travelling and cantonese food

i think the only thing that keeps me sane is the twice yearly overseas holiday that makes me forget all the hassles and bustle of life in singapore. living in singapore can be such a pressure cooker that we forgot how to relax. travelling really unwinds and release the pressure. for a moment, we have no work responsibilities, nothing to care about except what to eat, buy and see. ironically, if i travel for too long, i'll miss the pressure, the efficiency of life in singapore. i'll start to itch, i'll find something's missing, something's wrong and i'll complain like hell. i'll just can't wait to rush back home to rush with the general population again.

this year, i'll be travelling to hong kong to visit the soon-to-be-open disneyland and of course to eat and shop. i must confess that hk got not much to see like singapore but they have better cantonese food and dim sum. hah, can't wait... my family is crazy about dim sum. whenever my mom's not working on a weekend, we'll end up in Red Star Restaurant in chin swee rd. thou many ppl says that there're better dim sum served elsewhere, it'll been our restaurant to go since the legendary Mayflower Restaurant closed when i was very young. to me, Red Star has one of the best lotus bun and egg tart in the whole of singapore. anyway, my parents has this thing about push cart dim sum. my parents will detest going to a place without it. to them it's like shopping for food where it's all laid out like window shopping and you choose from there. even if the menu comes with pics, nothing beats push carts.

other than dim sum, my family is crazy about this roasted meat stall call Sally Roast Duck at seletar garden which is beside ST electronics in yio chu kang. guess what? it's manned by 3 sisters. initially, the stall is located at seletar market but when the place was torn down, they shifted to their current location. they have one of the best roasted meat in singapore. this i'm not bragging. the roasted meat comes with salted vege soup which is cooked together with the duck bones. you can even try out the fried bean curd which is damn nice. the elder sister is named sally who chops the meat like a seasoned pro. the second sister helps out and prepares the rice etc. the third sister's usually not there. the stall opens from 11am to 3pm only and if you go there at around 1415, the roasted duck's and barbecue chicken wing's gone, left with some char siew and shao rou. the meat's gone so fast that during lunch time, i guess that if anybody's ordering a whole duck, ppl in the queue will curse you in their heart so the best is to be there at 11am - 12pm to beat the lunch time crowd. believe me, you should try it out.

wah, there's so much good food to intro... hmmm, guess i'll carry on in my next blog

It's getting boring to live

remember that when we were young, there's so much things to do and the only thing that stops us is the lack of cash... now that i've grown up and gainfully employed, i realised that thou i can indulge in many stuffs but guess what? i'm looking for things to do. it's getting boring living only to work and sleep or during weekends, go out with galfren to shop, watch movies etc... what else can i do? play pc or console games? read books? looking for good food? ktvs, play pool... arrggg... i'm not wasting my life away doing all this cause when i'm old, i'm not gonna tell myself that i've completed so many games, sang many songs or finished so many books... hmmm, looking for something significant. right now, other than waiting for the monthly paycheck or doing the above mentioned stuff to past time, there must be other things to do...

( 3 hrs later... )
after reviewing my current lifestyle... i decided write out a list to things to do for this year starting with learning jap language then later maybe french. i should better spent my time than wasting it away. One mustn't stop learning as when you think there's nothing more to learn or nothing that surprise you in life then life will be meaningless. Sometimes, i feel that having a shag out weekdays seems to make life and weekend more meaningful/precious. having too much time on hand only makes me think too much about nothing...like now.