Southern Ridge 11 Jul 2009

Started off with our favourite meal at Superdog at Vivocity. Love the Chicken Capsicum Dog and the chilli fries. Got to charge ourself for the 4km walk. We decided to start off from Harbourfront, Marang Trail.

Start of the trail. Xian and me... This flight of stairs nearly killed me... The route up to Mount Faber...

We followed the park connector trail before reaching one of the highlights: Henderson Waves. Quite pretty. It was supposed to lit up from 7pm. However as we were early, no lights were up yet...

The Group photo

Continued walking... Felt like we were on some holiday and feeling carefree... Look pretty right..

This place is pretty, at Hilltop Walk. I am going to take my wedding photos there.. A lot of lavender over there..

Last stop of the trail...Alexandra Arch.. We spent a total of about 2 hours covering the 4km walk... A bit disappointed as the arch was supposed to have varying colours. When we were there, we only saw a montonous yellow colour.

We then headed off to Holland Village for supper. Nice day out....

Peranankan Muesum + Food 4 Oct 08

An event held by Wine and Dine - Benjamin Seck, True Blue Cuisine.

Went with my mum for this event costing $50/ person.. Learnt to make 3 dishes.

My favourite muesum till far, after Asian Civilisation Muesum...

The chef...

Nasi Ulam - Quite a simple dish to make. A herbal rice. Only the prawns and fish require cooking. A lot of mixing is required.

Pengat Kledek - Taste a lot like bo bo char char. Love the bananas...

Banana blossom salad - this organic orchid can be eaten. Crunchy with not much taste...

A painting of beadwork. Learnt that there are different types of beads since 1900, which are finer and has a wide variety of colours. Impressed with the super fine beadwork...

Interiors of the muesum is so pretty...

Nice wall designs...

Dinner at Muthu's curry. The butter chicken is yummy... Dont really like the fish curry.. Fish was not that fresh..

Company's DnD 3 October

Held at Swissotel- The Stamford... Believed this to be the grandest of the past 2 years... Wonder how many of us will still be around next year.

My dearest friends...

Love this shot... The twins are super on...

A group table photo... With special appearance from Jean and Cheryl. Pity, Lay koon only reached later...

Uni clique...

16 Aug 08 Night Cycling

Set off on the park connector and covered a distance of about 40km from East coast park - Selegie- Bedok - Tampines - Pasir Ris - Loyang - Changi - East coast park...

First time tried cycling long distance instead of running.. Much more comfortable though my hands were a bit numb near the end of the journey. The last 8km (which we thought) along the coastal park connector was monotonous as it was a gruelling straight road with no slopes at all.. (We all unanimously enjoyed the breeze when cycling downslope)

Our last stop was the coastal park connector, a 8km ride back to east coast park from Changi. However we did not factor in that there was at least another 5km to cycle back from the extreme end of ECP back to the bicycle shop...

Route maps for park connector... I must say that the route is pretty clear. Well done!



Ed caught this stitch for me for those toy catching machine... Love both of them. Very sweet of him...


Group photo before the ride... Set off at 945pm....

Our first park connector... and we are pretty in much for a surprise soon....

Faint.!!!!! Staircase... Luckily, I managed to see that there is an edge for us to push up the bicycle.. BUT.... I still dont have strength so the guys helped me out. Thanks!

I am only acting to push the bike up for photo taking purposes only..

Second park connector... Another group photo...

Another one more to go.. Still keeping wide awake. About 12 midnight...

Posing for a photo at Bedok Reservoir park near the fish catching area... Very peaceful and cooling...

Me posing one last photo at Bedok Reservoir park before heading off to Loyang. Nothing much along the way...

A snap to show we are reaching Tampines... Passed by Tampines Mall.. Then head to pasir ris and reached downtown east..

Resting point.. hAd supper at Mac before continuing our journey...The ride along Changi was a bit creepy... Not advisable to do it alone... I did not know that the Changi exhibition center is along a private road and closed... (Ed and I were there for the last year real run. Pretty nice place. Unlike typical singapore with tall skyscrapers)

Our last 8km.. This was all that we saw along the way.. A never ending straight route....


Tada... We finally reached back ECP at about 5am. Ed and I had a sumptuous breakfast.

What about the other 2.... There they are.. Too tired to eat... A fun trip with you all! Will love to do it soon. Maybe make it a monthly event???

Eclipse???

Ed and I woke up at 5am on Saturday 16 Aug 2008 to catch the red moon at my house...

But we are not too sure if it is really it..

Can you see the middle one, which is the moon is red in colur??? Excited...

The other 2 yellow colour is actually the street lamps... The photo turns out pretty interesting right...Worthwhile forsaking my sleep...

An Interesting Saturday ( 2 Feb 2008)

Afternoon (12pm- 4Pm): Kranji Countryside Tour

Mum, Ed and I went for this tour after seeing it on a newspaper advertisement. For a $2 shuttle bus fee/person, you can board the hourly shuttle bus from Kranji MRT to several locations in Kranji, e.g. Goat farm, Agrotech, Frog Farm and etc..

If interested, can check out the website: http://www.kranjicountryside.com/template/farmpreneurs.html

Our first stop for the day: Nyee Phoe Petals and leaves...
There is a place where you can do fishing. Qutie a tranquil place... They do sell quite interesting flowers too...

The one in the middle left above, with the orange fruits is called big fruit plant! I was guessing that it is pomelo.. hee. The cactus looks pretty interesting too..

Second Stop: Aero-green Technology (S) Pte Ltd
My mum bought organic vegetables from here. Seriously, there is nothing much to see at this stop. Instead Ed and I were more interested in the grocery shop there. haha.. we tried out the butterhead lettuce juice.. Eeeks... Dont like it.. Too veg taste le... Haha..

Third and Last Stop: Bollywood veggies
This is the most interesting place. They has several difference plants here and they got different plots of land with interesting names like, Go Bananas (All sorts of bananas here, Zen will sure hate it) and Wild Singapore

Some interesting plant as shown below. I did not know that plants has gender too! Male papaya referes to the tree beside it.. It sure is strong and tall!
There is also a 40 clock flower.. Though I did not see any flowers at all... Oh realise the bottom left photos, it looks like a giant vegetable (like a huge Xiao Bai Cai) When Ed pointed it out to me, I cant stop laughing...

We had our tea break at Bollywood veggies.. It sure is expensive and not very nice. The prata cost $1 without the curry gravy and the carrot cake cost $6.. Too soft and wet.. Not nice.

That's all for our adventurous trip to the Kranji Countryside. Kinda disappointed with the place but it is a good experience anyway...

Evening 6pm: Chingay Full Dress Rehearsal @ People's Association

I won tickets to the full dress rehearsal at one of the contest held by Passion (a card for community center. I initally joined to go for dim sum class with Mum). Upon reaching, we got a lunch box and a visitor's pass where we (ed and I) can just roam around and take photos with the dancers... I realise I am considered one of the lucky few (about 30 people in total) who won tickets.. Guess my luck is getting better.

Some of the photos taken before the rehearsal

The full dress rehearsal starts...
This is my first time seeing a Chingay live... I must say it is really interesting and vibrant. I am still pretty excited over the fact that I am so up close with the participants... Lucky me..