Janis Birthday Early Celebration

Flower, Lixia, Tricia and Myself celebrated Janis's Birthday at Ma Maison at Bugis. The queue to get into the restaurant is really long and i feel that the standard of the food drop temendously since the last time i been there before i go to Melbourne.

Tricia's squid ink pasta was so salty, and it was comparable as tasting the seawater literally even though i have a fettish of salty food. Grilled chicken ordered by Lixia and Janis was not bad except that the chicken smell of it was a bit strong. Flower ordered a wrong dish but hers was quite all right than ours except that it was rather starchy. I have ordered a seafood paella which really sucked, i miss the paella back at Brunswick Street..... The seafood smell was so strong that Lixia who was sitting opposite me can smell it... Hehe thank God our soup of the day was the most pleasant on that day...

We headed off to have dessert along Liang Seah Street... We celebrated Janis Early Birthday with the cake and desserts.... We really have a lot of fun... =)

Dinner with Flower

I have had a bad diahorrea on wednesday early morning at 5 am and i was late for an hour. In the evening, i meet out with Flower for Dinner at MOF at Raffles shopping centre which is like the Japanese kinda of fast food. i had ramen n salmon balls. The salmon balls are quite all right, Flower was urging for some cold green tea dessert....

The following is the rating of the restaurant:
Service of the restaurant: 2/5
Ambience of the place:3/5
Quality of the food : 2.5/5
Variety of the food : 3/5
presentation of the food : 3/5
price of the food:3.5/5

Trio hates to shower and getting herself dry from hair drier

Trio sleeping day

Lovely Saturday

i have had a great saturday beginning with an early badminton session at Safra with Tricia and Yoke Chye. Tricia is so funny but her strength and power for the badminton is really big... We had our mini breakie at Yak kun, eggs and bread. We headed to Ikea to have lunch of meatballs and chicken wings. My stomach is like so filled up from that...

We have walked around looking for YC's lamp and Tricia shelves.... lol Tricia is telling us how pink her room is and she wanna revamp her room. It kinda of remind me of myself trying to revamp my own room, but i skipped all the painting of the wall part.

i have headed home for a shower after Ikea and took a power nap. After my short nap, i headed off to Grand Hyatt to meet my friend. She took me to Ion and we tried the French Ice cream perfect for the weather... i really love the ice cream with the waffle.

We headed off to the Korean restaurant at International Plaza which minlee recommended me. The restaurant is Ko Ryo Jeong korean restaurant located at 10 Anson Road, #02-59. The food was quite all right. It is kinda of costly but the Saba fish is really fresh, the beef is kinda of tough, i miss aussie cow.... My friend has made a joke saying next time in a restaurant we should specified we want beef from aussie... lol i kinda of missed ox tongue as i am first introduced by Joel back at Melbourne Central, i was being told that it was just beef and i thought it was really good and i was shocked when they told me it was ox tongue but i enjoyed it.... i can eat that but not the inlets of the animals. This restaurant is kinda of tucked at the little corner, and i saw a lot of korean people eating there... The ginseng chicken soup can be better with more ginseng taste which i have tasted before.... i enjoyed my dinner there nevertheless. Thanks shifu for recommending... I would not have know of this place if shifu never recommended me...

The following is the rating of the restaurant:

Service of the stall: 3/5

Ambience of the place:2.5/5

Quality of the food : 2.5/5

Variety of the food : 3.5/5

presentation of the food : 3/5

price of the food:2.5/5

i am totally flat out that day considering when i went home and had diahhorea that night. Sunday is a recovering day for me. Mom got me a new wok to cook and i have been happily cooking at home for my meals.

i have got up really early to go t the australian embassy and it is quite a pain in the ass to get into the embassy but i can understand the fear of terrorism and stuff... The services in the embassy really needs to be improved as it varies quite a lot from Melbourne immigration and the australian embassy here.

After the embassy, i headed to Ntuc at Bukit Merah central to shop for some grocery and i saw Brandon, small world and he has had a hair cut... :)

Stop, Rest and Pray...

There is so much to do everyday in life even though right now it looks as if i have a wing attached to my back. Well it is ashamed that it isn;t exactly apparently. I guess i need a walking organizer to remind to claim my tax in Melbourne, renew my passport and get my aus visa sorted out, get the accomodation booked for shanghai and hangzhou soon, ordnen Sie Verabredung mit dem Doc, überprüfen Sie mein Zucker niveau, learn programmes that might help me in archi field. meine Medikamente vom Arzt zurück in Melbourne wird knapp, und ich habe nicht verordnet ein Kardiologe gesehen, wie vom Arzt zurück in Melbourne riet. I don t wissen, warum ich nie tun, ich fürchte, wahrscheinlich, um das Ergebnis zu hören bin.

Sometime i just wish i can freeze time n walk along the street where everything stop and i am the only one walking at my own pace.

Ich habe soviel Druck, wenn jeder hält, zu fragen, ob ich einen Job erhalten werde. selbstverständlich weiß ich, daß es Zeit für mich ist, einen Job zu erhalten, meine Medikationrechnungen und usw. weg zu zahlen, anstatt, das Tasche Geld zu benutzen, das von der Mamma gegeben wird. ich bin sehr mude. ich habe schlaufen nicht.

I read a verse from Matthew 14:23 and i think i really need to be doing that. I need to focus on Lord and i will be able to see and know i should proceed on from where i am now. I have been walking around in a hectic city like a lost kid for the past few months. I need to stop, rest and pray and focus. Thru everything Lord has given me, i should be making full use of them, appreciating them and proceed on them gradually.

Friday Night to NUS final year students Thesis Exhibition with Yc and Lixia

Today i have gone to the NUS thesis exhibition at the Atrium with Yc and Lixia. I am kinda of impressed with the NUS photoshop and model making skills but design wise honestly i prefer melbourne university way of teaching. the works that leaves deep impression are the building that is designed to be underground to resolve the reclaimation issue and respect the landform and the other one is model of the sg city that has light on. of course in university time is the only time when you can design things that is not pragmatic.

Kinda of happy to see Wei, Choon and Joel in the sunny island... :)

Yc, Lixia and i got to try the QQ wonton noodle shop at Park Mall. the following is the rating on what i have had as impression for the restaurant. It is supposed to be good but apparently i am going to give a very cynical crit on it.

The noodle texture is very yummy when you have your first bite on it but the portion is once again very small, the photos will show you the difference between big and small bowl. The big bowl comes with an additional fishball and meatball. The wontons are relatively small and bland with not much meat fillings in it as they are the size of your last finger. i will not visit this place again definitely. Sorry yc and lixia... hehe for accompanying me to be guinea pigs once again...

Service of the stall: 2.5/5
Ambience of the place:2/5
Quality of the food : 2.5/5
Variety of the food : 3.5/5
presentation of the food : 3/5
price of the food:2.5/5 (aussie price but asian portion)

Luckily for us we have had a awesome dessert at PS basement. Lixia and i have had the mango with mango sherbet and shaved ice. YC has had one of my most hated dessert i would ever go for , same dessert with additional durian in it... bleah and the smell was awfully like rotten eggs....sorry to all durain lovers but apparently to YC , it seems to be good. Please be prepare to get brain freeze and teeth freeze when you are eating these dessert...

Mom has made light porridge for me as supper, Thank God as i am still quite hungry back then...

Bidding Goodbye to my terrapins.

I was awakened promptly by the barking from my Dog, Trio. I woke up realizing my mom was back from her morning grocery shopping routine. i woke up heading to the kitchen to greet my terrapins good morning as usual after greeting my mom and dog. I realized my terrapins have been given freedom to a new home at the lake of the park where they would have a lot of other terrapins friends. i kinda of miss them but it was mom's decision.

Trio and the terrapins were playing on Thursday night and Friday they are gone. I went to watch the movie, Knight and Day with Yc and flower at Vivo city. i also realized i fall in love watching movie at vivo city.. We had dinner at the restaurant , Mussel. it was not too bad but i miss the pasta at lygon street.

Rating for the movie, The knight and Day.
It was a pretty surprisingly interesting and enjoyable comedy movie to me. Initially i thought Tom cruize is gonna play his normal acting serious stunts as an agent from mission impossible. It is kinda of different, in this movie he is kinda of more relaxed playing as Roy Miller who is an agent who given up his identity as Matthew Knight who tried to protect a high school geek who designed the new gadget, a battery which has ability to operate a submarine and etc. The common scenario how this geek is going to be tracked and the mafia and the agent who has turned rouge is after the geek and the battery. Tom cruize still have the charm in the movie...

The chemistry between Cameron diaz and Tom Cruize is incredibly good for me. Cameron diaz did her usual smile and laughter in the movie which she has done it all the time in her past movies. She is really good playing the paranoid kinda or girl and kick ass in the end at the same time. She played June Havens the girl who is good at fixing car especially when she got the classic GTO car. She was being being dragged into the crazy situation when she took the same plane back to Boston as Roy Miller.

I would consider this is a fun and beautiful movie to catch. i would rate this movie, 6.5/10/

Trio and 2 Terrapins...

Roast Duck Dinner

Yc and i are checking out the air tix and expo tickets at chinatown.
We have had roast duck for dinner today as YC feel like eating roast duck as he has not been eating roast duck since he is back from Aus... hehe and i know of a roast duck place at 91 Keong Saik Road, 0891729238 6008‎. hongkongroast.blogspot.com and we decided to give it a try. The chef of the stall seemed to be from Hong Kong.

We have had roast duck and pork and a bowl of wonton. The food turned out out to be quite good. i will definitely go back there again. It is my first time there...i love the chilli as it taste like prawn paste chilli. The food from this stall kinda of remind me of the older days back in Polytechnic food court 1 food... i would always have wonton soup for my lunch...

Service of the stall: 3.5/5
Ambience of the place:2/5
Quality of the food : 4/5
Variety of the food : 3.5/5
presentation of the food : 3/5

price of the food:3/5 (aussie price)

Heading home i have got myself a surprised postcard from Allison off my letterbox. i am kinda of missing her. She was having her holidays with Anton at the Bright at Victoria. Hope she has great fun at the cheese farm.

Viet Food at Yummy Viet Restaurant

I have had viet food at Yummy Viet Restaurant at 28 Smith Street, Chinatown, Singapore 058942 with my primary school good friends with Peizhi and choon mei today... hehe i cahnged the location there as my tummy is not feeling too good from yesterday spicy dinner...

i love the viet food there except for the rice roll texture of the skin isn;t that fantastic.... the soup of the chicken noodle was good but the chicken cannot be compared to the grilled chicken. i prefer grill chicken.. http://www.yummyviet.com.sg/ The rating of the restaurant is as shown as the following:

Service of the restaurant : 4/5
Quality of the food : 3.8/5
Variety of food : 3/5
Presentation of the food: 2.5/5
ambience of the place : 3/5
price of the food : 4/5

i would definitely visit the place again with my friends.

peizhi and chunmei visited Trio after dinner and relax a bit...They have multiple photos with Trio who keeps changing her clothes...

Majong and my favourite sting ray

Sunday is dedicated to God in the Morning. I have a lot of decisions to make. Should i go for my baptism? i know it is time for me to serve Lord. I have to think for quite a long time as this decision which i am making, i am worried that my mom is upset in her heart even though she said she would let me decide upon my decision. Sunday service sermon by Pastor Johnny kinda of bring back familiar situation i am facing. Everytime i decide to be so focus with Lord's words, there is sure to be things bound to stop me from going ahead like my uni school loads increases and a whole loads of unforseen circumstances would come along. I don;t know lately my life as a christian, i began to have so many questions in life which i am trying to find an answer to but i have yet to know them. Pastor Johnny said the only way we can find out the answer is when our heart has really let Lord in and we have done our testimony.

There is an increase in churches teaching the sermon and interpret Lord's words wrongly and it is getting more tough to define them. I am thankful that Robert's wife try to talk to me about baptism. i have been struggling with that decision for a long long time.

After church i headed to Robert's place to hang around with them... The kids enjoy playing my iphone and i am glad to see their smiles. as usual the stupid batt of iphone can;t last that long...

I headed off to meet my secondary school good friends for dinner. We went to have dinner at Rong Guan. We have had fried rice, sting ray, sambal sotong, you tiao salad, sambal kang gong and cereal prawn. i am going to rate this restaurant, Rong Guan. It is located at Ulu Panda.

service of the restaurant :2/5
(waiting time for the waitress to serve our food is about half an hour)

food quality: 4/5
( i don;t like the fried rice though as it is kinda of dry and bland. Their barbecue sambal food are quite well done but it is too spicy for me.)

food variety : 5/5
ambience of the restaurant : 3.5/5
food presentation: 3/5

I would still visit this place again for dinner definitely...

I enjoyed my dinner with Huixian, Choon Mei, Hanjie, Shan and Ivy Leong. we headed to Shan's place for majong and i enjoy the majong lesson from Choon Mei. Seng joined us later as he just finished his reservist for a week. Poor him.... He has a new hair cut. hehe :) i love them always... It has been almost 1 and half year ago since we hang together when i was back from Melbourne.

Migrane Again

I seem to be experience migrane here more than ever. Today is the worst migrane i have ever had this morning, i was about to head out to meet Flower and her ABC friends. hai i hope she has great fun today.

i went back to sleep till about 1.30pm. Ou yang was playing badminton today while i was playing yesterday with Min Lee. It has been a long time since i catch up with her. It was rather exhausting yesterday. The weather might has played in that role in making my body feeling so exhausted. We had some light chinese snacks later on at Xiao Xuan Feng restaurant yesterday.

My patience seems to be running low lately with stuff especially organizing stuff like gathering and etc. The weather. migrane and my continuity of sleeping disorder Feeling rather remorseful after i lose my cool on the facebook tread messages and i have decided to not to comment too much and head back to sleep. My S.O.B is coming back in the middle of the night.

Have u ever keep dreaming of how the future of how your friends are like and you can only congradulate or give them your blessing from your heart as they can;t see you or even hear you? This is not the first time i dream that. It is bizzare but i am rather happy to see they are happy. That would be enough for me. That is the brevity of life i suppose. It reminds me of the bible verse Psalm 90:10. i have not done enough yet for now.

Mom made my favourite luncheon meat, cauliflouwer and curry chicken for dinner. I am going to rest early again today for tomorrow is going to be a long day. Church in the morning and afternoon and dinner gathering with my secondary school good friends in the evening.

Weather

There are more drastic changes as the years go by. The weather affects the world we love in around us. Have you all been wondering if the weather has been increasing? It has and it is not just happening to Singapore. I am sure everyone knows about the situation the earth is in now.

Singapore itself faces the worst flood ever in the popular shopping district which has never happen before. I am not going to put in the photos like the rest have. I experienced the worst hail ever in Melbourne as well with the flood. It is vivid in my memory.

I guess this is still an early wake up call for all of us to do our part in saving the earth. every little things matter even if you switch off the light or do more recycling. i guess abeing aware of the weather changes is one thing but the action for remedy is another. Coppenhagen talk was a total failure to me which was tragic. Do your part as this is just not where you stay and it is also for your future generations.

Lastly learn to appreciate and care for everyone around your life in every second of your life. Life would be rich in this way... Being contented is way to being happy.

Chicken Devil's Curry

Hi , my good friend, yiling just recommended this curry which was pretty popular back in Malaca in the 15th Century which is specially cooked for the portuguese settlers. It brought back a lot of memories for people who are familiar with this dish. This dish is specially prepared after Chirstmas usually as people from the past would mixed the left over from the christmas Feast to prepared this curry. Chicken Devil's curry the name derived from the hot tropical country we are experiencing now.

This curry is specially home made with english suasage, chinese lap chiong, bacon bones, chicken, roast pork and charsiew. The curry is made from scratch without any curry powder. It used to be very spicy but it has been tone down. I thought it is kinda of special and homey.

Try it... They do delivery for the curry, check out their website. https://chickendevilcurry.wordpress.com/.

Price is like $25 for 3-4 persons.

Tim Burton exhibition is in Melbourne...

7 More Days to the Exhibition of Tim Burton in Melbourne ACMI Fed Square... I wish it would held here in December or something... i like Tim Burton's work. He is so brilliant....

Tim Burton: The Exhibition Burton Events Program Exhibition Catalogue
Tim Burton: The Exhibition
Thursday 24 June - Sunday 10 October 2010

Open daily 10am-6pm. Special late night Thursdays until 10pm

Advance tickets now availableFull $19 Concession $14Family $55 (2 adults, 3 children) Each extra child $10Melbourne Winter Masterpieces joint ticket:Tim Burton (ACMI)/European Masters (NGV)Full $34 Concession $26Buy tickets online Unlimited entry tickets also available: Full $45 Concession $35

Explore the creative genius behind Edward Scissorhands, Batman and Alice in Wonderland.From June to October 2010, ACMI hosts a unique exhibition direct from

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. An Australian exclusive, Tim Burton: The Exhibition is a landmark exhibition charting Tim Burton's creative vision and process from his earliest work to the spectacular Alice in Wonderland.Curated in direct collaboration with Burton, the exhibition brings together over 700 works, including paintings, drawings, puppets, costumes, storyboards and film. Discover the elements of gothic fantasy, dark humour and motifs that characterise Burton's work as director, concept artist, illustrator and photographer.Curated by Ron Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, and Jenny He, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film, with Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Random MacRitchie Video

Random Pulau Ubin Video

Trio trying to talk in an awkward way...

PC Fair Day (saturday)

Mine is Matt version.- Buffalo

It has really been donkey years since i have been to a PC fair which is about 4 years ago when i got my ASUS lappie. It is once again a very very humid weather in Singapore. Reading the newspapers from ST today, the weather in Singapore has been increasing since when i was a kid. It is not that i am not adaptable to SG weather merely. Ash has text me while i am in bed that she is downstair at my block. hehe she has participated in the mizurno mt faber run that why she is here. hehe i really admire her stamina... :) Well done girl...

I met up with YC earlier at orchard yesterday and was supposed to eat at Pho Lan which changed to become a japanese restaurant. We headed all the wway to Bugis and went to Miss Saigon to have viet food. I am kinda of missing the viet food in Melbourne and hence i have decided to go for viet food yesterday. Miss Saigon restaurant is a contemporary kinda of the viet restaurant.

To start of with the rating of Miss Saigon-

1) Services of the restaurant : 4/5

2) Ambient of the restaurant :3.5/5

3) Variety of the food : 4/5

4) Presentation of the food : 3.5/5

5) Critic of the food : 2.5/5

6) Value of the food: 2.5/5

The overall critic of Miss Saigon restaurant, i would recommend you to try it but for me this will be first and last time i will be there. This is subjective as i have had better viet food back in Melbourne which is of the price range $5-$12 which really leaves a deep impression. I am not going to give any comment of the value of the food further as i am gonna be very biased on that as i am too used to the proportion of food back in Melbourne. The rice rolls are pretty good but the portion is really meant for the SG appetizer like a french food. The grilled chicken noodle soup is so tasteless in term of the soup i have to add so much chilli and fish sauce into my soup. I have to give credit the grilled chicken taste good never the less. I am happy though as at least i tried the food there.

We have walked toward suntec convention centre where the PC fair is being held. It is really pack but according to YC , this is still not the worst... I have great improvement in overcome my phobia and SOB. with large amount of people there. Yc has a great deal in his laser printer and i have got greast deal in my Buffalo 2TB external Harddisk. hehe... We head off to have dinner at Marina Square. We have had fishball noodle and the Teochew Wanton. The simple dinner taste so good to me. Probably i am tired and hungry after the show. My feet are aching as i am wearing the new shoes which needs to be seasoned seriousily. YC got the shock of his life when he is lifting up the tray to put the food and saw school of small cockraoaches running around which u can imagine like in any cartoon or any forest scenario. I ponder how did that happened but never mind about it as the most important is how do we prevent that from happening after all Singapore has always leaves impression of a clean city to my aussie friends.

This reminds me of an article in ST today talking about the litter of a building block which is apalling. Is is just the cleaners' responsibilty? my answer to this is no as i think all of us play a part too as this would contribute to better and healthy living of our life.

We headed to Bugis and i got two new toys for trio to play fetch and tug of war with. We met up Janis there and head to Illuma to chill and catch up with our fruit juices. Like Janis i am also exhausted from the whole day. i can't barely even wake up today even though i set up my alarm clock. Talking about that i have had a weird nightmare about one yellow FROG who is trying to jump onto my face... Slimy creature which wakes me up promptly in the wee morning before i sleep again.

Saturday is kinda of rich for me, as i have got my stuff and eat the food i am craving for and of course spending time with my gd friends YC and Janis. Trio get her favourite toys which my mom is so happy about....funny... The toy i got for her can bounce and is kinda of fun and Trio loves it. I have had a weird dream yesterday night of a big yellow frog who kept trying to hop onton my face... bizzare...