A walk down Club St and Clarke Quay

Again, we went out sourcing for some inspirations for our photoshoot locations. But we're still unable to find that right feeling. Those places don't mean anything to us cos we seldom frequent those places. Our wkends are normally spent in Orchard and town areas.. Can't expect us to choose those places? The crowd is perpetually there, how to have a shoot there?

Anyway, our wedding date is tentatively fixed on 10 March 2012 at Shangri-La. We've yet to view the ballroom and discuss details, but we are quite decided on Shang. Initially I didn't want to choose Shang due to the high price tag but after much considerations, Shang gives the best ambience and I feel good with them.

We started drawing uo our budget and we were stunned that it came up to a whopping $80k!!
Getting married is definitely a costly affair if you want to have a decent grand wedding.
Oh well, like what larling said, it's once in a lifetime.......

Had a cup of Teh Halia at Mr Teh Tarik's before heading down to Club Street.

A nolstagic place.. used to come when I was still with DT, now it's too far for me.

Larling's new bag.. touted as the LV of camerabags..

erm what's the brand again?

Hadley pro?

This is the main reason for coming to Club St..

We thought there'd be a Agnes b cafe but end up it's their main office and they are undergoing some renovation works

Club St has many rustic vintage shophouses.. Very pretty but doesn't have any traces of our memories..

On a random note,

Z4 as our wedding car seems a little squeezy..

Moved on to Central for dinner..

Central has lots of Jap restaurants.. since larling had cravings for shabu shabu, we headed to Tampopo's steamboat branch..

While waiting for the soup to boil

Shabu shabu in the super tasty pork bone soup

Look at the mountain of foooood

Our platter of black pig and veggies.

Tampopo's black pig is really reknown for its fragrance and tenderness.

The steamboat can be used to cook ramen!

It's quite fun doing up our own ramen.
The ingredients are even included:

Tadaah.. Our self-cooked ramen

Their highly recommended dessert..

Light chiffon cake

Took a stroll down Clarke Quay after dinner..

I think this is our first or second time strolling along that river?

Clarke Quay is having the Sch Hols bazaar and I got this at $15:

No it's not a cushion..

It's a balloon-stool-chair

After pumping the balloon manually for 15mins, it finally inflate into shape

Cute isn't it?