Happy New Year!!

Goodbye 2009! Welcome to 2010!!!

To all my relatives and friends, here's wishing you great health, wealth and luck for the coming year! May everyone be in the pink of health as that is the greatest Wealth ever!!!

And may Arsenal bring home the Premiership trophy that we missed for some years.
Go Gunners!!!

My New Year Resolution

I resolve to help more people in the coming year. And for the first time, I already started!! hahaha....

For the past month or so, I have helped about 8 groups of tourists found along City Hall. Normally, I walk away but somehow, after helping the first tourist who approached me, I felt happy enough to entertain the thought of helping more.

One thing led to another and Nowadays, I do not hesitate to walk up to those furrowed looks over a map to tell them what to do or where to go around City Hall.

Do I dare to call myself the City Hall Cavalier? hahahaa... Not yet. Not until I help 100 groups in total. Hope I can fulfill my reslotuion this year.
:)

A hearty lunch...

As I drifted into the peaceful environment of a holiday mood office, I guess that there is little impetus to push issues through other than to catch up with some of the more mundane or pressing stuff.

The hours flew by as I grapple with the administrative issues before Lunch time beckons. Somehow ZAM ZAM murtabak and bryani crept into my mind and I quietly requested my dear colleague to fetch us there... :) Ever the gracious lady (Thank you, Ah min!), she readily agreed and 6 of us packed into her car and zipped along to North Bridge Road....

Once we negotiated the parking, which incidently was the first trip for Suhaila in a lift for cars, we arrived at ZAM ZAM ravaged by hunger. Orders flew in and we waited impatiently for our briyani-s and murtabak to come.

Strangly, the chicken briyani were not really up to standard (though still nice). A tad disappointing to say... Thankfully, the Murtabak is a God-sent as we quickly whacked the huge piece away.. hahahaa.... ever the glutton of me, I ordered another 2 egg and 2 koso prata which I thgt were of the normal side. Lo and behold when the pratas came, the size took everyone by surprise. HUGE !!!! Much as we tried, we were unable to finish all of the orders but it is suffice to say, we did not waste much.......

All in all, a Hearty Lunch.. and it sure feels good to have good company for a good lunch.

Merry Christmas and A Happy New year!!!

Merry Christmas to all my friends and wishing you a great year ahead!

and a special merry christmas to my new addition, baby Ray! Grow up strong and well!
:)

Birth of a Gunner!

Hi everyone,

Its been a crazy 5 days with the birth of my a new Gunner. My son, Ray Chong was born on the 16th of Dec 2009. Weighing in at 3.19kg and length of 53 cm, he has the assets of a striker like his daddy. hahahaa... i dream too much....but hopefully he will be a star striker one day.

The past 5 days has been crazy and yet, strangely rewarding in many ways. We met many kind individuals along the way who help us cope with the arrival of baby Ray. I really have to thank the many kind nurses at KKH who helped us with the many questions we have. Also, have to thank my brothers and sisters who calmed my nerves while I was waiting for the emergency Ceasarian after the natural way failed to materialised for my wife.

Staying the private room at KKH was wonderful.. I just wondering how much is the bomb at the end of 3 weeks which they will drop to my mailbox..

Bringing Ray home is only the beginning of our journey, but I am sure we will walk strongly together on this road and I hope to bring him proudly along the way.

Go young Gunner!!!

Weird behaviour by MRT passenger

i was travelling on the other MRT on the other day. It was a busy evening and the seats are all taken. A pregnant lady stood beside me and I signalled with my eyes to this fit and healthy guy who was occupying the reserved seat. Well, guess what? He ignored me and went back to his Sudoku.

As i was about to open my mouth and ask the man to get up, the lady sitting beside him asked the preggy lady if she like to have a seat. Well guess what? The pregnant lady just nodded her head. No words of thanks or even a smile or something. She even went back to her handphone and ignored the kind soul who gave up her seat.

All these happened within a few seconds. I was like dont know what to say or do... So is the pregnant lady worth the effort? I only felt sorry for the kind soul who gave up her seat. The guy is shitty and the pregnant lady is too presumptious..

sigh... life sucks in a unglamorous environment...

Wonderful Dim Sum

I had a wonderful Dim sum dinner last night with the Mrs, my bro, Samuel and my sis, Jenn at Swee Choon Tim Sum at Jalan Besar.

This was my 2nd trip there as they now rest on Tues (latest update not available on most website) and I unfortunately went on a Tues the first time.

Anyway, back to the FOOD!!! Glorious I tell you!! And the best part is you have DIM SUM at night!! how cool is that!!?!?! From 6 pm all the way to 10 am, this place serve some of the best Dim sum i have tasted....

The "Zhao Pai Cai " must be the mee sua Cake. The ingenious frying of the mee sua into this juicy pancake-like dim sum is really a stroke of genious. Just blogging about it set my saliva going again!! Damn cool loh....

The xiao long bao is bigger than normal at a reasonable price! The best part is of course the soup! after you 'open' the bao and start sucking at the juice, i tell you, its one heavenly taste that you dont wish for it to finish! We finished up 8 baos together.

There was a very special dish of fried brinjal with meat floss. Its somehow fried until so hot but not shown. amazing no indication of how hot they were until it reaches your tongue. you being warned!

I think in all we ordered like 20 over plates in total of har kao, siew mai, luo mai kai, fried banana, mango pudding, green bean soup, fried prawn, carrot cake, zhu chang fen etc etc..... the funny part is that all the normal stuff are not so good (i.e har kao and siew mai) but the not so common dim sum are absolutely WONDERFUL!....

Definitely worth another round ! What say you ppl?!