the garden slug

photograph © Hansel Tan / hanshoots

Thank you for the lovely photo, Hans. (Yes, it is THE Hansel of “Hansel’s Meatball Pasta” fame and THE same Hansel of “dude in the cow t-shirt” fame.)

We can’t remember how we got to know Hansel now. Well, apparently, it all started with Hansel winning a wagyu burger Haiku contest. To be completely honest, we’d completely forgotten about this if slugphile Bee Kay hadn’t brought it up last week. Bee Kay, apparently, was rather surprised Hansel could write Haiku, much less win a Haiku contest “coz he’s so not the wordsmith sort”. (Note to Bee Kay: Hansel can has hidden talentz, hokay!) Hurhur.

Anyhoo. Before you begin to suspect this post really isn’t going anywhere. You’re right, it isn’t supposed to be about Hansel but we thought we’d give some airtime to the man who consistently orders a meatball pasta . every . single . time . he comes by.

>> Back to regular programming >>

You may or may not know, after much blackmail over Twitter, we’ve finally made pancakes a permanent menu item. You can find it under “All Day Breakfasts” and yez, it iz availablez all-day-long coz generally that’s what All Day meanz. Who’s to say you can’t have pancakes at 2.56pm, right? Right. If anyone judges you, you tell us, we go beat them up.

Where was I? *looks at post title for clues*

Pancakes! We have a different pancake flavour every week. So far we’ve had Nian Gao (Sticky Cake), Pearncakes (Pear Pancakes, geddit? Geddit?) and Azuki Bean.

This week Joseph Slug (a.k.a. Pancakemeister) brings us… HoHoHoHorlicks Pancakes!

Available in two options:
• DINOSAUR ~ HoHoHorlicks Pancakes + more Horlicks on top
• GODZILLA ~ HoHoHorlicks Pancakes + scoop of Vanilla Gelato + more Horlicks on top

Some good ol’ old skool Ho Ho Ho-ing for the coming week (also for the benefit of those who may not know where all this Ho Ho Ho-ing is coming from…)

And by Pros we mean Professionals. But you knew that.

Hansel Tan (yep, the dude pictured above with a cow on his t-shirt) is a veteran tutor, self-taught photography enthusiast & fellow slugphile. If you bump into him here at TGS (or anywhere for that matter), just say “Hi” and ask about photography stuff hokay? — [[don't say "Hey aren't you that dude in the cow t-shirt?"]]

Anyway. He will most happily discuss bodies & lenses with you over a meatball pasta. <– We’ve named the pasta after him. True story.

But there’s only so much photography knowledge one can impart over a meatball pasta, right? Right.

So. If you have a dSLR & have always wondered what those fiddly buttons & settings are for — Hansel is conducting two runs of “Shooting like the Pros – basics of dSLR photography” right here at The Garden Slug.

Hansel takes a systematic, perhaps almost scientific, approach in learning the fundamentals of photography.

Classes will be over 4 hours (2 hours weekday + 2 hours weekend) and there will be 2 runs of the class.

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Shooting Like the Pros! – Basics of dSLR Photography
Venue: The Garden Slug
Dates:
• Run 4 — 31 May (Mon) 7-9pm | 05 June (Sat) 3-5pm Full.
• Run 5 — 12 July (Mon) 7-9pm | 17 July (Sat) 3-5pm Full.
• Run 6 — 16 August (Mon) 7-9pm | 21 August (Sat) 3-5pm

Cost: $90 per run
Light refreshments provided by TGS.

Registration: E-mail hanshoots@yahoo.com to sign up (please indicate Run 6)

For further enquiries, contact Hansel directly via e-mail, mobile 96166629, Twitter and/or Flickr.

Update: Classes are full. Thank you very much for signing up.

Yup, just like that, no catch. (We’re not the catchy type of ppl anyway, for as long as you’ve known us, right?)

Just another fun-fun event for our slugphiles, brought to you by yours truly. We’ve engaged veteran tutor, self-taught photography enthusiast & fellow slugphile Hansel Tan to conduct the classes. Come learn how to shoot photos like these:

(source)

There will be none of that frou-frou “O, it’s all about having the EYE for it” kind of talk. Hansel takes a systematic, perhaps almost scientific, approach in learning the fundamentals of photography.

Classes will be over 4 hours (2hrs weekday + 2hrs weekend) and there will be 2 runs of the class.

Shooting Like the Pros! – Fundamentals of dSLR Photography
Venue: The Garden Slug
Dates:
• Run 1 — 15 Mar 7-9pm | 20 Mar 3-5pm Full.
• Run 2 — 22 Mar 7-9pm | 27 Mar 3-5pm Full.
Cost: FOC
Light refreshments provided.

This is what you can expect to gain from the class:

Each run/class size will be a maximum of 12pax while seats last.
Sign up by e-mailing us at justask@thegardenslug.com, quicksmart!

… are you a Little Birthday Slug?

Come celebrate your birthday with us, we’ll give you a Little Slug t-shirt. Our little gift to you

It’s made of 100% fully-combed cotton. Which means it’s cooling & won’t make you itchy.

We’ve made these in many, many sizes. There will be one to fit you just nice..
whether you are tall, or small

Wear it the ‘normal’ way like Cynthia. Or wear it back-to-front like Edwin… “because I want to show you the words without turning my back to you.”

Gratuitous Disclaimer:
Little Slug Tees are only for children aged 12 and below, who celebrate their birthdays at The Garden Slug.

Last night at The Garden Slug… Shaun slug walks into the kitchen with a box of Krispy Kreme donuts.  Seeing the familiar polka-dotted box, Joe and Sophia let out a collective 100 decibel , ” WAHHHHHHHHH!!! ” In response to that, Shaun said, ” Nicholina left this for Sharon, I’ll keep it in the chiller for her..”  Joe and Sophia then let out a collective sigh, ” Ohhhhhhhhhh…” But we’re meeting Sharon Slug this afternoon to do the R&D for the new Hearty Pineapple Tarts..  Hehe, will convince Sharon Slug to share her donut stash. :-0  Thank You Nicholina for lugging these precious babies all the way from K.L. !

Gosh, this blog post is oh-so-belated….  Remember our Xmas Kits 2009? ( I know, I know..that was sooo last year.. haha) The kitchen slugs were working close to 20 hours per day watching Turkey TV and stirring stew pots…So, imagine how touched we were when 4 slug fans friends actually came with gifts of love to thank us for our effort. We’re truly floored!

First, Nicholinabrought her dad’s famous roast pork! And gave us Royce Champagne chocolates on Boxing Day… She obviously found our weak spot(s)!

And then, Yvonne came with MANY Xmas stockings of Yuletide sweets [thanks for the pics, Kenny!]

As if that isn”t enough big love, Good ol’ Nicholas and Clare came to cook us Wagyu steaks for dinner!!! Those steaks were delish! I’m sure Sharon slug will second that opinion. Sorry Nick & Clare, that I was running all over the store with steak in my mouth.. Haha.. :-0

Thank You everybody for making us feel like we have made a teeny tiny difference to your holidays. You sure did make a difference to OURS ! May 2010 be a fabulous year for everybody

100% fully-combed cotton

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These T-shirts for the younglings run from size 24 ( 1-3 yrs old) to size 32 ( 10 yrs old)

It’s our Lil” gift for the Lil” slugs who celebrate their birthdays with us
Email justask@thegardenslug.com for more details.   We have them in very limited quantities only, so chop chop karli-pok!

Meet Flapper! Our favourite Beach Boy! ( The dog, not the kid,silly!) He’s the latest poster star for a new series of ads from AVA.

We suggested to a good friend that Flapper will be the perfect canine star for her AVA campaign and gosh, Flapper actually aced the audition and got the job!   3 woofs for a job well done ~

This is the Flapper that we are more familiar with…. Sweet eyes and goofy smile= irresistable ! The little guy on Flapper’s left  is Dumbo So, Corrine if you are reading this, ( Corrine is Flapper’s owner and best friend) we will volunteer to be Flapper’s talent manager ok?

Our good friend Aiwei has started her own little business crafting  funky personalized collars for our furry friends

Check out her cool stuff out at :  http://pawglam.blogspot.com/

Let’s give our support to a fellow young business entrepeuner !