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Name: fayreii
Country: Singapore
Metro: Singapore
Birthday: 10/23/1982
Interests: sometimes great designs and arts, sometimes math, but many times writing of insignificant random observance and other times the satisfaction of relishing excellent food
Occupation: food cirtic and one of those w
Industry: it's glamorous, it's stylish,
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Member Since:
8/2/2005
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| I know it's been a really back to the back dated post but sadly, unfortunate people like me, who have no freaking internet access from work (I work in a financial institution, so there's all the confidentiality crap), with very rare free time, can only manage to post them up now. So here, I present to you, food porn all the way from Sydney, Australia. After spending 10 days there, what you see here are merely just a very brief summary of what went on down there. Day 1: Upon landing and after dropping our luggage at his place, we dived into a really huge bowl of vietnamese pho. Krispy Kremes was right after next. Then after a quick stop at Nike + Adidas factory outlet, it was back home for some a huge feast of homecooked dinner. There were just 6 of us for dinner, but I swear his mom prepared for 16!! Day 2: Breakfast was served, which was again, total overloaded for me. We drove into the city where we picked up my friends who were there for vacation as well and headed for The Rocks. We had one HUGE chocolate covered strawberry and bloody (no pun intended) good angus steak sandwich. Next stop was Bondi Beach and had the best Vanilla Slice and Raspberry Strudel I ever had. There too was the biggest Rum Ball ever. Sorry guys, if you lived where I live, you'll too find that everything here is super upsized!! Dinner was at a small, quaint japanese restaurant with some of his friends. Fresh sashimi and whitebait tempura... yummy! And then, supper time!! Picked up my friends again and headed for Pancakes On the Rocks @ The Rocks. Verdict: Totally shiok-a-doo-doo (in other words, freaking awesome)!! Chocolate milkshake, pancakes with strawberries and chocolate pancakes, I could so do this every weekend.  Day 3: is shopping in the city, stopped by for some pretty cupcakes. Dinner was supposedly at a nice tapas restaurant he wanted to recommend, but it was shut down. So went to another tapas restaurant nearby which was still good for us. And of course, that cute french girl working at the bar made it even better. After a short break at home, we were out again.. for Meat Pies @ Harry's Cafe de Wheels! Munching on piping hot meat pies, by the pier in 16 degrees weather, oh yea.. life's good.  Day 4: Manly Beach outing! The ferry ride out was really fun and taking in the sea breeze, clear blue skies and seagulls flying above, is just... aaahhhh... Life's good. There, I had a really good takeaway fish & chips by the beach, and that people, is what I call, chilling out...! Oh yea... I'm so loving Sydney. Dinner was at this small and cozy Thai restaurant, somewhere in Randwick. Chat Thai was the place, and yep... people were chatting away, conversations bouncing off the brick walls. For us, it was silence because we all were too immersed in our dinner. 7 dishes for 4 people, we finished them all anyways.  Day 5: We went to my new favorite hang out place - Sydney Fish Market!!! Slabs of freaking fresh sashimi, fresh oysters by the cartons, freah prawns by the buckets... oh yes... this is where I like to be. The best part is, the market doesn't smell fishy at all! Unlike the markets back home, the smell is.. eerghh.. intolerable. But over here, I likey... In short, I never had so much fun eating sashimi, oysters and prawns, and oh did I add, eating by the pier..?! *grins* Dinner was at a italian restaurant @ Gioia for some really good authentic pizza and pastas. And since then, I've sworn off commercial pizza outlets.  Day 6: was spent mainly at home coz I got sick.. ergh.. blame it on the weather. But dinner was really nice with really romantic ambience, at Jonah's, all the way at Palm Beach. A really classy restaurant where I had a damn good piece of medium rare steak. Are you thinking of charming a girl..? This is the place. On the subsequent days, there was shopping, shopping and more shopping at factory outlets, a chocolate feast at Max Brenner, which by the way, the Max Brenner back home is NOTHING compared to the one here in Sydney, more driving around in his little maroon Integra. A family dinner at his sister's place where she annouced that we're all gonna be auntie, uncles and grandparents, where tears of joy were shed and celebration took place. A very short clubbing session followed after that at Ivy's. It was short because the music, sadly, wasn't that great. And then, back to hot, hot Meat Pies for supper at 1.30am by the pier in the cold. And finally, a BBQ house party with loads of family friends gathered around to celebrate birthdays and arrival of a baby on our last day.
Damn... I'm really missing Sydney right now. I can't wait till December, coz guess what'll happen then... I'm back to Sydney again baby!!! This time, it's Christmas celebration and New Year's Eve Party there!!!! WooOoOooo HhooOoooo!!
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| I finally had my lasik surgery done and with that, am given 3 days off from work. It feels great, for one, I no longer have to rely on my glasses (which can get so annoying sometimes) and two, its nice just sitting at starbucks, going back and forth reading my book and writing this.
This whole sitting at a cafe at 10am on a mid-weekday reminds me of school days when all we have to worry about is what we have to do the next day. And sometimes I worry about that game which I can't seem to complete. It's been such a long time since I last took my own sweet time at a cafe, that somehow, sadly, it feels kinda surreal.
We've always been chasing time, rushing for deadlines, getting dinner ready and running late for appointments. And when it comes to weekends, you had so many activities crammed in 48 hrs that the weekend just whirled by without any warning. And then its back to the crazy work week.
Letting time pass by slowly. Watching the world go by. Don't we all yearn for this? When work isn't an obligation. When you no longer suffer from insomnia just because of some stupid work issues. When bills and mortgages don't worry you.
Would you succumb yourself to worries which can't be solved right away? Would you give into chasing something which is forever infinite, keep on chasing materialism? Or would you sit back and remind yourself of how you became what you become, achieved what you've been working for? Of how you found someone who you've been looking for?
It's time to chill, dude. | | |
| When we were in high school, all we talked about was how cute that boy next door was or bitch about how slutty she dressed. Then again, it seems some of us still talk about those even after high school. *cue High School Never Ends song*
Anyway, the point isn't about life after high school. It's about how we go through different phases in our lives and some of us, luckily or not, have to go through this phase called marriage. Yes, its that dreaded word for some of us. But apparently for some, its something they would like to go through, and others, a form of responsibility.
At this age, it's the norm to have people around us talking about wedding and I'm currently facing 2 of them who are going to send themselves straight to the hell-o-marriage. One have to get married cos they've been together for almost ten years and she will not sleep with him unless they get married. So for now they have to live under the same roof but different rooms.
As for the other, it's very likely she's just in for the money. She's one who loves Prada and other luxurious brands. And since his family owns a big company, living in a huge mansion (technically, they own 2, but occupying 1, the other's under renovation), and gives her a supplementary credit card to swipe as she likes. So she must be thinking "why not?!". Okay, giving her the benefit of a doubt, she probably loves him dearly (also probably his inheritance more), she has to move in with the MIL (mom-in-law) which she is very against about. So she'll have to suck in and compromise with the very conventional MIL.
If that's not enough to flaunt about, we chinese have to hold wedding banquets. And it just seems that couples (mainly hugely influenced by the female species) want to have as extravagant, as dramatic as they can afford. From holding a banquet with 100 tables (average seating is 10 seatings per table) to getting a Maserati as their wedding car and to traveling to foreign land to have their wedding portraits taken.
I used to get all happy and excited when someone get married. Cos I thought marriage means having found someone you can actually live and grow old with. While wedding is a celebration of that love found and beginning of a new life. The couple should be having fun celebrating, instead of stressing out about the preparations, guest list, dinner venues and ah yes, the root of all evil, money. But these people who flaunt how pretty their dresses are, how much they can afford to spend on the banquet, obtain the traditional consent to live together, understand the true meaning of marriage and wedding? In our local context here, couples are required to register their marriage to be able to own an apartment. And have I added that some get married just because they've been together for years and feel that getting married is only the responsible thing to do. Somehow to them, it's just something that should be done.
What are you getting married for? What does a wedding means to you? A celebration, or an opportunity to display your elaborate dress, your capacity to throw a banquet at the Ritz for 100 guests.
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| Trailer is here!!
Oh my... the only reason why I would want March 2010 to arrive soon!!!
Tim Burton, one of my favorite directors. Some might find his movie a little weird but it's precisely the quirkiness, the zaniness and the weirdness in the movies that I love so much. Notice how Tim Burton always get Johnny Depp to play in his movies? That's coz, in my opinion, only Depp is able to pull of those creepy but yet quirky characters. I still remembered the first time I watched Edward Scissorhands, I was only about 8 years old. While all the other kids were attracted to The Little Mermaid and Transformers, I was somehow drawn to Edward Scissorhands. I must have watched it 5 times since then.
So another bizarre and whimiscal movie from Tim Burton, I'll be watching it on the opening day of the movie. | | |
| One of the purchases that I truly enjoy and after so many years, still loving every bit of it. My BOSE speakers.. Although not the full sound system, 5.1 and sound surround, but its good enough for my tiny room to accompany my 24" iMac. Took me quite a while to migrate the speakers over, ergh.. blame the laziness in me.
But as I sit here, with my speakers blasting "Love, Sex, Magic", with the bass tuned up... it is only moments like this that everything is so perfect.
Oh yesssss.... feeling the vibrations from the floor.... as how we say it here, it's SIBEH SHIOK ah... !!!!
Note to self: Never splurge on thousand dollars bags, but save it to wire up every corner of the room with surround speakers and an awesome subwoofer. And then proceed to play Resident Evil, Silent Hill or Doom. *hic hic*
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