Brisbane 24-26 Sep 2011

Finally, we're on our way to Brisbane to see my little niece, Esther, some 1.5 months after she was born.

Friday 23 Sep 11





Thanks for sending us off, Uncle Kelvin!

Saturday 24 Sep 11





Arrived in Brisbane almost 3am and here's us after a couple of hours' sleep, on the way out to Toowong Village for grocery shopping.



Awww... the very reason why we're here haha... click on the following links but be prepared to overdose on cutesy baby pictures!

The Princess Diaries Part I
The Princess Diaries Part II
The Princess Diaries Part III
The Princess and the Pea(ple)





The very first thing i do when i wake up, even before washing up!



Baby clothing hanging out to dry on the balcony.

Sunday 25 Sep 11

Sunday morning service at Hope Brisbane on the University of Queensland campus.























Lunch at Myer Centre food court along Queen Street Mall.













Baby and baby's parents went home first while Dad, Mum and me hung out for a bit longer. Treasury Casino at the junction of Queen Street Mall and George Street, where the North Quay City Cat stop is, just before Victoria Bridge going across to South Bank.















Seafood dinner of cod, barramundi, snapper, salmon, baby octopus and my favourite oysters!









Monday 26 Sep 11

Joy, Dad, Mum and me take Baby Esther out to yum cha at Sunnybank Plaza, except really, it's the adults who yum the cha and sorry Esther, you can only yum your milk for now hor, guai...







Dad and Mum's favourite activity is to hunt down supermarkets and do grocery shopping, just as if they never left Singapore teehee =)



I'll leave Dad to update on the rest of their stay in Brisbane cos i'll be crossing over to Melbourne tomorrow morning! :)

Shanghainese Pot Sticklers

Took the red eye flight to Shanghai for work this week and our room wasn't ready so we headed out to a nearby coffee shop to have sheng jian bao for breakfast. I started eating the moment they were served and forgot to take pictures. A plate of 4 for 6 yuan ($1.20). Really yummy until my shanghainese colleague commented that the soup inside comes about when the fats in the minced pork filling gets steamed.

15-17 Sep

Shanghai Sidewalk

Chestnuts a-roasting, alongside other fruit and nut peddlers outside Xin Wang where we had lunch every day cos it was near the office building we were working at in Shanghai.

That's Xin Wang at the corner of the sidewalk, don't think it's in any way affiliated to the one back home.

And nope, this isn't my colleague in case you were wondering. He is a random passer-by who happened to get caught by my iPhone camera.

8-10 Sep

Shanghai Scenes

First of a couple of upcoming worktrips in Shanghai over September and possibly October.

Casement windows along the corridor of the office building we were working in.

Love those hinges!

24-31 Aug