Fun times with family on a post-birthday celebration at one of the best resorts in my home town, Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar…
Full story and review of the resort on escapecapades.com.
Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar
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Champagne Brunch Buffet at La Brasserie
For my birthday, hubby treated me to a surprise date for Champagne Lunch Buffet at La Brasserie of The Fullerton Bay Hotel.
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| Seafood and Champagne at La Brasserie, The Fullerton Bay Hotel |
And for this occasion, I’m making a short review of the brasserie…
First of all, the place wows you in all directions upon entering. Immediately, you find yourself surrounded by sumptuous dessert on the buffet setting. The clear glass walls with the view of Marina Bay and the high ceiling make the room so bright and airy. It’s definitely my kind of room — beautiful view and very high ceiling. I was already sold!
Montréal
I’ve always imagined Canada to be very cold and very far away. When I visited it a few weeks ago, I was right about the “very far away” part, but not the cold. I did not know it’s possible to get very hot there in the summer.
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| The Basilica de Notre Dame de Montréal… you have to go inside to really appreciate its history and beauty |
Here are some of my favorite images from this summer’s trip to Montréal…
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I really want to blog about this while everything is still fresh in my memory. So, here I am at midnight, on the last few days of my summer holiday here in France, jet-lagged and all, but I find enough energy to write about this experience. I have just been to see the musical for the first time ever last Monday, 10th July. I have always been a big fan of Miss Saigon for obvious reasons — because Lea Salonga was in it, and also being in my pre-teen years the first time it came out, I had a predisposition to crave sappy, romantic love songs.
Continue reading “Miss Saigon on Broadway”Romantic Lunch Date at Rhubarb Le Restaurant
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| Rhubarb Vanilla Ice Cream at Rhubarb, Le Restaurant |
There is nothing more pleasantly distracting than a surprise romantic lunch at a Michelin-starred French restaurant on a busy Monday. Hubby chose a cozy restaurant called, Rhubarb, Le Restaurant. We figured the owner must’ve been really obsessed with this plant, which a decade ago would’ve been something very unfamiliar to me. I now know for one that Rhubarb Pie is one of my husband’s favorites. And I quite like it too, for its tangy and citrusy flavor. We tried the restaurant’s Rhubarb Vanilla Ice Cream at the end of a three-course lunch menu, and found it deliciously refreshing, especially with the popping sugar bits.
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Mothers’ Month 2017
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| Last Mother’s Day — hubby treated me to a lovely lunch at a nice restaurant. |
While I am thankful that a lot of the hassles of taking care of a small baby have gone away with the passing of time, I could never really be whole-heartedly grateful to dear old time, as I realize that the more my daughter grows the less she will be needing me. I know this is too early to start worrying about when she will become a teenager and will be wanting to leave her parents’ care… but this is the stuff that mothers do. And I can’t help it. I’m deep into it now. Especially since I have been a mother for already half a decade now!
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This spring, I finally got the chance to visit Japan for Hanami (Cherryblossom Viewing). I went with my family to Kyoto, Lake Kawaguchi (Kawaguchiko) and Tokyo. This is my second time to Japan but it’s my first time to see Mt. Fuji in all its magnificence right in front of our lake-side hotel.
Details of my trip on escapecapades.com.
My Awkward Experience at the Sumo Stable in Tokyo
Sumo Wrestling has always been one of the interesting things about Japanese culture that I have always wanted to see and experience in person. And so, when I recently came back to Japan with my family this month I tried to book for a ticket to watch an actual match, but it was fully booked for the month. But then, I found out I could instead book for a Sumo Practice Viewing at the sumo stable.
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Bewitching, bewildering beautiful beaches of Siquijor up on escapecapades.com
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Weekend Staycation at Raffles Hotel Singapore
The holidays came and went just like that… just like 2016. And since the start of the year, I have been ever so busy with work, etc. But now, I finally found a weekend to write about the previous weekend when we had an opportunity to stay at Raffles Hotel. I had been waiting for a long time for this. It’s such a magnificent and historical site that I wouldn’t want to miss checking out, especially since I have been living in Singapore for a really long time now.
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| The magnificent facade of Raffles Hotel along Beach Road |
Read on for more pics and video of the Courtyard Suite that we stayed in…
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