Mutton soup at Kitchener road

28 Nov '09

Today Eddie, Jimmy, Boon Chong and I went for a makan session at Kitchener road juction coffee shop(opposite scissors cut rice). The main draw was the mutton soup. Which I find delicious!! The soup tastes so good but I can't help wondering how much salt and msg was in it! I will definietly come back for the mutton soup.

We had cha kway tiao too but that was very disappointing and I would not recommend it. The fried oyster pancake was much better but because its deep fried in oil that I don't know when was the last time its changed, I would not recommend to weight watchers and health conscious foodies.

I took some shots of the coffee shop and it looks like we are having a meal in a Malaysian coffee shop!! Its one of the last remaining old school coffee shops around and I have the feeling its not going to stay like that for long. Sad.

So if you feel light having mutton soup with the atmosphere of the seventies, please try this place before it disappears!

Project Single Speed : Part 2

I have completed my single speed build and its now displayed in the showroom.
It looks alright I guess, I will be putting the decals on it next week.

Rare Owl Sighting : 27 Nov '09

Last night while walking to a bus stop, I spotted an Owl perched on a high fence. The bird of prey was probably out hunting as there was an open field infront of the fence.

It was very dark but thanks to the backlight of some road lamps some distance away, I managed to see a silhuotte on the fence. I managed to creep below it slowly and just before it spotted me I snapped a picture of it. Its not clear at all as my mobile phone camera was practically useless at such low light. I managed to set it at night scene mode before shooting and that helped sightly. Even at such low light and the grainy cast of the picture, you can see the signature big eyes of the owl's distinct look. It was beautiful and probably the closest I ever got to an owl outside a cage. I estimate it to be about 50cm in size from where I was standing.

The last time I sghted an owl was many years back at Kallang river park, and it swooped down to catch something I did'nt noticed at all.

I am glad that such a magnificent Bird of Prey still exist in our urban landscape. If only more trees are planted and more bird santuaries are planned in little pockets of our ever "urbanising" country. 

Give nature a chance.

Project Single Speed : Part 1

Started my project to rebuild my 27" single speed to look like a fixie.
Its to be displayed in my showroom.

I selected RJ London spray paints Cerulean Blue as the basic frame colour. The rest of the parts are going to be matt black.

Just finished spraying the frame, so far so good.

Next will be the parts, so far the rust removing has been a pain in the ass!

To be continued......

Xu Jia Ying LaLa in town

Went down to bugis to see Xu Jia Ying aka LaLa perform. I hardly listen to any chinese music but she really caught my attention with her performances on the Taiwan Million Star variety show.

She writes most of her own songs and their melodies sounds so good to me 'Live'. But unfortunately her CD album did not managed to capture the sounds of her raw vocals and folk guitars she did during the 'live' shows of the contest. Most unfortunate for her. This is probably due to the producer producing her album. Many times I have attended concerts where the Artist sounds so much better 'live' than the CD. We call it over designed in my field.

Anyway it was great to be able to hear and see her 'live', such a charismatic girl, no wonder she is such a good composer.

F1 Rocks Singapore!!!!

F1 night race Sept 25-27th Sept 2009.
I love the atmosphere F1 brings to our island, its like the whole city suddenly comes alive!!

The weather was hot and hazy and by the second day I was really burnt out. High decibels, fumes, babes, $10 hot dogs, Aston Martins, Porsches, Formula BMW, what more can you ask?

Hamilton won and Alonso managed a third. Looks like Jenson Button is going to take the championship this year(Boring).

Alonso has been confirm with Ferrari for the next three years, Alright!!!!, I am not a fan of his but he is the most deserving driver from my view to take the Ferrari seat, he is the best driver out there anyday. Raikkonen should just go back to Finland and do farming. . Looks like we are going to be getting lots of win by Ferrari next year, watch out the rest!!!!

F1 Fernando Alonso in town

Fernando Alonso was in town for the F1 night race. I was invited to the STILE launching of their Alonso inspired Silestone range of products.

Fernando arrived late and sporting a bad mood, apparently he had just woken up as his body was still running Euro clock. It has been a week filled with rumours and accusations of his move to Ferrari next year and the Renault crash inccident at last years night race.

He was not very tall, I think approx. 1.65m. Quite surprised.

The place was packed with people and it was obvious that most of the people there were not invited as they were fans.

They hogged the double F1 world champion and I had to throw my cap given at the door to let him sign. It never came back. Crap!!

Before I left I saw the staff at Builder's shop carrying like 20 caps away to hide!!! WTF!!! Very disappointed with the organising and staff involved. I left feeling cheated!!