This weekend is Easter Friday and Easter Sunday holidays. Finally a long-awaited break from work so that we can wind down a bit from work. It’s been very sunny and hot with flashes of sudden and heavy showers in the afternoon. After having spent just a week in China which saw very cool and nice but sunny weathers (except on Friday) I had to take some time to get used to being back in humid hot Singapore.
I just came back from a work trip to China. I didn’t realise that people in China love noodles so much, they can eat them everyday. The noodles in Dunhuang are really smooth, and their broth strongly flavoured (I like!) The zhajiangmian in Beijing very healthy, with a lot of mixed fresh vegetables and beans. The sauce is delicious. The portion is HUGE though. I think I managed to survive in these two cities because there are noodles, and because the flavours are very close to what we have here in Singapore.
The Japanese melon pan, or melon bread, is a sweet bread that is baked with a layer of slightly crispy cookie dough at the top. It is baked in a similar way as the coffee bun (Rotiboys) and Hong Kong polo bun, where the layer on top that is baked with the bun is the key to making the buns tasty and flavourful.
This weekend, we are planning to celebrate the naughty little boy’s 10 year old birthday. He’s a grown boy now, so he has many wishes he would like to fulfill this time. Some of these wishes are the same as previous years – soccer jerseys, soccer balls, toy cars etc. Till date, I think he has got most of his wishes. But he is still very naughty so he needs to wait for other things to come.
The end of this week saw another round of flash flood. It kept raining for two days straight, since Thursday, and continued into Friday. I took time off from work to bring the boy out during his March holidays. It rained so much on Thursday, but fortunately, I took him to the SEA Aquarium, so it was sheltered through and the rain didn’t bother us much. We both managed to do some sketches at the big ocean tank and were both happy at our hard work. On Friday, I brought him to the Rainforest Wild Asia Park, and the rain miraculously held on while we were there! Except for the half an hour downpour or so, after we stepped into the Vitality Bounce and jumped around for 5min, and then got chased out of it because of the heavy rain. But we got back in 15min later, and got another full stretch of 20min in the bouncing net. So the rain got us a much better deal out of our tickets than if there wasn’t any rain at all.
