Jolly July! Assembly Coffee For You?

Yes, yes, I know...
I haven't been writing & now then I start my July post when it's already mid-July..
Pardon me, I haven't got any events to write about.

Yesterday I went out with my dearest Ong because she's treating me a meal as a birthday gift!
I was craving for waffles or pancakes, either one is fine.
Good thing is that this week is Home-Based Learning week, so students are not required to go school but stay home and complete our assignments.
Yay to no alarm!

The waffles place that she brought me to is Assembly Coffee!
Reviews online claim that their Salted Caramel Buttermilk Waffles is the best hands down, and we thought, 'oh, it's not very far. The nearest MRT station is Botanic Gardens'.
Well.. we THOUGHT so..
As usual, I will be writing the directions to Assembly Coffee in the best descriptive, possible way.
If my directions are not clear, resort to Google Maps or hailing a cab. xD

It was an awkward walk to the cafe because part of the route was blocked for construction works & the path was right beside the road & the traffic is driving in the opposite way.
Furthermore we were dressed up & it makes us a little uncomfortable to be walking is such area.. xD
But alas! We found the area! How I wish one of us have a driving license so we can rent a car for a day..

My model

The door to delicious waffles

When we enter, we were greeted by the staff. It was a pleasant service :)
The cafe is quite small though, but thankfully it's only us 2 people and we got a table.

The interior

Baby girl treating me ♥

The kitchen is quite small but it looks nice to be a kitchen in my future house hehe 

Didn't know she took it haha I swear

Ah this she told me to pose

Here's the menu:

Very simplistic menu

I didn't take the back of the menu because, I thought they were the same front & back..
We waited quite long for our waffles to arrive, wonder if they only have 1 waffle maker.
BUT, the wait was worth it.

Eve's Salted Caramel Buttermilk Waffle

I got Earl Grey Caramel Buttermilk Waffle

I ordered Earl Grey Caramel because it sounds out-of-the-norm kinda flavour.
When I ate it, wow, it tasted interesting! Like a flavour I never thought of mixing.
It's very sweet so for those sweet tooth out there, this is the perfect waffle for you. The strawberries combines well with the sweet Earl Grey Caramel so I enjoyed my dessert!
In addition, the vanilla ice cream doesn't melt easily, when I scoop it out it is still quite hard. I like hard gelato (think Baskin Robbins, Marble Slab) more than soft serve (think MacDonald's).

Overall:

Ambience - 3/5
Reason because there was a table that was placed right in front of the window & the sun was shining directly at one customer. She have to block it using the menu..
Assembly Coffee, maybe you can do something about this! :D

Food: 4.5/5
I haven't tried others though so I cannot say the rest of their food is good. I saw a group of girls eating the Shibuya Toast, Smoked Salmon & Eggs, and Bacon & Baked Beans on Toast beside us.
I'll definitely try the Smoked Salmon & Eggs the next time I come here, if there's a chance.

Service: 5/5
The (same) staff greeted us when we entered and left the cafe. I saw 1 staff helped to take the cutlery & serviettes to one customer even though it's self-service.

Feedback: any cafe will be extra enjoyable with good music :)

After eating, we took some photos because it's such a nice place to take pictures!

Good thing we can take the bus back to the MRT station instead of walking.
While walking, we happened to walked behind a group of boys. Then slowly, a few of them slowed down so the both of us were in between them.
Talk about awkward...
Then this Eve want to snap a picture of them (not sure if pedo or...)

Not sure what was she thinking

Afterward, we head to town to run some errands; she needs to buy chocolates for her sister, meet a seller, buy this & that.
At one point I've been spending my money on food whereas she already bought one apparel..
It's just walking around Orchard area, it's always nice to shop with her xD

Such a f(l)attering picture

Her meeting point was at Ngee Ann City, Takashimaya.
What's perfect was there's a food fest going on! Just in time for dinner!
Not sure if the event name is Takashimaya Food Fest or Food Lovers' Fiesta.
We weren't really hungry, neither are we gonna miss dinner so we settled on a light meal.

Everything I see relates to Events Management now...

She had to photobomb

Eve bought this for us to share!
THE BEST CHEE CHEONG FUN WE EVER HAD. 
It's not the 1st time we tried this, there was one blog post that I talked about this Chee Cheong Fun before.
I've had before Chee Cheong Fun with black sauce, red sauce, but this is brown in colour.
It has added sesame seeds & deep fried dried onion (common in Ban Mee).
Ong told the Auntie to put a little chilli and damn, it taste better with a little spiciness! (Even though I can't take spicy food well).

Rice burger! Own by Koreans

So that's how our day basically went!
It was always a great day whenever I'm with her ^-^

If you wanna go to Assembly Coffee, here's how:
1. Take the train & alight at Botanic Gardens
2. Exit through Exit A
3. When you reach street level, you will see an overhead bridge & a bus-stop. Ignore both and head to your right
4. Follow the path. There's construction works going on (at this point of time) so just keep going
5. You will past by a bus stop. Keep walking on the path
6. You will see a zebra crossing if I remember clearly. There's traffic light on your left. DO NOT CROSS THE ROAD/ZEBRA CROSSING.
7. Turn to your right, there's a curve.
8. Keep on walking straight after you turn the right curve. You should see a children/kindergarten thing on your right.
9. Go left, you should be in NUS campus. There should be a MOE building on your right once you turn left.
10. Keep walking straight you should see a gantry for cars to enter into the campus.
11. Assembly Coffee is in the shop in front, a little to the right! :D You just have to cross the road.

I certainly hope my directions are clear! Hehehe!
Enjoy your day in Assembly Coffee ^-^

Jubilant June

A JUBILANT JUNE everybody!!
I wish my life is exciting... My mid-semester tests were over last week, felt like a huge burden have been lifted off my shoulders when the clock ticks at 10.20am on 5 June.
Now, I hope that I will be accepted in the internship company that I selected.. Oh well, that can worry in the future because no point worrying when I cannot do anything about it.
Last holiday, I didn't have any assignment to complete. Maybe because it's the semester break & it's longer.
This term break is 3 weeks long... Not sure if I can squeeze some time for my school projects since I'm working for 2 weeks,
Heck, I don't think I can even rest. There's *counting* *doing some fingers calculating actions* 4 projects to be completed.
*Laughing bitterly*
Just hope that I have the discipline to start them. I always get too tired when I reach home from work and from my CCA FOC... Then I'll push it back to the next day. & repeat.

Enough about my ramblings.

On the last day of paper, my group of friends and I went to town to have lunch.
It became like a routine that we'll eat at some restaurant after our last test/exam, even though I wanted to do something fun eating of eating..
But eating is fine too! Hehehhee!
Coincidentally, Mingmin & I both wore similar clothing.. Not sure if telepathy is there or just purely coincidence.

That nonsense girl

Like kena force to take picture with me 

When I was browsing the photos, I took a closer look & noticed something...
WHERE THE HELL IS MY LEFT LEG?!?!?!?!?
Then I realise I stood in a way my left leg is at the back; my dress covered it.
Gosh it look so weird.
& then there's this drop of water that is conveniently targeted at a wrong place.

The 5 of us ate at Café Mondo - they sell light bites, mains, pastries and puffs, desserts.
Unfortunately, they did have the dish that I wanted.. I wanted to have the Reuben Sandwich, so I switched to Foccacia Beef Mondo, & they didn't have it as well. 
They didn't have the bread for it. 
Mondo what are you doing, Mondo?
So in the end I ordered:

Waffle burger

The waffle taste normal, when you cut it breaks easily to smaller pieces.
The beef is so hard, I needed a chainsaw to cut it.
The fries, doesn't taste nice. I mean, just look at it.

What Mingmin ordered

Karise' Shepherd's Pie

Aishah ordered meatballs

Prawns for Marz

It was a hearty meal, chit-chatting with the girls.
Maria had to leave early to catch her flight, so she missed the 12 different scoops of ice cream :P.
Yup you read that right, 12 DIFFERENT SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM, WE HAD THAT.
We shared lah, duh, & it's mini scoop hahahaha.

Picture credits to Karise!

After half-way eating, we:
1. felt sick. Ate too much ice cream. Got bloated. 
2. couldn't properly taste the next flavour because the previous flavour which we had was too over-powering and thick. 
3. thought we ordered medicine as one of the flavours.
4. tried to guess which ice cream was which flavours. We got confused with Vintage Strawberry Cheese & Raspberry (?) something.

Food: 2.5/5 sandwiches
Ambience: So-so
Going back again?: No

A group picture before Maria left.

Both Aishah & Marz left because they had plans so Mingmin, Karise & I walked around Somerset before it's my turn to leave.
I went home to pack my stuff and headed over to Eve's house!!
Staying over at her crib for one night ^-^

♦♣♥♠ ♦♣♥♠ ♦♣♥♠ ♦♣♥♠ ♦♣♥♠ 

I didn't take a lot of photos because we were out the 1st night.
We went to The Alley Bar. I had Cranberry Vodka which Marz recommended, & it taste good!
Eve had beer & we ordered truffle fries.
I don't know what's the craze about truffle fries; aren't they like normal fries?
So I Googled it & it turns out truffle fries are made of truffle oil.
It taste slightly better than normal fries but I wouldn't pay so much for french fries anytime in future.

Both Eve & I had a heart-to-heart talk in the bar. Like she tells me whatever was in her heart & I give advice & my opinions.
Acting like adults *sips tea*.
But the ambience is definitely great, will visit again!
The bar manager even introduced himself to us! Such friendly person!
When we are leaving, we say goodbye to him & he was really nice to tell us to have a good night.
What an excellent customer service!

Drinks: Can't rate because I only had 1 drink. But that drink was refreshing
Ambience: Perfect for a girls night out
Going back: Definitely!

When we reached home.. we just chill in the hall & connected her com to the TV so we can surf in big HD screen.
There's the on-screen keyboard & her wireless mouse, which makes things so much convenient.
However, technology REALLY DOES produce lazy people.

I look creepy here because my contact lenses are out & the angle I took is at an awkward angle..

I decided to take my revenge on her because on one of the sleepovers she hit me with a bolster before I wake up. & posted up on her Instagram .

But she was sleeping so soundly & we slept late last night.. So I didn't have the heart to go maximum asshole so I just tickled her butt with my toes.

Dinner cooked by Daddy & Mommy Ong! So yummy!!

Didn't have the chance to tell the parents I love the dishes!
The best part is the soup TASTE SO SIMILAR TO MY FAVOURITE SOUP COOKED BY MY AHPO!!!
I could have another bowl but because the other dishes were too delicious that I was too full for another bowl..
The salmon was deep-fried, the fried fish was cooked with a sauce I don't know but it's yummy!
The chicken stew with potatoes and carrots was tasty too omgosh.
I'm not joking or boot-licking but it's really taste good!

Home-cooked food is the best :).

Initially, we planned to go Jurong.. but we dilly-dally then watch drama until we just silently agreed to stay at home.

Pretty lights~

I wanted to post a picture of her but then I thought about her image so I decided to delete it :P.
BEST FRIEND AWARD GOES TO ME THANK YOU.
(But I thought if I POSTED IT UP then I'll get the BF award...?)
I stayed until 10pm before heading home. So lazy to go home... But it was a great 2 days spent!!!
Thank you Ong's mum for always buying me breakfast, lunch and dinner!
Thank you Ong for always bringing me to your family outings! 
Thank you Ong & mum for the hospitality hehehehe.

Looking forward to the next vacation woohoo!