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It's been awhile since I've blogged!

Sorry this post is a little bit late because I really did not have time to post whilst my Malaysia cousins came by for visit last week! Stoked and sad that they are home now but we will soon reunite! *wink* Will post about their trip sooner or later, but for now, here's a little recap of what I did for my 21st birthday weeks ago haha.

Before I continue, I would really like to take the people who have spent the day with me even though I wasn't in the party mood (you'll know soon enough why) but thank you so much for every thing from the presents to the birthday wishes. Sincerely grateful for all and I have not finished my birthday celebration because I have a hotel celebration coming up soon AND I HAVE TO USE MY COUPON BEFORE IT EXPIRES.

DISGRESSING.

All these 21 years, I have lived a rollar coaster ride of literal madness. I made a family thanking video so don't say I'm not grateful for them, I did that weeks ago and I don't really want to post any family stuff here but lest you people think I'm a spoiled brat, if anything; my 21 years were the best because of my family. So thank you my dearest parents, brothers, cousins and aunts/uncles/ah mas. Doubt you will read my blog but I've already thanked you all so much in the video. (MICHELLE, KIMBERLY I HAVE NOT SHOWN YOU THE VIDEO YET, REMIND ME IF YOU SEE THIS.)

For this post it's more dedicated to the friends I've made and stayed with me all these years. You can stop smiling now, Joy. You know who I'm talking about. My 21 years were made with shit tons of drama mama crap and the most saddest of stories to the happiest of laughters because of you, my dearest sister twin thing woman. We've yet to celebrate the birthday together (BECAUSE WE BOTH WERE TOO NERVOUS AND MOODY) so I can't wait to spend one day with you soon. Maybe we should celebrate your 21 with mine haha.

THANK YOU FRIENDS, you should know who I'm talking about. You are amazing and thank you for all your wishes and love. Support and what not that you have given me throughout my poly years. sec years and childhood shit. I'm not one for mushy stuff so I won't go on, I might cry.

Thank you Sam and Azman for celebrating the day with me although there wasn't much planned because I don't believe much in birthday celebrations but eh, why not since I've skipped about 8 years of not celebrating it. Dearest best friend dog, you are the best. Thank you for everything as well, your sincere gift filled with love and guidance - you just being you.

Anyway, my 21st started out actually having macs at night with Azman because he decided to ton after bowling too late. It's the most adorable thing actually but the damn mac must have caused my throat to lose it's shit so bittersweet start I suppose.

Woke up late because I was tired as shit and sashayed out in my favourite dress to d'good cafe! Remember that time when it was Jed's birthday? Yep. I decided to get over there and get my giant frappe fix as well as brunch with Sam & Azman. D'good cafe is damn empty in the weekday mornings so if you want to go there, try going on a weekday morning - it's so peaceful!

Met Azman up at the third floor and got surprised with the most adorkable balloon in the entire universe when Samuel arrived! AND IT'S A CAT AND I LOVE CATS HOMG I probably was calm that day at the table (and confused) but internally my love for cats had exploded so much so I was speechless. I MEAN A HELIUM KITTY THAT I SAW ON THAT YOUTUBE VIDEO WITH THAT OTHER KITTY my mind is going nuts rn, please forgive me. I'm just flabbergasted at the thought of buying me this and for sure, you have stunned me, Sam. Well done.

It's right now releasing gas at my cupboard and if anyone has any idea how to refill air inside, please tell me. It's very sad rn.

So standard order. You can already guess. All the times I've been to d'good cafe I've always ordered my egg bendicts - honestly their eggs benny: 100 marks all the time. The egg is poached to perfection, the hollandise sauce not too sour, that tinge of vinegar and the salad that tastes like heaven. The entire set never fails to please me so I say thumbs up one of the BEST eggs benedicts I've ever tasted.

Good enough to compete with cedele as well.

AND OF COURSE, let's not forget what I came here for. THE GIANT FRAPPE. If you don't know, d'good cafe has a special birthday surprise for whoever spends their birthday at the cafe - you get to buy a large size frappe and THEY UPGRADE IT TO GIANT SIZED FOR FREE. Apparently you have to buy a meal to get it now, so I got myself a little earl grey cheesecake and we bought the green tea frappe and had our polaroid taken by the staff! If you want to know more, just check out my old blog post on d'good cafe!

Giggled like hell because Azman always looks like the birthday boy in our pictures.

I'd say though, the peppermint one tastes better because the green tea one has a LOT of cream. (maybe that's why my nose and throat has been blocked for days now.)

I quoth this picture: "THY JED HAS NO FRAPPE"

Their earl grey cheesecake is top notch - it's so soft and creamy, melts in your mouth! It's basically heaven if you love tea and cake. The combination of earl grey cheesecake will drive any tea addict insane! I recommend x 1000. It's too good. The green pieces on the cake are white chocolate and wow for a minute I thought it was inedible, but it's so good together, alongside with tea.

The finished product of mad scribbling.

THANK YOU D'GOOD CAFE FOR MAKING MY BRUNCHES SO AMAZING.

Said bye to Azman after lunchbrunch and realized it was almost evening. Headed down to the dog cafe because I had mentioned I wanted have dinner with a golden retriever on my twitter and Sam wanted to fulfil that wish which I actually meant having dinner with Sam: well done taking things literally. I did not expect much because knowing the dog cafes around Singapore, they usually have smaller sized petite dogs instead of big galloping goldens.

Camwhored whilst waiting for a bus.

AND THEN, THE MAGIC HAPPENED WHEN WE REACHED.

HUSKIES AND GOLDENS, DINNER SEATED BESIDE THEM? WIN. I can barely contain my excitement though I felt a little standoffish holding my cat balloon in a dog cafe, oops. BUT IMAGINE THE BEAUTIFUL PUPPIES EVERYWHERE. I was expecting the cafe to smell of dog but it was perfectly fine.

Unfortunately, we went at a later hour so most of the dogs were sleepy and tired from a long day (so was I) but at least I got to pet and just stare greedily at them because HDBs will never allow big doges which means it's probably gonna take me years to even get one unless I move to NZ.

I digress! The pet paradise cafe has both human food and doggie treats so if you have a dog, you can basically have dinner with them together! How cool is that!

BUT THE THING THAT MADE ME MOST HAPPY WAS THIS.

I literally got the spend my dinner with a golden retriever so THANK YOU SAM AND THANK YOU DOG CAFE FOR MAKING MY WISH COME TRUE.

Pretty tired after dinner so I headed home to flop on bed and transgress into a comatose state. (Pretty tired right now as well) Had the best birthday with the best of people so I'm pretty glad though I was amazingly tired out from all the walking and giggling.

Thank you so much for making my birthday so special, Sam! You were the one that planned everything out and you were the one who stressed out so much on where to go and what to give me though the answer was pretty simple. Actually still IS pretty simple.

That's right. Get me a cat.

But in all seriousness, I had the best birthday I could ever ask for, from my family, my parents, my best friends and more to come so I'm pretty stoked. Can't wait to blog about the upcoming hotel bash where I get to bash maybe Randal. HAHAHAHAHcough.

THANK YOU READERS FOR READING THIS REALLY TIRED POST BECAUSE IT'S CNY AND I'M BEAT FROM ALL THE SOCIALIZING. Stay tuned to the blog for an upcoming post that I talked about on my instagram! And for now, goodnight mates and happy chinese new year!

xoxo

evelyn

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Going to do a quick little blog post of my cycling adventure even though I did not even touch the damn pedals or use any sort of energy to move and basically am the useless backseat cyclist who just points out weird things and go "holy shit" when the bike is about to smash into something. Thank you Samuel for cycling a fat cat all the way to Bedok and back.

So this evening after days of bad period and bad cough (two different separate people with separate problems) we decided to head down to Strictly Pancakes, located at Upper East Coast road near the one siglap community centre and the place that I used to live at. It was an impromptu idea and you know how I am with impromptu ideas - mostly lost.

We've been to strictly pancakes a few times but all the times that we have travelled there, we travelled by bus or by taxi. Today, with a sudden spur of idea, Sam had decided to cycle there because I remembered a park connector being close by and since it's Bedok, I'm pretty sure we could handle ourselves for a little cycle trip.

Managed to navigate only with the help of google maps because yours truly can't figure out where the place is because she only memorizes certain roads that led us three big rounds around the area only to give up and get google maps - just to save my pride, I managed to led us close, we just made the wrong turn because sometimes intuition isn't there for you. Thankfully, the traffic was on our side, so was the lovely windy weather making it very convenient for us to cycle.

Reached Strictly Pancakes at about 6:30pm and left the house at 5:10pm ish. Well, I would say a good job well done considering we are not the best navigators and had absolutely no idea whether the route was cycleable or not but we managed to pull it through! Well done Sam! You made it carrying a fat cat behind you!

After the 1 hour plus cycle, son, we were thirsty and hungry as hell. Strictly pancakes, here we are! Initially I was afraid that the place would be crowded, considering the fact that it IS a Friday evening dinner time, but we were pleasantly surprised at the lack of crowd! What else pairs up with good food? A quaint lovely quiet ambience!

ANyone who is EVeryONE WHO HAS BEEN TO STRICTLY PANCAKES SHOULD KNOW HOW DAMN AWESOME THEIR PANCAKES ARE. I can rave about it forever but you should go try it yourself. The pancakes are very soft and fluffy and the bloody maple syrup plus the combination of butters (you can actually pick) makes it a very delicious treat.

Also the fact that as I was looking at the menu, something else caught my eye.

Good ambience, good food PLUS FREE WORKING WIFI? Hello, you have got me hooked and sold. Thank you strictly pancakes, you may now take my soul. I make myself sound like some uncultured swine that stares at her phone all damn day long but I assure you, I only do that when I'm in situations I don't like.

Let's take a good old look at the menu!

As you can see there are four different sections for you to pick from! The stacks, savoury, sweet and others - pretty obvious right you already know what it's about. Before you ask, YES this is STRICTLY PANCAKES, the mains are mostly pancakes. If you are not a fan of pancakes (in which i gasp in horror at) then this is not your place, go away.

THE STACK!

aka DO IT YOURSELF PANCAKES!

This is basically what I order all the time because: do it yourself pancakes with mix and matching sides? WHY NOT!? Plus it is cheaper if you don't eat much like me. lol. What you do is basically select your stack size, your favourite butter (mine is rum & raisin, no im not an alcoholic) and pick your sides which only costs $2.50 each! You can choose from bacon to sautéed mushrooms to omelettes! Quite cool right?

If you feel stuck to pick all that sides and just want something savoury prepared, have no fear!

SAVOURY PANCAKES ARE HERE!

From their famous garlic buttered prawns to their meaty sunny porker, they have all kinds of savoury goodness for you to decide on! Not to mention the sides they have a killer nice, such as the beef skewer's salsa or the garlic butter prawns that just tastes heavenly! Mmmmm. Usually I'd skip the savoury because 90% of the time I rather make my own pancake but today it's different.

After all that cycling (shut up evelyn, you didn't cycle for shit) I felt I needed something to boost my loss of everything thanks to periods so I picked "The sunny porker" ($13) for dinner! Bacon+sausage pancakes with CHEESY eggs and a side of veg? Count me in! It's everything I want and more.

SWEET TOOTHS BE NOT AFRAID!

THERE IS THE SWEETS SECTION FOR ALL SUGAR CRAZIES.

At the top of the menu, you can already see that their chocolate pancake chaos is called THE DRUGGIE. If you want to get a sweet sugar high, this section is for you. I didn't feel for sweets today so I had to pass not even reading the menu BUT I SHOULD HAVE BECAUSE, RED VELVET PANCAKES.

Red velvet pancakes with vanilla cream.

WHY DID I MISS THAT?! (not that I can eat anything cold today)

Look at that range of menu choices, I mean tiramisu to what-a-spread for all you sugarholics! Bacon nutella and basically the chocolate drug pancakes. If you want to sweeten up your day, these are your picks. Please taste the red velvet pancake and tell me whether it is nice or not, I really need to know like really badly lol.

FINALLY drinks and etc

Their hot chocolate and teas are good, I remember trying them before! BUT HERE'S FOR THOSE WHO CAME NOT FOR THE PANCAKES (like why even), there are sandwiches and finger foods but seriously why are you buying those because it's strictly pancakes.

Strictly.

Decided to go for savoury because I need some bacon in mai life, and Sam went for the salmon because he likes salmon. Ordered up and waited for the goodness of pancakes to fall into our mouths! For every order, we can choose our types of butter (salted, unsalted, rum & raisin and herbs) so I ordered my usual and Sam got herbs because that basically shows you what kind of people we are in real life.

Look at my handsome boyfriend.

Within minutes, we got our maple syrup and butter! Woop woop! I smell rum & raisin!

Rum & raisin on the left and Herb and butter on the right.

Wow remember when I said I wasn't an uncultured swine using her phone 24/7? This picture really does me no justice.

A bit of waiting and our food came!

Bacon pancakes and sausage pancakes with sunny side up cheese egg paired along with sauteed vegs topped with black pepper! ($13.00) Wow the veg is damn good by the way, tastes heavenly! The pancakes were super fluffy and filled with bacon in every bite! YUMS! The entire set is basically heaven alongside the rum & raisin butter spread with maple syrup. You'll not want to miss this out.

Sam's salmon run set! ($15.00) 3 stacks with lemonly seasoned spinach leaves and sour cream plus dill on top the raw salmon! What you would call a salty sashimi pancake meal! Goes super well with the sour cream that is graciously topped! If you put the yolk (of my set) salmon, leaves and pancakes together, you'll a very savoury soft, chewy warm taste in your mouth!

A very fulfilling meal indeed! We headed out after a good dinner to cycle home but of course, exploration is always valid in our books so instead of cycling home straight, we took a little path down siglap linear park and cycled around the quiet neighbourhood!

Almost got lost but managed to make our way back home and all I can say is that THE ENTIRE EVENING WAS VERY WELL SPENT! I didn't cycle much because I'm an assfart who decided to take backseat because I'm on my period okay, let's not go into detail.

Thank you so much Sam for bringing a fat cat out and cycling her everywhere, I know you must be really tired but I hope the windy weather and new sights did something nice for you! I had a shit load of fun let's do it again sometime!

Thank you readers as well for always tuning into my blog! I haven't forgotten you all as well - but for now, I'll see you soon.

xoxo

evelyn

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