Xin HK tea house at Jur Pt

Was with josh the other day after watching Sex and the City. Well, both of us were the pretty "eng" two coz he finish his exams n i am waiting to fly to UK. lol So turns out we kinda meet each other n "rot" together these days. After catching SEX, we were hungry n drop by this not so new HK cafe for a drink n dimsum.


Wasnt really very hungry so we didnt ordered much. This siew mai was the so so type. Nothing outstanding about it. Moderate taste too.

'Si Mud' milk tea, as all HK cafe named them. Actually they came about this name due to the milkiness of the tea. But this is definately not milky enough... Personnally i love lotsa milk in my tea, coffee. lol

The Beeg Hor Fan we ordered looks like this. The taste is ok. But the beef is pretty much tough n chewy, Chewy means u can't chew it off easily. lol Suddenly felt like eating those beef hor fan with lotsa tenderizers in the beef. lol. At least its tender. But some really over do it. :)

'Chewy' beef, sorry my F100 was sleeping at home that day. N95 was a bit hay wired. Maybe it felt that i wasnt using its camera tat often any more. Went on strike! lol

Thai Express

Was in mood for Thai n end up in Thai Express.



The Fried Kway tiao was succulent. Moist and tender. With hint of lime juice over it, n it tastes great!

Eh... Guessed this was Crab Tung Hoon which if as far as i remembered, its nice. No complains here. Wait... Maybe too much pasley. lol coz i dun like them. :P

Tom Yum Soup was really very tomyummy. But dun judge the taste from its looks. This plain looking soup packs a punch in its spiciness and souriness. lol

Swiss German Sausage Bar

Of before i leave maybe i can clear some of them. Those the Picasa can support one. Picasa support posting below 5 pics.

Was at Taka n tried this for lunch.

Well, nothing special from this clam chowder. Only that... Where is the clams?!?

Love the sausages. But they are a bit salty i feel... But then again, i am pretty much a sausage lover. Love em! All shape n sizes. Salty sweet or sour... :P

Interesting meat loaf. with nice rosti n mushroom sauce. Taste like lotsa sausages meat packed into a square n cliced n pan fried before serving. :) Good!

Well, this is the stall. Still cannot make myself take the signboards of the food that i taken, or rather... more like i always forgot. ;D

Its near...

As i count down to the last few hours before i reached 28. Suddenly i was excited. lol. But not excited coz its my birthday soon. but that i will be meeting three of my secondary schools' best friend for a session of drinks and soccer watching. Tonight's match, Czech vs Portugal, Almost many would say portugal coz the recent crown of Ronaldo from Man U as the FIFA Player of the Year. But this much have been said, though i also feels that Portugal wouldnt want to risk their chance to lose and let Czech top the table. Same should go to the Czechs. Czechs also hav one of the best goal keepers in the tournament, Petr Chec. My best bet would be a draw for both of them as they will feel fighting it out with the other team having more chance to win. :)

As for my birthday coming up, i am glad that there is many activities lined up. Tml will be PC show plus The Melts Dinner with Josh. Fri i will go PC show again with the same gang, Sat night i hav celebrations with my Uni friends n Lec. Sun i will be having Daidomon high tea... lol. *happy*

A quick flip thru my photos n i realised there are lots of photos n stories to be told.
1. Drinking session at the O-bar with my classmates
2. Mothers day lunch @ RSVP (yes i know, mothers day was last month...)
3. UGS farewell dinner @ Furama hotel
4. Lotsa food from 'Pasta Cafe', 'Canele', 'Kushinbo', 'Thai Express', 'Meals prepared by Josh', 'Pasta de Warruku', 'Jur East St 31 Hawker food', 'Crazy crabs @ Jur West st 51', actually... there is a lot more i forgot where i took them le. lol

Well, jus stay tuned....

Man without a 'full stop'

Kinda hav this feelings a lot of time.

Well, its jus me. When i start to think a lot. The prob is when i start to think, i dun think of something in full. That subject will jus float above my head n without answers. And when that happens, i usually piss people off with the not so happy face n the couldnt care for anything reply. Sorry, for those people who "kanna'ed" this problem with me. But i jus couldnt help it.

Maybe that y i said 'without a full stop' cause there is nvr a answer nor a end to it. N they will appear again. Annoying another person...

Haven been in the best of mood these days. Nothing been gone right. Some might hav heard about my interview adventure full of bad omen - soles of shoe falling off, lift broke down, in time become not in time, n it really turn out pretty bad.

Though lotsa happy moments came after these, a great drinking session with my closest friends, great dinner at 'The Line' (Thanks PF, it was a great outing.), even a super hilarious 'Kungfu Panda' movie with josh didnt really lift my spirits.

Hopefully the best is yet to come. Jus another three days to my big day, hope everything goes well n great.

From Facebook

You are friendly, humorous and full of energy. You are open-minded and do not care for minor details. Your weak point is your hot temper. Your Love, You are willing to start off in one-sided love affairs because you strongly believe that you will eventually win his/her heart. On the other hand, once you are together, you always want to do things your way, which is often the fire starter. You usually run in and out of love quickly.

Wat say u? True? Not?

Wish List

Well, i really dun wan to do this but its a request by someone, so i guess i hav to do it.

Something for that special day is pretty hard to think of. Considering tat i am quite a "Techie" any tech stuffs would really appleased me. :D But currently my number one wish list is not something like tat...

So here goes:

1.) To achieve a successful carreer in the marine industry. (Who says wish list must be items one!)
2.) HTC Diamond. lol Love the looks. Cant wait for the prices to drop!
3.) Sony PS3. Thinking of renovating my room, So a PS3 will be great when its done. :) More of a individual fun thing.
4.) Nintendo Wii, same reasons as the PS3 but this one actually is pretty fun, family fun. :)
5.) XBox? Naaa... Dun really like it. Guess 5 would be Antler Camden Town lugguge bag. Large one n must be RED!! lol
6.) Well... I got myself a good digital cam if u notice, a good pouch to store additional batt, sd card and the tripod would be nice. :) dun get too big one hor!
7.) I guess untill this point of time u would really know wat i want liao. so dun think i need to go on. :)

Oh, I need to thank DH for his travellers pouches! its lovely n red. lol Though i think Ziplocks is much better choice. :P but will bring them la. lol

Astons @ Jur East

Bored today after finishing my chores, I decided to venture out to grab some nice food alone. Well, as i tot, eating alone is damn boring. Esp when its somethings interesting. Sigh... Missing my Makan Khaki, Josh, as he goes for ICT @ Sungei Gudong.

Venue: Astons Express @ Jurong East
Food: Prime Tenderloin (medium) w tasty rice n coleslaw
Damage: $24.90

Its kinda located at the end corner of the coffe shop next to shop and safe. If u dun look closely, u might miss the stall.

For every main course u could get two side dishes. Wanted to get the baked potatos or house salad as they look more interesting then french fries. But they mentioned its not available. So i chose the "tasty" rice and the coleslaw. Note that i put "" over the tasty word. Later u will know why...

After a short wait, the meal has arrived.

The portion was surprisingly small... Kinda disappointed, though i know tenderloin is pretty ex, but i tot they are, u know, coffeshop style, could be a bit cheaper.

Whipped out my F100 n start to take photos. Thanks to the good lightning in the coffeshop, i managed to take pretty nice pics. n i realised that there is a Blog trimming button where they will automatically cut it n shrink it to blog size. Which is pretty cool for me. But the picture below i guess its not really well taken. Need to learn the correct modes to apply to take good pics.

Right after i took the photos, i immediately cut open right in the centre of the two pieces of meat in front of me. Want to see how well they prepare the meat to my preference. Well, i can say i was dissappointed again coz only the smaller piece they managed to cooked it to medium, the other one, as u can see below is more medium rare to me. More bloody red. Sorry that i didnt took photos of the smaller piece coz er... cant resist to the meat. lol

Medium rare tenderloin i would say. Not my type of meat.

Next is the coleslaw. Definately home made. A bit soury to me. (I dun like sour stuffs) Not much mayo to go with the coleslaw. Most ladies would actuall love it coz mayo is pretty fattening. So i guess its more market stragety here. :)

"Tasty" rice... y i put "" because it not tasty at all... Sad n disappointed. The rice is fried with carrots and i think the rice is too sticky. Turn out the whole pile of rice is the... er... "Nua nua" type. Not nice. Light seasoning as i gues the important taste is the meat more then the rice. Will try the house salad n Baked potatos next time. Worst come to worst, get teh french fries. lol

Well, Josh must be cursing n swearing as he reads this coz he was the one who mentioned this stall to me. And i kinda agreed to eat it together with him. But dun worry, :) i am pretty sure i can go again for the not so expensive cuts. To see if its justifiable for its popularity. :D

Gotta to clear my postings...

With friends complaining of me not finishing up my postings and not putting up posts that i mentioned in previous posts. I shall try to overcome that by posting almost everytime i am free.

Next in line should be PF's Bdae since its the next photo tat appeared in my N95 photo album. I am also concurrently posting my jap postings in my shutterfly web album. That one is not a easy task as i need to compile three Dcam photos and sort them out in order of appearance. So pls bear with it.

back to PF party.
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Venue: Turf Club Ah Yat Seafood


We met at Turf club Ah Yat seafood restuarant.


Over here i choose ur "live" seafood from these tanks and u will weight them before bring it to your restuarant and indentify wat style u wanna cook and enjoy ur food.


As we were here for the 50% discount and the snow crab. And shown above is our B-dae girl, PF.


This is the crab we ordered. Its span is bigger then my waist! lol


After selecting ur food, u will weight them here.


This is our damage done, even with the 50% discount. The Snow crab already cost us $150 after discount, the prawn is $26 and the huge oyster we got is 30 for 7 of them.


The very ex fish we got is this Extra "dong xin ban" which is supposed to be very very nice. And EXTRA expensive too...


This is one of the style to cook the crab


We ordered the oyster to be cooked this way.


We ordered the prawns to be cooked as drunken prawns. But didnt get to see them drunk the live prawns. And the soup taste very herbal.


Check out these oysters...


See they are as huge as JH fist!!!


Inside is creamy cheese sauce with, kinda overwhelmed the oyster flavour. Definately not more then two servings.


The first half of the crab, we ordered the crab to be cooked in two style. This one is the steam one. Wat can i say? Its simplily "heaven..."


Look at the meat from the leg... Its very sweet for a crab, so sweet that u might tot there is msg added. But i am pretty sure it is not the case.


So this is the legendary "CrabStick" or rather the real crab stick. Mmm... Yummy...


The other half which we wanted it to be cooked in black pepper. U pay a bit more i guess $5 or 15 to spilt the cooking. But the black pepper is not spicky enough, no kick!


But the black pepper enters the inside of the leg.


End result? Black pepper legs snow crab. Still good, coz of the crab used, but the steam one is definately better. Orginal taste rocks!


Here comes the EXPENSIVE fish!!!


Wah really live up to its expensive taste leh... Juicy n chewy meat. Though we got a bit tussle with the waiteress ther coz she was telling us then we should spilt up n cook better. I say we want only steam. Then she gave us a remark that if steam the whole fish the centre would not be well cooked!!! Where got restuarant say like tat one? I was pretty annoyed about it n made a big fuss out of it. Then the lady even dare to say if wanna cook the whole fish, then maybe the meat will be tough on the outside... This really make my blood boil... We paid over 100bucks for this fish and u tell us u dun know how to cook well. WTF? In the end i jus tell her off, they better cook up a good fish if not i am going to tell all my friends about this n nvr visit the restuarant again! Lol. guess that made the waiteress a bit scared n lucky for them, the fish was well prepared and we truely enjoyed the whole fish.


Deserts, we had "She Cup" not sure of the eng name. But they are lousy...


In the end, total damage - SGD$499.85 My most expensive seafood meal. Not to say those that my dad bring me la. :)

To conclude, the experience was good. Food were good. If we didnt eat the snow crab n fish i guess it would be a relative al right price meal. 50% discount seems good. Maybe should go again to eat the other food. Smaller oysters to eat fresh looks cheap too. Definately not those big ones we ate. Many other fish available, I guess they would be jus as good fresh. Deserts can throw away la. They were lousy. Look upon the next dining here. :)

Back to previous posts...

Okay, my last posted ended on our adventure to dawn in the class.

So it was a fullfilling day, since we managed to really complete our stuffs that night n got some rest. In some form or another. lol. Should hav taken the photos of janice n melissa sleeping then. They were sleeping seated down with thier face on the table. But i wasnt gonna care much, so i laid on a table with one huge book covered with my towel as my pillow. In the end i got some good rest. lol.

After that we went out to grab breakfast. n we went all the way to Jurong West St 51 to eat. I recommended them to try the chicken porridge n they love it. Look at thier faces!!!


The two babes with their breakfast!


Melissa was jus shocked to see such delicious food...


The "Yu Sheng" which inspired me to make the "yu sheng" on Chinese new year with the yuppies.


The "Lao Mu Ji" chicken shich wasnt really tat old. lol


Then plain porridge.


Here's the stall and its name.

Lunch and advices from Ronnie n Sean

Met Sean and Ronnie for lunch hours ago.
Was thinking of trying out the new shirt and the fantastic brown shoes that i got for the interview on thurs. Got them at the Robinsons sale @ EXPO. Feel that i got quite a good bargain for the shirts and shoes. Jus tat i couldnt find a matching pants. Maybe that explains y i couldnt wear it out today to show sean coz there is no matching pants to go with the shirt and shoes. Turn out i wore my black pants n black shoes to match the shirt, n it wasnt that nice.

We went to Shokudo for lunch, like i jus said, its japanese marche. Guess lotsa people would know that then. U take ur card around to buy food. For every food u pick up, u scan ur card n pay only at the exit. Food is like... Mmm, see for urself ba. Hopefully my New FUJI F100FD is good enough.

Divert a bit since i am waiting for the photos to load from the SD card.
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Oh, i got my new Digi cam. Its the FUJI f100fd as memtioned above. Its was pretty highly recommended in some digital cameras review, like http://www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08012407fujif100fd.asp and Josh was telling me all the good stuffs about the cam.

Well guess i am pretty to lazy to type out all features, might as well copy it. lol
Here u go...

- 12 megapixel Super CCD HR VIII and RP (Real Photo) Processor III: Ultra high resolution for razor-sharp results and unrivalled dynamic range
- 5x Fujinon zoom lens: Powerful and versatile shooting options
- Face Detection Technology 3.0 with intelligent red-eye removal: Even more capable, even faster than before
- Dual Image Stabilisation: Combine mechanical image stabilisation with the effects produced with higher ISO (up to an amazing ISO 12,800)
- Continuous Shooting: Top/Final 3 at 1.7 frames per second at full resolution and Top/Final 12 at 5 frames per second at 3 Megapixels
- High speed playback: No waiting for high-resolution images to load during play back. The FinePix F100fd can display images at full resolution at 10 frames per second
- Portrait Enhancer Mode: Mimicking a professional photo studio setting, by using Face Detection and preset camera settings, Portrait Enhancer minimises fine lines and small skin blemishes for smooth, natural looking portraits
- Dual Shot Mode: In this selectable mode, the FinePix F100fd quickly shoots two images in rapid succession – one with the flash and one without – and saves both. This convenient function lets users perform a comparison at their convenience and select the most pleasing image
- Special scene modes: The FinePix F100fd has 16 pre-programmed scenes, including a special underwater scene mode for use with a special underwater casing and a Blog mode that automatically reduces the size of copied images for easy posting to a Blog, Web page or email attachment
- Micro Thumbnail: A playback feature that allows for viewing an index-style print on the LCD. The FinePix F100fdwill show up to 100 images in micro form, then the control buttons are used to select specific images. An innovative wheel navigation dial makes it easy to quickly find a single image by being able to jump to particular segments of images in the time sequence
- IrSimple™: Infrared communication via IrSimple™ technology for fast, easy wireless image transfer to a compatible device
- xD/SD/SD-HC compatible slot: The FinePix F100fdfeatures a xD/SD compatible slot which accepts not only Fujifilm’s traditional xD-Picture cards but also Secure Digital (SD) and SD-High Capacity/SD-HC cards too

Well, a bit too much on the cam le, maybe some photos will convince u all.
P.s. i still not very sure with the modes, so some photos may turn out not as good.

Didnt take much photos coz we were all pretty hungry. lol.

Grill pork


Tempura assorted


Grilled mushrooms, bacon with quails eggs and bacon with prawn. The bacon with quail eggs looks like, eh... leave it to ur imagination ba.


Grilled chicken katsu don with egg that i had.


Potato Rosti with bacon.

Well, in general i feel there is not much special about the food here. Taste wise its jus like any nearby jap restuarant standard food. Though the rosti dun really lok jap to me. :) They do hav Emu rice and Jap Pizza which we missed out. They do look nice to me. But i guess the taste is the same. aka, the "so-so standard" nothing to wow about. Oh, maybe the setting and style ba, where u walk around with ur card n pay only at the end of the day.

More pic from my New cam coming right up.

Anyway, the lunch we had was followed by some shopping where i got myself two shirts and two ties. Got to thank Sean and Ronnie for guiding me on wat to wear and esp to Ronnie for the two ties. :)

After much spending, which the two of them end up buying more shirts too. lol, we went to Mos Burger for some drinks. Where ronnie was teaching me more about dressing and workind stuffs. Its really quite some info for me since i haben been in the "real world" working industry before since my attachments. Hopefully all these will help me in my interview on thurs, and to my future.

Need to sit down and think about my future and my focus...
Mmm... tough decisions to make...

Well, before that, i still can try to post more pics n blogs here.
So stay tuned!