New Week's Resolution

1. Must make an effort to look presentable every day. Not just on days when I feel like it.
2. Must list down my expenses and must not shop anymore. The only exception is the beige capri pants that I've already planned to buy.
3. Must cut down on rice intake.
4. Must workout not less that 4 times in a week.
5. There should only be one cheat day in a week.

Okay, looks do-able.

This and That

Gong Cha is like mushroom, it's popping out everywhere! This one is at one of the super old boring malls along Somerset.

My Chrysantemum tea - to flush out the oily food that I've been eating.

I wore my Crocs tone again today. Three bandaids on the left foot and one on the right. It didn't scrape my skin today. Hooray!

Strawberries and my cherry shorts.

Yum yum yum.. Big strawberries dipped in condensed milk.

Mmm...

60% Less Fat than regular potato chips.

My office snack for 3 days.

Bought manuka as a gift and asked the saleslady if she could wrap it for me. She did, but she didn't remove the price! Must I spell it out?

My First Ever Neck Pillow

Took a picture of the folded version so that I'll remember how to fold it back.

It says it only needs two blows. Mine took about 4 or 5, and I even swallowed back the air once (so bad, I know)

Yey!

Just press the black thing once, and all the air wooshes out.

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Now I can finally sleep on the plane without doing the embarrassing head bang thing because my officemate gave me my advance birthday present (Third advance bday gift for this year. First and second ones from my good friends in Manila).

Gym Photo

Hmm.. everything looks like 8.

This picture doesn't make sense to me anymore. I just remember I ran almost an hour, and burned a lot of calories (according to the treadmill)

In Case of Fire...

This fire extinguisher box is on one of the walls of the Raffles place underpass.

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Imagine this first:
A man is walking beside you, another guy is walking towards you. For some reason, the oncoming guy ignited his lighter, and for some reason, the guy beside you spilled some gas on his shoes.

The shoes blazed up. Fire! fire!

You're the only person there to help. In this instance, what you need to do is punch the small glass covering the keys. You have soft knuckles so you can't punch, so your run everywhere to look for something to slam onto the small hole. You finally thought of using your shoe heel.

After you got the key, (panicking already), you tried to insert into the key slot, but you're hand is shaking and it took 5 attempts before you finally got it in.

You opened the door and took out the extinguisher and took time to read the instructions.

Wa-lao, so many steps! By then it's already too late.

My Flat Espradilles

=)

So Sweet

One day I saw a male colleague taking medicine, so I asked him if he's okay.. he said the capsule (or whatever) is actually to boost his immune system, given by his Chinese doctor.

I've been wanting to visit a TCM but wanted to get a referral instead of just randomly picking out names from the net.. so we talked about it, and don't know why, but I was suddenly talking about my bladder problems and how I would feel the urge to pee every few minutes.

He said his sister had the same problem, and even had it worse because she couldn't sleep at all because she had to go to the toilet every 10 minutes or so.

We ended the discussion with the note that I should seek medical opinion while it's still early.

A few days later, he gave me this post-it and said it's what his sister took before. It's like an alka seltzer for the bladder.

Awww.. I'm touched.

Gifts From Manila

Gifts from Manila! Cute red espradilles and Cheetos. Love it!

Can't wait to wear it, and can't wait to eat it. But I have to decide when first. Must look for a nice attire to match with the shoes, and must wait for my cheat day to eat the Cheetos (because I already ate Mars pods tonight).

Atas Dinner

I had dinner with my friend at Sho Teppan Raffles City last Thursday night.

I was planning to order the kurobata pork when the young crew said ' the most saleable item for women is the wagyu beef because it has the lowest calories' (or something like that).

Darn it, since I knew wagyu had the lowest calories, I seem to have no other choice but to order that (because I'm a sucker for low calorie food).

That's my bowl of rice. Sho Teppan is not generous, but my friend is. She gave me half of her rice. Ack!

They cooked the meat for me. Wrong move. I should've cooked it myself.

That teeny tiny bowl of rice is my friend's.

My beef was still good and tender, but I think it would've been more tender if it's not that cooked. I don't eat raw, so maybe 95% cooked, instead of 100%.

We ordered another ala carte. Look at those grains. Lovely.

And look at it again.

This was cooked by my friend. It really is more tender than the first batch.

Spot the difference of the last 3 photos. I can't. And I don't know why I uploaded it 3 times.

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It's SGD21 ++ for the set meal, and SGD11++ for the ala carte.

For me, this is wagyu beef- tender and delicious, so it's worth it.

The Most Exciting Thing for Today

Candy Empire at Triple One Somerset

Found ya!!!!!

And oooooh! honeycomb! I love choco honeycomb! The way it burns your tongue when you suck it. (because i'm impatient, I can never wait for it to melt on its own)

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I saw someone post a picture of Mars and Snickers pods. I knew I saw them before somewhere in Singapore. So, I checked it in the net, and read that these chocolates are mostly just available in Australia.. and some people regret buying just one pack because it was oh-so-good.

Hmm... but I know I've seen them somewhere.

The search began. I looked at all the usual places I go to. It wasn't at Cocoa Trees, nor Jason Marketplace, nor Cold Storage.. So it could only be Candy Empire!

I went there this afternoon to specifically look for the Pods. I just couldn't accept that I'm wrong.

And I'm not! It's there! A lot of pods!!!

Bottomline is, when it comes to food.. never doubt me.

The Second Most Exciting Thing Today.

After buying my nasi lemak burger, I started walking towards Takashimaya. Outside Cineleisure, there was some sort of commotion.I thought there was an artiste or what, because people where standing there watching.


Then, I saw a uncle-ish guy tugging at a girl's black shoulder bag, while the girl was tugging it back while trying to walk away.


Then, another girl was shouting 'come down nooooww!'. 'just f%ck*ng come down now'.


About 3 minutes after, a big girl came forward with cash in hand, shoving at the uncle's face.


"Just take the money!!!" (or something like that.). I think it's 12 dollars.


The uncle didn't move, didn't release the bag. Then the girl just kept shoving it at the uncle's face and kept shouting something.


Look at all the kei-po onlookers (myself included).


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I don't know what happened, but this is my guess:


The group of girls went into a shop, liked a piece of trinket and one of the girls put it in her bag. They probably rushed out and giggled the minute they stepped out of the store.


They felt victorious and continued walking when the uncle chased after them with two mall securities in tow. The two girls tried to get out of the mall, but the uncle grabbed the other girl's bag. They couldn't get far because of the uncle's hard grip of the bag. The two girls realised that the third friend was left inside the mall (probably trying to shy away from the humiliation)OR the third girl was trying to come up with the 12 bucks.


The other girl kept calling the third girl's mobile and kept shouting "come down now!!!".


The third girl finally came down with the 12 bucks. They thought 12 bucks would solve everything, but the uncle wouldn't accept it.


Hey kiddo, do you think it's all about the f*ck&ng money? The uncle won't starve without your f*ck&ng 12 bucks.


It's all about teaching you girls a lesson. You did something wrong, you must pay for it. Full stop.


Kids nowadays. Tsk tsk tsk.


Again, this is just my guess.. but it's highly possible that I'm correct.

Human Ken (as in Barbie's Ken)

Photo is blurry since I took it while walking.

The guy looks like a living-breathing Ken. Long sandy brown hair brushed back with probably some mousse to hold it, polo tucked into skinny shorts and some sort of topsider shoes.

He had a straight nose and slight tan too.

No, I'm not awestruck by his appearance. In fact, I found it eery and a bit eeeew.. He's too metrosexual that it became disgusting.

He's nice though, because he opened the door for his girlfriend, and since I'm behind them, he held it for me too. So he got a check mark there for manners.

New Discovery

Nasi Lemak burger!

This shop belongs to Zhen Huan, a Singapore artiste.

See the guy in red cap? that's where the logo came from.

I ordered the fish nasi lemak burger. (SGD4)

Look-wise, it's ordinary. But taste-wise, it's surprisingly good! Springy fish pattie, crunchy peanuts, ikan bilis for some saltiness and subtle coconut rice. Once you add the chili, the tastiness is increased by a few notches. Yummy!

I guess it's not that filling though (or maybe it's just my stomach).. because an hour after, I'm already a bit hungry.

Ice Rockz is located at Scape youth park, which is behind Cineleisure.

It's really a youth park, as in at 29 years old, I felt out of place.