Tuesday, March 25, 2008

A trip to the mall!

Sunday I decided to go out and walk around for a bit, so I took a cab to one of the nearest malls, Greenbelt. Some of the pictures are sorta blurry, I apologise.

This was at a Japanese restaurant called Haiku, I'd already had some sushi but forgot to take pictures of that. Needless to say the meal was pretty tasty. I'm no good with chopsticks but they're so much fun, I managed to finish the whole bowl of rice using them.

This was dessert, a traditional Filipino concoction known as halo halo. It's got layers of milk, sweet beans, toasted grains, shaved ice, ground sweet rice, fruit preserves, coconut and it's topped with a flavored ice cream called ube, made from a local yam. Actually I understand the recipe varies from place to place so that's exciting.

There's a small but beautiful koi pond near what was once a bird sanctuary in the mall. The bird sanctuary has since been moved, but the mall was built around it and the trees are still there.

See how pretty? It's even more beautiful at night time, unfortunately there's a lot of security all over the place that kinda ruins the mood. To balance out all the beauty, here's a minute of uglification and stoopendipity. I filmed this about 4 hours after arriving and hadn't even had a wink of sleep!

3 comments:

The pixter pod said...

YAAAAAAAAAAAY! a videa' clip! Your fancy camera work made me dizzy though. And once again that food looks tooooo tasty. Luck for me I just finished another egg sandwich so I'm perfectly content. The mall is beautiful too. What kind of shops are in the mall? Is it a similar shopping experience to ours here? Although, much more beautiful...

Shobo said...

Awww, poor Wewicar, I'll twy to be a wittle bit more steady with the camewa next time okay?

Egg sandwiches... yum, you should try egg shakes, just hard boil the egg, toss it in a blender, add some milk and you've got yourself the makings of something special.

The shopping experience seems to be similar, electronics and clothes stores and whatnot, although there are some very, very fancy boutiques in some of the newer areas. The kind that make you wonder whether you're dressed appropriately to enter, or whether the stores are just there to be seen and not fiddled with. The kind of stores where you're nervous about making eye contact with the guard in case he thinks you might have knicked something.

Shof Coker said...

The other videos listed after yours has a guy posting videos of lego men called DJ Shobo... hehe. Oh why dont you get the headset from the malls so we can talk to you this weekend.