26th Feb 2008

8 items of checked-in luggage plus one hand luggage, and 81 kgs later, I am HOME.

I had some lunch on the aircraft, snoozed before landing and arrived home shortly after. Unpacked and found that Mum had cooked a fabulous dinner and I ate a lot again (what's new??) - the detox definitely definitely starts tomorrow.

There was some smoked chicken with apple/walnut salsa as starters, grilled fillet of beef with pepper sauce with potatoes and peppers and a fruit tartlet which was actually very nice.

And here's some light shopping - it looks like Raoul, it feels like Raoul but is it? I love the little detailed rosette.

A little baby doll top, lacy something and a casual skirt for work or for the weekends.

And another pair of shoes, this time from Charles and Keith (in gold) and since I love my crazy silver wedges so much, here they are again. I can't wait to wear them and hope that I won't twist my ankle when I step into those stilts.. hehe.

Day 9

Last day today - woke early at 6.40 am and breakfast was at the door 5 minutes later. My daily breakfast since Day 2.

Did my MRI which was pretty uncomfortable with my head strapped down and completely immobile for a good 45 minutes - I made them push me in and out of the chute (can't think of a better name) several times before I agreed for the procedure to start and they talked to me throughout the entire process, they kept telling me how well I'm doing and that really helped a LOT. Collected reports after 1.5 hours and popped over to see my good doc after lunch.

I walked from Paragon to Lucky Plaza to Tangs to Wisma Atria to Borders to Robinsons to Le Meridien Shopping Arcade, although not necessarily in that order as I'm not very good at directions and can't remember the order exactly.

I had lunch at Food Republic AGAIN for yes, you guessed it, Hokkien noodles.

Back to the hotel at 4.55 pm, had some champagne on 31st and ventured to Suntec for some last minute shopping.
This is a typical spread served on the 31st floor lounge everyday from 5 to 11 pm.

Dinner - chicken rice from Boon Tong Kee, who has a small outlet in Suntec Food Court. It was delicious. But still pretty msg-y. I've had 4 cups of tea and will have another in bed.

I think that just about covers my entire trip - I'm all eaten out - all I want when I get home is a light vegetable broth; and will be vegetarian till the weekend.

Till tomorrow, kiddies - your mummy will be home. Huggy time!

Day 7 and 8

Day 8

As it was the last day, we had some refreshments on the bus back to the hotel. We had 50,000 visitors today (and 40,000 yesterday) and I think more than half of them must have come round asking for pins, etc.

Later that evening, S, C & I went to China Town for a walkabout/dinner and some shopping ( I bought 3 table runners (gold/purple/green $10 for all and each was 2 m in length in organza with gold whorls and lovely tassels - perfect for Christmas); we continued our true Singapore experience by catching the train to Serangoon Road to show S Mustapha's (I bought a tablecloth - Yippee).

The food was extremely high in MSG - I had an awful thirst after the meal and had to have a lot of water to dilute the taste.

Day 7
I went to the East Coast again for dinner with the girls and one young man and because I had 20 minutes to spare before I met them, I dashed up to 31st to have two glasses of Taittinger.

We had 2 plates of black pepper crab, fried chicken,

kailan with oyster sauce, sambal prawns, beef with ginger/spring onions,

asparagaus with garlic and steamed seabass.

I really enjoyed the asparagus and the black pepper crabs, but the rest of the food was pretty mediocre; nothing to shout about.

You can guess we were extremely full after that, and S and I went to 31st again for a night cap before retiring.

I was up and out by 8.30 pm today (Day 9) to do my medically bits (with no panic attack this time; I really love my doctor).

Day 6

Oh dear I am so behind in my posts - I've not quite finished Day 5 and I'm at Day 8 today. But just very quickly, here's what I had at the Carousel at Royal Plaza on Scotts with a friend from Brunei on Day 6.

I had quite a heavy lunch at the restaurant run by Pan Pacific onsite and I thought I was quite full when I sat down.... HOWEVER..... The food was very good, with a fabulous spread - it was impossible for me (yeah, ME) to try everything on the buffet so one had to be sensible and choose what you reallyreally want (well sort of) and it was just a matter of choosing what you could eat rather than what you THINK you could eat.
With many thanks to my gracious host, Mr Ranoadidas.

My starters.

Mains - I usually like my beef quite rare but decided on a well done end cut tonight. I'll stick to medium or mr in future.

Desserts.

Must dash - I wore this yesterday. Last day today. Ok,no laughing please - I think I've put on 3 kgs in 8 days.

Day 5

I had dinner with C tonight, at Food Republic where we were the night before (when I only had a takeaway). This time we had 10 (ten) BBQ chicken wings - can you see the chilli sauce on the side - it took almost 3 mugs of steaming hot lemon water, a lot of srubbing of the skin and body lotion as well as perfume and aromatic hair spray to rid the smell and of course, Fisherman's Friends.

Here was where the delicious wings were from.


An almost step by step to Singapore Hokkien noodles (extreme non-halal) with their bit of artery clogging fried LARD.

An absolutely smashing dinner I had last night at Food Republic. I had a lovely hokkien fried noodles which is noodles (white/yellow) braised in a prawn stock with fried eggs, garlic, various sauces, squid, prawns, vegetables, chillies and the deadly little crunchy bits of lard.

This is a large portion which cost $8. As I queued for almost half an hour, I thought I would make the wait worthwhile.

My usual breakfast - watermelon, papaya and mango with lots of sliced lemons.