Cows aren't just for milk

Seriously. I mean they help farmers plough the fields, give you that nice black-spot-on-white-fur rug, and most importantly, THEIR MEAT IS BLOODY NICE LAH!

Of course you must also know where to get good steak in order to best appreciate the taste of the meat. And excellent tasting steak doesn't always have to mean atas and expensive restaurants with waiters dressed up in suits.

Thanks to the recommendation of chin laoda, cheap and good steak is now a reality. (cue applause for laoda)

Introducing...

ASTONS SPECIALTIES!


(the steak on the BBQ picture reminds me of Burger King commercials, haha)

The queues are usually outrageously long during dinner time but thanks to the ever so wise laoda we were there around 5pm so we were ahead of the dinner crowd. Since it's not exactly a restaurant per se, the whole place is pretty informal and sadly, quite hot cause they don't have air conditioning. But I laoda mentioned they just renovated so it's possible they installed air cons by now.

You order and pay at the counter first before heading to your seats. Their steaks are relatively cheap, my sirloin steak costing about $9 only while the chicken dishes (which are quite good as well) cost about $6. The rib eye steak costs about $14. All main dishes come with 2 side dishes as well! Something like kenny rogers, they have baked potato, pasta salad, potato salad, wedges etc. My only complain is that their plain water costs 30 cents a glass! It's not like per pitcher or something it's per glass! It's weird enough that we had to pay for water in the first place. Well at least there's no service charge.


So I ordered a Sirloin Steak (with wedges and baked potato)



Laoda had Chicken Chop (with mashed potato and pasta salad) and Mushroom Soup



Sabrina had Chicken Chop (with onion rings and potato salad)



Needless to say we enjoyed our food very much, especially me because the steak was...



BLOODY YUMMY! (pun intended)

So yes people. Good and cheap steak is now a reality. All hail laoda, our saviour

Who wants to be my girlfriend?

Yes! It's the holidays! Time flies eh, so fast and a term's over at Ngee Ann. I noticed my last post was 2nd May, I think I'm starting to develop this blog-once-a-month habit. Since I have the time(tarme) now I finally get to blog about what happened earlier in year.

While my classmates were slaving over their tutorials and tests in their provisional JC period earlier in January, I was living a life of self indulgence and debauchery in between a constant state of physical decomposition and mental degeneration from the superfluous holidays imposed upon us by the intransigent regime.

(ok lah i'm being drama)

With my hyperboredom and after watching an advertisement for Habbo Hotel on MTV, I found myself at its registration page.

Step 1

Choose your avatar's look


I was trying to look "professional", but obviously I ended up looking at a waiter.

Step 2

Choose your habbo name



Ok lah I admit I was reading Decimation and wanted to act cool so called myself collectiveman

And you're done!

TaaDaa! I'm officially a HABBO-ER! (er I think that's what we're called)











So of course here is the hotel








I went to the "welcome lounge" expecting a welcome by some friendly senior habbo-er.







So Then The Habbo Adventure Begins

So I was walking around in the "welcome lounge" trying to talk to someone and ask them how to play the game, thinking that they'll all be nice and friendly and go "hey you're new? you have to ...".

But obviously I was a flaming idiot cause none of them bothered to give a rat's ass about me.

Until I met this girl.

I asked her "hey do you know how to play this game? i'm new at this".

Her reply:



"can give me money?"

CAN GIVE ME MONEY?!
Is that the way to treat your fellow new habbo-er?!

I replied "i have no money" and walked off. So much for my first taste of the virtual world.

I went to the swimming pool after that and my computer start to lag from the sheer number of people talking at the same time but one shout out caught my eye.



"wanna be my gf?"

Wahliao eh! These people really online no inhibitations one. "apizzz91" was seeking a girlfriend online from habbo hotel by asking an open question to everyone at the swimming pool.

And the insanity does not end here.

Freaked out, I went to the diving pool beside the swimming pool when I saw something even more ridiculous.

I was figuring out how people get to dive into the swimming pool (turned out they actually have to pay like $10 habbo dollars or something to dive in. I mean come on lah, who pays $10 to take a dive! not like it's golden water like that) when the oh-so-familiar question flashed across the screen again, this time accompanied by a reply.



Flash963: wan be my gf
apizzz91: ok

HUH? wasn't apizzz91 the one looking for a girlfriend just now? So now gender is inter-exchangeable on Habbo Hotel ah?

Madness. I'm either getting to old or these people are getting more insane.

So anyway I tried swimming around in the swimming pool and no one bothered to reply to my innocent "hello"s so I ended up sitting in the cafe by my own with the sad blonde barista looking at me thinking what a loser I am. It's sad being a social outcast in real life AND in cyber space you know.





Needless to say I haven't logged into my Habbo Hotel account since then.

Oh well.