Cast Iron Grill Pan and the German made Silit

Yup i am back to that kitchenware megastore in Bukit Timah today and i bought the Cast Iron grill pan that i have been eyeing for weeks. The thing about Cast Iron stuff is that if properly maintained and used, it will last a lifetime or more but most amateurs just have no idea and decide to go with the useless Tefal non stick pan or some junk korean fancy pans which is nothing more than Junk and the food that comes out of those stuff are just like the same low quality cunts that is everywhere.

You need the right equipment to match the right skill. I decided to get serious about my grill and finally i am converting to some professional kitchenware. Of course a piece here and there is affordable for most people but a full set is what set the amateur apart from the pros.

My full set will be coming as soon as i move to a new Kitchen... Haha

so $139 for the Ceramic Pan and $166 for the grill pan.

Lets get cooking

Today i went to an upmarket kitchen equipment place in bukit timah. Well, actually GT bought me there since i mention about doing some upgrade on my cookware last week. well, the place was polished and well lit for you to see the professional price that goes with the professional equipment. Anyway i got these 2 nice wares after an hour of shopping and deciding. But the biggest surprise came in the end, she actually paid for it! Not exactly a romantic gift lol but the gesture is loving enough.

Next stop is either a Staub or Le Creuset cast iron

Pasarbella Nachos is worth the $14

Went with my belle to the Pasarbella hipster food enclave just now and i must say the Nachos is one of the best i have taken in Singapore. Singapore restaurants to be honest serves lazy nachos from ready commercial supplied ingredients and thus the lackluster taste. 

This traditional nachos served with homemade dips and fresh pork strips are really tasty and full of volume in the sensory department. The flavours are light and fresh, the crunch is just right and the pork strips add a flavour of savoury to the whole snack food concept. And of course getting your pretty lady to feed you make it taste even better!

Updates on the smaller community tank

Been a while since i updated details of my tank. Anyway this si a 100L community tank populated with mainly loaches and the population is 28. Water changes are every 3 months, Media refreshing is every 1 year, and mechanical filter maintenance is every 90 days.

The biological, chemical and mechanical filtration are in perfect balance to achieve this kind of time frame. main products used are Marinepure, Biohomme and Eheim.

Thank you to an AQ member email for the update request. Pictures are taken today

My favourite bar

Come on people, i increased my muscle by 8% by manipulating protein and amino acids. it better than gluten and carbs.

Use these bar if you dun have a shaker and cold water on the go.

Finally a useful steering lock

For $118, you get a lock that boast 16 combinations compare to the normal 4 in terms of key manufacturing. Hardened steel wrap in genuine leather and a design that make perfect sense. basically, this steering wheel lock deter opportunistic car theft. the horn even sound when people temper with it.

go get it guys. its at autobac and i heard the current stock which i bought from was an re order, having sold out months before.

Garmin Forerunner 225 wrist heartbeat monitor- $380+

I know for a long time i have a slow heartbeat and recently someone told me that i actually have very constant body temperature. The thing about slow heartbeat, in a way give you certain advantages depending on what you do. For one, someone who pound fast and heavy should not aspire to be a professional poker player. Faster heartbeat also affect your decision making process and how you assess situation. Mohammed Ali have an extremely slow heartbeat and the guy in his prime never ever crack under pressure. i have seen countless videos of his fight and he is indeed a true master. Although in today MMA fast and furious world, technique reign supreme because you got nowhere to hide and rules of not using legs doesn't protect you anymore.

For me, i never have the problem of cracking under pressure but as you ages, this ability will slowly fade i am sure but i am more interested in pushing my cardio limit on power lifting and see how much weight wi push my heartbeat to the red zone. this would enable a mathematical estimation of power lifting potential and with the right tweaking of chemical you can know your peak performance. the rest is just choice.

Being able to plot you blood O2 levels, heartbeat and the rhythm and velocity of it is all part of understanding your limit. SAS elite program gather such data and is able estimate which trainee will crack first under pressure and the belief that determination and attitude conquer all is pure bullshit in the face of science. Some people are just genetically superior, which is why we don't see olympic athletes everywhere. Neither do all wannabes end up as an SAS soldier.

Science also determine your ability to make an obscene profit or live a life of mediocrity. One mentor once told me if you do not figure what you are made of then "trying is the first step to failure"

So next time when someone pat you on the back and tell you you can do it, remember science already determine whether you can. the rest is just choice.

well, that was a good rant and remember i am refraining from putting anyone down unlike my previous posts so please don't get offended if you are trying and not making it.

Don't kill your love one with Nutella

Admit it fucktards! you probably think that nutella is just a harmless chocolate spread made out of hazelnut. Like me, you probably gorges on it when you are a kid. Firstly, a bit of history about Nutella, it is nickname the poor man chocolate when it was first invented. Especially during the world war where soldiers traded whores for chocolates, cheaper whores would do it for nutella anyway. It was no doubt an ingenious way to satisfy the general population craving for chocolate.

But the thing about Nutella is...it is pure evil. Nothing more than murder in a jar. it is processed with Sugar, Palm Oil, a little hazel nut, even lesser cocoa solids and some other usual food chemicals. Just in case you have no idea what palm oil is, it is pure saturated fat grown from trees in south east asia and south america. A crop of abundance that is farmed by the most rudimental farmers who burn through 5000 calories cutting them down everyday. who needs a gym membership when you are dirt poor...

Just so you know, Nutella consist of 11% Saturated fat and 58% processed sugar by weight.. and they keep barking hazelnut in the commercial with dumb white kids spreading it on their gluten and having fun until they are diabetic in their teens.

Each serving of 30+g which you spread on a piece of bread have a whopping 200 calories, 11g of fat and 25g of fucking processed sugar.

so why am i writing this, well..... because i bought it! i bought it because they have a great marketing campaign that give you a sticker with pre printed name of your onto the bottle. Very different from the retarded coke campaign which you can print any name as long as you go down like a cheapskate you are to their booth and queue like a loser just so you can print whatever stupid fuck shit you want on a 45c coke can. Worst still, the person receiving the fucking coke, cant drink it because you being a fucktard might be disappointed. Worst gift ever! You know people collecting coke can remind me of the same type of dipshit that collect sand from their travels and displaying it on their cheap ikea cabinet. Who gives a fuck where you been. 

And there no exclusivity for the coke can, there is no limit of any name you can print. The nutella on the other hand, pre printed only a selection of names in limited quantity. So certain popular names are gone in a jiffy and if you have a retarded name like brayden, jayden or elves sounding from lord of the rings, you don't fucking have your sticker! go blame your crap parents for trying to name you like an accessory. 

Anyway I bought it for my love but not because i wanna murder her but i just couldn't resist seeing her name on the classic jar. I wish Nutella offer a godiva version of chocolate spread and they can charge me 20 times the amount.

Buy it before the marketing campaign end but don't eat it. At least share it with people you hate or if you afford the calories. Spread UP!

The Rise of Hipster consumerism- The Singapore Context

First of all, let us define what is a hipster? why did it start, how did it came to Singapore? And most importantly, the hipster and the consumerism associated with it- within the Singapore context.

A hipster is way of life that seek genuinity, hates conformity, a sort of a rebel (Frank 1997) and believes in sustainability with their environment (nature and people). Sounds a bit like the pot smoking hippies of the 60s that protest the war, smoke pot and have endless sex.

I wouldn't say the hipster culture started but evolved is the word. it is an inevitable part of sociology where certain people are just different. we know communism does not work and absolute laissez-faire doesn't fare much better.

Hipsterism came to Singapore as an inevitable side effect of a well travelled populace coupled with cushy life expat coming to Singapore. The desire to lead a different life in the most expensive city in the world and to hide from the pressure cooker that is cooking them to the bone. 

Now back to the Singapore hipster. to sum it up, they are nothing more than pampered love child that couldnt take the grinding of a life filled with third party expectations. These are your self confessed hipster wither by admission or by their way of life. The bigger fringe group are the closet hipster that is fully in the grind of the pressure cooker but see hipster consumerism as an escape or a temporary reprieve. this it the group that is financing the hipster movement, providing the platform to breed a new generations of weaklings that in the near future forms the weak link in our society. 

You see hipsters are people who avoid a hard fight, do not understand the reality that certain elements of society need to be sacrificed for the continuation of the greater good, believes in the naivety of equality and most importantly- they are a burden to the state.

A Positive correlation exist between high cost of living, high unhappiness , high GINI index and more hipster establishments. What we see in Singapore is being replicated in cities that have this correlation. HK, KL, Shanghai, Beijing, London, NY, Sydney, Melbourne and so on. The more serious the index, the more establish the hipster consumerism culture is.

How to spot a hipster place?

1. Establish in out of the way places
2. Have large communal seating arrangement (big tables for strangers to sit together)
3. Retro or simple decor populated from cheap IKEA
4. Elements of black snd white color, chalkboard, lightbulb
5. menu with an overwhelming amount of gluten and sugar (the weak love sweet and the gluten is a sponge for the sweet)
6. Pride itself on gourmet coffee
7. young, gay, lesbian and weird staff
8. frequented by the same type of riff raff fucktards (cant tell the staff from the customers apart)
9. A nonsense name that make no sense or simply name after the road they are situated in
10. Almost always owned by unemployed sons and daughters from rich family or a closet gay or lesbian who had a well paying job prior.
11. Fancy sounding menu items which turns out to be simple bullshit (hipster are good at the branding game)
12. Mostly reviewed online by the same gay, lesbian and fucktards bloggers.


Sugar, Gluten and the poor wanabe

Who would have thought that decades of nutritional advancement would be thrown to the stone ages by the hipster. The menu on a hipster are full of sugar and gluten. it is the combination of both that in practical sense alleviates the misery of their existence. The hipsters that refuses to face reality for the failure that they are and the lack of courage to even try. 

Hopeless graduates from our degree mill that cant find work and are from a cattle class background but yet are still able to afford that $5 coffee and $6 waffle. Or the undergrad who like to convince themselves that a bright future awaits them upon graduation and hence study on the communal table in the company of hipster. Not forgetting the hoards of faggots and lesbian with their pink dot friends talking shit. Of course the most important group are still the closet hipster that seek escapism by overpaying for unhealthy feminine food in a god forsaken place.

A movement need to be brought upon in the community to fight the hipster movement. They are like a cancer in our society, turning up weaklings, gays, lesbian and diabetics right under our nose. As we speak, the hipster cafes are all over singapore even in places where people are suppose to survive on community handouts. The weakened generations will erode our country competitiveness and the health cost associated with a hipster diet will bankrupt our healthcare system. 

Sugar tax

For a start, all hipster cafe can start paying a sugar tax or value added tax for their menu items to subsidise the ill effects they bring to our society. While a dictatorial regime could simply shut them down, a socialist place like singapore could only use legal sanctions to turn the hipster away.

I say good riddance to the hipster and their sugar and gluten. and please dont get your weird staff to serve me.

The $90 Titanium key chain

Simple design to solve a century old problem. well i wish the world did away with mechanical keys and instead relies on biometric or digital solutions but the reality is, keys are part of an legacy issue in terms of civilisation upgrades. so i recently chance upon an american on one of my flights and i caught a glimpse of his swiss army knife concept key chain and the first thing i did when i landed was to order a few of this.

For $90 SGD after shipping, you get real titanium as a raw material for your key chain compared to their regular aluminium. its a real steal in my opinion because most stuff just give you titanium color and in actual fact, they are anything but titanium.

sleek, quiet and understated.. this is the key chain for the digital urbanite. are you still making all that noise like a fucktard when you reach for your 50c key chain? time to fooking upgrade!