Enuf has been said.

I have always prided myself for my patience and tolerance (except for my mum's nagging), so if someone can really make me lose it then I'll really have to give you credit.

You can continue to dwell in your little world but the Earth doesn't rotate on your axis. The ball has been served and is no longer in my court. Will I ever get it back?

Whatever. My patience has run out. You can say you need time to come to terms, but your actions do not seem to show any effort. Maybe it's just me, maybe it's just you. Aint no matter anymore cuz quite frankly speaking, I dun really fucking care. Not anymore anyway.

Couldn't have been any worse with or without this entry. Just like you, I have my views as well and so since this is my domain, I do not see why I should hide or even try to cover up the fact that I'm quite pissed off. Ok, make that very pissed off.

And yes, this time round, it is specifically targeted, so to my other readers out there, if you dunno wat the heck I'm writing abt, then of cuz you can be sure I'm not writing abt you.

Let's say if you had taken a first bite of what seems to be a real juicy apple, and you see a worm wiggling out where you had just taken a bite. Sure it will leave you with a bad taste.

Question: How long will you take before you will attempt to bite into another apple?

Well, you can argue that how long one takes depends on a few factors:
1) How old one was when one bit into the wormy apple cuz well, traumatic experiences leave the most impression in young minds.
2) Whether it was your first attempt at eating an apple. Suppose it was your very first apple, do you equate all other apples to be bad?

To make things easier, lets just say you were really young and it was indeed your very first apple and the incident resulted in you having such a great phobia with apples (appletrophic?) that it took you say like 5 years before you attempt to bite into another one (good one this time) before you realised that apples are actually tasty.

Now then, you met someone who had the same experience as you but that person maybe took 5 days to make a 2nd attempt into biting another apple.

Would you applaud his/her bravery or would you scorn at his/her recklessness? Would you insist on your view that 5 years is a sufficient amount of time needed to rid yourself of that horrid taste and anything less than that is abosolutely unacceptable?

The above scenario may seem a bit ridiculous but well, there really are cases where people judge others based on their own experiences and so called beliefs and so much so that they can pretty much be blinded from everything else.

And I suppose blessed are the ones who can see past this veil which tends to cloud our vision of greater things that lie beyond.

A&J, TSO and I were discussing where to go for dinner on 20 Sept when Adrian suggested going to Indulgz. Why leh? I ask. Oh, cuz Xiaxue did a food review and since it's her 4th food tasting for the restaurant, we tot it couldn't be too bad, and so off we go to Indulgz



Oven-baked Pork Ribs. To be fair, this tasted better than it looks. Hahah, dunno why the pix ended up looking like Char Siew. The ribs are juicy and tender. Worth a try.

Do not, however order the Char-Grilled Ribeye Steak. If you really wanna have affordable ribeye steak that tastes heavenly, Jack's Place is good enuf. At Jack's Place, my ribeye is served in a chuck of round cut meat, even at medium well, the meat is tender and done so perfectly that I'm drooling as I'm blogging, but this? Tsk tsk, first of all, the meat is cut like a piece of chicken cutlet like that, then hor, I asked for medium well but when it was served, we couldn't even cut through the meat, and both Adrian and TSO said they had to swallow the meat cuz the meat is like rubber.
We had to send it back to the kitchen to be redone. It's more manageable the 2nd time round. And one other minus point, the restaurant does not have steak knife leh, so well, you have to be skilful to use a knife meant for cutting fish and chips to cut the steak.

This is supposed to be yet another signature dish. Signature Slipper Lobster and Scallop Platter. Well, at $29.80, I can't really expect the lobster to be much bigger than it is in the pix. Taste so-so lor, the lobster but we tot the scallops were a bit under cooked. A bit rubbery in the middle.

By the time we went thru the main courses, we were a bit hesitant to try the desserts. Overall verdict? The food is not as fantastic as the food review, or maybe the Chef just happen to be off-form that day? Anyway, I think it deserves 2 soup ladles out of 5 and nope, I wun be going back there again. Unless, I'm invited formerly to do a 2nd food review, hahah.

After dinner, we dropped by this place which serves some really mean kick-ass margaritas. I know, I know, its a gu-niang drink. But try it and you will like it too. If you are looking for bites, they serve Mexican food, if you know how to appreciate all the creamy gravy and sauces and dressings.

TSO and I had peach during our first visit, so this time round, we picked mango. Not bad too and contrary to what most people think, this gu-niang drink can pack a punch too. A jar of frozen margarita has more kick than a jar of bourbon coke or vodka lime, if you ask me.

For finger foods, we ordered something safe, fried calamari. Still cannot escape the Mexican sauces but it tasted ok though, surprisingly. Hah!

Baked nacho chips with salsa dips. This is FOC.

Joey is fascintated with the napkins and decide to do a traffic light shot.

All in all, we had a good evening. Looking forward to our next outing in Oct =)

Dedicated by TSO

Survived a 12km route march with nothing more than a blister and a bruised middle toe.
Think I'm getting fitter, no?

Was reading the papers when I came across this column by one parent who went thru all the traditional chinese 算生辰八字to get the baby an auspicious name so that the baby can grow up fully blessed.

However, the ICA issued the baby with a birth cert number which is most unfavorable to the mother x-xxxx444-x. So thinking that this negates all the hardwork that she went thru, she kb to ICA many times to get a better number but to no avail. So now she writes in the forum to say how rules and regulations should make leeway for cultural sensitivities.

Siao lor, so the ICA is supposed to give daughter X-XXXX888-X instead issit? or X-XXXX168-X? Like that then every other ethnic group/ dialect group also have their own 'pang tang' number lei, then how?

Maybe ICA should let these kiasu/ kiasi parents bid for their babies' birthcert number instead? Like bid for car plate number or handphone number like that lor, the highest bidder will get all the auspicious numbers la.

Hahaha finally the day I have dreaded for the past 365.25 days. The day the Denster turns 30.




After work, spent the evening strolling along East Coast Park with TSO and having a quiet dinner at Waraku. This silly lass actually spent sleepless nights doing up a scrapbooking piece for me. *Touched*

It's being a while since my last update.

Nothing particularly exciting has been happening, well mayb except for Lehman Brothers going bankrupt and Merrill Lynch got bought over by Bank of America and AIG caused quite a bit of a scare in all of us by NEARLY going bankrupt, which luckily it didn't, for the time being. NB, I have like 3 policies with AIA and 1 auto insurance with AHA. If AIG goes bankrupt, it's almost as good as me going bankrupt too.

It's kinda ironic that the ang mohs always do a lot of yakity yak on how their way of doing things is the best way and then their top banks and finanical institutions fell one by one. Whatever happened to their standards and policies and procedures and controls and transparency and what-have-them?

Something closer to home and equally ridiculous, the longest underground tunnel (and I assume possibly the most expensive too) in Southeast Asia aka KPE is gonna be opened for use but in my opinion, they might as well dun build the expressway, if it was designed to ease traffic in the first place.

First of all, there are like 10 speed cameras in operation to make sure vehicles travel at a speed of 70km/hr. So hello? If cars are only allowed to travel at such a slow speed then sure there will sure be congestion right? No worries, there's always the good old ERP to solve the problem. 16 more gantries to be set up for this 12km stretch of 'expressway' from Tampines to East Coast, so that means an average of 1 ERP gantry per less than 1km of the expressway. It is gonna be soooo expensive to travel along that stretch of road but of cuz, our LTA very understanding one, they only build the gantries on standby nia, and they really hope the congestion will not be so bad lor, cuz they also dun wish to turn on the gantries you know?

And then there is something closer to me. ICA just sent me a notice to get my IC replaced. Damn it, this is like the ultimate reminder that I'm gonna join the 30ish club soon and by soon I mean less about 3 hrs away =(
And to add salt to injury, I have to pay $10 to get it replaced. WTF?

I is having our usual msn with TSO when I suddenly realised that besides being 'The Significant Other', she is also my lucky star

(note: actual contents were amended a little to avoid readers from having goosebumps)

TSO says: Eh dear dear , tat day we went turi beach, we paid for Tirta Sea View (3rd and 4th level) -L owest Rate at SGD $185.00++ but we got Tirta Pool View (1st and 2nd Level) - Lowest Rate at SGD $205.00++, heheh lucky hor

Me says: Whoa, come to think of it, my *affectionate nickname* is my lucky star wor

TSO says: hee

Me says: U sit next to me I win me, we go places sure got parking lot even though the place is very crowded

Me says: Go celebrate ur bdae got meet fren n got free champagne worth $700 a bottle, bring u go buffet lunch meet fren again then got 50% staff discount

Me says: Go holiday oso got better rooms

TSO says: Hee, we complement each other ma

When TSO told me she's booking me for 6th Sept and 7th Sept, my initial thought was that she's gonna celebrate my bdae in advance, most probably at a chalet or at some hotel for a romantic getaway.


A Ralph Lauren Polo T

A super chio belt from FX.
And these are not all. TSO said I'm to expect 3 more pressies o.O

How not to be touched by all the effort put in, you tell me? Thank you, dearest =)

By order of TSO, 小疆尸 will be called 小橙 from henceforth

It's that time of the year again. As usual lah, this year I only took the test when the window is closing and only managed to jog a few times before I attempted the IPPT.
And as usual, I tot that I'm still as fit as 12 years ago. In a way, I'm still as fit but really lor, old liaoz, cannot expect to regain stamina just from running 3-4 nights in a year and hope to run like that crazy Jamaican.
In the end, I'm 3 sec short of getting a silver, so it's only $100 this time round. Damn!

Actually after the test, I wanted to go back take my car and then go fetch TSO after her facial at Amara in Tanjong Pagar, but I got stuck at Bedok Interchange for not 15min, not 30min, not even 45min but 1 fucking long hour, waiting for Bus 87!!!

Can someone pls explain to me how is that even possible? And it was not some graveyard hours ok? It's 6 freaking 30 pm! Hello? Rush hour? What's all this bullshit about asking people to switch to public transport to save the environment or to cut down congestion?

If the MRT breaks down, the operator gets fined. If the bus is delayed, can they be fined as well? For MRT, they have display boards telling people the estimated time that the next train will arrive. Although it's not entirely accurate but at least I know, the longest I can expect is 8min or so. For bus, how we know that we would not get delayed and that we can be on time for whatever appointment we have? Who should be held responisible if SBS Transit, for some reason, couldn't get a driver to drive the bus?

In the end, I boarded the bus at 7.30pm and it took me another 45min to get home since it was raining and traffic was crawling. Dearest TSO decided to come to Hougang and meet me for dinner instead, despite the heavy rain =)
It was about 9pm or so when we eventually settle down for some Ajisen noodles but at least we managed to salavge our date. *hearts*