BBQ with Sunny Low @ 龜山

BBQ session with Sunny Low at his place GuiShan village.

Nice patch of Sun flower, just perfect for photoshoot.

Nice patch of green green paddy field.

Linking KinMen island with Singaporean

The above photograph was taken at a single storey former primary school in ShuiTou水頭 village. It was converted into a museum by the Taiwan National Park Authority. In fact, the whole of KinMen island is in fact, gazetted as a National Park. Due to its historical warring bakground, much of the OLD facades are retain in its original condition.

Exhibits showing migrating pattern of past generations moving southward to南洋. How migrants live in their new home, setup schools and collection of donations in support of KinMen. How migrants remit their hard-earned money back to relative ("widow" wife) back home in KinMen using the Chinese Medicine Hall as remittance bank. It also stressed the "Widow" life when their husband away in a foreign land and hope to come back home one day. The peom written on the wall is beauty and touching.

Part of the exhibit includes the daily life in typical home, with fire wood stove and old-style wooden bed. Life is so comfortable in modern day Singapore. One cannot imagine the life with so little foods or selection to eat. People used to greet each other "Have you eaten", it has its reason behind. Food is hard to come by in KinMen where only peanut is farmed in early days. KinMen now has a golden goose, their county-owned Liquor Factory. All KinMen citizen above 60s is given NT$6,000 per month for just being a KimMen resident.

Year 2010 Chinese New Year Flight Schedule

Jenny and myself will be travel back in Singapore.
Note: total check-in luggage weigh is 20kgs (one person only). Things to remember: Gadget Cup, KinMen DVD, 6 Dices game.

A short Video, our Young Lady on Horses.

Managed to recoved the short video of Mavis and Megan while in Taiwan's Disneyland, riding horses. They enjoy it very much. Hope they will visit us again sometime.

Year 2008, October - Trip Back Home

The trip of re-learning family relationship, the closeness of family members and the joy of companionship. Father's house is nicely furnish and all utilities is installed. However, he has spent most of his time at Blk.8 with old friends and neighbour. Prehaps, time will passed quickly this way.

Flight Detail - July 21 -26 SIN-TPE

Its a nice moment having the opportunity for family gathering at such serene setting, especially during evening sunset disappearing in the horizon.

Wishes life is full of happiness and cozy moment of time.

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My Father Growing Old

Reference: http://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com/ - it just expess my feeling.
Imagine him getting up early to make his own coffee. Reading the WangPao papers. No plans for the day. Turning on the TV a little louder than it has to be. Alone at home. Then the phone rings,he answers it, finds me on the line and ased me whether I have taken my meal. Going coffee shop and meeting old friends.
His son, a grown man now,calling from another country, increasingly distant, more and more a stranger; The call, cheering him up, nonetheless. He says, "How are you? How's everything?" He really wants to know. He is my father, after all. He is growing old. But I don't know where to start.
I want to tell him that I love him and that I'm sorry I have to live my own life now. But these are not the things I know how to say from a distance. These are things I know I may never learn to say. So we speak of smaller daily things,and soon this brief connection will unmake itself, and expire.
Expired it will be, being in far away land, one could not provides the on-hand supports and comforts needed daily. It just get distanced by the days. Being far away, every words become in-materials, another annoyance words without responsibilities. It just distanced by the days.

A bottle of Swedish Ramlosa Material Water

Our company actually distribute this product years ago when little is know about material water, bubbling gassy type from Sweden. It take a while getting use to the taste, especially a great thirst killer if you freeze the bottle.
I just can't resist picking a bottle when I found it at a Denmark Supermarket store.

Birthday Dinner

Click on the "PLAY" button to screen a series of photographs.

It brings back Memory.............. it can only be memory. Miss you MOM.

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Re-union Dinner 2009 year of the OX

It definitly take up much precious time preparing the re-union meal. But the good time we have override the works altogether. Everybody has a good time. Thanks the cooks.
Just look at the table full of foods, prepared whole-heartedly through the days.
It will be another year of challenge for CNY2010 to beat year CNT2009 dishes.
Video Recording for YuSheng preparation.

Year 2009 New Year gathering

Wishing all friends and family a very cheerful year of the OX.

祝大家牛年["牛"轉乾坤]事事如意．

Place : Nellie @ Tanah Merah
Date : January 31, 2009, Saturday
Time : 12noon to 5pm
Food : Pot Luck
"CHOP" your dishes: >Soon Seng is preparing the "YuSheng" >Jenny will contribute Taiwan's goodies >Nellie special Mee Siam from Maxwell Road, James doing the LEG work >Nonya Cake&Ondeh supplied by Partner York Kah & Steven >Drink from YingPang >YannBing bring home-made JingGua Cake >Bee Bin & James the Fresh Fruit Supplier.

BBQ@Warren CCK, 2008/11

下過雨的傍晚很涼爽, 剛好最適合烤肉 . 一家人加上二姨及家人, 一同留下愉快的回憶. 此次的最優食物是KC's 妹妹做的雞翅膀, 加上沙爹.

Not forgetting the new recipe of Fried Wan-Tan which Jenny said she like it very much. Basically, consisting of Wan-Tan skin and prawn paste. Everyone has a nice time, thanks for the chief cook standing beside Jenny, well BBQed chicken wings.

Marina Barrage

Marina Barrage, Singapore Latest Icon belong to the launching of the PUB's 30 years planning of the Marina barrage off Marina Bay right in the heart of the City central. Overlooking the city skyline day and night. Look out for the night scene, couples will find it purely romantic place.

Standing atop Barrage roof-top viewing platform. One can see far to the Seafront and City skyline with Flyer (FairyWheel) standing out.
Barrage, a structural gadget that divides the Salt and Fresh water. It also allows water engineer to regulate the water level, especially during high tide and heavy rainfall occasion.
Do visit the exhibiting gallery within the Marina barrage. It details the development of 30years planning for water management. How water is collected effectively all whole the island country, latest being Marina Bay within the city. One and only one in the world, where many leisure activities can be conducted with easy access by the public using public transport like MRT.

Makan @ Frankfurt & Copenhagen

Wine - it's origin come from grape. Lousy taste if you would taste it raw. The green colour grape are the right one for making into Wine. If you were to use the purple colour grape, it's for other purpose, I think they called it ICE wine.

According to our Guide, making of ICE wind is a complicated and take a long process. Such as, it jacks up the price of the ICE wine price value. The grape is required to be freezed during winter period with snow, couple of times before perfecting the ICE wine. Never forget to pick up good Ice-cream in a cold climate. It "warm" you heart. That how I got my cold, ha ha ha.Makan (Eating) time in Denmark, more meat lah.

The top and bottom pictures, RIB has different favours. Not the meat but the sauce. Tony-Roma still the best I have taken, it has longer rib bone and much tender meat.



German Sausage. Roadside booth and it comes with bread.

Typical breakfast, yes, with meat early in the morning.

GERMAY......................PIG LEG lot of them

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Frankfurt @ Germany

Visit to Germany, Frankfurt concentrates attention on Load Carrier System products.
Beside the new roof box name EXCELLENCE, THULE has comes with RMS (Towbar bike rack) for smaller capacity motorcar who do not required towing function but need carrying of bicycle/s. It uses the THULE(Brink) removal towbar system as base.

Furthermore, European market see the use of pedal-assist bicycle which is heavier and THULE has comes out with new model of towbar RMS bike rack for such.
It just looks picture perfect having THULE newest products on continental car BMW.
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A day-tour visit to the OPEL (GM) factory is very enlightening to see the Automatic production of automobiles at source. It even has an in-house museum, where you realise OPEL starts with making of Sewing machine and even early day Bicycle model. The museum is an eye-opening experience, when you realise the legacy of work done by forefather generations of engineers and industrialists.

Just look at the typical car parts for just one single car from VW. It's mind blogging just to count the number of parts. Now I know why the industry feeds lot of mouths and this industry just too huge to imagine.
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Singapore July 2008

Dinner with Eddy at CHIJMES, Victoria Street, Singapore... the place to be.
La Cave Restuarant
Mind the Suasage Plate, Eddy taking a Seafood stuff and Winston&Wife taking Meat platens. What is mouthful dinner, remember you get one for one beer here.














Hainanese Chinese Rice at Seven-Mile, Bukit Timah Beauty World area. A hot summer temperature with a nice cup of original homecook barley drink. It costs to be have fancy food dressing. For me a simple plate of local chicken rice will be just fine.