#25 - Dinner at Olive's

For the first time, lunch was on the company, and at (I heard) Elain’s brother’s restaurant somewhere nearby. Pretty grand, we took tables and even ordered red wine. Tony for some reason couldn’t stop making fun of Jolene and her “beef”y matters :D

Dinner with the whole Singaporean gang at Olive’s and we walked there right from office. Remember Olive’s? It’s one of the first Italian restaurants we visited and really liked. As a really bad habit, Colin flirted (well subconsciously or maybe he’s just thick skinned lol) with the shy waiter and went on being picky and stuff. We had great fun and great food, didn’t even have to worry about speaking in Maaaaandarin haha.

[ Expenses ] :
9 rmb (鸡蛋饼 and yoghurt drinks), 18 rmb (pay Sin En cab fare), 45 rmb (Olive’s)

#24 - More of Red Town, food, books and a joke

Ah, today’s brainstorming session for LG Secret was held at the second storey of Coffee Bean. So refreshing to be in somewhere other than the office =) Well, after lunching at the wanton shop, Sean and I dropped by next door at Feng Yu 丰裕 (Sin En’s favourite restaurant) to join the both of them. Even though we sat ourselves right beside them, they didn’t notice us until quite some time later. Sneaky :D


We took a bit of time to roam around Red Town some more and took some photos of the outdoor and indoor sculptures. The red brick car that Jolene stood beside was made of real bricks cemented together and not a form that was painted onto. They’ve a lot more interesting sculptures indoors too, like the cardboard (which wasn’t) box that stood so much taller than us actually.


The design bookstore that we love to visit,


and even more installations and galleries along that stretch.


Sean’s desktop at the moment.


Dinner at 丰裕 after we knocked off, the beef in oyster sauce and rice I ordered was only soso; it made my urge to want to eat at the wanton shop even stronger!


Sin En’s agenda for the evening was to visit a bookstore at Times Square, and we joined her, planning to take a bus down at first but soon we realized that particular bus was only in service after midnight…


Times Square 时代广场 felt exactly like Paragon, with the very high-end stores and brilliant window displays. The bookstore, rather small, was at the basement and sold mainly imported books in English. I took a walk around, and immediately noticed several books on Audrey Hepburn and an irritating couple hanky pankying at the sofa beside the bookshelves. Thus we all stood there, talked in English and made lots of noise on purpose 8D


On M群 today (M群 is a mass convo system on MSN that includes everytime everyone who’s been added in it, i.e. all the colleagues) someone posted a joke he/she found on the net about the Olympics. Especially the one on Japan! Omg, I LOL so hard when I read it: in Japanese terms 3p refers to threesome, as for the rest, go figure hehe. Peace~ XD

菲尔普斯夺得8金以后，各国对游泳比赛蛙泳、仰泳、蝶泳、自由泳×100、200、400、1500导致金牌过多感到非常不满，纷纷要求增加自己优势项目的金牌数目。

巴西提出： 足球应该分为3人、5人、7人、11人×沙滩、室内、草地。
中国提出： 乒乓球应该分为直板、横板、直板双打、直板单打、直板横板混双。
英国提出： 马术应该分成黑马马术、白马马术、红马马术、褐马马术、皇马马术、斑马马术。
肯尼亚提出： 长跑应该分为10000米、11000米、12000米、13000米。。。
日本提出： 所有男女混合项目应该增加3p、4p、5p、6p、7p。。。群p。。。500p。
泰国提出： 除了男子和女子项目外，所有应该加上人妖组

[ Expenses ] :
9 rmb (yoghurt, macha milk, 鸡蛋饼), 7 rmb (beef wanton soup), 12 rmb (beef rice)

#23 - Night Lights

#22 - All fixed?

I was suddenly awakened at 5.30am, thinking that it was nearly noon. The morning sky was way too bright, but I like the feeling of waking up and knowing that you got so much more time to sleep. Because of the very early sunrise, it’s easy to wake up in Shanghai and not feel too lerthargic. Back at home, the only reason I dread waking up so early in the morning is because the sky will still be dark, and it doesn’t feel as though anyone is up yet. That’s exactly how I feel everyday when we have 9am classes “OTZ

We did our own stuff until it was time for lunch, and we decided to visit the ‘western food’ restaurant near the laundry shop near the DVD shop near C-store near our apartment haha. The restaurant doesn’t serve only western food, but that’s what Sean calls it, but other kinds of Thai, Hawaiian etc dishes as well, just western styled. I had fried beef steak (really thin slices) and curry rice (gooood!) which cost only 11 rmb in all.


Linda came at about 3 in the afternoon with a guy who helped to fix the kitchen gas stove, replace with a new showerhead and now we also got a new TV remote! It means we can do a lot more things than before; like cook stuff, watch DVDs with more control over the settings and have a real good shower. Yatta!~


Other than being worn out from age and a little dirty, the stove worked fine. I could finally cook my mash potato bought from Carrefour! A box came with four packs in powdered form, I used up a single pack and after adding water and milk and cooking for some time, I realized it was too big a serving :S The cooked mash potato tasted milky and good but a little bland, so I dug out the Philadelphia from the fridge and mixed a spoonful in.


Nothing beats TV + GOOD FOOD, ne~


I let Sean have some, and guess what he mixed it with?? (T___T)”


I happened to see this drink – it’s milk soda - on the shelf and grabbed it along with green tea icecream (I thought it was vanilla ;_;). The milk soda was great! It tasted like.. 7up and milk. Or something hehe.

[ Expenses ] :
11 rmb (beef steak and rice), 3.5 rmb (ice cream)

#21 - Half of August gone??

Seems like Time sped up slightly in the last two weeks.


Picture from ebay.com.sg
Admist the LG70 project, I’ve been hearing quite a bit about Audrey Hepburn, whose image they used for LG Secret’s Black Label. As part of our research and brainstorming for ideas, of course for the upcoming LG Secret project, we all had lunch at the meeting room and watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s. There was a scene at the beginning with Hepburn’s character, dressed in her iconic black dress, wearing gloves and huge retro shades, munching on something from a paper bag and standing in front of the display window of Tiffany. Insead of jewellery, in LG’s version, she was looking at the LG Secret phone through the window. Though it was really interesting and the character she portrayed was extroverted and fun, I could hardly sit through the entire film.. kind of fell asleep after finishing my food =.= The only thing that really caught my attention was the fat orange cat that looks like Garfield. XD Anyway, I’ll make it a point to read up more on Audrey Hepburn.

I don’t know was it Erfa or Atikah who sent me the link to watch the latest Arashi on Utaban clip (ahh, I think BOTH of them sent me, they’re always sooo updated ne~). It was, the ultimate, the best haha! All of Arashi, apart from the usual member Ohno, took turns to say things to piss Nakai off big time. And at times it was so awkward for Nakai because he had to pretend to be talking (and trying hard not to laugh), but soon he ran out of things to say and started blabbering nonsense. HAHA ULTIMATE I TELL YOU. The watermelon was dammit too funny for words.. Nakai slipped and sat down hard on it =.= In the end, we found out it was his birthday month! Arashi had prepared a cake for him and at the moment just before he blew out the candles, Ohno did the job XD Lovely, then Nakai chased all of them with a watergun lolol.

Hai hai, enough of nonsense フフフ~ Colin, Sin Yew, Sean and I went for dinner at 龙之梦 and this is what we saw: LG conveniently promoting their own products by screening the Olympics live and hence, the crowd was willing to gather and sit in the middle of a shopping mall.


This was shot upwards while on an escalator, pretty interesting effects you have there.


Tom’s World (mwaha, the arcade) and a random restaurant with a long queue, and chairs for the people waiting in the queue :S


At the so-called Japanese restaurant, selling rather non-authentic Japanese food, I ordered baked potatos with mentaiko and cheese (but still, the one at Ajitei is so much better!), smoked salmon salad and barbecued squid (too hard to chew! oww).


Oh yes, remember I mentioned about our problems with the showerhead? Let me show you… wait, where is it? It’s not here..


Neither is it here.


Uhh random, those are mine..


The showerhead! But how do I shower without it??


Like this la, for more than a week already. Please, laugh.

[ Expenses ] :
1.5 rmb (鸡蛋饼), 3.5 rmb (milk), 4 rmb (yoghurt), 10 rmb (lunch), 51 rmb (dinner at zhongshan)

#20 - WII-ing in the rain

My standard two drinks in the morning: yoghurt and a new flavour, milk with aloe vera bits <3 YUM!


A usual day at work, I felt tired due to the insomnia yesterday and the afternoon rain was making me feel more sleepy than usual. I continued working LG70, making a few more changes to the pages and found time to Youtube, surf ticketing sites and I prebooked my tickets on www.tickets365.com.cn! 2 for 15th Nov and 2 for 16th Nov. So far, the tickets have not began selling officially, nor do I think that by prebooking the tickets are secured, but I’ll keep checking back at the Superdome site for concert updates. Yayyy (o,<)


Another random photo, this time by Sean: (and look the keyboard’s also in Chinese!)


It rained for a long time, such that even till evening it hasn’t stopped. So guess what we did? Went downstairs to play WII and drink baileys haha. When we could finally leave the office, Red Town looked beautiful at night after the rain.


Dinner at the new favourite wanton restaurant with the usual gang without Sin Yew =) This time I had wanton soup and added noodles. Pssss, Colin showed us pictures from his camera.. apparently they had a guys sleepover recently XD


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[ Expenses ] :
5.8 rmb (milk, yoghurt), 1.5 rmb (鸡蛋饼), 11 rmb (lunch), 10 rmb (dinner)

#19 - Party World

Two 鸡蛋饼s, milk and yoghurt in the morning make Esther a happy girl. But lunch spoilt everything.. From another menu we haven’t tried before.


Before and after lunch, I felt so sleepy even though I had enough sleep on the previous night. But I wasn’t the only one yeah. XD


Today was a HIGH stress day; HL said that time was short and we’ve gotta chiong the LG70 Baidu pages. VERY fortunately, he provided some of his psd files with the basic structures done up, and I could continue to work on that. It was really hard! Arranging so much information and details together in a way that doesn’t kill the design yet emphasize on the visual hierarchy. Bear in mind that Chinese, like Korean and Japanese, is written in blocks, word by word, and so designing a layout in Chinese differs greatly from the stuff we usually do.

Someone suggested to go KTV. The message got around, but there weren’t many responses. We worked till nearly 7pm, and left the office. Those who were going KTV were, coincidentally, all 6 of us Singaporeans lol! Colin called the place to book a room, got into some miscommunication with the receiver and started complaining and bitching like a typical Singaporean XD Like, I WANT TO TALK TO YOUR MANAGER. Haha, and thanks to Colin, we got a room when we couldn’t at first!

The KTV place was called Party World, and I got a big shock because the building looks just like a posh hotel whether on the outside or inside. See for yourself man.



There was a free flow of food and drinks, except some special dishes which require you to pay a certain number of tokens (everyone was given 5 each) to get. Aw, but the food was only so so. I gave up on mine halfway, and concentrated on searching for songs haha. The sound system was much better and clearer than the ones in sg, and other than the remote control, you can pick your songs at the kiosk and also adjust the volume, skip the song etc from the two controls mounted on both sides of the wall, which makes it even more convenient.



KTV-cum-Singaporean-outing was fun; Sin En and Jolene can both sing very well *hides face*, Sean and I both agree that Colin is the manliest only when he sings (LOL)… We got home only at 1am but I didn’t sleep immediately :S the gymnastics for the Olympics was showing on TV, so I stayed up to watch. And got insomnia afterwards XP

[ Expenses ] :
3 rmb (鸡蛋饼), 10 rmb (yoghurt, milk), 13 rmb (lunch), 82 rmb (ktv), 22 rmb (tissue, soap)