Sushi Jin

Starting my food blog again and realised I have many draft posts from more than a year ago! So I shall get around to publishing them.

Zg and I joined Stef and King for lunch on a grey Saturday afternoon. Circled around to find parking because Sushi Jin's address seemed to suggest that it was housed in Farrer Park Hospital, and we were not sure whether that was really the case. After some deliberation (which involved calling Stef and asking the security guard), we were finally parked and settled for our lunch.

Ordered the truffle chawanmushi which was so delicious and full of ingredients!

Their set lunch was served with appetiser, soup and dessert. I chose Kaisen Don ($45). The price tag might be a little hefty, but woah it was definitely worth it. The sashimi in my Kaisen Don was so sweet and fresh. It came with two crab claws too!

Dessert was custard in mochi.

I would suggest you make a reservation if you are visiting Sushi Jin for lunch on a weekend. We were glad we did when we arrived to find the restaurant almost full. The place was quiet even though every table was filled, so it was still easy to chat and relax over lunch.

1 Farrer Park Station road, Owen Link, #01-11 Singapiore 217562

64433378

Monday to Sunday 12 to 230pm, 630 to 1030 pm

Turtles all the way down

"One of the challenges with pain - physical or psychic - is that we can only approach it through metaphor. It can't be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways, pain is the opposite of language. And we are such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracize and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with. Nor do either of those terms connote the courage people in such pains exemplify."

As usual, John Green is right. How does one describe pain? I had a recent encounter when I was asked to describe pain based on a numerical chart and, through the haze of pain, my brain can actually form a coherent thought, "This is bull." How would one know whether the intense pain should be a 5 or a 8? How would one know whether there could be a pain that can be worse because, at this very moment, the pain is so severe that it feels like the world is closing in on you? 

In a way, pain defies a fundamental belief that I hold close to heart. I have always believed that I can make something work through sheer hard work. It doesn't matter that things are shitty now, I can fix it if I work hard enough. But pain defies that. You cannot work hard to make the pain go away. You cannot work hard to not be ill anymore.

As usual, John Green makes me emo. Thank god I am an eternal optimist. 

那些你很冒险的梦

那些你很冒险的梦，我陪你去疯。

好想唱K。 好想在这天冷的夜吃冰淇淋。好想跑可又累的不行。

好想远走高飞，可为什么还是原地踏步？

太多天没睡，脑子坏了。

真心

想在咖啡厅里喝杯咖啡，读本书，与世无争。

原来一尘不染的真心在这世界上是多么难能可贵。

也该睡了吧

雨下的夜，看着那朦胧的弯月，好冷。

一着不慎，满盘皆输

不甘，真不甘。用这么多年换来的，要拱手让给一个不正直的恶霸。虽要走，可没想过这些年的心血将会如此。我曾想过，给谁都可以，就唯独不是他。

那可怜的两个，以后就是被他吃定过日子了。

彩屏啊，无能就是如此，不能保护自己，也不能保护你心疼的晚辈。

不甘，真不甘。

爱要怎么说出口

那天唱K听到Su唱这首歌，真的好喜欢。听了有种莫名的感动。

爱要怎么说出口？就大声地说啊。唯恐天下不知，大声嚷嚷。为什么要收在心里？

人啊，一辈子能活个几十年？能遇到一个你爱又爱你的人，就勇敢去爱。不明白为什么要躲躲闪闪。

敢爱敢恨。这是我的宗旨。