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This weekend is short.

Yeap! I have to book in like in an hour or slightly more and I have yet to go bathe and stuff but again, I still want to rush this blog entry out because there’s too much dust collected here already! No thanks to the stupid rehearsal tomorrow morning.

Seriously~ Do you need SPECTATORS to rehearse how to freakin’ CLAP?!

So~ I shall use pictures as much as possible and cut down on the words. :)

So on Saturday, I went to IKEA. I don’t really recall why I went there but I know it was extremely random. Probably because we wanted to have Pizza Hut for dinner but we don’t know which outlet to go to and since it’s been ages since we went to Tampines, we went to walk around the area.

Before exploring furniture paradise, we had meatballs for “lunch”!! 8 dollars for 15 meatballs!! Is that worth it or what?

Gimme those balls!!

I didn’t pay for it though. THANKS FOR THE TREAT!! :)

Welcome to Singapore; where some people are just too fatass-ed to return their own pathetic dishes.

Welcome to Singapore; where people don’t understand simple instructions.

MEATBALLS!! I wonder why they serve meatballs with jam but the combination is EPIC, no? I see y’all mouthwatering monsters already. :) The meatballs are obviously really good, needless to say, but I feel that there’s something lacking from this dish. Some greens perhaps?

After having a light lunch, we walked around IKEA to explore a little. Took lots of random photos; like photos of chalk…

Time telling thing…

Children counting tool thing… Yes, I know it’s called an abacus.

Light bulbs… Interesting~

Plants and the likes…

And of course, we had the 1 dollar hotdog too because lunch was just way too light~ I think there’s no one time where I stepped out of IKEA without having these classic dogs. Cheap and delicious! Notice the sudden blop of sauce on the sausage? I accidentally dispensed too much. :P

Saturday was a really hot day even though it’s so cloudy.

And then, we headed to Tampines 1 to walk around. Honestly, there was nothing to look at because all shopping malls in Singapore are more or less the same. Furthermore, it was really crowded~

Finally tried the Weider-IN, as advertised in Japan by ayu!! It’s a jelly-drink thingie that comes in a pack. There are a couple of flavors for this product and I tried the Vitamin version (Passion Fruit flavored jelly) because I haven’t been eating much veggies these days. Not too sweet~ Just nice!! Quick and healthy thirst quencher. It’s a pity it’s a little pricey, at $2.50 per packet ($2.70 for the chilled ones).

Walked around just to past time and when it’s finally dinner time, we headed to Tampines Mall’s Pizza Hut. Was brought to this table by the window and I was like “YES!! Good lighting!!” The photo proves it, no? :)

We had this meal where iced lemon tea is served. Unlike those extremely sweet ones you get normally, Pizza Hut served the tea plain with a cute jug of syrup so you can control the sweetness of the tea. To me, it just makes a good subject to shoot~ :)

Paparazzi-ing from the window…

Hawaiian Supreme Pan Pizza with 30% more cheese and stuffed cheese crust!! All the cheesy goodness! Unfortunately, I think I prefer the regular Hawaiian pizza though because the supreme version kinda have too many things on it. Sometimes, more doesn’t mean better.

Now, let’s skip to today’s lunch at Ajisen. This is the baby octopus that’s served as a side if you purchased the meal. I believe I’ve featured it before on this blog. :)

My fried prawns!! Tastes okay-okay only though…

Some really spicy ramen. Good thing I didn’t have this because my throat is already half dead. That reminds me… I have to take my medicine tonight.

My vegetable ramen. The waitress calls this “a healthy choice”. :) Just had that craving for those shiitake mushrooms! They were so GOOD!! Soft and smooth and succulent! 

Well yesterday while I was at Tampines 1’s Times bookstore, I saw this edition of VOGUE magazine on sale with Lady Gaga gracing the cover. I was contemplating on whether to get it or not but somehow, the conditions of the magazines back at the Times bookstore was pretty bad so I gave it a pass.

BUT!! At night, I was thinking of the magazine and I was thinking “Since I have nothing to do for the next week, might as well just get it to study the photos.” I needed something to do so I went all the way to Kinokuniya to grab a copy. Boy is it HEAVY!! Really thick and filled with gorgeous photos! That will keep me busy for awhile. :)

Oh yes!! Ann Ward, ANTM Cycle 15’s winner will be on the cover of May 2011’s VOGUE Italia’s cover! Going to get it even though the Italia edition is almost 2 times the US edition. Excited!!

Okay~ This is the fastest blog entry featuring 25 photos that I have done!! Normally, it will take me around 45 - 60 minutes to do an entry like this but cutting down on the photos and words really helped cut down the timing~

Time to go bathe and prepare to go back to the dreaded place!! I hope I can come back home early this week!

Until then!!

Christmas dinner @ Pizza Hut Hougang Mall

Well, today is Christmas and besides sleeping half my afternoon away and playing Resident Evil 5 on Professional mode again (stupid Ndesu is so difficult to fight!), I had dinner outside!

For once with my family!

I thought that my father would break his promise, as usual, but at least he is kind enough not to on Christmas. Good.

Vera’s unglam moment in that unglam PE shirt of hers. I think mine are long gone~ Disgusting rags…

This is me! At the back of the van listening to Namie Amuro’s “Past < Future”!

Whela Lim and her pig face.

So we went to Pizza Hut. The service and food was pretty bad, sad to say. The only nice things are the drinks, and probably the soup, though the soup is a bit mediocre too. This is the drink; some soda plus syrup and lemon and some random stuff with ice. The only thing that’s proper.

How it looks like when you stir it… Did I mention that there was an ANT in Vera’s drink that we had to get the manager to change it? Not to mention the drinks took around 20 minutes to arrive to our table! Which drink will take THAT long to prepare?!

Another epic face of Vera…

She accidentally dropped one of those sago seeds on her plate and she used her straw to suck it back. In the process, she dirtied her plate with her drinks and she used a tissue to wipe it away. Clumsy woman~

The vegetable and chicken soup. It was the warmest thing that we had tonight! Though it tasted pretty much like something that we can whip up at home with a few simple ingredients, it was pretty okay. The soup took forever to get to us!

We had the Fiesta meal or something-or-nothing. It comes with 2 pizzas; one of their Christmas special and another pan pizza of your choice. They gave us nacho cheese and crushed nachos to eat with the Christmas special pizza. Pretty odd combination for pizza I would say.

The Hawaiian pizza~ What’s a Pizza Hut meal without a Hawaiian pizza? Sadly, it was getting cold…

The Christmas special pizza. I was expecting those extruding things to be filled with cheese but I was cheated! We were suppose to break them apart and then dip it into the cheese sauce! That’s pure cheating! Did I mention that the pizza is not warm? Furthermore, the taste is a bit funny too. I wouldn’t recommend this meal to big eaters, especially when I don’t eat a lot normally but this meal is horrible! I didn’t even feel full~

My slice~ Believe me… Even if it looks good on the picture, the taste is so-so and the portion is pretty pathetic. It could be bigger!

We ordered 2 of this Golden Trio thingie. It came only AFTER we finished our first pizza (the Christmas special one). In their menu, this is classified under the “Appetizer” section and why is the appetizer served in the middle of our meal? Weirdness! Not to mention the Golden Trio is cold! It’s such a pity because it actually tasted alright.

My Hawaiian pizza sprinkled with cheese. This amount is nowhere compared to my previous visits to Pizza Hut. Poor pizza was getting cold…

This is their Hut’s Platter, another appetizer dish that’s suppose to come along with the Fiesta meal. However, this was almost forgotten by the staff and we had to remind them again and again before they served this AFTER we finished all the pizza, all the soup, whatever Golden Trio we had! The service was bad! And yes, it was cold.

The Oriental Salad was almost forgotten too and it was served after the Hut’s Platter had arrived. Who in the right mind will serve the salad as the last dish! It’s not a dessert, that’s for sure~ The salad is obviously not going to be warm and therefore, I thought that it would be the best dish of this dinner. NO! The veggies were oddly dry and I had never had veggies that dry before. Tasted like paper~

The burned drumlet that came with the Hut’s Platter. We decided not to complain because we were so sick and tired of waiting and eating the substandard food.

Eventually, we even canceled some of our orders. We were meant to have a baked rice and a fruit chocolate fondue but because of the miserable and awful waits that we have to put up with, we canceled them. No point suffering in hunger while waiting for them to dilly dally.

Found this smiley face at the counter. Are the staff too free? I do that sometimes at my old workplace but I never ever put it up on display for my customers to see. It’s unprofessional and spoils the image of the place. Okay, maybe I’m just not digging the face; it’s un-cute.

Best Service Star? Forget it please. I’m not against the staff actually. I thought they were victims of the situation because there were only 4-5 staff working today on Christmas and naturally, there were lots of customers. But shouldn’t the management know about this problem and prepare more staff to work on this day? I don’t care if you beg, steal or borrow but just make it WORK! Lack of manpower equates to lack of proper service, especially when so many of the staff are trainees. We can’t blame them; blame the stupid management.

In the end, we finished up our dinner and walked around randomly at Hougang Mall. Then, we returned home. Vera decided to play her Diner Dash on the PSP and she stood at the void deck, happily playing away…

Poor Pizza Hut… Getting such a bad review from me… But you can’t blame me. That’s what I’ve experienced and I was extremely unflattered by it. I’ve already sent a complaint to them and hopefully, they will give me a response…

Oh well… End of Christmas. At least this year, I got 2 great presents.

So, shall I cut my hair tomorrow? Mohawk or no Mohawk? Hmmmmm~