CHRISTMAS EVE @ WORK

This year december vacation holiday, I got a part time job at SGH doing Admin. It was a nice job. My colleagues are all very nice, very friendly. Really enjoy working there. Hope i will have chance to work with them again!! A good bunch of Colleagues with great boss.


:.Me and Wai (A myammar babe)


:.Bridget the New full time staff


:.The Three babes


:.Jenny, The person i am helping. (you will never guess her age correctly)


:.Lin Lin, The senior Project Manager


:.Peng Fai, he quiet and nice guy


:.Party Starts here!


:.Our small little christmas tree



:.Our little gift (Mend for everyone to write wishes for the other person)


:.Fried Chicken wings


:.Spicy Bee Hoon


:.Normal Bee Hoon (its nice. not very cook. not too satly. Just nice)


:.Curry Puffy


:.I don knoe what is this =x


:.Ritez, Japanese Pizza (buy one get one free pizza)




:.The kind crust pizza(A but hard when it is cold)



:.Onion Rings


:.Ritez Chicken Wings




:.The kuey Kuey


:.Black pepper chicken wings ( I love it!!!)


:.The very sweet and colourful fruits


:.My Direct Superior


:.Mark, the other team director


:.Log Cake (I didn't had a chance to try it. My stomach is exploding)

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BBQ @ DOWNTOWN EAST

It had been quite awhile since we went for chalet plus eating BBQ food. This December holiday, my sister invited us to her downtown east chalet. As usual, we get to eat a lot of food and covered ourselves with BBQ smell. Overall, it was quite fun and we were like babysitter on that day, taking care all the children and bringing them to sit the rides at downtown east. Guess what!, we saw Looney Tunes characters at downtown east. At the end of the entry, I will post the video of it.

::Lao Po with my nieces and the Christmas tree at downtown east::

::Us with the Looney Tunes characters::

::Pretty Lao Po with my cute strawberry Andrea::

::What is my Andrea trying to do?::

::Photo taking time in the room::

::Can you see what our neighbor is doing? That lady is holding to a umbrella while her friend startup the fire when it is not even raining, "cute" right?::

::The V that Avline is trying to create::

::Getting our BBQ food ready::

::Us trying to BBQ the food::

::Lao Po helping up with the mushroom::

::A pose with the mushroom stick that she had made::

::They are so cute with the light stick::

::Look at how shag we were after a long day of BBQ-ing::

::The four little rascals that we babysit (Look at what Andrea is doing again)::

::Happily sitting on their $3 rides!::

::OMG! Am I so hungry!::

::Dancing Bugs Bunny::

::A video on the dancing Looney Tunes characters::

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CHRISTMAS EVE 2009

Our rich event for Christmas this year. Let us start with Christmas Eve. We planned to watch Avatar 3D at Vivo city. Being a typical Singaporean. We clock in to GV website hourly on Tuesday night to make sure we are the 1st few to book the seats for Christmas Eve evening show. We were one of the 1st few but we were not the 1st. there are still a lot of kiasu Singaporean out there. haha. But we managed to get a seat we preferred, which is the 3rd row from the back, center seats.


After the movie, we headed down to Jpot@vivo for our dinner. We love the environment and the seafood they served that night were very fresh. The soup base is not that marvelous but its still alright. Its consider cheap provided you go in a big group. Nana joined us this Christmas eve. Which means that there are 3 pax. And we order a 2 pax set meal plus 3 al la carte. which only cos us SGD 19 per person (inclusive of GST)



:.A shot with the adorable Chipmucks



:.Our Movie tickets

:.Us with the 3D spec

:.Nana and me

:.At the entrance

:.The Seafood

:.The Posh HotPot restaurant

:.The Table Setting

:.The Menu that makes you even hungrier

:.Be a Pacemaker User

:.Us at the restaurant

:.The Pea

:.Our Yuan Yang Pot with Laksa and Herbal

:.Marinade Pork

:.Shiitake Mushroom (Taste super nice when you cook in the soup)

:.Beancurb Tofu

:.Pork Loin (Thin enough, Fresh enough)

:.Spinach (I serious hate this type of vegetable.)

:.Enoki Mushroom

Seafood combination with Prawn, Red Garoupo fish fillet and Sliced cuttle fish (They are all very fresh. Thumbs up!!)

:.Marinade Chicken (Use the Egg and stir it with the meat, it will make the meat more tender. Thats what the waitress says)

:.Bee Hoon and Fried Fish Skin (the Fried fish skin is not bad but we find it too unhealthy so we didn't finish it)

:.Handmade fish ball

:.Nana's doing the fish ball but in end it became noodle =x (We don like this dish. Its tasteless and weird)

:.Handmade jumbo pork ball

:.My Laogong job (This is nice. But don over cook it)

:.Table of Food(Nana can't wait)

:.Merry Christmas Everyone

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THE SECRETS IN ORCHARD

Missing Scott shopping centre Beef noodles? Its now at Ion Food opera. The standard is still the same but the price rose up quite alot. Its 6.50 a set now. =(

:.The Food court layout

:.Us!!!

:.Our Sofa Seats

:.My Dry beef noodle with extra Bean Sprout

:.My laogong soupr beef noodle

Then we headed down to Orchard central and realised that B2 is semi- open and it link to Centrepoint, therefore we went down to take some shoots. It was lots of fun there

:.Walking along the empty stalls

:.Nice country like layout

:.Can you Spot me?

:.The overhanging lantern

:.The Fake door along the underpass to Centre point

:.Time for a Drink

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A TRIP TO CHONG PANG

My laogong heard from his sister that Chong Pang Specs shops call 66 Optical, sells cheap frame and lens. So we make a trip down over the weekend to find out more.

Indeed, its cheaper than outside, but unfortunately, they do not have to design that my laogong wanted. But they ask us to give them the model number and they will quote us.

We then had our dinner at Chong Pang market. The food that we ate was great. Worth a second visit.

:.At the Hawker

:.Our Sugar Canes

:.Wanton mee (Very nice and crispy wanton, spiciness was just nice. Fantastic)

:.Fried Hokkien Mee (Superb. MUST TRY!!!)

:.Can't wait to start (waited for 15 mins or more)

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FRIENDS OUTING

Since its school holiday, I've decided to meet up with my friends for dinner. A little gathering session. Two consecutive days of meet up. It was really fun.

1st up, I met up with kelvin and Teckjun for dinner at Yishun. I miss the laksa there. And had dessert at the store next store. As usual I don find the dessert nice. Its taste so diluted. Its simply adding ingredients to the sugar syrup. But its my friends treat on that day. Thanks Kelvin and Teckjun

My second meeting was with Claudia Jie. She just came back from her honeymoon from Japan . And she bought some goodies back for me to try. Thanks jie. And she also give me a dinner treat for my belated Birthday Present. So pai seh.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR TREAT

:.The dessert store with teckjun and Kelvin helping me to buy my Cheng Ting

:.Their dessert (Can't remember what's the name of the dessert)

:.My Cheng Ting

:.Teck Jun

:.Kelvin

A dinner out with Claudia Jie

:.Claudia Jie (Another shy friend i have)

:.Me with my Messy Hair

:.Strawberry Aloe Vera

:.Ice Milk Tea

:.Korean Style Noodle

:.Hot and Spicy Pork Chop (I Love their hot and spicy Noodle)

:.Sweet corn cream mushroom

:.A gift from Tokyo Disneyland

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CHRISTMAS PRESENT FROM MY LAO PO

This year I got a early Christmas present from my Lao Po too. However I knew what she was intending to buy for me, all thank to her friend "banana" =x I love my Christmas present, a very comfortable underwear and it is my first time wearing a branded underwear. Thanks Lao Po for your Christmas present =D Looking forward to our Christmas dinner that you have planned.

::The Christmas tree designed by me and my Lao Po::

::The night view of the Christmas tree::

::Lao Po with the Christmas tree and all the presents which does not belong to her =*(::

::How i wish all the presents are mine!::

::The Christmas present that my Lao Po gave me::

::Is my first Calvin Klein underwear::

::Love the colour and the fitting, once again THANK YOU lao po!::

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MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT 2009

My laogong gave me a earlier Christmas present. Love it.. But it was a disappointment, shock and happy feeling when i received the present. I will elaborate more later.

We headed to Soup Restaurant again for dinner. Our all time favourite dishes, Chicken and Kang Kong

:.The Restaurant

:.Us!!

:.Sambal Kang kong

:.MY big plate chicken

:.Both of us brought some books from the book fair at Suntec, do head down as there are lots of discount

:.The Menu

:.My Present (which i though was a speaker that my laogong promised)

:.Turn out to be a walkman (What the hell, my 1st reaction was like, HUH!! I don have a CD, can i burn into cd then play the songs?)

:.one CAMPBELLI SOUP and "WALK MAN"

:.My Sony MP3 as my Ipod nano spoilt liao (prefer this as importing of songs are much more easier compared to Ipod Nano)

:. A cambelli soup that put on weight to makes me think like its still a speaker =.=

I love the quality of the sound from the MP3, the bass was great. LOVE IT, easy to use and convenience to charge.

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DINNER @ TAMPINES

We went to Tampines for dinner last Saturday and met up with April. Tampines was a crowded place. I found it so hard to walk around in the big crowd but luckily there are quite a number of shopping center that you could choose from.

We had our dinner at Din Tai Fung this time after a long consideration. We didn't have to queue for long. Maybe our group is small, that's why it is easy for us. The standard still remains the same.

:.The crowded restaurant

:.The window view seats

:.The thing to put my bag (Find it very useful rather than us putting our bag on the dirty floor)

:.The chinese table setting

:.Their very own spoon

:.Me with the crowd

:.My Sweet heart

:.The christmas Pillar

:.Xiao Long bao (I love It)

:.My noodle with dumpling

:.Fried Rice (Nice, but very normal)

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NEW KOREAN PRODUCT IN TOWN

We went to the 24 hours Shop 'N' Save the previous time, and my laogong overheard that the korean Maggi mee with Cheese was great. Therefore we decided to try it. But then it wasn't that great. =x We find that the combination abit weird.

:.The packaging

:.My Cooking, Looks appetizing rite? (Luncheon meat * my laogong favorite)

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DINNER @ AH MENG

I met up with Ee woon for a early celebration of Christmas. As usual we exchanged a gift just like any other year, but this year, both our presents are the same, Body shop body polish. The only different is the flavour that we chose. So shock when i received the gift. =) Although I havent open the present, but somewhat I already know what's inside.. haha

We headed down to Ah Meng cafe at Somerset. It was recommended by Ee woon. So I went to google it but all i found was Ah Meng from the zoo. =.= So I went down with alot of questions in mind.

It was a "zhi Char" like restaurant. The food there were average. Not very fantastic, just average. Its a place for big group as they have lots of big table furthermore you need not queue which is a rare scene in Orchard. In addition, it is Halah too so don't worry that your Muslim friends cannot eat.

:.The restaurant (with the very dark ee woon)

:.The menu (They have menu with all pictures and menu with all words)

:.The restaurant

:.Barley Drink (SGD 2 =.=)

:.Tai Ban Seafood Tofu (Not bad)

:.Fried rice with egg (I find it quite fragrant)

:.Sambal kang Kong (A bit salty towards the end, think its due to the sauce, but not bad)

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AH YAT TIAN XIA@CENTRAL

My laogong read mypaper and found out that there is a one for one student special set at Ah Yat Tian Xia at only SGD 22.60 PER PAX.. Which means we only have to pay about SGD 13 per person... SUPER WORTH IT.

The meals include one WHOLE ABALONE with ramen or rice, soup, and drink at ONLY SGD 13. What a nice plan my laogong planned. We had our dinner at Central at 6.30pm, and we had to rush to lido at 7.30pm for our New Moon. Yes we finally watched new moon although we read a lot of bad reviews about it. Therefore we didn't expect much. It still the same.. very little action scene.. and we both realised that the action part of the movie were filmed at the same area, which is the big open field. =x Overall the movie was not very nice, both of us just hate the lead actress, she was just a B****.

:.Ah Yat

:.Laogong and me with the entrance display

:.The Menu for student one for one

:.Our Seat view(next to the rock climb, and this little boy tried climbing up and is always stuck at the same spot from the moment we sat down to the moment we left)

:.The Restaurant

:.Here it is, the student promotion

:.Me (feel so fat here =.=)

:.Lovely Us

:.The grills lighting

:.The Utensils (Get a hands on with the forks and spoon, the grip were great)

:.Japanese Miso Soup (Not bad, My laogong finish the soup within seconds =.=)

:.Ice Milk Tea (Not so sweet, just nice)

:.Abalone rice with Portuguese sauces and chicken chop (Very nice, the fragrant of the chicken and the rice was great. Of cos for the abalone, I LOVE IT)

:.Hot and Spicy Ramen with the whole abalone (the soup base was not very spicy, felt that they make better rice than noodle however the abalone was GREAT! )

:.My Last Mouth of my Abalone =(

:.ALL GONE!!!!

:.Cya again, Ah yat

:.On top of the promotion, we received 5 dollars voucher. We can only use it with a min purchase of SGD 10 ONLY

:.Our Forever Lido 3 Tickets

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CHOMP CHOMP & OTHER NEW EXPERIENCE

Over the weekend, we had a wonderful weekend together. Exploring things after things, especially for my laogong. 1st up on the list, we headed down to 313 @ Somerset, followed by Serangoon Gardens, Chomp Chomp, then Meritus Mandarin and lastly City Square Farrer Park. Serangoon Garden. Chomp Chomp is one of the place in the North-east area that you can find good food. It was my Laogong 1st visit. For me, its been awhile since I been there. But the food are still the same. GREAT!!! Not all but most.

:.At the Bus Stop

:.At the Food Centre


:.Me at the Open area with the outdoor umbrella



:.The Food Centre


:.Our HUGE sugar cane drink, thank to banana!

:.BBQ Chicken wings (Nice, Not very burn, jus nice)

:.Chicken Satay (Very tender Meat, not over cooked)

:.Stingray (Very fresh and Spicy, GREAT!!)

:.Lala (A bit Salty)



:.Fried Oyster with Omelette (quite normal, you can find better one elsewhere!)



:.Satay Beehoon (Fail Quality, not fragrance from the peanut, Highly NOT recommended)


:.Pork Porridge (Very nice, every mouthful you manage to get a bit of the meat)

City Square at Farrer Park was amazingly bigger than I expected. And the mall have more people compared to Central at Orchard. You will be able to find famous restaurants like Pu Tien, Sushi Tei, Manhattan Fish Market, Seoul Garden, etc. There are also Metro as the major tenant and shuttle bus services to Lavendar and Toa Payoh for an interval of 25 mins. Do come down to Farrer Park and take a look.



:.At Citysquare mall


:.My Carriage


:.My camera shy white horse


:.The fairy Christmas



:.Central Mall Atrium

Meritus Mandarin has undergoes a major renovation on their shopping sectors. This is the 1st time we come across in Singapore with so many shops in a hotel building. But only 20% of the shops are opened. So we recommend you to head down to the mall at a later date.


:.My handsome Laogong


:.The Comfortable sofa found at every storey

313 had the same developer as Parkway Parade, if you notice the shops layout is quite similar to PP. Although the shops are not 100% open, you can find most of the shops in sub-urban malls. Some shops from The Hereen are moved to 313, for example, Limited Ed and HMV (Flagship Stalls). However most restaurant are not open when we were there on the 2nd day of their official launch.


:.The lighted Pillar


:.Photo taking with Santa and Elf

:.Me

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AJIMAN@ORCHARD CENTRAL

Finally my Laogong finish his exam for the sem. The long waited date 1st dec 2009. We headed down to orchard. My friend, Dereck who told me that 313@ somerset have its soft launch on 1st December. Therefore we headed down and realised that it was a false alarm. The official launch of 313@ Somerset is on the 3rd December, which falls on our 33 month Anniversary. We are sure to be there on friday!

Anyway we went to fill our stomach with ramen at Ajiman, which is located at level 3 of Central. It was their 1st outlet in Singapore. We personally find the food not very fantastic.D o look at the photo comments for the review of the food.



:.The Restaurant frontage


:.Me heading to our seat


:.Spot us!!!


:.The counter seats



:.Lovely Couple



:.The Menu (Looks like Aijisen, but don get trick. Its not!!)


:.Fried Dumpling (The skin is a bit thick and its not crispy at all)



:.Chawanmushi (Japanese Steam Egg, A normal egg)




:.Teriyaki chicken miso ramen (Not bad, but i still prefer Aijisen or hokkaido kaiko ramen at IOn B1)



:.Spicy Miso Ramen (Very very salty soup base)


:.Complementary Strawberry ice cream (Very Milky taste, I don like it)


:.Green Apple, Mango, dark chocolate (As compared to Ajiman complementary ice cream, Gusttimo Di Roma Ice cream is far better)


:.Christmas tree made of Ferrero Rocher


:.Our christmas tree ball (Can you spot us?)


:.Christmas bear tree


:. Me with the Christmas Bear Tree


:.Christmas deco at center point


:.The Gigantic LV bag (Can I own one of this?)



:.Us with the Model Deers part 2

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CENTRAL@VIVO

After a long hot day for my laogong, studying so hard for his last paper, we finally went out to eat our dinner. Hungry hungry!! It’s the only time my laogong can relax himself over the easy, simple and interesting questions that his prof is setting. But I know that his prof will set a easy paper for him. So don worry laogong. I know you are fully equipped with information in your big head to throw it onto the answer booklet. You always make me so worry

We went Central to have out dinner and we realized that the food there is actually not as good as Kim Gary. =x Kim Gary still make better noodles and milk tea . But I like the thousand layer tofu, it really had a special taste that can only be found in Central, Do try it out.


:.Laogong with the red menu


:.The menu


:.US


:.Me at the corner



:.The restaurant with the Christmas decoration


:.Sweet Ice Milk Tea



:.The thousand layer tofu pork floss ( NICE)



:.HK fried beef Hor Fun (Very normal, almost the same as the beef Hor Fun that you can find in your neighborhood coffee shop)




:.Fried Chicken with Noodle (The noodle has a plastic taste!)

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