📷Last fish soup meal in 2023 | 2023年最后一顿鱼汤餐😎 Played the last session of pickleball on Saturday. Almost 4 hours non-stop from about 4pm. It was a good night sleep after that. My wish for 2024: play more pickleball. Happy New Year to all of you. After waking up from good night sleep on Sunday, had to finish the usual household chores and went out for usual late lunch at King Grouper Fish Soup The price had gone up over the last year. Not many people were having late lunch but…
📷First fish soup meal in 2024 for Happy New meal+ Video | 2024年第一顿鱼汤餐-x你看了餐+ 视频😎 Out to Tiong Bahru food center from office for lunch alone on the first working day. They are ready to get people into Chinese. New year mood. The place was crowded enough, but I managed to grab a table before going to get food. Quite a long queue at the fish soup stall. I bought the double fish bee hoon soup. Happy New Year meal for $7.00. Thanks to Batman for holding the table. Here is a video…
📷Christmas to Chinese New Year | 圣诞节到农历新年😎 Was having dinner at Nex Shopping mall on New Year day. Walking around after dinner and saw this big coffee cup. Looks like Tim Hortons is opening more outlets. I still not been to their first one at Vivo City and I saw they are opening at Suntec City too. At the supermarket, the Christmas tree was still there which wasn't surprising. What was surprising was the Chinese New Year decorations just further in. Enter the year of the…
📷Minced pork noodle for New Year Eve dinner | 除夕夜晚餐肉挫面😎 The bay area was super crowded on Sunday New Year Eve. Police had to close off some area with the crowd already building up after late afternoon. Decided to go Orchard Road for dinner thinking that it may not be as crowded. Did some research during the bus ride and wanted to try a restaurant in Orchard Gateway. Went there and saw few tables empty at about 6.40pm but they said they are fully booked. The few tables were…
📷Dinner at Andes | Andes之晚餐😎 Going to meet my wife for dinner one day last week. Spotted this nice rooster. So I shouldn't have chicken for dinner. 😎 Went into SAFRA Toa Payoh. Then headed to Andes and saw there was no queue. Went in and got a table. Ordered the food for the lady and I. Haven't had a root beer float for a while. Having the grilled fish with herbs which is one of the usual. My wife had the fried crispy chicken. After that she told me to remind her not to…
📷Good Saturdays be like this. | 美好的周六该是这样吧。😎 The good news was it didn't rain on Saturday morning. So I could go to the school for taichi practice. Our usual basketball court was area was out of bounds so we had to go to another area. Watch the video. https://www.tiktok.com/@ace108.sg/video/7321260926563372290 It rained a bit in the afternoon but stopped. I went to the club lounge and waste some time at karaoke before going for pickleball games. Some other pickleball players…
📷Solo Sunday | 周日独奏😎 The lady had to work on Sunday. After sending her to work, I had quite a bit of time to waste. So I headed out and saw a banner showing there is 50% off for Crispy prata that opened in nearby coffee shop recently. It was drizzling but I decided to go the club lounge. It was raining when i reached City Hall MRT Station. Walked a longer way to get to another exit. It was bit over crowded with people sitting around and quite difficult to walk. Passed the…
📷Walking around for food and browsing at Toa Payoh Central | 在大巴窑中心走了为午餐和闲逛😎 Spotted a banner advertising 50% off roti prata from a new Indian food stall recently. So decided to cross the road and look for it during lunchtime when working from home recently. The coffeeshop is at the end of block 177. The new Indian food stall took over a space that use to sell economy rice. I checked out their menu. Ordered 2 plain prata and 1 egg prata. As expected, the plain one is more…
📷New keyboard … cover | 新键盘……盖😎 Was looking for a new keyboard cover to replace the one I had for a few years and was coming apart. Found this one. The one for my Lenovo S740 cost $2.91 and $1 shipping from China. Took about two weeks for it to come. At least the delivery people press the door bell when I was home. This time I went with a pink shade instead of transparent. Not that I needed the letters on it anyway. Nice? Here is a video I recorded.…
📷Who still buys landline phone? | 谁还会购买有线电话？😎 I had to one recently as the phone at the inlaws place was giving weird noise. Went online and chose one from Lazada which didn’t look too expensive. 2 days later on Sunday, I was home going some household chores. The door bell didn’t ring and I heard some noise outside the door. Later, when I went out, I saw this crushed box outside. The crushed part is even more visible after unwrapped. My wife brought it to her parents place…
📷Last few days for 50% off prata | 最后几天印度煎饼 50% 折扣😎 Working from home on Friday. It rained and stopped close to lunch time. Brought a little box I was going to discard to reserve my table at the coffeeshop. There was a few people in front of me but after I got my two plain prata and one egg prata for $2.30, the queue was much longer. This time, the egg prata was in between the plain ones. Bad news. It started to rain after lunch. The little box I had gave me some shelter to…
📷My pickleball drill and your dragon year fortune | 我的匹克球练习和你的龙年运程😎 Out with my pickleball paddle and a few pieces of masking tapes on a late Sunday morning. Went to an open space near home and put the masking tapes on the wall as markings. Ready to do some drill with Wally. I did for about 15 minutes and work out some good sweat before going home and was my ball. "Watch a video I recorded. https://www.tiktok.com/@ace108.sg/video/7323962473898429697" The lady was out for…
📷Changi Airport in the new year | 樟宜机场在新的一年😎 Went to Changi Airport for dinner earlier this month. The arrival hall was quiet. I guess there wasn't many flights coming in at that time. At the departure hall, there was a bit more people. I went to the link bridge to go to Jewel Changi mall. After a long walk, I reached the mall. The Christmas tree were in front of the Rain Vortex then. Headed back to the airport terminal after a walk and saw a dragon there to welcome the year…
📷Going to Genting Highlands | 前往云顶高原😎 Out on a trip to Genting Highlands on early Thursday morning. Train ride to Chinatown. Then load tge luggage onto the bus and boarded. Half hour ride to Singapore immigration at Tuas. Then onto the bus again. Taken across the causeway to Malaysia Customs. After clearing that, there was a store outside. Up to the bus again. There were only 11 passengers. So we didn't have to wait long for everyone. After two hours ride, a stopover if 30…
📷Arriving at Genting Highlands | 抵达云顶高原😎 Thursday afternoon. The bus passed Genting Premium Outlets. Then near the Chin Swee Caves Temple. Passed another hotel I used to stay before few years ago. It was a different name then. Went into Sky Avenue. It was near Sky Casino when I figure which direction to go toward the hotel. Passed by this dragon decoration before reaching the hotel. Here is a video I recorded. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSNET566g/ If you need an invite to…
📷Checked in Resort Hotel at Genting | 入住云顶度假酒店😎 Found my way to Resort Hotel as the God of Fortune welcomes me. My wife went to check in. I saw a poster showing shuttle bus timing between the hotels and to the bus terminal. Then soon we took the lift up to 10th floor. Here are a few photos of the room. Nothing fancy. The TV was small but we didn’t use it except turning it on the first night to see what was available. The place was mostly cold enough. There was no aircon. Not…
📷Lunch at Goon Wah | 冠华吃午餐😎 After checking into the hotel, headed out for lunch but went outside the hotel to take few photos first. First, the hotel building. Then a couple of photos of the cable cars I could see. Passed through High Line where there were bars on both sides when we went looking for the place my wife wanted to go to have lunch. It took a while before we found the place. Take a look at what they have before going in. Sat at a table in the middle It was quite…
📷#BeautifulSunday - Keeping the world most powerful passport | #BeautifulSunday - 把世界上最强大的护照收好😎 Back from a short trip to Genting Highlands late Saturday night. It wasn’t "productive" but it was great to spend time with your love without caring about work. Time to keep the world most powerful passport for a while. Usual household chores on Sunday had to add unpacking and we both have new bags. Went out for late lunch and bought some satay to the inlaws.The bag looks…
📷Stinking night market The night market returns to Toa Payoh Central so I heard. Went there on Monday night to see if I could get some snacks kind of dinner. There was a large stall selling Chinese New Year decorations. Found the food stalls section. Got the oyster cake stall which I was hoping for. What's that smell? Smelly tofu from this stall isolated in the corner. I had to go and get one. The small portion cost $8 and the bigger one was $11. I got a small one just for…
📷Walking above High Line at Genting Highlands | 云顶高原酒吧街上逛逛😎 Went walking around Sky Avenue after having lunch on Thursday at Genting Highlands. On the Upper Level of the High Line, it was clear enough day to see the cable cars. Went out for late lunch and bought some satay to the inlaws after having lunch at Lorong 8 Toa Payoh food centre. Recorded evidence of my presence. It was really clear enough day to look down from there that time. Behind this was a colourful building…
😎Bad day but still to Chinatown to pickup the pineapple tarts | 糟糕的一天，但还是去牛车水领取凤梨挞😎 Bad news is the left eye got internal bleeding again so I'm partially blind on one eye. I went practicing pickleball against the wall on Wednesday and didn't get hit by the ball or hit anyone. When I was home, I started seeing floaters and then the left eye is fully clouded out again. I went to the eye clinic on Thursday morning and they did a series of test. The doctor suspect could be a…
📷Site visit to Shangrila Rasa Sentosa | 实地考察圣淘沙香格里拉酒店😎 Went to Shangrila Rasa Sentosa for site visit for an event recently. They have a mini waterfall outside the airy lobby. The rooms seemed to be all facing the pool. Spotted a peacock standing on the railing. Went to check out the ballroom for the event. Can see the peacock from inside and looked like another bird was flying down Went to see the car park and saw an old banyan tree. Walked down to the pool area. Took a…
📷To the 100 over years old temple | 前往拥有100多年历史的寺庙😎 Annual year wnd ritual still needs to be done despite the occurrence of internal bleeding in the left eye again. Made my way to the 100 over years old temple. Thanks for being alive. Passed through the main gate but missed taking photo of the first building as it was under major repairs. Headed to the 2nd building later. The pond outside was decorated for Chinese New Year. Went into the 2nd section. Then ti the 3rd section…
📷 Wondering at Toa Payoh town central getting free chocolate | 大巴窑市中心闲逛有免费巧克力😎 Was wasting some time walking around the town central recently. In the supermarket, the God of Fortune passed by. Outside the open area, Kinder was giving free chocolates and I went to grab some. Further away, I found a new café that I thiink I should try soon. Went up to a food court for a break with a green bean soup After that, down to see the night market. Wasn't crowded in the day time. I…
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