Today (or actually, yesterday, since it’s already past midnight now) is Zihan’s birthday! We (Or rather, me) were -supposed- to bring him go eat at Beppu Ramen for lunch. However, due to sources of information that said that it had moved house, was no longer there, open only at dinner time, or something, and due to my general confusion, I, who during conversations, before project presentations, and other various situations ranging from unimportant to life-changing, will always choose “freestyle” over “plan swee swee”, once again, true to form, decided to heck care Beppu Ramen and freestyle again!!! (And I realise that was an overly long sentence.)

So thus it came to pass that on 1st June 2008, me, Zihan, Jia Hao, and Dom, the legendary Four Scheming Dudes (actually not really legendary) decided (actually only I made the decision) to go on A Great Adventure for Food!

We met at Raffles Place mrt at 1pm, mainly cos Beppu Ramen used to be at Far East Square, which was closer to Raffles Place mrt than any other mrt (I think). Although we (I mean, I) had already decided to freestyle, I didn’t get the time or place changed, why, I dunno, all I can say is alcohol impairs judgement (read previous entry). Nah, I’m probably making excuses.

Anyway so the four of us DID meet at Raffles Place mrt, walked out, and saw, as expected, no places selling food in general, cos Raffles Place IS like that ma. Aha, no worries! I said, we could go to Clarke Quay! I remembered a promising long stretch of light-glittered places and talk of supper at those places last night, and supper means food right? So the four of us traipsed to Clarke Quay, where we saw 1) a river, 2) a Milo van (and I went crazy over it), 3) a McDonald’s (which means more Milo sources inside!), and then 4) finally we hit that long stretch of road, which didn’t have anymore glittery lights cos it was the daytime and that means the sun is out. Zihan looked around in general childlike wonder, while the 3 of us just walked through the stretch of shops feeling sian, looking at stuffs that were way over our budget.

Jia Hao revealed that he woke at 10:30am today, and hadn’t eaten as of 1+pm yet. Suddenly, our carefree adventure has changed to one of slight great urgency! Casting around for possible food sources, I remembered that City Hall was a place with lots of food sources! So we started walking in that general direction. Meanwhile, I had to make sure Jia Hao didn’t suddenly sneak up on me and have me for lunch. This adventure was proving to be rather interesting. (and this blog post is proving to be rather kisiao)

On the way to City Hall, we passed by Funan, and Zihan, our birthday boy, wanted to take a look inside. Meanwhile, Jia Hao’s hunger was growing! Ahh, how exciting! We looked at some laptops, and I remembered I was supposed to buy one. Ahh well, such things need, er, prior mental and monetary preparation one. So I just looked along with Zihan and Dom, trying not to mind the nearby McDonald’s, Pastamania, TCC or whatever, cos it would really be a sellout if we ended up at like McDonald’s. There was also some nearby sushi place but dunno why, they didn’t wanna go there. Ok, onward to more food sources then!!

Our walking soon took us to the Padang, where we briefly contemplated eating grass. Perhaps it was due to Zihan (incorrectly) identifying masses of birds in the fields (looking like they were) eating grass. But Esplanade and Suntec City were already in our line-of-sight by then, so we didn’t despair (yet) although Jia Hao was mostly feeling quite chui already. We walked towards the Esplanade, looked at the memorial, then continued walking until we finally hit the air-con of the Esplanade! By that time even I felt greatly relieved for the air-con, and Dom started to feel rather perky, though Jia Hao was still sweating profusely.

After wandering through the Esplanade mostly to no avail, we finally settled at Thai Express and friends, much to the relief of Jia Hao. It was to be short-lived, however, as Zihan suddenly decided that the food was too spicy for him and suggested (though since he’s the VIP, it’s more like a command) we go Citylink Mall. The look of utter chuiness and sianness in Jia Hao’s face made me burst out laughing.

So in the end we started walking to CityLink Mall, with Jia Hao taking the lead since he was feeling really chui by that time. Alot of funny and interesting stuff happened on the way between Zihan and Dom, which made me laugh until pengz. But to cut a long story short(er) (although it’s still already bloody damn long) we ended up at CityLink Mall, where we finally, FINALLY, ended our Great Adventure for Food! We stopped by this restaurant, which I once AGAIN forgot to take note of its name, but which Jia Hao later told me is called Shokudo Japanese Pasta. At that time it was mostly DOMinated by female customers, but I suppose that’s even more enjoyable to Dom!

And now I suddenly feel that not having a digicam is a rather bad thing, cos I can’t post the pics of the wonderful food up here. Anyway, I had salmon pasta, which I thought was really great (though it could be is probably due to our adventure making me more hungry). I don’t like some salmon I tried before, but this one seems delicious, and the salmon roe was very very nice. The pasta, I can’t tell what sauce they are using, but I guess for Jon, you can’t go wrong with pasta “slightly salty, with cheese and chilli”. Dunno how the rest felt about their food. But one bad thing about the place, is that it kept airing Ayumi’s Unite on loop!!! I’m an Ayumi fan, but that’s abit overdoing it for me.

Afterwards Zihan suggested we go to his house to play mahjong, and everyone onz, so on lor! We went to Zihan’s house, had more fun laughing at many of Zihan’s antics on the way (seriously, Zihan is a walking comedy sometimes! And I mean in a good, funny way), and passed by SNGS on the way there, which, if I recall correctly, is the former school of the legendary (ok, I probably should stop using this word all the time) Tingling! (Just someone who is, in my extremely biased opinion, the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen.)

Ah well, I started feeling tired at this point in time, (AND I’m starting to feel extremely tired now as I’m writing this) but anyway, it was more fun to come, watching Zihan and Dom playing GTA4, then playing mahjong, though I made a net loss and played really badly. Somehow me and Jia Hao managed to lose by the exact same amount, and Zihan, with the most birthday luck, (and of cos lots of skill!) won by a large margin! We also had dinner there, which was nice, but not really filling (plus the salmon I had also not filling, I think I must have lost alot of weight by now right?) Seriously, sometimes I’m still surprised by the amount of food other people cook in their houses. If it was my house, all those food the four of us ate at Zihan’s house, my parents would have cooked such that it was like a quarter of what I was -expected- to eat, and half of what I would really have eaten. But no worries, we went out for McDonald’s later (finally we went to Mc!!!), though not before I witnessed another fun sight of Jia Hao “manhandling” Dom.

K la, all in all, I had loads of fun! This blog post is probably the best I can do in capturing the memory liao, since I don’t have digicam to take lots of (hehe) discriminating pics! I certainly hope there’s much more to come in two weeks time, but meanwhile, I probably have to do something about my 1105 tutorial and project, and probably my mathematics since it seems to be chuiing somewhat now. Hmm, might as well shun bian wish Shansq good luck for test/exam.