eating ramen at tampopo

went to fetch my sister at terminal 1 yesterday midnight. she bought 2 packets of hua lien muah chee, 4 boxes of 太阳饼, 2 boxes of 凤梨酥, alot of starbucks collectibles, alot of clothes, and alotalotalot of facial masks. she bought for me a tshirt, bought for darling some facial masks, and bought a pair of couple figurines for the both of us. thank you sis! :)

this evening i went to liang court with darling. we went to tampopo for dinner, and their sushi is very expensive, but their ramen's price is more acceptable, and taste damn good. how expensive is expensive? for example, two pieces of tamago sushi cost 5 bucks. that time when i was working in genki it cost 1.80. maybe the portion at tampopo is bigger, or maybe the egg they use for the tamago come from phoenix, i dunno. but anyway you get my point.

so we ordered our ramen, and while waiting for the food to come, we took some pics. :)

the figurines that my sis bought for us

darling look extremely pleased with the figurines

and our ramen came! yummy yummy!

用料实在，汤头很甜，面条够Q，好吃到没话说~

our dessert:


the cakes are damn fluffy, soft and superb! but very ex. one piece like that cost 5.80. -.-'''

ok that's the end of my post, and also coming to the end of sunday. 3 more weeks of attachment at bed_k vi_w! jia you!!!

oh btw i will be watching BUTS with darling on sunday night. jia you shattered dancers!

pics from amy's wedding

these are the pics from amy's wedding, which i attended two weeks ago.

both the newly weds are vegetarians, so they had their wedding dinner inside a temple. i had a hard time looking for the place, cos initially i thought it was a vegetarian restaurant. luckily i called one of my classmates and she told me its a temple. -.-'''

the vegetarian dishes are not too bad. got different varieties. got mock unagi, mock abalone, mock meat, mock octopus, and all those veges, mushrooms and noodles.

my friend is amazed that i can see these dishes as unagi, abalone or meat, cos to him, is all ten dishes of flour and vege. hahahaha.

my sister is coming back home tonight from taiwan! and she wrote on my facebook that her luggage is 35 kg! wah biang damn kua zhang. mine was only about 20 kg. let's see what stuff she bought.

爱也好恨也好

have been chasing this drama, ever since i watched it the first time at darling's house. at first i thought that the drama is a bit too "soapy" for my liking, but after watching a few more episodes, i fount myself liking it even more. :p

姜白虎 has to be the most favourite leading character in this drama, but knowing that i dun post guy photos, i shall post photos of 罗丹凤 instead, who is 姜白虎's gf in the drama. hahahaha.

she is not those super chio or super hot female celebrity, but i think she is lovely in her own way. she got into showbiz in 2001, when she entered some modelling competition and won some special award for dunno wat.

watching the drama until this point in time, i have a few advice for my guy friends, who are single, or attached.

1) if you are single, and you like someone, persevere on, and who noes, there will be a happy ending.

2) even if you are single, and even the girl that you like is of cindy crawford or megan fox calibre, still must let her noe that you like her, so she can consider you as an option, if all the justin timberlakes or zac efrons die.

3) if you are attached, and you and your gf are seriously deeply in love, dun do something bastard by breaking up with her by marrying someone you dun really love, just because that someone's father is the big boss of a big company, which will help you big time in your career

4) if you are attached, but you are in a 地下情 with the girl, just come out from the tunnel and show the whole world that both of you are in love. 地下情 is like damn 辛苦. love is meant to be shown, not to be hidden.

ok i noe this post is a bit random. haha.

but anyway, tomorrow is friday! this two weeks have gone so fast, and now i am left with 3 more weeks of practicum. yes! but seriously, i quite like bed_k view. i think i will miss the place when i leave.

tuesday post

everytime when i go to my blog, the first thing that i see is the big face of mr kuang, which is quite a turn off (although i am the champion that put up that pic in the first place), so i decided to write something now, as i rather see words appear compared to his face. hahahahaha.

yesterday was youth day holiday, and i am so thankful for that. i went for spa with mr leow and mr mak. the spa is at roxy square. pls do not think that its a dirty spa. its totally legal and clean. i paid 76 dollars, which includes a one hour massage, and unlimited usage of the spa facilities, all the way until the spa closes, which is 11 pm.

so when we reach the spa at around 245 pm, we strip naked (OH GOSH!!!), and changed into the boxers that is provided by the spa. then we go soak ourselves inside the jacuzzi. and then we went inside the sauna. i stayed in the sauna for ten minutes and cannot tahan already, so i went out to catch a breather. i was feeling a bit hungry, so i went to the food area to see what they have. their menu for the day is 宫保鸡丁饭 and 鱼圆米粉汤. so i ordered the 宫保鸡丁饭. ate finish, and then i sat at one of the many sofas, and read newspapers, while waiting for our turn to get a massage.

after the massage, we went to the movie theatrette to watch some dvds. and then we went to soak into the jacuzzi again. and then we hungry again, so we went to eat dinner, and i ordered the 宫保鸡丁饭 again, cos its really quite nice. after dinner, we watched 爱也好恨也好 on channel u. and then we go soak into the jacuzzi again for about ten minutes, went to bathe, and left the spa at around 830 pm. i think the 76 bucks is quite worth it.

now let's talk about my workplace. the pe department hired dance instructors from external vendors to teach the sec 2 students hip hop for 8 weeks, and at the end of this dance module, the sec 2 students have to showcase a dance performance to the whole school.

and i can only say that the dance lesson is CHAOS. complete CHAOS. one, the space was too cramped, due to a small venue and many students. and the students were too rowdy. and most of the students were too shy, especially the boys, who thinks that dance is "gu niang". actually i can understand them, because during my sec sch and jc days, i also thought that dance is "gu niang", and i always make it a point to siam the jc mass dance sessions whenever i can.

actually i have thought of standing in front of the whole sch, teaching them wushu or folk dance during ACES (all children exercise simultaneously) day, but after today's traumatic experience, i better think twice.

shaving hair

nuscd's official photographer mr kuang is shaving his hair for the children's cancer foundation!

do support him, and also contribute your part to the children's cancer foundation:

http://www.ccf.org.sg/hfh/webApp/shaveeBIO.php?shaveeId=643

为我点盏灯 将我心照亮

从你的手中 我感觉希望

有你在心中 更加温暖

你微笑是我灿烂的阳光

this song reminds me of my hall days, when every morning i go for breakfast, i will like to put alot of condensed milk into my cup of coffee, and upon seeing that, ang hw will always sing that song for me.

man u jersey 09/10

this is the new man u jersey for the new season.

i think it looks lovely! i like the black color v shape portion. :)

a shop at queensway shopping centre is selling it at a special price of 99 dollars! should i buy?

think i better not. i went to count the jerseys that i have, and it adds up to a grand total of 36!!! which means i can wear a different jersey everyday for one month! that is kinda extreme. haha.

and man u bought michael owen!!! wow this is really a shock transfer. seriously i have my doubts over michael owen, due to his niggling injuries, but being a man u fan, of course i hope he can play well and score many goals for man u next season.

cool video clips from beijing dance academy

xuehong and nzj went to beijing, and both of them made a trip to 北京舞蹈学院, which happened to be the dance academy that produce my nuscd teachers ding hong and zhou lei as outstanding graduates.

both xuehong and nzj wanted to go and watch a dance performance that was put up by the graduating students, but apparently there was some cock up, and amazingly, or miraculously, or magically, xuehong whipped out some outstanding mandarin that impressed some lady, and the lady let them in. or maybe xuehong Confounded that lady (read or watch harry potter if you dunno wat that means), that would definitely make harry potter, dumbledore or voldermort proud. and the lady brought them to the seats at the second row, where they can film the performance, which benefit the whole nuscd community, or anyone that reads nzj's blog.

ok i wun make a detailed analysis of every single clip like wat nzj did. but i will just give a quick sum up, with my limited vocabulary:

IMPRESSIVE. FABULOUS. BREATH-TAKING. IMPOSSIBLE. AMAZING. ORGASMIC.

i guess all these six words are enough to let you watch the clips rite? but if you really have no time to watch all the clips, just at least watch the last clip. you will be thrilled.






the finale:


seriously speaking, watching them dance and do those crazy spins, gravity-defying stunts makes me proud that i do chinese dance.

BUT, at the same time, i am embarassed to use the "chinese dance dancer" label on myself.

if you wanna see more clips, can go to nzj's blog.

ayg opening ceremony

made a trip to indoor stadium to watch the ayg opening ceremony. some of you might be wondering how i got the ticket. last friday, when i went for the staff meeting, the P said he got 4 tickets to give away, and its a first come first serve basis. and during the break, i was the first one to get a ticket from him. haha.

ok i am now quite tired, so i will let the pictures do the talking.

(the dance performances)

(the marchpast. sg has the highest number of athletes, not surprisingly. second highest is land of contaminated milk. third highest is land of asian porn.)

our newspapers are quite dua pao xian. reports mentioned that the tickets for the opening ceremony were sold out. but the whole stadium is not even 3/4 filled. and out of the 3/4, half of it consist of the athletes from the 45 nations. wassup man. this is the first ever asian youth games in the world, and yet the 反应 is so 冷淡.

i sincerely hope that the yog opening ceremony will have a better attendance, or full house.

weekend post

yesterday was my mum's and sister's birthday, and it also happens to be my secondary sch classmate's birthday, and let's call her amy. and it also so happen that she had her wedding dinner yesterday. so way before that she asked me whether i can go to her wedding dinner, and knowing that the day is also my mum's and sister's birthday, she told me one sentence,"come leh, my wedding once in a lifetime leh."

and i cant find any reason or excuse to reject her.

thanks to my mum and sis for being so understanding, and anyway, happy birthday to the both of you.

this month i am so damn broke, because i went to malacca, i have to give angbao money to my mum, my sis, and to amy.

holidays are coming to an end. tomorrow will be my first day at b_dok view. if you ask me whether i am looking forward to going there, i can tell you very honestly i dread the feeling, because i nua too much, but dun worry i am sure i can adjust myself to the environment very fast. haha.

these days i had been reading quite alot. i read harry potter and the half-blood prince again. my second time reading it. now i am reading harry potter and the deathly hallows. also reading it for the second time, but still halfway through. and today i just bought a roy keane autobiography at borders, because i got a 20 dollars voucher from dbs credit card. its a very interesting book, very roy keane, with all the vulgarities and the scoldings, hahahaha i like. one of my favourite man u players.

tomorrow evening i am going to watch the ayg opening ceremony at indoor stadium! alone! yay! looking forward to see my nuscd friends in shocking pink costumes.

the death of michael jackson

this morning i woke up early and was dressing up to go to b_dok view for a staff meeting. and then my mum was watching channel newsasia and she told me the shocking news that michael jackson passed away. i was like OMG.

right now you may think that i am going to show some of his performance videos, but actually no, i am going to show a very funny mtv commercial that takes a dig at america's entertainment scene. you can recognise michael jackson, along with amy winehouse, paris hilton, pamela anderson and even david + victoria beckham!



dun you admire mtv for its innovation and creativity?

but anyway, rip michael jackson, heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race.

malacca last day

this time we have to fall in at 730 am for breakfast, because our coach to sg is leaving at 9 am. *yawnz yawnz yawnz*

our breakfast is mee goreng. they call it mee hassan. its very cheap. one egg and one plate of noodles only cost 3 ringgit. and the mee is very very very spicy. together with the sambal is even more spicy.

btw i like to commend mr leow, who eats chilli with no kick at all. compare his egg with my egg:

i think he is crazy.

ok so that is the end of the whole malacca trip. mr leow wants to go there again to see the fortune teller, and ask us to accompany him. and i still think he is crazy.

a question to everyone: wat happens if u sway sway lost your passport overseas?

here is the answer, taken from cleo magazine:

according to the Immigration and Checkp_ints Auth_rity of Singapore [yes the officers from this organisation confisgated my nanchaku], you will need to make a police report in the host country within 14 days, ask for a copy of the report or an acknowledgement slip, then go to the singapore embassy.

if you cant get either of these, get the name, number and location of the police station. go to the Immigration and Checkp_ints Auth_rity of Singapore website, locate the nearest singapore overseas mission and report the loss. there, you will be issued a document of identity that will allow you to return to singapore.

wow besides teaching girls to enhance their sex performance on the bed, doll up and spend lots of money on clothes, cosmetics, accessories and watever stuff, the cleo magazine also gives guys like me such important information. well done.

malacca day 3

fall in at 8 am on day 3 for breakfast. *yawnz*

we had yong tau foo. this yong tau foo is near the federal cinema, and its quite famous. when we reach the place, we are the second customers. as we were eating halfway, more and more pple came, and then 3 sg cars came.

the noodles look normal, but the sauce they use for the noodles is very nice, really enhance the flavour of the noodles. and the wanton is fried to a perfect crisp, and i thought the filling is pork, but actually its fish paste! quite special. total cost - 32 ringgit.

after breakfast we went back to the condo. cos malacca seriously got nothing much to sight-see. the original plan was to go gym but then i slept all the way until lunch. :p

we ate prawn mee for lunch. very cheap, only 3 ringgit for one bowl. and the girl serving us the prawn mee is quite chio. wah hahahahaha. but i think she is either attached or married to the guy serving us the drinks, cos that guy is quite yandao.

next we went to tan kim hock. it is a very very big shop that sell malaysia's local products, such as 马蹄酥，豆沙饼, satay fish, durian cake etc etc. we bought lots of stuff, and i myself spent 67 ringgit in total. before tan kim hock we went to aik cheong that sells famous coffee powder, and i bought 5 different packets of coffee, which cost me around 44 ringgit. -.-'''

after all the crazy buying, we went to a shop that sells satay, and its super famous. besides the normal chicken and pork satay, they also have pork liver and pork intestine satay!

seriously i am not a fan of pork liver but the pork liver satay really taste good! the pork intestine satay taste fabulous too. same goes for the normal chicken and pork satay. total cost - 43 ringgit.

we went to the biggest shopping centre again. btw its called dataran pahlawan. mr mak wants to buy another bag to put all his foodstuffs. he really bought alot. mr leow and i wants to have a hair cut. dashimon wants to have a massage, and he drags mr mak with him. i recommend the wella salon on the first floor. i think their service not bad, and the girls quite cute. so cute that they convinced me to buy their styling wax and hair spray.

dinner was at this pizza place located near chinatown.

we ordered 2 pizzas - seafood and rosemary chicken. we also ordered mussels, mushrooms roasted with cheese and fried squid. total bill is 101 ringgit.

we wanted to go to chinatown again to see this guy called 何师傅. he has a very tough finger that can poke holes in coconuts. his record is open 4 coconuts just with his finger in one minute ten seconds. and its in the guiness world records. so he wants to break the record, and even got media coverage. damn kua zhang. but in the end we din manage to see him, cos we went to see a fortune teller. hahahaha.

so here's wat the fortune teller told me (i only disclose a few):

he said i very 豪爽. anything happen also no problem. 天塌下来当被盖.

he also said i got alot of 桃花运. ask me to be careful. 色字头上一把刀.

i think wat he said abt the 豪爽 is quite true. as for the 桃花运 i dunno. hahahaha. darling you dun worry ok, i will remain faithful to you throughout my whole life. its a promise!!! to prove my love to you, i dedicate to you the song that is playing on my blog. :)

ok here is one last pic to end this post:

these are the foodstuffs that we bought altogether. really super kua zhang.

malacca day 2

colonel dashimon gave out the routine order for us to eat breakfast at 8 am. being obedient NSmen we obediently followed the routine order and fall in at 8 am, and our driver is already waiting for us.

our first stop: chicken rice balls at jonker street (also recommended by damien)

chicken is tender and juicy, because they use kampung chicken. as for the chicken rice balls i think it taste normal, not that outstanding, a bit overrated. but their chilli sauce rocks, very very spicy. the whole meal cost 24 ringgit. luckily we went in the morning, cos not many pple. during lunch and dinner the shop will be overcrowded, with a long queue.

second stop: stadthuya square.

a place for sight-seeing. nothing much to see also. got the melaka christ church, the clock tower, the fountain and windmill.

third stop: maritime museum

very big ship, inside the ship there is a air conditioned museum. quite cool.

4th stop: fort a famosa.

another place for sight-seeing. must take pictures with the famous ruins, the cannons and the APC (armoured protection carrier).

5th stop: char siew rice for lunch. dashimon says that this char siew is the best char siew he has ever tasted, definitely can nv eat this kind of char siew in sg.

the char siew looks 晶莹剔透. put a piece into my mouth. OMG. its really different. the outside skin is crispy, and the inside is juicy, with the juice and oil coming out. wow. amazing. cost of our lunch: 32 ringgit

6th stop: durian plantation for durian buffet. yes i think we must be out of our mind to eat durians right after our lunch, and is BUFFET.

they have alot of different varieties of durian, and all the durians are fleshy, and of course they taste heavenly. 40 ringgit per person to enjoy the sumptous durian buffet. and pls standby some fisherman friend or strong mint sweets because your whole breath will smell of durian, a bit disgusting, and when someone burb, it is disgusting x 10.

and then we went back to the condo for afternoon siesta and laosai-ing. leow and i went for a swim to burn away the excess calories.

dinner: bbq seafood

the seafood is damn fresh. prawns are damn big. and i must highly recommend the stingray. their stingray is a bit different from ours in sg. i think they go and fry the stingray first, because you can eat the sides of the stingray which is very crispy. the bones are crispy too, and you can eat them together with the flesh, without the fear of getting choked. and the sambal chilli on top is UPZ man!!! total cost of the dinner is 142 ringgit. a bit expensive, but definitely worth the money.

and our last stop is malacca's chinatown. in the day the chinatown is quiet with shophouses. at night it transformed into a night market with all the 路边摊 on the streets. remind me of the 夜市 in taiwan.

we ate the famous asam laksa and baba chendol. awesome. fantastic food to conclude day 2. had a bit of sore throat, and ate a tablespoon of honey, together with alot of ricola elderflower lozenges, and lots of water.

malacca day 1

yoz my dear readers i am back! took the 9 am coach and reached lavendar at around 1 pm. this bus ride was so much faster, because when we took the coach to malacca from lavendar, the bus left at 830 am, and we only reach malacca at 150 pm! damn freaking long.

we were all super hungry, and our local driver is already at the malacca bus terminal waiting for us, and we were sent to this nyonya restaurant, and the owner of the restaurant knows dashimon.

ok let me introduce the 4 handsome guys for this trip, starting from the top left pic in a clockwise manner:

mr desmond, aka dashimon, the organiser of this trip. his parents have a condo in malacca, so his whole family always go malacca frequently for a short getaway. we stayed at the condo for the whole 3 nights, so its free accomodation!

mr leow. the same person that went with me to batam and hong kong.

mr mak, also went with me and mr leow to batam and hong kong.

me - no need introduction, yes?

and so here's the signature dishes of the restaurant:

omelette with spring onions and shrimps - strong flavoury taste of the egg, 油而不腻.

fried fish - the sambal chill rocks big time

soya bean with chin chow - the chin chow flavour is a bit different from sg.

娘惹杂菜 - the dish made famous by mediacorp drama little nyonya

chicken rendang - the chicken meat is tender and juicy, and the gravy is simply delicious. slight tinge of coconut milk makes it fragrant and a slight spiciness thrills my taste buds.

fried calamari - squid fried to perfection. the batter is crispy, and the squid inside is very chewy and fresh.

chendol and ice kachang - very very authentic and special flavour, which you can nv eat it in sg.

fish maw soup - rich flavour with fresh ingredients, which will make you slurp the whole big bowl, but i was too full after eating all the previous dishes.

cost for the whole meal: 99 ringgit

after lunch, we proceeded back to dashimon's condo to put our luggage. the condo has a swimming pool, a gym, a playground, and lots of ang mor children playing in the pool almost everyday, with their mothers suntanning themselves by the side of the tool.

his house is quite big, bigger than the standard condominiums in sg. it has a living room, a kitchen, a storeroom, 2 toilets, 3 bedrooms and a balcony. from the balcony you have a damn awesome view of the sea. although the sea is quite dirty. very ideal place for a getaway if you are sick of the fast-paced life in sg. life in malacca is laid-back and relax.

we went to malacca's biggest shopping mall, but din buy much things, because i already bought quite alot of stuff in sg and taiwan. we were a bit thirsty so we went to secret recipe for a short tea break.

we ordered DURIAN CHEESECAKE and CHOCOLATE INDULGENCE, both cakes are damn nice, but i vote durian cheesecake as the clear winner!!! this is my first time seeing and tasting durian cheesecake, and it is a weird combination, but it taste good! on the first bite, the durian taste is very strong which covers the cheese flavour, but when the cake melts in your throat, the cheese flavour starts to come out. yummy!

cost for the tea break: 48 ringgit (including drinks that we ordered)

we only ordered two cakes because dashimon ask us not to eat too much, to save some space in our stomachs for the satay celup at Capitol. there are quite a few satay celup eateries in malacca, but this Capitol satay celup is the most famous and authentic one, also highly recommended by damien (my kevii hall friend who stays in malacca). we reach there very early, at about 6 pm, and there is a queue already. -.-'''

thankfully we only waited for about ten minutes and we got a table! this is my first time eating satay celup! btw satay celup is like a steamboat, and inside the steamboat is satay sauce gravy, the 料 are 串 together on long satay sticks. got many many varieties for you to choose, and each stick cost 70 cents ringgit.

sometimes the waitress will give us special ingredients, for example tiger prawns, abalone, scallops, and squids, also cost 70 cents ringgit. confirm must whack. haha.

although satay celup is very nice, but cannot eat too often, cos very heaty, sure will get sore throat. haha. we spent 88 ringgit in total.

after the satisfying satay celup dinner, we headed back to the condo, and on the way, dashimon ask the driver stop at a place that sell ketu piling, and he bought them for us to try. ketu piling is like our sg's kueh tutu, except that ketu piling uses coconut sugar as the fillings, and when you eat ketu piling, it wun 黏牙. everytime i eat kueh tutu sure will gave the white thingy stuck in between my teeth, damn 搞味. haha.

we went for a night swim, because eat too much, so must exercise.

so this marks the end of day 1.

stay tuned for more food coming up. i brought 750 ringgit for this trip, and on food alone, i spent like 500 ringgit. -.-'''

chocolate calculator

received an email, which is very interesting. i shall share it with everyone.

Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway -but the Hershey Man will know!

YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATHS

This is pretty neat.

DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!

It takes less than a minute.

Work this out as you read... Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 ..If you haven't, add 1758.6.

Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number(i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).

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The next two numbers are YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2009) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS.

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going to malacca tomorrow and coming back on sunday!

hope i wun put on too much weight when i come back. haha.