Champagne

I luurve the initial burst of effervescence when the champagne contacts the dry glass on pouring. Champagne is typically drank during celebrations.

For example Tony Blair held a champagne reception to celebrate London winning the right to host the 2012 Olympic Games. It is also used to launch ships when a bottle is smashed over the hull during the ship's launch. But that night, no bottles were broken or bubbles wasted. There wasn't a real reason to call for a celebration. I mean... we weren't celebrating anyone's great truimph of snagging tickets to Olympics Beijing 2008 after 3 days of queueing outside the bird's nest or any annoucement of great news...but, just that it was a Saturday and it was the weekend! With all mental energy spent on what i do from Mondays to Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays are a time i livvvve for. There was more reason than one, to spend precious time with much missed friends. What better way than having champagne at Prive, with a cool breeze blowing through your hair, a view of the luxurious Carribbean and 170 berths, all at the waterfront dining scene. Located in the marina on Keppel Island, this prime waterfront is one of my favourite places for a Saturday night. Travelling on the cable bridge from the mainland to the island makes it a premier drive too. With a growing fleet of beautful yachts at bay, it always makes it a fine dining experience. Hey!! I remember seeing an empty slot! PRINCESS JULES will beth there someday soon!

While we were catching up and laughing heartily at very very missed jokes, *wink*, the champagne was quietly chillin at an ideal, drinking temperature. Right beside me. Heh. The ice bucket serves to chill the wine prior to opening because chilling allows one to remove the cork without losing any of the wine and carbonation.

I swear i heard "le soupir amoureux" while opening the bottle. It was a LOVING whisper. Grin. In for a night of maximizing our time together, we decided it was a day of much needed celebrations. Of course we had to go somewhere else. We went to Wine Bar =)

More pictures speak for itself!

The Wonders of Email

We arranged for brunch @ Rider's Cafe and Andy Warhol's exhibition, all through email! 6 people, 6 different preferrences. I try not to only read the email headers, opps, the choice of place for brunch to the exhibition to patronize, were all cordinated through virtual correspondeces. I must say it was pretty successful!! By this 2nd arragement, we all knew who were in front of their computers most of the time, replying non work related emails and who were really working! Of course it had to be those who hardly replied right?Hehe!

A reminder of Andy Warhol's "100 Soup Cans," "100 Coke Bottles" and "100 Dollar Bills."


Born in 1928, Andrew Warhola, known as Andy Wardhol, was an American Artist and a central figure of pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, an avant-garde flimmaker, a record producer, an author, and a public figure, known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemien reet people, distinguished interllectuals, individual celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.

It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of famous American products such as "Campbell's Soup Cans", as well as paintings of celebrities like like Marilyn Monroe, Troy donahue and Elizabeth Taylor. He founded "The Factory", his studio during these years and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. He switched to silkscreen prints which he produced serially, seeking not only to make art of mass produced items but to mass produce the art itself. By minimizing the role of his own hand in the production of his work and declaring that he wanted to be "a machine", Warhol sparked a revolution in art. His work quickly became very controversial and popular.


The first thing you see when you walk in are the 20 Campbell soups, from 1968 and 1969, greeting you. There were 120 Warhols on display, covering 20 years of his work, everything from a silk-screened Mao series to psychadelic-coloured James Dean canvases, all at Collectors Contemporary (nearIkea). They say you never know when you might need a hot dog, sofa and some Warhol in your life. There may be a point. There was so much to show, i heard some unsigned Marilyn Monroes didn’t even make it to the walls.


Everything about this day is beautiful. Even Sobraine smokes were brought especially along to suit our arty day. Puff huff!

More pictures of brunch and the day.