Seoul Searching

Yeah! Finally, we've decided on our next destination after laying down all the options that we have. :)

It's going to be Seoul, Hong Kong and Macau - 3 places in 8 days this time compared to the previous trip where we visited 3 Japanese states in 6 days! You may ask: "Why Seoul, it was not even in the picture earlier when we discussed?" Blessed DC saw a very attractive Seoul/Hong Kong package that we can't miss! We thought it would be a waste if we leave Macau out of the travel plans since it was so near to Hong Kong and so, Seoul and Macau came onboard our plan! :)

Status as of now:
Air tickets secured and confirmed.
Hotel in Seoul and Hong Kong booked and confirmed.
Additional nights stay in Hong Kong sent over, pending confirmation.

I did some serious "seoul"-searching over the weekend and was busy planning the itinerary during the week. It's getting more and more exciting as the days draw nearer! Esp. when a couple of colleagues who just got back from Seoul told me it was fun...I wish I'm at Seoul now! :)


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Went Teambuilding @ Sentosa

It was an "adventure" programme and a fun one! At the end of the day, we were exhausted and lots of sweat as there were a number of outdoor adventure games but we were satisfied and proud of ourselves for completing the programme! WoHoo!

Loads of fun and joy too.





It's really good to have a day off doing team building once in a while. However, after such a long break from office (Fri:Off-site meeting, Mon:Deepavali Holiday, Tue: Teambuilding), I had to work harder to combat the Back-to-Office-after-Long-Break blues!


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Games, Babes and Xbox 360

There is some event going on at Marina Square, a Xbox 360 game fest launch. Although I saw many favourite game titles like Gears of War 2, Fable 2 and Fallout 3, I manage to resist buying. Let's wait for 2nd-hand ... hehe.

On stage were teams blasting out their hits in a Xbox song competition, complete with drums and guitars.

Not forgetting the babes there ... here's one.




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What's New?

The blog header has been changed to mark our 10 years of togetherness. :D There were many other pictures we'd taken together but those that appeared on the header were specially picked because they either bear the special moments that we shared together or they are significant milestones of our 10-year-old relationship.

A few minor changes has been made to the header after it was put up. DC had some comments about one pic. I replaced it with another one and added some light arrows in the direction of the years in increasing order. This was like the 4th version and though it didn't come out the way I first want it to be, I guess it was still quite okay for a personal blog.




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Bird song

This repeated soft-to-loud, short bursts of sounds... DC and I often wonder what kind of a bird makes this tune and what message it is trying to convey.

Guess we must have heard this ample times without even realising that the tune had secretly left an imprint on our minds. One morning years ago, DC woke me up by singing to the tune "起来了！起来了！起来了！..." (means Wake up, Wake up, Wake up...). For quite a while that day, we tried to recall where we heard the tune from and slowly figured out that it was from that bird, and from that moment on, that tune became my occassional "morning alarm" (activated by DC of course, hehe).

It has been a long long time since we last heard the bird song. Recently, we began hearing it again from all over - home, Orchard Rd, everywhere. I was at home yesterday and heard it again. I knew I just had to record it down! :)



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Outram Park Ya Hua Rou Gu Cha

This is another place you can go to if you wish to have Bak Kut Teh. DC brought me to this very popular coffee shop at Keppel Road for lunch today. The place was so crowded with people that it took us quite a while to get seats.

The kidneys and livers were tender and the soup tasty but the soup bowl was rather small - Wonder if soup can be refilled? Because it was lunch time, we had to gobble the food so that we could go back to work in time (go back to training in DC's case). In the haste, we didn't even count the change they returned to us... and when we realised it, we found ourselves $11 richer! Ha!


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Icekimo

Tucked quietly in the corner of Sim Ming Road is this cozy place for ice-cream. Always wanted to try out the ice-creams there but always forgot. Since DC and I were around the area last Sunday, we decided to just give it a try even though we were all full from the duck rice lunch with my parents.

The interior - Very Pink, I wonder if it was set up by a lady who adores the colour pink?


The ice-creams - They have some rather unique flavours. We had Bailey with Chocolate for him and Blueberry cheesecake with D24 Durian for her. Yummy! The cheesecake flavour was very nice.


They also offer free flow of ice water (you have to get it yourself) and magazines. We were 'forced' to stay there longer than expected as the rain decided to fall really heavily shortly after we arrived. One thing bad is that there are no shelters to the main road and no cabs pass by the area. So, we were stucked there for quite a while.

What an creamy experience! :) I like to return for more next time...



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Simply Full and Sinful

DC and I have been going to restaurants for dinner almost daily this month. We felt really really sinful and guilty about it now! Judging from the calorie-filled meals that we'd taken in, I guess our Tree Top walk was totally wasted? It's time for a serious workout!

A record of our food paths, our sinful indulgences:

03 Oct Fri - Tonkichi @ Suntec City
06 Oct Mon - Fried Kway Teow @ Gim Moh
08 Oct Wed - Paulana Brauhaus @ Millenia Walk
09 Oct Thu - Gunther @ Purvis Street
13 Oct Mon - Pizza Hut @ Junction 8
14 Oct Tue - Jumbo Seafood @ Singapore Indoor Stadium
15 Oct Wed - MOF @ Bugis Junction
16 Oct Thu - Ichiban Boshi @ Novena Square
17 Oct Fri - Crystal Jade @ Junction 8
18 Oct Sat - Wedding Lunch @ Mandarin Oriental, then Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe for tea
19 Oct Sun - Icekimo ice-cream just after lunch
20 Oct Mon - Kyoto Sabo Aji Tei @ Tiong Bahru Plaza
21 Oct Tue - Spageddies @ Tanglin Mall and Apple Cobbler

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Chicken in the City

I was quite surprised to find that someone has been rearing chickens (not one but many!) at the back of a coffee shop. Quite a rare sight in a city!

Now, I have a problem... Which are the roosters and which are the hens? How do you tell them apart besides the fact that only hens lay eggs? Being a city girl all my life, I thought only a rooster has comb and a hen doesn't. But, DC, my sis and Ah Boy all claimed that the roosters are the reddish and the hens are the white ones. So, who was right?


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The Coffin Challenge - Dare to Take up?

We were at Cathay Cineleisure yesterday when we saw a long long queue. Being natural Singaporean, we decided to check it out.

So, there was a marketing gimmick going on. In conjunction with the release of the Thai horror film "The Coffin", the organisers are getting people to step into a coffin for 3 seconds, have a taste of laying inside one (while alive) and strike a pose to win a pair of movie tickets.

It's spooky to imagine that this is an actual Thai ritual that is getting popular in Thailand to get rid of bad luck and prolong life!

The tickets (cinema tickets for the premier gala and toto tickets for good luck) will be given to the first 100 couragous person who dared to take up the challenge and the selected 'one' with the best pose will walk away with $500 worth of DVDs from Scoporio East!

I thought it was quite fun and took a queue number... No. 83 (Pic above) but decided to back out. :P

Anyways, here's some pictures for viewing. We have:

People who brought along their props with them into the coffin - book, shades, bag and cash... Hmm, I remembered one brought her Coca Cola into the coffin...


People who just laid there (boring)


People who did a flip in the coffin & turned their backs


People who don't know what pose to strike


Other poses


Hmm, if I were in there, I would probably bring out my signature "V". Hehe... :D


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