Random

My colleague came back from Japan and bought Almond Tofu Kit Kat and Wasabi Kit Kat. I didn't try the Wasabi (green packaging) coz I never liked Wasabi nuts so Wasabi chocolate is way too weird for me. I'm not too adventurous when it comes to food. This almond taste is surprisingly really strong, weird but nice! She also bought us lots of Japanese crackers! I love it when friends come back from Japan because the snacks are usually nicely packaged and looks soo good!

I bought Lego City set for my nephew's birthday. He asked me to teach him how to do it because unlike the other Lego sets where you can build anything free style, Lego City requires you to follow the picture step by step and build it into cars and things. So I sat down on Saturday and taught him how to follow the photo and plug the Lego piece by piece. After 15 minutes, he said "Ah Kor, you do ok. I go out and watch TV". Then he ran out. He came in every 10 minutes to ask "ARE YOU DONE" all the way until I'm done!

This..is meaningless photo obviously. My friend said I seldom post photo of myself?! So here you go, major camwhoring.

Tomorrow is Friday already woo hoo! This week passed surprisingly fast!!! There's still mountain of work piling but somehow things are becoming surprisingly easy so it's quite a breeze. The toughest part at work is trying to understand when 1 Chinese (from China) + 1 Taiwanese + 1 Indian discussing things in English in a meeting =D =D

Thank god it's Friday!!!

Street Jazz

Since the boy has migrated and I don't have to travel down to KL on weekends, I've been considering to go back to class after like...3 years?! So I googled up the dance studios and like this particularly one. And coincidentally Grace posted the SAME video up in her FB the day after. Is it a sign wtf.

But anyway after viewing more videos I think I'm too old for this shit and not fit for dancing anymore =(

You've Got Mail!

Look what came in the mail! Technically, look what came in the mail 4 months ago wtf. It was mailed during Christmas and I only got it recently since it's sent to my hometown.

When I was around 16 years old, I had the opportunity to live in Japan as a youth exchange. I lived with the Arai family in Tokyo city, before I moved to the countryside (1 hour from Tokyo city) with the Watanabe family.

I have only 1 host sister Naoko in Tokyo (another older host sister was on her exchange to the US at that time), and 2 brothers from the Watanabe family. Oh and how can I forget them because my older host brother Yoshiko, who's 1 year older than me, is the prom king in his secondary school! I spent most of my nights teaching him English to differentiate 'him', 'his', 'she', 'her' and simple grammars and helped him with his English homework.

My host sister Naoko is really sweet. She mailed me and sent me several cards already, and she still try to write to me in English even though she can hardly make a proper sentence.When I was living with them, she's only 14! She has graduated and is a nurse now. Well, I also completed my Japanese elementary and moving to the next level already. Hopefully I'll be able to write back to her in Japanese soon!

Sigh. Those are awesome experiences I'll always always always treasure. I live like a princess there because they treat me sooooo good and buy me almost everything I LOOK at. If I walk past something and I stare at it a little longer, then when I get home, they're all wrapped up and placed on my bed as gifts. I'm serious! They brought me around Tokyo, and cities around Tokyo, even Fuji (!) and we took like hundreds of purikura together. I still have some of them but they're mostly fading already. One thing I regret is I didn't eat enough sushi and ramen. They brought me to Chinese restaurant everyday because they worry I'm not used to it and want me to feel at home.

I miss Japannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Aunt Joan

I'm a proud aunt to a new niece born today!!!!!!!!

Wimbly Lu The Chocolate Cafe Singapore

I'm not a dessert person. I like to end my meal with plain water and that's about it. If there's dessert, I'll probably just have 5 bites the most. Anything more that that it makes me nauseated. However, I've read many reviews on Wimbly Lu . No good words for the breakfast menu and other desserts except for Blackout Cake and Waffles.

 

It's hard to miss the vintage red and white beetle stationed at the doorway.  I have no idea what the significance of this beetle is.

Interior is comfortable, cooling and quiet. Overhead  clear glass ceiling lets in good amount of sun.

I'm not a fan of very chocolatey things (brownies or 3 layers chocolate cake or anything similar. Can't remember the last time I have something like that, maybe 10 years ago wtf) hence I did not order the Blackout Cake. I settled with the most raved about - Waffles with salted caramel ice cream (S$8.50) and iced chocolate (S$6) with decent amount of whipped cream.

Waffle does not disappoint. It is crispy and ice cream is good with just the right amount of salt to draw out the caramel's sweetness.Though I thought the waffle tasted a littleeeee bitter but I can live with that. Iced chocolate, however, was very disappointing. I don't even know how Iced Chocolate can be that bad. It's diluted and too water-ish for my liking.

Plain water is free! I detest places which charge for water.

The cafe prepares different types of seats. The usual ones under the open glass ceiling, sofa seats at the corner, kids play area right behind the sofa seats and also garden seats.

Although the waffle is ok but I don't think I would visit the place again because it's not very accessible through public transport and it's quite a fuss to go there just for a mediocre waffle and no other good food (never tried others but other reviews have raved about waffle but gave negative comments on food).

Wimbly Lu
15-2 Jalan Riang,
358987,
Singapore.
+65 6289 1489