Cinco de Mayo

This is a much overdue posting!  Ahhh Cinco de Mayo has come and gone and we made sure to celebrate the "holiday" the "American" way!  With much anticipation to this day, more so for me as there are only a handful of Mexican restaurants in Singapore and they are quite over priced, so we have waited for an excuse to have to eat Mexican for almost a year!  Nothing like a few good fajitas, tacos and carnitas to start of our May!!  Someday, I will need to open a taco bell or Taco del Mar or Chipotle here......it's got to make some $$$, I know that our friends would at least be our top customers!  Oh how I crave fast food Tex-Mex!

Jamie C, Jamie B, Me, Grant and Jon

Dinner was located at Viva Mexcio, which is an adorable shophouse restaurant!  Shophouses are the heritage buildings in Singapore. Most are about 100 years old and were once used as market shops with the owners living above there stalls.  They are so cute and hopefully, one day, Jamie and I can live in one!! Oh to dream!

Kasper, Jamie C and Jon

Me, Anya, Leanda and Roisin

tweedle dee and tweedle dum dum

CARNITA'S!!!!!!

Fajitas!!!

some tortilla thing.....

The restaurant shophouse!

Proctor BBQ and Birthday Celebration

This past weekend our close friends Jon and Anya hosted a wonderful housewarming BBQ and celebration for Jon's birthday.  They had recently moved from living in the central district to join the clan in the East Coast!  We love having them nearby, I think since they have moved in down the road we have used their pool more than ours, every time we go to their house, I feel like I am on holiday at a resort! 

The boys prepping the leg of lamb!

taking a break and cooling off, it was a HOT day!

Anya and I cooling our toes

the chefs!

Kyle, Sonia, Mat and Eka

hmmm the famous Small family chicken!!!! delish! 

Becky, Anya and Amanda

hmmm beef, its whats for dinner!

Roisin and Ian

Kasper and Mark

awww, the Booths 

the cutest dog ever! JD!!!!!

What a wonderful way to spend our Saturday afternoon/evening. As the night went on the crowd got a bit rowdy and well.....some great stories came out of this BBQ!  All I can say is.....Poor Grant!!!!

Happy birthday Jon and welcome to the East Coast Proctors! So happy to have you as neighbors!

Fashion week in Singapore

This past week has been a fashion flurry in Singapore, or so I hear.  I am not really into "fashion" but was invited to the RAOUL fashion party this past week and what a fun night it was.  I really wasn't sure what I had RSVP'd to, the actual runway show itself or the after party, either way I was excited to "experience" the fashion world for the first time. As it turned out, it was the after party that I got to attend, it was hosted by Audi and the room was filled with models, photographers and "celebrities," it was definitely a fun filled night with a group of girlfriends.  

Me, Gunelle, Kristin and Andree

posing with some MTV VJ that Gunelle recognized (I still need to google who this guy is)

Posing with Dominic from E! News Asia!!!  I didn't recognize him at first but when he introduced himself it clicked that I had seen him somewhere, I am addicted to the E! (Entertainment) Channel.  Right away I had a million questions to ask him, "do you know Ryan Seacrest?" "do you know Gulianna and Bill?" "Do you know the Kardashians??!?!?"  All of the answers were YES I do, I work with them!!!   After about 10 of my questions he got bored with me and walked on :)  haha love it!  What a fun night, hope to get to attend more of these!