There are times where you realise that nobody is perfect; including yourself.

Itinerary for this Saturday!

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PS: Tell me how not to get excited?

Food Orgasms

I am officially FUCKING IN LOVE with Garrett Macadamia CaramelCrisp. It is heaven! Fatty buttery nutty macadamia nuts coated in saccharine sweet Caramel with good 'ole popcorns. What else gets better than this? My ultimate dream would be to have a party with the biggest tin of Garrett popcorns for everyone to dig into but that would cost me 2 round trips to Bangkok. Which really makes it highly unlikely to happen!

PS: Try dunking those popcorns in milk. Hoho.

Olly

When?

Word is out, my sister's flat will only be ready in 2014. FML. That means I gotta wait till I'm 24 to get my own room. Grrrrrrrrr. I wold have started working by then so I won't have much chance to laze around my 'planned' little paradise. On the other hand, she finally found a job at The Ministry of Finance at the international desk. Meaning, she's going to travel alot and I'll get the room to myself. Its gonna be mine but its gonna be spacious. Well, at least now i can hope for gifts from ALL OVER THE WORLD. God bless she starts traveling soon.

I had ALOT to eat today, really must convince myself not to eat the staples for dinner later. I should just have the meat and veggies. But its typical of me to say one and do the other.

PS: Bangkok in 5days!!

Hell of a rebel

I wrote the book.

Oversized and unshaven armpits. Kudos to oversized beauty. As for unshaven armpits, I'm not embracing that yet. In any case, Beth Ditto is really cool.

PS: Adore her guts

As she should be

Shouts: Hot tatts!

Lazy Saturday

Lunch at Orchard Cuppage. Tea at P.S. Cafe.


Had a rather fun afternoon talking nonsense, bitching, eavesdropping and slacking with my sister. The rain only made it more awesome with my hoodie as company :)

Haemophobia

I am fucking afraid of blood.

Totally fainted for like 10secs when i accidentally chopped my thumb while slicing apples. FML. But the blood really wouldn't stop flowing. Hopefully i'll lose some calories from all the blood lost and trauma I had to go through. Call me ball-less but a phobia is a phobia.

3 and still awake

Crazy eating adventure today. 梅花轩 ramen at Taka, followed by Desserts & Tea at TWG, more drinks at Starbucks and FINALLY, supper at  Old Town White Coffee. Now, I'm at home drinking Chrysanthemum tea to prepare myself for sleep. It's already my 3rd time drinking tea today. I swear I'll have all sorts of amazing tea tins when I have my own home. Tea is just so much more awesome than water. Can't help but to love its lingering aroma and yet, it's so light on the taste buds.

PS: I keep lying to myself. It's not a principle I'm keeping, it's a lack of self confidence.

I keep having weird ideas for funky recipes like Bailey's ondeh-ondeh, and I can't really remember what else. They're just ideas flashing pass my mind.

Hooga

Ok, it's National Day today. But I'm more excited about the 7th Month Bidding banquet tonight. Woots! Hope there's roasted suckling pig. SO IN NEED OF THAT.

I can't seem to find back my mood for baking. It's just not in me for now. Made some Caramel sauce for my Sis's pancakes today. Banana caramel pancakes, Blueberry caramel pancakes, Banana chocolate chip pancakes, Blueberry chocolate pancakes, Peach caramel pancakes. All kinds of funny concoctions. While the wholemeal-from-scratch pancake batter was good, I still prefer my good old pancake mix for that familiar childhood taste. Its just so much more awesome.

Its 1pm and I'm trying to convince myself to go out for a long walk to shed off some fats instead of lazing at home. It's really a difficult battle. FML

Phail phail phail

I'm at my wit's end. Its time to go back to basics. No more carbs after breakfast. Vege and meat for lunch. Fruits for dinner. If dinner's a must then FBs have to come into play! I don't know why i'm so lazy to move. I think I need Stairmaster in my room or something. PIG.

PS: Someone get me a human sized hamster wheel.

Inflated Meals

I was intending to go on a diet plus exercise regime that should be aptly described as a failure now. What's with Magnum for breakfast, large Wanton Mee for Morning break, Rice with Brinjal overkill and Too-many-fishballs plus an innocent looking custard puff for dessert. NAISE.

It better not rain in the evening. I'm gonna go for a long walk and rape the stairs after that! I'm gonna be stomping up flights of stairs like nobody's business. Something out there, please bestow me with boundless energy and determination. Kthxbye.

PS: Rain till your heart's content now, not later.

Haha, Hi Fira! Whoever you are :)

I'll add more posts after my trip to Ho Chi Minh! Stole my sister's camera to take some awesome pics. I so wanna take levitating snap shots in Vietnam. Awesome shitxz.

Tues 05.07.2011

Breakfast
Peanut butter cupcake - (300 kcal)
Orange chiffon cake - (200 kcal)
Sardine puff - (112kcal)
Hot chinese tea - (5 kcal)

Lunch
IKEA meatball set - (650kcal)

Dinner @ P.S. Cafe
Rustic beef cheek stew
Truffle shoe string fries
Sticky date pudding
Banana chocolate caramel cake - 800kcal

Fatbuster scale - 2067 kcal

P.S. Cafe's truffle fries are really the bomb. Its like the default side order on every table.

Really loved the prezzies from the girls too. TYVM! <3

PS: Awesome time with awesome friends :)

Mon 04.07.2011

Breakfast
Beef rendang with rice and egg (600 kcal)
Bandung (160 kcal)

Lunch
Chap Chye rice (460 kcal)

Dinner
Chicken soup (400 kcal)
2 packs of cheese crackers (300 kcal)

Fat buster scale - 1920 kcal

I've been craving for Beef Rendang from my camp's canteen for the entire weekend. After satisfying my craving, I'm kinda sick of it. Heh.. See how I also crave for Bandung from that delicious Bandung grass jelly at Gurney Drive on Saturday? I feel like I ate rather healthily today, wonder why the booming scale. Pfft.

PS: P.S. Cafe tmr! Cake + Drink or Soup + Dessert?

Sunday 03.07.2011

Breakfast
1 small bowl of fried beehoon (350 kcal)
Ipoh iced white coffee (150 kcal)

Lunch
8 mini dumplings (250 kcal)
Small banana (70 kcal)
Chap chye x2 (300 kcal)
Red apple (150 kcal)

Dinner
Chap chye
Herbal chicken soup
Onion lime sardine
A little rice - (800 kcal)

Fatbuster scale - 2070 kcal

Busted the scale once more and i was lazing at home the whole time. I'm such a pig! So much time and all I can do is nap and use the com. Although I must say that i made a new discovery today! I occasionally use BB cream (introduced by Kailing when we were in Shanghai, BB 霜) to cover some blemishes when i have breakouts or during days when i feel especially inferior. But today, I was watching TV and got hooked onto the reruns on Channel U. They were introducing a CC Cream that is the evolved form of the now ubiquitous BB Cream. Its supposed to give a rosy and more natural complexion compared to BB cream which forms a pasty and mask like grayish-ness. After a few searches online, Rachel K's CC Cream seemed to be the cream of the crop in our local market. The problem is that it only has one shade currently formulated for fair skinned users. There's word from the Rachel K facebook page that they will be rolling out a new range of CC Cream for users with darker tones sometime this year. So now I'm torn between getting the CC Cream available now or to wait patiently for the new shades to be introduced to the market while living with my current Skin79 Men BB cream. Shall check it out tomorrow at the Watson's store after work!

PS: Impulse buys are so me!

Sat 02.07.2011

Breakfast
Half a Chinese biscuit (100kcal)
5 pods (100kcal)
Black fried carrot cake (500kcal)
Half a persimmon (50kcal)

Weekends always call for MEGA Breakfasts :D

Lunch
10 mini guo tie aka dumplings (250kcal)
More pods! (100kcal)
Maggi Mee Goreng (370kcal)

Dinner
Gurney Drive @ Suntec
Massive dinner with Aron and Chee Yong today but they were all in small portions, so don't freak out. Its a Penang restaurant so, please just add a "Penang" in front of every food item listed below.
Assam laksa
Char kuay teow
Prawn mee
Lor bak
Belacan chicken wings
Sambal stingray
Chendol
Ice kachang
Bandung grass jelly - CHEATED (800kcal)

Fat buster level - 2270kcal FML.

Call me cheap but my favourite food item was actually the Bandung grass jelly drink! I never knew that milky Bandung went so well with Grass jelly. A nice twist to our local Soya grass jelly. I originally wanted to try the Ba long long drink but it wasn't available. *stabs myself repeatedly in the heart*
The food was pretty decent but not fantastic. I mean I remember them tasting a lot more fantastic when I had them in Penang. Well...

I'm still waiting for my HCM tailor to reply my email. I sent him an email to ask for a quote on tailor made items, even attached an example of what I wanted to make but he hasn't replied me yet. I suspect he doesn't understand what "quote" means>

PS: 12 more days to my most beloved City!

Breakfast:
Nasi Padang less rice, with beef rendang and fried chicken wing (600 kcal)

Lunch:
Mango fresh cream cake (250 kcal)
5 sotong ball, 3 slices of duck break meat, 3 deep fried prawn fritters (400 kcal)

Tea:
Half a strawberry donut (250kcal)

Dinner:
A bowl of mixed vegetables (300kcal)
A chinese pastry (150kcal)

Today's fatbuster scale: 1950 kcal BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMZ.

Higher kcal intake today. BAD. But at least I didn't cheat :)

I actually wouldn't have had the Mango fresh cream cake if Darryl hadn't called to ask if I wanted any cakes from the canteen! The cake was real good though... ...

PS: I feel like I've been too afraid of being by myself.

Homecoming Queen

Breakfast:
Vegetarian Beehoon (600kcal)

Lunch:
KFC snackers (500kcal)
1 slice of banana cake edge (150kcal)

Dinner:
Chinese food @ River Palace Restaurant - CHEATED (500kcal)

Fatty scale: 1750kcal

Ji Jie's back which calls for a gathering that has been long due.



Dinner at River Palace tonight was awesome! We were supposed to have the ala carte buffet dinner priced at $20.80 each but somehow they changed the price to $38.80. The GSS promotion of 30% off all ala carte items further deterred us from going ahead with the buffet. So we ended up settling for an ala carte dinner. The food was indeed worthy of a Cheena Hotel. We ordered a Stir Fried fish with ginger and spring onion, Braised mushroom broccoli, Roasted duck crispy wrap, Hor fun & Olive Char Siew fried rice. Especially loved the fried rice I know its kinda lame to love fried rice but it really went well with my palate. I really might go back there again if the hotel wasn't so out of place..

PS: Ziwei's a mad hatter shopper. Rush rush rush!

Sometimes I wish I had held on longer. But like I always say, patience is probably one of the least of my virtues.

Everyone who's on a permanent diet or like me, SAYS THAT they are on a diet but act otherwise would probably heard of a method to control what you eat. Its called the Food Notebook, where you write down what you have eaten for the day to reflect back on what you should have eaten and what you shouldn't have. After 3 years of wanting to do this, I've decided to start it TODAY! Where else am i gonna do it than on blogger. So from now on, I shall list down whatever I have eaten for the day and rate the FATBUSTER level myself. This might actually encourage me to write a little more about my self proclaimed epicurean lifestyle too :)

Dear friends, please note that I actually consume this thing called Fat Blockers occasionally for extra sinful meals! Don't judge me, I don't want to go back to being a Ba Zhang. Everytime I take my Fat Blockers before a certain meal, i will add a CHEATED beside it just for a more accurate kcal calculation!

Breakfast:
1 small pack of mock duck kway teow from my mum (450kcal)
1 green apple (70kcal)
1 small bowl of rockmelon (70kcal)

Lunch:
Peranakan food at Peranakan Inn & Lounge with my sister
Babi Ponteh
Ngoh Hiang
Sambal long beans
Half a portion of rice
1 cup of cold barley (400kcal) - CHEATED

Tea:
Shared Almond paste, Tang Yuan and Chendol with my sister (500kcal)
1 Jacob's Cream Cracker (40kcal)

Dinner:
1 Reese's peanut butter chocolate wafer (220kcal)

Conclusion: 1750kcal consumed today (8.15pm)

Well, this seems alright mainly because i CHEATED. Otherwise I would probably have busted the scale!

Lets talk back about the Peranakan lunch I had today. I've always wanted to try this particular restaurant. I would always pass by the restaurant whenever I take bus 14 back home from Town. I just love the rustic feel and colourful Peranakan tiles on the outer walls of the restaurant. To be honest, my original intention today was to go for Dim Sum at Mongkok Dim Sum at Katong. Unfortunately they weren't open for business today so my sister and I had to settle for somewhere else that was around the area. Then, I caught Peranakan Inn at the corner of my eye and I knew we had to go there! Please note that my sister is also a rather diverse eater whose resume is definitely comparable to mine. I would not call myself a connoisseur mainly because there's so much out there that I haven't tried and probably won't be able to try until I'm older due to monetary constraints. As such, i shall only refer to myself as an Epicurean. Food always manages to overpower my senses and emotions. Whenever I'm feeling down or frustrated, give me some good food and I'll back in the game, pronto!

ep·i·cu·re·an

adj.

1. Devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasure, especially to the enjoyment of good food and comfort.

Whenever I think of Peranakan food, my distant memories of the Malacca trip I made back in 2003 resurfaces back into my mind. The most vivid memory I had of the Peranakan restaurant in Malacca was its dim orange lights and my favourite dish, Steamed brinjal in a tangy sambal sauce. Sadly, that dish wasn't available at Peranakan Inn. Still there were many dishes I wanted to try, like Babi Ponteh which I managed to sample, as well as Ayam Buah Keluah. Sadly, my sister had a nasty affair with a certain Ayam Buah Keluah at another Peranakan restaurant along Katong. Hence, she was wary about trying it again. Still, i must say that the Babi Buah Keluah we had was quite something, I definitely couldn't resist the black sauce that I used to mix with my portion of white rice! It was so Asian and SO GOOD. The meat was cooked just right, not too soft but the meat could be separated along the grains easily with the humble metal spoon. The Ngoh Hiang didn't impress my sister much but it was rather satisfying to me. As another Hungrygowhere reviewer commented, " not the best in the world ngor hiang - but it'd do for me!" Well, I shared similar sentiments but I must comment that a piece of Ngoh Hiang I had hid a piece of juicy fatty meat that made it oh-so-unique for me. I mean, i'm rather sick of having ngoh hiang that contains only lean meat. The Sambal long bean we had was fried with generous portions of seeafood like sotong and prawns giving it a rather homely feel compared to your regular restaurants that only served vegetable as vegetables, nothing else.

The pricing for the food items were rather reasonable as well. I don't if its just me but I always thought Peranakan food was priced exorbitantly. This place sure didn't hurt our pockets too badly! Our bill came up to a reasonable $25.

PS: Can't wait for dinner tomorrow!

Code Word

It all just feels so strange. I sometimes feel so compelled to choose but at other times I feel that I should be too cool to choose. Nobody wants to feel like a loser. Either that or you're too hippie to really care that much. I kind of feel that there are other doctors out there who seem to care more. Not saying that some doctors are bad doctors but surely this patient is worth a little more of your effort considering the amount of time he's been consulting with you. Maybe its time to shift out of the comfort zone and re prioritise. Why stick to that same doctor when he obviously has so many patients that he can't give you that same quality consultation right? Afterall all he wants is to collect more fees from a hopefully evergrowing pool of patients. Good luck doctor, I wish you well :)

Terms & Conditions

Lebanese dinner was quite a failure. Its alright if you're just having a little of it. But not exactly a meal of 3 platters. SCARY. Good thing that the meal was half-priced!

Looking forward to Brunch @ Trader's Hotel with CYC tomorrow. International buffets can never go wrong right? I'm gonna swear by only ONE meal for the whole of tomorrow!

PS: Its sweet. Am i diabetic?

Fat

It's a itsy bitsy raining Thursday. Feeling fat today (ok, i hear people cursing me already) cos of supper at 85 with Aud and Rach last night. But it was awesome as usual, LOTS OF FOOD. And updating Aud on the happenings of our MKG batch. She's always at the "receiving end". Anyways, in case people were wondering where Aud has MIA-ed to, she's actually doing Music in LA, USA now. So, yah, you probably wouldn't see much of her in SG. Right, Aud?

I've decided to go on a healthier diet for the next two days, bearing in mind that I will be having a rather unhealthy weekend consisting of really extravagant meals :D
Hopefully they live up to my expectations :)

Finally got to try SG's Baskin Robbins at Novena Square with Kai Ling for my Birthday treat! Had a thriple scoop of Cotton Candy, Pistachio Almond and Perils of Praline. I know I've said this many times but colourful Cotton Candy always reminds me of Katy Perry..

I'm rather broke now after paying my sister for all the purchases I've made online using her card. Gotta spend wisely for now! At least for the next 3 weeks :D

PS: I've been having a nagging craving for Fish & Chips. Is that my comfort food?

I've decided that I should probably give up on wearing shades. They just dont suit me :(

In Camp Saturday!

Can't wait to live free and dress at my whims and fancies, immersing myself totally in the holiday mood! Can July come quickly please? I'm kind of afraid that I might squander a substantial amount of my savings even before the holidays begin. Its so difficult to control! URGH! I think i need a designated weekly allowance envelope and let my mum keep all my cards again. I need someone to manage my already pitiful finances.

Weekend duty in camp now. 14 more hours to the end of duty! Gonna cab home tomorrow morning. Hopefully all goes well till then. Ubin Kayaking with the Marist peeps tomorrow afternoon! I think i'm the only one who's excited. This coming week is gonna be awesome with tonnes of meet ups :)
Hope I don't tire myself out too much. Don't wanna look beaten and haggard again. I really can;t survive without sleep. So weak! I wish i was as wondrous as Ziwei.

PS: Accents and stereotyping.

IT'S THE BITCH'S 21st BIRTHDAY!

I wOnDeR iF mY sHiFt KeY wIlL rOt If I tYpE lIkE tHiS fOrEvEr >.<

pS: I wOnDeR hOw YoU cAn TyPe LiKe ThIs AlL tHe TiMe.

PPS: Plain Gross!

21st Birthday Party NOT!

If anyone has wondered why i didn't have a 21st Birthday Party, its basically because I didn't think I could organize the BEST 21st Birthday Party. I wouldn't call myself a Perfectionist because I'm too lazy.. Lets just say I'll only do something if I can make it at least impressive and unconventional. But please note that the word "BEST" has different benchmarks for varying subjects. I'm extremely particular some times, other times, i can be quite lax and spontaneous.

Most of you would probably know that I've finally gotten my BB! Happy shitxz :D
Still learning the ropes right now and I must say it might be challenging for me to outsmart a SMARTPHONE. Damn technology!

PS: MAMBO JAMBO!

Nat's 21st

Awesome time at Nat's 21st Birthday party! Met up with many long lost TP MKGers. Gonna upload more photos when they're up!

PS: I really wanted to see Nat unwrap the present!

Birthday @ Home

Celebrated my 21st Birthday at home with probably the most understated Birthday Cake in the world. From the proud bakers of Flourpeople! Really loved the fluffiness of the cake even though it was so rich in nuts and some red jam thingy. Haven't figured out what it is yet.

Mum cooked lots of good food, kind of like a banquet. Fried chicken in Thai sauce, Chilli Crayfish, Assam Prawns, Teowchew Steamed Fish. Home cooked food always RULES!

PS: Need really really proper financial management this time.

Birthday Lunch @ Il Lido

Credits to our official event photog, Aron Ho :)