Weekend has Started

It's friday, the weekend is here and i'm starting it off with a movie. went to watch music and lyrics with terry at vivo city.. for those who dunno, you can watch weekend movie at $8 at golden village cinemas if you have a safra card, no limits to the number of ticket you can buy with 1 card. online booking can be done via www.safra.org.sg, gotta log in to safra online. you can ask me personally if you wanna book but dun have a safra card. i felt that the movie was good. especially like the part that says that for a song, the melody is like the first time you meet a person, the first impression and the lyric is like when you start to get to know the person more.. cool.

We had dinner at 9 plus... most of the food outlets were closed, so we had no choice but to eat at marche, terry treated me cos he felt very happy.. he thinks that he'll be a totally different person the next day!! ..anyone out there whose feeling like that and looking for someone to share it with you and you are willing to treat dinner for that .. call me too!!We ordered quite a bit of food.. cos everything seems quite nice. at marche there are a few must haves, like the root beer, mushroom soup and the rosti.. this new branch had seafood paella too..wrote more about the food on justximplyfoodAll the best to terry for his pursuit for his happyness!! ... and thank you for the wonderful dinner!!

Long Time No See

Thurday was wonderful, met up with the everbusy jl for lunch finally, catched up a bit but forgotten to take photo.. was busy listening to how busy he was at school!! .. after hearing from him, i dun think i will ever consider being a teacher, i dun think i can take the lifeless training ...

Met frederick and bangzhi for dinner, it was also a long time since i met up with fred. had a good dinner, and a good time catch up with fred too!! ... no nice photos, so this time no photos again!!

Busy Project

Went over to yveon's on wed again.. for project again .. and we tabao food from ang mo kio's s11..didn't know if i should post this here or on my food blog.. so decided to post it on both.. here's what we hadFood isn't good.. not too sure if it's because the food is packed or it's because the standard of the stalls aren't good in the first place.
juice provided by yvonne...after dinner... it was back to the computers ... work work work...

Free Chalet Stay at Pulau Tekong

Borong will be enlisting this thursday, and after seeing the bmt camp at tekong, i felt that bmt and evolved so much since i was at bmt(hmmm that was really a long time ago). one look at the camp, you will think it's a very big holiday resort with lots of rooms..

So before he start his long long holiday camp, we decided to meet up for a meal... a free meal.. (gotta thank cruz for the meal and also js for sharing it). we had quite a good time preparing him for his new life over dinner at ps... i think after the session, he'll will be losing some sleep.. haha .. am i right?

(thank you js for the photo, my cam is still in china)

All the best br, enjoy your 2 years of ns life!! remember to miss us ok? mahjong again after your confinement... anticipating to see a slimmer and fitter br...

More Shotglasses

Received new hard rock shotglasses, cool... more to add into the collectionThese 3 will be the 40th, 41st and 42nd hard rock shot glasses in my collection. thanks to meili who's studying in australia, and yveon who just came back from a wonderful holiday in spain... oh and there's more here. looking at the photos make me feel like going for a holiday too. nice looking photos can really freeze the time and bring you back in your memories of the trips.. if only travelling can be free... hai.. anyway, here's letting those who doesn't know, i collect shotglasses, mostly hardrock, followed by planet hollywood, i have a few other ja pa lang ones too..

Home Cooked Food

Went over to yveon's place on wed to rush a project... an i.t. project .. i think the last time i rushed a project like this was in 2002, for the sake of my degree from nus.. oh yar there were still times after that where i have such experience when i was working as a software engineer.. before sinking ourselves into heaps of programming codes, we had dinner ... and it was myojo goreng, chinese style, by lil ms snooze. did not have my camera with me as it's now in china, so no photos .. but you can see it here!! ... ok .. not much time to write too much ... hope i will have more free time next week!!

Last Day of New Year

It's the last day of cny... that was really fast. Went to terry's place for mahjong in the afternoon and shun bian bai nian, 1 last ang bao to collect. and it's the last day we can gamble (yeah right, haha). after the first game, our 4th ka gotta rush off to work, so we were left with 3 person. What to do? .. daidi it shall be.

Very difficult to play with chips or cash for daidi because for every game there are uaually quite some transaction among all players, so usually we will record it down with pen and paper and calculate it at the end. But since everyone is improving, we cannot fall back too, so we upgraded to using a laptop for scoring.With a wonderful excel spreadsheet created with the right formulas, we are able to see our gains and losses real time!! cool right? maybe one day there will be auto recorder for mahjong chips transactions too. maybe everyone have their own keypad and screen on their side of the table and you can press how many tais you have won, and it will update every one's current wealth level automatically...

More Curry Chicken

Add (7 March 2007 1am): created quite a few posts in the weeekends, cos this is going to be a busy week and dad has brought the camera overseas, so can expect no photos and no time (super busy at work) this week. will be releasing the posts slowly .. cos i realise that by posting a lot at the same time, there's a tendency of having less comments ... but from the past few days .. i realise that comments are really gettng rare nowdays.. ok back to the actual posting

Joey's grandma passed away on friday and me lawrence and lengleng went to the wake on sat night. wow! it's a big place, didn't really count the number of tables but it's somewhere between 20 to 30, and from one glance, there were around 40 family members around. after asking, we realised that her grandma has got 12 children!!! This is like the nth time i'm attending a wake since my ah gong passed away. what's wrong with this period of time huh?

Anyway, we all had dinner just before going there and when we reached there, joey and family were eating and they offered for us to join them for the food.

Joey: want to eat together?
Us: no lah, we are very full, just had dinner..
(they started eating the beehoon, and the po piah, and they finished it, and it wasn't enough, they brought out more)
Joey: really don't want ar? very nice leh?
Us: No need, we are really very full
(they continue to eat, and finished everything up again)
Leng: Eh, the beehoon looks good hor? wanna try a bit?
Lawrence: yar lor, they eat until like that, i also want to try.
Us: joey, can we have some bee hoon?
Joey: haha.. ok i go get for you
Us: a little bit can liao, just want to try.

We ended up finishing a whole big plate of bee hoon and almost all the popiah!! .. so much for "we are quite full". this time also no curry chicken but the beehoon is really good.

Newly Pierced Ear

Haven't met bangzhi for a super long time! and we finally found a time where we both are free. realised that he had a new hairstyle, the gong tao look!! with purple streaks all over his head and he got his ear pierced, so after you pirece you ear? what is the most eagar thing to do... buy earrings or ear studs right?

He visited his grandma and went to look through her collection of jewellery and found some interesting ear studs that she had from decades ago... and she actually gave a couple to him and his brother!! cannot believe it man..

One of them was a very old fashioned jade stud. wah... really obiang, but he wanted the obiang look, so here's how he looked like with the stud. anyone has a more obiang earring?

Note: the photo was mosiaced upon his request because i was unable to touch up his face (my skill not good enough for that yet)..

Lawrence's Birthday

It's lawrence's belated birthday meal. decided to have dim sum at this place called victor's kitchen, i knew about it from a food blog that i stumbled upon. we made reservation, but when we got there, and saw the place, we started to wonder how come we made a reservation. customers were sitting along the corridor of the shopping centre, it's a small shop and the only space they have in the shop if for the kitchen. menu selection was limited but there were lots of customers.. so i guessed it had to be good right?
Ordered quite a few stuffs and the bill came out to be $27.. for 3 person, isn't that cheap?Oh, and the food was really good, must go again. too bad joey and regina cannot join us, but i think this shop will still be around for some time, probably going to change to a larger shop soon...anyone interested to go for a meal of dim sum soon?

MacDonald's Breakfast

Do you know that macdonalds have added a new item to their breakfast menu? i think it's one of the sesonal addition... the bagel with omelette. i saw it for quite sometime but there wasn't any urge to try it until i see it here.
So on friday morning i decided to drive over to a nearby mac on my way to work and tabao a bagel meal just to try it out... i was a good decision...The bagel was quite chewy, slightly different from the usual muffins we have from mac. oh and i found a booklet of mac coupons on the table where i was ordering my food. and only after i paid for it that i realise that there's a coupon that will give me a free sausage mcmuffin for a bagel evm (extra value meal) ordered!!! argghh .. i could have one more muffin for breakfast... hai .. it's ok .. i'm going to get it again tomorrow morning, hiak hiak

Hannibal Rising

Mos burger had a new item in the menu, i think it's a seasonal item, the ankake salmon burger, so i went to try it before proceeding to the movies. Not bad, at least i would order it again if it's still available next time.

I went to watch hannibal rising with xingzan without knowing too much about the show except that gong li is acting in it. the show is not bad .. in fact quite good, but not my kind of show, cos it has got numerous killing scenes that got me all uncomfortable... but if you like this kind of movie .. you should go watch this. gong li acted well in the show, as usual.. we watched it at the shaw preview theare, it's actually in the premise of shaw's office in shaw centre itself.It's actually a small theatre that can take up to about 50 people with big and comfy arm chairs.. got the tickets from from funkygrad. they give out free movie tickets every now and then, go register an account there and start to try for the lucky draw, you might get a few free movie to watch..
So this is a movie i would recommend for you to go watch. but if you are like me, cannot take killing scenes, then you might want to give it a miss.

Yusheng Yusheng Shake Shake Shake

Went mingbao and jiehong's place for a lao yusheng session on cny day 8.. haha my 6th yusheng.We tabao a small packet of yusheng and it comes with a nice box, so to make sure we dun waste the yusheng and also not to dirty the place, we decided to seal the box up and shake it instead of lao-ing it.. everyone had a chance in shaking the box!! so the harder you shake, the more you will huat!! chongwei was back for a while from shanghai and he joined us for the session... his first appearance on my blog.. Now our yusheng is throughly shaken and ready to be eaten..After yusheng, it's mahjong... what's new... and i lost(i guessed everyone else shook the yusheng box harder than me) ... hai!!

Chingay 2007

Lots of wonderful photos from changay 2007 (parade of dreams), the long wait from 7pm to 8:30 pm was totally worth it... Went there with libing, js and ripple. lb had to leave early, so the only thing he saw was prsident nathan boarding the main float. the float will travel from meridian hotel down orchard road to the first section at orchard mrt and performers will move from there back to where we were stationed! we waited more than an hour for the performers to arrive. we got p passes to sit at the area along the road right beside the performances, with compliments from ripple, it was some time later that i realise that p stands for performers!! haha
My first time at chingay and i'm sure i will want to go for it again!! such a colourful event with lots of people for you to shoot at close distance.. So i guess this posting should be with less words and more photos... here they are





This is my favourite for the day!

More Yusheng

This cny i have been having lots of yusheng, as of the previous post, i already had 3...
On cny day 5, the cashflow challenge organising team met up for a post event dinner at siglap and we had yusheng again, but i was very late due to work and they set aside a small plate for me...i wonder if there's any fish inside.
On cny day 6, i attended a lunch session by sfic(singapore furniture industry council) at grand copthorne waterfront hotel, and it's yusheng again. this is the best yusheng i had till date. the plate was big, they had lot's of fish in it, they game us very long chopsticks so that we will not get our hands all dirty.. wow, having yusheng in a hotel is really different. (photo taken with my phone, cos it seems funny to bring out an slr at an event like that)

CNY Day 4

A very busy day, went to office this morning to start work.. settled some stuffs so work can start for the workers, and then it was wakeboarding time!!
The last time i wakeboarded was quite some time ago. this time i went with terry and tracy, but it was not a good session, because the water was really choppy and i didn't know how i got this cut on my right sole... but after riding with this instructor (terry goh) for a few sessions, i feel that he's really a good teacher, especially for beginners, i brought a few new friends and he never fail to get them all standing on the board during the first session! if you want his contact, can get it from me.Although she might complain that her hair is messy, i quite like this photo.

More visiting after wakeboarding, went to duke chiu's place, and right after the oranges exchange, it was ban lak... all the way until we leave the place ... luckily i won a little... terry wasn't so lucky though, i hope he will have more luck in his future games.

Bookoh and siying are in singapore for a week and we met up for dinner with a few other nus band guys at modestos @ vivo city. the food was quite good i gotta say. most of the pizzas and pastas are worth a try. dunno when we will see the 2 of them again, and i dunno when i will get to visit them in shanghai.
Fufilling dinner... to be followed by a gathering at mingbao's place, hhmmm i think in all my previous posts with photos at mingbao's place, there's none which we were not playing mahjong!!and this time is no exception. at 3am in the morning, we have our big winner.... jiemin!!

CNY Day 3

So fast, it's the third day already, went over to js' place for gambling ... yes again .. gamble everyday... if this continue, someone please call the anti gambling hotline for me .. haha .. we played texas hold'em. only learnt this game this festive season and it seems quite fun so far .. thanks to libing for teaching me the game, i'm going around teaching everyone i meet.
Dinner was with leng regina lawrence and joey at crystal jade cos we wanted to lao yu sheng. 3rd one for this year!! food was quite good there, crystal jade's food has been maintaining it's standard since we started eating it around 10 yrs ago.. not bad..Can you see the table behind us? there're slightly ahead of us, ther have started the lao-ing... after dinner...... texas hold'em again .. this time at regina's place.. haha ... end of the cny holidays!! for some ...

CNY Day 2

Haha ... sleep until 11am!! went to watch a movie with terry in the afternoon at lot 1, and i dun think i will go there again, the seats really suck. oh and it's really crowded, i think everyone seemed to be very eng during cny and the only thing that can do around the neighbourhood is watch movie. the show is quite good though, we watch the protege, gotta find some time to watch the local production on civil servants too, i think that will be funny.
It was gathering at my place in the evening, although many people couldn't make it, we still had a good time with the rest who can come for it. my second yu sheng for this year, lets see how many i will have for this yearSteamboat was very good as usual, because i prepared it .. hahaha super thick skin...
After the food it was time for out huat huat huat mahjong competition.. zhentao brought his wooly for luck and it really gave him lots of it.. not only he won the huat huat huat challenge, he even won our money at the real mahjong game after that!!

CNY Day 1

Day 1 was very different from previous years. due to the departure of ah gong in november, out family are not allowed to go bai nian this cny... hhmm which is a good thing to me, i slept until 12pm.. super shoik.. usually in the evening on day 1, we will have to go to my grandma's (mum's mum) place in malaysia and will only be back on day 2. this year i'm free!! so we went to mingbao and jiehong's place for another mahjong session!! i made the ever popular baked potato dish that everyone likes. i'm sure meili will miss this, but she's coming back soon enough to try this again.
And the winner for mahjong? bingwei, winning a prize of 1 billion yen from our main sponsor, mr sim libin...

It was time for a newly learnt game called texas hold'em after mahjong. If you have watched casino royale, it's the game that james bond played in the movie. so everyone, it;s time to show the money!! everyone took out our cash for this game and also not forgetting the every popular ban luck.
There's always winners and losers after every game, we have to accept the fact of losing and then come back later for another round some other days!!
Note: this photo is posed. their expressions are indirectly propotional to the amount of money they have won (or lost)

New Year's Eve

It's new year's eve again, this year my relatives gathered at my place for steamboat and as usual there's always some games after dinner.. usually it's cards but this year we started mahjong
I've heard a lot from my mum and aunties and uncles about my dad being a very good mahjong player and he played so much in his younger days that he didn't even complete his secondary education.. haha .. but i have never seen him on a mahjong table in my life, until today .... wah .. i can see that he's a little rusty already, he can mistake the 1 bamboo for a flower!! .. maybe 1 bamboo doesn't look like that in the past.
When i was young, our place was like a private mahjong house, neighbours will come and play mahjong and then will pay kopi money to my ah ma... probably that's why all my uncles are all mahjong experts .. but i wonder why they all stopped playing ... tui chu jiang hu? ... anyway .. happy new year to everyone!!

Relaxing and Lazy Afternoon

It the start of my chinese new year break. met up with terry at corduroy & finch for a nice afternoon tea and chat. the place is fantastic, serene, wonderful ambience. we actually stayed there for 3 hours... mostly chatting.. haha
I have liked this place since the first time i stepped in here around 2 yrs ago (hhmm dun really remember if it was that long ago. but time have been passing very quickly these few years). wasn't impressed by the food here but the ambience itself and the settings have attracted me to come back again and again. food is quite expensive over here, so i usully pop by or some dinks in the afternoon or at night .. must go must go... you won't regret . i wrote more about this place on my food blog.
They even have such an inovative idea for the washroom, to use a shower head a tap for washing of hands, cool right! one week of holiday.. yeh.. already planning events to keep myself occipied for this festive season!!just hoping that i won't put on weight after the holiday

Year End Lunch

It was the last day of work and we went for a company year end lunch at crown village restaurant. it's at canberra road, in ns home team club house, somewhere near out factory.
My first yu sheng for this new year!! already starting to eat yu sheng even when the new year is not here yet.. remember the old times when we have to wait till 7th day of new year to get yu sheng.
Oh yes, this is my whole company.. really small. will there be a day where we will need to book a whole restaurant for year end meal? is it up to me? ... stressed.. haha ...