New Clothing for Chinese New Year

There were two days for the past two weeks that I spent shopping with Louis for Chinese New Year clothing. First time round we went to Orchard and I only bought a single shirt from Far East Plaza. I could not find much at Orchard. The following week we went to Bugis where I normally get my clothing for the past years. So again I bought the rest of the clothing I needed at Bugis Village and Bugis Junction.

The top left shift was bought from Domanchi in Bugis Junction. It was a nice piece and having 20% discount. Then I bought a Kobe Bryant t-shirt from B.I.R.D. Okay actually that and the next yellow shirt are not really for Chinese New Year. But because I wanted a Kobe Bryant t-shirt and more yellow shirts, so I bought both yellow. Bought a long pant from Messy in Bugis Village and so is another short pants. That pair of white shoes cost me only $29.90! I did buy a pair of white shoes at Tampines 1 not too long ago. Did not know why I spent to buy another pair. But I like this with the brown and since it was not too expensive, I bought it. Oh not forgetting the first ever pair of jeans I bought myself from Uniqlo! I really hate jeans but decided to give it a try since Louis said, “It’s a must to have one pair!” Now then I realised I forgot to take photo of the first shirt I bought from Orchard.

Oh well anyway I spent about $277.90 in total. Are you done with your Chinese New Year shopping? :)

Early Birthday Celebration with Friends

The last time I invited friends over to my place for steamboat was last year to celebrate Louis’s birthday. Yesterday once again, I invited my friends over to celebrate my birthday, two weeks early. My birthday falls on 17th February, which would be the Chinese New Year week. While next Saturday is eve of Chinese New Year, so everyone will be eating their reunion dinner with family. Hence, that is why for the early celebrations. However yesterday steamboat was not just to celebrate my birthday but also Chee Hoong’s birthday – whose birthday is a day after mine.

Earlier in the afternoon, I went to buy the food with Louis, Chee Hoong and Brittany. My mom had already bought some food for us. But I felt it was not enough. So after checking with Louis and Chee Hoong, we decided we needed more. Special thanks to them 3 for following me to buy the food and much of the preparation work. Friends started to arrive later that evening. Got a chance to meet up with my good friend who came despite not knowing many of my other friends. Thanks to my god-sister Amanda for bringing her sister Matilda and cousin Serea over too. And of course thanks to other friends like Edward, Russell and Derrick who joined us too. I believed I mentioned everyone who came!

I did feel quite bad for Chee Hoong because it seemed more like celebrating my birthday rather than co-hosting it with him. He received one present from the group while I received about 4, from individual friends. Nevertheless he mentioned he will be having his own buffet party too on another day. Of course he needs to have another party because this year he will hit the milestone for 21st birthday! Surely he needs a better celebration!

A: Kobe Bryant shirt from Group
B: Tweety Bird from Jiayun
C: Chocolates from Matilda & Serea
D: Photo frame from Derrick’s Mom

And more photos…

Once again, thanks for all who took time off to come and enjoy the celebrations for me!

Dominos Pizza back in Singapore

It was many years ago that Dominos closed operations in Singapore. However after almost a decade, they are back in 2010! Back then, I did not even get a chance to try their pizza. Few days ago while driving home, I spotted their new outlet under renovation just 200 metres away from where I lived. Then it was not long that the shop opened for business! So after playing basketball with my friends; Louis, Edward, Brittany, Amanda and I, we decided to try Dominos! It was also the first time Amanda joined us for dinner after basketball.

Unfortunately it was not 2-for-1 pizza like many pizza brands nowadays. But because of the promotion of the second regular pizza at only $0.10, it was as good as 2-for-1! Hence we did not mind trying. So we ordered 4 9″ pizzas with two of it costing only $0.10 each. Together with a bottle of 1.5l of Coke and two boxes of garlic cheese onion rings, we paid about $55.  We tried both the classic hand tossed and crunchy thin crust, both crusts were good! From the top photo of 4 pizzas:

Top left: Classic Pepperoni – All time favorite with generous portions of beef pepperoni and 100% mozzarella cheese.

Top right: Classified Chicken – Succulent smoked chicken breast, fresh onions and mushrooms.

Bottom left: Hawaiian Paradise – 100% mozzarella cheese with succulent smoked chicken breast, turkey ham and juicy pineapples.

Bottom right: Meatzza – Smoked chicken breast, turkey ham, chicken sausage, cabanossi, beef pepperoni and ground beef.

All of the above 4 were very good! If I am to pick a “must-try”, I would say the Classified Chicken. Because it is not tomato sauce based, I really like the taste of this! Meatzza is really stuffed with a lot of meat while the other two are more common flavors.

Louis and I are already planning to eat again, at least before the promotions are over. You can find their promotion coupons at their official website – www.dominos.com.sg. I expect Dominos to give Pizza Hut a good competition!

Chinese New Year Theme for Restaurant City

I held back renovating my Restaurant City for the past two weeks because I was waiting to see if Playfish were to release and decoration for Chinese New Year. Indeed they did so yesterday and the decorations were beautiful! So nice that even though I had thoughts of should I spend the money since I can probably use the decorations for a month long, I still went ahead with the renovation. I spent my entire night doing my restaurant and completed it this morning after finishing the exterior too.

The toughest part of the renovation was the total revamped of my exterior garden area. After expanding the garden to the maximum size possible, I am left with the headache of “too much space, too little items” problem. And having to fit some of the decorations that look so out of theme but very important to be put because of rating issues. Probably I can improve on my staff resting area. Will be looking into that. The garden has nothing to do with Chinese New Year theme though. It is more of a general one that I will reuse on my next renovation.

Finally is my interior! Hardest part of this interior is just the floor tiles. Not knowing which combination will match well. But when I was finally done, I am really happy with the end design! Towards the right side is a little stage with all the Chinese New Year decorations, I like that! The only decoration that I bought and did not put was the dragon. I could not find a place to put it. Anyway is it the coming year of tiger and not dragon. :)

Now is to sit back and earn back some money. Good job Playfish on this latest updates!

Welcome February

February is always a month for me to look forward to. Often the Lunar New Year will fall in this month, Valentine’s Day (although I do not celebrate this day being single) and most importantly, MY BIRTHDAY! Err, okay maybe not as important as Lunar New Year since during that holidays can collect red packet = money! :) I am still not done shopping for my New Year clothing although I bought a couple already. Planning to go Bugis one of this day in this week to shop. And will be looking forward to this coming Saturday birthday steamboat celebrations with few friends at my house! I pray that all will go well!

Have a good start to February!

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