Bad Case of Insonmia

Seriously, I enjoy watching Martin Yan’s show every weekday on channel five. However, whenever I watch the show, I choose to mute it because when you can actually hear what is going on, it’s quite retarded really. I mean like, I guess he is being entertaining to some, but it’s annoying when he behaves like an idiot, making weird noises whenever he doesn’t have anything to say just to fill the silence, or when he doesn’t know what English word to use. Like he didn’t know the word of some kitchen appliance and he went this wonderful robotic AH-HA. I mean…

For someone who slept at like five yesterday, I’m surprisingly awake and energetic right now. I woke up at like 9.30 today and lazed around in bed till 11.30. I was supposed to be at Aaron’s house in the morning, but I was too lazy to crawl out of bed. Anyway, I knew that if I didn’t call him, he would still be sleeping. We went to Tampinese together to meet Cindy.

The trip to Somerset was definitely not without funny moments. I can’t get over the fact that Aaron was actually bitching about Xiaxue and when he suddenly saw this woman with Xiaxue like hair, body shape and height, he turned to her and asked are you Xiaxue! I mean who does that!!! Haha, I think I almost died from laughing so hard. We arrived at around two thirty at Heeren and wandered around waiting for Sakae to allow us in for the students buffet. Some nice lady there allowed us to reserves seats first. We managed to kill time at HMV with Cindy and Aaron debating over which was Jolin Tsai’s latest album (wasn’t really interested).





Haha, the two neoprints are hilarious. Apparently the neoprint shop in Heeren had some neoprint contest and this two were runner up and first prize winner of the competition. To be honest, they look really ugly in the picture and I have no idea how they won. Maybe the judges were judging the picture on creativity or something.

Thank goodness we reserved seats at Sakae because when we went up after that at 3.00, the place was miraculously packed compared to when we were there at 2.30. So we managed to get nice seats near the starting of the conveyer belt where all the food that were just prepared would come out. For the first time in all my visits to Sakae, we were warned about food wastage. Haha, the waitress found the pile of rice I hid underneath the stack of plates and informed her manager. Lol, of course, we managed to find other ways to hide unwanted stuff that came along with some of the sushi.

We pretty much stopped eating the rice-type sushi after the warning because it would cause us to get full faster. Instead, we ate things like chawamushi, fried crabstick, fried tofu etc. The only thing that had rice in it was the soft shell crab hand roll. Oh theres are two new types of chawamushi now available at Sakae. One is the tandoori chawamushi, the other one I can't remember the name but I know that it has pumpkin in it.


Only took a picture of the pumpkin chawamushi.

We managed to think up of a few new ways to hide food that you don’t want to it, for our case, it was the weird shredded cucumber that the chef’s put into the hand rolls, probably in an attempt to make us full faster.

Step one.
Some plates come with the cucumber as a garnish, so to get rid of the excess cucumber in the hand rolls, carefully place some strands on every plate that you have on the table, making sure that its realistic enough to show that it looks like a garnish that came with the sushi and not a pile of unwanted cucumber from the hand roll.

Step two.
If you somehow didn’t take enough plates to get rid of the cucumber or that the waitress at the particular Sakae that you go to is really efficient, make us of the small tiny plates that they provide to hold your soy sauce and wasabi. First, you place the shredded cucumber into the soy sauce. Since its transparent, make the sauce murky by putting loads of wasabi so that it looks there’s only soy sauce and lot’s of wasabi. Take it from me, this trick works like quick sand. It sucks all the cucumber in and hides it rather well. However, the only bad part about this is that the plates are really small and if you use too many plates, the restaurant staffs might get suspicious.

Ps. this works really well if you are trying to get rid of rice because the staff will just assume that your sushi fell apart when you were dipping and that it is too salty for you to eat it anymore.

Step three
If you have ordered chawamushi, keep the bowl and throw a few strands of cucumbers in. This will definitely work because it will just look like the weird stuff in the bottom of the chawamushi that reminds me of tang hun.

Ps. this works really well too if you are trying to get rid of a bit of rice.

Step four.
If you really love hand roll and have so much cucumber that step one, two and three doesn’t work, put it into the container that comes with the soba, add light sauce to better hide the cucumber because this way, the staff may think it as just little strands of left over soba noodles.

We walked off all the eating at paragon and spent one hour there playing with all the electronics stuff at Sony, walking around and pretending that we were rich, visiting Cindy’s friend who worked nearby, looking at ridiculously expensive stuff and wishing that we could afford it.



Haha, this photo is hilarious. It was at the entrance of Paragon and is actually an advertisement for hair removal, lol.

I decided to post photos of last week when we went to Audrey's house because we had nothing better to do. I managed to give Yvonne a makeover on one day and the two of us and Nicole cooked noodles on the second day. As incredibly stupid as this sounds, it was my first time cooking noodles by myself. Or maybe it was my second time, either way it was somewhat of a new experience, haha, so I got rather excited over cooking noodles. ><''


Yvonne's Makeover!!!


Waiting for the water to boil to cook Nic and my noodles.


Yvonne cooked hers in the microwave and she couldn't find the seasoning until after the noodles were cooked and she realised that they were stuck to the noodles.


Don't mess with her when she is hungry.


YAY!!!

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