16 cakes and 3 tarts in exact

Chocolate that Melts Your Heart

It was another day of working over time. Yes, another loop where there is no ending, even up till now. On that particular day, "Desmond" called me up, however my mood was so terribly low that I didn't even notice that call. It was 30mins after my official knock-off timing then I noticed a missed call and a message. Pok Pok and Desmond were asking me out for dinner, but knowing that I still need to settle some work and won't be free that early, I rejected that "date", but will meet them if they are still somewhere near (provided they willing to wait)........... it was 9 plus, and I reached the Mac.........

Desmond and Pok Pok were "nua-ing" at the outdoor area (aka smoking area). As soon as I reached there, Desmond asked if I would like to have anything, but I didn't order any food becoz i'm rather exhausted and moreover I have already finished one whole pack of digestive biscuit Heee ^^,

In the end..... Desmond came back with chocolate melts and a lighter. LIGHTER! i sensed something going to happen. My first bday cake for the year. But we decided not to sing any bday song, becoz the environment is sort of..... weird, as it might attract a lot of attention, where everyone beside us were studying and... smoking?~ Thank you so much to Pok Pok and Desmond. It felt like 雪中送炭~ ^^,

步步糕

I was asked what do I wanna do on my bday. A particular blogpost of certain blog and the recent cake which my friend recently ate strike my mind. Since last year was a pyjamas party, this year shall be something much be easier to execute --- cake tasting "party". It was rather a crazy idea!

That was a rather meaningful day - the P.E day of Singapore. The whole afternoon was rather windy, it felt like we were in some adventure looking for some lost treasures. we were wandering around the "triangle" area (in the middle of outram park, chinatown and tanjong pagar), and at certain point, we were rather lost, but for the cakes (in my opinion) it is worth it. We went to Kki at Ann Siang Hill, Flor Patisserie at Duxton Hill and Bonheur Patisserie. Below were all the 战利品...

*forgotten to take a photo of that strawberry watever cake (not to my liking anyway)*

Pursuant to Chapter J, Section M, Paragraph 829, I declare the winner for (P)astry (E)lection is

The cakes from FLOR Patisserie is really tasty!!! Most of the cakes is of my liking. Perhaps becoz that "海绵体" is really soft~ and the taste of those fruit is so fresh that I felt as if like i just peeled it from the actual fruit. Hmmmm Yummy Yummy. In general, the taste for most the cake is just so "Up There". I suppose this is so paradise kind of feel. The cakes that i favoured for are Mango Pie and Moccha cake (this cake is so.... bouncy, abit flimsy too)

Cakes from Kki really look nice, so nice that it is so unbearable to eat it. However not all the flavours amazed me. And..... the cakes are a bit too pricey. Hmmm... It's more suited to those tai-tai kind of lifestyle after all. The cake that i really like alot is that Kinabalu cake (Lemon with Coconut)

Bonheur Patisserie served really nice chocolate tart. It felt as if i am savouring a HUGE ferrero rocher. The rest is just so-so to me. Cakes selection also rather limited. Perhaps a lot of the other customer had already bought most of the cakes with their deal vouchers.

The Mass Bday Celebration

Same as the previous years, since Angeline's bday and my bday is just a few days apart. Our friends celebrated our bday on the same day. This time round it was our turn to be the main attraction at Fish n Co in Dhoby Ghaut. The dinning table that we had were at a rather dark corner, lightings were rather poor, Throughout the whole night, I felt rather lethargic and "emo". This is the first time I felt that lightings does really affect my mood. Anyway, to my surprise, there are 10 other bday boys and girls celebrated bday on that same day, at the same location. We were the first one to be celebrated under the cheers of fish n co staff. Gosh! it became like a norm, ever 10 minutes, u will hear the staff yell and cheer. What does this shows? THERE ARE REALLY A LOT OF VIRGOS OUT THERE! Btw, our bday cakes? They bought the strawberry cheesecake from Bakerzin. The falvour of the cheese is really quite strong. So if ya like new york cheese cake, you will surely like it. Strawberry, not those real strawberry fruit, is not of my liking. So i cant comment much. But overall, it was not that bad.

Surprise from HDB

It was the actual day of my birthday, and Miss J confirmed with me if i would really be in office. From then on, i sense something again. Hmmm.... As usual, we were all having lunch at our "favourite lunching" location - Beast stroll (bistro). The virgo boys were all present, even for "HDB" who were transferred to another project not long ago, and <------ who usually don't eat with us were also there. This is even more obvious eh~ After lunching, we have a "meeting" in one of the meeting room. And there goes the cake cutting session...... Know what? The bakery shop made a huge mistake!!!! one of the name became HDB! Wat the... It is a vegan cake, eggs and milk are not use in the baking of that cake. Therefore, the cake tasted a bit too chocolaty~ i can only taste the dark chocolate and nothing else. In general, it tasted like one of the childhood tidbits - TORA, but in a softer form.

FULL OF SHIT

Started to feel frustrated with whatever that is happening, all the catching of shit, stiring of shit, throwing of shit and clearing of shit... All these resulted me ending up feeling damn tired, especially knowing that I don’t have any options - I STILL HAVE TO SETTLE THAT SHIT.

I started to feel like I'm a victim and that there is nothing I can do. No matter what I have done, they are all still bull shitting through their way. These two days I'm feeling damn moody about everything, and I think my team lead has observe it as well. He msn me to ask whether am I alright, did something happened all is it about work. Well, what am I suppose to say?

"I HATE ALL THESE CRAP, WE COULD JUST SIMPLY SAY NO TO THEM AND STOP ALL THESE SHIT FROM HAPPENING? WE ARE NOT OBLIGE TO DO ALL THESE FOR THEM! THEY ARE THE ONE WHO DIDN'T LAY OUT THEIR REQUIREMENTS TRUTHFULLY!!!! WE CAN'T BE REPEATING ALL THESE SHIT AGAIN AND AGAIN. WHY DIDN'T U OR IHOW JUST SAY NO!"

I'm felt so sicked that I have applied for urgent leave. I'm not trying to runaway from SHITS, I just simply cant stand it, I see no ending to it. I'm still repeating what I have been doing when supposedly it should have been ended quite awhile ago.

CLEARING THE REAL SHIT IS MUCH MORE SIMPLER!

Persistent Callers

At times, an unwanted phone call might became an annoyance. If one call is annoying, then repeated, persistent and irritating calls are a disturbance and nightmare!!! Most of such persistent calls are made by telemarketers, who can call a couple of times in a single week. Prank callers are another example who make persistent calls. Today alone, I have received 9 such irritating persistent calls from an Indian Lady who simply cant understand "WRONG NUMBER!!!!".

The first time that very foreign looking number started to display on my mobile screen, I decided to ignore it. However, after 4 missed called from the same number, I got irritated and picked up the phone. However, as i picked up, the other party hang up the phone. -______-|||

AGAIN! The phone keep ringing, it was till the 6 or 7th time that I decided to answer the call again. The other party spoke "IJCDF:WJEBHBVWELJIKXDBQWIBXIWBXQWLBX" (not sure what she said, but she sounds like a Indian). Since I cant understand a freaking word, I replied very politely "I think you have called the wrong number", and hang up the call. BUT!!! This annoying and irritating bugger continuously called another 2 or 3 times. RRRrrrrrrr!!!!

I picked up again and waited for around 10sec before she spoke "IOWHWJBQIBVDIUWEHUBHVIEUHDOQIWHDOIQHW"...


"WRONG NUMBER! WRONG NUMBER! WRONG NUMBER LAH!"


Another persistent caller that I have came across is some financial planner. She totally freaks me out!

Caller: Hi! Is this James? (a very serious tone, which sounds like a nurse)
me: Yes, I am.
Caller: Glad to talk to you once again, this is..... (forgotten her name, and I don't even bother at all)
me: *huh? since when did I spoke to her before?* Erm... when was it?
Caller: Spoke to you previously regarding to wealth management, and it was Charmaine who introduced you to me.
me: Charmaine? Charmaine Ang you mean?
Caller: No~ it was Charmain Low (still sounded very serious, as if she is calling out to a patient)
me: OH!!! Shermaine you mean? But I have no memory on our conversation.

*Gosh!!! I have not contact Shermaine for quite a long time liao! Who is this lady caller siah*

Caller: Back then I was introduced by Charmaine (she still insist to pronounce my friend's name as CHARMAINE), and get to know you. We were looking for responsible, sensible......... (she got more serious as if i owe her 10 million dollars which I should be responsible and sensible enough to pay her back -_______-||| ) Back but then you have mentioned that you were still in the army, and do not have spare cash to invest. And that is why, I only decided to call you back now.
me: *THIS TOTALLY FREAK ME OUT! During army days? and that was like 4 years liao!!! After 4 years, this monotone and angry tone lady still calls me and pester me for some wealth management thing!* Sorry I really cant recall any of that conversation.
Caller: It's okay. When can we meet?!
me: Errr.... don't think i'm interested to sign any sort of financial plan.
Caller: James, we are not offering you any plan, we would like to provide you with info on wealth management.............. When can we meet?

* At that moment, something flashed in my memory. I RECALLED WHO SHE ACTUALLY WAS!!! A very irritating lady who Shermaine met, and was forced to "surrender" at least some mobile numbers to her! and i was that victim! Started to FUME UP suddenly*

me: Hi! I think you didn't hear me clearly. I~ Am~ Not~ interested in any sort of plan or wealth management related info.
Caller: James, may I know the reasons Why?!!! Are you still pursuing your studies now? (Still talk in a very serious tone and in a more demanding way which i started to piss off)
me: I'm currently working, but I'm not interested in any sort of wealth management or financial planning at the moment.
Caller: Back then you mentioned that you were in the army, and you were not ready to invest as you are not financial stable. So, why arent you interest now? What is the main reason behind this. (talk as if I owe her something lor. She is really poking me and force me to activate that auntie mode)
me: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THE MAIN REASON? I HAVE TOLD YOU I HAVE NO INTEREST IN IT, JUST AS SIMPLE AS THAT!
Caller: Alright then. Do you prefer me to call you another time.

me: -_______-||| NO~ PLEASE DON'T~ I DON'T WANT TO WASTE YOURS AND MY TIME. THANKS!

4 plus am le~ I'm still have some bits left to work on. I started to hate my job again!

"HOT" "HOT" Summer

There's always a first time for everything? It's the same for me and some of my colleagues during our outing at ECP yesterday. All I can say about the experience is Ouch! All that fell, aches, small cuts,... it is a torture session. My feet still ached now. Some of them chooses to cycle first, while the rest choose to Blade (either becoz of other appointment, or like me CANT CYCLE. LOL) .

It all started with some hiccups.... I stood up with the help of a metal cabinet which is beside our seats. Well, I manage to stand up pretty while and manage to "walk" to the grass patch without any difficulty. Phew~ However, things aren't that lucky for Hui. Seconds after he approached the grass patched, he fell. He was sitting on the ground, and we thought he should be alright, since a fall on the grass patch shouldn't cause that much of pain. However, he has been sitting there for quite some time, so a few of them (who feet still have contact with the ground - not on blading shoes) approached him. He hurt his elbow, I think he accidentally twisted the elbow during the falling process. O.o that is terrible. In the end, he decided not to continue with the blade, and requested for a refund. However, the policy of that renting shop is that there is no refund. So... his 1 hour rent shall be split to the rest of us lor. That mean my suffer gonna increase by another 15min~ -____-|||

Anyway, throughout the whole session, i fell four times. Every fall is a disgrace to me, and i have only myself to be blame isn't it? HA! But hor.... seriosuly speaking, i still unable the blade like those people out there... can keep on blade so swiftly as if the winds are bring them along. Mine???? Blade and stop blade and stop. Perhpas this shall be the last time (or last few times) i'm blading, this is such a mental and physical torture.

Anyway, after that, i manage to meet up with my huayue friends. They were at the International Japan School over at Changi for the Jap's Summer Festival event. That event is such a WHOA~ experience. But i was so late that i misses alot of things lor. They even wore the yukuta (a casual summer kimono) for the whole event, by paying a mere $5 rental fee. Envy~ But i manage to join in that traditional crowd dance (should be known as the bon odori dance?), tried that black sesame ice cream (very nice!!!), bought some brown rice crackers, and cheap potato chips. HEE HEE~ There were also a very cheap toy figurine sale. around 9 boxes of toy for jsut $5!!!! but.... i think they arent that popular anime figures, don't know any of them besides ultraman and godzilla, so i didnt buy that.

Also got some souvenir which was one of them, not sure who actually won it. It is a prize of a rather mind and luck challenging game, whereby you uses a THIN PAPER scoop to scoop the water and drip it into the balloon. So you cant be too greedy i guess, but if you are greedy, it all depend on your luck le? i suppose?

Alright, what a fruitful saturday for a summer. Luckily, it didn't rain.

When the 3 LONERS met (Part 2)

After tasting their inidividual choices (ice cream), Pok Pok, Desmond and Max head to their next "stop over" THE DAO HUEY~ By the time, they reach there, Pok Pok is already FULL, but Desmond and Max are still not satisfied. Perhpas they are still under going puberty? LOL

At the Dao Huey Shop, besides ordering Dao Huey Tzwee and You Tiao, they also order a new side dish - To Fu fries. To Fu fries seems like an interesting dish that seems to be healthy eh? HELL NO!!! They are damn oily! This tofu fries are just Dao Gua being cut into shape of fries, and deep fried in a pot of OIL. Becoz of that, the bean curd somehow absorb a large amount of oil. Euw~ Damn fattening.

Anyway, the 3 of them once again back to their topic of gossips and chit chat. Guess what? Max and Desmond were introduced some other new languages/ term. Hmmm.... just like the "Ramp and Raisin" ice cream flavour.

Hyei Hyei

According to Pok Pok, If ones get angry, he/she should be known as Hyei Hyei. For example, if Max get angry, Pok Pok will says "Max Hyei Hyei o?" to Desmond. And Desmond shall say "Yah, Max is Hyei Hyei". Hmmm pretty weird isn't it? Max feels that Hyei Hyei sounds as if someone is dead. LOL!

Pok Pok

Next, is something which most of us will occasionally get to use it, and it is the toothpick. Pok Pok always use the term "Pok Pok" to describe tooth pick. Another weird alien language that Max and Desmond came across. Pok Pok? so neh neh pok suppose to mean.... Oppps restricted topic =X

Last but not least, there is a movie that Pok Pok who like to introduce to everyone, and that is Cowboy and Alan. Hmmmmm sounds like a comedy to me. A cowboy and a guy named Alan. HEEHEE~

When the 3 LONERS met (Part 1)

This is a story about three loners - Pok Pok, Desmond and Max.

Max is a loner, and so is the other two. The three of them decided to meet at a favoured and easily accessible place where no one knows any of them or even aware of their existence. The ideal place? Upper Thomson Road~

It all started off with the most common food you can ever find in the streets - Roti Prata. Max wouldn't say the food is super delicious, but not that bad to get fullfill one's appetitie. Moreover, they are also a good choice for loners who wanna share their views and gossips on work, study, relationships and etc...

Up next, the 3 loners initially planned to head for one of the crowd-pleasing shop - Dao Huey~ However, something caught their attention.... SALTED CARAMEL~ This is the shop which Nax have been dying to try but do not have the opportunity. Don't ask Max why didnt he manage to get there all these years or months, Max didnt know either.

The shop was pretty empty at first, with quite a number of tables avail for them. So, pok pok went to "Chop" the seats, while Max and Desmond went ahead with the ordering. Straight after Pok Pok chopped the seats, she already requested for "Ramp and Raisin". Max didn't spelt wrongly, this is really what she has mentioned. " R A M P & R A I S I N ". Max has no idea how that particular flavour of ice cream got its name. What i assume is that, the process of producing this ice cream requires a ramp, and the raisins shall "travel" down the ramp and finally land onto the ice cream. This is my guess? WHAHAHAHA! Well, perhaps next time you all should be more attentive to the naming of the ice cream.

Following, is the most silliest part u can ever come across! Desmond decided that he should get Avocado, as they are beneficial to health, on the other hand Max decided to get Salted Caramel as it is beneficial to his stomach as well as satisfied his cravings. Max initially has the intention to get Cookies and cream (after hearing so much good review from friends and online comments), but after some sampling, it doesnt really taste that great after all, there's only taste of vanilla not even a mild taste of cookies. Anway, Desmond order one scoop of RAMP & RAISIN, and one scoop of AVOCADO. Seeing Desmond had already ordered, Max ordered a scoop of Salted Caramel. Both of them didnt notice they made a BIG mistake. Max was looking at the price chart, and he saw this

one scoop ------ $2.50

double scoop ------- $4.50

triple scoop --------- $6.50

BUT!!!! now they have order one scoop per flavour!!!! so the calculation becomes

3 x one scoop ------- 3 x $2.50 = $7.50

Which they can actually save $1. Max went stunned O.o and told Desmond about the price chart. Desmond tried to salvage the stupid act, but was too late, they have already finish preparing the ice cream. T_T

As the cups are pretty big, one single of ice cream in that cup look really pathetic. the most pathetic part is. that there are at least 3 or 4 groups of people around them, and they came in 3s or 4s. Most of them ordered the triple scoop or 2 double scoops to share. This is silly!!! Three of them seems as if they are used to loner life, eating their ice cream at one corner, pretending that they are being outcast from the world.

Leading their loner's way of life, they decided to head to the next crowd-pleasing place...

the season is back

This is a serious terrible issue! Just two days and I found so many strands of hair lying dead in my room. And they are all such a "beauty" - mostly straight one. Those frizzy, dry and damaged one still stubborn one live on my hair. Not forgetting those that was dropped during shampooing or at work place. Wtf. This is the hair dropping season. Time to adjust my sleeping n eating habits again.

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Friday de 12

I know I "shouldn't" be doing this (Blogging, settling personal matters and calling Customer serve again). But Hello! 7.50am only and i'm already in the office T_T the one who picked up my call must be suay to the max, but alright lah~ since is early morning, i shouldnt be too harsh to people.

Anyway, i finally got my Free family channel that mio home customers should get. WTF right? finally? All the while, I have been offered only 15 Movies per month, and out of these stupid 15 movies, some are dancing with the coconut movies, and others are mostly movies that aired during my early teens life, or worst ah boy life. Well, perhaps some are really worth watching, but that 1 or 2 movies, which is about just 10%, will not even motivate my fingers to turn-on that mio box.

Last weekend, when i head down to Hello! shop to settle some transfer of ownership thing, that service staff still said NO! to me lor. WTF!!! All the while, am asking him about "You mean existing customers dont entitled that free family channels? I need to recontract just to get the free family channels? and now i only have that 15 channels and I EVEN PAID MORE THEN UR NEW CUSTOMERS?!" and..... that guy machiam like another person in his own world. He reply me with, STAFF ARE NOT ENTITLED WITH ANY PRIVILEGE.

There was a BIG and HUGE question mark on my mind. i didnt even mention anything about i'm a corporate staff. he happily go check my IC and the "status" just happen to reflect there, den he just talk about staff benefits? Anway, let's not talk about this blood burning guy. The customer helpdesk girl is much more better, she even help me to check with the relevant dept then give me a confrim answer lor. Thumbs up!

Alright, about time to start work.... Hmmmm what should i be expecting today.

Finally, I found ur talent

For more than half a year, I have been trying hard to find his talent. Seriously, I dunno what has he contribute to the company at all this while, which land him in the quite high up position.

Strength in programming?

---- > doesnt seems like

Strength in pre-sales?

---- > you must be kidding me

Strength in customer-relationship?

---- > I think even security guard can do better than him

Strength in project management?

----> HUH?! more like porject unmanagement

Strength in proposing ideas?

----> every single thing he need a meeting (spoon feed session from us)

Strength in presentation?

----> he sounds like song without rhythm or melody

Strength in verbal communication?

----> others just want him to shut up. ZIP!

Strength in listening?

----> most of the time he doesn't bring his brain or... ears?

Finally!!! today i found out what is his talen. He has got very good and superb talent that will result him to be a VERY GOOD and ULTIMATE Mamasan.

1) Every single working day, he is walking everywhere around the office. To and Fro upteem times a day. (mamasan need to walk around the lounge)

2) Talk to every single people that he knows, kpo about things that doesn't relate to him at all

(mamasan need to talk to all customers, kpo kpo kpo kpo and..... kpo)

3) Laugh loudly in the office as if there are loud musics covering his voice. And machiam like he need to make known to the whole world. HELLO WORLD! (Yes... Once again, mamasan is a very impt role, need to make known to everyone that she is the LEAD)

4) He is always calling people xiao jie and xian sheng. For example, If we cant complete those task, perhaps i will bring in my liang wei xiao jie (2 ladies) to help us. (alright, i dun even need to explain this.)

Perhaps he should really go, so that the rest of us dun suffer under this damn idot mamasan.