Monday, January 10, 2005 , 6:41 PM
><))o> Romantic night out
#Went out with my bf, hafiz today. Actuallly my bf and i were supposed to meet jac, meimei and leena today and go to the fish and co at the glasshouse (beside Parkmall). But eventually my bf and i went alone because some family problem cropped up and she couldnt make it for the outing...so meimei and leena didnt come along also...
#My bf and i met at around 3pm at my house area and he told me that my friends couldnt make it. Because of that, his little plan had failed. Well..wat he intended to do was to give each of my friend a piece of ferero chocolate and they will eat infront of me while i just have to look on. He presumed that i will start to complain and even when i do, my friends are supposed to continue be their sadistic self and indulge in their chocolates and not share it with me. After sulking for a while, hafiz would bring out a heart-shaped box of ferero chocolates to surprise me. In addition to the chocolates, there would be a mystery gift hidden among the chocolates. As my friends didn't join us eventually, hafiz just gave me the chocolate box and immediately i can tell that there was something below the tray of chocolates....i lifted the tray and beneath it was a beautiful butterfly necklace! The pendant is in the shape of the butterfly, formed using sterling sliver metal. Half of the pendant revealed the sliver metal while the other half was decorated with little crystals and stones. The butterfly however, was not complete. The right-hand corner of the pendant was a gap and dangling at the corner was another crystal-studded butterfly (a much smaller one) that when placed intact with the main pendant, formed two butterflies...it was such a lovely and unique gift!
#We took a train to Orchard and started walking around there because we wanted to commemerate our first date where we had walked from dobhy ghaut all the way to orchard. But this time round, we walked the other way instead - from orchard to dobhy ghaut (because the glasshouse is there).
#We were famished by the time we reached the glasshouse...thankfully we were there early (around 5 plus) because by the time we were dinning, the place was so crowded and those who came in thinking that they could have a quick meal were utterly disappointed. Dinner was a very sumptous Seafood Platter for Two. Actually we hadnt had any intention to order that. We wanted to order two sets of Seafood Platter for One. Our conversation with the waitress went like this....
Hafiz: Can i have two sets of Seafood platter for one please?
waitress: (flipping the menu) why not you try Seafood Platter for Two instead? (she got distracted by something else later on giving me and my bf about 30 seconds to talk)
amy: So what are we going to tell her? That Seafood Platter for Two is not filling enough for us? (actually its kinda true lah...not filling enough for the both of us...we are huge eaters...moreover, both of us are not mussles lovers and mussles happens to come only with seafood platter for two).
hafiz (to the waitress): Eh...we don't take the mussles....
waitress: (happily suggested) Then you can change it to something else...like more rice, more calamari or prawns (seafood platter btw is a huge pan consisting of rice cooked with rasins, prawns, calamari, grilled fish and chips - absolutely delicious!)....
hafiz: (puzzled that the mussles can actually be changed...i'm equally puzzled as well because we didnt know that it could be done) well...i'll have the calamari then...
waitress: grilled or fried?
amy: huh? got two kinds ah...(tots shot like electric curcuit through my brains...memories of our last pathetic encounter with grilled calamari resurfaced....it was such a torture to eat it because it was so chewy and just chewing it could get your mouth tired - i'm serious!)
waitress: i recommand the fried one...
hafiz: we'll have the fried one then...
#ANd boy was that a good recommandation! The fried calamari was so so so so much better than the grilled one! Because not only has frying the little squid made it harder and therefore easier to chew (like eating keropok like that)...the taste of the squid was also so much sweeter compared to the grilled ones....and i must say, this fish and co meal was the best ever...because not only the calamari was nice, the grilled fish was given to us in the largest quanity we've ever seen and the atmosphere of the glasshouse was just so romantic! You see...it was raining and therefore the evening seemed to darken faster than usual...and softlights inside the glasshouse were turned on earlier....moreover, the decor at the glasshouse was one of the best for Singapore's fish and co outlet...and therefore the dinner was fab!!
#After dinner, hafiz and i walked down to City Hall because he wanted to bring me to Millenia Walk where a new chocolate cum candy store has just newly opened. He assured me that i would be thrilled when i see the store...
#We took the escalator up to Millenia Walk from Suntec City and took and right turn into the entrance. Standing right smack at the entrance like a little wonderland was....
CANDY EMPIRE! The store was made up of two units combined into one to form a gigantic store filled with probably thousands of types of candies and chocolates all imported from Germany, Austria (European countries) and Australia which means these are cool stuffs that you cant get from Cocoa Tree or NTUC! I was practically jumping like a little small kid...(you see, i'm a sucker for chocolates)...
#We took our time to look at every kind of chocolates...there were so many chocolates in different shapes and sizes....there were the heart-shaped ones, the frog-shaped ones, even chocolate with wine (and shaped as wine bottles of course!)...it was a dream come true for chocoholics like me! After "close examination" of the shop, we bought two sticks of chocolates (its another kind of ferero chocolates just that its core is made up of hazenuts milk chocolate...it was also one of the first food gift that hafiz gave me when we first met. During that time, this precious little chocolate could also be found in Europe...he bought it when he was on a choir tour there previously...)....btw...one stick of that chocolate isint cheap...its $3.50 for just ten balls (per stick)! Talk about having class! The shop owner also commented that we had very good taste...(alamak...of course lah! That goes without saying!)...we also bought a package of strawberry candies...yummy!
#After all the excitement and fun, hafiz and i bidded goodbye at night and i went home feeling happy that i had an enjoyable night and wonderful memories for our 3 year anniversary celebration.
