Project 365: Day 12 Ye same ol Italian again

Today, I went to Il Bordello again with yours dearly after her little trip to the doctors. She had some rashes on her face which she said were very itchy and painful sometimes, it even made her slightly feverish. Anybody has any idea what this could be? Doctor said it's normal but I have we have our suspicions that it might be a combi of winter rash and some sort of allergy.

Hence she decided this wouldn't be a seafood day, which was kind of a let down since I wanted to bring her to try their fabulous lobster aurora. Anyway, we had the deep fried mozzarella for starter (which tasted like deep fried chicken yum), calves liver and tagliatelle al funghi as mains. Food was superb as usual but yours dearly said that the calves liver at cristini's were better which I kinda agree since I prefer eating it with mash potatoes. There is nothing like a good shot of espresso to finish off lunch and keep me awake for the walk home.

Later, I took the curtains to the cleaners on my way to the gym for some solid fat burning. To sum it all up, it was a pretty ok day. What it lacks is something that makes me tick, some work, some project, some soul searching. Where am I going to go next? The industry I'm in now is a rapidly collapsing one even in the next boom period. It went from a 10-people team to 5-people team in a matter of years and now firms only want to hire a 2-people team. That's how much technology is improving a person's efficiency (more like man power is more expensive than computer power).

So this all boils down to one question. How to create new areas where man power is needed (and sustainably needed)? I really don't know. But I want to try, so badly. Deep thoughts...... Perhaps......

p.s. Get well soon yours dearly.

Best regards,
Jing Qi Quah

Project 365: Day 11 Clean Curtains

Today, after a week since the dry cleaners told me that it's ready, I finally went to pick up the clean curtains on my way back from the gym. It was seriously a power walk session since I opted to walk home from bayswater instead of taking the bus and the curtains were f**king heavy dammit. Oh well, I'll just treat it as an extra workout for the day.



What's worse....... That's the lighter load. Tomorrow I'll have to carry some more curtains to be washed and those are twice the weight I'm not kidding. And this time, the cctv has nothing to catch on camera (hehehe got a very expensive tuition for waiting in the car on double yellow line the first time around).



Bring it on curtains, my biceps are ready!



Best regards,

Jing Qi Quah

Project 365: Day 11 Revenge is something really SPICY

Went to the office today with Ahold reporting some stellar results. For the 3rd year in a row, Ahold has met the targets they set for themselves despite economic headwinds. That, to me, is very impressive. I remembered during a recent job interview, the interviewer asked me if I liked the retail sector. The only company that came to my mind is Ahold, for some reason, although I remembered wrongly that we have a buy recommendation (I said we had an add). Sigh, I think that just cost me a job.

Anyway, gym followed work but it was a hurried section as I'm meeting yours dearly for dinner. And dinner tonight is at ............ NANDO's!!!!! Yes, I know, AGAIN!!!

And this time it's revenge. Haha, extra extra lots of extra extra hot peri-peri sauce. Ouuuuu Yeaaaa, the hungry stomach really needed that. Revenge time!!!!!


Best regards,
Jing Qi Quah

Project 365: Day 10 Football and Nandos

It was a good day for football, not too sunny, temperature was mild and during Carling cup final (not much people in park). All that running left me absolutely starving and what's better than to go to nando's for some fiery chicken?

We went to the nando's near London Bridge. There was this odd thing on the way from station to restaurant. Think I saw Keng mention in her facebook that it's to hang people in the old days.

Yum, always go for extra hot peri-peri at nando's. I didn't realise they have a black bottle of extra extra hot until I was leaving the restaurant dammit. But it was good. Finished a quarter bottle of that yummy sauce myself muahahaha. So much so that I saw somebody (European!!!) who brought their own plastic containers to bring some sauce back, talk about kiasu.

And yours dearly tries to stop me taking a photo of her hahaha. Funny. What's funnier is nando's sign saying their peri-peri nuts may contain nuts. -_-!!!
Best regards,
Jing Qi Quah

Project 365: Day 9 Development at Marble Arch

Got this post one day late but what the hell. Went out to West Acton to get some fresh fish for sashimi from Atari Ya, a nice little japanese store full of surprises. The fish were top notch, fresh as sashimi you can get in London. No stomach ache so far so I guess it's safe to say that. So if u're a sushi fan, there's just one place where u'll not be disappointed (the selection of fish there is excellent too).

If you've been to Marble Arch in London before, you must remember that it has a quite complicated tunnel system which accompanies a stench of urine. Well the authorities recently decided to close some of these tunnels down and make people cross the road via traffic crossings. I'm not complaining, it makes more sense to do that since it's safer for pedestrians (in terms of burglary). Now with one of their usual shelter gone, where are the homeless going to spend the night now......


Best regards,
Jing Qi Quah