A splendid dinner @ Grill-Out

Take 2 flights of escalator up, in front of Orchard Central all the way to The Verandah and you will find this promising logo inviting you to unit 07-01 for a good meal.



Grill-out has both indoor and alfresco dining. If you would like to enjoy the air-condition and take a peek at the fresh meat and sausages you are going to order, go for the indoors side. Mark and I chose to go for alfresco coz there was a duet playing outdoors.



We chose to sit beside the glass walls where we could have a feel of the bustling night life along Orchard road. The traffic was really bad. Even at bad economies like this, Orchard road was still flooded by shopping addicts like me :P





A wide spread of vareities was shown in the menu and the price is quite reasonable. We chose a combo set dinner for 2 which costs about $40 after extra charges. One of the best bargains the restaurant offered was wine at $6 for any main course order. Unfortunately, we were not in the mood for booze since I havent had my shopping done. :P

Here's our spread:





FOOD ALERT!! Our combo meal has pork and steak. I am not too sure what are the sauces though. One of them has rasins and it's just super yummy~!

Dains Festival @ Esplanade

Dains festival is held in Esplanade, over different locations. From our observation, there seems to be many works from Asian choreographers. Later, we found that this is a support through the Artist Residency programme. Most of this performances are ticketed.

For passer-bys like us, performances in the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre is ideal. The scenery from the theatre is beautiful. It is right in front of the waterfront along Marina Bay. We enjoyed a maervelous performance by an Indonesian group under the starlit sky.

The dance group is Surakarta Panji Group. As shown in the banner below, the performance is called Wayang Topeng (also known as Wayang Wong). It is a tradition dance, using masks to differentiate the different characters in the performance.

For free and entertaining performances, check out the esplanade websites when you have time. It's a great alternative to hitting the cinemas like all other "made-in-singapore" couch potatoes.

Our Archery Trial Session

We have uploaded the pictures ages ago. I can't remember when we did this. Both of us have been too busy to update our blog.

On a very boring weekend, we happened to pass by this new archery shop in suntec city. It is in tower4, just opposite the row where the cinema and arcade is located. So we decided to give it a shot. Mark is just too shy to be in the picture. So here you only see my first attempt at archery:

It's a pretty cool activity. I feel like Zena or something. Hahahaha :P
The shop assistant is very helpful. He showed us the posture and guided us through our first few shots. There are several shooting packages avaliable: $5 for 12 shots, $9 for 24 shots etc. We went for the 5 bucks one since it's out first attempt.

Well, as beginners, we took some time to do manual zeroing. I think both of us managed to hit bull's eye 3 or 4 times after our first few shots. Mark was really thrilled. Ladies, not to worry. They have a female bow. it's super light. No struggle for me at all.

Probably a gd way to destress. Just imagine your enemy at the bull's eye! I wouldn't mind giving it a try again!

Address:
DM Archery
#03-040
Suntec City Mall
Entertainment Zone
Telephone Number : 97964754
Opening hours : 10am – 9pm

01 Nov 09 - Picnic by the River

After a long long time, we finally have something different to blog about..
We have been living in Singapore for about a quarter of a century. Like most of the other Singapore couples, we have kind of ran out of idea for dating spots.
Yesterday, we decided to bring our son out to our last Vday spot.



Instead of going for posh crusine, we were thrilled by a great variety of local favourites under the candlelight and the nice scenery by the river. Picnic by Kallang River is quite ideal if you're sick of typical posh restaurants and joining the crowd in Orchard on the special day. Since it was just a normal day out, we did away with the candles and wine glasses which we brought along during V day.

So where exactly is this spot? At the open park opposite the row of restaurnts behind national inddor stadium. This is the view right in front of our picnic spot:





Like last time, with a much smaller budget compared to the price of usual v day set meals, we went to Kallang Airport Market to buy our food from numerous famous stalls. Here's our wonderful spread:

1. Seafood Mariana Set inclusive od Mushroom Soup and Garlic Bread
2. BBQ Chicken Wings
3. Laksa
4. Oyster Omelete
5. Chicken Chop
6. Soup Sop Drink
7. Mango pomelo
8. Papaya milk







After having our dinner, we spent our remaining time flying kite... or should I say trying to fly one! It wasn't very windy that day. But we managed to fly it for a couple of minutes every time we tried. Though we tried to take a video of it, it was too dark to see us running around like silly lil kids. :P