Summary of year 2010

This year is considered the darkest period in my life.
Also, travel a lot of times in this year. Took up hobbies which I am not sure whether i could sustain..
1 happy thing happened in 2010 was, my Secondary friend, Cindy, now known as Cendrine found me on Facebook!

1 Jan - 3 Jan - Bangkok shopping with Xiao Chong
(Do not travel during New year cos lots of shops would be closed esp those wholesales.)

3 Jan - Bought Nikon D5000

15 Feb - 21 Feb - Taiwan Feb 2010 Chinese New Year tour with him
(Stupid, paid for tour and got blame. No appreciation)

25 Feb - Start a blog
(till now still wondering whether should i make it a photography blog or?)

4 Mar - 9 Mar - Bangkok with Yuling
(Good to explore the train rides. What an experience)

13 Mar - 28 Mar - Photography Foundation Course (sat & sun), Fengshan cc

Apr - Bought Canon s90

Apr - Photography Intermediate Course (sat & sun), Fengshan cc

Apr - Change of reporting officer from Ms Tanny to Mr Aw

4 May - 10 May - Taipei with mum
(Flower search in Taipei? Nice food and scenary)

10 May - Husband admit his affair.

Darkest period of my life from here onwards

17 Jul 10 - Start Dressmaking course, Aljunied cc
(Till now, i wear none of the dresses I made)

25 Jul 10 - Family day at Universal Studio

15 Aug 10 - December rain at Esplanade
(Kit Chan was awesome!)

26 Aug 10 - Youth Olympic Games Closing Ceremony
(Loves the fireworks but hate the crowd)

29 Oct - 8 Oct - JiuZhaiGou package tour with mum

26 Nov - SPS Appreciation Night

30 Nov - Farewell cum Welcome dinner for the new boss at "The Line" Shangri La Hotel

1 Dec - Ms Caroline became my new boss

6 Dec - Mdm Chong reported to her new posting

17 - 19 Dec - JB tour with mum

Food Blog

He commented that my blog going to be like food blog.
Hmm...is it i ate too much?Do nothing but eat?
Too many buffet meals that I wanted to blog about?
Hmm...anyway, I just bought vouchers for japanese buffet and steamboat buffet going next year! Haha..my food journey will never end..

Going for another steamboart buffet and will update here again =P

26 Dec 10 - Hi Tea Buffet @ Zhou's Kitchen

Went to Zhou's kitchen, Square 2 for high tea. In the website, it was stated, high tea started at 3pm but when we reached there, there was a sign saying that high tea started at 2.45pm. Hmm...Anyway, the 15 mins different did not affect us.

Huizhen.

Hmm, ok, I wanted to comment about this place. The spot light above us made us warm. We would wish that they could improve their air con system.

Another thing, when dishes were served, the waitress could let us know the name of the dishes served. They just placed the dishes and we were trying to figure out what we had eaten.  There was one dish, soup I think, there was a strand of "eye lashes" kind of substance in our soup. When we checked with the waitress, she could tell us that the ingredient of the soup consist of "fa chai". BUT WE ONLY SAW 1 STRAND?!!!AND IT DID NOT LOOK LIKE FA CHAI LOR!

 Ok, below, dishes, after we trying to figure out what were they.

↓ 虾酱鸡 Deep-fried Chicken marinated with Prawn Paste Sauce 

↓ 蟹枣 Fujian-style “Xie Zao”

 

↓ 蒜泥白肉 Sliced Pork with Garlic Sauce 

↓ 腊味萝卜糕 (3件) Steamed Turnip Cake with Chinese Sausage (3 pieces) 

↓ 醉鸡 Drunken Chicken ??

(Hmm, did not taste any alcohol? Nothing fits this dish...)

↓ 凉拌麻辣鸡丝拼海蜇 Shredded Chicken and Jellyfish with Spicy Sauce 

↓ 鱼子蒸烧卖 (4件) Steamed Pork and Shrimp Dumplings (4 pieces) 

↓ 水晶虾饺 (4件) Steamed Shrimp Dumplings (4 pieces) 

↓ 菠萝咕噜肉 Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple Cubes

(Not sure..cos no Pineapple cubes? and taste like "Gong Bao Ji Ding"?)

 

↓ 荷香珍珠鸡 (2件) Steamed Glutinous Rice with Diced Chicken wrapped in Lotus Leaf

↓ 虾米炒四季豆 Sautéed French Beans with Dried Shrimps 

↓ 酥皮叉烧酥 (3件) Baked Flaky Barbecued Pork Pastry (3 pieces)

 

↓ 玉带金丝卷 (3件) Dried-fried Scallop Roll with Golden Shreds

 

↓ 秘制龟苓膏(位) Chilled Herbal Jelly 

↓ 莲子红豆沙(位) Sweetened Red Bean Cream with Lotus Seeds

↓ 蒜茸炒菠菜 Wok-fried Spinach with Garlic 

Another thing, some of the dishes which we did not order, like carrot cake, was served to us and also some of the dishes we ordered ended up in other table I think, cos they were not served to us. When I checked with the waitress, after listening to what I told her, she just walked off and the dishes that were not served still did not turn up. Sigh...What kind of service was this? Anyway, we were full so we also hope they did not serve them.

There were no drink served, I was referring to ice water/warm water. Ice water was served in bottles and cost $1/btl. Warm water cost $0.30.

Actually, dim sum high tea but not much dim sum variety and I wished for more dessert.

Total cost around $60 plus for the three of us, the price was reasonable, not ex, however, I find the food average.

25 Dec 10 - Christmas

Decided to eat at Putien, Tampines Mall B1.

Well, had tried that before beginning this year during a farewell lunch.

Starter - Steamed Cold Pork Belly with Garlic

(The sauce was nice, it just tasted like the Peking Duck's sauce)

Starter - Braised Salted Duck

(This cold dish nothing special ba....meat not hard)

Spinach with salted egg & century egg in supreme stock.

( I like this dish, cos I like the salted and century egg. I will eat the sauce with the fried rice)

Seafood fried rice

Steamed prawns with minced garlic

(I hate garlic! Though the garlic was minced finely, but the garlic taste was strong. Haha..I still like this dish, took away the garlic would do.)

Hot yam paste with ginko nuts

(Share this with someone and you will not feel sick of it)

Bill came up to be over $70...hmm..ex??But both of us like the food at Putien.

19 Dec 10 - Sakae Sushi

Its been long since my last Japanese food. Hmm..or was it? Haha..
Anyway, I wanted to eat sushi and so we went to the nearest Japanese restaurant.
Sakae Sushi at Eastpoint. Hmm....Nothing special..some of dish here...

Salmon skin Gunkan sushi

Unagi Maki???

Salmon

Unagi Shitake

Boliao take...

Shishamo

What was this? My husband's white hair...

Salmon delight sushi - This sushi tasted interesting cos can you imagine salmon and mango combination?

Salmon Skin Temaki

JB trip 17 - 19 Dec 10

Planned for JB trip by sis. She told me to book hotel and we would stay in JB for 2 night. However, she cancelled the hotel booking just the day before the trip and got refund. Why? cos her kids were sick. They were coughing very badly when the date to JB was near.

Me and mum decided to carry on with the trip. Though I felt quite stupid, why would we had to stay in JB when we could go home after shopping! People told me there is nothing in JB to worth the stay...hmm...

Hmm..Quite sian...wonder how to go JB? We decided to take cab from Bugis to JB, this way, we just need to remain in the car and no walking to custom required. The cab cost $10 / pax. ie, we had to share cab with another 2 person. So coincidence, there was one lady going Malaysia by cab too! And she was "Er Gu". Some old old long long time ago old actress. She was working as tour guide now in Malaysia. The taxi driver was so excited to have her in his car. Hmm...he even asked us to talk to her cos we remained quiet throughout the trip while the taxi driver talked and talked to "Er Gu" non stop.

Ok, this "Er Gu" said she was working in some tour agency in Malaysia and this tour agency was good cos they would pay the oversea tour agency promptly. While in Singapore, the tour agency she previously worked with did not and the oversea tour guide would treat her tour group very badly, will show the group black face, etc. Hmm..don't want to mention the agency name here..

The taxi brought us to the JB taxi terminal. We then had to take cab to our hotel which cost around 6 ringgit, but we gave 10 ringgit and the driver did not return us the change. Hmm...

↓ JB Taxi Terminal 

Reached hotel, sis asked me to book Grand Bluewave hotel, located....eh..don't know. Sis told me that it was near the checkpoint or near City Square but no lor....we had to take cab to City Square. I think the hotel was quite deserted. No other buildings beside..hmm..Visitors to the hotel were mostly Malays..Anyway, they gave us free upgrade to executive room. Big room with "living room", small small kitchen and bedroom of course.

↓ Grand Bluewave Hotel

↓ Free upgrade to executive room.

↓ Living room

 ↓ There was a mini kitchen behind the partition...

This for my sis..haha..her son and daughter name came from this cartoon..

Day 1, 17 Dec - Perm hair at City Square, Protrim. Hmm...it was crowded in Protrim. My hair was done by a female. She never asked me what I wanted to perm and decided for me. Yes..to perm the hair style of my hairstylist. Hmm..I told her, your hair does not look like perm hair, more like setting cos not much curl. She said if you did not want to look like auntie, natural perm like hers would be good. Hmm..then before I started perming, i pointed to another hairsylist whose hairstyle looked more like japanese with more curls. My hair stylist told me her curls with more layering and she afraid that I might not like it. Sigh..I left with no choice......

↓ Shops at City Square

No time to shop after I permed my hair..sigh..

↓ Can see my perm?? I was told not to wash my hair till Sun..sian..

Oh ya...there were 2 girl, their hair done by different hair stylist and their hair style was same as mine..hmm...Protrim only know how to perm such hair??Well, I felt that my hair looked straight with not much curls..oh ya...it cost me 300 ringgit to perm the hair with treatment. After conversion, it was around SGD 128. Hmm..still cheaper then Singapore's?

Day 2 Saturday..

The breakfast at the hotel were not bad. Not bad ba..i think haha..There were nasi lemak, roti prata section, noodle section, not sure what, maybe mee siam?? not sure.

Went to Holiday Plaza and Tebrau City.

I loved Holiday Plaza cos my favorite comics shop is there, how i wish I could buy back all the comics. Well, I had hard time carrying them back to Singapore on Sunday! So heavy...

↓ Shops at Holiday Plaza. Looks like those shops at Far East Plaza.

Bought 3 pairs of shoes, cheap! 1 jeans which cost around 30 ringgit, 2 t shirt, 2 pack of socks, undergarment for myself and him...things were cheap in holiday plaza but think not many people will buy ba..

↓ Shops at Tebrau City.

Bought a polo t shirt for dad..share with mum..cos I am suffering from economic crisis..Hahah..spent all my money..Bought a hat which cost 19 ringgit..Nothing else from tebrau city cos things were ex.

From Tebrau city back to hotel were so ex! Some taxi driver quote us 25 ringgit but we thought it might be ex cos the taxi we take to go there only cost us 16 ringgit. So we ignored his offer and went for meter taxi instead. BUT......it cost us around 40 ringgit to reach our hotel!!!!!!!!!!

Mum bought the hat too...

Day 3, lazy to go anywhere with the heavy luggage, so we went back to Singapore in the morning. Checked out, go to the taxi terminal again. From JB to Singapore cost 15 ringgit /pax. Hmm..cheaper but we waited like 1/2 hr or more. Anyway, we were back to Singapore safe!