Monday, November 05, 2007
So I am back again after a short while to update on my another trip around Singapore, this time round being lunch at raffles city and ktv at chinatown! The outing was meant to celebrate soon heng's and chin leng's ord and birthday. So they decided to have lunch at menotti italian cafe & bar which is located at raffles city, right opposite chijmes. My decision to join them was quite last minute, it being zehan asking me the night before whether I wanted to go. Although I came late, it was still earlier than the organizer himself. Hehe. In the end we decided to go with the set lunch special which included a main pasta dish, a dessert and coffee or tea which was at $19.90 before gst and service charge. I ordered a linguine (blue swimmer crabmeat in creamy tomato sauce), a soffiato (warm dark chocolate cake with chocolate chip icecream) and english breakfast tea. The ambience of the restaurant was pretty nice, the lighting was just right and service was rather good. The pasta came a while later. The linguine looked a bit like meepok and I commented that the whole dish looked like bak cho mee. There wasn't much crab meat though but the sauce was decent. It wasn't too sour and I thought it was just nice. After the pasta came the dessert. It was hot chocolate cake with chocolate chip icecream and it blended very nicely. The sweetness was alright but quite sinful for the body. Haha. On the overall, it would say this place would be a nice place to dine in, whether with your friends or girlfriends. Total cost amounted to $23.60 per person. So after lunch, some guys had to go off with the remaining six of us, soon heng, marcus, colin, aston, kangwen and me, deciding to head to chinatown for ktv. According to soon heng, there was one at smith street offering $10 per person from 2pm to 7pm with free flow of drinks. So we went there, walking through a maze of shops in chinatown. The room they gave us was quite special. It was behind the kitchen! We were wondering why they had another ktv room located behind the kitchen. The place had more middle-aged people as compared to places like kbox which teenagers frequent more. I would say $10 for 5 hours was a good deal though. There was a large variety of songs, including songs in other languages like indonesian, malay, cambodian. We sang lots of songs, including songs that I didn't know as well. I think I can't really sing well. The best I can do was to 和声 with another person. Quite sucky. Sad. Bleah. Time to sing more. Haha. In the end, I think I screamed too much for linkin park songs and my voice was a bit hoarse. I left an hour earlier because I had to join my parents for dinner. And dinner was as great as lunch. We had zi-cha at the coffeeshop downstairs for a table of ten, my family and my uncle's family. We ordered food like fried calamari, cereal chicken, two black pepper crabs and a steamed crab. And I thought my voice was going to be gone as the food were so heaty. But luckily no and I had a great dinner instead. Haha.
That should be pretty much what happened on sunday. Work today was super duper busy. A usually five-men strong section suddenly became just three guys working in the morning and two guys in the afternoon! How busy is that. Grrrr. Never mind. It's just monday blues I guess. I was very tired just now, just fell asleep on the bed after dinner. Sigh. Tired tired. I can't wait for tomorrow's work to end, then we can go enjoy food again, this time round with drinks! Haha. So let's await the next update of my outings ^_^
hellmos signing off...Labels: army outing, ktv
My mind's unweaving/ 9:56 pm
