Pam is scared. VERY SCARED.

i shall upload photos of njc's off-in-lieu another day.

it's too risky to my new found motives - generated by fear.

Pam has no school tomorrow.

Pam just ate another chocolate cake today.

Pam is freaked about the little time left to prelims.

Pam is going to eat more dessert tomorrow.

Pam is going to study tomorrow.

Pam is totally wasting time on Facebook.

Pam needs to get on with serious studying.

Pam passed Geography.

Pam lost her sense of joviality in a process called school.

Pam has yet to eat dinner.

Pam is not liking dinner ):

Pam wants you to save her.

sniffles. looks like the afternoon nap i had wasn't a good one after all. but i hope my body's recuperating fast enough.

Shape RUN '09 this morning = 5km run. i was aiming 30mins (pfft. as if i'll hit it in my current unfit condition, as calculated it would be 2min10sec a round. egad.) but coming in at 35min was pretty good anyway. 8000 women running, mostly in pink. what a sight. but you should have seen the queue to collect the runner's kit aka goodie bag after the run. WOW. that's what you get when you put free stuff and singaporean women together. haha. I got a free sports massage too! at a booth by Dr. Joint Pai

n. (how apt the name is..)but didn't feel much difference after anyway.

had lunch with my mom after, at Marina Square's Fin Seafood Restaurant.

Verdict: don't go there.

Seriously. i thought the atmosphere looked pretty ok, it was about 10.30, brunch? i didn't want to eat seafood, but since my mom was paying, and citibank's 1-for-1 offer was on, we went anyway. waiter's service was not bad, but the food....was a different story. Mom had Seafood Aglio Olio, i had Pan-fried Atlantic Cod. I thought it wasn't gonna be enough (the waiter did mention that it'll be a little small), so i had two top ups, Seafood clam chowder soup and butter rice. Let's go one at a time:

Seafood Aglio Olio: Mom said seafood wasn't fresh. I thought it was a little too oily (not Lao Beijing's oily, but still oily), but pasta was cooked right was the only consolation.

Atlantic cod: Mom said wasn't fresh, i thought it was plain, needed more of the Herb Butter (which looked like the garlic spread i have at home). Salad was sprayed with vinegrette, and i do not like sour. Salad wasn't fresh, could see the brown ends. Mash Potato: it was totally instant.

Butter rice: nothing like what i expected. sweet and spicy. and i don't take sweet rice nor have a tolerance for chilli. waiter said: Thai Sauce. they should change the name to Fried rice- thai style. Mom said, rice is too soft and mushy.

Clam Chowder: Mom- Too salty. Me - i was taking prawn feelers and legs and shells out of the soup while drinking. doesn't help that i don't eat clams.

Drinks: Peach tea tasted diluted. mom had Latte.

And when my mom commented the food was terrible, the waiter came with complimentary vanilla ice-cream with chocolate sauce. that's nice service. but the ice cream wasn't good either -_-. the centre of the scoop had ice chunks. for the bill: $38 after discount. $20 a person isn't worth it.

i think Fin should stand for finished.

pictures can sometimes be misleading. it looked pretty before it went into my mouth.

and then we went over to suntec for carrefour grocery shopping, AGAIN. and i got a new pair of running shoes, as according to my mom, i should have an alternate pair if i'm running so much. its uh, grey and green. not exactly the nicest colour, but they'll protect my feet from dying. got bakerzin macarons and cake on the way home too. macarons weren't what i expected either. it went soft.

Grand Cru Royale by Center PS

Love the hazelnut praline, rich chocolate mousse and crunch. comparable to Whisk bakerys' can't remember that name, but it was my favourite cake till now with whole hazelnuts in it. luckily i ran it off today, if not imagine the guilt i'd have of it coursing through my veins..

I ate the cake while Project runway's Season 5 finale aired on TV. LOVED le anne's dresses. Love karto's collection. and liked some of kenley's cute skirts.

I woke up this morning remembering another Dream

I was eating at max brenner's with aleee and another hockey guy (same level, but can't remember who), but it looked like fullerton hotel's chocolate buffet. Eating star shaped churros in chocolate fondue. Lots of chocolate, oh my, it was oh so good!(even if it was in a dream) the background somehow looked a little like tiong bahru plaza. Aleee paid for dinner cause she hadn't any small change. And then couples from nj that i just recently saw in school started walking pass our table, as if it was such a coincidence that they were going on a date in the same area. I know the dream continued with more chocolate and cake and eating.

Weird eh? I'm getting more dreams with links to recent events that already happened or i anticipated happening. It says something about my thoughts as well: Perhaps i'm reading my food blogs too much, as max brenner's and fullerton chocolate buffet were both mentioned here. And maybe the chocolate cake i ate the night before was so good it made me crave for more chocolate goodness:) as for the NJ couples, i was uh, observing a few around school..just as they happened to be near by. which included sitting outside the choir stall with sheena and WQ and V came by.(and there was more talk about couples today...)

Well, at least the chocolate's helping keep the depressive failure thoughts away.

I need more cake and chocolate.

i must congratulate myself. on staying in the school library after school till at least 5pm to do my homework and hopefully some revision for the past 3 days in a row. and thus a bought my self a slice of cake (: ok, the reason's just an excuse for me to justifying buying a $7 slice of cake from a bakery near my house (the one i mentioned on monday, but didn't go to. thus it probably was a good thing i didn't go on monday, because now i'm buying one premium slice of cake with the same amount of money i bought one slice of cake, a bun, and five mini buns on monday. it better be worth it.) it's called Cru Royale, recommended by a food blog i've been reading. i'll upload the picture once i've ate it. hopefully with a review.

the owner of the bakery was nice, had a short chat with him while i browsed the cakes. a nice quiant little store, but no sitting area. it's a little out of place though, in that old neighbourhood, to have a higher-priced patisserie located there. perhaps it's customers will come from the residents of the condominiums a little further away. after leaving the store, i had a little walk around the neighbourhood, a place i haven't been around for years despite the proximity to my house. it was quite nostalgic, passing by the place i used to walk around with my maid, past the neighbourhood community centre i did ballet, abacus and art classes at, a quiet little town so near the big bustling city (not that singapore is that big, i'm just refering to the CBD area here.) the old-world charm of post-war buildings, without much modern effects, mostly 4-storey walk-ups.they really should conserve this place. the Tiong Bahru estate area, it really is a gem.

i guess the walk really calmed me down from what happened earlier. mind you, my location was two storey's up, above the grandstand, at the area above the place where soccer people sit and have a view of the whole running track : (written on the bus in a fit of anger on the way home)

"This is one of the very rare times i detest soccer and their players so much. And in a very long time, made me want to shout the F word at them, that follows with a u, c, k. I mean what's the point of kicking a ball so high towards a wall such then when it drops back down, they have to climb up the stairs to retrieve it. Ok, it was most probably accidental (or the person who kicked the ball must have an unconscious grudge against the past hockey captain) for the ball to actually fly over the wall, and i didn't see who kicked the ball, but it seriously pissed me off.

It is also probably my luck, and as vinnie put it, my face is a ball magnet. The soccer ball travelling at who knows what speed, hitting me right square on the mouth just as i looked in the ball's direction. Which also meant that i did not see it coming towards me AT ALL. But vinnie did. This is the second time this year a ball hit my mouth (first was a hockey ball), but without any visible damages. Perhaps the balls are trying to knock out my two front teeth and get me to wear braces. One of them is still shaky from the last time. And it's the third or fourth ball to hit my face at all. Or maybe some higher force thinks my face is too ugly and wants to disfigure it. My inner sense of shame is preventing me from saying the reverse.

Seriously, i do not enjoy giving away free kisses to balls. " -6.05pm

so, today wasn't the best, with a cold rainy morning, me being late for school (again), and econs lecture being not productive at all, and me suffering from muscle aches from yesterday's 10-round run. but my class really has a way of adding spice (literally) into school life. as a result, there's a new healthy snack:

raw carrots dipped in Nutella.

weird. i know. but you can't really taste the carrots thanks to chocolate, so it taste like..crunchy nutella. XD

i need to find a new place to study. the school library is getting noisy. too noisy. so much for it being a LIBRARY.irony.

photo post..because i can now FINALLY post photos.

the long overdue wedding photo.from this post.

after exams - 1st July [ watched ice age 3 with trudy and sheena, walked around the half-opened Orchard Central. ]

some wall facade. damn cool as they're old VCRs and stuffs.

it's Heaven's Loft. DESSERTS!

the outside escalator down from the 7th floor.

view from the 7th.

pamtrudynana's future shop space.

the many many empty shop spaces

the escalator upppp.

guess.

it was shoes! of a really talllll lady!

2nd July - accidental meeting with liu and MEP people at central. dinner at Waraku.

audrey and her unagi don.with an extra bowl of udon.

my kuro kuro steak! YUM.

liu and her big bowl of creamy udon.

creamy udon.

3rd July - Ikea shopping in the morning.[IKEA annual clearance sale!] and ZOO outing!

audrey hepburn painting printed on canvas. it's so pretty and i think i saw it in gossip girl. it's really familiar.FOUND IN IKEA. i'm gonna buy it for my bachelorette pad (:

the cute tea tables for my future cafe (:

white tiger! RAWR.

CHICKS!
PONY.
4th July - w.i.s.h.e.s. outing at marina square, colorectal talk @suntec + bakerzin dinner with mom, nj past vs present hockey game.

roof of millenia walk. interesting architectural illusion.

Bakerzin set dinner. green pea soup + free flow bread.

Mushroom and bacon penne in cream sauce. barely tasted the cream. a little bland too.

part of the 2 cakes my mom bought from bakerzin. Oreo cheesecake and New York cheesecake.

July promotion = half price!

My chocolate heaven mentioned in the last post:

with ganache

melted ganache *sigh*