從吉隆坡回來的那晚，和一些老同學兼好朋友聚了聚。
朋友竟然在前一晚的半夜，波了通電話跟我確認隔日的喝茶時間。
引用恩怡的一句話 ：“使晤使緊誇張啊？”
依稀記得我們上一次的相見是在去年的農曆新年吧?
有些東西， 時間沖淡不了; 有些東西，是越久越醇的吧！
一寸光陰一寸金，寸金難買寸光陰。
難得好友相聚，當然要好好保握在一起的時光。
當機立斷，提出了明早去爬南峇山的運動計劃。
男性朋友毫無異議。至於我親愛又嘴利的小娃，委屈一下你啦！
隔日的七點半，我們四人浩浩蕩蕩往南峇山登陸。
經過大約半個小時的不斷前進，帶着小喘，我們終于成功征服南峇山的半山。
“要上山頂嗎?"
得到的回應是疑惑的眼神與一陣的搖頭。
“那太花時間了吧！（那需要三小時）我們還要去火車站吃早餐呢！”
好友們齊相聚，有備而來的我們當然不會放過這難得的機會，當然要拍拍照，留作紀念！
愉快的時光總是特別短暫， 在居鑾清閒的生活很令人懷念呀！
點擊此看看恩怡有什麽話説。
I’ve been missing for 10 over days and I’m back.
I was away. Back in my home country, Beloved Malaysia. Northern part I ventured, together with my beloved mum.
Longed for a break. Away from whatever i was doing. Enjoy the simplicity of a truly Malaysian’s life. Good Food. Great People.
Yup, I got what i wanted.
I will elaborate further on how blessed we were throughout the trip in my next few post.
I shall let the photos do the talking for the moment. *yawn*
The car that ferried me around from 20-25th Dec 2007
The places that i visited. Who can guess where are all these places?
A place of peace and tranquility
This is kind of easy isn’t it?
What is this thing exactly? Any guess?
The lovely people that made the trip so special
And of course…Not forgetting…
FOOD !!!
Stay tune for more. Time to sleep. Tata for now…
Wishes to all, a little late…
A joyful occassion, as always.
Slightly quieter than usual, without the hussle & bussle. Unlike the past many years, busy with Christmas caroling, this time i was in KL. Yet quieter. With my mum. Yet happy.
Greeted by "PAMPERS-CLAUS" early on Christmas morning together with two adorable children. Nothing can beat the joy it brought that brightened my Christmas morning.
Some of the snapshots of the Pampers-claus
I had my share of joy this Christmas. What about you?
Happy Belated Christmas 2007 !
Received an email last week titled "Team Building Gathering" a.k.a X’mas Luncheon on 17th Dec, 10.30am-2.30pm.
I was told to prepare the games for the day. Other than that, the prior itenary would be a team learning session, to fix our broken english.
Event was held mainly in the limited spaced conference room. 14 staffs, 4 student assistants and 1 temporary staff.
Our "english teacher" of the day was Eileen. She prepared a worksheet consist of 20+ Q’s with common English error for us. We were supposed to spot the mistakes and correct it.
Subject-verb agreement which operates sub-consciously was brought up to our attention. Sometimes automated operation fails hah.
Preposition that has been forgotten. Unnecessary preposition. Comma before and after a clause. The blur look on many made our director started to wonder whether we were taught of all these in school. Common mistakes like "well-wishers" and "good wishes" was highlighted. No proceed on to. Is repeatitive. Just proceed to is enough. Many of it which were so commonly found in Mediacorp or even newspaper. No wonder they say, language is alive! Unless you are taking about latin…
We had 4 games all together. The extremist, like send out candidates without knowing the category, when we were actually looking for the widest smile, strongest arm, smallest shoe size. A little get-to-know-your-colleague session. AMK won in distant while Swimming & Gyming make your arm strong. Mr.Keith won the widest smile with 8cm width while Chandra only wears a 5.5 shoe size. Amazingly small!
Usual Win-Lose-Or Draw was played with categories like movies, phrases, cartoon characters and drama series/Variety Show. Easy Bitsy for the office. A game they are too familiar with. Not challenging at all. No fun on my side. Haha.
A little Christmas Hunt in the office was fun! A list of items including wrapped presents and Christmas Socks were included. A Christmas pouch was presented while another drew the Christmas Socks. Wrapped presents under the Christmas Tree deco at the main lobby were borrowed (under the supervision of the guard uncle at the lobby) while it was forgotten by another team. Getting $3.95 using 13 coins was a bit too easy for Patrick when $1 coin was allowed. An item both teams couldn’t fulfill was 2 Samsung handphones. Only 1 person in the whole office uses Samsung handphone. Careless on our side! Getting 3 stuffed toys was not challenging at all. Having a stuffed toy around has become an necessity in the office. It was really fun seeing them runnning around in the office gathering stuffs, working together to beat the 5 minutes limit. Although both couldn’t present the complete list of items, it was of good effort.
The last game we played was Christmas Card Making Session. There was a 15 minutes time limit and the team must sing Christmas Carols while they make the card. The team must send in one representative to present their "creation" and describe why Corporate Communication Office should use the design. You will be surprise by the number of carols (including the lyrics) one can memorise. I observed there were basically three types of people when it comes to teamwork. 1. The leader or commander. 2. The hardworker. 3. The slacker or use-eyes-to-work type. Two innovative Christmas Cards were well presented by Director Tan and Keith.
One interesting thing i observed was, when we were annoucing the winner for the card making session, they started to cheer for their team. This was not seen in the games conducted earlier on.
My conclusion: you will only feel the pride of the card and be proud of your own team when you are involved in the making/when you feel the belonging.
The Christmas Card Making Session marked the end of the whole CCO Christmas Luncheon. I’m glad that they enjoyed the games and we got to know each other better through the games.
Corporate Communication Office Staffs
Oh, how can a foodie lover like me forget to show you a glimpse of what we had for the luncheon?
I’m really sorry because i was busy preparing the games session, that was the reason why i didn’t shoot the full range of food as individuals. Some of the food feathured in the picture are Fried Rice, Braised Vegetables with Carrot and Mushrooms, Thai Green Curry Chicken, Sweet and Sour Dory Fillet, Prawn Roll, and Home-made Otah with Okra. Some food not shown in picture are Singapore Style Mee Siam (with gravy), Fried Softshell Crab with homemade gravy and Bor Bor Cha Cha.
It was a simple Christmas Luncheon with simple buffet layout. As many were on leave (year end annual leave clearing season), we were all fed to our max!
For the sports enthusiasts.
For those who are looking for oppurtunity to shred some weight.
For better health.
For the sake of hall glory.
December is the season.
Christmas ???
Nope.
Thanksgiving then ???
Nope.
What then ?
For those who have been staying in hostel in NTU, they should know. Now is the IHG Season.
What’s IHG ?
IHG = Inter-Hall Games. Different hall would come together to fight for the glory of becoming the champion for the IHG. It is an annual event held in the month of December. Gathering all the cream of hall in Sports to play for the glory of thy hall. No necessary cream of hall, actually. I’m pretty sure the sports secretaries of each hall are willing to accept players from all faculties with an Super Open Arm as long as they are willing to commit to the trainings and the competition itself.
I remembered when I was back in year 1 in 2005, it was an exciting time.
Seniors and juniors would come together for training, rain or shine, without fail. Competitions were stiff and hall residents would go down to support the match even when they were not involved in the game, just to give morale support and to cheer the players on.
If you wish to know who played the hardest? Look at their skin colour. One can turned dark or even as black as the tar-road in just one month. Kudos to QL, our dedicated all-rounded all time star player.
Isotonic drinks were prepared, ice-cubes were extremely important for injury-prone game like hockey and soccer, bread & bananas for early game at 8.30am. Umbreallas for the supporters. Green bottles with stones in it for some hall to create their sound effects. Dressing in code colour of their respective hall.
Different halls behave differently. Some were ultra friendly and helpful. Some were snobbish which i would not mention here. When we didn’t have enough gloves for softball, hall 13 came to our rescue. This time round, hall 5 male softball IVP gave us emergency tuition on rules of softball and we crashed course last evening.
We were worried. The newbies didn’t have boots. The field was muddy. It was slippery. They helped us to the extent of lending us their ladies’ boots.
All these shall remained as the memories of the IH Season.
I still remember when Hall 8 Softball Females got into the finals of IHG, our captain and three seniors cried. Xiao Bin, Xiao Min, Max and Jobeth. Over-joyed! Efforts finally being paid off. It was all worth while. It was a Saturday evening match and the final was scheduled on the next day, Sunday, 8.30am. Nuts? No rest for us. Remembering that i had to sms my church leader for an emergency absent for my duty on Sunday for the match. I wouldn’t want to miss it. It might be my only chance, my only time in IHG final.
None can deny that it was fun. Exciting. Anticipating for winning the game. Disappointment when losing the game. We cheered and we panicked. We laughed and we cried. We had no regrets. We did our best. There were still some differences from the amateurs team and the seasoned players.
We trained from newbie. We learnt the game through trainings, real play and mini games. Throwing, catching and fielding were new to all of us except Xiao Bin (Captain), Xiao Min, Jobeth & Max. None of us knew the game, at all.
Slow pitch was played in IH, for the amateur. We were willing to train. We were bonded through the training. Xiao Bin kept reminding us softball is a team game. We needed to trust our teammates, that they would be able to catch the ball we throw. As teammate, your responsibility was to make sure you give a good throw that your teammate could catch. No wild throw. Training was needed. Trust was built. Friendship was fostered through days and nights of training. It was tough work but it was fun. An pure enjoyment of the game than the competition itself.
Bravos to Hall 8 Softball Female 2006… You did great!
I am being nolstalgia…
2007, Hall Life has become a different story for me.
Priority in my NTU life has took a turn. Looking back for the past two years, i’ve lose a lot and i’ve gained much. Good friends in hall 8 was one of the best rewards.
But trading my holidays in December for IH wasn’t my priority anymore.
I needed a break before i am off from NTU for two years.
My brain had enough of figures and such (not referring to IH).
My purse felt cheated when it got thinner.
Bank account protested.
Holidays is all I wanted. Anyone is buying me a trip? *hint hint*
Time freedom is my desire.
IH came last in the competition of self-interest.
I’m sorry.
I tried to commit. Squeezing in every bit of my time left for softball. I was only able to present in 2 trainings.
All prepared for today’s game against hall 9. I was running late for the game.
I was hosting games for my office’s X’mas Luncheon. I couldn’t get away. Responsibility.
And there I was, running from Nanyang Audi to SRC, drenched in the rain, like a crazy woman. My heart was with the team but my new found responsibility in my job didn’t allow me to.
Just in time to see my team taking picture. We won, 5-4. Nothing to be proud of, good game nonetheless. Mud-covered team. They played in the rain.
Good job girls! Though I wasn’t able to play, it was a good start. Long way to go girls…All the best!
It’s a bright Saturday morning, surprisingly. It has been raining for more than a week now. Most of the time, it will start raining at around 11am, until the next day. From drizzling from heavy downpour, it just couldn’t stop raining.
OOps…Here comes the rain at 2pm. Haha, speak of the devil hah!
Had a good night sleep despite waking up at 3.30am, feeling nausea. It must be the cake and milk from the night before. My stomach couldn’t take creamy stuff (come to think about ice-cream and cheesecake) since my diarrhoe last Sunday. I think I probably should keep myself away from the sweet bites for the time being.
It has been a really boring week. Day-in and day-out from work. I wasn’t in the mood of working out in the gym. Too lazy to go swimming. Feeling even more lethargy with the rainy weather. Just feel like snuggle in my not-too-warm blanket.
Here comes Friday. Yeah, time for a movie. Alvin and the Chipmunks seems like a good choice. Indeed, it was a happy movie. Bring a smile for everyone sitted in the theatre, including me, especially Me holding the sweet popcorn in my hand!
Popcorn does fill you up! It did, at least to me. I haven’t been feeling too well, especially appetite wise. Eating a little fills me up. I merely had 1/4 of the popcorn, or slightly more and I didn’t have space for dinner.
In the end, decided to have a slice of cake at Coffee Bean. Looking at their cake selection, the cake-gluttony in me was awaken! Mixed-berries Meringue, Chocolate Toblerone, Traditional Carrot Cake, Christmas Pudding and Log Cake etc. were calling out for me. I wanted to try their carrot cake for some time for now but the Mixedberries Meringue is for a litmited season only, i think. So i ordered the meringue. I wanted to try their Chocolate Toblerone as well, but i was going to have the cake on my own. Looking at my condition, i doubt my stomach could take it (no space, no appetite, even for my fav cake!). So the Mixed-Berries Meringue was the only order.
My friend ordered a cup of Hot Caramel Latte which was very rich. I love Coffee Bean’s Coffee! Simply delicious.
The slice of cake came with a little reindeer on it. To my dismay, the slice of cake was spoilt, at the center portion where the mixedberries were. The berries was too moist, i supposed, which led to the spoilage of the slice. Brought it to the attention of the barista, they exchanged a new slice at no cost.
The Mixed-Berries Meringue, with rasberry and strawberry (hope i didn’t miss out any) in the middle was tasty nonetheless. The layer of not that soft sponge cake in the middle didn’t appeal to my palate. The thick and generous layer of creamcheese layer didn’t fail to satisfy me. But a tad too sweet even for my high sweet tolerance. The layer of meringue tasted a little like marshmallow.
In case you don’t know what is meringue, it means a delicate, frothy mixture made with beaten egg whites and sugar or hot syrup, and browned, used as a topping for pies, pastry, etc.
After tasting the cup of caramel latte, i couldn’t resist but to order a cup of non-caffeine drink. Didn’t feel like having any dose of caffeine. I couldn’t decide to have hot chocolate or hot vanilla. Hot vanilla which tasted more like a cup of sweetened milk was my choice.
I LOVE MILK! i must say… I hadn’t been drinking any dairy product after my diarrhoe and fever last Sunday. Been drinking Teh-O from Canteen A. The vanilla wasn’t distinct but the foamy milk was lovely. I love the feeling on savouring a cup of warm milk on a cold winter night.
Oops…No winter in Singapore. It’s cold rainy night. The warm, closed to hot cup of milk sent warmth down my spine, right into my heart, keeping me warm inside out. I think a cup of warm yummy milk keep the loneliness of staying in Singapore without my family at bay. I always remember my dad would always make me a cup of hot milk (from Fernleaf milk powder) at night when i was young or when i couldn’t get to sleep. Missing home again…
Sometimes, things just do not change even after two and a half years.
I still miss home.
On my way back hall yesterday, I was surprised to see two security uncle standing at the corner of the other end of my block, where another staircase was located. I must say my curiosity level is quite low, unless it is food. I didn’t bother about it.
Saw QL at level 3 while looking down from level 5.
Me: "Why is everyone at level 3?"
QL: " You want to see a snake?"
Me: "I want! I want! Where? Where?"
QL: "Come down level 3. At the staircase there, sure can see."
Me: "Ok! Coming down now."
To my horror, i saw a 4-5 metres long snake at the corner right beside the rubbish bin. It was think. It was big. It was long. Motionless.
Went straight up to grab my camera & took a few snaps. But then i realised that the picture didn’t justify its size. Haiz. Seeing is believing, but photo might be deceiving.
Apparently the snake was there since 5pm and the pest control people hadn’t arrive!
While waiting for the arrival of the pest control people, i saw the position where the snake curled up, the scales were opened up.
"Oh I see. The snake was changing its skin."
At 8pm, the pest control men arrived, without any tools except for a small bucket (as big as the 10L paint bucket). "oh no… they must hadn’t been told of the size of the snake!"
I was correct. They were shocked when they saw the snake. A 5 metres pyton!
There was only one "UPs" guy(most of the action throughout the episode was doner by this guy), as described by Glennis. He was the one who disturbed the snake before the snake tried to make its way of escape, towards the little forest hill right behind our block (i think that’s where it came from). The "UPs" guy managed to grab the last part of its tail and you can see he was struggling with the snake. It was like tug-a-war. The snake was strong! The "UPs" guy couldn’t pull it up until his teammates joined him in the tug-of-war. It gave me an adrenaline rush when seeing them pulling the snake back!
The snake tried to attack and made its first noise! Quickly it tamed down and tried to escape by moving towards the corridor where the rest of the "UPs" guy teammates were. It got no way to escape. It turned and tried to move into a room but the room was locked. It was trapped at the shoe rack area, right between the room door and the corridor.
It finally quietened down.
The pest control guys used a white cloth to cover the pyton’s head and the "UPs" guy grabbed its head to prevent it from moving. Two of his teammates carried the body and together they placed it into the rubbish bin (remember? the pail they brought was way too small).
Four of them carried the rubbish bin away and this marked the end of the whole episode.
Updated 15/12/2007: The "UPs" guy came and collected the CD with the videos we recorded for the "Pyton Episode in Block 43". He was actually so nice to buy me 3 little croissant pastry from Polar Bread. A little raisin snail with halved cherry on top and 2 blueberry custard croissant. It has been a while since i had Polar’s Pastry and this is the second time. A little kind gesture warmth my heart! ^o^
They are my parents and brother. They are the most precious people in my life. No money can buy, the time and laughter we shared with one another. It is no surprise that they made it as National Treasure!
National Treasure : Book of Secrets is coming out. Check out www.bookofsecrets.com.sg for more details.
It was New Creation Church servers Thanksgiving Service yesterday.
I rushed down from work but due to the distant, i only managed to reach The Rock close to 7pm and there was already a huge crowd at the foyer.
Food attract people, don’t they? Especially one can have good fellowship at the same time.
I’ve been attending New Creation Church for almost two and a half years till now. Started serving in Children Ministry in late May or early June 2006.
My reason to serve? My God first loved us and I want to serve.
At that same time, I rarely had any friends in church. I wasn’t a regular in Care Group. I love my church and the Word but there wasn’t any sense of belonging other than that. I didn’t want to be just another passerby, coming to church every Sunday and disappear for the rest of the week. I saw the need in serving in a ministry.
Prayed. God heard. Doors opened. God sees your desire.
I’m really privileged to be able to serve in children ministry. I heard it is not easy to get in. They select their servers especially for children ministry. Not because of strong competition. My church is a huge church. It is for the children’s safety.
Before i started serving, I’ve been told by Teacher Jenny, my ministry leader, that all servers are encouraged to tithe. Although i had been attending the NCC faithfully for more than 6 months (a basic requirement set by the church before you apply to serve in any of the ministry), i hadn’t been tithing at all. It wasn’t i didn’t know why i need to tithe, it just that i had no income then.
I told Teacher Jenny. This was her answer and it encouraged me (even till now), "Dear, when you tithe with what little you have, God sees it and I believe He’ll multiply it."
" Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,
that there may be meat in mine house,
and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts,
if I will not open you the windows of heaven,
and pour you out a blessing,
that there shall not be room enough to receive it."
Malachi 3:10
I started to tithe faithfully.
I looked back, I realised I’ve been so blessed in so many areas of my life.
This is not the end.
I believe God will bless me in ALL area of my life!!!
Financially blessed. Not that i’m mighty rich now, but neither do i need to count to the cents i spend. Always on a budget, still very thrifty in my spending, yet i can afford to buy gifts for friends on their birthdays, complete my Christmas gift list and buying myself a good meal when i hang out with my friends (but i rarely go out).
Blessed with a lot of good job lobang, from events crew, ad-hoc worker in Changi airport, English tutor, telemarketer, toys & hair product promoter, simultaneous interpreter and now, student helper under the events department of Corporate Communication Office of NTU. My parents and my brother said i’m resourceful. I thought Yea, I am resourceful. I found all the jobs by my own strength. Until last night, during the service, it struck me. I knew it was God’s favour upon me that i got all the jobs so far. But as time goes by, I no longer acknowledge it anymore. It just slipped off my mind, after studying and working (even during term time) for almost 2 years, that it was all by God, from God. I started to fill myself with, MYSELF. Started to believe (which was so wrong) that i got the job because of my own ability and capability. Oh No… I’m missing out here. I was reminded and true enough, actually it was all God’s favour and blessing. It was undeserved, unmerited favour of God. It was God’s goodness and faithfulness.
"Special mention to Yi Liang, who has been very supportive and understanding;
Alvin, who let me treat his fridge like my own;
QinLong, who is always so caring towards everyone around him;
and of course,
QQ, who found me my first tuition job with really good pay."
I couldn’t express in word how bless am I to be able to serve in Children Ministry. The kids are such a blessing to me. They are so precious. In church, I’m not alone anymore. I have friends. I have the kids. Christine, June, Karen, Merlyn, Sharon, Simon, Nancy, Jenny C & Jenny S, Michelle, Emilyzoe, Kim and so many more. If i were going to mention name by name, it would the whole post *haha*
Yesterday, Pastor Prince prayed a blessing over all servers at the end of the service. He reminded me that God is a practical God. He gave the fisherman fishes when they could get none the whole night and He gave the little bread, which the boy needs (to eat and grow,hehe). He said "Ask from Him, and when you get it, you’ll know that it is from God."
"A little prayer was said. I’ll know it’s from God when i get it."
As usual, i pondered over last night Thanksgiving Service and Pastor Daren message during my bathtime this morning. 1 Chronicles 12 and 1 Chronicle 13 were actually not arranged in chronogical order, there was a time lapse between the 2 chapters. 1 Chronicle 12 talks about the people come together to make David as King. 1 Chronicle 13 talks about bringing back the ark of God.
"Huh?" You may ask. The essence is in people came together, to make David king. "No people coming together, no making of King Davdi". It was a server thanksgiving service. Pastor Daren was actually addressing us, servers, on the part we play in each and every of our ministry.
1 Chronicles 12:38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
That could keep rank… Those who could faithfully serve in the position we are in, in respective ministry.
The passage continued with the different abilities of the 12 tribes. Yup, even we are serving in different ministry, with different talents. We function differently but we are one body of Christ, serving our King, Jesus! It all makes sense now, isn’t it? Maybe not to you, but as long as i can get the point. *Sorry, i’m always not good at passing the message down, it might get distorted*
Anyway, in case you still can’t get my point, the point is : Every server plays a unique role in ones ministry. Many parts, One body.
I’m so blessed!
"…Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever."
Psalms 23:6
Oh… Did I mention that Church served us with sumptuous Christmas Dinner, from chicken to duck to beef to fried ebi (prawn) and softshell crab! There were 5 really LOOOoooG buffet lines serving 2000+ servers from various ministry. It was the longest buffet spread i’ve seen for private function. At least 8 metres long!
And i had received my first two Christmas presents yesterday *smile*
It was raining for the past many days. Mum said it is Monsoon season.
Again, working until 5+pm close to 6pm hoping the rain would become drizzy, or stop completely.
Nope, it didn’t. It was a heavy down pour at 6pm at NTU. I forgot my umbrealla.
MSNed my friend in school for dinner. Nope, not free.
Another friend in school was going home for dinner, should have told her earlier.
SMSed my angel in hall to check if he could be my saviour. Nope, he was out.
Thoughts were running across my mind on my way walking towards Canteen A,
I reached Canteen A Bus Stop unknowingly and still couldn’t make up my mind. Shuttle bus not in sight but here came 179. Instinctively boarded the bus even i knew that i would be going there, alone and not really sure what do I want to do.
I couldn’t recall when was the last time that i did such thing. Neither could i remember when was the last time i went to town. I couldn’t even remember when was the last time i go window shopping aimlessly but carefreely without time constraint. I wonder was it in July, when I was working as telemarketer? That was the only time I remember i had all the time in the world to ask friend out for dinner and such. It’s been a while huh?
It was chaotic at the passageway towards JP. Narrow sheltered way with a major human traffic jam. It was due to the puddle of water at the side of the pathment and there was a handicapped uncle right in the middle of the path singing and playing guitar.
Took some time to walk the 50m distant, but i had the time. From Breadtalk, Giordano, Perlini’s Silver, to Casio, Swatch, Moshi Moshi etc., I visited each and everyone of them in JP.
I also visited Esprit and saw a really nice handbag, available in white and grey colour. Both are really nice! But it came with a cost too. Too Ex for me. I could only feed my eyes with it. But it was enough for me. As usual-lah.
I was in time to catch Tom & Jerry live show. It was funny and it reminded me how my brother & I love to watch the cartoon together when we were young. Made full use of my hp recording function, video’ed it down for self-entertaining in future.
Oh ya, i hadn’t finish my Christmas Shopping. My Godmummy and my good friend’s birthday cum x’mas gifts still on the list.
Oops…Quickly did some Christmas shopping, decided to buy perfume for my Godmummy. It was really hard to choose because i was not sure what kind of fragrant she liked. After multiple times of smelling MANY MANY fragrances, i finally set my eyes on Kylie Minogue’s Darling. Then I saw something which my friend requested from me a long long time ago so I bought it though i knew it was overpriced.
As my usual self, I rather spend my money earned on others than on myself. I was pretty well supplied or i didn’t have much needs. God supplies it all, Amen!
But, I was hungry… and actually i was craving for something…
TUNG YUAN !!!
I couldn’t resist my craving. It led me to Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao. If it was my oldself, before i had the current job, i wouldn’t even have the thought of coming to Crystal Jade. I must count everything to the cents before i spend. Seriously, I really thank God for blessing me in every area of my life, financially, friends, church etc. I’m so much more blessed financially than i used to be two and a half years ago when i first came to Singapore.
Digress… That’s another story all together. Anyway, served and sitted, the waitress was suprised i was alone. Seldom she sees people coming alone, i supposed.
Sitted and started looking around, La Mian and Xiao Long Bao are the most frequent ordered dishes. Stomach growling. Feeling slightly hungry. Browsing through the menu. La mian was calling out for me but i doubted, i was almost 100% certain i couldn’t finish one bowl when i’m hungry. Let alone i wasn’t that hungry! Suddenly i missed my eating partner, who could wallop almost everything that I couldn’t finish.
After some good 5-10 mins, i sticked back to my original plane. I ordered 姜茶汤圆 Sweet Glutinous Dumpling in Ginger Soup $3.50, served hot. I waited for almost 10-15 mins for its arrival. As usual, took some picture while waiting. Again i took the picture of it before i started consuming it. Hardcore blogger. New found interest in blogging ok?
Here you go…
姜茶汤圆 Sweet Glutinous Dumpling in Ginger Soup came with only two glutinous tang yuan in it. *disappointed* I thought there should be three. Not sure. Never eaten.
The ginger soup was concentrated and slightly oversweet but with a very nice fragrance in it. Nice and delicious nontheless. The ginger soup tasted tangyly fresh and it was brown in colour. I supposed they cooked the ginger soup upon order using fresh ginger (by pounding it?) and they used brown or red sugar instead of the nromal white sugar. The 汤圆 tang yuan was soft with black sesame fillings and the skin wasn’t too thick. It was made closed to perfection. Most probably it was handmade tang yuan because most packet tang yuan’s skin were too thin and they couldn’t hold the ingredients inside so the paste would burst out upon the first bite. This one, you could still chew the QQ skin made with glutinous rice flour.
A simple hot dessert that had won my heart over since young!
It was a pleasant me and myself session. I had a good time with myself, with lots of window shopping and eating one of my favourite food. I love my simple way of life.
Who says one can’t have fun with oneself ???
PS: I wanted to buy loaf bread from Crystal Jade My Bread because of its discount after 8.30pm but it was almost sold out. I think it is the Prima Deli after effect.
PPS: Spending is a lot easier than the earning process. Christmas is a season of buying. So many people on my Christmas list… *cry*
