🐉 Year of Dragon | CNY Goodies from An Old Friend

Got a call from one of my old friend (doesn't wants to be named) informing that he has something for me, 

and it turns out to be homemade pineapple tarts.Thin, melt in the mouth crust and pineapple paste is also made from scratch!Supposed to be for CNY, but ... it was all gone within 3 days!

**Update on 07/02/24

Upon learning that I finished the bottle of pineapple tarts, he made 1 more bottle for me, and also gave me a bottle of salted egg fish skin

Ok, now this is safe to last till at least few day into CNY

**Update on 13/03/24

Haha... old friend went HK, gave me 老婆饼 and another bottle of pineapple tarts.

Blessed that after so many years, this old friend still remembers me during CNY

 

Evelyn's | Lunch & Hello Barry

Lunch at Evelyn's to pass some CNY goodies that I bought for her & to say hello to her new pup, Barry

Can see that he's very excited from the way he wag his tail & didn't even struggle when I grab him & put him on my lap for a neck scratch to prevent him from running out when Meredith open the gate.
Playing fetch
The cheeky look & in case you're wondering, he's a Pomsky X Shiba Inu
After a few rounds of playing fetch. His baby black furs are slowing dropping off & revealing a shade of gold brown now
Evelyn cooked spaghetti & baked some salmon dish
First cookie I whack after lunch
I also bought some tarts for her family
But I ended up having the first piece 😂
Played with Barry for a while more, watched tv with my little friend & hitched a ride to Tampines interchange to head home while they head to hospital for visiting.

 

Little Teahouse | January Team Bonding

January team bonding session!

Ching has a craving for dim sum & we decided on Little Teahouse by Soup Spoon cos it's the nearest to our outlet & we do not have to travel too far & still able to catch the last train/ bus home after the late night dinnerWe reached just in time for last order, but we were left with only about 20mins to gobble down the food cos they're closed at 11pm 😂
This self sanitize chopsticks machine damn cool! It auto dispense a pair of sanitized chopsticks right after one pair is being removed!
This time round, we're missing Carol cos she couldn't make it

 

JB | Day Trip w/Evelyn

Daytrip to JB with le buddy, Evelyn

Taking bus to JB this time cos we didn't manage to get train tickets as we waited quite a while for TL to confirm our appointment at saloon to fix our hair. Can't even remember when was the last time I took bus to JB ever since I started going JB by trainHuman traffic was pretty smooth cos it's probably still early (we meet at 8.15am 😂)Didn't expect to be so smooth it only took us 30mins to cross the border, we ended up having breakfast at McD's cos nothing in planned except for hair appt at 12pm. The Nasi Lemak with Spicy Chicken is quite good & the rice is very fragrant.

Hang around at City Square mall after breakfast for a while before heading to KSL mall for our hair appt.

Main order of business for our JB daytrip.
For me is more of covering the whites & getting an even color for the hair
First time trying out purple
Doing a scalp & hair treatment too.
Not very obvious cos more on deep purple. Hopefully it doesn't gets too loud after 2 weeks of washQuick lunch at KSL. Should have went to City Square for lunch cos there isn't much food options here.And so we head back to City Square Mall for CNY shoppingVery much like me but her items are more on CNY goodies rather than popcorns. I passed her my addition bag which I brought along for her to squeeze all her items in the bag & ... ... she actually broke the zip of the bag 😂

Hair color under white light
My loots from today's daytrip ..  slightly towards the natural hue for work days
The usual Eureka Popcorns, which is actually half of what I usually buys 😂
Nonya Kuih Bangkit form Yong Seng. Theresa recommends this & asked me to help her buy more, but my bag is very full I can't fit in anymore. End up Evelyn bought 1 for me while I went toilet!
Kuih Kapit from MingAnn, so good even the doggo approvesGift set from Seasons for mum & kor
Spicy Prawn Roll, Chicken Floss Samosa & some cuttlefish from Mr Sotong

We left City Square Mall around 5.30pm hoping to beat the evening crowd & woof... we reached JB Checkpoint around 5.45pm & Woodlands checkpoint abt 6.15pm. Today's trip kind of restore my faith of travelling to JB by bus. 

However, the waiting of 160 is a major turn-off cos I waited about 45mins for the bus! I could have taken 170 too but as my shopping bag is super heavy, I insisted in waiting for 160 cos I just need to cross the overhead bridge (which as a lift) & walk 1 min to my block comparing to crossing an overhead bridge which has no lift & longer distance, and still need to talk a 15 mins walk home! 😂

Chinatown CNY Bazaar | Metime

Photo with the "internet craze dragon" at Chinatown after lunch with the Multiply Girls

Actually the dragon doesn't look quite bad from this angleWent on to check out the CNY Bazaar after taking photo with the Dragon
Intersection of the busy streetsNothing really interest me at the CNY bazaar, so here's a 360 shot in front of the templeBought the Pipagao Milktea before crossing over to bus home since I'm having sorethroatErm... .... yes, the dragon indeed looks funny from this angle 😂