Thursday, November 20, 2008

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Javier Teo's 1st Birthday Celebration

Time really flies ... fast ..... SUPER fast.....

My sister in law was still very heavily pregnant this time last year, while I was still super busy with the final stages of preparation of the company's annual big event.

Fast forward a year later, my little nephew, who is also born in the same month as me, to be exact - 4 days after my 'bird' day - was celebrating his 1st year birthday !

My goodness !!! If you follow my Facebook, you will trace his growing up for the past year and I must agree, kid does grow up extremely fast - without you realising it.

His mummy, ordered a cake to celebrate this once in a lifetime occasion - A 'Xiao Ding Dang' design. Our little piglet - whom we fondly called coz he is borned in the year of Pig under the chinese zodiac sign.




The poor boy he to endured through an almost 8 course dinners which the adults enjoyed at the excuse and expense to celebrate his birthday. Ha ha ha !!!!

By the time we reached the dessert - the cake cutting ceremony - our little piglet is either too happy to see the cake or not too happy for keeping him to wait for so long - moved non-stop that I couldn't take very good pictures of him....

Here are some of the better ones.... When he turns 2..... trust he will understand.... DUN MOVE !

Ha ha ha !!!!!


Sunday, November 09, 2008

Bollywood Veggies

We will always make it a point to visit the site or place if we are not familiar or never been there before. This time, the visit was to an organic farm owned by the famous local personel, Mrs Ivy Singh - Lim and her husband. We are going to bring our business partners to this farm to enjoy a Saturday morning in late November. So here we are at - Bollywood Veggies !!!

Our first encounter at Bollywood Veggies is an interactive, informative and education farm tour led by the Education Director of the farm, Mrs Judy kong.



We were so excited to see this field of sweet potato plantation as it reminded us of Sambal Belachan Fried Sweet Potato Leaves dish almost immediately !

Then there is this pond where water is pumped in here for use at the farm.... Judy described in detail but I wasn't paying attention as I was busy snapping pictures of other plants...

Oh here I like to share with you a bittergourd plant.
We were amused when we saw this hut out of nowhere in the middle of the farm.... and we also learnt this is how Mas Selamat could have and probably still are surviving somewhere in one of the forested areas of Singapore....Like Judy said....such basic stuffs is enough for someone to live comfortably in the forest for a long period of time - minus the mosquitoes I believe.
I was given this magical plant. If I put this plant into a book and leave it there for a period of time, the sides of the leaves will grow many mini leaves....much to my amazement..
The farm visit ended quickly and we became famished all of a sudden after Judy's kind recommendation of the end product of those plants in the farm....so we proceed quickly to Poison Ivy Bistro to enjoy a sumptuous lunch.
There are already a group of people waiting for be served at the Al Fresco dining area and apparently they are on 'group' tour from one of the community centres.

While, we settle in comfortably in the air-conditioned part of the Bistro, we glanced through the menu on the chalkboard hanging over the counter, screening through the good eat of the day.

So this is the counter that runs the whole bistro and farm. The gentleman on the left is Mr Lim, the owner of the farm and husband of Mrs Ivy Singh - Lim.

Everything looks so good on the menu and we order quite alot of the dishes and we actually finsihed up EVERYTHING ! They are simply delicious !

Despite our fullness, we decided to go ahead with the order of the HIGHLY recommended dessert.... 4 - in - 1 kueh kueh and Banana Crumble with ice cream. No regrets, simply fabulous!!! I'm drooling now....

Not to mention, the plates are empty within minutes .

This farm and bistro is really a good and cheap getaway for Singaporean if you have very limited time to relax and yet want to get away from the hustle and bustle of our little city.....

EXCELLENT !