Thursday, August 23, 2007

It's the third week of school already?!

Fact of life - Time and tides waits for no man... How I wish I am Hiro Nagamura of the Heros series... Well come to think of it, I hasn't been doing much from the time school reopen until now. It seemed that it was only yesterday that the school term started...

Well looking back, hall camp has ended, and gone with it were THREE weeks of school! Gosh... what was I doing? I remembered that day when my bus broke down... in the middle of the expressway. The bus engine went off with a loud bang as it was turning along a bend. I thought the double decker bus would collapsed and I will have a chance to appear in the TV... But luckily enough, the bus stopped at the road side... we got out and collected our complementary tickets and waited for the next bus to come.

I remembered too when I decided to try this korean fried chicken fast food restaurant at cineleisure with my gf. We were just looking around and this little restaurant by the side caught our attention. First impression I got was,"Fried chicken? Not again...." But I just wana find out how come anyone would try to rival KFC or try to sell this super unhealthy idea and hope people will buy it. That was then I found out... Fried Chicken with 100% OLIVE OIL. There is a small screen at the counter where it shows clips of people eating the chicken and all nod their head and show their big thumbs to the camera... So I thought, "might as well give it a go." I ordered 2 pieces of Original fried chicken, while my gf order their very original Gingseng fried chicken(chicken heavily marinated with gingseng + ginseng powder on top). The chicken looked no different from KFC. Sadly speaking, for the price of 4 bucks per piece, the marginal ultility really is not very high... Oil is still oil. I know its olive oil. But when I take one piece of chicken skin soaked in olive oil, its hard to tell myself its healthy... Anyway, the manager of the restaurant saw us with only fried chicken so she decided to give us some samples of their char-boiled chicken. Basically its bbq chicken chop la... Surprisingly, it taste rather good... tender, spicy, and free some more. The sample is not like those small little cubes with tooth picks. She gave us two big pieces... Eat until I got chicken phobia...

I also manged to catch the fireworks festival over at the marina bay... Show supposed to start at 9pm but got delayed till around 9.20pm. However, from 7.30pm, the best seats along the river banks at One Fullerton were already gone... By the time it was 9pm, there's hardly room to walk. Everyone that night was treated to a 20min fireworks extravaganza... The sky was littered with colourful fireworks and the massive amount of smoke produced when the fireworks exploded. At one point, the smoke was so thick that we could not see the fireworks sia... lol... I thought the floating platform at marina exploded...

Come to think of it, because of development, our little children have to spend 1/4 of their life studying studying studying... just to fit into the society... and the rest of their life trying to survive in the society after that.