On the Eve of CNY

Being away from home when I could be in M'sia eating my reunion dinner sucked but at least I had Mil and Chris to spend the night with. Initially planning to go down to Sunnybank for dinner, we changed it to the Laksa Hut at Toowong because it was nearer.

This time we were greedy and ordered 4 dishes when there was only 3 of us. As usual, we took plenty of photos (which I will upload when I get them), and had fun stuffing ourselves. Still, we couldn't finish everything. After the dinner, it was still early and we didn't want to go back. Hence I suggested walking down to Milton where we could get some dessert. I roughly knew the way by following the same route as 412 to the city. So we set off at a really slow pace since we were damn full and it was a really nice night to walk since there was a light breeze and the air was cool. We chatted along the way and it was all good until we took a wrong turn and lost our way. We ended up walking in a big circle and still not finding our way and we found ourselves at Singapura!!! We stopped to ask for directions at the pizza place there and then watched the lion dance troupe perform at Singapura. There were 2 lions and even some solo performances. Mil and Chris got very excited when they lit up fire crackers since they had not seen these before....so sua ku!!! Hahahahaha!!! Anyway, it was nice to watch again but even nicer if you got to light them yourself.

Yay our reunion dinner at Laksa Hut.

Too full to finish the food!!!

We continued our walk, following the directions given. Apparently we were about 2-3 km away from our destination but time passed very quickly and I could have walked for much longer in the cool weather. It was a pity Chris was wearing new sandals which were hurting her feet. We were ecstatic when we saw the "XXXX" sign which meant we were close and sure enough, we were finally on a road we recognised.

Initially we were just supposed to go for a cup of coffee but the ice-cream shop (Blue Lotus) was too inviting and we ended up getting a dessert each. Chris had the brownie, Mil had the mudcake while I just took 3 scoops of ice-cream (black sesame, apple and rose, super fudge). The brownie and mudpie were really rich but the 3 of us fell in love with the apple and rose sorbet. It was just so light, so fragrant, so delicious that you couldn't get enough of it. The servings were pretty huge and I hardly touched the super fudge which wasn't that good anyway. My favourites were green tea, black sesame and of course, the apple and rose! Since I couldn't finish my ice-cream and the other 2 didn't want to help me, I ended up playing with the melting ice-cream. Well I'll definitely want to go back for another serving of apple and rose sorbet one day.

So CNY eve wasn't too bad even though we were all far away from home and family. Still having good friends, good company and good conversations made the night very memorable and I wouldn't give anything to change it.

At the Blue Lotus with this strange aquarium-like floral display.

My 3 scoops of ice-cream: black sesame, apple and rose and super fudge at the bottom.

Mil's mudcake and I helped her polish off the green tea ice-cream since she didn't quite fancy it.

Chris's brownie with ice-cream, very very rich.

I was trying to make the yin-yang sign...quite nice isn't it?

Chris tried to make her own artistic creation with her leftovers.