Tiong Bahru

Tiong Bahru - a quaint and quiet place, perhaps due to intermittent rain and the fact that it was a Wednesday afternoon. Despite being one of the oldest housing estates in Singapore, Tiong Bahru is quite a hipster place, with art galleries, bookstores and many, many cafes.

Xin Hui and I decided to explore this unfamiliar territory (as I like to name any place that I haven't been to). There are soooo many cafes to choose from, and we finally decided to have our lunch at Forty Hands. Thankfully the rain stopped after we stepped out of the cafe, and we took photos of the back alleys of Tiong Bahru. And also I gave in to my sweet tooth and had a lemon meringue tart.

Also I was probably having sort of an "off-day" that day, where my brain just decided to be sub-functional, as I forgot my good old nifty-fifty and my camera battery ran out pretty soon (bless the spare battery). Nevertheless, it was a great afternoon with great food to fill our tummies, as well as looking at those retro-looking buildings :)

We were greeted by these interesting staircases.

Lunch at Forty Hands. The Eggs Benedict were gooooood, while the truffle fries were pretty normal tasting in my opinion.

Stumbled upon BooksActually. Love the whole vibes of the place, and I held back my impulse to buy many books heh. Also, they have a cat inside! How cute :)

Some sort of Community Garden aka you have your own garden where you can plant as many plants as you want. Goals? Yes totally.

My fellow cafe-eater/explorer Xin Hui

The Almost-Symmetry.

More staircases.

All the trees. /inserts heart eyes/

Rounding up the afternoon's little wandering session with this lemon meringue tart. It was yummmm.

And that's it for this short post. Finding time to meet up with friends certainly isn't easy nowadays, as we all have taken on part-time jobs which require us to work late into the night, hence scheduling wise is quite difficult. Anyway. Since I'm digressing from what I've said above, let me digress even more. I'll be getting back my A Levels results next Friday!!! How nerve-wrecking, though I've been staying rather calm. Maybe the nerves will really hit me as the day comes closer. All right. Really ending the post now :)

Till the next time,

Elsa

February Photo Diary

Hello guys!

Sorry for the inactivity on here, once again. Short update from me: February hasn't exactly been exciting, and I've been thinking of a way to make my blog posts slightly different from the usual ones. Hence, I decided to reuse an old idea/format which I've used last June. To document a month with photos.

All right, let's dive straight into the photos. :)

Wandering around the city area with Xin Hui. This is the "back alley" between some high-rise buildings of SMU. 

That touristy shot of Raffles Hotel.

Walked to The South Beach and explored the place a bit. Really interesting architecture there.

Xin Hui wanted a photo of her hair /inserts laugh-cry emoji/

Somewhere in Bugis.

Medium rare beef burger and some unagi sushi, feat passionfruit lavender and strawberry basil. The sushi was really good.

First day of the Year of Monkey. Here's a photo of my sister and me doing her favourite pose :)

Introducing my new raccoon keychain! Yet to name it/him/her, but it's so adorable /squeals/

Mom capturing me in my natural habitat (grassy places) doing my thing (taking photos)

The Star Vista!

Hollad Village exploration.

The view from Mount Faber.

The Interlace!

More raccoon hehehe.

And this is the end of this post. Hope to update soon with the rest of the photos from the rest of February, in a separate post :)

Elsa