Oh~ I am so touched .
A tiny newsletter site for me designed by Shan . This is better than Christmas .

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The first week of school I say "How do you do"?
while I drag my feet up to my hall.
My bed is a mess and my heart is distressed
So just hand me that damn panadol!


The teachers are cruel with spades, sticks and trowels
As they shovel our workload on us.
And ~ argh WTH sick of rhyming .... so I'll just end it offf by saying......
HAPPY NEW YEAR. not



Live long and prosper

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This came abit late but - pffft.... As Einstein says (he didn't) :"Speed is only relative to the inverse of motivation".

Shing-a-ding-ding~! In Plaza Singapura just beside Spotlight lies as hidden little cafe/garang-guni shop that allows you to have a nice cuppa while you ~ if your majesty would so desire ~ shop.
It's called Tea Cosy and good luck finding it ~
I had high tea there with Shan & as this is the very first time i have ever had high tea I really can't say if it's good or bad.


Well the entire shop is just bursting with cuteness and everything just screams "Don't Touch Me You Clumsy Fool!!" as the thousands of $50 per head porceline cherubs glower at you through their expensive eyes. I do say for whatever the portions I had for my high tea set, I was quite satisfied.


There were iity-bity pieces of button mushrooms ladden with blow-torched cheese (8/10)
Salmon slice on buttered bread (6/10)
Foie Gras (or however you spell that) on a spoon (8/10)
Buttered Bread with melted cheese (9/10) (damn, they were good)
Prawn in Coleslaw (5/10)
Ham and Pineapple on bread (6/10)
3 slices of 2cm^3 cakes (8/10)
2 raisin scones (7/10)
And a few others that were unmemorable because I can't seem to recall them anymore.

And a pot of Earl Grey Tea.

Ok, that was the good part. Now on to the bad part.
Went to Cafe Cartel with my family one day. Squeeze into an under-sized booth. Fumble with the menu. Sabotage the bread counter (my dad).

There are some food combinations that no matter how strangely you combine would still taste great. Like say : Chocolate and bananas. Or Prawns and Cheese. You can't go wrong with these kind of combos - never.

So why is it when I decided to order something innocent & safe-sounding like "Seafood Tempura Pasta" (come on, who the hell can screw up simple seafood like prawns or squid? And tempura? That's just frying.) Cafe Cartel gives me whole plate of crap.

I won't even begin to say how 2 angst-ridden prawns stared up at me from a heap of depressing looking pasta with 4 pieces of micro-mini squid inside as chewy as second-hand gum and as tasty as someone elses fingernails could possibly go so wrong.


Just look at that poor prawn. Sacrificed on the alter of abominable undercooked pasta. The gravy could have been amniotic fluid. My sister had chicken cutlet. At least her's was edible.

That's it!

CHRIS DAUGHTRY ROCKS MY SOCKS OFF !

BEST.SINGER.EVER. PERIOD !

Can't get enough of listening to his songs.

Whoa~! Guess what?
I said I was gonna upload photos of my taiwan trip but ~ Tah DAAH~! The glorified camera we used to take almost 98.55% of our trip went bust and screwed up the SD card. Or it was the SD card's problem in the first place. Or it was the netbook we loaded our data in, or it could be a number of other things like for example, the main culprit of all unexpected events - global warming - or Skynet's cyber mainframe of cyborg hostile takeover, because I HAVE NO PHOTOS.

Yes~
We lost 98.55% (that's an accurate percentage, mind ya) of our photos.
Luckily, I did take some snap-shots with my 3.2 Mpx phone camera so all is not lost. Well, actually - it is. But, Argh! I don wanna remember.

So here~! Enjoy with my deepest condolences *sniff*.

Sis armed with a big black, but white elephant of a camera. Ready to Rock n Roll baby!

Visited a nature park in *insert chinese name here*

At Jinguashi. That's me taking a shot of my sis taking a shot at my mum taking a shot at some sea-bed moss. I hope.

At the Volcanic crater at YangTai Shan. Man, you don't get scenery like this in Singapore.

Orange juice and a Cow-tongue biscuit. The biscuit is sweet and pasty. A simple snack while breathing in sulphuric fumes from the crater.

Curry rice dinner at Eslite mega bookstore. Kinda like our Popular back at home, but 12x bigger and stocks everything from books to cutlery.

Went to a Lutheran church on Sunday (last day) there. English service, of course.

JUST CAME BACK FROM TAIWAN, BABY .

Actually it was yesterday.

Just thinking of all the photos i'll have to upload gives me a headache so I'll just type about my trip (like anyone cares) and edit the pretty-ed up entry when I have the time (which i don't).

Taipei in 100 words (195 actually) :

Arrived at airport with neck cramp from ride. Check in to 20°c & zero humidity. See three 7-11’s within 400m – they’re everywhere. Visited a national park and see plants. Nice plants but no animals, it’s winter anyway.

Shopped like hell, really ~ shoppers paradise. Fail to find a single overweight female on the streets. Everyone look like they just came out from an Elle photo-shoot. Look at my Bermudas and sandals & feel massively out of place. See a Show Luo-looking guy applying foundation on the bus. Check my sexual orientation – yep, straight. Proceed to vomit after bus-ride. Taipei buses are like jelly. Wobbly as heck.

Visit a mountain that smelt like rotten eggs, see (hear) fellow Singaporeans. We are as ubiquitous as 7-11s, seriously.

Eat mango-milk ice with small tangyuan ~ divine. Eat it 3 days straight. Eat at Shilin, awesome. Eat at Shida ~ heavenly. Eat at the Toilet Restaurant ~ cute concept, atrocious food.

Basically, Taipei is THE place to shop and eat. And ogle at Barbie doll manga-esque ladies (if you’re the crass sort who notices such things). A bit lacking on the scenery factor, but hey – that’s what Australia is for.

Listening to Chris Garneau's Music for Tourists .
Simply divine music . Makes me wanna reach for a guitar i do not have, and strum a song of getting old.