The Orphanage

Went out the whole of todae...
so feeling kinda tired...
so i shall juz skip all the way to the movie rating...

went to Cineleisure todae...
watched The Orphanage...
some kind of a horror movie...
great story... i felt...
everything seems so logical and linked...
excellent plot...
though the movie's in Spanish...
but still...
reading the subtitles is enough to let u understand the movie perfectly...
story's abt an adopted kid who is on the brink of death and his "imginary" friends...
the kids are not exactly scary...
all but one...
the one with the sack over his head...

this movie sure fits the bill for being a horror movie...
horror movies nowadaes dun really get to scare me much...
i didn't jump at most scary scenes from this movie...
only once...
it's been a long time since i jumped from watching a scary movie... LOL!!!

wat's really great abt this movie is actually how it's actually planned...
it shows u certain parts of the movie... yet hides certain details...
it makes the audience use their imagination to picture wat the scene is supposed to be...
nothing is more powerful dan ur audience's imagination...
coz they'll think of the most gruesome sight they've ever known...
more gruesome dan any make-up artist could ever replicate...
it's like... u imagine a very scary face... den the next scene show's "it's" face...
but it totally sucks and ain't scary at all...
u'll be like... diaoz... sibei sian... Zzz...
but if they left out the scary sight... ur imagination will carry on the fear...
keep putting dat fear into u...
the ending is both happy and sad...

i really feel like blogging down ther entire story...
but i shan't...
it's a really nice movie...
go watch it...
4.5/5

something made me ponder...
it somehow made sense...
it's not about seeing is believing...
but... believing... to see...

Uncle Lim

Well...
i was on the train wif Sabrina todae...
and there was only one seat...
so she sat...
while i stood in front of her...
then the person beside her looked at me...
so i looked back...
but i didn't really bother much...
only after a stop... he suddenly stood up...
and gestured me to sit down... O_o
i was like... err... giving him a blur look...
huh? i'm neither old nor handicapped...
y give up ur seat to me?
diaoz...
i suddenly feel so uncle...
I GOT SO OLD MAH?!
-_-

such ppl are rare and hard to find...
u dun see many Singaporeans like him...
though i dunno if he's Singaporean or wat...
still... i thank him for giving me the seat...
even i dun really need it any more dan he does...

Permanent job scope change?

It all started when WL was sick on Mondae...
den i took over his position at the stoves...
now dat he's back...
it seems like i've become permanently attached to his section... -_-
i've been standing there for abt a week now...
lol... and now he seems to juz sit around unless it gets busy...
den comes over to help me...
whahaha!!!
but... i kinda enjoy standing at the stoves...
it's kinda fun actually... :P

2 daes to pay dae!!!
woot!

Fun @ Stoves

Standing at the stoves are kinda fun actually...
haha...
provided dat it ain't too busy until fun becomes stress...
u feel a great accomplishment when u can fire out a course or better still...
an entire order without help from others... :P

i is happy... :)

I wanna oven...

I WANT AN OVEN!!!!!!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

and an electric beater too... :(

Pure Hot... hotness...

Well...
sleeping... Zzz...
*Beep* - SMS
read wif sleepy eyes...
diaoz...
WL sick todae... so wun be coming to work...
ahhh... watever...
went back to sleep...
*Beep* - Alarm
woke up... replied to his SMS...
went to work...

looked at reservation book...
not much ppl...
k... should be ok...
NOT!!!
juz when service was abt to start...
got a big table last minute reservation...
22 pax
O_o
so todae... kitchen only 2 ppl working...
and me need to run 2 stations...
look at order and take things... for myself to cook... Zzz...
busy busy...
but still able to cope...
boss came... coz his frens wanna dine here... for special menu...
he helped a bit...
but not much...
coz he long time never work here le...
so a bit blur blur...
so i did most of the cooking...

din realise todae lunch full house... O_o
50 pax
wow...
to think we managed to pull through...
2 ppl in the kitchen...
and these 2 ppl...
only joined the restaurant less dan 4 mths ago... LOL!!!
"old bird" sick... so kitchen run by only 2 new birds... :P

after service...
boss asked us out... O_o
huh...... can dun go out?... Zzz...
so bo pian... smile smile at the guests... (his frens)
so he introduced us to them...
as the ppl working in the kitchen...
and then... the gave the O_o face...
"What?! He's the chef? So young..."
lol... dat was wat one of the guests said to me...
Zzz...
nah... i'm not the chef... chef sick todae... LOL!!!
and then they took a photo of us wif boss...

dinner 20 pax...
so still able to cope...
even though still rushing abt... LOL...
now i really feel the heat...
standing at the stove area...
even though in an air-conditioned kitchen...
very hot lah...
can really sweat... XD
and not to mention... dehydrated...
tap water never tasted so heavenly... :P

Hurt badly... :(

Went East Coast todae...
Booked by Candace last week...
so couldn't sae no to her rite?

cycled all the way to the end...
almost reaching Changi Airport...
on our way back...
bike a bit unstable... so wat to do?
hit the brakes...
hit the wrong brake...
front wheel stopped...
front wheel jammed + bike unstable = fly forward...
broke fall wif hands...
knee knocked into the bike...
so hard i feel dat my knee got dislocated...
but actually... not a big deal...
juz some bruises...
sometimes i really hate my life...
seriously...

after dat...
legs tremble... like cannot walk...
too long never cycle so far liao...
den we went for dinner at Tung Lok...

Dinner @ Tung Lok

Fresh oysters @ $3.50 (so much cheaper dan Sakae Teppanyaki... and nicer too...)

Signature Deep Fried Prawns in Wasabi Mayo

White Shimeji Mushrooms with Asparagus

The much awaited Chilli Crab with man tous

And finally... part of our Yam Paste with Ginko Nuts

after dat...
went home...
took a looooooooong journey home...
1hr+ back to home...
haiz...

Raffles Place Joke...

Boss came to the restaurant to makan wif their families...
other dan dat...
only a few other reservations...
nothing much happened...

after work... went home...
while i reached Raffles Place MRT station...
as usual...
everybody ran to the opposite side...
the train stopped there for quite a while...
i knew the doors were abt to close... so i juz walked instead...
den as i've expected...
the doors closed...
then everybody stopped...
now here's the funny part...
the doors opened again...
and all those who stopped...
ran again...
LOL!!!!!!
if i had known... i'd have taken a video... LOL...
joke of the dae... XD

Step Up 2 The Streets

Well... Good Friday to all...
this post is gonna be long...
a lot of happenings todae...
so here goes...

woken up by an SMS...
time is 12pm...
went online... chat and surf a little...
unpack my things a little...
den decided to go out...
raining very heavily outside...
grabbed an umbrella and went out...
juz when i was about to reach downstairs...
the rain started to stop...
so in the end... i walked all over MS wif a stupid unused umbrella... -_-

went down to city hall wif Sabrina...
had lunch @ The Asian Kitchen inside City Link...
i had pork chop fried rice... while she had mushroom and duck noodles...
we shared a plate of guo tie too...
food there was so so...
my rice was a bit bland...
and pork... a bit dry...

Pork Chop Fried Rice

Mushroom and Duck Noodles

She bought her Charles & Keith shoes for work...
before we had durian hokkaido ice-cream... :P
yummy...
i is loving durians...

went GV to get tickets to Step Up 2 The Streets...
movie start at 9:25pm...
O_o
we got 4 hrs of free time...
so wat can we do?
try finding things to waste time... wat else?

so she decided to do her pedicure...
great... dat wasted 1 hr of our time... :)
3 more hrs to go... :P
went Secret Recipe to try the Chocolate Banana...
very huge...
seriously...
u need to share it...
if not... u'll get sick eating it...

Chocolate Banana

so much free time...
wanted to go Esplanade...
but suddenly remembered the Singapore Flyer...
den decided to go take a look...
walked down... past the Ritz Carlton Hotel...
and there it is...
the magnificent construction dat greeted us...
the largest ferris wheel in Singapore...
it's so big i couldn't fit the entire wheel into my photo...
so i took it in 2 parts instead...

Top of Singapore Flyer

Bottom of Singapore Flyer

we went into the building to take a look...
didn't board the Singapore Flyer though...
not todae...
maybe some other time... :)
it's $30 per person... O_o
wow...
when we were inside...
we took another photo of the boarding bay...
so nice lah...
we'll come back here again one dae...
and we will board it next time... XD

Boarding Bay of Singapore Flyer

den went down to the ½door park... dunno how i should call it...
coz it's both indoor AND outdoor at the same time...
so took quite a lot of photos...
and this is the 1st time i'm gonna post MY FACE in my blog...
so now everybody will noe who is the owner of this blog... O_o

Sabrina and me

after the visit to the Singapore Flyer...
we walked back to MS to catch our movie...
and here it is...
after so much blabbering...
i shall now rate Step Up 2 The Streets...

at 1st... the movie started out boring...
coz of all the boring introductions...
but if not for the boring start...
it wouldn't make it such a great movie...
this movie is mainly abt dance and music...
but the story and plot is great too...
the ending actually touched me...
really nice...
4/5

and wif dat...
we ended our dae...
11:15pm when the movie ended...
1 more dae and it's off dae again... XD
i seriously need to unpack my room... Zzz...

10,000 BC

Woke up late todae... O_o
9:40am...
kaoz...
by the time i take MRT to work...
i'd be late until dunno wat liao... Zzz...
so decided to take a cab instead...
went down...
no cabs in sight...
waited... waited...
still no cabs...
so tried my luck walking to North Point...
maybe got better chance there...
reached... kaoz... still no cabs...
so no choice... called for cab...
wait so long liao... if take MRT... i think i'll reach at service time... Zzz...
so total wating for cab... ½ hr... -_-
plus morning traffic jam... OMG!!!
haiz...
by the time i reach... i think i'd be faster if i took the train in the 1st place...
save me my $20 oso... -_-

went Vivo City wif the LP gang during split shift break...
caught a movie...
10,000 BC
it's nice actually...
nice plot...
nice story...
nice graphics...
though we missed the 1st 5 mins of the movie...
it's still nice...
ending quite touching...
abt how an average guy who is a bit cowardly became a hero...
4/5

Hot Hot Hot!!!

K...
todae 1st dae trying to stand at the griller cum entrémettier cum watever hot stuff section...
well... basically...
in our kitchen...
only got 3 sections...
garde manger...
the misc section which overlooks the calling of orders and salamander and microwave and preparing and getting of ingredients and plating and saucier and etc...
and finally... the hot side which takes care of all the stoves cum griller... and watever need be cooked...

so todae i tried the hot section...
and my...
stress sia...
need to jagar so many things...
and cannot cock up oso...
but luckily todae not much ppl...
20+ pax
if not... confirm die until dunno wat...
LOL!!!
grill meat lah... do pasta lah... fry vege lah... aiyo...
lucky never jam... XD

after work... went Lau Pa Sat for supper...
as usual... satay...
how can anybody go LPS without ordering any satay... XD
i still like mutton satay the most...
but if got pork satay...
dat'll replace my mutton satay anytime... :P

This is the day

17/03/2008

the day the seed has been planted

Lazy Sunday...

Went ECP wif Jane todae in the morning...
rained...
so sad... a bad dae to be at the beach...
ate at subway...
lazing... waiting for the rain to stop...
while watching scary movie 4 on my HP...

looking at the rain...
rain drops trickling down the window panes...
felt so lazy...
feel like sleeping...
Zzz...

den the rain stopped...
went cycling...
while she bladed...
after dat... she gotta go off...
and so did i...

went to PS wif Candace after dat...
on the way there...
felt sleepy again...
seriously having this lazy Sundae mood...

lazed wif her at TCC...
chatting abt past memories...
daes we had in Rosette...
sch...
and everything under the cloudy sky...

and yeah...
we went for dinner at Sakae Teppanyaki...
both of us ordered beef set... :P
new concept for Sakae though...
having a pure Teppanyaki restaurant...
BUT...
the food there really sucks...
it does not justify the price they cost u for it... -_-
freshly shucked oysters @ $5.99 each...
taste worse dan ½ dozen oysters at @ Jack's Place for $10+
Zzz...
the only thing nice in the set was the thinly sliced foie gras...
which is still far worse dan the foie gras i have eaten...

the garlic set we ordered...
err... i mean... beef set...
is tasteless...
-_-
but full of garlic...
garlic taste overpowered the main dish...
cuttlefish fried wif garlic...
beef fried wif garlic...
even the mushrooms are fried wif garlic... Zzz...
i eat nothing but garlic...
furthermore... garlic is roughly chopped...
wif quite a few big pieces...
so... not fully cooked...
and have dat raw garlic taste...
the kind of garlic taste dat bites ur tongue... -_-

chawamushi was cute...
they steamed it on the Teppan in an onion cup...
but it still tastes normal...
wanted to upload some pics in my blog...
but all of them look disgusting...
so i shan't post them up...

will i patronise them again?
definately NO!
end of story...

Home : Relocation

Todae is the lase dae i'm gonna wake up in Beach Road...
woke up todae...
movers moving our stuff out...
and i went for work while my family moved over to Yishun...

lunch and dinner was kinda busy...
but i shan't blog about this todae...

after work... went directly to Yishun... to my new home...
isn't it ironic...
dat one person going back to his own home...
yet looking at the map finding the location of his home...
LOL...
looking for my unit number...
almost couldn't find it...
coz i forgot old HDB flats have a connector on every floors wif a lift...
so i was wondering... how come 4th floor dun have my unit no? O_o
lol...
too long never live in old flats liao... :P

moving house is very sian...

especially the packing and moving part...

but once u get to the new home...

u feel kinda excited...

new environment...

and can unpack and redecorate ur room...

like so fun... :P

so finally found it...
and my!!!
the floorplan is triangular in shape... O_o
diaoz...
living room... kitchen... and even the toilet is triangular in shape... Zzz...
boxes littered everywhere...
went into my room... wow...
dat is one small room...
plus all the boxes... OMG...
i have no space to move abt...

My new crampped room

set up my PC...
unpack some stuff...
time to sleep...
Zzz...

Food Tasting?

Lunch busy like hell...
but was quite smooth...
i couldn't sae the same thing for service though... :P

dinner was... as usual... quiet...
a group of 4 came in...
all of them ordered different appetizers...
4 different main courses...
and 4 different desserts...
hmmm...
here for food tasting?
scarly they from Singapore Tatler... LOL!!!
come to rate our restaurant...
highly possible... XD

i'm so looking forward to good fridae... :P

Sun Vs Moon

As the sun rises...
the moon shall slowly fade away...
and as dusk falls...
the sun hiding away...
the moon shall reappear...
but... what if... it's a new moon?

Early release... again... XD

Lunch was so so...
dinner... haiz...
2 pax... LOL...

nothing much to do...
juz do a menu prestige...
den sit around and chat liao... XD
Ah Hao gave us some green tea pudding to try...
the set lunch dessert for this week...
kinda nice... actually... :P

Green Tea Pudding with Green Tea Sauce

i guess todae's the earliest we finish work...
9:15pm...
LOL!!!
oh well... :P

The Spiderwick Cronicles

After Rule #1...
went Imperial La Mian Xiao Long Bao @ MS Center Stage for dinner...
well... apparently... someone didn't noe hashima is a certain deliciously disgusting thing... LOL!!!
i like it though...
oh well... anyway...
my noodles ain't exactly nice though...
maybe lunch ain't digested yet ba... lol...

caught my 2nd movie at MS again...
The Spiderwick Chronicles...
and my... this is one nice movie...
about the hidden secrets of fantasical creatures...
protecting the secrets of wat lies in the book...

an overall great movie...
juz dat i dun like how the ogre died at the end...
like too fast and simple...
it's like... he comes... and suddenly dies...
-_-
a bit lame...
LOL...
but still...
4/5

watching 2 movies in a dae plus the IT show...
sure drained me off all my energy...
now so tired... Zzz...
think i'll be going to sleep liao...
hahaa...

tomoro working again...
so sian...
when will my next off dae come again?
ahhhhhhhh......

Rule #1

Well... after Keyaking...
and the IT show...
we decided on a movie...
Rule #1
a horror thriller movie...

well... as usual...
using same old boring scaring techniques...
using loud sounds to scare them audience...
without the sounds... the images ain't exactly graphic...
so a little note to all horror movie director wannabes...
touch up more on graphical effects...
coz it's so lame to scare ur audience mainly based on sounds...
up till date... the best horror movies i've ever came across are those from Japan and Thailand...

but still the scaring part failed...
there's still some decent plot lah...
so not too bad...
though the ending is a bit confusing...
and some details are a bit impossible...
and has a very sad ending too... :(
still... this movie is worth a watch...
but u can give it a miss at the same time...
XD
2.5/5

movie marathon #2 - The Spiderwick Cronicles

Movie Marathon

Very busy off dae todae...
so i shall split into 3 different posts to blog...

went to Keyaki for weekend buffet wif Ting and gang todae...
at Hotel Pan Pacific Singapore...
i'll jus let pictures do the talking... hahaha...
and also... 1st time i post pictures up taken by my baby... XD

Front entrance to Keyaki Restaurant

The menu which we used to order our a lá carte buffet...

SASHIMI!!!!!! :P

This lobster is kinda nice... a lot more food we ordered... but i never take photos of all of them... LOL!!! busily eating... :P

Big babies wearing bibs... XD

Teppan chef at work...

A little koi pond i took outside Keyaki... nice rite? wahahaha!!!

And finally... the internal infrastructure of Pan Pac... :)

after lunch...
went over to Suntec's IT show...
so many ppl... Zzz...
so sian...
walked one round we left... LOL...

went over to MS again...
and caught a movie...
which i'll be continuing in the next post... hahaha...

Madness... It's MADNESS!!!

Recently very busy...
yesterdae busy during BOTH lunch and dinner...
the dae b4... lunch very busy...
suddenly like so many ppl very rich like dat...
all come eat at restaurant...

tonite also very busy...
furthermore... got special menu... Zzz...
got a long table reservation...
19 pax reservation...
last minute increase to 21...
den when they come... increase to 23... -_-

den got another table of 8...
and many walk-ins...
but...
luckily never all come in one shot...
if not... confirm concuss...
since service side not enough ppl...
boss pulled a server from Muse Bar to work here for the nite... lol...

den an unexpected guest arrived...
guess who?
KM!!!
lol...
came to visit us... intentionally...
but in the end...
ended up helping us... wahahaha!!!
den didn't get to chat much... (which was his original intention)
he left early... coz kena recalled from gf... XD

kitchen a bit overloaded tonite...
coz boss oso here...
Zzz...
den like no space to work...
todae a lot of ppl...
but actually... not very busy...
coz all come in at different intervals...
so it's kinda smooth...
stupid WL tell me fish got asparagus...
make me peel so many... in the end never use... Zzz...
now my fridge overloaded wif asparagus...

tomoro going Keyaki wif Ting and gang...
i is excited... hahaha...
seldom go hotel eat... XD
let's see how's food there... :P

Life and Truth

Wanted to blog abt how busy lunch and dinner was todae...
but suddenly... juz dun feel like it...
thinking a lot...
life...
blogged countless times abt life...
but still like to blog abt it...
everytime a different explanation...
same perception...

as everyone would sae...
life is never fair...
it never is...
watever u wanted so dear in ur life... u'll never get it...
no matter how hard u tried...
it'd end up in disappointment...
and looking beside u...
the person who did nothing gets all the things u've ever wanted...
true?
very...
ask urself... just how many times this happened to you?

well...
wat's meant to be yours... will be yours...
what's not meant to be yours... no matter how hard you try... you'll never get it...

truth?
truth hurts...
most of the time...
it's something u yearn to hear... yet fear it sometimes...

my beliefs are diminishing day by day... second by second...
i'm starting to believe "IT" does not exist anymore...

Water Horse

Went to work at 10am todae...
Robert the key holder didn't come...
wait wait wait...
sitting outside... while sheltering from the morning rain...
wait wait wait... again...
for one whole hr... Zzz...
so while waiting... do wat?
surfing youtube on my HP... LOL!!!
the power of WiFi!!! XD
i seriously love my phone... :)

so came the Dick... or manager...
(ya... u didn't read wrongly... his name's Dick...)
at 11am...
got not much time to prepare ourselves...
in came 2 customers ½hr b4 opening time...
at 11:30am... Zzz...
WL ain't here yet...
so we gotta run the show by ourselves...
juz the 2 of us...
den all came in one shot...
wooooo...
it's a battlefield in the kitchen...
long time never had such a feeling le...
so was kinda fun actually... LOL!!!

split-shift break went watching Water Horse...
a very nice show to be honest...
it's definately worth ur money...
about how a little kid raised a legendary creature...
and their story...
another fictional story of the Loch Ness monster...
many touching scenes...
but still wif a happy ending...

rating : 4/5

really enjoyed watching dat movie...
really nice... :)

dinner was so so... as usual...
other dan dat... it's a pretty normal dae...
except for movie watching... :)

Jokes and IQ questions day

Well... pretty much nothing todae...
lunch not many ppl...
dinner?
LOL...
we sat down telling jokes and IQ questions...
even the service staff were in the kitchen...
only left the poor manager outside staring at the walls...
LOL!!!
so how do u think our business is?

and...
MY BABY GOT SCRATCHED!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
:(

Desert Rose

A bright red rose...
in the middle of the desert...
rapidly wilting in the intense heat...

trying desperately to save it...
watering it every single dae...
in hope of making it survive...
hope...
sometimes... hope does not exist...

maybe the best option whould be to send it to the highlands...
maybe it'll have a higher chance of survival in the care of the highlanders...

roses are not meant for in the deserts...
cactuses are...

Meet The Spartans

Watched meet the spanners in Vivo todae...
oops...
Meet The Spartans... i meant... :P
from the creators of scary movie...
hmm...
wat can i sae?
scary movie was ok... kinda acceptable...
so is date movie...
BUT!
meet the spartans seriously sucks...

it is in no way comparable to it's scary movie counterparts...
yep it's lame...
but it's those insanely UN-funny lameness... Zzz...
short movie...
ain't even qualified for a comedy...
i hardly laughed...
i was like -_- most of the time...

he who watches this is seriously wasting his money...
my advice...
watch online...
don't even buy it's VCD...
it's total crap...

rating?
1/5

Vivo ran out of N95 8GB phones...
so went to Bugis instead for the phone...
and i got it!!! XD
happiness...
the feeling?
like a girl buying $600 worth of shoes and clothes and make-up in one dae...
wooo...

i is loving the phone!!!

It's no longer the same...

Work was different todae...
KM never work liao...
so will miss him...

feeling very down the whole dae...
like something missing...
you didn't work todae...
thinking of u...
thinking of the daes we had...

yesterdae was the last dae of happiness...
everything will be different from todae onwards...
everything will not be the same anymore...
felt a tad of heart broken feeling...

ya... KM is my gay buddy... LOL!!!!!!
from Swissôtel to Le Papillon...
watever... Zzz...