NMC Tour De Spore 07

A night of meeting up with old friends with some nice driving through jalan bahar to drop by kranji dam, then a disciplined lineup to Woodlands Jetty thru minor rds and finally causuarina for supper before me allan and joyce sneaked off for 2 rds of MJ.

The turnout was very healthy, 40 cars in total from the young generations to us old folks from the Alumni, not bad not bad considering the first NMC meetup was a pathetic 7 rides. Kudos to the current committee, the event was well-handled and smooth in transition, as of the past few TDSes. Its pretty awesome how the club has evolved into such decent size from the original pioneers when WT put up the 'indecent proposal' to then-SAO back in 2000.

Some of us have moved on to newer rides, while the old ones still look all shiny and sparkling.

Nevertheless, u put all together in a convoy and it makes a pretty awesome picture :)

Western Chow

I got to know this really funny guy through mian a couple of yrs back when bikes were the coolest thing in our world.

Now he's putting his glib tongue into good use being his own boss. In fact, its a father and son team. Son the creative director threw in the ideas and father the chef drove them with his culinary skills.

Only thing the place is super ulu. But once u master the way there, u will want to go back again.

Oxtail Stew

Hainanese Chicken Curry

Check them out:

Lorong Ah Soo Blk 134

Hougang Ave 1

Even got website ok. Damn professional.

www.westernchow.com

Give some support to another young budding entrepreneur~~

BatamMania

Yes its back to The Queen's hometown again~~~

And this time round we are not pulling any punches, its going to be seafood seafood and MORE seafood again.

Even hardcore The King brought along his gull medicine to combat the protein-rich food.

Thus, once we got off the boat its to Aneka Selera for the first round, an extremely old school kelong restaurant from the 70s-80s sitting on timber piles and floor slabs.

Luckily they upgraded the toilet. We used to bang sai bang jio into a hole cut nicely on the floor slab and u shoot directly into the sea.

And then you are having seafood like 200m away.

In any case... here's the food :P

At night, back to good 'o' 555 for the second, the usual same stuff.

All within a span of 5 hrs.

To top it all off, uncle brought us for supper ---> Indonesian version of German Pork Knuckles.

And it smells soooo good i couldnt help but finish half of the servings, 1 hr after a heavy dinner.

At the end of the whole thing me and dear gf got so sick of swimming creatures we vowed to stay away from seafood for the next few weeks.

BUT we will be back very soon. :)

Stanchart Run 07

Yes i'm doing it again

Mark jio-ed for the 42km run.

SIAO BO

My personal goal this time is to finish the 21km in just over 2hrs.

Last yr was 2hrs and 26mins. So i got 27mins to kill.

I reckon i start slowly now, 3 runs a week, then top it up with an upcoming ICT, I should be able to make it la.

And i managed to drag GF down with me! :)

She doing the 10km with Mrs Cheng.

It will be a milestone to get her to wake up at 5am and start running at 6am.

I think she havent realised that part yet. HAHAHA~~~

:p

Canton Wok by Chef Kang

One of the best Zi Cha in SG.

The food is wonderfully delicious and $268 for a 10-person feast is well worth every penny.

No joke, the chef really prepared a ten-person volume on every dish served.

And there was only 6 of us. Siao liao.

In the end we had to tabao the vermicelli back home.

Which is still damn good when we had it for dinner on monday after reheating.

Bacon Prawn rolls with mayonnaise

蒜 茸 珍 珠 糯 米 蒸 蟹

鸳 鸯 排 骨

Sis birthday

Really have no idea whatsoever what to get for the newly crowned Mrs Cheng. As mentioned she already has everything she wants, needs and dont need.

Luckily i saw this:

For her to put Meow Meow's picture in @ 1-3 Hill.

Not very expensive lar, but its THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS mah.

Gf pumped in some efforts as well, took a long walk from UOB plaza to Funan and got her 明星三缺一 software.

Practise hard and we'll see u on the real table again soon. Huat ah!

Anyway sweet us got 2 cakes for her also. One with sugar, another without.

Happy Birthday Mrs Cheng!

Farewell potluck

I love potluck parties, especially when everyone around is 'on' and enthusiastic. (hardly the case in my circle)

Bryan took over the baton and organised this event for Andrea, who's flying back to Canada for her next semester.

Everytime we have a potluck, you can always predict some personal 招牌菜:

二婶 - Pineapple rice

Her Majesty - Curry chicken (Forgot to take picture)

Granny - Gua Huei

Mark and sister brought along 4 tubs of Island Creamery ~~~~ Very nice.

I myself queued up for a box of Donut Factory sweeties last night @ Suntec.

And so coincidental its Huijun's fav~~~ She actually said 'Thank you' to me the next day on MSN, welcome la welcome la hahaha ~~~~ :)

:: Fireworks Festival ::

We were both very excited about the event.

So looking forward to seeing the highly touted floating platform.

I just read the Colonel in charge of NDP 07 was my commander last time in armceg.

It was a long 2hrs wait to the start and all but lasted 15mins =_=

The wait was worth it though, show was a powerful treat of music and visual entertainment.

I like this one:

~~ HAPPY 9TH MTH BABY~~~

:: Her 26th bday ::

Its here! Her late twenties celebration :p

It wasnt all that hard deciding what to buy for her, just had to listen and observe her likes, needs and wants, beside the usual bags and travelling blah blah~~

And so after 千挑细选 i finally decided on THIS:

There were a couple of items on the list i was contemplating, but I think this is most appropriate la.

It was basically The Need vs The Want.

I picked The Need cos her current one is falling apart.

Nothing beats seeing her cry out in surprise eyes big wide open hands covering her mouth then followed by giggles and 'thank you!!'

She luuuuuuvs it. :)

And a nice dinner at Greenwood Ave, Peperoni Pizzeria.

She picked the place and sweetie her actually chose my fav food for her birthday.

Happy 26th Birthday darling :)

四川豆花

Brunch @ UOB plaza, where gf works.

She's whining as i turned into the basement carpark 'sunday also must come here!'



Today we're having à la carte buffet on the top of the building.



I esp like the 黄金煎饼 and Eight Treasures Tea. Tea is served using a kettle with a long spout. A bit drama la, the tea master performing Nodding Phoenix and Boy Prays to Buddha.



But I render it as good service.


There were over 60 dishes to choose from. But each order's volume a bit too much to go around, so we only had 10 dishes before calling it a day.

Chong Qing Chicken with Spicy Dried Chilli