Touching views
























Lazy morning and afternoon


They are not playing dead - they are taking a good nap! These cats of the ground-floor neighbours of my block really know how to live life to the fullest man. Everytime I walk pass them they show me a new way to sleep on the cool ground in style. (And they do really sleep like humans.)

Hong Kong Cafe





Very very delicious and tasty! I ate the chicken chop cheese baked rice - FORGOTTEN TO TAKE A SHOT OF IT!!! Darn...
And thanks to my beloved mum, I'm now an official member of this restaurant! One of my favourite eateries! Love the food here (except the Pork chop papaya soup noodles - the combination of milk and pungent porky taste in the soup gives a weird feeling to my taste buds), the music they play and the friendly ambience.
Used to be packed with people even until the eleventh hour in the night. Guess the opening of a new branch at Ion Orchard really dispersed the crowd.... we have more chances of taking the private couch seats!


National Geographic - clothing line?

Saw this in Vivo many times, never thought it is a shop that sells not only magazines...I mean it is National Geographic right? The magazine right?

But when I walked in, there were so many clothes on racks prepared nicely to be sold to a traveller or someone with passion to travel once in a while.

Of course there are still books and magazines from N.G., but there are also collecticbles from them - antique tables, bookshelves, vases and chinaware - on sale.



A different Japanese 'Marche' in Tampines

Just visited Tampines 1 today - yes, it has opened quite sometime ago, and I only visited it NOW. Well, frankly, I only patronised VivoCity 6 months after it first opened; and Ion Orchard - 1 month after it first opened. I have yet been inside Orchard Central.

So today I brought my parents and sister to Tampines, and we just stroll into Tampines 1 unknowingly. Only inside then I realised that we're in one of the new malls in Tampines.

We haven't had lunch yet, so we walked around to browse through every restaurant. Then, we discovered this marche conceptualised Japanese restaurant. There were samples displayed outside the restaurant, and one look at them, without a second thought, we went in. Man, were we awed...


This is very delicious. Something I've never tried before - it's potato and cabbage mashed together into egg and fried. Toppings are mayo, cheese and a brown japanese taste sauce


Love everything in this bento - except the salmon; it's a bit too dry - and a must try. Especially the chawan mushii - its appearance does not keep up with its unique delicious taste. There's lots of stuff in the steamed egg - not just the usual crabstick and ginko nut. The greyish look has a reason - a genuine example of 'don't judge a book by its cover' - don't judge the taste of a chawan mushii by its colour and appearance.


Superlicious dessert - ice cream on top of cornflakes. Right is vanilla ice cream with black honey poured delicately over it. Left is mixed vanilla-green tea ice cream. The ice cream has a very smooth texture, like that of Mcdonald's, but is very sticky, just like Ben n Jerry's. Must try.



Seafood Omurice - sauce is not very appetising, but the rice is really richly flavoured with tomato sauce. The sotongs and mussels were rather overcooked and not soaked with the tomato taste, as it looked like it should.

Family Style

My new yellow rubber slip ons from UniQlo









Second Paragon of Orchard Singapore

R Burger



A German Shop that sells lots of intrinsically handmade wooden toys. There are some as small as our fingertips.


Love this window display. Too bad it was close when I reached. Couldn't go in to have a good look.



Interior of Ion Orchard - does look a bit like Taipei 101


Some interesting styles from someone close to me
















Flapper Style








A stunning return to the famous style of all women during the roaring twenties by the ever beautiful, inside and outside, Drew Barrymore.

Is it really nuts when you are not wearing a mask?





One eccentric persona with a fantastically expressive vocals. I admire her very much - her voice, her determination to tear off the mask forced onto her by everyone beside her, and especially her sense of style.
A very weird style of course - but it works tremendously well on her.
And... it is hard to copy


Adriana Lima - a superb supermodel, who is a famous walker of the Victoria Secret runway - posing as the iconic Amy Winehouse. I think she did a great job portraying the singer - the vibe is certainly there.

Every woman is an angel, every woman has a secret




Must not miss annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show - remind myself to catch it each year!

Danielle









I do admire her strength and persistence.

It's truly something memorable from the ANTM series and educational for the younger generations who yearn to be someone standing tall in the world.