Donuts - Singapore vs Malaysia

新加坡目前刮起甜甜圈旋风，几乎在每个市政每几步都有一间店在卖甜甜圈。 现在流行的甜甜圈不是那种小时候吃的炸面包撒上糖粉的东西而是“内有乾坤”，“外有花衣裳”而“价格不非”甜甜圈！

好奇的我看见新开张的甜甜圈连锁店，不禁怀疑到底是多好吃的东西可以吸引那么多人，不惜时间和精力的在排队。我决定就当一会儿贪新鲜和怕输的新加坡人，跟着排排看。新店吸引很多好奇的眼光，但没有什么人排队，很快就轮到我。厨房出甜甜圈的速度比不上顾客的需求，轮到我时已经没剩下没什么口味了，所以我只好等在一旁等慢条斯理的厨房把我要的口味做出来。

我等了将近会30分钟，那香蕉朱古力口味的甜甜圈始终没办法出来见人。粗心大意的店员也没有告诉我香蕉朱古力口味的甜甜圈没了，让我像傻瓜一样白白的等。生气但看在他们第一天开张的我于是“提点”了在那里驻守的经理，希望他们会改善服务态度。 经理也很关切的道歉，解释第一天的混乱是难免的，希望我谅解，以后在光顾。 他真的不需要那么客气，我一定不会有下一次排队买"华而不实"的甜甜圈了！！！

我搞不清楚新加坡人是怎么了，那甜甜圈的确比邻里的蛋糕店卖的松软，但也没有很好吃。它们不止油腻还非常甜，甜到让人担心一定会得糖尿病的甜，怎么能送进口里吃阿？我吃了一个就开始担心了，甜到让人害怕，怎么会那么多人买呢？我搞不清楚人们在想什么。。。

再来已经有那么多人开甜甜圈连锁店，几乎每两三步就会碰到一间，怎么还会有人想都没想，还是嫌钱太多，还在盲目的开甜甜圈连锁店呢？我觉得甜甜圈连锁店已经快要成为当年的泡泡茶店一样，泡沫随时破灭。。。 傻瓜的有钱人，把钱投资比较稳定的地方吧。

马来西亚也有甜甜圈连锁店，看看它们和新加坡有什么不同吧。它们一样的油腻和非常甜，应该跟香烟一样附上警告:

Warning: The following might cause diabetics.

我大概这一辈子都不会再碰甜甜圈了。

Malaysia's Dunkin Donuts. They are not made fresh, so tasted cold and greasy. Too sweet for me, in fact they are too sweet for human consumption.

Singapore's Munchie Donuts. Chaotic service. No one knows what they are doing. Slow kitchen workers. The design looked nice, but I messed them up. The dough is softer, but also too sugary and sweet. I cannot take it, also think that they are too sweet for human consumption.

Packaging

Malaysia's still celebrating Hari Raya Puasa, thus the cartoony packaging.

Yes, Singapore's packaging. Not really impressive. The slogan - One is not enough. Yeah, get more kitchen helpers !#%!^#$@*$^*#&$^ !!!

80's 天王天后 - 张国荣和梅艳芳

前天看电视刚好转台看到陈慧琳和陈小春唱已故天王天后的歌曲，我差点晕倒。

他们分别唱了张国荣和梅艳芳的“无心睡眠”和“梦伴”。我觉得他们两人的台风和歌声有待加强，根本没办法表现出张国荣和梅艳芳在台上表演的那种魅力。尤其陈慧琳在开始的时候拿着Mic stand猛摇摆，让我看得朦喳喳。。。她不像是跳舞，也不像在跟着节拍舞动，看不出她在干什么。后来听着音乐才领悟到她或许在模仿梅艳芳吧，很差的在模仿。。。WTH ！！！再来，她的声音小到背景音乐都掩盖过她了，好狼狈, 好差强人意的的表演。

你必须看到张国荣和梅艳芳在八十年代的表演，才可以体会为什么他们会受人爱戴和崇拜。 当然，现在看那时候的服装可能会觉得很“土”，很怪，但那时后流行的是这样嘛。我想再也没有人可以取代他们两了。尤其现在的新一代的歌手几乎都没有实力和舞台魅力，根本不能登大雅之堂。目前有实力和舞台魅力就数张惠妹最好,她算是有实力和舞台魅力的歌手了。

他们红的时候，我才两三岁，多亏Youtube让这些经典音像从现！

永远的Leslie和Anita

Photosophize Discovery II - Beautiful One

I discovered leaves of my lime plant are chewed up and missing ! Something must be growing on the plant. Armed with my sharp eyes, I set out to look for the culprit.

Guess what I found? Caterpillars!

These leaf-eating machines are already in various stages of their life. Some are small in black and white colour; some are already grow so big and fat in green. I read somewhere that some species of caterpillars will disguise themselves to look like bird droppings so that they will not become bird snacks. Those that I find seem to fit into the categories. The bigger ones are armed with fake big eyes to scare off whatever predators.

A few of them have enough and already moved on to the next stage – Pupa. They will hang from a branch and wait for their “big break”. I do not want them on my plant to continue the destruction, but I could not bear to kill them. Thus, I collected them on a plastic container and selectively pick leaves for them to keep them alive.



Unfortunately, they start to climb everywhere, some ended up on our clothes and some even turn pupa in an umbrella! Finally, my mum could not stand them anymore. I was ordered to throw them away. I did however leave most of the pupae untouched. I am curious to see what sort of butterfly had been laying eggs on my plants. However, I kept missing them and end up finding a lot of empty pupae cases.

Then one morning, I saw this beautiful creature waiting for its wings to dry. . .


They seems to remember where they were born at and have since came back to lay their eggs again. OMG!

J.K Rowling Revealed that Dumbledore is a Gay!!!

Shocking news!!!

I was reading it off MSN website. J.K Rowling revealed during a reading session that Dumbledore, whom I quite like and respect, is in fact a gay. She revealed that when someone asked if Dumbledore had ever truly loved anyone. She informed that he has falled for the talented dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald .

Hmm... Not that this will change my impression of him, I still and do like him, but I think this is not suitable to be discussed with children. Especially there are a lot of them reading Harry Potter.

This is not a prejudice against people like them or whatever, but I mean children are innocent and should be as innocent as they could be when young. I would want my children (when I have kids) to be happy and carefree as long as they can be (just like cheekymonikes). I would not want them to be polluted with complicated stuff that young.

There could be serious complications for the children by telling them about the sexual orientation of the characters. They are still young, they need not to know about it. Have she ever considered that what if children or teenagers who like Dumbledore a lot, are influence to be like him? Is this correct? The difference between teaching children to be more acceptance to people who are different and influencing them are a thin line. Her words which already influence a lot of people, might encourage people to go the other way subconsiously.

I guess Harry Potter might comes with NC 16 rating soon. A pity, such an interesting and fantasy story where one imagination runs wild, but is it still suitable for young children?

麻布茶房 - Azabu Sabo ****

(Silly me didn't list the place earlier on. I have amended the entry as well. Realised that I made a lot of grammar mistakes earlier on. Was rushing to get this out fast mah. :P)

After leaving the "boys", we went to a Japanese dessert shop to have Ice-Cream. Just as well, I think Angel needs to cool down...

Japanese Sweet Eats and Tea !

There was a queue forming when we walk past it earlier to our dinner venue. Who knows when we made it back again, the shop was packed. Azabu Sabo sells authenticJap Ice-cream that is made in Hokkaido.

I am amazed at their vast selection of desserts. All of them looked so tempting just by looking at their picture. Besides the typical green tea ice-cream that you will find in a japanese restaurant, they also have baked sweet potatoes, sesame flavoured and strawberries flavoured soft-served ice cream !!! We were spoilt for choice.

I always prefer authentic food, thus ordered the traditional green tea ice-cream with red bean and mochi.




You can taste the good quality green tea in the ice-cream. The sweetness was just right and flavourful without being too sweet. The red bean was so thoroghly cooked, that you almost felt like they melt in your mouth. The mochi , just the right size, is very chewy. The green tea ice-cream actually goes very well with the red bean paste as red bean counters the slightly dry taste that you find in tea. You can easily finish the whole thing off without feeling too guilty.

This is a heathlier version compared to those westerners sundae which is soaked with more candies and unhealty stuff. This Jap version is packed with fruits. The normal looking soft-serve ice cream tasted amazingly nice. I read it from somewhere that Hokkaido is famous for their dairy cow!!! Perhaps this is why the soft-served ice cream taste so wonderfully light, smooth, very fresh and milky. It is nothing like those that you get from fast food restaurant which leave an oily, creamy aftertaste on your taste buds. The green tea syrup added a touch of class and aroma to the ice-cream. I can already imagine myself craving for this sundae on a hot day.

The shop has nice decor too. It is very spacious looking. Perhaps it was due the use of white color and glasses. The Japanese mofits, like their Sakura flowers and ancient painting of Japanese courts are reflected everywhere on their wall and seats.

Look, even the chair decorated with an eastern touch.

Anyway, Angel and I love the Kanji name of the shop - 麻布茶房. It sound very classy and exotic like those Kyoto's Teahouses that we read in "Memoirs of a Geisha". Too bad, there are no Geisha around.

The only thing that bothers me are their waitresses' and waiters' uniform. They looked like french maids and stewards copied off from manga comics. They looked off with the decor and the image of the parlour.

Verdict: They deserved 4 Stars!!!! Should try !

Azabu Sabo is at Marina Square #02-170 / 171. :) I will go back and try the rest of the flavours as well especially their baked sweet potato. They served it with Green Tea Ice Cream or Soft Served Ice Cream!!!

Check out their website for their menu and locations - http://www.azabusabo.com.sg/

Boys...

We had a gathering with my poly classmate last friday. The gathering had an eventful start. My friend, Angel, flare up halfway through the gathering. She had wanted and expected the gathering to be small and private, therefore she had only asked a few of us out. Who knows, the three of us had the wrong impression and invited the rest of the poly classmates along.

To be frank, I don't usually wanted to get myself involved in organisng outings. There are a lot of hassles and doesn't pay, epecially when organising outing for mostly "boys"... I wonder why we can be of the same age and they , after training in the army and everything, are still so inmature and irresponsible. I sometimes wonder how we can leave our country to them and let them protect us...

I am in-charge of making reservation at the restaurant and had even catered for extra seats. The "boys" don't even have the courtesy to inform me that there are more people coming. I just don't understand, don't they ever eat out on friday night? Don't they know that everywhere has long quene and seats at restuarant are hard to come by? Even though I feel unhappy about that and even felt disrespectful, but I did not comment on it. However, this sparks off Angel's temper and throughout the dinner she was very quiet.

I have only catered for 6 persons but 4 more persons are going to turn up, so obviously the table is not big enough to accomendate all of us. Those who reached first had to eat fast fast and find ourselves another restaurant for all of us. During the dinner, those inmature and irresponsible boys did not notice the change in her mood and even continue to make silly jokes on each other.

The last straw came when we were looking for other restaurant. You know how teenage boys like to ogle at girls and when they are in a big group, they became this insensitive, arrogant, totally had no respect for their female friends kind of people. All my 24 year-old classmates became those teenager boys. Then, from nowhere, the latecomers joined our gathering with another of their friend which Angel and I have never seen before.

Upon see him, Angel flared up and scolded J for being so insensitive to ask a stranger to join our gathering. She also told him off that they became so childish and inmature when a big bunch of the guys were together. She went on rumbling a bunch of logical reasonings which make me so shocked and amazed at her comments. Usually, for this sort of situation, I was the one to play the black face. (See I was so misunderstood. )

Then she marched off dragging me along...

豁达

豁达：大度 [clear;open-minded;generous]

我不过是凡人，不是神仙，我没那么豁达。

Her Small Secrets

Nice? Like it?

My hobby-craft loving good friend decided to sell some of her creations online. I thought the earrings are special and quite cute. They are quite reasonable priced too - Each pair cost only $8.90 (SGD).

Anyway, for those interested can order through her Yahoo auction page.

http://sg.auctions.yahoo.com/sg/user/hersmallsecret

Or

Can order through me. :)

Ps: Ms Foong, I quite like the ribbon and heart-shaped design earrings. Will I get a pair of those earrings for helping you to advertise? Hee Hee... :P