The 2nd Day Without World Cup

It does feel weird when there are no scores to see, no matches to get excited or not about. Nothing about soccer to rave or rant about. It feels weird not having any after-match ramblings to talk or complain about here. I guess the only excitment now is to see what has Zidane gotta say on tv about the famous head-butt. If what we heard on the radio, the internet, the newspaper, his agent was true, then I think that Materazzi really did something below the belt. It was psychological and he knew it would work on Zidane.

Poor Zidane. But I am glad he won the Golden Ball award despite what happened. Thank goodness it was a vote by journalists and not by tabulating statistics. It sure tell a different side of what the media thought of the man.

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I went on a sushi high again tonight.

Some of you may remember, I tend to go really "high" when I eat Japanese food, especially quality sashimis. Tonight, I went to eat this incredible 100 item sushi buffet at Hanabi Restaurant with Y. I had been to the restaurant's original branch in Bukit Timah sometime last month and the experience was quite exhilerating. I didn't know they have a branch downtown and was delighted to found that out online. The one at Bukit Timah requires up to 3 weeks of booking (no kidding!) but places at this branch at Odeon Towers can be reserved within a day (there were only 2 of us, I guess it was easy?!).

One thing that really excites me about this restaurant is their sashimi servings. The yellowtail, salmon, tuna, octopus (another 2 I forgotten what were they) are always served fresh, and the servings are chunky. Whenever I sink my teeth into a piece, dabbed in wasabi + soya sauce nonetheless, it seems like I am in heaven :)~ Their variety of sushis, tempuras, makis, and noodles are very elaborate too. God, I am reminded of the yummy taste even right now... :)~

So anyway, my advice to you is that if you want to go there, bring a few more friends, so that you can try a variety of dishes without feeling too full. Y. was very comfortable ordering and eating, while I had to stop after too much sushi. It's unfortunate cos we were facing the sashimi chef!! He offered to prepare sashimi for us, but alas, I am too full to enjoy his kind gesture :(

Ne'mind... There is always a next time!! I am going to make sure that waitress get me handroll instead of matroll. She made a mistake first time and I had to eat the rice in the sushi, then I made a 2nd mistake by ordering maki, thinking it was just fish... Too much rice is no good if you wish to try the variety. So take note! :)

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Tuesday night maybe another official tv watching night for me. I had heard quite alot about "Everybody hates Chris" on central, and wanted to find out what was the show like. So as I was channel hopping, it happened that the show was on. So I sat through the entire show. I thought it was quite a nice series to catch. Something about Chris Rock's growing up years and about relationships and life, stuffs that I like to watch :)

Then when the show was over, I switched to channel 5. The trailers of "Criminal Minds" earlier have caught my attention for a couple of weeks, and finally I get to watch it. Nice. Well, especially cos the cute Thomas Gibson is in the show. I can never forget him for his role in "Dharma and Greg". CM is about FBI profilers (Americans, their technical term can be so creative!) who analyses behaviour of criminals and predicts what is his next move.

Interesting. I guess now I have to watch CSI on AXN and catch Chris and Thomas on Tuesday nights! :)

Oh gosh, Joyce, you Couch Potato.