new year, new theme, new post

despite the convenience of blogging from my ipad, i haven’t been doing so after i couldn’t figure out how to insert the featured picture for preview. those of you who don’t remember how my blog used to look like, won’t know what i’m talking about. but that doesn’t matter. because now that it’s hassle-free blogging, i will blog more!

yay! a new year! new theme! new post!

whines to come soon.

Countdown to Tibet

About 37 hours to go before checking in at Changi Airport, 39 hours to go to our flight, and 44 hours to go to touchdown at Cheng Du. Having foods that I think I’ll miss in my two weeks at China/Tibet. Today: sashimi at Sakuraya. Tomorrow: curry at Coco Ichibanya? Hokkien noodles? Satay? Home cooked food?

(YES, COCO ICHIBANYA’S CURRY IS SO GOOD THAT I’VE ONLY HAD IT ONCE AND I ALREADY MISS IT!)

Food on the cheap

Look at those oysters! Yum! Also had a smoked-tea chicken and the lemongrass jelly with lemon sorbet. Everything’s good! (Btw the Hokkien noodles are nowhere as spicy as it looks. Heat-seekers can request for normal or extra spicyness.) Using a voucher from Jigocity for the fish and the noodles, the bill came up to about $17 for two.

Having dinner at Coffee Bean now… The promotions are pretty awesome. Top up $30 to get an additional $5 voucher for use on the spot, and also 10% rebate for UOB (or Citibank) users. That’s paying $27 for $35 value :)

Airport breakfast!

Sent the maid to the airport for her biannual home leave… She was charged $90 for excess baggage of 13kg… Her hand carry was just one small hand bag and one small paper bag – but she didn’t want to transfer anything out from her check-in to her hand-carry! I think we might be paying her too much 

Anyway, took the opportunity to have Dome breakfast! (Thanks to Kexi for her recommendation, I  the toast!)

Going to buy paint and gold now~

Day I-Lost-Count-Already

I guess the novelty of blogging from the iPad is wearing off… It’s kinda in between everything. It gives me the convenience of taking photos and posting them, but with really low image quality. It let’s me type more easily than on a iPhone, but nowhere as easily as on a full sized keyboard.

Although I’d be tempted to retire my Mac if only I could install programs meant for OS X on the iPad. Not that I can figure out how to do full-fledged image editing on the iPad. I couldn’t even master the magic mouse.

So today I did a lot of productive stuff including my now daily routine of trying to get my parents’ paperwork in order and studying more about how to be a good little IT auditor. Didn’t get any unpacking done, but hey lookie! I cooked! Without a recipe!

My mom was experimenting with manufacturing Japanese ramen (which is basically some variation of the Chinese 板面 with variations on the amount of egg and type of flour). My sister and I had a mini-cooking fest for dinner. She made tom yum soup with soggy noodles; I fried up a deliciously peppery char mee!

However… The prawns were too humongous and were raw on the insides 

Day two

A fruitful day. Didn’t study much, but had lots of fun at dinner.

Oh, and spent two+ hours at the polyclinic, of which consultation took 10 mins, chicken pox vaccination took 2 mins, hep a/b blood tests took 2 mins, ham hopping around the clinic in pain took 5 mins, payment took 2 mins. The other 100 mins? WAITING.

Tomorrow: unpack two boxes, breakfast, study for two hours, lunch, unpack one box/bag, shower, study two hours, nap, dinner, study an hour, free time!