Thursday, 29 March 2012

Curry rice....

I had a date with my cousin who introduced me to Coco Ichibanya. The idea of eating curry and rice was never a favourite and even after looking at their menu, I was still not convinced.

B-B-BUT...I left the resto a happy woman :)

While in any other places, there is a standard size for your rice serving, I was glad that this restaurant actually compensate the customer for taking less rice. So, I really enjoyed the idea of me not wasting food plus I get to save on the dollar. Awesome Coco!

Of coz, that was not the only thing, their curry is actually nice. I won't say exceptional because it tasted pretty much the same and I couldn't really recall their taste now LOL but they served this 'pink stuff' on the table which I assumed to be soured onion (don't stone me if I get it wrong...it was from my observation of the texture) which I grew addicted to. I think I finished half of the cup in one seating.
It literally gave more taste to the already tasty gravy. Love it.
Mushroom chicken omelette curry rice


Spinach with clam and tomato curry rice


One of my random obsessions

I definitely have a thing with sky.....and sunset. They have the power to make me stop everything that I am doing to simply catch their seconds of fleeting scene. 

My sunset....coz I saw it every evening.
A few seconds after.

It was about to rain and I was shocked to see such heavy and dark clouds passing over. 




The pictures looked similar coz I couldn't resist taking so many of them. 

The horizon

What a beauty to behold. 

Friday, 16 March 2012

Artistic soul's necessity.

.........and I am not talking about me. In case you thought I just did. 


A view from the door



Coz there'll never be enough of them.  

                                      
                                 and the list goes on......


Of course, in my free time, I take the chance to slip into some of the dresses or skirts.                                       

This loud pink skirt surprisingly fits comfortably to my waist. It is often a burden to wear a skirt that doesn't fit well or give a 'merry-go-round' effect when I wear them. This one: pass :)
  

Basically the entire house looks like it is draped in clothes
The view from another door. 

Oh well, anyway, had a fun time playing around the house.

A visit to the home...

....and so we thronged to the middle-sized room filled with ladies endowed with wisdom. We played bingo in that drizzling afternoon and it surprised me much that these lovely ones were definitely in it to win it. 

We love St. Andrews
The tissue packets were used as their points. Those with the most number of tissue packets would be the winner of the Bingo game. But, all of them were winners anyway :)

Waiting for the next round of Bingo game

While waiting for the result, might as well take snapshots of some lovely ladies. This picture is hilarious to me for two reasons: 1. I couldn't stand still and focus on the two ladies posing for my camera. 2. There seemed to be a replica of them behind ^___^ (which was the reason of no.1. I chuckled uncontrollably and hence, the failure in taking a good one)

Two pretty ladies or should I say four?
I said one, two, three..... and all they could give me was this! Kidding...they could hardly hear my voice. This is a very pretty candid shot :)

A pretty friend with wise women
I shall never forget this lady in blue. She was definitely gorgeous and looked much different than normal grandma...she looked half-chinese and half-something else. But that's not the point, she gained my admiration when she mentioned "I am 105 years old." I felt like grabbing a chair next to her and sat down with a book ready to jot down her secrets of long age and whatever recipes of food she had used in her life.

The warden later told us that the oldest in the room was 95 years old. That could be her or someone else. Anyway, she still looked good :)

The older generation do not act like us, they do not open their presents upon receiving them. They thought it was rude to do so despite us having asked them to open them LOL. Kids nowadays..Hint: angpau story. 

Sharing time...

A quick snap with the grannies...

The angels that were busy making things happened for the wise ones.

Winners will receive their gifts. Everyone eventually did :)