Birthday Dinner at Botak Jones

Again, was thinking of where to head for a nice dinner for my hubby who loves steak while one that has variety for the rest of us who probably doesn't.

From Kel, I've learnt about www.hungrygowhere.com and eventually, giving up due to the wide variety there. Then, recalling that we haven't been to Botak Jones (first recommended by brother in law, Melvin) for quite a while and I started googling to see if I can find a good deal.

I was pretty surprised to find a promotion that nicely fit the five of us, where there's a promotion for 5-for-4 Deal! http://www.botakjones.com/five-for-four/index.html

Despite looking for the typical fine prints for the usual "terms and conditions", we were really disappointed that the promotion was only available for lunch. :(

We tried to mention that this was not mentioned on their website but to no avail. Melvin even took the extra effort to search for the website on his iPhone but was more disappointed when the service staff returned with the menu that has the fine prints stated that this promotion was only available for lunch.

Checking out their website now, it's mentioned that "you are gonna chilling out with your friends or your parents..."... I hope it meant... the promotion is available during dinner too. Otherwise, the terms and conditions should really be consistent, both on the website (since it reaches the mass audience, especially people who check out their website before deciding if they want to head there) and the menu.

Food was great; but definitely, perception of value of money and service experience dropped with the inconsistency between the messages (terms and conditions for this promotion). We will definitely have some hesitations before heading out to this place again.

Movie at Illuma, Bugis

With a friend's help, I finally found the website to book a ticket online for the cinema at Illuma, Bugis ( http://www.filmgarde.com.sg/ ). Her first comment was, the seat is very spacious. I'm really curious to see how spacious that would be.


Running late for the move, I had a hurried dinner at Waraku at Illuma. Nonetheless, the extremely helpful service crew whose regular offers of drinks (even ice water or warm water), desserts, etc, and the friendly and warm farewell greeting by the service staff (even the staff inside the kitchen!) distracted me so much that I completely forgot to keep track of time. :P


Since this is the first time anyone of us has watched a movie here, we were not sure of the standard advertisement time this theatre has compared to Golden Village (about 30 minutes after stated "start time" of movie) and Eng Wah (movies mostly starting on the dot).


It was only when one of us commented that we were already 10 minutes late before I regained my sense of time :P. Right as we were walking in, the show is just about to start! (Phew!)


The moment we were seated, Kel said "wow". :) "Erm..hmm!, if that comes from Kel, for the majority of us, that means, seriously, the bigger space indeed has bigger room for us to spread our legs!


Eventhough I had to leave my seat halfway through the show, it was really great that I didn't have to squeeze through row of seated audience within the same row.


Pity though, I am seldom in this area, else, I'm definitely going to declare this as my next favourite hangout for movie.


Last but not least, for people who has parked your car, do remember you are at which level, as the escalator either brings you to level 3 or 4 (so far what we have discovered, hopefully I'm not wrong), but not 3A or 4A (you should use the elevators though) where you could also probably have parked your car. We took quite a while to get used to the unique design of this building and definitely not something pleasant after the long day. :P