Shanghai: 24 November 2009

Shanghai: 24 November 2009

7:43am~ Tuesday morning~ walked out of the hotel to snap a shot of the building...
黄金海岸大酒店...
Across the road lies some very beautiful buildings...
This place is along 北大街 of Wuxi...
random street views...
7:57am~ back at the hotel, just happened to notice this little advertisement card at the cigarette ash-tray... looks kinky~
9:10am... we hit the road~ more visitings today~
not much of a scenary cuz of the fog in the distance...
we got another fella from the factory to pick us up in his car... he's the little boss of that factory...
... and that's his office building behind me... (omg...)the factory...
Anchor Windlass~
huge-ass factory...
and alot of models to choose from... (man not included)
Here's a water-fall model...
9:30am at their office meeting room...
10:29am~ hit the road again...
We were traveling towards the directions of Nanjing... going to Zhenjiang...
Huge-ass chimney...
I love how these signboards look... then wonder why Singapore ones are so ugly...
China is developing at an alarming rate...
everywhere we travel, roads, rails and bridges are under-construction...
There's gonna be a new hyper railway coming in a couple of years, so traveling from Shanghai to Nanjing or perhaps other parts of China would have the time shorten tremendously...
Another 48km to ZhenJiang 镇江...
11:19am~ we reached ZhenJiang...
Oh, a couple of things to add... the expressways there are very complex... once you missed an exit, the next exit would be like many kilometers away, and only those who are very familiar with the roads would know how to find an adjacent expressway to link the route back... so its very common to find cars reversing on the expressways... ZhenJiang is very much an Industrial area I think...
I dun see much of a taller building around...
11:39am~ we reached another factory... this was the vehicle we traveled in...
keke... spotted a puppy tied at the stairwells... It was cold, so lazing out there in the sun looks pretty comfortable huh?
Not sure what breed is this...
but I'm sure my puppy looks more handsome~ ^^
we came to a factory manufacturing marine propellers...
another huge-ass factory...
Yep~ these are what we were looking for...
These propellers were just nice for tugboats only...
Back here in Singapore... getting a pair of blades like this would probably range in the SGD 36 to 40K region...
12:27pm~ the boss of the factory invited us for lunch~ this hotel here is on the omg-level... not even Fullerton nor Raffles can match the services here...
First time eating 大闸蟹... I think I still prefer our S.E.A. chilli crabs... big, juicy and meaty...
The dishes served were luxuriously decorated... The restaurant is unique in a way that every table is located in a room, with attached washroom.
2:13pm~ at another place for meeting...
4:04pm~ visited another factory manufacturing helms pumps...
4:47pm~ @ our China partner's office... summing up the day's discussion...
and looking at some of the stuff he could offer to us...
Here's a video I took of the typical road there slightly before 6pm... I was amazed by how those ppl could endure in the offices above...

6:05pm... arrived at Jiangsu's Railway station... gonna be taking the train back to Shanghai...Picked up McDonald's for dinner on the train...
6:48pm... train arrived...
2nd class cabin...
Train speed...
pretty advance toilet system... but its impossible to aim since the train shakes every now and then...
Fries for dinner~
^^ the train came down from Changzhou... passing Wuxi to Suzhou... before ending at Shanghai...
9:01pm~ finally arrived back in Shanghai...
took a cab to Putong...
9:48pm... Arrived at 锦江之星 hotel... its 5 mins by shuttle bus to the Pudong Airport... pretty cheap rates...
Pretty much no frills hotel...
Clean and comfortable... with internet connections
Final shot of myself before I retire...
The local area map of the hotel with the airport in the vicinity...
Contact numbers...
Address...

Shanghai: 23 November 2009

Shanghai: 23 November 2009
8:10am... Waking up to a Monday morning~ breakfast at the hotel is always something I looked forward to...
9:00am~ Setting off for some serious business... our China partner hired a driver who is more familiar with the road around there. Wise choice... China is WAY TOO BIG to familiarize with all Cities... Driver's surname is Cao... 曹曹's 曹...
Random street view... cloudless day... somehow, I think Japan's sky is more blue...
9:22pm~ passing a toll...
9:33am... This place amazes me... Its a heavy machinery factory... and its so huge it runs for a couple of kilometers... with those cranes and wheel-loaders parked side by side...
See the video clip below...

9:34am... with the car traveling at approx. 120kmph, we finally reached the other end of the factory after about 1 minute... that would meant that the factory is about more than 2 km from one end to the other end... in addition, it took me a while to notice how much heavy machinery I saw there that I decided to whip out my camera and start taking photos...
This factory belongs to LONKING... 龙工...
9:48am... Shanghai is developing at an amazing speed... every where we traveled, highways and bridges are being built... inter-linking all cities...
China is gonna be the next BIG thing...Vast land... rich in resources...
9:56am... at another toll... one thing I came to realize when traveling for work overseas... traveling in a car for many hours is something very common...
10:19am... Finally arrived at our destination... AAA Steel Group... (Ranka Lee is my designated censorship mascot this season)... ^^"
This place here is only the warehouse... and its like 6 football fields?
China is considered one of the world biggest steel makers... we were there to ascertain the production capacity of this company...
and they sure have what we were looking for... one of these bars fetches for about S$10 - 14K when it reaches Singapore...
and they have ready supplies...
... and a lot of them... in differing grades...
11:42pm... refueling at a petrol kiosk
sadly, the convenience shop at the petrol kiosk sells only mineral water and ice tea... nothing else... I was hoping to pick up some souvenirs from such places; in Japan, petrol kiosks are so much fun~
12:12pm... on the way back, we past by that LONKING factory again...
its was then that I realised that what lies behind this whole stretch of LONKING heavy machinery factory.... was also MORE of LONKING's factory... scary...
1:13pm~ Lunch @ a Chinese restaurant... 天天渔港 restaurant... instead of the usual wet tissue, this place offers heated towels~ nice touch in cold weathers...
3:32pm~ random street view... had went to another steel trading company to a short discussion...
This is probably the closest I got to the tallest building in Shanghai...
The Shanghai World Financial Centre...
completed in year 2008, it stands at 492meters tall with 101 floors~
4:44pm~ oh... one interesting feature I like about Shanghai's road is this... they have this electronic board overhead showing road-users of the traffic conditions ahead... definitely useful in traffic congestions...
4:53pm... random street views... I only have 4 words to describe Shanghai... 高楼大厦~
4:58pm~ we arrived at Shanghai Train Station...
bought a couple of tickets for the 7pm ride...
5:30pm~ hmmm we had kind of dinner at some sort of Xiao Long Bao fast food restaurant... If I could recall accurately, these Xiao Long Bao was sold in terms of "Jin" ( 斤 )... weight. So thats about 2 KG of Xiao Long Bao you see on the table...
I had enough Xiao Long Bao that evening I probably won't touch any for a year...
6:51pm @ the train station... waiting and waiting for the train...
the gantries...7:48pm~ finally boarded the train... train was delayed...
got ourselves 1st class cabin seats... heading for Wuxi~ about 125 kilometers Northwest from Shanghai city...
8:48pm... we arrived at Wuxi, Jiangsu... an hour later...
I kinda fell in love with train rides~ xD
along the way out... I noticed there were many of such advertisements everywhere... featuring industrial processing machines for all sorts of purposes... Jiangsu is very much an industrial city...
sadly, there were many people living out in the streets...
This is a common sight at the railway station... mind you, its freezing out there and these people got to survive the harsh coldness...
Oh ya, about Taxis in Wuxi city... 90% of these taxis runs on CNG gases, so they have this HUGE cylinder in the boot behind... for travelers with huge-ass luggages, its pretty troublesome as the boot could only hold 1 large suitcase...
9:01pm~ on the way to our hotel...
9:06pm~ arrived at our hotel...
Gold Coast Hotel
No. 1 Caishu Street, North Road, Wuxi China
http://www.goldcoasthotel.cn.com
9:30pm~ we made a quick check-in and hop out into the streets hoping for some night shopping...
but sad to say... most of the shops there closes very early... the streets were pretty much deserted then... except for drinking joints...
10:06pm~ McDonald's....
Fillet-O-Fish for supper~
10:31pm~ retreating back to my hotel room...my room kinda looks kinky... the lights aren't working completely and this is the brightest I could get...
at least I got a nice bath tub~ then again, the weather's too cold there... I hate bath-time so much...

Shanghai: 22 November 2009

Shanghai: 22 November 2009

Day 2 in Shanghai was probably the only day I get to take it easy and enjoy my time there...
Took lotsa photos as a result... ^^

8:56am~ Breakfast at the hotel... some Tim-sum and several Chinese style food...
... like Dumplings in the morning...
Went out into the streets to snap some random photos...
View of hotel in the morning...
Maple leaves??
Back at the hotel lobby...
Were asking for directions at the reception...
Hailed a cab and off to 城隍庙上海老街...
More random street views...
I love this scenary...
Shanghai Times Square... sounds weird...
Closer to the city central, I began to notice quite a complicated array of wires above head...
Traffic in Shanghai is as bad as Guangzhou... but the ppl are just as patient...
I actually preferred the directional plates over the ones in Singapore...
The typical cross junction in Shanghai is so large that traffic lights probably go unnoticed... so long as you feel its safe, just ease the vehicle out... its alright to get a couple of horns here and there... u'll get to the other side...
10:29am, we arrived at 城隍庙上海老街... It just screams "CHINATOWN!!!"
Quite a tourist spot...
I totally love this place's atmosphere! So "ancient"!
I felt like I've traveled back in time... ^^|
Antiques shop...
Street was bustling with business...
Spotted a RMB 2.00 shop! Thats like everything is S$0.40... omg...
Check out the little video of the street~ (oh the BGM is from the shop beside me)

Dad and mum already went into buying spree... we already bought 1 bagful of stuff merely 20 minutes into the street...
The people there has quite some skills stacking things up real high...
I didn't really had the time to patronize the shops across that side of the street... perhaps next time...
walking further down the street.... there's kinda a winter haze in the backgrounds, so visibility is lowered, but made the entire feeling walking down the streets very mystical...
Spotted THE little red book!
Almost bought it as a momento... but then again, what the heck?
There were like so many shops...
Then I slowly realised that those shops outside were merely the tip of the iceberg...
There's like another ancient CITY further inside... xD
Was kinda tired... so took a seat along the road...
If I estimated correctly, I merely covered 1% of that place that day...
Had dad took a shot of me...
I love the place~
Walked deeper into the streets...
We came to a Snacks Square (literally translated)...
There are many of such 'squares' in there...
冰糖葫芦~!
This place smells of FOOD~
Massive size 汤包 (soup bun)!
Business was good!
and I was so excited there...
Bought 1 without hesitation...
Slurped the lives outta that bun~ Yummy! xD
上海老城隍庙小吃广场~
Upstairs... its kinda like a Foodcourt...
Place was all steamy and fragrance...
Tim Sum is like the standard fare there...
Mutton soup with errr... Muttons balls? (no, not those balls.... pls...)
Ok, I personally spotted the famous "literal translated" notices there.
11:54am~ 百年老店 is a shop one should never miss...
Spotted someone making 龙须糖 there... black sesame flavour!
... errr apart from that... the other food stuff ain't that appetizing...
Ah~ Puppet shows! Pay-to-watch! Audiences peep through the hole to enjoy the show~ looks fun huh?
then that weird looking fella narrates the story~
Catch the actions here~

12:01pm... walking further into the streets... its very easy to lose sight of your friends and families in here... so follow closely~
I am bad with posing... especially when the cameramen is my dad who takes very long to snap the photo...
Inside, there's this bridge that zigzags its way across the pond below...If you were ever there, be sure to drop by above for some good food!
上海名园... errr can't be bothered to pay to go in...
Shop selling paper-cuts... this is authentic Chinese arts!
The street here is kinda cosy...
Musical instruments shop...
More shops...
Pardon me for the blurry photos cuz I took them while on the move...
12:21pm... Something cute I noticed... well its winter, and its cold... but wearing thick gloves while riding a bike is suicidal... so the locals made the bike wear a glove instead... xD
Cute huh?
12:26pm... We continued our journey towards the 东方明珠　tower... its in sight... but we never seem to get any closer...
Park warden yelling at some tele tubbies to get off the grass...
Oh u know those bubble tea shops usually has this Cup-Sealing Machine? We came across a stretch of shops selling so many of those machines~
along with the plastic seal covering the cups~
Random shots of normal people plying their trade... I got scolded by auntie for taking her picture... I think she is sick of people photoshooting her...
Taking a ferry across to the other side... only RMB 3.00 (approx. S$0.60) per person.
Yea, u may even ride your motorbike up the ferry...
Ferry set sail...
The straits was pretty busy...
Ferry only took less than 5 mins and we reached the other side...
The buildings here are more of the "ATAS" side...
We were getting closer and closer to the tower....
Its near 陆家嘴西路...
1:43pm~ I thought we had arrived...
Until this greeted me ahead... We were still a major junction away from the tower...
Ok, We got closer...
1:51pm~ after walking for like 2 hours in the cold... time to break for lunch~
That place is a stone throw away from the Oriental Pearl Tower... its some sort like a Food Square...
The fragrance of food is in the air... everything smells so good when one is hungry...
I sure was hungry then...
We eventually settled for this shop... cuz they have seatings inside...
Beef stew rice...
My mum's Dumplings noodles somehow turned out different from what she was expecting... and there wasn't even any dumplings to begin with...
Beef Noodles... (I didn't expect it to be soup-base... spoilt the gravy...)
2:20pm... Tears of joy... we finally made it to the tower...
SUBWAY is called 赛百味...
The ticketing booth...
Ticket prices are cleverly segmented... the higher you wish to go, the more you pay...
Type A tickets costs RMB 150.00 (approx. S$30.00) and lets you access EVERY PLACE...
Type B cost RMB 135.00 and .... well u get the idea...
One can spend the entire day in this tower... there was just so much things to see in there...
Bought 3 Adult tickets...
I hate taking photos of very tall towers... cuz I always have to squat very low to shoot upwards... and I got to be wary of my surroundings in case someone with very short skirt happens to walk past me... (^^||)>
Oh... in the near distance... spotted something worth exploring...
Shanghai Ocean Aquarium~! (We apparently forgotten about that place when we finished with the tower....)
Its darn hard to take photographs when one is right at the foot of the tower...
This photo had me nearly lying on the steps....
This photo is the best my dad could get out of...
Oh right at the entrance, one could see the city-scape development of Shanghai city since 1994...
1995...
1996...
1997...
1998...
1999...
2000...
2001... more and more sky scrapers came up...
2002...
2003...
2004...
2005...
2006..
2007...
2008...
2009...
2:58pm... at the lift lobby... the queue snake all the way out to the entrance... There are beautiful Elevator attendants in each lift and the moment the lift door closes, they will greet guests with a welcome speech in Mandarin, followed by English... errr funny-sounding English... kinda like memorizing off a script... And the moment their script finished, we reached the designated floor... talk about perfect timing...
@ 259metres high in the tower....
Here is the view... ( =_= )
I rubbed my eyes... then look again... ( =_= ||)... ok, we paid an equivalent of S$30.00 per person and this is the sort view you get...
Oriental Pearl Tower souvenirs anyone? RMB 520 each...
Well... they said its winter and the hue is normal...
Sadly... I don't think I could see Beijing...
Here's a little video~

But view down there is pretty~ its a busy strait down there...
More sky scrapers mushrooming up below...
More sky scrapers mushrooming up over here too...
Hmm... its actually quite a nice view...
3:25pm... Taking the elevator up to the top most level... towards 350 metres
Its slightly more crowded here cuz the place is smaller... I tell you... going down is a headache... the elevator was unable to meet the demands of that many ppl wanting to go down...
Err... view up here at 350 metres... even more blur...
I love this photo...
More souvenirs...
I have no idea why they called it the Space Module... it felt like an oven in there...
I AM AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD~!!!!! *CHOKE...*
A few more photos... and thats about it...
Shanghai City...
I could use this photo for a brochure or something...
Ah! @ 259 metres... This place is NOT for the faint hearted...
You can stand on this reinforced fiberglass flooring that sees through to what's below you...
See the video here~! Exciting~

I was happily taking photos of the floor and this stupid kid was like stomping his life out on the floor I was standing on... I glared at him so hard he ran away...
4:06pm... Time to replenish on caffeine.... for a small paper cup of cappuccino that was like half filled with coffee and the rest with foam... its cost us an equivalent of S$6.00 per cup... I repeat, paper cup...
4:34pm... headed into the Shanghai History Exhibition floor...
This is Shanghai's The Bund in the 1920s... 上海20年代的外滩...
Below is Nanjing Road in the 1920s...
Below appears to be an expedition by a certain Prince who came through Nanjing Road in the 1901...
If you can read Chinese, the description is accurate... but the English translation is TOTALLY OFF.... There is no Germany mentioned...
Below... Nanjing Road in the 1930s...
Further in... a showcase of the types of vehicles common in Shanghai in the early 19th Century...
Tram buses...
1920s vehicles...1930s vehicles...Buick sedan of the 1940s...
Phoenix sedan of the 1950s...
1970s sedan...1990s sedan....
Buick sedan in the 20th century...
4:50pm @ the Wax museum?
They look damn real....
This fella is hitting cotton... to make them sparse and soft...Opium smoking...
with pretty girls to massage...
Talk abt pretty girls...
Caught dad entering a brothel...
Hair saloon in the early days... looks freaky...
Opera house...
Ballroom dancing...
5:40pm... we emerged from the Oriental Pearl Tower... its already this dark!
One last shot of the tower.... it looks very nice with lights on...
Dusk sets in at approx. 4:30pm there...
6:01pm... too a taxi back to Xujiahui District...
Told the driver to drop us at the shopping area near Xujiahui...
Shanghai City is at its best when night falls... its not called 夜上海 for no reason...
The lights... that sphere... omg... I love it...
Here's the video~

Couldn't get enough of that sphere... it changes colour...
I prefer the red one~
6:46pm... Found our way to the food court...
Some appetizing food....
Caught sight of this 3-layered pork... in orange gravy... Looks yummy~
The noodles there were resting on this semi permeable top with steam coming up from below...
Ordered this for an equivalent of S$3.20 ....
Oh the food court uses PRE-PAID card systems much like those in "Kopitiam card"...
7:26pm... I realised this place is called Metro City...
The night scene is beautiful~
Love this place~

Shanghai: 21 November 2009

Shanghai: 21 November 2009

1:30pm... Arrival @ Shanghai Pudong International Airport~
The arrival hall is of superior standard~Its common courtesy to bring along a local gift when visiting... Singapore Sling and Bak Kwa is our favourite gifts... any other ideas?
Our China partner took us for a ride (literally) on the Maglev Train. The term 磁浮　would mean Magnet + Levitation.
I took a short video of the train arriving...

The cabin we were in was of the Economic class type. Each tickets designated a numbered seat, so there is no MRT -rush type. Feels like airplane... keke...
A very much used ticket...
I didn't really bothered taking much of the outside scenery... becuz they would probably past by too fast for my camera...
Well.... becuz this was the kinda speed the train was moving in...
Dun believe? Watch the little video below...

Merely 10 minutes later... we reached the Maglev Longyang Road Station... some 250km away from the Airport... (thats like Changi to Jurong more than 5 times...)
Me was already trigger happy... snapping everything along the way...
Hailed a Cab and headed for the Xuhui District (徐汇区). The locals termed "徐家汇". Local public taxis were all equipped with either an acrylic or metal protective shell separating the driver and passengers... probably to curb assaults and robbery...
I must say, Shanghai city is a labyrinth of roads and highways...
Even a single cross junction is huge~~
Ah... the tallest building in Shanghai spotted afar...
Crossing the 南浦大桥 (Nan Pu Da Qiao)...
For your information, when I took this photo of the 南浦大桥, I was STILL on the 南浦大桥... moving downwards into the city below...
... becuz the entire bridge is so mega-sized, getting down involves winding down 3 stories of road that goes round and round...
Common residences that looked like Condominiums... the locals called them 鸽子楼　(pigeon building). For a moment... I was thinking Singapore might looked like this in another 10 years...
... finally got off the 南浦大桥...
We arrived at our hotel around 3pm, checked in, then went straight into serious business in the cafe across the road...
5:11pm... finally back to the hotel...
My bedroom...
Oh the blinds flaps open to reveal the bed... kinky...
This has to be the BEST hotel toothbrush I've used so far...
I loathed showering so much during my stay there...I dunno what this is officially called, but I termed it the Rainforest shower... I love it! But no freaking way I was gonna use it in there in Shanghai... like it was some +/- 10 degrees celsius?
The marble floor was so freezing I frantically rummaged the wardrobe for this pair of bedroom slippers so I could step in...
Hotel was pretty generous in their ahem... "Adult Healthcare Products" there...
Well I guess if you could enjoy a splendid view of your partner showering from the comfort of your bed... those "Adult Healthcare Products" probably gets replenished very often... did I mentioned the shower cubicle is semi-see-thru?
The little stuffs I grew up being told never to touch them...
These too...5:38pm... all geared up for the evening exploration!
The hotel we stayed in: New Beacon Qingzhilv International Hotel. Official site here.
Its located at No. 210, Wending Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
中国上海市徐汇区文定路219号. Temperature outside... last checked... 11 degrees celsius...
Right across the road of the hotel, a row of boutique selling things I never bother to take a second look nor remember... By the way, its only 6:09pm when I took this photo... Shanghai and Singapore has no time difference~
Yep~ dusk starts to set in by 5pm... so by 5:30 it was already dark... below is a snap shot I took in a taxi... 6:41pm...
6:50pm~ The famous Nanking Road (南京路)...
The whole of Nanking Road is like a shopping street~
There was even several tourist trams that take you for a ride... literally.
It was pretty chilling out there... considering it was my first evening in Shanghai... 8 degree celsius?
Here's a short video scene...

What I love about Nanking Road is the lightings and the advertisements there~ its so trademark Shanghai~
Just a random shot of a hotel... might be useful if I wanna travel there again~ can book this hotel... cuz Nanking Road is right at the doorstep... There are like SO MANY hotels in Shanghai...
6:56pm~ Further along the street, I could hear someone playing the saxophone to the tune of SHANGHAI TANG (上海滩)... its so OMG....
We walked towards the music and saw a huge crowd enjoying the music...
An old mister up there by the balcony playing solo~
He changed to another song by the time I was there... but its just as nice...

Just a random shot of a puny police patrol vehicle...
Nanking Road has like shopping malls EVERYWHERE... I dunno which one to go into...
My loving parents~
The best photo my dad could take of me...
More views of Nanking Road scenes...
Curry fishballs~
8:09pm~ spotted a Noodle House...So we walked down the stairs for dinner~
Very Chinese style furnishings...
Noodles are available at +/- 20 RMB...
I could use chopsticks like a pro...
Ah... I wanna take this opportunity to share a new Chinese word I learnt... "Soup Spoon" is commonly called "调羹" in China. Pronounce "Tiao(2) Geng(1)". Below's noodles with fish slices...
I ordered 蟹黄拉面... Crab Paste Ramen...
Here's the Crab Paste... pour it into the Soup Noodle and you get a slurplicious concoction of Ramen...
9:03pm~ Back onto the streets again after dinner... Nothing much to shop during winter cuz all the clothings on sale are thick winter jackets and woolen sweaters... then again, winter coats were selling like more than 50% cheaper than what you can get in Singapore...
9:25pm... On the way back to the hotel... one bad thing about travelling with my parents is that they turn in really early...
Oh ya, did I mention that I almost pissed my pants sitting in cars whilst on any roads in China? The way these people drive really freaked me out...

November 2009: Entire Month

November 2009: Entire Month
Geez~ busy month~ so I haven been updating my blog lately...

01 November 2009
Orange flavoured and chocolate cake from Pine Gardens Cake shop in Ang Mo Kio~ was introduced this by Joey~ yummy~
03 November 2009
09:31... Breakfast at the Market...
accompanied Mom for the market trip.
04 November 2009
Boston Lobster meal for dinner @ Sakae Teppanyaki Century Square~ The lobster is oh-so-juicy~
06 November 2009
Chomp Chomp for dinner~! Missed the chicken wings so much~!
07 November 2009
Breakfast @ Toastbox Causeway Point...
Headed to JB for some shopping~ Bukit Indah AEON
JUSCO is like everywhere...
Seafood dinner at Alam Seafood Restaurant @ Taman Perling~ Yummy~
08 November 2009
Had a nice hairwash @ Holiday Plaza and the stylist styled my hair to look like this... ^^"
Sashimi Moriwase and many more for lunch @ Sushi King City Square~
Nice bowl of heart-warming instant noodles my girlfriend cooked for me~
For the records, I love these little snacks since young. I finished the entire packet that evening.
The fun thing is able to find these twin buns in the packet... rare find~ kekeke
09 November 2009
Nanyang Old Coffee shop @ Simei Eastpoint. The staff inside is slow; the person taking the order does not communicate properly with the person preparing the food/drink and serves the wrong order when I was the only customer; the kitchen behind the counter is not streamlined for coffee making, neither are the fixtures; most importantly, the coffee sucks! I give it 5 more months to close shop. FAIL.
NTUC sells the cheapests Red Dragon Fruits~ S$2.25 for a packet of 2 Red Dragon Fruits.
10 November 2009
Made Red DragonFruit Enzymes for my girlfriend... it will be ready in 15 days...
Random shot of Pappy keeping me company in my room~
Found a very nostalgic gift in the cupboards... I had this coin bank for like 17 years already?
11 November 2009
Balestier... National Eye Care Centre... appointment that morning... followup consultation to my right eye... Doctor says there is nothing much either they nor me could do, just monitor and have plenty of rest... Actually, feeling like Kenpachi or Kakashi isn't that bad~ Thanks to Honda for picking me up that day~
1:48pm @ Changi Village... a serene walked over the river... with the wrong company... Honda and Thomas...
2:02pm... still at Changi seaside... was near the Sea Sports Club, so the coast is filled with students learning canoeing...
11 November 2009
The Red DragonDruit Enzymes looked like this after 5 days...
12 November 2009
@ Terminal 2... Dad's back in town~
7:52pm~ @ Terminal 2's staff canteen... I guess not many ppl knows the way to the staff canteen at Terminal 2. Its not easy to find... and the food's not that great anyways... but it makes a great place for studying...
8:16pm~ Dinner @ Simei coffeeshop... (Cuz the staff canteen at Terminal 2 really cannot make it... ) Koo Loo Mee from Sarawak~ Yummy~ Thumbs up~
I asked dad to buy some cheap Indonesian instant mee goreng back... and here's how he brought them back... no box, no bag, just his luggage...
November's batches of Birdnest~ its getting cleaner and cleaner~
I'm selling them @ S$100.00 per 37.5grams (5 - 6 pcs, serves 8 persons). Interested parties can drop me a message below and I'll ring you up~
13 November 2009
@ People's Park (not the complex nor centre)... level 3... this nice little shop is selling skin/hair care products at prices so cheap that the entire shop is bustling with business. No advertisements needed, just word of mouth.
for example... this Pearlie White mouth rinse costs like S$5.40 in Watsons, but its only selling for S$3.50 there. Amazing huh? Gatsby Moving Rubber sells for S$9.60 in Watsons and it sells for S$7.80 there. Jaw-drop prices~
15 November 2009
Oh~! New Balance has a new shoe that really captures my heart~
Mr. and Mrs. Lala~ @ Compass Point
4:33pm... Having some delicious red dragonfruits for the afternoon...
8:36pm~ Heart-warming instant noodles with lotsa add-ons for dinner~
9:36pm~ taking a bus home... been a long while seen I last took a bus...
16 November 2009
Remember I mentioned in my May 2009: Part 2 post that this Botak Jones branch at Blk 201 Tampines will close in 6 months? Well, true enough, May to November, exactly 6 months - GAME OVER.
4:53pm... Random shot of Pappy... puppy has been moody the whole day~ so he stuff himself between the little space there...
17 November 2009
Desker Road... if you are ever there and feeling hungry, be sure to check out this coffeeshop ahead. Serves very good Char Siew and Roast Duck rice~ thumbs up~
Bought a helms pump that day... Gonna be taking this fella to China with me to have it replicated... darn thing weighs 10KG...11:26am~ Brunch at Arab Street~ Zam Zam roti prata~ ^^
5:53pm~ early dinner at East
18 November 2009
Raylite Optical @ Blk 201 Tampines... I have patronized this shop for the past 20 over years already and I always get very good discounts.
Ah I wanna take this chance to re-introduce Focaccia Bread~ this is really the "so-good-you-can-eat-it-on-its-own" bread. Smells great! Taste Great!
19 November 2009
Getting my fiber optics cable terminal box installed for free...
Its using the 3.5mm cable.
Mom took pappy downstairs for a long stroll so the cable guys could do their jobs in peace...
One-man show... this one guy took like 1 whole hour to pull the cables, and finally the more specialised technicians came to test the signals...
My turn to take care of Pappy...
20 November 2009
Took dad to Raylite to collect his spectacles...
21 - 25 November 2009
Business trip to Shanghai... well I did have time for a little bit of leisure~ ^^"
Nanking Road Shopping Street...
26 November 2009
Just a random shot of a beautiful Xmas tree @ Bugis Junction~
5:15pm~ Cooking instant noodles...
7:56pm... KFC dinner @ Kallang~
10:19pm... Fort Road Heavy Vehicle Carpark... curious bitch was checking me out... Scary? Nope, it was scare of me and ran off when I opened the door and charge towards her. Keke...
27 November 2009
@ Ang Mo Kio's Pine Garden's Cake shop...
The cake shop sells a variety of very good tasting cakes~
Lychee Martini...
Mango and Strawberry Mousse...
Orange Apricot Blossom... many many more!
4:37pm~ Checking out the exhibits @ Punggol 21 + Gallery...
The new Punggol Waterfront project... Punggol is gonna be the next big thing...
Got this EZ-link sticker from Joey... SMRT issued them at the station and she got a few~ Kawaii puppy! My EZ link card is the default ugly design, so I hesitate not a sec and pasted it on my card~ ^^
28 November 2009
I love Subways~!
4:58pm @ Waterloo street... 四马路观音堂...
7:02pm... Teochew porridges @ Katong... sometimes, simple food are the best~
30 November 2009
@ Singapore Science Centre for the Body Works exhibition... its the 2nd time its here in Singapore... still looks the same, but lesser exhibits... S$20.00 for Adult. Exhibition is until March 2010. Dun miss it!
5:00pm @ Omni Theatres.... when's the last time you been to Omni Theatre?
8:17pm~ Dinner with family @ Tampines One Sushi Tei~