Monday, May 29, 2006
Chill Out, relax and have a cup of coffee
Had tea last thursday with Wispie at the TCC in City Link. Its been a long while but it felt good. To be able to chill out amidst the busy crowd of the Singapore streets. Ok, its not much of a street but it was busy. Just sitting there having a nice cup of coffee, chatting and looking at people hurry to and fro. Makes oneself feel that for once, you have pulled yourself out of the fast pace life of society and taking time to enjoy the finer things in life - friendship and coffee.
--- posted @ 9:49 PM ---
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Plan plan and still plan
Been kinda tired planning stuff.
Few years back (say 5), i was very enthusiatic about this kinda of outings and planning it. The joy and satisfaction that accompanies it was great. However, as years goes by, the weariness sets in. Discouragements and failures often blinded the now insignificant success. People may wonder, why isn't Kelvin planning anything? Truth is, i feel my temper has took a turn a turn for the worse. More hot-tempered and impatient. As such, i tend to get irritated quite easily. Esp when it comes to "oh, can we do this instead??" or how a MOVIE X outing can turn into a MOVIE Y outing when i totally have no intention of watching MOVIE Y. Its not that i mind watching it, i will watch it and probably enjoy it at the end of the day if its good, but i did took the effort to plan a MOVIE X outing for a reason -- to watch MOVIE X. So this disheartens me to plan more outings.
--- posted @ 11:01 PM ---
Friday, May 26, 2006
BYOP
Was out cycling with the MatSci gang last tues. Met up at Bedok MRT around 1 plus then headed out for lunch. Was on the bike by 330pm after we found angel stranded on the other end of east coast haha. So the day went on, cycled from end to end. What really caught my attention however was this sign just beside the entrance of the bedok jetty. It read:
B Y O P
bring you own pit
And no its not a joke, it is really there physically. Was utterly amazed by it. How could anyone have thought of such acronyms (or initialism depending on how you read them). Singaporeans never fail to amaze me with their endless creativity. And how can there be a pitless bbq pit at East Coast. I might as well just BBQ at sch or somewhere else which was what we did last week. I mean, pple go to east coast coz the pit is already there right?? I havent really checked out the "pitless pits" yet but i might pop by one day to take a look if i happen to go cycling again.
--- posted @ 1:51 AM ---
Saturday, May 20, 2006
MatSci BBQ
Ok, the long awaited Materials Science BBQ is finally here. Thanks to Siaoting who planned most of the details and ordered most food haha. Most of you would probably be thinking that the venue is at east coast or pasir ris or someone's place. NO. Its at our very own NUS Faculty of Science Carpark lol. I was quite amaze by it as well. Never thought that we could have a bbq there.
So after everything was prepared and ready to go, we started bbq-ing.
Felix with his chicken wings. Wah lao, save some for me can? haha
Oh and throughout the bbq, we had excellent satay thanks to our "satay man" choong sen. The way he "peng" our satay is like some expert satay vendor like that. Just look at his pro-ness.
Of course we have some of our lecturers (left) with us and Prof Li had the opportunity to tell us that bbq is also about PHASE TRANFORMATION.
Ok, just in case some of you still do not believe that we had our bbq in sch carpark, i can PROVE it. If you just refer to the picture above, you will realise that the building S11 is prominently displayed. You might ask "Can meh? Can BBQ at carpark ?" Of course the answer is cannot lah. And of course there is a CCTV camera at the car park, but well, no one came to catch us.
So by the end of the bbq session we're left with tons of food which Mervyn would have the priviledge to mop it up coz he had attachment and had to come late. Just look at his excited face.
I-ling brought along some very nice jellies. I think they're of sellable standards and it really tasted quite good.
Ok end of BBQ, this is a photo of half the cohort of Materials Science. Yes we're a small batch. I think about 30-ish in total.
--- posted @ 2:11 AM ---
Thursday, May 18, 2006
How will you be defined in the dictionary?
Erm... I did thought of learning how to make ravioli... BUT... i doubt i'm a master of it lol
--- posted @ 2:57 PM ---
Friday, May 05, 2006
Kikuzawa
If you've read Janus' Blog, you probably had saw this. But for those who havent, feast your eyes on the wonder of fish on rice~!!
Oh and if you think "oh i've tried it so many times at Sakae or Genki", think again lol. The following pictures WILL cause immense distress and discomfort. Readers are asked to view with discretion...
A boat of Sashimi (mostly gone though)
Chawamushi
White Raddish soup (left) and Miso Soup (right)
Marumaru Don... It contains mixed Sashimi on rice and raw yam topped with Ikura (salmon roe) and wasabi sauce. It is to DIE for haha~!! SLURP~!!
Platter of SushI
AnotheR PlaTteR of SuShi
lidako
To end, we had pudding which looks very cute haha
--- posted @ 10:55 PM ---
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Hmmmm
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-desended life forms are amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with the digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change nearly two thousand years ago, a girl sitting on her own in a small cafe suddenly realise what it was that had been wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible stupid catastrophe occured, and the idea was lost forever.
--- posted @ 4:23 AM ---
