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Japan Day 1 (Singapore - Narita - Osaka) 20 Dec 06

2007-06-11T23:21:00.004+08:00

We travelled from Narita Airport via the Airport express to Shinjuku where we will be taking the Shinkansen(bullet train) to Osaka. The airport express is comfortable and I like the best is that seats are assigned. So you don't have to worry about not getting seats or even been forced to sit separately.

From Shinjuku station, we walked over to the Shinkansen platform. The lady at the JR pass office at Narita Airport had reserved seats for us at the Shinkansen and we just need to wait at the platform. Do take note of the platform you suppose to wait at :P For different trains, they use different platforms, even if all the trains are going the same direction. It's like catching the correct flight at the correct gates. At the platform, there are few stores selling all kinds of bento. Some of them are special bento store that only sells bento from the area station. For example, this particular store we bought our bento sells their bento only in the tokyo station. My bento cost around 8 sgd while Sk's cost around 10 sgd. Yummy yummy.

We paid bit more to get free car JR pass to travel in the green car cabin. The green car is similar to the business class in airplanes. A bigger and more comfortable seat with better leg space, the configuration is 2-2 in each row. You can even rotate the seats so that you faced each other. We saw a family doing that :P You can select smoking or non-smoking cabins too. The advantage of the green car is that you can make reservations for the seats and they will assign you seats when they issued you the tickets. The ticket will contain the train name, time, platform, and cabin number and seats number. Do take note that your platform can change, so it is important for you to check for the platform when entering the station. You can make reservations for the whole month where the monthly schedules are available. In the normal cabin, you won't be able to reserve seats. Therefore you will have to board the Shinkansen and look for seats. Beside, most Japanese don't travel in green car because its really much more expensive than the normal cabin. We wouldn't have travel in one if we didn't get the JR pass in Singapore. So far our green car cabin is like 10% full only, and mostly businessman. As you can notice from the picture, the green icon in the layout of the Shinkansen represents green car cabin. The ride is very comfortable, though the Shinkansen is travelling at a high speed, you can't feel much. The bottle we put on the side of the window didnt even move. I personally feel that it is more comfortable than plane rides.

We are feeling very lucky when we managed to catch views of the Mt Fuji along the way from Tokyo to Osaka. Managed to take some pictures.

I went exploring the Shinkansen and found this interesting 'Man's only' toilet. Hehe what shocks me is that the door has got a see through window where I saw a man doing his small business and the urinal. I was too shy to take a picture of him while he was standing there. So I took a picture after he left.

After reaching the Osaka station, we need to walk to the local subway to travel to our hotel in Osaka where we will be staying for the rest of the days while we are in Kansai. We passed by this store that is selling the famous Takoyaki!! This store is supposed to be very famous, a branch from a old shop in Dontomburi (famous Osaka food street). I love Takoyaki, but it's really inconvenient to buy food while carrying all the luggages :P So we decide to come back another day. From the Shin Osaka station (local subway station), we took the subway to Nakatsu.

One very bad thing about Japan subway is that sometimes you can't seem to find the lifts!! And even if you find it, the lift may not lead to the exit you want to get out. We have no choice but to drag our luggage through the long stairs to the street level of the subway station. We are so happy to see that the hotel is just across the station, 1 min walk.

The check in process was very fast and the manager led us to the room. This hotel just had a upgrade recently and everything is new! Being the first time to a Japan hotel I have heard much about the toilet. I couldn't stop myself but explored the toilet and snapped a few pictures. As shown in the pictures, each toilet bowl has this cleaning device that you can turn on different water strength and water spray style to help you clean your bottom after doing business. You can even adjust the angle the water sprayed. What is most amazing is that the moment you sit on the toilet bowl, it will auto flow some water for few minutes. I understand that Japanese are conscious people who don’t want the person outside the toilet to know he/she is doing business. So they rather let you just hear water flow. In fact in order to save water in some places, they have this digital sound device that you can press on before you start to do your business to hide all noises that you will be creating. Seem like Shiseido in Japan is really doing quite a huge rank of products, even my hotel toiletries are of Shiseido.

After a quick rest and washup, we left our hotel hunting for dinner. We decide to travel to Umeda by local subway where all the shopping activities are taking place. While trying to buy tickets from the ticketing machine, we took sometime to realise that there is a 'English' button on the machine :P Nakatsu is just one station away from Umeda.

After reaching Umeda, we walked around the place. Most shopping shops are closed by then, while restaurants are usually closed late around 11pm. We walked by Macdonalds and I got to try the highly recommended ebi burger only available in Japan! It is very nice with real prawns inside. Yummy yummy. Sk had a tomato chicken burger when he hates tomato. I think he had problem understanding the menu as everything is in japanese. And he just choose one to order. His burger isn't so bad. In their fast food restaurant, they either have a special drink disposable bin where you put in your unfinished drink or they have a bin for you to pour away your unfinished drink before throwing your paper cup away.

After dinner we went around Umeda exploring. This is a super big overhead bridge that covers 6 main roads with around 12 exits from the bridge. We got super lost on top.

Takoyaki starts from Osaka, therefore its very common to find Takyokai stores in Osaka. Passing another Takoyaki store.

An old volksawagen van turned crepe store. The japanese seem to like crepe alot. You can see crepes in most places and sometimes with queues.

Famous Hep Five shopping mall, selling some really hip fashion. What is so special about this shopping mall is that on top of the mall is a ferris wheel where you can take a ride to view the whole main city of osaka.

Christmas tree infront of Hep Five. Another 5 days to christmas.

After exploring Umeda, we decide to take subway back to our hotel. By then the subway is quite quiet, as it is a working day next day. In fact our cabin only have a few of us. When we getting down the cabin, we realised that beside our cabin is the woman only cabin. This cabin is special for woman during weekday peak hours. This is to ensure woman can travel and feel safe during peak hours without worrying any perverts around you. In fact we do notice that man in Osaka doesn't enter the cabin even during off peak hours, not like in Tokyo when people don't really care once the peak hour is over. And the peak hour in Tokyo is shorter, only the morning time where people travel to work and off work. These cabins are really cute, they got pink stickers inside and outside the cabins. Even the handles inside the cabins are pasted with pink stickers. In another day, we happened to see 2 blur Japanese man went into the woman's cabin and they were extremely shocked to see that only ladies are with them. Within the next stop, looking extremely embarrassed they rushed out of the cabin and were laughing at each other.

On our way back to hotel, we bought some supper from the 24-hour convenience shop just beside our hotel.

Found this interesting hard boiled egg. Its written as half boiled egg. It is really good, the yolk is cremey almost like custard. We ate this egg every night when we stayed in this hotel. We can't find it in Tokyo, maybe because the 24-hour convenience shop beside our Tokyo hotel is a different company. Be careful to look at the logo before buying this egg, one of my friend who went on an earlier trip bought a smilar looking packaging. When she got back to her room and tried to break the egg then she realised the egg is totally raw :P

Japan!~!Japan!~!

2007-03-09T12:10:00.000+08:00

Yeah~~ I finally went for a long wished long holiday and of course now totally broke after buying and eating like crazy in Japan. ( Eating average 4 meals per day is no joke.) Japan is so so fun and I simply love the food there. My trip was almost gone when I was having some bloody problem with the tour agency here. What the heck, who needs them when I can simply go myself. So we cancelled our original package with them and bought the air tickets ourselves. Because we booked the tickets real late, most airline that is flying straight to Osaka have increased their prices terribly high :( So we decided to take NW and fly to Narita and from there, we will take the Shinkansen to Osaka instead.

You know I been back for like 3 months but I already miss Japan. Simply the food there is good and I guess holiday is always good :P

Will be showing some of the fun and interesting things in Japan :P

Firstly.. Of course its always about food.. the bento there is simply too delicious.. hehe these are the bentos I have during the whole trip :p

Ole ole ole.... Ole ole...

2006-06-23T16:25:00.000+08:00

It's finally Friday again!! Hehe it means resting at home, going shopping and also maybe cleaning up my room. I'm so happy that Italy win Czech last night. You guys won't understand how stress and nervous I was. I was cheering for them every second.. But I think the score should have been 3-0 instead of 2-0.. Mr Inzaghi...though I think you are really cute.. but you really need to improve in your scoring skill... I have been keeping a watch on you since last world cup... but somehow you are still missing alot out there. Italy Go go go!!! Waiting for you guys to be on the top 3 :)

Oh yar, there is an idiot who keep cursing Italy will lose.. He keep saying that their match is boring and his wife even fall asleep watching it. I cannot deny that most of the time Italy strategy is to defence and defence. However last night they did proud by taking most of the initiative and had played well. Either he is biased or just not concentrating on the match. He had predicted that the home team will be the winner.. (German fans please please don't be offended) I think German play well for their last few matches. But who to survive till the end still need to wait and see.. As we all know... balls are round.. Anything can also happen...

Public ENEMY No 1!!!!!!!!!!

2006-06-21T11:49:00.000+08:00

Finally back to work today.. Been in bed resting for the past 2 days, hit another bad migraine... I am very very irritated at the lizard inside my room!! Feel like killing it, but I damn scare of it man... Hai.. every night it had been making that stupid noise when I trying to sleep.. damn it.. Why didn't it make noise during the day? Instead when I am trying to sleep in the night then it starts to make that irritating noise!!! And I know its just hiding behind the curtain.. Ah!! I have no choice but to make my way to my parents' room in the middle of the night.. Hai.. this weekend when I feeling better, I make sure I clean my whole damn room and asked someone to help me catch it... I hate lizard.. seriously.. If anyone out there knows what are the good ways to trap a lizard. Please please let me know, ok? Think I won't have any good sleep till that idiot is out of my room...

After a long long time...

2006-06-16T16:26:00.000+08:00

Wah.. if I never come look at my own blog.. I didn't notice that I haven't been writing since Nov.. which is around half an year...

I been very busy with work and people... life is getting more and more hard nowadays.. work is getting more and more hectic... How I wish I could just take a long break man. But it is always easier to say than do..

Special Day
Just completed something that marks a special chapter in my life. To some, it is from Miss to Mrs. Hehe however I still prefer to be Miss :P So friends out there, don't be shy ok? Please continue to intro me as Miss

I'm very grateful and thankful that I have a lot of good friends that turn up on that special day and share the joy with us. If it wasn't for you guys, the day will never be the same.

For those who didn't receive the invitation, its not that you are not a dear friend, but due to the really small hall we have.. we can't squeeze all in man.. On that, my apologies :P Nevertheless, we should meet up and have a great meal!!

Seriously, I don't feel much difference... maybe just a nice ring on my fourth finger. :P Hmm maybe I will start to feel more once we start to live together.. I do think that some of my friends are more excited than me :P

Work... work... work
Trying to make myself feel better each day as I go for work.. however I just feel so tired... dragging myself to the office... The place where I used to look forward to every morning.. now have become a place I rather not go to.. I don't know what is wrong.. is it the people.. the work or what... I just don't feel the same anymore..

Touch Wood!!!!

2005-11-22T13:33:00.000+08:00

Hai... really my big fat mouth... On last Friday just posted that I hope I can spend the weekend playing my RE4 without any migraine.... Just after I posted that out... I had another migraine attack... $&*Y$)U@_#*_*$_*U$
It started to get really bad just after I'm finished my work and going off(there goes my Friday dinner..Hai...) . I actually knocked out in the office for 2 hours and only managed to get out of office around 8 plus... Hai...

I'm sad that I couldn't go out for a nice dinner especially on Friday night. Worse is that I was in bed for the rest of the weekend... this is really no good... Somehow this incident have made me decide on something :P Shsss... Will tell you guys when its the right time :P

Oh yar, got CS's wedding photo, but been either too busy or sick to do an article on their wedding :P hehe will try it ASAP :)

Curry Favor @ Stamford House

2005-11-18T15:40:00.000+08:00

I'm in very very good mood today!!! It is Friday again!! Hehe which means I can laze around the weekend and maybe spend sometime playing my new game :P Haha just got Resident Evil 4 from a friend (thanks!!). I can't wait to start it. Hope that I won't be down with migraine and then can't do anything except rest again :( Hehe my good friend bought me a sunflower today and it really cheer me up. I love the colors and the feel of sunflowers. Thanks girl!!

Hehe okok, this has nothing to do with my header title :P Few days back, I went to this restaurant in Stamford House. They specialized in Japanese curry. Actually I got to know about this restaurant when they just opened back then. The review was not bad. Have always wanted to try this, cos I'm a big fan of Japanese curry (very high requirement too :P). Nearly tried it with my friend shan but the dinner was cancelled then :(

So finally when my BF suggested going there for dinner I was thrilled. The restaurant decor is not bad, comfortable and simple. The ambience is not bad too, with jazz music at the background and dim lights. There is another restaurant beside it (Moon River? Erm hope I got it correct) and these 2 restaurants are connected. Think they are under the same boss cos the menus is a combination of food from Curry Favor and Moon River. We decided to sit at the Moon River instead cos there is a seat by the window.

Looking at the menu, we decided to order Pork Roll, Mushroom Fry, their in house special Seafood curry and combi of fried Katsu(pork) and Ebi (prawn) with curry. We were served Pork Roll first. Wah this is impressive. They sliced the pork very thinly then roll it with asparagus and spring onion inside. It is BBQ done in Yakitori style. When I bite into the pork roll, I can taste the nice fragrant from barbecuing. The asparagus is done just nice too!! It is bit crispy on the outside, yet juicy in the inside. Very nice!! Next they served us the Mushroom Fry. It is nice when eaten hot, but I found it bit bland. They served 3 types of sauces with it; Japanese plum sauce, chilli sauce and mayonnaise. I personally like it with the plum sauce while my BF like it with the mayonnaise.

With these 2 appetisers so nicely done, I'm really looking forward to my curry :P I understand that there are 2 levels of spiciness; regular and extra spicy. In which we ordered both extra spicy. My BF's seafood curry was firstly served. I tasted the curry, hmm not bad. But I think it is not sweet enough as it should be in Japanese curry. His seafood curry contains prawns and scallops. I tried one of the prawn and scallop. They tasted like its been cooked and then added to the curry just before served (I could be wrong) :P The scallop didn't go well with the curry sauce though. Next they served my Katsu and Ebi curry, I tasted the curry sauce. Seem like they are using the same curry sauce for both dishes. The katsu was so so, the salt wasn't well spread so I got one side of my Katsu with more salt. My Ebi was overdone :( When I bite into the prawn, you can see that the prawn have shrunk, leaving a big gap between the crust. The prawn tasted dry and hard *disappointed*. The rice is also cooked with too much water, it tasted almost too soft and sticky (erm like very dried porridge?) I was totally amazed when my BF finish all his curry.... hai...

Overall the service is good with friendly and attentive waiter. However I am just disappointed with the curry though the appetisers is really good. I think I may go back again and hope that the food will be much better :)

Makan N KTV!

2005-11-14T18:48:00.000+08:00

Found a nice place to eat Ma La (麻辣) hotpot. Its at marina south. It is a air conditioned restaurant. So its an excellent place for people who is afraid of heat and yet wants a meal of hot pot. Actually wasn't my first time there. Though I think the food standard was not better than the first time I was there. But the food is still good!!! Now with a Taiwanese couple joining the restaurant, the services are excellent. In fact, the lady boss services was bit re qing (热情) :) And with the fact now there are 2 extra Taiwanese bosses, they are serving more Taiwanese style side dishes.

First we were served with some side appetiser which consists of the chilli pork belly, vinegar cold cabbage, Taiwanese style fried chicken cutlet and braised pork rice (卤肉饭). My friend was totally in love with the braised pork rice, where he had 2 bowls of it. Hehe I was busy eating that I forget I should take a picture of it :P We ordered 2 soup base; the Ma La (spicy) and the Chinese wine chicken. The Ma La is really those that will numb your tongue, but it is not really spicy and hot. The special Szechuan peppercorn they added to the soup causes the numbness. This soup base is especially good for dipping in meats. They only sliced the meats (there are beef, chicken, pork and mutton) when you ordered it, so it’s really fresh! And it is so thinly sliced that you just need to dip into the soup for 4-5 seconds and its ready to eat. Hehe its like eating sabu sabu :P There are 3 levels of Ma La; mild, intermediate and the spicy. For first timer, you may want to try the intermediate level. Hehe personally i find that I can't enjoy much in the spicy version as my tongue are numb most of the time :P So I prefer the intermediate version.

My favourite is the Chinese wine chicken soup base. What I understand is that they will stir-fried the chicken with Hua Diao (花雕) wine and ginger then they will add in the chicken soup. Wah its very nice!! I can taste the fragrant of the wine. One thing I really like is that the bosses are very generous, when the lady boss are helping us refill the soup she offered to add more of the wine if we want. Hehe I cannot help but keep drinking the soup. I love my Tang'O and yam inside. HeeHee must try the yam, they fried the yam until almost cook. So after few minutes in the soup, the yam could almost melt in your mouth. The best is that you won't feel that the yam is oily from frying not like some other places. After the meal, they serve this cold dessert, it seem to be a mixture of red beans and porridge. According to the lady boss, its suppose to have a cooling effect after the heaty meal. I kind of like it hehe cos all along I like red bean. But my Bf totally not into it.

Overall, I felt that the service is excellent. The lady boss keeps asking whether we need anything else. The food is good. The ambience is great. Hehe I like this paper rabbit lantern that they hanged as decoration, so cute!! Haha almost feel like asking the lady boss where she got it :P The pricing is reasonable too. I will definitely go back again :)

After the meal, we proceed to KTV hehe my favourite pastime :P As you can see from the picture(sorry deleted), initially V was very shy. But partly cos S keep disturbing her too *hiak hiak* Bully xiao meimei hee hee. She is also quite camera shy, keep blocking her pretty face from the camera. Finally she decided to sing a few songs. Bravo!! The photo quality is bit bad cos we using our phone and its pretty dark inside the room.

S is usually good mood. Can see he is enjoying himself :P Usually the guys don't sing a lot when we go to the KTV. Most of the time, we girls will be hogging the mic :P But that night S manage to sing quite a few songs too. And we even sing a few hokkien songs haha. As you can see in the picture(sorry deleted), P was looking very engrossed at the MTV :P

Usually Mr J doesn't sing when he goes KTV with us. He just watches some of his favourite Mayday MTVs. But that day after the other guys keep asking him to sing for us, haha he finally picked up the mic :P He must be very tired cos he come to meet us after his class after work. Poor thing. See him dozing off in the picture :P Between this is his new haircut (sorry deleted). Haha that vain guy just went to KL with S. And he vain vain went to the saloon there to cut hair. Hehe..

Oh no... I already feel the itch to sing again. Hehe :P

(sorry guys, as requested some of the photos had been taken out. Cheers!!! )

As requested, the info of the restaurant :)
Road Side Stall Hot Pot
31 Marina Park #01-04/02-04 Planet Marina, Marina South

The day I was born....

2005-11-08T12:21:00.000+08:00

27 years ago of yesterday my mom decided to bring the cheeky and mischievous me to this world.. Hehe maybe I should ask her whether she regrets doing so or not :P I was so happy yesterday!! Got lots of surprises from my good friends...

I had a good lunch at Le'zaar at Marina Square with some of my good friends, SW, WM and SM. The food was so so, still think the Rice Table is better in terms of food and variety. However I also understand that some find Rice table food bit too spicy. Anyway its the crowd that matter most!! Not the food. Hehe thanks guy for the treat!! :)

One of my good friend AW bought me her favourite game of all time!! The Rush Hour. It's really a very nice game, there are around 40 puzzles inside. I only play the online version before so I was really excited to receive this. Hehe next time when we go lim kopi we can play this game. Yippy!! It's really thoughtful of her. :)

That bf of mine never gives me any flowers.... then I always need to wait for others to give it to me :P Hehe so it was really a nice surprise and I'm very touched when my good friend PM send me a bouquet of my favourite flower to me... (Hehe promise her that I will show her flowers here *hiak hiak*) Beside the flowers, she given me something I didn't even notice mine was old and rotting... So touched leh... Thanks ger :) *Hug Hug*

Okok... that bf of mine didn't give me any flowers... but he give me the thing I wanted most!! The Nintendogs!!! Thanks dear!! Hehe it started when I saw this game from emyln's blog who is a friend of Ivan. It's so cute!!!The color of the Nintendo DS he wanted to get me was out of stock in Singapore, so he ordered it from Hong Kong. When we opened the packaging, we are surprised to find a bag of sweets from them too. That's so sweet of them :) Hehe I name my doggie, blackie. See that's him, isn't he lovely? :P

My good god sister from Hong Kong also specially sends me something from there. Hehe but think there is a delay in the package so I still waiting :P

Then my silly sister went to boil an egg for me (cos mom not in) haha to wish me Happy Birthday :) We had a great meal yesterday with friend at the seafood restaurant followed by a drink at this Hong Kong style cafe at Katong/East Coast road there... You guys must try the French toast!! Its very very good. Crispy and not oily. My favourite is with banana in the middle, while my bf thinks the peanut butter is very good. They will put a piece of the butter on top. Imagine it melting in the toast. They also provide you with maple syrup and you can pour it over... Wah.. really nice... Hehe yesterday we ate that as dessert and I order the ice red bean drink with ice cream (红豆冰). Yummy yummy... this is no good, I'm getting really fat...

I feel so lucky and blessed that I got so many good friends and people who love me so much :) Thanks pal!! You guys really make my day :)

CS's Wedding/ My Darling

2005-11-07T16:51:00.000+08:00

CS's Wedding~~~
Sat was my good friend, CS's wedding. Was busy throughout the whole day, because in the morning went to the bride's house to be part of the sisters group. Once I reached the house, I can feel joy everywhere. Especially you can see how happy the parents are. The dad is very cute. We (the sister group) were trying to prepare 4 types of food/drinks that signifies sour-ness, sweetness, bitterness and spiciness (酸，甜，苦，辣), which each couple will go through together in their marriage life. So while preparing the bitter gourd juice, the father is actually adding lots of honey inside!!! Haha he say we cannot bully his future son in law. How sweet!!

Then in the evening, I was helping out as the reception... Hehe... no cute guys leh: P *hiak hiak* The dinner was good, think the hotel did a good job in the decoration and the food. The wedding planner and also the photographer have done a great work. They are really good and pro :) Maybe after CS send me some photos, then I can post it here.

CS, if you happen to read this blog, I wish you and your lovely wife 白头偕老 and 永于爱河. Most most importantly, 早生贵子!!

My Darling~~~

Yippy!! Finally got my digital camera back, so now I can post more pictures. Hehe the first picture I post here will be my darling bunny. He’s called ‘Pi pi’ (皮皮), which simply means naughty. He is very naughty, jumping up the tables, trying to eat my tidbits. That day, he bite open my crepe mixture and eat almost one quarter of it… hai.. got me so worried because he started to eat less for that few days… Naughty naughty… And whenever I scold him, he will give me that innocent look " It's not me"...but I still love him as much. You will be seeing more of him here.

Happy Halloween!!!

2005-11-02T02:49:00.000+08:00

Happy Halloween everyone! Ops think I'm bit late.. hehe.. I spent my Halloween night in the most 'traditional' way, catching a horror movie "The Exorcism Of Emily Rose". I didn't know there is such a movie until I happen to see a documentary on the demons in the discovery channel and this movie was the sponsor of the documentary. Personally I think it's quite a nice movie, not those grade B movies that the actress screams for nothing :P However, I think some may find the pace of the movie to be slow. The movie focus mostly on the court case where the priest is held for negligent homicide while flashbacks of what had happen to Emily is shown. It is based on a true story, however when I searched for Emily Rose in the net, I'm unable to find any hits. But there are some websites that indicates that this movie is based on a German girl's story (Anneliese Michel) not the so called Emily.

After watching so many horror movies, it seems like different countries' movies uses different ways of showing their so-called evil spirits or even the ghosts. Evil seems to take form of the belief of the person or even the influences on the person from the environment and cultures. However the most scary movies are usually those that you believe it may happen to you or those that are unknown to you. Fears only exist when you believe in it. The good and the evil is a pair of inseparable pair; when a person believe in the good, the person will believe there is evil too. When unknown thing happens, the easiest way is to push the blame to the supernatural.

I still remember after watching the movie "The Ring" with my friends, one of them chooses to turn his TV to face the wall in his room. While my other friend still feels creepy each time he washes his hair, he was telling me he always imagine some days he will felt a hand on his head (Jung-on). As for me, I cannot forget the scene in "Sixth Sense" when the boy was totally frightened by the "thing" inside his tent... Or even the fear of not knowing what and who is inside your house (The Others)....

Do go rent some classic horror movie this week and enjoy yourself!!

Yippy! Had a good weekend!!!

2005-10-31T14:53:00.000+08:00

My Taiwanese friends...
Yippy! Had a good weekend since a long long time (cos either I'm sick at home or doing some work). I was very excited when I knew my Taiwanese good friend is coming over for a visit, though it is short I was hoping to spend real good time with her. So on friday, I took leave to go to the airport to fetch her. Oh my god, she has turned to be a real babe now. You don't know how happy I was to see her again, we haven't meet like 3 years!

Next we proceed to the hotel that she is staying. Its so nice!!! Got sea view and it is a mini suite with a damn big plasma tv inside the living room! And it's so cheap. Cos of her company, she's just paying 150 SGD for a night. So nice leh *envy envy*.

I was having a headache to decide where to bring her and her friend (who joined her in the trip and it is his first time here). In the end I decided to bring them to the Straits Kitchen which serves most of the local food in Singapore. And since it is buffet, they can try all the foods they feel like it. Most importantly, there is air con!! (my god, singapore is real hot this few days). They really like the Malay and Indian section however the chinese section was disappointing. The laksa bee hoon was not cooked well, tasted like rubber band. While the hainanese chicken didnt carry the usual fragrance as it should be. I didn't really eat much cos; 1. I was too busy running around helping them to source what I think is good. 2. Talking too much? :P 3. Trying lose some weight to look better for my good friend wedding on this coming saturday. But I have decided to go back one of these days with my bf to try out the food again. In fact, there is quite a crowd when we were having lunch there, its almost full house.

What to do next after makaning? Must be shopping lah. In Singapore, either you shop or you eat :P We shop around orchard, actually nothing much to shop either so we landed up having a drink and then sending them back to the hotel for a rest before meeting them for dinner.

Dinner was at Jumbo @ east coast seafood centre. I haven't been there for ages... Wah, its super crowded, we are so lucky that we make a reservation and got our seat immediately. We ordered 1. Steamed garlic sauce bamboo clam 2. Steamed Hong Kong style Soon Hock(fish) 3. Yam ring with scallop 4. Chilli crab with deep fried man tou (chinese bun) 5. Black pepper crayfish 6. Stir fried broccoli with garlic. 7. Drunkard prawns

The bamboo clam is good, though i prefer what I have eaten in Hong Kong before. In here, its those big sized clam, around 15 cm long. However in Hong Kong, its those baby clams stir fried in XO sauce *yummy yummy* Its really juicy and succulent. Don't know why I can't find this in singapore :'( The other dish I like was the yam ring with scallop. For each scallop, it is wrapped around with yam and then deep fried. Imagine like a tyre wrapped around a rim. The scallop is still moist, not too dried and with the yam wah... nice nice.....

We enjoyed most of the dishes. My taiwanese friends were most impressed by the bamboo clam ( they never eat or see it before). But there is a big disappointment in one of the dishes; the black pepper crayfish. The feeling I got is that the chef just steam the crayfish, put it back to the wok, added lots of black pepper and serve. It is tasteless with lots of pepper...hai....

After the satisfying dinner, we proceed to Clarke Quay to have a drink @ Tapas Tree. While we were there, we kpo kpo went see people doing the reverse bungee jump. Doesn't look very high leh, but one of the guy before going up was smiling and waving, but when he come down he really doesn't look very good :P Hehe I must try it one of these days :P

Was supposed to bring my friends to the Night Safari on the next day... but... I was down with migraine... and my friend was not feeling well.... so we all just rest... And on the next day, after buying her some Roti Boy fresh from the oven(which she specially asked for cos her friend back in Taiwan told her its really good) we bid her good bye.. hai.. Hope that on her next trip here, she can spend longer time. Hey I got a long list of restaurants and places to bring her around.

Doom
Oh yar oh yar, went watch movie DOOM. Was not bad lah... The Rock looks really hunky... Actually I didn't play much of the game, so mostly I was looking at the hunks and monsters.. There is one part of the show that is really interesting, not going to tell you guys. Hehe go watch it man!!

Doc..doc.. OUCH!!!

2005-10-26T10:52:00.000+08:00

Been sick over the weekend... decided finally I need to go see my doc. Looking at the stage I was in, he say I need a jab. I'm perfectly well with any jab (seriously), however when he mentioned that he's going do it on my buttock.. I was like huh??!!!! Then my whole brain goes blank! Really blank! I mean when's the last time any doctor do jab on buttock (thought its only for kids??!!) So the only words that come out of my mouth was... "Erm... doc... do you need me to pull my pants down?? " After I say that out, I felt like banging the wall, cos I felt so silly asking this... and the doctor was like shocked and shy... "Girl.. no need lah, just pull your pants bit down... as long as I got place to do the jab.." Ops... this is really so embarrassing... My sis was laughing hysterically when she hears my story, saying that I must look like damn scared when he mentioned about the jab, thus the suggestion to do it on the buttock instead on the arm. It's supposed to be less painful there cos more flesh... hai... best now is I got this bruise on my buttock after 2 jabs on 2 consecutive days...

New home...

2005-10-21T12:17:00.000+08:00

Yo man...

shifting my blog from friendster blog to here.... erm not exactly shifting too.. hehe since I only got one posting over there (haha)...

Not really feeling better today, down with migraine again... really hate it whenever I gotten an attack.. it makes me feel damn sucky and helpless... always wondering how come its me!!!

Was telling my bf abt this new blog I created yesterday... sounding really excited.. but he just look at me and say haha you must be real bored man. I am!! ok? Telling him I must think of some ways to attract people to read this blog, like what my friend Ivan say, either you put alot of flesh or food... So I was thinking maybe I should feature one of my single friends each week and 'advertise' them... Hey they are really nice and cool people ok?? Or else how to be my friends... haha.. but decide against it...

Ciao~~~~