This was on July the 9th.
Great joy derived from the motivation to eat.
Some people who thought themselves great scientist of the psychological world asked:
"Do we eat to live or do we live to eat" -- what a dumb question. really. they cant be chemist because chemist will draw a foreward and a backward arrow and tell them that both are occurring, just which is more dominant than the other.
But in any case, im an advocate for the latter, since I really love to eat. My friends know it. They stared at me grinning at my lovely 'har gao' when we first visited a proper chinese place in california. Then on, they knew that I love food. I adore them=)
While doing a quick search through the Internet, I found this food journal:
http://aromacookery.com/2009/06/25/crab-buffet-dinner-ellenborough-market-cafe-swissotel-merchant-court/
which quickly led to a reservation there as part of Miao's 22nd birthday celebration. Mind you, it took us ages to decide because
1. time constraint-- i am working and miao was too fully booked for the weekends.
2. no options before that sounds interesting and exciting enough
Do take time to look at the link above. I swear that you will salivate even in your dreams. okie. so I present to you the ULTIMATE CRAB BUFFET that only holds for 2 weeks a year, stood at 48++/pax at the Swiss'Otel Merchant Court.
haha.. can you imagine the excitement overflowing? CRABS CRABS CRABS CRABS.
the thing is, i dont even like crabs that much. Think that they are a chore to eat. But, just the thought of the pictures made me overlook that im totally unskilled at crabbinology. I was lucky to find abalone, superbly braised duck, fish cooked with what i believe is my favourite black bean sauce, along with durian-themed dessert that can satisfy any durian loving Singaporean. They somehow killed off the smelly after taste that durians sometimes leaves in the mouth.
Food aside, and I know that this is long overdue, Happy Birthday to Miao. Every year, her birthday tends to be the most well celebrated -- because we are overjoy to have her in our lives? stop kidding-- because it tends to fall on holidays. Mine's the worst since its really either right smack during exams or it will be during reading week which spoils any mood to have fun.
It is really funny how close friends like the three of us have not, after so many years, influenced one another over our choice of presents. haha. Miao loves "exotic stuff" and to be caught by surprise. She has the highest tendency to buy you a balloon with a Happy Birthday/buy flowers or something like that. Wen, likes to collect in a box of unrelated tiny things that are sillily(my favorite NEW word) cute. She might get you a unique styled dress with erm. jigshaw puzzle? For me, I always buy stuff that they can use (thats why im an engineer) plus some thing surprising (to cater to their taste). I think they prefer the random "side-dishes" that I buy more than the "main course"=p
But in any case, this entry is seriously long overdue and so I'm going to end it off with this "hey, lets stop reporting 'numbers' when we celebrate bdays. we arent young anymore"=)
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
尽兴
"Let the world be your Playground", says the pig.
And the story ended previously with a painful wisdom uprooting experience. Thereafter, a few things had happened.
All these happened in the remaining part of June:
Starting with me recruiting a friend into BioBiz. ahaha. Great psycho-ing skills on my part. He was surprised that I had became the Chair of the event. Yeah. It would have surprised me too. haha.. but yup. Darren, welcome to the team even though nothing is about to start as of yet=)
Went for a swim-coaching session with Wen. It was so crowded on a Saturday, with the next door stadium hosting what I believe to be the Youth Games Soccer match, with occasional "GOAL!!!" which made me kind of high-- the audience must be really captivated and engaged in the game. Not the usual "a group of men chasing after a ball".
Met up with JC friends for what was supposed to be TJ-hawker-roti-prata-breakfast-gathering to see JY off for her exchange cum internship in Japan. BUT, the little girls, who were (still are) not used to Morning events were ALL late. To think that I was not even early. I was right on the dot and no one was there. In the end, we ate at Bedok Interchange Hawker instead and the angry me got free breakfast=p My face must be really black I think. haha.. AND JY didnt even come. Smack her when she comes back from Japan unless she bribes me with a nice gift=) Met Prema in at least 2 years since she went to Msia for her Medicine degree. We (aka glad pin me and Prema) went shopping at Robinsons warehouse sale. Managed to get a dress and a bag *Cheapo mind set to Calculator mode* Was amused when glad bought a hairband with a red feather on it. I mean, who ever buys hairbands with a red feather? Her dress sense has always been full of surprises (in the good way, of course).
This is in July already:
Wei Qin, Lucy (Finance Interns) and I finally managed an outing together. The previous trip to Clarke Quay for Fish and Chips were only between Wei Qin and I. And thanks to Wei Qin for her 'hardwork' in searching what I thought was 'hungry ghost go where.com' (misled by Lucy. Its supposed to be hungrygowhere.com), we managed to find a hawker with a well rated Stingray BBQ store at Teman Jurong. $10 for small and $13 for medium. In addition to the medium, we also ordered Sambal Kangkong and Prawn Rolls from another store that sells Zi Char. Stingray was seriously not bad but I had a pimples outbreak the next day=p Amazingly, Wei Qin didnt get us lost driving there without Vanessa and her 'sexy smoky voice'-- her GPS. Good job and Great Sense of direction, WeiQin. *laughs* I will try to forget the number of rounds you made at cityhall the last time u tried going for dance!
Family outing on a Saturday to Marina Barrage. This is my first time there and I seriously love that place for its pro-family setting, great design and engineering wonders. I liked the night scene of the Flyer in the far end, with Sea Breeze keeping you cool. I liked looking at the ships out at sea packed with Cargo and heading to 'i-dont-know where'. Most of all, I liked watching little kids run around and daddys trying to teach their kids to fly kites on the green pasture. That place is really nice, but inconvenient. We were lucky as it was the first of the series of National Day Parade Rehearsals. There were fighter jets and helicopters with the Singapore Flag flying high. Then there was the Fireworks that we managed to catch a glimpse of when we reached Marina Bay MRT station (almost missed the whole of it). It is a beautiful place. Absolutely suitable for a pack of potato chips. So, I bought a pack of $5 lays=)
Dinner followed at Swenson's @PS. Salty, but I still loved the Fish Baked Rice.
And the story ended previously with a painful wisdom uprooting experience. Thereafter, a few things had happened.
All these happened in the remaining part of June:
Starting with me recruiting a friend into BioBiz. ahaha. Great psycho-ing skills on my part. He was surprised that I had became the Chair of the event. Yeah. It would have surprised me too. haha.. but yup. Darren, welcome to the team even though nothing is about to start as of yet=)
Went for a swim-coaching session with Wen. It was so crowded on a Saturday, with the next door stadium hosting what I believe to be the Youth Games Soccer match, with occasional "GOAL!!!" which made me kind of high-- the audience must be really captivated and engaged in the game. Not the usual "a group of men chasing after a ball".
Met up with JC friends for what was supposed to be TJ-hawker-roti-prata-breakfast-gathering to see JY off for her exchange cum internship in Japan. BUT, the little girls, who were (still are) not used to Morning events were ALL late. To think that I was not even early. I was right on the dot and no one was there. In the end, we ate at Bedok Interchange Hawker instead and the angry me got free breakfast=p My face must be really black I think. haha.. AND JY didnt even come. Smack her when she comes back from Japan unless she bribes me with a nice gift=) Met Prema in at least 2 years since she went to Msia for her Medicine degree. We (aka glad pin me and Prema) went shopping at Robinsons warehouse sale. Managed to get a dress and a bag *Cheapo mind set to Calculator mode* Was amused when glad bought a hairband with a red feather on it. I mean, who ever buys hairbands with a red feather? Her dress sense has always been full of surprises (in the good way, of course).
This is in July already:
Wei Qin, Lucy (Finance Interns) and I finally managed an outing together. The previous trip to Clarke Quay for Fish and Chips were only between Wei Qin and I. And thanks to Wei Qin for her 'hardwork' in searching what I thought was 'hungry ghost go where.com' (misled by Lucy. Its supposed to be hungrygowhere.com), we managed to find a hawker with a well rated Stingray BBQ store at Teman Jurong. $10 for small and $13 for medium. In addition to the medium, we also ordered Sambal Kangkong and Prawn Rolls from another store that sells Zi Char. Stingray was seriously not bad but I had a pimples outbreak the next day=p Amazingly, Wei Qin didnt get us lost driving there without Vanessa and her 'sexy smoky voice'-- her GPS. Good job and Great Sense of direction, WeiQin. *laughs* I will try to forget the number of rounds you made at cityhall the last time u tried going for dance!
Family outing on a Saturday to Marina Barrage. This is my first time there and I seriously love that place for its pro-family setting, great design and engineering wonders. I liked the night scene of the Flyer in the far end, with Sea Breeze keeping you cool. I liked looking at the ships out at sea packed with Cargo and heading to 'i-dont-know where'. Most of all, I liked watching little kids run around and daddys trying to teach their kids to fly kites on the green pasture. That place is really nice, but inconvenient. We were lucky as it was the first of the series of National Day Parade Rehearsals. There were fighter jets and helicopters with the Singapore Flag flying high. Then there was the Fireworks that we managed to catch a glimpse of when we reached Marina Bay MRT station (almost missed the whole of it). It is a beautiful place. Absolutely suitable for a pack of potato chips. So, I bought a pack of $5 lays=)
Dinner followed at Swenson's @PS. Salty, but I still loved the Fish Baked Rice.
Im not done yet with updating=) but this post is getting long. Yep. So I'll continue from here again the next time=)
努力过的人才懂得珍惜，付出过的人才懂得守护，悲伤过的人才懂得快乐， 原来负负得正的道理才是我们必须懂得接受的常识。
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Pika's Graduation
Congratulations to pika for being the first in the family to graduate from NUS. With a first class honours, a quadratically improving CAP, a SAP that ended with a 5.0, and second in FYP project for the Chemistry cohort graduating Y2009.
CAP = -0.0062x^2 + 0.1417 x + 3.9629 (x = No. of semesters in NUS)
Hope u enjoy yourself for the rest of your hols before the verdict is out!
Friday, July 3, 2009
Oh my~
i know shit happens all the time, but more of it happened today, starting the morning with a stalker uncle at jurong east, my 'initially-felt-lousily/wrongly choosen' FYP and of course some minor things that i couldn't answer properly.
But, of all the crazy things that happened, this must have healed me.
"wei ling, i know it is not th right time to thank you yet. But honestly, i really wanna thank you for guiding me during my hardest and weakest point. Th time where i was the last in class. Th time when i do not know a single thing. You thought me everyth from scratch. Even if you had to repeat a dozen times, you will still do it with patience and th winning smile [: iloveyou so so much! I will work hard not only for me but also for my teachers, you and my parents [: i really improve tremendously. Thank you a million times. Lets work even harder since o level is coming XD see ya tml! I know this is kinda random but i just have to say it [:"
Albeit the spelling and grammatical mistakes, oh-my-goodness, you really touched me.
Maybe I should really consider becoming a teacher.
But, of all the crazy things that happened, this must have healed me.
"wei ling, i know it is not th right time to thank you yet. But honestly, i really wanna thank you for guiding me during my hardest and weakest point. Th time where i was the last in class. Th time when i do not know a single thing. You thought me everyth from scratch. Even if you had to repeat a dozen times, you will still do it with patience and th winning smile [: iloveyou so so much! I will work hard not only for me but also for my teachers, you and my parents [: i really improve tremendously. Thank you a million times. Lets work even harder since o level is coming XD see ya tml! I know this is kinda random but i just have to say it [:"
Albeit the spelling and grammatical mistakes, oh-my-goodness, you really touched me.
Maybe I should really consider becoming a teacher.
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