How Well Do You Know Me? (Q2)

Q2) My favourite flavour of ice cream is ________.

a) Cookies and cream
b) Chocolate
c) Strawberry
d) Rum and raisin
e) Vanilla

How well do you know me? (Q1)

Q1) What is my favourite colour?

a) Blue
b) White
c) Red
d) Black
e) Yellow

Festival of Drum & Dance 2009

It's the Japanese Cultural Festival again. Got to know the tickets for giveaway by chance. This afternoon's performance is of Japanese Drums and Dance. First time to such an event. The drums is quite good. Very hypnotising and energetic! But the dance is pretty amateurish. And it shows.

The next event is Choral and Harmonic on 13 Sep, followed by the Karaoke Competition in Oct. i'm planning to go as many as i can. These performances are quite interesting. Best of all is they're muryo! (i.e. free) :p Let me know if you wanna join me. :)

Blogk

Had a spate of blogger's block recently... so much so for the absence in SP's Ivory Tower... been wasting alot of time doing nothing actually... yeah... i'm very much of a procrastinator. Should do something more worthwhile/meaningful with my time while i lament the loss/passing of time.

i'm never gonna be a dare devil

Had a near brush on the way back from JB tonight. Was cruising on the second link when we noticed a man walking along the side of the bridge in total darkness. The next thing we saw was a motorbike lying right in middle of the road in the exact lane that we were on! The next thing i know the car started swerving from right to left as my friend tried to stop the car to avoid crashing into the bike. We were lucky nothing happened to us. We were lucky there were no cars next to us. We were lucky the man had walked away from his bike. That was a hel'ofaride and i'm never going to speed even if the road's empty. And i'm glad for seat belts.

Time Out

Decided to go on strike this afternoon. Went for nice long lunch at Ion Orchard. Tried out the ramen at B4 Food Hall. A friend said this is nicer than Aoba. Had the normal Hokkaido Ramen (red miso). Mind you the prices are restaurant style though the atmosphere here is more like food court. If you like really authentic (read: salty) Hokkaido ramen, you would like it. Even though i could accept stronger tasting ramen, this is abit too salty for me.

The highlight of the meal would be the HK actress sitting at the next table, feeding her son. i had seen her in some HK dramas before but i dunno what is her name. Her complexion is really good. Very well maintained. i keep glancing at her direction and her son is quite cute too. :p

Had wanted to go home after lunch to sew a long overdue bag initially... But took a long detour at Uniqlo. :p It's not as crowded as weekends so i could take my own sweet time browsing every corner (of B2 ladies level). And of course i can't leave without some slight damage to my wallet. hehe. :)

Watami @ Ion Orchard

Decided to join in the crowds at Ion this afternoon. Spent more than 7 hours just at this mall alone before calling it a day. Really unproductive. Only bought a camisole and a pair of sandals (both on sale at $9.90) from Uniqlo cos since we had already squeezed into the newly opened shop, i must die-die get something from there! And YZ will kill me if i didn't! hee...

After emerging from Uniqlo victoriously, we decided to try our luck at Watami since we didn't manage to the other day. Imagine this, we reached the restaurant before 5pm and already there is a queue! Had to wait about 30min before we got a table. i was quite surprised they gave the booth seats which could probably seat 6 pax to us. :)

The service in comparison to Imperial was much better. To much "horror", the waitress kneeled down to take our order. We each had a Sapporo ramen and shared a hotate butter yaki and sashimi supreme. Don't eat the ramen. A waste of $ and tummy space. The hotate is forgettable too. But the sashimi is good. This plate costs just $19.80++. Prices here are generally quite reasonable.


When we finally finished our food, there was a long queue at the door. Hee... we were really mean. Cos we don't feel like giving up the table so soon, so we ordered drinks. The fruit liqueur sodas are generally not nice. i thought my lychee-shu soda tasted like cough syrup. :p

Interestingly, the layout of Ion is such that the higher you go, the lesser people there is. But the conclusion is that there isn't really much drawing factor for me other than all the Japanese stores and eateries... Maybe cos shopping does not interest me any more i think.

Amazed Amused

Accidentally found out that someone copied and pasted one of my previous posts on a forum. Although i had set the blog to be private and not searchable but i'm amazed that it still managed to be found. Well, my post is of my feelings after watching this concert. i had since forgotten about what i had wrote. But i was kinda amused to read people's comments on what i had wrote. And it was even more amusing to re-read what i wrote myself! Haha! i think i'm really (1) crazy or (2) i really enjoyed myself that night indeed! :p

Imperial Treasure @ Ion Orchard

Had wanted to try out Watami but there was a LONG queue even at 6:40pm on a weekday. Quite crowded at Aoba Ramen too. So after a lengthy discussion, finally ended up here. We ordered 4 dishes to go with rice. Frankly, the portions were quite small and ordinary. Added 2 baskets of dim sum too. Service is terribly slow but probably these are teething issues. One of the aunties is quite cute and friendly though she forgotten to take our cake out for us the first time. But she's quite friendly that we gave a portion of the cake to her.

Talking about the birthday cake -- the tiramisu that XX promised to make for YZ! So nice of her to rush out the cake last night. :) Yummy! i had placed my "order". i want a black forest cake for mine! :p

It is really hard to take a nice pic of the tiramisu. YZ said it look more like a box of sand... (-_-")

[Sidenote] Will definitely have to go try out Watami one of these days to see why there's the long queue. Oh and we tried the takoyaki at B4. Also long queue but we didn't see how special the balls are... The taste is ok and the tako bits are bigger than others but overall no wow factor...

回光反照?

The home computer miraculously managed to wake up! Better take this chance to back up all my files!

Ma Maison @ Bugis

Finally ate at Ma Maison. Nice cottage, country-style environment Wanted to order the Plate Lunch set which comes with a mini salad, soup, main course, ice cream and drink. Thank goodness i finally decided to eat the Beef Stroganoff with butter rice instead cos i don't think i would be able to finish the set. AND i really have to watch my diet too! :p Anyway, i wanted to eat something with omu rice and this seemed really nice from the menu. i like the omu rice but the brown sauce is kinda salty. Otherwise, the sauce with the omu rice is a perfect match.


Saw alot of people eating the escargot. The family of 4 behind us ordered 3 plates of that! And 2 of them are small kids! Oh.. Ma Maison have the cuttlefish ink spaghetti. Might try that another time when i'm feeling a little more adventurous! hee.. :)