Defauq outing
For strange and unknown reason, War kept on
suggesting to go out for the past week or 2, probably he’s bored during his
long offs. =/
Anyway, posting about the recent weekend
outing, which was rather fun? :D
*Outing with OCT Defa!
Auspiciously late by about 20mins, which has
nothing to do with girls / chio-bu [and definitely NOT “flirting / making love
/ doing something with chiobu at Novena -_-]. Met up with War, WL, PH and OCT
Defa at Dhoby Gahut. Why DG? Blame it on the junior medics.
Tasneem: “Jeff! I few days ago went to Strictly
Pancakes, damn nice sia!”
Hamizam: “Jeff, if you like pancakes so much,
why don’t go Strictly Pancakes?”
Did Luqman say something about SP? Ah,
whatever. That’s the reason why I chose to go Dhoby Gahut, even though me and
WL have went there for quite a lot of times… Since we didn’t have a proper plan
of what to do (War asked me to plan this outing during my night duty), we just
stick to watching a movie. I and PH actually wanted to walk around and look at
the stuff in the town area, but ah oh well. After loads of ‘Anything’,
‘Sui-bian’, ‘you all choose’, we ended up with Ted. I have no idea who
suggested that, but even though it’s my 2nd time watching, I like
it! =D
SP is at 44A Prinsep Street, along a row of
shop houses which is 1 level down compared to the main street. The shop from
the street looks like a rather cosy café. Rather bright lightings inside the
shop, with a few umbrella shelters outside. It should be lunch time, as there
were many people waiting for their order to arrive, and a huge crowd queuing at
the doorstep! Defauq sia! There’s goes the sole purpose of going to the town
area for a small outing. Oh well! T_T
The Singapore Pools HQ building is called Pomo
(I think, or have I already known that?). Since the Pancakes lunch didn’t work,
we walked around and ended up setting for a Gelato shop at the basement.
[Pizza, subway, hotpot, other proper lunch outlets were rejected]
The lady at the shop is VERY enthusiastic to
promote the shop product’s Gelato and welcomes the visitors to try the
different Gelatos with a small spoon. Some are rather random, like rum and
raisins, grapefruit, other unique fruit flavors (with hints of alcohol?), the
rest were favorites like Hershey chocolate, Rocher chocolate… I must say that
the Rocher flavor tasted like Kinder Bueno chocolate; perhaps WL had the same
thinking as me. =/
The gelato shop does not simply sell gelato
only, just like pizza hut does not simply sell only pizzas. It sells other
various pastries and bites like pies, pastries, waffles, etc. I ordered an
extra cottage pie with lime juice, apart from the waffles with Hershey
chocolate gelato. The total amounted to $12.60 nett. No GST or other service
charge. J
The cottage pie is simply awesome! A whole
chunk of mashed potato w/o the gravy with generous fillings of mushroom and
ham, topped with a layer of glazed cheese. Reminds me of the Shepherd’s pie
which I made in BP, except that this pie is more fragrant and doesn’t have a very
strong butter taste. The lime juice is normal, nothing special about it. $5.80
for this set, I actually don’t mind buying as it tastes really nice! =D
Belgian waffle with Hershey’s chocolate Gelato,
topped with almond chips and chocolate sauce. Basically that’s an awesome
double chocolate delight! The waffle is really thick, and is thus rather
filling. The Gelato is ok though, it has a super concentrated chocolate taste!
$6.80 for this is… all right. If you ask me, I would rather buy the cottage pie
with lime juice. Perhaps this waffle can be accompanied with some halved
strawberries and whipped cream! =D
The lady gives really good service! She
constantly asks for our satisfaction, other services which we need, topping up
of water, and tells us about the history of the 1-month odd plus shop.
Apparently she took over the shop from the previous owner and added some other
food to her own, since this Gelato shop had a ‘STRICTLY ICE-CREAM’ motto. How
auspicious, everything with ‘STRICTLY’ can increase the value of the products.
‘STRICTLY PANCAKES’
‘STRICTLY ICE-CREAM’
‘STRICTLY COFFEE’
‘STRICTLY MEDICS’
‘STRICTLY NO ENTRY’
Haha wth la, so anyway that sort of concludes
the lunch we had in that cosy little café. We all got a receipt with a green
colour paper (leaf?) that should be the name card of the place. The service is
seriously excellent (maybe even better than the food); someone should give the
lady a prize! =D
Oh, PH passed his TP! With 8 points I think? He
kept complaining about the ‘insufficient acceleration’ part, about how it
should not be deducted, how the tester is stupid, how it is impossible to be
penalized from that mistake and how it brought chaos and devastation to his childhood
dream of getting 0 points for the test. On the other side, WL is there shouting
out my ‘car door never close properly’ mistake for the whole journey to Plaza
Sing. Thanks ah! Anyway congrats to PH for passing! Perhaps I can save on my
transport fares for future outings with him! =D
Defa doesn’t seem to be full, so he bought
Subway before proceeding up to GV to watch Ted. Watching Ted at Plaza Sing on a
Saturday afternoon compared to Lot 1 on a weekday morning is just like comparing
WL’s math standard and his PW idea of glass panels in the busy Thailand
Floating market (Ok la bad analogy). Anyway, the movie theater is more than
half-full compared to the ulu 10 or 20 ppl in Lot 1. 2nd time
watching, but it’s still very funny to me! WL seemed to enjoy it more than PH,
even though I expected the reverse to be true. Ah, oh well.
PH and Defa need to go home soon, not before
they had a small snack / meal at Burger King. A lot of us wanted ice-cream, but
somehow they had STRICTLY ‘NO-ICE-CREAM’. I bought a mustard tendergrill burger
meal with the mini sundae replaced by nuggets. The burger is fantastic! It’s
sweet and the chicken is super tender! Nothing interesting about the rest of
the items. We rested about an hour plus while suggesting random ideas about
what to do for the class outing and hear WL talking about his analysis of TY’s
time on Facebook for many 24-hr periods. Very interesting. J PH left after eating his taro pie,
perhaps he has a date for that night. =P
Warren suggested going to the National Library
so as to borrow more comic books for killing time in camp. So off we go, while
chatting with Defa about his OCT life and my anyhow station medic life. OCT
seems to be training non-stop, which makes sense, since they the future 2LTs
have to know what to do and how to lead the people in future. Defa being an
officer is seriously appropriate, since he’s the 09S16 class manager. Ah, at
least he’s a fair and reasonable guy, unlike some current officers who anyhow
lead. =P When asked to describe my NS life, it’s awesome to say “To save ppl
from dying, treat their injuries, and give them a longer life.” Once again I
thought of the time I saw the headless person at 4.30am, and how I can describe
it trivia-ly as ‘oh, the head is missing, interesting!’ Every vocation has its
difficulty, its challenges, but when it comes to a particular setting, the one
who knows and can command will naturally lead everybody else, regardless of the
person’s rank.
“Like you go for a collapsed call, everybody
has to work together to ensure a chance for the casualty to survive, you won’t
simply hear the paramedic saying ‘I’m a PM! Listen to me!’ Agree right?” – Zul
and his words of wisdom.
At approximately 6.45pm, we reached the
beautiful National Library. Defa needs to go off to find his compass for his
OCS course, the rest of us proceeded to the gallery level. War and WL seemed to
have trouble with the locker password system…? Luckily it didn’t ring off. The
gallery featured yet another history about war (not Warren), this time it is in
a partition gallery form with no weird ships / dark caves or places. Didn’t pay
any attention to the long string of words on the walls, but were rather
fascinated by the touch screen panels where you can actually slide the
information panels to cover the person’s face, to the extent where WL was
practically spamming by dragging the panels one after another. Some books were
about tea leaves, although the content suggested nothing about the leaves /
history / tradition / dummies’ guide to drinking.
War’s comment about the war gallery: Atas!
Next up, we visited the usual exhibits about
Chinese writings, paintings, books, some artifacts. War’s Chinese can be really
described as Atas, he can read half the words! WL laughed at almost everything,
esp. some figures which showed our expressions when we were in a GP class
(praying for the class to end quickly). I didn’t notice the Chinese newspaper
articles, they were describing about Singapore’s everyday lives in the past,
which was seriously interesting. Should visit the gallery again.
War’s comment about this part of the gallery:
Atas!
WL’s comment about the whole gallery: … Ah, I forgot,
but he gave his valuable feedback in the feedback box provided. I can be sure
Atas is not a word inside the feedback form. ^^
War took some time to browse through the comics
books at B1. I borrowed a Chinese book and the classic ‘Romeo and Juliet’ play
comic, did WL borrow a romance book? WL and I saw a relationship book and came
across a very interesting question.
‘I caught my boyfriend watching porn, what
should I do?’
Book’s suggestion: It’s ok, you can watch it
with him or talk to him about it!
WL’s suggestion: Tell him to lock the door in
future.
Jeff’s suggestion: Off his com and have sex
with him.
War’s suggestion: … I don’t know, I never get
caught / caught my brother before…
I mean seriously la, what the heck is the big
deal, until you need to write to the author about it? For all you know he is
waiting to be married, but before that he respects your virginity before you
are married. You didn’t expect your boyfriend to have any sexual activities
before marriage? Haix… Ok, that’s from a ‘FA’ person point of view! =D
Oh, in case you are wondering, Warren didn’t
borrow any comic books, even though it’s his suggestion to go to the library
just for the comic books. Perhaps his favorite collection is on the very top of
the bookshelf. You’re asking me about the way of arrangement? Very atas indeed!
=P
For the rest of the outing, we talked about different
songs while loitering around Cold Storage, looking for Owl City; I mean Owl
Coffee and different biscuits.
Old songs
War: OWNS! Who the heck listens to songs from
the previous dynasties??
WL: Somewhat knows a bit…
Jeff: One love… Others ah… Don’t know sia… =(
K-pop!
War: Gangnam style? [The one by PSY] Nobody
nobody? [He means ‘Nobody’ by Wonder Girls] Hello hello hello hello? [He means ‘Sorry
Sorry’ by Super Junior]
WL: Jeff knows Korean what!
Jeff: Lolwut?
Chinese songs
War: ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY listen to
Chinese songs! [YL will shout at him] Ok la, few years ago got this show about
ghosts right (He means ‘Yin Cha Yang Chuo’) then got the song, yea you know
which song I’m talking about rite? (He means ‘Mu Nai Yi’)
WL: Atas sia!
Jeff: Atas sia!
English pop songs
War: Bruno Mars? Is he the one who
made the masturbation song? (Imagining Hafiz sharpening a powersaw, as if the
circular blade isn’t deadly enough)
WL: War, if you can name half of my
AL songs, you are great!
Jeff: If happy ever after did exist…
I would still be holding you like this! [‘Payphone’]
(Reminded of Nat Mei’s quote:
“Finally Kor’s songs are updated! If not you know hor, last time he sings
‘Sleeping Child’ type of songs de leh!’) Dafuq sia!
Who suggested going to eat Kaya Toast? We ended
up sharing 1 meal set. War gets the eggs; WL gets the iced coffee while I got
the French toast! Delicious! A pity there isn’t any good internet connection,
or I would have played with my laptop for a while. =/
On the train, WL suggested something about
having a K-box / dance skills outing in future. K-box is feasible, but
definitely needs the correct people to go. Dance?? I don’t think many people
really know the real stuff (the 3 songs in PJ don’t count, they look…. Nvm). WL
said that he can dance (woah that’s surprising!), and so I ask how the heck he
knows / when he learn.
WL: Not difficult what. You can just nod your
head (nods nods), with a few other simple moves and that can be called a dance
already.
Jeff: O_O!!!
<Imagines a scene in a Chem class, with Bing
Han and Tiang Yun in front of the class>
Jasima: S16 how? Can do!?
WL: MUSIC!
[‘DJ got us falling in Love again’ by Usher
plays through the class @ 120bpm]
0:00 – S16 makes a cool pose by looking down
0:04 – ‘Usher Usher’ Bing Han and Tiang Yun
nods head every 0.5s.
0:06 – ‘Yeah man!’ S16 looks up.
0:08 – ‘So we’re back in the club’ Bing Han,
Tiang Yun nod heads, the rest of the class shakes head at the rate of 120pm.
0:10 – ‘with the bodies rocking from, side to
side...’ S16 shakes head side to side at 120bpm…
Ah ok, so that’s about it for the interesting
Defauq outing! =D
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