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Is it true that taking a person’s photograph steals their soul?

This was a question posed on a photography website. The answer had me in stitches…

Yes. This is why movie stars, fashion models, politicians and pop singers have such dreadful personality and relationship problems - their souls have been severely depleted by all the photographs which have been taken of them.

PS: Take a look at those gorgeous lenses…*drool*

Photo credits: los paparazzi, originally uploaded by elbelgasturiano

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Despite her bad experience during her first visit, M kindly accompanied me to The Apartment @ The Curve yesterday afternoon for lunch as I’d been wanting to try the place out since I saw it about 3 weeks ago. We arrived at 12.30pm to find the restaurant surprisingly empty, and chose a table near the entrance.

The menu is printed on graph paper with cute graphics all over

After finally giving it a try, I’ve really gotta say that this place is a classic case of style over substance. The proverbial dumb blonde, so to speak.

On the style side of things, well, you’ve gotta hand it to the person who came up with the idea and decor. It’s really lovely and kinda quirky, with different sections of the restaurant decorated like different rooms in an apartment…bedroom, living room, library, etc. It’s the type of cafe/restaurant you’re more likely to stumble upon in, say…Sydney or Melbourne, than in Petaling Jaya, and it looks like a great place to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon with friends, chit-chatting/gossiping/b*tching (take your pick!) over desserts and ice-cream.

Beer behind bars

Cool chairs

Red dog

Candle-ir chandelier?

When life gives you lemons…

The bar where the desserts and drinks are prepared

She sells seashells

Substance, however, is sadly lacking. Among the three dishes that we ordered, namely Vin’s Portabello, fishcakes and a beef sandwich, only the portabello mushrooms were up to scratch. The fishcakes lacked flavour, and had a really ‘fishy’ taste. The beef sandwich that M had…oh dear, it was apparently so salty that the poor girl had to deconstruct the whole sandwich and pick out all the beef slices.

Water (obviously!)

Portabello mushrooms

Salty beef sandwich

Fishy fishcakes

Service was quite iffy, and rather blur, for want of a better word. M wanted to buy some cupcakes (the cupcakes are from Cuppacakes) but was told that they’d run out of the proper cupcake containers. She asked one of the waiters to help search for a suitable one…but a few minutes later, we saw the same waiter standing nearby and when she reminded him, he looked absolutely blur, as if he’d just been kidnapped by aliens and forgot the events in the past 5 minutes. Or something like that. I don’t really know how to explain it…it’s just weird. M had the same experience the previous time she was at The Apartment…wrong food being brought to her table, just bad service, basically.

Cuppacakes

It’s still early days, so hopefully the service will improve. Still, unless the quality of the food improves as well (I mean, who messes up fishcakes?!?), I doubt I’ll be going back there anytime soon.

Other blogger reviews:

1. Epicuriousgirl
2. Jo’s Blog

I saw this ad in The Star yesterday (or was it two days ago?), and a good friend even sms-ed me to tell me about it.

I replied…

“A food writer? Me? The person who can’t take chilli, doesn’t eat red meat, don’t drink wine? :)”

Reply was that maybe I could specify, probably in my contract…”No red meat, no wine, no milk/cream…”

To which I replied…”Then I think the reply will be: No job!”…

Seriously though, while I would really love to try for it, my fussiness towards food is a big step to overcome. Furthermore, considering my description for food is pretty much limited to: Good, nice, not nice, yummy, yucky, really nice, really good….doesn’t bode well for a position which is advertised as:

It goes without saying that you must possess a formidable command of the English language.

Anyways, to all you other food bloggers out there, why not give it a try? I can think of a few floggers that write extremely well! The ad appeared again in today’s Star Jobs, page 18. Closing date: August 25, 2007. And you can hire me as a food photographer if you get the job…

Tried it? Rate it here!

Hubby and I went back to King Crab for dinner tonight. Although I really really wanted to order the salted egg yolk squid, the fact that it’ll probably go straight to my hips kinda made me change my mind!

We ended up ordering the following…

BBQ prawns, which were fresh and succulent…

Stir fried yau mak with garlic…this was abit too salty…

Pork belly with salted fish…I found it quite spicy (which means it’s just a bit spicy for normal people…hehe…). Nevertheless, it’s pretty tasty, although I still prefer the one at Ka Soh…

Lastly…BBQ lamb. Now, this was really good. How did I know? I tried some! Yes, I tried lamb for the 3rd time in my life… The thing I really liked about the lamb was that it didn’t have that gamey taste. It was perfectly cooked, still tender and juicy…thumbs up!

I finished off the meal with an ice cold glass of limau kasturi (sour plum and lime)…ahhhh….

Does anyone remember watching this movie? I *think* I watched it when I was still in UK and absolutely fell in love with John Hannah’s character. The reason why I suddenly remembered this show was coz I watched ‘The Full Monty’ on Astro two nights ago (another show that I absolutely love!), and the British accent just somehow reminded me of Sliding Doors.

I’m now really really yearning to watch this movie again…so much so that I’ll probably order it from Amazon if I can’t find it here…