Dating - Garden by the bay and J's swim outing

I have been always complaining about my boyfriend training hard for his first Ironman race that will be held in December 2012, and has not has much time for us (me & the dog). Though I complain alot (one of the privilege that girls get to do to their boyfriend), I am completely understanding and supportive because I myself loves sport too.

One a side note: We spent most of our time together (dating time) while we are training or doing sport ministry... and once in awhile we will catch a mid night movie.

I totally understand that once we tied the knot and have all the family commitments rolling in, we will have lesser time to do the things we like; so his goal is to do a few ironman races before he commit himself to be a family men. Nonetheless, we still hope to be sportive; using sport as a tool to impact the young lives among us as well as our kids... *blush*.

Let's not digress further... So this wonderful man of my life was so sweet that he managed his training schedule in order to accommodate our dating...

He woke up earlier (4am) on one of the Saturday as well as on the Deepavali holiday to cycle so that he could make time for me. Feel so loved.

Garden by the bay

My friend bought a ticket for us, which allows access to the Cooled Conservatories and the OCBC Skyway.He initially forgot about this outing but he still make time for this. I was quite touched when he accommodated to me. Thank you for loving me.

 Here are the photos [To be uploaded soon].

J's swim outing
I think he will make a great dad next time. =) Though he has hectic amount of work and squeezes his time to train, he still make the effort to spend time with his family.
J is his dog; totally pampered by his dad and treats it like a daughter. It favourite hobby is swimming, so his dad suggested to bring the dog out for a swim since we have not done it for months.

Impatient look

Thank you for bring me for a swim.. Love U look

Can we go into the water now?



Denched J (Left) with her fluffy friend Tommy (Right)

 

Ice Cream Excursion

As the title has said it all... Yes it will be a fun post with overwhelming joy.

This was 2 weeks back. My week at work was horrible so my best friend suggested we go for an ice cream excursion since I do not have my boyfriend with me that weekend. Supposed to go to Port Dickson race with him but there was some last minute arrangement so I have to forgo the trip. How I wish I could be there nonetheless the ice creams were good too.

We have limited time so we were selective.

1st stop: Twelve Cupcakes
Venue - Millenia Walk

"Handmade with loves.." the motto does help to ease the disappointments. Feel so love with each bite I took. As an athlete, I often choose to avoid whip cream but the fattening feeling was good that day! I tried red valet and I would say the whip cream taste refreshing with a aftertaste of lemon.

See these cute litte things... So colourful and cheerful

2nd Stop: Francisca Dessert Parlour
Venue - Millenia Walk P2-35/36

This was an unintensional pit stop because the colours of the shop caught my eye.The cafe is decorated in pink and turquoise. "Dreamy" that was the word to describe the place and I scored a point for myself while I was talking to the boss. This cafe has not offically launch, so the boss happened to be there as it was their first week of opening and would like to check out the crowd. Had a nice chat with him but did not have a chance to sit down to have a nice cup of tea because it is too girlish for my guy friend. Will make a visit soon with my girl friends instead. They have bervage, chocolates, ice creams and cupcakes. Saw something unique so I tried a scoop of their sakura Ice cream. Sakura season is over by now so was curious but I guess there is some secret recipe that the boss is not sharing.. haha.


3rd Stop: Tom's Palette
Venue - Shaw Leisure Gallery #01-25


Used to visit there in my University days. If I did not remember wrongly, they have around 80 flavours.
With the 25 flavours display, we are spoilt for choice. Since we could not make up our mind, we were introduced to their new recipe. It is their belgium waffle. What's new you would ask? It comes with a blueberry blob with cream cheese frosting. And it comes with a free scoop of Ice cream.

Let me introduce you to the blob. It is a blueberry sauce covered by a thin layer of membrane coating. This is a fun way to eat my waffle because I get to cut the blob to induce the sauce out! I love their cream cheese frosting too, a taste of cheese in the whip cream, a combination of salty & sweet. We chose chocolate sorbet but it taste nothing like sorbet, I guess chocolate itself has a certain amount of creamy-ness. The waffle is not fantastic as well. Seem like it is been prepared a long time just waiting to be served. As we were talking about the waffle, "Tom" came out to check if we like their new creation.


By the way, the boss is not named Tom. Tom's Palette came about because it is a form of motivation that drive them to create more flavours for us.


He was honest with us that the waffle has to be done that way because of the ingridents they used, he mentioned it was the true belgium wheat waffle. Hmm.. I guess more research and development need to done.


4th Stop: Creamier Handcrafted Ice Cream and Coffee
Venue - 128 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh, #01-835


Dissatisfed with the waffle, "Tom" recommended us to Creamier which was our next stop. Here we were excited to taste a good waffle.

The choices of ice cream wasn't as many as Tom's but we are still spoilt for choice. Can make our mind we decided to go with the flow as most people were ordering roasted pistachio for our waffle.


With the limited understanding, I was told their waffle is a combination of belgium and Amercian waffle. The texture and freshly made waffle was good. The ice cream was a compliment with nutty taste. I love it.

Bought a pint of pistachio ice cream back home but it doesn't taste as good as the one I had there. I believe it was because the pistachios have been soaked long enough in the ice cream and lose it crunchiness. It is abit to sweet for me to it is alone by itself too.


That's all folk! Spread the happiness!