I DiD It My Way~
Sunday, October 22, 2006
love is in the air~~~
i think i have too much time on hand. i kinda think about life in general a lot these days.. besides working a few hours a week, basically i'm almost permanently at my aunt's place, helping out sometime and trying to study for my jlpt 2 this coming dec. just bought a kanji (chinese character) dictionary + a 5-yrs-series (practice makes perfect. this was what i had learnt in my sec sch days) + a jap fashion mag (to be honest, cannot really pronounce many kanjis in the mag. u can hardly blame me. the pronounciations are almost entirely diff from chinese, and i, a chinese, keeps relating them to chinese pronounciations... + ok ok... i haven't really been studying hard enuff.. *shame-faced*). nevertheless, i could still ogle at the jap ladies in the mag. see, i believe jealousy among the same sex is silly. one must learn to appreciate the good qualities in others. they damn slim and chio ok... however, i must say they all rather look similar.. with their curly locks and all..
anyway! the bloody dictionary alone cost me about 80bucks k.. heartpain... i'm a pauper u know.. 5-yrs-series is 30bucks and mag is 15bucks.. bloody hell... the only time that i wish i had a kino discount card... *grumble grumble*. but at least the consolation is the total cost is still cheaper than one term's school fee at my jap sch. omg.. only about 1mth+ to go b4 my jlpt 2.. i must study hard.. learnt my lesson from last yr when i took my jlpt 3.. i only studied hard the night b4! typical lazy bum me. but jlpt 2 is gonna be much much more difficult so i must gen batte! if i pass, next yr can happily go find jap company employment liao.. heeheehee.. this is enuff reason for me to relac for the rest of 2006! *grin*
my new best friend now is mobtv which i paid for $10.90/mth. initially i subscribe only to watch 'the enchanted life' on channel 8 which i sometimes missed so bobian go subscribe but being singaporean, i will make my $10.90 worth by downloading AS MANY SHOWS AS I CAN! *wild laughter* plus i so free.. dun say the 9pm show la.. i also watching the 7pm 'Chalice Fairy' la, HDB tai tai la.. erm... oh liao zhai also! aiya anyway is download as many as i can la. heehee.. cheapo cheapo..
but.. it kinda made me scare actually.. sigh.. why am i so slack when my peers are hard at work from mon to fri, 9 to 5 or even beyond? hmmm.. refer to my last entry about my solemn what-is-life piece. anyway i think i am too old to suffer from peer pressure. i feel happy now. so that's all is gonna matters.
oh... are u watching the enchanted life too? yvonne lim is looking good! slim, fair, great hair, i totally love her to bits in this current drama. now then i realise how sorta charming pierre png is. basically the plot is quite cliche and unoriginal but still, i find myself glued to this serie. i guess that's the appeal of shows ba.. in real life, there will never be that many coincidences and that prince charming, despite being a CEO of a MNC company, will always have ample time for the female lead. they always look good all the time, even at home, and the romance is so intense, the only time men are portrayed as sensitive and romeo-types (hmmm.. izzit a coincidence or loverboys are but fictional? my advice to is go read 'men are from mars, women are from venus' by john grey. very enlightening). heehee. but i thoroughly enjoy watching a good show la.. they fulfill some fantasy in one which we might never encounter in real life... the pisces girl needs to satisfy her daydreams which the real world cannot offer.
i suddenly think about marriage. what is it like? what made 2 persons commit to it? i used to think marriage is a far away thing for me, even up till now. have i had enuff fun? do i wanna settle down, have a family of my own? honestly i still feel very kiddish most of the time. i almost always just wanna enjoy myself. marriage to me seems to be for the mature, solemn grown-ups only. then it hits me then i'm actually a grown up too isn't it.. looking around, most of my frens are either still in uni or recently freshly graduated and are part of the workforce. hence virtually zero pressure to settle down at the moment.
in 1 of my previous entry, there is a most adorable baby whose mummy is my aunt's customer. the mummy is only 20 but baby is almost going to be 1-yr-old. surely the mummy is too young in my opinion. i kinda feel sad for her.. like she had not even have enuff fun, enjoy enuff of her youth but yet baby came along.. she told me she feels bored most of the time bcoz she's a stay-home mum now. she smokes a lot a drink at home when she's bored. i feel like sighing. isn't motherhood a joyous thing? but of coz.. i can hardly blame her.. and i am not her, so i will not understand. but being almost the same age, i sorta know how she feels.
i was looking thru my friendster, this pri sch fren of mine, who added me some time back, now posts pix of her newborn son. i was actually very surprised. i did saw her posted wedding photos when i 1st added her but i didn't expect.... (sometimes i can be very blur and ignorant).. she's my age. i rem we used to play all those childish games like zero point and hopscotch during recess during pri sch, went to her house after sch and all. she was quite a chubby girl back then but now she's slim and all! basically she's just on my friendster and i didn't really msg her either but i'm really surprised.. married and just given birth.. how does all these feel??!!! i'm pretty bewildered but at the same time, mystified but all these. me and my best fren shany, once agreed that marriage will be the next milestone of our frenship, follow by motherhood. i think any normal girl will be looking forward to these life-changing experiences.
i will strive to enjoy my single life to the fullest as i can b4 i tie the knot and junior me comes along. after all, i believe having children is a longlife responsibility. frankly.. i am really looking forward to having kids! (maternal instinct, i blame my hormones). i have even tot of what to name my daughter! (also sorta know what to name my son but is hesitant and is not as certain as my daughter-to-be). heehee.. happy to know that the bf is not a committment-phobia freak. shall let nature takes its course...
so last week, i followed the bf to his fren's wedding dinner. ok.. i admit i went along for the food and alcohol... teehee.. ang pow not from me anyway... hahaha.. the bridegroom bearhugged the bf at the entrance (i believe he is already pretty high by the time we arrived) and then gave me a firm handshake when i said my congrats, followed by a low whisper telling me that the bf is a great catch. gesture appreciated. the bride, whom i stole a few glances at, was shockingly petite. i must explain that the bridegroom was towering, even taller than the bf who is 1.8. the bride seems my height of 1.5ish. wow. anyway..
i made sure my red wine glass is constantly filled at all time! heeheehee.. wat.. i already admitted i was there for the booze, didn't i? kept a glass of water nearby too, u know, wine makes u thirsty.. oohhhhhhh... the food is not bad too! very standard affair, 1st being 'the cold plate' followed by shark fin then steam fish la, suckling pig (super delicious!!!), sliced abalone etc...yayaya.. i know i suaku ok.. the last wedding dinner i attend is like dunno, 10yrs ago or something k... relatives very little can or not... but i think i enjoyed almost every dish. happy!
the suckling pig is so nice!!! the skin is crispy, and the meat is so tender and delicious!!!!! and the best thing is i didn't even have to 'kiup' the food myself. the bf was so kindly putting the goodies onto my plate so all i have to do is to enjoy! i swear i floated in the air for like 30secs when i bit into the meaty pork. it's. bloody. nice! no words can describe.. become fat al
so worth it!Heehee.. *sheepish*... know my plate is very full la.. got sliced abalone la.. scallop, my lovely suckling pig, mushroom, sea cucumber and my fave veg, brocolli. and of coz, my lovely red wine. i was a very happy girl that night.
i enjoyed myself although it was not at a fancy, town-located hotel, wedding banquet. maybe the bf is right.. the location is not all it matters.. deep in my heart i might still wish to hold my future wedding at a certain hotel starting with the letter 'M' (not M hotel, fyi) but i suddenly realise, i think i will rather all my close frens and loved ones, albeit very few (due to anti-social nature), are able to share my special day when the time comes.
i wish all lovers eternal romantic happiness. especially to one fren of mine who told me that he's gonna get married soon.. ^_^
Saturday, October 14, 2006
the philosophical sashimi girl
so mid autumn festival just passed like last last fri. just another traditional cheena occasion to me. and what's up with all that mooncake-eating huh. didnt read sunday times is it?!! 1 4-yoked mooncake will set u back 1000 calories ok.. that's already half of a young women's daily calories intake wor! my share of mooncake eating was only limited to like a 1/8 slice of a bing pi orangish thingy mooncake. shany said marriotts (good old marriotts... *wistful*) was launching this bing pi with yogurt thingy mooncake which i would love to try but guess what? i never got around to buying it (the only marriott staff i still knew had already left to join SQ hence staff discount lobang has ended). but good for him! i had once visualised joining the oh-so-seemingly-glam flying industry. surely the 3-4k monthly pay and all that flying to japan, paris and other fancy countries wouldn't hurt but i forsee myself intolerable with full of craps passengers and the even shitter seniors and pilots (no thanks to horror swear-it's-true 1st encounter stories of flight attendents frens), all that jet lag and thick makeup when i can't even bother to touch up my gloss in daily life most of the time. still, JAL and ANA still are attractive to me.. shall i ever go try? hmmm... think my shortiness will be 1 of the few disadvantages.. anyway!
what's up with all that mooncakes... cannot be bothered to eat it every yr. i am grossly mistaken by the bf that my refusal to eat mooncakes is due to my fear of gaining weight, but honey, if i am happily enjoying fried food all the time, calories is almost the last thing on my mind (albeit, a very nagging, guilt-inducing, last thing on my mind). so u see, not all women are the same. yeah so most of us live for the occasionally shopping trips (vivocity! i must go soon!) and do secret calories calculations in our mind but in the case of the mooncakes, i believe i will never ever go crazy over them.
my only memoir of this yr's mid autumn fest. a lonesome, somewhat reddish-orangish thing if mistaken, to be tot as yet another street lamp if not for the distance. i blame the haze. i blame indonesia. i blame nature. i blame man. i blame everything except yours truly. the almost forgotten hourly psi level report on the top left hand corner of tv programme is but a distant memory to me until now. last week or so, there were days when nearby buildings were shrouded in cloud of haziness and the bf proclaiming that kl was suffering 200ish level of psi. horror horror. images of death and tots of doomness overcame me. pardon the drama queen in me but suddenly i am glad that i was rather carefree (read: sorta jobless. just sorta..) now and hence translate into living life to the fullest and not suffering in any OL job for the sake of a meagre monthly pay. seriously, i truly believe i am the least discipline person i've ever known in this world. how, am i ever gonna manage a 9 to 5 job, when i, up till now, the old age of 22, rest as and when i fancy? i believe my only option now is to get married, have kids and be a stay home mum. my consolation is, i like kids. but this also means i can be a teacher, can't i? but back to the 'rest as and when i fancy' part, it is daunting. conclusion: i. am. hopeless.no, cannot have such useless tots. women must learn to be independent. just in case. u never know. nothing in this world is certain. that's for sure.
hmmm.. i have come to the conclusion that one should not have gloomy tots. really gets a person down and depress. i used to mop around getting all depressed and all but in retrospect, i would feel like bashing myself up bcoz the kind of pple who moan and groan all day long about gloominess and doominess would be the kind i wanna slap and ask to wake up. c'mon.. we're living in sg.. it can't be that bad right.. at least all our basic needs like food and shelter are more than fulfilled so we dun have to worry all day long. cliche but imagine all those poor suffering africans. can't even have enuff food everyday and live in crap environment. where got energy and chance to go fulfil their ambitions?? so really, believe that you have a choice. if ur job is stupid and u are immersely unhappy, then for goodness sake jus quit and go do what u want la! i really think it's meaningless, not to mention tremendously torturous, just to work for the sake of money. granted, having a stable or for some, generous income, is fab of coz. but there is a price. u exchange your time, your life, earning it. so in the end will u ever have any time that u can call your own to spend those hard-earned dough? if not, then what's the purpose of having so much? ya u tell me it's bcoz to save for rainy days but working like a dog almost all ur life jus to save for rainy days?? so, when u are all old and shrivelled up like prune, u finally can spend all these stashed away money on like what, botox and medical care? sianz la.. youth is also an asset isn't it.. i'm not trying to critisize anyone, which i dun think i'm qualified to, but i dun see what's wrong in enjoying oneself when u r still young and single. i'm not married but i can just see from my mum or my aunt to know that when one gets older, there is more responsibility like family and children and then u can no longer put yourself in the 1st priority. wanna go japan holiday but no.. needs to save for ah boy/ ah girl's uni funds.. support ageing parents, children still young, housing loan still got 20 more yrs, all sorts of taxes to pay.. sianz la.. think liao also depressed xia.. ya so u can argue aiya of coz is work hard 1st then enjoy life right.. wanna go holiday, cannot. wanna buy diamond ring, cannot. everything cannot. wait old then retire liao, take out cpf, give children, then ownself stay old folks home. or mayb ur children v filial, let u stay with them. that's wonderful but what am i gonna do with all that cpf? that's a diff with going for holiday when u r still young, daring and fun-loving compared to at the age of 60. ur bones will get too brittle to try that bungee jump or something.
please yourself 1st b4 u please others. or else u will just end up feeling resentful and bitter.
but still, a lot of things are easier said than done. this, i am still not foolish enuff to ignore. after all, everyone has their obligations towards others in life. we are meant to be group animals and not loner, so i guess if everyone only care for their own pleasures, this world would be a selfish place. still, i'm trying to say that do dote on yourself. i feel that many pple are too harsh with themselves. they blame themselves when things do not work out the way they expected. my guideline is:
if you have already tried your best, regardless of the outcome, i think u shouldn't have any regret.
i can quite frankly say i do not have many regrets in life bcoz i made the decisions myself so i dun see why i should later on mourn about things. some things are just beyond our control and we are powerless to the results. it's human nature to want things we cannot get. so if u are frustrated or even downright depressed about something, or even someone, u cannot obtain, and u have already given your bestest efforts, then perhaps it is best to just move on. we have too many wants in life. i believe there will be something or someone else out there to fulfil your most inner wants eventually. no point sticking around, beating yourself up.
moving on is just like trying to get outta your toasty warm bed on a rainy morning. once u have forced yourself up, u might even be surprised how u dun actually feel like sleeping in anymore. it's hard. i've been thru this many times, and trust me, if i, the slackest person i've ever known, can do that, many of u can do it too. it's just a thin line separating a lot of things. but the crossing over is the hardest part. humans are emotional creatures. most of the time, at least for me, it's often the feelings of attachment that is our greatest boundary. i can be a very sentimental person, making it even more difficult for me to give up a lot of times and move on. the unforseen future can also be very daunting. as emotional as we are, we are also extremely habitual. to leave behind the comfort of what we have now, nevermind if the present situations are no longer beneficial for us, is a huge difficulty for many pple. but i've learnt that i'm sick of looking back and living in the past. i dun wan to keep having to wondering the 'what if...' questions. it's meaningless. there's a gazillion possibilities so i now choose to preserve my sanity and just keep moving on in life. know what evolution is? the saying goes 'survival of the strongest'. i have no intention of being a prey, though i am not exactly carnivorous too. just wanna be a normal girl in this abnormal world, living a life that i choose. i am guilty of looking at the world thru rose-tinted glasses. but now that i am wiser, my sense of wariness grows and my ability to fend for myself will pretty much enables me to survive w/o much scratches. meanwhile, i am loving this life. i definitely dun wanna die, yet.
OoooOOoOOooo.. boy am i philosopical today eh.. hee.. maybe i'm a budding self-help book author in making! that'll be lovely actually, considering i haven't much clue to what i really, truly, wanna to do with my life. that's quarter life crisis for you. frown. but the good news is, i have no complaints now, and i have no wish in doing so anyway.
wishing everyone a nice life. perhaps it would be rather appropriate to wrap up what i wish say in 1 short sentence:
follow your heart.
backtrack to when i was still 16, my naive self sincerely believed that life is all studying hard, get all sorts of degrees, then find a good job and settle down. i have since understood that there is no one standard, perfect life for everyone.
what do i really want? what do U really want? at the end of the day, i think everyone just wanna be happy. but there are an infinite routes to happiness. hope everyone can eventually find theirs, and oh, nobody lives forever. dun forget this..
Cheers~ ^_^
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
The other day, i was comfortably seated in front of my darling's computer and imagine my pleasant surprise when i found that my darling has been looking at my blog (he claims that it's a waste of time blogging and is a rubbish activity but no.... went to look.. heeheehee... sneaky pig.. :P ). but i was soon a little confused with different tried attempts addresses to my blog page. upon closer inspection, i found the following addresses:
1. www.dairyofssashimigal.blogspot.com
2. www.dairyofasashimigirl.blogspot.com
3. www.diaryofasahimigirl.blogspot.com
needless to say, none of the above is correct.. at this point, i was not sure whether to laugh or cry. yes, my sweetie pie, of all pple, is rather clueless to my blog address.
my comment to 1st try: gal. i never use the word 'gal'. not when addressing myself or to my girlie buddies. i use girl, woman, charbo, nu ren. anything but gal. to me, gal always has a cheesy ring to it. backtrack to the infamous irc era. u see icygal, snowgal, shygal, happygal, what-the-f-gal nicks which 13yr old girls gave themselves. it's lame. since then i have known it deep in my heart that 'gal' is a lamo way of calling a girl. hence u can say that i was visibly upset to find that my baby would think i would ever dream of using 'gal' in my blog address.
2nd try comment: so u notice my dear is confused with the words 'dairy' and 'diary'. now this is a small problem. most pple have mixed up diff words which seem similar in spelling. i have seen enuff to know that. it's rather amusing though, the whole thing. if the 2nd try was my real address, it is rather laughable that i would choose 2 diff type of food, dairy and sashimi in the same name. sure, i enjoy my regular glass of milk and like cheese, so yes, i love dairy products. i love the meat of the very producer of dairy as much as i cannot resist sashimi. but dairyofasashimigirl, is just plain weird.
3nd try comment: finally he gotten 'diary' right but alas! 1 missing 's' in 'sashimi'! this, i blame myself. u see, when i 1st pondered painstakedly over my blog address, many ideas came into my mind, like 'ibloodylovesalmonsashimi'. but being a greedy girl with many loves, it's really hard to just choose 1 thing i like and put it permanently as my add. i even comtemplate putting everything in so it would turn turn out as 'ibloodylovesashimiandsteakandboozeandfagetc' but clearly it is not practical for remembrance sake. hence, i decided not to be too extreme with the 'bloody' thing and settled for my now address. i tot that it is easy to rem by but in retrospect, maybe i had been too confident with my decision. i ought to be more realistic to know that the word 'sashimi' may not be as easy to rem as i tot. hell, if i myself am sometimes still confused with 'izzit wasabi or wasabe (the 2nd one is correct)' i must admit it is part of my wishful thinking that 'sashimi' is a unmistakeable word on everyone's mind.
hence, my apology to friends about my i-tot-v-easy-to-rem-but-even-the-bf-gets-it-wrong blog name. i regret to inform all that it will still be here to stay, as lao niang cannot be bothered to change to another blog name, though, perhaps, 'doreenblog.blogspot', would have been the easiest to rem, albeit v, v, v unoriginal. the bf would just have to rem from now on or suffer many there's-no-fury-like-a-woman's-wrath hellish breakbursts. but i still love u k, dear? ^_^"
anyway! today's entry is about buses and mrt! yaya i know i talk about that all the time but this time i am going to entertain u pple with pix instead. yeah.. i'm a cunning photo-taker. when i am on the road, i click materials which i find of blogging value.
the 1st i would like to talk about is the appearances of ang moh on our humble sunny island. yeah, so ang mohs ain't a rare sightings in sg. but the thing is, i have been seeing more and more of them in v heartland places like opp my house kopitiam la, bus stops la instead of orchard road. wth, i even saw this black guy, not indian, real, african guy, at where u know? food centre cum wet market place! wah lau.. funny leh.. dear say scarly he is kidnapper or something as he noticed the guy had da bao like 2 packets of rice. lol. too much drama watching liao boy...
wah... ang mohs in sg nowadays in sg downgrade liao ah? tot these 'expats' drove big cars and live at holland condos>??? maybe after so many yrs in sg, they all v clever liao. know chicken rice is cheaper in hawker centres instead of patronising mandarin hotel and pay like 20times the price. lol. got 1 taxi uncle haolian to me that during the glorious days, ang moh would charter his taxi and go lucky plaza buy gold or something then reward him with fat tips. so gone are these days and the new generation ang mohs live in hdb and take mrt also.
1st ang mohs sighting: on mrt. a ang moh son and ang moh father pair sitting directly opp me. was rather intimidated by the duo, especially when i took this pix, ang moh father was doing some stretching on hand holders or something. xia dao wo... with their towering heights which were also visible when seated, i tot it would be wise to avoid any form of eye contact like any petite chinese girl would have chosen to do in my situation. and i was not even remotely near town area stations then. they sure look like 2 of those carefree, i-dun-give-a-crap backpackers type of ang moh tourists, not ur regular shenton way suit and tie mr expat. so much for self-proclaiming to be liberal-minded and westernised thinking. i was pretty gobsmacked by their presence on the mrt. suaku sashimi girl.
2nd sighting: also on mrt, nel line. ya this dude is not the typical blonde hair blue eyes type but definitely ang moh (or at least eurasian??). slightly keenu-reeves-lookalike. 
3rd sighting: malibu barbie girl spotted! in fact i see her every morning when i am at my aunt's shop, waiting for bus. in in fact fact there is not just her but another ang moh girl with her too sometimes. maybe sisters. in in in fact fact fact also got this ang moh guy comes to my aunt shop a couple of times too, buying veg sticks or fruits for breakfast.
Me (gobsmacked): wah!!! got ang moh come our shop leh! heeheehee!
Aunt (nonchalent): aiya.. suaku la.. never see ang moh b4 izzit??!!! nearby got condos la.. what's so surprising??
It's surprising bcoz most of the time when i look out of the shop to pple watch, i only see uncles and aunties walking around doing minding their own biz in their pyjamas or something.
last but not the least.. ang moh classmate! learning. japanese. ok la this 1 not so rare. after all, commercial schs r supposed to have students of diff nationalities, right? got 1 more i see b4 is a heavily pregnanted ang moh lady, think go give birth liao (last time also got 1 pregnant classmate, tai tai, korean, married to jap guy, would always sit behind me and stroke her swollen belly. buay tahan... too relac liao.. go home also walk can liao.. stay orchard one.. got other classmates also the same, all live nearby nia, walk can liao. envy...). but i digress... u got hear ang moh speak jap 4? quite funny, like how they sound when they speak chinese. teehee...
aiya.. just amaze by ang mohs in neighbourhood places la.. more used to seeing them in town areas instead leh.. anyway got other stuffs when i am on public transports.
inconsiderate auntie #1: gigantic shopping trolley park right in the middle of the bus walkway. knn.. auntie, your ah gong bus ah? pple dun need to walk izzit??!! cannot forgive lo.. even if u say i mean to critise ignorant poor fendless i-m-just-a-harmless-auntie-with-a-heavy-trolley-jampacked-with-stuffs-and-nobody-is-giving-me-a-helping-hand. auntie...cannot like that la.. pple need to walk pass one mah... next time dun like that ok?? ok?? promise hor...
inconsiderate auntie #2: pressing entire body against pole on crowded mrt so that other standing passengers cannot hold on to pole for balance. yes, that one is an auntie! the back and clothes and size look like man i know but IS AN AUNTIE! i cannot stand such pple lo! f la.. i dun need to hold izzit??!!!! make me agitated one leh.. these kind of pple totally oblivious to other who want to hold on to the pole too one lo.. i purposely go hold onto the same pole hoping that she will get the message and get her bloody weight off it but noooo...... squashed my hand instead! make me wanna shout a string of hokkien vulgarities at her lo... sorry la... i get angry v easily one.. petty type.. anyway, she think is her pole izzit?? then bring home la! lock up in storeroom! then nobody can ever use it anymore! happy! kns.
this one is hor, i wanna use this person's outfit example to gently remind everyone never to wear top and bottom with the same design i.e. stripes and stripes. it's v unmatching. just like floral top with floral bottom, top to toe denim clothes. stop! no fashion sense. and for god sake.. get off the f-ing pole!
the awkward sleeping position, too weary OL commuter. amusing. And the scary.......
..... Sadako herself waiting for mrt!!! omg!!! attractive long flowy hair is one thing, way-too-long, sadako-of-the-ring-like hair is plain scary shit! when i look at her locks close up, i can still see water dripping from her tips! OMFG! i swear i'm not the one staring at her. i heard a few pple whispering about her behind me. i got this scary tot that what if one day her hair is so long until it get caught when she travels on the escalator and a whole bunch actually gets ripped outta her head, revealing a bloody meshy partially botak mess???!!!! HORROR!!! no need pay money to watch horror jap movies anymore. jus go places where there are escalators, wait with popcorn and coke in hand for goldilock to pass by!
actually i like to take scenery pix too. from time to time will see exceptional weather scenes.
Threatening angry dark clouds looming in a distance.
It's 6ish in the evening and i see Mr Sun! Pretty! (the house also v pretty! lol..)
...And not forgetting my lovely salmon sashimi! on it's own or wrapped up in sushi, i love it i love it i love it and i cannot get enuff of it! it's sweetly delicious! but no thanks to shan who tells me about a fat jap guy who eats raw food all his life and one day was admitted into hospital for unbearable headache. apparently, doctors find maggots in his brain! i mean, how gross is that!!! how can i possible eat sashimi and middle rare steak in peace now??!!!! i hate u shan!!!! 
But luckily (or should it be UNluckily??? ^_^"), i like cooked food too ok... oh look! what a beautiful golden plate of happy fried family! allow me to intro (in clockwise): the roundish orange are breaded scallop (damn nice!), wedges, onion rings, sotong balls, fish nuggets, calamari and fries! they all reside in my hips now. Great.