Friday, February 17, 2006

I was supposed to blog about Valentine's day, but as I was sick yesterday, with a test today, I had no opportunity to at all, so well, its still not too late. It was a bummer that I was sick yesterday, with flu and headache and nausea, where I slept the whole day away it was amazing that I even managed to study at night, but I made an amazing recovery today, with His Grace. How did I know I recovered, well, my appetite returned to normal...hahah..ate from the indonesian stall at engine canteen, grilled chicken drumstick with curry drenched rice and fiery sambal chilli, where just the day before, the mere thought of food made my stomach turn...

Anyway, Valentine's day was really wonderful, in all sense of the word, though I only got to see my date at night as he had lessons, my whole day was activity packed. I baked in the morning, no surprises there..hahah..I attempted to try something new, in view that it was valentine's day and I wanted to bake something special for a special someone. And recently, I tried this cookie at Spinelli's called the Mexican Wedding Cookie which I absolutely loved, so I decided to try to make that, with a twist, by adding hershey's kisses inside. Interesting right? Well, not so. What was supposed to turn up round became a volano shaped cookie, replete with a black tip(from the kisses), which reminded me somewhat of a part of the female anatomy. Anyway, it happened that Steph liked it better than my other cookies(which I baked as well), so its all for the good. Apart from volcano cookies, a nice name we came up with was hersheys titties...muahah.

Anyway, I sidetracked a little, after baking, I rushed off to Din Tai Feng to meet my aunt and cecilia, colin and baby charlotte who was looking cheruby as usual. Lunch was fantastic, as was the xiao long bao, I literally slurped the soup up. After that, we just walked about at Takashimay, and after that had 'tea' at coffee club. It was just great to be able to hang out with my relatives, whom I seldom see, and especially Dayi, who dotes on me, more than my own mom I much say.

I reached home around evening time, just nice to 'pretty' myself up for my hot date at night, which i was looking forward to with much anticipation, and i was definitely not disappointed, felt very touched by the effort that he put in to it. Well, its true that Vday is very much commercialized, and so over hyped that it kinds of loses its meanings, where restaurants charge a bomb, roses cost a bomb, and suddenly cute-sy little gifts just sprouts up from everywhere that it is sort of an eye-sore. Its also true that you don't need Vday just to show your love, but oh well, I still look forward to it all the same, much like a little kid looks forward to christmas.

He surprised me with a bouquet of roses, I honestly wasnt expecting any, so it was all the more lovely, when you least expect it, and whisked me away to Clark Quay for dinner, and he was so mysterious about where he was bringing me. The place was fuly booked, and as we were late, his reservation was cancelled, so while waiting, we asked a guy selling flowers to take a picture for us. Finally, we got to go in, its called Cafe Iguana, and a Mexican Restaurant cum bar, and I was really really surprised that we went there, cos it was so un-stephen..hahah..with lots of expatriates and kind of loud and noisy, but I loved it, especially the food, which came with condiments. I ordered a burrito, and steph ordered the Fajita. We both ordered a drink each, mine was like a dessert drink, with Tequila, Kahlua and cream. To check out the website, it is at http://www.cafeiguana.com. The night was still not over yet, neither was the surprise. We took a long nostalgic walk back home by the river, and sat down, and thats when he sprang the last surprise on me, this lovely lovely frock that I saw 2 weeks ago at Isetan with him, but didnt buy. I was so thrilled with it, and also amazed that he remembered the design and all..

Amazing nite, its wonderful how far people would go to for those they love, I am simply blessed..

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