♥ Love The Queen.

Monday, February 08, 2010 11:18 PM

Hola everybody!!

Im back, finally back to update luvqueenie.blogspot.com.

Really apologise for "abandoning" my blog for so many months. I had being busy with many things for the past few months (which i will slowly update into various entires) but despite of that, i have set one of my new resolutions - To update my blog as diligently as possible. And im now taking my small step towards the fulfilment of this resolution. ohh...im so happy can!

I shall embark my 2010 first blog entry with the 2 birthday celebrations in the month of January. For those that are closer to me, you probably know that my BFF's and BF's birthdays coincidentally fall on the same month and in fact, just one day after the other.

** The BF's birthday celebrations. **

This was my first time baking a birthday cake for him since i recognized on my passion and potential in baking during mid 2009. And up to date, this is the 5th cake i baked. Not the best/professional, but still remarkable leh. =D It was a Saturday and i have to wake up early to get ingredients and other preps ready. But i think the final product totally makes all the efforts justifiable.

It was 10am in the morning when i started to prepare the cake mixture..

Mix and whip them well. =)

Ready for Oven.

Cut and prepare the fruits.

*Dah-Dang* Vanilla Spong Cake ready for decoration.

Level the cake into half and spread strawberry fruit jam in between.

Put the Top layer back.

Whip the cream.

Spread the cream on cake on decorate the top with colourful fruits!

Glaze the cake with apricot gel to make the fruits appear shiny.

Put sponge fingers around the cake.

Complete the whole cake by adding a ribbon.

Completion Time: ard 1pm

♥ Drop me a comment if you are interested in the recipe. I got part of the recipe from book and did some modification and added some creativity at my end. =D

The meet up was at 7pm and it was supposingly to be a mini surprise celebration for him. But he was totally aware our plan and made us have to keep changing the plan so as in order to keep the minimum surprising element there. And not forgetting that i shld be thanking Alex and Sherrie for helping me to buy the cake base ( it was a really really last min request!) and dropping by my place to pick me up to deposit the cake at Cineleisure. Appreciate it lotsa!

After deposition of the cake, we meet up with the rest at Plaza Sing. Everywhere were crowded with queues of people waiting for their turn to get into the restuarant. So eventually we managed to get seats in the Fish Manhattan Market Restuarant.

While waiting for food to be served after we've ordered our food, Cam-whoring starts!

Why so curious?

Digging for some gold? or dandruffs?

Lovely couple, Alex & Sherrie.

yours truly and the BF, Dan.

The Three Mausketeers or Three little Pigs? Umm...

Patrick, Edision and CK.

Totally Random.

Some food that we've ordered. They got 3 different kinds of Fish and Chips! and their grilled fish is really delicious!

After the dinner we chilled there for awhile and start playing games! Our game master Patrick aka Xing never fails to come out with games when we needed one. And the game session was packed with laughterssss. Guys in this group are total jokers and filled with funny actions and ideas, it will never be boring going out with them. Oh ya, they are all of same frequency.. that explains why they are brothers for years. =D

We then came out with idea of going cine to watch movie and we when we arrived there, Edison and CK told Dan that they have to go off ( they actually went to Cine lvl 9 to meet up with Marcus and set up the cake. But when we went in to the room, we didnt see a single soul and i caught Dan's disappointed look (Coz he thought that there was really no surprises for him!) However, as he walk in further in the room, Marcus hopped on to Dan and gave him a big jolt. Hahahas. Thats probably the biggest shock of the day ya! hahahas.

Ready for the cake?

Make your wishes now.

The lovely group photo.

See no Evil.

The Brothers pic.

He forced them to carry him, really leh.

I cut the cake. See the strawberry filling. So sweet.

He'd better say that the cake is nice, else...

Like superstar hor, getting everyone to photograph with him.

After the cake, its Xbox-ing time for the boys!

It was an really enjoyable and successful celebration nightout and i would like to thank you all for being so supportive and fun loving!

The following evening has another round of birthday celebration, and this time is with the family! We just went to IMM to have a casual dinner. Though it is a simple dinner gathering, but its brimmed with love and definitely a heartwarming one.

Making wishes again. Ohh, and see how happy Nicholas is.

The Finale, the sweet family photo. =)

** The BFF's & JP's birthday celebration **

It was JP's suggestion for us to dine at Golden Mile Tower. It was a steamboat restaurant that was co-owned by one of his army friends. Before we went there, he keep telling us on how good the food is so you shall understand that we pinned high expectations on the food before we get to eat it. Remarkably, the food really tastes awesome! Usually those food that we had high expectations on wouldnt taste as delectable as what we thought it would be. But surprisingly, for this one, it really does.

Whats a little unique about this steamboat compared to others that you can find at bugis/chinatown area is, you will order the steamboat ingredients ( Seafood, meat , vegs) by the portion ( small: $20plus, medium:$30plus or large: $40) instead of pay a certain amount and eat all you can. Besides that, they also have ala carte zhe char dishes ( eg. sweet & sour pork and many others), haianese chicken with char siew and/or roasted meat ( order by portion as well) and even satays! And the rice they served is the all-time favourite chicken rice's Rice - the rice is heavenly nice lor, we all had 2 servings of it! no joke!

Eagerly putting all the ingredients into the steamboat.

This rice is so so 好吃. omg..

Chicken is very tender and juicy! plus factor the skins are not too oily, so you can eat with it!

Char Siew is flavourful with minimum fats.

Roasted Meat isnt too special, probably because i dont really like to eat that.

The chicken soup base is tasteful but too much MSG added.

The final verdict:

1) Refrain from ordering a too big portion of steamboat ingredients. We ordered the large one (for 4pax) and ended up couldnt finish it. Try order a smaller portion and save some stomach space for their other ala carte dishes and the hainanese chicken is a must eat!

2) Though the hainanese chicken and roasted food are 4 stars-ed, their chilli sauce still need some improvement. The Chilli sauce tasted bitter + sour-ish, i feel that it just kinda dont complement the chicken and roasted food. Good sauces (esp Chilli sauce ) can improve the taste significantly!

3) Dont go there too late if you wana eat the chicken. I heard that their hainanese chicken usually gets sold out really fast.. umm.. like by 8pm??

For those who are interested;
Golden Mile Thien Kee Steam-Boat
Add: Golden Mile Tower, Beach Road,
#B1-20, (S) 199589
Tel: 6298 5891/ 6293 5910
Operating hours: 11am to 10pm Daily.

After the dinner, we went to Tiong Bahru Park to cut the birthday cake and some dramas happened there....

We (Me and KW) got Zann & JP to buy lighters so we are able to ambush the sabotage stuffs at the surrounding. Just some quick info, we will be throwing eggs and sugar.

So after the birthday songs singing, a malay boy ( probably ard 10yrs old or younger) appear out of no where and asked " jiejie, whose birthday is it?" and out of politeness, i replied, "its this korkor's and jiejie's birthday" So he went to Zann and JP to wish them Happy Birthday. And what im going to say next is the first drama, the boy took out a cigarette, light it and smoke it infront of us, like so professional and so normal. We are all startled. He then leave us and walked towards his group of friends who are about our age. ( At the very same time, KW passed me & Zann the eggs, we are ready to throw!) Still shocked, we cutted the cake and only to realise that we cant finish as we have yet to recover from that super fulfilling dinner. So, we decided to give the cake to the boy. The boy brought the cake to his group of friends and passed us the reminding cake. On his way back to find his friends after passing us the cake, the boy saw our ambushment ( there are 2 eggs left at the ambush area) and shout, " Jiejie, you all playing eggs ar?" Upon hearing that, KW and Zann immediately smash their eggs on JP's head and whats most funny is about to happen next. The malay boy smash the other 2 eggs on JP's head as well. I burst into laughters and handed the eggs that im holding onto to malay boy for him to throw the eggs at JP. Hahahas. that was the second drama. Then JP rushed to the toilet for a wash up, but the wash up is futile. I poured a packet of sugar on him very soon after he got back from the wash up. Poor boy. Ended up being so nuritious, so sweets. But we reckoned that he loved this sabotage. He was expecting all these while!