Shopping in a 4 storey Forever 21, chilling at Orchard Central's rooftop garden & baking cookies!

Just came back after a weekend getaway in Singapore. Perfect remedy for weekday stress! But very very… very BAD strain on the pockets. Spent a bomb on shopping again. Sigh.

It’s really ironic how I told myself that this year’s Chinese New Year clothes shopping is only going to be on a miniscule level.

But just when I thought I could stick to that, I completely blew it when I touched down in Singapore – Double sigh. Bought a pair of stone-washed skinny jeans from Topshop, not the usual blue denim tones but black instead. Walked into River Island for the 1st time and discovered it was quite a big hit in Singapore!

Walked out with more purchases ouch!

I bought meself a high-waisted skirt in Topshop simply because I fell in love with the colors. No shades of red this time but one with a deep purple and blue contrasts. Pretty!

Yes I know the price tags are dangling -_-

Cotton On was next, bought myself a bodycon print skirt from there.

Walked PAST Forever 21 and withstood the temptation of entering as I knew it was my danger zone. Completely off limits for me unless I want to fall in a pool of debt or end up stripped for cash. No sirree! But I failed big time in Somerset 313.

There was 4 levels of Forever 21 goodies there!

pic from rockthetrend

4 levels of Forever 21
4 levels of Forever 21
4 levels of Forever 21
4 levels of Forever 21
4 levels of Forever 21
Imagine, 4 storeys of lovelies suited for the fashionista in you.
Gosh!

But what was SO MUCH BETTER was the rooftop garden at Orchard Central! Baby brought me up there all the way to the *can’t remember which floor* but it was the highest one. From there, we overlooked Orchard and all the high-rise condominiums around its vicinity

This is us trying to snap a decent picture at the balcony overlooking the city. Angle’s perfect, color is fine and whatnot but look what ruined the photo completely :

I became a man with a macho moustache
-_-

As we wandered deeper and around the rooftop garden, we came by a wall which reminds me of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The entire wall was enveloped with lush greeneries and potted flowers and other plants!

Us by the not-so-concrete-anymore wall

There were lotsa restaurants there and some which I reckon is fine dining, considering the impeccable setup as well. Indoor water features include mini fountains with lillies inside! There was also a playground at the rooftop garden with bright colorful statues:

Trying to squeeze ourselves into the picture with the playground!

Other days of the week was spent baking cookies. Yup! I’ve got a keen interest in baking cookies already. In fact, I’ve begun to harbour the love for baking delicious morsels last year. The only setback was that I never owned an oven to burn down the house nor experiment with.

See the gingerbread man wannabe?
*coughs*

The recipe we used was the one I looked up on Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies, sans the pecans as YingZi’s pre-braces condition disallowed her to crunch on hard bites. Anyway, it was long and grueling to mix the entire batch of batter together – thanks to the oatmeal & semi-melted chocolate!

We didn’t have a blender in the house so no blended oatmeal!
It just adds the extra crunch to it once it’s fully baked 🙂

I buttered the baking tray and off we put it into the oven. The smell was extremely invigorating! Ya know, that chocolatey fresh-from-the-oven smell you get whenever someone’s baking?

Yup that’s the one 🙂 But let’s just hope it tastes as good as it smells!

We couldn’t wait to sink our teeth in those loves!

After less than 20 minutes and laid down to cool,
it was ready to be eaten!

Yes I know, it doesn’t look too fancy-pancy or neatly rounded with perfectly proportioned corners. It’s irregular, lop-sided, mishapen but call it whatever you want, it’s your TASTEBUDS that takes control 🙂

So shut your eyes and open your mouth wide

we loved it!
So did YingZi’s mom 🙂

I had it for the next morning’s breakfast, the following day’s breakfast and even during the journey back to Malaysia! Wanted to bring some for my friends to try ’em but it was all swarmed by ants the very next morning as I stole some for midnight snacks but forgot to shut the lid FML

Anyway, I had a fab time in Singapore!
Loves 🙂

Didn’t bring my DSLR this time because the luggage was enough to drag a horse down. So this is technically my 1st holiday without bringing a camera.

But no sweat, baby bought me this very novel Nikon camera necklace-charm with blings on it! Love it lots, really special (although it can’t take real photos) ! Never seen it anywhere before.

Now I can still lug a DSLR around even when I’m not carrying my real DSLR with me 🙂

SMILE!
You’re on candid camera 🙂

Posted

25/01/2010

Fashion, Food, My Cookbook, Nature/Flora & Fauna, Shopping Hauls, Travels/Holidays

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33 responses to “Shopping in a 4 storey Forever 21, chilling at Orchard Central's rooftop garden & baking cookies!”

MKL

27/01/2010

What a cute post, Jess. I really enjoy following your life. You're definitely one of my fav blogs. Even if I had to stop following 90% of blogs, I wouldn't stop following you. Hope I won't be too busy to follow my fav blogs, but who knows. Yours is my priority. And I hope one day you and your baby can stay together and wait… I hear some bells ringing.. 😛 Who knows, but hope you'll have much more posts about you two this year. I like those a lot 🙂

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§pinzer

27/01/2010

You know I said to get a smaller camera, i didn't actually mean THAT small XD

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stephy-nie

27/01/2010

LOL kesian the ginger man. terbakar liao XD

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Josh

27/01/2010

Hee, I had fun with you too hon. Why do the good times always go through so fast… >_<

Gingerbreadman's cousin, Chocolatechipman being kidnap by the ants already? XP

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peterpan

27/01/2010

bells or no bells yet, we faithful followers dfnately wil b on yr guestlist, rite? n i know wat 2 get u guys, d latest oven in d mrket so dat u two cn bake famous ajes cookies til death do us apart…wow! me getin al musshy d

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~ ♥ J E SS I C A . T

28/01/2010

MKL
yup! hope i'll stick to my new year resolution! hahahaha to blog about my private life more. and so far, i know im keeping to it 😛 thanks for being so supportive at all times <3

Spinzer
ready? 1.. 2… 3.. SMILE!! oh wait, this camera doesnt take pictures 😛

Josh
hehe mwah! yeaaa how sad right! and chrisdudu n fong mei never got to taste it T______T

peterpan
ahahhahahah why getting so domesticated! ahahahah not going to get married so fast! gila! im only 21 babehhh ahhaahaahha

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choonhong

28/01/2010

long time no visit here. 🙁

the small nikon makes me recall the digital lomo(real camera though),and i think the size is almost the same with this.

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~ ♥ J E SS I C A . T

28/01/2010

come back more oftennnnnnnn 🙂 dun hilang hehe. wtf REAL LOMO CAMERA THAT SIZE! super cool! Where was it bought/sold!?

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cwee

28/01/2010

It's been a long time never visit here too..been offline ever since my last post..haha…now I'm back with a new post…make ur way there..and btw, heart the small NIKON….

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choonhong

28/01/2010

i saw it once when ppl posted in lowyat forum, the name of the camera = minimo ?

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Emeryn

28/01/2010

I like the first dress, the 1 with white top and red bottom. Look very nice on you too!

Does the cookie really taste like famous amos? I'm also baking cookies, but it's for CNY. More to bake netx weekend onwards. >.<

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~ ♥ J E SS I C A . T

28/01/2010

cwee
haha okay come back more often then 🙂 LOL thanks! i love the tiny nikon too! whee

choonhong
woots! its as small a the names sounds! 🙂 u should buy it and impress some chicks *winks* ahahahha

Emeryn
hehe thanks! Not childish meh? I felt so wor 😛 but it's cute la no doubt hehe. Hmmm well.. unfortunately it doesnt taste entirely like Famous Amos but the similarities are there though 🙂 good luck for ur cookie baking! Make me pineapple tarts LOL

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Nikel Khor

28/01/2010

wah..so so so sweet d..

from Nikel Khor

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~ ♥ J E SS I C A . T

28/01/2010

haahahhahh believe it or not it has always been that way. I just never/hardly blog about my personal life. but since it's on my new year resolution list, I SHALL! ^_^

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TerrickCEF

28/01/2010

why do simple chinese guy get a very beautiful angle like you. but malay simple guy cant get a beautiful angle like you

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~ ♥ J E SS I C A . T

28/01/2010

Heh thanks fer d kind words, but I'm not anywhere near a beautiful angel! Hahaha 🙂 and lol what's w the simple malay guy sddnly? Tak faham wor hehe

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Chris Thoo

28/01/2010

jess = demonic being….

best proof is the black gingerbread man…….jeng jeng jeng….

jess is the most beautiful angle…

jess bagaikan bucu yang tercantik sekali……

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Josh

28/01/2010

Mr Terrick, so I must look like a Hollywood star only can I get a beautiful 'angle' like her is it?

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Elaine New

29/01/2010

LOVE the necklace! =)

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~ ♥ J E SS I C A . T

29/01/2010

Chris
ahahahah laugh at ppl's english summore! jahat. ahaahahh u ah 🙂 tsk tsk tsk

Josh
nono. bollywood star also can edi hunn. *shakes head bobbing up and down* HAHAHA

Elaine
thanks so much! I *heart* it lots too! 🙂

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ruebni

29/01/2010

okay yeah i'm ur silent reader bla bla bla.lol.anyways just felt like telling you that u look really nice without make up.noticed it in ur cookie making pics(tried my best not to sympathize that poor gingerbread man).teeheee.see i'm not so silent now!=P

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malaryx

30/01/2010

ya fully agree dat u look simply naturally radiant in the pix with burnt gingerbread man! Happiness is …. being wif someone u love.

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weijie

30/01/2010

FUAHHHH !!

hoped you enjoy your stay in SG and last long long with Josh niahaha .

😀

hope to see you soon (hopefully) !

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~ ♥ J E SS I C A . T

30/01/2010

rue
dat is really sweet of u to say that!! Gosh… thanks so much gurl. haha i guess sumtimes natural looks works well? hehe. Not all the time for me lah, cos i think i look hideous w/o make up on uglydays. 😛

malaryx
woww… being all poetrical. hehe. Thanks alot too 🙂 guess it was a good hair-day n good face-day for me only. on other days i wont look 'radiant' at all ahhahaha

Weijie
FUAH! hahahahah i definitely did enjoy my stay in SG. thanks fer ur well wishes, I do hope so too! ^_^ cya around

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goingkookies

12/02/2010

haha.. so cute ur lil nikon dslr!!

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1. Jessica Tan
  
  12/02/2010
  
  heeeeeee thanks! cute things come in tiny sizes! 😛
  
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tealtoxic

29/09/2010

wah, antar la sikit kuih hehe

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1. thejessicat
  
  29/09/2010
  
  very sedap u know!!??? hahahahaha
  
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lala

28/08/2011

where is the four levelled forever 21 located exactly? just wondering 🙂

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