Dead Meat??

I'm so gonna be dead meat.
Two French exams in December...
Xmas coming, CNY coming!!
Some other issues which have cropped up but still have not been solved...
I hope I have the focus to study and memorise my conjugations and tenses!!!
*freaks*
*pulls hair*

Le Vendredi

Friday evening was spent running from one place to another.

Lol, it was Morton's at Oriental Mandarin again.

Lovely lovey free flow steak sandwiches with garlic herb butter!

Lovely lovely martinis!

I seriously think theyserve the best martinis around town haha...:)

*SLURP*

Their martinis are strong, they don't stinge on the liquor and they certainly don't stinge on the servings either..

2 glass of lychee martinis was enough to make me a little woozy...

The company was lovely as usual.

The office gang that evening was a motley crew of a trained lawyer, an ex-police officer now training to be a paralegal, 2 econs graduate, an IT lady and oh well, me!!

RAWR!!

Way way enjoyable!!

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Morton's was short though. Only an hour plus and I had to rush off to meet with Chloe, Jenice & my lovely burong, SS, over at Dempsey.

RedDot Brewhouse was the venue of the night and it was a nice place I must say.

Warm and cosy atmosphere.

I wasn't too overjoyed with the standard of the food but I shan't comment too much.

Haha..got food to eat good liao!

Especially when it's free too!! hahahhaa....

It was my belated birthday dinner treat...:)

Chloe took lotsa pics with her new snazzy camera...

But I think the rest of us bore the brunt of it...

Double-flashes and red lights in your eyes for a few hours can definitely make you see stars!

I was a little too indulgent too and had a pint and a half of ale.

Beer = malt & wheat = calories = potential to jack up the cholesterol level

Hahahhaa....but it was the last day of my birthday month and I though, ah, what the heck..;p

Didn't realise I missed SS so much! haha...

Wanted to smother him with a bear hug initially...

But I guess I was too lazy to get out of my chair when he finally arrived hehe...

Popped by Olio for tea afterwards..

Lots of anecdotes and pics and vidoes for the night...

Don't quite have them now though...at least not yet..! Still with Chloe..

RAWR!!

Way enjoyable too!

Despite the fact that some flew kites? Ahhahaha

ANTM

America's Next Top Model.

Uh-oh, I have no idea why but I love the show!

I used to "chase" season after season....till Channel 5 started the programme later and later at night.

Bless the souls who created the website where I've been getting my doses of free TV-shows and movies...

*beams*

I've been watching various seasons of ANTM, catching up on what I have missed haha

Tyra Banks is cool...and I like how her skin glows!

But NIGEL BARKER rocks big time! Extremely gorgeous and I luuurrrvvvve his accent!!!

Jay Manuel ranks high on the list too which his intense eyes and Latino look haha..

Oh well...reality shows are interesting!

*Boing-Boing*

We are seriously not fated with Kangoo.

The weather looked fine at 1-plus and so PQ, YY & I decided to head to ECP for a Kangoo session.

We fixed a time at 3pm.

And voila.

It's a repeat of last Monday.

The skies turned dark.

Thunder rolled in the distance.

And our exercise session was cancelled yet again.

~Bleah~

La Coquille Perplexe

J'ai besoin d'aider parce que je ne sais pas qu'est-ce que faire avec ma vie...

Je ne sais pas mais il me semble difficile...

La vie a l'air un peu déroutante quelquefois, n'est-ce pas?

C'est un peu fatiguee aussi...

Sigh...Je me reflechis pendant long temps...

Pourtant, jusqu'à présent, je n'y arrive pas à une propre conclusion.

Mon dieu, dit-moi qu'est-ce que je dois faire...

Factoid of the Day

OMG.

Another blur toad thought my reporting officer is The Coll.

Pls lor. Just cos she's 10 yrs older and just cos she's a Snr Mgr while I'm only a Mgr DOESN'T mean that I report to her.

Sheesh.

je suis triste

The past few days has seen both ups and downs…

Saturday night was spent with the French classmates. “Welcome to the Sticks” ended its run prematurely so we caught “Tokyo” instead. It turned out to be an extremely arty farty show. And we left feeling groggy, bored, restless and in need of better things haha.

Brotzeit proved to be an okay place. The sausage platter was lovely though the accompanying sauerkraut was a little too sour. The rest were a little bit of spoilsports, some left early to go home, some left to go cheong elsewhere…and in the end, only Kyne and me were left, with 2 pints of lager and a warm chocolate cake to while the rest of the night away. I turned out to be a bit of an aunt agony, as did he. It was nice chatting..been awhile sice I did that with anyone on a one-to-one basis.

Sunday was a day of study. And a day of feeling upset.

Monday afternoon was crappy. Our Kangoo outing turned out to be a bowling and arcade session. The weather was just not cut out for us that day. Still, I’m glad that after years of not playing bowling, I still crossed 100 points haha.

All said & done…Nevertheless, I still feel I’m in a tumultuous period. Yes, I’m acting up again. For those who’ve known me for a few years will know I dive from one phase to another. Bipolar, to be exaggerating. (Hmm, or maybe it might hold some truth?)

Self-pity, self-doubt, self-annoyance, self-depreciation, self-inferiority…these amongst other things are clouding my mind right now. My future, my studies, my health, my everything…I’ve lost myself in the past few days. Thinking about a lot of things and then again, thinking of nothing. Mad, tired, confused, depressed, upset. Lol…I can be too much of a handle for myself to handle I guess...:)

I won’t be logging onto blogger that often now. We’ll see how it goes.
Maybe only in office since it’s my lull period. And the thoughts has more time to run wild.

HAHHAa.....

Of Sponges

HC is a walking encyclopedia.
If I had to use a single word to describe him, I'd call him a sponge.

He absorbs information like nobody's business lol. And his insatiable curiosity about things is commendable...
He takes the effort to find out about things. To know the whys and the hows and the how-comes.

And if you talk to him about something he is unsure of, he'd be sure to Google it and do some mini research on the Net. And thereafter he'd share his new-found knowledge with you.. ahha...

There should be more of such people around!

And I think I really should learn from his spirit of learning!

活到老， 学到老！！！

When life gives you lemons, squirt juice in your enemy's eyes!

ROFL. When I first saw this little cartoon, I was in guffaws! HAhahaa...:)

Mmmm!

The air smells lovely today!

Crisp with a tingling "after-heavy-rains" fragrance hanging around the atmosphere!

*sniffs*

*smiles*

*grins*

The weather's cool and the clouds are light and fluffy!

Smells of contentedness, cheerfulness and renewed vigour permeate my nostrils the moment I step out of the office building!

It's like as if a sniff of the air gives me renewed joy and energy!

A natural antidote to boredom and tiredness!

Whee! Me like! Me like! Hahaha..=D

Big D's Grill

Blk 18 Bedok South Road#01-87
http://sgblogs.com/entry/grill-coffeeshop-kurobuta-wagyu-kobe/233171
http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/big_d_s_grill/


I had lunch with HC and my vendors today at Big D's Grill.
Which has gotten some good reviews on food blogs over the last few months or so..

It was interesting. A large stall set in a coffee shop.
Similar to the ubiquitous zi-char stalls you would see in coffee shops all over the island.
And of course, you can imagine the setting. The coffee shop was below a HDB block, in a nondescript sleepy HDB heartland.

It was in Bedok actually. Just opposite Temasek JC.
It was really kopitiam style. Round tables with red plastic chairs. Fans mounted high on the walls and 2 mini TVs mounted on racks fitted on various pillars.

And Big D's Grill concept is...to sell high-end meat products in the heartlands.

The stall had Kurobuta Pork (High-end Japanese Royal Pork), Black Angus Beef, Wagyu Beef, Australian Beef, Kobe Beef, yada yada....
Of course it also had the normal Battered Red Snappers and pasta and all...but the main draw was the special items mentioned above.

Prices were definitely much much cheaper than what you would get if you went to Lawry's or Aston's or the other steak places.

I ordered the Black Angus Ribeye (200gms) which came with coleslaw and lovely fries. The rest of the 3 guys ordered the Kurobuta Pork. Mine was $30 and theirs was $36 each.

Strange to be chewing on such delectable high-end stuff in a kopitiam.
Nah, strange sounds a little negative haha..Allow me to rephrase. It was refreshing to have taken such foods in a sleepy kopitiam.

And the background music for the day?
Haha Hokkien songs, with ahpeks squabbling in the background.
And aunties chopping chives and spring onions on their wooden chopping boards.

My beef was excellent. Juicy and tender. I ordered it medium done and it came just nicely seared on all side with the middle a light shade of pink.

I'm glad I was the only one who took the beef. The pork turned out not as nice. Hahaha...;p

All I can say is ZAN!! 赞！！！
Unique concept, reasonable prices and a friendly atmosphere!

Check out the blog entry & the equally lovely pics on ieat.ishoot.ipost.
Link is reproduced here.
http://sgblogs.com/entry/grill-coffeeshop-kurobuta-wagyu-kobe/233171

SpongeMich Round Shell

I used to be a high quality 3M sponge.
Highly Thirsty and Highly Absorbent with a High Capacity for holding large amounts of information

I'm now a house brand sponge.
Lower quality, Less Absorbent.
I can still take in things...but at a slower rate and sometimes I drip them away.

Will gingko nuts help? Hahaa....

Man, age makes a difference! Yikes!

M&M

Methodical & Mundane

That is the crux of doing system testing.

Staring at the screen and going through every single function available has made me somewhat oblivious to the going-ons around me for the past few hours...

Eyes are feeling a little tired now so thought I'd take a break from the testing and just yak abit to myself in the virtual world....

Listening to Stephanie Sun now....lovely vocals on a wet and cold Thursday afternoon.

But yay! It's Friday tomorrow already... haha.....Paktor-ing with the man again...

Housework day today. Booorrrinng. Mop floor. Wash Clothes.

Striking

The Near Days Ahead

The man is throwing me to one side this weekend.

He’s going diving with some of his colleagues. And I, who has been medically certified to be UNABLE to dive for the rest of my life, will be staying on in cloudy, rainy and recession-hit Sillypore.

AND THEREFORE, I have made some plans for myself.

Saturday
French movie with the French classmates after our class…whee!! So exciting! Been a long time since we had an outing together! Hope I remember to bring my cam to camwhore a little hahahaaa…..After movie drinks at German bar Brotzeit at Raffles City thereafter! Woot Woot!!

Sunday
Oh well, supposed to be a lazy day but I guess I’ll spare 3 hours of my time in the afternoon to pop by Ah Seng’s place in Eunos. Baby Zoe is one-month old liao!
Time really flies man. From rowdy young adults in hostel days, now we’re working adults, married or about to, some with kids, others running their own businesses…gosh.
I don’t wanna grow up!!!!

Monday
Kangoo time again. I am still coughing a little. Irritating thing just won’t go away fully. Argh. Won't run too far this time round. Go slow and easy. Hope I see some cuties running in ECP hehe.
Bought a new Adidas singlet again…gonna wear it on that day! And oh darn, I gotta stop buying such singlets...though the cut is really good!!! hehe..

Mercy Killing?

To kill or not to kill, that is the question.

Morbid as it seems, this is will be a rudimentary baseline of discussion amongst Singaporeans now that the topic has been broached by the local media. Interesting that it took so long for such a topic to be raised considering the fact that euthanasia has been a hotly debated subject in many countries for many years, especially the western folk. (But then again, they are a more vocal bunch of folks..hmm mm ;p)

Assisted Dying. What an oxymoron. What a paradoxical phrase.

Viewpoints of moral, ethical, legal and social grounds intersperse on this subject. Human rights issues fill in the gaps in between. And now finally in Singapore, the stigma of such touchy subjects is now being discussed...Kudos too to the liberalisation of the media space in the last couple of years.

There will never be a right or a wrong approach to this. It will forever be an issue of morals and ethics, with an equal number of people standing on either side of the fence and still many more sitting on it. I really wonder when SG would reach a conclusion on this. And if SG would really decree a change in law to legalise the act.

I watched a documentary on it a few years ago and I asked myself then if I was for or against the notion of it. I have had my doubts but over the years, I figured myself to be somewhat in favour of it. You could put the proportion down to 60-40. Not very convincing, but it's still a stand and I'm not sitting on the fence.

Oh well, we'll see what the authorities have to say. I'm pretty sure the forums are abuzz with discussions on this..

To end off, how different anyway is euthanasia from committing suicide? One's assisted? The other's not? Hmm mm.

Little Froggy Comes to Play

http://www.somethingwrong.co.uk/crazy_frog_baseball/

Heng sent this to me this morning after reading about Coll the Troll and the irritation she (or "it") was causing me.

I must say. I LOVE THE GAME~!!!

Can I even call it a game? Hmm mm...hhaaa....

Good things must share hahha so have fun playing!

In The Spirit of Things

Just to add some more of my own thoughts...cheesy but oh well...cheesiness sets in after a long day at work..;p
Was thinking of some of these when I was on the train home and then later when I was taking a shower..interesting what one can come up with if you put your mind on it.. haha..

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Loads of expressions are used in the English language and I wonder how did they ever come about...
It rains cats and dogs and you suffer from pins and needles and you hear cock and bull stories.
If the pot calls the kettle black then what does the pan call the wok?

On the subject of oxymorons..how can a "daily special" be special if it appears on a daily basis?
And there perhaps isn't a "constant change" for if something remains constant, then there is no change?
How can you "act naturally" if you don't act when you are natural? How can a "graduate student" be a student if he's a graduate? There is no such thing as an "open secret", it should technically be called news already if everyone knew about it.

How can very good and awfully good and terribly good all mean the same thing?

If the little uns of chickens are called chicks? Then why aren't the little uns of ducks called dicks?
If the plural of louse is lice, why ain't the plural of grouse called grice?
If there is one you call it a sheep, but if there are two you can't call them sheeps.

Colours that don't run are fast but people that don't run are slow. You cut up a tree after you cut it down. You can rat on a person but you can't cat on them.

You can have a person and some persons. You can have a people but why can't you have some peoples?

p/s: How do you keep your "eyes wide shut" anyway?

Clar-ree-fee-kay-shen

Just to clarify, "English at its Finest" was taken off a mass email sent to me..

Forgot to mention that when I hurriedly did a copy/paste action during the day after I read the mail.. haha...

Short of misleading others into thinking what a smartass I am.. haha..but I'm not a crony.
So thought I'd clarify.