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The Married Life

Max Brenner’s Chocolate Souffle

23 December 2009 8 Comments Category: Food, The Married Life

Happy holidays from Max Brenner!

The Husband took me to the mall last night to do the last bit of our Christmas shopping (and just because I wanted to go out) and before we went home, he treated me to dessert at Max Brenner. He made me try their moan-enducing Chocolate Souffle.

Their Chocolate Souffle is to-die-for with its centre oozing with melted chocolate. It’s like mud cake on the outside but chocolate mousse on the inside. I love how this chocolate cake tasted, feathery-light with the right amount of richness, such a heavenly effect on the taste buds.

If you haven’t tried this yet, I highly recommend that you do so on your next visit.

Note: Only a Sony point & shoot camera was used to take these photos.

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The Only Christmasy Stuff I Bought This Year

This was the only Christmasy stuff I bought this year…a tea towel from holySheet!.

Last year, we bought a few Christmas decors since it was our first Christmas together at a place of our own. Husband and I had fun rummaging thru loads of Christmas decors at Myer, it brought out the kid in us.

This year, I told the Husband that we should give ourselves a break from buying Christmas stuff this year. He asked me if I wanted us to have a Christmas tree (the big green one) but I declined. The logical side of me doesn’t want to engage in putting up a Christmas tree only to bring it down after four weeks. I’d rather we spend our money and time unto something more practical. Anyway, what’s important is family togetherness in honor of the birth of Christ and thanksgiving for the year that happened than any trimmings one could find. Maybe some other time we would have a Christmas tree, but not this year.

For this year, I’m just going to bring out our year-old decors. I believe that is enough as the Christmas spirit is in our hearts anyway–sparkly, bright and very very festive.

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35th, The Month Before The 3rd

Our wedding monthsary is today but we had an early celebration on Friday night because we just want to stay home all day before I go back to work tomorrow.

We also realized that this month is also the “celebration” of our 7th syota-nniversary (7 years ago we became a boyfriend-girlfriend). How time flies, aye? Sometimes we still can’t believe how things fell into place for us. Everyday, we are just grateful that we are together thru thick and thin.

This monthsary is but a fitting celebration for what we have gone thru in terms of my health condition. I am eternally blessed to have a husband who instead of running scared since we learned about my health dilemma in August, turned out to be my greatest source of strength–the one who embraced the biggest challenge in our marriage with open arms. Even if I never wanted him to experience my health concerns, he made sure he was simply there. What we’ve gone thru in the past months is not the end of challenges in our married life, we’re sure there will be more. But today I’m more than at peace with the thought that my Husband and I are really a team even in our most darkest days. Thank you God, thank you Universe for bringing us together.

Now, let’s talk about celebrations. Since I’ve been bored at home and I needed some cheering up as well, Husband took the liberty of making me feel like a queen. He arrived on Friday afternoon with loots from Mango. Then took me to dinner at one of our favorite restos that serve yummy Pad Thai (Noodle extra).

After dinner, we went around the mall to look for clothes. The rest of the year, we seldom buy clothes but since it’s Christmas time and there are parties to attend to, I told him this is a great excuse for us to buy new clothes–you know, so we’d look presentable hehe. However, we went home empty-handed. We went back Saturday afternoon though and it was then that we bought a few items.

The movie “Avatar” was scheduled at 9PM so we decided to have coffee at Coffee Culture. I was kind of sleepy already anyway.

I had my usual Choffee and it kept me awake the whole night.

The movie was great! I love it. I will share my thoughts about it later.

Monthsary gifts, dinner, shopping, coffee and a movie. Indeed, a LOVEly way to celebrate a monthsary.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

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MNG Sale

Selected items at Mango on sale!

Since I can’t go to the city this week, the Husband left work early Friday afternoon and dropped by the Mango store at The Galleries Victoria to buy me a couple of shirts. Thank goodness for the technology of video call–that saved both of us a lot of time from figuring out what I wanted (I’m very choosy when it comes to colors). Thanks Husby for the monthsary gifts :).

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Breakfast during Weekends

Breakfast on weekends are sacred. It is the first meal of the day and for my Husband and I, it is a chance for us to re-connect to each other after a whole week of working at the office. A way for us to start our weekend right. For us, breakfast, like a new beginning, is a celebration.

On Saturdays, we usually have a heavy breakfast. Fried rice, eggs, ham, sausages, bacon or corned beef–the works! Stuff we never get to eat during breakfast on weekdays (when we have work, we just have cereal and milk) so we make a lot of effort during Saturday mornings. On Sundays, we opt for a lighter breakfast like pancakes, ensaymada, champorado or oatmeal. On both mornings, we share our meals with a cup of coffee…always with a cup of coffee. Two of the things we like: Breakfast and Coffee.

Other than enjoying our meal, it is during this time that we talk of our dreams and plans, of things we want, of chismis (hehe), of places we plan to go or things we want to do for the day or the weekend. Sometimes we’d watch cartoons if we’re both in the mood to see something while we eat. Sometimes the Husband will play songs we can listen to while we enjoy our meal. It varies. But always our breakfast starts with a kiss (no, that is not meant to sound cheesy at all, I meant that to sound as a fact).

Sometimes we’d have breakfast in our balcony. Yesterday, we did just that. We only had oatmeal and coffee so it was easy to bring it outside. The Husband brought out our camping chairs so I can be more comfortable.

It was one of those perfect start to an unhurried day. And it is probably the next best thing to having a picnic at the park with trees surrounding us while we watch the city come alive in the morning.

What about you? How do you celebrate breakfast at home during weekends?

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