soepom

had some friends and superhomos at my place for nye dinner. mum cooked.

beef stew

tomato flat bread to go with stew

cold scallops in tangy thai sauce

abalone salad

baked chicken kebap

sushi bought by friends

grilled mushrooms

soft juicy stewed ribs

prawns in special sauce

black pepper crab

holy shit soepom. everything in this thread should be dedicated to you and your mom.

nah not true. just look at MoreFire's awesome post! ^^

i think we've got quite a couple of epicureans here. i love how the thread has grown.

ps. the word "epicurean" always makes me think of "pedicure". which then makes me think of toe-jam. which then isn't quite so appetising...

i've owned the linen coat for nearly 4 or 5 years. and this is my 2nd time wearing it.

(and i'm glad someone noticed the work done on the parquet)

ah! so you decided to buy the black one afterall! also, if you like the deer head, you might want to check out harry allen's work.

yep, where it says "lunch/dinner at home", it's prepared by my mum (:

thanks, i'll convey your praises to her.

lunch at home (clearing out festive odds and ends again)

supper and shisha with whizkit, defiance, mis, chrisj, sidneylo and tweeds

(i was superhungry, so i ate most of it myself... *sheepish* )

yes, it's only a dress and flats.

but that wasn't a pedestrian outfit to me. and i'm glad that someone thought it nice enough to rep/ put it in the thread. it's an affirmation that subtlety doesn't go unnoticed.

or perhaps he really was vagina-beastin. fuck.

christmas eve dinner at home with the extended family:

mum whipped up an impressively creative meal

pumpkin gelatin with shellfish

momotomato (new and improved! stuffed with raw salmon salsa)

rice balls stuffed with crab meat and roe

suckling pig (this was the best I've ever had. mum ordered the suckling pig from the roast shop, and improved on it with some secret technique so that the skin is uberkrispy)

turkey. the most boring of the dishes, but a festive must-have. nevertheless the whole family voted in favour of the suckling pig replacing the turkey in future christmases.

this was also the first time we had three log cakes for christmas eve dinner. tsk. lack of coordination/communication between the family. all three were delightfully tasty though.

16th dec:

Friend bought dinner

19th dec:

lunch at home

21st dec:

lunch at home

15th Dec:

Dinner out with mum and tweeds

13th Dec:

lunch with the boys

new room, and finally wearing my bernhard willhelm dress after having it for 2 months

for someone so short, and presumably lower centre of gravity, i have a really poor sense of balance - couldn't get both feet on the plank and stay on it

is there a thread discussing how to tie the laces on dress shoes so they don't look like they were done by a 4 year old?

laces like unruly children - don't sit properly and are all over the place.

Pretty fucking jealous. Fuck that guy.

maybe you should! i know i did!

^ 2 girls 1 curb

whizkit - that open face sandwich with avocado looks damn good! smuggle one back for me in your suitcase!

are these on soft pretzel buns? They look fantastic...

they called them lagun buns...and yes, they're good. i almost like the bread more than the patty!

really wanna rep you soepom('s mum), but can't

just rep me. i'll convert into a verbal praise and pass it on to her.

lunch at home:

my favourite dish was the steamed egg custard. just the right consistency and so so smoooooth.

a bite at work:

was doing a gig tonight and they happened to have an extra portion of this which wasn't served to the guests - lobsterrrrrrrrr

real food (and music) at the jazz bar:

oxtail stew and beer

dismalfuture: i've checked out mcdonalds across several countries and the prices vary fairly drastically. eg. it's cheaper in bangkok than in singapore which is cheaper than in stockholm.

lunch at home today:

crayfish spaghetti, with my mum's new experiment momo-tomato (tomato made to resemble a peach, chilled, and drizzled with a dressing made from 7 different sauces)

dinner at work:

foie gras with quince paste on rocket salad (latest discovery on the menu i thought i could memorise. i am so going to spend my food allowance on this again)

oosh mini beef burgers

bbq porkribs with potato wedges

im using an O2 xphone II, and the only way i could figure out note taking was to use the "tasks" function... i can't believe there's so much. and i don't remember inputting most of it. fuck.

- Art as performance. of intangible stage for immaterial causes. by product of unseen but undeniable forces. The scattered delivery of garbled dissent. for effect but to no effect

- bold relief.

- Can we be novel without being rebels? Because that would be very nice.

- cole porter i concentrate on you, so in love kiss me kate

- creative. To create. vs consumer. To ingest whatever creative output and convert through system of complex misinterpretation - into shit.

- dance steps in words. choreo spoken

- dispel all thoughts of love. When I realised the gravity of my rationalised misdemeanor. My heart. Oh my heart turned.

- dreamt doing theatre practice. Was pushing arms and legs against a wall acting a cat. Someone came and sat close by. After, watched film example with lame actor huang wenlong as lead. Some young nerd asked to mt his teacher david wu who looked bout to commit ar

- Fireworks breaking the taut silence of a purple sky. Squandered dreams easing the hearts who have no hope to try.

- first instrument. Rachel farrel

- i have a romantic fascination with subtlety. But every so often i have a hard pounding desire for the explicit

- im a dreamer walkg among the dead. A bright bold footprint on a whitewashed wall. residue of last nights date.

- in so many words.

- prosaic prozac

-The implicit narrative of nonsense. Every gibberish finds its source in a memory which although referred to at random, the occurence of the original event excluded others

- the secrets in your smile. Wisps of dry smokey joy.

- throw away the thoughts in ur vacant head, focus

- why does every song she sings touch a spot in my heart? Like a finger on a bruise. I resist a tear, but cant tear the phones from my ears.

- what we do may sound like nonsense but we gave a name to it. collective effervescence

- xie si di li de lang chao xi juan...chen hun dian dao

(whoa. it was cathartic going through all this. was reminded of some precious thoughts i'd forgotten...yet completely baffled by what i had intended to remember wtih some of those other random lines)

lunch at home:

with home-baked hippo loaf

afternoon snack:

old chang kee's squid-on-a-stick ftw!

cheap dinner out:

ban mian

tweeds had the tuna murtabak

supper:mum baked cranberry muffins

singapore design festival 2007, This Is Utterubbish exhibition

photos by tweedlesinpink

one of the central themes to the exhibition was "[to] highlight the role and direction design plays in creating a sustainable future", and coincidentally enough, my ensemble comprised mostly pre-owned items, of various vintages:

vintage smocked pleated top (mum bought in tokyo nearly 30 years ago)

hand-me-down trussardi belt (aunt clearing out her wardrobe)

m)phosis shorts

fred perry bag (bought 2nd hand)

tangerine pointy flats

i quite enjoyed the experience of exploring the exhibition.

yep this mcD talk is intriguing and i'd agree:

as crillz said, it's really about balance, cliche as it might sound.

and like a few of you have mentioned, it's true, mcD's varies from country to country. i sometimes find myself wandering into a mcD when I'm in a new place, just to compare the different prices, and what is unique to the local menu. it's like a common denominator. i guage the cost of living based on the price of an extra value meal.

kpnv you speak the truth.

(and my favourite fastfood is MOS burger too)

it's strange, even my mum for all her cooking skills, enjoys eating the occasional fastfood. i know for a fact she loves the all-batter-no-real-food stuff at long john silvers.

anyways.

lunch at home today:

i didn't actually eat this, but i must have been to at least thirty weddings by now, and this is definitely the prettiest wedding cake i've seen:

i did however, take a bite out of the gingerbread village in the hotel lobby:

okay okay... i lie. the display is preserved and stuff, but there are bowls placed amidst the display filled with edible (at least i hope so...) cookies and candy.

shared it with my family. that's a lot of fries, even for a big eater like me.

it might seem like an epicurean blasphemy, but i like mcdonald's. it's more than just some fastfood junk to me. there's a good deal of sentimentality attached to eating there. i'd eat it anyday.