It was the first team outing that I get to go off at 2pm. It was a short drive to East Coast Park from office, just 10 minutes away. Apparently, we were the early birds among the technology team. Bright and sunny, I felt the heat slowly crawling up my skin. Everyone were busy rubbing on sunblock, except me. 

It was a fun afternoon with lots of team building games to bring different groups of Technology as one. The game that required me to go round a water bottle 10 times, made me seriously dizzy. I remember the moment after the 10 rounds, I started falling to the ground. My colleagues were attempting to balance on the narrow belt tied between two trees. Apparently it looks easy but requires a lot of leg power and good balancing skills to walk on the belt. I had a few games of "Dai Di" with my colleagues, though it has been a long time since I played the card game I am still doing pretty ok. At least I won one game.

Tummy started growling, a few of us were munching chips and drinking beer while waiting for BBQ. It was amazing to have the caterer to BBQ all the food for us. Love the satays, squid and mushrooms! The night was breezy along the beach, probably the latest ever stay over in East Coast for me. Thinking back on how mummified I was transformed at the games and thrown a few water bombs, it has been a awesome day!

Bugs

Feeling so sick for the weekend, flu bug and a rough throat making me drowsy and sleepy for the last two days. Glad I am getting better, hmmm not quite with the hot weather as I am slowly developing a headache.

Anyway, bf going to be away for a month so I need to find my own activities to keep myself occupied for the weekend. So wish I can join him at San Francisco but seems impossible since I just started with my new job not long ago. Guess the timing is just not right, so envious and jealous! Now i believe, Good things really goes to those who waits. I should have hang on a little longer for this deal.

Humans are always not easily satisfied, I am one of the many. I need to look back on the days when I am out of job to start appreciating things ahead of me. Learn to take things at a step, be patience with the people around me and believe everything is possible if you try! Positive vibes injected, hopefully this will get me further in anything I do moving forward.

From work, I started learning the importance of asking WHY? Honestly, this hasn't been my usual word choice used in my last working environment as we were so accustomed to give what the customer wants. Time to get my perspective right to manage a different group of users now. WHY? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? The four important Ws at work.

Hummerstons

Another lazy Sunday, signifies my long weekend is coming to an end soon. We headed to Hummerstons for our sunday brunch at Robertson Walk. No reservation allowed, fortunately our friends were there early and secured a good lounge seats by the bar. I have been longing to visit Hummerstons for a long long time having read many reviews about the restaurant, good food and finally I am here.

The brunch orders look amazing! From eggs benedict to burger, fries and juice. It seems that I am the odd one out, no main course just a dessert and tea for brunch. Well, if you didn't know this was my second breakfast for the day. Not an easy choice to avoid good food, as you work hard for the week this seems to be the best compensation.

Their menu is slightly on the pricy end but I think everyone enjoys the food, generous serving and tasty food. I had a baked apple tart served on top of a giant macaroon with a scoop of ice cream. The dessert is a little too sweet for my tooth but my white lily ginger tea helps to create a balance.

Besides enjoying the food, four of us were so engrossed with Draw Free game. A free app which you can download from iPhone AppStore. Highly addictive, it is a draw and guessing game which tests your creativity. Oh my, I feel we can "nua" forever in indoor as it started raining outside. We were just too comfortable by the couch.

Loving long weekend ...

Chris is truly enjoying the long weekend! All started on Thursday evening right after work. Met up with my ex-colleagues for dinner at Jumbo, another adhoc arrangement. Abundance of yummy seafood just for the four of us! We got a good amount of discount using a voucher that offers 50% off the crabs. A chilli and a black pepper crab isn't too much at all. After dinner we moved on to Brewerkz. I didn't know it is just next door to Jumbo, perfect place to chill out for some beer and wings. The feeling is good to stay connected with your old friends and getting to know how they have been. Well, dinner started almost 6.30pm and ended closed to 11+, what a long night. Amazingly i am more awake than any other nights!

Vietnamese, my love 

This afternoon, had lunch at Long Phung Vietnamese Restaurant in Joo Chiat. A friend of mine recommended this place to me. It has been a long time since I had a good authentic vietnamese meal. I ordered my usual favorites like Spring rolls (6 for $9), Mango salad ($6) and Iced cold milk coffee ($3). 

Their spring rolls are so crispy delicious, mango salad topped with peanuts, prawns and pork has the same taste and seasoning as a VIET restaurant I used to frequent many years back in Marina Square. Sadly the restaurant had closed their outlets in Singapore. Gladly I found a replacement today. This place is a obvious choice, I knew I will be back for more. The restaurant offers a wide choices in their menu. I left the restaurant with a additional order of wings to go, thats just how good it is. HAHA, I no longer has to force myself having Hong Mao won tan noodle since I am never a fan of it. When I return to Joo Chiat the next time, it is going to be vietnamese food. Thank you Hazel! 

Long Phung Vietnamese Restaurant

159 Joo Chiat Road

Singapore 427436

Tel: +65 6344 2005

Opening hours: 12pm to 1am

Everyday feels like a breeze ....

Time flew! Everyday seems to be passing by like a breeze ever since I started work three weeks ago. I must admit, it has been awesome so far.

Friday, I joined the team out for lunch. The food kept me dizzy for the whole afternoon. It was a heavy, hearty and flavorful lunch at a Philippine food stall somewhere in Katong area. When the team mentioned Pata madness, it kind of brings me back to good old memories of Payday madness. I missed the good old days.

After clarification, I discovered what pata is all about. It is not the india roti prata I imagined to be, in Philippine context it  refers to Pork Knuckle. There were 12 of us for the lunch trip, we ordered a total of 4 Pork knuckles to share.  OMG, I can't believe it! Thinking back, my first taste of pork knuckle was at one of the Spanish restaurant in Vivo City on my birthday. This pork knuckle was amazing! Well seasoned and so crispy on the outside and the meat is so tender that I cannot resists having more of the skin. There was another side dish, looks like a cabbage veg soup which I assumed I would not like it at all. To my surprise, I finished the whole bowl of soup.

They serve authentic filipino food, I took their name card hoping one day I can bring my chinese friends along to enjoy their delicious cuisine. This is where you can find them:

Kusina De Pinoy
50 East Coast Road
#01-80 Roxy Square 1
Singapore 428769
Tel: 6346 5197
http://www.kusinaDePinoy.com