Date with Bens and gfs

Met up with larling's old-time bens and companions at Republic of Steak for dinner. It's located at Victoria Hotel; I just found out that the bus that I take home everyday from work actually passes by it, no wonder Victoria Hotel sounds familiar.

Three little rats

Rats' partners

My medim rare Cowgirl steak

The onion rings are the nicest although the main star should be their steaks cos it's Republic of Steak, but they have yet to reach the standard of a steakhouse.

And the spaghetti wasn't thoroughly cooked as it was quite hard

His medium well Cowboy steak. Cowboy's is 50gm heavier than cowgirl's, so it's for the boys

We all agree that the steaks weren't consistently cooked. Different parts of the meat gave us different doneness. As the meat wasn't cut evenly,we have all the different doneness in the same piece of meat. Larling's was supposed to be medium well, but his seems bloodier than mine. Oh well, for the price like Botak Jones, we can't expect too much.

Btw, Ben had a new addition to his zoo!

It's a pomchi aka pomeranian + chihuahua

No wonder it looked so much like Woh Woh.

It's a super handy dog, can fit into my handbag. But not for now, cos it pees when it gets nervous!

More rabbits and bunnies!

Ben has tons of it.

I like this xiao bai

Did I mention Ben has another dog, two cats, fishes and other other misc pets?

Haha so fun.

My wish before I die is to have a dog!!!!

Heee

Merry merry Christmas!!

It wasn't even Christmas, but the Orchard streets were already flooded with ppl and vehicles..
We should really avoid such common places during public holidays, it's damn irritating when ppl rub shoulders with you and I can't stand ppl walking so slowly blocking the way. To make such ppl get outta my way, I'll make the 'ze' noise behind them. Haha I'm so mean.

Happened to see these after we crossed the road from Paragon.

Tiffany & Co is becoming more of a commodity..

But we still love the blue box!

Look at the crazy crowd

Finally crawled back to Ion and we saw nicely blinged musical instruments..

Harp

Saxaphone

Trumpet

The band days started flowing into my mind

Cello

I reckon not everyone knows what this instrument is..?

Yep it's a french horn

Merry Christmas folks!!

Local vacation

No overseas holiday this winter, so we had a local vacation.. We were choosing between Resort World's Hard Rock Hotel or Quincy boutique hotel. RWS' package which includes the tixs to USS is $100 more expensive during the Dec hols, so we decided probably next year then we'll give it a go.

Surprisingly, Quincy's weekend packages are cheaper than weekdays'! 1 Night stay is $268 before taxes, and the price includes complimentary minibar, a free bottle of red wine, all-day meals etc. Most importantly, their food is fantastic! We tried all three meals and we were very satisfied. Their standard can easily match up to those up-range restaurants. 5 thumbs for them!

Their corridor looked quite sleazy but when you step into their room, it's another world...

It looked classier with bay window!

We love baywindows!

The bed is king size, which is still smaller than Langham's super king

Look-through bathroom (with blinds of course)

Reminds us of HK's Langham Place!


Molten Brown's range for bath.

While snapping away, Larling made use of the coaster as base and took some nice shots of my ring..

Introducing the 5-figure Cartier that Larling proposed with:

Solitaire 1895

the pave beside the rock is what I love

Back to the room..

The view outside

Partially cantilevered pool, not as magnificent as MBS' though

After exploring the area, off we went to Orchard for movie.

No nice movies recently so we settled for Rapunzel.

It's a fairytale show afterall, I think it met the expectation of Happily Ever After.

These fries are yummy!

Walking back to Quincy after a round of shopping at Orchard.

It's behind Paragon with another 10mins stroll.

Newly bought carebear!

White towel bear, super nice to cuddle

My nicely done steak.

Wedges are crispy and not nua, brocollis are fresh, not over-cooked



His Aglio Olio

Rise and shine.. It's brunch time!

His steak burger



My Char Kway Teow.

Droopily delicious!




Hungy?

Cheers!