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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
 Alright this is really long overdue!! I am getting caught up with work!! Anyhow it was Nic's Birthday last Monday on the 16th (HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SHARON AS WELL!!) .decided to bring him to a secret location which served his favourite steak and it had to be Morton's!  Made an online reservation at Open Table and was plesantly surprised when we got there to see that not the dinning table, but the menu had been customised for Nic's birthday! Was reading about Morton's online and nobody has yet to say ANYTHING bad about the service and i really have to agree that they give top notch service. Very impressed with Morton's.  A stream of confetti layed across the table  and even the MENU was personalized! So sweet of them! All these little extra touches really make the event more special. And speaking of special, there were at least 6 other diners who were also celebrating their birthday -_- The Morton's crew were singing the birthday song once ever half hour and then it didnt feel so special anymore! How come there were so many people celebrating their birthday there!! I suspect that it is conspiracy!! Because you get a free cake when you say that it is your birthday... So...  Huge piece of Onion Bread.  Birthday Boy, still deciding what to order. In the end we ordered a Crab Cake, a ribeye cut and a dish of asparagus.  See this HUGE SLAB OF COW ON MY PLATE. i felt so sinful eating the whole thing - of which was a very challenging thing to do. We ordered a ribeye to share so what you here is only half of the whole portion. It was so huge nic and i thought it was an individual piece is, and our guess is that they served us about 1.5kg of beef. OMG. Nearly died trying to finish everything, of which we couldnt manage in the end, it was simply TOO big. The piece we ordered could easily feed a 6pax!  The first bite was complete HEAVEN. Haven't eaten a lot of beef in my life but for a fact it was sooo good it left you floating for a moment. After i plowed through 1/4 the beef started to get too beefy..felt like i was trying to eat a whole cow. It was really so much that i dont think i want to eat beef anymore for the next few years... but would you just look at that piece of beef! So pink and succulent...and so very thick and big.   Free cake! Chose the Creme Brulee. yummy yummy yummy! You can choose from a chocolate cake, Key Lime Pie, Apple pie, Carrot Cake and something else...  The waitress brought it to us and the crew started singing a happy birthday song.   Honestly, i dont really like restaurants that make the place very dim...Maybe it was supposed to be a candle light dinner??? BUT VERY DARK LA...  Present from Morton's!   So awesome of them! They took a picture of us with their own camera, printed it out and framed it for Nic in a card.  The staff there are very attentive. They always offer to take pictures for both of us :)   outside the morton's bar where if you order a cocktail you get a free flow of beef steak sandwiches...but it's onl for 21 and above!! ah sad...   dying dying, still plowing through the piece of cow...think both of us were chewing midway. our mouths look so tired from the chewing... After sitting there for about 3 hours we finally managed to finish about 95% of everything which is a FEAT i swear. holllyyymartharbigpieceofbeef it was, but i would definitely go back there again because it was a good experience. Definitely bring more friends to share. It's really not that expensive considering the quantity they serve, and the quality. Server is excellent as well! Well worth the money spent! hope nic enjoyed it....   On the way there...     The night before...  Happy Birthday... Hey this seems like so long ago huh...more happy memories ok?
Monday, June 23, 2008
Aye, what bad photo resizing :(Japan Here's a bit more of Japan anyway :D  We went on a really short nature trail and saw deers as well as cicada skin on Nakajima island. It's just a really tinnyyy island in the middle of Lake Toya. The fireworks were from our stay in one of the many hotels linning Lake Toya. There's a fireworks display EVERY NIGHT get that! So what happens is that a boats rides across lake Toya letting the fireworks go, so there will surely be a point of time where the fireworks are right outside your hotel window. The view was so awesome.  One of the better meals we had - OMG THE BEEF WAS SOOOOOO GOODDDDDDDD. I think it's called shabu-shabu style, not steamboat haha. Did i mention that everyday we eat the same thing, it's just cooked in a different way. That mainly consists of cabbage, carrots, mushroom, beansprouts, salmon with the addition of something extra. you can have it steamed in a bamboo container, nabeyaki in a hot pot, grilled, fried over a hot plate etc. All these exciting methods and always the same thing!!! The picture below is at a little street where we had unagi. The guy in the last pic is killing the eel. What they do is slit the throat, then they pin the head down with a nail, slice the body into half, debone and it's done. Not really as grotesque as the eel has an instant death so you dont so it like writhing in pain. phew. oh and the coke can is embossed. It said on the can to "FEEL the difference" and because my sister collects coke can/bottles she bought 1 for about 120yen ($1.50) and felt the difference...   At Ishiya Chocolate Factory where they sell the famous. It's a brand of Japanese biscuits that's got white cream in the middle and it's one of the best selling things here. It's a MUST BUY if you come to Hokkaido! Anyway Ishiya Chocolate Factory was like a Disney Land of sorts. Halfway through our visit the clock tower started to spout bubbles, the trash can start to rotate and it had eyes that blinked, mechanical badgers started to pop out from the ground and the whole place was in song and dance. It was slightly weirdd....hahah. But the place was gorgeous. Lot's of beautiful flowers, glass houses, fountains and all. Looked pretty much like a fairy tale!     WORK: SOGGY triple decker sandwich, i am wearing an apron with lace and BEWARE MY SCANNER!!!
Japan, Hokkaido, Hakodate West Wharf I just made myself a triple-decker sandwich for lunch at work tomorrow. Im working a 5/6 shift from 11am to 6pm. A full day shift would be 11am to 9.30pm and you can really die working 10 hours straight!!
Sunday, June 22, 2008
This Arts Fest has been fun! Thanks to Weiliang, can kiss his feet now for all the free tickets :D Last week was Contiuum, a triple bill performance by Singapore Dance Theatre. The SDT has added fresh new faces including GINNY GAN!!! OMMMGGGG. Ok la, im not very buddy buddy with her or something but it's so awesome watching your senior perform with SDT!! Can't help but feel a bit proud of her too for coming from CHIJ and rhythmic gym. All the gymnast used to gawk at her with envy and wonderment. she was amazzinnnggg, still is! There was this other Japanese dancer which i think is Madoka Toguchi but Weiliang says it's Chihiro Uchida, but one of them anyway is a complete GEM. omg so cute, small and so perfect. My favourite dance was A Million Kisses to My Skin where they threw on all the white lights and the stage never looked so bright before. How do you go about explaining how amazing a dance is? You simply have to be there, suspend your disbelief and soak in the static in the air before you will understand what i will want to say but cannot possibly put into words. Sitting in the 4th row from the front gives you a jolting reminder that dance is so strenuous and requires dexterity, strength and stamina. From a far the dancers make everything look so easy, as it should be. It is because they make it look so easy that everybody thinks dance is easy. (-_-) The chiseled contours on their bodies speak for years of training. Midway you hear their tiredness but you never see it in their bodies. Their heavy breathing starts to sync with the music in the background. You see their beads of sweat swivel and fly in a radial trajectory as they launch into their triple pirouettes and melt into each other in their par de deux sequences. It is a melodious harmony of bodies, muscles, sweat and music. That's why dance is so amazing. Last night was Amjad by La La La Human Steps from Canada. Watch the trailers and it'll surely set your senses on fire. The intricacy of the choreography right down to the fingertips was visually sublime yet made such an impact. Amjad made you think about why this was happening and it made you wonder why that was happening. It was every bit intense as was the electricity that seemed to be zipping through the air. The live orchestra and visual projections were an added layer to the already perturbing and thought provoking dance. It got repetitive at times but overall it kept you at the edge of your seat. Caught Amjad with Teng Ming and was super glad that she was free. I had to call her at the last minute because my very good friend suddenly remembered he had a competition and he wasnt free. You may think it's not that big of a deal but it is to me, especially if it keeps happening. All these "last minute" competitions and shit, it's so unreal. Don't people have a schedule to follow nowadays? how many more times can you promise and assure without having to eat your words later? Anyway maybe it was a blessing in disguise because i finally got to catch up a bit with her. :) Had dinner at Thai Express and then we went bread shopping at BreakTalk during their Happy Hour, lol. When all the other retail shops close and there's nothing left to buy, buy bread! Yay, she managed to turn my day around. :) In the morning i was stuck at some horrid and sweltering hot car boot sale at east coast park for 5 hours. nearly died of heat stroke. >.< the woe of being an employee... Labels: dance
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
SYTYCD S4 my favorite couple and routine of the night. LOOVEE LOOVEE Katee's expression when she dances. This dance is SOOO bittersweet. The original poster they didnt include the intro to the dance but it's about the men leaving their homes and their family to fight (in iraq etc). :(
Friday, June 13, 2008
Japan - Furano's Farm Tomita  Lavender Fields.... Lovely weather again that day.  Lavender flavoured ice cream and Lavender and Calpis flavoured Jelly. Calpis is one of my favourite drinks. You can get them at Japanese supermarkets here. yum! Think i sharpened the images too much, but for a normal digicam the macro mode is killer. Canon for life! [Canon fan here] To buy a DSLR or not, the digital fairs are serriossllyyy tempting me, but i dont even know where to begin.       Dandelions! Big round fluffly Dandelions! Was trying to get a perfect shot where you could see the thistles and all but the background was just too busy so i gave up. Had lots of fun playing with them though! :D This was actually at a Japanese Edo. An old Japan village theme park which was quite interesting. The architecture was all in traditional japanese style and you could walk into the buildings which were haunted houses, shops, simulated earthquakes etc. ooh the earthquake simulation was damn fun. Anyway in case you're wondering why it's all scenery and no shopping was because i went to Hokkaido, not Tokyo etc. Hokkaido has gorgeous flowers and scenic routes but not that much shopping. We mainly bought a lot of food and other knick knacks. Labels: ArtyFarty, Holiday, Japan
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Ok i have NO idea where to begin on my japan trip because i tool 800 pictures of everything there and ive been back for almost a week already. I can barely REMEMBER what happened!!! Joined a CTC tour with my sis and mom. The group had some little kids but they were mostly harmless and the non-annoying type THANK GOD. A second CTC had some of the most spoilt little brats i had ever seen who were tearing down the streets after one another and screaming every second. I was sooo thankful we didnt end up in that tour group, because, we were THIS close you know!Japan - Ice Cream Making I will just start with my favourite day thought out the whole tour. That's when we went to a diary farm and made icecream! After that we went strawberry picking and seriously, japanese strawberries melt in your mouth and taste like sugar. SO GOOD. the scenery was awesome as well. I am a blue skies, green grass kind of person so i really fell in love with those places! The milkmaid with the cutest cow print apron.  We made icecream with Hokkaido milk and cream by stirring it in a metal bowl over another metal bowl with ice and salt. The soft serve was so good. Hokkaido milk is probably the best milk in Japan which is why they are famous for their soft serves as well! Good ole ice cream never fails to make people happy! The weather was great that day too :D  gorgeous. i love how it just looks so boundless. you could just keep running and running and this is what you would see for miles and miles and miles.  the pet goat at the diary place. it just sat there the whole time we were there and it didnt budge an inch! so cute. i wanted to hug it but i was scared it would head butt me.  That is a real plant, it's not fake. ahhhh. i appreciate plants and grass and flowers. this place was really so pretty. Felt so revitalized and refreshed there.   The strawberries are PERFECT. we met the farmer who gave us a short little intro. He grows Apples as well and the work they do is SO meticulous it's no wonder all the fruits they grow are little pieces of perfection. Apple flowers grow in bunches, but to ensure that their apples grow to it's maximum size, they actually go around to EVERY flower bunch and pluck off all but 1 flower so that that particular one will grow the biggest! It's crazy. quality>quantity. I had a great time plucking the strawberries and popping them into my mouth. I can almost taste them at the back of my throat already.  little daisy... Some other random pics. Almost every hotel provides you with a yutaka or a PJs! you can wear them and walk about the streets and nobody will give you weird looks (except maybe fellow singaporeans)  Went to a few onsens or hot springs/public baths. zomg i always thought a "public bath" was a public place where everyone goes to bath (cuz they are poor and do not have a toilet) WTF I KNOW. i know what a hot spring is, i just never knew they called it a public bath. cannot blame me for that!!! So anyway, at the hot spring you have to strip naked and go soak in realllyyy hot water with other naked strangers. i saw a lot of naked japanese women with pink nipples and round breasts. omg im such a pervert but i know the men are jealous. HEH HEH HEH anyway i dont know what i did. i actually managed to scrape my butt on the floor of the hot spring and i had a floor burn or abrasion. It was PAINFUL. it was such a stupid thing to do that my mother refused to believe me and claimed i had rashes because i was an unhygienic girl. WHHATT??? NO IT WAS DEFINITELY an abrasion because it hurt and now it's scabbing. It was red but now it's a scab colour. i know gross, but it hurt ok.  people say that after you come back from Japan, the Japanese food in Singapore doesnt taste as good, but really, Singapore actually serves DAMN GOOD Japanese food! (not referring to Sakae Sushi and Yoshi Noya ok -__-", i'm talking about proper Japanese restaurants) Join a tour, get mediocre Japanese food :( Was sadddd. we didnt have much option to buy our own food. the only really good meal i had there was a Unagi Don (eel) which was soooo soft and delicious! This was not included in the tour meals obviously. the eel was killed and cooked on the spot, talk about freshness! But anyway, Singapore does serve really good Japanese food. Will continue with Japan another day...I start work tomorrow with Ashleigh and Burwood which is an atas aromatherapy and home scents shop. I want to get a few things from there though... and to end off, some accidents scar for life, sigh.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Went for 2 job interviews yesterday and i cannot believe i actually stumbled upon a multilevel marketing company, what bad luck and a total waste of my time. We've all heard shit about MLM, guess this doesnt get less shitty. Google Venture Era and you'll got tons of information already circulating the internet.VENTURE ERA, Bad Experience I meant to apply as a "Coordinator" with a "$800 avg" pay for 2 weeks, sounds great doesnt it? I was told to have an interview at the MDIS building at 190 Changi Road so naturally i assumed that i was going to apply for a Coordinator position with MDIS the school. Turns out the company was Venture Era and they just use the MDIS building, which is throughly confusing to say the least. A lot of people actually turned up for the interview and there was another NUS girl, Sharon, as well as a girl that was going to Berkeley. (WE GOT DUPED!) Still didnt sense anything fishy in the beginning as some of the current employees - namely 1 NTU business girl and 2 NUS Science girls were working there so nothing seemed wrong. That is until they brought us all to a room for some ridiculous 1 hour "orientation" where they introduced us to their product - Calcium Ion Water. Ok, alarm bells rings now. Sharon and i exchange WTF looks at each other as the presenter starts to squirt some iodine solution into a glass filled with their magic Calcium Ion Water and another with normal tap water. He says that 2 drops of the solution can kill an infant and that it's highly toxic. Magically the yellow solution turns clear in their magic water but stains normal tap water yellow. O M G. HOW UNORTHODOX. And by the way their magic Calcium Ion Water looks like someone farted into it for 24 hours because it looks dubiously cloudy and dirty. The room was filled with a lot of other teenagers from polytechnics which is a sure tell-tale sign already. I was getting annoyed sitting there and listening to some shit about Calcium Ion Water that could potentially prevent cancer and give you good health (but also looks damn cloudy and dirty). I decided to ask him what applying for the job as a coordinator had to do with this and he very aptly said that his manager was going to come in next and answer my question....? EVADING! More than half the room of about 20 people left after that. WHAT BULLCRAP SHIT IS THAT? Let's not even talk about the ethics of MLM, what i was really annoyed at was that they were totally NOT transparent with what they were doing. When people apply for jobs, you go through an INTERVIEW. You do not make them sit there like fools listening to you about your magic water - that comes AFTER they have joined your company. They mislead us into going for the orientation to brainwash stupid and impressionable children into joining their company. Apparently it's a recognised company by the government but dont buy that shit. When you have to sell magic water at $2.3k there's something very sketchy already. EUGH. I would say that their company is misleading, does false advertising and uses underhanded means- all very subtly though, true professionals of MLM no doubt. Labels: work
Monday, June 09, 2008
I'm back from Japan, i took more than 800 pictures while i was there and i dont even know where to begin the sorting, editing and deleting. :/SAF The plane touched down at 2am and the first thing i did at 10am was to head down to SAJC to vet our dance item for Rapture till 2pm. Every time i exit from the Arrival Hall there will be people standing behind the glass doors at the bars waiting for their friends or family. I always scan their faces, perhaps searching for a familiar one even though i know nobody is there waiting for me. Rapture (SAJC Dance Ensemble's annual dance concert) will be at Esplanade again this year which definitely beats MediaCorp Studios hands down. The added hype definitely adds more pizazz to the items. After vetting we went to watch a drama, Drift, a collaboration between Singapore and China. I've totally forgotten all my drama jargon that i had to memorize last semester, what with Martin Esslin's Field of Drama, semiotics, and the subliminal. I saw someone online selling the book and i've want to buy it!!! Hope the person replies me. Weiliang's job is KICKASS!! Free tickets to so many Arts Festival Performances!  Red Shoes  Suspenders all not planned. Labels: random
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