trip to vivocity + new use for children

yesterday afternoon, when class ended, i met wif my sec sch frenz to get down to vivocity for a initial review (or, first time there). well, frankly, the structure covering the thing is not very spectacular, altho the rooftop walkway wif water by the two sides is quite cool.

wif a psi well over 100, u'll think u r on a hilltop like genting. went to the roof, saw the sea and blah blah... actually after a while vivo seems like juz another shopping center like suntec, and its not fully leased yet. so you have stores that hav yet to open, but those that already arh are quite good; u can find quite a lot of things there, such as a supermarket, clothes, entertainment and dining...

talking abt dining. we went to 3rd floor, food republic. the theme was such that it reminds ppl of probably singapore in the 1930s, wif roadside stalls and a rickshaw in the middle of the whole place. wa lau that one take up so much space. as today is a public hol so yest quite pack, so pack until when we got a table the table had to be cleaned... by us.

we ate and ate... then my fren was abt to finish his stuff when a small boy abt 8 - 9 years old came to our table and asked: "Gor Gor (big brother), ni men chi hao le mei you (hv u finished eating)?"

wa lau! which parent come up wif this strategy arh? so we reply soon. then the boy went back to his mom, most prob to say they all finishing soon. then i dunno wat the mom said but the boy came back and asked the same question again! so how to reply? u noe the awkward feeling when a small kid comes up to u and ask u to help? then u cannot reject also!

so we said ok we finish already. then i discussed wif my fren: wat a good tactic. i muz use that next time when i'm in a crowded food court wif my kids and i use them to get table. superb leh! smart mom. ok lor, u win hands down.

however when we went to the toilet it looks like a freaking kopitiam style toilet! wet wif urine all ard and the place damn dirty. summore the tap is sensor one so u muz put both hand there to get the water running. wa lau! i told my fren: when nxt time u become engineer dun design such lousy products!!

after the whole thing was some drinks at alexandra hawker... my frenz took avocado wif milk supposedly nice but i didnt try.

anyway, since vivocity is near my house, i guess will b gg there often to do shopping. better than tiong bahru plaza oozing wif sec sch kids from the nearby area. run ard and make so much noise! young punks...

lewd old men in kopitiam... will i become one of them??

i woke up late today so i conveniently excused myself from a lecture.

already at 9 am in the morning i received a call from my project mate and so... no more snugging in bed. i was about to leave home actually, bathed, hair gel on, bag packed and cologne sprayed (arh! wat a damn waste) then i got the call. so then i decided to stay home and discuss online.

well nature calls pretty quick. i mean breakfast, which i havent been eating (some days a week i do eat, or else its brunch. usually if i have to go school then i breakfast). so i decided to stay away from the market since i'm very very sick of all the stuff like yong tau fu, fishball noodle, lor mee. kaoz eat until i wanna puke. imagine this combi, rotated on a daily basis?? fuck!!

i had no idea why i sat so near to the ah peks. ok they not very old, range from say mid fifties to seventies. fyi my area has a lot of old folks so its quite common to see them around and without any cais around! (another f-word) its not like clementi or wherever and this makes life a little sian cos i have to go school and see, and by the gods the population is taking a sharp dive into the drain, well past the red line. (for my female friends reading this: no offense taken. my frens are always gorgeous ppl.)

have no idea why they wanna sit ard early in the morn drinking 1) coffee / tea 2) canned drinks 3) beer?! ok basically u can say this is wat the kopitiam (kpt) sell but then its like they are sitting in the yellow box, chio kar (lift leg), talking abt absolutely nonsensical stuff and then watching the world go by. oh yah, their worlds go by (bye! pun intended) a little faster since they chain puff in the box. obviously tt's wat its for.

occasionally their notion of a babe will walk past. rem my area not pretty girls. got. but rare. very. ok so this "chick" walks past and then haha, the gaze follows - their "arc of fire" or "field of vision" locked on to the "target" and coordinates passed to the brain which is their "commander." then its a stepwise assessment of the objective at hand...

- Look at the face. sorry. "STARE."
- look at the boobs. i have no idea why aunties like to "expand their assets with unattractive complementary products"
- then, when she walks by, look at the bum. ohh yeahh.
- flash a wink to his "kakis"
- pass some "comments"
- resume life of wasting away until next babe comes along

after action review:

a typical "chick" of "mature" age typically dresses in a "flamboyant" manner characterized by "loud colors, tights and occassionally skimpy" in a bid to "restore" the "good old days" and to act "vixenicious" and fulfill the stereotype of "bulging bellies" and cellulite-filled limbs. results in visual discomfort and reinforcement of stereotypicalness of such a class.

DOCTOR's advice: not to be taken while already very sick. do not operate machinery (yes, yr little factory for guys rite down there). do not bother to finish prescribed amt, fear overdose (if u even can finish!!) if such thing occurs, look away or find a sink immediately,

- extracted from Encyclopedia Auntinnica and Kopitiam Journal of Visual Stimulations, 2006

wa lau how come i so familiar with all these arh? shit... anyway cos i was having porridge (hot, so-so only... i tot cos i noe the boss personally mayb can better... however when i ordered sure it was 2 bucks how come when it came was 3? shock tio wor) so i was observing them. wat a hilarious moment i never puke on my breakfast but no doubt it was a cool addition to otherwise a boring morning and a drag neighborhood.

i pray to the heavens, whoever is there... pls dun make me like one of them! at least give me a real chick. but hell, no... not in this lifetime.

foie gras overload!

hmmm u might wonder why i like this?

actually today is the celebration for my grandpa's bday, which was held at pine court, meritus mandarin. for the uninitiated its at orchard road, but who doesn't know? we suppose to have chicken rice at chatterbox but it was changed to pine court where we had ala carte (actually set meal is closer... S$78+++ per head! u will c why), fusion style. so it's chinese cuisine, fine dining style. small portions, elegant decors and nice ambience.

hey, ppl, i study marketing alright? so all this while having their appeal doesn't appeal to me cos i'm supposed to be immune (duh!) as i know all the stuff marketers have up their sleeve! u noe wat, the other day i met my orientation group at hall 2 canteen and when asked abt my specialization, it was said that its where u study to cheat ppl!

come on, there's a nice word for it (as is for everything else - we're trained to PACKAGE and BEAUTIFY) - its calledd creating an EXPERIENCE. as usual, the same stuff wat?! however, today, i'm not the star. my grandpa is. so it doesn't matter if i'm not fully enjoying (i am actually, but u noe - its a 职业病 lar) i can see he's really enjoying it.

so let's take a look at the menu...

appetizer (wrong spelling but heck care): peking roast duck served with the dough skin (sthg like tt)

main course:
shark's fin soup in 老黄瓜-style cup. excellent.
foie gras (had 2 1/2 pieces)*
roasted pork ribs (changed from lamb chop)
sphagetti longevity noodles (WTF?!)
abalone. one piece each person. waaahhh.
+ 1 more which i forgot?
+ harbin beer. smooth, not so gassy, always a good touch to any meal.
+ cake (of cos)
+ green tea cake with mango pudding

you see why its 78 bucks? oh yah prior to cutting cake 3 filipinos came in to sing a birthday song and "the moon represent my heart" both in chinese leh! kudos to this pros. singing's in their blood.

ugh so full now lar! it was a very nice meal. anyway, i juz wrote this blog after this gg to study again. wat the shit!

*i'm not sure but some of u reading this may feel that foie gras is a product of human cruelty. fuck that ok? anyway, i'm not some animal activist altho i like cats (hate dogs, hate their bloody barking). i mean, the poor animal's already dead and its up on the table. so the same reasoning goes - if the shark is already killed, lets get the fire going and the abalone, dried scallops, chicken stock, mushrooms all in.

so in this case, the thing's dead. let's eat to live and live to eat. bon appetit.

blabber... blabber

listen to the sound of nature... in the toilet!

if u dun think so well why does going to the toilet is to answer "nature's call?" it means to let go... yup... let it all out. that's nature, humans were born to eat and shit what!

yah today's entry is a bit disgusting to some but to me it is all very natural. if not please get an artificial system to clear your "produce" and then we can all see who's really the disgusting thing. YOU!

anyway was in the toilet today when i was presented with the sound of music. imagine yourself at the beach, and there is some inland wind. of course, the sound you will hear is the sound of waves, but just right beside your ear is the rushing of wind.

of course what i experienced today was not so dramatic. i compare mine to a river. smooth and pure. crystal clear. i went to relieve myself after sitting and becoming fossilized in the process in the FAL for almost 3 hours. not too long but long enough to make me cold and then you know what happens... toilet call.

i heard a distinct wee-wee sound. now i know why ppl call it wee-wee. apart from the splattering of "liquid" onto the toilet bowl, listen carefully the next time for a sound so subtle, when you hear it, it's absolutely INSPIRATIONAL. remember this is the theme for my blog.

how does the wee-wee sound come from? i did not bother to google it or whatever as it doesn't concern me. however, it is music to the ears. it reminds me that i am alive and that relieving is an experience only you can feel it yourself. imagine the wooh after the whole thing.

probably it has something to do with the filling of air after liquid is being released from a container. i think its like a balloon, blow it up and then let it go. you hear the wee-wee, but that's no liquid. so how come? anyway, i'll be happy if anyone can provide an answer to another of life's mysterious questions.

however the bloody disgusting thing is that one guy came out of the cubicle with flushing but no washing of hands! shit! how barbaric undergrads nowadays arh, altho i'm one of them i feel so sad ppl who are in a bloody uni can behave like he's from some rural country (like lim chu kang). hope he doesn't go back to fal to use the computer, otherwise the mouse and keyboard will be so "personalized."

anyway i saw the really tall girl i was talking about in my previous entry today in the canteen. ok she bought drinks and pau. frankly on second look not very pretty la but only ok. she even taller than me leh wa kao! no i have nothing against tall girls but then i cannot help but not say this. hopefully, i'll see her again in her skimpy skirt again that flies in the wind. yes, long gorgeous legs. hoo yah...

end...

kaopei entry

kaopei... kaopei... wa ai kaopei!

kaopei orh tng, kaopei buay gao kun, kaopei jin juay mee kia zo! (kaopei school, kaopei not enuff slp, kaobei so many things to do!)

wa lau eh, this time good lor... hazy singapore, hazy brain and hazy week ahead!

the haze is even worse than cigarette smoke. smokers agree?

hazy brain because only sleep about 3 hours last night than kena wake up by my parents cos they ling ling long long the whole place dunno so early got what to laugh about maybe they no monday blue or what... slam the door then wake up liao and never got back to sleep again. fyi am very light sleeper.

so got up, went to eat breakfast... however, it was only until noon time just now that the haze really got me. i got out of my school's masak-masak LT (MLT - coined by danny got copyright ok? only his friends can use) then the haze hit me like a hit. ok bad expression there but that's what it was. cool right. forest fires again smokers rejoice! save on cigarette money.

as i write this entry while waiting for my project discussion, i feeling very sian now cos bad weather then wednesday got 1 assignment and 2 tests to do. its ok la i mean they are not very tough (or is it my fantasy... no motivation to mug or what shit)...

wednesday is good will be seeing the cai again! however just now saw one damn tall and pretty walk into the FAL nice face nice body nice everything. nice nice nice. the last few in NBS, how sad!! :( i saw this girl before but then last time she was wearing this skirt that threatened to show her butt because it was very short. but very sexy. ha ha. the skirt was flying in the wind. but then it never fly up only fly left right!

nothing interesting now... school has begun and i wished it be done. damn stupid pointless paper chase. i'm sick of it as people get sick when they have fever or flu.