Crabs. Bagels and Steps

Chili crab

Went for the Tiger Beer chili crab festival at Old Truman Brewery last Sunday and went away rather disappointed. The crabs were not fresh and the sauce was too watery. Nothing like the rich, hot and thick chili crab sauce that we are used to. The Laksa was a greater disappointment because they made the soup so diluted that I could hardly taste anything. Ever tasted bland Laksa??

Brick Lane Bagel Shop

Well, apart from the food bummer, I quite enjoy walking through the brick lane street market and also the bagel shop that ‘hao nan ren’ Clement brought us to. There are two bagel shops there and the white one is supposedly better than the yellow fronted one. I had the smoked salmon with sour cream bagel and it was cheap and good. Highly recommended!! =P

Transverse time

The library gate was locked before 11pm yesterday and lots of students had to make a detour like myself. When we finally got to the other end of college one of the girls met her boyfriend and he commented that it took her 4 mins to walk there. I was curious about the length of time it actually takes to transverse the college hence I counted the number of steps to walk from one end of the NHM to the other. It took me 464 steps, which works out to be about 4 minutes if I had taken 2 steps every second. No wonder I’m always late when meeting YS. Haha.

Then this morning I went insane and counted the number of steps I take to walk to college, door-to-door. It was around 2400 steps. Ha! Kind of regretted counting because psychologically it got more draining as I got closer to my destination. That should teach me a lesson to only remind myself of the ‘remaining time’ instead of ‘elapsed time’ if I ever run a marathon!