Gabriel’s Musings

Yin Sin’s 23rd Birthday

After my exam has ended, I have very little time to plan for my gf’s birthday. Her birthday is on a Friday and I had to work on that day. Luckily I had some time to buy her birthday present after my papers on Tuesday.

On Thursday night, I bought her a birthday cake and ‘hid’ it in the fridge. Then, I sadly told her that I didn’t have the time to buy any birthday cake. She was rather sad at about 11-plus pm cause she’s not gonna have any cakes… Little did she know, by the stroke of midnight (or a few minutes after that), me and the rest of the guys in the house switched off all the lights and out comes a birthday cake!

She was very surprised with the cake and her mood turned around after that. haha

The guys were nice enough to stay up late to have the mini-celebration with her. Right after eating the cake, the guys went off to bed.. But not for Yin Sin. Well, I kinda told her that I didn’t get any presents for her too! But then, I planted the presents around the house for her to find. I gave her some ‘clues’ to look for her presents; something like a treasure hunt. Well, of course it isn’t very hard cause it’s meant to give her the presents. There were 3 gifts in total!

All hand-wrapped (I suck at wrapping presents) with very nice wrapping papers. Recently, she had this ‘hobby’ of cooking/baking things in the house. She would spend hours looking at food blogs and baking recipes on the web. So, I got her 3 very colourful cookbooks with beautiful photographs in it.

We slept late that night cause she was excitedly reading the cookbooks until we forgot the time…

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On Friday night after my work, I took her to a very nice cosy little restaurant called Pasta Inc located at Jalan Besar. It’s an Italian Restaurant which has a nice romantic ambience. The food there was absolutely great! Though their selection wasn’t that much, but the taste is very good… Their gravy is splendid.

We ordered White Asparagus for our starters. The gravy has a very rich olive oil/cheese taste. Can’t really describe it cause not sure what it contains.

For our main course, we had Jumbo Prawn Spaghetti and a Ravioli with beef fillings.

The Jumbo Prawn Spaghetti tastes like Aglia Olio but it tastes rather nice. For the Ravioli, I fell in love with the gravy. It has a very rich blue cheese taste. The beef fillings are great as well!

They also have very friendly staffs and they would give good recommendations to us.

After dinner, we walked around the area and some light shopping at City Square Mall.

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On Saturday, we went out to Joo Chiat Road for lunch! Luckily, Jit-Vern had his car that weekend and was kind enough to drive us there. We went there for Prawn Mee~! One of Yin Sin’s favourite food. The Joo Chiat Prawn Mee Stall had good reviews and we decided to give it a try. Albeit getting lost a few times, we managed to find our way there!

The prawn noodle ($3.50) was.. well, nothing to shout about but definitely better than the average prawn noodles in Singapore.

Jit-Vern drove the rest off after lunch but Yin Sin and I walked around the area to explore around. Unfortunately, it rained shortly after that and we kinda got stuck at Tanjong Katong Complex. It has a very old ‘mall’ feeling but little did we know, it turned out to be rather interesting! The place is damn good if you just bought a new place. It has loads of interior design shops, furniture shops, hardware shops and carpet shops! We also found a nice baking stall which sells quite a bit of stuff there.

In a nutshell, although it’s a simple celebration but it’s good enough for a couple where they can spend their time together and enjoy each other’s presence. I always enjoyed exploring new places and she too, like that kind of stuff. Maybe next time, we’ll just randomly go to ‘unchartered’ places like what we used to do when we were back in NTU. Till then….