The Original Juice

Dear Sir / Madam,


I am a satisfied customer of your Night Rider services. I was especially happy to know that it works in a loop plying from neighbourhood towns to City too instead of just city to home.


However, i am rather disappointed that it doesn't operate of Sunday nights. I'm aware that its a work night for most people, but there are several who still party all night too and movies also finish quite late on Sunday nights. Perhaps you can look into making it available on Sunday nights as well.


Another suggestion is to give discounts or incentives when we need to take 2 buses or more to get to our desired destination as buses only ply neighbourhoods to town and not to other neighbourhoods. Maybe cap it to $4 or even change to another for free!


I'm sure SMRT is a dynamic company that appreciates customers' feedback.


Looking forward to hear from you and see upgrades.

Regards,
Julissa

To be honest, the beginning was quite a drag. The book easily put me to sleep. I couldn't get past 1 chapter before i close it and have a wink. It's not the "dont drop me" material for the train ride.


So much so that i had to chuck it aside and read Further Under the Duvet first. Initially, my reasoning was that the latter has an earlier expiry date but didnt wanna start reading it cos at first i tot it was just some stupid short stories but i have written that its otherwise in the review i wrote in previous post.


After finished Further Under the Duvet, i felt more akin to the author and could see that the main inspiration for this book is her own battle against alcholism. Slang being: Giving up the "Sauce".


That started me to view and read it from a diff perspective. and it became SUPER interesting!


So there.

Yesterday it was resettling into our newly renovated office.

Today meeting occupied half of my day.

Result = no post until later.

Sat, 7th June 08


Everybody is away for the weekend, so i decided to cook Zubair's favourite dish. Sambal Udang. Since its funny to eat that one dish with just white rice... i decided to fry it.


Tragedies to follow...


I managed to get the instructions on the phone earlier from my mother who was in KL.


Fried Rice:

Sautee two scoops of blended onion, 1 green and red chilli each sliced in ur own style. Add a bit of water it wont get "kepul2" or... chunky? To add salt at this stage

Then put in the cooked rice. Mix well... If u want some more colour pour some soy sauce.

Mishap one: Rice finished! Just manage to scrape around to get just a lil under 2 cups. Thankfully its enough.

Sambal Udang (Prawn w Chilli)


Peel the $5 worth of Black Tiger Prawn completely. Dont forget to wash thoroughly. Then pour hot water in the bowl to cook them.


Mishap Two: I didnt get the desired effect like the one at Bilal where it was sooo spongy it was almost transparent!


And here i cheated a bit cos the Sambal was ready made in the fridge. I just poured half of the content to the pan, added water, tomato and chilli sauces.


Mishap Three: Chilli sauce also finished. Only managed to get 1 spoon.


Thank god it came out alright still... And Zubair loves it! Yayyy *beaming*


It took just about 30min to finish cooking. We got 7pcs of prawn each.


I shouldn't have finished ALL the rice cos i became so freaking full afterwards. and Z bcame hungry later w nothing more to eat.

The last time we met it was BEFORE my wedding. More than 1.5yrs ago.


Now they are both a mother of two.


Though we see each other online often enough, we didn't really send msgs frequently. So it was quite surprising for me that when we met on MOn night, we just couldn't stop talking. About families, school, houses, children, holidays....


We met at Vivo. I suggested to go to 2Hot Cafe, the one next to Long John Silver (LJS). I reached there about 45min earlier and window shopped (haha Julissa? Window shop?? Quite a rare catch.)


So after walking one to one end and finally located the LJS... i was shocked to find that the restaurant has been replaced with another! Ok ok.. i wasn't VERY shocked. After all the last time i was there was some 1.5yrs ago too and i dont know why but they dont seem to be able to make it.


We had to walk back to the other end to other halal eateries... we ventured to Fig & Olive, but one of them MUST have chicken that's fried and F&O didnt offer much of a choice... so we stopped at Secret Recipe instead where she had Chicken Cordon Bleu and i wished i had ordered that too instead of my, also nice but not fried, Tom Yam Kung.


S treated us to Coffee Bean and we hung around outside by the sea until each of us were itchy. Ant bites, we thought. Ergh!


It was 10:30 when we said goodbye. The ride home was painfully silent after having such a boiterous time.

Yesterday i had a glimpse of how claustrophobic feels in enclosed spaces.


I was in the MRT on the way to work. A few stations after, i got a seat. To my left was a lady my right was a guy. While he was LARGE, i felt he was like invading my space. Some more, in front of me was a standing lady w her newspaper spread out, so was the person next to her.


I couldn't breathe. I wanted to scream!!! I couldn't sit still. Kept on Squirming.


Prolly due to lack of sleep also that i felt restless. I cldn't concentrate on my book, nor could i drift to sleep.


I wish this train ride to be over soon!


Thank god it did before i lost my mind.

Though Z wasn't too hungry, i got him to eat at BBQ Chicken at Cineleisure which he had ever told me about before.

I had a crispy Chicken salad. Nice but a bit toooo tomato-ey $7.90

Z had Chicken wings $8

Though it was nothing special, i rejoice at having yet another Halal eatery to hit the list. They have another branch at E!Hub i heard.

Our initial plan was to go to Safra Yishun Country Club to try Eatzi SteakHouse (Halal version of Jack's Place) and to play bowling there.


But Z upon hearing that Eatzi is a western food restaurant, seemed reluctant.


Eager to please, i asked for a change of venue. And we came up with Bilal.


Just as Disappointing.

He ate Chicken Porridge in the hope to relive the Dalyan experience in Shahd's house. But to no avail. It was very bland. PS: Check out his innocent hair do

Ayah just ordered a vege dish! And mummy, at my insistance, ordered their special Bilal Supreme Fried Kway Teow. Which is decent lah.

I had Tom Yam noodle which is like two thumbs down! So dilute. Nothing can compare to Al-Ameen or Sakura's version!

But of course their JUMBO Satay is to die for!

However the manager made a mistake of making eye contact with us and asking, "How's everything?" So Mummy decided to voice out that their lontong (rice cake) was SUPER HARD. seemed like they've just brought it out from the fridge or freezer. Mummy said that they should have heated it with some splashes of water to keep it moist and soft.

Otherwise, the place the ambience is SUPER DUPER NICE. Clean Toilets and my dream transparent bowl of a sink (except the tap is not my idea).

Even a very comfy musollah (prayer place)

Afterwards, Ayah drove us to a reservoir in the vicinity of Yishun. Prolly its Upper Seletar?

We can see the brightly lit Golf course.

Some pple were having a picnic dinner by the shore on concrete hard ground. Ayah said there is a plan to make this road part of an expressway to connect to CTE or SLE or something.