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the old outer-limits gang had a dinner on friday, when i was in vietnam, in celebration of kai’s return from lalaland. it has been years since i met kai so decided to call him out for dinner, managed to get cherie and yiqiang to come along as well.

met at orchard since cherie needed to get some stuffs for her ipod but managed to persuade her to get it from sim lim instead.

kai still looks the same cept much slimmer, probably the thinnest period of time in his life but i have the gut feeling he’ll grow back to normal in just a few short months.

introducing…the brand new kai!

since i owed kai 3 years worth of birthday presents, he “kar-ed” me of a red crumpler pouch and a belt to hang the pouch.

after much debating on what to have for dinner, we finally agreed on the japanese buffet place at sunset way.

we ate, we drank, we talked, we singed, we smoked, we camwhored

went back to rest for a while before meeting trond and charlie, supposedly for dinner and movie at vivo.

bad luck 1) took us about an hour just to get there, massive jam on the expressways no matter where we turn.

bad luck 2) movies that i wanted to watch were all sold out

bad luck 3) restaurants that i wanted to dine at were all full with a long queue

ended up choosing some chinese restaurant that serves $13.90 buffet, it was a new place so we decided to give it a try.

bad luck 4) the restaurant’s service and food were terrible!

too lazy to type everything out about the place so i’ll just write it in point form

• the spread was horrible, worst than those $15 china-nese buffets in bugis
• the rate they took to refill the main food like pork, chicken and beef were in 30 minutes interval
• the rate they took to refill the plates and bowls were also in 30 minutes interval but a separate 30 minutes from the food
• there were either food with no plates/bowls or plates/bowls with no food
• it took them forever to refill their sauces
• their soup tasted like crap
• their pitcher of green tea consisted of 90% ice, 5% ice water and 5% green tea
• the service was slow, not the normal slowness but super slow!

bad luck 5) the steam from the steamboat was blowing directly into my face the whole time

bad luck 6) dbs card members had some discount but i only brought my money clip out and my dbs card is in my wallet at home.

well, at least the company was good for the night, camwhored a little during dinner.

charlie making faces at the steamboat

statue of vivocity, the sexy vietnam pose

the steamboat, look at the horrible colours of the soup!

bowls of spices and sauces, okay maybe we took too many bowls

the only water i got to drink was the water that melted from the ice

left overs that i scoped up from the steamboat

trond’s the only one who seem to enjoy the food

“wtf, why so lousy food!”

camwhored a little during a smoke break while trond was slowly enjoying his food

statue of vivo city, part 2. charlie actually took these pictures to send back to his parents in vietnam

china man pose!

was still early so decided to go for durians at damsy (spelling?). heard about the durians there but have never try it so decided to give it a try.

bad luck 7) buy durians also got cheated!

the uncle seemed friendly at first and when i asked how much he’s sell, he merely said he has $10, $12 & $15 ones.

ordered 1 of each and it was a nightmare from there, point form

• the $10 durian had 4 seeds although the durian was huge, tasted like normal $5 durian
• the $12 durian had only 3 seeds, best among all but $4 per seed?
• the $15 durian had 6 seeds but it tasted just horrible

wanted to order more but the price put us off so decided to call it a day and go somewhere else for durians another day.

it was only when we called for the bill that we realised that the prices, $10, $12 & $15 were not for 1 durian but for 1 kg.

wtf!!!

wanted to just use the durian shells to smack the uncle in the face!

bad luck i fucking paid $45 for 3 small lousy durians!

look at the whites, no flesh!

trond can eat anything and say it’s nice… -.-”"”

free tissue thought

trond was rushing for time to talk to his girl in china so charlie and i had to share a cab back home…

but that’s not the end of my bad luck,

bad luck 9) the driver gave me all the change in coins, all $4.90 in coins!

bad luck 10) i had to drop the coins on the floor on the way home and 4 coins went into the drain…all 4 $1 coins!

bad luck 11) the new pack of cigarettes i bought had a fault flip top cover, can’t close the pack properly

bad luck 12) went into the lift with a moth which kept flying around my head

and the final bad luck for the day…

bad luck 13) i fell off my bed while sleeping, something i’ve never done before in my entire life

wish my good luck will come soon…

went for my 3rd battlestations outing after work, met my cousin at clementi mrt before taking a train down to kembagan. wanted to actually take a cab down to the place from kembagan but my cheapo cousin refused and we ended up walking to our destination.

it was a restaurant, eng seng seafood restaurant, that was supposed to serve very good black pepper crab.

my cousin actually printed out a map of the place but we still got lost and only managed to get there after 40 minutes of waiting.

rawr’s clan leader, jon lai, was already there with some other ping members and we had to wait another 45 minutes before everyone else came.

there were members of rawr!, ping and emo, 1 clan from each tier and rawr! being rawr!, had the most number of people attending.

ordered 8 crabs, 6 black pepper and 2 chili, 3 pieces of huge stingray, 2 large plates of mee goreng, 2 plates of greens and 30 sticks of satay.

i didn’t try the crabs but from the way my cousin attacked it, i could tell it was really good. was kinda surprised my skinny cousin could eat so much so i just had to ask him why he ate so much.

” oh cause you not eating so i eat your share for you mah “

crabs aside, the satay was good and the stingray was great! we actually allocated each person 2 sticks of satay but i ended up eating 8 sticks which means some poor soul did not eat the satays, oh well…they can eat more crab since i’m not eating.

it was a rather nice outing, much better than the first one i attended, people were laughing and talking and there was a nice aura around.

went next door for desserts…durians! i think the place was called durian cafe or something.

i usually run from the smell of durians but decided not to be a party popper this time round and went along with them. i almost died from the initial attack of the durian smell…

was having some problems with the indonesian customer so was on the phone when we first walked over. the next thing i knew was someone walking over to me asking me for $8 for the sharing of durians.

refused to eat any at first but was kinda forced to in the end and it really didn’t taste 1/2 as bad as i thought…other than the smell.

the first 5 durians were hand picked by jon lai and they tasted really nice, each durian had different taste but it was really good! found out later that they were d24s, some branded brand of durians or something.

the later 5 durians that cost real cheap ($20 for 5) compared to the d24 ones that cost $50 for 5 were hand picked by dennis from ping and they were really bad!

instead of picking good tasting ones, dennis picked all the largest durians around and most of us put off by the taste. it was really really bad, even someone like me who has never eaten durians before in his whole 27 years of life on earth could tell the taste was bad. ate just 1 seed from each durian and that’s it for the day.

some of them were heading to em’s bar to chill out but i decided to call it a day and go home, shared a cab back with chloe from ping since she’s staying in west coast.

there were plenty of pictures taken from various cameras so i’ll just post everything up together.

was supposed to go down to sim lim with my mom to repair her computer but was informed that the shop will be closed till 3pm cause they were doing some minor renovations.

gave her the address instead and went back to the office with trond in the late morning.

spent most of the day in office doing quotations and finding people to do the acrylic, originally wanted teck kin’s dad to order for us but his prices are so crazily expensive that i decided to just cancel his order and order from somewhere else.

went down to ikea around 4.30pm to order the poles, i didn’t quite expect the poles to be that expensive, they look just like those poles construction workers use to combine to form a temporary ladder.

realised that there was no way to put 6 poles into the car so we decided to just place an order first and get the van to collect it tomorrow.

went down to the central next in search for the “helipad”. it was a nice roof top on the 5th floor just outside the carpark where they have a mini lounge. there’s going to be an event on the 22nd there and we needed to know how the event guys are going to do the setup for the touchscreens.

got trond to send me back to clementi to meet up with my cousin and our fellow rawr! clan mates from the facebook game “battlestations”.

had claypot rice and talked a long, if it weren’t for the rain, we will probably still be there talking for a few more hours. originally wanted to take a cab back with one of the ladies since she was staying near me.

i think this bunch of people are one of the best online groups i’ve hung out with…

looking forward to the next rawr! outing!

will upload pictures once i get my hands on the pictures that the girl took.

practically laze my whole monday away at home doing absolutely nothing…

my left thigh’s giving me problems again, probably retribution for laughing at aaron when he was having similar problems…on the same butt cheek.

the pain was so bad that i couldn’t walk properly.

rw came over to my place to accompany me as well as to collect a laptop for repair, thomas’ laptop.

just couldn’t find time to get it repaired myself, too “nua”.

took a bus down to habour front for the gathering and was rather disappointed with the turn out, only 4 of us.

oh well…

had dinner at kim gary’s hong kong restaurant, nothing fanciful about the food but at least it was quite cheap.

as usual, only a picture of the aftermath

went down to the food court for desert before taking a scroll round vivo.

this is actually the first time nicholas joined us, he was normally the outcast since there was a huge age gap between him and the rest of us…and he’s kinda weird too.

met up with colin (low) and joe (yeo) for a meet up just now.

met up for a meet up…

hmmm, sounds kinda lamish.

duh.

anyway, it has been months since we last saw joe so we chatted a bit here and there.

he was around the area with his badminton “kakis” as they play badminton every sunday in jurong.

surprisingly enough, he always attends the badminton sessions but never once did he actually play badminton…

weird right?

and i ate a plate of fried oyster egg with 3 cups of lemon tea.

details on the bbq has been moved to here

reached boon lay at around 9 and met up with the rest who were already there.

didn’t wanna take pumpkin’s van cause it was already overcrowded so 4 of us shared a cab.

waited quite a bit for a cab but finally did manage to find one.

xiao ai’s house was quite big and had a nice balcony. didn’t really explore the interior much but the balcony was really windy and nice.

i think there were 2 groups of people, xiao ai’s sim friends and us, her fellow netizens.

food was okay, the pork and chicken were nicely marinated but just a touch too salty. didn’t get to eat much salmon cause botak practically gobbled down the whole bowl himself.

it was quite a big outing, think about the same size as the one we had for dawn’s farewell at amk hub.

it would have been more fun if xiao ai didn’t get her ass drunk, but that was rather entertaining as well.

that scenario will be a story on it’s own…later,

for now, i must apologise to angie for calling xiang a retard. we all know now he’s not a retard. he’s merely mentally challenged and intelligent deficiency.

anyway, opposites attract so all the best angie! may you be the M and xiang be the S in SM!

and now the cam-whoring!

oh wait! just before i start posting the pictures, i wanna say not all pictures were taken by me…quite a few were taken by kat and if your picture is missing, means she either took it so blurred that it can’t be save or her finger was covering the camera lens.

definitely not a talented photographer…

oh and dee got bitten by a dog on the way and tore his pants…should have asked for compensation!

errr…is that what i think it is?

xiao ai got dead drunk and started running around, falling around, hugging around, kissing around, crying around and errr…everything around.

and before you start messaging me as to why i put up the drunk “unglamorous” pictures of xiao ai up, i’ve got her full permission.

and it’s my blog anyway…

and if pictures aren’t enough…

and pumpkin showed us all his round firm bubble butt…anyone interested?

pictures are available in zip format here

went out again for breakfast at pioneer mall macdonalds with nezha and colin (low).

nezha’s much fitter now compared to the last time i saw him at imm (compliment you since you said i slimmed down by a lot).

lol!

had hotcakes with 2 sausages and orange juice.

chatted till around 7.30am before leaving.

met up with colin (chong), kester and jerlyn at jurong point for a last minute movie yesterday,

smuggled subway into the cinema to munch,

lost my wallet,

found it back at the cinema,

bladed from jurong point to coffeeshop near my house,

lost a bet to colin (chong),

bought him a cup of ice lemon tea as payoff,

bought whipped potato from 7-11,

sat under a block to talk cock.

i think the most meaningful part of this post is the whipped potato from 7-11 thus the title of this post.

i just love 7-11’s whipped potato.

looking forward to tomorrow’s training cum matchmake session at ecp.

- update -

colin (chong)’s tattoo for the day

this is 1 horny bastard who never seem to run short of female companions. bastard!