My peaceful hidout

My Island... A peaceful place to relax and enjoy the sea breeze

See the cute little lamb...so adorable!!

There goes my shelter...sigh!! next time must bring umbrella out liao.

把握當下

非常好的一篇文章. 我們的長輩應該都是這樣的想法: 永遠都是把錢存起來, 等到老的時候再花. 問題是我們能有這麼長的命來花嗎?

把握當下!


『等到我學業完成以後，我定要好好地放鬆自己。』
『等到我生意上了軌道以後 ，我定要出國旅行，到處遊玩，開開眼界。』

『等到我賺了錢以後，我定要好好地孝敬父母，讓他們過上好日子。』

『等到我買了房子以後，我就會停下忙碌的腳步，好好享受人生。』
『等到我孩子結了婚以後，我就可以安心打牌，毋需再顧慮那麼多。』

等到‥‥‥等到‥‥‥我們總是這樣對自己說，
也總是這樣把享受人生寄托在遙不可知的未來。
似乎我們所有的生命，都消耗在等待上。

曾有這麼兩個年青人，一位是中國人，另一位是美國人。
他們同在某個大城市的一家公司上班，職位相同，薪金相同，
然而所過的生活卻迥然不同。

那位美國人在他上班一年後，
用所賺的薪金分期付款買了一套非常漂亮、
舒適的房子，日子過得稱心如意；
而另外那位中國人，卻是租住在一棟非常破舊的公寓裡，
房子又黑又小又舊，彷彿稍微用力一點，整個房子就會倒塌似的。

那位中國人省吃儉用，他告訴自己，
等到賺夠了錢，就一定要買棟漂亮的房子，
讓自己住得舒服一點。

二十年後，他終於如願以嘗，
在那位美國人所住的公寓裡買了一套與他一樣漂亮的房子，與美國人毗鄰而居。

結果不幸的是，那位中國人住進新房子還不到一年，
就因多年來營養不良、積勞成? e而撒手西歸。

這就是中國人的悲哀，也是東方人與西方人最大的區別。

中國人顧慮太多，總是把生命用在等待上；

而西方人卻是秉持"把握現在，及時行樂"的人生態度。

如果那位中國人也像那位美國同事一樣，
用分期付款的方法買一套房子?
那他不也是一樣可以在二十年前就讓自己過得舒服一點了嗎？

人人都願意犧牲現在，去換取不可知的等待；
犧牲今生的辛苦錢，去換取來世的安逸。

其實我們毋須等到生活完美無瑕，也毋須等到一切穩定下來，
想做什麼，現在就可以開始。
每個人的生命都有盡頭，許多人往往在生命即將結束時，
才發現自己還有很多事沒有做，這實在是一種遺憾。

人生是一張單程車票，失去的便永遠不會再擁有。
千萬別把美好的生命浪費在等待上，把握現在，享受現在，才是最重要的。

Weekend 04-05Jul 2009 ~ My happiest moment ~

Went for a drive trip during the pass wkend. It's so FUN!! so Freedom!!

Here's some photos, a moment to share... nice sea breeze, relaxing & enjoying my drink. =D

Dinner。。。 煮炒。。。one of my fav type.

Ah Loy Thai

Ah Loy Thai... a place for thai food that i will highly recommended, they serve cheap & good food. Had visited them 2 times (30.05.09 & 20.06.09), here are some dishes that i had ordered:-

Fried Glass Noodles (Fried Vermicelli) - $5 per plate, very nice, worth ordering.

Tom Yam Soup - $5.50 per bowl, it's like for 2 pax serving, not as spicy as expected, just nice for ppl that dun quite like spicy food. Lack of the numbing spiciness as compared with the authentic tomyam soup.

Kangkong - nice, they put some chillies but not spicy at all.

Mango fried Chicken - crispy chicken serve with mango slices & sour sauce. thumb up!!

Fried Pineapple Rice - $4.50/plate, different from the pineapple rice that i ate at other place.

Tom Yam Stream Fish - Yummy =P

Pandan Chicken - $6.50 per plate

Thai Green Curry - not very spicy as expected also, the ingredients are fishball & chicken slice.

Thai Red Tea (cold) - $1.30 per glass, I personally like this =P

Pineapple Drink - $1.70/glass, Icy ordered this, she say is nice. (shld b very refreshing la, cos she ordered 2 glass leh!) =P

Red Ruby - $3 per bowl, yummy...have to share this with someone, i like to eat the jackfruit & the red ruby =P

Papaya Salad - $4 per plate, Sour....

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Address: Shaw Tower, 100 Beach Rd #01-39/40
Mon-Fri 12noon - 8:30pm
Sat 1pm - 8:30pm
Close on Sunday & Public Holiday

Yay!! Finally it's Friday!! Wish everyone have a NICE WEEKEND AHEAD!! Cheers =D

13.06-14.06 ~ busy but happy weekend

星期六13.06.09是一个busy & happy day.

Went for Dim Sum High Tea Buffet @ 老北京 with JR。那里的点心和我们常吃的香港点心有点不一样。他们没有虾饺，风爪，排骨和粉卷("Chee Cheong Fan")。

I personally like their Winter Melon Soup, very tasty...it's a MUST TRY. Their starter dish...jellyfish is pretty nice too. I like their 小笼汤包 also.

They have many types of 锅贴。And they served Herbal Tea (Luohan Tea) instead of Chinese Tea.

There's one item which have a orange colour cast & red bean paste inside, I like that too, but i just realised the orange colour outer cast is actually pumpkin which i tend to suffer from stomach aching if eating too much. lucky me, i'm still ok =D

One more item to recommend is the Custard Buns, i like the inside filling...hee =P

Their sweet-sour pork is not bad, how i wish they serve me a bowl of rice together wif it.

Their service is overall ok, just that there is no indication/label infront of each dishes. So you have to make a guess for what you are picking up.

Buffet Dim Sum High Tea (3pm - 5pm) Adult $15.80++

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After Makan, we went to PC Show to "exercise" =P. JR meet up wif another fren, 他们俩是满载而归。我只买了USB Extension Cable =P. Very tiring, but still a very happy/fruitful afternoon/evening. =D

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Sunday 14.06.09 is the last day of Art Festival. They have a closing celebration from 8pm for 45mins. There's fireworks display, i took some photos, here's one of them...

29.05.09

29.05.2009 is a special day cos it's my best fren B'day!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MOSHI!!

It's also a busy & stress working day too. Rushing for 3 tasks...one is "Urgent", another "Very Urgent" & one more "Very Very Urgent" project...haizz... construction line, everyday is urgent work. that's my life... =P

At least i end my day happily. Went for dinner & watch Terminator Salvation with JR. Had been quite awhile since the last time i watch a movie in cinema. This is a nice movie.

Here's the spoiler.

Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.... T-800, the machine that can think like a human being.

Hilltop HK cafe

Went to this cafe for dinner today. They serve HK cafe style dishes. I can say the food here is the nicest i had tasted before, compare to other HK cafe in Singapore. They don't have service charges, but their service is very good.

Here's are some dishes that me & my family ordered.

I will go there again to try out some other dishes, especially those that i miss so much since my last trip to HK.

Address:
Hilltop HK Cafe (SBW)
369 Sembawang Road #01-03/04
Sembawang Cottage
Tel:6445 5867

No Service Charges, 7% gst apply, C/C payment accepted.

Photography

Went to Marina Barrage to 'play' with my new toy =P with 2 photography buddies.

The photos are taken using Canon 450D with EF-S 18-55 Lens. Still very new to photography, but find it very fun. Only choose some presentable shoots to put here. hehe

Thanks to my buddy for teaching me about nite shooting =P

Astons

10.05.09 is Mother's Day!! We went to Astons Specialities to celebrate this special day for Mummy!!

Astons served quality food at affordable price. All the dishes that we ordered come with 2 side dishes of your choice. Me & bro ordered Prime Ribeye (the one in the middle is mine), BZ ordered Prime Sirloin (Top Right), Dad ordered NY Strip (Top Left), Mum ordered Black Pepper Steak (didn't manage to take photo, was bz eating liao =P)

Check out their website for more locations. ASTONS

Company Outing

03.05.09. My company had organized a BBQ outing @ East Coast on this Sunny Sunday. The workers are all having lots of fun!! They all arrived in lorries @ 9am...very ON hor!! The catering food came around 11am... the time me & other colleagues arrive =P

I like Care bears since young, especially TenderHeart Bear. I was at a shop few weeks back, and saw this poor little fellow, hanging on the shelf alone. He seem to be looking at me, and asking me to bring him out to 'play'.

So here he is... following me in & out. A helping hand in office? hmm... sort of ba...his duty is to make my colleagues laugh, cos he's so cute/naughty =P

~~ More About TenderHeart Bear ~~

TenderHeart Bear is one of the Original in Care Bears.

TenderHeart Bear helps everyone show & express their feelings and helps his fellow Care Bear be the most caring they can be. In the 1980s movie and cartoons he was the leader of the Care Bears. He is orange (originally brown) and his tummy symbol is a big red heart with a pink outline. In Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot, he wears a red heart-shaped backpack.

Source from Wikipedia

Mad Jack Cafe

Went to this Mad Jack Cafe located at Jln Kayu. The place is cosy, a nice place to sit down & relax. There's a TV in the center of the shop also, so soccer fans can watch their fav match while hving meal there. Cool!!

These are what we ordered for our dinner. Clockwise from Top: Grilled Rib-eye in Black pepper sauce, Cheesy Mix Fries, Grilled Chicken in Black pepper sauce & Beef Lasagne.

Cheesy Mix Fries...my fav...not the fries...Yap Yap...the cheese!!
Kaka =D Yummy

And thks 'Aunty' for the treat!! Happy Birthday!! *Muach =P

OPTIMIST: A man gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery

Animals are such agreeable FRIENDS, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

LEARNING is a progressive discovery of own ignorance.

Through education, we are striving not to TEACH the youth to make a living, but to make a life.

It is impossible to DEFEAT an ignorant man in an argument.

There is nothing permanent except KNOWLEDGE.

People generally QUARREL because they cannot argue.

The WISER the man, the more restrained is his anger.

I DISAGREED of what your say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

It is easier to CHALLENGE for principles than to live up to them.

The man with a new idea is a weird until the idea SUCCEEDS.

A long DISPUTE means that both parties are wrong.

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted - Aesop"

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step - Laotzu"

32deg

Singapore is SUPER Hot these few days!!! I'm melting no matter where I'm.

My room is 32deg!! I can't even get to sleep at night yesterday. Had on 2 fans at max speed already, but I'm still sweating all over. Manage to catch some slp at 5am finally. Hope tonight the weather will be better, but from what i see now, my room is still 32deg, the weather did not get any better.

Haizz....need to work tmr, die die also must knock myself out tonight. Where can I get a place to sleep at a comfortable temperature?

Me

My Interests:
Makan... nice nice food, must 'jio' me if you know any.
photography... start to grow more interest in this hobby in this few years.
travel... since 2004, i decided that i will try my very best to give myself a break every end of the year.
blogging... i started this blog few years back, mainly wanting to keep some sweet memories & also to share my moments with frens.

Current TV Show watching:
Monday 7:55pm - 百万大歌星
Tuesday 10pm - CSI:NY5
Wednesday 10pm - CSI 9
Saturday 7:30pm - 射雕英雄传 ; 9:30pm - 爱就宅一起
Sunday 7:30pm - 射雕英雄传

Movies:
Actually I got a lot of movies that I wanna watch, but I don't like to go cinema to watch movie alone. =P

My Favorite Day:
It's my B'day!! =D cos it's that day that let me receive a lot of well-wishes from all my beloved friends. It's feel so great when I know that my friends remember me.


I'm a quiet/talkative person, depend on how well you know me lor =P. I need at least 8hrs of sleep, but normally didn't sleep so much lah, where got so much time? I like to enjoy the sound of the wave, used to go to West Coast to sit there & enjoy the quiet sea breeze by myself. =P

Clementi 17.04.09

Went to Clementi today afternoon. Here's are some random photos.
There used to have a clock tower here...i really misses it =(
When young, we used to have our meals here. One of our fav hawker centre with nice foods. Hope it will stay forever (with the nice nice stalls inside), don't tear down when upgrading this town.
This old cinema is still here.
That the background, that's the Indoor Sport Hall & there's a swimming pool next to it. We used to go there play with water when young.
This new shopping centre had replace the old cinema building. The one that most of ur remember as a building where Mcdonald is. Now there's no more Mcdonald, but got my fav... MOS Burger. =P
There used to be my sec school behind this pri sch =P

Clementi

"When applying eye cream, use your finger tips to lightly tap on the skin to avoid tugging the skin"

"To have a radiant complexion, drink plenty of fluids to stay hydrated"

"Always use pimple cream on your acne, squeezing them will cause ugly scars to be left behind"

Good Friday & Easter

A Christian friend told me, Good Friday is the day when Jesus was crucified Then Easter is the day He resurrected.

Hmm...then why is the day of him been crucified called Good Friday? And why Easter is always celebrated with colourful eggs & bunny?

Anyone who know can leave me a comment??? thanks.

10.04.09

Yapee!! Finally A Holiday!! =D

Actually a fren had 'jio' me to sentosa today, but I decided to accompany my parents to Chinatown. At the same time, i can play with my new toy also...heehee.

Here's some random photos taken along the way. Actual size is in my Facebook.The 2 stalls that we patron today is quite nice for their quality & quantity. Worth visiting if you are looking for nice food in Chinatown area.

Heels hurt

Syed Alwi Rd

Early morning, we set off to Farrer Park Area to look for delicacy...kaka =D ... Haizz...how to slim down like that?? =P

Okie...here's our itinerary.

1st stop - Beef Ball Soup @ 217 Syed Alwi Road
大埔牛肉丸 open everyday except Friday. Alot of newspapers had interviewed this stall.
Their soup & beef balls are both very tasty. It's cost $3, consider quite reasonable price for their quality of food. If you are afraid that the soup is not enough for you, can order mee or rice too.

Very Worth Trying!!!

2nd stop - Laksa @ Blk 27 Townshend Rd
结霜桥Laksa, this stall is one of the famous Laksa Stall in Singapore too.
Their Laksa cost $2 per bowl, have to eat with spoon. Taste very nice also, the soup is not too spicy for me & their clam is very freshy!!


3rd stop - Yong Tou Fu @ Golden Mile Food Ctr
We walked from Syed Alwi Rd via Jln Sultan, passed by Blk 462 Crawford Ctr & Textile Ctr.
At Crawford Ctr, we saw the bamboo tray for cooking. Mum say that's what my aunties are looking for.
At Textile Ctr, my first time been here. Wow!! this plc is fun...alot of beads, treads & textile.
Finally reached Golden Mile Food Ctr, I'm very tired already after the long walk. "Old liao lah" =P. My Brother meet up with us there for Lunch.

The Yong Tou Fu is located at #B1-44. 8pcs of items + mee hoon cost $3. Their soup is highly recommended to try.