Jimmy Monkey

The quaint bare.

The queer electic.

The comfort secluded, best enjoyed on a drizzly evening. Smoked duck, goat's cheese, toast tartine. Dom Pedro milkshake, Long Black.

Braving crowds at Ikea to find the right bench, snag the hotdog/icecream cone, finding the white Ray Bans otw chowing down the Sub Standard Chilli crab sandwich and awesomer Peanut butter cookie. Getting lost at One North Residences up a wrong road, then somehow darl managed to drive right up to the doorstep of Jimmy Monkey's just before it closed at 8pm. Turn right when the girl says turn left. Thank goodness for the GPSes in my life. You and Kels are my life compasses indeed ;) cant wait for you to buy a place here. And so we can cross over to Verve for some pizza. Mmm.

Once upon a milkshake (*scape), Fish and Co (Ion Orchard)

Maple Syrup, Rum and Raisin, Chocolate Truffle (clockwise from top) - Once Upon a Milkshake

Fish and Chips - Fish and CoSilver Cod In Miso Sauce - Fish and Co

Love black diamonte watches so so much and adding more to my collection

Actually planned on an outing to one of the Japanese cake places oft been mentioned, but cos car was due for a change in ramp at 2 pm - so car-less means duxton/annsiang was outta reach and so mummy and i headed to town getting a lift from the serviceman using our car =P

We got off at Orchard Central and eventually drifted to 313;popped by oriole but decided not for coffee;cakes at de ste looked too small;so we ended up having milkshakes and icecream at Once Upon a Milkshake where we spotted shan and rozz waiting outside. I was gonna gulp those milkshakes and go out to get a pic with them but they left earlier than we could finish. We were just wondering what they were doing hanging out at the porch but that was answered when their friend came to pick them up!

Once upon a milkshake (Level 1, *scape) is having a promotion of 3 scoops of ice cream for $5.50 incredibly cheap for yummily smoothy milky icecream. (think its till the end of Sept so hury!its their opening special.) The trio of flavours we chose were chocolate truffle, rum and raisin, and maple syrup. We loved how alcoholic the rum was.

We also ordered an Agent Strawberry and it was sourish to say the least - this milkshake is definitely more towards the yoghurty side (ie not my type!!)

We then moved towards Mandarin Gallery where I got a new watch courtesy of Mommy and the nice salesgirl who gave us the OCBC discount =) black watches with diamond studs are just so my thing.

We browsed more at Taka/Wisma to pick up my new skirt and I happily bought my first copy of the Oishinbo series - i bought the Joy of Rice - its a series of Japanese food culture and history and it is so interesting and lighthearted its def the best reading material to start with after the exam hull. Happiness=)

and Fish and co (ion orchard) has gotta buck up! mommy's fish and chips did not hold up - the batter and fish crumbled way too easily while my silver cod in miso sauce was not as fresh as i hoped to be..maybe have eaten way too many great cods around. But still a fan of the paella rice that fish and co serves. daddos picked us up at borders but not before we discovered the wrapping for our Marks and Spencers All round chocolate biscuits have changed so we went on a merrygoround hunt for it!

Domino's Pizza, Prive

Large Meatzza
Regular Classic Pepperoni the yummiest bread ever - Bread Stix

Onion Rings

Chicken Wings

View from the pavilion at Prive facing RWS Sentosa

Perched comfortably!

Yuzu Cheesecake, Walnut Napolean, Hazelnut Praline Cakes from Prive

Baileys Irish Cream Milkshake with chocolate sauce

We were supposed to meet near N's bd but cos kheng had last min work dinner so it was then postponed to fri/sat..short couldnt make it - so it was just kheng, newm and me.. and cos of a left phone and a sleeping saturday me, by 7pm i was the first to arrive (and gleeful i found a secret lot near chulin road) so waited for the boys at old town white coffee; window conversation while ent-ing is quite cute. And i bumped into flyfairy at Kim's Korean restaurant!! there was a mega long queue. No way kheng's going back there for a chilli bomb. Anw flyfairy was for an EOD call and xy post call so it was a cute sleepy couple having dinner..didnt try hard enuf to convince them to go baybeats (which i didnt even go to in the end)

I couldnt locate the pasta place I wanted to try, so it was between the spanish place vs Dominos and of cos boys being boys we headed to Domino's Pizza (8 Chun Tin Road) down the road from old town white coffee cos 1. its pizza 2. its pizza 3. its just down the road instead of having to walk all the way back to Lorong Kilat.

We ordered a value meal meant for 4-5 pax - initially wanted 2 large pizzas but for variety sake we chose this; Classic Pepperoni was upsized and the Meatzza pizza was regular. What i enjoyed most was the bread stix - its crisp cheesy and buttery at the same time and absolutely fluffy inside, enjoyed it so so much. We had 2 crusts - the New York crust (its supposedly lighter hand stretched) and the Crunchy thin crust but honestly i couldnt tell the difference. It was a great balance between crust and topping - its not biscuit/cracker thin like skinny pizza or pepperonis but neither its as chunky as Pizza hut/Rocky's. but kheng was watching the cals (and getting all excited abt cedele opening at rail mall, how creeps) so most of it landed up in the tums of newm and me! Onion rings and chicken was kinda blahh though just go for the doughy stuff.

I really really wanted to join yiks/yh/rous at baybeats which ended late at 1130pm but the boys wanted somewhere quiet to catch up and dessert so instead of noisy udders we headed to the quiet Prive (Keppel Bay).

Pre dessert we were just night gazing at the pavilion facing Sentosa when there were gasp fireworks at 10pm! it was real tiny (but one big smoke bomb) and the cablecars even momentarily froze lol. When the smoke blew over we went over to Prive finally and after roaming around the bar seats we had to settle for the indoor seats;ordered trio of cakes to share and Baileys Irish Cream milkshake with chocolate sauce to share. Out of all the cakes the Hazelnut Praline Cake was the favouritest - the lightest was the Yuzu Cheesecake whilst my Walnut Napolean was the creamiest and mildest.

Prive (Keppel Bay)

April's wedding was the loveliest ever; full of love and praise and a very intimate gathering. It felt like a walk down memory lane meeting the sc girls and my rj friends - mutual frens/scholars/ac/yll frens from Aprils side. Was such a difficult find for the church too and from one of the small junctions i incidentally bumped into tracy!! who was a help with the directions too;difficult to miss a hot babe really!

after the wedding headed to meet S; we met at Starbucks Holland V where i had my first try of the chai tea latte which really really reminded me of grandma's soup seriously. We headed to Prive (Keppel Bay) and had desserts- a little disappointed the other desserts/bar food was not available as we were eyeing the profiteroles/caramel and banana pudding/mini trio of burgers/mini baits- yeah just about all the snacks in the world; in the end had to settle for the cakes and milkshakes.

After stopping him from the beer we had the Kahlau Milkshake to share (cos I tried Baileys before and it rox) - this one is less mild compared to Baileys but still an alcoholic milky yumms. A tad diluted tho, somehow this didnt give much of a kick compared to Baileys. Either my tastebuds have desensitized (!) or its just a weaker version of its other alcoholic cousin.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch Cake was a recommendation from Mich so I tried it - its a really dense chocolate cake with a peanut butter layer and a meringue- it was quite a good cake for those fond of dense cakes;but it was not as memorable as the Blackforest cupcake - wow this was an interesting fella! Soaked cherries amidst loose sponge and topped with whipped cream its alcoholic component was not to be trifled with;light but just nice for a mini. All their cupcakes look like mini crumbles and I really wanna try them all!

Guess that'll be for another time when I yearn for a night breeze and chillin with house music again. Hope that area won't be boarded up so much again; and Prive closes so early now!! last order at 1130pm and close by 1230am; vehicles not allowed to come in after that too. Really a nice breezy chill quiet place tho;it must be one of my favouritest place to zone out.