Monday, October 20, 2025

Giving Mega Thanks in October - my favourite month

20th Oct (Mon)

game kakis went for a yummilicious hatchday camp brunch @ Nomads Cafe.... ordered a babyccino just cos the pic on the menu looked cute with the mini marshmallows... didnt know it was just steamed milk with foams... i tot it was a small cute cup of cappuccino coffee... 😅😅😅 



2 rounds of mask-jong with lady luck shining on me today... thanks Mabe for this amazing Biodance collagen mask that made our faces glow and be bo-ing bo-ing.... 😍😍😍

all the essence kenna 吸干干 into my face in 4 hours... 



16th Oct (Thurs)

more hatchday tummy luv... 😍😍😍


this gift idea from huishan is so cute!!! redeemed one right away!!! 😍😍😍 



13th Oct (Mon)

on science 阿姨 duty!!! 



11th Oct (Sat)


hatchday dinner @ Golden Moment... the only main available was meh but luv luv the sides of fries, drumlets, calamari & all 3 ice-cream flavours; pistachio, coconut & mao shan wang... 


round 2 @ 永和豆浆 just cos we were in the area and had time to spare while we waited for Joyce to join us @ our favourite game after her work dinner.. 



10th Oct (Fri)

Alvin bought this super creamy cheesecake from Piccolo... so yummy i took one more slice home for breakfast the next morning.. =) 



9th Oct (Thur)

Happi Happi hatchday to me, to me, to me!!! woke up smiling silly cos i dreamt that i 追星成功 and got to talk & joke with my 小马土豆 not once but TWICE at some fans event / variety show!!! ... 😂😂😂

thanks Baidah, Sylvia, Miss Song and boss for these tummy luv luv... 


today was actually a bad bad work day... first it was a block out day so i couldnt apply for election off-in-lieu due to oral, then also because of oral, was deployed to class sitting, then was the target board to do a presentation and could only leave work after 4pm!!!  😭😭😭



sweet sweet luv delivered from mx... 😍😍😍
爱你哦 !!!



5th Oct (Sun)

lunch @ Tenderbest Makcik Tuckshop after 蔡妈咪's church service

and a happi happi hatchday !!! 😍😍😍



4th Oct (Sat)

shift 2 of our annual carnival with games, balloons, chicken pie & ice-cream for the residents, a gigantic stitch, a pretty jedi, a candid spiderman and many many good singers...

followed by volunteering 后的甜点 @ moin moin



2nd Oct (Thur)

hearty meaty korean bbq @ Wang Dae Bak Pocha...

 homework from this meet-up : search for skill future course to attend together... OKI!!! 



1st Oct (Wed)

fruity ice @ 一碗甜品 to celebrate the first day of my favourite month, to celebrate the eve of the eve of children's day, to celebrate the eve of the eve of a long weekend...woohoo!!! 

Planner 2026 - Weekly Spreads

"artifying" the weekly spreads too since there's ample time and enthusiasm on my part... this 4 part layout; weekly work to-do list, weekly sketch, weekly personal to-do list & a weekly habit tracker, works wonderfully for me since Jan 2025 so i'm just gonna continue with this layout into 2026...


[ 29th May ]
abit 跑边主题 for February... by right, the focus should be on Grant Wood's American Gothic but as i had added Addam's family gothic element into Feb's monthly spread, this T1W5 weekly spread focused on the gothic tree which i had so much fun sketching instead... 😂😂😂


made amend in T1W6 weekly spread with the Carpenter-Gothic house and pitchfork in Grant Wood's American Gothic but i just had to add Cousin Itt & Thing from Addam's family in too... 😁😁😁




[ 2nd June ]

took inspiration from another Grant Wood's masterpiece; Young Corn for T1W7 & T1W8 weekly spread...


[ 20th October ]

this spread is so gothically dark for a supposedly lovey dovely Feb seh.... 




[ 1st June ]
making use of the remaining of the splitter, splatter paper for the Jan's monthly spread inspired by Jackson Pollock drip painting technique so no fanciful inspiration for its weekly spread





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... 😋😋😋



(42) ABC soup with rice from ntuc kopitiam... so flavourable and yummy that made me question how much seasoning was added seh?!?!?! 


Why is ABC soup called ABC soup??? Cos Vitamin A, B & C can be found in the ingredients; carrot, potato & onion/corn/tomato respectively!!! 

20 Oct (Mon)



(41) Popiah from 644 on my way to shopee collection... very solid & yummy... anybody eat popiah the same way as me?!?!?!...like a burrito, no need cut!!!... 😁😁😁

18 Oct (Sat)


(40) Ayam Penyet @ Serangoon Garden Food Centre... the chilli is da bomb!!! literally exploded in my mouth... 又辣又停不下来... 

1 Oct (Wed)



(39) 小碗面 without the 面

4 Sept (Thur)



(38)BBQ stingray

4 Sept (Thur)



(37)Satay... 5 chicken for me, 5 lamb for cy...  @ Serangoon Garden Food Centre to celebrate Happi Cher's Day!!! 
4 Sept (Thur)


(36) supper @ Fei Zhu Lok Lok is turning me into a 肥猪... 🐷🐷🐷

29 Aug (Fri)

 


(35) super guilty indulgence from Tenderbest just opposite home sweet home... much needed to pacify the 憋在心里的 frustration from setting up The Nook single-handedly... 

27 Aug (Wed)



(34) Fried carrot cake stick, super yummy & crispy... luv it more than the traditional non-stick plate version... heee

24 Aug (Sun)



(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) Bedok Chwee Kueh but @ Hougang Ave 1, Hainanese Village Centre... the kueh is good, the chai poh is good, the chili is good... it's famous for the right reason!!! 

24 Aug (Sun)


(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 from 12 Roasted, opposite home sweet home... 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)