simply remember

* new blog

2007-06-30T17:21:00.000-07:00

THE COMMON TESTS ARE OVER!

what a relief! and.. i'm moving, so check out the new site for updates instead. if possible, relink me!

http://simplyexclusive.blogspot.com/

on another note, joybites is also moving!

http://simplyjoybites.blogspot.com/

stressed

2007-06-26T08:29:00.000-07:00

can someone save me here?

i'm dying.

not from some terminal disease, but the combination of stress and fear. the common tests are like ongoing and i just came to realise how unprepared i am. this feeling is really bad.

i blank out at every physics question and nothing is going right in my revisions. but what can i do now? nothing... everything is too late.

i fear of getting retained- this is the last thing i will ever hope for. seriously i know i'm gonna screw up this whole thing, i'm not trying to be pessismistic here but i know it for myself. and i hate to see how disappointed my parents would be. i just lack the self-discipline.

~~yes, elaine you suck.~~

now i finally see the light of my late grandfather's words... laziness is the killer. indeed, it is in the process of slowly taking my entire soul away. i'm like so fricking dead please.

no miracle can save me now.
all within me is just stressed...and fear, nothing else.

to add on, i'm terribly worried about my grandmother. she just did an operation to have a tumour on her thighs removed.. and now it takes 2 more weeks to determine her cancer condition. it really hurts me to see her in this state, having to suffer so much but still put on a brave front.

i love her alot and i would never want anything to happen to her... she's the best and most courageous grandmother ever. she has to be alrite, but will she?

and then there's daddy, i know he really loves me alot. He's the only one in the family who dotes on me; never bearing to scold me and always fulfilling all my wants.. but now i'm going to sadden him badly with my poor results. i can't take this anymore.

oh man i just feel super useless now.

*torture

2007-06-23T01:50:00.000-07:00

Mugging is awful and i absolutely hate it! Just lemme get thru this exam week and i'll be the happiest soul i can ever be.. but i'm really sure no good results will come out of it.

I want some desperate change to this blog, arrgh. i'm gonna move out of fadedcraze soon, so be prepared for some new change! (:

Just one more week....

* father's day

2007-06-19T01:17:00.000-07:00

i should always avoid window shopping because i always end up with new things on my to-buy-list.. but the thing is there's never enough to finish buying! then i leave it dragging until the design goes off the shelves, and inccur unhappiness on myself. *tsk tsk. what's the point right?

But too bad it can't be helped.

tagged along with mum and sis to suntec last week and guess what i've found?

oh man, i'm like currently dying for a nice presentable jacket like this! this grey & pink Le Coq Sportif thing costs a fricking $99 but it does come with a further discount of 15%. and then came this bag...

a tad cheaper at $75 with no discount, and even sis wants it.

now what? i shall promise myself to save hard for this!

~~if only i can be trusted~~

BUT very fortunately for me, i managed to update my wardrobe a little with daddy's $100 sponsorship for my JB shopping trip (:

I wasn't very pleased with my relatives planning the trip on Father's Day but at least daddy is understanding. with that, i got 2 tops, a pair of pumps (not much actually) plus some luxury eats with my cousins...johor is probably the only place where i can take my two 12 year-old cousins for lunch at Secret Recipe.

you get the same food for just half the price, super worth it!

visited this branch at Aeon Tebrau City, furnishing and all are exactly the same.

check out the tantalising food...

my pan-grilled fish with lobster sauce (Rm 17)

A kid's mini chicken burger for Jamie (Rm 10)

kid's fish & chips for Valerie (Rm 10)

and those happy faces;

of course, we had to attack the cakes as well!

i love this shot of enjoyment.

our choices..

only at Rm 5.50 each, so unbelievable!

Mine's a blueberry cheese without fail;

yummilicious.

Then there was also my treat to icecream..

Dinner was yet another cheap eat at this hong kong cafe in City Square called Tang Tea House;

val having her kaya french toast.

spread of toasts at just Rm 12.70 in total, including tax! okay i just can't stop this fascination of value eats here =p

looks like a luxury trip uh? but i even had a $40 change for daddy after all that, haha!

Father's day celebration- mummy kindly treated us to a meal of daddy's choice : Noodle House Ken @ Orchard Plaza for some quality ramen..

my miso ramen with those lovely corn bits (:

huge bowls of noodles we had

later in the night, i suggested supper with daddy at my favourite Cheesecake Cafe! he gladly obliged due to my non-stop raves about their ultimate cheesecakes, lol =x

my ULTIMATELY-LOVED blueberry american cheesecake. Nothing can get better than this... its the best ever found!

daddy's peanut butter cheesecake,a very special flavour they have.

the cakes and teas we had here are pricey but well-worth it. i'm glad dad enjoyed my recommendation, heh.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, DADDY!

Lastly, i finally made my appearance in front of dear's buddies =p joined them for their recent barbeque at pasir ris park... scary at first but things turned out well. at least i had yiliang's gf, doreen to chat with throughout- she's one nice girl!

the master barbeque chef...

with helpers of course =p

our wonderful dinner ~~with many burnt parts~~;

had so much food ordered from ezb supplier- chicken wings, black pepper chicken, satay, crabsticks, chicken franks, cheese sausages, dory fish, steaks, fried rice... even marshmallows and chocolate banana with cadbury choc!

then the guys started to play zhong ji mi ma with uber gross creations as punishments. first to lose was francis who had to swallow up this crabstick topped with sambal, satay sauce and peas...

and poor dear was the next victim;

cheese sausage coated with tons of butter, YUCKS.

couple at work- doreen & yiliang.

okay yes, it was sure a new experience for me (:

~~I'M SO DEAD.~~ I NEED TO MUGG... and think of ways to save up =p

*emo

2007-06-14T22:57:00.000-07:00

I was feeling absolutely down yesterday.

once again it was that sense of everything against me. and then i lost all mood to do anything, numbness surrounded. pretty scary actually, its been long since i emo-ed that badly.

it was after yesterday that i realised how fragile i was deep inside- not in the past, but now. root cause was probably the period when i almost thronged into ~~depression~~. maybe.. perhaps.. i really dunno.

but my therapy? sleep and gorge. i call it the piggification method.

this morning, woke and for a Mr Bean cheese pancake, a kaya mee chang kueh roll and chocolate milkshake then returned to bed till lunch time. took a slow stroll out to Upper Serangoon Road for a bowl of bah chor mee with extra meekia, char siew pao, egg tart, charsiew soh... and a deep-fried yam cake (i hate yam so i must be crazy).

yea madness indulge, but it actually works for me.

after all that, i'm back at home blogging here with the aircon at 17 degrees and fan blasting at full max. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME. arrgh.

*tai-tai mahjong

2007-06-13T21:38:00.000-07:00

finally a mahjong meet-up with my fellow taitais!

Gathered at Shilin's place once again for our usual mahjong game... but this time we actually planned a mini belated birthday "celebration" for Serene- all with a sweet lil cake from breadtalk.

hah, that's a surprise "pop-up.

Happy 17th Birthday, Serene!

a picture with the birthday girl.

self-timer group photo..

Special bdae privilege: cake-feeding!

and then came our luxury afternoon-tea...
An entire pint of Ben & Jerry's Pistachio Pistachio!

-with compliments from Mrs Seow, haha =p

dug in and ate straight with our spoons. we finished bout 3/4 of it?

dinner was at our usual Hong Kong Cafe- yet another high-class (*ahem) selection. now watch the hungry fellows eat..

one drink each.

followed by some yummy thick french toasts...

Super scrumptious, we all loved the banana one (:

Pouring the maple syrup over...

Arrival of the main courses;

HK Famous Beef Brisket Rice for Sarah

HK Fried Black Pepper Seafood Spaghetti for Serene

Szechuan Spicy Chicken Lamian for Shilin

and a Fish Fillet Rice with Garlic Sauce for me!

Tucking in...

mmmm, yummy!

so shilin gradually started on her slow-paced meal... and it went on even after all our plates were cleared, haha!

one scary shot;

more photos while we awaited for the slow-eater..

the double S duo.

check out sarah's new expression.

Finally! but with some gross remains. lol.

Proudly Presenting..

It was a wonderful self-proclaimed "high-class" day, love you all!

ooh, and i also met up with xinya last saturday (:

we fulfilled yet another one of our multi-cuisine dinner sessions: chinese cuisine at citylink mall's Asian Kitchen. Filled ourselves with some quality lamian and meaty guo ties and then headed on for desserts at n.y.d.c *huge grin.

Hard to choose between their cheesecake or divine apple crumbles so we got both to share...

Ally's New York Cheesecake

My favourite wonderfully warm Apple Crumble with a scoop of french vanilla icecream. It was simply heavenly!!!

and we had much fun playing with those cuddly soft toys as well,haha.

ta-dah, so that was another lovely time spent with my darling sec school mate! more cuisines to come yea?

Sigh, if only the holidays had 48-hour days ):

*Batam

2007-06-07T06:51:00.000-07:00

My holidays so far... pretty happening i would say- but thats not good news. i swear no one can be as lagging behind in revision as me. oh man, i seriously need to settle down for some disciplined studying! someone save me.

on a lighter note, i finally met jessica today! whoa i sure missed her.

oh something was wrong at clarke quay station today. the linking shutters of exits near the Central were suddenly closed; and poor jess had to make a huge detour just to get out. while i was waiting at the busstop, a fire engine arrived and a group of fire fighters cooly rushed into the blocked-out area.

so what exactly happened? we seriously have no idea =p

all we care about is lunching at Fishermen's Wharf, heh. Just across Clarke Quay station is a laid-back and casual restaurant specialising in Fish & Chips with all kinds of fish. No airconditioning and ordering is self-service. both of us went for the cheapest cream dory fillet.

cream dory fillet, $6.50

there was an interesting choice of fries or chips and we couldn't quite figure out what exactly was the difference. jess stuck to the safe fries while i adventurously chose the chips. okay, it turned out to be strips of soggy panfried potatoes. tartar sauce for dipping. their F&C was pretty impressive, it actually managed to meet my expectations. the first bite was heavens of fresh moist fish fillet in a light crisp batter but the coating subsequently got soggy as it cooled. must eat it hot!

after lunch was a mugging session over at the Mcdonald's in Funan IT Mall. had out softserve fix once again =p jess tried the new shrek lime sundae which came in a shocking luminous green, haha! and it tasted just like the solero icecream.

shy mugger

camwhoring..

note: she's got FRINGE!

Lunch session with shar yesterday- another well-missed girlfriend. we had a happy time pigging out at Vivo's Hog's Breath Cafe (: their set lunches are really worth it! i had a Dijonnaise Chicken Set with a mushroom soup and dessert at just $12.

Dijonnaise Chicken

Mississipi Mudcake with vanilla icecream

sirloin steak for her

the girl peppering from a corona bottle, cool.

good food, good service, good ambience- one fabulous meal.

we went shopping.... and i got my first item from the GSS. a fox sweater at a real steal. yays. she managed to get a tube dress from forever 21 and lingerine at La Senza.

oh, and here's a pretty zara top that i cant afford..

LOL.

Monday was yet another wonderful time spent with dear. we went to watch shrek 3, lol. it was pretty alrite, fits the bill of my preferred movie- short, simple, sweet & a happy ending (:

lunch was the Shrek meal at macs. yes, we are super shrek fans.

Chicken Teppanyaki burger (super salty!)

shakie shakie for seaweed fries

after the movie at GV Grand, we had some yummy cheesecakes at this new cafe. just look at those delectable cheesecakes smiling...

Say Cheezecake..

i had an excellent slice of blueberry cheesecake.

his was a cookie monster (cheese, brownie, mousse).

-we're loving it.

drove over to vivo for dinner. settled with the HK Kim Gary Restaurant; both of us had a drink & a rice each plus a french toast for sharing. yum.

my fish-wrapped egg with shanghai style rice. not too bad.

oh yes, not forgetting my trip to Batam.

the view from the ferry.

my mummy & me; love her loads.

i finally had my A&W!!! i was so INTO it that i stuffed myself with a waffle and rootbeer just before dinner, and sacrificed an authentic indonesian meal just to have another fish burger there. LOL.

the lovely waffle with icecream and strawberry syrup (before)

and after, haha!

i love A&W.

bought half a dozen of donuts from their well-known J.CO Donuts cafe..

thats mummy enjoying the hotel breakfast.

BFC=Best Fried Chicken?

my companions during the trip- granduncle henry, grandauntie josie & mum.

terribly tired people.

Overall, the whole trip was rather pleasant with lots of good & cheap food there! People there were generally nice and friendly. Was a short but enjoyable trip (:

*yawns. time for bed soon. updates again!

* holidays

2007-06-04T17:20:00.000-07:00

yes, its the holidays now- but not exactly. the common tests are right up after this month! and i'm still way back in revision, sigh ):

just returned from a 2-day batam trip with my mum, granduncle and grandauntie. was a pretty good experience for me; photos shall come in soon!

* hard to track

2007-05-26T06:34:00.000-07:00

I realised how much i've been lagging in my blogging. arrgh its pretty hard to keep track of every single detail so i shall do summing up of the happenings instead (:

people in the family. okay granduncle henry & grandauntie josie finally arrived in Singapore yesterday. i missed them; especially all of granduncle's hilarious stories and adventures, haha! didn't join them for breakfast today but i'm gonna wake up at 6am tmr to make up for that.

Sis made her way back from Sydney one day before them.

everything's safe and intact- except her handphone. apparently it got stolen from her bag just a day before her return, and mum's been nagging nonstop about that. and so dad gave her the sony ericsson cybershot phone, making her all so hyped up about being able to see dad at work using the 3G function. "wow".

check out the foodstuffs she bought back;

goodness, there was like a whole load of cadbury bars! haha and of course i had 2 boxes of my highly-craved-for donuts as well as tons of macadamia nuts.

my poor grandma, she was discharged but subsequently came down with fever. and now even the sore eyes struck her.

bakings. i now have a whole long list of "wanna-bakes" but i can't avoid continuously postponing them ): plus there's like so many days of the week that i gotta return to school. this is no holiday lar, sigh. anyways, managed to squeeze in this one..

mother's day. (the long outdated occasion) With dad and sis both overseas, i was the only one left to celebrate it with mummy. lunch was a "mothers gathering" with my aunts and grandma at green on earth cafe.

lineup of mothers.

following that, i brought mum to AMK hub's New York New York for dinner- my favourite sandwiches! this heartland branch here is real packed with a snake-long winding queue, and we waited for close to an hour to get a table! i admit its total madness but i'll do anything to satisfy my sandwich cravings, heh.

the ultimate New Yorker..

omg it was heavens lar. the toast, ham, honey mustard and grilled vegetables all seemed like a perfect combination- just short of some gooey melted cheddar =p

mum had a tuna mayo one which was a bad choice cause of the utterly high sodium content.
go for the new yorker!

this year i made a cake to suit mum's tastebuds;

a mango mousse cake!

forgone a whole half of my sleep to spend the entire night getting this done. the whole process took from like 10pm to 3am? haha, that should show my efforts invested (:

the interior of cake, mousse, cake, mousse, jelly- all made with fresh mangoes!

Mummy with the cake..

and a shot with my maid as well...

and i hope mum liked the necklace i bought =x

team sajc matches. have been going down the the delta stadium at redhill to support our girl's hockey team. won the semis against rjc but we lost the most recent finals with vjc. 1-0, and that determines our second placing.

(semi-finals) the two extremes.

also managed to be one of the classes scheduled for the boy's tennis finals- to support our fellow S18 yingneng and ian. the former lost but fortunately for sa, the latter won a match at least. whoa, and because of ian's victory, samantha & i won a free ben&jerry's treat from junhe! what a sure-win bet that was (:

thats yingneng..

and ian, doing his serve.

the S18 supporters;

(from left) jingwen, huiling, sarah, me, caroline....goes on.

the clique @ kallang tennis centre (in the absence of clarissa). okay we were trying very hard to open our eyes but the sun was too scorching.

culinary club. sushi-making time! it was lots of fun attempting sushi for the first time and i learnt alot more about cooking and seasoning the rice. presenting elaine's first self-rolled product..

with yummy crabstick, cucumber and salmon!

girls in action.

our final assorted platter. looks good uh?

thats all for now. oh YAY the hols are here!

* deep low

2007-05-20T02:18:00.000-07:00

my mood just dropped DEEP LOW.

grandma has just been hospitalised; and my gut feelings tell me that its definitely something to do with her cancer issue. and everything else is just not going my way at all, arrgh.

i'm flunking practically everything at school and nothing on my notes seem easily-comprehensive to me. my mum and i have been quarrelling over small matters for the past week. i feel so disappointed in my studies, my life and myself; its exactly that bad.

yes, i know i lead a sucky life.
and i've been emo-ing nonstop.

worse, COMMON TEST commences right after the hols. now what?

(updates coming up soon..)

*busy busy day

2007-05-06T20:39:00.000-07:00

Long since i blogged!

Updates; dad has been constantly travelling and sis just went to Tasmania for her graduation trip. So its left with just me & mummy at home. The worst thing is that i have to wake up freakking early to take train to school myself- and today it started to pour before i left the house, how suey!

oh yes, Mr Lee bought us pizza during our break (: he FINALLY saw to his promise.

2 medium pizzas from Rite pizza. its was on the buy-1-get-1-free deal and he picked Haiwaiian plus a Veggie Lover (for justin chou). i liked the bread dough, it was very much less oily than Pizza Hut's.

and that's brandon No.1 slicing the pizza.

okay i flunked my summation+MI test as i expected, SIGH ):

Dad just returned from Amsterdam today so we finally could have a dinner with him. Decided to head down to try the new Ramen Marutama at Central Mall- the queue was seriously long! but luckily the food was pretty worth the wait (:

10 May Thursday
-Bugis with Sarah

a $1 TOMATO THOSAI for my afternoon snack.

Mother's Day is just round the corner (fine, in a days time) and i've finally bought a present- all after those numerous rounds Sarah and i made around bugis junction, HAHA. eventually got an blue necklace from accessorize which i have been eyeing for quite some time.

the dumbest part is- i couldn't resist buying a chomel necklace for myself also. its like a charm of a miniature flipflop studded with pink crystals.. super pretty! expensive but i really really like it alot. oh well, life is just so full of temptations =x

Met mummy for dinner after her work. Long John Silvers cause she claims that she haven't eaten there for ages. So we went to try their new wraps..

fish for her and chicken for me. a rather tasty chicken patty sandwiched in a soft burrito bread, its not bad actually.

9 May Wednesday
-07S18 Learning Journey

whoo, Learning Journery to the Parliament House! We had a charted bus to take us there at 2pm but sarah huiling and i went on our own cause huiling had renew her passport at the SIR building. Accompanied her there and then went for a afternoon snack at Raffles Marketplace (:

Huiling bought some sushi from the supermarket while sarah & i grabbed a bite at MIX.

my Apple Cinnamon Power Pretzel, all warmed up and tasting yummy!

Figured our way to the Parliament House and successfully arrived. Then mr yuen told us to meet them at VCH so we walked over but they dropped off at the Parliament House in the end, wth!

3 spastic dummies posing with Sir Stamford Raffles;

LOL.

whoa, security at the Parliament House was sure strict. Our bags had to be searched through, scanned through and collected. And we even had to walk through the metal detectors like as though it was the customs, arrgh. but the entire thing was made super hilarious by joker jeff and our guide.

viewed the chamber and also had a 07S18 mini parliament meeting where we fit into the different roles. I was one of the MPs (: The whole thing ended at 5 plus and we all walked back to City Hall station together. check out Mr Yuen's GIANT umbrella;

Shopped around with Sarah while waiting for mummy to meet me for dinner. ate at The Soup Spoon- its real good stuff! They had the best mushroom soup with a perfect accompanying bread!

8th May Tuesday
-sickness day

DOWN WITH TENSIONAL HEADACHE.

i was feeling so terrible that i couldn't even get myself to wake up. went to the doctor and he said it was due to lack of sleep, stress and the freakking heat. got 3 sets of medicine plus an MC (:

7th May Monday

I prepared a surprise for dear. got him to meet me at the playground near my place and i ran out to prepare my brownie for him- on the spot!

ta-dah!

enjoy (:

i sure looked like a fool dashing out of the house with 2 huge paper bags, heh. fortunately, i freezed the scoop of icecream beforehand so it didn't melt too quickly. hope you liked it!

6th May Sunday
-Pre Mother's Day Celebration

my relatives came over for an early Mother's Day gathering at my place. It was sure a busy weekend for me- i baked m&m danish cookies, portugese egg tarts and chocolate chip walnut brownies!

Series of fresh bakings;

In addition, mum made a special request for my fried wantons so we went marketing early in the morning for the the ingredients. Sis and i ate the ever-popular wanton mee at Kovan food centre for breakfast..

my fried wantons. made bout 100 plus of these.

decided to prepare something more professional-looking with my brownies.

warm walnut & chocchip brownies with a scoop of vanilla chocchip icecream, drizzled with chocolate syrup and topped with mini M&Ms, chocolate pocky sticks and a california strawberry.

sounding good?

the dessert table for the young ones.

vanessa!

our nasi lemak feast

zann & ben

and finally, some happy mothers with their presents.

4th May Friday
-Crab Session

Mum treated Sis and I to Mellben Seafood at Ang Mo Kio to celebrate sis' end of exams, how lame. we ordered a butter crab, slice fish beehoon, seafood tofu and my favourite fried mantous!

their signature butter crab..

whoa the estimated waiting time for this was like one hour! madness lar.

Sis indulging in her pincher..

one happy meal (:

I LOVE OUR MOO MOO IDENTITIES;

4 moo moo handphone socks for the animal family, haha.

oh yes,
A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL!
(in advance..)

* fun days

2007-04-28T00:08:00.000-07:00

homemade oreo cheesecake, anyone?

finally dedicated a weekend morning to my baking passion (: have been so caught up with all the schoolwork & stuffs that i can hardly find time to bake anymore, so this is one rare exception. enjoy!

daddy is back from Tokyo and guess what he bought me?

ta-dah, its a box of KRISPY KREME donuts fresh from the streets of Shinjuku!!

Selection of apple cinnamon, chocolate iced sprinkles, original glazed and a limited edition cherry kiss.

oh-so-yummilicious with their quality glazing (:

27th April Friday
-SAJC Drama Play

ms kotwani practically ~~FORCED~~ made our entire class support her by going for the drama play. had no choice but to pay $12 for a really cheapskate-looking ticket; its basically a blue slip of photocopied paper. anyone can just fake a ticket easily lar, how stupid.

anyways we decided to go as a class and make this a 07S18 outing instead. so yea, headed down to bugis with sarah after chem lecture.oh man then it started raining and we our shoes were totally soaked, damn gross. were super hungry once we reached bugis!

Had the chicken floss toast at De Toast, while sarah had their macaroni salad. Then we tried Uzumaki's new seasonal flavours; milk tea (with some mini pearls topping) & sakura.

ooh, the milk tea one was alrite but i didn't like those pearl toppings.

Met the rest at 6pm for dinner at the foodcourt. sarah & i (the jap food lovers) shared a unagi don & agedashi tofu from the japanese stall..

im so glad we shared it- the rice was quite alot.

gave ian a surprise birthday celebration- it was super hilarious lar. i got yingneng to bring ian to the toilet first while caroline & jingwen brought the stuffs over. but we were so slow in preparing that i had to keep informing yingneng to drag for time- imagine 2 guys staying in the toilet for 15 minutes, LOL. then when we were finally done, the 2 of them took sooo long to return that all the candles became baby short.

that's zhengjie eating while guarding the flame. multi-task, haha!

plus a giant kiddy balloon to paiseh him. haha this is obviously jingwen's suggestion =x

here comes the birthday boy..

and all of us started to sing the song in the middle of the foodcourt. oh man i swear it was embarrassing.

cake-cutting.

but i bet he's thinking of how to bring it back home, lol.

just a random shot.

Realised we were late after clearing up and stuffs, so we hurriedly walked over to nafa. fortunately, brandon and yingjie were there early to reserve seats for us (: oh, and here comes the second highlight of the day- we spotted huiching there with a guy and yingjie sitting far away from them. gosh, then we naturally had fun teasing him bout that.. AND his dumb t-shirt;

(yes we all know that, yingjie)

"Love, Food & Babies" was alright, i liked the theme but i had higher expectations of that. Still, it managed to make all of us laugh a couple of times. ended at bout 9.30pm.

Group photo with Miss Kotwani;
(distorted due to resizing)

a pity the class is incomplete with the band pple.

walked back to bugis junction together after the play. oh then we saw some cute pens which justin wanted to sponsor for our class identity. but in the end we decided to come back another time to get them. one last group shot..
(distorted due to resizing)

yes, we sure witnessed how ian was having problems with the balloon. his balloon got jammed somewhere and almost couldn't get out of the train on time. all thanks to jingwen, HAHA.

25th April Wednesday
-seoul garden with pastamanians

Yet another fun-filled day! started off with Justin's surprise birthday celebration in the caf, once again planned by our wonderful hoo jingwen =p

The very special present we prepared this time...

18 cups of teh-bing for the 18 year-old Justin Chou!

it seemed more like a punishment actually, but he simply drank sips from each cup then gave them away.

oh, not forgetting the most important surprise..

HOW GAY.

and here's colin at the side happily playing ZOOZOOCLUB on my phone. haha.

its CCA day where we hae our usual 3 hour break.so Sarah & i decided to return to TKGS to collect our olevel certs.

it looks seriously dumb with that bare tree.

was rather taken aback by how the canteen had changed. apparently they did some revamping and even named it Quatre Saisons @ tkgs. the stalls now have new bright signboards with the weirdest names like Oriental Chicken. haha worse, the indian stall is called BOLLY BOLLY, goodness!

of course, we had to eat our favourite Dosai!
i missed this lots! its the only chicken thosai that i ever see around, and the filling is very uniquely marinated. Large, cheap and delicious!

just look at her glee and you can guess how good it is.

went back on time for culinary club meeting. it ended surprisingly early so i managed to go home to get changed before meeting maggie and the rest. its huijin's birthday celebration at taka's seoul garden!

jiayun had training till quite late so we went in without her first. not much variety there actually, just marinated meat and those yong tau foo items. started with the cooked food until she came to join us. had so fun eating with them!

apparently we sent maggie to get our second round of meat for us, and she shocked us with..

an entire plate filled with heaps of it! then she continued by introducing each of the flavour- there was my favourite charsiew-marinated, tomyum, bulgogi, beef,deer meat and even coffee-flavoured chicken. whoa.

laughter throughout! haha maggie's "blurness" really kept us entertained, she's just naturally cute lar! but of course, the highlight of the meal had to be the celebration!

the birthday girl with her cake & presents;

icecream for desserts!

i had like 2 helpings! the vanilla flavour was yummy.

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we chatted bout work and stuffs till 10 plus before we left. it was a real enjoyable meal with them; love you girls!

HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY, HUIJIN!

what a lovely day (:

24th April Tuesday
-cheesecake session with pig

i love my animal-family clique lots!

goat=clarissa
pig=huiling
cow=sarah the moo moo
fish=elaine

school ended early today because mr yuen couldn't make it for physics practical and we managed to get ms kotwani to push GP forward. how nice. so huiling and i went to chill out at orchard atrium's TCC outlet- yay another one of those cheesecake sessions which i absolutely enjoy!

american cheese for me & oreo cheese for her.

yumyumyum. now i finally feel that my life is starting to get better and happier! my studies may be still on the downhill motion, but im sure i'll solve the problems one day ya. shall get to my PI now, updates soon.

*but now there's something hurting me real badly. forgive my contradictions.

* blessed with love

2007-04-20T18:38:00.000-07:00

Do you see what i'm seeing?

Yes, that's a dozen of donuts fresh off the trays of Donut Factory! And the poor person who had to suffer through the 3+ hours of queueing just to surprise me.. is none other than my dear!

Every flavour was so so good, these are no doubt the best donuts you can ever find in Singapore!

i feel so blessed (:
A MILLION THANKYOUS.

20 April Friday
-SAJC sports day 2007

My POWER breakfast;

a double-deck peanut butter & chocolate banana toast.

It was a boring and sucky event- i miss the cross country in first intake! All we did was cheer for HOSE house, slamming those marble-filled bottles and blowing the whistles, and watched as the 10x200m relay events proceeded. oh ya and Mr Yuen came in the saints house tee and shorts, looking just like a student. LOL.

The telematch came after the heats. Mr yuen, gabriel, clarissa, colin & yingjie participated for our class. whoo, and they actually emerged victorious. not bad yea.

Then it was mass musical chair.

It was like plenty of people desperately fighting for 2 rows of seats. what a dumb game.

haha the Mrs Lim (the principal) joined in as well, and we were all joking that she will definitely be the winner without everyone giving in to her. BUT we were wrong- 2 guys pushed her out of the game. then the commentator joked; "the 2 guys who pushed the principal out are to come report for detention on monday" HAHA.

Anyways, O7S18 gloriously won the 4th place for the baton relay. and under Justin's leadership, HOSE became the champion house. way to go, people! (:

07S18 with mr yuen (incomplete)

Ended at 12, after which i rushed off to harbourfront... off the sentosa with dear! we took the Sentosa Express which only took us 4 minutes to arrive at Sentosa's Beach Station.

on the blue line bus.

lunch was naturally the first stop cause we were both real hungry! Delifrance Cafe @ Siloso Point.

had a Le Classique Meal each, which came with a soup and drink.

a Seafood D'sire Croissant for him & Turkey & Brie Melo'D Baguette for me. the soup was cream of chicken but it tasted just like campbell's.

the delifrance endorser with our lunch feast;

at Siloso Beach (okay i know my dressing was weird)

Crossed over the road to Underwater World.

the stingray pool;

At the tunnel..

me & sharkie (distorted)

then it was TIME FOR DOLPHIN LAGOON! ooh, i've been seriously looking forward to this. fortunately, we managed to reach in time to catch the 3.30pm dolphin show.

ahhh, the pink dolphin was super super lovable!

Returned to Vivocity for cheesecakes at Secret Recipe!

had my usual marble cheesecake..

eeyer, their version here is super sucky. damn disappointing!

No matter what, its another well-spent day with him! (:

19 April Thursday
-dinner with cass

introduced her the the Riverside Indo BBQ rice, i had my usual Sotong Panggang with additional vegetables..

YUM, but it was really filling.

She had a Ayam Goreng

haha the amount of rice given shocked her and she didn't manage to finish it in the end. usual window shopping around PS and i bought a cute baby pooh photo album. then we headed to our usual Gelare Cafe for the $6 cake+drink deal.

tried the new york cheesecake for a change today- it was very simple yet satisfying.

cass and her oreo cheese (so expected!)

we so love the comfortable sofas at gelare!

18 April Wednesday
-culinary & homemaking cookout

we made mee goreng today as scheduled.

eileen in the midst of cooking..

the final product;

cynthia also did a thai noodle salad for the J2 assembly programme;

15 April Sunday
-a day with jess

Met jess 3 days before her birthday, just in time to pass her present!

Lunched at V8 Cafe where we shared 2 mains..

Black Pepper Seafood Spaghetti

i loved this, it was real tasty with the black pepper (:

Chicken Baked Rice

Also had their cheesecakes for dessert. Jess had an Oreo Cheesecake..

and a Blueberry Cheesecake for me

Its one of the better ones i've tried, yummy. Wow the dining experience here was very pleasant- good food & good service. i will certainly come back again!

watched the sneak preview of 200 Pounds Beauty. thought it would be one of those lame and waste-money shows but it turned out to be quite entertaining, haha! the main female lead is super super pretty!

just look at her shocking change..!

Snacked on a strawberry sundae each a Macs then had dinner at nlb's Hans Cafe.

Both of us chose the Grilled Dory Fish Set.

managed to get her a slice of chocolate cake and the waitress so kindly got it lighted for me.

super lame but yea, at least i bothered (:

HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY, JESS!

oh man, gp essay & file due tmr and i've not started on both yet. damn.

*tests

2007-04-14T16:21:00.000-07:00

crap, i wonder how badly am i gonna fail my econs & physics tests.

physics was super sickening, i actually forgot the formulas for the time of total flight and the range for projectile. since i only counted on memorizing them (instead of understanding), there goes my marks. arrgh! and i couldn't finish econs essay on time- the whole part (a) question was practically blank.

the conclusion: elaine you're so dead.

to make things worse, there's 2 more tests coming up tmr: math (AP GP) & physics (measurements + kinematics). it only makes my life so miserable, haha.

there's my first official culinary club session where we made..

and enjoyed it together, lol. the seniors there are all really nice people i must say.

okay enough about school. yesterday mummy brought me for a nepalese western dinner which was really good and reasonable! restaurant food & service at hawker prices, what a deal (: (photos coming up soon)

have been meeting dear up during the past week since he returned from his bangkok holiday trip. he bought me
DUNKIN' DONUTS~

they are simply lovely, thanks so much dear!

here's all the yummy food we had..

within 3 days we went to have the famous Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice at Maxwell, try the Peng Lai Ge Taiwanese Restaurant at Joo Chiat and revisited our favourite CHEESECAKE CAFE! (: plus plenty of those small bites around.

us.

7 April Saturday
had dinner with xinya.....at cathay's BILLY BOMBERS!

we are both first-timers there =p each of us had a mega huge burger and shared 2 good desserts. its obvious how full we were after the meal, haha!

took a walk back to Plaza Singapura where she bought her mother's birthday present- a wallet from GUESS. saw this really nice bag that i liked and secretly snapped a shot of it, heh.

its priced at $169.90 for goodness sake ):

love her (:

8 April Sunday
a usual family gathering session at grandma's place till the evening. before going i made a trip down to taka to get some Pop Doh donuts for my cousins as well as durian pancakes for grandma.

here's jane with her strawberry chocolate doh;

daddy brought us to Le Viet for dinner. ooh, vietnamese food.

its something new for me but surprisingly nice! i liked my seafood pho lots, the noodles were just different from our usual ones.

meeting jess today,will blog again soon. i shall mugg hard later (:

*good friday

2007-04-05T17:16:00.000-07:00

happy good friday!

now finally a day to catch up on all the sleep i've lost and a good self-made toast for breakfast to cheer things up a little (:

NOW FOR MY RANTINGS- i swear i don't totally enjoy jc life.

yes, sa may be a fun school and all but im already starting to get sick of this rigid schooling routine. wake up early in the morning, be in time for assembly, attend all those tutorials & lectures and then end the long draggy day with rushing out econs essays. its that sian.

i'm like beginning to separate off from the trio clique now cause seriously speaking, three's a crowd and theres no point at all. clinging on will just do more harm than good so might as well give up.

cca wise i kind of screwed my decision as well. was contemplating between saints sports club or culinary&homemaking club but intincts told me that i should head for my passion. so i went for the orientation and played some pretty pointless station games with 9 other people. the people there are really nice, but somehow i feel that i should go for sports instead. arrgh contradictions, damn.

07S18. the guys are forever acting childish and insane during lessons to annoy all the teachers,hah. but i find the girls all getting along quite well. ooh, just yest we went to the students centre to chill out together.

oh, haha and i went to subway twice this week; dinner with cass & afternoon snack with sarah.

both their first-time there and everyone finds subway yummy (:

cass enjoying her double choc chip.

next issue- daddy has been travelling really often these days. he recently went to Vancouver & Los Angeles, came back for one day, then left for Shanghai & Seoul. yesterday he just informed that he will be leaving for Amsterdam, followed by a trip to Japan, then to Paris and soon to Hungary (wow what a world tour, haha!) ya and this means that we wouldn't be spending much time with him & so i'm beginning to appreaciate and treasure him more while he is still in Singapore.

Just last Sunday daddy brought me out for lunch- Angus House at Ngee Ann City!

daddy told me he used to frequent here with his colleagues (10 over years back) for their premium wagyu steak and he loves the food. this is a japanese-western fusion steakhouse and their waitresses are all dressed in those chamber maid's uniform as seen in those Mangas, so interesting!

the food;

both of us had the set lunch with came with a soup, bread and salad. Mine also included a tea while dad's more premium set had a dessert instead. the table setting was cool- pink & black.

ooh the clam chowder, homemade bread ball and salad were so good. freshly-baked bread was served warm and entirely crispy on the outside, plus nice creamy soup with plently of clams (but i dumped all to dad =x) and the refreshing salad with some light japanese dressing. I felt that my grilled chicken & prawn was alright only, but was glad that dad loved his steak. took a bite of the tiramisu as well (although i don't usually eat that) and it was surprisingly not bad.

so that was another quality time spent with my dad.

after dinner i went down to taka food basement to buy DONUTS~!

Pop doh is under Four Leaves and their signature 'doh' is actually cake-based instead of the usual dough-based. I bought a Cinnamon doh, chocolate with sprinkles doh and a white choc & strawberry donut. soft & cakey; its definitely something different (:

okie, off to pick grandma to guanyin temple. updates again soon.

* getting on

2007-03-31T01:55:00.000-07:00

oh man, i've been really lagging in my entry-posting!
JC life is seriously draining all my time out.

firstly, we have such a sucky timetable. it was so shockingly sucky that a guy from my class actually crushed it up, dumped it on the ground and stomped on it like its some damn cockroach. hah! can you imagine having blocks and blocks of long hour breaks and then only being dismissed in the evening? Like wth am i going to do for 5 whole empty hours on tuesdays?!? crap planning.

so after an entire sian day in school, i only get to come home at 6+ (which is dinner time) to rush out econs essays and math tutorials. and this will last for the next 3 terms till the end of the year. ARRGH.

But im glad to say that 07S18 ia quite an enjoyable class to be in (: at least we have the more enthu retainees to liven up the boring lessons (and to copy reliable homework from), and the girls are all nice people! plus hoo jing wen & caroline are forever making me laugh.

I SKIPPED LIFE CONCERT YESTERDAY- cause jess had sports day till 6 which happen to be the time which we have to be seated by. but its alrite, a buffet at sakura was a good replacement for that (: spent our hours gorging on food & lovely cheesecakes till 10plus instead. then took 36 straight down to the airport to pick daddy's flight from seoul at 11.15pm. thanks jess for accompanying me there!

it was so nice of dad to buy back 6 DUNKIN DONUTS for me! haha donuts can just be so smile-incurring i tell you.

and i had 2 of these lovely things for breakfast early this morning; the white boston & chocolate frosted. just heat it in the microwave for 10 seconds and you get soft warm donuts with melted gooey glazing, yum!

daddy meticulously cutting up his peanut crockant.

Dunkin's donuts, although slightly to the denser side, still manages a fluffy texture throughout. But they are still a tad less supreme than Krispy Kreme's, and dad thinks Donut Factory is comparatively better. I like their fanciful variety cause the fillings are always full of surprises- sis' greentea donut actually had blueberry jam filling on one side and strawberry puree on the other.

25th March Sunday
-buffet AGAIN.

Yes, another gorging session. Claimed dad's complimentary buffet dinner for 2 at The Olive Tree. the variety this time is like MUCH lesser than the previous time we came, pretty disappointing actually. its not actually worth it to pay the amount for such fare if we didn't have the members discount.

Fortunately, the dessert section managed to save the meal a little.

I probably ate the most among them (as usual).. There already wasn't much variety at the cooked food section and to make things worse, many dishes were beef ):

THOSE LOBSTERS were super shiok, but they didnt replenish them after the first round was cleared.

Sis & I both agreed that we liked the pasta station most. Superb cream sauce plus you get to choose your own preferred ingredients.

ooh, and i made sure i ate my fill for the desserts.

made-to-order crepes with your choice of fruit illings and toppings. not bad.

yumyum. i simply love the plain cheesecake & brownie cheese! the warm chocolate cake was freshly steamed and came in a cute dainty cup but didn't really impress.

all full & ~~half~~ satisfied.

24th March Saturday
-movie with parents

had breakfast at geylang's yonghe after picking dad up from the airport at 6am. its my childhood breakfast spot and i love their taiwanese porkfloss shaobing.

ordered soybeancurd, soymilk and of course.. the shaobing!
long since we ate here together as a family so i felt its time well-spent (:

lunch was at Miharu Sapporo Ramen (highly rated ramen store) at the Gallery Hotel.

My Tokusen Miso Ramen..

okay it wow-ed me to no end. Springy al dente ramen in a robust tasty soup- its impressive and lipsmackingly good! most of their customers are like japanese expats and so it certifies their authenticity.

mum was complaining that she hasn't caught a movies for ages and so i suggested watching Mr Bean's Holiday. haha then we got so on about it that we immediately booked our tickets through tel booking.

the movie was quite good actually- the first ever mr bean story that follows a plot! haha and there were many hilarious parts where mum & dad cant stop laughing at. should see how mr bean eats raw seafood, LOL.

had some problems while deciding where to have dinner but we eventually ended up at Pizza Walker. three of us shared a tom yum seafood pizza;

I didn't like it very much. tomyum+pizza+seafood=no no. apart from the weird combination, their mediocre pizza crust was also another reason.

22nd March Thursday
-danielaine 18th month

we've reached another milestone! Celebrated with our second fine-dining at My Secret Garden. the place had a pretty good ambience and was rather empty cause we went quite early.

dear's pasta came with 2 HUGE fresh scallops but 1-and-a-half were consumed by me =p heh. oh and the excellent blueberry cheesecake, loaded with plenty of blueberry sauce, comes in as the 2nd best after the ultimate cheesecake cafe!

it was sure a nice dinner treat from dear that i truly treasured, and so i decided to give him an ICE MONSTER treat in return (:

mango for him & strawberry for me. a mountainful of shaved ice, condensed milk, fruits, puree & sorbet; super refreshing.

happy happy anniversary~

oh ya, recently i made a new discovery at the new Central Mall.. Marcial Kobe!

apparently there's this new japanese store selling cute little bite-sized donut & pancakes. things like these are bound to draw my attention, haha!

okay back to my rantings about jc life. somehow i don't feel quite secure with my current friends actually. everyone can get really gossipy such that i realised that backstabbing is occuring everywhere. its damn scary, even your seemingly-closest-new-friend now may just be telling tales around about you. and it simply makes me miss all my tkgians once again!

so i've decided im not going to trust anyone fully in the college cause the consequences are disastrous. AND PEOPLE HERE, PLEASE DO NOT PASS ON THE BLOG PASSWORD TO ANYONE.

my privacy needs to be respected, thankyou.

* 07S18

2007-03-24T05:39:00.000-07:00

07S18; my cg for the next 2 years.

im kinda clique-ing with jingwen & caroline already, but i absolutely dont feel secure in a group of three. i hate this sucky number; three's a crowd you see.

just on the first day we befriended each other, we already went thru some sweet & bitters. LOL.

even though there was a math lecture going on, they accompanied me to queue up for the SAJC life concert tickets (so nice of them!). and then we all decided to pon math together to chill out at Books N' Break Cafe- shared a blueberry cheesecake together while jingwen had a Choc Mocha iceblend.

BUT just as we were about to eat, 2 math lecturers spotted us. got lectured & chased back to the cc. wth, she's damn fat & fierce. ooh, but the cafe staff are so nice that they actually helped us to keep our untouched cake & drink back in the fridge till we returned.

yes so we still managed to enjoy our yummy slice. they liked it alot, but i didn't think it was fanstatic. expected something better but oh well, for $3 i guess its passable.

orh ya, and there like this fricking weird girl called yixin but fortunately she appealed out to another class. can you imagine, a girl who keeps going on that she sees some aura in you and starts predicting things bout you from your "aura"? scary.

IM TIRED, woke up at 5am to pick daddy from airport. blogg again soon (:

* local tour

2007-03-20T04:07:00.000-07:00

recent bakings of mine (:

haha i absolutely paiseh-ed myself on monday. the entire jc1 cohort (okay 99%) arrived in school with their smart-looking SA uni & i was the only green ~~frog~~ shining among them. how dumb.

managed to make a trip down to yinghui's house yesterday afternoon to get my skirts altered, so i finally had my uniform on today! sis tied the tie for me initially but it was too short so i had to seek help from the gang early in the morning. im just cant seem to tie it well, damn!

its lecture week & they're like repeating the entire introductory process once again. these boring things made me end up napping, and i skipped chem for goodness sake. faris smsed me to praise me of my smart move cos it was another introduction once again, haha!

my stomach was seriously growling throughout econs lecture so i had mixed vegetable rice for lunch today. its famous for being HUGE in portions & cheap in prices; a super good deal!

battered chicken cutlet (today is fried-food day!), beansprouts & tofu at only $2

im glad i was able to make grace eat as well, and she thanked me for that.

Saturday 17th March
-dinner with xinya!

an early day cos we had to send daddy to the airport at 6.30am to catch a 8am flight. but the lame thing was, after rushing & finally dropping him off, he called to say he saw the wrong time. and so he ate some putu mayam at the food court and had to stone around for 2 hours.

dropped by hougang ave 1 for breakfast. i cant believe how i managed to comsume a large peanut mee chang kueh & 4 chwee kuehs at 7am in the morning! a damn power breakfast.

dinner was with darling xinya! (the most looked-forward thing) i sure missed her. met at marina square and ate at the Ministry of Food;

the macha imo we shared was unforgettable- hokkaido milk softserve with fried japan sweet potatoes & red bean paste. so luxuriously milky that we slurped everything up (:

lovely after-dinner dessert session at andersen's cafe..

i love this mate lots!

Sunday 18th March
-mini singapore tour

what an unexpected thing i did. sis had to host this china foreign exchange student from xiamen and dragged me along to break the silence.

initially i imagined a super-cheena looking & behaving girl but things turned out differently. picked her up at 8am from riverview hotel and found out that she looks just like a singaporean! haha, and the good thing is that she is super chatty so she did most of the initiating.

planned to take her to try a variety of local food within the day.

First stop: Little India

i swear this is the first time i walked through the entire little india so thoroughly! we spent a few fricking hours there but it was quite a good experience.

stopped by this place to have a traditional south-indian breakfast.

pretty average thosais & atrocious pratas BUT the appams were delicious!

having their refreshing coconut juice.

she managed to get a couple of singapore souvenirs & t-shirts from Mustafa. good buys.

Second Stop: Killiney Road
brought her to the original Killiney Kopitiam since kaya is one of the must-trys.

she was fascinated by the 2 eggs we each had, claiming that 2 eggs is alot. LOL. but the kaya toast and french toast were up to expectations.

Third Stop: Plaza Singapura
took her for some shopping and i ended up buying quite a few things as well =p she said she loves cheesecakes, so we took her to secret recipe for some quality ones.

their 2 signature cakes.

me & my sis (:

Fourth Stop: Bugis Junction & National Library
The main thing was bugis street but she didnt manage to get anything. NLB was just an extra destination, haha.

Fifth Stop: Maxwell Food Centre
i planned to go there for Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice but they were sold out by the time we reached! arrgh, so we had no choice but to go for some dumb scissor curry rice stall.

fish fillet in sweet & sour sauce (nice!), braised taupok & eggtofu+cauliflower for me. im like having chap chye rice super frequently these days uh.

she didnt seem too happy with dinner cause apparently she only ate half the rice. the food wasn't wowing but still edible i felt, but sis & i cleared our plates.

re-routed back to PS cos she wanted to get a tee and a notebook before sending her back to her hotel. was a rather sad scene when we parted cos apparently she got rather attached to us. we're such nice souls! LOL.

yupp and so it was a packed day but really well-spent. it was a wonderful experience getting to tour little india and knowing a new friend. no regrets about going (:

crap its 12am now. i'm super tired so shall go sleep now. its another boring day of lectures tmr for me, yawn yawn.

* march hols

2007-03-15T23:28:00.000-07:00

so here comes the end of my precious 1 week of march holidays.

its friday! and for holidays, the term friday blues usually comes in. shall sum up my holiday in short.

(digression) oh ya, just on sunday i had a lovely dinner at cedele with dad. Ate this macadamia nut pancake with vanilla bean icecream instead of their sandwiches.

Both the pancakes and icecream are homemade and they taste wondeful! The soft pancakes had many chewy bits of macadamia and the vanilla icecream was the best! its SUPER thick & rich.

okie firstly, i had 2 whole days of food trailing with dear by CAR (a really cute & chic orange one!). yupp he's driving and we're both navigating pretty well to get to our destinations.it was the most thrilling foodie adventure ever; we absolutely rock man.

Monday- couple foodtrail day 1
met up in the morning for brekkie at BK. long since i had their turkey ham croissan'wich.

came with these hash brown patties..

watched Rain's new movie: I'm a Cyborg, but thats ok.

kind of surprised me that the theatre was extremely empty although it was an afternoon screening. reckon there were only about 6 people including us. like come on, its RAIN and nobody's supporting. haha what a sad case.

one dumb movie. the plot was a lil' bit on the childish side but the effects appeared cute (: its about this girl who thinks she is a robot and licks batteries for meals instead of eating. simple setting with a simple ending- the girl takes her first bite of rice with the help of rain and thats all folks.

drove down to valley point for dessert(or lunch actually) at Ice Cream Gallery. we're on a hunt for all the icecreamerys in Singapore, haha!

Disappointingly, this one didn't make the cut. we've tried much better ones elsewhere ):

dinner was my suggestion- scissor cut curry rice along Jalan Besar. i'm always seeing the long long queues here so im curious to justify it.

so ta-dah, heres mine with chicken cutlet & beansprouts.

only cost me $2.20 =x

and his with loh-bak, porkchop, beansprouts and prawn fritter.

the thing about this is that gravy drenched over the rice. its the thickest & stickiest curry with a dash of lu zhi (braised sauce). A very unprentiously good meal (:

Tuesday- couple foodtrail day 2
we're set on good food once again! the day began with an traditional south indian lunch at Little India; Thosai @ Sri Vijaya! (featured as the best thosais on ieatishootipost)

I had no idea how indian-cultured the place was until my food arrived. As the thosai was served, the indian man came with a huge pail of curry and only topped them on-the-spot. i was like wow. the worse part- i realised that no utensils were provided in the entire eating house! dear already knew that so i became the only suaku one =p

Masala Thosai eaten with our bare hands.

i had a plain thosai and it sure fared well. Their thosais tasted oh-so-fresh and pleasant, middling between soft and crispy. Ranked 2nd after my ultimate Casuarina's. oh, the teh tarik here rocks too.

continued to Tekka Market where we had a famous Black Carrot Cake.

then we headed to Mind's Cafe for a boardgaming session together. there was this interesting game but i cant exactly recall its name. Something about building trains n getting to the stations..

our train routes. i won this game (yay) but lost terribly at connect 4, oops! dear is just damn pro.

also munched on a Mind's Black & White Brownie..

it was a great 2 hours spent with him, racking our brains together (: the memories will stay...

dear then drove me up to upper pierce reservoir to see MONKEYS. oh man, there like like sooo many of them infesting the whole place. and people actually go up to feed them despite all these signs;

caught in action!

a scenery shot before leaving;

MORE EATING. Ampang Yong Tau Foo at Upper Thomson Road. heh.

a platter for 2, accompanied with rice. the sauce was so garlicky and savoury!

okay im super proud of our determination to get to Island Creamery. despite our failed attempt to get there the first time, we practised our mighty orientating skills this time round and made it to Serene Centre. rewarding our hardwork, we both had a..

double scoop cup! apple pie & teh tarik flavoured for me; ReverseO & cookiesn'cream for dear.

it was lip-smacking goodness, i tell you. the apple pie one was yummmiee (:

a sinfully packed day for the both of us but i truly enjoyed it.

Wednesday- buy-our-uniforms day

was supposed to meet grace & cass at CCK mrt at 9am but i decided not to join them. the time was early but still alrite, but CCK was the madness part. i take like 1 hour plus to get there!

haha and then when i woke up i got a call from cass. the shop had apparently had no more stocks for the blouses and now they are lost in the west. poor things, they took a cab down to school's popular to get the uniforms instead.

met cass in the afternoon for lunch. ended up at swensen's cause she was craving for western food. we had the executive set lunch which is pretty worth it- free soup, drink n dessert with every order of a main course.

the shocking part comes.. I FORGOT TO BRING MY SD CARD. damn.so anyways i had the pictures taken on cass' phone and im still awaiting her email.

ate the sambal fish which was surprisingly not bad (: had a mouthful of her crayfish pasta and it tasted good as well. wow seems like swensen's improving, lol. Being cassandra, a pasta isnt able to fill her and so she suggested cheesecakes at secret recipe.

went along with it and i had this delicious marble cheesecake. now i'm like hooked to it.

Thursday- lunch with shar

i missed her! haha my childhood bestie; and im so awfully apologetic that i forgot to wish her on her birthday. kays, i know im mean. anways;
HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY, SHAR!
elaine loves you loads & you know it.

she introduced me to Korean food @ Hotel Meridien's food court. it was a good recommendation since my tofu soup was real yummy. following on we shared a yami yogurt, yet another marble cheesecake from secret recipe and she got her coffee fix from cartel's mocha frappe.

oh yes, its damn funny how we made cartel's new NO SERVICE CHARGE policy our joke of the day. btw, cartel strapped off the service charge, how nice.

Friday- today

gosh, dear's not feeling well. please rest well and jiayou for the NTU interview tmr!

please believe in yourself, you are one capable boy who achieved so much on your own. go down there and show them what you're made of!

i know you can do it, and god will be guiding over you.

alrites, thats about it.

i dont really feel like starting school ): all those lectures and tutorials are killing me already. its friday but i have yet to get my skirts altered and daddys leaving for canada tmr and i would have to go to school myself. i'm so not looking forward to monday.

& I MISS MY FELLOW TKGIANS. all my lovely mates are scattered in different schools now ): i miss xinya jess choy jeannie serene peckhong belle ferrie ddy nana fang gab brina and all the wonderful people, sigh!

* continuing on saintallume

2007-03-12T19:44:00.000-07:00

i must admit that saintallume day one was really bad but fortunately, day 2 & 3 turned out to be much better than i expected.

Thursday 8th March
-saintallume day 2

started my day with a power breakfast boost;

a yummy chocolate croissant from Cafe Toscana-piping hot from the oven!

It was essential to help me survive through og bonding, mass games, council+mentor intro, stage games and the gathering before lunchtime at 12.30pm, arrgh! cass grace and i immediately chionged to the popular Books N' Break Cafe for food!

i obviously had my usual all-time-favourite classic ham & cheese sandwich;

the smoked cheese they use is really delicious!

cass had a H&C, a gourmet ham cheese & egg as well as this pretty pink Fruit Punch Ice Blended that we kept kope-ing from her =p

grace with her strawberry icecream.

fyi, this was the only thing she had the entire day!

Briefing for WAR OF THE KINGDOMS was at the cc.

there goes, shes getting as high as ever again.

the girls (:

War of the Kingdoms is basically a series of station water games competed between the different tribes. I have no idea how og26 managed to start getting hyped up for the games, and this is where we gradually bonded. we cheered like damn loudly! okay but i got whacked straight on the face by a water bomb from the opponent.~~damn.~~

the day ended earlier to provide us with time to get finale materials. cass grace me yuwei weeling kelvin wanxuan & guanghao (the only enthu ones) made a trip down to PS to buy our stuffs.

Dinner at dhoby xchange's Pepper Lunch! (i was already starving by then)

Choices for me were limited so i had a Salmon Pepper Rice;

Served sizzling hot!

The rest mostly had beefy stuffs (which i cant) so here's kelvin's Beef Pepper Rice;

[and grace just sat there to watch us eat...]

group photo;

managed to buy our silky red cloth from spotlight and broom sticks from carrefour. The last stop was actually to Art Friend@ taka but cass & i decided not to join them. grace was having this unbearable moodswing (again!) that we felt we couldn't tolerate.

headed to gelare for a supper munch instead! we both had the offer set of a choice of cake & beverage for only $6 nett.

blueberry cheese for me; oreo cheese for her.

i must say their blueberry cheesecake is really good. It is light, ultra smooth and mildy infused with blueberry scent (:

enjoying while we chatted..

i love that latenight gossip session!

Friday 9th March
-saintallume finale

The Quest. dumb dumb station games yet again. at least there were funner games this time round, but our og's strength was seriously pathetic. 13 out of 28- result of everyone not bothering to come.

camwhoring time before the quest;

with angelina's cheap buys from the concourse

bleahs, spastic!

~~childish~~ young at hearts

tiny little figures

Mushroom Prata for lunch;

Plus an icecream session after that with cass grace yuwei kelvin at POP cafe. vanilla for me (:

[and grace didnt eat anything once again...]

I spent most of the Gathering time bluetoothing songs from guanghao's phone rather than practising the cheers =p nermelha was just lousy this time round.

finale prep= mascot-making time for OG26.

the fries-standing people;

our final product- Mr Nermelhian French Fries (played by Martin Felix)

okay gosh i know its a lame idea.

at finale concert with our identities;

nermelha won the best identity for the night. count ourselves lucky for that, since we weren't very outstanding in the other aspects. our cheering seriously sucked. oh god, we need the previous nermelha leaders back!

disco night was further more disappointing- it was a thousand times less happening than the first every disco night we had. The live band only played a few songs, the lighting was bad and the organisation was messy. fine, i just didn't like the atmosphere cos it wasn't able to hype most people up. LOUSY.

and i was so glad when it ended. last & final og photo with OGL weiqi...

supper session at the tauhuay shop after dismissal. the place was fully packed with people and so we took away our stuffs to a nearby HDB staircase area.

note: that was the only & only thing grace ate the WHOLE day, finally!

alrites, i must say og26 is not too bad afterall. we had at least a bunch of enthu people to get the og going. new friends made and once again, unforgettable orientation memories..

one great reward;

a new-found confidante- darling cassy! (:

oh man, now the dreadful serious jc life commences.
-i desperately need a whole load of crash courses.kill me please.

*damn

2007-03-12T19:31:00.000-07:00

FISH. i blogged but it got deleted. wth.

*orientation 02

2007-03-07T05:25:00.000-08:00

im loving my lovely chip toy from my fellow OUTSTANDERS (:

the 2nd intake saintallume orientation commences today.
now allow me to rant out all my complains..

it was supposed to be fun and well looked-forward to, but orientation turned out to be a total disappointment for everyone.

i guess everybody (both 1st & 2nd intake students) are already spiritually attached to their first ever OG and first-intake schools and hence its difficult to get us to bond with a whole new group again.

the orientation is seriously nothing like before- totally incomparable!! & i can tell EVERYONE is (at least a wee bit) unhappy, its pretty obvious.

the entire situation now is just super saddening.

just early in the morning i received claire's message;
"hey elaine, i miss you guys alrdy :( i feel so alone. ac will never be sa :( ya'll have fun and stick together ok? i'll come back as often as i can. ahh.. maybe i made a wrong decision ):"

i'm currently in og26 with grace, cassandra, angelina, therese & yuwei. half of the og are new comers and everyone is like so stranger. we dont have an og spirit at all, and worse, our ogl sucks! now we're stuck here with an absolutely un-enthu og with a terrible leader who cant lead for goodness sake.

theres no more claire to waste food to annoy us, no more ruiqi to eat fastfood with me, no more gabriel & joel to lead us in cheers, no more kenneth for us to make fun of, no more mengchin for me to emphasize on how hardworking he is, no more bubbly aixia & tricia to join us in girl talks, no more shane to give those random moments... and many others are gone as well.so depressing lar!

we miss og22.
there's nothing like orientation 01'2007.

and then it comes to my cg, 07S25.
yona, dom, kimberly & people are all gone. and dom is suffering so badly at innova now that it saddens the entire class.
"i'm sad. i cried so many times today"
can you imagine! everyone misses SA.

anyways, theres no point thinking bout it now. we shall face reality! here's our ~~gloomy~~ og26 with the incapable leader weiqi (i know im being damn mean here but its a fact)..

saintallume day one was rather sian, like we're basically repeating the same old cycle again. today we had principal's address and subject talks (which i slept throughout), icebreakers, the tribe gathering, mass dance, stage games and the learning of school cheers and songs. it was a draggy day which i didnt enjoy.

talking about tribe; yes we're still in nermelha, but theres no enthusiasium at all! they reshuffled all the tribal leaders and no one is truthfully attached to their current tribes. i hate this. nermelha's gonna be a loser tribe now without the motivation from eric & squid (spastic jordan).

NERMELHA NEEDS THEM, desperately.
(here's a shot taken specially for claire's sake)

oh monday was like the last day in SA for many people. claire ruiqi grace joel & me ponned almost everything to rot in the cafeteria together. took plenty of photos; here goes..

the wonderful girls.

enjoying their last plate of SA's mee goreng..

joel ee xing wei.

dragging eric into the picture, haha!

bridge!

after reshuffling our fengshui positions =p

the ever-so-safe cards. LOL.

yummy classic ham & cheese sandwich from pop cafe

HAHA kenneth the cheat-all-of-our-feelings cheater.

smiling spastically with claire.

its hard to believe they are all gone, sigh!
tmr will be another long draggy day with water games. sian.

* posting

2007-03-05T17:06:00.000-08:00

thank god, i got into SAJC!

ponned school today since its posting. received a call from dom early in the morning for updates.

1) the posting results are released
2) only 4 people from 07S25 reported to school today- kenbin, dom, yona & kitmun (how pathetic!)
3) class outing later at 12noon for pool & movie but i dont think i will be joining
4) dom & yona cant stay!! but the 6-pointer-faker kenbin can.LOL.
5) yona is bugging mr chua for an appeal testimonial and dom is on the verge of tears. omg.

oh man, hope they are able to stay on!

faris also messaged me bout the og posting.yays i will be in og 26 with gracie!

-gonna choing to popular to get my uniform tmr (:

* weekend getaway

2007-03-03T23:45:00.000-08:00

just returned home from our weekend getaway at hotel intercontinental.

day 1- Saturday 3rd March
had lunch with dad at his favourite Ya Hua Bah Kut Teh;

apart from this main bah kut teh, we also ordered a few other dishes like taupok, taugwa, braised peanuts, youtiao & sliced fish soup. their taugwa here is seriously good!

okay and then dad realised he frickinly left his wallet at home, so i had to foot the bill this time. LOL.

headed home to retrieve his wallet and only checked in at the hotel at 4pm after all the hassle (we were 2 hours late!)

i would say the ambience here is pretty classy, and according to dad its a 6-star hotel. introducing hotel intercontinental..

main lobby

lift lobby

grand lounge

stairway

our room (:

view of national library

then we took a train down to funan digitalife mall where we chilled out at TCC to tap on their wifi access =p

joined sis & mum for dinner in the evening. i suggested Parklane Wanton Noodles just across bugis since we're on a saving-on-food-expenses plan. just $15 to feed the four of us, yays.

spent my entire night in the national library till their closing at 9pm. was planning to use the internet so i went down to macs but i couldnt seem to access theirs, arrgh. got annoyed and decided to return to the room instead.

sis was practically mugging the entire night. what a mugger, haha.

and then today was an extremely rush day.

day 2- Sunday 4th March

woke up at 8am to get ready for breakfast- daddy & i had 2 complimentary buffet breakfast at their Olive Tree Restaurant (:

its been ages since i had a proper hotel breakfast, i simply love gorging on the sumptuous spread of delicacies!

i seriosly ate loads. i simply cant resist the food.

all mine =x

almost everything was good and really up-to-mark, but my 2 ultimate favourites had to be the freshly-made waffles & pancake;

both of it beared the very american kind of taste, like those which i had in boston. tasted oh-so-yummy with maple syrup & raspberry jam! (:

(distortion due to resizing)
breakfast was really good- and i love it!

after the gorging session, we had to rush down to the shuanglin monastery to pray. lunch at toapayoh lor 5 with relatives, okay eating AGAIN. haha!

2nd March Friday
-camwhoring session with 07S25

we camwhored the whole day, from gp lecture to maths =p
(distorted due to resizing)

awaiting yeo geok har's arrrival. LOL.

girls!

destroyed by dom & his stupid sandwich box.

with my darling yinghui..

michelle.

simran mich yinghui stuck close together.

qian yh sophia me

plus kimberly sophia(ke) & yona

dom is so extra, haha!

& it continues to expand..

yinghui again (:

kenbin the "6-pointer" faker.

looking lame.

yona's dumb- he climbed out of the classroom window! LOL.

oh man, im getting all so attached to 07S25 but everyones like gonna be split up soon! ):

after school dear came to pick me up for prata at thomson road's Prata Cafe. had a nice thosai and their special french prata- it was damn delicious! and we actually made friends with the owners =x

next we indulged in an icecream fondue at Icekimo..

i simply love the cute illustrations on the wall (:

chomping on my strawberry.heh.

a spastic act of mine with the marshmallow cubes.

lovely (:

-cant stop smiling. my life is starting to rock (at least a little)
& im loving it.

*relaxing weekend

2007-03-03T01:45:00.000-08:00

i feel so taitai-ish all of a sudden.
after all those hectic time at school and everything, im finally able to get a weekend to rest relax and enjoy!

currently blogging with a Apple PowerBook G4 at Funan Digitalife Mall's TCC, sipping on rosebuds tea and indulging on a slice of sweetly light american cheesecake.

had just checked in at hotel intercontinental singapore, making use of dad's complimentary stay.

now just how wonderful is that!

IM ACTUALLY LOVING MY LIFE, at least for now (:

next week is supposedly an exciting one, but im more fearful bout it.

will be working night shifts on monday & tuesdays,
school posting on tuesday (arrgh!)
and then a whole new orientation commences from wed to fri.

somehow im not quite prepared for it yet- and i had better get into sa. i cant wait to get my hands on a new set of school uniform!

wish me luck!

* teacher-gone-mad

2007-02-28T05:01:00.000-08:00

oh man, yesterday seemed to be like the teacher-gone-mad day.

lyndon chua, randy gill, ben soh- all 3 teachers were unusually agitated.

lyndon's case was so damn exciting that it seemed like those scenes in the tv shows, haha. he actually picked up a quarrel with a JC2 student and almost fought infront of our class- imagine that! whoa, but that student (called qiao shang, according to josh) was super zhai lar. both lyndon & him were fiercely raising their voices at each other, just like having a battle-of-the-voices. the final scene was classic;

lyndon: *bangs table with great strength and shouts agressively*
DID YOU RESPECT ME OR NOT?!?
J2: *bangs with all his might with both hands and yells in a even more agressive voice* I RESPECTED YOU ALREADY!!!!!!!!

then both left the class and continued with their "battling". later they headed off (to the general office i guess) and lyndon stormed back to class alone 15 mins later.

okay josh told us that lyndon tried to put a disciplinary record on the boy for open defiance but it was rejected by the guy's CT. awwww, too bad for him, but this just proves that lyndon is just a small small fry in school. LOL.

randy gill was pissed off with the people who ponned gp and demanded to see them today. okay i witnessed, it was a pretty harsh lecture.

it was already bad enough having to attend PE at 5.30pm yest, and worse, we still had to face the hot-tempered ben soh. he suddenly just starting running rounds on the track and made us run round after round until we all decided to boycott his instructions. yea, and obviously another scolding came along. had a floorball match with shane's class and ben soh actually joined them even though we were already outnumbered, wth.

luckily, we proved ourselves and won HIM in the end. yay S25 we rock man.

SAS was having a rugby match with another school during PE;

managed to catch a little bit of it and i finally understood how rough a game it was! 2 SAS ruggers got injured and were immediately sent to the hospital by ambulances. goodness.

the day was really bad. anyways sis then came to pick me from school to have dinner with mummy. initially we intended to try the famous western food at Uno Beef House but we have no idea why it was closed. eventually headed to toapayoh lor 1 market which mum recommended.

it was this western food stall listed in makansutra.
Pots & Pans Western, where sis and i both had a chicken chop each.

it was not bad actually (:

today is lecture day and i ponned econs again. cant be bothered to attend such lectures with lousy lecturers who can't even make themselves understandable. would just be a waste of time lar.

sigh, we're still having a full school schedule on posting day. how sian can that get. and i wanna buy my uniform soon! cant wait to change off my green ~~froggy~~ pinafore =x

ooh, one more thing.. these ham & cheese classic sandwiches from sa's POP cafe are a real gem!

i simply love the fresh and light-tasting feeling it gives. great for a quickbite and its a perfect snack for me during breaks. yummiee (:

* full of myself

2007-02-26T06:31:00.000-08:00

i suddenly feel so like blogging today.

its like weird- the sudden urge to post an entry immediately, when usually i tend to drag and drag because of laziness =p

probably its because today is a happpiiee day;
and im so proud of myself!

the day started with grace being so glum, and then i managed to cheer her up till she was all-so-hyper during chem lecture. she folded me 2 yellow cranes- mummy & son. its damn sweet!

and then there was chem practical, where janice & i paired off so well in our ~~super slipshod~~ experiment. bleahs. we extracted some solution from red cabbage to be compared with the universal indicator. its a tough & really draggy one but we managed to create many many solutions of the different phs.

array of pretty colours

the cabbage solution

it was the first time i enjoyed chem prac in sa so far, all thanks to that purple janice (:

next, i had nasi padang for lunch- its the one uncle peter absolutely loves. the food was rather ex and the standard kinda dropped, but it was still a good meal. i just love eating nasi padang, haha!

finally, i actually made it a point to return home early to cook for my family. this is one proud achievement for me. apart from our main sliced fish beehoon, i made my daddy's favourite fried wanton;

with plenty of crunchy chestnut chunks & fragrant dried shrimps in there.

and.. steamed fresh prawns siew mai;

glad they liked them (:

oh one last thing, im super happy that i actually did my gp homework and filed everything promptly for handing up to randy gill. but, he didnt collect it today lar! made me fell like a fool lugging that bright thick yellow file around, wth. hopefully this is a sign of elaine deciding to stop her slacking and starting to work hard. ~~HOPEFULLY.~~

of course, there were also stuffs to put my day down.

like claire acting weird again and choosing not to hangout with the outstanders during econs & chem lectures and ruiqi sticking more to her cg and abandoning poor gracie. haha so yupp theres only me grace and faris left.

but i cant be bothered to give a damn about what claire's problem is anymore. someone who doesnt treasures friendship and is only full of herself totally doesnt deserve to be cared about. so anyways grace & i shall look forward to our days in sa ahead. rock on, girl!

im loving my day plenty (:
and i seriously miss my tk mates loads.
choy jess xin fer 4e4.. everybody!
pple, MEET UP PLEASE.

*yawns, tmrs like a long long day. lessons lessons and more lessons till 5.30pm.

*cny

2007-02-23T06:26:00.000-08:00

happy lunar new year to all

its still the cny season but my life is getting ~~suckier~~ by the day. i just don't understand why!

just returned from dinner with my family and eating with them is not at all enjoyable. fine, it used to be but not anymore. everyone changed and its pure depressing ):

i'd rather eat alone then as a family now. all that tension just sucks!

cityhall area was seriously jamm-packed today. we tried parking at raffles place but couldnt find a lot so we decided to leave. and then we got stuck for 30mins at the carpark exit! apparently it was because of an important function at swissotel as well as the orchard road blockage for chingay rehearsals. i was like famished by then.

"a hungry man is an angry man"
and so you would have guessed my mood.

enough bout that. today school started with chapel in which the principal started crapping about some senior staffs in sajc - i slept till adelina woke me up. for civics we played some dumb game called "SKUNK" and lyndon chua treated all 4 groups to icecream waffle at the POP cafe. it was probably the nicest thing that ever came from him (:

claire kenbin and i shared one with ripple icecream;

and yona had a strawberry one all by himself lar!

made-to-order fragrant butterscotch waffles, looks tempting uh?

slowly ate and chatted till we all lost track of time and were late for gp. got questioned by randy gill, then kenbin said "oh, we were preparing for the lesson". haha bcos of that,we were excused =p

had fishball meekia for lunch again- its like starting to become one of my favourite food here. its simple and filling, but the price is a total ripoff. $2 for a pathetic bowl of noodles.

CHINESE NEW YEAR

Chinatown was still as happening as ever.

had 2 reunion dinners as usual; with both paternal & maternal grandmothers.

mum's side one was at this vegetarian restaurant at Bedok South Road (apparently recommended by uncle jason)
18 Lohan Vegetarian Delight

the food's pretty terrible actually, and the only appealing dish was the deep-fried 'golden pillows'. it was a special order by uncle jason, not part of our new year set dinner.

bits of filling in that cripsy golden-brown shell.

the crowd:

3 table-full of people!

2nd reunion with dad's side
at the Padang Palace Restaurant

sumptious spread of luxury food but the price was also a whole load more! the abalones were good but the overall meal wasn't worth the price paid.

day one was like usual- going to the same places like the previous years. but there was a drastic decrease in ang bao money! ):

homemade yusheng by grandma- its her specialty dish every cny.

ready to toss

yearly lion dance at uncle elvin's place;

ooh, i actually didnt lose at blackjack this year! haha overall winnings of $1.50- could have been more if i had the discipline to stop early but im contented (: Im always losing money until this year okay. unfortunately, i wasted like 2 bucks trying my luck on 4D. bleahs.

on the 3rd day, the taitai gang met at shilin's place for mahjong! lunch was at the hongkong cafe as usual. played for like hours, but i was on a complete losing streak. sad case.

school posting on 6th march, wish me luck!

* Valentines day

2007-02-18T15:52:00.000-08:00

14 Feb Wednesday
-happy valentines day

Baked M&M walnut brownie bites for the saints;

many of the girls brought gifts to exchange, but still the atmosphere was uncomparable to that at tkg- it was just different in a girls school.

anyways, this vday was a whole new experience for dear & i. it was really memorable for me and i totally enjoyed our dinner (:

initially we had some problems with finding a restaurant but in the end i found ricciotti which is reasonably priced and NOT fully booked yet. haha yays.

and.. he just got his driving license! so he came to pick me up from school. we managed to find our way to orchard, but made several detours around the area before we finally turned into shaw tower's carpark. haha, we're like 2 lost souls.

only had lunch at bout 4 after all that delay.

subway for me;

turkey breast sub setmeal.
the white choc macadamia cookie was yummiieee~

he had a creamy chicken fusilli at lido's pastamania. its something i would definitely wanna avoid eating, lol.

caught the first sneak preview of Just Follow Law.

its a humourous movie which related closely to the local context. i think fann wong & gurmit fitted into their roles really well, but the plot was rather absurd and unrealistic.

after the show we had to rush off for our dinner. it was another hilarious time cos we couldnt find our car! haha, but it was a great achievement to successfully arrive at China Square Central (:

my driver for the day =p

dinner @ Ricciotti..

we reserved for the St Valentine's Day Menu ($88++ per couple)

table setting

him stoning away..

our complimentary Sexy Prosecco sparkling wine

it looks so memerizing..

Mio Caro Pesce
"seafood salad with coriander & lemon dressing"

our appetizer, tastewise still passable but it was interesting that they actually deepfry the veg into crispy shreds.

Pozione Di Sedano E D'Amore
"celery roots soup with prawns stuffed pasta & truffle oil"

The soup was good, ultra thick and creamy. i loved the pleasant taste of it and the stuffed pasta full of prawn flavour.

Ciccina Di Granchio
"crab & potato rolled crepes with spicy tomato sauce"

A semi-crispy & soft skin with mushy filling made of potato and crab. There's a light spice flavour and it was not bad.

Dolce Vitellino
"veal scallopine in chianti wine sauce with prunes & spinach"

His choice of main dish. the piece on top is acutually baked cheese, and the base is a whole clump of spinach (which he got sick of after awhile).

Dentice: Ti Amo
"snapper fillet with zucchini & crispy potato"

My fish (: haha thick and tender snapper fillet well-marinated with blackpepper and salt.

Mio Innamorato
"chocolate heart love pastry"

An absolutely heavenly indulgence. Its luxuriously rich chocolate mousse on chocolate sponge, with a mix of strawberry cream, berry jam and dark chocolate.

the entire combination of layers was wonderful; plus a great complementation of the bitter-sweetness from the cocoa. heavenly~

For drinks he had a Lundo (freshly brewed coffee) and i had a Piacere(english breakfast tea). haha everything sounds super highclass with those names.

just check out the tempting dessert refrigerator!

one final photo at the restaurant;

(DISTORTED)

standing proud with our car-of-the-day!

note: dear must practise more on parking ah... =p

my present from him; pretty roses (:
i gave him a box of guylian chocs, a zara top and a doggie huggable.

thanks so much for this wonderful celebration, dear.

happy valentines day 2007 to danielaine (:

* results

2007-02-12T15:39:00.000-08:00

The entire Olevels 2006 have finally came to a closing for me.

12 points, and im gonna live with it.

I have no idea why i got so extremely emo on results ; crying even before its my turn. but oh well, i guess its a natural instinct for me so it was just difficult to hold back those tears of fear.

but truthfully, my parents are not too pleased. they were hoping for a single-digit score but sad for them, their daughter is not that capable. so unfortunately, no celebration, monetary incentives or any forms of rewards for poor elaine ):

actually, come to think of it, 12 points is not too bad for me. plus i have 4 bonus points and it'll eventually come to 8- maybe CAN stay in sa (:

the major problem now is, i've yet to make my decision between poly and jc! and my parents aren't helping much either- mummy chooses jc and daddy chooses poly. NOW WHAT?

-one final day to comtemplate.

12 Feb Monday
-og 22 outing!

(bad hair day! i looked like a freak.)

we were supposed to meet at 11 but sooo may of them were late. therese grace mengchin faris kenneth cass & me couldnt resist the hunger and walked to cineleisure for lunch first. long john silvers! its been long since i ate that.

most of them had the combos while i had a grilled fish with butter rice set. added a ceylon tea and the whole thing came to a whopping $7.20, what a ripoff!

joel and angelina came, before shane-the-6-pointer and tricia arrived at 12.45pm(!!!) the annoying latecomers. haha.

all went us went shopping at taka, followed by all the male-apparel shops cause joel was shopping for cny. it was quite fun seeing him try all-those-plenty of tees and then throwing comments (mostly criticisms =p) at him. lol!

and not to forget, we stopped by at macs (og22's usual hangout spot) for vanilla cones (: its like so typical of us already lar.

anyways i left in the evening to meet yvonne for dinner.
BREKO cafe at bugis street.

the indoor dining area was pretty nice, dimly-lit and had a great ambience for chatting. but the fail badly in their food and service.

My Turkey Chez Avo Sandwich ($7.80)

eeyer,the bread wasnt even toasted.

Strawberry Crepo ($6.50)

the crepes were like cold and hard, but i liked the use of fresh strawberries as filling instead of the jam.

Vonn's Saus & Mash ($13.90)

she had soo much complaints bout the sausage, haha.

Banana Stacko ($7.50)

its DAMN sinnful.

There was still like 15% extra surcharge for service and GST, so the bill came up to a whopping $40+.

shopped around bugis street and i got a tee and denim skirt for cny. vonn bought a set of fake decorated nails. vonn's like one wonderful colleague (: we enjoy eating & chatting cos we just have so much to share about lar!

11 Feb Sunday
-dinner with shar

lunch with my family at the Soup Restaurant! haha my favourite place for "home-cooked" chinese dishes (: got our new bedsheets from aussino.

and then i made a decision on impulse. it came with terrible outcomes and now im suffering with it! ARRGH. sucky thing.

shar waited for me and we met for dinner at orchard. initially we wanted to eat at TOAST by marmalade pantry but we couldn't locate it. in the end i brought her down the taka food hall to try ambush.

here's a cool place for the most innovative pastas.

i had a Japanese Baby Scallop with Seaweed Fusilli in Fish Roe Cream Sauce ($10.50). interestinf yea?

there were like 7 fresh and succulent scallops!

she had a Teriyaki Japanese Fishball Skewer Spaghetti in Rustico Sauce.

came with 9 yummy balls with tako filling (:

the best part- no extra tax or gst.

cheerup, shar!

9 Feb Friday
-results day

ponned school(like everyone else). met sarah in the afternoon for lunch. i was feeling so damn uneasy the entire morning! so anyways we headed to miss clarity cafe for a happy meal (:

sarah & i on the bus.

brina!

results was scary. oh mrs lim was so glad with out batch cause we seriously improved tkgs' standards. we're UP to band 2 now, yay! but honestly, our batch achieved much more outstanding results compared to the previous batch.

the channel news asia crew were present i think because we had the top malay student in sg, zulaiha.

then from a cheering scene, it became a crying one. ahah i think it was so funny to see like a few teachers stationed around with boxes of tissue paper. okay yes, and obviously i was one of them to be offered. i cried like a mad person, especially after phoning mum.

no matter what, i feel that i still deserved a celebration for my amath. a constant F9 failure to a B3 grade! i couldnt believe it myself lar.

and so ferena jess audrey and i had a celebration dinner at Pizza Hut!we had 2 set of the Valentines Loveberry Meal to share.

the Loveberry Pizza.

we stupidly forgot our dessert and left the place without it! arrgh, how stupid lar ): 2 pretty brownies forgone...

our lovely photos;

the flash effect.

oh man, im missing all my tkg mates!

* nervous

2007-02-08T04:55:00.000-08:00

its final.
the Olevel results will be released tmr at 2.30pm.

should i say i'm worried, nervous, scared, frightened or fearful?

i really have no idea; my mind is like floating between all types of feelings that i cant explain it.

all i know is that i seriously screwed up my Os and i did not manage to perform to my very best. for that, im absolutely disappointed in myself. i know it best- no one will understand how badly i did my paper.

deep down in my heart i really want to remain in sajc but reality will show everything tmr. i'm not trying to be a pessimistic soul here but im just preparing for the worst. i dont want to give myself false hopes and be ultimately disappointed in the end.

so yes, what is done is done, just like what joshua said: 'worry or dont worry you still cant change anything. so no point worrying.' ive been trying to put this issue off my mind but it seems that mentioning it is inevitable in almost every conversation.

all of a sudden during gp tutorial today, mr randy suddenly stopped and told me; 'elaine, i can sense you are deep down worried in your heart. tell me more about it' oh gosh, i didnt know why he said that! in the end i realised he majored in psychology.haha. but aiya that was like so random of him.

anyways, i've more or less gotten my day planned out;
pon school tmr. wake up early.
have a fufilling breakfast
start off with some cny baking.
meet sarah and have a wonderful lunch.
head to tkgs for results.
stuff it into my bag immediately without looking.
find someone (hopefully jess) to go out for some fun.
return home and then reveal my results to myself.
accept it and have a good rest.

whoo~ that shall be it! hopefully i will be able to stick to it and not ruin my entire day. it wouldnt be doomsday but instead accept-my-fate day. whether staying in sajc, going to temasek poly or whatsoever, its what i achieved and brought upon on myself.

so yes, i'll see you guys tmr at school!

back to today. we started off with PE in the morning. it a damn hilarious lesson (: 07S25 played floorball among our own class. mr soh assissted both teams for half a game each but our team still won with a 6-4 score. dominic and ziyond (yona!) were damn chiong lar.

the funniest part was that sophia brought a whistle and they took turns blowing it during the game. haha then mr soh was so puzzled, and kept asking " WHO IS IT?!?". lol but no one answered and he went around suspecting pple =p how lame.

for econs tutorial, lyndon chua didnt do any scolding cause we got mr yit to sit in for our lesson. lol, we're damn smart. so for once, we had a proper econs lesson without stupid lyndon chua flaring up and scolding nonsense. and he ACTED like such a nice CT.

physics was quite slack as well. we had a quiz that was pretty cool. each of us were given somesort like a remote control and we just had to press our answers. the com will then receive the signal and collaborate how many pple answered it correctly and calculate our total score.

gp was bad. randy gill kinda flared up and made yinghui bring our projectwork over from home(although she's sick with an mc). and worse, yinghui came but we didnt have time to present. wth.

after school, ruiqi and i headed down to vivocity for lunch.
SUPERDOG.

my second time here.

here's our Fresh Chicken Burger (i'm eating the same old thing!)

Superdog's regular fries

the superdog staff happened to be giving out coupons at the mrt station so this whole Fresh Chicken Burger Super Regular Meal with an iced lemon tea cost only $5.60. we both had the same thing.

went to the POSB office at harbourfront centre to acknowledge and activate my NETS card. yays i've finally got it! shopped at daiso and we both bought plenty of random stuffs. haha.

lovely ruiqi & me.

dinner was with mummy and sis at Toa Payoh's Ocean Curry Fishhead. my rice;

the rice they shared

not too bad, but the quality have dropped. the crowd seem to lesser as well, compared to last time.

7 Feb Wednesday
the slackest day of the week- wednesday. 1 tutorial and 3 lectures. i ponned the 90min chem lecture cause i was really really tired. slept at the balcony while yinghui xiaoshi cindy stephanie played bridge. but i forgone the bikini shopping trip with them and attended the other 2 lectures. so proud of myself =p

was dismissed at 2, then stayed for awhile at the gallery with claire.

we watched the aneroxic(spelling mistake) grace run 4km. oh man, grace is starting to get bullimic as well; shes like forcing out all that she eats. gross man.

left around half an hour later to take 31 to marine parade. waited at the library for dear to finish his presentation at school. off to eat the wonderful hokkien mee i recommended!

certainly no regrets eating this. yummy~

next we managed to find our way back to The Cheesecake Cafe, as we promised each other! shared 3 cheesecakes again;

Rum & Raisins, Blueberry American and their weekly-special:caramel.

i will do all that necessary raving in joybites, instead. but all i have to say is their cheesecakes are the best you can ever find. simply heavenly!

the pretty angel-theme decor of the cafe.

i felt like a total taitai there lar. Lying back on the comfy soft sofa, taking bites of the fabulous cheesecakes, reading magazines and sipping icy-cold water. okay great, i will make my return again!

the wonderful day ended with an fricking 1 hour plus troublesome bus journey home. but it was a day well-spent (:

* sajc cross-country

2007-02-03T17:09:00.000-08:00

i baked kuih bangkits yesterday;

yes, im all stocked up and ever-ready for cny baking. hahs.

Wednesday 31st Jan 07
-saints annual cross-country @ ecp

sajc decided to change this year's venue to eastcoastpark, which means i've had ALL the cross-countrys in my entire life there. just the day before the event i was still thinking of ponning but still dragged myself out of bed. haha.

it was a freakking 3.6km run for EVERYONE, unlike in tkgs where we only had to send 10 runners from each class. so obviously i felt like backing out from it, but somehow my feet just brought me there.

the huge saints crowd.

(all photos distorted due to resizing)

my fellow og 22 outstanders clique (:

with the OGLs eric & timo.

a gang of 07S25.

okay now for the run. claire ruiqi & i decided to go for a 3.6km stroll in ecp cause it appears like 3/4 of the girls were also doing that. no one gave a damn about running and so of course, we completed it without even being the last people. it was no sweat, haha!

proudly posing at the finish line, how lame.BUT WE DID IT OKAY.

the whole thing ended at bout 10am, and we managed to gather some og22 people for lunch. took 16 down to PS for cafe cartel (:

had the set lunch special;
Baked Chicken in Mushroom Sauce with rice

Pan-fried Seafood Pasta in olive oil

dessert: vanilla icecream in waffle basket

it cost only $9.50, with a soup, bread and a drink. super value-for-money!

the gang.

grace with her heart.

grace claire me. fine, they are all tall people =p

the girls (:

trying to help claire show her craze for SQUIDS, but those are octopuses. haha.

we then split up; some went home, some went for pool. claire yuwei & i headed to orchard. grabbed a bite at cineleisure's Pin Le. red bean mee chang kueh for me(:

ended up watching happy birthday by Rene Liu & Louis Koo. damn, it was a sad movie and like 3 people died (including Louis Koo!). the ending was sucky as well.

had dinner at the Sun with Moon Japanese Restarant @ wheelock. yu wei's treat; apparently it was the opening of his new visa card. haha.

My salmon kamameshi;

with grilled salmon and salmon roe, yummy!

Tofu Cheesecake

served in a cage, with a pretty paper crane beside it.

yupp and thats all for that day; and i certainly didnt regret ponning. YAY, 3.6km - its like a huge achievement to me ! (although i walked =p)

oh man, RESULTS are coming out SOON.
kill me please.

* lethargic

2007-01-30T05:40:00.000-08:00

oh my;
CROSS-COUNTRY is tomorrow!

wth. i am so tempted to pon it. initially, we all agreed to. but i have no idea how come everyone decided to go all of a sudden.

the route is like 4km or something?!?
but claire grace ruiqi are all going.
NOW WHAT?

i cant do it ):
someone save me please.

and im in need of a nice style presentable jacket.
25 hours of work required in order to get one.
GO ELAINE YOU CAN DO IT.
(bear with my crap. thanks)

* happy bdae grandma

2007-01-28T08:10:00.000-08:00

its my beloved grandma's birthday today!

i shan't start ranting about how nice a person she is or how important a role she played in my childhood years; but all i wanna say is i love her loads (:

our family gathered for lunch at some vegetarian eating place in Serangoon North. we took up like almost the entire shop space and the service was slow cos there was only one chef. pathetic =x food was so-so.

after that we headed to grandma's place for cake-cutting.

everything went fine and happy, except for the part that mum bought a durian cake. so obviously i didnt get a share of it cause the sight of durians really puts me off.

happy birthday grandma!
~~fine, i shall admit that i don't know her age~~

Saturday 27th Jan
-day with family

my parents and i made a re-visit to New York New York! but this time round, i was not exactly pleased with the sandwich.

Turkey & Cranberry Sandwich

Yummy toasted bread, but unbearably salty turkey ham. arrgh.

our family is currently on a stupid meal-choosing rotating system. for each of our dining-out meals (fri night & weekends), each of us will take turns to choose the location and everyone has to follow suit. no arguments entertained; what a dumb idea of mum's. and so it was my choice for dinner

Nasi Padang River Valley.

A highly-rated place which Kym Ng recommended during Coffee Talk & Hawker Woks 3. Good sotong and curry chicken, thats all.

oh yes, i made a trip down to the bank and applied for my POSB card. will receive my very own personalised one (with embossed name) in two weeks time! yays. aiya, fine i know everyone already has it but its like a huge achievement for me alrites =p
elaine is getting her own posb card. hahs.

okay it was also today that i realised our family's financial problems.
ohmygosh im such a lousy member of the family.
IM IN NEED TO SAVE MONEY.

Friday 26th Jan
i was told that i had culinary interview at 4pm. what bad time planning! and so i met peckhong for lunch @ PS after school before returning for the interview.

we ate at Ramen Ramen and practically imagined ourselves in Japan. haha so cute can!

went back to school after that and found out that the sidegate was only for exiting. luckily for me, i saw shane and aixia and they taught me how to climb the fence. YES, i climbed the damn fence to get into school. so unglam.

and the interview was pure rubbish. initially i had no problem answering all of their questions with confidence but i got stuck at the last one. took so long to think of a crap answer despite all their prompting. arrgh.

Thursday 25th Jan
i finally worked again!
boss saw me and he was like; "you finally appeared". haha! i had a Spicy Curry Chicken Pizza for dinner.

when there's Zul, theres great pizza.
the chicken chunks were well-marinated in a similar-satay-style sauce. great combi with the capsicums and onions, on pastamania's yummy thin dough crust. delicious~

work was tiring after all that cleaning up.
went straight to bed as usual.

*tired

2007-01-24T06:09:00.000-08:00

im tired; in both ways.
note: this is gonna be a personal emo entry.

im not just physically tired, but also emotionally tired.

im tired of my life. im tired of trying so hard to talk to claire but still dont get anything out of it. i'm tired of initiating conversations with quiet people. im tired of all those sian responses. im tired of getting hurt by friendship problems.

a few days ago i was still ranting to jess bout how i was enjoying my start of the year. now i feel i should take my words back.

im tired of spending off my money and realising that im broke in the end. im tired of being so careless and getting angry with myself after that. i hate part of my character; it just sucks.

im tired of facing people who rants bout how thin i am. ive been trying my best to eat, really. no one knows it better than i do. so please stop torturing me with this issue.

im tired of seeing how my dad reduces his diet. i dont want him to be like that, i want my dad like how he was 2 years ago. im really really tired of the many family problems.

im tired of seeing my messy room everyday. im tired of getting nagged and threatened to pack it up. its not that i dont want to, but i just dont know where i should start from.

im tired of not understanding the lectures and tutorials. im tired of seeing how everyone is able to do their work but i just dont seem to comprehend them. im tired of being lost at lessons. im such a failure.

im worried bout my Olevel results, seriously. reality is gonna show that i dont belong to SA. i liked the school, but im feeling pretty lost bout everything right now. and i have no idea why, so forget it.

i need a break; plus some emotional support. currently, im financially and emotionally weak. i need to learn to save, work hard and be a better friend. perhaps i need to be more optimisstic as well.

but sad to say, at this point of time, i cant.
elaine you suck.

im lost in my own life.
god, please guide me through this.

*chalet

2007-01-23T07:30:00.000-08:00

shag.

thats the best word to summarise my day. spent my entire day in school from 7.25am to 6pm. blocks of lectures & tutorials and it ended with PE. another 2.4km run plus a game of captain's ball match with another cg. mr soh is practicall trying to kill us lar!

as usual, i enjoyed gp tutorial. randy gill made us laugh like mad. all he did was to discuss some logistics stuff with us, then screened video about patrick; the sgidol careless whisper guy. and we were let off 15 minutes early (:

between intervals we kept playing bridge. grace was in such a bad mood today, she was running like mad to vent her frustrations. claire & i joined her for 2 rounds, was in my sch uniform cos i was too lazy to change. lol. oh yes, HIDAYAH & MELWANG crashed today. happy to see them again~

my lunch was Nasi Padang;

rice with otah, sayur lodeh, and SA's famous mayo sauce chicken.

and waffle at breaktime;

after school i went to kovan's Xin Wang HK cafe with stephanie. we had a french toast and a butter&condensed milk thick toast to share;

iced milk tea ($2.90)

french toast ($3.90)

butter & condensed milk thick toast ($3.90)

it was her dinner but it was just my evening snack =x grandma cooked dinner at home so i had another round of dinner. lol.

gosh i so miss my fellow tkgians! super glad that i met up with my darling jessica tan yesterday. i've always loved eating with her, cos we're the seriously-CAN-eat-partners. we had suki sushi buffet and then desserts at n.y.d.c. sounds mad yea? will post the pics soon~

Saturday 20th Jan
-family chalet

usual lunch @ esplanade Ichiban Boshi. dessert at haagen dazs (:

i had a waffle dream ($14.90)..

waffles, with summer berries & cream + macadamia nut icecream and strawberry sauce. indulging~

In the evening i went down for our family chalet @ downtown east.

vegetarian barbeque;

tired people. haha.

i wasn't full from the food so i went out for subway.

6inch turkey breast wheat sub with honey mustard dressing.

took neos with 2 of my cousins- jamie & stephanie;

i didnt stay for the night, but i watched the liverpool vs chelsea match while enjoying my vanilla cone at downtown east macs (:

oh im working this thursday~!! i miss pastamania as well. lol. i seriously need to catch up with many people soon.

* tp open house 07

2007-01-19T19:04:00.000-08:00

mr randy gill rocks.

he practically made my day yesterday. had a seriously terrible drop in my mood in the morning but it got better after gp tutorial. he told us some pretty interesting stories and let us off 20 minutes early so that we can have a longer break. the whole of 07S25 loves him (:

breaktime i had a mushroom thosai from the cafeteria.

yea good food is probably another thing that can make my day.

and then it was math tutorial. i HATE that teacher, i think its yeo geok har or something. aiya whatever her name is, she's just frickinly untactful. she passed down a list to get us to fill up our e&amath prelim grades.

"okay everyone is quite strong in math, with mostly A1s. Who is ELAINE ah? Wah, E8 for Amath ah?!? Are you sure?!! thats very bad."
*entire class turns around to stare

wth.

okay fine, i know my E8 amath grade is really bad, but she doesnt have to paiseh me infront of everyone lar.

and so i walked out of her class once it ended, even before she did. haha.then i did something that claire said was impossible; reaching boon keng at 1.15pm after my lesson ended at 1.02pm (: met up with peckhong and her cousin. off to TP's open house~

Basically toured through all the faculties to have a look. and yes, dear introduced me to his project work- a really cool gadget to heal wounds faster. got the tp bag with plenty of brochures & info inside and had to like lugg it everywhere we went.

I started to sweat like crazy cos i wore a sweater to cover my disgusting uniform. and then guess what i saw?

free icecream for all visitors! The icecreams,made by tp's own icecream factory, was available in 4 flavours (mango, strawberry, vanilla, honeycomb). i had a mango; and its perfect stuff for a hot day!

After that we chilled out at an air-conditioned cafe called Norgen Vaaz Deli. had a slice cake each;

mine was the blueberry cheesecake ($2.60). a pretty bad version though, the cake was OVERdense and i couldnt taste the blueberry at all. the cheese tasted kinda weird as well.

chatted at the cafe till about 5 before leaving tp. planned to have dinner with peckhong at serangoon garden but it started pouring heavily when we were waiting for bus at kovan. and so we cancelled it to avoid getting drenched. went down to cityhall to meet dad instead.

i was craving badly for japanese food (esp UNAGI!) and so we ate at sushi tei.

had an unagi yoridori platter ($16);

consists of a chopped eel sushi, eel sushi, premiun eel sushi, eel & cucumber maki and an eel & avocado handroll. a truly satifysing unagi fix! (:

as usual, my dad had his anti-carbo meal again.

Asparagus Salmon Mentaiyaki ($9) ;

Hotate Misomayo ($8) ;

and i had one of each from his. haha. after dinner it was dessert time at bakerzin..

A usual Fraisier for him..

"Almond sponge soaked in strawberry liquor, layered with pistachio butter cream and fresh whole strawberries"

A waffle with icecream for me (:

"a homemade waffle with a scoop of delicious homemade cream cheese icecream and dripping with wild strawberry coulis"
i wasnt feeling too adventurous to try the cream cheese icecream so i had it changed to the classic vanilla one.

yupp so that sums up my day. it was tiring and all i wanted to do when i came back was; sleep.

* tutorials

2007-01-18T02:53:00.000-08:00

life's starting to get different at sajc.

our initially-really-united og seemed to have cracked and broken up into groups. been skipping those casual og outings cause i didnt really feel like joining them. the outstanders felt really left out at one point of time and now grace is like drifting away as well. aiya, that girl's super troubled with her love problems..

and my timetable's like really badly planned out. the upcoming tuesdays will be the longest, draggiest day for me. can you imagine an entire day packed with lessons and then having PE in the evening till 5.30pm?!? damn.

todays the start of tutorials with 07S25, and it was not as bad as i thought! PE & econs were fun and it kinda bonded our civics grp together. took our height and weights during PE and im ABSOLUTELY SURE that the stupid weighing scale was faulty! it made everyone seem lighter and they all got so happy lar. but it wasn't the case for me, cause it just made me wanna gorge more to get fatter.

gorging is fun. alrite, i'll just do it (: and so immediately after PE, i went to have Thosai at the cafeteria.

finally, after so long, there were thosais! a plain one made on the spot for me to savour that pleasant sourness.

It was thick at some parts, and the batter was so soft and dense. the taste was mild and just nice. i liked it so much, that i actually went back to the stall and shouted "aunty, the Thosai is very nice. thankyou!" in return, i got a huge smile from her. HAHA, i know its seriously spastic but i probably made the indian vendor's day (:

played this dumb but not-bad game for econs tutorial today. my group; adelina claire michelle kitmun. we had like the most pathetic score ever cause of the stupid deal we made with the guys grp. oh well, but heres the final look of our "brazil" land;

no houses, no cars but just plenty of "plantations".

but we're sure proud of it! yeah man.

the physics tutorial teacher was BORING, but the gp's was quite alrite. mr randy gill from melbourne; he's one nice teacher who dismissed us 10 minutes early! haha.

and then i gorged again. not surprising uh?

* 2.4 km

2007-01-16T07:48:00.000-08:00

oh man, claire & i are the QUEENS.(self-claimed la)

we ran 2.4km for PE today! so damn proud of ourselves (:
haha okay it was a spastic story. we actually ponned PE with a few other girls from 07S25 but decided to jog around the track for fun. after one round, we saw our class having PE and they told us that they only had to run 2 rounds. so we happily joined them.

took attendance with the teacher and did a whole load of stretching. and then just 15 mins before the lesson ended, the stupid teacher told us to run another 4 rounds! ARRGH they cheated our feelings. anyways, claire and i went for it and we completed our 2.4km run together. yays we rock la. cant help but gulped on a huge cup of teh-o-bing right after the run.

the good thing is, claire & i got closer
the bad thing is, grace is dirfting apart from us to go with her cheerleading mates! thats like a super sad case lar.

anyways i survived through 3 whole lectures today. wanted to have western food for lunch but the queue was seriously damn long so i made do with fishball noodles instead.

Fishball Meekia ($2)

Its alrite for school fare la, springy fishballs but overcooked noodles.

Claire had this super pathetic mee goreng for the same price. its seriously like 5 mouthfuls?! The only not-so-pathetic thing about it is the prawn.

after chem lecture we rotted in the cafeteria while the rest of the og went to cityhall for coffee. eric & timo joined us to crap for awhile before their next lecture. revised ~~sickening~~ econs for our test tmr, but honestly speaking, i totally do not understand it. so dead.

met dear for dinner at Serangoon Gardens Food Centre. went there specially for the teppanyaki but it was closed ): but we still had loads of other food..

Fried Kway Teow ($2) from 302 Newton Circus FKT

supposedly famous, but he totally didnt like it. i find it okay though, suits my taste for fried kway teow but just slightly too dry.

Chicken Roti John ($3.50) from Shukor Stall

okay this is the true-blue original founder of roti john. However, it certainly didnt live to its name cause the roti john was cold, hard and not crispy at all.

Barbeque Sambal Sotong ($7) from Ah Liang BBQ Seafood

no match for chompchomp's stall. the sotong was chewy and submerged in a chilli paste too spicy for me.Not too bad,still.

Chicken Satay ($5) from Nuradi Satay

okay these satays are absolutely superb! Sweet, well marinated & grilled, the meat was tender and flavoursome. ooh, nice~

A final dessert for us; Apple Pie ($1.50)from PK xpress

err, i guess it was abit overbaked until the dough tasted more like cookie. The crumble was very fine and rough, but the apples were juicy.

ta-dah, and that was another pigging session.

not surprisingly, i pigged out yesterday as well. Nasi Lemak for lunch in school..

and then claire faris & i went to Lau Pa Sat after dismissal. i finally tried the apple cinnamon prata ($2.50) there (:

really special and i just love apple cinnamon fillings.[okay goodness i realised ive been like having this craze for prata recently]

Icecream Prata ($2.70)

met shar at heartland in the evening and ate more before gg home for dinner. aiya i'm like gorging practically every single day.

13 Jan Saturday
-cca promotion @ tkgs

whoa finally a trip back to tkg (: it was a great time meeting all my darling sec sch mates again! we all have like so much catching up to do lar. and YES, i was the only idiot who wore uniform back cos no one told me that outside clothes were allowed! aiya, felt so toot can.

photos;

a hugg for ferrie.

2e1 pple (jeannie xinya fer)

my fellow 4e4ers. miss those times with them...

darling xinya (:

reflections outside the GO.(thats serene fyi)

the guides area. oh my, that huge tent brings back plenty of memories...

sarah serene & i left at 11plus for lunch cause we were feeling hungry =p Lunch was at Astons Specialties along east coast road.
(all food info at joybites yea)

* picture crazy

2007-01-13T15:40:00.000-08:00

Friday 12 Jan 2007
-cca signup day

it was a really slack day, just chapel, econs lecture & cca signup. BUT, chapel was at 7.25am, econs at 12noon and the signup at 3pm. so that means, we rotted in the cafeteria from 9-12 and 1-3. im starting to get sick of plain rotting. haha and i got so tired i actually slept through chapel =p

oh man. we finally had a session with our class and civics tutor. i dont like 07S25! *sobx. its like a dead class with no hint of enthusiasm at all, plus an extremely boring civics tutor called LYNDON CHUA. gosh, a male with such a girly name.

while rotting grace & i started this photo crazy session, and slowly expanded the people. and thats how these pictures came about;

obviously ~~dumb~~ spastic uglified shots.

The OUTSTANDER girls;

claire & i (:

the og groupies..

(all distortion due to resizing)

oh, timo & eric came to distribute an og photo they printed as well. and the message they wrote me was so dumb lar, feel like smacking eric. arrgh.

other og photos on wednesday & thursday;

at the wisma aquarium display (:

the girls with 2 gays.

with eric & timo @ lido

gabriel should just stop gaying around.

oh yes, i was supposed to introduce the SAJC western food stall. the photos will tell the story;

Grilled Fish with Rice ($3)

Chicken Chop with Rice ($2.80)

Chicken Mushroom Spaghetti ($2.50)

Cream of Chicken & Mushroom Soup ($0.80)

basically everything listed looks good, tastes good and priced good. i especially like the grilled fish because it was fresh & came in big slabs. But i've heard some complains about the soup being too salty.
okay the SA western stall rocks (:

for my prata dinner with dear, refer to joybites.

*depressing day

2007-01-11T06:35:00.000-08:00

todays like one of the worst days of this year.
damn dead depressing.
i hate the fricking weather, and everything just came crushing down on me at one go. I FELT SO DOWN.

ya the day started off quite alrite, until i felt kinda lonely when claire & grace weren't with me. then we got together and formed our OUTSTANDERS clique. claire grace ruiqi; my wonderful og mates.

we had math and physics lecture today. lunchtime was at 12, when i discovered another great meal from the SA cafeteria; the western stall~! will blog bout it another time.

after school a group of og22 went to hangout at lido. were playing UNO & bridge and we got warned by the security guards. worst, shane started to argue with him until he threatened to call the police, wth. eric & timothy came to join us, played truth or dare and it turned out rather fun.

faris had to ask a man for his number.
tricia had to dance in the middle of lido.
timo had to approach 2 ladies and kope their french fries.
cassandra had to bang on a table and shout "im so lonely!"

haha yes, really funny stuffs. but it was during all these when 2 phone calls came that made my entire mood to drop. really bad & hurting things came along.i seriously felt like killing the damn rain.

Nevertheless, i braved the sickening downpour and eventually arrived at thomson road for prata. it was a happy meal (: came home. faced with a solemn atmosphere that caused me to sort of break down. i hate this.

what a terrible terrible day!

god, i seriously need some guidance.

* Popular cafe

2007-01-09T02:41:00.000-08:00

today was like a long day in school. had 2 lectures and 2 talks that dragged the day till 3pm. got kinda sleepy~

oh haha SA's starting to get hard on discipline. after morning assembly the DM made all the JC1 guys stay back while the girls go off. SPOTCHECK on hair. they were so strict, they caught like 100+ guys and lectured them for a long long time. then half of them were given detention while the other half were sent home. madness! worse of all, faris was one of them but we dont see any major problem in his hair. it was just styled a little more stylo thats all.

07S01 to 07S09 had PE lessons today i think. it was the first PE lesson and they had to run 5 rounds around the track; 2km~!! gosh lar, haha i shall start thinking of an excuse to skip PE next week =p had physics lecture by Mr Lee at 10am. he's one funny lecturer who says "craps" instead of "crap". and my stomach was growling badly during physics.

immediately after lecture, grace claire & i chionged to the Pop Cafe for icecream waffles (: i had mine with strawberry icecream;

same flavour for grace. but claire's was chocolate chip icecream;

haha the waffles were like made-on-the-spot and had a special taste and smell, somewhat like butterscotch. great stuffs for just $2.30 each (:

spent the next 3 hrs in the cultural centre, having PE & CCA talk, school rules & security talk and math lecture consecutively. got so bored during the talks that i took short naps. then i got hungry again~ fine, i seriously think i'm a pig.

after school i grabbed a ham & cheese classic sandwich from the Pop Cafe (again).

its nice, like really simple and filling. and they used smoked cheese which tasted good. haha todays like one of the rare times which i enjoyed eating SA's food. but the Pop Cafe is really cool, owned by popular and managed by their staffs. service totally sucks though.

took 142 with faris and claire to potong pasir mrt. decided not to walk cause it was raining, and it always spoilts my mood. so yupp, finally one day that i came home early (: felt really tired and i slept for an hour or so before dinner time.

ELAINE ENJOYS PIGGING.

* pool

2007-01-08T07:18:00.000-08:00

i've got an ixus 60;
and ~~surrendered~~ handed the ixus 800IS back to my dad. have no idea why i ended up with an 60 although i wanted a 65. but i guess its more worth it cause the ixus 60 came with a whole load of free gifts- camera bag, extra batt, extra 1GB SD card, and a mini tripod stand. considering that it is also cheaper, with pretty much similar functions.

im so annoyed by the 800IS's SD card~! i just cant seem to load the photos into my com lar. arrgh, and so i gotta leave out blogging bout the my mahjong session with my fellow taitais yest ): will update bout that once i get the SD problem figured out.

today we started lectures. i was only scheduled for two- GP & chemistry (1 hr each). GP was alrite, we watched the mtv of Black Eyed Pea's "where is the love" and read a page of text from xiaxue's blog. but gosh, the bad part is that GP is such a demanding subject! seriously cant imagine myself being able to write a whole load of logical essays. no way man.

the subject head for chem was super scary. she started off warning pple about chemistry and her tone was like damn fierce. haha can clearly remember her stupid words;
"if you cant follow, chemistry is not your cup of tea, DONT drink it, because you will puke."
crap.

after that we had a 2 hours long break till our dismissal at 12.45. Planned to go over to SAS for lunch after the rest's bio lecture at 1pm but claire and i got so hungry that the remaining few of us sneaked into SAS at 12 instead. yes we all got captured on the CCTV for sneaking out and hoped that the guard was sleeping. haha!

The nasi padang there was cheap and not bad;

$1.50 for ladysfinger, sayur lodeh and some sort of sweet weird black stuffs, supposedly said to be fish.

at SAS.

after school a bunch of og 22s headed for pool! the guys stopped by some cheap shop near school to get tees in order to change for pool.

haha it was so funny! they took a long time cause apparently most of the tees had terribly sucky designs. farris was lucky to find a decent "armani xchange" black tee.

gabriel posing with his $2.90 blue top;

how gay.

had vanilla cones at Plaza Sing macs while we chatted before going over to the meridien. okay fine, i was the only one there who hasn't tried pool before. we got like 3 tables for the 11 of us.

but i finally learnt the basics, all thanks to joel for teaching and aixia for explaining the rules of the game. haha, it was actually quite fun lar.

the guy with lotsa beginner's luck.

shots with aixia & tricia;

after that i left early to meet dear for dinner at compasspoint.

GRILLED CHICKEN MUSHROOM SWISS @ BK !!

yes, it finally comes in a chicken version! great for non-beef eaters like me but only available for a limited period of time. rather expensive though, its like $4.45 for the burger only.

dessert at Jack's Place (: he had a double scoop sundae (mango & vanilla) just to pei me eat.

while i had my Apple Pie Alamode

its actually like apple crumble with a scoop of vanilla icecream. this was like the messiest crumble i've encountered, and it tasted cakey instead of crumbly. i like the vanilla icecream though =p

and we were both like freezing after having the desserts. haha.that poor boy; he's like sick but he still came to have dinner with me.shopped around to get my ankle socks and white hairties for school before going back. get well soon~

*yawns. im getting really tired. more lectures tmr, and its like a long day for me. oh yes, im allocated to 07S25. my very new class (: thank god claire's with me.

* saintallume 2007

2007-01-05T16:33:00.000-08:00

3 days of saintallume orientation just flew past like that~

it was drop-dead tiring last night;
i fell asleep on the computer table till 2am before dragging myself to lie on the bed; then instantly sleeping without the lights off. it was until 5am that i realised it la, so proper sleep under the blankie was only from 5-9am. and all these happened with me still in my stinky sajc orientation tee, haha!

i have so much to say about my entire orientation experience! it was great to see how a bunch of 29 strangers from different schools bonded together as an og with the help of our 2 ogls; Eric and Timothy.

OG 22.

we had like our first og outing on thursday night, but with only 14 people. went to plaza sing, and the whole gang accompanied me to pastamania to collect my pay.so weird! dinner was at foodcourt (due to the halal pple) and it damn dumb having to chase a man out of the long table before we could get our seats.

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claire and i both had jap food. a salmon bento for me;

wow, good standards shown for a foodcourt jap food.

off to spotlight to get the red cloth for one of nermelha's identities. haha our gang were the only ones who practically disturbed the peace of spotlight's customers.

we were like super noisy la, with grace explaining her logic of hand-measurements. and goodness, we actually spent like $104 plus buying a whole load of red cloth.

haha we surely can think of the weirdest places to take our photos;

group picture outside the toilet. LOL.
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after some of them went home, a few of us headed to macs for sundaes (: it was faris's treat.

nice things.

Basically these three days we had plenty of games (Space odyssey) and stuffs like mass dances. The dances were totally lame but still created much laughter among us. The Trial (water games segment) got us all drenched with soap water, hit by countless water bombs and dunked with an entire pail of water. undesirable situations but really fun (:

another thing was spending time with the entire nermelha tribe during gatherings, tribe times and finale preparations. whoa, the ogls sure made us united and eager to win something for nermelha. the cheering part was like absolute madness.

also did our part for charity admist our orientation. worked in pairs to decorate glass cups to be sold for the salvation army.

og22's creations;

by grace & i;

oh yes, and i definitely gotta blog bout SA's food as well. oh my, some of the foods seriously ~~sucked~~ but some were still alrite.

Fried Hokkien Mee [Day 1 Lunch]

An really bad version of hokkien mee, which was overly bland- could only taste the starchyness of the yellow noodles, yucks! the only good part was the 2 prawns hidden in there and the chilli sauce. Still, it was a waste spending 2 bucks on this.

Cinnamon Crossiant [Day 2 Breakfast]

wow i loved this!! warm and freshly baked; crispy on the outer parts and soft on the inner. plus, it incorporates my favourite spice (cinnamon) into these swirls of pastry. yummy~

Wanton Noodles [Day 2 Lunch]

grace wanted to eat this so we all followed. gosh, yet another disappointing food! its like one of the worst rendition of wanton noodles; clumpy and undercooked noodles with wantons that tasted horrible. the charsiew was still alrite, although disgusting looking but tasted of sweet sauce. damn, another 2 bucks wasted on bad food.

After the 2 days of bad lunches for the girls, we decided to heed advice from the guys. apparently all of them ate chicken rice for 2 consecutive days and yuwei even requested for extra rice. and so for the third day, we decided to totally skip the noodle stalls and try out the chicken rice. the queue was like so long~

Chicken Rice [Day 3 Lunch]

here's my white chicken rice. the chicken was like pretty average, abit tough and full of fats. but now i get it, the thing about it is its rice- flavourful grains of firm rice. it was fragrant enough for me to clear up all the rice quickly. haha! Cucumbers and soup are self-service.

ruiqi's roast chicken rice;

Sultana Crossiant [Day 3 Breakfast]

yes, another wondeful crossiant from Cafe Toscana to start my day. but i still felt that the cinnamon one was still better.

Mushroom Prata [Day 3 Dinner]

at last, something not too saddening. the indian stall at the cafeteria serves both thosai and pratas, all made-to-order! there were like plenty of varieties- chocolate, strawberry, mushroom, tissue, egg, cheese, onion, masala and many many others. the most special one i saw people eating was the milo prata. i gotta try it one day~ okay, the mushroom slices were pathetic but the thin prata tasted good (: Faris let us try some of his tissue prata and everyone loved it. this was heaven compared to tkgs' prata.

ta-dah, that was my complete food review. but i'm still waiting to try from the malay stall as well as another really cool cafe serving icecreams, iceblendeds, waffles and stuffs. 3 more months to sample all the food, LOL.

Preparation for finale (in nermelha's identities);
with my darling claire;

N is for nermelha, haha!

us with that annoyingly spastic gay ~~sister~~ yuwei.

the gross-est gays of the universe

sarah and i are both fellow nermelha mates! (:

the last part of our orientation was the finale last night. had our house competition in the cultural centre. yay, nermelha won the best mascot with our tobasco!

eh, we seriously deserve it ya?

the next part was the highlight- disco party~! we all had to get an identification stamp as entry into it, cos according to timothy there's gonna be lotsa crashers for the night. so everyone gathered at the air-conditioned hall and partied (: we had a really cool live band to bring up the whole atmosphere, light sticks glowing in the dark, crazy dancing and jumping to the songs. okay, it was a chaotic madness scene. LOL. and wow, everyone got damn high when they sang one way; aww it was reallyy nice (:

okay yes, with that our day at SAJC ended at bout 10pm. og 22 gathered together for one last cheer and group photo;

haha then the guys seized the chance to crush eric;

and of course, timothy wasn't spared as well.

opened our sparkling juices at the bridge after the school gates closed. lol, shane actually wow-ed us with a swiss wine opener. had a crazy time sharing that 3 bottles of grape & apple sparkling juices. lastly, me faris tricia claire yuwei mingchin cassandra kenneth headed to macs for more chatting before going back.

now you know why i dropped dead immediately. 3 tired days with so little rest! arrgh. but i really gotta praise ourselves for all the cooperation and unity shown as an og. the guys all participated enthusiastically in the girly cheers with those awfully vain and gay actions, while the girls did their part to scream like nobody's business. really had loads of fun joking with everyone, and spending this 3 days as a group. the unforgettable merlion clap is like stuck in my head for good~

a few last words; OG 22 ROCKS.

(all photos are taken with canon ixus 800IS but i miss using my ixus 40!)

* tired from SAJC

2007-01-03T06:19:00.000-08:00

my eyes are going to shut anytime.

i'm so fricking tired after day 1 of orientation!
i am like such a suey person can; i lost my damn voice again~!!
and the worse part; MY CAMERA IS SPOILT. wth, so im currently secretly using my dad's ixus 700. a fat bulky object. sigh.

seriously being drained out from orientation today - all the taxing games, cheering and stuffs like that.

i have no more energy to give the long stories.

i have no more energy to post the photo of the disgusting hokkien mee i had from the SA cafeteria.

i have no more energy to type any further.

blog about it another time ya. *yawns

-this shall be the millionth time that im hoping for my voice to return.
come back to me, cause i need you.

* brand new 2007

2006-12-30T16:44:00.000-08:00

a very happy 2007 to all!
and fyi, pastamania is changing the menu with effect from today.
a few new items added, while 2 pizza types are removed. there will even be a mango dessert pizza~

i admit i've been slacking alot in my blogging recently, haha cause everything is packed up and i get so drained out by the time work ends. so my first ever new year resolution is to post an entry today (:
here goes my morning for this brand new year; lunchie with relatives is a yearly thing. have no idea why this time they picked this roadside vegetarian restaurant we used to visit like years ago-
Bodhi Snack House along potong pasir road.

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the crowd.

i had a Vegetarian Hokkien Mee;

(other foods in joybites)

all of a sudden someone suggested an icecream party at my place. okay yes, we were all damn "on" about it and seriously went to shop for the ingredients. Got our toppings like hersheys chocolate syrup, almond flakes, rainbow chips, wafer fans, fruits and stuffs. but the lousy NTUC we went to did not have the icecream flavours i wanted, so we headed to cold storage for the icecreams instead.

loaded (:

my yummy wise pick;

our new year's day sundae feast..

dinner was fishhead steamboat at my cousins place. made a short trip down to compasspoint and the nearby pasar malam with some of my younger cousins. we took a super cheap $4 neoprint at timezome. quality turned out rather lousy. thats about it.

31st December Sunday
- Great World City + Vivocity + Work

i woke up extremely late cos i did closing the previous night. only had time to get changed before i was rushed out of the house. it was time to find guigui a new home ): haha, its a long story, but apparently an unknown tortoise landed up in our house during the rainy season. sis named and took care of it for like a couple of days but we decided to let it go.

her guigui;

initially we came to Bright Hill Temple cos they have this famous pond speacially for people to set tortoises free.

But it was to our disgust to witness that the entire pond was overcrowded with thousands of them!

(those little dots in the backgroud are tortoises' heads)

yucks man! the entire scene of the pond was totally gross. anyways, luckily for it, we were told that they had stopped accepting tortoises anymore. so, its final home was a large spacious pond at bishan park.

okay yes, farewell to guigui. sis is like starting to miss is already.

drove to Great World City for some shopping. i wanted to try the River Valley Nasi Padang at Zion Road but we found out it was closed ): in the end we had lunch at the wanton noodles beside it.

Teck Kee Wanton Noodles was featured in makansutra with a 2/3 rating.

okay the noodles were unusually thick and curly but still offers some degree of springyness. Well coated in the light sauce, it does not pack much taste unless you add the chilli. Not too bad, but not fantastic.

ooh i love our extra order of shrimp dumplings (shuigow)

there were like black fungus, chestnuts and a fresh shrimp stuffed inside. sweet and good (:

went across the road to Zion Road Food Centre for a rojak and dessert.

Clementi Brother's Rojak

poorly done youtiao and taupok which are not crispy at all.

Gingko Nut Soya Beancurd from House of Soya Beans.

This stall was formerly from chompchomp where we always bought from last time.

got 2 tops from zara while sis got a pair of jeans. next, we went to Vivocity to collect a top that she reserved from levis. Vivo was like crowded as usual.

feeling tired, we stopped by Coffee Bean for cakes (:

ahh, my Chicago Cheesecake ($4.90)

okay this is super rich in the cheese taste with a tinge of lemon zest. but the problem is, the overpowering cheese taste makes me a little sick of it when im halfway thru.no match for the cheesecake cafe (: still, it was good enough for me to clear it.

dad got a Tiramisu ($4.90)

Left for work after that. Maggie recommended me a Sesame Coriander Pizza for my dinner and so i went along with it.

err, it was tasty but oversweet cause of the overload of mayonnaise.

Working with Maggie & Yvonne was fun and we chatted alot. what made me happier was the extra pay cause it was new year's eve (: After doing closing, Yvonne and i had a sinnful countdown supper at cafe cartel.

My Caramel Banana Crepe

Her Banana & Peach Waffle

dear came to pick me home after that while Yvonne joined Maggie & Amanda for more celebrations. My annoying parents just refused to let me follow, wth.

i've been doing shopping almost everyday!

post-christmas sales are something not to miss out on (:
mango. zara. topshop. esprit. levis; all having SALES.

everything around is like so tempting~

oh ya, check out my new toy;

its elaine's own mini capsule machine! haha, wanted it and so dear tried his luck for me. im gotta go get more of it! =x

schools gonna start soon and sarah's og leader actually called her but no one has yet to contact me lar. super annoying.

* cycling @ ecp

2006-12-27T18:10:00.000-08:00

As i promised myself, i returned to Selera Rasa Nasi Lemak- the very next day!!

haha yes, dear and i went back for another round of good nasi lemak. but this time, we saw 2 queues instead. There was actually another Nasi Lemak Stall just right beside it with an even longer queue. Named "No.1 Adam Road Nasi Lemak", they had extra dishes like Sambal Prawn and Mutton Rendang. So, he decided to be adventurous and try it.

For me, i chose to stick to Selera Rasa because of its rice. Also, it was a good chance to do a direct comparison between the two stalls.

Selera Rasa's Full House ($4)

No.1 Adam's Nasi Lemak's Adam's Special ($4.50, plus 50cents more for an extra otah= $5)

Visible Differences: No.1 Adam's was more crammed, with 2 extra slices of fishcake, roasted peanuts and a small portion of mutton rendang. There was also a banana leaf laid as a base. However, notice that the colour of Selera Rasa's chicken wing was of a much nicer golden brown hue.

Digging in;

It was a rather tough fight. Both is good in different aspects of the nasi lemak. Selera wins in terms of its rice and chilli, while No.1 Adams is better in the otah, and according to dear, the chicken wings. (full report in my foodblog)

Even so, i think Selera Rasa would still be my top pick- just the rice and chilli is enough to win me over. thumbs up! oh ya, and the perfect drink for nasi lemak here is a mug of cool Teh-o-bing (:

After filling our tummys, we headed to East Coast Park for some cycling. Walked a long way to locate the bicycle rental shop that i always patronised but it was closed down. made do with another shop nearby.

Bicycles for rental at $6 onwards for 2 hours.

Dumped our bags into the lockers and then started our cycling. Stopped by at a breakwater to rest and collect pretty seashells (:

thats the swash beside a breakwater. (lols geography..)

thats him on a breakwater. (fine, i know its common sense)

the weather was lousy and it started to rain like mad. had no choice but to take shelter at one of the small pavilions and wait the rain to stop. the winds were strong and its was damn cold! To maek things worse, beside us was this sickening old man smoking and polluting the damn air; arrgh. by the time the rain subsided, it ws time to return the bicycles. LOL.

dinner time @ marine parade food centre.

Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee ($3) from Ah Liang FHM

Okay i just found my next favourite hokkien prawn mee. The broth was just of the right thickness, not too watery. The whole dish was light-tasting and non-greasy, with 3 fresh prawns. The only disappointment was the not-at-all exciting chilli sauce.

Also had dimsum from Neptune's;
Hargow ($2.20)

Just pure fresh prawns as its filling! The prawns were good but the rough skin could be better improved on.

Lobster Puff ($3)

Fat, entirely crispy deepfried "puffs" filled with squid paste and prawn bits.

Fried Chives Dumplings ($2)

Filling was juicy, with chives, turnip shreds and mushrooms but the outer was slightly soggy and oozing with oil.

Cabbed down to our final stop; my recommendation-
The Cheesecake Cafe @ east coast road.

Highly rated by many online bloggers, we decided to go and try it for ourselves. haha someone actually said that you can forget about the cheesecakes at n.y.d.c once you've tried theirs, and you know what? i guess its true..

we ordered 3 of their cheesecakes and settled down on our cosy sofa seat to enjoy them.

Peach Jelly Cheesecake ($6.90)

This is one of their house specials, featured on many newspapers and magazines. Light and zesty, with a layer of jelly to add on more delight with every bite.

Strawberry Oreo Cheesecake ($6.20)

Similar to Secret Recipe's, but with oreos and an oreo base instead. The base was slightly too soft for me. BUT, the cheesecake was heavenly! Light in texture, with a mild cheese fragrance, and without the sweetness overkill. simply indulging~

Walnut Cheesecake ($6.20)

Something chunkier, with pieces of cruchy walnuts within the smooth cheese. The cheese taste was just right, not too strong, and the texture was great.

So far the best cheesecakes i've tasted! dear actually suggested we come here once a month to try all of their cheesecakes, what a good idea! (: