The Week of Dinners Pt.1

I'll be really busy these few days being present at dinners for four days in a row. (but they'll be at cool venues, so it's cool).
Like today, my sister celebrated her birthday at Jumbo at Serangoon Gardens. (of ALL places, really. It's more of a place where people go to celebrate their aged parent's birthdays/50th wedding anniversaries/promotions.) We agreed that we vaguely felt ourselves slip into a warp in the space-time continuum because when we entered, it seemed almost as if we had entered the mid-nineties, where people wore strange padded clothing and had coiffed hair and big earrings. There was, of course, the apparently obligatory piped-in music in which we were subjected to by listening to repeats of instrumental versions of West Side Story songs, and, oh the horror, Edelweiss.

I think the entire notion of having dinner at a seafood restaurant is an extremely nineties concept.

I don't enjoy seafood dinners, because it's always the same menu and everyone somehow manages to agree on ordering prawns all the time. (The ones cooked in liquor and left to allow their proteins to coagulate in their own broth.) And seafood dinners are the messiest too, because of the extremely high odds of splattering prawn juice/crab juice/chinese tea/sweet sauce all over yourself.

We went for dessert at a place that people would call a 'hip joint'. It has cool bar stools, cool high tables, cool red tables, a cool couch area, and a cool ice cream/liquor bar. It also has a cool name: Ice^3 (which is supposed to be read aloud as "ice cube").




Was impressed with their mudpie selection. Had the Alcoholics Anonymous (top-most picture) that was supposed to be boozy, with the rum and raisin ice cream and all, but was more raisiny than anything else. We also tried the Butterscotch mudpie that tasted slightly similar in terms of the ice cream's custard base, but had a sweeter, buttery edge to it. However, my sister's strawberry cheese sundae/parfait thingy (i can't remember its name) was really good. It manages to achieve that sweet-salty strawberry cheesecake flavour, and has a creamy, sticky texture that is oh-so-sinful.

Anyway, leaping now to a different topic, I have completed this year's NAPFA! Quite happy with this year's 2.4 km timing of 11.11 mins (which was the same as terence who was running with me). I think having a running partner is a good way to keep up one's pace, because we had this mutual perception that the other was less tired than himself and therefore one had to keep up.

Did two more designs for Woffee Haus. Look out for them in school tomorrow! :D