Down the Streets of Orchard

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Monday is coming and that would mean that my "free-end-easy" lifestyle is coming to an end and I am going to re-join the working class, aiyah...

Spent the evenings this weekend at Orchard Road because went to meet a friend and his girlfriend who was working there during the weekend. There is really nothing much to do in Orchard except shop. Since we do not shop, we quickly find ourselves struggling to find ways to entertain ourselves... Literally, we were just taking it easy and pamering ourselves.

• My first try of gelato (italian ice-cream) bought from Venezia at Taka food court

Gelato Galore!


My coconutty Gelato with Wafer!

• My first try of Aunt Annie's pretzels found at Taka basement, outside the foodcourt

Mickey likes pretzels?

• We laid back on our chair at Subway® (Orchard Hotel), enjoying our 6-inches sandwich while looking up at the "cloud-filled" ceiling (the place is still pretty much the same as it was when we visited it 8 years ago: quiet)

Clouds Overhead!

• We "chilled out" at 24-hours MacDonald's (Forum Galleria) till 2am
• We challenged each another to pronounce the word "itinerary" and spell it... later adjourned to Kino (Taka) to search the dictionary to verify its spelling... of coz we also spent a considerable amount of time doing some "cheapskate free reading"
  

Hardworking neh? Studying the dictionary

• We visited and ate at "Pepper Lunch" (a new Japanese chain fast-food steak restaurant) in Taka where your food is served on a special high-powered electromagnetc cooker which heats up the hot plate to 260 degress Celsius in just 70 seconds and then at about 80 dgeree Celsius for some 20 minutes.
  Apparently meat grilled at this temperature is supposed to remain tender and juicy. I went for the curry beef pepper rice. The fun part is mixing the rice and the beef as the meat sizzles away and dousing it with as much honey brown sauce, garlic soy sauce, pepper and salt as you want. Taste like "guo ba"and the rice was fragrant, also dunno if it is because I put too much sauce, oops.
  They also have this interesting staff culture where the all the staff regardless at the counter, in the kitchen (or maybe even in the toilet) all will greet you when you enter the restaurant with "Irashaimase" (Japanese welcome), makes you feel welcomed. But after a while and after hearing countless shouting of it (which sounded like "ey ey ey"), it can get rather noisy
  
  
  My Curry Beef Pepper Rice
  
  
  
  

  
  

  Read the instructions!
  
  
  

Done!

• Watching a whole row of photographers with their humungous black boxes, elbows out, standing in line, shooting a fashion show... *flash-flash-flash-click-flash-flash-flash*

*Flash-Flash-Flash*

• Shopped for cheap $9 Tee just because I was so silly enough to wear his thick long-sleeve shirt and I was perspiring madly... (well it was raining and cold in the morning what).
• Spending time away from my "treacherous" laptop which I have spent my last 2 years slogging away on and would feel so lost without