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Girls' Day out @ Malaysia _301009

2009-11-09T22:14:00.005+08:00

830am: Bugis station meet-up
10am: Reached Malaysia and headed for Macdonald for breakfast
11am to 2pm: KTV @ RM 12 includes salad buffet and 2 drinks... The drinks we ordered were simply too sweet so we went for the free flow of drinks at the bar counter instead. Buffet was simple, edible food include egg, corn soup and mango pudding..

Hygiene KTV... Even has a cover for the microphone...

Group photo at KTV... Each room has a different theme...

Tea break at HK cafe....

Work Updates

2009-11-09T21:48:00.004+08:00

22 October 2009: Last day of work
Ended my 3+ years of work...

Thoughts: Kind of an inertia to move on due to the relationships forged... However moving on does not mean relationships will die off... Moreover, with the gym sign-up, I could even meet up with my girlfriends more often...

2 November 2009: First day of work and boss's surprise party

What a day to start my first day of work. Was also my big boss' birthday. Threw a surprise party at his house. A bunch of close knitted colleagues...

Thoughts till far: Love the people @ work, working hours and best of all no work when home...
Love the fact I do not have a laptop too..

Interesting food - Photos taken with Samsung jet

2009-08-15T16:17:00.007+08:00

Japanese food

Dinner with Xian at a Japanese restaurant located at the basement of Hong Leong Finance.

Gyoza - $3.9

Ramen - $13.90..

Yummy. Love the half boiled eggs.. Also each mouthful tastes different due to the different ingredients on top i.e. seaweed, kimchi, fried chicken and the chasu...

Guess what is this.....

Chocolates wrapper

Chocolates bought at Millenia tower... This is an interesting shop.. Looks like a pharmacy from the outside...
I bought the Lychee Martini chocolate. Very yummy.. but at a high cost. $12 for a very small piece...About 1/3 of cadbury family block.

The chocolate... Heavenly... chocolates range between $8 to $12... They even have tea chocolates and Sze Chuan pepper chocolates. Dare to try??

Dinnder @ Thomson..

Was so stressed after work that Ed suggested eating at Thomson.

We usually hang out at Miss Clarity Cafe.. But we decided for a change and gave Retro Cafe a try...

Ed's dish. A very yummy chicken. Some jumbo chicken @ $10..

It is like stewed and fried at the same time. Very flavourful. love it.

The owner is also very nice. Keep on making small talks with us. He was saying this is like some french restuarant standard food but at cafe prices.. also this dish takes about 2 days to make. With all the marinating stuff.. Thus they are considering taking it off the menu..

Mine.. Dory fish with spaghetti. The fish is nice.. Though the tomato based gravy is a bit too sweet for my liking. Think cost about $7.

Followed by Dessert... Fried pisang with ice cream.. Yummy.. Lovely combo.

Will visit them again soon....

Arnold's Chicken at City Plaza...

We queued 1.5 hours in total. 1 hr to get into the restaurant and 0.5hr for the food to be served.

Meat is very tender.. Not too bad... Cost $5.5 for the half chicken... Will eat again if there isnt any queue..

After sharing the half chicken, we went to Geylang and walked around. I chanced upon this food, which we will usually see it at Pasar malam. However the interesting part is that the filling is with gula melaka instead of the usual peanut or coconut filling.

Cost $1 for 3 piece. Queued 20 mins for this...

Samsung Jet - 14 July 2009

2009-08-15T16:16:00.001+08:00

First impression: Pretty phone

Second impresion: Cool phone. Have wifi...
First time actually using it: Protective of handphone

Subsequently: Bimbiotic phone.
Currenty: still using, getting used to it.

Though would have prefer sony ericsson as it is really much much user friendly.

Problems faced:- Alarm settings- Calling settings
Likes:- Appearance- Wifi- Camera quality

Southern Ridge 11 Jul 2009

2009-08-08T16:50:00.000+08:00

Started off with our favourite meal at Superdog at Vivocity. Love the Chicken Capsicum Dog and the chilli fries. Got to charge ourself for the 4km walk. We decided to start off from Harbourfront, Marang Trail.

Start of the trail. Xian and me... This flight of stairs nearly killed me... The route up to Mount Faber...

We followed the park connector trail before reaching one of the highlights: Henderson Waves. Quite pretty. It was supposed to lit up from 7pm. However as we were early, no lights were up yet...

The Group photo

Continued walking... Felt like we were on some holiday and feeling carefree... Look pretty right..

This place is pretty, at Hilltop Walk. I am going to take my wedding photos there.. A lot of lavender over there..

Last stop of the trail...Alexandra Arch.. We spent a total of about 2 hours covering the 4km walk... A bit disappointed as the arch was supposed to have varying colours. When we were there, we only saw a montonous yellow colour.

We then headed off to Holland Village for supper. Nice day out....

Cameron, Kuala Lumpur and Genting 22 Jun to 26 Jun 09

2009-08-08T15:41:00.006+08:00

Depart from Malasyia on 22 Jun 2009...

DAY 1

Checked in to Hotel Equatorial. Cameron is a relative relaxing place.

First Day: We signed up for day package that cost RM 60/ person inclusive of a steamboat. (Vegetable buffet...) Went to Big strawberry farm, Cactus valley, some vegetable farm....

Bright red roses outside Hotel Equatorial

Ed and the roses...

Me and GiGantic cactus @ Cactus Valley

Me @ Strawberry Farm

Love Fruit..Not nice.. Taste sour and sweet. The seller say fruit taste just like love..

DAY 2

Second day, we went to Boh Tea plantation. We attempted to walk up the hill then along the way, Ed hitch hike a truck which stop us halfway.. Fun... At about 1pm, we took a cab to head down to the temple... We then hotel lobby sitting before eating steamboard and head back to Hotel Equatorial.

Truck that help us climbed the hill...

At Boh Tea plantation

Temple visted on second day.

Steamboat on second night

Strawberry icecream for dessert

On the third day, we set off for KL... Shopped at the Petaling Street

Fourth day and Fifth Day: Genting... Accomdation is free as I redeem with world card and genting points..

Total trip:

Cameron:Hotel Equatorial: S$336 for 2 rooms for 2 nights

Travel from JB to Caneron: RM 90/person

Travel from Cameron to KL: RM 35/person

Travel from KL to Genting: RM 8.5/person (inclusive of cable)

Travel from Genting to Singapore: RM 45/person

Expenses spent there: RM 200

Nikerun 2009

2009-07-19T19:44:00.003+08:00

Ran 10km in 1hr 10mins...A fun run...

Finally managed to get my hands on this run after 2 years...

The goodies bag was fantastic.. though the collection of race pack was horrendous.. Dear Xue nearly passed out due to the human congestion.

Please reflect...

Sweet.... 14 Jun 09

2009-06-20T12:14:00.002+08:00

Not quite the expected... though still sweet....

Love this... This is just my proposed idea... Haven really gotten it yet.. The following is rose gold... Or should I just get a normal wedding band???

Jap food @ Iluma 19 Jun 09

2009-06-20T12:00:00.002+08:00

Tried out this restaurant which resides 7 restaurant under its roof... We opted for the open market which houses 5 restaurant..

The interesting way ordering. Electronic. You have to use the stylus to tap on food that you want to order, then indicte quantity, follwed by the enter key. The stylus will even repeat your order upon tapping the "Review" button. Interesting...

Without Fan, who is busy packing for her trip to Japan

The menu...

Shoyu Ramen.. Nice though quite saltish. 3/5

Beef fried soba.. 2.5/5

Seafood okonaymi.. think spelling is wrong... The largest portion and nicest of all.. 3.5/5

Mount Faber Run 14 Jun 09

2009-06-20T11:40:00.001+08:00

A 10 km run.. First time attempting this run... The "Walk" up Mt Faber was horrendous...

Nevertheless, still a good run...

Cherry Orchard @ Esplanade 13 Jun 09

2009-06-20T11:30:00.000+08:00

One word to conclude the show at the Arts Festival... Boring...

But my dinner @ Waraku was nice... Taste like their salad but with Ramen in it... Yummy...

Sundown marathon 2009 30 May 09 2359

2009-05-31T20:52:00.005+08:00

This is our third full marathon..Though we did not complete it, it was still a very good run. Love, no worries, we still have many more races together.
What's important is that we put in effort in it.

Really admired Ed... Though his leg was giving him prob (he had a past injury) at the 2km mark, we managed to pull it off till 19km... If it was me, I will sure gave it up at the start...

Pre-run..
Whipped up spaghetti for our carbo-loading session...
Ed mentioned that this is one of the few rare instances where I will cook...
Oh ya, the portebello mushroom are super yummy. Love it...

Our fuel for the race...

At the start line.. A pose... wonder why ed tee is black in colour... where most of the others (nearly 99%) are white in colour. But anyway, good is black also.. Harder to get dirty...

Our trace...
1200-0100 7km
01000-0230 14km
0230- 0330 19km

The starting part was super hard as there were just so many people and the air was so still... We were perspiring very bad.. I am a person who hardly perspire but when I started the race, you could see the drops trickling down my face.

At 330am, we decided to stop as I could see that Ed was really in pain.. He wanted to push on but I forbade him to run any more.. Health is still more important.

So we took a cab back and rested for the day. Slept through most of the day away but I am still tired. Wonder why this time when I run, my back is aching.. Maybe I am old le.. =( Sob...

KTV with family and Chevron 3 May 09

2009-05-09T15:49:00.003+08:00

Mum won free usage of 2 hrs KTV at The Chevron @ Jurong...

We extended for anther hour at $13/hr... First time singing with my family.. Lovely...

A pity big sis did not join us... Next time ok...

Ed, Me and Sis...

Who moved my cheese?

2009-04-21T23:13:00.003+08:00

A very inspiring story book. Simple and yet straight to the point.

Cheese being a metaphor for the things we want to have in life i.e. a job, relationship or money etc..

It addresses most of our concerns... One comment that strikes me is :" What would you do if you weren't afraid?"

How true could it be...

A lot of times, we procrastinate and we remain at the same point due to our fear of uncertainty. However change is inevitable and sometimes it could even lead to something better. So be brave and step out of our comfort zone... Cindy, be brave!!!

My Easter weekend 10 Apr 09 (Thu) to 12 Apr 09 (Sun)

2009-04-19T23:46:00.003+08:00

Work hard and played hard...

Had been working real hard for the past week.. So over the weekend, this is how it goes:

Thursday (9 Apr): Worked till 1am. Went back home, surfed net and zzz at 3am.

Friday (1o Apr): Woke up at 10am. Met up with Ed at woodlands then at night went for KTV with xian, qi and fan at Cathay cineleisure..

Sat (11 Apr): Headed for home sweet home at 5am.. ZZzzz till 10am then nua at home.. Watched Amazing race from 1 pm to 4pm. Sure got a lot of kick from watching it... Was so excited when I realise it is a 3 hr special show.

At 6pm, met up with pri sch friends: Judy and Xueling. We were supposed to chill out at THomson but due to no full attendance we decided to catch a movie: Knowing.. Was a nerve breaking show.. Never got so jittery since a long time. Nearly hugged Judy throughout the show. My bf say maybe ppl maybe thinking we are lesbian. hahaa..

Supper at HK Cafe at Cineleisure

Reached home at 11plus...

Sun (12 Apr): Went for a swim with Judy and her brother.. Nice one... Went home and caught amazing race for an hour.. Then went with Coconut to her church at Sun Tec convention center..

Coconut's CG- church friends

Wrapped up the day with a nice dinner with my family....

Rather fulfilling....

KTV non stop

2009-04-19T23:38:00.004+08:00

22 Mar (Sun) : KTV at Bugis
1pm to 6pm... Proceeded with steamboat at Bugis... Gen only could join us then...
Nice catch up with my uni friends...

KTV on 12 Apr (Sat): Cathay cinenleisure 830pm to 5am...
Exhausted... My first time singing KTV for about 8 hrs... hehe..
We got so tired that we ended up listening to the MTV. we even reminisce singers like Ye Liang Jun, Xiong Tian Ping...

Working.... MB

2009-04-19T23:25:00.002+08:00

Working till 1am to 2 plus for the past 1 week.. Horrible.... Was so shagged when I went back home. The next morning report back to work at about 9plus...

Guess i am pretty much a workaholic... Luckily tomorrow morning is the reporting and hope it will breeze through...

Luckily the manager is very nice.. Thanks so much for her kind understanding

Kinder???

2009-03-22T23:39:00.003+08:00

First saw this in Malaysia last year... Remembered asking Xian if she ever saw this Kinder version.. Then she say how could it be.. So I dont dare to buy also... Until I saw this in Singapore... A new version of all time favourite Kinder Surprise...

When I was still young, my dad will buy 3 eggs each time. 1 for each of us. I will then choose and pray that I get the better toy than my sisters...

The new Kinder surprise...

Opening it up.. Looks different from the old Kinder Surprise... The one on the left is the Surprise while the one on the right is the Chocolate.

You have to use the scoop to enjoy the chocolate. Less messy this time as you enjoy the chocolate with a scoop instead of using yr hands to break the chocolate..

My Surprise!!! Looks disgusting... I gave it to Ed upon seeing it. Still prefer the old toys. Or is it because I am too old to enjoy these toys? Anyway it is nice to reminisce childhood days... Try getting one for yourself? Selling each at $1.6.

Baking Blackforest cake 21 Mar 09 (Sat)

2009-03-22T23:19:00.005+08:00

Baking with Ed's mum in Malaysia...

Target: Black forest cake...

The preparation...Bought a can of black forest.. Quite yummy to eat... Popped a few into my mouth during the process.. haha...

Whipping the Optima flour (150g)... for 20mins... Super challenging on the hand... Have to keep it continously whip for 20mins...The add 3 eggs and continue to whip... Then bake at 180 degree celsius for 20 mins..

Next up: The whipped cream.. The most expensive ingredient of all. Cost RM17/litre.. Considered cheap (by the lady boss)... Have to whip for another 20 mins without stopping. Our first attempt failed as we swopped hands.. So in the end Ed's mum have to do it alone for another 15 mins...

Cutting the cake into half and filling it with the black forest....Spreading the freeze whipped cream onto the cake....

The final product.. Really quite yummy considering that this is our first attempt!!!

Feel like eating another slice too...

End of my one week leave... 14 Mar 09

2009-03-14T17:15:00.005+08:00

What have I done this week:

- Accompanied Big sis to Funan to buy laptop
- Swam twice
- Did laundry for 4 days
- Swept and mopped the floor twice
- Cut hair and did hair treatment
- Facial at Coslab
- Catch-up with Zeline and Yumin
- Spent time with my family and Ed
- Back up my hard disk
- Shopping at Orchard, Tiong Bahru and Sembawang shopping center
- Attended ZZ's funeral
- Checked email
- Knitting.. Started since Jan 09 but now still not yet complete

Cant believe my week's break is gone...Having pre-working blues...

Goodbye my friend... 8 MAR 09

2009-03-08T23:36:00.005+08:00

A dedicated post to you...

I dont know why you did that... Or did you really do it? We were all caught unprepared... Still in a state of shock though you have already left us since Friday... But only confirmed it when I read the newspaper this morning... I am still in a self denial mode...

Has been ages since we last talk... Realised we knew so little of you. If only we could help you...

Always thought that you are a fine gentleman.. Hope that your after life will be a good one. Do take care and we will always miss you...

Trip to KL & Genting 26 Dec 08 - 1 Jan 09

2009-01-02T14:17:00.011+08:00

A trip with Ed and his family. Ed's dad drove up.. About 5hrs ride up, but the car broke down along the way. Guessed it was too hot, so we waited a while and later drove at 90km/hr. No more hiccups from then on....

The injured car....

Reached KL. Shopped at The Pyramid... Near sunway lagooon.. Stayed over a night at Ed's aunt place. A cosy apatment...

Drove up Genting. The memorial place of the founder of Genting.. PRayed for good luck at the Casino... Ed and his family.

INTERESTING SIGHTS

1) The description of the drink.. Weird taste. Wonder who will drink it....

2) I might as well just tuck my head into the window... We were waiting to collect our DREAMZ tickets... Cost RM 100/ tickets....

GENTING

A fusion of everything. Show was not very impressive though... A 2hour show... Ed's sis fell asleep...

Posing at Genting.... We waited 4 hours to check in. Omg... That's really very long..

My favourite ride at the Theme park

FOODS DELIGHT

Prawn noodle at KL. I did not added an chilli... It is spicy itself... RM 4/ bowl

Kenny Rogers... Cheap but the ones in Singapore is definitely much nicer... RM 16.9/plate

The most decent food at the Buffet Breakfast at First World Cafe...

Kaya Toast at Old Town Coffee... Not nice.. BRead was too dry and crispy for my liking. RM 6.9

Yummy fried rice at Shanghai Tian.... RM 16/ plate

Shanghai Xiao Long Bao... RM9.

MY favourite chee cheong fun at one hawker center at Genting. IT is located opposite the main entrance of the Outdoor theme park. RM 6.5/ plate. Value for money and nice. My dad brought me to eat the other time round.

Fried Fuzhou noodle at Yong Peng... RM 17/ big plate.

Yummy malay Briyani rice. RM 4/plate... Ate this for lunch along the highway...

Baskin Robbin ice-cream. RM 18/ sundae.

Birthday...

2009-01-02T14:00:00.003+08:00

Had 2 birthday cakes this year... 2009 marks a new year. Hope everything will run smoothly and may everyone be happy...

Chocolate cake from Secret Receipe. Yummy... Thanks my family...

Cake from Ed's family... Dark chocolate cake from Lavender...

Christmas day - 25 Dec 08

2008-12-26T15:43:00.004+08:00

Morning.. Went for service at my sister's church at Somerset.. Rather ok..

Afternoon - Pitstop with my dear hall friends cum colleagues

Evening - Sakura for dinnner and shopping at Sun Tec

Christmas eve party - 24 Dec 08

2008-12-26T15:39:00.002+08:00

A primary school gathering... Thanks Jialing for hosting us...

A pity, I did not manage to get any Victor photos... Had fun playing Apple, Orange game...

Photo taken with Yang Kai, who came later at 12 midnight...

Night cycling @ East Coast park 23- 24 Dec 08

2008-12-26T14:44:00.006+08:00

My second night cycling at ECP

Attendees: Edward, Corinna and Me.

Time: 9pm till 6am

Weather: Rainy

Distance: 30 km

Reached ECP at 9am... Realised that the sky was pretty red... However we decided to proceed on...

Seeking shelter at ECP as the rain started getting heavier...

Snapping shots.. making full use of our time...

Another shot...

After cycling for 3 hours, we took a break at Downtown east... Recharging for the rest of our journey...

From 1am onwards, the rain got heavier and we could not moved on... We were stranded at Changi village for about 30mins.. When the rain got lighter, we moved on and that's when the REAL adventure began.

While cycling along Changi Beach park, we entered a pitch black area of about 400m (the street lamps were faulty). Ed led the way though inside our hearts, we panicked as we could not really figure how wide the pathway was. Just when we thought that we were safe (lights were just in front of us), we heard dogs barking. Ed shouted, " Pedal faster, the dogs were chasing us".

Everything happened in a flash.

I just rode faster and lost control of my pedals. My legs were just hanging in mid air. Corinna overtook me and then I heard the barks getting louder and closer to me. Suddenly, Corinna fell and I was worried... Ed quickly alighted from his bike and helped her.. That was when we realised the barking stopped... Coconut suffered quite a few bruises.

I wanted all to end then... We were still in a shock and Corinna was injured. But Ed heard the barking again and we decided to push on...

Cycling along Changi coastal road ( a straight road of about 7km) was eerie as the street lamps were not on (It is lighted only from 7pm to 12 midnight on weekdays) Fearful of dogs again, we decided to cycle along the main road... That's when the rain got heavier and we decided to stop.

Cold and worried!!! I cant really describe how I felt. When the lorries passed us, the cold win gave us the shudder and our umbrella were shaking. After half an hour, the rain got even heavier. I called the taxi operator for a cab and requested if 3 bikes could be loaded. Guess what the operator said? She said, " What taxi is that?" Ok, so we stood along the main road again. A police car passed us and ignored us. After 1hr, we stopped a taxi, who again refused to fetch our bikes.

We were so desperate and lost for ideas. We were worried that 1) We got knocked down by cars if we ride along the main road, 2) Motorcyclist will approach us and create trouble for us, 3) Dogs will chase us.

Our options then were 1) Continue riding in the big rain, 2) Continue standing and pray that the rain stops. When it dawn on us that the rain is not getting any lighter, we decided to lock our bikes along the lamp post and get it the next morning, say about 7am. We just wanted to leave the place.

It does not help that the taxi operator wanted us to pinpoint our exact location. How could we when we were just right in the middle of a road to nowhere. The taxi uncle called and Ed was not in the most friendly tone. Guess all our spirits were pretty down.

Luckily the taxi uncle was very nice guy ( His cab number is 3202). He managed to find us and even allowed us to take our 3 bicycles with us. Guess what, this time round the police car stopped. They passed us about 4 times and did not stop all along.

We thought the policeman will refuse us to load our bikes but he only say " Ride carefully." We told him we have no other options as we have been stranded for a very long time. Policeman says, "Ya, I know. I have seen you all there." How helpful could he be.

We were so appreciative of the taxi uncle and gave him tips for our ride home. I am just happy that the whole night cycling ended... What an experience...

Vivian's farewell @ Dian Xiao Er on 4 Dec 08

2008-12-26T14:27:00.005+08:00

A delayed post... A farewell dinner for Vivian at Dian Xiao Er at Marina Square.

Wonder how many more is going to leave.. Guess this is inevitable in our line. I am just glad that I have such a nice and fun run...

Vivian, wish you all the best in your teaching!

Stan Chart Marathon 2008

2008-12-08T18:29:00.005+08:00

My first half marathon.. Reached at 7am.. though race started at 630am...

Clocked a timing of 3hr 8mins... Not too bad (for my own personal record)

Stayed till 3pm.. while waiting for my sis friends to come back.. Showed support for the 42km runners. Must say that they really endured the race.. Applause for them.. I too endured staying to support for them... So applause for myself...

Me and Wen....

Coconut....

Me...

The medals....

Our race bib...

Must start counting how many races I run till far.. About 10???

Crazy over....

2008-12-02T20:09:00.004+08:00

Ding Tai FunG....

Xiao Long Bao...

and Zha Jiang Mian... Ate these 2 for 2 consecutive days.. Still not tired of it...

And of course.... Him....

How cute can he be...

Forest adventure - 30 Nov 08

2008-12-02T19:46:00.004+08:00

My second attempt on it... Located at Bedok Reservoir Park... Cost $28/person.. Managed to get free tickets to it. Courtesy of my manager. Tried 2 of the events before it started raining...

Thus, they had to cancel the event and gave us vouchers to come back again... What a deal! Kind of having phobia trying it again but I guess the third time back should be much better, right.

Me & Ed...

Sis and Si Hui...

East coast park Bbq - 29 Nov 08

2008-12-02T19:18:00.008+08:00

An outing for 5 girlfriends with their boyfriends.... A perfect 10... Pity Fan and bf only joined us much later.. Anyway, had great fun with all of them...

The four fun ones... We were slacking while the guys were barbequing...

I know I am in an awkward position.. Guess what were we trying to do.... Look below...

Da da... The results...

Hall friends...

Xian and David...

Wen and Jason...

Me & Ed...

Lovely sunset...

Group photo.. Had fun with the Company and the food... Please refer to here for photos taken with LOMO...

Addicted on Lomo

2008-11-12T23:40:00.002+08:00

Shopping at Orchard

2008-11-01T14:54:00.000+08:00

Shopping with girlfriend is simply awesome. Shopped with Xian...

Super duper happy... Ate a lot of nice food and bought a lot of stuff... Total damage $350 in a day... Ate my favourite xiao long bao @ ding tai fung and favourite dessert snow ice.

We tried the snow ice at a new shop at Far East Plaza Level 1. Xian saw it in one of the magazine. Though the one at Taiwan, Shi-lin is still much nicer, I have to settle for my cravings in Singapore with this as Taiwan is still far from us.

The boss recommended the black sesame snow ice.

Mine... Peanut butter snow ice with red beans and matcha powder... $3.5. Not too bad though it gets a bit too owerpowering at the end...

Xian's dessert. Mango snow ice. $4.5.

My purchases for the day... Happy... Looks similiar to my purchases at BKK... Gotta control!

Shoe from Mondo @$35.90. Not very worth it.. But I simply love the colour...

After that, met up with Ed for Dinner at Ichiban.. hehe.. Ed says " No more shopping with Xian. She's a bad influence." Haha.. So funny... Just cant stop laughing...

KTV at TopOne on Deepavali - 27 October 2008

2008-11-01T14:37:00.005+08:00

A day out with my girlfriends... hehe.. Rather fun and happy. Thanks to Fan's lobang. Sang from 11am - 6pm with free flow of drinks for just $20...

Realised we did not take any group photo.. So there is the split..

Fan, Wen, Xian and Me...

Qi, Fan, Wen and Xian...

After that, we went to eat Steamboat... Rather nice.. Love the peanut sauce.. Will have been better if have Teppanyaki though. Anyway company was great and I enjoyed myself thoroughly.

Eventful October - Runs

2008-10-27T00:55:00.005+08:00

4 October Sat - Amore Women's Day out
Mum, Sis and I went for the morning session. Rather fun... Enjoyed ourselves...

12 October Sun - New Balance Real Run
This is our second time joining the new balance real run! I thought this year event was more tough as the bright scorching sun was standing strong... The first 4 km was the mud trail which does not have shades at all. The fact that I have yet to fully recover from my flu does not help too. Luckily with Ed's encouragement, we manage to full it off, clocking a timing of 2hr 15min for 15km...

This still remains as one of my favourite trail.. Changi is a rather spacious and quiet place.

26 October Sun - Great Eastern Run
Signed up for the 10km run with Sis... Weather today is great! Barely has any sun.. However the slight slopes deter me from running... I am really bad with slopes. Took a total of 1hr 15mins for 10km.. Hope can perform better in the upcoming Salomon race..

Our new interest...

2008-10-11T21:22:00.003+08:00

A new blog set up to keep of our new interest....

Check it out at t2lomo.blogspot.com

Our first realm of photos are out... Rather satisfied with it....

Peranankan Muesum + Food 4 Oct 08

2008-10-05T15:09:00.014+08:00

An event held by Wine and Dine - Benjamin Seck, True Blue Cuisine.

Went with my mum for this event costing $50/ person.. Learnt to make 3 dishes.

My favourite muesum till far, after Asian Civilisation Muesum...

The chef...

Nasi Ulam - Quite a simple dish to make. A herbal rice. Only the prawns and fish require cooking. A lot of mixing is required.

Pengat Kledek - Taste a lot like bo bo char char. Love the bananas...

Banana blossom salad - this organic orchid can be eaten. Crunchy with not much taste...

A painting of beadwork. Learnt that there are different types of beads since 1900, which are finer and has a wide variety of colours. Impressed with the super fine beadwork...

Interiors of the muesum is so pretty...

Nice wall designs...

Dinner at Muthu's curry. The butter chicken is yummy... Dont really like the fish curry.. Fish was not that fresh..

Company's DnD 3 October

2008-10-05T14:41:00.009+08:00

Held at Swissotel- The Stamford... Believed this to be the grandest of the past 2 years... Wonder how many of us will still be around next year.

My dearest friends...

Love this shot... The twins are super on...

A group table photo... With special appearance from Jean and Cheryl. Pity, Lay koon only reached later...

Uni clique...

Bangkok Trip 23 - 27 August 2008

2008-08-30T14:13:00.051+08:00

D1: Changi Airport. 6am flight.. Reached BKK at 810am. Checked into hotel and set off to Platinum Mall

Our bed... Changed a total of 3 rooms during our 4 night stay.. Long story.. But generally the hotel The Residence Rajtaevee is quite good and cheap. Cost $20/ person/ night. Thanks to Fan's reco.

Lunch at A&W. Ate a waffle chicken ... A bit interesting but very hard to hold as the waffle turns soggy after a while...

Yummy food.. The one in orange is tom yum flavour while the one in yellow is sweet.. Nice. Cost about S$0.50 for each.

Me and my purchase for the day.. Happy...

This is our transport to get from The Residence Rajtaevee to Siam Paragon...

Dinner at Coca Resturant. cost about THB250 for an hour buffet... However still prefer the one in Singapore... More variety.. though much more expensive.

Group photo taken at Siam Paragon.

D1 Purchases

D2: Chatuchak, MBK and Massage

Fan and Qi at the roadside stall...

Lunch at one of the road stalls... very nice though and cheap. Cost only THB30 (= S$1.5) though serving portion is a bit small...

yummy... Bought it at the train station...

Xian managed to master the art of changing!!! And Qi is so happy with it...

Their purchases for the Day at Chatuchak... Small bags....

Matching big bags... Notice our bags are much bigger than the above. Chatuchak is good for shopping guy tee shirts. Bought 3 for ED... Opened only on weekends...

Health land Spa at Ekamai station. About 20 mins walk from the station. But it is very good and cheap. Did a 60min foot massage at THB 250 (=S$11).. pity it is a bit far from us and the station. Anyway thanks Jaxine for the recommendation.

Dinner at Bar B Q Place at MBK top floor.. Not bad...Fan's favourite...

D2 Purchases

D3: Palace, Siam Paragon and Platinum Mall

On board the ferry to see the Palace... Cost THB 300 for unlimited rides on the ferry.

Palace...

Love this building. European style buildings with Thai Roof tops.. lovely.

Snacking at Siam Paragon..

Some glutinous rice ball wrapped in lettuce with shallot and green chilli. Interesting but not very nice.

Tom yam soup for dinner at the food court 6th floor of Platinum. not bad.. Though I still love the one at Thai Express.

Xian and Qi... Compare their bags with the ones below...

Yeah, fan and I won! As usual, the two of us got the biggest bag... Notice that we shopped until platinum mall closes?? Hehe.. Anyway it closes quite early at about 8pm.

Dessert at Swensen... Relatively cheaper than Singapore. About S$5 for an ice cream.

D3 Purchases

Chips to tide us through the night.

Our night activities in the room... Do not stay in room 302.. The aircon is not working. Poor Fan and Qi has to brace the hot air. Luckily Xian and I slept in 304.. Still not so bad though the aircon not very fantastic.. However the LCD screen tv compensate for the shortfall.

Love this.. The cheaper alternative to Erdinger beer... Cost only S$1. Prefer this to the Light version.

D4: Shopping and massage

Pratunam Center, Big C, and the shopping center opposite Platinum Mall (Quite a nice place to shop also. Sells cheap denim stuff)

A typical breakfast... Buffet breakfast is included in our hotel package.

Lunch at Fuji Restaurant... Decent price... $10 for a bento set. All of us cant finish our food.. but still we are happy with our food.

Xian and Fan at the restaurant...

Me and Qi

D4 Dinner at The Pizza Company.. Taste not bad.. though the filling is a bit little.

After dinner, Qi and I went for a thai massage at our hotel. 90 mins for THB 600. Not too bad..

D4 Purchases

Party at night... The cocktails only cost S$2 while the beer cost about S$1. Played card games till 4am in the morning.. Tired but fun...

Last Day 28 Aug

Shopping at Platinum Mall... Our favourite shopping place. We have been there 4 out of our 5 days in Bkk.

All our luggages... Incredible...

Booked a limousine cab at THB800 (= S$40) to drive us back to the airport..

D5 Purchases

At the airport.. Reminds me of the movie "The Terminal"

Last group photo taken on board the flight...

Total Expenses

Airticket: S$150

Hotel: S$83

Insurance: S$21

Food expense: S$80

Transport: S$30

Shopping: S$540

Total: S$ 904

16 Aug 08 Night Cycling

2008-08-18T23:45:00.000+08:00

Set off on the park connector and covered a distance of about 40km from East coast park - Selegie- Bedok - Tampines - Pasir Ris - Loyang - Changi - East coast park...

First time tried cycling long distance instead of running.. Much more comfortable though my hands were a bit numb near the end of the journey. The last 8km (which we thought) along the coastal park connector was monotonous as it was a gruelling straight road with no slopes at all.. (We all unanimously enjoyed the breeze when cycling downslope)

Our last stop was the coastal park connector, a 8km ride back to east coast park from Changi. However we did not factor in that there was at least another 5km to cycle back from the extreme end of ECP back to the bicycle shop...

Route maps for park connector... I must say that the route is pretty clear. Well done!

Ed caught this stitch for me for those toy catching machine... Love both of them. Very sweet of him...

Group photo before the ride... Set off at 945pm....

Our first park connector... and we are pretty in much for a surprise soon....

Faint.!!!!! Staircase... Luckily, I managed to see that there is an edge for us to push up the bicycle.. BUT.... I still dont have strength so the guys helped me out. Thanks!

I am only acting to push the bike up for photo taking purposes only..

Second park connector... Another group photo...

Another one more to go.. Still keeping wide awake. About 12 midnight...

Posing for a photo at Bedok Reservoir park near the fish catching area... Very peaceful and cooling...

Me posing one last photo at Bedok Reservoir park before heading off to Loyang. Nothing much along the way...

A snap to show we are reaching Tampines... Passed by Tampines Mall.. Then head to pasir ris and reached downtown east..

Resting point.. hAd supper at Mac before continuing our journey...The ride along Changi was a bit creepy... Not advisable to do it alone... I did not know that the Changi exhibition center is along a private road and closed... (Ed and I were there for the last year real run. Pretty nice place. Unlike typical singapore with tall skyscrapers)

Our last 8km.. This was all that we saw along the way.. A never ending straight route....

Tada... We finally reached back ECP at about 5am. Ed and I had a sumptuous breakfast.

What about the other 2.... There they are.. Too tired to eat... A fun trip with you all! Will love to do it soon. Maybe make it a monthly event???

Eclipse???

2008-08-18T23:33:00.004+08:00

Ed and I woke up at 5am on Saturday 16 Aug 2008 to catch the red moon at my house...

But we are not too sure if it is really it..

Can you see the middle one, which is the moon is red in colur??? Excited...

The other 2 yellow colour is actually the street lamps... The photo turns out pretty interesting right...Worthwhile forsaking my sleep...

29 Jul 08 Garden Festival

2008-08-18T22:08:00.015+08:00

Went with Ed after work (actually I was on training, so got to end early) to the Garden Festival... Wow! It is so pretty.. A must see.. Will definitely go to the next one in 2010.. Love it.. Keep on snapping photos along the way.

Some of the displays along the way. We spend about 2 hours plus covering the attractions. It is basically a display from different countries and each display is ranked with either bronze, silver or gold!!! The lighting over there is fantastic and I felt entertained throughout... Cost only $6 for weekdays and $12 for weekends... Luckily we managed to avoid the crowd as it was a weekday.

Made with bundles of greenery.. So interesting...

This gold tinged display is very pretty. One of my favourites...

A bit too colourful for my liking.. But must give credits to its creativity.

Love this too.. Simple and nice.

If only my house has something like that... How relaxed it will be.

This got a gold award. It even has music accompanied to it...

Posing with the poster on the walls.. Got 4 different types.. So cute...

Ed with the grasshopper.

Escape Theme Park 26 Jul 08

2008-08-18T22:01:00.004+08:00

A day trip with the gals, Qi, Fan and Wen to Escape Theme Park. Kinda small.. The most exciting ride... After much persuasion, Qi and I sat on it... It was very scary and I closed my eyes throughout. We were rotated pretty much 360 degrees... Just one try will do...

A group photo before we set off to eat at Blk 85 Bedok hawker center... A nice trip with the gals.

Big Sis' Convocation - 22 Jul 2008

2008-07-22T21:42:00.002+08:00

COngrats to big sister... YOu have graduated!!!

Took leave today to attend my big sister's convocation. First time attending... Bit excited...

Two of us have graduated.... Now left Coconut. Jia you oh...

Movie Red Cliff 10 Jul 08

2008-07-12T21:12:00.003+08:00

Won a pair of movie tickets... Courtest of My paper... I must say the movie is really good! Usually I will avoid battle/ war movies.. But after watching this first part, I am yearning to watch the second part. It has also aroused the interest in me with regards to the Romance of the Three Kingdom...

Freebies- A pair of movie tickets, with a notebook and a poster.

The red carpet...

A fruitful evening... 7 July 2008

2008-07-07T23:09:00.006+08:00

Feeling contented and more at ease... Had been preoccupied with work over the weekend. Spent Saturday and Sunday at work... =( First week of senior and my weekend is gone.

Thus I self declared today after work as a off day for myself. No lappie back home.. Just watch tv and relaxed!

But prior to that, I had a nice dinner with Xian, Qi and Fan at a Rabbit brand restaurant at Boat Quay. It was a quite impromptu meet-up where all of us could make it. Happy. Dinner is nice and very cheap. $5.50 for a bowl of shark fun, hor fun, dessert and chinese tea. Love it. There is another outlet at Lucky plaza level 2. Will love to try it again.

Straight after work, I went to collect the shoes that I saw last week at Fotage. Initially, I thought that the sales person will not be calling me back as I reserve it last Thu during their sales. It was pretty chaotic during then and I thought my request was gone with the wind. Instead, they called me up today to say the shoes that I requested is available at Clifford Centre. So off we went to collect the black shoes... Guess what, I end up buying 4 shoes.... Love all of them. Think when you are in a good mood, your eyes tend to be bigger and will tend to buy more stuff.

Spend a total of $130 on 4 shoes... Pretty decent and we got 2 discount card at Fotage as Xian and Qi each bought one pair of shoes also. Their service is pretty good and they say that they will change the heels button for free and if any discomfort, we can just ask them to service the shoes. Wonder how true is it...

Anyway, I truely enjoyed the time that we spent with each other... And I finally threw away 5 pairs of shoes today also... To make room for my new shoes...

Shopping purchase today... In half an hour time... Satisfied me.a

My favourite favourite pair... Love the lace patterns on it.

HK, Macau and Zhu Hau Trip ( 7 Jun - 12 Jun)

2008-07-04T11:16:00.004+08:00

A family trip..

To be blogged soon...

Ferris Wheel 5 Jun 08

2008-06-22T12:50:00.006+08:00

Scenery at the top. Went with my mum and sis... As it was a weekday afternoon, we had the whole cabin to ourself.. Tickets were expensive, costing $29.5/ person for a 30 min ride. It thus cost $1/ min. On our way up, we were snapping photos non-stop... Took a total of 100 over photos...

With another cabin behind us...

The 4 of us!!! In a whole cabin...

Sundown marathon 1 Jun 08

2008-06-22T12:38:00.005+08:00

My second marathon till far... This is special as the race starts at 12am... and we ended at 830am in the morning!!! My legs dont belong to mine duing the last 6 km.. It was aching like mad... I was so exhausted after the race that I could just fell asleep while waiting for breakfast at Subway.. Hehe.. Instead Ed and Coconut were so energetic that they served me with food and keep chirping about the run...

Photos before the race... Still energetic...

Ed and I took photos along the race but photos were pretty dark... The last 400m point! I was numbed. Just wanted the whole thing to end, so I could sit down. Haha!!! It was pretty demanding on the physical and mind as we were running when most were happily lying in bed.

Back at home... I was so tired that I struggled a smile! ZZzzz the whole of Sunday...

However this wont deter me from joining another marathon! Quite an achivement...

Vietnam trip 26 Apr - 3 May

2008-06-22T12:31:00.008+08:00

Ages since I last blogged...

Decided to blog a simple one to remind myself that I have been on a holiday...

Went with Ed, Xian and David to Ho Chi Minh City... Qutie a nice trip with the 4 of us...

D1. HCMC

Reached HCMC at about 5pm in the afternoon. After checking in at Phoenix 74, we hang at a cafe opposite our hostel... We then head to Ben Thanh Market to shop. Bit disappointed. Nothing much over there...

Interiors of the cafe... So pretty. At the top floor, they even have a movie place for us to enjoy show while sipping our drinks.

D2 Mekong river 2D1N tour

Breakfast at Phoenix 74. It actually taste quite nice with Ketchup on it.. Thanks to David, who is the Tomato boy that introduce us to eat it in this way...

While waiting for boarding of bus at Sinh Cafe. We booked the tour back in Singapore. Cheap package...

Highlights of the tour. On board a boat to tour the Mekong River, saw coconut candy making process and crisp rice making process.

Dinner at La Ca at Can Tho. The best meal for the whole trip... Feel like eating it right now also.

B Day @ Clarke Quay ( 4 Jan 2008)

2008-02-08T22:58:00.000+08:00

Another backdated post...

Thanks gals (Gen, Rong, Zen, Qian and Ting (ting a pity u cant come, but i will forgive u.. Haha) for the surprise! I really did not expect it.. I thought it was a usual get together before the peak starts...

The turnout.. Thanks gal. =)

Pasta de waraku is really so so only.. Looks rather appealing but the taste is kinda disappointing..

Food pictures...

Gotta thanks all that has send birthday wishes and prezzie to me, especially the follwing...

Thanks Xian, Qi and Fan for the sports top and bottom. Love it.. Xin ku ni men for walking so far to get it for me =)

Min, thanks for the cute bright torch.. U really brighten up my life.

Sp, thanks for the birthday card...

Cat, thanks for the sweet sweet necklace.

Ting yi, thanks for the cute ornament...

I know there are still many more who has send their wishes.. I really appreciate it. Thanks a lot. =)

Backdated post-- Live Tennis Match 30 Dec 07

2008-02-08T22:20:00.000+08:00

A backdated post.. Was rummaging through my photos, and came upon the photos..
The story 0f the free tickets goes...

It was a usual Sunday when Ed will come over to my house and just slack around.. We will usually shop around Junction 8 in the afternoon.... While checking out the Nike shop, Observant Ed realise that the outlet is giving out free admission tickets to the Maria Sharapova match that evening with just any purchase...

Just nice, I got myself a Nike pouch at $40++ and we got 2 tickets.. But the clause is that admission is not guaranteed and it is on a first come first serve basis..

So we got home and kiasu us, g0t ready at about 430pm heading to our destination (Indoor stadium at Kallang).. my goodness, it was raining heavily while we were queuing outside since 6pm.. After an hr wait, we finally got in! We got quite a decent seat where we can really see the STARS... a pity, ed did not manage to get home and get the 10x optical zoom camera..

This being my first time watching a live tennis match.. Was initally quite bored at the start.. But I am really amazed that Maria can make such an impactful sound when she do the serving and smacking... The final outcome: Maria won after an intense fight!

The closest photo that I can get Maria from where I seat... (in the bottom left She's dressed in a maroon top )

An Interesting Saturday ( 2 Feb 2008)

2008-02-06T22:05:00.000+08:00

Afternoon (12pm- 4Pm): Kranji Countryside Tour

Mum, Ed and I went for this tour after seeing it on a newspaper advertisement. For a $2 shuttle bus fee/person, you can board the hourly shuttle bus from Kranji MRT to several locations in Kranji, e.g. Goat farm, Agrotech, Frog Farm and etc..

If interested, can check out the website: http://www.kranjicountryside.com/template/farmpreneurs.html

Our first stop for the day: Nyee Phoe Petals and leaves...
There is a place where you can do fishing. Qutie a tranquil place... They do sell quite interesting flowers too...

The one in the middle left above, with the orange fruits is called big fruit plant! I was guessing that it is pomelo.. hee. The cactus looks pretty interesting too..

Second Stop: Aero-green Technology (S) Pte Ltd
My mum bought organic vegetables from here. Seriously, there is nothing much to see at this stop. Instead Ed and I were more interested in the grocery shop there. haha.. we tried out the butterhead lettuce juice.. Eeeks... Dont like it.. Too veg taste le... Haha..

Third and Last Stop: Bollywood veggies
This is the most interesting place. They has several difference plants here and they got different plots of land with interesting names like, Go Bananas (All sorts of bananas here, Zen will sure hate it) and Wild Singapore

Some interesting plant as shown below. I did not know that plants has gender too! Male papaya referes to the tree beside it.. It sure is strong and tall!
There is also a 40 clock flower.. Though I did not see any flowers at all... Oh realise the bottom left photos, it looks like a giant vegetable (like a huge Xiao Bai Cai) When Ed pointed it out to me, I cant stop laughing...

We had our tea break at Bollywood veggies.. It sure is expensive and not very nice. The prata cost $1 without the curry gravy and the carrot cake cost $6.. Too soft and wet.. Not nice.

That's all for our adventurous trip to the Kranji Countryside. Kinda disappointed with the place but it is a good experience anyway...

Evening 6pm: Chingay Full Dress Rehearsal @ People's Association

I won tickets to the full dress rehearsal at one of the contest held by Passion (a card for community center. I initally joined to go for dim sum class with Mum). Upon reaching, we got a lunch box and a visitor's pass where we (ed and I) can just roam around and take photos with the dancers... I realise I am considered one of the lucky few (about 30 people in total) who won tickets.. Guess my luck is getting better.

Some of the photos taken before the rehearsal

The full dress rehearsal starts...
This is my first time seeing a Chingay live... I must say it is really interesting and vibrant. I am still pretty excited over the fact that I am so up close with the participants... Lucky me..

New year cookies

2008-02-06T22:02:00.000+08:00

Mum and I spend one saturday in Jan baking cookies... Tata.. Our results for the day...

Eventful Week..

2007-12-23T22:04:00.000+08:00

Had a few gatherings this week... Hehe.

19 Dec (Wed)-- Beppu Ramen @ Sun Tec

Met up with Catherine... A teacher now. Still remember the secondary school days where we sat right at the back of the classroom and chatted non-stop. Time flies. Though she has been staying in Bishan for the past 2 years, we have yet to meet for any supper... She is going to shift again soon... Hope we can catch up real soon again. =)

The Ramen was bit soggy.. A bit disappointed. However the soup still taste very nice. I love their dessert too.

20 Dec (Thu) -KTV with Uni friends

Had KTV at Smith Street. Miao Rong got this cheap contact.. $10 for free flow of drinks plus a bowl of Shark fin's soup. We sang for 5 hours(2pm to 7Pm). Paul's friend joined us.. Wow and he really can sing... Applause.

After the sing, we ate at the food street. Omg, I had sore throat straight after that. Must be all the heaty stuff.. hehe.

The turnout...

21 December (Fri evening)

Ages since I last met up with Ting Yi, my secondary school friend. I am so happy that she is doing pretty well right now. It is nice catching up times with friends...

We met at Junction 8, and tried out the HK cafe... This being my second time there.. I ordered the Yuan Yang baked rice.. It basically has salmon, pork chop and the mussel in cheese baked rice. Cost $8. I love the yuan yang there.. Cost $1.30. Best thing, no service charge or GST...

22 December Morning(Sat) -KTV

2007-12-23T21:46:00.000+08:00

KTV at Cathay Orchard...

JC gathering.. Thanks Soon Peng for organising...

I must say the KTV was quite wild.. When Ling Wei and Suat came, they bring up the atmosphere. haha. Wan loong was super on.. In the end, GR, Sp and me are the audience. haha..

Some of the candid photos...

Group photo...

A pity Yu min cant join us.. Hope you are feeling better now...

22 December Evening...

2007-12-23T20:57:00.000+08:00

22Dec-- Christmas Party at Kendrya's House...

Wonder how many of us will still be around next time??? Hang in there ppl.. May our run stay strong..

There is a story for the photo above...Dont wish to elaborate... Hehe. Run ppl will know. haha. Just count the gals as victims.

A pity Yi fan cant join us.. =(

The party sort of turned to become a gambling den. One group was playing bridge, the other was playing dice. Quite fun...

Group photo

Delighted me... 16 Dec (Sun)

2007-12-16T22:59:00.000+08:00

Ed wanted to buy a camera for me as a christmas and birthday prezzie.. We thus sourced for potential cameras for the whole week.. After much filtering, I zoom into the following 2 cameras: Panasonic- TZ2 and Panasonic- FX30... ( after my uncle's recommendation for panasonic cameras as they uses leica lens)

Tz2
Slightly larger is size.. But this camera boosts a 10x optical zoom.. How cool is that... I can capture idols, animals, sceneray at a real close distance... Good for travelling

The Sleak FX30...
with just a 3 times optical zoom. Good for the daily use though.

We then headed to Alan photo at Sim Lim square to look at the cameras. My uncle recommended this place to get cameras as it is generally cheaper than departmental outlets.

Upon weighing the pros and cons, I decided to opt for the sleak FX30 as it is cheaper ($385 vs $470) and it is just nice for daily use. I managed to convince my mum to get the FX30 @ $385 (for a camera, case and a 2G card)... My house only functioning camera has been taken by Coconut to Cambodia. Handicapped in taking photos. Mum thus decided to get a new camera... What a nice timing!

Today, Ed and I then went out to Junction 8 to window shop. Guess what, the Tz2 was selling at $349 for the full package (screen protector, 2Gb card, case, tripod and cleaning kit). The usual selling price was $549 and Alan photo quoted me $470, so when I heard $349, I was so excited that Ed bought it for me right then. Imagine a cost saving of $130!!!

Thus, in the end I have both cameras for 2 different functions.. haha.. But I have to share with my sis and ed.. Anyway, I am still so happy that I got the same product at a so much lesser price.

Some random thoughts on 15 Dec 2007

2007-12-15T23:29:00.000+08:00

1) I love my job till far...

(except for some occasional irritating jobs which I have been nagging over the past few months)
2) I actually enjoy doing stocktake, especially for those interesting clients...

So far I have counted oil tanks, wafers, chips and sealed boxes (tons and tons of it). Usually for stocktake, I get to knock off early. =)
3) Today is my first official workday for a saturday.

Had a stocktake today for about 2 hours and spent the rest of my afternoon documenting it.
4) I actually like lazing at home and I am glued to watching dvds...
5) I dont like to shop during weekends when there are hoard of peoples... (Gen was asking where is the old me.. Why I dont like shopping now? I still love it. It is just that the crowd turns me off)
6) I love to travel and eat. Most people do anyway.
7) I am a planning freak..

I am currently in the midst of preparing for my trip next April to Vietnam.
8) I can listen to the same song over and over again...
9) I dont remember the movies that I have watched.
10) I treasure friendship and relationship a lot. =)
11) My blog cannot capture the date posted so I have to manaully key in the date... hehe.

That's all.. Just some thoughts to think about since I have the time.

Oh ya come to think of it, it has been about a month since I last wrote on my 3 year diary. I bought the diary when I was in Taiwan... It is an interesting diary as each page is divided into 3 sections, so that on the second year you can reflect back on what you actually did the previous year. Think I better go started on doing my "homework"...

Malaysia Day Trip - 8 Dec 2007

2007-12-15T21:23:00.000+08:00

Went to JB early in the morning to meet Ed... Hehe...

Caught a movie The Golden Compass at Leisure mall. I thought the movie was pretty nice. Very fantasy-like, with fairies, polar bear, animals and etc... I was pretty captivated by it.. Ed was a bit sien over the fact that it has the second part... He thus has to watch part 2 for the whole story.. I am in a way quite looking forward to the show. However on second thoughts, I thought the show did not properly handle well some scenes... Why did the main girl character know that the guy was his dad??? Haha. Not to dwell on it.. especially for those who did not watched the show.

I then met up with Ed's friend, yun feng... It was nice meeting up but I was feeling so tired that I nearly doze off while they were talking. hee.. Pai seh ya.

A short trip to somewhere really works wonder.. (especially when it is cheaper to watch movie and eat over there. =))

Uni Gathering @ Thai Express - 6 December 2007

2007-12-15T19:40:00.000+08:00

University Gathering.. =) It has been ages since we last met up with each other. Blur me, thought it was something like a farewell meet-up for Paul. (I innocently thought he will be out station for work. In fact, he will just be away on holiday with his wife. hehe. ) Anyway, it was a nice meet-up on a Thursday evening at Marine square.

Fiery hot Phad That. Both ed and my favourite.

Beware, you will easily get sore throat upon consumption of this.

Gen's recommedation- curry soft shell crab with rice.
A heavenly match with the hot tom yam soup.

Zhen shi and gen..

Me and Rong...

The Group photo. =)

It just happened that we are dressed in black and white. Quite boring but you wont go wrong with these colours. haha. Realised that I am getting more lazy to dress up for work. Just a simple top to match a black skirt and I am all ready for work.

Primary school mini gathering 7 December

2007-12-08T00:28:00.000+08:00

Met up with Jialing, Victor and Ivan... It has been about 10 years since I last saw Ivan... Haha. Still has the blur look on his face though now he is very very much fitter...

Had ding tai fung for dinner @ Raffles city before we headed down to Bishan Dome for coffee.. Met up with Jianwen and Jiaming there.. had fun chatting and reminiscing the past...

A group photo

Standard Chartered Marathon 2007 (2 Dec 2007)

2007-12-03T21:19:00.000+08:00

We did it!!! Congrats to my sis, ed and myself!!!! Though it was a gruesome 8 hours walk and run, I did enjoy myself... another great achievement off my list... Thanks love, for introducing these sports in my life... We managed to accomplish it together.

Posing for a shot at 5am in the morning right outside fullerton...

This signals about 50% of the marathon done... which means from then on, we are walking all the way back to Padang... think we walked about 5 hours to get back...

After the run.. Excited us.. I so badly wanted to sit down then. never in my life have I ever felt so good to be sitting down.

We have indeed earned it.. so proud of myself.. Think i am going to join again next year.. but definitely with more training in place... anyway, think I have recovered from the run yesterday... woo hoo.. Though i still cannot run and jump. haha.

23 Nov 2007 (Friday) Relaxing day

2007-11-25T22:35:00.000+08:00

Half day at work as we have some trail thing going on and today is our annual Company day.

After work, Huiwen n I checked out the gym.. Hehe..

After which, we went to Waraku @ Central for dinner... Both of us ordered the regular seafood curry udon. Xian, the udon is really very nice. Very spongy. However both of us were so bloated at the end.. The workout @ the gym vanish in thin air... Hehe..

I was so bemused over the big bowl that I snap with my hand on top of it.. It is so huge. The serving size is also much more. Felt like I am in some gastronomic Japanese competition. Seafood is very fresh, udon spongy and curry gravy nice nice...

We then walked around at Liang court and Central before we settled down at Cafe Iguana for the Macho Margarita... It is so huge!!! Hahah. Wonder why both of us are so into huge Huge things. haha.. Cost $22 plus (usual about $36 i think) as we drank during the happy hours... So we are happy too.. we chatted and the drink can last us for about 1.5hr before we headed back home @ about 11pm. A fulfilling day...

Strawberry margarita

Dessets n Food

2007-11-25T22:11:00.000+08:00

Muffins from Chocolat N' Spice.
Lovely. First time I acknowledge that a muffin is nice. It is soft and not dry.. I can easily eat up 2 at one go. You can get it at Tanjong Pagar or Shun fu road.

Chewy mochi.
Not very nice. It has different coats at the top layer. Inside is some chocolate cream thingy with a chewy crust. It really is neither here nor there.. $1/piece. Not for the picky ones. Located at the shop beside chocolate n spice at Tanjong Pagar.

Heard from my mum that they are opening a second outlet at the new space in Bugis Junction.

Pepper lunch

Salmon creamy pasta.. PAsta sauce is a bit little and not very flavourful. The pepper rice still score the points.

HK cafe @ Junction 8 (located opposite Ding Tai Fung)
Went with mummy to check out this place. The yuan yang is only $1.3 and the yuan yang dessert (almond mix and black sesame mix) cost $2.5. What is worth mentioning is the HK chicken baked rice with mushroom. The portion is huge and cost $7. The chicken is also quite tender and tasty. However the rice is a bit watery and so so only. However the chicken and cheese makes up for it.

The good thing is that the prices are net (without any GST or service charge)

Canele @ Paragon
Finally got my hands on the Macarons. I keep on seeing it on newspaper about this new dessert from France. It is actually made of almond biscuit with filling in the center. To my amaze, the biscuit is very soft with a light tinge of almond flavour.

Lovely. I tried the caramel one. A bit sweet but it is heavenly. For this small dessert, it cost $1.8 each.

This chocolate cake is very nice and sinful.. It is quite ni till the end. MAybe because I was too full le. Cost $6.5 ++

October Runs

2007-10-28T16:39:00.000+08:00

SGX Bull Run ( 19 October 2007)

A run with Jaxine organised by the company... A fun run... A nice feeling to be running along shenton way during evening time.. My first ever experience. My previous run was in the day with the huge scorching sun... Please look at Jaxine's blog @ http://www.xanga.com/sugarn5pice/

Jaxine, you did a great job so I will just link to yours.. ( Haha.. I am actually lazy)

Great Eastern Run ( 21 October 2007)

Signed up the 5km run with my sister. Should have signed up the 10km run to train for endurance run... But anyway given the fact we have the same goodie bag so it's oK!! haha.

The run is for females only... During the run, I was thinking if any guys appear running, it will look super off as he will be outcast.. Just then I saw a guy running, presumably running with his gf.. It does not look that weird afterall.. But maybe he is feeling damn weird with a hoard of females around him.

After the run, met up with Ed for breakfast @ Cafe cartel.. Thanks for the breakfast...

New Balance Real Run (28 October 2007)

Woke up at 530am! Head a cab down to Changi Exhibition Centre @ Changi Coast Road. Managed to reach at 655am, just 5 mins before the road closes at 7am to 10am.

The long awaited 15km run started at 745am! Off we go.. Unlike the other race, the race feature a 12km road+1km sand+1km ruanway +1km trail.

In a way, I quite like this marathon. The race was pretty well organsied and running by the beach is a new and refreshing feeling.

After an 2 hours intense run, Ed and I finally make it. Poor him, he has to slow down his pace to suit me and along the way, I was being lazy.. haha~ My longest marathon so far..

Our runner's bib.. Looks so pretty with the baby colours..

The goodie shoe bag.. It comes with a matching Lightning dry Top...

Food...

2007-10-24T17:58:00.000+08:00

Located opposite Bugis junction. It is located right behind the Apple strudel store. I have been wanting to try their food ever since I saw the long queue during lunch time. (I was working near there a few months back.)

The fish soup is nice. About $4. Not for people who dont like sweet stuff. Their soup is a bit on the sweet side. The claypot chicken @ $8 is also quite huge.. The beer cost about $6. Pretty reasonable.

Ed ordered this new dish from Pepper Lunch. Nice taste but a bit petite for one to be full. More of like some finger food.

I tried this dessert shop opposite Sim Lim square. Not very nice though. Was a bit disappointed. The ice is not that smooth and the mango is not that sweet. I still prefer the dessert made in Taiwan. I am missing it..

Mango dessert with mango and mango sorbet. Think it cost about $5 for a small serving.

Food again!

2007-10-17T22:24:00.000+08:00

Prefere ice-cream @ Velocity

Very nice ice-cream. My sister and I tried the cherry yoghurt and grape ice- cream. The cherry yoghurt is nicer although the grape one has chocolate bits in it. Their ice cream texture is very thick and creamy. Lovely. $3.50/scoop.

Mama Bakery @ Velocity

A japanese bakery. I bought a few of their interesting breads such as crushed pear bread and several others. It tasted very normal. My expectations for japanese bakery is acutally quite high after I tried the bread @ Petite. However, the japanese granny @ the shop is very warm and friendly. Below is their signature bread. Nothing very spectacular. $2.50.

But this chocolate scone is actually quite nice. $1.80 (if I am not wrong). This is the only nicest one out of the others that I bought.

Muffins @ Amande, the almond bakery @ Toa Payoh Central

I tried this chocolate bumble bee muffin. Quite chocolaty. Cost $1.2/piece. This cake shop sells quite a lot of almond stuff which taste quite nice too. They have several other interesting looking muffins too.

Huge Murtabak @ Bras Brasah

My first time seeing such a huge chicken Murtabak! It is about the size of a tray. Tasted so-so but it is super filling. Cost $5.

Malaysia short trip (6-7 Oct)

2007-10-17T21:59:00.000+08:00

Portuguese chicken with spaghetti @ City square. A must eat everytime I go malaysia. The portuguese egg tart is also quite nice.

Mee Pattaya for Supper.

Tissue prata. Crispy and sweet.

Ban Mian at a stall near leisure mall. Love it.. The clear soup is very tastful and they have meat ball inside it.

Guess what's this?

Heart shaped nuggets. Pretty amused by it.

Realised that I spend most of my money on food! There is so much to eat over there. Cheap and yummy food. Will love to go there soon again.

Back from Batam (29 Sept- 1Oct) - A fulfilling trip

2007-10-03T22:08:00.000+08:00

Batam trip (3 days 2 night) with my hall friends, Xian, Qi and Fan...

Feel very comfortable and at ease whenever I am with them. They are almost like my family... Thanks gals. I really treasure our friendship together.

After looking at xian's blog, http://kenixmun.livejournal.com/ , fond memories came back. Gals, we must do travelling more often. Xian you did a marvellous job. (Hehehe so I took the initiative to link to your blog)

I had a great time there. I feel really fortunate to know you gals!!! Life definitely will not be the same without anyone of you. Thanks gal. May our friendship last forever.

Mooncakes

2007-09-15T18:12:00.000+08:00

Yi Fan Proud masterpiece.

Lovely mooncakes! Notice the wordings on the mini mooncake. Fragant pandan mini mooncakes. My first mooncake for the year. Thanks Fan for these lovely mooncakes...

Gelare Ice Cream Mooncake

Raffles Hotel Mooncake

Champagne Mooncake. Inside the mooncake is a ball of white champagne chocolate truffle. At first when I bite into it, I was expecting the champagne to oooze out. However it didn't. A bit disappointing.. But quite an innovative idea to fix truffle with mooncake.

Baked Mooncake from Raffles Hotel with macadamia nut and twin egg yolk.Lovely.

Thanks Uncle for the mooncakes.. His company got 20% discount so he got it for us... So nice of him.

Mum's birthday @ Melben Seafood

2007-09-15T17:48:00.000+08:00

Celebrated mum's birthday at Melben Seafood. Gen had been saying that the crabs there are a must try... Very fresh indeed. However I was sick on that day so did not really have much appetite...

Vegetables with all sorts of mushroom... $12/plate

Bamboo clam in garlic... Most expensive dish.. $40/5 sticks

Crab fish bee hoon... $35

Chilli Crab $35

Man tous $4/10 piece

Conclusion: The bamboo clams are nice.. But a bit too pricey. Love the crabs.. My sis who is not a fan for buttery stuff do not like the fish bee hoon. I thought it was pretty nice. Tasted like cream of mushroom with the tinge crab in it.

Mizuno New Shoes and Socks

2007-09-15T17:42:00.000+08:00

Mine. Mizuno Wave Rider 10... All ready for the marathon... We did a foot analysis at both Mizuno and New Balance. Mizuno one is more high tech. Use computer to scan the foot... However the New Balance guys at Raffles City are very helpful.

ta ta... My Shoes... All ready for the marathon...

Ed's shoes...Waver Rider 10 too...

My socks... Matching socks to go with my shoes.

Petite Provence (Super Duper Nice Bread) @ Central

2007-09-08T00:07:00.000+08:00

A relaxing day.. I finished my supposedly full day training course in half a day. It was a computer based training so it is an own time own target thing..

After lunch at Hong lim today, Xian, Hui wen and I went to Central to shop. Hui wen keep on saying that there is a very nice bread there. Of course we got to check out that.

The bread was really superb.. Can be compared to my love for doughnuts from Doughnut Factory. This bread is my favourite among all the other breads that I have eaten. These 2 food are on par with each other. Come to think of it, I really wish I can savour them now.

I tried the chocolate petite wassant (as shown below)... Super fluffy and soft.. Easily chewable and smooth that it can simply melt in your mouth.. With a few bites, I have gobbled them up.. It will be a bonus if it is more chocolaty but anyway it is still simply heaven... $0.50 per piece..

I also tried the chesese ball (as shown below)... Has a very chewy mochi texture. However the light fragant cheese smell and taste in it can be quite heavy and you cant eat much of this... Cost $0.80/piece..

One thing to note, their breads are super hot selling... Hui wen say there is a wider collection at Holland Village. Got to check that out someday... By the way, i researched and found out that their milk bun is a hot favourite too. http://www.hungrygowhere.com/provence

Details
Petit Provence located at B1-29
Tel: 6534-9029 Opens: 11am to 10pm daily

Another smaller branch of the Holland Village bakery selling wassant, or Japanese soft bread, and croissants in assorted flavours.

Price: From 50 cents for one wassant to 80 cents for a chocolate croissant with a chocolate bar in the middle

Cookery 8th lesson

2007-09-07T23:06:00.000+08:00

Radish Puff

Love the spirals on the pastry. Looks like UFO.

Crystal dumplings...

Nice food. The filling is very yummy...

My last lesson of the advance course. Felt a bit guilty that I am no longer attending it with mum for the basic courses. My excuse was to get prepared for the peak... Excuses (as always)... Hehe. Hope my mum will continue to whip up nice dim sum for us.

Safra AHM 2007

2007-08-26T19:20:00.000+08:00

Safra AHM run this morning at esplanade drive! Had to report at 7am.

This is like a sneak preview of what is like for the standard chartered marthon that we going to run in Dec. A freaking 42km run. Wonder what was going on in my mind when I agreed to run with Ed. Hee. But it is going to be a great achievement if I did manage to complete the run.

The run today was pretty organised and fun. My sister and her friends came for the run too. In the end, the run was like a competition between her group and us. Whenever I saw my sister is approaching, I will start to run so that i am always a step ahead of her. Hehe. I am pretty lazy when it comes to run. Ok, in the end my sister won! haa.

Guess I have to start training on inclination. Was a torture when I had to run on the hilly highway. Jia you Cindy, you can do it!

WOMAD 24 Aug (Friday)

2007-08-26T18:31:00.000+08:00

WOMAD- Acronym for World of Music Arts & Dance.
A 3 day event. Ed and I went on the first day. An interesting platform which showcasts a wide variety of great different kind of music. We reached at 7pm and stayed till 1140pm. My personal favourite are the Mahotella Queens from South Africa.

They are a group of 10 people although only about 6 turned up on that day. Their age are generally above 50 years old. Oh boy, the ladies really can dance despite their age. Their bubbly personalities and happy song is a great start to the event.

The Fort Canning Park Center.

Me and the WOMAD icon

While seated on the grass watching the performance. The drinks are on the house. Thanks to the Sponsor.

United us!

Helping ourselves to the free drink. The cool part is that the drinks are inside this big huge container made of ice.

The Fort Green Stage

Another of my personal favourite- Taste the World. An event which WOMAD artiste whip up a dish for us to try. I got the luck of trying out mouth watering speciality from Senegal called Chicken Yassa by Daara J. The cooks in action...

Quite nice. Sweet and sour. Quite delicious. Rice is those sticky type but the green thingy is too sour for my liking.

I succumbed to temptation. Ordered the beer butt chicken from Bloodie's Roadhouse Bar & Grill. Nice nice. Cost $9 with the nacho chips. An eventful day!

Food reviews

2007-08-19T15:49:00.000+08:00

Far East Square

There is the chinese cake shop near the push cart selling the Algera shoes. Love these panda cakes. Thanks Huixian for the recommendation. It is the nicest egg cake that I have eaten. $1.10/ panda cake.

Orchard Cathay Cineleisure Basement

BBQ Chicken.

A new food outlet from Korea.

My food, Hot hot drums. Cost about $6 plus for these 2 drumsticks. The chicken is very juicy and the hotness is just nice for my liking. Thought it tasted nicer than KFC.

Ed's sandwich. Quite disappointing. Serving portion is way too small! Moreover the bread was so hard! The filling inside is so little that the bread mask the chicken taste. Will not recommend their sandwich.

Plaza Singapura basement 1:

Q Q Rice.

Originated from Taiwan. There are a total of 4 rices (mixed grain rice, purple rice, wheat germ brown and brown rice) to choose from. I choose the purple rice and the wheat germ brown rice.

After which you can choose 5 fillings to be put inside your rice wrap. There are a total of about 30 fillings to choose from. To play safe, I chose mushrooms (quite nice, though I know Gen hates them. haha), tandoori chicken, turkey bacon, pan fried egg and japanese cucumber. They will heat up the food before serving.

Tasted quite healthy. I went for the set menu which includes the purple rice drink. Tasted like soy bean with a hinge of the purple rice. However I felt that the drink was too bland for my liking. Oh ya, they have pudding to go along too. I have yet to try that though.

A set meal with the wrap and the drink cost $4.90. Not exactly cheap but still affordable. Will eat it when I want to feel healthy. Haha. However my first choice will still goes to subway.

Interesting Japanese food

2007-08-19T15:40:00.000+08:00

Nicknamed Voo Doo Chips by the Straits Time. I got hold of it but due to the long queue at Fairprice Bishan, I put it back. Since two weeks back, i have yet to get it. It is always out of stock since the review. Will really love to get my hands on these chips soon. By the way, I love gyoza!

Grape biscuit. Saw it on a review some time back. Was so excited when I saw it. But was kinda disappointed with the biscuit. A bit too soft for my liking. Moreover, the price was a bit pricey for 16 biscuits. Cost at $3.10/pack.
While on my sourcing for the voodoo gyoza chips, I chanced upon these marshallows. The interesting thing is that it is filled with collagen. I have yet to buy it as I dont really like collagen. Tried the fancl TenseUp, tasted still ok. Oh ya, for the new vitagen collagen series, I thought the rose and lavender taste were weird. The original is still ok. After my experiences with collagen, were a bit apprehensive about collagen. But for the sake of beauty, maybe will give these sweets a chance!

Cookery Class 6 and 7

2007-08-19T15:27:00.000+08:00

Cookery Class 6:

Lotus paste bun.

The bun skin is layered. Looks seem healthly, but actually the skin is quite fattening due to the use of crisco. (A type of oil) Moreover the lotus paste is quite high in sugar content.

Char Shao Bao. Love these. The trick to make the bun rip apart at the top is to seal the top with slightly flatter flour.

Cookery Class 7:

Yam Paste. One of my favourite tim sum. Nice nice.

Multi layer pastry with lotus paste inside.

Glass painting 29 July 2007

2007-08-18T09:31:00.000+08:00

The organsier! My second class with them Previously was doing clay sculpting. Prefer that more. Glass painting is easier though. Love to go on art classes. Considered quite a deal to go for classes organised by THE NEW PAPER which cost $20/person. If I were to enter personally outside will cost $80/person/session.

Me at work!

Persuaded Ed to go with me. A complete lost look! Luckily we just trace the figure on the glass. My hands nearly cramped while doing the outlines. The teacher even joked " We will have a way with eyeliners, next time round."

My final product!

His masterpiece!

Secretary life ~Feeling contented

2007-08-07T15:41:00.000+08:00

My second day of being a secretary. Quite nice and relaxed. Nice company and nice companionship. Because I am just a relief, so dont have the full scope of secretary. On my first day, I was remarking how I can stand an extreme quiet environment. I could even hear my own breathing in the room.

But... All this change on the second day. I guess I could live with it forever forever.

GC outing at Clark Quay

2007-07-28T01:02:00.000+08:00

Photo taken before the meal. Famished...

Thanks to Wen Hao for making the effort to organize a meet-up. A year ago, we were still in the US having fun... Some photos taken at the Riverside Indonesian Restaurant. The food was nice and relatively reasonable. $13 for a 6 course meal. Quite decent... Will love to go again.

Guess the food explains it all ... The downside is that there must be at least 4ppl to enjoy the $10 6-course meal.

The full turnout. Quite a successful event! Cheers to Wen hao! Applause to all who turn up to. Yu Hui, let's look forward to the next outing. =)

Mizuno Wave Run 2007 22 Jul (Sun)

2007-07-26T23:03:00.000+08:00

I woke up at 5am on a Sunday Morning.. I sacrifice my sleep beacause of my first marathon, Mizuno Wave Run.

Registration starts at 630am at Temasek Polytechnic, located at Bedok. And imagine I am staying at Bishan! Luckily, I realise that somewhere near my house, there is a somewhat direct bus going to Temasek Polytechnic.

Amidst all my preparations, I woke up in horror to find it was raining heavily at about 5am. I quickly nudged Ed (who was staying over at my place the night before) to ask him should we still go. However I was still quite stubborn and insisted in going. Afterall this was my first marathon.

When the rain got smaller, we took a cab down (after 20mins of waiting in the rain.) We wanted to call a cab but clever us, we left our handphones at home.

We successfully reached at 715am and the weather had gotten better. I was surprise by the optimistic turnout. We then warmup and started running.

We completed the run in 30 mins! I did not know we have finished the run as there was no indication of "Finish Line". When i was near the ending point for the 5km fun run, what I heard was " 10km runners, please keep to the left." My mind was then yelling, " What about the 5km runners? Arent we runners too!!!"

As I need to answer nature's call and with a restroom in sight, I dashed for it. Ed then caught hold of me and asked me to pass him my goodie bag tag. I was like "Are you 100% certain that we have finish?" Anyway, there is no harm in giving him the tag.

Guess what, when I came out of the washroom, Ed was holding both goodies...

Woo-hoo, we have really completed the run. I was so proud of myself! We also managed to save ourself from queuing as Ed was one of the first few to collect the goodies. About 15mins later, the queue was horrendous!

Clueless about if there is any other activities going on, Ed and I left the place at about 9am for a nice breakfast.

Oh ya, we signed up for another 12km Safra run on Sunday too!! Upcoming event in End August. Looking forward to it. I am sure I can finish 12km in maybe an hour plus plus.. (Cross my fingers *^^*)

Cookery class 4 and 5

2007-07-26T22:54:00.000+08:00

Cookery class 4:

4 flavour dumpling and Char Sao Su

To create the yellow top, the trick is to lacquer a layer of egg yolk on top.

Cookery Class 5:

Dumplings and Ham Chi Peng

To make your dumplings firm, fold in from the side and end, before sealing it up in the center.

Simpson Movie on 25 Jul (Wed)

2007-07-26T22:50:00.000+08:00

I am not a cartoon person. However Ed is real lover for cartoons, especially Simpson. Being a nice gal, we went to catch the sneak preview on Wed. Amazingly it is nice and I enjoyed my show thoroughly. It is definitely more interesting and action pack as compared to the Harry Potter which I watched last week for the company event.

My cookery class lesson 1, 2 and 3

2007-07-13T20:35:00.000+08:00

Signed up for this dim sum class with Mummy. A total of 8 lessons, conducted on every thu for 3 hours. I nearly dozed off while listening to the teacher. 3 hours is really long!

So far these are what I have learnt after attending three classes, red bean kueh, fried char shao bun, fried red bean pancake, chee cheong fun, green onion cake and prawn cake.

I was so enthu about the red bean pancake that over the weekend, mum and I decided to practice our skills in making the fried red bean pancake. And tata. We suceeded.!!!! Delighted me. Besides that, I have also learnt another lesson. Cooking is really tedious. I kept on perspire when I was kneading the dough. Haha!

Red bean kueh

Fried char chao bun.

DId not really like it. The bread texture was too rough.

Yummy Fried red bean pancake

The way in preparing the pastry skin is very interesting. HAve to twist here and there to create the layered texture. Interesting~

Nice chee cheong fun

Filed with prawns and meat.

Green Onion Cake.

The texture is chewy chewy. Did not know that it could taste nice with just green onion inside.

Fried prawn cake

Very nice too. Did your realise most are fried...

Ping Party @ Geek Terminal on 07/07/07

2007-07-13T20:23:00.000+08:00

Went to this cool party at Geek Terminal on 07/07/07 (SAT) after my bf said that he is going to support the Founder, Uzyn. I must admit that initially I went for it because of the free food! And I thought it will be very cool to go to a place called Geek Terminal. I was expecting something like those "Expo-kind" It was only on that day, I realise that Geek Terminal is actually a cafe located at OUB centre, opposite Golden Shoe.

I was "wow" by the place. I did not expect they even have an indoor seminar kind of room. By the way, they serve real nice coffee. Check them out below.

Our first cup of coffee. Ed bought this just mins before there was free flow of drinks to any beverages off their list. But the $$ we paid for was totally worth it. This is my first time seeing patterns made in front of my eyes. By the way, the drink was about $4.

I then tried the hot mocha coffee. Totally heart it!! HEard from the patrons there that their hot coffee sells better.

I really enjoyed the party. Though a bit lost (as I did not know anyone there except for my bf and his friends) But, you can really see how cohesive the ping community is. Check out the webbie at http://www.ping.sg/.

Taiwan Day 9 ( 11 June Mon)

2007-07-05T23:18:00.000+08:00

Breakfast at 815am: The Cafeteria opposite our Hotel. The Dan4 Bing on the left is very nice.

Morning 9am:

Left Ximending. Took 2 hours to get to Liu Fu Chun. I was quite looking forward to it after Shujie said her bf was very much into it. However on the way up, I realised liu fu chun was quite ulu, and quite run down. Our spirits were dampen as I was expecting something comparable to Disneyland. I guess is the expectations that we have set. Actually I think there was less than 100 ppl on the day that we went. We do not need to queue for any rides and there were hardly any people in sight. "It will be more interesting if we could queue for maybe 2 mins" (Quoted from Ed)

We took almost all the rides that could fit us! Haha. Some rides we even sat twice or thrice as we dont even need to queue at all! That's why Ed is in a shoe turning round and round.

See just me and Ed on board the Merry Go ROund.

There is a zoo theme in Liu fu Chun. Thought the zoo theme was much better than those in Singapore. They have a open concept zoo and in the comfort of this steam engine train, you can tour around and have close up views of the animals.

I made a cup and had 2 photos of this. Found it very cute. My expression was about to cry while Ed was super happy. This was a candid shot by the machine. We were sitting the "Pagoda's Revenge" This was my first time sitting the free fall like game. Scary when I heard that it was 17 storeys high. However, it was actually really nothing to be scared off. Before I could feel the thrill, the ride was over. A bit anti climax.

The one tallest with an Egyptian head is the "PAgoda's Revenge"

The two peaks, one is straight while the other is twisted is called the "Screaming Condor" THis is real scary. 100times for scary than the Pagoda's Revenge. After mustering much courage, I sat that. The ride will go up and down twice. This compensated for the less exciting rides in Liu Fu Chun. Our impression took a slight turn after sitting this.

Close up view of the Screaming Condor. It looks much scarier when you see it from below. It was not that scary when you are on it. Make sure you are not full when you see on it. Every ride there is bound to be people who puke from the ride.

7p.m: Ximending
Dinner at Ximending. We decided to try this after I saw nice reviews about this. The ambience is nice and though it is a restaurant, the price is more affordable than those in Singapore. We spend a total of about S$30 at this restaurant but we were very full and satisfied!

Soup and Salad

Mine is curry udon with seafood

Ed's curry rice in beef.

Ed's dish selling point it that there is free refills of rice and curry! But after the second serving of his rice, he was too full to eat any other stuff!

Green tea dessert at Magic Curry. It was amazingly nice.

Our Taiwanese friends keep on asking us to eat this thing called Yannick at a shopping centre at Ximending. THe one opposite the KTV! However they did not say what was it. So we went in search for this good food highly recommended by our frenzs. Was so ma lu as I pronounced the name wrongly but luckily the salesperson there still can get understand what we are asking for. SO ta ta our Yannick... A hazelnut cake. Yannick is actually the brand of a cake. Faint.

I ate a total of 9 凉圆 (=NT30) all by myself as Ed does not eat anything sweet. Looks pretty but only taste so so. The honeydew one was not too bad though.

I caught Ah Gei. 11 June is his birthday. I was so happy that I kept smiling all the way back to our hotel. The person at the shop was very nice. They will put the toy back in its original place once it got out of position so that it will be easier for you to catch. The shop is near Ximending but I forgot the name of the shop. Somemore it was really worthwhile. Catch small dale get big dale. I caught it at NT140 (=S$7)! SUper worth it!

Taiwan Day 8 (10 June Sun)

2007-06-27T16:03:00.001+08:00

Breakfast 9am:

Ting Yun mum's whipped up a sumptuous breakfast. Touched!

Morning 10 am:

Went to Zhong Zheng Da Xue where Ting Yun's dad was teaching at. Heard from Ting Yun that liu2 xing1 hua1 yuan2 was taken down there. Those were the days where I was so crazy over the F4.

Afternoon12pm:

Ting Yun's mum treated us to some rare deliciaes which some I dont dare to try at all. There is a chicken penis meal, which looks like mini sausage. However, I still dare not muster up enough courage to eat it.

Some rare soup. I forgot what was it. But it tasted normal and not bad. Tasted like bak kut teh.

Nice delicious prawns

This is it.. Looks scary right!!!!!!!!!!

There are still a lot of nice food such as Fish and Unagi, but I was so foreigner when I keep snapping photos.. hee. So I ate my food quietly. Act demure. haha.

Thanks Ting Yun and Family for treating us so well when we were there. Will miss the laughters in your house!

After our meal, we took the 2pm bus to go back to Taipei. Ting Yun's dad cut the tian mi mi pineapple for us to eat on the trip back. They also packed some tit bits for us to eat along the way. So sweet!

Evening 6pm:

We went to the 24 hour Cheng Ping Shu Dian then took a train to get to Zhongxiao to get to the Book street. I continue on my shopping spree. Bought stickers and some cute cute books. Oh ya, I chance upon the cart when I was at the Book street. This uncle was selling some white spongy chestnut look alike thingy. After asking him, I realise it was muah chee. But it looks different from those in Singapore.

Uncle will wrap the lighter peanut filling into the muah chee then coat it with the darker peanut powder. Sweet and chewy. Nice! The uncle was very nice. He wanted a photo of us taken together and even treated us to 5 extra when we ordered 10 of them. Nice Uncle!

10pm:

Headed back to Ximending to eat the Oyster! Tasted completely different from those in Singapore. More chewy and the gravy is sweet. Not bad but I still prefer those in Singapore

Ate this cuttlefish geng1 at Xie Xie. Those the soup base!!!! Heard from my Taiwanese frenzs that this Xie xie outlet has been at Ximending for very long and is a lao zhao pai.

Continued on my Catch a toy spree. Caught this two sweeties, a hamburger and a chocolate cake! Actually it rolled down after the one that I caught dropped on to the pile that is below. Iw as so excited then!!!

My supper! Aloe vera snow flakes at __ Xiong Di. Forgot the surname but this is quite popular. Their employee will give out free name card size coupons to redeem free pearls when you buy any of their dessert. Very nice!

Back at work!

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This week I have been on mostly half day jobs!!! Stock take, cash count, stat review and audit all in a week! Cant believe it. My first week back in office and I have to move around so much!

Luckily the job is still alright! I am now on OA, Nothing much to do. Hope my Thu and Fri will be good also! Wonder why they want to book me 2 days for half day each. It is seriously not very time effective except for the fact that they want me to do overtime for it. =(

Oh ya, I am now hooked to playing DS. Ed got one and Coconut got one. It is really very fun to play! Love the dancing game.

This WEEK

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Monday 18 June: Went to Malaysia to catch movie and shopping with Ed and Coconut.

Watched 鬼阿鬼啊！A super lame show. Luckily we only paid RM5 for it. The theatre only had three of us and I kept on complaining throughout the show. The worst show I have ever watched. I was dissatisfied so we caught Ocean Thirteen. Much better. Brad Pitt is so handsome. Ed's parents then treated my sis and I for lunch and dinner. Nice nice. Despite they say Malaysia is becoming more dangerous, I still love the place. Just have to be more careful.

We then went to City square to shop. I bought myself a top. I only spent RM60 for the whole day. Great achievement! Considering the fact that I bought MacDonald, 1 top and titbits.

Tuesday 19June: Tuition in the morning and met up with Ed to shop around

Wednesday 20 June: Met up with Catherine for breakfast at coffee bean. I am surprise that they serve breakfast and at an affordable price of about $7. There is also free refills. A healthy breakfast.

Thursday 21 June: Back to work for training session. Met up with Ed, Yumin and Henree in the evening for dinner at Queensway. It was nice catching up old times with them. They were shopping for furniture. So nice. They are like a newly wed couple shopping for furnitures!

Friday 22 June: My last day of TOiL. Sob.. Went with my sister, Coconut to Ding Tai Fung for Lunch. We are watching a Korean drama called Fantasy couple. The lead actress keep on saying she want to eat Zha Jiang Mian, thereby tempting us to eat also. We also ordered yummy xiao long bao.

Met up with Ed in the afternoon to SHOP! Was supposed to go rollerblading but the weather was not very good. I was more of like finding excuses of not going. Got phobia to blade. My blading skills is really lousy. I can walk even faster than I blade. Imagine my progress.

I bought RISK, a board game for ED. Many many years ago, Ed had already said he wanted to buy. But it was only when we saw that there was a 20% discount at Robinsons then I decided to buy for him. After discount was about $37. We played the game today at my house. Quite fun and I claim to be the winner. haha!

Oh ya, when we were walking from Orchard to PS. I happened to see a crowd outside PS. There was a gal with several envelopes on the floor. From the DJ, we knew that she has to open a envelope to see how much she has won inside. Surprisingly, the gal managed to win the most money. $50 in a envelope!!!! Next, the DJ from FM88.3 wants another player and guess what, he chose me. He nearly stressed me out when I knew that I had to answer a question correctly before I could open the envelope.I had to guess a singer and luckily after much hints from the DJ, I managed to guess correctly. Ed keep on mouthing the answer out but I just could not get it. The answer was Tao Zhe but what I saw Ed mouthing was Chong Qing. Haha. Much to my excitement, I only won $2 but this was better than nothing. With that $2, we did this. But.... Today never win. =( No luck. Hahah.

Ed and I then decided to sign up for the Mizuno Run wave on 22 July. Woo hoo, we signed up for the 5km fun run. Anybody else interested to join??? The only downside is that we have to wake up super early. We have to report 630am at Temasek Poly Sports stadium.

We then ended off the day at Thai Express. I love it!!!! Ate once before we left Taiwan and we were craving for it again. The phat thai which describe that only beer could quench the fire is really very nice! Very shiok. Ed ordered a fried rice which said that it was the King fav food. That was just so-so.. A bit salty. I enjoyed my day today!

Saturday 23 June: Woke up at 11am. Kickboxing at 1pm. Ed came over to my place to play RISK. Fun game. Need strategy and luck to expand your territory. I make a lot of noise during the game. hahaa.. I kept complaining that Ed foul during the game.

Sunday 24 June: Going to teach tuition in the afternoon. Going to meet Ed to shop for his present. Got to shop before the GST hike.

Realised that I met Ed the whole of this week!!! hehee.. Cant believe it. but I am enjoying times spent with him.

Taiwan Day 7 (9 June Sat)

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Morning: Was supposed to head up to Ah Li San. However the weather has been raining for the past few days and a few cars have been hit by falling debris. We thus had a change of plans and Ting Yun's mum suggested us accompanying her to some gathering with Principals and Teachers. By the way, my friend's mum is actually the principal of a primary school while her day is a professor and a university. Impressive.

饭团. You Tiao, peanut and some salty vegetables wrapped in glutinious rice. Tasted not bad.

We then followed his mum up 梅山。I hope I remembered correctly. We went up to view the scenery. Seriously, Ed and I did not know where we were heading as their parents have arranged for us. So we were hurried into the car and off we went! This peanut is very nice. Haha. I bought a packet back to Sinapore. Cant imagine that I can even buy stuff at the restaurant where we were having lunch. We joined all the teachers and principal for a free lunch. Haha..

A delicacy. 山猪皮。I dont like it.. Rubbery and a tangy taste. But Ed said it was nice. Different preferences.

Ed, Ting Yun, Me and Ting Yun's Mum. The wind was going strong!

The scenery that we saw up at the 梅山。

Afternoon 4p.m.: We took a train to get to Jia yi.

The tear dropped shaped sweet was super sweet. Luckily I bought one only. I could not even finish one and had to throw it after 2 bites. Too sweet for my liking.

This is called 状元糕. Very nice. Taste like Tuk tuk kueh but even nicer. The skin is spongy, full and moist. The fillings are either black sesame or peanut. Only saw this food at Jia yi. Must try!

Ting yun is a good catcher. She caught this Mushroom for Ed and I. Love it. She got me hooked to the toy catching machine when I was back in Ximending. haha. Ed literally had to pull me out for each stall.

This basketball machine is also very common. My ball aiming is super lousy. Got a point of only 18, Ed 30plus while Ting Yun got about 50. Some experts can play up to 100.

Our day ended off with 喷水鸡肉饭。Jiayi is famous for chicken rice. Shredded chicken with some special sauce gravy white rice. I still prefer Hainanese Chicken rice.

Taiwan Day 6 ( 8 June Fri)

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Morning: Went to Shandao Temple station, Hua Shan Shi Chang for breakfast. Highly recommended by my Taiwanese friends. Must try the hou4 shao1 bing3. But i love the round ball with sesame on top. There are two kinds, salty and sweet. I tried only the salty one and it is yummy!

After breakfast, we went back to Ximending to walk around and to have lunch. Barely 2 hours after breakfast, we went to 谢谢 for 鱿鱼geng and dumplings. The soup based is nice and the geng thingy is actaully cuttlefish in flour batter. Taste qutie unique. I love their soup base, creamy and bursting with flavour. However, I am not too passionate about their dumplings so in the end, Ed has to eat up the whole 9 dumplings.

At 2pm, we went to the train station to catch a train to go to 大林 to find Ting Yun. After 3.5 bus ride, we finally reached at about 730p.m.

Our dinner was treated by her mum. The below is Geese meat, which is served chilled. Taste like duck meat.

This fish is nice. Nothing much spectacular..

This is 甜蜜蜜凤梨。I have never eaten such a nice pineapple before. Very sweet and very smooth. It does not bite your tongue At all!!! Amazing. As this is the season for pineapples, they eat this almost every meal. I love it. Ting yun has been betrusted with the name as 甜蜜蜜小姐。

This is 香瓜。 The shape is unique. While walking around the neighbourhood, I chance upon the fruit store and bought those which I find special, the 香瓜 and the Taiwan Mangoes. They are smaller in size but it is also very sweet. I love taiwan fruits. Ok so far, I have not really say anything that I dont really like. Haha. Oh ya, the 香瓜actually taste like honeydew.

The Taiwan mangoes. You can just peel the skin off and consume it.

Our supper. 东山鸭头。 I am not sure if it is spelled like that but the name is similar. Remember earlier we went to the 卤味 place and just ordered toufu and egg. This time round, after Ting Yun's recommedation, we tried the Ya1 Dan3 and the 鸭脖子 and 猪血糕。 The 鸭脖子 is very nice. Cant believe I really ate it. This franchise is special as they will fry it, making it exceptionally tasty. I ate twice during my 2 days at dalin. I saw this outlet at Shilin also.

Night spent catching up times with Ting Yun. Thanks gal for letting us stay at your place. We really enjoyed it!

Taiwan Day 5 (7 June Thu)

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First Stop: 公馆（University Area)

At 台北大学

The school premises.

While walking from 公馆 to get to the 台湾棋院，we passed by a traditional bakery shop and we bought the biscuit to munch on. It melts in your mouth but it is a bit dry.

Second Stop: 台湾棋院
After half an hour walk from 公馆, we finally reached our destination. Ed wanted to buy a fan from the 棋院, written by his idol, 吴清源。

Third Stop: Street opposite 公馆

A lot of eateries and book stores. Ed bought a lot of books there. Mainland Chinese Books are exceptionally cheaper compared to those in Singapore.

This drink is very nice. The special part is that the pearls are boiled with 黑塘。I ordered 青蛙撞奶，which is actually milk tea with pearls. This store is famous and heard from our Taiwanese frenzs that a long queue is inevitable. Luckily we were there early.

Their pearls' serving portions is very generous. I am a happy gal! Wanted to go for a second round but I was bloated after drinking one cup.

Me with a fried chicken. Very nice.

Third Stop: 顶呱呱。Unique but not very nice. The fries were made using sweet potato and the chicken wrap is actually rice dumpling wrapped in fried chicken skin.

Fourth Stop: 101 Plaza

We did not take the lift up as advised by the working personnel. He said that the weather was cloudy and we would not be able to enjoy the night scenery. As such, we just walked around and do SHopping! Did you notice the wordings on the building "Marry me? Diana" This is part of an adversting. Pretty interesting.

At 新光三越。At the entrance there is a sign to indicate how many people are within the building. Interesting.

Fifth Stop: Ximending

We ordered the cheese pork flavour. Quite nice.

老天禄卤味

阿宗面线。I realised throughout my 10days in Taiwan. I ate a total of 3 big bowls of it.. Haha!

Taiwan Day 4 (6 June Wed)

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First Stop: 九份.

Ed and I booked the train tickets to get to 瑞芳. Hopping on the 9:03am train, we are all set for the day.

After alighting the train, we got on the 基隆客運 to get to 九份. The streets of 九份 is pretty though a bit commercialized. Oh ya, leading up this flight of stairs is a stall selling good Yam balls, called 阿柑姨芋圆。There is a scenery hall at the back of the store where you can enjoy the scenery also.

The scenery hall where you can enjoy scenery with the pleasure of eating your dessert.

The view of 九份. The weather was slightly misty. Heard that 九份 loves to cry.

My dessert, there is sweet potato balls, yam balls and green bean balls in red bean, green bean and broad red bean soup. Cheap and delicious. This is called 综合（Mixture).

After dessert, we proceeded to 九份咖啡店。The place is super expensive. We ordered a cup of coffee and it cost about S$10 and it tasted horrible. Please dont go to that shop! However the scenery at the secong floor is real pretty.

Me and the scenery

The horrible coffee. Looks pretty but taste horrible.

草仔Kueh. Tasted chewy. Cost NT10 for one. We ordered the one with raddish inside so it tasted salty. Quite nice. There are several other flavours, like red bean, yam and etc.

Me with my 草仔Kueh.

Our lunch. 鲁肉饭 and 鱼圆，花枝 (Cuttlefish balls) and Fuzhou Fish Balls Soup. I love the rice and their noodle.

九份 view after the rain stops.

Second Stop: 五分埔

Third Stop: 饶河夜市

We queued quite a while for this. Tasted cripsy on the outside and meaty on the inside. The preparation style is similar to dumpling except that they use the Indian style to bake it. (those use charcoal and they will paste the flour on the walls of the funnel) Tasted not bad. Silly me, I realised that I ate the same stuff on the first time at Shilin. haha.

饶河夜市 is a very small night market. We only spent about half an hour walking. Oh ya there is a shop that sells real cheap bag for NT50 (=S$2.50). I got myself one bag there. Looks bit cheap but it is just S$2.50. Haha.

Fourth Stop:An unknown station.

We got LOST! We hopped on to the wrong train and ended up stranded at the train station for half an hour. In the end, we were delayed by 2 hours in reaching Keelung.

Fifth Stop: 基隆庙口夜市

We finally reached our last destination at 8p.m. We hurried to find the deliciaes that our Taiwanese friends recommended. Refer to photos below for our Sumptuous Dinner.

SOme fish soupy thing. Quite nice. I ordered it out of Curiousity.

Famous buttery crab. The crab was not very fresh so was not very nice.

营养三文治. Fried on the outside but the fillings are all fruits and yoghurt. Nice!

草莓泡跑冰

Delicious. Tasted like fine sand. Even Ed who is not a dessert lover, said that this is nice!

天妇罗 (Tempura) Totally taste differently from the one in Singapore Shilin. This taste like fish cake in a special sweet sauce.

Realised that majority of the today's blog pertains to food!!! There are more to come! ^..^

Taiwan Day 3 (5 June Tue)

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Morning : 陽明山

1st Stop at 陽明山: Siaoyoukeng

Nothing much to see here. YOu can embark on a hike. Due to time limations,we decided against it! However, if time permits, I will really love to spend an entire day at 陽明山.

2nd Stop at 陽明山: 擎天崗

I love this place. A lot of greenery. The windy and cool weather makes it a perfect day to enjoy the greenery.

Flowers at 陽明山 Gong Yuan. This is run by another private organisation. As such,the Taiwanese make a distingustion between陽明山 and 陽明山 Gong Yuan.

3rd Stop: Flower Clock at 陽明山 Gong Yuan. Heard from many Taiwanese that we came in the wrong season as the flowers wll bloom in Mar and Apr. Hope to go back again during that period~!!

Afternoon: Beitou for Hot Springs.

Recommended by Huixian. Quite a deal. NT1000 (=NT50) for a room for an hour. We chose the jungle style room. Though we cant adjust the water temperate of 42 degree celsius, we decide that the prettiness of the room make up for the hot temperature. After an hour, my face turned red and my heart was beating real hard. The feeling is not nice!!!! Oh ya, after the hotspring, Ed and I were exhausted and sleepy. We thought hotsprings were meant to perk one up???

Evening: Metup with Taiwanese Friends at Ding Tai Fung at Zhongxiao Fuxing Station.

The food below is the latest craze in Taiwan. Is a doraemon look alike food. Tasted not bad. The good thing is that the flour is not dry but moist and chewy. Not bad. Thanks Nicole for queuing it to just to let us try! We felt so pampered!!!

How could we give the famous Ding Tai Fung Xiao Long Bao a miss?

This is called "A vegetable", which can be find under the menu of Ding Tai Fung. Out of curiosity, I ordered it. Tasted like any other vegetables. Thanks to all the Taiwanese Friends who treated us to such a wonderful meal!!!

Group Photo. The wonderful Taiwan friends that I met in Grand Canyon North Rim last June (2006). I will miss you all!

Taiwan Day 2 (4 June 2007 Mon)

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The weather was rainy throughout our 10 days in Taiwan. We coincided with the Mei Yu Ji Jie. Bit disappointed but at least the weather was cooling and I got myself a sweet cute lacey umbrella.

Morning: Visited 中正纪念堂 and 国父纪念馆.

Afternoon 1p.m.: Shopping at 新光三越. A departmental store. I was amazed by their lift lady who keep on repeating the same words whenever someone enters or alight the lift. Their job is to help us press the lift buttons and to repeat a preprogrammed speech at every floor. Poor them. Their job must be the most boring in the world.

Afternoon 4p.m. Reached Tamshui Lao Jie. Bemused Ed thinking of what is nice at Tamshui!

Tamshui Tie Dan. Tasted Spongy and Hard.

We tooked a ferry from Tamshui to get to Bali, which is an island just across Tamshui.

Shuang Bao Tai. When we took the ferry and alighted at Bali, we saw a long queue at one the shop for this. Tasted like the " Butterfly" in Singapore. Quite nice. This is the pic of just one side as we were too excited and gobbled up the other side.

Tamshui's Fish ball. Tasted like Fuzhou fishball except that the skin is more bouncy and hard. Still prefer the Fuzhou fishball.

This is Tamshui famous Ah gei. Tasted quite nice. It is actually Vermicelli wrapped in toufu with a sweet gravy. Tasted not bad. I caught myself a big Chip and Dale toy and it is named after this dish. Any similarity between the two of them?

This is my loot in Taiwan. I got hooked to the Toy catching machines. I sill have other toys! All the toys below were caught in a day! I am so proud of myself! Ed has to stop me from frequenting the toy shops to avoid spending more money.

At Bali. We realised that there is actually nothing much at Bali. However Bali was much bigger than I expected. On the other side of Tamshui, is another small town bustling with activities.

Wow! This is delicious!!! This squid is common along the streets of Tamshui. It is amazing tasty. Must try!

Recommeded By Nicole.Tasted like Fish cracker. Another speciality of Tamshui.

We ended off the day at Tamshui Fisherman's Wharf Lovers' Bridge. A pity we did not catch the sunset.

Taiwan Day 1 (3 June 2007 Sun)

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Met up with Cute Nicole!!! Still the same old bubbly gal. She brought us to Shilin and we had a feast!! Ate XXL ji pa, ah liang mian xian, hu jiao bing, snow ice, zhu xue gao, tian bu lai for dinner!!! Loved the snow ice that Nicole brought us to eat. I ate my favourite peanut snow flakes with red bean. Simply heavenly.

On board the Metro heading towards Shilin.

Wonder why Ed is so happy! The irony part is that Ed does not eat dessert in the first place. So the two plates of dessert are Nicole and Mine... He just "ke chuan" in the photo.

Realised that not much photos are taken on the first day as both of us are busy feasting on the food!!!

KTV at Cuppage 16 June 2007

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The meet up of the " Wu Qian Jin". Poor Judy cant join us, thereby accounting for the "Si Qian Jin" Come to think of it, our friendship has last us about 15 years. We knew each other since Primary school days. Thanks Joyce and Xueling for arranging the meet-up. Greatly appreciate it!!

2am in the morning. We finished our KTV marathon!!!! The poor waiter has to abide to the commands of Jialing who keep on instructing him to position the camera well. haa.

Supper at Xin Wang Jiao at Cathay