Food Glorious Food

Whenever you are in Shanghai, there are some of the food you must try in Shanghai: Xiao long baos, Tang Baos, Xiao Yang Sheng Jian, La Mien, Desserts, simple meal of delicious food.
These are found almost everywhere, but I'll put here some of the best I ever tasted and found. They are not in order cause all of them are delicious!


老鸭粉丝汤
This is found somewhere near the lu xun's museum, at some roadside stall, but it is the best I ate. Inside is vermicelli with duck's innards, the soup taste great!


Egg roll
Found at a stall just outside Shanghai University. It's my everyday morning breakfast. Delicious pancake egg roll with some salad and your choice of meat in it like sausage, crabsticks or turkey meat. YUMMY!


Meal of various dishes
Located at an eatery near Shanghai University. Serves a variety of food like Gong Bao chicken, Gu lu yuk etc. Best of all, free flow of rice which is good for rice monsters! Cheap too!


Rice dish
Found also on another eatery near Shanghai University. Very interesting as it is served on a plate that looks like dog plate. But delicious and cheap!


Kung Fu Fast Food
This is very interesting as it is Chinese fast food! It boast itself to be healthy fast food as it serves chinese dishes and soup instead of burgers and their food are all steamed. Nice.


小吃街
Well this is not food but it's a street that has many delicious snacks and street food. I forgot where is the exact location but you can get there by the train and just a 5 min walk.


The signboard tells it all about the food, it's located in food street which serves....

Fried dumplings
But don't let these balls fool you. These are BIG and YUMMY. Served on a plate of 4, one bite of it and inside the soup will flow into your mouth. Super delicious which is why the long queue. And most of the time, it's so delicious that 4 is not enough. 1 person can eat up to 12 of them even though they are so HUGE!


Yummy Kebabs and Juice in food street.


汤包
These delicious baos are small but filled with yummy soup that you'll just keep eating and eating. One shop sells this delicious baos.

Located at: 62 丽园路


Muslim La mien
I was surprised to find a muslim stall in Shanghai and guess what? They are all Chinese! Yup, they have the certification of halal and they wear the traditional muslim clothes but they speak chinese. Kind of weird. But their noodles are nice and friendly people. Located in a few streets away near Shanghai University.

And Lastly,

Sexy Posters

Shanghai Nights

OK I guess I have a little time today to update my blog. (Hurray!) I'm kind of missing the times in Shanghai especially the food. So sharing to you about some more photos about shanghai.

One of the beautiful things about shanghai is the night life. Well I don't mean clubbing, although clubbing is said to be great in Shanghai, but I did not go clubbing there cause well, got gf already so no more clubbing nights. So, during the free time after sun down, my friends and I decided to go out for some good dinner and explore the night Shanghai. We took the subway and we saw this:
The station had no doors! That's pretty scary as you could just push someone while the train is approaching. We got on the train and it was very similar to our MRT, probably because most of Shanghai's infrastructure is based on Singapore design. Just that most of the time, it has a stinky smell. Peak periods is packed full of people and you do really need to fight your way in or out. Forget about courtesy during the peak period, do what China do. It's really fun pushing your way through.

We got to the Shanghai's central area, People's Square for a simple but delicious meal of noodles. Then we walked around till we reached part of old Shanghai. Beautiful lights!
It's like orchard road here with many people walking for dinner or shopping.
People here have their dinner real early at about 6 pm, so some of the more famous eateries have their food sold out even before their closing time of 9 pm.

Finally our last stop is The Bund which is the iconic postcard of Shanghai, the view of the city opposite the sea. Nice. It's kind of like the Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong. The buiilding on the left is the tallest building in Shanghai.

Iphone out in Singapore

In one week I think you can find 1 of 10 Singaporeans holding a 3.5G iphone on the streets. Reviews say there are problems that disappoint users, but well people don't care as it is the hippest thing in town now! Singtel will be busy counting their money. Look at the crowd!

BUSY!!!

Somehow work is piling up on me in 2nd semester. Lectures are crazy covering so many chapters! WTF. I think we need more than 24 hours to finish up studying, assignments and tutorials!

Long time no Blog

Well it's been a long time since I blogged again. Probably there's too much to write or I have no inspiration for blogging yet. Well hope to get the mood for blogging again. So well keep visiting!

The Vietnam War Era

During the Vietnam war, the Americans lost alot of their soldiers and there was the rise of the hippies, war is useless and brings out only suffering. This song is a very enjoyable and meaningful actually (It's really funny that you felt like it was a mickey mouse sing along) Enjoy!

Wedding Videos

Getting married soon? Need someone to do a professional video recording and photography for your wedding day? My friend here runs a company which do wedding videos and I would say he is really good in it.

Go to the website to know more about it.

http://www.oddoneout.com.sg/

The Dark Knight

Watch this film on the opening night of Thursday and I would say it doesn't dissappoint and far exceeded my expectations. It's truly the definitive sequel to "Batman Begins". This time they introduced two new villians: The Joker and Two-face.
The joker, Batman's arch nemesis really shines in this film as he's the main psychotic bad guy here and he truly wreaks havoc in Gotham city. No one can really stop him.
I always liked Tim Burton's Batman, the rest were hollywood craps. However, Christopher Nolan's film has replaced my number 1 spot for Batman movie. The greatest Batman film ever. It's even darker and even scarier than before. Definitely a must watch film. And do watch "Batman Begins" to understand the characters before watching this film as they do not do any reintroducing of characters again.

Ratings: 10/10. Perfect.

6 Lessons of Management

Lesson 1:

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings.

The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs.

When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbour.

Before she says a word, Bob says, 'I'll give you $800 to drop that towel.'

After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob, after a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves.

The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.

When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, 'Who was that?'

'It was Bob the next door neighbour,' she replies.

'Great,' the husband says, 'did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?'

Moral of the story:

If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

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Lesson 2:

A priest offered a Nun a lift.

She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg.

The priest nearly had an accident.

After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg.

The nun said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?'

The priest removed his hand. But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again.
The nun once again said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?'

The priest apologized 'Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.'

Arriving at the convent, the nun sighed heavily and went on her way.

On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, 'Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.'

Moral of the story:
If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.
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Lesson 3:

A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp.

They rub it and a Genie comes out.
The Genie says, 'I'll give each of you just one wish.'
'Me first! Me first!' says the admin clerk. 'I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world.'
Puff! She's gone.

'Me next! Me next!' says the sales rep. 'I want to be in Hawaii , relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and the love of my life.'

Puff! He's gone.

'OK, you're up,' the Genie says to the manager.
The manager says, 'I want those two back in the office after lunch.'
Moral of the story:
Always let your boss have the first say.
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Lesson 4

An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing.

A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, 'Can I also sit like you and do nothing?'
The eagle answered: 'Sure, why not.'

So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.
Moral of the story:
To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.
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Lesson 5

A turkey was chatting with a bull.

'I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree' sighed the turkey, 'but I haven't got the energy.'
'Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?' replied the bull. They're packed with nutrients.'

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch.

Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree.

He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.

Moral of the story:
Bull **** might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there..
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Lesson 6

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field.

While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him.

As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was.

The dung was actually thawing him out!

He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate.

Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Morals of the story:
(1) Not everyone who ****s on you is your enemy.

(2) Not everyone who gets you out of **** is your
friend.

(3) And when you're in deep ****, it's best to keep
your mouth shut!

Cooking Dinner

Lp cooking dinner for me on Sunday night. Chinese food was the theme of the night. On the menu was Singapore fried bee hoon, stir-fried beanstalk, "gu lu yuk" and wintermelon soup. Well her first time cooking and it was not bad. Thumbs up!

Shanghai Day 1

Well it's good to be back to HK since I can finally get to blog. China has banned blogspots and Xanga so no access to them for 3 weeks. Shanghai entry is long overdue! On the first of June, I flew from Shenzhen to Shanghai taking Shenzhen Airlines. Cost me about $100 which is real cheap as there's food included in it. The flight is about 2 hrs and I touched down in Pudong, Shanghai.

The weather is cool there like aircon. Luckily it's not that hot. Then waited at the airport for the rest of the people to arrive. Waited for almost more than 3 hrs for the rest of the Singaporeans cause they got lost in the airport! Nevermind, finally we found them and checked into our international hostel in Shanghai University. Wow, it's like a budget hotel! Cool! Totally different from the standard of NTU hostels. Cause you got your own bathroom, aircon and even TV.

After checking in and having a short rest, we were given a short orientation of the school and time to buy our groceries in a supermarket at a shopping centre nearby. The things sold in China is damn cheap! Wa lao, 4 packs of big tissue paper costs only about $2 sing! While walking back to the hostel, guess what I saw? Condom dispenser! It's everywhere in the streets.


The next day we had an opening speech and short lecture on Shanghai.

Thereafter we were brought to several places in Shangahi like Xin Tian Di and Yu Garden

In Xin Tian Di


Somewhere near Yu Garden


The world's smallest "Er hu"


Finally we had our welcome dinner at a nice restaurant which has very nice ambiance. Nice.

So Catchy!!

I could not help but get addicted to this gatsby commercial featuring Takuya. IIIIII can give you Gatsbyyyyyy gatsbtyyyyyyyy gatsby............

But NOT this one:

High Tea Buffet at Goodwood Park Hotel

It was a lazy Saturday afternoon, at around close to 2, we walked towards Goodwood Park Hotel which was located right next to Far East Plaza in Orchard Road for a High Tea Buffet. This was my first time going for some high tea buffet at some hotel cause usually I do not splurge that much on buffet on cakes and finger foods. Reserving your table in advance is a must for this buffet as it is so popular. I reserved it in a week advance for a table for that saturday at 2 pm. The buffet starts at 2 - 5 pm.




Seated at the table, we were given a menu of choices of teas to choose. Not bad quite long list of variety of teas. I chose a tea which goes well to wash away the sweetness of cakes. Girls absolutely love high tea buffets. Most of the customers I saw are mostly women, rich young taitais, couples or families. The environment was very relaxed and comfortable which made me sit there for almost the whole day enjoying some life.

Being hungry since morning, I went for the sandwiches. OMG they are damn nice and delicious. Some of them are topped with caviar and many types of ham, even Parma hams. Oh oh oh so delicious. Nice spread to keep eating and eating. Plus with the tea, oh oh oh so good!

Sandwich spread.

The mango with prawn croissant tingles the taste buds of sweet and salty

The finger foods are disappointing though

These are lovely!!!

Cakes!!

Chocolate fountain for fondue lovers
After somewhile there will be someone playing the piano to add the atmosphere of nice relaxing live music. Wish you were a tai tai now right?

Lp went on a eating spree. She kept eating and eating cause the food is just so good. In fact she actually ate more than me! Probably due to cakes and icecream which they have a bottomless pit for it. Eat eat eat, stop, relax, sit for a while, read newspapers, then eat eat eat again. Sat there till almost 5 pm. So full afterthat. No need for dinner already.

A very full Hitori.

The price is about $30++. Total we paid about $71 bucks. Great food for a tea buffet.
P.S. There is two types of high tea buffet at two different cafes. One is the English tea, the other is local buffet. So do check their website on more info.

Boarding the Singapore Flyer

Well it's time to blog again. Finally the exams are over, time to relax and recharge our batteries for the next semester. Lp was here for visiting so brought her to the flyer.
It was meant to be a surprise for her, keeping secret on where I am going to bring her to. Even till we are there at the flyer building, she had no idea on what I am going to do. Haha. Told her that we are taking the Singapore flyer, she was overjoyed. Going to the Flyer centre was quite inaccessible as we had to take the MRT, change a bus and then walk a little distance to there.
The flyer is just so huge. Taking photos of it was quite a big challenge. At least managed to get part of it in the shot.
I bought the 7 pm ticket, It is one of the best timing for the flyer as you probably be able to see the sunset and also the transition from day to night which lets you get the most out of your money. $29.50 per adult which is quite expensive. But spending it is ok for an experience. It's more to bring in the tourists when the IR is up (tourist trap!).

There's quite alot of people that day, partly due to Mother's Day. Walked around the centre till about 6.45 pm to queue to board the flyer. Longggg queue, but proceed fast. As you can see, the sun is setting giving a nice hue to the sky.

In the boarding gate.

Getting into the capsule, the staff would open the door and you will hop in while the flyer rotates.

Looking at the next capsule

A nice view of the city. The view of the city is nice. The whole ride will take 30 mins and it's moving veerrry slowly that you don't feel that the wheel is rotating.

Soon night time view. The capsule is not a very good place to take photos especially night photos as there will be reflection and taking portraits is really bad.

Lights lights

After the ride, we took a bus back to the esplanade and walked back to suntec city for dinner at pepper lunch. Hungry la!

Censored Sesame Street

This part of the sesame street on the Count wasn't broadcasted on TV for some reasons. Well we got the video on youtube now!



Quite sad that he had only spiders and candles.

I have been Tagged!

1. At what age do you wish to marry?
Probably at 30 years old where I would have started earning enough money to marry.

2. How many children do you want?
As much as my dick can produce! Just kidding.... 2 will be enough.

3. What I want the most now?
My lp.

4. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Oh I want to be a millionaire!

5. If you can have 1 more dream to come true, what would it be?
I want to have a happy and fruitful life.

6.Which country would you like to visit?
The North Pole or Sweden! Where you can see the auroras!

7. If you meet someone you love, would you confess to him/her?
Found her!

8. What would you do when you're feeling down and depressed?
Erm not sure.

9. What are the requirements that you wish from other half?
Love me and treat me well and try not to burst my credit card lol!

10. Which type of person do you hate most?
Bitches, bastards and cheaters

11. Do you cherish every single of your friendship?
Oh Yes!

12. Do you believe in god?
Yah.

13. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
To be able to do anything without worries.

14. Do you find it a necessary for you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
Hmmmm when I feel lonely, yah.

15. What do you want your friend to be like?
Well truthful and being themselves.

16. What kind of friend do you hope to be in your friends' eyes?
A helpful friend who can provide some joy in their lives.

17. If you have a change, which part of your character would you like to change?
I will like to be more spontaneous.

18. If you got 1 million Dollars what will you do?
I would give half to my mum and dad and then spend some for a trip round the world and the remainder to be used for investing.

19. If you can turn back time, when and why?
I would turn back to when I was 5, put $10K in S&P500 and by today I would have been a millionaire by now.

20. What do you most fear?
When lp gets angry. Hahaha.

Instructions: Remove 1 question from above, and add in your personal question to make it a total of 20 questions. Then tag 8 people in your links list at the end of the post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

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