Everyone arrived soon after, bringing food and precious tots (only for those who have). Our menu:
1) Potato salad (Darth)
2) Waffles (President)
3) Tonnes of Indian Bee hoon (J and Betty)
4) Eclairs and Swiss rolls (Boss)
5) Chicken Pie (Mrs L)
6) Indonesian Otah (me!)
7) Yam Cake (Grace)
8) Brownie (Ivles)
9) Beef (Ms C)
10) Pasta (Boss #2)
11) Fruits (the "D" in the BDC)
12) Chicken Curry (CY)
13) Birthday Cake (me!)
14) Drinks (me!)
15) Snacks (President & me!)
It was a rather fun outing, playing frisbee, throwing ball, cooing over the kids. I liked it most cos some brought our partners and some brought their babies. So fun. We celebrated D's birthday (who came last/latest).
United Square
In the evening we went to look for pressies for my nephew and niece. THe best place to shop, Toys R Us. Bought a princess set and a drawing thing. Even signed up for a free 10% discount card. I think it will come useful for a long long time to come.
Soup restaurant in United Square
Tried: Samsui chicken, potato leaves, black chicken soup, steamed rice and sliced fish san mee
Review: Great stuff! I loved the Samsui chicken. It comes with a garlic/ginger dip and the chick is so well cooked. The soup is great too!
Return: Definitely!!!
Other stuff: Loved the simple chinese teahouse style decor and the service is good.
BUT: Braised peanuts ($2), White rice ($0.8), Towels (cant recall!)
Rating: 7.8/10 (samsui chicken 8.5/10)
Samsui Chicken
Sweet Potato Leaves
Downtown East
Havent been there for ages. I remember we used to get a chalet there when we were in Secondary school (remember Az?) It was so changed!!!
The wild wild wet looked good, so did the escape theme park but we didnt have a chance to play.
Imagine a small chalet room with about 7 kids, snatching for the x box(yes they have that now!!! but no games!!!) screaming and crying and parents yelling to reprimand/teach their kids. It was a nightmare. The only good ting that came out of it was the pretty birthday cake. Barbie doll . Will show u a pick once i upload it.
Barbie Doll Cake (before destruction by little girls)
Barbie Doll Cake (after destruction by little girls)
Computer Woes
So its easy to create and set up your own computer eh? Well, it was easy enuf with the help of 4 people! KS and S went to Costronic at Simlim with me and we with the sales person and the boss put together a computer for $1900. Not too bad, including a LCD screen for like $469, 1 Gig Ram, 3.2 processor i think a whopping 500G of memory space (seagate, 250 each in case one breaks down) etc.
Sil and Bil helped me to find the elusive plug for the lcd screen.... ha ha, u cant just plug it in anywhere, u have to plug it into the graphics card (whatever that is) and to re partition my harddisk. ( i din know u can reboot from CD)
Here a tip: Partitioning the hard disk
1) U have to partition it in megabytes. So bring out your calculator
2) if you want 4 drives in total, you have got to partition it all and format it all using some format system, Ntsc (non quick version) is recommended i think
3) be prepared to wait for like 30-45min for each partition and format
4) after you installed your OS and cant find your remaining free space (cos u did not partition it), dont install /save anyfiles, reboot the entire system with your CD
Sighs, I managed to kill some sasser worms, got rid of various trojans, murdered/quarantined strange viruses, system restored my computer many times, hotkeyed stuff, went into DOS to go some stuff. Etc But i cant partition my harddisk!!!! Nevermind, a bad experience it a learning experience. Wait till u hear how i connected my internet. The last i tried my windows Xp could not detect the wireless device and i have to get the isp address and all that crap.
Blah.... the week starts in 8...7....6...hours time.
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