This entire week has been a blur of events.... with our Nerd-tional Parade on tuesday, fine dining at Equinox on Thursday, and my first visit to The Kranji Turf Club today! It's such an eventful week! Nerdtional Parade was a success, and though there's little hiccups in between, i'll still stick to my statement, that it's been a successful event! Considering the fact that it's our first attempt in organising a school bash since becoming EXCO.
Beanie's dad turned 60 on Thursday, and so we had a dinner celebration at Equinox, where we have Beanie's god sis and her husband, his aunt, cousins and their wives, and there's me, beanie, Bernard, and not forgetting.. beanie's mommy!
Ambience is good, but the menu seemed fond of using unusual words to describe their food. Words like Cream of Salsify, Degustation, Chantilly, and Beef cheeks.
I was rather amused with the restaurant's choice of words. Perharps, they thought it would be classier to use pretty words?
Beef cheeks were actually the meat of the cow, that's rather near the tummy. The kind chinese restaurants uses for stew beef. Jokingly, Beanie's cousin said it's either the cheeks of the cow, or the butt cheeks. Whichever it is.
I had lots of fun that night, and it was my first time meeting Boo's relatives. It's scary, but they are a funny bunch, so i just kept laughing the entire night.
I had Sauteed Scallops for starters, Supreme chicken soup and Foie Gras next, and alittle of beanie's cream of salsify, which is actually some crayfish broth with crayfish meat served on a wooden chopstick. (told you they like fancy names for their dishes, it could have just be cream of crayfish, or crayfish chowder. But no.... Equinox must use fancy names to keep up with their prestige-ness) I had the Ribeye beef and the cheeks, followed by the Strawberry soup for dessert, and i helped along with the additional orders of a Chocolate Fantasy.
Comprising of various forms of chocolates. There's the white chocolate, according to beanie's cousin, the white chocs was shaped like"madonna's conical bra", then there was this eggy thingie that came in 2 glasses, with chocolate crunchie balls sprinkled on top of it. (That's my favourite!) There's the bitter mousse ( i dreaded it), and other stuff that i didn't try..
It was very much what the menu had described....chocolate fantasy. I think, if you eat it all by yourself, im sure you'll end up being diabetic for life. Oh there was complimentary red wine to go with all that food, and a really mini mango cake, the size of my palm, was given as a gesture of good will.
After being very bloated and done with dinner, we actually went on to the hotel room to cut the cakes. It's this Tiramisu cake from Pregos, it's good, but it melts really really fast.
And the funniest part of it, was to see the entire cake, being decorated with 60 candles! The flaming cake seriously had a hard time staying solid while everyone was snapping and posing for the camera. By the time it was cut and served..i was just eatting this puddle of tiramisu shake!
We had this cute little surprise sitting on the bed, when we entered the room. Little Shanice was being smuggled into the hotel as a surprise, since little kids under the age of 12, wasn't allowed to be brought into the restaurant. So Sheila actually arranged for the little cutie to be brought to the hotel room, after dinner! Such a pleasant surprise!
Seems to me, everytime i see her, she's got some new tricks available, for show and tell. This time, she seemed to have mastered the art of calling "gong gong" and "ma"!
Walked alittle, and said "Bye!", and could also manage a flying kiss. Her baby antics are So cute!
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I went to the Turf club for the first time in 22 years today. It's fun, and i had a good time hollering for the horsey that i was cheering for. My choice of horses to support, has alot to do with how they are being dressed, and the names that they were given. Like Straight Flash, Royal Jade, Ocean Dancer and so on.. You get what i mean... hahah!
I like the feel of adrenaline when the horses are about to reach the finishing line, where we have everyone hollering for the horse that they've betted on. Oh Beanie's dad managed to win $24 in his last bet. It's fun, but i probably wouldn't spend money going there. First there's the carpark fee, then came the human entrance fee... Just to see horses scrambling around. The waiting time during the interval, is longer than the amount of time spent on watching horses running.
Time to go, Commercial Law awaits me in the morning!
