Posts Tagged Singapore
Grand Prix
Posted by mella in Mella's Blog on September 26, 2008
we couldn’t afford the 3 day pass so we just got ourselves…
enough to experience what it’s like to watch a GP “night race”.
SINGAPORE is excited.
botanical garden shots
Posted by mella in Photography on September 22, 2008
sorry for the delay but here they are!
i love the sky!
when you’re new in Photography, first thing you have to
learn is how to get that nice depth of field.
this one is better.
my favorite
All shots were taken by yours truly at the Singapore Botanical Garden.
Still on the learning stage.
What’s aperture again? :-p
Sunday is picnic day…
Posted by mella in Mella's Blog on September 17, 2008
…for Filipinas here in Singapore.
On our way to the Botanical Garden last Sunday, we saw a flock of Filipinas with big plastic and paper bags. They all seemed to be heading to a place. Since i had my new toy with me, we pretended to be a paparazzi. We followed them. And these are what we saw:
with their packed lunch
they were having sinigang na bangus and adobo
the place was located at the back of WISMA Atria. It wasn’t a park but every Sunday it becomes one
food republic in wisma
Posted by mella in Uncategorized on September 16, 2008
Yesterday before going to the Botanical Garden, boyps and I decided to have our Sunday lunch at Food Republic in WISMA Atria instead of Lucky Plaza because it was so crowded.
Whenever we eat at Food Republic, we always order for two of our favorite Singapore food- Hokkien Mee and Chicken Rice. As expected, Seargent Hainanese Chicken did not fail to satisfy me. It’s still the best cheap chicken rice in Singapore. As for the Hokkien Mee, it was a disappointment. Why oh why did it taste that bad?
So if you guys want to try Hokkien Mee, i wouldn’t recommend Food Republic in Wisma Atria. Go to the other branches like Suntec City or Vivo City instead.
Lucky Plaza
Posted by mella in Mella's Blog on September 8, 2008
When I came here in Singapore 2 years ago I felt homesick as soon as I arrived. It got worse since I had to stay in a hotel for 2 weeks and the only food that I could afford, at that time, were from hawkers and kopitiams. It’s not that the food was bad but the taste was just very different from what I’m used to eat.
No one told me (well that’s because i didn’t know any Filipinos at that time) that there’s this ‘Mall for Filipinos’ and that they have lots of turoturo stalls, if I may call it, that serves Filipino food at reasonable price of 5 SGD. I only learned about it a month after. I was thrilled. A month without adobo, sinigang or tinola for me like food was like hunger strike. Anyway, the name of mall I’m talking about is Lucky Plaza. It’s along side big shopping malls in Orchard. It’s not a classy mall like it’s neighbors but it’s still my second best favorite place here in Singapore. Aside from the eateries, there are also mini-grocery shops in LP (as what we call it) that sells imported Filipino products (it’s only here that we can call our own products IMPORTED-naks!). So when we found a permanent place to live in, we excitedly bought cooking tools and bought staple ingredients of Filipino food like toyo, suka, patis, pansigang, bagoong, alamang and started cooking our own food. Then there’s the famous noodle junk food Lucky Me Pancit canton (iba talaga kapag may MSG hahaha).
Now im not that homesick anymore!
