Entertaining Dinner Not

Was unwilling drag to a dinner which i really really detested going to.

Considering that i was going to a reputable hotel where the chinese restaurant is one i had went to, and thinking that the food should be good, it somehow does ease abit. There wasn't much a choice for me to reject the dinner anyway.

But i was so so so wrong.

Let me recall the unfortunate dishes...

lobster sahimi with crab meat and salmon sashimi...usk usk usk...freshness level a mere pass. And it's a thumbs down for me.

2nd dish is the mini buddha jump over the wall. Hmmm... Great. Both thumbs up. For the fins that was served not in shattered pieces but whole pieces together and its not just a couple but at least 4 whole piece of fins inside. *so guilty* sigh.
And the abalone... the scallops...the ham...oooh....

3rd dish is the steamed grouper with what they consider superior soya sauce. Urgh.... no matter how fresh the fish may be, once the overcooked factor is there, it really spoils it!!! First time i ever tasted such rubbery and chewy fish meat. Utterly disappointed. I may have tasted unfresh fish before but for the least, the meat texture is not to that extent.

Some prawn ball is next. With dunoe what wasibi sauce. The sauce taste fine. The prawn? duh... okie lah..Can consider a thumbs up.

Then the lamp rack. An urgh for me. The taste of overwhelming tenderiser in the meat. Yuks. True, it may be really tender but so so so fake!!! For a lamb rack lover like me? Super thumbs down.

2nd last dish is the signature fried rice with crab roe and apparantly also fried with sharks fin.
Erm...every mouthful is filled with lotsa crab roes which may be good for the roe lovers. But again, the taste of msg? too much... simply too much. Oh and frying with sharks fin? Taste what? Unless you are adding like tons and tons of fins into it then maybe it's good. The barely tastable fins there? What a waste of $!!!

Dessert ends with dunoe what cheng teng look alike stuff which i dislike de lor. Coz there is the ginseng inside. bleh bleh.

Ohh but the custard bao saves it. Yummy!!!

Still...overall i won't think of heading back the place.

Me not Singaporean ENOUGH?

My 'typical fatt cai' colleague just commented that im not a true singaporean.

Just because i DID NOT EVER have the slightest thought to also buy for myself a quickpick or whatever when i was Q-ing for the dumb dumb boss, for his 4D.

The Q took me half hour lor.

And i was even complaining that the stupid Q damn long the moment i reach downstairs.

Guess the route of fast and lucky fortune really never come across my mind.

It can only be of those once a blue moon affair.

Company CNY "Lou-Hei" Lunchie

Just came back from a 7 course lunch at "The Noble House" @ UIC Building.

It's damn full de lor.

Firstly and of course, we had the salmon yu-sheng, whereby we made such a mess at the table, it's beyond looks. And a few of us kept saying aiyo towards the messy fall of the shredded vege. Even the salmon slices were not spared and fall outside of the already huge plate. And yes, i was one of the "aiyo" person. Hence, mama snakie and i concluded that we are going to "aiyo" for the rest of this Rat year.

Next is the roast platter consisting of roast pig, roast duck, jelly fish, fried spring rolls and octopus and a scallops dish.

Nothing extremely fanciful but the scallops are really fresh. Fresh in the standard of frozen level.

Sharks fins with lotsa golden mushrooms followed next. First time i ever tasted sharks fins that it only consists of sharks fins and golden mushroom. No traces of egg whites. No traces of crab meat. Just the fins and the shrooms.

And i have to feel so guity eating it. For i had forbidden myself not to have any fins at all. Except in dinners or lunches like this where its not that nice to reject and besides, it's already ordered. The killing is there already.

So if im dining outside, i definitely won't order any fins at all.

Then Steam grouper with don't know what sauce and garlic is served. Fresh fishy fishy but so-so sauce. Why? Too much MSG!!!

Baby Abalone and sea cucumber however saves the day. The small chewy abalone is delicious. And the sea cucumber...ooohh...mama-mia~~..

By then, we were pretty filled to the neck and the Glutinous rice doesn't help at all to ease our stomach. Can't bring ourselves to finish the bowl of rice.

Ending is the "yang zhi gan lu". Some mango with sago and pomelo and etc. Thank goodness the slightly sweet sour dessert help us into thinking that our stomach indeed still have room for some more food.

Result?
All of us were stuffed. Stuffed like a christmas turkey.

The Route to Law?

There is this huge adv in the papers today.

Suddenly there is this impulsiveness.

Getting a dip in law from Stansfield mah? But then what follows?

A degree? And then?

I don't desire to be one that would be called to the bar and appear in Courts though.

Maybe as a consultant / legal advisor type.

Still... ...

Looks are indeed deceiving.

It is a common question to ask consumers if they have any particular cards because those cards are entitled to discounts.

But in my case???

To be asked if i have a STUDENT card over the cashier counter???

Happened at a cafe in PS where both students and citibank cards holders enjoy the discount privileges.
I had proceeded to make the payment when the blur blur cashier ask me if i have student card.
Not that i was dressed very 'gin na' also de lor.
*faint*
B and i had such a good laugh after the incident.

Last night was the first time B met my folks. Had a CNY dinner with them. The lou-hei dinner.

I am impressed by way he had carried himself.

I love him. For his auto ways in helping to serve the dishes and how he was polite to them.

Maybe, it's not that impressive to most of the people because it may seem like the most basic courtesy that one should have but i am happy and contented enough because at least he does have that basic sense of courtesy and politeness which really, a handful of people do not have at all.

And for the record, he's the first guy ever to have a lou-hei dinner with my folks.

Yes, not even the ex-hub ever had such dinner with them. Or is it really don't have? Because honestly, in my memory, there does not seem to be one. Either there is nothing worth remembering at all.

But the one with B, definitely worth remembering.

Thank you B.

And oh.. i hate it that you can forget to brush your teeth early in the morning and then off to work.

It's disgusting. Lolx...

Still, i'm in love with a brush-less B.

A 32 inch waist B.

*chuckles*

I forgotten to rant about work.

Been feeling irritated on a extremely frequent basis.

It's not that i can't understand. I know. I have been through the phase too but.. but..

that brat simply gets on my nerves.

Did not write much about the CNY which is just into the 8th day today.
Was hit by gastric pain in the intial days and only on the 4th day did i go out visiting.

The very first time that i went to his Tanglin place to 'bai nian'.
The first time that i went with him to Paul n Ryan's place.

Feeling was good though filled with a little 'shyness'. Don't ask me why. Just have that little bit of 'withdrawal/withdrawn' symptoms.

Today is the special V day but nothing special. Coz B is working.

But there is still this special-ness there. A different kind of special.

Because B is working today, hence he made plans and acompanied me yesterday. Had dinner at the teahouse @ china sq and thereafter shopping ard for bags.
It was a crazy nite for bagaholics.

We got a total of 4 bags.
Theoritically, 2 each but i like the big brown bag which he gotten and now i'm using it instead. *chuckles*

And i got a decent dress from the brand he is working but at the vivo outlet.

The nite ended with a supper with his gang of colleagues.

Tonight, i'm going to walk around in town by myself and if time permits, probably some catching up with Junie n Bryan.

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To my B whom i really really thankful for having to meet him and be with him, ai sheture~.
Although in a way or another, i have put you into a spot for the knotty situation i'm in, i can only hope the issue will only strengthen the bond and that the love is strong and be stronger.

Realised that i may have to fork out unknown expenses and a chance to be on the lugi side. I m and do have that bit of 'bu fu qi' but ... i really should see it with 'more open-ness'.

I don't know.

The only strength i can have now is my path is clearer than before.

The world still continues to rotate. Life goes on. People move on.

=)

The Pig is seriously bore and sleepy and counting into the festive season that brings with the lack of enthusiasticism for work.

It is a BORING day at work.

I know. Stupid files. Stupid WOS.

Just what the heck though.

Was browsing through some of the earlier posts.

And reminiscing the background of us being together...

And just the other day i was complaining how i was being 'cheated' to be with B.
Cause Junie and her pig was celebrating their 4th year anniversary.
And me? Hopelessly and helplessly in blur mode as when i was being 'cheated'.

Somehow we settled for 1st October 2006.

Through these times, what have i learnt about B?

His fillial peity towards his family?

His 'yi qi' towards his friends?

His care & concern that hides under his non-chalent manner?

His increasingly love for the dumbo koala?

His 'chu xing da yi' that causes the koala to lose grip on him sometimes?

His typical or actually not so typical of the male settings inside his brains?

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The path has not been easy.

Finding the one where the love really co-exists.
Where it's really love and not shelter.

But this koala is still shaky.
This year is going to be a tough year.

I can't hate him. Neither will i feel sorry for him anymore.
I don't owe him anymore.
The whatever injustice. The whatever unfair.
Just whatever.

And i have learnt. Just because you are being hit by someone, you can't expect a lending hand to help you up when your own hand is not reaching out.

To live in pityness and sympathethically.
Hmm...it's a choice afterall.

Or maybe we aren't meant to be afterall.

The Pig is sleepy.

The Pig saw the news about the variety show that was making fun of the standard of English spoken here.

The Pig is not surprised. In fact, it's high time that it should be brought to NOTICE.

We are living in a world where we want to be easily understood by most.

Not expecting and demanding them to understand us.

There has to be a common language. A common tone.

But alot of distortions has been incorporating into the language that we are using.

Pronouciation in one thing. The phrasing is another.

In short, there can only be improvements when there are criticism.

But we are so not.

We are all in the small well that confines us into two extreme sides of people.

The overly maginanmously people and the overly stingy selves.
The open arms welcming and the folded arms snob.

A toast to the narrow minded people. Let's celebrate the foolishly acts of ours.

Now i know, i don't have to give way to the cyclist any more on the pedestrian pavement.

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Strikers

B said he 'wang fu'. "Meaning bringing prosperity to the 'wife'."

Because during his birthday week, i bought his birthdate no. and it striked.
But when it was my turn. Nothing happened.

Being the 'bu fu qi' one, i went to buy the numbers myself thinking that i'm always the 'slow' one, the reaction is usually slower than the norm. So should buy the numbers one wk later.

And it did striked.

Heehee...

On Saturday, my birthdate came out. On Sunday, my NRIC came out.

Although the winnings is not even 100 but i felt really happy.

*chuckles*

What do you do with someone who makes you mad to one extreme and yet brings you to cloud nine at the same time.
Two ends of the spectrum.
I figure that there is nothing much i can do.
For that person is B.

To my B who is not a saint and flaws like anybody else but possesses a high tolerance for my wilfulness and temperamental side of me and loves me to the bits. He is a saint.
I can only shame my head down for being easily giving up.

I know he does appreciate lots for what i have done afterall.
*smiles*

There are no bad choices.
It's only that we are greedy.

The above was part of the msn conversation between Nick darling and me.
A rare conversation.

We have not met for 2 years and counting.
Do not know when we shall or can meet.
Or are we able to meet afterall.

KY has not been talking to him too. But yet, she sent him a sms for wishes on myBD.

It seems like a bottomless pit of sadness.

And indeed, there are no bad choices. Except that we do not want to be simply contented with what we have. We want more. We ask for more. We demand more. There is the picking and fussying. The choosing and the isolating. The wanting and the unwanted.

Nothing is ever fair but we just want to have the best of both worlds.