Hotpot craze!

Within around 1 week, I had hotpot twice! But it is awesome! Met up with Emerine, Meifern & Jena at NEX for a meet up & hotpot dinner! Went to 鲜得来 to give it a try. They serve in individual pots & their pots are very special.

Looks very antique yea? Haha.

From top left - anti clockwise: Emerine's duck soup, my si chuan ma la soup, Jena & Meifern's tomyum soup! I am so in love with the ma la soup base. Totally love it. 

I love it when the table is full of food! It just give me more appetite to eat! Though I can't eat A LOT! 

The girls! Please meet up soon again for more hotpot! 

Yesterday, our 3rd Anniversary! 3 years just pass so fast. As both of us got to work, we only meet up for dinner. Have been hearing from so many people that LeLe pot (乐乐锅) is nice & its always very crowded. So must reserve seats before going. So reserved seats the day before & true enough, it is really crowded. 

It is an air-conditioned hotpot place & the boss is someone who used to act in shows. Don't know his name but usually in those martial arts show. 

We can choose 2 soup base! So boyfriend & me chose ma la soup & herbal chicken soup. Yes, ma la again! It tastes almost the same as 鲜得来's. The ma la soup is very addictive. Hehee. I want more ma la steamboat!

The drinks i ordered. Ribena aloe vera freeze. It is very refreshing!

Boyfriend's kuku face! Haha!

Their buffet steamboat includes dessert too! They have choice of ice cream & bean curd  We tried their beancurd. Not too bad though.

The food are good. The service there, not too bad too. At least it is much better than I expected. Although when the staffs gets busier, our order came in after a long time & much reminders. But they are very apologetic which I don't find in other hotpot place. I'm someone who is very concern about the service. No matter how nice is the food, as long the service sucks, entering the shop again will not be in my consideration again. Whats more? Their price is very reasonable. I think this is the cheapest steamboat I've seen, i guess?
Monday - Thursday: $20.40 for adult.
Friday,Weekends,PH: $21.40 for adult.
Drinks are not included, so got to order separately.
& They don't have service charge. (Or maybe they have already included in the price.) So I think its is worth going back to have hotpot there again! Although the location ain't too convenient. But consider near to Tiong Bahru Mrt station.

Head back home after dinner. Super full but very satisfied. (:
Just a few more days, 2012 is coming to an end. I hope 2013 is a better year!

Love, a lifetime promise

Well.. Am current at work ( Attachment ) & was browsing through facebook. So, I came about this short story which it touches me after reading. I want to share it here because even though not much people visit this area here, but i want to read it again & again in years to come when i read back my old posts. So.. Here we go, The Passbook.

She married him today.

At the end of the wedding party, her mother gave her a newly opened bank savings passbook, with $1000 deposited in it.

She told her, "My dear daughter, take this passbook. Keep it as a record of your married life. Whenever something happy and memorable happens in your new life, put some money in. Write down what it's about next to the amount. The more memorabl

e the event is, the more money you can put in. I've done the first one for you today. Do the others with your husband. When you look back after years, you will know how much happiness you've both shared.'

She shared this with him after getting home. Both of them thought it was a great idea and couldn't wait to make the next deposit! This is what the passbook looked like after a while:

- 7 Feb: $100, his first birthday celebration after marriage

- 1 Mar: $300, she gets a salary raise

- 20 Mar: $200, vacation to Bali

- 15 Apr: $2000, She's pregnant!

- 1 Jun: $1000, He gets the big promotion

and so on...

However, as the years went by, they began fighting and arguing over trivial things. They didn't talk much. They regretted that they had married the most nasty person in the world...There was no more love.

One day she talked to her Mother. 'Mom, we can't stand it anymore. We have decided to divorce. I can't imagine how I decided to marry this guy!'

Her mother replied, 'Sure, that's no big deal. Just do whatever you want, if you really can't stand it. But before that, do one thing. Remember the savings passbook I gave you on your wedding day? Take out all money and spend it first. You shouldn't keep any record of such a poor marriage.'

She agreed with her. So she went to the bank, and was waiting in the queue to cancel the account. While she was waiting, she took a look at the passbook record. She looked, and looked, and looked. Then the memory of all the previous joyful moments came back to her. Her eyes were filled with tears. She left and went home.

When she got home, she handed the passbook to him and asked him to spend the money before getting divorced.

So the next day, he went to the bank, and was waiting in the queue to cancel the account. While he was waiting, he took a look at the passbook record. He looked, and looked, and looked. Then the memory of all the previous joyful moments came back to him. His eyes were filled with tears. He left and went home.

He gave the passbook back to her. She found a new deposit of $5000. And a line next to the record: 'This is the day I realized how much I've loved you throughout all these years. How much happiness you've brought me.'

They hugged and cried, putting the passbook back into the safe.

Hope you, who visit this site will enjoy this story. (':
Shall end here now, updates on the events of my life soon!