Bak Kut Teh

SGFemale is down on cough and sore throat today and is of course without a doubt on medical leave today..hehe..typical Singaporean....little little thing take MC.. ;)

And probably overwhelmed by the fact she got a MC today, she was on very good mood. She SMS-ed me shortly after her visit to the clinic that she will be cooking Bak Kut Teh for dinner tonight. Yummy..;6

Can definitely meet the market standard anytime huh..

One big bowl and rice for each of us...attack....



-SGMale

Wakeboarding Pool at East Coast Park

Last Saturday, as we were all awaken up very early by our son, we decided to make a trip down to East Coast Park. We saw some groups of people building sand castles and there are already some already-built ones.

Singapore being a Global City?

Futuristic car in Singapore..

We also venture upon the wakeboarding pool nearby.





An Ang-Moh displaying his wakeboarding skill..



No matter what, wakeboarding is still something we will not attempt to try anytime in the near future.

-SGMale

City Square - JB

Finally...we made it to JB..Haha! Since SGFemale and myself don't have to work this afternoon, we decided to sneak in to JB and YES!! We are very thrilled by the traffic conditions... it was so so so smooth...we reached our destination without a glitch!!

City Square has not changed much since the last time we came.





We had our lunch at a restaurant call Stone Grilled...really value for money cos the cost of the food is equivalent to Singapore but we pay in RM..;)




Freshly-made lime juice and Soursop juice..



SGFemale ordered mixed grill (RM22.90).. (kid's size)



I ordered the salmon mixed seafood (RM39.90)



We passed by a confectionary shop call Lavender and the pastries they sell are so mouth-watering that we bought quite a fair bit of buns and rolls for our breakfast tomorrow.

Their cakes are so nice...





We had some light snack and cake at Secret Receipe before we return to SG..


We spent about 3 hours at City Square before returning to fetch our son from my mother-in-law's house.

-SGMale

Demise of a friend

Life is so unpredictable........a christian friend of us passed away yesterday, left behind his wife and 3 daughters.

We pay our last respect to him at the Singapore Casket and together with a group of friends, we 'saw' this friend of ours for the very last time.

So sad that life is so short and while we spend lot of time pursuing our materialistic life, we very often lack the opportunity to really sit down and think through whether have we really 'live' our life to the fullest...

This has suddenly change my perspective of life and it has really cause me to think about what I really want to do in life..am I really doing what I enjoy or just doing for the sake of bring home the bacon...sigh...why can't human has a life span of 1000 years...75 years on average is too damn short and before we come to realise what we really want in life, most of us is already in our 40-50s...too late to turn back and restart afresh...

I have realise one important thing though...BE TRUE TO OURSELVES and if there is anything we want to do, JUST DO IT!!!

-SGMale

One Day Lobster +Firefly tour

We set off at 5.30am from our place together with friend A whom spent the night at our house. We took a taxi to the Golden Mile Complex and we struggled our way into long queue and manage to register all our passes with the counter crew.

We promptly walked to our travel coach and a typical coach interior greeted us.



The coach reach second link at 7.30am, took a shot that overlooks the Malaysia shores.

Very crowded Malaysia Custom.

Finally, leaving for our breakfast destination after getting past the custom.



Typical queue at the toll.



After breakfast, we bought some local delights from the Mr Sotong shop.



We past by Jusco Mall, the biggest mall in West Malaysia.



Tour guide informed us that it will be another 2 hours ride before we reach the first destination for lunch...Zzzz...Zzzzz...............



Finally, we reach the destinations [ Lunch and Ostrich Farm] after a long 2 hours ride.



We took some shots of the lunch items..



So call 'Lobsters'...

Before:



After:





A short walk around the small & quiet town. Looking out for the shop selling lotus pastries..







A lobster statue for those deceased lobsters that sacrifices during their fight for survival to become our lunch..



Afterwhich, the coach took us to the ostrich farm near by.

Ostrich's egg..



New borns..



Grown-ups..



After death: 来阿！来阿！Ostrich Satay...1 for RM$4.50....来阿！来阿！



After visiting the Ostrich farm, we went to the Desaru Fruit Farm.

Before entering the fruit farm proper, we attended one of the Honey-bee product sale talk.



Entering Fruit farm, led by a internal tour guide..leading us through a few types of fruit trees..

Dragon Fruit Tree



Jack Fruit tree





Durian Tree



Passion fruit



A visit to the animal farm within the fruit farm.

Young calf getting fed.



Roosters and hens roaming around freely.



Monkeys feeding themselves with lime juice...





Hundreds of Koi in a nearby pond..



Dinner was at this restaurant.



After dinner, we walked around the vicinity..



Famili Mart..a mall mainly for the Malaysians..



After the walk, we assembled at the ferry point and we went cruising down the river looking out for fireflies....saw lots of them, too bad they could not be captured by camera..

Just one below..



That concludes the end of our tiring 1 day tour..

-SGMale