Watched this on the way back to Singapore last night; the plot was quite different from what I'd expected, but it made me tear twice nonetheless :(

coming this May

I'm so excited about it! I know they're old girls, but what gives, that doesn't make them any less fabulous; I'd kill to be just like them when I'm in my forties.

夏日嬷嬷茶

First time I'm watching this; and I can't believe the movie got me both teary-eyed and chuckling to myself at times. How come no one told me to watch this earlier?

On a diet... with Nam Kee's Chicken Rice Restaurant and Icekimo

You guys are probably never ever going to believe me again for that, but I really, really do want to lose some weight; drop a few kilos by the end of the year and keep a more healthy weight. I've been cutting down on food consumption; two meals a day instead of three (because I wake up so damned late, and ice-cream's not considered a meal), and not over-eating whenever I can.

I really liked stuffing myself silly at the dinner table; sometimes it was plain greediness, and other times I just thought it was wasteful not to finish up. Keeping fingers crossed that I'll stick to my "no over-eating policy"... and the guys will no longer have to joke about my harness ra.

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Dieting issues aside (:p), I headed down to Thomson with Shir, Simin and Kwunhok for dinner last night. We ended up at Nam Kee's, a chicken rice restaurant along the long stretch of food places at Thomson, before getting a few pieces of cheesecakes/brownies to share from a shop hidden in a secluded corner and finally settling down for ice cream at Icekimo.

The interior of Nam Kee looks like one of those traditional and really old-school kopitiams, but it's fully air-conditioned. It felt very much like one of those (and probably is) family restaurants where the entire family comes together to help with the manning of the shop.

water chestnut and lime juice

Apart from their specialty, chicken rice, they also serve some zi char dishes like Ma Po Tofu, Sweet and Sour Pork, Fried Omelettes, Fish, Sambal Kang Kong, etc etc. We ordered half a roast chicken, half a boiled chicken, some greens and a Ma Po Tofu.

my favourite condiment for chicken rice

The chicken was nice, but not the nicest that I've had. The meat was tender, most of the time, but there were times when I thought it was a little dry... or maybe it was just the breast portion (not a big fan of chicken breast meat).

check out the matching blue

Our Ma Po Tofu and greens weren't too bad either, like what I said earlier, it's a lot like what you'd get from zhi char stalls at kopitiams; familiarity.

our tofu; quite a variety of ingredients in there

the spread

There were a few more close-up pictures that I took of the chicken but I deleted them by accident. Anyway, the food's not bad on the whole, but don't expect anything too mind-blowing. Our bill came up to $46 for the four of us; pretty reasonable since we had two more dishes apart from the chicken.

iceberg.

We moved across the road over to Icekimo for some ice-cream post-dinner. I just realized there's quite a few ice-cream shops sprouting up all over the island... and that said, Icekimo is one of them. I thought the Banana and Walnut combi that KH picked was rather nice; and I sort of regretted not picking the more quirky Guiness Chocolate Chip flavour. Ohwell, I guess that calls for a second visit soon.

ps. I watched Slumdog Millionaire (online) finally; I like it and I shed a tear or two when I saw all the nasty things that poverty drives people to do and the unfairness of society sometimes.

Fools; always wanting what is not

Dad got a GPS for the car sometime last week; after much persuasion (even before I got my license). I took it out for a spin finally over the weekend, used it a couple more times these two days and... I think I'd much prefer driving without the GPS. 人真的很犯贱, I can't agree more.

The first round of exco meeting took place over dinner tonight. Okay, it was more like a discussion; things need to be planned in greater detail post-exams & I'm totally looking forward to it. Have no idea what changes we're going to be bringing about and that's what's exciting!

Caught Marley & Me with Simin (I was late for more than half an hour sorry woman!) and I did not shed a single drop of tear, contrary to the tear-inducing quality of the movie that everyone else has been talking about. No idea if that's because I've learnt to see things more objectively, or because I think the book was so much more well-written. I just feel that the book left a more lasting impression, and the movie, didn't leave too much of an impact. Hard to please, of course.

While I heard people trying to stifle sobs all around me, I couldn't help but notice how crooked Owen Wilson's nose really is (I seriously thought he'd just got beaten up badly when I saw him on the screen as I made my late entrance into the theatre) and age seems to be catching up with both Owen Wilson and Jennifer Anniston.

It seemed like they were leading the perfect life in the movie, despite the slight glitches here and there. There's always bound to be problems in life, you need to work your way around them and not let them bog you down, and it seems like they found the perfect way to solve their problems.