Thursday 31 January 2008

Eating and Eating in Singapore

How much can u eat in a span of 3 hrs... well I've been eating so much in the past 2 days that if I were a polar bear, I'd have put on enough fat to last me 2 winters...
My darling friend Pinto is in Sin city.. and true to college tradition of drinking and eating like 2 crazed women living the last few hours of their lives, we ended up doing what we do best - being completely giddy and crazy while hogging away to glory
Yesterday was China Town. Decorated as it is for Chinese New Year, with all the food stalls everywhere, we went mad. Tried out all the sweets and delicacies anyone would let us get out hands on, gobbled up yummy chicken rice, pigged out on oyster and egg ommlet (highly recommended btw, this is at Food Street) and then had some more sweets, even raw mango which really made us feel like pregnant women craving for all the food we could get our hands on.
By the end of it, when we reached Clark Quay for a drink, we didn't have space for it in our tummies, and we couldn't walk back to the hotel.

Today was even worse. After a lovely "filling" meal of mutton biryani at home and a well deserved nap, we headed out at 10 to my favouritest place in Singapore - eM by the River at Robertson Quay. Yummy mango salad, Garlic Prawns and lotsa margaritas later began the quest for Chilli crab at 12. Ended up at boat quay, where the nice lady recommended we order 2 crabs since they were small. what we ended up with was a foot long plate, and these huge mama crabs. We ate like there was no tomorrow, all the crab was finished, we didn't even stop in between for a breather, people passing by looked on with concern as the piles of crab shells kept increasing. we ate for an hour and a half non stop...
The only reason I'm posting this now is because this is my feeble attempt at exercise to digest all that food. I've eaten so much, that if i had another bite now i wouldn't need to swallow, the foods reached till my neck.
i don't think there will be breakfast or lunch tomorrow.

Friday 4 January 2008

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED

Bought a novel the other day - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. I've never heard of the author of the book, just picked it up along with some other ones.
So I'm at home, I've opened the book to read it, and I'm on the first page... and I'm flipping channels on the Television at the same time, and i reach HBO - where they're beginning to show - Everything is Illuminated, the movie.
these kind of weird coincidences don't happen to me at all - so you can imagine why I'm quite excited about it.
Neways, the movie is awesome. I've fallen in love with Alex the 'premium' Ukrainian wannabe American.
I absolutely loved this movie, a great one after a long long time...
Its been a while since I've seen an awesome movie that was based on a book, tis' usually the other way around
Now really looking forward to reading the book.

This from Wikipedia on the book, awesome lines :
The novel takes its title from a quote in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: "In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine." The passage refers to the philosophical idea that the greatest tragedies in life can only be experienced to their fullest if we are able to relive them.