Growing spring onions (my first time)

This is my first time growing spring onions. I love to see the plant sprouting from the shallots that we kept for cooking. I am inexperienced in gardening stuff as I've always live in an apartment throughout most of my life. Therefore, I am excited about the whole thing. Perhaps, it is the start of my new hobby.

My Sunday brunch

I've recently started to add more fruits to my diet. As you can see in the picture above, I've bananas, Jack fruits, mangoes and water melon. Eating lots of fruits is good for the skin and overall health.
The other stuff are the gyoza or fried Japanese dumpling which we got from the supermarket. They are delicious and are priced reasonably ( a pkt of 30 pcs cost about $8+). We ate the gyoza with chilli oil mixed with a little vinegar.

The weather in Singapore

It is hot and cloudy as at 12:30pm. The outdoor temperature is 33C and humidity is 59%. Wind is 10 km/h. Thundery showers are expected in the northern, western and central Singapore in the late afternoon.

My Sunday home-cooked dinner

A simple Japanese home prepared dinner comprising of avacadoes, slices of meat, vegetables, grilled salmon with a bowl of rice and a bowl of miso soup. 

Today's lunch@ home

Bukit Batok by-election on 7 May 2016

The political campaign between Chee Soon Juan of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) and Murali Pillai of the People's Action Party (PAP) is going on at the moment. The constituency of Bukit Batok was left vacant when the PAP's MP David Ong resigned over an alleged extra marital affair with a female worker.
Polling day is on 7 May.
Bukit Batok has a registered voters of around 25,727 and 96% live in public housing (HDB). Voting is compulsory.

Who will win the Bt Batok election? My guess is PAP's Murali Pillai who in my opinion will garner at least 80% of the votes.

Yesterday's rallies here

Thai food @ Zakka wasn't that great, Soft-Bite is good

Today's breakfast was banana yogurt and kopi O at home. Early lunch was at Zakka Thai restaurant at Waterway Point. The Thai food was nothing to crow about...completely average!

While we were there, we bought the "Soft Bite" bread from Four Leaves bakery for tomorrow's breakfast. This bread is ideal for toasting. We have stopped the idea of having cheese with our toasts because I understand that processed cheese isn't healthy. So we eat our toasts with butter or with fried eggs.

Afternoon snack with Soft-Bite bread & mango

I didn't eat dinner tonight but instead walked for 1 1/2 hour around my place. I hope the walk would help give me a better night sleep.

3 meals today

Yogurt,watermelon and Jack fruits for breakfast and also not forgetting my usual cup of home-brewed kopi O.

Yakiniku Lunch

Sushi/sashimi@ Sushi Express for dinner

We had our dinner at "Sushi Express" near our place. We didn't eat much as we were not very hungry. We had 6 plates of sushi/sashimi each. Each plate is $1.50 which is considered as reasonable. The sushi & sashimi are fresh and we do not feel thirsty like at Sake Sushi.

Home-cooked lunch & hor fun/kway teow mee soup

Of course, I do eat fruits in between my meals especially bananas. I've stopped or at least consume less of fatty and fast food like buggers & fries.

Maguro/salmon (sake)/avacado/rice and miso soup for us meals

Weather, steak, ramen , my teacher & I

The weather is not too hot nor humid today as there was a light rain this morning. Indoor temperature is 29C and outdoor is about 32C. The meals were home cooked. The photo of my teacher and I was edited to have "alien" faces by using "Face Changer" apps.

Maguro sashimi don

This mouth-watering dish is the tuna sashimi rice. It is from Japan and is delightful. 

Chinese dinner@ Crystal Jade

Because we did not make any reservation, we were told we could only dine within 1 hour and 30 minutes. Absurd!

Scrumptious authentic Japanese food and breakfast at ToastBox

My wife who is still in Japan sent me these pictures. She is visiting her family who is not badly affected by the recent earthquakes in Kitakyushu.
Her parents brought her out for a lovely authentic Japanese food which she had missed a lot.
I didn't want to go to Japan with my wife because I want to accord her some privacy with her family. Besides, I do not feel safe even though the quake tremors are not severe at the place she is staying. I rather be safe than sorry.

I had my breakfast at ToastBox. I like the kopi O there as it is so much better than the ones sold at other stalls. I am quite fortunate as there are 2 ToastBox near my home. Both are less than 10 minutes walk away.
I ate 2 soft cooked eggs (not in the picture), otak toast and a cup of siew tai and kaw (less sugar and concentrated) kopi O.

The weather in SG
The weather in Singapore is hot and humid. The temperature at 3pm was 36C and it is forecast to have thundery showers in the evening in the northern, western and center part of the island.

Roti prata with mutton for dinner

Dinner: Bee Hoon & Roasted Duck

My dinner was fried bee hoon and a plateful of boneless duck. The 2 dishes were delightful and prices reasonable ( bee hoon $4.50 and duck $10). 

The increase in prices are unjustifiable

I've not been drinking kopi from the NTUC Foodfare for a few months. This morning, I ordered a cup of kopi O and was shocked to find out the price has increased by 20% (from 80c to $1).
NTUC's vision is  " To be Singapore's Leading World-Class Retailer with a Heart" but at 20% increase in the kopi O which is equivalent to an airconditioned foodcourt price, does it really have a "Heart"?
I do not mind paying the increase as I can afford it but what about the heartland's retired and jobless uncles and aunties?
I didn't check the prices of other stuff they are selling as I wasn't interested. I believe they would have also increase the prices of other goods.