A meal made with love

I was feeling really tired and didn't want to think about dinner. My dear husband then said, "leave it to me", and whipped up this yummy meal made with love.

Goodbye Singapore

Phill and I tried to extend our stay in Singapore for another couple of days but wasn't successful. Even though Singapore Airlines flies to Melbourne three times each day, we couldn't get a later date...sniff! sniff!

This trip has been great - we ate at MOS Burger, Thai Express, char kway teow, carrot cake, tao suan (green bean dessert), cheng teng (another local dessert), mee rebus (at Kovan Centre), durian puff (me, not Phill), seafood at Melben, teochew food and "or nee" (Teochew yam dessert) at Teochew Restaurant at Concourse (yummy) and more than I can remember.

And I had an opportunity to visit friends and family too although I didn't get to see everyone I wanted to see and only got to see most of my family and friends once...sniff!

And when it came time for me to say goodbye, as usual, my tears flowed freely. It sucks to say goodbye...

Catching up with Family and Friends

It's always good to catch up with family and friends so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw my aunt jenny and uncle Kenneth at the airport when we arrived in Singapore on 27 Dec! We then went and indulged in dim sum at toa payoh and had yummy goreng pisang (banana fritters) too! Considering the high prices of bananas (averaging $20/kg) last year, the one thing we were craving was bananas.


I had the opportunity to visit my uncle wee kiat and aunty pearly and see my cousin's kids too - pictured with me in the photo below are daniel (left) and brandon (right). They are so good-looking and so energetic that I really had to have a breather after playing with them for a while. Thankfully, my aunt jenny and mum were there so when I was resting, they were playing with the boys.

*Thanks to Aunty Jenny for this photo of me and the boys - they're making me very clucky altho tired*

Crashhhh

A car accident I saw when I was out with my aunt poo ling and uncle henry. I hope the car driver was okay. And as usual, there were many onlookers at the scene although I was too far away to see if they were busy taking down lucky numbers to buy lottery like some people usually do in Singapore.

Go Singapore Slingers!

Phill and I bought tickets to the Singapore Slingers (above) match against the South Dragons (top) at indoor stadium before we went on our trip to Hongkong. We were quite psyched about the match and enjoyed it even though the Singapore Slingers eventually lost (85 versus 110). But the pace of the match was pretty fast and action-packed.

Some 4-5 kids who were sitting behind us, about 3-8 years old, were slamming the South Dragons players throughout the match and made me laugh. One of the South Dragon players' name is Ingles and one of the kids shouted throughout the match, "Ingles, you've got the shingles"....hahahaha!

Shane Heal coaches and plays for the South Dragons and he played very well but I don't like him cos he comes across very aggressive and overly physical and not sportmanship-like.

After the match, Phill and I bought ourselves Singapore Slingers T-shirts but the 'S' size was still so big. I think they need a ladies range too. In all, it was an enjoyable nite!

Goodbye HongKong

We left Hongkong in the late afternoon to make our way back to Singapore. And suddenly, it all seem too soon. It'll be nice to be able to spend more time in Hongkong although we haven't even had much time in Singapore (only had 2 days in Singapore since we arrived from Australia). So many places, so little time...

We did manage to sneak in foot and neck massages last nite and again today at a thai massage place located at the 2nd storey of a hotel located around Granville Road (a great shopping strip we discovered this trip and kept going back for the great clothes and fantastic discounts!!!). Ahhhhh....massages helped ease our tired feet from all the walking around shopping.

And this cafe (Relax a While) pictured above was one we frequented quite a bit for breakfast, lunch as well as dinner cos they served yummy food. I enjoyed the desserts at the popular Hongkong dessert place - Xu Liu Shan - yummy!!!