New Sports Hero

Everybody should have a sports hero.

And I have plenty of 'em.

During youngER days,

Bball: You have the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan, then Orlando Magic and Anfernee Hardaway

Then soccer comes along:

U have Man Utd and Eric Cantona followed by David Beckham.


Growing up, we stayed out of the sun and picked up snooker, falling in love with Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Got the riding license and start paying attention to Yamahas and Hondas and the flamboyant young MotoGP champ Valentino Rossi, while i ride the italian machine.


Then we got hooked to EPSN and know how wonderful are Pete Sampras and Tiger Woods at their games as we try new sports entering mid-20s.


So when pple asked me who am i rooting for entering the 2007 Formula One season,

'OH, Kimi Raikkonen lor'

Fact is, i only found him cool as a Tag Heuer's endorser. :P

And just when every other sports hero out there seems to falter/retire, in comes a new kid:


He's the reason why I:

1) stayed up to finish the entire 71laps brazilian GP on sunday

2) stayed focused throughout the race

3) felt the immerse heartache when his McLaren failed on the gear shifts costing him 30 secs, dropping to 18th

4) heart kept pounding in the hope he will still make it to win the overall champ while he fought back to finish 7th

5) am bloody angry that K.R. won in the end



Nair mind... there's still 2008. And they are bringing him to SG.


I'm already looking forward to it.

:: Sunset Grill & Pub ::

Its only a 10 mins drive away from my place, why did i take almost 10 yrs to patronise this cool place?

The drive in is challenging thou, be sure ur headlights are working. HID helps :)

Heresay from gf the boss is the original founder of Jerry's @ Jalan Kayu, who sold it when it became popular for a neat sum of money and set up a retreat kinda joint here.

Sunset is located within Seletar East Camp, right next to a runway and hangars surrounding it. U get the world war feel, like pilots off-duties enjoying beer + beef in the officers' mess, and the deco inside justified every bit of the ambience. Also get the feeling that the place will kena bombed anytime also.

The buffalo wings are the highlight, we decided to test with the level 2 spiciness first before slowly working our way up to level 10, in time to come.

Gf's sirloin steak is good, almost on par with Hog's breath. My ribs has a funny taste thou, dont try it.

Otherwise, everything's fine.

Fried mushroom button

Bliss Cafe @ Ponggol Park

Gf wanted to try this cafe off Hougang/Ponggol road for the longest time. No wonder she's grinning when I suggested going there when she hopped into the car.

A nice cosy place camouflaged from the heartland noise within ponggol park, u get the waterfront feel ala brewerks/indochine along clarke quay.

They dont get much publicity with the cafe view shielded from its own single storey building. And that's the best part, cos across the road is the typical 24 hr kopitiam which would've killed off any ambience.

Food is passable and not too pricey for dining-by-the-river too.

麻将 and the vegetarian

Imagine u are a vegetarian and some1 in ur group started:

KIA LEH! JACK'S PLACE DINNER LEH!

Very sian half right?

Well, in mine, there was a:

KIA LEH! NERNG POK LEH!

That is the war cry telling all vegetarians to go find their own food.

As such, i couldnt understand what the craze all abt being carnivoral.

Thankfully, I get to find out when gf fed me a piece of meat.

'Its good, try it', she says

Am i glad i did.

And 4 mths later, i'm having a very consistent 5 to 8 poks per weekend, starting from fri midnight to sat morning, then sat night to sunday morning, followed by the final stretch from sunday evening to night before the monday blues kicks in again.


The poks went on in my backyard, so i think my neighbour should be damn pissed by now cos The King hosts his own regular premier league 3 poks there as well while we have the sunday sessions in the living room.


Now i have legs msging me for advance and immediate booking slots early in the week, ranging from bros, uni study-buds, NMC aluminis, to even primary school pals~~

No wonder they call it the social game.

And so far so good, no smelly legs that play but no pay.


Meanwhile, i'm on the verge of renaming the contacts in my phonebook to the following format:

Name.MJ

Name.noMJ

The extension behind denotes MJ player or non-MJ player hahahahahaha

Joking la~~ I think gf is going to kill me :P

Then again, dont think i will ever be the 'nerng pok' party pooper

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 :)