And another traditional homemade ice cream can be found tucked away in Shaw Towers, with flavours like Granny Favourites, Lou Han Guo (i think). Tom's Palette made their own ice cream with less cream but with more milk and egg. Their prices are cheaper compared to Ice Cream Chefs even thou they are located in CBD area.
I like their friendlier services and even more creative and exotic flavours. They dun "cook" their creation which is not important for me. Texture and richness of taste is more important and is what they have. If you like, they allow you to choose two flavours to enjoy in one cup.
Compared to Ice Cream Chefs, this is my current favourite ice cream shop.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Ice Cream Chefs
Once upon a time, someone excited me with a biz idea that touches on one of my favourite food. It is about turning the act of serving ice cream into a more restaurant experience. She took the idea from a ice cream franchises, named Cold Rock, in Australia.
The idea was to cook ice cream with customer chosen ingredients like MARS bars, candy, cereal flaks etc with their favourite ice cream. I was excited and wanted to plan how to bring it to Singapore. The idea died when I calculated the cost involved and my supposed be partner suddenly turned disinterested (maybe due to her father influence).
So it is a nice surprise when Princess bought me to this neat tiny place in Siglap that executed the idea above. Ice Cream Chefs is run by mostly young adults/teenagers and it is always crowded the two times I been there. Here, the ice cream is home made and they "cook" the ice cream with your choice of toppings.
Here a picture of the cooking tool on a very cold stone. :)
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The favour changes often and I chose a mocha favour mixed with cashew nuts. The ice cream is creamy and well-mixed, soft and blended nicely. Overall, a enjoyable experience.
Likely, will go back again and to scout out the food around the siglap area.
The idea was to cook ice cream with customer chosen ingredients like MARS bars, candy, cereal flaks etc with their favourite ice cream. I was excited and wanted to plan how to bring it to Singapore. The idea died when I calculated the cost involved and my supposed be partner suddenly turned disinterested (maybe due to her father influence).
So it is a nice surprise when Princess bought me to this neat tiny place in Siglap that executed the idea above. Ice Cream Chefs is run by mostly young adults/teenagers and it is always crowded the two times I been there. Here, the ice cream is home made and they "cook" the ice cream with your choice of toppings.
Here a picture of the cooking tool on a very cold stone. :)
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The favour changes often and I chose a mocha favour mixed with cashew nuts. The ice cream is creamy and well-mixed, soft and blended nicely. Overall, a enjoyable experience.
Likely, will go back again and to scout out the food around the siglap area.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Lessons in Work
Before I joined this company, a friend wished me the best of luck. And another predicted one year of services will be good enough.
From the past year, there many lessons learnt. Not much on technical but many on politics skills and manipulative tactics. In an environment where people move behind your back (even bosses) to create a situation of uncertainty, the ones who can stand up to meet boss demands are the ones who move ahead even if they are unable to deliver and do not really understand how to deliver.
To survive means to learn fast, recruit allies and adapt quickly. It is amazing that the company can still continues to move forward in such environment. And I sometimes wonder would I even perform better given what I learnt now in my previous company.
I believe God placed me here to toughen me for His work ahead. And praise Him for faithfulness and believe in me to do His work.
Amen.
From the past year, there many lessons learnt. Not much on technical but many on politics skills and manipulative tactics. In an environment where people move behind your back (even bosses) to create a situation of uncertainty, the ones who can stand up to meet boss demands are the ones who move ahead even if they are unable to deliver and do not really understand how to deliver.
To survive means to learn fast, recruit allies and adapt quickly. It is amazing that the company can still continues to move forward in such environment. And I sometimes wonder would I even perform better given what I learnt now in my previous company.
I believe God placed me here to toughen me for His work ahead. And praise Him for faithfulness and believe in me to do His work.
Amen.
Jan 2009
How time quickly flies and CNY about to start soon, finally found a chance to catch up with SY. His work situation looks glim as sales are dropping and the company may run out of cash soon. He is mentally prepared and planning for alternatives in 6 month times. From him, it seem some of my classmates have fallen on bad times also.
Both of us agree is matter be mentally prepared and thinking positively to move ahead for better or worse, it is that fighting attitude that determine a man success in life.
We even joked about how to save on parking, he can park his car on the park near his home. :)
And I agreed that as long as each of us think hard for a solution to feed oneself and be mentally strong in face of challengces and setup, there nothing stopping a person from moving forward.
Both of us agree is matter be mentally prepared and thinking positively to move ahead for better or worse, it is that fighting attitude that determine a man success in life.
We even joked about how to save on parking, he can park his car on the park near his home. :)
And I agreed that as long as each of us think hard for a solution to feed oneself and be mentally strong in face of challengces and setup, there nothing stopping a person from moving forward.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Transfer Emoticons to another machine
It was a pain to realized my fav emoticons may be lost and I will not able to use my cute picture during msn. My situation came about when my previous notebook hard disk crashed. Luckily, I was able to salvage essential files out, including my emoticons.
The next step was to find a way to copy them back into the msn in my new notebook. After some googling, I found that the emoticons files are stored in the following directory
WinXP:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Messenger\\ObjectStore\CustomEmoticons
Thou, the directory above is not exactly the same in Vista (my new notebook)
Vista:
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Messenger\\ObjectStore\CustomeEmoticons
And I have to turn on "Show Hidden Folders and Files" folder option to find AppData directory.
A simple copy of the directoy to new notebook and restarting my MSN did not work to show my emoticons. The alias key works but a blank emoticon is shown. It seem that MSN protects the emoticons by encrypting them. So a simple copy will not work.
Again, thanks to google, there is a tool to backup and restore all msn files. MSNBackup is a free tool that works for MSN 8.1 and MSN Live Messenger.
So here the steps I look to transfer and install back my emoticons into my new notebook.
Rename my current Vista CustomEmoticons to temp name.
Copy the previous CustomEmoticons to the Vista location.
Started MSNBackup.
Enter my hotmail ID and passport ID. (Passport ID is found at the bottom of this page.
https://account.live.com/EditProf.aspx?mkt=en-us&rp=Profiles. )
Start the backup.
Rename back the Vista CustomEmoticons to its original name.
Start the restore.
Voila! Emoticons transfer ed from one previous msn to my new msn.
=)
The next step was to find a way to copy them back into the msn in my new notebook. After some googling, I found that the emoticons files are stored in the following directory
WinXP:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Messenger\
Thou, the directory above is not exactly the same in Vista (my new notebook)
Vista:
C:\Users\
And I have to turn on "Show Hidden Folders and Files" folder option to find AppData directory.
A simple copy of the directoy to new notebook and restarting my MSN did not work to show my emoticons. The alias key works but a blank emoticon is shown. It seem that MSN protects the emoticons by encrypting them. So a simple copy will not work.
Again, thanks to google, there is a tool to backup and restore all msn files. MSNBackup is a free tool that works for MSN 8.1 and MSN Live Messenger.
So here the steps I look to transfer and install back my emoticons into my new notebook.
Rename my current Vista CustomEmoticons to temp name.
Copy the previous CustomEmoticons to the Vista location.
Started MSNBackup.
Enter my hotmail ID and passport ID. (Passport ID is found at the bottom of this page.
https://account.live.com/EditProf.aspx?mkt=en-us&rp=Profiles. )
Start the backup.
Rename back the Vista CustomEmoticons to its original name.
Start the restore.
Voila! Emoticons transfer ed from one previous msn to my new msn.
=)
Museum of Broken Relationship
On display at the Jendela threater of Espandale is a roving exhibition of memtos of gifts/items representing failed relationship. Some are very cryptic, like the series of bras with notes attached that leave an unexplained story.
Some are so touching and sad, like the case of a boy realized his love can be because his girl loves women more. And vice versa, the sketch drawing of 2 naked men by a girl marks her realization that her love is gay.
The most touching is the single metal green key, one of the many gifts to his love. Only upon his death, did she realized his refusal to have sex is of how much he loved her to prevent from her being infected with his AIDS illness.
Another sad, sharp and brunt story was of a mobile phone send to a girl from her boyfriend to mark the end of their relationship by saying never to call him again.
Different stories, different hurts and haunting memories of past affections litters across the exhibition. By the end, one leaves the place with a feeling of how fragile is love and how warm glow of love items easier turns to memtos of anger, tears and sorrow when the feeling is gone.
Some are so touching and sad, like the case of a boy realized his love can be because his girl loves women more. And vice versa, the sketch drawing of 2 naked men by a girl marks her realization that her love is gay.
The most touching is the single metal green key, one of the many gifts to his love. Only upon his death, did she realized his refusal to have sex is of how much he loved her to prevent from her being infected with his AIDS illness.
Another sad, sharp and brunt story was of a mobile phone send to a girl from her boyfriend to mark the end of their relationship by saying never to call him again.
Different stories, different hurts and haunting memories of past affections litters across the exhibition. By the end, one leaves the place with a feeling of how fragile is love and how warm glow of love items easier turns to memtos of anger, tears and sorrow when the feeling is gone.
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