Visit to the Air Force Museum

After some days of hard training with shovel, sandbags and spades, our OC decided that to give us a break by organising a visit to the RSAF Air Force Museum with families. I brought my lovely 8+months pregnant wife along as her morning stroll.

Some of old rank insignia of the RSAF during the early days.

The famous iron horse used to transport soldiers to and fro the frontlines, and still is important today.

Optimizing the 24 hours in my day

Been quite a while since I last updated my blog. Not because I have reduced the visits to eateries but rather, optimizing everyday and discovered that I have not paid much attention to this site.

Well, I have been really busy, new job scope, new duties as daddy-to-be, studies to juggle with and recently, learning how to play tennis... haha... live life to the fullest!

Jiahui's Birthday Dinner

Held at Edogawa The Central, we were ushered to a private room booked by SM... and I must praised that he did booked a fine place indeed.















The food is actually quite good, tepanyaki, ramen, sushi and sashimi for the price. But still, the best part of it was the private room where we took many photos with various poses (shy to show here). Xian had several single shots and they were rather sweet too.














It was unfortunate that Peifen, Teckyau and Huimin couldn't make this round, else there will be more people and more jokes to go around.





























After dinner, we took a stroll along the river, watched the people, a lot of people partying and drinking the night the away. It was also tonight that I tried to take night shots with my new camera... and the key word was "anti-shake!"

We went Geylang for durians as the grand finale for today's event (w/o the lead actress) as she had to go home early to pack for her trip to Korea. D24 and 1 mango ended our night as we (at least for myself) went home with a 110% filled tummy ... hahaha...

Barbeque on 12th April

Barbeque at Pasir Ris Park on a cooling evening with lots of breeze was indeed a good thing to do on a weekend.





Some people cooks, some people eat... we are have a part to play.






Its not easy trying to get my pregnant wife to sit and relax ... its the action she wants.





Ok, that a victory sign against a stern looking face.









2 cooks in action.












Ah...a perfect grilled prawn on stick, my all time fav.

A Cheesy Dinner

Serving cheese fondue last Saturday for dinner, SK and his wife were my testers... the ingredients were purchased from Suntec City Carrefour. Cheese fondue pack was readily off the shelf and we just heated it to have the sticky cheesy dip.

With bread cut into cubes, it serves as a good main to go along with the rest.











































Because I was afraid that the heat of the cheese cannot cook raw meats and vege, they were all stir fried in olive oil first before showing up on the dining table.

We had pork cubes, mushrooms, Japanese cucumber and fish sticks





























With a bottle of Cab Merlot, I am quite sure the dinner went well. This will be another one of the dinners I can cook up during occasions.

Barbeque by the sea

Sometimes, I just don't know what to do during a weekend ... it gotta be fun, nice food and lots of friends to hang out with but going back to the same place and eating the same thing could just blow away all that thoughts. SK and me finally decided to book a BBQ Pit for the coming weekend, grab a few beers, meat, seafood, vege and friends down to spend a nice evening.

Best part is, we didn't know the locals are so into BBQ-ing... All pits are booked, from east to west, north to south... no joke. Either it is the BYOP (Bring Your Own Pits) or with pits type, all were fully booked at all available national parks. Screening through the dates, we managed to secure a reasonable well located pit which is 1.5 weeks later. Wow... if you really want to do BBQ, you got to plan ahead to booked at least 1 week ahead, and I think 2 to 3 weeks if it falls on a public holiday or festive.

So, for those who have recieved the invites, look forward to seeing you all soon.

An evening at Changi

Alas, I have complete my assignment (study ... not work) after ploughing through it for a whole day on a Sunday ... sigh. Bing suggested we go out for a nice dinner and we instantly picked on the Hot Stone Grill we saw on the internet a few days back. Weisin joined us for the dinner and even drove us, really nice of him.

I ordered the seafood combo, fish with prawns. They were fresh, thats good enough for me at S$9.80.

Bing and Weisin both had the steak, medium raw or well done is all up to you at S$10.80. The salad and whip potatoe by the side were just a good.

After dinner, we took a walk around Changi Village, the zhi char there was very crowded, looks like its popular and value for money. It was nothing far from a quiet place, kids running around and riding toy bikes, people going to the Changi Beach Park for a stroll after dinner. Weisin then drove us to Upper Changi North Road to a diner called the Bark Cafe for a drink.

The place is right beside the tall fence line of Changi Prison. dont worry, no one's gonna escape anymore ever since MS. I had a mug of heiniken, while they had lemon tea and strawberry frizz. We also ordered a top shell dish to go along with our drinks, yummy.

好粥到火鍋館

Its Friday! Finally the last day of a working has arrived. I am rather happy as it was quite a rough week and decided call upon the usual guys for dinner; Chiplee, Peiling, Teckyau, Seow Keong, Peisi, Soon Meng and Lynn.

From the internet, Bing found this steamboat using porridge as soup base.

Blk 712 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 #03-4056 Singapore 560712
Time: 1400 - 2200
Telephone: 64586552

With the dining area located at a balcony on the 3rd floor, it allows fresh and cool air, making the eating experience a little better with the steaming hot pot.

Peiling's tummy is really big now, looks like the baby boy will soon be here. Haha... I am glad and definately am looking forward to see the "little chip". Well, Teckyau prefers to name the baby boy as George Junior.

At S$13.90 per pax, buffet is served and service is generous and polite.

We had nice meal and ended off with beer at Blooie's, Railway Mall. Wow... its a great way to end the week.

Sounds of truck horn at midnight

Its almost midnight, I am trying finish up what I want to complete today for my assignment and then sounds of horn started becoming obvious. I walked to my window and stuck out my head, clear blast of truck horns can be heard coming from Woodlands Road. The truck drivers must be sounding their disgrunt and unhappiness about the jam at Checkpoint. More amazingly was that their queue to Checkpoint has lined up all the way to Woodlands Road near my house, that must be hell lot of trucks... I sometime wonder, if these trucks stopped delivering fresh food supplies to us, will we still have things to eat other than can food? Hmm... but come to think of it, these drivers are also quite poor thing, its midnight and they still can't get home.

Claypot Rice @ Outram Food Centre

It was windy and cooling this evening that led us to decide on a hot steamy claypot rice for dinner. We went to the make shift food centre just beside the Outram MRT and settled for the famous claypot rice by the 2 sisters.

Costing $8 and 15mins wait, we shared and was really filling. Lucky the weather was good, else it will be a sweaty dinner with the hot claypot right infront of you.

My New Sidearm

The Casio z1080

Got this today after I returned the small Minolta back to my brother. I discovered that it was pretty fun shooting and then posting on the blog, sort of a way to relax after a day's of hardwork.

Price: S$380 c/w GST

Package Includes:

1. Mini tripod

2. 2GB SD Card

3. Case (though it looks real but I think its "chiong" one cos it doesn't really fit the camera well... so I wouldn't be using it.

Will be bringing this little lethal fellow out for our dinners and gatherings now... so beware ... smile always to be safe.

BBQ gathering with colleagues

2 weeks back, we decided during lunch that we should have a bbq gathering with all the close colleagues from various departments as we have all been busy and have catch up lately. Swiftly and efficiently, our dudes from IT (Information Technology) stepped up and organised this dinner event last night.


Held at East Coast Park Pit D.47, food was served to happy and eager people.







Here's some of our friends from other departments ... you have procurement, design, adminstration, technology, quality, projects ... and the list goes on.



These 2 were busily cooking the food, I need to stop them and posed for me... haha...





Our lady from quality here really having a good doing all the bbq-ing and making sure the sausages and wings are not burnt.

Department Lunch & Farewell

Today marked the final day for the Road Show at the 2 C.K. Tang outlets, Orchard and Vivocity, as well as a few days from some colleagues whom had resigned or transferred. As such, our Sales GM decided to treat everyone to a sumptous lunch to show his appreciation and thanks for all the work done.

Lunch was held at Chu Kee Cuisine, at Blk 4 Queens Road next to St Magaret's School. Food is good, and I liked the asam fish and stewed beef most. Damaged to the wallet, I have no idea as the Sales GM is treating... haha.

Some of us posing for the photo shoot while waiting the food to arrive.



And here's everyone. I felt alittle sad as I was one of the guys who got transferred. Its been coming to 4 years working in this department, seeing people come and go, seeing the ups and downs. I think I have learnt and experienced alot from all these and were valuable knowledge and skills.


After a long and chatty lunch with jokes to lighten the mood, we finally left with a heavy heart, a feeling that we'll missed the moments before and team spirit that was once ever so strong.

Weisin Birthday Dinner @ Modesto, Vivo

Last night was Mr Phoong's birthday dinner celebration. Our friend Belinda has been really sweet, getting all of us together. The little party was held at Modestos in Vivo City.

The restaurant is pretty nice with friendly waiters. There wasn't much of a crowd, thus the attention was mainly directed to us since we were the biggest group, or rather making the most noise...



With a long dining table, we had 4 20" pizzas, 5 pastas and 4 starters... it was really enough to feed all of us.


And here's the birthday boy, beaming ear to ear, cutting the all double power chocolate cake with more choco in the between.












Before ending the day, Weisin treated all of us to Hagen Daz ice-cream. I must say, we were already quite full, Bing and me shared the Pink Beauty which was simply rich with milk shake and top with small ice-cream balls... wow... its a heavy dinner.