He's Just That Not Into You

Attractive cast. Entertaining but mostly mediocre though frank and very spot on.

Girls - If he don't call you, he's just not that into you!

the Indulge Restaurant

First visit to this restaurant @ The Cathay basement. It's in a quiet dark corner but the food is better than expected. Ordered the lobster pasta that was on promotion. The seafood was quite fresh though i couldn't taste any white wine in the white wine sauce... Anyway, the potato salad that YZ had was quite nice. Can try if you can take the strong garlic taste.

六十大寿

Celebrated mummy's birthday at JP2's Dian Xiao Er.

The service is really nice. Esp the girl who was standing at the door. She explained the menu, let me deposit my cake at an earlier time and kept a nice big table for us at a cozy corner when we arrived. Maybe there was not much customers on a late Monday evening but i really liked her service. Made the food taste much nicer too. Pity i forgot to check out her name. (^^,)

Ok back to the food. Wanted to order the set menu as they are 15% off from Mon - Thu but it doesn't have the combi that i wanted. So ordered ala carte instead since i have JP's privilege card which entitles me to 15% off ala carte too anyway.

These are the nicer dishes. Pity about their signature duck which disappoints today.

Nice crunchy lotus roots with lots of macadamia nuts!

This fish is surprisingly good but crappy photo cos our cozy corner has quite bad lighting.

Got the Choco Exotic from Four Leaves. Had wanted to just eat half and bring the other half home. But... ended up finishing the 15x15cm cake between the 4 of us! lol. The cake is nice but otherwise too sweet. No wonder i'm growing... (-_-")

[Added on 25 Feb] Oh right! Found the Race on youtube! Yay! Caught up what i've missed on tv. :)

Serenity in Stone

[Wrote on 27 Feb]

Forgot to mention that i went to the museum cos it's open house at the Peranakan Museum! i.e. FREE entry! Well, the permanent exhibits are still the same i think. Anyway, i was there for the visiting exhibition "Serenity in Stone: The Qingzhou Discovery". The 35 sculptures displayed were estimated from the 6th century. They were discovered in 1996 in Qingzhou (hence the no-brainer name). These Buddhist sculptures were amazingly well preserved. The best part about open houses is that there are lots of guided tours. The worst is of course the crowd!

The exhibition is on till 26 Apr 09. Strictly no photography.

Orh Nee

Joined my parents on a makan day trip to Malacca & Muar. Most memorable is the orh nee at Malacca. The guide said that this is supposedly the most traditional preparation of the teochew dessert. i've always like orh nee as my paternal grandma was Teochew. But i've not ate / seen orh nee like this before. The yam paste is served with glutinous rice, lotus root and orange, to be eaten in that order too. The salty glutinous rice will neutralise the sweetness of the yam paste so much that the sweet lotus root will not taste as sweet. Lastly, finish the dessert with the orange peel. Actually there's yam paste stuffed inside the orange jacket but the citrus orange peel also works to cancel out the sweetness and freshen up the whole aftertaste. A very interesting dessert!

This crappy pic is the one and only taken on the trip

Have You Ever Wondered?

A hug is one of the most comforting actions but have you noticed you can't / don't see each other's face? 难到是一切尽在不言中?

Seasons' Reasons

Everything happens for a reason! That's why i was the lucky one standing at the door right at the windscreen on the shuttle bus this morning. i was the last to get on the bus (lucky me!) though i could have just waited a few more minutes to be the first on the next bus... But i got to see the hen and rooster playing in the middle of the road! Oh well, they were not exactly in the middle of the road per se. Dangerous! They were at the center divider island and having a jolly good time. Such is the wondrous little things that can make my day! :)

Amazing Race 14

Wuhoo!~ The race is on again! Been catching the race ever since one of my friends introduced me to the show a few seasons back. i thought it was just another reality game show like the yucky survivor. Luckily it's not and i like the race. :) This season starts with a 70-story high bungee jump! Talk about adrenaline rush! i would NEVER do that! Even if you give me a million bucks! But the best part must be watching the first ever hearing impaired person on the US race check in first at the pit stop for the first leg. And seeing Phil sign the results to the team. (^^,~) awww... Oh ya. which reminds me of the sugoi feeling when i learnt that my jap classmate won the asian race...

僕の彼女はサイボーグ

Another show i rented for this weekend. Quite an enjoyable sci-fi romance romance. Ayase Haruka looks almost unreal in the show. That's a compliment since she's a cho kawaii cyborg whom i guess must be every guy's dream fantasy.

Ip Man

Two friends recommended the show to me during CNY so much so that i was intrigued to watch it. Finally managed to rent the dvd after 2 weekends. Shows how hot it is. Donnie Yen is really man in it! (^^,)