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Harlow...

大家好!!
i've no idea why but after i got back... somehow i got into the 93.3 mood...
not dat i'm into listening to the station...
but got the mood to listen to 华语歌... david tao, 张震岳, jolin tsai, s.h.e. , gigi leung, sammi cheng...

mayb coz i found out dat 张震岳 released a new album so went to get it...
listen already got into the 华语歌 mood...

but it's a nice feeling listening to chinese songs again...
the last time i was listening to 93.3 was during bmt...
coz the bunk radio was always on 93.3 so ended up listening to it for quite a while,
even after bmt... haha...

well... duno how long this craze, mood or watever u call it is gona last...
guess i'm not too bothered... mayb until i leave singapore for another job...
till then... 华语歌万岁!!

Home and Sick...

Hello everyone...

i'm back once more... after being away for like almost 3 months...
wat's dat? yes... it's been almost 3 months already...

wat a stretch... but luckily i got a little 4 day break in the 3rd week of july... while home for a while, managed to order a laptop (yay!), and got it in time b4 i left again...

this 2nd trip was almost like the first.. long periods @ sea... tho not as bad as the last job...

but while on the job we lost one of our equipment to the local fishermen... was told it cost like usd38,000.
like ouch man... but it's part and parcel of the job and was told it's quite common to lose the equipment in the gulf of thailand...

this trip has been rather fun, coz of the ppl i was working with... i had 2 gaming buddies onboard.
the 2 surveyors on my shift. one's malaysian, the other's thai. so we had lots of fun making fun of each other, tricking each other.

the malaysian surveyor fren bluffed the thai guy dat cin-chow was called lan cheow. and the thai guy was happily asking us if we wanted "lan cheow"... until a few days later, he discovered the real name of the drink on the can itself...

here are the 2 clowns: the one on the left is the malaysian, e other , obviously is the thai.

oh well... den the bad shit came... started having a fever last sat... kept coming on and off as i popped panadol to try to supress it. was in port on monday and i went to see a doc...
sailed off the next morning and i was feeling fine... when the nite came... fever came on again... and it was quite a torture... i was shivering under the covers... but blistering burning on the outside...

was put on cold compress and sent back to port and to a hospital for a checkup. the sailing journey wasn't like 2-3 hrs. it like took us ab t 12 hours to sail back to port coz we have already been sailing for 12hrs plus since we left port.

so saw the doc @ the hospital and was booked on a flight home the same nite...
so here i am now.. back at home... free to eat the foods i miss so much... esp chinese food...

but dat was like wed nite when i came home... feeling much better now... but i've got like a course of antibiotics to take till next thurs. *bleh*

but saw this funny t-shirt while shopping w the guys on one of the days b4 we sailed off...


now... before u start calling me a bin laden supporter (which for the record, i am not!!)
this is wat it says on the back...



other adventures while on the job:


a sea snake was caught on our equipment as we brought it up on deck...

part of the job required us to take seabed samples... marine clay.. prob the same stuff they use in spas for ur mud scrub.

this is wad we do with the extra clay we bring up...

well... guess dat's all for now...

juz have to focus on getting well so dat i can celebrate my bday properly when it comes round... :)

I Wana Kick Myself

Yup.. dat's rite...

i wana kick myself in the butt...
coz before i left for labuan, i was reading some of my older entries...
and one of my entries was abt my possible career options after my contract w the airforce ends.
and i said in DAt entry dat i dun wana do sales and insurance and the like.

and i bleeady went to do try financial planning...
so dun i deserve a kick in the butt or not ?

sigh...

anyway... i'm in labuan now... after 4 days of sailing...
of which, i spent abt 2 1/2 days sick...
it all started w this one guy who was coughing and sniffly...
den the next day, another guy went down...
and the day after dat, it was my turn...

i was like coughing and coughing and my nose was all blocked...
and i had a fever dat would come and go and come and go...
when we got docked alongside the jetty this morning, i and all the other sick guys all got sent to the doc's.

so now i've gotten myself a holw bunch of medicine to take:
antibiotics, fever med, med to lessen the throat irritation, cough syrup which comes in a wee little bottle,
and lozenges.
of coz i bought some other stuff of my own... like vicks vaporub to keep the nose unblocked, strepsils and pi pa gao to soothe the throat when the lozenges dun work or run out, whichever comes first.

as well as a small bottle of multi-vitamins which smells putrid but i'm sure they're good for me...
hahaha... seems like things good for the body always smell or taste funny...

hoping to find a chinese medicinal shop tom...
den mayb can buy some ginseng to make ginseng tea for myself.

alritey... guess i'll stop for now... hope everything clears up and i get better over the next couple of days...
pray for me... and i'll see u all in sg at the end of june...
coz i gota b ard in july for my reservist... hahaha...

The World's Greatest Competition in June...

And i'll be on a ship somewhere between labuan and brunei...
with no internet access, or tv reception, and hopefully a laptop which i can borrow to keep my sanity.
how sucky can dat be?

but den again... it's not like i'll b up every nite watching the matches.
but still?! i'll be away... i cant watch even if i decide dat i want to...

oh well... i dun even know who i wana support... so there...
but the good thing is dat i'll prob have quite a fat paycheck in july...
yummy...

alrite... dat's all for today... another hardearned USD60 today.
and it's another bleedy working day tom and everyday till i leave...
*sobz*

i wana cut hair, get a facial and get a mani/pedi before i go...
last couple of weeks - got time, no money.
now - got money, no time...

bleh.
bye.

A Yummilicious, HeartBreaking $85 Dinner

It's been a while since i've blogged...
guess partly i've been lazy and partly i've been bumming at home...
so nothing has really been happening...

met up w rachel for dinner today...
she wanted to try this yakitori place at cuppage plaza
coz she read abt it from some foodie's blog.
so off we went to try the food at the place.

the place is called Kazu. it's on the 4th floor. #04-05, cuppage plaza.


and the food was FANTASTIC !!

we felt kinda adventurous and tried some of the foods dat
i'll prob not order on an ordinary day...

besides the ordinary yakitori foods like chicken meatball, mini hamburger, chicken skin, gizzard, liver, etc,
we had some rather rarely eaten dishes.

we had this dish called 'baby eel ponzu'
it's basically baby eel in a ponzu sauce... it's quite nice... tho a little saltish.
check out the little black eye on the fairly translucent body of the baby eel...
so cool... heh heh...


check out the little beady eye on the top.

after which our order of the chef's appetizer of the day is served.



on the left is some eel thingy.. cant remember exactly wat it's called.
in the middle is potato w salmon roe... yummy big beady ones.
and on the right is some mountain vegetable... which wasn't too bad.

we also ordered the foie gras and salmon belly... both of which were heavenly...


foie gras on the left, salmon belly on the right.

esp the foie gras. the moment it went into my mouth, i could feel it melt away...
the salmon belly was the same also... the outside was nice and cooked...
and the inside was simply melting away when i bit into it.

up next, was this...
go on... make a guess wat this is...

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horse sashimi !

who would have tot dat one could have horse sashimi...
and it tasted fabulous w the garlic and chives dip.
and it's quite tasteless on it's own...
no funny horsey taste or anything of dat sort...

up next was the homemade tofu...
we were expecting some tofu thingy... but it turned out to be...



tofu made from salmon !
and on top of it is a cauliflower sauce which was quite good, along w a sesame and a vegetable paste.
sesame paste in the middle, veg paste on the right.
not to forget the grated carrot on the left.

we also had other yummy stuff like quail's egg wrapped in pork belly or wat i thikn is bacon... haha...
golden mushrooms wrapped in unagi.
not to mention sea urchin sushi as well...

last but defintely not least... we had the cheese prawn...



it's basically prawn dat's been grilled and covered w a layer of cheese.
quite v yummy i must say... was quite surprised dat the medium sized prawn we got was quite large...
and it came towards the end when we both were quite rather full...
sorry this one looks rather mutilated coz this was after i had shelled it...
with the cheese everywhere on the plate and the prawn...

and to top things off... dinner was accompanied by a flask of warm sake.

but of coz when the bill came... it was heart pain...
coz the total bill for 2 greedy people came up to $170... haha...
but i must say it was money well spent...
coz not only was the food great, the service was good as well...
friendly staff who more or less know wat they're serving and if they don't, they'll find out for you.

a truly fantastic experience... i wun hesitate to go there again if i have the funds to do so...
so everyone give the place a try... remember...
it's called kazu, at cuppage plaza, #04-05.

and pls make a reservation b4 going down coz it can get crowded.
when we left, there were like 2 groups of ppl waiting for their table...
and it's one of those places u can sit there, talk and eat the time away...