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[NE Show 1] Singapore National Day Parade 2015

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:56:00 +0000

This year Singapore celebrates 50 years of independence which falls on 09 August 2015. This Golden Jubilee event will take place at both Padang and the Marina Bay floating platform. Our school is among the first batch to attend the National Eduction (NE) Show on 11 July 2015 to sneak preview the grand show at Padang.

Cheap Durian in Singapore - Chong Pang Market

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 01:52:00 +0000

Every year during June to August, trucks from Malaysia will bring in lots of Durian into Singapore as it durian peak season. For overseas friend, durian is a topical Asian food with strong odour and thorn husk.

Homegrown Vegetable

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 05:00:00 +0000

Growing your own vegetables at home might is fun and you always look forward to see their different growing stages. Like from seeds to seedlings; small plant to adult plant, flower to fruits. Every stage takes time and we need to care for our plant by giving them water and sunlight in order to keep them healthy.

Although my house corridor has only limited space and sunlight but we still managed to grow some vegetables like bok choy, bittergourd, cherry tomato, okra and some herbs that mum can use for her cooking.

Homegrown Cherry Tomato Using Hydroponic Kit

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:20:00 +0000

I love growing vegetables and fruits but due to space as we do not have land outside our house, we can only grow them in pots. But things changed when school brought us to learning journey at hydroponic farm where we see vegetables and plant are grown in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil.

My gardening hobby was inspired by my mum's friends @wokkingmum and @smallsmallbaker as they both planted many edible vegetables and fruits at home such as cherry tomato bittergourd, ladyfinger, spinach, edamame and etc.

Lunch @ Hotel ibis Singapore on Bencoolen

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 04:30:00 +0000

[Taste Tapas Lunch Set] Chicken Rice, Hokkien Mee and Laksa

A few weeks ago, Granny bought us to TASTE Restaurant located inside ibis Hotel at Bencoolen street for lunch.We ordered 2 different set lunch to share. Me and mum order their Taste Tapas Set ($17.00) which we can choose 3 items from their list. Like what you see above, we get the Chicken Rice, Hokkien Mee and Laksa which are all the well-known local Singapore hawker food.

Braised Pork Belly Bento - 卤肉饭

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 13:14:00 +0000

Braised Pork Belly Bento Lunch

My mum used to prepare fancy bento lunchbox for me when I was much younger. But now when I grown up, she hardly assemble my food into these cute bento box which she thought I might not like it anymore.

Chocolate Waffle from Dazzling Cafe

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 01:00:00 +0000

Dazzling Cafe - Chocolate Waffle

This is the Valrhona Chocolate Waffle (S$20.50) from Dazzling Cafe. The waffle taste good with fragrant chocolate, crispy outer layer and chewy mochi inside that serve with a scoop of chocolate ice cream with it. However, one thing I don't like is there too much of whipped cream on it.

Watami Japanese Casual Restaurant @ ION Orchard

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 01:30:00 +0000

Rosu Katsu Sashimi Set

Last Sunday, my grandma treats us to a Japanese lunch at Watami which located at ION Orchard. After looking through the menu, we decided to order a set meal and salad to share among the three of us. The set meal comes with steamed rice, salmon sashimi, chawanmushi, tofu, pork cutlet and watermelon at $29.90 (without salad) which is very worth it.

Fishing @ Bedok Jetty

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 01:00:00 +0000

Bedok Jetty @ East Coast Park

During June School Holidays, we went to Bedok Jetty at East Coast Park to try our luck to catch our fish for dinner. (^ - ^) It is very crowed as we went during the morning. Everyone is waiting patiently for their catch.

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Dessert At Banana Tree Cafe Singapore

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 08:09:00 +0000

Flower Pot Pudding

MUST TRY! This is the Flower Pot Pudding at Banana Tree. It is nice and delicious with soft pudding texture. We order the Espresso flavour for the pudding and it taste just like Tiramisu! Besides, we also try the Iced Mocha and its taste very bitter but i still like it.

Voyager Of The Seas - Royal Caribbean International

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 15:11:00 +0000

I love to travel especially on cruise and this is my 2nd time traveling on cruise after our first trip at about 4 years ago with Star Cruise, Virgo. With my uncle in charging all the planning and booking we finally get to board the Voyager of the Seas which had it's South East Asia stop over in June 2012.

Below are some of the photos which I took and I would like to share it with you.

Homegrown Blue Pumpkin

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 14:31:00 +0000

This is our Australia Blue Pumpkin patch. It takes about 3 months to grow into this stage where we could see all those yellow flower bulbs. I really hope these bulbs would be able to grow into at least one pumpkin fruit.

Homegrown Bitter Gourd Plant

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 14:12:00 +0000

Remember my last post on homegrown plants where I planted some pumpkin and bitter gourd seeds. Those bitter gourd seedlings that I grew, 4 of them had became adult plants and bear fruits. Above is our homegrown bitter gourd which is about 15cm when harvest.

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Transformers 30th Anniversary Exhibition

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 14:53:00 +0000

Hi everyone, today i went to Transformer Exhibition at the Singapore Science Centre. the place is not to big it takes about 1 hour to walk around the place.At the exhibition it shows the movie on Transformers Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers Dark of the Moon.

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{Hobby} Growing Plants and Mushrooms

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:46:00 +0000

After seeing Small Small Baker's homegrown bitter gourd (photo here), I also ask mum to give me some bitter gourd seeds when she bought one for making soup. I planted the seeds and after a week it grow into seedlings which hopefully they will grow well and starts to flower and fruit.

{Hobby} My Mini Lobster

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:41:00 +0000

We often goes to Lower Peirce Reservoir to catch Yabby and you can see many families together with kids (you can read more over at mum's blog here). And due to the increasing number of people in that area, yabby has also decrease and getting difficult to find.

{Eatout} My Favourite Food

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:19:00 +0000

Whenever mum is not cooking or while we are out during the weekend, Chicken Rice is always in my ordering list together with an additional hard-boiled egg. I prefer Hainaese Chicken Rice which comes with fragrant rice and tender poached white chicken. But sometime I also order roast chicken rice like what shown above.

My Favourite Green Pig

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:07:00 +0000

Previously I used to like "Red Angry Birds" when I first started to play the Angry Birds iPhone game. But after a few months, I started to like "green pigs" more especially the one with a yellow crown known as "King Pig". I have a collection of almost all the angry birds characters but my favourite is still green pig related items.

Swensen's Breakfast

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:29:00 +0000

Not long ago Swensen has come out with their Breakfast Set Menu with many items such as Egg Benedict, Breakfast Sandwich, French Toast and etc. Above is in their kid's menu known as Eggy Delight ($6.90) and I love the combination of items in it.

Pet Dog Boo Boo

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:13:00 +0000

This is Boo Boo, my grandmother's pet dog which is a beagle breed. He is about 2 years old but still behave like a baby (puppy). He loves to play and often chase his toy around the house, climb up the soft and take his nap there.

My Pet Hamsters

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:03:00 +0000

This is my pet hamster known as "Chocolate", he likes to bully his friend "Oreo" which is slightly smaller size than him. During the day, they will sleep quietly at one corner of the cage but when evening comes, they became very active and likes to run around making noise to attract our attentions.

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Voyager Of The Seas - Shore Excursions

noreply@blogger.com (Rey ) — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:20:00 +0000

During the 5 days on board the cruise ship, we also went for Shore Excursions at Penang and Phuket whereby we visited some of the places of interests and tried out their local food and snacks. I really have a wonderful time on board the cruise and I would definitely ask mum to bring me for another vacation on cruise soon.

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