Birthday Lunch @ Ice Edge Cafe

Finally a day to sleep in late and that's because it's my birthday! :) 

Birthday #OOTD. Wearing back one of my romper from Love Bonito.

We set off to the birthday lunch venue around 12+pm. It's just a few MRT station away so we reached there by 1pm. The other time, I was at that area for Brunch @ Lola's Cafe. Both cafes are really near to each other and I've been wanting to come back to try Ice Edge Cafe since there's a hype about it too. Especially the waffles!

Ice Edge Cafe is located just a few minutes walk from Kovan MRT station. 

Btw, they don't open for brunch but instead from lunch time onwards. 

The mains' menu. 

Their desserts and drinks menu.

Interior of the cafe.

We went there on a weekday lunch and this cafe attracts working adults to dine in there and also students who came in for their waffle ice cream fix! It was quite packed but there's seats for us.

They are having 1 for 1 mains under their weekday lunch promotion. When the waitress inform us, I was quite surprise and at the same time it do made my trip there more worthwhile. Now I seems to know why the working adults and students will head there for lunch. It's totally worth it!

We wanted to order 2 same type of mains but were persuaded by the manager not to. This is so that we can try a variety of food from them. We were both lovers of seafood aglio olio but in the end we only ordered 1 of this to share and also another mains.

Seafood Aglio Olio Spaghetti - 16.80

Their Seafood Aglio Olio tastes really good! Somehow I can't cook till this standard leh. Derp and I keep tasting and thinking what actually do they put into it to make it so yum.

My birthday date :)

Another mains which we ordered is the Pesto Cream Chicken - $17.80

Pesto Cream Chicken is one of their signature dish too. The Pesto sauce compliments well with the chicken.

Mandatory shot! 

I can't finish it in the end and got to share with Derp. That's because I did took some of his seafood aglio olio to eat beforehand lol. The potato wedges are really very filling. 

We were thinking of giving the dessert a miss but ice cream waffles is their signature dish. I will feel that I've never been there if I never order the ice cream waffle. 

We sat down and rest awhile before we went to order our desserts. The ice cream waffles are to be ordered from the counter and you get to try the flavors first before confirming your order. 

Lots of flavors to choose from! 

We decided on a scoop of ice cream on the waffle. Good enough since we were already quite full and we reckon we should have waffle to go with the ice cream. We often feel really cold after eating just ice cream itself so mixing it with hot waffle seems to be a better choice.

So pretty! Can't bear to eat. We ordered the Hershey's flavour ice cream if I never remember wrongly. Costs around 10 bucks.

A photo with my Derp. Substitute the birthday cake for the ice cream waffle. 

We walked around Kovan area before we head to take train to NEX for our movie date. A rare weekday movie date! :)  Can't help but to shop for some necessities for the house whenever we are outside nowadays and there's tonnes of stuff at Kovan! 

We caught Fury. A show starring Brad Pitt! It's a not bad show but it has a sad ending,. :(

Last photo taken with Derp before our movie commence.

I'll definitely go back to have their waffles again. But not their main dish because without the 1 for 1 promotion, it's really expensive. So best time to go is during weekday lunch!

Ice Edge Cafe

Operating Hours: 12pm-12am Daily

Address:

2 Kovan Road,

Simon Plaza, #01-10,

Singapore 548008

Telephone No : 6858 5729

I was reminded that it was my first birthday as Mrs Goh.

Thanks you Derp for keeping me happy the whole day and it's been really long since we go out on a date so carefree-ly. Without having to rush home to do all the household chores and etc. I ended my birthday with a 1 hour yoga. It's  definitely rejuvenating enough to get some stretch on your birthday. :)

That's all for my birthday post. Hope it didn't bore you too much after reading this.

Crossing my fingers to complete a blog post regarding HDB BTO renovation really soon. December is coming really soon, shall talk about the goals for the last month of the year soon too!

The celebration of another year older..

When I was 15/16 back then, I've this small little wish which I kept to myself and the wish is about getting married at 25. As I grew older, I never think that much anymore because as you grow older, you know getting married is a really BIG thing( It wasn't as easy as I think it will be, shall not go into details). 

And then thinking back to myself, I really did got myself married off at the age of 25 (to be exact 9 months before I turned 26) 

Never did I knew that the little wish I made when I was young came true. Got married to my soul mate, gotten our own crib, what more can I asked for? Probably good health, and everyone around me to be safe and happy always :)

Anyway, when Derp asked me what do I want to do on my birthday this year, I can't really think of anything. It's only till the week before that I finally decided on something. I was thinking along the line of keeping it low and simple. 

I just wish to have a quiet birthday, not going to somewhere crowded and even if it means spending the full day inside our new crib I'm okay. The thought of taking leave and doing nothing somehow make me feel I'm wasting time so I decided to do something in the end.

But oh well, I'll blog about my 26th birthday celebration in another post because this post is about my birthday presents this year! hahaha! 

We went to collect my presents the weekend before my birthday. So my presents came early! yay! 

A shot with my presents!

A #flatlay of it. 

All of them were from taobao! Weeks before my birthday I told Derp I will add my birthday presents into his cart and he will check out for me hahaa! And if you have realized, all of them are cooking/baking related. I'm into baking with air fryer lately and I can't find a proper muffin holder in my new kampung. 

Taobao has many cupcakes/muffin design! I had a good time looking at them on taobao. and not forgetting, the Rilakkuma apron which  Derp got for me. I didn't had a apron and when I wash stuff, I always splash myself. I came to realized I should do something which is to wear a apron whenever I cook.

Ta dah! Wore my apron that night to cook :):) Pardon for the sports attire!  

Derp got me a cake and we cut it when the clock strikes 12 midnight that day. My first birthday in the new crib! The feeling is very different. It's like marking the start of a new life, independent life I will call it. 

Very yummy cookies and cream cake from Prima Deli 

He look like he's going to set the whole place on fire lol. 

Me getting ready to pose with the cake..

Yay! 

Trying to take a shot together with the cake and Rilakumma but fail.

A good enough shot :) 

Another year older in the new crib, just the 2 of us. Nothing much I can ask for hence my birthday wish this year is pretty simple. Shall not say out if not it won't come true haha!

Thanks Derp for being there by my side on my birthday like you always do. Not a need for fanciful celebration or presents, your presence is more than enough. Celebrating it in our new crib is meaningful enough.

Stay tune to my actual day birthday celebration but don't expect any exciting posts because it's simply another dating day :):)

Genki Sushi @ Orchard Central

Back to eat Genki Sushi #likefinally! 

Derp and I have been wanting to go back there even though we've been there once. We passed by that area twice to settle our wedding banquet venue but didn't no chance to eat this because the queue is forever soooo long :( 

On this rare Friday night after collecting my GE racepack, it was a impromptu decision to meet Derp there for dinner because I went to get some stuffs from F21. 

We were okay to just sit at the counter top seats this time round because we were too hungry and have been craving for this for very long. 

Since I've blogged about this place before, I shall not go much into details. 

Grilled salmon. 

There's even fatty salmon/tuna nowadays. And they really name in that way and it means thicker meat lol. It's not really cheap though, 3-5 bucks for one single piece of fatty salmon sushi. We do see people ordering it even though it's on the price-er side.

Black pepper cheese salmon sushi - Very yum as usual.

Chwanmushi - They are very generous with the ingredients. 

Beancurd Skin Sushi - one of Derp's favourite which I can't really appreciate but still eat it. To me it's just pure carbo lol. 

Smoked Salmon - I think the mayo is a little too much. I couldn't recognise what it is and even thought they gave me the wrong order.

The standard stuff Derp will order. Fish egg sushi! 

Spicy tuna sushi! 

Ordered the black pepper cheese crab meat to try for fun. It taste not bad though I still prefer the salmon one. 

Genki Sushi has been one of those sushi restaurants which I don't mind going back again and again because of it's affordable pricing and a place where I seek for comfort food :) Not forgetting the food is delivered to you by 'car'. :) 

GENKI SUSHI ORCHARD CENTRAL 

181 Orchard Road, #03-32, Orchard Central 

GENKI SUSHI CHINATOWN POINT 

133 New Bridge Road 

#02-33 Chinatown Point

Great Eastern Women's Run 2014

The race pack collection was held 2 weeks before the race day. 

Karen and I went on the first day of racepack collection to collect our racepack and thankfully we met our big boss on our way out. He sent us to town area and we reached there around 6pm. But by then, the queue was already forming up. 

Very very long queue! 

By the time we gotten our race pack, it was already 7pm. Can't imagine if we took public transport, we would have reached later and gotten our race pack even later. We were totally famished by then.

Before we dashed off for our own programs on a Friday night, we met Ying Tian who was on duty that day. She's the official pacer for 21km! 

With the ever so fit Ying Tian. Looking forward to visit her house when it's done by this month! 

Since there was no queue for the photobooth, we quickly took some photos at the instant photobooth before we leave. 做个纪念！ 

Didn't know there's 4 shots in the print out, we had a hard time thinking of poses lol!

My bib and race singlet. Love the singlet to max.

My 2nd year joining the Great Eastern Women's Run and nope I don't have the courage to join the half marathon yet, especially after Sundown 2014. 

I might just try for another half marathon next year but hopefully I have the time to train for it. *cross fingers* if not it will be a painful experience again! Really is 自讨苦吃! 

Last year's GEWR meant a lot to me because it was my first ever 10km in my life. First time in my life I ever run so far. 

#achievementunlocked because I have problems running 2.4km after I graduate from secondary school. Logically speaking after 16 years old. Back then I used to run 13 minutes for 2.4km but gone were those stamina. 

This year GEWR, I was aiming to reach the starting point early but there was no cab at my new kampung! So plan failed. I reached just minutes before the flag off time. I have to rush off to a wedding lunch after that hence I hoped to finish ASAP but listening to my body is still the priority.

Mandatory shot taken by Derp before I get into the start pen.

Beautiful sunrise which greeted the runners.

Minutes before crossing the start line. 

I managed to squeeze into the 2nd wave off crowd which flag off around 7 minutes later. Sad that I didn't reach early because I was planning to run with the pacers. I can only count on my runkeeper to keep myself in check to make sure I keep a constant pace. 

The pacers were in my line of sight after I run 1km or so. They soon become my motivation to catch up with so that I can run along side with them. Afterall, they started 7 minutes earlier than me, it's not easy to catch up. 

Though it was raining for the first few km, I'm glad it was a cooling run before the sun came out. Last year, it rained throughout the marathon.

I was running at 6.36km/hour for the first 5km. There were 4 water points in total and I skipped the first, take a few sips at second point, skipped the third and drank a few sips at the fourth. 

Kuddos to the sufficient water point but I came to realize my body could not take in too much isotonic drinks during marathon so best is I don't drink too much. What's more I felt that I should have gone to the washroom before the race, All the mobile toilets along the race route have long queues! I can only 忍 and get it over and done with. 

The route were exactly the same as last year. So I more or less expect what's going to happen. After all the slopes and looping around, I start to get tired and ran at 7km/hour. I'm glad I managed to maintain this speed all the way till the end. 

Soon enough I saw the 9km signage, I finally met the 1 hour 20 minutes pacer and over took them. They were carrying the orange balloons and somehow it makes me easier to find my own running photos on social media from photographers who where taking photos. 

It's always best to use the balloons to identify yourself in the few hundreds pictures taken during the marathon! Never easy to slowly scan through them and find yourself. So that's another good point of following the pacers.

I was smiling when I know I broke my own personal best when I was into my last km. Despite how tired/breathless I am,  I pushed myself through and yay to a new personal best of 1 hour 11 mins! 

This was my first marathon after a good 3 months break (my last run was Shape Run). 

Smiling happily with my new achievement and 1 more medal to my collection.

Thank you Derp for waiting for me and constantly encouraging me! I've done you proud with my new PB :)

With Karen who completed her 21km. We spot each other before we contact each other. 

The offical timing :)

I started to train 3 months back by clocking 8km per week, then I increased to 10km and then to 12km. It was when my feet start to hurt, I went back to clocking 10km. I'm glad to recover before GEWR and on the week of GEWR, I clocked around 4.5km and off I go! 

I hope to continue clocking this amount of mileage (no matter how busy I am) and slowly increase before my next half marathon (if there is). It's not easy for me to squeeze time out to run more than 10km a week, I wonder how some people do it! 

But oh well, when there's a well there's a way and usually it meant give up your precious sleep on weekend to clock that mileage.

Great Eastern Women Run is the only local race that offers free marathon photos! I'm really thankful for that because I really love the pictures they took for me :) First time I look good during running because in the past, my face is either stone/sian/blackmood and they were all captured on the camera -_-".

Looks like I last minute twist to the camera lol. 

Super like this one that I set it as my display pic! I adjust the lighting a bit and ta dah this photo is perfect :) 

This picture also not bad!  Because I look serious and I clearly remember it was at the last few hundred metres dash to the ending point. There were many cameras pointing at you and I just look in their direction.

GEWR have since been added to my complusory run every year so cya next year! I do hope I will be running the 21km next year because the blue Adidas finisher tee is something which I aim to get since ages ago :) 

You can find your own official photos of GEWR2014 at Marathon-Photos. Key in your bib number and the system will return those pictures that have your bib number. Once again, thank you for the free photos! 

Below are photos from Running Shots.

I look very shag here lol. And that's what I meant  by the orange balloons(carried by the pacers) being a good 'bookmark' for me to find my own photos throughout the whole album.

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I was probably looking out for the finishing point. 

I went back and compare my marathon photos with last year's race.

I seriously think I look better now. Gone were my baby fats although there's still some which just seems to be harder to get rid off. I swear my weight didn't drop a lot since last year's race, probably 2kg or lesser. 

With constant exercise, one definitely look toner and leaner :) 3 more weeks to the last race of the year. Praying to break my own record and achieve another PB! It's the last race of the year, I will enjoy it to the fullest and time for my legs to take a break after that.

Good luck and all the best to everyone running SCMS 2014!