Entries Tagged as 'Trips'
Yummy Mee Chiam Kueh!
June 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Just Family, Trips
Something that is hard to find in Singapore anymore. All the mee chiam kueh in SG are thick and soft, but I do miss this type of mee chiam kueh, thin, super crispy, peanut with some butter. Reminds me of my former school days when I travel daily from Johor to Singapore to study, and [...]
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A Trip to Pulau Ubin
May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Just Family, Trips
Daddy wanted to bring us to Pulau Ubin again, I was very apprehensive due to the extremely hot weather recently. But this morning, we woke up, it was so cool with a slight drizzle, so we decided that it was a good time to embark on this trip, so we did! It was Liz and [...]
Tags: Chek Jawa·Pulau Ubin
Yangon Day 4
March 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Trips
Last day in Yangon, we were going home in the afternoon. Went to have their local breakfast, which I was hoping for something similar to what I had enjoyed in Bangladesh, Pita bread with curry and sorts, but their offering was not quite appetising.
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Yangon Day 3
March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Trips
Today is Sunday, so we decided to do some touristy thing. We took a taxi to their famous temple. It was really hot, but walking around barefooted inside was quite cooling! Before we went for lunch, we went to their “flea market” type of place. Bought local sandals for Toria, but really, nothing much to [...]
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Yangon Day 2
March 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Trips
My pants were getting too tight, so we went to their stalls and bought myself a sarong and their type of sandals. They taught me how to tie so I tried wearing that for dinner that night. The moment I got out of the taxi at our dinner place, I could immediately feel the sarong [...]
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Yangon Trip Day 1
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Trips
Today, Daddy, Ah Gong and I went for an inaugural trip to Yangon. That place is mighty hot! We had their local lunch, not quite used to it. Very hot, bought a fan to fan myself, which was THE most critical buy of the whole trip. Ah Gong was sweating sooooo badly. We took a [...]
Bintan – Day 2
January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Trips
We took it slow and easy today. Didn’t have any activities planned. Oma did not feel well, felt feverish, so she went back to Singapore in the morning. Late morning, we walked over to the recreation centre. There we had a ball! Donald went for the hamster ball thingy at the pool. We then played [...]
Bintan – Day 1
January 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Trips
We felt so bad for being away from our kids so often, especially Lizzie, that when we got on the plane to Bangladesh, we immediately decided to cut short the trip so that we can make it home earlier, and bring the kids for a getaway family time. So after much arrangment, we did manage [...]
Bangkok – Day 2
December 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Did some work today. Walk about to see some customers. After which, we walked around Chinatown. Saw a roadside stall that sells “Pek Kee” crabs, those that are “banned” in Singapore, those that our grandparents loved to eat. They bought 2 bottles full and decided to bring it back to Singapore.
Tags: Bangkok·Pek Kee Crabs
Bangkok – Day 1
December 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
We arrived from Dhaka to Bangkok in the evening. After checking into one of the hotel in Chinatown, we went to have dinner. Upon my special request, we went to have shark’s fins soup for dinner! Yummmmmmmy! After dinner, Ah Gong rested in the hotel room, while Daddy and I took a tuk-tuk to MBK [...]
Bangladesh – Day 3
December 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Went around the beach this morning. Had a nice breakfast too. See the pix. After sorting out some stuff, we took a 10 hour car ride back to Dhaka. Halfway, our car brakes had some issues. Stopped by the workshop. The workshop there opens 24 hours! The driver is really something, but many times, can [...]
Tags: Bangladesh·Cox's Bazar
Bangladesh – Day 2
December 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Yesterday, we travelled the whole day. We left Singapore for Dhaka. From there, we took a 10hour car ride to Cox’s Bazar. By the time we reached, it was 3am in the morning. So we woke up a little late today. The weather in Cox’s Bazar is quite cool, about 10deg c. I brought the [...]
Tags: Bangladesh·Cox's Bazar·Fish market·Holding the Sun·Sunset
China Trip – Day 8
December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
We are going home tonight! Before we do that, we are all packed, and we hired a car, to bring us and the luggages, to Mutianyu part of the Great Wall of China. Badaling is too commercialised, so we wanted to try the other parts of the great wall. Whats good about this part is that, [...]
Tags: Beijing·cable car·China·great wall of china·luge·winter jacket
China Trip – Day 7
December 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Today, the tour of Beijing begins. Our hotel is located in the middle of a hutong 胡同，so they have a rickshaw to ferry customers to the main road to get a cab. But it was a nice relaxing walk, so we walked, and the kids sat on the rickshaw. We went to the Forbidden [...]
Tags: Beijing·Forbidden Palace·Red Wall·Steamboat·Temple of Heaven·Tiananmen Square·Xiushui
China Trip – Day 6
December 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Today, we were going to take it easy. Daddy suggested to go 秀水 for shopping first, so that we have time to try the clothes in the hotel room, and have time to go back for exchange if the size doesn’t fit. So we woke up a bit later. The hotel provided buffet breakfast. I [...]
China Trip – Day 5
December 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Trips
I read about this Siberian Tiger Park, so I “insisted” on going, since we didn’t have a chance to see the ice festival. Turns out, the trip to the tiger park was SPECTACULAR! The tigers are free roaming, barricaded by metal fences. We were in a bus, but the tigers can come up right next [...]
Tags: Beijing·Courtyard Hotel·Double Happiness·Harbin·Harbin Tower·Tiger Park
China Trip – Day 4
December 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
We arrived at about 730am. Our business partner wanted to come fetch us. He knew we were coming for a hols, so he specially made a trip back to his hometown or Harbin. Normally he is based in Dalian. So sweet right? When we arrived, it was so cold, that the moisture on our eyelashes [...]
China Trip – Day 3
December 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
After lunch, brought the kids to their wet market. Then took a ride home in their trishaw, for only RMB2! Before we left for the train station, Wang Ping’s family insisted to have dinner with us again, cos they had not met Matthew, as he was having drinks with our business partners the day before. [...]
Tags: China·Train·Train ride to Harbin
China Trip – Day 2
December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Before going to do some “work”, we brought the kids to the mall to buy some more winter wear, cos it was really really cold. We saw this auntie selling 冰糖葫芦 and we bought some. We bought the strawberries ones, the grapes ones and sweet potato ones. Quite yummy but quite sweet too. We then [...]
China Trip – Day 1
December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
So, we kissed Lizzie goodbye, and left with the kids to the airport. This was the itinerary that I had planned. 15/12/09 – fly to Beijing, connect 2100hrs flight to Yanji, take a 2hour cab ride to Hunchun, reach there about midnight. 16/12/09 & 17/12/09 – business trip in Hunchun. 17/12/09 – take a overnight [...]
A Day in Penang
December 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
We drove up at night, and stayed a night so that we could start the day early.
China Trip Day 5
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
I left for Singapore early next morning. It took me an entire day’s flight to get home. Hunchun – Yanji Airport (2 hour bus ride + taxi) Yanji – Beijing Beijing – Shanghai Shanghai – Singapore (0010hrs on 17/11/09) When I arrived on 17th November 2009 morning, about 545am. Daddy brought Donald and Elizabeth to [...]
China Trip Day 4
November 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
My first time being away from baby, so brought my pump equipment, cold bag etc, but I only managed to feel engorged once, so I only expressed one time, and my body seemed to “weaned” itself…. Anyway, cos my dad’s apartment does not have a fridge, so i kept my packet of milk on the window sill [...]
Tags: breastmilk·expressing·hunchun·Steamboat
China Trip Day 3
November 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Woke up early in the morning and peered out of the train window, what a beautiful snow scene! Reached Tumen train station at 6.30am. At the train station and in the car, on the way to Hunchun. My dad’s god-daughter, Wang Ping, drove all the way to the train station, from 5am in the morning, to [...]
China Trip Day 1-2
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
On 11 Nov 10pm, after I had put the kids to bed, Daddy sent me to the airport. I was to go to China for 6 days. My flight was a red-eye flight, departing slightly over midnight on 12 Nov, and arriving Shanghai at 6.30am. From Shanghai, I was to catch another flight to Dalian. [...]
Vietnam Day 3
October 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Liz was a cooperative little girl. No porridge for her, just bought her those instant meals from Pigeon. I didn’t know that each packet had only sooo little, poor girl, practically starved! But our hosts were very sweet, always helped us order beef porridge, so Liz had a great feast too! Our hosts brought [...]
Vietnam’s Mid Autumn Celebration
October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
So happen, tonight was mid-autumn, there was a mini celebration in Vung Tau. Anyway, I really love their Vietnamese Fish Sauce. Added with some water, sugar, garlic. It becomes a seasoning, to dip fresh salad into. Everything tastes so yummy dipping in that sauce! In Vietnam, the standard starter dish a bunch of raw vegetables. [...]
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Vietnam Trip
October 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Today, I left my 2 older kids behind, brought my little Liz along (cos she is still breastfeeding), and went to Vietnam with Ah Gong. We stayed in District 5, which is a Chinese District. Not too ex, it was only USD30 per night for a triple room. And it was much bigger, cleaner than [...]
Termeloh & Kuantan
September 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
We needed to go to Kuantan in the morning, but it was too expensive to stay there. We stayed in Termeloh，文德甲，quite an ok place. Had breakfast there and moved off. Had lunch at Kuantan.
Taiping
September 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Early in the morning, Daddy grabbed Toria, and went outside to take pix of a serene, early morning, taiping. Back in the hotel, while packing up to leave, the kids were having a brawl on bed. Liz was crying and the elder 2 were mimicking her. Liz was so frustrated! We then went downstairs for [...]
Kedah & Taiping
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
After Ah Gu’s wedding, we drove overnight up north to Kedah. Not sure why, but the weather there is more humid and sun was scorching. We stayed 1 night at Taiping. Went to the night market for dinner. After dinner, we rested in the hotel. Dipped all 3 of them in the bath tub. They [...]
Day 4 – Home
July 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Today, we depart from Genting and made our way back to Singapore. Our car is quite comfy at the back, curtains all drawn and we were all enjoying some cartoon show, when Daddy suddenly shouted, “Aaaah!! Look! Baby in the middle of the road!” We pulled open the curtains frantically, and saw, at the roadside, [...]
Day 3 – Genting
July 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Trips
Day 2, I was away from Donald and Toria, they were still fine. Day 3 morning, they refused to leave me, even though they were going to have fun in the theme park. We had to forcefully say bye bye at the lift lobby. During the day trip to Kuantan, we spoke to Donald many [...]
Day 3 – Kuantan
July 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Trips
Donald and Toria stayed in Genting for Day 2 and 3, to play at the theme parks, accompanied by Oma and Siskha, while we shuttle back and forth, making Genting Highlands our base. Since we will be out the whole day, Lizzie had to follow this “moo moo cow” Day 2, we went to KL [...]
Day 1 – Penang
July 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Trips
We went up north again. Touch down Penang, headed back to Genting for 3 nights, before heading back to Singapore.
