Being the final year, I thought i should be documenting as much as i can about my school life.
My first presentation to pitch my idea for the FYP project. I think i’ve said something wrongly, that cause some of the confusion. I should have make my more straightforward. But anyway, we had some fun out there in the audience area.
My Turn To Present
Lam, Alvin, Me & Lincoln’s Fingers
Alvin & Ponyo Ponyo
My Hand
Shu Hui’s Hand
Karen’s Hand
Shu Hui In DS
Karen In DS
Me In DS
As usual, I was doing my online shopping late at night. I happen to come across this Beary’s Woof Boutique on Etsy.
Etsy sells mainly handcrafted stuff. At Beary’s Woof Boutique, you can customize a dog collar for your lovely dog. There are 4 different strap thickness and length to choose from. You can take a measuring tape wrap around your dog’s neck loosely for measurement. If you need advisement, you can always contact Swee Ling, the owner, at beary-s@hotmail.com.
Swee Ling recently set up a blogshop, Beary’s En Vogue, believe she keeps this more updated. For Singaporeans who are keen in the dog collars, Beary’s En Vogue has prices kept at Singapore Dollars (SGD) for easier transaction.
By the way, Pi Pi’s birthday is on 31st August. So this is his birthday present. And now is picture time… More pictures can be found on my facebook.
Dog Collar Comes In Zip Lock Bag
All Items
Dog Collar Length
Dog Collar Closeup
Dog Collar Details
Dog Collar Buckle
Pi Pi With Ribbon In Front
Pi Pi With Ribbon At The Side
Pi Pi With Ribbon At The Side
Pi Pi With Ribbon At The Back
Ah-neo-ha-say-yo! Cho-neng Lay Hiang im-ni-da.
Man-na-soh Pan-kat-su-mi-da.
Sho Teppan is located on basement 3 of Orchard ION is a self-service Teppanyaki restaurant. It serves both Teppanyaki and Sukiyaki (soup base). They used to have Shabu Shabu on their menu. According to one of the waiters, some Singaporeans responded that the soup is too bland. Therefore, they scrap that off their course. For people who don’t know, Shabu Shabu soups are usually bland or even not meant for drinking. It is only for you to cook your thinnly sliced meat or vegetables. It’s the sauce you dip later is important. Duh~
Anyway, most people will ushered to the counter seats. Only when you comes in pair, you are more likely to sit in the private. The electrical stove is very easy to operate. One stove only cooks one pot. Regardless of Teppanyaki or Sukiyaki you are eating, your ingredients will be prepared in a black pot. The waitress will assist you with the on-ing of the stove then you are leave alone to do your own cooking. I ordered Seafood Sukiyaki, Laily ordered Black Angus Teppanyaki and Lester ordered Beef Tenderloin Teppanyaki. Each set is serve with salad, rice, egg (for Sukiyaki set) and miso soup (for Teppanyaki set).
Sukiyaki soup tastes normal, nothing very impressive. And if you want to refill the soup, they only do it with plain water and not stock. Laily has a big problem with her Black Angus. She don’t like onions and her set is full of them. Sho Teppan is considered cheap but of course of no match with the traditional Teppanyaki. If you think back what you’ve eaten, you actually don’t get much meat. We went 2nd round at Xin Wang Cafe after that. So I assume it is not very satisfying. It’s also a place you won’t sit there for chit chat because of all the smokes.
Entrance
Teppanyaki Menu
Sukiyaki Menu
Counter Seats
Counter Seats
2 Persons Private Seats
Electric Stove
Seafood Sukiyaki
Seafood Sukiyaki Uncooked Ingredients
Seafood Sukiyaki Set
Black Angus & Beef Tenderloin Teppanyaki Looks The Same
Beef Tenderloin Teppanyaki Set
A long due post. Since Lester has blogged about most of the aspects, my points shall just add on.
HP has an exhibition, City of Dreams, at Orchard ION Basement 4 last week. ‘City of Dreams’ is a special HP Initiative supported by ION Orchard and Siggraph. It starts on 7th August with a blogger event at night and lasted through the week till 13th August. We are very glad to be invited. HP has also made a special selection to the attending bloggers. They are mainly people who are interested in Technology, Design and Art. This is probably why I enjoyed my conversations with them and not lost in geeky’s 101010.
The exhibition showcases 4 new workstations with customizable specifications and on another side HP’s DesignJet Z3200 Photo Printer. I remembered doing a research back in my Polytechnic days about HP. HP has a long and established history about printing. Therefore, their R&Ds have led to high quality prints and brilliant colors. A little insight, the HP floor decal is also printed by HP z3200 Photo Printer. Cool right?
The blogger event starts with a prize giving ceremony to HP Lightropolis competition winners. Entries are displayed at Lightropolis, the LED walls at Orchard MRT exit to ION. I kinda like this space whenever I take the escalator up. You need not have advertising posters all the time. Light display is a great medium to transform spaces too.
The respective bloggers are then split into 3 groups for a mini competition, aim is to experience the use of the HP workstations by constructing a wallpaper of our ideal City of Dreams. We have this uber big monitor to work on and the latest Adobe CS4. I’ve not try CS4 yet. For those who may not know, CS4 opens documents in tab format. I can’t remember what I’ve actually done in the 20 to 30 minutes, but I have fun. Indeed, launching new IT products is all about testing and using them. Below is my team’s final product and us at work. Hahaha~
We ended the session with photograph taking with Ben 10 mascot. Feel like a child again.
More images on Lester’s facebook and HP’s Flickr album.
Today we went to James Tan Veterinary Centre located at Whitley Road. Pipi’s eyes get redder than usual. The eye tears and it has this dark yellow discharge. We thought it’s the haze but it isn’t. Apparently, he might have rubbed his eyes on the floor when we are not looking.
I asked the doctor if his condition has worsen. He told me he can’t tell. But the worst scenario is that the naughty boy can rub till he damages his eye cornea and bacteria get in. By then, he would be blind and have to remove the eye ball and stitch up the eye socket. Both me and my sister got so frightened that we decided to make him wear the collar whenever he goes to sleep.
We also enquire about his skin. The doctor shares his experience with us. He says the 3 major food causing dog skin irritations are: dried and canned food, treats and chicken. He told me that dried and canned food has preservatives and unknown substances which the dog’s body maybe allergic to. Also prevent chicken and eggs. So dog lovers, please take note.
Anyway, my silly Pipi is really afraid of going to clinic. He feels down when he is in the car. He ran off from the poach area when we reach, and chase after my dad’s car while he is trying to park. Then, he backs up again at the clinic door. Literally backup and escape between my sister’s legs. I went chasing him in the clinic. 笨死了。
宅 means home. I believe it is now known as staying at home.
I actually enjoy staying at home online shopping. Yet sad to say most of my money goes to shipping from oversea which I find it really wasteful. I hardly shop from Singapore because they really really sucks. On the other hand, I rather envy’s Taiwan’s way of online shopping. You can collect your stuff at your nearby “7-11” alike store. And you can shop from apparels to food. Can you believe it?
I feel the attitude of blog owners in Taiwan is also very different from those in Singapore. Blog owners in Taiwan can make this their full-time profession while it is only a part-time quick money channel for a Singaporean. “Quick” maybe not so too. Since they can only invest part-time in their blogs, they definitely cannot provide the best or at least the most unique stuff for you. So what are their unique selling point(s)? Design? They are selling an exact duplicate of what others are and in a lesser range some more. Cheap? Definitely no. They just want to earn money.
Like what I’ve remembered from today’s class: Singaporeans are only concern if they can earn more money or gain social status. The rest are not very important to them. Compare to what I’ve always heard in Jackie Wu’s interviews with Taiwan entrepreneurs “我是用心来做的。一天花 XX小时在生意上。”, at least i feel more 爽 and interested in shopping with them than leisure click and browse.
To prevent my friend from 继续堕落下去, I hope this song encourage her:
没有我的日子里
你会更加珍惜自己
没有我的岁月里
你要保重你自己
你问我何时MSN你
我也轻声地问自己
不是在此时不知在何时
我想大约会是在年底~~
It is really very hard to part with my 3 months of holiday nua-ness. I need to focus in school liao~
Do you know after you gave birth, if you continue to breastfeed, you won’t have menses?
I thought this is an amazing facts when my ex-colleague told me about this yesterday. We had a mini gathering at Fanny’s house at National Day. Prepared fried beehoon, pork and prawn dumpling soup, my mushrooms and others. Foong Yee brought her baby Yappy to her house too. Her baby is the first baby Iever dare to carry. Luckily he never cry.
It’s kinda obvious I don’t know how to carry the newborn. Yeee… So scary.
Three of us caught movie UP after the HP event at ION Orchard. We tried the 3D version in Cathay Cineleisure. Any difference? The pictures look 3D indeed but after several minutes of adjustment, you kinda get used to it. I only remember the ending scene of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, one meat ball really looks like it flies pass our shoulders. Anyway, 3D tickets are also more expensive. We paid $13 flat rate, no discount with any credit cards.
Wearing those 3D glasses are still quite cumbersome for people who are with specs. It has a little protruding corner at the bridge of your nose and the corner is supposed to sit perfectly on your existing glasses. It works, but the corner is too shallow somehow and the ends of the glasses are too long. If you attempt to lay your head back, the 3D glasses may drop out.
UP is hilarious and touching. Must watch!
Me & Bong
Bong, Me & Lester with 3D glasses