don't you just hate cravings!

i get the weirdest cravings ever and they usually come at night.

for example, yesterday night when i was editing photos, i got like this sudden craving for steak. the other time i was craving pizza, popcorn and even salted caramel ice cream from shaw. weird right?! and all so random!

this time around i was craving fish head curry!!!


so i gathered some of my friends together and we head to where else but Little India for indian food!!



met up with huiming and angela first while we waited for kath and zwei to arrive.

we went to this place at the back of Mustafa called Sakunthala's Food Palace.



we had fish head curry, butter and garlic naans (something like flat bread) and chicken tandoori.


well, the food there isnt exactly fantastic. the fish head curry wasnt anything special and the tandoori chicken was cold, tasteless and medium rare. the only salvation was the yummy naans. apart from that everything else was mediocre. price wise, its not exactly what i would consider reasonable. the fish head curry alone cost $15 and that was a small. i've tasted better indian food at hawker centres so i suggest you save your money and buy a nice dress at Simply Wardrobe instead. you can click on the banner at my sidebar to go to their website!



walked around Mustafa after dinner and decided to play dress up!! dont you just love shopping at Mustafa! Mustafa is AWESOME!!



took the train to town to meet maddie for drinks!








randomness of the night. i'm just too lazy to put a caption next to every single picture. HA!!

group photo time!

maddie had to ruin this photo so lets all do funny faces for our next foto!


one more time!


kath has the same expression though. KATH!! COME ON, FUNNY FACE LEI!!


awesome night! period.


to all my cute and sexy readers, i hope you had a great week so far. and if you didnt, go ahead and buy yourselves a yummy venti java chip frappucino from starbucks or whatever yummy treats you like. you deserve it!!






xoxo
ALI JOE

dinner with the guys

i bet you think all my friends are girls!

well that's definitely not true. i don't really keep track or record how many friends i have exactly but i think i have more guy friends than girls. the only reason why u guys think otherwise is because i don't really blog much about my guy friends.

it's not because i only like to blog about girls okay! the truth is most of my guy friends are not really, erm, how do i put it, erm, camwhoring enthusiasts. trying to take photos with them is like pulling teeth!

luckily there are still some who are not that camera shy!




we met up for dinner at this Indonesian restaurant where we had one of their popular dishes called Ayam Penyet. it literally means squashed chicken. if i'm not wrong they have to flatten the chicken during the process of cooking it or something. no idea! as long as its yummy can already!


they had 2 types of the Ayam Penyet. there was the fried version and also the barbequed version. i prefer the bbq version more as it taste sweeter and the meat is more tender!


alright that's all for now my sexy and cute readers. i gotta rush out to meet my friend now! take care yeah!






xoxo
ALI JOE

pink is her favourite color

the second half of the year is usually filled with so many of my friends' birthdays. its always such a challenge to think of interesting things to do and fun ways of celebrating birthdays. i mean like extravagant parties are a lot of fun but a simple hangout with your close friends is equally great.

it was cecilia's birthday and we thought it would be a great idea to celebrate it at our favourite hangout place, Serangoon Gardens! i love that place. its like somewhat near where we all stay, the area isnt too crowded and they've got lovely places to chill!


we had dinner at this yummy place called Astons. the food is really good and very very reasonably priced too! its like a kopitiam setting but i've heard that they're quite popular. got like a few branches in Singapore.


walked around the area a little bit after dinner because its always nice to walk around after eating. i hate to sit down after i eat, i'll feel damn lethargic. like you know that sick feeling. like you feel damn fat and full and all you wanna do is just sleep. so i NEED to walk around after i eat. it's also a good excuse to camwhore!!


we ended up at this place called Liquid Kitchen. the place is so-so lah. they sell finger food, desserts and drinks. the only good thing about the place is that they open till late so you somewhat have a place to chill out with your friends. but then again i dont think this place will be winning any top service awards any time soon, so dont raise your hopes. luckily i brought poker cards so we can play!


and when cecilia was least expecting it, we suprised her with her birthday cake. and its not ordinary cake okay, we got her a mooncake. infact, a PINK mooncake cause that's her favourite colour! ok, i think by now you can somewhat guess how ancient this birthday celebration was right?! hahaha!!!

we even made her a DIY card!! sheryl even drew a picture of the 4 of us at the top of the card!


time for a group photo! urgh!! my hair looks damn ugly here!! looks damn PONG can!! omg!! please ignore it thank you.

(>.<)


after that it was more camwhoring at random places around serangoon gardens!! i love camwhoring!!! its like damn fun to just do retarded stuff and funny faces in front of the camera with your friends. i simply cannot understand how come people hate to camwhore. dont you guys just have friends who refuse to make funny faces or like hates to take photos. when you take photos with them its like you owe them money or something. i dont get it lor!

and you know the worse thing is they give the excuse that they're not as vain as you. i mean yes, lets be honest, i am vain. i can spend hours deciding on what to wear or just styling my hair. but then to a certain extent, everyone is vain. i didnt say everyone is as vain as me though but everyone has like a degree of vainess in them.

BUT, my point here is that camwhoring doesnt necessarily make you more vain then others. its just having fun being silly with your friends. and if you dont do it now, then do it when you're 80 meh.

so to all those people who call me vain for my love of camwhoring, i say, you guys are just a bunch of prudes.

a very wise man once said this and i quote:
'Why so serious?'


i know the Joker is not exactly considered a wise man but that is irrelevant.

ANYWAYS,

i hope cecilia enjoyed herself that night cause we sure did!!


stay cute!







xoxo
ALI JOE

hey neighbour

even though we stay so near each other, that doesn't mean we get to meet up often. especially with her being busy with her dissertation and me with my never ending project submissions, finding the ideal time slot to meet up is almost as rare as the solar eclipse. so whenever when we do meet up, we prefer to spend the time catching up on each other's life over a nice simple dinner.

this time around, we head to Swensen's at Ion Orchard!





i had the chilli crab pasta. they used soft shell crab for this. tasted oh so normal and they charged around $15 for this. not really something to rave about.






fara had the spicy seafood pasta. you know what, both pasta tasted the same. just that one had soft shell crab and the other had slices of fishcake and crabstick. blimey!


if you have a strong penchant for microwaveable food from 7 eleven and enjoy using $10 notes as toilet paper, then i suggest you put the restaurant on speed dial. but if you're looking for excellent service standard then you're in luck, i know an indian rojak uncle at ang mo kio market who has more sincerity than all of the staff here combined.

the only salve factor probably in this place is the ambience. quiet enough for a chit chat but if you're expecting somewhere romantic then i suggest the botanic gardens. hey, at least its free.






xoxo
ALI JOE

high calorie friendships

i think i've found out the reason why i'm fat.

everytime i meet up with my friends, its always meetup for dinner, meet up for lunch, meetup for cakes, or meetup for drinks, which includes huge portion of sides like calamari, potato wedges and chicken wings. every single meetup involves food. even if the main event of the meetup is not food, somehow or another there will still be food involved, like ice cream or random finger food (i.e. XXL crispy chicken).

just like the other time when i met up with sheryl, jiafang and cecilia. the whole meetup, like every other, once again revolved around food. this time around, it was a dinner buffet at Marriott Hotel.


me & cecilia


jiafang


sheryl

i obviously cannot resist the temptation of the food calling me, begging me to eat them so i was off heaping my plate with a little bit of eevrything.



started off with some seafood appertisers. i LOVE seafood!!



and the black pepper crab. omgsodelicious!


there were many other stuff that i ate also but then i was too busy eating to even bother to take pictures of anything else. furthermore i didnt wanna get the camera dirty with black pepper crab sauce! muahaha!

i finally got to wash my hands and took some fotos with the girls!


me & jiafang

you see we need to like relax for a little while first before we get started on the desserts! camwhoring is like the best way to let your food digest for a while!


me & cecilia

relax over a nice cup of tea!


me & sheryl

the rest didnt seem to get the memo about it being a 'wear-a-vest' day. haha!


TIME FOR DESSERTS!!


cupcakes anyone?


get set, ready... go!


and in a matter of seconds, all gone!

well the desserts werent really as yummy as they looked. thats why there were still some leftovers.

group pic time!


a nice formal shot.


informal shot!

alright, the best thing to do after eating all that food is ... sleep.


so lets go home!




confirm plus chop already. i definitely know now why i am still fat.


haiz!!!!
zhen me ban?!?!!!!!!!!!





AJ