So I spent the first day of 2007 at home. Sleeping a lot, eating, reading, chilling in front of the TV with So You Think You Can Dance, remembering to take my cough mixture every 6 hrs + the other pills..yea not too exciting, but I guess after being out every single day, we all sometimes crave for a day to relax at home, and sleeping is what I do best, so time really flies when I'm at home haha.
Anyway here are some snapshots from the last few days of 2006..
Betty's Forever Young 21st Birthday Bash!
My 3 dearest lovely ladies Mich, Betty & Baorong. Well Betty wanted a "Calling all angels" theme but I guess the last minute notice failed and no one turned up looking even close to an angel. Nonetheless, Baorong and I made the effort to buy the furry tiaras from ToysRUs to look a little more angelic! I decided Betty should be wearing the tiara instead of myself since it's her big day!
Eh Mich blocked me =p but yes, we love you Betty! Thank you for a great evening, I thought it was more of a party for us than YOUR party, so thanks for all the goodies babe. =)
Betty with Tian and Jega. Yes though the guys were not in any angelic costumes, they made an effort to wear T-shirts with wings on it. hahahaha and I don't know why Betty was posing like that.
Random pose, more normal photos in Betty's camera.
Jega, Mich and Huiping leaving the party. We got those green cups and 3 green candles as door gifts. Betty really shouldn't have spent so much..we really appreciate her sincere gestures. Huiping joined us late for the party because she had an important church meeting before that, but though it was really late, like past 9, she still made the effort to come down to Jurong all the way from Paya Lebar to spend this special day with Betty.
The purple Guess bag that screams BETTY! I'm still feeling so proud we got her this beautiful bag which is so her and also fufil her needs because Betty wanted a big bag which she can bring to school, hence "must be able to fit A4 size paper into the bag". haha yayy she loves the bag! Jamie, Mich and I spent the whole day shopping for the perfect present for her, before Jamie has to fly off to HongKong again? the next morning at 8am. Yeap she flew off on Betty's birthday itself hence she couldn't celebrate with us. Anyway Jamie and Mich, we need to meet up real soon again to shop for Ness' present! Yayy another birthday party!
Our New Year's eve dinner @ Whitebait and Kale
It was my first time to the restaurant and I was very impressed with the decor! The decorations for the New Year were so pretty, with blue and silver balloons hanging from each seat, and on the tables were little stars, pretty gold and blue glittery party hats, party poppers, clappers and more. So cute. The restaurant had outdoor dining too and I thought the concept was simple and chic, matching the whole whitewashed look of Camden Medical Centre.
My handsome boyfriend with the blue and silver balloons behind him, and also the chalkboard menu and the visible kitchen counter.
I ordered their special New Year's eve menu and Tian went ala carte. Our appetizers, the deep-fried whitebait which I didn't appreciate as much as Tian, and the lobster salad.
This was part of the set menu, the red pepper soup which was served after the lobster salad. It's quite good.
Tian's main course, medium rare grilled tenderloin with mashed potato, which was much more delicious than my main course..below.
Lamb rumps. So I had lamb backside while Tian had such a juicy tenderloin. Hehe but Tian always takes care of me and offered to share his tenderloin with me while he helped me finish up the lamb. Actually the lamb was quite good, not tough at all and the sauce which accompanied the lamb was very nice so I got through that part easily, but it was the veg and the rice-like thingy which I had difficulty finishing up. It didn't add flavour to the meat and it was quite painful trying to eat up the rice-thingy. So yes, I have to say that the food at Whitebait and Kale fell low of my expectations.
This is dessert, it's honey with the white cream-like thingy which tasted like something in between cheese and yogurt. I forgot what it's called, and the tart has orange paste in it. The honey part was super sweet, as in sugar sweet and eating it with the fruits and also the orange tart was very yummy. I'm into sweet stuff anyway.
Leaving the restaurant..by this time the restaurant was crowded with a huge group of foreigners and perhaps only 2 small groups of locals.
With our party hats! Off for a relaxing and slow night, away from the crowd. We felt too lazy to join Mich and Jega for cards and games.
So..we ushered in the new year with Nicky! In front of the big TV on Tian's very comfy couch, watching Countdown at Vivocity, which was ermm..not very interesting and too lame. Jade Seah looked good but she can't host, and she looked so awkward and unnatural beside Daniel Ong who's very good at his job. I bet the countdown at Siloso Beach was way better, and hmm perhaps we should have checked out the Marine Parade countdown. I watched it on the news today and it looked quite nice to have a picnic with wine and good food by the Waterfront and there were fireworks too. The "party" in Orchard looked crazy, I didn't remember it to be that havoc and unruly a few years ago, during my secondary school days when we'd countdown in town with the crowd, remember girls? haha I think we only did that for 2 years, after which Tian and I grew out of the partying.
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