Cacio e Pepe

Upper Paya Lebar at 4/6 Rochdale Road, Singapore 535817.

It was very very hard to find this Italian place. :D It's located in such a remote area that Sheila got afraid when we were walking there.

"Funghi
Creamy rich mushroom bisque."

Mushroom soup. It's a little salty. Best with bread. (:

The really yummy well toasted bread ^^

"Ravioli al Granchio
Stuffed pasta with crustaceous tossed with crabmeat, crayfish, prawns in a light tomato sauce."

Really really delicious!!! It is a very well-balanced dish where every taste blends together and makes you very satisfied.

"Pizza Diavola
Tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, hot spicy salami and cherry tomato."

The thin crust and woody, earthy aroma gives this seeming simple pizza an amazing and addictive taste.

The fire-wood stove. (:

One of the Chief. (:

"Lava Cake
Irresistibly oozing soft centered chocolate cake served with vanilla ice cream."

They forgot to put the icing on the lava cake. :D

They knew that it was my birthday so they wrote a greeting for me on the plate with an icing and place a candle on the cake. (: Isn't that sweet?

Surprisingly scrumptious.

Usually lava cakes' chocolate centers are burnt and has that burnt taste. I was expecting this to have a burnt taste as well but I was completely wrong. Not only was it well-cooked, the center is gooey and the taste is concentrated.

A wonderfully crafted warm dessert that was paired with a soft cold vanilla ice cream that is very well made, refreshing and not at all milky or odd tasting. Absolutely fantastic. (:

The best lava cake I have ever eaten!

They opened a bottle of dry and bubbly Prosecco to help celebrate my birthday. I am not a fan of gas-y stuff but I drank them both since it was extremely darling of them. (:

I had so much fun there! The staff were really respectful, friendly, warm and darling! There was such a homely atmosphere that it feels like you are having dinner at a friends' place.

I'm definitely going to go back there again! (:

http://www.cacioepepe.com.sg/

Mystery of the Steamboat Pot!

steamboatdinner.

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We are suppose to have steamboat tomorrow but we just found out that our steamboat pot is...

steamboatpot. nosign.

GONE AND MISSING.

:D

I wonder if we are going to be able to enjoy a yummy steamboat dinner tomorrow. :D

Happy Chinese New Year & Happy Valentine's day!

A bundle of pretty pink eustomas I brought from Portal Petal (I LOVE this florist shop. They do the prettiest floral arrangement).


Chinese New Year goodies~! ^^


by ColorMeKatie

by ColorMeKatie

by ColorMeKatie

Katie is a genius. (: Her Valentine's day pictures are lovely, creative and not at all tacky shots. I love her work so much!

Yesterday is actually my birthday too but it really didn't feel like my birthday. :D

I'll post my pictures and review of the restaurant my best friend and I went to for my early birthday celebration ASAP! (:

Presents from USA.

My very lovely sister who has an eye for fashion brought all these for me in USA. (:

Abercrombie & Fitch oatmeal skirt

Handcrafted earrings.

Coach Clutch.

Jamie Heywood: The big idea my brother inspired.

I found something very beautiful and very inspiring on TED.com

Jamie Heywood: The big idea my brother inspired | Video on TED.com

It is a story about a journey of a dying man and his brother who are both intent on making something positive about the whole situation.

They managed to create a website, PatientsLikeMe.com, that provides support for others and help explain and predict certain symptoms or future outcome of patients with the same disease. You can create timelines of a patients conditions to see if patients taking the same drugs or certain therapy (they even have one on prayer). You can also seen charts of effectiveness of some drugs or certain therapy and compare it with other patients. See real data that shows what are the different drugs, even experimental, taken to relieve a certain symptom or disease. All these data displayed in a meaningful way.

I found it amazing that this website was created with such a beautiful, positive and heartwarming intent and not a greedy one where money can be made out of this but just a website to cater to patients.

As doctors, they know all the statistics available for side effects and possible outcome by giving a certain drug after seeing patients of the same disease and reading tons of medical journals.

Patients, on the other hand, either have no access to such real data or have no knowledge of them and can easily be misled by random publications that are completely incorrect in their theories or studies just like the example in the video.

This website gives patients a place to do their own research, to have a say about their own treatment and to gain some control over their own lives. You can even print data out for doctors to analyze.

Patient-doctor communication is extremely crucial. Patients have to know that they need to participate in the diagnosis and treatment of their medical condition. They have to help the doctors and help themselves to pick out the right diagnosis and treatment. Doctors are not perfect beings who make no mistakes. What patients can do is to help doctors to keep on the right tracks.

You can find tons of information on this website and there is no saying if anyone would misuse the endless capability of the internet but let’s leave that to the webmasters. Some say that this is a breach of patient’s confidentiality but these patients are willing sharing their confidential medical records knowing that it might just help someone else.

I know that statistics are just number and they easily be wrong. There are outlier cases all the time but most statistics are right and numbers gives people a form of comfort and confirmation in times of uncertainties.

If you do have some kind of disease, PatientsLikeMe.com is a great place to garner support, to research on treatments and therapy and gain something positive as well as helping others. It is truly empowering.

Cori and Zack's Wedding.

Photo taken by: Brion Hopkins

I love this photo so so much that I really can't help it but to want to share it with everyone. Isn't this sweet and pretty???

Taken from 100 Layer Cake.

Star Chasing.

I know I haven't blogged for ages. Been a bit busy. :(

I recently went on a self assign photo assignment. I always wanted to capture the waiting, longing and excitement look on people faces, especially those waiting for their love ones to come to them at the airport. I had the chance recently to capture the faces of tons of people looking this way. (:

Shinee, a Korean boyband came to Singapore and there were thousands there to welcome them

The wait begins!

What you see the moment you come up to level 2.

Pretty sign boards everywhere!

Waiting longing.

You see all kinds of people there:

Malays

Fanboys.

Korean Ajuma.

Korean teenages.

Little girl and her Caucasian dad.

Hwa Chong Students.

Hilarious incidents:

A group of malay fans spotted these Korean girls and attempted to strike a conversation on Shinee but the girls don't understand a word. :D

A very cute little boy looking for his sister in crowd! Poor boy!

"Oppa...When are you reaching?"

Finally...

THEY LANDED!!! :D

Hear and watch the insane chaotic scene:

I had to tip toe and hold it up high so I had no idea what I was filming. :D There were so many many people holding up their cameras, it is hard to see anything even if you are standing on a chair.

The tension and excitement in the air was so high that one scream ignite many others. It was kind of amusing! I had so much fun. The fans were all so adorable and such sweetie pies. Really enjoyed myself to the point where I'm very fond of the fans.

Thank you to the group of girls that shared your chair with me!

It was a great and honestly crazy experience that I will never forget. Having a thousand plus people screaming all at ones is enough to make you really high. :D