Benji's wedding of the year: #benjixkelly

Haven't been up to date to my post as I was down for 2 weeks with flu, sore throat and everything else. Not only that, work has been quite a trouble. Had to make difficult decisions in my career as well. Well, in short, I haven't quite figured out what I want to be. haha... oh wells.

 

May started with a bang for Ben's wedding. His wedding is like wedding of the year lah. Everything so atas!!!

It was at Grand Hyatt with a theme Formal or Silver Elegance.

I would say 95% followed the theme! Very nice!

 

Grand Hyatt had renovated their ballroom and it was gorgeous!!! It used to be dull looking cause the carpet was dark green. But now, they even had their kitchen transparent so you know what's going on! U know, like the Din Tai Fung Xiao long bao like that.

Food was really good as well. Almost every dish tasted delicious.

Ben even had hired live band for songs!

But then again, I think no one really listened to it. All busy talking. haha...

 

 

 

The bomb. Abalone in a claypot for each and every one!!!

 

Of course, we hardly managed to get everyone get together, and hence it's the perfect time to take full attendance group photos!

 

My handsome kingsman. ;)

 

My only girl buddy in the group. :) 

 

All the "+1's". haha... we always name them that in group chat, which is very convenient.

 

And of course, the boyband and plus 1's. haha...

Though they really take crap sometimes, I do love the company of all of them.

Glad we are still going strong after more than 10 years.

Cheers to another 10 years, and seeing all of us in a wonderful chapter next. :):):)

 

 

River Safari

Okays... We did a tourist thingy this time round, which is visiting River Safari! It was actually Sylvia who wanted to go lah... hehe

To beat the crowd and heat plus it's super far, we decided to meet at 8.30AM!!! Yeap. How enthusiastic we were ... hehe...

 

We took bus 138 from Ang Mo Kio MRT which is about 30min journey time, way faster than if you take train to the west.

 

The excited us! All of us were smiling so happily, maybe not linx. haha...

 

 

It's actually one big round, so you can just follow along to make sure you don't miss any areas.

 

First up was Rivers of the world.

 

Mississipi River - The largest river in North America and the fourth longest in the world.

 

You will get to see the paddlefish, super weird looking mouth that looks like a paddle. Apparently, the flat snout detects electric impulses to navigate and locate food.

Did you know??? Paddlefish eggs are sold as caviar!

Ugly also can be expensive okay?!

 

You will also get to see alligators too in this section.

 

The Congo River, the second longest river in Africa and the deepest in the world. This river is Africa's greatest source of hydropower.

 

 

And you will see the scary evil fish. Tiger Fish, Piranhas of Africa.

 

Look at its teeth!!! Super sharp!

According to the fact board, they have sharp teeth and are exposed because they do not have lips. They hold replacement teeth in their jaws and push them out to replace missing or broken teeth.

 

Passing through the River Nile, you will reach Ganges river.

 

Indian Gharial alligator. It's super long that I couldn't catch the whole body in a picture. Have to stand very far which was slightly tough cause there were other people.

 

Walking through Mekong river, couldn't recall what they have, and you reach the highlight of why we came to river safari. I think that's mostly the reason why people would come here.

 

Giant Panda forest!

 

Before seeing the panda, there's this red panda which is super CUTE!!!

 

I think this is the cutest of all the animal I've seen here!!!!!

Did my best to focus using this point and shoot camera. Not very pro in taking photos myself. haha..

 

 

So adorable...

 

And then..... there's Kai Kai who's emo-ing. Look at him!!!

Facing the tree and putting one hand on his forehead.

I didn't come here to see him emo!!!

 

At least, Jia Jia was better... well ... she took effort to do cat walks like every 2 minutes. And her cat walk route is standard. hahaha...

 

After enough of seeing pandas, we decided we should eat pandas!!!! hehehe...

Come here must try right? Might as well be a full fledge tourist for the day. haha...

Get "chop" here.

 

The popular panda bao. $2.90 each! One is custard chocolate while the other is dou sha.

Differentiate them.

 

Taste.... super normal. I think Khong Guan bao way nicer.

First and the last time I'll eat this.

 

The chicken with salt and pepper which was quite nice.

 

Ordered Bamboo Rice with fish set meal, passed. Cost like $16.90 for a meal!!!

 

After that,  we went for the river cruise, additional $5.

 

The animals you should see potentially.... haha...

 

Don't sit in the first row, cause definitely you will get wet.

Second row, slightly.

 

Unfortunately, we didn't get to see a lot of animals. Most of them were hiding one corner and taking afternoon nap.

 

The ride took only like 5-10 min? ... Totally not worth it. hahaha...

 

After that, there were a few more animals but I didn't take cause I was tired.. haha...

After eating effect, plus the sun was starting to come out. hahaha...

 

Then we reach the last area which is the Amazon Flooded Forest.

Feels like S.E.A Aquarium. Huge tank with many fishes.

 

Super huge Manatees having their lunch.

 

Otter!!!! One of my favourite animal. hehe.. cute lah. and they swim beautifully.

 

Tourist shot! Love this pic! Do-Re-Mi-Fa. :) 

 

The whole excursion took about 3.5 hrs including lunch time, and it was quite comfortable with no rush.

Overall, I think the ticket price is not worth it. Rather pay to go zoo than this.

So, you probably not see me in here anytime soon... haahhaa...

 

Magnum pop up store - Customs House

 

Over the weekend, I decided to bring the boy to Magnum pop up store at Customs House Terrace.

This store is their last instalment in Singapore, and this round, it is celebrating 25 years, and therefore has its limited edition of silver marc de champagne.

Limited edition silver magnums, cocktails and drinks are in the menu for this store.

Create your own magnum with this last leg in Singapore!

 

Visit the Magnum pop up store now till 22nd July!

Open from 12pm - 10.30pm

 

They have this motion screen where you can play and burst the balloons while it comes up.

But the screen abit blur and too fast. haha...  

 

So funny boy.. haha... :p

 

 

 

Of course, we decided to try the limited edition of the marc de champagne!

The design feels so Christmas-y... maybe because of its silver, and the decorations of the place had silver balloons as well.

 

 

 

Looks good, and the boy can't wait....

 

Not only the design looks good, the marc de champagne taste just right too!

Not very strong taste of the champagne and it doesn't have the after taste of the bitterness, you know, like rum & raisin has hat sort of after taste.

 

Of course, if you are someone who like it strong, then this is probably not for you.

 

Really like it! Think I'll buy some at NTUC! It's available at major supermarkets as well!!!

 

Nice deco, must take! So glittery!

 

Pleasure seeked! Satisfied tummy! Happiness!

 

Cycling Route from ECP

This morning, we went for a cycling trip with my ex-boss!!! And I'm super burnt now! Didn't expect we would travel sooo far and explored further places.

 

So we went from ECP, from Fort Road to Tanjong Rhu then to Gardens by the Bay.

 

After that, we crossed over to Marina Barrage for a pit stop rest.

Toured around Gardens by the Bay illegally... (we weren't supposed to ride inside) haha..

Then to MBS.

Thereafter, we took a damn brave decision to try going to the new Cruise Centre since all of us never been there. Super wrong decision. Cause it was damn hot. Scorching sun!!! By right, we were supposed to U-turn back then we wouldn't be caught in the afternoon sun.

 

Anyway, the cruise centre is quite desserted. Guess there'll only be crowd when there's ship. Otherwise, not a single soul!!!

 

Some beautiful flowers along the way. Lovely! :)

 

 

Alright, that's all for now. Damn tired. And I'm gonna slap lots of Aloe Vera gel on myself!

Happening Youngsters @ Treetop Executive

The weekend before my last week, the finance youngsters went on a weekend staycation!

It was a Treetops Executive located at Orange Grove Road (opposite Shangrila). Thanks to chue chue, we managed to get a premium 2 bedroom for this event.

 

 

 

The entrance, where you see swimming pool. Without further ado, we quickly checked into our room! It was spacious!!!  The master bedroom can sleep 3 person!

 

Spacious living room

 

Kitchen with fully equiped hardwares!!!

 

 

Another room with twin bedding.

 

We started BBQ-ing early since we had spare time and the focus was night games. So cam whore abit while the guys start fire.

 

Food provided by my dad's workspace, BBQ wholesale.

 

And the night fun begins! We started with Twister as warm up... and the 2 guys demo-ed.

 

We went in rounds, and this picture is like punishment! 3 of us not wanting to step over each other's territory. haha.. But quite tiring leh. cause my tahan all the sorts of position...

 

Brendan, who used his weight and pushed us all out. lol.

 

The next game was the marble game. There's this empty container floating on top of a basin of water. Each can take turns to drop the marble. When the container sinks, you lose. Not very fun lah. The most exciting is the next one. hehe..

 

The egg game!!! Adapted from Running Man!!!

In case you haven watched Running Man = in a basket of eggs, there are a couple of eggs that are raw. So if you get raw ones, you're out.

Our improvised game includes choosing your own egg, but someone else from another team will have to smash you. It was SOOO FUN. But gross... ahahaha

Can you see the yolk flying?!!!!

Very wen rou...

The ultimate. Both smashed at the same time cause 1 of it is raw.

It's really great bonding time playing such games. :)

 

The happenign youngsters!!!!

 

Esther and Sylvia left, so the rest of us started playing drinking games.. and Brendan was the first to be down. Opps. and kanna drawn... haha...

 

The next morning, we finished up the leftovers from BBQ, and cooked up some breakfast for ourselves!! Don't look fantastic, but the mushroom was fab!!! By chef brendan! :)

 

It was a very fun weekend, and I had a great bonding session with all of them.

Defintely miss all of them. Great team!