Has anyone mentioned that only having to work till Wednesday and having Thursday & Friday off right up till Sunday is totally luxurious?

I love it! Absolutely positively love it! I had this totally relaxing opportunity recently with the boyfriend and we had a quick getaway escape to JB - Singapore via the car. I loveee road trips! Can you not tell already that I love holidays?! Muahahaha.

But I dozed off mostly. I can never stress enough on how blissful it is to sleep in a moving vehicle. The slight bumpity motion, the ongoing momentum that just drags you forward and of course, having a good company is an added bonus

You see, we weren't headed to JB for fun. Mr Tay had to work on both Thurs and Fri so I seized this wonderful opportunity and tagged along and from JB, we hit over to Singapore.

:Thursday:

Morning started with me pulling a sulky face. Got a little scolding from Mr Tay for not packing the night earlier. Well, truth to be known, I love packing up for holidays and I usually take a long time to accomplish that. I like my luggage bags to be organized - bras & panties in one compartment, toiletries in the other, casual clothes on one side, dressy ones on the other, etc. And a must: a 1.5 litre of mineral water bottle. A lady should NEVER arrive at any destination dehydrated

Arrived at JB at about 1+pm, checked into M-Suites Hotel. This is another hotel under the Mercure management. When I was in Singapore, I stayed at the Mercure-Roxy hotel and so I was pretty amused to see the deco at M-Suites were pretty similar to Roxy's.

Random shots:

 

Couldn't resist. The brown sugar packing was just way too cute

I absolutely love the pattern on the toilet rolls

:Friday:

Latest member of The Angie's 1 Million Bags Club (TA1MB Club)

The Club President for TA1MB

*happy*

Crowny earrings from gossips, Bangsar

Glorious seafood platter
Shared a wonderfully obscene amount of seafood with bf, Darren and Christabel
This was just the appetizer

And oh, Mr Tay and I bought a Titus watch each. Pictures later.

Ok, I am random. So sue me!  Speaking of suing...

girl and boy at Kim Gary's, JB.

boy: why you put your bones on my plate?
girl: because i like. besides you're done eating.
boy: .......
girl: what? cannot is it? sue me la!
boy: don't want to sue.
girl: then?
boy: dump you.

:Saturday:

Had dimsum for brunch at Da Dong Restaurant in Chinatown. Lovely! Just like the seafood night before, we were stuffed to the brim!

Then, Darren dropped us off at Orchard Road for some shopping.

At about 4.20pm, we got picked up and whisked off to this absolutely lovely cafe called, PS Cafe at Harding Road. I was having this tremendous craving for a chocolatey moist cake so according to Darren, this cafe is the place to be.

PS Cafe is housed in a rebuilt glass, brick and steel building in one of Singapore's quietest but most central neighbourhoods. The greeneries surrounding the cafe was simply amazing. Worth mentioning also was the walkway towards the entrance of the cafe which was built on woodplanks. Lovely lovely place. Check it out here *click*

We arrived at PS Cafe at about 4.30pm and by then the kitchen was closed. I was disappointed nonetheless but there is always some other time, ain't it?  CAKE CRAVING WAS STILL LINGERING WITHIN! Darren answered the I-must-have-cake distress call by taking us to NYDC.

NYDC is another cafe worth mentioning. Its funky menu boasts of cute quirky food names and not to mention to-die-for desserts. Cute names: Macho Nacho Chips, Fowl Play, Tears in Heaven, The Meatball that Ate Manhattan, Grandma Goes Nuts, Jedi Mudster, Kahlua Mudpie and many many more! The Cookie Monster Mudpie was an immediate eyecatch for me. So we had that and Raspberry Shivers. Shivers are like a ball of flavoured ice (like sorbet) floating in your sodas. So instead of an ice-cream ball just like your A&W Rootbeer float, we have floating sorbets! Shivers sounds so much more cooler than Blended or Freeze

I came, I ate, and I mudpied. For some NYDC mudpie pictures click here!

:Saturday night:

Dinner at Crystal Jade Restaurant at Vivo City
2 words: ABSOLUTELYDIVINE!
(no pics. i know i know, i absolutely suck at taking food pics)

St James Power Station

All the clubs of different genres housed in one mega building!!! We entered Dragonfly first because Darren and Tim insisted that it is a must to watch William Scorpio perform. The name Dragonfly sounds cool for a standalone club itself, don't you think? Anyways, Dragonfly ain't your usual R&B or trance clubs as it caters more to the err... Canto-pop loving crowd. So they have like, bands playing and many singers one after another, and everything was just like a HongKong mini concert. Quite refreshing although I do not listen to Chinese songs much. William Scorpio is definitely worth mentioning. For a man in his 50s, he does look good! And oh, if you're there next, keep a lookout for the 5-girls band comprising a guitarist, drummer (hot hot girl!), keyboardist, bassist, and the vocalist. Good stuff.

Then, we moved on to check out the rest of the other rooms. Basically the rooms are as shown above. The place was just packed and my favorite has to be the R&B room and House + Rave. So we stayed there till late.

Went to mamak afterwards and the boys were discussing between the party scenes in Malaysia and Singapore. It is true that us Malaysian girls tend to be more open. By open, I don't mean sleeping around but more open to having fun, participating in house party games, and even dancing. Singapore girls generally do not like to dance? They prefer to stand around, hold onto  the 1 glass of drink and pose around (this was quoted by Darren, not me ok! ) But it's true la, the girls in KL generally as I observed are more letloose as compared to SG's. No offence, but we do have more fun. We dance more and we drink more too! Further proof: Darren has been organizing house parties at his place, and the girls simply refused to participate in the games!  And these are like harmless if-you-lose-you-drink kinda games, not even asking you to strip! So, that revelation from Darren came as a surprise for both Mr Tay and I. He is organizing yet another house party this coming weekend and let's hope he gets the right crowd this time around  We taught him the Unoceptor game with Uno cards, and yes, it WILL be featured in his party! muahahhaha.

:Sunday:

Woke up for brunch. Had initially wanted Teochew porridge but the place was packed to the brim, so we settled for Kolo Mee at Jia Xiang.

Standard with Charsiew, Wanton, Prawns - $5.90
Deluxe with everything and added Abalone - $8.90
Verdict: It was ok. Could be better, I say.

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Went home, packed up and it was time to go. All in all, a good trip. And I hear we might have another road trip next month. Cameron was it?

*hee hee*