TOO. DAMN. FULL.
BAH. i hate buffets. i keep saying i'll regulate what i eat and i'l neve rput myself throguh the agony of overeating again but then someone will press something else on me and i'll eat it. it doesn't help that most of the vegetarian things at shangri-la happen to be DESSERTS.
ok. hitlist:
- vegetable lasagna x 2 (delish!)
- roasted potatoes x 2 (omg yummy yummy)
- pumpkin soup (soup spoon has NOTHING on this, man)
- saffron rice with yogurt and another thingy-- plum-ish sauce?
- aloo gobi
- inari and tamago gunkan (eee. not great)
- salad (sundried tomatoes are the blitz!)
- chocolate brownie crepe (wheeeeeee)
- bread and butter pudding
- cheeeeeeeesecake
- creme brulee (i think xf would have fainted at this, it was SO GOOD)
- tiramisu (didn't like!)
- meringue tart (YUM. but tooth-achingly sweet)
- green tea teppanyaki ice cream with choco balls
- orange juice
that isn't just sin ok, that is eternal damnation in the 18th level of hell. mwahahaha. but i felt slightly better seeing everyone else (with the exception of my sister) demolishing oysters and lobsters and other sundry items that i cannot touch.
bleh. cny is horrrrible. horribilus. i still feel bloated. haha luckily my black flapper dress (which i nearly wore for danz war haha but decided against on the grounds that it looked too 1940s) helped to disguise my about-to-explode tummy a litle. and i think my boots with the furrrr helped to take the attention away hahaha.
oh!!
the whole point of this was that haha as we went down the escalator my mum suddenly said "nathan, nathan!". thinking that she was playing some sort of warped marco polo game i ignored her, and then realised that she meant nathan as in S R NATHAN. as in the holder of the keys to the reserve. as in the one with the right to the presidential veto (not like he exercises it without reference and "due consultation" with the prime minister anyway). as in the figurehead of the republic of singapore.
hahaha. he was sitting at this little alcove/bar thing where we'd had our chu er dinner last year. in fact, he was sitting at the table where I'D sat last year. whee! hahahaha.
we ended up making multiple trips to the washroom just to let my dunderhead siblings get a peek at him. my sister-- food, not joey-- threatened to stand outside the gent's because she figured he'd have to go to the toilet sooner or later and she was going to stalk him. hahahaha.
no pictures of him. we didn't want his bodyguards to spring up and smash our phones (according to my cousin, they wer eprobably in hiding. she'd served his table at a banquet last year so she could attest to how they would scatter themselves everywhere hoho. maybe this one was hiding behind the lobster. or dressed as the crepe maker. who knows?)
piccccs. didn't take many tho-- didn't bring camera :( relevant captions UNDER pics.
wth i look damn young can. but omg my pretty pretty cousins!! :):):) i have another pic of myself with inex hahaha
see see compared with last year i just look WEIRD. bangs make a humondongus difference.
and haha this is a weird shot i just had to post it hahahaha.
green tea teppanyaki. looks GROSS here but tasted great although i was like 125% full i still went for it!
whee haha my utter failure of a bingo ticket (people win like 320 bucks' worth and i get nada zilch bleh) and my lucky draw coupon. yes, i won yakult, while my dad got 38 bucks in exchange for an imitation of a cow bellow. hahhahaha. thank god it was the year of the cow if it were the year of the monkey...!!!
speaking of bangs i stepped into my aunt's house and the first thing my seven-year old cousin said when she saw me was "HAHAHAHAHA". 2nd thing was "YOUR HAIR is so UGLY". third thing was "MONSTER AUNTIE. YOU ARE MONSTER AUNTIE".
:(:(:(:(!!!!
hahaha. but she is DAMN funny can she tested my chinese and made me write well wishes for cny out. stuff like "xin nian kuai le"... then "wan shi ru yi"... then "xin xiang shi cheng"... then "en jiang chou bao".
haha but the kicker was this-- when she went to visit relatives in china over the hols someone got married, so she told the couple "bai tou xie lao, zao sheng gui zi". just as everyone was praising her she added chirpily "gou pi bu tong".
she is DAMN CUTE. hahaha. i have pics of her also but they'r ein my sister's phone! so shall post another time.
failed to catch the solar eclipse!! bleh. but ruined my eyes cos i stared straight at the sun before making a pinhole camera out of a leaf and my earring. hahahah.
alright. shall go do some work which i've never managed to do at all this "extended" break. BLEH. but i guess cny was good...! madcap sushi making and cheese crackers and plum sauce dip (kudos to aunt cecilia for all her dining tips!) and angbao and all. :)
you took everything
while i was staring at the sun
p.s. please do not shriek when you see my disastrous nails. i gave myself a manicure at 4am on chu yi-- i swear it was an ill-advised sprousean spur. i was thinking jackson pollock but it came out more like yvonne bollocks. and really, at 4am did you think i could last through waiting for base coat two-coats-of-white funny streaks and top coat to dry out completely before i fell sound asleep? so of course now i look like i have macrame on my nails. macrame, or sugar rice disaster. some random kid in a house i visited tried to eat my nails.