"M A K A N ||| P L A C E S"

Telepopmusik - Breathe (2003 Version)


enjoy~

posted by LArcenCie @ 5:35 PM 0 comments

Founded!

Kinda was looking around casually thru friend's blogs and came by Carol's blog with her latest video blog from youtube..
was curious and went ahead to view the vid... gosh... isnt this the song that i've been pondering over it's name??? for like almost a year or more than that? i can't really remember... but however... here's the same video for you guys... in the next post above...

Splendid Adventures is all about Good Food!!!

posted by LArcenCie @ 5:31 PM 0 comments

My Shopping List for August 2006 - August 2008

I've kinda compiled a little list for shopping in a long run...
stuffs to boast my quad G5 and hopefully, the pavement to a career of freelancing in the near future... (I'm working damn hard now for it... my lack of commercial exp is my worst hit at the moment.. sad...)

1) The most wanted item at the moment: iSight from Apple!!
currently, the only webcam that I've known that worked with mac... pretty sad... but it seems like this is a hell gd webcam... why do I wanna get that? er... so that probably I can get another webcam for zhuzhu ba... then at least we still can see each other even if we're busy to meet up.. and somehow I foresee it to be an item for everyone in the coming age of the next generation of technology... ipcams and pc to pc calling is getting more and more common... the new era for the internet will be arriving fast, in fact much faster than what many of us might have expected... things will be so much different once Vista and Leopard is out... thus meeting clients and customers or even friends aboard will be so much simpler and convenient very soon!



2) 2 X 1gb of DDR2 ram to pump up my current 2 X 1gb of DDR2 ram
I guess I need the extra pump so that I will be able to run several heavy duty application at the same time to save up time consumption as times goes... and inespecially with big projects that might come by to me... plus I'm thinking of getting another huge harddisk solely for the purpose of keeping all projects and none other rubbish else...



3) 1 X 250gb/500gb SATA harddisk
Sole use only for projects and nothing else should be on it...



4) 1 or 2 X 19" CRT or LCD display
Will need to evaluate more on whether I'll need one or two of these... and depending on variables such as probably space saving or trueness of the display colour will very much place me in getting either a CRT or a LCD... of course the price is a big decision making factor... currently, the price of both is of a slight difference...




of course, if I strike lottery one day, I'll probably get the Apple Cinematic Display instead... hahahaa!



Splendid Adventures is all about Good Food!!!

posted by LArcenCie @ 4:40 PM 0 comments

Our Fourth ! (15th July 2002 - 15th July 2006)

It's been three lazy days le ever since our fourth year anniversary... four years le... time really flies man... I once heard from someone asking, how long can love really last...? I do wonder in fact, how long can one last from the constant showering his/her lover on their partner? I guess it's all about how one interprets a question... it's all about each and one's thinking i guess...

In fact, I think the giving far more important than the return expected... maybe this is probably why we could last till now... both of us have been trying hard to fulfill this thought; trying to give happiness then to receive happiness... or maybe this is what they might mean by double happiness, happiness given selfless from each other...

thus, I hope we will be as the same like this forever and ever... far into the years to come...
and here's the makan adventures for our FOURTH!


We went to Serene Centre; it's the little short and stout building opposite Adam Rd Hawker Centre... This Black Canyon Coffee aint just any other coffee joint for caffaine-addicts... it is in fact kinda a 'high class' restaurant from Thailand... Think this is the only branch till now in Singapore... Have heard that they're opening another new branch somewhere soon but I forgot where... hahaa... in anyway, one can impossibly not mistaken the place as a coffee joint once stepped in... the interiors resembles so much like other coffee sellers like Coffee Club or Starbucks (I'll leave Coffee Bean out coz it really looks of a higher class than Coffee Bean...) and you will be surprise of what they've got on the menu... their food reminds you so much that you're in fact in a Thai restaurant with all those thai food... and their coffee... is something that I've not tried yet till now... think I should give them a try someday... when it's raining heavily maybe...? it's best to have a gd dose of hot coffee on cold rainy days... thus, on the whole, they're something like a mix breed of a coffee-joint like Coffee Club and Sakura Family restaurat with a Thai flavour... A very interesting combi I would say... Ok! enough introduction on them (they probably have to compliment me with a cup of coffee if they get more customers; those who had read my blog here.. hah!) Here's the menu we had..


She had my recommendation; Pad Thai... I actually mistaken it for Pataya... so paiseh man... hahaa~


Tada! the infamous Pad Thai from our Thais... It's amazingly of a huge serving and it simply tastes like heaven... slightly oily on the other hand... definitely a thumbs up for Char Kuay Tiao lovers looking for a new taste..


I on the other hand had this Frusilli with Fresh Prawn in Tom Yum Soup... A definitely no-no for those who can't take the spiciness!! (simply gotta love it!)


and here comes our Frusilli with Fresh Prawn in Tom Yum Soup... very tom yum with hmmm... curry powder i think... really spicy... go for it if you're very into spicy soups, especially if you're a tom yum lover! however, the rest doesn't really taste out much coz i think the soup is too much the spicy tom yum... but it's gd for filling in with gd tom yum~ so it isn't really that bad lah.. hahahaa..


Like I've said... very similar to the Sakura's... we've a plate of Baby Kailan with oyster sauce... really quite a huge portion once again and they taste simply delicious... not to mention the vege is real fresh; you can feel the crunch in them once you start munching on them... yum yum!


She had the Lemon with Honey and mine with Ice Rose Tea... both are GREATLY recommended and if you are looking for a drink that'll relief you from the heatiness of the Singapore all-year round summer, try the Ice Rose Tea in especially... it kinda helps in relieving the tension in you too...


Here's a cool coaster with quite cool slogans... 'A drink from paradise... available on Earth'
How nice...


After the very very extremely late lunch at Black Canyon, we got onto a Thai Bus... hahaaa... actually it's just bus 174 from SBS with a thailand ad... I'm kinda surprise how similar both this Thailand advertising's slogan can be with their Black Canyon... They really like the idea of Earth thingy huh??

*And so... we headed down to The Cathay to meetup with 'an old friend';Superman Returns.. The movie was simply great... it's been soo loong since I last saw a Superman movie... can't really seem to remember when I last watched but man... Superman is so much classic... so much more classic than even Batman... the more recent movies converted from comics and video games are so much bored... and aint much exciting in plot and the 'human-touch' to the hero is always neglected... I must say I kinda like Silent Hill's effort though coz they've tried hard to have camera angles exactly to be how it was in the game.. (although it was all only in the beginning 15- 20 mins only?) the rest of Silent Hill is pretty much crap though.. sad...

Okay.. enough of all those talk to bored everyone who's reading my blog.. here's some photos we took over at those coin-eating machines found in ActionCity;they sure do a gd job burning pockets... thinking back it's quite sometime since we last visit such machines... the only thing stupid about them is that they doesnt really cater to ppl with greater heights... I aint very tall but already I can't stand up straight coz half of my head will gone! and so.. i had to bend down like The Hunchback of Notre Dame..







anyway.. back to Superman Returns... I find it awfully similar in the coverage on superhero's 'human' side just like Batman Begins(afterall they're all still flesh and blood with feelings, although Superman can be considered 'alien' coz he's from another planet, not planet Earth... hah!) I kinda dig such plots coz I realised that movies nowadays like to indulge soo much into special effects and very often exaggerate extremely on the 'superbly-inhuman-powers'.. making them like god.. thousands and millions of bullets and lasers flying all about but yet not even a SINGLE SCRATCH?!?!? I kinda like the more oldern days heroes... like Arnold Schwarzenegger in True Lies and even the first Robocop movie... they're so much truer to life... so much real and felt so unfaked... and now I'm so tempted to get hold of the Superman movie series and watch everything all over again... not to mention our all-time hero Christopher Reeve... it's a pity he's left all of us though... but hey.. I'm not saying that Brandon Routh has done a bad job... He's great too in bringing back the Superman in us all...

Being pretty satisfied with Superman Returns, there came the need to return the call of nature... hah! well... simply mean that it's supper time! and so we pop down to the Kopithiam located next to Hotel Rendezvous... argh... that was MY WORST SUPPER NIGHTMARE!!! @ food court price somemore~!! oh my dog...

This plate of Char Kuay Tiao is simply the lousiest of all in the whole of Singapore! It only have the taste of Chao Ta and nothing else!! what a FailURE@! and we wasted $4 on it coz I was kinda in the mood for both love and Char Kuay Tiao.. should had went to MakanSutra over at esplanade instead... but it's ok... We were feeling lazy to walk all the way down there and there was no bus left...

Oops.. I forgot to take photos of the Dim Sums... and the stupid 'silent hill' character selling Dim Sum... Very rude guy who speaks a few words.. so few that he simply gave you Char Siew Bao where there's no more Xiao Long Bao.. without telling you no more Xiao Long Bao... Thanks man... ur service is truly the 'best'... Your Dim Sums are also as 'Best' as your service lor... again.. one of the worst in singapore... I really missed Hong Kong Dim Sums... they're the BEST!!! should go there someday again for makan and relax... perhaps some shopping too... maybe can jio Yongzhi and Tienhong along... think she's more familiar with HK much more than me ba...? dunno lah... see how lor... no money no talk... no time also talk cock lah... hahahaa...


The last item on our menu for supper... er.. dunno what is this called... but I guess, Red Ruby with Sago... or something like that... it taste like ice... really!! like having weird jellies with ice... no taste at all!!! the last item on the Worst Makan Spot in Singapore; Kopithiam next to Hotel Rendezvous... My dear friends... Pls dun... i repeat... Pls DON'T go there... unhappiness and lost of wealth will be experience... (just dun go there and waste money lah.. make an effort to MakanSutra if you wanna spend the money... it's more worthwhile over there.!!)

Finally, just something interesting to share with everyone... This is a new shop opened @ The Cathay!! Interesting shop I would say... with interesting prices... we took a brochure and have a peep at what they offer and how they charge.. for the fun of checking out... so... Strip anyone? hah!




Splendid Adventures is all about Good Food!!!

posted by LArcenCie @ 1:12 PM 0 comments