Have been lucky enough to get off work earlier than 7.30pm the past two days, to enjoy the wonderful world of TV. My new resolution is really to knock off punctually EVERY SINGLE DAY (which by my definition is 7.30 latest lah) but yeah, it's not that easy to keep up. But at least now I really make the effort to leave. Hehe but maybe went a little overboard this morning when I declared to lhp at 9am that I wished to be home... ha. I'm also becoming a fan of Belinda Lee's 稀游记 travel documentary on Channel U, in which she finds S'poreans all over the world pursuing their passions... It is really quite inspiring. Today's episode featured a S'porean who spent some years working as a software engineer in Califiornia, only to realise that he wanted to pursue something more meaningful... With his wife's full support, the couple moved to Geneva, where he worked for Schwab Foundation, an organisation that promotes social entrepreneurship around the world...
On a lighter note, we discovered Boss's wedding website while in office today. Yeah, these days you can do up a wedding website for free and inform all your friends abt every single detail related to the big day; including publicly publishing you and your bride's love story. Which our boss did lah. Well... we all took our hats off this very dedicated-to-wife-to-be man... cos we were scratching our heads as to how he found time to do up this pretty elaborate website. And as we were kay-pohing and reading thru 'the love story'... I discovered that the two ladies at another workstation had teared... After lunch, someone 'secretly' asked me how come I was not touched (since i did not shed any tears... and they hypothesized that girls my age would usually be more touched by these things) I suppose one only sheds tears when he/she can really connect with the story; knows the 当事人 well enough to feel for him/her... and it's not so much an age issue. Or maybe i'm just too cynical for my age ;)
In fact, I think the most tear-jerking and depressing incidents that have happened of late are the massive Sichuan earthquake and the cyclone in Myanmar that have taken thousands of lives overnight. Esp the first few days after the earthquake-- pictures after pictures of ruins and victims in the papers (And the sickening playing-up of touching survival stories in the evening Chinese tabloids) just made me want to be escapist and avoid reading abt the disaster news... And it makes me ashamed that I'm frequently so complainy abt life.
Monday, May 19, 2008
A weekend of indulgence
Today marks the end of my very enjoyable and guiltily indulgent long weekend. But will try to make sure I spend less money next weekend.
Lunched with C at Japanese restaurant Tampopo at Liang Court after reading good reviews in the newspaper. This restaurant had received rave reviews for their ramen; and an online blogger recommended a certain 'black pig' pork cutlet. We thus tried these signature dishes; and they turned out to be pretty yummy! Today I shall try to be a pseudo food blogger...
C's miso ramen. I stole a bit of the soup, which was very flavorful... According to her, the noodles were very springy too.
The agedashi tofu we had as an appetizer. Though the tofu was very soft, I thought it was too pricey (at $6.80 for 3 pieces of tofu!) and not that worth it.
My 'black pig' tonkatsu... It was actually quite fatty but well fried and tasty. The menu even had a random picture of a black pig in some farm, with a one-liner to the effect of "Our pigs are not subject to stress"... For some weird reason, I had imagined (b4 coming to the restaurant) that the black pig pork cutlet would be black. Apparently only the skin is black... Hehe, the weird ideas I have in my head. It seems that pigs, like humans, dun thrive too well under stressful conditions either!
Though had to lug huge camera around all afternoon, I really got a kick taking pictures of my food, amateurish my attempts might be. I can totally understand why Chubby Hubby loves his job.
Today marks the end of my very enjoyable and guiltily indulgent long weekend. But will try to make sure I spend less money next weekend.
Lunched with C at Japanese restaurant Tampopo at Liang Court after reading good reviews in the newspaper. This restaurant had received rave reviews for their ramen; and an online blogger recommended a certain 'black pig' pork cutlet. We thus tried these signature dishes; and they turned out to be pretty yummy! Today I shall try to be a pseudo food blogger...
C's miso ramen. I stole a bit of the soup, which was very flavorful... According to her, the noodles were very springy too.
The agedashi tofu we had as an appetizer. Though the tofu was very soft, I thought it was too pricey (at $6.80 for 3 pieces of tofu!) and not that worth it.
My 'black pig' tonkatsu... It was actually quite fatty but well fried and tasty. The menu even had a random picture of a black pig in some farm, with a one-liner to the effect of "Our pigs are not subject to stress"... For some weird reason, I had imagined (b4 coming to the restaurant) that the black pig pork cutlet would be black. Apparently only the skin is black... Hehe, the weird ideas I have in my head. It seems that pigs, like humans, dun thrive too well under stressful conditions either!Though had to lug huge camera around all afternoon, I really got a kick taking pictures of my food, amateurish my attempts might be. I can totally understand why Chubby Hubby loves his job.
Hair Trivia
Today I decided to treat myself to a scalp treatment using a discount voucher I found in Simply Her. And got a free 'scalp analysis', though it was actually kinda gross. Pores (i suppose they are rightly termed follicles) magnified many many times just look quite undignified :P Basically they stick this special camera device into your hair and immediately your scalp and magnified hair strands are shown on a screen before you. Then (I dunno if it's a standard tactic to scare customers or what) the hair consultant points out how unclean and befitting a treatment your scalp is. So anyway since I was there for the treatment I just went ahead with it... Post-treatment they go through the same procedure, i suppose in hopes of demonstrating the effectiveness of the treatment. And so while 'scanning' through my hair I realised, hey, how come some follicles seem to have more than one strand of hair? And there and then i made the discovery of the day... the hair 'consultant' attending to me told me that up to 3 strands of hair can grow out of a single hair follicle! I was somewhat pleasantly surprised when told that, cos like... you would assume that one strand of hair grows out of a single follicle right?? Else just have more follicles lah, why want to be so 济济。But apparently, no leh. But my curiosity stopped at that... I guess Nature has its own 'way' and I'm content as long as my hair follicles do not go on strike prematurely :) Anyways, apparently one treatment is not enough to cure my unclean scalp and I'll need like 10 treatments or more to ensure complete cleansing, so says the hair consultant. Seriously, I'm beginning to realise that one can splurge on all kinds of treatments from head to toe and if I dun exercise some discretion and self-restraint in guarding my money I will very easily end up super poor and unhappy :P Hai, one can be vain, but not stupidly vain lah hor.
Today I decided to treat myself to a scalp treatment using a discount voucher I found in Simply Her. And got a free 'scalp analysis', though it was actually kinda gross. Pores (i suppose they are rightly termed follicles) magnified many many times just look quite undignified :P Basically they stick this special camera device into your hair and immediately your scalp and magnified hair strands are shown on a screen before you. Then (I dunno if it's a standard tactic to scare customers or what) the hair consultant points out how unclean and befitting a treatment your scalp is. So anyway since I was there for the treatment I just went ahead with it... Post-treatment they go through the same procedure, i suppose in hopes of demonstrating the effectiveness of the treatment. And so while 'scanning' through my hair I realised, hey, how come some follicles seem to have more than one strand of hair? And there and then i made the discovery of the day... the hair 'consultant' attending to me told me that up to 3 strands of hair can grow out of a single hair follicle! I was somewhat pleasantly surprised when told that, cos like... you would assume that one strand of hair grows out of a single follicle right?? Else just have more follicles lah, why want to be so 济济。But apparently, no leh. But my curiosity stopped at that... I guess Nature has its own 'way' and I'm content as long as my hair follicles do not go on strike prematurely :) Anyways, apparently one treatment is not enough to cure my unclean scalp and I'll need like 10 treatments or more to ensure complete cleansing, so says the hair consultant. Seriously, I'm beginning to realise that one can splurge on all kinds of treatments from head to toe and if I dun exercise some discretion and self-restraint in guarding my money I will very easily end up super poor and unhappy :P Hai, one can be vain, but not stupidly vain lah hor.
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