New Year Celebration

Happy 2009 minasan!

Every year this time, I once again felt that time really flies. I'm sure many people felt the same too. 2008 started off not bad. Times were good, a lot of work done and appraisal from boss was very encouraging. Come end 2008, the financial market took another deep plunge and the expected bonus and wage increase went down the drain too... Very discouraging, I must say...

So once again, my gang (close friends from JC) celebrated NYE by having a crab dinner. We also did a NYE crab dinner a few years ago at No Signboard restaurant at Geylang. It was really fun. Friends of more than a decade, sitting down for a decent meal, occasionally reminiscing the yester-years, wine, laughter all night... I like that... :)

This year, Sista M and husband have decided that we all go to Seafood Paradize at Defu Lane 10. I heard many good reviews about this crab restaurant, especially for its Butter Cream crabs. So, my expection going into the restaurant grew even more. We had the usual starters like omelette and pork ribs and eventually the butter crabs and vermicelli crab came after a long 1 hr wait. Seriously, i think that to wait 1 hr for crabs is fucking absurd. However, i thought "fuck it", it's NYE dinner, so better not be diva and drop unwarranted comments. So the consensus was that the crabs are just fine... ok only. I felt that the chilli crab and black pepper crab i had at House of Seafood @ 180 Yio Chu Kang Rd was far better than this Defu Lane 10.

We then move on to a dessert place at Thomson Rd. I can't remember the name of this dessert place, but i think it got something to do with chocolate. I had the warm chocolate and a black coffee. Warm chocolate was nice. :) Thick, sweet and tasty. The coffee was abit too cold for my liking. I prefer coffee to be hot... boiling hot would be superb!

So that was it for NYE. As usual, it was nice and comforting to be with my gang again celebrating the turn of another year. Let's hope 2009 will be a good and healthy year for all! :)