Places to visit in Singapore

1. Tiong Bahru Bakery by Gontran Cherrier

They've even got a rye & red miso bread!!!

2. Skyve Elementary Bistro & Bar

Was meant to go there for brunch over winter but forgot :(

3. Coastal Settlement

4. Kway Guan Huat Popiah

They were closed last year when I tried to go before leaving for the UK :(

5. Five & Dime

+ more when I remember~

This weekend has been really nice and I'm typing this while feeling bloated from a bunch of grapes/waiting for clothes to dry/as it rains outside.

3rd.
It was John's birthday and I stayed up the night before finishing my chivalry readings, stress binged (yes this means that I failed to survive my 3 day juice fast, but oh well), got up for the seminar, stuffed all my essentials into my sparkly purple bag, rushed out to find the new seminar room in the vanbrugh maze before making it to my one hour discussion on 'the origins of chivalry'. Rushed out of the seminar, bussed to the station and waited approximately 45 minutes in the cold for megabus to come before the driver promptly announced, 'rail strike today, you will all be taking the bus straight to st pancras and it will probably take you an extra hour'. (so angsty I tweeted: 英国，你为什么那么烂。气死人啊！) Tried to be zen on the bus, slept a little, woke up to a fat woman in front of me eating non-stop and so I started pinching bits of the brownies that was meant for John, fell asleep again, got onto a second bus and had coeur de pirate on replay for 2hours.

6.15pm: I see a sign that said, 'London Borough of Camden', fyeah we're finally in the city. Bbmed John and ranted about being hungry and told him I was ordering necco.

6.35pm: Got off at St Pancras, rushed to Paperchase and contemplated between sparkler candles (6.25pounds) and ordinary silver ones (1.20pounds). Walked out of the station and my phone died, so I got into starbucks and facetimed John telling him it was time for him to go collect our dinner, walked out and my paper bag decided to break, freaked out a little bit but thankfully, a cab appeared and saved my life.

6.50pm: Walked down exmouth market with a cake and 22 unlit candles, approached two men chilling outside the pub and they lit 7/22 for me and said the cake looked amazing *yay*. 2 minutes later, spotted John, Joel and Daryl outside necco -oops surprise!- and the boys decided to relight my candles before realising it was impossible to light 22 candles without burning themselves..

10.00pm: We're done with dinner and John claimed that he didn't suspect a thing at all, yay :)

4th.
Woke up, took forever to get ready and then headed out to Dinner by Heston for Johnny's birthday lunch, it was really nice and we made a decision to have a michelin star a term and have an epic graduation meal at our favourite restaurant in 2014. My favourite part of the meal was Johnny saying how amazing the vegetables were and my chocolate bar dessert which was so dark and smooth, nom. And the instant ice cream and funny drunk Japanese man next to us who was talking to himself when his partner went away -AHHH CHOCOLAAAA-

He had a lecture after lunch and so we tubed to Holborn and he fell asleep within that short 10 minute ride (true sloth). I found myself hiding in the really empty history section of LSE, reading Castiglione's book of courtiers and getting very excited about the prospect of staying in London forever. 2 hours later, we walked back and got ourselves fruits from the fresh fruitseller at Holborn (1pound strawberries, pink lady apples, peaches, grapefruits :D)

5th.
The morning was a very lazy blur, but met Nur for tea at Bea's of Bloomsbury and it was nice hanging out again, with no worries because my exams are clearly over like hers. We headed to Leicester after 2hours and I got my hello panda fix, we explored M&M world, got pretty m&ms and talked about her future 5children. I can't wait to see what we all turn out to be like at 30.

Came back, tried to study and I think I fell asleep halfway.

-I'm tired, shall take a break from blogging but...best bank holiday Monday ever, thank you Lisa & Nur for making it looovely-