DESIRES OF A SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

its been awhile...

All things change with the water dragon...

the time of the year is here again...

least it made a person less gloomy

door's open

door's finally open.

yet each time i try to close my eyes, i hear laughters changing to screams...

is this what letting go supposed to feel?

i'm in this phase.. something like this peaceful day before a deadly storm... that kind you know.. before a tsunami.. the tides kinda recede... and for a moment you'd thought everything was peaceful....

so basically yea.. i'd think that kinda impending disaster's commin ... soon

and yes.. i know....i got stuck in limbo again... ever since my last ranting over a school mate's passing.

well basically i was in Shanghai till 17th August.... which was really annoying... especially the fact that my baggage limit's 20kg... my check-in itself was 31.

anyways.. the consolation is that i'm back in town... aint it?

And so CY visited from Beijing for a weekend. which was refreshing... especially during a time where having quarrels with my manager is as religious as taking flu tablets.

go figure

Anyways the weekend was spent escapading around Shanghai...

not to forget Gin & Tonic ...

And also this great place that serves Shanghainese...

1039 (ask any upperclass [i know.. its a wretched society]... they'd tell you 1039 is good.)

They call this "Heart Attack In A Bowl" ... which is basically Crab Roe and ..... you don't really want to know what it is.... just put it in your mouth now kinda stuff

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Ohh.. the week i touched down... Here Singapore.

Yes i'm back in town.

PY brought me to 南翔.. the 1 at bugis...

Of course its really amazing...

they had this tofu roll... which tasted exactly the same...

but then again....

its not really the real thing.... isn't it?

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Anyways... I were supposed to meet Dong for gym this morning...

somehow the gods did their thing........................

and the rain came...

which explained our gym session got somehow cancelled... but didn't stop us from checkin this cool place out... the 1 beside Purvis Street.

Its Called

"Food For Thought"

And its amazing so much thought was actually put into their menu... their food... both of us were utterly BLOWN away.

And Dong wanted me to enter into this covenant to keep this place a secret... just like some things.. the best be left to yourself and all by yourself... (sweet)

LOL sorry dong... call me a bitch for all i care

I had to blog this.

Dong said something about layers... like this sinful cup thingie...

Thought was actually put into it... that you could feel the layers... first the cold icecream... then the very dark very chocolatey brownie's warmth.. and then how the melted mashmellows sticks everything together..

for me... i have nothing more to say other than

OH MY GODLY GODLICIOUS!

Fragile fragments of life

I don't know why ...

I only met this person once ...

He came and supported one of my events ...

My organizers said he is his friend ...

and I didnt't know him personally ...

Yet i grief ...

2000 miles away

南翔..... again?

yes... i'm running out of hangouts in shanghai...

please intro some nice places to me so i could check them out....

and no.... theres more to a place than just their dumplings.. so its not that easy you could get sick of a place...

I went to their highest level this time...

鼎兴楼

The Mother used to say the first level is for commoners... at a very cheap price... otherwise refered as commoner's sanctuary... second level's catered towards the middle class.... probably segregating for the sake of drawing invisible lines in this wretched society. and then theres this legendary highest level... thats where someone will actually pour tea for you.

Sure enough... the difference in service is startling.

And so the escapade began with some pastry, this is filled with just tofu and crab roe.

simply amazing

And here goes the usual... but this time round...Crab Roe's the main highlight.

The color of it simply catches your attention like bees to a pot of honey

And so its enlightening to know that establishments do segregate not for the sake of social class segregating... but you actually get what you pay.

while commoners feel satisfied with pure pork dumplings at the ground level... the middle class enjoys their 蟹粉小龙。。。 which basically meant crab intestines... which still taste good on good months... to the very top。。。 蟹肉/蟹黄小龙 at 鼎兴楼

suddenly all these craziness brings a whole new meaning to the character

黄

王家沙

I went back to 王家沙 again yesterday... i had to verify my hunch...

2 Months ago my family brought me to this place...

swearing by the family name its the Holy Grail of the
小龙包s

It was April.. Shanghai hasn't really awaken from its Winter phase i suppose.

.. and they tasted wierd...

the 小龙包s had this wierd aftertaste..

bad pig? bad crab? i didn't know.

蟹粉小龙

So after knowin from my Manager that June's batch of 蟹黄 has arrived...

I went back again.

The wierd taste is gone. It tasted natural... and mildly sweet....

i even have this feeling it will continue to taste sweeter from this month onwards.

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And so this actually shed some thoughts amongst other things:

That as ignorant as i'd sound.. greatness doesn't necessarily come with every snap of the finger.

Otherwise it will be like going to a yoghurt shop in a temperate place during late spring... asking for tropical fruits.. expecting them to taste well..

and then peculiarly ask everyone
'whats with all the Hype!? Seriously!?.

I guess... some people do need some kind of reality check once in awhile...

Otherwise you'd be forever trapped in your wonderful bubble..... expecting blueberries to taste good and wholesome during winter while as a matter of fact, Blueberry season happens to be in the month of July.