food trail and ah long

Just reached home after a day with amanda! Hmm, didnt get to take as many pictures as i'd like to. but nvm la, at least got some pictures. so.. relaxing on the eyes! haa.

We went on a food trail! basically both of us came up with a list of things we wanted to eat.. like our food cravings. Then we planned out a route and then proceeded to have those items =) hee. so.. here we go.


1) Chicken Pie @ dao hui stall in Serangoon

We met at dao hui stall in Serangoon, and she wanted to eat the chicken pie there. It's not really that nice.. too small too. Not sure of the price cos she bought it and i just took some bites of it.
The notebook behind is my list, the paper on the right is hers. Haha yes she brought a travel map.

2) Fried Carrot Cake and Sugar Cane juice @ foodcourt in AMK ( $3 and $1.20)

We were actually in AMK looking for some goreng pisang which was on amanda's list.. but the shops were closed! so sad can. all closed to go bai nian or sth. zz. so in the end i suggested we just eat something there or else it's a wasted trip.. so i bought the carrot cake and she ordered sugar cane.
I dont like sugar cane for a particular reason. But i just drank until left abit, then i told amanda why. and she got slightly disgusted too. wahaha.

3) Twister Fries and McFlurry @ McDonalds ($3? and.. $2? ugh forgot)

dont they look delicious!? I LOVE twister fries =)


There was too little oreo in the Mcflurry! there should be moreee.
i was telling amanda that Oreo is super useful. It's used in like so many things la! mcflurry.. oreo cheesecake.. even those bubble tea shops have a special Oreo menu of the various blends. The creator of Oreo must be pretty rich if he patented it.


4) Pretty-looking Doughnut @ Missy Donut ($1.40)

Amanda wanted a pretty -looking donut, just for the visual. When i saw this i suddenly had a craving for it, cos last time bestie gave me a donut that had white chocolate like this on top and chocolate filling inside that was really nice, so i thought of that (in fact, is it the same one? hmm)
It's so pretty right! Doesn't look like a donut does it. Was delicious =)


5) Rock Melon @ Foodcourt in PS ($1.60)

Ok repeat after me: RIIIIP OFFFF!
omg $1.60 for one small slice of fruit? It's alot smaller than it looks. Even if it was imported from the tropical islands of Hawaii and vacuum sealed to preserve its freshness.... it's kinda expensive aint it??
Amanda who wanted it was suddenly deterred when she saw the price.. but i insisted we still get it cos i kinda wanted it too. The upside was that it was sweet and nice. But still! $$$!

6) Pasta Shrimp Cheeze @ KFC ($3.00)

Kinda nice but i don't think it's worth 3 bucks. The taste of the floury crispy deep-fried exterior is too overwhelming too - takes away the shrimp/pasta/cheese taste on the inside.

7) Oreo Cheesecake @ Cafe Cartel ($4.60 [$4.90 after GST -_-] )

The cheesecake part was a tad too lemony tasting and I couldn't taste the oreo. was still nice overall, but i prefer the plain cheesecake taste and.. more oreo plstnx. They asked me if i had student pass. =) I still look like a student :p

8) Mudpie with IceCream @ New York New York ($6.90 [$8.00 after service charge + GST])

This is so freaking delicious. I couldn't resist and took like two bites of it then remembered that we hadn't taken a photo of it. But seriously! The chocolate part is the richest chocolate you'll ever taste, and the chocolatey sauce on top (which amanda insists is milo powder + abit of water) accents the effect. The vanilla icecream allows your tastebuds to switch to a blander but still nice flavour so that you wont get overwhelmed by the richness of the chocolate, but allows a delicate balance of delicious chocolatey-dessert.
Nicest dessert ever! Well worth the money, go try it !

a shot taken with flash and at a different angle. Man.. i wanna eat it again.


9) Mushroom Soup @ Soup Spoon ($7.10)


Their soups are really nice and tasty. But amanda ordered a grande one .. which is like medium size. Which i thought was a little too much. The mushroom taste just got a little stifling after awhile. I liked it up to the point when i was feeling too.. overwhelmed by the mushroom taste. She finished the rest.
I think i preferred the soup we had the last time we were there.. i can't rem what's it's called. i think beef sth. i'm not sure.



and that concludes our food trail! i wish we had more food on the list though. I wanna go food trail again! hehe. see how.
(if you're really observant, you'll figure out that this photo obviously wasn't taken today. we forgot to take a pic :/ ugh. ) (well actually we did but mandyy thought she looked weird so she deleted -_- )

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we also watched Ah Long Pte Ltd.. which seriously isn't very good. There is no real plot, the flow isn't there. It has its funny moments, but.. it's so NOT a family show. It's.. riddled with sexual connotations. Like almost the whole thing. tsktsk.
shouldve watched the jaychou bball movie. ugh.

oh well, time to bookin tmr. happy valentine's day in advance to all. and happy A level results collection too. :/ the next time i come out will be.. 23rd Feb. holy cow that's long. :(

bye~

p.s. i tried to color code the food names to differentiate which were chosen by amanda and which were chosen by me.. but blogger seriously f---s up everything and after 10 mins of trying to fix it i've given up, hence some blue some black some pink. Items 1, 2b, 4, 5 were picked by amanda, the rest by me. yup.

TV shows

Just finished another episode of LOST (season 4 episode 2), and i'm glad that the plot is moving. After being stuck on the island and just expounding on the Others in season 3, finally, the story is moving on.
A new angle is introduced, and the same intriguing 'omg what on earth is going on' feeling is left behind after the episode ends with another trademark cliffhanger.

I'm still a huge fan of LOST and Prison Break, despite what a majority of the viewers are saying. Many people I know have given up on LOST, themselves getting lost in the plot somewhere in season 2 or 3. I don't think the plot is particularly confusing, as many of them say, but intriguing is a more fitting description.
There is alot to keep track of, definitely, but that's what makes the series such a hooker. It keeps you hooked - to get more answers.. only to introduce new perplexing mysteries.

Prison Break has gotten slightly draggy in its 3rd season, but the latest episode was a ridiculously irritating cliffhanger which just leaves you going 'COME ON! there has to be 5 minutes more!'.
Although the show is still kept as exciting as possible, it is impossible to match the first season's intenseness, wittiness or heartracing-ness. That's the sad thing about making too good a season - there is the pressure to match it, and the chances are you won't be able to do it.
Prison Break needs to answer some of the questions it has left though, like who on earth is Susan and James Whistler and what are they working for? Unlike LOST where new questions are brought in almost every episode, Prison Break lacks the luxury of diversity and are hence stuck on the same questions that are repeated every episode such that it's starting to get irritating.


Ugh, gonna be away for 2 weeks so.. ill be watching 2 episodes each when i come back =)

Tomorrow's gonna be fun! Gonna spend the day with amanda, and will be hoping to take alot of pictures so that i can post them here. What are we doing? Not telling! Come back tomorrow night and see :p
chowz!

p.s.
btw, i just got into top 500 in warcraft on Bnet US West =)


woot. now for top 300. then top 100. then top 10. ahhaha.

guo xin nian

ah, as i bask in the freedom of.. freedom and sit back comfortably in my computer chair not expecting a 'HEADS OUT' from the commanders downstairs or checking the time to countdown the minutes to lights out, i can't help but smile.

chinese new year brings great joy to kids who anticipate the numerous hongbaos they're gonna get, unhappiness to married couples who have to fork out those numerous hongbaos, and elation for NSF who get the much appreciated break from army.
of course, those who have guard duty and field camp are exempted from the elation.

i look forward to saturday when i'll be meeting amanda and spending the day with her, but at the same time i don't as the next day will be sunday and that will be when i have to book in. it's like the last meal of a criminal on death row - he looks forward to it and not.
ah, that was quite an extreme analogy wasn't it? well i'll be stuck in Tekong for 2 weeks after booking in, due to my field camp which starts on the 15th, the very same day that is rumoured that the 'A' level results would come out.

ah, the dream of walking back to school with amanda's hand in mine is quickly shattered and relegated to just that - a dream.

IPPT is next week too, and if i fail that, i'll have to stay in the subsequent weekend after fieldcamp for extra training -_- i honestly doubt i'll fail unless i get a cramp while running or injure myself or something. I should have no worries then? No, what if i get a cramp while running or injure myself? As long as there's a possibility of failure, there's an inkling of worry.


oh well, i shall isolate myself from army the next few days, albeit running to train up myself at night. after all, the moments of civilian-hood are limited and short, and i should enjoy every second of it. time is even more precious than before, more precious that money, more precious than anything.

If only time could come to a standstill when we want it to. -cue ChronoGuard from Jasper Fforde's books -

(Go check out some of his books if you haven't. i wouldn't describe them as 'logical nonsense' as amanda does (and apparently weiqin does too).. more of a mystery/thriller in an unreal world)

Happy Chinese New Year to all.