Happily busy

I never did expect myself to be so busy the first summer that I'm back home - internship, ballet rehearsals and my favourite part of meeting friends and spending time with family! Despite the times where I feel so tired and frustrated and really just dread waking up at 6:50am in the morning every weekday, I am glad that I have busied myself with all these activities because I'm not sure what I'd do in the day if I didn't have an internship. I mean of course I could read, watch videos, tv series', paint and all sorts (oh maybe do my summer project which I have completely forgotten about), but I'm pretty sure I'd get bored of all that if I had to do it for more than a month! I do wish I had more time to hang out with friends and my family though :'( However, I'm still happily busy!! 

 Behold, the best vegan pizza I've ever had so far!!!! This was a Hawaiian one

This was BBQ chicken! 

Shared these 2 amazing pizzas with Beverly and Tessa when we met up for dinner at Brownice at Upper Thomson :) We also finished the meal off with vegan ice cream where instead of dairy milk, they used brown rice milk (hence the name of the place)! I had a hazelnut and chocolate flavor and it was deeeelicous and also 1/3rd of the calories of regular ice cream!! I highly recommend this place to anyone looking for healthy ice cream and also really affordable pizza!

Met up with Kim and Natalie at Simei and then went to Kim's house to chill!! and had a mini photoshoot with Kim's dogs, Sugar and Biscuit, and they are just too cute and small and soft and squishy and I could just go on and on 

Natalie was awake for probably just 20 minutes in Kim's house and then she fell asleep on the floor ahahhah so Kim and I just lay on the floor and talked about anything and everything!!

Quickly snapped some photos as Natalie and I headed to the shuttle bus to get to the mrt! 

Watched the Day I Met The Prince by The Theatre Practice!! I enjoyed the show so much more than I expected (and I was already expecting that I would have enjoyed it a lot) and it was just so nice to see the 3 of them perform again! Really missed everyone's company and daily grind of going for rehearsals, making props, moving props, having meaningful conversations, having funny conversations, laughing at min bao's dancing etc. Sighhh - a part of me regrets so much for not taking up the job of working with this group :'(((( 

Met up with Iwen and Bernice for dinner at Cocoichibanya!! We then walked to the steps outside Wisma and sat there and chatted :) Was such a great catch up with the other 2 sg ditchers (as we call ourselves hahahah) and hopefully we'll get to visit each other in the future! I was just thinking about it the other day, and its so strange when you put numbers to it, but we've known each other for 3 years now! Seems like it's been so short yet so long all at the same time :') 

10 things in July

Hello!! I've finally stopped being lazy and decided to write a post :) I just came back from Bhutan and it's so nice to be back home to familiarity and also civilization hahaha but I enjoyed the trip so much but I'll defo do another post on it 

1. Dinner at Genesis with Boris! It's a vegan restaurant but we were quite disappointed with the food :( I had a bibimbap and Boris had a Bakuteh, but the dumplings we had were super good!

Had durian somewhere along Serangoon road after and it was super yummy! We were afraid we would get conned cos we looked like young kids who didn't know how to buy durian (truth) but in the end we got a box for $18 and I think thats ok??

2. At 11:58pm on my birthday, I was lying in bed ready to go to bed and then suddenly my bedroom door swung open and Kim and Natalie came in holding a cake and singing happy birthday!! I was sooooooo surprised, like literally was not expecting anything but I'm so thankful for them and so glad that they came :))))) It's been the third year in a row that they came to surprise me at home on my birthday and I'm always surprised each time!

3. My fav bfast at the moment - Dragon fruit nice cream bowl :')

4. Met up with Boris, Chris, David and Rachel for lunch at Afterglow!! It's a vegetarian/vegan friendly  place at Keong Saik street - quite pricey but the service is really good and also the vibe of the place

It was a super great catch up with them and they treated me to a late birthday lunch which was super sweet :) 

5. Made whole wheat banana pancakes for bfast!! 

6. Went to Bron's house on Sat for a poh piah partayyy!!! I was praying that we would have poh piah for lunch on the way there and my prayers were answered hahahahha

7. Dinner with Natascha at Afterglow(again)! Story time - we had a little miscommunication before meeting, she thought that we were having dinner at Afterglow whilst I thought we were having it at Absolute Acai. So at 6:40pm when I was frantically walking around, texting Natascha for her location and looking for Absolute Acai, she rang me to help direct me to the restaurant and I then found out that she was sitting in Afterglow, 20 minutes away from my location ( and this was after walking for 25 minutes from work to where I was ) hahahah we then decided that we should just meet at Afterglow since I knew how to get there and we finally met at around 7pm! 

We shared 2 salads, the Dragpom and a Quinoa one and they were both really yummy! We chatted about such diverse topics and I just remember us laughing so much over great food, it was just such an enjoyable catch up with a great friend :') 

8. Wheetabix and fruit for bfast!! I also love wheetabix and its my staple bfast in Edinburgh (ok oatmeal too but I would rank this above oatmeal)

9. Met Topo (he's in my course at uni) and his girlfriend Fefe, and Beverly for dinner at Lau Pa Sat! We had a lovely chat over yummy local food and it's so funny how the only conversation we had prior to this  meet up was 2 minutes in a kitchen at a flat party but he's such an easy person to talk to and he loves Singlish and can actually speak it well which is so funny (bcos he is from Botswana and this reminds me of the Book of Mormon which is my fav musical currently as Botswana was mentioned there hehe)

10. Another dragonfruit nice cream bowl for bfast! Would really never get bored of having this for breakfast and it just makes me think whether it's worth buying Project acai when I can technically make it myself at home

Last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (how exciting)

Sunday

The day started with a delicious dragon fruit nice cream bowl topped with granola, desiccated coconut flakes and blueberries!! 

Then headed to Sheraton Towers for a cousin's wedding lunch

This was super cool cos no one in the family planned to wear white and all the ladies in the family turned up in white!!

Cousins ♥

Monday

Met up with Beverly and Nicholas for lunch at Serangoon food centre! Nicholas is in my course in uni and he's Swiss/British but lived in Singapore for about 9 years (if I'm not wrong) and went to French international school here which is crazy!! 

Tuesday

Met Bincs to go to the Art Science Museum!! (I was super late & I'm very very sorry :'( ) 

Before heading to the next exhibit, Bincs and I just laid on the bean bags for a good 30 mins where she showed me all her online shopping purchases and I casually just bought 3 items there and then hahahaha

We met the sweetest, loveliest and kindest Japanese kid !! We somehow started playing by throwing the huge balls at each other and then Bincs talked to her and asked for her name and age and she was 6! (cant remember her name :'( ) and then we left to go to the next exhibit but decided to go back to where the colourful balls were to look for the girl cos she was just too cute and when she saw us, she was so super happy and excited to see us again!! It was adorable!!! and then she took out a ziplock bag full of Japanese treats and started distributing them evenly and giving them to Bincs and I ?????!?!??! We were so shocked and really didn't know what to do!! and when we wanted to return it to her, she just kept shaking her head, making sure we kept them! So Bincs and I just sat there and watched her do some coloring and helped scan her drawing into the machine-thingy, and when she wasn't looking we quickly returned all the snacks to her mother. When we were about to leave and she'd realised that we had returned the snacks, she was so upset! Seriously, she is the kindest kid that I've ever met and its so sad that we would probably never see her again but I'm telling you, the bond between us was real. sighhhhh 

Anyway, after the museum and feeling a little sad that we would never see the Japanese girl again, Bincs and I just walked around and went to Marina Square and got some bread!! Then we just talked and walked all the way to the MRT where we parted ways. All in all, it was a super great day with Bincs and I thoroughly enjoyed the museum!! I wish there was more to see though but I was already so impressed and in awe at what was already there :) and Singapore is honestly just so beautiful!! There is greenery EVERYWHERE and its just such a scenic city!