止战之伤

今早我的好友又来找我了。 嗨。。。 它总是喜欢在三更半夜来亲吻我！ 害得我无法睡得安稳。 最讨厌它总喜欢在我耳边细语， 还逼我玩捉迷藏。 本想与它和平共处， 毕竟我们已经井水不犯河水几个月了， 但它使出死缠烂打之招数， 逼得我走投无路不得不应酬它， 只好开灯陪它玩一玩儿。 我守株待兔， 等到它不耐烦露出阵脚。 我试图将它一网打尽。 怎知一山还有一山高， 我竟然让它的同党逃之夭夭。 想必今晚又有一番龙争虎斗。 看来我得施出我的杀手锏， 与它孤军作战。 蚊子， 放马过来！

Cafe Cartel

Met up with SN on a lazy sunday afternoon. It's usually very hard to get me out on a Sunday unless i initiated it. But since i would be clearing my hari raya off-in-lieu tomorrow so today is practically a Saturday to me! :P

SN suggested eating at cafe cartel cos there's free flow of bread and since there's increase in flour prices recently, he reckoned it's very worthwhile to eat free bread now. -_-" as usual, SN and his crap... have not heard much of that since i left my ex-company...

True enough the bread was very popular. It was snatched up every time it was replenished by the staff. OMG! We ate about 14 slices in all! hee.....

Must be the bread... we were having difficulties finishing our starter and main course. (Note the singular form of the noun used. cos we only ordered one starter and one main course!) It is known that metabolism rate decrease with age and now it's proven! I didn't know SN to be such a small eater! hehe...

Anyway, the Supreme Platter and the Ham & Eggs Club Sandwich were so-so only. i would have liked the sandwich more if the bread was not fried. after the citibank discount, we paid about $8 each! cheap cheap!

Lazy Sunday Morning

What shall i do on a lazy sunday when i do not need to work the following day?

1. go shopping
2. go watch movie
3. go play sport
4. surf the net and chat with frens
5. go makan with frens

Option 1 is out cos nothing to buy.

Option 2 is out cos nothing good to watch. (despite me wanting to use my popcorn card cos there's birthday discount!)

Option 3 is out cos i did that yesterday.

Left with Options 4 and 5.

I decided to jio the first person on msn out to lunch! hehe. After almost one hour of discussion, SN and I finally made up our mind to go IMM to look look see see walk walk. It was one of our fav long lunch locations when we were working at our ex-company.

[Sidenote: IMM had changed much in the past year. The only change i don't like is that they are going to start charging for parking from Nov 07! :( ]

Daiman 18 @ JB

Miracle! It did not rain today. The last few times i played here with my kakis, it would never fail to rain! Today's score was not that bad.. considering i had not swing my clubs for 3 months! but i lost 7 balls... :(

Mind Cafe

Went out with my colleagues last night on our monthly eat-out session.

i had the fish and shrooms pasta... won't eat it again. SL and SY ate the Crispy chicken platter which is quite nice. J got the Fisherman that is not bad too.

the fish and shrooms pasta... if only it taste as good as it looks...


the mind black & white brownie - yum!

There's this game that we played. Forgot what is the name... We wanted a fast paced game and this was recommended by the server. Basically, everyone has a bag with some objects in it. We are supposed to pick out an object from the bag (without peeping in it!) that is the same as the figure on the playing card. The fastest one wins.

Quite a childish game but we all had a good laugh.... at me! (-_-")

i must be getting old... or my sense of touch is not as good as the rest. i lost in all the rounds! :'(

Simply Red

Thanks to my colleagues for this belated birthday present! Have not gotten a watch for years! hehe.

The best thing is...... it's RED!

Speechless!

What a major let down!

After anticipating for weeks, it had to accumulate to this! First time that i felt so stressed out in class. First, the class started late cos the instructor G was busy concentrating her time on other projects. Second, when she asked about our dance background, she was surprised that the few of us were only beginners! Hello! You were the one who suggested we come for this technique class when there were not enough to make up the intermediate. Now look who's talking! I felt like retorting her when she said that technique was for those who had done intermediate. But I kept my cool. Way to go, gal!

During the class, we practised the basic steps and were told to dance around the room. Being our first lesson, we were not clear of what she wanted us to do. Did she want a sequence? Oh gosh! We had forgotten the steps. And there was no partner for us today. I had to partner J and both of us did not know how to lead. After seeing our disastrous attempt, she said she just wanted us to move across the room using whatever steps we know. Need not be a sequence, just go with the flow. What crap! She should make herself clear right from the start! Finally we managed to manoeuvre round the room, albeit a little clumsy.

Before the class ends, she taught us a new step which i gathered the rest of the class knew prior cos they could even do a variation of the step! It was so difficult that I had even forgotten the name of the step!

Sigh... Too challenging and we simply did not enjoy the class. So after it ended, we talked to K to voice our grievances to switch back to an intermediate class. Alas! The next intermediate class is on 28 Nov. That's such a long time away! And who knows it might not realise if the numbers are too little. So he suggested we take a private class since there're 5 of us. But it'll be more expensive. We'd have control over the timing though... What to do... No choice cos we prefer K to G as we are more familiar with K who was our beginner instructor. We really dun like G. So what if she's the principal. She's just not as approachable.

So we'll have to wait till 9 Nov for our first lesson after accommodating everyone's schedule. Anticipating that day... Just hope that it won't be a let down again... Seeking for a 6th person to take up the class with us to share the cost so it would be cheaper! Male preferred! hehe.

Oh ya. They still have the audacity to collect fees for today's class from us! Words just could not describe my exasperation! So much so that i had to type my thoughts on my hp on my way home in the train. If not, I might fall sick if I bottle it up!

More photos

Some more shots from yesterday... Though the competition was a disaster, some of the pics taken are quite nice imho...

though tiny, managed to capture the bumboat in the pic

another of the corner mirror shot. tat's me taking the photo!

somehow i think this photo is interesting. credits to QY for her legs?!

Canon Photo Marathon 2007

Can't believe i climbed out of bed at 0545hrs today for the Photo Marathon. YZ and I had signed up for the fun of it and were eagerly anticipating it last night. What we didn't expect is the full body workout! Almost like having ran a full marathon! My back was breaking after only the first theme! We were supposed to take photos fitting the themes given in the time allocated. One theme was given out at 0900, 1200 and 1500 hrs each respectively.

The first theme was Passion. huh... i was hoping that it would be rain... Cos it was raining... haha... anyway, saw that a lot of the participants started swarming to Food Republic to shoot the hawkers and eaters... us? we decided to just walk where our feet bring us!

This was what i submitted. Saw this mag lying on a sale rack at bras basah and just shot it on a spur of cheekiness. Was starving by the time we went back and submitted our photos.

The second theme was more challenging than the first cos the theme was a challenging Challenge. (@_@) It was a big challenge especially when we (the brave, lone souls using compact cameras) were being drowned by the pool of DSLRs. I wanted to submit this photo but YZ and QY said the latter was better...

The last assignment was Playtime.

Great! Everyone had the same idea of finding some kid to shoot. QY suggested shooting animals in their playtime. Problem is where do we find animals?! Our attempt at shooting butterflies and monitor lizards (gasp!) failed flat. Eventually some guys we saw at Millenia Walk managed to persuade a pair of siblings to pose for them. Alas! the limited capabilities of our cameras failed to capture the essence of the mood. In the end, handed in a photo i took in the morning outside the dance school.

Dunno if it is due to the physical or mental exercise, we were hungry the whole day. Been eating drinking eating drinking. Although we were all exhausted and drained, i think we had a great time! Esp. brainstorming funny (read: lame) ideas to illustrate the themes given. hahaha.

Anyway, i like the following few photos, even though they are not related to any of the themes at all.

so colourful! so cute! (^^,)

discovered that my old cam has the B/W mode only yesterday nite!

i simply like the feel of this photo

reflection

Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao

We always like to go there for a good hearty meal. Nothing to really scream about but the must-eats are obviously the xiao long bao (hey! it's already spelt out in the restaurant name!) and the la mian.

We ordered the promotion set which consist of 2 冷盘, 2 小菜 and choice of 炒面 or 炒饭 and 3 点心. As my Bro was still hungry, we ordered 2 additional dishes. burb burb! :D

Some of the dishes worth mentioning....

上海小笼包 - do i still need to say anything? it's the signboard!

木须肉炒拉面 - nice cos the la mian was al dente.

翡翠赛螃蚧 - presentation is nice. taste nothing special.

酸辣汤拉面 - my bro's fav. very spicy! can see him sweat! haha!

of course what is birthday without a cake, right? the cake my mom bought. raspberry delight

Red

a red pen to put inside my red bag!

wishes

Sing a song of Birthdays
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year.

- Anonymous

Countdown....

About half an hour to go... and i'm one yr older....

a year older... should be another year wiser... perhaps i should do some reflection over my life so far... well, assuming we'll live till 100, i should be panicking over the quarter life crisis for a few years now! yah... think i will do some soul searching...

Caution: woman in deep thought...

on second thoughts... maybe i'll do that while in deep sleep... Zzz... ciao...

Ajisen Ramen

This was the first ramen i thought that taste vaguely like the one i had in sapporo. the one that makes the heart go warm (as i always tell my sensei! hee!)

i like this ramen, nice and chewy, always al-dente but would have preferred more curly noodles. another minus point is that it has no menma.

九月初五

Q: When do you eat mee sua?
(ans at the bottom)

Mummy cooked mee sua for me today! yum yum! hehe. the mee sua cannot be seen cos it's blocked by my fav mushrooms! (^^,)

A: when it is your lunar birthday! burb! :P

Countdown...

Received an early birthday present from my friends. thanks guys! i simply love red!

Outback Steakhouse @ Millenia Walk

Bushman 'Shrooms - yummy! Big juicy white button mushrooms! would prefer if it were a little less salty. browsed its online menu... it stated that the breaded and deep-fried mushrooms were served with a spicy ranch dressing... hmm....but i dun remember the dressing to be spicy... ???

Shared the main courses with the girls as we wanted to leave some room for dessert.

Fish N chips - after the strong taste of the appetiser, i found the fish to be tasteless... the batter is too blend but the fish is tender though.

BBQ Chicken Quarter - nice BBQ sauce that reminds me of ribs. i'm not a fan of the coleslaw and the mash potato is so-so..

It's true that we save the best for last! Girls you must try the Chocolate Thunder from Down under! oohh.... nice warm brownie with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce that's not annoying sweet.

Record breaker

3 firsts in one afternoon!

First time i saw dim sum trolley in a food court.

First time i ate under candlelight (oops correction, should be e-light) during lunch.

First time i realised how much i love a clean and unoccupied washroom when i needed it most! -_-"
(esp when u are outside and after a mysteriously unclean meal.. pls dun eat the handmade noodles at the newly renamed come wealthy city tower)

Chocolate obsession

Stalked out at home over the weekend due to the elements. Nasty weather this week. I'm sweating just sitting here doing nothing! Declined all appointments due to subcision recovery and a hideous rash which i suspect is due to the heat. And partly also having burst my allowance this month, no extra $$ for retail therapy too. So i turned to cleaning therapy. Housework is quite therapeutic if i'm in the mood for it. Quite a good weekend well-spent! Managed to clean up some parts of my room, including my trusty old fan. And as usual, cleaning session would inevitably turn into a sing-a-long session as well, as i give my CD collection an airing. \(^o^)/

And it doesn't hurt that there's yummy ice cream in the freezer! i'm loving this chocolate obsession ice-cream! choc chip in every bite. it's cheap and good! (^^,)

Friday blues

Sigh.... it's postponed again....

the school is so weird... they only call to confirm today's lesson today... so definitely some people didn't bring their dancing shoes out... so postponed to next week.... then 2 back out last minute... shesh.. left with 5 of us again... not big enough for a class... so next week's class is also KIV till dunno when...

finally they suggested that we take their "technique" class... where we will learn only waltz and taught by the principal herself... hmm... starting 22 oct... it's a monday... hopefully it won't be cancelled again!!! =_=