Seldom do I say I have a busy week and a busy weekend. However, I must confess that this week was nothing but BUSY. I wanted to take a day of leave during the week because I wanted to go for my facial. Its been like 2 months I've not gone for my facial. Though I still regularly do my scrub and mask at home, it still doesn't feel enough. But, my managers didn't give me a confirm answer if I could apply for leave as we were suppose to start our UAT during the week and it didn't happen!! :(

I was out almost every weeknights with the exception of Friday because after being out the whole week, I was totally drained. Stayed out late on Wed and Thurs and therefore, Friday had a bad headache. 1 of my colleague left us this week. (I meant he resigned and his last day was Friday). It's sad because being in the Finance department, there are just so few guys and now another 1 is leaving us. The good thing is that I know he is leaving for greener pastures and of course I wished him all the best! As usual, we treat people for their farewell lunch and this time, we had it at Serenity at Vivo City.

The Menu

 Paella Valenciana - Saffron, chicken, Spanish chorizo, tiger prawns, squid, half shelled mussels, rice. Damage- $43.00

Initially, we had these 3 types of rice and 1 pork knuckle which cost $39.80 (sorry no picture) that was shared between 11 of us. Pathetic right? Most of us only had like 1 scoop (not even 1 mouthful of the rice) and it felt really sad. We were all still like super hungry. :( Thanks to the recommedation of the staff there. Oh yeah..and because all of us were still so HUNGRY we decided to give the restaurant another chance and ordered desserts, hoping that it will be better...

La piña gazpacho - Pineapple with Spanish sweet wine and serve with vanilla ice cream. Damage - $10.80

In addition to the above 3 desserts, we had another 1 which I didn't have to chance to take a picture of it. But bascially, its called the Pastel de Chocolate which is made of A light and moist cashew nut brownie with caramel candied orange & your choice of ice cream. Damage was $8.80.

Taking all the food that we had, anyone can make a guess how much the bill came up to?? ok...the total bill was...

a whopping $292 inclusive of 7% GST and 10% service charge!! Extreme right? After paying such price for the food and all of us left feeling so unsatisfied. I really wouldn't recommend the place to people who wanna eat to their heart's content. Oh well, for those who want to try something different and are willing to spend a little more, the Spanish food is quite authentic.

Serenity Spanish Bar & Restaurant http://www.serenity.com.sg/index.htm

#01-98/99 VivoCity

Tel: 6376 8185

Fax: 6376 8184

Email: info@serenity.com.sg

After a unsatisfying meal, the good thing is that since we were at VivoCity, the group of us were fortunate enough to have bubble tea as well. Yup, no KOI but "Gong cha" is a good replacement.

 I guess probably these are the "recommended" flavours. Thanks to Ley San that took all the orders for all of us. She was queuing and I was busy snapping away.

Signboard of Gong cha at VivoCity.

11 of us. Big group eh?

Arrival of Ryan Nathaniel Wee:

Usual habit of mine. After I am awaken by my alarm, I will usually check my phone. Click on email, followed by twitter and then facebook. (that's the bad thing about such technology). As I clicked on facebook, I saw my good friend status update: The REAL deal or another false alarm. I continued to do my own stuff and got ready for work and as I stepped out of the house, I sms-ed her, "So is it real or false alarm?" She replied " real'. Whaaaaa, I felt so excited for her. She's a real good and long time friend of mine from seeing how she pak tor, married and tried for baby till pregnancy and now she's giving birth. I waited for like hours to hear news from her and finally at around 9+, I received an SMS from her "Ryan Nathaniel Wee says hello to all the uncles, aunties, kor kors and jie jies. A chubba bubba weighing 3.81kg @ birth." Yippeee!! my friend has successfully given birth to a healthy baby boy and it was a natural birth. After gym today, I visited her at Thomson Medical and finally got to see the cute little boy.

flowers for the proud mummy. I didn't know what to get for her coz I felt she will have plenty of chicken essence, bird nest, baby clothes. So, flowers to cheer her abit. :)

Ryan Wee crying for milk. He was struggling coz' he's super hungry and even started pulling our his mittens and crying for milk.

finally manage to take his face. he looks so satisfied after the feeding and sleeping so soundly again. Keep growing strong,  baby wee, see ya in a month's time :)))

After the visitation to the hospital, I made a trip down to Singapore Expo for Sitex 2010 and the Mega Flea Market. Seriously, I think sometimes the way I shop for things, I am becoming like a man. I went to both, knowing what I already wanted and targeted on just these 2  things. As I stepped into SITEX, I zoomed in straight for GPS. First saw Garmin, but felt it was expensive. So i looked around, ignoring all the distractions. Finally, I saw 2 other booths selling GPS. The sales person was asking me what specs am I looking at etc and being a woman, I told her this:

" I just want a GPS. 1 that can bring me to places. Easy to use and most important cheap."

BINGO, I found it! My new toy - definitely a useful one. Now, I need not drive around by gut feeling anymore and no longer do I need to plead my brother to lend me his. Yipee!!

Holux GPSmile 61F - Bought at $139

Besides, the GPS, I got this as well-->

Bra Travel Bag which cost me $25. I first saw this during the last Mega Flea Market but didn't manage to buy it. I then saw it again at Takashimaya, but it was selling at $80+ and so this time, I decided to try my luck and see if I can manage to grab it from the Mega Flea Market and yes!! I found it!!

Place bras in bag holder and off you go~

Holds up to 6 bras (depending on bra style)

Bra bag holds bra size up to 36C or 32D

Oh yes, and that was my Sat..the week has yet to end..But I doubt I blog on Sunday. While, I am blogging this, I have yet another friend in labour at Thomson Medical. In fact, she's been inside since noon. Jia you ba~