Minced pork with steam eggs are like my favorite dish when I’m younger, before I stop eating pork.
My mum has tried with other substitute: 冬菜 with steam eggs. It tastes alright, but she has not been making it like for many years liao. Every time I see this dish, I can only unsightly scrap the top part of the eggs while the pork stays below.
Feel miserable. Why no one make a chicken one for me?
Minced Pork With Steam Eggs
One of the neighbors give us a bagful of folded boxes from old magazines. According to my dad, these are folded by a 90 years old lady who wants to train her mind, keep herself occupied. *Applause*
They are very useful in every day’s life. 🙂
A bagful of folded boxes.
You can use them for food scrapes.
Despite much help from Wenxin and Foong Yee, we still did not manage to get out of Singapore for a birthday celebration this weekend. I actually planned a boutique hotel overnight stay or a Bintan spa retreat for Lester’s birthday. Hmm… We must really do this sometime!
I started spending money crazily this semester, thinking my money well will not dry up. But that’s beside the point. I dragged Lester for a project shopping anyway. Shopping for his OWN gifts, of course.
Tried Crocs, Pull & Bear, Esprite and finally FCUK. He likes a TWEET tee shirt. Tata~
Tweet Bird FCUK Tee Shirt
Tweet Bird FCUK Tee Shirt Overall
Model Pose
Happy bird-day in advance!
Seriously, I have no time to blog. FYP is coming to an end really soon. Totally excited!
The other thing to look forward to is graduation. I dunno why I wanted to get out of school so much. 4 years of studies is indeed too long.
This is one of the random things I will do during recess: meet up an old friend for lunch. Actaully, Coral Village serve very nice zichar food. I tried once at Beach Road, this is the second time. But this particular branch at Kreta Ayer takes like ages to serve.
Laily’s Chicken Chop Rice
Our Homemade Tofu
My Fried Rice With Salted Fish
Thanks to 24seven, today Lester, I and a few other bloggers have a chance to experience 4D Magix and CineBlast at Sentosa.
Sentosa 4D Magix
Sentosa CineBlast
Desperados
Desperados
The first show we watched or rather played was as an interactive game called Desperados at CineBlast. Desperado is Singapore’s first interactive shoot out game where there are like 25 of us sitting down on a cowboy saddle and shooting bandits on the screen as they appear.
Cowboy Saddle
At first I thought the cowboy saddle are just dummies, I didn’t know they move! But nevertheless, it increases the difficulty as well as the fun of the game.
3rd Place
I was in the first place during the training mode, but dropped to 3rd place for the final results. We have unlimited ammos, so I trigger happy and half way through the game, I have to switch hands because my fingers are aching.
Extreme Log Ride
Extreme Log Ride
The next show we watched was the Extreme Log Ride which is also at CineBlast.
Drop Your 3D Glasses
It is a 3D simulator, so you have to wear the 3D glasses provided. You started out as a log in the Himalamazon being cut and then transported to the other end of a logging facility.
Simulator Cabin
It is pretty realistic as there are 6 axis of movement within the simulator cabin. But if you got motion sickness, I would recommend you to avoid this as the movement can be pretty sudden and jerky.
Pirates
Unlike the previous two shows, Pirates is not a computer generated film but instead it is acted by humans. The story of the show focuses on this single young pirate setting traps around the island for the other pirates as they are looking for treasures on the island. Similar to the Extreme Log Ride, this is also a 3D show, but they added in another D to become 4D. The additional D come from wind blowing at you, water sprinkling onto you, movement of the chair as well as pressurized air being release below at your leg and at the top beside your head. I kinda like the elements in the extra D, perhaps they can include smell as well. The movement of the chair is irritating though. I think the 3D is more realistic than the Extreme Log Ride. You can literally see and “feel” a bee and a bat right in front of you.
Waiting Area Before The Pirates
Opening Hours
The opening hours of the show is from 10am to 9pm daily and the last show is at 8.45pm.
Prices
Child rate is for 12 years old and below. Minimum height is 90cm for Extreme Log Ride and 110cm for Desperados. Pirates have no minimum height for children.
Desperados only: SGD$12
Extreme Log Ride only: SGD$18 (adult), SGD$11 (child)
Pirates only: SGD$18 (adult), SGD$11 (child)
Desperados + Extreme Log Ride: SGD$26 (adult), SGD$20 (child)
Pirates + Extreme Log Ride: SGD$29.90 (adult), SGD$17.90 (child)
Promotion
Desperados + Extreme Log Ride + Pirates: SGD$37.90 (adult), SGD$25.90 (child)
Flickr: Sentosa 4D Magix & CineBlast 28022010
Written by Lester Chan + Li Xiang
Note: I did not link the official 4D Magfix and CineBlast website because it has been marked as malicious by Google.
Together with other bloggers, we are invited to the Chingay Parade 2010 by Singapore Tourism Board. The theme for this year parade is ImaginEast (东方奇想). This is also the very first time Chingay is paraded in the F1 Pit Building, beside Singapore Flyer. I thought the Pit Building is a good venue choice because it is near the sea, it gets breezes blowing to the land in the night. The Pit Building is divided into 3 sections, with parade starting from blue to red and lastly yellow. Spectators should also come dress according to the color section they are seated in.
A little background on Chingay Parade. This year is the 37th consecutive year Chingay has been run. Chingay used to be a celebration in Penang during Lunar New Year season, with men carrying Chinese decorated floats on their shoulders, dancers, jugglers and magicians entertain the crowd. It celebrates a beginning to a new year. But Chingay is introduced to Singapore in the 1972 as an substitute activity for the banned firecrackers during the festive season.
Most of the crowd walk by foot from Suntec and Marina Square to the F1 Pit Building. There isn’t much way-finding signs sadly, only ushers nearer to the event venue. Spectators are to be seated by 7pm and the recording will start from 8.15pm. Did I not say that Chingay Parade will be filmed and telecast on the following evening. Hmm…
Anyway, this is our first time watching Chingay live. I can’t tell you how great the experience is. You are immersed into a whole experiential performance with themes, exploding colors, extravagance costumes, beautifully composed music and spectacular performers. Watching TV is a sure no kick.
Chingay Parade 2010 is choreographed into 6 segments: Opening, Legendary Tales, Cultures of the East, Singapore Samba, Yellow River and Finale. Each presenting Asia in the most wondrous imagination.
There are a few highlights for the night. (1) Real firecrackers are lit with furious Chinese dragons and lions dances. You never know how ear deafening and smoky the firecrackers are unless you are there. But it makes a memorable opening for the parade. (2) We have Go Fly Kite participating in the Butterfly Lovers’ float. Their LEDs decorated butterflies fly up the air as the story progresses. (3) Egyptians from Joseph & his Multi-Coloured Coat throw bags of rice to the spectators. (4) MPs from Tampines GRC and HDB waved their hands from the HDB float. (5) Tallest and largest dream catcher follow suit. (6) Extremely long Yellow River scene is collaborated with Singapore renowned pianist, Mr Ong Lip Tat. (7) All kids favorite, float from Universal Studios Singapore. Parade ended with fireworks.
So which color section do you sit matter? I think it does. There are some positions where the floats make a complete stop, section like the red one where VIPs are sitting. These are excellent spots for photo taking. Else, most of the floats usually pass by very quickly.
We are looking forward to the Universal Studios float when the host announces at the start of the parade. But to our disappointment, the fireworks come just before the Universal Studios float, drawing all our attention to the fireworks. The Universal Studios float only stop by the red section and accelerates when it reaches our. I only manage to capture a few shots of it.
After the Chingay Parade, all spectators have to clear the spectator stands. A music party is prepared which lasted through 4am the next morning.
As a tradition, these Chingay floats will parade to our heartland HDB areas too. Check out the Chingay Heartlands schedule to get a closer proximity with them.
Chingay Parade 2010 Tickets
Color Sections & Directions
Entrance
To Spectator Stand
Pong Pong
Promenade on the Opposite
Cheerleaders
Pre-Parade
Stilt Walkers
Firecracker Dragon of Binyang
Performer from Butterfly Lovers
LED Butterfly from Go Fly Kite
Egyptians with Rice
Celebrating 50 Years of Public Housing
Largest Dream Catcher
My Family, My Joy
Miss Singapore
Yellow River
Resorts World Sentosa “Come Ride The Movies”
Universal Studios Singapore
Universal Studios Singapore
Fireworks Finale
Souvenir
Written by Li Xiang & Lester Chan
I have 2 presentations in a day: web design and designed experiences. Realise I spent too much time on one of them and neglect the latter one.
My group is doing on Disney for designed experiences and I totally don’t know what i am talking about. Tongue tied to the max! 🙁 Kader hides 5 Mickeys in the class, I only took 4 of them.
More work is piling up. Don’t really want to think.
Hidden Mickey 01
Hidden Mickey 02
Hidden Mickey 03
Hidden Mickey 04
Orange Food
Orange Food
Orange Food
Class Jumps
I attempted to stick fake nails for Chinese New Year this year. Beauty is satisfactory, no doubt. The feel, touch and inconveniences they gave me are the ultimate horrible ones.
There is a lot of things I basically can’t do: type on my iphone, press my remote control, rub my eyes and nose, clean my ears when I bathe, wear my contact lens, button my clothes, wear my earrings, open a can drinks and I scratch myself accidentally for so many times.
As for being a clean freak like me, I’m so concern about hygiene. I have to sacrifice my toothbrush, scrub the dirt in the in-between.
I also dun understand why I feel the nails’ presence every seconds. It’s uncomfortable and painful whenever I try to excert some force with these nails.
So I soak my hands in warm water as per the youtube videos. Water doesn’t really help, but it reduces the tightness between the fake and the real nails. I bathed and further soak them, force them open from the edges, coz I can’t take it anymore. Wrong demonstration, I know. Now I have to remove the glue stains left on my poor nails.
For people who want to attempt fake nails:
I gave a box of fake nails to Bong Laily and my sister. Hope they have better luck in this than me.
My fake nails.
Removed. Glue stains, yucks!
10 fake nails.
This is my first Designed Experiences class and today’s theme is RED. We have to bring RED food and a RED thing to class. Followed by a RED performance choreographed by our classmates.
Red Food
Red Things
Testing Handheld GPS
Red Performance’s Preparation
Red Ballons
Red Venue
Red Performance
Red Ending