yayness, my secret plan was actually to plan a birthday tour for leemeowmeow on saturday.. did some googling on interesting places we can visit before coming up with the poems and puzzles and printing the clues as well as the card until 3 plus am (!) on friday night..so she thought we were going shopping. haha!
my masterpieces
Ok so basically, my plan was to visit 4 places, such that each place would mark a point or period of age that she've gone through, sort of like a journey through the first 20 years, and like "packing" up all these memories so that she can march towards the next 20 or so.. i dont know, i sort of think that being 21 is like a turning point where you end one part and start another part of your life.. BUT either i didnt presented it well or what, she didnt get it..haha!
okay so like my plan, we alighted at Raffles Hotel with her thinking we were going shopping at Raffles City until i release the news to her.. so exciting.. than i gave her the first envelope which contain the poem hinting our first destination for lunch..
1st stop: The Ms Clarity Cafe
(that marks the early teenage years)
*** Follow your guide for the day
To begin your journey from Child till Today
First we go for a simpler fare
At a place that reminds you of the
Girlish Days
I found this really cute girlish cafe online and decided it as my first stop after reading all the reviews for it, i chose it especially for its nostalgic feel, fits the day's theme..
The menu
Look at her retarded face while waiting for food
Some potato skin thingy stuffed with bacon and cheeseeee we had as the side dish (I was really shocked at the portion, this is only for $7! I thought it was like one potato only..)
What I had (Chicken Cordon Bleu - $8.80), which is actually chicken breast meat stiffed with ham and cheeseee, i just love cheese too much.. yay, and mz had some mushroom baked chicken thingy i cant remember.
They were really nice food and nicely presented and whats more worthwhile is the price, both of us only ate like $26.10 which i think its really cheap for its quality and ambience, and the price you see on the menu is what you pay exactly, no extra GST and service charges (kudos!)
And so that morning, Matin decided to join us so we waited for him outside the cafe, cause i think we had some miscommunication and he hadn't found us even after we finish.. haha!
While waiting for Matin outside cafe, and you can so see my VISIBLE eye bags.eeekks.
Finally he found us, okay more like we found him, and he gave mz a puzzle to solve too.ha!
Mz solving the puzzle, and she took like soo much time.. such a birdbrain, and so matin presented mz with a B & J's voucher!
Then she solve the 2nd clue i have which would lead her to the
2nd Stop: MINT Toy Museum
(Which of course, marks the childhood period)
*** This is the part we pretend we're 3
When all that matters were our Toys
Let's go a few years back in time
and Embrace the little child inside
Followed by a Fill-in-the-Blanks puzzle that shows the street name, and then mz would have to locate this interesting sign before we find our 2nd stop..
Looking and looking..
And HERE's the sign! Batman and Robin. Here we Gooooo..
Their cafe downstairs which i planned to eat at initially..
Some quite cool posters
Then, we purchase the tickets for entry and had some discount for being students.. haha.. up we go to the 5th floor and start our explore down down down...
Some cool hopscotch mat on whichever floor i forgot haha..
My favourite - MICKEY! and there i thought mickeys who looked like these were FAKOS.. but they are like genuine lah.. all the way from last time..
Toys were all displayed nicely in cabinets and there were really A LOT. Pretty interesting trip though i didnt expected it to be good.. we were quite surprised and awed by some.. laughed at some too.. im surprised we can have conversations about such old toys we never got to play.. anyway we weren't supposed to take flash photos too in case the metal toys wear off.. but as usual, we didnt really listen and took some.. i didnt upload photos of the toys as you can easily find them online.. so do check them out..! Though the musuem is really small, i would still recommend you guys to take a look at it for its design, its ambience, its nostalgic feel. I especially liked their ancient posters and ancient packaging for toys, really quite interesting to learn a bit about the history and the evolution of toys till today..
We spent almost 2 hours there talking and looking and talking and looking before its time to present our next clue.
3rd Stop: Movie at Cineleisure (P.S I love You)
(This marks the late teens to young adult period where we people start to get a sense of what is love.. haha.. this movie fits the bill so I added it into the itinery)
***Now we keep ourselves young at heart
In search of the one we'll never part
The greatest love story will soon unfold
In the place that we always go
So I presented her with a french puzzle that i learned in my french class where she had to guess that we were watching a movie.. and as usual, birdbrain took some time..
I booked the tickets one day before already so we had quite good seats for P.S I love you.. though Matin had to sit alone cause of last minute plans.. but the movie was super good, and i cry like mad lah... the script was so good.. the money was super worth it..
So after the movie, I took out the last clue.
Last Stop: PS Cafe
(Here's where we'll celebrate the goodbye of young adulthood and the beginning of adulthood)
*** Finally we return to our Newfound age
With extravaganza food to Celebrate
Relieve the Joy and Love we had
but Pray that we'll not get fat
This one was really easy.. from the title of the movie, she has to locate the restaurant from the map i printed out..which was so easyyy actually.. but birdbrain.. ah you know..
I knew leemeowmeow never ate at Dempsey before so i chose this place, partly also because i wanted to eat their gigantic cakes. BUT we ended up not eating it cause we were SO FULL with our food. and I didnt plan Halal restaurants cause i didnt know Matin was going to join us, but lucky, he ate the Fish and Chips too! yayness..
So I gave her my card for her effort in completing the tour.
I though it was quite fun lah, moving around here and there, though time constraints couldn't let me find better places and plan it better but Im glad I had this plan.. or I think I'll regret it forever..aha!
Im really GLAD matin came too, added more colours to the outing.. and especially since I feel so lonely doing this alone for mz..and because SAM is so far away..Quite fun lah to meet up and talk.. I actually had plans to ask the whole kampong down but ILYAS DIN reply ME so. yah you know..dont even bother asking the rest al
all in all, I think its a success, thanks to her birdbrain actually, it wouldn't had been fun if she was so clever.. so..
HAPPY 21ST BIRDBRAIN!
and yarh, I think I've said whatever I wanted to say in my lovely card, so.. yar.. u know it :)
my masterpieces
I found this really cute girlish cafe online and decided it as my first stop after reading all the reviews for it, i chose it especially for its nostalgic feel, fits the day's theme..
The menu
Look at her retarded face while waiting for food
Some potato skin thingy stuffed with bacon and cheeseeee we had as the side dish (I was really shocked at the portion, this is only for $7! I thought it was like one potato only..)
While waiting for Matin outside cafe, and you can so see my VISIBLE eye bags.eeekks.
Mz solving the puzzle, and she took like soo much time.. such a birdbrain, and so matin presented mz with a B & J's voucher!
Looking and looking..
And HERE's the sign! Batman and Robin. Here we Gooooo..
Their cafe downstairs which i planned to eat at initially..
Some quite cool posters
Some cool hopscotch mat on whichever floor i forgot haha..
My favourite - MICKEY! and there i thought mickeys who looked like these were FAKOS.. but they are like genuine lah.. all the way from last time..
Toys were all displayed nicely in cabinets and there were really A LOT. Pretty interesting trip though i didnt expected it to be good.. we were quite surprised and awed by some.. laughed at some too.. im surprised we can have conversations about such old toys we never got to play.. anyway we weren't supposed to take flash photos too in case the metal toys wear off.. but as usual, we didnt really listen and took some.. i didnt upload photos of the toys as you can easily find them online.. so do check them out..! Though the musuem is really small, i would still recommend you guys to take a look at it for its design, its ambience, its nostalgic feel. I especially liked their ancient posters and ancient packaging for toys, really quite interesting to learn a bit about the history and the evolution of toys till today..
I booked the tickets one day before already so we had quite good seats for P.S I love you.. though Matin had to sit alone cause of last minute plans.. but the movie was super good, and i cry like mad lah... the script was so good.. the money was super worth it..
This one was really easy.. from the title of the movie, she has to locate the restaurant from the map i printed out..which was so easyyy actually.. but birdbrain.. ah you know..
I knew leemeowmeow never ate at Dempsey before so i chose this place, partly also because i wanted to eat their gigantic cakes. BUT we ended up not eating it cause we were SO FULL with our food. and I didnt plan Halal restaurants cause i didnt know Matin was going to join us, but lucky, he ate the Fish and Chips too! yayness..
So I gave her my card for her effort in completing the tour.
I though it was quite fun lah, moving around here and there, though time constraints couldn't let me find better places and plan it better but Im glad I had this plan.. or I think I'll regret it forever..aha!
Im really GLAD matin came too, added more colours to the outing.. and especially since I feel so lonely doing this alone for mz..and because SAM is so far away..Quite fun lah to meet up and talk.. I actually had plans to ask the whole kampong down but ILYAS DIN reply ME so. yah you know..dont even bother asking the rest al