10 years already!

1st June is a special day to Piddles & Roy. It's the day when Piddles has finally agreed, consented, gave in to say YES to Roy's countless pleas & to be married to him legally.

But it's also exciting & the right timing for both of them as their new home was almost ready in sembawang, just waiting for the married couple to collect the keys & move in. No more travelling to & fro from Yishun to Bedok every weekend, yipeez!

Anyway, here's us! At a tender age of 25 & 24. Gosh, we were both so young & skinny! And wondering what lies ahead of us.

Flashing the Victory sign, married at last!
Roy grinning from ear to ear, at last his hardwork has paid off. More to come! Haha..

And many things had happened during the 10 years, mostly leading a carefree life with lotsa travelling, getting customary married in '04 (will try to dig up some pics), more travelling, getting preggy in '07, shifted to pasir ris in Apr'08 & gave birth to Jared in Jul'08.

We have come a long way, baby!

So anyway, we don't really celebrate anniversaries every year, lazy & also can save up some $$. But then again, to be able to tahan each other for 10 years is actually quite a achievement leh!

And so yesterday, we had a small do after work. Requested off day from mom and went for dinner at The Blue Ginger at Tanjong Pagar. They had this 1 for 1 offer for uob cardholders so must make use of it.

It's in a quirky 2 storey shophouse serving authetic peranakan cuisine. But their core business is into catering. We were the 1st couple to walk in when they opened for dining at 1830hrs. Kinda awkward when the waiters' attentions were all foused on us.

Definitely some changes from before & now. Put on significant amount of weight & sagging chins & tummies..

The achar was super nice & crunchy with lotsa crushed peanuts and the belachan was super spicy. Need to pay also, not free.

Nice indent of glass on the coaster.

Their Kueh pie tee - Shredded bamboo shoots and turnips garnished with shrimp in pie tee cups. I tell you, its shiokness! Think I can down 10 at one go but this was a set menu. -_-
Duck salad on the right.

Their homemade Ngo Heong with minced meat & prawns seasoned with five spice powder.
Below - Crabmeat & minced pork meatballs with bamboo shoots soup.

Their varieties were not bad with (clockwise from left) peranakan mixed vegetable dish, seabass with assam curry, otak otak, grilled chicken thigh with coconut & spices and sautee prawns with pepper in sweet dark soy sauce.

And of course, most important of all, their Chendol! Roy's durian chendol on top. The gula melaka (brown sugar) really out of this world, very aromatic and goes very well with the red beans. I don't really fancy the green wormlike jelly but it's quite fresh & waste if I don't eat it. The durian is thick yet bitter, my kinda durian!
Really the grand finale..~~~

I'm like advertising for the restaurant hor? :D
My favourite there so far was the Ngo Heong, achar, the soup, kueh pie tee, and not forgetting chendol.

And the crowd slowly crept in, with angmos at almost every table. I can hear them in british, german, french & spainish, ya got a table of hongkies too. Guess it's popular with the expats.

Why Jared boy doesn't follow Roy's traits of deep set eyes & sharp nose?? Or they have not emerge yet? Haha!

The only evidence that J has of Roy are his dimples. The rest are 98% copyrights of Piddles.

And so.. while Piddles is at it updating her latest post, she asked him if he has any words or comments for the 10th anniversary so that she can mention in her blog...

R: "Thanks for accompanying me all this while"

P: "That's all???????"

R: "No words can describle on this 10 years of our lives together. However, the only thing that remains forever is I will always love you & boi!"

P: "Very much???"

R: "Ya lah!"

P: "Much better. Thanks for loving me & tolerating my tempers, please continue to maintain that."

R: "Haha!"

So Happy Anniversary to us & many many more good years to come!

~The End~