absolutum dominium

ben got the car today. so after half-hearted attempts at swimming, we decided to take it for a spin, esp since it would be his first time driving since canada.

from the west side we took the aye up to the east side to hunt for bedok reservoir, but coz we were driving all around bedok and tampines hunting for it, by the time we found it everyone was gone. in any case we still don't really know how to get there per se. not by car at least.

we ended up driving to tampines mall, where we stopped by to have starbucks. i told ben tt his fave letter had to start with 'c' coz of all the stuff he loved beginning with 'c' - coffee, chocolate, cigarettes, the casino... and on the flip side, carcinogens and cancer.

he also stated tt he liked the letter 's' - for smoking and starbucks, among other activities beginning with 's'.

we also did a little cam-whoring.



ben and i.



and me and my mocha. with extra ice.

we finished our coffee-drinking spree at 7pm, whereby it was out of tampines mall and back down the pie to the westside for dinner - japanese teppanyaki at the sanga japanese restaurant and jurong hill top, where ben's parents used to take him.

okay, some more cam whoring on my part in the car:



me! looking retarded.



and the pie road. damn blur tho coz ben picked up speed at this point.

anyway at the japanese restaurant, we got to sit in front of this hot plate thingy so tt the chef could cook for us.



this is said chef cooking for us. a bit blur coz he moved suddenly.

we ordered scallop, mushroom, tofu and soft shell crab with egg.



this is the scallop and the soft shell crab already cook in front of me.



me with the hot plate thingy.



and this is ben wolfing down his rice. hee hee.



and finally, here is the both of us, with the cute bib-like things tt they put on us.

the food was pricey, but the teppanyaki was very well done. seemed very traditional too. and dessert was complimentary, so i ordered almond logan. and coz it wasn't cold enough, i added more ice to eat it with.



like so.

after dinner, we drove back up the pie towards the city - this time for a real dessert of rochor bean curd at selegie road.



this is the 2 bowls of rochor beancurd.



and me with my beancurd. yes i very happy. and very full.

after tt, we drove through little india and did an impromptu road trip around the northeastern part of singapore - we went from serangoon towards macpherson, turned off into kallang way; from kallang way and aljunied found ourselves driving past mount vernon colobarium towards hougang towards punggol somewhere (with signs leading towards tampienes), and somehow while deciding, and then trying to find, our way towards diana's house in ang mo kio, chancing on ang mo kio avenue 3 and performing a whole bunch and 3 lane cuts and sharp u-turns, towards the desired destination in ang mo kio.

needless to say, we took quite a while to find our way to diana's place. and a while to get the car parked. when we finally did and made our way upstairs to her place, we were in time to watch 'american beauty', which she had been watching with her friend. interesting show, tt. never seen a... prettier death. with some strange overtones of reality mixed right in.

then ben also decided to test out her xbox.



machiam like kid. hee hee.

but unfortunately, it didn't work. so we ended up driving diana to the roti prata house at upper thomson road for supper - we had paper prata, mushroom cheese prata, and egg prata. and i tried tehcino for the first in a long time. it's fucking sweet. bleah.

after tt, we sent her home, and then ben sent me home at around 2.30am.

okay. tomorrow i gotta wake up at 8am. ooookay.