February 2008 Archives

16/02/08 - Karaoke with Taiwan friends

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Jhui
on February 18, 2008 3:59 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Was called down for work last minute on Saturday and got to know of this new colleague at work. Okay, not exactly colleague because I'm not working there anymore. Anyway, although I didnt get to meet him face-to-face, I dont like him already because he is either damn desperate, or damn frivolous, or over-friendly and a big show-off.


Supposed to meet up with the people I went to Taiwan with for karaoke at 8pm so I met up with Denise first to go there together. Didnt know how to get to the karaoke place from the MRT station and had to ask for directions. -_- Anyway, the karaoke place was damn pretty and they had 2 LCD screens! The only bad thing was that they were playing CNY music videos when we stepped into the room. I thought that I would be spared this year from CNY music videos because my sister's not here but...NOOOOOOOO!!! 2 LCD screens somemore!


Jimmy and Naina singing a duet together. My god!!! They look damn sweet together la!


Jimmy doing his best impersonation of Fei Yu Qing. :D


Victor sleeping away. Denise threw some peanuts at him but he didnt wake up. Rest of us continued singing but still didnt wake up. Placed the microphone near his nose to see if he was snoring but he still continued to sleep on. It wasnt until when Jimmy tried to stuff a cracker into his mouth that he finally woke up. Sugee!


Saw this while walking towards the carpark. Seems like the cat also know what's called self-service :D Hee. Too bad no one was there to take it's order.

Sang from 8pm to 2+. While walking towards the carpark, we saw people arranging and tying newspapers in stacks so that they can deliver them. Never knew that they had to prepare all these so freaking early! Anyway, Jimmy and Naina sent Denise and me all the way home. So nice of them~! Thank you!!! And also, thanks for the treat too~!

15/02/08 - Out With Li Ming

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Jhui
on February 18, 2008 3:06 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Met up with Li Ming last Friday for dinner. As it was a little too early for dinner, we decided to have dessert while waiting for the restaurants to open. Ate at Azabu Sabo and although the size of the store was really small, they had 3 of this damn expensive-looking lights in it. Dondake~


As usual, I had shiratama+azuki+ice-cream whereas Li Ming ordered this baked sweet potato topped with sesame sauce and ice-cream. I should really be more adventurous next time and try some other thing than shiratama and azuki.


Most of the Japanese restaurants were still closed after we finished the dessert so instead, we went to eat Spanish food. Whee~ My first time eating Spanish food! Great view and nice river breeze but I cant remember the name of the place we ate at. All I know that it's in Clarke Quay. Haha.


Not going to write the food names in Spanish because I obviously do not know how to do so. Anyway, this is a sausage dish. Damn good and quite a bit for 2 people.


Fried potatoes with red and green capsicums. The potatoes and capsicums were good but I didnt think that they blended well with each other.


Meatballs! Soft and very tomato-ish~


Sauteed tomatoes or something. A bit cold but wonderful at the same time.


Tomato and aubergine with parmesan cheese sprinkled on top of it. Had a totally different image in my head when I ordered this but it tasted good anyway. Would've been better if there were more cheese though. :D

Bought sesame daifuku and cha-dango from Central after dinner. Waaa~ I love wagashi~!

Valentine's Day

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Jhui
on February 18, 2008 2:07 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Had a really sucky Valentine's Day for the first half of the day. Kept getting scolded and pissed off by people in school. Really bad day. :(

The later half of the day was better because I finally got to meet up with my long-time-no-see ex Korean classmates! I think we havent had a full gathering like this for like what...8 months or so? Great to see that everyone's still as kee siao as ever. :D Ate at this Korean restaurant called Togi which is located at East Coast. I think that they have another branch at Chinatown. As usual, we were like the noisiest bunch of people there, laughing at volumes enough to deafen the whole of Singapore (obviously exaggerating here).


(Top Left) Chicken Ramyun. Okay, it was actually served in a stone hot pot but we divided it into 5 portions so just try to imagine how it originally looked like. Just x5 and add in a stone hot pot to your imagination. :D
(Top Right) My favourite Korean food, ddeokppeoki!!! I've never tasted ddeokppeoki like this before and it's super-duper nice. Can someone teach me how to make ddeokppeoki so I can make it every single day? Haha.
(Bottom Left) Chapchae. This chapchae looked different from the chapchae they normally serve at the Singapore Korean School when there are functions going on but it still tasted good too. Although chapchae is like the favourite Korean dish for like many Singaporeans I know who eat Korean food, I dont really chapchae that much.
(Bottom Right) Pork Bibimbap. Doesnt bibimbap normally have an egg in it? Anyway, delicious but could've been more delicious if we did not forget to mix in gochujang. The pork was also very tender and juicy. :D


(Top Left) Kimchi Jigae with tuna. First time I tasted Kimchi Jigae with tuna. The tuna made the soup more palatable than the normal ones that have beef/chicken/pork in them. As this was placed right in front of me, I was in charge of dividing it into 5 equal portions. Everyone basically laughed at my lousy dividing skills. :(
(Top Right) Kimchi pancake and Potato pancake. Didnt really eat the Kimchi pancake because I was already damn full by that time but the Potato pancake was great. Tasted like french fries. Whee~
(Bottom) Chicken Bibimbap. This time, Ann remembered to add in gochujang so it was wonderlicious~!


Proof that the food was great. We rock man.


Since it was Valentine's Day, Felie gave each of us a flower and a packet of chocolates. Gomapda! Tried to stick the flower behind Eileen's ear but to no avail. Why is she trying to eat the flower anyway?! Hahaha.


(Back) Ann, Felie, Peggy
(Front) Me, Eileen


Halfway through eating, I felt a little tug on my hair and as I turned back, I realised that it was the lady boss who was tugging at my hair playfully. -_- Haha, so cute~! Apparently Ann and the lady boss are damn friendly with each other and it was quite funny seeing Ann trying to explain to her what 'pai ti kong'(Praying to the Jade Emperor, something that the Hokkiens do during CNY) meant.


Me and the lady boss. :D

27/01/08 - SB3 Outing

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Jhui
on February 18, 2008 1:15 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
It's 2:30am now and I cant sleep so I've decided to blog. :D

On the 27th of last month, SB3 had a little outing for Bjorn's farewell. Went to Sakae Teppanyaki at Bugis for dinner. First time there for most of us. The place was really pretty and the chef for our table was humourous.


Cooking for 8 people all at once is no easy task and in addition to that, he has to make sure that what he cooks turn out delicious. That is seriously damn difficult. I know that I cant do that because I cant even cook myself a proper meal in the first place. If I ever need to cook for 8 people, I'm sure that they will all come down with food poisoning or something.


Cooking in progress.


(Top Left) The nice salad dressed with a tangy sauce. Since it was so long ago, I cant really remember how the salad tasted exactly but I remember that the sauce was good.
(Top Right) Scallops. Not a big fan of scallops though.
(Bottom Left) The oh-my-freaking-god delicious salmon. I basically chewed like at least times for each mouthful so as to savour it slowly. Yummy~
(Bottom Right) I'm not sure if this is the actual way of making chawanmushi but it was the first time that I saw someone make it like that. So interesting! Then again, the chawanmushi was not for me so I dont know how it tasted like.


(Top Left) Chicken. Hmmn, not a big fan of chicken but cant deny that it was good.
(Top Right) Tofu. Didnt really like this dish. Or rather, didnt really like the sauce that they poured over the tofu.
(Bottom Left) Assorted mushrooms! Like the salmon, I chewed the mushrooms for damn long. Not because the mushrooms were uncooked but because they were so...mushroomy. Yes, I dont make any sense.

After dinner, we walked across Bugis Junction to this small dessert shop called 'Ji De Lai'. Gossiped/Talked while we ate dessert. We left around 9.30pm and walked Kym to Bugis Junction before proceeding to Lisa's house to play mahjong/watch soccer/play Wii.


Saw this couple on the bus where the lady rested her head on her boyfriend's shoulder and so Bjorn and Tommie decided to mimic them. The effect didnt turn out right. :D

Stayed at Lisa's house till 1+. Tried to get my mother to come pick me up before that but considering that my mother's a direction-idiot, she told me to take a taxi as she didnt know how to get there. Since it was after midnight, I had to pay the freaking 50% midnight surcharge. My heart was like palpipating damn fast because I was scared that I might not have enough money to pay the driver. Luckily there's something called credit card. :D

CNY Day 3 and 4

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Jhui
on February 17, 2008 4:16 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
CNY Day 3
Started the day off with doing my translation homework before having noodles for brunch. Played Cluedo with my cousins for a while before we managed to dig out a mahjong set in the house. So...it was MAHJONG TIME!!!


My grandmother and me were the only ones who played mahjong for like 4 straight hours.


My cousins have never played mahjong before so my auntie and uncle helped them out.


In the end, we had 6 people playing mahjong. 4 players and 2 advisors. :D

Whilst we were playing mahjong, my sister went out to buy donuts where she queued for a half-an-hour! That popular ar! Then again, the donuts were good but they made me quite full and didnt eat alot for dinner. Spent the night packing my luggage.

CNY Day 4
Woke up at 5.55am to go to the airport. Had MacDonald's breakfast there. Had to check-in after breakfast and I was trying very hard to hold back my tears. Almost managed to do so until my sister said, 'Going to cry le.' Then...ya, the tears just came pouring out. Since we normally drive there, it's not so bad if I cry in the car because nobody's going to see...BUT...we were at the airport this time and it was so freaking paiseh because I was crying right in front of the immigration officer. Anyway, at the immigration counter for foreign passports, the officer talked to me in Malay...and I obviously did not understand him. Seriously, why talk in Malay if that counter's for FOREIGN passports?!

The flight back was comfortable but damn cold. As usual, only had a drink and no food. They had individual monitors for each passenger but...what's the use? Nothing but the flight information was played. So yup, my 2008 Malaysia trip basically ends here. :D

CNY Day 2 and 3

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Jhui
on February 17, 2008 3:17 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
CNY Day 2
Like Day 1, I woke up late again and realised that there was no breakfast for me. My sister arrived from Penang today at around 1+ so I basically had the first meal of the day at around 2pm. After lunch, I basically lazed around the house again till my cousins asked if I wanted to go watch a movie or not. We looked through the movie listings together and this was how we ended up choosing the movie that we watched in the end.

Ying Qi: Kungfu Dunk?
Me and Wei Jie: (in unison) NOOOO!

Me: Sweeny Todd?
Wei Jie: Watched already le.
Ying Qi: Watch again lo.
Wei Jie: -_-
Me: Wait, I think Jiamin(my sister) watched before le.

Ying Qi: Clovefield?
Me: Dont want. People said that will feel very dizzy after watching lei.
Wei Jie: Yar lor.

Me: CJ7?
Wei Jie: Watching tomorrow with my friend.
Ying Qi: Watch again la.
Wei Jie: -_-

Wei Jie: Meet the Spartans? Sounds like a movie about war.
Me: Har...about war? Sounds sian lo.

While looking at the movie summary which said that it was written by two of the writers who wrote Scary Movie and Date Movie, I realised that instead of a war movie, it was a spoof movie. Hence, I agreed...because I love spoof movies. :D

The movie was M18 so while at the ticketing counter, the lady kept asking 'All 18?' but she didnt bother to check our IDs. :D Luckily she didnt check because one of my cousins was under 18. Hehe. After Wei Jie took the tickets, he just turned and was about to walk away when my sister reminded him that he has yet to pay. WTF...haha, the lady just stood stationary at the counter lo!

Smuggled A&W(my god! A&W in like what? More than 10 years?) into the cinema and my bag smelled like fried chicken after that. Great movie because it was funny but the irritating thing was that, some parts were censored. BOO. Then again, the tickets only cost me RM11 after counting in the booking fee so yup, it was cheap to me. Went shopping at Sunway Pyramid for 2 consecutive days. Bought this Ghibli DVD collection that cost me about RM30+. :D The one that they sell in Singpore costs like what...SGD$59.90?

Went home for dinner but couldnt eat much because...too much junk food in the stomach. :(

CNY Day 3
Once again, woke up late and had a late roti prata breakfast with my cousin. Less than 2 hours after we had breakfast, it was time for lunch. Went to 1Utama for shopping, hoping that we would 'accidentally' bump into Wei Jie who went there to watch a movie with a girl. Heh. I just realised that two of my guy cousins can drive lo...and they are all younger than me...I fail :(.


In preparation for the lion dance that we didnt watch. :D

Walked around 1 Utama and realised that Singapore also has most of the shops there...like Topshop, Forever 21, Esprit, blah blah blah. Bought something from Forever 21 before I bumped into my sister and we went to eat at this pancake house.


Damn.Fucking.Good.


Me posing with the corned beef crepe my sister ordered. So ugly can!


The seafood pancake. We managed to finish almost all of the ingredients but left most of the pancake there. Oops.

Since we ate so much, we didnt get to join the rest for dinner at the Peranakan restaurant where they had yusheng!!! :(


I dont believe this...I'm shorter than the words 'RUYI'.

CNY Eve and Day 1

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Jhui
on February 17, 2008 2:19 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
CNY Eve
Unlike previous years where we used to drive to Malaysia for the new year, this year, because I had classes on the eve, we took a plane instead. Ate at this place called TSC in Terminal 2. Initially, I was wondering what did TSC stand for and I asked aloud.

Me: What is TSC ar?
Father: Erm, Takashimaya Shopping Centre?
Me: -_-

After taking a closer look at the wet towels given, I realised that TSC stands for 'Tong Shui Cafe'.

Food wasnt that great though. The porridge was too watery, har kow was too small and the cheese-baked rice wasnt cheesy enough.


Checked in early and while walking around in the departure hall, I spotted this woodblock print thingy and was so fascinated by it. Quickly picked up a piece of paper and started shading away. After I finished shading, I looked up and realised that all the people who were doing the same thing as me were...kids. Ages ranging from 5~8. -_-

The plane that we took was so fucking cramped and luckily I had the aisle seat or else I think I would've died if I had the window seat. Of all the planes that I've taken in my life, not many I must add, this was the first one that instead of a safety video, that had a LIVE safety demostration! Then again, because the plane was so cramped, only the people seated in the aisle seat could see the demostration. Anyway, we were served drinks and after they did so, I was happily waiting for the meal to be served...simply because Zuji stated that there will be meals on this flight. In the end, I realised that the 'meal' was that dumb drink that they served...and I asked for water somemore. Hello...although the flight duration's short so they cannot actually serve a whole meal, cant they at least give peanuts or something to justify their costly air tickets?! In short, the flight sucked pretty bad.

Reached Malaysia, got driven back to my uncle's house, ate reunion dinner, stayed up late to pray, received ang pows from my grandmother and yup, of to bed.

CNY Day 1
Woke up late and luckily there was still nian gao left for me. Helped out in the kitchen and I peeled and grated mangkwang(turnip) for the first time in my life. Okay, didnt do it totally by myself because I'm damn bad at using the knife and had help from my auntie. Lunch was freaking delicious because it was cooked by my grandmother and I think I almost finished the plate of mushrooms that was placed right in front of me. Lazed around the house after lunch and went out shopping after that with my auntie, her son, my father and of course my grandmother! Went to this shopping centre called Sunway Pyramid and was awed by the number of activities that you can do there. They have a cinema there, bowling alley, ice-skating ring, ARCHERY place and of course, shopping centres. However, since it was the first day of the new year, most of the shops were closed. Walked around aimlessly for like half-an-hour or so before I finally managed to bag my first purchase of the day :D


After shopping, we ate dinner there as well. Look at the amount of sushi there! Plus, the sushi there is so much cheaper than Singapore!


The sashimi!!!


Dont ask me why but I didnt buy the sushi at all. Bought Takoyaki instead and was so freaking disappointed with it. Instead of using boiled octopus, they used octopus that you normally see on the cold dish at wedding dinners. Somemore, they added a mountain of this thing(I think that it was diced onions) that I've never seen people add in before. I had to wait around 10mins for them to...HEAT up the balls. WTF. It was freaking oily too and when I tried to lift one of the balls to my mouth with the satay stick, before I could even lift it up from the box, it came apart. -_- The taste sucked too.

Shared some chicken and mushroom hot plate with my grandmother. I think I am really bad in choosing food because this dished sucked pretty bad too. First of all, their gravy is like free or something because they added so much gravy to the extent that you could call it soup. Secondly, there was no mushrooms inside and they had only 3 miserable pieces of chicken that were probably on diet when they were alive. Thirdly, they gave us lots of rice but...what's the use? In the end, we went back to fill our stomachs with bak gwa instead.

U-Weekly

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Jhui
on February 4, 2008 4:20 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (1)
Worked for 2 hours today at my father's place because the nurse was sick. As there weren't many walk-in patients and one of the patients who booked an appointment didnt turn up, I picked up a copy of U-weekly and started reading. If I didnt remember wrongly, it was a July 2007 issue. Old but since I havent read it before, it's okay. Flipped through and they were doing some feature on Hollywood's sexy starlets or something along the line and I saw this picture...


...and this.


Wait a minute, did Ashlee Simpson undergo surgery or something? How come she looks different in two pictures that have her names on them? WTF lo, the first one is Scarlett Johansson(I think) and the second one is obviously Jessica Simpson(I think). Seriously, if they cant even get the names of the celebrities correct, I think that they should not be publishing magazines. What's the editor doing anyway?


This is the section that I hate most in U-weekly. Wonder if they still have it or not. It's this section where they take photos of random people on the streets and comment on their outfits. Different people have different taste, I dont see why they keep adopting the irritating I'm-the-fashion-guru-so-you-MUST-listen-to-me tone. Sometimes, those outfits that they write extremely bad comments about, I think that they are nice and vice versa. Here, they said that it's not appropriate to wear Birkenstock(or the imitation ones) shoes to school but seriously, Singapore is damn hot and tons of people wear slippers because it's cooler than shoes. One of my lecturers wears slippers to school lo...HORRORS!!! Better not let U-Weekly see him...heh.

Enough of U-weekly. Flipped through the 2008 calendar and was quite wtf-ed by this picture.

Seriously, what's the link between Korea and the product they're trying to advertise about? Probably it's a Korean company but whatever la, doesnt make sense...to me at least.

27 Dresses

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Jhui
on February 3, 2008 4:20 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Watched 27 Dresses with Eileen yesterday. The movie was quite interesting and funny. Worth the price that I paid for, considering that I watched it on a weekend. :D

Walked around Orchard after dinner. While in Wheelock Place, we came across this picture...This picture of my TS1101E lecturer Dr. KK Seet. Damn scary can! Seeing your lecturer's face on a non-school day.


We also went to Isetan to look at the freaking expensive strawberries and melons. Comtemplated buying those strawberries because Japanese strawberries are like so delicious but finally decided that it was just not worth it. I'm a damn poor student. Anyone wants to donate money to me? Instead, I bought my favourite...dango~!!! Seeing that there was only 2 packets left and being the kiasu Singaporean that I am, I quickly took one packet of the shelf and rushed to the payment counter. While digging through my wallet for money, I caught sight of the expiry date printed on the packet.


Eh? 04.01.08? Isnt that like 1st of January (following the day/month/year format)? Since it was the 2nd of February, the dango must either be damn bad or they printed 01(Jan) instead of 02(Feb). Just in case, I asked the cashier if there's any mistake on the expiry date label. She peered at the label, thought of it for a while and told me that it should be okay because they just displayed the dango out today. Still, they can just tell me that they printed the label wrongly...I mean, what's wrong with admitting their mistake? She then asked her colleague next to her and her colleague told her that the expiry date was 1st of April, based on the month/day/year format. I was stunned...since when in supermarkets did we use the month/day/year format?

Nosy parker customer A then intruded into our conversation and said that in Japan(because we were in the Japanese supermarket, Isetan), the month is written first. My foot la...in Japan, normally it's written in the year/month/day format. Even if they were correct, I dont think that you can store dango for like 2 months! In Japan, the dango that are sold in the supermarkets expires in like 2-3 days...not months. Anyway, I still think that I'm correct, in the sense that they typed the label wrongly. :D

Why am I writing this anyway?!!! -.-
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