Newest hobby, Darts!

I have totally forgotten I own a blog. It's a very good indication of how well received my blog is when I have only 1 request to write new posts again.

Probably also because I recently picked up a new hobby. Want to take a wild guess as to what it is?

Yes, I know it's in the title, but I could be misleading you like other titles!

Ok I didn't. Cos I wrote the title and this text on different days. So... yeah. Darts.

Now, this is actually a pretty fun game when you're on form, and horribly annoying when you finally hit the bullseye, but of the next machine. 

But there's seriously a lot of technique involved, and you also have to be aware of the posture and the locking of the elbow and wrists for maximum consistency. We called that zero-ing in army. (range... eee.. scary...)

i think i should have aimed at the board instead

We have found this pretty challenging, but also fascinating cos even after asking around, everyone tells you it's up to how comfortable you are holding the darts. 

They commonly say: "Different players have different grips, you need to find your own." 

Or to paraphrase, "I'm a selfish prick.”

Of course we dun play darts for hours on end, good to take a breather once a while to rest and play better. So we do tend to goof around a little bit...

And then feel shy about goofing around cos we bumped into familiar faces. So we tried to be discreet.

superb camouflage

which didn't work

That is my ex-student btw. Currently in army. I taught him when he was in Primary School. Getting old sucks. Sucked more that he whipped my ass in darts too. I dun find him cute anymore.

Oh ya, did I mention getting old sucks? Just the slightest bit of darts got my whole body aching, even with the regular jogging and table tennis sessions to loosen our muscles.

It felt great, the wind in your hair when you run, the execution of a perfect smash with the ball teed up, healthy living for the win!

And to show you the glorious outcomes of our healthy lifestyle!

F

M

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Getting old sucks. The end.


Signing off,
KJ

Fun fact: Playing darts is an art, and so is being right handed but spraining your left wrist.

Blog is back! Dating life with all our nakedness revealed!

Good mid-week to all!

Such a holy sight

Thousand apologies for the long pause. Too busy dating, and not sure how it worked since it took me almost a decade for me to get a gf. Worth the wait, btw.

It has been a fun quarter since my last post, which I believe was after our BKK trip in September. Of course, it has been nothing short of wonderful, except for the times i tried to be an idiot. But let's gloss over that. Stop asking. Nothing to see here, moving on...

The past few months have been fun, I have many new colleagues, new tasks to handle, and also balancing it with a new personal life. Shiok. But enough about work, now it's all about fun places. 

And the absolute first place i'll promote is The Brightside @ Duxton Hill located at, well, Duxton Hill. They also have a Facebook page for you to follow their latest updates, especially during this year end festive period. Hey, the staff need to take a break too! Do look for Jamie and Jasmine when you're here, they are quite literally the best hosts ever.

Beautiful people on beautiful chairs

Just had to take this with the coolest pub owners

And check out their food, I have become addicted to their Fried Chicken Skins, Beef Noodle Soup, Thai Street Chicken and Steamed Pork Buns (Kong Ba Pao). Slurps. Making me lao nua (drool) now. Damn it, i'm getting fat.

To spice up your night out, this place also comes equipped with board games, like Jenga... (stupid game)

Guess who won

ConnectFour... (another stupid game in my opinion)

They even have a mini foosball table so you can vent out your work day frustrations by kicking your opponent's ass! Unless it's your gf, then maybe going all out to win might not end up to be a happy night out. #justsaying

Heck, you can even have a kickabout in the pub itself. Just take note that Jamie might join right in!

Jamie looks very approving

So I'm still getting my creative juices back, unless you're a real estate agent cos i am finding ways to get you to sign up for our account and Featured Agent, thus this blog will be a little shorter. Oh ya, the nakedness in the title is more about our emotions when losing at games. Heh.

I promise to do this once a month, which means I'll find more food places to try out and give an honest review. Good is good, shit means shit. Jeng jeng jeng.

Signing off,
KJ







Fun Fact: Winning games is fun, just dun try too hard against your gf. Really.

Delicious Fleshy Ba Zang

Happy midweek everyone! 

It has been a while since I looked at my blog, which is probably why the weekly count dropped from the usual 10 views to only 3. I wonder why my viewership so low, I even added skimpily clad ladies in all my blog posts. I thought that would draw in the audience. Unless of course my friends are gay and they prefer my scantily clad pics instead. Regardless, I got to pull my socks up if I need more readers.

done

Groan all you want, my age says I'm allowed to start cracking dad jokes. 

I like to wish everyone a happy Dragon Boat Festival, and here's hoping everyone managed to get your own Dragon Boat. The origins of this festival can be found on Wikipedia so I will not go into it too much, since I'm pretty sure we learnt about it way back in early childhood education. Mostly I remember it because of the wide variety of 粽子 (glutinous rice dumplings) that I got to eat. I dun think it's gluten free, so probably not that popular with the modern day whiners gourmands.

there are even more varieties than this

Hopefully the stall owner or helper is slightly attractive to help you choose the best possible stall to buy from. I mean, I was drawn to this particular outlet because the food was visually appealing.

Looks deliciously fleshy right? That's why I patronised the stall. For the 2 Ba Zhangs. If you haven't had the chance to try any, and also think life is like a box of chocolates, just order one of each flavour at your nearest ba zhang stall. The variety of tastes will surprise you, and more surprising than waking up sober beside your one night stand with her make up removed. Kudos if you noticed a pause between the previous sentence and this one, it's because I had a flashback moment. Pui.

Anyway, I have to blame watering holes for putting me in those situations in the first place. For example, a prime culprit would be Al Capone's Ristorante & Bar at SCAPE. Go look at their menu in the link above. Buay tahan (can't take it) leh. How can you serve 3 bottles of Heineken at $13 nett? There's no way i will know when to stop ordering...

I can't even remember ordering the fires!

Not to mention a full pint of Guinness at $8.80nett? Or even worse, bundle it together with a lamb shank and only charge $25 nett? Simi sai... How can you expect people to stay sober and make sound judgements when picking up girls there? Wake up your idea hor, cheap drinks means bingeing without burning your wallet. So evil.

After bingeing, I needed to eat food at a place where I had to work out a bit in order to consume it. No, not at a juice bar in a gym. So I remembered this Japanese restaurant beside Zsofi at Dunlop St. Seiwaa Singapore is a place where you can cook your own Okonomiyaki to impress your date. And it comes with instructions so you dun have to feel paiseh. Good thing I do cook in my spare time so that skill-set came in handy.

Before

During

very professional

Completion

Try saying that does not look appetising! Of course I may have had help with the garnishing, but I'm a decent cook ok. And it actually tastes good, especially with an array of condiments on your table to tweak the taste to suit your palate. Side note to the ladies, I'll also whip up a delicious breakfast for you in the morning. Wink wink. Yes I know the hard-selling isn't working, stop laughing at me.

We also ordered the Monjayaki, which is pretty much the same thing, but with gravy.

I've added the pics of the cooking process in sequence. Which wasn't cooked by me, I'm not that good. There's even a short video that I took of the staff cooking. Let me figure out how to load on YouTube and then link it here. I did put in effort to sample it while it's still hot, so I could taste the full flavour of the dish.

serious food taster

I'll have to say, the house sake Monjayaki tasted great, especially with the house sake added cheese. You will be shovelling it repeatedly from hot plate to mouth.

So there you have it, a short review of the weekend I had. I did burn off my fats with an intense Sunday morning soccer session, and I even knocked in 2 goals for once. Heck, the first would have been a really spectacular overhead kick but I missed by inches. 

Back me up on this, guys. You know who you are, you were just as amazed as I was.

Signing off,
KJ

Fun Fact: Morning surprise after one night stands are a leading cause of heart attack for both genders, especially after sobering up.

Happy St Patrick's Day

I do feel that perhaps my writing tone this time round might be a tad bit less chirpy and cheerful as per the previous posts, so do excuse me for my un-whoopedeedoo style today. I enjoy St Pat's day, just that we did have a small family emergency on Wednesday past, and it's all good now so let's not dither on the matter. Or, for those who are aware of what happened, mention the specifics . 

I have added respect for novelists and cartoonists who have to churn out humourous material day in day out, despite the going-ons in their personal lives. It reminds me of this anecdote I came across in the past:

'This man was feeling depressed, and went to see his psychiatrist since nothing he did or tried could cheer him up.
His shrink said,"Taking meds aren't the answer. Tell you what, go watch this performance by Bozo the Clown. Even at this time and age, he's the best at cheering people up!"
" That's sort of the issue, Doc. You see, I am Bozo the Clown." The man replied.'

At a point in my life, I felt I was a bit like him. Always being the funny one but never the one to be really happy inside. Came across this in my facebook notes section. That post was from 2009, think maybe at that time I just broke up with my gf.

So I've decided this post might have less humour and comedy in it, pardon my search descriptions. Way to bum people out on a TGIF huh. Good thing I dun actually have many readers and followers to bum out.

For those of you still actually reading, good on you. As mentioned, it's St Patrick's day!

So it's that time of the year again, where wee little green men roam the streets (via posters) looking for their pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Or more likely, a pint of Guinness at the end of the bar. Bring out your Leprechaun hats and other paraphernalia, and party the night away.

Unlike other years, this is probably a night where my liver breathes a heavy sigh of relief and doesn't have to worry too much about me tanking more than 2 pints the whole night. I should be on my way home by 8pm on this TGIF. Rare even for an event-less Friday. Damn I'm so dry I'm putting myself to sleep writing this.

Anyways, I'm also only drinking because of the Guinness giveaway, where Guinness SG gave out 20,000 pints for those who registered. Which I obviously did. If you didn't, then ha ha.

I'm just wondering should I join a group of acquaintances and mingle for a bit, or just drink alone and be all moody and black-faced to kill the mood of all the other happy drinkers around me. Tough choice... 

To conclude, this might be the most boring post of mine so far, even worse than the very first attempt at writing. I sincerely apologise, and hope that business will resume next week. Heck, I even saved a couple of memes from The TrollerCoaster that was to be used to provide more rip-roaring belly laughter. Ok that's exaggerating. A quiet chuckle maybe.

Signing off,
KJ

 
















Fun Fact: The colour green is associated with St Patrick's Day because your face turns greenish before vomiting out your many beers.

Tinder user here! (Waves frantically)

I admit it, I am a user of Tinder and other dating apps, and I'm not shy about it. I'm a bit conscious only when I open the apps in the MRT, bus, while walking to public transport, pubs, cafes, food courts, and am in any public area in general. Only very few instances, as you can see.

I mean, swiping (mostly) left or right in public doesn't exactly paint a very professional picture of me, especially since I am usually in work attire the whole day. And also I'll feel bad if maybe I swiped left on a person seated beside me. I dun think that has happened yet, although I have been hit by too many bags and stabbed by too many heels for it to somehow feel coincidental.

One thing I have to say about the app, is that guys, please be careful. Especially if you are in the work force and have a few financial commitments. I've come across accounts of kids on tinder. Literally Pri Sch and Sec Sch kids. Jailbait much?

And why do kids that age wear revealing attire with full make-up?! When I was in Sec Sch, I had pimples and centre-parting, and my female classmates looked really good in that Au Naturale state, no cosmetics needed. Granted, there might have been some with shorter skirts than others, but that's pretty much it. 

So parents, keep your kids in check! These apps use Facebook for logging in, and obviously there are sick shits out there preying on impressionable young kids. One MMA ang moh just got jailed for baiting TWO under-aged girls. And I doubt the inmates can take turns standing in the shower hoping he drops his soap. MMA fighter leh... pervy uncles dun stand a chance. But he has 4 years to lose his muscles, so keep at it inmates. I'm rooting for you guys!

But I digress. This post is to reveal what type of Tinder date I am. Generally, I will meet my matches out at public and crowded places for dinner and light drinks. For you ladies, I recommend no drinks, since you should never drink with strangers. I will however, be true to myself and guzzle a few pints of lager. This is to show the ladies my actual habits, and also to calm myself, since I'm not at all a talker until I have alcohol in my system.

So I came across this place at 120A Prinsep Street, called Mikkeller Bar. 

It's a Scandinavian Micro-Brewery with 20 choices of beers on tap. The one in the pic below is their IPA, or Indian Pale Ale, and is a potent beer with 9% alcohol. You can't really taste the alcohol though, so if you can't hold your liquor, I recommend giving it a miss, cos the beer is so smooth you can't help but gulp it down.

the words become just as blurry once you have the 2nd pint

They are actually tenants of a Contemporary Art Gallery, although I got there a little too late and was more interested in drinking anyway. But the gallery is pretty cool looking from the outside, so I delayed my pee trip for a few seconds to take the next shot.

 I was walking at the same angle this picture was taken

Swee hor! Just tread carefully when tipsy since the ground is mostly gravel and does not go well with your cheek. I didn't trip though, thanks for asking. Assuming you asked, which I know no one did. Pui.

So, there you have it. I bring first dates out to watering holes and bistros since I'm not much of a foodie and I am only familiar with such places. If you think that's fine, hit me up in person since Tinder takes some time and I look like crap in all photos. I promise to be entertaining without being obscene and obnoxiously drunk. Just keep the champagne away from me.

Signing off,
KJ

Fun Fact: If you get rejected after saying 'I Love You', insist you said 'Colourful'. Your lips will move the same way.

Two day hangover, need TGIF beer to resolve it

So since it's a Friday, let's make this a bit yummy looking. I went for a work appointment at Buona Vista, and although that is actually pretty near home, it's even nearer to Holland Village. And as I'm typing this I can actually sense my liver giving me the middle finger and whispering a lot of hokkien to me. None are printable.
I needed to meet my Financial Advisor to better improve my medical coverage, and managed to find a place serving 2 pints of beer at $12++. 2 PINTS!!! Do head down to Drinks & Co., the beers are light, they have a fantastic selection of wines and whiskeys, and the staff are incredibly friendly.

think my first sip was a bit much

I think after work, and boring discussions, I need a beer. Or maybe 10. More if you're paying. And I'm not sure is it because I drank a bit too quickly, but I started seeing weird shit along the street.

To be sure that I wasn't hallucinating, I took a few photos from my phone. I wanted to join in and get my photos taken too, but I'll just keep letting the girls fall on me, preferably boobs face down. It doesn't beat the NUDE COUPLE walking down the street all those years back, but still somewhat entertaining. Thank you tight yoga clothes. From the bottom of my heart.

Needless to say, I had a bit of a hangover the next day, and as such, had to go have a meal for lunch where I needed to totally sweat it out of my system. I dun think it's a standard hangover cure, but it works for me so I'll stick to it. 

So I know of this little hidden treasure at Enggor St called Korean BBQ World. At night it turns into a very worthwhile Korean BBQ place, but during weekday lunch, ALL dishes are only $10 nett.

only $10 nett! for all these!

Now, for that $10, you get free flow of the 6 side dishes, a very generous portion of the main dish, be it soup overflowing with ingredients, a bulgogi with 3 times the meat you get at food courts or a seemingly endless bowl of bibimbap. I've brought many massive eaters here, and we seldom need to refill the side dishes. Even the soju costs $13 nett, not that I ever ordered during lunch. Cos no drinking during office hours. 

Being a little bit older nowadays, I like to find cheap bargains for food and beverages. And lucky for me, the firm I'm with regularly has lunch catered in. Which means if there are leftovers, the staff gets to eat. A mini buffet. For free.

today's lunch

Now I know what you might be thinking, there is not much veggies on the plate. But they were serving broccoli, so you really can't blame me. It's freaking broccoli. Bleh. I also had nasi lemak in the morning, with 2 big pieces of ngor hiong, but no pics cos I was so damn hungry. Trust me, it tasted great. And now I'm fat from the carbs overload.

So since it's a Friday, I might need to go have a light drink to end the week. And yes, I just did say I'm feeling fat, so to help my waistline, I shall not eat any solid foods. After all, I'll already be just ordering a tower of liquid carbs. Weee.

In conclusion, I'll be hungover till Sunday. That's a 4 day hangover.

Signing off,
KJ

Fun fact: When you drink alcohol and feel high, that is known as an alcohol high.

Baby Whisperer in action on TGIF

Yes, I admit it. I'm the baby whisperer.

Colleague's baby who has been feeling under the weather

There's just something about an infant that I find irresistable. The smile, the chuckle, the crying, the wailing, the smell. O.M.G the smell. Yes, I know it is mostly due to regurgitated milk they consumed, and you can look at me all weird, but I adore that scent.

That's pretty much how I perfected carrying babies in that manner, one-handed with them facing out, as if they are sitting on a chair, with a soft backrest. This allows them to look around and also allows me to take a whiff of that beautifully scented crown of theirs.


So I was looking for local spas to make it more convenient for me to get a back massage without having to rely on my friend to drive me to JB (see previous post), and came across many, many such pages on fb.

Spas now have medical practitioners

 Although, I'm really glad to see that local spas engage in healthcare for men, after all, prostate cancer is a growing concern in our society. Well done, spas. well done. I do wonder where all these trained medical professionals come from though, considering they look pretty young and are already specialists in prostate health care.

 They must have studied really hard from a young age. So impressed. 👏👏👏👏👏

This video had me laughing out loud in office, cos it's a Friday and I really needed to not think about work.

 Unfortunately it's a little off since the overturn of the travel ban has been upheld, and they are still allowed to eat nasi briyani there. Heng ah. Trump has no idea of the delicacies the nation will be missing out. Or at least will miss tweeting out on.

This is a short post because I will be going for some drinks. Cos it's a Friday. And I'm thirsty. First beer this week. Beer!!!

Signing off,
KJ