Well, time to write more about my life you know. Since it's a blog and it's supposed to be more about my life. :)

Went out to Settler's Cafe yesterday. The one at clarke quay. So I took the bus 167 before taking the Northeast line at Doby Gaut. Man! Must I comment on the cleaniness of the trans island bus number 167. One look at it just simply makes me want to puke already. Some buses have spitting uncles; small cockroaches and dusty chairs but THIS! This is the worse! Do they ever clean the buses at the end of the day at all?

Oh yah, back to the Settler's Cafe. The place was kind of cosy WHEN I first arrived and sat down with my friends before pondering upon their very interesting BUT absolutely messy menu which looks exactly like a monopoly board game. It really took us quite some time to figure out what the menu is trying to convey after turning it 180 degrees right and left plus some explanation from the waitress.

They really have what they stated, almost 120+ board games and card games for anyone old or young. However, we had a really hard time finding a 7-player board/card game for ourselves. Most of their games only restricted the number of players to 5. So during that 4 hours we had in the cafe, we only got to play 3 games of which only one was more entertaining. Service was bad after 2 hours in the cafe as more people came in and ambience went straight down to zero with screaming working-class ladies at the next table. We got so bored with our third game that we kept pondering what they were playing. -_-"

Overall, I think it's best to visit the place during weekdays. Weekends seems like a no no as there will be so many people going and due to their lack of manpower, the customers will be due to suffer. One thing I had to respect is that the waiters and waitresses really have a broad knowledge of every game they have in the cafe. I mean, it's 120+ board/card games! How to remember everything? I guess maybe they went on a crash course and played every single game available. Another thing to comment is that the guy who explained to us the three games that we played simply doesn't know how to use a digital camera. He pressed the button so sharply and didn't even wait for the camera to focus! I mean, analogue cameras also use double-pressure buttons! Man, the group photo he took was really blur. :( One more thing, they seemed really poor at keeping track of our orders and miss a couple of things in the bill. LOL Heard from ZR that they always do that. Wonder if that's on purpose.

Had a REALLY cosy steam boat buffet in Chinatown after Settler's Cafe. How to explain to cosiness..... Hmmmz, I think this picture should explain it better than a million words from me. Well, you see, I am really poor at writing stuff. So here it is.

The place is the upstairs of the steamboat restaurant. It just looks so much like as if we were eating at someone's house(in this case, Mr anonymous's house because throughout dinner we were asking whether he could on the hifi and tv in his house which was just next to the table). The food was okay, some meat balls, tofu skins, prawns and occasional usual stuff which you always find in steam boat buffets. Drinks like chinese tea and cordial were free-flow, but I must warn you to add more ice because their cordials are so damn sweet! We have yuan yang steam boat, which was a simply two different soups in one pot, namely the Ma la(really spicy stuff) and the chicken soup. The auntie was rather nice to us, mixing seven bowls of her "SPECIAL" sauce (which tasted spicy sour, which was nice)for us. Only after which she exposed her fox's tail for her "special" treatment when she tried to persuade us to eat the fried ice cream which she was earning commission for in the restaurant. 7 of us as kind-hearted souls of course didn't reject her offer and order 6 assorted flavours of the fried stuff as dessert. Well, since there were 7 of us, the moment dessert came, we armed ourselves with forks and plunged into a fried ice cream battle. One thing really funny is when ZR tried to poke AND slice that yam flavoured one. The moment he poked it, the melted yam ice cream oozed out from what looked like the A** of the fried stuff. It was so funny that the 7 of us laugh so hard our bloated stomaches were about to burst. Chinatown has never been the same anymore. There were many tourists around and even techno music filling the streets. For a moment I thought I was back in boat quay. But nevertheless, it still has the shophouses outlook and some nice sceneric to take photos of.