Hmm, I dread Sundays.

As usual, I had breakfast before going to church –  A glass of milk with cereals with 2 prunes.

Then after church, off we went to have Japanese cuisine at JCC. I ordered what I felt like eating – Salmon Don without egg. But I forgot that for such dish, the rice comes drenched in gravy/sauce. And indeed, it came as such and I got kind of freaked out, and so I just had to leave some rice uneaten. Nonetheless, I enjoyed my lunch. Well, I guess any food that’s Japanese would leave me satisfied. I even had a slice of swordfish sashimi, 2 slices of cantaloupe and drank 2 cups of green tea!

Ok I need to say this, my crazy sister ate 9 servings of the free ice-cream. I’m sure the waitress must have been shocked to see so many empty containers on the table at where my sister was sitting, all arranged nicely in a line. HAHA.

Dinner was pretty much of a simple affair. I put together some WW penne, zucchini, mushrooms, tomato & basil sauce, 1/2 LC cheese and baked it for 20 mins, tossing them in between thrice, and topped the final product with 3 prawns. Ok actually the prawns came in last because initially, I totally forgot about my prawns.

TADA! (Pardon the ugly bowl)

And to have my serving of fruits, I had 1 frozen mandarin and 5 chopped frozen strawberries. The strawberries were really sweet!

Okay, after a discussion with mum, we’ve come to a conclusion that I’ll stop taking my supplements for a few days. Mum highly suspects that it’s my supplements that are causing all my stomachaches and stomach discomfort. Hmm.. Well, we shall see.

Alrighty, it’s Monday tomorrow, work!  I HATE GOING TO WORK. 4 more weeks to the end of this torture!

Happy Boxing Day!

You know, I used to think that Happy Boxing Day is a day for boxers. I only knew the “box” in “boxing” refers to boxes, not boxers, a few years back. What a joke!

So anyway, I spent my Christmas Day home the whole day. I woke up at 8+ in the morning despite sleeping at 3.30am.

Not really my favorite breakfast

I had Fage with some granola that sis got from Prague, H2H cereals, 2 pitted prunes and cranberry sauce. Well, I guess Fage’s too thick for my liking.

Lunch was horrible! I bought sliced fish porridge from the hawker center, although I knew I didn’t want it at all. Then, when I opened the cover, the porridge just looked so disgusting to me and that left me complaining for a good ‘ol 15mins. I wanted not to eat all, but managed to eat half of it eventually after adding in my own mixed vegetables.

Then came dinner, which wasn’t very good too. My stomach hurt so badly that it made me lose my appetite totally. I had planned to have a sauteed mushrooms & onions wrap with baked chicken, but seeing how bad my stomach was hurting, I reckoned that I won’t be able to eat a wrap. So, I ended with this:

Loved the brussel sprouts

I had quite a lot of roasted vegetables instead – brussel sprouts, zucchini and curried mushrooms. I also toasted half a tortilla into to make some chips and had my cranberry sauce along with my baked chicken. Well, dinner left me feeling super bloated. Then, the pain returned.

So I thought, alright, I’ll take my usual Ensure Plus, hopefully a glass of warm milk will soothe my stomach (well, it worked the other time). However, the pain only worsened and I had no choice but to hit the sheets at only 11pm as the pain was seriously killing me.

Today, I woke up slightly later than usual, and had breakfast at 9.15am instead.

Before mixing up

After mixing up

I had the remaining Fage with the same combi as yesterday except for the granola, with half a 3/4 glass of milk. And usually for now, I’d take a Resource 2.0 with my breakfasts. I decided to have a change for today and had my Resource chilled. However after taking 2 sips, I couldn’t help but warm it up. It’s too thick and creamy to be drunk chilled! It tasted so bad, eeew!

Ok then, in the middle of the morning while I was in the toilet, I burped and vomited. It just came out with the burp, so abruptly that I couldn’t run to the basin in time. That left my stomach feeling rather queasy afterwards. So I had sliced fish bee hoon soup for lunch. I told the auntie that I wanted more spring onions, and she ended up not giving me any vegetables. Ugh, so I had to add in my own mixed vegetables again. Lunch tasted horrible today too.

Then, in the middle of afternoon, my stomach hurt so badly again. Seriously, I have no idea what’s going on. It’s irritating and painful! But I did manage to bring myself to prepare a scrumptious dinner.

:D

Honey-glazed salmon, zucchini chips, roasted onions, remaining 1/2 tortilla chips, and a HUGE portion of salad with kiwi and applesauce. Ok, I didn’t finish the salad in the end, it’s seriously too much! Haha.

Ended today with Fruits of the Forest, and I don’t like it .

On a side note, there’s lunch tomorrow, Japanese food! I’m looking forward to it!  To me, Japanese food is alway safe and I’m sure I won’t have too much of a problem with tomorrow’s lunch, .

Merry X’mas!

Howdy!

Phew!  It’s the end of the work week! YES! I’m just glad another work week is over, which means I’ll have 4 more weeks left for my internship starting next week!

Anyway, yesterday was an afternoon of waiting and seeing Dr. Sandy. I was really worried about yesterday’s appointment initially because my activity level since I saw her last week was seriously high. Surprisingly, I managed to gain 0.2kg! Okay truth be told, ED wasn’t happy with the weight gain. Since then, I just have the illusion once again that I’m fat and my thighs are huge.  Well, but I still eat my meals everyday.

I’ve been craving for sliced fish soup and had it for dinner 2 days in a row. Haha.

Teochew sliced fish bee hoon soup

The fish slices given were rather generous and very fresh. Yummy!

Fish + Vegs. = Pleased Solange!

This was super good. I got this from the homemade noodles in the amk hub’s food court. I like buying from there because they give a freaking huge portion of vegetables. This time, I tried the sliced fish noodles soup, and the fish slices  given were really generous and didn’t have the fishy taste. Included were radish slices, carrot slices, pak choy and chye sim. And the noodles were very springy and didn’t have the flour taste.

Pumpkin love!

When your meal has pumpkin, you’re sure to enjoy a good meal!

Homemade cranberry sauce

I was at the supermarket just now and saw them selling fresh cranberries. So I happily grabbed a pack and decided to make my own cranberry sauce. Well it’s really simple, just bring 1 pack of cranberries, 1 cup water, and 1/2 cup sugar (I used muscovado sugar) to a boil for around 15 mins and leave it to chill before refrigerating!

My x'mas eve meal

I reached home early today (fortunately!) and decided to make my own dinner. I roasted some brussel sprouts, baked some chicken, topped it with some cranberry sauce, toasted the remaining rye bread, and finished my remaining mesclun greens. I even had a glass of almond milk to go along! Satisfying dinner!

Alrighty, I’ve got to prepare to go for midnight mass with da family and friends. Merry Christmas all! Big hugs and kisses!

Can I have a Merry Christmas?

Sorry for having MIA for a week!

Well, I was (or rather, am) really busy with work. I had 2 production shoots last week, where one of them was enough to wear me out. That one was a 13hr shoot and ended till 12+am the next day. Despite having stayed till so late, I still got ticked off by my boss. That got me really upset and furious. One, nobody told me that the shoot would be so long. Two, I didn’t prepare dinner; thanked god for Subway. Three, the cameraman lied blatantly to me. Four, I had to give my supper (Ensure Plus)  a miss. The next day, I wanted to go to office later, but I woke up early. That day, I had to go so many places, carry heavy stuff and finish editing the translated scripts.

Now, for Saturday, I still had to go work. I shan’t go into details, but I was really angry and upset about it. I mean, I’m sure I deserved a break. But no, my boss wanted me to finish editing 38 episodes of scripts by today. I believe a normal person can tell me that’s ridiculously unreasonable. Whatever, I did managed to finish them all today, at the expense of my weekends and sleep.

As for this week, I’m not really optimistic about having a good work week. I’ve a meeting on Christmas Eve, and I’m really afraid that it’ll end late in the night. While others enjoy their half-day offs, I can only hope that I can end my meeting by 7pm. I feel so pathetic, such that I can’t even enjoy Christmas in peace. I really don’t think I’ll have a good Christmas this year.

Alright anyway, let’s move on to some my eats during the period of my absence.

at Canopy - Bishan Park II

Last Sunday, we met up with my Godma for lunch at Canopy Garden. Online reviews were good, so I was expecting much from it.

HORRIBLE!

I had a Mediterranean sandwich (Eggplant, Red Pepper, Mushrooms, Onions with Pesto sauce), and had the fries on another plate. I didn’t eat the fries as I’m still afraid of fried food and potatoes. The sandwich was utterly disgusting. The bread was soaked with oil; the whole sandwich was so freaking oily. I had to force myself to finish the sandwich . I shan’t go back there ever again.

Dessert soup? :"

As I was still out during mid-afternoon snack time, I didn’t have my supplement with me. So while sis and Terry had their chicken rice at Maxwell, I had a nice bowl of Red Bean and Brown Rice dessert soup. Honestly, it was rather good, but I still had a hard time finishing it up. The presence of peanuts in it caused me to have a hard time. Well, desserts and peanuts are still fear food for me.

Homemade smoked salmon sandwich

One evening after work, I decided to make this sandwich for dinner since I can’t fix my craving for Cedele’s sandwich. I couldn’t decide which spread to go along, so I had all three, and the one with honey tasted best.

For some vanilla & milk craving

Another evening, I just felt like having milk, so I had that mini packet of vanilla milk with a slice of strawberry jam toast topped with Sunsweet’s prunes for dinner. I remember, this was last Friday, where I fell asleep for awhile right after dinner. I was that tired.

Kashi H2H Warm Cinnamon + Almond milk + Pitted Prune

This has been my breakfast for… 4 days? I’m so sad that I’m running out of my Warm Cinnamon Oat Cereals . I still have a Strawberry Fields though, but it’s too sweet for my liking. Hmm, hmm, what shall I do?

Prune yogurt = No no

Lunch #2 on Saturday – Toast with LC cheese (yes, I tried to have some cheese, and it tasted great!) + prune yogurt. I had lunch #1 of 2 slices bread with hummus in the office. Poor me. Anyway, I bought that tub of prune yogurt and was really excited to try it. Unfortunately, it failed me much and I’ll never ever eat that again.

You just got to love eating greens!

Dinner on Saturday was pretty awesome, yet a disaster in disguise. I added too much water for the rice, so it turned out like dry porridge, and I added too much pepper for the chicken. Nonetheless, the salad made up for everything .

VERY YUMMY!

I’ve been craving for some homemade pizza since long ago! So off I went to roast some butternut, and brussel sprouts as sides (unpictured). I used a tortilla as the base, with a tzatziki-pasta sauce as spread, and topped it with sliced chicken, roasted butternut, spinach, mixed vegetables and some anchovies.

BEST DAMN BAR!

I finally got down to trying this granola bar that Jenny got for me! OMG, this has got to be the best bar I’ve ever eaten so far! It was so crunchy, and the spice of it was so strong. I LOVE IT!

Rather weird combi? Haha.

I had it just now for dinner, along with a slice of hummus toast. I crumbled up the granola bar and topped it on top of cranberry yogurt. Well, the bar still stayed crunchy after having been “soaked” for a long time. I love the bar, I really do! Sorry, but I’m still feeling so excited over it!!!

Ok folks, I’m done with this entry! Off to drink my Ensure Plus! My weight has been stagnant, and I’m not optimistic about this week’s weigh-in on Wednesday, considering the high activity level I’ve had these days. So I guess the least I could do is to drink my supplements religiously, right? Alrighty, till the next time, take care everybody!

xoxo

Slowly finding my way back

I woke up today feeling determined. Had a rather late night’s sleep as I was chatting with my mum. I told mum to make sure that I don’t cheat on my Ensures anymore. Well anyway, I did wake up on time to prepare to head off for spanish class.

Before going out, I had my breakfast of 2 slices of toast + a glass of oat milk. Hmm, the oat milk actually tasted good!

with a teeny bit of PB&J

I’d arranged with sis to meet for lunch in Wisma at 1pm, but she cancelled it last minute. Initially, I was angry with her for cancelling lunch and contemplated to skip lunch as there wasn’t anyone to eat lunch with me. But after a while, I came to my senses that she wasn’t feeling well hence she cancelled it, and that I shouldn’t be angry with her at all. Tak, I continued with a little of my shopping first until I found my way to Wisma and headed to have lunch alone.

As suggested by sis, I had sliced fish porridge.

If only there were a few cubes of tofu added

Wow, this bowl of sliced fish porridge from Food Republic’s really not bad! I enjoyed it so much that I only left 2 spoonfuls of rice (well though I asked for less rice). I liked the fact that there were a generous amount of lettuce, considering most places only give 1 pathetic lettuce.

After that, I went in search of my 2010 organizer, and finally got a red one in Raffles City. I’m quite happy with it! Tak, by the time I was done buying my organizer, I was so tired and decided to go home, and was just in time for my 1st Ensure of the day after a good bath.

Slacked on the couch till dinner time and off I headed off to the kitchen to prepare dinner!

Farfalle with chicken, basil and mushrooms in tomato sauce + side salad with cottage cheese

I topped my pasta with thyme and chili flakes for some spice. I knew I had to have the salad at the side. I love vegetables and just can’t stand not having sufficient vegs. in a meal.

After dinner, I prepared dinner for mum! I decided that she should have western food for dinner today, heh.

BBQ chicken wrap, mashed butternut squash, honey-glazed ribs, sunny side-up, curried chicken pattie

Mum doesn’t like potatoes, and I substituted mashed potato for mashed butternut, haha. I kind of overdid the egg, which was a waste! I just can’t cook a nice and runny sunny side-up yet.

To round of today’s eats, I had Vanilla Ensure, which I don’t quite fancy now. Mum had a Bailey’s Coffee eclair which I bought for her this afternoon.

And back to a few days back, sis had a fruit tart from Tanglin Club.

I'm always attracted to dragonfruit balls.

Kashi H2H Warm Cinnamon Oat Cereals

Yay! I opened my 2nd box of this a few days ago. Definitely prefer this to Strawberry’s Fields .

Smoked Salmon on honeyed rye bread + side salad with cottage cheese & poms

The smoked salmon was good as it wasn’t salty, and went well with the honeyed rye bread. Salad, salad; I LOVE GREENS.

Strawberry Chicken sandwich

This was mid-morning snack, 1/2 lunch and 1/2 dinner for yesterday. Yeah, I was restricting myself, hence the small portion.  I had a Fruitus Blueberry Pomegranate Oat Bar for lunch (kinda sucked), and a bottle of Meiji Chocolate milk for dinner. Well, I did enjoyed the milk though, surprisingly.

Alrighty, lunch with Godma tomorrow! Church before that first, gonna turn in early! Nightey all!

Lost within self

Seriously, I’ve been feeling horrible deeply inside for the past week. The word “fat” just keeps ringing in my mind. The sight of my waist area expanding is affecting me a lot. I’ve spoken to Jojo before and she told me it’s normal, but I just can’t put it off but think that I’m expanding horizontally. Everyday when I bathe, I just feel so horrible looking at myself. I feel that I’m slipping back slowly to how I was a month ago? I’m beginning to restrict food, count calories,  having the urge to skip my mid-morning snack every single day, cheating on my Ensure during supper, totally forgetting about even having the 3rd Ensure that I’m supposed to have everyday.

I’ve been having very bad mood swings too. I know it’s been exceptionally tiring on mum these days as I keep throwing my temper for nothing. The slightest thing will just irritate me and I’ll just get into a bitch fit. I hate it! I know it! I’m aware that I’m behaving unreasonably, but I just couldn’t control myself for behaving that way.

I’m afraid, of everything. I’m afraid of weight gain. Yet I’m afraid of weight loss too, because it’d mean that I might have to be admitted and my internship will be gone. I know I must gain weight, but at times, I just feel so afraid of it.

I don’t know what to do. I’m totally dreading this coming Wed’s appointments. I losing my confidence and determination again. And the fact that work’s so tiring and busy is only making things worse.

Well alright, unhappy stuff aside. Work this week has been rather fine. Was on location shoot for a training video from Wed to today. Basically, I had to do nothing, so either I find myself staring into space, or playing with the kids. It’s a training video for ABR – basically a therapy mainly aimed at kids with Cerebral Palsy. I was touched at how committed the parents are to these kids, and how determined and optimistic they appeared. I played and talked to this girl too, and she’s one smart girl! She got my name right after one day, and could even pronounce it correctly! Now, how many of you could do this? Admit it, hahaha! I’ll guess I’ll miss this ABR shoot to an extent, though it’s not any interesting shoot at all. The people, yeah, I guess it’s the people who I’ll miss interacting with. From them, I learnt what determination is, what optimism is, and what patience and caring is too.

Next, I got my first X’mas gift already! It’s actually from my boss! I was so excited and happy when she gave me yesterday!  That really made my day.

Alright, no pictures for today as I’ve yet to upload them. Tomorrow I guess. Sigh, it’s yet another day.

Singapore Discovery Center Bloggers’ Outing on 5 Dec

Have you been to the Singapore Discovery Center before? Well, I thought I did, but apparently I hadn’t. Last Saturday was my virgin trip to the Singapore Discovery Center (SDC). How I ended up there was because I’d taken part in an online contest and won. The organizer, 24Seven Communications, then arranged a bloggers’ outing to SDC, and I decided to go with my sis.

All of us were met at Joo Koon station (I’ve never been there!) before walking over to SDC. Fear not, the walking distance was really short. Upon reaching SDC, the first thought that came to my mind was, “So deserted and hidden in such a place. Why would tourists want to travel so far?”. Well, no doubt it’s really far, but I guess it’s what they have that draw the crowds.

Firstly, we were brought around on a tour, which was rather informative to an extent.

The lights will change colors.

This was one part of the tour, which I think I liked best. Over there, we came met Little George.

Throw questions at George!

Little George is rather smart, and I was rather impressed by this little local robot!

4 quadrants - NSEW

This part was rather cool too. It was divided into 4 quadrants, where kids can play with the blocks on the quadrants and build up the land. The gray parts were “forbidden” areas so the kids can’t build anything there. One part that I thought was really interesting was the idea of land reclamation, which was simply just to pull out a drawer! Interesting!

Well, well..

Then we came to this place (I think it’s called SG Tidbits). Basically, it was split into North, South, East and West of Singapore. Quite boring, except that at the end there was an area where people could leave down there comments.

Nice!

There were some rather weird comments which made me laugh, while some were really nice to read.

Very interesting indeed.

After the tour, we were split into 2 groups. Initally I had to give the second part a miss, but I stayed on in the end, and I’m glad I did. We had the privilege to sit on the motion stimulator, play paintball, and a shooting game using real rifles! How cool was that!

Looks good?

No good. I thought it was a complete letdown. What a waste!

Letdown #2

The paintball was worse. We only had 5 opportunities to shoot at this guy. Actually, SDC has their own paintball arena, which is so small that I can’t imagine playing a real game there. Nonetheless, the arena was under renovations so we had to make do with the pathetic paintball counter. Well well..

Cool!

This had got to be my favorite! The rifle was really heavy, and I thought it was quite fun to play! We had 40 shoots each, and after that, they’ll show you the results that you’d gotten.

Kinda real, no?

I really liked this part, haha!

Feeling hungry? Have some tidbits!

In short, I’d recommend that everyone goes down to SDC to have a look at their exhibits. Some are really awesome and interesting to look at. I learnt a little from the tour too! Well, if you’re hungry for some information about Singapore, ‘have your fill’ at the SG Tidbits!

*P/S: Photos credit to Claudia Lim

Cool and chill

The title totally describes my day today, in a positive way.

I had to reach office 1/2h earlier than usual, so I gave myself ample time lest I have to rush and screw up my breakfast and then my whole day. So breakfast was the same – 2 slices rye with jam spread + 1 glass Silk soymilk. I’m desperately trying to finish my soymilk so I can proceed to buy my favorite Pure Harvest’s again.

I had my mid-morning snack rather late as I was busy preparing for the shoot at location. Was tempted to just skip it, but nah, managed to finish it up. Lunch was the same as yesterday too, minus the cereal bar. I’d decided to have Fruitus Blueberry & Pomegranate Oat Bar, but we only had 10mins for lunch. Plus now I eat super slowly, so I didn’t have time to eat my bar at all. I don’t know, but I don’t want to take the risk now. I ‘ll eat slowly if not I’d think that I didn’t chew my food, which means I swallow chunks of food down my throat. Then I’ll start to think of purging out the food.

Dinner was good. I was craving for my house downstairs’ Yong Tau Foo from Xi Xiang Feng. I queued for a good 25mins for my food, haha. It was really nice with its awesome yellow beans broth. I shared some of it with my sis . I was also craving for some dessert, hence I made myself this:

Cottage cheese with strawberry jam, raisins & frozen blueberries

Then I prepared dinner for mum, after taking a good month’s break? I decided to prepare Taiwanese Braised Pork Rice.

It turned out pretty good!

Ended today’s eats with a chocolate ensure, warmed. It tasted good!

Alright, gonna head down straight to location tomorrow morning. Well, speaking of which, I need to charge my Ipod! It’s gonna be a long bus ride there. And.. I should prepare a book to read there .

Shall end off with a question: How do you kill boredom during work?

So far so good

How has your week been? It’s been good for me by far, which is good! Haha. The week started off well for me on Sunday (not morning).

Well, I tried to be smart and decided to warm up my milk before adding it to my warm cinnamon oat cereals. It turned out so bad that I got irritated, and together with the unhappiness I had before breakfast, ED took the chance to spring out. However, things got better before lunch. I had to fix my weekly craving for Cedele, and off I went! I had the Smoked Salmon on wholemeal sunflower seed bread. I have to say that their smoked salmon sandwich is my favorite sandwich, followed by the grilled mushrooms sandwich! And upon seeing that the rye sourdough was on sale, I knew I had to buy it, even though no one’s going to help me finish up the whole loaf .

After lunch, mum and I went to the supermarket to stock up on groceries. We decided to have a Sunday home-cooked meal for dinner, and bought the necessities.

Dinner was a spread, but I only had 3 out of the 6 dishes – Rojak, BBQ wings, Steamed Sea Bass, Furong egg (shrimp egg), Stir-fried Pak Choy and Stir-fried Kailan stem. The sea bass was good, but the vegetables were a bit overcooked. I didn’t try the rest, which are “fear food” to me now. Ok, something worth mentioning. I ATE RICE. Yes I did! I successfully ate rice, and things were good even after that. No purging and all. Yay! Mum told Dad and she said they both very pleased with me .

However, my stomach hurt so badly after dinner. Surprisingly, my hot Raspberry Ensure saved my stomach! Haha!

Yesterday started off really well with a good breakfast. I finally got to try Silk Soymilk, and sad to say, I don’t quite like it. I guess it’s the vanilla flavor that I don’t take to. Well…

2 slices rye bread with a glass of silk soymilk

Mid-morning snack was Raspberry Ensure. It was bad because I think the straw was spoilt, so I ended drinking “air” throughout. It’s was essentially, “bubbly”, but not me.  Lunch wasn’t that good as the noodles were overcooked this time.

Miso soba with chicken, asparagus and shiitake

I had mid-afternoon snack of Vanilla Ensure, which I simply enjoyed. It’s weird how my mood changes that fast huh. Dinner wasn’t good too.

6" Turkey Breast sub + 1 glass V8

Dinner tasted salty! I suspect it was the V8. Don’t you guys think that V8 is too salty for a drink? I felt horrible the whole night and decided to forgo my 3rd Ensure for the day. I still can’t bring myself to drink the 3rd packet.

Breakfast today was the same, and was good . For lunch, I had a change!

A wrap + Kashi Blackberry Graham bar!

Mum said I had to have a bar as the wrap was sufficient on its own. Well, the bar tasted totally awesome! I loved how soft it was, and how it wasn’t sweet, just nice to my liking. I (or rather ED) had wanted to forgo the bar as it made me feel as though I was eating a lot. But I managed to overcome that and enjoyed it.

Turkey Breast wrap with red peppers, spinach, asparagus + BBQ sauce

The wrap was awesome! I finally managed to wrap a wrap perfectly! Yay!

And the best part about today was that I finished work at 5.30pm today! Actually, I left office at 4+, but I had to head down to Mediacorp first, so.. But anyway, work ended early for me today! And I had dinner with mum and satisfied my craving for dumpling noodles. I had Chives Dumpling noodles, which didn’t make me that happy as the soup was too salty. The dumplings were salty too, but the ’skin’ was nice and the noodles tasted nice with no flour taste. Then, some unhappiness caused me to be irritated and ED sprung out again. IRRITATING!

Alright, gotta go for a video training shoots on Wednesday and Thursday. Well, at least a break from those translation stuff! Okie dokes, gotta go heat up my Ensure! Nitey all, xoxo!

MY SIS IS BACK!

My sis got back from Prague on Friday! But as I’d mentioned, we didn’t meet till the next morning.

The both of us got up early and headed off to the Singapore Discovery Center! Ok here goes the story…

I joined this online contest which I had to identify 2 photos. And I was lucky enough to win a Purple 135 Film Holga!

Lucky me!

I was really shocked! So the organizers arranged a tour at SDC for the bloggers and I decided to go with my sis. We met the rest at 10am and walked there from Joo Koon Station.

Well, the tour was boring, nothing much that I’d like to say. While the rest had lunch at the cafeteria, my sis and I left to have lunch at Jurong Point. OMG, JP sucks! It’s so small and crowded and uninteresting. Nonetheless, we settled our lunch at Ichiban Sushi, which I suppose would be our 1st and last time there. Sis ordered the Chicken Katsudon plus a mini chasoba, while I had the beef udon soup. The chasoba was still passable, until our main food came. We were utterly disgusted by the katsudon. The Katsus were so bloody damn big and thick, and the egg was disgusting. Instead of those watery-kind of egg, it seemed more like the Katsus were coated with it before being deep-fried. And due to overcooking, the egg had little holes (air bubbles) on them. It was simply disgusting. And then my Beef Udon soup was so oily and salty that I only managed to finish 3/4 of it and decided I should really stop there.

As we were paying, the cashier asked for our feedbacks. We told her the unpleasantness of our food, and she directed us to her manager. In the end, the manager waived the cost for the Katsudon (which we were totally not expecting). Well, good to say so!

Then after lunch, we headed down to Raffles City and Marina Square. Walked around, stopped for sis’ tea-break, and continued before it was time for dinner. I’d been craving for Thai Express for a long time, and so it was dinner over there! I had the Glass Noodles with Fish in Tom Yum Soup. It wasn’t nice, but edible. The tom yum flavor wasn’t distinct, and there was too much noodles in my opinion. My biggest fault were the fish slices. They were so thick and hence all were uncooked! I managed to finish all except one though, as I don’t really mind eating raw fish. But it was kinda disgusting as well because the middle part of the fish slices was cold while the outside was cooked. That piece that I didn’t eat was simply uncooked for the whole damn piece! And then we shared a plate of mixed vegetables with mushrooms. It was so sweet (imo) and salty (in sis’ opinion) that we ended up pouring water to dilute the sauce, and still ‘washed’ our vegetable in my soup before eating them. Sis also shared a plate of deep-fried soft shell crab with Terry, and she felt sick after that. We bet the oil used wasn’t good.

Having had a bad day of eating plus Terry’s craving for sweet stuff, we decided to head off for supper (excluding me, of course). We tried to locate The Patissier, to no avail, plus where we had a knock on Terry’s car (oops!).  Next, I suggested Mei Heong Yuen, but parking was crazy. So we ended up at Laurent Bernard at Robertson Quay.

Now, we were utterly disappointed as well. The staff was really stupid (pardon my words, but she was really stupid), that she even had to ask if there were seats for us. I mean, it’s such a simple task, I believe she could’ve just looked around and answer that question herself! We waited long for our seats, and sis ordered a cup of Hot Dark Chocolate while Terry ordered a Vanilla something-something. When the Dark Chocolate came, I knew my sis would be disappointed. Indeed, the drink was disappointing. The milk didn’t seem to be frothed well, and the chocolate didn’t seem to have melted properly too. Sis said the taste was still alright, albeit not the most fantastic hot chocolate, but one of the better ones that she’d had before. Cashed and it was time to head home.

As I reached home at 10.30 (and my clock showed 10.50pm), hence ED decided to spring up and I ended drinking only 1/2 cup of my Ensure.

Bad day bad day bad day!