Summer in the States 2006

Saturday, September 02, 2006

Put In Bay entry =)

Nothing much interesting in Put In Bay, cept for the food there. It's kind of like Pulau Ubin, but it's more populated with eateries and alfresco restaurants. We took the big boat across from mainland to the island.

This's one of the roadside bakeries in Put In Bay. There were lots of them around plus a few chocolate stores.

Home of the original Bay Fudge store. Yeah i know, like u cant read for yourselves.

Well here's a sign that's oh-so-true-u-cant-deny-it

We look retarded. Well, at least i think we look retarded and stiff.

After walking around for some minutes and shop-browsing, we took a short hike with an aim, to locate the local Chocolate Museum.

Sounds impressive right, Chocolate Museum, I thought it was some kind of Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory with chocolate lazy rivers and a huge chocolate fountain. Or at least some very impressive chocolate making machinery where we can just dip our fingers in and lick the chocolate sauce off them.

Yeah. Turns out I over-estimated Put In Bay. Way over-estimated.

That's the Chocolate Museum.

Oh well, but there's the story of Chocolate...

and the benefits of eating chocolate...

and some tootsie roll boxes on display.

The best part has only got to be the Chocolate Cafe right next to the Chocolate Museum.

We ended up eating chocolate cakes for lunch there. 5 huge slices among the 4 of us, no kidding.

And a closer look at the extremely choc-ful cakes drizzled in Hershey's chocolate sauce. There's even a dollop of chocolate mousse next to the cakes. The mousse is really creamy and there's even a slight butter taste to it.

God, that is one disgusting face i put on below. Classic act cutesy anticipation face. So puke-inducing haha.

Nevertheless, it was one helluva pleasure when we took our first bite. Love at first bite.

I dont know how we managed to do this but yeah. There's the last morsel of them all. Yeah.

What always comes after lunch?

Of course it has got to be the essential afternoon nap!

Food and sleep maketh thou a happy person!

And there's us on the way back.

Friday, September 01, 2006

Big Bash.

Bash for Cant-remember- for-my-life-what's-the-reason.

Overall it was pretty ok. Mostly because of the freebies, yes, I am a typical Singaporean. But how to not be when there are free caramel apples, popcorn chicken, pizzas, pop, and a whole lot of other food which I can't really remember because the most important and yummiest one of the lot is the lick-off-the-peanuts-then-chow-down-to-the-core caramel apples! Oh man, peanuts, caramel sauce and green apples are the best combination when it comes to caramel apples. Of course, chocolate sauce is a close second.

Took a few momentos with Admissions ppl such as Dalia, Heather, Lina and the Ukraine girls.





MacDonalds breakfast before work one day with Jamie, one of the Taiwanese apartment mates.

We woke up at like 7am for breakfast because we had to report to work by 830. I never knew that I was so crazy to deny myself of a few more precious winks and eat MacDonalds breakfast in the Fast Food nation. But then again, any food is better than the routine cereal-and-wholemeal-bread we have. EVERY. SINGLE. MORNING.

Tucking into our McGridles and Big Breakfasts were kind of an underestimated consolation. At least we were doing sth different than what we always do
1) Waking up to the ring of the alarm at 630
2) Eating breakfast and watching Saved by the Bell (read: Days-of-our-lives version of an American drama)
3) Checking out the weather channel so that we wont be caught in the rain or be baked like a turkey
4) Running out of the apartment and all the way to the bus stop
5) Catching our breaths on the bus

Yep, it was definitely sth worth blogging about: a breakthrough in our mundane mornings.