It’s 10.30pm at night now and I’m still so full T_T I think I have to run at least 5 times this week to pay back all the calories I had taken over weekend…

Anyway, worry about it later… now it’s time for Glee! Hehe…

Pigging,
ED