It’s only October and I got my first birthday present with love from London 
Archive for October, 2008
My Birthday Came Early!
October 29, 2008Inspiration is hard to come by, or are we simply being fussy about it?
October 29, 2008Lulu and Your Mum is a blog I recently found and added to my google reader. Totally agree with this recent post, couldn’t have been more spot-on.
“I think one of the reasons I had been very depressed for the last few months was because I had been meeting very little people that excited me… about anything. In a period of 2-3 weeks I had gone out multiple times and met 0 people I liked, and 1 person that I actually quite hated. So in fact, I was accumulating negative friends. Awesome.”
She’s cool.
A Pen
October 26, 2008I really am a stationery freak and I especially love pens and notebooks. My relationship with pens seems to have reached new heights; my previous post on the Sakura Souffle has been linked on a blog called the Pen Addict!!
Souffle Pen
October 24, 2008
I got some new pens. One of which is a Sakura Souffle pen. I picked it up because it came in, among other colours, grey. Sometimes I like to stray from the usual black & blue, yet staying close to dark ink. A brown pilot G2 springs to mind
I started to use my new gray pen with much excitement! The ink took more than 5 minutes to dry! I touched it immediately after writting and it smudged. Weird. I went out for the day, came home and when I next caught sight of the Souffle ink, it had indeed puffed up and looks like paint-pen ink! Curious, I googled it and, haha, it even had a product video on the sakura site! Turns out it writes on plastic too.
Admittedly, I am a stationery freak. I have too many pens and notebooks as it already is.
RSS
October 24, 2008RSS fed simply ain’t same as the real thing….packaging.
Life is luck, make it
October 24, 2008Been playing tennis more these days and even some badminton! My knees haven’t been feeling too great after all that though.
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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
~ Mother Teresa
Kha at HortPark
October 22, 2008Kha
HortPark
33 Hyderabad Road
Singapore 119578
+65 6476 9000
http://www.kha.sg/
Yenn Wong strikes again, this time its a Thai restaurant smack in the middle of a horticultural park in the Alexander area.
Food: Thai food, thai ingredients prepared and served with western influence. Eg, the traditionally hot and sour Tom Yam Goong is more sweet than sour here, and each serving has a singular king prawn in it.
Crowd: I thought it would have been extremely coupley but turned out it was more family, highly expat and also very chilled.
Ambiance: Nice! Our table was by the water feature: a large, shallow infinity pool. The al fresco dining area blends into the horticultural park and there were still visitors and tourists milling around till late.
Cocktails: weak.
Service: I’m sure they would have gotten better by the next time.
Price: $$$.5
PS Cafe at Dempsey
October 22, 2008PS Cafe
28b Harding Road
Dempsey Hill
Tanglin Village
On Saturday after class, we decided to stop for some food on the way home and went to Dempsey for brunch
Food: I’ve never been impressed by the food at PS Cafe. It’s always been ambiance over food. Go without expectant taste buds.
Crowd: Lovely place. Remarkable decor. Pretty people, generally young, expat, yuppies in casual clothes.
Price: $$$ We had a PS Cafe special Wagyu burger, poached eggs +++ and a drink each (coffee & tea) – about $35 each.
Re-visit: Its kinda hard NOT to revisit the PS Cafes as everyone else seems to love it. I’ve been 4 times, and counting.
I think PS Cafe is overpriced and overhyped and I find the food generally forgettable.
Simple Pleasures
October 22, 2008
One of life’s simple pleasures is a leisurely weekend brunch at the market where coffee is 60c and a meal is $2.50 and where I’m spoilt for choice of what I could have.
Truffle Oil
October 22, 2008
The other day, I tagged along to the supermarket and saw this rack of White Truffle Oil on the deli counter above the hams and cheeses. $59 a pop. Wah. Observe how they have a custom rack.
