Unexpected visit to a rural part of Singapore

After sending off our son to his favourite weekend escape, a 2 day 1 night stay at my in-law's house, we set off to explore the east side of Singapore. SGMale suggested going to Bedok Shopping Centre. Upon hearing the venue, I got a little "sian", cos never heard of it and got an impression that it must be somewhere similar to Boon Lay Shopping Centre.

I was right about it when we finally got there after 90mins, cos we lose our way, hahaha.... even with our GPS. It was like JB, with a few shop houses, coffeeshop, fruit stall and with a supermarket (Shop N Save).









We walked around the place and found a few restaurants hiding at the corner, as there's nothing special about their food, so we ended up eating at a crowded coffeeshop. We had noodle, mee siam and rojak for our lunch. The noodle which SGMale was having was very nice, no wonder all the people in that coffeeshop were all having it, except me.

When I saw SGMale wolfing down the noodle, I asked to try his noodle, hm... it was indeed very nice. I should have ordered that. As I usually don't eat yellow noodle, I gave it a miss. I would always prefer bee hoon to noodle anytime and that's why I ordered mee siam, but it didn't turn out good, was too concentrated.

After lunch, we bought a donut at "Donut Master" to share, it was a Chocolate crunch with cheese at $1.50, quite expensive for one but it was really nice and soft. Will definately go back again for noodle and more donut next time. Hopefully, we won't get lose again, hee!!!

-SGFemale

New toy from Samsung

Finally I manage to reserve and get this long-awaited multi-function phone. The best part of this phone other than its unique touchscreen capabilities, it has this iphone look-alike interface that never fails to intrigue me...this phone should last me for at least 2-3 year i hope..;)




Only get to paid slightly over $200 buck for this new toy after re-contracting my phone service and trading in my old N95 phone.




So far this phone has not failed me yet in terms of features and it's amazing battery life...


-SGMale

Handi Massager

Brought this massager from Bugis Junction. In our opinion, it manage to achieve the same desired effect as that of the OSIM massager which costs many times more..







Will be using this very often as we are both victims of frequent shoulder and backache.

Sign of getting old huh!

-SGMale

Electronic keyboard for our son

Our son seems to have special liking for electronic keyboard, hence we decided to buy one for him last weekend. He was very happy and excited as we unwrap his new toy for him..children being children..they are always so happy with the simplest thing in life..unlike adults..as we grow old and old, it takes more and more materialistic things to make us happy....sometimes we should not forget to relive those childhood happy moments as they are indeed priceless!







-SGMale

Spolit School Bus

We will need to get another toy school bus for our son as he's favourite school bus decided to end it's miserable life [always get dropped down from high place by our son] recently...weep *.*



Will probably get one for him this weekend..

-SGMale

Masterpiece from our son

It is always very nice to see our son bringing home his artworks from the childcare centre. His most recent masterpiece manage to bring endless smiles to SGFemale's face. TO be honest, we are both very proud of what he can do now.









As we watch him grow day by day, we also realise that we are getting older and older as well. We must always remind ourselves to spend more time with him while we can. When he grows up and have his own groups of friends, we will not have the opportunity to 'bond' with him anymore..time and tide waits for no man...DO IT NOW! Yeah!!

-SGMale

Home Threater System

We manage to redeem the Home Threater System 2 Sundays ago. As we did not bring any carry aids with us, I have to carry the entire box all the way to the car which is across the road on the next building. It was no doubt very good exercise for the heart though..;)

We set it up almost immediately upon reaching home as we could not wait to hear & witness the sound effects..

The box comes with 4+1 speakers and 1 Sub Woofer. Setting them up was a breeze..the real challenge was to tied neatly all the loose ends of wirings...I manage to bundle the entire barbs of wirings together under a wrap of plastic covers that comes with the speakers.



The sound effect was indeed very good as we watch our rental DVD over it.

NICE!

-SGMale

Most recent food crave

Not sure when it all started but I have been craving for both Char Siew and Roosted Pork rice and I have been ordering them for lunch and dinner unknowingly.

My favourite store is at West Coast Road. Their duck rice, char siew and roosted pork is one of the best I have eaten so far...the place is somewhere near to the West Coast Market.







It will probably take me a while to find another source of food crave...

-SGMale

Sailing Tall Ship Pallada from Russia

While we were walking along the 2nd floor shopping mall and both of us suddenly see the mast of a ship out the glass door facing the sea overseeing Sentosa..

Out of curiousity, we went out to take a look and we saw lots of people going up and down the ship and there were quite a lot of Russian sailors walking around..not sure what are they doing here at Vivocity, anyway we went up and took many photo as though we are tourists...;)

Front of the ship


Side view


Entrance/Exit to the ship - one way traffic


Steering wheel


Central mast of the ship..


-SGMale

ABC Song

SGFemale: ABCD..EF

Son: G..

SGFemale: SmartBoy!

SGFemale: HIJK..LMNO..

Son: P..

SGFemale: dear...our son is so smart..

SGFemale: QRS..TUV..

Son: W..

SGFemale: wow...fantastic...

SGFemale:XY & ..

Son: Z...

SgFemale: Now I know my ABC, why don't you come and sing with me..

Son: Yawn...

-SGMale

Shopping at Robinsons

As we were given $100 Robinsons Voucher when we purchased the 40 inch Samsung LCD TV recently, we hung around Raffles City to see of there is anything worth buying. Before we entered Robinsons, we were greeted by lots of posters indicating "Great Singapore Sale" with 15% storewide. Hurray!!

Just within 15 mins, I got 2 pieces of clothings, after trying them on, I decided to buy both the clothings as they are both very comfortable and fitting, and most importantly, there's a 15% discount and with another 20% for Robinsons card member, in total we are looking at 35% off. That's really one hell of a bargain! But if one were to use voucher then it's only 15% discount. After a quick discussion with SGMale, we decided to go for the 35% discount and pay cash instead of using the voucher.

Le'Range short sleeve blouse $39
(After 35% discount: $25.35)


Le'Range short sleeve blouse $29
(After 35% discount: $18.85)





These 2 tops' a gift for myself for surviving for a month at my new job. I saluted to myself for the sheer determination and willpower for hanging on till today which is also my payday. ;) Workload is getting heavier and so is stress, the one ingredient why most people leave their job. I don't know how long I can last, however I will try my best to overcome all obstacles that crosses comes along my way.

Jia You! Jia You! Jia You!

This also indicate that i need more retail therapy to unwind!!!


-SGFemale

40 inch Full HD LCD TV

Hey...the 40" LCD TV has arrived for 5 days now and we have already watches more than 5 DVD movies with it...what a record.

We purchased it during the latest PC SHOW at Suntec. The 40" Full HD LCD TV was going at $1699 with free $100 Robinson voucher. SGFemale and myself agreed that it was a good bargain and so we decided on the spot to buy it.




The buttons on the TV are at the top and it is one unattractive feature my son does not like about cos he will not be able to touch them. Muhahahaha!



After watching more than 5 movies with this LCD TV, are we happy with the TV? Are we smiling? IT IS NOT HARD TO IMAGINE! :)

-SGMale

Visit to Singapore Flyer shopping area

We decided to bring my mother-in-law to visit the Singapore Flyer's premises and shopping area since we do not have anywhere to go after have a packeted dinner from Makansutra Glutton's Bay.

There are many more shops now compared to the last time we came. We also bring our son to walk inside the Yakult Rainfores Discovery.

We will definitely ascend the Singapore Flyer once the Casino and IR are ready, we see no point going up down as all anyone could see is a big spread of construction sites...

-SGMale

Dinner at ASTONS express [Jurong East]

Having heard so much about ASTONS, we decided to give it a try last evening. Service was good but waiting time was a bit long. Food is only average especially the steaks.

Dishes we ordered:

Grand Sampler



Pepper Beef Steak


Will go to the main branch to eat someday. The standard may be different. ;)

-SGMale

What a day!!!

I went to see doctor again this morning. As it was still early, I went to the hawker centre for breakfast. Ordered a bowl of prawn bee hoon soup. The stall lady was kind enough to deliver it to me although its "self-service". It could be because I was sitting close to the stall or that she took pity of "sick people" like me. Hehehe.....

Just as I was about to start eating, I noticed something stunning. Wow... times is really that bad meh? My prawn bee hoon soup only has one prawn in it, so pathetic. Has living standard really gone up by so much? Not long ago, I had prawn bee hoon soup for the same $2, but with 3 prawns, but now.....;( If there is only one prawn, don't name it "prawn" bee hoon lah.... just name it as "bee hoon soup"!!!!



Not very happy with eating just a prawn, I went to the market to get 1kg of prawn. About 40 pcs of prawn for 1 kg and it just costs me $8. So is the hawker taking advantage of the current inflation and anyhow increase their price or simply give less of the food? I even came across one stall, they increased the price of their nasi bryani from $4 to $5, an increase of $1, yet their meat (mutton) was even smaller than before. WHY?????

Later in the afternoon, by chance I found out that I got the "wrong" medical certificate from the clinic. Although my name is correct but they got the wrong identication numbers on it. I even suspect they got the wrong patient card for the doctor. I was right when I went back to the clinic this evening for extension of medical leave. They told me that my doctor was off duty and will only be back tomorrow after 3pm, and asked me to come back again for collection. What a waste of my precious time for their mistake!!!! I am a patient and their "customer"!!! A sick patient instead of resting at home have to come again tomorrow, SIGH!!!

What a day!!!!

- SGFemale

Streets Cafe at Bukit Panjang Plaza

Since both of us have never being there, we decided to try it today since we are going to fetch our son from my parents who stay nearby.

Ambience is nice, seats are comfy but services are not so ideal. Waiters and waitresses do not look out for customer's orders and signals...they are just so busy whizzing in and out of the cashier's area and kitchen.



Windows seat overseeing the LRT track


Some of the dishes we ordered. Food are ok but waiting time is a bit long though.

Asparagus wrapped with Bacons


Fried Wanton


Fried Chicken Wings


Simple Egg/Luncheon meat noodle


Seafood Spaggetti


Drink mixed with Soursop, Longan and some jelly beans


This place would probably be the one and only visit for us.

SGMale

Happy 3rd Father's day!!

After dinner, we went to buy a "father's day" cake for SGMale to celebrate with our boy. It was a small 300g blueberry cheesecake and of cos, my boy was very happy and excited when he saw the cake. Both of them were singing " Happy Birthday to Papa" and both of them posed for a few shots and blew the "one and only" candle on the cake.



Blueberry cheesecake


Happy 3rd Father's day, dear!!!!

-SGFemale

Father's day dinner

It's the once a year "Father's Day" again today! We bring along SGMale's parents and went to one of the neaby coffeeshop for dinner to celebrate for the "2 fathers". Old folks do not really appreciate restaurant food nowsdays. When we arrived, the place was extremely very crowded and although we have booked a table we were told to wait.

We waited for 10mins, finally got a "non-zi cha" table. I thought, "better than nothing, at least don't have to wait". Then we ordered few common dishes after we settled down. Nightmares begins..... We waited, and waited....... not a single dish arrive after 15mins, then we thought maybe they are busy as they have a lot of orders. another 15 mins passed, my father-in-law went to check our order and was told that our order is still in queue, 3 more order to go.....;p

True enough, our dishes arrived one by one after 20 mins later. So in total, we waited 50mins for our food and 10mins waiting time for the table!!!! And the food didn't turn out good as well! Such disappointment!

Pork ribs with yam

Hot plate beancurd


BBQ stringray


Sweet & sour pork


Lesson learnt: Never eat out at the actual day be it any type of festive seasons...

- SGFemale