Thursday, May 22, 2008
Met Nicole for drinks at bugis, had steamboat dinner with Grace, met Xu zi and Jasmine for dinner at Dhoby Ghaut, watched Speed Racer with Callie, AND on Mon, Vesak Day, I had a mini movie marathon at my place, with Jig and Shiqin... Haven't seen those 2 in a long time.. lol... So yeah.. pretty busy week... haha...
And it's not over yet... Had a night photoshoot for my diecast models with my friends last night, might be going out on Sat for another movie, AND catching the Monaco F1 Grand Prix at Shiqin's place on Sun.. lol... Plus, on top of all that, I've been adding site pages like crazy, editing them, adding links, pictures... EVERYTHING... nearly going cross-eyed looking at all the HTML coding... and my wrist has a spot that's hardened cos I've been using the mouse too much... lol..
In fact, I just finished another product page and tidying up all the other pages.. all 40+ of them... so now I'm just gonna let my pictures do the talking.. hehe...
That's the Green Apple Katsuki drink, basically green apple juice with lime, and a preserved sour plum... SUPER SOUR... hence Xu zi's twisted up face.. lol..
That's Warm Chocolate Cake... so sinful...
Especially when paired with this... Chocolate Indulgence... lol... That was a damn sinful dessert.. haha... I initially had a picture of Jasmine 'enjoying' the desserts, but it's too... hrm.. well... if it was put here, I'd have to put an R21 rating.. lol...
And then 2 days later, I had this... Coffee Bean's Flourless Chocolate Cake... SO sinful.. I couldn't finish it cos I was having Belgium chocolate latte too.. ahaha.. Packed it home for my sis and she polished it off...
See.. that's whats inside... Even Callie agreed that it was Goooooood~~...
Oh and btw... One of the most annoying things anyone can do while placing an order, is to be unsure about what to order, and then decide not to order anything at all.. The person queueing in front of me did that and seriously pissed me off.. Keep asking about the items on the menu, totally unsure of what to get, then when the orders are keyed in, decided to just cancel all the orders... Sheesh... It was only cos of that chocolate cake that I even went to queue.. It was calling to me.. 'Eat me, eat me!!' lol...
That dessert was after we watched Speed Racer.. Speed Racer was an... ok movie... It could probably be considered to be the first live-action anime movie.. haha... But some parts were seriously too draggy... I was zoning out after the first hour and Callie was just trying to survive it... lol... The colours were blinding, acting was over the top... and Rain was... well... his fighting was more like dancing... and when he goes 'Whoo', you'd swear it was from one of his songs... The racing was unbelievable, if I could drift like that, I'd probably be the Drift GOD.. lol...
The movie marathon on Mon was great too... We all watched crappy youtube videos, great movie trailers, and then, basically just stoned in front of the tv watching Shaun of the Dead and Aeon Flux.. lol... then we just caught up over drinks at the coffeeshop downstairs.. hehe... Great guys to spend a holiday with man... Esp since Jig only comes back like once a year... Haha...
Can't wait for the Monaco Grand Prix man!! Lol...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
But.. some days are nice.. like when I went for the Formula Drift Competition 2 sundays ago.. 4 of us went, my sis and I and her two friends... Wasn't as interesting as I thought, it was the US Formula Drift, I tot it was the Japan D1.. lol... Now THOSE guys know how to drift.. And the damn hot weather made it so unbearable... Luckily we took the grandstand seats.. which had a shelter... cos when your seats are on plain tarmac, there had better be some shelter... I got a tan just walking from the bus drop off point, to the seats, which were all the way in at the Changi Exhibition Centre... Damn ulu place sia...
The shuttle bus ticket... $5!! Luckily its for a round trip... Taxis had an $8 surcharge just to get there!! Crazy man!!
One of the few permanent buildings there..
They had a break in between the preliminaries and the semis, so we went to check out the booths there... Saw a few nice cars.. like these...
Like this.. the new Nissan Skyline GTR... It beat a Porsche 911 around the Nurburgring by 2 seconds!! And apparently, the newer V-spec version bettered its time by 13 seconds!! Supercar performance, with a price tag of about S$330k.. a bargain compared to Ferraris and Lamborghinis...
A Ford GT... Ford's only supercar... Too bad its only left-hand drive, which means it can't really be driven here... Rumour has it that someone in SG actually owns one, but its not registered and just kept by a car collector, its stored at the dealer...
Semis were quite predictable... Either the Jap racer in the Apexi Rx-7 or the Mad New Zealander, Mad Mike, in another Rx-7 would win... surprisingly, another driver in an AE86 came in 2nd, the Jap was 1st, Mad Mike was 3rd... But... all were just as crazy... lol...
We left after the semis... cos it was too hot and just not very entertaining... Ended up going to Sentosa.. Cafe Del Mar to be exact.. lol... Haven't been there since they opened last year.. lol... Ran into Weikun's gf while walking there.. and I figured he and Daniel were playing frisbee... coincidentally, right next to CDM... So I joined them for a bout... 45 mins worth of a good workout.. lol... Getting rusty though... They're so much better!! Argh... Gotta start practicing... Daniel did another crazy throw... looked like some reverse backhand throw or something... Nearly dislocated my shoulder trying it.. lol... We even made friends with this hyper Jack Russell who had a penchant for chasing after the yellow frisbee we had... and not the white.. haha.. After they left, I went back to chill at the pool... till night came... Haha... so nice to just relax and chill with a cocktail in hand... I should really do this more often.. lol...
That's my hairy legs chilling by the pool.. lol... I don't really recommend the pool for swimming.. you don't know what else has dropped in there.. or who else has done what.. haha..
Nice pool side tables for having meals... didn't go there though.. I wanted the sun!! Lol...
That's the DJ's console right at the top... Quite a job hazard to climb up there... Haha..
The place looks so funky with the lights on at night... Haha..
Left CDM for dinner at Blooie's... this quaint pub near Siglap... Has fantastic bbq chicken wings.. and drinks are quite good too... at least you could taste the alcohol... drinks at CDM were watered down... probably to keep people from falling into the pool.. haha...
I wish every sunday could be like that man... its so nice to just chill and do nothing... No worries, no need to think about work, about orders to make, people to call, paperwork to finish, html to edit... Many people think working at home is great... but in actuality, it's quite tiring too... I may not need to wake up till 9 or 10am.. but once I do.. its already time to work... sometimes I HAVE to wake up at 9.. just because somethings needed to be done by 12.. like orders to put in, or parcels to send... or even gym I need to attend.. heh...
And most people can switch off once they reach home from work, end at 7pm, or 9pm, just come home and relax... for me, its hard... I'll end up at home around 7 to 10pm if I go out earlier... and then its back to work again... invoices to print, pages to edit, systems to assemble... Sometimes I'm only done by 2am... and then, I sleep and the next day starts again... Heh..
Somehow it's tiring, and yet... still fulfilling... cos somehow, you know you're doing this for a goal, the end point, and no matter how far away that is, you know that doing this is gonna bring you one step nearer to it... I used to think that I'd get a car in 5 years... but now, my short term goal is to get a commercial van for me to do deliveries, then an office space... THEN a car.. so its not really one big step towards the car, but many small steps to that little goal... But that's just my personal goal... my professional goal is something totally different... and will really take some time to achieve.. But I always remind myself that it can be done, and I see that others have gotten closer to that goal and I know that I can too...
Support from friends and family has been really encouraging... From 2 order 2 months ago, to 5 last month... in essence, sales has increased 250%... 2 to 5 isn't much... but percentage wise, it's a lot.. Not to mention the cost of products has increased even more... so that's been very encouraging too... Luckily I have free incoming... so if friends need my help or advice, they just call me... Hell, I even passed my contact info to the taxi driver who was driving me back from SLS... Lol...
I know what I want to do is possible... all I need is just to make the small steps that counts towards that goal... and I have my friends to count on for their help... from their willingness to let me try things out with them, to their orders, and even the use of their car.. lol... I'm truly grateful to friends like these... I won't forget you guys... =)
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