Old Brown Shoe

Had my first life science practical involving wildlife on friday! It was quite an experience as I found that the teaching assistants of the life science labs are generally friendly and amicable! This is in contrast to the angsty chemistry people. The practical required us to look at the different species of leaves and to find out their identities. Unfortunately, after the sorting of leaves, we were unable to walk the Kent Ridge trail as it was pouring meows and woofs.


Lelong lelong! Veggies on sale!


Acacia. It doesn't have true leaves in adult form! The leaves are flattened stalks. O_O

 The practical was fun and relaxing, poles apart from what I'd experienced in chemistry labs so far.

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Went to Old Brown Shoe with Kiat and Kong. Heard the fish and chips is legendary! After much detour , we finally reached the place.


My Strongbow which is a cider! It had a subtle taste of apple. Very refreshing! They didn't order beer! D:


Some german sausage! The portion was rather small.


Guess what is this! Our meal!


Fish and chips! It tasted fresh but it was quite oily! I was bloated even till I was about to turn in for the night.

Fright nite was live band nite for Old Brown Shoe. We listened while the band belted out really retro songs and I could only identify the song,"Satisfaction". Next up was island creamery, which we had difficulty locating (not again!).


Teh Tarik (chosen by me), Pulut Hitam (chosen by kong) and Ping Pong Milo (chosen by kiat).

Saw Joy there! What a surprise.

Till then!

My Favourite Month of the Year

My Mac cannot connect to my mio router during these few days thus I cannot upload my photos which resulted in the lack of postings. Anyway, Merry Christmas (uber late) and Happy New Year! We went to Stef's house for stone cooking! Royston and I kinda got lost while on the way to her home. We missed the bus stop and went all the way to CJC. Finally alighted at the right bus stop after boarding the bus from the opposite side.It was fun and I got to play with her unresponsive meow meow.

Stef had us try her mushroom soup. It was too watery! Nonetheless, it was a good attempt! You can hardly find any girls who can cook nowadays.

Getting started!

Copying the korean style by wrapping the meat in some crunchy veggie. It tasted good! Even better with the sour chilli that my mom made. :D~

The prawns were damn nice. We decided to deshell the prawns before putting it on the stone for convenience. We were all quite afraid of the sausages because the water that was inside the bubble between 2 connecting sausages kept threatening to explode and spill its hot content at us. :O


More prawns!

Bloated souls.

Left her abode after eating for 3hrs! Super full and decided to cab home. :x

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I watched Tron Legacy with my sec sch buddies at Cathay on Christmas's Eve. Had a super filling dinner at Aston as usual.

Overall it was rather nice but the ending was weird though. How could a virtual girl turn into human?

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My army buddies and I spent boxing day at Tian shuo's house! Lesser people turned up every year. Some didn't reply on facebook!


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My initial plan for New Year's Eve was to get Kiat and I to be at Kong's house to play with the kitten and catch up but Kong can't as he had agreed to go Universal Studios with Kelvin for the celebration. Kelvin had complimentary tickets (via ballot) while I had to search high and low for a pair of tickets to go with Hong qi. I paid $35 per person for the ticket. -.-" After the entire event, it was good! I'm glad I paid (Hq too) for the ticket because it was such a blast! Much better than squeezing with throngs of people at the Marina Bay which was a complete bummer. Not only can we watch fireworks (albeit a toned down version as compared to the magnificent display at Marina Bay), we get to watch it with a satisfied tummy! The "free" ticket each had a complimentary meal and we chose to eat fried chicken at Goldilocks, which was done just right! Not too cold and not too hot. :)


My meal! My first time in years eating corn outside home. Gets stuck in my teeth often but it didn't this time round. Wouldn't want to get spotted with leftover corn plastered on my teeth!


Wait a minute, I thought Goldilocks dealt with porridge? Unhealthy Goldilocks. Who cares. Haha.


A mini roller coaster ride! The banner of GingerBread man damn cute. Haha. This is my first time riding a roller coaster in Singapore in years. We never thought they include rides like this in the package! We were screaming because we didn't expect to be on a roller coaster. It was like... You walk into a classroom, expecting to have lessons but you found everyone swimming in a mobile pool. Ok, lame analogy.


Some cute castle where we watched Shrek 4D! It was a good ride! :D


With Charlie Chaplin! I am trying to mime but failed terribly.


With Sexy Betty Boop! I was trying to copy her pose but Hong qi couldn't do that in time. Haha.

The fireworks was good! We were so near till I had some unknown firework dust in my eye. I would go every year for the celebration if I can! It was an enjoyable process, totally different if I were to be at Marina Bay. Got a lift home by Hq's parents. :D

Happy New Year everyone. Hope the new year will be a good one.

Irodori

I sold my limegreen gameboy colour and wario 3 a couple of days ago to a pair of girls who arrived below my house in a cab for $60. The gameboy was my birthday present when I turned 12 and it had been with me for a decade and its still working! I'm such a good owner heh. I pondered for a while whether I should sell it but I have had no use for it and I believe it will be better off being cherished (I hope) by a new owner.


Farewell! Hope you get treated well.

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Met up with Lloyd and xy as they wanted to "walk" in town. When I entered 313, it was crowded and guessed what I saw. Shaca carolling! The familiar faces I saw were only Kok yong and Li ke. We went to lan in the cafe where Tian is working at. I was sitting near this kid who was screaming at the top of his voice while playing counterstrike. Damn dulan sia. Anyway we decided to go check out Irodori Japanese Restaurant which was located in River view Hotel at Havelock Road. It was quite a long walk from Clarke Quay mrt station.


We finally reached the restaurant.


Appetizer.


Sashimi! There were salmon, tuna, maguro, yellow tail and octopus! They were all very fresh. I think this is one of the best sashimi on freeflow for a buffet.


Complimentary BBQ prawns. It tasted creamy.


Our 2nd plate of sashimi!


My small bowl of udon.


Xy's small curry don. Had to take it with my hand to show the relative difference in size.


Shishamo which tasted cold and dull. lol. I generally do not like eating food items as a whole, like baby octopus for example.


Our 3rd plate of sashimi which only consisted of salmon.


Our 4th plate of sashimi.

The nett cost of the buffet was $38.80 per person. I think it was quite worth it for me. Xy didn't really eat a lot of sashimi except salmon so I felt it wasn't that good of an experience for him. The restaurant could have done a little better on the desserts section. There weren't any desserts to choose from! >: (


When we were walking back to the mrt station, we came across a bunch of people flying motor controlled LED kite in the sky. Quite a peaceful sight.

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Time really flies! Tomorrow is Judgement day. Hope I do well. :(

It has been a long time, hasn't it?

Went to sing with my JC classmates at the 10 dollar club in Chinatown. Quite a lot of people turned up. We have Joycelyn, Wen yang, Kok yong, Qiu yan, Pristine, Edwin (from Joy's clique) and Jessica brought along 2 of her friends to join in the fun. Well I guess it wasn't really enjoyable for them because they were kinda quiet. I believe it was the unfamilarity between us and it's kinda hard to know someone in a noisy environment.

Dinner followed. We were all hungry and decided to just settle our meal at the roadstalls directly outside the KTV. The food was overly priced and tasted extraordinarily ordinary. Pity the foreigners. During dinner, I suggested watching Rapunzel and they gamely agreed. We trekked from Dhoby Ghaut to Bugis as Bugis GV was the only place near town that had seats for the 5 of us. Initially we went Dhoby Ghaut to try our luck at the GV in PS but it was completely filled. Damn.
 
Even though we missed the front 15 minutes of the show, but we caught on the storyline pretty fast (it's a disney movie afterall). The chameleon and the horse injected humour into the show. Rapunzel's hair glows golden when she sings and has healing powers. Funny.

Reached home pretty late and had a bath. Before I sat down in front of my mac, I sensed that the wind was rather strong and decided to take in the gust/breeze by my window. I totally shouldn't have done that because out of the blue, a strong gust of wind blew ash (from the incense pot) to my face while a part of the pot (the crown thing) got blown off and fell to ground level. o.o Had to wash my face and go down to pick that thing. zzz.

Till then. Sorry for the abrupt end.

It's never too early.

Lee chiu decided to organize an early birthday celebration for bing qin, citing that the NTU peeps will be having exams during her actual birthday and cannot afford time to celebrate. So the 4 of us, Ying siew, Bao xin, Lai yan and I met up at Lot 1 to pick out a cake and a balloon before setting off for NTU's ADM building. Lilian hopped onto bus 172 that we were on and we reached our destination not long after (actually it was rather long, due to the excessive wait for bus 199).

We scaled the never-ending flight of stairs to reach the top (almost) of the grass patch and waited for Shan shan and Lee chiu to lure the unsuspecting Bing qin to where we were.

Getting ready!

Birthday girl.

We went to a korean bbq restaurant next.

Heard it was damn oily (the floor) and true enough, it can double as an ice-skating rink.

Not really obvious (the oil on the floor) but you could slide (or waltz) around easily.

Getting started!

Oily and sinful bacon that tasted good!

The bacon (I really must emphasize the "oilyness") goes very well with the juicy lettuce.

酒不醉人人自醉！

Group pic.

After that, we proceeded to Maxwell food market to finish the cake because the workers in the restaurant were already chasing us out. Next, Bing qin and a few of them decided to visit this club called Playclub (if I remember correctly). It's a club for people who are gay. Hmm, it was really an eye opener for me and I never really liked clubbing as well. So getting me to dance was like a chore. Bing qin kindly ferried all of us back. Thanks! :)

When I finally reached home and bathed, it was already 4.20am. Now I'm feeling super groggy and tired as well. I don't think my body can handle this late hour sleeping anymore.

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Went to watch Harry potter with Jerel, Royston and his gf today. It was really good! I wept a tear or 2 when dobby was impaled by Bellatrix Lestrange's dagger. :(

Me: *Bellatrix Lestrange threw a dagger (I had no idea that it was a dagger) at Harry and team as they were disapparating* What? Why did she give her wand to them?

Jerel: It's a knife la hello!

Me: Oh?

-.-"

Funeral for a friend.

Dobby last words were,"It's nice to be (or die) in a beautiful place in the company of friends". It's not really his exact words but it meant about the same to me.

Can't wait for the last instalment!

Feast time!

Heard about this superb sashimi place from an aquaintance on facebook. He posted his sashimi photos online and I kinda chanced upon it. The amazing place is Fish Mart Sakuraya! Being an ardent fan of sashimi, I hesitated no further and organized a trip down with lloyd and stef. There were some communication problems and we ended up at Holland village. Luckily lloyd was able to ask his mom to drive us to Parkway Parade where the fish mart is. It's tucked quietly at one corner at basement 1! Upon entering, I realised they sell japanese dried food products, fresh fish imported from Japan and Norway (the lady behind the counter told me so) and a wide range of sake! We were peering into the glass to pick out the fishes that we want. Omg we were drooling like mad.

The treasure trove of raw delicacies.

Fish platter!

The pale beige one is the swordfish, the pale pink is the maguro while the orange is none other than Norway salmon! The quality and freshness is really on par with the one I had had at the Sydney Fish market! :D Perhaps we are too accustomed with the salmon already, so the three of us actually thought salmon is the best.

Trout Salmon.

The salesperson told us that this fish is from Japan and it is sweeter and firmer than the salmon from Norway. After tasting it, we still preferred the Norway version! This was a tad too firm and not really much sweeter. Nonetheless, it was extremely fresh!

Expensive tuna.

This was definitely the freshest I've tasted in Singapore. Firm bite and nice cut!

What's a Japanese meal without sake? :) We picked this one and it was refreshingly sweet.

Look at our contented faces! I will definitely visit this place again! Ain't sure for them. Lloyd said it was not bad. :/ Seriously, any fresher, you will have to fly to the Sydney Fish market.

Anyway, we patronized a KOI shop and this was what I saw.

Job as a part time anyone? *Attractive pay* :)

Till then!