Feasting and more feastings

Week of feasting again! This week, I gained some weight back again because I starting exercising and feasting season is back.

1) Himawari Japanese Restaurant
Steph, Jialin, Peiting and I went to the branch at Neil Road for dinner. This is the second time we are having ala carte buffet from Himawari together. This time, we managed to finish 2 plates of mixed sashimi! The sashimi here so far is the freshest I've ever eaten! I wanna go back again!!!!!!!!!!!! SSSSAAAASSSSHHHHIIIIMMMIIII..... あいしてる！！！ We concentrated on our food so much, we forgot to take photos.. hehe

2) Manhatten Fish Market
I met up with a few colleagues to dine at Manhatten Fish market on Thursay. Our initial plan was actually to sing ktv, but one of my colleagues fell sick, so we change to a sinful plan. whahaha.... We have fried seafood platter (we ordered grill but was served the wrong one). It could have been better if it's grilled.

3) Pasir Panjang Food Centre
Satay! Stingray! Carrot Cake! Sambal Sotong!!! All these for dinner cum supper after rock climbing sure is sinful! Friday, Roy, Steph Liting and I went to conquer the walls! Winner: Roy. He's long so he managed to climb more walls than the rest! whahahaa.... A pity: no prize for that.

p.s: Roy, thanks for the yummy durian puffs you bought!

4) Botak Jones (Depot)
Here, I satisfied my craving of Beef Beef and more Beef!!! The waiting for food to be served is not that long, as compared to the one at Clementi branch. But the food here is not as good as the one in Clementi. Heh...

Summary for the week

Some updates about what interesting things I have done this week:

1) Pestered my malay colleague to bring some sugi cookies for me. hahaha.... I love this! Every CNY, I can "swallow" up the whole tin all by myself!

2) Watched 爸爸閉翳 - Father and Son (25 episodes) in 2 days - can anyone do this?

3) Went to the gym with Steph - After months of not exercising, i jogged non-stop on the threadmill for 20 minutes, managed to burn at least calories from 3 donuts. Some achievement yeah? hehe...

4) TGIF - Sang ktv again! It's almost a weekly activity. And I tell you, my friends, it's not cheap to do this on weekends u know! Hah... I went for my session with Steph and BC, quite enjoyable. Afterwhich Steph and I went to Holland V to meetup with Peiting and Jialin for some dessert... home at 2.30am

5) Feasting - Went dim sum session to celebrate Jiabi's Birthday! We ordered alot and of course, ATE ALOT! whahaha... session was enjoyable even if there were no cakes, no candles and no sabo-ing.

6) Shopping therapy - once again, our dear Miss Ruan is spending like nobody's business again! Total spending for the week came up to more than $200 just on clothings and shoes....she's really got to get someone to control her pockets!

Recommended Artiste of the week - Akina Nakamori. Go surf Wikipedia or youtube if you want to know more about her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akina_Nakamori

The Brain Test

You Are 15% Left Brained, 85% Right Brained

The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning. Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others. If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic. Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet. The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility. Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way. If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art. Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports.

Are You Right or Left Brained?

The Emptiness Week

It's an emptiness week. I don't know why. Been having bad dreams, controlling my tears and not been enjoying myself, all for one reason. Sometimes I do not understand why is luck turning against me? Why am I so unlucky to be facing all these in this phase all in once. Have I not been a good girl? Have I done anything bad to deserve all these? Why can't I find love? Enough said... sigh....

This week, I would like to thank Steph for taking the effort to bring back KrispyKreme donuts back from Hong Kong for me!!! So nice of her. Jialin and I went for Curtin University's course preview. Now I am in a dilemma which concentration to choose. Is it Accounting and Finance which I know it's the most boring concentration in the world, or is it Finance and Marketing which is filled with Finance modules and I know the prospects can be good in the banking sector. Or is it Marketing and Advertising which is something totally new to me which I think may be interesting but I am so afraid if I go into the wrong concentration, I will be leading myself nowhere. This is something I need to think hard because it's something I will be getting which will stay with me for life.

Another thing to think about - a new job? I applied for a few positions this week and went for a job interview. If let's say I were to be employed, should I leave my current job? I know I will be getting my 13th month in Dec and my performance bonus in January, it's gonna be quite a sum of money! Headache! Headache! Headache.... Let's wait till latest Wednesday for a decision to come.

My new goal - STOP SPENDING!!!!!! Can someone help? hehe....

Feasting again - It's the crabs!

Once again, it's Friday and today Jialin, Peiting and I met up in the evening for the long-awaited CRAB SESSION. Who's suggestion is this? Haha... It's the Crab lover - Jialin! Two weeks ago, we spoke on the phone when she was sick. She mentioned she has the craving for crab, and asked when we would be having our crab session. So we tried to arrange.




Peiting came to fetch Jialin and I from work and we drove up to Toa Payoh Melben Seafood for the crabs. I, on behalf of the group ordered food through the phone. When we reach, we were seated immediately. Approximately 15 minutes, our first dish arrived! Guess what!!! I didn't expect a simple brocolli dish to turn out to be served with abalone, mushrooms and dried scallop gravy!!! Haha, anyway, to prevent wastage, *we licked up the dish.....*




Second dish, Pork Ribs stewed in some kind of big leaf and aluminium foil... fantastic! The meat just melts in your mouth! Hmm... wondered how long they took to stew this dish.





Next - Long awaited Crab Bee Hoon!!! This is the star of the day! The soup is is is... just so nice we nearly swallowed up the whole pot. Jialin was the first to reach for the crab after souping up a bowl of bee hoon! She's the real expert in crabs! I think if there's a Crab Eating competition, she can titled the Queen of Crabs! whahaha

Jialin didn't get enough of crabs and we ordered another dish - Chilli Crab. I can say the chilli crab here is not as nice as the ones served in No Signboard Seafood. The gravy is thicker, the crab is slightly smaller. Only Jialin and I walloped up this dish because Peiting was unfortunately down with gastric problem due to a skipping her meals from the hectic day at work and maybe side effects from the 麻辣铁蛋.

Burp! Three beauties at work....



Thank you to Jialin for the pictures taken and uploaded in Photobucket.


*Folks, the licking part of the article is fake... hahahaha

Reaching for the limits

It's an "early" Saturday morning at around 11am where Roy and Yeok came to pick Steph and me up for some breakfast and we headed to West Coast Recreation Centre to me Shirley. We headed for Climb Adventure for some fun, exciting rock climbing activities.

Other than Steph, the rest of us enrolled for the beginner's course where they taught us how to tie the rope and belaying. Although I took up Rock Climbing many years back and got the cert, I didn't put into use at all, forgotten everything! whahaha.... Anyway, after we got the hang of it, we started climbing from wall to wall! It was so tiring, but of course challenging! Shirley and Roy were the better climbers, Yeok was expert in belaying! We headed for some sumptous lunch at Jack's Place after the climb. Everyone was exhausted and hungry!

Here are some photos (sorry for the blurness).
Helping Shirley to tie the rope
Me!

Up up and away!
Roy-Conquering the most difficult wall

Feasting - Donuts! Steak! 13 Sept 2007

There is always a day when I have the craving for donuts and this day came.. hehe... I told my friend Shirley it. Since it was her off day that day, we had lunch with Jialin at NUS Arts Canteen after walking through the vanity fair held at Central Forum. Afterwhich, Jialin and I went back to our office. And Shirley told us she's going to Raffles City to buy us donuts. Can you believe it! She queued for 1.5 hours for it! The best thing is... she took a cab back to Jialin and my office to pass us the donuts.... so touching... sob sob.... which other friend would ever do this????

Later in the evening I met up with Alex and Steph to Clementi's Botak Jones for yet another round of feasting! Haha... to satisfy my multi-cravings, I settled with a 200gm medium-rare Australian Ribeye Steak! Wahahah... although I am the last to be served, my steak tasted... tasted... FANTASTIC! Hmmm... a simple dish of $14 can make me feel like i am in heaven.. hah... Steph order was the fish and chips which we think has the most reasonable price of $6 which you can't even finish the chips! haha.... Go try it out one day if you have not.... http://www.botakjones.com

We headed off to play pool in the night and left for home near 12midnight..... another day.. haha.. *burps