Birthday Celebration ~ Buono Pizza

Its Nick's 30 birthday this 512! Hahaha... He requested for a simple celebration. I ask him what present he wants and he say nothing in mind actually. So I decided that we shall go for a nice lunch on PH today. I have gotten him a NIKE card holder, not exactly a birthday present but something nice I saw while shopping at Suntec last Friday.

We planned to have lunch at the new Tampines mall, but the lazy fellow was sleeping and nuai-ing lazy to move. He suggested somewhere nearby as he was quite lazy to go out... lazy bum. I suggested Jack's place at Compasspoint but dun seems interesting.... I was thinking of ordering a bday cake for my grandfather upcoming bday celebration. He suggested we go Serangoon North to order the cake (the same shop where we had our wedding cake). I thought might as well go Serangoon Garden have lunch then.

I Google for this Italian food place which I remembered seeing on a local TV show. It is call Buono Pizza Bar & Italian Restaurant. They opened till 2.30 for lunch, we left home at about 1 plus...hahhaha

It is located near my secondary school, not difficult to locate the place. We stepped into the place to find the atmosphere quite nice. Saw a paper cutting saying "Ang Mo in heartland" hahhaha.....

I rem seeing online review rave about the portobello mushroom, Buono pizza and Lava cake. Heard that the pizza is of huge portion, so we ordered for sharing. I was thinking of getting another appetizer, the waiter suggested this blar blar blar (i cant rem the name), it was not on the menu. He say its of ham, tomato and moz cheese! I was thinking woh! bake and crunchy cheesy just my type! Heheheh...

The 1st app, portobello mushroom was served but Nick dun quite like it as he is not a mushroom lover, but I like it...Hahahha... And to our surprise, he 2nd app is not baked as I thought. It come in really fine dinning style display ... not bad thou... the ham taste fresh.

Our main dish, the Buono pizza arrived and huge portion too! Nick say how come so many "leaves" on the Pizza! Hahaha... but these "leaves" are nice lei...We cant finish and packed 1/3 back...hahahha... And the long waiting Lava Cake! I was describing to Nick how the Lava cake would be on our way there... He say I must have chosen the place because of the cake! Hehehe... *evil grin! The cake look good but I still prefer the one we had in Chimes.

Nick say he enjoyed the lunch and I am glad. Thou it is a simple celebration but its good enough for simple people like us! Hahaha... Yup, the review on web says "because it's in the chill-out region of Gardens, you'll be equally comfortable wearing your cargo or shorts here as you will be in a cute dress." so the place suit us to the tee! (we are often in t-shirt and bermudas)Hahahha...

Diary of Little NJ - Part 2

Marks the 2nd trimester and now I am half way through the mark! Week 20!

Did my week 16 scan and saw little NJ in sitting position. Cant tell ger ger or boy boy. But Doc Watt say high % that its a Princess. I still feel occasionally nausea, esp when I eat "wrong" stuff! Have special liking for sweet stuff, esp dessert and ice-cream. I start to hate MacDonald, maybe I had it for late dinner once and the smell make me sleepless. There was once I was happily eating Yoshinoya and 3/4 through the meal, all was out... damm angry.... banned Yoshinoya too! Hahahaha... My tummy was still quite invisible at week 16. Still a lot of people not aware that I m preggy! Hahhaa....

There was one night about 11 plus, that was the 1st time I felt 2 "twitch" from the tummy! Feel like 2 mild bumps... I felt little NJ for the very 1st time. Daddy din feel it. The following day he tried feeling my tummy and he felt it too! Hehehehe... Little NJ response to Daddy's touch more than mine! I guess its because Daddy's hand is warmer and whenever Daddy placed his hand on my tummy, Little NJ will response with a few movements! not sure if these are kicks! Daddy also start singing "Bah bah black sheep" occasionally... cos Daddy cant sing much lullaby...hahhaa

Week 20 for detailed scan. Doc Tony was doing the scan and muttering to himself while doing the scan...hahahha... as long as he din have any surprise look, little NJ looks good. We got back the photos but cant really make out wat the photos are, only 1 side profile of little NJ was very clear... hahhaha... Daddy saw the line from the 1st scan that tell him we are having a princess! I ask how to see? Doc Tony show us again and Daddy pointed out the "line"... hmmm I think guy are more sensitive to this sia! :P

My tummy seems like growing overnight! Every day it grow a bit and suddenly without realizing, now I really look like walking with a ball! Hahaha... Nick keep reminding me that I got to be mentally prepared! This is only the beginning! ... For a start it was quite amazing to see the belly stretching and expanding day by day... But I start to get depressed when I realized my waistline like expanding on a road of no return and I have run out of clothes to wear. All my current clothes make me look ugly with the bump! For a while I was really depressed. Now I am ok, because of the recent shopping spree! Hahahha... bought some new clothes for myself to make me happy. Hahahha!

We din buy a lot of clothes for little NJ, will be getting some of the hand down from Auntie PS and Uncle Kelvin.

Daddy bought his first cow top for little NJ in week 16, not knowing if little NJ is ger ger or boy boy... hahah... He just find the cow top too hard to resist!

Auntie WS also bought a lot of "safe" colour clothes for little NJ, cos Auntie WS scared little NJ play punk on her! Hahah... Auntie WS brought a lot of cute cute stuff and a blanket too! Thanks Auntie WS!

In week 20 we finally confirmed that Little NJ is a ger ger and as you can see from the photos, more red and pink stuff for her! And more dresses! Hahaha!

Little NJ is blessed to have so many clothes and stuffs waiting for her arrival!

evil, nasty me

I not sure if its the hormones that is causing this or the evil side of me has prevailed..... This morning we went to the usual coffee shop to have breakfast. Nick went to order the roti prata and I went buy milk from those mama shop. Not knowing that Nick has ordered his kopi liao, I come back order again to a auntie. I repeat my order twice and she no response. When I returned to the table, Nick say he order liao.The uncle serve the kopi and I told the uncle to tell the auntie dun want liao. A while later, the auntie serve the kopi I say dun want liao... she grumble and grumble... I hot liao so I say in dialect, u can leave it here at most I pay u then she walk away with the kopi. I think I m a but nasty.. but I just buay song that its Monday Morning and I dun have to see your face loh.

I guess this is not the only incident of the evil me...with a nasty remark... Lately I just cant stand keep quiet and "suffer" in silence.... on weekend I will go we market with my mother. Last Sunday, I came across this PRC who push her bicycle into the market! Imagine already so crowded! I just say very loudly "Bui Zhi Dong loh! So big de bicycle also push in!"

At times, those aunties and maids will push those pull cart into market and block the way, sometimes they conveniently park their cart in a way that blocked the entire walk way! I will be damm loud and say "Woh lau, can move bo!" hahha i think these ppl are getting on my nerve or I am just pissed or having some mood swing... I realized I m being more vocal nowadays... perhaps I m sick of being the "nice" person.

Whenever I take mrt and I hate ppl in front of me on the escalator taking their own sweet time to move off when its near the exit... This morning it was raining and I have an umbrella with me.. I tell myself, whoever not moving off fast enough I will use the umbrella to poke his/her feet! I din do it thou cos all moving quite fast this morning...hahhaha...

I think for the time being, pls steer clear of me... I think the evil and nasty side of me is surfacing for a while... I dun know is it life stress, work stress or whatever stress or shit has gotten into me...