Oh NTU .... Oh NTU ....

Man .....
Why didn't I do this last time? HAHA.

It was boring the 1st 2 minutes but after that .... I was rolling on the floor (if it's not carpeted) Enjoy! Haha ... What an open minded lecturer he is .... entertaining students through feedback form. You rock, Sir! Your mustache rocks too!



PS. Thanks to my beloved Cooking Pot for sharing this video to me and also insist to be put on my blog! HAHA. Kam Sia Deh ....

What Historical Figure Are You?

Hmmm ... This is quite interesting :-)

You are Amelia Earhart



Adventurous and boundary breaking. You believe that you can do anything, and do not hesitate to take risks to achieve a big goal. You like to problem solve, when a problem comes up.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Which Decade Should You Have Grown Up In?

Adooiii .... like real lar ... 20's!!! -.- Okay ... this website is banned. Haha .... But I'm addicted to it. Oh man!

You should have grown up during the twenties



You are cool, sophisticated and hip – even by today’s standards. You like things before they are considered cool, and you like them long afterwards.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

What Religion Do You Fit In With?

Ho Ho. This is fun. There'll be more quizzes for me to discover myself. :-)

You fit in with:
Spiritualism

Your ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms.

90% spiritual.
60% reason-oriented.

$10.10 to $1111 in Less than 5 Minutes?

You buy something for $10.10, and you get $1111 instantly. Would you want that?

:p .... I would like to say that "in my dream" but ... not really.
I can show you the prove that it did happen to my friend yesterday at .... Coffee Bean, Paragon.



Unfortunately, he was not able to cash out the $1111 as it's the mistake made by the cashier. Alamak .... no fun! :p .... But heck, it's still quite an interesting phenomenon, isn't it? ;p ... just that next time let's make sure the money is molest-able and not just mere on paper.

PS. Dominic, if you are reading this, hehe ... I do put it on my blog haha! It's too interesting lar ...

Crazy Horse

I am still thinking very hard whether I should write this post or not. But I guess I'll take the plunge, as it's not something pleasant, but better get it all out.



Read from the newspaper that the "Crazy Horse" was closing down. They are a bunch of naked ladies dancing and performing under the special effects of lightings and music. Their final show will be on the 31st of January 2007. So, thinking that if they closed, the only way for me to watch it will be in Paris, so I took the chance to go and watch it before they closed down. Oh ... what a horrific experience. And I believe most of the people who were there felt the same way, I can't believe there was actually a very long que half an hour before the show started just to enter the lounge.



If I do need to applaud, I'll applaud the following:

1. Great talents. I believe the girls are great dancers. They can move really really well! But ... how can uncles2 in their 40s are also yawning????? -.- Faint ...
2. Nice decor. Very tastefully done. It's lush and regal. Really love the interior unfortunately the interior can't sustain the business. If nude gals can't do it, how about a great interior. :( Sad ...
   

Anyway, I really tried hard to enjoy it. But the more I tried, the more yawns I got. Argh ... and hence I took a lot of photos of some nonsense stuffs (what's new ya ....) such as:

The Featured Wall


The Ceiling Light


The Chair


The Pyramid Light


The Naked Statue


And finally, what I called, The Nipple Lights.



I'm sorry, Crazy Horse. Now I really understand why you need to go. I think you need to modernize the music and choreography. If you can't even entertain the local men, don't talk about the women -.- some confused grannies were yawning non-stop (yup, old old grandmas were there too ... must have been forced by their daughters or relatives).

Do you know what's even better, sexier, hotter, and steamier?

This ...



How do I know? Even my female friends are woo-ed by it ... I wonder what it does to guys. I personally prefer Pussycat Dolls now and better watch their concert than watching mad horse next time though some of PCD's moves are pretty similar with those in Crazy Horse, but the sentiments it creates are heaven and hell.

Best & Cheap Indonesian Food in Singapore

Alright, enough of grieving. (Still miss my red lian ... but miss my Kiky more for sure). Eh ... I though I've just said enough of grieving and look at where I'm heading too. -.-

This time I'm going to talk about food!! Yeah! :)

I've been introduced to this place by my friend "Miau..." -.- Don't ask me how come she's called Miau ... (yeah, as in Meow... like a cat). Her real name is Emi (not sure I spelled correctly though) and as any Indonesians, everyone will get some funny nick names. Mine? PLENTY! But, let's talk about the food, shall we. :p ... (Phew ...)

This place is at .... errr .... -.- .... WHERE???? -.- Wait ... I go see the map.

Alright, alright. I got it! It's the correct one! Here's the address:

S11 Cuppage Terrace
21, 23 & 27 Cuppage Road (where's the 25???)
For the map, you can click here.

Stall Name: Kantin "Aneka"
Location: Ground floor, first stall at the corner (it's outdoor)



Apologize for the dark dark photo. I was really trying to be discreet in taking it thennnnnnnnnnn .... my friend (whose face I put a smiley there as I'm not sure whether she minds I'm putting her face online), found out that I was acting weird. .... Kept standing far away from the stall, don't know doing what.

So, I was caught taking photos and even the stall keeper found out and they asked, so which TV station are we going to be featured in? Well ... well ... well ... HECK!! Thick-skinned-ly, for my beloved blog & faithful readers, I'll take this shameless risk. WAKAKA not to mention being called "kampungan" (villagers) by my friends too as I was busy snapping the pictures of the food.

HEY!!! -.- ... Yummy things must be shared, okay!

So, what's good there?
The following are my own personal favourite. I know my friends have more but ... these are the one suited to my own taste buds. They make me feel like I'm home. ;p

Contestant #1: Pempek

(Fish cake in spicy sweet sauce. You can choose to have bee hoon or noodle with it)



Contestant #2: Soto Betawi

I've nothing much to say about this dish. It's literally everyone's favourite. My friend can literally lick the bowl clean and the dish washer must be happy to have her as the customer. (Yeah, you've heard of this friend before. She's the same person that cleaned up that Ox Tongue's thingie in Macau :p)



Hope you enjoy them as much as my friends and I did.

Goodbye, Red Lian ....

Sigh ...
My 2nd toilet buddy passed away last night. :( :( :(

Some gruesome details, her head was wounded (must be because she kept knocking on the glass vase thinking it's her enemy), her gills were clotted with blood and she was so pale.

Facing death is one of the most awful experience every time. Be it a fish or a dog ... I can't imagine if it happens to a human that I know. Haiz. -.-

Though she (I assume it's a "she" since I called her Red Lian) was only with me for 3 months and 20 days, there have been so many interesting phenomenons like ....

• She's choosy with her food
• She loved to do yoga (but apparently she's not meditating. based on google, she must have lost her equilibrium so she's upside down) :(

• Sometimes, she'll stick almost half of her body out in the air. Quite scary phenomenon. -.-

But whatever it is that she's doing. Still love her and miss her lots. :( .... Time spent with her although short, but will remember her for life.

In the search for the 3rd toilet buddy .... wonder what colour will he/she be this time.





Bye bye ... Lian. Hope you'll meet "Blue Beng" there.

Last Entry on Macau

Finally, the moment that Elly has been waiting for :p ... I'm going to end my blah about Macau. I can't wait to write more about Hong Kong too since I was almost 1 week there. so, here's the last entry on Macau goes.

As I walked through the small alleys of Macau (like the one below), I realized they are so clean! Can you spot any rubbish there? No? Yes? NO!! And this is just the ordinary alleys they have there. The cleanliness is amazing.



You must walk around these places, and when you have no money and hungry in Macau. Do you know what you need to do?

Simply find any alleys that sell pork slices (supposed to be very nyamz, but I didn't try :p ....) or any other tidbits like their famous almond cookies, egg crisps with pork floss, etc. All the shops are busy giving you free samples. Even though you reject, they'll just put it on your hand. And soon or later, you'll be overstuffed like me.



Yupe ... I've 2 almond cookies in my mouth and 1 more on my hands. They are all from different shops. I was so full. Shouldn't have had my lunch! :p

After shopping for some tidbits (I didn't buy though :o ... so who shopped?? -.-), my friend wanted to look this tea place. She's a tea freak!!! And she only saw the place from TV (it was recommended) and it was not that easy to locate it in the map. I remember I was standing on one of the street after we've found it, so I took the picture below for landmark next time. :p ... (As if it'll help, eh?)



So, what kinda place is it? It's actually a Cultural Club. (Wow, they even have a website :p). The building, Tak Seng On, was an old pawnshop, recognized by Macao government as historic building with great artistic value. When we were there, there are a lot of people who went there just to appreciate the decors and buy some souvenirs. But for us, we are stuck at this following corner for more than 30 mins.



What on earth were we doing? And what's that above?
If you look closely, it's actually a big tree trunk that they have modified become a table especially for tea appreciation. Those small little stools were the ones that suffered our weight during the testing session. We tried almost all the tea leafs offered in their brochures. How do their products look like? Don't worry, I'll share with all of you in just a short while. Our common favorite was "Lemon grass" but unfortunately, it's SOLD OUT!!!! ARGH!!! -.-

So I bought "Vervain / Verbena" and "Osmanthus" instead.



What's so special about the tea leafs offered from this shop? Firstly, they are all organic and natural. No caffeine. No preservatives. Secondly, the sales person was so nice and patient. Imagine these 3 customers who keep trying all the leaves and yet, she was still happily serving all of us without any complaints. :p (I wonder what's inside her heart). Thirdly and most importantly, for the freshness and good quality leaves that they offer, their price is a fraction of what you can find anywhere. (Including those I can find in Singapore). No wonder so many people from Hong Kong will go there and buy few hundred dollars worth of tea leaves. And no wonder my favorite lemon grass was gone. Hua..... Glad I managed to try it though. It's heavenly. Best lemon grass tea I've ever tried in my life!

On the 2nd floor of this antique house, they even have a place where you can appreciate Chinese Tea. They call it "Bamboo Hut".



And there's the Jin Yong Library, one of the famous Chinese contemporary writer who have brought us a few TV series such as "Return of the Condor Heroes" which was popularized with actor such as Andy Lau. And not to mention the popular song that was being translated in Bahasa Indonesia. -.- .... can faint.



So, if you are interested in taking a glimpse of this place, here's the full address.



With this, I shall end my "tok tok" session about Macau and next I shall talk more about Hong Kong. :)



D.D. signed off from Macau.

Macau - MUST EAT

Let's continue on from where I've left when it comes to Macau. This is a very important post, especially for Elly, since you'll be there this year, you'd better take down this place's address. It's a MUST GO. No question asked.

After roaming around for so long, our tummy has shown us no mercy. So, our beloved "tour guide", Maria, brought us to this place where she claimed everyone that comes to Macau must taste the food here. And we have no regrets whatsoever! Here they are:



The number one must-have dish is the Ox's Tongue don't know what. :p ... Now you know why I'm not a travel writer! HAHA! Just look at the menu and that should be the only Ox's Tongue dish there. (Sorry, guys & gals, no photos to shared. Whenever I'd like to take the photos of any food, I've already eaten it and it looks awful! -.- I'll try to keep in mind not to eat it before taking photo next time.)

Then I also love the African Chicken. These two dishes combine with breads are just so heavenly.

For dessert, try their sawdust cake (as pictured below - one of the few pic of food that I have. :p). If you notice from their business card, you'll also see the picture of this cake. 90% of the guests there were having this on their tables. So ... if you are a sweet tooth (LIKE ME), please do try it. :)

Seriously, this place is just awesome.



BTW, can you the super clean plate behind the cake? That's how good the red wine sauce that's used to cook the Ox's Tongue. It's tender and simply yummy. :)

Go have it now!! shoo shoo ...

Strolling Along Macau

I will not write much in this post. Taking this "quiet" opportunity to just share what my eyes have caught while walking around the city of Macau before I reached my favourite eating place.

Enjoy!




Hotel & Casino - Wynn (Very "goldie" .... I LIKE)


Hotel & Casino Lisboa. With a few of its interesting antiques & interiors captured below. BTW, heard the ventilation of this casino was quite bad. I didn't go in though. I went to Wynn instead and it's amazing. :)


Super "Goldie" cherubs on the ceiling


Since I've taken the ceiling, I should take the chandelier too.


33 Kwan Yin's Figures are being carved out of this tea trunk. AMAZING!


My friend though I'm too free by snapping so many nonsense. So she said, why didn't I take photo of the pillar too. Well, so here it is.


While walking to our dinner place, I can't help but be amazed by this big tree. I love the fact that the city of Macau still preserve the tree in such a good condition even though it's surrounded by the Military Club. I'm amazed.


:p Alright .. this is just a prank. I was on a cab and ... wanna snap whatever I could. :p Quite colorful, right? :p