Wednesday, March 25, 2009
I had the absolute strangest meal today! so much so i am beginning to think Michelin Stars are overrated.
Anyways was supposec to go with BFF2 to Maze but according to A, our lines got crossed so he ended up booking Maze for TODAY. When i meant next week. Our conversation yesterday went something like:
A : Oh so i thought you had classes at 6pm? (Reservations were at 7pm)
Me : Oh classes are over for the year. What's happening tomorrow?
To which we both realised he booked the wrong date!! Yea, BFF2 had too much work this week and with two dissertations due, so was i. However, feeling pretty proud of myself i decided to 'reward' myself for all my 'hard' work. Well waking up at 7.30 IS HARD WORK ALRIGHT. Besides the chef was supposed to be some up and coming dude with a Michelin star within a year plus one of the only English chefs to have completed a term at El Bulli. Apparently his speciality is deconstructing food.
BAD IDEA.
The only good thing i remember about the meal was the starters and the desserts.
Bread : It was warm and with the salted butter...It melted in my mouth. Yummy!!
Starters : Awesome pumpkin soup with duck topped with truffle oil and brioche with cep spread. Brioche was a bit tasteless but the pumpkin soup was lovely. Silky, tastes of sweet pumpkin and the duck was braised just right.
and then we waited....
and waited....
Half an hour later
2d startes : Beetroot with pine nuts some sweet fruit and feta cheese? Just a terrible combination. Beetroot sadwiched the cheese. Way too strong and i don't like cheese that tastes like armpit. There were three of those sandwiches. A and i only ate one. o.O
And we waited
and waited.
and waited
Half an hour later!!
3rd Starters : BLT!! Some lettuce sauce with tomato, with fried onions andn bacon. Lovely. Served in a martini cup. Traditional deconstructed food. Pretty good!! tastes exactly like BLT in a martini cup.
A's starters was much better. Poached egg with risotto and quail. Personally i love quail so it can't really be screwed up.
And we waited
and waited
and waited
By this time we were waiting for an hour half a half.
After an hour and a half we only had THREE DISHES.
Fish : Scallops with red mullet with boullabaise sauce. Scallops over cooked and a bit tough and the mullet was over salted and fishy. Anyways i was appalled. The white wine the sommelier suggested to go with the fish was terrible. I mean it taste fine by itself. Very strong flavours but with the fish, it had a horrible aftertaste of tinfoil. Metallic..terrible. If only i could remember what that wine was called. Oh well....
Mains : OH the tour-de-force. Brace yourselves..I had pigeon with chocolate sauce parsley and some garlic foam thing. Chocolate sauce had an initial plummy taste with choco aftertaste. It just didn't work well with parsley. Parsley was way too strong a herb. Flavours wayy over my head. I guess my palate just isn't that sophisticated. Ok i'm joking, when something tastes nice it tastes nice. Rule of thumb.
The best mains was A's side of shepard's pie. The potatoes were silky and the lamb tasted just right. No peas or anything in it.
Dessert : Probably the highlight of the night. We had chocolate ganache, panna cotta with olive dressing and some frozen fruity thing. Balance of flavours just awesome. Panna cotta was citrusy with that tang and just salty from the black olive infusion.
Chocolate ganache was perfectly balanced out with the sea salt, pistachio and the ice cream.
Petit fours : It was splendid. I forgot what it was but i recall chocolate, pineapple lollipop with meringue. Inside the meringue was vanilla ice cream.
There was also turkish delight and praline dark chocolate.
All in all, the service was alright but it could have been better. I felt the staff didn't know their stuff and the sommelier..totally ruined my already terrible fish!! =(
Usually wine cheers me up =)
Anyways was supposec to go with BFF2 to Maze but according to A, our lines got crossed so he ended up booking Maze for TODAY. When i meant next week. Our conversation yesterday went something like:
A : Oh so i thought you had classes at 6pm? (Reservations were at 7pm)
Me : Oh classes are over for the year. What's happening tomorrow?
To which we both realised he booked the wrong date!! Yea, BFF2 had too much work this week and with two dissertations due, so was i. However, feeling pretty proud of myself i decided to 'reward' myself for all my 'hard' work. Well waking up at 7.30 IS HARD WORK ALRIGHT. Besides the chef was supposed to be some up and coming dude with a Michelin star within a year plus one of the only English chefs to have completed a term at El Bulli. Apparently his speciality is deconstructing food.
BAD IDEA.
The only good thing i remember about the meal was the starters and the desserts.
Bread : It was warm and with the salted butter...It melted in my mouth. Yummy!!
Starters : Awesome pumpkin soup with duck topped with truffle oil and brioche with cep spread. Brioche was a bit tasteless but the pumpkin soup was lovely. Silky, tastes of sweet pumpkin and the duck was braised just right.
and then we waited....
and waited....
Half an hour later
2d startes : Beetroot with pine nuts some sweet fruit and feta cheese? Just a terrible combination. Beetroot sadwiched the cheese. Way too strong and i don't like cheese that tastes like armpit. There were three of those sandwiches. A and i only ate one. o.O
And we waited
and waited.
and waited
Half an hour later!!
3rd Starters : BLT!! Some lettuce sauce with tomato, with fried onions andn bacon. Lovely. Served in a martini cup. Traditional deconstructed food. Pretty good!! tastes exactly like BLT in a martini cup.
A's starters was much better. Poached egg with risotto and quail. Personally i love quail so it can't really be screwed up.
And we waited
and waited
and waited
By this time we were waiting for an hour half a half.
After an hour and a half we only had THREE DISHES.
Fish : Scallops with red mullet with boullabaise sauce. Scallops over cooked and a bit tough and the mullet was over salted and fishy. Anyways i was appalled. The white wine the sommelier suggested to go with the fish was terrible. I mean it taste fine by itself. Very strong flavours but with the fish, it had a horrible aftertaste of tinfoil. Metallic..terrible. If only i could remember what that wine was called. Oh well....
Mains : OH the tour-de-force. Brace yourselves..I had pigeon with chocolate sauce parsley and some garlic foam thing. Chocolate sauce had an initial plummy taste with choco aftertaste. It just didn't work well with parsley. Parsley was way too strong a herb. Flavours wayy over my head. I guess my palate just isn't that sophisticated. Ok i'm joking, when something tastes nice it tastes nice. Rule of thumb.
The best mains was A's side of shepard's pie. The potatoes were silky and the lamb tasted just right. No peas or anything in it.
Dessert : Probably the highlight of the night. We had chocolate ganache, panna cotta with olive dressing and some frozen fruity thing. Balance of flavours just awesome. Panna cotta was citrusy with that tang and just salty from the black olive infusion.
Chocolate ganache was perfectly balanced out with the sea salt, pistachio and the ice cream.
Petit fours : It was splendid. I forgot what it was but i recall chocolate, pineapple lollipop with meringue. Inside the meringue was vanilla ice cream.
There was also turkish delight and praline dark chocolate.
All in all, the service was alright but it could have been better. I felt the staff didn't know their stuff and the sommelier..totally ruined my already terrible fish!! =(
Usually wine cheers me up =)
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Ouuu, well I've been busy doing my two dissertations. One of which i haven't even started yet. I suppose panic will set in soon. But not before this.
Anyways, there are a few things i want to blog about today. Mostly the restaurants i've been to and what i've been doing. MY SOCIAL LIFE HAS BECOME PRACTICALLY NON-EXISTENT. Ahhh! can't wait till easter and i get to study even more yay! but no more dissertations =)
ASo for the past few weeks, i've been to Ikeda, Muranos, Sake No Hana, Fifteen , Marcus Wareing and Makan among others. I think there are a few more but i just can't remember. But today will be dedicated to Fifteen and Marcus. The former is an absolute travesty of a 'fine dining' restaurant whilst the other was totally and utterly magnificent. Omg, i can still taste the foie gras in my mouth. Perfectly cooked foi gras that tastes like the siew yoke fat melting in your mouth. Omg omg heavenly..
Ooops, got a little bit carried away.
Fifteen = the first time A said we were going my face kinda feel. Honestly,nothing impresses me more than food cooked my a bunch of supposedly improvished youths. Anyone can cook right? WRONG. seriously WRONG. To start of with, the table they gave us, i ended up sitting in front of a five foot wide pig face painted on the wall. And for the next three hours...THREE HOURS I SWEAR the pig was staring at me! But anyways, horrible distracting decor coupled with graffiti paint. Plus the wine choices were mediocre to say the least. The first thing i look for in the restaurant is the wine list. The prices and choices give the place away. Anyways, the wine i choose, the Katnook Cab Sauv was so not worth to price I paid. Suffice to say the wines there were pretty unreasonable. Oh i haven't got to the food yet. The highlight of the my night!! The best part were the appetisers : The salami. Yea alright, i suppose it's impossible to screw up salami.
Then can the starters which were pretty strange. I've never tasted so many different flavours on a scallop before. One thing those chefs in Fifteen like to do is to overpower the food with herbs. I have no idea why but my lamb so so horrible i just stared at the gooey green excuse of sauce. I think it was supposed to be some minty parsley sauce thing? Anyawys, i was pretty disgusted after the first bite, whined a bit and in the end got it exchanged to the scallops for mains. The scallops were perfectly cooked, but i couldn't say the same for the garnishes. THE VEGETABLES WERE BLACK. This is how the conversation went:
'I think my vegetables are black'
'Oh it's just cos it's caramelised. Those are caramelised vegetable'
To which i was pretty shocked. Yea i know, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEB CARAMELISED AND BURNT VEGETABLES. Which is why people get it wrong all the time. It is an art to caramelise vegetables.
By then, the fight had gone out in me. I could see from this place, my complaints would be compensated by more lacklustre food.
So we just got dessert : Chocolate mousse which texture and taste was more like chocolate brownies. Heavy and dreary. But then i guess there's nothing much i could expect. Everytime i turned around the head chef was doing everything but checking the food.
Oh well, at least we saw the creator himself Jamie O dining there. But then again, the food is so not worth 60 pounds.
On the other hand, Marcus was absolutely delightful. From the appetisers, the foie gras with this really amazing crunchy mini biscuit/baguette cross thing. It came with two sauces, some cavier/sundried tomato sauce with this unidentified spice which made me think of curry. Sounds weird but i was sooo good. I ate it all.
The sommelier was really friendly. Since we took the tasting menu, i couldn't decide on which wine to go with all the dishes. So we asked him and he said he would pair each dish with a wine.
Anywways, will try to remember which dish went with which wine. It was an 8 course meal so here goes!
Pre starters :
Some mushroom soup served in a shot glass with truffle oil : Awesome awesome awesome. A bit too salty and the chef's advice to 'drink it like an expresso' which had me sipping cos THAT'S HOW PEOPLE DRINK EXPRESSO RIGHT? but nooo stupid A drank it all in one go. I tried it and my throat got SCALDED. Maybe it was cos i was sick. Anyways, all in all, amazing.
Starters :
Foie gras with rhubarbs and lamb reduction. Alright it sounds more interesting than it actually is. It was exquisite. Salty, melt in your mouth goodness. When eaten with the rhubarb, the sweetness of it totally brought out the flavour.
It was paired with this italian sweet wine which whilst i could see the rationale, i wasn't too crazy about. Too strong and too sweet for my likes. But then i am pretty fond of salty stuff.
Scallops with cucumber and caviar : It was an alright dish. The cucmbers gave it a bit of a fresh taste. Not one of my favourite dishes of the night.
It was paired with a Chardonnay from Yarra Valley. It was an awesome pairing, after eating the scallops, the slight fizz from sipping the wine gives it a bang!
Roasted quail : I'm not too sure about the garnishes, but it was without doubt one of my favourite dishes of the night! The quail was perfectly cooked and succulent. After eating it i could taste the blood in my mouth. In a good way of course.
It was paired with a red from if i'm not wrong a french bordeaux. I've never been good with french wines but still an pretty good combination. Tho personally i would have preferred a stronger wine. More full bodied.
Monkfish with truffles : This was one of the specialities. By then i was getting really really full. The thing with truffles is, if you feel really full the smell of it makes one feel nauseous. But i soldiered on!Not really into monkfish. The meat is too tough but the garnishes was fantastic. But then the secret to cooking a good monkfish is the sauce and the garnished. Monkfish has an interesting texture to it tho.
It was paired with a Riesling from Austria : Delcately sweet and just the right kind of fruity. I think for this dish the wine impressed me more.
Mains : FINALLY RIGHT????!! Honestly i felt so bloated by then it was all i could take from crying when the dish arrived. It was venision. Pretty well cooked i would say but i could barely finish. I think i ate two slices and gave the rest to A. I think A's lamb was perfectly cooked. Tasted like siew yoke actually. Melt in your mouth grilled goodness.
Cheeses : We got to taste a few cheeses with figs. I love it when they push their trolley around full of all that cheesy goodness. Yummy yummy!! We took a few strong cheeses so it was pretty good. Usually i'm a camembert woman mnyself, but those strong cheese made me rethink for a bit. I don't really remember the names of the cheese cos it was all in FRENCH SPOKEN IN A FRENCH ACCENT. =.= i so want to know!!
Pre-dessert (omg amazing right. I have no idea how i was still alive . Thank god i wore a dress) : Well there was vanilla ice cream with sorbet. Fantastic palatte cleanser. Sour and sweet with a slight fizz
Dessert : Choco moleoux with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream. It was ok. I would say perfectly made? But then i am not a dessert person. The one thing i look for is that it is not too sweet and you can just taste how chocolate is supposed to taste like. So it wasn't too sweet.
Oh and then we told them it was A's birthday and they got us peanut butter parfait with caramel on top and a birthday candle too. Personally I love peanut butter so it think i prefered that to my original dessert.
Aperitif and chocolates : FINALLY DONE!! They pushed this aperitif cart with cognac andn whisky etc. Lovely choices but mostly from France and Scotland. And they had an amazing chocolate cart. Imagine bowls and bowls of choclate hung on a coat hanger-ish looking thing. I think the waiters saw we were pretty much struggling by then.(Well i think they realised at the monkfish when i only finished half of it) But we gamely tried some chocos. They were ok but a bit too sweet. I thought it was cos my taste buds were dying on me. SO anways, they very kindly offered to pack some chocos for us. We got two bags. YUMMY!!
It is an amazing place. The service was excellent and the food simply..alright too many superlatives. Something I wouldn't do every week. Too much rich food. However, i do understand why the nobles in Victorian times were fat. =)
Definately a place i would go again. But then one has to book a month in advance o.O
Did i mention the wine list was a hundred pages long?? Oh and to top it all off, we saw one of the ex-James Bond (the one before the blond one) my dream guy Pierce Brosnan sitting by the bar havin drinks. AHHHH i got pretty starstruck. HELLO MY DREAM GUY!! Tall dark and handsome. *sigh*
My point was, the contrast between how people define 'fine dining'. The utopia of fine dining and the hell of 'fine dining'. Good god how it is in the same category defies explanation.
Anyways, the other thing i want to blog about is B Button. ISn't it an awesome show!! I don't think i've cried that much in a long time. It comes pretty close in the top three of shows i've cried the most for. That, windstruck and that andy lau show where he grows old and dies. Oh well..time to do worksies!!
Anyways, there are a few things i want to blog about today. Mostly the restaurants i've been to and what i've been doing. MY SOCIAL LIFE HAS BECOME PRACTICALLY NON-EXISTENT. Ahhh! can't wait till easter and i get to study even more yay! but no more dissertations =)
ASo for the past few weeks, i've been to Ikeda, Muranos, Sake No Hana, Fifteen , Marcus Wareing and Makan among others. I think there are a few more but i just can't remember. But today will be dedicated to Fifteen and Marcus. The former is an absolute travesty of a 'fine dining' restaurant whilst the other was totally and utterly magnificent. Omg, i can still taste the foie gras in my mouth. Perfectly cooked foi gras that tastes like the siew yoke fat melting in your mouth. Omg omg heavenly..
Ooops, got a little bit carried away.
Fifteen = the first time A said we were going my face kinda feel. Honestly,nothing impresses me more than food cooked my a bunch of supposedly improvished youths. Anyone can cook right? WRONG. seriously WRONG. To start of with, the table they gave us, i ended up sitting in front of a five foot wide pig face painted on the wall. And for the next three hours...THREE HOURS I SWEAR the pig was staring at me! But anyways, horrible distracting decor coupled with graffiti paint. Plus the wine choices were mediocre to say the least. The first thing i look for in the restaurant is the wine list. The prices and choices give the place away. Anyways, the wine i choose, the Katnook Cab Sauv was so not worth to price I paid. Suffice to say the wines there were pretty unreasonable. Oh i haven't got to the food yet. The highlight of the my night!! The best part were the appetisers : The salami. Yea alright, i suppose it's impossible to screw up salami.
Then can the starters which were pretty strange. I've never tasted so many different flavours on a scallop before. One thing those chefs in Fifteen like to do is to overpower the food with herbs. I have no idea why but my lamb so so horrible i just stared at the gooey green excuse of sauce. I think it was supposed to be some minty parsley sauce thing? Anyawys, i was pretty disgusted after the first bite, whined a bit and in the end got it exchanged to the scallops for mains. The scallops were perfectly cooked, but i couldn't say the same for the garnishes. THE VEGETABLES WERE BLACK. This is how the conversation went:
'I think my vegetables are black'
'Oh it's just cos it's caramelised. Those are caramelised vegetable'
To which i was pretty shocked. Yea i know, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEB CARAMELISED AND BURNT VEGETABLES. Which is why people get it wrong all the time. It is an art to caramelise vegetables.
By then, the fight had gone out in me. I could see from this place, my complaints would be compensated by more lacklustre food.
So we just got dessert : Chocolate mousse which texture and taste was more like chocolate brownies. Heavy and dreary. But then i guess there's nothing much i could expect. Everytime i turned around the head chef was doing everything but checking the food.
Oh well, at least we saw the creator himself Jamie O dining there. But then again, the food is so not worth 60 pounds.
On the other hand, Marcus was absolutely delightful. From the appetisers, the foie gras with this really amazing crunchy mini biscuit/baguette cross thing. It came with two sauces, some cavier/sundried tomato sauce with this unidentified spice which made me think of curry. Sounds weird but i was sooo good. I ate it all.
The sommelier was really friendly. Since we took the tasting menu, i couldn't decide on which wine to go with all the dishes. So we asked him and he said he would pair each dish with a wine.
Anywways, will try to remember which dish went with which wine. It was an 8 course meal so here goes!
Pre starters :
Some mushroom soup served in a shot glass with truffle oil : Awesome awesome awesome. A bit too salty and the chef's advice to 'drink it like an expresso' which had me sipping cos THAT'S HOW PEOPLE DRINK EXPRESSO RIGHT? but nooo stupid A drank it all in one go. I tried it and my throat got SCALDED. Maybe it was cos i was sick. Anyways, all in all, amazing.
Starters :
Foie gras with rhubarbs and lamb reduction. Alright it sounds more interesting than it actually is. It was exquisite. Salty, melt in your mouth goodness. When eaten with the rhubarb, the sweetness of it totally brought out the flavour.
It was paired with this italian sweet wine which whilst i could see the rationale, i wasn't too crazy about. Too strong and too sweet for my likes. But then i am pretty fond of salty stuff.
Scallops with cucumber and caviar : It was an alright dish. The cucmbers gave it a bit of a fresh taste. Not one of my favourite dishes of the night.
It was paired with a Chardonnay from Yarra Valley. It was an awesome pairing, after eating the scallops, the slight fizz from sipping the wine gives it a bang!
Roasted quail : I'm not too sure about the garnishes, but it was without doubt one of my favourite dishes of the night! The quail was perfectly cooked and succulent. After eating it i could taste the blood in my mouth. In a good way of course.
It was paired with a red from if i'm not wrong a french bordeaux. I've never been good with french wines but still an pretty good combination. Tho personally i would have preferred a stronger wine. More full bodied.
Monkfish with truffles : This was one of the specialities. By then i was getting really really full. The thing with truffles is, if you feel really full the smell of it makes one feel nauseous. But i soldiered on!Not really into monkfish. The meat is too tough but the garnishes was fantastic. But then the secret to cooking a good monkfish is the sauce and the garnished. Monkfish has an interesting texture to it tho.
It was paired with a Riesling from Austria : Delcately sweet and just the right kind of fruity. I think for this dish the wine impressed me more.
Mains : FINALLY RIGHT????!! Honestly i felt so bloated by then it was all i could take from crying when the dish arrived. It was venision. Pretty well cooked i would say but i could barely finish. I think i ate two slices and gave the rest to A. I think A's lamb was perfectly cooked. Tasted like siew yoke actually. Melt in your mouth grilled goodness.
Cheeses : We got to taste a few cheeses with figs. I love it when they push their trolley around full of all that cheesy goodness. Yummy yummy!! We took a few strong cheeses so it was pretty good. Usually i'm a camembert woman mnyself, but those strong cheese made me rethink for a bit. I don't really remember the names of the cheese cos it was all in FRENCH SPOKEN IN A FRENCH ACCENT. =.= i so want to know!!
Pre-dessert (omg amazing right. I have no idea how i was still alive . Thank god i wore a dress) : Well there was vanilla ice cream with sorbet. Fantastic palatte cleanser. Sour and sweet with a slight fizz
Dessert : Choco moleoux with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream. It was ok. I would say perfectly made? But then i am not a dessert person. The one thing i look for is that it is not too sweet and you can just taste how chocolate is supposed to taste like. So it wasn't too sweet.
Oh and then we told them it was A's birthday and they got us peanut butter parfait with caramel on top and a birthday candle too. Personally I love peanut butter so it think i prefered that to my original dessert.
Aperitif and chocolates : FINALLY DONE!! They pushed this aperitif cart with cognac andn whisky etc. Lovely choices but mostly from France and Scotland. And they had an amazing chocolate cart. Imagine bowls and bowls of choclate hung on a coat hanger-ish looking thing. I think the waiters saw we were pretty much struggling by then.(Well i think they realised at the monkfish when i only finished half of it) But we gamely tried some chocos. They were ok but a bit too sweet. I thought it was cos my taste buds were dying on me. SO anways, they very kindly offered to pack some chocos for us. We got two bags. YUMMY!!
It is an amazing place. The service was excellent and the food simply..alright too many superlatives. Something I wouldn't do every week. Too much rich food. However, i do understand why the nobles in Victorian times were fat. =)
Definately a place i would go again. But then one has to book a month in advance o.O
Did i mention the wine list was a hundred pages long?? Oh and to top it all off, we saw one of the ex-James Bond (the one before the blond one) my dream guy Pierce Brosnan sitting by the bar havin drinks. AHHHH i got pretty starstruck. HELLO MY DREAM GUY!! Tall dark and handsome. *sigh*
My point was, the contrast between how people define 'fine dining'. The utopia of fine dining and the hell of 'fine dining'. Good god how it is in the same category defies explanation.
Anyways, the other thing i want to blog about is B Button. ISn't it an awesome show!! I don't think i've cried that much in a long time. It comes pretty close in the top three of shows i've cried the most for. That, windstruck and that andy lau show where he grows old and dies. Oh well..time to do worksies!!
Thursday, March 05, 2009
So i did my first presentation in 4 years. I was a total and utter disaster. My thoughts were disorganised, messy and made no sense. I mumbled throughout my whole presentation. With 15 people staring at you and you have NO IDEA what to say, totally crushing. I suppose it is an incentive to improve. NEVER AGAIN WILL I SOUND SO STUPID. According to BFF1 i sounded like a lost confused girl. Oh well, once you're down the only way to go is up! =) Plues BFF1 and the other one was sooo sweet. Granted i conned her to come she actually ended up helping me prep for my presentation like 3 hours before(I told her i bought her lunchies). Our conversations sounded like
Me (with my big innocent eyes) : Are you mad?
Her: 99% of people will LOOK at me and think i am mad...BUT NO I AM NOT.
YOu know it's bad when a science major ends up structuring your whole presentation. Anyways the other one was came later on to cheer me on with cupcakes and a cute chocolate duck. Now my lil pirate m&ms has a lil ducky buddy. Well till i eat it. =) yummy yummy ducky!!
The other one ended up staring at BFF1 sulking. Apparently BFF1 looked really mad. Oh i found out later another hour with me and she was going to start yelling. Ok i was that horrible =(
After some self-reflection and some movie time with L everything was alright again.
At least it made me slightly happier/
Me (with my big innocent eyes) : Are you mad?
Her: 99% of people will LOOK at me and think i am mad...BUT NO I AM NOT.
YOu know it's bad when a science major ends up structuring your whole presentation. Anyways the other one was came later on to cheer me on with cupcakes and a cute chocolate duck. Now my lil pirate m&ms has a lil ducky buddy. Well till i eat it. =) yummy yummy ducky!!
The other one ended up staring at BFF1 sulking. Apparently BFF1 looked really mad. Oh i found out later another hour with me and she was going to start yelling. Ok i was that horrible =(
After some self-reflection and some movie time with L everything was alright again.
At least it made me slightly happier/
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Finally a new post! mwahaha joy joy joy!!
i do realise i've been sorely neglecting this blog plus i think my writing skills have deteriorated to the point i lack the confidence to write a coherent sentence.
Back to the topic, the other day BFF and I came to a surprising conclusion. Turns out that all our bickering and our general 'friendly' disagreements about almost everything in general came down to one simple fact. We look for characteristics our mothers have when if comes to best friends. Yea i know, i suppose it's better getting nagged at from your friend rather than your own mom. Maybe it's an ego thing. Or maybe it's the fact we strive familiarity. Or maybe i just love getting yelled at.
Point in fact, BFF1 loves organising. Actually, ALL my BFFs love organising, being emo retarded, and are pretty punctual. A perfect foil for my innate messiness and general day dreaming. Usually BFFs either end up yelling at me or end up cleaning my messes. Once, after BFF1 got so fed up, she ended up cleaning my room and my wardrobe.
Which is exactly what mother would do minus the yelling. Truth be told, i think on a subconscious level, we do look for a little of our moms in other people.
Why why why??Is it because of our innate need always look for the familiar?
I still haven't figured that out yet.
I suppose i do love being taken care of. =D
Plus i finally watched that "vampire love story with a human" movie the other day. Not the best vampire show i've seen ever. Come to think of it, the only think i remember was the flying around the woods. Well imbibed with wine i was. every 10 miniutes A and i were asking each other, 'Is he depressed...AGAIN?'
i suppose anti depressents don't work on vampires. Interview with the vampire still KICKS ASS!
i do realise i've been sorely neglecting this blog plus i think my writing skills have deteriorated to the point i lack the confidence to write a coherent sentence.
Back to the topic, the other day BFF and I came to a surprising conclusion. Turns out that all our bickering and our general 'friendly' disagreements about almost everything in general came down to one simple fact. We look for characteristics our mothers have when if comes to best friends. Yea i know, i suppose it's better getting nagged at from your friend rather than your own mom. Maybe it's an ego thing. Or maybe it's the fact we strive familiarity. Or maybe i just love getting yelled at.
Point in fact, BFF1 loves organising. Actually, ALL my BFFs love organising, being emo retarded, and are pretty punctual. A perfect foil for my innate messiness and general day dreaming. Usually BFFs either end up yelling at me or end up cleaning my messes. Once, after BFF1 got so fed up, she ended up cleaning my room and my wardrobe.
Which is exactly what mother would do minus the yelling. Truth be told, i think on a subconscious level, we do look for a little of our moms in other people.
Why why why??Is it because of our innate need always look for the familiar?
I still haven't figured that out yet.
I suppose i do love being taken care of. =D
Plus i finally watched that "vampire love story with a human" movie the other day. Not the best vampire show i've seen ever. Come to think of it, the only think i remember was the flying around the woods. Well imbibed with wine i was. every 10 miniutes A and i were asking each other, 'Is he depressed...AGAIN?'
i suppose anti depressents don't work on vampires. Interview with the vampire still KICKS ASS!
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
It's SUMMER!!! okie well not officially, but the flies are buzzing around , the sky's blue and there's this light breeze which ever so gently brushes my skin. So not a good idea to study next to the window cos every 5 minutes i stare out LONGINGLY...
Oh well, I've got my whole list of summer clothes which i want to buy...but damn i'm stuck indoors.
Another 6 more days to go..and i can't wait. Such an unfamiliar feeling. Instead of panic, i feel zen. So zen i think it's my new way of freaking out. Shoving everything into the subconscious.
But then again, i've never had the luxury of doing practice essays and timing myself. Most of the time it's me struggling to cram every single thing into my tiny little brain.
Anyways, just a little note out to this dude who's finally decided i (well and a few other friends) don't belong in his life anymore.
I'm so gonna miss the 10 missed calls and the random calls I get in the morning telling you're on your way to my house UNINVITED.
I can't believe i'm an ungrateful friend just because i don't answer your calls or appreciate YOU the way you should be appreciated. Obviously the fact that i've spent freaking hours listening to your pseudo problems and those 'oh life is so cruel' rhetorics is is of NO relavance. And this is why kiddies, when people start whining to you about their sad lives just tell them to GROW UP. People like this never learn no matter what you tell them since they're just too happy being miserable.
Something he said that really insulted me was that I'M TOO CHILL.
It went along the lines of
'Hey you know what your problem is, you're too chill'
me : (obviously perplexed) What do you mean?
'You just don't care about anything. It's just so irritating.'
ppffffft...so insulting!! I do care about stuff. It's just that I HAVE PRIORITIES.You just can't screw up your life WORRYING ABOUT EVERY SINGLE LITTLE DETAIL. Besides, the only reason why I'm cool with anything is not that i DON'T CARE. it's not important whether I go for dinner at any random restaurants because the food in London is edible at best NOR is it important what crap the other guy told you since he's a dumbass anyway NOR does it matter if you whine about how friends just don't care about you since you're too busy looking into your own little crystal ball of how friends should ACT instead of realizing how you simly can't predict ANYTHING.
People are not automonous beings. You don't do things for them and expect an appropriate response. THERE is NONE. Someone should tell him be happy just because they're happy.
Oh wait i did tell him that. And he told me, but sometimes i do things for them, and i never get anything back.
OH MY GOD. Friendship is not a barter system. You just do it because they're your friends.
Sometimes i just don't get why you can't see that for yourself. What irks me is that we've told you so many times..and yet..
It's just so immature refusing to even acknowledge us, or telling mutual friends that you won't go for dinner just cos we're there or go on holiday with us for that matter.
oh well. It's all chill now. I'm just glad i don't have to put up with this crap anymore.
I wish i could tell you all this, but i don't care anymore.
Oh well, I've got my whole list of summer clothes which i want to buy...but damn i'm stuck indoors.
Another 6 more days to go..and i can't wait. Such an unfamiliar feeling. Instead of panic, i feel zen. So zen i think it's my new way of freaking out. Shoving everything into the subconscious.
But then again, i've never had the luxury of doing practice essays and timing myself. Most of the time it's me struggling to cram every single thing into my tiny little brain.
Anyways, just a little note out to this dude who's finally decided i (well and a few other friends) don't belong in his life anymore.
I'm so gonna miss the 10 missed calls and the random calls I get in the morning telling you're on your way to my house UNINVITED.
I can't believe i'm an ungrateful friend just because i don't answer your calls or appreciate YOU the way you should be appreciated. Obviously the fact that i've spent freaking hours listening to your pseudo problems and those 'oh life is so cruel' rhetorics is is of NO relavance. And this is why kiddies, when people start whining to you about their sad lives just tell them to GROW UP. People like this never learn no matter what you tell them since they're just too happy being miserable.
Something he said that really insulted me was that I'M TOO CHILL.
It went along the lines of
'Hey you know what your problem is, you're too chill'
me : (obviously perplexed) What do you mean?
'You just don't care about anything. It's just so irritating.'
ppffffft...so insulting!! I do care about stuff. It's just that I HAVE PRIORITIES.You just can't screw up your life WORRYING ABOUT EVERY SINGLE LITTLE DETAIL. Besides, the only reason why I'm cool with anything is not that i DON'T CARE. it's not important whether I go for dinner at any random restaurants because the food in London is edible at best NOR is it important what crap the other guy told you since he's a dumbass anyway NOR does it matter if you whine about how friends just don't care about you since you're too busy looking into your own little crystal ball of how friends should ACT instead of realizing how you simly can't predict ANYTHING.
People are not automonous beings. You don't do things for them and expect an appropriate response. THERE is NONE. Someone should tell him be happy just because they're happy.
Oh wait i did tell him that. And he told me, but sometimes i do things for them, and i never get anything back.
OH MY GOD. Friendship is not a barter system. You just do it because they're your friends.
Sometimes i just don't get why you can't see that for yourself. What irks me is that we've told you so many times..and yet..
It's just so immature refusing to even acknowledge us, or telling mutual friends that you won't go for dinner just cos we're there or go on holiday with us for that matter.
oh well. It's all chill now. I'm just glad i don't have to put up with this crap anymore.
I wish i could tell you all this, but i don't care anymore.
Monday, April 28, 2008
I think i'm having pre exam blues. I'm sitting here on my floor with books, papers and study guides surrounding me but i just don't have urge to pick it up and look through it. Granted that exams are in two weeks and i am really pretty screwed right now.
But in the end is it all worth it? I get to work at some faceless multinational corporation, work my ass of till 12 am everyday, get a fantastic promotion by the time i'm 40, ignore all my friends and in the end buy pretty expensive things to make me feel happy and accomplished.
Oh well, first i have to get through studying some lame ass module which incidently is probably going to be the most relevant subject in real life.
But i finally figured out why i hate it so much. With it's rules and preocdures, the constant flipping through the statute book. It's like a personification of my life. It's all about following orders, listening to what everyone wants from you, expects from you. And along the way what they want becomes what you want. And before you know it, you're screwed.
You end up applying for internships you really don't want but need. Oh it's great dinner conversation too, ' oh my kid's working in this bla bla firm. WOW'
You end up saying 'yes, sure okie' to everything you don't mind doing, but doesn't make you feel complete.
Sometimes i wish i was stronger than this. But then i do like pretty things too much. xD
I don't know why i'm so emo right now. Must be the exam stress building up.
It's the first time ever that i've been so prepared for something. Usually it's me freaking out the day before and trying deperately ,futilely to cram things in last minute. It usually works. But since that tactic failed last year, i tried working hard this year. And it's freaking me out.
Sighs...
But in the end is it all worth it? I get to work at some faceless multinational corporation, work my ass of till 12 am everyday, get a fantastic promotion by the time i'm 40, ignore all my friends and in the end buy pretty expensive things to make me feel happy and accomplished.
Oh well, first i have to get through studying some lame ass module which incidently is probably going to be the most relevant subject in real life.
But i finally figured out why i hate it so much. With it's rules and preocdures, the constant flipping through the statute book. It's like a personification of my life. It's all about following orders, listening to what everyone wants from you, expects from you. And along the way what they want becomes what you want. And before you know it, you're screwed.
You end up applying for internships you really don't want but need. Oh it's great dinner conversation too, ' oh my kid's working in this bla bla firm. WOW'
You end up saying 'yes, sure okie' to everything you don't mind doing, but doesn't make you feel complete.
Sometimes i wish i was stronger than this. But then i do like pretty things too much. xD
I don't know why i'm so emo right now. Must be the exam stress building up.
It's the first time ever that i've been so prepared for something. Usually it's me freaking out the day before and trying deperately ,futilely to cram things in last minute. It usually works. But since that tactic failed last year, i tried working hard this year. And it's freaking me out.
Sighs...
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Just watched that new daniel day lewis show. The one that's tipped to win big time in the oscars. It's a really good show, but the music score annoyed me big time. Lots of screechy violin and some weird intrument i couldn't make out. The ending's a bit depressing too. I guess it suits the current mood everyone's in london at the moment.
I wonder,it's so easy to take someone for granted. And do sweet words really make it all better?
I wonder,it's so easy to take someone for granted. And do sweet words really make it all better?
