i am tired of the waiting game where i do nothing. so here’s some stuff for you guys to have a look.

Singapore’s fairly multicultural, as you can see from some of the picts i have put up prior to this. as such, we celebrate many festivals as well, each belonging to a different culture and religion. this multicultural thing also leads to a variety of food, some so warped by the multiculturalism that i am not sure if it’s really from one particular place. which is also pretty representative of how much we love food.
i had to start out with my favourite first. i miss this place so much ever since i stopped working. Hog’s breath Singapore:

The steak’s still pretty much the same, but it’s so dry. i believe the chef forgot to pour beef stock both before and after grilling. the apple crumble was great though.

thereafter, i begin my ritualistic trip to takashimaya. it’s like a japanese haven, from food, to the bookshops, to even the pharmacy. Japanese clinics are across the road at Paragon. There, i had a few different stuff over a few days:

Some chicken omu rice….

and a ham and cheese takopachi ^^v*

Jason and gang brought me out to have a welcome back dinner with them at Junction 8. Like linxy and wadge, the gang are tech geeks, and by default, anime lovers – which i think somewhat influence our choice of meals every time we meet up. Jason’s a full fledge microsoft secure server geek now though, while i don’t know what wq might be. They brought me to ajisen ramen:

Pepper beef spicy ramen ^^ it was awesome, real good level of spice as well! the service was a little alarming though, and abrupt. this was something that i find common through out wherever i go. i don’t know if it’s because of what we wore, how we talk or maybe, on one of the trips, my friends were indian/malay. The services are not only abrupt at times, but out right rude and condescending. sometimes, owners had ignore us for almost an hour, even though we were the first in line, for them to serve OTHER customers.

Moving along now….

this doesn’t look like a spectacular dish, you are right. it’s the way the chicken is cooked that makes it a spectacular dish, so picture doesn’t do it justice. this is ipoh hor fun, off the store in holland village (most people should know what i am talking about) behind holland shopping centre. The chicken is what i believe as traditional boneless hainanese chicken, and often served cold/cool/chilled?!?! it’s really nice, sweet and tender chicken. too bad the price for it has gone up by a couple of dollars since i last visited.

let me wave a pict of stingray at you, again. i was treated to this by my dear sarah, pals of pals. couple have asked what’s stingray like, and i can barely described to you. The truth is, by itself, stingray have always been bland. it’s a really nice piece of smooth, juicy meat that comes off in tiny pieces from its gazillion bones – but it has close to no taste. It’s the chilli that makes any difference. some malay dishes cook small chunks of stingray in chilli sauce or curry or assam chilli – and gave it a very general name of assam pedas.

The above is a bbq stingray, where a large part is pan-fried (from what i can see) at a high temperature, and just before it’s fully cooked, chilli were dumped on top so the sauces mix in very nicely but not overwhelmingly with the meat.

in other words, the chilli is often hot – reason why i love it :p

That’s it for now, more updates later.

uni finally realised how serious this was getting, and they apologised that the embassy suggested that i was not wanted. they said they need to work things out with the local dimia in canberra, to figure out how to handle this as giving me a new CoE is actually illegal.

 

i came over to norjit’s place to help her “set up” her pc. it’s a pre-packaged free compaq pc that came along with her starhub plan (stuff that only happens when i am not around and disappears when i am) so you can’t expect much out of it. considering that so far i am the only user of the comp though, i guess that’s really all right.

 

which means…

 

 

 

photos! i took photos pretty much all the way till i got in a cab in singapore. i have no idea what you guys really want to see more of though, so i took a bit of each. it’s abit of a discovery for myself too, as singapore has changed alot since i last came back. perhaps not so much in the eyes of people who have come back often enough, but it has changed more than enough for me. i mean, hell, even cabbies have gprs in their cars

 

also, i got reunited with my beloved stingray!!!

 public housing and alot of private housing nowadays are multistorey apartments. the most expensive types though, seems to be the huge arse landed properties/mansions-crap worth a few gazillions here. land’s scarce in singapore you see. this is my tiny cubicle in the sky:

 

or well, it’s there somewhere, but my apartment’s worse than a junkyard, so no photos, gomenasai. i can take pics of our pet turtles though.

of all the things i do miss about singapore, that i don’t hate, though, has got to be the shopping. and they even introduced midnight or something shoppings on fridays now – which i believe is an awesome idea! malls and malls crazy stuff are opened till late!:

 

oh, it’s going to be chinese new year soon, thus the festivities. anyways, this is meant to be just a short post, while i sort out the photos. it should be ready for few explanations in a couple of days. mean while, this is what i did to my phone