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our cute looking birthday cakes!

Today's the first time my sister and i celebrated our birthday here abroad. The last birthday we had was in vigan, ilocos sur which was 10 hours away from manila. We joked around back then that on our next birthday should be either in thailand or anywhere overseas. What the heck, we made it happen thank God. We had bought pre-birthday cakes yesterday. We went to thomson plaza to grab ourselves one slice each of tiramisu and cheesecake for 3.50sgd a piece and yeah t'was satisfying 'cuz singaporean cakes are not so sweet compared to cakes we have back home.  We went to the cathedral of good shepherd in victoria street corner bras basah road to thank the almighty for another year. The homily was about Christ's TLC (yep tender love & care).

My sister and i realized that following landmarks and street signs from a map is a whole lot easier than rely on road/street directions say streetdirectory.com or google. Walking is one of the best way to get around here in singapore. we also burned those calories we gained by having chicken rice for lunch at the funan digital mall 's food court early today. The funan mall by the way is just walks away from the church. I didn't even realized we've reached that darn mall already because we were both busy trying to figure out where we're located looking at the map hadn't my sister said we've reached funan. Why is everything different in real life huh?

We checked out how much the gadgets cost not that we're planning to buy, just curious that's all lol. It's a haven for gadget buffs as it houses almost all tech gadgets there is from ground 'til the upper level. We found that they sell cheaper and cuter bubble earphones for 9.90sgd (about Php300+ back home) yet we bought our philips earplugs for a hefty Php800+! (about 25sgd). If you have a lot of money to shell out for gadgets, this is the place to be. At the ground floor, they also sell those easy heating tea kettles commonly used here in SG.  Along the way, we passed by the peninsula plaza, a place for myanmar citizens. It's like this, if we pinoys frequent lucky plaza in orchard, it's the peninsula plaza for them. 

The Peninsula Plaza is also housed to printing & photocopy centers. 

The Esplanade, Marina Bay, Boats of River Quay..

Good thing it's a weekday so the marina bay area isn't crowded. We enjoyed having ice cream sandwich whilst feeling the afternoon breeze in the beautiful bay area. No matter how tired we were after walking around, our tiredness were all flushed away after seeing the beautiful bay. Last itinerary for the day, Makansutra glutton's bay..

There's just one reason why we came back to makansutra--their chicken aglio olio!  It was well worth it for 6sgd. The pasta is served with a generous slab og chicken which reminds me of world chicken back home. We paired the pasta with some tamarind juice and yeah it was a weird match. We went home around 7PM. We had a lovely birthday.

On our way home, we saw this old woman (she's already hunch back due to old age) rushing herself to get to the train station. It was really heartbreaking because she stopped and rested somewhere, breathless and panting yet nobody cared. It was disconcerting. I hope the Singaporean government would come up with better options for senior citizens so they need not work anymore.