Recession

Received this email from Fionn when recession starts to set in .....

Your Boss's Reaction during a Recession

剛開始 begining.....老闆 Boss: Be good, you will be fine.

過了一週After a week...
要加油ㄛ!!....
Must Work Hard man

過了一月After a month...
要給 林北 加油喔.....
Must Work Hard for Lim Peh u know!

過了一季 After a Quarter....
叫你要 加油啦..... 聽到沒 ??
Can you hear me, you must work hard!!!


As I was feeling quite creative on a particular day .... I decided to come up with my own version

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剛開始 begining....Keith says: Be good, I will love you and treat you like a Princess

After a month ....
I will continue to dote on you

After a year ....
Treat you like a Princess? Dream On!

After 3 years ...

BUY ME MY CAR!!!

Now you all know what kind of life I have been going through for the past 3 years :P

Crab Feast

Been on a crab feast recently (opps, think the pics are dated around 3-4 months back ;p) with Leecher & his family. We went to 2 different places for dinner and the highlight - CRAB (Leecher's fave dish cuz he is forever full of CRAP)

1st stop: Coffee shop near Leecher's place

Apparently, the coffee shop has a new boss/chef so we decided to come and try out the dishes.

The seafood claypot dish, which apparently is their signature. So-so only leh.

Sambal kangkong, spicy yet not spicy enough to give you the punch.

Cereal prawns! My fave, I can just take the cereal and mix it with rice and eat. Oh, be careful when eating this dish for there were small chilli padi hidden inside the cereals. I took a spoonful and fed Leecher and before I could blink my eyes, he kena a "swollen" tongue. Opps, sorry (I didn't mean it, wa ha ha)

Next, the highlight of the day .... *clap clap in the background*

Think this is the butter crab. The gravy is alright, just that the smell of the milk is kinda strong (which kinda reminds me of baby's burp)

Chilli crab! Yeah, you can never go wrong with chilli crab :) Oh, we also ordered the fried bun and they were very disappointing. The fried bun is supposed to be a WHOLE bun, yet, we got slices of fried bun that is over-fried and hard, yucks. Spoil appetite :(

2nd stop: House of Seafood @ 180

Headed to this restaurant @ Serangoon Gardens. Quite difficult to find parking. We had to park like 4 streets down and walked up to the restaurant. Damn tired.

This is one of their signature dish - Champagne Pork Ribs (if I still rem the name correctly). I polished off my portion: either its delicious or I am just too hungry after all the waiting.

Stir-fried long beans with prawns which I think Xiufeng quite like this dish :)

No cereal prawns :( make do with this egg omelette with prawns lo ...

Lastly, crabs! We ordered 2 types for the 7 of us to share.

Butter crab: looks different from the butter crabs that we had earlier. This version is much tastier and you can really taste the melted butter on the crabs.

The staple of all crab dish: chilli crabs. The gravy is slightly spicy, yet to coin from Roger, it lacks the punch. However, at least we get decent-looking fried buns this time round :)

Happy Birthday!

Happy 1st Bdae to footprintsallover!

Blamer is born in the year of the Rat, hence the pic. Hee Hee Hee. I very thoughtful hor... ...

Aussie visitors in SG

We have Jamie & Zili (both from Aussie) who dropped by on different occassions, yet coincidentally, the team brought them to ....

Claypot laksa for lunch :)

I brought Zili there and he ordered the normal chicken laksa

Apparently, he loves the laksa very much that he polished off everything from his bowl. The aftermath: he finished one packet of tissue for he was sweating like hell, from the heat outside and inside :)

I ordered the seafood combo this time round, comes with scallops & abalone.

I had to eat my laksa with lots of caution, if I don't want my white blouse to be stained with the curry gravy.

Jamie came to visit us when she was back to SG for her vacation

I tompang her to get me the HAIGH's choclates, which she recommended the last time I was in SYDNEY. Now, my mum only like this chocolates and Leecher's mum likes this as well :) She also bought us violet crumbles, which has been a staple snack in the office for 3 months, with Elliott replenishing it when he went over to Aussie.

Took Jamie out to lunch and all of us ordered the chicken wing laksa while Elliott opted for the chicken wing claypot rice.

Once again, I am in white :( Why they like to eat laksa when I am dressed in white? >_<

** Note: The depot road laksa has closed down :( anyone have ideas where it relocate to?

爱心餐

Chef Leecher cooked another 爱心餐 for me *hugs*

1st: prepare the ingredients. Auntie helped him with it one lo, haha.

2nd step: cook the spaghetti in boiling hot water. I got help to stir it :)

A picture of Chef Leecher in his most "cui" form, hahaa

Blamer & Leecher in the kitchen :)

3rd step: once the spaghetti is cooked, we need to drain off the water. Auntie helped us with this, cuz she more expert in this area. Thank you, Auntie!

4th step: stir fried the ingredients. Oh, that is Auntie's cooking it by the way. Thought its supposed to be Leecher cooking?

5th step: pour in the tomato sauce (can be bought off the shelf from Fairprice). Still Auntie cooking.

6th step: pour in the spaghetti and cook together! That is still Auntie cooking lo; where the hell is Leecher?

Tadah! The finished product; yummy!

Meanwhile, we were both squeezing orange juice for Auntie to drink :P

Finally, Leecher reappeared again, posing with an orange this time. Kaoz, looks gayish rite? wa ha ha!

Me also got help out, yeah! *hungry already, time to eat!*

Zi Bao Chicken

One weekend while visiting Blamer at her place, Auntie suggested to eat 纸包鸡 for dinner.

Union 纸包鸡 located just beside SIM, not very accessible by public transport if u ask me, but Blamer says can take a bus den walk a bit.


Doesn't the place just gives u a kampong "feel"? The restaurant resides on quite a big plot of land. I wonder if the owner of the restaurant owns the land too. Must be very rich.

View taken for inside the restaurant, noticed that they worship a four-faced Buddha, thought the kid that served us looks a bit Thai too. But Blamer told me they are all Chinese.

TA DA the legendary chicken. I find that the price is a little on the high side though. For 36 pieces of this chicken, it cost $35. That is nearly a dollar for this piece of small chicken

The kid serving us conned me to order this mango prawn from him. Nothing special, but again 9 prawns for $20.

The only dish that I thought was surprisingly tasty went to their oyster sauce bee hoon. Simple yet superb in taste. $8 for the big packet.

Animal Farm Gathering

Been a while since I last met up with the AF gang. Special thanks to Winston for sending the email to me & Yunfa for picking us up :)

Popped by Weiming's house for the gathering & we had .....

KFC :) I miss their cheesy fries though, probably the best that I have ever tasted so far.

The happy family (our host for the day). Tian Le is so cute, but cannot pinch his cheeks with his parents around, haha.

Tian Le's own playhouse, cool leh ... The living room is huge enough to house his playhouse as well as for the rest of the furnitures, plus lots of space for Tian Le to run & dance :) Poor Chuan Yew had to dance with Tian Le whenever his fave songs are being played on TV.

See, he knew that I was taking pics and he quickly posed for the camera. However, he refused to let anyone else carry him except his parents.

With his motor car. He specially brought out this car from one corner of the house and pose for the pic :)

A group pic of the "uncles" and sister (me!) with Tian Le. He even gel his hair for the picture.

Haha, Winston & me wore matching colour clothes for the day, DUH. Got "chemistry" leh :)

We "broke" into Tian Le's playhouse as soon as he was off to take his nap. The AF gang, but a couple of them were missing. It's ok, we can still meet up next time round.

Tadah, the complete pic: AF gang with their 小妹. Till the next meet-up!