📷Fiddling with new toy before going lunch | 午餐前玩弄新玩具😎 My new toy arrived on Friday for pick up from the POPStation at the post office. Took about a month since I ordered via Lazada. I went into the post office and "extracted" my package. At home, I unwrapped it. My wife did the unboxing. There were already many unboxing videos of DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Creator Combo on youtube anyway. Did a quick setup and activated it on my phone. I brought it out to pickleball games at the club…
📷Long walk home - 8km 2hour with food stop | 长途归家路 - 8 公里，2 小时，中途停下来吃一餐😎 Recently, after finishing a course at Paya Lebar, I decided to take a long walk home. It was about 8km and took about 2 hours with stops for lunch and coffee. First, I left the "lighthouse" in the building to go out. I crossed the road at the junction next to the building and continued to walk. There was a rather large temple on the left further down but the view was blocked by the trees. Passed by…
📷Late lunch at Wang Lee Cafe | 在旺利茶室吃晚午餐😎 Heard about this new cafe near home Went there for a late lunch but some items were available already Not a big place but it wasn't crowded The meal cost more than 15 bucks Grabbed a table at the side and waited for our number. Picked up my food after my number was called. I was having the chili ban mee which was not bad. "The braised pork rice for the lady was OK but looks too fatty for me." Coffee was bit too sweet. Here is a video…
📷Monday dinner at Lao Wang | 周一到老王吃晚餐😎 Was at One Holland Village on Monday going for dinner. This one of the newer malls. Not very crowded when I arrived but I guess it was because it was Monday. Went upstair to look for a restaurant and stopped to record a bit of video . Here is a video I recorded. https://www.tiktok.com/@ace108.sg/video/7389629386057731329 Saw this thing I'm interested in at the Sony store. Anyone try this before? Went to Lao Wang Claypot at One Holland…
📷🇸🇬🚶♂️🚶♀️Walk from Singapore Indoor Stadium to Tanjong Rhu MRT Station | 🇸🇬🚶♂️🚶♀️从新加坡室内体育馆步行到丹戎禺地铁站😎 Out the Singapore Indoor Stadium on late Saturday night. Usual way home was to brave the crowd and take the train from Stadium MRT station. However, there is a new Tanjong Rhu MRT station on the Thomson-East Coast Line. So, I decided to take a short walk there. Luckily, there was just a bit of drizzle because the path to there wasn't sheltered but it's a nice walk along…
📷Govtech Stack event on data privacy | Govtech Stack 数据隐私活动😎 Was at Govtech office for a event on Thursday night. Quite a number of people there. Went to the window to check the view. So many ships waiting to come to port. There were pizzas and I sneaked one into my stomach. Just before the talk started and people getting to sit down. First speaker started. Thanks to Govtech for the cool cup. Good for the nerdy ones. Here is a video I recorded.…
📷Govtech Stack event on data privacy | Govtech Stack 数据隐私活动😎 Was at Govtech office for a event on Thursday night. Quite a number of people there. Went to the window to check the view. So many ships waiting to come to port. There were pizzas and I sneaked one into my stomach. Just before the talk started and people getting to sit down. First speaker started. Thanks to Govtech for the cool cup. Good for the nerdy ones. Here is a video I recorded.…
📷Overflow pickleball queue | 匹克球队列爆满😎 Took afternoon off on Wednesday to run some errand and ended up at the pickleball courts slightly earlier than a normal workday. There were lots of people and our paddles queue overflowed. We had to wait a bit even though we had six courts but I manage to play a few games as part of training for a challenge I'm joining on coming Saturday afternoon. Went home and my box was waiting for me. My wife bought it for dinner and left half a…
📷One for one awfully chocolate ice cream | 买一送一的巧克力冰淇淋😎 After dinner on Monday, walked into Awfully Chocolate at One Holland Village. Saw they have a 1 for 1 scoop offer with any ice cream. Ordered a chamomile tea to get the 1 for 1 offer. It's $13.50 but I had a $5 voucher. Sat at a corner and waited. The tea came quite fast. The dark chocolate ice cream was great. Here is a video I recorded. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSYg4vVcK/ If you need an invite to noise.app, try this…
📷Dinner at Uncle Leong Seafood | 在龙还想螃蟹王吃晚餐😎 Meeting few relatives from overseas for dinner at Uncle Leong Seafood on a Sunday night. Early enough that it wasn't crowded. First two dishes came. What's in the foil? Got a tea with pandan leave but it was more sweet and wasn't much taste of the pandan. More food came. Beancurd with combination, salted egg meat floss egg plant, prawn roll and nescafe port ribs. Some satay from another. Didn't seem to be worth the $1 per stick to…
📷Not the normal Saturday routine | 不是正常的周六活动😎 Was at the school for usual taichi practice on Saturday. After that, I tested my DJI OSMO Pocket 3 tracking feature by mounting the camera on the post of a basketball court and recording using tracking future. Watch the video. Seems to work quite well and I'm pretty impressed. https://youtu.be/5mQ6sEcO-88 Went to Lorong 7 Toa Payoh Food Centre for lunch. It was quite crowded but still managed to grab a table. Getting a small bowl…
📷Free coffee from Yuu to me before pickleball. | 在打匹克球之前免费Yuu 给的咖啡。😎 On a Wednesday Holiday in May, I went to food court at HDB Hub for lunch. It was crowded. However, I found a table next to the "WHAT THE FISH" stall. They have changed the menu a bit and there is more optoins now. I just ordered a fish fillet set with tangy tomato for my wife. And got a fish fillet set wtih sichuan doufu for myself. Lunch for two cost $13.60 After a quick visit to the inlaws, went to…
📷90's Memories lunch | 时代回味的午餐😎 Out looking for late lunch on Sunday and ended up at this coffee shop where I spotted a new stall. Went closer and took a look. Bought a mixed pork soup for my wife and a meatball soup for myself. Paid $12 for the meal. Included two bowls of yam rice. Happy enough with the soup that my wife bought back for her parents. Here is a video I recorded. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSYWEJR5q/ If you need an invite to noise.app, try this link:…
📷Bus trip to Genting Highlands 20240718 | 巴士之旅到云顶高原 20240718😎 Back from another trip to Genting Highlands. Short trip from Thursday to Saturday. This time mostly using my DJI Osmo Pocket 3 for the photos and videos and less of the phone. The bus picked up point was next to People's Park Centre at 6.40am. The bus took us to Tuas 2nd link to clear the Singapore immigration. Then across the causeway to clear the Malaysia immigration and there was this shop just outside. Boarded…
📷Checking into world biggest hotel in Genting Highlands - First World Hotel. | 😎 Got off the bus and up the escalator to look for the hotel. Got to go up another escalator. Already tempted by food. Swensen's is closed for renovation. Found another escalator going down that led to the hotel. Continued walking to look for the world largest hotel over 7,000 rooms. Passed the main entrance into the large hotel lobby, Found a self-service check in kiosk. Didn't work. Went to look…
📷Today Kampung Chicken Rice | 日日甘榜鸡饭😎 Went to Tiong Bahru food centre on Monday for lunch and they were closed for cleaning. Ended up going to try this new chicken rie place across the road. There was a fishball noodle stall there too. The queue was not long but rather slow. I was just getting a simple chicken rice for $6.50 Bought an iced coffee too at $2.50 but that was a bit expensive. Took some time for them to serve but happy enough with the lunch. Here is a video I…
📷Vegetarian claypot rice and a zoom meeting at the pickleball courts | 素食砂锅饭和在匹克球场举行的 Zoom 会议😎 Getting some vegetarian lunch on a day I'd be playing pickleball. Crowded inside but I got a small table ordered a claypot rice for $8. Ready to load up some carbo before the game in the evening Start with a bit of broccoli. Who arranged for zoom meeting at 6.15 pm? Didn’t you get the memo from HQ saying non-urgent meeting shouldn’t be after office hour? And on pickleball Wednesday…
📷Mala Xiang Guo for lunch | 午餐吃麻辣香锅😎 I’ve never eaten much mala hot pot until my job moved me to Outram Park area couple of years ago. Once a while, my colleagues and I looked at each other while going out for lunch. Sometimes, one would say Chinatown. Then, one bus ride or one train ride later, we end up at People’s Park food centre. One of the two usual mala xiang guo stall I go to is this one near the entrance. You tell them to pick the food you wanted, they tell you how…
📷National Day celebration with pickleball and more | 举办匹克球等活动庆祝国庆日😎 It was a good Saturday. After a quick taichi practice at the school, I drove to play some pickleball at Aljunied Crescent. Then went home to put down my bags and went out for lunch at a nearby coffeeshop. Had a dry bak chor mee. Taste great. Maybe, I was hungry after the pickleball games. Took a walk around town central and saw the new porridge restaurant re-opened. They opened few months back and had to…
📷Sin Heng Kee Porridge for Sunday Lunch | 新兴记粥周日午餐😎 Went out to the town central for a late lunch on Sunday and decided to try this newly reopened porridge place. Went in and saw it wasn't very crowded. Looked at the menu for a while and my wife decided to get the pork meatball and pork porridge and got the same for me. Grabbed a table inside. Waited for quite a while for our number to be called. When the number was called, I went to collect two bowls of porridge and a fried…
📷Dinner at Nando's | 在 Nando's 吃晚餐😎 On a day I went for a second interview for a job in the morning…. Went to Nando's at Plaza Singapura for dinner recently with my wife. It was a Monday but there was a queue. Went to join the queue. Waited quite a while before we were led in to table 13. Looked around for a while when the lady was deciding what to order. One good reason I was there was the 25% discount. Yuzu lychee bliss and an egg tart for the lady. I was having a pot of…
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