28 Sep 2008 - Dinner

Tonight i do some cooking...fry vege with tofu, steam chinese sausage in dark soya sauce and herbal chicken soup again =P Ok, why are we always cooking the herbal chicken soup..haa thats a story behind it. Cos when we lst moved in, we have cook the first yummy package herbal chicken soup which taste & smell so good that we attempt to do it again. But up till today, we couldn't find that particular taste from the various packaging that we try, maybe the herbal combination is jus not the correct mix. Today one is consider the closest. We think the chinese herbal "Yu4 Zhu2" make the diff in the taste.












By pass city hall mrt on Fri evening and could feel the excitement from the crowd and see a lot more of the foreigners....yup due to the F1 race that held in SG. I'm no fan of the race but was impressed with the racing car that display in Raffles City, looks quite cool and took a photo of it. Have watch the final from the tv and i think SG have done a gd job in hosting the lst night race ever. :)

24 Sep 08 Dinner

Today zq have the mood to cook dinner. So when i back from work, the dinner is really =D Here's the dinner prepared. Herbal chicken soup, steam egg, fried vege dumpling and brown rice. Nice. Thanks dear.

Malacca Trip ~ 19 to 20 Sep

Zq n i have decided to give ourselves a break from work and booked a trip to Malacca on early part of last week. Thus, on last Fri morning ~ 19 Sep, we go to Malacca to R & R =)

It's a 2 days, 1 night trip which we have a night stay at Hotel Equatorial which is next to the largest shopping mall in Malacca as well as the historial Famosa place. The package is quite cheap @ $125 which comes with the hotel stay + drive to and fro from malacca & Sg via super vip bus + breakfast + nonya set dinner which is really very nice...hmm...i like the salty duck soup best. We quite enjoyed the trip as our purchasing power with Sg $ is quite high at 2.4, so i enjoyed shopping at the mall and makan along the way, trying out their chendol and chicken rice ball along the street of Jonker Walk (next time, will go at night for their night market which only setup for fri & weekends after 6pm). We happy to get to eat the MarryBrown fast food which cannot be found at SG anymore...hee

Oh, the Mahkota Parade that is near to our hotel really hv some gd shopping with shops like Mango, Espirit, Padini, Factory Outlet..etc. One interest thing we saw at their arcade is the box-like min karaoke room. Is sing as you pay concept, each song cost SG$0.40 each. We try that out =P How come SG dun have this leh?

Here's the photos uploaded for the trip: Malacca Trip - 19 to 20 Sep 08

Flanders Sq ~ My Old Home

Yesterday afternoon, zq and i decided to go Mustafa. On the way there, i requested zq to turn into the street nearby where i used to stayed for 11 years in my childhood years. This is my little world then as we live simple and did not venture anywhere far, left alone having any fast food like Mac, going to orchard road..etc. I have not walk into the street since i moved out to Yishun.

I have fond memories living there, i stayed in Blk 21 which used to stand tall and by itself. Thus, the view from the window is really the view that people have to pay high price now in order to get it, far and unblock. Is a rental one room flat. And i remember the roads across the street and the 10mins walk to my pr school nearby with playgrounds & trees around which we used to picked up the red "xiang1 si1" beans to make "five stone". On sundays, all the bird lovers will hang their bird cages there to listen to the birds chipping away. There was also a narrow street which sell white gluttonous rice with black soya sauce which i could nvr find the taste anymore.

When zq's car turned into the street, the environment have changed, there is a high-rise condo and the flat, playground and those familiar roads are gone. Except an old 2-storey building and my pr school still there =) However, the school have already been renovated and converted into an India association. But i can still see some familiarity, the stage at the canteen and some building in the school and the field behind still stay. I am real excited and recall all the corners around the neigbourhood i can identified to zq. Is foreign to him but the the fond memories of the old neighbourhood stay closed to my heart.

Below are some photos taken with my nokia hp (hmm..pics still nt bad)

Old street name still there.

This old building across the road from my old flat is still there...maybe the govt wans to keep it for is unique value.

The road i used to take to my pr school. Other than the school and this road, the rest are replaced by a condo.

The area in front of the school which we used to assemble early in the morning to sing the school song. The building (though repainted) and the shelter still remains after 30 years :)

The school canteen's stage still there! This is where i bought my 50cents mee foon and 20cents fish cake during lunchtime.

Another old building. The main street in front leads to sim lim sq in front.

Team Event @Sentosa

Hi, I'm back! Have been missing for..wah is almost a mth (time flies)....not busy with making brownies lah. Those who know me well will know that there's only 1 main thing that deprived me from enjoying life and do blogging as well. And that is...(*drumming) ....WORK. And being slaved to work, OT and more work, there's really nothing interesting to blog on that. Well, more work are expected but this weekends we have a break.

First, EA is back to SG! She went Germany to work but only back for a few days. Chok and i met up with her on Wed and also to give Chok her pressie for her birthday on Tues, too bad work caught up with me again, have last min confern call at the shopping mall bef joining them for dinner at Jap Ramen place, sorry gals for spoiling the nite for being too occupied with work =<

Another interesting thing is the department team event which has been scheduled on 5th Sep afternoon @ Sentosa Siloso beach. Expected to be another rainy day but it turn out to be otherwise. A colleague and i was arrowed to be the organiser. We have planned and prepared for the event for a mth and it turned out to be a success! So happy to see everyone enjoying the games and having fun. =D The dinner at Coastes was yummy too.

We have the following team building games after splitting about 20 people to 2 teams:

1. Each team fill up 100 water bombs in the shorter time, the team will lose 20 water bombs to winning team.

2. Each team will hold hands and walk through pre-planned numbered cardboards. The team will have to redo if any members leave a card board empty while advancing. They will be tanger up in the process..hee (Slower team will lose 20 water bombs)

3. Frisbee - win by 3 pts advantage. (team lose 20 water bombs to winning team)

4. Sand castle - 4 members of each team will come fwd to look at a pic and communicate to the team how to build the castle accordingly. (team lose 20 water bombs to winning team) Below is the winning sand castle.

5. War Time - Where both team will attack each other with their winning water bomb.

Of cos, the organiser were not spared at the end of the day. We are being attacked as well. But, it feel real good to carry out the team building event successfully and having fun with the team, that's a sense of achievement..hee.

Oh...this is one of the scenary photos i taken at Sentosa Siloso Beach - Coastes place where we have our dinner. I like this sea view :)