Nury Vittachi

Lately, I have become a fan of Nury Vittachi through The Sun papers. I found his articles very amusing and hilarious and sometimes too wild for imagination. Stumbled upon his writings while reading the Mondays Sun papers on the bus home.

Nowadays, I will always look forward read about his ‘wild’ stories on every Monday on my way home. Wonder whether anyone ever thought that I were a bit ‘nutty’ if they notice me giggling behind the papers. Hopefully everyone is too hooked-up with their hand-phones, lap-tops etc., or snoozing to notice.


(Without obtaining the courtesy from Mr Nury; hope he won't sue me for copyright.)

Water Drop Teahouse (vegetarian)

As Fussy M has been mentioning the fried rice at this place taste even better than the one at Hainan Delights, decided to go there for lunch last Saturday. However, alas! It was closed. Finally, go there for lunch today. The drinks are superb, ie; wheat grass juice and the black soya juice....still thinking about it now. Worth the price !

Winter Solstice

Winter solstice is usually celebrated on 22December (sometimes on 21Dec) every year.

This year, winter solstice falls on 22December.   Although there is no four seasons here, it is still celebrated as a tradition.

On the night before, have to prepare some ‘tang yuen’ which is made from glutinous rice flour,  and the syrup. On the next morning, will cook the glutinous rice flour ball in the syrup and offer them to the deities and ancestors during the prayers.

This year, we decided to try something with the colouring; instead of using the normal

edible colouring that we had been using all the years, we use the red dragon fruit for

the red colouring.  Fussy M also getting pretty lazy this year, so we just had two colour, ie., white and red instead of a few more colour such as green and orange.

Also, the syrup is not in its usual colour this year as we use brown sugar !

For the Cantonese, Winter solstice is even more important than New Year!  Few years ago, I learnt that Winter solstice was actually the mark of New Year in the ancient calendar thousand/s years ago !  Presently, we celebrate the New Year according to the new lunar calendar.  No wonder the day is treated so importantly by some up to this day.

p.s. something I couldn't resist ...

Green gift

A gift from Angie San, freshly picked from her mom's garden.  Now I know who/where to
go for  vegie if the market run out of stock!

A Sunday @ Chowrasta Market

Fresh catches from the sea.

 Ingredients from Southern Thailand with love. 

Irresistible temptation

Passed by Kai Kee Roast duck stall and eventhough under my protest, Fussy M bought the last piece of the quarter roast duck from Kai Kee.  Two aunties who came later were disappointed.  By the way,  a pic of the cheapest Wan Tan Noodle stall in town which is situated on the right. 

Could smell its aroma from far while Fussy M having it for lunch.  (I was trying to do some clean-ups before joining her).  Simply irresistable!

Christmas decorations at Times Square

Being one of the most / the most 'quiet' shopping mall around probably due to the economic slow down. But, I still think the layout is very good, the units is spacious. The units at ground floor can even be split to a mezzanine floor ! Despite the "quietness", the place is still very well kept and I see that the cleaning staff fulfilling their duties every day when I passed by on the way to work. Seemed like the management has put in a lot of effort to maintain the place well and bring in the crowd. Keep it up!! I am sure someday, when the goom is over, the mall will be a very busy place. (Oh no! More traffic jams!)