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Just like home

So you might noticed I randomly disappeared again after a string of consistent updates hehe -_- Madness, August is over!! Which means I’m back at work and yesterday was my first day even though I’ve already been here a year 😛

Gonna just make a quick update of what I’ve been busy with during my one month holiday. First week was basically just slacking around in my world of fiction, second week was spent nursing my guinea pig, third week was spent in Bangkok and I’ll be sharing mostly about the fourth here.

Went back to office last Friday (30 Aug) to give out my Bangkok gifts and also because it was Hui Min and Meredith’s last day! Mini 3-way celebration with sushi, cupcakes, and laughter. So delish!! 😀

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I missed this place… best bunch of people ever. Been nervous about doing Lollipop/MYP/night/weekend shifts but they have been so reassuring and patiently showing me the ropes.
Following photos from Meredith’s instagram!

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Anyway, first thing Editor asked when I came into office was if I dyed my hair and we were all very impressed with how observant he was hahaha.

Hope everyone liked the small purses even though it’s nothing much. Was worried that they wouldn’t like the colours. I picked for the girls with their favourite colours/designs in mind (which I got right ^^) and neutral colours for the guys. Kenneth immediately transferred his coins over and said, “Don’t say I never use ah…” hehe yay.

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The Kumar Shrine HAHAHA
Would love to see his reaction when he comes back :’D

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I’ve spent so much of my time here that it feels like a second home. Can you believe I’ve been part of this small yet awesome team for a year already??? Hope that everything goes well and I’ll be able to overcome all the new challenges coming my way!

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Also visited the Laptop General Hospital with my parents one morning to collect mom’s laptop.
What an odd and adorable name.

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Lunch at People’s Park together.
Pretty good bak chor mee with loads of ingredients 😀

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More random photos of food from the same week:

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I’m so proud of this photo. Cup noodles has never looked better. All thanks to my mom’s iPad which I have been using a lot. And not forgetting my mom who made the noodles for me 😛

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Mixed vegetables rice from one of my favourite stalls near my house. Been eating it since young ^^
Taken from my phone as you can tell from the drop in quality -_-

My dad always buys us such a wonderful spread of dishes and our favourites regardless of what we are eating. Then his own meal will look so plain compared to ours… same goes for my mom :’) Then we will end up exchanging ingredients so everyone gets everything. I love dinners where everyone is present.

Maccha House

Dinner with You You on Thursday (29 Aug) at Orchard Central’s Maccha House before watching The Purge. Really underrated place, probably because of its location because OC is always so deserted. Furthermore, it was hidden away in the basement. Oh well, I love quiet places with no people.

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Love my tasty spicy pork rice! So much meat and the prices are really reasonable. No service or GST charge too! Definitely going back to try all their Matcha desserts which looked so good.

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You You’s ramen with the proper Japanese egg 😀

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Been busy packing my stuff too so as to make space for my enormous Bangkok haul. Yeah I know, I know, my room is super messy thanks to all my clothes and this is not even my whole wardrobe. Some I’ve bought for more than a year and still have yet to wear while others have only been worn once or twice. Sigh why am I so extravagant?

Thank goodness for this mobile app called Carousell which Hui Min introduced to me.

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Simply snap photos of what you wanna sell on your mobile device and upload it here. Then you can meet other buyers/sellers. Best thing is it’s completely free of charge! Good way of getting rid of clothes I don’t want. I’ve sold about 6 items in 3 weeks and made $40+. Much better than just throwing away right?

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Just for laughs LOL I love my baby too much. Have removed it though, in case I got reported and suspended. You’re not allowed to sell animals but I’ve seen rabbits, cats, hamsters and even a giant terrapin. Feel so sad for them.

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Gave my baby a shower one sunny day the same week :3
Can’t get over how cute guinea pigs are… especially mine!!!

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Love her many expressions

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Relaxing while drying off. She was such a good girl during the shower that I let her help herself to her favourite food, straight from the bottle 😀 I don’t know why she likes the pellets and stuff so much. We call it her Happy Meal ^^

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In a super good mood so far too because Monday went smoothly.

– Completed one Carousell deal
– Fantastic weather as it rained the whole night
– Mom made yakitori for dinner and cheesecake for dessert
– It’s my off day so it feels like I returned to work for only one day
– Yadda yadda and loads more, so much love and gratitude for all I have in life! ❤❤❤


They looked at me like I’d grown 2 heads

Just because I said Marché was not nice. But it’s okay because I was undercharged LOL. I’ll explain slowly. It all started when I visited the 313 Somerset outlet with You You on 21 May (Tuesday). My first time trying the food there!

As usual I am playing cheat by referring to their online menu for food names and prices, but this time I’m not certain if I got it all right. What a pain… I’d take notes but I’m always too distracted by food and hunger.

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You You’s salmon steak at $16.90. I had a bite and it was okay.

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My porkloin steak ($11.20) with some pork sausage but I can’t remember its price. $5-$7? It was okay the first few bites but I soon got very sick of the meat overload. Then it got increasingly salty until I couldn’t take it and gave up.

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Actually all I wanted was spaghetti (HAHAHA) but none of the pasta there looked good to me.

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Ordered fried calamari to share because it looked good and everyone seemed to be eating it. I think it cost $12.90?
Unfortunately it was way too oily, and every piece was too big plus chewy like rubber band. Ack. Sauce isn’t good either.

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Those who have been to Marché would know that their mode of payment is quite unique. You charge everything to this one card, regardless of what stalls you visit, and pay for everything at one whole shot before leaving.

Apparently their system was down that day so everything was handwritten instead. The people at each stall only wrote down what was ordered and not the prices, like they were expecting the cashier to have memorised everything. Lol at our reliance on technology…

Handed the cashier my card and in the end she only charged me about $12 (?) for my plateful of meat. I can’t remember the exact amount… but I saved quite a lot. Hehehe 😀

Still not as epic as the time I was at Northpoint’s Manhattan Fish Market with my family. The bill came up to $50.40 and I paid with my newly-made debit card. Maybe because it was the card’s very first transaction, but I later received a message from the bank that $5.04 had been deducted from my account.

Checked my receipt and realised the staff really deducted the wrong amount. Honest mistake which I am not going to bother correcting because I’m neither honest nor rich. Wow, talk about beginner’s luck though! 😀

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Met up with Amos and Yixuan few days later on the 24th (Friday). I wanted to eat Japanese buffet but the whole Tarafuku at 313 Somerset had mysteriously disappeared. So they voted for Marché, which I said was not nice! They protested in horror and looked at me like I’d grown two heads! Pffft.

So I relented because I am a super nice person (again, they strongly disagreed and someone might have even laughed in my face… though the memories are vague and it might just be my writer side exaggerating).

They introduced me to Swiss Rösti, which is apparently what Marché is most known for. Basically it is like fried potato. The stall selling it had a super long queue (which was why You You and I didn’t try it previously).

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Served with sour cream at $6.40, but you can pay more for extra toppings such as various sausages, sunny side-up ($1.70 which is a blatant rip-off), smoked salmon, mushrooms, etc.

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 Yixuan’s mushrooms in some creamy sauce… and holy crap, they are so fudging good!!!!
If memory does not fail me, it costs nearly twice as much as the rosti itself. And I can see why.

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Can’t believe I couldn’t finish my rosti -_- Gave the rest to Yixuan. Fine, the guys win, it was good (as well as super sinful). We wanted to have crepes for dessert but everyone was too full. Ended up lazing on the carriage there like little kids. Will post photos when I get them next time 🙂

Yixuan shared his bright idea about how we should get a large group of people, pay for everyone’s meals on one card and then pretend to lose it. Because you have to compensate $100 for every lost card LOL. So just accumulate more than that amount on one card and everyone chip in for the $100 compensation while returning the rest of our cards charge-free.

Watched The Great Gatsby with You You and Fast and Furious 6 with Amos our meals respectively.
So yes… now you know all about my Marché experience 😉