May 2013

Water fun & Dim sum.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Holidays are here for us and although I'm still not fully separated from my project stuff, life is much better without all the need to worry about school matters. So on one of the days, we decided to give the newly built Adventure Cove Waterpark @ Sentosa a visit! It was pretty crowded along the walk from the S.E.A. Aquarium entrance to the waterpark entrance and we saw waves of people coming and entering while standing at the gate. After seeing them, I was starting to prepare myself for some disappointment because I read that queues can be expected to be up to an hour each ride and also the weather report says to expect some showers. I went in pretty much expecting long waits and suspended rides.

Butt!!! The experience was norrbad! It didn't rain/drizzle that day (at all) so all rides were working fine (weather report not very trustworthy ya?). Then because we started our adventure early, we didn't have to queue long for the first few rides we took. So we tried to give every ride a try before the queues started to extend and expand. A few tips will be to go early, and also travel through the lazy (or adventure) river cos the ground will be so painful to walk on after the sun's up for awhile. It's also faster that way and we got to experience the lazy river at the same time. Of course, after going for all the rides, we went for a lazy stroll about the whole of the river again and it never gets boring, just floating and letting the river carry you. It's actually quite peaceful and makes my mind calm. I guess I just love the floating feeling~ But I also like the adrenaline feeling...so going to the park is very worth it for me ya..haha =)

We took a few shots of the rides we took, like in here, there's 3 kinds of ride and 1 wave pool in the background. While typing this, I realize the space constrain of the park that 1 photo could actually capture 4 types of play. Good ah, save energy and photo space.

Here's the lazy river with loads of empty floats floating around. The floats really know how to enjoy life ya...

He with his favourite hangout. Average food is no longer acceptable, he goes for the super ginormous only.

Yay! My other favourite thing in the park is to swim with the fish @ the Rainbow Reef! The concept is very cool actually to allow noobies to go "snorkel" with the fishes. The water was very cooling too, abit like the cold water we order at kopitiam. I don't really like the intro given to the participants before the swim though, cause they assume everyone knows how to use the snorkle mask which is so not true. We had alot of difficulty on our first swim because we had to try-&-error by ourselves in the deep pool. And summor it's in the water which makes it so much more unfamiliar. Almost had a panic attack in the first few moments I started the reef experience. We then exchanged how-tos after the first swim and the second swim was way better.

There's the feeding food that's available for purchase and this person was feeding from the side. All the fishes swam to this glass and the variety was amazing! The colours of the fishes were also very pretty. But too bad for this batch of snorkelers cause there might not be fish left in the other parts of the pool for their snorkeling experience as all the fishes were *er herm* preoccupied by other stuffs?

Snorkelers in the mini reef! Ehh where did all the fishes go? ;)

A nice view of the wave pool *snap!*

Then we had lunch-dinner and ordered the bottomless chips! The service of this outlet wasn't really good (there is one chinese lady w short hair that has a great attitude), but some others are like doing minimal things and standing around and didn't even offer to refill the chips when our bowl is empty. Then we asked one guy (with golden ponytail) for a refill and he came back with the chips filled but the sauce still empty -.- Diaos... And we also waited like 30 mins after we asked for bill and had to ask again, then this same guy came (he wasn't our bill asker though) with the bill and credit card paper, left it on the table and just walked away. Never ask for signature or nothing. In the end we just signed and took the card and left. So conclusion: We like the Tanglin outlet way better cause the service there is great with much friendlier waiters/waitresses.

Tried this triple thingy and he liked it.

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We visited JB for my crayfish crave and tried out this outlet for a light meal. Quite worth it and the experience is nice too.

BIG burgers! Happy only.

Then on another day, when we were hungry but not that hungry to eat a full meal, we decided to give the "new" Canton Paradise restaurant a try. I like the blue porcelains.

The dim sums were not bad too. We only ordered 3 dishes, which managed to fill our stomachs by the end of it. The yellow pork buns and chee qiong fan are nice.

To end this post, I found a quote recently which I think is very true. Here it goes:

"Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness" - unknown

Are you free or happy? For now, I guess I'm both =)

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Poster | Dinner | Birthday

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Final year project. is over. =D

All the days of hard work and late nights for the past year, was summed up (mostly) in a poster and that 15 mins of chit chat with my examiner. I was quite nervous before the presentation began with my mind thinking of the not-so-related stuff like how I was over-dressed for the event and the-kinda-related-stuffs like how was I gonna survive a 10 mins presentation in the ever-so-open presentation venue that anyone would be able to see you present. But gradually, when it all started, the conversations kind of muffled alot of other sounds when it was my turn to present, I was glad I couldn't hear most of myself =P So the whole thing passed super fast and as my direct prof said I need not present to him, I was kind of done for the day. Next up was the photo-taking session where people went around taking photos with everyone else. I wanted a photo with my prof too but I guess I was too late in doing that and he already went for his lunch. Next time next time! Anyways, I managed to get a few shots with a few people and here is one to sum up the photo-taking session:

That night dinner was not too bad. Took abit of photoso and witness a few surprising performances with quite good food (I didn't know my school of the last 4 years had places like a wedding banquet!). I didn't stay till the end because that day was someone special's birthday too =) Went off to meet him and had a mini celebration heh heh...happy birthday ❤

*huff & puff & ehh, where's the flame??*

The celebration continued the next day with me planning the events-for-the-day! Okay, maybe about 50% was after consultation from him heh heh...we had lunch at a place near home. First visit for both of us staying almost half of our lives here, but we were more the kpt-ers than restauranteurs. He favourite is the curry rice set which is rather good across the outlets.

I like the chawanmushi & the toufu & the sushis more, and this time round, I tried the more expensive toufu. It's really more worth the extra bucks!

Next up, was to do something to burn the fats away, err, actually is more to clear stomach space for the buffet awaiting for us later on...can eat more you see, especially since it is so expensive =P

Look at that focus!

After all those strenuous workouts ;) we went on our buffet place to have our fill...

As usual, we targeted the seafood first. This time round, we ate like 7 oysters each! They were like tequila shots with the lemon juice on top of it, but without the alcohol. I would have eaten more if I wasn't that full at that point in time (wasted!).

The prawns were fresh and juicy too! And they had this lime mayonnaise which tasted okay. So now my sauce likability order is like tartar-lime mayo-mayo.

The special thing here is this salad which they "fry" the vege in a cheese-carved pot. The vege was then mildly coated with the cheese and we had the freedom to choose our toppings. So everything other than the vege in the picture was kinda our creation, which was ding gua gua! Should have gone for another round.

Beef & red meat up next, with baked potatoes that I didn't really like though.

Yeah! There was like this area with only crackers (and keropok!), so I had no choice but to take a few of each. Still keropok is the best of the lot.

Oh there's this small dish with prawn and suan vege...take it if you see it, must try everything right? =)

For the Asian cuisine, we took abit of each: beehoon, oyster sauce vege, broccoli, chicken, toufu, mushrooms & I forgot the rest. This bit was more than enough for two!

Then we continued with the noodles special. I wanted to have laksa one, but I started with prawn noodle instead and he took the tom yam flavor. We were so full that we didn't take the laksa later on (why my stomach so bu zhen qi =/).

Coffee, tea or me? Apparently coffee was the choice...

Okay, so there was a selection of meaty stuff too. And again, we took abit of each: salmon, duck, ox tail, chicken & prawn.

Sashimi side, there was salmon, tuna, SWORDFISH (the word itself sounds cool right), something and something. One was a type of clam I think...but salmon tasted the best to me.

haha, it's oyster time again and this time we got a king oyster! Look at the size diff (okay the pic doesn't really bring out the impact, but it was really much larger in real life). The king one was much yummier than the regular ones, with more "meat" too!

Finally, it's desserts time. Saw this cute decorated dessert and we just took it without much look. It's made up of a cream like thingy, on a doughnut like thingy on top of a chocolate like thingy. The taste doesn't match the visuals though.

Yay! I've been like eyeing the waffles ever since I stepped in the place and finally I got to eat it. The waffles here have a few types of flavors, and we chose the chocolate and pistachio one. The portion given was just right as we (or maybe just me) were very full by then already. See the brown sauce? It was one of the best toppings ever! Tasted like chocolate plus cornflakes but not too heavy on the chocolatey side too. The nuts were making us nuts too. One word to describe the following picture will definitely be "YUMS". Could just eat this everyday...

A smiley face decorated by him, see see, playing with food already, must be super full by then. For this, the green tea choco balls were good. The white lemon balls were too soury for comfort.

Ice-cream time! There were more topping selection here and I could express my artistic self =P The ice-creams were distributed instead of open for all to take, and I actually feel that it is more hygienic with this arrangement. There were more flavors than the usual choco-vallina-strawberry combo.