We visited the bird park on 23 Feb 2013 with the Loos from 8:30am until 2:00pm (including lunch). Click on the photos for the page.
Then, we met with Yan’s family and had a family dinner at Lao Beijing, Novena Square. That’s 15 of us.
We had lots of great food, including 3 trays of xiao-lung-bao (8 pieces each tray, Joseph called them “soupy guys”) and a Hong Kong style steamed soon-hock fish.
At 85,000km, we sent the Isis for the 11th servicing at Ricardo. Quite a number of parts were changed.
Here you see the engine cover opened, and the auto-transmission cover (bottom of car) opened:
This round, apart from engine lubricant (Redline 5W30) and filter, we also changed the auto-transmission fluid, filter and gasket (for cover), the fan-belt (started cracking), the spark-plugs and the battery (Amaron, the last piece lasted 2.5 years with no sign of weakening, but let’s not risk it). A few days before, YowCH changed the aircon and engine air-intake filters (brandless low-cost ones).
We had a CNY dinner with eFG friends at the Leongs’ place on 15 Feb 2013. We had with us two other families of friends.
There was lo-hei again, of course.
The food was fantastic, lo-hei, some packed dishes and porridge from HH’s mum:
And Q’s waxed meat rice, fried flour sticks (油炸鬼), chicken wings, waxed meat fried rice.
We thank God for the fellowship and the great food for dinner.
We left Singapore on 7 Feb for PJ and returned to Singapore on 12 Feb for CNY. We visited T.Y.Lin KL office, KL Tower, Chee Kean and Ming Meng, Chee Kean’s parents, the Chims, PQ’s parents in Kajang, Daren’s mother, Uncle in Kepong, and upon return to Singapore, Kuan Pow and Patricia. We met our cousins Lims, Loos and Phans, Aunty from Batu Arang, and friends Sean, Roger and Chow from TYLin, Thean Seong, Sri and Chin Bin. We also celebrated YowCH’s dad’s 68th birthday. And we ate very very much.
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We had a few rounds of eating-out at rather interesting places recently:
Monday, 28 Jan, dinner at Chuck Wagon (American grill), Portsdown Road:
We had escargot, lamb chops, pork ribs, fish and chips and chicken wings.
Friday, 1 Feb, dinner at Colbar (British grill), Whitchurch Road off-Portsdown Road:
We had sausage-egg-mushroom, fish and chips and grilled sole (flat fish).
Saturday, 2 Feb, lunch at Adam Road Hawker Centre:
We had nasi lemak and satay.
And today, we managed to design a set-up using all the Geo-trax tracks that we have!
This is a rather extensive set-up, and rather nice to see the trains snaking around.
“Infinite Studios” boasts two soundstages of 18,000 sq-ft and 10,000 sq-ft (huge movie-making studios with live-sound recording capability) at Media Circle, off-Postdown Road. Tenants are starting to operate from this new media-based techno-building with satellite broadcast capabilities. Anchor tenants include Infinite Studios, Globecast and Discovery Channel.
Developer: Ascendas + Infinite Studios
Architect: DPA
Structural Engineer: T.Y.Lin International
Mech & Elect Engr: JRP
Quantity Surveyor: KPK (Now Davis Langdon KPK, AECOM)
Main Contractor: Incorporated Builders
YowCH is the Professional Engineer responsible for the civil and structural engineering of this building.
