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A Week in Singapore 4

A Week in Singapore 4

A Week in Singapore 4

Wow! It’s been a while since I last done a weekly series of my life in Singapore so will continue with this blog post before I starting for forgot the details. Starting off with a set lunch at Yoyogi Japanese Restaurant – Tori Karaage Set S$14.50++.

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Saba Shio Set at Yoyogi Japanese Restaurant S$14.50++. Both set lunch comes with green tea. Overall, I find the food tasty, fresh and worthwhile. Will be back for more!

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Some home cook food (not cooked by me). 😛

Stir-fried Vegetables with Abalone.

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Spicy stir-fried prawns with spring onions.

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Steam Red Snapper.

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Lotus Root Soup.

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Pork In Sweet And Sour Sauce. Errm, what’s the sauce?

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Here is the Sweet And Sour Sauce. It is purposely separated so that the pork will not be soaked soggy and still retain the crunchy outer layer. Need sauce? Just dunk the pork in the sauce!

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Sea cucumber stewed with mushrooms, black moss (fa cai) and vegetables in gravy.

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Wandering around at Raffles City, while waiting for a friend to join for lunch. Think it was a Monday noon and there wasn’t much people around. Wanted to do some window shopping but my friend turned up early.

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Take-away dinner – Seafood Mui Fan (white rice served “wet”, with sauce or gravy on top) S$3.50.

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Take-away dinner – Yi Mian S$3.50. We usually eat in front of the television and will lay old newspapers on the table so that no wiping is required after we finished the food. Wahaha!

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Whampoa Food Center. You can find a lot of tasty food here!

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Went to the older food center instead to have breakfast. It was about 9am when I reached.

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Large Wan Tan Mee at S$3. Delicious! But I seldom pass by Whampoa area so maybe I have pen it down somewhere to come back and try other tasty food available.

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Off to Clarke Quay to grab some booze. Day view of The Cannery @ Clarke Quay.

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Wheat Ale 500ml (1-for-1 before 8pm) at The Pump Room @ Clarke Quay S$12++. Remembered that the happy hour 1-for-1 promotion on Monday is till 10pm. Will be back with whole gang then. Ha ha!

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Second round – India Pale Ale 500ml at The Pump Room @ Clarke Quay S$12++. Those who have UOB credit card, please use it to pay for the bills as you will be entitled to 15% discount.

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Night view of The Cannery @ Clarke Quay. It’s a nice place to chill out, dine and drink. Love the ambiance!

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Passing by Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple and went in to offer my prayers.

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The outside of Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple, where you can buy fruits, flowers, stuff as offerings for Goddess of Mercy.

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Went to a nearby food center to have Prawn Noodles S$4. This is one of the popular prawn noodles in Singapore and it’s very yummy!

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Oh, beside Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple, you can find Sri Krishnan Hindu Temple as well. Most devotees who came to this area usually will pray at both temples. 🙂

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In front of the Sri Krishnan Hindu Temple, there was a tentage and offers free food to the devotees who are queuing patiently for their turn to be shown their seats. Must be some festive or auspicious day!

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Walking around in Bugis area and saw a car with many balloons sticking out of the sunroof. Are they trying to fly? 😛

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Claypot Chicken Rice S$10 (for 2 person). Well, you have to fish out the chicken, Chinese sausages, vegetables from the claypot and put them on a plate. Then add dark soy sauce and oil into the claypot (both to each preferences) and mixed well. Once done, it’s ready to be served. Believe the main reason that most people separate the ingredients out is that we just want to season the white rice. 🙂

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Side dish to go along with Claypot Chicken Rice – Herbal Black Chicken Soup S$3.

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Also ordered some healthy Stir-fried Vegetables with Oyster Sauce to go along as the vegeables that comes along with the Claypot Chicken Rice is not adequate for us.

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Queuing up to pump Shell FuelSave 98 promotion at S$1 per litre. I waited for around 45mins before it’s my turn to pump. Also heard from the media that this promotion cause huge jams all around as Shell offers this 1-day promotion island-wide. For info, the usual pump price hovers around S$1.80 to S$1.90 per litre region (before discount).

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Selera Rasa Nasi Lemak (Ang Mo Kio). My above combination is S$4.

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Take-away dinner again as we seldom cook at home. This time is Xing Zhou Mi Fen S$3.50.

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Chai Tow Kway (Carrot Cake) S$2.50.

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Some fashion event happening at Ngee Ann City. Passing by to head off to ION Orchard (check out my ION Orchard Walkabout post).

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Large Katsu Curry at Tonkatsu Ginza Bairin (at ION Orchard) S$15.90.

This week post consists mainly of food. I will take photos of more places in Singapore to show you in the next weekly series!

Photos on this blog post are taken on Panasonic DMC-LX3K 10.1MP Digital Camera.

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Just gotten myself a replacement camera not long ago. Although it packed inside an Olympus paperback but it’s definitely not an Olympus. It’s actually a high-end compact prosumer camera – Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3!

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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 costs me S$698 and it comes with the following freebies – 8GB SD Card, mini tripod, cleaning kit, screen protector and a third-party extra battery. For review and specs for LX3, please see here (dpreview.com).

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Unboxing the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 – comes with all the usual stuffs like battery charger, power cables, mini USB cables, manuals, etc.

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The LCD screen is fitted with the screen protector already. I have asked the folks from the camera store to fix it up to me as I remembered that my clumsy hands did a bad job of putting on Invisible Shield on my HTC Touch Diamond. Haha!

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The new versus the old – Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX8. The FX8 have served me well over the years and it was about time to upgrade it for my street photography use. If you want to know more about FX8, please see here. I would also like to lay my hands on the rumored new Micro Four Thirds Panasonic GF1 too but it’s still a rumor until officially announced. Right? 😛

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At the side lens barrel of LX3, you can easily change between Autofocus, Macro and Manual Focus. This gives the more experienced folks a bit more control.

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The LX3 screen is amazing. In fact, it’s too good that you might have mistaken that you have taken a great shot! 😛

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Changing aspect ratio is so easy on the LX3 as it’s on the lens barrel. There is no need to go several layers deep into the software menu just to make a change.

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Without going through the manual, I straight away took the new LX3 out for a test shoot (no settings done too!) – the photos as follows are either taken in intelligent auto (to test capturing of inpromptu situations) or manual mode. This evening shot of Capitol Building was taken around 7:15pm.

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St Andrew’s Cathedral.

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My dinner at Subway – Roast Beef Sandwich at S$6.90. Add another S$2.30 for 1 packet of chips and 1 regular size drink.

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Close-up of Roast Beef Sandwich (wheat bread) with mayonnaise, chipotle southwest sauce and black pepper. Yummy!!!!

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Funan DigitaLife Mall at about 8:17pm. A couple was smooching when I took this shot and I didn’t even notice until I was going through the photos. You’ll never know what you will capture when you have a camera by your side! LOL!

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Basement 3 car park at Raffles City Shopping Centre.

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Bought Erdinger Special Pack at Jasons Market Place at Raffles City Shopping Centre at S$27.95 as I wanted the tall Erdinger Pint glass. He he! The pack comes with 2 bottles of Erdinger Weissbier, 2 bottles of Erdinger Dunkel, 2 Erdinger wheat glass and 6 Erdinger coasters. And I will definitely attend Erdinger Oktoberfest in Singapore too!

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Fountain of Wealth at Suntec City.

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Was at Sim Lim Square shopping around for a camera case to hold my LX3.

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Orchard Central – a newly opened shopping mall located opposite The Centrepoint.

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An event at my housing estate – Come Together@ Teck Ghee (Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency). This is to promote “National Day” spirit amongst Teck Ghee residents and the guest-of-honour is Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

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Experience Go-Kart racing in the heartlands of Ang Mo Kio!

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I can see that the children are having a lot of fun in the carnival.

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An air-filled children playground.

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A stall selling some quick snacks.

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More food for the hungry folks – Nasi Lemak, Mee Siam and Curry Puff.

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Games for the children and family to have fun! I believe that you have to buy coupons in order to play the games.

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On the stage, a saxophone performance by a talented artist while balancing on unicycle.

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The sky have turned dark. Time for me to go home before it’s start to rain and soak my new LX3. LOL!

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May Phua (local TV actor) is the emcee for the event.

So after viewing all the test shoot photoes, what is your view on LX3? I though it was great and I had a fun-filled time with it. I guess it’s also time for me to go through the manual, menu, controls to squeeze more out of the LX3. Happy shooting then!Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3

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不久前我刚更换了相机. 虽然是装在 Olympus纸袋里但绝对不是Olympus. 它实际上是一个高级小型专业相机- Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3!

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这架Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3相机价值S$698而且附带以下赠品- 8GB的SD卡,迷你三脚架,清洁工具包,屏幕保护和备用电池。审查和LX3, 请到这里(dpreview.com)。

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拆开盒子-配备了所有类似电池充电器,电源线,迷你USB电缆,手册等。

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液晶屏幕配备的屏幕保护。我已要求照相机商店的帮我弄好,记得我拙劣的双手把我的HTC Touch Diamond的屏幕保护弄坏。哈哈!

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新与旧的对比- Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3和Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX8. 我用了FX8还多年了是时候为了街头摄影把它给换了。如果你想知道多些关于FX8,请看这里。我也想用有新的谣言Micro Four Thirds Panasonic GF1,但它仍是一个谣言。对吗?:P

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在LX3方镜筒旁边,可以轻松地更改自动对焦,微距拍摄和手动对焦。这给有经验的摄影人多一点控制。

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LX3屏幕真是惊人。事实上,这不太好,你可能会误以为你已经拍了漂亮的照片! 😛

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改变aspect ratio对LX3说是很容易的,因为就在镜筒。无需进入好几层的软件就为了做出改变。

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没有看通过手册我就拿了新的 LX3试拍(没有调设置!)-以下的照片是利用自动式拍的(以测试没有准备的情况下拍的)或手动模式。这Capitol Building的夜景是在7点15分左右拍的。

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圣安德烈教堂

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我在Subway的晚餐 – 烤牛肉三明治S$6.90。添加S$2.30就能得到一包薯片和1个普通饮料。

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特写烤牛肉三明治(小麦面包)家蛋黄酱,Chipotle西南酱和黑胡椒。美味!!

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晚上8点17分在Funan DigitaLife Mall (福南数码活力广场)。当我在拍照时一对夫妇正在清热,我并没有察觉,直到我再看到照片。你永远不会知道当你拍照时会捕捉到什么!LOL!

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莱佛士城购物中心的下室三楼停车场。

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Bought Erdinger Special Pack at Jasons Market Place at Raffles City Shopping Centre at S$27.95 as I wanted the tall Erdinger Pint glass. He he! The pack comes with 2 bottles of Erdinger Weissbier, 2 bottles of Erdinger Dunkel, 2 Erdinger wheat glass and 6 Erdinger coasters. And I will definitely attend Erdinger Oktoberfest in Singapore too!

在莱佛士城购物中心的Jason Market Place 买了Erdinger Special Pack S$27.95 因为我想买它的Erdinger Pint glass 。 哈哈!附赠的2瓶Erdinger Weissbier啤酒,2瓶Erdinger wheat glass,2瓶Erdinger Dunkel和6 Erdinger coasters 。我一定会出席在新加坡Erdinger Oktoberfest (慕尼黑啤酒节)

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新达城财富之泉

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在森林广场为了我的LX3购物照相机盒。

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Orchard Central – 新开张的商场就在The Centrepoint对面。

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一个在宏茂桥集选区的聚会-Come Together @德义。这是为了促进德义之间的居民的“国庆”的精神,和的来宾名誉总理a href=”http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%98%BE%E9%BE%99″ target=”_blank”>李显龙。

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Experience Go-Kart racing in the heartlands of Ang Mo Kio!

体验在宏茂桥的中心地带赛车!

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我看到孩子们在聚会玩得很开心。

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用空气填满的儿童游乐场。

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卖小吃的摊位。

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还有更多食物- 耶浆饭Mee SiamCurry Puff.。

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儿童和家庭运动会的乐趣!我相信,你必须购买优惠券才可以玩游戏。

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舞台上,一个有才华的艺术家在吹萨克斯管,同时在单轮车上平衡。

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天空已开始黑了。事实后回家了,免得大雨浸略我的LX3。LOL!

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May Phua (新加坡艺人)是主持人。

所以,看了所有测试拍摄的照片,你对有什么关于看法?我觉得它是不错的。 我想也是时候看看手册,控制,以了解更多LX3的用途。