Weekend

Went to catch Hancock in town after Hubby got off from work. If not for the fact that I have movie vouchers from Shaw Theatres, I will never watched movie on a weekend nor in Shaw!

I dislike the Shaw theatres! These theatres are in town and my gosh the seats and the theatre is so run down. =/ Sigh... and it must be just our luck. Everytime, we go to watch movies in Shaw, the people sitting beside us are the kind that keeps talking! Once in Shaw Bugis and this time in Shaw Orchard!

My goodness. So irriating can! Come here to watch movie or to talk?!

And the ticket sales ppl in Bugis are the worse lot! I queue to buy tickets like any others and there was 1 counter which was empty though it was stated "telephone / online booking" but there was NO one in the queue at all. I'm too used to the GV system, hence I went to the counter, that man at the counter, pointed to the tag and turned away from me!!! Damn! What kind of service is this?!

I understand it's online / telephone booking, but NO one in the queue and the normal queue was long, hence he shd open his counter ma.

Argh!

Anyway minus the staff and seats and irriating talking people in the movie theatre, Hancock is a nice show. Go catch it if you've not watched it yet.

Went for the sunset mass in St Peter and Paul then we walked down to Clarke Quay for dinner.

Hubby suddenly have the inspiration to have dinner at Fisherman's Wharf, hence, we slowly made our way there from Bugis. It's quite near actually and the evening was breezy and cooling, hence of course, we took a slow stroll there.

Our first time to Fisherman's Wharf. We've passed by a few times and each time, we thought that the place will be expensive hence, we always give it a miss... but wow... we are surprised by the costs!

We had a dory something something with drinks each and well.... it's nothing to be crazy over with.... tastes very normal.... I think Botak Jones Fish & Chips are better as compared.

But the tables and chairs caught my eyes.... All wooden and it's not the usual restaurant where they air-con the whole place. It's fan and well, pray for windy nights too. I think the upper level is some MLM thing as there are ppl who comes and go into the place and up they went.

Another thing that caught my eye was the murals on the wall. HUGE!

Whole wall was plastered with some sea scene la, cannot capture as there were ppl sitting at the table in the middle of the mural.

But, I personally dislike the service there. Granted, this place is not the high class kind of eatery hence, not to expect very good service. But hey! This IS an eatery right? Then how come, every and I really mean EVERY 4 seater has a "reserved" tag on it the moment the table is cleared of leftovers and general mess?!

Then, the staff will be standing around at the counter chit chatting and looking glum. =/ Sigh..... They want business or not wan?!

Only the small tables, 2 seaters were open and the table is small lor, so with just a main each (which is served in a woven basket) and drinks, there's no space for share any sides or anything at all la.

Anyway, I guess, it's either you like it or you dislike it, as Hubby's colleague loves this place and we were... well.... don't share that feeling. I guess, the only only good thing that came out was, we got a few glimse of the NDP firworks thru reflections on the glass panels of The Central.

Fisherman's Wharf is located at 27/29 New Bridge Road, can't miss it, it's opp The Cental. But honestly, I'll recommend Botak Jones anytime!

Movies galore

We've been watching so many movies in the past 1 month. Or rather ever since I've finished my exams, we immediately proceed to watch Musical and movies.

Kind of lost count actually, but I know we've watched Shrek3, Spiderman 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Fantastic 4 - Rise of the Silver Surfer. And the most recent, Transformers! Not to mention "Phantom of the Opera". All these. we watched in the time span of less than 2 months! It's almost once a week that we go to the movies!

I've already booked tickets to Harry Potter 5 - Order of the Phoenix last week and just a few minutes ago, tickets to Die Hard 4. =)

I think Transformers is 1 of the best action movies that I've ever watched for the whole of this year! It's really cool those bots can turn themselves into nice cool cars and go all out to protect the human race.

We bought this "Transformer combo" and it comes with the popcorn and drink. Then with the tickets to Transformers at $9 instead of the usual $10. The combo also comes with 2 cards that can be fitted into 2 mini bots. I thought hubby was pretty excited over it but I was wrong, cause since the movie on Monday, the pack of cards is still lying on the table, unopened, untouched. =(

Next week, it's really gonna be Movies week.

Tues, we're going to catch Die Hard (which I heard is another die-die-must-watch-movie) and on Thursday, HARRY POTTER!!!!

ohhhhhhhhhh........ I can't wait!!!

Welcome to Singapore!

And this was what Sao Feng (Chow-Yun Fat) said or rather bellowed out in his opening of probably about not more than 15 mins appearance in the show, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Sao Feng and his "Welcome to Singapore!" and "MORE steam!"

Lots of treachery, losts nagivation, betrayals before THE last battle... GO watch it. Very nice!

And BE sure to stay through the credit rolls!

Isn't he just so sauve? Gosh...

Pictures are randomly taken from the internet.

Spiderman 3

1 word

COOL!

Decided to go catch Spiderman 3 on an impulse and after booking the tickets, we went to my parents' plc for dinner.

We also bought the popcorn set that comes with 2 tubs of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream for like $8+ online too. Not bad. But too much snacks to be eating after midnight lor. =(

Then since we are watching the midnight movie and I was quite tired out, I took a short nap on the sofa and hubby took a super unglam picture of me! He now calls me 'hamburger head'! =(

But I din wanna go and get too comfortable on the bed, what if I overslept and missed the show? =(

A date with hubby.

Ever since I started on my programme, it's been a long time since Hubby and I went on a date (of any sorts)!

Decided to take a break for once and we went for a nice dinner in The Cathay. This was my first visit there and looks promising even though most of the shops not opened yet.

Dinner was in La Zesto. And the restaurant was so empty, we were the only ones inside! We had the Pork and Garlic Sausage, Sardine Fish Sandwich and a Peanut Butter Latte. Erm... Looks nice.. but tastes... very normal. Not sure how the sausage tasted, I did not eat that though. Pricing wise... for these 3 finger food.. costs close to $15.. Is that normal? Reasonable? Very long never eat out lei. hahaha... and we just came back from a date earlier with 300 valor Spartans. =) "Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy, drawing a line in the sand for democracy. The film brings Miller's (Sin City) acclaimed graphic novel to life by combining live action with virtual backgrounds that capture his distinct vision of this ancient historic tale." Source from GV.

From the text, can already guess there's lots of fighting, blood sprewing glory details PLUS sexy, hard bodied (some good looking), mussles rippling men!

I guess for hubby he enjoyed it very much. Me too, not just the fighting and all, I especially LOVE gawking at those bodies! They are awesome mann... Opps.. I mean men! hahaha..

Something brewing...

Something is in the pipeline...Finally gonna have some time out from the lessons!

Going to catch the show, 300 soon. Can take it as a night out with hubby. Been a long time since we last did that!

And very pai sey... No idea where The Cathay is at this moment in time too! Hubby and I think it's at Cineleisure... but that then will be named as Cathay Cineleisure right?!

Still have sometime lar, will go find out!

Pre-Christmas

What a busy day we had! But it was so well spent!

This year, Christmas eve is on Sunday. So in addition to going for our traditional Christmas Eve's mass at night, early this morning, we went for our weekly Sunday mass as well.

After mass, we had lunch with some of our RCIA mates. It's been such a long time that we all went for a meal together! Though we do meet each other often but it's usually "Hi-Bye" but this time, we actually had time to sit down for a good lunch!

Nice!!!

Hubby, Emma and me also went to catch a moive, "Night at the Meusum". Very funny show. I thought it will look abit like Jumanji, but it's different. Nice. If you have not watched it yet, you should. Will enjoy this show very much!

We din eat dinner after such a filling lunch, so we just bought nachos and after the movie, we went to secret recipe and had cheesecakes before heading to CTK for Christmas Eve mass.

YBIL came with us too, he volunteered to come. =) Good mass. I like the carols. But so sad, they did not sing the "Away in a Manger". My favourite carol to date.

And as expected, we were famished after mass. Headed to AMK S11 for suppper. And look at the time now!!

Gosh... still have the mass later this morning to go. Actually we don't have to go since we already went for the mass just now. But since it's different readings and since we have nothing planned out. I think we will go if we can wake up.

Merry Christmas!!!

May the Lord's graces and blessings be with you all always!!!

We ain't been lazing around ya know!

Like I was saying, the moment we came back from out trip, we cleared up after ourselves and that's quite a lot of things to be put away and stored. We did NOT buy anything at all fm this trip which is sooo unlike me. Nothing to buy in Bintan at all. Kinda boring lor.

Proud to say, besides the taxi fare to the Tenan Merah Ferry station and lunch, we did not spend any $ at all. Of course, we took the change to buy the tax free alcohol at the DFS. Other than that, NOTHING!

After all these cleaning and clearing, both of us were quite tired. Was just sitting down to watch TV and then since younger BIL din want to go RCIA, hubby and me was enjoying TV while I was surfing at the same time. Went into the GV webby and to our dismay, the show Nachos Libre was not showing anymore!!! Argg...

Hubby then suggested watching this.. after I told him Colin says it's good.
Coz the show starts at 9.30pm, we changed and rushed out again. To be honest, if we did not have free tickets, I think we will not watch lor.. being the cheapskates that we are. This seems like a rather brainless show to me... hence the reason. ha! Bought the tickets and went for FC for dinner. I had my beef noodles. I know today is Friday and not supposed to eat meat but over at the resort in the morning, there was nothing to eat except the dumplings which is pork. So since we already ate meat, and had chicken wings for lunch too, I don't see why cannot eat beef lor.

Was quite tired actually and kinda worried that I will fall asleep during the show. But heng ar, don't have. =) Coz I have my fav prawn crackers to keep me awake during the show! haha..

The show not bad. Lots of stunts I feel. The cars are ooooo sooooo gorgeous!!! The actors not too bad only lar. Storyline is well, not there lar. Watch for the effects, the cars and the stunts.

So all in all, a very busy afternoon since our come back fm Bintan.