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Life away from Home: November 2008
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Life away from Home. Wednesday, November 5, 2008. This is a pretty famous store here in Chengdu where huge numbers of people will flock here for dinner at about 7pm. It's called 玉林串串香。 Skewers of meat or vegetables are thrown into a hot pot of either spicy base (麻辣) or non-spicy base. Most people there chose the full spicy pot but we do not want to kill ourselves with their powerful spices so we opted for a mixed (鸳鸯)base. Waiting for the base to boil, look how hungry Gary is. Poor thing. And I had my ma...
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Life away from Home: August 2008
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Life away from Home. Sunday, August 31, 2008. Unofficially, Sunday has become our shopping day as it's the only day we get to spend with each other, doing things together. So today we decided to explore the local wholesale market, 荷花池 which is sort of similar to Chatuchak Market in Bangkok, except that this place has no map, whatsoever and it's much bigger. It actually reminded me more of the wholesale building that I went to in Hong Kong because this . Anyway, here's our 'loot' from 荷花池:. The top 3 are ...
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Life away from Home: September 2008
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Life away from Home. Tuesday, September 16, 2008. Last Friday (12th Sept), we were invited to a church member's house for pizza but we ended up having Gary's dealers over for dinner. So guess what? I had to step up to the challenge of planning the menu and preparing food for 8 people. . It's not a lot of people, but it's the first time I had to prepare everything by myself with no additional help - from marketing to prepping and cooking. Stress stress! Here's the menu for the night:. 2 Fried Bee Hoon.
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Life away from Home: January 2009
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Life away from Home. Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Chinese New Year Eve Celebrations! It was the first time that we celebrated our Chinese new year outside of Singapore without our family. The feeling is different but it's not bad. One of the saving graces in celebrating Chinese New Year here in Chengdu was that we got to set off fireworks! Which we are not able to do so in Singapore.). Let me tell you, the feeling of having the fireworks set off right in front of you, in close proximity, is phenomenal!
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Life away from Home: October 2008
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Life away from Home. Monday, October 27, 2008. It has been raining non-stop since yesterday evening, and the cold dreary weather (as you can see in the picture below) has caused an almost insane desire to eat hot soupy stuff. A few days after I arrived back here in Chengdu, I cooked chicken curry for my hubby who enthusiastically finished all the food I've prepared, which includes steamed egg and vegetables soup. . So my hubby is very happy with his fish, which is quite simple to prepare. But not me.
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Life away from Home: June 2008
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Life away from Home. Monday, June 30, 2008. Today I undertook a very challenging task - buying a local SIM card so that I can make calls or sms locally. Oh my gosh. it was so much harder than I thought (their powerful mandarin was another obstacle).*Plegh*. My driver brought me to a local China Mobile shop, something like an M1, Starhub or Singtel shop in Spore. Ok, that sounded simple enough, so I went to the kiosk he pointed out,. I took abt 25 minutes just to decide which one to get! And even at this ...
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Life away from Home: Chinese New Year Eve Celebrations!
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Life away from Home. Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Chinese New Year Eve Celebrations! It was the first time that we celebrated our Chinese new year outside of Singapore without our family. The feeling is different but it's not bad. One of the saving graces in celebrating Chinese New Year here in Chengdu was that we got to set off fireworks! Which we are not able to do so in Singapore.). Let me tell you, the feeling of having the fireworks set off right in front of you, in close proximity, is phenomenal!
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Life away from Home: A crazy Sunday!!
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Life away from Home. Wednesday, January 21, 2009. It was a Sunday long awaited for. Floraland (国色天香) is an amusement park with crazy rides and food and games galore! We had talked so much about visiting it in the summer when we arrived, and all through Autumn when we met people who had been there and they were raving about it. Finally, we made a date with 2 pretty gals, who are from Cat's dealership company here in Chengdu, to go Floraland. . Entrance to the amusement park. . For more pictures, click.
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Life away from Home: Singapore updates
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Life away from Home. Tuesday, January 20, 2009. After such a long break in Singapore, it took me quite a while to come back to my blog. But here I am with some updates on what we did back home. . We took a short break in Koh Samui and it was good. The resort was beautiful and the service was excellent. The main lobby is beautiful with a high ceiling and it has a very rustic feeling to the whole decor. Lazing by the pool. Gary spotted his grilled chicken and he was sooo happy. Here she is, eating her satay.
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Life away from Home: July 2008
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Life away from Home. Thursday, July 31, 2008. It's Gary's birthday and he's turning 30! But 28th July came and went without much of a squeak. because he wasn't even in town. And I was thinking so hard about what to get him as a gift. There's nothing that he needs. And there's nothing much that he wants (the few stuff that he wants are way beyond my means to get it i.e. home theatre system to match our TV here! Links to this post. Friday, July 25, 2008. A beautiful Panda sculpture. At the Panda Story Cine...
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