am i a nuisance?
i think i am a nuisance.
i’m asking for too much, making myself more of a nuisance.

it’s unbelievable how i’ve been so affected by it, almost seems like i’m creating this problem out of nothing, causing myself undue misery
maybe i AM thinking this up, but i can’t deny how much it’s bugging me

there are so many things i want to say, but how much are you willing to listen?

haven’t blogged about food in quite awhile.
maybe it’s cos i never really tried a new restaurant lately
but today, zeanne brought me to this japanese fusion restaurant, so i made an effort to take pictures!
i think the only other japanese fusion places i know are Guu and the Shiru-Bay Chopstick Cafe
BonQuLa is located on alexandra road in richmond

we picked from the dinner set menu.
i got the Unagi and zeanne had the halibut set

the meal started with MANY appetizers! lol, i have never seen that many appetizers in a meal, hmmm…probably only in a korean restaurant? haha

first up, this ikan bilis looking thing.
it really does look like it, but it tastes sweet, i wish they gave more!

very delicately decorated 3 piece set.
on the left, this is lotus with some dried thing on top
middle, sashimi with roe on top (but i have no idea what sashimi, i can’t understand the japanese accent of that waiter =S)
right, wasabi rice. this was very good! quite a unique thing, i wish they would give more of this too

cold tofu in some type of sweet sauce, that had a hint of sesame oil

tuna sashimi cocktail. well it’s not really a cocktail because u don’t drink it, but the tuna was dressed with mayo, which is…quite a fusion i would say
it seems that typically in every japanese dish, there’s always seawood lol

tempura. this is pretty japanese, just the regular prawn, scallop, mushroom tempura
but the unique part was the wasabi salt. the waiter said the chef made it herself.
this is quite different from the usual tempura sauce.

after FIVE appetizers! we finally get our main course!
lol…for me, that’s the unagi rice. unagi was grilled just right, sauce blended well with the fish too
they also had strips of tamago on top of the unagi, very exquisite

this was zeanne’s halibut. i had a slice of it, the fish was very fresh and the was kinda creamy and cheesy

we had a choice of strawberry or banana pudding for dessert.
it came with a matching flavoured pocky stick on top.
i had the strawberry, but the pudding didn’t really taste like strawberry at all, just tasted like the usual creme caramel
zeanne had the banana pudding, that had a significantly stronger banana taste
were they just skimping on strawberry essence or what?

overall, i still prefer the Shiru-Bay!!! why haven’t they found a new location to open at?!?!?!
they’ve been closed for like more than a year now, i will hurry down if i ever know they open again =)

the day started off pretty good, i got my GHD…!

haven’t really had time to play around with it yet, so can’t comment on it being the “legendary hair straightener”!

so i think the good part of the day stopped when i got my ghd. everything after that was just BAD.

i was supposed to have my blood test done.
to do that, i have to go to the clinic to get a referral to the blood test lab.
so anyway, to cut a long story short, this was what my route looked like today:
11.00am – clinic
11.30am – went to bank to get cash to pay for “doc consultation fee”
12.00pm – back at the clinic, finally see the doc and got my referral letter
12.30pm – at the blood test lab waiting for my turn, waited for 30 mins, register, then found out i left out some stuff i wanted to test and i had to go back to the clinic to get the doc to certify it
1.00pm – back at the clinic AGAIN, but guess what?! they are closed for lunch for an HOUR!
2.00pm – after waiting in the car for an hour (and potentially dying from carbon monoxide poisoning), i finally get to the doc to write that extra 2 lines on my referral letter, fuck
2.30pm – back at the blood test lab yet AGAIN, waited for ANOTHER 30 mins, was registering, and they told me they can’t do my blood test, because the computer network was down and they were not sure how much i have to pay for it…FUCK!!!
referred me to another lab to get it done.
3.00pm – arrive at the other lab, some waiting and FINALLY got my blood drawn and all done at 4.00pm

DAMN! took me like 5 hours of running around before someone would actually take my blood!!! come on!

that’s not the end of my cursed day.

i went to the mall intending to get a new bottle of moisturizer, but it turns out that H2O has closed that outlet. so the only way for me now is to make the trip to downtown.

that’s NOT IT.

was sending jiefang home tonight after dinner in ubc…and i got pulled over by a cop.
damn. for the past 1.5 years, never got pulled over before (and this is the kind of thing u don’t ever want to have a first time at)
and the reason was because i was turning right and i wasn’t yielding to the cop car that was turning left?! i seriously don’t know how legit that is
but anyway, i haven’t got a ticket, so i hope it’s just a warning.

that is STILL NOT IT.

i get home, parked the car, turned off the engine, guess what? i hear some noise under the hood.
OMGGG…can this day get any worse?!?!!
now i got to get up extra early in the morning just to bring it over to the mechanic’s
and hope that he can actually do something about it.
otherwise i’m going to have to bus around tomorrow.
few more months before i get rid of this piece of shit!!!

but i’m thinking, if this day is the worse, the next day can only get better…
er…right???

so hwei ling told me about this women film festival thing that’s going on now
and we’re going to catch this film titled “mothers and daughters”
i watched the trailer and the daughters were just trashing out at their mothers,
BUT i simply love the comment made by one of the daughters at the end:

“i think the ideal mother would be someone who wants great things for their daughter, but also…love them without the great things”

ahh…that is the world’s greatest love isn’t it?
it is that of a mother.