Super Happy Weekend with dear!

Spent the entire of the last weekend (19 ~ 20 Mar) with dear to have a pre-birthday celebration for her. It was filled with the feeling of happiness and bliss!

It started on 19/03/05, Saturday. This day is supposed to be a "Rich Man's Life" as I had planned to have everything good today with no expenses spared (not really literally la, u think wat, i print money one ah!)

We had arranged to meet at Tampines Interchange to go to Sakura Restaurant at Tampines SAFRA for a buffet lunch (which dear had craved for so long!) We ended up the first customers to enter the restaurant, and I showed no mercy in swiping off half of the salmon sashimi on the shelf. The food was pretty ok, with the tempura ebi being the most gratifying. Then came a situation when we were having our deserts: a prong broke off from the plastic fork that she was using. We suspected that she ATE it. I was so worried as she kept coughing and dunking drinks. Luckily she felt better after some time.

After that we braved the drizzling rain together to the bus stop to return to the MRT station. Next stop: City Hall

I had booked a room at Marina Mandarin Hotel for a day in advance. But to my horror, I found that half of marina square was under construction, and I couldn’t find the entrance to the hotel (I only knew of the entrance from marina square shopping centre). So we ended up walking around marina square, and all these while I was trying very hard to not let dear know what I was going to do. I wanted to see the pleasantly surprised look on her face when I approach the check-in counter at the hotel directly. In the end we had to enter the hotel from the main entrance facing Suntec. Another shock greeted me. I couldn’t find the reception counter on the ground floor! Only the concierge and cab counter was available, so in the end I had to ask the concierge where to check in and lost the chance to spring the surprise on dear. (what a disappointment after so much effort on my part!) All these while dear had been expecting me to bring her to some shop to buy some items for her as her birthday present.

Got room 1404. Not too shabby eh. But amazingly I forgot to request for a room with harbour view. Ended up with a room with Westin and Padang view. Ha ha. The room was pretty comfortable, though it can't be compared with that of Fullerton's! (can't compare the prices too!)

Went off to Carrefour to buy the green tea ice-cream (from meiji) which I had been craving for so long. Managed to get the last piece off the freezer, but the box was broken n so we tot maybe we should taste the ice-cream a bit before buying, in case it sucked. So we walked around the store as I tried to pinch bits of the ice-cream off the box for tasting. The conclusion: It sucked. In the end we settled for a Haagen Daaz Rum n Raisins ice cream. Dear bought a packet of US strawberries too. Yummy!

Went back to the hotel and feasted on the ice-cream. Sedap sia. It was really heavenly. As we were both still pretty full from the buffet, we decided to skip dinner and go for the Jacuzzi and a dip in the swimming pool. After that its back to the hotel room and with glowing recommendations from Baocun, we ordered a set of “traditional English fish n chips” via room service. I watched the Man Yoo - Fulham match as we chomped on the food. It was the first time that I had tasted such delicious fish n chips. (their chips were still warm!). All these while we had been taking photos of the city in daylight and night view. The esplanade looks pretty cool at night. We had endless chatter on everything under the sky till both of us fell asleep.

Woke up early at 730 the next day to catch a view of the city in the early morning. Pretty! Went for the Jacuzzi again and a morning dip. After that we had the complimentary breakfast buffet by the hotel. After that we slacked off in the room till around the check-out timing, then had to rush to pack everything to leave, like as if we were thieves making their get away. The sight was damned farnie….

After we checked out, we went over to suntec to get a subway sandwich as lunch for our macritchie reservoir excursion. I planned to bring her to the HSBC Tree Top Walk, which she had wanted to visit. Armed with just a vague lousy printed map, I thought we could reach the TTW in no time as I had planned to take the shortest route. In the end, we found that there were many small road signs directing us to the TTW, so I din bother to follow my preplanned route and just followed the road signs. In the end we ended up going the wrong direction due to one wrong sign and went further n further away from the TTW until we came to a large sign post which gave indications of where we were then I realized my mistake. Luckily dear held out as we back-tracked to the correct place and finally managed to go up the TTW before it closed.

Well, that was the last program for the weekend. Dear did not expect that there was more to come on her birthday...