En route to meeting Da for lunch today, I had a lovely chat with Miss Southampton. Hi girl, it is good to hear from you again. Da and I usually attend the 2nd service or 3rd service in church on sundays. However, we are usually seated at the main auditorium or the overflow room on Level 4. I hope to see you in church soon!
Lunch was an all-vegetarian affair. Da and I met at People's Park Centre and proceeded to the food court. We both ordered organic brown rice with 3 vegetarian ingredients per plate. Each order of vegetarian food comes with a complimentary bowl of soup that contains beans, carrots and potatoes. We displayed a typical Singaporean habit, that is, "share-share". Yes, we swopped some of our ingredients so that we ended up sampling 6 ingredients each!
After lunch, we went home to rest. I also took the opportunity to bake a chicken pie that I had made. We brought the piping hot chicken pie to the home of the Three Musketeers.
ET had extended a dinner invitation to MT (Da's cousin) and us, which the three of us accepted. There was a feast awaiting us when we arrived:-
(a) duck soup with salted vegetables - I am not keen on duck (although I admit to having a weakness for peking duck!) but the soup was very tasty
(c) fruit and vegetable salad - I could not resist the salad made by SY. It was excellent!
MT brought a tub of ice-cream while we brought some deep fried prawn crackers.
Not only was dinner enjoyable and the conversation interesting, we were entertained in the background with a DVD of a concert by David Foster where many international singers performed. I particularly enjoyed the performance by a young Filipina named Charice Pempenco. I was told that she is only a teenager. Goodness me! She had a very powerful voice and she sang two Whitney Houston's hits effortlessly. In fact, her performance was so stunning that she was given a standing ovation when she had finished performing! (I was not able to find a clear youtube video of Charice's performance at David Foster's concert. The youtube video below is Charice's performance of "I have nothing" in another show. It is as powerful as her performance of the same song at David Foster's concert.)Before we could digest our dinner, Part 1 of the after-dinner snacks was served. The bowl of canned longan with almond jelly was very refreshing.
With Part 1 of the after-dinner snacks out of the way, Nining invited everyone to the family room where we sat down to watch television. Tau Suan had a fun time trying to coach Nining to be more ladylike. However, she did not take her "lessons" seriously and kept making monkey faces while attempting to demonstrate ladylike mannerism.
Part 2 of the after-dinner snacks followed shortly. The plate of goodies that you see in the photograph below comprises ham bun, banana chocolate chip muffin and baked yoghurt doughnut that I had made and brought to the home of the Three Musketeers.
Nining's eyes lit up when she saw the muffin. She could not resist sampling a muffin and she gave the thumbs up. The little princess has a sweet tooth.
Is there more? You bet there is!Part 3 of the after-dinner snacks consisted of aromatic 3-in-1 coffee mixed with hazelnut syrup and some walnut cookies that I had baked.
For a girl of 3 years of age, Nining loves coffee. She drank a cup of coffee, then proceeded to drink SY's cup as well. Nining told SY that she would drink a cup of coffee on behalf of SY because SY has a cough and should not be drinking coffee!
When it started raining, Supercute and I sat in his room and had a lovely chat while enjoying the cool breeze. Nining joined us shortly and delighted in telling us about her boyfriend in nursery school! Soon, a little gathering had formed in the room when SY and Tau Suan joined us.
It was an enjoyable evening. Thank you for the invitation, ET.
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