Societe canteen and Laneway

Made grand plans to have brunch at either Supprette or Sarnies but it all boiled down to the lack of time in the end; rushed rounds and changes then headed home towards somewhere nearby- either simply bread or here but I'm quite glad we settled for Societe canteen at Cluny court. After the cramped parking at Serene we headed over to the place all smelling of toast and coffee ;) and its a great place to have some quiet time to read and browse, or catch up.

We ordered the eggs Benedict ( my picture got lost - and so did the people pic) and the baked eggs(which needed 20 minutes- we almost didn't have this cos we had no time !). We ordered the eggs florentine which came with mushrooms and spinach- it came atop a lovely brioche bread and two extremely long and skinny leeks on them.

We also ordered the baked eggs and it looked gorgeous - you'd like it if you like a tomato base. Lotsa cheese and spinach to top it all.

Quickly headed to Laneway where J dropped me off to queue and it was sweltering hot. Kinda missed a bit of kings of convenience ( great audience rapport) but they played for a whole hour! Other highlights were bats for lashes, kimbra, monsters and men( king and lion heart awesome possum ) and of cos the last bit of gotye. Can't say too much of the food though... We had the wraps again- him the kebab and me the senor tacor(lotsa rice and cheese).

It was quite a chase for the shade- first the flag then the leeching the VIP shade. Thank goodness for the bottle and the mat;)

St Jerome's Laneway festival

Sunday was crowds madness..the entry queue never seem to end (all the way to the ballet academy!!) so sent J to get the xkcd comic i bought heh. And once we got in (and they never checked our bag for food nor the 3litre water bag that is our survival...)..Moved thrice.. all to avoid the sun and the standing crowd (can everyone please sit down so we can sit down and actually see something!!).. central grass patch to secret corner under the trees to eventually in front of the prive booth, on the steps..

Okay enough complaints about the people. or the weather. Armoured with raybans, brollie (the impossibly big one J was holding...), and of cos the 3litre water bag (the beer queue was just insane)...we were well prepared. Plus seats in front of the food booth...and behind the (insanely crowded) drinks booth...what more can we ask for?

but great music, of cos.

Mixture of the good and the bad, with a booming surprisingly good sound system. We liked Girls (who started with an emotional rendition of And I will always love you.. and they are not girls!!) Laura Marling (folksy), Feist (++..great performer) and M 83. Too bad we missed Cults..came in just in time for Yuck. Though Chairlift was reviewed to be disappointing in Life, I liked Bruises lots...heard it from such a long time ago. Horror's Still Life had a really awesome sound on youtube, but as one of the three closing acts, was overshadowed by Feist and M83.

Did I say we sat right in front of Prive's booth?? the smallish unfilling Turkey/cheese wrap and Sundried tomatoes spinach salad.

Walked all the way to the exit end to check out the other food stall which turned out to be a repeat Shiraz stall that was next to Prive...

We had BBQ chips x 4 portions (bloody hell, $2.50 each, and tasted like NTUC chilli chips...)

Though Shiraz's chicken kebab sandwich was quite filling...and almost had seconds cos they didnt keep the coupons...messy messy (even the sandwich itself was messy...)

Nightfall came, and the laser show from MBS as the back drop and the moon too..gorgeous...

Isnt the double stage an ingenious idea?

Watching M83 was like watching trance being produced live...AMAZING closing act..

And thank goodness for single yellow lines...hehe..makes exit easy!

Dann's Cafe

Week of short days, feels like passive income somwwhat. Lap chole, followed by a conversion (big faux pas pushing up and inadvertent ripping but thats not the cause of it!) cos of deficient post wall, followed by pseudo l maj lump that took 5 min, longer time for the anaes (and DA rash too!) and update than the actual. Resisted the break to eat (thanks mok for the soy/pancakes), and headed out to Dann's Cafe (Eastwood Centre) that Teck Wee has been raving about the alkaline coffees.

Parked my car at army camp car park, to the arrival of 2 carpark attendents, and then arriving to the restaurant with the chef's daily moods board on my seat... the above is unfair treatment to TW... only heart heart. i HEART the flat white. Possibly the best i've had here, nutty and natural sweetness from the milk. Mmm lovely. Would be back just for this.

And btw, even the tap water is alkaline!

Fish and mushroom cheese Tortilla wrap - not exactly a wrap, more like a ultra thin pancake. For it was not foldable - the wrap was toasted to a crisp and very nutty and grainy! Lovely with the cheese sauce within. I must admit I ate the fish separately - didnt want the wrap to dilute the taste of the tender fish. The sprouts by the side was most interesting.

LS also had the wrap but with sprouts instead, TW had the prawn pasta (too stiff!) and Mr C the hoggie - with baguette. It was a strange site to see 3 men eating organic, dainty brunch style food.

This place serves seafood and vegetables mainly - and too bad for my second round of coffee- the maintainace guys came so we had the last of the available coffee.

And I was so happy to find the elusive quinoa!!

D24 from Ice cream gallery - I must say I havent had a durian ice cream in an uber long time. The last was prob sharing scoops or just tasting portions. The last full blown durian I had on my own could possibly on a stick.


Went to change money at Chinatown (max cash out at 2k!), pick tri colored top, forgot the paper unds, then J didnt wanna let me do the groceries so we ended up at Kallang Leisure Park to top up the dinner stuff (other than the loaf and the salmon sitting in the fridge since Mon....).


The above was actually Mon's contingency plan in case the cous cous grains refuse to behave... Smoked salmon, roe, Philly's cream cheese, Multi grain bread from Swissbake. Yes there was ALOT of bread.... and I discovered the three types of roe..enlightenment

Somehow the mixed spinach volume was alot less than the plain pure spinach. New addition of corn, pecan. Bought croutons of the seasoned kind, but had to finish the Italian ones.

Thank goodness didnt open the chowder...

And there's still blueberries..yoghurt..

Intricately done up leftovers.... ;) thks to the one who DIDNT finish it up!

Booked the H Park and Fitzwilliam. Yay we are all set. Poor thing for the last min journal club/research PLUS call..us both. blardi tight time better fly fast.