i found a new bistro! (320/365)

I got this flyer today when i was walking along Katong area. A new cafe has opened! and it sells PASTA!! pasta has always been one of my love. and it's 1 for 1! can't wait to pop over to try, especially when i saw you can create your own pasta!

Chinese desserts - not exactly my kinda thing

actually I'm not a fan of desserts I realise. won't particularly look forward to that piece of cake after dinner. I'm still more a main course person. oh but I would definitely love ice cream. as for Chinese desserts, not particularly a fan either. i know some people will be spoilt for choice at ah chew, but I usually don't know what to order.

this is green bean soup. my mum does make them at home sometimes but it's usually force down our throat that I end up eating them. so don't have a very good association with it. at our cell events, I usually won't touch the green bean soup. but I slightly prefer green bean to red bean though.

anyway this is BTF eating her dessert after a main course of fish noodles and a popiah side dish. I was quite amused at her appetite today!

Almost coming to the end (319/365)

The dragon year is coming to an end soon, just like the project 365. before we know it, the year of snake will be here. come to think of it, dragon and snake look almost similar, just the dragon being a myth as the most powerful creature on earth, has legs. 画蛇添足 = dragon. Haha!

Anyway, dragon year has been a year of alot of babies. Chinese being Chinese are still very superstitious about dragon babies being auspicious or lucky? Even weddings, i heard! Alot of people are choosing to get married in the year of dragon so to avoid the year of snake. But i, on the other hand, am super looking forward to the year of the snake. cos i am getting married! who cares about what year is it. it's 2013!

cute find

my day started really early today! my colleague and I did market visits before our 9.30am meeting all the way in ulu mandai. and since my colleague drives, being an area we seldom go, might as well use the opportunity to do market visits. we covered 3 stores! a very productive morning!

and at one of the stores near the checkout corner this cute container with chocolates caught my attention. this froggy reminds me of one of my childhood cartoon character keroppi (is that how you spell it?) so cute and made me tempted to buy!!

Hardware shop (318/365)

I was at a hardware shop, looking for red items to take a picture of and i chanced upon this. I always wondered, is it true that only guys know how to handle such tools? is i8t true that only guys can make sense of such tools? because when i look it it, it just spells boring to me but the boy can go on and on, talking about the various uses of this. guys must have paid more attention during D&T classes when they were younger. then again. or maybe God just bui8ld them this way, to handle tools.

stereotyping

happy deepavali to my Hindu friends!

i don't have a deepavali related picture so thought I post this instead. well Indians are known to be very good drinkers you see =p our Indian friends openly declare that among themselves so I'm not being racist here. apparently there's some study that showed that there's something in the genetic make up of Indians who make them more tolerant to alcohol. not sure how reliable the research is.

I'm just thankful for a public holiday! so this is a really short week! enjoy!

Mr and Mrs (317/365)

The red part of the cup is inside! Pardon my not so good photo taking skills. You know it is not easy to try to take a picture secretly in someone's shop. You appear to be suspicious when u secretly take a picture like that.

anyway, wedding bells are ringing in office and my colleague was asking me what kind of gift she should get for another colleague. I told her can get the Mr and Mrs cups... and then i chanced upon this. there is even a bible verse inside the cup. i like it! 

drug awareness campaign?

it started with this green ribbon campaign in primary school and I remember literally wearing a green and white ribbon on our pinafores. I think this is a drug awareness campaign. can't really remember though. nowadays, there's so many different colour campaigns. there's the yellow ribbon project, there's pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness etc.

so this is supposed to be a green ribbon pin, sorry the colour turn out bluish. but well, this post is to show how these kind of initiatives have involved and sprout up over the years. so what cause are you supporting?

Invitation (316/365)

I got an invitation for co-worker's night for helping out in church earlier this year. Usually i won't think of going as it falls on New Year's Eve. But this year, i'm prompted to go because i know next year i won;t have a chance to serve in church due to my busy schedule. Need to start to know more people in church! So that i know who to look for when i need help!

Quiznos@changi airport

I blogged about Quiznos before and raving at how much I love it, especially the free flow honey mustard sauce. so after sending my friend off at the airport, I had set my mind to go to terminal 1 and have my Quiznos! well Quiznos have very few branches in Singapore and now that I've changed office, I haven't been eating Quiznos.

what a disappointment I got though :( apparently the Quiznos at the airport is of a different franchise as the one I usually patronize at novena and now more recently the citylink one. firstly the selection of bread is only between white or wheat. If I want my usual Parmesan bread, i'll have to pay an extra 50cents. what?! ok it's only 60 cents but still! at the other branches i get to choose from 4 different types of bread at no extra cost!

in addition, they do not have the sauces that is largely the thing I love about Quiznos. they only serve free flow chilli sauce. what the hell -_- no honey mustard, no red wine vinaigrette :( im so upset. the changi airport franchise should really look into their offerings and customer service. I am a dissatisfied customer!

Gummy bear from candylicious (315/365)

I got cheated! I bought gummies from candylicious, seeing that it is 100g for $5. I was thinking to myself, were gummies always so expensive to begin with? Because in the past, when i was still a very young girl, i would pester my mum to get it, not knowing how much she paid for it. I was feeling guilty when i paid $5 for a packet of 100g gummies (only a few pieces somemore!) because i thought i wasted alot of my mum's money.

Little did i know, gummies from Candylicious are expensive!!! normal price from 7-11 can get $2.50 for 100g or if you go mini toons, you can even get it below $2, i heard. oh my!!!!

Wafflelicious

its probably cos of the lighting and the camera but the ice cream is pistachio and it supposed to be green. it looked green in real live! haha.

so my friends and I made a trip down to Thomson and had supper at Wafflelicious. our initial objective was to try out little pancakes but they changed their opening hours and close earlier than was stated online. so we had to settle for Wafflelicious which opened till 1am.

it was disappointing though. the ice cream felt too icy and not rich enough. the waffles was flat and bland. we had the chocolate as well as the blueberry waffles. both were so-so, not anything to rave about. my friends and i unanimously agreed that we will not be coming back again..

green luggage

following yesterday's post, I saw a really apt luggage that really suits me! I love this lime green suitcase! good for short trips as a carry-on. so tempted to get it but my white carry-on is still pretty new and serving me ok. besides its pretty too. just that you know I'm biased towards green. I really love this! maybe when xiao bai spoils, I'll buy myself this!

as you can see, I'm posting consecutive posts on travels. I'm habit travel withdrawal symptoms!!
need my dose soon!!

Artwork (314/365)

I am assigned to take care of the children in my cell today and i prepared christmas artwork for them. Seriously, i', never good at taking care of children, much less plan a lesson or activity for them. I thought artwork was the easiest and also what can be so difficult with some coloring and cutting and gluing.

Oh boy, how wrong i was. For one, the kids' ages was ranged from 1 year to 11 years old. They hated coloring. Someone even commented that coloring was only meant for kindergarten and that she outgrew of it. I had a 4 year old only interested in cutting and gluing. She of course made a mess of herself, glue everywhere, even sticking her pants. So with no control over the children, all running about, throwing ball they found in the room, i decided to do this piece of artwork myself. I think i looked pitiful enough because 2 of them came to help me after that. And now, this pretty thing is hanging on my door in my house, courtesy of 2 of the kids.

Robinsons member sale (313/365)

This is exclusive private sale, only meant for Robinsons member. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Robinsons member. My colleague is though and i understand that all members who were sent an exclusive invitation get to go into such sale and they can bring along 4 persons of their choice. Lucky me!

I have to admit, the things are all really cheaper and good. BUT! Robinsons stuff are never cheap to begin with so after the sale, it is steep discount but still costly for that item. Then again, if you go for certain brands of working shirt or if you want to buy gifts for Christmas, this kind of sale should not be missed!

getaways are always welcomed

I like this little suitcase and its words. reminds me that I need a short getaway! ok maybe not need but a short getaway is always welcomed. although I've gone a few trips this year they are all places I've been to! I wanna go new places! and am always itching to travel!! I wish I had a job that allowed me to go new places all the time and have my passport filled with chops. I need to have one good long trip!!

Artificial plant (312/365)

I saw this red fig looking thing near the elevator today. I think it serves as an ornament. Its redness is so catching that i had to take a quick picture of it before i got on the elevator.

I understand that shopping centres or even offices sometimes use artificial plants as a ornament but i simply don't get it why households will use such decorations. Maybe it is the love for plants yet don't want to maintain it or it could be people who likes plants to be other colours, other than green.

oh well..

it's another recycling bin!

as with alot of my other post, I'm an advocate for environmental friendly measures. I wish there were more recycling bins around! or more like whenever I need a recycle bin, i don't see it but when I don't need it, it's everywhere.

I'm glad to see that there are more recycling efforts around but i think Singaporeans still need to be educated about it. let's hope our citizens can be as civic minded as the Taiwanese and Japanese where they sort out their rubbish into recyclables and nonrecyclables. towards a greener earth!

Decorations everywhere (311/365)

If you go down the streets in the city area or even when you are in a shopping centre, you are bound to see decorations like these. It is the "preparing for christmas" season! And this is the season for us-- redstripesgreencircles! Everything is in red and green, how could we not help but keep taking christmasy stuff for the whole month of november and december! (i'm not saying we would)

Christmas is my favourite season! all the redness around makes me very very happy!

Bag holder

I like shopping at daiso and this was one of the random things i bought. I wanted to get a bag holder then but all those pretty ones were so expensive! like 10bucks. that was quite some time back when bag holders were still a novelty. These days you can get them really cheap and some look really fancy with gems on them.

 

This is one of the ugliest bag holder i've ever seen so far! i wonder what got into my mind for buying this! i never brought it out to use at all! but fortunately my sister found some use for them! to hang some random barangs in our room!