burfdae dinner at Prego's

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Beefie booked me a burfdae table at Prego's Fairmont Singapore! i always wanted to go there! hehe.

we ordered a set dinner each - 1 starter, 1 pasta, 1 main course, 1 dessert - $55 per pax.

complimentary pre-meal bread. not very yummy. reminds me of the hard-as-rock bagel in NYC. booooo~

starter: salmon salad or mushroom soup. i preferred the salad cuz the soup tasted too strong for my liking.

pasta: duck ragout spaghetti or arrabiata penne. the spaghetti was rough w an overall strong

chinese zhi char taste, penne was better but nothing extraordinary.

main course: suckling pig or cod fish.

cod fish was heavenly! my fav dish of the night! cooked to the right degree and not too fishy~~ awwww~~

oh we ordered an ala carte sausage pizza as well and it was mediocre. =_=

there's wayyyyy too much fat in the suckling pig for neither Beefie nor my palate. Beefie even had to go rinse his mouth after eating (but he still finished the whole plate duhhhh).

a slice of sweetie tiramisu each as dessert! nice! but not much alcohol taste. haha.

it's my burfdae! but Beefie never ask if there's any bday specials. i saw a group of servers singing happie burfdae to another girl further away, if it's just the singing, dont think i want anyways. hahaha.

service was really good and prompt at Prego's, the "door bitch" even offered to help us take multiple photos of the restaurant.

but hor, her photography skills not very good, pictures were either blur or didnt capture the background adequately. but 100 points for effort lah! lols.

in conclusion, i would say food was really disappointing, i will probably only go back for the cod fish IF i have sudden major cravings.

Beefie went Prego's before it renovated and said food was much better then, guess i caught it at the wrong timing. oh well~~~

oh oh bday pressies from Sabbie! it's a bra and a pair of yoga tights, both from Victoria Secrets. dont ask me why she bought those man, beats me too. hahahaha. oh she wrote a bday blogpost for me too! thanks lah, Fuss!

happie burfdae to meeeeeeeeee~~~~~

today, im one more step closer to 30!

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BAH. im officially pushing 30!! crapppppp.

anyways, Beefie drew a portrait of me for my burfdae today...........................

=(((((

i looked at the portrait, n i wanna cryyyyyyyyyy. yuan lai im so fugly in his heart! booooooooooo~~~~

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HIMYM S3

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Ted broke up with Robin and was feeling down, Barney was trying to cheer him up....

"Oh com'on, Ted! Robin is a 10-pointer, I'll find u a 12-pointer!

Or two 6-pointers!

Or twelve 1-pointers!!"

LOLOLOL.

just began watching Season 3! yes im slow! hahaha.

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CST!

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cant help but marvel yet again, at how much people love such an old fogey who slurs and cant stand straight.

dont get me wrong, i say tat with love!

there is a 2-part video in youtube where the Potong Pasir residents were basically just chanting "Potong Pasir! Chiam See Tong!" throughout the 30min video. that is the night that Mr Chiam arrived to thank the residents for their vote, i think.

they are also signing a petition for by-election in Potong Pasir.

people rush to shake his hand, though he wasnt even competent of giving a good handshake. i read that a supporter was so overwhelmed with tears by being able to shake Mr Chiam's hand.

even if most of them are just bored and crowd around just to watch a "show", at least half of them genuinely loves CST right? i dont tink PAP can even garner tat half? lols.

but if i were him, i will retire and not stand in this elections anymore. i would rather retire as an opposition who had stranglehold over a constituency for 27 years, instead of ending my political career by losing everything.

then again, he probably didnt retire because his many many supporters didnt want him to.

imagine he doesnt even have a proper room and thus had been holding his meet-the-people sessions in that shitty makeshift cubicle for the past 27 years.

his shitty table inside the shitty cubicle.

how much passion must a person have to make him hold on to that shitty cubicle/table/job for decades??? *claps with admiration*

i wish i had such ginormous passion in my job. LOL.

anyways. this is officially my favourite photo in the whole GE 2011:

hurhur. dont let us down in co-driving, Mr Low~~~

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what an election!

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the PAP came up with the GRC system to make it difficult for oppositions to get in, but now one opposition party finally managed to break through, resulting in PAP losing George Yeo.

losing George Yeo but got Tin Pei Ling! what a system. i would take Mr Yeo over TPL anytime! classic case of having a taste of your own medicine! boooooo~~

another classic happening to PAP is Sitoh Yih Pin's "等久就有": he lost to Mr Chiam See Tong twice, now to win by a mere 114 votes. *tsk tsk*

i feel so sad for Mr Chiam, he is such a great man with great passion for the people. i personally witnessed him willing his 76 years old frail battered-by-2strokes frame to the rally. but honestly im not surprised he failed.

this board will have to be taken down within the next 45 days. it's a nice board. sigh.

take the opportunity to have a good rest, Mr Chiam. keep in mind that many people still support u! including me!

actually on one hand, im happy that the Worker's Party is finally propelling us into a real democracy by winning the most number of seats in parliament ever, but at the same time cant help but worry for the future of Singapore.

cuz common sense says that the more faction u have within a government, the more unstable it will be.

i have a relative who is a high ranking official in the government, and i asked my dad why is she not selected to run for elections. and my dad said she definitely got noticed by PAP, but cuz her dad is a seasoned gambler, so that is probably why she didnt pass the "test".

well it would be safe to say that PAP does due diligence checks on all their candidates before fielding them, but we cant say that of the oppositions, can we?

the opposition candidates are probably secretly corrupted or something, but nobody has the capacity to check on them? i dont know for sure, just wondering. hmm. oh well.

by the way, im very impressed by The Online Citizen. it was already posting results even before the Elections Dept announcements!

i was telling my parents the results TOC posted and told them to take it with a pinch of salt, but it was all accurate! all hail new media!

saw this on TOC and finds it an interesting irony....

are u happy with the GE 2011 results??

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Yam Ah Mee

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u know the guy who announced all 27 GE results yesterday night?

Returning Officer of the Elections Dept.

super amusing to see some buzz over him online. there's even a club mix clip of him! LOL.

Mr Yam when he's younger, quite yandao hor??

do u know that he's a Harvard grad? held some high ranking position in LTA previously.

hahahaha.

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i voted!

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first time ever in my life! hurhur.

gonna be home at 930pm sharp for the results! feel quite excited abt it! lols.

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thank goodness today is the last day

honestly getting quite sick of all the GE fever.

let me draw your attention to the PAP banner right outside my cluster of blocks:

u see, the day after nomination, the banner was just half that size.

can u see the 2 white tiny squarish thing beneath the banner? those are spotlights installed a day later, powered by nothing in sight. it was as if they planted some underground power cable beneath the banner overnight.

another day later, poof! the banner grew to the one above, twice its original size!

the old small one is now across the road, right beside the opposition's banner.

LOL im constantly amused by the types of GE antics they pull.

being a responsible Singaporean

is to research on your candidates!

im watching the rally videos of the candidates running for Pioneer SMC now!

Mr Cedric Foo reigned my area (previously under West Coast GRC) for the past 10 years, but honestly for all the 10 years i've been here i havent seen him once.

he listed the things he's done for Pioneer for the past 10 years, extension of MRT lines into Pioneer and Joo Koon, Jurong Point extension, air-conditioned bus interchange, Jurong SAFRA, Jurong Central Park, Jurong West Stadium...

true lah, i really did see alot of developments throughout the years, PAP did make ulu land Pioneer less pathetic.

but hor, Jurong Central Park ended up as a hei hei park, i dont even dare to go. Jurong West Stadium was built cuz previously it was a ulu muddy swamp and nobody wants to buy those HDB flats opposite it, the Stadium was built to entice people to buy.

Mr Foo also promised CCTVs in all Pioneer blocks.

but hor, CCTV is already installed in my block, just recently. did he install half the blocks before he realised it can be used as a promise during the GE so he stopped installing the other half??

Mr Steve Chia is the new competitor. well, Pioneer was never contested as far as i know, so he can be considered new competitor in that sense.

i finally met Mr Chia this morning at the cross junction right outside my cluster or blocks, shook his hand. i also met Cedric Foo this morning but no handshakes cuz he was talking to an auntie and an angmoh (u'll be surprised to know tat more angmohs are living in Pioneer now).

anyways, Mr Chia looks like a spunky and energetic man, all sunshine smiley. he's been in politics for at least 10 years, never formally won a seat before but still full of passion.

he seems pretty enthusiastic in replying messages voters left on his fb page too. did i mention that he was an NCMP 2001-2006 as he was the opposition member who received the highest vote in 2001 GE.

BUT! if u remember, in 2004, a scandal broke out where his wife found naked photos of his maid in his recycle bin and allegedly lodged a police report. he admitted that he took those photos but that the maid consented to it, the police dropped charges as they found no crime committed.

he also admitted to reporters that he has an "interest in nude photography" and apparently even showed reporters photos he took of himself naked. omggggggg.

even after 8 years i still remember okay?? but why nobody asked him about it this time round?? but hor, apparently the votes he received in 2006 GE was up 5% despite the scandal.

sighhhh on one hand i dont really wanna get a h*rny guy into parliament, but then he seems like one of the more decent opposition member this GE and i also feel like boosting the opposition's votes for PAP to stop being so complacent and dictorial.

howwwwwwwwww?

the bimbo talks politics

the politicians kept telling us what they will do for us if they are elected, but there is actually no way we can really make them do what they promised, right?

i forgot which opposition member was proposing to open up our national reserve and distribute it to the people, and Dr Vivian Balakrishnan rebutted by saying our national reserve is like our natural resource, nobody wants to deplete their prized natural resource.

but hor, we dont even know how much exactly is our reserve, how they determine how much to put into the reserve, and how is our reserve being managed leh. no transparency neh.

some PAP minister said the largest growth we experienced in the last 5 years was 7%, that was also when we had the largest number of foreign immigrants. if we were to restrict foreign immigrants, we can only expect lower growth of about 3-5%.

do we really need so much growth? why cant we grow less but be happier and more comfy in our home country with less foreigners? it's normal for developed countries to only get like 1-2% growth every year right? lower growth doesnt mean more of our own people get jobless right?

but i do understand that it is not easy to run a country lah. we have zero natural resources, so having a powerful reserve is important and it is difficult to manage such a huge reserve.

then with such low birth rates in Singapore, if we dont allow foreigners, who is going to replenish the population leh. unless my fellow Singaporeans willing to make more babies lor, i know im not. lols.

n hor, if u tax the rich too much hor, those elitist will migrate to another country before u can even redistribute the money to the poor.

we are where we are now, also lotsa credits to Mr Lee lah. though he is really an arrogant elitist, but he is a uber smart and capable elitist. haha.

qiannie went to the rallies!

Worker's Party - Aljunied GRC Rally on 29 Apr 2011

huge crowd! the grandstand was fully packed and the field was like almost filled at the rally's peak, i think it is the most popular rally this election lor.

the crowd were roaring with cheers once the WP nominees were onstage, lotsa people were waving the WP flags ($2, i bought a 铁锤报 for $5 lols). im honestly surprised by how many spontaneous boos for PAP and cheers for WP the Sg crowd was able to garner.

i stood and listened throughout, 3 hours in total, my legs almost killed me mans. hurhur what passion. i think Mr Low is a pretty good speaker, can see him charming the crowd.

besides him, many other WP members can speak quite well too. Ray's cousin Toh Hong Boon also not bad lols. Chen Show Mao's speech disappointed me though, quite bland.

but hor, i have worked with enough people to know that good speakers not neccesarily mean they have real substance. hahahaha. but i do think that we need more opposition voices in our parliament and WP seems like the best opposition voices we have currently.

Singapore People's Party - Potong Pasir SMC Rally on 30 Apr 2011

it started with a less rousing crowd as compared to the WP rally.

i was feeling a little bored initially.

but once Mr Chiam arrived at the rally, the crowd went crazy! just kept chanting his name lor. im amazed by the amount of support he has.

i just read that at the 2006 GE, PAP dangled a $80m upgrade project bait to the Potong Pasir residents, but 55% of them still voted for Mr Chiam.

and hor, poor Mr Chiam cannot stand straight and speak loudly nor clearly, so his speech was really short. but even so, the crowd just followed Mr Chiam all the way to the carpark after the rally ended. in a loyal manner, not a paparazzi manner.

it was like he's the hero of Potong Pasir sia. i felt this truly showed his popularity with the people lor, and i can really feel his passion for politics. pei fu pei fu~

however hor, i really dont think he will be fit enough to hold a seat in my country's parliament for the next 5 years, and his wife is not really up to par imho. and generally SPP's members dont seem as outstanding as WP's.

as usual, poor Beefie was dragged there by me. and he was trying to take a picture of Mr Chiam closeup while he was being mobbed by the voters after the rally....

that was the best he managed to capture of Mr Chiam. lols.

every girl dreams of a royal wedding

The Royal Wedding day is a stipulated UK bank holiday as well, so my office was exceptionally empty and light-hearted on the day. we were mostly glued to the tv the whole day ahahha.

there was even a speed dial number where we can hear the live BBC broadcast from, in case the stereo in the tv broke down (which is what happened to our tv =_= )

awwww what a Disney fairytale came true~~

nice dress! the buzz is all around the dress mans. how many people can get Sarah Burton to design their wedding dress lor.

unfortunately i left office for the Worker's Party rally before the newly crowned Duchess of Cambridge arrived at Westminister Abbey, but im going to catch The Royal Kiss during the repeat on Ch5 tonight!

even the reception dress is purrfectly beautiful! or is it just the case that as long as the bride is beautiful, any gown she wears will be beautiful? hurhur.

if she's not pretty, will P.William fall in love with her???

saw this on someone's fb yest: Kate has been with William for 8 years, she has stuck with him through thick and thin [insert hair joke here]. LOL. P.William still looks like a nice guy to me, hair or no hair. hahaha.

some bimbo exchanges made in office re the royal wedding...

A: if u were her, do u think u'll be very stressed?

B: *as if p.william proposed to me* i wont even accept his proposal in the first place

B: do u think they are virgins before they got married? they are supposed to be very religious right??

C: do u think i'll know??

B: *pointing to old lady in yellow* is that the ah ma?

D: wat ah ma?? that's the queen!

E: ya the queen is his ah ma wat!

LOLOLOL. and u think people who work in banks are smart.

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