December Food

Whampoa Market Beef Noodles and Rojak

This 牛什粉 is my lunch staple whenever I go for my medical appointments. Soup is tasty, the organs don't stink and just-nice chewy.


Check out the queue! I dapao this back when there's people to share with me at home. The sauce is thick and A LOT (because I asked for more). For $5, it comes with jellyfish. Never knew they go well with rojak. And they use a nice plastic box, not leaky styrofoam or paper. Can rock it as much as I like! The down side is that the 油条 is not crispy. But not nuah until very disgusting lah, so still ok.

When I'm there for breakfast, it would be porridge from Loy Kee. It's actually a chicken rice stall that's supposed to be quite famous, but I really don't think I can eat rice for breakfast. Maybe lunch next time.

Surely there's some other nice food in this food centre? But the first few times I went, my father scanned and could only name a few. Ate the duck rice once, but duck meat is dry had a hard time eating it. The oyster omelette was good but I can't have it for lunch, right? Don't whether it's really so pathetic or we have eyes for different things. So when there's something good, just stick to it.


Mouldy Cheese

My sister brought back some cheese samples from work. This one in particular, looks peculiar. No, the photo is not blur. There is a layer of very fine, mouldy looking covering on top of it and you are supposed to eat it with the cheese. The layer is surprisingly crusty - deceived by its look! The cheese is quite creamy. Saw it in the supermarket. If I remember correctly, it's called Brie.


Ah Yat
We are back again! Because we have another $100 worth of Shaw Towers vouchers to spend, and what is more effective than a seafood dinner?

I decided to get 2 crabs of different flavours this time. I got my creamy pumpkin crab and let my sister choose the other. I knew she would choose the black pepper. I tried it before and it was too spicy for me. But she's like always dying to order black pepper, let her order lah.

Disappointment #1 - NO BAMBOO CLAMS that day.
Disappointment #2 - The drunken prawns we ordered tasted more like herbal prawns.

Delight #1 - My parents commented that the Peking Duck was very cheap at $38, so we got 1. It topped up our bill to $103.81! What would have happened if we didn't order it? Come back to eat again? Hahaha.

Shock #1 - The rice is $1/bowl.



People's Park Food Centre 水饺面

Not nice at all. First of all, it's a mistake because wanton tastes better than 水饺. I'm not even sure how it's supposed to taste like, but anyway, this one is sour from vinegar and quite bland. The noodles is Q, but still can taste the bitterness. It's a pity the name of the stall is not clear in the picture. Can only see Something Chiang Roasters.

My father ordered some duck noodle from another stall that uses this kind of noodle too. For his, 1/4 of them came in a clump. *Sigh*

So this market so big, but 2/2 of the stalls we tried cannot make it? Should have tried the yong tau foo with long long queue.

Latest Craze

At 35 now, more to come!

The Sotong is Wise

1 week ago, my right top and bottom wisdom teeth decided to do some poking at the concurrently. From then, was a spell of chewing slowly, not being able to brush my teeth properly because it got so sore that I couldn't open my mouth wide and hurting even when I wasn't doing anything with my mouth.

Sotongs should be blur. I will consider getting rid of those teeth.

My Free Movies In 2008

Thanks to the HSBC Revolution card's monthly free pair of GV movie tickets, I have rediscovered watching movies in a cinema. Which was actually why I applied for the card in the first place.

This movie thing has taught me the importance of reading the terms and conditions. Initially, I thought HSBC would mail me the tickets, but after waiting in vain for 1 month, I finally got off my ass to find out what happened. It turned out that I had to be the first 500 to send a sms on the first Thursday of the month, beginning 10am. Fine, I turned on a reminder for 7 August 9.45am. 志在必得!!


August
My last movie was about 1yr ago, The Bourne Ultimatum. This time, I was torn between 赤壁 and The Dark Knight. Both had fantastic reviews, been on-screen for a long time and starting to get crappy timings. No interesting movie was going to be released.

After some consideration, breaking the drought is:

Chose it despite the fact that my brother has watched it already and I had not watched Batman Begins. Heath Ledger's death was not a reason.

Truly fantastic action movie! Scary joker! Cool Batmobile! Can I have one too?

Then I must watch Batman Begins too! Obtained a copy from a colleague. So Batman went to some high mountain in Tibet to learn Kungfu from 2 Japanese actors (please do not take this for real)... and they changed the love interest. Good move.


September
It is indeed true that September was a boring month. Seriously, nothing was worth going out of the house for. I let my sister have the tickets since I knew she wanted to watch 12 Lotus. It's a 七月 movie, now already September, must faster watch! Strangely, she wasn't kan jiong at all. I kept reminding her, like I was bugging her to watch the movie she wanted to watch. So weird right, so I decided to shut up... until the last week of the month because the tickets were going to expire. But by that time, 12 Lotus was long gone lah, so she went to watch:

OMG can't believe it. Ultimate waste. But well, it's free.

She found out that she could redeem 1 ticket at a time. I don't know what became of the other ticket.

Anyway, Moeny No Enough 2 became available for download shortly. Your typical Jack Neo movie, but now he's trying to include more and more CG which still has convention halls for improvement.


October
Headache! Like nothing worth stepping out of the house for again! I was waiting for Max Payne to open, but the reviews were dismal. Changed target to Burn After Reading, but my brother doesn't like all-talk-no-action movies and my sister didn't know what it was about. The response for Tropic Thunder was "huh you want to watch this kind of crap?".

There was only 1 choice left, but I had no idea what it is about, who acted (couldn't recognize the Japanese names, except for 常盘贵子) and couldn't really recognize their faces from that tiny GV poster. Heard a good review, so I went for it:

A.k.a. 20-Seiki Shônen

Only when the movie started then I realized the male lead was 唐沢寿明. Got 黑木曈, and many others who acted as kay-leh-fares in various doramas, also can say experienced lah, so I thought it wouldn't be very bad.

It's really not bad ley! It gave a dark meaning to "friend". It's long - 2hr 20min to make your money's worth. The actors spent time looking at one another with the huh-I-did-it-meh look, had flashbacks, which I suppose some people might find draggy, but I thought it's rather common in manga lah. It's been a long time since I watched a movie without reading up about it first, not knowing what to expect at all. So I was like DIAO when it was revealed that there would be a part 2 at the end. Sooo long, yet still got part 2! Power!

And that's not all! Still got part 3! Now I have embroiled myself into another trilogy.


November
While looking for my October movie, 007 was under Coming Soon, hence November's was a no-brainer:

Again, I went without knowing what to expect, but I was under the impression the catastrophe to avert was something nuclear this time. Alas, it was not, and the movie ended before I knew it - less than 2hrs.

Not so impressed.


December
No, there's NO December movie. With my monthly reminder, I couldn't possibly be late in sending my sms. Since November, the lousy system refused to respond promptly, so I bombed it every 10min. For November, I got my confirmation 40min later. This time, I got a response 1hr 20min later:

All movie tickets are fully redeemed for this month. Please visit www.hsbc.com.sg.hsbc.revolution from 15 Dec 08 for new promotions in 2009.

Boohoohoo! Cannot be lor! Somemore the responses for my subsequent bombing trickled in over the next 2hrs. CANNOT MAKE IT! KELONG!

The promotion for next year is less attractive. In order to enable more people to enjoy the privilege, it has been downgraded to 1 free ticket to first 1000, and have to buy 1 ticket to redeem. In other words, it has become a buy-1-get-1-free promotion :\

Nostalgia

While browsing my favorite BT website, I came across this movie which invoked the "hahaha omg this LAME movie!" reaction.

简介：
　　色魔连环案手法变态，女警花生被派作鱼饵引诱色魔，色魔上钓，被追捕下突然自断四肢而死，一警员亦神秘死亡。与此案件接触的人亦离奇死亡。此时，通灵小说家蓝精灵出现，指其中有人被恶鬼所杀，案件亦与道教法哭灭灵钉有关。蓝精灵利用催眠，唤醒人体内潜藏意识，从而揭发真相。可是，竟连恶鬼也一并唤醒过来……







As you can already see from the title, it's a lousy B (or is it C?) grade horror flick. I think my bunch of ex-classmates from JC grabbed it as we were heading to KH's house for Xmas eve. Look, it has the same cast from 我和僵尸有个约会！It's a hilarious film, unfortunately.

J&J Sale 2008

Finally, the long-awaited J&J sale! Time for a stock-take:

• 2 bottles of pH5.5 Body Wash
• 2 bottles of Baby Wash abandoned by my sister from 2yrs back
• 3 packets of panty-liners. Should have been 1 only, when I insisted a few mths ago that we surely had some left, but my sister was too lazy to look for them and went out to buy 2 more.

Have to restock panty-liners for sure. Heard they were going for $1 each!

How about the body wash? I think 4 bottles is about the max we can use in 1yr, but it could be just nice only wor... that baby one need to use a lot right? To be on the safe side, I decided to get 2 bottles.

And a Neutrogena Deep Cleanser for my brother.

Did the shopping list and passed to my father. O well, but things had to go wrong. Apparently, the red packet Carefree was going for $2 and the $1 was another type. So I saved only 10cents, not taking into account the space they take up. So much for a sale. My father could have called me... wrote the $1 so big there :\

I think it's probably the last time I am buying from this sale. When my office move out from there (think we probably will), it won't be worth going so far for this anymore.