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After the coconut house, we went to Mid Valley. I have the plan to meet up with KL friend for a meal and chat. She suggested the restaurant at The Gardens called Gurney Drive which apparently serve Penang food. Gurney Drive is a famous place in Penang, a night market or hawker centre. The concept is pretty simple. They try to bring the Penang hawker food into restaurant. The …
I don't know about your experience. But, apparently Google has developed the CPU hogging tradition. Sometime back, I have CPU hogging issue with Google desktop, out of no where. This time, it is about Google Chrome, the browser.I find it a bit strange, but this is not the first time I encounter this. I went to this website and leave the page open for a while. By the time I …
After the western food, we went to the "old" place - Coconut House at 3 Two Square. My first encounter with Coconut House was way back at Melaka. At that point of time, they were still serving the wood fired pizza, jazz song and oldies. After they moved to KL, Pudu Lama, I went once with friend. This time, they have just moved to 3 Two Square (again).What I like is the wood …
By the time, we went out of home, it is almost noon time. The next stop would be Petaling Jaya or PJ where many good food stall or restaurant is found. Looking at the food guide, I decided to go to this grill/western food stall.When we reached there, it is 12pm already. The breakfast was gone, we are in for the lunch. The shop selling both western food and nasi lemak. Not …
In this post, I want to talk about Mr Sushi(中岛水产) which operates sushi counters across the island. Actually my first encounter with Mr Sushi was way back year 2000, during the days I lived …
Once I have been to Changi Terminal 3 and saw this interesting shop called Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits. The shop was full and they were selling fried chicken. I didn't get the chance to try, until I was at Singapore Flyer after the event. The restaurant was not so full, and although sinful, we decided for a try.While queueing up, I noticed they have limited choice of items. …
Frankly, I never been to Singapore Flyer before, only saw it on TV. Since I already at F1 pit, I paid it a visit after the cycle event completed. The wheel is magnificent, so big, and it is turning slowly.Walk into the Singapore Flyer compound, there weren't many visitors. Not sure because of the cycle event or recession.Singapore Flyer capsule. It is quite big.The base of …
Sunday was a sunny day, I woke up very early in morning 5am to prepare for the mass cycling event - OCBC Cycle Singapore 2009. Had some simple breakfast which mainly carbo. Then, took the cab to padang, there were many road closure on the day. The cab fare was only 16 dollars, which was cheap and quite surprising to me.By the time, I met up with other team mate and reach the …
Although I have cycled to the Changi Beach via the park connector, I didn't realise that there are more to changi than the ferry terminal. Somebody brought me to this Changi Boardwalk at Changi Point.It is actually a costal line along the Changi Beach area and the area is linked by the boardwalk. As you walk along the boardwalk, you see different view. There are many …
Last year, I noticed that my laptop fan keep spinning for a pro long period. As the result, the air outlet became really hot and my CPU usage is hovering around 50%. When I open my task manager, the CPU resource is being taken by the Google Desktop that I am using. I thought the issue would go away, after I installed a new version of the program, but it didn't. So, I gave up …
In Singapore, a place where things are expensive, where the food price and rent remain high, the transport cost is going down! It is hard to believe, but it is real and it starts on 1 Apr 2009.The adjustment is as follow:2cts down for single trip10cts more for transferTransfer rebate used to be 25cts only, was hiked just recently to 40cts, but now is going to 50cts. That's a …
In the current MWC (Mobile World Congress), the phone manufacturers show off many soon to release new models. Although the economy situation is getting worse everyday, the mobile competition only get hots up.iPhone lead the pack two years ago, due to its usability and innovation. Finally, the others are catching up. Google have Android in the pocket, after HTC Dream, the next …
In order to prepare for next Sunday's Cycle Singapore, I went on for another cycling session. This time I traveled from Tampines centre to Changi beach in two hours, back and forth. The path is as follows:Sunplaza park -> Pasir Ris town park -> Loyang area -> Changi beach park.All linked by the park connector network. But seriously, I don't remember all the area names. The …
In the headline today, ticket to Melbourne going for $89 only. Last week, tiger airway ticket to KL was only going at $58 for a return ticket. As the economy worsen, the willingness for people to travel would significantly reduced. So, expect more price cut ahead.If you have the patient to wait, maybe can wait for the off peak season and then plan the journey.
Today, I went to Rasa 21 food court at Tampines East to eat western food. The stall was featured in u weekly before, thus I decided to check it out whether it is good. Looking at the menu, they provide quite a number of choices compare to usual western food. The set also comes with two side dish of your choice. Nowadays, seems like many people want to copy the Aston's concept …
Last night, went with friend for the new year eve dinner. The japan restaurant was full house. We ended up in this restaurant Zen Cafe Shindo Art. The light is a bit dark, the are into the fine dining concept i think. The music was soothing though.If you opted for the set menu, it would set you back by at least $40. Maybe to those who enjoy fine dining, this is a decent price …
I read a lot, especially the online news. I also like technology related things, both software and hardware. Recently, I have come across this list of software compiled by download.com and lifehacker which is very good for every level of user.Check it out.The best new Windows programs of 2008 - Chrome, Songbird, Smart Defrag, DigsbyWindows Starter Kit: Must-have PC apps - …
If you do go out walk walk, you should know there is a new shopping centre - Central above the Clarke Quay mrt. Their main theme is Japan. So, you can find many jap food eateries and stuff there.Although I know about this stall quite sometime ago, but the queue always put me off. Finally, today I went there with friend. The queue although seems to be long, but was moving …
Looks like we are stuck in the recession already. Hopefully, it would be over soon. Although the inflation has receded, but the cost of goods did not really come down. Here are 7 tips that can help to save money.1. Eat breakfast at home. 4 pieces of bread and 3 in 1 coffee would cost at most 1+. But, fried bee hoon with egg and cabbage plus a kopi would cost 2.90. Bread is …
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