Escher"s World of Wonder at ArtScience Museum

This Thursday I went to Escher's World of Wonder art exhibition at ArtScience Museum. I paid $14 for this exhibition at a discount rate for Singaporean and local resident. 

I saw Escher's arts about 5 years ago in a local bookshop and was amazed by his ingenuity. I love his metamorphosis, tessellation and impossible drawing!

There are interactive activities like playing with tessellation, making your own music by punching the music sheet and making your own Kaleidocycle.

Click here to find out more at ArtScience Museum.

 Self portrait of Escher

 I like this drawing.

 Sketches by Escher

 Tessellation

 Day and Night Metamorphosis 

 Birds Tessellation

 Singapore Metamorphosis

 Interactive activity. Making and playing music by punching the note using the tools provided. Escher's was inspired by music.

 Playing your own music after punching out all the notes.

Making your own Kaleidocycle.

Da Paolo Gastronomia Again!

As mentioned, I wrote that I'll be visiting Da Paolo Gastronomia at Raffles City shopping mall to try their homemade egg pasta. So this Thursday, I went there for my dinner. 

This time I had homemade egg pasta tagliolini with pesto al basilico sauce. Take note you need to pay additional $3 for homemade egg pasta. I had banana toffee tart again as I love it. Hmm for egg pasta and pesto sauce, I find it palatable and not fabulously delicious. Maybe if you like pesto sauce, you love it. In my mind, I always think pasta should be al dente. But homemade egg pasta is rather soft like our Chinese noodles/mee kia. But then sometimes, our bak chor mee aka minced pork noodle is also quite al dente and springy. I just prefer springy and al dente noodle. So far, I'm quite disappointed with Da Paolo Gastronomia pasta. I wonder if its the chef skill or Italian pasta should be soft and not al dente. 

Anyway, I probably go back for banana toffee tart and maybe try their breakfast. Ya, their banana toffee tart is my favourite dessert. 

You can read my blog on my first Da Paolo Gastronomia here

Homemade egg pasta with pesto al bibasilico sauce.

 Choose your favourite sauce.

 They have a wide range of dessert.

I came back for banana toffee tart again.

Earning Money from Blogging

As you all know, blogging is one of my hobbies. I'm also trying to earn money from my hobbies. Alas, I don't make much from blogging unlike others who can earn thousands of dollars per month. For me, I only earn few dollars per month which is my kopi money. In the past, I earn much more when earning is based on USD dollars. But after they change to Sing dollars, I earn lesser which can be quite demoralizing. It makes me rethink if I should continue to blog sometimes.  

So how to earn money, you need to add adsense advertisement. How much you earn depends on the number of readers you have and advertisement clicks on the blog. Take note, you cannot cheat by clicking the advertisement on your own blog. You can be banned if you cheat.  The only thing I look forward to at the end of each day is monitoring where are my readers from. 

Marina Bay Sands

This Thursday, I went to view Escher's World of Wonder exhibition held at ArtScience Musuem. From ArtScience Museum, I decided to exercise by walking from the museum to The City Hall MRT which takes about 15 to 20 minutes walk. While walking, I can also enjoy the beautiful city skyline of Singapore. 

 Took this view of beautiful Marina Bay Sands, Helix Bridge and ArtScience Museum this Thursday when I went to Escher's World of Wonder exhibition.

 Men playing football at The Float@Marina Bay 

 I walked from Marina Bay Sands to the Esplanade. 

 I haven't been to Singapore Flyer for quite some time.

Beautiful Singapore city skyline. I took this picture at about 7.20pm.

My Next Travel Plan?

Alright after traveling to Melbourne this December, I'm going to Hong Kong in next year March! Wow Singapore Airlines ticket to Hong Kong is really cheap! I paid a total of $290.70 today! Of course I booked before the school holiday else it be expensive!

Don't know why. For the past few years, I feel the desire to travel. 
This will be my first trip to Hong Kong. Again, I be traveling solo to Hong Kong. I plan to go hiking, maybe I sign up in one of the hiking group and visit Disneyland.

Kylie on Stage at Arts Centre Melbourne

Recently I went to Melbourne and was lucky to see Kylie on Stage exhibition at Arts Centre Melbourne. To read more, click my travel blog here

Kylie on Stage

Singapore MacDonald Breakfast

I love Singapore Macdonald Breakfast Deluxe which comprises of 2 pancake, scrambled egg, chicken sausage, 1 hash brown, and muffin. I realised not every country offer breakfast deluxe. In Australia, there is no breakfast deluxe and sausage option is only beef. 

I also love Macdonald hash brown so I always order extra hash brown to complete my breakfast! 

Breakfast Deluxe

Teochew Fishball Dry Noodles at Bugis Shopping Mall

Yesterday I planned to go to ArtScience museum to view some arts exhibitions. Alas, I left my wallet at home. Luckily I had $10.00 with me in another key pouch. 

So yesterday I had Teochew Fishball dry mee pok (flat noodles) set which comes with delicious and fresh fishcake and fishball and porkball soup.I was happy with the cheap and delicious dry mee pok. The Teochew Fishball noodle set only cost $6.00 at Bugis shopping mall at basement 1. 

 Teochew Fishball Dry with fresh yummy fish cake on top of smooth mee pok.

 A bowl of light refreshing soup with fishballs and meatballs.

This Teochew Fishball noodles set only costs $6.00.

Travelling to the City from Melbourne Airport

To read more, click here.

Cleaning my Bookshelves & Discovering Wonders

Time flies so fast. Its the last month of 2016 and next month, we'll be heralding Chinese New Year in end of January and 2017 in a few weeks time. 

Since I'm so free at home, today I decided to clean my bookshelves and organize it according to genres preferably. Wow just cleaning and tidying up 2 rows of bookshelves took me a few hours. Well, this is because I also took some time to browse through some of the books and deciding whether to recycle or give to others. 

Frankly speaking, cleaning my bedroom and bookshelves can be very therapeutic. In the process of clearing my bookshelves, I found many 'treasures' like beautiful bookmarks, magazines that I forgot about it. I'm thankful I have so many wonderful books and things. Its like counting my blessing. 

So hey if you are free, do take time to clean and organize your room or bookshelves. Sometimes you might find that you have so many things after shelving them in a corner for so long. Hmm, I think I also better stop buying new books and make sure I finish reading the books I brought first. 

 Wow, really delighted to find Fortune magazine with Warren Buffett on cover. I'm going to reread later.

 Organising my exercise A4 books. I have so many that I really should stop buying new.

 Mr Lee Kuan Yew is my idol so I brought a lot of his books. I already finished reading One Man's View of the World. Going to start My Lifelong Challenge.

 I have so many stationery that I should really stop buying more.

Enchanting Christmas Lighting in Sunny Singapore 2016

One of my favourite activities in Singapore is walking along buzzy 2.88km Orchard Road during Christmas season to see enchanting and glittering Christmas lighting.

I love this year Christmas decoration with sparkling blue white theme with geometrical deers along our busy Orchard street. Normally on Christmas eve and Christmas day, Orchard Road street will be packed full of people. For me, I will avoid the crowd and only visit Orchard Road on weekday when there are not many people. 

The light-up will end on 2 Jan next year.

 Christmas on a Great Street in Singapore!

 Tang shopping mall is inspired from Chinese architecture.

 I love Ion Shopping mall futuristic Christmas decoration.

 Somehow I feel Wheelock place is not the same without Borders bookshop. I rarely go there now.

 Dancing to power up the light

 Mandarin Gallery