Well for the past week and weekend I’ve been on shoot. You might notice these aunties from our local channels by the way! But yes. This is a brief filler post, hah. Sort of. Continue reading A brief pause of sorts
Tag: adventure
Like An Underwater Cat
My horoscope in Saturday said, “It is a DIY kind of day, so make sure you are taking care of business in your own fashion. It may be a good time for you to try something you never thought you could do before”.
Ok.
So I dove with the sharks.
The Cheese Ark!
THE GRANDSTAND.
It’s ‘easy’ to get to it if you take the shuttle bus from either Toa Payoh or Clementi MRT station? Well, we took it from the bus station at the exit of Clementi MRT and ahhh, so nice because it can be quite ulu to get to the Grandstand if you have no transport of your own.
My main mission is to go to Pasarbella and the objectives were to find The Cheese Ark.
Oh, there are a bunch of restaurants and Giant supermarket besides Pasarbella too if atas hipster is not your thing.
It’s in an alley of sorts. A very narrow alley but there, beyond that would be a smallish room of cheeses in their own special cheese rack/rooms!
TADAAAAA. Now I know why when people blog about this place, there isn’t too many pictures because it really IS just a room full of cheese! It’s like… WHAT YOU EXPECT.
And the expectation is beauty.
AAAAH. The staff there are helpful and pretty much I asked how are cheese platters? AND how much is for 1 person and the range so WAS AFFORDABLE. I don’t know about you but a platter for ONE PERSON at that is woah because of the variety of cheese. Depending on season and whatnot, you would have a different kind of cheese I would think so price varies!
It’s like omakase for cheese because I said I left it up to them.
And to eat this platter was also similar to sushi as you started with the lighter ones before you got to the intense cheeses. Oh my goodness. This was such a fun experience.
The last one was the top middle which was a blue cheese, a Guttus fig sandwich in which they placed the cheese in between a fig, a walnut and a layer of honey.
AND IT WAS SO GOOD OK? The sweetness and the cheese and the ahhhh.
If you like cheese, go to The Cheese Ark. It is worth going all the way to the Grandstand where Pasarbella is.
As I look at this picture, I want to visit the place again and get them in a take away box to eat at home where I can write about each cheese. A note to self though, I forgot I didn’t like gouda that much. I like all the rest except gouda.
This is why platters like this is good, it lets you learn which is your fav cheeses and what you would be fond of. I definitely like the lighter ones and the blue cheese which is the opposite of uh, light.
Oh and since we were there, we tried out Oceans of Seafood which is pretty much like a fish market or rather, seafood market! You can have the chefs sashimi/grill/boil/braise or whatever too.
Oysters, YAY. They’re delicious since they’re fresh. Always go to not dodgy and proper places for oysters if you wanna eat them straight after they’re shucked.
Cheese and oysters do not make a meal. We did end up at Veganburg since they have a branch there too!
I kind of miss Lord of the Fries with their hotdogs so I got the sausages from Veganburg. It’s ALL VEGAN by the way. My fav from there are the spinach pops.
Anyway, that’s our adventure to Pasarbella.
I’m going back there for more cheese eventually.
I wish there was a cheese of the month club or some cheese club. I would join that. LIKE A BELLABOX but for cheese.
That’s it for Sydney!
I’m just going to compile all the other adventures we had in the rest of the week in Sydney in this post.
Hahhah. Or, tl:dr, just click the video. That one mostly has stuff of us at Luna Park though.
OK, HERE IS ACTUALLY A PICTURE OF ME ON A SCOOTER in front of Olympic Park.
Cause you know, we should actually HAVE one picture of me on a scoot, scooting away in Sydney. Else I wouldn’t be in Sydney if Scoot hadn’t Scooted me here.
Try saying that ten times fast.
Sarah Does Sydney Day 1 & 2
So I went to Sydney and wow. What an adventure, the first thing we did while we arrived at the airport was make sure we had our data stuff! I used Optus and Lyn used Vodafone. They’re just there when you get out of the arrivals at the Sydney international airport.
Both are good but I’m fancying Optus for their $2 per day for 500mb data and free local (Australia) sms and calls. Vodafone had some deal like that too but I just had Optus cause my friend passed his microsim to me in Singapore.
From the airport, we took the train to town hall! Pretty easy really, just got a multipass with an airport exit pass and a 1 week pass. We were going to be there for 6 days so, it’s pretty ok since we took a zone 2 multipass which meant we got to travel around the main city area anyway.
The first place we walked around and look-see-ed was Lord of the Fries!
It’s DOUJIMA!
Ok guys, new fan art event coming up on 27th April 2014 by Neo Tokyo Project (NTP), Collateral Damage Studios (CDS) and Daiyaku.
Tadaaa! If you don’t know how to go to *SCAPE, it’s nearer to Somerset MRT than Orchard MRT although still walkable.
Got out of here with Scoot
SO I GOT AWAY from Singapore for a short while with SCOOT!
(Backstory: I wrote this post. Scoot replied to me on twitter/email cause they were too ‘late’ to buy me a scooter, they got me other things instead.)
While this isn’t an advertorial, I just wanted to let you know what I got since a lot of my friends wanted to know how the flight on Scoot is too since plenty want to try it for going to the upcoming conventions!
What Scoot emailed me was for me and A FRIEND to get return tickets on ScootBiz! That means their business class.
Also, I am to receive a free custom Scoot helmet.
I haven’t gotten that because custom helmets take time to print and be made anyway but I’m looking forward to it.
And baaack!
Like, really. Just back so no post, just a teaser. I do want to say that it had been fun in Sydney!
We got a lot of rice. And loot!
I kept seeing the ad for the 1 Million Kg Challenge on my facebook and I went “Oooh” when I clicked on it. The Health Promo Board is having a new campaign where people can win stuff when they lose weight.
The launch was the weekend of 15 and 16th March at Ngee Ann City. I had been waiting to know where the weigh in kiosks were going to be at and so this was the best place to get it.
It’s actually a campaign that promotes fitness and all that. The only pissy bit is that there ARE requirements if you want to join this challenge which is the whole BMI thing.
If you’re too under their BMI range, you can’t sign up, if you’re too over you can’t sign up either. I guess it’s for their own disclaimer safety because this is a general challenge and they can’t do tailored recommendations for those who are too under or over the BMI range to join this.
Really too bad though because I know there are friends who are over their BMI target range and want to do this. Plus, BMI is not the exactly the best way to measure because everyone has a different body type. ANYWHO, this ain’t a health blog, so y’all go research on what I mean since I’m gonna just continue about the event itself!
Spoiler alert: I am within their BMI challenge range so I can join this.
A feast of Game of Thrones?
I was invited to the royal wedding of his highness King Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell by HBO Asia. For those who don’t know who they are, I’m gonna go “Whaaaaaaat” and also that they’re from the GAME OF THRONES.
A new season is beginning and thus, HBO Asia invited some of us geeks for a little get together at their event at Savour 2014. It’s at the Promontory this year.