Fanboys

Fanboys is quite entertaining B-grade Kumar goes to white castle kinda of movie but with a more specific theme. Set in the 90s where a group of Star Wars fanatic friends embark on their journey to the Skywalker Ranch to catch Episode 1 months before the premiere. Nobody cares about the plot when your movie name is Fanboys but the cause was because Linus was cancer stricken.

So off they go ... Eric, Linus, Hutch and Windows. For apparent reason, this nerd character was named windows. But he was the one who gets the girl, Zoe, the electric girl from Heroes. It is a 90 mins show, so along the way ... quite enough stuff to keep the mood going. And also windows soughted help from some online friend who seemingly knows how to get into the skywalker ranch.

And hutch did a detour to square off with a bunch of star treks fans. Fight broke out as insults hurls in both directions, but saying "Hans solo is a bitch" ignited it all. They escaped but the hutch van broke down and gotten some help a chief from a gay bar. Van was fixed so off they go but windows online friend who was suppose to be a cross between sarah michelle gellar and janeane garofalo ... was actually a 10 year old kid. Her uncle came to bash them up ... but believed them after they answered his "10 years series" star war fans questions.

So they were told to go to Vegas to meet this guy who will gave them the stuff they need to get into the ranch. They did ... but not before going to the police station. Zoe bailed them out and followed them to Vegas. They got their stuff, met some escorts and got blackmailed by a star war fanatic gangster .... and the star treks fan were also there ... Even the gangster cannot stand "No one calls Hans Solo a bitch"

They go to the ranch ... went in ... went awe with the star wars items ... got caught. But were let off after answering some "10 years series" questions again ... but these time all kinds of sex questions went in ... it is NC16. So only linus got to watch the movie ... and he passed away along the journey back. 7/10

WatchMen

It was a struggle to watch this. At almost 3 hours and with an on and off low tone coarse voice narration, it didn't help. Based on the 12 parts DC comics, don't think the movie will be a hit with the mass. Story revolved around a doomsday clock, which was permanently set 5 minutes before midnight. But actually, the doomsday is about the impending war between US and Soviets.

Then it added another layer of mystery when one of the costumed superheroes was killed, the comedian. This sparked off the whole movie and followed by the world longest starting credit, really getting on my nerves. Since he was killed at the beginning, he appeared through the movie in flashbacks.

But even those alive ones, also flashbacks, I though I was watching LOST. Rorschach, the mask hero started to investigate, he wore a mask somehow have ink blots shifting around. He tried to warn Nite Owl, Dr Manhattan and Silk Spectre. Dr Manhattan seems to be the only one having super powers due to a freak accident. He donned a blue skin and can disintegrate anything, even himself. Silk Spectre was his love but left him when found out he seems to be losing his human touch.

She went to Nite Owl and stayed with him. As Rorschach digged deeper, he found himself being setup and thrown into prisons. NO and SS got him out and they found out, all these seems to be the doing of Ozymandias, another hero. He did all these, even causing Dr M to leave for Mars.

His plan was to develop a infinite source of energy which he succeeded. The rest found out but was too late as he already activated the detonation throughout the world but his main objective was to avoid the war between US and Soviet which he succeeded as the world now is united against Dr M. The world thought these energy explosions was his doing.

Dr M agreed to keep quiet but Rorschach didn't, so he disintegrated him. 6/10

三月七日, 星期六, 晴

又是一个工作的周末, 希望这次比较顺利. 刚看完 WatchMen, 有一点失望, 还该说是期望太高. It was just too dark, too much talking, too boring narration, too much flashback, too much too. Life 给了两颗星, 是乎给多了, 差不多三小时的戏, just too heavy on a friday night, after losing so much neurons at work.

The thai horror is opening next week, looks quite promising. The damn chronic cough is back, it always stays for quite a while. 嗨, 这咳嗽几时才走, I can't eat my ice creams, can't sing and play my keyboard, 总的来说， please go away.

Started on last season of Prison Break, quite intriguing but getting more impossible as it goes along, Michael just too smart. And Sarah is back to make Michael happy or motivate him or even worse, to become a liability ?

二月二十六日, 星期四, 雨

Somehow getting abit tired everyday, maybe signs of falling sick or simply over usage of too many neurons. The wet weather isn't really helping, didn't manage to swim this week, at least releasing some endorphin might help.

How much work can one do ? Is time really the only factor to determine if you are overworked ? Everyone's threshold, objective and mindset is different. You can't really control how other people react, so probably only to restrict or allow how yourself react. Or maybe by saying "I can do it" a few trillion times will work ? Trillions is the "in" word nowadays, we just need a few trillion to save the whole world now.

It is getting cynical and ironic when times are really damn bad, people start to re-think ways to do things, especially in extra large organization. Not that they don't think during good times, but it just sounds more funny during bad times.

The airasia offer of $0 tickets to certain destination is quite attractive but you still need to pay the other standard stuff but that only come out to about $50 to $70 per pax. Too bad ... not enough friends interested. Must book before March 1st !!

二月二十二日，星期日, 雨

Slept at 5 am due to work though at the comfort of my room ... still quite shag. Took a good nap just now though, it was warm even though it rained. I was also thinking of getting haircut but was abit lazy to go out.

Don't know when will I start catching up PB and Heroes, Lost season 5 was also at episode 6 already. New TVB series also out, seems like the 3rd installment of the 学警 series. Maybe soon ...

I like 王若琳's version of Vincent, 够忧伤, 加上她那独特的嗓音, 有厚度又有雌性.

He is just NOT into you

A light hearted comedy about BGR. Too many artistes in this outing, have to list them out if not it will get confusing.

B Affleck is Neil. A guy who doesn't believe in marriage but is outright nice guy.

J Aniston is Beth. Neil's gf of 7 years who wants to get married but her sister tied the knot before her.

D Barrymore is Mary. A advert design girl who having problem meeting guys in persons and keep getting rejection in the internet/technology space.

S Johsansson is Anna. Simply stunning yoga instructor who wanted to be a singer, she is Mary good friend.

B Cooper is Ben. Branded as the best husband but just simply couldn't resist when she met Mary. Who can resist ? Towards the end, started to know why he is so called best husband.

J Connelly is Janine. She is Beth's good friend who is happily married to Ben. But started to get abit psycho when she found out Ben hasn't really quit smoking.

G Goodwin is Gigi. Beth and Janine's colleague and friend who kept believe the guys who met her is interested in her and will call her again.

K Connolly is Connor. Into real estate and simply confuse about what Anna wants.

J Long is Alex. He runs a restaurant and bar. Connor is his buddy and he seems to be a ultimate relationship expert, getting the girls he wants and dumping them. Till he met Gigi, who initially thought he doesn't like her.

Though some of them knew each other but not everyone is linked together. At about 120 mins, the movie strings along everything quite interestingly as it goes through each person and their encounters.

Gigi kept thinking that the guys she met will call her. She analyze and deduce but got it all wrong till she met Alex who started telling her the ugly truth. Then the problem came, she thought Alex liked her.

Though she mess up initially, he did like her and ended up like her ... left her voicemail and kept thinking she would call him back.

Ben was the best husband because Janine so called force him into marrying her but more surprising they didn't have sex all along. He remains faithful and nice to her till he met Anna at a supermarket, letting her pay first at the cashier. And dramatically, she won some picnic box or ice box because she is the 1000th customer.
His resistance weakens, attends her yoga class and then went swimming. Nothing wrong with swimming but if she takes off all her clothes and jumps in ... then ask you to join her ... then hewww ... how to tahan !

Neil and Beth lives happily together but what Beth really wants is to get married. She even wants it when Gigi tells them her seemingly logical but yet illogical EQ with IQ theory. Beth wants to be the norm rather than the miraculously exception. She gave Neil an ultimatum but Neil just doesn't want to get married. But when Beth father fell ill, she moved back home ... seeing the so called husband of her sisters simply irks her. Neil came by and help out ... at the time when she really needed some. Eventually she told Neil, she is fine to continue this kind of relationship but abit surprising is that Neil did propose to her.

Connor who kept thinking how to convince Anna into a relationship eventually hit it off with Mary, the "internetically" dumped girl. Eventually Ben did not end up with Anna or back to Janine ... The "Ben and Anna in the office make out then hid her in the closet because Janine came by and wanted to make out with him" scene seems abit not match the theme but of course welcome. 7/10

Valkyrie

This movie which was based on a true story about the last known assassination attempts on Hitler. It has enough suspense to keep me awake and it was suppose to be a thriller. There was this group of people who were anti-Hitler, both militarists and politicians.

Apparently, they can just gather at some house and then talk about their plans openly, probably because technology is just isn't there at that time. TC was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a loyal soldier to Germany but not AH. He was seriously injured in Tunisia but returned to Berlin, left eye gone, some fingers gone, right hand below the elbow gone. They wanted to recruit him, though initially TC rejected as he seems this assassination was more of a political move.

Anyway, he convinced them of this plan, Operation Valkyrie, which was to activate the reserve army and making them believe SS was doing a coup and arrests SS people. But of course, there were some challenges.

To get hitler to sign the re-written Valkyrie, which TC somehow successfully did it. The re-written one includes the capturing of leaders of SS.

To get close enough to Hitler to kill him. But then the trick to using these explosives was for most common sense reason, at that time, AQ probably not the in thing, so the ground rule was do not be anywhere near the explosives when it goes off.

To activate Valkyrie, needs Fromm approval, who heads the reserve army. Problem was though he knows of such anti activities going out there, he was still neutral.

Then what went wrong. Previous attempts failed because Himmler wasn't there, the head of SS. But it did came to the "now or never" and "whatever cost" moment, TC went to the wolf's lair to meet Hitler and the rest of the kk.

The meeting was supposed to be held in an enclosed room but was later held in a room
with opened windows. This will reduce the power of the explosives. And TC last min decide to use just only one briefcase of explosive. Though he managed to put the briefcase as close to AD, but as he leaves the room to take a "important" call, the bag was moved to the other end of the table, even so somehow AD didn't die, as he gave orders to capture TC and his people, also talk over the radio to people of Germany.

Though the order to activate the reserve army was given late due to no confirmation that AD was dead. The indecisive General Olbricht did eventually activate the reserve and captured Fromm. But all these are shortlived as the major of the reserve troops got a call from AD to capture TC and his guys.

Eventually they got executed. 7/10

UnderWorld - Rise of the Lycans

A prequel to the successful sequels of Beckinsale Underworld where vampire fights werewolves aka lycans from past to now. Rhona Mitra, the tomb raider video game poster girl, is the vamp Sonja, daughter of Lord Victor. The action packed into this 92 mins movie where vampire rules and lycans captured as slaves.

And there seems to be 2 kind of lycans, those so called pure and full blooded ones seemingly can't turn themselves back into humans form. Lucia, the lycan that was kept alive by Victor so as to use them to protect the vamps and their nobles. In this scenario, then there seem nothing else as the fuse to anymore bloodshed, so Sonja need to love Lucia and Lucia need to love Sonja.

Lucia wanted freedom and wants Sonja to come with him. It became ever more eager to gain freedom when Victor imprisoned him, because he defied his order and remove some dog collar. Apparently this dog collar worked its magic, wearing it, he couldn't turn into the werewolf. Anyway, he took it off to save Sonja when she was out to escort the human "Nobles".

So Lucia got whipped and celled. He was pissed and wanted to escape. And he mention Sonja, dennis, his father's ka kia can help, Dennis seems to know about their relationship. Sonja seek the truth and gotten Dennis help to free Lucia in return for her position in the Tampines Town Council ... Okay ... not the TTC, it was some council where 11 useless and weak vampires sit arounds and decides who get punished.

And since vamp do not die that easy, Dennis waited for this chance. Lucia did escape and with some human-turned-lycans and some lycans. The scene where one of the esacaping whatever got speared through this cheek ... quite hiong. Anyway, Sonja didn't make it out as Victor found out his daughter and Lucia got one leg.

So Lucia came back for her, got captured again. Victor and the TTC sentenced Sonja to death, she was solared to death. Lucia turned into wolf and try to escape again, didn't really manage to do that ... But did manage to howl over the wall to call upon the 3,556,773,831 pure blood lycans out there for help.

The Vamps was overpowered but Victor escaped with Dennis and the coffined elders. So they do see more sequels to this prequels or more prequels to this prequel. 7/10

Friday Dinner@Tonkichi

I think they added more items to their menu, like curry and claypot stuff. Selling point is still their tonkatsu, either fillet or loin. The loin one has fat meat in it, that is the only difference, of course the way they are served, fillet comes in rounded pieces. Loin comes in large piece cut into stripes.

I decided to have the pork fillet with curry. It comes with rice, salad and fruits. The curry comes in a separate bowl which is always welcome, rather then drenched it at the side. Jap curry has never being spicy, it gives a thick texture with more savory than hot.




Another thing I like about their tonkatsu is that it is not that oily when served, probably they did the necessary oil filtering inside. Very crispy on the outside and chunks of meat in it. Every main meal also comes with unlimited cabbage where you can drenched the seaweed sauce on them. If you take the premium set like my friends, you get a bowl with sesame where you are supposed to grind it with the given thingie, then add the "jile" dark sauce.

No discounts for credit cards at the moment. But for the tonkatsu set, priced at about $25 to $35, considered still reasonable. Also found out they are under Pokka group, which also runs the Pasta cafe.

Dessert was tapas ice cream at bakerzinn. Problem with this not quite enjoyable to have it alone, as it comes in damn small glasses, at the rate of eating the ice cream but skillfully scooping with the small spoon. It was like a race to prevent the other 2 from melting. And somehow it melts too fast, still having the impression that premium ice cream shouldn't melt so easily.

Another KT thing, they name their ice cream with wonderful names but without telling WTF is the ice cream. Who in the world will know Arabella ice cream is chocolate banana ? As it melts too fast, most of the time I was tasting shake.

菊花台

妳的淚光　柔弱中帶傷　慘白的月彎彎　勾住過往
夜太漫長　凝結成了霜　是誰在閣樓上　冰冷的絕望
雨輕輕彈　朱紅色的窗　我一生在紙上　被風吹亂
夢在遠方　化成一縷香　隨風飄散　妳的模樣

菊花殘　滿地傷　妳的笑容已泛黃
花落人斷腸　我心事靜靜躺
北風亂　夜未央　妳的影子剪不斷
徒留我孤單在湖面　成雙

二月八日, 星期日, 晴

Was supposed to work over this weekend but it was postponed, so relishing this break. I got a new pair of arena goggles on friday, used it yesterday evening and with the anti fog, a useful feature. I don't have to keep wiping the inner part of the goggles. Just have to get used to the new fit of the goggles. I was also considering getting the crocs sporty adara, the blue base with white strips looked quite nice.

No progress with finishing any new songs for the competition, weekdays are simply brain dead. Seems like there are gaps in putting the right lyrics into the tunes. Anyway, maybe something will come along soon.

Will be meeting friends for dinner at manhill later, follow by mahjong over the "Spurs vs Arsenal" game !!

一月二十九日, 星期四, 晴

Counting sat and sun, I took a break of 7 days. So fast, 604800 seconds, times is up ! Whistle blown. No complains since no work, though nothing much constructive done. CNY eve dinner was good, it was still an home steamboat, the ingredients were fresh and making the soup real good.

I did pop by Grandma's place on Monday after a few years MIA. Cards gambling not really the interest anymore, and simply there is nothing much to do there, I left early. Later in the night, met up with friends, had Swensens and caught Love Matters.
Now you can say "I am so going to Swensen" on CNY day 1.

Day 2 was a stay home affair though my boss did jio me for mahjong in the evening, was last min, didn't feel like going out at that time. Parents went to Sentosa with my cuz, so it was a drama/movie watching, RTK playing day.

Wednesday, Safra opened, so went for a evening dip then dinner with friends at T3. No wonder T3 is failing as an attraction for shop and eat, the shops are limited and the food places, you can find at other parts of Singapore. And the carpark charges so high, $6+ for about 2 hrs+. Unless, you fetish "Airport", doubt anyone would come.

Today went to Victor's Kitchen for lunch. They shifted to a bigger and more straightforward outlet, just few units away. Their prawns fillings are generous and fresh, carrot cake is steamed and comes in a bowl with the special sauce, tasty but the sauce is really oily, at least 2 heart by-pass.

The glutinous rice is huge in portion, chicken chunks, sausage and salted egg are in it. The "qiong fun" fillings are also generous but the sauce abit too salty. The char siew bao was average, also the ribs too many chewy fat meat. The blll came to about $37, quite okay.

Notice a new competition from facebook from "SongsIWrite", "写给天王天后原创劲曲比赛", hope ideas and inspirations can fill my space and mind, so that I can send in a few composition ! And of course, the time to do that, May is the deadline.

幸福万岁

Good enough for some laughs here and there. The story is typical and doesn't excite. The movie was slightly more than 2 hrs, though towards the end, it seems it ran out of ideas.

Seng and Kelly married, has a son Benny, their god brother Jeremy lived with them.

As the guys tries to seek, experience, live their journey in love, the movie put jokes, funny one liner and innuendos around the story.

Seng wanted to re-energies his married life with Kelly, as they became less communicative over time, argue over small matters. His plot to "do that thing" with Kelly did succeed, though Kelly was not receptive initially. But he found out, he have problem doing that thing, blaming Kelly not able to arouse him.

It became worse. Kelly went on a nights out with her friends, ended up with Mark Lee, as Xiao Han, a male "duck". Though, she didn't do anything. Seng was even more screwed, as he got conned by a girl and her gang. They blackmailed him $100,000 RM if not reporting him to police, having sex with underage girl.

The son was no better, conned by Jennifer, the girl he loved. Got filmed dancing naked and video uploaded onto the internet. He got his revenge when he chanced upon the video of her making out with her bf. Jennifer tried to commit sucide, but Benny seems to talk her off that, but accidentally fell off ... onto something which saved her life.

Jeremy was somehow better, getting all the luck with his stint outside, getting almost every girl he wanted. Till he met Benny's teacher, MeiShi, it went well till the last part of the movie, where he met another girl from internet at a cafe, became unconscious shortly. Then he woke up, tied up, showing an ah ma wanting to castrate him off. Then it seems that the ah ma was Mei Shi mother and the girl was her sis. Not sure what is this scene for ... doesn't seem to gel with the story.

Anyway, just for the laughs. 6/10

Friday Lunch@7atenine

Unlimited servings of surprises. You won't know what you will get but at least it is within a menu. Not like supperclub where you really have no idea what you will eat. There are about 20 or more dishes from the tapas menu. It comes in tasting size, that is good, you can try out alot of stuff. But you can also keep eating the same item. You also get unlimited soft drinks, juices, coffee and tea.

The food just keep coming out, depending what the chef fix up in the kitchen, though there are some wait here and there but as not much people around, so quite okay. There seems to be other stuff which sounds so good but we didn't get to try ! Like baked scallop with xo butter, king crab sandwiches, churros, chocolate degustation, etc.

Anyway, most of the items we had also quite good. Parma ham with honey dew, eat them together, the saltish of the ham even out with the sweet honeydew. Cherry tomatoes salad with pine nuts, very nice, the tomatoes doesn't have the taste of normal "tomatoes". Then came smoked salmon and some kind of rice/sushi roll with an egg in it, crispy outer layer.

The next salad like dish was really good, some kind of potato with corns nibblets, the dressing was good, but it really didn't taste like potatoes, but the guy say it is. Next was anchovies on toast with some sauce which is quite sour, this item don't really like, the anchovies too fishy smell. But the next item made up for that, wasabi cod ! Not bad, cripsy on the outside, hot and mushy inside, the wasabi sauce not too choking, nice.

Tuna tartine was next. Looked very raw, but taste was quite okay. The so called soup that came after was abit too "not" for the mass maybe, it was cold, creamy and abit oily. Apparently, it was garlic soup. The tempura vege was normal, nothing fantastic, but the way it was presented, interesting. The one coming up was really good, beef, not sure if I heard wrongly, it was kobe beef. Very tender, and there was a syringe to inject some "juices" onto the beef.

Then came something which was a typical item in Singapore, chicken wings ! They called it sizzing wings, the marinate was very savoury and with the mayo like sauce, adds another level of savoury. The salmon that came after was quite nicely done, with no other overwhelming taste, only salmon taste.

The last item was baby lamb, don't have abit of the mutton smell. The mash potatoes was very smooth and fragrant. Desserts time !!! But no chocolate degustation .... Haiz. The chocolate brownie should be good enough to make up, at least for now. This brownie was more cake like ... doesn't matter, very good. It has huge macamdemia nuts in it, the vanilla bean ice cream have very nice 香草 taste.

The tequilia cake was the final item. Interesting enough, a white piece of cake like thingie with hazelnut ice cream with abit of rum taste. The cake texture was like a failed experiment to make the most silky tofu. Since it was supposed to be a cake, it taste quite good. At $37++, this unlimited lunch is really worth it if you are really to spend that amount.

如燕

愿意合上眼才能美梦无边 别让悔熏乌了从前
也许碎片才能让回忆展颜 何妨瓷花拼凑明天
谁带我寻获幸福的模 却自己谜中困锁
谁为我留下缱绻的天涯 信物是抹晚霞

思念如燕它飞舞舌尖 若是真爱配尝几分苦甜
意念婆娑时间里推磨 追随到何处才结果
燕如 针线在青空缝编 几幅女红将以泪缀点
誓言斑驳情雾只是经过 风雨中且让我盈步婀娜

赤壁 II 之 决战天下

This could be the end of such similar kind of epic war movie, whether based on 三国 or fictitious, or at least a break of it. The second part of the 赤壁 movie continued from where it left off. 曹操 camped near 赤壁 with thousand of warships and countless soldiers. It seems a inevitable victory for him since he also have 蔡瑁, 张允 which specialize in battle at sea.

But with 周瑜 and 诸葛亮 on the 孙权 side, their 智谋 increases the chances of an almost impossible victory. As 曹操's army took time to train and built up will, 周 and 亮 have some time to think of how to resolve their 2 biggest problem. First was not to allow 曹操 gain the obvious advantage of attacking at sea. Second, their lack of arrows. Both agreed to resolve one problem each, if not, will be executed.

Not sure how true these 2 events in the history books but it seems miraculous. 曹操 send 周's childhood friend to persuade him to serve 曹操. 周 used this to purposely divulge some so called secret, which was that 蔡瑁 was planted there to kill 曹操. On the other hand, 亮 carried out his plan, to have 100,000 arrows ... with no internet and credit card, it seems ... 'ma na wu ko leng'

亮 predicted heavy fog at sea and went in the direction of 曹操 with 20 boats filled with 草人. 蔡瑁, 张允 went out to attack, but with the fog, they beware of advancing. Thus, counterattack with arrows ... 100,200 of them to be exact. 曹操生性猜忌, beheaded both of them.

Also to mention 孙权 sister, 孙尚香, seemingly MI5 trained, who can BLL into 曹操 camp for days, weeks. Even can collect information and "sms" aka 飞鸽传书 with 亮.

Then 刘备, siting diseases in 孙权 camp not under control and left. 曹操 seeing this opportunity and the wind was blowing in the direction favouring him to do a 火攻.

But 亮, with wikipedia's help, confirmed the wind will be changing direction soon. There was a problem though, they need more time.

So 小乔 went to 曹操, with an objective to 拖延时间, apparently it worked.


This started the final battle, lasted quite long. The scenes makes you want to play RTK 11 !! 火攻 from warships, Incinerating arrows, Catapults, Ember Fire, Fort attack, etc. 黄盖's 先锋队 did most of the fire damage to 曹操's warships. With 赵云 aiding from land east and 刘备, 张飞, 关羽 from the land west. Mr Liu fake fake left so as to have a surprise attack later.

甘兴 kamikaze and blew opened the fort's gate with the explosives. 周's final wave went in and with 刘备's help reached 曹操's camp area. With 小乔 as 人质 also no use, Mr Zhao saved her but only ... as she fell from 2nd storey, confirm won't die. 周 flew in and caught her, similar to his super flight in the movie 色诫. 8/10

Friday Dinner@SupperClub

Wonder how long can this Amsterdam club survive, taking up a big space at Odeon. The selling point is you do not know what you will be eating, it will be a surprise menu, but you still can tell them beforehand if you do not like anything. At the entrance area, you get your hand stamped and know your table number.

But actually, it is really not a table. You eat in bed, everything in white. 2 rows of huge, comfy, industrial size sofa by the side with gigantic pillows. Dinner starts at 8 pm, though you can get drinks at the 2nd floor, bar counter. Most of crowd are ang moh and on a friday night, the crowd seems abit thin. Probably, SC is not new in Singapore and times are bad. At $65 for a 4 course dinner, it is expensive.

Appetizer
Raw cream salmon steak with sundried roma tomato and avocado, frisee/green beans salad, ginger toast and champagne vinaigrette

I like this. The frisee somehow very fragrant and the raw cream goes well on top of the tiny ginger toast. A must mention was the sundried roma tomato, first time trying it, very nice.

Starter
Parsnip.onion soup with parmaham, oregano croutons and chopped parsley

This is something different. Hot thick soup with onion taste and also the peppery which exploded when you sip into every spoonful. The crispy parmaham savoury, even out some of the onion and peppery taste. Quite like it, but 2 tables away, the 2 person just couldn't down it.

Main
Veal tenderloin, spanish tortilla, sauteed baby leek, shitake and red chili jue de veau

Quite thick but very tender and juicy. My shitake was changed into baby kailan from some tse char stall. The spanish tortilla, which is a fried potato dish, nothing special but was good.

Dessert
Banana/passion fruit millefeuille. vanilla thick cream and mint leaves

The millefeuille was very cripsy and with the sliced banana and passion fruit cream in between it. Though you have to "dismantle" them to eat it, still good.

It is a good place to chill out if you dun mind the "no crowd" and willing to pay the cover charge. Comfy bed and the music not too loud, not a bad place to relax, drink and tcss

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一月十二日, 星期一, 晴

12 days into the new year, nothing seems new. But of course, new year doesn't mean new stuff. No resolution made yet, partly due to, probably I won't have any time to fulfil any. High chance will work through most of the 52 weekends, it doesn't help with one of our team mates leaving. Simple logic, less 1 people to share the shit and need to take his shit somemore.

The popular show 小娘惹 ended, though never really follow the show, did caught some epi towards the end. Anyway, the theme song 如燕 really nice. Miraculously, I found the chords on a website, nice !

Have been swimming quite regularly since few months back. Hope I can keep this up. And I went to Haato after my dip, black sesame ice cream, still can taste the black sesame. Their ice cream is smooth but somehow like lack the volume, melt easily ... didn't find any unique flavours also. Was thinking between chocolate banana or black sesame.

Ong Bak 2

Supposed to be an epic movie with Tony Jaa as an warrior knowing various martial arts set in ancient Khmer. Quite true on the martial arts part, no doubt this guy can show a really good fight with action stunts sequence not seen in other films.

It was so called ancient Garuda, assume is some sort of empire, Jaa as Tien is the son of diligent and loyal officer but his father and mother was killed by a scheming rat cha sei na. He then killed the King and put the blame on Tien's father.

Tien has to survive if not no more movie. But was captured by some bandits and thew him into some fight in some kind of "Kids vs Crocodile" performance. Another group of bandits lead by Cherchean disrupted the performance, killed the other bandits. Anyway, Tien killed the croc.

Then he was taken in by Cherchean, the leader of the Garuda bandits. Taught him all kinds of martial arts by the different masters. He grew and excel in the fights, began to lead the bandits in raids. But he still want to avenge his father death, he need to kill rat cha sei na. So he told cherchean his plan then he left. Either by MRT or bus, he somehow reached his HQ, palace, whatever. They are celebrating something, Tien became one of the performer. He charged towards rat cha sei na, who apparently has been using SK II and Lamer, didn't age at all. Tien slashed about 4,257,172,893 times on him, then left.

He returned to cherchean but found he was surrounded by mask men, almost all dressed differently. Tien was good but not that good, then as it revealed, Mr SK II didn't die, he was wearing at least 200 kg of titanium around him at that time. Then cherchean appeared, Mr SK II told Tien, he was the actual one that killed his father. Tien was hysterical but still can fight, anyway chercean was going to exchange his own life for killing his father.

Tien was captured and tortured bit by bit. Most probably he was send to Upper Serangnoon. 6/10

Transporter 3

First movie of 2009, not because it was that bad but it just doesn't excite. And the plot doesn't seems to make sense. It was the on and off action that kept the movie going, with some draggy parts. Jason Statham is like the A-grade in the B-list, can see why his transporter series already at 3rd instalment.

The plot kicked in straight with an audi driving into Paris and started a car chase scene with the Police. Then the next thing it crashed into Frank's house, literally into his house. The driver guy was injured, he found his id, knowing he was the guy who he recommended for a previous job. He got him onto the ambulance but knew too late that the guy got some kind of device on his wrist, which explode when too far away from the car.

Frank also found a girl at the back of the car but soon he was knocked unconscious. When he woke up, he got the same device on his wrist and the scumbag from "Prison Break" was telling him to do a job.

That was to transport a package to a destination, not known to Frank yet.

Along the way, the girl, Valentina, initially maintain a bo chup attitude towards Frank but after seeing him beat off so many men at the garage, somehow began to like him.

The so called evil plot was to take this Valentina as hostage and force his father to sign some contract with some company. His father was some head of environment agency of Ukraine, something which I can't understand, why don't get him sign immediately ... have to drag ... and transport her here and there.

After Frank shaked off men which Valentina's father send in a quite exciting car chase, he started to know more and scumbag knew he have to get the girl back and kill Frank. He did the first part and thought the did the second. With him and his audi into the river, it seems doom as either he drown or explode to pieces if leave the car too far. Miraclously, he did it, making the audi float above water.

Then the final showdown on the train, literally as his audi landed on it ... then in the train as his audi crashed into it. 6/10