WATCH OUT SINGAPORE…
are you ready for…..
LUCAS CHIA!!!
*LOUD SCREAMS*
(mostly female voices)
Lucas, will you remember us when you are famous?
HAHA, anyway, do catch him doing the lead role in the new TV drama series “The Band’. It starts 6 Jan, 8pm on Okto.
Yesterday, my family went for a belated Christmas family dinner. I know, we are almost always gathering together to eat… what else can we do in SG??
We wanted to dine at Werner’s Oven, affordable German cuisine, but they are closed on Mondays. Awwww…. sad :(
So we checked out Oliv Cafe @ 220 East Coast Road near the Holy Family catholic church, as it was recommended by ieatishootipost. This place serves Western food but the waiters are mainly Chinese.
When we reached the restaurant, the ambience was like some youthy restaurant like Breeks. The prices were very very affordable too at below $20 per dish. They had set dinners comprising of main+soup+drink+dessert for $16.90++. Cheap!
Bored people waiting for the food to come. It was definitely not fast food!
Mushroom soup…. A bit below average… Be warned, it’s the campbell type of soup.
Our appetizers!
Mixed Platter- Calamari, fried chicken wings and fried mushrooms.
Cheesy German sausage pizza. Anything thin crust and cheesy, I like!
The mains arrived shortly….
Mine! Pork ribs- half slab. It was tasty and the meat was tender.
Val’s salmon.
Jas, Dan and Jared ordered the same boring Oliv Beer Fish & Chips. You can taste the beer. V generous portion!
The food is value for money. Quality wise… you know when u see the price but it’s still tasty.
More family pics!
Next up, dessert! Off we went to Ice-cream Chef @ 520 East Coast Road.
This place was packed packed packed as usual. Thank God we managed to get a seat. I would rather take away then to sit there long for fellowship. This is because the place is really small and most of the seats the Starbucks’ silver tables and chairs are outside (no AC). The place is a fav hangout place for the youth and boy it was rather noisy!
Anyway, ambience or the lack of it aside, their ice-cream is handmade and they mix in your choice of goodies for 90c per mix-in. A regular cup consists of 1 scoop and a large consists of 2 scoops. The price of the ice-cream alone is $3-4+ per cup.
Look at the little jars containing the various mix-ins! We were spoilt for choices!-different breakfast cereals (eg our fav krunchy and milo balls), granola, oreo biscuits, kueno bueno chocolate, mars bar and many many more!
Here’s their young ‘chefs’ at work.
They even have a youtube video of how they mix their ice-cream:
So here’s my Creme Brulee ice-cream with Oreos and Jared’s Granny Smith ice-cream (green apple) with kueno bueno….
I *luv* ice-cream!!!
When I was young, bookworm me read a few Sherlock Holmes books. And for my and possibly your first time, WATCH the story of this brilliant detective.
I was not sure what to expect but the movie ratings on the GV website averaged 4-5 stars! It seems quite a good show to catch this afternoon!
Sherlock Holmes acted by the fitter Robert Downey Jr was witty, super sharp (& smart) and surprisingly a tactical fighter in this movie! Hmmm, I didn’t recall Holmes to be someone who could fight at all in the storybooks…
Anyway, we thoroughly enjoyed the movie. At the first part, it seemed that black magic was real. Mark Strong who acted as the baddie in the movie was very convincing. He had the ‘evil, baddie look’…
I think he could play the next Count Dracula, don’t you think so? In fact, I think he looked more sinister in the movie than this picture!
So it was kind of a horror, cum action, cum mentally stimulating, cum a bit of comedy (especially with the Dr. Watson (played by the charming Jude Law!) and eccentric Sherlock Holmes pairing) movie. I also enjoyed Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson getting on each other’s nerves but yet having a strong friendship bond between them. Watch out for Holmes ‘torturing’ the Dr’s dog a few times in the show, by using him as a guinea pig. Funny!
In conclusion, it’s one good detective movie with quite good special effects and an entertaining plot till the very end. I am looking forward to Part 2!
Merry Christmas! Wanna thank God for the 28 friends which joined us over these 2 days. We had great fellowship with one another just now!
We ate and had fun while dining at Suntec’s JusAcia… After lunch, they decided to play a number game, and the loser of each round has to eat yuckky stuffs.
Toufu with mayo, chilli, soup, parsley etc etc etc….
The losers!
O, we had a special guest for fellowship today- the VERY BUSY MICHAEL TAN!
He was very helpful and entertaining :) Mic, u made a difference!
He led the group to walk around cityhall area and I don’t know why, but I felt we were like tourists…
Maybe because Mic held up a star and walked in front of us everywhere…. Like a tour guide would with his umbrella…
AND because we took pictures EVERYWHERE.
And we tried to form ‘E’’9’’9’… unsuccessfully…
Here’s E
And 9
Unsuccessful isn’t it? HAHAHA!
Then the beautiful gals in my CG took picture. I really mean that. The girls are beautiful :)
And I think I must say this… the guys.. although abit indecisive…
…are very good-looking too :) Especially in their pose!
To end it off… Merry Christmas everyone!
Before the Candlelight service @ Expo started last Sunday, we were all excited to meet our dearest Sun! Co-founder of our church. She has not been back for 1 year… and we really missed her! :)
(I think that’s Del in the right hand corner!)
One light….
…can make a BIG difference!
(picture courtesy of Raj)
Then at night we went for our Thanksgiving service at JW!
The colorful sisters!
Best buds.
Then the gals became really wacky… must be because we are so excited for the service to start!
Counting down to ONE…
TWO…
THREE…
FOUR!
(pictures courtesy of Hongxiang)
And finally the night started with performances, mass dance, awards, testimonies…
(picture courtesy of Hongxiang)
(This was Huifang’s testimony of how Sun brought her to church and she brought Huiying and HY brought Jared who was married to me and how Huifang and her husband continued to reach out to many others in the church!)
…and an interview with our heroes!
(picture courtesy of Hongxiang)
Ps Kong and Sun- truly the heroes of faith! We salute you!!!
The many family photos we took after the service…
My family and our hero- Suraj or Raj :)
It was a wonderful night of celebration and thanksgiving for all that God has done for us and will continue to do. We serve an awesome God in an awesome church with awesome leaders!
