We both wanted to have a day out, just us without the kids. The idea was to have some fun by ourselves, bringing back the good old times from before our marriage days. Not saying that life isn’t good now, but just that one day to have that little time away, a break from the kids to restore a fraction of my sanity would be really great.

The initial plan was to send my 3 kids over to my parents’, but because of the whole kitchen/bathroom renovation going on at their place, we decided it’s best to let them stay home, and my siblings come over to babysit them instead.

So in the morning of Dec 20th, my siblings had come over (Thank you Dhiah, Ana & Musli!! Luv ya all!). We made sure we covered all their needs and made them comfortable (I hope!) with Internet, DVDs, baking ingredients, etc. P even cooked up a meal for them early in the morning – Ikan goreng sambal and sayur kicap with beef!

First itinerary of the day was to head down to StudioPerfect to have our couple makeover shoot. Bookings were made weeks earlier, and we’re both very excited we’re doing this again, many years after our previous makeover at CoverLooks.

I had my make-up and hair done by Diah and Nurul respectively (and yes, P got powdered too!), and photography by Nurul. It was a superfun shoot, and I’m not kidding! We laughed so hard till our tummies ache (Okay, at least mine did!)

Here’s one of the edited photos I snagged from their Flickr. (Nurul, hope you don’t mind…)

Ta-da!

Will post more photos as soon as they’re ready.

If you’d like to have your own makeover shoot at StudioPerfect, do email them to make your bookings now. For more details, visit http://etrangle.net.

After our shoot we headed down to Lido to watch the all-hyped movie, Avatar. The initial plan was to have our car parked back at our residential carpark, and take public transport to Orchard. In P’s words, “Dating naik kereta macam tak ada ‘feel’ gitu” (No ‘feel’ when you go on dates by car). Then he babbled about how I would be busily tweeting in the passanger seat while he drive and engage in minimal, or sometimes no, conversation throughout the journey. Haha!

But ultimately, the idea was scratched because we lost track of the time (don’t we all when we’re having fun, no?), and figured we might not reach Orchard in time by 3pm when we’re still at Pasir Ris at 2.30pm!*gasp* So zoomed down we did in our little red car, and by God’s will, we managed to avoid the heavy traffic along Orchard Road – the norm during X’mas season.

Generally, Avatar’s a great movie to watch (in my opinion at least). I love the whole storyline, and of course, the action-packed stuff. The whole magic mushroom journey leads us to believe James Cameroon may potentially be a hippie, hurhur!

Anyway…

Post-movie, we went for dinner. We wanted to have dinner at Carousel initially, but no thanks to a late reservation weeks earlier, they were not able to accommodate us. So luckily, we’re able to reserve seats for two at Straits Kitchen, Hyatt!

We ate to the brims of our tummies! I managed to stuff myself five plates of their buffet spread, while P only had two (he blamed the large popcorn he had during the movie earlier that he couldn’t consume more).

P enjoying his Indian meal


…my second serving…

After a full stomach, it was time we headed home to reunite with our kids. It has been a very fun and enjoyable day for the two of us, and we wish to have more of such outing in future, especially more so once we have a helper around, insyallah.

At Hyatt Hotel lobby.