Earth Jar Treasure

21 July 2012

I was craving for soup or double-boiled soup and came across this post from "ieat.ishoot.ipost".

It's not double-boiled soup but baked soup as apparently little pots of soup are being put into big urns and cooked by charcoal inside the big urns.

Hmm.... let's see how good it is.



I chose the salted duck soup. The taste was rather different from the usual salted duck soup. It tasted a little spicy - I dig around in the pot and wala, there was a chilli in it.

Actually the spicy taste kind of grows on you.

There was a big chunk of duck meat but it was rather tough - could do with more cooking time to make it softer.

Hubby ordered the below which I don't know what's called in English.

I told them nothing heaty as hubby's nursing a sore-throat and a guy recommended this.

A big bag of herb with the chicken.

For about $6.00, I should say the price is pretty decent as you do get big chunks of meat - not those that usually gives you 3 or 4 pieces of small pieces of meat.

But I think the best is the dried shrimp rice. It was so tasty that hubby had a second helping.

Earth Jar Treasure
Blk 22 Sin Ming Road
Singapore 570022
Mon-Sat: 10am to 9.30pm
Sun 10am to 3pm
Alt Mon closed
93831864

T-Rex Fossil

15 July 2012

Eugene is still into dinosaurs. In fact, he's crazy about these prehistoric creatures.

And I chanced upon this at Kiddy Palace.


T-Rex fossil excavation kit.

I bought this in early July for Eugene's birthday present.

Ha ha, the kid was so absolutely thrilled !

The block was actually quite hard and the equipment supplied was not able to chip the block of clay (I think it was clay).

I had to bring out the hammer for it and slowly chipped at it. Eugene took over a bit of the hammering too and also used the tool to slowly saw at it.

He was really diligent and concentrated on this task. In fact, he was at it for over an hour.

After getting the fossil out, he went to wash it at the sink - slowly getting the clay out.

I think from beginning (excavating the fossil)  to end (cleaning the fossil) -  it was more than 2 hours !
Now, I think that's really good focus for a kid this age.

The kid started to try to fix the dinosaur following the diagram.

Not bad - he managed to fix the spine and the rib-cage by himself. The rest of the parts we had to fix it for him.

Ta-daa ! My T-Rex

He was so proud of it - as he had done most of the work.

Well done Eugene !

Jurong Frog Farm

14 July 2012

After our lunch at Orchidville Forrest, we drove around the area and came across this frog farm.



Making our way into the frog area.

It's dim, dank, damp and so loud and noisy from the frogs croaking.

The kid curious and fascinated.

There's an outdoor cafe selling frog food like hashima dessert, fried frogs legs, frogs porridge.

We shared a bowl of frogs porridge and a hashima jelly dessert and bought a pack of frogs part to cook at home.

Jurong Frog Farm

51 (Plot 56)
Lim Chu Kang Lane 6
Singapore 718864

tel : 6791 7229

http://www.jurongfrogfarm.com.sg

Orchidville - Forrest Restaurant

14 July 2012

We needed to get out of the city.

Needed some place quiet, without the hustle and bustle and loads of people everywhere you turn.

Where do you go ?

To the farms, of cos.

Well, we headed out to this chinese restaurant and the food's good.

After lunch, we then walked around the place which looked pretty run down.

We then headed to the frog farm (see next post).

Orchidville Pte Ltd

10 Lorong Lada Hitam [Map]
Mandai Agrotechnology Park
Singapore 778793

Tel: (65) 6552 7003
Fax: (65) 6552 5051
http://orchidville.com/

Happy 4th Birthday !

11 July 2012

The kid is 4 years old ! Before one knows it, he'll be a teenager already.

Eugene's class did the Dinosaur theme and now the Olympic theme for their school term.

And I thought it would be a good idea to incorporate the themes for his birthday cookies to be given to his class-mates.

I managed to find online, Yoke Bakery, who have this 2 themes.

The colours were very striking  and guess what .............

ok, I don't bake cookies and I don't know anything about colourings, icing etc. .... well, what happened was this.

The kid came to me to wipe his mouth after eating the cookies. I turned around and his teeth and mouth were all black ! OMG ! What happened ! But he looked perfectly fine and then I realised that it was from the dinosaur cookies which were a very dark purple. Then when he ate the Singapore flag, his mouth turned red !  But the colours washed off when the kid rinsed his mouth.

Then the next shocker. He need to poo and his poo was bright green. It was so weird coloured like some alien green poo ! lol !

Well, apparently it was the coloured icings.

I called up Yoke Bakery and informed them that they should advised customers of the colouring stains cos it can be very shocking to see it.

It can be quite funny on a kid but I don't think it will be funny on an adult especially if you're at a function eating it.

But the cookies are really very delicious and buttery though.

Yoke Bakery gives complimentary gift tags which I thought was really great.

You might be thinking. Hmm... what kind of a cake is that ? Such an unusual shape.

Would you believe that that's a Japanese Cotton Cheesecake.

I had baked Japanese Cheesecake before quite successfully but I thought I'll try out this blogger's recipe as I want it to be 100% great.

As you can see, it failed oh so miserably. I guess I'll stick to the recipe from "Alex Goh".

But on a bright side, Eugene liked it - he thought it resembled a volcano :)

Happy Birthday Eugene !

Paleontologist or Sherlock Holmes?

07 July 2012

On a hunt for dinosaur fossils.

Hmm..... I thought he looked more like a Sherlock Holmes than a paleontologist.

Jacob Ballas @ Botanic Garden

20 June 2012

Yes, we're back at Jacob Ballas.

We brought Eugeneway back in 2010, think he was too young then to really enjoy the place.

Got a couple of pics to compare from 2010 - got this idea from "Our Baby Of Love" blog.


He certainly doesn't look babyish anymore. Now he has the boy-boy look. 

As you can see, he was petrified trying to climb up these stairs in the Tree-House.

We had dinner at "Food For Thought". This place is huge compared to their other joint at SAM@8Q.

This place is directly below the information counter at the Botanic Garden. It's at the basement carpark.

It good for large groups as they have big or long tables. I like that there are plants growing out of the tables.

There's also an outdoor playground for kids.

Food For Thought

1 Cluny Road, Singapore Botanic Garden

#B1-00

Children's Festival 2012

Hey, I'm back!

I've been battling the flu and then the persistent cough, that cough which dragged on for over a month! Coughed so bad that my upper chest was so painful and still is. Realised that a lot of people got it too.

Anyway, let's get on shall we?

16 June 2012

SAM at 8Q

First up - lunch time.

Yummy! my favourite especially mushrooms (though it was a bit too salty)


All day breakfast at :

Food For Thought

8 Queen Street

(It's just right next to SAM@8Q)

EVERYDAY WONDERS

Given some plasticine and have to make patterns using paper clips and clothes pegs.

But Eugene started rolling the plasticines into little balls! ha ha ha......

Interesting patterns and little figurines and dinosaurs on the wall.

ACTIVITY ROOM

Colourful stamping with stencils.

REACTIVE WALL & LET'S DANCE

Reactive Wall : make some sound and see the characters comes up on screen. 

 Let's Dance : Go to a private booth and boogie! and then watch your moves projected onto the screen.

DRESS ME UP

THE ART OF IMAGINATION

Draw on the cardboard box.

And that's a cat that he drew - a sad cat, he said.

now the alphabets..........

We bought one of this empty cardboard box for Eugene to draw at home.



5QUID 7 GROW THE GARDEN IN THE DARK

Speak into the microphone to get the squid all lighted up!

SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM

Hopped over to the Singapore Art Museum to have a look since the tickets to the SAM @ 8Q were  also valid for the Art Museum.

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I wish that they'll hold the Childrens' Festival at the Singapore Art Museum instead of the SAM@8Q.

SAM@8Q, to me seemed so bare and like a warehouse. There ain't no ambience at all.

So please bring it to the Singapore Art Museum for next year !

Overlapped Parallel Dimension?

Ok, I've told you before of my experiences with "Parallel Dimensions".

And now, I've recently got another experience which was a first for me.


My father accidentally dropped his denture and wanted me to find a dentist to glue it back for him. Since it was evening, I told him that I'll go and inquire with the 2 dental clinics near my place the next morning.. And the whole night, I was thinking where are the other dental clinics (besides the 2 that I know of) which I can inquire.

Early the next morning, my dad called me on my mobile even though I was at home. He thought that I should be out of the house as it's usually the time that I bring Eugene to school but Eugene's holiday programme starts later.

Anyway, my dad told me that he would prefer to go back to the National Dental Centre as they have his records there and he likes the doctor.

I asked my dad to check his NDC appointment card and to give me the telephone number stated there.

After hanging up the mobile. I immediately went to get my house's cordless phone but before I could dial the numbers, the phone rang.

Hmm.... who could it be? so early!

Hello?

Good morning, I'm calling from the National Dental Centre and I'm returning your call.

????????? I was dumbfounded. I wanted to ask her questions but I thought since she's on the line, I get my dad's appointment fixed first.

After the appointment's being fixed. I asked the lady.

Er... you called me, you're returning my call?

Yes, we got your missed call.

Oh, ok thanks - I didn't want to ask more or she'll think I'm crazy.


I never did call the NDC, so how could she have a missed call from me?

I thought that maybe my dad called NDC and left a message for them to call me? but why should he do that when he wanted me to call NDC instead.
My dad's is hard of hearing due to the chemos so I do all his apppointments as he would not be able to hear very clear what the other party is saying in normal tone. I practically have to shout in order for my dad to hear me over the phone.

Anyway, I asked him if he did call NDC but he said no.




Now the NDC lady said it's missed call, not left a message - so the missed call number is my house number and that's how she called me at home.


Did my thinking hard about it, my subconscious mind made it happened?

or was it my parallel self in the parallel dimension who had already made the call and somehow at that moment, both of our dimension happened to overlap resulting in me receiving the phone call from NDC in my dimension when it should have been received in the parallel dimension?

IphoneArt

I've finally up my gut and joined an iphoneography club (hey, it rhymes!)

It's called the iPhoneArt.

It's a community of iphoneographers who come together and showcase their photos and the apps that are used.

My code name is : FootStepper

and this is the link to my gallery : http://www.iphoneart.com/users/4538/galleries


So follow me on my iPhone Adventure.

Rubato

27May 2012


Fine dining Italian food?

The food's more refined here. You know that the sauces are home-made, the sea-food's fresh, the dishes have that extra oomph in it.


Portobello mushrooms. I just love mushrooms. Hmm.... though I think they kind of undercook the mushrooms.

I had the ravioli filled crab - I love it though I had read some not-so-good reviews on this.

Hubby had the ink-squid pasta. He really liked it.

Yummy crepe filled with mascarpone cheese!

All in all, nice good food in a small little restaurant.

Only gripe is that the price's rather pricey. Our bill for the above comes to slightly below a $100 without any drinks (just plain water).

A house pour of a glass of wine will cost you about $16/-

Rubato

3 Clover Way

Tel : 6252 3200