We had dinner at Sin Hoi San, Tiong Bahru, last evening with Grace’s parents. Apart from some normal noodles and fried rice, we ordered two interesting dishes:
Stinky beans or petai (Parkia speciosa) rice:
Garlic fried mantis shrimps (stomatopods):
Each mantis shrimp weights about 200grams and measures about 25cm (10″) long. A mantis shrimp is not a prawn, a shrimp, a mantis or a lobster.
YowCH had a minor accident on 16 Nov 2010 morning, when he turned a little too early and wide, hitting a Mercedes SLK200 Roadster just outside KKH. The dent on the Merc (driven by Dr Wee Horng Yen) was quite minor but on the metal part:
The dent on our Isis was much more as it was on the plastic bumper:
YowCH apologised and a gentleman’s agreement was reached. Dr Wee received a quote from C&C for $1070.00 for the repair and YowCH paid up immediately. Ironically, the repair of our car was $0.00 as Ricardo helped pull out the dent and the paint touch-up was done by YowCH:
On 13 Dec, Dr Wee informed that he had sent to another workshop for repairs for $430.00, and returned the remaining $640.00 to us:
This Dr Wee is one gentleman we will remember and honour. He did not even charge us for loss of use and other inconveniences.
We thank God for good people in the world.
Our tenth wedding anniversary was yesterday, 16 Dec 2010. We had some plans for a small party, but then again, being the year end and festive season, many friends were all away or busy having fun, plus YowCH having a company dinner. So the day passed by quietly.
We thank God for:
10 good years,
a small home we had at Redhill Close and the current one at Rumah Tinggi,
three active, exciting and fun children,
stable jobs,
family members all around us,
lots of good friends we can count on,
and a family car to get around.
The latest photo we had together was taken by YowCH’s colleague Su San at KL during the TYLin Annual Dinner:
We spent the weekend of 10 to 13 Dec 2010 at PJ for the TYLin Annual dinner:
We also had a great time at the Zoo Negara and Science Centre.
Dedicated page is here.
We had a short 2D1N trip to Pontian from 26 to 27 Nov to visit Grace’s grandma and to bring some of Grace’s books and stuff back to Singapore. It was a great trip as we met relatives, ate and ate, and ate.
Here you see the children playing bubbles at the backyard:
Grace’s uncle prepared very tasty “babi hutan” (山猪, wild boar) for our dinner, greatly loved by the children:
And Joseph had his first ever haircut at M.Ravi’s, a local Pontian barber chain for RM4.00 (S$1.75):
Joseph is two years old today. We celebrated in school, as usual.
Grace managed to get some VERY good deal for Lego Duplo party favour packs, shipped from Greece!
It’s a few days to Joseph’s second birthday, and we ate dinner at O’Leary’s (Singapore Flyer) again with mum and dad.
We arrived earlier, about 6:15pm, so we walked a little along the Fourmula One racing track next to the Flyer. The second photo (Flyer in the background) was taken by David.
Joseph really did enjoy the dinner, which mum and dad paid for, although this photo suggests otherwise.
The live band really made the place cool.
Wow, a wonderful dinner at O’Leary’s (Singapore Flyer) with Yan and Siu Hei. PQ is away in Japan for work, sorry, no goodies.
American burger, fajitas, large hot-dog and a mixed BBQ plate. The serving looks great:
You can also see the bosses at the table:
We couldn’t update over the past few days as there was no internet access in the hotel or the hotel router was down.
Going back a little, on Tuesday, after returning from the high mountains of Jiuzhai, we visited the Panda Research Base and saw quite a few Giant Pandas and Red Pandas.
That afternoon, we visited Huanglongxi Ancient Town, which is a park with ancient style buildings and nice decorations.
Then it was a long drive to Emei Town to stay one night.
We woke up early on Wednesday morning, and took bus up a very winding road to the Mount Emei Cable Car Station, then walked up 219 steps to the Wannian (ten thousand years) Temple.
After lunch, we visited the nearby and famous Leshan Big Buddha, viewing it from a boat on the river.
Dinner was very special, every dish is served in small portions in small bowls, that is the famous Sichuan Xiaochi (small snacks).
And on the last day, 4 Nov, we went to Wenshu Yuen, a monastery.
That was followed by a Fengshui Taoist talk and sales, which we skipped and roamed the streets instead.
Lastly, just before boarding the plane, we went (window) shopping at Chunxi Lu, which is just like Orchard Road, in looks, variety, shops and price. We had coffee at Starbucks, and bought two local flavoured McDonalds chicken burgers for a snack at the airport before the in-flight dinner.
The flight back home was on time, and Gene picked us up from the airport at 1:00am on 5 Nov 2010.
Thank God for a good trip, with good weather where it counted and a wonderful time for YowCH and Grace. Big thanks to Grace’s parents for looking after the children.
And now, we need to find the time to sort the thousands of photos for printing, and then do up a dedicated webpage for the trip.
