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Had a wonderful lunch - Dim Sum at Yum Cha. Dim Sum consists of many side dishes either steamed or fried. However, many of the dishes are heavy in carbohydrates. One can get easily bloated after eating a few dishes. All the dishes are very nice. I particularly like the century egg porridge and various prawn rolls.

Had a wonderful time at the Dinosaurs Live Exhibit in Singapore Science Centre. There are 50 life size dinosaurs in the exhibition. Thanks to the local telecoms company (Starhub), I got to see the dinosaurs exhibition for free and even stayed over night in the dinosaurs exhibition! The organised event was part of the Starhub cable TV channel - Fox channel 505's efforts to promote the latest cable TV block buster "Terra Nova" which is produced by Steven Speilberg and it is the most expensive television series on record. Every miniute of the TV series costs $200,000 to produce due to the high CGI effects in the show. Well, we had the sneek preview of the Terra Nova TV show and totally enjoyed the human tribe fighting against aggressive dinosuars like in Jurassic Park movie. It was really fun having the T-Rex dinosaur and other dinosaurs as company in the over night stay in the Singapore Science Centre. The 50 life like dinosaurs were real...

The Punggol area in Singapore used to be place filled many rural villages. Moving forward 30 years later the place is transformed to become a new and clean Punggol with nice ponds filled with lotus plants and places to fish, take a walk or gaze across the sea.

I love Tintin. Tintin is a Belgian made cartoon character that had adventures in many countries. Love the stories of Tintin and Snowy (his dog) on the hard back book. Now there is a Tintin store in Singapore and located in the heart of  Chinatown. The Tintin store sells t-shirts, mugs, posters, figures of Tintin. Snowy and his pals. Very nice store. Only manage to take one photograph because the store does not allow photography.

Murakami Bestselling writer of the Japanese absurd - by article from Channel NewsAsia TOKYO : Haruki Murakami, whose new novel "1Q84" is proving a worldwide phenomenon, describes himself as "the black sheep of the Japanese literary world" for his absurdist take on the spiritual emptiness of modern life. In Japan the first two volumes of "1Q84", which can be read as "1984" in Japanese, came out in 2009, becoming a bestseller even before hitting the stores on the back of massive advance orders, and clearing a million sales within a month. The third volume went on sale in Japan last year, boosting the number of copies of the popular series to more than 3.85 million, according to its publisher Shinchosha Publishing Co. But the release of the foreign language translations of the book, his first in five years, have also come amid a blaze of excitement, garnering the sort of attention usually reserved for the Harry Potter series. In France, ...

Went to eat at the Break Through Cafe in Peoples' Park Centre Singapore (near Chinatown). It was a nice meal shared by 4 adults and 2 small kids. Break Through Cafe is run by a group of ex-convicts and back by a church missionary group. The ex-convicts serve out their rehab through working in the cafe. In the way, this helps to integrate the ex-convicts into mainstream society. The food served was good and service was fast. The cafe had many helpers that was why the food served to our table was quick. We had curry chicken, curry fish, pig legs in vinegar sauce, dim sum and various kinds of hot and cold desserts. Do go to the cafe to try out the food for I think its all for helping people and giving a second chance to ex-convicts. We noticed that even the top crime lawyer in Singapore visited the cafe for their food. Dim sum, curry fish and curry chicken, pig legs in vinegar sauce Chendol, cheng ting hot and cold, iced grass jelly dessert Front of the caf...

There is this PS Cafe in the Macpherson estate in Singapore. The Cafe serves home style western and japanese. We were basically there for their low cost western food like pastas, pizza, and baked rice. The food is always good, home style, fresh and the staff is friendly. The cafe serves nice pumpkin pita bread too! The place is not easy to find as it is located right in the middle of Macpherson estate. Enjoy their food and check out the pictures below. Onion and Mushroom Soups Pepper man without its 'hat' Seafood baked rice and Hawaii pizza plus mint chocolate drink

Took some 'lomo' type of photos of Japanese food ate at Ichiban Boshi (Nex Singapore) - Tempura Rice - Fried Sushi, Salmon avocado wrap california roll - Green Tea

Love this Doraemon Superheroes. Spiderman and Iron Man Doraemons look cool! Save the world! Think the animator is really creative in drawing Doraemon as Rock and Roll stars. Elvis is in the House!

Roti Prata is a favourite food in multi-cultural Singapore. I had mine at the famous Roti Prata store along Casuarina Road in the Thomson area. The photograph showed the spread of crispy roti prata: plain roti prata and egg roti prata with curry (shown on the left). There is also thosai - a type of Indian food with multiple curry dips (shown on the right). This type of Indian food is best enjoyed as breakfast after a morning trek in the Lower Pirece reservoir. All the Indian food would be accompanied by a hot cuppa of Tea 'Terek' - a type of milk tea. Enjoy!

Enjoyed the sweet tart and butter cake from Flor cake gallery shop at Duxton Hill Singapore. They got a wonderful selections of cakes and I think all made by a Japanese baker. Prices are cheaper compared to other Japanese cake shops.

Visionary Apple Chief Steve Jobs Rest in Peace. iSad and iThank. Stay Hungry and Stay Foolish - Steve Jobs. 'Three stories of my life': Steve Jobs Extracted from The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thursday, 10/06/2011 1:00 PM Steve Jobs (apple.com)   “Three Apples changed the world: The first seduced Eve The second fell on Newton And the third one was offered to the world half bitten by him. RIP Steve Jobs ...” This was among the top comments on a Youtube video on Thursday, displaying Jobs' speech at Stanford University's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005. Regarded as one of Jobs' most inspiring speeches, the video has been viewed more than 6 million times and has drawn around 10,000 comments, mostly after news of his death at the age of 56 spread in the media. The speech, written by Jobs himself, is regarded as some of his best work. In it, Jobs summarized his life into “three stories” and urged others to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life...