Double Marathon

Took part in 2 marathons over the week. The first was a movie marathon on Friday, Madagascar marathon to be exact. It was kind of a mistake because channel 5 showed Madagascar 1 just a week earlier! But it was nice watching both one after the other because both movies were closely connected. You might not get some parts of Madagascar 2 if you didn't watch Madagascar 1. It was a great movie, funny and cute..one of my all time favourite animation film.





After the movie marathon, I had yet another crazy night of clubbing. This time to celebrate my OC's birthday. I've no idea how much I drank that day but I was super high. I even puked in Phuture, something I've never done b4. It was embarrassing alright. In the end, Horsey, Chermaine and Heloise had to insist on sending me home...the first time someone had to send me home after a drinking session lol.

The second Marathon came in the form of the Swissotel vertical marathon! It was my second time taking part in it and I enjoyed myself thoroughly. I found it less tiring than 2006 this year, probably because I was already mentally prepared. It was more of a torture in 2006 because I was rather taken aback by the physical torture of climbing those steps, I ended up mumbling to myself half the time and complaining to every participants that overtook me lol.


The challenge


The queue to get up


Still managing a smile on the way up


Our faces at the top


We managed to recover quite quickly though haha


Posing with our medals


The winners this year. This guy clocked 6mins 52secs! My timing of 14mins 17secs is more than double of his lor!


We had lunch at Shokudo in Raffles City..it sucked totally






Our certs!

Found a new Japanese buffet restaurant in Riverview Hotel call Irodori Restaurant upon recommendation by Pek and went to try it last week with Mum, Sis and Annabel. I thought it was great, the sashimi was thick and fresh. Everything else was pretty decent too. I had a hell of a meal, too much in fact lol. Its around $33++ per head, definitely worth it if you're keen for some japanese food..sashimi in particular!


We had to settle for counter seats


Mum and I


Heavenly sashimi!


The grilled prawns were great


The Tonkatsu was great too


And so were the prawn tempuras


Their complimentary soup


Their beef wrapped golden mushroom


Agedashi Tofu


The yakiniku beef


Grilled Salmon steak


Salmon Mayo Roll



The address..if you can see it


Give it a try man

The past 2 weeks

The past 2 weeks have been eventful to say the least.

Starting from 2 weeks ago, Puss organised a sushi making session over at his place on the eve of Deepavali. I finally got the chance to use my special "$2000" sashimi knife after buying it eons ago. The sushi turned out to be quite alright, and we managed get creative and have some fun as well lol.


Valencia, Henry and Puss at work in the kitchen


My trusty new $2000 sashimi knife and the cookbook sis got me for my birthday


Me and my nicely pressed hand pressed salmon sushi lol


The ingredients


The products


Posing with our creations

Went for my 2nd salsa class last last week, my first lesson was 2 years ago with Mabelline haha. This time I went with Horsey and Heloise. I proved to myself again how much I suck at it and precisely why I took 2 years before returning for my 2nd class. I might have little choice this time because my sister has requested that I dance with Yanqing on her wedding night. I don't exactly want to disappoint her and moreover Yanqing told me that all I need to do is stand there acting as a pole for her to wiggle around me...I might just do it!

Took Friday off and went to play tennis with Sis, Mazi, and Weijian. We didn't last long under the hot afternoon sun. After tennis, sis and I went for lunch in Seletar Country Club. It was a wonderful experience, and it helped a lot that it was cloudy and windy that day...adding to the nice feeling.


Check out my deadly serve!




The nice environment




The food was only average in my opinion though




Sis and her mee siam

It was Jon's wedding dinner on 1st Nov last Saturday. He held it at Harbourfront's Dragon Gate restaurant. It was a simple wedding dinner, with nothing crazy, no special speech, no games whatsoever. But it was nice nevertheless and I would like to congratulate them!


Khengsiang and I at the wedding dinner


Khengsiang, Jit Hwee and Chin Seng


The bunch of us again


Pek, myself and Zilun


Myself, Nelson, Xiaoqing, Benny and Alvin

After the wedding dinner, we conveniently arranged to go party at St James Power Station. It wasn't as crazy a night as Double O and thats because we didn't have much to drink. But it was still fun swaying your butt around on the dancefloor, and for that moment forgetting all the work, politics and crap left in camp.

Some pics of the crazy night







Caught Burn after Reading over the week as well. It didn't turn out as nice as I expect and hearsay it to be. In fact it was quite boring. The storyline is nonsensical but the acting is pretty decent.

Went to the zoo with Valencia and Puss last Sunday as well thanks to Valencia's complimentary free tickets. The zoo is still as boring as it was years ago. Nothing exciting nothing worth looking at!


Collecting out free tickets


Kungfu tortoise


At the animal show


Puss and I with the granny that stays in the zoo

This seems to be neverending but I want to blog it all! I recently found another activity to add to my list of activities and sports I suck at. After wakeboarding, cable skiing, drinking and dancing comes prawning! On Saturday, we met up for Henry's belated birthday get-together and Henry suggested that we went prawning. It seems to be the in-activity nowadays and so I wanted to try it too. We ended up in a farm in Pasir Ris and they charged us $24 each for 2.5 hours of prawning. Meiwen and Linus caught a decent number of prawns whereas the newbies Samantha, Henry and myself caught 1, 2, 0 prawns respectively!!!


Henry and the catch..


Our 1kg catch for $120 ($24 x 5) lol


We brought our catch to a coffeeshop in Tampines and it was promptly converted into this plate of nice looking cereal prawns


The rest of the dishes that night courtesy of our dear birthday boy Henry