Happy 4th Wedding Anniversary

It's our 4th wedding anniversary! 4 years ago we had our customary wedding, how time flies! This year, it was on a Thursday, a little odd, so we decided to put Jolie at my Mom's place and go for a fancy lunch instead of the usual dinner.

We decided on db Bistro Moderne, which is a celebrity restaurant at Marina Bay Sands.



For all the glory details of our delightful meal, click here!

Like I said, it was absolutely delightful and we left the restaurant very happy. But after that we didn't really plan on what to do next, so we just decided to go to takashimaya shopping centre so that I could get Cobby his present.

Oh, by the way, this is MY present. :))



9 diamonds to signify 长长久久. Haha, I just like the bling... Thank you to the most wonderful husband in the world! MUACK!

I know it's hard to match up to his awesome gift, but I'm a very poor woman you know! Besides, it's SO hard to find a gift for him as he's such a practical man with not much wants! The 'wants' that he have I couldn't afford leh, like a Bugatti Veyron,


Or perhaps, something that can fit in a box, like a really nice watch,



Sorry, I would need to buy more TOTO first. :P But what I can afford is a nice wallet to replace the one that he's using, which is all torn and tattered. (He requested it btw)



Sorry that I can't get him an equally awesome present, but I'm glad that he liked his new wallet.

After that we really have no idea what to do, so we drove to the Singapore Expo as we remembered that there was some sale there. But when we got there, we realised that they have all ended and the place was like a ghost town. duh...

So we decided to head back to my mom's place for dinner. It wasn't an exciting day, but I enjoyed it as I was spending it with my hubby and we get to celebrate our anniversary together, happily.

Happy 5th ROM Anniversary

Its a special day today, Cobby and I have been legally married for 5 years! Yup, 5 years ago we signed our fate at our home and started being Mister and Missus Tang. :) How time flies!

So what did we get each other this year? I got him a brand new belt, to "tie" him up to me! :) He got me a very nice new watch from BALMAIN, which is a Swiss made watch under the Swatch group. Nice, just what I needed as my Guess watch was falling apart. :)



Before we went out for breakfast at our favourite prata place, I thought that it would be a good idea to take a family photo to commemorate our anniversary!



After a very filling breakfast we went home and hung out. I think we ate lunch at home, let Jolie take her afternoon nap before heading out for a nice dinner in the evening. We planned to dine at Bistro Du Vin, where I ate with my friends recently. On the way to Orchard Road, we got stuck in traffic! And since Jolie got hungry, I had to feed her her dinner in the car. By the time we got there, Jolie was done with her dinner. Haha...

Just when we thought that we could finally have our dinner, the restaurant was fully booked for the whole night! I didn't realise that they would be so 'hot', so I didn't make any reservations! So disappointed! But since we're in Orchard Road, we should be able find food right? So we just wandered around and soaked in the Christmas mood!




We walked pass The Coffee Club just outside Wheelock Place and thought it would be a great place to dine! The evening was quite cool and Orchard Road was so pretty, the Al Fresco restaurant was perfect!



Our dinner... Well, it wasn't very good, but the place was quite nice...



Jolie's dinner. No lah, it's her Dad's.



Enjoyable anyway...



On the way back to the car, we couldn't resist the gelato store outside shaw. YUMZ!





A sweet ending to a special day...



Our car was parked above Shaw House, and our lot was overlooking the Orchard Road junction. Pretty right?



So ends our day, a simple family affair, and it's the 1st time we celebrated together with our baby, Jolie. I wonder how we would celebrate next year, and with who? :)

Happy 3rd Wedding Anniversary

Cobby was all mysterious and secretive about how we're going to celebrate our anniversary, but seldom could he keep secrets from me, so I have a few suspicions...

1. Going Malaysia? - Couldn't be, he didn't ask me to bring passport
2. He said we're going overseas - so if no passport is involved, Sentosa must be it.
3. He was doing a bad job at acting dumb the other day when I mentioned how lovely the Siloso Beach Resort looked. So most likely Sentosa.
4. Complained that he had to at least tell me what to bring, so he said swimsuit. Hmmm... most likely a hotel or resort at Sentosa. Are we going to the Genting Resort world? Spending a day at Universal Studios? Or checking into one of the hotels there and spending a day at Sentosa?



So we dropped Jolie at Mom's place, grabbed a quick breakfast at MacDonald's, and true enough, we're heading towards Sentosa! We drove pass Genting Resort World, so Universal Studio's out. Then after awhile of driving and asking for directions, we arrived at our destination!

Spa Botanica

I have to admit, I was a little disappointed. Afterall, don't we share the same indifference to spa experiences? So we're spending a whole day doing this? But even so, I did heard about Spa Botanica before, and it's supposed to be quite famous, as compared to the one we had in Phuket. So I was ready to give it a chance.

I only know that we're there for the Couple's Treatment and nothing else, so when the staff lead me to the ladies changing room to get changed, I was ready confused as to what the heck I'm suppose to do next. She showed me to my locker, showed me the bathrobe, disposable undies and slippers. Then she showed me where the indoor jacuzzi was, where are the bathrooms were, and then just wished me a pleasant treatment.

.......

Erm... so... what am I supposed to do? I think I should remove my clothes, but do I need to wear the disposable undies? Or go naked all the way? I better wear the undies, or else the massage ladies may think I'm some weird woman. So... now that I'm undressed, where do I go? Do I enjoy the indoor jacuzzi by myself? But it's a couple therapy right? So after some thought, I guess I should go look for Cobby outside. That was a good move, cause apparently there was a lady outside the changing room waiting for me. Thank goodness! So she led me to our personal villa, where Cobby was waiting for me.

It was such a beautiful little place! There was the main massage room with two 'beds', behind was a beautiful little open air jacuzzi. So we started with a foot scrub while sipping tea, then we moved inside and enjoyed our dry body massage, which was like a salt and spices scrub. After the scrub, the ladies leave us to shower and gave us 20mins to enjoy the open air jacuzzi. The water was WARM! SO SUPER DUPER NICE LOR!!! It's like having a open air bath with jacuzzi! SHIOK MAN! Some more got a squirrel running around in the trees above us. :)

After the bath we carried on with the oil massage, it was SO GOOD, halfway through, I don't know when, I fell asleep and so did Cobby! Haha... So the ladies woke us up and led us to the restaurant, where we had our lunch. OK, to be honest, lunch wasn't that fantastic as it was a little too healthy for us. Haha... It's fancy healthy sandwiches with chips made out of root vegetables.

During lunch, we were laughing about how we were like two pieces of meat, being prepared to be cooked. 1st they tenderize the meat by kneading it, rub spices all over it, and later rub oil all over it. I wouldn't be surprised if we find a campfire outside the villa, in preparation to skewer us and roast us over the fire! Haha...

But honestly I think the whole session was fantastic. Taking care of a toddler is physically quite demanding, so the message really helped rub away all the soreness and gave us a good opportunity to relax and be pampered. Now the idea of going to a spa is nothing less of a genius! Really thankful to Cobby for thinking of that.

After lunch it started to rain big time, but since we're entitled to stay till 6pm, we didn't care and changed into our swimming costume. They have this amazing little waterfall pool with floating mattress on it, a mud pool(it was raining, so we didn't try that), and a Olympic size pool with surprisingly warm water. We didn't take any photos inside cause, well, we were mostly naked with only a bathrobe. But after awhile I felt a little bored, so we packed up and left.

Really felt like having coffee, so we headed toward Vivo for our caffeine fix and enjoy a really sinful chocolate lava cake.



I bought some nice hairband too!



I wanted to have dinner somewhere new, so I suggested going to Sunset Grill, this restaurant at Seletar Airbase. They have this famous Buffalo Wings that was supposedly super duper spicy. On the menu was only level 1-10, and there's the level 30 if you are up for a challenge! Look at all these crazy people!



We ordered half a dozen of level 3, thinking that it couldn't be THAT spicy. Oh boy were we wrong! IT WAS FREAKING HOT!



We couldn't finish the wings, each of us only ate 2 pieces before surrendering. I really COULD NOT imagine level 30. Seriously. Anyway, we also ordered calamari, steak for me and pork chops for Cobby.



Frankly speaking, not that I'm a sore loser or anything, but the buffalo wings were not that tasty. It tasted heavily of dried chilli and some other spice, and seriously, not very tasty. The steak was very tough even though I ordered medium doneness, and Cobby's pork chop wasn't that fantastic either. I guess people like this place just to boast how much spice they can handle? Or maybe it's the secluded peaceful outdoor seating right next to a airfield. Anyway, we don't get it, and we probably wouldn't go back again. But it did end a very special day on an interesting note.

How time flies, it's been three years since the big wedding dinner. So much changes in our lives. I wonder how are we going to celebrate our wedding anniversary next year? :)

Updates

Been a little busy lately, planning Jolie's birthday party, cleaning up the house for Chinese New Year, so not much time to update my blog.

So fast, another CNY is coming. Last year I was still very pregnant, ready to pop. The last few weeks wasn't very eventful, so it doesn't matter if I blog about it or not. Yup, New Year's eve, New Years day, not much. Even my ROM Anniversary was, well, not much.

At first I thought he had forgotten about it, so I was quite upset. But then he came home with a bunch of red roses and I was so happy he remembered that everything else didn't matter. A few days later, I felt a little sour. I mean, no gifts, no candlelight dinner, just a bunch of roses from the supermarket, didn't even bother to get it wrapped up in nice wrappers or ribbons and stuff. Just a bunch of flowers with their wet stalks exposed at the bottom. Hmm...

New Year's Eve... Had a strong craving to play mahjong, so Cobby and I met each other at Wiwawa and played Wahjong the whole night with the TV on at the background. At midnight, there was fireworks display at the MRT station near my place, so we can hear the BOOM BOOM BOOM! But the block in front of our's blocked our view. -_-

New Years Day... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Slept late last night, plus Jolie had a rough night, so had to wake up several times. SO TIRED in the morning...! Bo bian, joined Jolie on her morning nap. In the afternoon, Cobby also took a nap, but he's was a SUPER nap! Slept for a few hours - I had to wake him up or he'll just continue sleeping to the night! Fed up... I don't wanna spend my holidays coop up at home! But then I thought, it's Cobby's holiday too! So to be fair, I just let him sleep. I think we ate out, can't remember where...

The next day we place Jolie at my Mom's and went shopping again at Orchard. Cobby was still missing his dress shoes, so we walked all over Orchard to hunt for it. The problem is, Cobby have BIG FEET! Somemore the front part of his feet is quite wide, so he needs BIG shoes with wide cutting at the front. Most of the shoes we saw were sort of pointy at the front, a big no-no for Mr Tang! Finally, I suggested Marks and Spencer and found a PERFECT pair. Nice, very comfy, and best of all, only S$70! I promised to buy him 2 pairs of shoes, so another bargain find for the both of us!

Hmm Cobby seemed quite lucky in shopping these few days. Envious~ Well, that sums up my holidays! Cobby took leave for the last week of the year, so I put my spring cleaning on hold and enjoyed having him around the house. I'm always so lazy whenever he's home with me. So I too was quite sad that the holidays were over and he had to go back to work (actually he's on course, but it's still the same).

My life is so boring! :(

Happy 2nd Wedding Dinner Anniversary!

Frankly speaking, I actually forgot about the anniversary completely. Hahaha... Cobby was so excited when he announced to me that he had taken the 11 August off. I was like, "why take that day off?" He was quite upset until I remembered. Haha...

He wanted to place baby with my Mum and both of us to go out for dinner, but baby gets super needy in the evening. So I suggested that we have lunch instead. Later we found out that Mum and Dad were actually super sick. They were both down with the flu and it's possibly H1N1. They have gotten better, but they wanted to self-quarantine themselves until they are completely well. Just in case. So, we now we don't have a baby sitter. So, no choice! Have to bring baby out with us.



Cobby had to attend an emergency meeting in the morning, so I had to take care of baby myself in the morning until he came home. We went to our favourite shabu shabu restaurant at ViVo City. It was past lunch time by then, so it was nice and quiet.




After lunch Cobby wanted to have a cup of coffee, so we went to the cafe next door for some coffee, tea and dessert!







In the evening we ate our dinner at home. A simple celebration, with an additional person with us this year. Wonder how or who would be celebrating with us next year?

Happy 3rd ROM Anniversary

17 Dec 2008 was our ROM Anniversary. We didn't really celebrated or do anything special that day, but I didn't mind. I wasn't really in a celebratory mood anyway. But my day was suddenly turned upside down when Cobby suddenly barged into the room with his newspaper, exclaiming, "Eh Dear, your friend's husband passed away!"

HUH? WHO?

He showed me the obituaries section and I immediately saw a familiar face, but it was so unbelievable that I could do nothing but stare at it with my mouth opened. Turned out my old friend's brother in law had passed away a few days ago. He left behind a wife and a little daughter, he was only in his early 30s.

I don't know him personally, I only saw him when I went over to my friend's place for birthday parties. Cobby went on course with him once, as he was an army officer. The news shocked me so much. I heard from my friend that he was ill, but I never imagine that he would just pass away like that.

After the initial shock, I was overwhelmed with tears. I feel so unbelievably sad because there was so much similarity between my little family and theirs. An army officer with a young wife and baby daughter. I can't imagine if Cobby was to pass away, leaving behind me and baby. I think I would just die.

We were always so concerned about how we should be financially covered in case one of us pass away, but that day I realised that money would mean nothing if my Cobby were to leave me alone in the world with our baby girl. So I cried... I cried for my friend's sister who lost the love of her life, I cried for her daughter who had to grow up without her Daddy, basically I just kept crying because I felt that I can feel her pain.

It was our anniversary, but it wasn't filled with gifts or romantic gestures. On our 3rd year anniversary, we renewed our love with a reminder of how much we meant to each other, and how we should always treasure each other oh so dearly. And I think this is more precious than anything that we've given each other.

There she is... finally

What... Life has been sweet, so sweet in fact, that I was SO reluctant to sit my ass in front of my very nice laptop to update my blog. Sorry lah... too relax already.

So this entry is just confirm that yes... I'm still very much alive and well, I've just been busy! Busy doing absolutely nothing! Haha... I know some people who are dying to hurt me now. Hahaha... The thing is, so much time has passed that I really don't know where do I start to update without boring the wits out of everybody reading this! So I'll just have to give the main highlights of what I've been up to for the pass month.

25 July - My last day at work!
Yup, I've packed my bags and said my last goodbyes to my job for the last 2+ years. Made alot of great friends there. Will miss-ya always! KISS!



29 July - Cleaning Up!
All those things and chores that I always put aside for "when I'm free" - DONE! I was on a cleaning rampage for a week or so, clearing stuff that I never had the time or energy to do. I cleaned up my store room and my spare room (which had became my "dumping ground" ever since we moved in). I even managed to place places to put all my desk top stuff on my study room table! Nice and pink now... :)



31 July - Visit to HortPark!
We started walking from Mount Faber and we kept walking all the way to Hort Park! Its a little boring place but it's nice to be out. We wanted to walk to the Henderson wave bridge but the sun was SO FIERCE that day that we just couldn't proceed anymore. Next time I guess...



8 Aug - Visit the folks
Went back to civilization - erm, I meant went back to office to pick up my cheque as well as visit the friends at work. Grabbed a quick lunch before heading back to my cave again. Ah... it's good to be home! Oh sis came back to Singapore for the National Day weekend!

9 Aug - Happy Birthday Singapore!
I went to the National Day Parade!!! Sis got tickets at the last minute so mum couldn't make it. So sis, dad and I went! It was so cool! It was raining but the air show and fireworks was fantastic. Pics are with sis, so will try to get them soon.

11 Aug - BYe Bye & Celebrations
Parents left for Hong Kong with sis. Not so sad this time, maybe we've been through too many farewells liao. Later in the evening we went to Lawry's for dinner to celebrate our 1st wedding anniversary! Its a nice place and I had a really nice evening with my dear Cobby. Sigh so fast one year already!

That's about most of the major events that has happened for the past few weeks really. Eh actually not much hor... Haha... Actually most of the time I spend in front of my TV (mostly Olympics) and my bed.

Anyways, I'm drafting more updates! Exciting events happening everyday in the wonderous life of Miss CoCo! SO stay tuned for more folks!