iPhone Lomo App

I thought the pictures turned out pretty well, except the last when I told myself I'll take another one without my shadow on the way back.

All in all the Lomo pictures turn out better on objects than people. Also, because it's a lowly iPhone 3G camera, ambient lighting in important to photo quality. I think this applies to all Lomos without flash.

Food Review: Professor Brawn Cafe

Ordered 2 set dinners, which includes a house drink (orange or lemon juice) as well as a soup of the day. You don’t have to top up for a set dinner, how it works is by choosing whatever main course that is preselected. Think they had 4 or 5 choices for the set. We ordered the sausage with rosti and the vongole pasta.

Soup wasn't too bad, a bit thin, but otherwise homemade and not any way reminiscent of canned Campbell's.

There are 6 different sausages to choose from, tried the english pork bratwurst which is this long sausage with herbs. In my opinion the portion is quite small, if you’re a small eater it should be suffice, if not fill your tummies with dessert. Somehow the rosti was okay only, the potato strips were too thin in my opinion. There wasn’t enough bite or crisp like you’ll expect in rosti, despite it being nicely browned. I think the sausage was okay, not so much of a herb in sausage fan so can’t really comment effectively.

I had the Vongole, the pasta was nicely cooked but very normal otherwise. Too little salt was added, which is odd for a vongole since it’s easy to make use of the natural salt in the clams. Bit into some loose small bits of shell which was an awful feeling.

Also shared an Oreo cheesecake, topped up $3 to get it, underbaked crust and wholly was forgettable. The pasta was $14 I think and rosti sausage $13?

I think the house juices were probably the plus points of this cafe. A bit too thick but one can just add ice water to dilute it to the desire consistency.

As for service, one waitress stood out. Young girl, long hair and the only one who served us throughout. There was another Phillipino waitress that wasn’t friendly, oddly so since most Singapore service staff with good service are mostly foreigners and those from Phillipines don’t seem to disappoint. She basically came over abruptly, pointed to the menu and announced the set dinner. Prior to that we were already served and had water on the table.

I think next time if I meet really horrible service staff I should tell it to their face. Probably say it as nicely and politely as I possibly. I mean if I’m serving so horribly, either I have absolutely low self-awareness or I just don’t care. I don’t think people just don’t care though, there’s always some meaning behind it, a reason. Yes, no?

I’ll rate Prof Brawn’s Cafe as a 2.5 out of a 5.

Earphones tt can swim with...

Quite self-explanatory, thought this was quite cool. Imagine kicking back in the pool, just floating on your back and looking at the blue blue sky, amidst listening to Bossa Nova/ Jazz tracks (think Agua De Beber, Girl from Ipanema, etc). Or you're doing a freestyle, with Rock music to get the adrenaline flowing.

I found this on the US Apple Store, they usually send me promos and stuff in the mail, so I check it out from time to time. They probably have it in the Sg store as well, except more expensive after conversion. I don't understand why though, I checked the HK Apple store as well, and it was still a few bucks cheaper than Sg.