Lunch@ Hide Yamamoto, Marina Bay

This is a newly introduced Japanese lunch menu at Hide Yamamoto. It commences today and is available on weekends only.
The food is absolutely fantastic and the service excellent. The tempura and sushi are on the "eat all you can" basis. It's a bit on the expensive side but worth the money we spent ( $247 for 2 inclusive of gst and service charge). 

Breakfast/lunch/ bubor cha cha/horfun

After eating our usual plateful of fruits,we also had some garlic bread for breakfast.
Lunch was chicken chop and rice at ToastBox. This meal was quite good. I like the chilli and the flavoured rice a lot.
In the afternoon we had our favourite bubor cha cha at AMK Blk 628.

Horfun for dinner

My personal score on the cc interview

Youth 

Age between 18 and 21.........30 points
Age between 22 and 25.........20 points
Age between 26 and 29.........10 points

Personality

Maximum score is  20 points

Teamwork

Maximum score is 10

Maturity and Steadiness

Maximum score is 10

Service attitude 

Maximum score is 10

Others

Maximum score is 20

The cut off points will depend on the intake requirement.

Yishun 928 laksa

The daily queue for this laksa at Yishun Blk 928, Yishun Central is perpetually long. It is popular because it is cheap and tasty. This place has been selling laksa for umpteen years. I believe they, the laksa hawkers must be making about 30k nett profit a month. Today is my first visit after a few months. 

SIA hiring cabin crew again in Singapore

There is going to be an interview for cabin crew by Singapore Airlines (SIA) on 3 September (Saturday) at the Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore.
Almost every month of the year SIA is recruiting cabin crew either in Singapore or in foreign countries. The reasons for the frequent recruitment are :

• Many crew do not stay long with the airlines especially the younger ones
• SIA is putting in long haul non-stop flights from Singapore to the USA
• SIA is also expanding fast in the Asia especially China

SIA currently has about 8,000 cabin crew. The attrition rate is around 1% per month which is about 80. The need to replace the crew who left is urgent or else SIA flights may leave Singapore with a shortage of crew.

By year 2018 or 2019, SIA is expected to have around 10,000 cabin crew.

Grocery shopping and today's meals

Breakfast, refreshment and dinner

Grocery shopping and today's meals

Breakfast, refreshment and dinner

My relatives' house in Japan

Above is my relatives' house in Southern Japan. It is a double storey detached house with 3 bedrooms. It has a built-in area of about 1,200 sq feet and a land of about the same size. The house is now about 40 years old, gone through renovations a few times. Guess what?...the house and land (free hold) can only fetch around 10 million Japanese Yen which is about S$120,000. In Singapore, the same property may cost around $8 million in the prime district or $ 6 to $7 million in a suburban area.
Their small plot of land is quite fertile and they grow tomatoes, cucumber, oranges and other seasonal vegetables. There is a bumper crop of tomatoes this summer according to them. Whatever they can't consume they will make tomato sauce and juice and store them in the freezer.

Having sea cucumber++ & salad for lunch

Besides many other health benefits like slowing down the ageing process,

provides relief for joint pain and arthritis, the sea cucumber is also a considered a miracle cancer treatment. Read here

Our dinner for today...spaghetti ++

We decided to cook meat sauce spaghetti for dinner. We ground some coriander leaves together with raw garlic and a little bit of cashew nuts into a paste (green paste above) and added to our meal (our apology for the messiness). We sprinkled grated Parmesan cheese and chopped spring onions onto the spaghetti. The salad course is made up of lettuce and broccoli and the dressing is Japanese. It was indeed an enjoyable meal.
Just for information the coriander is a very nutritious plant and has lots of health benefits like anti-histamine, combat indigestion etc...read more

Breakfast and grocery shopping at Sheng Shiong

After eating our fruits at home, we went to the newly opened coffeeshop and Sheng Shiong Supermarket at Block 473, Fernvale St.,Sengkang. We ordered the wanton mee ($3) out of curiosity due to the long queue and was pleasantly surprised to find it pleasing to our palate.
After the wanton mee, we ordered the kaya butter toast/eggs/kopi set. The price was $2.50 and not $1.80 as advertised. When questioned, the kopi lady told me the offer price of $1.80 was applicable from 6 am till 10:30 am and I was there at 11:10 am.
Next, we proceeded to Sheng Shiong supermarket which was next door and bought amongst other things,sea cucumber ($9.90 for 430 gm on special offer), dried shiitake mushrooms ($6.95 for 200 gm) and chicken wing sticks ($1.95 for 250 gm) for our weekend dish which is known as the "Sea Cucumber Stew".

Steamed garoupa fish for dinner

These 2 garoupa cutlets ($17) were steamed with spring onions, chillies and coriander, Chinese style for our dinner. We add a bit of Japanese wine, soya sauce and sesame oil. The fish was definitely fresh. Overall, dinner was simple but delightful.

Buying fish and fruits from a wet market

The fish is fresh and so are the fruits. We bought the 2 slices of red grouper ($17 for 2) and the salmon ($11) from CP wet market this morning. The watermelon ($2), pineapple ($2) and jack fruits ($3) are also for this weekend consumption.