Friday Dinner@Ishi Mura

It is a food court that sells Japanese food and at reasonable price. You get okonomiyaki, ramen, pizza, curry items, sashimi and sushi, bento, bbq items. This one is much better than the one at Tampines One in terms of price and variety.

This is my house special ramen which is basically seafood ramen. At $6.90, this is good. You get prawn, scallops, char siew, sea weed and poached egg. Soup is savoury enough, not too saltish, noodles are decent but the chilli is good, compliments the ramen.

Salmon sashimi, you get about 20 pieces for $15. Fresh and quite good but it will be better if the slices are thicker ... maybe I too greedy. The pizzas here are also good and at decent prices. This unagi pizza is only $6.90 and you get about 6 to 7 decent pieces. There is a layer of egg after the thin crust which adds something different because the crust is crispy and other ingredients are savoury.

Saturday Dinner@Soon Heng Steamboat

I believe this is still quite new, located just opposite Jalan Besar Stadium. It offers buffet ala carte style steamboat.

The thing about steamboat is the soup base, Soon Heng has chicken, tom yum, 麻辣, 六味, herbal, laksa .. Got one more, couldn't remember but only first 3 is included in the buffet price.

The rest you have to add $5 which still is reasonable.

The choice is chicken and laksa !

But somehow you don't get the select what you want to eat on the first round, they serve a default set, which doesn't really matters. Vege, golden mushrooms, beef, pork, chicken, all kinds of balls, pork liver, mushrooms, fish glue, prawns came. And a must mention is they served some cooked food like fried chicken wing, beef/pork korean style, deep fried tofu. The stuff are fresh and served up really fast, you need to go to Mcdonalds if you want anything faster. Like the beef which is sliced and rolled into small pieces when served. The laksa soup is really good, initial thought was it is lacking enough coconut milk, but not really, just the right spicy and laksa taste.



The deep fried tofu is nice, soft and bland on the inside but crispy and savoury on the outside. And of course the fried chicken wings, these are must try ! Not the usual prawn paste chicken wings, this is coated with something else, just the right crisp on the outside, you can hear it when your teeth goes through them, meat was quite tender. The korean BBQ pork/beef was normal, nothing fantastic.




Then if you think you need more, you just order again from the order sheet. From the sheet, there are more stuff like prawn dumplings, vermicelli, tomatoes, egg, more balls, etc. There is also dessert, Muah Chee which is not bad, and buffet style if at the end you still can eat it. At $19.90 for dinner with air-con, definitely worth coming back.

Night at the Museum 2

Somehow not that good as the first one, numerous dry moments in the movie but there are really funny ones as well. After his adventure in the first instalment, Larry became the head of Daley Devices, inventing "devices" like glow-in-the-dark flash light, Unloseable Keyring, etc. But he found out that the American Museum of History was under renovation and most of the exhibits are going to be send to the Federal Archives.

So he met "them" for the last night though promised he would speak to the board and persuade to let "them" stay. But next day he got a call from Jedadiah, Owen Wilson, the small guy somehow die die can pick up a phone and dial to Larry. He told him that Dexter which is the monkey took the tablet with them, this spelt problem. This woken Pharaoh Kahmunrah, some guy who kept telling he rose from the dead and going to conquer the world.

Larry managed to get into the basement which holds the archives. Not after he have to tcss with some security guard guy, try to keep awake scene. He did find which container they are being locked into, but Kahmunrah saw it and started their "ben stiller" type of crap meaningless conversation, this one no good. Larry manage to escape with the help of General George Armstrong but himself got captured. Larry met Ameila Earhart and joined him as she is thrilled in hearing this adventure. As they try to escape from Kahmunrah's men, Kahmunrah managed to get help from Al Capone, Ivan the Terrible and Napolean.

While General George is coming up with his great plan "shout attack then really attack", Jedadiah and Octavius sneeked out to help Larry but Jeddadiah got caught and was put into a hourglass. Napolean's men caught up with Larry and Amelia, not after another try to be funny dialogue. Kahmunrah took the tablet but couldnt activate the gate, thus threathens Larry to find the right combination on the tablet if not he will kill Jeddadiah.

Larry got the answer from a group of Albert Einstein Bobblehead. Amelia flew Larry back to the American Museum of History to seek help, which only the Lincoln statue is there, after some tcss they went back. Kahmunrah found out the new code and managed to revive back an army of birdmen but then Lincoln statue charged into the window causing the birdmen to flee back into the gate.


As the rest start to battle it out, Octavius saved Jeddadiah and they started piercing all the shoes of Kahmunrah's men, this scene quite interesting. Then Larry duel Kahmunrah one on one and defeated him with his trusty nightguard flashlight and thrown him back into the gate. 6/10

最长的电影

我们的开始　是很长的电影
放映了三年　我票都还留着
冰上的芭蕾　脑海中还在旋转
望着你　慢慢忘记你
朦胧的时间　我们溜了多远
冰刀划的　圈起了谁改变
如果再重来　会不会稍嫌狼狈
爱是不是不开口才珍贵
再给我两分钟 让我把记忆结成冰
别融化了眼泪 你妆都花了要我怎么记得
记得你叫我忘了吧　记得你叫我忘了吧
你说你会哭　不是因为在乎

心动

有多久没见你 以为你在那里
原来就住在我的心底 陪伴着我的呼吸
有多远的距离 以为闻不到你的气息
谁知道你背影这么长 回头就看到你
过去让它过去 来不及 从头喜欢你 白云缠绕着蓝天
如果不能够永远都在一起
也至少给我们
怀念的勇气
拥抱的权利
好让你明白
我心动的痕迹

Land of the Lost

Slow start then the fun and slapstick comes. No need to think since it is a Will Farrell movie, nothing serious but just be there to laugh. Will is Dr Rick Marshall who believes in time warps but of course no one believed him, after his attempt to assault host Matt on his TV show, he was reduced to teaching in a museums where children ask him whether dinosaurs has boobs.

Then came Anna Friel as Holly, a grad who totally believed his theory and urged him to finish his tachyon amplifier which will help to open up a vortex like thingie. Anyway, he did finished it. And together they went to some out of no where desserted theme park to try it out in a cave. Danny Mcbribe as Will was their guide as they boat through the cave, then it happened, sucked through and into the land of the lost. Here it starts its crude humour, sexual innuendoes and slapsticks. Will throughout the movie, became his crap dialogue partner, to some good effect.

Appearing in a dessert, they saved Chakkar, a primate who was being attacked by other primates. As Holly tried to explain to it, in primate language, it sort of understand. The part where she put her hands on her chest and say "Holly" ... well Chakkar replicated the action, but of course his hand on her chest. As they wandered through land, they got chase by T Rex which they managed to escape to a cave.

They seem safe till Rick commented T Rex brain is smaller than a walnut. Rex was pissed and targetting him throughout the movie. Then a creature Enik, tried to tell Rick that some creature Zarn and his Sleestak are taking over the universe, and he need the tachyon amplifier to stop him. Rick believed him and continue to search for the device which he lost in the vortex. To protect himself and out of stupidity sake, he explain to Will and Holly, he had to pour dinosaur urine all over himself, this scene was quite disgusting but funny.

Chakkar offered his help to bring them to an area where little dino feesds on a ice cream truck, of course the ice cream man as well. Then T Rex appeared, worse an Allosaurus also. Somehow he outsmart it and blew it into pieces as she swallowed a nitrogen tank. Out it came, tachyon amplifier but a flying Pteranodon took it. Rick became down and out, Holly and the rest left him. Rick thought through and re-join them as he tried to sing a apologetic tune, unknowingly he was bitten by a giant mosquito which left him with a gigantic swollen bump on his back, the whole scene was really funny.

Then they went to the Pteranodon nest and Rick successfully got the amplifier. They went back to the feeding area where there is a motel. As Rick, Will and Chakkar were drunk, Holly wondered with the amplifer and was caught by Enik. They woke up and search for her, into the Sleestak cave, saw 2 of them trying to makeout, somehow have to have this scene. He did saved Holly but then Rex came, as he tried to beat it but to no avail, ending up pole vaulting into his mouth.

Holly and rest thought he was dead but he returned with him sitting on Rex back, terrorizing the Sleestak. They became good friends after it pooed him out which made its intestinal problem better. Then they stopped Enik but Will chose to stay which sseemingly a wise choice as he met the female primates which Chakkar describe as "ugly". Truth was because they are too human like. but simply beauty for Will. 7/10

Friday Dinner@Straits Cafe

It seems the thermal maasage at lifespa didn't really allow me to eat more at the dinner buffet at Rendezvous hotel. The most important contradicting thing for a buffet is how much variety it has but how much can you eat ? Maybe alot other people can eat lot. I managed to eat a portion of every item with some repeated servings.

The spread is typical with not much surprises. Oysters, salmon sashimi, smoked fishes, cold salads, sushi, poached tiger prawns, mussels, snow crabs about complete the starters/cold section. The smoked salmons are for kidney testing, simply too saltish. I like the romaine lettuce which are very crisp and of course the cherry tomatoes, juicy enough. And they got this mango mayo, something differnt from the 1000 island. A must mention is the poached tiger prawns, one word fresh. Still can remember when I had countless prawns at KL Sheraton, they are peeled and dumped in a bowl for diners to grab.


Oysters .... I like but never ate them alot. These are considered big enough and fresh as well. Had enough cold stuff, now is to the area where they kept the food covered in the "UFOs". They have a small area serving BBQ stuff, items like "am i a prawn ?", squids, scallops and chunks of fish. The quite huge "am i a prawn ?" thingie doesn't taste like prawns, the flesh is much softer, more like crab or lobster but tasteless on its own. The squid are good, huge chunks with the sambal chilli, just the right amount of jaw muscles will do.



The soups are passable. The boston clam chowder taste like from the Hans kitchen. The other soup, some watercress and chicken, didn't try, don't really like watercress.

The "award winning" saved a bit of grace from the soupy section but abit more coconut milk will be better. You can choose either "chu mifen" or "guotiao", then add your own ingredients, fish cake, prawns, eggs, crab roll and squids.


From the hot dishes section, selection is limited. Few good ones are the beef tenderloin with pepper cream sauce, salmon with lobster sauce and steam seabass. The beef is about medium well and succulent, needing you only to bite enough. Salmon is grilled to right doness and skin is crispy but the lobster sauce seems subdued. Others are not even nominated but can mention like prawn fritters with too much flour, pork belly ribs, some ayam thingie and .... nothing much. The cereal prawns, nothing fantastic.



The desserts are usually captivating but no room left for them. The ones that will attract your attention are probably the durian puff, durian fudge cake and durian pengat. The fudge cake is quite good but you should have it before the pengat which probably will immense you with too much durian taste. At 45++ per pax, merchant court ellenborough cafe seems a better choice but now DBS cards gets a 25% off the bill.

Blood : The Last Vampire

It gets lousier as it goes by. Thought the M18 rating could compensate but no, the blood are fake as Saya chopped, slashed and disembered the so called demons into pieces. Saya is the only half human and half vampire left, living to hunt and kill all the demons. Working with a team called council, going around faking as CIA, they aimed to find and kill Onigen, so called the most hiong demon.

She was arranged into a school in an airbase, there she met Alice, daugther the General. As the team started their hunt, Saya saved Alice from 2 students trying to attack her but actually demons. General came by but the team so called managed to cover it. Alice believed what she saw and went to some pub to look for answers, only to be surrounded by demons. Saya came to her rescue.

A smart dick in the team, Andrew wanted to take things in his own hands and killed the general and making it look like his assistant killed him, so they can do things easier their way. Alice saw ther murder, managed to escape and went to find Saya. Andrew give chase, wanted to kill Alice, Michael the so called more senior wanted to stop him but got killed, Saya saved her.

Saya was shot by Andrew but Alice saved her by letting her drink her blood. Onigen, knowing she is near, send some ka kia to capture her but evening fighting on top of a fell trunk suspending in the mid air of a valley, she won. But they fell into the bottom of the valley, as they woke up, Saya found Onigen. She told her she is he lao bu, like Luke found out who was his lao peh. Anyway, she also killed her. 5/10