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Continuing my Photo of the Day series…
I asked Ryan to take this photo for me when we were walking to Bedok Station.

I love KFC’s cheese fries. :love:
I try to avoid eating fast food but I eat KFC’s Cheese fries about 4 times a month. I think it’s good to give in to my cravings sometimes.

A couple of months ago, I learned that my sister got a Watsons membership card for 10 yuan when she went on a trip to mainland China. I remember telling her “oh, We have Watsons in Singapore but no Watsons Card.” Well we do now. Watsons Singapore finally launched their card. It costs SGD 5 which is about 25 yuan. =_= (SGD5 is about MRU Rs125 ?)

I got my card yesterday. I often buy things at Watsons and since it is possible to earn points to redeem as cash rebates with the Watsons card , it seems like a good deal to me. I also got 29 vouchers(valid till 31 Dec 2009) in my Welcome Pack.

Most of the vouchers are to be used at Watsons but I’ve seen a few which are for KFC,The Nail Spa & Wellness, Spectacle hut etc. The voucher I’m most tempted to use is the Spectacle Hut voucher: a voucher for a free eye check and SGD40 off the purchase of a pair of spectacles which costs at least SGD 100. Even if I rarely wear my glasses when I go out, I think it’s high time for me to buy a new pair.

note : The Watsons Singapore card has to be activated online.

I used to see this from my window but ever since I moved to the new place last month, whenever I look out of the window, I only see buildings.

The good thing about living on the 24th floor is … I can see the sunset.

As seen from my window:

Uniqlo is a Japanese brand which I got to know and love when I was studying in Shanghai. The first Uniqlo store in Shanghai was opened way back in 2002. When I first came to Singapore, I was surprised to learn that there was no Uniqlo store here. In fact, I even thought that it was weird. Now Uniqlo has finally opened its first store in Singapore at the new Tampines 1 mall. The grand opening of the mall was yesterday. I met up with Lisa and her colleague during their lunch time. They work at Tampines. (Lucky them!) I wanted to check out the Uniqlo store to see if it was as big and as nice as the ones in Shanghai. I’ve heard that a 2nd Uniqlo store will open at Orchard in a couple of months.

Some information about the new Tampines 1 mall: (source)
Net Floor Area: 260,000 sq ft.
No. of Levels: 5 levels plus 2 basements
No. of Shops: Estimated 172 (6 retail levels)
No. of Carpark Lots: 203 ( Basement 2)

Compared to Jurong Point or Vivocity, Tampines 1 is small. I have no complaints about shopping in Singapore. There are so many shopping malls here and people who get sick of shopping here can easily go to Malaysia or Thailand to do more shopping. That’s my opinion anyway.

I took this photo at the Tampines MRT station.

Once we reached Tampines 1, we went straight to Uniqlo but we didn’t go in the store. There were too many people queuing up to get inside the store.

The queue was very long, all the way to the corridor leading to the toilets.

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Bryan phoned me to ask me if I wanted to go out to eat dinner. I said ‘No’ (haha. I actually said NO to food. ) because I was a bit sick of eating out and also because I’m trying to avoid unnecessary expenses. He tried to convince me to change my mind but I was still saying no and in the end, he had to tell me the truth: My cousin (who is also Bryan’s friend) was coming to Singapore for a few days on a business trip and told Bryan not to let anyone know. He wanted it to be some kind of surprise. =_= I had to say yes in the end. I haven’t seen my cousin since 2005. Bryan told me to contact Diana about the dinner plan. She is another old friend of mine and she is also currently living in Singapore.

When I first saw the name of this restaurant, I did a double take. Manhattan Fish Market. Fish market??? I was like ‘huh?What’s this?’ It turned out that it was really a restaurant. In fact, it reminds me a lot of Fish and Co.

Diana and I used to be very close during our high school days but we eventually lost touch with each other. I think that the last time I saw her was in 2004. Is it possible to revive an old friendship? I didn’t think that it could be possible in our case but it seems that I was wrong.

Diana took this photo of Bryan.

Manhattan Fish & chips.
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My Indonesian classmate told me about the Food and Beverage fair (Suntec Singapore Level 4, Halls 403 & 404) and I wanted to see what it was like. He said that maybe they will sell ‘fried durian’ there and that’s why I was so eager to go. (Unfortunately there was no such thing at the food fair. I was a bit disappointed but I still had fun eating other food.)
I went with Lisa and Colas on Saturday.
What I think of the Food and Beverage fair : so and so only. There were a few stalls which looked like they didn’t belong there, for example, the manicure stall.

Some photos:
People walking around

People queuing up to buy food

What we ate:

Okonomiyaki, also called the Japanese pizza. This one wasn’t very good. I prefer Desmond’s homemade Okonomiyaki.

Some kind of takoyaki but with chicken instead of octopus

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Hendrik(from Indonesia) took us to eat Indonesian food at Surabaya Restaurant (Lucky Plaza) the other day. It was my first time going to an Indonesian restaurant and I was really looking forward to it.

Hendrik had this. It was good. It was the first item on the menu. Unfortunately I can’t remember the name of this dish.

Vani and Natasha ordered this. Again, I have no idea what it is. It’s difficult to remember the Indonesian names.

I had the fried chicken. I wanted to order something else but they didn’t have what I wanted.
I thought that the fried chicken was a bit dry but I loved the chilli! Yummy!

This rice was good.

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