Wantunn mee

23 September happens to be the birthday of both my wife and daughter.
Celebrated with my wife at Ikukan (recommendations thanks to Varf) and we had a birthday party at Cordelia’s play group today.
Interior decor at Ikukan

Appetizers. I have no idea what some of these stuff were


Sushi. Or more stuff I don’t eat

Fois Gras and Tofu. Stuff I do eat, but can’t pronounce.

Peppercorn tuna. Which I ate, cos it didn’t taste like fish. Which leads me to ask, why not use chicken in the first place then?

Teppanyaki. Why does japanese food always have yucky in their names? teppen-yaki, yaki-tori, reli-yaki…

Main course, suki-yaki (there we go again) and charcoal grilled beef



Dessert. Garlic ice cream (which I loved but Callie couldn’t stand) and pudding (coffee I think)



Whats a japanese dinner without some Sake.

Finally, birthday girl number 1, looking a little distracted

Has anyone else besides me noticed it?
Everyday coming out of (or into) the MRT station at the gantry, there will ALWAYS be this one person who is standing in front of an exit gantry, fiddling around in their purse of bag (some how or other it’s always been a woman that I’ve encountered), looking for their bloody ez-link card.
I mean, come on, you didn’t know you would need it to exit until you saw the scanner? What, you thought maybe today would be exit the station without paying day? This is especially irritating in a rush hour situation where you have like a gazillion people trying to exit at the same time and you’re holding up the queue sorting through the gum, ciggies, tampons, whatever in you bag.
Invariably these will also be the people who elbow their way to the front past the orderly forming queues.
And invariably, this will always happen in the gantry I’m queuing for.
Which bring me to the conclusion…
I dem suay hor.
On a side note, my daughter rolled herself of my bed while asleep the night before. Woke both me and my wife up with a loud thud and crying. Amazingly, she went back to sleep like in minutes after we carried her back to the bed (and buffered both sides of the bed with slightly frazzled parents).
It could have been worse I suppose, she could have torn the curtains.

Taken at my Wife’s company’s D&D. Click on the photo to see more.

Made a mad dash down to Peninsular plaza to pick up a new BP511 charger and battery cos my trusty old Canon G1 could not seem to charge anymore and the camera had been left on sync mode so the battery had run down.
Bought the charger, new battery, full charge, go home, put new battery in camera, turn on camera.
Nothing happens.
Put old battery in charger and charge to full, put old battery ini charger, still nothing happens.
Crap. That makes it 3 dead cameras in the span of 6 months. This is so not my year.

_MG_0332, originally uploaded by wantunn.

Some roses my wife received from the office. You can see the rest at http://www.flickr.com/photos/wantunn/

Unfortunately some appear to be duplicated.. oh well.

Fireworks, originally uploaded by wantunn.

Fireworks on Singapore’s National Day. Kinda looks like Mickey don’t you think?

Bah Pah et al 3, originally uploaded by wantunn.

It’s been a long time since I’ve had this ultra sinful meal

Argh. My daughter caught the Hand Foot Mouth Disease (HFMD for short) and she’s basically resisting food (more then usual) these past few days.
Think the mouth sores are getting better so hopefully things will be back to normal soon. Well, at least when her school reopens after quarantine period.

I cannot remember the last time this happened to me. Was on the way to meet my friend at cityhall when I decided (don’t ask me why) to walk over from the office instead of catching the train from bugis.
So I stopped at the traffic lights and next thing I know… splat… a big green (and I swear) flourescent blob hits me on the shoulders.
What kind of self respecting bird poops green luminous shit? Anyway, lesson learnt, don’t stnd under the lamposts when waiting for the lights to turn. Had to go pick up a new shirt to change before the movie.. good thing Fila was having a sale.
Ah well.. could have been worse.. could have landed on my head I suppose.

Just when you thought it was safe to get in the water again….
Made the mistake of watching the discovery/national geographic channels yesterday night. It’s probably fairly common knowledge that sharks can attack pretty close to shore but watching it happen really re-inforces that statement.
In this case, they were showing sharks catching/eating some birds that were just learning to fly and so were wading in the ocean. I bet if I were standing on the beach, I could have hit the shark with a well thrown soda can. It was that near to the shoreline.
Switched a channel and it was yet another shark program. They were tagging some sharks for tracking and of course they had to catch them first. You really get a feel of how large these are when they pull them up next to the boat. 11 foot is by no means the largest and it already looks huge next to the humans in the boat.
Next program I switched to was (surprise surprise) sharks again.. myth busters this time, trying out 4 scenes from the original Jaws movie. Stuff I learnt from this show.
* Sharks can grow up to 20+ feet
* A few thousand pounds
* They apparently can pull barrels under water
Suffice to say I’m staying out of the water.