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Finally. It’s here. The post that ya all have been waiting for the whole week. So Monday was holiday in lieu of National day, and I went to watch Conan movie with my sis… and then we found out that they are airing Kenshin movie in sg toooooo! And I’ve been super hyped up about the Kenshin movie even though I’ve not watched the 1st movie yet, thanks to all their promotions on VSA and AnS… But yup, I’ve downloaded the 1st movie to my comm already! That’s one more item to my To-Watch list, together with episode two of Sherlock (plus the manga to read too). Luckily I already watched last week’s AM and NS. Just got Thursday’s VSA to watch! And of course, LOVE DVD. I’m watching those today FOR SURE. Octavia’s gone to Manila to meet up with the other girls and attend the LOVE DVD screening there, so there’s no one to bug me about doing random videos today hahaha. Great! XD I’ll be watching to my heart’s content! XD

And oh about the Conan movie... I enjoyed myself tons even though that was the first Conan movie I watched! Yes, add that to my to-watch list as well. Finish up kenshin anime and watch conan anime and movies from start to finish. I was really glad too, I understood pretty much everything w/o having to read the subs. In fact, I spotted a few instances when the subs were wrong. Nothing major but, the sentence was spoken as a question, but the sub changed it into a statement of fact. Happened like twice I think...

What I’ve found amusing is that… as a two men team (well its either me and Mafia red, or me and Mafia J), we are working and releasing faster than the group made by the girl I clashed with last time. So much so for her and her translators. Even both of her translators working together last time, they could not finish an episode of AnS as fast as I could alone… tch! And I could have finished it faster if I didn’t go out… but well… I enjoyed myself on Monday loads! Ah yes your long awaited pictures… here they come!

Lunch was at Charboton. We both ordered the same thing. Cos we both love tonkotsu soup base… well my sis ordered the ‘spicy’ one, so it came with that little ball of ‘spicy’ minced meat… but really it was hardly spicy at all. She added a ton of shichimi powder and chilli oil… whereas I just prefer my noodles in their original taste. It was good, and the price was very affordable too. The total bill came up to just over 30 bucks. We had initially wanted to eat at the Kiseki buffet place… but we totally forgot that I wasn’t the only one who got an off day on Monday. It was freaking crowded. There was a HUGE queue even for those who made reservations…. Which we didn’t do. No reservations? An estimated 1.5 hours of waiting time. And we reached there shortly after their opening hour. Seriously…!

Spanish donuts! Yum yum yum!

Very nicely fried and it came with three sauces. White, milk, and dark chocolate. I loved the white choc dip the most. Very milky.

DINNER! We went to sushi tie. The most expensive meal of the day, (tho if we went for the buffet it would have cost the same) but it was really worth it. YUM YUM YUM. Anyway, that’s the deep fried ika. They have some fanciful name for it… hanasaki ika i think? But well, the batter is very crispy and light. Love it! Went went there last time and ordered this dish too.

I think they put (prawn?) roe in the batter… hence those red bits… never examined them closely to determine what they are even though it was the 2nd time I’m eating this dish hahaha.

Salmon ikura don. Just look at the amount of salmon roe! Fantastic! Ahhh *drools*. Almost 20 bucks (well would be 20 bucks and more with the GST and service charge) but the roe is just fantastic!

Ooooo the sushi. I only ordered three types. From left to right, wagyu beef, whelk, and swordfish. We ate the beef last… cos the taste ought to be the strongest. The beef was kinda normal. It felt like eating ham… it was slightly seared as you can see from the pic, and some parts were still uncooked, so the texture was weird. The fatty parts of the raw meat, esp cos its still cold, kinda felt like the fat from lamb/beef chop after it hardens when cooled. When technically it IS the same thing… it was interesting and something we’ve not tried before, but I won’t feel the urge to try it again. The swordfish was  good. Fresh, and oily, with fat that is blended evenly into the flesh, and it melts in your mouth when eating. But in the end it was the whelk that we had first that was most memorable. It’s a regular priced item too (the beef was most expensive out of the three, and the swordfish is priced in between.) Very crunchy, very refreshing. I’m not sure if it’s because summer is apparently the season for whelks (they have whelks from somewhere in their summer promotion menu) or anything… but I’m definitely going to order this again next time! Love the crunchiness and the firm meat.

Ah this. On the summer promotion menu. 7 bucks for 5. I just could not resist ordering it and gosh I’m glad I did. Hotaru Ika. Firefly squid. It looks normal right? But gosh, the taste! And the texture. Very smooth, and silky. And inside the squid body. Its filled with… roe like stuff? I have no idea what that is (nope not squid ink), but it’s red and looks and taste like the stuff in prawn heads. Like in raw amaebis. It soooo makes me want to go back to sushi tei again before the summer promotion ends JUST to eat this thing. I never knew squid could taste this good!

Finally, a ‘classic’. Negitoro don. Spring onion and minced tuna rice with an onsen egg on top. You mix it all up before eating. Its delicious, and cheap too. Just above 10 bucks. We used to go sushi tei just for this… (well we only went like, twice or something, not very frequent). Well it’s the cheapest and more affordable thing on the menu after all… This dish started my addiction for raw/half boil eggs. Hahaha. Love the runny, fragrant egg yolk. Love how it makes this dish all sticky when mixed in… delicious!

A final photo of the meal. All the food lined up and ready to go! XD

Hai. And that’s all for Monday’s lovely sushi dinner. We ate at sushi express on Tuesday, but that’s just a regular sushi place, hence no pictures. Only high class sushi gets pictures hahaha! But sushi express was nice too. Cheap and good. I ate till I was soooo bloated! It’s a converter belt sushi place that came from Taiwan, and each plate of sushi/sashimi/whatever only costs $1.50. (In contrast, the cheapest sushis at sushi tei, like the whelk, costs $3.20!) Its our most frequented sushi place now, hence the lack of photos...

Finally… from the high class, posh seminar in the 5 star hotel marina mandarin… didn’t get a chance to take any other photos… but the food was really good. We were like totally sitting on round tables and chairs, covered in dining cloth and those chair covers… in ballrooms with posh posh lights and decors… basically a setting that i’ve only seen on TV/news before.

Yes. A glass for your plain water. Paper and pen lined up on each table for the participants too… Though I didn’t write a single word hahaha.

Finally… a last photo from yesterday. It was raining buckets in the morning. While I was still on my way to work… The sound of the rain was getting louder by the second… when the bus came, the 3 second walk from the covered bus stop to the bus was enough to make me quite wet. Oh wells. Just a boring photo on a boring day to post to my boring instagram.

Oh something a little more ‘exciting’ did happen yesterday though. I accidentally broke a small glass bottle. The first thing I broke after joining this lab. Meh… maybe it’s telling me to go autoclave my own bottle of PBS. Dang… >< Well it was running out anyway… I should have saw it coming. I moved the bottle to my bench and put it at the very edge of the shelf. In front of the qpcr plates that I’d always be taking out. And guess what happened when I took out the qpcr plate without looking yesterday? Mamaa.. at least it’s nothing expensive. And cos it’s a small bottle I got it cleaned up in no time.

Well well. What else did I wanted to say…? Ah yes. My LJ layout. I do like this layout loads, but maybe I’m gonna change it to a platinum data like layout soon. I’d like to try tinkering with my layout myself… just like in the good old days when I did my own neopets pages and made my own website in primary school… and then later on my blog. Nah, not so much for the blogs… didn’t tinker that much with the html as I did with the neopets nonsense… hahaha. Meh speaking of which I did use to try so much things. Making my own CCA forums… all the stuff for the games, even the neopets stuff whose existence I have almost forgotten about… But yes. A platinum data like layout. Well I like those coloured, photoshop gel electrophoresis photos… and I did find one that’s blue… so it might well end up reminding people of platinum data… well i’ll see how platinum data like I can make it… and it’ll fit with my DNA comm too hahaha.

Hmm finally. Japanese words. Been wanting to post this for a while now. Remember my previous post where I talked about the word 零れ? Well. I was thinking about the one and only Arashi song that I made flashcards of the vocab on quiz let (more on that in a while), and I felt like shooting myself. It’s there. The very same word. In the lyrics, at the beginning. Pifft. And I have, obviously, forgotten that word. Well not really. I guessed the meaning when I heard it in AM but I wanted to be sure. But there and then I certainly didn’t remember that this word came from Fly.

Just gonna introduce two words for now...
石鹸 (せっけん, Sekken) - Soap

女々しい (めめしい, memeshi) - Effeminate.
Now this is a word that I can guess the Japanese meaning, but need to search up the definition of the translation to check that I guessed right.  Yes, my vocab is pretty sucky. So well, here’s the definition of effeminate: (of a man) having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly.

Finally. Last thing of the post! Quizlet. I’ve been using it for some time, and I’ve decided to share some of the lists with you girls. Just two lists for now. Random Japanese words over here. And words from the song Fly, over here. Nope, there is no romanji in the cards. If you are trying to learn Japanese you really should start by learning Hiragana and Katagana anyway, and there’s a million sites to learn those (I’m sure a million youtube videos teaching them too) so there is no need for me to post that here.

Comments

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Oh, heavens! I love food porn posts! Thank you for sharing!

Movies and food and seminars and web design...you live a busy and exciting life! Yay!

*hugs you*

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nah... web design... i just wanna give it a hand. I'm not actually good at it or anything. I've never tweaked my LJ layout before lol!