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Sunday, December 30, 2007

X'mas Part 2

Hello hello!

I've like a truckload of pictures from all the Christmas celebrations :)

Took a very long time to edit them all.

2 miscellaneous photos that has nothing to do with X'mas. Took them at a hong kong cafe @ airport. I just love the way the photos turn out.

Imperial bowls

Wall with magazines

All right Christmas photos from now on.

::Christmas Eve::

Every Christmas signifies the birth of a very best friend.
Happy Birthday Miss Yan.
For her 20th birthday, I've decided to make her marshmallow brownies after I saw Cherie baked it from her blog.
The brownie had to be baked first before adding the marshmallows.
Adding the marshmallows was the most fun.

Pillows of Marshmallows

After 5 mins in the oven

With M&Ns on top

On Christmas eve morning itself, I lugged the food to Yan's house before meeting the rest to go to the function room in her bro's condo.

Yan's niece and nephew was at her house. Her niece, Jana, is super cute. She's so chubby and appears to be very happy that day.

Cute isn't she? She looks so docile :)

While waiting for Yan to prepare, I took some pictures of her X'mas tree. The candy cane picture turns out to be very nice. Love the contrast between the foreground and the background and how the background seems a bit blur (I swear no photoshopping here :p)

Reflection in bell

Over at the condo's function room, we took many pictures. That's what you get when you place 6 girls together. Some of the pictures were taken before Florine came. Which explains why there are only 5 girls.

It was off to the airport to meet Sean for dinner after the celebration.

Nice X'mas tree at T2.

After dinner, we went town to see the X'mas lightings.

A famous landmark in S'pore.

:: Christmas Day ::

Spent our first Christmas together =]
Exchange of gifts!

A soccer husky for him!

An Eskimo bear for me!

Soft toys are getting more and more expensive nowadays. Both the husky and the bear came from built a bear @ Suntec. Itz a wonder how much consumers will pay for customization.

Dinner was at a Japanese Teppanyaki restaurant located at The Central @ Clarke Quey.

All their utensils had rabbits on them.

After dinner, it was down to Asabu (or is it Asabo?) for desserts.

My fav red bean paste with mochi

Wandering around Clarke Quey after dinner.

Merry X'mas my dear!

All right finally uploaded all the pictures! Dinner time! :)

Labels: Birthday Celebrations, Special Occasions

Clare [5:19 PM]

Friday, December 28, 2007

Christmas Part 1
Hello my friends =]

Merry X'mas!

The season of giving has its wonderful memories in this little island we called home.

Even without the snow to complete, we still have much fun and laughter =]

X'mas gathering with the JC clique.

We had steamboat at Bugis. Was literally full to the brim. Sinful sinful.

Pictures from the gathering made into a slide. Christmas Part 2 soon!

Labels: Special Occasions

Clare [10:46 PM]

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Holiday Joys

Greetings!

What I love about the holidays is that we have all the time in the world to do what we want and what we please. Besides occasionally doing some work here and there, holiday is the time when I can go around to have good food and travel from Aljunied to Old Airport Road just for chee cheong fun. It is the time when I need not worry about incomplete tutorials and impending tests.

Been having quite some Japanese cuisine recently. Tried out the Ramen place @ Century Square. The food was pretty disappointing.
Their salmon ramen was so-so. The salmon taste nice with the sauce, can't say the same for the noodles though. As for their 'must try' Gyoza (Jiao Zi or meat dumplings), I would say the frozen ones that are sold in supermarkets taste better. The toufu was pretty bad too.

Salmon with the so-so noodles

Another Japanese place we tried was Ajiteh @ Plaza Sing. The food was passable but the service was bad. Hardly anyone was around when we wanted to take our orders. In the end, we had to pass the order list personally to one of the waiters.

Salmon salad

Grilled Fish

Salmon Terriyaki

Seems like what we've ordered are mostly fish based dishes. But oh, we just love our fishes :)

Other random non-food pictures.

Snowing in S'pore

Sometimes, the best food out there are not found in fanciful restaurants but at the humble coffeshops in our heartlands. Inspired by delicious hawker fares at www.ieatishootipost.blogspot.com , I marked out places to try fish (yes, again) and my favourite chee cheong fun and ah balling. I left my camera at home that day so all the food pictures shown below are taken from the above mentioned website.

1st Stop: Aljunied Avenue 2

At Aljunied bus stop

Stall number one: Ng Soon Kee Duck and Fish Porridge

We waited for like 30 minutes for this fish soup. Good is an understatement for their business. Sean was awed by how the aunty manage to remember who ordered what and where they sit considering the number of people who ordered from them. A $5 bowl of fish soup is not enough :( The fish was very fresh. Slurp.

Stall number 2: Citizoom Minced Fish Noodles

This was the stall that sells noodles made from fish. Yeap, so it is basically a pure fish dish for fish fanatics like us. The noodles was quite springy but my favourite was still the fish ngor heong.
Fried till crispy, every bite packs a delicious omph.

2nd Stop: Old Airport Road

At Kallang mrt

We wanted to try the chee cheong fun and the beancurd with ah balling from there. Unfortunately, the beancurd stall was closed, leaving us with only the chee cheong fun to try. The chee cheong fun stall offers fresh chee cheong fun of dim sum restaurant standard at half the price. We ordered 3 different kinds - Char Siew, Mushroom and Prawns. My favourite was the Char Siew one.

Chee Cheong Fun still taste best with char siew!

So that's all for the food expedition. I'm getting kind of tired from typing and editing photos and uploading them. Lol.
Night guys :)

Labels: Food, Holidays

Clare [11:34 PM]

Friday, December 07, 2007

I watched a movie on the net this morning. It was a recent movie titled "Halloween". A rather disturbing movie about a 10 year old boy who murdered his family and killed many others.

A young murderer never fails to spook me. Just what is it that makes innocent children kill with a cold blooded thirst that sends a chill down one's neck? Is it an innate evilness within them? Or external factors that led to such tragedy?

My interest enticed, I did a fast search on the Internet and came across one of Crime Library's archive - the first story under the category of young killers is enough to shock one.

It reads "Who could look at the face of this sweet 10-year-old girl and ever imagine her to be one of the youngest serial killers ever discovered. Was this youngster who killed her playmates without any feelings of guilt the result of a monstrous family or a bad seed or something else?"

A 10 year old girl has murdered her playmates, inflicting wounds on them with a terrible playfulness that was blood chilling. This little girl was called Mary Bell, and she had carved the letter 'M' on the belly of one of her victims.

This was what she said about the little boy she has murdered.

"Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed."

-- Mary Bell

Another extract from the article:

"Mary Bell was standing in front of the Howe's house when the coffin was brought out. I was, of course, watching her. And it was when I saw her there that I knew I did not dare risk another day. She stood there, laughing. Laughing and rubbing her hands."

Just what is going on through the mind of such a child?

A child - an epitome of innocence and purity, committing such unspeakable cruelty.

A devil in disguise indeed.

Sometimes we humans are no better than the savage creatures we fear in this world. Why do humans fear savage beasts like lions or tigers if we ourselves are capable of such brutality?

Labels: Bored Ramblings

Clare [5:09 PM]

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Amusing Ad!

Labels: Bored Ramblings

Clare [4:12 PM]

Saturday, December 01, 2007

Blogging again

Greetings!
Itz either I don't blog or blog too much in a day.
Hmmmm.
Been too bored.
Life without mugging is at times...
empty.
Guess I'm abit used to waking up at 9am and studying till 12.30am.
Haha.
True words of a nerd.

I've been having some career thoughts lately.
Was thinking of venturing into advertising industry.
Yet at the same time, there is some sort of apprehension.
I don't really know what to expect.
But whatever it is, I want to take this opportunity to try it out.
I shall actively source for my internship this holiday.

Vincent recommended Oglivy and Mathers - one of the best advertising firms in the world.
I have to say I'm tempted by this challenge.
Tempted to try new stuff and set foot into the corporate world.
Somehow an internship is different from a temp job.
An internship is like taking a peek into what life I'm going to lead in 1.5years time.
Can't believe my education journey is going to end in 1.5 years time.

On a lighter note. Some photos from Sean's birthday celebration.
He's a November baby too :)

Silly boy acting grumpy again

Hope you've enjoyed your birthday dear =]

Christmas is round the corner!
Pretty Christmas trees set up all around town.
Love this one @ PS.

The fuzzy version:

My camera is with my parents in Japan.
Can't take pretty pictures for a week.
Heh.
Oh and I painted my nails dark red today. Love it!
Shopping with yan and guru tmr!
:)

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P.S. I just realized something. In my previous post 'Birthday Celebration Part 2', I put the words birthday boy in one of Sean's pic. I've mixed up both our birthday celebrations! Haha. I should be the birthday girl on that day. Lol.

Labels: Birthday Celebrations, Love

Clare [11:56 PM]