2013 Chinese New Year coming

Some goodies before the Chinese New Year.

 First Yu Sheng 鱼生 of the year (2013)

 A nice box of Mandarin Oranges (椪柑)

 Almond Sugee

 

and of cause Pineapple Tarts

 

A Simple Innovation

I sent my car to the agent for service last Friday, the was done accordingly.

During the handling the key over to the customer service, the service guy was doing something at the driver seat area and I did not really bother what is it.

At the end of service, I took over the car and noticeed the following sticker on the side of the seat.

It was a little innovation that Komoco team has.  It indicates the original seat position since during service, the technician is likely to adjust the seat.  Thus I am able to get back the original position after the service.

Actually, what Komoca can do further is the adjust the position back and tear of the sticker.

What pictures are in your phone

With the popularity of Smart Phone that has the capabilities of pictures taking, video, voice recording, downloading of information from the web, eReader, etc;  I believe many of us have lot of pictures taken by your smart phone.  Pictures such as what food we eat, outing with friends, work related, news articles, happening around you.  Here, I am going to share some of these that are taken from my smart phone.

Food, this is the first as most of us, Singaporean are food crazy.

I love dumpling, particular pan fried.  This is deep fried though.

This plate of Chili prawn was one of the dish during a wedding dinner at Mandarin Hotel.  This was GREAT.

Some dishes we served during the 2012 New Year when our brothers and sisters visited us.

The above Pizza, Bake Rice was from Pizza Hut at Batam.  We had a 2D1N trip to Batam during March 2012.  After our dinner, and during payment, we noticed that the price was very good.  I cannot remember how much is it now but it is definitely great.

The above Satay, Chili Crab and the steam was a dinner at Jumbo Dempsey.  I had been to Dempsey a few times and always find their food are with good quality and reasonable price.

This Char Siew Wanton Noodle is at Commonwealth Drive.  This is the first time I had from this stall.  I find the noodle is Q and with quite a bit of Char Siew.  The owner also provide very good service and a simily face alway.

This Nasi-Lemak is from a coffee place near my place.  The rice tasted slightly different from the normal Nasi Lemak.  I believe it is because the owner uses coconut powder instead of coconut milk.  Chili was nice but not really the chicken wing.

 2011 General Election.  Punggol East SMC.  A 3 corner fight.

 The school that I had my secondary education.  I was fortunate to be the first batch to graduate.  The school was shifted from Bedok South to current location.

 A trip to Batam Island.

 A newspaper article about how to cheaper electronics at Hong Kong.

The carpark wardan who sit there 3 evening each week to give fine for those who park illegally his/her cars.

At my SO company family.  A performer in a human-size ballon.

So, I had cleared my pictures from my phone.  How about you?

value for money - alarm clock

My current alarm clock is bought from China Ikea 5 years ago.  it is has a 4" LCD screen and has a big stop button.  Anyway, it has served me well int he past years and recently, the LCD light become very dim even with a new battery.

So, got myself another new alarm clock.  Again, this time, I visited Ikea (Singapore), and bought a new alarm clock.  It has more than a standard alarm clock.  It has date, time, stop watch function as well as temperature function.

 

 The best part about this alarm clock is the price.  It costs $7.90.

half-way through

Keith completed about half of the Brain classes, the result is not what we are expecting.  He has his SA1 recently and the result is similar to CA1.  There is no improvement academically.  He has become more patient though and hopefully with that, he will be able to focus in his study and improve in his CA2 and SA2.

Singapore Family Education

I had attended 4 SFE programs conducted in my son primary school.  Through these programs, it supposes to help parent to cope better with their children, to educate their children, to understand the children, etc. 

Just this Saturday, attended one on the "How to boost your children self esteem."  Many a time, the information or the examples quoted by the trainer are the actual happening around you.  Let me give an example.  How many of you actually tell your children to study hard and get good result other they would become a road sweeper next time.  I think this is rather negative.  Why not tell them if they study hard and get good result, they could become the boss of the road sweeper.  Nothing wrong with road sweeper but all of us want our children to do much better than that.

Just trying to express my thought.

Have fun and stay happy always.

After 4th Lessons

Keith has completed 4 lessons on the brain training from the center and daily training by us.  He performs better in the training exercise and increasing his beat rate.  On top of this, he also started on the logic training.  He seem to like the logic training more as this is less stressful.  The training so far has not translated to any improvement yet as this is too early.  I believe we should be able to see some accademic improvement after 3months.