Ramen part 2

Ichibantei

were at liang court the other day but couldn't eat tampopo/marutama because neither of us(me/sis) wanted to let the other party '1-up' ourselves(i.e. try one more ramen shop then the other person)...so we settled on ichibantei. service was quite bad. the waitress looked like we owed her a thousand bucks. =/ i ordered the tonkatsu ramen. the noodles were the thick chewy type that i don't like. and the famous pork bone soup reeked of the horrible pork smell. i mean. i KNOW its pork. but i think only bad/unfresh pork will give that smell. so its a big thumbs down for me. maybe it was just a unlucky day but... probably never again. =/ egg was pretty good though. char siew was.. unmemorable. =)

Tampopo

Sis finally allowed me to one-up her. =D had ramen at tampopo at NAC. It was about high-tea time so it wasn't really crowded and i wasn't really hungry. =/ i had the black pig tokusen bbq pork ramen(whats with the long name?). Its a little on the pricy side at 15.30 without an egg which costs 1.80 more.. but there were 2 pieces of bbq char siew which was actually quite good. fragrant. though not as soft as marutama or their non-bbq char ciew for that matter. They had hokkaido ramen and kyushu ramen.

Hokkaido ramen: Soup:pork and chicken bone. Noodles: thick and chewy
Kyushu ramen: Soup: pork bone. Noodles:Thin and hard

I like the kyushu ramen much better. the soup was rich and creamy. i like thin noodles better too. =D Brother had the Hakodate Shio hokkaido ramen and we thought it tasted similar to prawn soup noodle.. =/ so ya. definitely kyushu ramen. will go back again if i'm in the area and craving ramen. its good! between this and marutama? This has more variety... i think both are good. =)

nothing to do with ramen but..


bought a new shoe. it was shockingly shiny. *damnit* and tall. like 4.75". *double damnit* AND the zip at the back cuts into your ankles. i have doubts for the usefulness of the shoe.. i think it looks pretty good though. =)

Thats all! going to buy salmon!

thoughts.

最近发现, 我似乎已经不是我之前所想的, 那么的冷酷, 那么的坚强. 一个人的时候会感到寂寞. 碰到钉子的时候会感到着急. 读到伤心或感人的故事会心疼, 会掉眼泪. 似乎已经很久没有那么多的感触了, 我还以为我早就变成冷血动物了, 哈哈. 面具也好象不由自主地, 慢慢的消失. 这是一件好事吗? 毕竟本性可是一点也不讨人喜欢. 而且如果被讨厌的是真正的自己的话, 这可是比任何伤都还要刺痛啊..

so anyway. I've realized that i tend to emo in chinese and bitch in english. sort of like a split personality. ^^; don't you find that chinese is more suitable for emo-ing? it has this poetic characteristic to it. i like. =D although my chinese standard is well, not so up to standard. =/

mom seems to think I'm anorexic when I'm eating supper almost everyday. when i ate bee hoon for lunch and rice for dinner, she said i was starving myself. hmm. and she was complaining about my fats not so long ago. now she says my face is 'sunken in' due to the lack of fats. i think she needs new glasses because i personally cant even see my cheekbones anymore. =/

Mayday is coming to Singapore on the 17th of April at the Padang! We might book our tickets via FC(http://www.givemi5.com/) or not. Let me know if you want to go together k. ^^ although its DNA(again), but still looking forward because its outdoor! =DD

*wishes time would stop so she doesn't have to study.. >.<*

when things hit rock bottom..they can only get better

and that is really TRUE!! i was totally ready to declare today as officially the worst day of my life, BUT!! omg!! ok lets not get ahead of ourselves. lets follow a chronological order first. =x

everything that could go wrong in lab, DID. i spilled my compound, accidentally caused backflow into my vacuum flask, did my ion exchange column WITHOUT a cotton bud(what was i thinking? no wait. i WASN'T THINKING.) so i had to redo and its a bitch to clean. so because of all these i couldn't get my compound by my deadline of 1.15 and had to get poor yong to help me get a solid out of my solution on top of her stuff. Thanks yong!!

so i left the lab at 1.30, rushed down to the innovation center while calling a cab, but saw another cab float pass me so i just flagged it. and it was a weird looking cab(i.e. i've never seen it before), its a black, posh looking car. so after i flagged it down i saw the magical $5 flag down rate. limo cab. holy cow. so i was going to apologise to the driver and ask him to go off cause i didn't want to end up paying 40 bucks for a taxi ride. but he said he'll give me a discount so i half reluctantly hopped in. (and throughout the ride i was asking him suspiciously, 'you're not gonna con me right?' =x)

and and! i was running late already because by the time i got a cab it was 1.45. and my warm up lesson was at 2. so what happened? a TRAFFIC JAM. on PIE. omg. i almost died. i was like, 'this is the most horrible day of my life'. and the driver was like, 'ya, first u get onto a premium cab, then you meet a traffic jam. hahaha.' -.-" and to add insult to injury, you know what was the reason for the traffic jam? nothing. zilch. nada. zip. the traffic just jammed for no apparent reason(except to make me later then i already was).

so by the time i reached ubi the meter was showing 32.80. i stared at him suspiciously and asked how much was he going to charge me. he actually said i could just quote a price and he'll take it at that. (no tt's even more suspicious) so i asked him to quote me instead and ended up paying 25. alright not as bad as i thought. it was a pretty comfy cab. ^^

so my warm up lesson went hideously. i was making amazingly stupid mistakes. like starting the car using 2nd or 3rd gear!! and THRICE!! omg?! i was a nervous wreck. so while waiting for the tester to call my name i was like trying to hypnotise myself into thinking it was a normal driving lesson. not working. the tester i got totally didn't fit into my imagination at all. he was the youngest tester i saw. (tall too. and he looked similar to the taxi driver. maybe its a good omen since the taxi driver gave me a discount =X) young could go both ways. extra strict or extra lenient. *apprehensive* circuit went ok except for the parallel parking in which i made the mistake of turning at the wrong pole TWICE. and i've never done that before. thankfully he reminded me to look at the right pole. what a nice person. =D didnt go on any of the test routes 1-10, just took a short trip out and u-turned back. was barely on the road for more then 10mins. i took that as a good sign. drive more wrong more you see..

so while waiting for the results i kept thinking how the parallel parking is going to cost me.. and also it definitely wasn't one of my smoothest drives... wait..wait...and the tester came with my results...and i saw the magical 6 letters..

P-A-S-S-E-D

OMG. I AM SO HAPPY. =DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

nice people DO exist in this world. HA HA HA

ok maybe now i should start acting like school has actually started. =D

ramen, ramen, and more ramen

i've been in a good mood after i threw my entire dark soul into that last blogpost. okay maybe not exactly, because it seemed to have some negative effect. but i'm still in a pretty good mood. =)


went to eat ramen with the girls to celebrate yong's birthday at marutama @ central on friday afternoon. the ramen was good, everyone was raving about how soft the egg was, how melt-in-your-mouth the char siew was, how springy the noodles were and i thought the soup was pretty good. =D following that i had to leave for my driving lesson while they roamed from clarke quay to chinatown to bugis. sad. i havent seen them for quite a while too.

(i bumped into the poles behind TWICE during parallel parking.. i didn't make that mistake when i just learned.. sometimes i think i drove the best during my first lesson. =.="" the more i learn the worse i get. does that make any cow sense??)

anyway i saw them at bugis coincidentally when i went to meet sis to walk around. they went to mediya! i wanted to get my instant tonkotsu ramen!! ok then i ate ramen with sis at bugis basement..sapporo bishamon ramen. ramen for lunch and dinner. =D anyways. i dont like the noodles. its the thicker and more yellow translucent kind..dont like. egg was ok, char siew thick but nowhere as soft as marutama. forgot to take a picture. so me and sis resolved to try all the popular ramen joints in singapore and decide which is the best within 3 months. new year resolution. LOL.


but anyway ah tong brought the sapporo tonkotsu instant ramen over just now and...it tasted like instant chicken maggie mee. hmm. i dunno what went wrong. =/ its pretty expensive too. and not a big packet. =x lucky i didn't waste the money. HAHAHA.

ok thats all for ramen.

i might be going to japan with sis in may. initially i wasn't planning on going with her because its so expensive and i would rather go as a whole family(and just give her money to buy me lots of cosmetics). but father asked about it and told sis to bring me along, he pay the air ticket..so nice. i think sis really wanted me to go because she immediately called her friend to change the date(they had wanted to go in april). i think its because her friend is bringing another friend so she's afraid of being lonely. lol. but. the plan is 14 days.. so i can imagine... hmm. 1k for expenses..or more? *shit* and i'm going to vietnam in end july too. (will i even have the time to work???) jetstar was having the 99c promo and we booked return tickets to ho chi minh for about 94 per pax. it was decided within half an hour solely because of cheap tickets(they were $22 without luggage, travel insurance, etc) i didn't even want to go to vietnam. =.="" but owell. hope it would be fun. =D

will be going to class next monday =D finally i don't have driving(but a 4 day hiatus is way too long)! and because i need to really decide on what courses to take seriously. =.="" all of them seems interesting. i mean the electives. the major prescribes just sound blah. complex numbers? *bleah* no notes module? *shit* motherboard and processors? *sounds interesting..* =DD

another angsty post

yes i know.. again. last time, i promise. just let me pour in all my unhappiness and get over it.

i pride myself on having high EQ. i do not usually get into arguments with people. simply put, i always do and say things that would make me seem like the 'good' guy. even if that is not what my natural instinct would tell me to do. and that is most of the time, because i have a really bad temper. although i personally think i'm a master at hiding it.

i can usually figure out what the other person is thinking/wants without them saying it. although i tend to feign ignorance if my answer is not what they are looking for. and steer the topic away. usually.

i do not snap at people just because they irritate me. usually. because i tend to think over the effect of my words, how the other party would feel/react, etc. usually i conclude that its not worth the effort. 忍一时风平浪静. (but no i usually don't take steps back)

(while i'm at it, frankly i think some people around me need to pick up this habit of thinking thrice before saying something. humans are sensitive creatures, and people can be easily offended, whether or not they show it. sometimes even a casual offhand remark can hurt people. so think before you speak. if someone does something to piss you off, and after thinking a gazillion times you still want to rip the person's head off, try to do it in a quiet and rational manner when you are calmer. slowly. fast = aggressive, and aggressive is no good.)

but today is not a usual day. today i am not the good guy i pretend to be usually. why is that so, i am not so sure. perhaps its the stress i have been giving myself lately for not being able to live up to my own expectations for myself. perhaps its the trouble about the modules for the semester. perhaps its pms or something. i'm just not in the mood to be nice.

so i said harsh words to someone today. i wasn't being very friendly. but well i think it would be unfair to waste people's time waiting for something that is not going to happen. true, i could have done it in a more gracious manner. but i am not in a gracious mood today. my apologies.

and then i snapped at someone else. well. i did use pretty polite words if i would say so myself. but well. it was out of line. although i wouldn't say it was uncalled for. better me then someone else i guess. but the problem is.. well lets just put it this way. i think i'm pretty smart. i might be egoistic, but no one would ever accuse me of being humble. and thats the point. i do not believe in humility. 过度的谦虚是一种虚伪. and yes i think its really fake. people should clearly know what they are capable of and not pretend otherwise. alright i'm not saying everyone should be egoistic like me. for example its fine to not say that i'm smart. but i'm being fake if i say something like.. 'oh god i am so stupid, if i hadn't been possessed during all my examinations i would have flunked out of primary school.' sorry. i have a flair for the dramatic. something like that.

i suddenly remember why i dislike humility so much. when i was younger and a really good kid, whenever my mom spoke of us to other people, she would say things that make us sound like bad, stupid kids. and then when other kids manage to achieve some stuff(even those that we had achieved/done even better) she would be like 'oh this kid is soo smart!'' *rolls eye* so i ever asked her why, and she says, cause we must be 谦虚. wtf. of course i hate humility. fake and disgusting. just like human nature.

and seriously. pick the right people to complain to. for example, a millionaire complaining to a pauper about how he cannot afford to buy an island. a supermodel complaining to her fat makeup artiste about that extra pound of invisible fat on her tummy. does it make any sense? exaggerated cases. you get my point.

so ya. think before you do anything. think HARD. it would make everyone that much happier and the world would be a more harmonious place.

this turned out sort of lecture-y. which i know that makes me sort of pompous, but well. just take it as food for thought. REALLY nutritional food. nutrients i've been lacking lately. but seriously, no more. yup. after this lengthy, angsty and somewhat out of character blogpost i'm going to be a nice, cheerful and polite girl for the rest of the year. =) hopefully. ^^

a bad start

things haven't been going well for me at all. be it school stuff, learning the keyboard, driving lessons, finances, even my freaking face. nope. not a single thing is going well.

i am used to having things go my way. too used, actually. the old 船到桥头自然直 theory had worked for me like 99.9% of the time. perhaps that is why i have always held myself in high esteem. to put it crudely, i have an ego the size of the Pacific. i am just not used to being plain bad in things. anything. yes that sounds pompous. i DID say i have a big ego.

and when suddenly there is a multitude of things that i am just not doing good in, its a crushing blow. like WHAM. BAM. whatever. sort of like dropping from heaven to earth. pull back to reality. i hate gravity.

sigh. this is depressing. i need something cheerful in my life right now. striking the lottery would be perfect.

irritated..

ahhh.. i am so darn pissed off... goodness... i cant take it.. must...vent... SOMEWHEREEE

i was supposed to have a lesson today. when i looked at the card i read 10am. so i woke up early(MY SLEEP T_T) and den reached on time. halfway through i realised that i forgot my phone, but its not really that important anyway and i didn't have the time to go back for it. so while waiting for the instructor..wait...wait... hmm. seems like too long a wait. so i looked at the card again. hmm. it looks like 10 to me. could be 12 too. WHY DID I CHOOSE SUCH A TIME TO FORGET MY PHONE. and i didn't even have a watch. so i wandered like a kuku all over the place until i self-decided the lesson was supposed to be at 12. so i waited at the center. den i saw this lady that looks like a nice person so i borrowed her phone to double confirm. LUCKILY i did because its supposed to be 1pm! so i came home to rest for 30 mins and have to go out again soon. what a blardy waste of time, money and SLEEP.

im irritated at my phone for not finding its way into my bag, my psp for having no battery so i cannot tell time, the instructor for not writing legibly and MYSELF.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

i want to eat ramen.