Oceanshaft

During the week I got a voice message on my handphone - turned out my Japanese friend S.M. was in Singapore and was leaving on Saturday. So we met up on Friday night for dinner at an Okinawan restaurant which was his recommendation. (Apparently he had been there on previous trips to Singapore.) Nice ambience, really down-to-earth Japanese izakaya called Nirai Kanai at Tanglin Shopping Centre. Prices for the food are reasonable, although drinks are expensive. Anyway, we had souki soba, rafutei, goya chanpuru and one of my favourite tsumamis: tako-wasa. Hmm, Travelling Hungryboy (one of the food blogs I read) has a post about the place too.

We adjourned to Starbucks after that. It was a good time with S.M. and his friends. Anyway, another Japanese friend is coming to Singapore soon.

Watched the Transformers movie today. Cool effects. Great action. Wished they gave the other robots besides Bumblebee and Optimus more screen-time though. I mean, you didn't really get any feel of Megatron being evil, you know? And the preachy soliloquising by Optimus Prime at the end was quite corny, but then, he really did speak like that in the cartoons, so.