Makansutra
Food! LIVE TO EAT OR EAT TO LIVE?
well... live to eat seems really stupid. make your life on earth so meaningless.
so i'll go with eat to live but eat with colour.
today's food review by d. h. hong-
Soba so good.
East to West Buffet.
Soba so good.
All Jap food lovers, this is the place for you to go. A soba specialty jap restaurant. When you reach the entrance, you are greeted by a long line of patrons waiting patiently for their seat in the restaurant. Large posters showing the health benefits of eating soba and the super friendly jap manager entertains you while you wait. The overly eager manager greets everybody, thanks all who have finished their meal, keeping his torso bent at 90 degrees as you walk out, speaks in jap to the jap patrons and speaks in fluent mandarin to all the chinese.
The food comes really soon after ordering so you won't have to wait long. Their entire menu is soba based. so you can have sashimi with soba, unagi soba, tempura with soba etc. I had a set which consisted of agedashi tofu with salmon, unagi and tempura soft shell crab and vege together with cold soba. The side dishes were good but I like the cold soba best. It's so cool, light and refreshing with seaweed and crunchy fried tempura flour bits which complement it. yummy! Well, they claim that soba is very healthy and it is a carbo which will not be converted to fat so you can eat it as much as you want! yea the next time i go there, i'll just have a plate of cold soba!
dessert was soba cubes eaten with brown syrup and soy bean powder. it was very interesting cos it came with a four pronged square shaped fork and a sieve ladle. so you dip the white cubes in the syrup and then into the powder and you get a chewy muah chee like dessert. but it's not heavy and it's healthy cos there is no oil unlike in muah chee. simple but addictive.
so the verdict.
service:4 munches
quality:4 1/2 munches
ambience: 3 1/2 munches
price: 3 munches
the restaurant is located opp spageddies, basement of paragon.
East to West Buffet
The hotel where it's located is no fantastic high class restaurant. when you enter, you'd think it's a budget hotel as the lobby is dark and the layout is definitely not modern. but let not the ambience affect the spread of food available. ok let me recall from memory. it has 4 major buffet spreads- WESTERN, STEAMBOAT, BBQ and ASIAN. western includes pizza, pasta, lasgne, lamb chops, sauteed potatoes, grilled salmon, grilled tomatoes, fresh oysters, cold prawns, mussels, salad, mushroom cream grilled cheese prawns, roast beef, pork ribs etc. steamboat- din really eat steamboat cos the other food were too good. just your normal steamboat stuff then. BBQ- chicken and mutton satay, chicken wings, lamb chop, stingray, sotong, baby lobster etc. asian- tempura, sashimi, nasi lemak, laksa, satay beehoon, crab, fried noodles, roast duck, roast pork, roast chicken etc. and for the sweet tooth there are choc eclair, ice cream, ice kachang, cakes, kuehs, bread and butter pudding, brownies and fruits. well ok not everything was fantastic, the pizza was terrible, pasta not very nice and the stingray tasted like ammonia. but the others more than made up for it. definitely worth your money.
verdict:
service: 3 munches
quality:3 1/2 munches
ambience: 2 munches
price: 2 munches (about 32 bucks)
it's located at garden hotel at balmoral rd.
sorry no photos. forgot to bring it today. til the next food review.
d. h. hong out.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Exams are over for now. But i dunno what to do. anything interesting i should take up?
Went to camp today, after the study break i took. Thought i had enough of sitting down, getting bum sores from all the studying. but my officers had nothing for us, jit and i. did some nonsense statistic powerpoint, explored a bit of excel. then we had nothing to do! so listened to jit talk about the crappy things he does like taking up an online course by some dubious (which he claims) universal life church and getting himself ordained as a priest. So if anybody needs someone to do marriage ceremonies or excorcism (yes, chasing ghosts away!), go look for jit. he also found out that he could buy himself a phd and get conferred a royal british title like count or duke for just £300. hahaha... things people do to pass time.
and speaking about passing time. time passed sooooo slowly today. after lunch, decided we shouldn't be chatting in front of the doctors while they worked so we planted ourselves in the library. thought we would be uprooted to do some work, but hours passed w/o hearing anything from the officers. most people would be happy to just slack, but i was itching to do something useful. you know, just get out to do something, run, move my body, anything. so just read my book til i was tired. took a nap til my body was sore. then went online til the library closed and it was time to knock off. wow... and nothing interesting planned after work. so just eat, watch tv and get fat. hope tmrw will be better.
Went to camp today, after the study break i took. Thought i had enough of sitting down, getting bum sores from all the studying. but my officers had nothing for us, jit and i. did some nonsense statistic powerpoint, explored a bit of excel. then we had nothing to do! so listened to jit talk about the crappy things he does like taking up an online course by some dubious (which he claims) universal life church and getting himself ordained as a priest. So if anybody needs someone to do marriage ceremonies or excorcism (yes, chasing ghosts away!), go look for jit. he also found out that he could buy himself a phd and get conferred a royal british title like count or duke for just £300. hahaha... things people do to pass time.
and speaking about passing time. time passed sooooo slowly today. after lunch, decided we shouldn't be chatting in front of the doctors while they worked so we planted ourselves in the library. thought we would be uprooted to do some work, but hours passed w/o hearing anything from the officers. most people would be happy to just slack, but i was itching to do something useful. you know, just get out to do something, run, move my body, anything. so just read my book til i was tired. took a nap til my body was sore. then went online til the library closed and it was time to knock off. wow... and nothing interesting planned after work. so just eat, watch tv and get fat. hope tmrw will be better.
YOOHOO! I'm back!
watching LOST now. gotta say it's quite exciting. the lead actor is a doctor. totally calm, professional, intelligent and cool.
shit man. what is that thing? a dinosaur? plane crash one thing. man eating monster another. what's next?!!!!
niwae... been studying for supps. gotta say supps was totally uackukablea! ok i knew more stuff cos i actually studied more this time but the questions were not that easy. most can be found in the notes but not so straight forward. a couple had less definite answers and one totally not found in the notes. so all of us just left that 10 marks question blank. RNAi. siRNA. can't believe they tested us on something that was mentioned in a video in lt but not in the notes. they actually set a more difficult paper for us! from the way i see things are going, it's as if they want all of us to repeat the year or get out of sch. now.. as heard from prof jeya, supposedly even those who pass will have to go for viva next week. sigh.. really hope we don't have to. for now, i'll just not think about it and be optimistic!
seem to have isolated myself from the rest of the world so much that i feel so lost now. didn't know what to do after my paper. fortunately, chanced upon the m2s playing floorball. alas, my lungs had to give up on me. couldn't even last 10 minutes of running. breathlessness due to narrowing and blockage by phlegm. anyone got a cure besides inhalers?
finally saw the married med couple. asrie was one of the m2s playing and he was the best. he ran and changed direction so fast yet the ball stayed close to his stick like it was glued. his shots were accurate and deadly too. hmmm.. maybe my sports comm can include floorball in the next intra fac but ban asrie from playing? haha...
then got a lift from janice the reckless to town. whoa... never have i been a passenger of a reckless female driver. she's even more hiong than the craziest driver i know-dong. hahaha.. speeding, changing lanes so quickly, making an old lady cross the zebra crossing so fast by driving close to her. only a keen mind, quick reflexes and pure guts can allow you to do that. that is definitely not me. i'm a hum chee driver. hahaha
so walked around in town alone. quite sian this gss. din see anything i need or what. except for 1 thing which i planned to get if i pass my supp. but that shall remain a secret. yea ate at some pasta bar in taka which wasn't too good. n home. wow... what a great way to celebrate the end of supp. or maybe cos there is the impending viva or repeating of year 1. we'll see... we'll see.
LOST just ended. will surely watch next week's episode.
watching LOST now. gotta say it's quite exciting. the lead actor is a doctor. totally calm, professional, intelligent and cool.
shit man. what is that thing? a dinosaur? plane crash one thing. man eating monster another. what's next?!!!!
niwae... been studying for supps. gotta say supps was totally uackukablea! ok i knew more stuff cos i actually studied more this time but the questions were not that easy. most can be found in the notes but not so straight forward. a couple had less definite answers and one totally not found in the notes. so all of us just left that 10 marks question blank. RNAi. siRNA. can't believe they tested us on something that was mentioned in a video in lt but not in the notes. they actually set a more difficult paper for us! from the way i see things are going, it's as if they want all of us to repeat the year or get out of sch. now.. as heard from prof jeya, supposedly even those who pass will have to go for viva next week. sigh.. really hope we don't have to. for now, i'll just not think about it and be optimistic!
seem to have isolated myself from the rest of the world so much that i feel so lost now. didn't know what to do after my paper. fortunately, chanced upon the m2s playing floorball. alas, my lungs had to give up on me. couldn't even last 10 minutes of running. breathlessness due to narrowing and blockage by phlegm. anyone got a cure besides inhalers?
finally saw the married med couple. asrie was one of the m2s playing and he was the best. he ran and changed direction so fast yet the ball stayed close to his stick like it was glued. his shots were accurate and deadly too. hmmm.. maybe my sports comm can include floorball in the next intra fac but ban asrie from playing? haha...
then got a lift from janice the reckless to town. whoa... never have i been a passenger of a reckless female driver. she's even more hiong than the craziest driver i know-dong. hahaha.. speeding, changing lanes so quickly, making an old lady cross the zebra crossing so fast by driving close to her. only a keen mind, quick reflexes and pure guts can allow you to do that. that is definitely not me. i'm a hum chee driver. hahaha
so walked around in town alone. quite sian this gss. din see anything i need or what. except for 1 thing which i planned to get if i pass my supp. but that shall remain a secret. yea ate at some pasta bar in taka which wasn't too good. n home. wow... what a great way to celebrate the end of supp. or maybe cos there is the impending viva or repeating of year 1. we'll see... we'll see.
LOST just ended. will surely watch next week's episode.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Koh Tao. Fay's 21st. MUNUS. Meeting with Dean. what exciting events. just no mood to raconter.
supp in exactly 2 weeks. progress not too good. congested airway is making me breathless. sleeping alot.
attachment at hq ams begins next wed. hopefully, i'll have time to study if it was as slack as last year.
no more bad passes for me!
supp in exactly 2 weeks. progress not too good. congested airway is making me breathless. sleeping alot.
attachment at hq ams begins next wed. hopefully, i'll have time to study if it was as slack as last year.
no more bad passes for me!
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Yay!!! I've passed my driving. Finally. Was so nervous that my left leg went into spasmodic contraction which I had no control of. Almost couldn't do half clutch in the circuit. Fortunately, circuit came and went without any problems. Thought my driving on the road was quite ok except for the last part when I stalled just before turning into the driving centre. Still, I managed to accumulate 14 demerit points. Oh well, a pass is a pass. Shall be able to drive the volkswagen polo til its 10 yr life expires this year. So supper anyone?
Damn irritated my ibook is down. Good thing I firewired my documents to Liana's powerbook before my dad sent it to the service centre. Gave me a shock. Shall have to get an ipod to back up my documents then. Was hoping the battery life would improve or the price would drop before i get it. This scare only means I've to get it soon.
Sick Sick Sick. A bug is flying around! My dad, mum, sis and I are all having the same symptoms of sore inflamed throat and cough. Am trying to fight it with listerine instead of going to see the doc. Must get well before MUNUS!
Damn irritated my ibook is down. Good thing I firewired my documents to Liana's powerbook before my dad sent it to the service centre. Gave me a shock. Shall have to get an ipod to back up my documents then. Was hoping the battery life would improve or the price would drop before i get it. This scare only means I've to get it soon.
Sick Sick Sick. A bug is flying around! My dad, mum, sis and I are all having the same symptoms of sore inflamed throat and cough. Am trying to fight it with listerine instead of going to see the doc. Must get well before MUNUS!
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Just came back today. Quite lazy last few days at Koh Tao. But still fun. Going for Fay's birthday dinner now. So Thailand details will have to wait.
denise> do i still have to go hk? realised my bank account is running low. n need to save up for europe next year. is gal ok with being the only guy? i'm sure it'll be ok u know....
denise> do i still have to go hk? realised my bank account is running low. n need to save up for europe next year. is gal ok with being the only guy? i'm sure it'll be ok u know....
Monday, May 09, 2005
9 May
Advanced Open Diving Course starts today! We get to choose 3 specialties and have 2 compulsory ones namely, navigation and deep diving. All of us chose peak buoyancy, and night dive as our options. The last one, there were variations. Dick, Greg (from Scotland) and I chose photography, while bang, yauhong, renjun chose naturalis (looking at fish and identifying them, and jasper chose multi level computer(learning how to use diving computer).
Off we went for the first 2 dives today. The water looked calm today so... phew. But i still took 2 seasick pills just in case. Suddenly, the boatman shouted, 'strong wind and wave 30 minute.' There, far in the horizon, we could seen a stretch of dark clouds creeping towards us. OH no... bad weather again. Strong winds, pouring rain. we were all freezing! Fortunately, it passed as quickly as it came. So we had nice clear waters once again.
We learnt how to control buoyancy just by breathing, so we can hover just above the corals or ground without touching them. There was also the upside down hover so that our head was just a few centimetres above the ground. That was quite challenging. Bang had some trouble and he kept banging his head on the sea floor.
Besides learning how to control buoyancy and navigation, Jasper and I also had a great day. We saw parrot fish, grouper, butterfly fish, puffer fish, barracudas, and other commmon small fish. Yoo hoo!!! Best day. THe other day I saw a really small octopus under a rock. I still hope to see a trigger fish and the one every divers yearns to see- the gigantic whale shark. THere have been many sightings, but we haven't seen them yet. Hope we can see them on our final few dives tommorow.
3 dives tmr- deep dive where we go to 30m, photography dive where I learn to take the best shots and the night dive. I'm beginning to love Koh Tao. I feel so at home here. We know all the shops, we recognise everybody, we love planet scuba and the people there, we love yang's kitchen where we have cheap and good meals, and best of all we get to see beautiful people, fish and scenery. Man... can I not leave this place, cos it'll only mean i've to get back to studying...
well... i'll just enjoy my final 3 dives and shopping.
Nitrox Addict
Advanced Open Diving Course starts today! We get to choose 3 specialties and have 2 compulsory ones namely, navigation and deep diving. All of us chose peak buoyancy, and night dive as our options. The last one, there were variations. Dick, Greg (from Scotland) and I chose photography, while bang, yauhong, renjun chose naturalis (looking at fish and identifying them, and jasper chose multi level computer(learning how to use diving computer).
Off we went for the first 2 dives today. The water looked calm today so... phew. But i still took 2 seasick pills just in case. Suddenly, the boatman shouted, 'strong wind and wave 30 minute.' There, far in the horizon, we could seen a stretch of dark clouds creeping towards us. OH no... bad weather again. Strong winds, pouring rain. we were all freezing! Fortunately, it passed as quickly as it came. So we had nice clear waters once again.
We learnt how to control buoyancy just by breathing, so we can hover just above the corals or ground without touching them. There was also the upside down hover so that our head was just a few centimetres above the ground. That was quite challenging. Bang had some trouble and he kept banging his head on the sea floor.
Besides learning how to control buoyancy and navigation, Jasper and I also had a great day. We saw parrot fish, grouper, butterfly fish, puffer fish, barracudas, and other commmon small fish. Yoo hoo!!! Best day. THe other day I saw a really small octopus under a rock. I still hope to see a trigger fish and the one every divers yearns to see- the gigantic whale shark. THere have been many sightings, but we haven't seen them yet. Hope we can see them on our final few dives tommorow.
3 dives tmr- deep dive where we go to 30m, photography dive where I learn to take the best shots and the night dive. I'm beginning to love Koh Tao. I feel so at home here. We know all the shops, we recognise everybody, we love planet scuba and the people there, we love yang's kitchen where we have cheap and good meals, and best of all we get to see beautiful people, fish and scenery. Man... can I not leave this place, cos it'll only mean i've to get back to studying...
well... i'll just enjoy my final 3 dives and shopping.
Nitrox Addict
8 May
Whoa finally got my open water diving certification. So I'm a qualified diver now! But it was not easy getting it. For our final 2 dives, we went out to the southwest pinnacle. The waters were quite choppy, but I've never been seasick even when I was on Uncle Gerard's boat, so I refused the seasick pills. Shit man... when we were a bout to go in, I felt totally terrible. Deep under at 18m, I had a little difficulty breathing, so I was concentrating more on breathing than looking at the beautiful surroundings. Not surprising, I used up my air relatively quickly.
After surfacing and putting down the gear on the boat, I felt so sick that I threw up my morning's breakfast of chilli burger and milk and the 1 seasick pill. My chest felt much better and I took another 2 more yellow pills. So the all energetic team singapore was totally down yesterday. Renjun, Dick and I were all just lying on the sundeck. All pale and green.
The second dive was at white rock, another location where it was shallower and less choppy. Managed to enjoy the aquatic flora and fauna better. If fact, we had quite a bit of fun by posing in front of the video cam with sunglasses on. So we had a funny video clip of our final 2 dives. Shall post a short clip online if I can.
We celebrated on our becoming qualified divers by doing what we haven't done in a long long time. Arubang! and it was caught on video! Wonderful, Bang enjoyed it so much... hahaha
Whoa finally got my open water diving certification. So I'm a qualified diver now! But it was not easy getting it. For our final 2 dives, we went out to the southwest pinnacle. The waters were quite choppy, but I've never been seasick even when I was on Uncle Gerard's boat, so I refused the seasick pills. Shit man... when we were a bout to go in, I felt totally terrible. Deep under at 18m, I had a little difficulty breathing, so I was concentrating more on breathing than looking at the beautiful surroundings. Not surprising, I used up my air relatively quickly.
After surfacing and putting down the gear on the boat, I felt so sick that I threw up my morning's breakfast of chilli burger and milk and the 1 seasick pill. My chest felt much better and I took another 2 more yellow pills. So the all energetic team singapore was totally down yesterday. Renjun, Dick and I were all just lying on the sundeck. All pale and green.
The second dive was at white rock, another location where it was shallower and less choppy. Managed to enjoy the aquatic flora and fauna better. If fact, we had quite a bit of fun by posing in front of the video cam with sunglasses on. So we had a funny video clip of our final 2 dives. Shall post a short clip online if I can.
We celebrated on our becoming qualified divers by doing what we haven't done in a long long time. Arubang! and it was caught on video! Wonderful, Bang enjoyed it so much... hahaha
Saturday, May 07, 2005
Hello from Koh Tao Island Thailand!
Went for my first confined dive underwater today. It was really fun learning all the skills underwater. Water's really clear like the blue swimming pool, only that this pool has lotsa fish swimming around. Had a little panic in the begin when i wasn't used to breathing air from my regulator. Felt like I was having asthma and so wanted to give up and go to the surface. Fortunately I didn't give up. Super super fun! Can't wait for the ACTUAL DIVES 1 and 2 tomorrow. Heard that they saw stingrays yesterday and there have been whale sharks sightings everyday. Really hope we can see them! Well... off to study for my final dive exam now. Phew... the heat's killing me. I've been sweating all day. Even after a nice cold shower.
Went for my first confined dive underwater today. It was really fun learning all the skills underwater. Water's really clear like the blue swimming pool, only that this pool has lotsa fish swimming around. Had a little panic in the begin when i wasn't used to breathing air from my regulator. Felt like I was having asthma and so wanted to give up and go to the surface. Fortunately I didn't give up. Super super fun! Can't wait for the ACTUAL DIVES 1 and 2 tomorrow. Heard that they saw stingrays yesterday and there have been whale sharks sightings everyday. Really hope we can see them! Well... off to study for my final dive exam now. Phew... the heat's killing me. I've been sweating all day. Even after a nice cold shower.
Monday, May 02, 2005
Now that it's over. I wanna say thanks to all my friends and my family! I think this birthday has been crazy!!!! Lots of eating. Hanging out. And.... I've never received so many pressies in my life! Not even at Christmas when i was young did i receive so many... Thanks for muthu's curry. Thnx for tiramisu cake. Thanks for Island creamery choc ice cream cake. Thanks for the thailand trip dad! Thanks for seafood at JB! Thanks for gay purple shirt. Thanks dee for sesame street minis with one and only 1 bert. Thanks for the monkey shirt dick. thanks for incy wincy spider tarantula dong n zj. n thanks for whatever u have for me kerl. hmmm... did i miss anything else? guess not... yay! now it's a happy birthday!
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Bugsome
Ever thought why things BUG you? Why is it BUG? Do they irritate you, scare you, pester you, freak you, disturb you, simply piss you off like BUGS do? Does it help when you have more than one BUG? grrrrr.... if only things were as easy as taking the rolled newspaper and smacking them so that they become flattened and squished and stop BUGGING you. BUG off!
Ever thought why things BUG you? Why is it BUG? Do they irritate you, scare you, pester you, freak you, disturb you, simply piss you off like BUGS do? Does it help when you have more than one BUG? grrrrr.... if only things were as easy as taking the rolled newspaper and smacking them so that they become flattened and squished and stop BUGGING you. BUG off!
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Thanks everyone for the birthday celebration in JB. Really appreciate it. Thanks for the treat, the delicious food, the gifts, the party sprays, the cake and most importantly the company. Never felt so loved since.... last week. hahaha. Amazing to have met such great friends. Thanks jianhong, ET, cow, sel, jasper, jianbang, yijun, renjun, hb, toh han, diya, victor, daniel, wenxian and huang yi. Love you guys!
Monday, April 25, 2005
23rd Avril
These 2 days I've been moody and cranky. Not sure why, lack of sleep? Birthday Blues?
I dunno. Woke up really late on 23rd, as usual turned on com and wasted time. After much procrastination, thought out what I wanted to do for the day and set out. 1st, swimming. 30 laps of slow swimming. So slow everyone just swims past you. No goggles, so eyes smarted. Dry and irritated. Yes irritated for unknown reasons like I am. Was cranky towards mum, wanted to go town and drink latte(my new fav drink, love the froth). Planned got screwed up when mum wanted me to go home to cut cake. ok... gave in. wanted to go subway and have a healthy salad. Mum 'da baoed' rice from me at ngee ann poly. grrrrr!!!!
Came home, dad tapped me on the head. I dunno if it was meant to be affectionate or what. but i became pissed off. so i just threw everything i was carrying onto the ground and kicked it. din really throw a tantrum. at least it wasn't too obvious. dad gave me my birthday present and mum brought out my cake. got the biggest birthday gift ever!!!! he's sponsoring my thailand diving trip.... woooooo! and ate the choc ice cream cake from serene centre. and it was mood lifting and sweet! felt much better after. Was so full at 3pm, how were we to eat buffet at 6? so told mum to change it to 7.
Got a ride from mum to orchard. Saw fiona xie!!!! She and chew chor meng were taking a break from shooting a variety show i think. Having ice cream bread. Fiona's really pretty and this time she put less make up so not too hideous. I just stood and stared at her and she caught me staring. Shit... Wandered round looking for a place to sit down, have my latte and do some MUNUS work on my laptop. but everywhere was so crowded!
Grrrr.... hate this post. It's gonna become like a timetable for the day. Shall just summarise everything.
Found a seat at Starbucks Paragon. Saw Dennis Yee and Chengxun. Went to have thai buffet with family at Safra Club. Was greeted by a woman with a man's voice. Whoa... really authentic thai place. Haha.. There was not one but a few transie waitresses. Food was bad! Knowing me... I'm always ok with food. As long as it's edible. But the food was no way good! The only decent one was Paad Thai. The fried tung hoon, reminded me of the one i fried in cambodia. Spicy, black and crappy. Even i think I fried a little better that. Basil restaurant at Safra Club... definitely a place never to go!
Met up with Dong and Zhi-jun. Slacked around at Clarke Quay and Boat Quay. Love the relaxing ambience at TCC. Bean bags, sitting on the floor, paintings on the walls, arty fashion magazines for reading pleasure. Fabulous!
day after
really bad. slept like really late, near 5? so couldn't wake up in time for church. had to rush. went to church and was so sleepy, i kept nodding off. argh.... so guilty. next week, i'm going early and listen attentively!!!
cow's parents were so happy to see me. the half son is finally back! yea... so i just chatted for a while, kept awake by the black coffee. the next moment, i'm home and conked out on my parents bed. supposed to go rj and meet the guys for a game of touch. ended up waking up late and cranky once again.
my mum had bought tickets for a void deck party w/o informing us. only told us last min. grrrr... so i went downstairs... totally stone and unresponsive. refused to get food myself. mum got some popiah for me and it was horrible! the skin was so dry.... after eating nice good popiah skin bought from popiah skin stalls i refuse to accept any other. the disappointing popiah and salad made me so pissed, i decided to go back up. packed my bag for touch and ultimate frisbee.
the guys left rj by the time i got there. so met jianhong and bridgette for ultimate frisbee at bishan park. chanced upon kaiyi and my bmt platoon mate at the clinic as well. what a surprise! so we flicked our wrist, learnt the techniques of shooting the flying disc, the rules of game and tactics. Think it was the most fun I've had in 2 days! Adrenaline rush! Learnt how to throw a frisbee before and was in foxtrot wing frisbee team for ocs carnival before i disrupted. so i had no problem integrating into the game fast. The players are so good! really envious. they're asking all of us to sign up for a league and join the ultimate frisbee community. i dun mind... but i'll have to see. need to spare time to study for supp too. yep anyway... hope tmr will be a good day!
These 2 days I've been moody and cranky. Not sure why, lack of sleep? Birthday Blues?
I dunno. Woke up really late on 23rd, as usual turned on com and wasted time. After much procrastination, thought out what I wanted to do for the day and set out. 1st, swimming. 30 laps of slow swimming. So slow everyone just swims past you. No goggles, so eyes smarted. Dry and irritated. Yes irritated for unknown reasons like I am. Was cranky towards mum, wanted to go town and drink latte(my new fav drink, love the froth). Planned got screwed up when mum wanted me to go home to cut cake. ok... gave in. wanted to go subway and have a healthy salad. Mum 'da baoed' rice from me at ngee ann poly. grrrrr!!!!
Came home, dad tapped me on the head. I dunno if it was meant to be affectionate or what. but i became pissed off. so i just threw everything i was carrying onto the ground and kicked it. din really throw a tantrum. at least it wasn't too obvious. dad gave me my birthday present and mum brought out my cake. got the biggest birthday gift ever!!!! he's sponsoring my thailand diving trip.... woooooo! and ate the choc ice cream cake from serene centre. and it was mood lifting and sweet! felt much better after. Was so full at 3pm, how were we to eat buffet at 6? so told mum to change it to 7.
Got a ride from mum to orchard. Saw fiona xie!!!! She and chew chor meng were taking a break from shooting a variety show i think. Having ice cream bread. Fiona's really pretty and this time she put less make up so not too hideous. I just stood and stared at her and she caught me staring. Shit... Wandered round looking for a place to sit down, have my latte and do some MUNUS work on my laptop. but everywhere was so crowded!
Grrrr.... hate this post. It's gonna become like a timetable for the day. Shall just summarise everything.
Found a seat at Starbucks Paragon. Saw Dennis Yee and Chengxun. Went to have thai buffet with family at Safra Club. Was greeted by a woman with a man's voice. Whoa... really authentic thai place. Haha.. There was not one but a few transie waitresses. Food was bad! Knowing me... I'm always ok with food. As long as it's edible. But the food was no way good! The only decent one was Paad Thai. The fried tung hoon, reminded me of the one i fried in cambodia. Spicy, black and crappy. Even i think I fried a little better that. Basil restaurant at Safra Club... definitely a place never to go!
Met up with Dong and Zhi-jun. Slacked around at Clarke Quay and Boat Quay. Love the relaxing ambience at TCC. Bean bags, sitting on the floor, paintings on the walls, arty fashion magazines for reading pleasure. Fabulous!
day after
really bad. slept like really late, near 5? so couldn't wake up in time for church. had to rush. went to church and was so sleepy, i kept nodding off. argh.... so guilty. next week, i'm going early and listen attentively!!!
cow's parents were so happy to see me. the half son is finally back! yea... so i just chatted for a while, kept awake by the black coffee. the next moment, i'm home and conked out on my parents bed. supposed to go rj and meet the guys for a game of touch. ended up waking up late and cranky once again.
my mum had bought tickets for a void deck party w/o informing us. only told us last min. grrrr... so i went downstairs... totally stone and unresponsive. refused to get food myself. mum got some popiah for me and it was horrible! the skin was so dry.... after eating nice good popiah skin bought from popiah skin stalls i refuse to accept any other. the disappointing popiah and salad made me so pissed, i decided to go back up. packed my bag for touch and ultimate frisbee.
the guys left rj by the time i got there. so met jianhong and bridgette for ultimate frisbee at bishan park. chanced upon kaiyi and my bmt platoon mate at the clinic as well. what a surprise! so we flicked our wrist, learnt the techniques of shooting the flying disc, the rules of game and tactics. Think it was the most fun I've had in 2 days! Adrenaline rush! Learnt how to throw a frisbee before and was in foxtrot wing frisbee team for ocs carnival before i disrupted. so i had no problem integrating into the game fast. The players are so good! really envious. they're asking all of us to sign up for a league and join the ultimate frisbee community. i dun mind... but i'll have to see. need to spare time to study for supp too. yep anyway... hope tmr will be a good day!
Friday, April 22, 2005
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