Come 1st January 2009

IT is time to buckle up the rear seatbelts.

Or else the driver (me) will be fined RM300.

Here I am blogging from Singapore. Coming Tuesday will be a new semester so I'll spend some time here before going back to UTM (Universiti Tak-tau-macam-mana-baru-boleh Maju).

Visiting to Singapore this time is a different one. Why?

Because I'm using the newly opened Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) building (which later renamed to Bangunan Sultan Iskandar for what reasons I do not know. A place how nice also sounds not nice already).

The building is new, clean, look organised, has lots of curvy roads

There is still a problem - TRAFFIC JAM. From the new CIQ building to Singapore, the cars were moving very slowly because we had to pass through the old Immigration building which has yet to be torn down. Imagine, from two lanes to become one.

This is also the first time I'm taking my car into Singapore

Good thing that the new CIQ building is in operation cuz the officer-on-duty seldom do their jobs in the old one. Last time we just waved our passport at the officer on the counter (without stamping) and we could just go off. So it is time to say 'Bye-bye' to the old building where my friends and I always used.

This is where we used to come out after coming back from Singapore

Today my aunt family brought us (me and mum) for breakfast at Tiong Bahru. The Bak Kut Teh in Singapore is very different from the one in KL. Back in Malaysia, our soup has more herbs wherelse the one here has more black pepper.

The soup is white, not black

Then we headed to Funan DigitaLife Mall cuz aunt wanted to buy a new laptop. There is like the Low Yat of KL. Seeing the prices there made me thought that the stuff are cheap. Of cuz I have to multiply them by 2.4.

In the end, with the help of my cousin, she got a Dell Inspiron 1420 for S$1299, with a three-years international warranty.

Funan DigitaLife Mall

Some photos while on the way:

Chinese New Year's decoration is up in Chinatown

With so many 'kam'

A building

People queueing up in front of Central, Clark Quay

Then we went to Little India. My cousin didn't want to go so he took the bus/MRT back alone. At first I thought the area was going to be like Brickfields in KL or Indian street in Georgetown, selling Indian, Sami Velu and Deepavali stuff.

I was so wrong. It has more than that!

We walked in a mall called Mustafa Centre. It has almost everything!! So big and packed with many things. Name anything and you will probably find it there. Supermarket, household items, books, electronics etc.

And what's more? It even opens 24 hours, on everyday.

There is a place to go now other than 7-Eleven

By the time we came out of the mall at about 6.30pm, the streets were already filled with people. Mostly Indians and Bangladeshis. There were stalls, gatherings, and people walking all around the place. For a moment I felt like I was in India.

There are everywhere.

Since today is a weekend, they spend the day out and meet out with friends. One thing I noticed is that all of them dressed up neatly and they do not dare to do anything (harmful) or else the Singapore government will have to send them back. So don't play play with the goverment here.

As for dinner, we went to a nice food court at Balestier Road. There are also many cheap but good hotels around the area. Probably be an economic place to stay, plus it is not far away from the city.

And look what mum collected from her aunt yesterday?

Bags of used toys. But they still look new

She can be Santa Mama Claus already.

21 already

YESTERDAY was my 21st birthday. I celebrated with 20 of my coursemates by going out together for a dinner. Coincidencely there is also one coursemate, Tiong who was born the same day as mine. So the two of us celebrated our day together.

We went to this Bak Kut Teh restaurant in Taman U nearby. The boss gave us some discount as we, the birthday boys were paying for the dinner.

Some of the dish that we ordered....

Curry fish head and a vege

Tau Jin fu =p

Bak Kut Teh

Some pics of the night:

Table 1 (Choon Wah later performed a magic trick with tissue)

Table 2 (the guys here are BIG eater I tell you)

part of Table 3

Receiving present from representative. And yea..I dyed my hair.

The other birthday boy, Tiong

We didn't have any birthday cake to celebrate with but this time we use Dunkin Donuts instead. Thanks to the SHE gang. Hehe.

Our birthday 'cake'

The SHE are too excited over the doughnuts

The Oct 23rd boys

Finally big boy liao

Can do what we like already

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A week ago, before coming back to UTM, I had an advanced birthday celebration with my fellow MBS buddies. It's a celebration not to be missed with them.

We had dinner at the newly opened Pavilion's Tony Roma's. I tried it once before in Singapore and found it very nice so feel like having it again. And since the rest haven't tried before.

Well, some of us enjoyed to food and some find it just ok. Perry said the rice is like nasi byrani from Steven's Corner's. Apart from the food that is served there, we also had red wine which I brought from home.

Chia Sheng

The price of the food there is slightly higher but they serve in quite a big portion. It has a nice ambience and the service is good. We even met one of our ex-schoolmate, Dora, who was working as a waitress there.

Me and the cake, with Chia Sheng looking on

Group photo

More pics and post on Taw Jin, Chin and Yee Mei's (must see Heroes pic) blog.


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I actually saved this post for quite some time already and didn't publish it. About a month ago, my studio lecturer invited our workbase to her house for buka puasa. But before that we had crit session for our studio project.

So many books. Can become a mini library already

After criting our project, one by one the girls went to prepare the food. And I just gave them moral support by snapping some pics. Hehe.

After hearing the sembahyang music from the outside surau, we started our meal. They prepared many kinds of food. Pizza, spagetti, fried chicken, fries, some malay kuih etc. Wah like going for buffet like that. So many choices!

Workbase group photo

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Some time ago I was reading this magazine in my Singapore's aunt house.

Something caught my attention

And so I turned to the page to check it out.

It's an article about Star Cruises holiday. And when I took a closer look at one of the pics.

Guess who I saw?

JASON!! How come you are there??