Dinner @ Jumbo

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We went to Jumbo Restaurant at East Coast Park for dinner today. It's been years since I last visited this restaurant. There is alot of changes to the outlook and feel of the restaurant. I wondered what kept them going after so many years. I won't say that all of their seafood are fantastic. Anyway, let's enjoy seeing the pictures of FOOD...

That's mummy with her new bag that we bought for her.

This is 象拔棒 (Geoduck Clam). When I first ate it, I fell in love with it.

This is an expensive dish. There are two ways of eating it.

One is sashimi style and the other way is to slightly cook it in soup.

The shell of the clam. This clam weights about 1.3kg.

It cost about $103 but it's GOOD.

Brother ordered this abalone for mummy in additional to the present.

Quite soft and tasty though it's small in size. We ate the gravy with a bowl of white rice too.

Just simply delicious.

麦片虾 (Cereal Prawns).

Ehh...the cereal smells good, taste good.

Think nothing about the prawns cause my mind is still with the Geoduck Clam.

A dish that will not be missing for celebration is Crabs.

We ordered two different-style-cooking Crabs.

Singapore famous Chili Crab and the not so famous Pepper Crab.

Both crabs that we ordered are with crab roe. Yummm.

And how can we eat chili crab without 馒头(bun), yeah.

That's little brother who requested me to take a picture of him eating that crab roe.

And that is the end product. Lol. It looks like some neo-print.

This baby squid is not as nice as the ones at Newton Circus.

A complete meal comes with vegetables.

On the left is 豆苗 (don't the name in english) and the right is Kang Kong.

豆苗 is well stir fried, not so salty. Yay yay! As for the kang kong, not spicy enough.

扬州炒饭 (Yangzhou Fried Rice).

Dad and dearest needs rice to be full. lol.

Me and mum on the right photo and a family photo.

After dinner, we went to Toa Payoh Central cause mum wanted to get herself some hairdye and at the same time I went to NTUC to get some cold fishballs (Longan). When we got home, we use the homemade ice cream cake that brother and me make to celebrate mum's birthday. Alright, I only did the crust and I had some complains about it. Hope mummy really enjoy this day and hope she will be happy always.

The ice cream cake was so hard that the whole cake can be lifted without a plate support.

Dearest illustrated the hardness of the cake in the picture on the extreme right.

Mummy's Birthday

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It is mummy's special day today. We bought her a pink Guess bag which she saw it some time ago but didn't buy it. The little one went down to OG to get the bag. Didn't manage to plan her birthday dinner today cause me and dearest have to attend Cecilia and Huizhen's choir concert at Victoria Concert Hall. She represents her secondary as alumni. We sat 2nd row from the stage cause we want take some pictures of them singing. Managed to take only a little cause we are not allowed to take any pictures during the whole concert. Oops~

Most of their poly mates went to watch to give both of them support.

Aww~ How nice of all of them.

Both of them walking in and singing afterwards. They looked so cool up on stage.

One of them caught this guy (extreme right) from the alumni not dressing appropriately for the occassion.

My dearest felt that he don't have money to cut hair.

Dearest and his friend, Kelvin, was laughing almost through out of the concert cause one of the conductor was wearing quite a tight pants which will show her sexy underpants. Then they also saw a few "cute" students. It's either the student can't take properly or the student didn't sing as his mouth is like mumbling. I think enough talking about the students. I think i would prefer listening to muscial instruments.

Not forgetting most importantly:

Happy Birthday to Mummy!

Happy Birthday to Mummy!

Happy Birthday Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Mummy!

Done so many things today...

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Shuting and me took half day off and we met hx at bishan station then travel down to SITEX at Singapore Expo. As compared to the fair at Suntec, SITEX have nothing much really. Mostly all the big computer companies. They don't have much of those stalls that sells individual parts. I think the stuff most worth to buy is RAM. The price was cut slightly more than half. So much so on that, I was looking out for laptops. In the end, I bought myself a 15" MacBook Pro. Feeling so excited. I bought the MacBook Pro at no discount price of $3452 and add another $100 to upgrade RAM to 4GB, Office 2004:Mac and One earphone (don't know what brand). Thou don't have as much warranty as the ones selling at NTU but I think it's worth that price.

I'm so 山姑 (mountain tortise). Didn't know that they put in effort with the foam too.

I like their effort. Just make every dollar worth with that kind of outlook.

Since I don't need the earphone, I gave mine to Shuting. Hope she doesn't mind that it's cheap and hx bought a RAM for his PC too. It took us an hour to get home. While waiting for my dearest to reached my place, hx and me was having a short chat. Kind of got a handful of updates. Three of us had dinner at my place. Slightly afterwards, Kelward came to my place and we decide to catch a movie at Bishan Junction 8. We had a chat with Kelward about the dragonboat tragedy. Somehow the media wrote some things with a twist. Sigh. We are here in Singapore wanting news on them and somehow the things we know are not true. Like wth ! Change topic.

We caught Hitman at the threaters. Seriously I don't really catch the flow of the movie. There are so many question marks in my head. Sigh. Not really worth the watch. Definitely going to catch "The Enchanted" and "The Golden Compass".

The deceased of the dragonboat tragedy

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An email was sent to all staff this morning notifying us that the three deceased of the dragonboat tragedy was Nanyang Polytechnic graduates.

They are:

- Poh Boon San (Diploma in Multimedia & Infocomm Technology)

- Jeremy Goh Tze Xiong (Diploma in Electronics, Computer & Communications Engineering)

- Reuben Kee (Diploma in Digital Media Design)

My deepest heartfelt condolences to their families and friends.

Shocking News

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Heard from channel 8 news that the singapore dragonboat team was capsized by a current and causes 5 death. At that point of time, I prayed so hard that Kelward's name was not in the list. Though I might look calm on the outside, but on the inside of me I was going mad. Fortunately his name wasn't there but my heart still pounding like crazy knowing that 5 person have pass on doing sports.

Eventful day...

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Planned to make a trip down to Sim Lim Square with Shuting this morning. We are going there got get 500GB 3.5 inch portable hard disk. While waiting for Shuting, me and my brother walked to city chain and have a look at some watches. I kind of like one of the g-shock model. Anyone want to sponsor me as christmas present?

Anyway, went to Sim Lim and got alot of brochures on the way up. A few of the stores have 500GB Maxtor Basic Personal Storage pricing at $199. Most of the stores we went was out of stock except for one shop. At first the price was at $193, so we said we want two of it. The boss went to check for stock but was out of stock. He said he could still give us the same price if we were to come back on monday. But then, I don't have the time to come back so in the end I ask the boss whether we could get it today. So he said today's price is at $201, so we purchase it in the end. After all the walking and buying, I bring them to fortune centre to have minced pork noodles and then to sunshine plaza for some 点心 (tim sum).

This is Parklane Minced Pork Noodles. Order dry noodles will have a bowl of soup with one fishball.

And inside the bowl of noodles, have one dumpling. Haha. This bowl of noodles is really delicious.

Should give it a try if you haven't try it.

One order of minced pork noodles and a bowl of laksa.

This bowl of laksa is full of cockles. *Slurp!*

Another round of 鸡脚 (chicken feet). Information by my brother.

He said that the chicken feet wasn't that nice to eat.

虾饺 (Prawn dumpling) wasn't as good as the ones at Old Hong Kong Restaurant.

叉烧包 (Roast Pork Bun) and milky custard bun.

I quite like the roast pork bun there. You have to eat the bun hot else it wouldn't be nice.

The inside of the milky custard bun.

My cute brother say as compared to the ones in hong kong this isn't nice.

I'm like DUH~

Pork Ribs Cube. Nice smell and soft.

肠粉 (Cheong Fun). Two on the right is prawns and the one on the left is 叉烧 (roast pork).

I would say that the roast pork ones are better. And the prawns flavoured ones are best at Old Hong Kong.

烧卖 (Siew Mai). Don't need to say much. Not nice.

Last day for FYP students

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Today's the last day for this current batch of FYP students. They will be going to their attachment company on monday. This time round seems like they have more well known companies and are getting better pay. That is something great to hear. I wish them all best of luck. 加油!

Students preparing for their final day of presentation and submittion of work.

Finally, they ended their day with big smiles on their faces.