Commencement 2009

This is what REALITY physically feels like.

THE LINE @ Shangri-La

The Line @ Shangri-La is celebrating its 4th birthday and is having a 40% off weekday buffet lunch promotion. My parents went and came back so happy and satisfied a few days ago and I was so envious, I pulled my dad along again on Friday.

If you present your DBS card, you enjoy free flow of drinks, which includes beer and cocktail.
























The cocktail was fresh and flavourful, but the story hasn't started yet.

Look at its fresh seafood!




Steamed crabs - they were not the small and pathetic u see outside, nor was the meat like not fresh, sticking to the shell kind. The steamed crabs at The Line are big and generous and the meat was just nicely done - tender, succulent and fresh.


Mussels - I have never, ever eaten such fresh mussels before. I didn't know fresh mussels tasted so, so nice.


Fresh raw oysters - WOW. For those who love oysters, you would definitely fall in love with them. They are very, very fresh and juicy. Ordinary oysters have a heavy tint of the 'sea-smell' and squishy insides, but these oysters had none of it. Slowly biting the oysters, their freshness made me feel as though I was relaxing by the seaside with the sea breeze and light music. HEAVENLY.

Hong Kong styled roasted duck and roast pork.

On the left of the picture above, is their braised lamb shank. The flavour was fine, but the meat was fantastic. It melted unbelievably in my mouth, yet maintaining the right amount of succulence.

The brownly grilled piece of meat at the right is Ostrich meat! My first time having a go at it, and oh my, it's great. It wasn't like hard and chewy like rubber-band as I had expected to be. Tasted abit like beef without the beefy smell. The ostrich meat was done in black pepper marination. Went very well with the meat.

The roast rib eye was brilliant as well. Tender, melting in my mouth. However, I would have preferred it lessly cooked. Nevertheless, still good.

Next up, my favourite food of the day....

Salmon Sashimi. HEAVENLY + WOW + FANTABULOUS. Very very fresh. and sweet. the distinctive taste of salmon and the flavour of the omega3 fats, is why I love salmon sashimi so much. Their japanese soy sauce was splended as well, but wasabi not strong. If you had noticed, there are 2 colours of salmon above. On the left is salmon from its belly, arguably the best part to eat sashimi from. Salmon belly contains the most flavourful fats and it WAS WONDEFUL.

Dessert. Woops. So nice I had forgotten to take pics of it because they melted so quickly in my mouth I had to keep scooping to relish the sweet, tingling aroma.

I am not a dessert person, but I must admit the desserts at The Line were very, very fabulous. There were so many kinds and types and colours of desserts, they catered one big entire display shelves section for them.


Their sorbet was freshly prepared. I haven't eaten enough sorbet in my life to evaluate how good this mango sorbet was, but it's good enough for me to give a thumbs up.

Their promotion ends on 16th March. HIGHLY recommend you to go and experience for yourself, how high quality food should taste.

END OF FYP!!!!!!

Tomorrow marks the official END OF FYP!

Holy cow, how great and soothing it is to hear that!

It has been a looooooooooooooong 2 semester long journey, described by lots of readings, research, report writing, presentation, shitty high-rate-of-failure experiments... I'm damn glad it's gonna be over!

But...
























Friday the 13th. LOL.

But no superstitions for me! =P

Congrats to all ME year4s and Good Luck at thesis-writing!!! =)

Craving for Ma La!

The Chosen One who stabbed his prof

Half of my final semester has passed by in a flash... When I think back on what I have done over that first half, the only thing I can remember is nothing. -_-" It passed by so quickly, so nonchalantly, and suddenly it's week 7 already.

Of the things I told myself to achieve before I grad, by far I have:

- Tried out being a waiter (though it was a lousy experience)
- Gone night cycling with NusRovers (very fun)
- Taken photos of NUS compound (will continue to do so)
- Enjoyed walking in the bazaars

Sigh. 6 more weeks of student life, I really really must cherish it as though it's the last week in USA, cos similiar to the latter, 6 weeks of school will pass by really quickly.

*Sigh

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I guess most of you would already have heard of the crazy stressed out NTU final year Engineering student who stabbed his FYP Professor, then later committed suicide by jumping down 4 storeys?

The student died, his Prof is in stable condition at NUH.

Very shocking news isn't it? The student is Indon Chinese by the way. When I first heard of it, my first impression was the shooting incident at Virginia Tech 2 years ago. Hmm!

Haha and you know after the news of the NTU incident was reported, I heard a couple of stories about FYP professors today...

1) Prof T kept explaining to his student that he wasn't trying to 'tekan' (i.e. make things difficult for) his student. and he stressed this point countless of times.
2) Prof X rejected to meet his student today and suggested 'video conferencing'.

LOL! They are true stories.

Well, hope the prof recovers soon. NTU staff and students, keep a look out! Hmm... How about banning all metal cutlery in the canteen? Switch to using plastic ones... much safer in case anyone uses them as weapons!

At the same time, at a much safer haven, I received good news from NUS Society of Mechanical Engineering.
























Free T-shirts for ME students. Just flash matric card.

And hence, (inevitably) it brings me to this point again:-









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That's the difference between them N'US.

Chicky Bee Pox

Blur blur bee got the chicken poxes! /screams.

2 weeks MC at home.

Once again, sick bee at home.



RECOVER WELL!!!!

NO scratching allowed!!!

Zara Councillors Stingray Outing

From this...

























To this....
























Finally after 6 months of "EH! let's go eat stingray tog leh!", we put words to action - we managed to arrange a day to makan stingray together!

We met on Friday for dinner at Newton Circus. Now i know a place in town which offers affordable and wide variety of food (other than foodcourt). And the place is very spacious, airy and clean, however there is much touting to be seen and heard and felt among the stall holders as the competition is just too intense.



So we ordered some dishes from a botak muscular gentlemanly man who got us a nice table away from the smoke and oil.



The food was really quite good! Except the chicken wings which were marinated in black pepper. Gah. Spoilt the chicky taste.

So after dinner it was only abt 8pm and we were at Newton, we took rather long to finally decide on a place to hang out. AH! we decided to go novena square.

Bo-liao shot taken at Newton Mrt.



But oops, heard that Velocity closes at 9pm. So we changed our minds to CityLink, maybe find a coffee place to sit down... Suddenly our fickle minds led us to think of Marina Square where we could play arcade. And LOL, finally finally we decided on Giraffe, a bar opposite Plaza Singapura.

LOL. We didn't even step in cos the girls thot Giraffe was too ATAS and clad in slippers and casual wear, we wouldn't blend in. OK so FINAL ANSWER (from SLumdog Millionaire) - TCC beside Plaza Singapura.

We were lucky to get a nice cosy corner + air con inside TCC and we spent quite a few hours in there chatting, joking, making fun of each other, teasing, talking about old times, gossiping. It was a very fun time shared. Beats those conversations with other ppl when all we can talk about are jobs, interviews, salaries, economy, current affairs. While I know it's very important to keep in touch with reality and general affairs, talking about topics friends have fun talking about over a drink is what keeps the friendship going and memorable.




We could have hung out longer at the cosy corner in TCC if not for our brimming bladders and guilt for hogging the table.

HA. We ended the day by going to the arcade at the basement leading to the mrt station. We spent $11 in total to adopt (UFO catcher) 2 very adorable animals. HAHAHHAHA!




Take-home line for the day?

It takes 5 Engineers to Catch. Heh.