Cafe hopping x orchard shopping pt. 1!! (super late post)

  Hello guys!! Super eggcited to share with you cafe hopping and shopping adventure yesterday !!! Met Wei Lin, Therese and Valerie at a holland V at 11am. :-) they gave me my advanced Christmas and birthday presents hehehe thank you you guys rock my sockz RLLY grateful CUZ you guys are so sweet !!! 

  We went to Gastronomia first for light lunch and all. The food, though RLLY overpriced, is worth paying for I guess CUZ it's damn good. We had 2 pizzas - smoked salmon and mushroom !!! Both were each around 8 bucks. I bought chocolate-dipped peppermint flavoured meringues and cheesy berry crumble. :-) the berry dessert was 6.20 for an average-sized cup and the meringues were 8 bucks. I LOVE peppermint and normally the meringues I come across are basically just colored ones and not flavoured, besides being sweet. Hence when I saw their Christmas special peppermint chocolate meringues I got RLLY happy and bought them. Truly, they don't disappoint the taste buds hehehe !!! And the berry dessert was good too but a bit too cheesy for me :-) overall it was $$$ well spent ; ) I wanted to try their chocolate cakes or CRODOS / CRONUTS but I was super full already. Do check out their CRODOS (mix of crossaunts and donuts) CUZ it has very good reviews :  ) 

  And they sell SLABS of meringues with flavoured like cookies & creme, lemon, cranberry strawberry, chocolate etc which is super cool HAHAHA it RLLY is like a slab priced at 5 bucks !!! They sold salted toffee snowman macaroons which were rather huge and cost 11 bucks!! Tho I RLLYwanted to try it but I had already spent quite a lot just at one cafe so no : ( their cakes and desserts look RLLY appetizing hehehe :-) they sold cupcakes too but since we were heading to a Plain Vanilla later on we decided to skip the cupcakes. Then we went outside of Gastronomia to take Polaroid pictures !!! I especially like the one with Wei Lin which Therese took CUZ lighting V NICE and background super pretty too !!!! :-) 

  We headed to Plain Vanilla for cupcakes mmmMMMMmm. This was my second time going hehehe but as long as I drop by Holland V or Tiong Bahru I would definitely go buy them CUZ they are amazing????!??! I bought red velvet and white chocolate peppermint !!! :-) then we headed to Craft Bakery & Cafe for a drink. Heard their coffees are their speciality but I didn't feel like having coffee so I had sparkling sweet orange juice which was OVERPRICED at 5 bucks for a small bottle :( I finished my water and got super thirsty so I bought the juice CUZ even their mineral sparkling water is priced almost the same lmao so of course it's more worth it to get the fizzy juice. Had our cupcakes there too !! The white chocolate peppermint one was white chocolate frosting (the texture isn't cream like Twelve Cupcakes and personally I like the granulated frosting kind) !! The frosting was RLLY good and the cupcake had a tinge of peppermint which wasn't too overwhelming :-) The red velvet one was RLLY good CUZ its like their classic there and I super love their cheese frosting !! its not too cheesy and overpowering CUZ I hate stuff with too much cheese in there.

  Headed to Orchard after that and then I met Nic CUZ we had to do christmas shopping yay !! Next part in another blog post CUZ if not everything combined will be too long! :-) 

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___ this was during the hols HAHAHAH its a super late post srry!!

Christmas Wonderland !!!!

  Went with my parents to Christmas Wonderland @ Gardens By The Bay 2 days ago!! :-) the admission to gardens but the bay is free but to enter the flower dome there's an admission price of 12 bucks, but there's a package for cloud forest and flower dome which costs 20 bucks damndamndamn however we didn't have time to visit both so we went flower dome only!

  It was RLLY RLLY HOT so when we entered flower dome, it was like a respite from the heat bc it was super cooling ( but then it became RLLY cold after a while ) !!!! We took many photos and the flowers there were RLLY PREETZ there were hibiscus, daisies and many more. There was this candy factory which cheated my feelings bc I thought it was a legit candy shop but it was just some decoration structure thing you couldn't even go into the 'shop' :-(

 after that we rested a while inside the flower dome but it got V cold. The place was quite huge so after we were done we headed for dinner @ Bakerzin! I had this creamy smoked salmon penne but I was too hungry so no photos hehe sorry. It wasn't evEN SMOKED SALMON IT WAS LIKE cooked salmon what ;29238{*<,!}*{}^,!£~|={€..! My dad had carbonara while my mum had this Christmas set consisting of iced mocha, a small cake and miso cod fish!!

  The lights at night were RLLY RLLY SUPER GORGEOUS WTF???

  We took the OCBC skyway which was 5 bucks per person. It was pretty scary at times bc it was quite high up @ 22 meters and the bridge was swaying ever so slightly when the wind blew and the bridge was only suspended by strong ropes connected to the top of the Supertree Gr0ve! But the view from atop was amazing bc there were lights fr all the structures and there was a Christmas market below so everything was pretty much lighted!! :-)

 the view of MBS, Esplanade and the Flyer was spectacular too!! 1!1!1! When we made our way down, we went to some RLLY BRIGHT AND LIGHTED structure and waited for abt 10 minutes for the snow HAHAHAH. Basically it's just foam and it was V V choking aft a whiLE. 

Went to some tents bc Isetan was having some Christmas novelty gift sales + there was Japanese food there too!! Ice cream for 5 buckSSSS RLLY EXPENSIVE THO and some Sapporo ramen and all. Got 2 sets of DIY Diamond Art hehehe and a RLLY SUPER CUTE korean tumblr !!!!!! The drawings on the tumblr v cute and casual street-style like and very korean-ish. It's the kind you can bring out w/o having to be laughed at for being childish despite the drawings and design lmao.

  Went to the European-style markets aft that basically just a lot of small 'huts' where people sell food, bags,Yankee candles ( wtf I want ehh ) and many other stuff!! Saw the Travelling C.O.W ( chef on wheels ) @ the Christmas market and they sold food like truffle Mac and cheese balls, chocolate coated apples, candied apples etc. wanted to try the cheese ballzzz but was super full so I tried candied apples!!! It was V swEET but when the syrup finally melted and I could actually chew on the apple, it was RLLY juicy and yummy !!!!!! It was 5 bucks tho kinda RLLY expensive but it was so gooooood ehehehe!!

  Great day at Christmas Wonderland yezzz and thank you for reading this !!! :-) will write another time ; )

bpdos + hatter street bakehouse & cafe

  had to go cat high for bpdos ( British parliamentary debate opens ) yesterday and today. waking up at 6am yst just reminds me of school days. We were supposed to report at 8 but the whole debates only started at 9.30 so we hobo-ed in heels for THAT LONG and started stressing. Lynnette and I were the earliest like the organisers hadn't even set up the registration booth hahahahah so they asked us to go to the multi-purpose room to chill. Soon more and more teams came and they werE ALL wearing home clothes, while we suffered in invest us and high heels :-( the invest us made us look more professional but the heels were just no ( my heels weren't even very high to begin with but it was horrible?? )

  we were both anxious as hell bc the debate was done in a totally different style from world school debates, which meant good private debaters can sign up to be in this debate open, and there was only a 15-minute prep time (inclusive of FINDING AND WALKING to your respective classrooms to debate). And the motions were largely economic-based. :-( I overheard some adjudicator say that the debates were gonna revolve around econs and I was like hell N0. We preampted cooperatives and yes!! But the first debate was on unions and it was pretty shit.

  Firstly we prepped in the wrong class and the angmoh debaters were like oh yknow we're closing government not you guys, and we panicked but our classroom was upstairs and empty! We wandered arnd in HEELS and finally found the classroom which got relocated w/o us knowing. ;_; our opponents were HCJC, Singapore American school and VS and we ranked 3rd hahahah.

  Lunch @ J8 w juniors and then Lynnette left bc sick :-( second round with junior we ranked 3rd hahahaha and then we screwed up the 4th round's motion not kidding. So I had to recraft my whole speech 2 minutes before my sprech but lucky I prepared notes on cooperatives so it was alright. Because we screwed up we ranked 4th hahahahagaga. Left my shoes and bottle in the mpr lmao ;_;

  Today's round started at 1.30pm but there was a lot of extra time in between. We were allowed to wear sch uni yaaasssss. We were against 2 private debate teams and VS ( same team as first round's ) we ranked 2nd hehehehe ( ˘ ³˘)♥then there was this 45min or so break whereby it was hobo time and nic and I played charades ( social embarrassment nic yuPP ) while the juniors, Edwin and Mr Gwee just talked abt stuff. very awks hahahaha.

  nic and I went with the juniors and Mr Gwee to j8 aft that hahahaha actually not rlly bc we went to kovan while they went J8 but we had to walk to Bishan mrt anyway. It was so weird bc the juniors were just casually chatting w Mr Gwee and Nic and I were just talking to each other HAHAHAH and then we didn't even say bye bc we didn't even know we went separate ways.

  Hatters Street Bakehouse & Cafe was not very crowded yay so we ordered whoaffles and s'mores pie which were both rlly good I recommend the s'mores pie yessssssssss go.

  BPs weren't actually that scary it was pretty fun hahahaha tho I felt like pulling my hair out and wishing that day would never come and half-dying basically. Esp when the first round we were against jc students and those pro angmoh guys ;_; hahahaha but I wouldn't hesitate to go for such debates if I have to!!! Tho the prep time was wayy tOo little and at times I had like only 2 words on my paper and nothing much to say but to try and bullshit my way through ya HAHAHA but good experience. :-)  Thank you juniors and batchmates who came down to support love u !!!!