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Thursday, August 30, 2007
- new blog song -
Hmmm, spur of the moment. Just recorded a hasty song by Leanne Rimes, Right Kind of Wrong. Enjoy! If it doesn't sound nice, just click the stop button on your explorer...
Hmmm, spur of the moment. Just recorded a hasty song by Leanne Rimes, Right Kind of Wrong. Enjoy! If it doesn't sound nice, just click the stop button on your explorer...
Labels: My Songs
1:49 AM.....ILWXB
0 comments- Blades of Glory -
Have been watching quite a lot of movies recently, so many that I don't know which one to start reviewing on first. So I chose this, at last a comedy which is worth recommending. The main topic of the story is really simple, all about ice skating. Throughout the movie, it introduced ice skating as such an interesting and wonderful sport. Got so see many stun they do in ice skating competitions. The two actors, Will Ferrell and Jon Heder really skated well, or maybe the the ice skating doubles and stuntman were totally amazing. Anyway, there were plenty of jokes throughout the jokes. Most of which were lame but not exagerrating lame. Of course, there were also jokes outside the ice skating ring, such as the thing about sex addict. Secondly, there's a really funny finale with the Iron Lotus. You got to watch it to believe it. Lastly, if you're a ice skating fanatic, there are plenty of references to ice skating champions in the show. Nevertheless, you got to watch it to believe that it's a worthwhile show. :)
Have been watching quite a lot of movies recently, so many that I don't know which one to start reviewing on first. So I chose this, at last a comedy which is worth recommending. The main topic of the story is really simple, all about ice skating. Throughout the movie, it introduced ice skating as such an interesting and wonderful sport. Got so see many stun they do in ice skating competitions. The two actors, Will Ferrell and Jon Heder really skated well, or maybe the the ice skating doubles and stuntman were totally amazing. Anyway, there were plenty of jokes throughout the jokes. Most of which were lame but not exagerrating lame. Of course, there were also jokes outside the ice skating ring, such as the thing about sex addict. Secondly, there's a really funny finale with the Iron Lotus. You got to watch it to believe it. Lastly, if you're a ice skating fanatic, there are plenty of references to ice skating champions in the show. Nevertheless, you got to watch it to believe that it's a worthwhile show. :)
Labels: movies
9:31 PM.....ILWXB
0 comments-Anjappar -
It's been quite long since I blogged anything about food again. Anyway, went to Little India for some spicy cuisine to celebrate the passing of my IPPT. So here's yet another spicy episode of....
HO JIA EHTM
Anjappar Authentic Chettinad Restaurant (website)
76/78 Race Course Road
Singapore 218575
Tel: 62965545
The restaurant, located at the famous street in Little India, lined with many other Authentic Indian food, Anjappar restaurant appeal to me the most because..... Moses Lim was in front of the entrance. Well, at least his poster was in front, it totally help with my decision making along the street. (cos I don't know which restaurant to go to!). Anyway, the restaurant ambience was quite good, smart looking waiters and restaurant captains and a glass wall between the tables and the kitchen to allow the customers to take a peek at how the chefs make their food. Poor thing, they can't even eat snake with the constant staring from the patrons' eyes. Their bill only include the 7% GST. No service charge included. Anyway, here are the delicious dishes that I ordered that day....
Mango Lassi
One of the many beverages recommended by the restaurant captain. It's actually fresh mango blended with yogurt. Really thick and sweet. The only bad thing about it was it wasn't cold, it was kinda...... warm. Would really help if they add some ice during their blending. Well, it's a good drink for health enthusiatics because less nutrients is lost!
Price: $4.00
Garlic, Cheese Naan
One of the most famous staple food of India that's comparable to the roti prata would be their Naan. Done with much perfection, not too oily with plenty of garlic (you can see soooooo many garlic bits on the naan, that vampire would be scared of it. Mr anonymous would like it). As for the cheese naan, maybe they could be more generous about the proportion they add in. I truely prefer my cheese naan to be comparable to those of italian pizzas. :D Other than that, the naans looked really appetizing and were hot when they arrived.
Price: Garlic Naan ($2.50)
Cheese Naan ($2.50)
Tandoori Chicken(half)
Another famous dish from authentic North Indian Cuisine, the tandoori chicken. Hmmm, what can I say about this dish. I feel that it's kinda barbecued and quite near to the likes of the Portuguese chicken that I ate in Australia, ie. the meat was tender but a significant proportion of the chicken is "charcoal"/chao ta. The only dish that wasn't pretty much to my liking.
Price: $9.00
Mutton Sukka Varuval
Non-spicy lovers be warned! This mutton dish looks pretty innocent, but it's so spicy it could almost give you the opposite effect of the slurpee; Brain Burn! I think it's the first dish that the restaurant captain recommended to me when I replied to him "SPICY!" when he asked whether I want spicy or non-spicy dishes for the meal. Anyway, what so good about the spiciness of the dish is that it goes away as quickly as it burned you. So, it doesn't have this enduring hotness in your mouth which you can't get rid of by drinking tons of water. In other words, for this really small dish of mutton, you can afford to go through the burn and recover cycles for a satisfying number of times!~
Price: $7.00
Kadai vegetable
The simplest dish in the whole meal. But, sometimes, the simplest dish could give you the most wonderful feeling. It's a mixed vegetable dish with curry gravy cooked together. Spiciness was just right, tasted absolutely perfect with the Naan that I ordered with. The gravy was little but thick, and tasted as if it's blended with some kind of nuts, hence very different from the watery ones that you get from the usual roti prata house. This dish was practically licked clean. A must order if you ever visit the restaurant.
Price: $6.00
They actually have a really wide range of other dishes, such as Curry crab, Masala prawn and thosai which was recommended. Really need the restaurant captains to recommend you something, if not it'll take ages before you decide on something.
It's been quite long since I blogged anything about food again. Anyway, went to Little India for some spicy cuisine to celebrate the passing of my IPPT. So here's yet another spicy episode of....
HO JIA EHTMAnjappar Authentic Chettinad Restaurant (website)
76/78 Race Course Road
Singapore 218575
Tel: 62965545
The restaurant, located at the famous street in Little India, lined with many other Authentic Indian food, Anjappar restaurant appeal to me the most because..... Moses Lim was in front of the entrance. Well, at least his poster was in front, it totally help with my decision making along the street. (cos I don't know which restaurant to go to!). Anyway, the restaurant ambience was quite good, smart looking waiters and restaurant captains and a glass wall between the tables and the kitchen to allow the customers to take a peek at how the chefs make their food. Poor thing, they can't even eat snake with the constant staring from the patrons' eyes. Their bill only include the 7% GST. No service charge included. Anyway, here are the delicious dishes that I ordered that day.... Mango Lassi
One of the many beverages recommended by the restaurant captain. It's actually fresh mango blended with yogurt. Really thick and sweet. The only bad thing about it was it wasn't cold, it was kinda...... warm. Would really help if they add some ice during their blending. Well, it's a good drink for health enthusiatics because less nutrients is lost!
Price: $4.00
Garlic, Cheese Naan
One of the most famous staple food of India that's comparable to the roti prata would be their Naan. Done with much perfection, not too oily with plenty of garlic (you can see soooooo many garlic bits on the naan, that vampire would be scared of it. Mr anonymous would like it). As for the cheese naan, maybe they could be more generous about the proportion they add in. I truely prefer my cheese naan to be comparable to those of italian pizzas. :D Other than that, the naans looked really appetizing and were hot when they arrived.
Price: Garlic Naan ($2.50)
Cheese Naan ($2.50)
Tandoori Chicken(half)
Another famous dish from authentic North Indian Cuisine, the tandoori chicken. Hmmm, what can I say about this dish. I feel that it's kinda barbecued and quite near to the likes of the Portuguese chicken that I ate in Australia, ie. the meat was tender but a significant proportion of the chicken is "charcoal"/chao ta. The only dish that wasn't pretty much to my liking.
Price: $9.00
Mutton Sukka Varuval
Non-spicy lovers be warned! This mutton dish looks pretty innocent, but it's so spicy it could almost give you the opposite effect of the slurpee; Brain Burn! I think it's the first dish that the restaurant captain recommended to me when I replied to him "SPICY!" when he asked whether I want spicy or non-spicy dishes for the meal. Anyway, what so good about the spiciness of the dish is that it goes away as quickly as it burned you. So, it doesn't have this enduring hotness in your mouth which you can't get rid of by drinking tons of water. In other words, for this really small dish of mutton, you can afford to go through the burn and recover cycles for a satisfying number of times!~
Price: $7.00
Kadai vegetable
The simplest dish in the whole meal. But, sometimes, the simplest dish could give you the most wonderful feeling. It's a mixed vegetable dish with curry gravy cooked together. Spiciness was just right, tasted absolutely perfect with the Naan that I ordered with. The gravy was little but thick, and tasted as if it's blended with some kind of nuts, hence very different from the watery ones that you get from the usual roti prata house. This dish was practically licked clean. A must order if you ever visit the restaurant.
Price: $6.00
They actually have a really wide range of other dishes, such as Curry crab, Masala prawn and thosai which was recommended. Really need the restaurant captains to recommend you something, if not it'll take ages before you decide on something.
Labels: Food
5:33 PM.....ILWXB
0 comments- Interesting news -
Hmmmm, recently there's been a hooha about Odex getting the IP of downloaders of animation which they have license on. Issues of privacy and the seriousness of the offence have been brought up a number of times. One interesting article I came across on Today talks about Odex actually trying to scare the people they tracked down to have downloaded the anime and "threathening" them with a supposedly possible tough sentence if convicted when the sentence was actually meant for the offence of actually distributing the animation instead of mere downloading them. I felt that how he tried to argue this topic was rather logical and made me think about how such big organizations could manipulate some things to scare people. Here's the article, have a read. :)
Hmmmm, recently there's been a hooha about Odex getting the IP of downloaders of animation which they have license on. Issues of privacy and the seriousness of the offence have been brought up a number of times. One interesting article I came across on Today talks about Odex actually trying to scare the people they tracked down to have downloaded the anime and "threathening" them with a supposedly possible tough sentence if convicted when the sentence was actually meant for the offence of actually distributing the animation instead of mere downloading them. I felt that how he tried to argue this topic was rather logical and made me think about how such big organizations could manipulate some things to scare people. Here's the article, have a read. :)
5:26 PM.....ILWXB
0 comments- some updates -
First of all, I PASSED MY IPPT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS! My timing was not bad lah, 11.26mins. :D But I could have gotten a silver if not for the stupid standing broad jump. Cannot make it ah, just can't jump far enough. Anyway, during the test, I realised I'm old already, those static stations which used to be not a problem to me, has posed a physical barrier. Next to train up would be for my static stations too. I did about 30 sit-ups and had extreme difficulty trying to complete the last 8 before getting 4 pts for that station. Tough.
Secondly, school reopened on lunar seventh month~ :S. Both lectures which I attended turned out to be only <30mins each. Enough time for me to go to the new Megabites Cafe in Science canteen to wait for a 20mins-wait pizza.
Thirdly, went to the megabites cafe twice today. Nothing much to recommend really. It's just something similar to the western stall in the canteen, just that it is air-conditioned, has pizza that's baked upon order and sandwiches that are so huge that can fill your stomach easily.
First of all, I PASSED MY IPPT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS! My timing was not bad lah, 11.26mins. :D But I could have gotten a silver if not for the stupid standing broad jump. Cannot make it ah, just can't jump far enough. Anyway, during the test, I realised I'm old already, those static stations which used to be not a problem to me, has posed a physical barrier. Next to train up would be for my static stations too. I did about 30 sit-ups and had extreme difficulty trying to complete the last 8 before getting 4 pts for that station. Tough.
Secondly, school reopened on lunar seventh month~ :S. Both lectures which I attended turned out to be only <30mins each. Enough time for me to go to the new Megabites Cafe in Science canteen to wait for a 20mins-wait pizza.
Thirdly, went to the megabites cafe twice today. Nothing much to recommend really. It's just something similar to the western stall in the canteen, just that it is air-conditioned, has pizza that's baked upon order and sandwiches that are so huge that can fill your stomach easily.
10:18 PM.....ILWXB
0 comments- Asian World Cybergames Championship -
Yup, went with zr on the first day of the cybergames championship held in suntec a few days ago. Quite an interesting experience, seeing people play and noticing a huge crowd behind a team playing dota only to realise the reason for the crowd was that the team was an all-girls team. Almost half of the exhibition hall on the sixth floor was filled with computers and there was a main stage game with commentators. Quite interesting at how they comment throughout the game of counterstrike. But it turns out boring after awhile, since you're only watching the action instead of being in the action itself. But nevertheless, got some goodies on the way out! A car seat cushion and a XBOX 360 sticker. =.="
Yup, went with zr on the first day of the cybergames championship held in suntec a few days ago. Quite an interesting experience, seeing people play and noticing a huge crowd behind a team playing dota only to realise the reason for the crowd was that the team was an all-girls team. Almost half of the exhibition hall on the sixth floor was filled with computers and there was a main stage game with commentators. Quite interesting at how they comment throughout the game of counterstrike. But it turns out boring after awhile, since you're only watching the action instead of being in the action itself. But nevertheless, got some goodies on the way out! A car seat cushion and a XBOX 360 sticker. =.="
3:32 PM.....ILWXB
0 comments- Super Tall Ice Cream -
Yup, just a short introduction to one of the famous snacks along the snacky streets of Taiwan. The Super duper long twist ice cream! Taste normal, like the ones from KFC, but the tallness really gives you the creeps. Most importantly, my friends didn't want to share the ice cream with me and so that ice cream turn out to be my dinner in the end. :'( Have to finish before it melts!
Labels: Food
3:23 PM.....ILWXB
0 comments- Mansaku Japanese Food -
Okay, I shall refrain myself from writing movie reviews for these few days even though I've watched so many movies during the week. Have to put them as backlogs so that I can make a good balance between movie reviews and food reviews. So here goes another food review!
Located in the Golden Mile Food Center where its upper floor is always oftenly frequented by army boys because of its wide range of stalls selling army products (I used to go there when I was in army too!). Anyway, the stall was recently reviewed by the channel 8 food review show called 排排站,查查看. My mum watched it, that was why I was dragged to that far away hawker centre early in the morning on my free Friday. Anyway, we ordered a Unagi, Teriyaki Chicken and Pork Cutlet sets. Totally forgotten to take photos of them, so, please bear with it as you imagine with my limited vocabulary and descriptions. Let's start with the Teriyaki Chicken, it seemed to be the most popular dish as the set came with a really nice Chawamushi. The Chawamushi was silky, no bubbles and loaded with minced pork meat at the bottom. Teriyaki chicken was fried, hence wasn't very authentic according to my brother. (Teriyaki Chicken supposed to be grilled). But nevertheless, it was crispy and cooked to the right degree. The unagi was sticky, just using the chopsticks wasn't enough to cut the meat apart, taste not much different from any other Japanese stall you could find selling unagi. Lastly, the Pork cutlet, the one I ordered was alright. The set was supplied with a black-brown sauce which I don't know what it was. The sauce tasted kind of sweet and salty with a strange bit of bitterness. (Japanese BBQ sauce?). Rice was hardy and moist to my liking. I like hard rice! Haha. Actually, the best thing of all is that they cook everything upon order and on the spot. Hence explaining for the long wait and long queue. What I can say is, I don't think it's a worth wait during the office lunch hours but worth a try any other time where there's not many people. By the way, there's this interesting stall beside it that sells Belgium Chocolate and the likes. (Fondue, chocolate chocolate chocolate, etc!), might find some time to go there and try!
Okay, I shall refrain myself from writing movie reviews for these few days even though I've watched so many movies during the week. Have to put them as backlogs so that I can make a good balance between movie reviews and food reviews. So here goes another food review!
HO JIA EHTM
505 Beach Road
#01-93
Singapore 199583
Singapore 199583
Labels: Food
12:18 AM.....ILWXB
1 comments- Ipoh 芽菜鸡 -
Okay, it's really been a long time since my last entry on food. So here's something special all the way from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. Here goes another episode of....
HO JIA EHTM
This dish, quite unique to Ipoh. There's this two major coffee shops opened next to each other in one of the streets ( name of which I can't remember ) that sells this. Now, what's so special about this dish....... The steamed chicken doesn't have much difference from the Hainan Chicken in Singapore. Well, the meat is just as nice, tender and Q including the breast meat itself. The most special thing about it is that it is usually served with another plate of bean sprouts, hence the name 芽菜鸡. The bean sprouts are slightly different from what you get in Singapore. They are more fatter and shorter unlike the long and thin ones which you get here. And according to my girlfriend, it's something to do with the soil in Ipoh. Another thing is that, you get the choice of eating it with the Ipoh hor fun (flat rice noodles), dry or with soup. The Ipoh hor fun was much smoother and more silky than the ones in Singapore. The thought of it makes me hungry now. And ya, they sell till real late in the night, hence a common supper amongst the locals and tourists. Best of all, it's really cheap. You can get something like that in the photo plus three bowls of hor fun and two drinks at 8 Ringgit!
Labels: Food
11:55 PM.....ILWXB
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