the return

alas, the day has arrived.

Today is officially my ORD.
I can finally exclaim emphatically "ORD LOH" and really mean it, unlike the 80% of the almost-ORD-but-not-quite-yet people.

It started off bleak - with bestie having A's, becky rejecting me, qin busy with school... the usual people i go out with were all unavailable!! OMG i was gonna spend my ORD like some sad loser at home. Somemore it's WOW maintenance night, so can't indulge in some gratifying monster killing.

But thanks to technology, qin saw my tweet: "This sucks. Noone to go out with! Ord lo!" and she asked me out for dinner =) cheers cheers.

In the end we went to marina square and ate at this place called CA.. ok i cannot remember what the heck it is lemme google..
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ah yes, Changing Appetites!

"One of the few places in Singapore serving authentic Tex-Mex (Texas-Mexican) cuisine, Changing Appetites is famous for it's meat-generous menu, which includes hearty Baby Back Ribs, thick, juicy burgers and sizzling fajitas. And if that's not enough, you can always top up with their particularly satisfying Monster Mudpie, American cheesecakes and waffles. It's the American dream come true for foodies."

First off, i must say the ambience is quite nice. It's like a very western-like place with the decor matching the theme of the restaurant as mentioned above. And the seats are all comfy couches! The waiter directed us to this 4-man-capacity table when it was just the 2 of us. So we got to sit on a nice big sofa each =)

I ordered some Cajun chicken thing ($15.90) and weiqin got the valuemeal deep fried chicken set or something like that ($6.90!)

It is damn good can? (English fanatics may argue that 'was' is the correct tense to use, but if it was 'was', it implies that it ISN'T good anymore? which i refuse to! because it's awesome! omg i'm becoming like Sheldon from Big bang theory. wahahaa)
Mine is like these chicken strips chopped up into smaller strips, and it comes with 3 tortillas for you to pull the chicken in yourself and roll it up (think Mcdonald's chicken Foldover) Super tasty can! The flavour of the juicy chicken just explodes in your mouth when you take a bite out of it. Very well prepared IMO. (This means In My Opinion in case you're like the chinese WOW player in my guild which asked me this morning what 'imo' means)
qin's one was quite nice also, but she only ate half! she said was too breaded and .. unhealthy or something. so i finished her other half =) very nice spices and GOOD.

I'll definitely go back again if given the chance. Most of their main meals are between $10-20, with their value meals below $10 and student meals around that also. Changing Appetites ftw !


After that, had supper with timo/dan/ham/corn at Yassin. Was pretty damn full from the CA, but .. just fellowship la. and of course, WoW maintenance so nothing to rush back too anyway :p hahaha.

I'm still grappling with the concept that i'm a free man now. a CIVILIAN. one with a PINK IC. ah, i wanted to take a photo of it and put it here (with the photo pixelized out , of course :P ) but i was too lazy to switch to my camera phone just yet.. but i will very soon! (this answers the 'WHERE ARE THE PHOTOS ?! WORDS-ONLY ENTRIES ARE BORING!" question. be patient.. gimme a while to get back my cam-whore mood... it's been a while.. :D )

Alright, i will definitely be blogging more often now that i'm free.. and i DO tweet from time to time.. so just follow me or something (i'm not very sure how the whole thing works. i'm not a twitter/facebook person :S )
I think you can most likely expect a blog entry on Tuesday nights.. cos tuesday nights i can't play WoW! server maintenance. heh.

Yup, i'll try to write more. I do enjoy writing. Just that sometimes there needs to be the inspiration. I mean, pointless writing without inspiration is just rambling. and rambling is boring.
just like how this is getting now. ok, good night, civilians and military personnel alike.

ORD LOH!

i'm a man now

I got my friend a soft toy soccer ball for his birthday.

Friend: Eh! you got me the exact same thing some years ago! just a different colour.

Me: !!! oh no! really! lol sorry ! my inability to pick new and creative presents is prevalent once again :(

Friend: It's ok.. now got 2 balls. I'm a man now.

ROFL

funniest thing i've heard this month!! or these 2 months! or this year! i dunno!? but it's just freaking funny hahahaha.

mcdonalds

back by popular demand (or rather the constant request of one person)

DISCLAIMER: The below event is entirely ficitatious and is a product of the author's imagination.


At a board meeting for McDonalds 3 weeks ago... 2 weeks after the Hello Kitty HP board meeting..


Chairman : Ok, we've been hitting a slump lately. Our online campaign seems quite a hit, Mcdelivery sales has gone up 40%! Seems like everyone wants the Hello Kitty phone ??

Marketing Director 1: Yea man! one of my friend's sister's friend's brother actually won the 1st week's Hello Kitty Sony Ericsson phone and he was so happy about it!

MD 2: Are you kidding? You mean he used it?

MD 1: er no.. he was just happy that he won it. singaporeans are like that what, you offer a prize, they'll do anything to win it. even if it means doing stupid things like ordering countless numbers of meals online. He's putting the phone on Ebay.

Chairman: okok back on topic. as i was saying, online sales has gone up 40%.. but our dine-in sales has dropped 40%!!!

MD1: oh dear, must be that bulk of customers deciding to stop dining in and order online to win the useless Hello Kitty phone.

Chairman: yea. we need an idea to attract them to dine in!

MD2: how about offering something useless again? Like.. a bugs bunny t shirt? or maybe we can start selling Hello kittys again to attract people?

MD1: nah having 2 hello kitty things seems counterproductive. people may start questioning why we support hello kitty so much too. i mean, he (she?) doesnt even have a mouth to eat mcdonalds! are we promoting non-eating?how about scratch and win coupons again?

Chairman: hmm ok we shall have the scratch and win coupons again.. but it seems so repetitive! we had it several years back. is there any way to innovate and come up with a different type of scratch and win thing?

MD2: how about stickers instead of scratch and win? they peel off the cover of the coupon to see their prize.

MD1: yea but that'll mean they need something to stick to? we gonna provide like a... game sheet?

MD2: How about a game board! We could make a MCdonalds edition of Monopoly! There's been star wars, singapore, lord of the rings, i dont see why not Mcdonalds!

Chairman: ah yes, that's quite brilliant! and we're gonna have to tack on a grand prize that's wildly attractive so that people will want to work towards it!

MD1: eh, let's do marketing cheat #129 ?

MD2: which one is that?

MD1: Marketting cheat #129 : "The creation of a huge grand prize with very low odds to win, hence attracting strong participation, but subsequently removing those very odds completely such that the management wins."

MD2: you're suggesting we make the grand prize .. unwinnable?

MD1: yes. let's say for monopoly, the winning ticket will be the dark blue one. we just print alot of the other dark blue set so that people get all hyped up when they get one half of it. what they don't know is that we didn't even print the other half! so they'll never win!

Chairman : that's positively brilliant. ok we'll make the prize money something amazing.. $50k! let's see how many people get suckered into it =D