(Long post ahead)

Both Miss Tan and I are proud members of the October babies club. And recently both of us were granted membership to ‘Club20′.

T_T……. We are now 20 years OLD.

Guess what we prepared for each other’s birthday?

She….

…mixed some melamine and chemicals, and created a flame spitting chocolate monster!

Nahhh just kidding. That’s a birthday cake she baked for me. XD It is the best best best birthday cake I have ever gotten in my life!

We had my birthday celebration at Miss Zhang’s house. (I realised this photo is very yellow-ish. Has that old photo feel huh?) Mr Neo’s face was unfortunately blocked by Miss Tan’s V sign. -_-

Still blocked, but at least there’s about 30% improvement. Lol.

Even though some of my friends could not make it for my celebration, at least the most important person was around. Hehe.

Samurai & Daisy. Haha. That’s the weirdest combination I’ve ever heard. Daisy is me, it’s some weird nickname they came up with when I got to know this bunch of wacky friends about a year ago. At that time they were working on an animation about Samurai, so they called themselves the samurais.

Here’s what the samurais gave me. Lovely pink shirt! That’s the PINKEST shirt I have now in my wardrobe! So pink I think it looks more like magenta instead? Speaking of my wardrobe.. it is now going to be nearly rainbow colour!

For more information about my clothes, click the photo above. Some are presents from others, some are designed by me! XD

I sincerely thank Miss Tan and Samurais for arranging this celebration for me! I was really touched when I ate the cake.

A few weeks later, we celebrated Miss Tan’s birthday at FRE(N)SH at Vivo City.

FRE(N)SH is a simple and cosy cafe located at a quiet (probably unnoticed) corner of Vivo City. It’s quite near the sea and has a spiral staircase nearby which I descended with the beautiful birthday cake, romantic huh! Hahahaha.

On my first visit to this cafe (about 1 week before the celebration) for research purposes, I was instantly greeted by this short and euro-asian looking waiter. European eyes and asian skin, something like that, haha.

He enthusiastically and patiently introduced me various items in their menu. He had to be patient because most of the things I saw in the menu were words I didn’t understand.

Savoyarde. Quiche. Tartine. Rue Mirbel.

Whoa. (this word is not french, nor an item in the menu, lol)

I quickly jotted down everything he told me, hoping to show off some knowledge of the cafe when I meet my girlfriend and friends on the celebration day. But aarrgghhh I forgot to bring those notes! So we had to get the same waiter to introduce everything to us again. -_-

We ordered some set meals at $17.50 each (no GST and no service charge omgggg-where-else-can-you-find-this-nowadays?).

A tartine is an open-faced sandwich. Think Subway with one slice/piece of bread missing on top. Ahh something like that.

There are many toppings and flavours to choose from, and they serve their food rather quickly. The sandwich turns cold quickly too -.-, but stays crispy til the last bite. They also serve vegetarian food!

Oh! Can’t forget their desserts! Really mouth-watering.

Since there were many of us, each of us ordered different desserts from each other so we could try everything. Heh!

I highly recommend their Apple Crumble and Crème Brûlée. =)

This is definitely a great place to go if you are looking for affordable authentic French cuisine and provides excellent service with -omggggg- no service charge and GST! Haha.

Due to time constraint, I didn’t bake a cake for Miss Tan. Instead, I..

…made a double sided pop-up mega birthday card! Haha. Quite cute huh. The ‘train’ you see above can be pulled out to the right to reveal birthday messages from the Samurais and other friends!

Miss Tan’s pulling it out.

And pulls up in 双天至尊 style! Effectively blocking my face in front of the camera!

Once again she has blocked another person’s face, this time the victim is Miss Zhang! Lol.

Argh we totally forgot to take a group photo that day. -.- All in all it was a nice celebration, we all had a great meal and had a great time.

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Some of the movies that I watched in October..

This French animation, Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure, was shown as part of the Singapore French Film Festival from 3 to 12 October.

It’s an insanely wacky and funny movie that entertains you for 90 minutes non-stop, complete with very well-done animation. The storyline is unfortunately forgettable though.

7.5 / 10

I have been waiting for Tropic Thunder to be released for months!

It’s offensive and crude, but at the same time pretty funny. For an army boy like me to watch a movie that is nearly full of males and guns.. it’s a little.. sad. -.- (go look at the cast list and you’ll realise most of them are males)

The spoof materials (coughtrailerscough) at the beginning of the movie are worth a mention here, I’ve never seen anything like that! Haha.

Sit back and relax, you will have fun watching this. =)

8 / 10

I jumped straight to High School Musical 3: Senior Year without even watching the first two movies.

Some parts of the movie are so cheesy I felt like laughing, haha. All in all it’s an enjoyable show with great songs and high quality dance choreography.

It was easy for me to relate to the story because it deals with graduation and moving on to the future, which was what happened to me a few months ago when I graduated from NYP. Ah~ I miss school so much! T_T

Everything in this movie is just so polished and beautiful, go feast your eyes!

8 / 10

Looking at the menu, Miss Tan and I were really not sure how to begin ordering.

What is Sambar? What is Kuruma? What is Appalam? What is Kesari? What is Payasam? What is Pulikuzhambu (I don’t even know if I know how to pronounce this correctly when asking)? ….

I think by the time we finished asking about every single item in the menu before deciding what we wanted to order, the restaurant would have closed. Haha.

This is really the same as a non-Japanese visiting Japanese restaurant, looking at an ‘English’ menu full of ‘translations’ written to sound like Japanese. Same goes to Chinese, Korean, etc.

How is a non-Chinese educated person going to understand ‘Sin Heng Lee Hakkah Yong Tau Foo’? Lol.

Anyway, this stall’s Yong Tau Foo (I will find a suitable translation next time) is really fantastic. Will touch on this in one of my upcoming posts!

Back to Chellas.

Located at 70 Serangoon Road (in Little India), this Indian vegetarian restaurant/cafe/corner offers a wide range of dishes and set meals at pretty affordable prices. They provide nice service without service charge too!

I ordered the Bombay Meal I think? Sorry, can’t really remember already. Haha.

The serving is SUPER HUGE!!!!!!!

Below that crispy golden piece of round thing (sorry I can’t remember its name either), is a huge portion of rice. It is probably enough to feed 3 to 4 people. Surrounding it by the side are various currys and side dishes, which are supposed to be served with the rice.

Some of the curry tasted weird to me, while some were fabulous.

My favourite in this set meal is the fried cauliflowers. It tastes and feels just like fried popcorn chicken! I’m serious!

It’s super tasty and crispy. Best of all, it’s quite juicy (don’t know where the juice comes from) and a little chewy but definitely not too oily.

Love it love it love it!

Wish I can buy a packet of fried cauliflowers home.

In the end, I couldn’t finish the meal. Because it was too much for me to handle, and I wasn’t really allowed to share it too (the restaurant does not allow it).

It was a really unique and refreshing experience though, because the food they offer aren’t what I have tasted before. Unfortunately, some of the food weren’t suitable for my taste buds.

Will definitely visit this place again, and with super super empty stomach!