Saturday, April 30, 2016
Chilis will keep you wanting for MORE
For 40 years, Chili’s has been welcoming guests with their sizzling personality and serving up a good time, every time. Their fun and energetic atmosphere is the perfect place for family and friends to gather together and enjoy a delicious meal. Their menu has grown over the years to include a distinct mix of Southwestern-inspired, classic American and international flavours.
You can still enjoy their mouthwatering burgers, ice-cold beers and margaritas that made us famous, or you can choose to sink your teeth into even more great, bold American favourites like their legendary Baby Back Ribs, Sizzling Fajitas and Boneless Buffalo Wings.
When I first entered the restaurant, it was low lit and decorated exactly like a typical American diner. There were booth seats, big pictures hung on the walls, a bar at the back of the restaurant with drink specials and records playing in the background. The atmosphere was boisterous and friendly- the sort of place you would want to come to for a football game.
The margaritas were strong. Too strong for me. But the taste was still fine.
The flatbread was actually my favorite for the day.
You can still enjoy their mouthwatering burgers, ice-cold beers and margaritas that made us famous, or you can choose to sink your teeth into even more great, bold American favourites like their legendary Baby Back Ribs, Sizzling Fajitas and Boneless Buffalo Wings.
When I first entered the restaurant, it was low lit and decorated exactly like a typical American diner. There were booth seats, big pictures hung on the walls, a bar at the back of the restaurant with drink specials and records playing in the background. The atmosphere was boisterous and friendly- the sort of place you would want to come to for a football game.
The margaritas were strong. Too strong for me. But the taste was still fine.
The flatbread was actually my favorite for the day.
The menus were colourful and full of eye catching photographs of the food, it was so tempting to want to order everything that was available! It did not help that the booths around us were all being served with large platters of sizzling and bbq-ed items that smelled so good.
The Grilled Baby Back Ribs at $29 for half rack was literally 'fall-off-the-bone-tender' as the menu claimed. The meat was juicy, succulent and tasty with a hint of spiciness as we picked the Honey Chipotle as sauce of choice. The ribs came with 2 sides and we chose Loaded Mash- mashed potatoes with bacon bits and cheese and Seasoned Veggies which were basically buttered steamed broccoli! Though personally I thought the half rack was a tad small, the flavour was definitely larger than life.
So Im thinking that Chilli's deserves a definite second visit especially since we are getting a 10% discount off our next visit with some promotion/offer they were having. Service wise, it was excellent. The waitress serving our table was always cheerful and efficient, even came to our table while we were eating to check if everything was alright and if the food was okay.
Service: 4 / 5
Ambiance: 4 / 5
Food: 3.5 / 5
Roboyes Cafe is Dog-Friendly.
When you enter, the first thing that strikes you is the baby blue colour scheme, reminiscent of an American country house. The wooden lawn fence that partitions the space adds to the countryside atmosphere. The floorspace is divided into 2: one area for dogs and their owners, and a separate area that for patrons without pets.
There were plenty of regular customers who brought their dogs to Roboyes Cafe. Big ones, small ones, the quiet ones, and unfortunately on that day, there was a very noisy dog who kept on barking.
We ordered Yuzu and Ribena Ice. Not too sweet, not too bitter. they were the perfect drinks for a hot and humid evening.
We had the delicious pork and bacon pasta and the pork burger with french fries.
The pork and bacon pasta was sublime. It was not too dry and the taste was spot on. Maybe they can do a little lesser on the pepper. Else everything will be a full mark.
The pork burger - the patty is made from scratch and its definitely not bought from the supermarket. The patty was thick, and mouth-watering.
Warning: If you do not like dogs, then this isn't a cafe for you to visit. But then again, you don't have to worry, the dogs won't bite! And like what most people say, guys and ladies who has dogs as their pets make a great wife and husband. You decide.
Service: 3.5 / 5
Food: 3.5 / 5
Ambiance: 3.5 / 5
#01-82, 34 Cassia Cres, 390034
ROBOYES CAFE, Address
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
“Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
It is not enough to just say relationships are important; we must prove it by investing time in them. Words alone are worthless. "My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action." Relationships take time and effort, and the best way to spell love is "T-I-M-E.”
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Monday, April 25, 2016
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Friday, April 22, 2016
You Deserve...
You deserve someone who will look at you and know that you are good enough. Someone who will not let you struggle on whether or not you’re worth it, because you are. How people see you or label you doesn’t add, change or deduct who you are.
You deserve someone who will never require you to change in order to fit other people’s standards. Because they understand that our eyes see things, places and people out of our own perspectives and lenses. That in actuality, we don’t see all these by what they are, we see it by what we really are – a reflection of our heart and soul.
You deserve someone whom you don’t have to verify yourself to. Someone who will never see you as too much of this, too much of that, someone who will embrace all your edges and be sure that if not for your edges, you won’t be YOU.
You deserve someone who will never make you feel like you have to be their monumental idea of who you should be. Someone who will understand that the way you talk, the way you dress, the way you carry yourself is what makes you unique, and unique is beautiful. Someone who will look at you and will love your bad parts as much as they love your good parts.
You deserve someone who will never overthink your flaws.Someone who will realize how difficult it has been for you to love and embrace who you are, thus never allowing conclusively insignificant people ruin it in second tops.
You deserve someone who will exist to see the beauty in you.Someone who will see you with your morning face, smell your morning breath and hear you fail a note as you belt out your favorite song. Someone who will see you lick your chocolate coned ice-cream in the most unattractive way, see you fart, see you eat a hotdog you’ve already dropped – and will still find you beautifully attractive.
You deserve someone who will stay with you during the stormy days and assures you that there will be a rainbow somewhere along the way. Someone who will inspire you, encourage you, push you beyond your own limits. Someone who will trust your talents and abilities even when you can’t trust your own. Someone who will love you at your most critical moments, even those moments when you can’t even love yourself.
You deserve someone who will see you with your bad days and also with your good days. Someone who will see you in your most despairing moments and also in your joyous ones. Someone who will see you from flaw to flaw and embrace every single thing about it. Someone who will see you at your ugliest and bitchiest moments, someone who will see you at your worst and will STILL love you for it.
You deserve someone who will see an intelligent human being even when you don’t make any sense. Someone who will see a genuinely happy person even when you’re being too foolish. Someone who will see the smiles, the misadventures and the facades, but more than that, will see your real substance.
You deserve someone who will see beyond the outer, who will see a smart, beautiful person who fiercely fight to survive life.Someone who will regard the intensity of bravery she’s amounted to. Someone who will recognize her strong pursuit to overcome life’s hardest moments.
You deserve someone who will never give you shit talk about who you are nor lectures you to change. You deserve someone who will be there for you. Patiently loving you for every good and every bad part of yourself. Constantly understanding that this is who you are, and as long as you don’t overstep your boundaries and you respect the people around you, you’re good. They’re good.
You deserve someone who will see you and know that you are worth so much more than meets the eye.
You deserve someone who will love you in your entirety.
The Guy You're Going to Marry
He’s the one who holds your hand in a dark movie theatre, even after years of going to see movies together. When there’s a scary or romantic or sad part, he always manages to find your hand between your seats and give it the littlest squeeze, or just let your fingers rest softly together. He knows that the best part of movie night is not the movie itself, but spending it with you, and getting to talk about it the whole way home.
The guy you will marry might not be the most handsome, the most funny, the smartest, the strongest. His job might not make the most money, sure, but you would much rather have him at home with you at a reasonable time than have him working nights and weekends at some high-powered job to make you a little richer. He isn’t perfect in any one way, but he’s perfect to you in all of them.
When you have one of your freakouts about something minor, he’ll keep his cool. And when he’s frustrated over something small, you’ll know how to make him put it in perspective. To each other, you’ll be a mix of therapist, doctor, and trusted friend. Sometimes the only thing you’ll need to separate the “legitimate problems” from the “all-in-your-head annoyances” will be someone who can talk you down from the ledge. You will always be that person for each other.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
10 Cloverfield Lane is a 4 Stars out of 5!
In 2008, the apocalyptic monster movie Cloverfield arrived in theaters and wowed audiences with its relatively low-budget sci-fi spectacle. A sequel was in development following its success, but eight years later what we've got instead is 10 Cloverfield Lane, another fairly low-budget sci-fi thriller with little connection to the earlier movie besides its title featuring the word "cloverfield."
The idea is that "Cloverfield" is an anthology series brand, like The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror, only for theatrical film releases. 10 Cloverfield Lanewas actually once a totally original property independent of any other (the initial script, by John Campbell and Matt Stuecken, was called The Cellar). Then producer J. J. Abrams stamped the Cloverfield title on it, and now it's sort of like an adopted cousin rather than a descendant of the 2008 movie.
This one is set far away from the subway tunnels of New York City, mostly inside an underground doomsday bunker in Southwest Louisiana.
That’s where Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up after getting into a serious car accident. She’s handcuffed to a wall inside a heavily locked room, but when she meets her host/captor, Howard (John Goodman), he insists that he saved her life and is continuing to protect her from a dangerous threat outside the shelter.
Also in the bunker is Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), a local who helped build the structure. Michelle reaches out to him for help in understanding whether or not there’s actually anything to be afraid of beyond the hatch doors. But he doesn’t seem to know much, either, beyond what Howard has told him. It could be nuclear fallout. It could be “the Martians.” Because of the uncertainty, Michelle remains skeptical, and so she makes every effort she can to get away.
Whether he’s right or she’s right is a great mystery driving the story in 10 Cloverfield Lane. And the movie keeps playing with expectations by constantly having us switch up our own theories on what’s actually going on. Is Howard merely a kidnapper? Is he indeed a do-gooder but still a “monster” of sorts? Just when we think he’s lying, we’re given a reason to think there may really be a threat outside. Then we’re given a reason to think he’s lying again, then not, and so forth.
Eventually, it doesn’t matter. The curiosity coupled with discomfort with her companions gives Michelle cause to find out for sure (and we thank her because the suspense is killing us and the sound design and the alarming score by Bear McCreary is keeping us on edge, too). There’s a sense that escape will just be a leap from the frying pan into the fire, though, especially since she started out escaping a lesser kind of trap -- marriage -- only to wind up truly locked away in a very confined domestic situation.
Obviously I’m not going to spoil the details of how the twists and turns play out let alone the truth about the scenario and how it ends. I’ve probably shared too much already, and 10 Cloverfield Lane is the kind of movie that’s best entered cold, knowing as little as possible. Especially because that aligns us with Michelle and her position of always being in the dark as far as what’s going on.
Although not a found-footage movie like Cloverfield, this movie similarly involves obscured perspective. Instead of being limited in what we see and know by a character’s shaky handheld camera, we’re hampered by the movie strictly sticking to Michelle’s minimal point of view and awareness. Director Dan Trachtenberg, who makes his feature debut here, is very resourceful in keeping the storytelling clean and conformed to the rules set by its narrative subjectivity.
Michelle is also very resourceful, a truer representation of survival than the hiding survivalist depicted through Howard’s character. Both parts are played with great contrast to one another by Winstead and Goodman, too. She is neither the trembling nor the outright confident woman we usually find leading movies like this. Winstead plays the part more natural than extreme. As a result, Michelle regularly comes off as more confounded and amazed than scared.
And Goodman’s performance as the creepy but well-intentioned doomsday prepper is so brilliant, even if sometimes cartoonishly over the top, that we’re never sure what he’s all about and whether he should be trusted. Goodman is a remarkable actor who has shined mostly in supporting roles over the last three decades, and while this isn’t necessarily his best work in years it’s definitely the greatest showcase of the extent of his talent in a long time. Way too long.
At its best, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a tight, well-acted single-location film play with thrilling drama, a good deal of action considering the limited setting and a number of surprises. But it does go for more in the end with a third act that delivers a major shift in space and tone, and that won’t be a satisfying direction for everyone. Regardless, it’s still all handled in a manner that’s efficient and necessary. If 10 Cloverfield Lane is to be considered a sequel, it’s one that’s even better than the original.
The Top 7
The top seven contestants in "Asia's Next Top Model" face a difficult challenge in the latest instalment of the reality TV series. In Cycle 4 episode 7, the models take part in a photo shoot with Filipino actor Tom Rodriguez.
The upcoming challenge in episode 7 involves posing with the actor for a toothpaste ad. While this looks seemingly easy, it proves to be quite challenging because the contestants are star struck. Furthermore, not everyone's comfortable with a close-up shot.
That being said, the only model who shines in this challenge is Julian from Philippines. She shares great chemistry with the actor and is even commended by the judges. One judge says: "You're smile is breathtaking."
Fans of the show will remember that Julian didn't have as great a start as some of the others in the completion. However, she seems to be steadily rising up the ranks. In episode 6, she was commended for her poise during the Zalora photo shoot.
Another contestant who looks striking in the picture with Tom is Tawan. Her cheerful and bubbly smile is captivating for sure and perhaps the judges will take note of it.
We wonder how Sang In from Korea will perform in episode 7. The contestant seems to be on a winning streak, but if she does fail to impress the judges, she has some stiff competition ahead.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Congrats Sang In from Korea for YOUR 2nd Best Photo (AsNTM)
I have a very strong feeling she is going to win.
Lindsay Lohan Wears Insane Tassel Jumpsuit, Mystery Ring No. 2 While Partying With Both Parents at Duran Duran Show
Internet speculating once again. At this point, it seems like there’s only one thing we know for sure: Lindsay certainly knows how to get a crowd talking.
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