Our Bf at FC beside Yew Tee MRT Station. Accompanied Kennie to see her dentist. Easy money for a dentist. Charged $100+ for less than 30mins.


Random shot at the Clinic
Our Homecooked lunch

My first attempt to cook Fried Omelette with Bitter Gourd. The taste is still ok but looked a bit ugly

Fried Sotong with Belacan

Teochew Steam White Pomfret

Instant Soup mix

Outing with Granny and Ah Gu as we had not brought them out for mths. Dinner at Chinatown Claypot Rice. We are a bit late today so had to wait for almost an hour.

My Dinner, Fish Head Bee Hoon from An Ji. I was actually quite sick of claypot rice so had this instead. Soup is quite nice and the Fish Head is fresh but serving for the Bee Hoon is too little and the soup is a bit too cold.


After dinner, we went shopping at People's Park. The whole area (Chinatown and People's Park) is quite crowded as everyone is going there to stock up the CNY goodies or to spice up the atmosphere of the CNY. Granny is really old already as she got tired after walking a while.



Actually we came to People's Park to look for this Bubble Tea Shop (Koi Cafe). Recently Kennie had rekindled her love to Bubble Tea and she had heard from friends that Koi Cafe is 1 of the best Bubble Tea around. Koi Cafe originated from Taiwan, selling premium bubble tea. There are about 4 outlets in Singapore. The special feature about this beverage shop is that you get to choose the sugar level of your drink. Ranging from no sugar to full sugar level (100%). Their bubble teas are more expensive compared to the others e.g. Sweet Talk and the queue is quite long for a bubble tea shop. But we felt that the Bubble Tea is just average, definitely not worth the hype that is given to it.

Guess what? I was actually wearing green for the whole week, something that I have not done for 6 to 7 years. Yes, I'm on Reservist from 11 to 22 Jan. Felt so awkward with the uniform on. Didn't really have much to do so ended having a lot of TCSS session with other fellow NSmen. A short break from office, felt so relax. Though I'm having my reservist, I still cleared my office's work but the feeling is totally different, it's like doing it on my own time. But bad news, we will be going overseas for Reservist in Oct. Sian 1/2.

Our Breakfast at Teck Whye. The Kway Chap is quite nice and cheap. 3 person set meal @ only $10 and it comes with plenty of intestine.

Our first workout for the new year. Went hill climbing at Bukit Timah Hill. We didn't reach the top of the hill as it's already quite late and we need to rush to meet Mum for dinner. Instead of going by the normal track, we explored the side path that's more rocky and with more stairs.









Dinner with Mum at a vegetarian coffee shop at Bukit Gombak. Think the chef has changed cause the food really CMI.

Vegetarian Fish Head Curry with a few pathetic pieces of mock sliced fish
Claypot Brinjal

Hotplate Toufu
What is this? Ngoh Hiang? Nope. It's cereal prawn.

Bitter gourd soup with only a few pieces of bitter gourd

Old Baby. Too tired to walk after the workout.

CNY is just around the corner so we stayed at home to do some spring cleaning. The whole house is like a garang guni den, so messy and dirty. Revised tuition work and school work with the kids, boring, this is the standard stuff we will be doing on weekend.

Dinner at Xin Heng Feng Fishball noodles at Blk 91 Whampoa Drive #01-599 Balestier Food Market. This stall sells Fishball Noodle during the day and sells Fish Head Steamboat at night. Not sure if it's the same people selling though.

There are several stalls selling fish head steamboat in the Whampoa / Balestier area. This is one of the more famous one and we had to wait for an hour before the food is served. The serving is very big (with generous serving of fish white cabbage, seaweed and sliced yam) and the price is very reasonable (around $20+ for a medium size white pomfret steamboat). The steamboat uses charcoal instead of gas or solid fuel but not sure if it made any difference to the taste or not. The soup base is well flavoured with the mixture of fish slices, yams and vegetables. Beside the steamboat, they also served side dishes like duck wings, braised egg and mei cai. The duck wings are nice but the rest are below average.

Playing games to pass time while waiting for the steamboat

Too hungry already so bought a plate of carrot cake to tahan our hunger first.

School reopened and kids are back to school today. Must work extra hard this year as Veona is having her PSLE this year. Really hope that she can get into a reasonably good school. I'm not expecting her to go into SAP school but at least not those Lianster school.

Backed to work. Have to put in extra effort as I need to clear my backlog before going to ICT next Mon. Sian. Can't imagine myself wearing green for the next 2 weeks.

We had the privilege to visit Sultan Shoal, a lighthouse (built in 1895) located in the Western Anchorage of Singapore. Think the public will not have the opportunity to visit there unless you have friends working in PSA and have booked the staff chalet. Sultan Shoal is so small that we can tour the whole place within 5 minutes. There are only 2 chalets (3 bedrooms each), a man made salt water lagoon and a lighthouse tower.

We have to take a launch from West Coast Pier and the journey took around 40 mins. We are able to have a close look of Jurong Island when our launch passed by but there's nothing fanciful, just oil refinery stuff. We are away from civilisation as there's only 2 timing for the launch to ferry people to & fro West Coast Pier and Sultan Shoal. Each trip can only take 12 people. So you can imagine how people can be at that Island at 1 time.

There's not much activites you can do there. Can eat, swim, fish, play mahjong, enjoy the sea breeze, sun tan or laze around. It's a nice experience to be away from the hassle and bussle of city life. its a splendid place in my opinion. But too bad we did not stay for the night as everyone is working tmr so we checked out at around 4+ and went back to mainland. I would love to stay overnight if I have a chance.

At West Coast Pier overlooking Singapore Yacht Club
The launch that brought us to Sultan Shoal.
Our Captain and Co Captain for the day
Kennie's office





Lagoon for us to swimming. Water level depend on high or low tide











Our lunch. Some simple homecooked food. A bit disappointed though cause I'm expecting a big feast. Keke. But our new friend is quite a good cook. Though simple but it's delicious

The kids picking up water snail from the lagoon
Do I look like some bollywood star? Hiding behing coconut tree and singing.

Our lunch at Formosa Delights at West Coast Plaza. Restaurant food but food court price, No Service Charge but with GST. The portion is also very huge and the food is yummilicious.

Stew Beef Boodle. Generous serving of beef. Only $6

Hot & Sour Noodle. Ingredient is generous. $5

Kennie's recommendation. Green Onion Pancake. $3.80

Fried Dumpling. $3.50

Kennie's favourite bubble milk tea. Cheap & nice. Only $1. She's addicted to it and will drink it almost every day. Heard it's very fattening. No wonder she looks so f_t now. haha

Sian. School will be reopening tmr and we will be back to work.