the one on yummy korean with friends

an-nyo’ng-ha-se-ya?

this means “hello. how are you?” in korean.

i can literally see the text bubble on top of your heads: has missy got infected with the current korean or k-drama craze?

oh no. don’t worry.

this is about a super belated entry describing a nice evening whereby three friends went out in search of good food and entertainment.

after a long tiring search with growling stomachs covering half of the entire chinatown, we finally settled at this little korean restaurant tucked away in a quiet little corner - relatively ulu-ated part of chinatown. despite the less-than-ideal location, it was bustling and packed with customers who were slurping away at their dishes. in addition, you can hear the servers yelling orders/instructions/(or whatever they were saying) in korean throughout the restaurant.

after some observation, this joint appears to be operated by a native korean family which means that it’ll serve authentic korean fare! yay-ness!

after we’ve managed to grab a table, we eagerly flipped open the menus, only to find that it was all in korean. the only saving grace was that there were translations of the names of the dishes in simple (and i mean, really simple) english.

after trying to converse with our server with much difficulty (they don’t seemed to speak much english there), we’ve finally placed our orders.

and started waiting…..for the food to be served.

just like how the traditional korean family does it (i think), appetizers were first served to whet our appetite - not that we needed it, of course..

look, don’t they all look sooo enticing, especially the spicy cucumbers and kimchi?!

after appetizers, they proceeded to serve our main dishes. although there were only the three of us, we decided to order whatever that caught our fancy in the menu and ended up with the typical korean stone bowl rice and a modified steam-boat-y type of dish with a kimchi soup base.

the stone bowl rice might not look like it’s anything special, but we should never, ever judge a dish by its appearance.

and next up, we have…

this was sooooooooooooooooooooooo good. it was filled to the brim with various seafood, vegetables and even noodles - all soaked in good, old kimchi soup.

heavenly, i would say. i loved it.

after our orgasmic dinner, we decided to head towards vivocity - starbucks to catch up on what’s happening in our and our common friends’ lives. this was especially useful for me since i’ve missed the last major gathering…

but since we were all trigger-happy people, we naturally did not forget to indulge in a little cam-whoring.

first up, we have the…

and also featuring…

p/s: see, i’m not in black. i’ve changed. heh.

looking at all these pictures is making me want to go back to that restaurant again.

to the mates who’re seen here: can we go back again soon?

happy birthday chean!

today is that day was a very special day!

it’s chean’s birthday!

the group of us finally managed to pick a day whereby everyone is free to meet up for chean’s birthday and dinner was set to be at a particular japanese restaurant in suntec city.

having arrived earlier at the restaurant, i decided to show chean my new work toy…which reminded me that i had unfinished work waiting to be done.

look at chean’s face with glee as i stared ever-so-woefully at the ibook. evurl, tsk!

not too long after, dazzie and jun arrived. since all four of us were suffering from the growling stomachs, we decided to go ahead and refuel ourselves without cozi.

judging by the menu, the restaurant’s speciality is their katsu items. hence…

yummy!

oh yes, it’s japanese cuisine again. it’ll always be japanese cuisine when the girls decide upon the dining place, okay?!

as our food was arriving, our dearest cozi decided to make his appearance at last by walking up and down along the entrance of the restaurant. finally, we’re all gathered!

after we wasted away hours eating, catching up and gossiping about what’s-happening-to-other-common-people-we-know, we adjorned to starbucks where the guys (yes, the guys!) decided to surprise chean with a makeshift birthday cake.

warm chocolate cake with lovely chocolate sauce…how sweet, right?

the night ended much later with chatter, laughter and cam-whoring with cammie. it wasn’t a spectacular celebration…but it was one that’s filled with warmth.

if i hadn’t said it enough, happy birthday, chean! may all your wishes come true…

and also, may we have many such nights in the days ahead.

Risk-y virgin

growing up with my two male cousins, i’ve always been surrounded by male-oriented games such as fifa, championship manager, civilisation, age of empire and risk. recalling from my now slightly-fuzzy memory, i think i’ve always seen the board-game, risk, lying around somewhere.

since computer games were considered more ‘hip’ than their cousin, the board-game, i’ve picked up all these male-oriented games except risk. please remember that this was, maybe, 12-13 years ago, so computer games were still considered the most ‘in’ things around then, okay?!

hence, i have always been a virgin at ‘risk’.

last month, during my birthday month, i’ve had the opportunity to learn how to play this game at pitstop cafe with two of my favourite bloggers, no less.

the game was relatively easy to understand in theory, but, like every other game, there will be some aspects that you’ll only fully understand once you start playing. so play, we did.

the version of risk that we played looked like a star-wars edition. there were land, space and water stations that we could conquer and occupy with little plastic “soldiers” that looked like robots.

i can’t recall what were the colour of my robots. and no, not black, if that’s what you’re thinking.

perhaps it was beginners’ luck, or perhaps riding upon my ally’s luck or skills, our all-girls team beat all the guys in the game. to add insult to injury, both of us were only beginners to the game!

yeah, we kick the men’s asses. muahaha.

oh yeah, before i forget, both me and nadnut were playing against another of my favourite blogger and one of the pitstop guys.

and there goes my first time…..of playing risk.

in other news, i’ve another little nephew recently! look at how adorable shijie is…

shooooooooooooooooo cute. and look, he’s even trying to pout at the camera! a hotshot male model in the making?

and yes, i’ve finally gotten around to posting with pictures. just wait till i get my camera…

i’ll get around to doing all the memes too. i think i’m still in debts of a red-bull and 6-weird-things-about-me memes. soon soon!

missy, out.