my Singapore trip (Part 1)

hi folks,
went down to Singapore for the Raya holidays. Baby was so cute... kept telling ppl that she's going to play the tourist role this time round... her 1st. hahaha... baby's brother and baby's best friend had a jolly good time teasing her about it.

Now, let's see what did we do. Reached Woodlands at 4.30am on Thursday but did not get picked up for another hour because uncle jo and serene went back to bed right after our phone call. oh well, it's nice to keep the singaporean cabbies company. We even spotted a lady cabbie (she dresses quite smartly too... nice crispy white blouse). looks more like a tai-tai to me than a cabbie. at least her cab is a matching white merc. wonder what is she doing driving a cab. hmmm.... must be like the serendah millionaire who goes about doing everything topless and shoeless (read here).

The 2 Singaporeans wanted to bring us to this mamak at Jalan Kayu but funny folks at the mamak did everything to ignore us. They could have told us that they are closed or that they are resting or going for prayers but no... they go about doing everything else but to look our direction or simply come to tell us to bugger off. on the bright side... it's nice and windy so at least i'm not complaining too much sitting and waiting. we drove around more to look for food and in the end settled at this hawker place at Kowan for dimsum. uhm.. their char siew pau tasted different from back home / sydney's / hong kong's / auckland's / vancouver's. i think even the pau i get back in uni days in dunedin tasted better. the +ve point from this is that at least their teh si taste good and we get to see some artistic display... who would have thought of twisting your teaspoons so that you can distinguished yours from the others. malaysians are way too boring... they only paint colours on their cutleries to distinguish it from the next stall's.