Frozen Delights!

After yesterday's Engineering Math lecture, a few of us (Eric, Keith, Avery, Laura, Kwang Yang and I) lurked outside the library. Didn't feel like chatting inside the library like what we usually do, because we didn't feel especially keen to have the librarians hissing SSSSHHHH!! into my ears and out of my nostrils every 15 seconds or so. Felt like talking there and then, and for that, the library just wouldn't cut it.

Anyways, after about half an hour's worth of the usual casual bullshit, we decided to go somewhere for ice-cream. Guess where we decided on?

IGLOOL!!

Yeap... There's an extra 'L' at the back of the name. Explanation for this at the bottom of this post.

For those who's got no idea why I am suddenly talking about Eskimo houses, IglooL is an ice cream parlour that not-so-recently opened at Queen's Court (opposite Swinburne). It has been open for one or two months now, but this is the first time I visit the place although it is within walking distance from Swinburne.

4D Alert! Skip this paragraph if not interested: Laura actually followed us to IglooL on that day. Usually, she would say stuff like, "I takut my mum see me..." and that she's not going to take any risks. But surprisingly, she tagged along on that day. 4D lovers, it was 21 May 2007. Winning numbers are probably 2105 or something like that. Go figure. =P

Barging through the double glass doors, we charged for the raised *special* area on the far end of the shop. No footwear is allowed in that special *coughKidsCornercough* area, so we were quick to take off our shoes and aromate the air with the sweet stench of our dried squids stockings.

Being the kids that we are, there was a mini scramble for seats. I settled for the corner seat, next to the window and overlooking the entire length of IglooL. Oh and did I mention that the shop is painted baby blue? Man, I love the whole blue hue theme.

We were quick to order. I ordered something called Ice with Chocolate Jam or something like that. I don't know what the others ordered, but I remembered Keith's was some kinda ice cream with an egg yolk on it. Haha.. And Laura ordered something that looks like it came out from a Kid's Menu or something, colourful M&M's and all.

Tubs of heaven

Laura's kiddy snow ice

Hold on a moment while I take a deep breath. I need it for my next sentence. *deep breath*

*hollers* THE ICE CREAMS ARE UNBELIEVABLY DELICIOUS!

Actually, they're not really ice creams... They're more to flake ice coated in the flavoring of your choice. For mine, it was a tub of ice flakes drizzled with thick chocolatey goodness. Yum!

Open up wide!

Mmm..! It's so good~! Oh my GOD! Oh~! -Keith

I must say that this is an ingenious way to serve ice cream. The flakes are very very refreshing, while the sauce gives it the ice cream texture it needs to er.. be considered an ice cream. Haha!

Keith giving the ice creams his seal of approval

Approving their handphones

These two 'approving' each other =P

Oh and special mention must go to the igloo in the Kid's Corner. Actually, it is just a cardboard stand in the shape of an igloo, placed in a corner so that kids can take pictures inside them. But with primates around, such innocent things never truly turn out too innocent in the end.

There's a sign on top of the igloo that says IglooL. We wondered what the extra 'L' stands for. So, we began cracking the brains for ideas.

It started with IglooLoser:

Then it became IglooLamer:

Some wisecrack said, "Could it be IglooLazy?":

Nah~

Then things became Mature-Rated. It became the IglooLoveBooth:

But we finally settled on IglooLooneyTunes (just the center one):

After we had enough of making a fool of ourselves, we left as satisfied customers.

IglooL.. Visit it!

It's one of the few places in this life that takes you closer to heaven. Not in the sense that it will make you closer to death aa.

*edit!* I've changed the name of the shop to its proper spelling: IglooL. Jacq explained to me that originally, the tauke of the shop wanted it to be called Igloo. However, that name has already been used by another company's website. Regardless, the tauke wanted the word 'igloo' to stay in the name, so he added in the extra 'L'. Still no proper explanation what the 'L' stands for, though. Anyways, thanks for the info, Jacq!

Side Order: The car ride back was an extremely gay one. Just imagine it: six people crammed into the tiny Kancil! Laura and Keith were in the front and the other four guys packed in the backseat. The radio was blaring out Britney Spears' "Toxic", while Avery and I had hand controlling problems. There was also a shortage of celophane tape in the car.