A Random Saturday

The guys told me there's this Toroniku (roast pork cheek ) ramen with the juiciest most tender soft pork I've ever tasted in Santouka at The Central. They told me the pork will literally MELT in my mouth. I didn't believe them but they kept convincing me so...yah. Off to The Central we go.

Santouka Ramen is quite hidden at the corner of the building that we nearly missed it. Queue was tolerable that Saturday lunch. Almost 15 mins wait only.


#1 Roast Pork Cheek. As promised, it really does MELT IN MY MOUTH YUMMEHHHHHH. I was told pork cheek is very rare and only about 200g can be taken from 1 pig.


#2 There are 3 types of ramen soup: Shio Ramen (Salt Flavor), Miso Ramen (SoyBean Paste Flavor) and Shoyu Ramen (Soy Sauce Flavor). I think I chose Shoyu Ramen. Even though the pork cheek is really tender but I can't finish it cause a bit too salty for me. Still, it does melt in the mouth! Each set of this is around $18 which is pretty cheap considering pork cheek is so rare? Dont know eh.


#3 After lunch we dropped by this boardgame shop tucked at the quiet corner of the mall which I never knew existed on Orchard street lol. Nicky is super into boardgame and he wanted to go check out any new games or what and since we have nothing to do we just tagged along. To hear him rave on and on about boardgame is so funny.

It reminds me of those times I played boardgame with Pey and the rest. Not very often because I'm not a big fan but with Pey is the only times I actually really play the boardgame from start till the end, including Munchkin, Ticket To Ride, Puerto Rico, hmmm I think that's about it only. When I play boardgame I never strategise like how the others did. I just play to pass time and if can cheat, I will cheat wtf.


#4 Then we....went to eat again. This time at this small shop that has nice soya milk + butter croissant where they showed me all their iPhone apps which is like a million of them and they get so excited talk about this app can do this do that. One of it is like it can tell exact colors and one of it can arrange the best sleeping time for u like that. For me, I only have like 5 apps in my phone, most of it is for MRT and SG buses time wtf.


#5 On the way back to hang out at their place we pass by the street where a lot of people stood by the road side holding opposition party flag. Then only we found out it's Chiam See Tong's farewell after losing Potong Pasir area in the general election 1 day before. He's the old man in the middle on top of the lorry. He suffered from stroke in 2008 and couldn't even stand straight. Maybe that's why the public feels he's not able to fight for the citizen anymore. When I see him there that day thanking people for supporting him all those previous years and looking so defeated, I felt so touched even though I dont know him at all.

Santouka Ramen

6, Eu Tong Sen Street, #02-76,

The CENTRAL,

059817, Singapore.

+65 6624 0668

Monday to Sunday 11:00am - 10:30pm

Eat with Your Family Day 2011

Today is our "Eat with Your Family Day" and we get to leave work early.
And the slogan is "Make a date with your family now! Live, love and play together".

Okay now only I know people in my company dont eat with family on usual days and only during these days that they "make a date" with family wtf.

My colleagues immediately called up the CC and booked 2 hours of badminton court so everybody's going...everybody except me. I'll be traveling up to KL again this weekend and it's gonna be a busy Sat and Sun with confined water trainings and exam.

Can't wait for June. I'll be getting my much needed weekend hibernation in SG for the whole month before Vietnam & Perhentian in July!

Oh and GSS starts tomorrow!

Support MCA..?!

Some sections of the Chinese community have expressed their worry that they would have nowhere to seek help if the MCA was not in the Government, party president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek said.

However, he said the party would stick to its “no government posts at all levels” decision if the party was to perform badly in the next general election.

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/5/27/nation/8768818&sec=nation

So now have to resort to threatening? Is this the correct way to go?

What crap! Pls lah!

Let's say you have A. You know of B's existence, and at one time you had the chance to have B but you didn't want to.

Then after what seems like forever, someone offered you B. You're thinking B is not what you want, but this time you wanted to go try to get B anyway, for whatever reasons. You're thinking no harm done since if you get it, it's a bonus and if you didn't then whatever la.

In the end, you didn't get B. And you felt......down and upset and disappointed. But why do you feel upset when you didn't even wanted it in the first place?

Sometimes I confuse myself. Have I lost focus on what I want. More importantly, do I know what I want? And I think the feeling of letting down the person who offered me B is what I feel bad about. Like I'm useless.

Sigh.

含笑半步釘

I have been really busy recently, mostly working during weekdays and all weekends I'm not in SG. I usually leave right after work on Friday and reach back almost midnight on Sundays. Some nights spent reading up some stuff and the rest of the time spent catching up on my favorite dramas on Funshion!

So besides the usual Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, The L Word, CSI etc etc I also watched a lot of Hong Kong series and the latest being 女拳. I hope I wrote it correctly. It's about Kung Fu and Wong Fei Hung. Kung Fu movies are funny. Everytime they try to learn Kung Fu they either just watch some sifu demonstrate kung fu once and they can remember and replay the whole thing. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE summore it's always very long and very complicated and a lot of styles but they just watch and they can remember. And also most of the time they just read some kung fu books with simple drawings and they can understand. Put down the book then start kungfu-ing. wtf.

I havent been shopping a lot, compared to last month. I overspent in April getting over excited over bonuses then regretted after checking on my bills. So I just jalan around in the mall without buying anything, the most also buy bubble tea only. BUT I'm waiting for the Great Singapore Sales! I'm seriously considering whether I should take leave on the first day of GSS so the things I want to buy wont be out of size.

WHICH ALSO MEANS I need start going on diet. As you can see from all my entries they're all about fooood and fooood and foood and more fooooood. It's about time to get that ass to the gym!

Hmm. What else. Oh I also have been eating a lot of sweets lately. Not a big fan of sweets but this gum that Stephen bought for me from Japan blew me away! I didn't expect it to be so good. Tried one and finished like 10 in less than 5 minutes.



The gum I mentioned is the 3 bars on the top right corner. IT IS SO GOOD TRUST ME. When I finished them I was so upset then I found out he still kept like 10 more bars in his room to be used on me when I was upset or angry or anything. So now everytime I get upset he just whip out 1 bar and I'll be happy again wtf. See. He learns new tricks so we're happy all the time!

Shu went to Taiwan (the trip that I am supposed to go too =( for NYE remember?) and bought me more sweets! She came to SG for her friend's ROM and we met up in Orchard and then pulled her back home with me and...heh heh heh....play mahjong. Anyway I dont want to talk about that already lah I drove her to my place, let her blow my aircond wtf and she drank my water then tipu my bf's mahjong money back to Penang. I shall revenge...soon.



Yah when she gave me the box I thought is what. A bit disappointed just sweet only lah haahhaha.



I dont know why the hell all my photos are rotated but since I'm this lazy blogger whatever I wont spend time rotating it back or editing it. There're plenty more of the milk tea and grapefruit sweets in the box so most nights I'll just pop one when I'm watching Funshion. Breakfast lunch dinner already eat like a giant and at night always gobbling sweets aiyoh how la like that!

And remember the famous Stephen Chow movie on 含笑半步釘 ? Haha that's the green one at the bottom. When she passed to me I didn't give any reaction coz those few words a bit tough to read then she has to explain to me wtf.



Dont we all miss Stephen Chow! Esp those times we spent playing mahjong in LSP place with him serving us water and food and use his air cond whole night while watching Stephen Chow! Good times good times.

Y U NO RAIN?!

OMAIGOD the weather forecast is wrong. 32'C at 10pm my ass! more like 52'C! I went in to shower and right after I turned off the cold shower the first drop of sweat started forming on my back wtf. true story wtf.

Last week it was equally scorching hot but at least it rained every evening. But these few days? No a single drop of water and no wind at all! Want to burn all of us is it??!!

7 Years.

Yesterday when I got to work, I noticed it was 5-5-2011. 5-5. Hmm. I had a feeling it's one significant date but I just CANT recall whose birthday is it. Mum's on 6-6. Not her. None of my close friend I know is 5-5 (I'm pretty darn sure coz I even logged in to FB and check wtf). Then I brushed it off. Must have mistaken something.

Until Kevin msged me and say HAPPY ANNIVERSARY.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Our 7th year in Intel (I mean if I didn't quit).

5-5-2004. I'm that nerdy kiddo who wore a black G2000 formal shirt and jeans and nike sports shoes and showed up in PG9 for orientation.

And on that very same day. I met Kevin. He was wearing black shirt too if I remember correctly.

He wasn't even sitting next to me. Or standing next to me. Or whatever. He's just that kid that came over to me and warned me about the guy sitting next to me. HAHA. so much for 1st impression? Back stabbing another guy? (But it doesn't take me more than 5 days to even acknowledge that warning and agree with him. Equally evil wtf). And OMG the truth or dare game barely 1 month knowing him. He totally gave me all the truth while I lied to most (if not all) the questions HAHAHA.

Sigh. 7 years is a long long time. We've been so much throughout these 7 years mainly about me giving him a hard time and do my work for me and spank his ass when he walk by wtf. Some days when I go to work I wish he's still a few cubes away so I can just drop my bag in the cube and sit in his cube for the whole day doing nothing and talking crap and gossiping about ppl.

Yesterday my PC finally died. It couldn't power on it and I tried this and that. At that time, I really wish Kevin is here so I can force him to come to my place and fix my PC and once he fixed it then I'll force him to buy me dinner.

Yah. I know. I'm evil. But thats just how things have been the past 7 years =D

I could have easily written a 5000000 words on US but unfortunately my PC died and I cant blog from my phone and office PC caps the surfing at 5 minutes.

But one thing for sure, he's one hell of a friend I never regret having.

First of May

All of you know that the GE is coming up so the flags are waving everywhere and rallies going on every night. I don't really know any of the ministers in SG but the more popular ones are Tin Pei Ling vs Nicole Seah for Marine Parade because they're both only20+ like 24 or something. Hot topic because they're young girls wtf. obviously SG-reans I spoke to favor Nicole Seah more because TPL appears to be one air headed blonde chick who's greatest regret when interviewed is "didn't manage to bring her parents to Universal Studio" -_-" mehhhhhh and I don't know why people relate her to "KATE SPADE" (don't bother to find out also) because when she came out, the crowd chanted Kate Spade!

and this morning while on twitter, i saw retweets of this

"Sgpreans shld b grateful for ministers like George Yeo.Look across e sea n see what sort of ministers ur neighbour has"

At first I was quite pissed with SGpreans for being so snobbish but then sigh, can't also fully disagree on what they said.

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The sleeping at 3am and waking up at 5am for the whole labor day weekend has finally taken its toll on me. I popped 2 panadols yesterday night and 1 this morning and the pain doesn't seem to subside.

Heh so much for my one photo a day thing. Hence I'm gonna make it up now and post a few random iPhone photos instead.


#1 The DimSum place I HAD to go to everytime I'm in KL. A bit pricey though. It can easily cost about RM15-20 per person for a decent breakfast. But all worth the price! I don't go for dimsum here in SG because each 'long' (bucket or whatever you call it) of siew mai also cost around $3 or $4 which easily translates to RM10 per 'long' bancrupt la like that.


#2 They recently installed this bell service. Doubt it really works on busy weekend mornings though. I have no complaints because their workers move fast and do entertain each of your request. So without the bell service i guess it's fine already.


#3 Mandatory breakfast dishes. Super juicy char siew pau..yummeh!!!! And if you guys happen to try the place out, do order the LIU SHA PAU. The warm custard literally BURST out when you bite into it...nom nom nom.


#4 Step brought me to this French-styled bakery Levain Boulangerie & Patisserie along Jalan Imbi.


#5 Pretty packed even on a working Friday noon. Be prepared to pay around RM5 for a small sized pastry.


#6 They serve mostly fresh breads and pastries, coffee and macaroons, also pralines and chocolates. Aside from that, there's also the pastas and mushroom soups as main entree.


#7 Glorious array of fresh croissant and danish.


#8 Mostly sold out by the time we got there at 1pm. Probably need to wait a while more because they're still baking most of it.


#9 I am spoilt with choice and ended up ordering this healthy Crispy Walnut Bread. Just by looking at it now makes me droolllllllllllllllllll...........I also ordered another Iced Cocoa to go with this. Pretty filling considering I just finished dimsum..1.5 hours ago?


#10 The interior of the cozy renovated bungalow. Pretty nice place to chill. You should really check out the website and try the place out!


#11 Dropped by the salon after what seems like forever. Love the curls! I'm always hesitant when it comes to permanent curling because it makes me look old unlike some woman who managed to carry it sexy wtf. But this curl okay what not too curly, just a bit wavy.


#12 I had this for supper 2 nights in a row. Mad love. Roti Tampal + Teh Tarik Kurang Manis and we also ordered another Maggi Sup Curry with Cheese. Yah they just put slices of cheese into the curry soup. Taste the same to me except maybe 500 calories more. Indeed a satisfying and fattening supper. Here in SG most places do not have anything other than the normal Roti Prata and Roti Prata with Egg (ya what a mafan name for roti telur). Only the authentic mamak places have them and those, I have to take bus to go there so most of the time I just had to settle with normal Roti Prata with Egg.


#13 Halo must include some useless camwhore photos lah. This is Step's old house where the parents dump most of their unwanted things here. Nobody lives here anymore except..me and him when I'm in KL.


#14 Glorious glorious Nasi Lemak. I can't remember how many times I have stressed that this is the best nasi lemak I have had to date. I can easily gobble up 1 big plate of nasi lemak and leave no biji of nasi traces after that wtf. It's THAT good. There were photos of orang kenamaan on the walls too. One of them is our Dr Mahathir and I checked what he ate and he only ordered half boiled eggs and toast. Huh? Nobody told him what's famous is Nasi Lemak with Ayam Goreng meh?


#15 5 of us went up to Genting on Friday night and reached around midnight. They gambled..okla I gambled too but I only lost RM10 /pats self at back wtf. Went to Starbucks for a good old cup of Hot Chocolate with Whipped Cream and reached home around 3am. It's pretty sad because Genting is not as cold as it used to be. No wind no mist nothing! Only like you're in an 24'C air con room. How sad.


#16 Took First Coach bus back to SG. Flight's a bit too pricey on a holiday weekend. But all is well because they have movies in the bus and I watched Infernal Affairs I, II and III all over again and also IP Man and Transformers! Can I just say again that Infernal Affairs is probably one of the best movie HK has ever produced? I still like it even after the 10th time watching or something like that!

Hm. I just realised what I did the whole weekend (or maybe all weekends) is just eat and eat and eat and eat. Tsk tsk.

Restaurant Jin Xuan Hong Kong Sdn Bhd

59, 61 & 63, Jalan SS22/19,

Damansara Jaya,

47300 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

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Levain Boulangerie & Patisserie

No 7, Jalan Delima,

55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Email: info@levain.com.my
Monday to Sunday 7.30am - 9pm

Village Park Nasi Lemak

No 5, Jalan SS21/37,

Damansara Utama,

47400 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

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