It's about Italian #2

Spritz

Spritz is a wine-based cocktail which you can find in northern part of Italy. The drink is prepared with Prosecco wine, a dash of some bitter liqueur such as Aperol, Campari, Select or Cynar. The glass is then topped with sparkling water. It is usually served over ice and garnished a slice of orange or lemon.

It is a wildly popular drink in Italy especially in Veneto area. So if you happen to come to Italy, make sure you order yourself a glass of Spritz. Its price ranging from 1,50Euro to 3Euro depending on the restaurant you dine in. Normally it is served with tit-bits like potato crisps or sandwiches.

Speaking of the taste, it tastes like typical cocktail, not too alcoholic (about 11%), and with some orange sourish. 

The bright orange colour is tempting enough and it is actually the first drink I had in Italy. 

My boss introduced it to us in our very first dinner together. 

Some of the menu in the restaurant doesn't include Spritz in it but they do serve Spritz. 

So order a glass of Spritz and drink like a local! :D

Brownie and Brownbie #2

It was Friday so I was asking Brownbie if she wanna Skype because we have not been Skype-ing for more than 10 days due to her internship. She said yes so I made her to sleep first as we only Skype at 2am her time.
So at 2.08am her time (she is expected to be late haha) we started our conversation.
The Skype with her is always relaxing despite her sleepiness at first. haha
So we were chatting happily and..

Brownbie : eh do you know Pei Fen?
Me          : (thinking....yea I know one Pei Fen who is from Taiping but no way she will know her) Pei Fen?
                  Which 1?
Brownbie : noh..you know the Singapore FM 933, one of the famous DJ called Pei Fen?
Me           : Ooooo.. heard of that. Why leh?
Brownbie  : My supervisor said I resemble her leh. And she is the second 1 who said that. haha
Me           : Oooo really? Haha. Who was the first 1?
Brownbie  : My secondary school friend lor.
Me            : Hmm how to write her name in Mandarin? Let me Google and see. hehe
Brownbie   : noh.. the very common Pei Fen characters which you can think of lor.
Me            : very COMMON?  ooo the 'pei' with the 'dan ren pang' and the 'fang' with the 'cao zi tou'?
Brownbie   : Yep!
Me            : (Googled 佩芬 FM933)

                    oooo..not bad la. you reasonably resemble her. haha

So now I know how Pei Fen looks like. Thanks to Brownbie! haha

It's about Italian #1

After staying in Italy for 11 weeks, I think I shall start blogging about Italians.
In another 11 weeks I will be back to Singapore, back to home, graduating, start working and and work work work.
I know I will miss this place no matter how much I miss home now. I know it's still too early to say this.
11 weeks isn't short, but for me, 50% has finally passed, another 50% to go and when the figure draws to 40, 30, 20, 10 and eventually I will be back!

So I'm gonna write about what I've learned about Italians during my 5 months stay in Italy.

So today I saw one of my colleague, Manuel who just had a haircut.
Me       : Manuel, just cut your hair? Nice hair cut!
Manuel : No, it's just that my ears grow bigger.
Me       : Huh? Ohh okay. Yeah you are right, your ears look bigger now! (bursting into laughter)

Then, Manuel told me that that is one of the Italians' joke about someone who just had a haircut.
So next time when an Italian cuts his/her hair, you should walk up and say, ' Hey your ears have grown bigger!' haha
Okay, so this is Italian.

Brownie and Brownbie #1

I bet all of us know what Brownie is.
But what you think is not what you get. Brownie has a special meaning to a pair of couple who is now separated by 7 hours time difference, and i-dont-know-how-many miles apart and yet to meet again in 79 days.
Brownie is actually a Rilakkumar neck rest bought by Brownbie to me.
Say hi to Brownie...

So now the question is who's Brownbie?
Brownbie is the one who never fails to make me happy and love me more than anyone else. Hehe
So how does the name Brownbie come by? Both of us are  using an app called Between. And my name in it is Brownie while hers is Brownie's baby. So make it short  I'll call her Brownbie.
And so happened that I am a regular reader of Timothy Tiah, www.timothytiah.com and he started to blog about funny conversations of him with his wife and I personally find it very meaningful and would be a great memory for both the couple or spouse.
so I was talking to Brownbie about that and I told her to blog about our conversations like what Timothy does. And the lazy her being lazy cleverly push this job to me. So I'm being a good boyfriend gonna start with our first conversation Brownie and Brownbie #1
So I was at the company today having meeting and I was too boring so I secretly took out the phone and Whatsapp her.
So we were chatting halfway and I was asking her to give me one kiss. So she gave me this..

I managed to suppress my laugh but still can't stand but to smile like a fool to myself. I wished at the point of time nobody was noticing my facial expression. haha

I love you, Brownbie! <3 p="p">

A random post

Another boring night.

Reached home from company at 7.15pm.

Rushed into the bathroom after putting 2 eggs in boiling water.

Finished bathing and the eggs were hardly boiled in time.

Applied lotions on whole my body. It's an extra step for me every time I bath in Italy and I find this very troublesome.

Peeled the eggs, mashed them, added in pepper and mayonnaise, uniformly got them mixed.

Cut tomato into thin slices.

Heated up the frying pan, melt the butter on it and finally the crepe on it. 

Buttery smell soon filled the whole kitchen.

Crepe nicely done, ingredients filled, mouth watering.

Made myself a cup of hot milo, mouth opened wide, nom nom nom...

Laptop on. Funshion opened.

'Skyfall' played.

Blurry yet good enough to understand the contents.

Finished. Nothing special to be impressed.

and I'm here. 

Writing this random post.

Grass is always greener on the other side. 

This is very true. 

I once longed to stay in Europe, the 4 seasons, the fall, the cold winter, the pearl white snow.

It's my week 10. 12 more weeks to go. 

Now I wish I can go back to Singapore ASAP, go back to my family, my friends and of cause most importantly my baby <3 .="." div="div">

However, deep inside me I know when I'm back in Singapore 12 weeks later. I will again blame the hot weather, and miss everything in Europe.

This is the ironic truth about humans.

Okay. Enough of random thoughts.

9.54pm and I'm going to turn in now.

Good night world.

People tends to take things for granted when they are receiving too much.

Am I right? 

I hope I'm not.

Turning 20

Bidding Goodbye to 19, and embracing the number 20!
It is the 1st birthday that I'm touched to tear. Thanks my dear for putting so much effort in planning it for me.
Thanks my besties who giving me so many genuine wishes and celebrated with me.
The gratitude that I want to express is beyond what words can describe.

 Thanks all my friendsss for spending the whole Sunday with me having lunch,singing-k,dinner and catch a  
 movie.

Thanks to my uncle's family and my cousin Vincent for purposely taking their time off coming down to celebrate for me.

 And of cause her who had planned everything. The video was really touching and brought back a lot of sweet memories. Thanks to all my friends who wished me in the video. I will appreciate the friendship that we have.


There's no more 1- in my life. The initial 2 indicates a new chapter of life.
I will work hard to take charge of my life, and love all my loved ones!