Mothers’ Day Celebration 2013

Howdy!

Howdy! My family had an advanced Mothers’ Day celebration last Saturday. Our family have to celebrate earlier because one of my cousins will be enlisting this week, so we are not able to celebrate on the actual day itself.

I wouldn’t call it a celebration because throughout the whole dinner, there aren’t any wishes or presents going around. We are all eating, talking and laughing away, and apparently, no one brought up the Mothers’ Day topic.
I guess I could only call it a Mother’s Day “dinner” instead of “celebration”.

We dine in at Owen Seafood Restaurant located at Turf City. The place is pretty deserted and it is more accessible by car.
This restaurant is pretty special. They have an area where they place many different kinds of live seafood. The consumers or customers are allowed to enter and pick our own live seafood so it’s always fresh.

Here’s that area i am talking about.

Look at the variety of live seafood!

Crabs

Lobster

Coconut Crab

The first dish is “Xiang Ba Bang” (elephant-trunk clam) which is also called Geoduck in English. I think the reason for it to be name “elephant trunk” is because their king size meat and the structure really looks like an elephant trunk. Just 1 Geoduck is sufficient for the 11 of us. Google it if you never heard of it before. Oh, that’s my favorite dish!

Geoduck Sashimi

Most of us ate it as a Sashimi dish while some dip it in a hot soup to cook it. I prefer eating it as a Sashimi because I find it tastier and more fresh compared to the cooked one. Not to forgot, it’s really crunchy when I chew on it.

Fish

Baby Kai-Lan

Here’s my second favourite, bamboo clam. That longitudinally bamboo stalk is actually the shell of the clam, and that’s why they are called bamboo clam.

Bamboo Clams

Bamboo Clam with garlic overload

Sea cucumber with broccoli and mushroom

Roasted Pork

My third favourite dish, black pepper crab!

Black Pepper Crab

Chilli Crab

Fried mini bun

Candid with my back view

I guess I have to give my blessings to my mum on the actual Mothers’ Day itself. I find it really important to reflect back and really think about what your mum have gone through for you. (:

Expect

指 望

The URL above is a song i start listening recently and i can totally relate to it.

 

Here’s the English translate:

Aren’t you afraid of being rejected?

Aren’t you afraid of being left out?

Aren’t you afraid to fall into the fate of compromising?

When true love is declared to be lacking

The arrogant rose became withered, piece by piece.

Even though you are you sorry, remorseful

The sincere heart, once fall, won’t be able to fly.

 

Don’t expect me to understand, don’t expect me to realize.

Love won’t come back with just a nod.

There’s no difference  between happiness and sadness.

Broken heart will be solved at the end.

Don’t expect me to understand, don’t expect me to realize.

Love is not destined to fill in your deficiency.

Too much right and wrong, it’s too late to stop.

Don’t want to keep yearning for this shattered beauty.

This incomplete cycle.

 

Cousin’s 21st Celebration

Hello (:

HELLO, HELLO! It’s been weeks since I last blogged.
My elder cousin 21st celebration was held at my grandma’s place; the usual place for family gathering or celebrations on special occasion.

Here are some of the dishes that my aunt and I bought for the celebration. Specifically, I only help in carrying but the bill was settled by my aunt. That’s what people say “Ni chu qian, wo chu li”.
But, please don’t think badly of me, I did share the cost of my cousin’s present with my youngest cousin and my sister.

I apologise in advance for the low quality pictures I am going to post. These pictures are taken with my IPhone and I normally will try to make the quality better, but this time round, I am very lazy to edit it.

Cereal Prawn

Fried Squid

Hong Ji Dan, red egg if direct translate x)

Broccoli, mushroom and sea cucumber

Water spinach, also known as Kang Kong

Sweet and sour pork

Omelette with Onion

50 satays

Curry fish head

Canadian pizze’s chicken wings

Hawaiian pizza

Have you realise there’s no birthday cake and pictures of the birthday boy? I forgot to upload the picture in this post and I am really lazy to touch my phone now. Just to let you know, its pass my bedtime so I am using my very last strength to write this post.
The celebration was a success! Everyone is happy and I happy, goodnight!

If a cry a thousand tears, will you shed a single tear for me?

I cried a million tears you didn’t shed a single tear for me.

That’s how strong you are and that’s how weak I am.

That’s the distance between you and me.

————

I know i am not being missed.

I am lying down on my sofa and thinking about you.

Once upon a time,

There was a huge fire, my room was burning and I was gasping for breath.

I was about to die.

The first thought was you, I thought about you who were living happily in your own world.

I smiled. I smiled at my death.

I smiled because I’ll be the one being missed, at least for once.

Albeit it just for a blink of an eye.

❝ You didn’t lo...

Reblogged from a través green eyes:

❝
You didn’t love her. You just didn’t want to be alone. Or maybe, maybe she was good for your ego. Or maybe she made you feel better about your miserable life, but you didn’t love her, because you don’t destroy the person that you love.

— Callie Torres, ‘The Heart of the Matter’ 

He didn't love me

You are my nothing

Just now when I look at my other self in the mirror, I saw the exact image of myself 4 years back.

I can’t believe I look so helpless, so tired, so unhappy, so in denial and so in love. I hated how I look right now, not even a slightest confidence was found in my face, the look that you crafted on me.

4 years back, when I was in this exact same position, I keep talking to my best friend about this particular someone. I desperately asked for solutions and explanations. Those answers only end up with more questions within me.

Those moments were just a time of emptiness and sorrow. Now that I think of it, I got to thank him. I thank him for giving me a priceless gift. That gift was strength and courage.

Now, I lost the strength, I lost the courage. Till the time I retrieved those gifts, I can always set myself up in denial.

Explanations, excuses, answers and questions do not help me in anything nor harm me in any means now because I finally saw through you.  Those words are just evidence for you to struggle away from me, to be free from my touch.

It doesn’t matter now,

Nothing mattered.

Because you are my nothing.

Dinner at Todai, MBS

Just 2 days back I finally manage to get a chance to go to Marina Bay Sands for the very first time! It’s a special day because my aunt is treating my whole family to Todai, a buffet restaurant at Marina Bay Sands. She decided to treat us for a dinner not because she won some random lottery but because she got promoted at her workplace and she lost a bet to my youngest cousin around year 2011.

Good job little bro! *Pats on shoulder*

I didn’t expect Todai to have such a great variety of food, from Korean cuisine to Japanese to Chinese and so on. I can’t remember how many types of cuisine they have.

What I didn’t expect the most is it’s a weekday and it’s so packed with customers. Maybe it’s a Thursday, which they call it a special day but I call it oyster day. Haha, I think it has been at least a year since I last swallow a raw oyster.

Ok, anyway I shall let the pictures of the food show you how delicious it looks rather than me talking/typing about it.

Snow crab

Sweet Snow Crab

That’s the amount that my cousin took and he finish it all by himself. My dad took the same amount as well and he also finishes it all! *Salute

Wooo, Slurps, look at the meat!

Scallops

OYSTERS!

Guess how many i ate?

Since I can only get to eat raw fresh oyster at least once a year so I actually make use of this chance to gobble down a dozen of it.
Oyster, scallop and snow crab are the most popular dishes for seafood lover, it runs out really quickly.

Salmon Sashimi

I kind of regret because I think I didn’t eat enough Salmon Sashimi, I should have eaten 20 slices instead of 10 and I didn’t eat any tuna!

Cook Mussels

Guess what’s this?

Does it look like mushroom to you? Haha, it’s actually escargot with mushroom sauce. I find the sauce is really thick and it covers up the taste of escargot.

Cook Salmon with really nice gravy

Fish, mushroom and sharkfin

SHARKFIN? Yes sharkfin! But don’t get too excited because the measurement of the sharkfin is approximately about one cubic centimetre.

Chilli crab

Don’t know what fish

Scallop wrap with Bacon

Short rib

These short ribs are really well marinated and it taste really good. I think this is one the popular dishes are the Korean cuisine.

Nicely cut warm “Well done” grilled juicy steak

There’s this famous Churrasco station which has a really long queue. There are many different types of meat grilled on the spot.

Pizza

This pizza is really nice unlike those pizzas that can be found outside.

After I am done with my meal, I proceed to this section that can satisfy my sweet tooth. I love how wide the variety of desserts they provide!

Pyramid of Macrons

Deserts

More desserts

And more desserts!

Some mango desserts

Macrons and chocolate elixir

Chocolate tart and strawberry yogurt

Cakes!

Lastly, my all-time favourite chocolate fondue!

The types of fruits that i am gonna dip into the fondue

After dipping in the chocolate fondue

Here are some of the family pictures that are taken after our meal.

Dad and sis

Dad and I

Grandma and one of my cousin with his family

Grandma and Dad

The Dads are not in the picture

Not to miss our cute and mischievous dog, Hiro! Hahaha, he doesn’t want to cooperate with us so sis and I only manage to snap a picture with only his mouth!

Me, Hiro and sis