Cavalock and The Total Catch Up Post

This last couple weeks is all about catching up as I finally got to watch my very first (and second) IMAX movie! Yah, I know I'm probably the last person on this damn planet to step into an IMAX theatre but there you go. Enjoyed the experience immensely and am glad that the first two IMAX movies I watched were both Marvel and DC comic book movies. Fingers crossed, Last Jedi will be next on the list.

Speaking of being-late-for-the-party, the Baker at Home and I also finally made our way to Gorgon Ramsey's Bread Street Kitchen restaurant at MBS for dinner. As expected the fish and chips came up tops and maybe next time we'll go for the English breakfast.

And for ze coup de maitre, just last week we became an official Netflix household! Done with Stranger Things 2 (I have that copy of D&D Monster Manual on my shelf right now!) and now on a binge watching streak with Brooklyn Nine-Nine (middle of season 2 as I'm typing this!). One serious question, does anyone know if the shows we get here are censored by the authorities? I know the ones on cable are heavily sniped so I'm wondering if the ones on Netflix are too.

* Gorgons are real!

Cavalock and The Creepy Santa Encounter

This is something I have yet to see in my neighbourhood FairPrice supermarket. My go-to favourite on any Korean BBQ menu, Ox Tougue! Well, I seriously hope that's a typo for 'tongue' on the packaging and not a part of an ox that I have never heard of. May be a wee bit pricy for some folks but it's so good! Grills in seconds and always so tender. Friends with indoor or outdoor grills should really get these from Meidi-Ya supermarket.

Something else I just noticed is our local Starbucks selling little tubs of puddings. Saw them while in Japan but this is the first time I'm seeing them here. Maybe it's a seasonal thing or they have been around for ages and I have only just noticed them since I hardly venture into Starbucks anymore. They got chocolate and milk flavours. The milk pudding is pretty good. Although for over S$3, I kinda wish it came in a bigger tub.

And with Christmas round the corner, it's time for a creepy Christmas pix! Yup, that's me with Creepy Santa.

Cavalock and The Rubber Stamp Seizure

So much food to consume before those expiry dates hit us! We have been pigging out on the Japanese snacks and fresh food that the Baker-at-Home brought back from her Japan vacation earlier this month. Breakfast is two slices of bread with some amazing Japanese apple butter jam while afternoon tea at home is either a cheesy snack from Pablo or one of the other numerous biscuits or tarts.

Also glad that she and her friends managed to enjoy a unagi lunch at a Michelin Star restaurant. Yup, the ever popular Unagi Hirokawa in Osaka is still blessed with the same looooong queue as when we were there last year. Think they queued for an hour and a half but it was definitely worth it for them.

Since early this year, I have been collecting stamps. No, not the postage kind that millennials today have no idea what I'm talking about, but the fancy rubber ones with ink pads. The Japanese stamps have always been my favourite and lately this one I picked from Tokyu Hands in Tokyo earlier this year has been pretty active in my journals.

Cavalock and The Lost Week of Miniature Gaming

Nope, I wasn't back in Japan again but the Baker-At-Home was in Osaka and Kyoto with her friends last week. Her third Japan vacation this year but hey, who's counting? She had the luxury of savouring this season's Haagen-Dazs flavours. Clockwise, that's Annou Imo (sweet potato), Sweet Strawberry, Salty Butter Biscuit and Hojicha Latte. Gotta remember to ask which was her favourite.

So the plan for my home alone week was to ... err, never mind ... it doesn't really matter what the original plan was, I ended up mostly tidying up the tiny apartment and playing more a couple games of miniature wargaming.

Played the new Games Workshop game Shadesphire, Age of Sigmar Skirmish and then an epic 2-hour plus Age of Sigmar pitched battle. I believe that's the most miniature wargaming I have ever played in a week. Certainly a joy to finally field my freshly painted figures and seeing them marching across the table. I still have so many more miniatures to paint. Unfortunately all this painting has taken me away from my writing and ... well, them words ain't gonna write themselves.

Heh, that little voice in my head whenever I look at my ever growing collection of games, books, Lego, books, miniatures and books.

Cavalock and The Pitta Photo Shootout

So I was reading some them local food blogs and I noticed a spate of write-ups bout a new lobster roll joint. Apparently there was a media invite and everyone online now is gushing bout their $58 lobster rolls and I was like, SERIOUSLY?!? I looked at the photos and really didn't think much bout the roll. Especially when I just had lunch at Luke's at Gemmill Lane couple weeks back. Wasn't my first time there and far as I'm concerned, this is the only lobster roll in town that I trust.

Big tasty chunks of lobster meat drizzled with house-made aioli in a soft delicious bun, New England style. And it's all in a pretty swanky joint for only $48. Great sides and attentive service for lunch at less than $50.

So my 84-year-old Dad spent two mornings at Hougang from 7.30am onwards till almost noon and came back with a buncha shots of this single blue-winged pitta.