Laurent Bernard@The Pier

Double date nite after movie....très bien, oui!

Central Mall-Jln Besar

Refamiliarisin myself with public transport with & trainin myself to do more walkin! One more week of MC before returnin to work!

Fun in the hot sun while goin trigger happy with Yanni!

Charles LaBelle | Public Intimacy (Singapore) 2010-11

http://public-intimacy-contd.blogspot.com/
Charles LaBelle works are currently displayed at the Old Kallang Airport building for the Singapore Biennale 2011. This is his collection of drawings of buildings he has entered in Singapore.

Very nice with phrases some times too bizarre for me to understand. Nevertheless, welcome to Singapore, through the eyes of tis artist.

One tt draws some fond memories for me:


"palimpsestic architectonics, as well as in the spectatorial promenade. The loci of the art of memory bear the peculiar wax texture of a "filmic" set-a site of constant redrawing, a place where many stories both take place and take the place of memory"

somewhat i understood the lines in Bold.

More works worldwide:
http://charles-labelle-home.blogspot.com/

Gallivantin in Tiong Bahru

I finally attempted to go out of the house on my own since the surgery. Yeay!
To meet Shasya dearie for lunch at Forty Hands cafe & a lil wanderin ard in Tiong Bahru...the weather was sunny, everythin was chirpy & we both got high bein trigger happy!

Wheeee~

Yes the frightening lil place is my Home

Seth Rogen, American comedy dude's impression of Singapore



There's no place perfect but a Home is where the Heart is. I love it here no matter how we bitch & complain abt the weather, the people or the Govt. And yes, so far, it's been so good.

Desserts@Le Chocolat Cafe

Iyuan said eateries with all that ambience have service that sucks. He's always right, i'm always bummed. Those in Ann Siang always fail us in flying colours (except Shots@Ann Siang Hill which i went to with Shasya)!

Le Chocolat Cafe is no different. The small seating area inside was all occupied by a bunch of chirpy middle-age people, so we had to go al-fresco & nobody came to serve the table, so i figured ok tis is a cafe perhaps I should order from the counter. But when another couple arrived at a table behind me, they were given menus, and orders were taken & they got served really fast (maybe cos they were more visible to the staff inside the cafe).BUT there was no excuse for me to wait for a terrible 30 mins to be served when the no. of customers were subsidin, not full-house. It sucks tt I have to go order my food on my own, and simply to take the cakes out of the display & make mocha by the staff take tt long! I stormed in & asked the cashier why they take so long to serve our food. A hungry woman is an angry woman! She said "oh! sorry we'll serve them soon." 2 minutes later...Her colleague came out and asked me "Sorry ma'am what was ur order?"

The young Malay staffs were obviously not attentive especially the cashier! I nearly wanted to say "Pls dun make Melayu more layu in the service dept!!!" but i held back. Thank God i didn't have PMS!

The Ice Mocha came too bland, the cakes though nice don't taste fresh. My raspberry chocolate cake had uneven dry spots, like it's been refrigerated for some time.

Worst first impression ever!

InstaGuilt

Tis past couple of weeks, i have been happily uploadin pics of things & food on my Instagram profile (yes i'm adaptin better than expected to my iPhone! lol any of my contacts here also on Instagram? add me! user:firestarlet). it's so delightful to be part of tis community as it is full of pictorial wonders! yes pics of people, food, flowers & everythin under the sun that make the heart warm with creative wonders & inspirations! It was not until the meat feast we had at Senor Santos that the guilt hit me.

Recently i have been goin thru the page #prayforjapan to see pictures put up by people in Japan as well as all ard the world to show solidarity with the nation as they face the aftermath of the recent 9.0 magnitude earthquake & tsunami, and what could be a nuclear meltdown after 3 nuclear reactor leaks in Fukushima. I shudder after lookin at pics of empty rows of supermarket shelves in Tokyo, i thought how insensitive could i be, i have a follower from Japan.

I feel so sorry for the Japanese for havin to face such a difficult time. But it is really admirable how they are copin with much calm & order. If such calamities were to happen here, God knows what kinda ruckus will take place. I hope that they won't face nuclear meltdowns & undergo anythin of Chernobyl magnitude. Juz the thought itself is so so scary! Food, water, environment... the whole ecosystem & food chain will be afftected, not juz in Japan i bet, for the rest of Asia too!

As much as I am hopin & prayin for the Libyans to be liberated from the clutches of Gaddafi's ruthless ruling, as well as the rest of the freedom fighters in the Arab nations and for their sufferings to be over....I felt a lil bit more for Japan cos Tokyo left quite an impression on me. The food especially, i juz fell in love with the melon ice-cream there! Sigh...and of course the beautiful peaceful lil town of Hakone. I really pray and hope that things will get better for them.

I dedicate my plate of chilli sauce to them! May ur spirits remain feisty as u face tis calamity!