Artistic Night Out

Went out with a few colleagues last Friday for dinner at Esplanade coz Sha was craving for Japanese food. We decided upon the Japanese restaurant, Ichiban, where they served pretty nice food...except a little pricey.

Take a look at this...


and this...


U might be thinking that the dishes look plain, right??? Haha...take one more closer look at the 2 dishes...and see if u can make out wat they are...


They are actually LEFTOVERS!!! Which I have take it upon myself to arrange and make them look like actual food good enuff to serve...LOL!!!

How did it come abt? Well, we had this big bowl of ice which they had used to serve sashimi and after we had finished our food, we were talking abt the possibility of the restaurant re-using this bowl of ice. I din quite like the idea and decided to "break the ice" and make it non-recycleable. So, I was hacking into the ice with my chopsticks and soon Helen was joining in. Haha...I remember the looks we got from the patrons on the next table...boy we had a good laugh then! Wats more amazing is that I managed to design 2 dishes from the ice and leftovers and they look so good that I asked Kah Wai to take pics...hehe...such an artistic creation in an artistic environment such as the Esplanade.

After dinner, we decided to take a walk to digest the food. We went up to the rooftop for a look around the place. And we noted this piece of art hang across the rooftop - 4 rows of fabric blowing in the wind. Isnt it pretty?


The 4 of us then gave our own interpretation of the art, and as u know, different pple see art in different ways.

Kah Wai - "Ah, wats the name of the Japanese fish?...Oh yah, Koi...tat look like Koi fishes swimming ard..." (for your info, those fabrics are mostly redish and orangy in colour)

Sha - "I thought it looks more like waves, can even imagine the sound of waves"

Helen - "They look like kites to me, they are so colourful"

Me - "Hmm...no lah, they are laundry being put out to dry..." (followed by loud laughters from all 4 of us ^^ )

After the 2 bolts of creative and artistic moments, we decided to do something more natural to youngsters then deciphering Arts...KARAOKE!!! We have a born singer in our group...HELEN!!! U should hear her powerful voice...lovely...definitely the best singer among ALL my frens (Frens, dun be jealous k...I am speaking the truth here).

Our artistic night out ended with the Karaoke, which though isnt an artistic program, still did wonders to kick start a weekend. :)