Mata Ramen

I am a ramen freakie, so I went to eat ramen again... Got a new ramen shop opening at the Central and, of course, so definitely, Moi got to go and "survey" this new place and its ramen, right? =P Yup yup!! It's the sensational Marutama Ramen. It was Twinny's suggestion to go check it out. We had made reservation at 8:30pm but we were both terribly held up at somewhere nearby while Twinny's dearie circling his "helicopter" to wait for us. =P Thus I got calls from the restaurant twice to confirm our reservation...

1st Call @ 8:30pm
Marutama Staff : Hi Miss Twin 1. Are you here already?

Me (to self) : Alamak! Moi is transparent meh. If I reached, you sure can see me what!! Stupid question.

Me : So sorry. I will be a little late. But somebody should be coming any minute. [A mystery guest is joining us dinner too.]

Marutama Staff : Nope.

Me : Sorry I will call you back. Definitely coming. Please hold our reservation.

Moi proceed to call Mystery Guest frantically to apologise and to ask him to go to Marutama as fast as his legs could bring him. =P Unfortunately by 9pm, me and twinny were still stuck....so my phone started to ring again...

2nd Call @ 9pm
Marutama Staff : Hi Miss Twin 1. Are you coming soon?

Me : Sorry sorry. My friend not there yet meh?

Marutama Staff : Got. But only 1 where are the other 3??

Me : Er...the other 3..on the way already.* super paiseh *.

Marutama Staff : What time can the other 3 come?

Me : 7 minutes... coming coming. Sorry sorry.... (-_-;;)

To the Mystery guest that sat alone for a good half an hour waiting for twinny, twinny's dearie and myself and still "mysteriously" paid for our dinners. Gomenasai. m(_ _)m And thank you very much.

Moi's Marutama ramen

The uniqueness of Marutama ramen lies in its soup and noodles. The noodles is super thin like our local mee kiah instead of the typical ramen's thick noodles. The ramen soup is of chicken base instead of pork base. Hmm... well... i dun find the soup less saltish or less oily because chicken is used instead of pork. But as a personal preference, I do prefer the usual pork base soup and thick noodles instead of this. But I would say that the thin noodles and soup did compliment each other. Just it does not taste too "ramen" for me. All of us also had additional topping - seasonal egg which is very soft and nice.

Twinny & Mystery Guest's Aka Ramen

Well, Twinny and our Mystery Guest had Aka Ramen which is nuts soup base instead with coriander, the dangerous chai. Heehee! The taste is lighter, less oily and rather refreshing. I would think the Chief Chef of Marutama ramen did quite a good job in creating such an unique soup base. We had also wanted to try their Ebi Ramen (prawn soup) base but it was sold out. =(

Twinny's Dearie's Marutama Ramen with Kakuni & Negi Toppings

Kakuni is our kong ba (braised triple-layer pork) and negi is spring onions. Twinny's dearie ordered additional toppings for negi at a dollar so he was very "skeptical" when he discovered that all of us also got negi in our soup. The fact was all the ramen come with negi lah but his ramen got SUPER SUPER DOUBLE TRIPLE doses of negi lor. Kekekeke!

Yaki Char Siew

This is really nice... the pork was grilled slightly and sliced thinly so it tastes just so tender and sweet with every bite. Ummmmmmmmmmmm... heavenly.

Tori Dango

And we had 2 of these cos we were so super hungry while waiting for our ramen. The unique part about Marutama ramen is that there is kaedama at a dollar. This is very common in the typical ramen shop but the first time for me to encounter in Singapore. So it was rather interesting. I had wanted very badly to ask for my ramen refill but didn't. As I didn't want to be seem like such a "greedy" little pig in front of these 3 teeny weeny tummies. =(

SLURPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!

Of course, Moi was the first one to finish and lick up my bowl of ramen and wait for the 3 "slowcoaches". BUT I was still super hungry after my teeny weeny bowl of ramen. yup yup yup! I ain't greedy. SHOOT ME. Got to cajole the 3 teeny weeny tummies to adjoin to Sun With Moon for desserts and more chat to fill my BIG tummy. kekeke! This time, it was Twinny's dearie's treat. heehee! Thanks to BIL.

Tofu Cheese Cake.. * who let the bird out??? *


Macha Tiramisu

Twinny had intended to bring us to a nice dessert place along Roberston Quay that should remain un-named for the time being, but it was damn crowded giving that tomorrow is a public holiday. Well, was feeling quite disappointed, since we had walked all the way from the Central to Robertson Quay. But dessert at Sun with Moon was just as good. The Macha Tiramisu was very soft and not too sweet and the Tofu cheese cake was not too creamy and just nice. Yummy.

Our Drinks : Green (celery), Yellow (lemon), Orange (carrot), Black (?)

The 3 of them ordered the vitamin Drinks while Moi's was the Black Vitamin??? What was that?? kekeke! Coffee lah. What u guys are thinking? Not black berries, coka cola or spider venom hor. *wink*

And guess what, after the stroke of 11pm while we are still chatting noisy and enjoying our desserts, Mystery Guest No. 2 popped by to join us. Kekekeke! What a night!! =)


Marutama Ramen
6 Eu Tong Sen Street
#03-90/91 The Central
Tel : 6534-8090

Opening hours
11 am - 10 pm (last order 9.45 pm)

Appreciation

I got this... *grin*

5.3km

Today I felt a little bit more energetic than usual and so decided to extend my usual 4.3km for another 1km to 5.3km and I completed the run in 50 Minutes. Yippy!! *Pats myself*

While waiting for my running kaki, who came back later than Moi. *Yawn* I took some pictures...

Okie lah, okie lah.. my running kaki ran 4km more lah. *moi runs away and hides*

Nice sunset

Tonkichi

Tonight, twinny's dearie wanted to give us a treat and so we had Japanese food at Tonkichi. Yummy!! I understand that Tonkichi actually cook their fried pork fillet and loin in very control standards and procedures that each pork fillet and loin produced is to taste exactly the same no matter what Tonkichi you are in and in which country. Unbelievable right? Amazing. =P Anywhere, someone was commenting why I kept blogging about Jpn food... hmm...it's kind of coincidentally and unintentionally.

Tonkichi actually serves very similar dishes like Tampopo but the pork used is different so the taste varies but i enjoy both. Heehee!!! By the way, you might have notice that I am quite a PORK eater. I love PORK. *wink*

Mixed tonkatsu set - Twinny's dearie


Katsu Curry Rice - Twinny


Rosu Katsu Ju - Moi


Frozen strawberry with ice cream

The frozen strawberry with ice cream was kind of hard and very cold. I find it quite yummy though twinny did not really fancy it. I actually made a frozen banana before myself and it taste quite similar style minus the ice cream. To make a frozen banana, peel off the skin of the banana, then wrap it tight with a cling wrap and freeze it inside the freezer. The moisture will harden the banana and it will taste really great. Like Banana ice cream. Kekeke! Dun believe? Go TRY!! (^_-)

Tonkichi Japanese Restaurant
Level 4, Isetan Scotts
350, Orchard Rd
Shaw House
Tel: 68354648

Foolish Being

Foolish Being, you are always chasing after things that seem important but are actually unimportant ...

And only after we lost the most precious thing, can we understand we have waste so much time chasing after the unimportant and not treasuring the most important..

Then you will start to realise that what you have always think is important is actually not important.

Wake up...

Let it Go by Corrinne May

It's gone... let me wipe your tears away... and the wound in your heart....

I think we've been here before
I recognize this place
I've seen the marks of confusion
wipe out a single sign of grace
And I don't want to play anymore
Not when the stakes are so high
So before we circle round once more
I'm gonna lay down,
Lay down my pride

Let it go, let it be
Don't waste all your emotion on this
tit-for-tat machine
Let it go, let it be
Let it go

I turn on the TV
and it screams out at me
Nothing seems to have changed
since the start of Adam and Eve
So we're waiting for the sky to fall
and we're buying brand new toys
But before we circle round once more
Can we lay down
Just lay down this pride

Let it go, let it be
Don't waste all your emotion on this
tit-for-tat machine
Let it go, let it be
Let it go
Don't go wasting your emotions
No one wins if we keep score
Let it go, let it be
Let it go

992,456,005 seconds and counting....

I am living as of this very second on this earth for 992,456,005s...

992,456,006s.....

992,456,007s....

992,456,008s....

Still counting...

Sun with the Moon

The restaurants @ The Central should start paying me for highly publicising the different restaurants there. *wink* Well, this is another one... BUT i bet most of you might have already heard or have been to the Sun with Moon outlet at Wheelock Place. Went over to the outlet at the Central for dinner some time ago and this is what we had...

Well the signature dish for the Sun with Moon is actually kamameshi (traditional steamed seasoned rice pot) but we didn't have any of these and had other dishes instead...

Half-broiled sushi

This sushi is interesting since we only figured it out after asking more than 3 waitress. =P Half-broiled sushi means that half of the raw meat - fish or otherwise, are grilled and the other half sticking to the rice is raw. This is a very unique cooking method that is being done at Sun with Moon. Well, the taste was not so bad, since we had the combo and one of the half-broiled sushi was foie gras sushi. I would strongly recommend to eat it without thinking it is "normal" sushi then you would appreciate the taste better.

Hotplate crabmeat with egg and mushroom


Scallop with cheese


BBQ Pork Ribs *fingerlicking good*


Spaghetti with Sour Plums


Scenic view outdoor

It's a good gathering place for friends. Stay away from sake, sushi and sashimi and it would not be a too PRICEY place for dinner. But it's very crowded every day so would suggest making reservation before going down.


SUN with MOON Japanese Dining & Cafė
6 Eu Tong Sen Street,
#01-70 to 72, The Central
Tel : 6534 7784 (The Central)
Tel : 6733 6636(Wheelock place)

Treat after RUN

Just because I had such a Shiok Run, Moi deserve to pig out after losing a few calories... =P So I went for dinner cum drinks with my running kaki along boat quay...

Fish and Chips


Sausage Platter


Caesar Salad with Grilled Prawns

Well this is really nice since the nice Sweetie actually specially requested the chef to do it up for us. Kekekeke! It was nice to chill out after a hot run. Bliss... *wink*


The Cavern
33 Boat Quay

Hurrary

Pant... Pant.. Pant...

Just back from a RUN....

SHIOK!

New Record, 30 minutes for 3 km.

Pats Self... v(^o^)v

Fine Dinning

During my previous posting on my dinner at Saint Julien, a nice cosy restaurant tucked under the Anderson Bridge along the Singapore River, I did not manage to upload any photos; so during a recent dinner trip there again, I tried and managed to take some snapshots of my dinner (not all) and be glad to post it here... heehee!

Appetizers :
ROSETTE DE SAUMON / SALMON ROLL
Cured salmon with Avruga cream and "Ravigote" mustard and pickle sauce

RAVIOLI DE CRABE / CRAB RAVIOLI
Ravioli of Alaskan crab with lobster and brandy emuslion



FOIE GRAS POELE / PAN SEARED DUCK LIVER
Pan seared foie gras with grape and verjus sauce



Main Course :
DUCK CONFETTI



Dessert :
FROMAGES DE FRANCE / FRENCH CHEESE

My repeat and continuous patron of Saint Julien is not only because of the delicacies served but also because of the great and warm hospitality extended by all the staff from the restaurant. I really admire the owners of this restaurant, a husband-wife team for their heart and efforts in building not only a restaurant but also its name and reputation for great hospitality, sincerity in serving and in food preparation. This once again reminds me of another Japanese restaurant, Tom Ton that I had mentioned previously also. Serving Food with a Heart.

I dun want to get to know YOU....

A "well-intention" friend set me up with a GUY some time ago, just recently. OK...... I know the sweetie meant well and is genuinely concern about Moi's Love Affairs..BUT for those who knows Moi. Moi does not like such SURPRISE. So would really APPRECIATE if friend(s) can stop arranging such things especially WITHOUT informing me beforehand.... And when Moi said "NO, Thank you." Moi does genuinely means IT and NOT being paiseh, ok?

Hmm...actually what's wrong with a lady passing or nearing to the BIG 3? Getting oneself hitched is no longer a very important agenda for the independent and lovely ladies like all of you out there reading, including myself and twinny. Oopss...even thought twinny is hitched and happily married. I dun believe in those sayings that woman should lower their expectations and just grab any Tom, Dick and Harry that just came along. LADIES, it's a CAPITAL N-O!! Dun do that to yourself!!! DUN listen to those Do-do Birds that advise you. Most probably they are unhappily stuck in a marriage with some lousy men and feeling miserable. Buahahahahaha! Anywhere my point is not to ask you to stay single BUT rather not to have unrealistic criteria for your future partner-to-be like I want a MR ANDY LAU or MR BRAD PITT but to be realistic and reasonable. And to focus on building confidence in yourself to fish the right guy. Take your time to find the RIGHT one and dun just take the WRONG one because you are worried the RIGHT one may never come.

So... how did it go???

Well... let's say the poor guy did not have a *smooth* time since he is dealing with a HARD NUT - AH MOI. Nope... he did not have a HARD time, he just had a FREEZING time. FROST BITE from the Ice Queen!!! BUZZ OFF!!! Kekekekekeke! =P

Life is not always a Box of Chocolate....

Chocolate?


It can be biscuits leh..... =P

Many a times, Life happenings are uneXpected but we always like to assume the eXpected and insist that certain things has to be in a specific way.

WARNING

Yup.it's broken English!! But it's a fact and I am looking at this everyday...

TSK TSK...stopping crossing that legs of yours. YUP YUP!! You!!

Dun turn away. It's YOU LAH!!

Sleepy Spudgy

Twinny kept pestering me to put this up on our blog...so here is the super dube cutie sleepy Spudgy

Spudgy, sweetie...pls sleep...

Source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12PsUW-8ge4

Talking Dinosaur

Today something interesting happened in Moi's office... overheard a conversation between my colleague and Miss Chopsy

Colleague 1 : Can you stop talking. It's very distracting.

Miss Chopsy : Am I? I speak very softly leh. Disturbing meh?

Colleague 1 : Of course!! You speak like a Dinosaur!!

Wahahahahahahahha! *rolling on floor* My colleague was so funny. So friends, I am not the ONLY one cannot tahan Miss Chopsy hor. Miss Chopsy is really super noisy lor. *wink*

Miss Blogging... Reason 3

Well, NOT sure if you ALL miss reading my blog but i do miss blogging. GosH!! Getting withdrawal symptoms and very much itching to blog... *sigh* Work have been piling and got quite a few other committments lately... the foremost thing is a test coming up for my Japanese Language Course this coming saturday, 21 April ... so till then...

All the food that I ate, all the places that I visited, my thoughts and comments, my grandmother tales will have to wait...

=(

Miss Blogging... Reason 2

Yup!! Moi is very serious about the running... i had been running for the past few weeks, average 3 times a week... and I am loving it more and more.

From my sia suay record of 1 hour for 3km run... i have improved to 40min record of non-stop running of 4.3km. Amazed? ^_-) WELL.. When Moi sets my heart to something, I am invincible lah. To prove my determination to challenge myself, I rewarded myself with new shoes, new shoes bag and some sports wear. Yup yup!! I know all the girls out there will be nodding your heads and the guys will go shaking your heads!! The man, dun get it har! ^_-) Anywhere I am having a lot of fun and I do feel a lot more healthier and SLIMMER and TONER. SO GALS, what are you waiting for?? Start calling moi hor. *wink*

Miss Blogging... Reason 1

Have not been able to blog much lately...cos I was so occupied doing this... kekekeke...

My first attempt to cross-stitch a tissue pack. It took me really long hours and many sleepless nights. This is for someone very special and I do hope she will like it...

*Yawn* Going to sleep now...

Finally it's done with a little help from dearest twinny. Hee.

Sweet? Cute? Of course lah...its handmade by Moi leh. ;-)

It Bothers Me That I Have To Go

This is a blog that I like to read by a 93yo guy...

http://dontoearth.blogspot.com/

Ever occurred to you as your last days drew near and you don't know when you be gone.. ...would you be prepared?? I believe I will be bothered too... his blog is inspiring and witty. My grandmother who is nearly 90 like to talk about this issue too. It's scary to share such thoughts with her but she prepares everyday as if it's the last day and makes sure all the things are already "handed over" proper to whoever concern. Death is still a big stigma in Asian customs and honestly, I do not like to talk much about it and would brush it aside whenever grandmother brought it up... but maybe i should talk to her more about it... I believe she must be just as bother as Donald.

Grandmother, i love you so much so please stay with me as long as possible. Hugz.

Encounter with a Colour Wolf

During a cab ride, I met with a 色狼 (literally translated in English as Colour Wolf) taxi driver. GRRRRRRRRR!!! Yup!! Makes Moi Roar with Angry!! X-(

I was thinking how to translate "色狼" properly in English... Is it sex predator? pervert? sex maniac? Womanizer? or what?? Then I thought of a very appropriate and suitable Singlish "Chee Ko Pek"... yup yup..fits like a shoe.

Was discussing with Twinny whether I should make a police report against such IDIOT!! Can you imagine a taxi driver turning full 180 degrees to take your payment and using both his hands to touch your hand when you passed him the money and you feel like you can see he is like drooling with that horrible smile that would make you want to puke all over the taxi!!!!!!! It's just yikey yikey yikey!!!

"Please Lah!!! Uncle!! Can you show some discretion?"

I bet most of my ladies readers being so beautiful and cute would have met once or more with such kind of Hum Sup Taxi driver. And you know what i want to do now... washed my hands with dettol and flushed that STUPID driver's eyes with acid!!!

Twinny was such a cutie when I complained to her...

"You should show him your scary nails and said you got some contagious skin disease. Think he will faint or be scared. Hahahahaha!"

Twinny Dearest, you sure left me in stitches...it's so funny and witty of you. But then at that moment, I just can't wait to drop out of his stinking, stinking taxi. YIKES!!!

What a day!! Girls, beware of WOLVES!!!

Village Wok

Found this nice luchie hangout near my office... A group of us went down and found THIS place quite coincidentally. The Chinese name literally translated into English will mean "Eat Received Fortune" so one of my lunch mates were commenting that he must go and buy 4D and Toto after the meal. Kekekeke!

We tried a few of their chef recommendations and the food was not too bad especially the desserts...

Tofu with XO Sauce


Deep Fried Soon-Hock at only S$18.00/pc


Claypot Chicken with Salted fish


Brinjal


Salad Prawns

The ice creams are specially made and we were spolit for choices so we decided to order everything since we couldn't decide which is nicer. Kekekeke! The taste for all 3 flavours were not too bad though the ginger ice cream might be a bit too "strong" for some.

Desserts : (1) Lychee Ice Cream on Top of Black glutinous rice (2) Ginger Ice cream with red date (3) Lemon Grass Ice Cream

Village Wok Restaurant
Far East Square #01-01
80/82 Telok Ayer Street
Tel : 6743 9743

Me to You

The oldest, smallest house you can imagine was about to be knocked down. All the things that once made the house nice and cosy had been thrown outside and piled up in the front garden, from the soft springy bed the owners slept in, to the old wooden floorboards they used to walk on

…and even, surely by some mistake, a little brown teddy bear.

He was trapped amongst all the other unwanted things, and couldn't move.

Then, one day…a very cold day, something fell from the sky…

…a little snowflake

It landed on the teddy bear's little nose and then was followed by many more. He began to get cold, very cold indeed. More and more snow fell, heavier and heavier. The little bear was now so cold that his nose started turning blue…so cold that his brown fur started turning grey.

He was cold, unloved and all alone in the world, and felt very, very sad.

Winter finally passed and the weather got warmer.

One beautiful spring day, a little girl was playing near the old house, when she spotted the grey bear in the pile of unwanted things. He was like no other bear she had ever seen and she pulled him out from where he was trapped.

She dusted him down and lifted him high in the sky to look at him.

"A grey teddy bear…with a blue nose?" she thought. "How strange!"

The teddy bear wanted to cry. He thought she didn't like him and would throw him back with the other unwanted things.

"But he's lovely!" she continued and she fell completely in love with him.

She ran home as fast as her little legs would carry her, to see if her Grandma could patch him up as a lot of his stuffing had fallen out, and he was very much in need of repair.

She looked on as her Grandma replaced his stuffing and patched up his holes.

His stitches had started showing where the fur had worn away, but the little girl thought he looked perfect.

It was all cosy and warm in the little girl's house and the bear felt all cosy and warm in his heart. However, his nose was still blue and his fur was still grey, and they would never return to brown.

He was unique among teddy bears.

The little girl gave him a great big hug. She loved him more than anything else in the world…her little grey, blue-nosed…

…tatty teddy.

Source : Me To You Story, Retrieved 2 April 2007. *broken link*

Letter to Boss

To : My Irritating Dumb Dumb Boss,

Smart bosses learn that life is easier and results better when they respect and take care of their employees. Dumb bosses usually start by making dumb assumptions. Here are ten of the dumbest ones:

1) Assuming that they are smarter than the people who report to them.
2) Assuming they can delegate responsibility for results.
3) Assuming that employees don't know what's going on.
4) Assuming they can keep secrets.
5) Assuming they are entitled to special perks.
6) Assuming they can get away with abusive behavior.
7) Assuming no one notices their dumb moves.
8) Assuming they can get away with sloppy work.
9) Assuming no one knows they're insecure.

And you clearly shown 8 out of the 9 behaviours. You sure scored with flying colors.

Best Regards,
Your Ever Smart and Witty Brainy Staff

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I bet most of you will be nodding your heads as you read this... aren't your bosses so similar to the above...... Weeeeeeeeee!! Kekekeke!

The bottom line is Employees are endowed with intelligence and common sense that their bosses often seem to lack. Smart bosses remember what it was like to be one of the troops, and take special care to nurture their relationship with them.

In the army, officers are reminded time and again that they must first attend to the needs of their troops before taking care of their own. This is the essence of leadership because, after all, Leadership is just caring made visible.

Extracted from Source : Stupid Boss Tricks, Retrieved 2 April 2007.