I am loved

This past month, I haven’t been writing much here. Sometimes the words that one wants to express just refuses to come out. Emotions was translated to tears, pints of Chunky Monkey, dozens of macarons and endless whatsapp messages to best mates that try their hardest to bring you back to an almost sane emotional state. Eating just salads and protein every night probably didnt help either. These past weeks have been difficult but having my friends “close” electronically have helped heaps.

Today, I turn another year older and I am overwhelmed by the love my friends and family have shown me. Mommy surprised me with mac & cheese with mushrooms for lunch and a strawberry shortcake. Mommy hasnt been well lately but she spent the morning cooking and preparing for tonight’s dinner. She made glutinous rice with coconut milk or basically pulut(Yums), Indonesian roast chicken thats basted in a coconut, candlenut and other spices sauce and roasted in the oven or simply known as Ayam Panggang, dried cuttlefish sambal with eggs and a huge bowl of salad. Quite a different spread from what I’ve been having for dinner everyday for the past month. I was really surprised and so touched by what mommy had made with love. My second birthday cake was from @pinknina who had customized a chocolate cake for me. I was really touched and so happy by this amazing birthday present. The cake was light, fluffy and damn chocolatey good with cold milk. But best of all we got to spend time with Nina after a very long time. Thanks for spending your time with us @pinknina on my birthday :) My phone has been ringing non-stop and I appreciate all my mates that took the time to call or leave messages for me.

It’s the friends and family that make such a day like this utterly special. :)

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Friday Rituals

Every Friday, from 1pm till 2pm, mom and I will have our tea time together. Well we don’t really have tea, more like a grande caramel macchiato or a double shot caramel latte and cakes..it’s either that or we go get books or DVDs. There’s a cafe nearby where we go to when it’s pouring cats and dogs and we’re feeling too blah to walk in the rain. TCC is what it’s called and last week we tried their dark devotion, a molten chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream and berry coulis, as well as a banana parfait. The banana parfait as the name implies had layers of stuff, lots of bananas, whipped cream, chocolate cake, crushed cookies and chocolate sauce, pretty nice IMHO. The molten chocolate cake was divine! Especially when you mix the ice cream with the oozing inner realms of the cake…delightful! The berry coulis cuts the cloyingness of the chocolate, not like that’s a bad thing. Chocolate is always good :) I wonder where we’ll go this Good Friday, chocolate eggs and hot cross buns sound pretty good to me right now!

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Brawn Steakhouse

On Ariff’s 26th birthday, we decided to celebrate it at Brawn Steakhouse. We’ve always wanted to try black cherry wood smoked steaks, and this was the place to go in Singapore. Brawn is under the same umbrella of company with Meatworks and Señor Santos. The decor of the restaurant was pretty nice and looks really upscale with white table cloth and dark wood chairs and beautiful lighting, kinda romantic for dates. There was one other gentleman in the restaurant having dinner besides us. So it was a pretty nice atmosphere to celebrate Ariff’s birthday.

We were served with yummy warm bread rolls and butter. We ordered the black mussels, two dozen escargot, 72 hours marinated salmon to start with. The black mussels was so plump and delicious. The escargot was so good and “fleshy”. Whilst the salmon that was cured with orange, was simply delightful!

I ordered the filet mignon for me with mushroom sauce, Ariff got his favourite wagyu sirloin, mom had the grilled seabass while dad & uncle ordered the tenderloin with black pepper sauce. I have to say that was an amazing filet mignon, each bite a unique smoky juicy morsel. Ariff’s wagyu sirloin was so buttery and simply delicious.

We ended our meal with creme brûlée and a tarte fine, an apple tart that had a salty and sweet pastry that was served Ala mode. Really really delightful! Next visit, I really want to try their pulled fork sandwich and wagyu corned beef Mmmmmmm I salivate just thinking about this ;)

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Brawn Steakhouse is located at:
8A Marina Boulevard #01-01 Marina Bay Link

Tel: 66348060