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Tag Archives: China
Tall Girl Cuisine or Eastern Northern Dumpling Restaurant
East Coast Road seems to be a food hub to me. Yet another place B wanted to try out as it’s supposed to be pretty authentic and he read rave reviews online saying it’s run by a family from China … Continue reading
Painting: Lee Kuan Yew
Captivating images at Ode to Art spotted at Raffles City that made everyone passing by turn their heads. I read that it’s by an artist from China, Ren Zhenyu and the one in the window, oil on canvas, is marked as … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged Art, artist, China, Gallery, Lee Kuan Yew, Ode to Art, painting, price, Singapore
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Outside People’s Park Complex: Authentic Snacks from China
If I was not already so full from the Sichuan noodles I would have had these snacks which are really good. I especially like the pancake filled with minced pork and really spicy chilli oil. You can spot the long … Continue reading
Posted in Food in Singapore
Tagged authentic, China, Food, pancakes, pau, People's Park Complex, Singapore, snacks
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CNY 2013: Checking Out the Chinese New Year Buzz at Vivo
VivoCity tends to have great Chinese New Year atmosphere so we had to check it out this year. I found the lanterns so pretty and the Chinese New Year fair, including art, crafts and photography from China added to the … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged 2013, Art, China, Chinese New Year, crafts, decorations, fair, mall, photography, vivo, VivoCity
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Clipper Race at Keppel Bay (Round the World Boat Race makes a stop in Singapore)
Keppel Bay is a real tiny artificial island with a bunch of eateries and boats. When we were there it was buzzing with activity. I had no idea what a clipper race was till I read the details. It’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged China, clipper race, island, Keppel Bay, Qingdao, Singapore, yacht
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Chinese New Year 2012: Just Outside People’s Park Complex
You have to try the snack stalls here. Really authentic stuff from China. Pancakes with spicy pork filling. So good. I always see long queues forming. Another popular stall that we tried the last time. The yummy pacake that reminds … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged 2012, ba kwa, China, Chinatown, Chinese New Year, CNY, culture, decor, dragon, Food, Life, Lim Chee Guan, Living, People's Parl, photography, photos, Singapore, snacks, travel
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Very Funny American Comedian from China: Joe Wong
Joe Wong who looks more like a scientist than a comedian, is brilliant at the Radio Television Correspondents’ Association (RTCA) Dinner in Washington. I think this video is going viral already. My sister just sent it to me and I … Continue reading
The Stop Cooking Indian Curry Story Upsets Me
Sunday, August 21st, is Cook a Pot of Curry Day. A brilliant group of Singaporeans set up a facebook page to celebrate curry as our way of life and it already has 17,364 attendees. (Update on 19 August 2011: The … Continue reading
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Tagged 21 August 2011, annoyed, August 21st, China, Cook a Pot of Curry Day, cooking curry, culture, curry, dispute, event, FaceBook, Indian, news, report, Singapore, Singaporean, Singaporeans, society, Sunday, today paper, unfair, upset
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China: Jilted Bride Attempts to Leap from Building
I hope the Chinese authorities treat her with compassion. The poor girl looks utterly distraught. The pain must have overwhelmed her in that moment. You can read the full article at the Daily Mail. Even more shocking, when you watch … Continue reading
How China Trains it’s Kids to Become Olympic Champions
I would say torture rather than training. A 5 year old child made to live in a boarding school just to satisfy the dreams of his or her parents. Seems so cruel to me. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnxR1lLrkPg] Didn’t think I’d find a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture & Society
Tagged atheletes, child, children, China, cruel, disturbing, gymnast, pressure, society, torture, training, Video
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Books: Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Shalimar the Clown is a book by Salman Rushdie who won the booker of bookers for Midnight’s Children. This was an almost 400 page book and I took nearly 3 weeks to finish this. Actually I took more than 2 … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, author, beautiful, beauty, book, book review, China, culture, good, India, Indian, intelligent, Kashmir, Life, literature, Living, map, Pakistan, personal, reading, reads, Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown, story, tragedy, Video, writing, YouTube
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WordPress Blogs Still Down After Cyber Attacks
Even though the report by AFP below says that it’s up, it’s not. I wonder if this is affecting Asia alone. I can’t log in to any other wordpress blog sites either. I just get a blank page and a … Continue reading
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Tagged attacked, attacks, bloggers, blogs, China, down, WordPress
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WordPress has Been Attacked and it Really Sucks
I am so frustrated that I can’t get into Tiny Island, my other blog which is my daily journal. If you have been trying as well, I am so sorry about the disruption. I can’t get into the wonderful blog … Continue reading
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Tagged attacked, China, connected, DDoS, down, hacked, Life, Living, Singapore, Singaporean, tech, Tiny Island, Twitter, WordPress
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Chinese New Year 2011: People’s Park
Want to absorb in the real atmosphere of Chinese New Year? I would say come to People’s Park and walk about the stalls and emporium (old style Chinese Supermarket) here. Instead of lunch, there are so many interesting snacks you … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged Beijing, chempadak, cherries, China, Chinatown, Chinese New Year, culture, design, festival, festivities, Food, fruits, interesting, Life, Living, nuts, Pao, People's Park, personal, photography, photos, Singapore, snacks, travel
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Beautiful People Get Away with Murder at Work
{Image: China Smack} My cousin just sent me this article. It’s about the old bias that everyone knows exists at work, but that’s never officially acknowledged. Better looking people who are less qualified can get away with lot of nonsense … Continue reading
Miss Universe 2010: Tania Lim & Other Contestants
I enjoy watching pageants like my partner enjoys watching soccer, so here are some of the contestants for the upcoming paegeant to be held in Las Vegas. The photos are from the official Miss Universe Website and if they disappear … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Headlines
Tagged Australia, beautiful, beauty, China, Contestants, Czech Republic, favourite, France, India, Indonesia, Luisana Lopilato, Malaysia, Michael Buble, Miss Universe 2010, predictions, pretty, Puerto Rico, Singapore, USA
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UFO Spotted in China
This is both scary and thrilling at the same time. Alien visitors in my lifetime? – who would have thought? Hope they are friendly. Anyway it hasn’t come to that yet, but the UFO spotting caused the Chinese airport in … Continue reading
Green Lychees
The ones sold in Singapore are usually red but this time I spotted Lychees, a subtropical fruit from China in a wonderful shade of green which are in season from June to August. They were super sweet, fragrant and juicy. … Continue reading
Posted in Food in Singapore
Tagged China, Cold Storage, Food, fruit, green, Lychees, photography, photos, Singapore, supermarket, travel
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Dan Dan Mien in Beijing
I got to taste the authentic stuff at a little cafe near the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. So yummy and really spicy. Great to tuck into during the cool spring. Thoughts of 2011 Me: This was 5 years ago, … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged 2006, Bejing, China, Dan Dan Mien, noodles, reflection, Temple of Heaven, thoughts, travel, trip
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Turning 40: My List of 40 Travel Memories
I’ll be turning 40 in a few weeks, and all year long I have been anticipating going into a deep funk. So far it hasn’t quite happened yet and I think I have to thank my blogger friends on WordPress … Continue reading →