Dinner at Brios

Went Brios Cafe(Grand Copthorne) for dinner with a friend. They had a 2 for 1 promotion with UOB credit card. The total bill came to about $46 dollars. That's only $23 per person!!! The food was good. There were sushi, sashimi, chilled seafood, escargot (snails), Peranakan food (the lamb rendang was fantastic!), western cuisines and pastries. There's even a chocolate fondue where you can have strawberries, marshmallows, cakes drenched in chocolate! Managed to take some pictures during the meal. Pardon the bad composition!

It's praying time again!

It's time again for praying to ancestors. This is normally done before the Chinese New Year. Clothes and spending money made of paper are 'sent' to them. It's like sending them a 'bonus' for them to prepare for the new year.

Butter cake from a breadmaker

What you are looking at is a butter and sultana cake that was made using a breadmaker. It actually measured about 10cmx10cmx5cm. It has the smell of a cake, the taste of a cake but the looks of a badly made bread. It's soft on the inside. But no way will it looked like a cake! (more like a hardened loaf of bread that failed to rise)

The cake was pretty good if you can bypass it's looks.

More pictures from the phone

Was having breakfast on Saturday and took the first picture at the shop beside the coffeeshop at JooChiat. It's a tailor shop. I think they do the laundry too. I have not seen such a shop in Singapore for so long already. I remembered when I was younger (about 5-8 years old) my grandfather had this ironing shop in Chinatown which he opened with a couple of my granduncles. I remembered seeing that they are always ironing the laundry and folding them nicely or hanging them up. Sad to say, with all these re-development happening around Chinatown, the shop is long gone and I can't remember where it used to be.

Found these cans of soup at Cold Storage supermarket. Checked out the ingredients. It's actually the Scottish slang for chicken and leek soup. And no, I did not buy a can of soup that day...

Dangerous driving!

I've noticed that more and more drivers are using their handphones without the headsets while driving nowadays. Don't understand why they want to pick up the phone while they are driving. They should have plugged in the headsets even before they started driving!

Was driving yesterday evening on AYE filtering out from Jurong Town Hall road when I saw this auntie sitting in her Renault Megane in the other lane. She was holding on to the steering wheel with one hand while the other hand was holding her handphone next to her left ear. Traffic was pretty bad due to the rain (it's been raining for a day already). I was thinking to myself as I drove away from her... I hope the other drivers around her will be alright if she decides to crash her car into the curb or something. (I know it sounds bad but I really can't stand anyone stupid enough to use the phone without a headset while driving that!!!)

Pictures from SE k800i phone

Bought a new phone recently, the Sony Ericsson k800i. Here's a picture taken using the phone. I was very surprised by the quality of the camera... 3.2 megapixels, auto focus, xenon flash. Tell me what you think of the picture quality.