Thursday, June 10, 2004
090604..i went wine tasting!!!
how do i describe this day??? Well, the night before i didn't catch any sleep until 7am today...u're prolly wondering what i've been doing up at this time in the morning rite? Well..see by the time i got home from work and makan, it was around 1 or 2am liao..then i went online, i chatted with my cute and funky JUNE till about 3am plus..then i suddenly decided to msg Jasper tellin him to pray for poor david and his finger. My sms ended up waking him up from his slumber and we ended up chatting on the phone till around 6am..so that's like 3 hrs??? I seriously didn't notice we talked that long at all!! It's so Wow...i mean...we were both tired and sleepy but we just yakked and yakked about any and every topic under the sun...we even talked about the end times and the apocalypse and the rapture and it was like...i dunno..scary?? Yea it was...then yeah, was around 6am (still dark) and then i had this 21 day QT consistency challenge. So well, had no choice but to do it, even tho i was like totally tired and stuff...but yeah, seriously, i actually didn't feel like going to bed at that time! Yeah it's true..in fact i was tempted to challenge myself to a one day w/o sleep marathon...how crazy would that be?? Cuz like today, after i finished my QT ard 7 plus (sun was up liao) i went to bed and woke up around 12.20pm..so that's about slightly more than 5 hrs of sleep? Yea..after that went Bukit Panjang for lunch, then after that dropped by my mom's workplace (i ain't no momma's boy) and then after that went straight to amici for my very first staff outing!!! Yay!!! Like okay i didn't think it would be such a fun event at first, but i was totally wrong! So okay, willie brought us (me, Liz, David & chef) in his car to some place in chinatown..i think it's called china square central...yah..then some place in it called Vil'age, and it like totally follows the concept of marche! they better hope they are a branch out of marche cuz if the name was changed to marche i seriously wouldn't notice any difference! Haha anyway, went there for wine tasting! Yes, and tho i'm sorta almost underaged, i still went and yeah..i still got to taste some wines. They were all German wines..the event was called "I love (heart symbol for love) RIESLING" and yea it was quite an experience! The wines were arranged in a row, starting from bitter to sweet wines. So like i received my own personal glass to use, and i started on my first glass. At first i didn't know what to expect out of this. Last thing i ever want is to get drunk! Haha..so if i remembered correctly, i didn't think much about the wines at first, but then they started getting better, sweeter and well..i think i slowly learned how to appreciate German white wines haha...some wine brands present were Gunderloch, Dr Burklin Wolf, Reinhold Haart, Georg Breuer, Robert Weil, and Grans Fassion. Some tasted "fruity" with little weird yet yummy hints of strange enuf, other fruits such as pineapple, apple, pear or even honeydew! Amazing isn't it?? They explained that the flavour resembles the other fruits, which was quite true, and it could be because of many many reason like maybe the ingredients of the soil and fertilizer and all. Very interesting. Total there were about 15 bottles of wine, and i tried nearly every one of them! Like..wow it's not that i don't want to stop taking so much, it's just that the wines..they tasted much better than i thought! I mean it was really really hard to stop! I must admit k..they were good wines, and even though i don't drink (honest), i think i'm not a bad drinker either..meaning to say that i can handle this kinda stuff pretty well...i mean, my face didn't turn red at all..no signs of tipsyness..or was there? Nah...but seriously, this was the biggest amount of alcohol i have ever ever consumed before. Quite an experience!
After that the bunch of us went back to the restaurant..reached there around 530pm. Did the usual, set the restaurant up for the dinner crowd. And whoa..i was WAY tired! Like..so little sleep plus i drank quite a generous amount of wine...it was really difficult lah..there were nice customers as well as more demanding ones but all in all, i was glad the day went by. Chef John! haha nice guy..he cooked us all chicken primavera pasta...whoa it was GOOD i tell ya! Well, that's one of my favourite pastas they have at amici anyway..got to know this pasta cuz one time around 4 weeks ago when i first joined amici, chef cooked this for us, and i fell in love with it! haha..well u know what i mean lah haha..it was really nice. Yeah..then after work, as usual, didn't really feel like coming home yet, so me, chris, david and elizabeth, we went to 7-eleven, got a Walls cheesie blueberry ice-cream (It's VERY GOOD U KNOE??)<-- personal joke..as well as a cup of chendol ice-cream and a bottle of pokka green tea..big bottle. We didn't think we'd be able to finish that much ice-cream at first...cuz we were a bit full of pasta and wine haha..but we ate and ate and ate anyway, and well, we finished everything! Haha..we all agreed that the blueberry ice-cream was REALLY GOOD haha..and the chendol ice-cream was good too..and since we were on the topic of wines, we joked bout a wine called "mad fish"...like what a crazy name and all? and then we put our hands together like a fish then made it go all over like a real mad fish! Farni man...we laughed and laughed and laughed till out tummies hurt..it's as if we got drunk on wine 6 hours late haha...but i had a lotta fun, talking and joking with my colleagues and all..and singing too! Haha..sang that Amici forever song..like "friends for life not just a summer or a spring"..think it's called amigos sampapapapapapapa whatever lah..wait for liz to tell me the real spelling. And yeah, our amici song, sung to the tune of barry manilow's Mandy...the lyrics go: I remember amici, the name sounds so funny. Walked into the shop, saw a flower pot, there we made a stop, looking for a job, and made us sign a meaningless form, the whole place was so warm. And Willie Tan he smiled, made his MOMMA proud, made us go so wild, dadadada oh amici, when your storeroom is oh so smelly, and ur manager's so lazy...and so on and so on...haha will always remember that song. Maybe one day we could complete the song?? Dunno lah..then after that, as usual, had to go home..cuz momma was calling hahaha...but yeah, it was already late by then. So okay, got home, did my usual stuff..bathe, do this, do that, chat MSN here and there...ended up sleeping at 5am. Smart right?....
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