Post-YY: Paper Tiger

Crabs!
Swiped from williamnyk.

Our flight back to Singapore was quite early in the morning, so we checked out before 6:00am. The hotel had prepared breakfast boxes for us to eat in the van-- two pieces of bread, jam, butter, hard boiled egg, cheese and a banana. I sliced up the egg, put it on buttered bread and ate it with the cheese. Not a bad combination. Waiting at the Adisucipto airport was boring. The line took ages to clear because just in front of us, a "holiday facilitator" was helping his clients (more than 10 of 'em) to check-in! Those rich people really have it good. They think that they don't even need to show their faces at the check-in counter. Some don't even know the meaning of queueing! And the best thing about the check-in counter was the faulty scale. A bag of golf clubs only registered 4kg! The "real weight" had to be "worked out" and hand-written on the baggage tags. :S. The flight back was quite uneventful. For brunch, we headed to the staff cafeteria in Changi Airport. The guy beside our table used an iPhone 3Gs in with the cutest Hello Kitty cover. Really salute the fella.



Back home in Bishan, we had the whole house to ourselves as everyone was at work. We unpacked (the luggage smelled of Minyak Kayu Putih! -_-"), showered and skanked. Was thrilled to find that KH had bought a cute little toy so we fooled around with that for a while. Wakakaka. Chilli crabs is supposedly one of Singapore's signatured dishes. And since during our Jogja trip the point came up that KH never ordered this dish for me, POD and Nic came to my "rescue". Hehe. Drove to House of Seafood @ 180. Their black pepper variety is not so nice when compared to the chilli crabs (Malaysia's equivalent is sweet and sour). I found the sauce too thick and black (like something out of the La Brea Tar Pits), and lacking the fragrance of Sarawak black pepper corns. The chilli crab on the other hand was quite good. Theg gravy was nice, with eggs and ground peanuts. Lapped up the thick gravy with fried man tou. The crabs were also large and full of roe. Definitely sinful. A cholesterol carnival.



They then drove me to the Budget Terminal only to find that my flight had been delayed to 11:00pm!!! Stupid Tiger Airways!!! And so, I followed the guys to Loyang Tua Pek Kong Temple. Interestingly, it has a Hindu temple beside it. Was quite crowded that day seeing that it was the Mid-Autumn Festival. After finishing up their pai-pai, they dropped us off at Tampiness One. We just sat down and shared a drink at Tea Dot before taking a cab back to the airport. KH was soo proud that he ordered a cab using an iPhone app. Only in Singapore. Nobody manned the check-in counter at the airport. We had to bang the door at the airport administration office to get them to call the Tiger Airways people. Unacceptable. Banned! I slept through the forty minutes. Even ignore the semi-cute China boy beside me. By the time I got home, it was past midnight. Poor SK had to wait up for me. That ends my holiday escapade with KH! Thanks for reading. We'll be back to our regular programming soon!