Month: September 2009

Chinese Wedding

Recently went to my cousin’s Chinese wedding (Singapore) and thought it will be nice to share it. In the morning, the groom and the bride will start off very early as per their own family traditions and culture. What we, the relatives will do is to gather at their house to welcome the newly-weds. Prior to their return, we help ourselves to the buffet lunch first!

The spread of food that was catered. 🙂

My first serving. I did 2 rounds. Wahaha!

My partner’s first round.

Orr nee (Yam paste with gingko nuts), which my brother had.

Popular Apple Strudel from Corica (Perth), specially brought back by my aunt.

Group photo of the bride’s mother’s family.

Traditional tea ceremony whereby the groom and bride had to offer tea to their elders. After drinking the tea, the elders will give token gifts that can be Ang Bao (red packet), jewelery, gold, diamond, etc. ^^; The photo above shows the groom and bride offering to their parents, which they had to kneel down.

A photo after the tea offering to my parents. After the tea ceremony and buffet lunch, it’s time to head back home to rest and get ready for the wedding dinner in the night!

Here we are at Carlton Hotel Singapore for the wedding dinner. At the reception area, there are photo album of the newly-weds for the guests to view.

When guests first arrived, they will go to the reception table to

Drop off their ang bao/gift for the couple
Find out their table seating
Get complimentary parking coupons (if driving)

Different “market rate” applies for the ang bao, it really depends on where the wedding banquet is being held at and also how close your relationship with the groom/bride. 🙂

From the ballroom, a view of the lobby area at level 1.

Dinner starting soon. There are 2 VIP tables – one for the groom family and another for the bride family. Sometimes, if the family size is small, the VIP table can be consolidated into 1 too.

Here comes the newly weds (1st march-in). After the march-in, the banquet will start and you can start feasting.

Champagne pouring after the 2nd march-in (usually done around the 3rd or 4th dish).

Traditional toasting time, which everyone will shout “Yum Seng” (drink to success)! The toasting goes on for 3 rounds, each with a different set of wishes to the newly-weds. After the toasting session, the newly-weds will go around the ballroom to take photos with the guests at individual tables. At this point, the guests at the table can play tricks or get the couple to drink! But I think it doesn’t happen a lot these days as I see most newly-weds are still sober at the end of the dinner. The main thing is that they have enjoyed and have a memorable time!

Tags ang bao, apple strudel, buffet, carlton hotel, chinese wedding, corica, lunch, orr nee, perth, singapore, tea ceremony

Life in Singapore

SingTel Grid Girls On Tour Grand Finals

Post author By Ronald Tan
Post date September 25, 2009
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At MediaCorp TV to participate in the live telecast of SingTel Grid Girls On Tour Grand Finals – a reality show to select the Grid Girls for Singapore F1 – 2009 Formula 1 Night Race – Singapore Grand Prix. The top 3 winners will be holding the Singapore flag, F1 flag and the FIA flag at the starting line of Singapore F1 – 2009 Formula 1 Night Race – Singapore Grand Prix.

At the reception area awaiting for my brother to arrive. It was raining outside and hence most folks gathered around here.

Another area of the reception. All are awaiting to go in the TV set.

Finally my brother arrived and gotten the tickets from his friend. We are here to support Cordelia Low! You can see the rest of the Grid Girls here.

Queuing for our turn to go in the TV Theater. The queue was extremely long!

Finally seated down at a nearby area where all the supporters of Cordelia Low are. We are at the extreme top left of the set. LOL!

Counting down to the start of the Singtel Grid Girls: Grand Finals live telecast on Channel 5. Yeah!

Entry of the Singtel Grid Girls finalists. We were seated too far away for a good view but luckily there was two big screens at both side of the stage. 🙂

The hosts – Kui Jien and Michelle Chia.

Performance by Jack and Rai.

Jack & Rai – The Fa La La Song

Announcement of the Top 5 Grid Girls.

Q&A time for Top 5 Grid Girls.

The winners are Low Shu Min, Constance Lau and Cordelia Low. Congratulations!

Stage of Singtel Grid Girls after the show ended. Looking forward for F1 Singapore Weekend are there are a whole lot of activities, promotions, gigs and off-track entertainment available during this period (F1 Rocks Concert and many others!). Enjoy if you are in town!

Tags 2009 formula 1 night race, constance lau, cordelia low, grand finals, low shu min, mediacorp, singapore, singapore f1, singapore grand prix, singtel grid girls

Events Otaku

GCA 2009 – Cosplay/Games/Babes

Post author By Ronald Tan
Post date September 24, 2009
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Visited Games Convention Asia (GCA) on 20th Sept 2009, which was held at Suntec Singapore. Initially wanted to attend the conference too, but wasn’t able to spare time away from work. Specially chose to come on the last day of the show to check out Asia Pacific Cosplay Championship @ GCA 2009.

Blood Elf Paladin from Warcraft.

Silent Hill & Devil Kings (Sengoku Basara).

Stormtrooper. Is this Gordon?

Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th.

Archer from Fate/Stay Night. She’s very accommodating in the photo taking, with many various poses! Excellent!

Tsunade from Naruto.

Yuna from Final Fantasy X. She’s quite good at it!

Soul Eater.

Lovely lady with Iori Yagami from King of Fighters.

Alex Louis Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist with 3 lovely ladies.

Xbox 360 booth. All the folks are so engrossed in the games. 🙂

EA Games booth.

GameAxis booth.

IAH Games.

Lady from Granado Espada: The Masquerade.

Another lady from Granado Espada: The Masquerade.

Dragonica ladies. 😛

Winners of 1v1 at One Asia Cup.

D1GP Arcade from Taito. Drift!!

Free Coke Zero for all! Nice!

Darksiders.

Runup Games – there was a long queue when I passed by the booth.

3 sweet girls distributing promotional materials for gamerstalk.asia. Managed to chat up with the center lady as we both have the same camera – Panasonic Lx3. She’s a very friendly person 🙂

Cloud Strife & Yuffie Kisaragi from Final Fantasy VII.

Hiiro no Kakera.

Black Butler.

Ciel.

More photos follows.

Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier.

On the way back to carpark (Millenia Walk), spotted an event to rev up the tempo for F1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix, so decided to ask the 2 pretty FHM ladies to pose for a photo, which they gladly obliged. 😛 Looking forward to the race day!

Life in Singapore

A Week in Singapore 2

This week post was rather late as I was really caught up with work. This is my take-away lunch where I normally consume on my work desk – mixed vegetables rice that consist of 2 vegetables and 1 meat (chicken) S$2.80.

Also whenever I have some spare time, I will try to listen to some music on my home theater system. Currently listening to Enigma: A Posteriori and Rua: Whisper. Nice!

From Orchard Central, this is a shot of The CentrePoint which I believe the facade was newly renovated. If I am wrong, that means I haven’t been wandering around Orchard Road for some time already. Haha!

From the same location that I took the shot of The CentrePoint, you can see the long flight of escalator (up going only). Also another group of folks setting up their DSLR camera and tripod nearby, possibly also trying to capture The CentrePoint too!

Took the lift up to the 8th floor, love the ambiance which greeted my eyes. 🙂

Trying to find a restaurant for dinner, Nolboo Hangari Galbi is a Korean restaurant which I believe is very popular in Korea (due to the articles that was shown from Korean newspapers). The queue was pretty long so we decided to skip it and scan through others.

Ootoya is also fully packed and tons of people waiting for their turn. This is the first Ootoya opening in Singapore and I very much wanted to try it as I didn’t get to eat it during my trip to Japan during May 09. Sigh…will have to come again on another day. Next time will try to check whether I can make reservations!

At the ground floor of Orchard Central, I noticed that the facade lighting of The CentrePoint do change colour. Recently, there are many malls (Orchard Central, ION Orchard, Illuma, etc) with various lighting effects at their facade. Is it the trend now?

One of my favorite food! Prawn Dumpling Kway Teow cooked by my mother-in-law. She used to own a stall selling Wonton noodle and Prawn dumpling noodle in Redhill Market and was popular too! But she retired already so only we get to eat it now. Ha ha!

Went to SHH Tyres (Toh Guan Road) to change my car tyres which is overused and long overdue to change. I thought I could still exploit it a little more until I drifted during a turn while in a carpark. It was raining so the car and floor was wet. Haha! Decided to go for Hankook after reading some test reports and recommendations.

Car up on the jack and the old shoes are removed. Service was pretty fast as they had a few mechanics around.

The tyres which was going to be fitted on my car – 205/55ZR16 Hankook Ventus V12 Evo. 4pcs at S$572 (after 20% discount).

My Mazda 3 with the new shoes (Hankook Ventus V12 Evo) on. I was advised to run-in for 500km before I try any high speed sprint or wild cornering. 😛

Going to Sim Lim Square (SLS) again to check out some stuffs. I seem to be going to SLS pretty often, right? I can imagine that if I were to stay in Tokyo (Japan), maybe I’ll make Akihabara my home? Wahaha!

At some of the traffic crossing, you might be able to see red-light cameras around. The camera will take a photo of your car’s bum (with the license plate number) if you beat the red light. By the way, you will need to be captured by the 2 cameras in order to get yourself 12 demerits points and a traffic summon. 😛

ERP – “Electronic Road Pricing” or in local context “Every Road Pay”. Wahaha! This ERP gantry is situated at various areas around Singapore to curb congestion and whenever a vehicle pass through it during a stipulated timing, you will have to pay for it. E.g. the above shows that if a private car pass through from 2pm to 530pm, there will be S$1 charge. At different timings, the rates differ too!

H-TWO-O Isotonic drink to quench my thirst on a hot sunny day. Bought the drink at a shop in Sim Lim Square for S$1.50.

Orient Photo at level 6 of Sim Lim Square to check out some camera stuffs. How is Kata bags?

Sim Lim Square interior. I always have something to buy when I come here but have to exercise self-control. Ha ha!

Passing by OG Albert and noticed a really huge crowd. Being a busy body, I just gotten check it out – it was actually an uncle and auntie performing a duet. Haha!

Ice cream zone? At least 3 portable stalls around here (at OG Albert).

Other makeshift stalls selling various stuffs are available too. Seems to be a crowded area too!

Passing by Fu Lu Shou Complex.

Came across a local singer Chen Wei Lian performing some of his songs inside Bugis Street. Oh yeah, I was surround by many teens. Ha ha!

Bugis Street. I should probably cover it solely on a single blog post as there are many items to show. Will do it when I do come by this area again.

Bee Cheng Hiang – Selling Bak Kwa (barbeque meat) and other food products.

Snack time at Takopachi – 3 Octupus ball for S$2.30.

A beauty and wellness event going on at Bugis Junction (fountain area) – My TLB (My The Luxury Booklet).

An interview with 2 SYT. 🙂

Makeup artist Andy Lee doing his magic on a model. 🙂

After the make-up, the model posed for a photo shoot. Kawaii?

East Coast Lagoon Food Village – one of my favorite food haunt. There are many good food here and is extremely popular with locals as well. Be prepared to wait for available tables if you happen to reach during the peak dinner timing.

East Coast Lagoon Food Village – It’s already quite packed at 6.30pm on a Saturday. Better get a table fast before I have to wait. Hehe!

Heading off to queue at Lagoon Leng Kee Beef Kway Teow stall. Look at the long queue! It may take a while but is well worth it!

This is what I get after 15min of queuing patiently. Lagoon Leng Kee Beef Kway Teow at S$4. Fantastic! My mouth was salivating as I was typing this post. Slurp!!!

Gadgets

Lumix LX3 Accessories

Got a mail in the letter box. Errm? What is it? From Andy’s Camera Straps?

Well, upon opening the envelope (bubble wrapped inside), the above greeted me. Yes, it’s a camera strap!

Lug mount wrist strap with O-ring at S$18 and additional strap bumper O-ring at S$1 from Andy’s Camera Straps. Prices includes postage within Singapore. Other colours and model are available as well.

My configuration

Leather Colour : Black
Wrap Colour : Scarlet Red
O-ring Colour : Black

I have attached the new strap to my Lumix Lx3 camera. How does it look? By the way, the strap is 7 3/4” (196 mm) long, hand-made and also 100% genuine cowhide leather! Very great quality camera strap indeed!

The strap comes with a 1/2” split ring to attach to the lug of the camera. To prevent any unnecessary scratches from the split ring on the body of the camera, I opt for the additional strap bumper O-ring that is positioned between the split ring and lug. In fact, if you don’t fancy the lug mount version, you may want to go with the string wrist strap, neck strap or sling instead. 🙂

Also have gotten a modified Ricoh LC-1 self-retaining lens cap at S$60 to replace the original lens cap. Before changing to this, every time when I am taking photos, I have to remove the original lens cap and keep it somewhere safe (very much like using a DSLR camera). But with the Ricoh LC-1, there is no need to do so anymore. 😛

[Update]: Refer to http://bit.ly/5iBvRg for Singapore contact to buy the modified LC-1 but I am not too sure whether he provides international shipping. Those who want the original Ricoh LC-1 can get from Amazon (Link).

Transform and roll-out! Haha! Modified Ricoh LC-1 in action upon power up at 24mm.

The modified Ricoh LC-1 comes with special filed-down rubber spacer that are added to all the three flaps. No shadows or vignetting at all!

Overall, I am pretty satisfied with both loots and will probably start to source around for a handy protective case for my LX3. Will update soon!

Tags camera, camera strap, dmc-lx3, lc-1, lumix, lx3, panasonic, ricoh

Life in Singapore

Chinatown Singapore

Recently, I visited Chinatown Singapore to get some stuffs as well as exploring as it had been a while since I last came. Usually, I always come here after office hours to grab dinner as there are a lot of good food here in Chinatown!

Having a kopi (coffee with milk) at Pick & Bite Cafe before starting to stroll around.

From Pick & Bite Cafe, you can see the yellow and green People’s Park Complex. It used to be in another bright color as well, I remembered it was orange and green. Wah!

Upper level of People’s Park Complex are rows of shop dealing with textile and tailoring stuffs.

People’s Park Food Centre. Look at the queue lining up at the famous Yong Xiang Xing Yong Tau Foo (永祥兴豆腐) stall!

People’s Park Food Centre – There are quite a number of food stalls around for your selection.

At the first floor, there are a few stalls selling fresh fruits and fruit juice too!

Entrance of People’s Park. You can see Pick & Bite Cafe on the second level.

Entrance of the green and yellow People’s Park Complex. 😛

Mixed vegetable stall (Cai Fan) stall nearby the entrance of People’s Park Complex. Other then this, there are multiple stalls selling food or snacks too!

Thousand taste. Wah! It’s a stall selling kueh, snacks, ngo hiang, etc.

Look at the folks queuing up for foreign currency exchange – People’s Park Complex seems to be a popular area to do foreign currency exchange. Just remember to check out the rates before committing. I usually do my foreign exchange at The Arcade or Mustafa (because of 24hr operation and online viewing of rates).

On the top of the bridge which links People’s Park Complex to the opposite Pagoda Street.

Lucky Chinatown. If you visit this place, you will be lucky. 😛

Main road of the Chinatown Singapore.

The tall building is Chinatown Point.

The Majestic.

Arriving at Pagoda Street.

At Temple Street, there is a popular dessert shop which goes by the shopname of “Traditional Desserts” (味香园甜品).

Passing by a shop that sell amazing stone cravings. Can you spot Mickey Mouse? 😛

Amazing architecture that have been preserved. 🙂

Backstage Bar (for friend of dorothy) at Temple Street.

A beautifully decorated car that was parked nearby. 🙂

On South Bridge Road, I saw a HiPPOtours bus pass-by. If you are coming to Singapore, you might want to check out the webby of DUCK & HiPPO Group for availability of different ride packages.

Children having Ice Cream on a warm day.

Chinatown Heritage Centre.

A back alley of the shop houses in Chinatown Singapore. Just showing a sight which is not commonly seen. 🙂

Yum Cha Restaurant.

Da Dong Restaurant – I have been here to eat a couple of times but that was years back.

Walking towards Chinatown Food Street.

Smith Street is closed temporary for the Chinatown Food Street stalls to make use of the roads. Roads are off traffic from 6pm – 12am, Mon to Fri and 12pm – 12am, Sat, Sun and public holidays.

A long row of local hawker food for your selection. It’s still early, hence no crowd visible yet.

On the opposite side of the hawker stalls, there are restaurant food for selection as well.

Another back-alley shot. Errmm…..Scuba diving? Anyone?

Sago Lane is also known as Street of the Dead, where all the death houses was previously located and the poor would come to die.

Now the Street of the Dead have become a night market. 🙂

Erich’s Wuerstelstand: The last Sausage Kiosk before the Equator. One of the prominent and famous food stall in Chinatown Night Market!

S.E.X In The City – an adult novelty shop in the heart of Chinatown. He he!

Lim Chee Guan – A very popular bak kwa (barbecued pork) brand name.

People’s Park Centre.

Hotel 81 at Chinatown Singapore.

While walking back to carpark, spotted Pearl Hill Hostel. End of my short walk in Chinatown Singapore. 😛

Events Otaku

Gundam Fiesta Singapore 2009机动战士新加坡嘉年华2009

Post author By Ronald Tan
Post date September 7, 2009
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In celebration of Gundam 30th anniversary, an event Gundam Fiesta Singapore 2009 (organized by Bandai Asia and Sheng Tai Toys) is held from 2nd to 14th September 2009 at Compass Point (Sengkang). I believe this is the first time a Gundam only event of such scale was held in Singapore.

Errm, we don’t get to have the 1:1 60 feet life-size Gundam statue (See Google Images) as Tokyo Odaiba but this Gundam 00 is enough to get all the shutterbugs and mecha-fans attention! It’s really difficult to get a shot of Gundum 00 without anyone posing in front. 🙂

One of the walls at Gundam Fiesta Singapore 2009. Nice artwork that incorporated Gundam and BB Senshi Sangokuden Gaiden. 🙂

History panel for you to learn the history of Gundam anime and model kits.

A showcase of the various generations of Gundams. If you are Gundam model fan, you may want to meet Katsumi Kawaguchi Sensei (professional modeler and also in-charge of Gundam model kit design at Bandai) on 12th and 13th Sept 2009.

More Gundam exhibits to please the mecha-fans as well some of the casual crowds that attended the event.

World of Sangokuden.

BB Senshi Sangokuden Gaiden – Kochu Gundam, Chohi Gundam, Kan-u Gundam, Chouun Gundam and Bacho Blue Destiny.

Otakus and also casual pass-by folk checking out the numerous exhibits. Most are armed with either PNS or SLR cameras.

Gundam 00 standing by and guarding the entrance. ^^;

Cashier for fans to pay for any Gundam model kits purchased during the event. I noted that it was stated 20% discount for regular priced item but I didn’t go inquire at the sales counter the queue there was quite long.

I went to get a drink and only to return to see that the Gundam Image Girls is already on stage posing for all the fans. I didn’t get a good position as I was late. 🙂

Check out all the cameras!

But nevertheless, I managed to zoom through some openings to get a fair shot. Here, on the stage, the items (not the 2 pretty ladies) are actually prizes for the Gundam lucky draw.

Gundam girls posing beside Gundam. I understand that the Gundam Image Girls will only be around on 5th, 6th, 12th and 13th September so please note your calendar if you are going to the event to catch them. ^^;

Another shot taken from Char’s Zaku II.

More poses from the Gundam Girls. What a kawaii (かわいい) pose!

Another photo of the Gundam Girls. Can someone tell me their names? Want to give them credits. ^^; Yeah!

Look at the crowd forming. At certain times, it was difficult to maneuver to get good position to take photos. This is taken from the 2nd level of Compass Point.

Some fun stuff that I came across in Compass Point – “Do you know that Singapore was mentioned more than once in Gundam Wing series? It is a important Military base!” Are you aware?

Another fun fact – “Do you know that a society called “International Gundam Society” was established in August 2009? This research group studies the future of mankind through the animated series, Mobile Suit Gundam.” Hmm, I wasn’t aware so I went to google and the conclusion is that it exists (webby is here).

Last fun fact – “Do you know that there was a Singapore Gundam? You can find its appearance in the G Gundam series!”

Brochures that I obtained during the event, many Gundam model kits are on sale (HG Gundam 00 2nd Series, First Gundam MG Series, etc). Feel like getting the MG Gundam Exia Ignition Mode or the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam but the crowd made me decide to come back on a weekday instead of weekend to get my purchase. 🙂

In the center fold of the brochure, there is also the BB Senshi Sangokuden Gaiden models for sale! If you are a Gundam fan and currently in Singapore, please do visit Gundam Fiesta Singapore 2009! I believe that this event is welcoming and sincerely hope that other similar events will take place in future too!

为了庆祝机动战士（GUNDAM）30周年庆, 万代亚洲和盛泰玩具一起在勘宝坊（盛港）举办了机动战士新加坡嘉年华2009，九月二号至九月十四号。我相信这是第一次新加坡举办如此大型的机动战士活动。

我们虽然没有東京御台场的60英尺高机动战士雕像（看谷歌图像）, 但是足以让所有的摄影爱好者和机器人迷关注！要拍摄Gundum 00又没有人当着真不容易。:)

这是机动战士GUNDAM新加坡嘉年华2009的一道墙。综合了机动战士和BB战士三国伝。 🙂

让你了解机动战士动画和模型包的历史板。

各种各样的机动战士世代。如果你是机动战士迷，你可以在九月十二日和十三日和川口克己先生见面（专业模型师也是万代的模型设计师）。

跟多为了满足机器人迷的机动战士和参加活动的人群。

三国伝世界。

BB战士三国伝-黄忠,張飛, 關羽, 趙雲和馬超。

御宅和参加活动的人群在观赏展示品。大部分都使用轻便相机/全自动相机或单镜反光相机。

机动战士00在看守门口。 ^^;

你可以在这里为任何的机动战士模型付费。我注意到无特价产品有20%折扣可是我并没有到柜台询问因为太多人了。

我去卖饮料回来才发现机动战士女孩已经在台上了。因为来迟了所以每占到好位置。:)

看看所有的相机!

无论如何, 我设法通过空位拍到好镜头。在台上的奖品（当让不是两个女孩）是机动战士的抽奖奖品。

机动战士旁边的女孩在摆姿势。我知道机动战士女孩只有在五号，六号，十二号和十三号出现所以如构想看就记得日期。 ^^;

从Char’s Zaku II拍的另一个角度。

机动战士女孩的更多姿势。好可爱！

另一张机动战士女孩的照片。谁可以告诉我她们的名字？想赞赏她们。^^;

看看形成的人群。有时候很难有好的位置拍照。这是在勘宝坊二楼拍的。

一些我在勘宝坊碰到有趣的东西- 你知道吗，在新机动战记钢弹W系列里新加坡不止一次被提到？是重要的军士基地！

另一个有趣的事实 – 你知道一个成为”国际机动战士协会“的社会成立于 2009年8月？这个研究小组通过新机动战记钢弹动画系列研究人类的未来。我不晓的所以到网上察看结果真的有这个协会（网页在此）。

最后一个有趣的事实- “你知道吗，有新加坡机动战士？你可以在G新机动战记系列找到！

我在活动拿到的宣传册，很多机动战士有折扣（HG 机动战士 00第二系列，机动战士MG第一系列等等）。好想买MG机动战士Exia Ignition Mode或者RX-0 Unicorn 机动战士可是人太多了所以我决定改天再回来买。:)

在小册子的中间，有BB战士三国伝模型折扣！如果你是机动战士迷，而且又在新加坡记得要到机动战士新加坡嘉年华2009！我相信这次得多动举办的这么成功以后一定会有类似的活动！

Tags anime, bandai, bb senshi sangokuden gaiden, compass point, gundam, gundam 00, gundam fiesta singapore 2009, gundam girls, model, Otaku, sengkang, sheng tai toys, singapore

Life in Singapore

A Week in Singapore 1在新加坡的一周 (一)

Post author By Ronald Tan
Post date September 3, 2009
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Another week have passed by. A group of folks handling some devices which I am not able to identify. From far, it’s looks like the drip used in hospital. LOL! Taken from my kitchen window.

Having lunch at a restaurant (coffee shop style).

Going through the menu and trying to determine what to order. Finally, decided on having Dim Sum.

For starters – Shredded Chicken Porridge. Need to add a bit of soy sauce to bring it to taste.

Then the whole load of Dim Sum arrived at the same time – Shao mai, har gow (shrimp dumpling), char siu baau, rice noodle roll (cheong fun) and lotus leaf rice (lo mai gai). Burp!!

The Body Shop was having 20% store wide discount so I decided give Nettle Oil Balance Shampoo a try. So far it’s working well by removing excess oil but yet doesn’t irritate or dry up my scalp.

Some food shopping from a local supermarket – 2 Fruit Tree juice at S$4.55 and 1 Kiwifruit Gold at S$4.15.

Water fountain outside of VivoCity.

Tangs was having a sale bazaar in VivoCity.

The bridge leading from VivoCity to Sentosa. The construction that is on-going on the right is “Resort World at Sentosa“.

Walking towards Brotzeit which is a German bier bar and restaurant. Bier is the German and Dutch word for beer.

After ordering the food, I took a shot of the interior of Brotzeit. It’s a nice and cozy place with good food and beer too!

Wurstplatte (sausage platter) at S$32.50++. Consists of spicy chicken sausage, pork bratwurst, cheese sausage, weisswurst sausage and garlic sausage.

Backhendlsalat at S$19.50++.

Pork Knuckle S$36.00++. It’s roasted until the outside is very crispy yet retaining the juices! Goes very well with beer!

Original Münchener Lager Paulaner S$17.10++ (before 5pm). Actually intended to get 0.5 liter but ordered 1 liter wrongly instead. Ha ha!

Trying out a Vietnamese instant coffee mix from Vinacafe while reading Starbucked by Taylor Clark.

Was at Bishan Junction 8 walking around until I felt the urge to fill my stomach with some snacks. Initially, wanted to go for cold dessert but changed my mind later.

Had Takopachi (Japanese octopus ball) instead. S$2.30 for 3 balls.

Most of the time, I asked for take-away dinner and eat at home in front of the television. One of my favorite food – Seafood Hor Fun S$3.50. The freshly-cut red and green chilli are added by me. Haha!

Managed to spare some time to flash the ROM for my HTC Touch Diamond. Before – HardSpl 1.24, Dutty’s V3.5 WWE [WM 6.1 Build 20764.1.4.3] and Radio 1.00.25.05. After – Unsigned 1.40 OliNex, DeepShining 8.0 Service Pack 0.3 and Radio 1.09.25.23. Running fine except there’s a few minor flaws but I am still pretty satisfied with it. For more details on flashing, go xda-developers.com.

Ikan Satay that my brother bought during his trip to Malaysia. I had eaten this snack before and based on my memory, it wasn’t such a tiny piece. It must have shrunk over the years! Wahaha!

Having Hong Kong Food – Nissin Noodle with Egg and Ham S$5.80++.

Hot and Spicy Noodles S$8.50++.

Hot Yin Yong (a blend of coffee and tea) S$1.80++.

Lemon Coke S$2.90++.

Baked Chicken Wings with Cheese S$5.20++.

Something that I got in my mail box – it’s for you to stick under your armpit to test the degree of sweat! I didn’t try it but those who sweat a lot may want to try using Rexona (as per solution given above). 😛

Usually we don’t go to huge departmental stores to get our fragrance as some smaller shops tend to have better pricing. Both are from Banana Republic – Alabaster for Woman S$85 and Slate for Man S$85.

Another round of replenishing food at local supermarket. 🙂

The instant noodles and soup are for hungry situations
The evaporated milk is for my daily coffee making
The juice and soya milk is mainly consumed by my partner

又过了一个星期。有一群人在弄一个些仪器，是我辨认不出的。从这里看，很像在医院使用的点滴灌。LOL！照片是从我家的厨房窗口拍的。

在茶楼（咖啡厅式）吃午餐。

仔细看过菜单后，我们决定吃点心。

开胃菜-鸡丝粥。需要添加点酱油使它更加美味。

然后，全部的点心都到齐-烧卖，虾饺，叉烧包，米粉卷（肠粉）和荷叶饭（糯米鸡）。打嗝！

美体小铺在打20％折扣，所以我决定试一试它的Nettle Oil Balance洗发精。到目前为止，它能够去除多于油脂又不会刺激或导致我的头皮变干。

从超市购物-2瓶Fruit Tree果汁S$4.55和1盒奇异果S$4.15。

怡丰城外的喷水池.

怡丰城的Tangs正在举办集市出售。

这座是从怡丰城通往圣淘沙的桥。在右边进行的建筑是“圣淘沙名胜世界”。

正走向Brotzeit是间德国酒吧和餐馆。Bier是德国和荷兰啤酒的单词。

定了食物后，我拍了张Brotzeit内部的摆设。这是一个美好又舒适的地方而且有美味的食品和啤酒呢！

Wurstplatte (香肠拼盘) S$32.50++, 有辣鸡肉香肠, 猪肉碎香腸, 奶酪香肠, 巴伐利亚白香肠和大蒜香肠.

Backhendlsalat at S$19.50++.

德国猪蹄 S$36.00++.。烤到外脆，而且还能够保持肉汁！配酒真好！

原味Münchener拉格 Paulaner S$17.10++(下午5时前）。其实想叫0.5升，但是交错1升的。哈哈!

尝试从越南进口的Vinacafe速溶咖啡的同时，阅读泰勒克拉克的Starbucked。

在碧山第八站走走，直到我觉得是时候买些零食填饱我的胃。最初，想吃冷甜品，但后来改变了主意.

吃了Takopachi（日本章鱼球）。三粒S$2.30。

大多数，我都是外卖晚餐然后回家坐在电视机前吃。我最喜欢的晚餐-海鲜河粉 S$3.50。看似新鲜的红辣椒和青辣椒是由我另外加的。哈哈！

设法挤出一些时间来更新我的HTC Touch Diamond软件. 之前– HardSpl 1.24, Dutty’s V3.5 WWE [WM 6.1 Build 20764.1.4.3] and Radio 1.00.25.05. 之后– Unsigned 1.40 OliNex, DeepShining 8.0 Service Pack 0.3 and Radio 1.09.25.23. 软件操作没问题只是有些小瑕疵但我还是挺满意的。更多详情，请游览xda-developers.com.

我弟弟到马来西亚购买的伊坎沙爹。我小时候吃过的食物，据我记忆不是那么小块的。它肯定是经过这么多年缩水了！哈哈！

辛辣面S$8.50++.

热鸳鸯（咖啡和茶混合）S$1.80++.

柠檬可乐S$2.90++.

烤鸡翅奶酪S$5.20++.

这是从我信箱拿到得-是让你贴在腋下测试汗水的程度！我没有尝试，但那些大量出汗可能需要尝试使用Rexona（按照以上的解决方案）。:P

通常我们不会去大百货公司买香水因为一些小型商店往往有更好的价格。两瓶都是Banana Republic -女士的AlabasterS$85和男士的SlateS$85.

又在超市补充食物.

方便面和汤是为了饥饿的情况下补充的
淡奶是我每天喝咖啡时加的
果汁和豆浆主要是我妻子喝的