Saturday, 2nd June 07, Zodiac

My turn to work ....

As usual, a non-event day ... off to Plaza Sg to get my nokia e61i . Yes ... decided to be "conned" by starhub by re-contracting my maxonline for 2 yrs and getting a new mobile line, thus becoming a hubber.

It went well, but then ....... sigh

When I tested the phone, somehow, yes somehow, the way/angle that I hold the phone when taking a call affects the volume I am hearing. Seems like because the area where the sound comes out is a horizontal line which is quite long, so when I placed it near my ear, it is not getting the optimal positioning ....

Anyway, got the phone, other than that, no complaints so far, the qwerty keyboard is nice to use, damn big screen which I liked, wi-fi, symbian, etc.

Went to SLS, wanted to get a pouch/case and a screen protector. TO MY SURPRISE, WAS JUST CHECKING FOR FUN, MY N70 CAN SELL FOR $270 !!! Starhub only take it in for $200. So I boot up my N70, deleted all contacts/smses/formated the mcard and sold it off. The shop beside the summerhouse donut house.

Zodiac
Which was given a 4 1/2 stars in Life. Movie is long, about 2 hr 40 mins. Quite disappointing, maybe it is based on true life events and

1) The killer is not really psycho, didn't torture his victims,
2) Stretches over 20+ yrs before a survivor testify the actual killer, abit KT
3) 1 or 2 mysteries was left unanswered
4) Letters and cipher codes a many or maybe too many which did not really leads to clues or solving the case, was interesting in the beginning, as it goes on, as I see the Year/Mth/Day that appear as a caption on and off gets further and further away from the first killing. 6/10

Ju Ju Hokkaido steamboat
A steamboat which you have your own pot ( if you dine in-doors ), for outdoors it is shared, but outdoors you can listen to the "Live" music.

Basically, you have a appetizer, the main ingredients ( beef, pork, seafood, fish, etc ), rice/vermicelli/soba, desserts. It is not buffet, so quantity that comes is not a lot, though how the raw food was presented, was like huge, royal, grand ....

The appetizer was a 70% hard boiled egg, you need to break it into 1/2 and drenched it with the special soya sauce, the taste was quite good I must say.

Ingredients were fresh, the beef was good, sauces are quite nice too. 2 stocks to choose from, the clear one or the spicy one. It was a split, so we have both. The soup really was good as the ingredients fills in.

Dessert is a mango sago with a coconut concoction served in a cute cup. Came up to about $28 pax.

Though feels abit tired but still feels like doing something else, so went to KTV, after hours of belting out ... we split about 2+.

Finally slept at about 4 ....