阿一 Seafood Restaurant...

I went to 阿一 Seafood Restaurant for dinner with my bf and his family today. For most people,I think the restaurant 阿一鲍鱼 will be more familiar to them. This 阿一 Seafood is actually owned by the same boss or I think I should say that it's a subsidary...

The food there was quite ok. At least I like the black pepper crab. As for the chilli crab, I still think the ones in MacPherson is still the best that I have tasted before even though it is too spicy for me. Too bad I have no idea where that store was relocated to...

The highlight of the dinner is most probably the abalone! Even though this is not the autentic 阿一鲍鱼, we decided to still order the abalone and try. We ordered the Africa Wild Abalone at around $10 each, which is only a miserable 5 cm long. But I think since abalone is always so expensive and since this is fresh one, the price should still be considered as reasonable.

We ordered the abalone to be cooked in 2 different way. One of it is cooked in is cooked in 红烧 style and the other with some paste.

红烧鲍鱼

Yummy Abalone

Personally I prefer the one cooked in 红烧 way. I think it's because you can taste the abalone when it is cooked that way. The paste used in the other method of cooking sort of "covered" the taste of the abalone. So wasted...

But overall it's still a yummy meal... :)

Lucky strike...

I went to Anchorpoint for lunch with my colleagues the other day. As we still have sometime after we finish our lunch, we decided to go walk walk in that small miserable Anchorpoint.

While we were walking around it, I decided I want to try my luck and buy ToTo. Dun ask me why but I jus suddenly feel like buying ToTo. Honestly specking, I seldom buy ToTo or 4D this kind of things. Maybe once or twice a year ba...

I went down and to the booth and picked 2 sets of numbers and while I was there I decided to buy soccer also. I seldom watch soccer. I don't even remember if I ever sit down in front of the tv and finish watching a full match before. I look at the screen and decided to pick the match of the first team whom I can remember the name. :P I decided to buy draw for the match between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid. Dunno why also... Maybe its odds is the highest between the 3 ba... :P

Surprise surprise surprise... I did not even go and check results of the match until I hear the results from the news that they really draw! At least the money I won will be able to help me recover what I lost in ToTo cos the numbers I bought for ToTo got kanna 'eaten'... :P

my winning ticket!

Mr Hong Kong 2006

I just realised that one of my ex-classmate joined Mr Hong Kong 2006. In my opinion, I think he very CMI. I almost fainted when I see the link another of my ex-classmate sent me. I din know Mr Hong Kong 2006 has downgrade until he can manage to get into the Finals. Think there's no point in watching these kind of pagents anymore in the future if this is the kind of standard they are getting. But then again... I seldom watch them anyway... :P

Xmas shopping Part 2

I finally managed to get all my Xmas presents today! My company gave us half day off today so after a short shopping trip in PS with my colleagues, I went over to Royce in Suntec to get some chocolates last min. Maybe I was there early while some people r still working, so I did not need to wait for very long to go into the shop. Wait to go into the shop? Ya... You never see wrongly... Royce placed a barrier outside their shop to prevent people from going into their shop. You have to wait outside their shop and they will let you go in once one of the people queneing to pay up for the chocolates leaves their shop. Think they dun wan too many people in the shop. At least I dun need to squeeze with people to pay cos they have a quene in line. Overall I think they did very well with crowd control in their shop. :)

I was so tired from all the Xmas shopping today that I told my bf that I wun be meeting him and will be heading straight for home. It has been a long time since I felt so tired from shopping... Maybe I'm really getting old... :(

Sorry if I forgotten anyone's present but I think I am too broke to buy any more presents liao... I think the amount I spent on this year's Xmas present r much more than last yr...

I hate it when people bought me present but I did not buy any for them. This yr I got 3 surprise presents... Even though some of them r small but it's still the thought that counts. Thank you to those who bought me presents but did not receive any from me. Even though it's still not Xmas yet so I can still but something for u in return, but I'm just too lazy to go squeeze with the crowd anymore. I will try to get something for u all in return nx yr.

What will you do...?

What will you if you see someone shoplift something in a shop? It maybe a very small thing like a magazine or something expensive like a wallet. Will you go and tell the shopkeeper / security about what you saw? Or will you go up to that shoplifter and tell him / her that "Hey I think you took something that is not yours. You better put the thing back or I'll call the police or tell the shopkeeper...

I was faced with the dilema to tell or not to tell today. I think I saw this man went n took a copy of a newspapers (yes, you din see wrongly. it's really newspapers) from the rack outside the 7-Eleven in Causeway Point and left without paying.

I have the strong urge to go n confront the man but I dare not because I started doubting myself whether I saw wrongly. Maybe that man bought the papers from the stall at the MRT station and he was just walking too close to the rack in 7-Eleven. Yet I was certain that my eyes did not play tricks on me.

Some people may say that "ai ya... it's only a $0.70 newspapers. He want take then take lah... What for kick up a big fuss?" To me it's something else called morality. Kind of weird hearing me talk about morality rite? Dunno y leh... I just feel that shoplifting is a no no kind of thing no matter how expensive the thing is. What if his children sees what he does n decides to follow suit? A lot of times kids commit crime because of the "good" examples that their parents show making them feel that it's alright to do so. This makes me wonder if parents r really showing a good example to their children.

Xmas shopping Part 1

I went Orchard after work to do some Xmas shopping... Finally had some time to do some shopping. But I sorta regret shopping for my Xmas gifts so late cos there's loads of people everywhere! Everywhere is either people people people or quene quene quene... the crowd is just so HORRIBLE~! The fact that it's raining doesn't help also cos people are all hanging in the shopping malls while they wait for the rain to stop...

The worse thing that happen today is perhaps that I have yet to get all the presents that I should be getting! I am still clueless about what to get for some people. Have not got anything for my company's gift exchange too. Worse come to worse I'll be giving them $20 Taka voucher ba... Which is about the most boring but useful present you can give...

Last of all... Someone please remind me to shop for my Xmas presents early next year ok? I dun want to be caught in the crowd again anymore...

Xmas is coming~!

Xmas is coming in 8 days time! I have been a lazy girl this year so I have yet to get any present for anyone yet... I'm planning to get some presents lah... Let's just hope I can wake up early tomorrow and go get some Xmas shopping done... Too lazy to squeeze with the Xmas shoppers crowd so I have no choice but to go out early to shop...

I had made a list of who to get presents for. Let's just hope I wun get any unexpected gifts fr anyone this year. One thing heng is that I'm sharing some presents with my colleague so I dun have to think of what to get for them liao... Phew~!

Still thinking of what to get for everybody... I also need some ideas for a unisex present for gift exchange that cost at least $20... Someone please help me....

Red Bean White Rabbit Sweet

Does any one of you know that there is White Rabbit sweet in Red Bean flavour?! I am so surprised when my bf sent me a picture of it. My sis simply say I'm sua gu cos she says it's been out for quite sometime liao... Issit? Now then I know I am a mountain tortise...

Red Bean Flavour White Rabbit Sweet

New Chocolate on the Block...

My colleague bought a box of chocolate and left it in the pantry for all to share. According to him, he just happen to see it at the checkout counter of Marketplace and decided to buy a box and try. He had no regrets cos in his opinion chocolate is even better than Rocher so he went back and got another box to share with us.

I tried it and it's... yummy! I liked it! Hee... a new brand of chocolate that got me hooked. Or maybe I'm sua gu cos it may be around in the market for quite sometime but I did not notice it...

This chocolate is called Golden Poker. It is a milk chocolate praline with rice crisp in the centre of the chocolate. I think the name is very lao tu but the taste is good! Yummy... But it's quite expensive though... The price is around the same as Rocher.... I got a box of approxmately 22 pieces (350g) for ard $11+... Burnt a hole in my pocket.

Yummy Golden Poker!

If you know me, then you will most probably know how much I liked chocolates and tibits and stuff like that. My poly sch friends used to say that if you wan tibits, sweets, chocolates and etc, go look for me. Cos most prob I'll have some in my bag. I think for the time being I'll be spending some $$ on this liao... Anybody want to sponsor me? ;)