Food! Food! Food!

Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel

Calm is all nature as a resting wheel.
The kine are couched upon the dewy grass;
The horse alone, seen dimly as I pass,
Is cropping audibly his later meal:
Dark is the ground; a slumber seems to steal
O'er vale, and mountain, and the starless sky.
Now, in this blank of things, a harmony,
Home-felt, and home-created, comes to heal
That grief for which the senses still supply
Fresh food; for only then, when memory
Is hushed, am I at rest.
My Friends! restrain
Those busy cares that would allay my pain;
Oh! leave me to myself, nor let me feel
The officious touch that makes me droop again.

~ William Wordsworth

Yours truly really hate to degenerate into food blogging. But really, I just had the most satisfying meal in ages at Café de Amigo. Of course, the end of my exams probably had a lot to do it with. But trust me, nothing beats good food, indulgence and great company after a sucky bleak doomed to flunk paper. *grimace*

Ok. Let’s skip the depressing topic and back to the food.

Starters
*Candid - escargots and baked oyster.
Yours truly - deep fried cheese. (OMG! 3 types of cheese. Indescribable)

Soup
*Candid - onion soup.
Yours truly - cream of potato
(Ok. This course was pretty average. Not the best soup that I had. *shrug* But it was acceptable. PS: Yours truly just mastered the art of cooking the perfect thick & creamy soup using Campbell in her bid to find excuses not to study for her taxation exam.)

Main Course
*Candid – Lamb
Yours truly – Rib Eye Steak
(Good, tender & succulent. Need I say more? Although according to *Candid, nothing beats the moist and tender lamb at Esmirada, Chijmes)

Dessert
Tiramisu
(Again, a very acceptable dessert. Not too bad texture and just a dash of rum. But according to *snappish & *eccentric, the best tiramisu in town is at this Italian restaurant (?), Great World City.)

Nice cosy atmosphere even though they won’t allow you in without a reservation. Quite popular. Two big units shop front and a wine place to boot with free corkage. Damn, wished I brought a bottle of my fav german wine. *sigh*. The owner speaks with a really slangish English accent, sounds American-ish but he speaks with his wife & staff in fluent Cantonese. Yours truly suspect they are probably from Hong Kong. Today, being a Friday night, entail slow service and long waiting. But hey, at least the food is worth it. The customers are largely older people, more like my grandparents’ age but obviously from comfortably wealthy educated family. Their manner made it seem like “we dropped by a neighbourhood place for dinner”. Did I mention we were in the middle of town area aka Orchard? *archly*

Anyway, food/restaurant gushing aside. The sucky sucky exams are finally over. Trust me, I never had such a dreary time as the past week, despite not having to go to work, I couldn’t even enjoy my leave because of the depressing need to study. There is really nothing as excruciatingly boring as TAX. I think I would rather go back to Varsity and do almost any other Political Science or Philosophy module in comparison.

The tragic news is, when results are out and I flunk, I have to go through Tax all over again! Dear Evilness, help!

On other news, when I returned to my office today, OMG, I can’t see my desktop. It is that covered with work. *whistles* And I don’t even have a really huge active portofolio. What has everyone been doing while I was gone? *laconically*

Also, yours truly went shopping after my exam & bought 2 new tops (retail therapy, you know). ^_^

So all in all, a nice ending to a sucky morning of exam. Yikes.

Right, whining over. Back to cold hearted bitch wannabe.

Over and out.