'Joey's Blog': Marina Platform

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It was a beautiful morning to start my weekend with, I was waiting for this day to arrive, to witness my closest classmate's passing out parade. The weather was perfectly fine that day, not like the usual parade that I attended, sitting under scorching sun, having to fan myself every now and then. That day, was a perfect moment to celebrate their joys and tears,

Waking up early have been a common days for me. My body clock was adjusted to waking up at 5am in the morning to jog around in the park. Its not that I am super hardworking but more of like I know that I will be splurging on food which is harmful to my body. So if I'm going to eat well, I have to workout well. Its a give and take!

All of us gathered at 7.30am but I know my friends well that they will be late (most of my friends are not a morning person!) so in the end, we reached the parade at 8am sharp. By the time we were seated, the program has already started, We didn't manage to see our friend marching in but we sat somewhere near him, hopefully he will be able to feel us. Hahaha!

All Nicholas's supporters or can we say we are from his fans club? Opps, we missed out Benson in the picture. He's the only guy's friend that tagged along with us because another one overslept and left him alone. But he's all good with us.

The repeated speech and parade that I have watched for 3 times so I didn't pay attention to the whole performance. I was busy looking for Nicholas surrounded between a patch of "grass" or scanning through friends that happened to be at the same parade with me. I scrolled through instagram and saw many of my friends were attending their friend's POP too! Was having a hope to see them.

When they finally did their BMT cheers and roars, that's when my camera was on standby mode to capture this beautiful moment that were led by them.When they announced their graduating speech, 'POP LOR', you can see thousands of caps flying up in the air and everyone was so happy hugging one another despite knowing that they STINK alot. Hahaha. The happiness lies in them is worth capturing and witnessing. This reminded me of Bf's POP too when he first saw me among the crowd, he was excitedly happy and that moment of memories do flash through me every now and then. By the way, his POP was the first and ever time that I attended.

I knew some of my poly-mates were having the same POP as Nicholas, especially Poh Chin when I told him that I will be there to take photo with him but unfortunately, we didn't. He left earlier than what I expected. Was about to look for him at the platform but he was no where to be seen, then I knew that he was on his way to the exit.

But on the other side while i'm on the way back to look for my clique, I saw Joel and Kimberly and we quickly get a good shots. Just when I was about to leave the premises, I heard someone shouted my name and when I turned to look, MARCUS & Bjorn was there!!! Its been really long that I have seen Marcus ( i think there's like 4-5 months, ever since we graduated from Poly). But he being a 'Hot star' that day, I didn't manage to catch up with him as I have to leave with the rest for lunch.

Lunch was surprisingly Nicholas's dad treat and his dad was so generous to bring us to Din Tai Feng all thanks to Nicholas who is craving for Xiao Long Bao, we got the luxury of dining there.

With a purchase of $80 if you are a OCBC card holder, you will be entitled for a free hot and spicy soup. We opted for a less spicy soup so the spiciness level is 0. No kick at all!

Xiao Long Bao was no longer new to me because both mum and I love to order their Xiao Long Bao there. Just the look of the small little wonton filled with minced pork and soup could simply drool me off! We were shocked that his brother ordered 4 basket of Xiao Long Bao for us.

Fried rice was the best, a great dish to share especially with the pork ribs. I don't know why every time I will have to order their fried rice. It seems like I won't get sick of eating this over again.

Another new love that I found, recommended by Nelly will be this black sesame bun. I have tried red bean/ lotus paste bun but this sweet treats surprised me with its sweetness. It matches the bun very well. If I ever go back DTF again, I will order this to let Mum try!

And lastly, a bowl of Tang Yuen which represent 'Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan' ( harmony). So traditional kind of dessert that you often see around in the hawker centre, Chinatown area.

Spent half of the day with classmates and the half with Bf which will be coming up soon (:

Till then.

Thursday was a happy day because I do not have to wait up at 4am to rush for work. Its simply a NO ALARM day for me. Both my parents had their off day too so basically I spent my whole day with them. In the wee morning, we drove down to Serangoon to buy ingredients for evening's reunion dinner and I simply bought my clutch & some accessories too. What made me feel good was to get a piece of button down shirt for my boy since Cotton on has 38% worldwide discount. A piece of collar shirt that cost $15 (original was $25). Such a good buy right!

Before getting our stuffs, parents and I had a good brunch over at Nex and we decided to order Dim sum since the rest of the food store has really long queue. There's isn't much choices to choose and we simply cleared away all the food that were left behind.

Featuring The pork ribs. I didn't order this but the aunty insisted I did. Not gonna argue with her and I just paid for this dish.

Chicken claws. I used to love this but when I grow older, i felt disgusted sucking away the skin and the juice.

My die die must order Liu sha bun. I love egg yolk custard or anything that is sweet so this dish is definitely a 'must buy' item. How it looks special was the skin of the bun. Instead of the plain white bun, they chose Pandan skin bun. The aroma of the pandan blend well with the egg yolk. You won't get sick of it.

I always take picture of the inside, the yellowish fluid flowing out of the bun. That's the star of today!

Just an ordinary pork lean porridge.

Glutinous chicken wrapped rice. Taste like BA ZHANG.

Reunion dinner was none other steamboat and it seemed like every household were having it. My instagram were flooded with pictures of hot pot reunion dinner. The ATAS family dined in at restaurant instead. I love having steamboat mainly because I won't have to blurge myself with food and of course soupy food is much more healthier than fried food. Popo prepared braised duck and pork intestines/ skin/ fatty meat for the grandchildren who loves to eat any part of the pig organ but yeah, not for me!

Boy came over to look for me after his reunion dinner with his dad's family and we headed down to Marina float platform to watch FIREWORKK!! Oh my god, another memorable day with him. We actually witnessed the whole 5 minutes of ceremony. Good thing is, the firework exploded right infront of our eyes. LUCKY US! Dad, Mum and Sharon aunt came along with us too (: