sedap

the best part of eating indomie is nibbling away the white halo of a sunny side up, and then ripping the yellow sphere apart, mixing the delicious lava that flows forth into the noodles…
world-class dish for a dime!
(i would usually boil the noodles with a piece of cut chilli padi to [...]

mouth watering birthday!

so i turned 23 yesterday. and ate. alot.
wed – seafood paradise with the y5
thurs – umami dining lounge with the bf
today – shangri-la media lunch
tomorrow – seafood paradise part 2 with mom
what a glorious 23rd
 
 

stuff

in my humble opinion, people can be basically classified into three distinct groups
1. those who do nothing while crapping
2. those who smoke while crapping
3. those who read while crapping
there are absolutely no grey areas between these classifications.
i personally fall into category 3.
i really enjoy taking a leisurely sunday crap in my spotless, citrusy smelling toilet [...]

attempt at haiku

typing hard
even after
bottle’s condensation’s dry

1.51am

it was a dream job when it was still an ambition.
now.. it’s just something i do to pay the bills.
i really can’t wait to begin french lessons proper; translation may or may not become a lifelong career, or the EUREKA! of my life, but it might be able to pull me out of this uncreative [...]

mom

my mom is the complete opposite of my dad, and i have entirely inherited her personality. i have no idea why they got married, but i guess they found out their differences soon enough and divorced shortly after their marriage.
its amazing how my mind works exactly like my mom’s, while i am a physical replica [...]

dad

my dad is a man of few words. wait, i mean, of few monosyllables.
but when he gets angry, boy he launches into a tirade that nobody listens to.
so i forgot to switch off the aircon before i left the house today. sorry, my fault.
my apology did not appease the father a single bit and he [...]

enlightening

the time now is 10 past 2am, and m is snoozing peacefully on my bed in his usual arm-over-head-armpit-airing position.
today we had a mundane date with a mission – to get a lamp for my room. but oh, we did have such fun at ikea, poring over shot glasses and coffee mugs before finally taking [...]

horn ok please

in india, you’re either rich or you’re real fucked.
mumbai has opened my eyes to things and situations only previously depicted in my mind’s eye; and that’s despite having visited bangalore and goa just months before. 
the disparity is not alarming; but depressing.
then again i’ve seen the half naked little boys pottering around the slums, taking a [...]

haven

her hair smelled of smog – the signature heady scent of shanghai.
hi, he said as the door opened. there was an air of vague trepidation in his apartment – the curtains too tightly drawn for the time of the day, the place too clinically clean for a bachelor’s pad, and the dog too quiet in [...]