Food Alert!

Just signed myself up for BOTH! It's ok, I'll just exercise more after bingeing.



Ultimate Crab Buffet Dinner (from: 25 June to 12 July 2009):
Adult @ S$46++ & Child @ S$23++

HSBC Credit Card or Debit Card holders: One dines for free with every 3 paying adult diners.

Ellenborough Market Cafe
Swissotel Merchant Court, Singapore
20 Merchant Road,
Singapore 058281
Tel: +65 6337-2288
email: singapore-merchantcourt@swissotel.com



Durian Buffet Dinner
June 2009 to 31st July 2009 (6:30pm to 10:30pm)
$45++(A) $23++(C, 5 - 12 yrs)

Durian Dessert Buffet
June 2009 to 31st July 2009 (8pm - 10pm)
$18++(A) $13++(C, 5 - 12 yrs)
Note: Not inclusive of freshly shucked durians

UOB card members get 15% off the total bill, excluding drinks

Café Vic
Carlton Hotel Singapore
76 Bras Basah Road
Singapore 189558
Tel: 6311 8195

Crabs and unlimited durians!!! Drooling as I write this!!!!!

HK Food

You go girl! Fierce!


“I don’t think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I’m gay,”

From Rolling Stone.

Hah!

Minahism

Minah Speak

Damn freaking hilarious!

Heaven is.
DURIAN BUFFET.

Boo!

ButterFly

Hunka Brown Sugar



Drove all round Malacca for this.

One for the memory books...

Bali









More pics in my fb.

Spa

I finally found the one!


Yes that is lavender that's growing there...Lovely right?

Merapu Spa at Desa Seni, Canggu, Bali
This village resort always makes the Conde Nast Traveller Hotel Hotlist!

You can also read about the hotel in TIME magazine available here. A bit out of my budget at the moment but would love to stay here and indulge in their brand of village life. Their yoga sessions and organic menu (apparently they grow most of their food!)also appeals so much to me. But for now, I'll go for their spa, which uses freshly made in-house products.

My treatments of choice....

Javanese Lulur Body Scrub 2 hours

Our traditional Balinese massage teamed with the Javanese Lulur body scrub make a dynamic duo of deep purification and exfoliation. Enhanced with the softness of mangir (paste), a combination of traditional spices and roots, this healing art works to eliminate dead skin cells and encourage new cell growth. This treatment is followed by a refreshing yoghurt moisturizer restoring the skin's natural Ph Balance.

Hair Cream Bath 45 mins

Sit back and enjoy a full neck, shoulder and head massage. Using natural elements from the earth, we combine a hair and scalp moisturizing lotion which washes away the pollutants, renourishing and revitalizing your scalp and hair.

Bliss...

N*E*R*D

Wonder what really happened in Malaysia. All I can say is...I'm so glad I'm not living in Jakarta cos I would have missed one hell of a show. Pharrell was beyond fine!



Damn Pharrell!





Decked out in our best hoochie outfits

Hah!

Here we come!

2 more events that'll cost some.....


Oh Pharrell!


Oh Bali!!!!!

Sad that I had to sell my ticket for this little play.
But Bali wins over a glimpse of Ethan Hawke any day!



Another time perhaps, Ethan.

2 Trips

My trips are booked and I'm ready to go...





Now comes the long long wait.

More Yashica T4 goodness ...

Some things I'm loving right now...


Love that high waisted skirt!
It's from Steven Alan.



Red Tiles!
Home of Melia Marden - chef
and Frank Sisti Jr. aka Kid America - filmmaker
at their home in New York's east village.
From the selby.



Macaroons!
In Singapore, Canele does them best.

Agony



I have tonsillitis! Boo!

CNY BBQ



Taken with a Yashica T4. My equipment of choice hereafter.

It's been 3 months...

Today marks the 3 month anniversary of my pyeloplasty surgery.

I really want to show off my (horrible) scar but have yet to take any picture of it. I will soon and post it here. Alas, I also have no pics of my 9 day stay at 'Hotel Elizabeth'. Would have loved to see photos of me stuck in a hospital bed with...lemme count...a total of 4-5 tubes poking into/out of me from everywhere....I mean, it's not everyday you get that kind of an experience, even though it was bad. The only good thing was the 36 days of mc! And I was actually enjoying it for the last week or so.... First few weeks were hell.

I will recount that experience someday when I have the time. It was quite an ordeal. Nothing could have quite prepared me for it but somehow it was strangely managable.

My kidneys are both ok, and pain-wise it is under control. It only gets bad when I stand or sit for too long or don't drink water or when it's cold (very horrible pain when it's cold)....I still can't sleep on the left side, I have to be careful when I get in and out of bed, I can't run and lift heavy weights. Sometimes I forget that there are plenty of things that I can't do just yet but the pain will always remind me of it :( I also can't wear a bikini (hehe..not just yet. The scar looks like shit). I suspect I need about 6 months to a year to be back at 100%. Considering how I could barely walk properly for close to a month after the surgery, my progress now is very good I guess...

I still have a urinary stent inside me at this point, which comes with its own set of problems. I sometimes have pain when I pee, and the pain comes from the kidney so it sucks. I have UTIs every few days although I am learning how to control it, plus I generally feel very tired most of the time. This is what the stent looks like inside:



Nice? If you think it looks long, it is! Not sure how long, I'm guessing it has got to be about 30cm or so? That is the typical length. Gross!

Thankfully, Dr Tan is set to remove the stent in a month's time so I can't wait. Not looking forward to the procedure though, which involves Dr Tan pulling it out of me via my urethra (it is right at the bottom of the picture for those who don't know where it is...It's basically where urine comes out of you. Thank god I'm a girl, cos if I were a guy...guess where the kind doc is gonna pull the stent out from? Ouch!!!)

The procedure will be done via a local anaesthetic so yes I'll be wide awake :( He did ask whether I wanted it done via GA but I said no need la...too leceh and too many side effects only... (Plus it would probably cost me an air ticket to Santorini, which I might wanna visit this year hehe...)

Anyways, he has already seen EVERYTHING when he operated on me right? So nothing new to him haha...

After the damn stent is out then I think I'll be more ok...Then I would just have to focus on moving on and.....staying healthy and.... not spending too much.

I will always remember the year of 2008 as the year when I spent more than I earned for the whole year...Between my hospital stay, new old car and US trip, I could have gotten me a trip to France to buy not one, but a few Birkins! Damn!

Hope this year will be more sane for me....