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We had our Valentines dinner at Villa Danielli…it was our first time trying a Valentines Day set…usually, I’m deadset (no pun intended!) against it cause it’s overpriced and will probably be sub-standard food…but hey, never try, never know…right? Well, by the end of dinner, I was proven right…hehe…the food was nothing to shout about, seriously…but we still had a good time despite that (and despite the one and a half hour traffic jam we had to go through to get from Citi to Sheraton Hotel, my rapidly deteriorating, or rather, increasing, fever, the waiters getting the serving order all wrong, the food taking forever to arrive…!)…cause the important thing was that we were spending the day together. All together now…awww….*cringe*…*grin*

The ladies were all given a small rose corsage…

And we were also given a goodie bag from Crabtree and Evelyn containing…

…urmm….body cream, shaving cream and vouchers…

Bread basket

Warm Carpaccio of salmon marinated with pomegrate and small up of fig consomme

Tender ravioli bocconcini mozzarella with cappers and leeks

Dice of baked cod fish, with saffron potatoes and clams

Fennel sorbet

Roasted lamb cutlet with grilled asparagus and raisin sauce

Sweet & Bitter love (I seriously cringed when I read the menu…)

Got a lovely surprise at the office in the morning…a bouquet of roses and lilies…=)) The flowers were just blooming, so I waited for two days before taking photos…

Pink roses…

And my favourite lilies!

My Valentine-entry ended up having so many photos that I had to split it into a couple of posts…*grin*

So…Valentines Eve…

My pressie to him: A dark brown Raoul shirt for nights out, wrapped up in ribbons and curls!

And his pressie to me…a Folli Follie charm bracelet that I was planning to buy for myself…=)) I’d shown it to him once, didn’t expect him to have remembered…but he did!

Getting better day by day. I spent the last three days sleeping, eating meds, sleeping, eating porridge, sleeping. Oh, and drinking lots and lots of water. And now, I think my body is actually rebelling against water, porridge and sleep. Is there such a thing as too much water? Cause as soon as I take a few glugs of water, I feel like throwing up. Ugh. As for sleep…I can’t remember the last time I woke up at 8am on a Sunday morning and felt so awake! I think this bout of illness stemmed from all the late nights and unhealthy eating that I’ve been putting my body through since the last week of December last year till the recent Chinese New Year.

My voice is still hoarse, and I’m still coughing, but thank god the sore throat has more or less disappeared (and didn’t progress into an ear infection, phew!). Parents and hubby have been incredible…taking me to the doctor, cooking and bringing over meals for me, sms-ing me frequently…and thanks Jac, Matt, K, L, M, J & AudiTT for wishing me a speedy recovery!! And I got a surprise gift from hubby last night…I think he must’ve felt so bad seeing me sleeping the whole day, watching reruns of reruns (!!!), unable to eat anything except plain bread, porridge and soup…that he got me a handheld Sudoku game…haha…no kidding! Though he did insist that it was to be shared…*grin* It was hard, though, having to drink plain soup while watching him wolfing down a delicious plate of Mdm Kwan’s Nasi Bojari *drool drool*…but it’s O.K. I’ll have plenty of chances to eat all my fav foods once I’m back to normal…=))

And I’ve been sadly neglecting this blog…although my original list of 11 items have been reduced to…sigh…8…and now I have another few more to add:

1. CNY trip to Ipoh (gambling sessions, cheap and good dinner at Yam Yam, dinner at Indulgence, Y2K)
2. Gambling session @ WS’s
3. Dinner with hubby’s uni friends
4. Review of Fearless
5. Review of Pride and Prejudice
6. Review of In Her Shoes
7. Review of Sukhotai
8. Review of I-Dragon
New:
9. Valentines Day 2006
10. Review of New Paris
11. Upcoming trip to Banyan Tree, Bintan & The Scarlet Hotel, Singapore to celebrate hubby’s 30th (YES! 30th!) birthday…
12. Office stuff

Time! I need more time!!

…ie. ME!

THAT has been my daily meal for the past, oh…3 days?!? Not that I’m complaining…I love porridge with steamed meat (no seriously, I’m not being sarcastic…I do. like it!). What started off as a mild fever and dry cough quickly progressed into a full blown fever, flu, cough and sore throat. Have you ever tried coughing while having a sore throat? N.O.T. fun. The fever and flu seems to have bid adieu for now, but the sore throat is refusing to leave! I’ve been drinking tons and tons of water, but it’s so bad that even drinking water hurts, much less eating soft soft porridge. And this totally sucks because not only I’ve been on medical leave for the past two days (trust me, if you had a sore throat this bad, you’d rather exchange it for two days of work!!), I’ve missed a colleagues’ birthday dinner and outing (and so did hubby…although I insisted that he go, he insisted he came home and be with me instead…hmm…one sick person vs one completely healthy person, guess who won?!?) and and and…..we’re supposed to be going off for hubby’s birthday getaway this coming Tuesday, which is why I’m desperately trying everything to get myself better, no…fully well….by then! Argh!!