Night Safari

Singapore is considered quite successful when it comes to wild life conservation. Recently we visited Night Safari with some friends. The thrill started with Bongo Burger dinner & fire dance.

Upon making our grand entrace into the park, we headed straight to the Night Show. In the middle of the animal show, a giant snake escape from the cage & scared the hell out of kp. haha... After the show, we took a tram around the park. Most of the animals are from the family of cows, deers or pigs. Lazy & tame. Hyena is the only active ones. Also witness a giant flying squirrel flew above my head, once.

Let's Welcome 2012

Wife's friend invited us to East Coast Park for BBQ count down dinner. She booked a room at Goldkish Resort. Maybe can consider going there again. Met her family members for the first time. Found them fun & friendly.
9pm drove to Gardens by the Bay East. Plenty of parking space available. Spent 1.5 hours sitting in the park. By the time we left, the queue entering the park already built up. Next year need to come prepared. Must bring some snacks, KFC, drinks etc.
On 1 Jan, we started our new year in the house of God! Went to church had a nice sermon. On this special day, we also found the best (so far) Ipoh kuey teow soup & fried kuey teow at PappaMia.
After a short rest back home, we are going to RWS. AGAIN? This is the 4th time since Dec 2011.
Dinner place is a new found option, Chuck Wagon at Portsdown Road. Lamb rack was good. Probably because we haven't been eating lamb rack for a while. One North is becoming more on.

Merry Christmas 2011

Merry Christmas!!

This year Christmas falls on Sunday so the following Monday is a public holiday. Due to predictable bad weather, we decided to stay in Singapore during the long weekend.

On 24 Dec, we visited Maritime Museum, RWS. This musuem showcase the history of a famous voyage by Cheng Ho & the story around the places he passed by.

Maritime Museum

Cheng Ho's ship in the background

In the evening, we had Verve Pizza at Marina Bay. A band was performing Christmas Carolling at the open space for FREE. After dinner, we took a stroll and only then we realized how bustling MBS has become.

Christmas eve dinner at Verve Pizza

Strolling by the Bay

On 26 Dec morning, we head to Gardens By the Bay, East. This garden is next to Marina Bay Golf Club. Overseeing many landmark, including MBS, Singapore Flyer, Marina Barage & new conservatory, therefore officially the best 拍拖胜地 in Singapore. Perfect for couple to spend quality time. One little set back, this place is not accessible by public transport.

The toilet behind is quite cool

 We stopped the car and kinda nuah inside for a while before moving on for lunch.

What happen between Oct 07- Sep 09 - Apr 2010

I better blog this down before my memory fails me

Oct 07 Fly to Munich by Thai Airways
Mac 08 Went Paris with dorby using Air Berlin
Aug 08 Came back to Sin
Sep 08 Fly from BKK to Muc using LTU
Jan 09 Went to London for a short trip by Lufthansa
Mar 09 Fly back from MUC-KL by emirates for ROM and Internship at BKK for 3 months
July 09 Fly back to MUC to finish the thesis
Sep 09 Fly back to SG via Emirates
Nov 09 Wedding ceremony KK-KL
Jan 10 CNY
Mac 10 Home renovation
Apr 10 Move into Clementi

Exiled to Togo for 1 month

I was on a biz trip to Togo for a month. The living condition there is quite bad. Its hot and dry, the air is polluting and the streets without the traffic signal. The Ibis hotel here is pathetic but its consider very good in Africa standard. There are lots of mosquito here. Long waiting time at CDG for Lome-Paris-Sin (A380)Transportation is not convinient and its hard to walk under the hot sun. Lucky there is internet here but slow connection. At least I can give my wife a call. Weekend in Togo is really boring, I would rather be in the office. The main language is French and it's hard to communicate. Things here are pretty pricy since its peg to Euro. A can of coke cost about EUR 0.40 if you buy it from a supermarket. But supermarket are far in between. This place feels like KL in the 1950s.  I would like to go home as soon as possible.................

The BEST hotel around. Ibis!!

I look so depressed

OpenNet is still open

When is fibre coming???
Installation has been postponed several times
Mar 2010
Aug 2010
Mar 2011
Aug 2011
Nov 2011 argh...

In the end we got the hou liu Mio Home 6 mbps on oct 2011 for sgd 49.90. hehe... now got HD entertainment at home although internet still not very fast at 6 Mbps. In dec 2012 we upgraded the mio home to 10mbps. In march 2013 i bought a samsung smart tv.....
Cheaper than my first sharp tv bog during feb 2010

Open net finally installed in june 2012. What a long wait for fibre. But fibre subscription of 100 Mbps is going to cost SGD 69.90. Fibre is getting cheaper by the day now 200 mbps just sgd 39.90.

 In 2013 I subscribe to starhub cable broadband with free hd setup box for 25 sgd for 30 Mbps. The speed was slow because of too many device connected to it. After Oct 2015 I terminated the starhub and no more hd content to watch. 

In the end got m1 fiber 100 Mbps for 29 sgd in Jul 2014. Not very fast but it will do for now until 2016. upgrade to  fibre 1 Gbps for 39 sgd in june 2016 ... Hehe big speed jump. Stick to m1 for 1 for 1 sunday movie at shaw

Hangzhou free & easy... Is not free & not easy

Once again we got ourselves a good deal. Return trip to Hangzhou is like S$430 for 2 pax on Jetstar. But there is a set back. Flight touching down Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport at 11:35pm. OH NO! It's another midnight flight. There will be no public transport out from the airport. Should we book a limo cab like what we did in Taipei?

This time we really have to plan our itinerary. So many ???? in my mind. Where to stay?? China is very big. I want to eat Xiao Fei Yang.

Mar 1 (Thu)
Most likely leaving office at 3pm. Just in time to catch our flight.
Touch down at 11.35pm. Navigate a little around. Must figure out how to get out from there.

Mar 2 (Fri) Hangzhou
Morning - check in and rest
Afternoon - Take a train to Shanghai
Argh... How to take bus? Should we just take taxi?


Mar 3 (Sat) Shanghai
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Mar 4 (Sun) Suzhou
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Mar 5 (Mon) Shanghai
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Night - Back to Hangzhou

Mar 6 (Tue)
Morning - Roam around Hangzhou.
Night - Reach airport by latest by10pm to catch a midnight flight back to Singapore

Mar 7 (Wed)
Flying~~~
Return home by 6am. I want to sleep for the rest of the day. Don't intend to work.