Busy Mommy

One very common sight in Japan is the availability of Vending Machines. Almost every corner or a few minutes walk, you will definately see at least one vending machine.

It is very common for Ramen restaurant / eating house to have a vending machine outside to take the customer order. All the customer has to do is to chose the Ramen, put in the money and the machine will produce a ticket for the order.  After which, the ticket is given to the chef or owner, and the Ramen will be served shortly.

Order Tickets ↓

There are also lots of vending machines for drinks, cigarettes etc along the streets, parks, etc.  We saw a whole stretch of these machines in one of the steets in Ginza.  Amazing!

And if you select a hot can of tea, it really produce a HOT can of tea.  I had never seen a vending machine here in Singapore which provide hot drinks in a can, usually they will dispense a cup of hot drink instead.

A close up on the cigarette vending machine ↓

We had been to Fish & Co. many times, be it as a couple or with the little one.  It’s one of the easier choice when we have Dawn with us, because Dawn loves to eat fish!

Here’s dawn posing with the “fish”.

And counting how many fish she has…

I love the fried calamari…and dear love the grilled ones…but he will always let me have the fried ones

We order the kids’ meal size of the fried calamari but it is good enough for us. Looks delicious right?

Dear order the grilled fish with spanish rice for himself and Dawn.  And Dawn kept saying “好吃!”

I had their prawn salad…Nice salad sauce but a pity that the prawns were not too fresh.  Kind of spoil the taste…

Ewwww! The house is filled with Hello Kitties!

Dawn’s new collection!

Cute wor! Both Dawn and the float…haha!

…because we made it happen.

Fast as it can be, we had been together for 2 years.  Though cannot compare to my sister’s 12 years of marriage (which I envy leh! They are both still a sweet couple!), but we have both came a long way.

It wasn’t easy for any of us – me having to struggle with emotional baggages & burdens, plus all the worried thoughts that was resulted from the awful past experience; he having to do alot of explaining and convincing in the initial days, learning how to carry a baby and play like a kid, and rushed to send me home after a quick and short dinner because I have to be a Nine-derella.

I am not sure what’s in for us 50 years down the road, why him and why me, but I know there must be a reason for bringing us together.  Though we can have different perspective of things (and of 2 different extreme ends), I can’t help but notice that we can think of the same thing when we are physically at different places. Many a times, our smses met in the frequency realm because we both thought of each other and typed the SMS at the same time.

And so the relationship still smell so fresh everyday like breathing the morning dew, and the sweetness linger with the booster I need daily just like my coffee.

We are not able to meet on the actual day because he had class after work, and so we met 2 days later for a dinner.  The least expected, and the sweetest moment was, he walked towards me from his office building, with my favourite flower in his hands. Can’t stop smiling after that.

Big Sunflower ↓

We had a good dinner @ Thai Express Holland Village. The food is nice, service is good, and I still cannot forget the big meatball and the stuffed chicken. I had the fried Kway Tiao and he had his favourite Olive rice (with lots of chilli!).  I enjoyed the time of catching up and I think I talked alot that night…haha!

I still have many conversations that I want to hold.  I still want to travel around.  I want to share all the bits of my life.  All with him.  And of cos with Dawn.

It’s tha time of the year again, happy because there’s more holidays in that month and half days for the eves.  Yeah! ;p

Dawn watched Barney’s VCDs and she was taught about Christmas. She was so excited to point out the Christmas trees at the shopping malls!

She can’t wait to take photo with the Christmas Tree @ Jurong Point even thought it is still work-in-progress.

After seeing my beautiful pictures of the chawsiew & the roast pork, dear craved for the meat again. So we went back to Canton-i, but this time we wanted to try the Dim Sum.

The quantity of the meat is disappointing. It seem lesser this time round. But the prices is still the same -.-  Fortunately the meat still taste as good, if not it will be  so disappointing.

A platter of meat with their sauces. Guess what’s the sauce on the right?

Woooo nice meat! Fatty and good!

Roast pork! Slurp!

We also ordered the various Dim Sum and we had a very good meal because most of the items tasted good!

We love the lotus rice (糯米饭)!  The texture of the rice is just so right. Soft but chewy, and there’s salted egg inside!

The chinese noodles (猪肠粉）is also stuffed with good quantity of chaw siew and the “粉” is soft and “melts” in the mouth.

I don’t know what this is  called, but I think we ordered something that sound like a “dumpling”.  Was regretful when the dish was first served to our table.  However, after I bit on it, I think we had made a good choice.  The “cover” is made by 糯米粉, and it is so soft that I think I was decieved by it’s look.  However I do think that the filling can be alittle more.

Next, the cha siew pau! I am not a pau person, but looking at Dear & Dawn enjoyed the pau, I think they taste good.

I love their Siew Mai too! Full of meat and makes me feel that it’s worth paying for them. Haha!

The carrot cake and the chicken feet tasted normal because I had tasted better in other places. :p

I also had the ice milk tea and dear had the hot tea.

Nice meal, but not too good for the pockets ;p