📷Rush lunch, rush dinner and the new washing machine came | 匆匆吃午饭，匆匆吃晚餐，新洗衣机来了😎 Went out to Bukit Merah Central for lunch with a colleague on Monday. It was quite crowded. I was lucky to find a table near the muslim food stall. I decided I should just by a chicken nasi biryani from them for $6.50. Rushed back to office after lunch as it's first week of the month and busy preparting for month end reporting. Rushed home after lunc to wait to the delivery of a washing machine.…
📷Rest in peace, pigeon. Arise the magpie | 鸽子，安息吧。喜鹊升起😎 Warning: This post contains images that may be disturbing to some readers. Was at Tiong Bahru food centre with a bigger group of colleagues than usual for lunch recently. I went to one of the shorter queue stall and got a char siew rice. It was quite good and luckily I finished my food already before I heard the loud bang and a bunch of feathers fell from above. My colleague said a bird hit the big ass fan above us.…
📷AWS Public Sector Day 2024 | 2024 年 AWS Public Sector日😎 Early on Thursday morning, I took MRT train to Raffles City Convention Centre. Joined the long snaking queue and finally scanned the QR code and got my entry badge. Walked to the ballroom where the keynote presentation will be done. Grabbed a yoghurt outside. Joined a slow moving quite to get a latte. Walked around. Found the big board with the agenda and had a look for a while. Went to listen to the keynote…
📷Long Saturday, two pickleball sessions and more than 20,000 steps in a day | 漫长的周六，两次匹克球局一天走了2万多步😎 Went to the school for usual taichi practice on Saturday morning. Then went to a 7-eleven store to pickup an online shopping item. I found a Passion Silver card on the floor. Don't know how much value there is in the card. I brought it to the community club. Later on, as I was waiting around for my wife for about 15 minutes, I saw an uncle wearing the the card holder. 😎 So,…
📷Meetup @deanliu and his young man in 2D | 与@deanliu 和他的儿子的 2D 见面😎 Leaving the office on the dot at 6pm on Thursday 10.10. Hmm, I haven't shop for anything online yet. OMG, saw so many chickens as I walked to take the bus to Chinatown. Got off the bus and went underground passing through the Chinatown MRT station and came out to where I was heading to meet @deanliu Seemed to be quite a crowd in the early evening. Except the what used to be a food street was empty but I saw a…
📷Travel Malaysia Fair - walk about | 马来西亚旅游展走一回😎 Went to Travel Malaysia Fair at Marina Bay Sands after work on Friday. There were many travel agents and transport company. Some even brought in their bus and there were quite a few of them. You can try to win 50 bucks from Youtrip. This travel agent has the support of the God of Fortune. 😎 You can even sign up a Moo Moo trading account there which I did. There was also a food area. You can watch the performance as you eat and…
📷Changing Thai money after mala lunch | 吃完麻辣午餐后兑换泰币😎 Wednesday out for lunch from office. I told my good colleagues (yes, I do have bad ones just like some of you) that I need to go change some Thai money and so want to go to Chinatown on of these two days.They were happy to join my adventure and I headed to one of the usual mala food stall to pick my food. Paid $8 this time. Waited a while and my number was called. A longer walk to the table I "reserved" because we managed…
📷Free lunch before meeting @deanliu | 和@deanliu见面前的免费午餐 😎 It was the morning of the day I would be meeting my blogger friend from Taiwan dinner. It was Thursday and I usually don't go in to office if there is no reason too but I had to attend a Salesforce event at Raffles Hotel and the dinner meetup was at Chinatown. Both the places are closer to office than home. From the office about half hour before noon, I went to Raffles Hotel and there was already quite a number of…
📷#BeautifulSunday Snack from @deanliu then two meals | 美丽星期天-@deanliu送的零食后两餐😎 Some of you may know our friend from Taiwan visited Singapore recently and he brought me this. Doing the usual household chores on Sunday and I decided to take a break and have a snack. Nicely packed in little boxes inside. I took one out. I bought something similar when I went Taipei many years ago. I like the familiar taste. Thanks for the snack, buddy. Late afternoon lunch was at a coffeeshop at…
📷Waffle Snack after shopping at Genting Premium Outlet 20240719 | 在云顶名牌购物中心购物后吃华夫饼 20240719😎 After shopping at Genting Premium Outlet, took a Grab car back to hotel and stopped by Richdad to get a bit of snacks. Bought a waffle and a coffee. The coffee took a while but still not very long. The waffle seemed to take forever. Luckily, it was still hot enough by the time we walked back to the hotel room. Forgot to take a picture so you can watch the video. Here is a video I…
📷Vegetarian dinner and lunch at D'Life | 蔬食晚餐和午餐😎 Out to dinner alone on Monday night. Decided to go to D'Life for vegetarian food. Went in and asked what was the daily special. It was vegetarian chicken rice. I quickly ordered and paid $4.50 for the food. Went to a table nearby. Simple meal with no crowd and comfort of aircon. The next day I was working from home and went out late for lunch at about 1.30pm. The two coffeeshops I went was still crowded. So, I walked over for…
📷Discovering a Swimming Pool After Lunch | 午餐后发现泳池😎 Working from home on Wednesday, I decided to go to a coffeeshop nearby which had a rice stall that closed and someone else open a new rice stall. I selected a few items with my rice and cost $4.20. That seemed more expensive than the previous stall. I only had one meat item. As I was eating, I saw the tze char stall has some choice for lunch at $4. I should try that next time. I left the place and saw a shop that used to be…
📷Pickleball with The Royal Bangkok Sports Club | 与曼谷皇家体育俱乐部一起打匹克球😎 Was at Bangkok for a few days with the club to play some pickleball. On Sunday, we were taken from our hotel to The Royal Bangkok Sports Club. The bus stopped outside and it was a short walk into the main building. There was a cafe as we entered. Wow, they played quite a lot just in October. Found the hall where the courts are. Went in for a quick look. Then out to the toilet to change and looked at the golf…
📷Miz Japanese Restaurant with company | Miz 日本餐厅与同伴😎 One of my colleague is on a holiday to Japan. The rest of us are stuck are with idiotic boss who wasn't around on Wednesday. I decided to take my other colleagues to a Japanese restaurant where I went solo before. Called ahead and made a reservation. Then walked towards Kampong Bahru Road. Dashing across the road just like the lady in front. Went through what my ladies colleague called a “hidden door” and up the stairs and…
📷Red Bean Grass Jelly Q Black Tea Latte Macchiato | 红豆仙草Q红茶拿铁玛奇朵😎 After lunchtime recently. My colleague decided to get bubble tea. I saw they have limited time red bean items. Not a fan of bubble tea but I decided to get one because I like red bean. I bought the Red Bean Grass Jelly Q Black Tea Latte Macchiato 😋 They have some with ice cream too. It's $5.90 for a medium sized tea although I have no idea what has red bean to do with Halloween. Brought the drink back to…
📷One for one posta for World Pasta Day | 世界面食日买一送一😎 Pasta mania is having a one for one pasta promotion in celebration of World Pasta Day. This one I went to earlier is in Toa Payoh and it shares the premise with Texas Chicken. Waited a while before my turn to go in and order. It was about 1pm and the early crowd had left. I looked at the menu. Then went up to the counter to order. Paid $23.50 for the lunch for two people. Then went to a nearby table to sit. We had a…
📷Time to Fly | Time to Fly（飞行时间)😎 Singapore Airlines is having promotion event at Suntec City. The open space at the 3rd floor already have booths from different vendors. I joined the many people going into the exhibition hall. Many travel agents and tour operators are there. There were crowds and long queue almost everywhere. If you are not looking for travel deals and crowd is not your thing, it's probably best to avoid the place. There some nice offer from credit card…
📷OldTown White Coffee | OldTown White Coffee😎 Was at Square 2 Novena for an early lunch last month. There was this ad for a Japanese restaurant which I thought of trying. In the end, my wife and I went for a simpler option at Old Town White Coffee. They were still having their take out breakfast displayed when we went in. Got a table not too far inside and placed our order quite fast. The coffee came quite fast after ordered. This was the first time I had their chicken…
📷Steam Rice Kitchen | Steam Rice Kitchen 蒸有米😎 Went to Toa Payoh North looking for dinner on Sunday night. Haven't been there for a while. The coffeeshop at block 203 was crowded and we went to the one at block 206. There was a rice which wasn't there before and we decided to try that. Bought a cordyceps chicken soup and rice for the lady and lotus leaf steam rice with chicken and mushroom for me. Paid $12.70 for both. Mine was OK although her soup didn't have much…
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