Giving Thanks in August

14th Aug (Thur)

original plan was to have tze char for lunch then dessert @ Tian Wang before going to take photo strip @ Standard Photo Studio to celebrate our 30th friend-niversary this year... we still purposely set the theme to be in rss colours lo!!! 

结果见了面, 聊了聊, 就不懂为什么变成 lunch @ People's Park Food Centre then a visit to Ai Ling's work place @ LEGO !!! 😂😂😂

the LEGO office was so fun & impressive!!! so many LEGOs everywhere, open concept, hot-desking, free-sitting, cafe in office, standing conference booth. it felt like everyone working there is smart & creative... 

happening since 2016

蛇来运转

i also think they Best Employer... when will be my company's turn to be Best Employer too?

13th Aug (Wed)

Fried Rice Paradise, Nasi Goreng Very Nice 👍👍👍

our second 'food-mersive' musical together

thanks to xh's #, we got featured!!! 

enjoyed the performance; it was hilarious!!! and enjoyed being a food judge even more... 1 vote for Team Nancy and 3 votes for Team Fancy from me... 

the presentation of food were all very social-media-worthy too but my pics all turned out terrible due to the shadows from & because of the blueish, orangey lightings in the ballroom... 😓

yummies from chengdu & portungal... 😍😍😍

12th Aug (Tue)

a collection of 就是这么刚刚好; 

刚刚好 #1 : 

saw the news article on the SG60 Mr Merlion ezlink card design... i like!!! especially the one relac-ing on mbs, but no reason to buy it since i have an ezlink card... then i lost my ezlink card 3 weeks later... wahahaha... 真的不是故意丢的... 

all four designs were out of stock at city hall station, yishun station and hougang station...then mx texted that she found my second favourite at canberra station and she gotten it for me... 😍😍😍 

刚刚好 #2 : 

saw a haversack that i like selling at $35+ on shopee but i already have 2 haversacks liao leh... so it has been in my shopping cart for a week plus le... 

then the main zip of my pink haversack just miraculously dropped off when i reached school today... login to shopee and immediately 下单 on another even prettier haversack when i saw that its price was only $11 after all the vouchers & coin redemptions!!! 😍😍😍 

刚刚好 #3 : 

NEL line was down since 11+am and my journey home would be affected if i wasnt on cca duty... so is heng i was on cca duty today!!! Train service had resumed by the time i finished work!!! heee 

am happy that i get happy over such minute stuff !!! 😂😂😂

5th Aug (Tue)

Julia treated lunch @ The Hainanese Kitchen... welcome to the fives!!! 

4th Aug (Mon)

P.A.M impromptu lunch @ Fish & Co, Woodleigh Mall....

1st Aug (Fri)

impromptu lunch date @ mos burger, city square with joyce just cos she wanna try its SG60 Har-soup and it was out of stock at the brunch nearest her house... 😅😅😅

then took a hitch from cy to wlds for mummy's hatchday meal @ Rasa Istimewa, Waterfront... it was such a funny sight of 4 of us lining up to pay our share with SG60 vouchers... 😂😂😂

view across the causeway so pretty !!! 

Inktober52 2025

 Inktoker52 is a spinoff of Inktober...a WEEKLY prompt is released every Thursday for artists at all mastery levels to response to on top of the daily prompts in the month of October... 

giving this a go this year to reduce the lack of motivation and stress of completing a DAILY drawing for the annual Inktober... i even allocated half a page in all the weekly pages in my planner for this!!!  💪💪💪

googled 'solstice'.... there's a summer one on 20/6 and the thing which stood out most that day was 妹妹 drinking this teeny tiny bottle of 酒 in a super cute manner during our Ghosts & Spirits walking tour in Munich... 

就水咯... 💧💧💧

i made 你一个, 我一个 during puppy love time?!?!?!?1 

the only 'spur' i know.... learnt it during my soccer watching days... 

din even know got this character until i googled about the cute mushroom 们s in mario... 😅😅😅 

it just had to be this prompt on the week of ur anniversary... 

妈咪 好想 好想 你   

i will gladly pull the trigger on the two tauruses who wasted my time and energy if it's not a crime!!!

one of my favourite pleasing view

googled what Axolotl is then realised it's this cute pink smiley salamander that had caught my eye with its fashion sense... 😍😍😍 

the conversation on 18 Dec 2022: 

Allie: Candy Auntie, are you scared? 

Moi : erm, yes, a little bit. 

Allie : I'm not scared. 

Moi : 😅😅😅

and i spotted him at this place above... could remember it so well cos it happened at a age when i was obsessed with horoscope... 😂😂😂 

切八段  绝交... 😂😂😂... got the idea from the C-drama 偷偷藏不住 where 桑稚 and 桑延 were 'fighting' over a fight in a cafe... 

我也有想耍帅的欲望... 😎😎😎

reference from photographer Van Duijn's picture perfect moment of a squirrel smelling a yellow daisy before taking a bite of it...  

inspired by this interesting sad news of an angler fish on its 自杀 journey... 😓😓😓

the first Pisces who popped into my head... 

inspiration from the minion movie... 😂😂😂

surprisingly, this was the easiest to draw thus far cos a little off proportion, a missing or an additional part here and there also make no diff that this is a dripping monster.... wahahahaha

one of my bucket list.... to be the human in the cage, watched by free-roaming animals... wahahahaha... 

included the Aquarius in my life... 

the only 'tick tock' that was in my radar this week was on the 'tik tok' ban then an almost immediate revival! 

i luv shrimps (prawns?!?!?)... big, succulent ones that are already peeled for consumptions... gave up trying to draw the noodles & kway tiao... not my level yet... 😓

a tequila sunrise at sunrise - a tai tai lifestyle that i want seh!!! 

 

Happi SG60 with 60 I - eat in Singapore

Singapore is 60th this year!!! so i feel it's a super valid reason to set this 60 Singapore hawker food quest for myself to indulge in since our hawker culture was successfully inscribed in the UNESCO Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2020... 😋😋😋

(33) $2 congee from Ci Yuan Hawker Centre

11 Aug (Mon)

(32) vegetarian beehoon @ $4 opposite home sweet home.... i prefer my 斋鹅 in big pieces though.... 

31st July (Thur)

(31) traditional breakfast with 菜 mummy @ wlds 326 kopitiam

27th July (Sun)

(30) 两菜一肉 @ $3.20... my very regular go-to (3 times this week!) whenever i feel that i'm not having enough veg in my diet since i no have daily balanced home-cooked food... 😩😩😩

23rd July (Wed)

25th July (Fri)

(29) customised 2-in-1 ice soursop with sea coconut... even yummier cos paid with CDC vouchers!!! 

22 Jul (Tue)

(28) 五香虾饼 opposite home sweet home...the spicy sauce is the 灵魂 with this dish... i dipped so much that i finished the whole bowl... 😅

22 Jul (Tue)

(27) Mee Soto @ $4 for a very big portion from wlds 325 kopitiam 

6 Jul (Sun)

(26) Ee Mee @ $6... another of my favourite dish from Zi Char store

28 Jun (Sat) 

(25) 鸳鸯 spinach soup with yong tau foo at $5 from kovan food centre... got michelin logo on its signage oh... 

27 Jun (Fri) 

(24) 咸菜鸭汤 配 饭... one of my favourite soup... very worth it @ $5.60 that came with quite alot of 咸菜 and 4 duck wings... 

20 May (Tue)

(23) 鱼粥 which i preferred to call it 鱼片(饭 in 汤)... $6.30 from opposite home sweet home... is it cos it's fish or it's just inflation... 😓

12th May (Mon)

(22) 'hei luak' (prawn omelette) @ $6 from 義記, Hougang Green also... perfect for the 2 of us who doesnt eat the 'orh' (oyster) in 'orh luak'.... 😂😂😂

5th May (Mon)

(21) Hokkien Mee @ $6 from 義記, Hougang Green... luv the 'soupiness' and the chilli... overall super yummy!!! 👍👍👍... 美中不足, no sotong...  

5th May (Mon)

(20) Lor Mee with yam @ $3 from Ci Yuan Hawker Centre... luv the generous amount of 醋 provided... 😍😍😍

5th May (Mon)

(19) Chwee kueh from behind home sweet home... too healthy (chai poh not salty enough) for my liking... 

2 May (Fri)

(18) Hor Fun from 乐满园, just behind home sweet home @ $5... the dish came with la-la which 蔡妈咪 told me before would make the dish sweeter... 

23 Apr (Wed)

(17) Yew Kee Duck Rice @ Kovan Food Centre... 蔡妈咪 & I were regulars at the stall in Yishun Blk 744 coffeeshop whenever we visited grandma and 大姨 who lived at blk 741 back in the 90s... 

21 Apr (Mon) 

(16) char siew rice with ABC soup @ $7.80 from 12 Roasted, opposite home sweet home... luv the soup!.. char siew was meh although amount is considered quite alot.... 

15 Apr (Tue)

(15) Laksa Mee @ $4.80 just opposite home sweet home

14 Apr (Mon)

(14) I'm team roasted chicken with a habit of pouring the chilli over my rice & meat directly... Twelve Roasted, opposite home sweet home, sells a small variety of soup too and i luv its watercress soup that comes with much veg!!! 

3 Apr (Thur)

(13) Mee Hoon Goreng from the new KNS (what a name!?!? from a hokkien perspective 😅) malay restaurant at Hougang Interchange... yummy but at $5.50, abit ex ah?!?! or is this the norm?!?! i remembered my favourite bee hoon goreng from below woodlands home sweet home at only $2.50, 3 decades ago... wahahahaha 

27 Mar (Thu)

(12) my favourite 水饺面 from Li Fatt Wanton Mee too... only get to eat it if i leave work earlier as it's sold out / closes by 2pm... luv the black sauce & chilli with the noodles and the 3 满满的 meat & prawn 水饺s...

6 Mar (Thu)

(11) Hungry but no appetite to have rice nor noodles, so 2 kosong prata with sugar & curry to the rescue for dinner... 

3 Mar (Mon)

(10) Fishball Meepok @ $3.30 from Jiak Mee Fishball behind home sweet home... my go to whenever i had to collect shopee parcels from the bubble tea shop next door... luv the soft soft QQ fishballs lots... 

2 Mar (Sun)

(9) Prawn Noodles from Jiak Pork Ribs Prawn Noodles... new found place for this flavourful dish after my favourite one @ Defu closed down... 

27 Feb (Thurs)

(8) Yong Tau Foo from the famous 永祥興豆腐 that's only open for order from 12-3pm per working day and it's a very day thingy that it's sold out before the 3 hours is up...吃闭门羹 before at 2.30pm... 😓😓😓

queue was ridiculous long at 11.30am when we arrived but moved fast when they started serving at 11.55am... reason being that there's only 1 option available...9 pieces @ $6 per bowl... luv the soup and though there's NO option to add any kind of noodles / rice to go with it, it was filling enough!!!... very 霸道 way of doing business!!! 

20 Feb (Thur)

went to get my favourite bubble tea from Woobbee since we were in the vicinity... been ages since the last visit till the 口号 for my "passionfruit aiyu @ 0%" is no longer valid... 😅😅😅 

heng, it's still as tasty!!! 😍😍😍

(7) Masala Tosai from Srisun Express, just opposite home sweet home too... always forgot the actual name and would order it as potato tosai... thankfully, most prata places understood my request... 😅😅😅

18 Feb (Tue)

(6) potion for 1 @ $5 from SK Kway Chap, just opposite home sweet home also... other than its yumminess, the other thing that i like about this stall is the extreme cleanliness... watching uncle prepare each dish with a wipe wipe here, wipe wipe there is kind of interesting... also luv spotting the 夫妻档 having dinner in Nex occasionally when i was a frequent at Nex long long ago... heee 

3 Feb (Mon)

(5) my favourite ban mian from 全心面, just opposite home sweet home too... a tiny one chef auntie store that has no digital footprint at all... anyway, chef auntie is super generous with the 面 and the 料 that i have to ask for 少面 every time... 😍😍😍 

7, 25, 27 & 28 Jan... this is how much i like this ban mian, especially on a cold cold day... 

(4) my favourite wanton mee from Li Fatt Wanton Mee just opposite home sweet home... luv the generous black sauce with green veg and yummy wanton... has been eating it when it was just $2.50 back in 2011, now it's $4... the power of inflation!!! 

23 Jan (Thur)

(3) one of the healthier version of char kway tiao from 91翠绿炒粿条面 @ Golden Mile... see the green veg, i like... spot the mini fried whitebaits that looked like 菜虫s, i like too... see the two big prawns, i luv... all these @ $4.50... 😍😍😍

22 Jan (Wed)

(2) Bak Chor Meepok @ 乐满园 coffeeshop... 重重的一包 at only $3 !!! 😍😍😍 

10th Jan (Fri)

(1) buy 2 free 1 姜葱田鸡 with veg & tofu @ Chang Jiang G1 as 开工大餐

3 Jan (Fri)