Met up with some Primary school girlfriends today. We went to eat at Shokudo, Raffles City. I had wanted to check out what the hype was all about as there was always a long queue on Fridays.
It is also touted to be the Japanese version of Marche, where one just uses a card to 'buy' stuff and only pay when we exit the restaurant. I find that there were dishes like pasta and rosti that should not have been there. They are quite un-original and unnecessary.
There were stuff that were very Japanese and I enjoye those very much. I especially liked the yakitori and sashimi. There is something that I wanted to try but did not get to, and that is the oden. It is actually, as they have stated on heir display dish, Japanese yong tau foo. I have always seen people eat oden at Mr Sushi, but never did have the courage to order it. Now I know where else I can go to, to eat oden.
As for the yakitori, they have quite a variety for you to choose from and there was something that I ate for the first time and found it very delicious! That was the quail eggs wrapped with bacon. Yummy!
There is also mochi which I did not try, but because I prefer savoury things, I have put it off till some other time. Coffee was not bad and acording to one of my girlfriends, the hot chocolate is actually not bad too!
We sat there for like a good two to three hours; from full house till not too many people at all. The only complaint is that they kept repeating the same CD (music) over and over again. We eventually left because of that. No, nt really. It was getting cold and we were all very full and wanted to do some 'excercise'.
It was a very pleasant afternoon with one of them asking us what is the meaning of life to us. Or rather, what drives us to wake up every morning. This led to a whole series of chats about work, children and lots of other stuff.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
NEW PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry. Got a little too excited. I wanted to wait till December and change to the other phone operator with the green theme, but I guess I could not resist the phone calling out my name and saying,"Take me, please take me home. I am yours!"
Ha, ha, ha!!!
Got the Sony Ericsson W910i. I think, my choice is non of the above (from my wish list). The reason why I did not want that phon at that time was due to the fact that the camera only had 2.0 megapixels while my present phone had 3.2 megapixels.
Well, as the salesperson told me, it is not such a great difference, the megapixels, unless we are talking about 3.2 megapixels versus 5.0 megapixels. I agree.
As OLKGAL once said to me, a handphone should be a handphone. Why pay so much for camera functions when you know that it can never function as well as a real camera (well, something like that). I agree with her on that too.
Ha, ha, ha!!!
Got the Sony Ericsson W910i. I think, my choice is non of the above (from my wish list). The reason why I did not want that phon at that time was due to the fact that the camera only had 2.0 megapixels while my present phone had 3.2 megapixels.
Well, as the salesperson told me, it is not such a great difference, the megapixels, unless we are talking about 3.2 megapixels versus 5.0 megapixels. I agree.
As OLKGAL once said to me, a handphone should be a handphone. Why pay so much for camera functions when you know that it can never function as well as a real camera (well, something like that). I agree with her on that too.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
KPE
Went to my grand aunt's funeral wake for the second night in a row. Was a little excited as I was going to travel on the new KPE tunnel from the other direction for the first time (usually, I go towards city and head off to PIE, when the tunnel was not fully in operation).
Going towards Punggol was quite smooth-sailing. There were cars (as it was about 8 plus at night) but it was not traffic-jammy sort of irritating situation. The best part was I was going home from Punggol. At first, there were only 2 cars: one car in front of me and...my car!!! It was so empty and the feeling of almost having the whole road to yourself, was wonderful!
Driving on a little, after passing Airport road exit, there were a few more cars that joined us: two to be exact. Not bad at all. Of course, it was eleven plus at night and the traffic on the road would have been sparse. This being a new tunnel at that, just made it even more so.
Love the KPE for now. Just wondering when it will become overcrowded again, just like all the other major expressways.
Going towards Punggol was quite smooth-sailing. There were cars (as it was about 8 plus at night) but it was not traffic-jammy sort of irritating situation. The best part was I was going home from Punggol. At first, there were only 2 cars: one car in front of me and...my car!!! It was so empty and the feeling of almost having the whole road to yourself, was wonderful!
Driving on a little, after passing Airport road exit, there were a few more cars that joined us: two to be exact. Not bad at all. Of course, it was eleven plus at night and the traffic on the road would have been sparse. This being a new tunnel at that, just made it even more so.
Love the KPE for now. Just wondering when it will become overcrowded again, just like all the other major expressways.
What a lazy day kind of day, except...
Was supposed to go to Ubin with my colleagues today, but the weather wasn't too promising. It was threatening to rain. We all decided to sleep in.
Watched some TV, did some blogging (as you can see from my previous postings) and planned to go watch a movie on my own. Then I learnt that one of my grand aunts have passed away. This saddened me quite a bit as she was my favourite grand aunt. She was always laughing loudly (like me) during any sort of family gatherings, which is usually at birthday and wedding dinners. Her older sister was the more sarcastic one and never fails to tell you off.
Anyway, still went to watch Mama Mia! but with Dad and Mum instead. Quite surprised that Dad would want to watch it as he is quite picky about movies. The are certain genres that he just would not watch. I guess Meryl Streep got him to go and watch it.
We went to Downtown East, which was not too bad at all, except Mum did not like the noise or crowd one bit. It gave her a splitting headache. I was just having fun, eating Superdog hotdog and enjoying the movie. I was tapping my toes the beat of the music most of the time.
Said part came when we went for the wake. Although I know that she has been called home to be with the Lord, I just feel really sad still. I just went to visit her on September 1st when I had a Teacher's Day holiday. Little did I know that it will be my last.
I guess this is my wake up call to visit my own granny more often, as always find some kind of excuse not to. Maybe subconsciously, I do not want to see them get old, but I do know that time is running out and I should not delay any longer.
Watched some TV, did some blogging (as you can see from my previous postings) and planned to go watch a movie on my own. Then I learnt that one of my grand aunts have passed away. This saddened me quite a bit as she was my favourite grand aunt. She was always laughing loudly (like me) during any sort of family gatherings, which is usually at birthday and wedding dinners. Her older sister was the more sarcastic one and never fails to tell you off.
Anyway, still went to watch Mama Mia! but with Dad and Mum instead. Quite surprised that Dad would want to watch it as he is quite picky about movies. The are certain genres that he just would not watch. I guess Meryl Streep got him to go and watch it.
We went to Downtown East, which was not too bad at all, except Mum did not like the noise or crowd one bit. It gave her a splitting headache. I was just having fun, eating Superdog hotdog and enjoying the movie. I was tapping my toes the beat of the music most of the time.
Said part came when we went for the wake. Although I know that she has been called home to be with the Lord, I just feel really sad still. I just went to visit her on September 1st when I had a Teacher's Day holiday. Little did I know that it will be my last.
I guess this is my wake up call to visit my own granny more often, as always find some kind of excuse not to. Maybe subconsciously, I do not want to see them get old, but I do know that time is running out and I should not delay any longer.
Samgaetang
Had dinner with Dad at Ju Shin Jung last night. This is at Joo Chiat.It was under the heavy recommendation of his Korean student who is learning Chinese under him. We went for the Korean Ginseng Chicken (samgaetang) and it was quite delicious.
However, I find the dishes a little overpriced. A korean pancake is going for $20. Even if it had lots of kimchi and seafood, I don't think I will pay that much for flour-y stuff like that. I would still prefer Manna any time. The food variety is more to my liking. I promised Dad I would bring him to Manna one day :)
Anyway, forgot to mention how embarrassed we were when we first walked into a Korean restuarant, thinking that was it! We did not realise that the name of the restuarant was different and we had to walk out again, realising it is more of a Korean barbecue place rather than Ju Shin Jung, the one specliasing in Ginseng Chicken Soup :)
Nostalgia
Well, I did say that I went to stay over at my cousin's place from 20th night till 21st Sept. I found lots of nostalgic treasures that were still in good working condition. Rather than waiting for these treasures to disappear from the earth forever, I took pics of it instead! Can you see the brand of the fan?
Satisfying dinner
Went to have dinner and stayed over with my cousin on 20th September. We (my aunt, my cousin and I) went to have dinner at the Marriott. Was either thinking of the Crossroads cafe (where I used to work as a captain) or the poolside cafe. We ended up at the Pool Grill as it was full house at the Crossroads Cafe and the hostess/maitre d'hotel could not guarantee us a table even though we had to wait for 15 minutes.
Here are the pics of what we ate:
I had a veal scallopini.
My cousin had the blue barramundi (hope I got this one right).
My aunt had the salmon.
The most rewarding bit was the coffee though. If you are thinking of spending little at a quiet environment, having a cup of coffee there would be ideal. They use Illy coffee beans (at least their cups say so). It would also be a good place if you just wanted to drink some wine while looking at the skyline of Orchard Road.
Here are the pics of what we ate:
I had a veal scallopini.
My cousin had the blue barramundi (hope I got this one right).
My aunt had the salmon.
The most rewarding bit was the coffee though. If you are thinking of spending little at a quiet environment, having a cup of coffee there would be ideal. They use Illy coffee beans (at least their cups say so). It would also be a good place if you just wanted to drink some wine while looking at the skyline of Orchard Road.
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