Singapore has great food, mostly, you can get cheap cheap Japanese food, and other 'in-house' brand food. What I mean by that is you only can have great food in happening and classy restaurants.

Since I am a Japanese food nut, we went to this place called "Kuriya" which I have no idea what that means in Japanese. They just opened like 5 days ago when we visited. It's a new place in City Hall called "Market House" or something like that. They themed that place with full of fountains, which are really nice. The Market House that is. I think they have a fine dining restaurant there too, but we didnt step in there.

Fooooood.. yummm... They serve their sets with coffee and desserts. Cheese cake! However, I think the Japanese restaurant in Suntec City is better. I forgot what is the name. This one is so so only.

Next we have a group event in Ritz Carlton. We had buffet dinner which I bolot all the sashimi and cold cuts.. YUMMMM.... Mr Grumpy took a step further and ate raw oysters... not just a few shells.. BUT MANY shells. Trust him to do that and cleanse his bowels the next day. HAHAHAH serves him right for being such a pig.

What impressed me was, when I was back in KL, a simple group gathering consists of catering fried rice, with rendang, honey lemon chicken, maybe a few prawns, and fried beehoon. Here, we go to the Ritz Carlton and eat buffet of sashimi, king prawns, chilli crab, and practically every other dishes were cooked with scallops. Not to mention designer desserts which consists of the yummy choco fudge cake, cheese cake and even the cutest pink guava shaped cake. I didnt take picture of that cos I was too busy eating.. *urp* And the difference here is that, while we, Malaysians were like so astonished of the food being spread out, the Singaporeans were complaining about the lack of variety. It either shows that we Malaysians are so jakun, or Singaporeans are just plain fussy. Oh well, to me, it was a good dinner considering what we get back home.

We met up with another few ex-Malaysian colleagues who also came down to the Lion city to work. We went to this place that has an amazing night view of the financial district of Singapore. Guess what place is that.... a FOOD COURT in city hall. Trust Singapore to have that.

Financial District, the place where I work. This was captured towards the evening. Nice eh? It's very fast paced looking. Its also very fast paced in real life.

Mr Grumpy made me mad one day and.... he remembered that "Sorry no cure, ice cream got cure". And we ate this beautiful lamb chop in Swensens... yummzzz... and had ice cream later.

But I still miss Malaysian food. I hate Singapore hawker food. They cook mostly with sugar. Its sweet tasting. Its yucks.

Ok enough about food. One fine Sunday morning, Mr Grumpy's friends invited us to the Singapore Turf Club to see horse-racing. Imagine that they had to caution the guys to wear: Shirt, tie and suit. Girls cannot wear jeans. WHAT? SUNDAY AND NO JEANS??? THAT IS ABSOLUTELY BARBARIC! But anyway, we went and I adhered to the dress code. Imagine my shock that we were ushered to the VVIP area where wine and champange are distributed freely. Gosh, I feel so out of place. Anyway, I had great fun not being in the heat and having a superb view of the Turf Club.

It was so damn hot out, but I'm in the air-conditioned area. Nyeh nyeh nyeh.

Did your horse win? We stayed around for about 2-3 races. Mr Grumpy betted but didnt win any.. I didnt win or lose... because I didnt bet. HEH! I just watched horsies run, sit beside Mr Grumpy and look pretty. *batz eyes*

There was once the owner's horses won the race, apparently he won alot of money. Opened a champange and we all got to drink champange. I love champange. But in order to stick being sober, I reluctantly took a sip and a few to look 'sophisticated' and put back the half drunken glass of champange back on the waiter's tray. Sob sob sob. I could have gulped the whole thing down and stay happy for the next half hour or so. Btw, I am not an alcoholic. I just absolutely LURRRVVEE white wine and champange. I think it has to do with the weather. Weather here is too hot to have reds. Unless its a rainy day. I drink red wine and get a sinus problem. Ugh.

Oo.. is your horse going to win??

When I got back home in KL, I found this:

More kitties decided to make our home their home!