My boyfriend's birthday!

Hi guys!

12 October is a good day for me because it's the day my beloved boyfriend was born 23 years ago. This year's theme was set to be "The First" and here I am, typing the First post about his birthday. :D Because of work, we had to celebrate a day early and this day of surprises was planned in the midst of my mid terms. Despite that, I only hit one solid wall of not being able to get his present (still unknown to him) on time. He was also rather skeptical and afraid of what was planned for him but he did well in cooperating. So here goes our day of adventure...

B1, Fountain of Wealth, Suntec City Mall
It's the first shop on the left of the entrance of Tower 5 (MRT)

He was first led to Suntec City Mall, clueless about where we were going to have our lunch - L'Entrecode! I chose this place because it's known for its steak and we both love steak! The atmosphere was very serene and romantic (because of the dim lights). We settled on a French onion soup with cheese bread, and 2 classic Steak and Fries - medium and medium rare. There was actually a daily lunch special (light Steak and Fries with a soup, drink and dessert for $19.90) but we missed it at the entrance :( Oh wells...

The soup was quite nice but it gets too salty when nearing the bottom. Cheese bread was soaked in the soup and I recommend that you eat the bread before it gets too soggy. Although the soup taste was very strong, it didn't mask the greatness of cheese, which threw me into the clouds when I took the first bite. But as I said, it started to get too salty and I got rather queasy after a while. Luckily, we shared that bowl of soup. If only, there were mushroom soup.

French Onion Soup - $9

Coming to the steak, the portion of a classic looked small initially but we both ended up struggling to clean the plates. The steak was really good and totally worth the price. If you are a big eater, you could try large ($39.90). It was sliced up, so it's very convenient. You don't have to spend your energy on cutting up the steak; you just need to simply indulge in the awesomeness of the meat. What's most special about the dish was the sauce! We couldn't get enough of it, especially when the fries was not spiced.

Steak and Fries (classic) - $29.90

After the filling meal, we went to the Alive Museum on level 3 of the mall. We took about 1 hour to finish the entire museum but we didn't stop at every photo-taking point. So, set aside at least 1.5 hours if you intend to go with photo-philic people. Haha. There were some really interesting and funny scenes while quite a number of the others orbit around superheros like Hulk, Superman, Batman...

 

The third surprise was something that he has always wanted to go - a real-life escape room. There are many of them in Singapore, given the popularity of this game. I came across Xcape (Bugis), FreeSG and Exit Plan (New Bridge Road, Chinatown) when I did my research. Due to budget constraint, we went Exit Plan.

I have tried Xcape before and personally, I think that:
1. Xcape is more suitable for many players because
2. The rooms are bigger and a game can involve more than one room,
3. The clues in the rooms are more messed up, and

4. There are many codes to break in such a short time.

On the other hand, Exit Plan was a right choice for us because:

1. There's only one small room to play in,

2. The progression is sequenced, and

3. We were given unlimited helplines (Xcape only had 2).

Despite all these differences, both are equally challenging and fun. Although we sought help a lot of times and we didn't pass the last obstacle, it was a very good bonding session. I would recommend couples to go and work your brains together once in a while. We also came across 2 other escape rooms that day - Lockdown (Suntec, beside Alive Museum) and The Phantom Joker Escape (Neil Road, near Pinnacle@Duxton).

The next and last stop was the Pinnacle @ Duxton. My plan for that was to bring him up to the level 50 sky bridge to watch the sunset and blow the candles on his surprise birthday cake. So, I sought help from my cousin who lives there for the access cards to the sky bridge (visitors have to pay $5, goodness gracious!) and got her to buy a cake. The sad things were, her aunt gave the cake away when we went up to collect the cards and the haze was so bad that the sun was nowhere to be seen. In the end, we only took some pictures, enjoyed the scenery and ate a bit of the cake. Well, that wasn't too bad anyway.

It was then followed by an impromptu dinner with his family and had ice cream at Daily Scoop, Clementi. And I would like to take this chance to wish him once again, Happy 23rd Birthday! :*

Lots Of Love (LOL),

Jensylee