.....times of refreshing.....

1.4.16 sacrifice ....

ChrisAu 12:50 AM ntuc 350 run; manhattan fish mart. , 16 Comments

Somehow I find it strange. Whenever there's a running event approaching, I will feel kinda regret for signing up for it as that will means I cannot go back to JB for that weekend, and I cannot see my family. Whenever, I thought it, I felt a bit depressing as I can only see them once a week and it's kinda sad to see my little girl face waving bye-bye to me when they send me off on Sunday night. However, on the other hand, after I completed each event, I felt like signing up for another upcoming interesting race, like standard chartered or sundown marathon. LOL ... Well, I have signed up for two events just after the standard chartered marathon ended back in December. I am doing two Half-Marathons, the NTUC 350 run next weekend and the Sundown night run in May. Thus, since I also needed to accompany my wifey home for the Ching Ming Festival this weekend, I decided to take a day off on Monday, as I will be seeing them two weeks later after that.

My running tee ... I purposely shade off my bib no. for the meantime... LOL

Since it was a long weekend last week in Singapore, I didn't collect the race pack by myself but asked my colleague to collect for me. Thus, I missed out on the exhibition booths which usually there are a lot of sports stuffs on displayed and errr... for purchasing. OK la... I save some money here...hahaha...but I didn't save on a dinner with my family. We had some nice seafood at Manhattan Fish Mart in Tebrau City.

My mini seafood platter, consisted of squids, fish, prawns and fries.

A dory fish for my kid

And fish and chips for my little princess and wifey to share.

Have a great weekend! :)

29.3.16 2016 Updates # 1 ...

ChrisAu 12:20 AM 25 Comments

Last week was a busy week for me and thus, I seems to have abandoned my blog for a week. LOL. Anyway, no worries, yours truly blog will reached the 10th anniversary next year, as I started blogging in 2007 in my previous blog. Thus, I still got a year to go before I can announced retirement... muahahahaha.... Just joking only.

Let me sum up what I have been doing for the Holy Week, which has just ended.

1. Yes, mentioning the Holy Week, I actually took a day off on last Thursday to attend church service as well as avoiding the peak hour jam at the causeway. The clever me managed to avoid the terrible jam and had a peaceful time in church on last Thursday night. Good Friday was a holiday in Singapore so I had a long weekend.

2. I thought of going to Desaru for a staycation but my wifey has other plans over the long weekend and we ended up visited most of the popular malls in JB, like Johor Premium Outlets, Aeon Bukit Indah, Tebrau City and etc. Not a bad idea as we jalan-jalan around instead of staying put in the resort which we just went last October.

3. Work has been piling up and that's the reason I didn't blog much last week and after a workout, it was very late and I feel like relaxing in my room with the air-cond fully blast. However, the workouts, especially running, is good to de-stress.

4. Though my next half-marathon will be held on April 10, I decided to take a break from long distance run last week as I just don't feel like doing it, though I did 5KM with my colleagues as well as in the gym. Not sure why, maybe I have been running weekly since CNY and decided to take a rest. However, I will go back to long distance running this week and next week, before the HM on next Sunday.

5. Oh..though I supposed to fast but I didn't and followed my Chinese colleague for a mutton ribs steamboat. The ribs were already cooked and we just needed to simmer it in the hot soup to warm it up. I love the ribs, it was delicious and the herbal soup was tasty. In fact, I felt warmed after the meal. I guess this is a winter meal in China, where they had it to warm up their body. And, not forgetting dipping the ribs in those peanut sauce.

Readily cooked but cold mutton ribs

Besides the ribs, there are also ham, mushrooms, vegetables, 'spare parts' and etc.

The boiling herbal soup...

This was my first time having such mutton ribs steamboat, though I have had mutton before. And, I can say, it was very delicious. Chuan Yang Ji Mutton Soup Steamboat is located at 432 Balestier Rd, Singapore 329813.

22.3.16 Back to routines.....

ChrisAu 8:55 AM updates , 34 Comments

I was kinda busy lately with work as well as my training for the coming half-marathon, thus didn't really find time to blog. Oh, well, life is really back to ...errr... 'normal' ? I use the word normal cos it's really back to routine...gone are the holiday season! Oh.. I kept repeating that, and yes, I really miss my last Dec holidays! In fact, I am tempted to check out tours when I pass by tour agencies as well as the Natas/Matta fairs. Sigh... and my sis-in-law just got back from Yogjakarta , how I wish I could join too, but it's school time. Oh yeah, last week was a school holiday but the kids were having their tuitions as well as I have a project deployment to do, so cannot join her. OK, maybe some cuti-cuti Malaysia, let me check if I can go to Desaru for a staycation this coming long weekend. hahahaha...

Just some rantings here .... btw, I was at Mori restaurant and order a small platter of sushi. Of course we did order some other food but somehow I love this pix. OK, I will definitely go for a Japanese dinner this coming weekend too, maybe to the famous Niyumaru near Sutera Mall. ;)