Presents and a Buffet dinner!

Today I pretty much had the whole day to myself again except that I was going for a buffet dinner at night!! So I had to watch what I ate the whole day as well.

So in the morning, I woke up at 9am but rolled around and caught more zzs before I decided to get out of bed and have breakfast.

What better way than to start your day with a breakfast like this!

2 toasted waffles with peanut butter, a bowl of berry yogurt and green tea

I do LOVE peanut butter. This is of course not the healthiest of breakfasts so far, but it isn't the unhealthiest either. Sometimes, eating healthy doesn't always mean eating food you don't like. You just have to know when to limit it and how often to eat it. The only thing on my plate here that isn't healthy, is the waffles. Other than that it is still okay! 

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I didn't have a morning snack cause by the time I had my breakfast, it was already mid morning. Around 10am plus. So I skipped my mid morning snack. I wouldn't suggest this as I would then become hungry for lunch, but as I knew I was definitely going to eat more for the buffet dinner, I had to cut down a bit on my meals during the day.

So around 12pm, my 2 friends from polytechnic came by to drop off some stuff! I wasn't surprised by this since my friend had already told me she was coming to pass me my stuff. But I guess I was surprised when I saw my other friend drop by as well since I haven't seen her.. for almost half a year or more!

They came by to drop off a dress I had ordered through my friend, as well as my 21st birthday present! It was really wonderful seeing them again, especially since they had made my day so much brighter! But they had to go off after 5-10mins as one of my friends had to go to work. :(

But here is the present they dropped off!

What's in the bag?? :P 

21 presents all individually wrapped and labelled!! Time to get busy!

Me trying to do a nice picture with everything in it but failing... >.<

Isn't that really the sweetest??? <3 They had passed me a bag with 21 things individually wrapped. In the letter, they gave one or two words to describe what was inside the bag for each number. And I sure did have fun opening them up one by one! I felt really happy and appreciative of the effort they had put in to think of what to get me and come up with this idea!! It really made my day.

It's also quite funny to think how my colleagues actually did the same thing, except that there was extra newspapers inside the box they gave me, to make it harder for me to find my presents (which were also wrapped in newspaper) hahaha. They didn't give me 21 things but they gave me a box full of panda things!!! It was really sweet of them and again, I do appreciate the effort put in.

Ever since my birthday, I've been ever so grateful to have all my friends and family. It's funny. Cause when I was just a few years younger, I used to think that I was alone and no one really cared for me. But as I grew up, I can see how much the people around me care for me, and I guess it is really nice to have found a bunch of friends who make me really happy. I'm really happy with the way my friendships and relationships are going right now, and I just hope they can continue to get better!!

Okay I digressed a lot. Sorry for that! xP

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So around 2pm I had a light lunch. It was pretty much last night's dinner fried into an omelette. Yea. I wouldn't have chosen to fry it, but sometimes, when you're still living with your family, you don't get to choose what you eat. 

So here's lunch!

Last night's dinner fried with egg

Yeap that is it. I know you can't tell how big the portion is from the photo, but it was quite little as I had a buffet dinner to go for. So I didn't want to overeat although I was getting hungry!!!

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I had to get ready to go for dinner around 4.45pm!!!

Went to AquaMarine at Marina Mandarin Hotel Singapore!!! As it is a buffet, I tried my best to control how much I ate and what I ate. But of course... the buffet is about $70-$80/person! So I had to eat enough to make it worth it although I wasn't the one paying for it. hahaha

Here are my meals!!!! 

Started off with some salad, smoked salmon, salmon with egg shreddings, edamame, corn, bacon bits and cold chicken salad. I also added some Italian dressing over the veggies! 

Erm yes, I do eat salad at buffets. Is it really that weird? :( I thought it made sense to work my way down from appetizer to main course to dessert. I thought it was normal!!! D: Oh well.. But yes! I know some people consider it such a waste to be eating greens at a buffet. Buuuuuut. If you think about it, these greens cost a lot too. Vegetables aren't that cheap. If they were as cheap as Fast Food, OR cheaper than Fast Food, we'd be having a lot more healthy people walking in the streets!! (Just saying xP)

Next!!

Sashimi and Sushi!!! 

I swear I would have taken more, but it still is short grain rice which is quite fattening :( Sigh. I really love sushi. If you know me well enough,you would know that I LOVE LOVE LOVE Japanese cuisine A LOT. So this amount that I ate right here? IS SAD :( But all in the name of controlling how much I eat so I don't put on weight. When I walked past the chef slicing the sashimi and making the sushi, it's like I could hear them calling out to me to eat them..... (not really but still) :'( This rice is the only carbs I ate during dinner. No I don't avoid carbs. I still eat brown rice and wholemeal bread/wraps. And I still eat potatoes.

CARBS SHOULD NOT BE TOTALLY CUT OUT FROM YOUR DIET!

It is bad. And as an Asian, having had rice almost every day of my life, cutting it out of my life completely is bad. Well it isn't that bad but it is sad. And you probably would cave in the moment you have bread or rice on your lips again. Like oh sweet mother of bread/rice, HOW I HAVE MISSED YOU. *gobblegobble* Yea... But I'll save the carb talk for another post!

Next! The sort of main dish but not really.. just sort of.. Had to avoid the laksa and duck rice D: Nuuuuuuuuuuuu :'(

2 slices of smoked duck, 2 slices of squash, some carrot and asparagus and white clams!!!

Yes, again I have some sort of veggies on my plate. But it was nice!!

I did have a bowl of cream of corn soup with this plate, but I didn't get a picture of it. (I did, it's just that the picture looks bad. Lols) But yea! I just can't resist cream of corn soup. I enjoy the creamy texture and the taste of corn :P Yummy stuff. But I have had better corn soup elsewhereeeee ~ If I happen to go to that place again, I'll be sure to snap a picture of it and show you guys!

Okay so by this plate, I was already starting to get full. I really really wanted to move on to desserts, but my 2 colleagues still wanted to eat more! So I followed them. I didn't really want to eat anything else but I decided to get some hot soup as I didn't bring my jacket and I was getting cold. 

My "miso" soup

This bowl of soup below isn't miso soup. I actually just took the soup from some Japanese vegetable stewm and added the tofu, seaweed and spring onions to it. Hence why it looks like miso soup, BUT IT ISN'T :( I thought they would have it though. But it wasn't that bad. It tasted similar!

So I was really getting full but my colleagues still didn't want to grab dessert. So I decided to have some other lighter food.

Almonds, edamame, dried apricots, brie cheese, some cranberry cheese and cold ham

The cranberry cheese thingy was SO SO GOOD. Okay, just to let you guys know, I don't really incorporate a lot of dairy in my diet. I don't drink milk and it's not like I eat cheese or yogurt every day or every week cause I'm slightly lactose intolerant. 

So I decided to have some cheese since it was right there in front of my face. The last time I had some form of dairy after not having it for about a month, I had bad diarrhea. And, it was only a few days ago that it happened! So... I guess I had better not totally cut dairy out :/ Will just get my dairy intake from yogurt. Hahaha

AND FINALLY, DESSERT!!!!!! (Ugh I waited so long for this)

Chocolate fudge cake with vanilla sauce, almond jelly with canned pear, chocolate mousse, chocolate brownie with marshmallow, marble cheesecake, some mousse cake which I think is white chocolate and rasberry (sorry there wasn't any sign) and strawberry spongecake.

THE CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE. It was really nice and warm and so soft. Haha, but of course I was over the clouds with rainbows and dancing with pretty unicorns when I ate the chocolate mousse. Okay. Honestly the desserts were nice, but just okay. I guess I exaggerated it a little bit since I hardly eat these sweet foods anymore :( So whenever I do get to eat them, I get really excited and happy like a little kid waiting to open their Christmas presents. Yea..

I also had a bowl of yogurt ice cream, which I forgot to take a picture of. Really, I did forget. And that was all I had for dinner! Oh! and a cup of warm English Breakfast tea. Yeap.

So if I do take a look at what I ate, I would honestly say that the food I chose to eat, other than the dessert and corn soup, were still acceptable. However portion-wise, don't let the arrangement of food fool you. If you put them all together on the same plate, you'd know I overate. 

So I guess when you do go for buffets, it really is quite hard to control the amount of food you eat, cause well, you would naturally want to eat a lot of food for the price you paid. That's fine, I guess you would just have to watch what you do eat. I could have chosen to eat laksa or had more sushi or had duck rice. I could have chosen to let loose and eat whatever I wanted. But I didn't. And that is something we all have to try to do at buffets. Eat just a little bit more than usual, but keep in mind what kind of food you are putting into your body. And of course, if you don't have a sweet tooth like me, go ahead and fill yourself up with other food. But don't go too overboard!!

Well It is pretty late now. So I'm off to sleep. Goodnight!!!