Mummy's Birthday

I wanted to post this in two sections but no time. 11am liao and still haven't done any work (Was busy photoshopping the photos and uploading them.) Anyway, we dropped by Ah-Ma's place to pick Auntie Bay Bee up. The small girl was there. I think she's starting to recognise me cos she smiled when she saw me. She looked like she lost a quite a bit of baby fat.


Yes? No?


Then while photoshopping just now, I realised that her nose looks... crooked. Don't you think so?


Mummy with Qiu Yi. She looks like Joel (Uncle michael's grandson) no?

See rest of baby photos here.

Birthday Dinner at East Ocean Teochew Restaurant (Same as daddy's birthday last year)


The obligatory Sao Tou. But strangely enough, they were planning to serve it AFTER the whole dinner (with dessert). But after we told them we actually wanted it as first dish, it came as the second dish (need to steam first). First dish ended up being soft shell crab with fruit salad. Very nice.

This Sao Tou quite interesting. Made using sago for the outside, and custurd on the inside. The two above are supposedly for you and Serena (mummy say one :p).


The cake. The chocolate looks like mahjong tile hor? Went to Mariotte to buy. Chocolate Hazelnut Crunch or something. Super rich. They also have new mooncakes this year - "Ebony & Ivory". It's Whiskey Praline Mooncake.


Supposed to take the picture of mummy blowing the candle but she never tell me when. So caught her too late.


Everyone who went for the dinner.


Mummy in the dark. Towards the end, there was a blackout. I was in the toilet with Aunty Bay Bee. Lucky we were just about to exit the toilet. Only light was emitting from the Whiskey Cabinet, and the UV thingy that kills insect. We had already paid and were waiting for the waiter to bring the mooncake samples for us. Mummy was lamenting that they were going to have a 30% discount only for 3 days on their mooncakes but we would be in Melbourne so she cannot buy. (Only for Citibank Card)


Daddy In the dark.


Artistic looking moocake shot in the dark.

See rest of mummy's birthday photos here.

Mighty Mouse

A bit late but...



Can you tell the picture from the real thing?



Another angle.

Oh. Dirt accumulates quite quickly. There are specks of it near the scroll ball and impressed apple icon now, barely a week after getting it.

七月十五 (I think)

Taken while out with friends. Had to wait ONE HOUR for them to come over from CITY HALL! (We were supposed to meet at Marina Square.)


Dusk at Marina Square


Full moon rising. This was the best shot I could take without a tripod.


Full moon again, but at our house. Not bad right?

Midnight Madness

Yesterday night was quite an interesting night.

As you know, mummy's flying to Bangkok today. Her flight is 1 plus pm and she's going to the airport at 11 plus am. So yesterday night, she realised that the only pair of black long pants she has is tight. So she decides to go Mustafa Centre. Opened 24 hours mah. I told her to pack everything so that in case she realise that she needs to buy something else, she won't have to rush today. Thought she would have finished packing by 11 or 11 plus but ended up going only at 1am.

Surprisingly, there were quite a number of people at 1am! Stayed there for an hour and then mummy said she's hungry. So i suggested PRATA because late night eat PRATA very shiok. (Too bad cannot fly prata over to Australia. heh heh heh) We went to eat prata at a stall down the road from Mustafa. It was 2am

Apparently PRATA kosong takes longer to cook than PRATA with egg and onion. This I learnt yesterday night. Probably because he didn't want to make just one. Or maybe he was toasting. But I "liked" the guy's explanation on why it took so long.

FLOUR PROBLEM

Yes. FLOUR PROBLEM.

Anyway, we ate, and we went back. That's around 3am. Mummy agreed that it was very shiok to have PRATA with teh in the middle of the night.

I slept at 4am

Woke up at 7am

Still awake.

Did an interview at 9.45am

Transcribed and finished writing an article in less than 2 hours (I normally take at least half a day).

Not bad huh?

Vroom Vroom

Nissan Sunny

or


Toyota Vios

Questions:
Toyota Vios really look more sporty looking and Nissan Sunny looks old(er)?

Does the Nissan Sunny not look bigger than the Vios?

Auto or manual?

Is black not a good colour for a car?

Answers:
John: Yes.
Me: No. Unless you want to add sports rim (what for?) for the Vios.

John: No. Looks the same on the inside.
Me: Yes.

John: Manual. (Two days later) Auto.
Me: Manual save fuel = save $$. Manual "safer". Auto convenient. Verdict: got hybrid or not?

John: Yes. Looks good.
Me: No. Black means car will be very hot if park in the sun. Water droplets will leave obvious marks when dried up.

What do you think?

G'day Mate

I got an increment. $150.

Basic Salary is now $1950.

John's response? Still haven't reach $2000.

Flying By Kangaroo

Have booked the flight to Melbourne via Qantas liao. Strangely enough, SIA taxes/surcharges are higher than Qantas.

Qantas: $520 + $266 = $786
SIA: $600 + $292 = $892

You would think the extra charges would be the same.

Free stopover have to be used during this trip but since we have already booked our domestic flight to Hobart, we can't go. Apparently you can't get the free stopover if you book online either. So silly. The newspaper ad never mention that, urge people to go online to book some more. And nowhere in the website is it stated during the booking process. I had to click around before I noticed it (in fine print, on some obscure page).

Yeesh.

Flight Details are as followed:

SIN-MEL
Sept 2-----19:20 Depart-----04:20 Arrive-----QF388

MEL-SIN
Sept 11-----15:30 Depart-----21:05 Arrive-----QF 9

Hmm. Sept 11.

Oh. Apparently Uncle Tony will be out from prison on Aug 4.

Long Overdue

As per requested the last time round, I shall henceforth use PROPER singlish english to write. Just thought that writing emails to family need not be that formal (like writing to clients. Have enough of that at work.)

Anyway, these are some of the Chiangmai photos that I uploaded to Snapfish a looooong time back. I don't have it on my mac so not going to upload them any time soon. :p Besides, blogspot doesn't accept the fact that the photos are not hosted by Flickr. So you can't see the pics even if I link them.

When got time then I upload. I might upload them to flickr if I have time. *bleah*

PS. I don't understand WHY I'm still in the office when all I'm doing is surfing. Stupid deadline.

PPS. We went to eat crab bee hoon at AMK Ave 3 St 22 (Uncle Leong Seafood) on Sunday. Had Butter Crab, 麦片虾 or Mai Pian Xia if you can't read it (heh), and Fried Tofu. (yes. I can type cheena words.) Auntie Mdm Ho treat. Went to eat durians at Jackson Centre after that. Parking was a pain. Should have taken my camera along to show you the crab bee hoon *evil smirk*