I wake up half past noon; had a late night which ended up with me sleeping on the floor of Raffles Shopping Centre and then the lobby of City Hall MRT. I wasn't alone. Hundreds were also stranded after watching the New Year's Eve countdown in Marina Bay.
Fortunately, I'm not suffering a hangover. I promised my housemates that I would start cooking in 2012 but this morning I feel blah so I toast two slices Gardenia multi-grain bread and eat that with Skippy's chunky peanut butter. The best combo. A little past 1pm and my housemates finally wake up. JP fries some eggs and Delimondo corned beef, which we have with last night's rice. Our former housemate, Denise, sends a tray of puto, leche flan and biko; their leftover. I have a half-slice of banana to cap brunch. And a cup of green tea.
I take a break and enjoy the strong breeze in the living room. That's when I discover a relaxation video and end up sleeping till 6pm. Early evening I eat a slice of the leftover chocolate cake I had bought from Epi d'Or called Coco Exotic. It's layers of chiffon, crunchy hazelnut flakes, mousse and topped with ganache. It cost $28, which is far cheaper than Awfully Chocolate or one of the hotel delis, but it tasted expensive. I tell myself I'm going to skip dinner but at around 9pm I start craving for fried, breaded pork chop the way we used to do it at home. We would squeeze lots of calamansi and pour a quarter of Silver Swan soy sauce to marinade the meat, then roll the meat in flour just before frying. Unfortunately, NTUC grocery didn't have marinated pork chop so I end up buying two packs of frozen meat, fusili pasta and a bottle of Barolo ready-to-use marinara sauce.
As soon I step out of the door, I admit that me cooking in 2012 is never going to happen, so I walk a few meters to a Vietnamese restaurant and order pork cutlets ($6). It comes with rice and a fried egg on top; the meat's grilled and tastes like teriyaki. It's good, but pork chop was just a craving so I only eat half since it doesn't even taste like pork chop. At home, I eat two more slice of chocolate cake and call it a night.
- Epi d'Or is at Raffles Shopping Centre (#B1-14/15), 6337 4717, MRT: City Hall.
- NTUC Fairprice is at Blk 2 Joo Chiat Rd (#01-02-1139).
- Long Phung Vietnamese Restaurant is at 159 Joo Chiat Rd, 9105 8519.
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