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July 16th, 2009
July 15th, 2009
beingjdc
 | 02:38 pm - Almost realistic
I know a couple of my LJ friends are hunting for cheap properties to buy in South London.
This might be slightly too cheap, but it's not a bad block (compared to the ones next to it, that is). Transport links are OK and will be better when the East London Line reopens.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-12913956.html
I shall, for the time being, pass :)
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nougat
 | 05:56 pm - The best steak & fries
I think I have found the best steak & fries in Singapore. The place - Happy Chef Western Foods, found in an inconspicious coffeeshop at Lavender. The address: Block 466 Crawford Lane, #01-12 Tai Hwa Eating House.
When I was in Paris recently, I starved most of the time because the food was so expensive. So I was only too happy to shell out $7 for this wonderful steak, with fresh veggies, mushroom sauce and garlic bread. Yes I know there's Angus, Les Bouchons, etc, but a broke girl has got to eat cheap.
For burgers I go to Botak Jones, but for cheap and good steak, I go to Happy Chef. Foodie reporter over and out!
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beingjdc
| 09:45 am - FoodFoodFoodFood
My list of favourite restaurants in London is, like most of my tastes, low-brow to an extent that it almost becomes an affectation. The all you can eat for £3.50 curry house in Angel, the late-lamented Sasa Thai buffet on Greek Street, the Pronto Grill Bar on Strutton Ground - double egg chips beans fried slice canofpop for £3.90. If I'm feeling rich, or there's a special offer, then Pizza Express and Wagamama tend to be the order of the day.
I have a guilty secret, though. A little list of more expensive restaurants I like. I don't generally let myself go to them, of course. It either has to be a very special occasion, or someone else has to be paying. Or, ideally, both. The list contains Matsuri, Manna, Alounak, The Gay Hussar - you get the idea. Last night, a new entrant stormed into that list.
Erebuni in Lancaster Gate is a Russian restaurant specialising in the food and drink of the South-Western Soviet states. We (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) willjsm, augstone, and I, with intermix popping in briefly to steal some of my food) were there for an Armenian experience, so skewed our way heavily towards that side of the menu. All the same, I kicked off with a Russian lager before we were seated for dinner.
In fairness, if we hadn't had three courses each, and we hadn't been drinking, it wouldn't even have been all that expensive. A starter and main course could easily be consumed and come in at under twenty pounds a head, and fruit juice is on offer at a very reasonable £5 a litre. A starter, main course, pudding, wine, beer, and cognac, on the other hand. Umm, well. After tip we got a bit of change each out of a red note, but not a lot.
The vegetarian choice isn't huge, though it's greater than Alounak, and it doesn't necessarily need to be vast as long as what is there is good. I started with marinated red pepper in garlic and parsley. It was good. Not a huge amount, but a starter doesn't really need to be. There was a lot of parsley. If you don't like parsley, ask for less. I do. It was exceptional, though possibly Will's starter, the same thing with fried aubergine instead of pepper was even better. Aug had stuffed eggs and caviar, because he is a ponce.
My main course was a dilemma. There were, realistically, two options. Kartoshka, which I knew I would like but wasn't really in the spirit of the thing, or the unknown "Hailasan", described on the menu as "A blend of potatoes, red peppers, onions, green beans, courgettes, tomatoes and fresh herbs poached in tomato sauce. It is said to be one of the most delicious Armenian vegetarian dishes. Served with rice". It was very nice. Someone trying to be harsh could probably describe it as slightly bland curry, but that would entirely fail to appreciate the subtle tastiness going on. The quantity was similarly pleasing to the greedy person (eg me).
Also at this point I tried a phenomenal Georgian white wine. I don't like white wine, largely because so much of it is too dry for me, but there it was. It had none of the sharp aftertaste that often comes with even quite good white wine, instead dissolving gradually into a note somewhere between smoked sausage and baklava. See, my low-brow mask is slipping as I am dragged to pseud's corner. I guess you had to be there.
Speaking of baklava, my dessert, being honey and walnut cake, looked a lot like a giant one. It was accompanied by a stupidly expensive, rough-smelling, but spicy-maple-syrup-tasting, Armenian Cognac. As we were leaving we also got complimentary shots of what, as far as I can tell (it wasn't really explained) was cranberry port. A+, would go again, recommend, etc.
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sg_ljers
[jinxed_life]
 | 11:15 am - all you army peeper! don't be so ungentlemanly can!
ST July 14, 2009
Horrified by many profanities in matinee show on NS life
I ATTENDED the matinee show Own Time Own Target at the Drama Centre in the National Library building over the weekend. One magazine lauded it as a 'laugh out loud, rediscovery of zany side of national service'. I presumed this meant it was a family-type show and took my two teenage sons, aged 16 and 14, to the show on the premise of a MediaCorp-owned magazine review.
To my horror, I was cringing uncomfortably in my seat the whole show, highly disturbed by the language used. I do not have a problem that the language was coarse and in dialects. But it was offensive when every sentence and curse uttered by the officers (rightly or wrongly, provoked or otherwise) at the NS boys in the drama was a profanity of the female genitals.
The show was a full house, with young and old, males and females equally represented. I am sure I was not the only one who was disturbed by the excessive cursing and swearing by the officers at the recruits. My observation was that people laughed out loud not at the clumsiness of the recruits but mostly because they felt uncomfortable with the profanities.
As a mother, I find it hard to imagine that after years of sheltered school life where students are taught values, to be gentlemanly and polite and respect their elders, these boys have to do NS run by officers who do not blink an eye when they curse their mother, sister, girlfriend and the whole female population by way of conversation.
My boys were shocked to realise that NS is a rite of passage where they will be officially subjected to bullying, shouting and cursing - nothing gentlemanly at all.
If this is a light-hearted look at life of NS boys during basic military training, I fear to know what my boys will face in their real-life situation when they enlist. Please, someone, assure me this is not so.
Wee Hua Boey (Mdm)
knn, Mdm Wee, got a few points for you.
1. Wake up your idea. War is ugly. I can assure you, its happening. I learnt, Russian (had a Russian PR in my BMT), Portuguese (from this rich Bukit Timah kid who spoke fluent Portuguese), Malay, Indian and brushed up on my dialects because my Sergeant Major could only express himself properly in hokkien.
2. I think your boys will be praying verryyyyy hard no one finds out that it was their mother who wrote in and complain 2-4 years ago.
(orhhhh so its your mother ahhhhh!?!)
3. Your letter made my day.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/red/happy_sr.gif) amused
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July 14th, 2009
sg_bookexchange
[airshiplogic]
 | 08:28 pm - Looking for these titles
Hi everyone, I'm looking for these books. Any condition is fine but the price (budget about 10 per book) must be in line with the condition. Please show me the pictures. Meet ups at MRTs (West to town)
They Called him Pipel by Yehiel De-nur*
House of Dolls by Yehiel De-nur
Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun
Dr. Joe Bell: Model for Sherlock Holmes by Ely M. Liebow
The Priest: A Gothic Romance by Thomas M. Disch
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Juliette by Marquis de Sade
We All Fall Down by Brian Caldwell
Whores on the Hill by Colleen Curran
The Collector by John Fowles
Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Seductive Poison by Deborah Layton
A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You by Sue William Silverman
*There's a lot of title and author name variations for this one. They called him Piepel aka Piepel / Moni / Piepel aka Moni / Atrocity / Piepel: The Most Terrible Story Ever Told / Moni: A Story Of Auschwitz
by Yehiel De-nur akaKa-Tzetnik 135633 / Yehiel De-Nur / Yehiel Denur / Karol Cetyniski / Karol Cetynski / Katzetnik / Ka-Tzetnik / Yehiel Feiner / Yechiel Feiner / Chil Feiner / K. Zetnik
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jarvizcocker
[highrising]
 | 06:24 pm
from site: Neither Juergen Teller nor Marc Jacobs are especially shy of dramatic gestures. As a result, their 11-year collaboration for Jacobs' advertising campaigns has netted no small amount of attention. But Steidl's new volume of their complete campaigns goes deeper than the headline-makers to include the images you may have forgotten: Harmony Korine noshing (above), Stephen Malkmus noodling (middle), Jarvis Cocker mowing (bottom)
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cosmic_beans
 | 03:29 am - all a-drifting, he's a no-good boyo
 the moon looks bigger in the north side than in the west side. why like that?
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sg_snapshots
[cinematicfears]
 | 02:27 am
hey guys!
i'm not quite sure if this is allowed,
but does anyone know of any camera rental places?
i've got one which www.camerarental.biz
but if i could get more links it'll be better.
or any of you kind souls willing to lend or rent it to me at a super cheap price,
i wouldn't mind!
(:
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July 13th, 2009
stereotypist
 | 12:19 pm
really enjoying chicago summer so far, lots of free things goin' on, free outdoor shows and art things and eating popsicles on the stoop etc etc
also really enjoyin the new bibio album it is all over the place
bibio - ambivalence avenue
bibio - jealous of roses
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sg_bookexchange
[wineandflowers]
 | 10:59 pm - LOOKING FOR
Hello, I'm looking for the following books with at least 8/10 condition (please show me pictures) at about SGD7 each.
Meetups only, between Dover and City Hall.
(author) - (book title)
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Daniel Gottlieb - Letters To Sam
George Orwell - 1984
Haruki Murakami - After Dark
Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami - Dance, Dance, Dance
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart
Ian Caldwall & Dustin Thomason - The Rule Of Four
Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult - Mercy
Jodi Picoult - The Tenth Circle
Jodi Picoult - Handle with Care
Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Nicholas Sparks - The Choice
Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook
Philippa Gregory - The Other Queen
Shoko Trendo - Yazuka Moon (Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter)
Sophie Kinsella - Remember Me?
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sg_bookexchange
[soymoon]
 | 09:30 pm
Hi, I'm selling Haruki Murakami's After Dark.
Condition of the book is 8/10
Selling it at SGD 10.
For fast deals please email me at : yu_keiichiro@hotmail.com
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