♥ Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Foodilicious nineteen.
Didn't have celebrations on the day itself. Actually no celebrations at all lar, but little nice outings which i've enjoyed. =)
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04jul09. Bishan, to go spca later.
Looks really good.
Tomato-flavoured rice. =D
No, he was not opening some ketchup or chilli sauce sachet. LOLS just freezing and holding onto utensils in a weird way, waiting for me to be done with photo-takings.
I intended for candid shots, and it's not that candid now lols.
Circle line!
Okie, still excited even though i've already known that the train's interior is very similar to north-east purple line
(cus they are produced from the same manufacturer), it's just that the circle-line train has only three carriages instead of the normal six.
To bartley station from bishan was kind of fast.
Went spca! But ironically, i did not take any pictures there. LOLS weird, you might think.
Generally there, it's a hostel for lazy sleeping cats and noisy barking dogs, and also bochap/emotionless-looking bunnies. Hahahahhahs...
Bartley road.
My birthday walnut brownies. =D Happy happy.
Tasted well, albeit slightly overcooked.
(Image is original, not photoshopped or what, although the white background looks kind of artificial. Taken with outdoor lighting and phone flash.)
Looking at the blanga who had a shirt over his head?
Went work. And decided to get some toppings
(for my brownies) before heading home. It was already rather late. Really hard to buy stuffs at that kind of time.
Cats lazing when it was nearly midnight.
LOLS there were two mini chocolate swiss rolls waiting for me at home. Though i've made my stand to ma for the
n-th time that
i do not like swiss rolls at all.
Anyway
i may be picky, but never fussy (gonna be my personal quote very soon yay). So i will still eat things that i may not like. Lols i try to reduce wastage most of the time.
Like since most neighbourhood shops were closing, the first place i went was 7-11.
There wasn't any small ice cream tubs other than the milo, so i bought it since it taste good enough on its own even if i don't use it for topping the brownie.
After that i went to try luck at a half-closed minimart, which had a really cheap ice cream of unknown brand, but wth it's only $1.60 man zzz. Image below.
And btw the cheapo ice cream tasted just like wall's.
Picture appears to be foggy cus it's taken in the freezer~ Lols.
Here's what i did.
Start of with a slice of brownie.
(The first time i ate a triangle brownie cus it's normally of rectilinear forms. But triangle ones look more special wor. =D)
Then, add the vanilla ice cream.
Couldn't find my ice cream scoop somehow, so bobian used a plastic soup ladle, hence the shape isn't so nice but that doesn't matter lar lols.
Added some gummy bears on top for fanciful purposes.
It was hard to take this shot because the bears keep sliding down. -_- And the ice cream was melting soon.
Another view of done topped brownie.
Actually it's not a good idea to put gummy bears. The coldness will make the bears harden and not chewy.
Boliao playing with the coloured bears.
Revising my loots of the day.
Lg's donation for spca, which i got to choose a keychain to keep. And a very cute mos burger miniature from a capsule machine LOLS. The burger was so overpriced that the both things above cost the same zzz.
The back view of the keychain and card accompanied with it.
And btw, no. I've always disliked spca for some reasons since two years ago. I do not agree with the way they handle things and probably their policies.
HOWEVER, i do not condemn the animals in spca, since the animals are obviously innocent. Ha ha.
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05jul09.
I am so glad that
flobby is officially two years old! YAY.
Bro treated pizzahut delivery for lunch.
(Lols like somehow, every year i get pizzahut delivery for bday zzzzz.) Anyway,
ocean catch is nice with scrumptious sotong rings, shrimps and tuna, plus the yummy lime-mayo base~
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08jul09, museum-outings with old pal yay.
Nice architectural feature (
corinthian capital) in the
sing-art-museum.
The
love tank exhibit at the foyer of
nat-museum.
Museum stickers lols.
Anyway, i find
singapre art museum (sam) unimpressive and uninspiring, as compared to
national museum of singapore (nms). Although the lose-out in terms of architecture is not their fault
(nat-museum really has the wow-factor in terms of architecture), the exhibits in the sing-art galleries is kind of disappointing. Mmm...
Always wanted to try the mini crab snacks, but never did. However, it appeared as one of the gifts yay. I've always wondered how would it taste - and does it break the teeth to eat it? LOLS.
And especially my zodiac is crab
(cancer), somehow it's weird that i like crabs
(includes both drawing and eating crab).
Cartoon crabs are sadden by the fact that humans eat them.BTW, this illustration is incorrect. As in, it depicts crabs with 6 normal legs and 2 claws.
The truth is that, crabs have 8 normal legs and 2 claws; this is a very common confusion.
I've heard before something like: you can tell the gender from the abdomen, it's a male if it's sharp, and a female if it's rounded.
I found two kinds of tummy in the packet of crabs.
Initially, i thought one must be the male, one must be the female.
However, after checking some info from
here/
here/
here, i might be wrong. The sharper abdomen could possibly be a immatured female crab, since a male abdomen should be much more narrower like a bunsen burner
(lols).
Wa, so the whole packet might be made of all female crabs
(matured and immatured ones).
Btw forgot to mention how the mini crabs tasted like.
Eh, it's very very very similar to the m'sia ikan satay, in terms of taste and texture.
Image taken from the net (pun not intended).-
12jul09, exactly one week belated.
A bday treat at haagan dazs by colleague. A decent friend who can talk a lot with.
Funny sia. He was telling the staff that it was my birthday today, and hinting if we can get something special like extra ice cream or what.
Partially lying, mmm. Ya this was meant for my birthday, but my bday was already over for seven days, LOLS.
Anyway we didn't get extra ice cream. We got a surprise wafer fan biscuit, with "happy birthday" written in chocolate syrup, like lols sia.
But anyway it was on the wrong dish, but the "happy bday" text is facing me still~ Lols.
He got the
chocoholic, while i had the
berry cool (a very zzz name).
LOLS cus only took picture when we had eaten one-quarter, the wafer was already gone into the stomach
(gave the "happy" to him, while i took the "birthday" ha).
So i used the power of graphic editting LOLS, to show how it was supposed to look like. It was on the whipped cream.
Lols due to occupational habit
职业病, the whipped cream looks very much like used tissue blob!
So this is how it is
supposed to look like:
Internet images taken from here and here.I would say haagen dazs is severly overpriced. -_- Ben&jerry's at least seems more reasonable.
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That's why i said it was a foodilicious nineteen. Lots of things to eat. Lols!
Btw happy thirtieth month today, lg!
=D
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♥ Saturday, July 04, 2009
June's content. The one which blogger ate it up 90%.
Only the first two sections were safe from 20th june. Zzz long overdue.
Quite content-heavy ahead i would say. Yes, it's gonna be kind of long i'm sorry.
Mainly landscape/architecture shots
(i somehow feel accomplished mwahahahs) and self-adventure images, some food, a bit of crafts, a bit of cats and of course some other randomities
(self-created word which doesn't exist in the dictionary).
And i've got a lot to say, jialat.
BTW I DISCOVERED SOMETHING
LOL ABOUT YOUR CHILDHOOD FRIEND -
THE COURTESY LION! Will be mentioned in this post in the second half section, stay tuned, zz.
Lately busy with temp odd jobs and refurbishing my old website
(makes me headache).
Lols done with my stupid flash banner, which looks freaking weird
(due to the combo of a real edited photograph and two cartoony animated cats i re-used from my webdesign project, since i thought it was a waste not to use them for myself), but never mind about the weirdness, since i've killed enough braincells to decide that i won't be doing another flash graphic soon. Too tedious.
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Randomity.
I guess i'm the only one left without facebook
(yes, it's intentionally). I'm a slightly defiant person who don't really like to conform. Anyway i'm not a sociable person that's why there's never a tagboard here.
However i don't really delete other old accounts.
(Nostalgia?) I tend to keep old things zzz.
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Continued from 03jun09. Very rare to get to meet like twice a week.
(Normally meet on an average of once every fortnight.)From cck to tampines north.
Lg's old beanie. -_-
Newyork in
giant. Another -_- zz.
Tampines north never fails to produce great sunsets.
Nice darker little clouds floating in front. =D
Purple plants in foreground and cute rounded shrubs in background.
Seriously, i keep seeing this UFO-alike thing. But i've never got to figure out what kind of building is this. A factory? Industrial site? I can't even locate it in the street directory sia.
I DON'T LIKE UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. LOL! Leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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3-day project.
It's the usual eunos cat again!
Since when did my childhood banking smiley squirrel became so scary-looking?!
It's not smiling anymore, it's like having the -evil grins- face.-
11jun09, went tekong for a visit.
Very tempted to take pictures on the island. But i managed to control, though they weren't that strict since there were some parents taking pictures too.
So, i did not have any tekong island pictures, like lols.
I have some ferry's pictures though.
The journey there.
Took quite a long time to reach, that made me suspect the ferry is really slow. I can't really judge the speed because i was sitting at the inner seat, not window seat.
And my cabin happened to have a faulty greyscale tv LOLS
(refer the image on top), but hey i was very surprised that they use
tvmobile just like sbs bus leh.
Approaching tekong island
(you can see from the windows).
Btw i was really amused when the 3rd sergeant started to introduce us the package that enlistees will receive. What's funny was the uniform.
I always like to joke the new uniform as "the pixellated one" cus it has all the squares that look like you zoomed in too much on a computer. But guess what, they really use the term "pixellated" to call their uniform. I was like wth, lols?
Return trip - i took the window seat. And observed the waves on the water surface. I concluded that the ferry is indeed slowww, cus the water surface looks similar to the times when i was kayaking...
I was wondering how did the buses get onto the island just for our sake.
And i happen to witness this.
So this is how they easily transport huge vehicles to-and-fro across the water.
Btw the tekong visit is really not recommended for elderly in my opinion. Cus there are some stairs to climb, some areas to walk, a really hot weather and 3rd sergeant tour guides speaking english.
Since it was a weekday afternoon, not all parents can take leave from work.
Hence, there were many grannies and grandpas. They didn't understand what those guides were talking about anyway, for many people of the older generation were not english-educated. And it can be physically-straining for them too.
Saw this cat while looking for a new place.
(Will be moving place in four month's time.)But there's something a bit weird with this cat. Don't believe me? See the next image.
The eyes
(actually a bit scary, like human's eye zz).
And the chin looks a tad too sharp? Which in turn, made the mouth looks a bit weird too.
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Crystal-like clear fuse beads!
Of cus ikea's beads were much more value for money. But the quality is different, and ikea doesn't have the clear type.
I made a floppy! Kind of cute sia zzz.
Nice-looking strawberries yay.
Smelt a burnt smell one midnight. There was a fire below. My neighbour's kids came back with empty pails, they helped to extinguished fire at the dustbin near letterboxes.
And the red rhino
(mini fire engine) came. But fire was already out, so they tried to park their vehicle. Police car came soon after, but there wasn't enough parking space.
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18jun09, journey-ful day. Since i was around the central-town area, might as well explore around and enjoy my day.
Some bread to fill tummy before venturing.
I've always like cinnamon roll/bun since young, but was kind of surprised that this cinnamon roll has white cream that looked more like muffin lo. -_- But anyway tried it. The cinnamon roll is at the bottom, but the white cream is good, has this refreshing lemon-cheesy taste.
Some bread with some
un-remember-able name. But actually you can see it even in breadtalk or fourleaves in a not-as-cute form.
But the taste is not bad, cus it doesn't have the sickening bread texture yay.
A croissant which doesn't have the texture and taste of a regular croissant. Hence the name is woissant or something like that
(zzz).
Seriously, i can't help feeling that my four-year old phone camera is good.
(I mean it's not that fabulous as compared to a real camera of at least 3megapixel and above of course. But it's indeed good for a rather-old phone model, don't you agree?)
I'll always remember this clarkequay mrt exit, which i die-die will never use again.
Really old friend edson and jd led me out with this seemingly endless flights of stairs up, some months ago.
LOLS it's not that it reminds people of those "endless staircase" scenes in ghost movies. BUT seriously, the stairs are really a little too much to climb, especially when i'm not prepared to workout my leg muscles at all.
Pathetic architectural shot. But the reflections on the building looks interesting though.
Trying to take perspective landscape shots. I liked how this went.
Small watermelon at $50, bigger watermelon at $70 and a rock melon costs $80 woo.
(I can easily buy at below $5 per fruit at ntuc leh, what's so special about them, seriously?)Off to boat quay area.
Memorial!
Another attempt at perspective landscape shot. Woohoo i like.
Actually hor, just noticed that it's more interesting under the
esplanade bridge rather than on it. I like the curves!
A big group of chinese tourists crowding the motorbike ice cream uncle.
On the
esplanade bridge.
A very sharp tinge of sudden emotions hit me.
T_T The ultimate nostalgia feel. Seriously leh.
The same purple hibiscus...
Dated 07april2007, the classic pic of more than two years ago.
Although it's nothing spectacular there, i think i'd really want us to return there again some day.
The view while being on the bridge,
marina bay sands was not around at all at that time.
This overhead metal frame thing was also not there two years ago.
I am pretty sure that this is used for the f1 grand prix night lighting.
A last shot before i leave.
Since when is there a baby merlion at the merlion park?
Never noticed it until now, or is it that it has been placed there only recently?
This is the
anderson bridge.
I've always thought that
swissotel looks really great and outstanding
(that round tall building in the background).
I reached my planned location, the
cavenagh bridge!
What's so special about the
cavenagh bridge you might wonder.
It's so very interesting, ha ha.
I badly wanted to see the
singapura cat stone sculptures with my own eyes, after seeing so many images on the net. And i also know there's this ancient sign thing there.
Makes me excited.
Tadah~ The stone sculptures of singapuras! The
(paw raised) baby one damn cute.
BUT not happy leh. Why?
Because i always see photos taken by other people, they managed to get a real cat
(though not the genuine pure singapura breed) to be in the same picture as the sculptures! You see below...
Sources: 1, 2a and 2b are acknowledged to be different cats taken by the same person, and 3.I didn't spot any cats there at all! =c LOLS. What luck.
This is the ancient sign i was talking about.
A closer look at the text.
They had cattle and horses in those mata-wears-shorts days.
Yes, it's that ancient. Way before ww2 started.
Greeted by your childhood friend at one of end of
cavenagh bridge, the singa courtesy lion!
He has made a comeback, you can also find him inside the dhoby ghaut mrt interchange (walkway between red and purple line) wearing a overly stretched face mask to inform us about h1n1.FOR YOUR INFORMATION: The original courtesy lion
did not appear wear any pants! LOLS i am very much amused.
(Didn't want to post the original image here - by providing the link only, cus i don't want to infringe copyrights of some g'vment body. G'vment cannot play play.)
A popular spot for taking wedding photographs.
The two of the three tallest buildings
(280m) in singapore in shown in this image: OUB centre and UOB plaza one.
Singapore has a maximum height limit at 280m in due to aviation reasons, because our land is too small
(hence changi airport is too near).
And 280m is considered short in the world liao. The current tallest building in the world has already hit 800m high, a rather crazy height
(yes, btw the building has 56 lifts, wtf so many) and it's in dubai. Too much money to spend?
You can see the list of tall buildings in singapore
here.
The buildings look kind of fake, due to the reflection from the metal-clad facade.
Cavenagh bridge from afar. With fullerton hotel as the background.
Boat with tourists.
Fullerton hotel, way too beautiful.
The search for sir stamford raffles' statue.
Lols my idol leh. Because his birthday is just one day after mine. And his death day on is my birthday. -_-
Somehow, he passed away on the day just before his birthday.With a lot of help by disturbing lg on the phone to check my location, i finally found him
(raffles, not lg).
Yay, though i expected the statue to be white.
Idol!
One last picture of the bronze-d him.
Did a little research back home. There were actually two sir raffles' statue in the vicinity, as marked in the map below. The two blue bullets...
A fused image from streetdirectory.com.No wonder i took so long to find it.
I was expecting a white statue beside the river, as i always see on the
net, supposedly marking his landing site.
The one i found was along empress rd, in front of victoria theatre; it is a bronze statue, the first-original one though.
I will be back some day to visit the white marble statue. =)
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Late june.
Part of toolbox.
So happy, finally bought the swarovski starfish-shaped crystal.
It's the craft version, so it's much cheaper than the boutique series.
Shiny shiny. =D
Accidental image.
By placing the phone down on any blue surface, in camera mode with flash.
The gradient is nice though.
Ate at
the royal's cafe. Price is considered reasonable.
My
grilled chicken with rice is edible but not impressive enough for a second try.
I'd rather eat at aston with that kind of price.
All i liked was only the rice, but not the meat/sauce. -_-
The cakes there are really cheap though. My stomach don't have a lot of space to enjoy their cakes, so bought them back as takeaway.
My american carrot cake and dark chocolate truffle were rather tasty, seriously. But not extremely nice. Definitely good enough to eat the second, third and fourth time though.I like the walnut-ty lemon cream on top of the carrot cake.
(Normally i'm quite picky about cakes and ice cream. I'm very particular one, in terms of food, in case you don't know me yet, ha ha. Although i'll eat almost everything, i'll judge them stringently.)
My
triple nut ice cream or something like that can't rmb the name. Was fairly decent, but not fabulous.
Stocking up at the supermart.
This is no good, too much instant food. Bad... I shall place some of the items back to the shelves and get other stuffs.
The
new shopping basket. LOLS.
The penne might not have looked like it's cooked till al dente, but it tasted not bad though honestly.
(Yes i can't help throwing in my favourite fresh shiitake mushrooms.)
A twist to the ordinary sour tapes. =D
Told you i really like shiitake mushrooms damn a lot, lols. Always buying them and adding in whatever i cook.
The old changi theatre site at bedok central has been demolished and is said to be building a
new shopping mall soon.
Spotted a chio blue bottle at cold storage, hence bought it.
(Even though the so-called dew water tasted like newater, the bottle is nice... Hhahahahs.)
My blue
hello hydration: orchid and coconut milk conditioner is almost finished, saw this new red
long term relationship: raspberry and satin on the shelf and decided to give it a try. =D
Late-night chocolate craves/energy boosters.
This must be the most disgusting-looking yam ice blended i've ever purchased, lols!
The colour looked more like blue pen ink.
I've always been drinking pinkish-purple pastel-coloured yam bubble tea.
But this tasted super like wafer biscuits. -_______- Or milo powder. Zzzzz.
Weird, and too sweet.
This
greek salad is really kinda nice leh, even though it looks messy. I like the feta cheese very much man. Feta feta~~~
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What a long post.
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Byebye june. Finally.
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