Object of desire

I never thought I'd say this, but when this phone - the Sony Ericsson K610i - makes its debut here in Quarter 2, I think I'd love to get my hands on its sexy and passionate Evening Red body. Never mind that design-wise, there's hardly any innovation and it looks like almost every other SE phone on the market. And who cares either that it is a 3G phone that sports the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), supposedly the successor to the current Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)? As for the 2-megapixel camera, please, that's hardly a necessity for me.

But the gorgeous scarlet? Now we're talking! But darn, it's such a sexy 3G phone that it will probably cost upwards of $800 even after I extend my contract and trade in my pathetic SE K700i. In the meantime, off I go to techie sites to monitor reviews of this beautiful thing. Who knows, I may just read something that will wean me off my puzzling fascination with it, considering that I've never really been one to hanker after gadgets and plonk down obscene sums on them prior to this. Well, there's always a first for everything I guess.

Ice queen

I can't believe I'm so addicted to the ice-cream at Island Creamery that I went there again on Friday, just after I was there on Thursday. Brain freeze notwithstanding, this time, I had the pineapple tart ice-cream again, as well as the pulut hitam. And it was just as wonderful; full of genuine black glutinous rice, and it tasted like an ice-cold bowl of burbur hitam just nicely sweetened with coconut milk, yummmzzzz. GHZ and the boyfriend shared a triple scoop of chendol (bleah, not fantastic), kualat latte (not bad, rather rich flavour) and the reverso (some chocolate flavour). Very satisfying, never fails to disappoint.

Shall go back this coming week again to savour the pineapple tart and pulut hitam flavours before they go into cold storage. Gawd, I'd better prepare myself to start pounding the pavements again, and it's gonna be so hard since I slacked off running since Christmas week.

Pineapple tart

Did I mention that pineapple tarts are my favourite CNY goodies? It's one item that I must try at everyone's house when I go visiting, and so far this year, I haven't eaten any that beats those made by my colleague's mum. But fret not, because if you can't get fantastic pineapple tarts, you can still get freaking fabulous Pineapple Tart ice-cream.

That's right, pineapple tart ice-cream. At Serene Centre's Island Creamery, that temple of truly unique ice-cream flavours such as Teh Tarik, Tiger Beer Sorbet, and more recently, Pineapple Tart. Embedded in the aforementioned like nuggets of gold and assorted treasure, were chunks of buttery pastry and genuine pineapple, not ethyl butanoate-enhanced gelatin slabs. Oh, it was simply orgasmic...don't wait, go get your scoops or tubs now!

Island Creamery is at: 10 Jalan Serene, Serene Centre, #01-05, tel: 6468-8859. A pity I ate up my double scoop before I remembered to take a shot of it.