raved,vented,ranted.

Long overdue post, which took a gazillion hours too upload the many, many pictures with unstable, lagging internet T^T but here they are~!

PLEASE DON'T CONTINUE READING IT IF YOU'RE HUNGRY, but maybe the pictures might not look so appetising with my pathetic 3.2 mp camera.

See the figures in the middle? Polisi (police) were working.....I HOPE!

Vegetarian 'Chicken' noodles -_- but it's real nice, another place which has faux meat which tasted good. Though I've scooped some to mother dearest :)

Crepes! Been craving for it and I ate Apple Cinammon flavour which is real nice and crispy.

The batter they used is really fragrant~~ from Ichi Crepes.

Grafitti, gotta love it, it's practically everywhere but they're all very nicely sprayed onto at least.

A picture taken at Sungei Road when Denvy and I went to take a look at what was all the hype about it. Think very used and very old stuff, some totally worthless and some are really just junks.

Indo's fast food restaurants, firstly Hoka Hoka Bento. Serving fried, jappy lunches which aren't bad for the prices.

YUM!

Oh how I missed Wendy's potato with steamed cauliflower dripping in cheese sauce.

HAVE.TO.EAT.THAT.

A super mongo spider in the dad's office, it was a long as my index finger.

Hmmm I don't know what's the name of this dessert but it has little sago balls and slivers of banana shoved in it :D

This is called lemper ayam, donno the translation but it's glutinous rice with seasoned chicken, sigh another childhood food. Wonder why I was skinny as a starving chicken THEN.
*cough cough*

Parents brought us to this vegetarian restaurant called Che Hwa - which means lotus.

It's the best vegetarian restaurant, like EVER! I hearts it to the corexzxzxzxzzxzx.

Even their faux meat tastes good~!

Fried, bread-ed oyster mushroom. MY FAVOURITEEEEEEEE!

'Fish' Tom Yam on hotplate. Very nice albeit a little spicy and the whole dish was very flavourful on its own that it covered the taste of others.

Long beans with sesame. Meh, so-so but crunchy and refreshing.

Mah Po Tofu in claypot. Another very nice dish, though the sauce is very salty.

The tofu was silky and smooth, infused with the oyster-tasting sauce.

SIGH! I would so go vegetarian if the food served everyday are like this.

Younger brother was being a total pig and wanted some Martabak, the pictures would be self-explanatory. So the mother went to call and ordered one since the stall is near the house.

Well I'm not complaining, since the martabak is so damn nice when it's warm and toasty, oozing out with melted chocolate sprinkles and sprinkled with peanuts, slather with condensed milk along with sugar.

YOU SEE! YOU SEE! ALL THAT FAT! ALL THAT OOZING JUICY LARD SQUIRMING OUT OF IT! Ugh look at the fatness, but oOOoOooOOoh~ it's sooooo good!

Finally ate at SUSHI TEIIIIII~!

I can only afford to eat it when I'm back in homeland :( But it's okay, at least I do get to eat it *sniffles*

What I had, some Kitsune-thingamajiggy ramen, vegetarian friendly I don't know why my intuition told me to pick it. But it was lovely, I love the sweet, sweet tofu~

Sushi~! Only the pathetic crab meat on the left is the non-vegetarian one.

ME **HEARTS** JAPANESE RICE!

Aunt, mops.

&.......pops.

Sat in a truck to go to a nearby mall.

Gotta love the public bus, non-airconditioned, crowded, plastic orange seats, rusty windows....

GOTTA GIVE EXTRA LOVE TO THE FOREVER JAMMED ROAD.

I sat in this rusty little transportation mode called the Bajaj - yeap correct spelling due to the occupation of the Dutch in the past. But it's pronounced as Ba-jai.

Noisy as hell but gets one from a place to another place of short distance pretty quickly.

Ate another childhood food which is beefball soup at this restaurant called - Lapangan Tembak Senayan which literally means Senayan Shooting Field ._.

Whatev the weird name but the beefball soup is oh-SO-good~!!!!

A tad too salty though, but slurping it down fast wouldn't get that noticed.

Not forgetting the avocado juice.

It was actually the first time drinking it in my life.

Last time I used to think it looked too grosse to be drunk so I never tried till that day.

In addition with chocolate condense milk, oh I could hear the weighing scale wailing already.

Reminiscing again about whatever my childhood had, a dish called Nasi Uduk which is like indo's version of Nasi Lemak. & I only eat my nasi uduk from this hmm....road-side stall?

Called Midnight Uduk.

Ta-da! A plate of nasi uduk <3>

Add a dollop of this fiery chilli gives a kick to the dish. LE SIGH I was tearing as I'm eating this, not only from joy but also the hotness of the chilli.

It isn't the most spacious or luxurious looking place, not like any of the roadside stalls are haha.

But the rice and chicken are so delish that every year I come back to hometown I MUST have a dose of it.

I think hygene conscious people would totally freak out, the meats weren't kept in any refrigeration and its put neatly with only a cloth to protect it.

As one could see, the yellow looking stuff are marinated meat - pig innards, satays of almost every type of meat (no babi, duh.) and CHICKEN!!!!!!

Doodles that I did when I was 5 in my mum's previous office which is currently my dad's.
She said she didn't want to rub it off for memory's sake and there they still remain in good ol' permanent marker.

Oh gotta love the house when I used to wear my elder brother's oversized roller skates and climbed up the staircase and not forgetting sliding down the handrails in knickers =_=

LOOK MA NO HAIR! I couldn't have piercing due to my boyish (read: violent) tendencies when I was young so mother dearest *cough* was worried if my piercings would ever got hooked onto ANYTHING and then tore my ears off. I didn't know an imagination of a rather conservative woman could be so fertile.

Man my then 5-year-old brain is pretty addled isn't it?

Does that look like an amoeba with a face or a fried egg with a face?
I know I ain't a Picaso but these are just pure bull.

See, I told you there could be growth in a drain. Immense one I must say.

There wasn't, actually, any of the plants when I used to live upstairs of the office.

Many changes took place right after, or should I say during the actual O level itself.

Like moving house the day before the SS paper.

GOOOOOODBYE RUMAH TINGGI! I DON'T LOVE YOU THANK GOODNESS.

House, the day when we're moving. Messy much?

Pictures I totally forgot to post up =_=

Taken by Joshua before an O level exam, of which I can't remember.

Farah still acting fierce in Jun Yan's basketball jersey, moments before sitting for the O level paper.

Stoned

3:03 PM

Sorry if you're hungry and viewing this blog right now, as I said again, I can't blog much cause there ain't much to blog about in the first place apart from my boredom, accomplishment of books, and FOOD.

Nothing much yesterday, once again. ATE AT PIZZA HUT YAY! Nong time since I last ate at Pizza Hut. I didn't shop either, mommah being tighter with money ever since the global recession :( FUCK IT.

Chicken fettucine, quite nice but I hate too much of cream sauces AND GARLIC PEEEUUWWW.

This is mops and pops, pops as usual busy with his salt-and-pepper head down to his handphone.

See where I got the gorging genes from? Thanks mommah.

Here's a better photo of pops, albeit he's frowning, mop once again showed her alter ego LOL.kidding.

My lychee-wjhatsit. I can't remember what's the whole name, too long. But it's real nice and refreshing.

See the empty pan? The younger brother gobbled 4 small slices down clean, along with another slice from the Splitza which is the 2 pizza from right. The very unappetizing looking pizza from the left is what my vegetarian parents ate, maybe it's just my camera cause it was delish~! POTATO YUM!!!!! One of my fave food, like ever. All I ate was 2 slices of pizza, a seafood and a pepperoni + potato :D

Living in my hometown third world country has made me missed Singapore pretty much.
Seriously, living here made my life in Singapore seem so luxurious!
I can pretty much go wherever and whenever I want (yeah right, curfew =_=) all thanks to SBS bus services and SMRT. But here in 3rd world, the public transport are for those who can't afford a motorcycle or a car. Not meaning to sound snobbish here but that's how the system works here. I've taken the public transport before, and the rides were never smooth, the buses or smaller cars were all JAMPACKED (thank goodness they weren't carrying chicken) with all sorts of people, AND THE BEST THING IS - NO AIRCON!
The chances of people stealing your stuff/grabbing your ass is like 70%
Taxis aren't that reliable too, like you can have a driver who flashes his peen at you or maybe drive you away to some secluded areas and ravished you, JENG JENG JENGGGG THAT'S THE END OF YOU! Keeding.
Hence everywhere I go, must follow the parents.
SIGH! I WANNA GO ICE SKATE OR TO THE ZOO OR SOMETHING :(

I can't complain about the food, it's cheap and nice HAHAHAHAH
Even mommah's cookings are nice, 'cept I HATE, HATE, HATE it when she add gross faux meat. FAUX MEAT HATER HERE!

The air here is filthy, polluted and tobbaco-infused with almost everywhere you go someone would be smoking like a chimney.
It stinks, not only of ciggies but also the clogged sewers.
Even plants can sprout out of it and lifeforms can take place there (think frogs, dubious fishes and MOZZIES >=[ ) The road side are forever dirty, the paint has faded or peeled off , seeming like no one going to ever re-paint the whole street anymore.
Okay it's real hard to describe how shitty the country really is, sooooo I'll try to capture some images with my trusty SE phone with 3.2 mp camera. UGH I SO NEED A DIGICAM.

11:59 AM

Slept like a total ~~boar~~ log, except for the fact that mommah had forgotten to pass us blankets so once again I was freezing to my toes.

Nothing much to update on yesterday except that I was bored to tears in poppah's office even after intensive update on this dead blog and sending emails.

Oh, had a heart to heart talk with aunt dearest (no sarcasm here *1..2..3* awwwwwww)

Such a relieve to find out that not all middle-aged people are going through middle age crisis, is homophobic or ancient-minded.

Ate dinner at this restaurant called Iton, food was superb~!

Sze Chuan vegetables with PORKKKK la mien, the pork was kinda sad tasting bu the noodles were soooooo good! Just nice tasting, a little bouncy y'know but complements with everything in the bowl. I HATE PARSLEY ugh CHEEKEN.

Chee Chong Fun which was not soggy. Finally chee chong fun that is edible.

Vegetable Shui Jiao. For the sake of dear parents, the shui jiao has to be vegetarian hence we ordered this. Which is good though a bit small, filled with mushroom, tofu and undishtinguishable green vegetables.

Fried rice cake with egg. This is veryyyyyyy fragrant, with a dollop of chili my mommah down it, no not all :D It would be nicer if its prawn, but once again as a family gotta share the love so order vegetarian again :)

L-L-L-L-LEBBIT (rabbit) lotus paste bun. SO CUTEEEEE, I know D you wanna SMASH it to SMITHEREENS.

Green tea pau which is nice cause the paste was not too sweet, just the way I like it~ But the dough is rather dry :(

Hey DENVY I FOUND YOU A FRIEND!
Lol so cute ah, pig shaped lotus paste bun!

This is meant to be an orange ._. AND ITS LOTUS PASTE AGAIN WTF! But never mind me like lotus paste xDI LOVEEEEEEEEEEE EVERYTHING PASSION FRUIT! ESPECIALLY THE JUICE OR SYRUP ZOMG! I can drink it like, forever! This one comes with sago seeds, which is rather refreshing though dangerous for old people who can't really see haha.

No I didn't eat all the buns at one go, it's for breakfast HEH. Sorry if this bores you guys, cause all I could blog about is food at the moment, and am not going places like the zoo and stuff :(((((( It's been so long since I last went to the zoo luh!

After dinner HORROR OF HORRORS - WE HAD TO GO TO A TEMPLE! Da-YUM I TOTALLY forgot that every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday the devout parents would devotedly drive a gazillion miles to the temple without fail just to chant for a good hour and a half. Everyone would be robed in this cotton black robe and enter into the room to chant. I know that religion is good but seriously the room full of old fogies were so PAINFUL to watch them chanting. Their expression solemn and grim, like someone has died tragically or something and worse some looked like they're in sheer agonising PAIN. WTF?!!?!???!?! Even the cute head chanter was not enough to distract me. When it was the meditating section, not surprisingly I fell asleep. TOO BORED TO DO ANYTHING ELSE. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HATE THE FRIGGING TEMPLE.

Okay to end things off, a butt nekkid (naked), statue in the middle of the road carrying a plate of flames. MAN HIS MUSCLES WERE TIGHT AND RIPPLING LOL!

UPDATE:

CHILDHOOD DRINK ZOMG IT DIDN'T CHANGE, NOR DID THE FLAVOUR~!!!!!! :D

HAPPY ME.ELLOH FROM INDO Y'ALL!

1:40 PM

Mommah has always made it a personal mission to feed me >_<

Man she's like turning me into a pig zzz, oh to add on to the fact that I had to go vegetarian (not 100% of course - I LOATHE FAUX MEAT) for my stay here. I so want to gorge with all the childhood food here, but seeing the weighing scales going up is one of my biggest, BIGGEST fear

But DA-YUM these are so GOOD (I KNOW B-A-B-I LA DENVY!) and mommah wants me to finish them all O_O.

But I know I'm not a babi *cough* not like my brothers.
Once mommah changed the brand of rice we usually eat, I could taste the difference and totally detested whatever brand she bought. My brothers on the other hand claimed there's NO DIFFERENCE, WTF?!?!?!!?!?! So who's the babi now?

1:20 PM

18/11/08

The beginningof the journey to the airport could be summarised with one word – hellish.
The younger was behaving in a imbecilic manner,all thanks to the one-who-popped-us.
In Singapore’s humidity, I was yelling my arse off instructions which did not seem to register to his head – at all. Not initiative and unable to process simple instructions, great just what I needed then. Right then I could also feel my sanity dangerously teetering off a precipice.

The Skytrain from Terminal 3 to Terminal 1 smelt that of soiled baby diapers, unventilated air and stale pee. Pungent, much?

The flight was lovely. The seats were worn and crackled, which had faded to a ghastly shade of blue + grey all thanks to violent arses of the numerous number of passengers. A forlorn looking croissant ( which tasted like soggy, sweetened dough with 5 raisins, yes I counted.) was given out. The air stewards and stewardress must have hated their jobs very much, they looked like a bunch of Dementors were perpetually hovering over their shoulder. They don’t smile, at all! Their happiness must have been sucked out by their jobs. Plane was frigging cold, even my cellulite-ridden thighs were insufficent to keep my hands warms. It was so cold till a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water (read: mist) was billowing out of the holes which I assumed was the air-conditioning system.

Am trying all means to beg my super thrifty parents never to let me sit on budget airlines again, despite travelling for only a short distance. Oh how I missed Air France, Emirates and Qantas L I MUST mention that the air stewardresses had cakey, clogged-looking make up. They made Felicia Chin’s Silky Girl advertisement looked so glamorous.

Poppah finally upgraded to the internet to something decent, NO MORE CONSTIPATED INTERNET YAY!!!!!! Shall exploit it to the maxxxxxxxx.

When I got home, another horreur revelation by my mommah greeted me – the arrival of grandmommah Undearest. She’ll be here throughout the whole holiday, SAY NAYYYYYYYY :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(I shall update this blog as much as I can, whilst hogging this laptop from the younger one *smirks*

Grotesque sight in front of me, when the table is flipped open.

Wearing this much and I was still freezing +_+

My dad practically converted the dashboard to a mini shrine ._.

CHILDHOOD SWEET!

Le sigh, hurrah for my third world homeland, where driving cars is a must and where I could put my domestic alter ego aside LOL.

:) HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

17/11/08

Prom was fun!
Got my poor eyelids manhandled by Denvy, wearing a fitting dress without top inner wear (even D.Tan kinda shook his head in disapproval, like I give a shit you shortie.) (NO XIAO XUAN I DID NOT GO COMMANDO!) , wobbling in 3 inch heels (don't rub it in, gravity loves me.),lots of staring whilst I was on the bus, camwhoringgggggggggggg, and the most memorable one would be getting asked : "Hey darling, where're you going?" +_+ by some short guy with bleached hair, white skinnies, sandals and black wifebeater.

My post-prom activity was one that's rather crazy, even as I'm typing I still feel surreal about it.
Hah it's too crazy to be typed in here, but somehow I'm relieved that it turned out to be a good thing :)
Maybe some maternal instinct was brought out in him that moment, but my elder brother actually stayed up to wait for me. MAN THAT'S JUST WEIRD!!!!!! LOL.

O-KAY! Shall keep a log about everything Indo for some people's entertainment.
Stay tuned!

11:08 AM

HEY Y'ALL I'M JETTING OFF TO MY THIRD WORLD COUNTRY LIKE LATER!
So I've no time to upload the prom pictures on facebook or friendster or here for that matter so click here -

http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c299/missnerdberd/prom/

help yourselves! Password is 123456 :D HASTA LA VISTA PEEPS!

2:41 PM

There moments, days or even short little periods when I wished I was born with male genitals to put it nicely.

1. No aunt agony come knockin'

ISN'T THAT A GOOD THING?!
Bleeding 'love' (as Leona Lewis crudely sings it.) ain't exactly my cup of tea and guys don't even have periods!
Saves money, blood, doctor trips or medicine (for those who suffer from Hurricane Aunt Agony) and not have to suffer cramps too!
Does wet dreams count I wonder?

2. No housechores being expected to do.

Even though the trend of househusbands are catching up, but still usually in the traditional Chinese family *rolls eyes* the pampered males do not have to lift a finger in the domestic department whereas the girl works like a free Third World slave ~~(as for my case, Indo maid much?)~~

3. Friendships amongst guys are simpler.

I think this is, MOST of the time true.
Unless the guy is the complex, 'deep' and sensitive kind of person (READ: INSECURE,PETTY,ATTENTION-SEEKING,VIOLENT,HALF-CRAZED) ~eh very familiar ah~
most of the time friendship amongst guys are real simple, or so I heard and seen so far.
They just forget or let go about whatever problems they had in conflict and also they don't just have problems with the person because of their character and not like the person did anything to them.
Or maybe the guys I've seen and known so far are the nicer ones?

Yeah simple reasons for a stupid wish.

Sometimes walking down in the streets made me feel so.....over-dressed.
Faux pas galore, the acrid sight of them really induce nausea in me.

We all know the lovely roaring heat of the sun in addition with humidity which pierce through our pores at almost every part of the day would grand every girl the right to wear tank tops and shorts right?
However what these girls lack is called : SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS.
I seriously am baffled with this mysterious trend.
If girls are so supposedly 'conscious' about their body image, then why do I see people walking along the streets with THESE:
(Thank goodness I know somewhere inside me lay some insecurities which brings about self-consciousness in these errors made.Need to get rid of Michelin-man tummy asap!)

Insert the type of shorts: FBTs, denim cut-offs,etc. WHY CAN'T THEY FRIGGING SEE THAT IT'S RIDING UP IN BETWEEN THEIR THIGHS?!
It's unsightly and just enhancing the fact that that disillusioned girl had Happy Meals every single day - upsized no less.
&&&&&
Not to mention some girls who are like the size of Nikki Blonsky wearing their shorts SUPER SHORT and well every part of her leg looks like Marigold custard pudding without sauce.

Muffins anyone? I can see from the picture above that yeast was poured in the batter in abundance. Why, it rose with such vitality and freshness straight from the oven.
Don't these people own a mirror?! SH33SH.
Not saying that being fat or having a tummy (everyone does! Except Joanne Peh in Beach Ball Babes, man her body was the best!) is like illegal but still it's barf-able sight to see it nearly EVERYWHERE in every nook and cranny of the streets!
WORST STILL! Would you like your muffin streaked with some stretch marks too?
GIRLS PLEASE TAKE NOTE TO COVER UP OKAY?

Feeling charitable? Hurry up and donate to Britney Spear's Butt Crack Foundation to save all the poor unfortunate souls who constantly wore their bottoms so low their cracks are showing up.
Worst sight would be those who look like they don't have the best of hygiene habits.
If it's underwear.....AT LEAST'S THE PERSON WORE AN UNDERWEAR (albeit cheapo ones sometimes.)
Hey the above butt crack is Britney Spear's, even her crack can look decent somehow =\

(click the picture to see it bigger, credits: streetsnaps via LJ)

Aha! Over-done trends I see? Let's see...
Vintage bags? Strike 1
High-wasited bottoms? Strike 2
Gladiator flats? Strike 3
Supposedly 'Indie' headbands? Strike 4.

Well overall this picture depicts the epitome of overdone trends which has been around for super long and it's so annoying that nearly almost every girls I see on the street are wearing the same shit! Not to mention the trend of raiding mommah's closet is so 2983059825 seasons ago, I started young...3 maybe? Just kidding I was only capable of messing her wardrobe.
Oh Oh Oh! How can I ever forget the el cheapo BUCKET BAGS?!
Obviously from bugis street in some cheap looks plaid, rose print, checkered or embossed with roses, your pick. Gladiator flats are so not for everyone! The above example looks okay though I'm sure you've seen girls who wore unflattering strappy gladiators and wishing that you have a chainsaw in your hands and just chopped the legs off. Gore at its best.

Can't find pictures of guys' faux pas but they're still freshly etched on my mind (How I wish it was that easy for the academic aspect!)
Skinnies, another trend now isn't it? Frankly speaking it's how one wears it, some guys like to wear it super tight, that's okay as long as long as they don't look like some ballerina tights BUT LO AND BEHOLD!
Some people would always love to stand out - in a very bad way. Not everyone is born a Christian Siriano but still MIRROR CHECK PLZ!
Guys in skinny with like weird disporpotionate cut leaving MONGO space for the crotch and ass areas are so MAYJAH gross!
Its like okay we're all aware that most Asian men are not as well endowed in the wee wee department like David Beckham's golden balls.HOWEVER! Creating a certain sillhoutte which insinuates that that dude has an asset is certainly the joke of the century.
Those dudes got BALLZ man, albeit hidden and camoflague beneath the excessive cotton cloth.

Another weird trend is that one leg of the skinny jeans would be say electric blue and the other dark brown, or maybe black and white combi? Top it off with some oversized tee which screams for unnecessary attention and cheap, no brand slippers which are 2 sizes too big and makes flapping sound like PIAK PIAK PIAK when they walk cause the straps are too loose.

The minimalistic look had been the rage for now too whereby guys would whore brands like Commes de Garcons, Agnes B and the likes.
Click:
http://lookbook.nu/user/319-Tweeds

I DON'T GET IT! Sure the dude dresses smartly and presentable but what's else is there to scream about?!
Oh that LOOSE THREAD OVER THERE I SEE OH MY GODXZXXZX DETAILS Y'ALL! &&& *hyperventilates* THAT STRAP WHICH WENT OVER THE SHOULDER IS SO GROUNDBREAKING-LY CHIC!
To me it just screams expensive, obscure labels saying hello the world in every ways possible and POSEUR.
Oh have you clicked? Kindly ENLIGHTEN me what details are there to be highlighted?
Polo tees are so over even though they can be such a classic look sometimes, Fred Perry wannabes killed it :(

& Could the Fashion Nation Girls stop waxing lyrical on every 'fashion' related stuff and go on a self-pity moment like 'oh my gosh they put me to shame yada yada.' OKAY WE GET IT! You want mere internet citizens to say : 'Oh no no no! You dress GREAT.' Which unfortunately isn't the case for some.......pieces.

Whew! Super long entry as usual, I feel so constipated when I see those people in the streets and this is mid-prelim let out, AM2,CH1,PH1 LEFT before the O's.
This is perhaps the only time I'm praying to my own religion to do well for the exams and shutting life out of my own and vice versa.
As a primary school classmate whom I bumped to said: "Studies is a lonely thing."
How cynically, true.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
SERVING HIATUS NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

10:56 PM

Oh wow its September already?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!

FUGGERTYFUGGGGGGGGG

11:35 PM