Iron Man

Closing of Le Papillon...
went to work todae to clear the kitchens and watever dat's left for us to clear...
throw away all the useless rubbish...
transfer usable store to Muse Bar...
etc etc...
till abt 12pm we went for lunch @ No. 3 Crab Restaurant (if i remembered correctly...)
boss drove us there...
nice food...
ate lotsa crabs... XD

What's left over of our crabs... XD

after dat we went back to LP to complete all unfinished business...
including moving furnitures and stuff back to Edmond's Studio...
after we finally finished...
watched Iron Man...

nice movie...
i like it...
kinda humourous actually...
and cool gadgets...
how i wish i got an Iron Man suit too...
HAHAHA!!!
4/5

Le Papillon's Last Dinner

The final wave of orders just ended...
desserts all out...
clearing the kitchen...
prepared our last dinner...
watever's left of the food in the restaurant...
fried all the fish...
grilled all the beef and lamb...
cleared all the sausages...
took out all the desserts...
beverages...
it's a buffet in LP tonite...
coz by tomoro... it will be Le Papillon no more...

Food!!! And there's even more at boss's table... O_o

Caught stealing food...

China girl Xiao Xiong

Our Tables

Our fun days in the kitchen will never be forgotten...



Memories of Le Papillon and her No. 1 Rigatoni Pasta in Maxwell Road will live on forever...

New Oven

Finally my oven arrived!!!

woo hoo!!!

New oven

With the door open

2 strike offs in my wish list now... :P

I broke my com... :(

Great... just excellent...
something wrong wif my power button...
so took the whole com apart...
den when i finally managed to get my com to power up...
i kae kiang...
placed the cover back without turning off the com...
den the next thing i knew...
PIANG!!!
the cover touched the fan...
and 2 blades flew out... :(
now my fan is 2 blades short... boo hoo... :(
my com now vibrates vigorously and VERY noisy...
i seriously need to get my com repaired... haiz...

Crazy madness dae @ LP

Woke up late again todae... Zzz...
10am to be precise...
LOL!!!
so rushed down to work in a cab...

looked at the reservation book...
woah...
50+ pax...
full house sia...
*faint*
todae is the busiest dae in my time in LP for so long...
work work work...
again... not much time for resting...
todae worse dan yesterdae...
though not as much mise-en-place...
boss came and helped again todae...
his wife and her dad and son came for lunch too...

Dick didn't have enough manpower todae...
coz some problems happened to one of the staff...
so had to come late...
time is 11:15am... and he's all alone working outside...
came in and called for reinforcements... hahaa...
WL and me went out to help him...
WL did the table setup while i folded the napkins...
1st time see Dick so flustered... XD

dinner was very busy todae too...
worked all the way till 12am... Zzz...
den boss told us to take a cab home...
claim from Robert tomoro... LOL!!!
wow... if everydae so busy... we can die sia...
sure shag us to death... :P

had a glass of ice water during work at dinner...
taste so so sweet... :P

Final support

Restaurant closing soon...
many ppl come support for the last time...
so very very busy...
todae so busy until no time to rest...
even during split-shift break oso need to work... Zzz...
whole dae work until dun even have chance to properly sit down and rest...
got an ½hr sleep... -_-
so sad...
non stop crowd...
keep coming in...

boss was here todae...
to"help out"
but still... we did most of the work... lol...
4 more working daes...
den i'll most probably go back to my hotel...
depends...
we'll see... XD

tomoro will still be another busy dae...
i can't wait for next week to come...
:)

Definately Maybe

Got 2 GV movie tickets...
courtesy of Sabrina's mum... :)
so went PS to catch a movie...
watched Definately Maybe...

when the movie started...
it was very boring... seriously...
i almost fell asleep...
maybe due to the delicious curry chicken rice i had for lunch todae... XD
but anyway...
as the movie progressed...
it got slightly better...
still boring though...
it was then i wondered...
y the hell did we watch this movie in the 1st place... -_-
the movie then ended wif a very powerful ending...
which really reached into u and touch ur heart...
very touching...

the whole movie juz keeps u thinking and thinking...
wondering who his wife was...
though a few part was a bit exaggeratingly lame...
wif a few decent humour...
very nice movie...
though u really need to understand the boring initial to actually feel the great ending...
4/5

after movie...
went Swensons for dinner...
the word "Chilli Crab" caught my eye...
so i ordered the spicy chilli pasta wif soft shell crab...
came wif wat looked like a deep fried tarantula on a bed of pasta...
LOL!!!
took a bite...
hmmm... initially was not bad...
but after many mouthfuls...
it really sucked...
taste of plain spicyness... nothing else...
i think the soft shell crab tasted nicer...

Tarantula Pasta?

ya... and btw...
went Best Denki... or is it called Best Connection now?
watever...
i finally bought myself a mini home combi-oven...
wahahah!!!
multi function oven...
includes baking, roasting, microwaving and even steaming!!! O_o
coolness...
but a big hole in my pocket though...
costed me $800... Zzz...
to be delivered to my home next Sundae...
woo hoo...

Dad's cooling tea

Reached home todae and there's cooling tea in the fridge...
my dad cooked it for me...
wahahaha...
he never add sugar... so the tea is tasteless...
but can taste the sweet after taste of the dried longans inside...

had a little running nose in the MRT todae...
i scared i might bleed through my nose again... LOL...
den i imagined...
wat if really bleed?
i really dunno wat to do loh...
i got no tissue... hahaha...
lucky it's juz a running nose... :P

I see red...

Red calls for celebration... lol...
i was at home todae...
when suddenly felt some liquid in my nose...
thought to myself...
maybe i'm having running nose... due to the installation of our new air-cons...
but doesn't feel right...
coz it's too watery...
and hard to control...
tried to sniff it back it... but it flowed down faster...
and the next thing i knew...
i saw it drip onto my bed... and i knew dat something is very wrong...
it is red...
MY NOSE IS BLEEDING!!! O_o

lol... seriously speaking...
this is the 1st time in my life my nose bled... XD
maybe due to the lack of sleep recently...
and busy workload...
on top of dat... little water intake...
causing severe heatiness...
and as a result... nose bleeding...

it was a painless affair which i thought was amusing...
i laughed throughout the bleeding...
and i showed my father...
who said "aiyah... it's nothing... u too heaty liao... later go buy cooling tea and drink..."
and my mum... "AIYO!!! wat happen??? O_o"

anyway...
lunch was very busy...
all came in at once...
lucky i didn't bleed in the restaurant... LOL...
if not i dunno wat will happen...
XD

counting down - 2 weeks...

Two man show again...

WL never come to work again todae... Zzz...
still remember the 1st time WL never come...
den i stood at the stoves...
was a bit kan jiong... lol...
now... it seems like natural to me liao...
2 person working in the kitchen...
still able to run smoothly...
dat's good news... :P

Aron oso never come...
worse still...
the washer oso never come... O_o
everything still not washed at 12pm... Zzz...
the cleaning company brought 2 china men to work here temporary...
i think they only work for todae only...
furthermore... they wash until very jialat...
everything not clean de...
like never use soap like dat... -_-
pans still oily...
i hope the usual steward comes back tomoro...

and finally... it's cooling...
ahhhhhhhhh~

Rouge Crocodile

Watched Rouge Crocodile todae...
an average movie to me though...
in terms of scary contents... so so...
plot a bit expected...
so not much surprises...
juz mainly a movie abt a giant killer crocodile in it's territory hunting it's prey one by one...
it suddenly came to light dat...
all killer creatures in movies are usually associated with water...
maybe becoz u can't see anything under the water...
like Anaconda... Deep Blue Sea... etc etc...
nothing much to sae abt this movie...
can miss it... can watch it...
2.5/5

after movie... went shopping for a bdae present...
anyway... happy birthdae to Sabrina's mum... :)
bought a pair of earrings together wif Sabrina...
looking at her choosing for SOOOOOOOOOOO LONG...
deciding on which earring her mum would like...
and finally decided on a pair...
but she was afraid her mum would not like it...

always hear her complain abt her mum...
but deep inside... she still loves her mum very much...
even though she doesn't sae it out...
i believe she noe her mum quite well...
coz when she gave her the earrings...
her mum got an exact same design for herself... LOL!!!
so it proves dat she noe's her mum's taste pretty well... :)

A Date to Remember...

Aron so sway

Todae VERY busy...
30+ reservations
suddenly all come in at the same time...
fire until heenz...
long time never busy until like dat liao...

Aron sway lah...
come work liao restaurant close down...
usually nothing to do become so busy...
LOL...

after work...
went Lau Pa Sat for satay wif Sabrina, XX, Aron and a mystery guest...
eat until too late liao...
send Sabrina home...
taxi not cheap loh... Zzz...
when cab fares increased... i thought to myself...
i'll never take a cab...
who on earth will take a cab sia?
so crazy lah... increase until so ridiculous...
but still... there will be ppl taking cab...
coz bo pian... LOL!!!

A fragment of my dream

Suddenly woke up at 5:18am todae...
and decided to blog my dream...
and also preparing to be doing something later...
this is the 1st time i'm blogging down my dream...
or at least recording it somewhere...
this is my dream... and don't come sue me for anything i've written here...
i was juz merely blogging my dream...

i was reading the newspaper...
i dreamt dat Fann Wong (or was it a game character? couldn't quite remember...) and quite a few others was drowned in a water tube and now in a coma in hospital...
Costa Sands have to pay Mediacorp millions in damages...
then i suddenly have a re-enactment of wat happened in the accident... (it's a dream remember? dreams make no sense...)
Fann Wong and Florence Tan and a about a dozen other Mediacorp artistes was moving through a water tube (those water theme park tubes but very very much bigger) with running water flowing under their feet... (i only remembered these 2 in my dream)
Florence slipped coz she panicked but they still continued...
the hatch was supposed to close up and water flooding in...
and they were supposed to traverse through the water pipe to the other side for some sort of charity...
i went past Florence and further in (now when did i get into the picture? LOL!!! it's a dream... wat do u expect?) and ended up in a bus... -_-
i was thinking... if the bus were to flood with water...
and everybody would drown...
i would kick the window open the let the water out...
and i would be the 1st to rush to the upper deck to save Sabrina...
OMG!!! wat kind of a dream is this? Zzz...
it didn't flood in the end... coz i woke up after dat... LOL!!!

well... i stress... the above is juz a fragment of my dream...
i dreamt of many other parts...
but this was the only one i could remember...
the more i type... the more faint my dreams get...
and i know if i don't record it somewhere... by tomoro... everything would be forgotten...

anyway... when i woke up...
i couldn't find my phone...
it fell onto the floor... AHHHHHH!!!!!! my baby!!! :(
i can see a few scratches on it... rarrr....
oh dear... i'm starting to show signs of Sabrinaness... Zzz...

k... it's 5:55am now...
i gtg shower... it's getting late...
buh bye...

Aron's 1st nite...

i forgot to blog on Tues...
someone actually ordered ta pau... O_o
pork rack... takeaway...
fine dining got takeaway 1 meh?
diaoz...
1st time i see such thing... -_-

anyway...
todae's Aron's 1st day nite...
cannot sae 1st dae... coz he never come at 10am...
lol...
was supposed to be here at 10am... but he tot 3pm...
3pm nobody working leh... Zzz...
so he came at 6pm...
lol...

Sundae coming again!!!
YAY!!!

Early Bird

Nobody could have guessed wat i did todae...
i woke up at 5:30am...
LOL!!!
1st time seeing 10,000 ppl walking against my direction...
sure caught their view... XD

reached LP very early todae...
9:30am...
lucky Robert open early...
if not i'll have to nap outside Skin liao...
since he's early... i took a quick nap in the restaurant...
so tired lah...

heard news from my cousin dat my uncle passed away todae...
my mum was at the hospital at dat time...
haiz...
life is ever so fragile at times...
appreciate everybody around you...
u'll never noe if it'll be the last time u see them todae...

Sabrina came all the way down from sch to wait 4 me...
though i told her not to...
i noe she's tired...
but she insisted on coming down...
really appreciate her effort... :)

Special menu for boss

Was supposedly a very slack nite tonite...
coz zero reservations...
den suddenly boss called to make a last minute reservation for 8 wif his family...
WL took ½ day off...
so he's not working at nite...
i wasn't around when boss called...
so was asked to call him back by Robert when i returned to the restaurant...
since WL not around...
i'm the biggest in hot kitchen liao... LOL!!!
and dat's not exactly good news... Zzz...
so i called back boss...
he said he wanted a 5 course dinner for 8
diaoz...
so wat am i supposed to do?
-_-
juz think of any menu dat we usually do for special events loh...
dun care so much...

plus a couple of walk-ins...
and an unexpected guest...
Ben and Jasline...
lol...
ordered Duck Confit...
Seafood Nage Soup...
and Main courses
Lamb Rack...
and Chillean Seabass...
i threw in a plate of Rigatoni Pasta for them to share...
complimentary... XD
wow... Ben rich sia...
come LP and eat... LOL!!!

not bad...
2 person run the kitchen...
can still manage to pull through...
LOL...
WL can retire liao...
wahahaha!!!

sorry for letting u come all the way down yet no time for you...
these was all so unexpected...
:(
i feel so bad...

Steamboat @ Le Papillon

Todae is the 1st dae in my life i experienced two extreme opposite emotions an a single dae...
the best and happiest emotion anybody could ever feel...
and the worst and painful emotion anybody could feel...
all in one dae...
details - i shall not sae...

dinner todae was steamboat...
wanted to take photos...
but i didn't had the mood then...
so i shall juz describe wat we had...

since LP closing soon...
so many left over things in the freezer...
y not take them all out for dinner?
lol...
steamboat stock = real chicken stock...
not chicken cubes or MSG or watever form of artificial flavouring...
wahahaha... sure tastes different...
with ingredients...
pork loin carppaccio
raw salmon
sliced red grouper and snapper
crab meat
and lettuce
eat until too full...

later in the evening... ex LP cooks came to visit WL...
den they also joined in the steamboat 2nd round...
after dat... we do the orders...
WL went to the bar and chatted wif them...
after which...
we went home...
also my 1st time taking the same train back to Yishun wif Ah Hao...
after so many weeks of moving to Yishun
lol...

The meeting with Anderson...

Had a meeting todae wif boss...
there are buyers interested in buying the restaurant...
wat's left is actually the signature of both the buyer and our bosses...
if all goes through well...
i'd be jobless at the end of the mth... LOL!!!
dat's cool... XD
but if not... boss might still carry on till maybe October or so...
we'll see abt dat... :P

plans if the restaurant should close down?
i still dunno yet...
maybe go back to Swissôtel?
well... thinking in progress...

anyway... Sabrina's starting school next week...
so todae's her last dae in LP...
so wat's my farewell gift for her?
heh heh...
secret... XD

since restaurant closing soon...

might as well make something to eat... :P

Grilled Black Angus Ribeye Steak on a bed of Sautéed Mushrooms and Roasted Potatoes with Red Wine Sauce

i'll miss her...
she sure brought fun... joy and laughter into the kitchen...
i dunno abt the rest...
but i'll definately miss her... a lot...
it sure is hard to sae goodbye sometimes...

Aron's blunder

Aron was supposed to come work todae...
i reached the restaurant liao...
eh?
how come didn't see him...
only till close to 11pm den WL decided to call him...
it's only then we realised dat there was a major miscommunication...
LOL!!!
WL told him this Thursdae start...
Aron heard next Thursdae den start...
oh well... not a big problem...
haha...
see him next week ba...

LP is closing down soon... (i think)
having meeting wif boss tomoro...
see wat he saes...
if dat's really the case...
i'll really miss the LP gang...
this is the most funnest restaurant i've ever worked in... XD
if really close le...
i wonder... will i go back to Swissôtel?
i'll think abt it...
i miss the pastry ppl too... :(

Donut Factory

Went City Hall todae...
can't decide on wat to eat...
so decided on donuts... -_-
not an avid fan of the once ever popular craze...
but... since todae not many ppl queue...
i shall buy some...
and some = 2 dozens... Zzz...

b4 buying the donuts...
i need to withdraw some cash...
so off i went to the ATM machine...
noticed something queer...
there are 2 ATMs... yet only one queue...
all queued on the right side...
but nobody using the left one...
so i juz went and used it anyway...
press a few buttons here... press a few there...
and out came a $50 note...
i thought... the machine is working fine...
so how come nobody used it... Zzz...
anyway... after i took the money...
those behind came over to use the left machine...
then this guy was struggling at the left ATM for quite a while b4 he suddenly switched to the right ATM...
den i looked at the screen...
"This ATM is temporary unavailable"
diaoz... O_o
now dat explains the long queue on the right... and nobody using the left ATM...
can't blame it...
the ATM love me... LOL!!!
and the funny thing is...
after a while...
both ATMs are down...
hahaha...
so sad... now nobody can withdraw any money...

anyway... here are the donuts...
eat until almost wanna vomit...
shared wif the LP gang back at the restaurant too...

Donut Factory

2 dozens of assorted donuts... O_o

Aron's 1st dae tomoro... lol...

April Fool's 2008

Well... sent an April fool's SMS to quite a few of my frens todae...
and within a minute after sending...
most of them replied...
i instantly got 10+ SMSes back... lol...
one of the greatest April fool's joke i've seen thus far...
:P

went Sakae for buffet todae...
wif the LP gang...
to celebrate pay dae... lol...
other dan dat...
nothing much happened todae...
as usual...

oh ya...
Teck Guan bought his own website...
lol...
juz started not long ago...
so still needs lots of improvement...
anyway...
for all those who are interested...
please visit...
http://www.sgcookster.com/

a web site which he intends to put up recipes and give comments of food outside...
much like Makansutra and the like...
a web site where ppl share recipes and anything related to food...
a web site is up... dat's the 1st step...
devotion and dedication is needed to keep it running...
a lot of time will be needed to keep it up to date...
if not... ppl will start to forget all about it in time to come...
well... anyway... i wish him all the best on his success... :)
who noes one dae he'll own Singapore's no.1 food web site?