scouts gathering

we went to this turkish place at far east for lunch. i had some longtong as a very late breakfast before i left so didn't order any food when i got there. haha, but hansel ordered extra food liao and he was super full after finishing 1 portion and couldn't finish the 2nd portion as he intended. so i ate most of it up.

can't rem what's the name of the dish leh, but it was really all meat with some yoghurt drenched in this sour sour sauce. quite nice lar. :) i think it was bit of beef. so, tt's my first time tasting turkish fare. interesting. haha, then ordered a cup of turkish coffee, which is a VERY VERY small cup. actually i when i just got there shuwei was kbing to me about his cup of coffee, which was served in the same very small cup too.

"$1.50" he said, gesturing to his super value-for-money cup of coffee. which really couldn't be more than 75ml.

it was only later on when i decided to ask him how was the coffee... "oh, very nice, it's quite exotic."

tt was when i fell for his trickery and decided to order mine too.

when i bought my cup of coffee shuwei told me to get a spoon to stir the coffee before i drink it cause it tends to settle to the bottom. wait a minute, coffee where got settle one? and after my first mouthful i realised tt the sediments were actually COFFEE GROUNDS (yes, the new med cafe's namesake).

well, more amusing was the fact tt shuwei drank it all up assuming it as part of good old turkish culture. [well, even as i'm typing this, i'm still not sure if it IS part of thecustom to drink up all the coffee grounds or not, but i can saw it tastes terribly awful if u do...]

i really regretted not bringing along my camera if not can post the pics here for everyone to judge how gross the coffee grounds are... anyway i decided to add a little pepper and salt (i mean literally) to my share of coffee grounds in a spite of boredom, much to the disgust of acy.

after lunch 1/2 went home and 1/2 went for a bit of window shopping. haha, ended up only ben bought stuff. the rest of us were too broke to buy liao. somemore is not cheap stuff - a fcuk long sleeve shirt and another fcuk t shirt. haha oh well. :) belated christmas shopping i guess. wait till the day when i'll be able to do tt too. :)

but i tell u, we were so super tired by the time we walked to taka tt we just had to go into delifrance to rest. well, the pple who came along shopping was gy, hansel, sw, ben and me. now, gy just HATES bread... don't know what's wrong with him, but he detests bread. which of course is what delifrance serves. :) haha, can u imagine his face when he came back from the toliet and found us sitting there eating... anyway a damn funny conversation ensued:

gy:"wah lau, why are u eating bread?? it's high in cholesterol, high in fat, high in carbo and low in protein. it causes u to have heart attack."

hl:"what crap."

gy:"i bet with u tt everyone who has had a heart attack has eaten bread before."

all:*speechless, but bowling over in laughter*

ben:"u're damn c**k, don't u realise tt bread and noodles are made of the same thing?"

gy:"so?!?!?!? u're made up of atoms. the table is also made up of atoms."

all:"O_0'"

anyway we came to the conclusion tt gy's fear for bread is an irrational and totally absurb one. afterall he's terrified of cats and peacocks, cats and chickens too. haha. rem the times when we were hiking on ubin and there was this big chicken (in a cage, mind u... not like those running freely about one), but gy wouldn't come 5m close. haha.

it is also noteworthy tt at this pt gy started poking at hansel's small piece of garlic bread, after tt he picked it up! omgosh! we all though gy was going to eat it!!! but then he promptly tore the bread into 2 and lay it down again, with a smirk on his face feeling he had conquered the unbearable.

went home for dinner after tt with my family, cause it's my brother's bdae on 16th jan. happy 17th birthday. :) shall blog on bdae tml cause now it's damn late liao... alot of interesting things happened then too.