Backdates from Xiamen (Picblog) ~ part 1

Seems like i am in a blogging frenzy now, so i might as well backdate a few entries that i missed before.

Xiamen trip. Supposed to show some pictures n here there are!

Day 1

Boarding the plane


This is our plane, MI922, small hor!


Xiamen airport, those three are actually used to transport the luggages


Getting closer to Xiamen's first suspension bridge


Xiamen "Hai Chang Da Ciao"

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My "Ah Pek n Ma" (Uncle n Auntie)


My "2 n 3 Biaojie" (2nd n 3rd Cousin)


Interesting fish. Notice the flat face on one side.


Seafood restuarant 1. Display of the fishes


Seafood restuarant 1. Display of the greens n soup



Seafood restuarant 1. Display of the VIP room. Seems that all restuarant have lots of VIP rooms there.


Clams dish 1. Tried better similar dishes at the banquent on the next day. But they do look nice. :)


Clams dish 2. If u think this is nice, wait till u see how my cousin cook his!


Walmart at Jiangzhou. Notice the capital retail. i wonder if its owned by singapore???

Food Food AND FOOD!!!!

Went to eat at warraku wif my mum at starhub building after seeing a sinseh to massage my sprained back and massage my mum's arms. Initial i tot its a traditional jap restuarant that my sis brought me to few years back. I still rem the place where we were the only two local people around and we were packed with jap expatriates. Even the menu were in jap, we could only order those that we know from other jap restuarant. But the meal was hearty n well prepared. :)

This one at Warraku, was a bit on the huge side. The serving were huge... No i mean the plates n bowls they use were huge.

Check out the bowl on my mum's left!


The food wasnt really that fantastic too. Though i like the tomato cream udon. The udon was very very tanggy. I like the "kou gan" in the mouth. *Yummy* The rest were jus ok, even though i ordered the interesting leaf grill. Where there is a piece of dried brown leaf over the flame as u cook ur meat over bean paste. In the end we got tough beef in tasteless bean paste.

In the evening, i m supposed to go for classes. After being hypnotised by xiaomei n company, i skipped class n join them for dinner at liang seah street.... *OMG... Somebody gonna kill me... T_T*

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Look how much SHI* we put into the steamboat!

its actually the first time i eat steamboat like this. Usually i would use the chopsticks n dip em hot 1by1. This time, so much is thrown into the bowl that i can feel the flame saying "OMG! dun put in to much food! U gonna overwork me!"

Dim Sum Dollies missed....

OMG!!! I miss the show of dim sum dollies this week! Jus got to know from patrik's blog that the show is on, check sistic n its all fully booked! T_T

Watched the last dimsum n was fully entertained! From that day onwards, i pledge to watch the rest of their shows. When the initial news release of the dimsum working on the history of singapore really intrigued me! But that time was too early to make a booking. So i tot i could wait for the show dates to get closer before booking. I wasnt expect it to start so soon, n now i have missed a great show... T_T

Mariners gathering at suntec

Meet a few of my poly friends at suntec on sat. Some long time nvr see friends like ah bee, sohpia n aipei is here too!

The gang of mariners at swensens


KTV at Kbox


Our star singer! "Jing kou nan kai" A rare occasion that honkiang sings. lol


The flowers of the lot. :)


Singing 'One night in beijing' Leonard, Ryan n Linus

Makan trip with big bear n xiaomei

jus got back from a incredible makan trip with big bear, xiaomei and sean. Why did i say incredible, first of all, i have already mentioned my fattening xiamen trip that i went last week. Its already very sinful le. Then last friday, i went to brazilian churasiria with big bear and sean. Then today... Omg... I wonder if my mum will reconigise me when i got home later. Lol.

Ok, continue my posting. So wat did we had first... After travelling for almost 45mins, with four growling tummies (dun know if theirs are growling, but mine sure is!!!), we reached our first makan place. "Kan Lao" mee at some deserted place. Pls pardon my descriptions to the place coz i m totally directionless after Pelangi. Its another 15mins drive from there. Mee was almost like wantan noodles, but with darker mees. Seems to taste of dark soya sauce (tiger brand one if i m not wrong) n some dark sweet sauce. Something that u will put in ur "soon kwek". (i think she uses xinxin brand sweet sauce). Soup, using maggi chicken stock, with "dou peh" n very nice "tou fu" stuffed with meat. Soup is a bit high on MSG. not really to my liking. lol.

Next we had duck across the road. A small coffee shop with a few chicks n ducks on the display window. We decided to chop half of half (1/4 la...) duck. For nine rinngit its cheap but the taste is jus so so. I believe the one at bukit batok is definately better. :)

After this we travelled another 10mins to find 'Master chef' restuarant. But when we reach there its closed... So we headed to another one called 'Chef papa' which ironically is close too. (Does that means great food are alwasy served late?)

Went to Pelangi to get bigbear (BB) n xiaomei (XM) wedding cards. End up we ate Secret recipe. Although i wanted to try the 'hot stones' restuarant which seem pretty nice. Each of us actually got a main dish n one cake. End up we had cordon blue, lamb shank, marcoroni, n lasagne. Served later we had, choc banana, white choc macadenmia, cuppacino chesse n brownie with ice cream. End up we were super full when we walked out.


Preparing ourselves to attack the four cakes

After a short shopping n hide n seek game with sean, we wnt to Holiday Inn Plaza. Wanted to get pirated software coz my comp have been buggy after since i tried to download some programs n cracks. T_T But XM dun wan, worried we will kanna inspection... So end up we were at holiday inn.... EATING!

Went to 'Wang kok' HK tea house. N got huge drinks for our self, while waiting for sean to appear from hair cuts. The drinks were intereesting n the food too. We had another two dishes like this "bak hu" dumpling we had. taste nice. Nowadays getting lesser "bak hu" products le. After last time bread talk first start out its branded bread.




Some of the things we ate at HK cafe.

After 'Wang kok' is bowling. Play without my shoes n balls n actually got a good score of 161. (Maybe i should give up playing with my house ball. Almost wanted to get a pair of shoes too. lol. lucky nvr if not sure ganna scold one. lol.

After bowling, we went to our last destination, er... some hawker centre near pelangi. Got claypot rice, even "huger" sugar cane juice. (Check photo)


The claypot wasnt that great. Think the one at ABC market sure must try. Then we had "zhu fang fen and satay. Got even fullier!

After finish we quickly get to the lorry checkpoint. Its a new road for me. N seems that quite a number of singapore cars know too. Turn out its not that super duper fast. waited auite a while before we got back.

*burp

Still need some time to let my food inside study. lol

Life in Xiamen~ eat eat eat!~ lol

Yes, thats wat i do in Xiamen the last two days. Jus got here after a two nights stay at Jiang Zhou. Got here n the stuff recommended a upgrade to another room where we will get club access n better view n better services liek free drinks n free internet access (thats y i can blog now). Shall post some photos of the rooms next time i blog from my home. The club access also features free usage of the club lounge at 5-8pm. Where u can drink wat ever is offer there n eat some snacks. N they dun mean twisties or potato chips. But beef steaks (very thin slices but still very nice), sushi, cakes, quiches, blar blar. By the time me n my mum finish eating, we couldnt eat dinner anymore. lol

Went to walk around "Zhong Shan Lu" One of the busiest shopping district in Xiamen. Luckily my mum told me to book some hotel near this street, if not we will have trouble getting transport to shop. Actually there is not much to shop. Beside the local *very expensives* brand, n those cannot make it brand, there is really nothing much. Oh, there is one shopping mall that sells a few branded stuff. The building is so quiet that we felt pretty awkard to walk there. But one thing i have to say about shopping in xiamen or jiang zhou, u will always be gretted by a warm smile n "huan ying guan lin". This is something most singapore shops lacks ba. N the hotel services is good too. From jiang zhou to here, i feel even though there is a difference in the grade of the hotel, there is still a certain courtesy amongst them.

Oh, i forgot teh food. So we have a nice dinner cum teabreak at the hotel club lounge. We have a great american breakfast at the hotel cafe in the morning. Saugagues, ham, eggs, fried rice, fried mee sua (very common here n very nice), porridge, salads, blar blar blar. to many to mention... After that one of the goverment members came n brought us around. She was on of my fathers aquantances before. Lunch we had seafood at some well known restuarant. N there were lotsa seafood at xiamen n jiang zhou. One special dish we ate is... MUD SKIPPER... they cooked it in soup n actually taste nice. :) Others like oyster n bamboo clams are a few common dished here. After a heavy lunch, we adjourned to the hotel. The officials here, or government bodies here have a practice of afternoon breaks. They will jus go home at 1120 n rest till around 1500 the start work again. So this official is the same. N we followed them too. lol. short afternoon nap at the hotel before they come back at 4pm.

After this we went to the "CHEN JIA JU" tomb. walk walk see see n took photos. n we went to eat dinner again.... at around 6, we went to a well know duck mee sua rest. Had duck mee sua (which is actually those "shi quan da bu ya tang" then mis with mee sua. N there were shoft shell PRAWNS?!? I think most have tried soft shell crabs but prawns? lol. They actually taste the same. Fried the same way. so taste the same loh.

So here i amk, after meal at 8am, 11am, 6pm, super full, drinking a bottle of corona with compliments from the hotel. lol. *burp

Got to go back to room le, later mum alone at room worried.

Will update again later with photos.

C YA! :)

My 'Red' day part #2

Suppose to carry on writing bout my gifts from my other friends. But i have yet to take a photo of them. So it seems pretty hard.

Below is a list of wat i got for my "red" day.
#1 Red Citeron Berlingo van by KL
#2 Red G-mask on my 3110 by josh
#3 Red Crumpler from CF, WS, KB
#4 Red Water bottle n Red bettle cushion n a red Tazmania car air freshener by JH n VV
#5 Red Steering wheel n seat belt cushion by PF n DRK
#6 White choco from GODIVA... by xiaomei n big bear.
#7 Red "zhao cai mao" hp keychain for my red 3110 by myself
#8 Red hp clip for my van by myself
#9 Red Bucket n Red rag to for car wash.
#10 Red n yellow winnie the pooh keychain for my van key. I glows when strike! by myself. lol

Tatsa bout all, Shall talk about how my "red" day was spent the next time i blog. Now...

shower n DOTA...

lol

Zhengfa BBQ followed by Xin Wang HK Cafe

Meet big bear n xiaomei for dinner on 14th june 2007 n bigbear suggested ZhengFa at Marina South. Got there and was amazed of the number of people there. It was actually packed!!! Considered it to be a thurs, i couldnt understand y its packed beside that its school holi that time. But packed??!!??

Got our seats n i went to pay n pick up the live prawns n crabs. Took me quite a while to wash n deshell the crab. Actually its not that hard. Next time there i shall know the proper way to deshell them. :)

This is wat we got.


This is how we cook them. They are delicious.


Big bear happily munching his "Kong bak bao" N check out the big plate of meat he brought... That explains y we were super full... lol


Prawns xiaomei peeled for me. (Aren't they nice?) *thanks xiaomei


Butter prawns!

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After having a super full treat, we were super thirsty. Had to get some drinks. Since the drinks sold there were exp, we decided to go some where, where there is NTUC or supermarket to get big bottles of drinks.

We end up at parkway NTUC, n joi'ed jeremy who came down n meet us, n got his car scratched... Sianz 1/2. Jeremy will get advice from his mum on wat to do. After which we went to HK cafe to talk cock.

This is the place.

Xiaomei n big bear acting cute....


Three of us again... lol


That wat we ordered, i jus wrote them on the paper, n they have to give remarks...


Me n my trade mark "shit" picture. lol


The one n only food we ordered, kaya toast with condensed milk. Judging from the way finish the toast was finish, u guys can imagine how i love it ba. lol


They serve their drinks in tin can. Look cool but small portion. I wonder if they have bigger tins. Mmm...


K, i shall not say more about this pic. :P


took a pic of the place after we left. Not bad for a hangout. Must try the other types of toast next time. :)

Interesting Jap food @ IMM

Went to this ajisen group jap restuarant to have my dinner on 15th june 2007.
Think the name is... Ichiban Sushi
They Serve pretty interesting food of which some i took photos of.

@_@ "bak chang" making

yes, thats how i look now. After 3 glue some hrs of bak chang making, and 1 hr of being maid to the house. But surely there are answers to why such thing happen. :) For all these, i get to bring 15 delicious bak chang back to eat. Yeah!

So i was at josh house today making "b.c". Started around 4.30, i start to wrap first b.c for the wear. Remembering last year i actually came to make too. And i am sure i am jus as tired after it. I wonder... Why did i come today? :p

We wrapped around 50 b.c ba. The first batch of them were salty. Too salty in fact. For someone who always eat salty stuff, i think it really pretty salty. But it does taste good loh. Luckily we didn't test the one with gralic... If not i wouldn't be liking it. Josh loves to have one solid gralic in his b.c. Whereas, i love the b.c with lots "bak" lol.

This is wat we made...


Damn... Forgot to setup marco mode... Actually i wanted to show how well i wrap it. Wahaha but this one only one of the few which i wrap nicely... lol


Mine mine mine!!!


With the help of this, we jus need 45mins to cook em!

My "red' day! Part one.

Well, by popular demand (though only from one guy. lol) i am to post the "happenings" on my birthday celebrations. Actually, there are so many of them! Thanks all my friends for celebrating this special day of mine with me. *hearts* And to those who simply were too busy (real busy or fake busy, jus touch ur heart la. lol) but sent smses to wish me. Also not forgeting those who simply didnt know wat day it is (Well, u dun know my birthday, but u r still me friend. :) Coz i might not know urs too! lol) Jus wanna say thanks you for jus being my friend.

12/06/2007
On thte actual day itself, i actually recieve my biggest present. Yes. Its my new "kar ta" (as in hokkien, "leg step" or as in english my transport from the company) Its a RED (note #1 "red", more to come.) Citreon Berlingo Van. Actually should meet at 10am but i woke up late. This despite my friend, josh for giving me a wake up call, i still fell asleep. Maybe too much DOTA the last night. lol. Woke up around 9.30 n i am already running late. Reached only around 11 where the lady agent was about to go. short tour aroudn the vehicle, n the van is all mine to drive away. It started to drizzle a bit n the lady says its a good sign n should buy 4D. But... till now already donated more then 100 bucks to the swimming "pool". haiz... So many times i came so close to the prize. 7304, 4470, 7311, 5537, 7044, haiz.. simply no luck... Oh for ur info the number is 3744 n i bought all 12 permunation...

Enough about the car, went to PS to cele my birthday with josh. We had a small movie marathon. Watching shrek 3 n pirates one after another. My conclusion of the movie, neither of them were great. Shrek being jus funny, which it is suppose to be. The story is not really nice anymore. I like the "dradonkey" they are so cute n ardorable. :) other then that, its not really that nice. Pirates, i find is pretty good graphics, considering the graphics of the ships, the whirlpool, the fighting. Surprisingly, i find it pretty amusing. There are some real cold jokes, which made the whole crowd laugh. funny...

Josh got my phone G-masked while we watch the movie. it look like this...

This is the front. Notice the screen is coloured too. I am still considering if i should take it off...



This is the back. Actually jus wan to get a pure red one. But they dun have. So some design n i chose the most uniform design. Looks great on the back. with a silver background.



Lotsa thanks for josh, for making my phone "red" #2

After watching the show n picking up the phone, We went to katong for brazillion buffet. lol Ate till we wanted top puke. Really two greedy men. In the end have to walk around cold storage to help digest. (BTW, walking supermarket is also josh's past time. lol.) About the buffet, It one that serves desserts. The like time on, there was no surcharge.... <---- er please ignore the previous sentence. coz i also dun know wat i am typing. lol. The buffet was pretty good. They marinate the meat n stuffs before serving. So they tends to have some taste, as compared to the one at vivo. Vivo one is more saltish. Think they use salt to preserve the natural flavours of the meat. But Vivo one serves more dishes. Maybe its a weekend. This one that io go, barely have any one when we first step-in. On a tuesday, there wasnt any crowd. Think they only have 10 bbq dishes. as compare to the one at vivo where there is chicken heart, more types of beef. n beef ribs. Service is not so bad except that they dun serve ice water. Have to pay for 6 bucks to get a bottle of avian...

After tat..

real tired liao. gotta sleep.
To be updated again...
Zzz...

Victor's kitchen

Some of the very nice food that i ate at victors kitchen on sun 10/06/06
Josh brought me there last time when we were making the silver clay rings.
Decent price food at great taste. Definately coming back for the forth n fifth n sixth n .... times. :)

5 more days n counting....

Well, as wat DH commented, i shall list down some stuffs. lol

1) New handphone (V3 red or a nokia one that got bluetooth with red G-mask can liao) lol.
2) Bluetooth kit sold at carrefour (the one where the bluetooth kit built into the rear screen.) lol lol
3) Lappy (currently Asus A8 looks good. With red G-mask will be better!!!) lol lol lol
4) er... still need more???

Or seriously, some of the stuffs that i have been longing to buy. But i jus cant set my heart to pay for them. Coz it not that i need them, its jus tat.... they r red n i would like to have one... lol

1) Red watch
2) Red glasses
3) Red alarm clock. (Mine old fails to wake me up once... went bonkers liao)
4) Red top where i can wear for gym. (Must be sleeveless)
5) do i have to type red again??? u all should know that it should be, will be, MUST be RED.... lol
6) Some other stuffs that i memtioned the last time loh
7) Cant think of any more stuffs liao....
Getting sleepy le. Any way, i wouldnt mind if i didnt get anything from this list. I would most appreciate a gift that comes from the heart. Even though if it is not something that i like, if its given by a "you xin ren" then i would gladly recieve it. Er.. bluntly saying... *Better dun go n buy those F@@King photo frames or ornaments for me!!! lol*

Gota sleep liao. night....

Ten days to "the day"

Ever feels down tat "the day" is closing???
I think its gonna be my first... Seems tat every1 should look forward to it, but its jus not the same this year. Some might be looking thru this web n hopefully to find ideas to prepare them for "the day"... I m so sorry to post something like tat in my previous blog. Well... blogs are spaces to throw ur tots right???

Ha, enough bout those. So something 'normal' to blog about.

Err... I woke up at 7 today, go to the shower n left the house to the office. Reach the office at 8am. Had some briefing with my staffs bout the new system in place. Work work work... Then shot here n there, finish work dirty, or rather work will nvr finish for me. Till now, shower n blogging.

K, More normal stuffs. Should be getting my citeron berlingo van next week latest. Provided my sis sign the cheque. So i should need quite a bit of car accessories. lol. #1 in the list should be the aromatherapy stuff for the car. U know, the spinning water that gives out nice smell. A lavander smell will be good, though its not the one i like. lol. I think i sounds contridicting. nvm. #2 would be....the handphone clip that holds my hp. Pls bear in mind that my N95 is pretty big. lol. #3 i actually wouldnt mind a Nokia E65. lol coz if u have been reading my blog, i have 'lost' my working phone, 6021. A E65 is good coz the batt is the smae size as my N95 so i can actually interchange the batt if necessary like i do to my N80 n 6021. #4 I would love to have a new keypad too. MUST be red though. lol. *there is actually no red keypad in the market* to fit my red monitor n red mouse. lol. Enough of not practical stuffs, i think i should list a list of NOs...
Nos... #1 in the list is, clothes.... I have nvr had a proper size for that. Now that my wardrobe is full of cannot wear but still wanna keep clothes coz i didnt worn it out clothes. lol From before BMT to after Sispec to ORd to now, i think i at least change size 3 times. lol. Oh i forgot to say that i wouldnt mind a red desk alarm clock. Coz mine a bit sock sock liao. lol. Though still can use. lol.

Well... all in all, i wouldnt mind if things are RED. I m looking forward to a RED day. :)

Shit no time to blog abnormal stuffs liao....

To be continued...

My speech is as sharp as knife... Can cut a deep wound...

Apparantly there are no spirit nor soda at home. Neither is the volka or martini cold. So i think i have to try to get drunk with the "shan za" drink my mum cook. lol