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Home sweet home
by wantunn on Aug.31, 2007, under Ramblings
It’s nice to be home, even if it’s just away for a 1 week plus trip to Sunnyvale. Lessons I learned on this trip:
1. 2 egg omelette’s for breakfast everyday is great, except for your health.
2. It is possible to put on 2 kg in less then 10 days.
3. The portions in the U.S. are huge. Out of all the meals there, I only managed to finish 2-3, and it scares me that I managed to finish those.
4. It’s never good when you call your bank and they tell you you’ve hit the credit limit on your visa/mastercard.
Unexpected Trip
by wantunn on Jul.31, 2007, under Family Time
Due to unforeseen circumstances, I was forced to make a last minute trip up to Malacca on Sunday. Things I learned on this trip.
1. It takes me just about 2.5 hours to drive from the second link to Malacca.
2. It takes my wife much less time to drive back from Malacca to the second link.
3. When you go to sleep, the driver will drive at “traffic speed”.
On an unrelated note, managed to have the chicken rice ball at one of the new restaurants there. Food tends to taste better there I think or as my cousin says, “just eat, don’t look around too much and it’ll be fine”.
How do you know your baby misses you?
by wantunn on May.30, 2007, under Family Time
Ans: When he wakes up at 4am for his feed and after that, while his mum is burping him, he crawls over, lies down on you and nods off to sleep there.
Back in Singapore
by wantunn on May.29, 2007, under Family Time
Had a great holiday in Bali, especially at the Royal Pita Maha where we stayed 2 nights in a villa.
Definitely something to try again.
Return to Bali
by wantunn on May.24, 2007, under Family Time
I am so looking forward to finally relaxing for a few days.
Bali, here I come.
Rio Brazilian
by wantunn on Apr.23, 2007, under Ramblings
Restaurant, not hair removal technique.
Anyway, went down on Sunday for lunch at this new place, Rio Brazilian Restaurant, around the Queensway (or was it QueensTown?) area after seeing the write up in the new paper. They were having 1-for-1 offers and hey, who doesn’t like 1-for-1s right?
Anyway, made our way there at noon (it’s next to a remand centre) and were promptly seated. The place looks pretty quaint and new, decor etc looked ok. There were 2 seating areas, basically indoors and outdoors and we were seated at the indoor area. However, the air-conditioning was somewhat lacking and it got progressively hotter as the mean progressed.
The salad bar was pretty standard stuff, but the biggest complaint would have been the actual main courses. The complaint? The staff basically started serving from the same table every time. For those of you who have gone to Brazilian restaurants will know that they serve you the meat on skewers that they bring to your table and basically carve up on the spot. Since we were physically the furthest possible point from the kitchen, the staff didn’t get around to our table like 75% of the time. At the end of 2 hours, we basically gave up (the kids were getting grouchy) and headed off.
I think a lot boils down to the fact that the staff seemed to be still working out the kinks in their operation. Plates were dropped with alarming frequency (at least 4-5 times while we were there), the servers weren’t really good at the carving (dropped fish on my brother in law’s pants) and of course what was mentioned in the previous paragraph as well.
Lessons learned:
1. Not going back there again, unless I’m not paying.
2. That’s the last time I take recommendations from the new paper.
Drool yourself awake?
by wantunn on Apr.07, 2007, under Ramblings
I’m meeting some friends at a coffee house and everyone has ordered something nice except for me. For some odd reason, I haven’t ordered anything and the sight of the food makes me drool. But no matter how I wipe, I can’t seem to get my face clean and thats when I wake up and realise I’ve been drooling in my sleep again.
Fables. Have you read it yet?
by wantunn on Mar.31, 2007, under Odds and Ends
I recently started reading Fables , a comic book series by Vertigo and I’m hooked.
This is what I would best describe as Shrek for adults.
I’ve reached volume 3 and so far, the basic storyline is that someone (the Adversary) has conquered all the lands of the Fables (from your favorite stories including little read riding hood, Cinderella etc etc.. you get the idea) causing them to flee into safer territory, i.e. our world or what they term the Mundy’s (short for mundane). So what is so interesting about this? Read on but be warned, spoilers ahead.
Argh.. what next?
by wantunn on Mar.23, 2007, under Rants
First I run out of disk space… then my (admittedly old) scanner breaks down on me. Sheesh.. it’s like someone is conspiring to make me spend extra this month.