Cranky Domestic Goddess

About 2 months ago, YP, L, P and I went to Villetta, an Italian restaurant in Helsinki. It’s located right in the heart of the city. It was my first time there, so you can imagine me losing my direction going there because YP had an earlier engagement, therefore, she couldn’t be my walking navigator for that day *haha*

Happy faces:

Anyway, I ended up 20 minutes late because I lost my way and finally had to resort to calling L so that she could give me the correct instruction. I was actually just one block away from Villetta. Duh! And that took me 20 minutes to realize it.

It’s always fun to go out with the gals! I truly enjoy the chat and food. I hope we could do it again before the baby arrives next month. Geeeeee … 3 more weeks and the baby should arrive … yeah … the truth? I AM FRIGGIN’ NERVOUS! Ok, back to Villetta.

It’s a nice, small and cosy Italian restaurant. The interior design is nothing to shout about. But knowing how passionate the Italians are … we had top-notch service from the “WAITERS”! Our waiter was a stout looking average kinda middle-aged Italian man. Absolutely friendly and was teasing YP the whole evening. He gave us very good recommendation. Of all of us, L had the best - SPAGHETTI FRUTTI DI MARE. It’s of mussels with garlic tomato sauce. LOL! That lady! She only finished the mussels and left the noodles to waste =D

P had PASTA NORMA - a vegetarian pasta which has a unique blend of “terung” aka eggplant. Really authentic. Of course, Mr Passionate recommended and she took it right away! As for me, I had FILETTO DI MAIALE ALLA PANNA - pork patties with a special Italian cream sauce and french fries. Guess what? L just loved my french fries that she kept eating and ignored her spaghetti *muaaahahahha* She’s funny!

YP had the most special one - SALSICCIA GRIGLIATA - Italian sausage with yummy salad and wedges. The sausage looked normal but the taste was superlicious! Her salad enticed me … *slurp*

After dinner, we went for hot chocolate near the Oopera House by the bay. We walked there as YP wanted to digest her food fast … *haha* typical woman!

SPAGHETTI FRUTTI DI MARE

PASTA NORMA

FILETTO DI MAIALE ALLA PANNA

SALSICCIA GRIGLIATA

If you fancy passionate dining service and good food, try them out:

Villetta Ristorante & Pizzeria
Ruusulankatu 8
Helsinki
Tel: +358.9498960

Website: villetta.fi

PS. Better make reservations for weekends. It’s a small restaurant. So the tables are limited. It’s quite a popular place.

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That blardy biatch is frigging messing with us again - us and the neighbor opposite to us. According to my opposite neighbors, P & J, the biatch’s farking friend has been caught going thru their yard from our side again … and the story is very interesting of what the biatch and her bastiard had told them …

Geeezzz I am just not too keen on elaborating on it here cuz this is supposed to be a mild blog. Not a ROUGH venting blog … I’ll leave it for my other blog.

You know what? We have monsters living just next to our house. FARK!

Cilakak punya naapuri!!!

Love this song! So sentimental and uplifting!

Lyrics:

Ooohhh…

What if i never knew
What if i never found you
I never had
This feeling in my heart

How did this come to be
I dont know how you found me
But from the moment I saw you
Deep inside my heart I knew

chorus:

Baby your my destiny
You and I were meant to be
With all my heart and soul
I’ll give my love to have and hold
And as far as I can see
You were always meant to be
My destiny

Oooohhhhh

I wanted someone like you
Someone that I could hold on to
And give my love until the end of time

Oohhh

But forever was just a word (just a word)
Something I’d only heard about
But now you’re always there for me
When you say forever I believe

chorus:

Baby your my destiny
You and I were meant to be
With all my heart and soul
I’ll give my love to have and hold
And as far as I can see
You were always meant to be
My destiny

Oooooohhhh

Maybe all we need
Is just a little faith
Cuz baby I believe
That love will find a way

Heyyyyyyyy

Ohhh

Baby your my destiny
You and I were meant to be
With all my heart and soul
I’ll give my love to have and hold
And as far as I can see
From now until eternity
You were always meant to be

My destinyyyy

You’re my destiny

Yeahh yeahh oohhh

Listening to Jim Brickman’s Destiny … woooo hhhhhooooo … Baby you’re my destiny … meant to be … *hymning away*

Charging my Macbook … dreaming about iMac!

Kicking in soon! Tired! Hubby is waking up in 3 hours to go to London for a few days =(

Finally got the account reinstated. They emailed a paypal secured link to me. So I was able to pay with no problem. Hosting is cheap versus my current hosting company though it’s without hassle as it’s one time renewal for 2 years. Of course, there’s no free domain either.

No farking off after all … *haha*

_{Blogged with Mac}

Bugger they suspended my private hosting account. So angry now! I told them I will pay this week because I do not have my new credit card info and they promised. Suddenly, just as I was not able to go online whole of last weekend, they sent a bloody reminder to tell me to pay within 24hrs … fark them!

Besides, they expect me to provide my new credit card info thru a link they provide me which doesn’t require me to sign-in. HELLO!!! Are you out of your freaking mind???!!! Why would I take the risk?!

Anyway, they gave me another link and that is to verify my account. After which they will provide me with a new log in and password. Farking ‘ell … there was no direction in that which will lead me to pay. Frustrating that is. The reason I am hosting with them is because they are cheaper and they give FREE domain. I think I will drop them to go back to my existing hosting company.

Yeah … they can fark off!

PS. If u r confused as of what I’m ranting about … IGNORE ME! =P

When mom and bro visited, my dad-in-law treated all of us to Huviretki. It’s not the cheapest place but the food is good and the portion is big. At first, we thought it’s gonna turn out to be like those “French” portion. Must admit, that’s not good enough to fill up the stomach. Boy, were we surprised when we saw how big the portions were and we truly enjoyed our dinner.

Both hubby and I have been to Huviretki a few times but we definitely do not recall how the food were served =D I guess we’ve been to TOO MANY places and most places only served kecikx2 portions. So, we were really surprised! Service is satisfactory. What can we really expect nowadays, huh? At least, they have had coloring tools for my boy when he got impatient and began screaming out of boredom!

Two handsome gentlemen

Kiddy meal - Makkara and mashed potatoes

Mozzarella Chicken - Grilled chicken fillet toppled with mozzarella cheese and served in red wine sauce, roasted veges, cherry tomatoes and french fries - Bro and I

Grilled Beef - Beef sirloin steak 150g/200g with seasoned butter, roasted veges and french fries - dad-in-law 200g and hubby 150g

Barbeque Chicken - Grilled chicken fillet with bbq sauce, smetana, potato and jalapeno croquettes, and potato waffles - Mom

Esquire’s Steak - Beef sirloin steak with read wine sauce, toppled with blue cheese, deep fried onion rings, grilled tomatoes and french fries - sis-in-law

Mom, bro and dad-in-law

Hubby had to juggle between food and effort to keep N quiet

I would rate Huviretki - 4 star

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right …

Pray for the one’s who don’t.

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Photographed in the flower market in Tallinn, Estonia

Oslo City from Mountain Top
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Haaaaiiihhhh … seems like we’ll be left alone again on Wednesday cuz hubby is going to Oslo. We just got back from Oslo a week ago and now he’s going again. What’s more? It seems I would have to cancel my plan, rather BREAK MY BOY’s HEART! (can it be any worser?!) about taking him on a train ride tomorrow anticipating that my hubby would be around town.

NVM, I guess we will continue with my yard work before the long weekend arrives. It’s Juhannus this weekend. My boy is a GREAT little helper around the yard. He would help me carry my gardening tools around while I happily snip away the weeds … Maybe I will take him for a bicycling tour of the neighborhood. Well, obviously I can’t cycle - it’s him. I’ll just chaperone him.

You leaving me alone again?

Anyway, my due date is nearing and I am getting more and more tired each day. Perhaps, I should just stay in and have a less hectic schedule. *shrugs*

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Bro and my boy in our backyard. I told him to pose so I could take a pix of them. God knows what I had pressed on the camera … the pix turned out like this! Awesome!

I’m so grateful that he had helped me many times in the yard - picking out weeds and grass cutting.

On the other hand … (more…)