Slurp, went to Haagen-Dazs after shopping for mum's present. That's like after 1 hour of shopping and our legs are tired. Seriously, I hate shopping especially when I am shopping for things that is not for myself. Nevertheless, Mummy! You are the best! (Don't dare to say it in her face!!!)
Their promotion item, $14.90.
Consists of Dark chocolate + orange, Chocolate chips and Passion fruit flavours.
Banana Boat
Consists of Strawberry cheesecake, Cookie and cream and Passion fruit + mango flavours.
I especially love the almond flakes! crunchy!
However, the banana become tasteless because of the sweet ice cream!
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Watched 2012 and it's super nice. Teared 3 times.
*During the movie
Whenever I tear (indian family saying goodbye to each other, looking at the devastated land on the airplane), I will just let it drop because I don't want my sis to notice that I cry. But since she started first to wipe off the tears using the tissue from the jumbo hotdog, I asked for one tissue too. There is nothing to be shy about having emotions.
Lastly, people are raving about the Doom's day in 2012 after watching this movie. After much thoughts, I think if it is going to come, then let it come with all might and kill us with one swipe.
A Russian man has been given a reduced sentence because the judge said "he needed to eat" after he killed and ate parts of his mother.
The Daily Mail reports that Sergey Gavrilov received a shorter jail sentence after confessing he was hungry and needed to eat his mom because he had spent all of his money on vodka and gambling. Russia's law usually assigns 15 years in jail for those who have committed crimes like Gavrilov's, but the convict will serve 14 years and three months.
The newspaper reports that Gavrilov killed his mother by hitting her head with a brick and strangling her after she refused to give him money to spend on alcohol. He put her body on the balcony at their home in southern Russia, and then went away for two days on a gambling and drinking binge.
He returned home hungry. With no food around, he started eating parts of his mother.
Police discovered the grisly scene when they were called to the home, suspecting he had stolen a cell phone.
If I am correct, Gav might be on drugs although he said that he had spent all his money on vodka and gambling. This might be the only reason why he would have the heart to kill his own mother.
I don't think the reason of refusing to give him money to spend and hence killing the mother is a good reason and much worst, returning home hungry with no food around and started eating parts of his mother?
WHAT IS THIS?!!?!
He even dared to say it like as if it is his mother's fault. Seriously, if the reason of "he needed to eat" is valid to reduce the sentence by 9 months, then everybody in Russia can go around the streets and start to steal food from the vendors and when they are caught, they just say, "I need to eat". With that reason, it is enough to be scot-free because the crime committed should be considered a minor one.
I had heard enough stories of parents killing/eating their own child or other's child but this is my first time hearing their own son killing the own mother. (he even get reduced sentence just by saying, "he needed to eat")
I know this is long overdue but just want to share it to those that haven't watch it.
It's really nice to see how the contestants grow over the period when they first started till now. Every contestants had a story to tell and I like Xu Yong Ling's true story the best. Towards the end, like part 14 and 15, there is a feeling of sadness but fear not! Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao 6 will return!
While you are at it, why not view the aftermath of the competition?
They actually invited the top 10 finalists and give them awards for the glory moments. This is also because on that big day itself, there's simply not enough time for the winners to say their winning speech.
I thought after finals will be the end but they actually did the follow-ups.
Have you been to Mcdonald recently and ordered an extra value meal? If you did, they certainly give you some sticker thingy which is called 'Mcdonald Monopoly Singapore Game Piece'. No scratch and no fuss, you just peel them off to check if you are the lucky winner of top prize, $50,000!!!
Here's what I got...
Actually, if you can't get the top prize, there is always consolation prizes which is called 'instant win'. They come in all forms and mine was 'Starcruises 3rd & 4th PAX FREE'. My friend got a small fries free and he said he had gotten a Big Mac free before too!
For better prizes
Like the concept of Monopoly, you need to collect a whole stretch of same coloured lands in order to start building hotels. Likewise, Mcdonald monopoly will give you prizes if you managed to collect the completed game pieces.
However, if it is so easy then Mcdonald might go bankrupt. From some sources, I heard that the top prize ($50,000) has only got 1 game piece in the whole of Singapore? See the video below and you can see how crazy when they get the Sentosa Cove game piece (Rumored to be the legendary game piece!)
Some websites even went on to calculate the probabilities of actually winning the prizes which I thought was interesting enough to share!
For all you know, I could be the lucky one to get the Sentosa cove game piece. I will be eating Mcdonald EVM + upsize (8 game pieces) once I got the chance!
Went to Chomp Chomp Food centre with the cheapo gang. Teresa recommended this place and everyone in the gang frantically googled it so that they will know what to order on that day itself. Talking about "kiasu-ism".
At first, I thought it was some kind of fast food restaurants like popeyes or Mcdonalds but it turned out to be a food centre (kopitiam, food court)
The red star is Chomp Chomp FC
The place is located at Serangoon Garden and we took a bus from Ang mo kio hub to go there. I think is 168 or something.
We ordered many things like orh lua, prawn noodle, popiah, mee goreng, chicken chunks, BBQ stingray and gigantic sugar cane drinks.
Red means 'Very nice' Blue means 'Never try' Green means 'Don't eat, not worth the money'
Actually, the gigantic sugar cane drinks is play cheat one. I can taste that they added a lot of water as it is diluted. But for such a huge cup going at $3 which two people can barely finish it and not forgetting that after all the oily food, we need a lot of water to flush down the 'sins'.
After that, went to Frolick to have ice creams. Chatted like 1 hour or so as it brings back all the nostalgic E35D days. We tried to set Monday as our meet-up day but I wonder how long this will go on. Let's not care about the future but preserve the present moment! Next stop: Vivo city roof-top!
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Thursday, 29 Oct
2 more days to Halloween. Like the past years, Halloween hasn't been an important day for me because I've never celebrated it. However, Me, Teresa and Choosie watched Halloween II at CWP after FYP.
Actually, if you ask me what is the movie about, I will say 'I don't know'. Besides performing a close up stitching on a terribly cut-up face, cutting at the throat with those 'si-sha-si-sha' noise (blood gushing out), using a giant axe and pushing it against someone's back, stomping on someone's face with heavy boots accompanied by skull smashing sound, repeatedly violent stabbing to make sure the victims is dead, nurse who is unaware that her nose is being cut in half, prostitute having her head banged against the mirror and passing out while Mr Halloween stop and look at the face to make sure he had done enough damage to the now distorted face, eating bloody dog's meat.
That, about sums it up. Mr Halloween just kill anyone in his path.
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MRT annoyance
I found out that I had this amazing power of making people sleep when they sat beside me on the MRT. Sometimes on my right, sometimes on my left. If I am really 'lucky', both left and right can sleep at the same time and wave their head onto me.
As much as I hated it, I loved seeing this happened on others. I will pretend to give the 'Aw... hate it when people do that' face but I secretly loves to see their reaction or action to the sleeping person. It will be bonus if the victim (the one being lean on) starts to move away or push back or even best, QUARREL! Haha!
I am so honoured to be invited by Zakia to her brother's wedding. This is my first time attending a malay wedding and it's really petrifying because you aren't sure about what to do there. Luckily, or I hope, I did nothing embarrassing on that day and was glad everything went well.
I also want to mention that Zakia played the role of a good host as she ran around the place to find her family members and introduce them to us one by one. If I were in her shoes, I don't think I will be able to do that!
Only pictures can explain what happened there and then.
First, we walked around the place and we find a place to settle down. Then we went to get our food. I love the rice most because it's not sticky and you can easily feel each grain of rice in the mouth. However, most of the food is spicy but that's the unique food choices in malay weddings, I guess.
Desserts of the day, with william being blocked by the vase of ferns.
And like chinese weddings, the guests do get gifts for attending the malay weddings.
The main characters of the day, Rahim and Rafidah
Signing the guest book. I hope they know I am drawing the bridegroom and the bride.
Looks extremely tasty and elegant
This cake is definitely nicer than the one I designed for my younger sis.
Didn't actually take a picture with the bride or bridegroom, but this picture serves as a memory that the whole lot of us attended a malay wedding ceremony.
And last but not least...
A shot taken without any means of preparation.
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ECP escapee
After that, went to meet up with the cheapo gang members. (Teresa and Sherman)
It's really weird because the cheapo gang members don't usually do exercise. They usually spend their time thinking of ways to get the best deals. However, today the sun rises from the west and sets in the east. Teresa learnt how to cycle and she's all out to show off her cycling skills.
One of those infamous emo shot. But I like it anyhow.
Drinking under the hot sun is Boomz while Sherman showed the Shingz face
This is totally FTL, Shingz plus ultra omgzi!
We cycled for 4 hours straight!
Dinner at Lagoon Food Centre. Waited for half an hour before we can get a table. The people there simply don't move away after they finished their food. They can chat in front of you even though they know we are dying to get their tables. Although these people did that to us, we are proud to say that we 'pass' the table to those that are waiting once we finished our food.
The Mee Goreng is super delicious and it comes with 4 huge prawns and gigantic sotongs! WOOT! Although the price is $6 for a small plate.
20th October is a special day for both Ah peng and my younger sis. They shared the same birthday and I only knew this last year since I was the one buying the cake. This time, each of them will have a cake for themselves and it's customized by ME! MUAHAHAHAHAH! No choice, I am the artist here. PSB style~
I started off with my younger sis's cake.
I drew a girl which represent my younger sis and trust me, it's not easy from the look of it. My hands keep shaking because I have to squeeze the cream out. My elder sis helped with the colouring of shirt and hair.
Finished! But it looks plain.
I wrote the word 'Hapi B'dae' using bubble font and regretted deeply. It didn't turned out nice but I saved it back by putting the starry things. If without the starry things, don't it looks weird?
My elder sis decorated the sides with starry things again. (comes very handy) You can see she pressed too hard into the cake.
And Ta Da!! The finished product that is colourful and fun looking!
Now it's Ah peng's cake...
Ah peng is my sis's husband and I cannot use back the same ideology in decorating my younger sis's cake for Ah peng. I need to think in his perspective and I came up with the idea of drawing his sideway view. Don't look exactly like him but he will get the idea that it's him on the cake!
My sis squeezed a generous amount of chocolate fudge for the hair part. She say that the 'hair part' will taste extremely tasty.
The green colour is supposed to be blue.
Finished product! I love the hair. How come my sis ask me to write '2010'? I thought this year is 2009?
This way of birthday celebration is unique and I will surely do it again! I did mine at Jurong point's, The icing room.
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Outing with cheapo gang (Teresa, Yuenky and Sherman) yesterday. It was enjoyable except that the movie 'Pandorum' turned out sucky. I don't know what it is doing the whole movie and it's very dark and unclear when the monsters start to chase the people. MESSY!
Had crystal jade at CWP. They wanted to have steamboat but I stopped them. They can't even finished ala carte!
Sesame oil chicken noodle. Hate the bones.
Teresa's choice. Whatever she order, the waitress say don't have. haha
