Waruku @ Marina Square

My maiden trip to Waraku. Heard many favourable from Yuri so decided to make a trip down after work one day to find out what the fuss was all about. The facade of the restaurant. Can facade be used in this context? Hmmm. The usually refer to the front of a building.

Yuri is a fan of this steam egg dish called chawamushi (spelled correctly?).

My dinner for the evening. I normally have the katsu don when I go to a japanese restaurant. Not really an adventurous person & normally stick to the tested-&-proven stuff. It was delicious. It came with some purple radish thingy & a bowl of miso soup with a piece of naruto floating on it. Not too salty, just the way I like it.

Yuri's dinner. Some na-be (sounds like some rude Hokkien phrase we use oh-so-often but it actually means something like mini paper steamboat in Japanese) Of course na-be is the shortened version of the word kaminabe.

Our common side dish. Some cheese & potato croquette. Not too cheesy. Something different.

Ja neh!!!

Tomton @ The Central

Met up with the ex-roomie for a little get-together session. isn't it sad that we are not able to spend as much time with our friends in the past once we have started working? Long working hours, fatigue, other social obligations & geographical distance keeps us away from catching up.

Meeting place was The Central above Clark Quay MRT station. Relatively nice shopping with a good number of japanese restaurants. Probably to cater to the expatriate population that frequent the area. Roomie (a.k.a musashiken) suggested trying out the famous black pig cutlet at Tomton.

A little write-up on the famed black pigs (they are really black in colour, not the nice pink we all know. Why are they black? Too much rolling in the mud? Neva bathe like some girls I know? Apparently the reason why they taste so nice is also because they leave a relaxing life & are fed good food. Like some of us. Muahahaha!!!

Forgot what musashiken had but he was given this really cool grinding bowl to grind his sesame seeds into a fine power before mixing with some dark brown sauce. It is amazing how efficient the design is. A few rounds & the sesame seeds became really fine.

Musashiken's set meal & my black pig cutlet rice.

The service was attentive but never intrusive. Great place to bring your date, especially if she is a ni-hon-jin.

Ja neh!!!

Return to Kallang McDonald's

Finally could find some time to bring out the Mac PowerBook for a little outdoor exercise. Drove to Kallang Mac (kmac, for short) vie the KPE but realised no matter which exit I took (ECP City or ECP Changi Aiport), I am unable to get to the Fort Road exit without having to make a detour of some sort. Looks like I have to stick to the ECP if I am coming here from Tampines. Nevertheless, I reach here in good time as traffic was relatively light & without event.

Lots of good memories where made here. From preparing for my examinations in the final semester to meeting a long lost friend I knew since junior college days. How time flies. It has been over a year since I have graduate but yet I do not see myself as having a significant change in myself. Nevertheless, when things have hit rock bottom, there is only one way to go. Up.

Many people here at this dinner hour. Many people also eyeing the electrical power sockets which are oh-so-important to juicing up my lappy. Didn't manage to get a prime area seat but have to settle for the fringes for now, constantly eyeing the area to see if there is any seats being vacated so I can swoop in & claim my terrority. Not much juice left. Stewpig me bought a 17 inch model when I should have just bough the smallest model with the longest battery life. Now that the MacBook Air has been launched with a reported life of 5 hours of wireless productivity (which I assume as meaning the notebook can be used surfing the net for 5 hours), it means more time on the move than being connected by an umbilical cord to the wall.

At around $3000 for the basic model & $5000++ for the model with the faster processor & a Solid State Drive, it is a hefty price to pay for exceptional form & factor.

Ja neh!!!

Maserati Gran Turismo

One of the nicer GT cars that I set my sights on. Costing roughly $410,000 with COE, it is a huge investment & it shall remain in my fantasies for now. With a 10% downpayment & taking up a 10-year loan, it would cost about $4100 / month excluding petrol, parking charges, ERP charges, traffic offence summons, insurance & road tax.

Assuming parking costs $90 / month for multi-story carparks (normally people who can afford such cards do not stay in HBD areas though) as well as around $50 for occassions where you use parking coupons or park in shopping centers, that adds up to around $140 / month just for parking.

ERP charges can go up to $50 depending on where you go & what time, but let us take an average & also considering how our government erect these gantries on a whim, I mean, after deliberated studies & valuable feedback from traffic indicators & the general public.

As it is a 4.2 litre V8 engine, it is really thirsty. With petrol frequently crossing the $2/litre mark, I guess petrol cost should cost anywhere from $500 onwards. If you have a lead foot, probably around $800 onwards. I am not really a speed demon, so I'll take my estimate as $600 as I like to drive to wherewver I go.


I'm 28 this year & it being a supercar with only 2 doors, insurance should be around $3500 / year? I'm only guessing because I never did any research on this.

Road tax for a car with this engine capacity should be around $5000 / year? For the 2-litre car, it is around $1400 / year but it jumps exponentially as you cross the 3 litre mark.

So what is the total cost of maintaining this beauty? Probably around $$6000 / month. I do not even earn $6000 / month. So I guess it is out of reach until I take home around $8000 / month. Which is ridiculous because I spend more on the car than pampering myself. Hahaha.

The high cost of car ownership in S'pore. Sigh.

Ja neh!!!

True love is

Never say I Love You
If you don't really care

Never talk of feelings
If they aren't really there

Never hold my hand
If you mean to break my heart

Never say forever
If you ever plan to part

Never look into my eyes
If you are telling me a lie

Never say hello
If you think you'll say goodbye

Never say that I'm THE one
If you dream of more than me

Never lock up my heart
If you don't have the key