Beach Road Foochow Fish Ball

i totally forgot it's Mummy's birthday till she reminded me last night! As i had already missed 2 art classes, i can't miss a third. So took half day off work instead to spend some time with her. And since Pa said he'll bring her to eat traditional Foochow mee sua for lunch, i thought i might as well join them. You see, i'm Foochow but i hardly have a chance to be in touch with my dialect. But i'm proud to be a minority dialect.

After a long walk trying to find the eatery (in the rain!), we finally found it along Sultan Gate. It's an old coffeeshop. The 红糟鸡面线 is very nice! i didn't eat that though. But i like the soup from the sip that i tried. hee.. i ordered the 福洲炒年糕。 Foochow nian gao is not the usual brown sweet gluey stuff you see. It's rice cakes actually. i find that the 炒年糕  is too soggy. The Foochow fish ball is quite nice. Taste like those i ate when i was young. But i've had nicer 燕皮 though.

[sidenote] we actually caught a rerun episode of Tuesday Report on sunday showing this particular Beach Road Foochow fishball family! What a coincidence! :p

Closer

When i knew that Pangdemonium's next production after The Full Monty was Closer, i went out to rent the dvd. That was more than half a year ago. Even though the film boasts a gorgeous-looking stellar cast of Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Natalie Portman, i didn't quite get it. i know it's meant to be different from your usual love stories and it's meant to be provocative. But the excessive use of the f-word doesn't get to me.

It's one thing to hear them screaming vulgarities in the movie but it's another to be hearing them dishing out in the flesh at you. Ok that's not the point here. Anyway, despite my reservations about the film, i went ahead to watch Closer anyway as i'm a fan of Pangdemonium. The play is indeed thought provoking. But i still like The Full Monty better.

It's a pity Emma Yong had to pull out due to health reasons. i would love to see how she plays Anna.

It's a Great Great World!

A very simple film consisting of 4 short stories. i like the last story especially. Touching and heart warming.

A Day Full of Surprises!

Surprise #1

Slept in late (no surprise.. hee.. :p) All cos of the construction near my house which OT till 1+ AM this morning!! In my haste, i randomly grabbed a haven't-worn-in-a-year pair of sandals and wore it out. i had just walked a few blocks away when i realised that my sandals was getting loose. Horror of horrors, it started falling apart!! OMG!! i'm stuck and can't walk home so i had to call my dad to bring another pair of white shoes down for me. But he got me a super casual pair and i'm too late to go back to change so i just went with that. Anyways, just as well cos i missed the shuttle so i had to walk to the office. Lucky for the flats. :)

Surprise #2

Well, after work, on the spur of the moment, decided to go walk walk and replenish my shoes. hee.. Spent quite some time deciding if i wanna get a second pair at the second shop which was having 50% storewide. Decided not to in the end and was about to make my way down the escalator to go home when i thought i saw someone i know... OMG! it was him!! He saw me too and was also like "is that him/her"?! In that split second, i knew that it was him and my mind just went blank. What conspired after was quite lame. i remembered uttering like, what was he doing there. He said, eating ice cream. Well, obviously cos he just walked out of the ice cream parlor and was holding onto and eating his ice cream. -_-" And i commented i almost couldn't recognise him cos he had changed so much. Yeah, fatter. And that was it.

It has been almost 8 years since we parted and i last saw him. i had always wondered what would it feel like to meet again. Well, now i know the answer.

Surprise #3

So while i was still reeling over the fact that i saw someone whom i've not met in a long time, i walked myself home and opened the letter box. Surprise surprise! There were two mail for me. One from JL in taiwan. i knew she was sending me something and was waiting for it for some time. The other was from KC. i knew that he was going to send me a cny card too. i didn't know that it was being sent from the US!! What a surprise! :)

What a day! i wonder what tomorrow has instore for me. :p

The Tourist

There's too much time after the office event till the art class, so decided to watch a movie instead of idling my time shopping!

The gowns and suits are pretty, Venice is beautiful, Angelina Jolie is ravishing, but the plot, the ending especially is crappy.

Art Class!

Two months after registration, the wait is finally over! Class starts today! The instructor talked quite a bit today. Well, probably cos today's the first lesson. We were told to practise drawing straight lines and circles. It might sound crazy or simple but don't you know that foundamentals are the toughest?! It's so hard to draw a long straight line. Can you draw a perfect circle without use of a protractor? i can't!

Siow Lee-Chin and The Oberlin Orchestra's New Year Concert

Haven't been to an orchestra for ages! And boy was this good! It's such a crowd pleaser. Siow Lee-Chin played in the first half before intermission. Although she played well, i like the second half after the intermission better. For no other reason but cos it was more cheerful. She was too good in her opening piece - The Lark Ascending - it was too sombre and sad for my liking.

Other than the two "encores", my favourite piece was Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214 by Johann Strauss.

You bet i'll be going to more orchestra in the New Year! Especially if there's the Keppel discount! :p

Last post of the decade

Would just like to mark the end of 2010 by recording that i met one of my oldest friend/primary school classmate/neighbour twice today!! First was in the morning when i was waiting for my colleague at TBP bus stop for a lift to ECP for the office event. There he was walking towards me with his wife.

Second time was in the evening at my fav place of the moment (i.e. Parco). i was on the way to the toilet and there he was again!! haha. It was really a most pleasant surprise! :) i've not seen my friend for a very long time and yet i bump into him twice today! :p

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

i confess the reason i watched this is cos of Hugh Grant. A slightly below average film with a predictable plot. And i think the supporting cast have more chemistry than the odd combination of Hugh Grant and SJP.

Nodame Cantabile Finale

i still do not understand why there's a need to split the movie into two parts. Anyway, the movies are not as nice as the dorama. But whenever i watch Nodame, i just have an urge to learn the piano! And i do think that Ueno Juri plays her very well! :)