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Thursday, November 19, 2009, 6:15 PM :

Word of the Year - Unfriend

Apparently, the New Oxford American Dictionary has a Word of the Year thing every year. And this year's word is "unfriend".

There are so many things that are wrong with "unfriend" then I don't even know where to start.

The first thing that floated to my mind when I heard this word was my primary school days. It was exactly one of those words that we would use back then when we were angry with our friends. I can imagine it fitting perfectly into a primary school girl's sentence, "You are so bad! I'm going to unfriend you! Hrumph!"

Ok, that's childish banter and kids nowadays probably don't speak like that anymore but still! It doesn't make sense in any way. How do you un-friend someone? I know that this word was inspired from the networking world that we are living in, a.k.a. Facebook, Twitter etc..., but in the real world, where there are real people, unfriend do not make any sense at all. You can decide to click on a button to unfriend someone on Facebook or unfollow (omg, probably next year's Word of the Year will be "unfollow"!!) people in Twitter but it is not possible in the real world.

Even if it is slightly more applicable in the virtual world, this unfriend business will probably only last for a while. The example given in the website:
“I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.”

That status of unfriend-ness is probably only temporary because after all had cooled down from the fight, they will refriend each other! Omg, probably "refriend" will be a good contender for "unfollow" too! What a tough fight! Digressing quite a bit here as this whole thing sounds absurd to me.

It basically implies that you can undo this action of friending a person and voila, it will be as if this person had never been your friend before!

I rest my case. I should go onto my Facebook and start unfriending people now. Or probably I have already been unfriended by others.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 9:12 PM :

Japan Day 1 & 2

I finally managed to peel myself away from Facebook and jot down my travel itinerary before I forget all about them. 2 months have passes from my Japan trip till now and I still haven't really finished clearing my stuff, both physical and virtual. Yes, I still have stuff bought from Japan lying around my house, unpacked.

But, that's not the point here. So, the trip to Japan was quite hastily planned as the bf managed to get cheap tickets to fly straight to Tokyo, although the timing wasn't fantastic and quite some time was wasted waiting for transit at the KL Internation Airport.

Had to hype ourselves up after waiting at the airport for 3 hours for another 9 hours flight to Japan

After approximately 9 hours of flying, we finally arrived in Japan! It was a good feeling to finally get off the plane. There was nothing to do except to eat when the stewardess offered food, play Sudoku while I was eating and sleep after that. Felt like a pig. And probably looked like crap too when we finally got off. Don't think many will still look bright and chirpy after hours on a plane.

Left much of the travel planning to the bf and so we took the Narita Express from the airport to Ikebukuro, where his friend Henry was staying. Transportation there is quite expensive but tourists get some package at the airport train station where you can get one their Suica cards (like our EZ-link cards) at quite a bargain, 4000 yen I think.

Oh, and the train stations are quite confusing as many different lines are using the same tracks. You have to open your eyes big to take note of which train is coming at what time and going to which destination. Big trouble if you get on the wrong train because you gotta wait for quite some time for the next one.

Finally got onto the train. Quite empty and actually quite cosy too. While the bf was busy reading the map, I got busy too. Documenting the trip with photos!

The map that we got from the airport.

The interior of the train. Erm, looks like a typical train.

The Narita Express train.

One of the trains that arrived at the station. Apparently it wasn't as crowded as it was always depicted in dramas. Or it is probably due to the fact that it was 9pm in the evening.

Visited Harajuku on Sunday because Soo Hoon said that the cosplayers will be strutting their stuff around on Sundays. It was definitely crowded and we managed to catch this small group of cosplayers sitting around but I had expected more.

The Meiji Shrine was just opposite the Harajuku street so we decided to take a walk there before it closes at 5pm. There are plenty of shrines and temples in Japan, too many to visit in our 7 days trip there. This is a Shinto shrine with this tall structure erected at the entrance. And for your info, the actual building itself was probably a 10 minutes walk away from this structure.

Asked the bf and his friend what was this structure for, they replied that it was for the birds to stand because they had nowhere to stand. Am I supposed to believe that?

And that is henry walking behind me, swinging his arms around constantly.

Admission fee signboard for visiting the Meiji Imperial Garden. They were not open on that day anyway.

Shinto shrines not only have the tall "bird-standing" structure, they also have this water thingy near the entrance. In the past, everyone who wanted to go into the main building had to wash their hands and probably also to rinse their mouth as an act of purifying themselves before stepping into the sacred place. Nowadays, it is just another attraction that gets tourists all excited. Oh, and it helps that the water was very cooling and refreshing too.

There are really all sorts of weird people in Harajuku. This uncle just dressed himself up like Sailormoon or something, with bunny ears and pink bears and bags. It's just...weird to look at.

And he was posing for anyone who wanted to take photos of him. The guy beside him had a sign that read 'Free Hugs'. Hope that the free hugs were not given out by the rabbit-uncle. It will be most traumatising.

Entrance to the Harajuku street

And look at the amount of people. I'm not using 'number' because I'm convinced that the people at the Harajuku street can't be counted!

Harajuku Daiso! Damn huge, like 4 storeys.

The Daiso-pig

More weird people in Harajuku. Guy in female garb. The bf went up to take a photo of him and got a fierce glare from the guy-girl.

Plenty of other misspelt signs

The Harajuku Police Station. Looks glam and nice, unlike our Neighbourhood Police Post, looks so unfriendly.

When I say they have shrines and temples everywhere, I really mean it. This shrine was erected right smack in the city.

~~Blueberry~~ Burberry Blue Label exclusive only to Japan. But nothing caught my eye. :(

Meals in Japan are of huge portions. It is strange how Japanese can keep their slim figures when all the meals come with the main set, another bowl of noodles or soba and soup.

This was from a tempura place we went to in Harajuku. This set came with the tempura-don, noodles by the side, pickles and soup I think.

And this was mine. Roughly the same combination. Can't finish.

One of the streets in Ikebukuro. Somehow, even the pavement looks good. Perhaps the grass is really greener on the other side.

Map of their subway. Our tracks can never be compared to theirs. They have several train operators which will go to various destinations. When I say several, I mean more than two. It looks more complicated than it actually is. Once you get the hang of it, you will be able to switch trains like a local! Quite interesting actually because the train map really looks very very engaging.

For some strange reason, it seems like Japanese doesn't really like their traditional food like sushi or sashimi. They are mostly found in rather high-end places. Their common food are usually Western style or normal Japanese fare like ramen or don or udon.

Had our lunch somewhere near Ikebukuro and it serves mainly Western style food, although there was still the Japanese element by pairing it with rice, tofu and miso soup.

Japan is actually quite a friendly country. There is no problem if you can't speak Japanese. There is also no problem if Japanese can't understand your English or Chinese. Just be sure that you visit eating places where you buy food coupons from machines and you will never have to be afraid of starving to death!

And it comes with pictures!

The Suica top-up machine. Our 'good' friend throughout the trip. Transportation is really not cheap.

The hotel that we stayed in - Hotel Ohedo. The bf managed to source this from the internet and it was one of the cheapest around the area, I think was about 7000+ yen per night or so. You may exclaim that its expensive but hey, accomodation in Japan usually goes up higher than this. And the room was pretty decent too. And the location was not too bad, not too far from the Ikebukuro station.

The Japanese should be kings of propaganda! We always have the preception that Japan has all the great and fantastic dramas and variety shows on TV but when we got there, all that was showing on TV was boring stuff like this! Doesn't live up to the expectations of all the 黄金保龄球 and 魔女的条件s.

Japan is probably obsessed with keeping things small and compact. Henry's place was only enough for one person to live in and the hotel room was just a little better. The toilet in the hotel room was this small. What you see is really what you get. I can probably do everything on the toilet bowl; do my business, brush teeth and bathe, all at the same time.

Yay, end of Day 2! Arigatou!

Let's welcome Day 3 with open arms!

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Sunday, October 25, 2009, 10:42 PM :

Had a fruitful weekend.

Friday, me and the bf took leave to go to East Coast Park for our private bbq. He was supposed to come over to my place at 10am but he didn't make it! Our plans were delayed not because I couldn't wake up! Heh.

So we waited for mummy to come home because she also wanted to go to NTUC. Had fun grocery shopping really. We bought a portable bbq pit, matches and so on, and of course tons of food. We had satay, hotdogs, chicken nuggets, bacon and chicken wings. Of course we didn't manage to finish them all! What do you think we are, pigs?

Managed to convince mummy to fetch us over to ECP and we rented bicycles from one of the shops near McD and cycled trying to find a nice, picnic-ky spot. The bf claimed that the drinks were pulling his bicycle to the left, trying to explain his tendency to veer to the left. (No matter if there is any load or not) So, we finally found a nice spot, overlooking the coastline, shady and have trees to tie the hammock to. Happy with our find, we tried to settle down on our groundsheet.
*Note keyword: tried

Mega fail la. The wind was so so strong, it kept blowing the groundsheet off. Yes, we could have used stuff to secure the ends of the sheet but the wind was quite unnerving and the occasional thunder didn't help much too. Looking up to the sky, we can only see half-dark clouds, unable to predict if the sky was going to pour on us. To be safe, we cycled to somewhere nearer to civilisation.

Location secured, next step is to start the pit. Super difficult task! The bf had to resort to using the groundsheet to cover himself and the pit in order to light the fire-starter. And the fire-starter kept going out too. So while he was trying very very hard to start the fire, I was very very busy laughing very hard at him hiding underneath the groundsheet with an extremely exasperated expression. It doesn't help that he thinks that everyone who walked past were looking him, thinking that he was crazy, and he giving all sorts of crazy commentaries on what he thought people were thinking.

"Hi, I'm an alien from outer space trying to start a fire on Earth. Part of my science project."

It is totally beyond me to articulate the hilarity of the situation and his crazed expressions and commentaries.

Anyway, we managed to start the fire eventually and had fun bbq-ing our food. :)

Saturday, Night Safari day! They are extremely smart to bank on festivals as this year, they had invested alot of effort in Halloween. I have to admit that the returns is great. I have never ever seen so many people at the zoo or the night safari in my life. And I am quite a frequent-goer.

When we got off the cab, the first thing we saw was a very very very long queue to buy tickets, snaking all the way to the bus stop. For those who have been to the area, you will know that there is quite a distance from the bus stop to the ticket counter in the Night Safari. It is total madness! Although pr had already bought the tickets from NUS BizCom, we still had to buy tram tickets for us 3 and an extra ticket for my sister who wanted to tag along last minute.

We probably queued for about an hour and didn't look like we were getting much closer to the ticket counter. Luckily, 3 girls came to our queue and tried to sell 1 ticket, without tram rides to us. Woohoo, luck was on our side! Left the queue finally and got even more depressed when we saw the queue to enter. Damn long!! Queue queue queue queue and when the queue to get in finally moved, the queue in front of us disappeared! WTF?? Me and my sister was suddenly lost and I just pulled her into the queue, in front of some other random people. It was so weird that the queue in front of us just disappeared.

Finally got into Night Safari after bouts of queueing and goodness, more queueing to be done in order to get onto the tram. We decided to first take a break from queueing and take a walk along the trail "Bridge of No Return". How scary can it get right? Wrong! Quite scary when we were just a group by ourselves. Staff dressed up as scary characters with costumes, props and makeup were hiding amongst the trees and bushes just to jump out at us suddenly. Me and kutu happened to walk behind pr and my sister and saw how a mummy just jumped out onto them and just kept chasing them in their face. Honestly speaking, it was quite funny watching the both of them kept moving backwards towards us, screaming. Haha.

Oh, and xpr's outfit for the outing was really quite wrong. She was in a tube top and mini skirt. We were teasing her that she was there to seduce the animals. How wrong we were. Instead, she managed to seduce a clown. A scary one at that. That clown had a bloody knife as his prop and he walked really purposefully to scare people. For some unfathomable reason, he kept coming after pr. Even when we finally finished the tram ride and were sitting at Ben & Jerry's for ice cream, he just had to come over and scare her one last time.

Took a few photos but my card reader is in my office (at least I hope so since I can't find it at home) so can only upload them at a later time.

All the queueing at the Night Safari really made me feel like it was Disneyland once again. We had to queue for everything and anything. To be honest, the experience wasn't too bad. Just that it was really too crowded and the waiting time was really too long. Probably due to the fact that Singapore doesn't have much of such theme park-like stuff and this Night Safari gimmick was probably the closest thing to theme park fun. I can already foresee the chaotic queue and waiting time when Universal Studios finally open its doors to us. Save us all!!

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Saturday, October 24, 2009, 3:17 AM :

Haven't been blogging for the longest time. Seems like everytime I start a post these days, that is what I always say. Somehow, I think I feel pretty guilty that I rather facebook my time away than actually updating my blog. Not really for anyone to read but probably just for me to put my thoughts down, in the event that my memory starts failing me, I have somewhere to refer to for past events.

Anyway, did I mention that the F1 Rocks concert really rocks? Oh, I know that was like eons ago but hey, there are after-effects! Although the sound system sucks and the time management probably wasn't too good either, the performers at least were great. A*mei and Jacky Cheung rocked the entire concert and man, when they were on stage time seemed to pass really fast.

SO, the after-effects of the F1 Rocks concert is that kutu is going with me to A*mei's concert next year! Yay yay yay!

And of course, my concert kaki for the previous William So and Ronald Cheng's concert was also kutu! I had indeed trained her well. She said that she is finally appreciating all these entertainment experiences. Even so, the W-So and R-Cheng concert was abit lackluster in my opinion. There was nothing much that was really interesting and was just an OK performance. If not for me having listened to W-So's songs half my life, I would have easily forgo this concert.

Oh, went to M'sia last week with lh, wisely and ber, finally fulfiling our KTV/seafood 'date'. We went for a movie, dinner then KTV. Pretty cheap considering we did quite a few things there.

Caught 2 movies over these weeks and both were quite good. The first one was Cloudy with a chance of meatballs and the second one is Tsunami at Haeundae.

First one was animated comedy. Storyline was relatively simple but not too stale. At least there was never a moment when I was actually bored with the show. Everything was nicely paced and the character buildup was done quite nicely too. Of course, it doesn't hurt that it is a show mainly about food falling from the sky. It's everyone's dream!

Second one was surprisingly good. I had expected the show to start out with the huge tsunami killing plenty and us having to go through their ordeals and how they survive that. This was a different kind of disaster movie. Instead of spending 3/4 of the time showing us how the characters manage to save themselves and strangers from the disasters, this show was spending 3/4 of the time building up the characters' stories. How their stories were related to each other (since they were all living at the same island) and how they eventually reconciled with their past horrors. Funny and very touching too.

OK, no photos to upload for this post because all my photos are uploaded in my office computer. My laptop is totally going to die on me very very soon.

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Saturday, September 26, 2009, 10:23 PM :

The period when I have many concerts to go to is here again!

I've attended 2 concerts (or strictly speaking, 3) so far that I have yet to blog about - Mayday DNA Concerts and the F1 Rocks Concert last Thursday. They were all great!

And coming up is the William So and Ronald Cheng concert in October. Probably not exactly the type of concert that I would attend but I really like William So and Kutu likes Ronald Cheng so yay, she is my new concert kaki! She claims that I'm a bad influence to her, always tempting her to go to concerts but I deeply believe that it is she herself who wants to go for them. Like the F1 Rocks concert, she was the one who told me that she wanted to go. So, who is the enthusiastic one? :)

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 12:24 PM :

Hillary @ Vivocity

Yay, I'm happy! I'm finally clearing most of the stuff that I had uploaded a while back. I feel SO accomplished!

Hmm, I remember this day at Vivocity because I drove there! And by the time I got out, the parking charges were about $10. And there was a percussion competition organised by NTU in which me and sis saw a few friends there, surprisingly.

Hillary Cafe on the first storey of Vivo. Quite a quaint little place with pretty interesting decor. At least to me, its appealing. Not hard to see why right?

Thats the menu. Hot pink! xpr and kutu will probably love the menu and try to steal it back, if not for them being a little cowardly.

Intently studying the menu

Oh, and I didn't mention that this place was somewhat themed around tarot readings and some aura reading thing. The 'table-mat' was like that.

And there was a book with some details of the aura thing and telling people what are the suitable kind of food for each different aura.

They had this huge Egyptian mask hanging over the door inside the store. So cool!

Already had our lunch at Marche, we were there only for desserts.

This was banana chocolate cake ordered by the sister. I don't usually order chocolate cakes as most of them are pretty dry and the taste gets monotonous after some time but this was different! The banana taste blended very well with the chocolate cake as they didn't use banana essence. They used real banana bits. So while we were eating the cake, we could taste the banana bits too and it wasn't dry at all! Nice!

Oh, and the cute butterfly plate and huge strawberry on top of the cake added alot of points to it too.

Shaved iced with mango. We concluded that the shop was opened by Taiwanese as the waitresses were sort of dressed in maid costumes, though not as blatant as in Japan. And this shaved iced is very fine and yummy too. Melts in your mouth immediately! Think I had something like that in Taiwan too and I think its pretty comparable.

We were like 2 cuckoos lah, trying to take photos of their decorations in the shop. Oh, and did I mention that of all days, I didn't bring my camera on that day. All photos are courtesy of my trusty Samsung phone. :)

Contented, I guess.

Finished everything right down to the last bit.

The chairs and inner decor.

I think it is quite a nice place to go to, with great decor and pretty decent desserts. Not sure about the main courses though. I was more intrigued by their theme and more attracted by the mysterious aura they tried to portray with the tarot and aura reading service. Apparently, you got to make an appointment with the 'reader' beforehand, and its not free. Boohoo.

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Monday, September 14, 2009, 3:37 PM :

Lunch @ Essential Brew Holland V

I have been wanting to eat at this place for the longest time. Everytime I walk past this place at Holland Village, I would mention that someday I'm going to try it but somehow, the someday never came. That is until my office intern came.

The silly girl likes to eat almost as much as I do, just that she does a better job at curbing her desires than me. :)
So, one day she decided that she wanted to have ice-cream at gelatissimo and was quite convinced that the store was at King Albert Park. Since she used to study around the area, I trusted her, although in my mind I thought KAP only had McDonald's.
Alas, turned out that I was right. She remembered wrong. The shop was not there! So we took a cab to Holland V and finally to this place, Essential Brews.

Ok, so 2 of us went and ordered plenty of stuff. We each had a main course and drinks. But the cheapo-glutton in us just can't let this cheap offer slip by. 3 side dishes for only $13.95! Order!!!

She fail at photography lah.

A decent shot from my zi-pa camera phone.

I think this was her drink. Oreo milkshake, or something like that.

And from my distant memory, this drink should be mine. Earl grey milkshake with ice-cream, I think.

The 3 side dishes that we ordered - fries, calamaries and nuggets. So worth it right?? The portions are so big! But we had to pack back because really can't finish. :(

Look at the nuggets! So juicy-looking!

And the calamari. So succulent!

And the yummy fries!

Oh, we ordered set meals so it came with soup.

That girl had some burger that is so huge that I think she only finished half of it.

Look at the burger! The bread is so thick and the chicken inside is so thick too! Not to mention all the additional and irritating vegetables blocking the way.

Mine was fish and chips. Quite yummy. Not too dry or oily. Cooked to almost just nice. :)

Woohoo, many photos cleared already. Soon, I'll only be left with those that I haven't uploaded. But no one will know because I haven't upload them. Hah.

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1:25 PM :

Set Lunch @ Friends@Jelita

One of the places that we went during one of our lunch - Friends at Jelita, somewhere near Holland Village. They served set lunches with 3 courses, I think. An appetizer, the main course, desserts and drink.

The mushroom soup. It is the thick kind that I like and can actually taste mushroom bits in it.

You can also choose to have a salad instead of the soup. Should not be hard to guess which of the two I chose.

One of the main courses offered, some chicken thing. (Pardon my memory but this was like reeally long ago)

And of course, how can there be some fish thing missing from the main course selection?

The dessert on that day was espresso cheesecake. Not too bad, considering most of the desserts that come with set lunches are usually much to be desired.

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11:54 AM :

Lunch @ Old Hong Kong Kitchen Square2

More of the photos that I had uploaded long ago. See, its not that I don't want to post my photos, its just that the uploading process is so tedious and slow and I just can't stand it. Erm, so those who keeps bugging me to upload photos can help me upload and I will put in the captions! :)

One of the lunches with my aunt at Square2. Tucked in quite a corner we found this Old Hong Kong Kitchen place. Pretty nice decor, quiet and serves decent food.

And they have cute dining sets. So matching!

We ordered some floral tea and the teapot is so cute. It is sort of like plastic or acrylic and is pretty light. But again, I don't think that it is plastic because it wouldn't be able to withstand the temperature right?

And the cups are pretty cute too. (Goodness, I think that the keyword here is 'cute') It is of the same stuff as the teapot and it is pretty shallow. There seems to be some form of 'platform' thing inside the bottom of the cup and gives it a very nice look but the liquid that you can pour into it is pretty limited.

The aunt. Busying with something. No idea what it was.

Me and the sister

I believe this was awhile after I got a new haircut. Hair no longer so long now. But the fringe is still there.

She is sad. Probably because she has to take photos with me.

Oh! The hargow! Yummy and juicy and suc-cu-lent!

The siewmai is pretty good too. Actually the dim-sum there is quite up to standard.

And chee cheong fun. Not dry like those we see outside. The skin is pretty 'moisturised'.

And Peking Duck! How can we go to somewhere that sells Peking Duck and not eat it?

More dim-sum! Fried shrimp wanton.

I think this is some prawn/mango thingy, I think.

Xiao long baos!

This was what happened to the rest of our Peking Duck that didn't go into our wrap. We chose the meat to be wrapped in tofu-skin.

Carrot cake! You guys can like totally feel my excitement right? You can't imagine how happy I am when I see food. Or maybe you can.

The sister trying to look sad about her phone. Her lousy phone just died in a weird way. The external camera showed the loading screen when she tried to use it. And of course, it never ever loads. Her internal camera works fine but then how to take photos like that?

Then her phone decided that it had enough! Subsequently, when she tried to slide her phone up, it showed a blank screen, i.e. can't be used anymore.

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Saturday, September 12, 2009, 12:46 AM :

Lalala, the concert disease is spreading.
Lalala, the zoo disease is spreading too!

I now have new kakis to go to the zoo and concerts!

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Thursday, September 10, 2009, 1:24 AM :

Random Photos

Since I had logged into my Blogger after 10 million years, and these photos were already pre-loaded by me 100 million years ago, save me the trouble to continue loading my Japan photos. I can clear some backlog too. :)

Some dim-sum that we had some time ago at Ah Yat I think (don't even remember when, and with who!). I just remembered that I thought these balls look so globby and gooey, looked that they were going to jump up and eat us all and take over the world after that!

Our Karen-jie and Alan Shin from office. Taken a few days before he left. Hope he is doing so much better now! (And Karen is as black-faced as ever!)

See, we take photos so happy!! And that was when I still had my long hair.

Day of our Quarterly Department Lunch @ Garuda. Serves Indonesian buffet style food. Pretty decent spread and quality is not too bad for the price.

Ok, this is really testing my memory skills since these photos were uploaded eons ago. Can't remember where I took this but I thought that the weighing machine was damn cute. Looks like a robot!

Mango cake-jelly thingy from Cafe Brio @ Carlton Hotel. Looks pretty good but tasted pretty awful. Part of the buffet lunch spread when I went there for a PR/EQ course. Course content wasn't half too bad, if only the instructor was less naggy and irritating. He had all sorts of funny habits, for example kept on asking rhetorical questions and kept talking about the past, or rather his past. BORING!

Some pumpkin bun that we had at Ah Yat during one of our lunches. Looks pretty cute, doesn't it?

The chocolates, flower and cup that we bought for 2 colleagues' promotion! The cup is so cute!!

One of our outings to Clarke Quay, I think, because this looks suspiciously like the Liang Court Starbucks. Somehow, we will always end up in Starbucks. Whatever that I earned from them, I had returned to them x 10 million!!

This I remember! It was lunch in Malaysia with my parents, around Chinese New Year time. Gosh, that was like 6 months ago!

Anyway, this is yam paste. Damn yummy! One of my favourite desserts of all time!

This place that we had lunch has a very strange tradition. The boss will make decisions for his customers. Basically, if he says the chicken is good today, you can't say no. And if he says there is no fish today, he really means it. And if you try to over-order (like how I always do), he will refuse to take your additional orders.

Apparently, the day we went it was fried spring chicken day.

And noodles too! Looks gooey but yummy!

And since it was around the CNY period, he 'nicely suggested' for us to 'lou hei' too.

The sister.

Xiao Long Baos from Beauty World Plaza. The stall is sort of tucked in a corner at the top of the plaza, which is a hawker centre. Pretty cheap (I think, since I didn't pay for it) and nice too I recall, although there has been mixed reviews on this. Go try it out yourself!

Ok, first set down. Many many more to go! Argh!!

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 4:11 PM :

Disappeared for eons because for a period of time, I think I just lost the motivation to write. I think work has successfully numbed my brain. At work I do stuff, mostly routine and not requiring much brain power. When I reach home, I feel so tired of using my brain that I just play games through the night till I go to bed.

Anyway, I've just came back from a holiday with the bf. Back from the land of Hello Kitty, vending machines, automated taps that actually works without you having to consciously aim for the sensor, toilet bowls that wash your buttocks for you, sushi, sashimi, tempura... You get the idea, Japan!

Photos hopefully will be up soon (my backlog is amazing).

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Thursday, June 18, 2009, 11:32 PM :

Yay problem solved.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 5:15 PM :

Work in Progress

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9:15 AM :

Bentendo Pasta & Cafe

Catching on overdue posts and photos. More food, yay!

Not long ago we went to Great World City to catch Night at the Museum, which was a hilariously funny movie and I love it so much that I think I am going to buy the dvds when they come out. The show was quite witty-ly funny and there were so many parts that made me laugh like mad. The bf was commenting on how I kept laughing at almost every part but everything was so funny! Can't really describe how funny it is, I don't think I have enough vocab to go through a review but I hope my love for this show can pull through and be felt by all. :)

So, Great World City. Before the movie we still had to eat and Starbucks was not an option although I think they should start selling dinner or something so that we don't have to fret over meal locations all the time. Imagine if Starbucks starts selling food and meals, we will never have the trouble of indecisiveness anymore!

Ok, so Starbucks doesn't sell food so we still had to find alternatives. Walking around the place, we ended up at Bentendo Pasta & Cafe at Level 3. I don't usually eat Japanese food but I don't really mind them, as long as they are cooked. We went in and looked at the menu and took a really long time deciding on our food because there were simply too many things that we wanted to try. In the end, the bf had some fried noodles thingy and I had some hotplate mixed thingy.

Dish #1 - Fried noodles with chicken. The bf said that the noodles didn't taste as good as it looked on the menu. But I'd tried the chicken and it doesn't taste half as bad.

Dish #2 - My hotplate mixed thingy that comprises of tempura prawns, sausage and a piece of chicken and fries. Oh, this is yummy. I even ate the corn!

After finishing the main courses, there must always be dessert to end off the meal.

Look at the colourful menu! How to choose like that??

Very studiously studying the menu, trying to make a decision.

Dessert #1 - Strawberry Sundae (I'm sure they had a more creative name but I can't remember it and it IS essentially strawberry sundae!) And it is yummy too.

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