Seing Sunrise

It's minutes before 7AM Osaka time, the sun was rising. We were up in the air, approaching the city after leaving home hours earlier. The flight was not long, it was about 6 hours only, but it was during my sleeping time. It is nice, however, to arrive at 8:30 AM in the destination and start a new day there. By the time we get to the hotel and get our room, it's almost lunch time! It's still a long journey after all.

Lunch At La Luna Rossa

DH took me to an Italian restaurant that I had never been at Scotts Square, called La Luna Rossa. I guess he likes the food there, hence wanted me to experience them too. Both of us ordered from their Classic Lunch Set. Here there are:

For me, first course: Grilled green asparagus, prosciutto, parmigiano, poached egg

Second Course: “Gratinato” Marche style oven-baked prawn and barramundi with bread crumbles 

Dessert: Fig compote, spiced red wine granite

DH's first course: Tuna and avocado tartar with wasabi, herb salad. (extra $5 for this selection!)

Pasta, of course!

 

Tiramisu (I must say, of course too!)

Wait

Sometimes we all need to wait a bit before we get too upset or too excited over something. Sometimes we need to wait for a little bit more before starting speaking up and we will be able to filter the words that are going to come out of our mouth so that they do not have to hurt so bad to others. Optimists say things will get better.

The hardest part of this is the wait. as we tend to get too emotional and forget that occasionally we need to wait. Maybe practice will make it better if not perfect. And keep on hoping that things will get better.

Peace

That's what I want today. That's what I want everyday. I know that we can't always have everything we want and we have to accept that things do not always go the way we want to. 

Serenity Prayer:

God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
forever in the next.
Amen.

-- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

Mixed Garden Salad

We went to La Nonna for dinner last night, right after we attended the evening mass. I don't typically order this Mixed Garden Salad but I wanted to venture into something that I had never been before. This salad has plenty of leaves, which I love. It also had tuna, capers, olives and cherry tomatoes among others. It's not something I normally have at home and it tasted delicious. In the menu, this salad was named Insalata Della Nonna. Cool name!

Deja Vu : CoCo

We went to Curry House CoCo  Ichibanya again and not knowingly, both DH and I, ordered the same dish that we had before. I guess we are very predictable! I had Chicken Katsu Curry above, with smaller rice and DH had Fried Chicken Curry, except this time, he ordered vegetables with it. The food were good and inexpensive, CoCo is a place that we love to go back once in a while.

From Saturday Walk....

Last Saturday, when the country was buzzing with F1 event that was taking place, I decided to join DH on his evening fast walk. The route was the usual one, all the way along the river to the Fullerton Hotel and back. It was quite a pleasant to do so, although it was a little hard to walk fast because in some parts, there were larger crowds. Only towards the very end we were able to run home.

Near Fullerton Hotel, there were gates set up for people that were watching the race. 

I took some pictures around the around using my iPhone. I have fallen in love with the quality of pictures that I have using iPhones, they may not be super best, but they are good enough. The picture below is Cavenagh bridge, right by Fullerton Hotel.

Lunch At Sushi Tei

We always in need for eating as little unhealthy food as possible. It was non-meat Friday, I thought Salad would be ideal and some fish would good. I suggested Sushi Tei because I like their Sesame dressing on the salad. We shared Mini Unagi rolls and some slices of Salmon Sashimi.

DH decided to order rice with Kakiage which kind of ruined my plan a bit, the plan to stay away from fried food as I helped him eating some of his dish. 

Red Ruby

Here's one of my favorite local desserts that I normally get when I eat in the nearby food court. It's Red Ruby, served with shaved ice and green pandan pearl jellies (Sago) and drizzled with coconut milk and syrup. I had it over at lunch time earlier this week. Yum!

Absolute Thai In JPO

We went to Johor Premium Outlets (yes, in Malaysia) to see what we can see and to buy what we wanted to buy. We heard of it, read about it and were simply curious to know how it was. We went to those in the USA and the prices are quite nicely discounted.

 

This post is about the lunch we had when we were there. There was a food court and some restaurants, but we picked this Absolute Thai. It has a branch in Somerset, Singapore as well. Again, we ordered our usual dishes. They offered a mixed appetizer, a plate of fish cake, spring rolls, etc. We also had a bowl of Green Curry Chicken.

We also had Pad Thai, which looked really wet and not too good-looking, but it was alright, and a vegetable dish.

A plate of Fried Rice with Chicken Wing was ordered for Mr. Dx, who is not a fan of spicy food and a enormous fan of chicken. Everyone was full, everyone was pleased and we then continued shopping.