I DiD It My Way~
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Strawberry Kafe Welcome You~!
Hello boys and girls! (cheerful voice despite being 1am now). i am actually pretty excited now as i blog this entry(nope, i wasn't the top winner for the $5million toto last mth so dun try to borrow $$$ from me).
you see, my aunt had just opened a cafe earlier this month (on National Day itself in fact!) but really it's just a small biz so i am often there since opening to help out. Tot i would have more free time after i finished my full time class but NOoOOOOoOOooOOooooo... T_T
Nevertheless, being taking some pix around the shop which i shall share with you now ^_^
Ta-DaH! This is our humble little cafe! Hee. I never bluff u right? Shop name really got a 'kafe' what. Teehee. We dun actually sell fish n chips and stuffs. What we do sell are fruits, fruit juices, sandwiches, and snacks like fries and chicken wings (which i have been eating.. A Lot.) 
This is my 1st drink ever! Watermelon juice! haha yeah right.. big deal.. nothing special la i know. just that weather was hot and watermelon can quench thirst wat.. (do u know that 97% of a watermelon contains water??). Oops.. know i drink a bit liao b4 taking a shot la. Hee can't help but drink some 1st wat. The main reason why we are Strawberry Kafe is bcoz my aunt wants to use the pretty strawberry to decorate the rim of the drinks served, sort of making it our 'logo'. 
One of the few congratulatory flowers we gotten but i only took this 1. is that... little coconuts i see hanging below??? man.. florist nowadays r damn creative or wat?
Anyway, an upclose shot of the drink menu. Many customers have been asking if we sell bubble tea and the answer is NO! What's so nice about bubble tea anyway?! It's all sugary and artifical. I advise all you pple to drink fruit juices! LoL :P
I really think this shop is a heaven for the dieting ladies. As a matter of fact, many of our customers are women, not surprisingly, with all the fruits and salad and sandwiches we are selling. Personally i like fruits and vegetables. Slimming rule #1: the least calories u take in, the more 
weight u will lose. common sense, really. Maybe bcoz i have too much vices, i tend to try to consume more healthy food in order to lessen my guilt for the burdens my lungs and liver are suffering. This is an excellent place for me to redemn my sins! 
We even sell liang teh (erm.. literally 'cooling tea'?) in many flavours wor. apparently, diff kinda liang teh has diff 'functions' to our bodies. today, i just tried red date liang teh which supposedly 'nourishes my blood, improves my complexion and strengths my liver'. But most of the time i like to drink peppermint honey (can u really call this liang teh??? *shrug*).
Unfortunately, i haven't been exactly on my ideal 'fruits and vegetables' diet so far... reason being..... i have really been snacking instead...... *guilt guilt guilt*. from 1sthand experience, i wanna tell everyone that is is almost Impossible to lose weight if your 
workplace is surrounded by food! It's like, when someone order a pack of fries/ onion rings/ wedges/ chicken wings, i will happily fry extra to snack on! god saves my waistline and sanity pls. i believe this is my retribution for sneering at pple who indulge in chocolate and pastries (i swear i dun mean u, shan). in return, my weakness is fried food
(in my opinion, worse than eating chocolate and pastries). To make things worse, my aunt fries hotdogs, nuggets and stuffs during weekdays and put them in the warmer so that hungry school kids can buy them conveniently. When biz is slow, the temptation to retrieve a stick of nuggets to munch on is especially strong. Seemingly-innocent looking small portions here and there of the fried goodies are bad news. I officially announce that pisces girls have 0 willpower. No wonder i will never look anything like the cover girl of FHM... Damn...
Oh look! Mutant Chicken Nugget!!! LoL. Look how freaky big the bugger is next to its normal nuggest cousin! Have you ever heard of urban legends telling of fast food horrors...??? McChicken made up of mashed up mutant chicken parts, Taco Bell food contained cockroach eggs which later transplanted itself into the cheeks of the unfortunate victim and later hatching... ... But u know what's the horror of all? It's... The... Fact... That.... chicken nuggets actually contain bits of fats within in order to make it tasty.. Yup. Straight to your thighs, ladies.. so Beware! *sinister background laughter*
Can't really blame me for snacking actually. That's my wages. I am paid in FOOD! For every hour i work, i get a glass of drink of my choice. See, that's the returns i get outta 2 long hours of gruelling cashiering duty cum magazine reading. Tough work really! :P
We are also selling this seaweed snack which i am eating liberately (aunt wondered why we ain't see profits on them). It's a godsend goodie to me to replace the sinful potato chips which i so love to snack on mindlessly. With its low calories and plentiful of nutrients, i am willing to give up pc.. for now... teehee... but on a serious note, i will recommend it to others. super nice! comes in 4 flavours, wasabi being my fave follow by tom yum goong. there is also hot & spicy which i find it a tad too hot and there is original which i think is a little too bland.
if you have ever been in the service line you will know that there is all kinda pple outta. I shall classify the 3 main types i have come across while tending the shop so far:
1. The friendly folks: They make up the bulk of the customer base (thank goodness) and are mainly the aunties and uncles, kids and grandkids in tow (optional) whom you see in heartland places daily. They good-heartedly do little purchases of fruits and drinks for themselves or their families and take a few mins to engage in polite chit chat with you about the weather and the watevers.
2. The Buy-N-Go: The 2nd biggest group. As title suggests, they order, pay and go. Lovely.
3. The fussy freaks: The morons i can't stand the most. No watermelon/ papaya/ honeydew etc is fresh/ cheap/ sweet/ ripe enuff for their unreachable standards. They watch you closely like a trained hawk as you prepare their orders. 1 fussy freak whom i came across b4 ordered a mango juice but want absolutely no mango puree and syrup (the stuffs which sweeten your juices or else if only fresh mango is used, it can taste rather bland). Some pple r really fussy even for petty details like that lo.. Or maybe she's jus an extreme health conscious chick. Another time, 1 auntie lamented loudly how expensive we are selling our papaya (50cents) and i totally had to do my roll-eyes thing. Silently in my heart i am thinking how much more she has to spend instead when she gets constipation and gotta buy laxative! HaHA!
From now to Dec 31 2006, come down to Strawberry Kafe and upon ordering, simply say the password 'Doreen Is Gorgeous!' in your most convincing voice! If you can bring yourself to do that, a 20cents discount is offered on all your purchases! Stay healthy and happy folks! ^_^
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Yakiniku + KTV
Right. Almost forgot i got a blog.. *sheepish* Sorry la.. but since young i always have short attention span and all bloggers should know how bloody time-consuming it is to blog, especially all that uploading of pix crap. anyway the main thing is i have been v busy (i totally love the new word dawny came up with in her latest entry, 'bulazy'. According to her, it's a phenomenon that occurs due to busy + lazy. Isn't it brilliant! I love smart@$$ creations like that! Xiaxue also came up with 'Fugly' which is a combi of... haha go figure :P)
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the meal i have been waiting for the past 3yrs and 1mth. my generous best fren gimme a treat at a restaurant of my choice and i really can't think of anywhere but there. yeah. there. 
i like to flip my beef on the grill for like 5secs only b4 sending into my mouth. watch these suckers sizzle! (Carnivorous side of me emerging). LoL. once i was eating alone at the same place (what? cannot izzit?!!) and a passing waitress exclaimed, 'you eat it raw?!!!' wtf. it's not raw, fyi. jus medium rare ok? and i'm the customer. so buzz off! 
Monday, August 07, 2006
Man... went to watched adam sandler's latest movie 'click' during the weekend. Love him to bitz. See, he's not much of a pretty boy but he's funny, and that's all it matters. Like him since a few years back when i watched 'the wedding singer'. i think i was still in sec sch! totally love comedies.
So anyway, was thinking this 'click' is just gonna be another laughing session but boy was i in for a surprise! the movie actually carries a touching message for all of us who are workaholics and money-chasers. now i dun wish to spill the plot for those who have not caught the show yet but it totally moved me to tears after all the funny parts, fart joke included. movies are amazing in the way that what the stories wish to relate to us about everyday life.
have u ever seen a real good movie which made u think about life for quite a while even after e movie ended? 'click' makes me go figure about what is really impt in life to each of us. izzit really that promotion? ability to buy a fancy car and house? sure, i want all that luxuries. but at what price? it's a dilemma. u want a better life. u pay with it at the expense of your time. family, friends, relationships. do we put all these on hold while we persue material comforts? sigh.. it's so hard to decide huh. i am getting melancholic jus thinking about this.
life is tough.
so anyway, to hell with the forlorn tots. so i was at a bus stop today, the one near amk mrt station. was waiting for my bus when i heard someone say 'amk pple are so ks isn't it?' i turned and saw this fatso tomboy who said that. my inner bitch immediately tot to self: wtf?? she's totally talking through her lungs. that's 1 of e stupidest fei hua i've ever heard. 1stly, there are like more than 16buses serving this bus stop. 2ndly, it was 730pm (read: pple-have-worked-the-whole-f-day-and-all-they-wanna-do-now-is-to-go-home). yeah, so pple were cranking their necks at this crowded bus stop and rushing 4ward to board their buses. hello, is this a strange phenomenon?? i have seen martians landing in their UFOs w/o batting my eyelids. and what makes her think that all these pple are amk-ers?? lame isn't it??? so if i am seen waiting for a bus at, say, orchard, so i live there izzit? Stupid brainless pig.
jus wanna bitch a bit. carry on.
So! Dawny & I went to Phuture last fri! (huge grin). Oh memorable cheonging days! (they are long gone since.. *wistful*) Had my SIM class b4 that and was having this fab seafood spag
My scheming mind was carefully planning out from the time i eat (7pm) till my 1st drink (i guess 11pm) is approximately 4h so i need to calculate how much food much i consume b4hand to line my stomach comfortably but not too much till after 2 btls of chivas i am still sober. Drinking requires skill ok.. u think anyhow anyhow izzit?? But anyway, i regret to say that i have miscalculated in my choice of dinner. i shouldn't have given in to my 'want' (seafood spag looks great!) but stuck to my 'need' (a hearty steak will last me all night long). See? It's all about experience. But i sure enjoy the spag though. Can you see how bloody huge is the plate the spag is being served on?? Jus look how small my bowl of soup is next to it! But as i deliver my 1st mouthful, i realise that the plate was actually pretty shallow hence upon closer inspection, it's not that much afterall. Still, it's generously served with 4 prawns and a big mussel! Yum!
Go try it, $5.90 @ SIM MegaBite.
Tolerated the 2.5h of monotonous lecture b4 flagging a cab to pick dawny up at orchard b4 to zouk. was actually having a little butterflies in my stomach. haven't been clubbing for ages!
dawny looked hot in her spag and mini (wat i wore made others tempted to give me a 2nd look as a public dustbin's attraction possessed, no thanks to my laziness to go home n change b4hand). i unwillingly handed over 20bucks for entry fee (y pay when there is always ladies night>???) and my uncertainty that there won't be no retro but r&b all night long.
i. was. right. i couldn't rem hearing a single dance-able song that night (sorry dawny but i was craving retro too much). the music was loud (loud?? man.. i might as well be wearing granny undies there.. great job for a 22-yr-old) and after e 1st hour of catching up and whining about our lives, we fagged and boozed.
sigh. queen of vices wanna quit smoking. i assure u the gross pix they print on cigarette boxes work. recently they printed a new batch of smoking-related cancers pix and they do the trick. i am disgusted. for someone who use to think that smoking has 0 benefits and a waste of $ and health, i am certainly not so wise. the irony is that i still think this way.
since 1st july this yr, all coffee shops and fast food joints have been banned blatant smoking and only a small handful of seats or none have been allotted to smokers. now the smokers moaned about how poor thing they are as the limited seats set aside for them are not bad enuff, non-smokers are openly occupying these seats, claiming to be ignorant that these are smoking area. i wanna laugh out loud. so now smokers are victims huh. isn't it laughable? for years non-smokers are subjected to inhaling 2nd hand smoke in public and now that the law is on their side, it's the smokers who are lamenting about having no right to smoke in public. businesses for coffee shop owners, especially those who sell beer claimed that their takings are falling due to this new law. and next july onwards, clubs and pubs too will suffer this fate.
i only blame the tobacco industry.
and when i tot cigarettes is bad enuff, i now read that there are actually heroin users in sg (where e hell did they lay their hands on that?? isn't it illegal???) there's this drug, subutex, which supposedly help heroin users to quit this addiction, now is abused by heroin users as a substitute. i read in horror as these abusers admit to injecting themselves with that stuff into the veins in their arms till it stopped blood flowing to certain parts of their body. some even lost a few fingers bcoz of that! terrifying shit. i rem bawling my eyes out when a few yrs back, i accidentally sliced a chuck a piece of my little finger's flesh opened, certain that i was going to die there and then, and now u got pple losing a few fingers but nevertheless continuing their drug addiction.
bloody hell. but i digressed. was talking about zouk isn't it? (sheepish)
my conclusion, i will never love phuture but i will still love dawny. (i love shan too! *open expression)
i think i wanna go to bed now.
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Things That Piss Me Off
Was going to blog about my zouk clubbing session but dun have time now. Will leave a good joke for your entertainment instead.
I love jokes. If you know of any good ones, do share with me. but pls be warned, i know plenty so chances are whatever u gonna be saying, i might jolly well have heard it b4. TeeHeeHee.
And also, i will be uploading a message board and updating my grand total of 2 frens' blog links (what's up, shan! dawny!). i wanted to do that forever but always too lazy too... Will do that next week! Do feel free to leave shout-outs to me once my message board is up.
Have Fun Now ^_^
- People who point at their wrist while asking for the time. I know where my watch is buddy, where the fuck is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the bathroom is?
- People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
- When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Fuck off. What good is a goddamn cake if you can't eat it? What, should I eat someone else's cake instead?
- When people say "It's always in the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the fuck would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?
- When people say, while watching a movie "Did you see that?" No dick nose, I paid $9.00 to come to the theatre and stare at the fucking ceiling up there. What did you come here for?
- People who ask "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya buddy?
- When something is "new and improved", which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.
- When a cop pulls you over and then asks if you know how fast you were going? You should know asshole, you fucking pulled me over.
- When people say "Life is short." What the fuck?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever fucking does!! What? Are they going to fucking do something that's longer?
- When people ask "Can I BORROW a piece of paper?" Sure, but please don't return the favor! It's on god damn piece of paper!
- When you are waiting for the bus and someone ask you "Did the bus come yet?" If the bus came I would not be standing here asshole!
Muack! Gimme Kissies! LoL~