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After keeping this place on my list of to-go places for a while, we finally got to visit it! Yes, another salmon craving satisfaction because just nice, they were having the salmon sashimi promotion! wohahaha~ For that meal, it consisted of salmon, salmon & more salmon. Whee, I'm lovin' it! Okay, when we arrived that day, the queue was quite long, and so when we were waiting for our turn to enter, we were saying that the seats facing the queue is quite an awkward place to be since everyone will be staring at you having your meal. And *tada*, we got those seats -.- Luckily, we spotted some other "free space" and quickly made the switch. This time we got to sit at a very unique part of the restaurant : the bar area.

We tried a few new places recently, and for the 2 that is blogged for this entry, i personally feel that one was good and the other was not so. Let's start with the good =)

We went to this restaurant just nearby which was opened by a (if I'm not wrong) Suria tv channel celebrity chef. The impression I had on this place before dining there was that it was always having long queue and I wouldn't be bothered to queue for this place as there was many nice dining restaurants around too. But I'm glad we ate here at least once because I think the steak is cooked really well (just right to the degree that we ordered). They sell other food like fish & chips and other stuff too, but I guess steak would be their specialty as their name suggest ;) Here's the photo of steak #1:

One thing I have to admit, the service did sped up abit in the later part for the water & ice refilling. Yup, and the marination for the chicken was not bad, and and the beef was very nicely & thinly sliced. Their lettuce also looked really fresh and I really liked the colours.

Also, there's this pumpkin noodles that tasted like dang hoon and it wasn't too bad!

Finally, I always had the impression that bosses are always very friendly people who would try their best to mingle with the customers of their shops. But this shop changed my stereotype. Throughout the meal, I observed that the ladyboss (I think she was the ladyboss) didn't once smiled while serving food or even when we thanked her. She didn't show a smelly face either, but her face was just the same monotonous look. Even when we left, the staffs thanked us but she didn't. Come to think of it, I don't rmb hearing her speak at all. Maybe she was having a bad day that day, but as service-person (and what's more being the boss), hospitality should be innate no matter a good or bad day. So all in all, I will call this a once in a lifetime experience because it'll be the place that I only want to experience it once in my entire life and I wouldn't go back if I have the choice.

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The spooky season is here again! Yep, it'll be Halloween soon and although this festive is celebrated more widely overseas, the hype here has been gaining some momentum over the past few years. So for this year, we went to the Halloween Horror Nights at USS for the second year running (yay his treat!) and visited the 3 popular horror houses plus got to play some rides. This year's theme is based on 3 sisters who are particularly spooky in certain aspects. I would say the first house that we visited is the better one compared to the other 2. Maybe is because of the wait (we didn't buy express) or maybe it's due to the aircon. But I think it's a right choice not to buy express because the roller coaster wasn't in operation, which will actually be the main event for us =P We also got to join in the spirit of queuing which took super long (more than 1.5 hr for the 2nd house), and stuffy, and tiring on the legs etc. Well, good training for the legs (o.O). Anyway, we weiqi-ed against each other (it was a close match) while waiting and it made time pass abit faster? The best part towards the night was that I got a milkshake to accompany me on the walk back to vivo because the lrt isn't in service anymore. And this time, we got to stay longer towards the closing time and it was rather peaceful because there were lesser people and also the monsters weren't as high already haha...here're some bits & pieces of our time there =)

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I haven't seen pasar malam here for awhile and finally it was back. I was saying this kind of stalls maybe the X factor for tourists because it happens spontaneously without any warning, just like certain events overseas that happen once in a year to us. Summor I think it brings out a very local flavour when everyone and anyone wears all sort of homely clothes down to stroll along the stalls. We tried this special crab thingy that tasted quite nice. It's expensive though, that's why we didn't buy too many. Of course, I had to save some space for candy floss too ;)

Talked to my friend today and realize that this period of our lives, we experience quite a lot of things. But I guess it's the learning experience shaping us to be who we want to be, and to be a better person. It's really sad that we had to have those kind of experiences, but its a reminder of who we don't want to become. It forces us to make decisions, but really, it might just lift a huge burden off the shoulders in time to come. Do good and even living a normal life is good enough.